AUTHOR'S NOTE- Hey again, thanks a lot to all of your lessons on rocket terminology. I'll try to do research next time though. Anyway onto chapter three and remember I ask any and all questions if you are confused. Happy Reading!
DISCLAIMER- If I owned TMNT I would make them wear name tags instead of masks, I mean come on their turtles, the masks are redundant.
Stupid was not something one can usually call the actions of Donatello, but today stupid would be an understatement to his reaction.
As soon as Don and the co pilot's eyes met he gasped, pulled back, and slammed the door. He turned back around into the pitch blackness and muffled a curse.
"Who or what is out there?" Raph asked.
As soon as Don was about to answer the door flew opened welcoming in blinding light to the black hole. An arm flung out, seized Don and with a yelp pulled him out and slammed the door again.
"Don!" Mikey cried.
"Mikey you stay here with Leo, I'm gonna go play with Don's new friends." Raph said smirking and lunged out the hole and closed the door behind him.
For a few seconds Leo and Mikey could hear the sounds of fight. Then they heard a gun shooting off.
"Don!" Raph's voice came from outside.
Another second later the gun shoot out again and they barely made out Raph's faded grunt.
After that the only thing Mikey heard was his pounding heart as he crouched closer to Leo, staring wide-eyed at the door. Leo softly pushed back Mikey and crawled to the entrance. Mikey bit back a protest and slowly followed him toward the door.
Suddenly it was again flung open. Leo only got a glance at the pilot's face as shoot him with his silver laser.
"Leo!" Mikey cried then was hit with a beam as well and everything went black.
The first thing Mikey noticed when he woke up was that he was uncomfortable, in excruciating pain was more like it.
His armed were pulled back nearly to the point of dislocation by steel, rusty chains. They were tied so hard into his wrists that he could feel blood trickling down them. It was the same way with his legs too, and he was bleeding from his heels. He tried to wiggle to loosen the chains but ended up making them cut deeper into his heels and wrists. He hissed at the stinging, hot pain.
He lifted his head and could barely make out his brothers' figures hanging the same way he was all around him. Raph moaned and started to stir.
"Raph!" Mikey called.
Raph looked up slowly.
"What?" he asked.
"Where are we?"
"How the shell should I know?" he responded, annoyed.
It was then they really studied their new cell. It was surrounded by creaky wooden walls and there was small streaks of light coming from a sole window of the roof, otherwise it was pitch black. The room smelled like feces and death, which made Mikey's nose twitch even though he lived in the sewer.
"Is everyone alright?" Don's voice came from the darkness.
"That depends on where we are." Mikey said.
"Leo are you okay?" Don asked, still concerned about his burn.
"Yea, fine" Leo anwsered in one of his worst false voices.
His legs burned heavily and the chains digging into his flesh was not exactly and favorable accompaniment.
At the edge on the room there were tall wooden stairs leading up to another door. From above grunts and voices could be heard. Finally the door creaked open and a man came and looked downstairs.
"They're up!" he cried and ran back up.
A few seconds later another man came down the stairs. He was wearing a black coat with a golden badge of the symbol the turtles immediately recognized from April's shop.
He glared at them when he was down. "Why were you stowing away in one of my squad ships?" he demanded.
Raph growled at him when Don anwsered, "One of your men has stolen an artifact from our friend." he said.
"Artifact?" the man asked.
"The Mors Nigra." Leo said.
The man eyes widened. "How do you know of... never mind, nobody stows away on one of my ships and gets away with it."
He took out a small communicator. "Kill them." he spoke into it. With that he snapped it shut and went back upstairs.
As soon as the door shut Don started to pull on his chains. "For such an advanced alien nation they have some pretty old school containment devices." he said.
"Not really the topic of interest Don." Raph snapped.
"Open for suggestions of an escape plan." Leo said.
"Why doesn't Raph try eating the chains?" Mikey snickered.
Don narrowed his eyes as he scanned the room. Then his eyes started to follow the chains up to the roof. His eyes widened when he saw all four of their chains were hanging from the same hook. And one of the chains was attached loosely compared to the others. He followed it down to its captive and smiled when he ended up at Raph.
"Everyone listen up." he said, "all of our chains are connected in one place, if we wiggle enough we might loosen Raph's enough so he can get free."
The turtles nodded and started to squirm and yank on they're chains, which was painful but doable if it meant freedom.
The door opened again and a man stepped in with a gun in hand. He glared at the turtle's efforts to get free.
