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Hollywood Adventures

Our Heroe's group is now in the mists of doing the adventure book "Turtles go Hollywood".

Mini Adventure #1

The first mini-adventure just kicked @$$. If you don't have "Turtles go Hollywood" go get it. (Or maybe it's just our G.M. - Sir Garland) But anyway, the objective of the first adventure was to stop the flow of illegal drugs out of an "office building" of sorts.

There were 3 things we had to accomplish in order.

1. Destroy the Drugs

2. Destroy the Lab that makes the drugs

3. Make a commotion to alert the police so these bad boys would get arrested.

The building was 20 stories high, and the fire exit only went up ten stories (Better get the inspector out here :)) We decided to split up. Me (the Metal Juggernaut) and Tsunami (Alter-physical structure Water and manipulate Gravity) went into the office building through the main entrance (we looked normal). I took the stairs, he took the elevator, and we went up to the 19th floor. Meanwhile, The Dark Rider (One kick ass bad boy who's a mechanical genius, and wields a shotgun with fiery) and "A magic weapon user" that I can't remember his name (He's new after the departure of the Defender) went up to the roof. We were in touch part of the time with our cell phones (cute huh?). On the roof they easily dispatched a guard making little noise, and they discovered a helicopter on the roof that the Dark Rider pulled a few wires out of. (Good thinking) Well, the dark rider went down the ventilation shaft, and started playing with wires while "the magic staff guy" turned invisible and gained entrance to the building. Well from then on it was utter chaos, Dark Rider cut a few of the wrong wires, and our invisible comrade was getting in trouble. (He stuck his staff in one of the generators the scientists used for there lab to stop it and the thing started on fire, and then the sprinkler system went off) Everybody went into action. But in the end, the drugs were burned, the lab massacred, and we caught almost all of the bad boys (hehe - you should of seen the look on there face when the helicopter wouldn't start). During chaos, the main villain (I assume) hopped into an experimental rocket, blew a hole in the roof and took off, we had no chance to catch him as he was going over Mach 1.

Overall, we got the job done, and on to Mini-Adventure #2

Mini Adventure #2

State of the Group

Thus far, zero fatalities. The group still consists of the Metal Juggernaut, Dark Rider, Tsunami, and the our other friend, that some have refered to as, "Shroud". After the last mission they returned to the main base, avoiding the most of the police and the media. There they went to work a few days. The Metal Juggernaut and Dark Rider (they work in an auto body shop) were assigned to a new automobile to modify. It's owned by a rich doctor, and he wants it souped up to have a minimum speed of 180 mph. They have to have it done by the end of the week.

The Mission

Everybody continued on with their regular jobs, until one day, Mr. Gats (our rich contact who supplies our base) called upon us to meet with one of his friends and a police lieutenant. He told us that one of the boys that we caught over at the drug lab (see mission 1) was talking, and it sounds bad. He's what he lieutenant said,

"It appears as though the guy was not only dealing drugs, he also was funding some weird experimentation. The man, made these super animals, that have an I.Q. way beyond our own. These animals are mostly rodents, and the such, and I guess, starting making a machine that could send subliminal messages over a one hour time period on T.V. and give the rodents complete control over the humans affected."

Sooner or later we went down to the station to talk to this guy. The prisoner / former drug dealer, was as helpful as he could be. He told us that the rodents never told him much, but he was the one who bought all the equipment for them, however expensive it may have been. The subliminal message machine wasn't finished quite yet, he guessed it would take one more week to work out the bugs in it. One other important thing: These super rodents needed a constant supply of a certain type of drug only available from the Magaldi Cartel from South America. The Lieutenant told us that they tracked the rocket (remember) from the drug lab, and it landed somewhere in California, Hollywood Hills to be exact.

The lieutenant told us that he'd get in a heap of trouble if others around here found out that he was telling us of this, and sending us out there. The government already has the F.B.I. on the case, and the F.B.I. doesn't want anybody getting in their way. So basically, we have to do all our detective work secretly.

Well we stayed back at the base overnight, and informed our employers that we were (cough cough) sick, and then left early that morning.

