TMNT: Family

Chapter 11

"LET ME OUTTA HERE! I KNOW YOU'RE THERE, YOU CAN'T MAKE ME YOUR SLAVE" Yelled Elizabeth at the top of her lungs

She waited for a moment wanting a reply but when nothing came she was about to start yelling again but she heard a familiar chuckle that frightened her slightly. He emerged from the shadows as if he had always been there listening to her pain of being taken and held captive.

"I won't make you Elizabeth, You will offer yourself to me. My daughter did an excellent job on bringing you here though I wish she had not been seen by that retched turtle"

"If you had any decency shredder, you would tell Karai the truth. If you ever cared about her"

"Karai is none of your concern. Tiger claw prep her for Baxter, Xever Bradford I have a mission for you"

The tin can man disappeared in to the shadows again as though they were his domain.

"So when are we going to bust in there" asked Raph

"Calm down Raph we have to formulated a plan first, if we run in screaming then we'll be turtle soup"

"Mikey did you call Casey?"

"Yeah he said he was gunna pick up April and meet us down here"

"Great"

"Erm Leo is it a good idea to get April involved?" Donatello questioned

"We only need them for lookouts, if something happens we're gunna want to know"

Donnie wasn't sure that their friends should get involved, Shredder was ruthless and if a rescue mission is what they were doing the less people that go the better. Plans were laid out of the rescue mission that they had carefully made that would allow them to sneak in, get Liz and get out. Of course they had anticipated that there would probably be complications like foot bots and Tiger claw guarding the place especially Lizzie. Shredder knew how close the turtles were with the brunette and so knew that they would eventually come to get her. Raph was beating up the training dummy getting ready for the fight ahead. He jolted when he heard Casey and April enter the lair prepared for what was going to happen although they did not know what the plan was for infiltration.

"What's up guys" shouted Casey

Donnie frowned at Casey but smiled when he saw April emerge from behind him.

"So what's the plan Donnie?" asked April

"Dudes we gotta get Lizzie outta shredders lair"

April and Casey stared blankly at the orange clad turtle they had no idea what was going on, they had previously thought that they were going to try and help Karai or end shredder but now thoughts changed.

"Lizzie?"

"Leo's girlfriend Elizabeth has been kidnapped by shredder to use her against us because the krang did something to her mum before she was born" explained Raph

The hot head approached Casey and gave him a fist bump. Attention was turned to Leo as he blushed at their human friends finding out he was in a relationship.

"When did this happen?"

"Not long ago"

"Okay and why weren't we told?" April pressured Don for information

He rubbed the back of his head and stammered at his words. Don then began to blush as he failed to come up with a good explanation, luckily his younger brother came to his rescue.

"Things been going on April. She is in the same boat as you except shredder wants to use her telepathy and that against us"

"Fine but how is shredder going to get her to obey him, she would never hurt you guys especially you Leo"

There was silence for a while as a tear slid down Leo's cheek slightly. He didn't want to know what shredder was doing to her, he finally answered April in fear, his voice soft and calm but unsure.
"We don't know that yet"

The hairs on Casey's and April's necks stood on their tips. Fear was definitely something that was they were all feeling right now. Anything could be happening to Liz. Shredder could be torturing her, dumping her in mutagen. Keeping her locked in a dark cell or possibly trying to harness her abilities for himself so that he wouldn't need Liz to do his bidding.

"We need you two to monitor from outside, tell us of any activity. While we infiltrate, rescue and get out of there"

"Wait you us to sit on the side lines" argued Casey

"Sorry Case, maybe next time"

Leo stood up and nodded at his brothers and friends signalling that it was time. He had over looked the plans several times and made any adjustments he could that would ensure everyone's safety and that they spent as little time as possible in shredders lair to avoid anything that would compromise their objective. He was confident it was going to work, it had to because if it didn't Liz would be in shredders threshold for even longer and who knew what he would do. Each of the turtles grabbed their weapons and a stash full of smoke bombs that would come in handy. April looked over her tessen while Casey checked he had all his gear. All they all ran out of the lair Leo quickly grabbed Lizzie's katana and placed it on his shell with his own katana.

