Shadow

By, ElvenShadows and MeddowFlower

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Chapter 21:

Leonardo shot me a puzzled look. "Sarra?"

I nodded as I laughed at their shocked faces. Donatello shook his head some before speaking. "But, how…?"

I shrugged. "Dad said I needed a hobby."

Michelangelo smiled, "Whoa! Good job, Master Splinter!"

Raphael smirked as he straightened my mask, "You look good." I smiled back up at him.

The other three turtles shifted uncomfortably and Leonardo stepped forward and held our shoulders. "Now's not the time. We have to find whoever it is that has been hunting us down."

I turned to him. "I know who it is."

Raphael seemed most concerned. "You've seen Cybernetic?"

I folded the tessens back and placed them in my belt as I spoke. "He tried to interrogate me. He's worried that you are after his technology and want to stop his business."

Donatello thought this over. "He must have been watching when we interrupted the trade with the Purple Dragons."

Raphael began getting impatient, "Well, let's go drop in on him." He gripped the katana harder.

I nodded and followed after the turtles. We found the stairwell leading up to the next floor. Donatello opened the door slowly and stepped out with caution. When he saw there were no suited men he motioned for us to follow. We did our best to remain quiet as we walked down the well light hallway. There really is no stealthy way to move through a hallway. Donatello and Leonardo were the front, Michelangelo and Raphael were in the middle and I brought up the back, but I didn't mind. It was just nice to finally be able to join them. My thoughts were cut short by a small gasp behind me. I turned to see a thin suited man behind us. He reached up to activate the camera function on his headset, but I ran at him and caught his arm before he could. He struggled and aimed to punch me with his other hand. I ducked and used his momentum to flip him. When his lower half hit the ground I pushed his face to the wall and took one of my tessens from my belt, using the end of the still folded metal fan to crush his headset and knock him out. I stood and stepped over the body. The four turtles stared at me in shock. I continued in the direction we had been walking and pointed down the hallway. "Come on."

Donatello sounded from behind me, "That was brilliant!"

I heard a small thud and Raphael growling, "Back off."

We were beginning to think that we had been moving in the wrong direction. We hadn't passed any doors or windows of any sort and the hallways were completely silent. Not even a visible camera was placed in our path. That is, until we heard loud clanking in the distance. We quickened our pace some to try and find the source. As we went further through the hallway the noises grew louder and louder until I came to a large window on the left. I stopped and held out my arms so that the turtles wouldn't run out in front of the window and be seen. It stretched out for about six feet before there was a door and a sudden dead end. I looked through the window first there were no people in sight, just a factory. I stepped out in front of the window and the turtles followed after me. We stared in amazement as we watched massive machines lining conveyor belts building the strange laser guns. There were several different machines producing different sized guns. But suddenly, a man wearing factory safe clothing stepped into view. He turned and saw us through the window and pushed the button on the side of his own head set. He locked his sight on us and held the earpiece as he spoke words we couldn't hear. Donatello shook his head, "He's calling for back up!"

Leonardo charged to the door and forced it open. We all ran after him but found ourselves being separated by more of the suited men. Raphael growled in aggravation, "How many of these guys work for this Cyber-Dork!"

No one found themselves able to answer him through our struggle with fighting them off. One of the men pulled out a small laser gun from his jacket and ran at me. I remembered Donatello talking about these one-shot guns and waited for him to grow closer. When I noticed another man approaching from behind, unarmed, I flipped behind him at the last moment, using him as a human shield from the laser fired by the other man. When my shield fell, I pulled my tessens from my belt and sliced through the first man's head set. He fell forwards into one of the machines. I turned to find another armed man. I released the tessens, letting them hang from the strap around my wrists, and grabbed hold of the man's hands. I struggled to aim his gun away from the turtles. I finally managed to wrestle his aim towards the ceiling as he fired the gun. The laser hit the base of a light and it fell onto a conveyor belt of unfinished guns. The spark from the shattered light bulb reacted to the exposed wires in the open laser guns and set off an explosion. The conveyor belt soon caught flame and I dashed away from the man and towards the turtles.

Raphael finished off one of the men he was fighting and turned to see the fire. "What did you do!"

I grabbed his hand and ran with him away from it. "We need to leave!" The flames spread to other open guns and more explosions began happening down the conveyor belt. Michelangelo soon came running after us. Leonardo looked up in time to see the large flames taking the back end of the room, and us running for our lives.

He rolled his eyes and pointed to a door with a stair well sign hanging from it. "This way!"

Leonardo turned and ran towards the door as well. Before I had made it to the stairwell, I hooked arms with Donatello who was standing and watching the explosive reaction. "Take notes later!"

I stumbled up the stairs and began coughing into my arm. The smell of the burning fuel was too strong to handle. Leonardo stayed back to make sure we all made it up the stairs. The others began to cough too as we eventually made it into fresh air at the top. When Leonardo finished climbing the stairs, Michelangelo pulled the door at the top shut. He turned and pointed to me, "Remind me to never give you a gun."

