Radical Transformation

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"Man I hate being pulled around," Mikey moaned quietly. "Chain them down there, unchain them and bring them here." He mimicked a high-pitched voice of Shredder.

All four of them had been unchained from the cold, stone room and were being taken back to the huge room. They were lead back through the dark corridors, everything was wooden again; the walls, the floor, and they guessed the ceiling too. They couldn't see very much, but small fire torches were hung on brackets on the wall, and they only gave enough light to reach the wall around them. They gave out warmth as they went passed, dancing to one side as the Foot swept past with their prisoners. The flickering light made the Foot soldiers look even darker and sinister looking.

Leo stared dreary eyed at the walls as he went past, and then glanced to his side at his brothers and Prida, whose eyes were all lit up strangely in the dark corridors, even though their eyes were cast down to the floor.

Prida glanced up and looked at Leo, with no change of expression apart from the one she had worn since they had been unchained; it was a set expression that gave Leo the thought that she was going to take whatever fate fell on her with strong shoulders. She wasn't exactly smiling at Leo, but her face seemed to make him feel calmer. Her eyes were dark except for the bright tint of purple, lit up by the fire torches. Leo reflected her expression, and she put her head back down. Mikey and Donny were also staring at the floor as they were lead. All of their wrists were still in the metal cuffs, fastened together, Leo, Don's and Mikey's behind their back, Prida's bound in front.

Because their heads were all dropped they didn't notice they had entered the huge, dark room until the walls disappeared from the sides of their vision. They all looked up, not that they could see a great deal because it was so dark. But the platform Shredder had stood upon a while ago was still bathed in dim light, which now seemed to have dimmed even more.

The Foot soldiers that had been leading them gave them all a forceful push and they fell onto their knees, glaring behind their shoulders at the dudes in black.

"So what brings us here?" Donny demanded, even though he already knew the reason.

"The question is, what will YOU bring here?" Shredder suddenly reappeared on the platform. His deep voice dark and threatening.

"Look, you really think this old man is gonna walk right in here just for us?" Mikey spoke up.

Shredder slowly leveled his face to look down at Mikey. He glowered at the teenager.

"We will see." He growled, quietly but threateningly. He turned and started to disappear into the darkness of the platform. "Let us see if you can fight my Foot soldiers with your hands bound," He said over his shoulder. "Do not kill them, I still need them all," he directed to his clan, and then his presence disappeared completely into the old factory.

Leo, Don, Mikey and Prida froze for a fast second, before they all realized that Shredder was giving his clan the permission the beat the living daylights out of them. They all jumped to their feet and spun around to face the Foot soldiers that were now coming towards them. If they hadn't had masks on they would have been grinning evilly. Behind the group that were now making their way towards them, three or four men had picked up bladeless weapons that were leaning against the wall near the corridor they had arrived through.

One of the armed soldiers rushed at Leo, and brought his Staff straight down. Leo dodged out the way and backed away a few steps. It was difficult to move with his hands behind his back.

Mikey and Donny had managed to roll backwards together as three soldiers came at them. Donny guessed this was an attempt to lead the old man here quicker; if he could feel that Don and his brothers were getting beaten, the old man might just appear to save them earlier.

"Donny, look out!" Prida called from the floor. She had been knocked back to the ground, and was now fearfully watching her friends fight.

Donny looked quickly to his right to see the end of a Bo rushing at him. He ducked, only just missing the blow that was a mere centimeter from his head. He had no time to try and free his hands from behind his back.

Leo managed to come at another Foot soldier with a roundhouse kick. But in doing so he lost his balance and fell onto his back. Another Foot soldier came at him but he planted his feet into the dude's gut and kicked him away.

Prida could not just sit there. She moved as a Foot dude stumbled past her, and jumped to her feet. She saw Mikey was pretty busy with too many opponents, so she took a run and kicked one guy who was about to bash Mikey in the back. He fell flat on his face, as Prida whirled and kicked another guy. Although she lost her balance and the force of the kick meant her going down as well, she was surprised she did that. Her friends must be rubbing off on her, she thought with a half smile. Her smile vanished when she was grabbed by the arm and lifted up roughly. She stared into the black mask of a Foot soldier, but she didn't stare at it long; she socked him one and he let go, stumbling back.

"Wow," she breathed, watching the guy finally fall back. She looked at her bound fist. "OW!" She waved it around, repeating 'ow, ow, ow!' And amazingly as she was waving her hands around she managed to whack a soldier who was coming at her from behind, in the face. She stopped moving and looked down at the moaning man.

The three brothers and Prida were doing well considering they all had their hands bound and the guys were still aching from the last Foot fight. But as many as they knocked down the bad boys just kept popping back up for more, and Leo, Donny and Mikey all knew they couldn't keep this up.

Leo found himself fighting better than he thought he could, though the Foot were getting in nearly the same amount of kicks and punches as he delivered, and he realized it was weakening his body even more. He had moved closer to Prida, who was ignored by a majority amount of soldiers, but was proving to be a harder opponent than the Foot thought.

