Turtlefreak121: Greetings once more :D Nice to see you all again! Well, here I am with your awaited update (waves plot book in the air) Blitz: You're telling me people wait on this silly stuff!? (folds arms and raises brow) Of course! Someone somewhere must! Why else would I post them on the internet? Well... I guess 'cause I've got nothing better to do but that... I get bored SO easily! (pinches Blitz's cheeks) Now if you don't mind, please get me some Paprikash! (dances around happily) I LOVE me some good Paprikash:D

Thanks for everyone who reads/reviews for this story! I appreciate it 100!

A Dog's Best Friend

Chapter Nine

By Turtlefreak121

Disclaimer: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are (c) of Mirage Studios was created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. TMNT-2003 is (c) to 4Kids entertainment. Road Rovers is (c) of Kids WB and was created by Tom Ruegger. "A Dog's Best Friend" is a fan-created story (c) of Turtlefreak121. The storyline, though none of the characters, is also (c) of Turtlefreak121. Plagiarism will not be tolerated in the least. Thank you for your time.

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Splitting Up

The two guards walked slowly past the corner as they continued their chatting. Both knew that Bishop had ordered them on high alert - to make sure nothing got in and that nothing got out - but it had been hours of nothing. Instead of continuing the seriousness of the matter, the two decided to begin their idle talking.

"I still don't see why Joanie can't just let ya back into the bedroom!"

"I know - the couch's gonna get lumpy soon if she don't stop bein' so--"

Suddenly, there was a deep yell from behind the two guards before the second found himself flying through the air with a dent in his helmet.

"What the--" the first yelped before pulling out his gun and aiming at the silver plated collie that was dusting off her hands.

"Watch it, Gov'nor!" she warned with a shine of her pearly whites. "Else my little green friend might not let ya off so easily!"

"Lil' green--"

Before the guard could finish there was a loud WHACK and his body hit the ground - his limbs immobile.

Raphael grinned as he patted his hands together. "Nice job," he smirked. "Very interestin' entry," he stated sarcastically.

"Thank ye - I believe I saw it in some movie with some apes!" she said happily.

"'Tarzan'?" Donatello asked as the others walked into the light from the shadows.

"Hmm... Actually I think it was 'George of the Jungle'!" Colleen explained happily.

"Fascinatin'," Raph nodded before rolling his eyes.

"What we do now, comrades?" Exile asked as he and Blitz followed after Leo, Shagg, Muzzle, and Mikey. "We're sneakin' not so well now."

"It was necessary - two less people patrolling, two less people to catch us," Leo responded as he stood up Muzzle's cart and headed towards the two unconscious guards to help Colleen and Raph hide the bodies. "We also needed to make sure there wasn't any surveillance in this area."

"Is there?" Blitz yawned.

"That's an obvious no," Mikey snickered.

Shagg grumbled before shifting his feet back and forth before tapping on Leo's shoulder and pointing to an air duct. "Bee beeb baba aru?" the sheepdog questioned carefully before rubbing his sides.

"Huh?" Leo asked before raising an eye ridge as he and Colleen began lifting the second guard together. He then looked over to where Shagg was pointing and straightened up - his eyes widening as the hamster wheel began turning. "The air duct? I've got an idea!" he grinned before releasing the guard's arms and causing the front of his body to hit hard against the ground.

"What you got? A 'igliash'?" Exile questioned.

"Whut you say he has?" Blitz scoffed. "You can't speak'd 'Inglish!" he laughed.

"You can't speak English!" Colleen snorted at Blitz before dropping the bottom half of the guard's body.

"You're just speaking British!" Mikey grinned at Colleen.

"Mikey, you can't speak British! They invented English," Don corrected his brother.

"Reebab baru!" Shagg huffed.

"You can't even speak English, Shagg!" Colleen reminded the Rover.

Leo glared at all of the commotion and rubbed his temples. "My head..." he groaned.

Seeing Leo's discontent, Muzzle grumbled and bounced his cart over to the center of the quieted arguments and began leaping up and down, head shaking, and foamy spit flying around him. Once all was silent, the dog straightened and arched an eye brow.

Leo walked over and rubbed Muzzle's ears - making the rottweiler smile happily from behind his restraints.

"Right, as I was saying, I have an idea..." Leo repeated as he looked around. "To do this, though, we're going to have to split up. I say it'd be better if it was one ninja per Rover considering you Rovers need our stealth and we need your four's--" Muzzle growled,” Err...five's senses."

"Already behind ya, 'Chap!" Colleen smiled happily before tensing up and looking to the troops, her hands on her hips and her eyes narrowed. "Alright - I'll go with Leonardo here, Exile's with Donatello, Blitz and the annoying orange one, Shagg's with Raphael, and I s'pose I'll keep tabs on Muzzle here."