On the surface the night was quiet, it was dark and gloomy as though the city knew what was about to happen and it was watching, hoping for the best. The air was moist almost eerie and sirens could be heard in the distance getting further away. The turtles and April and Casey jumped over many roof tops not slowing down until they reached shredders lair which could be seen right in front of them. The building towered over them as they got closer and closer when they had finally reached the building opposite Raph made sure that Casey and April knew to stay on the roof top and that if any trouble occurred that they should retreat to the lair and await for their arrival. The guys finally left and jumped down to the street hiding in the shadows so that the foot bots guarding the outside of the building would not spot them.

The foot bots surveyed the area occasionally moving and switching positions with another that was in the same vicinity. Raph, Don and Mikey Looked at their leader as he gave hand signals to tell them how to execute the plan now. They had to stay silent so that they had the best opportunity to get Liz otherwise things would get worse before they ever got better.

Orders were given and they all switched to stealth mode. Silence engulfed the area things were quiet too quiet and for the foot bots, not that they were smart, it was good but also scary as anything could happen. The silence was broken when a couple of foot bots fell to the floor, sparks flying off of them. More came and the turtles sprang in and in no time at all took them out. Leo had pierced them through the chest with his katana, while Raph went with a more violent approach as he was finally letting out his anger from not going in straight away or from when he found out that Liz had been kidnapped. When all the foot bots where down and blowing out sparks they took no time in going inside and running through the corridors. From time to time a foot bot appeared and was either left in pieces from Mikey's nunchucks or they had snuck around it stealthily.

They were nearing the dungeons and were about to turn a corner to start down another everlasting corridor when Tiger claw blocked their path. They halted and stood in a prepared stance if they had to fight through the cat to get to Liz then that it what they were going to do.

"We knew you would come eventually turtles but you have already failed"

Each of them shared a confused look on their faces. They wanted to ask why but didn't think that they really did want to know the answer. Something told them that things were definitely getting worse. Donnie was about to attack, the blade at the end of his bo staff sticking out that he had used to take down the foot bots, he span his weapon and was about to strike but was concerned when Tiger claw did't look as though he was going to defend himself. Don's bo was going to hit Tiger claw when a hand caught it and snatched it away from him. A kick pushed Donatello back as his brothers caught him and looked up at their attacker.

Mouths hung open in shock and surprise as Elizabeth stood before them she held Donnie's bo staff in her hand and stood in front of Tiger claw in a protective way. Her eyes were red and wet where she had obviously been crying but other than that the guys could not see that she had been harmed in some way.

"Lizzie are you okay?" asked Leo

He quickly stood happy to see her, he was about to hug her but was unexpectedly kicked away. Liz put up her fists ready to fight them if she had to, if they would not leave.

"Liz?"

"I'm so sorry Leonardo, I wish there was another way" she sniffled

"Why are you doing this Liz" exclaimed Mikey

Liz wanted to talk to them, she wanted to hug them all and apologise, she especially wanted to kiss Leo but she was reminded of the situation from the sound of Tiger claw behind her. She could fell his hard breathing and the snarling noises he made. She gave no answer to the youngest turtle. Liz wanted to make this as painless as possible for her but that seemed impossible the only thing she could do was not talk it would not make things any easier but there was nothing else.

She approached Mikey and punched him hard, she began to cry again with every second that she stood against them. It was her worst nightmare although she had not hurt them using her powers yet but then she thought maybe she would eventually if they did leave she would still have to hurt them later and this time it wouldn't be just simply punching and kicking them backwards.

"Liz I don't want to hurt you" shouted Raph

Rahael came closer to her he did not put his sais up to attack he just held them as though he was never going to use them. Liz saw this, she saw how that he wasn't going to hurt her even when she was hurting them although it wasn't as bad as she had dreamed. She looked in to Raph's emerald green eyes and saw in them that Raph would never hurt her and his intentions were all true but she never doubted them. Once again she was reminded about the situation and was interrupted in her thoughts by Tiger claw behind her. She had to attack Raph even if he wasn't going to. This time she knew that the cat behind her wanted her to be more brutal so she concentrated and before she knew it her ears were filled with Raph screaming in pain. He fell to the floor in front of her while his brothers ran to his side.

"Raph what's wrong?"

"M….My….He…Head"

"Donnie"

Leo looked to his clever brother for an explanation. Don stared at the crying girl stood before them.

