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The Cure for You, part 3 is the third and final installment of the story arc The Cure for You. It is the primary story of Jennika #3.
Appearing in part 3[]
Major characters[]
Minor characters[]
- Bull chemist
- Foot Ninja
- Mandrill chemist
- Splinter (flashback only)
Locations[]
Synopsis[]
Ivan leads Jennika and Silas to this alleged mutation cure he's been talking up, but Jennika still has her doubts. While Silas still insists is has to be real, Ivan tells a story about an ancient cult who had a ritual that would temporarily transform their members into animals, and when one of the cult's members was caught in the Mutagen bomb, they used their ritual to reverse the transformation.
Ivan shows them to a black market under Mutant Town, where they take a gondola. The rower of the gondola turns out to be the woman who was de-mutated in the video Jennika was shown as "proof" of the cure. However, just as they depart, Jenny notices a tentacle slip out from under her cloak.
When they arrive at the "cure", they just see a jar with a crude sign reading "CUЯE" and Jennika points out how childish this sign and the ones preceding it pointing it out looked. When torches are lit in the area, Jenny's heart drops as she realizes they're in Foot Headquarters, and the owners of this "cure" are none other than Rocksteady and Bebop. The two try to convince their visitors to join the Foot Clan, and Ivan pretends to think about it, but he and his two chemists flee.
Bebop and Rocksteady realize Jennika is a turtle, but can't place which one she is. Silas uses this opportunity to steal the jar, and Jennika hits the two goons with a surprise attack and urges Silas to run with her. They are sighted by a group of Foot Ninja, who impede their escape.
The two Foot mutants admit that they're just trying to bilk desperate mutants out of money, by either forcing them to "donate" and join the Foot, or just beat them up and steal the cash. Despite Jennika's attempts to have Silas drop the jar and make haste, he is still convinced that the "cure" is real.
The two of them jump through a window and onto the roof of a passing bus, but the jar breaks open. Silas licks the spilled contents in desperation, but realizes it's just pickle juice.
Silas bemoans his fate, saying he's not as great as a ninja turtle (and identifies himself (correctly or not) as a muskrat)—and says he needed the cure to be real. Jennika tries to reassure him, by saying the greatest man she's ever known was a rat (although muskrats aren't rats) and Silas thinks she somehow means him, to which she assures him she doesn't.
A despondent Silas tells Jenny he's taking the money and running and not to follow him. As the bus passes the perfume billboard she saw before, Jenny realizes that being a mutant isn't easy, but she's been preparing for such a journey her entire life.