The seventh installment of the New Hero series. Once again I apologize for any deviations in canon, since I'm only going off what I saw in the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. I do not own the rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
"This truck is for high level personnel only, get in one of the others." The man ordered as he stopped me from climbing into the truck after the woman.
"Oh… sorry." I said quickly as I stepped away from the truck and went to the next closest one. After climbing in in the covered back, I ended up between two other members of the clan, each of whom glanced at me, and then looked away out the window.
I made sure to keep my eyes down towards the floor of the jeep. I didn't want people to start talking to me, but just in case, I started putting together a tiny backstory.
The truck engine started up, then we began moving. I felt the car tilt slightly, as if going up a ramp, then bounce slightly as turned. "I'll take a wild guess and say that we're on a road." I thought to myself.
A quick glance out of a gap in the canvas confirmed it. It didn't look like we were in Chinatown either. Another thirty minutes of twists and turns and I felt the truck speed up. Taking another quick glance outside, I realized we were on the freeway. We were leaving the city.
"So… when did you join?" The man across from me asked. I glanced at the other guys for a moment, then back at him.
"What me?" I asked back. "I'm a new recruit. I only just joined really. You?"
He smiled beneath his mask. "Been six months for me. Why'd you join?"
I sighed as I looked down at my boots. "I don't know. I just kinda hated life out there. Wanted to do something, even if it wasn't particularly legal." I lied.
"Huh…" The man chuckled. "Surprisingly enough, I haven't heard that one before."
"Glad I'm unique in some way."
"Who was your recruiter?" He asked as he leaned against the side of the truck and put his rifle across his lap.
I paused for a moment as I pretended to try and remember. In reality, I didn't even know how one was supposed to join the Foot Clan. I sighed as I shook my head. "I think it was something like John or something, I can't remember. I was pretty nervous at the time. All seems like a blur now."
The man sat up and leaned towards me. "And where is your tattoo?" I paused. "Tattoo? What tattoo?" I thought as I glanced at the others, who were all looking at me. "What tattoo?" I asked as I looked back at the man.
"This one." He said as he rolled down his right hand sleeve and revealed a Chinese symbol on his inner forearm.
"Well, there goes that." I said, then grabbed the arm of the man to my right and twisted it, before ducking and letting the man to my left punch him in the face. I then jerked my head to the left and broke his nose before slamming my elbow into the guy on my rights' face, knocking him out. One guy out of the way, I pulled the guy on my left into a stranglehold before I fully realized what had occurred in front of me.
The two men on either side of the guy were unconscious, and the guy in the middle was grinning at me. "So, why did you break into the Foot Clan?" He asked as the man in the stranglehold fought to get free, his movements steadily getting weaker.
"I needed to find out where the job was taking place tonight." I replied as I finally released the now unconscious man. "Who are you?"
"Richard Braxton. CIA." He said as he glanced out of a gap in the canvas. "We're pulling off of the freeway."
I glanced outside. I didn't recognize where we were, but I hoped the turtles were still tracking me. I didn't think I could take on the whole of the Foot Clan by myself.
"I know where we're are going." Richard finally said as he looked away from the gap in the canvas.
"Where?" I asked as I looked at him.
"It's a government facility. Heavily fortified. I don't know how they are planning on getting in with out a huge fight."
"They stole something from a government lab yesterday. That'll probably help them." I said as we started traveling uphill.
Richard frowned. "That can't be go-" He was cut off as a massive explosion ripped through the night somewhere ahead of us. "What the hell was that?" He said as we both looked out our own respectful peepholes. A rapidly dissipating fireball rose from the now visible government facility.
"I think we know now." I replied as the truck neared the facility, bringing the effect of the explosion into view. The front gate of the facility was a massive crater, with the gate itself nowhere to be seen. Then the sounds of gunfire began.
The truck stopped and I went to the back entrance. Looking out I could see men running past our truck and firing into the base.
I made a move to climb out of the truck, but Richard grabbed my arm and stopped me.
"Where are you going? It's not safe out there!" He as he glanced out at the men. I reached over and pulled his hand off of my arm.
