If anyone had told Scout how big the Foot clan base had gotten in the past two years, she would have laughed and called them crazy. After all, when she had last visited New York the Foot was half the size it was now. They must be recruiting by the minute.

It wasn't like Scout wanted to be here. In fact, it was the exact opposite. Seriously, this place was all work and no fun. She would never survive if she was a Foot ninja. Yet here she was, following Emiri down a dark hallway with Miles taking up the rear.

The new Foot base was bigger than it had ever been. At least, that's what Sensei told them, and Scout was rather inclined to agree with him. It's like they added a new floor every day. Everywhere you turned you could see dark, old paintings. There were 347 in the lobby, Miles had told Scout a little while back. Yes, this place was so boring that Miles was counting paintings.

They came to a staircase that went even further down, and when the came to the bottom they were greeted with a giant pair of evil looking double doors.

"Here we are," Emiri said with a smirk. "They're right inside."

"Perfect," Scout grinned, stepping forward. "I can't wait to get my long awaited revenge for my mother."

"Don't worry, Ms. Morrison," Emiri promised. "You two will have a great time. They'll be more than happy to comply."

Emiri opened the door, and they were greeted with another dark hallway, but this one had rooms with steel bars. Emiri stepped aside, allowing Scout and Miles to enter first, but quickly took the lead again. One of her traits. She always had to one-up you.

"They should be right… about… here!" Emiri pointed to two cells, one on the left and one on the right. Scout peered into the cage on the left to see a mutant turtle sitting on the floor, chains holding him to the wall. He looked up as we approached, but his eyes held no fear. He had seen too much. A blue mask was discarded on the floor beside him, looking worn out and dirty.

"That's Leonardo," Emiri said, pointing to the one looking at others. She turned to the cage on the right. "And that's Raphael."

We turned to see another turtle, but his mask was on his face. Unlike Leonardo, Raphael had an angry glint in his eyes, daring you to step forward. But that was as far as it got, as the turtle knew he couldn't do anything to stop the pain that was soon to come.

"Will he give us any trouble?" Miles asked Emiri, glancing at the red turtle.

"No, he won't," Emiri said, giving Raphael a pointed look. "Or else there will be hell to pay."

"Don't you worry, ma'am, we'll take care of the hell part," Miles grinned, picking up a knife.

"Then I shall leave you," Emiri smiled and bowed in respect. They bowed back, and she left, leaving us alone with the two turtles. Surprisingly, the other cells in this corridor were empty.

"Alright, Scout, let's have some fun," Miles picked up two twin katana and tossed them to Scout. Scout caught them with ease, turning to Leonardo's cage.

"Revenge is sweet…" Scout gave an evil grin as she opened up Leonardo's cage door. "I'll torture you with the same blade you killed our mother with."

The turtle said nothing, just blankly stared at them. Scout raised the sword, ready to strike with all of her might.

"Leo, NO!" Scout heard Raphael cry. Leonardo didn't even flinch as Scout brought the sword down, only closing his eyes and waiting for death.

However, no pain came, and Leonardo opened his eyes to see Scout still standing over him, his chains that kept him bound to the wall cut in half.

"What...?" Leonardo frowned as he lifted his arms that still had the cuffs rubbing against his green skin. Scout gave a smile before dropping the katana so they landed right next to Leonardo.

"You might need these," Scout said quietly. "Miles, hurry up."

"I'm doing my best," Miles snapped. Scout looked over to see Miles struggling to cut Raphael's chains.

"Do better," Scout sighed with an eye roll. "Luke'll kill us if we're not back in ten minutes."

"Wait…" Leonardo was fumbling for words. "I… I don't understand."

"That makes two of us," Scout sighed as the knelt down in front of the turtle. "Are you able to walk?"

"I… I think so," Leonardo looked at his legs, using the wall to help himself get off the floor. Scout quickly came to his aid and put his arm over her shoulder, supporting some of his weight- or, as much as she could anyway. The turtle was heavy, but he was frail as well, weak and older, which was to be expected if you've been living in a cage for a large portion of your life. Scout bent down to pick up the blue mask, stopping to hand it to Leonardo.

"Scout, we need to go," Miles frowned, glancing at his watch. Raphael was leaning on the wall behind him, looking confused and bewildered.

"I thought you wanted to kill us," Leonardo frowned. "Why are you helping us?"

"Listen, man, I promise we'll explain everything later, but for now we need to focus on getting out of here," Miles had twin sai in his hands, and handed them to Raphael. Raphael stared at the weapons for a moment, and Scout concluded that it must've been a long time since he had held his sai.

How long exactly had it been since these turtles had seen the light of day?

"Scout, you lead the way," Miles ordered. "I'll take the rear."

"Got it," Scout nodded. We slowly started to move through the chambers, Leonardo leaning heavily on Raphael. Miles followed up, his ninjato sword held out in front of him. Scout took her own ninjato sword and went on ahead, making sure there were no stray Foot ninjas walking around.

Once the group made it out of the dungeons, they started the long trek up the stairs, and Scout was honestly worried the two turtles wouldn't be able to make it, but they had newfound determination in their eyes and they climbed all the way to the top. At the top of the staircase was a single Foot ninja, but Scout managed to knock him out with the hilt of her sword before the ninja could raise any alarms.

"I hear more of them coming," Miles hissed from behind. "We have to get to the elevator, and fast."

Sure enough, Scout could hear the footsteps of Foot ninja's approaching the corridor they were currently in. Scout quickened her pace, glancing back to see if Leonardo and Raphael were keeping up. They were.

