Author's Note: Hello everybody, and welcome back to TMNT 2k14! I'm glad that I'm back in the swing of writing this again, considering that the holidays are finally over :) So, I left you all on a little cliffhanger, and I plan to recapture that again very soon. I want to thank all of you readers who reviewed, followed and faved this story. I didn't realize how much my writing has made an impact on some of you, and on others inspired. I also didn't realize that many people liked my style of writing. I thank you very much ^_^ (bows). So, without any further delay, let's get back into the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything of TMNT. All rights go to their creators. I only own my OCs.
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Hun stared down at the four lovely ladies in front of him, a large smile planted on his scarred face. He was so ecstatic, his glory was so close he could almost taste the sweetness of his victory. All four girls were here in front of him, their weapons drawn and standing before the large man, ready to attack him head on.
"I've never been more pleased than what I'm seeing before me. Four beautiful ladies ready to come to me, the sweet taste of victory will be forever in my mouth." Hun said in a disgusting matter as he looked at the four girls, his mouth almost watering at the sight of them. He had no idea how much money was on the line at this point, but he just didn't care; it was the thrill of the hunt, being backed into a corner like a caged animal ready to pounce.
"Dude, you're a sick, old man." Eri said as she looked at the large man, her pair of tessen gripped tightly in her hands.
"Now, now, girls. Let's put the toys down, and no one will get hurt." Hun chided as he egged them further on, waiting for that moment where they broke their leashes and charge at him.
"Not happening, you twisted fucktard." Rachel said as she gripped her sais in her hands, her face glowing in madness while trying to keep her composure.
"Now, now ladies. There's no need to fight anymore. Just surrender yourselves and I promise no one will get hurt." Hun tried to convince them as he held his hands out, as if he was resisting the urge to fight them.
"Why should we do that?" Danielle questioned while tilting her head to the side, her bo staff clenched hard in her hand and almost toying with the large man.
"You girls have so much potential, and I would hate for it to go to waste. I am offering you one chance to come with me, and help run this retched city. We can make everyone fall to their knees and obey our orders. No one would ever question our authority, only do as we say. It is your destiny to be in the army of the Foot clan and the Purple Dragons. We are fated for this opportunity together." Hun answered while keeping his cool as best as possible. But on the inside, he was jittery, anxious to see whether these girls would take the bait.
Within the blink of an eye, a shuriken star came flying at Hun, the edge of it grazing his right cheek and implanted into the wall. Hun grunted when he felt the sting of cool steel grazing his skin, and winced slightly before glaring at the ladies before him. He was going to give them a chance and surrender peacefully, but they forced his hand, and now he had no choice but to fight them. It would give him a chance to see if these girls were even worth fighting for.
"Does the phrase, 'go suck a lemon' ring a bell to you?" Lauren said with malice as she glared at him while gripping her weapon.
"Very well, you had your chance, ladies. Now, show me what you got." Hun challenged as he charged at him, his fists clenched and ready to attack them.
Lauren glanced over at Danielle, who silently looked at her sister before nodding her head. She reached into her back pocket, and pulled out a smoke bomb before slamming it onto the floor, releasing a thick cloud of smoke in his eyes.
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April and Madame Blossom looked through the books in front of them, not believing what they were reading. Those beautiful girls, those lovely ladies that they cherished and loved with all their hearts, were the sole project of an evil scheme over fifteen years ago.
"I can't believe it. It just - can't be real." Madame Blossom said as she looked through the contents of the book in her hands, her eyes widening in disbelief.
"I'm sorry, Madame, but it's true. My father, he - he must've walked in when they were beginning the experiments." April said sadly as she looked through the notebooks in front of her, wondering how to make sense of the notes she was reading through.
"They're not picking up their phones. I can't reach any of the girls." Vern said as he got off his cell phone, trying to reach any of the girls.
"They always have their phones on. What the hell is going on down there?!" April answered while raking a hand through her auburn mess of curls, her fingers almost shaking with fear.
"How could this happen? Why did this have to happen?" Madame Blossom muttered, wiping a stray tear from the corner of her eye before breathing in a shaky breath.
"I have to know something. You said you have some business up away from Manhattan a while back, did that have to do with the girls not answering their phones? Does anyone else know about the girls, Madame?" April asked Blossom as she looked across to the older woman.
