There was a strange smell...rancid,sour, it made their stomachs boil, Leo looked back at Raph , they both knew what it was...
Death...
It was coming from the next room...
Raph gritted his teeth.
"Don't go in there bro."
Leo stared at the closed door...
"What if-?"
"Leave it...let the cops deal with that...there's nothing we can do..."
Leo nodded and put his arm over his nose and mouth , quickly he passed by the door leaving it untouched ...
Raph did the same,
Leo gritted his teeth, against the pain in his side...he didn't know much about medical stuff, that was Donnys department, but by the coppery taste in his mouth he was willing to bet that bullet had nicked something...He hid this revalation from Raph, if they turned back now they would have accomplished nothing... the few foot ninja they had taken out wouldn't change anything, look at the dead bodies decomposing back there in that room...there would only be more death...more pain... and eventually that death would find its way into their family...what if it were Splinter back there in that room? or Mikey? what if they died because they were too weak to keep going?
Raph paused , and turned to look behind them,
"hold up."
Leo glanced over his shoulder,
"what is it?"
Raph shook his head, he raised up his sai
"somethings not-"
suddenly Raph was knocked off his feet-slamming into the wall he tried to fight back against whatever invisible force was attacking him-there was a streak of silver and then red, as a blade came out of nowhere and slashed across Raphs face-Leo ran to his brother- many times before he had sparred with master Splinter -sometimes with a blind fold-even though he could not see his enemy- he could still fight them.
Leos twin katana crossed in thin air-a moment later a decapitated body fell to the ground- the ninjas head rolled away leaving a river of blood in its path-Raph was up again - his mask was gone- replaced by a smear of red- there was a long gash running across his forhead all the way down to his jaw- his lips were drawn back in a snarl as he struck out at the air-now there was blood on his sai- how many ninja were there? why couldn't they see them?
Leos hand went down to his belt-grasping the throwing knives he aimed at the empty space between himself and the wall- the knives stuck a few feet off the ground- dull thuds announced the bodies falling...
Raph swiped angrily at his eyes, there were no more attackers...they were all dead...
He pounded his fist into the wall-
"WHAT THE HELL?!"
Leo clutched his side breathing heavily, Raph kicked at the dead ninja on the floor...
"Damn it! What the hell was that huh ?What the hell was that ? "
Leo knealt down , as much to hide his bleeding wound from Raph as to examine one of the men...there was a strange device on the ninjas chest,a round blinking chip, even as he looked at it it began to smoke, a moment later it had self destructed...
Raph continued to rant...
"Frikin bastards- where the hell did they get this kind of hardware huh? DAMN IT!"
Leo forced his voice to be even and calm...
"it doesn't matter...theyre dead... were not...lets just keep moving..."
Raph rounded on him, his voice coming out in a low growl...
"in case you havnt noticed Leo, we aint doin too hot, you've got two bullets in ya, I cant hardly see for all the blood in my eyes , and we have no idea where shredder is. He could have already cut out of here and left us for his goons to take care of for all we know!"
Leo shook his head,
"he wouldn't do that...he would want to be in for the kill...if anything hes hiding somewhere in one of these rooms..."
Raph threw his hands in the air and laughed "lot of good that does us, there are twenty levels here Leo, it could take us hours to find him!"
Leo stood up slowly, " maybe we don't have to find him..."
Raph frowned "what do you mean?"
"what if we were dead? wouldn't the foot take our bodies back to shredder?"
