Radical Transformation
"Guys, run faster!" Mikey shouted, glancing back. The truck containing about twenty soldiers was gaining fast, the rest of the clan was not far behind either. Mikey grabbed Prida's hand and pulled her along, trying to keep up with the others. She may have been a good runner, but compared to her friends she wasn't fast enough.
But as they reached the end of the alleyway, about ten Foot soldiers appeared at the end, blocking the way. The four turtles, Casey and Prida stopped, breathing hard from running. The truck behind them stopped a few yards behind, and the running soldiers caught up with it. They all formed a wall so their prisoners could not get back or forward.
"So, you have returned to your freakish form," the front Foot soldier said. "You will return with us to Shredder, or your two friends will be killed as well as you. You can not escape, there are too many of us."
"We will not return to Shredder," Leo in a low, threatening voice through gritted teeth. "If he wants us, he can come and get us . . ."
"Wrong answer, freak," the soldier growled. "Now your friends will die!"
With that the ten in front charged, and so did the many behind. But the turtles, Casey and Prida ran forward determined to get out of the sea of black uniforms.
"We can't fight them - we have to get Prida out!" Leo managed to shout through to his brothers while trying to protect Prida. He knew when there were too many opponents, but had it not been for the sake of Prida, he would have stayed and fought. He knew Casey could hold his own off, so he wasn't too worried about him.
Leo and Donny surrounded Prida, keeping any of the soldiers from touching her. They ran through the oncoming wave of attackers, and amazingly managed to break away and started running down the street.
"Casey - Raph - Mikey!" Leo called, not glancing back.
A second later Mikey managed to roll under the legs of three Foot soldiers, jump up and followed Leo, Don and Prida. Some Foot members had already started to follow Leo and Donny, and Mikey managed to down half of those, but then they were replaced by the ones following Mikey. Half of the Foot clan was following Leo, Don, Prida and Mikey, and Casey and Raph were still dealing with the other half. But then those two managed to get through the soldiers and ran past the following Foot, knocking down as many as they could. They managed to reach Leo, Don, Mikey and Prida, with still half the Foot clan following them.
"Where are we heading?" Casey yelled.
"Away from the Foot clan!" Leo yelled.
"Yeah I can see that!"
The Foot clan behind them soon slowed down, outrun. They disappeared around a corner as the group of friends sped away. After another minute of running they began to slow down. Prida was gasping for breath; she'd never run so far at that sped for that time.
"We'll get Prida home, and then deal with the Foot if we see them again," Leo said, breathing heavily. He looked at the rising sun, and then at Prida. "I hope you can get home before anyone wakes and finds you gone."
"Yeah, I'm kinda hoping that myself," she said, a small grim smile at the thought of being caught.
They all started walking in the direction of April's neighborhood; from there they would walk Prida to her friend's house. At the minute they were still in the rough area of this side of town, and putting distance between them and the Foot warehouse every second.
"So, can't wait to get back into the old dojo then, eh Leo?" Mikey asked, a lopsided grin on his face.
Leo smiled, watching the street corners ahead.
"I can't wait to get back to my computer," Donny smiled, flexing his fingers over an invisible keyboard. "I'll probably had to reset all my alarm systems, the police probably pulled them down . . . or unless the man sorted them out for me."
"Alarm systems?" Prida said.
"Yeah, Donny rigged up some alarms in the tunnels around our home," Mikey explained. "So we would know if anyone unexpected was walking towards our home. Gotta be careful if you're a mutant in the sewers." He grinned.
Silence fell on the group again as the passed into a shadowed street where the sun couldn't reach past the wide, tall buildings. It was slightly cooler down this street because the air was not yet warmed.
Leo suddenly stumbled but quickly regained his balance, smiling as they glanced at him.
"Still a little dizzy from the bang on the head," he said.
"Bang on the head? Concussion dude," Mikey said. "I guess the man did everything but sort out the medical problems."
