The Worms Of Madness

The Worms Of Madness is the first episode of the second season of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Heroes In A Half Shell (TV Series idea). It's the fourteenth episode overall.

Synopsis
A foot mystic finds the Shredder's dead body in the Hudson river and manages to bring it back to life but in a new form.

Characters

 * Leonardo
 * Donatello
 * Raphael
 * Michelangelo
 * Splinter
 * Shredder
 * Foot Mystic

Plot
The episode begins with the falling Technodrome in the Hudson river.

Following is a Foot Mystic narrating, telling how much he hates the Turtles, and explains how he will bring The Shredder back to life. As Saki's body heads out to of the river, the colony worms that made up Saki's reincarnation pour from his mouth, and into a shark.

As the Mystic goes about his work, the Turtles kick back after their long, hard battle, preparing to watch a new TV show - Arrow. Leo finds one worm on his katana, flicking it off and flushing it down the sink.

One week later, Splinter and the Turtles are walking around in a general Sewer area, with Michelangelo clowning around as usual. He taunt's Leo's morose mood, and strangely Splinter joins in, schooling Leo with a few swift strikes. Just as he announces that he has an important lesson for his sons, Mike spots a shark swimming in the sewer water. Unfortunately, it's not just a shark, but a reborn Oroku Saki, a manlike mutation created from a shark and the clone worms.

The Turtles attack Shredder, but he easily defeats them. Using a swarm of worms, he carries Splinter into his chest cavity, and leaves the beaten Turtles floating in the sewer. When they wake up they decide to follow the sewer tunnel where the shark came from. They find themselves somewhere in Jersey near a sewage plant. They enter an old warehouse and find their sensei there. Then the shark emerges and the turtles must find a way to destroy it. Then they see the Foot Mystic and attack him instead of the shark. He loses control over the creature and it goes mad, destroying everything. The whole construction goes down in the river and the turtles manage to save Splinter and escape.

In the end we see someone emerging from the river and it’s the Shredder, Saki human again and fully recovered like he was reborn…

Trivia

 * Adapted from the TMNT Classic Comics Tales Vol. 2 issues #3 & #4 - The Worms Of Madness