~ Okay here's my update, faster than it would have been but Ziptango said she wouldn't update until I got the new chapter up. Better get working girl challenge me to writing, you know how dedicated I am. Get a typing, quick!
Raphael was up getting a glass of water when the phone started to ring. He looked at it as if he was trying to decide weather he was hearing things because he was half-asleep or if the phone was actually ringing. Shaking his head to clear it he walked over and picked it up.
"Ello," he answered.
"Raphael?" A scared voice on the other end asked. He knew that voice, but he was too tired to figure out which one of the girls it was.
"Who is…"
"This is Hannah," She paused and Raphael heard a muffled guys voice on the other end.
"What's wrong Hannah?" Raphael was now fully awake hearing the girl sound so scared.
"We. We have been. Captured by…"
"A tin can!" A voice yelled in the background followed by a slapping noise.
"Who?" Raphael asked getting annoyed that he wasn't where the girls were.
"Shredd. Shredder," Hannah finished then it was quiet.
"Hannah?" Raphael shouted. "Where are you, what's?"
"Hello mutant," Shredder came onto the line. Raphael growled.
"Where are they you piece of metal?" Raphael yelled. Shredder laughed.
"If you ever want to see any of these girls again, they way they are," Shredder laughed evilly. "Meet me here at seven sharp, come any earlier, they die." The line went dead after Shredder gave Raphael the address. Throwing the phone across the room he screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Damn it! Leo! Donnie! Mikey! Master Splinter wake up!" They all ran out of their rooms instantly alert.
"What's wrong Raph?" Donnie asked.
"Shredder's got the girls," Raphael told them and explained the phone call. The guys glanced over at the picture the girls gave them. It was put on top of the TV for all to see.
"Surely it's a trap," Leonardo said.
"It most certainly is, knowing Saki," Master Splinter nodded. "But we cannot leave the girls to him, who knows what he will do to them."
"Then let's go now," Michelangelo was ready to jump up and go.
"We have to wait until seven am to be there," Raphael reminded him. Michelangelo slumped down.
"It's only two thirty in the morning, I don't think I can sleep," Donatello moaned.
"Then we practice," Master Splinter decided. "So you are ready, for on this I cannot accompany you."
"We understand sensei," Donatello said putting a hand on Master Splinter's shoulder.
"We have to do this on our own," Leonardo said hand on his katana.
The girls were crowded inside a room, with no windows, several guards at the door. Shredder remembered how he couldn't fight one off so he certainly didn't believe his foot soldiers would be able to. Earlier Melissa tried to run by them but only got grabbed and her arms yanked behind her back, with another slapping her around until Natalie ran over distracting the foot so Melissa could crawl back to the group. Natalie had a bruise now forming on her left cheek giving her cheek color a purplish glare.
Shredder had come in an hour later with a phone and called the turtles. He got the number from the nightstand and grabbed Hannah making her talk with his blades to her throat. She was so scared she could barely talk. Danielle got slapped by a foot soldier when she called Shredder a tin can, but was secretly congratulated by the girls when Shredder left. Now they were waiting for their hero's or guardian turtles as they put it to rescue them.
"How would he know that we knew them though," Rashel questioned.
"One of the guys that was beat up in the alley could have told him," Emma said.
"And probably followed us," Leslie added. The girls nodded agreeing that sounded probable. Natalie was lightly touching her cheek flinching as she did so.
"Natalie, stop touching your face you'll only make it worse," Melissa said. Natalie put her hand down and sighed.
"Well at least you're okay," Natalie said. Melissa rubbed her arms still sore from being grabbed earlier.
"That wasn't too bright, Melissa," Hannah said.
"I know," Melissa acknowledged. "Just showing my blondness." Melissa joked getting some smiles and a little laugh.
"Hey that's my line," Natalie said.
"But you're the oldest, doesn't that make you smarter?" Leslie asked.
"Nope, more challenged," Rashel joked.
"Hey!" Natalie protested but with a smile on her face. The girls stopped smiling when a new foot member walked into the room. He surveyed the girls for a moment then pointed at Hannah.
"You the oldest, come with me." Hannah's eyes grew big as he stepped closer.
"I'm the oldest," Natalie said stepping in front of Hannah.
