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Ch. 8 - Plans

Drip, drip, drip. . .

Leo woke up to the rain dripping onto him. Looking up, he noticed that he was lying on the street. Daylight was approaching and he realized that he had to get back to the sewers soon, before anyone noticed a large turtle on the sidewalk. But, first he went over to check on April to see if she was okay.

"Yea, nothing a little aspirin won't cure. What happened? Where's Brianna?" She replied. The last thing she remembered was Brianna and Leo kicking the foot's butt.

"They have her. It's all my fault," He answered as he sighed, remembering how he had seen her being carried away by the foot.

"I'm sure you did everything that you could. We'll get her back,"

"Yes we will. But it is my fault. If I had kept a closer eye on her or something, maybe-" He said as tears started to form in his eyes, if such a thing was possible.

"If she was what they were after, they would've tried to obtain her, no matter what you might've done to stop them. And none of us knew that they were after her, if she was even what they were after," April reassured him.

"I could've done something,"

"What you need to do now is to get back home before someone spots you out here," She reminded him. Leo nodded and disappeared down into the nearest manhole.

Why is it so bright in here? Wait, where am I? Brianna thought as she started to wake up and was blinded by a bright, white light. Becoming more aware of her surroundings, she saw that she was strapped onto some table in a room that reminded her of a lab. Oh God! No! Please don't tell me I'm back here! Whatever it is that they want, I won't do it! They'll have to kill me this time!

Suddenly the door swung open and a man in a wheelchair wheeled in. Followed closely behind him, was some geeky-looking guy with short messy hair, big-rimmed glasses, a white shirt, black pants, and a lab coat over him. Yep, he's a scientist alright.

"Where the hell am I?" She yelled while struggling to get free.

"Try all you want my dear, but you'll never escape!" The wheelchair man said.

"Who are you?" She asked, glaring at him. The man just smiled at her and said, "You can call me Master Shredder,"

"Shredder," Brianna gasped as she recalled Leo's story about the foot and Shredder. Wait. Isn't he supposed to be dead?

"Although Master will do just fine,"

"I'll never call you master, you sick freak!" She seethed at him. He wheeled himself closer to her and grabbed onto her hair, causing her head to jerk up.

"I am not a sick freak, my dear. In fact you are going to help me get rid of the freaks," He said to her ear.

"Oh, really? And who would that be?"

"Those turtles! Who else?"

"What makes you think I'll help you?"

"Because I am going to help you first,"

"Help me? How?"

"It's simple, once Thomas is finished with you, you won't be able to say no to me!" He answered and finally let go of her. She looked over to see Thomas, the geeky-looking scientist, next to her with a needle in his hand. She tried to squirm away from him but couldn't due to the restraints on her.

"What are you planning to do!"

"First I thought I'd give you something to calm you down,"

"And then what?"

"Next, Thomas is going to implant a small chip into you. This will make you be under my control since I have this-" She saw a small box, much like those remote controls for a toy car, (except it was more sophisticated), hooked onto the side of the wheelchair. "- then I will use you to kill the turtles and then nothing, NOTHING will stop me from taking over the world!"

"You won't get away with it!"

"Oh yes I will,"

"What makes you think I can stop the turtles, if you can't?"

"I know all about your special abilities. Thomas, start the procedure,"

"Nooooo!" She screamed as he injected her with the needle.

"Geez Leo, where you've been?" Mikey asked when Leo finally came in. It was now mid-morning and Leo had left early in the night to walk the girls to the apartment. Mikey had been trying to bet Raph and Don that Leo had stayed the night with Brianna. Both Raph and Don knew that Leo was too noble to do that. So they had played along with Mikey to help calm their worst fears. Now Leo returns looking like he got the shell kicked out of him.

"Just ran into some friends of ours," Leo replied as he rubbed his head where he had been struck earlier that night.

"April and Casey are our only friends, besides Brianna, that is," Don said.

"Actually it was the foot,"

"Ooo, what happened? They give you a beating?" Mikey asked.

"No, I was walking them home when we got jumped. Brianna and I were doing pretty good at taking them down, until they shot her with a tranquilizer dart and knocked me over the head with something," Leo explained.

