Author's Notes: This series is finally coming to an end I'm afraid. Only
one or two more chapters to go. Then I can work on some other ideas that
have been playing around in my head. Now, in this chapter there is a fight
scene. As you've probably guessed I'm not really great when it comes to
writing actions scenes and I'm sorry for that. Please, bear with me as I at
least attempt to try. Enjoy the chapter.
Chapter Sixteen: A Trap:
"All right guys, that's it for now." Casey said as he and the others relaxed.
The brothers and Venus were now pretty much tired out. Casey had given them a hard training lesson in human fighting. The turtles were all ready good in the martial arts, so Casey never bothered with that. He just showed them how they could improve on other ways of fighting. April ended up helping Venus as much as she could. She wasn't much of a fighter but she helped anyway. While this took place, Splinter stood on the sidelines, watching. He was impressed.
"I can't wait to turn back into a turtle." said Raph to Casey. He paused for breath and then continued: "That way I can beat the crap out of you for doing this to us."
"I thought you guys would be use to it." Casey replied.
"Yeah, but not as humans." Leo pointed out.
"Now, can we please look for the girls?" asked Mikey.
"We still don't know where they are." Donnie told him.
"So, we look." said Raph. "We can go and check out old fighting grounds."
"That would take too long." Leo said.
"I'm not just going to sit around and wait Leo." stated Raph. He went for the door, but he was stopped.
"We need to do some planning." Leo responded as he let go of his brother's arm.
"Guys, calm down please." April got in the middle of the two.
"Yes, please we can't be fighting each other." said Venus, going beside Leo.
The guys were about to continue their argument but they were stopped. The phone rang. Raph went to get it. "Hello."
An evil laughter broke out on the other end. He knew who what was. "Shredder." The others gathered around Raph, and listened.
"I think I have something that might belong to you." Shredder said to him. The sounds of Dawn yelling for help, and Buffy yelling it was a trap rang threw Raph's ear. "Don't even think of hurting them you son of -"
Shredder cut him off. "I would be nice if I were you. If you want to see them alive..."
"What do you want?" Raph demanded.
"If you want to see them alive come to the old headquarters." Click.
"Shredder!" yelled Raph into the phone. Shredder had hung up on him. He threw the phone back on to the hook. "Damn it!"
"What?" Mikey asked. "Are they okay?"
"I heard them yelling. Buffy says it's a trap." he informed the others. "Shredder says if we want to see them, we meet at the old headquarters."
"Then let's go." Mikey replied, he grabbed his weapons and headed out of the den.
"Wait, what if it is a trap?" asked Leo.
"Then it is. Are you coming or not?" Raph said and went to follow Mikey.
Donnie looked at Leo. The leader sighed, and he nodded. He turned to Venus. "I want you to stay here."
"Why?"
"I don't want you to get hurt that's why." Leo answered.
"I can fight."
"I know but it's different. Please don't be stubborn like Raph."
Venus turned to Splinter. "It's your choice."
Venus then agreed to stay. "I'll be with you." April said, "and we can wait together."
"You know I'm coming. I want to bash in some skull." replied Casey with a grin and grabbed a near by baseball bat.
"All right let's go then." Leo ordered and he, Donnie, and Casey went to follow Mikey and Raph.
April, and Venus, along with Splinter were now alone. Before the others left, April called out: "Be careful!" and then the brothers and Casey were gone.
"You know, Shredder should really invest in a decorator." Raph replied once he and the others were at Shredder's old headquarters.
"No kidding." said Mikey as they all looked around.
"Will you two be quiet." Leo ordered. "We have to be on the look out for Buffy and Dawn."
"I have a feeling he's all ready here." said Donnie as he looked around. "I don't like this."
"This is getting boring." Casey remarked, and then he yelled: "Come on out you piece of-!"
Lights flicked on, and the guys were surrounded by the foot. Raph glared at Casey. "You just had to do that didn't you?"
"What?" Casey asked and looked innocent. He then held up the bat. "Who's going to be first?"
