: Chapter 14:
"HUN?!"
"Oh boy. This is awkward." I heard Mikey say from behind me.
He was right. Seeing Hun ALIVE in front of me was causing my whole body to go stiff. I couldn't' even move my lungs and keep myself breathing anymore. I kept the table leg firm in my grasp but I could feel my grip loosening as Hun stared me down through his bloodshot eyes. His hair was short and fell to the bottom of his forehead. A large, white bandage was also wrapped around his head with blood starting to seep through it.
"But…They had you're head! How are yah still alive?!"
Hun, completely ignoring me, raised his fists in the air and brought them down on the floor. Had I not jumped away, I would have been flattened instantly. "Hun, the hell are yah doin?! It's me, Raphael!" I repeatedly yelled to him but he wasn't responding. It was like he couldn't even hear me. "Don't yah remember me?!"
He swung his fist around and landed it on my side. He slammed me up against another steel door that bent from the impact. I fell to the ground and spit blood from my mouth.
"Alright." Now I was pissed.
"ARGH!" I saw his hand coming around again in the corner of my eye. This time, I used the leg and hit his arm as hard as I could with it. It shattered down to a stub but left Hun with a bloody appendage. He grabbed it and staggered backwards, shrieking out of pain.
"What should we do?" It was Leo's voice, calm and collected. Nice of him to join us.
"Just stay outta it! Get out of here!" I used my arm to motion them to leave before Hun got back up.
"No way! We're not leaving you!"
"Why not?! This aint you're fight!"
"Because brothers don't leave each other to die!" He declared.
I took my eyes off Hun and looked at Leonardo. He looked different then the last time I saw him (days ago). He looked exhausted and weak. Had I not recently found out he was my brother, I would have used this opportunity to get even with him.
"Say what now?" Mike asked with a high pitched, girl tone.
"Don, Mikey, meet the turtle who is apparently our long lost brother." He pulled out two katana from behind his shell.
"For real?!" Mike looked thrilled and gave me a huge smile.
"Fight now, reunion later, ok?" Don pointed to Hun who was getting up off the ground.
"Is that Hun?" Leo asked while walking up next to me.
"I'm just as surprised as you are. I thought he was dead."
"Don't you know you can't kill Hun?" Mike stepped in line with us.
"I don't know. He aint respondin to me. He should remember me so…" I froze mid-sentence and rethought it in my head. Hun doesn't remember me. "….God damnit." Now I was even more paralyzed.
"What?" Don looked over at me.
"Zeeke threatened to wipe my memory to destroy The Dragons and implant only things that would benefit them. You think…Hun…"
"We can worry about it later, dudes." Mike swallowed hard. "Sleepy beauty wants to play again."
I snapped out of it and forced my body to react to my orders. "Well then let's put this beauty back to rest." I threw away the stub and clenched my fists.
"Dude, rule number one, leave the cool sayings to me, ok?" He winked nonchalantly.
I rolled my eyes and then landed them on Hun. I hadn't realized how badly I'd cut him with that damn leg. Blood was spattered all over the walls and his skin had gone from California tan to Antarctic white. He didn't waste any time. When he saw us, he started running down the hallway in an attempt to smash right through the line we had made. The hallway we were in was too small, however, and we all couldn't jump out of the way in time to dodge his massive frame. I went under his legs, Leo went over his shoulders but Don and Mike ended up getting their shells pinned up against the walls by fists the size of celling fans.
"Do you always have to get them outta trouble?" I asked Leo while watching the two of them struggle to break free.
"What are leaders for?" He jumped up onto Hun's back and sheathed his swords. Just when I was about to question his stupidity, he used his small hands to grasp a small piece of skin below Hun's wrist. The giant's grip on the turtles suddenly loosened and they dropped to the ground, unharmed.
"Thanks Bro." They both said at the same time. Now it was Leo riding on Hun's back as he tried to maneuver his huge arms around his neck and to the spot where he was being ridden. Leo pulled out one of his swords and smashed the butt of it up against the back of Hun's neck, making him drop to the floor with his eyes closed. When Leo graciously landed on the floor in front of us, I'm sure I looked like an idiot to him with my mouth hanging open.
