The Thing Part 16
The group stood silent for a few seconds. M'reagro growled.
"We can get rid of them at the exits." Raph said.
"They'll have guns, Raph." Leo warned.
"Well, if we take just one out, hopefully there is just one Foot at an exit; we'll be able to overpower just the one," Donnie said. "He may have a gun, but we have the talent."
Mikey cheered at that and turned to Leo.
"C'mon, Leo. We'll be outta here in no time."
Leo sat down.
"But what about the Shredder?" He said, more to himself. "I can't leave here and let him be free to send out any more Foot soldiers to wreck the city. If we destroy him this time, hopefully it will be that last."
"Leo, you ain't see the guy," Raph said. "He's huge."
"Look, we were brought up to avenge Hammato Yoshi. We tried twice. I'm not gunna let him get away with a third."
Mikey leaned to Donnie. "Told ya there's always a trilogy." He got a warning look from Splinter.
Everyone remained silent again. The turtles were thinking about what Leo just said. Casey would be glad to help, he was deprived of a good fight to quench his thirst. April was afraid for them all. If they got hurt, again, and she couldn't do anything, she'd go mad. Frakly could tell this was something of a long subject, popping up before in their lives before he came. Splinter feared for his sons. He trusted them to make a right decision, but was afraid it would lead to their death.
"So?" Raph broke the silence, looking at his brothers.
"I say . . . We kick some Shredder butt," Donnie said.
"Yeah, shred the Shredder," Mikey chipped in.
They looked at Leo.
"Let's get rid of him once and for all."
They looked at Raph.
"Can't argue with that."
//
"Sir!"
"What is it?"
"We've check the whole of basement one and two sir and no sign of them. They are not down here."
"Well search further into the building!"
"Yes Sir, we have guards posted about stair entrances and fire exits . . . Sir . . . One of the men said they saw the beast that was with them. It has fully recovered from the gun shot it took."
"Kill that creature first! If you find it, make sure to take it out before the turtles! It will be too easy after that . . ."
//
The guard stood, alone, in front of the stairs leading down. He was nervous about this creature finding him, but he hadn't been told the size of it, just that it was a creature. The man stiffened as something to the left of the dark corridor moved.
"Who's there!" He called.
A woman emerged from the darkness; she raised her hand as she saw his gun and gasped.
"Who are you?" The Ninja demanded. The woman said nothing. " I know you. You're that O'Neil woman! Where are your little green pals? Shredder's going to have them for dinner! Ha! Now get a move on! I'm taking you down." He motioned with the gun for April to move down the stairs. He watched her move in front of him and he began to follow, but a yell from the shadows to his left made him stop.
"NOW!"
The woman rolled. The Ninja turned but something kicked the gun from his hands and skidded across the floor. He was then knocked down as something else kicked him in the back of his head and his back, then tripped him up. He fell unconscious to the floor, but before he did, he saw something that would have made him faint anyway. A huge shadow advanced on him and then there was darkness.
Leo dusted his hands and Donnie playfully slapped his foot a high three, grinning. Casey straightened his collar and cracked his neck.
"Alright, well done April. Looks like they have the stairs covered as well." Leo said.
Leo, Donnie, April, Casey and M'reagro had taken to searching around and checking what was guarded and what wasn't. Raph, Mikey, Splinter and Frakly had decided to get Splinter to safety and then come back. They would find a way out, take Splinter back to the lair (It would be safe now as Shredder would have called the search off in the sewers knowing they were in the building), leave Frakly with him and the two turtles would come back to help. The only reason April wasn't going back was because she wanted to help. They told her she could help by keeping watch and things like that, but not fight. They really didn't want to lose her.
"C'mon, guys - ugh, should M'reagro be doing that?" Leo had turned around to see the beast tearing the flesh off the Foot member's body.
Leo, Donnie, April and Casey stared, looks of disgust on their faces. M'reagro stopped to look at them and then went back to feasting.
"Ugh . . ." April screwed up her face. "Let's get going. He'll catch up."
Leo, Donnie and Casey nodded and they moved down the dark stairs. They could still hear the horrible sound of ripping flesh and then it stopped and they heard pounding. M'reagro brushed past them.
"Guess he likes to go first," Casey said.
As they neared the bottom of the stairs, they tiptoed as not to make any noise. They could see the end but they didn't see any members of the Foot. Leo motioned for Donnie to look right as he looked left once they got to the bottom and reached the corridors. Leo scanned the darkness but could see no human figures. Donnie looked and spotted two near the opening of another set of stairs. He poked Leo in the side and his brother turned to look. Leo thought. Then he looked at April, and she understood what he wanted her to do, again.
