TMNT (c) Mirage
Amy (c) me
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Chapter 9: Saving for the Last Time
The moon came out behind the cloud. In its light could be seen four creatures following a black truck, which was driving towards the ship.
"Are we going to follow them in that ship?" Don asked.
"They can't run away from there" Leo said.
"Well, neither can us" Mikey said.
"Don't be so sure, Mike. I've got reinforcements for us" Don said and pointed the shell cell.
"When I'll give the word, April and Casey will come and take us away from there" Don said.
"And this time with Amy" Raph said.
"It's not an option that we'll leave without her. If we lose her here, when we'll be able to reach her next time? Even with the tracker, we can't get to them if they're in the middle of the ocean. And Donnie always gives Amy a new tracker every month, so after a month we can't track her anymore. So that's why we aren't leaving that ship without her" Leo said, determination in his eyes.
"You heard the man… I mean turtle" Mikey said.
"And we're doing this according to that plan?" Don asked.
"Yes, just do as we planned" Leo said.
Don noticed that Mikey and Raph exchanged worried looks, and he couldn't help but feel the same way. Could this plan really work out?
They watched as the truck drove in to the ship.
"How are we gonna get in?" Raph asked.
"With that" Leo said and pointed the other truck that was following the first one. However after this one didn't have other one following it.
"We can jump on it safely without anyone noticing us" Leo said.
Others followed Leo's lead as they jumped on truck's roof. And without anyone noticing they got to the ship.
The four turtles waited that the driver left the car to the hold and move to the upper level. They watched as the man left the hold and waited could they hear anything else.
"We're moving. Hear that sound, that the engine" Don said, when they started to hear soft humming voice.
"Should we go to the upper level?" Raph asked.
"We can't just walk there" Leo said, "we need some disguise."
"What do think we can get from here? Here are only cars" Raph said.
"How about this?" heard Mikey's voice.
He had left his brothers on the roof and started looking what was inside the truck. He had found waiter's outfit and a food cart.
"This seems to be large enough to get two of us in" Mikey said.
"No way I'm getting in there. I was there last time with Mikey" Raph said, "its Leo and Donnie's turn."
"I and Mikey get to the cart and Raph and Don dress up like waiters. Don knows about the technique so it's better if he's not hiding in the cart. And if we hit to trouble Raph can take care of it, nicely then ok?" Leo said, looking at Raph.
"Yeah, yeah" Raph said as he took the outfit from Leo.
"And remember to put the hats on" Leo said.
"Geez, we know. How many waiters have bald green heads?" Raph asked annoyed.
Once he and Don were ready they put a sheet over the cart and left the hold. Once they got to the hallway, they noticed the elevator.
"Okay, let's see where we can get if I press this" Raph said.
"Don't. We're supposed to be working here, if we get lost we'll lose our cover before we can do anything" Don said as he stopped Raph's hand.
"Let's see. The hold is usually on the last level where you can get as a civilian so I think that all the restaurants are on the 5th level" Don said as he pushed the button.
When the elevator doors opened again they saw restaurants, bars and people around them.
"Hah, I got it right!" Don said.
"Don't brag about it" Raph grunted when they started to walk.
They couldn't even think where they should go when they heard a yell behind them.
"Hey, you two! Where are you taking that cart?"
"Are we busted already?" Mikey asked from Leo inside the cart.
Leo put his finger on his lips to tell Mikey to be quiet.
"There's one order to take care of and I need you to take of it" said the man, who had caught them.
"What? Why shou… Ouch!" Raph started but Leo punched him to the foot.
"Of course we'll do it. Where we take the order?" Don asked and started to push the cart.
"They're government people. The order was made someone called… Bishop or something" the man said.
Don looked at Raph and saw him smiling. In the cart Mikey whispered: "Jackpot!"
"Here's the cart. Now hurry it up, I don't want to piss any government's people" the man said as he put the plates on the cart.
Don and Raph headed to the elevator again.
"Mikey, what are you doing?" Leo asked when they were inside the elevator.
Mikey had put his hand out and was now getting some food to himself.
"What? I'm hungry and they won't be able to eat it anyway" Mikey said.
"But it will look suspicious when there's food in the cart that had been eaten" Leo said.
"Relax bro. I took some desert and that was under the cope. And they never make it to the deserts" Mikey said, mouth full of cake.
Leo sighed as the elevator doors opened. They heard as Don and Raph walked on the hallway and finally stopped and knocked on the door.
"Finally. We ordered this about an hour ago. What took so long?" asked the man's voice.
"It was really busy on the restaurant" Don said.
