They came through so fast that their feet skidded a few feet over the loose ground when they tried to stop. Behind them the bridge had snapped shut, but Vicy didn't notice it as she took a deep breath to calm her nerves. Nerves that were feeling the strain of not having Leo by her side. "Which way Dante?"

"South." Came the confident reply from the teen as he lead the way. "We are actually pretty close to the train tracks. But we need to hurry, that train is scheduled to pass through soon."

She just nodded as she began to follow the youngster, and found herself walking next to Jessica. Recalling what had set off the mad dash for the ground bridge in the first place, she directed her words to the leader of this team. "You mind filling us in on what you are trying so hard to hide?" A mild surge of anger shot through the dark haired woman. By rights, they shouldn't be hiding anything from this family, not when it concerned something so important to them. That was not a good way to get in Vicky's good graces.

Surprisingly, Jessica offered her the explanation. Maybe it had something to do with the fact they weren't in the room with someone who could put a stop to the whole thing, or try to anyway. "It's how the turtle dragons got caught. It's called chaos crystal and it's a little harsh on a choice few."

Vicky thought that over as two of her group, Carrie and Bre, made sure the rear perimeter was still secure. Vicky held a bit of shock in at that, she was about to have Ty and Thane do the exact same thing...as Leo had taught her to do. She bit back the pain of grief that wanted to hit her and focused on her companion instead. Another thought hit her and her brow raised once it did. "A choice few that have relations to gods in some way? Because it obviously doesn't affect normal individuals or Thane wouldn't have been able to pick it up." Vicky gave Jessica a long, level look as they walked, something becoming more clear to her as she thought this through. "And by the way you two were acting on base...I'm assuming it affects you as well."

Jessica bit her lip a bit, but she didn't deny it.

Before Vicky could push the matter, Dante stopped at the rise that climbed up from the valley below. It was filled with trees and the path of the railway obviously cut through them, obvious by the line in in the canopy that indicated where the tracks ran. There was also something else down there. Dante swallowed hard as he pointed to the others. "I think we found them." His finger pointed to the four dragons laying calmly on their stomachs, patiently waiting for the train.

Vicky was immediately going to go down that slippery slope, but was halted by Cris' hand on her arm. "Wait..." Her eyes narrowed as she took a broader look at what was down in that clearing. "Look, they aren't alone." It was her hand that pointed this time, revealing what Vicky had previously overlooked. The clearing was crawling with what looked like some kind of band of troops. And there were a lot of them.

"What is going on?" Marina frowned as she also surveyed the area. Her eyes clearly telling everyone she wasn't liking what she was seeing. None of them were really.

"That's what we need to find out, and we aren't going to do it from up here." Vicky didn't wait for anyone else to stop her. Carefully she made her way down the steep slope, trying not to dislodge any loose rocks and dirt that could give her presence away. And she barely got started before the teens moved to go down in another direction as the turtle wives followed their impulsive leader. Jessica looked a little annoyed, but Vicky didn't really care. This family moved at their own speed, and Vicky trusted in the children to place themselves where they would do the most good. NEST chicks were just going to have to learn how they operate. And learn it quick too.

Maranda looked at the little sniper casually. "$20 if you can take out 10 guards in under 5 seconds without getting the attention of the turtle dragons, and while their family is still distracted with the climb down the slope."

"Might as well give me the money now" Carrie shrugged, it was going to be easy money. She put a silencer on her sniper, then laid low on her belly, taking aim, then started dropping guards like flies. The tiny woman also focused a moment even as her rounds sped towards their targets and their dead bodies were engulfed in the earth the second they hit the ground to hide them from other guards and not alert anyone. Finally she hit 10 in under 5 seconds, then got the ninja turtle dragons in her sights to make sure they haven't been alerted, then strapped her sniper back on her back.

"Meh, worth the money." Maranda held up a crisp, $20 bill for her little cousin to snatch up.

"Come on, let's go catch up. There are still some guards too close to the dragons to snipe, and I can't get them with an AK from here."

