My Brother's Child.

Chapter six: Against My Will!

The nine mutants gathered in the briefing room first thing that morning, the professor went through all the information he could give the newcomers to the team, namely the turtles, and gave the four communication devices to keep in contact if and when they got separated. Then Jessica carried on with how they would get into the lab and get their brother and Clarice out along with any other test subjects that were there. Raph only half listened he was still exhausted but no one could talk him out of going to save his brother, being the eldest was hard. That's why as kids he'd always believed that he would be the leader because he was the eledest but as he and his brother's grew it became clear that Leonardo was more suited to the job. That was why when Leo disappeared he'd tried to follow in his younger brother's footsteps by trying to look after his family the only way he knew how, by fighting. He thought back to earlier that morning when they were saying their farewells to Splinter and the girls who would look after him. Cat had wanted to go with him but he wouldn't let her he used his aging sensei as the excuse for her to stay, Splinter was getting old and therefore frail so they rarely left him on his own anymore in case anything happened whilst they were out.

"So are we ready?" Jessica looked in his direction knowing full well he hadn't heard a thing.

"Huh, uh, yeah sure." he replied. They followed Scot Summers along the hall of the underground complex to a hanger bay where the Blackbird jet was kept and Raph hid a smile at Donnie's enthusiasm, Don was in his element with all this technology around. They got into the jet and took off heading for japan.

"Won't a lab of that caliber have some sort of radar," Donnie asked after a time, "so will we have to land further away or have you already planned for that?" The X-Men and Jessica smiled.

"As I told Logan on his first mission," Scot said still looking ahead at the view screen, "anyone who can detect this ship deserves to find us!" Donnie looked on in awe as they sped along at super sonic speed and barely notice his other brothers. Mikey was watching the earth fly past and marveled at how beautiful it was wishing he could walk around and explore it like any other kid his age, Raph was fast asleep next to Jessica who decided it best to keep it that way and let him get his rest for the fight ahead. All the planning in the world can't make a mission go how you want to and something inevitably goes wrong, and something told her this mission would be no exception.

It took them a matter of hours to get to Japan, they flew over Tokyo and hung a left over Chiba, then over Yokohama and soon after were landing at the foot of the mountain they were heading for. The lab was built into the mountain with about three floors above ground and a further six underground. It didn't take them long to reach the building itself and bypassing the guards was an easy task to undertake with Jessica around. Once inside they activated their comms and carried on along the first corridor. The turtles had been warned that the X-Men's powers would not work inside the building so Jessica and Donatello (Logan) would separate from them at the start and find the device blocking their mutant powers. The group said their good lucks headed in their separate directions.

In a control room on the top level a man with blonde-white hair in a ponytail sat and watched as his newest toy's prey entered the building totally unaware that they were being watched by the hundreds of microscopic cameras hidden in the walls. A scientist stood behind him also watched hoping that his latest work for his benefactor would be successful, there was a chance that the blonde psychic would be able to override the chip embedded in his spin where it met his skull, however as he had informed his employer, Justin Powers the chip would work for a total of ten hours until the subject needed to be recharged, or given rest and sustenance. Powers pressed a button on his desk and a door slid open behind him revealing a figure in the shadows.

"Go slave and destroy my enemies." The figure nodded and the door closed again.

"What do we do now Powers San?" asked the scientist.

"We enjoy the show Nagi." Powers stated, "whether the chip is totally successful or not will soon be revealed, but either way if these fools do manage to rescue him and the girl then he will have to live with the fact that he attacked his own kin. If it looks like they will rescue him at any point then we will set him on the girl and the child, once they are dead it won't matter if they have him back he will destroy himself anyway."

"Who do you wish me to set him on first Powers San?" Nagi eyed the screen showing each of the intruders. Powers narrowed his eyes at the one that stole his father's creation from him over two years ago.

"The one with the red bandana, his is the child's father and his lover is a particularly nasty thorn in my side," powers smiled, "set my new pet on his own brother I'll find it quite enjoyable."

Nagi bowed and left heading for his lab to over see the assassin's actions. What he failed to notice was the young woman disappearing around the corner and heading to the elevators intent on freeing a small child in her care. Her name was Asaka Tomo she had been employed here as a lab assistant but when she had found out what went on in the lower levels she had threatened to go to the police, of course then her family were threatened and she agreed to keep quiet, now she cared for some of the prisoners in this god forsaken place. She said a quick prayer to her ancestors asking for strength and when the elevator doors opened on the correct level went to find her latest charge along with another prisoner.

