Don flew through the city as fast as he could with the metal plated Foot hot on his heels.
The masked turtle had managed to track and find the Metal Foot as the villain was breaking open an all night grocery store and trying to make away with a few bottles of Gatorade, some energy shakes, and a whole box of candy bars. It hadn't taken Don long to goad the Foot into following him and now he was finding out just how fast the metal suit could move. He wasn't afraid, and he had confidence in his gadgets and his own abilities but he was still happy to see the sight of the bay rising up before him and even happier to see the building he had designated as his fighting arena. It was still being built but it did have four walls and a roof which was more than wide enough to give Don plenty of room to maneuver. It occurred to him that Foot might realize he was being lead into a trap but the metal plated villain didn't seem to care too much. He looked quite eager to punch Don's teeth through the other side of his head and do horrible things to the rest of his body. Don of course had a few surprises up his suited sleeve and wasn't about to let himself be taken down easily.
He landed on the roof of the building ran to a suitable distance and then turned falling into a defensive crouch; just in time for the metal foot to land on the rooftop in front of him..while his friend the non-suited Foot leapt onto the roof from the street. Don grinned, two against one.
He liked the odds.
The metal suited foot advanced slowly clenching and un-clenching his fists in an open sign of aggression. "He thinks he's luring me into a trap Jin." The metal suited foot said to his normal friend.
"And here we thought he was the smart turtle Wick." Said the normal Foot Jin in a voice that oozed derision.
"I guess we thought wrong." Wick the metal Foot said still advancing menacingly on Don.
Don knew they were trying to intimidate him, but Don wasn't easily intimidated. He gave a one sided smile. "You two have been thinking? And here I was sure you didn't even have enough brain matter to tell you left hand from your right."
"Oh and he's funny too, you are one multi-talented turtle." Jin said sarcastically.
" You have no idea." Don said.
"Oh I think I do. Let's see just how talented you are, can you for instance avoid this?"
Wick became a blur, Don barely had time to leap aside before Wick's fist went through the space where he had just been. Wick swooped back around towards Don, the masked turtle waited until Wick was close enough and then he simply let himself fall to the ground. Wick went over Don and came to a rest back where he had started.
Don popped back to his feet and crossed his arms across his plastron. "I thought you were going to present me with a challenge. I came here for a fight, not a ballet lesson." He said looking smug.
Wick grinned. "I have a lesson to teach you, but it isn't ballet." He struck a pose, Don followed suit.
Then…
"Talk, talk, talk, when are we gonna stop yappin and get down ta fightin?"
Don looked up to see his three brothers and Splinter leap through the air and land in front of him. His eyes widened in surprise and he rushed forward grasping Leonardo by the shoulder and turning him around.
"What are you doing! Get the hell out of here!"
"Don.." Leo started.
"Well, well, well..if it isn't the three turtles I introduced to the bottom of my foot the last time we met. What's the matter Dark Turtle, can't you fight me alone?" Wick floated forward arms crossed across his chest.
"They aren't staying." Don said between gritted teeth looking over to Leo.
"Like hell we aren't." Raph growled drawing his Sai.
"I told you to let me do this alone, I can't finish this if I have to contsantly worry about your safety. I can't believe you brought Sensei here and put him in danger like this!" Don said, for a second Leo could see his brother's ever present mask of arrogance drop for the first time..and he saw the fear in his brother's eyes.
"Sensei came because he was worried about you! You aren't facing this guy alone Don, so don't even waste your breath protesting." Leo said shaking his head stubbornly.
Don let out a frustrated sigh
"Let me guess Leonardo, all for one and one for all. Oh how romantic. I bet you just love that Three Musketeers movie." Wick snorted.
"Actually I prefer the book." Leo snarled.
"Look at it this way Wick, four for the price of one." Jin said cocking his head to the side.
"Yess..four deaths for the price of the Dark Turtle's demise..I think I'll kill the rest first Dark Turtle. Just to make it interesting. I'll make you watch as I snap their necks one by one, as I murder your entire family..and then I'll kill you in the most painful way I can imagine." Wick hissed.
"And he can imagine a lot, he loves horror movies." Jin chimed in.
