The man barely had time to gasp before Raph tackled him to the floor and started to beat him as hard as he could without being to nosy. The cook awoke abruptly and quickly punched Leo who was still at the closest door.
Leo fell to the table and got up shakily. He then grabbed on of the plates and brought it down on the cook's head when he came charging at Leo. The cook fell down instantly and Leo turned his attention to Raph.
"Raph we have to get Don and Mike and get the shell out of here." he called.
Raph nodded and let the man's unconscious body slip to the floor. Then the two made headway to the cell room. They weren't that stealthy making their way there and it was obvious they didn't have much time before the whole ship was on them.
Leo flung the door open and called down to his brothers, "We're at port, and we have to get off this ship, now!"
Don gasped and glanced worriedly down on the still unconscious Mikey.
"Come on Mikey," he said, desperately shaking him, "You have to wake up! We have to go!"
Mikey made an hardly audible moan in response Don sighed and got to his feet, then stretched back his leg as far as it could go. Then as hard as he could he kicked Mikey square in the jaw. Mikey was thrown back and struggled to sit up.
"Oww, what was that for?" he whined feeling his jaw.
Don pulled Mikey up and dragged him out of the cell just as Leo deactivated the electricity. Together the four ran up the stairs and opened the door to find the entire crew of pirates, armed with swords, filling the deck.
Leo scoped the army of pirate with guns and swords. "Guess we're going to have to do this the hard way." he sighed.
"Excellent." Raph smirked clenching his fists.
"But guys we don't even have weapons." Don cried.
Raph quickly pulled four planks of wood from one the surrounding wooden frames.
"Will this suit ya?" he asked throwing Don a plank.
"Okay everyone stay near Mikey and..."
Leo was interrupted when a distinct attack was called. Then like meteors, bullets came raining down at them, coming from every side of the ship. The turtles immediately threw themselves to the ground.
"We've got to get to the edge of the ship!" Leo called.
'But we can't leave without the Mors Nigra!" Don insisted.
"Right, follow my lead." Leo said then jumped up.
While dodging the numerous bullets he swung the wood on an oncoming pirate who fell down instantly. Then immediately ducked to avoid the slash of another one's sword. The man brought his sword down on Leo again, who caught it this time and held it away from his face. From the corner of his eye Leo saw another pirate taking aim at him with his gun. Leo quickly yanked the sword out of the pirate's grasp and used it to block the on coming bullet. He then turned to the other man and took care of him with the sword.
Meanwhile Don and Raph worked their best to keep any pirates away from Mikey, who was barely able to keep himself standing up. Don swung at one pirate then swiftly dodged the other, just to get cut by the previous recovering one.
"There's too many of them." he hissed in pain and tried to examine his wound.
Raph knocked out both men with a powerful swing, "We can handle it." he growled and focused on oncoming attackers.
Through all the fighting Leo barely caught a glimpse of the captain retreating in his quarters. He suddenly looked up to see the man at the wheel frantically trying to park the ship. An idea popped into his head as he jumped in order to avoid to attackers who ended up hitting each other. Then he hopped onto somebody's shoulders and leaped onto the higher deck rail where the man was at the wheel.
The man gasped as Leo tried to pull himself on the deck and avoid the several bullets from below. He desperately ran over and tried to pry Leo's fingers off the railing. He managed to make Leo let go with one hand. But with that same hand Leo threw a punch at the man, who stuttered backwards. Leo then climbed on deck and knocked the man out with his sword.
He then turned his attention over to the wheel of the ship. He ran over to the shinning silver wheel and gripped it hard.
"Hold on to something guys!" he cried down to his brothers.
Raph kicked away another pirate and without another thought grabbed Mikey in one hand and the side rims in another. Don quickly copied.
The with all of his might Leo turned the wheel as far left as it could go. The ship turned so fast that the entire crew was flung to the other side of the ship. Some were caught by the rims, other's weren't so lucky and were flung out of the ship and vaporized by the surrounding shield. Raph and Don held the rim of the ship and Mikey tightly enough to stay in place.
"Get to the captain's quarter's!" he ordered and started heading down himself.
Don and Raph burst through the door.
