Ch.9: Cold Strike
It had taken a sleepless night of work but the Turtles had finally come up with a plan to get the old Rapheal back. First Don would sneak under the foundation of the Foot building in order to deactivate any alarms and gain control of the defenses. Once all the defenses were down Leo and Mike would sneak in through the air ducts and make their way to the main room.
From the main room Mikey and Leo were supposed to split up. Mikey's job was to find and rescue Wolf while Leo tracked down Raph. If everything went as planned from that point on they would have the old Raph back in no time.
At exactly 10 o' clock Don, Mike, and Leo were all positioned at the redevenous point. Going over the plan once again to make sure everyone knew their part Don entered the sewers to start the job.
The steady rythm of dripping water echoed through the sewars as Don walked down the leakish pipe. The main computer room was somewhere in the lower basement of the Foot building. Nefore the orginal Shredder had been destroyed the turtles had constructed a secret passage way in order to get into the Foot building anytime it was nessacary. This was one of those times.
Pushing through a secret door Donny crept over to the main computer room only to see Dr. Chapman standing there with a squad of Foot ninja. Getting in would certianly be harder than Donatello thought. Thinking over his options the purple-masked turtle reached into a bag he brought with and pulled out three tiny silver balls.
Making sure his aim was acurate Donatello threw the balls in the direction of the Foot ninja and Dr. Chapman. There was a quick laughter of coughs and soon everything fell silent as the smoke cleared. Peeking around the corner of the doorway Don made sure to see that they all were unconious before entering.
"That should keep them out for a couple of hours" said Donatello as he walked in " that should be more than enough time to deactivate the alarms and control the Foot's defenses,"
Causilly Don walked over to the large screen of the computer and began typing madly. In a few sort minutes Don had deactivated the alarms to all the rooms of the Foot building.
"Leo" called Don over the shell cell "the alarms are offline. You and Mikey get into to position as I hack to get control of any defenses you might have to encounter,"
"Got it Don" said Leo and looked at Mikey "ready?"
"Let's go," said Mikey and together he and Leo sprinted into the Foot building.
After pounding through seemingly endless hallways Leo and Mikey both finally made it to the main room. With a quick nod from Leo mikey parted of to find Wolf. The only question was where would Karia keep her?
Suddenly Mikey darted behind the shadow of a pillar. Two foot ninja were standing guard in front of a door just a few feet away. Both ninja had a sword strapped to their backs ready to pull out when nessacary. Should Mike try to take them out? No other Foot goons would be alerted for sure and Don's plan to get Raph back would be blown.
Mikey thought for minute in the darkness. He had to get those soliders away from the door but how? Suddenly Mike had an idea. Creeping like a snake to the shadow of another pillar Mikey took a position close enough to the hearing range of one of the Foot soliders.
"Hey buddy" whispered Mikey the Foot solider turned his head in confusion " yeah I'm talking to you,"
The solider followed Mikey's voice and started to walk off in it's direction, his sword out and ready if this was a trap. Which, of course, it was. A performance that would have been appluaded by Puck himself as Mikey led the solider farther and farther from his post. Then once Mikey was sure they were out of range Mikey pounced on the solider.
A fierce struggle ensued with the grumbled moan of the Foot solider as he layed on the floor unconious. Quickly donning on the guy's uniform Mikey strolled back up to the door he had left with a single Foot solider. However by the time he reached the door the other ninja was gone.
"Probally to find his buddy," Mikey thought as he entered the room.
Sure enough Wolf was being held captive in the room. The brown-furred shewolf layed inside a tube of glass with a long crack coursing down one side of it. Obivousily Wolf had tried to break free and almost suceeded in breaking the glass herself, but now it was Mikey's turn to help.
Whipping out his nunchucks Mikey banged continuosly at the glass until it finally shattered into a million glittering pieces. Wolf's head raised as she looked at Mikey and her breath was hard. After spending who knows how long at trying to bust through that glass it was wonder why she would be winded.