"Would you shut up?" Raph snapped at Jin.
"Am I getting on your nerves? I thought you four loved that snappy banter." Jin said chuckling.
"Only when we're the ones doing the bantering." Mike said. "And you're so unfunny it's sad."
Jin lost his jovial attitude. "Oh am I?" he asked in a frosty tone.
Mike grinned, he'd hit a nerve. " I'd say you were just as bad at comedy as William Shatner is at singing. And that's bad."
Jin growled and lunged at Mike. Mike leapt over him landed behind him, tapped him on the shoulder and decked him across the face when he turned. "About time, I was beginning think we just stand around trading one liners all day." Mike grinned as Jin staggered backwards.
"Michalangelo, do not get overconfident!" Splinter barked.
Leo, Raph and Don exchanged glances. Wick floated serenely in mid air and watched them.
Raph nodded to Wick and said. "Let's take this guy."
All three nodded in unison and rushed forward..and were forced to skid to a halt as multitudes of men in black body armor, carrying large strange looking weapons landed on the rooftops.
"What is this?" Wick said in anger.
"Damn it, The Mercenaries!" Don said in a growl.
The men spread out across the roof forming a barrier between the turtles and Wick. One half turned to face Wick the other half turned to face the turtles.
"You knew they were coming?" Leo asked as he Don, and Raph backed slowly backed away.
"I knew they were after the Foot but I didn't think they'd actually find him." Don said looking around quickly as the Mercenaries formed a circle around them.
"Where the heck did these guys come from?" Raph asked in annoyance.
"The guys who made gauntlet hired them. Look out for those guns they fire electric bolts."Don said taking some throwing stars from his belt and tossed them. They hit three of the guns which exploded in their carrier's faces. The rest swarmed in and soon both the turtles and the villainous Foot were fighting hordes of men in black body armor. It was all the turtles could do to dodge the electric bolts, but the metal clad Foot ploughed through the mercenaries with ease, dodging the waves of electricity they shot at him with their guns, leaping effortlessly over each volley as if they were moving in slow motion. He made his way to the center of the mercenaries and he let out a laugh.
As the turtles watched the he held his hand in the air and clenched his fist. A loud humming sound filled the air that make their skins crawl and the gauntlet began to pulse with a green light that was slowly growing brighter and brighter. The mercenaries watched, mesmerized, as the evil Foot brought his arm down and slammed it into the rooftop in front of him. The resulting shockwave took most of the Mercenaries from their feet, their electric guns flying from their hands- only a precious few got back up again. In the sparse light of the moon above them, Leo could make out the still forms of the other Mercenaries lying on the ground, he could just make out the dark liquid spreading around their bodies telling Leo that they were very, very dead. The blue masked turtle turned his head squeezing his eyes shut in disgust.
"The shock wave must have damaged their internal organs, possibly their brains as well." Dark Don said from beside Leo. Leonardo turned his head to see his brother's mouth turned up in a grimace, Don turned to look at Leo in turn and set his jaw.
"It is imperative we don't let him use that attack again, and especially on us."
"Uh guys, he doesn't have to..he's just found a new toy!" Mike said pointing to the metal foot. The metal plated menace was grinning evilly as he bent down and picked up one of the fallen Mercenary's electric weapons. Then movement beside them and the four turtles turned to see the normal Foot walking towards them, another electric gun in hand.
He'd lost his mask in battle and they could see his blonde hair, boyish good looks and the equally nasty smile on his face.
"I don't know about you Wick but I'm feeling like fried turtle tonight." He said to his metal plated friend.
"With a side of fried rat." Wick the metal mutant laughed turning his gun to target Splinter.
Leonardo moved to stand in front of Splinter crossed his swords in front of his own body, his eyes narrowing. "You try it and I'll cut you in half."
Wick laughed derisively " You think you can hurt me turtle freak? I am invincible, I am all mighty, I am a living God!" He cackled holding his arms up in the air.
Don crossed his arms across his plastron, and snorted. "Please, without that metal suit you'd be nothing. You rampage, steal, destroy and murder and you call yourself a god when you are nothing more than an insignificant flea, a flea with delusions of grandeur and an IQ on the level with something that has been run over on a rural highway."