Casey was about to make a move but he was stopped. "Nobody move." Shredder's voice came in and all turned to see him. A couple of foot soldiers held Buffy and Dawn.
"Let them go Shredder!" Raph ordered.
"Yeah! They didn't do anything to you!" yelled Mikey.
"Your fight is with us." Leo replied.
"Not anymore it isn't." said Shredder. He nodded to the foot soldiers and they threw the two girls to the guys.
"Are you okay?" Mikey asked Dawn.
"Yeah, I'm fine." answered Dawn.
"What about you?" Raph asked Buffy.
Buffy didn't say anything. Raph noticed she didn't look so well. Besides being kidnapped, he had a feeling something else was going on.
"So Shredder, why did you do this to us?" asked Leo.
Shredder laughed. "I had nothing to do with it."
"Yeah, right." Mikey replied and gave the Tin Can an eye roll.
"How about we stop talking and dance a little?" said Casey as he held his bat ready.
"Fine. Have it your way." That's when Shredder gave his soldiers orders to attack.
The turtles, Casey, and Buffy went into action. Dawn wanted to help but both Buffy and Mikey told her to stay back. She watched as most of the soldiers went down. She could also see that Mikey and Casey were having a little fun as they fought.
"11!" Casey shouted as he swung his bad across one of the soldier's faces and he went down.
"HA! 13!" said Mikey as another soldier went down because of his nun chucks.
"Is that the best you guys can do?" Buffy suddenly asked them and she laughed. "14!" punch, and kick one went down. "And 15!" another soldier went down.
Dawn wasn't the only one watching the fighting taking place. Shredder was also watching, and he was getting bored. He decided that it was his turn to join in. Dawn saw this.
"Guys! Look out!" she shouted.
The fighting came to a halt, as Shredder made his way through. The Foot Soldiers parted like the red sea. The turtles, Buffy, and Casey got ready. The turtles had faced him before, as well as Casey. They got in a few hits with him but it didn't do a lot of damage. Buffy, on the other hand, had never fought against Shredder, but she had her share of big baddies, and she thought he wouldn't be a problem.
"You know shinny metal things are really out this year." Buffy said to him as she blocked him from a punch. "Didn't you read last months issue of Vogue?" She did a round house kick that sent him down. "I guess not." she remarked as she stood over him.
Buffy jumped as Shredder went to kick her down. He got up and tried again. The turtles decided to help her out, along with Casey. Dawn watched as a whirl wind of punches and kicks were thrown. She could see that Shredder seemed to have his attention on her sister and went for her.
At one point, Shredder managed to get the Slayer down, as well as the others. He went towards Buffy. She slowly tried to get up. As she did so the Shredder raised his arm, he was going to get rid of this Slayer. Buffy got ready to block as he came down but something blocked his blades and he never got to Buffy's flesh.
"RAPH!" Dawn cried.
Everyone turned to see that Raph had blocked Shredder's blades. He had jumped and now the blades were in Raph's chest and when Shredder pulled them out everyone saw blood.
"NO!" cried Buffy as he collapsed in her arms.
Shredder laughed. "Another time." and before anyone could make a move the evil leader vanished in cloud of smoke along with his soldiers.
Leo, Don, Mikey, Casey, and Dawn went to Raph's side as Buffy held him. "You idiot. Why did you do that?" Buffy asked.
"Couldn't... Let him hurt you." replied Raph.
"I could have handled it." Buffy said as tears started to form in her eyes.
"Shredder is going to pay for this." promised Leo.
"We need to get him help." Mikey said.
"It's won't... help..." said Raph as he started cough. "I know I'm dying... I can feel it..."
"No... No... You're not." Buffy said. "We won't be able to fight anymore if you do."
Raph laughed a little. "We had some fun uh?" he asked as he stopped laughing. "I'm so... sorry for fighting with you."
"Shh... It's okay." Buffy told him as the tears began to fall.
"No... its not okay. I've caused so much trouble with you and that vampire..."
"Don't... It's okay he's gone now..." said Buffy.