Hollywood

We arrived in Hollywood after a few hours of flying at Mach 1 in Dark Riders kick arss van. We split up, The Metal Jugg. and Darkrider took the van and headed for the hypothesised crash site, and Tsunami and Shroud went into the streets in the bad part of town to try and get some info.

Darker Rider and Metal Jugg. found the crash site / crater with the cute little yellow police tape around it. There were no police people around so we cheated and went past the yellow line :). We found little of the rocket there, and judging by the crater size, Dark Rider determined that the rocket landed alright, and was later self destructed. We also found a small slip of paper the police seemed to have missed. It read, "5401, Melrose Ave. L.A. - MaGaldi Safehouse" A nice little stroke of luck I must say.

Meanwhile, Tsunami and Shroud were walking the in darker side of town and low and behold they ran into some little druggies :) All minors, Tsunami and Shroud managed to get a little info out of them. They also learned about the safehouse, and they were leaving when a different older dealer comes up to them and says that the Magaldi Cartel is a rival drug-ring. He told them about about a shipment of Magaldi drugs coming in on boat at 3 p.m. tomorrow, they would be dropped off right next to the beach adjacent to Malibu St. where the would most likely go to a little warehouse.

Well, we called each other on our cell phones and got together again. Then headed off for the Magaldi safehouse. The safehouse was pathetic when we got there, just a beaten up, boarded up house. There were only 3 guys inside, and they were so high they'd tell us anything. They even showed us were their secret stash of crack was...It was sad, but unfortunately we didn't learn anything new.

Next we drove on over to the Malibu Beach just to check everything out and find the warehouse and the dock the shipment was expected to come in on. Shroud went into the warehouse invisible and flying only to find 3 guys playing cards. A waste of time. We soon turned in for the night in Dark Rider's van (It has two beds, plus other areas to sleep, not to mention a shower, and a stove. Better than any motel could give you)

Surf'n

The next day the weather was great so we decided to head on over to the beach a little early to enjoy it a bit. We saw a surf board rental place, and we couldn't resist. Soon, we all hit the waves (some with better luck than others :)) and we were even challenged by a guy and his friends so we did it and lost miserably, but it was all in the spirit of fun. Around 2:30 the beach pretty much cleared off because a storm was approaching so we all took our posts. I (Metal Juggernaut) just layed on the beach next to the main road, and kept watch for the boat with my advanced sight (3 miles crystal clear). Dark Rider sat by a telephone poll, Tsunami went into the water, and kept watch from there, and Shroud went into the warehouse to keep watch.

Time passed slowly but sure enough the boat came, and right on schedule. All was going according to plan, or so we thought. As the boat approached the Metal Jugg. saw frog men jumping onto the boat to take it over. We had no idea what was up but at that point suspected it was the super rodents lackeys getting the drugs for them. Tsunami headed out to the boat and gave em a rock'n good time, and the Metal Jugg., and Dark Rider hopped on surf boards in a vain attempt to get out to that boat. The Metal Jugg. was surf'n pretty, but Dark Rider kept on falling off his board. We were going to help Tsunami, and then the boat turned around. Where was it going?? By now it had been taken over, and was heading back out to the ocean. Dark Rider kept on having trouble getting the surf board to work for him, and the Metal Jugg. kept on going to the boat. The Metal Jugg., and Tsunami must have looked back or something because they saw a shark going after Dark Rider. The Metal Juggernaut (MJ) decided to turn around and go back for Dark Rider (DR) to help him out while Tsunami stayed in pursuit of the boat. Dark Rider's guns were unfortunately rendered useless because they were soaked, and he was live bait ready for the taking. The Metal Jugg. fell off of his board on the way back, and was still at least 100 yds. away. (All this time poor Shroud is sitting in the warehouse, we were hoping he'd come out and look, but he never did) Tsunami was way to far away from Dark Rider to do him any good, so he stayed after the boat. The Metal Jugg. kept trying to get on the surf board and get moving and finally got to Dark Rider. The Metal Jugg. torched the shark once, and then Tsunami came to the rescue also and lifted Dark Rider out of the water. Ahh, he was safe and all four limbs still intact :)

The Metal Jugg. and Dark Rider went back to shore, and Tsunami went after the boat (cruise ship). When -MJ- and -DR- arrived at shore and they were going to get Shroud when a big burly guy in concealing winter clothes (7' 6") jumped out from behind a vendor stand and took a lady hostage, he seemed on the edge.... We didn't know what to do. He insisted the we had a package for him, that we'd never even heard of. So it was a stand off of sorts.

