This had to be one of the more stupidest ideas Leo has ever had. Let's get caught he says. Have the others bust us out he says. Are you fucking kidding me! And now he is sitting there meditating. Meditating! We are locked up in cages in Bishop's lab and he is meditating! Arrgh! I punched the cage wall. Then for good measure I punched it again. At least they took the restraints off of us this time. Not like we were any real danger to them trapped in these stupid plastic looking boxes. We all had naturally tested our cages once left alone but not one of us could break through. Probably another idea Bishop picked up on from Sachs, or did Sachs get it originally from him? Hell I don't fucking know! Who started what, when, then stole from where to be restolen again was honestly starting to confuse me... I punched the cage one more time.
"Your going to hurt your hand." Donnie said from where he calmly leaned against his cage wall with his arms crossed.
"Maybe he should try his head. That might be hard enough to break through." Mikey grinned.
Why that annoying little... "I'm about to use yours." I looked at Donnie. "Why is this stuff so fucking hard to break out of?"
"Because they made it that way."
Gee wasn't that answer very fucking helpful... I glared at him but he seemed not to notice. Looked like he was in Donnieland again. He was looking around the lab, his eyes lost in thought as he picked the room apart with his eyes. I hope he was looking for a way to get us out of here. I really didn't like being a sitting duck like this. And Leo was still meditating! He should be the one coming up with the escape plan! I raised my hand to punch this stupid cage again.
Suddenly Leo let out a small chuckle. What the hell? I don't meditate often but even I know you don't laugh while meditating. What the fuck was wrong with him? And why did he have that silly smile on his face? "What the fuck are you doing over there Leo?"
He opened one eye and looked at me. "Keeping a promise." And he closed it back again and was quiet. I threw my hands up in frustration.
"Seriously, Raph you need to chill bro."
"Do I look like a fucking ice cube to you!" My very limited patience was fast running out.
"Nah, more like a hot air balloon."
"Mikey if you don't shut the fuck up..." I loved my little brother but god he was so, so, so...annoying!
Mikey opened his big mouth to reply when the sound of the door opening effectively shut it. I turned with a growl towards it. "Well, if it isn't Stockboy and his turtle sniffing side kick." I mumbled.
"Now theres a superhero comic that won't make any sales." Mikey quipped.
"Always the funny ones aren't you." Stockman snarled.
"Well someone has to be. You obviously don't know how." Mikey grinned. "Except for being funny looking."
"Smart mouth for a being locked up in a cage." Marina spoke up.
Donnie was still leaning on the wall of his cage with his arms crossed. "It's about the only thing smart about him." He gave Leo a quick look, he was still meditating but we knew he was listing. "What do you want with us?"
"I want nothing from you. Besides have you destroyed." Stockman growled.
"Bishop however has other plans for you." Marina clarified.
Donnie gave her a level look. "Would it have something to do with the bumbled attempt at your injections?"
As much as I wanted to rant and rave I kept quiet. This was more Donnie's territory. I smashed things, he dealt with the smart stuff. All I could do was wait, I hated waiting...
"There's nothing wrong with my injections." She spat back at him. Stockman however started looking a little nervous.
"I think there is. Isn't that right Stockman?" He didn't take his eyes off of her.
She turned to look at the bumbling scientist then back at Donnie. "Your lying! Bishop assured me that the formula is perfectly fine."
"And you believe him why? Just because he said so?"
"I believe him more than I would you."
Oh boy, this chick really was backwards. "Lady, that is your first mistake. You listened to Bishop." I told her.
"Yeah chicka, rule number one...don't ever believe Bishop." Mikey and I don't agree on a lot of things but that was one of the things we did agree on. "Or the mad bumbling scientist here."
"Bumbling! I'll show you bumbling!" He stomped over to a console and smashed a button on it. Suddenly pain shot up from my feet and into the rest of my body as waves of electricity erupted from the cage floor. Collapsing to the floor I couldn't see anything besides the blinding light but I could hear my brothers as they also were submitted to the shocks. Not even Leo's well trained mind could bear the pain, he was screaming just as loud as the rest of us. "Now who's the bumbling idiot!" Stockman almost screeched as wave after wave hit us.
"Apparently you are!" Marina shouted then the pain died off. "Bishop needs them alive."
