A/N: WE AREN'T FINISHED YET DUCKIES! But at last we have reached the very top of our climactic hill! With a twist here and there to keep it as fresh as I can. Yes, there is a movie reference in here, see if you can find it ;) Enjoy my loves! Review. Review! REVIEW!
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Leo shut his eyes and swallowed, his hand making small circular caresses through her shirt. He wondered if the little ones inside could feel him, if they knew how much he loved them already. "I can't believe you're—"
"Found her!" Donnie called, setting off his small explosive and blowing the door open. Both Leo and Shiho gasped when he was launched backwards by a tiny blur and a squeal. Childlike sobs and cries came from against Donnie's plastron as in his arms cowered Aanika. Both Leo and Shiho hurried to their brother's side where Aanika threw herself onto Leo.
Aanika squirmed until he held her tight and buried her face against his neck. "Daddy came!"
Leo smiled. "Yeah, sweetheart. Daddy came for you."
"Oh shit…Mikey! We gotta bail man!" Raphael shouted. He was being quickly overpowered by a Maddened Micah who had the turtle against the steps on his carapace and held back by Raph's sai. The ninja could see the intense emerald glow intensify in his eyes and those canines growing in their length and thickness as they chomped in his face. Micah bellowed and howled like a ravenous beast, squirming all over Raphael to get a leg up to put an end to his lust for that bone snapping crunch. He hissed from the searing pain from Micah's claws digging into his hands that were fending him off and clutching his sai.
"Help bro! I'm about to be fox kibble!" Raph cried, clenching his teeth as Micah's strength was beginning to wear him down. Like Shiho, Micah was coherent.
"None of you are taking Shiho from me. She belongs with me, and if I have to tear those disgusting infants from her with my bare hands then so be it," He said with a tone so menacing that Raph found himself shuddering. Mikey and Magdalena had been sizing each other up but hadn't actually taken a swing yet. But hearing Raphael struggling forced the ninja turtle to take his eyes of the blonde fox and send his foot flying into the side of Micah's face.
"Go, dude, go!" Micah belted out a wild roar as he fell down the steps, the turtles making a run for the top of the stairs and avoiding Maggie altogether. It surprised them both that she hadn't fought them after all the grief she's given Shiho. They didn't have time to think and just had to focus on getting out, Raph's mind was full of finding Saundra and taking her into his arms where she'd be safe once again.
They burst through the stairway door and shouted at the same time. "Leo! Donnie!"
The genius and leader turtles looked over their shoulders from down the hall. They smiled in relief, Aanika shrieked happily from Leo's arms at the sight of her uncles, essentially unscathed. Shiho was the first to bolt down the hall and throw her arms around both of her brothers, elated to see them.
"Raph! Mike! You're okay, thank God."
Raph chuckled before he got a good look at her when she finally let go. "Woah but you look like you were tossed in the blender, sis. You alright?"
Touching the burning cut on her cheek, the fox shrugged her shoulders and nodded. "I'm fine. What about you guys?"
"Well, I think the hot little blonde is on our side now. But the other dude…well…" Mikey started but faded out when Shiho picked up the sound of heavy footsteps coming out of the stairwell and pushed her brothers out of the line of fire. They both yelped and stumbled backwards as Shiho took the full force of Micah's body slam into the adjacent door, knocking it off its hinges.
"Shiho!" The brothers cried all at once. Aanika squirmed wildly as Leo hurriedly handed her over to Donnie to hold. Inside the bare room the foxes rolled over each other until Shiho used her feet and kicked Micah in the stomach and flung him over her head. He landed flat on his back but recovered quickly, The Madness feeding into his reflexes.
"Leo don't! He's Mad!" Shiho cried as Leo nearly entered the room with his swords drawn. Shiho and Micah circled each other much like he'd seen her do with Saundra, like lions sizing each other up for the fight. "Keep Aanika back, go find my sisters!"
"But-!"
"Leo! Please!" Shiho couldn't take her eyes off Micah. She knew that the second she looked away is when he would attack her and take her down before moving to the rest of her family. As long as his focus was on her, everyone else was safe. Reluctantly…painfully, Leo sheathed his katanas and took off with his brothers to find the last of the hybrids. Shiho's ears burned at the sounds of Aanika's mortified screams of being separated again, but at least she was safe.
"Just you and me, Micah. Like you always wanted." She said, her voice lowered as she continued her circle around the Maddened fox.
