The monster underneath the surface chapter 1

The monster underneath the surface

A/N: Hooray, I'm back! And I plan this earlier, but I have been tired and the heat here has been pitiless and dried away my energy, but I wrote as fast and as long as I could. By the way I want to give you all a great big thank you for giving me 98 REVIEWS on my last story! Thank you so much! I had hoped for 100 reviews but I'm not going to be ungrateful.

And I just want to make one thing clear, I did make a version of this when I started to write on , but back then I was terrible at English grammar and the only reason I keep it up is because I like to see how much better I am now than back then, so you don't have to read it. Actually, please ignore it.

A little info about the story. Again, there are no ice powers! And I am borrowing two character's name from the 1980's and 2k3 cartoons, and they will be "the bad guys" with a little Kraang, just so you know. And Karai hasn't switched sides, yet. And this story might be shorter than my other story, but I don't promise anything now. Anyway, on with the story! And excuse my Kraang language. Enjoy and please review!

Chapter 1, Who's this Dirk Savage?

(Normal P.O.V)

Inside TCRI the Kraang was standing by a large machine with a giant container with a more purple mutagen, than the usual blue-green kind. One Kraang-bot walked up to two others, who was working on the machine.

"Kraang, is that which is known as experiment 37 that which is known as perfected?" One robots was pushing on some buttons and typing on a computer, but the other turned to answer the other Kraang's question.

"Negative Kraang. That which as known as experiment 37 has shown to be that which is known as difficult to perfect. The molecules has proved to be what is known as-" The Kraang was interrupted as he was hit with a bullet right in the head. The robot body fell to the ground, and the small, squishy pink alien jumped out and ran across the floor while squealing. The other Kraang-bots in the lab looked up from the big machine, some picked up their weapons and tried to find the one who had fired the gun. The one that seemed to be the leader had one of the Kraang guns in his hands and called out into the room.

"Kraang demands that the one who is in this place who is not allowed to be in this place will come out and let Kraang escort you to a place where-" Another shot was heard and the robot fell to the ground and another little alien escaped from the robot and ran out of the room. A muscular woman escaped from the shadows and punched one of the robots in the head and threw another one into the wall. And a tall dark man walked up with a gun in his hand.

"If you value your lives Kraang, leave this room. Now!" The Kraang refused to leave the room and one of them pointed to the man with his gun.

"The order given from the one who is in this place that is not allowed to be in this can not be followed by Kraang. Kraang must force you to come with us to-" But the man had other ideas. He fired a shot at the Kraang's body and the bullet was close to hit the pink flesh.

"Leave, now!" The remaining Kraang left the room, but the man still shot their robot bodies, making the small aliens escape. The woman walked up to the computer and started to type at it. The man walked up to her and had his arms crossed over his chest.

He had dark hair and was very muscular and had a belt with guns around his waist, all with different kinds of bullets with different effects, like tranquilizing, throwing nets or simply to kill someone. He was dressed in cargo pants with camouflage patterns and a black sleeveless shirt and two belts with bullets in a cross over his chest. His feet was covered in black leather boots that went up to his lower calves His face was serious, his chin was covered in stubble and over his face ran a long scar the started on his forehead, just over his left eyebrow and stretched down, over the bridge of his nose and ended right at the corner of his mouth.

"Have you found what we are looking for, Abigail?" The woman, Abigail, looked up from the computer and met the man's eyes. She had brown hair, pulled into a ponytail, had green eyes and was dressed in a tight, black shirt and the sleeves went down to her elbows and she had cargo pants too, but they were beige and not camouflage colored. And she walked around in sneakers and on her hands was fingerless gloves and she had a tattoo of a black dragon on her left shoulder.

"Yes, I've found the plans for experiment 37 and the substance in the tubes should be the substance we are looking for. But the notes say it's not perfect yet, but I think it will work in our plan anyway." The man nodded and smirked evilly.

"Excellent. Gather us much info about their new mutagen as you can. I will get the truck and start loading it with as much mutagen as the truck can fit. Soon our plan can finally get started."

(Donnie's P.O.V)

The day had been relatively calm. Raph and Leo had not been fighting too much and Mikey had been glued to the TV and had looked through the channels and the video tapes for something to watch. And I had tried to look through some Kraang files we had found the other night on patrol in TCRI. Well I had found a storage device in one of their labs and was trying to find something about their invasion plans or something useful to know.

