"That's better!"
Raphael's baritone vibrated through a newly opened room. The room filled with the weapons, shield, weapons, helmets, weapons, armor, weapons and more weapons.
Donatello looked around with doubts. The collection was varied, indeed. The walls and stands were covered mostly by medieval equipment but he could also see some rapiers probably from the seventeenth century and even one automatic pistol. But one weapon, the simplest but lethal in his hands, was not there. Donnie sighed with nostalgia remembering his bo-staff, now idly resting in the dojo.
"Wow! How did you do it?" interrupted Mikey his reverie, trying not to cut off his own head with a spinning flail.
Donatello blinked. In front of him, above his head, a weapon had just materialized. The weapon he was dreaming about. He removed the staff from the wall with content smile and tapped his head: "With this."
Raph chuckled and closed his eyes. The recently empty space on the wall was now filled with two sais.
Leonardo was trying the balance and the sharpness of a blade discovered among the collection of some scimitars.
"I think this one will do," he decided happily.
"Guys, you're doing it all wrong!" announced Michelangelo and pushed his brother with red bandana from the wall. "Now watch!"
Suddenly, thousands of stars sparked behind his eyes.
"Hey!" he rubbed the back of his head painfully.
"Don't. Think. About it!" Raphael warned him with the outstretched hand.
Mikey dramatically sighed but in a moment he was taking an ordinary pair of nunchucks off the wall with hurt expression.
"I expect you know what does it mean?" asked Donatello.
"Suuure." Raph laughed with his weapons at ready as he kicked the door on the other side of the armory.
Everybody jumped inside with a battle cry.
And they stopped with the same suddenness.
"Now, this is a surprise." growled the sai wielder.
Sabre and staff disappeared embarrassedly behind the belts.
"Hi, Simmi." Mikey greeted quietly.
She looked different. And it was not only because she was dressed. Dressed in a brown leather armor, that is. And neither because of a long ponytail or a white spear in her hands. But in her fighting stance and in her proud expression partly hidden behind a black bandana covering fully her eyes, there was nothing of the humble servant anymore.
Hearing them, her hold on the spear tightened and she turned around slightly, shoving her profile.
"That'll be quick!" Raphael laughed grimly: "Let us go immediately!"
Simonetta pointed the spike of her weapon at the mutant's heart.
"That sounded like a no," Mikey teased.
Raph frowned and attacked.
"Any other brilliant idea?" asked Leo his hotheaded brother while helping him to stand up from the ground. He did not respond, just kept piercing the girl with his look at least. Simonetta, breathing deeply, wiped the blood from her face. But apparently, she was good with a spear.
Raphael started to getting tired of this game.
"We'll attack her all at once!" but he received three incredulous looks.
"You can't manage a single girl?" Michelangelo chuckled. Raph's eyes narrowed dangerously.
"And how do we suppose to get out from here soon?"
"You have to defeat me quickly."
Four turtles froze and turned around. The girl was staying in the same place with the same stance, but the voice, deep, yet feminine, surely belonged to her.
"So, it talks."
"Obviously. But she can't see."
"So ...?"
"She answers only..." "Do you like...?" "...to her opponent," Donnie interrupted Mikey calmly and gripped his staff with determination.
Leonardo was watching their fight thoughtfully. Donnie was master with a long distance weapon, but obviously she was too. Even blinded and depending on her hearing. A lot of years of experience probably? But there was something else.
Leo reluctantly moved his attention to the girl's weapon. The spear was white and smooth, without any ornament. But what first had looked like a trick of his eyes now seemed to be true - the two meters long stick was radiating with almost invisible white light and the small flashes blinked from time to time. And sometimes it almost seemed, that the spear was guiding her moves.
"Don! Make it quick!" he ordered suddenly, "she is learning you!"
The ninja with the bo-staff looked puzzled but then he understood. Simonetta just counter-attack his move, which she had barely blocked few minutes ago. The longer their fight took, the more difficult was becoming.
Donatello rapped the girl's knuckles with his staff to distract her and quickly aimed the other end of his weapon at her head. Then he hesitated. As a thanks, he gained a stab wound on his right hand.
"Donnie!" his brothers cried in dismay and Raph quickly pulled him out of the spear range.
"You little...!"
"Wait!" Leo quickly stopped his furious brother and pulled out his new scimitar.
Simonetta cocked her ears. Before she could do anything, a blade was aiming at her throat. Leonardo proved to be deadly fast and silent when needed.
"Who must defeat you and how?"
She shoved the blade away with her fingers and her lips curled into a sneer. But no answer came from her. Leonardo pushed harder. A red stream begun to trickle down from her finger.
"Everyone."
And Leo disappeared.
"Perfect!" growled Raph with vengefulness.
"We are not going at her all at once!" Donatello pushed him aside with shock.
"I agree with Donnie!" Mikey said and spun his nunchucks.
Its swish and Mikey loud verbal display sufficiently lured the girl's attention. It did not take long and she was thrown against the wall and slowly slid down. Michelangelo was standing over her with a triumphant smile and spinning weapons.
"Do you like me?"
Her black bandana could not hide her shocked expression. She stood up with difficulty leaning on a spear.
"I don't know," she answer quietly to the disappearing figure.
Donatello took a fighting position with a sigh. How could he possibly attack a blinded opponent? How could he possibly hurt her? Raphael sighed deeply. After a while it was clear it would not lead anywhere. Donnie had already canceled the four of his almost successful attack in the last second. And he was running out of the moves and stamina as well.
Raph tightened his grip on his sais.
The purple bandana's ninja turned to giving more power to the swing and attacked again. Raphael watched how Don flexed exactly the wrong muscles, holding his attack back. He threw his sai. It pierced the upper end of the Donnie's weapon and finished his attack. Simonetta slid to the ground for the second time with a startled cry.
Donatello quickly ran to help her but was stopped by a green hand on his shoulder.
"Will you let us both go?" Raph growled.
"Suuuure." she said not even trying to get up from the floor.
Before Donnie could pose his question, the girl and the battle arena were gone.
They were in the hall with the doors again.