"Sasami?" she whispered, "are you in there?" she asked in Japanese and looked around the cell.

"Tomo?" a small voice asked. Tomo smiled and unlocked the door with her security key and went inside.

"You must listen to me very carefully little one," Sasami nodded at woman who took such good care of her, "remember I told you of your parents," she nodded again,"one is here and I must get you to him, but he is here to save your uncle that I showed you and his friend also so we must find them quickly before you're uncle finds them."

"My uncle turned bad by the bad doctor?" Sasami asked, also in Japanese, although Tomo had made a point of trying to teach the child English once she had found out who her parents were.

"Yes Sami you're uncle is bad now, but he doesn't want to be and we will help him somehow." Tomo answered reluctantly not sure if the toddler would understand.

"I want save uncle!" Sami smiled at her and led Tomo out of the cell and down the hall where she and Tomo had seen the guards take her uncle's friend Blink. Inside Blink was curled up with the blanket Leo had wrapped around her shoulders the day before and held it tightly in place, she cried quietly into her knees and looked like she hadn't slept in days, Tomo sighed and wondered, not for the first time, how these monsters slept at night.

"Blink San." Blink looked up at the vaguely familiar face, "quickly we must leave!"

"Who. . . ?" Blink asked but was cut off.

"There is no time girl we must go now," Blink noticed the woman in front of her spoke quite poor English but she understood it, "before it is too late we must get you to you're friends and warn them of what has happened to Leonardo San!" Blink rose slowly to her feet and kept the sheet around her to cover her naked body and followed the woman. On the way Tomo stopped at the women's locker room and grabbed her spare set of clothes from her locked and Blink put them on and they continued.

Elsewhere Raphael had become separated from the group and was lost in what reminded him of a maze it seemed to be never ending and he swore that passages that weren't blocked one moment were the next he growled in frustration and broke into a jog. He cursed himself as he was caught off guard by someone behind him, he fell to the floor from the blow to his shell and was momentarily winded, however he had no time to get up for the attacker was still coming, he could hear his footsteps approaching and only just dodged a single katana as it brushed passed his face the attacker jumped back and crouched, sword at the ready for Raph's next move, but Raph didn't have one, after all how could he fight his own brother when that brother looked bent set on killing him?

"Leo?" His brother didn't answer but the glare he received was cold and soulless, something had happened to Leo and whoever had done this to him would pay dearly, that he swore before he was attacked again and he started to block the best he could.

Jessica didn't like this at all everything was going way too well. Someone should have noticed something by now, ordinarily she would have been able to sense people and cameras watching her, but now she was mentally blind as she was when she was a small child and it unnerved her.

"Miss Fury?" Donnie as he worked at a lock on a door.

"Call me Jess Kid." She smiled down at him.

"Uh, Jess," he continued a bit intimidated by the taller blonde, "I'm confused, why weren't any of you or the people at the Xavier institute afraid of us? I mean a lot of people are and I know you're different too but at least you seem to look like normal people and you can fit in and. . "

"Trust me kid," she cut him off to stop him babbling, "I've seen far stranger in this world than you, there's a guy named Kurt, he's visiting his home land right now but he's all blue, got elf ears and a long pointed tail. I'm told some people have accused him of being a demon but he's a religious fanatic, he loves his God so it just shows you should never judge a person by looks alone. There are good and bad in all things not just those that are different." Donnie nodded and then grinned as the electronic lock clicked open.

"We're in!" He stepped aside and glanced into the room which was dark but with his trained eyes he could see it was also empty.

"Not bad kid," Jess said as he jokingly bowed and signaled for her to go first, "not bad at all!"

"Thanks, now lets see where that limiter machine is so we can get the rest of our team on a level playing field." They each headed to a different console and they started to type.