Raph touched his forehead where the bandage should have been, and found it still painful. He looked at his scratched arms, remembering the injuries he had received had not gone. Then as he focused his eyes on the street ahead realized he did feel like collapsing as Leo had nearly just done. Leo, though, looked worse then he did.
"I don't think we should be finding the Foot after we've taken Prida home," Donny said, looking at his brother in blue. "I think you should go home and lay down."
"Yeah," Leo muttered, and then looked up to the end of the street. There was a humming noise, which was growing louder, and then a second later the cargo truck holding about twenty Foot soldiers sped around the corner and came right at them.
"Not again!" Mikey groaned as they all turned around and started to run in the opposite direction in the middle of the street.
But the truck was closing in fast, and the shouts from the soldiers grew louder. The truck was only meters behind!
"Split!" Leo yelled, ignoring the painful pounding in his head.
Casey, Raph and Mikey ran into an alleyway, while Leo, Donny and Prida moved closer to the sidewalk, running next to a line of parked cars. The truck decided to follow Leo's group, without hesitation. They were way too close, so Leo decided that Prida couldn't stay in the chase.
"Prida - stay between the cars!" He yelled, and pushed her in a gap between a red car and a black car. She made a noise as she landed, but she scrambled further into the gap and a second later the Foot truck roared past. She crawled off her butt onto her knees and stuck her head around the red car she was behind, watching as the truck caught up with Leo and Donny.
Raph, Mikey and Casey, realizing the truck wasn't following them, ran back out of the alley and looked along the street. They saw the truck, and they saw Leo still running. But where were Donny and Prida? The three took off after the truck and saw that Donny had been dragged into the open back of truck, struggling to free himself from the many hands that restrained him.
Raph and Mikey sped as fast as they could after the truck, Casey only just noticed Prida getting to her feet, a worried expression on her face.
"Stay there!" He said, and started to run after his pals again. Prida made a face between panic and the desperate urge to do something other than sit around between two cars.
Leo felt hands grab at his shell and arms, and a second later he had been pulled into the front of the truck, an arm was wrapped tightly around his neck as he struggled. His head was out the window, and he used his feet to kick the three soldiers who were fighting against him. He accidentally caught the driver in the face and the truck swerved dangerous.
Raph and Mikey managed to caught up to the truck as it slowed and skidded, then started to speed up. But the two turtles had already jumped into the back and were trying to free their brother. The truck swerved again as the driver was put off, and everyone in the back hit the left side of the struck, and then began to fight again.
"Whoa!" Mikey yelled as he was knocked onto his shell. His top torso slid out of the truck, and he was looking upside down at Casey who was a few meters away, trying to caught them up. Mikey glanced down at the streaming pavement below him.
"AGH!" He yelled.
Raph managed to grab his brother and pull him back up.
"Thanks -" Mikey said in a high voice. Then he yelled, "Whoa!" and pushed Raph aside as a Foot soldier came at them with a sharp object that would have made a mess of the two turtles. The Foot soldier lost his control and fell out the back of the speeding truck. Casey only just avoided him, but in doing so he lost his balance and went down, rolling and then jumped back up, taking his anger out on the disorientated Foot soldier he had tripped on.
Leo, who was still in the front of the truck, was trying to keep himself from being skewered on the end of a dagger one of the soldiers had pulled out from under the seat of the vehicle. His head was being forced out of the window by a hand wrapped around his neck, and his own hands were pushing the dagger away. He brought his knee up and kneed the soldier in the face. The dagger hand went limp and Leo rammed it into the edge of the widow. The dagger fell out of his hand and onto the road. Leo kicked again at the other two Foot members with such force the power of it sent the two into the driver, who lost control of the wheel. The truck rammed into a blue car, swerved to the right, skidded back to the left and drove full speed into the corner of a building. The front window glass shattered on Leo, and in the back everyone was propelled forward.
Then, the truck exploded into a bright ball of fire . . .
