Leonardo watched Jade's body turn the corner down the alleyway as he thought he could physically feel his heart break in two. He had no idea why she was acting with such hostility towards him. She couldn't have seen the kiss she was a roof top away and even so she should know the circumstances before jumping to conclusions. She should know he loves her. He narrowed his eyes slightly to the bold move on her part as he felt a shove on his shoulder. He turned around seeing Jacqueline glaring at him with red eyes. She lit a flame to her fingers as he backed away slowly.
"Go after her dumbass!" She said as he hesitated she lifted her finger higher as he stepped back.
"Alright. We need to go together. She's not doing this alone. We're going to the Foot and…"
"Oh, you're going there." June said appearing on the opposite side of the alleyway. Everyone turned to look at her as she held them in place. "No Jade here to stop me? Pity. What happened Romeo, you two get into a fight?" She smirked as Foot Ninja appeared behind her. They walked slowly over to the turtles and sisters grabbing a tight grasped around their arms.
Jade shoved her hands into her pockets repeating the image in her head of what she saw like a broken record. She could feel the anger and frustration swell within her as she kept seeing Karai's face and her lips pressed against Leo's. His hands wrapped around her back. How could he does this to her? After what they talked about, it didn't make any sense. Lying, deceit, it wasn't Leonardo. She clenched her eyes placing her hand out as she felt dizzy, bracing herself against a wall.
She rubbed her temples as she looked up at Foot Ninja surrounding her over the roof tops. She looked towards the alleyways on either side of her as the evil clones of the guys came out, showing off their weapons. She took another quick look around her as she sighed. She tired to focus on where she sisters were but her mind was clouded.
She cursed herself for not listening to Leonardo for meditating, then feeling sick of the mention to his name. She furrowed her brow dropping to her knees as human Leonardo came out of the shadows placing the tip of his katana blade to her chin. He lifted her face up to meet his eyes as steams streamed down her cheeks.
"If you ever wanna see your beloved sisters and turtle freaks again, you'll follow me without any powers or complications." He said as she nodded her head slowly getting to her feet. He smirked pulling her body close to his as he gripped her bicep a little too tightly. She hissed to the pain as he smiled wider dragging her down the alleyway.
She entered the Foot Headquarters seeing her sisters kept in the middle of the room with the guys standing by their sides, katanas from the Foot pointed all around them. She saw June with a welcoming sickening smile across her face as she walked up to Jade. The evil clone of Leonardo threw her to the ground as she fell willingly. She had no fight left in her, just the slightest feeling of her connection with her sisters to keep her from even moving. She slowly looked up at June as knelt down positing Jade to sit up.
"Welcome beautiful." She said as she punching her across the face. Jade fell, catching herself with her hand as she spit up blood from biting down on her cheek. She noticed Jac shift as a katana pressed against her skin. Jade held her hand up to stop her sister from causing harm to herself.
"It's not worth it Jackie. I can handle this."
"Fuck that! Looket you!"
"I'm fine."
"Yeah Jackie. She's fine. Leave it to big sis to kiss all your problems away. What problems do we have this time poor, sad, Jade?" June said as she kicked Jade in the stomach. She winced couching slightly as she fell on her side. June went to kick her again.
"Enough!" A voice yelled from the stairway as Jade struggled to lift her head to see Karai walking down the stairs. She shifted her gaze to Leonardo who kept his eyes on Karai, narrowed slightly. Her stomach grew sicker, twisting and lurching forward as she watched her walk towards him.
Karai smiled towards at Leonardo, walking down the line as she stopped for a second looking into his eyes, narrowed on hers. She lifted her hand gliding it down his face as he moved it harshly from her touch. Foot Ninja grasped his arms around his shell tighter making him lean into her.
"To her feet." Karai said as Foot Ninja ran over towards Jade pulling her up to her feet as she tried her best to not go limp in their arms. She winced to the feeling of her stomach moving from the harsh kick. "Bring her here." She said as the Foot dragged Jade's body closer to Karai and Leo. Jade looked at her sisters, avoiding eye contact with Leo.
Karai lifted her finger to Jade's lip, wiping off the blood that smudged across it. She smiled as Jade kept her eyes narrowed, feeling a sinking feeling take over her senses. She tried to focus, get her strength back but felt nothing, numbness come back to her. Karai wiped Jade's blood away with a red silk cloth she kept in her pocket.