Ooooh I'm gonna hurt him, I am sooooo gonna hurt him. That good for nothing, bumbling, stupid, pompous pain in my fucking ass! I'm going to smash his face in so fucking hard he's going to have eyes in the back of his fucking head! That god damn son of a cowardly BITCH! Ignoring the after shocks of pain still flowing in me I went nuts on that damn cage wall. I was going to break through this damn thing and ring his fucking neck if it was the last thing I do! God damn you Stockman!
"Good going Dorkman." Mikey stood up on shaky feet. "You unleashed the pissed off ninja hulkanater."
"Raph!" Leo called out to me in a weak voice. "Knock it off!"
I could tell he was worried about me hurting myself but I was beyond caring about that at this point. Besides this was his idea in the first place! "Fuck you Leo!" I snapped at him as I tried to use the limited space to get a good kick in. "I'm going to break his scrawny weasly neck!" The only thing I was going to knock off was that damn maggot!
"I bet Cris would love to see this." Mikey suddenly said. That stopped me in mid swing. Cris...god I had to keep it together. I lowered my rage shaking fist as I looked over at my younger brother. He watched me with calm eyes, then winked. Sometimes I underestimated the large goofball. He acted wacky so often that you honestly forget that he's very perceptive, smart even. He said the one thing that could snap me out of my hot rage. I still was pissed as a motherfucker but I calmed down enough to stay focused. We all had a part to play and I couldn't help my brothers play ours if I was a raging maniac and that would do the others more harm than good right now. I let my eyes wander over to Leo who was watching me from the floor of his cage, slumped against the clear wall. He had still been sitting down when the shocks hit and I guess he got a bigger dose than we did. Our eyes met and he gave me a reassuring smile, then his eyes flicked up. I avoided looking up myself but I knew the meaning behind his subtle actions. Just be patient Raph, not much longer now.
"Stockman, I grow tired of your antics. If you cost me my specimens and I will have your head." Came a new voice from the door. Bishop, and he didn't come alone as he walked in with guards following him. God damn it, this just got a lot more complicated... I looked over the numerous guards that came in. He obviously wasn't going to take any chances and that just as obviously was going to make it harder to get out of here.
"Hey, look who showed up. The ET catcher." Mikey mumbled. He looked a little worried himself but quickly hid it behind his usual mask of humor.
"What do you want from us Bishop?" Donnie bluntly asked him once again on his feet. We were all up now, besides Leo. He went back off in his meditation la la land again. Then it hit me what he was actually doing, if I had been less frustrated I'm sure I could have figured out what my two brothers already did. I guess I have my stupid moments too. Out of all of us Leo had the best trained mind and was obviously using it. You, sly sneaky son of a bitch... I hid my grin. This was going to be interesting.
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"Are you sure this is the right way?" Casey mumbled from behind me as we crawled through the ventilation shafts. Hey, just because the guys were to big to do this didn't mean I didn't learn anything from watching all the other turtles. Vent shafts were quite handy in turtle land thank you very much. That did mean I had to put up with Casey's whiney face staring at my ass though. The sacrifices we make for our loved ones...
"As sure as April is. She's the one who is following their signal." I grumbled back at him.
He just grunted as we kept moving. This was by far the smallest set of vent tunnels I had been in, we weren't just forced to crawl on our hands and knees we were practically crawling on our stomachs and Casey barely fit with Donnie's pack strapped to his back. I was just annoyed as he was, this was slow going and worry was starting to eat at me. We were just taking to long! Who knows what was going on in this building...
"Left." Came April's soft voice from behind me as I came up on a junction and I wiggled my way down the correct tunnel. Casey's mumbling behind me told me he was having a harder time with it.
"Why couldn't we just find another way?" He griped at me as he finally turned the corner.
"Because I'm not going to go running up and down these damn halls and risk getting caught ourselves." I snipped back at him.
"Takes all the fun out of it though."
I sighed in annoyance as Cris whispered "Casey you whine more than a little kid."
"I do not." He whined.
"I think you just proved her point." April muttered.
"Will you guys knock it off! Good I don't know how Leo puts up with this all the time." I dropped my head down in frustration at their antics. Then I felt a sense of, amusement?, wash over me. 'Don't really have a choice do I?' My head snapped back up. 'Your doing fine.' Leo? How was he doing that? I stayed put in bewilderment for a moment, then remembered he wasn't in the best situation for me to stop and figure this out and I began moving again. As confused as I was I felt a whole lot better for some reason.
