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For about of week the turtles kept tabs on a tower that popped up on their radar for having suspicious activity. Explosions, rolling blackouts, and wild noises coming from inside. When Donatello dug in deeper about the tower, it was found to be owned by the Oroku Saki Foundation. The turtles immediately assumed it was some illegal experimentation their favorite villain was up to and knew they needed to stop it before something happened to their city.
They perched up on the building across the way, counting the different levels and scoping out the security which they found there wasn't any on the outside. Leonardo looked through the binoculars and immediately got a gut feeling of no good looking at the eerie building and seeing no lights were on. He was knocked out of his thoughts when he heard Donnie speak.
"The building is set for demolition next Tuesday. Whatever is in there, Shredder is definitely trying to bury it." Raph crouched down next to him grinning.
"Well I say we get there first and bust him before he gets a chance to hide the evidence."
"Enough Raph." Leo said, "This is recon only. We have 5 days till this building goes down to get more evidence and make a report to give to local authorities." Raph growled.
"Didn' know we were some snitches now."
"Hey less beatings for us to take in my opinion." Mikey commented, swinging over the air conditioning.
"Heh, thats cuz you're a lazy shit. Aint no fun just ratting and ditching." Raph said.
"It's not about fun Raph. There's no reason to go running into danger every time there's a mission. There are strategic options." Leo explained.
"Heh, yeah, that's why we aint going into the fight." Raph said under his breath earning his a side glare from Leonardo. Donnie and Mikey immediately felt the change in air and both internally groaned. Leonardo didn't move from his stance visibly already irritated with his younger brother.
"Recon. Only." He emphasized. "Stick to the shadows, do not engage with the enemy." He looked towards Donnie.
"Don when we get in we need to get to a main database to see what documents we can get into. You and Raph head towards the front. Mikey and I will meet you from the back." Leo announced. Mikey grinned for a moment before an elbow to the side reminded him about his and Raph's agreement.
"Uh, you know Leo, maybe me and Raph should go together." This caught Leo's attention when he looked at his mate in slight shock. Mikey grew slightly nervous and had to use his quick wit. "I mean it's more logical right? Donnie's gonna be telling you a bunch of mumbo jumbo that me and Raph aren't gonna know anything about and it would be easier than trying to just rely word of mouth after regroup." Mikey tried to compromise. Leo looked exhausted from this conversation.
"Mikey.." He groaned. A tinge of irritation hit Mikey's lips.
"What? One mishap and I'm not allowed to be paired with my brother?" He challenged. Raph studied his eldest brother. He could see Leo trying to keep his cool as leader, but boy, he never knew Mikey had the ability to make their fearless leader stutter.
Leo did his best to watch his wording. "It's not just that Mikey. I cant-" He stopped when he was stumped. "I can't trust-"
"What? Don't trust me?" Mikey asked, making Leo look away. Mikey tipped his head. "Don't trust Raph?" With that comment Leo looked back up, almost like a silent confirmation. Raph raised his brows and looked away, seeing this conversation was quickly going south.
"How's our team supposed to work with no trust?" He asked.
"It's not like that Michelangelo and you know that." Leo said in a low tone.
"Yeah? Then what's a valid reason then?" Mikey asked. Leo was truly, stumped. Leo couldn't help to glance over to see Raph looking right up at him and put two and two together to see there was some sort of game Raphael had put together and Mikey was put on as their spokesman. Leo smirked, giving out a little huff in amusement.
"I don't have one." He admitted, gaining shocked looks from Raph and Donnie. Mikey's face immediately softened.
"Really?" He asked. Leo smiled at his mate.
"You're right. I have no reason not to trust you." he looked over to Raph. "Either of you." Raphael gave an impressive smirk back. Leo returned to Mikey. "You are strong members of this team, trained ninja. Show me that I have nothing to be worried about." It was as if a fog was suddenly lifted and everyone felt like they could breathe again. Leo took a breath and stood tall.
"Alright team, Donnie and I will head to the front, get to the mainframe and see what we can find. Raph and Mikey, head through the back, and watch our backs. Remember this is recon so do not engage." Leo reminded. Raph Smacked his thighs as he got up and headed towards the tower along with Donnie. Once their brothers were far enough out, Mikey looked back at his leader and walked up to him.