April stepped out of the safety of the stairwell, and deliberately made her food steps louder. The two men, one with a gun, the other with a Katana, turned and aimed their weapons at her. She faked her gasp again and froze, acting like the typical scared victim.
"Move closer." One of them ordered. She did as she was told and they muttered between themselves. Finally the one with the Katana motioned for her to go down the stairs and he followed her, the man with the gun stayed, facing the corridor Leo, Donnie, April and Casey had come from. The ninja didn't see the large shadow slide like water and as quiet after the first with the sword.
Donnie tapped his Bo on the floor, making a noise echo through the corridor.
The man with the gun froze. He listened, looking around. There was another tap and the Ninja started to move slowly towards the stairwell. He kept his gun ready. There was another tap that made him jump, and he breathed deeply and jumped in front of the stairs, gun aiming at . . . Nothing. There was nothing there. The Ninja lowered his gun and squinted into the darkness. Then, two somethings swing down from the ceiling of the entrance and ram into his head. He saw a flash of purple and a white mask. The gun flew out of his hand and across the floor and he fell to the floor after it. He looked up through dizzy eyes to a green foot, before it rammed into his face at the same time as another from the other side and knocked him out.
Donnie wiped his foot on the floor. "Yuck, Foot germs, hehe."
Casey looked the soles of his shoes. "Heh, shoes."
April came running up the stairs a second later.
"You okay?" Leo asked.
"Sure, M'reagro took care of the guy with the sword," she said, and on cue M'reagro strolled into view. "That guy sure won't be getting up for a long time."
Leo didn't want to ask what the beast had done. He motioned for then to follow and they went down the stairs. Leo nearly tripped at the bottom, and looked down to see the mangled body of the Ninja. Leo could only recognise it by the Katana that was lying near it. At the bottom of this staircase, they accidentally made too much noise over the dead body and two more Ninja's blocked their path. Of course, they were dispatched of quickly and the two turtles, two humans and beast moved on. April picked up one of their guns, the turtles didn't object as long as she used it for defence purposes only.
"Okay, what floor are we on?" Leo asked a few minutes later after they had gone down three sets of stairs.
"Level two, I think," Donnie said.
"Man, I hope Raph and Mikey hurry back soon," Leo muttered to himself.
They made their way all the way to floor one, which was lightly guarded. This made Leo nervous. He preferred to know where most of the soldiers were.
They had just reached the ground floor and cautiously moved out of the stairwell when they heard the running of feet from around the corner and they were surrounded by Foot members in front of them and a dead end behind them. They were trapped in the middle; guns and weapons were pointed at them. Even M'reagro knew when the odds weren't good, that he wouldn't be able to just claw the lot of them, especially with those guns. The beast growled and stayed, back facing the other's backs. Casey, sounding much like the beast, growled, too.
"Got ya cornered now, freaks!" One of the members spoke.
Leo thought fast. He was surrounded by guns and other sharp weapons that would spear him or fire as soon as he made a move.
Donnie looked about with his eyes, thinking. Then he got an idea. It wasn't the best, but it was all he could come up with.
"The Shredder!" He pointed behind the wall of Foot soldiers and had time for a quick grin as they all turned around, surprised.
Leo knew immediately what Donnie had done, and jumped to knock as many guns as he could out of hands. Donnie met the enemy the same way, knocking out as many as he could with the guns, and dodging at ducking swords and other weapons. Guns were his main concern. Casey charged forward, yelling at the top of his voice.
M'reagro growled and sprung at four soldiers pointing their guns at Donnie. They all went down and none of them managed to keep hold of their weapons. M'reagro was soon ripping them up and turned to meet his other victims. Most were busy with Leo and Donnie, and some were harassing April, who had her gun thrown from her hand. M'reagro leaped on two of them and April found enough room to punch one in the face. She turned to the other and kicked him in a very delicate place. He doubled over and fell to the floor. Another two came to challenge the wise kicking April, and found themselves in more pain than they thought a woman could inflict. April's fist was stinging from the blow she gave the first guy, but she didn't notice it when her hand automatically socked another guy in the face. He went down, out cold before he hit the floor. April breathed, amazed at herself.
Casey punched left and right. He was really getting in the swing now. He took a punch to the face, but with all the adrenaline running through his face he hardly noticed, and gave that guy a punch he'll never forget.
