"This is where you will be training." Frank said as he showed the girls into a large room. They walked down stairs as all four of them looked around at a room high above, to over look their progress. "It's an observation room. We will be watching you. Holograms will appear that you project from your mind. From up there, I will be able to control it. Jacqueline why don't you go first?" He smiled, walking back up the stairs as Jade nodded her head for her sister to walk further into the plain white room.
Jacqueline stepped in the middle as the room changed. She instantly felt cold as she saw a snowy haze around her. She narrowed her eyes trying to see past the streams of white ahead of her to her sisters. She felt a tingle from behind her as she turned slowly seeing a large shadow approaching. She fell into her stance as her eyes widened seeing the black figure change into the Shredder. Her hands instantly warmed up as two flames engulfed her fists.
"What the hell is this?" She screamed over the blowing winds and snow forcing itself into her eyes like sharp fragments of ice. She put her hand up as the snow around her started to melt and turn to water before it hit her face. She watched the Shredder came closer with his low husky laugh making her stomach churn. She wanted to run, but she knew she had to stay and fight. This was something she was waiting for.
Steam rang off her fists as she moved her back foot, bending her knees more to make her stance tight. The metal gleaming off his blades on his hand pointed straight at her. He let out a yell before running towards her, in the snow and sleet. She backed up with his first blow, throwing out a fireball towards him as it extinguished against his cold wet metal.
"Everything's wet…" She said to herself as she looked down at her hands. He came at her again. Her eyes went wide for a moment before ducking out of the way, rolling across the cold ground. She caught herself flicking her wrists as more flames appeared on her hands.
"Everything's wet!" Jade said as she watched from the observation room as her sisters leaned against the control panel watching with clenched fists. The turtles stood behind them as Raphael watched close his eyes focused intently on Jac's movements screaming in his mind for her to duck and block. Frank's sons were on the other side of him watching as Joshua had his arms crossed, clenching his biceps as he had his narrowed eyes intently on Jacqueline.
"That's the whole point Jade. Jacqueline has to learn to work with her powers in such elements." Frank said as he pressed a button to add more sleet than snow. "This is Jacqueline's fear. Her self-conscious one that she might not even know of herself, one that she has suppressed for so long, or ignored that it's harder for her to focus. I'm doing this to all of you." He said looking back at the girls.
"Why the Shredder?" Lexi asked looking down at her sister tossing another flame towards his metal armor.
"It's what Jac's mind chose."
Jacqueline growled tossing another flame as she got close enough to him to jump up and kick him across the face. He grabbed her foot after she made contact and threw her body against a frozen snow bank. She went limp for a moment before shaking away the pain and getting to her feet slowly.
"Remember to focus!" Jacqueline picked her head up from her sister's demanding voice looking over her shoulder. She could barely make out through the snow a group watching her from above in the observation room. She saw one of them lean over again as Jade's voice yelled through the speakers. "Focus on controlling your flames, make them bigger to counteract for the snow." Jac furrowed her brow turning back towards the Shredder as he gave her no reaction time to build a flame. She backed out of the way of his slicing fist and tucked and rolled under his legs, slipping against the snowy ground from behind him.
"I can't focus with you yellin' at me!" She screamed back.
"Babe, remember that kick I taught you." She heard Raphael's voice say. A small smile went to her face from the comfort of his voice washing over her body. She sighed lightly looking at the Shredder as he approached her with another deep laugh. She narrowed her eyes jumping over to him, using his bent leg to kick him across the face. She landed this time as she jumped forward, her hands landing in the snow as she kicked him in the jaw as his head snapped backwards. She flipped off her hands and into his stomach as he tumbled back even more, tripping from a snow bank.
She walked towards him with a smirk as a flame started on her palm and worked its way up the full length of her arm. She punched down as the hologram disappeared. Her fist hit the metal flooring of the white plain room. She looked up and around her as her hair was still a little damp. She lifted her fist from the floor seeing the indent she had left.
"Whoa…" Jade and Raph said at the same time as they hurried to the door.
"Whoa…" Jac breathed herself as she stepped away from the indent.
"Congratulations my dear, you have found your counterpart power." Frank's voice said from over the speakers.
"My counterpart?" She asked as she picked her head up to Raph and Jade running in the room. He ran over to her picking her up by the waist as he spun her around in a hug. She smiled kissing his shoulder as he placed her back on the ground.