"Guys, run faster!" Mikey shouted, glancing back. The truck containing about twenty soldiers was gaining fast, the rest of the clan was not far behind either. Mikey grabbed Prida's hand and pulled her along, trying to keep up with the others. She may have been a good runner, but compared to her friends she wasn't fast enough.
But as they reached the end of the alleyway, about ten Foot soldiers appeared at the end, blocking the way. The four turtles, Casey and Prida stopped, breathing hard from running. The truck behind them stopped a few yards behind, and the running soldiers caught up with it. They all formed a wall so their prisoners could not get back or forward.
"So, you have returned to your freakish form," the front Foot soldier said. "You will return with us to Shredder, or your two friends will be killed as well as you. You can not escape, there are too many of us."
"We will not return to Shredder," Leo in a low, threatening voice through gritted teeth. "If he wants us, he can come and get us . . ."
"Wrong answer, freak," the soldier growled. "Now your friends will die!"
With that the ten in front charged, and so did the many behind. But the turtles, Casey and Prida ran forward determined to get out of the sea of black uniforms.
"We can't fight them - we have to get Prida out!" Leo managed to shout through to his brothers while trying to protect Prida. He knew when there were too many opponents, but had it not been for the sake of Prida, he would have stayed and fought. He knew Casey could hold his own off, so he wasn't too worried about him.
Leo and Donny surrounded Prida, keeping any of the soldiers from touching her. They ran through the oncoming wave of attackers, and amazingly managed to break away and started running down the street.
"Casey - Raph - Mikey!" Leo called, not glancing back.
A second later Mikey managed to roll under the legs of three Foot soldiers, jump up and followed Leo, Don and Prida. Some Foot members had already started to follow Leo and Donny, and Mikey managed to down half of those, but then they were replaced by the ones following Mikey. Half of the Foot clan was following Leo, Don, Prida and Mikey, and Casey and Raph were still dealing with the other half. But then those two managed to get through the soldiers and ran past the following Foot, knocking down as many as they could. They managed to reach Leo, Don, Mikey and Prida, with still half the Foot clan following them.
"Where are we heading?" Casey yelled.
"Away from the Foot clan!" Leo yelled.
"Yeah I can see that!"
The Foot clan behind them soon slowed down, outrun. They disappeared around a corner as the group of friends sped away. After another minute of running they began to slow down. Prida was gasping for breath; she'd never run so far at that sped for that time.
"We'll get Prida home, and then deal with the Foot if we see them again," Leo said, breathing heavily. He looked at the rising sun, and then at Prida. "I hope you can get home before anyone wakes and finds you gone."
"Yeah, I'm kinda hoping that myself," she said, a small grim smile at the thought of being caught.
They all started walking in the direction of April's neighborhood; from there they would walk Prida to her friend's house. At the minute they were still in the rough area of this side of town, and putting distance between them and the Foot warehouse every second.
"So, can't wait to get back into the old dojo then, eh Leo?" Mikey asked, a lopsided grin on his face.
Leo smiled, watching the street corners ahead.
"I can't wait to get back to my computer," Donny smiled, flexing his fingers over an invisible keyboard. "I'll probably had to reset all my alarm systems, the police probably pulled them down . . . or unless the man sorted them out for me."
"Alarm systems?" Prida said.
"Yeah, Donny rigged up some alarms in the tunnels around our home," Mikey explained. "So we would know if anyone unexpected was walking towards our home. Gotta be careful if you're a mutant in the sewers." He grinned.
Silence fell on the group again as the passed into a shadowed street where the sun couldn't reach past the wide, tall buildings. It was slightly cooler down this street because the air was not yet warmed.
Leo suddenly stumbled but quickly regained his balance, smiling as they glanced at him.
"Still a little dizzy from the bang on the head," he said.
"Bang on the head? Concussion dude," Mikey said. "I guess the man did everything but sort out the medical problems."
