Concealed
Chpt. 10
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"Professor, are you certain you positively know where your going?" Leonardo questioned pulling the cloak tighter on him as people began to stare towards him.
"Of course Leonardo, I'm not a simple calculator you know! I know my way around any where," he stated joyously, Raph rolling his eyes.
How did I end up with a nerdy navigation unit and a psychopath? I really have to learn how to pick my friends better... he let out another sigh as the tin can lead them another direction, Leonardo stopping in his tracks.
"We've been this way," he snapped, he was becoming irritated as he looked to the familiar scenery,"We have been walking in circles! I'm patient for so long before I know you do not know what you are doing..."
Raph could sense Huneycutt's fear and the boy's growing annoyance, it all added up to blood shed. He stepped in between the two of them before anything could spark the wrath of the demon costumed in human attire before him.
"Hey, I hate both of you equally, don't get me wrong, but I kinda want to get out of this shit hole in one piece and in order for that to happen I need you two idiots alive," the foot soldier and the hero of this tale glared to each other in a few tensing seconds. Finally, the boy sighed shutting his eyes taking deep breaths before he regained his calm composure once more.
"Hate is nothing and love is nothing between us," he stated after a few seconds,"We are those who need the other for selfish reasons and will remain that way till we find our way out of this."
Raph growled under his breath, giving up, there was no pleasing this boy, watching him looking around the place before a plan formulated in his head to help him keep walking.
"Is he a poet as well?" Huneycutt questioned looking to Raph, who once more gave up, there was no getting through to him. What part of he knew nothing about the boy besides his name was so hard to understand?
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Lonae, quickened her pace as people stopped and stared. It was unlike some as highly privilgued as herself to be in such a place, almost like a diamond on a peasant. She had no choice though, the object of betrayal always seemed to make people go out of place. She stepped into the wear house, darkness encasing itself around her as the door closed.
"So what news does the little birdy bring?" a husk voice called from the darkness, her hand instantly hitting a switch a flickering light bringing into view the government's hated enemy.
"Why Commander Mozar, you are early," her strict voice questioned his reason for their meeting, but the flare in her eyes demanded payment before he dared open his mouth.
"I hear you are the one to go to for information," he set a box upon the ground kicking it toward the woman who's own foot stomped down upon its surface, bending down her fingers instantly flicking it open revealing dazzling jewels within it. Satisfied she smiled to the hated enemy before her.
"What sort of information do you wish me to sing?" she smirked.
"What do you know of the teleportal device?"
"I know that you want it, and my commander is hunting it."
He scoffed sliding from his place on the wall,"Why should I pay you if you know no more then I know."
His fingers grasped tightly onto her wrist before she could scramble away from him.
"I know more, you give me no chance to speak of it!" she snapped panic sinking in her, squirming to his grasp. He loosened his grip, but didn't let go.
"The fugatoid holds all the info, I can get him for you I just need time and a push forward," her eyes moved towards the disguarded box on the ground, eyes glittering with desire for more of it.
"I'll give you a push forward alright," he snarled pushing her to the ground,"You are an expensive canary. You've fallen out of your use if you ask me, but its not my choice in this matter. Get me the fugitoid or I will make it my matter, you'll get paid no more then you have already."
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They sat in another back alley Leonardo staring at a map he had picked from the counter of a store they had been in previously. His finger traced across the map, Huneycutt beside him whispering what each letter meant, Raph lent against the entrance of the alley on guard for any one wishing to capture them.
"A mile or so," he finally whispered,"Is the docks, we need to leave now."
"Who the hell elected you leader any way?" Raph snarled eyes glaring to his enemy who stared back.
"I am the only one capable of proceting myself and every one else in this group and you dare question me?"
"Why wouldn't I?" he snarled,"If it hadn't been for you Leonardo, I wouldn't be here!"
"I did not tell you to sneak into that building! I was doing as instructed, you were there for no reason!"
"I was there for a reason, unlike you! You do everything for no reason! You are a puppet with no mind of your own!" Raph screamed, rage boiled in Leonardo's eyes as he took a step forward.
"Foolish monkey thinks himself wise, until the tiger's claws strike," Leonardo hissed the proffesor getting nervouse as both boys hands grasped their weapon and tension grew about them like wild fire.
"Gentlemen! Gentlemen!" he stepped between them, the drawn sais and unsheathed sword shimmering inches away making him quite nervous even if he knew they could do no damage.
Raph snarled snapping back into reality, Leo grasping a heavy breath eyes shut bringing back his calm composure as reality stared him in the face as well.
"We should go, we do not want to stay in one place for too long..." a low clank filled the area as his sword slammed into his sheath.
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Soft foot steps came to a sudden stop, making the soldier nervous his eyes meeting his companion's who eyes told him to lay low and not make any movement.