"I'm so... so... sorry..." Raph said once again. He then added quietly all though the others could hear him. "I don't even get to die as a turtle..."
"We can get Shredder again and try to fix it." replied Donnie.
"There is no... time..." Raph said to everyone as he looked at them he could see all of them were crying. He smiled. "Who knew you guys would fuss over me..."
"You're our brother. Even though you are a pain in the butt." said Leo and placed a comforting hand on his brother's shoulder.
No one noticed as Dawn slowly made her way out of the circle. She was crying as well. She didn't know Raph as much as she did some of the others but he was still considered a friend. Dawn couldn't believe all of this was happening.
"No. No. No... make it right. Make it right." Dawn said to herself as she closed her eyes and shook her head. "Turn all of them back into turtles. Please!"
The teen witch began to chant the words of the spell and a bright orange light surrounded her. "Make it right. Make it right!"
The turtles, along with Casey and April turned their attention to Dawn. "Dawn!" Mikey shouted and went to her but the light blocked him from her.
"What's going on?" asked Raph weakly.
"Shh... Just be quiet. It's going to be fine." Buffy said to him, all ready knowing that Dawn was working on a spell.
The light that surrounded Dawn blasted from her to all the turtles, including Venus who was back at the den. The light bathed the turtles and after only a few seconds, they returned to their normal form. The light vanished and Dawn fainted. Mikey caught her before she hit the ground.
Buffy turned back to Raph, and she noticed something else. There was no more blood, and his wound that was caused by Shredder was gone. Raph slowly sat up and turned to Buffy.
"You're all right." Buffy replied as she placed a hand on Raph's check.
"AWWW!" the other brothers called out.
Raph and Buffy parted and he turned and glared at his brothers. Then Leo replied: "You guys we need to get back to the den. Splinter is probably worrying."
Everyone got up. Casey and Buffy went over to Mikey who still held Dawn. "Is she all right?" Buffy asked.
"She should be." answered Mikey.
"You want me to take her?" Casey asked.
"No. I have her." Mikey said to him.
The turtles, Casey, and Buffy headed back to the den. Things were back to normal. The turtles just wondered why Dawn would do that to them. When they returned to the den, they would find out.
To Be Continued...
Chapter Sixteen: A Trap:
"All right guys, that's it for now." Casey said as he and the others relaxed.
The brothers and Venus were now pretty much tired out. Casey had given them a hard training lesson in human fighting. The turtles were all ready good in the martial arts, so Casey never bothered with that. He just showed them how they could improve on other ways of fighting. April ended up helping Venus as much as she could. She wasn't much of a fighter but she helped anyway. While this took place, Splinter stood on the sidelines, watching. He was impressed.
"I can't wait to turn back into a turtle." said Raph to Casey. He paused for breath and then continued: "That way I can beat the crap out of you for doing this to us."
"I thought you guys would be use to it." Casey replied.
"Yeah, but not as humans." Leo pointed out.
"Now, can we please look for the girls?" asked Mikey.
"We still don't know where they are." Donnie told him.
"So, we look." said Raph. "We can go and check out old fighting grounds."
"That would take too long." Leo said.
"I'm not just going to sit around and wait Leo." stated Raph. He went for the door, but he was stopped.
"We need to do some planning." Leo responded as he let go of his brother's arm.
"Guys, calm down please." April got in the middle of the two.
"Yes, please we can't be fighting each other." said Venus, going beside Leo.
The guys were about to continue their argument but they were stopped. The phone rang. Raph went to get it. "Hello."
An evil laughter broke out on the other end. He knew who what was. "Shredder." The others gathered around Raph, and listened.
"I think I have something that might belong to you." Shredder said to him. The sounds of Dawn yelling for help, and Buffy yelling it was a trap rang threw Raph's ear. "Don't even think of hurting them you son of -"
Shredder cut him off. "I would be nice if I were you. If you want to see them alive..."
"What do you want?" Raph demanded.
"If you want to see them alive come to the old headquarters." Click.