"It's Liz, she's invading his mind. She's killing him if she wanted to"

Leo felt his brother's pain, maybe not literally, but it pained him to see his hot headed brother in pain and adding to that pain his girlfriend was doing this but Leo did not blame her he could see that she really didn't want to do this. In fact all of them could see that this is the last thing she would want do.

Liz's heart thudded and any minute she expected her heart to break through her rib cage and burst out, she was sure that she was listening more to her head than her heart. She knew that if she carried on she would die too along with them.

"You know he did nothing for me, so I'm not going to do anything for him. This is not worth hurting the ones I love" Liz exclaimed

Liz released Raph and he almost slipped in to unconsciousness but held in there as he noticed Liz's actions. She quickly grabbed one of Raph's sais and lift her leg swinging it around until it collided with Tiger claw's face. As he stepped back from the impact and was slowly recovering, Liz held the sai sideways and swung her arm striking tiger claw in the arm. She made a slit in his arm and he started to bleed, his face definitely gave away that he was in pain but he was not letting it be known.

"You traitor, you father will pay for your mistake"

He recovered and was about to attack her but saw that the turtles had recovered too and were stood behind the brunette ready to fight him.

"You can mess with my father but you're through messing with me"

Liz jumped up and lunged her leg at the cat kicking him and when she landed back on the ground she gave him a couple of punched before he retreated away.

"Fight me like a cat you coward" she shouted after him

When she was sure he was gone she turned to face the guys as she was still crying.

"I'm so sorry guys"

"They were using your father against you?" asked Mikey

She nodded in reply and welcomed the hug that he gave her, it made her feel special and warm. When they withdrew Don came to her and hugged her, obviously they all felt bad for her even though she was just trying to kill them. When Don and Liz withdrew, Liz turned to Raph.

"I don't know how to make it up to you Raph"

"You don't have to" He smiled

Although he was the tough guy he openly welcomed a hug from her as he understood why she did it but he was grateful that she stopped, that even though her father was her family she still saved him, she let him go. Once Raph and Liz we done she turned to Leo leaving him last something told her that this would hurt more. Leo smiled at her and wiped away her tears.

"You gave up your father for us"

"Yeah well He has never really been my dad or family. You guys are my family"

She then smiled back and returned the kiss that Leo gave her, the others could tell that they had wanted to do that for a while but after about a minute they were interrupted by Mikey.

"This is sweet and all and I hate to break it up but this really isn't the place"

"He's right we've got to get out of here" said Don

Immediately they started running towards the nearest exit that they knew of. Leo and Liz held hands as they sprinted not letting any foot bots that were in the way stop them as they threw shruikens at them from afar to destroy them quickly and not prolong their stay in shredders lair. As they came to the exit they were blocked once again but this time by shredder and Baxter Stockman.

"You have failed my Elizabeth and now your father paid the price"

"That won't work on me, I don't care for him just like he never cared for me"

Leo, still holding her hand, walked in front of her so that she was protectively behind him. She saw her katana sheathed on Leo's shell as well as his and using her other hand she took it out and held it defensively. Leo did the same with his other hand and the others also took out their weapons ready to fight their way out of the building.

"You can't have her shredder" yelled Leo

"O but I already do"

The shredder looked down on Stockman and nodded in doing so Stockman pushed a button on a console he was holding. The turtles waited for something to happen but there was nothing. Raph was about to gloat about the failure of shredders plan when Liz suddenly gasped and let go of Leo. Each turned to her asking her what was wrong but she didn't answer. Her head had loosely fell forward but she was still standing. Don put his hand on her shoulder and bent down slightly to look up in to her face but her eyes were closed. When he was looking her over her eyes suddenly opened scaring him and she pushed him backwards violently.

"Lizzie"

Elizabeth looked blankly at each of them, there was no emotion in her eyes, no sign of her in control of her body it was as though her own telepathy controlling was working against her.

"Liz it's me, Leo. Let me…"

He was cut short by Liz swinging her katana around at him.

"Elizabeth destroy the turtles" commanded shredder

"No, Liz remember us, your family"

"It won't work Leo, before shredder got her to obey her by using her dad as leverage but because it failed he activated a failsafe"

"What?" shouted Mikey

"A failsafe, she's being mind controlled by shredder…"