Strangely Mikey found Wolf quite attractive while this way. The heavy rising and falling of her chest, the swift way her tail moved, how fierce she looked even though tired. Whoa! Mikey instantly stopped himself before he went to far in his imagine-ings. Wolf wasn't his type, mabye Leo's or Raph's, but not him.
"Thanks Mikey" said Wolf "where's Leo and Don? Raph's in big trouble if we don't stop this Shakavu guy from being summoned. Karia is going to drain Shakavu's power and force it into Raph, and after that...,"
Wolf couldn't bring herself to say another word, but what Mike said next nearly sent her in a frenzy.
"Leo's got it covered" said Mike "he'll have Raph back to normal before you know it. Did you ever find out what was behind that door you wanted to check out,"
Wolf shook her head and told Mikey how she had been stopped by one of Chapman's magic sercurity traps, not to mention an entire sqaud of Foot ninja. Speaking of which they had to book before any of the soliders came back to see if Wolf was still in her glass prision.
Once they were out of the room and somewhere where they were sure they couldn't be overheard Mikey called Don over the shellcell.
"Don, it's Mikey" said Mikey "I got Wolf. We're going to check out that crazy door except there's some kind of magic sercurity trap gaurding the place. Think you can deactivate it?"
"I can try Mikey" said Don's voice from over the shellcell " I already cut down most of the main defenses. I'll try to shut off that magic trap before you and Wolf get to it,"
"Your the best Don," said Mike shutting off the shellcell then turned towards Wolf "Alright let's do it,"
With that Mikey along with Wolf raced down to the mysterious door. Meanwhile Donatello knew time was running out before Chapman and the others would wake up. He had to get the magic defenses down fast! After a few more strianed moments of hacking Don sighed in relief when he saw the words "Magic Defenses Deactivated" flash on and off on the screen.
With few seconds to spare Don sprinted out of the room and headed back into the basement to wait for the others. The plan seemed to be going well so far. But no matter how good a plan looks something always happens to make it worse. In Leo's case that's exactly what happened.
The blue-masked turtle had been very careful to aviod being seen by any Foot soliders on his way to Rapheal's room. Unfortunately luck hadn't been with him for very long. Foot soliders were running around all over the place like army ants on the march. To make matters worse Karia was with them just in front of Rapheal's door.
""I have to find some way to get past Karia and those soliders without being seen," thought Leo standing behind the thin shadow of a pillar.
Turning his gaze to the rafters above Leo suddenly got an idea. Grabbing his arms around the pillar the blue-masked turtle started to climb up to the ceiling. Reaching the top Leo carefully jumped from beam to beam getting closer to Rapheal's door.
When he finally managed to get close enough he leaped of the pillar and landed on the floor with a nearly silent thump. One of soliders decided to turn his head at that moment and noticed Leonardo as he sneaked into Rapheal's room. Karia was instantly alerted and she, along with several Foot soliders raced towards Rapheal's door.
Leo quickly pushed a desk in front of the door in Rapheal's room as Karia and the Foot continued to bang againist it. Breathing a wave of relief Leo looked around the room which he was now in. It certianly did look like Raph's room all right, but with a more creepy feel about it.
The whole room was painted red, and the only source of light in the room were tiny torches attached to the walls. Almost everything in this room was covered in complete darkness. The strange feeling that he could feel the Shredder's ensence poured over Leonardo like a cold wave. This was no ordinary room, it was a place of Great Evil.
Haunting laughter arose from out of the shadows as Rapheal stepped into the eerie light of his darkened room. The look in the red-masked turtle's eyes had become emotionless, incaple of feeling anything except pure rage. This was the day that all the Turtles had feared would come, Raph was no longer in control of anger, anger now controlled him.
Pulling out his twin sai blades which gleamed in the torch's light Rapheal steadied himself for battle. Sighing Leo also drew out his twin katanas from there sheaths and steeled himself as well. A cold wind blew into the room at that moment and everything froze still as the two brothers glared at each other.
"I'm sorry Raph" thought Leo as if trying to send a message to the brother he had lost "but I have no other choice," And with that thought in mind Leo charged at Rapheal with his swords pointed downward. He didn't just have to stop Rapheal...for Earth's sake he had to kill him.