Donnie was mad now. Some one had just knocked his Bo out of his hands while he was busy with another guy, and now he couldn't see it through the legs of Foot members. He growled angrily, not a Donnie thing to do, and fisted a Ninja in the stomach and at the same time kicked out to his right side and caught another in the face. Donnie somersaulted over three Ninja's, spun and kicked out their feet, falling on top of others behind them, and tripping up more as they ran to Donnie. There was a large pile of aching soldiers in front of Donnie, and he growled at them. ¦Oh god! I'm becoming Raph!¦ He searched for his buddy Staff, his favourite Bo. He spotted it near the corridor wall and raced over. But before he could get it, he was tripped and he fell hard to the floor on his stomach. He flipped over onto his shell and kicked a guy in the jaw who was just about to bring a Katana down on him. Donnie was just about to turn and grab his bow but a wave of Ninjas piled on him and he was stuck to the floor. He could see another guy coming over with a gun, aiming at Donnie's head that was not covered with Foot bodies. Donnie struggled but they held on, and the gun guy brought the weapon down, aiming.
"Say goodnight, turtle!" The guy laughed wickedly. He steadied the gun and was about to pull the trigger, but something hit him on the head and the guy fell to the floor. Raph was stood behind him.
"Goodnight!" Raph said to the Ninja on the floor.
Donnie grinned and the Ninjas who were covering him got up to take on Raph. Donnie was now free to grab his Bo and do some serious damage. He saw Mikey over the other end of the corridor. Now reunited with his trusty Bo, Donnie caused real damage to his enemies. Within a few more minutes the Foot gang were littered over the floor, and Mikey downed the last one.
"You guys were late!" Leo joked to Raph and Mikey. They looked at each other; it was odd to see Leo cracking jokes in battles.
"Must be happy to have some action," Raph said to Mikey. Mikey nodded. Donnie chuckled.
"Hey, me, Ape and M'reagro'll hold 'em off up here for ya," Casey said, wiping sweat from his brow. The turtles nodded.
"C'mon guys! Let's go defeat ourselves a Shredder!" Leo ran onwards.
" . . . Again . . ." Donnie, Raph and Mikey groaned together. They rushed off after their leader.
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The group stood silent for a few seconds. M'reagro growled.
"We can get rid of them at the exits." Raph said.
"They'll have guns, Raph." Leo warned.
"Well, if we take just one out, hopefully there is just one Foot at an exit; we'll be able to overpower just the one," Donnie said. "He may have a gun, but we have the talent."
Mikey cheered at that and turned to Leo.
"C'mon, Leo. We'll be outta here in no time."
Leo sat down.
"But what about the Shredder?" He said, more to himself. "I can't leave here and let him be free to send out any more Foot soldiers to wreck the city. If we destroy him this time, hopefully it will be that last."
"Leo, you ain't see the guy," Raph said. "He's huge."
"Look, we were brought up to avenge Hammato Yoshi. We tried twice. I'm not gunna let him get away with a third."
Mikey leaned to Donnie. "Told ya there's always a trilogy." He got a warning look from Splinter.
Everyone remained silent again. The turtles were thinking about what Leo just said. Casey would be glad to help, he was deprived of a good fight to quench his thirst. April was afraid for them all. If they got hurt, again, and she couldn't do anything, she'd go mad. Frakly could tell this was something of a long subject, popping up before in their lives before he came. Splinter feared for his sons. He trusted them to make a right decision, but was afraid it would lead to their death.
"So?" Raph broke the silence, looking at his brothers.
"I say . . . We kick some Shredder butt," Donnie said.
"Yeah, shred the Shredder," Mikey chipped in.
They looked at Leo.
"Let's get rid of him once and for all."
They looked at Raph.
"Can't argue with that."
//
"Sir!"
"What is it?"
"We've check the whole of basement one and two sir and no sign of them. They are not down here."
"Well search further into the building!"
"Yes Sir, we have guards posted about stair entrances and fire exits . . . Sir . . . One of the men said they saw the beast that was with them. It has fully recovered from the gun shot it took."
"Kill that creature first! If you find it, make sure to take it out before the turtles! It will be too easy after that . . ."
//
The guard stood, alone, in front of the stairs leading down. He was nervous about this creature finding him, but he hadn't been told the size of it, just that it was a creature. The man stiffened as something to the left of the dark corridor moved.
"Who's there!" He called.
