XXXXX: HEY! its me. As those who may have read my other fanfic "Alex's Story" you will notice that it is gone. I have deleted it cuz i wanted to focus on just one story for now. plus i really didn't like the way the story was coming out. it wasnt the way i wanted my story to be. i will try to post more chapters more often. no promises though lol. love u guys and keep on loving TMNT XD. XXXXXXXX
Leo's POV
As my brothers and I begin to file into the Battle-Shell, Master Splinter stays in the lair with the girl. We didn't want to leave her alone, not after what she has gone through tonight. Think of the dead bodies begins to make me worry that we will be too late to save April and Casey. There's only so much one can do against guns...
"Please be ok..." I silently hope as Don races us through the night so we can rescue our friends. Don avoids main streets to get us there quicker. Usually at this point Michelangelo tries to diffuse the tension and worry with being his usually rambunctious self. But Mikey stays silently for once, which is worrisome. I think the events of tonight have affected him pretty badly. Sure we see some pretty bad stuff on the news or internet, but coming across that out of the blue... You'd have to be heartless to not be affected somehow.
I look to the front of the van and see that Raph is sitting up there with Don, talking to April on her shell-cell while Don drives to their location. At least we know their still alive. But if we don't get there soon, they may not be much longer...
"Hey Donnie, how much further?" I inquire, walking up towards the front. I needed something to distract me from the dark thoughts invading my mind.
"We're a few blocks away now." He informs, narrowly avoiding another car as he swears through the roads. "Leo, we are gonna have to be cautious when we reach them. April said that when they were first attacked there were only a few EPF but now there are at least 5 squads. I'm not sure we can take on that many with just nun-chucks and Bo staffs." Don insists before taking a hard right, almost causing me to loose my balance.
"Alright then, " I say loudly so all my brothers can hear me. "This will be a grab-and-go mission. Try to avoid combat as much as possible and just get April and Casey to safety. This is probably a trap so stay alert when we get there guys." I look at each of my brothers who all nod in understatement as to our plan of attack.
Finally we arrive to the location the GPS tracker in the April's shell-cell was pinpointed. We seemed to have arrived at recently abandoned neighborhood. There were bits and pieces of houses standing here and there, and lots of debris. Parts of other peoples' lives could be see scattered all around. If I remember correctly, this is the neighborhood when a bomb took out a lot of houses and lives a couple of weeks ago. It's strange that Casey and April came this way. It's not exactly in one of the better parts of the city. Lots of gangs and mob people are generally in this area.
I shake my head to refocus. There will be plenty of time to ask April or Casey questions later. Right now I need to focus on getting them out of here alive. I do a quick scan of the area and quickly spot April fighting off some of Bishop's men. Thankfully they were fighting April with batons and hand-to-hand combat. Means we wont have to try and dodge bullets while getting them. Now Donnie had said there was at least 5 squads of men here, but I could only see enough men to equal a single squad. Which means that the others were lying in wait for us to arrive.
"The other men are in hiding. Be careful guys, they could have guns." I instruct them as Donatello gets us closer to the fight. I tell them that Casey was located a bit further back in what was left of a house. "Be safe and remember, stay alert to all threats." I command just before throwing open the door to the battle-shell and leaping out into the fight, my brothers right behind me. April grins tiredly as we fight through the men to reach her, their numbers increasing greatly since we arrived, just as I had thought they would.
"About time-... you guys-...showed up.." She huffs, knocking a few of the men unconscious with a round house kick. My brothers and I form a circle around her as we try to make our way towards Casey through the swarm of EPF men, but it was no use. There is just too many of them. There was no way the we would all be able to get near him. But to my left I see a space where me and one of my brothers could get through with a quick blitz attack there. It was the enemy's weakest point.
"RAPH!" I shout, getting his attention. When he looks at me I gesture towards the weak point. "Cover me so I can grab Casey!" Raph nods, and quickly we plow through to Casey. I finally reach Casey inside the remains of the house and quickly do a quick check for his pulse and any broken bones. I don't worry about being attacked, trusting Raph to have my back. Plus none of the men were over here. Thankfully I find Casey's pulse and find that he had a broken arm and a few cracked ribs, so I am gonna have to be careful when I carry him.