I swatted his hand away with a smile and followed after Raphael and Leonardo who had already started their way through the next hallway. The upper level of the building was considerably nicer than the last. Instead of metal surrounding us on every side, we found ourselves walking on carpet. The walls were still made of metal, but the hanging light fixtures diverted from it. We passed several doors and windows, hoping that we wouldn't be seen again. Suddenly, Raphael paused at one of the windows and grunted, "Yes!" under his breath as he dropped Leonardo's katana. Raphael kicked open the door connected to the room the window looked into. We watched as he snatched his shell cell and Sais from a table in the far corner. He held them as if he had found gold, "Aw, I missed you guys."

Leonardo picked up his katana and glare at Raphael, "You could be a bit more respectful."

Raphael stepped out of the room and around Leonardo without a second look, "Yeah, I could."

I smiled and walked beside him. Raphael held his sais to his side as we walked. He looked down at me and grinned a bit. "I guess I was wrong when I said you can't take care of yourself."

I smiled. "I still need help every now and then."

"Oh really?" He stared ahead of himself with satisfaction.

"Well," I shrugged. "I wouldn't be here without you."

We smiled at each other and were a bit startled when chaotic gagging, coughing, and "Eww!"s came from behind. We turned as Leonardo and Donatello passed in front of us. Leonardo smirked at Raphael, "Save it for later."

Michelangelo came up behind us and walked between us. He slung his arms over our shoulders. "Find a room!"

Raphael ducked out from under his arm and pushed him forward. "If I find a room, it will be to lock you in, Mikey!"

I giggled a bit. So they aren't any different while on patrol.

But our fun was cut short when we rounded a corner and found two large suited men standing on either side of a wide doorway. They were already staring our direction and lifted their guns when we were in view. We all dodged the flying lasers with difficulty. Leonardo managed to knock the first man's gun from his hands and I picked it up as I ran towards the second. He fired at me, and I tossed the gun up to block it. There was a similar explosion to the one downstairs but only enough to startle the man. Raphael used this distraction to make his way around him and jab one of his sais up through his head set.

When both men were down, were stood silently in front of the wide doors. Finally, Raphael stepped forward and flung the door open. We all stepped inside the dark room. The doors swung themselves shut and I turned quickly. I wiggled the handles, but they were now locked. I turned to face the one light in the room. It shown over a large marble covered desk which sat in front of a holographic screen. Most of the camera views on the screen where black, but a few still lingered. Against the screen a body was silhouetted, but we couldn't see more than the shape.

Leonardo stepped forward, "Are you Cybernetic?"

The silhouette sat motionless, but a voice echoed to us, "Yes,"

Raphael stepped forward as well. "Come out of the shadows and fight! That's what you want, isn't it?"

The silhouette moved forward and stood. The slightly digital voice echoed to us again. "So impatient," The silhouette leaned into the light above the desk, exposing his mechanical arm and half mechanical face. He smiled to us, seeing our fear.

Michelangelo leaned towards me and whispered in my ear. "You didn't say he was a cyborg!"

I whispered back impatiently, "I thought you could figure it out by his name."

Cybernetic stepped around his desk slowly, "What if I told you, Turtle that I did not wish to fight."

Raphael was aggravated. He flinched his Sais as he spoke. "Then you're afraid." Leonardo grabbed his arm in attempts to calm him.

Cybernetic paused and gripped his hands behind his back. "Oh, I'm not intimidated in the least. But you see, because of my condition I would not be able to fight." He placed his normal hand on the left side of his chest. "Only one human lung and a pace maker causes great difficulties in excess movement." Cybernetic stepped closer to us. The way he moved and spoke was almost gentlemen-like. He still smiled. "I could try my hand at shooting one of you, but that only make a mess." He aimed his red cyber eye at my throat. But it turned back to blue and small clicking sounds came from it as he zoomed in and examined my face. "Oh, Sarra. So nice to see you again."

My heart sank deep into my stomach at the sound of my name. He knew my name. How long had he been watching us? The turtles were also angered by this and all prepared themselves to fight. Raphael turned around and held his sai up to Cybernetic's throat. "You leave her alone."

Cybernetic gazed down at him and pushed the blade away with a finger from his mechanical hand. "Oh I will," He then turned and walked back towards his desk.

Even Donatello grew impatient with him. He spoke up from the back of the group, "Why are you stalling for time?"

Cybernetic now stood in front of his screen and turned to look at us, "Stalling? Oh no, Turtle. I have all the time in the world. Perhaps if I had more motivation to rescue my products I would have killed you by now, but you see…" He pointed up to a small image on the screen. He reached up and enlarged it to reveal a live image of the fire I had caused downstairs. "You have created the perfect explosive reaction to wipe out all evidence of this incident." He sat in his chair and rested his hands on his desk. "Including all living evidence." My heart began pounding, realizing what he meant. I looked to the turtles in hopes they had an idea, but no one spoke. They slowly lowered their weapons.