A woman emerged from the darkness; she raised her hand as she saw his gun and gasped.
"Who are you?" The Ninja demanded. The woman said nothing. " I know you. You're that O'Neil woman! Where are your little green pals? Shredder's going to have them for dinner! Ha! Now get a move on! I'm taking you down." He motioned with the gun for April to move down the stairs. He watched her move in front of him and he began to follow, but a yell from the shadows to his left made him stop.
"NOW!"
The woman rolled. The Ninja turned but something kicked the gun from his hands and skidded across the floor. He was then knocked down as something else kicked him in the back of his head and his back, then tripped him up. He fell unconscious to the floor, but before he did, he saw something that would have made him faint anyway. A huge shadow advanced on him and then there was darkness.
Leo dusted his hands and Donnie playfully slapped his foot a high three, grinning. Casey straightened his collar and cracked his neck.
"Alright, well done April. Looks like they have the stairs covered as well." Leo said.
Leo, Donnie, April, Casey and M'reagro had taken to searching around and checking what was guarded and what wasn't. Raph, Mikey, Splinter and Frakly had decided to get Splinter to safety and then come back. They would find a way out, take Splinter back to the lair (It would be safe now as Shredder would have called the search off in the sewers knowing they were in the building), leave Frakly with him and the two turtles would come back to help. The only reason April wasn't going back was because she wanted to help. They told her she could help by keeping watch and things like that, but not fight. They really didn't want to lose her.
"C'mon, guys - ugh, should M'reagro be doing that?" Leo had turned around to see the beast tearing the flesh off the Foot member's body.
Leo, Donnie, April and Casey stared, looks of disgust on their faces. M'reagro stopped to look at them and then went back to feasting.
"Ugh . . ." April screwed up her face. "Let's get going. He'll catch up."
Leo, Donnie and Casey nodded and they moved down the dark stairs. They could still hear the horrible sound of ripping flesh and then it stopped and they heard pounding. M'reagro brushed past them.
"Guess he likes to go first," Casey said.
As they neared the bottom of the stairs, they tiptoed as not to make any noise. They could see the end but they didn't see any members of the Foot. Leo motioned for Donnie to look right as he looked left once they got to the bottom and reached the corridors. Leo scanned the darkness but could see no human figures. Donnie looked and spotted two near the opening of another set of stairs. He poked Leo in the side and his brother turned to look. Leo thought. Then he looked at April, and she understood what he wanted her to do, again.
April stepped out of the safety of the stairwell, and deliberately made her food steps louder. The two men, one with a gun, the other with a Katana, turned and aimed their weapons at her. She faked her gasp again and froze, acting like the typical scared victim.
"Move closer." One of them ordered. She did as she was told and they muttered between themselves. Finally the one with the Katana motioned for her to go down the stairs and he followed her, the man with the gun stayed, facing the corridor Leo, Donnie, April and Casey had come from. The ninja didn't see the large shadow slide like water and as quiet after the first with the sword.
Donnie tapped his Bo on the floor, making a noise echo through the corridor.
The man with the gun froze. He listened, looking around. There was another tap and the Ninja started to move slowly towards the stairwell. He kept his gun ready. There was another tap that made him jump, and he breathed deeply and jumped in front of the stairs, gun aiming at . . . Nothing. There was nothing there. The Ninja lowered his gun and squinted into the darkness. Then, two somethings swing down from the ceiling of the entrance and ram into his head. He saw a flash of purple and a white mask. The gun flew out of his hand and across the floor and he fell to the floor after it. He looked up through dizzy eyes to a green foot, before it rammed into his face at the same time as another from the other side and knocked him out.
Donnie wiped his foot on the floor. "Yuck, Foot germs, hehe."
Casey looked the soles of his shoes. "Heh, shoes."
April came running up the stairs a second later.
"You okay?" Leo asked.
"Sure, M'reagro took care of the guy with the sword," she said, and on cue M'reagro strolled into view. "That guy sure won't be getting up for a long time."
Leo didn't want to ask what the beast had done. He motioned for then to follow and they went down the stairs. Leo nearly tripped at the bottom, and looked down to see the mangled body of the Ninja. Leo could only recognise it by the Katana that was lying near it. At the bottom of this staircase, they accidentally made too much noise over the dead body and two more Ninja's blocked their path. Of course, they were dispatched of quickly and the two turtles, two humans and beast moved on. April picked up one of their guns, the turtles didn't object as long as she used it for defence purposes only.