Madame Blossom said nothing; she knew the price for what she had done, and she knew that she could never seek forgiveness from her nieces.
"DOES ANYONE ELSE KNOW ABOUT THOSE FUCKING GIRLS?!" Vern yelled at Madame Blossom, who looked up at the man with eyes withholding unshed tears.
"I am so sorry, my friends. But I had no choice." Madame said solemnly as she looked down at the notebook.
"Who did you tell about the girls?" April said with venom in her voice, demanding to know who else is hunting the girls. Madame Blossom was silent, which angered April even further. She reached over and grabbed the older woman by the front of her shirt, pulling her out of her seat and as far across the table as she could.
"Listen to me, old hag. If anything happens to those precious girls, I will personally cut your limbs off until you beg me to stop. Now, I'm going to ask you ONE. LAST. TIME. Who did you tell about the girls?" April threatened Blossom while breathing heavily, her anger simmering down slightly.
"I was blackmailed -"
"How convenient. And just who, out of complete convenience, were you blackmailed by?" Vern asked sarcastically.
"The Shredder."
"The who?"
"The Shredder - he is the leader of the Foot clan."
"I'm sorry, but - haha! You mean to tell me, that an old man, who wears a costume of a cheese grater - is the leader of this notorious Foot clan?! I'm sorry, but I'm not buying this." Vern laughed as he doubled over on the back of the chair.
"This is no laughing matter, Mr. Fenwick!" Madame Blossom growled as she glared at the man before returning her gaze to April.
"He blackmailed me to tell him everything I knew about them or he would kill everyone in the city. I had no choice; I told him about the girls from when they were infants in Project Alpha to them now with the turtles, including their whereabouts."
"You told him where they lived?!" April yelled as she glared at the woman before her, not believing that this woman - their aunt!- was the traitor that had done this to her family.
"I'm so sorry. He knows where they are." Madame Blossom said, her voice giving up her brave poker voice, crackling with sadness and grief.
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Rachel grounded her teeth as she collided onto the ground with the steel grating underneath her shoulders. She turned onto her side, and shook off the shock while sitting up. She watched as Lauren and Danielle fought against Hun, their fighting relentless on their enemy. Rachel stood up on shaky legs, and shook her head when she heard a thud on the other side of her; Erica slammed against the wall, grunting and groaning from the impact.
"You bastard!" Rachel growled as she jumped back into the fight, gripping her sais tighter in her hands.
Danielle swung her bo staff nimbly in her hands, catching the large man off guard for a brief second before he caught her weapon in his large hand. She looked shocked, wide eyed as he smirked at her before swinging her around and letting go of her weapon while watching her lithe body slam into the ground. She bit her lip hard to quiet the little scream in her throat before shaking her head, adjusting her glasses back on her nose bridge and getting back into the fight. She may have the least amount of experience, but damn her to hell for not helping her sisters.
Hun was impressed - no!- entranced, by what he was witnessing. These ladies were the prime suspects of his endless search, and were also the fiercest fighters he was told about. He couldn't have asked for a better set of challengers, and here they were, four teenage girls at their finest. He blocked a punch from Rachel on his left, countered a kick from Lauren on his right and ducked a flying shuriken from behind him. This was too much! He was enjoying this, and it was only getting started.
"Yes, yes! Show me more!" Hun laughed as he was whacked in the jaw by a solid punch from Eri, who tried to sneak in a knee jab to the jaw for extra measure. Hun quickly noticed, and tossed the girl in the air, smirking with glee in the excitement he was having with this challenge they brought to him. It was then that Erica, who took the chain from the end of her tessen, and wrapped it around Hun before using her body weight to slam him into the floor, a thunderous slam echoing in the chambers of the dojo.
"Hold him down, Eri!" Rachel growled as she grabbed her sai, and ran as fast as she could to her little sister.
"I'm tryin', dude! He's a lot bigger than we thought!" Eri grunted as she pulled the chains tighter around him, her arms shaking violently from the strain of keeping him tied down. Danielle landed a blow to his upper back with her bo staff, then pressing the end of her staff to a pressure point in his spine.