Raph touched his forehead where the bandage should have been, and found it still painful. He looked at his scratched arms, remembering the injuries he had received had not gone. Then as he focused his eyes on the street ahead realized he did feel like collapsing as Leo had nearly just done. Leo, though, looked worse then he did.
"I don't think we should be finding the Foot after we've taken Prida home," Donny said, looking at his brother in blue. "I think you should go home and lay down."
"Yeah," Leo muttered, and then looked up to the end of the street. There was a humming noise, which was growing louder, and then a second later the cargo truck holding about twenty Foot soldiers sped around the corner and came right at them.
"Not again!" Mikey groaned as they all turned around and started to run in the opposite direction in the middle of the street.
But the truck was closing in fast, and the shouts from the soldiers grew louder. The truck was only meters behind!
"Split!" Leo yelled, ignoring the painful pounding in his head.
Casey, Raph and Mikey ran into an alleyway, while Leo, Donny and Prida moved closer to the sidewalk, running next to a line of parked cars. The truck decided to follow Leo's group, without hesitation. They were way too close, so Leo decided that Prida couldn't stay in the chase.
"Prida - stay between the cars!" He yelled, and pushed her in a gap between a red car and a black car. She made a noise as she landed, but she scrambled further into the gap and a second later the Foot truck roared past. She crawled off her butt onto her knees and stuck her head around the red car she was behind, watching as the truck caught up with Leo and Donny.
Raph, Mikey and Casey, realizing the truck wasn't following them, ran back out of the alley and looked along the street. They saw the truck, and they saw Leo still running. But where were Donny and Prida? The three took off after the truck and saw that Donny had been dragged into the open back of truck, struggling to free himself from the many hands that restrained him.
Raph and Mikey sped as fast as they could after the truck, Casey only just noticed Prida getting to her feet, a worried expression on her face.
"Stay there!" He said, and started to run after his pals again. Prida made a face between panic and the desperate urge to do something other than sit around between two cars.
Leo felt hands grab at his shell and arms, and a second later he had been pulled into the front of the truck, an arm was wrapped tightly around his neck as he struggled. His head was out the window, and he used his feet to kick the three soldiers who were fighting against him. He accidentally caught the driver in the face and the truck swerved dangerous.
Raph and Mikey managed to caught up to the truck as it slowed and skidded, then started to speed up. But the two turtles had already jumped into the back and were trying to free their brother. The truck swerved again as the driver was put off, and everyone in the back hit the left side of the struck, and then began to fight again.
"Whoa!" Mikey yelled as he was knocked onto his shell. His top torso slid out of the truck, and he was looking upside down at Casey who was a few meters away, trying to caught them up. Mikey glanced down at the streaming pavement below him.
"AGH!" He yelled.
Raph managed to grab his brother and pull him back up.
"Thanks -" Mikey said in a high voice. Then he yelled, "Whoa!" and pushed Raph aside as a Foot soldier came at them with a sharp object that would have made a mess of the two turtles. The Foot soldier lost his control and fell out the back of the speeding truck. Casey only just avoided him, but in doing so he lost his balance and went down, rolling and then jumped back up, taking his anger out on the disorientated Foot soldier he had tripped on.
Leo, who was still in the front of the truck, was trying to keep himself from being skewered on the end of a dagger one of the soldiers had pulled out from under the seat of the vehicle. His head was being forced out of the window by a hand wrapped around his neck, and his own hands were pushing the dagger away. He brought his knee up and kneed the soldier in the face. The dagger hand went limp and Leo rammed it into the edge of the widow. The dagger fell out of his hand and onto the road. Leo kicked again at the other two Foot members with such force the power of it sent the two into the driver, who lost control of the wheel. The truck rammed into a blue car, swerved to the right, skidded back to the left and drove full speed into the corner of a building. The front window glass shattered on Leo, and in the back everyone was propelled forward.
Then, the truck exploded into a bright ball of fire . . .