"Natalie no," Hannah hissed not wanting anyone taken. The soldier looked at Natalie like she was joking. He stood about six foot and had to look down to see Natalie.
"Is she serious?" He asked the others, no one spoke. "Fine," he roughly grabbed Natalie's arm dragging her along with him. Out of the room into another room Shredder was sitting in a chair lounging back. He sat straight up when he saw the guy bring Natalie in.
"I wanted the oldest in here," Shredder bellowed.
"She is the oldest," the foot pushed Natalie forward making her fall on to her knee's. When Natalie went to get up the foot guy pushed her down to make her stay in a kneeling position. "You will kneel for the Master.
"He's not my Master," Natalie growled back. Shredder got up, sweeping his cloak behind him. Pushing the foot off of Natalie, he ordered them out of the room. He could handle one girl. As Natalie went to stand up, Shredder offered a hand to her. Natalie paused looking at it then to him then back to his hand.
"I can be pleasant," Shredder said. Natalie got up slowly ignoring his hand and backed away from him. Shredder sighed and turned to sit back down. "Tell me, how do you know these freaks."
"Those freaks are our friends and not freaks," Natalie insisted.
"Well," Shredder demanded. Feeling very uncomfortable, Natalie rubbed her bare arms and sighed. The foot grabbed the girls while they were getting ready for bed, so all of them were in pajama's. What Natalie wore was nothing but a thin tank top with candy canes on it and matching short shorts, none of the girls had shoes.
"They saved me from being raped and possibly murdered," Natalie whispered looking away from Shredder. "They saved all of us girls from death or possibly worse." Shredder nodded and took his helmet off. Natalie was shocked at how young he looked. He could have easily passed as someone who was in their early to mid-thirties.
"You expected someone older," Shredder asked seeing her shock. Natalie ignored the question and shook her head.
"What are you going to do with us?" Natalie asked.
"Use you as bait to capture the turtles," Shredder said. "If you girls offer to help me, then I might just let you go."
"There's no way we'll help you and why are you asking me?"
"The oldest usually has the most influence," Shredder explained. Natalie laughed she couldn't help it.
"Influence?" Natalie laughed some more. "These girls all have a strong will of their own. If I even considered your crazy suggestion, on helping you, I'd be going back to be slaughtered.
"What are you going to do with us, we won't help you, that's out of the question." Shredder sighed like he was tired and stood up walking over to Natalie. She backed up until she was against the wall and he towered above her.
"What's your favorite animal?" Shredder asked running a blade lightly down one arm and noticed her shiver.
"Wh, why?" Natalie stammered.
"Because once I defeat these freak friends of your," Shredder said softly then grabbed Natalie's arms hard making her shriek. "I'm turning you all into mutants as slaves."
Natalie was harshly deposited back into the room. Emma and Danielle the closes helped Natalie to her feet.
"What did happened?" Rashel asked.
"Are you okay?" Leslie added.
"Shredder talked to me, I'm fine," Natalie said but was shaking. Taking a breath she continued. "He wanted me to talk you into helping him capture the turtles."
"Psycho," Melissa said.
"Let us out of here you kitchen reject," Danielle yelled.
"We'd never join him," Hannah said calmly. Natalie nodded.
"That's what I told him, so he said that once he. Once he…" Natalie was having a hard time finishing the sentence.
"What?" Leslie demanded. "Don't keep us in suspense."
"He would change us into mutant slaves," Natalie whispered.
"WHAT!?" the girls chorused.
Outside the appointed warehouse, the time was six fifty. The turtles approached slowly Leonardo holding a watch. They decided they would go in at seven sharp not wanting the girls to get hurt if they went in too early. At a door, Leonardo and Raphael braced one side while Donatello and Michelangelo braced the other. Weapons in hand, Leonardo watched the hand as it ticked the seconds down.
Four, three, two, one. Opening the door slowly they looked in to see the room was dimly lit. Getting a strong sense of déjà vu they stepped forward cautiously. Reaching the middle something was hanging up high, but they couldn't tell what it was. Light flooded the room, momentarily blinding the turtles and the girls. Looking up, the guys saw them hanging in a net, not comfortably high in the room. They were also gagged and tied which is why they couldn't speak.