"Dani, don't let up from your pressure point." Lauren ordered as she grabbed the hilt of her ninjato and placed the tip of her blade to the large man's throat, silencing his struggles against the youngest's chains.
Just as Lauren was about to interrogate the man, she heard louder footsteps coming in front of her. She craned her head up to see the Shredder, his metallic armored body glowing in the back lighting of the hole. The aku of the man in front of them silenced all the fighting in the dojo, and left everyone breathless.
"Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME?!" Rachel yelled as she looked at the enemy above them, her hands gripping tighter across the hilts of her weapons.
"You girls have caused me enough grief! You will belong to me!" Shredder growled as he charged at them, his body mass too much to take in at once. He body slammed Lauren across the dojo, round housing a kick to Danielle and sending her off the platform of the circle. The Shredder punched Rachel in the face, and gripped Erica's hair before flinging her across the room like she was a rag doll.
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Splinter shook his head from side to side, shaking off the spell of dizziness before seeing Shimizu on the ground, not far from him unconscious. He crawled over to her, his black eyes not leaving her beautiful white form, worried that she was gravely injured. He shook her shoulder, coaxing the elder white rodent from her daze as well. Shimizu blinked the bleariness from her eyes, shaking her head slower before glancing up at Splinter, who smiled at her.
"Are you alright, iitoshi?" Splinter asked as he began to help her up from the floor.
"Hai." Shimizu answered as she held her hands in Splinter's large paws before returning their focus onto the inner circle of the dojo, their fears coming into full swing when they saw the Shredder inside their home. And even worse, he was picking apart the girls before them, antagonizing their pain even further than what they were used to.
Both Shimizu and Splinter looked at one another, nodded in silent agreement, and dashed into the fray of the madness in the dojo.
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Vern was trying to keep his patience together, but his blood was boiling over the average as he tried to weave through the traffic that was blocked between now and their destination. April was in the passenger seat while Madame Blossom was tied with heavy cable wire to make sure she wouldn't try anything reckless.
"Vern, are you trying to get us killed?!" April shouted as she clung to her seat belt, praying that they would get there in time.
"Hang on, April! We're taking a short cut!" Vern yelled as he jerked the steering wheel hard to the left, the tires of the van squealing loudly in protest with the road beneath them.
Oh, they prayed that they would make it in time.
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Leonardo punched a Foot soldier in the jaw, sending him down to the floor by the computer desk. He breathed heavily as he turned around to peer into the opening of the dojo, his heart hammering hard inside his chest. He saw the Shredder; what made the situation even worse was who the Shredder was fighting against - his sensei, Shimizu as well as Lauren and her sisters. His Lauren, his midnight lily. He wouldn't let her be touched by foul hands, and he wouldn't let her fight alone against their enemy.
"Lauren!" Leo yelled as he dashed across the room, his katana gripped in both hands. He dashed over to the main entrance of the dojo, before being ambushed by Foot soldiers and Purple Dragons. They had metal electric prongs in their hands, and began to shock Leonardo. He grunted as he felt the electrical prongs bare into his skin, pulsing harshly with painful after painful shock. He fell to the ground, curling himself slightly to avoid the painful prongs stinging into his skin, but it was little to no avail.
"Donnie!" Leo yelled for his purple banded brother, who was closer to him and dealing with his own set of problem.
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Donatello twirled his bo staff swiftly and deftly in his hands, blocking and ricocheting the darts and bullets away from him. He heard Leonardo's cry for help not far from his right, and he knew that he had to be quick before getting to his brother's aid.
"Hang on, Leo! Be right there!" Donnie yelled as he spun his bo staff in his nimble fingers, whacking all enemies standing in his way.
Donnie slammed his bo staff as hard as he could into a Purple Dragon's side, sending the man into the wall before rushing over to Leo's aide and knocking all the soldiers away from Leo. He knelt down and slowly helped his oldest brother up from the floor, aftershocks rushing through his body.
"You alright?" Donnie asked as he helped Leo up from the floor.
"Yeah, I'm good. We need to get to the girls." Leo answered as he picked up his katana swords and rushed over to help Mikey and Raph with their enemies.
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Shredder punched Rachel in the jaw, sending the girl to her side and clutching her jaw, praying that it wasn't broken. She gripped one of her sai in her hand, struggling to get up from the ground until she felt a heavy foot on top of her spine, pressing down and grinding her into the steel grating beneath her.