If Don had been trying to piss the metal foot off he succeeded wonderfully
" WHAT!" bellowed the foot in fury his fists clenching.
"Are you deaf as well as stupid? I said you are nothing, you are less than nothing, nothing multiplied by nothing. An imbecilic, violent, egotistical, moron, so weak, so powerless so…impotent that he wears a metal suit to try and make everyone else believe that he everything that he's not. You are laughable, you aren't even worth wasting our time on." Don continued in a delusitory tone.
By now the metal foot was so furious he couldn't even form a complete sentence, and finally he began to growl.
"Uh oh, you're in for it now turtle." The blonde haired foot said looking at his friend with wide eyes.
"Donnie what the hell are you doin!" Raph asked grabbing his brother's arm. "Purposuely tryin' ta piss him off?"
Dark Don shook off Raph's grasp and turned towards his brothers. " That's exactly what I'm doing, take Sensei and get out of here all of you."
"No Donatello we aren't leaving you alone." Leo said shaking his head.
"None of you stand a chance against him, he is too powerful." Don insisted his voice taking on a tone that almost resembled urgence..or panic.
"And like you can do any better Donnie? I don't think a few gadgets are going to get the job done this time. You saw what this guy can do." Mike said gesturing to the still forms of the dead mercenaries.
"I have a plan to stop him but it involves you four not being here, you'll only be in danger and I.." Dark Don's words were cut off when the Metal Foot suddenly appeared behind him and grabbed him by the neck yanking him backwards and tossing him across the roof. Where he landed in a heap.
" Donnie!!" His brothers cried in unison.
Don dragged himself to his hands and knees and looked up at his brothers pleadingly as the now insanely pissed Foot approached him.
"Please..just get…out..of..here!" He got out before the metal maniac reached down, wrapped his metal gauntleted hand around Don's throat, picked him up again and held him into the air.
"I…am going to ..hurt you.. badly." The evil Foot said in a slow dangerous voice. He drew Don back towards him and looked at him eye to eye. "I'm going to kill you like I did those mercenaries but this time you're going to be right in the middle of my fist when it hits the ground, and I'm going to rip open your shell, and have your heart for lunch." He growled between gritted teeth.
Then he was knocked forwards by the motion of three turtles hitting him at full speed. They grabbed a hold of his arms wrenching him backwards, trying to force him to drop Don who was starting to gasp from lack of air.
"Is this part of your big brilliant plan braniac?" Raph asked trying to yank the Foot's head backwards.
"I'm….working on..it" Don gasped out, he reached into one of the numerous pockets on his belt and began searching for something.
"Insignificant knats!" Growled the metal foot whirling in place, the sudden motion shaking Leo and Mike from his shoulders. The foot grabbed a hold of Raph with his free hand and tossed him across the roof almost to the edge. He slammed Don to the ground and put his foot on the masked turtle's plastron keeping him in place.
He held up his gauntleted hand and pointed it at Raph just as the red masked turtle got to his feet. "Can you fly turtle?" The villain asked…and shot a bolt of green energy at Raphael. The red masked turtle got out an "Oh shit." Before he was knocked off of his feet and over the edge of the building.
"Raph!" Leo bellowed dashing for the edge of the building. When he raced the edge he dove off, and disappeared from sight.
"Raphael, Leonardo!" Splinter called and ran for the edge of the building only to be intercepted by Jin.
"You should have stayed out of this fight old rat, I'm going to enjoy kicking your tail."
He tried to kick the elderly rat but Splinter ducked out of the way, came around behind him and kicked him squarely in the bottom sending him stumbling forward.
"If you think I am weak because I am old, think again." Splinter advised going into a defensive stance holding his walking stick up in front of him.
"I'm going to make you glow like a Christmas tree!" The blonde foot said getting up and angrily pointing his electric gun at Splinter. Mike landed on his shoulders knocking him flat on his face knocking the gun from his hands. " Didn't your mother ever teach you to respect your elders, or did you kill her too?" Mike quipped shaking a finger at the now unconscious Foot underneath him.
"Jin!" Yelled the Metal Foot turning his head back towards Mike and Splinter.