Leonardo shook his head, "You would die with us."

Cybernetic nodded, "A wonderful observation. A definite risk, one I'm willing to take for the sake of my industry. But seeing as how you are less willing I have decided to make a deal with you." He leaned forward. "If you are able to escape this building within the approximate three minutes until its demise, then I will not stop you." He pushed a button on his desk and the two large doors swung open, revealing a smoke filed corridor.

We all flinched towards the door but paused. Raphael still stood frozen in anger that there would be no fight. "You would just let us go?"

Cybernetic's smile finally faded as he spoke softly. "I am perfectly willing to negotiate for three more minutes."

Leonardo put his katanas away and grabbed Raphael's arm, "No, let's go." Raphael turned away after a moment of hesitation and we all ran out of the room, desperately trying to find our way of escape.

We ran down the hallway in the opposite direction from where we had come. We knew going back down the stairs and into the flaming factory was no use. As we ran deeper and deeper into the hallway we eventually came to a split.

We stood in the middle, hearts racing. Donatello pointed towards the hallway to the left. "The smoke thinned out this way, it must be longer!"

It was a good enough excuse for us. I ran full speed. I knew I was faster than the turtles and that I may be able to find a way out quicker. I ran ahead and kept my eye out for any form of escape. Every turn I made the same words rang through my head, "No window. No window. No window. No window!" What building has no windows? But finally a large vent on the wall caught my attention. I pressed my face to it. The dingy smell of salt water lingered in over the heavy smoke. I stepped back and began kicking the vent. The metal began bending in but the screws still held it to the wall. When the turtles rounded the corner, they all began helping. Eventually we landed a good enough blow that the vent mouth fell off and exposed the silver duct lining, and it did exactly what we wanted, aimed down.

Leonardo stuck his head through the hole, "It leads outside! We have to get the duct disconnected from the wall!"

I grabbed Donatello's bow staff and used all of my strength to jam it into the duct side. There was a small tearing sound. Donatello snatched his staff back and did the same. The duct tunnel fell from its position and we smiled at the view to outside. Leonardo shoved me towards the wall first. "You're the smallest. Go!" I climbed out the hole, blacklegs first. I dropped my body weight and hung from the hole. The two floor drop down looked much further than I was sure that it was. I took a deep breath and let go of the edge of the hole. I landed on my feet and hands in a squatting position and stood. My knees hurt, but it was nothing major.

I saw the flames and smoke leaking out from the other side of the building and I shouted up to the turtles, "HURRY!" I couldn't imagine what would be keeping them. I managed to fit through the hole fine but… My eyes grew wide. Their shells would never fit. I watched in horror as no movement was visible from the outside. I shook my head, "No…"

I turned away to try and calm myself, but heard a loud clanking. I turned back to see the turtles

using the gun that one of the men outside Cybernetic's door had. They had managed to melt a larger are beside the vent hole that they could maneuver through. The right side of the building made a loud cracking noise, and I knew the three minutes were up. "JUMP NOW!"

They leapt from the hole as quickly as possible and landed much easier than I had. When all four were down, the building began popping and moaning. Donatello turned and began running as he shouted, "FIND COVER!"

We all turned and headed for the black vans that dotted the area. The turtles made it there first as I struggled to run. My knees were giving out after landing that fall. Raphael stood beside a van motioning for me to come. When he saw I was hurt he ran towards me in hopes that he might make it to me. But I heard the explosion behind me and decided it was no use running. I dropped to the ground and covered my head as the cloud of heat coated me. I kept my eyes closed tight in preparation for anything. After the gust of wind had finished, I could hear the crackling and falling of debris, but none fell on me. I opened my eyes and slightly uncurled myself to find Raphael on his hands and knees over me. I gasped and lay flat on my stomach as I turned to look at his face. He sat back on his knees and pushed a large board of wood off his shell. He winced in pain, finding his leg wound again when he sat. I sat up and tried to help him stand but neither of us could make it to our feet so we just sat there in the wreckage and looked at each other with pain filled expressions. I removed my belt sash and used it to wrap around his leg. He winced and shook his head, "Don't do that-"

"Oh, shut up." I interrupted him. He sat in silence, surprised at my frustration. When I had tied it I looked up at him, my once neat bun now hanging in a tangled mess around my face. "You're stupid, you know that?"

He smiled. "Yeah," I sat on my knees best I could and hugged him. Donatello and Michelangelo ran over and helped Raphael to his feet while Leonardo was forced to carry me. It took us a while to make it back to the Battle Shell and even more so to make it home.

When we stepped out of the elevator, each of us found the first soft place we could and fell onto it, forgetting about Cybernetic immediately. He was gone. It was over. Master Splinter walked quietly from the kitchen and dropped hi cup of tea at the sight of us, "Good heavens!"

I looked up to Raphael who had fallen on the couch beside me and held his hand. "Is every day going to be like that with you?"

He smiled and chuckled. He glanced down at me, "We'll see."

***ElvenShadows: And so it ends. T^T

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