The rain pattered and the wind rapped against all the windows in the citythat never sleeps; in the rooftops, a couple of brothers made their way to the nearest manhole that would take them home. They had stopped a couple of times to bash some heads and rescue helpless citizens from being mugged and they would have continued but the weather was getting worse by the minute thus was their cue to return to the lair, otherwise they would catch a cold and then they'd have to deal with certain purple-clad brother, his lectures and his medical treatment.
"Feeling better now?" Leo asked to his sibling as they walked through the sewer tunnels.
"Kinda. I guess I'll go back to my normal self in the morning… but I'll need some extra sleep and-"
"-Ohh no. Don't think you'll escape from me that easily" Leo rebutted. "You're getting up early and go to our sparring session or I'll make you do back flips the rest of the afternoon"
Raph snorted. "Says who?"
"May I remind you Sensei put me in charge of your training and that includes the punishments?" Leo grinned. "If you want to argue about it, go talk to him and let's see if he'll be as merciful as me"
Raph blinked. "I… eh…"
Leo sighed. "Alright, maybe I can let you oversleep five minutes… but no more"
"Awesome! Thanks bro"
"Don't get used to it, though"
"Aww, no fair! And here I was gonna say something nice about you" Raph replied folding his arms against his chest.
Leo laughed. "Please, don't let me stop you"
The brothers' laughter echoed through the sewer tunnels; minutes later, another sound would join their laughter: it was the blue-clad ninja's cell phone's ringtone.
"Hello? … Yeah, we're heading back to the lair… In the tunnels … Mmmhmm … Really? But how did you- … alright, alright"
"Who was that?"Raph eyed Leo questioningly while he hung up and put the cell phone back into his belt.
"Donnie; we better hurry up to the lair" Leo answered, quickening his pace.
"Did Mikey get his head stuck between the rail bars again?" Raph asked following his sibling.
Leo smiled. "Better. Our genius found T-Girl!"
…
Minutes later the lair's door opened; Leo and Raph hurried to their purple-clad brother's laboratory and found him almost "attacking" the keyboard with his incredibly fast fingers.
"About time you guys got here; what took you so long?" Don asked without turning around to greet his siblings.
"Don, this better not be a joke" Raph replied with a low growl. "Because I swear if it is-"
"-who do you take me for? Mikey?" Don replied back.
"Let's get to the point, please" Leo interfered before things got out of hand.
Don nodded. "Right. So, after Raph left I began playing with the system, codes, several sites, random messaging, random selection, etcetera… and I bumped into this"
The resident genius finally stopped his typing and clicked on a link; soon his computer's screen was flooded with tons of information related to the girl the Hamatos thought they would never see again.
Leo grinned. "I told you it was possible"
Don arched a brow. "Whoever said it was impossible? No, no… wait. I think I know who said it" He sighed while looking at his red-clad sibling with narrowed eyes.
"So, you really found her?" A still dumbstruck Raph asked.
"Not quite but this is enough information for now so you can try and search around that neighborhood till you find her. It shouldn't be that hard-"
Donatello hadn't even finished talking but Raphael couldn't care less; he had what he needed now so explanations could wait, especially long and boring ones. He'd remember to thank his brother properly once he got back home but for now, he had to hurry.
When he was about to run off the lab, Leo stopped him. "Where are you going?"
"Where do you think I'm going?" Raph replied, shrugging off Leo's hand from his shoulder.
"Don't you think you're rushing things up a little bit?"
"Maybe… but you know me, Fearless" Raph answered with a cocky grin before running towards the garage.
"He's got a point, you know?" Don seconded.
Leo rolled his eyes. "Hey, would you at least wait for me?!" He yelled.
"You have 2 minutes before I leave!" Raph yelled back from the elevator.
The leader shook his head and chuckled. "He's way too excited about this"
Don grinned. "I wonder why"
"Aren't you gonna come with us?" Leo asked while making his way to the lab's exit.
"Nah, I'll pass. Besides, someone has to stay here and be Mikey's babysitter while Splinter is outside"
"Gotcha. Well, see you later, Don. Wish us good luck!"
"Take care! And please, make sure Raph doesn't get into trouble!"
Leo laughed. "Will do!"
…
Somewhere in New York, T-Girl sighed absent mindedly to herself; she was completely bored and the house seemed too silent without her parents and siblings, who were gone for the night. She sighed again as she turned off the T.V. She headed for her room to try and get some homework done. It might not be her favorite thing to do but it was something. Right as she was passing the door, the doorbell suddenly rang.
T stopped mid-trek."Who the heck?" She asked to no one in particular.
Instead of heading to the door she ran downstairs to peek through the window, she could barely make out a black Sudan parked in the driveway. Suddenly, a blinding light shown through the window onto her face.
"Target confirmed! Initiate break in!" A voice yelled. T fell back from the window, as it was shattered to pieces.
This night had just gotten interesting.
…
"Raph, slow down! You're gonna get us killed!" Leo yelled clawing his fingernails into the passenger seat.
Ever since they left the lair, Raph had been driving like a madman. Following Donatello's instructions, he had driven through all neighborhoods in New York unsuccessfully; that frustration was reflected in his driving skills and Leo was the victim.
"Relax! I'm going as slow as I can" Raph replied slowing down just a little bit.
"Look, I know you're excited about this but you have to stop acting like a hothead at least for one minute"
"I know, I know! But we've been looking everywhere and-"
"Pull over" Leo ordered out of the blue.
