Turtle II Secret of the Ooze

Chapter 5

Turtle woke up groggily.

Her brain felt like it was swimming.

She sat up, and heard the rattling of chains. She could move her arms around but they definitely had chains connected to them. She wasn't going anywhere.

"Ok Turtle, where are you?" She murmured.

"New York City junk yard."

Turtle jumped at the British accent, and looked up. She saw a skinny man, middle aged, glasses, blonde hair, and a lab coat. She recognized him!

"Hey! You're the T.G.R.I scientist from the news."

"Quite right. I'm glad one as young as you shows interest in the love of science."

"Well, actually, my big brother is the science protigy. I guess his enthusiasm rubs off on you."

The scientist chuckled. There was an awquard pause as Turtle shook the last of the grogginess.

"Wait, why did you kidnap me?! Are you working with the Foot?!"

"Hardly!" He said, rather offended. "I'm as much of a prisoner as you are."

"Oh..."

"Honestly little girl, do I look like I have the physical ability to be one of those ninja brutes?"

Turtle giggled.

"I suppose not.."

Another awkward silence.

"I'm Turtle..by the way.."

"Turtle? A nickname perhapse?"

"Real name.."

"Oh...Well its as good a name as any. I'm Professer Jordan Perry."

"Well met...you worked in the lab we were in then?"

"Excuse me?"

"My brothers and I were exploring T.G.R.I labs. We thought it was empty, then the Foot attacked."

"What were you doing in my laboritory?"

"So you do work there." Turtle smiled. "You made the stuff then?"

"Stuff? What stuff? You didn't answer my question."

"No Professor, you didn't answer MY question."

"What stuff?!"

"The OOZE! The bright..." Turtle licked her lips. "Green stuff."

"...How would a little girl know a thing about that"

Turtle looked up with her eyes first, then lifted up her neck to reveal her scales.

"Because the ooze is practically my mother."

The Professor gasped and approached Turtle slowly. He reached out.

"..M-..may I touch them?"

"Sure, just be careful. I'm super ticklish."

The Professor smiled a small bit. "I'll be careful."

He put a hand on the scales and rubbed them gently with his thumb.

"Incredible!" He said, overly enthused. "The..ooze, as you call it, seems to have caused some sort of animal mutation. Its as if you're part...."

"Turtle?"

He blinked at her a moment and adjusted his glasses.

"Yes...turtle..."

Footsteps were heard and the Professor raced back to what appeared to be a work space.

The door was flung open, and in walked Mr. ugly himself.

"Hey baldy!" Turtle jabbed. "Where do I complain to hotel management about getting a better room?"

Turtle laughed at her own joke. Even the Professor showed a hint of a smile.

Suddenly, clinking of metal and footsteps were heard. Turtle stopped laughing immediately. She knew the sound all too well.

The sound entered the room, and though she didn't want to, she looked up at the doorway.

And there, like some gruesome phantom brought back from the deepest pits of the underworld, stood

The Shredder.

Alive

"Shredder..." Turtle scowled and spat at the ground in front of him. "You're looking well for a man who was crushed by a garbage truck."

"Silence, little freak. I am the Shredder, I never die, I am immortal."

"We'll see."

"Hmph...I'll deal with you later."

Shredder walked over to the Professor.

"Is it ready?!"

"Yes, but I must warn you, we aren't entirely sure what this could do! The results could be-"

"I KNOW THE RESULTS!" Shredder snapped. "You are not here to question me, you are here to do as I say!" He held up his knived gauntlet to the Professor. "Or perish..."

The Professor gulped. "R-right then."

He installed the canister of ooze into a machine, and took a tube from the machine and stuck it through a hole in a makeshift wall made of various junk metal.

Shredder turned to his ugly minion. "You brought me the most vicious animals you could find?"

Baldy nodded.

"Gooooood"

The ooze made its way through the tube and behind the wall. Little noises could be heard.

"YOU"RE MAKING MORE MUTANTS?!" Turtle yelled, appalled.

"Warriors. Stronger than your pathetic excuse for a family..."

"You're sick Shredder! When they mutate, they wont just be animals anymore! They'll be people! Real people! You can't expect them to just bend to your command!"

"Silence! You know nothing. These freaks will become stronger, they will be powerful, and they will know me only as master.

With that, Shredder turned and exited the room.

Turtle looked up at the Professor, and her looked back at her sympathetically.

"Oh...I wish my brothers were here..."