Requiem AU

Chapter 5

     After parking their vehicles, the clan were off. "This is it, team. Shredder's mansion is just beyond these woods," "So everyone be careful," The first thing they came across were standard Footbots. Easy, right? Even with them surrounding the team, they were easy takedowns. A quick slash and they're down! "I'll take that, thank you," Ollie commented, plucking their arrows out of his arm and stashing them in his backpack for later. "These things are a slice of cake and easy as pie!" Mikey declared after winning the first round. "Er... right," Kole concurred "At this rate we'll be up there in no time," he says as Elite Footbots began appearing, approaching them. "One of us just HAD to say something, didn't they?" Donnie sassed, prepping for round two. Knowing full well those things were too powerful to take on in a group, the team retreated, dodging lasers along the way. Mikey and Oliver managed to take a few down with throwing stars and daggers, but it just wasn't enough. Before they knew it, they had reached a cliff. Before they could fight, it was an easy push for the bots to send them over he edge.

     Splash! "Yes!" Mikey cheered as everyone resurfaced "I love water!" "Um... unfortunately, so do I..." Rose commented, feeling her vined begin to grow unconsciously. "Let's get you outta he-" before Leo could finish, another foe appeared: "Fishface!" "Do not call me that! Welcome, tartarugas. I will slap you like a salamander! I will fin you like a flounder! I will give you bass to mouth!" "... were any of those supposed to be threats?" Kole questioned before getting pulled underwater. "After him!" Leo ordered, sending the team underwater. The three teammates that could hold their breath the longest went for the carp, despite Elite Footbots somehow being waterproof. Kole managed to kick Xever's hand off of his ankle, but before he escaped, the carp decided to knock the wind out of him. Oliver launched a smoke bomb at his face before bringing his friend up to the surface.

     They both took in a breath of air. "Oh, fuck..." Kole muttered, spitting out water. "I dunno how they do it..." "You're... telling me..." Ollie chuckled, despite losing his ability to breathe. As they swam to the shore, they found Xever getting yeeted out of the water via a few overgrown vines. "Grab your inhaler," Kole said before drawing his weapons. "You think you have the best of me? You are nothing-" Kole interrupted his declaration with a punch to the gut, sending Xever backwards. He then ran up and pounded him some more before ripping off his legs, then his breathing tube. "You... dirty scoundrel!" Xever exclaimed before he and the rest of the team walked away.

     The first room of the mansion was an infirmary... a laboratory? Rose felt relieved as her vines finally retracted, going back under her skin for now. They crept in, not making a sound... and then they were shot at with... actually, it's probably best no one knows exactly what. The projector? The one and only Stockman Fly. "Foolzz! There izz nothing you can do againzzt the Zzuper Shredder! He izz perfection itzzelf. He-" "Eat retro-mutagen, Buxton Bugbrain!" Mikey exclaimed before throwing one of Donnie's doses at him, splashing the contents. Everyone could only watch as Baxter began to stumble around the room, exclaiming and yelling. After a few moments... it was done.

     "I... I'm human again? You turned me back?" "Yeah, dude! Are you happy or what?" "You... jerk! I liked being a fly! Why do you think I never demutated myself? Sure, I was super disgusting, but I was smarter, faster, stronger. People liked me as a bug! You morons! I oughta-" before he could finish his pity-party, Mikey knocked Stockman out. "You're welcome," "Michael..." Donnie spoke up, annoyed. "That retro-mutagen was for Super Shredder! I only have one dose left now! Thanks!" "Sorry, D. But he didn't even-!" "Quiet," Kole said, scanning the area with his supervision. "He's nearby, but more 'friends' are even closer," "Let's make our way up,"

     The next floor offered... a dojo, perhaps? Rigged with all sorts of death traps. "That's just dangerous!" Rosa commented, looking up at the metal spiky balls of death looming above them. "I get the feeling we're not invited..." Ollie added. "Aww, look at this. They think they're entering the Dragon," a familiar disembodied voice spoke. "Woo-hoo!" the warthog sang as the lights came on. "Yeah! Turtles be tripping! You seriously think that you can sneak up in our house? This is our house!" "Fuck me sideways. Figures Bacon and Bonehead would be here to ruin our day," Kole commented, already irked at Bebop's blabbering. "Hey, we are the Bebop and the Rocksteady, not the Bacons and the Bonehead!" "Shut up, Bonehead! Check it out, mutants: our state-of-the-art super dope training facility. And guess what? It's programmed to eliminate freaky-deaky turtles like you!" Bebop announces as he activates the facility. "Da, and teenage human friends!" Rocksteady adds as lasers begin to power up and fire like trigger-happy madmen.

     "Scatter!" Kole instructed, to which the team gladly followed. Leo and Donnie managed to destroy a few of them before Rocksteady decided to "Crank the puppy up to 11, shall we?" As he did so, the middle of the flood vanished, revealing a trap door. Leo and Kole managed to dodge it, while Donnie, Mikey, Rosa, and Ollie fell to the bottom. Buzzsaws began whirring across the floors, striking panic in the teens as they dodged getting sliced in half. Leo and Kole managed to evade Rocksteady's lasers for the most part before Leo decided to go for a headshot, jumping onto the rhino. "No fair! My ears be sensitive!!" he exclaimed as Kole went for the control panel. Not having any idea how it worked, he simply destroyed it. Good timing too, because the lower level had just sent out giant spike-covered rolling pins of doom.

     Oliver breather a sigh of relief before those spike balls from the ceiling dropped down and pillars began rising from the bottom level. The rolling pins also reactivated, terrifying Oliver as they inched closer to his cornered body. Seeing an opportunity, Donnie hopped across the pillars to a second control panel. "Gotta hack the system!" he declared, pulling out his tPhone. "No pressure!" Oliver called after him. Within minutes, everything had powered down. "Yes!" Oliver exclaimed, gleeful as he and Rosa climbed out of the pit. As the team regrouped, Kole exchanged a look with Donnie, then a smirk and a nod. Donnie returned them before setting the lasers to fire at the pig and rhino. They exchange a fist bump before going up yet another level.