"We are getting close." April whispered up to me. Suddenly I felt a stabbing pain in my head and I collapsed to the vent floor, trying not to cry out in pain before the connection in my head snapped. "Shit!" April snapped. "The trackers just died out!"
"Fuck the trackers!" Cris hissed. "Vicky! Are you all right?"
I laid there gasping for air as the pain subsided. Something had just happened, something far from good. "Leo..." With a determined growl I picked myself up as best as I could in the tight tunnel and moved forward. "I'm fine." I answered Cris' question. "But we need to hurry."
"What's wrong." Casey asked me.
"I don't know. I just know that something is!" I kept moving forward and we came to another intersection. Damn it! Which way? "April?"
"Nothing. The signals are gone."
"Before you lost them which direction were they coming from?"
"They seemed to be coming from straight ahead."
Straight it was then and I started moving again. Worry speeding me along. Leo, please god, let him- 'I'm fine.' I stopped again. He sure didn't sound fine. Not to mention there was a tingly sensation this time. If they hurt him I swear to fucking god I was going to beat the living shit out of them! Grumbling to myself I moved on now with three very confused friends behind me. I didn't know how to explain this to them and we really didn't have time for me to stop and figure out how. 'Almost there. Be careful now.' I turned towards my friends as best as I could and laid a finger over my lips and got three quick nods in return.
As we made our way slowly down the shaft voices began to reach out to us from a vent in front of us. Then there was the sensation of pain again in my head but it snapped off quicker this time, their screams however rang out loud and clear. To this day I don't know how in the hell I got to that vent cover so fast but when I looked down my world seemed to stop. Finally we had found them only to see them locked in cages and apparently having the shit shocked out of them. Fury took over at that point and I hardly noticed the restraining hand that placed itself on my shoulder as Casey slipped up next to me in the tight space. "Easy." He whispered. "Not going to do any good if you just go barging in there right now."
Cris had climbed over me enough to see what was going on in there. "I'm going to kill that son of a bitch!" She snapped between clenched teeth.
The shock stopped and the four brothers tried to pick themselves up off of the floor. "You will cooperate with me." Bishop told them. "One way or another I will get what I need from you."
"Fuck you, Bishop!" Raph snapped at him.
"Apparently you are going to need some more persuasion."
"Is this really necessary?" Marina asked him. "What good will they be if the shocks kill them?"
"I can still use them dead, but I would prefer them alive."
"Told you he was twisted." Mikey gasped.
Donnie was the first to recover. "You never did answer my question. What exactly do you want from us?"
"That is no concern of yours."
"Obviously it is if your willing to kill us to get it." He paused for a moment. "Or is it something you don't want her to know about? Is that it Bishop? You need us to fix your screw up and you don't want her to know you messed up?" The silence in the room gave Donnie all the answer he needed. "Go ahead Bishop. Tell her what you did to her. Tell her about the fate that is going to happen to her. Tell her all that pain she already went through and the reasoning behind it was for nothing!" Donnie practically shouted the last word.
"What is he talking about?" Marina asked.
"He's lying."
"Am I Bishop?" Donnie asked him in a deathly quiet voice. "Which one of us has been lying to her. The one who doesn't want her to know the truth or the one who doesn't want to see her die."
"I have had enough of your rantings. I had hoped you would assist me Donatello but now I see I was wrong to expect that."
"You got that right. I won't help you, but I will make the effort to right your wrongs. Anyway I can." By now the others were on their feet watching the whole ordeal play out. The tension was starting to build in the room, you could feel it. I didn't have much time to figure something out.
April was muttering behind me as she and Casey talked over the layout of the room then he crawled back up to me and Cris. "April scanned the room. Control console is to the right of us." He murmured to Cris and I very quietly. "About ten goons besides Bishop, Stockman and She-Ra. Two at the door on the left side of the room and three around Bishop near the console. The other five are around the cages. Stockman and the chick are operating the controls on the console."
"First priority is to get them out of those cages." I told them. "Fast. I'm not sure how much more of this they can take." The argument was heating up down there again. "We drop in and flank right."
"What about Bishop?" Cris asked. He was one we really didn't want to tangle with. No way we could handle him.
