Tmnt: Family

Chapter 14

Elizabeth approached the dark, gloomy building that she was all too familiar with, she stopped before entering and gave out a long breath that she didn't know she was holding. She had to go in it was the only way things were going to change and she wanted to put the last couple of weeks behind her and move on. Liz just wanted to be with Leo and the others in the lair again where things were peaceful or almost peaceful if it wasn't for Mikey. She also thought about her relationship with the fearless leader of the four and how he said he would die for her, even if it wasn't in normal circumstances. Lizzie broke her train of thought quickly and entered through the door as soon as she was in the door slammed shut behind her she was surrounded by foot bots, she remembered what Donnie had told her previously on their way there, don't show emotion, Liz stood still staring straight forward waiting for something to happen. This time she did not let herself lose her thoughts she had to remain a zombie and she knew that the foot would test that. After a couple of minutes waiting he finally appeared from the shadows. But before he spoke up Liz noticed that he examined her, probably looking for any signs that she might have changed back however Liz kept her cool she didn't follow any of his movements and when he was done she kneeled before him which she tried to fight because she would never willingly do so.

"How did you escape the turtles?" He questioned

"It was them that that didn't escape me, master" she smirked

"Excellent and splinter?"'shredder asked

"He got away but in time he will come to us"

Shredder waved his arm and the foot bots eased themselves and walked away. Lizzie stood and followed shredder to his throne room where he sat high. He asked Liz to stand beside him as his best asset. Of course as an obedient zombie she had to obey her so called master. As shredder summoned Karai Lizzie remembered to make sure that she kept her focus forward as to not draw any attention or bust herself for that matter. Karai kneeled before shredder and took notice of Liz standing like a drone next to him. She grew angry at that, it was her rightful spot next her father and now it was taken by the next best thing, someone more skilled and powerful than her.

"You summoned me father"

"Yes Karai, I want you to take the foot bots out and scout the city for splinter. Capture him and bring him to me" shredder frowned deeply as he saw his plan unfolding

"Yes master" Karai stood and began heading towards the door when she finally decided to speak up.

"With respect, why not send her out there?"

Shredder disliked Karai questioning his authority and made it clear by his expression that he was losing his patience with her.

"Elizabeth accomplished her mission to destroy the turtles even as your plan failed. It's high time you proved yourself to me"

Karai obeyed him and knew that if she argued she would pay for it whether she was his daughter or not. She left the room frustrated with the new arrival that seems to have replaced her. Once shredder had summoned everyone he wanted and gave them missions he asked Elizabeth to remain in the throne room while he went to deal with other important business. Obviously something he didn't want Lizzie seeing even if he did think she was under his control. He strode towards the giant double doors his heavy footsteps echoed throughout the room and seemed to shake it from side to side. Before the large tin man could reach the doors his path was blocked by Leo and Raph and his retreat was blocked by Donnie and Mikey. All four turtles had their weapons out ready and were about to strike, not giving shredder too much time to gather his thoughts. Lizzie suddenly saw the guys spring in to action.

Leo swung his katana at shredder but was deflected by the sharp blades on his wrist, Mikey span his nunchucks and hit shredder on his back but was easily kicked away at which point Liz had descended the stairs and was now tending to Mikey who was finding hard to get back up. Raph quickly charged in to help Leo, his sais clashed with Leo's katana when shredder saw Raph coming and pushed Leo off, just as Donnie span his bo staff and attacked shredders legs knocking him to the floor but when Raph recovered and jumping in to the air and lunged his leg out to land on shredder he had swiftly rolled away and jolted up to catch Michelangelo's attack. But before he could counter attack Mikey, Leo did a 360 degree swing of his leg which then hit shredder in the chest and pushed him back slightly letting mikey's chucks go and pushing him back too. Donnie released the blade he put in the end of his weapon and began to stab at the evil overlord but it did not have much effect on the armour and on the third stab shredder caught the blade in his own and twist his wrist around which effectively snapped Donatello's. Raph then used his strength to his advantage and used his fists to keep pushing shredder back but he was only evading the attacks and when shredder saw the two youngest turtles running towards him again he let Raph fall in to his grasp and used his weight to swing the hot head in to the other two. Three turtles were down and had bruises all over them, only Leo remained. His swords were pointed at the control freak who circled him waiting for the reptile to attack first but Leo was waiting for him to do that too. Lizzie had Raph, don and Mikey at her feet and could not encourage them to get up so she was about to draw out her own katana, that she had been trying to translate the inscriptions on, and join the fight but Leo shook his head at her so she waited.