Meanwhile Tsunami, hijacked the boat, and fought against "Ninjas" (Otherwise known as frogmen - rival gang of sorts?) The ninjas ended up jumping overboard with a "package" in hand. (Drugs?) Tsunami made the the package weigh 50x it's normal weight, and the ninjas sunk to the bottom of the sea. When they refused to let go of the package they ended up drowning. Tsunami, searched one of the Ninjas and found a note under his wetsuit "From Nighthawk - Rat Pack I got your stuff" (So obviously he is a carrier) Tsunami brought the package back to shore where he had no other choice but to give it up to the maniac (7' 6" guy who had hostage) and the guy went ran to the car, and we of course, gave chase. He went into the car, and he must of somehow transported. We did however find a business card in the car..

The Studio

Lambart Bolwork Exec. Producer, 10 Mortimer Mouse Blvd., Sweet 50, Monolithics Movie Studios, Hollywood, Calif. (213)-555-MEGA. We were sure this was where we'd find the Rat Pack, so we went there. We all gained entrance to the studio through various means, (Metal Jugg, and Tsunami, with a police and security guard uniform, which we remained in all the time we were in the studio lot) and we all messed around for a while, (Found a party, and then we found each other when we were going to eat) , at the restaurant "Paula's Palace of Pizza" we ordered our food, and were waiting when a man came in and gave a boy a small package. Well, we were all a bit suspicious, I followed the guy out to his car, and Shroud followed the boy. When the guy got to his car, I shoved a gun in his face and told him to talk, I found out that Lambert Bolwork was associated with the Rat Pack. Shroud found out little from the boy. We went back to the Pizza Palace and finished our supper, and then headed off to Bolwork (Dark Rider had previously called in and asked for a part in a movie, he acted big time, and so on, and he had an appointment with Bolwork at 8:00 pm.) We all went in, Shroud posing as his agent, and the Metal Jugg, and Tsunami as his bodyguards. We didn't question him at all, and Dark Rider was set to one of the "stages" for an extra part. We of course went with him. We were going and eventually got to an "Old Western" outside set. It was completely empty. Then we noticed a small little robot placing metal boxes in various spots, and the Metal Jugg. picked up a large amount of Infrared from behind a building. We went to check it out, and we found Brain Drain (Super Villain) and a bunch of the little robots, well we were winning the battle, then suddenly they all disappeared / teleported.

(Next Update) Well, we next went to the Sci-fi movie that was being shot, that Dark Rider was to be an extra in. Well I guess they needed 2 extras so Shroud was offered a part also. They got on black robes and had there faces powdered green, and they did a scene (much like the scene from Star Wars, when the princess was in the bar with Jabba, and they had all the music and such). Well, it was going fine, and then the organ player started doing his thing and the lights on the organ were flashing, as the music played (Being mutants, The Metal Jugg, and Tsunami knew the organ player was a real animal of sorts) Dark Rider determined that the lights were filling the file with subliminal message encryptions. After the scene was over, the lizard (organ player) split, and The Jugg, and Shroud followed him until he also teleported away. Well we screwed around for a few minutes, and then heard shouts from another room. We ran to the room to find thugs trying to force feed the director of the film, Vincent Darkens, some Blue Ice (Blue Ice is a very bad drug :)) Well we saved the director and found out some stuff. He was more then willing to talk to us, in fact it seems he was fed up with Bolwork making changes to his script. We let him know everything, he is guessing that the Rat Pack is hiding somewhere with-in the studios but he wasn't sure where. He ( Vincent Darkens) offered to let us bring all our toys :), even the super vehicle, after all it was a Sci-fi set. So we did, and then we met him again. After getting somewhat settled in the basement, he offered us a few telephone #'s: His, Bolwork's, Bolwork's Press Secretary, and the Head of Security. He also gave us keys for everything in the studio, a map of the studio,and some I.D. passes. Then we all including Darkens went down to Bolworks office, and gave him a scare :).