"What happened to the girl after that? Where is she?" Raph asked.

"They took her. Have you gotten him to talk yet?" Leo asked as he pointed to the tied-up man, next to Raph on the couch.

"Nope, was waiting for you. Didn't think you'd wanna miss out the fun," Raph said while he played with his sai. He obviously was eager to start the torture on their new 'friend'.

"No I don't. Especially since he knows how I can get her back," Leo seethed and suddenly drew his katana out at their hostage. His brothers just stared at him in shock. Their usual cool tempered brother now was ready to kill their only hope of learning what these 'military' men wanted from them. Raph knew what he had to do; he hooked his sai onto the katana and disarmed Leo.

"What the hell are you doing, Leo!" Raph asked.

"Nothing. I want to know what these clowns were doing down here! And I want to know how they found us! And I want to know NOW!" Leo shouted at the hostage while he picked him up the collar of his shirt and held him a few inches above the ground. The hostage barely flinched during all of this. He obviously had been prepared for situations like this. They suspected that he wasn't a foot member since he didn't wear the normal attire. But it was also suspected that the foot and the military were somehow connected. This time Don and Mike stepped in between Leo and his would be victim.

"Let me see your head wound," Don said and went over to check out Leo's wound. They went to the infirmary leaving Mikey and Raph to do the questioning.

"So buddy, what do you think of our humble home?" Raph asked while twirling his sai in front of the poor guy. The guy said nothing. Mikey approached him next and said, "We don't take too kindly to people who crash our home and attack us,"

"So if I were you, I'd start talking, before I get mad," Raph added.

"And you don't want to see him mad. Trust me, it's not pretty," Their hostage sill just sat there, so Raph decided to try a new approach. He could only hope that Mikey would play along.

"So Mikey how about we have some human soup tonight?" Raph asked.

"But gosh we had that last night,"

"True, but this time our food came to us. Shouldn't we take advantage of the situation?"

"I guess so. He's not cooperating so we might as well eat him," They both looked over at their victim and noted that he seemed quite frightened at this point.

"Well, I might be willing to let our food go. If he starts talking, that is,"

"Alright! Alright! I'll talk, just don't eat me," The hostage said. He was very scared. Here he was in a sewer with four huge walking and talking reptiles. Actually they looked more like demons to him. Quickly he told them how some of the government had tracked Subject 23X to here and how they had installed a camera to keep an eye on things. Lastly, he told them how he and the others had been sent here to test them. Mikey and Raph now were the ones who were scared. Their worst nightmare had come true; their identities had been discovered by the government. It was only a matter of time before they were successfully captured for experiments. Trusting that since he was tied up, their prisoner wouldn't be able to escape, they ran into Donnie's lab and relayed what he told them to Donnie and Leo.

While the turtles were discussing what to do now, their prisoner freed his hands and took out a small pill. He quickly swallowed the pill and started choking. In the next second he collapsed onto the floor with a big thud and died.

Running out to see what the big thud was, the turtles saw their prisoner lying on the floor, perfectly still. Donnie was the first to reach him and checked his vital signs. He sighed when he found none.

"He's dead," He told the others.

"Great. Now we're never gonna learn where this part of the government is held up," Raph said.

"What if we caught one of them again? Surely they'll be back for us," Mikey added.

"Yes and they'll be stronger and more prepared for us. Before they didn't know what we were capable of. Now they do. You can rest assured that there'll be lots more of them and they'll probably bring weapons like stun guns and stuff to capture us with," Donnie pointed out.

"We've first got to get Splinter to a safe location. No way can we let them capture him. And we've also got to find this camera of theirs," Leo ordered.

"I might be able to hack into their computers and find out about 'subject 23x'," Donnie said.

"Excellent. Donnie you find out anything you can about Subject 23X, which I'm pretty sure is Brianna. Raph and I will take Splinter to a safe place and Mikey you start searching for that camera. I'm pretty sure its somewhere in this living room. Just look for anything that you don't recognize," Leo said. Not even waiting for him to finish everyone started on their tasks. Of course the safe place was April's apartment. Knowing that the government was probably watching them right now, Leo had avoided mentioning April's apartment. He didn't want them to discover her apartment and capture their sensei.