Maranda huffed. Sure they could shoot, and yes, even sneak, but they were all created for close combat, and battles, not so much missions. The N.E.S.T team began to follow the ladies, taking slightly different ways to not attract attention.

Vicky's team had by now made it to the bottom and carefully inched their way closer to the dragons still lying on the ground.

"Weren't there more guards?" Marina asked, her voice barely audible as she looked around a bit confused. "I could have sworn there were more guards..."

Cris just shrugged it off. "Does it matter? I'll beat the shit out of all of them."

Vicky ignored the conversation and inched even closer to Leo, her focus solely on reaching her turtle.

"Vicky!" Cris hissed at her. "What are you doing?"

"Getting my damn husband back!" Was the snapped, quiet reply. Then her voice shifted to ununderstandable mumbles as she grumbled a few not so nice things about stupid turtles getting into trouble, bad guys and the entire situation in general before she bit her tongue and inched ever closer.

Maranda walked up from behind Cris, who barely flinched at her approach. Cris had been training for years with ninjas afterall. "We should jump them..."

"Sneaking on the train might be good too." Jessica added. "Figure out what it is they are stealing. See if we can get pattern and figure out what the dickwad that took them over is planning in the mere future."

Carrie finally was able to pocket the 20 bucks now that they stopped moving. "You think they'll remember what they were doing once we snap them out of it? That'd be cool too, then we can just bring them down now." she offered.

"I don't think Vicky wants to wait..." Jessica calmly replied.

"Ho-ly crap...you remembered her name. Kodak moment..." Maranda said. Smart ass.

"Shh!" Girl needed to stay focused! Jessica looked at Cris and Marina with a shrug. They just looked back at her with raised eyebrows before they looked at each other and shrugged themselves. "What do you guys think? This is your gig too." Yes, she was trying to include them as best as she could. She wasn't used to consulting anyone on the field, and she wasn't used to having people on her team that didn't follow her exact orders down to a T like her cousins. Jessica watched the turtle dragons get ready. "And I'd hurry up with your answer..."

Bailey noticed Megan being really quiet, she usually had some really good inputs for strategical advances.

"You good?"

"I ran from Prowl.. He's going to be so mad when I get back." She held her temples with a sigh.

"Megs..." Jessica checked the turtle dragons again, making sure she wasn't being too loud. "We need you to focus, they aren't in control of themselves. They could hurt people."

Megan stared off with a haunted expression, the coldness and hardness in her eyes was back tenfold. She looked so much older and scarred, but nodded. "Alright. I'm good. Too late to go back now anyway."

"Have some nice make up sex, it'll all be good." Maranda oh so kindly added. Megan gave her an irritated look, but waved her off. Carrie couldn't help an annoyed and embarrassing facepalm.

Vicky had gotten close enough by now that she could almost touch Leo's tail tip. She so much wanted to touch him, to reassure herself that this was indeed her missing love. To have the feel of him against her skin again. She was so close to him...

The sound of an incoming train horn sounded out loudly in the valley.

"It's time!" One of the soldiers shouted out then. "Get them ready!"

And with those few words Leo stood up and his tail slipped out of her reach. Vicky's mouth began to mouth out every curse she knew and any combination she could put them in, her head bobbing with the vehemence she forced them out.

The train made it's appearance then, coming around the bend that led into the valley. Once it did, the dragons took to the air, their eyes intently watching it as it rapidly closed in. In moments they would sink their claws into it and it would be a repeat of what she saw on the news. Desperation to stop that from happening forced her onto her feet and the words were ripped out of her throat before she could stop them. "God damn it!" She shouted loudly in her frustration. "Leo! Don't!"

That of course clued all the guards in that they weren't alone anymore and Vicky suddenly found herself in the middle of a whole bunch of unwanted attention.

Cris rolled her eyes as she brought her hanbo out of it's holder. "I think that just answered the question if we should do something or not!" She informed her companions before she came out of her crouch in a run, her hanbo already twirling around her as she closed in on her loose lipped sister. With their cover now blown, all of them came to their feet and explode into motion as the train began to pass.