"What are you doing now?" a loud voice entwined with a foreigh accent barked soon followed by a low slap from a hand covering the mouth.
"We are not alone, be silent and still, keep your breathing low Raphael."
"Don't tell me what to do you rich brat."
"Gentlemen, please. Maybe we should take Leonardo's advise he is quite qualified to be a leader."
"I'm about to crush ya like a tin can if ya do not stay out of this!"
"Be silent! You are going to get us killed!" low bickering soon followed the sophisticated boy's outburst with the faint outlines of pleading from their main target.
Leonardo cursed as the shadows lept at them, he shoved Raph to the ground as the lasers shot off.
"I certanly hope you are a qualified fighter," he whispered jumping to his feet flipping over a shot fired to his head.
"I certanly hope you are, princess," he spat back swaying away from the blast to the skull, cursing to the sounds of more approaching heavy foot falls. He jumped to the air, his foot round house kicking the soldiers knocking them to the ground.
Puddles of blood drowned his feet, nearly allowing him to lose his balance as he knocked down three more soldiers to the ground, Huneycutt huddled in a corner near a trash can. As Raph's eyes rose, he was no longer looking to the composed boy but a demon with glaring blood lusted eyes stared back.
"Come gentlemen, we have overstayed our welcome here," he said coyly slicing the head cleanly off a soldier who rose with a low groan, without complaint Raph followed the crazed warrior trying to keep up with him as well as trying not to slip in the blood sloshed across the ground.
"I hope that you dearly thought your actions through when you descied to let victims live to tell the tale," his voice was calm, but something close to irritation pushed forward in it,"They will come with much larger armies now and much quicker. Just because you don't want to dirty your hands!"
Raph let out something in the middle of a snarl and a sigh as he mumbled,"At least I have limits and self control, I'm a ninja not an axe murderer."
Leonardo laughed as he caught those words stopping to get a clear view of Raphael's line of sight,"In the grand scheme of things, there is no difference."
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Keeping his distance, our hero followed the most likely crazed child as they cut through alley after alley way to keep out of the public's view the heavy clanking of the robot behind them as he desperatly tried to keep up with the pair.
A calm breath escaped the clump of metal as they reached the end of the alley only to have dread take its place to the sight of tanks circling them aimed to kill. Instinctively to the heavy machinary he shot his hands up in surrender, his hot headed allys not even thinking of that course.
"Raphael, perhaps you should leave this battle to me and you and the proffesor take this time to escape," he whispered faintly over the thunderous call for them to surrender.
"And let you have all the fun, no way."
Raph swayed to his own rhythm of the battle dodging blasts, here and there slamming each of his foes into unconsciousness. Flipping over a few blasts from the tanks surrounding him that instantly tore building lining them to shreds, debri littering the ground and a mist of dirt rising in the air. An impulsive intention hit Raphael as the impressively made machinery blasted things to shreds, he had to have one.
Like the artist's swift strokes of the brush, Leonardo's blade painted perfect and vibrant streaks across the ground. Throwing himself out of the way of sloppy blasts destroying building after building, he leapt atop of one of the heavy units of war slamming a foot made bomb atop of it.
Compliments of Baxter Stockman, he thought with a smirk as the ticking met his ear.
Hurdling away from the precise explosive, he cut across a corner to where he found Huneycutt cuddled behind another dumpster his eyes cut across the place. In amidst of confusion one tank fired off more then the others, seeming to be striking the others around him.
"Where is Raphael?" he groaned a headache arising to the possibility of that idiot spoken of had gotten caught in the midst of the madness.
He opened his mouth to answer, a tank forced the boy on his feet as it took down an already crumbling building finally allowing it to crumble to the earth as its force hit it. His eyes narrowed and his blade shimmered in the light as the window rolled down, but soon the narrowed glare turned into rolling eyes as he saw said turtle behind the wheel.
"Need a ride?" he chided with an all together too broad of smile in false pride. His heart was struck by some sort of pause switch as he stared trying to comprehend this all. Before the rant about how stupid this was brewing inside of him could crash to the surface, he was being yanked into the stolen vehicle by Hunneycutt at the sound of sirens.
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"Stop pouting!" Raph snarled looking to the silent child across from him who had his eyes glued to the window.
"Raphael, keep your eyes on the road," he said not taking his eyes from the red tinted glass, watching the setting sun keeping his mind off the situation at hand. Huneycut sleeping in the seat next to his own, the lingering presence of Raphael's eyes on the back of his neck.
"So what's your story?" the question caught Leonardo off guard slightly but his eyes remained on the passing scenery.
"Same as any, my father raised me from the time I was very small," he shrugged not thinking it was too hard to understand, everyone in that city knew his father had no biological children, his were adopted.