Here is mostly what we learned:

-Bolwork cannot contact the Rat Pack, they contact him

-Bolwork knows little of what the Rat Pack is actually doing, (just as the guy in the prison way at the beginning knew little of what was going on)

-Bolwork is a fool, he believes he is in control of the Rat Pack and will someday rule the world, he's just another little pawn in the game of chess. He lyes repeatedly, and is a coward under pressure.

-Bolwork knows what Blue Ice is and uses Blue Ice (drug)

Well, we bugged Bolworks phone, and told him about the bug (he was there watching us), but he doesn't know about the other bug, the other bug picks up the sounds in the room and transmits them.

The 3rd Party

Well, after all was said and done, we learned very little useful info. Darken's next suggested we check out an old building in the studio, one of a few that wasn't currently in use. (A perfect hideout) So we went there, well we entered with nothing happening to us. And looked around a bit, and we did indeed find a laboratory.... completely abandoned (so we thought) and totally Trashed! (Hehe, someone beat us to the job :)) Well, we looked around a bit more, and then ran into some ninjas. They took the credit for trashing the building, all in the name of "The Claw" which is led by Nighthawk (remember him?). They demanded we hand over the Subliminal message machine, (They thought we were part of the Rat Pack) and when we tried to explain what was going on, they wouldn't listen to us, which brought us into melee combat with several ninjas....

(Next Update) .... we defeated the ningas, actually Dark Rider's Shotgun only caught one, and the rest split, we chased after them to no avail. Well, we were at a standstill, we had no idea of what to do. We all decided we go our different routes, and report in to see if we could find anything out. Dark Rider took Tsunami down to the shore, where Tsunami searched the waters for any off shore vessel that the rat pack might be living on, he didn't find anything. Shroud went to the warehouse, that he was in earlier to see if the circumstances changed there at all, and unfortunately, all he saw were the same 3 guys playing poker. So no luck there. Dark Rider just kinda hung out listening to bugs that we planted in Bolwork's office... He heard nothing. The Metal Jugg. was assigned to go through the studios and see if he could find anything so he got a full listing of all the movies that were shooting at the time, and decided to check out a WWII flick that was shooting. He went down to the studio and started looking around under various machinery for subliminal message machines. While he was looking under one of tanks, two guys in old fashioned gangster suits walked by and they were talking (they didn't notice the Metal Jugg.) They were talking about how there was going to be a drug dropoff on the Cosmoroids studio (remember this is the studio that we are staying in the basement of, and is run by Darkins) tonight at midnight. Then they started saying something about the rat pack, but by then they were too far away to be hear what they were saying. The Metal Jugg., found a private area and gave Dark Rider a call, DR went and picked up Tsunami, and everybody met outside the studio. We found Darkens and he wasn't very happy that his stage was being used as a drug dropoff area... but he showed us the storage area where he figured it would happen so we got an early glance at the scene, and then we ate a little supper.. just waiting....

11:30 Cosmoroids Storage Area

We arrived early and found some hiding spots to watch the action from, and then we would just interfere at the right time. Well, MJ in all his wonderful foresight, thought that maybe we should tape the event to get some great evidence, so we turned on the 3 cameras that were on stands and DR covered up the little red light that's always on with some electrical tape. Well, we all just nearly got into positions: Shroud, and Tsunami behind crates, MJ and DR behind some space shuttle props, when in come Ningas. I was only 11:50 right now, so we just figured they were early, and then the ningas all started hiding also, behind crates, and whatever else....luckily none of us were discovered. MJ, could see the ninga leader (with Infrared vision) and guessed it was Nighthawk. Nighthawk was floating about an inch above the ground. He didn't hide. Next came in a couple of henchmen with a case, one commenting on how the Rat Pack hadn't shown up yet... They just sat there, not noticing any of the 30 or so people around them, and then finally came in the rat pack. The ningas sprang from there little hiding spots, and had the Rat Pack and the henchmen surrounded. Then Nighthawk proceeds in pointing out all of us. Don't know how, but he did. So we stepped out into the open to join the little party..