"Thanks Leo." He said. Leonardo was quick grabbing onto Mikey's waist, resting his forehead on Mikey's.
"Please be careful." He said in a low tone. Mikey smiled, pulling away to look at Leo in the eyes. Mikey grabbed the back of Leo's head and pulled him in for a subtle kiss.
It only lasted for a moment, but it was enough to calm Leo's nerves to trust his mate. Mikey pulled away slightly, keeping a close distance and a smile on his face.
"We'll be okay. Promise." He said. Leo took a breath, a nodded in agreement before letting Mikey go. Mikey gave off a quick salute before jumping down to the lower level of the building. Leonardo watched as his mate disappeared and pushed back all emotions and remembered the task at hand, following Donatello to the front of the building.
Mikey jumped down to the alley where he was immediately shoved to the side by Raphael.
"Ouch! Hey!" Mikey whined. Raph let out a snicker.
"Man, I always knew you had a big mouth but that was some serious Lawyer shit you just pulled. Got fearless Leader piss'n his pants." Raph taunted. Mikey gave a nervous smirk. He didn't mind the manipulation of his brothers, he made of living out of it. But he didn't like making Leo feel cornered like that. At least not anymore. Maybe if they were still called brothers sure, this sort of juvenile revenge would seem more intriguing to the youngest. But now that Mikey had reached a more intimate level with Leo, and has seen his lovers more insecure sides it was hard on Mikey to make Leo feel so vulnerable in front of the family like that.
But, he was so conflicted because now Raph was ecstatic and no longer sour over the entire situation which was a weight off his shoulders. Mikey decided after tonight he would tell Leo the reasoning behind his actions, if he didn't already figure it out, and tell Raph he isn't gonna be the middleman any longer. This was a little too much even for him.
"Hey are ya even listening?" Raph asked in a low whisper. Mikey was immediately knocked out of his haze when he saw they were standing at the back door of the tower, no security in sight.
"What?" He asked.
"I said is your communicator on." Raph said, clicking up to his earslit to turn his on. Mikey mimicked the action and turned on his own, hearing the connectivity and Donnie's voice on the other end.
"Me and Leo are in. Mainframe was not on the 1st floor. Going to the second now. Strange, the building isnt schedule to go till Tuesday so why isn't there anyone around?"
"Let's not stick around too long to meet up with any late attendees" Leo said. "Raph, you and Mikey go up to the 3rd floor no higher. Lets keep it close."
"Roger that." Raph said sarcastically before heading inside with Mikey hot on his trail.
When they came to the tower they found it completely deserted. Mikey and Raph walked with care as they made sure they were just as silent as the building. Mikey skimmed his eyes and notice large blocks on the pillars.
"Hey Don." He said in the communicator. "What are these blinking light things on the walls?"
"Those would be the bombs for the Demo." Don said. "Don't touch them Mikey." Michelangelo raised his hands in submission.
"Trust me if I felt like losing a limb I would steal some of Raph's porno." He said, gaining a smack in the back of the head by Raph, the sound echoing in the vacant space.
"Knock it off. Keep focus." Leo reminded. Mikey and Raph muted their end to narrow the noise level as they continued to walk through the 3rd floor.
They didn't know what they were originally expecting when they entered this building but, this wasn't what they were expecting. It just looked like any other office building. It was filled with cubicles and offices. All of them looked like there has never been a paper set on them. As if they were there for show. Mikey ran his finger across one of the desks to see the layer of dust left behind.
"Don't think anyone's been here in a while." He commented.
"Yeah well, office jobs ain't normally something people are too lively about." Raph commenter, kicking up some dust as he walked. Mikey was about to make a comment but heard some rustling from the emergency staircase.
"Hold up." He whispered, causing both he and Raphael crouched slightly. They could see the door was slightly opened and a light trail of clear floor, like a broom swept through a narrow part of the dust. Both brothers were careful and snuck towards the door and notice the clear trail was up the stairs as well. Raph reached up to turn on the communicator to tell his other brothers the situation.
"Yo Donnie." He whispered. He didn't gain a response back and only static. "Hey!" He tapped at it and it still didn't respond.
