A/N- Well, here you go – have this new chapter to read! Please review and make me very happy! Enjoy this chapter and hopefully I'll now be able to update more often because the last two performances of my show are Saturday 19th Feb! After that, I should be ok to publish a bit more often...fingers crossed!

"You guys ok?" Donnie asked, stifling his laughter as he opened the back of the Battle Shell to reveal his three brothers and the brothers of Ronald all piled one on top of the other in a massive knot. They were so badly tangled up that when Donnie grabbed Mikey's feet and pulled them the rest of the group were pulled along too! Leo and Raph seemed to be fighting about something; Donnie suspected that one had accidentally kicked the other one. Ramakha was looking extremely red in the face, which Donnie later discovered was because Raph's foot had connected very painfully with a certain area of his body. Roshiri was trying to play peacekeeper between the two quarrelling turtles and Reginald was trying to disentangle his feet from the tails of Mikey's bandana. Ronald almost doubled over with laughter while Donnie made many fruitless attempts to free his brothers.

"Donnie, get us out quick! I don't know how much longer I can stand being tangled up with this idiot!" Leo groaned as Raph once again yelled in his face about how Leo's story about 'accidentally' kicking Raph's face wasn't washing.

"Oh, I'm the idiot? What about you?"

"I'm the leader! You're supposed to do what I say!"

"Well, tough luck, Leonardo – 'cause I ain't taking orders from the likes of you!" Raph kicked out and eventually managed to free himself. Leo then managed to clamber out as Don freed Mikey, leaving three of the four human brothers on the floor.

"If anyone's interested, we're here," Ronald managed as he finally succeeded in composing himself.

"We noticed," Ramakha snapped back.

"Don't get all stressed with Ronald just because he got to go in the front!" Reginald reprimanded his brother.

"Nah, don't worry about it," Ronald cut in, "from what I hear, Donatello and Michelangelo get it ten times worse whenever they want to take a trip topside!"

"Hey!" Leo protested.

"You were talking about us?" Raph spluttered, "Behind our backs?"

"Um…" Donnie trailed off, scuffing at the ground and turning a deep shade of beetroot.

"But it's true, guys," Mikey joined the debate, "you never shut up! You're always at each others throats and, personally, it drives me insane!"

"Geez, gimme a break – you ain't the one who's gotta put up with the Fearless Leader picking ya up on every little thing!"

"I do not do that," Leo sprang into defensive mode, ready to fight Raph in the middle of another verbal onslaught.

"You do so!"

"Do not!"

"Do so!"

"Do not!"

"Do so!"

"Do-"

"SHUT UP!" Ramakha bellowed, grabbing both Raph and Leo by their bandana tails, one in each hand. As they struggled, he tried to reason with them, "I will let go if you promise to stop fighting,"

"Fine," grunted Raph.

"Deal," huffed Leo.

"Wow, if I'd known it was that easy to stop them then I would've tried that years ago, dude!" Mikey grinned smugly as his brothers were dropped to the floor, rubbing the back of their heads gingerly.

"I don't think it would work if you tried it, Michelangelo," Roshiri whispered to the orange-clad turtle.

"Yeah, you're probably right – um, this may seem personal but how old are you guys?"

"Ramakha is thirty, Ronald is twenty-five, I am twenty-three and Reginald is twenty-one. We are reasonably young. What about you?"

"Sixteen…"

"You are but children…how can you have experienced so much at so young an age? You have been put through more than many who are thrice your age and wisdom. But why did our brother attack four children?"

"We got in the way of his plans once; I don't think he ever forgave us."

"Once?" Ramakha was stood behind Mikey.

"Ok, maybe we got in his way a lot – but we were just trying to protect the city."

"Yeah! No-one else ever seems to do it," Raph muttered aggressively.

"Raph, the police have enough on their hands as it is – you can't expect them to come to the aid of four mutant turtles to fight an enemy who they don't even know exists." Leo scolded his brother harshly.

"Shut up, Leo."

"I won't shut up until you stop biting the head of anyone who so much as looks at you. You're not still mad at me for the whole death thing, are you?"

"No…"

"I knew it! You're angry because you think we betrayed you and because we let you believe we were dead and because we wouldn't let you get revenge on Roshiri for not telling you the truth!"

