The Cat.
Chapter Six: M.I.A.?
Mikey woke with a start, that same dream he'd had two nights before kept recurring every time he tried to sleep, and now Raph was missing. Leo and Donnie were out looking for him top side along with Casey and Splinter and April were looking for him in the sewers. Raph took off a lot but it was unlike him to stay out for two nights and a day in a row unless there was a very good reason. Mikey sighed trying to push the graphic pictures out of his mind so that he could relax a little and turned on the TV's. The first thing he turned on was a news report and as he was about to turn over it flicked to a frighteningly familiar face of a red headed girl that he'd seen in his dreams, he turned the volume up to see what they were saying about her.
"No no no no," he whispered shaking his head not wanting to hear what the news girl was saying but also needing to.
"So far there has been no reports of any kind of ransom demands for the young Miss. Roberts, all we have been told is that between the time of ten and eleven o'clock a team of men attacked the hotel premises and took her hostage, there are rumors that a young man was also spirited away with her, the police have released a statement claiming that they will do everything in their power to get the young billion-heiress back home safe and sound, they are also asking that anyone with any information about a missing boy that may have been at the party to come forward to give information. . . . " Click. He dropped the remote not caring where it went and curled up into a ball, the images from his dreams were going through his mind. Mikey jammed his eyes shut and put his hand over his ears, he started to rock gently backwards and forwards and tears started forming as the tall cat figure started tearing into Raph again.
A dejected April and Splinter entered through the sewer entrance having found no sign of Raphael. As they got further into the lair Splinter heard a small and faint whimpering sound coming from the couch and went over to investigate, followed by April.
"My son, What is wrong?" He asked when he saw Michealangelo in such obvious distress.
"He's gone." He said so quietly it was hard for them to hear, his voice was thick with sorrow.
"Who Mikey?" April asked him already knowing the answer.
"Raph." Was the simple answer, and he hugged himself tighter trying to get the last image out of his mind. In his mind's eyes he could still see a lifeless corpse that had once been his brother, his body in shreds and eyes staring out into space all glazed like glass.
"We'll find him Mikey," April reassured as she placed her arms around his shoulders and hugged him tightly, "you'll see." Just then, as if on cue Leo, Donnie and Casey returned their faces telling Splinter that they had had as much luck as he and April had.
"Did you find any sign, my sons." Leo looked away and clenched his fists blaming himself for his missing brother and Donnie took the initiative.
"I'm afraid all we found was the shell cycle," Donnie paused to watch Leonardo walk off to his room and disappear and sighed, "we found his shell cell in the storage compartment under the seat too so we can't even track him. . ."
"Ahh it's hopeless, Raphie could be out there dyin' for all we know and we got no way o findin' him!" Casey smashed his fist into the nearest wall causing it to bleed. All through this April was conscious that Mikey had been listening intently to what his brother and Casey had been saying, all the while he was shaking and the tears grew worse.
"Here Casey," Donnie changed the subject when he noticed how Mikey was taking the news, "let me patch that up." Splinter sighed and tried to ignore the feeling of dread in his stomach for his most rash of sons and went to talk to Leonardo.
Leo was sitting on his bed studying the swords that Raphael had helped him make. He'd really helped him up at that farm house and Leo didn't think he'd still be fighting with them if it wasn't for Raph, sure they argued all the time and sure they'd fought each other physically more than once but underneath all the macho talk Raph spewed out Leo knew there was a heart of gold. Someone you could depend on no matter what and someone who loved all of them very much, he couldn't bare to think that Raph might never come back, that he could be lying dead somewhere and not have the dignity of a grave or a funeral. He wiped away the tears forming in his eyes knowing that Raph would call him a big wuss, if he was here. Splinter approached his son and placed a comforting hand on the turtle's shoulder, Leonardo jumped a little and looked away not wanting his sensie, his father to see his moment of weakness.
"He has to come back sensie, we have to find him!" Leo said still biting back the tears.
"We will Leonardo," Splinter said softly, "we will."
Donnie meanwhile had finished cleaning Casey's hand and had left him and April to help Mikey back to his room, not that he seemed to need much anymore. He got into the elevator and went up to street level, once there he walked over to the shell cycle that he'd made with Raph in mind and ran his hand over the sleek body of the machine, he picked up the helmet that had been left on the floor and placed it lovingly on the seat of the vehicle, then he walked past it and sat against the wall facing it, pulling his knees up to his chin and wrapping his arms around his legs.
"Why'd you go Raph?" Don asked the bike quietly, "why couldn't you stay, why'd you have to loose you're temper again." Donnie buried his face into his knees and closed his eyes trying to remember every detail of his brother so that if he didn't come back he would never forget anything, he'd always be there in his mind, imprinted like a portrait.