"What do you have there?" asked another man.
"Turtle soup" heard Raph's voice and then two smacks, and Leo and Mikey could see the two men lying on the floor.
"Turtle soup, nice one" Mikey said.
"Let's get moving on then" Leo said.
Raph and Don dragged the men to the room and pushed the cart to the next room.
"What do you want? Who let you in?" heard a voice that they all knew so well, and that they all hated so much.
"The two men on the other room. They took their share and let us pass" Don said to Bishop.
"Those idiots. Amy, take your share of the food, I'll be right back" Bishop said and left the room.
Leo's heart jumped. So Amy was in the room, but were they any other people?
"You've done good job for bringing that food for us. Here's your tip" Amy said.
Raph and Don were taken aback by this. Even though Amy was on Bishop's side she still had her own personality, that kindness in her.
"Thanks. Say, do I know you?" Don asked as he took the money Amy offered to him.
"I don't think so. Maybe you saw me when I came to the ship" Amy said.
"Maybe. You still remind me of my sister. I used to have a little sister and she looked just like you. And what kind of sister she was. Always putting others before herself, even though she was hurt or injured. She was the best of all" Don said.
"Did she die?" Amy asked.
"No, she's gone missing, but I'm doing everything I can with my brothers to find her. Do you have any siblings?" Don asked. He had started to put the plates on the table.
"Four brothers" Amy said without a thought.
"What?" Don asked.
"What?" Amy asked.
"Did you just say you have four brothers?" Don asked.
"No, I don't have any brothers at all" Amy said.
'Her subconscious is breaking through' Don thought.
"I must have heard you wrong" Don said.
Raph looked at Don. What the shell was he talking about? They all heard Amy saying that she has four brothers, so why didn't he say anything to her?
"Well, the food is all set, I hope you enjoy it" Don said and shook hands with Amy.
"I hope you're able to find your sister" Amy said.
"Me too. I was wondering, could you help me?" Don asked and now looked at her eyes.
When Amy saw his eyes, she realized who he was.
"You… You are..!" she said but couldn't get her away from Don, because he was still holding her hand.
"You just said that you have four brothers and all your brothers are here at the moment. We all heard you" Don said and as he spoke Raph took away his outfit, and Mikey and Leo came out of the cart.
"You are..! Where's Bishop?" Amy asked, looking around.
"Sorry, we put those two guards on the closet and now Bishop thinks they've left" Raph said.
"And the door is closed so no one isn't coming here anytime soon" Mikey said.
"Are you going to take me away again?" Amy asked, and Don saw fear in her eyes.
"We're taking you back with us and making you yourself again" Leo said.
"Try to remember us, Amy. Us, who you've once called brothers" Don said.
"I don't have any brothers" Amy said and tried to get her hand free.
"How do explain this then?" Leo asked and showed her the picture she had drawn when she was little.
Amy looked at the picture and suddenly memories filled her mind, memories she hadn't been conscious about.
She remembered how she draw that picture, how she detailed the colors, even the skin of the turtles. How happy she was when it was put on the door if the fridge. But who had put it there?
Amy took the picture and looked at it. "My family" said under the characters. Amy whispered those two words quietly over and over again.
'What is this feeling? Why do I feel like something is wrong? Why do I feel like what I'm doing is wrong?' Amy thought.
"No, this can't be!" Amy said, taking her hand off from Don's.
"I won't believe you, it just can't be. I was told that you took me, you made me like this, and you kidnapped me when I was just a baby!" Amy said.
"You got right the part that you were kidnapped and the one did who did that also made you like that" Mikey said.
"Bishop's really behind all of this. He mutated you so he could create a super-human race, but you were able to escape from him before he could do that. You were ten back then. You ran for days and end up in New York where we found you. Since that day you've been part of our family. We know everything about you, and without us you wouldn't have that katana" Don told her.
Amy looked at him and took her sword. She took a stance that they all knew all too well.
Splinter had once showed them a sword technique where you throw your sword so it goes around the room like boomerang. Leo had tried to master it with his both katanas, but he hadn't been able to do it. Amy, on the other hand, have been practicing that for years and she had finally been able to master it. It had become her deadliest technique where she could be able to chop off more than one enemies head off.
She kneeled down to get ready to throw her sword. The sword was so fast it would be hard to see with naked eye.
But when she threw it, the turtles have already got down. They've seen that technique so many times it wouldn't work on them that easily.
When Amy caught her sword, she was surprised to see that they were alive and that she didn't see any blood.
"How..? There's no one who has survived that attack without any bruises at all" Amy said.