Raph turned to look at his brother questioningly and noticed his blue-clad sibling's eyes were glued on a house in particular.
"Raph, pull over!"Leo said more firmly.
The sai wielder hit the breaks and parked at a reasonable distance from the house and the black Sudan parked nearby. Both ninjas jumped out of the BattleShell and hid behind it.
"What the heck is going on here?" Raph whispered.
"Doesn't look like a conventional kidnapping in progress" Leo whispered back.
"But it's kidnapping nonetheless" Pulling both sais out, Raphael abandoned his hiding spot and jumped into action. Leo followed him reluctantly, mumbling something about his sibling's hotheadedness.
…
In the mean time, soldiers in black armor began to climb into the room. T got up and ran back upstairs, with them in hot pursuit. Right as she passed the front door it was forced inward revealing several more soldiers. T back tracked as fast as she could only to find herself boxed in by soldiers. None of them made a move to grab her. Finally the apparent leader of the troops made his way towards T.
"Come quietly and no harm will come to you, Miss T-Girl" He said.
T gulped. Trying to act brave she frowned. "And what if I don't?"
The soldier grinned cockily. "Trust me you don't want to know"
T nodded trying to hide the fact how freaked out she was. "Well, I guess there's only one thing to do" She said.
The soldier grinned again waiting for her to surrender. T grinned back then promptly kicked him in the groin. The soldier gave a loud groan as he bent forward in pain. T took this opportunity to hurl him into a group of oncoming soldiers. His weight knocked them down like armored bowling pins and T was able to escape out the front door into the yard. She could hear the heavy clomp of the soldiers' boots as they chased her down the wooden porch into the driveway. She could hear them gaining fast.
"C'mon legs run faster!"She willed herself. But it was too late, one of the soldiers had caught up to her, holding her fast.
T struggled to lose the soldiers grip, but soon she was surrounded again. Two soldiers fought to bring her to her knees, finally succeeding just as their leader made his way to them.
"I warned you what would happen if you didn't come quietly. Oh well, I like it when they play hard to get" He said snidely. "Hand me a tranq dart. I want our little quarry to be well rested for her meeting with Agent Bishop"
"Bishop!? I should have known; I thought I smelt something foul!" T growled, trying to break the grip of her captors.
The leader played with the dart in his fingers. "You'll get yourself into a lot of trouble with that mouth, blondie. Hold her!" He commanded aiming the tranquilizer gun at her neck.
T struggled but the soldiers restrained her. She shut her eyes waiting for him to pull the trigger. Instead she heard a clang and several shouts of surprise. T opened her eyes to find the tranq gun and a sai in front of her.
"Hey!" Shouted a voice and everybody turned to look. There stood a red-clad ninja, hands curled into fists.
"Tell Bishop, to get his own girl. This one is mine!"
T suddenly felt her captors release their grip on her. They fell unconscious beside her. She looked up to find a blue-clad turtle standing over her.
"Don't just stand there! Waste those freaks and get the little brat!" The troop leader commanded.
The soldiers started shooting at Raphael but Leonardo easily dodged the bullets, taking down a few soldiers in the process while his brother went to protect T-Girl. By using his body as shield to prevent the bullets to harm her, Raph was unable to move as much as he wanted and the soldiers noticed. Taking Raph's vulnerability to their advantage, they threw punches and kicks at him while they tried to pry off T-Girl from the ninja's grip.
The terrified girl opened her eyes and recognized the figure protecting her. "Raph! What the heck are you doing here?!"
"Oh, hi T! Nice to see you too; I'm doing great, thanks for asking" The sai wielder replied a bit sarcastically.
"RAPH! GET YOUR SHELL OVER HERE AND BRING T! WE'RE LEAVING!" Leo yelled from the front door after knocking down the shooters.
"Well, you heard the turtle" With this, Raph picked T-Girl and threw her over his shoulder in one swift move.
"HEY! I CAN WALK, YOU KNOW?" T said angrily, hoping the red-clad ninja wouldn't look at her reddening face.
"Right now we need to RUN, blondie" Raph rebutted. "Walk is not an option… unless you wanna get yourself killed"
"DON'T LET THEM ESCAPE!" One of the soldiers yelled after seeing the ninjas and the girl already on the run.
"I'll distract them, you start the car!" Leo ordered.
"Are you crazy?! They'll kill you!" T replied sounding concerned.
"Kid, we're ninjas!"Raph replied back. "If Leo gets killed by those pussy willows I'll go back, pick his corpse, slap it till my hand goes numb and then I'll kill him myself!"
"In other words, I'm not allowed to die" Leo continued. "And I'm not planning to, either"
"THERE THEY ARE!"The soldiers ran faster; some of them climbed into the Sudan but found out they couldn't start the engine.
"THOSE FREAKS DID SOMETHING TO THE CAR!" The troop leader growled.
Leo and Raph smiled to each other and gave themselves reciprocal thumbs up; perhaps messing with the car before jumping into the battlefield hadn't been a bad idea after all. The shooting re-started and that was Leo's cue to unsheathe his katanas and protect his brother and T-Girl.
Meanwhile, Raph dropped the blond haired girl inside the BattleShell a little too roughly. T glared at him while rubbing her behind and Raph smiled awkwardly.
"RAPH! I CAN'T HOLD THEM OUT MUCH LONGER!" Leo called his brother's attention after performing a roundhouse kick.
The red-clad ninja grinned almost maniacally and glanced at T. "Alright, kid. Ready for the ride of a lifetime?"
T blinked. "Uh…"
"Too late!"
And they were off.