"Fuuuuuck..." Vicky muttered as she realized what she had set off. Her hands went to her own belt and the asps came out and were extended before her mouth finished getting the word out. Vicky engaged the group that surrounded her. Anger fueled her movements as she caught one guard and slammed his head into a tree. Repeatedly and in rapid succession. Then she cleared the rest out with a leaping circle kick before she again ran towards the dragons, calling out to them as she went.

Leo had barely made it off of the ground and just hovered there, his eyes blinking in confusion at her calls. If she could only reach him, maybe she could-

A blow hard enough to knock the wind out of her connected with her side and sent her to the ground, groaning as her arm held the spot that was throbbing like hell now. God damn that smarts!

Maranda quickly pulled her AK and started executing goons, left and right, yelling to her cousins in a different language, then threw her knife in the air. Megan dove over her, kicking the knife straight through a head of a goon. Then she ran at him, dodging bullet fire with grace and precision. She did a round off and snagged up the Bowie knife and threw it at another bad dude, and dove out of the way, pulling her glock and emptied some round into some men near her. Slitting a throat in one swipe with her knife and getting a few more shots in, dropping the men like flies.

Carrie was going hand on hand with a dude too. He managed to twist the knife from her hand, to which she calmly caught it with her foot, kicked it clean through his head. The second he went down she had her gun out, taking pristine head shots. One came up from behind her but she merely ignored him and kicked her knife that finally decided to come back down into the chest of another bad guy.

Maranda ran the dude coming up on her cousin through the chest with her knife and punched him away, then caught another blow from a goon, head butting him, and did a combo kick to a couple more trying to surround her. Then looked over at Vicky, keeping herself aware of the battle around her but knew her cousins were paying attention and were ready to aid her.

"I don't think so my dear." A smug voice reached her ears as she gasped for air. "He's not yours anymore, he's mine."

"No he isn't-" Vicky started to snap out, then stopped with wide eyes at who she was looking at. No...it couldn't be... "Bishop..."

The grin he gave her was full of gleeful malice as he looked down at her. "Let me prove it to you." His eyes never left the prone woman as he directed his words to the blue banded dragon. "Leonardo! Do be kind enough to pick up my cargo please."

Leo shook off his confusion and once again flew towards the train. Bishop smiled in amusement as his point was made before he stepped on Vicky's throat.

Jessica kicked Bishop off of her, sending him tumbling and rolling. Then grabbed her hand and lifted her back up to her feet, not taking her eyes off of the offender. "Alright. not liking you..." she decided with distaste. Well, in all reality, she liked a very few people of the human population.

Bishop just narrowed his eyes at this unexpected interruption. "You shouldn't have gotten involved." Jessica just stared at him, why did he sound like he was expecting/knew her? Dude was psychotic...

Vicky took that moment of distraction to run around the man and once again ran towards Leo who was already lowering himself to the still passing train with Raph. Their eyes searching as they seemed to wait for a particular train car to pass them by.

Someone beat her to it. Ty and Thane were in the trees near where the dragons hovered and they tossed their cousins out over the gap. Dante and Ari landed easily in light crouches on the dragon backs.

"Uncle Leo! Stop!" Ari pleaded as she hit. "You have to stop this!"

Dante was already running along the spine of Raph's back and was heading for his head. "Snap out of it! Since when do you work for the bad guys!"

Those large heads turned away from the train as they stared blankly at their passengers, and in that distraction the train moved on and the last car moved by the group unmolested. It now made it's way down the track towards it's destination, and it still had all its cargo.

Bishop let out a frustrated growl over the fact he didn't get what he had come here for, and he fueled the punch he gave Jessica with that frustration, knocking her away from him before he turned towards the dragons. "Change of plans my pets." His eyes lit up with evil amusement. "Finish them off instead."

"Well, that's pretty fucking rude to be honest" Maranda declared.

Leo's eyes immediately locked onto Ari. The blonde turtle found herself in a bit of a pickle when his mouth opened and that tell tale blue glow formed from deep in his throat. She wouldn't have time to get out of the way in time for that hit. "Uh oh..." The teen pursed her lips as that glow brightened. How in the heck was she going to get out of the way of this? ...Maaaan, this was going to hurt...