"No, I mean, why do you fight? Is it simply buisness? Why is that each time I see you, its like talking to a new person. Why bother letting me out of that cell that night for instance..."
Silence sank consumed them like a virus. Time moved slowly, but the question still hung like drying laundry and would remain as such for the time being. Their worlds spun as a shot hit the tank. Both cursing looking back.
"Don't bother standing to fight, just try to out run them!" Leo gasped as his head slammed into the dash board making his head spin.
In a blur like motion they seemed too quick to maneuver their way through the deserted out skirts of the city littered with trees and nothingness. A red alarm fired up as they slammed threw another thick trunked tree, at the moment none of them had to be geniuses to know this was bad news.
Without out much thought, the boy shoved himself from the vehicle, body slamming into some sort of water holding his breath he dove down farther. Even through the mirk engulfing his senses he heard the explossion of something crashing.
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Gasps erupted from Leonardo as he crawled from the bog, glaring at Raphael who smiled slyly to him as he spit the filthy water to the ground. The professor leaning against a winding tree at the edge of the water, fire blaring from the crashed tank ahead of him.
"You know, you defiantly look better now without that self righteous smirk, you almost seem human covered in grime," the turtle laughed non expecting the slam to the ground and ever tightening grasp around his neck with each labored breath bestowed by his comrade.
"You nearly got me killed with your stupidity, you ignorant mother fucker!" he snarled his grip lightening, but instantly a fist stuck Raph forcing blood from his snout. Growling and cursing in an unknown language he rose stomping away, Raph had to say he never thought someone as deadly as the son of the shredder could be so unthreatening and even adorable when you got him mad.
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"No! That's the thing, Raphael, she wasn't aroused by me at all, she just wanted to use the phone!" Huneycutt laughed Raph shaking his head,"Now image this, here I was pinned down by this star seductress whispering in my ear in her foreigh tongue, me getting hot and all the while her getting angry by my refusal of her request! If Sal didn't translate when he did, I would very well be buried in a hole six feet under!"
Across the flaring fire he could see Leo staring at the stars still grumbling to himself about something or other, sitting upon a branch one foot pulled close to him and the other swaying on the side of the branch.
"You can't pout forever, you know," Raph snapped, their eyes locking a smile soon cutting across Leonardo's face looking away.
"I can, but it doesn't mean I will, Raphael," he said discreetly staring off once more,"I just wish I knew what the fuck I am doing..."
"Yeah me too..." for once in this whole time they had been together, an understanding connected with them as they stared at each other. The connection was short lived though, a series of ruffles sounded from the bushes making Huneycutt jump backwards as a soldier popped out.
"Sergent, we have the fugitives in one location, what are your orders?" he demanded into a transmitter smirking to whatever the response was. A chill swept by Rapheal he glanced over to see Leonardo standing beside him.
"Raphael, whatever you do, don't let your guard down, ok?" he whispered making Raph smirk to the fire in his eyes.
"I could tell you the same, Leonardo," he whispered back bringing a smile to his face as he dove face first into the violent existence he lived in, Raph following his lead not daring to be shown up by a little rich boy.
Huneycutt cried out as he was caught by the strong grip of someone from behind him. Leonardo cursed at the number of men circling him and Raphael.
"Surrender now or else this will get ugly," the front soldier called making a smile cross Leonardo's face.
"And you think you can take me?" crimson stained on the surface of his blade, making many who had already witnessed him fight back up. The leader however seemed unamused, snapping his fingers the soldier holding Huneycutt handed him over to the leader.
"I'll dismember him, I promise you," his eyes closed to that statement, every possibility coming into thought. If he fought, there is always the 10% chance he won't get to the professor in time and he would be lost along with his hope of getting home anytime soon. If he fled, there was a 3% chance that he would simply jump aboard a ship that could take him back to earth, from what he gathered there was .25% chance that any one would even know where earth was or what it was. And even if that succeeded, there was still only a 3% chance he wouldn't get caught by the military again any way. Then finally, there was .15% chance that his enemies were even going to do anything about this situation and simply teleport him back to earth.
With those odds against him, he still had a little bit of hope of winning the fight, but still he didn't know if they would simply capture Raphael and lose him of his opportunity to answer unanswered questions.
His blade finally clanked to the ground his hands rose to the air, a scowl of defeat crossing his features.
"Stand down, Raphael," he whispered making the turtle's eyes slit to a new level.
Before his mouth could move, a breeze of air swished by him, a hard pressure hitting his neck. He felt darkness pulling him down but before it had him completely in its grasp he heard the boy whisper.
"Don't make it harder on yourself, your my only clue, I need you alive, we'll meet again Raphael, I swear it."
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Damn such a long chapter, hope it made up for the wait. Next chapter be up soon, review if you want it up quicker then 'soon'. Lol.