Wolverine sniffed the air their missing teammate was around somewhere he could smell the fear, but the kid didn't strike him as the fearing type and that worried him. From what Kim had told them the turtles could definitely take care of themselves but the one named Raphael looked like he hadn't had a good nights sleep for weeks, months even and although he could probably watch someone's back he was in no way capable of one on one combat alone. Thankfully their fearless leader Cyclops had realized this and had sent him after the stray turtle. There was a crash to his right and he ran to see if he was in luck to find one beat up, unconscious turtle lying on the ground and a broken glass pane nearby. Wolverine narrowed his eyes and looked around, he sniffed the air again and was surprised to pick up a similar scent to Raphael's. Almost too quick to block a figure leapt out of the shadows and sliced at his side with a sword Wolverine growled in pain and jumped back to pull Raphael over to a wall, he sat him up against the wall and checked he was still alive and breathing, never taking his eyes away from the direction his assailant had gone. He growled once more then approached the middle of the room. He glanced back at Raph for a moment when he heard him groan.

"Oh man my head." Wolverine smiled, then dodged as his attacker advanced again he caught the blade with his claws and sliced through it with them, "No! Logan it's my brother something's wrong with him. . ," Raph tried to get to his feet but his head was spinning too much and he had little success, "we gotta help him, so ya can't hurt him!"

"I'll say something's wrong the kids lost it!" Logan blocked Leo's fists and legs as the other turtle fought him hand to hand now.

"Please, we've gotta help him. . . " Raph leant his head against the wall and tried to stop the spinning, he felt a warm liquid trickle down his face and found a large cut on his forehead, holding his hand there he closed his eyes and hoped that this Wolverine would listen to him.

Tomo and Blink ran to the elevators, Tomo carried Sasami in her arms as they ran. They turned the last corner that would lead them to the elevator and Clarice ran head first into Cyclops.

"Scot!" She yelled and flung her arms around his neck, "you came for me!"

"Or course we did child," Storm told her, also receiving a warm hug, "and Leonardo's family have come for him too." Her expression changed as soon as Storm uttered the words and Blink looked once at Mikey then at the floor.

"What's wrong?" Scot asked picking up how uncomfortable she was.

"Leonardo San is no longer his own self." The Japanese woman told him, "One of the doctors here is controlling him with a chip in his spine, they implant it last night, he is Powers San's new assassin."

"What!" Mikey said in a pained voice, "but it can be reversed, right?"

"Yes but specialist must do it," Tomo answered, "if not removed right could lose him forever." It was then Mikey noticed the little girl in her arms.

"Hey little one," he said putting on his best smile for the petrified looking girl, "and who are you?"

"I'm Sasami," she said looking at him intently, "are you my daddy?"

"Huh?!"

"Is you're name Raphael?" Tomo asked coming to her sense and kicking herself for not having mentioned in in the first instance.

"No I'm Michelangelo, Raph's my brother," Mikey looked at the girl and then back at Tomo, "why?"

"This is Raphael San's daughter," She paused a moment to let the turtle with the orange bandana recover from what she'd just told him, "her mother's name Nicole San, they create her here using their DNA then use her as a test subject."

"Oh man," Mikey came up to Sasami and brushed a stray strand of hair from his niece's face and she smiled at him, "hi, I'm you're uncle Mikey, and we'll take good care of you!" He smiled again and then took her from Tomo's arms. Sasami smiled and slipped her arms around his neck and cuddled in.

"Miss?" Cyclops interrupted the heart warming scene

"I am called Tomo." She bowed politely.

"Tomo, is there any way we can stop him if they are controlling him, without hurting him?"

"There might be," she thought for a moment, "but you would have to get to Nagi San's lab and use his controls it's on the top level on west side."

"Right," Cyclops nodded and then activated his comm around his ear, "Jessica?"

"You rang boss?" Jess said as she hacked a file on the computer she was working on.

"Very funny Jess," he said rolling his eyes, "how close are you to getting that limiter off-line?"

"Give us thirty seconds or so aaannd weee're done!" Cyclops felt his body react and his powers return as did Storm.

"Good I need you and Donatello to go up to the top level and find a man named Nagi, he's apparently on the west side of the building you have to find some controls it seems they have turned Leonardo into some sort of assassin and at the moment there's no telling how much control over his actions he has," Jessica looked over to Donnie and she saw how much this small snippet of news was effecting him and she hoped that they would be able to get his family back to normal once more, they may not be orthodox but it was obvious they all cared for each other very much and she new that was what she treasured more than anything in this world, "we have to be careful as well we have no idea how the chip in his spine works so try to be subtle Jess."