Leonardo was losing his breath every time he attached and evaded, although he seemed to be taking a hit all the time. His body was also covered in bruises but he was not going to give up he had to try, he had to weaken shredder before Lizzie could invade his mind but it was proving to be more difficult than previously anticipated. Leo began struggling to keep up and when he tried to evade he fell to the floor and shredder struck him. The brave turtles didn't scream but grunt as there was two large,deep cuts in his left arm and leg. Blood then seeped out of the wounds, Leo put both hands on them to stop the bleeding but it wasn't working. Liz had had enough of watching, it was time for her to spring in to action. She saw that shredder was about to strike Leo again and quickly drew her sword and jumped beside ran to Leo's side and held the katana up defensively catching shredders attack and blocking it. By this time Raph, Mikey and Don had managed to get up but saw that their weapons were to far away and Leo was badly injured as blood poured out of his arm and leg. Raph saw Lizzie fighting shredder and weapon or not ran in to help her charged into shredder like a rhino would taking the tin can down as well as himself.

Before Raph could find the strength to get up he received a large amount of kicks from a fast recovering shredder but this was stopped by Mikey who tried landing a couple of punched which didn't seem to work and so received a great bang to his head which made him unconscious. The foot leader was about to return to beating up Raph but was intercepted by Lizzie again with her kicks and punches that did seem to have some effect. Raph took the distraction to crawl to Donnie who was tending to Leo but he did not have the equipment to do any effective help to their injuries.

"You okay Raph?" He asked

"Finding it hard to breath and my legs really hurt" Was his reply

"I need to stitch Leo's wounds soon otherwise he'll lose too Much blood, Mikey's head is bleeding and I'm finding it hard to move my arms without them hurting"

"So everything's just peachy then" exaggerated Raph

"Need to help Lizzie" whispered Leo

"No Leo, you can't you're too hurt just like the rest of us. We need to retreat" suggested Don

"How do we do that with an unconscious Mikey, almost unconscious Leo and us who can barely walk" asked Raph

Their conversation was interrupted by the sound of murmurs from Liz as she bravely fought shredder.

"You thought you could trick me?"

"No I did trick you"

That, of course, ticked him off as she was telling the truth. He swung his wrist blades at her and she skilfully blocked them with her own katana but even she was no match for him as he did land a couple of cuts on her which she did evade slightly not allowing him to do any serious damage. As Liz cartwheeled away from an attack she took a quick glimpse of the others and they all barley looked like they were awake, but most of all it pained her to see Leo in so much pain and his arm and leg gushing out a fair amount of blood. She was in deep thought and totally forgot about her fight but was suddenly reminded when a sharp blade slit her skin around her stomach. She put her hand there and then withdrew it and saw blood coming out. She didn't have time to treat it as she saw another attack coming and put her sword up to block it and then smack it away from her. As she continued to fight she kept her other hand on her wound to put pressure on it but saw that it only weakened her. What she really needed was more power and then she remembered the ancient inscriptions, she did not finish translating them before all of this had happened so she was going to have to try and remember the book she bought and do it quickly in her head.

Her telepathy was helping as it helped to recall the book and use her own knowledge but she was finding it extremely difficult to attack shredder at the same time. She did however manage to cut him s few times but it seemed useless, she was fighting a master of ninjutsu ad she was still just a student. It was then that she thought that the shredder must have some knowledge and so tapped in to his head which did distract his slightly but it still did not stop him from delivering hard attacks or blocking hers. But as she managed to punch him in the face and he fell backwards a few steps she finally managed to say what she had been studying for long time.