"She's rather beautiful Leonardo." Karai said tilting her head with a smile admiring Jade as Jade looked away with a scowl. "Shame I wasn't able to get to you sooner." She said turning her attention back towards Leo as she ran her finger down his plastron. Jade lurched towards Karai as Foot kept her back twisting her arms as she fell to her knees with a whimper of pain.
Leo clenched his eyes tightly as he tried to push away what was happen. He opened them staring at the beautiful Asian inspired lights on the ceiling. He steadied his breathed, clenching his eyes shut again as he heard Jade whimper once again in pain.
"Enough." Karai said walking away from Leonardo, tossing the silk fabric to the floor. The Foot stepped away from Jade, her sisters and the turtles as the Foot backed up against the walls. Jade rubbed her arms as Jac ran to her side, followed by Fiona and Lexine helping their sister to her feet. "Now we finish what I started all those years ago on that roof top." Karai said with her back towards them as June smirked stepping forward, along with evil clone of Jacqueline with a flame already prepared in her hand. The clones of the guys stepped in, taking their weapons in their hands and falling into their stances. The turtles followed with their weapons as Jade and Jac narrowed their eyes on their clones.
"Who do you want?" Jac asked over towards her sister as Jade smirked.
"You take Flames. I can handle summertime." Jade said wiping the blood from her lip with the back of her hand as she straightened herself out, fixing her shirt.
Jacqueline's clone stepped forward as Jade did, her eyes turning a bright purple as Jacqueline threw a flame out towards her. Jade stopped walking, looking towards the flame coming at her as she opened her hand controlled it in her palm, letting the fire extinguish and steam off her flesh.
"Nice try bitch, but it's time for the big girls to play." Jade said as she threw her arm out towards Jacqueline's body. It flew back against the marble wall, as she shook her head, struggling to her feet. Jac laughed pounding her fist with her sister as June crossed her arms in amusement.
"Impressive." She said with a smug look as Jade smiled back. "So we're not broken anymore? You can actually work through your pathetic demeanor tofight?" June said her voice rising in anger as her eyes turned black. Jade smirked as her eyes went dark purple, feeling her strength and sister's connection rush back within her, filling her body with power. She smiled with a breath nodding her head.
The guys waited and watched their human clones stand before them. Leonardo shifted his glance towards Karai as she stood, arms crossed on the top steps.
"We've all sparred with each other, years of training." Leo said over to his brothers. They nodded keeping their attention locked on their clones. "Mikey take Donnie, Raphael you take me, Donnie you take Raph." Leo looked over at Lexi and Fiona as they stood clenching their fists. "Lexi, take Mikey. Fiona, try and find a way for us to get outta here." The girls nodded as Lexi ran up beside Donnie with a smile, dropping into a stance.
"Who are you gonna take fearless?" Raph said never moving his eyes from Leonardo's clone. Leo smirked taking off in a swift moment as he flipped onto the steps. His human clone tried to get to him as Raph threw a sai, to stop him.
"You were chosen by the wrong turtle pal." Raph smirked as the human clone of his brother narrowed his eyes slipping his katanas from their hold. Raph took his other sai with a smile, as they started to circle one another.
Mikey braced his nunchakus as Donatello sung his bo staff down. He pushed the wood away with his metal chains as his brother's evil clone spun his staff around, in a swift movement. Mikey flipped back out of the way as he looked over at Donnie pushing Raphael's sai back.
"Donnie what do I do if you swing your staff?" Mikey called over the grunts and weapons against weapons echoing through the room. Donnie peered over his shoulder for a moment before wincing, holding up his bo staff as Raphael's sai caught on the wood.
"Move out of the way!" Donnie yelled back as Mikey flipped back again from Donatello's bo staff coming at him.
"Got it bro!"
Lexine watched Michelangelo carefully as he circled her. She felt her heart leap in her throat as he came at her, faster than she could have expected. She dodged out of the way, tucking and rolling across the marble floor as she slid to a stop, bracing herself on her knee. He spun his nunchakus, coming at her again as she darted to one side, moving like a flash as she kicked him in the back. He fell forward, into a summersault letting his nunchakus drop to his side, spinning and bracing them against his biceps.
She bit her bottom lip in concentration as he flipped forward, going through maneuvers with the flashes of wood before her. She stepped back moving in flash over to him to try and get behind him again to drop him. He stuck out his arm as he closed line her knocking her off her feet. She landed on her back grabbing at her throat, wincing to the pain of the wind getting knocked out of her.
