Stolen Child

chapter 3

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Old Foot headquarters...

Agent Bishop stood looking at his monitors, he had only been in New York for a week and still he had no idea where the turtles were at. He knew he needed to draw them out, some how. Eventually they had to leave their hide out; he had set up surveillance cameras all over the city in hopes to see them coming out. But the city was too large and he didn't have enough camera's to place around all over town. Something caught his attention on one of the monitors, he saw a red haired woman come out of a shop some where near mid town. He smiled evilly when he relized it was the turtle's friend, April O'Neil...

in the sewers...

It had been a week since Deangelo's birthday, the turtle's were in the lair enjoying some much needed time off. There hadn't been much activity up top in a while and it had Leonardo worried, he went to Splinter for advice. Splinter looked up when his son entered the room "is something wrong my son?" kneeling before him he said "i am worried Sensei, we haven't gotten any activity in quite some time." "may I suggest my son that you all go to the surface and do a patrol of the city?" "what about Deangelo?" "he is far too young, besides he will be fine with me here." "he has been bugging all of us this past week to go to the surface, should we take him to April's so he can see it under April's watchful eye?" "no my son, leave him here in the lair." "OK, I will go tell the others." Leonardo went out to the living room where the others were at and told them "Raph, Mike, Don, Master Splinter wants us to go out on patrol, since we haven't heard or seen anything weird going on in the news he wants us to check it out for our selves." all three jumped up and started to head for the entrance to the lair Mikey turned to his son, "Deangelo, you mind Master Splinter and do what he says OK?" "but, cant I go daddy? I want to go see April!" Leo stepped in going into leader mode "no Deangelo, its just to dangerous for you to leave the lair. You are to do what your father says and stay here." Deangelo stomped his foot and said defiantly "no! I want to go!" Michelangelo took his sons arm gently but firmly and gave him a warning swat on the butt "you do not talk to your uncle like that young man, now go to the dojo and sit in your corner." Deangelo looked up at his father with hurt in his eyes and said "but dad..." "no buts, now go." pointing in the direction to the dojo, Deangelo stomped off to the dojo; Mikey turned to his brothers "hang on guys, go ahead with out me, I will catch up." nodding in understanding Leo told him "Mike, its OK, go do what you have to, we will wait." they watched as their brother went to make sure his son obeyed his orders, Raph turned to Leo "you know, I have seen a change in Michelangelo in the past three years." Donnie added in "yea he has really grown up." Leo looked after his youngest brother "yes he has, his pranks are almost nonexistent anymore, he focuses more and is much more serious. In all honesty I half expected him to think parenting would be all fun and games but he takes it seriously." Leo knew his little brother didn't like punishing his son, but the boy knew not to disrespect other family members.

Deangelo stomped into the dojo, Splinter looked up and said "what is it Deangelo?" "daddy's being mean to me! He hit me! Then told me to go to the corner!" before Splinter could say more Michelangelo walked in "that's because you disrespected Leonardo's orders to stay here, you argued with him and told him no, and you disrespected me by saying the same thing and throwing a tantrum when you didn't get your way. You got a warning swat, I did not hit you, now go to the corner." Splinter looked at his grandson and said "Deangelo? Why would you argue with your father and Leonardo?" "cause I wanna go see April! I wanna go to the surface! Its mean to keep me down here! Uncle Raph is right, this place is like a prison!" Michelangelo was just about to say something when Splinter spoke first "my child, this is a home, and I never recall Raphael ever saying such a thing, now do as your father says and go to the corner. When you have calmed down then we will talk further about your actions." frowning deeply Deangelo stomped to the corner and sat down. Splinter stood before his youngest son "are you all right my son?" Mikey looked at his son then to his father "yea, I guess... I hate punishing him..." "i know my son, but he has to learn what is acceptable behavior and what is not. The way to learn that is to be punished." "did I do the right thing by giving him a swat?"

Splinter could see his son regretted his actions "to some what my son, you merely got his attention, I can tell you more hurt his pride. You did not injure anything but that my son, no go with your brothers I will keep an eye on Deangelo." Mikey gave his father a hug and said "thanks father." "your welcome my son." walking out of the dojo, he could hear his son say softly "ya big meany..." choosing to ignore this he rejoined his brothers, Leo asked "is everything OK?" Mikey told him "yea, Splinter is going to talk to him once he calms down, man how did he put up with all four of us when we were that age?" Raph laughed and said "yea, makes you wonder some times, the four of us have a hard time with one kid!" they left for the tunnels, Mikey's thoughts were still with his son as they walked through the sewers once they were near the manhole Mikey asked Leo "do you think I was out of line?" Leo told him "when? When you swatted your son for being disrespectful? No, you didn't hurt him Mike, you just hurt his pride. He will be fine... wait, was that the first time you punished him like that?" Donnie came off the ladder and stood next to his brothers Raph came up on the other side as Mikey said "yes... I have never swatted him before..." Raph asked "have you put him in time out before?" "yes, several times." Raph spoke up "Mikey, its OK, he still loves you... coming from me it sounds weird, but, he has to know that throwing an attitude to get his way isn't going to work. He needs to learn to control it, other wise he will be like me, and God knows we don't want that." the other two nodded in agreement, Mikey said "OK, thanks guys." putting a hand on his shoulder Leo said "no problem little brother, do you feel better now?" "yea I do." "good now lets go." they went up the manhole and hid in the shadows, little did they know that they were being watched by a mini camera hidden on a fire escape ladder near by...