Leo blinked for a moment before looking to the others. "Well... Alright, that settles that, I suppose. Once you all are through the air duct, Colleen, Muzzle, and I will begin our distraction. That's it, I guess."

"Okay, TEAM on THREE!!!" Mikey cheered before bending to start a huddle.

The turtles and Rovers all looked at the orange-clad ninja before Mikey straightened and rubbed his head.

"Heh heh - sorry! I thought the moment called for it!" Mikey laughed.

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Hunter sat on his haunches once again and shook his head. Bishop must have been lying! His team wouldn’t' have gone down that easily! He knew them - his Rovers were the toughest, the strongest - the greatest.

Grumbling in his anger, Hunter got up again and began pacing back and forth in his prison. Bishop's a liar, you can't believe him! You can't trust what he says... But that was DEFFINATELY the Sand Rover...

Slowly, the blonde dog stopped his pacing and smiled pleasantly at the memories. The Sand Rover was built by Exilio - oh, Exile, his good, good (though slightly confused) friend - under Hunter's orders.

The Rover leader had never thought that he'd need a sand buggy for any occasion; he just merely wanted one after watching a Scooby-Doo episode with some talking sand buggy. Even though Exile hadn't wanted to build it considering he was more of a direction obliging fixer and not a creative inventor, the husky did it.

Exile had built the buggy for Hunter for no other reason than they were the best of friends.

Hunter could see Exile now - that bluish colored, thick coat of fur wrapped around his body as he hummed Russian lullabies to himself - his wrench in his mouth and his eyes occasionally flaring up a deep red or blue as he used them like nothing more than common tools.

That's when Hunter realized that even if he was rescued, if it was by any team other than his own and his team had indeed been lost forever because of him, he would never be able to return as a Rover. How could he return to being his master's loyal pet?

He was a failure! A failure as a pet and as a Rover!

Hunter's ears flattened against his head and the dog found himself giving a low whimper from the back of his throat. He missed his team - all of them. He missed Colleen, Exile, Shagg, Muzzle - he even missed Blitz!

Something then popped into his mind. Those turtles! The ones they had promised to meet! Could they be alright? Did they know what kind of danger lurked out for the Rovers? Surely they weren't involved in this - the Rovers knew better than to have civilians placed in danger, right?

Thinking, Hunter's eyes widened.

We were abducted in New York! That's where those turtles were waiting on us! They hadn't gotten into that brawl, had they?

Sighing and shaking his head, Hunter walked over the back corner of his cage and laid down, his eyes drooping in sadness. Had he just ruined things for everyone? That one turtle had been so excited to see them, too...

What had the orange one called him? A hero?

Hunter frowned and tightly closed his eyes before placing his paws over his head.

Some hero... he thought to himself. Heroes are supposed to help people - So far today I've only made things worse.

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"Sure we shan't be de 'diser-actions', me comrades?" Exile asked one last time as nothing but his head stuck out from the opened air duct.

"We'll be fine, Exile!" Colleen assured him with a wink.

"Alright - now that's you sure, I shall leave!" Exile smiled happily before pushing off of the air duct's walls to make him slide down faster.

Seeing that Exile had finally parted, Leo looked over to Don. Their other brothers had already left through the air duct and were on their separate missions for all that the blue masked turtle knew. He frowned at Donatello and jerked his head to the air duct.

"Take care of yourself, Don," Leo warned his brother. "We'll try to keep any of Bishop's goons off your guys' backs."

"Sure thing, Leo - take care of yourself, too," Don nodded before heading over to the air duct. "Don't worry too much about us - we'll handle ourselves. You need to worry a bit more about yourself, okay?"

Leo nodded and watched with his arms crossed as Don took a steady leap into the air duct. It took only a few moments of the sound of his brother flying through the metal duct before Leo snapped out of his curiosity and into his worried phase.

"Well, that's the six of them," Colleen said with her hands on her hips before looking at Leo and smiling confidentially. "Time ta look for Hunta' now, wouldn't you say?"

At Colleen's statement, Muzzle began leaping up and down to reach next Leo and drooled as he looked at his new friend happily. Leo could tell that Muzzle wanted to find Hunter just as much as Colleen did.

"But we have to be the distraction," Leo reminded Colleen. "I promised my brothers I'd make sure that no one got to them--"

"What do you think Mr. Fluffiwufikins is for?" Colleen smirked as she pulled her folded ears up to mock Blitz's snipped ears. "He's got that covered whether not he knows it!" she giggled.

Leo looked at her oddly and shook his head. "You guys are awful to him - is Hunter that bad to him?"

Looking sort of stunned at Leo's reaction, Colleen released her hold on her ears and blinked in surprise. "Wha? Hunter? No - he's the only one that says anything nice to Blitz," she said before placing a hand on her chin in deep thought. "Heh - for some reason he thinks so highly of Blitz... I could never figure out why..."