"You got some fist of furry there Jackie." He joked as he looked down at the indent. She shrugged.
"Yeah, so don't piss me off!" She said pointing a finger at him.
"Jesus…" Jade breathed as she ran her hand over the indent.
"Would you like to have a go Jade?" She heard Frank's voice. She stood up as Raph patted her on the back as him and Jac left the room. Jac slid out of Raphael's grip walking back over to her sister. She placed a hand on Jade's shoulder as Jade smiled putting her hand on Jac's arm.
"Good luck." Jac said pulling Jade into her for a hug. Jade eyes went wide for a moment as she placed her hand on Jac's back. She smiled as she clung onto her sister a little tighter.
"Thanks." Jac smiled and let go as she walked back over to Raph.
Jade remember the information that was given to her moment ago about her fears. She sat on the cold metal ground in lotus position as she cleared her mind of everything in her past and focused on the present. She thought that if she maybe emptied her mind she would be able to trick the machine into finding her self conscious fears.
"Why fears?" Donnie asked as he turned his attention from Jade. Frank smirked.
"I believe you already know the answer to that Donatello. You were in our archives last night, were you not?" Donnie grimaced and nodded his head slowly. "It's quite alright." Frank chuckled patting Donnie's shoulder. "I am actually very impressed. You're free to look at anything we offer here. I am working on this so we are all prepared for whatever Stockman has to shoot at us when the time comes. You four will be next." He said looked from Donnie to the other turtles.
Jade opened her eyes slowly as Leonardo walked over to the panel. Gregory was on the other side as he leaned his fists against the metal. Leo shifted his gaze from her to him for a moment before ignoring it and going back to Jade. The room changed into the sewers of underneath the city. Two large pipe openings before her like a fork in the road as she got to her feet slowly. She saw the human clone of Leonardo standing straight, his katanas strapped to his back and arms crossed over his chest as her wore a black sleeveless shirt with a Foot symbol tattooed on his upper arm. Jade's eyes grew wider as she saw Karai come out from a pipe with Hun following.
"You really think you could run away from this?" Hun asked as Karai moved her mask up her face with a smirk going across it. Jade shifted back as Karai and Leonardo took a step forward. She put her hand up as it shook slowly. She clenched her eyes for a moment trying to focus as she couldn't gather herself. She searched out for her sisters for guidance as she was thrown back into her own mind.
She fell on her knees as Leonardo smirked slipping his blade from the hold strapped to his back. He placed the cold metal on her chin to lift her face towards his. She pushed away grabbing the blade with her hand in a glare looking back at him as the hilt appeared in her hand. She twisted the katana in her grasp as Leonardo backed away slowly.
She heard Hun growl as his loud feet slammed against the concrete below him. She looked towards him holding out her hand free of the katana hilt and stopped him in his tracks.
"We've been through this before haven't we?" She asked with a smirk on her face.
She felt her stomach twist as the katana fell from her grasp. Her smirk faded as her eyes went wide from seeing a figure come out of the pipe behind Hun. Black hoodie over their head to cover their eyes as his ripped jeans and shoes were telling enough. She furrowed her brow backing away slowly as he lifted his head with a smile.
"Hey baby." His dark voice said as she collapsed to her knees.
"No, you're dead…June killed…"
"You mean you killed me." He smirked. "Don't try and put that one her, apart of your subconscious. You knew what you were doing Jade. You wanted to kill me." He smirked as he put his hand on her shoulder, gripping the fabric and bringing her to her feet. She looked past him as everyone else was gone, she was in his old room, like she was sixteen again as he lifted his hand and smacked her across the face.
"No…NO! Stop this. She needs to get out of there!" Jacqueline screamed slamming her fists against the metal panel.
"The machine isn't responding. Jade's mind it too strong." Frank said pressing a few buttons. Lexin growled pushing him out of the way as she looked over the panel quickly.
"We have to make re-route a few buttons to give it more power." She said looking down at the panel. Donnie went to her side almost instantly at the request and opened the panel.
"Looket you. You and your freak boyfriend killed the Shredder, and you get in my sight for one minuet and you're a scared little girl again." He chuckled. "Pathetic. Ya know, I liked June better, at least that bitch fought back." He said gritting his teeth and slapping her again. She fell to the ground holding her face as she curled up in a ball, tears streaming down her face.