"That's because we know that attack so well. We watched you training that technique and using it too. Do you remember the first time you could master it?" Leo asked, looking at her.
"It was… On a rooftop…" Amy said, closing her eyes.
"There was fire… And some ninjas and this guy dressed up in metal… And I was so scared…" Amy said.
Leo looked at his brothers. Amy was talking the first time they had confront the Shedder and it was the first time Amy have been able to do that technique first time in combat.
"Why were you scared?" Don asked.
"I was separated from others; we all fell from the roof… And I found after awhile… Mikey and Donny… And then we met Raph and master… Master Splinter… And then we found Leo…" Amy said.
Amy looked up at them.
"Please say your names again" she said to them.
"Michelangelo" Mikey said.
"Raphael" Raph said.
"Donatello" Don said.
"Leonardo" Leo said.
"Mikey… Raph… Donny… Leo…" Amy said.
Suddenly pain filled her head. She dropped her sword and bend down to the floor.
All the memories came back to her mind. Like a wave hitting the rocks, the memories hit her. All her years as a prisoner in Bishop's lab, her runaway and her meeting with the turtles.
Mikey making jokes, winning the Battle Nexus championship, she teaching him how to cook and Mikey trying to make her feel better.
Raph fighting with the Purple dragons, Raph training at the dojo, making fun of Mikey and protecting Amy.
Donny at his computer, fixing one of their machines. Amy waking Donny up because he has fallen asleep on the computer again. She and Donny having their discussion that usually lasted for hours.
Leo training, giving the others a speech of why they should do better on their skills. Leo meditating, him looking at her with his cutest smile. Leo protecting her, Leo holding her, Leo hugging her, Leo kissing her.
Amy looked at them, tears in her eyes.
"Guys… Why are you here?" Amy asked.
The smile that grew on the turtles faces was like four suns had hit the room. They all stood up and walk over to her and helped her up.
"You remember!" Mikey said happily and hugged her.
"I told you it would happen!" Don said.
"Man it's good to have you back, sis!" Raph said.
"We've missed you so much even though it had been only couple days" Leo said, leaning his forehead against hers.
"Guys, I'm so sorry. I could have hurt you really badly" Amy said, looking at them to find any injuries on them.
"You couldn't put a scratch on us" Mikey said.
"Oh yeah, then what is this?" Amy asked, pointing a bandage on Mikey's arm.
"Bishop's work. More importantly, we have to get you out of here" Don said.
But then they could hear door opening behind them on the next room and footsteps.
"Quickly, hide. I'll be the decoy" Amy said.
Bishop opened the door and saw Amy eating her food.
"Did the waiters left already?" Bishop asked.
"Yes, I gave them tip" Amy said, not raising her gaze.
"They left the cart here" Bishop said.
"They said we could put the cart on the hallway when we're done" Amy said.
"I see. Those two guards didn't come here, did they?" Bishop asked.
"I haven't seen anyone" Amy said.
"You're acting differently" Bishop said, "you're not looking at me."
"Why would I want to look at you?" Amy asked and raised her head.
When she said that, Bishop felt a blade on his throat.
"So, it seems that you have your memory back" Bishop said.
"And you can bet on that" Amy said as she stood up.
Bishop looked on his right and saw Leo holding his sword against his throat. And he acted faster than anyone has ever seen.
He quickly took a hold of Leo's hand and made him stood in front of him and put Leo's sword on his throat.
"You're still underestimating me, I see" he said, a mock smile on his face.
"Not a move or the eldest gets it" Bishop said when he saw Raph moving towards him.
"You guys… Get Amy away from here that was our mission" Leo said.
"That's not working. She had a weak spot for you" Bishop said, nodding at Amy.
Leo looked at Amy and saw her worried face. How could he have fall such an obvious trap?
Amy frowned and looked at Bishop.
"It seemed they took the bite" she said.
"What?" Leo asked.
"It seems that you weren't able brake the amnesia so easily, turtles" Bishop said.
"I can take care of him" Amy said, walking towards Leo, grabbing her sword on the way.
"You see, I'm a father image for her, she doesn't want me to do the dirty job" Bishop said.
"That's right" Amy said, and blood splashed on her, Leo and Bishop's face.
Leo looked at Amy, shock on his face. Those cold eyes facing him while the blood dripped from the tip of her sword.
Amy looked at the man she had slaughtered and felt satisfaction and she was able to punish him after all those years.
Amy's katana had gone through Bishop's stomach and his face was surprised without any grin at all.
"Sorry, but you took the bait. It's over now" Amy said, looking at Bishop, Leo on her right side.
"For a second I thought you fooled us" Leo said, looking at her.