Lizzie saw shredder running towards her, lifting his wrist blades up and and then bringing them down with such force but before he could touch her she lifted her katana in to the air and shouted as loud as she could closing her eyes as she did.

"Koketsu ni irazunba koji wo ezu!"

Immediately the inscriptions glowed a light cyan colour as well as the sharp end of the blade. She opened her eyes and swung down and hit the wrist blades and on contact his wearable weapons shattered in to pieces. He tried to stop running but when this happened and stopped behind Liz but she wasn't finished as she sensed him directly behind her and before he could find another weapons she swung her blade around as she turned, her brown hair twisting along as it followed her movements, until her katana was implanted in to his side and he was on the floor with blooding flowing quickly out of him. She withdrew her katana and placed it back in its sheath on her back but before she left him to go to the guys she kicked him plenty of times to make sure he was weak and had some bruises too. When she was sure he had had enough she retreated to where Don sat with Leo and Raph and now Mikey who Don managed to drag over to them and placed one of their leather straps around his head, she kneeled beside them.

"You guys alright?"

"We need to get out of here, before anyone comes" suggested Donnie

Liz looked around and saw that the only good way out would be the way she came in as they were injured and two of them were unconscious so jumping on rooftops was probably a bad idea.

"Let's get outta here" she exclaimed

As Raph managed to get up with Don he reached down and carefully placed Leo over his shoulder, Don doing the same with Mikey. As they slowly made their way to the doors Lizzie took the opportunity when she saw shredder was permanently down to invade his mind. She concentrated really hard and knew that it was having a big he began yelling and grunting in agonising pain, she knew she could now keep doing it while she escaped nut as she was about to exit with the others Karai entered along with tigerclaw and before they could start attacking them she invaded their minds too. Instantly they both fell to the floor in pain and the way was then clear to escape.

Only a couple of foot bots were blocking their path out but a couple of well thrown shurikens took care of them. Once outside the five of them wasted no time in getting down a manhole cover and running straight to the lair, the night was dark and no one was in sight so they wouldn't have been seen. As they slipped down the manhole with great difficulty seeing as two of them were unconscious Raph noticed that Lizzie was still focused and then it clicked to him that even though they were a good distance away she was still invading their minds.

"Liz you can realise them now"

She only looked at Raphael in reply and knew that he was right and so she did and felt s lot better seeing as it was tarting to give her a headache. Once they eventually got to the lair they immediately went to Donnie's lab, Leo and Mikey were placed on a small mattress on the floor carefully by then master splinter has heard them and came rushing in to help them. He had brought some fresh water and clean cloths and towels to clean their wounds with. Lizzie didn't waste time in taking away the temporary bandage from Leo's arm and leg made from their leather straps and applying pressure while she cleaned it and wrapped them up properly but she knew that Leo would need stitches as he took quite a hit. It was late and everyone was tired so Donatello made sure that everyone's wounds were wrapped up nicely but he was concerned for Leo and decided that he would stitch his wound rather than wait till morning to do it, Lizzie assisted while Raph had decided that he needed a lot of sleep. It did take a while but the stitches were placed nicely and then was wrapped in a bandage again.

"Donatello and Elizabeth go get some rest you both need it, it will watch over Leonardo and Michaelangelo" said splinter

Liz and Don did not protest as they were both exhausted and would probably rave about their victory in the morning when they were feeling better and so did as told.

"Liz what did you chant to activate the katanas power?" He asked sleepily

" Koketsu ni irazunba koji wo ezu?"

"Yeah what does it mean?"

"It means if you do not enter the Tigers cave, you will not catch its cub"

Don gave her a puzzled look which she only laughed at.

"It literally means nothing ventured then nothing gained. You can't do anything without risking something"

"I don't get it"

"You'd think out of anyone you would understand" Liz yawned "I'll tell you tomorrow when I'm well rested"

With that said they both retreated to their rooms however Liz did not go to her room she went to Leo's and slept in there as she loved his scent and had missed it the entire time she was under shredders control. It gave her peace of mind and allowed her to fall asleep a lot better.

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