"That's not it at all! You don't get it, do you? None of you do! I nearly lost the one thing that has kept me sane over all these years; the one thing that stopped me going topside and getting myself killed! Do you have any idea how it feels? Can you even tell me one time where you felt that kind of panic?" Raph shoved Leo backwards a little. Mikey looked embarrassed; he had forgiven Roshiri, Leo and Donnie only minutes after they'd got back. All eyes were on Leo, awaiting his response. The blue-clad turtle sighed and looked his hot-headed brother directly in the eyes.

"Do you want to know when I felt that kind of panic? How about when I found you shot and bleeding in the alleyway, or maybe when Donnie was shot, or perhaps when the garbage island caught on fire, or when we first arrived there and you disappeared. Those not good enough examples for you? I can think of more: when we were poisoned and then told we would be fighting the Shredder, when Casey, April and Sensei were tied up and their lives were forfeit, when Shredder attacked Donnie's mind and your mind, when Hun was about to kill Mikey and there was nothing we could do, when you disappeared after Donnie's mind was attacked for the first time, when you and me were attacked by the Foot and I had to leave you on your own to get help – had enough yet!"

"I…I…you remember all of that off the top of your head? Without thinking?"

"Like it was yesterday, because all of them resulted from some stupid mistake that I had made."

"I had no idea," Raph trailed off.

"You very rarely do," Leo stated bluntly, "now, are we going to rescue April and Casey or are we just going to stand here?"

"Rescue April and Casey!" Mikey whooped, punching a fist in the air and gaining a smile from every face, even the previously shell-shocked one of Raphael.

"Is this it?" Leo hissed to Ramakha as the two peered round a corner, everyone else waiting in the darkness of an alleyway.

"This is it," replied the human.

"Positive?" asked Raph, stepping forward.

"I am sure we are in the right place. Now, we must advance." Ramakha darted across the street to the other side where he waited in the alley next to the house Hun was holding April and Casey hostage in. He signalled to them that it was clear and, one by one, they made their way across the street to join him. Once they were all safely on the other side, Donnie peeked through the window to the house and saw into the living room.

"You guys aren't gonna believe this!" he gasped.

"What? Dude, what am I not going to believe?" Mikey pestered, pressing his face up against the glass. What he saw inside almost made him sick. Protruding from the floor and reaching about five feet high were several metal poles. Casey and April were tied to two of these poles and three strangers were tied to the other poles. Two were young men who were talking in hushed voices and looked a terrible state. The final prisoner was a small girl of about the age of ten.

"This can't be right - why has he got a little girl prisoner?"

"Probably because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time," Donnie suggested.

"Or perhaps it is because she is the daughter of the man who previously owned this house before I claimed ownership…" a rumbling voice suggested. Whipping round sharply, Donnie's breath caught in his throat and he gulped, glancing at Raph quickly. His older brother was looking shocked but had the usual menacing gleam in his eyes that he always had when they faced such opponents as the Shredder, Marcie or, in this case, Hun.

"Get lost, Hun," Reginald stepped forward to confront the huge man.

"Isn't it time you went home to your Mummy?" Roshiri sneered.

"Or maybe you'd rather go and kill someone else's Mummy…" Ramakha snarled.

"…and then kill them too and destroy a family," Ronald finished for his brothers.

"You mean you haven't got over that yet? And now you've stooped so low as to help these freaks!" Hun chuckled mirthlessly.

"What did he do?" whispered Leo to Ronald, who was standing closest to him.

"He killed Ramakha's wife because she saw him stealing from an innocent old lady. And then Ramakha's son was murdered when he tried to tell me what happened. Of course, when Oroku Saki found out what had happened he rushed home straight away - but Hun told him that he had been trying to save Karamina and Kai from some thugs. Always the fool, our brother believed Hun above us. He had made Hun take a blood oath of loyalty to him and so he didn't think Hun would ever lie to him," Ronald paused and sighed, "Ramakha's never forgotten it."

"Whoa, I'm not surprised. Why must some people always take advantage so hugely of others?" Leo questioned, talking more to himself than to anyone else. How could even Hun be that heartless? Although on thinking about it further, it didn't seem so impossible!

"Well, freaks, maybe you would benefit from losing one of yourfamily members…" Hun grabbed Donnie by his bandana tails and aimed a fist at the unfortunate turtle. Raph instantly sprang into action and grabbed Hun round the neck, holding both of his Sais to the man's throat.

A/N- Please Review! And a big thank-you to all my reviewers, whether you've reviewed one chapter or all ten chapters! Thank-you to everyone!