"Have you gotten the sample?"
"Yes you Neanderthal. It wasn't that hard considering they are just a couple of…"
"Don't forget your place Dr. Stockman! We have been forced to live with the fact that we alone have to go on with this mission for his sake. I don't want to call that girl in to do my job."
"That is what he asked of you if something was to happen! You're going against him? Not me. When he comes…"
"He's not! Just leave it to me and my Dragon's. We'll get this job done. Those little girls want to play, and then my Dragon's will beat them. I always win Stockman. Don't forget that!"
Donatello glued himself to the computer screen in his lab as Lexine paced impatiently behind him. He looked over their DNA as he tried to match the samples with the antidote that Jacqueline had seen in her vision. The other three brothers waited anxiously in the living area.
"This is it guys." Donnie said walking out of the room with a vile in his hand. He smiled in achievement as Leixne followed behind him.
"That's it?"
"Well, yeah." Donnie said as Raphael eyed the red liquid. "I know it's not much to look at, but it's the effect that we want. Who wants to be first?"
"I nominate Mikey." Raph said pushing his little brother in front of him.
"Yeah dude, I'll totally go. This isn't gonna kill me right?"
"No, well…It shouldn't?" Donnie shrugged as Mikey winced following his brother into the lab. Everyone stood in front of the entryway as Mikey exited still in human form. Fiona frowned looking him up and down.
"Why didn't change back?"
"It'll take a few hours." Donnie said. "Raph, next?"
"Oldest first." Raph said looking over at Leo who shook his head.
"No, no. Be my guest." Leo said holding out his hand.
"Really Leo, I insist."
"Oh will you two man up! It's just a shot." Jac said shoving Raph. He glared at her as he went to the lab with Donnie.
"This is something that wasn't suspected."
"What?"
"He's not responding. Flat lined."
"I told you. He's not coming back from this one."
"You seem too expected of this?"
"What are you saying?"
"You had something to do with this!"
"I had nothing to do with that freak killing him. Sooner or later one of them was bound to snap."
"Then what about her?"
"She has no matters in this."
"We were told to send word if something such as this was to happen. She needs to take over here as well as in Japan. If not leaving it to be lead by someone else completely in either place. You have no say over this, only he…"
"And you have no say over anything but your labs and beakers! He is dead, as you were able to so scientifically discover." He said in low sarcastic tone. "This is not your concern. Do what you are paid for and I will do what I am paid for."
The next morning Jade woke up in the arm's of Leonardo. She smiled against his neck as her eyes slowly focused. She jumped back looking down at him as her smile widened. She shoved him as he woke up quickly grabbing her hand. She smiled taking his hand in hers as he looked down at it.
"Whoa…I'm…"
"You again." She smiled kissing his olive green colored skin. He smiled back wrapping his arms around her and kissing her lips deeply.
"Awesome!" Mikey said as they heard him run past Leo's room. Jade laughed getting from the bed as Leo followed. "Dude! You're you!" Mikey said as he threw his arms around his brother in a hug."
"Yeah Mikey, you're you too."
"I know isn't it great?!" He smiled jumping on the railing sliding down, flipping backwards as he landed in front of the couch.
She walked up the large stairwell of the Foot Headquarters. Her black hood over her head as her shoulders squared off, shifted back as her chest was brought out. Her straight walked lead her to Saki's office. She opened the door as she saw Hun sitting at the desk. He jumped back standing up and bowing before her.
"Mistress. I did not know…"
"Save your shallow words for someone who is prepared to believe them. I was called here by a Foot Ninja. Their name I am not going to expose to you, however their rank was higher than you knew. This is not a place for you and your bumbling oafs to take care of this. This is the Foot's job now."
"I can promise you that my Dragon's will…"
"I don't care what your Dragons are capable of! You take orders from me now."
"This isn't Japan."
"The Foot belong to me, take orders from me, and fight for me. Not you." He glared at her as their shoulders brushed from him leaving the room. She sighed trying to steady her worked up breath and walked over to his desk. She looked over papers and saw DNA sample reports. She narrowed her eyes picking up the piece of paper. "They're still alive."
"We should go back to our place and fix it up. I mean since the Shredder is really dead this time we can stop being a bother to you guys." Lexine said as she sat on the arm of the couch. Her sisters all nodded as the now back to normal turtles disputed.
"You're causing no bothers to anyone my child." Splinter said placing a paw on her shoulder. She smiled patting it.
"I understand Master, however we have a life to get back to."
"Not much different than the one we were livin'." Jacqueline said with narrowed eyes.
"Jackie, we have to go back up there sometime."
"Why?"
"Because, it's where we live. It's our home."
"This is our home too."
"Yes, but it is also theirs."
"Scared to move in with your boyfriend?" Jacqueline mocked with a smirk. Jade rolled her eyes as she stepped in between her feuding sisters.
"Hey, time out! Go to your corners." Jackie narrowed her eyes turning away towards the kitchen as Lexine went towards the lab. "Fe take Lex I'll handle Jac."
"For sure." Fiona said walking over towards Lexine who stood arms crossed. Jade sighed walking over towards Jac and Raph in the kitchen.
"Ok. Lexi is right…"
"She's not right! That home is nothing to us now! The surface is just a place! We live…" Jade clapped her hands loudly to quiet her sister.
"Hey! Let me finish." Jac crossed her arms and sighed. "Ok. She is right. However, so are you. This is our home now. Our old apartment has a lot of our belongings still and it is our own. This lair is theirs. I don't like being away from Leo anymore than you like being away from Raph, but their big boys. They can handle it."