"You were supposed to be with me, Shiho. Always with me. And now look at you, tainted and pregnant by that disgusting mutant," Closing her violet eyes and channeling the darkness in her mind, Shiho willingly called upon her Madness with the sense of control that Splinter had been teaching her over the last year. It was with her powerful conscience that she managed to harness the raging lust for bones and the burning fever that spread through her body. When her eyes opened, they were ablaze with the Madness, but this time she was in control.
"Let's dance, Micah," She hissed. The foxes stilled for not more than a second before pouncing at each other with claws out and collided. But Shiho had been inflicted with her Madness for much longer and was thus much more powerful than Micah. She had him pinned in the first roll they made with his face down onto the floor, held down by his hand with his wrists held together behind his back. He writhed and howled mercilessly as Shiho's hand crept down to his neck to sink her nails just into the skin.
"Give up, we aren't even three seconds into this fight and I've already won. I'll snap your neck right now." Shiho chuckled something evil and devious as she licked her chops. Even tough the lust was contained she still felt it there tugging at the back of her mind for just a taste.
"Oh how I long to sink my jaws into your bones, to feel your delicious marrow seethe between my teeth and flow effortlessly down my throat," Her tongue dragged up the back of his neck much like he had done to her earlier and hummed. "Mmmm…Micah I bet you taste exquisite."
Micah wasn't ready to be defeated, not yet. He tossed his head back and collided with Shiho's face as hard as he could and sent her onto her back with her hands over her busted lip and nose. The male fox pulled himself to his feet and launched at his would-be mate once again as she rolled out of his reach and he sent his fist into the floor with a howl. Shiho swore she heard the crunch of his fingers and felt herself slipping with that sound. No. She wasn't going to be the slave to her Madness anymore.
"Come on, Micah. If you want me, come get me," Shiho taunted. Micah spit and clenched his teeth as he charged the female. She smiled and nailed him in the face with her left fist and then her right, stunning him long enough to make him stand still. She then whipped around with a leap and sent the heel of her shoe into the side of his head and knocked him down.
"Shiho! You belong to me!" Micah snarled as he regained his balance. "You always belonged to me and yet you choose that freak and now you carry his spawns."
Micah's blood chilled when he sensed the presence of another behind him and heard the signature unsheathing of Leo's katana. Shiho chuckled when he backed up into the very point, being met by the growl of Shiho's mate. Even Magdalena joined in with the abstract family. Looks like she was switching sides.
"Don't you want to know what Marcus plans to do with you after you finish me?" The glitter in those chemical optics made the Maddened fox freeze. She glanced at Leo, the look on his face was that of worry and panic. But when she smiled and the glow faded, he was overcome with relief.
"Nice to see you found a way to control it."
"Took some practice. Donnie, throw me your Shell Cell." Shiho ordered. Donnie stood confused with a protective arm around Fiona. "Just do it."
"Alright, alright." From his belt, the genius withdrew his phone and tossed it to the female. Catching it in one hand, the vixen pressed a few buttons before flashing a glance up to her clone that stood alone amongst the family.
"Pay attention to what your 'Daddy' wants to do to you, Maggie. Maybe then you'll understand just how utterly insane he is." Shiho pressed one last button before turning up the volume. The blonde vixen came closer with an uneasy stride to listen. Before anything could be heard, the mutants and the hybrids all froze when from behind them a throat cleared.
Shiho hissed. "Marcus!"
"Daddy!" Maggie faltered between her host and creator as the turtles moved aside. Marcus stood in the doorway with his arms folded across his broad chest. Cold blue eyes bore directly into Shiho as a sneer tugged on his thin lips. The vixen rumbled a deep growl in the pit of her chest as he came through the doorway.
"You always were my biggest failure," He said, stopping just in front of her. Leo flinched when he saw the scientist pull his arm back and slapped Shiho across the jaw hard enough to make her yelp and fall. Leo jumped when she fell to her knees.
"Hey! You son of a—"
"I wouldn't come much closer, mutant." Marcus said shortly, Shiho at his feet on her knees holding her jaw. Leo stopped in his tracks, his chest heaving with hard breaths. The scientist chuckled when the turtle obeyed and withdrew a small remote from his lab coat pocket. "See this? It's a detonator. This entire building is wired with powerful explosives in case I needed a way out. You take one more step and I kill us all. Now. Back up, your end will come soon, mutant."