Bishop watched on his screen as the four turtles came up out of the sewers, "so the turtles have made their move now have they? Go bring at least one of them to me! I will use him as leverage to gain what I want." the man next to him asked "does it matter what one sir?" "no, just as long as I get one of them... unharmed mind you." "OK sir." the men moved out, Bishop knew the turtles would show them selves it was only a matter of time...

Leonardo lead the way in the shadows with his brothers right be hind them they went up a fire escape about two buildings down and went up to the roof tops. They began running along rooftops and surveying the area, after several moments of nothing Leonardo stopped short nearing having his brothers collide with him. "what the shell Leo?" Raph stated as he nearly ran into his brother, Leo held his hand up silencing him "we are being watched..." Mikey looked around and saw behind a billboard a dark figure standing there "Leo, over there..." Mikey said in a low voice and pointing in the figure's direction. Leo took out his swords and the others took out their weapons as well preparing for a battle. Several men came from the shadows and aimed guns at them, one said "OK turtles, where is the kid?" Mikey felt pure rage build up inside of him, Raph put a hand on his shoulder and whispered "steady bro... don't do nothing you gonna regret." Leo told him matter of factly "that is what you will never find out!" they could all hear the guns setting up to be fired, Raph through his sia at one of the men and the gun went off. Leo flipped into the air and landed behind three of the men doing a round house kick he knocked the guns out of their hands. The battle went on for what seemed like hours before Leo noticed Kari near by, she had some sort of gun in her hands he shouted over to Raph "Raphael! Throw your sia!" in saying he pointed to Kari Raph heard and saw his brother and threw his sia but not before she pulled the trigger. Raph's eyes grew wide as a dart flew in Leo's direction, he shouted "Leo! Look out!" Raph left his fight and ran straight for his brother knocking him out of harms way, "ah!" Raph screamed as he felt a needle pierce his thick skin, he looked at his arm and saw the dart sticking out. Moments later his world went black. Leo pushed his heavier brother off of him and said "no! Raph!" Donnie rushed over and pulled the dart out of his brother's arm just as a man came over holding Mikey at gun point "OK turtles, we knew that distraction would work, now here is a message from our boss. You have two days to hand over the kid, or his father gets killed." Leo went to stand up and he saw the man hold the gun harder to Mikey's head "don't even try it blue boy..." Leo could see the tears in Mikey's eyes, he nodded to his little brother and told him "we will take care of him Mike its OK, tell your boss we will talk about it... but know this, you do anything to our brother in the mean time and a feight worse then death will be in store for you!" the men took off, with out a word, Leo and Donnie picked Raph up and carried him back to the lair. Before they got to the entrance Leo said to his brother "Don, I have to do something before we go in." he pulled out his shell cell and dialed Splinter, when he picked up Leo said "Master Splinter, I need you to take Deangelo to Mikey's room and keep him there... Raph's been hurt and I don't want him to see... and Mike's been captured." "alright my son I will do what you ask, we will talk more when you come in." waiting a few moments Donnie and Leo carried Raph into the lair and straight to Don's lab. Leo went to find Splinter while Donnie tended to Raphael, once he found Splinter near Michelangelo's door he said "i need to speak with you Master Splinter." Splinter nodded and gestured to the closed door, Leo opened it to find Deangelo on his father's bed with his knees drawn up to his chest "whats wrong buddy?" Deangelo had tears in his eyes "wheres dad? I didn't see him with you." Leo felt his heart ache "i will come and talk to you soon OK, I have to talk to Splinter first." the little boy nodded and Leonardo shut the door, Splinter was near his room and motioned for his son to follow him. "what happened Leonardo?" "we were ambushed, then Kari shot a dart at us, well actually at me but Raph jumped in the way. Donnie said it wasn't lethal and that he would be OK, but then they used that moment of hesitation to capture Mikey. They told us we have two days to hand Deangelo over to them, father I cant do that, but I also cant let them hurt my brother either. We have to rescue him." Splinter placed a reassuring hand on his shoulder "my son, we must wait for Raphael to come too then we will strike." "we? But Master who will look after Deangelo?" "we will have Casey and April come down to watch him, or even just April and Casey can join us."

