WARNING: Contains scenes of torture which some readers may find distressing.
Also, some elements in this chapter refer to my other fics 'Fury Within Her' 'Return of the Darkness Within' and Tyroth's fic 'A Sister's Plight'
Chapter Thirty-Five
Abandon All Hope!
Back at the boathouse, Jake leaned back as Cobra leaned towards him hissing and he felt her sharp nails cut through the buttons on his shirt like butter.
"What the fuck are you doing?" he asked dreading the answer.
"Nothing much." Cobra hissed "I just plan to soften you up a bit before the others get here! And I am curious to why you're hanging with that freak rat!"
"Forget it snake!" Jake spat "I'll tell you nothing!"
"Oh you'll sing a different tune soon boy!" Cobra snarled flicking out her tongue "I'm going to make you sing for me!"
Nile Monitor smirked and folded his arms.
"We have ways of making you talk!" he said "As do our Masters! Especially our Dr Arden!"
Cobra ran her clawed hands over Jake's face and gripped his chin tightly.
"Look at me boy!" she said as Venom dripped from her mouth and landed on Jake's bare skin since his chest was exposed.
Jake winced as he felt Cobra's venom drip on him, almost like nettle juice, hot oil and acid mixed together.
"What the fuck?" he gasped and Cobra smirked making more venom drip on him.
"Impressive huh?" she asked as she straddled his legs and pushed his head back so his throat was exposed and she dripped more venom on his chest.
"I call it, Loki and the Snake!" she laughed and started to lick his chest making him cry out more in pain.
Nile Monitor shuffled a little as he watched Cobra torturing Jake.
"Oh yeah girl!" he said almost aroused "You do that!"
"Shit!" Jake gasped as he tried to take the pain "What is this? What are you?"
"Stop talking boy!" Cobra hissed "Just keep screaming for me!"
She drooled more venom on Jake's chest and neck making Jake yell more and Nile Monitor continued to laugh as well as moan slightly in pleasure at the scene before him.
As that was happening, Callum started to come to and he opened his eyes to the smell of the rotten boathouse and also to the cries and yells of his older brother.
Shaking his head, he looked over to see Jake being tortured by Cobra.
"The hell?" he said then tried to move yet he soon realised he was tied up and helpless "Hey! Get your ugly face off him!"
Nile Monitor turned to Callum and smirked.
"Looks like the other one is awake!" he hissed to which Cobra looked over and her grin got wider.
"Cal!" Jake looked over at his younger brother, relieved that he was alive but worried of what the Venomous reptiles would do to him now they saw he was awake.
Cobra licked Jake one more time making him wince then got off his knees before sauntering over to Callum.
"Hey! Leave him alone!" Jake shouted at Cobra yet she walked over and grabbed Callum's face making him look at her.
Jake it his lip in worry then winced at the pains on his neck and chest before looking down and seeing blisters and burns forming on his skin from where Cobra had drooled on him.
"Ugly hmm?" Cobra hissed "You think I'm ugly?"
Callum glared at Cobra.
"Ugly as Fuck!" he said "Even your own mama would be repulsed!"
Cobra glared then opened her mouth to drool venom.
"Bring it bitch!" Callum still shouted "If I wasn't tied up, I'll knock all your teeth out!"
"Cal!" Jake shouted "Shut up!"
"Oh really hmm?" Cobra asked as a wicked thought formed in her head "You'll knock my teeth out hmmm?"
"Yeah! I would!" Callum said, then spat in Cobra's face making her recoil.
"Arrgghh!" The snake wiped her face "Disgusting Human!"
"You should talk!" Callum growled "You're a Spitting Cobra!"
Cobra glared then took out a kuni knife.
Jake and Callum were horrified as she lifted the knife as if intending to finish Callum off, but before either man could say anything, she brought the knife down and cut Callum's cords!
Jake's eyes widened in shock.
"If you say you can take me." Cobra said "I'll give you a sporting chance!"
Nile Monitor smirked.
"This better be good." he said "I hope the others get here soon."
Seeing he was no longer tied up, Jake stood from his chair and held up his fists.
"You're gonna wish you hadn't kidnapped us!" he snarled "I'll break your teeth and your neck!"
Cobra just laughed as she got into a fighting stance.
"You think you're a fighter boy?" she asked "Messing with a mutant Cobra? And one who has been trained by the Foot Clan? And also have super advanced strength and healing?"
"I can still take you!" Callum glowered.
Jake watched helplessly from his chair as he saw Cobra and Callum stare each other down.
"Callum! You stupid fool!" he grunted over the pain on his neck and chest "Please don't do anything stupid!"
Callum stared at the Golden Cobra and kept his fists up, in the years since his sister disappeared, he had gotten into fights and had almost won them all, but he was facing a mutant snake, not a school bully, thug or gangster and he wasn't sure what Cobra was going to throw at him.