"Mikey when he hell did you become so fast?" She said rolling across the floor from Michelangelo's foot coming down on her. She slowly got to her feet as they circled each other.
"You're used to Donnie babe! I'm the swiftest turtle in the bunch!" Mikey yelled over to her keeping his eyes locked on Donatello.
"Not something I wanted to hear." She panted, trying to catch her breath as she darted out of the way.
Jac circled her evil clone as her smile never left her face. Both holding fire balls in their hands at ready. Jacqueline narrowed her eyes slightly as she ran at Jac, throwing flames like rapid fire at her. Jac held her hand up catching each one as it grew into a bigger ball in her grasp. She smiled looking at the glowing flame before her, looking back through the hazy heat at her evil cloned self with a shocked look on her face.
"At least we know who the smarter one is." Jac said as she threw the huge flame with a growl. The explosion made Raph and Leonardo's clone get thrown back as Raph was slammed against a wall. He sat up, shaking away the dizziness from his head as he noticed his other sai embedded in the marble. He looked over at Leonardo, getting to his feet as he pulled the sai out of the wall in one swift pull.
"Now, let's play." He said as spun his sais against his forearms running at his evil cloned brother. Their weapons collided together as Raph caught Leonardo's katanas in the hook of his sais. Leonardo's arms shook from the brace of his muscles as Raph pushed hard down on the slim blade of his katanas.
Leo walked slowly up the stairs as Karai watched him carefully. She kept her hand to the hilt of her katana as he did the same. He stopped a few steps below her as she took a step back.
"You're not going to win." Leo said taking another slow step. Karai shifted back.
"So sure of yourself Leonardo?" She said in a flat tone.
"Stop this Karai, you have no need for it. For us. His plan was wrong and you know this. Where is your honor?" He asked as she glared at him. She slipped her katana from her leather strap as she took a step down.
"You know nothing of my honor." She said harshly as he stood his ground reliving one of his blades as well.
"You have no right to call anything you do honorable." Leo said narrowing his eyes. Her breathing started to go more rapid in her chest as she went at him crashing her blade down on his. He pushed her back as she stumbled on the steps, catching herself with a flip as she landed on the top step. She turned and ran down the hall as he narrowed his eyes and followed.
"Where's lover boy going?" June asked as she smirked watching Leo follow Karai. "New girlfriend I assume?" Jade looked towards Leo as he ran to catch up with Karai. June smiled throwing her arm at from Jade's distraction as her body slammed against a wall. Her She coughed, taking in a harsh breath as she tried to catch it. She got to her feet slower than she liked as June picked her up by her shirt with her powers. Jade tried to push her away as June just smiled regaining more power over her. She took Jade's body, flinging it over her shoulder against the opposite wall. Jade fell to the floor landing on her stomach, trying her best to regain her strength as she heard June's shoes clack against the marble floor. She looked over at her as her arms shook under her weight as she tried to lift herself. Blood running down her face from her head as her eyes tried to steady from the dizziness barreling through it.
"You should have known by know Jade. I'm better than you. Strong, more powerful. I have nothing to hold me back. No family or lovers to toy with my emotions. Blind me in a time when I need to stay focused. That's what your problem is. You care too much." June said as she leaned down pulling Jade to her feet. Jade wobbled a little on her shaky legs as the dizziness remained for a moment longer. She lifted her head slowly with narrowed eyes on June with that remaining sickening smirk.
She needed to push away everything that was happened. Focus on the things she had around her at that moment. Her surroundings, focus on the power giving off from those around her. She looked over towards sisters. She smirked as Jac kicked her evil clone in the stomach having her body thrown back from her harsh kick. Jac lighting another flame in her palm running after her fallen clone.
Jade turned her attention back towards June as she wiped the blood from her face, straightening her back as her shoulder cracked slightly. She took a slow breath in pushing away the pain and problems within her. Then a slow breath out as she closed her eyes, gathering all the strength left inside of her.
Jade lifted her hand, bracing her other hand on her elbow opening her palm slowly. She clenched her eyes, steadying her breathing as she bent her arm pushing it forward swiftly as June flew back slamming against a wall.
"Sore subject I guess." June said getting to her feet and adjusting her corset. Jade smirked walking forward as she lifted June off her feet by her neck. She punched her across the face as June flew back against a marble pillar. "Oh, so kitties got claws?" June smirked as she lifted her hand to the back of her head as it coated in sticky crimson. June threw her hand out towards her as she walked through a blanket of smoke, charcoal covering her sun kissed skin as she wasn't budge by June's attempt.
