Attack of the Mousers is the third issue of the Dreamwave comics. The story retells the Attack of the Mousers episode of the 2003 animated series.
Solicit[]
Baxter Stockman recollects the events that transformed him into an evil genius just before the turtles track him to his underground lab. Now it's mousers vs. turtles in a battle royale you need to see to believe! [1]
Appearing in Attack of the Mousers (Dreamwave)[]
Major Characters[]
Minor Characters[]
- April (Baxter's HS crush)
- Tom Cirrone
- Foot Technicians
- Hun
- Mousers
- Oroku Saki/Shredder
Locations[]
Synopsis[]
A New York City bank. As Baxter Stockman narrates, speaking of his views on women, Mousers chew their way into the vault from below. He equates the Mouser's behavior to how women tear into a person, while the Mousers rob the private boxes of millions in cash and jewels.
Flashback to Stockman as a high school teenager. He has a crush on a girl named April, but she is the girlfriend of a football jock and a bully whose favorite target is Stockman. The bully, Tom Cirrone, shoves Stockman into the lockers for speaking to April. She excuses his behavior by saying he's always cranky before a game. As they leave, Stockman opens his locker and takes out a special football.
Back to the present. Down in the sewer lair, the Turtles and April watch news of the bank robbery. Mikey spots teeth marks on the debris and deduces that the Mousers were behind the theft. April spills the beans that she worked for Stocktronics, but when she discovered the Mousers, Baxter Stockman tried to have her killed. Raph suggests they all head to Stocktronics and shut things down, not only to stop the robberies, but because the Mousers destroyed their original lair. April then recites the TMNT’s origin to back to them, having heard the story recently from Master Splinter.
At Stocktronics, Baxter receives a message from his mysterious benefactor. Baxter mouths off to him, telling him that he procured the funds he promised and demands not to be bothered again. The mysterious benefactor warns him about the price of failure and then signs off. Baxter mutters that everyone is stupid but him, then his mind returns to the past.
Flashback. Hiding below the bleachers during The Big Game, Baxter whips out a device to guide his remote controlled football. As Cirrone runs to catch the ball, Baxter guides it through the air toward the goal post. Cirrone crashes into the goal post, breaking his arm and ribs and ending his high school football career. Baxter gloats at the top of his lungs that his plan was a success and now, with Cirrone out of the way, he has a chance with April. Unfortunately, his gloating gave away his entire scheme to the nearby cheerleaders (April amongst them) and band members. Baxter is summarily curb-stomped by the angry teenagers.
Baxter awakens in a body-cast in the hospital. He’s approached by Hun, leader of the Purple Dragons and an agent of the Foot Clan. Hun tells Baxter that with guidance from his backers, he could one day have his very own company. Baxter is intrigued and accepts Hun’s business card.
Some years later, at Stocktronics, Baxter is approached by April O'Neil, applying for the job of lab assistant. He isn’t impressed with her until she tells him her name. Rather attached to the name “April”, he decides to hire her.
The present. The Turtles infiltrate Stocktronics and run a gauntlet of laser beams. They interrogate Baxter, who is baffled as to what they are. April tells him that they have enough evidence to put him away for years. Baxter quickly recalls the Mousers and orders them to tear the building apart. Don and April attempt to override the command while Baxter escapes down a secret passage. As the building collapses, he bumps into Hun. Hun clutches Baxter by the scruff of his neck and tells him he’ll have to report his failure to the Master in person.
At Foot HQ, Baxter tries to play things off as a minor setback, but Oroku Saki isn’t having it. As Hun drags Baxter away to be punished, Saki tells his technicians to give a report from the Mouser memory banks. The tech says that a Stocktronics employee, likely April, triggered a self-destruct on all the Mousers. Saki awkwardly scoffs that there’s always a woman somewhere in the mix. The tech then shows Saki the last image in the Mouser’s memory: a heat signature of the Turtles. Enraged, Saki hurls a blade through a window.