"Well?" asked Cobra "Are you going to attack me? Or Just stare at me?"
Callum gritted his teeth and stepped towards Cobra before striking at her, but she grabbed his wrist and struck back getting him in the face and making him stumble back.
Nile Monitor smirked as Callum stumbled back and Jake gulped in worry.
But Callum was resilient and he went for Cobra again trying to punch her, but each time he did, Cobra would grab his wrist and punch him back.
"Is that all you got?" Callum asked, still unwilling to stand down.
Back at the lair, the turtles and Mona stood in horrified shock.
"Splinter, My brothers!" Mona muttered as she thought of what must have happened. Her shock soon turned to anger and she took out her fans before spinning them.
"We have to go and find them!" she said.
"But we don't even know where to look!" Michelangelo said "They could be anywhere! We don't even know if the Purple Dragons or the Foot have them!"
"And it'll take forever to search one of the biggest cities in the world for them!" Raphael added.
"I lost my brothers once!" Mona snarled "And I won't loose them again! I'll do whatever it takes to get them back! And Sensei too!"
"If only we had Jack!" Donatello lamented as he thought of the Mutopian mutant wolf and second in command to the Chicago Knights "He'd be able to smell them out!"
"Well he's not here is he?!" Raphael growled "And even if we did call him and the others for help, it'll be too late!"
"Well then what do we do!?" asked Michelangelo before turning to Donatello "You're the brains here Don! Think of something!"
"I'm trying!" Donatello spat "But since I got no way of tracking them what can I do?"
"Shut up!" Leonardo shouted making the younger turtles and Mona jump in shock and look at him.
Leonardo sighed in exasperation.
"Thank you!" he groaned, he then sat on the floor and got into the lotus position.
"Leo?" Raphael raised an eyebrow.
Mona watched her adopted older brother then she remembered.
"Of course!" she recalled when he used this mediation technique when he was looking for her attackers, and when he was searching for Pandora when the little mutant was lost in the sewers not long before Kemeko came into their lives.
The other turtles soon caught on what was happening and they stood back to give Leonardo some space.
"Please find them Leo." Mona mouthed.
Leonardo took a few deep breaths and relaxed as he closed his eyes, he tried to clear his mind as he tried to focus on his sensei, wherever he was, he hoped he would find him and get clues on where he and the Freeman Brothers were being held.
"Let me find you Sensei." he thought desperately "Please be okay."
Back in the Boathouse, as Cobra and Callum fought, or rather, as Cobra was toying with Callum, Jake pulled at his cords.
"Callum." he spoke softly as he watched "If you have any common sense, get out of here while you still can! Get out of here! Save yourself!"
He winced as Cobra hit Callum again, still showing she had the upper hand and could easily subdue him if she wished, yet she continued to play around with him.
"She's trying to make you loose energy!" Jake muttered "Get out of here! Escape before the others get here! Find Mona! And the Turtles!"
He swallowed hard and continued to watch, he was finding it hard to observe his little brother fighting and getting his arse handed to him and Callum not having the sense or the will to stand down.
After Cobra hit Callum again making him stumble Jake could stand it no longer and he shouted over to his younger brother.
"Cal!" he yelled as Cobra pulled back getting the attention of both of them "You idiot! Quit it! She's just playing with you! Get out of here!"
Callum glared at his brother.
"Stop distracting me!" he shouted back.
"For fucks sake Thick-Head!" Jake screamed "Stop trying to take that Spitter down and go and get help!"
"He told you to shut up boy!" Cobra hissed "And if you don't listen to him I'll rip that tongue right out your..."
She didn't finish that sentence as Callum had found a bit of wood and he used it to whack Cobra across the face making her cry out and stumble over.
"Yes!" Callum said triumphantly as the Spitter went down.
"Cobra you moron!" Nile Monitor growled then looked at Callum before flexing his claws.
"Run Callum!" Jake shouted "Go! Go!"
Callum looked at Jake hesitantly and gripped the wet plank.
"Go and get help!" Jake shouted "Just go!"
Callum glared and looked at Nile Monitor who stepped towards him and Cobra got up shaking off stars. He then looked around and he saw the door to the boathouse then started to run towards it.
Jake nodded triumphantly.
"Go and get help!" He shouted "Don't look back! Just run!"
"You idiot!" Nile Monitor stepped towards Callum who leapt for the door but before Callum could touch the door, it opened and Black Mamba, Komodo Dragon and Gila Monster appeared!
Callum cried out in shock and Black Mamba was slightly surprised seeing Callum there, but she smirked and pointed her clawed hand at him before striking him in the face making him fall backwards.
"No!" Jake shouted "Shit! Bollocks!"
