TMNT: Secrets of the Sewers

Harboring a Grudge

Down in the lair, Donny was going over every last piece of tech off the Foot-Tech ninjas suits. They were still covered in extinguisher foam, the purple turtle too preoccupied with dismantling them to clean them.

"This is some serious heavy duty hardware." He admitted. "Whoever built this is almost as smart as I am."

"So is there any way to find who made it?" Leo asked.

"I'm not sure, I-" Donny answered before something caught his eye. "Well now. What do we have here?"

"What is it?" Mikey asked.

"It looks like someone built some kind of monitor system into the eyes of the mask." Donny explained. "In fact, it looks similar to the type that was on Leatherhead's collar."

Hisako sat up straight when he said that, going stock still.

"What?" she asked, her voice almost a dead whisper.

Donny looked over at Hisako, mentally kicking himself.

"I uh... I examined the tech in that collar you pulled off Leatherhead back when we first met him." he explained sheepishly. "I was curious and... and this tech is almost identical to that."

Hisako started breathing heavily, going a bit pale as she curled up into a ball. Raph glared at Donny, whacking him upside the head.

"Way to go, Don." he chastised. "You freaked her out!"

"Sorry." Donny apologized. "It's just... I can only think of one person who could make this kind of tech, and he's supposed to be an amnesiac."

"That guy is gone, Donny." Leo told him. "He's gone and he's never coming back!"

Hisako was rocking back and forth on the couch, trying to keep herself calm. Splinter saw this as he walked out of his room and went over to comfort her.

"It is alright, Hisako." He reassured, wrapping his arms around her. "You are safe here."

She was still breathing hard, old fears rising to the surface. She clung to Splinter's robe desperately, shivering violently.

"Think I should call LH?" Mikey asked.

"Might be a good idea." Leo agreed.

Mikey took out his shell cell and called Leatherhead. The croc picked up almost immediately, much to the orange turtle's relief.

"Hey Leatherhead." Mikey spoke. "Listen, Hisako needs some comfort right now. How fast do you think you can-?"

The line went dead before he could finish his question.

"Hey Hisako, Leatherhead will be here soon!" Mikey called out.

She didn't reply, remaining in Splinter's arms as the rat attempted to comfort her.

"Just to be safe," Leo whispered to Raph. "Maybe someone should check on the state of 'you know who'."

"I'll call Casey and see if he's willing to pop by." Raph whispered back. "Besides, if anything, we could use some extra hands on deck once Donny locates the wackbag behind all this."

"Sounds good." Leo replied.

...

On board Shredder's ship, Shredder had finished putting on his armor, testing it to make sure it had not gotten damaged after his last battle. There were several training dummies set up and he wasted no time slashing through all of them. He allowed a smirk to grace his face as the blades proved just as sharp and deadly as ever.