Shiho snarled at the way Marcus spoke to Leo, spoke to him like a diseased dog who wasn't worthy of breath. With the Shell Cell still in her grasp, the vixen cackled and pressed play. Before everyone and Marcus, the recording from her earpiece crackled to life.
"What about Micah and Magdalena?"
The turtles tensed at the sound of Shiho's recorded voice. Marcus broke out into a cold sweat across his forehead. He hadn't the slightest idea that his creation was acting true to fox-like nature; sly and deviously cunning. Both Micah and Magdalena stilled at the sound of their names, flashing glowing glares in the direction of their creator.
"Oh Shiho, you think I'm going to just finish with you and your sisters? No, once all of you are out of the way and those disgusting reptiles are disposed of, Maggie and Micah will no longer be a nuisance. I'll take care of Micah and then end the night with Maggie, taking her apart piece by piece."
Maggie gasped and covered her mouth with her hand to stifle her loud cry, Micah slowly began to sober as the waves of the Madness pulled away from the shores of his mind. The brothers all exchanged glances, they actually felt bad for the two foxes. Shiho smirked, she wasn't done yet.
"This is my favorite part, Marcus. You should really hear yourself." Shiho whispered. Magdalena looked at her host with bewildered eyes.
"You wouldn't believe how annoying she is, I can't stand the girl. Always calling me 'Daddy', but she's much more obedient than you ever were. She's come to the end of her usefulness."
And with that, Shiho ended the recording and tossed the cell back to Donnie. Haunting blue eyes widened as Magdalena slowly turned her head to Marcus, her pretty pink lips curling into a dangerous sneer. Leo lowered his sword once Micah moved away from Shiho and instead advanced Marcus alongside Maggie.
"You…you want to take me apart Daddy?" The two foxes corned him between the walls, their attention completely lost from the turtles and foxes. Leo took his chance and rushed to pick Shiho up to her feet.
"You turned me into this monster only to kill me afterwards?! All to get Shiho? You said that when she came back we'd be mates!" Shiho reunited with her family but kept her eyes on the three in the corner.
"Why? I've been nothing but loyal to you. My entire life. Don't you love me, Daddy?" Magdalena could feel her heart breaking and her trust shattering as her creator growled and held up his detonator for all to see.
"Back up! Both of you! None of you will understand the humiliation I suffered because of that wretched girl," He said, pointing right at Shiho as she clung to Leonardo for dear life.
"Time and time again I failed in all of you. The only solution was to get rid of each and every one of you!" The two foxes jumped back a step when he hovered his thumb over the detonation button. He was absolutely insane! He was more than willing to kill himself if it meant getting rid of all of the turtles and his creations.
"Marcus don't! You'll kill yourself in the process! How can you restart your research when you're dead? Think, Marcus!" Shiho cried.
"Quiet Shiho. I've had enough of you. I want you to just die. All of you. Saundra, Fiona, Magdalena, Micah…and even you Aanika." His steel blue gaze landed on the little fox in Donatello's arms, making the turtle shy her away from his line of sight like the protective uncle that he was.
At the mention of the smallest fox Leo sneered and shielded her from Marcus' view. He'd be damned if anything was going to happen to his little one, he'd sooner perish than let her meet such a fate at such a young age. Shiho's mind raced as she desperately tried to think of a plan. Her family was in dire straights and she had to get them out.
"Daddy…"
"Stop calling me Daddy!" Marcus lost it and pressed the button. Instantly, the building tremored and the turtles and foxes almost lost their footing. Shiho pushed her family out of the blank room, desperate to make sure they all escaped. Leo protested.
"You guys have to go! GO!" She said, shoving them all as a group out.
"Shiho don't! You have to come with us! This building is coming down!" Leo cried. Shiho stood frozen in the space between Leo and the three in the corner. Marcus laughed maniacally from where he stood.
"I told you! I told you I'd get rid of you, all of you! And you, Shiho, you're staying right here with me!" Marcus rose to launch himself at Shiho to pin her down and hold her in place to be destroyed. He wasn't about to die without taking her with him and grabbed her by the wrist. Leo leapt into action and twisted Marcus' wrist to make him let go.
"Oh shut-up Marcus! You're staying right here with me. A good captain always goes down with his ship." Micah snarled and swiped his claws across his creator's face. He pushed Maggie out the door to join the turtles before putting his hands on Shiho's shoulders. Leo flinched at the sight, he nearly lost it all when Shiho actually wrapped her arms around him. What?