Nikki woke up for what felt like the thousandth time, everything ached and I mean everything. She knew they were doing some sort of tests on her but she'd get through that, what bothered her was that Raph had been with her when the men had attacked and she had no clue as to whether or not they had brought him here too. She hoped not as she felt sick of the thought that they could be doing similar experiments on him, causing him pain. She looked out of the one solitary, tiny barred window and saw that it was around midday, as far as she knew she'd been here for at least a week if not longer, she'd lost count of the days a while ago and was going on an educated guess. If she was at home she supposed that she'd be going off to her new school for the autumn semester by now. She jumped as a the door made a loud clanking sound and she tried to sit up as a man in a white coat came in flanked by two muscular guards with guns.
"Don't worry my dear you won't feel a thing," the man in the white coat said as he took a syringe out, "at least not until you wake up." He filled the syringe and she struggle harder to get up causing one of the guards to walk over and hold her down. Ordinarily she could take him but her body was too weak from the drugs now constantly in her body to keep her sedated. She felt the needle enter her body and felt the wave of darkness envelope her. One of the guards hoisted the limp body over his shoulder and followed the doctor towards a lab.
Raphael watched as a man on the other side of a glass window walked past with a limp body over his shoulder, there was no mistaking the red hair or the owner, "No, Nikki," he thought to himself, "I'm sorry." He pulled at the bonds strapping him to the table in the lab and looked over to the doctor in his room, "I gotta get out o here, gotta save Nik." The doctor finished what he was doing and attached some sort of device to his arms and legs and flicked switch. Raph didn't want to scream but found his body betrayed him and he heard himself before he knew what was happening, he felt painful sores developing around his wrists and ankles and panted for breath when the doctor turned off the machine only to repeat the process over and over again till he passed out.
Across the facility a young girl crept along the hallway hoping to get to freedom somehow, she also didn't know how long she'd been here, but she did know these people had murdered her parents and she was here because she possessed ESP (extra sensory perception/telepathy). They had run test after test on her, they had interrogated her but as her mother had begged her to do before the men had shot her Christina hadn't said a word the whole time she'd been here and had suppressed her powers to such an extent that she had the feeling it wouldn't be long before she would be joining her parents. The only reason she was escaping now was because there'd been a power cut, one of many, she hadn't a clue what was causing them but she did know that when the power was off so were the psionic detectors and dampeners, which meant she could use her powers a. without them knowing and b. to their full extent. This was extremely useful as without her powers she was totally and utterly blind, she'd been born that way and until she'd developed her powers she'd lived in the dark and there was no way after all the effort she'd put in to just seeing that she was going to let someone take it all away from her now. She stopped for a moment at a door and peered around, on the table was what looked like a giant male turtle and he was strapped down to it. Chrissy bit her lip, she had two choices, she could leave and get help which would probably condemn this guy to death or she could help him and they both escape. She reached out her mind and put the occupants of the room into a deep sleep then she went over to the turtle. She undid his bonds and reached out again to wake him up and get rid of the effects of the drugs he'd been given. His eyes snapped open and he lunged for her grabbing her neck, but let go when he saw the doctor out cold in a heap on the floor.
"Who. . . ?" He asked weakly.
"There's no time we have to go." Chrissy said urgently. Raph took his savior in, she was about five foot, can't have been more than fourteen, she had long, thick, wavy brown hair, and gray eyes that were just a little too gray. She went to the door way and looked around the coast was clear, "Come on." He got up and unsteadily walked over to her side and they followed the corridor to the right, noticing that they were heading in the same direction as the creep carrying Nikki.
"Thanks for the rescue but I gotta save a friend of mine, you with me or do you wanna meet me outside o this place." Chrissy gave him a look that said 'great as if I don't have enough problems'.
"Sure," she said to his surprise, "I'm not leaving anyone for these creeps." They followed the corridor around and found the room easily enough and Chrissy took out another doctor with her mind, amazing Raph in the process.
Raph cursed every word he knew of when he saw his friend, her beautiful dress was in shreds what was left barely decent. Her body had new and old bruises everywhere and she was also out cold. Chrissy reached out her mind as Raph undid the bonds and picked Nikki up in his arms. She stirred, looked up at him allowing him to cradle her against him whilst the fog cleared in her brain. The three carried on through the facility and Chrissy led them to where she knew there was an exit through a garage where they could steal a car or something to get away with. One more room before they reached the garage, it was a large empty space that looked like it was occasionally used as storage, Chrissy and Raph, with Nikki still safe in his arms, ran towards the open door on the other side of the room, but just as they were about to reach it the door slid shut and locked and the other shut behind them trapping them inside the room to meet their fates.
Woo sorry if it's a little long winded but where I was originally going to stop it was too short and then I couldn't get to a suitable point to stop until now. Anywho, hope you like it, please review. Toodles, Angel xx.