"I got a little something for him." Casey muttered pulling out a hockey puck.
"No. It's to confined down there. The blast might hit something important."
Casey shook his head. "Not that kind of puck. More of a flash bomb."
"How in the world do you make this stuff?"
He looked at her. "Donnie helped me expand my arsenal a bit."
"Do it." I told him and he got the puck ready as Cris and I slowly opened the cover. I stopped him however right before he lit it, something told me to wait just a moment longer. I looked through the grate to see Leo giving out quick orders with his hands, using the heated conversation to hide his already subtle movements. His brothers however caught on and I could see them tense up.
"I tire of this!" Bishop finally snapped then turned to Stockman. "Hit them again. Obviously they need another objective lesson."
"Now!" Leo snapped and I knew it was meant for all of us. As Stockman hit the button the guys jumped up and spread their legs wide, holding themselves up with their legs and arms pressed against the clear surfaces of the cage walls. The electric charge now doing absolutely nothing to the four brothers. Casey dropped the puck and an instant later it went off as we headed down after it our hands shielding our eyes from the worst of the flash. We landed into the room and everything exploded into chaos.
Cris and I hit first and shot out to our right and Casey and April hit a moment later. I tackled Stockman at the same time Cris plowed into Marina and all four of us went tumbling away from the console and April frantically tried to work the controls with Casey covering her.
"You are going to pay for that." I growled at the man I was struggling with as we rolled across the floor. "How dare you do that to them you sick, twisted fuck!" I raised my fist to splatter his nose all over his face when Cris came crashing into me.
"Fucking bitch." She spat at the other woman. She went to charge after her again but I held her back. We had bigger problems at the moment. April was still trying to get the cages open and the guards were closing in now. We had to buy April some time to figure the controls out.
I dropped Casey's bag next to him and pulled my asps out and Cris had her hanbo already in hand. All those months of training, easy missions and sparring sessions now came down to this. Could we rescue our loved ones? Could we do this? Were we ready? I pushed the buttons on my twin asps and the turtle banded colored weapons popped out to full length, the orange and red leaf/vine pattern displayed brightly against the blue and purple. You bet your sweet ass we were. "Bring it motherfuckers." I growled at them, anger at what they did filling my voice. "You messed with the wrong family."
"You don't actually think you stand a chance do you?" Bishop sounded slightly amused. Marina had made her way next to him and was watching us quietly. She had her nasty stun knives out, but didn't seem to press any kind of attack. If anything she looked slightly confused.
"Maybe not. Be we sure as hell are going to try." Cris told him.
"We owe them nothing less." I added. Well it was true. After all the times they pulled our butts out of the fire. "And I personally owe you an ass whoopin." I told Bishop in a low tone, my anger giving me a bad case of diarrhea mouth. Now why on earth did I say that? I knew I couldn't take him on.
"This is pointless. Get them."
And the rush was on. Fury at what we had seen done to those we love filled us as we lashed out. Cris and I sharing that connection of fury and the understanding that if we failed at this they would get more of the same treatment, maybe even worse. We would be damned if we let that happen. I ducked as Cris swung her hanbo over me connecting with the stomache of the closet goon and as he doubled over I brought my asp straight up and nailed him in the face. Then she rolled over my bent back and took a swipe at the legs of another as she landed and came in low and I followed her in with a spin, this time connecting to the chest as he fell. We left him to Casey as he came swinging in with a hockey stick after he felled his own goon and casually landed a smack to silence this one. Then with a "Goongala!" he spun and knocked another in the face with the bat in his other hand.
"Holy mother of ass whoopins those girls are pissed..." Mikey said.
"I kinda like it." Raph grinned.
"You just wait until you piss them off next time, bro. That might be you and Leo on the receiving end."
Cris brought her hanbo around to slap an arm out of her way. "Hows that release button coming!" She asked April.
"I'm working on it!"
"Work faster!"
"You want to do this?"
"Oh...shit..." Casey interrupted their squabbling as more goons came rushing in. Hey go figure...stun sticks galore with this group.
"April! We are out of time! Get them out!" Cris screeched as she ducked a blow and this time I came over her ducking form with a double hit.
"Hey! Come on guys!" Mikey hollered from where he was still hanging over his zapping floor. "We are missing all of the fun!"
"Not to mention I feel stupid hanging around like this." Raph grumbled.