We were all sitting in the living room doing our own stuff. Raph was reading one of his issues of 'Modern Ninja Magazine' and tried to look as if he wasn't annoyed by Mikey switching channels all the time so he heard the same stuff over and over. Leo was training with the training dummy in the living room and tried to block everything out too. And I was looking through the files and tried so hard to find anything good that we didn't already know or wasn't damaged.

"Mikey! Can't you just pick something to watch? It's starting to get on my nerves to hear everything over and over! If you can't watch anything just turn off the TV!" Mikey turned to Raph and he also looked annoyed.

"Do you mind? I'm trying to watch TV here! Can you tone down the yelling?" Raph was silent for one second, then he flew up from the couch, dropped the magazine on the floor and pried the remote from Mikey's fingers and tried to turn the TV off, but Mikey grabbed the remote and tried to get it back.

"Hey, give it back!" Raph held the remote away from him and they started to fight over the remote. Leo had turned around to look at our brothers on the floor fighting, yelling and wrestling over the remote. He and I shared a look and I saw in his eyes that we shouldn't get involved. They would end soon anyway. Raph would press Mikey too the ground and pry the remote from his hand and turn it off. I looked down at my laptop again and saw something interesting and skimmed through it. Then I looked up at my brothers.

"Hey guys, I think I found something about the Kraang!" Raph and Mikey looked up from their wrestling match and Leo stopped punching his dummy and they all gathered around me and Leo looked at the screen, trying to see what it was.

"I found something that says the Kraang are trying to create some new kind of mutagen. Something they call experiment 37." Raph looked a little confused and tried to see anything he could understand on the screen.

"New mutagen? Why would they want a new kind of mutagen? I thought the one they had was unpredictable and they needed April to make it right." I looked down and read through it again and then gave my answer.

"Yeah, but this one is supposed to mutate your brain, and not your body. To either make you like a robot and would obey your every order, in case they have abilities the Kraang find useful. Or they could mutate you mind, making you more or less like an animal. I guess it's for making humans attack and kill each other so the Kraang can focus on other things. But it's all I can find now." Leo read through the text a little and then looked at me.

"So they plan to use it on humans?" I shook my head and looked back to the computer.

"No, it says here they haven't quite got it right yet. The molecular structure won't mutate the way it's supposed to and that makes the mutagen mutate the body and still makes you act like an animal, or a predator." Mikey looked over my shoulder and his cheek was pressed into my face.

"But why is it such a big deal if they can't use it yet? It's not like they're going to use something that doesn't work, right?" I pushed him away from my face, making him fall to the floor and groaned from the fall.

"Maybe if you guys would let me finish I could tell you." I turned back to the computer.

"It says here that last week a big amount of the defect mutagen was stolen, by humans." I saw the confusion on their faces and Mikey flew up from the floor and sat on his knees and rubbed his head, before the TV distracted him. Raph looked at with a raised eyebrow.

"How can humans know about the Kraang? I mean, I know they invaded Earth last year but that doesn't make the humans know what the Kraang are or what they want or do?" I was about to answer but Mikey was faster.

"Guys, listen to this!" We looked at the TV and saw Mikey and Raph had left channel 6 news on and we saw that Carlos Gamble interview a dark man that looked like he walked right out of a action movie. And beside him stood a woman who also looked really tough.

"I stand here with mutant hunter Dirk Savage and his assistant doctor Abigail Finn and we talk about his promise to clean the streets of mutants here in our fair city." I felt my ninja sense tingle and looked at Leo, who also looked cautious and alert.

"Mutant hunter? That doesn't sound good." Raph shushed him and was staring at the TV screen. The man, who I assumed was Dirk Savage was talking and he even sounded intimidating.

"Well Carlos, my job is to wipe out scum from this world. Unwelcome guests that think they can walk on our streets like normal people. I and my brave assistant Abigail work to destroy hunt down these threats and destroy them." Carlos looked a little scared but asked a new question.

"And h-how do you know that there are mutants in this city? Or in our world for that matter?" Dirk smirked evilly and I felt a chill run down my spine.

"Because I have prof right here." He nodded at Abigail and she walked up a giant covered cylinder shaped item and pulled of the cover and it revealed a big container, a big technological cage and in it was a big mutant bear with big teeth, long claws and big muscles in the legs and arms. We gasped at the sight and Carlos hid behind Dirk Savage with a small, girly shriek.

"What you see here is an example of what nature can create with a small ounce of what is called mutagen." I felt my heart stop beating when he held up a canister with mutagen, but got suspicious when I realized that the "mutagen" was purple and not blue-green like it usually was.