"Struggling is useless." he said taking aim at Mikey.
Just as he was about to fire one of Raph's chains snapped off his arm. He then swung his arm and hit the man with the chain causing him to fall to the floor. He growled and got up. Raph gathered some of chains and wrapped it around his wrist. Then swung it again at the man like a whip, throwing him to the wall with a groan and a bloody scar on his face. He lay unconscious on the floor.
Raph smiled and loosen the chain on the other arm until it was lose then freed his legs. Once on the ground he immediately saw they're weapons on a table at the other side of the room. He grabbed his sais and ran over to free Don.
"Thank you." Don breathed as Raph freed the last chain from his wrists.
"Don't mention it." he said handing him one of his sais. "You free Leo, I'll get Mikey." he said.
Don nodded and headed toward Leo. He grimaced at the deep,bloody cut on top of the now blistering burn.
"Leo I'm sorry," he said "My plan for getting in the ship was dumb and I didn't even think about..."
"It's okay Don," Leo interrupted. "No one was expecting what happened in the cockpit and at least your plan got us into the ship unnoticed."
"Yea unnoticed until you exposed us to the driver." Mikey said, earning him glares from Raph and Leo.
Don still didn't look eased but he focused back on cutting off Leo's chains.
Unlike the rest of them, Leo's chains were attached at the heels, making the only way to cut them off was deep in the cut at the chains. Don thought about just cutting the chains holding him against the wall, but if he left the remains in the cut skin might grow around it, or it could get infected.
"Sorry Leo I'm going to have to cut at the heels." he said, carefully bracing the sai.
Leo nodded, "I'll be okay."
Don gulped and stuck the sai in the cut and started to saw off the chain. Leo clenched his fists and bit his tongue to stop himself from screaming. Raph had already freed Mikey and the two watched in sympathy as Leo struggled to keep the shouts of pain in. It only took a couple of seconds but it felt a lot longer to the guys. Finally the chains snapped and Don started on the arms. When he freed Leo Raph and Mikey gently eased him to the ground.
The four of them had rather nasty cuts on their heels and standing was pretty painful.
"Help me find something to cover our wounds." Don ordered.
"No time we have to get out before they figure out something's wrong." Raph said.
Don sighed and nodded, "Leo can you walk." he asked quietly.
Leo nodded and tried to rise, but his legs felt like they were back on fire and again he had to suppress a cry of pain as he slid back on to the ground.
"Come on Leo." Raph said gently as he lifted Leo's side and Don joined on the other.
Mikey went ahead up the stairs and slowly creaked open the door and peaked outside. The sight was not ordinary.
First thing he noticed was that they were on what looked like a ship. Not a space ship, but a boat ship or pirate ship. There were gigantic sails and a crew of people working on deck. The other thing he noticed were the millions of stars in a black sky.
It was morning when we left, he thought, but maybe we were out a long time, maybe it's night time.
Never before had he seen so many stars. Living in New York seeing three stars at a time was lucky, and there were more stars here then he'd ever seen at the farm house.
"Is the coast clear Mikey?" Don asked from a couple of steps below.
Mikey looked around. The crew members were a good distance away and consumed with their work.
"Yep." he called back.
The turtles quickly climbed up the remaining steps and head out the door as quietly as years of ninja stealth training allowed. They quickly located a bunch of boxes stacked up by the edge of the ship and made there way over there.
"Okay," Leo said, his voice was strained as he was let down. "We should be safe here for at least long enough to figure a way off this ship." he started.
"Uhh Leo." Don said in an astonished voice "I think you might want to see this."
Leo joined his bothers as they all turned around to come face to face with a sight, not even in their wildest dreams they'd ever think to see. There probably a couple of feet away Saturn and it's glorious rings gleamed in the night. The ship was right on top of it. The yellow color of the plant gleamed neon yellow and it's fiery orange rings seamed to be coming all around them.
The turtles were speechless at the astonishing, yet terrifying sigh before them.
"Freeze!" they all jumped at the voice.
They swooped around to see that they were surrounded by crew members with guns aimed right at them.
"You have no escape." The captain of the ship walked out in front of them.
He was right, in more ways then one.
AUTHOR'S NOTE- So yep there by Saturn, and wiki said the planet had rings so I hope that wasn't made up, the last thing I want is sci-fi in my fic, lol. If you think I'm wasting my time trying to be funny please review, or if you think I'm hilarious review, or hey if you want to just say something then review, I'm not picky.