"Turtles." They spun around to see Shredder standing behind them. Some foot next to him held a rope that went to the net. "Drop your weapons, or I drop your friends." The foot jostled the rope for confirmation, making the net sway and the girls whimper. Breathing heavy they turtles slowly put down their weapons.
In the net Hannah struggled and got one hand free of her bounds. She quickly slipped the rope off her wrist and pulled the duct tape off her mouth. Mouthing a silent ouch, she went to work on untying the next girl. When all the girls were untied, they looked and saw the turtles being bound and tied to post in the room. Looking at the piles there was straw under them. Shredder motioned for the foot to lower the girls.
"I want them to get a front eye view of their hero's," Shredder said, voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Oooh, that no good."
"Shh," Emma told Rashel.
"Pretend we're still tied and then try to grab the guys weapons, look," Leslie pointed.
"Over half the foot are leaving," Melissa said.
"Good idea, Leslie," Hannah said. "There's one for every two of us, well one might take three," Hannah paused.
"We can take them," Natalie said. Getting the duct tape back over their mouths, they slipped the rope back on and waited. Shredder was holding a lighter and waited for the foot to bring the girls over. Melissa and Danielle had one foot, Leslie and Hannah another, and the last with Emma, Rashel and Natalie. The guys weapons were left on the floor and the girls looked at them as they passed. Natalie spun and did a high kick to the foot's groin making him drop. Shredder turned seeing the girls loose. Emma grabbed Donatello's bo and beat down the guy next to her, with help from Hannah who grabbed one of Raphael's sai's. Danielle and Melissa grabbed a nunchuckus each and started wailing on the other guy standing. Leslie grabbed the other sai and Rashel and Natalie grabbed the katana's.
"Give it up metal man," Hannah said. Shredder looked at each girl as they stepped closer. He glanced at the turtles then at the girls. The straw was all connected and Shredder smiled, even though they couldn't see it, they could all feel it.
"Watch your friends burn," Shredder yelled throwing the lighter onto the straw. It lightly instantly and started to lick towards the turtle lick a hungry creature.
"No!" Emma screamed with the rest of the girls. Natalie and Rashel ran behind and tried to get close enough to cut the ropes but the fire was getting too close.
"We need water!" Leslie yelled. Danielle almost panicking saw something on the wall. A hose, a fire hose!
"Over here!" Danielle said running for it. Hannah and Melissa went over and started slamming the glass to break it. Once it shattered onto the floor. Melissa and Hannah grabbed the hose and ran to the guys. The smoke was getting really bad and really close. The turtles were coughing violently and ready to lose consciousness.
"Turn it on!" Melissa yelled. Danielle turned the nozzle and waited. Nothing happened.
"Dang it," Hannah yelled and threw the hose down with Melissa. As it hit the floor a woosh sound was heard and water came gushing out, flipping the hose around. Melissa and Hannah were soaked and went to chase it, Leslie and Emma following. Getting a hold of it, it took all them plus Danielle to hold it and gush out the fire. Natalie and Rashel cut the ropes and the turtles slumped to the floor. Fist the girls took Donatello and Raphael outside and came back for Leonardo and Michelangelo. The guys took in huge gulps of much needed fresh air and their heads started to clear.
"Are you okay," Emma asked hugging Donatello.
"We'll be fine," Donatello replied with a cough. "We just need to get home."
"We'll help you," Melissa said.
"No yo.." Leonardo was interrupted by a coughing fit.
"We're not going to let you wander home and possibly pass out," Hannah said sternly.
"Sorry you're stuck with us," Rashel agreed.
"Fine by me, let's," Michelangelo coughed for a minute. "Let's go home." The turtles got up and staggered towards a manhole.
"Wait we're suppose to go home," Natalie said.
"This is where our home is, "Raphael replied. "You coming or not?" The girls quickly climbed down and grabbed a turtle hand to not get lost. Stepping into the lair Master Splinter was relieved to see his son's were all right but surprised to see the girls. They explained what happened and Master Splinter agreed that it was good that the girls followed them home. Crashing where they sat, they slept for the rest of the day tired from the smoke and excitement.
~ Okay my head hurts now and my hands are cramped up, ow, ow, ow. I'll be waiting to see the new chapter to Twisted :o)