"You are foolish to fight against me. You will belong to me!" Shredder growled as he ground his boot into Rachel's back, feeling her struggle against him and crying out from her clenched teeth.
"Get off my sister, asshole!" Erica yelled as she swung her tessen into his side, but was too slow. He caught her weapon in his hand, and back handed her across the cheek, sending the youngest into the steel grating as well.
"You are all weak." Shredder growled while lifting Rachel up in the air with his foot, and kicking the girl across the room.
"ENOUGH! Your fight is with me!" Shimizu yelled as she got Shredder's attention, staring down her enemy with her battle hardened eyes.
Shredder was pleased - he finally was able to fight the master of these girls. But hadn't encountered that she was a rodent as well as Splinter. But no matter, he was going to retrieve these lovely ladies at all costs.
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Lauren struggled to get up, feeling pain shooting through her ribs and upper body. She looked on to see her mother as well as Splinter fight Shredder by themselves, and it was useless for her to sit there and do nothing. She needed to get back into the fight, and she needed to defend her honor as well as protect her family and her love.
She grabbed her ninjato, and raised herself to her feet, watching her mother be tossed and kicked around like a ragdoll. Lauren gripped her side, and dashed over to the entrance of the dojo, feeling the pain shooting through her sides like sharp needles.
"SENSEI!" Lauren yelled as she tried to reach her mother, seeing the elder white rodent crawling on the floor while Splinter tried to fend off Shredder.
"My daughter, stay back!" Shimizu yelled as she pulled a lever that caused gates from above to come crashing down around the dojo, leaving each of the daughters in a different section surrounding the dojo.
Lauren slammed her body into the gate before her, her blade colliding with the heavy metal before her. She threw her blade down and tried to pry it open with her hands, but it was useless. She felt a large hand, and turned to see the large blonde haired man behind her with a sick grin on his scarred face.
"You're coming with me." Hun growled as he grabbed Lauren while she grabbed her ninjato to attack him. He wrapped his large hand around her wrist, applying pressure into her dainty wrist, forcing the oldest daughter to release her weapon and watch it fall to the ground.
"Let go of me!" Lauren yelled as she tried to wrestle herself out of his grip, but was useless as he threw her into the gate, forcing the girl's head to collide against the metal and fall to the ground, her limp body unconscious.
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Danielle blocked a blow from a Purple Dragon and bashed him across the face before hearing the gate behind her fall to the ground, blocking her way to her mother. Her teal eyes widened behind her glasses, and panic began to boil up inside her chest.
"MOTHER!" Danielle yelled as she ran over to the gate while bashing her bo staff against it, praying that it would open up for her. But it was only wishful thinking, and she could do nothing but watch on as her mother and Splinter fought against the Shredder. She heard running from either side of her and saw both Rachel and Erica run to help their sister pry the gate open.
"Mom! Damnit! What are you doing?!" Rachel yelled as their mother crawled over to the gate, pulling her heavy body up and facing her beloved daughters, knowing that they were in danger if they stayed here.
"Run. Hide! Save yourselves!" Shimizu yelled as she glanced at her daughters, struggling to stand while feeling pain shooting throughout her body. The white rodent had little time to react before Shredder came up behind her and pulling her away from the gate, and slamming her down into the steel grate.
Rachel yelled as she gripped the gate beneath her hands, and struggled to lift it up. Erica and Danielle knew what their sister was thinking and immediately set in to help lift the gate before them. The three younger sisters were so obsessed with getting to their mother that they had no idea of Hun appearing behind them, cracking his knuckles with a sick, twisted smile on his face.
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Raphael and Michelangelo had taken down the last of the Purple Dragons and the Foot soldiers when Leonardo and Donatello arrived to help them out. The brothers were all together, battered and bruised but still kicking.
"You guys alright?" Leo asked as he noticed the cuts on Raph's forearms and the few gashes across Mikey's cheeks.
"Yeah, we're good." Raph answered as he rolled his shoulders.
"Guys, our girls need us!" Mikey yelled as they heard a few screams coming from the entrance of the dojo, and all four brothers ran as fast as they could to get to their sensei as well as to their girls.