"What the hell was that?" I was slightly jealous of the minor amount of hard work it took for him to take Hun down.
"Pressure points. I could show you sometime."
"Perhaps another time." Don had some strange watch on his wrist that was projecting an image to him. "We got security heading inbound by the north side. We have to get out of here."
No chiz Sherlock.
"Come on. I know the way out." I said instead of throwing a smartass remark at him.
"How do you know the way out?" The brainiac questioned me with an unnecessary amount of sass, making my blood slightly boil.
"Well I sure wasn't blindfolded when they brought me in here." I tilted my neck to the side until a satisfying cracking sound came from it. "This way." I walked over to Hun's fallen body and stepped over it.
"I like him." I heard Mike say. "I can't believe we actually have another brother!"
"Not until I run blood tests." Don growled. I could tell him and I weren't ganna get along very well for some reason. Then again, I might not get along very well with any of these guys for that matter.
Mike caught up to me just as we made a left turn out of the holding cells and into a larger, silver hallway. As soon as we were there, Leo demanded we went faster after Don said another group of men was coming from an eastward direction. Not long after that, sirens began to sound and a robot sounding woman's voice projected overhead saying that the whole building was going on lockdown due to escaped prisoners. It was nice to mention we were armed and dangerous as well. Armed, no, dangerous, yes (me anyway).
"April, we need a way out and fast! There's nowhere to hide." Don sounded frustrated. I didn't bother to check how he was communicating with that April chick but I decided to let him worry about that and just focus on getting the hell outta here.
"That's exactly what they want, Donnie boy!" Mike was just having the time of his life, jumping around and frolicking through the halls.
"Get your head straight, Michelangelo!" Leo warned him from behind us. "We're outnumbered if we get caught!"
"Yeah but who can take three ninjas and a…" Mike looked at me and frowned. "…drug dealer?"
"No."
"Thug?"
"No." I growled.
"I got it." He shaped his fingers around my face. "Vigilante!"
"Move it!" I grabbed his carapace and pulled him out of the line of an arrow. It planted itself in the wall behind us and left a cracked mark all around it. As if that wasn't enough, it exploded a few moments later, making us run as fast as we could down the hall, straight for an enemy we couldn't even see.
"Any day now, April!" Don yelled. I had no idea how he was running as fast as he was with the huge bag he had slung over his shoulder. "April said the only door that isn't looked is the front entrance!"
"Why would they leave the front entrance open?!" Mike kept looking back to the hole in the wall.
"They're corralling us! We need another way out!" Leo bellowed.
"Where's Siri when you need her!" Mike whined.
I tried to get my good for nothing brain to think as we ran. "Take a right!" I grabbed Mike's arm and threw him down the next hallway. He rolled several times on his back before finally coming to a stop. Man that felt good.
"How did you guys get in?" We took a minute to catch our breath.
"Through the air vents but we came in through an opening on the 11th floor from the outside." Leo talked like I had just asked a really dumb question.
"So why can't it be our way out?"
"You wanna drop 11 floors to your death?!" Mike squealed. "We detached our grappling hooks and threw them before we came in."
"Then how did yah expect to get out?!" I was outraged. Hadn't they thought this through before they got here?! I had to cut them a break though. They didn't have to come rescue me at all.
"We were hoping to steal a card key from one of the workers and get out through the back exit. Since the buildings on LOCKDOWN and I don't have access to the motherboard, it's out of the question." Don stood up straight and played with his watch thingy. "April, please, check again."
"You shouldn't have come for me."
"Don't tell us what we should and should not have done for you. You're lucky as hell that we did." Leo shot me an ugly look of disgust. "We're here now and we're going to get through this and if we have to fight, we fight together." I could tell he was still skeptical with me. I could tell by the way he was standing that he was ready to take me out if I tried anything. Getting them to trust me, and trying to trust them was going to take years of perfection.
I dropped his gaze and focused my attention to Michelangelo who was strolling around the hallway with his arms behind his back. There was no way I was related to this idiot.
"Ooh! Is this like a laundry chute? The Foot does laundry?" Mike pulled a handle that opened something out of the wall. "Hey, I think there's something down there."
"Mike, get away from that." Leo ordered him.
Just when he was about to pull his head out, something loud fell down the chute and made metal on metal sounds until it faded in the distance.
