TMNG (Book 1)

Lizard Terminator

In the Crete Fortress, Ellie was bouncing on her seat as the amazing smell of the ramen drifting through into her nose inside the kitchen.

"Hurry up, Lee!" Ellie whined impatiently. "I'm starving here!"

"Chill down, Ellie." Lee said.

Lee scooped some noodles into two bowls and walked over to the dining table, where Ellie was waiting excitedly and Ella were already eating while staring down at her comic book.

"Happy now?" Lee smiled.

"Uh yeah!" Ellie replied. "I love ramen soup besides pizza!"

As three mystics began slurping their noodles, a green lizard with silver camera attached to its body was crawling onto the table from the counter. Lee looked down to stare at the small lizard confusedly. Ellie cocked her head to look down at the lizard with ramen hanging out of her mouth. Both girls watched as the lizard moved over to Ella. As Ella was about to put some ramen noodle in her mouth, she stopped to stare at the lizard casually sitting on her fork.

"What the heck?" Ella screamed as she jumped back to fling the lizard back to the counter. "It's lizard!"

Ella stared at the lizard with wide eyes and slowly engulfed her fists into blazing flames. Lee and Ellie pulled their ramen noodles off the table, moving away from the table as they knew exactly what Ella was going to do. Ella began firing small-sized fireballs wildly at the lizard, who started to scurry off the table as Ella kept missing to strike the creature.

Donna suddenly rushed in with a tablet in her hand. She puts her device on the table and held her hand to the floor for the lizard to crawl into her palms.

"Stop, Ella! You can't burn it!" Donna shouted.

"And why not?" Ella snapped as she ran up to Donna.

"Because this lizard is important for our mission, okay?" Donna replied, covering the lizard protectively and opened her hand to pat it.

"And why is he important to our mission, Donna?" Lee sighed.

"Because I outfitted him with a remote controlled camera helmet!" Donna replied with a proud smile. "That way we can send him to spy on the Kraang into TCRI. The camera itself allows us to see whatever the lizard sees."

Lee, Ella, and Ellie gathered Donna's tablet as Donna played back a recording of Ella screaming at the sight of the lizard. Ella was glaring at the screen, Lee and Donna were laughing silently, and Ellie laughed openly.

"This is too good! Who knew big, tough Ella is scared of lizards." Ellie exclaimed.

"I do not!" Ella protested.

"Is that so?" Ellie said, rewinding the recording the video and paused the video that showed Ella's screaming face. "Because this proves us all."

"Wanna see what I can also prove?" Ella asked.

Ella seized Ellie by the arms and threw her over the counter.

"We're gonna spy on the Kraang...with a lizard!" Donna declared, holding the lizard in the air proudly.

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A hour later, the Lotus Ninjas gathered together in the Sonicruiser that was parked nearby TCRI building. They assembled around Donna's station as they watched the lizard's progress on the screen. The lizard used a mini saw attached to its tail and crawled inside a room, where a bunch of blue Kraang droids were having a conservation about their robotic bodies. The lizard moved on until it crawled onto a beam and looked down at two other Kraang droids, allowing the screen to feature a laser drill for the girls to see back at the Sonicruiser.