"Ha! I'm a telepath the creep won't even know I'm there until it's too late." Jessica said with a smirk, she was a Shield agent subtlety was part of the job description. She looked over at Donnie, "Shall we?"

"They must be on to us by now what if they try to kill Leo before we get to him?" He wrung his hands nervously as he said this and felt sick at the thought of finally finding his brother only to lose him again.

"Then we take the short route."

"Huh?" Donnie looked at her skeptically. Jessica grinned at him and reached out with her mind to find the man they were looking for once found she flared her powers and they were behind him in an instant. Jessica lifted her hand and half clenched her fist, Donnie was just about to ask what she was doing when the scientist in front of them made a garbled shout and dropped to the floor unconscious.

"Now let's see," Jessica started to type but found she was blocked out, Donnie took over to see what he could and continued the process, in the mean time Jess found the doctor's PC and hacked into that to see what she could find.

Wolverine was no where near tiring but unfortunately neither was Leonardo and he had to give him credit he was good, very good. Leo moved like lightening and they both fell through a window out into the court yard of the complex. Raph opened his eyes saw it as it happened, Wolverine was passed out on the ground and Leo had caught a flag pole rope as he fell and he then jumped back into the room where his target, his brother, was. Raph saw him and knew he couldn't fight him, he held back tears as Leo picked up what was left of the sword he had been using and advanced on his brother again. Raph desperately searched his brother's eyes for some kind of recognition, anything that told him, Leo wasn't gone when he was about three feet away Leo stopped and there it was the old Leo, the one they'd been searching for, just for a moment but he was there Raph knew he was still in there somewhere but hauntingly as quickly as he saw it Leo's eyes grew cold once again and he shivered.

Blink had activated her powers almost as soon as the limiter had been deactivated she searched every room she could find opening portals to the ones she knew. She came to a broken glass wall and jumped through and there he was, he stood there poised to strike a broken blade in hand just as deadly as it had been whole and beyond him, broken and battered was his brother whom she assumed must be Raphael.

"Don't do this bro," He was close to tears as he spoke, "you're strong, nobody can control you, so fight it bro, please, we. . I need you!" but Leo couldn't here him all he could here were his orders from his new master, to kill his target.

"Leo," Blink opened a portal and jumped in front of him to try and stop him from hurting his own brother, "don. . " she was stopped as the broken blade slipped easily through her shoulder. She gasped as he pulled it out and lifted his hand once more to finish the job. Raph watched on in horror as Leo prepared to murder the girl he could only guess was Clarice, or Blink as they said her nickname was, but before he could deal out the fatal blow Wolverine appeared and pushed him out of the way and pinned him to the ground.

Jessica finished loading all the information she could find about the chip on to a spare disk she found and turned to Donnie who had finally gained access.

"Can you deactivate it?" he asked standing behind him.

"I think so just let me. . . there."

Leo screamed in pain and held his head before blacking out. A few moments later he came too and gingerly rose to his feet. He looked around, by now Mikey, Scot, Storm, Tomo and Sasami were there also and they were crowded around something. He shook his head trying to remember what had just happened but everything was hazy. He noticed Donnie and a blonde girl suddenly appear as if from nowhere and join the crowd. He slowly made his way over and saw a woman with white hair helping Raph who looked awful and for some reason he felt guilty, then he saw her, Blink laying in a pool of her own blood, her light purple skin three shades lighter than usual and her beautiful hair mixing in with the blood.

"I did this, didn't I" he said with cold dread clutching at his heart, and all heads turned to him, "I. . hurt my brother, my friend I. . I. . ." flashes of the fight suddenly played out in his mind and it was all too much for him. Now he knew he would never be loved he was a murderous monster and didn't deserve to live, he fell to his knees and wept. No one knew what to him say save one, Sasami walked over to her new uncle and hugged him.

"It not you're fault, the bad man made you do it. We forgive you le'nardo"

In Japan the surname is spoken first and then the first name, that is why Splinter's sensei was called Yoshi and not Homato.

Hello, sorry about the little hiccup with chapter five, not intentional obviously, but hey here's the real one. This one took me all night, phew well I hope to get the next chapter up as soon as I get the chance. I hope you're still enjoying it! By the way sorry to any Leo fans I do like him but unfortunately I love to be cruel so he's gonna be messed up for a while! Anywho please review. Toodles, Angel