"NO! CHUKY NUMERO UNO!" I couldn't believe my eyes when that fool tried to reach and grab whatever fell, making him loose his grip with the floor and fall straight down in.
"MIKEY!" We all screamed. The three of us ran over to the chute and pulled it open.
"MIKEY!" Leo yelled. "What is he thinking?!"
"Wait a minute…" Don's watch made high pitched sounds as he toyed around with it. "Hey, this leads right to the dumpster out back!"
"So, Mikey found an exit?" I asked.
"Mikey…found an exit." Leo confirmed. "Don, you go first."
The purple masked turtle hesitated and glared at Leo and I with apprehensive eyes. "What if he tries something?" He cocked his head at me.
"He won't. He remembers what happened last time." Leo put his hands on his waist and slightly grinned at me. I moved my jaw around and gave Don a fake smile.
"Yah. I remember" and gestured to the chute. "After you."
He crossed his arms over his chest and remained unmoved. "No."
"They went this way!" Voices were echoing through the hallway we had just escaped from.
"God Speed, Donatello." I grabbed the handle of the chute and literally threw Donatello through it. I was half expecting Leo to punch me for doing it but he didn't. After that, he told me to go. I didn't waste any time and jumped through. The cascade was big enough for me to slide through but my arms rubbed up against the hard, metal siding and gave my skin a horrible burning sensation the whole entire way.
After what seemed like hours, I was suddenly flushed with a burst of cold air and the smell of what seemed like rotting flesh. There were various human trashes all around me and some disgusting green slime that I just put my hand in.
"If you EVER touch me again I'm going to decapitate your organs from your body and…AND…" Don looked like he wanted to hit me but didn't. Instead, he grabbed my arm and threw me out of the dumpster. I managed to catch myself before slamming face first into a brick wall.
"Hehe." Mike snickered but looked away when I turned and hissed at him.
Moments later, we all expected Leonardo to drop through the chute, but he didn't.
"Where's Leo?! What did you do?!" Don was on me like a wild dog. Even though we was slightly shorter then I was, he had me up against the wall with no problem. Still, if I fought back, that would be a different story.
"Why yah blamin me?! I came down right after you did! I wouldn't have had any time to do anything to him!"
"I bet you hurt him so the Foot could take him!"
"Donnie, chill out man!" Mike grabbed the back of his brother's shell and pulled him off me. The olive skinned turtle paced back and forth with his hands fully covering his face.
"What's his problem?" I asked Mikey.
"Beats me. He was never like this until you came along."
"Leo!" Don called up the chute. I felt guilty for going down before he did when we knew the Foot was close behind us. It will probably be my fault if he gets captured by them too. "We have to go back!"
"We can't, Bro! Leo would want us to get back to the lair!"
"We can't leave him! He's our brother!"
"Don's right." I agreed. "I'm not leaving until he's with us." I knew for sure it was Leonardo's idea to come and rescue me. What a nice way to repay him back by leaving him behind.
"We're ganna get caught!" Mike's happy attitude flipped sides and now he joined Don in a worried state.
"We'll wait a few more minutes and if he aint down, I'll go back up." I offered. Right when I ended my sentence, a heap of green came falling down into the trash.
"Leo!" Don jumped in and pulled him out. I almost recoiled back at what I saw. The Foot must have gotten ahold of him. "What happened?"
"Go, now!" He pointed to a manhole cover. Mike quickly pulled it off and jumped down but appeared moments later to help lower Leo down inside. Carefully, the two of them managed to get him down the stairs without dropping anything. I heard them step into the water as they made it to the bottom.
I just stood there and stared at the dark hole. I didn't know if I was invited to join them or not considering the odds.
"Hey, yah comin vigilante?" Mike said. I almost protested but when I heard something coming down the chute, I quickly jumped down and pulled the cover over top of me, awakening the darkness.
Thanks for all the reviews! I'm starting to fall behind with my stories because I have a lot going on. I'm getting a job, getting ready for Prom and yadda yadda. I'm going to take maybe 3 days to get as many chapters written as I can and then I'll start uploading again. Trying to do 2 stories at one time was NOT a good idea on my part. NEVER DO IT.