"Shit, lost connection." He mumbled. Mikey kept his eyes on the stairs and noticed something bright and green at the top before it disappeared to the top of the stairs.
"Come on!" Mikey called as he dashed up the stairs. Raph tried to keep up as Mikey was taking two steps at a time.
When they got up to the 6th floor, Mikey slowed down his urgency to take in his surroundings to see it wasn't like the 3rd floor anymore. It was much darker and harder to determine the shapes and furniture. Raph got up and tried to narrow his sense but was having an issue as Mikey trying to figure out what was on this floor.
"Where did it go?" Raph asked out loud. Mikey skimmed over once more till he notice the bright green in the corner. He walked over, catching Raphs attention to follow and kneeled down.
It was small, maybe the size of Mikey's palm. It didn't have a face but had little feet and a long curled tail.
"What...is it?" Mikey asked. Raph didn't answer trying to get ahold of Donnie again. He could hear murmurs on the other end but it still wasn't clear. He looked down and saw Mikey reaching out towards the small creature.
"The hell you Think you're doing?" Raph said.
"It looks scared. Just seeing if it's friendly." Mikey said as he got closer to the creature. The little monster turned towards the approaching hand and sniffed at it only to take a chomp on Mikey's finger.
"Ouch!" He cried pulling away, seeing the small creature drew blood.
"Answer enough for you?" Raph said sarcastically. Raphael looked back at the creature seeing it lick up the reminiscence of Mikey's blood and it changed to a bright yellow color.
"The hell?" Raph whispered.
All of a sudden, the creature ran off and the floor lights of the room turned on. The room was tinted in blue and showed what this floor was used for.
A lab.
They looked over the room to see large canisters filled with some sort of liquid. Surgery instruments scattered across the tables.
Both brothers knew they were somewhere they really shouldn't have been.
"You think we can try Donnie and Leo again?" Mikey offered up.
"What? Ain't no one here let's see what we can find." Raph said walking further in the lab.
"Come on Raph this is some science shit me and you know nothing about. Let's call them this can be important."
"Geez, didn't know I was talking to Leo." Raph said sarcastically. Mikey was about to say something when they're communicators came online.
"Raph, Mikey, respond!" Leo called out.
"Hey were here." Mikey said.
"Where did you guys go?" He asked.
"Dead zone?" Mikey offered up. "But hey you guys might wanna come meet us where we're at, some science stuff Donnie might appreciate." Raph passed a passive look gaining Mikey sticking his tongue back at him.
"What floor?" Donnie asked.
Before Mikey could respond and shake in the building caused them to lose their footing.
"What the hell was that?" Raph yelled.
"Shit." Donnie responded. "The bombs are going off throughout the building! They're not on schedule and they're not going off at once."
"That's a good thing though right?" Mikey asked.
"No that means there's chances of fires. We gotta get out of here now!" Donnie said.
"Alright regroup back at the roof. Move now!" Leo called as another one of the bombs at the lower levels went off.
"You guys gonna be okay getting out?" Raph called in concern.
"Heading out now! Hurry!" Leo called back. Another bomb went off, causing Raph and Mikey to tumble over.
"Well, not the kind of ride I wanted to be on today." Raph said. He looked around and saw the large window at the end of the room and darted toward it. He was about to get to it when he was suddenly thrown to the side, crashing into the tables.
"Raph!" Mikey called. He froze where he stood as he saw a tall, far too familiar figure emerge from the shadows.
"Meddling turtles." It said. "Always sticking your nose in places it shouldn't be." It stepped out from where it head to show it was none other than the Shredder.
"Hey I didn't know you worked late." Mikey joked, pulling out his chucks. "Isn't that the fun part about being the boss is having other people doing the late shifts?" He darted at their enemy witn full force attempting to get him. The Shredder was quicker, unusually quicker and caught Mikey's swinging arm and flung him across the room like a doll and watched him crash hard. Mikey laid there for a moment and groaned. That was unexpected from the shredder. That move was far too smooth for anyone, even a trained martial artist to perform.
"Respond!" Leo's muffled command came to Mikey's brain. As he got back up he saw Raph going back at The Shredder, having a better chance at dodging his attack's than Mikey did.
"Leo." Mikey responded with a groan.
