Ari was still staring down the throat of a fire breathing Leo who was about to barbecue her ass. She was so close to him he was going to hit her no matter what she did to evade. Then she wasn't alone. Bailey had somehow made it up there with the young turtle. Quickly she pulled the girl to her and spun with her around to where her back was facing Leo's mouth. Then, to Ari's pure shock and amazement, pure white wings unfolded from her back to fold protectively around Ari as Leo's breath came in one long stream. Bailey held firm, even as Ari was looking wide eyed at the wings that shielded her, then looked at her rescuer, not quite wanting to believe what she was seeing.
Bailey just gave her a slight smile and a wink. "I suppose you were going to find out sooner or later." Then she winced a bit, held Ari tighter and leapt up into the air, easily carrying her burden before she landed well out of Leo's range. Then she gently put Ari down and proceeded to flap the hell out of her severely burnt wing. "Ahhh ah! Ah! Hoooot!" she finally patted the fire and got it out, then glared a seething hole into Bishop when she saw the bald spot on her wing. It was a little red too, but healing.
Well, when Maranda saw the bald spot, she was about to laugh, but frantically smacked a hand over her mouth to keep from doing just that. The rest of the NEST soldiers just give her a sympathetic look. It was freaking embarassing to lose feathers on your wings! Let alone get bald spots like that.
Bailey snarled at Bishop viciously. This is why Maranda didn't laugh, when her cousin was pissed, any of them, you held your tongue. Bailey gave one big clap in Bishop's direction like when the Hulk is angry and claps his hands. Huh, actually pretty accurate to the scene. Anyway, this huge blast of air sent that dude very, very high, spinning in the air with the force alone. She watched with a glare as he hit several branches on the way down
"Piece of fucking shit" she growled. He was already on her shit list for taking innocent beings and brain washing them, but this? She puffed up her remaining feathers like a bird, with an angry huff.
Maranda and Carrie held their arms straight up into the air indicating field goal, then gave each other a high five that they thought about it at the same time.
Cris actually broke out into laughter at the dual field goal indicators, then was suddenly reminded that standing there laughing over stupid crap might not be the best idea when you have not thinking right dragons flying around. Or in Donnie's case, landing to squish her. "Shit!" She squeaked and proceeded to haul ass out of his drop zone, and the fire he sent her way.
Jessica watched her cousins, then slowly reached for her temples to hold them with one hand while muttering: "Oh my god... This is going to be a long day."
Vicky gave her fellow leader a long look as she pointed to the burnt winged Bailey. "Goes for both of us. When exactly where you going to tell me about that?"
"Next Tuesday? Tuesdays are bad days anyway, so..." Jessica just shrugged.
Dante was holding on for dear life. Simply because he had a firm grip on Raph's horn, and the big red banded dragon wanted him off. That massive head was shaking rapidly back and forth. "A-a l-lit-tle h-he-lp p-plea-ease!" Came the frantic call of the yellow masked turtle as his body was yanked in all directions.
Ari was running up Donnie's back while he was still distracted with Cris and didn't stop when she reached his head. Then she did a diveboard spring off of his snout and flew towards her ragdoll cousin in a forward somersault. Her hands found a secure grip on Dante as she flew past and pulled him with her as he momentum kept them both going. They disappeared into the nearby canopy of trees, unseen but not unheard as they crashed their way to the ground. Amongst the sounds of numerous branches breaking you heard, "Ow! Ow! Ow! OOOOWWWW!" Then they came back into view as they both fell out of the tree and slammed into the ground. "Ouch! Damn it!" Ari got to her feet, now rubbing her tender backside where she landed. "That went so much better in my head..."
"Listen up ladies!" Jessica called to her team. "No swords for obvious reasons, and no guns. That one will just piss them off. Go against the turtle dragon of your element. We're here to catch them, not hurt them." Her cousins cautiously confronted a dragon each, watching them. They haven't fought this specific kind of dragon, and wanted to go at it slow and study them to know fully what their abilities consisted of. "Understood?" Jessica didn't really ask the question, it was an order if anything.
"Yes Supereon!" they all look determined and focused now.
Jessica shouted something in a foreign language, with a controlling strong tone, and her cousins began their advancement on the turtle dragon of their element. Jessica risked a glance at everyone
"You you guys good?"