"Hey! They're getting away with the prisoners!" A voice yelled, and Scout groaned in annoyance. She darted past Leonardo and Raphael to stand at Miles' side, tightening the grip on her sword. A group of about two dozen Foot ninja was rushing towards them, and Scout realized with a heavy heart that they wouldn't be able to outrun them. At least, the weakened turtles couldn't. Without Leonardo and Raphael, they would have already gotten out of the building, but they couldn't give up now.

"You take left, I'll take right," Scout muttered to Miles. Miles nodded and sprung into action, knocking down Foot ninjas like a bowling ball.

Scout herself raced over to the right side of the large hallway and kicked a Foot ninja right in the stomach, forcing him into another ninja behind him and effectively taking them both out. She then leaped did a front flip, landing behind a ninja and sweeping his legs out from under him, and the ninja crashed to the floor. Scout winced as she heard the ninja's head make contact with the metal floor, but she honestly didn't have much sympathy.

Afterall, Scout and her siblings were raised to have little sympathy for the enemy.

Scout continued to throw punches and kicking, using the hilt of her sword to hit a ninja square in the forehead. She jumped up in the air and did a roundhouse kick, taking down two ninjas at once. Scout looked over at Miles, who didn't look like he was having much trouble. At first, he was smirking, but his eyes shifted to look at something behind her and his smirk disappeared.

"Scout, behind you!" Miles shouted, knocking a ninja down to the ground. Scout turned around with wide eyes to see a ninja about to literally slice her head off, but he was impaled by another sword and fell to the ground, the sword clattering to the floor.

Leonardo pulled the sword out of the dying ninja's body, giving Scout a small smile.

"Thought I would help you out," he explained.

"Thanks," Scout grinned. He nodded, and they quickly got back to business, Leonardo jumping into the battle to fight beside Scout. She peeked over at Miles to see Raphael slashing and stabbing ninja's with his sai, a grand smile present on his face. Damn, it would suck to get on his bad side.

Scout and Miles came together, taking out the last ninja standing together by Scout kicking him into Miles and Miles throwing the ninja into the wall. The ninja fell to the floor, and Scout and Miles reflected for a moment on what had just happened.

"Okay, we need to go," Miles started towards the elevator that was at the end of the hallway. "More of them will be coming soon."

"You and your friend fight well," Leonardo commented to Scout as they jogged down the hallway side by side. Raphael was in the middle, and Miles was in the lead.

"You guys were pretty good as well," Scout smiled. "You saved my life back there."

"It's what we do," Leonardo said. A dark look gathered in his eyes and he looked down at the ground. "At least, it's what we used to do."

Miles reached the elevator and jabbed the down button, hitting it another four times impatiently. Scout heard more noise and cursed, holding her sword in front of her.

"C'mon, c'mon!" Miles cried, hitting the button again. "Hurry up!"

"Stop right there!" A Foot ninja yelled, the group of ninjas getting nearer. Just as Scout was ready to fight some more, the elevator doors opened and Miles rushed inside, waiting until the turtles and Scout were inside before hitting the "close door" button. The lead Foot ninja broke into a dead run, but just as the ninja was about to jump inside the elevator the doors closed, leaving the Foot ninja behind.

"Thank God," Miles breathed a sigh of relief, slumping against the elevator wall as the elevator made it's way down to the ground floor. Scout raised her arm to give Miles a high five.

"I'll message Luke and tell him we're almost out," Scout said, pulling out a small, beat up flip phone. Scout hit the keys on the phone quickly, periodically checking to see how much time they had left. Just as they hit the fourth floor Scout put her phone away, readying her sword.

Level… three…

Level… two…

Level… one…

The doors opened, and Scout peeked at the large lobby and was surprised to see that nobody was present, save for the few Foot ninja hanging around.

"Where'd everybody go?" Miles whispered, his eyebrows furrowed.

"No clue," Scout whispered back.

"Let's go… now!" Miles leaped out of the elevator, busying himself with taking the three or four Foot ninja's out while Scout stayed behind with Leonardo and Raphael, helping their small, weakened forms across the lobby. Once the coast was clear, Miles grabbed a small device out of his pocket, punched in some numbers, and tossed it onto the floor away from the doors. With that Miles and Scout raced out of the building with the turtles in tow and all four ninjas started to run across the rather large parking lot. At the end, a running car was parked, and the front seat opened and a boy around the age of Scout and Miles stepped out, a stern look on his face and his arms crossed.

"Luke, open the trunk!" Miles shouted, sprinting ahead of Scout and the turtles. Luke rolled his eyes but did what Miles asked, opening the trunk. When they reached the car, Luke and Miles helped Leonardo and Raphael climb into the trunk, while Scout stood on the lookout for Foot ninja.

Luke came around to where she stood.

"They're secured," Luke said. "Get into the back seat; Miles called shotgun."

Scout nodded and started for the car when Luke spoke again.

"Hey, weren't you guys gonna bl-" Luke was cut off by a large explosion from the Foot Clan tower, turning a good six or seven floors into pure rubble. "And there it is," Luke smirked and rushed to the front seat of the car while Scout climbed into the back seat. Scout could see dozens upon dozens of Foot ninja flooding out the building, pointing at their car and racing towards them, and Scout swore she saw the Emiri's livid form standing in the crowd.

Luke stepped on the gas, and he gave one last look before speeding into the dark, empty streets of what was left of New York.


Okay, so this happened. Look, I know it looks weird and shit but I swear it'll start to pick up. Basically, Scout and Miles are my OC's and the main characters of this story. I promise there's a reason for them existing. Just bear with me.

This chapter was told in Scout's point of view. The next chapter will be told in Miles' point of view, and it'll switch off throughout the story.

I have big plans for this story, and I'm really hoping to get it to twenty-something chapters. So please try and stick with it if you're interested and leave a review to let me know what you think.