June narrowed her eyes throwing her arm forward again as Jade stood with a smirk crossing her arms over her chest. June shook her arm trying again as Jade walked towards her, picking her up once more as her feet kicked in the air.
"Have we forgotten?" Jade asked looking up at her evil counter part. "I created you. You got your power, your strength from me." Jade said in smoke covered low voice. "You really thought you'd be stronger?" She threw her body against the marble wall once more as June's body went limp and stayed. "Didn't think so."
Fiona worked her way around the room, dodging fire balls and weapons as she tired to look for an escape. Foot were everywhere, alone the walls and outside the building. She had no out.
Donnie was thrown back once again by Raphael as he landed on Fiona. She caught him as he furrowed his brow trying to figure out why he was leaning in mid-air.
"Rough night?" Fiona asked as Donnie's expression lightened. She looked around the room as she saw a vase in the corner of the room. Donnie got to his feet as Raphael ran at him with a growl. He moved out of the way, spinning his bo staff and coming in contact with Raphael's back. He fell forward, pushing himself back up to his feet turning back towards Donnie looked more mad than ever. Donnie winced.
"Sorry, forgot the whole no shell to cover your spin from pain rule." He shrugged as Raphael smirked coming at him again. Fiona came up behind Raphael smashing the vase over his head as he fell limp to the floor. She went visible as Donnie smirked. "Thanks Fe."
"Don't mention…Watch out!" She said as she pushed him out of the way of a fire ball from Jac. She flipped over Donnie and Fiona as her evil twin came at her. She turned around catching the ball in her own grasp as she threw it back.
"This game of catch is getting old! Let's get outta here!" Jac yelled over to everyone as the guys all looked over at her with a nod. Lexine darted over to her sister's side leaving Michelangelo as Donnie ran over smacking his evil brother's clone across the face.
Jade cleared the smoke in the room as she put out Jacqueline's clone flame, leaving her sister's still burning in her hand. Jac smirked as she saw her sister come up behind her evil clone turning her body with her powers. She lifted Jacqueline's feet from the ground as they kicked back and forth. She winced tossing a flame as it just extinguished in the air not even coming close to Jade.
She looked over at Raphael's clone lying on the floor as she took his sai from his fallen hand. She moved it with her powers as it landed in Jac's grasp. Jac smirked looking down at the glistening metal and back up at her clone chocking above her sister. She let out a grunt as the sai flew in a spiral through the air landing in Jacqueline's back. Jade smirked helping guiding the tip further into her body as she fell on her knees, then to the floor in a lifeless form.
"That's my girl!" Raph said as Jac smiled at him. Him and Leonardo stood as he watched the other brothers and girls make a line of defense. Leonardo's clone narrowed his eyes as Raph smirked twisting his sais as they pointed out towards him, ready to strike. Donnie twisted his bo staff bracing it before him as Mikey spun his nunchakus catching them with his biceps. Leonardo lowered his katanas slipping them back into their hold as he dropped his hands in defeat.
"Come on." Jade said as she walked up the stairs with her sister's following. The guys hesitated watching Leonardo carefully as he moved his gaze with them. They disappeared up the stairs as a smile went to his face.
The turtles and the sisters all ran down the long hallway as they heard metal slam against metal. Jade slid to a stop as Jacqueline and Raphael stood next to her.
Karai stood with her blade in her hand as Leonardo was held back by Hun. He looked at Jade as she narrowed her eyes on all of them. She couldn't feel his distress. She was too busy concentrating on her sisters that she pushed Leonardo out of her mind altogether. She looked down as she felt the burn of tears start to swell in her eyes. She didn't want this, she wanted him to be ok.
She heard Hun's chuckle, low and deep pierce her ears as he stepped away from Leonardo walking towards her. Leo shifted as Hun took another step grabbing Jade by the neck. She kicked her feet as they lifted off the ground, grasping her hands around Hun's large one that choked her slender neck. He turned back towards Leo as Jade clenched her eyes trying to keep consciousness.
Jacqueline growled, creating a fire ball in her hand as Hun squeezed his hand tighter around Jade's neck. She choked more getting her breath caught in her throat as Leonardo shifted again.
"No!" He cried as Jacqueline dropped her hand.
"You make a move and I crush her windpipe." Hun smirked as Jade tired to gather her powers, failing from her concentration being kept on trying to breath.
