Violet's smirk grew.
"5…4…"
Cat caught on, a grin forming, as the others slowly realized what she was counting down to.
"3…2…"
Red chakra started building around the young thirteen year old turtle.
"1…"
A nearly sadistic smile.
"…'Boom'…"
Rose's chakra was like lightning, scorching walls and skin.
Hun dropped her in sudden pain, and she landed on all fours.
The electricity formed like a coat around her, with a lightning-shaped tail.
Violet grinned.
"Here comes Ms. Lightning Bolt…Hope you can't live with a charred ass…"
Rose grinned sadistically, the air crackling with electricity.
"Can't stop her now…" Violet stated, stepping back.
Lightning flew through the air, striking the ninja and shocking them, cutting them…
Violet ducked a blow from a ninja, giving a vicious uppercut.
Joss did a difficult spinning kick, hitting a couple away, when she felt someone grab the sheathes strapped to her shell, pulling her back.
Panicked at first, she relaxed when she realized it was her mother.
"Don needs you to help him get Jazz out of here. Take Violet, Ben, and Theo."
Joss nodded.
"Hey, boys! Over here!"
The twins stopped, turning to her questioningly.
"Get Vi. We're heading out!"
They nodded.
"Violet! Come on!"
The light purple-banded turtle nodded, and headed towards the small group.
"Let's go!"
They followed Don, who led them to the open, a large outdoor garden.
"Well, how do we get down?" Ben asked, looking down.
"…Sprout wings?"
Violet rolled her eyes, smacking Theo upside the head.
"I just need to call the snowboards Jazz made…"
Don pressed a button, soothing his daughter as she whimpered.
That's when the wall behind them exploded, and Rose was thrown to the grass, a foot on her shell.
"ROSE!!!" Violet snarled, ready to tear Hun to shreds, but Joss held her back.
"Vi, it's going to be okay…I promise…"
Violet stopped her movement forward, but her glare was deadly.
"Get-Off-Her." The light purple-banded turtle snarled, clenching her fists.
"I don't think I will…"
Joss grabbed Violet's arm, holding her back.
"Vi…"
"I'm not letting him hurt anyone else!" Violet hissed, looking deadly.
"I'll take care of it, Vi."
A suspicious glare, but the slightly younger turtle relented.
"Good…"
Joss pulled out her katana, twirling them easily.
"I have a deal for you…get away from her, and I won't slice you to ribbons and let Violet destroy the remains…"
A smirk.
"'Cause that'll hurt more than me…"
"Ya better believe it!!" Violet added.
"I have a proposition of my own…"
He started crushing the turtle under his foot.
"You for her…"
'A life for a life…'
Before she could open her mouth, Violet grabbed her arm.
"Don't…"
"…What else can I do?"
Violet's eyes hardened at the defeated look.
"What happened to the turtle that wouldn't stay down, huh? I refuse to believe that's the only way!"
Hope, like a shining star in the darkness of space, lit up in the deep eyes of the eldest.
"Vi…"
"You're not going in there alone. That's what I'M here for."
"…You're the best friend ever…"
A cheeky grin.
"Aw, no need to tell me something I already know!"
A playful smack.
"Hey!" Violet whined with a playful pout.
She shook the emotions away, and looked at the scene before her.
'Okay…a weak spot…wait a minute…'
Something strange had just come to her.
'Rose wouldn't just lie there and take this quietly…she'd be cursing and struggling and threatening and wishing him to the deepest, most fiery pits of hell…'
It hit her like a boulder to the gut.
'It's not Rose…'
Joss was about to move when something kicked her shell, making her fall forward, and sat on her shell.
'A distraction!'
Something punched her across the face, and Violet stumbled back before pulling out her sai and lashing out at the air.
She missed, and whatever it was kicked her in the chest.
Violet ground her teeth, when a wall shook, shattering like glass.
"Who started the party without me?"
"Rose!"
The electricity-coated turtle jumped through the dust and debris, snarling.
"Foot Tech ninja!"
Violet nodded, luckily blocking a strike and moving back.
"Uncle Donnie, got any heat-vision goggles in your bag 'a tricks?"
"Yeah."
He held Jazz carefully, not noticing her eyes were wide-open and watchful, as he rooted through his duffel bag.
He threw a pair at the light purple-banded turtle, who caught it easily, slipping it over her eyes.
"This is SO much easier now that I can see them!"
A vicious Dragon Punch sent the Foot Tech ninja flying, and Violet grabbed the one on Joss's shell, throwing him hard over her shoulder.
Joss sat up.
"Can I get a pair? I'd like to be able to see…"
Violet shrugged, passing her own pair to her 'leader', and turned to see her sister fighting Hun, lightning bolt tail flying through the air like a crackling knife.
But when the behemoth pulled something out of his pocket, Violet felt her heart sped up as he leveled it.
"ROSE!!!!!!!!!!!"
Something moved past Violet, looking like a green and pink blur…
'JAZZ!!!!!!'
A bang echoed through the air, and a heart-wrenching cry followed it.
The chakra dissipated, and a body slumped to the floor, motionless…
The light pink-banded turtle was there, ignoring the pain in her broken leg and other limbs.
"R-Rose…"
Eyes closed, expression pained, the younger turtle hardly seemed to be breathing.
The bullet had entered her chest, straight through the plastron, leaving a strain crater-like mark.
The cracks spread out in all directions, helping lead the blood that steadily pumped out, down her arms to the grass.
"R-Rose…pl-please b-be o-okay…"
'You're the only one I trust…with all my secrets…'
Hun smirked, taking a step towards the two.
Jazz flinched, but leaned over the younger turtle as if to shield her.
"What makes you stay and protect her? How could you have known what I was going to do?"
"…'Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind'…" She quoted softly, her hands lingering over the bleeding hole in her cousin's chest.
Her chakra came out as a soft pink glow, and the blood reacted, glowing and slowly moving back into the wound it had come from like syrup or molasses.
"It's too late to save the freak anyway…"
Chakra formed in her free hand, the one dangling at her side because of her dislocated shoulder.
"…I-It's n-not t-too l-late…"
Her chakra pumped through her hand and straight into the wound, when the younger turtle moved.
Jazz soothed her softly, when a small chunk of metal came out of the wound tract.
It fell to the ground with a muffled sound as the chakra stopped the bleeding itself.
She started slumping slightly, as if not finding the energy to stay more upright, and Don realized what she was doing.
'She's using her life force! If she's bringing Rose back to life-!'
He felt her blood on his hands more than before.
'…She'll die…'