Deangelo had heard it all from his father's door, tears ran down the three year old's face, he ran from his father's room and down the hall. He opened the door to the lab, seeing his uncle Donnie he said "uncle Donnie? Is Raph OK?" Donnie tried to not let Deangelo see him but he told him "yea, he was knocked out in the fight, he will be fine." "where's daddy?" Leonardo walked up behind him and got down to his level "Deangelo, listen to me OK? Your father was captured, by the same men that want you. We are going to get him back, but I need you to be brave OK?" Deangelo nodded and looked up at Splinter "will daddy be OK?" Splinter smiled down at him and said "yes, he is strong my child, I have raised him to have a strong will." Leo stood and looked over at his younger brother "how is Raph?" Donnie told him "he will be fine, he is starting to come around slightly, what ever was in that dart was not poisonous thankfully." suddenly they could hear soft moaning "wha? Leo? Donnie?" going to his side Donnie helped him sit up, "how ya feeling?" Raph placed his legs over the edge of the bed and said "like a truck ran me over..." Leo looked at him seriously and said "they took him Raph... they used you as a distraction and then they took him..." Raphael frowned and said "took who?" it took a moment before his eyes got wide in realization "Mikey! Oh god no..." "yea and they are giving us two days to had Deangelo over to them in exchange..." "well forget it! We are going to rescue him right?" "yea, cause there's no way we are going to let those son of a bitches get their hands on our nephew!" Leo looked at Donnie in surprise, the genius turtle never cusses and here he was giving his opinion loud and clear he didn't care who heard him. Splinter walked in at that moment and said to them "my sons, we need to start looking, Donatello can you track Michelangelo on his shell cell?" "i can try." Donnie went to his computer and typed in Mikey's shell cell number, with in minutes a bleeping sound could be heard. He transferred it to his own cell and said "OK I got the signal, lets get April to watch Deangelo." Leonardo pulled out his cell and dialed April's number "hello?" "April, hey its Leo, I need you to do us a favor. I need you to come down here and watch Deangelo, we have an emergency we need to take care of and Splinter is coming with us." "sure Leo, give me a few minutes to get down there OK?" "sure April, but please hurry."

Fifteen minutes later there was a knock on their door, Splinter answered "April, thank you for coming on such short notice." as she entered she smiled and said "anything for my extended family." Deangelo was sitting on the couch with his knees drawn up to his plastron, with his head on his knees no one could see his tears. Raph knew though, he stood next to him and asked "Kid, we are gonna get your father back, that is a promise. We will be back in no time alright?" Deangelo looked up at his uncle and said softly "but... but what if you cant find him? What if dad is..." "don't say that little man, it is going to be alright we will get him." Leo stood behind the couch and said "Raph, its time, Deangelo we will be back, please mind April. She brought you a movie to watch, we will be back before its over OK?" Deangelo nodded his head and watched his family leave, April sat down next to Deangelo and said "hey there buddy, want to watch a movie?" Deangelo looked up at her and began to cry and said "i just want my daddy..."

Old Foot Headquarters...

Michelangelo struggled against the chains that binded him, Bishop circled him and said "so Michelangelo, how long do you think it will take your brothers to come and find you? Better yet will they bring that child." Mikey frowned and said "they would never hand him over to you!" "oh but I bet they will... you see its nature, they have known you for 18 years and the kid for only 3 so I bet they bring him back to me." Michelangelo felt his blood boil "They would never do that! They love him!" Bishop continued his taunts and made the young turtle even more angry. One of Bishop's men came in and said "Agent Bishop, the turtles have been spotted near here." "do they have the kid?" "no not that we can tell." Mikey grinned inwardly and said "see I told you they wouldn't betray me!" Bishop walked over to him "your just a pawn in my plan Michelangelo, I knew full well they wouldn't hand him over... that is why I have sent my men into the sewers... they should be retrieving what I want any minute now..." Realization sunk in and Mikey's eyes grew wide, "no..." "oh yes..."

April was still on the couch with Deangelo who had fallen asleep, she could tell he was restless. Suddenly she could hear movement outside the door, she picked Deangelo up and hurried to the garage where she locked the door behind them. Deangelo woke up and asked "what's going on April?" "some one's coming in, and its not your family..." Deangelo's eye's grew wide "what do we do?" "we need to get out of here." suddenly they could hear "Ms. O'Neil? We know your here... might as well come out." she backed up, she looked over to the other side of the room and ran with Deangelo to the elevator. But to her surprise some one was already in it, "why hello, I knew you would try to come here." she screamed and held Deangelo tightly to her chest, the man walked forward and shot her with a dart. As for April, her world went black in a matter of minutes, all she remembers hearing is a scream before she hit the ground...

A/N: well here is chapter 2, I am working on chapter 6 of Firsts and on chapter 3 of this story, so stay tuned. Thanks for the reviews so far.