Job Security, Part 2 is the ending of a two-part story arc published in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Amazing Adventures issue 8.
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“Job Security,” Part 2. The Turtles are trapped! But who are the true victors? Rahzar and Fishface or Bebop and Rocksteady? With friends like these, who needs enemies?
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Synopsis[]
Xever Montes (Fishface), Chris Bradford (Rahzar), Anton Zeck (Bebop) and Ivan Steranko (Rocksteady) are all reveling in their capture of the four Turtles. It even appears that the bitter rivals are ready to set aside their differences and tell the Shredder that it was a team effort by all four minions. Donatello has an idea and reminds his captors to give proper credit for the acoustic mines. Zeck claims credit for this, provoking an annoyed look from Xever. Raphael picks up on Donnie's plan and adds that someone deserves credit for the cage traps too. Bradford claims credit for this, and Xever interjects that the Footbot decoys were his and Bradford's idea. Steranko angrily protests, insisting that the Footbots were his and Zeck's plan. Zeck asserts that none of the operation could have been possible without his mines. The two duos of minions immediately break into open argument over this, accusing the other duo of trying to steal credit for their victory. Michelangelo tries to point out that both duos had the Footbot idea, but Raph shushes him. By now, the four minions are beginning to brawl with each other.
Donnie bets Raph a pizza that he can make the minions' dispute even worse, and Raph accepts. Donnie speaks to Bebop, reminding him that his outfit is full of hidden weapons, prompting Zeck to pummel Bradford with his blaster.
As Steranko quickly outmatches Xever, Raph raises Donnie's bet to an extra-large pizza, and tells Fishface to fight less with his arms and more with his robotic legs, prompting Xever to turn the tables on Steranko with a well-placed kick.
Mikey decides he wants in on his brothers' bet and reminds Rahzar he has had two nicknames, and that the Shredder personally trained him. Apparently remotivated, Bradford lunges toward Zeck, putting the latter on the defensive. Zeck quickly throws a mohawk boomerang which misses Bradford entirely.
Leonardo is not committed to this strategy, but Steranko quickly loses patience and demands Leo offer a pep talk. Feebly improvising, Leo reminds Rocksteady he has two weapons, because "two is better than one." Steranko is satisfied with this and rushes into the fray just as Zeck's stray mohawk boomerang slices open the top of Leo's cage, allowing him to escape as his captors are fully distracted. Leo wastes no time freeing Donnie, Raph and Mikey from their cages, and the minions soon find themselves ambushed by the attacks of four free Turtles.
Bradford, Xever, Steranko and Zeck gather at the hole in the brick wall, effectively defeated by the turtles in this battle. But the room quickly fills with smoke as someone has just thrown in a smoke grenade. Before the smoke can clear, the minions are already speeding off inside a van.
Disappointed their enemies have escaped, Mikey asks which of them won the bet. Raph says they all won, but impishly claims this is Mikey's treat. Donnie criticizes Leo's logic in the pep talk he gave Rocksteady, but Leo rhetorically asks Donnie how many bō staffs he's gone through.
The van is being driven by Tiger Claw, who rescued his fellow minions—he had overheard them plotting against each other, and preemptively prepared to rescue them in case they did something foolish. Zeck frets that the Shredder will learn about their quarrel, but Tiger Claw promises his silence, reminding the others that they are all fellow soldiers, none of which may have any ambitions but to serve the Shredder.
The four rescued minions agree to this. They hate each other, but they hate the Turtles more, and the four of them make a pact that the Turtles must die.