"Shredder!" yelled Raph into the phone. Shredder had hung up on him. He threw the phone back on to the hook. "Damn it!"
"What?" Mikey asked. "Are they okay?"
"I heard them yelling. Buffy says it's a trap." he informed the others. "Shredder says if we want to see them, we meet at the old headquarters."
"Then let's go." Mikey replied, he grabbed his weapons and headed out of the den.
"Wait, what if it is a trap?" asked Leo.
"Then it is. Are you coming or not?" Raph said and went to follow Mikey.
Donnie looked at Leo. The leader sighed, and he nodded. He turned to Venus. "I want you to stay here."
"Why?"
"I don't want you to get hurt that's why." Leo answered.
"I can fight."
"I know but it's different. Please don't be stubborn like Raph."
Venus turned to Splinter. "It's your choice."
Venus then agreed to stay. "I'll be with you." April said, "and we can wait together."
"You know I'm coming. I want to bash in some skull." replied Casey with a grin and grabbed a near by baseball bat.
"All right let's go then." Leo ordered and he, Donnie, and Casey went to follow Mikey and Raph.
April, and Venus, along with Splinter were now alone. Before the others left, April called out: "Be careful!" and then the brothers and Casey were gone.
"You know, Shredder should really invest in a decorator." Raph replied once he and the others were at Shredder's old headquarters.
"No kidding." said Mikey as they all looked around.
"Will you two be quiet." Leo ordered. "We have to be on the look out for Buffy and Dawn."
"I have a feeling he's all ready here." said Donnie as he looked around. "I don't like this."
"This is getting boring." Casey remarked, and then he yelled: "Come on out you piece of-!"
Lights flicked on, and the guys were surrounded by the foot. Raph glared at Casey. "You just had to do that didn't you?"
"What?" Casey asked and looked innocent. He then held up the bat. "Who's going to be first?"
Casey was about to make a move but he was stopped. "Nobody move." Shredder's voice came in and all turned to see him. A couple of foot soldiers held Buffy and Dawn.
"Let them go Shredder!" Raph ordered.
"Yeah! They didn't do anything to you!" yelled Mikey.
"Your fight is with us." Leo replied.
"Not anymore it isn't." said Shredder. He nodded to the foot soldiers and they threw the two girls to the guys.
"Are you okay?" Mikey asked Dawn.
"Yeah, I'm fine." answered Dawn.
"What about you?" Raph asked Buffy.
Buffy didn't say anything. Raph noticed she didn't look so well. Besides being kidnapped, he had a feeling something else was going on.
"So Shredder, why did you do this to us?" asked Leo.
Shredder laughed. "I had nothing to do with it."
"Yeah, right." Mikey replied and gave the Tin Can an eye roll.
"How about we stop talking and dance a little?" said Casey as he held his bat ready.
"Fine. Have it your way." That's when Shredder gave his soldiers orders to attack.
The turtles, Casey, and Buffy went into action. Dawn wanted to help but both Buffy and Mikey told her to stay back. She watched as most of the soldiers went down. She could also see that Mikey and Casey were having a little fun as they fought.
"11!" Casey shouted as he swung his bad across one of the soldier's faces and he went down.
"HA! 13!" said Mikey as another soldier went down because of his nun chucks.
"Is that the best you guys can do?" Buffy suddenly asked them and she laughed. "14!" punch, and kick one went down. "And 15!" another soldier went down.
Dawn wasn't the only one watching the fighting taking place. Shredder was also watching, and he was getting bored. He decided that it was his turn to join in. Dawn saw this.
"Guys! Look out!" she shouted.
The fighting came to a halt, as Shredder made his way through. The Foot Soldiers parted like the red sea. The turtles, Buffy, and Casey got ready. The turtles had faced him before, as well as Casey. They got in a few hits with him but it didn't do a lot of damage. Buffy, on the other hand, had never fought against Shredder, but she had her share of big baddies, and she thought he wouldn't be a problem.
"You know shinny metal things are really out this year." Buffy said to him as she blocked him from a punch. "Didn't you read last months issue of Vogue?" She did a round house kick that sent him down. "I guess not." she remarked as she stood over him.