Well.... somebody must have moved because an all-out brawl started. People stepping over other people, machine guns spurting bullets all over, shotgun blasts going off, and the clinging of swords could be heard. The Metal Jugg. managed to get knocked down, stun, paralyzed, and possessed... while Tsunami was making a mockery of the ningas as the blades went right through his liquefied body... Dark Rider was jumping in and out of the way avoiding machine guns, and Shroud (Invisible) managed to grab the suit case and get away with it. Dark Rider and Tsunami took off after Shroud to get away, and the Metal Jugg. lay paralyzed just watching the ningas mortally wound the rest of the Rat Pack.

Judgment Day

The ningas tied up the Metal Jugg. and the Rat Pack leader (Lab Rat), and brought us back to their little base (Metal Jugg. managed to catch an address). The place was just an old worn out warehouse. They tortured Lab Rat to try and get info, but it seems as though they got very little from him. Metal Juggernaut managed to get a word with Nighthawk, and found out the ninga's purpose in this whole mess. He was just out to get the subliminal message machine built by the rat pack, nothing more. The ningas left us tied up together on chairs, back to back. It wasn't the normal rope, it was the really strong metal cord type stuff, that neither of us could break. They set down a bomb, set it for 10 min, and left. Umm... we were screwed.. or were we..hehe. They never happened to take MJ's cell phone from my back pocket, so he managed to knock it loose and it fell to the floor a few feet a way. We tipped over the chairs and Lab Rat dialed my friends with his nose (Gotta love speed dial :)) Well, Dark Rider shifted his bad ass super vehicle into high gear and was here with the others with'n 3 minutes. He grabbed the bomb, and took flight for the ocean, and dropped the bomb into the ocean where it exploded harmlessly. (Where's Demolitions when you need it :)) Meanwhile, we got untied by Shroud and Tsunami, and then we were stuck with Lab Rat who was really beat up at the time from the battle and the torturing. He asked us for the drugs that he needed to stay alive. Of course you gotta feel sorry for the guy, but he had planned on taking over the world so....... knowing that he'd turn back into a rat soon, we just dumped him off in the street in front of the hospital.

We all got back to the base (studio basement) and then we suddenly remembered the tapes!!! (Dohh, remember the tapes that we were going to use as evidence) The tapes that show us running off with the contents of the suit case making us look like the bad guys...errrr. (By the way the suit case has mutagen in it) We had Darkins run to the storage area to grab the tapes (he could do it with no questions asked), but when he returned, he said the tapes were gone. Hmm.. not good.

Well, with nothing left to do, we said our good byes with Darkin's and he even offered to let us stay up at his estate if we ever wanted to relax a bit :). Well, we returned to fabulous New York, disassembled the 2 subliminal message machines that we had and then got some well deserved rest. The Metal Jugg. and Dark Rider went into the shop early the next day. (After telling Gats about the tapes, and also asking Darkin's to keep an eye for them) We went on back to the Doctor's car that we had to have souped up by the end of the week, in other words 3 days were gone all ready so we'd better get movin'. Well the T.V. happened to be on, and what would you know, Lab Rat was in court.... He was just about to totally screw us over, by telling the whole nation to be on the look out for us because we are out to get them when all of a sudden he turns back into a rat... awww.. Muhahaha.

Tapes!!

Well, MJ and DR continued to work on the car, when what do you know, the "doctor" walks in. He looks at both of us, and I recognized his eyes..Nighthawk. He recognized both of us also. Then we went into a really weird hypothetical conversation. (We were around other employees) For instance, one of the lines was: Nighthawk, (who has the tapes) "I bet he would be willing to trade the tapes, for a mind enhancing circular unit" In other words... the tapes for the subliminal message machines. Well, a loss of words, we just said to meet us again tomorrow with tapes and we'll bring the subliminal message machine (That's currently disassembled, maybe we'll just leave out a few key parts in reassembling it). As he left, we made sure to let him know that we'd do real good job on his car... Muhahahahaha :)

The stories of our adventures are far from finished.... Please continue to read our travels in the adventure: The Dragon Talisman

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