"Perfect timing you three!" Nile Monitor said "That little twerp almost escaped, thanks to Cobra!"
"I meant for him to run!" Cobra protested as she stood up "I was gonna chase him around the dockyard! It's not like he can escape easily from here!"
"Yeah! Sure right (!) Of course you did (!)" Nile Monitor muttered before walking over and picking Callum up by the leg and holding him upside down!
"Hey! Put me down you creep!" Callum shouted.
"Shut up!" Nile Monitor growled giving Callum a shake.
"I see you have Hostages." Komodo Dragon hissed "Yet, why?"
"Because they were with the real prize!" Nile Monitor pointed behind him and at Splinter tied to the cross and still unconscious.
"The rat!" Gila Monster growled "Hmmmm! This looks promising!"
"We found them with the rat and with Hun's body!" Cobra explained "The four-eyed dork!" she pointed at Jake who was staring in horror and disgust at the other Venomous Five who looked at him "He killed Hun! Then killed most of our ninja!"
"Really?" Komodo Dragon exclaimed "That little nerd is Hun's killer?"
Nile Monitor nodded.
"Sounds pretty ironic that Hun wasn't killed by a rival gang, or the turtles themselves but rather, a meek little man!" Gila Monster hissed.
Jake glared at them.
"I'm not meek!" he snarled.
"I see you've rough him up a bit Cobra!" Komodo Dragon smirked "Has he spoken at all about any of our other enemies."
"No." Cobra hissed as she sauntered over to Jake again and opened her mouth "But I plan to make him sing more!"
Jake froze with fear.
"Oh no," he thought "Not again!"
"I can help with that!" Nile Monitor said as he looked at Callum and an evil though crossed his mind as he walked to the side of the boathouse where the boats would be tied up, yet because it was abandoned, it was just a port of water littered with rubbish, debris and rats.
Cobra sat on Jake's lap and straddled him then grabbed his head and forced him to look at Nile Monitor as he held Callum by the ankle over the water.
Komodo Dragon, Gila Monster and Black Mamba smirked as they stood to the side and watched.
Callum then realised what they were going to do and thrashed around trying to kick and claw at Nile Monitor but the large lizard held him at arms length before lowering him down and dunking him head first into the filthy water!
"Callum!" Jake shouted as he pulled at his bonds yet he screamed as he felt Cobra's venom drip on him.
Nile Monitor held Callum in the water for a few seconds then pulled him up again coughing and spluttering.
"Callum!" Jake shouted and Callum shook his head as he tried to get himself free yet Nile Monitor held onto his ankle tightly.
"He's like a fish!" Black Mamba laughed nastily.
"Yeah!" Gila Monster agreed "A Fish on a Hook!"
"Yet this fish breathes air!" Nile Monster cackled then dunked him back in the water.
"Leave him alone!" Jake shouted as he watched his brother struggle trying to pull himself out of the water yet each time he did, Nile Monitor pushed him further in.
"Stop it!" Jake yelled "Leave my brother alone!"
Cobra hissed and pulled Jake face so he was looking at her.
"You want us to stop?" she asked "Fine! We'll stop!"
As she spoke, Nile Monitor lifted Callum out of the water.
"But first!" Cobra growled "You tell us where the Ninja Turtles and that Lizard slut are!"
"Never!" Jake growled.
"Fine!" Cobra said and Nile Monitor dropped Callum back in the water.
"No!" Jake shouted.
"Then tell us where the turtles and Mona are!" Cobra demanded "And We'll stop drowning you brother!"
Nile Monitor pulled Callum out again but was ready to drop him back in.
"I don't know where the lair is!" Jake said.
"Lies!" Cobra hissed.
"No! I swear!" Jake said "I can't remember! I don't know the way there!"
It was true, he didn't know the sewers very well to remember where the lair was, so even if he did tell them, he couldn't lead them to it, but it wasn't helping due to the fact his younger brother's life was on the line.
Cobra glowered but before she could do or say anything, she felt a vibration against her leg.
Jake also felt it and his heart lurched.
Cobra raised and eyebrow then reached into Jake's pocket and pulled out his phone.
Nile Monitor kept Callum held up and the other Venomous Five watched Cobra in curiosity.
"I see someone's calling you hmm?" the Cobra smirked as she held up the phone and looked at the screen showing it to be an unknown number.
"I wonder whose calling you?" she was about to press receive, but the phone stopped ringing much to her anger.
She tried to call the number back but it wouldn't let her, but before she could think to throw the phone down she saw the voice-mail come up.
Jake's eyes widened as Cobra accepted the voice-mail and they soon heard Mona's voice:
"Shit! Jake? Where the hell are you? Please, pick up if you can? Are Splinter and Callum with you?"
"Sis!" Jake gasped but cursed as he realised what he had said. He then looked at Cobra whose smirk got wider.