"You need to go, Shiho. Your family needs you. If I don't stay, Marcus will come after you." Shiho's chest heaved with hard breaths as she swallowed the painful lump in her chest. Micah was giving himself up to save her.
"No, no. Micah don't do this, come with us and I'll teach you how to control it. Please, Micah. You don't have to die," Was Shiho insane? This guy was literally at her throat five minutes ago and now she wanted him to live, Leo couldn't make heads or tails of his mate. Jealousy flared dangerously within him when Micah ran his hands through her violet bangs and back through the chestnut locks. Shiho affectionately pet the sides of his handsome face with unmistakable tears in her eyes, shaking her head trying to change Micah's mind. "Come with me, Micah. We can fix it, you don't need to do this!"
Micah smiled in way that he never had before; kindly.
"You'll never understand how much I love you, Shiho. I know you've always thought this but I wasn't programmed that way. You're the most beautiful, caring, and radiant woman I've ever been able to know. And if sacrificing myself means that you'll make it out of here alive then that's what I have to do. Our destinies have always been entwined, Shiho….but they never joined…" Leo froze and felt his heart drop into his stomach when the male leaned down and pressed his very human lips against Shiho's, kissing her in a very intimate manner. He could hear his brothers and sisters calling for him, but he couldn't bring his feet to move. Not when Shiho wasn't fighting back.
Watching this exchange stung and put an arrow right through the center of Leo's heart. Only he ever kissed Shiho like that…and there he was. Micah kissed her slowly and deeply, his lips molded with hers in a way that Leo only wished his would. Inside he was screaming for her to push the fox away, to slap him. But she did nothing. He couldn't understand.
"Forgive me for what I've done, I see now why it was that you chose the turtle. He really is the one for you. Have those beautiful babies and make yourself happy. But please…don't forget about me." Again, Shiho feverishly shook her head and pleaded with her eyes.
"Micah—"
"Now go!" Forcibly, he shoved her hard out the door as Marcus reached out again to grab her again. Shiho took one last painful look at Micah and said a silent goodbye before being yanked away by Leo. Down the stairs they flew with their family, all the while Marcus' screams and pleas echoed through the shaking building.
Chunks of ceiling came crashing down all around them as small explosions began to go off, making ready for the big one that would eventually come. The ninjas dodged and jumped over enormous pieces of concrete, avoiding the flying and sparking wires that began to dangle from the broken in ceiling. Magdalena stumbled and fell onto her belly. Mikey screeched to a halt and ran back to pick her up.
"Let's go, Maggie! Party's over!" He said with a smile. She swore her heart flipped in her chest as he held her hand and navigated throughout the quaking lab building. Shiho fought to keep every member of her family in sight before they finally came to the front doors. More explosions rocked the building and Aanika clenched her eyes shut and tried to keep herself from screaming as Donnie held her tight. He wasn't about to drop her and leave her behind.
Saundra was beginning to tire as her lungs burned from inhaling the thick smoke that started to surround them. She coughed and choked as her hand slipped out of Raphael's grasp. He ran a few paces more before realizing his mate wasn't behind him or in his hand. Instantly, he began to panic.
"Saundra? Saundra! Where are you?!" He called, coughing and gagging from breathing in the thick, black air.
The glass doors didn't stand a chance when Leo and Donnie crashed through them and stumbled outside. The genius was regretting the decision to land the helicopter so far away. Fiona followed and then Mikey and at last Maggie. They all started sprinting towards the hidden vehicle before Leo stopped in his tracks, noticing Shiho wasn't there.
"Raph! Raphael we have to go!" Shiho screamed into the black smoke. Her hands desperately searched for her brother, she was absolutely blind. Her grasp found his wrist and she started for the door, jumping through the shattered frame and rolling down the steps to the desert sand below.
"NO! SAUNDRA IS STILL IN THERE!" Raph wailed as Shiho ran with his hand in hers. A few more seconds passed as they ran as fast as they could before the final explosion detonated. The shockwave sent the last two flying, flipping over and over until they landed on their backs in the sand. Leo dashed and picked his mate up, her coughing making him worry. Raphael stood slowly with knocking knees and a terrified expression. Shiho looked around and made sure everyone was there. Everyone except…
"Where's Saundra?" She asked quietly. The red masked turtle sputtered and took a few staggering steps towards the collapsed building. "Raphael…where…is my sister?"
"She…she was right behind me. And…and she let go of my hand. She's still inside—SHIHO WAIT!" The vixen leader sprinted with all of her might back to the now pile of rubble.