As the four turtles came to a complete stop at the mouth of the dojo, their nightmares had come to life. The Shredder held both Master Splinter and Shimizu in each hand, their limp bodies dangling in the air like lifeless dolls. Hun smirked as he held all four girls kneeling before him, chains in one hand and glowing like a cat that had caught its kill. The girls looked up at them, eyes sparkling with unshed tears and metal collars around their necks, struggling to get out of them. Hun yanked the chains in his hand, and all four girls were clutching at their necks, begging for the pressure to stop.
"Children, drop your weapons, or your . . father, will die." Shredder commanded as the four turtles gripped onto their weapons and were debating as to what to do.
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Lauren looked upon Leonardo, their eyes meeting while he contemplated what to do. She should have seen it coming, but she was too much of a coward to do anything. And now, knowing that she was in this predicament, she had hoped Leo would do the right thing and not chance the risk of losing his father in the process of saving them.
Leonardo looked at Lauren, and then looked at his father, who held his eyes to his sons. It was a tough decision, and he knew that no matter which choice he made, it would not end well.
He sighed through his nostrils, and slowly let go of his katanas, letting the swords clatter onto the concrete floor. The other brothers looked on in shock, knowing what this meant to each of them. Leo nodded his head, signaling for his brothers to do the same as he had demonstrated. Raphael growled in this throat, but once he looked at Rachel, he knew he had little room to argue. Grinding his teeth together, he threw his precious sais down, the tooth pick in his mouth barely able to stay in one piece. Donatello looked at Danielle, her teal eyes ready to let loose the tears, but knew that he had to do it for her. He let go of his bo staff, while Michelangelo threw his nunchaks down on the ground, knowing that they couldn't do much.
The Shredder looked, and knew that he had them right where he wanted them. He threw Shimizu across the room, and released a blade from his knuckles, stabbing Splinter in the chest before throwing him onto the floor. The turtles screamed in horror, not believing that their father was dead, and knew that the Shredder had crossed the point of no return. Shredder looked on in glee, his victory tasted so delicious. He signaled Hun for the order, and before the turtles could do anything in retaliation, the gate in front of them closed with an echoing thud, locking the turtles from their human lovers.
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Hun grabbed the chain links in his hand, and pulled on them hard, forcing the girls to clutch at their collars before standing up on their feet. The girls yanked as hard as they could against their collars, but to no avail, they were being dragged away from their beloved turtles, who struggled to lift the gate up.
"We have what we came for." Shredder growled as he looked upon the four sisters, knowing that he had won.
"Yes, Master Shredder." Hun growled out while keeping a firm grip on the chain links in his hand.
"Destroy this place." Shredder ordered as he and Hun turned around to escape from their blown up entrance.
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The girls looked on as they knew that they meant to blow the place up. They looked back at their beloved turtles, who struggled to open the gate, but realized that it was rigged to blow up if it was opened. Each sister struggled to go back to their boys as well as their mother, who lay helplessly on the other side of the dojo.
"No, no, no! NO! RAPH! RAPHAEL!" Rachel yelled she struggled to get out of her restraints, the metal collar digging into her throat while trying to get to Raphael.
"Mikey! MIKEY! MICHELANGELO!" Erica yelled as she clawed against her collar, crying out her turtle dude's name.
"Donnie! DONATELLO!" Danielle screamed, hot tears carelessly streaming down her cheeks.
"Leo! LEO! LEONARDO!" Lauren's screams bounced off the walls, trying her best to get out of the chained restraints on her.
The sisters were gone, their shadows the only thing to remember by as they were gone from their second home,the names of their turtle lovers echoing throughout the lair's walls.
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The turtles struggled but managed to get the gate open, running as fast as they could to the opening above them to get their girls back. But before they got any further in the dojo, a loud beeping sound echoed throughout the walls. All four looked up and realized that the gate was rigged with an explosive, counting down from five seconds.
"GET DOWN!" Leonardo yelled as the four brothers tried to take cover from the impending explosion.
3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
BOOM!
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Author's Note: Cliffhanger time! Hello, my darlings! I'm sorry for the late update, but this chapter had me going on and off the last few weeks. I've finally managed to get it done -fist pump- and I hope you guys enjoy it very much. Reviews are always welcomed, and I will see you in the next chapter :)