"Oh for crying out loud." Casey went over to the console and pushed April out of the way, and began whacking the thing with his baseball bat. Mikey squealed as a bolt of electricity arced up and almost zapped him in the ass.
"Watch it you bonehead!"
"Bonehead? I try to get you guys out and that's the thanks I get?" He whacked it again and this time it was Leo who dodged an arc.
"Casey!" Leo and I both growled. "You better watch what you are doing! I have certain interest in that portion of his anatomy." I added as I dodged a goon who made a grab for me and promptly smacked one asp on his arm and the other into his stomach.
"I so did not need to hear that..." He whacked it again and this time they were all four dodging sparks.
"Will you stop that!" Cris snapped at him. "Shit, they were safer under Bishop's control!"
"Well this obviously isn't working." Donnie said with a sigh.
"When Casey is involved it usually never does work." Leo told him as Casey kept banging on the control panel. All four of them scooted up as high as they could get in their cages, just to be on the safe side.
"Oh for the love of god..." I holstered my asps and grabbed one of Raph's sai from Cris belt and tried to make my way to the cages. I was hoping to see if I could pry the locking mechanism itself open somehow since none of us could obviously figure out the damn control panel. That was easier thought than done however as I found out the hard way. I spun and dodged around one goon only to have another one nail me in the side with a kick and I rolled across the floor. Well that idea didn't work. This wasn't good, not good at all. We were going to get overwhelmed here real quick if we didn't get them out. I was about to get up as Casey gave the panel another good whack and try for the cages again when I was grabbed by the throat and hoisted into the air. Bishop... I had landed near Bishop.
"I think that's about enough of this." He tightened his grip on my throat cutting off my air supply. "You will surrender."
"Fuck you." I managed to choke out and brought the sai in for a stab at his arm. Go figure he would easily catch it. Shit, the one person I really didn't want to fuck with tonight, despite my earlier bravado, and I was dangling in his over powered grip. He ripped the sai out of my hand and tossed it to the side, and it immediately came flying back in and this time it nailed him in the arm he was holding me with. He dropped me and I hit the floor coughing and gagging. The sai was promptly followed by the owner as Raph came flying in with a kick.
"Fuck, you guys couldn't have cut it any closer could you?" The big guy snapped as he rolled away from Bishop, pulling his sai out of the man's arm.
"Ungrateful ass." Casey told him. Now that he had finally managed to open the cages, and left a busted up control panel in his wake, he was back at smacking goons around. April had grabbed Casey's bag and threw the bo to Donnie who was swiftly dodging, kicking and punching his way to the far side of the lab where it seemed all the experiment stuff was kept. He was obviously a turtle on a mission and when he had his staff in hand he put it to use, causing even more damage to bad guy body parts.
The katanas came flying across the room next and were caught right above me as Leo came into my view from where I was still laying on the floor gasping for air. Mikey was right beside him. "Come on Vic. On your feet." He helped me up.
"Mikey! Heads up!" Cris called to him.
I had to duck back down as his nunchucks came flying in. He caught them in a fluid motion and they went right in to a spin taking out the closet goons. Then he flipped forward and landed in a hand stand. He kicked out with a scissor kick while still on his hands sending two goons flying and continued the flip until he landed by April and Casey who were starting to get a little crowded in. In a flash of 'chucks and legs that wasn't the case anymore.
Leo had a hold of my arm to steady me as he fought off the attackers with his other arm and feet. Finally I stopped seeing spots and I pulled my arm out of his grasp and out came the asps again. With a quick nod he got the point and out came his other sword. "Well this didn't go as planned." I muttered to him.
"Didn't I tell you before it usually never does?" He swung out, deflecting a punch, tossed his katana up in the air, then grabbed the punching arm and threw the guy across the room. He held out his hand and the handle of his airborne weapon plopped into his palm. Fucking show off...
Something on the other side of the room caught his eye. "Donnie..." I looked over to see the genius hard pressed. Apparently Bishop figured out what the goal was and everyone was starting to head towards the bo wielder. Without another word he pulled me close to him and we started to move in on the cornered turtle. I was honestly nervous as he drug me with him towards the main cluster of goons. Normally I would be pushed out of the way of the main fights, or be lurking around the edges, sometimes he just covered me while I got a smack or two in as support but he was dragging me head first into the chaos. No way on earth I could handle this many. Hell I could barely handle the ten from earlier and I was with Cris and Casey.