"Just peachy." Vicky muttered back as she and Marina found themselves caught between Leo and Mikey. Frustration was rapidly filling her as she looked from Mikey, then to Leo. She tried to reach out to him, and found herself slamming into that mental block that was still just as firmly in place. She needed that bond to get through to him, and she couldn't use it. She was about to scream in frustration. He was right here in front of her, but he might as well have been on the other side of the moon or something. "Please! Leo it's me! Stop!"
He didn't stop. Not much anyway. He paused a moment, his foot stopping in mid air in the act of placing it down. Vicky caught onto it. "Leo..." Marina kept a cautious eye on Mikey as Vicky took a step towards her husband. "Leo please...don't do this..." His eyes met hers and for a moment she saw them soften. Then they went flat again and he lowered his head and lunged.
Vicky squealed in shock at how quickly he turned back. His head was coming rapidly towards her now, mouth open and all those sharp teeth aiming for her. Marina was dodging the mirror version in Mikey. Then the blue eyed woman firmly grabbed Vicky and leapt out of the way of that dragon jaw trap. Their heads slammed together just moment after Marina and Vicky cleared out of their way, now rolling across the ground.
Ty and Thane then were there to help the women to their feet as the dragons shook off the hit. Vicky's son was now trying to pull her farther back. "Mom! This isn't working!"
Vicky just snarled as she ripped her arm out of his hand. "I have to keep trying!" And her footsteps lead her straight towards the charging dragon.
This time there was no hesitation in him as he brought his head in low to snap at her once more. Ty tackled her out of the way of those jaws just shy of them snapping shut on her. "You can't get through to him!" He was just as frustrated as she was, but Vicky wasn't sure which parent he was actually frustrated with.
Megan drew Leo's attention from his family as she calmly walked up. She didn't even flinch when he sent a wave of dragon fire at her. She raised a hand, and sent a pulse of water right in his face, going in his mouth to extinguish the flames, up his nostrils, and into his eyes, right after she cut the stream off, she quickly spun in a reverse roundhouse kick into Leo's dragon face, sending him sliding on the ground.
Maranda got her first taste of Raph's temper as he brought his tail around and slammed the fuck out of her with it when she faced off with him. That hit sent her flying and she disappeared into the trees.
Thane winced a little at that. "I hope she's ok..." Then something dawned on him and his eyes grew wide. "Wait...they have fucking wings?" He stared at Maranda as she reappeared.
Maranda gave a low growl as she flew back out of the trees, gaining enough momentum so when her kick connected to Raph she had him skidding across the ground like his brother. Then flared her wings in a challenging manner, crouching a little. Her hand nabbed a twig from her hair, so much irritation built up, she put the twig between her fingers and flicked it away before getting ready for another strike. "Lucky shot reptile."
Dante stunned Thane right back out of his stupor as he ran by. And he did it by popping his cousin on the head. "Stay focused! Uncle Mikey on our ass!"
Thane turned to see his uncle stomping towards him. "Shit!" His tone and pitch matched his mother's exactly from when she spat out the same word earlier. Then he turned and hauled ass as he followed Dante.
Bailey twirled gracefully through the air, kicking Mikey away from them to get his attention on her. "Come on bud" the young brunette took a fighting pose, wings flared like one of those kick ass lizards off of Jurassic park, now that you have that image in your head, that's it, it's there to stay.
Marina and Caitlin were trying to get out of Donnie's way as he closed in on them, then the large dragon paused and looked at Carrie. Who gave him a look of strong disapproval, despite her fun size height, she was pretty motherly. She crossed her wrists together to stop his tail from hitting her, her feet slid a little at the force of impact, then she sand blasted him, not sure exactly how much power she could put behind her attack, they weren't suppose to hurt them after all.
Donnie brought up a wing to shield himself from those tiny particles, a low growl coming out of his throat. Finally he got annoyed enough to snap that wing down before he raised up onto his haunches and let himself just fall right on top of Carrie.
Carrie was faster than Donnie though, she scaled his wing, grabbed his head, twisting in the air, causing Donnie's head and neck to twist before his body followed and he just ended up doing a harmless flop on the ground.
"And his name is John Cena!" she rolled away from Don.
Donnie stomped a paw on Carrie before she could roll too far to hold her down. Then his head lowered with a menacing growl, Carrie caught it with her hands, looking up at him unamused, then moved his paw away from her and got ready for a different angle of an attack.
By this point all of the turtle family was staring at their companions. So far none had been able to match the dragons...but they were holding their own easily.