"So...you have some connection to the lizard slut?" she asked.
The other Venomous Five smirked as they heard Cobra speak.
"So the Lizard has human brothers hmm?" asked Black Mamba "Oh boy, the Masters are gonna love this!"
Jake glared.
"Fuck you!" he replied which earned him a slap across the face.
"Big mistake Boy!" Cobra hissed "Or should I say...Jake! You just gave away that the Lizard Slut is your sister!"
"And Callum over there." Cobra continued "Now I know you're names and connections to the turtles, their vermin sensei and the Lizard whore without having to use more torture to loosen your tongues."
"My sister is no whore! Nor slut!" Jake spat "She'll kick your ugly butts back to yesterday!"
"You really think so?" asked Black Mamba folding her arms "Doubt it!"
As she spoke, the boathouse doors opened and the Venomous Five grinned sadistically as they saw the Shredder enter, followed by Izo Arashi and Dr Arden.
The Shredder was in his full armour and wearing his helmet where his red eyes glowed through the eyeholes.
Izo Arashi was wearing his Black Foot robes as well as carrying his katana swords and Dr Arden was wearing a Foot Ninja jumpsuit along with his white lab coat and his face was covered with prosthetics hiding his deformed acid burns.
Jake's blood ran cold as soon as he saw the three men and remembered what Mona had told him.
"Shit..." he whispered.
"Venomous Five." Shredder hissed dangerously removing his helmet to which the Five Reptiles bowed to him in respect "I see you have Hostages."
"That we have Master." Komodo Dragon said "Nile Monitor and Cobra found them with Hun's corpse, along with the Rat!"
He gestured to Splinter who had started to wake up.
"And he's regaining consciousness!" Black Mamba smirked "Perfect timing!"
Shredder smirked as he looked at Splinter who blinked several times as well as try to move but realised he was bound tightly.
"Who killed Hun?" Arashi demanded to which the Venomous Five pointed at Jake.
"Him!?" Arashi exclaimed in surprise "That boy?"
"I'm no boy!" Jake spat.
"Shut up!" Cobra hissed.
"And he shot some of our ninja!" Nile Monitor added.
"I will deal with that boy later!" Shredder growled as he looked at Jake "Along with the other one! But first..." he turned to Splinter and held up his blade on his hand.
"What...where am I?" Splinter coughed as he blinked several times and sniffed the air which made him feel ill, he then saw the Venomous Five, and the Freeman Brothers. Jake tied up with Cobra straddling him and Callum still being hung upside down in Nile Monitor's grip.
But what made the rat's blood run cold was Shredder, Izo Arashi and Dr Arden as they walked over to him.
"Shredder!" he gasped in horror.
"Hello rat!" Shredder smirked as he lifted his blades and held them up under Splinter's chin "I never thought I'd be faced with you tied up and ready for me to finish you!"
Splinter glared at the evil man and bared his teeth.
"It's interesting to see you have two new human allies." Shredder mused "Yet what is your connection with them?"
"I can answer that Master!" Cobra smirked as she held up Jake's Cell-Phone and played the voice message to him.
Arashi, Dr Arden and Shredder instantly recognised Mona's voice and Dr Adern smirked so wide his prosthetics wrinkled especially when Cobra revealed that they were brothers of Monalisa.
"Human brothers of the lizard hmm?" Shredder smirked "This is interesting!"
"What are the odds?" Dr Arden flexed his fingers and the syringes appeared "I have spent years trying to see if that whore has any other connections, like I did with the Dragon, and now out of nowhere here they are, brought to me by my creations."
The Venomous Five looked proud of themselves, Cobra and Nile Monitor especially.
Shredder turned to Splinter again and started to run his blades down through Splinter's fur making the rat grimace.
"I see no reason to keep you alive rat!" he growled as he lifted his blades to Splinter's throat again "I'll skin you alive and bring your flayed corpse to the turtles myself!"
Splinter's eyes widened in horror and fear.
The Venomous Five hissed in excitement.
"What of the boys Master?" asked Arashi.
"Keep them alive, for now." Shredder said turning to Arashi and Dr Arden "From what we have learnt, they'll be useful in bring the turtles and the lizard out of hiding!"
"Hai Master." Arashi said with a bow then turned to Dr Arden who flexed his syringe fingers.
"Cobra! Monitor!" the doctor barked "Bring me the boys!"
"Get away from them!" Splinter growled yet Shredder pushed his blades more against his throat cutting him off.
"No!" the old rat despaired, but all of a sudden, he felt a connection within him and he began to sense his eldest son trying to reach him.
"Master? Master Splinter!"
Looks like the Freeman Boys and Master Splinter are really up Shit Creek without a paddle! But will the Turtles and Mona realise what's happened and be able to save them in time?
Well tune in to find out!