"Oh shit." Leo sputtered and ran after her. Shiho launched herself into the hot pile of cement and twisted support beams. Her nails clawed at the chunks, trying to dig her way through to get to wherever Saundra might be. Leo wrapped his hands around her waist and tugged her backwards. "Shiho it's spent! Don't go in there!"
"No, no, no! Saundra! Saundra!" Her cries for her sister were desperate and impetuous in their nature. Shrill and screeching in their sound. Leo tried and pulled as hard as he could but she kept crawling right back into the pile to scrape her nails into the rubble until her nails cracked and bled. "Leo let me go! SAUNDRA!"
Leo grunted against her strength. "Shiho stop!"
Raphael fell in beside Shiho only to be shoved roughly to the side with a growl as Shiho continued to search.
"NO!"He lay on the ground staring up at the nefarious fox. She couldn't be detoured from finding her sister, no, Saundra was part of the small family—the only family Shiho had. She wasn't about to let anyone get their hands on her when she found her, not even Raphael.
"Shiho! I said stop! It's over!" Leo said as he at last yanked his mate off the blazing rubble pile and clutched her tightly to his plastron. Shiho screamed from the pit of her stomach and sobbed painfully. In the emptiness of the desert, her screams were the loudest thing they'd ever heard. Doing his best to comfort his mate, Leo wrapped his arms further around her slender form, tucking her head under his chin and clutching her hair.
"S-…Saundra!" Shiho wailed. Raphael had never felt as numb as he did in that moment as he stared with empty eyes into the flames and pile of rubble. His mate was somewhere in that gnarled mess and he couldn't get to her. Shock was a good word to spell out Raphael's behavior; unmoving and devoid of any emotion.
"Shhh…I know, I know…" Leo chanted, smoothing his hand through her hair as she heaved and borderline hyperventilated.
Around Shiho and Leo the siblings all gathered, Fiona moving to embrace Raphael's arm. He didn't even feel her there; he couldn't see anything except for the fire. He couldn't stop himself from seeing his beautiful Saundra buried under all of that concrete…being crushed and burned. The sisters, even Magdalena, felt a sense of emptiness without their gecko sister. Shiho cried, she cried hard until she felt that she was about to be sick. Her shoulders shook wildly and her frame trembled in Leo's protective hold.
"What's everyone looking so depressed about?"
Instantly, all of the ears on the foxes pricked upward and everyone snapped their heads to the left. Shiho laughed through her sobs, she sounded hysterical in her shock as Saundra came out through a stream of smoke holding her left arm. Her skin was stained black and the ends of her hair were fried but she…she was alive. Shiho picked up a trail of dirt as she ran to her sister and threw her arms tightly around her shoulders.
"SAUNDRA!"
"WOAH!" The sisters toppled backwards and landed in the dirt with a thump. The other hybrids sprinted and joined in a fox pile, even Aanika, all giggling and cooing. "Oh my God get off me! My shoulder's dislocated!"
The brothers all breathed a drawn out sigh of relief now that everyone was out of the building in one piece. But now that it was over, Leo was left to replay in his head Shiho being kissed by Micah. She seemed to sense the perturbed energy radiating from Leo's being, he was seething dismay, envy, and betrayal.
Lifting herself out of the pile of foxes, Shiho took Leo by the hand and pulled him away from the family as they all gathered around each other. Raphael helped Saundra pop her arm back in place only to receive a fist in the arm.
"OW!"
"That HURTS Raph!"
Leo chuckled to himself and turned to see his mate. Already she could see the distress in his beautiful amber eyes and she knew exactly why. He couldn't look at her and focused on the family getting to know Magdalena. She was more than surprised that they were so willing to accept her. With gentle fingers under his chin, Shiho directed his gaze back towards her.
"Leo…look at me. About what happened—"
"You don't need to explain it to me. Clearly, part of you cares about Micah." The defeat in his voice was enough to stomp her heart into the ground. Before he could pull away, Shiho placed one hand against his cheek and moved to lay his hand on her belly. Shiho had to make him understand that he was the one she wanted. That it was simply a kiss.
"Leo, I love you. I didn't know he was going to do that. But—Baby look at me!" Again his head turned away but snapped back with her hands on either side of his face. Her soft palms caressing his cheeks and bringing him back to the time when he first fell in love with her. "Leo, it was a kiss. A goodbye kiss. Nothing like the beautiful kisses you and I share. I will never love anyone as much as I love you. I'm having your babies, Leo. Yours. I'm not about to turn my back on you."
