Five dark shadows flitted in and out of sight in the building-littered landscape of New York City. Four of these five shadows looked similarly bulky and their movements were smooth from constant practice. The fifth shadow, comparably small and slim with movements no where near graceful, is me.
I followed my companions to the flat roof of a tall building, the five of us stopped to recollect our thoughts and recite our plans. My companions were green-skinned, strong, and trained in the martial arts. Each also had their own thick brown shell cemented neatly on their backs and a colored piece of fabric for a mask. They were the ninja turtles that lurked in the city's sewers by day and fought against crime at night.
They helped me get out of a tight spot when my boss tried to destroy everything I hold dear. Which he did manage to do, except for the four brothers that I now live and train with.
"Everybody got the plan?" Leonardo, the turtle with the blue mask, whispered to the rest of us.
"Of course we do, what are we, a bunch of idiots?" The red-masked turtle, Raphael, snapped gruffly.
"Say what it is then." Donatello of the purple mask said, disbelieving.
"Ooh! Ooh! I know! We go down there, offer the bad guys a sandwich and when they say 'uh what kinda sandwich?' We go: 'a knuckle sandwich, bozos!' And serve 'em some shell!" The spazz with the orange mask, Michelangelo, spat out excitedly with coordinating movements.
Leo sighed.
"No, that's definitely not it."
"You, Mikey, and Raph sneak down there all stealthy like and take out the front men while me and Donnie go 'round back and release the prisoners. Also see if you three can locate the glowy nuclear rods the boss was planning to start a gang war with." I spouted out the plan that master splinter had devised for us, I was thankfully good at retaining lots of information, not as good as Donnie, but I was tied with Leo for a close second.
"Thankfully somebody decided to bring their brains with them today." Muttered Donnie. Raph scoffed and I returned it with a 'anything you can do I can do better' sort of expression. I could see the turtle's muscles spasm as he resisted tackling me to the ground. At any other time, the hot-tempered turtle wouldn't have hesitated reaching out and grabbing me into a rough wrestling match, but seeing as we're in the middle of an important mission... Raph was smarter than he looked.
"Okay, we all got that down? Good. It's ninja time." Leo broke it off and the five of us split. The purple turtle and I silently traveled around our target building until we caught sight of a back door, a guard was just going inside it giving us a glimpse of the terrified faces of young girls in cages that lay inside, our main objective.
Donnie and I leaped over and huddled in the shadows. Before long an opportune moment appeared to us and we took it and managed to get inside the building without being noticed by the many guards prowling around. Donnie looked over at me and silently pointed out how we should strategically open the cages and free the girls in a way that would prolong our presence being hidden.
I nodded and we split, opening up the cages, freeing the prisoners.
We made it to the last few cells when suddenly a loud call broke out.
"HEY YOU!"
A gun shot rang out, the bullet piercing through my hair and grazing my cheek causing a slight dribble of blood.
"Ah- looks like the time for action!" I said to myself.
A huge fight broke out, gun shots rang out and feet and fists flew. Donnie and I met up in the middle and faught together as one. We beat the shell out of them, that's for sure, and me and the turtle busted out of the room to meet up with the rest of the guys.
"HEYA!" A familiar voice rang out and I turned to see the three other turtles.
"All the prisoners are free." Donnie reported. Leo nodded.
"We have the nuclear rods. We should head to the center of the building now and face the boss while his defenses are weak."
I clenched my jaw in concentration as the two turtles discussed further plans when suddenly I felt something brush against my cheek that had been scratched. I jerked my head away from surprise and I looked up to see Raph wiping away the blood droplets that had gathered.
"It's annoying me." The gruff turtle muttered angrily.
I grunted in reply and paid no mind to it, he did that every now and then.
Leo lead us further into the lair and we battled further, this was significantly more difficult than the previous fight, the boss's defense may be weak as far as individual strength, but there sure was a whole lot of them.
Raph and I stayed close together, watching each others backs, as we usually do. We tended to magnetize towards each other during fights and training, so much so that the other brothers had begun to tease us about it, but Raph just yells angrily at them to leave it be and I try to mentally deny that I absolutely enjoy it. He was the first of the turtles I met, I was out on the streets later than I should have been and I saw a dark shadow moving around that intrigued me that turned out to be him, taking a moment to brood away from his 'pesky' brothers. We talked for a bit and since then we had always been close.
After much fighting, the five of us managed to get close to the main boss who had been sitting calmly in his big boss chair during the entire time, a grating smirk cutting across his face. We all gathered around him, cornering him, yet he still smiled.
"You may think you've got me, sewer rats, but you've only given me exactly what I wanted..."
I internally rolled my eyes.
Uh-huh. Sur-
Quick as a flash the boss took out a tazer gun and pulled the trigger. A sharp metal fork lodged into my neck, my eyes widened and I ripped it out before I could feel any pain, of which strangely none came.
The instant the boss moved the turtles had already leapt into action, though not before I had been stabbed by the metallic prong. Raph especially moved quickly and furiously, clocking the boss with a powerful punch.
I had begun to slightly freak out, I put my hand up to where the prong had pierced me, wondering if it wasn't a tazer... Then what did it do? I didn't have to much time to dwell on that question at the moment because the building quickly filled up with the flashing of blue and red lights from the cars of the police force. Raph sharply grabbed my arm and the five of us quickly made our way out of the building and onto the street. We turned down a few dark alleys before stopping in one to take a breather.
"What the shell was that?" Raph angrily spouted, forcefully lifting up my chin in order to see the small wound better.
"It looked like a tazer... But I don't think it was..." Leo said lowly in between breaths.
"No, it definitely wasn't a tazer." Donnie said matter-of-factly. "Though I have no idea of what it could have been... Do you feel and pain? Or anything seem strange?" The purple masked turtle inquired, turning to face me. I shook my head in response, too out if breath to physically say something.
"Tch." The red turtle clicked his teeth, finally letting down my chin, though he didn't seem satisfied with the lack of answers.
"I guess all can do now is go home..." Leo declared, opening a manhole that was nearby.
"Sweet! Just in time for monster marathon!" The energetic Mikey called out. I smiled and my eyes began to droop, the fight had taken its toll on my still-learning body.
Raph felt a weight fall onto his arm, she had passed out.
"Hey- agh-!" The red turtle muttered looking to his brothers for help with the unconscious girl but they had already dipped out of sight below the streets.
The turtle sighed and picked up the girl, jumping down into the darkness, careful that nothing disturbs her.