Ch.7: The Zixx Sense

It was decided that Rapheal would walk the city until Zixx contacted him. Once Zixx showed up a force feild would be dropped so the international space villian couldn't escape. Everything seemed to be queit until Raph felt a hand on his shoulder and drag him into the alley.

"Bout time Zixx," said Raph freeing himself from the space criminals grip.

"Did you find the weapon?" asked Zixx.

"Yeah" said Raph pointing to the snake biting into his wrist " and I'm the remote control,"

Piece by piece Rapheal related what he had found out while in the Cobra Base, and explianed about the plan for a counter attack. Zixx nodded, impressed.

"That's not a bad plan" said Zixx "but shouldn't we figure out how to get that thing off your arm first?"

"I'm afraid we don't have that kind of time gentlemen" came Bishop's voice over Rapheal's newly replaced communicator " the Terrian Defense Grid is only hours away before General Aspa completely controls it all. If he suceeds in controlling the whole grid he could destroy us all,"

Later everyone was aboard the Hover Shell heading striaght for the Cobra Base.

"Okay, here's the plan" said Leo " Raph, Zixx, and I will head to place where Aspa's secret weapon is stored and destroy it. In the meantime Cody, Don, Mikey, and Serling will make their way to the main computer room and shut down all of Cobra Base's defenses. Bishop, think you and Master Splinter can hold off the guards?"

Nodding and readying his gun Bishop said "Let's do it,"

In just a few minutes the attack on the Cobra Base had begun. At first everything seemed to be going as easy as pie when the turtles started the splitting up portion of their plan, but then Mikey had to make the tiniest mistake that threw the whole thing into choas. He stepped on an alien's tail.

The alien yelped and turned around seeing Mikey and shouted out an alarm. It wasn't long until the whole Cobra base was under alert and started chasing after them.

"Way to go Mikey," said Don meaning just the opposite.

They ran and ran until Cody spotted a door and ordered the team to go inside. Serling and Mikey held the door closed once everybody was inside and Cody and Don were surprised that they had actually made it to the computer room.

Raph was right in thinking that Don would have amore fun time here than in O' Neil Tech's labs. Almost every single wall in the room was covered with some sort of technology. Shimmering screens and flashing buttons, everything a computer geek could ever dream of was right here.

"It's like I died and gone to geek heaven," said Don as he started tapping away at one of the various keyboards, while Cody took at the controls for the security system.

"Bye, bye Cobra Base defenses," said Cody and flipped a switch which imedately shut off all defensive programs.

"Can't you guys hurry it up?!" asked Mikey struggling to keep the lab door closed "these guys are getting pushy,"

Don turned his eyes away from the computer seeing Mikey and Serling were indeed having a hard time holding the door shut with all the aliens and snakes pushing againist it. It was only a matter of time until they broke through and they were massly outnumbered.

"Wait a minute" thought Don "of course! If I take what we learned from Raph maybe our counterparts will come and help us. The only problem is it's based on a really high set of emotion. Raph of course felt anger since that what he feels most, what do I feel most?"

While Don was busy thinking about how to summon the Dark Turtles though Aspa's troops finally managed to break through Serling's and Mikey's little blockade and stormed the room in an instant. The two turtles and their commarades were trapped!

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Meanwhile Zixx, Raph, and Leo had found their way into General Aspa's secret chamber. Quietly finding a small hiding place the turtles and the intergalatic criminal made a quick survey of the area to make sure no guards were around.

"Here's the plan" whispered Leonardo to Zixx "while Raph and I provide a distraction you place the bomb,"

Zixx gave a thumbs up and darted towards Aspa's Snake Cannon. Just then the door behind Raphael and Leonardo opened revealing Aspa and Lucy. When the two spotted Raph and Leo their expressions imedately turned sour.

"Ah Raphael" hissed Aspa " so nice to see you again and your friend, is there anything wrong?"

"Oh nothing's wrong" said Raphael sarcastically "except that you're using me to help destroy the world,"

Lucy jumped down the last few steps and faced the two reptiles her claws and teeth bared as she said "You will not stop us,"

While Lucy kept the two turtles distracted General Aspa slithered over toward his machine. Seeing Zixx was nearly three feet away from his device with a bomb in hand Aspa reared his head back and snapped his jaws towards Zixx himself.

You' re all aware how fast snakes can strike, but luckily Zixx managed to avoid it by just the skin of his teeth. Back with Lucy, the white cat had fallen on her side due to the courtsey of a double drop kick provided by the combined strength of Raphael and Leonardo.

When the two were seperate Leo and Raph were considered to be each others rival, challenging each others strength to prove who was stronger. But in battle there was no doubt that they proved themselves to be each others equal as well. There was no denying it.

"And I thought cats were always supposed to land on their feet," came a voice from behind.

All eyes turned to see Donatello's team followed by Master Splinter and Bishop, and to their surprise, the Dark Turtles.

"Hope you don't mind, but we called in a little help," said Don.

"But how?" asked Leo.

"Your brother here sent our Don an e-mail" said Dark Leo "and made us an offer we couldn't refuse so here we are,"

"Great" said the real Raph " cause it looks like Zixx could use our help,"

Together the whole gang tackled Aspa at once and although the snake writhed and wrived he was soon defeated although he managed to remian conious. Raph saw the bomb Zixx had dropped during the fight with Aspa, picked it up and ran to the machine.

Placing the bomb on the cool metals surface Raph was fixin' to activate the countdown when the snake band on his wrist suddenly magnatized to the machine!

"What's going on?" said Raph trying to pull his arm free. General Aspa laughed.

"Fool, even in defeat, I still win,"