"Okay, what floor are we on?" Leo asked a few minutes later after they had gone down three sets of stairs.
"Level two, I think," Donnie said.
"Man, I hope Raph and Mikey hurry back soon," Leo muttered to himself.
They made their way all the way to floor one, which was lightly guarded. This made Leo nervous. He preferred to know where most of the soldiers were.
They had just reached the ground floor and cautiously moved out of the stairwell when they heard the running of feet from around the corner and they were surrounded by Foot members in front of them and a dead end behind them. They were trapped in the middle; guns and weapons were pointed at them. Even M'reagro knew when the odds weren't good, that he wouldn't be able to just claw the lot of them, especially with those guns. The beast growled and stayed, back facing the other's backs. Casey, sounding much like the beast, growled, too.
"Got ya cornered now, freaks!" One of the members spoke.
Leo thought fast. He was surrounded by guns and other sharp weapons that would spear him or fire as soon as he made a move.
Donnie looked about with his eyes, thinking. Then he got an idea. It wasn't the best, but it was all he could come up with.
"The Shredder!" He pointed behind the wall of Foot soldiers and had time for a quick grin as they all turned around, surprised.
Leo knew immediately what Donnie had done, and jumped to knock as many guns as he could out of hands. Donnie met the enemy the same way, knocking out as many as he could with the guns, and dodging at ducking swords and other weapons. Guns were his main concern. Casey charged forward, yelling at the top of his voice.
M'reagro growled and sprung at four soldiers pointing their guns at Donnie. They all went down and none of them managed to keep hold of their weapons. M'reagro was soon ripping them up and turned to meet his other victims. Most were busy with Leo and Donnie, and some were harassing April, who had her gun thrown from her hand. M'reagro leaped on two of them and April found enough room to punch one in the face. She turned to the other and kicked him in a very delicate place. He doubled over and fell to the floor. Another two came to challenge the wise kicking April, and found themselves in more pain than they thought a woman could inflict. April's fist was stinging from the blow she gave the first guy, but she didn't notice it when her hand automatically socked another guy in the face. He went down, out cold before he hit the floor. April breathed, amazed at herself.
Casey punched left and right. He was really getting in the swing now. He took a punch to the face, but with all the adrenaline running through his face he hardly noticed, and gave that guy a punch he'll never forget.
Donnie was mad now. Some one had just knocked his Bo out of his hands while he was busy with another guy, and now he couldn't see it through the legs of Foot members. He growled angrily, not a Donnie thing to do, and fisted a Ninja in the stomach and at the same time kicked out to his right side and caught another in the face. Donnie somersaulted over three Ninja's, spun and kicked out their feet, falling on top of others behind them, and tripping up more as they ran to Donnie. There was a large pile of aching soldiers in front of Donnie, and he growled at them. ¦Oh god! I'm becoming Raph!¦ He searched for his buddy Staff, his favourite Bo. He spotted it near the corridor wall and raced over. But before he could get it, he was tripped and he fell hard to the floor on his stomach. He flipped over onto his shell and kicked a guy in the jaw who was just about to bring a Katana down on him. Donnie was just about to turn and grab his bow but a wave of Ninjas piled on him and he was stuck to the floor. He could see another guy coming over with a gun, aiming at Donnie's head that was not covered with Foot bodies. Donnie struggled but they held on, and the gun guy brought the weapon down, aiming.
"Say goodnight, turtle!" The guy laughed wickedly. He steadied the gun and was about to pull the trigger, but something hit him on the head and the guy fell to the floor. Raph was stood behind him.
"Goodnight!" Raph said to the Ninja on the floor.
Donnie grinned and the Ninjas who were covering him got up to take on Raph. Donnie was now free to grab his Bo and do some serious damage. He saw Mikey over the other end of the corridor. Now reunited with his trusty Bo, Donnie caused real damage to his enemies. Within a few more minutes the Foot gang were littered over the floor, and Mikey downed the last one.
"You guys were late!" Leo joked to Raph and Mikey. They looked at each other; it was odd to see Leo cracking jokes in battles.
"Must be happy to have some action," Raph said to Mikey. Mikey nodded. Donnie chuckled.
"Hey, me, Ape and M'reagro'll hold 'em off up here for ya," Casey said, wiping sweat from his brow. The turtles nodded.
"C'mon guys! Let's go defeat ourselves a Shredder!" Leo ran onwards.
" . . . Again . . ." Donnie, Raph and Mikey groaned together. They rushed off after their leader.
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