Muzzle let out a growl and leaped up and down.

"Muzzle's right, we better get going," Leo interrupted Colleen's reminiscing.

Before Colleen could grab the back of Muzzle's cart, Leonardo had gripped the handle bars and began pushing the crazed mutt along. Colleen blinked in confusion and looked oddly at Leo who looked over his shoulder at Colleen as he pushed Muzzle.

"Come on, Colleen. We'll make a few distractions and then we'll look for Hunter," he explained to her. "I'm sure my brothers and your teammates are far ahead of us by now," he continued before running on.

Colleen grinned and rubbed the back of her neck. "What do ya know? The bloak's a younger Hunta'!" she grinned at the thought before running after Leo and Muzzle. "With the exception of the Super-Gullible facta'!"

The collie ran a few feet behind Leo and Muzzle for some time before Leo made a sharp turn which was quickly followed by a stop. Colleen got to them just as Leo motioned for her to follow him and Muzzle into a dark crevice which she obeyed without question.

They watched in silence as two running guards stomped towards where they had been.

"Someone said there was a large rat in the vents and Bishop goes nuts!" one guard grumbled to the other.

"He only went crazy when one ofta rats began yellin' in German!" the other hissed.

Before they were too close, Leo pointed to the bars connecting the two buildings they were between. Colleen grinned and nodded in understanding before they both leaped up to grab the metal poles just as the two guards were beginning to pass them.

"RIN TIN TIN!!!" Colleen cried out as her and Leo swung their legs out to grab around soldiers' waists and pulled them back into the shadows.

"What the--"

Before the guards could finish they found themselves in a rumble with the collie and turtle. Leonardo quickly pinched the pressure point on the guard's shoulder and caused him to collapse in front of him.

"That's cool!" Colleen grinned before giving her guard an evil grin. The soldier gasped as he suddenly found himself being quickly hit - the chest, stomach, shoulder, elbows, knees, and one final smack to his forehead.

As the soldier let out a groan, Colleen smirked and then smacked him across the face. The guard let out a huff of air before falling to the ground in front of the Rover and her ninja friend. The two smiled at each other.

"That," Colleen huffed as she swung her hair behind her shoulder, "Was for Hunta', my friend!"

Leo smiled. "I'm sure he appreciates that."

"Really, that's nice oftya ta say!" Colleen smiled back to him.

Returning to his serious manner, Leonardo then walked back to the bouncing Muzzle and grabbed the handle bars of his cart. The ninja then began pushing the cart along the shadows of the large buildings.

"Come on, Colleen," he called to her as he took a left. "I'm sure they were talking about one of your teammates which means they're on the trail of one of my brothers, too..." the turtle responded.

"That makes sense," Colleen thought out loud before following after him - tail swaying in the dry air. "If the 'rat' was speakin' German that means juss one thing!"

"Blitz and Mikey," Leo's eyes widened in the realization.

"Sure, we'll go wit dat one," Colleen shrugged as they made their way to a hanger. "I was thinkin' more along the lines of yar orange brother and some rat!" she giggled at herself before scratching her ear. "Say, yar pretty good with names - I still can't remember all of you!"

"Your names are hard to forget," Leo shrugged as they passed the hanger.

The hanger slowly swung open, surprising the trio. Muzzle growled and shook his head as he glared at the figure becoming apparent through the opening doors. Leo placed a hand on Muzzle's head to try to calm him, but he tensed up as well.

The form of the muscular soldier clad in camoflauge and metal became apparent as he twirled his finger around his long, blonde mustache. Leo found himself focusing on the thick lines of strained muscle on his large neck.

Parvo grinned at Leonardo and Colleen as the ninja unsheathed his swords and Colleen pulled her body into a ready to fight position. He then spared a glance to the crazed rottweiler shaking with anger before grinning.

"Well, well - looks like my work's been done for me!" he smiled happily. "How you doing, Scout?"

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Turtlefreak121: A shout out to everyone in Atlanta, Georgia! I was heading home as I finished this chapter and it sure feels good. Oh, well, I'll make this quick - my sis wants to play solitaire on the laptop (rolls eyes) So, here's some Rover info for those of you who don't know and also some TF-ifying

Please Review - I'd appreciate it ;D

In the Road Rovers it is revealed that Parvo and Scout (aka "Muzzle") had once been the Master's pet cat and dog who were forced into an early model of the Transdogmifer by the Master's ex-assistant. The transformation was not meant for cats and when Boots was placed into it, it created Parvo (which is why Parvo's always coughing, he has hairballs). The Transdogmifer also malfunctioned and when Scout was placed into it instead of creating a Road Rover it made Muzzle go crazy. For more information on the Rovers and Parvo contact me.

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