Dark Don took advantage of the metal foot's distraction and withdrew a small metal device from his belt, slapping it against the side of the foot's metal plated leg. Immediately the device began to produce a small electrical current which coursed across the foot's metal covered leg causing him to howl and jump away slapping at his leg trying to get the device off.
Don rolled away and ran for his remaining brother and his Sensei who were in turn running towards him.
"No the other way!" Don yelled. Too late the metal foot had gotten the device off and now had an electric gun and his own gauntlet pointed at Mike and Splinter.
"MUTANTS!" he howled and shot both weapons.
Mike and Splinter threw their arms up in front of their faces, both knowing they would never get out of the way of the shots in time. Then they heard Don yell.
"Mike, Sensei…get!!" And they look up in time to see the masked turtle leap into the air in front of them tossing himself directly into the path of both the electric bolt and the green energy bolt. They hit him with a blast of light so bright that rat and turtle had to shield their eyes for a second, when they could see again Don lay unconscious on the ground in front a few feet behind them the sparkle of electricity shooting off his body before fading away completely.
"Donnie!" Mike ran to his brother and was about to kneel down beside him when the metal foot suddenly appeared in front of him. Mike looked up just as the villain delivered a swift kick to the orange masked turtle's plastron tossing him backwards and into Splinter.
The villain then picked up Donatello and held him up in the air above his head, ready to slam him into the ground. " Very touching, makes me want to break out the violins and everything." The foot snorted sarcastically. " But I had my mind set on roasted heart of turtle and I don't feel like changing my dinner plans."
His gauntlet began to hum again and the green light began to pulse.
From underneath a dazed Mike, Splinter looked up to see his unconscious son enveloped in a green halo of light and his heart went cold, for he was sure at that moment that his son was going to die. He held out his arms reaching for his son and he cried. " Noooo!"
Then two forms collided with the foot in unison, Leo hitting him at the back of his knees Raph in his back; knocking Don from the evil maniac's grasp. Raphael's voice growled. " How about you order takeout instead chump."
The Foot flew forward under their combined assault and landed face first a few feet away. He was back on his feet quickly and turned to find Leonardo, and Raphael standing in a protective stance over the unconscious form of Donatello, with Splinter and Mike kneeling beside him.
The evil soldier howled in frustration. "What does it take to kill you freaks!"
"We're not about to be taken out so easily especially by the likes of you." Leo growled back.
" Arrgggh DIE." The foot yelled charging Leo and Raph, he tried to hit them but they nimbly leapt out of the way and his fists simply buried themselves in the concrete of the roof underneath their feet. Screaming incoherently he ripped his fists out of the concrete and turning began to chase the nearest turtle, so angry he didn't even think to use his suit's special powers. Raph and Leo lead the foot on a not so merry chase across the roof, and each time the foot tried to smash them only to have his fists smash into part of the building instead. Raph caught the villain's attention and Leo tripped him up causing him to fall to the concrete again. They both ran back to where Splinter, Mike and the unconscious Donatello was.
"How's Don?" Leo asked panting slightly.
"He has received an enormous shock to his system, he is unconscious I fear he may go into a coma as he did before." Splinter said his face painted with concern.
" He saved my life again..I can't believe he did it again!" Mike clenched his fists in frustration.
Raph went to speak but was interrupted by a loud creaking sound and the ground underneath them slowly began to slip downwards. The turtles and Splinter looked around in panic.
"Uh, should the roof be going down like that?" Mike asked.
"No it shouldn't, the roof's collapsing, it can't handle the strain of all this fighting, we have to.." Leo started. Then a shadow appeared over them, and they all looked up to see the metal foot hovering in the air above them blocking out the light of the moon.
He gave a single grin and raising his gauntleted arm shot a single energy bolt which hit the ground a few inches in front of them.
Silence reigned for a second and then the loud creak filled the air which was replaced by a deep rumble which shook the building.
Mike looked down and then at his brothers. " This is gonna hurt." He said….
And then the roof collapsed underneath them pulling them down and covering them in rubble.
In the air above the large hole that had been the roof of the building the evil metal foot looked down at the ruble below and he laughed. He picked up his brother, and flew off into the night.