"But you…you didn't pull back. Why?"
"Because Micah was sacrificing his own life to save mine. With all that he did to me, I still owed it to him. Micah is dead because of me, but all of us are safe. Without him, Marcus would have pinned me down and I wouldn't be standing her with you now. These babies inside me wouldn't have had a chance if he didn't stay behind."
Leo swallowed painfully and gripped the fabric of her shirt over her belly. Just inside were his little ones. He hated that Micah had kissed his mate…hated it so much that he felt hideous. But without the fox's sacrifice both Shiho and the babies wouldn't have made it. For that, and that alone, he owed Micah his life. He'd fallen silent for a long time, coming to grips with his inner battle. "Leo?"
"I'm sorry," He whispered, before kissing her hard. Shiho yelped, caught off guard, but instantly relaxed when his arms came around her and squeezed her just enough to not hurt the little ones. Her long lashes fluttered as her eyes came to close. Leo kissed her like he hadn't gotten the chance to do so in a decade; slow and passionate.
"Aww.." Mikey cooed at the sight of his brother and Shiho. The foxes untangled themselves from their pile, Fiona and Saundra leaping into the arms of their turtles. Raph squeezed Saundra tighter than ever and held her close.
"I thought I lost you. Don't ever scare me like that again, Stupid." Mikey and Maggie shuffled their feet, feeling awkward among the couples and avoiding each other's blue-eyed gazes. They all seemed to forgive the fact that Maggie and Shiho were nothing but enemies before today, she marveled at how forgiving they all were.
"So…you kinda saved my life back there, Stud Muffin. Maybe my sisters aren't so crazy after all," She said, clasping her hands behind her back and swaying from side to side next to the orange masked brother.
"Aw shucks, it was nothin'. Oh they're crazy though, turtle crazy!" Mikey began to giggle and guffaw like an idiot when Maggie clutched the top of his plastron and planted a big wet one right on his lips. Mikey saw stars.
"Woah! Far out, dudes!" From their distance, Leo and Shiho chuckled. He knelt down and pushed up the hem of her cotton tee and placed his large hands on her hips. Shiho smiled warmly as he pressed two kisses against her belly button, one for each little life inside. Affectionately, Shiho grazed her hand against his head as he nuzzled the soft skin of her warm tummy.
"Come on, guys! Let's go home!" Shiho called out. Noticing Leo cuddling her little bump, the family remembered and all burst into excited laughter, chasing the pair back to the helicopter to make their way back home. The girls were all a-twitter about Shiho's pregnancy now that they had the chance to gush like girls. They squealed and took turns rubbing the small bump on Shiho's belly, all talking to the growing little babies inside. Even Aanika took a turn talking to them, giving the bump a kiss.
For the first time in a long time they were all safe. No one was coming after them; there was no revenge to be sought, no score to settle. They could all finally be a family once again and live without having to constantly have eyes in the back of their head. Leo felt an enormous weight off his shoulders only to have it replaced with another though it was much less daunting. The idea of Shiho carrying his offspring was mind blowing, especially since he was convinced since the day they fell in love that getting pregnant wasn't even possible. Being a father to Aanika wasn't easy, but he loved doing it. Getting that chance to do so with kids of his own flesh and blood was both exciting and terrifying.
As the helicopter pulled up into the sky, Shiho took a last long look out the window to the smoking and burning pile that was once Marcus' biggest laboratory. She pressed a kiss to two of her fingers and laid them against the window, saying her silent goodbye and thanks to Micah. She'd never forget what he did for her even if he tried killing her just before. It didn't matter, he sacrificed himself so she could live the life that she wanted even if he wasn't in the picture.
"Hey Shiho, come over here!" Mikey called. Shiho giggled and turned her attention away from the destruction and focused on her family. Aanika snuggled happily in her lap, Fiona and Donnie sat together in the cockpit, Saundra and Raphael arm wrestled, and Leo kept an arm protectively over her shoulders.
Never again were any of them being taken away.
All that was left now was to prepare for the quickly approaching future.
A/N: Micah was actually a good guy! D: Noooo. Haha, I'm sorry, I couldn't let someone as gorgeous as Micah go down in flames without some sort of a bang. Hahaha, and how about that Saundra huh? Sneaky sneaky! Didya guess what movie I was referencing with Micah? Huh? HUH?! No? Review this and tell me if you knew. You'll see what inspired me to make Micah a hero. Keep reading duckies!