"So you sayin' we go back?"
"We can still have sleepovers." Jade said trying to compromise. Jac sighed nodding her head.
"Fine."
"Good, let's gather our things. You guys can come help. It should be near dusk by now." Jade said towards Raph and looking over her shoulder at Leo who nodded.
"I agree. We need to go back to our lives and watching this city. I'm sure you both missed going out at two in the morning." Leo said eyeing his brother. Raph picked his head up with an arched eye ridge and shrugged.
"I don't know what you're talkin' about Leo." Jac said walking past him as Raph followed.
The girls gathered their things as the day light seeped out of the streets above. They made their way to the surface as the turtles stayed behind them, hiding in the depths of the shadows. Fiona smiled to herself as she heard Mikey trip over a curb and fall into a dumpster.
"I'm ok." She heard his pained voice in the shadows. She giggled as she ran to catch up with her sisters.
Jade opened the front door to their building. It seemed run down since they last left it. They were the only people living in the certain building for some time, but it was always kept up. She frowned to the thought that they were the only ones doing the keeping up.
They put their things on the floor of their scattered apartment. Jade chewed on her cheek as she crossed her arms tightly weighing the things she had to get done in her head. There was so much cleaning and repairing. Donnie could help with that, and the rest could help with lifting. But still, their things even though they were just materials they still had been theirs and now, they were just broken parts.
Jacqueline stood next to her brooding sister as she nudged her shoulder. She walked to open the window for the boys as they went in one by one.
"Seems to look the way we left it." Donnie said evaluating the mess. Lexine smirked and nodded her head.
"Shouldn't take too long to clean." She shrugged.
"We have to get new locks." Jade said looking over her shoulder.
"We'll stay here tonight with you and you can get locks in the morning." Leonardo said looking around the living area. It was opened up, more so now since the couch had been turned over and their entertainment center was kicked in. He forced a smile over at Jade as she paid no attention. Her eyes darted across the room, behind her, to the left over her, tilting her head slightly to look up the stairs. She started to walk towards them as he followed her.
"Well, we might as well get started." Donnie said picking up some broken CD cases in the rug. Lexine smiled kneeling beside him and helping.
"I wonder if the vacuum still works?" Fiona said going into a hallway next to the kitchen. Mikey followed.
Jacqueline opened the fridge as her beers were where she left them. She looked behind her at Raph as he sat on a stool at the kitchen island counter. She smiled at him handing him a beer opening hers with her belt buckle. He smirked and used it as well.
"Maybe you should be helping?" Lexine said looking up at Jacqueline from the floor. Jacqueline dropped her smile looking at her little sister as she had her arms crossed.
"Maybe, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna." Jac said taking Raph's hand. "I'll start upstairs." She said walking up the spiral staircase.
Leonardo helped Jade flip her mattress back on her bed. He took her covers and laid them over it. The scent wafting from them smelt faintly of lavender and roses. He smiled to himself as he took a breath in. The covers floated down to the mattress as he got a sight of her placing clothing back into her dresser, trying to put a draw back on its track. She grunted lightly as she slammed her shoulder forcing it back in place.
"Need help."
"No…I…Got it." She said slamming her shoulder with each word. Finally it popped back in as it slid forward. She smiled with a sigh standing up and pushing her hair out of her face and looking towards the broken glass of frames and pictures on her desk. Her computer had been smashed, but again just a material thing. She could always get more.
"So?" Leo said walking around the side of her bed and sitting on it as she stood in front of him. She smiled looking down at him as she ran her hand down his arm.
"This is my room."
"I see that."
"You're on my bed." She smirked.
"Yes, this would be the bed."
"Oh! I want to show you something!" She said getting on the bed and climbing over it. She leaned over the side sticking her head under the bed as he looked over his shoulder at her trying not to laugh. She picked herself back up as she was holding a photo album. She handed it to him. "I'm the blonde one." She said with a breath.
"Blonde?"
"Yeah…haha. Lexine and myself had blonde when we were younger and mine turned darker. This is us on Halloween. I was wonder women." She smiled looking at the picture.
"You guys look happy."
"We were." She sighed.
"Those are you parents."
"Yup."
"What happened to them?"
"Nothing. My mom lives in Boston still. She probably has like ten messages on our machine."
"Attentive daughters." Leo said looking at her out of the corner of his eye. She smiled nudging him a bit.
"Yeah well, I've been distracted lately."
"I thought you said you weren't going to contact her?"
"This was one of his men's doing…"
"Dr. Stockman."
"Yes Mistress."
"I see no familiarities with those freaks in these boys."
"But the DNA is the same. You see I injected them with a poison not long ago and their bodies mutated." He said walking over to her as she stood before four metal tables.
"Handsome individuals." She said in a sideways glance.
"Whatever your means are of handsome." Dr. Stockman scoffed.
"And those girls, they're still alive?"
"Yes, they have taken a liking from what I've perceived of those freaks."
"Well, it won't be hard to change that." She smirked looking at a lifeless form on a medicine table. She traced her finger slowly along his bicep as his eyes opened. He sat up straight as she took a slow step away from him, putting her hand to her katana hilt. "Impressive."
"They have all the same attributes as them. No thing is left different."
"Besides maybe their Master." She smirked.
FINALLY! Writers block OVER! I got detained with my other writings as well. All lose knots will be tied. Keeeeppppp reading!