"Sorry, it was the only way to keep you alive. I didn't want to scare you, but to think he could get you like that, hurt me even more than me threatening your life" Amy said.
"No, you haven't won. She's mine. I made her from the start, I made her from the scratch. She's the foundation of a super-human race" Bishop said, grabbing the blade of Amy's sword.
"No, Amy belongs there where her heart is, and her heart belongs with us and you belong in to her nightmares. And you will not haunt her ever again!" Leo said, swung his sword and Bishop's head laid in their feet.
It was Amy's turn to look surprised, and so did three other turtles.
"I so didn't see that one coming" Mikey said after a while.
"Don, we need to get out of here" Leo said to Don.
"Right" Don said, taking his shell cell.
"April, now's the time, you know the place" Don said.
"Go to the deck, she's going to be there soon" Don said to the others.
Just when they were about to turn around and run outside, they heard voices behind the door.
"Agent Bishop! Are you alright? Those waiters knocked us out and put us to the closet!" heard a man's voice.
"What a timing" Raph said as he took his sais.
"No wait. I have a plan. Take the chopper away from the ship but keep the ladder in the sea. I'll follow you guys" Amy said, looking at Leo.
"We're not leaving without you" Leo said.
"Don't worry. I won't abandon you guys, just wait for me. Now go" Amy said.
Leo looked at Amy one last time before he headed outside with his brothers.
When the four turtles were gone, Amy acted fast. She put her hand on Bishop's blood, which had made a bond of blood to the floor, and put blood stains all over her clothes and neck, and tore her clothes.
When Bishop's men got the door open, they saw Bishop laying on a floor his head next to him. Then they saw bloody traces going to the deck. They ran there and saw Amy at the edge of the deck covered with blood.
"The… waiters…" she whispered before she fell over the edge.
Bishop's men tried to catch her, but it was too late.
"Do you think..?" the first man asked.
"She is now. We have to call a police for this" the other one said.
And they walked back inside.
Once Amy had hit the sea, she had quickly transformed into a dolphin, and started to swim towards the ladder. April had flown the chopper away from the ship so that no one would hear it.
Soon, Amy saw the ladders end, transformed back to a human and grabbed the ladder.
Amy's head rose to the surface and she gasped for air, before she started to climb. But her feet were still wet from the water and she slipped while climbing. She was now hanging with her both arms, but her other one's fingers started to let go. The black ocean yelled under her and her other hand lost its touch of the ladder.
Just when she thought she was done for, someone grabbed her hand. She looked up and saw Leo.
"Hold on!" he said.
Amy noticed that all four turtles were on the ladder. Don was holding Leo's hand so he wouldn't fall, while Mikey were holding Don and Raph Mikey.
Amy swung her arm to get a hold of Leo's hand and she was able to climb again. She turned into a cat so Leo could take her in his arms. He then turned to Don, so they could get back to the chopper.
Casey helped them all inside, and when they were all safely in there, everyone's heads turned to Leo. He opened his arms and showed a black cat in his lap.
Amy turned back to human and a huge smile grew to her face.
Mikey yelled for happiness and hugged Amy. Don joined them and Casey jumped over them, making them all fall down.
"Nice one Casey. Break her bones just when we got her safely here" Mikey said.
"Sorry" Casey said getting up and helping, Don, Mikey and Amy up too.
"Hey, Raph why aren't you joining our happy group?" Casey asked, turning around to face Raph.
Raph had put his hand over his face. It was rare to see Raph so emotional.
"Raphie!" Amy said happily, jumped over him so he fell down.
"What the-? Amy can't you see I'm crying here?!" Raph asked.
"Oh, I see that. But you're crying because of me, and I don't want that" Amy said.
Raph smiled as he hugged her. That was Amy, his little sister, always concerned about others.
"Now get up. You're soaked. We need something warm for you so you don't catch a cold" Don said as he helped Amy up.
"There are some blankets but not clothes, I'm afraid" April said.
"Here to get you dry" Mikey said and wrapped Amy to a towel, and then rubbed the towel on her head so her hair would get dry.
"Your hair got little messy, but I don't think that's a problem" Mikey said.
"Here's the blanket" Leo said, wrapping it firmly around Amy.
Amy turned to look at him as he put the blanket on him, and hugged him tightly.
Leo was taken aback by her actions, but hugged her back. He held her close to himself so he could feel her heartbeat and smelled her hair. She was safe now and he vowed to himself that nothing would ever harm her as long as he stood by her side and loved her.
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I hoope you liked it. I'm going to write the final chapter soon, so see you then.