Buffy jumped as Shredder went to kick her down. He got up and tried again. The turtles decided to help her out, along with Casey. Dawn watched as a whirl wind of punches and kicks were thrown. She could see that Shredder seemed to have his attention on her sister and went for her.
At one point, Shredder managed to get the Slayer down, as well as the others. He went towards Buffy. She slowly tried to get up. As she did so the Shredder raised his arm, he was going to get rid of this Slayer. Buffy got ready to block as he came down but something blocked his blades and he never got to Buffy's flesh.
"RAPH!" Dawn cried.
Everyone turned to see that Raph had blocked Shredder's blades. He had jumped and now the blades were in Raph's chest and when Shredder pulled them out everyone saw blood.
"NO!" cried Buffy as he collapsed in her arms.
Shredder laughed. "Another time." and before anyone could make a move the evil leader vanished in cloud of smoke along with his soldiers.
Leo, Don, Mikey, Casey, and Dawn went to Raph's side as Buffy held him. "You idiot. Why did you do that?" Buffy asked.
"Couldn't... Let him hurt you." replied Raph.
"I could have handled it." Buffy said as tears started to form in her eyes.
"Shredder is going to pay for this." promised Leo.
"We need to get him help." Mikey said.
"It's won't... help..." said Raph as he started cough. "I know I'm dying... I can feel it..."
"No... No... You're not." Buffy said. "We won't be able to fight anymore if you do."
Raph laughed a little. "We had some fun uh?" he asked as he stopped laughing. "I'm so... sorry for fighting with you."
"Shh... It's okay." Buffy told him as the tears began to fall.
"No... its not okay. I've caused so much trouble with you and that vampire..."
"Don't... It's okay he's gone now..." said Buffy.
"I'm so... so... sorry..." Raph said once again. He then added quietly all though the others could hear him. "I don't even get to die as a turtle..."
"We can get Shredder again and try to fix it." replied Donnie.
"There is no... time..." Raph said to everyone as he looked at them he could see all of them were crying. He smiled. "Who knew you guys would fuss over me..."
"You're our brother. Even though you are a pain in the butt." said Leo and placed a comforting hand on his brother's shoulder.
No one noticed as Dawn slowly made her way out of the circle. She was crying as well. She didn't know Raph as much as she did some of the others but he was still considered a friend. Dawn couldn't believe all of this was happening.
"No. No. No... make it right. Make it right." Dawn said to herself as she closed her eyes and shook her head. "Turn all of them back into turtles. Please!"
The teen witch began to chant the words of the spell and a bright orange light surrounded her. "Make it right. Make it right!"
The turtles, along with Casey and April turned their attention to Dawn. "Dawn!" Mikey shouted and went to her but the light blocked him from her.
"What's going on?" asked Raph weakly.
"Shh... Just be quiet. It's going to be fine." Buffy said to him, all ready knowing that Dawn was working on a spell.
The light that surrounded Dawn blasted from her to all the turtles, including Venus who was back at the den. The light bathed the turtles and after only a few seconds, they returned to their normal form. The light vanished and Dawn fainted. Mikey caught her before she hit the ground.
Buffy turned back to Raph, and she noticed something else. There was no more blood, and his wound that was caused by Shredder was gone. Raph slowly sat up and turned to Buffy.
"You're all right." Buffy replied as she placed a hand on Raph's check.
"AWWW!" the other brothers called out.
Raph and Buffy parted and he turned and glared at his brothers. Then Leo replied: "You guys we need to get back to the den. Splinter is probably worrying."
Everyone got up. Casey and Buffy went over to Mikey who still held Dawn. "Is she all right?" Buffy asked.
"She should be." answered Mikey.
"You want me to take her?" Casey asked.
"No. I have her." Mikey said to him.
The turtles, Casey, and Buffy headed back to the den. Things were back to normal. The turtles just wondered why Dawn would do that to them. When they returned to the den, they would find out.
To Be Continued...