"All of you surrender to me or she dies." Karai said stepping next to Hun as she pushed Leonardo over with the tip of her katana. It pierced his green skin as a trickle of crimson left when she pulled away.
"We will never surrender." Leonardo said taking his other katana from his strap and holding them both tightly at their side. Raphael pointed his sais forward waiting for his brother's go ahead.
Hun smirked pressing Jade's neck tighter as he moved over to the railing over looking the entry way as he hung Jade's body, hovering over the drop. She looked down at the long drop below her kicking feet as she clenched her eyes, Hun's hand clasped tighter around her neck as her hands clenched tighter to his hand.
"I suppose you want to kill her then?" Hun said stretching his arm out longer, Jade's body swinging slightly as her biceps burned from trying to hold her weight in his grasp to keep from passing out.
"Jade?" She heard Fiona's sad voice say. She closed her eyes trying to concentrate on the soft echo of her little sister's voice.
"Don't listen to them Fe. I can handle this." Jade said as she squirmed to get free. Fiona looked over at Jacqueline as she nodded her head.
"Kill her." Jac said crossing her arms. Karai and Hun both looked up as Jade still squirmed. Leonardo narrowed his eyes on Jacqueline as she looked at him arching her brow slightly. Leonardo lightened his expression with confusion he looked back at Karai.
Karai looked over at Hun as he smiled letting Jade from his grasp as she fell. She gasped for air as her body fell through the air. She steadied her mind, catching her body against the marble floor inches before contact. She looked above as she fell against the ground. She got to her feet quickly moving under the hallway above.
Jacqueline waited for her sister to catch herself and jump back to the railing as her eyes went wide. She ran over to the side as Lexine and Fiona followed. Jacqueline turned around lighting a flame to her hand as she narrowed her eyes on Karai. Karai smirked as she twisted her katana in her grasp, waiting for Jac's strike.
Jade floated back up, landing on the railing as her eyes turned a dark purple. She stepped down on the soft red carpeting, keeping her dark eyes locked on Hun's. He backed up slowly as Karai narrowed her eyes on Jade pointing her katana at Leonardo's neck.
"One more move and he's dead." Karai said as Raphael shifted. Jade held up her hand keeping Raph in place as she smirked over at Karai. She took her katana from her grasp as she threw it over her shoulder having it embed into the marble.
"I don't see how that could happen?" Jade said as Karai started to back up slowly, unarmed. She narrowed her eyes on everyone around her as she dropped a smoke pellet to the ground. Hun started running down the hall as Jade stopped him, having him fall forward. "Going so soon?" Jade said as she stalked towards him, swinging her hips as she went. He turned around scrambling to get to his feet. She held her hand out choking him and picking him up from the ground. "Does feel so good does it?" She hissed as he grasped his hand around his neck. Jade smiled moving her arm to the left as Hun's body was thrown over the ledge landing on the stories below in the middle of the entry way floor.
Fiona and Mikey ran over to the side as they winced to the slight of Hun unconscious.
"He's not getting up anytime soon." Fiona said as Jade stood with her back turned towards the group as Leonardo slowly walked towards her. He reached out to touch her shoulder as she turned, her eyes remaining a dark violet. She took his hand placing it back to his side as she walked past him.
"Let's get out of here." She said walking through the group as they all looked from Leonardo to her. Jacqueline caught up with her sister as the others followed.
"Um…you alright?" Jacqueline asked as Jade's face still remained intense and unreadable.
"Fine." Jade said as she walked down the stairs.
"You sure?" Fiona asked as Jade said nothing, keeping her fast pace towards the door.
"Dude, what did you do?" Mikey asked as the girls walked ahead, looking over at his blue clad brother. Leonardo sighed shaking his head as he slipped his katana in his strap.
"Well whatever it is, you should find out so you don't do it again." Raph chuckled as him and his brother's walked through the hall.
Jade opened the front doors with her powers as Foot Ninja filed through them. Jade stopped watching them as they all took their katanas out at ready. She smirked a little, squaring off her shoulders as her sisters ran to her side. They all stood at ready as Jade lifted her hands and parting them to the sides as the Foot before her threw in opposite directions. Jade looked over her shoulder at the guys coming down the hall as she ran outside, holding off the remaining Foot.
"C'mon! Move your shells!" Jac yelled. Raphael jumped to a run as his brother's followed. Leonardo looking behind him for a moment as he noticed something move to his side. He stopped turning around with narrowed eyes scanning the area once more. "Leo, let's go!" Jac yelled again as he turned running to catch up.