"Leo..."
"I'm right here. You did good so far, don't doubt yourself now." Was his reply before I could even voice my concern. And then we were in the middle of the gaggle. Frantically I began ducking and whacking and trying to stay out of Leo's way as he made his way through them like a green tornado. Honestly I was more than a bit scared right now and lashed out more in fear than in any kind of conscious thought. "Calm down. Open your mind. Flow with the movements. You and Cris worked together before on several occasions. Same concept here."
I blinked a moment. He wanted me to fight with him? Not next to him? Honestly I didn't even think about it earlier as Cris and I wove and dodged around each other. If Cris and I could work together then why can't I do the same with Leo? I could feel him watching me as I struggled to piece this puzzle together. I pulled various training sessions together in my head but mainly the one where for the first time they made us climb the rope, so so long ago. The stronger we are as a team the better chance we stand. Click. Months later the true meaning behind that statement popped into place in my head. We don't work as individuals, we work as a team. It was something they had mastered long ago and Cris and I were just now beginning to understand it. I narrowed my eyes as I figured out the mental barrier. Leo was still way out of my league when it came to fighting and I always felt that I was in his way because of it. Now he wanted me not to hide from it but to use it to my advantage. He didn't have to cover me, if I worked with him as one unit. I shot him a quick look to see him watching me, still clobbering goonies as he did. "Your ready for this and so am I." He told me softly. "It took me awhile to see it, but you are." Apparently he was letting go of the final strings of his own mental blocks towards me. No longer wanting to shield me but wanting me to join with him.
I took a deep breath and moved inside of his reach and lashed out at a guard that took a swing at him from the far side and he brought an arm in over me to cover the one that was coming for me from behind. I ducked a swing aimed for me and Leo came over me with a leg flashing out as I brought my asp out to crack the man's knee, then Leo's leg hit him and he went flying back. This was a whole new level for me. To trust someone so blindly and to be able to work with him like this was indescribable. My inferior skills were not a hindrance to him at all and him not next to me but fighting with me just felt...right. I'm not saying I became a master ninja but Leo and I found a connection with each other we didn't even know had existed before and we moved around each other as one being, neither one of us in the other's way as we kicked, punched and asped our way closer to the now struggling Donnie.
"Holy shit guys!" I heard Mikey say in wonder. "Check out the the new moves on those two..."
"Kinda busy to look right now!" Casey snapped from where he, Mikey and April were also trying to make their way to the vastly out numbered purple clad turtle.
"I know the feeling." Raph muttered from where he was still dealing with Bishop, trying to keep him busy long enough for us to get what we came for. Bishop however had other ideas as he gave Raph a solid hit that sent him flying into the mass of soldiers we were dealing with. "Son of a bitch!" I heard him explode from somewhere in the group. He came bursting out the middle of them like a volcano exploding and had one in each hand and flung them, one after the other, into the crowd taking out a few more.
Then Cris was next to him, with a swift swing she nailed a guy in the head that was trying to come in from his rear then pulled the other sai from her belt and flipped it to the large turtle. Just like Mikey he smoothly caught it and spun it in his hand as his fist lashed out to sent another guy flying, he followed that with a kick that sent yet another flying into a closing in Bishop.
"What are you doing?" He hissed at her.
"Covering your ass." She calmly replied.
He looked at her for a moment then narrowed his eyes as he watched what Leo and I were doing. "All right. Let's see what you got, firecracker." He told her in a soft voice. "Stay close, don't think, just do. Understand?" She nodded as he brought another leg out in a roundhouse to knock some of the closer goons away to make room for her. Cris dodged under that leg and came up on the other side her hanbo twirling then connecting into the stomach of another and Raph brought his fist in to the mans face as he was doubled over and he followed his previous buddies across the room. She had to duck a double swing coming at her and Raph easily leapt into a horizontal spin over her, his legs flashing out and connecting. As he landed on her other side she came back up to block a stun stick aimed for his back and Raph brought an elbow back to nail the wielder in the face then brought it forward in another's face. Faces were getting a lot of punishment tonight...
Soon they too were moving in their own dodge and weave pattern. I have to admit she caught on a lot quicker than I did to the concept. I'm not sure if she embraced the idea from seeing it from us or if she wasn't plagued by as much doubt as I was, but they were beautiful to watch together.