"We both have our own missions. Go handle yours. I'll be fine." I said as I eased myself out of the truck and looked around.
"Wait!" I turned and looked at the man. "What's your name?" He asked.
"Shadow." I replied, then jogged off to join the other members of the Foot Clan.
I took cover behind the engine of a truck as gunfire ricocheted off of the armor. Unable to leave cover for the moment, I used what time I had to get my bearings. There were three entrances to the area we were in, which was about two hundred square feet of open space, now filled with cars.
The gang members were advancing quickly as the bullets hitting my car stopped. I took the brief moment of respite to glance around the car. There she was. The woman and a small group of men were pushing ahead of the main group into the facility. I couldn't let them get away.
I brought my rifle up just in case, then stood up and ran after the woman. The gang members were pushing forward, but the military was still putting up a fight.
"No kill shot's..." I muttered to myself as I brought my rifle up and aimed it at a soldier who was turning towards me. Two shots, and the man fell backwards with two bullets in his right shoulder. "Sorry..." I whispered as I turned to my next target.
I fought as a member of the Foot Clan into the facility, but tried to save as many soldiers as possible in the process. It was ironic in a very morbid way. I had to hurt the soldiers in order to protect them.
As we moved into the main lobby of the facility, the number of soldiers severely lessened, and we were able to fight them off with ease.
With the majority of the defenses gone, the woman stepped up in front of the soldiers once more.
"They will be sending more men soon. Make sure they stop here and proceed no further. Defend this place with your lives." And with that, she turned and began to jog off with her own personal squad in tow.
"Wow, she doesn't actually expect them to die for the clan... does she?" I thought as I glanced around at the men. Yup, she did, and they totally looked ready to as well. But I couldn't stay there. Not with the woman getting ready to free Shredder, who was apparently quite a tough guy.
As the Foot Clan members turned to face the front doors in preparation for the sure to be incoming assault, I moved to the back of the group and slowly edged my way backwards until I was behind everyone. Then, with everyones attention facing the doors, I turned and ran quietly in the direction that the woman and her men had gone.
As I drew closer to them, I slowed my pace and quietened my footsteps, making sure to pause at every corner until they had rounded the next. But even then I was almost spotted once or twice when one of the men turned quickly and looked back to see if anyone was sneaking up on them.
Eventually, they reached an elevator, and I watched them file in, before the doors closed behind them. Walking up to the elevator, I looked around for any stairs, nothing. "That's a breach in the fire code... and this is even a government facility... tax dollars at work..." I muttered as I grabbed the crease in the doors and pulled them open.
With my increased strength, they slid open easily. Leaning forward I peered down the shaft, it was pretty far down, and the elevator was still going. "Okay then... nothing to it... just got to climb down the cable..." I frowned as I realized I was lacking in a suitable protection for my hands as my gloves would probably wear out pretty fast.
"Time I took this off anyways..." I said to myself as I began to pull off my terrorist disguise. As soon as the uniform was off, I pulled my hat and bandana out of my jacket, which I had kept on under the uniform, and put them back on. I was back in my proper outfit. Awesome.
Slinging the gun over my shoulder, I took the Foot Clan uniform and wrapped it around my gloved hands, then stopped as I glanced down the elevator shaft. "Jeez that's a long drop..." I thought to myself as I pulled my head out of the shaft.
"Okay... three... two... one... Go!" I took two steps forward, then jumped, my hands grabbing on to the wire tightly as I stopped there for a moment and closed my eyes. I took a couple deep breaths, then began to slowly slide down the cable.
I must have traveled around thirty floors before I finally reached the elevator, but when I eventually did, I let go of the cable and dropped on to the roof silently. I took a moment to listen for any noise, like voices, then pulled open the trapdoor on the elevators ceiling and dropped down in to the elevator.
There was a slight thump as I hit the floor of the elevator, and I stopped for a minute to see if I had been detected, then I pressed the open doors button on the elevator and they slid open quietly. I sighed as I looked into the hallway ahead of me. Thank heavens there hadn't been an obnoxious dinging noise. A gun at my side, I stepped forward into the underground hallway and began my search for the woman, and Shredder.