I begin to pick Casey up, cradling him in my arms when I hear Raphael scream my name. Suddenly I feel myself being thrown over a small brick enclosure that was probably once a chimney. I want to stand up and see what was going on, who had thrown me and why. But before I could even begin to move, an explosion goes off, I feel the force of the displaced area and hear debris hitting the chimney I was tucked behind even through the ringing in my ears. I hunch over Casey to protect him from the debris that flies over the bricks encasing us.
When the debris finally settles, I slowly uncurl myself from around Casey. I have no idea whats going on or what happened, the blast temporarily making me deaf.
" Are my brothers ok? Did they get hurt? Why was there an explosion? Who caused it?"
Carefully I stand, a little shaken and look around to find Raph, hoping he got away before the blast. Where I had been standing before was nothing but a giant hole in the ground. I glance behind me and see a sliver of silver reflecting the little bit of moonlight peeping through the dark and ominous clouds.
"Is that...Raph's s-sai?!" I think in fear. Just then my hearing comes back a little bit and I can hear screaming...
"Where...?" I turn a bit more and pale in fear. I see Mikey frantically moving bricks and debris from a pile. I look and see a green hand, barely visible, lying on the ground, protruding from behind the wall of rubble. I am in such shock I barely register when Donatello takes Casey out of my arms and begins to take him to the Battle-Shell. I finally snap outta the shock when Mikey struggles to lift a beam out of the way. Quickly I race over there and help him. But when we move the last thing blocking Raph from us, I didn't want to believe what I saw.
Raphael laid there on the ground, still covered in some rubble and debris, but that's not what worried me... No,...there was a... a... I feel bile rising in my throat as I look at my brother. A large piece of shrapnel had pierced through just above his carapace, going in a vertical line, cutting through part of his throat. As turtles, and mutant ones at that, we have more layers of tough skin and muscles protecting our esophagus and larynx... But this piece of shrapnel was close to killing him. My hearing has returned enough that I am able to hear Mikey's frantic babbling now.
"RAPH! Come on man, stay with me! You can't die on me bro!" He says, crying in hysteria. I begin to shake, completely terrified for my brother's life. Then I hear Donatello's voice from the Battle-Shell, April sitting in the front seat with the engines already running.
"Bring him to the Battle-Shell NOW! We have to leave if we want to save him!" He shouts. I force myself to focus and place a hand on Mikey's shoulder. "We need to get him to the van Mikey." I tell him softly. Mikey wipes at his eyes and nods. We quickly grab our unconscious brother and carefully carry him towards the Battle-Shell. When no men tried to attack us, I take a glance around. It seems that the explosion spooked off most of Bishop's men, cuz no one was around anymore.
Mikey and me finally reach the Battle-Shell and lay Raphael down on a bench not occupied by Casey, who remained unconscious as well. I begin to shake as I go into shock once more. Raph could really die... I mean, sure we have all be close to death, but never like this...
April pulls away from the abandoned neighborhood and I go up to the front and contact Master Splinter so that the medical bay is prepared for Donnie and Raph once we get there. The only one that can help Raph now is Donatello and Father... I take another glance at my brother lying there with metal protruding from his chest, Mikey sitting by Raph's head, constantly talking to him. It was this sight that made me begin to wonder if I was going to lose a brother tonight...
Mikey's POV
"Come on Raph, don't be a wuss and die on us now." I say, not even knowing if Raph could hear me. But it made me feel a bit better. I'm still shaken up from it all. This night has just been one bad thing to another. A part of me is hoping that this is all just a really bad dream, that I'll wake up and my brother will be just fine.
The entire way to the lair I continue to murmur to Raphael. It was the only way I was going to stay sane, the only thing keeping me from breaking down right now. I watch as Don works to keep Raph alive, and I begin to wish that I could help him. I feel so helpless right now... If Raph dies...
"Please don't leave us Raph..." I whisper quietly so no one can hear me. "Please don't die..."