Don't Own

Chapter 2:

(Donnie's POV)

"Are you Irma Langinstein?" Leo asked kindly, causing the woman to back up a step.

"No!" She answered sternly but that wasn't really surprising. She'd been using a different name in an attempt to remain undetected, it was part of the reason we'd had such a hard time finding her.

"Fair enough." Leo stated calmly as he took a causal step toward her. "Do you know April O'Neil or Casey Jones?" He asked which caused her to look up in horror.

"April?" She repeated in shock.

"They're our friends too." Leo continued as he took another step. "But they're missing. We don't know why, but we know it was Shredder who took them."

"Is this a threat? 'Cause –" She started again but he quickly cut her off.

"No, it isn't a threat." He corrected seriously. "We've already been to her apartment, something was waiting there for them and we have reason to believe that it may come back."

She suddenly became very concerned when he said this and looked back at the door she was waiting at before backing away from it like she feared the people behind it were now in danger because of her.

"I don't know who these people are to you –" Leo continued cautiously as he held up the picture of her, the man and the two children and she gasped. "But Shredder is not above using others to get what he wants. Please, we can protect you – we don't want anyone else to get hurt."

She was about to respond to that when something behind us caught her attention and Raph spun around with all the grace of a swarm of bees to asses the threat but thankfully I managed to grab his wrist before he attacked, as we all quickly discovered that it was only a child.

But unfortunately for Raph the interruption didn't go well for him as the little guy hauled off and punched him right in the nose.

"Oww!" My brother screamed in discomfort as he rubbed the offended spot before glaring down at the kid. "What's the big idea?" He demanded but the kid just retaliated with another hit which landed yet again as I refused to let Raph try to stop him for fear that he might accidently hurt the little twerp.

"Ya little brat." Raph swore before the kid tried once again to sock him but it would seem that three times was the limit, for my brother quickly reached out to pick him up by the back of his shirt like a scolded puppy. "That's enough." He bellowed.

"Tyler." Another voice answered and we looked around to find another kid, this one a little older, running up to us in a furry to hold up his hands like he was ready for a fight. "Put him down!" He ordered fearlessly.

"Oh for cryin' out loud – OWWW." Raph complained yet again when the kid he was holding managed to deck him in the nose one last time. "Ya rotten little son-of-a –" He started to swear as Tyler wiggled out of his grip to hide behind his older brother leaving me to quickly cover Raph's mouth before he could finish his statement.

Deserved or not the little twerp was still just a kid, there was no reason to expose him to such language just yet.

"Don't worry." I told them both kindly. "He won't hurt you, will you Raph?" I added sternly as my brother folded his arms in a huff and glared at something on a nearby wall.

"I hate kids." He grumbled under his breath but I ignored him.

"Tyler, Falcon." Irma yelled as she rounded us to make sure they were both okay which was when we finally managed to get a good enough look and found that they were in fact the two boys from the picture. "Are you okay, where's your father?" She demanded quietly.

"He's at work." The older brother; the one I presumed was Falcon answered as he continued to watch us out of the corner of his eye. "What's going on, who are they?" He asked but that was as far as the conversation went before a blur caught our attention.

"Raph!" Leo ordered suddenly and my brother quickly jumped over the group of humans causing Irma to shriek as she shielded the two children with her own body in fear that he was attacking them, but he only landed soundlessly on the other side just in time to catch the creature he had tangled with before in another charge.

"Well look who it is." Raph proclaimed around a grin as the much larger turtle came into view after being invisible the whole time. "I'm ready for ya this time Hulk Jr." My brother added before putting all his weight into his next attack and forced the creature to back up several steps before readjusting and threw him into an alleyway.

"Alright." Raph proclaimed as he twirled his sai in preparation. "Let's dance."

"Donnie –" Leo started to command before suddenly being attacked as well, but he caught it on his sword as another much smaller enemy appeared out of nowhere. "Get them out of here." He finally finished before he attempted a counter but the female ninja just disappeared again.

"Mikey, Zira you're with me." I called and quickly rushed over to take Irma into my arms who screamed a little at the sudden movement while Mikey ran up to collect the older kid and Zira the took on the younger before I quickly led them all out of the area, leaving my two older brothers to fight off our attackers alone.

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(3rd:)

"What do you want?" Leo demanded sternly catching another of the female ninja's attacks as she attempted to slit his throat with her katana.

"Justice!" She suddenly answered which made him blink in shock given that none of them seemed interested in conversation up until that point; he was beginning to think they were all being controlled, but that didn't appear to be the case.

"We've done nothing to you." Leo countered truthfully.

"Nothing!" She repeated loudly before adjusting her attack to place her other hand against his plastron and a second later Leo was electrified to the point that he was flung back several feet into a nearby wall.

He quickly moved again to avoid a brick that had been dislodged in the crash and stood up again to face her. "What do you think we did to you?" He demanded quietly but her only answer was to attack again.

Her anger made her dangerous and unpredictable so he didn't have much of a chance to talk to her again until a few minutes later when a loud sound caught their attention and suddenly Raph was thrown through not one but two walls only to hit a light pole and collapse to the ground.

"Raph!" Leo called when his brother didn't get up, but he was quickly forced to parry another attack from the female as the hulking monstrosity that was her partner strolled toward his sibling.

"Raph, get up." Leo ordered as he held off another attempt to take off his head causing Raph to finally struggle to his hands and knees but he wasn't coherent enough to get out-of-the-way before the larger turtle picked him up by the throat in order to lift him straight off the ground.

Unable to get a good grip or enough leverage to force the creature to let go, all Raph could do was hang there as he waited for his breath to run out.

"Ya-me." The female ninja suddenly ordered as she forced Leo away, who quickly turned his weapons on the mutant that had his brother, but the thing just looked at her and growled. "Let him go Slash." She commanded in a stern voice that promised death should he refuse.

For a horrifying moment Leo thought the turtle wasn't going to listen to her and if it didn't he would have no way of taking the creature on to save his brother. But then the thing let out a loud sigh and dropped Raph like a sack of potatoes before taking a step back allowing Leo to rush over so he could stand between them.

He could almost swear the behemoth was smiling at him from under his helmet but the young leader held his ground; prepared to defend his brother if the thing decided to attack again and for a second he really thought he was going to.

"Go!" The female ordered again causing the other to glare at her. But she continued to hold his gaze completely fearless. "I said – GO!" She yelled and he let out another growl before turning around to disappear from sight as he activated his invisibility thing again.

The other ninja then turned back to look at Leo who didn't move so much as an inch before she too vanished right in front of his eyes.

Even though he couldn't tell if she was really gone or not he could clearly hear the larger one storming away, so Leo took a chance and quickly knelt down next to his brother and checked for a pulse which had him sighing in relief when he found it.

"Raph?" He asked, gently shaking his form a bit and received a pained hiss in response. "Come on bro, we gotta get out a here." Leo added as he carefully maneuvered the other turtle's arm over his shoulder so he could lift him up.

"Where's Mike and Don?" Raph asked in an extremely quiet voice, obviously it hurt to speak too loudly.

"They went on alone." Leo told him as he looked back at the spot where the two enemy ninja had just disappeared, which happened to be the same direction their brothers were headed the last time he'd seen them. "But it doesn't look like they'll be much longer."

R&R