Prida gritted her teeth and tried to kick another Foot member. But he grabbed her leg and yanked it, and she fell to the floor hard with a cry. She looked up at the masked man and brought her other leg up and kicked him where it hurt. He let go and groaned in pain, and she jumped back up on her feet and ran into him, pushing him over. She nodded her head quickly and shortly at him, and then turned around to see where her friends where. But as she turned she was struck very hard across the face, and her hair flew up as she fell down. When she looked back up Leo was stood over her, and someone in black had just fallen down next to her. Mouth open, she nodded gratefully to Leo, who did the same, but then a fist from nowhere struck the side of his face and he fell down.

"Leo!" Prida jumped up, but then she was struck down again. Her face had never known so much pain in one day before.

The Foot soldier who had punched Leo and Prida suddenly jerked and fell to the floor. Mikey was stood behind him, breathing heavy with arms still tied behind his back. He had no time to see if Leo or Prida was okay because four other dudes came at him.

Donny could tell they were losing this battle. But that was why Shredder allowed his clan to beat them up. Don just hoped Shredder wasn't going to allow the Foot to beat any of them into unconsciousness.

They were all soon being punched, kicked until Leo, Don and Mikey were so exhausted they had been forced back and fallen on the floor together, gasping for breath and with faces screwed up because of the pain and aching.

"Stop!" Shredder's voice called from somewhere in the darkness. He appeared through the mass of Foot members. His cloak swept soundlessly behind him as he walked with sharp footsteps up to his fallen enemies. He stopped in from of them, and watched as one of his clan dragged Prida by the arm and threw her down next to her friends.

"Tie them up!" Shredder commanded, and three or four disappeared into the darkness, reappearing seconds later with thick looking rope. Leo, Donny, Mikey and Prida were soon bound tightly together, backs against the others and angry, silent snarls on their faces. Blood from Donny's cut eye seeped down onto his shoulder where it streamed slowly until it met Prida's shoulder pressed against his, and soaked into her navy top. She did not notice though.

"It turns to a waiting game from here on," Shredder said, glowering down at the four helpless captives.

Suddenly Tatsu strode up to Shredder and mumbled something. Shredder growled.

"Imbeciles!" He said angrily. "I will deal with those incompetents myself, keep an eye on these four," he motioned to Leo, Don, Mikey and Prida, who had been trying to listen to what Tatsu said; it had sounded like the four Foot soldiers Shredder had sent to assassinate Raph had come back. Though if they were unsuccessful or they had caused some other problem to make Shredder mad they didn't know.

With a sweep of his cloak, Shredder turned and disappeared through the sea of soldiers. Tatsu remained standing where he was, turning his ugly head to glare at the four captives. They all glared back.

Suddenly one black-clothed Foot member appeared out of the darkness from behind the rest with a fire torch in his hand.

"The forth teenager has broken into the factory in the west side!" He shouted in a strange, deep voice. He pointed down the corridor that led into darkness.

Half of the Foot clan in the large room stared at the one who spoke for a split second before turning and heading for the corridor he was pointing at. Tatsu unfolded his crossed arms and watched his soldiers run into the corridor.

The soldier who held the torch disappeared quickly into the darkness of the walls. Through the sounds of the running feet and the shouts of the clan another sound from where he had disappeared could be heard. It sounded like he had kicked something, and the next second liquid came gushing across the entrance to the corridor and ran into the feet of the rest of the clan, who looked down, unbothered at it. It just seemed someone had knocked something down in their rush into the corridor. But the light from the touch could be seen as it floated down to the barrel that had just been knocked over, and lit the liquid.

"Gasoline!" One of the Foot members shouted.

The fire suddenly sprang up and followed the trail of liquid, roaring as it grew higher, totally blocking the entrance to the corridor.

Tatsu stood back as the clan tripped and stumbled away from the flames that were rolling towards them, growing on the gasoline.

One black figure emerged again from the shadows and swooped and picked something off the floor, then, made his way to the four captives, who were bathed in the light and heat from the fire that had created a semi circle around them.

The rest of the Foot clan was too busy trying to escape the evading fire as it followed the gasoline that had spread almost to the shadows across the other end of the room to where it had started. They took no notice of the lone Foot soldier, but Tatsu did. He stepped back as the clan rushed past him, and then narrowed his eyes at the Foot member who had caused the fire.

The lone Foot soldier quickly grabbed a katana, from its leaning place on the wall, before the flames scorched his hand. He grasped the sword in both hands and ran at the four captives. Leo, Don, Mike and Prida gasped as the soldier reached them, and raised the sword, preparing to bring it down . . .

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Sorry about the ugly remark about Tatsu, but in the movie at one point I know he did look pretty ugly, and hey, it wasn't bad ugly, no, well, it was kinda evil ugly, lol. But it adds to the description, so sorry. / Right I realized the whole of my story has so many mistakes in it's unbelievable, so I'm editing and correcting alla my chapters, and in the past week when I didn't have internet to entertain me all I had was the computer, so I'm correcting and re-uploading my chapters as I go along.\