"Enough of this!" Leonardo said leaving the observation room and running down to the training room. He opened the door as he saw Jason standing above Jade ready to strike. She cowered against the bed in the room, her back pressed against the wall. She looked past Jason and furrowed her brow for a second looking over Leonardo.
Leo narrowed his eyes as Jason turned with a smile. He let out a growl running towards Jason leading with his shoulder as Jason slammed up against the wall next to Jade, him and Leo both let out a grunt from impact. She looked up in shock, scrambling to her feet as Jason tried to push away.
"You wanna hit someone? Hit me." Leo said through gritted teeth as Jason smirked.
"My pleasure." He said making a fist as Leo took it, twisting it behind his back. Jason fell to the ground in a yelp as Jade climbed on the bed watching and wiping the tears from her face. Her hands shook as she gripped onto the comforter.
"Not so easy when it's not a defenseless woman is it?" Leo said twisting Jason's wrist harder. He threw his arm at him as Jason fell on the ground rubbing his arm from nearly being ripped from his body. Leo turned with a sigh as Jade shifted her wide, worried eyes from Jason to Leo. He stepped closer as Jade shifted back. He furrowed his brow kneeling down on the ground in front of her. "Jade, it's me. Leo." He said softly as she tired to steady her breath. His eyes were kind and gentle as he inched closer to the bed. She wiped away the tears drying on her cheek and pushed closer to him. He smiled for a second as she put her hand on his shoulder.
"Leo…" She said softly as she threw her body on his in a hug. He put his arm out behind him to catch himself from the embrace and regained his balance hugging her back. He wrapped his arms around her legs picking her up as she buried her face in the nape of his neck. She felt the familiar sent of his skin calm her body as the hologram dropped almost instantly back to a white plain room. "I'm so sorry." She said through a bloody lip as he shook his head. He hoisted her up higher on his body, pressing it tighter to his plastron. The door opened as Jacqueline rushed in taking Jade from Leo's arms and into her own.
"Why do you hafta be so crazy?" She whispered as Jade smirked a little tears streaming down their faces.
"I-I'm sor…"
"Don't start that I'm sorry shit again. I broke you outta that once, don't make me hafta do it again." Jac said shaking a finger in her sister's face before pulling her back for an embrace. Lexine and Fiona walked in as they attacked themselves to their older sister on her side.
The walked out of the room as Jade looked behind her holding out her hand for Leonardo to take it. He reached for her grabbing her hand gentle as he pulled her a little into him. She smirked letting go of Fiona's hand with her other as she held onto Leo's arm, hugging it as she placed her head on his shoulder.
"Donatello has informed me apparently I need a more powerful machine to handle your mind." Frank said with a smile as Greg handed Jade a cup of steaming tea in his kitchen. The others sat in the living room as Greg jumped up on the counter with a smile on his face as Jade returned it. "With your dreams you said you were having, we need to end that fear before it controls you in your training. We cannot have that happen again. I am going to have Gregory help you with that." He said with a smile towards his son.
"Wait, not that I'm not appreciative of your wanting to help but don't you think someone with skills in dealing with mutants would want to…"
"I am a mutant." Greg said with a shrug. "We have the same power." Jade's cup dropped from her hand as she instantly went to her feet. Greg arched a brow sliding off the counter and picking up the mess. "I know it's weird but…"
"Weird? Are you kidding me?!"
"What happened?" Jac said as she leaned in the doorway, with Leonardo at her side.
"I was just informing your sister with what I told you earlier." Frank said taking the broken pieces from his son and putting them in the trash.
"Oh, ya mean Josh and Greg being mutants? Yeah, weird huh?" Jac smirked as Jade furrowed her brow towards her sister and then back towards Frank.
"You're smiling about this?"
"I think it's cool, I mean I can finally work on my flames with someone who actually has them and has been honing them since he was a kid." Jac said walking into the kitchen.
"Speakin' of which." Josh said walking in from the dining room. "Do you think I could show you my room? I got this really bitchin' flame retardant fabric that you can use in our training."
"Yeah." Jac smiled as she followed him through the living room. She kissed Raph on the shoulder in passing. "I'll be right back." She said as she continued to follow Josh up the stairs. Raph smiled turning towards her as he watched her go up a large spiral staircase with Josh. He narrowed his eyes turning around quickly as her feet disappear up stairs.