"You two have seriously been holding out on us." Mikey said.
"A little help here!" Came a frantic call from Donnie. He was by now pretty much backed up to a wall with a ring of stun sticks around him.
With a growl Leo kicked the last few remaining guards out of our way and I dodged in under that kicking leg and rolled, coming up this time inside of Donnie's reach and spun an asp out and connecting with an arm that was trying to knock the swiftly moving bo staff out of the turtle's hands. "Well hi there." He told me as I ducked under his staff and lashed out with my leg to try and trip a guard up, Donnie's staff connecting with the same guard helped that idea along. "Ready?" He asked me and I knew what he meant and just gave him a slight nod. And together we lashed out, this time I went high and he went low, my asp connecting with a side as I jumped up and the bo swinging in under me taking out the legs, then coming in over my head as I landed in a crouch to take out another one. Then Leo was there and I found myself weaving in between the two of them. Talk about complicated. If I would stop and think about what was going on I would have either shit my pants or stumbled my way into the path of either a katana or the bo. One slip up from any of us would more than likely caused a chain reaction fumble. The key here was, as Raph stated earlier, not to think, just do and trust in the two masters as their weapons came swinging dangerously close around, over or under me.
"Heads up!" Came a call from Mikey and a screeching April came flying through the air towards Raph. He jumped up and caught her, spun and tossed her our way. Leo leapt up, sheathing a katana, and caught her. As he came down he kicked out at a goon that tried to come in under his leap. Once he hit the floor he pushed her behind us out of the way and again he was dual wielding. Then Mikey and Casey came barreling through the crowd, nunchucks and baseball bat knocking aside heads, arms, legs and anything else in between. They broke through just as Cris and Raph knocked the last few out of their way. Now we were all together but cornered between a wall and Bishop and his hired thugs.
The only one that hadn't hardly moved in the chaos was Marina. She stood there watching us from the other end of the room. I wasn't sure but it looked like she was watching Donnie, her face filled with confusion. He returned her gaze even as his bo twirled around him. Their eyes locked for a few moments, then she turned and fled the room. What on earth had just happened there? I didn't have time to ponder on it as I let myself fall backwards to avoid a stun stick and the bo came swinging in over my falling body and cracked into the offender, followed by a kick from Leo.
I picked myself up off of the floor to notice the fighting had stopped. Casey took the time to transfer the pack back to Donnie, though neither of them took their eyes off of the predicament in front of us. Casey then took his bag from April and slung it on. April also returned the wrist device back to the tall turtle. Well at least everyone had their own gear back now.
"Were you able to get it?" Leo murmured to Donnie as Bishop made his way through his men. Donnie just nodded slightly.
"As entertaining as that was, it did you absolutely no good." Bishop said as he finally made his way next to us, staying well out of the way of bo and katana however. I couldn't help but take a few steps back. That man still terrified me though I did try to hide it. Leo caught on anyway and shifted himself to place himself between us. "All you did was give me some more leverage to get you to cooperate."
"Why on earth do you think that?" Mikey asked him with a half grin. Oh shit...he was up to something...
Bishop looked at him with contempt. "You are stupid aren't you. I have you trapped against the wall. Where exactly do you think you can go?"
"Up." Mikey was grinning now as Cris pulled out her bow and notched an arrow and let fly. It soared up to the ceiling and connected with one of many of Casey's exploding pucks that had somehow made it to the ceiling during the course of the fight. Turtles turned quickly to shield the humans as the room exploded again and again. Bishop and his goons weren't so protectively inclined and they went flying every which way. When it was over the room was filled with smoke and dust and there was a big gaping hole over us letting the night time air flow inside. "Time to go!" Mikey chirped and Casey let the grappling hook fly. Raph didn't even wait for it, he started launching us up and through the hole. I grunted in pain as I landed, I said it before and I'll say it again, the big lug tends to throw a bit to hard when he's excited. I rolled out of the way as Cris came flying up next followed by April. Casey came up next with his arms and legs flapping every which way. He forgot to tuck himself in a roll and landed with a splat on the roof. Idiot.
Then swiftly the guys made their way up to the roof and the chase was on. Well we were out of the building, now we just had to get out of the compound. I somehow had a feeling that was going to be harder than getting in was.