"What are they supposed to be?" Thane asked, more than a little bewildered. "Superpowered fairies or somethin'?"
His family just shrugged, not sure what to tell him. They quickly knew they were outmatched in this fight, on both ends. All they could do was watch as these two forces collided.
Raph had rolled back to his feet and came right back in. His jaws snapping viciously and Maranda dodging and weaving out of the way of those very sharp teeth. Finally Raph got a deep bite on Maranda's shoulder, who ignored it so she can pivot on her heals and give Thane a: "really mother fucker?" look. She grumbled and waited for Raph to release her in order to breathe fire. When he did, she held her hand up, stopping it in midair and collected it into a ball. Then threw it right back in his face. "Doesn't feel so good does it!" A nice Spartan kick to the chest sent him down to the ground again.
Raph just threw another one at her, standing while she was distracted. And when she went to deflect it, his paw connected with her and she went to go visit the trees again.
The turtle family just calmly watched her as she went by over their heads.
"That's getting to be a habit." Thane noted.
"Yup." TY agreed calmly.
Mikey rolled with the hit he received from Bailey and stopped on his feet, digging his claws in to put a halt to his momentum. He looked at this tiny woman in front of him, blinking in confusion. Then those eyes narrowed as he sized her up before he turned and promptly plopped his backside down right on top of her.
Vicky facepalmed. "Even in brainwash mode he does Mikey crap..."
White aura built around Mikey's big, dragon ass, and wind slammed up into Mikey, shooting him straight up, several feet, so Ariel could angrily get up and stomp away from the now falling dragon. "Fucker sat on me!" She actually wasn't that angry with him, it was more of a pout. Internally her emotions were a mix of "WTF" and a: "so I can cross that off my bucket list, dragon sitting on me, your argument is invalid"
Bre and Jessica tried desperately not to laugh at their cousin.
"Well. Sure sign he's in there somewhere." Jessica muffled her laughter
Mikey recovered in the air and glided back to the ground and circled Bailey, his head held low and lips pulled back into a snarl. Bailey spread her wings at him, doing what Maranda was doing, challenging him.
Leo's tail came up behind Megan and connected with her hard enough to send her into the air over him and she landed on his other side in a roll before she got back to her feet with her momentum, calmly looking at him.
She turned to face Leo. Tilting her head at him, as if she was trying to tell him something, her blue eyes burning a hole into his reptile ones.
Bre and Jessica noticed it and looked at her "Aqua! You good?" Bre asked. What did they call her? Aqua? Well, it made sense based on her powers, but, did they give themselves false names? Like, in all seriousness?
Megan or Aqua, apparently nodded her head and charged Leo.
But on the other hand, Leo met that gaze and seemed held by it while she was all but starting into his soul. He stared at her intently, his own eyes searching. Then to the surprise of his watching family...he shook his head in confusion and even backed up a step.
Vicky cautiously walked closer, her hope rising in her chest at this sight. "Leo? Please love...it's us. Snap out of it..."
Again his head shook and another step was taken away from them all. Vicky bit her bottom lip as she watched.
Ty was next to her now. "Dad, we know you're in there...you can beat this."
His head shook even harder this time. He paused a moment, his confused eyes looking at those in front of him. Even from where she was standing she could see the tear slide down his cheek as he watched them. Then those eyes took on that distant look again before he roared loudly at them. His wings flared out and lifted him into the air and flew west, with his brothers following. Heeding a call their family couldn't hear.
Megan lowered her head with a sigh, but sucked her emotions back up into their rightful void, making herself recover, then traveled back over to her leader for orders.
"Leo!" Vicky screamed, her hope gone and heartbroken as she watched him fly off. "Damn it! Come back!" Tears filled her eyes as she collapsed to her knees and sat on her legs, the sense of defeat washing over her. "Come back..."
Ty sighed as he pulled his mother back onto her feet and into his arms. "You tried Mom."
"So close!" Vicky began to sob into his chest. "We were so close... If I could just get past that damn spirit block...but I can't..." She cried harder against Ty. And he just held her, not knowing what else to do as his own anguish crossed his features.
"Supereon" Megan said to get Jessica's attention as she watched the dragons take flight again. Sure they could chase them down, but there was no cure for them and no way to keep them trapped and secured, so going after them was pointless right now.
"What is it Aquarius?"
"What are we going to do?"
Jessica could only watch them with her, for once, she didn't know, but they needed to act fast.