"There it is!" Don cried pointing to the artifact still on the desk beside the bed.
"It's a shame you know so much about the Mors Nigra freaks, you could have made me so rich," the captain's voice came from the other side of the room, "Oh well, better then you telling everyone about what you know about Mors Nigra." he pointed a gun straight at the turtles faces and shot bullet after bullet.
Leo had just bolted through the door and quickly used his sword to deflect the bullets. While the captain started coming closer to the turtles, shooting all the while, Raph leaped over him and landed behind him. The captain quickly swung around only to be slammed in the face by the plank of wood. He fell to the floor, gripping his face in pain.
This gave Don the chance to snatch up the artifact and stat making head way out of there. Leo grabbed Mikey's arm and put it around his shoulder then dragged him out following Don. Raph hit the captain one more time then followed his brothers out the door.
Once again when the turtles stumbled out of the room, what was left of the crew was waiting outside angrily. Leo quickly jumped in front of his brothers and started deflecting the mass number of bullets that came flying at them.
Raph then jumped out of his brother's protection and started attacking the first groups of pirate's he saw. While Leo protected Mikey and Don best he could from the raging guns.
After a few seconds he could feel himself and his brothers slowly being forced to the left side of the ship. Eventually he felt his side bump against the rim, and looked behind him to see he was backed up against the edge of the ship, and out of places to use for cover. All around them the pirates were closing in.
Raph on the other hand had found himself in the middle of tussle. Something he could usually take out with ease, most of the pirates could barely hold a sword, much less wield one. However starvation and exhaustion had eaten away at the turtle and was taking a damaging toll on his fighting skills.
One pirate raised his sword above the head and prepared for a strike. Raph blocked it with his wood plank. The pirate snared and swung back again and slashed the sword again on Raph as hard as he could. Raph tried to use the wooden plank to block it once again, but the blow was too strong and broke through the wood and landed Raph on the floor. Another pirate saw this golden opportunity and plunged is sword at the fallen turtle. Raph barely had time to roll away as the sword clashed with the wood.
Once Raph had rolled away he could get a clear view past the masses of pirates. He immediately spotted his brothers being cornered on the other side of the ship. Using anger and determination he got up on his feet again and headed to help them.
Leo was starting to have trouble keeping away all the bullets, and since he was so preoccupied he had to leave all of those with swords to Don, who was quickly being overwhelmed.
Don barely managed to block a man's attack when another one attacked his side and threw him to the ground. Then it was a frenzy of slashes and punches from the others, as if he was a fallen deer in the feasting of a pack of wolves.
Those who got past Don finally made it over to the fourth turtle and started to seize him without any fight.
Raph pushed and shoved all who got in his way as he desperately scrambled to his helpless brothers. But the pirates were starting to try and tackle him. One out of the corner of the crowd one had success when he tackled Raph to the floor. In a moment others started piling on the two. All the while punching and kicking. Raph at the bottom was being crushed and beaten at the same time. As hard as he tried to break free of one, another one came and pulled him back.
Raph then closed his eyes, clenched his fist and with a battle cry kicked, everywhere as hard as his legs would allow. Several bodies were thrown off him and as soon as he got to his feet he grabbed one man and slammed him onto the bodies of oncoming pirates. Then he charged to where the pirates were assaulting Mikey and threw them off him. He was about to go help Don when yet even more of the crew came running towards them.
Now each of the turtles had to admit, an army of greedy pirates was to much for them to handle at this state, and the outlook of the battle did not look good.
Then the ship docked, by an oblivious man behind the wheel of the ship. Automatically a platform just behind the turtles extended to the the docks. It was a ray of hope in the grimmest point of battle. A rare streak of luck they hardly ever were gifted with.
Leo, not letting the miraculous opportunity go to waste, threw his sword at a rope which sent a sail falling down and hitting some of the crew members with it. Then turned his attention to the ones attacking Don and skillfully flung them off his brother.
He held his hand down at Don, who weakly looked up and took it. Then supporting his brother Leo called to Raph and Mikey "Guys the docks, we have to run for it."
Raph broke free of his attackers with Mikey and joined Leo and Don on a frantic sprint off the ship.