"Where do you think they're going?" Mikey asked as Fiona sat on his lap. She shrugged. Raph turned around slowly with his eyes still narrowed, arms tightly crossed over his plastron.
"Raphael." Lexi said breaking him out of his glare on the tv. He looked up at her as she crossed her arms. "Do you not trust my sister?" She asked glaring her eyes.
"I never said that."
"You don't have to say anything. You body language speaks for itself. She loves you, so drop it. Believe me, the more you treat her as if she belongs to you the more you're going to push her to do something."
"I ain't actin' like she belongs…"
"I know." Lexi snapped. She sighed putting her hand to her head. "Listen, I know my sister and she wouldn't do anything to hurt you, ever. She basically risked her life to fight by your side I doubt she would throw that away for some guy. I don't have to doubt, I know she wouldn't. Jason treated Jade like some thing he owned. She couldn't see other people, especially guys. She had barely any friends besides us. Don't let me think you'd do the same to Jacqueline because you might be jealous. If you do, you might as well say your good-byes now." Lexi said getting up from Donnie's lap and walking into the kitchen. Raphael followed Lexi in a glare as he shot it back towards Donnie. He held up his hands in defense.
"I didn't say it." He said as Fiona got from Mikey's lap giving him a kiss on the cheek before she went into the kitchen.
"See, it doesn't get all tattered and worn like some clothing I'm sure you've worn in a fight." Josh smirked as he sat on his bed watching Jacqueline throw a flame as she worn a black full length suit. It had a red strip up the length of her body as the stretch fabric clung to her body.
"I feel like someone outta Fiona's comics with this getup on." She chuckled throwing another flame towards a target at Josh's wall. "You dad made this for me?"
"No, I did." He said with a shrug. "I'm the trainer remember, I'm posta give you this kinda crap." He smirked looking up at. She smiled back, turning away from him quickly as she dropped the smile.
"Yeah, well. Thanks." She said over her shoulder.
"Listen, I know you and Raph are like a think so I'm just here to help. Friends?" He said standing up and holding out his hand. She smiled turning around slowly and shaking it.
"Alright, friends."
"If we are able to quiet your mind like I did with Gregory than he can help you control it and keep it that way. These images of past relationships, fights you have gone through, fears you may have. The whole idea of this exercise is to help you over come them again, even in your self-conscious so when and if we encounter that serum you will be ready and end this once and for all." Frank said as Greg nodded his head. Jade sighed as her twin sisters stood by her side, Leonardo sitting at the table.
"I just don't understand why I went so far back as to go there." Jade said shaking her head.
"Because, it was a traumatizing time for you as a young girl. You trusted someone and they took it from you. Also, that was the time that your mother and I took your father and myself from your memory. It was harder for you to lose him. Your mother kept bringing you back on several occasions until finally only a slight hint of your father's presence was there." Frank said solemnly as Lexi put her head down rubbing Jade's back. "I thought that it would interfere with your powers. I was wrong. You're still as strong, if not stronger as you were when you were little. June, I believe was created to cope. She knew things you didn't correct?" Jade nodded her head slowly. "She was apart of you that I tried to wipe but never fully succeeded. Now, all we have to do is control that power in this pretty little head and use it to your advantage." Frank smirked putting his hand on Jade's forehead. She smiled taking his hand.
"Thank you." She said softly. He nodded his head.
"You should be getting home, it's been a trying day. I accept you all to be here in the morning nine o'clock sharp." He said as they all nodded their heads. Leonardo stood up and bowed his head towards Frank, he returned it with a smile as he followed Jade into the living room.
"C'mon we're going." Lexi said walking towards the back door. Donnie got to his feet walking with her as Raphael walked towards the stairs. He heard foot steps as Josh came down first. He had saw Raph and put on a nervous smile as Raph glared at him in passing. Jac came down next still wearing the tight outfit as Raph's eyes widened for a moment. He looked her up and down as her body moved slowly down the stairs stopping as she leaned on the banister.
"See somethin' you like red?" She smirked running her finger tips slowly across his chest as she came down the rest of the way. He turned following her as he tilted his head slightly watching her walk in front of him.
"Yea, a lotta things." He smirked as she turned her head over her shoulder. "You get to keep that?" She nodded her head as he caught up to her. She put her hand out for him to take it as they walked outside.
"Awesome! Do we all get cool outfits?" Fiona said as she saw Jac walk towards the van.