"One little drop of this substance, and any creature can turn into a monstrosity, a freak of nature or simply a mutant. Where this hideous substance comes from is not relevant, but I can tell you that I am here to wipe these mutants off the streets, every single one will the wiped off the face of Earth! And nothing will stop us!" Wow, for someone who claimed he was on the people's side he sounded too intimidating. Mikey shuddered and I heard a small whimper from him. Raph looked angry, but I saw a very small trace of fear in his eyes too. Leo was listening closely to what was said on the TV and he looked both concerned and suspicions.

"And, h-how do you plan on finding these m-mutants? I mean, what advantages do you have against them?" Dirk smirked and put his hand on Abigail's shoulder and she smiled with pride and a little malice.

"Abigail here has created tracking systems and weapons against these freaks. Tranquilizers strong enough to knock out a blue whale and firepower strong enough to kill them if necessary or just simple but strong nets and containment units strong enough to hold them. And we have electrical weapons that can break them if necessary. And both she and me has experience of fighting in battle. So I do think we are ready for fighting these mutants. And if anyone see's a mutant, you can call us and tell us where you've seen it and what kind of mutant." Raph turned off the TV and turned to Leo.

"Okay, that was a little weird. How did those two know about mutagen? Or mutants for that matter?" Leo rested his chin in his hand and hummed in thought.

"Yeah, and who is this Dirk Savage anyway? I mean, where did he come from and what kind of person is he? A warrior, a scientist or what?" I looked down at my computer and brought internet up and started to type on the keyboard.

"I'm on it!" I looked through a few files, websites and news pages before I found what I was looking for.

"Here! It says here that Dirk Savage is a sort of bounty hunter and soldier and has hunted and taken down what people has considered threats for governments all over the world. That being gypsies, jews, predators, rebels, misfits and other outcasts. And this Abigail Finn, his assistant is a scientist in gifted in both biology and technology and was working for TCRI until last year and started to work with Dirk. That's all I can find on who they are." Leo looked over my shoulder and read through the text too and sighed a little.

"Well, at least we know who they are." Raph stood up and walked over to us with a frown on his face.

"Yeah, but that doesn't answer the question how he knows about mutagen or the mutants in this city! I mean, not that many people have seen mutants and gotten evidence of them! And don't get me started on the mutagen!" I rubbed my chin and thought about the purple color the mutagen had.

"What if it isn't mutagen? Or at least the mutagen we know about. I mean, the mutagen was purple and not green. And if it is mutagen, does that mean they know of the Kraang?" Leo opened his mouth, but Mikey was faster.

"Maybe that girl who worked for TCRI learned about the Kraang and later told Dirk Savage about it and the mutagen. And they broke into TCRI or one of their labs and stole that purple goo?" Raph, Leo and I just stared at him and then looked at each other and back to Mikey.

"That, is a a brilliant theory Mikey." Mikey looked surprised too and dropped his little smile.

"It is? Uh- I mean, of course it is bro. You really should listen to me more often." Leo rolled his eyes and looked back at the laptop and looked through the text again.

"Does this guy have a lair or some kind of hideout or something?" I looked through the search options but didn't find what I was looking for. But I found something else.

"No, but I found their number you call when you find a mutant. I can track the phone with that number and find Savage anyway." Leo stood up and picked up katana's from the floor.

"Well then. We'll go out there and look for these guys and find out more about what they do with the mutagen and with the mutants. It could be good to know how good they are if we run into them when we're out in the city." I started to type again and started to track the phone and soon I found the coordinates.

"And his coordinates are at..." When I saw the location on the screen I got a little surprised. "at an old abandoned warehouse at Houston street?" The other looked surprised too and Raph looked at the map too.

"A warehouse? Why would he hide at a warehouse?" I shrugged and closed the laptop and stood up.

"I guess we're going to find out. Let's go and find out the answers." And we ran towards the exit of the lair and towards the nearest manhole.

If I had known what would happen this week I would have said we should stay in the lair for now, but for now I ran out into the unknown without knowing that this night would have more effect on me than my brothers and that the event would haunt me and them for the rest of our lives.

A/N: First chapter's done and I feel the villains and the plot with them is a little lazy, but story is now going to be so much about them so I hope you won't mind anyway. And please, tell me how I can do this better if it's not as good as it can be. If I can do anything better, please tell me. And please favorite, follow and review.