"Mikey where are you guys?" He asked, sounding like he was running.
"Still in the building. Ran into an old buddy. You guys should come up and say hi." Mikey jumped back up quickly, trying to get Shredder from the back as Raph had him distracted from the front but it was as if Shredder had eyes in the back of his head as he was able to dodge Mikey's attack and punched him right in the jaw and knocking him back down, causing the communicator to be knocked off his head.
Within the fighting another bomb had been set off, tipping the building on its axis and tampering with some of the power lines. Suddenly I fire broke out within the room and began to engulf the machines and experiments, as if this is how it was planned.
Raphael groaned, wiping the blood off his chin and charging once more at the Shredder. There was something strange about their notorious villain. He seemed more cartoonish in his moves. He aimed his sai at the crook of the shredders mask but as if predicting that move, the Shredder bent strangely to the side and with swift movements pulled out a knife from one of the many hiding places on his armor and swiftly got the back of Raphs thigh. Raphael went down like a sack of potatoes and gripped at his leg.
"Fuck!" He groaned. He looked up to see the Shredder walking towards him. Raphael attempted to get up but his leg felt strange. It was tingle and turning numb.
Shit.
This bastard just poisoned him.
Raphael started to feel himself sweat, a combination of the poison and the building fire around them.
"Like it?" Shredder asked. "A new formula my lab had cooked up. Don't fret you won't die, but it will be easier for me to transport you." He spoke.
"Wha-" he choked feeling the numbing go up his leg. Shredder attempted to lung forward till her felt a chain on his wrist. He looked back to see Mikey holding tightly on the other end of the chain, a gash on his forehead.
"Sorry, he's not going anywhere with your ugly mug." He responded. Shredder grabbed on to the end of the chain and a shot of electricity when through his glove and down the metal chain and met with Michelangelo's hand. The shock was incredibly painful, causing Mikey to bite down on his own tongue and groan. When Shredder let go, Mikey fell to the ground on all 4 in exhaustion from the zap.
"Mikey!" Raph called our he attempted to stand up but fell back on one knee. The smoke was building in the room, making it harder to breath and even worse to see. Raphael saw Shredder turn to head back in his direction. He had to think quickly. He grabbed his sai and with all his might and swiftness he could muster he launched at Shredder and dug his sai into the man's side as hard as he could.
Raph tumbled over to the side, trying to avoid running into any of the flames. He looked to see the Shredder was not even dazed by the attack, he stood there firm and proud as ever with a sai sticking out of his side.
"Hey Shredder.." Raph said out of breath. "What vitamins are you taking huh? I need to get on that wagon." As he was talking, he pulled out a few throwing stars and kept them behind his back.
"Your distractions are pointless." Shredder responded.
"Distractions? What distractions? I'm just trying to better my health." Raph quickly pulled his arm up ready to throw.
The Shredder moved so quickly Raph couldn't even respond when he took hold of his wrist.
"I don't have time for these games, turtle." With godly strength, Shredder picked Raphael up and flung him hard across the concrete floors, making him slam hard in the crippling wall. Raphael was flat on his front, using all his might to push himself up. His leg was now completely numb, blood painting his green skin. His body shook trying to get up. He turned his head to see the Shredder approaching him. He could barely breathe from
The smoke, burning his eyes in the process. Once Shredder was only a few feet from him, Raphael was mentally preparing himself for a blow.
"I have no more time to waste with you turtle. You'll just have to come as a corpse." Shredder raised his blades and brought them down. Raphael flinched away ready for the hit.
It never came.
He heard a grunt, and the burning of the fires and another boom from the lower levels.
He opened his eyes to see Michelangelo standing over him.
"Mike!" He called but Mikey didn't respond. He looked to see his was standing in close proximity of the Shredder. A little too close for comfort. Mikey was shaking. Like he was struggling to keep hold of something.
"Mikey.." Raphael's breath was caught when he looked down on the floor between his little brothers legs to see a pool of blood.
Mikey was gripping at the Shredders bladed arm, shaking. His breathing was ragged and blood dripping from the corner of his mouth. Somehow the Shredder has created a blade sharp enough to penetrate the turtle's shell, and Michelangelo was just impaled by said blades.