Chapter 9,Make a deal with the devil
(Raph's P.O.V)
As we gathered up our weapons, we got ready for going to Shredder. I already sat there on the couch-back and looked at my brothers wild tantrum as he struggled against the chains to get free. When Donnie got back to normal I was going to give him credit for making chains out of lead, that was impossible to break even for his monstrous new self. If... he got back to normal. But if not... No, I couldn't think like that. Donnie was gonna be fine, Right? I shook my head to snap my self out of those thoughts. I need to think of something else before I would go nuts. I stood up and walked over to the arcade game, but I couldn't focus on the game. I kept glacing over my shoulder to look at Donnie.
"Okay, we're all done and set to go!" I heard Leo say loudly. I turned around and saw both Mikey and Leo ready to leave. I turned of the game and walked over to them. We where about to leave, when Mikey said,
"Hey, what about Donnie? How are we gonna bring him to the Shredder? Are we gonna carry him?" I stopped in my tracks. That thought hadn't even crossed my mind. But Leo seemed calm as he answered.,
"We're not. He is gonna stay here. We can't afford him to do any damage that may ruin our chances to get him cured. Or we managed to get him there, and make him not to tear the place apart, who's to say they're not gonna hurt him even more? We can't take that risk, so he should be here. Besides, maybe if Splinter and April is here, trying to calm him, it can help him at least remember who we are, who he is.
"Both Mikey and I looked at each other, then at Leo and we both nodded at the same second. Then we all took of to The Shredders place. Splinter stood there in the living room beside Donatello, who seemed to have calmed down a bit.
"Good luck, my sons." That was all he said when we left, left to ask...(dramatic pause) The Shredder for help.
(Mikey's P.O.V)
Now when we where jumping from building to building, I realised how tensed the silence and the mood where between us. No one had said a word since we had left the lair. It seemed to be very close to the Shredders place. Almost too close. It felt like we hadn't been out for like two minutes before we stood there, one big jump from our arch nemesis The Shredders hideout. The big building where guarded by Dogpound and Fishface, just like we where expected to show up. Both Raph and I looked at Leo for orders, but before he could say anything, we heard the big dog-looking mutant yell at us.
"Hey turtles! Why don't you come down here? Master Shredder is waiting for you!" We all looked down and we saw Dogpound and Fishface looking up at us. They Had expected us. Just our luck.
"Leo...?" I said with uncertain in the voice, making it shake a little. But Leo didn't seem a bit unsure. As usual he was a stepp ahead of us.
"Don't worry guys. We have gotten ourself into this mess by accident, but we have fix this at any risk. Donnie is counting on us to fix this." He whispered to us, and with that we jumped down to the ground and walked up the Shredders two henchman. Fishface grinned at us with his usual foxy grin.
"Welcome, turtles. Hope your day has changed into a monstrously good day." Fishface said stress the words 'changed' and 'monstrously' with a big smirk.
"Looks like you're one turtle short for a team."
"Shut up Fishface! It's your clans fault anyway!" Raph bellowed, making even Dogpound flinch. Leo put a hand on Raphs shoulder, calming him down, and then looked at the two mutants.
"We want to speak to Shredder, Now! It's urgent, as you should know by now!" He said. Dogpound looked at Fishface, then at us. Then he nodded and opened the door, showing us the way to Shredders big room. There he sat, big, black and dangerous with his helmet and spiky tags on the armour. He looked at us as we entered.
"The turtles has arrived Master. They demanded to talk to you." Dogpound said with respect for Shredders form.
"Good. It was about time they showed up." Shredder said with his dark and sinister voice. Both Dogpound and Fishface bowed and went to the corner of the room. But before he walked up there, Fishface looked over his shoulder and shoot us a glare and brought up his forefinger and longfinger to his eyes and then pointed them at us, showing us that he kept his eyes on us. But we didn't waste time looking at him, we turned around to look at Shredder. He looked at us, and although we couldn't see all of his face, we could tell that smiled evilly at us.
"So... What brings you turtles to my house?" He said and his eyes never left us. I looked around in the room. To the left sat Stockman at a table, and seemed to polish his gun. The same gun that had transformed our brother into a savage! I had to fight all of my will to not draw nunchucks and attack him right there and then. I wondered if this was how Raph felt when he was mad. On the table only a few centimeters from Stockman, sat Karai with one leg above the other and she too looked at us. Her face looked, aside from Shredder, amused, like if she thought this was funny.
"You bet we are not here to sell cookies! You know perfectly well why we are here!" Raph said with clear frustration in his voice.
"Stockman created that ray-gun on your orders!" I said and pointed accusingly at Shredder.
"Yes, I am familiar with that statement." Shredder said with calm voice, like a cat, who was only playing with it's food."How do that concern you turtles?"
"Well Donnie got hit by it! It transformed him into..." Leo had to pause there. He couldn't make himself say it. The words layed there on his tongue, but he couldn't say it. Raph layed a hand on his shoulder and looked at him sympathetically, then turned back to Shredder with anger instead of pain.
"... into a monster!" He finished Leos sentence. Karai, Dogpound, Fishface and Stockman all started laugh out loud. It was like they had never heard anything more fun in their lifetime.
"Oboy, that's rich! So much for the smart one of the team! I suppose you have came here to ask for help?" Dogpound said from where he stood. All of us turned to look at him, but he just looked us in the eyes without flinching, not ashamed of his words. Shredder looked at us and after a few seconds of thinking he said with a sly voice, like he had a thought behind his words,
"Perhaps we CAN help you turtles. What if told you I could cure your brother? What would you say?" We looked surprised at each other and then back to Shredder. We hadn't expect him to be so straight to the point with that 'we can help your brother' idea.
"And why would you help us? You surely want something from us don't you?" Raph said with suspicion in his voice. He wouldn't drop his guard so easily.
"Why would I want something from you? What can you possibly give me?" We looked at each other in doubt. This wasn't like Shredder at all."Do you want your brother back or not?" He asked.
"Well... Yes, but..."Leo began to say but was interuppted by Shredder again.
"Good! If you come back here tomorrow than I will have Stockman do the rest. Is that a deal?" He stretched out his hand to us. We looked at each other. Leo looked like he hesitated, but then he stretched out his hand to Shredder and shook it.
"Good! Now go! Come here tomorrow night, and then we will give you something that can get your brother back to normal again." He said and with that he turned his back to us. We also turned around and walked out of the room and out of the building. I couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
"Are we really gonna trust Shredder Leo? What if he plans to mutate Donnie even further, or even worse?" I said, looking at my big brother.
"Yeah, Mikey's right Leo! Shredder is our enemy! What the heck have you got us into?" Raph was not late to make his point clear of what we had done. Made a deal with Shredder! Leo inhaled through his nose, and exhaled through his mouth. Then he said with a hopelessly miserable voice.
"I know, it's a deal with the devil, but what choice do we have? If he is gonna betray us we'll see it coming first! Right now, it was our only option" Neither Raph or I talked back. Cause we knew he was right. But still, a deal The Shredder? A deal with Hades himself?!
A/N: Well, that's chapther nine all done! Tell me what you think about it in the reviews. I plan to write about two more chapthers, but maybe more, maybe less. We'll see. Well, see ya'll in my next update, bye, bye!