Disclaimer:…. I obviously do not own Ninja Turtles. Peter Lair and Kevin Eastman do.
"I hack and I slash and I stab and I cut; when I finally find ganon I will fuck him up.
But this dungeons a maze and I am getting lost, but I will find that bastard no matter the cost.
Digdogger was mean, but I pulled out a bow; I shot him in the eye with a silver arrow.
The dark knight is nothing but a stain on my sword; these weak little creatures are leaving me bored."
'Ganon Slayer' by Madhatter. (Call me a nerd all you want, but nerds will rule the world! MUAHAHA!)
"What is it Moth?" Michaelangelo answered into his shellcell; his daughter had called him, which was strange because it was dusk, the time Foot ninja normally went on 'patrol'. The call wasn't expected, because she had already thanked him for the cake last night.
"The Foot are after you!" Moth frantically explained "They found out you and Venus are back in New York, and now we're all going on a city-wide witch hunt!"
"Moth, calm down." Michaelangelo reprimanded.
"What are we supposed to do?" Moth asked from the other line "We're leaving in an hour."
Michaelangelo thought for a moment "I have a plan." He said "Listen carefully….."
Jumping roofs was awkward for front-line fighters (or front-liners), as Moth realized, because of the additional weights in the uniforms. But she and Quinn managed; they were in a squad lead by Kai consisting of her, Quinn, a several other front-liners, scores of Foot ninja, and a dozens of cadets. The group was large; there were four squads scouring through New York, taking North, West, East and South, and led by an Elite Foot ninja. The squad Moth was in took South.
Moth knew the plan her father had concocted, and she was preparing for her part, though she couldn't help but be shaky as she wondered if it could work, and her mind just kept thinking of all of the things that could go wrong?
Moth shook her head to snap out of it as they approached the building. She grabbed Kai by the shoulder and pointed to it "Look – the figure on the storage shed!" She hissed; Kai looked towards it, narrowed his eyes and nodded.
Kai quickly gave them all orders to follow him and prepare for combat. Moth felt a spike of adrenaline – the plan was in it's beginning stages. "I hope your ready to fight." She said to Quinn, who nodded.
"I believe the fight will be interesting." Quinn said, there was a wild glint in the red-haired girls eyes.
They were on the rooftop. Kai stared up angrily at the figure on the storage shed; it was Michaelangelo, sitting on the storage shed with his eye closed and in meditative position.
"I have been expecting you." Michaelangelo said, his eye stayed shut and he stayed in lotus position.
"Really?" Kai coldly retorted "Well, not many are so calm in the face of death."
Michaelangelo chuckled; he stood up and opened his single eye "Face of death? Son, it'd be foolish to assume you so much as stand a chance against me with your lame-ass, mail-order ninja army."
"Lame-ass!" One of Foot ninja repeated, insulted.
"Mail-order?" Another inquired, there were some shouts of rage at the insults the red-masked veteran ninja had just bluntly thrown at them.
"How dare you!" Kai growled.
"Dare I speak the truth?" Michaelangelo inquired and jumped off of the storage shed and onto the rooftop "In fact, I bet I can fling any of your pathetic Foot soldiers and fling them off of the building without trouble."
Moth got into action; she feigned anger and charged at him "I bet you can't!" She roared, ignoring her comrades and Kai who warned her to fall back. She ran towards her father and he stood there calmly, when she at the right range, he grabbed her by the shoulders, stopping and holding her in place. With a firm grip, Michaelangelo moved back towards the ledge "Venus will catch you on the flip side." He whispered, too quiet for the other Foot ninja to hear them.
Moth mouthed 'okay'. With that, Michaelangelo dropped onto his shell and kicked Moth, sending her flying over the ledge. She heard her comrades screaming, and then the unsheathing of weapons.
But when she had dropped only about two stories, she was pulled into the building from an open window by a green hand, she was pulled in to where she landed in the room on her feet.
"Thanks Venus DeMilo." Moth said and bowed respectfully to her aunt. Venus nodded and handed her a cardboard box without a top. It looked to be full of all-to-familiar garments.
"That is your gear, change quickly and I will give you your weapons." Venus ordered. Moth nodded and pulled out her mountain-clothes.
"Okay, but turn around I don't want to change in front of you." Moth said.
Venus rolled her eyes and turned around, she crossed her arms. "Alright, just don't take too -!"
"Done!" Moth told her; Venus whirled back around; she saw the Foot uniform on the ground, and Moth was in her gear; red mask, fur cowl, bone-capped elbow/knee pads, boots, black turtleneck, black shorts, fur wrist guards and all.
"Wow." Venus drawled out and let out an impressed whistle "That was fast." The leaf-green turtle than handed her niece her weapons.
"Thank god!" Moth cheered "I really missed using my weapons!" She said and sheathed her scimitar and tomahawk, where they belonged.
"Oh, by the way, I brought someone else." Venus said, and whistled; a coyote came bounding into the room, metal claws on his paws and a holster-strap around his chest with a hunting knife on it.
"Raphael!" Moth said and patted her coyote on the head; he gave a slight growl, but likely he was anxious for the fight. "Oh, this fight is going to be brutal….."
"Come, we must hurry!" Venus urged; the two ninja's ran out of the room and up two flights of stairs to the roof. "On my signal, you come out." Venus whispered, before bursting the door open and joining her brother on the 'battlefield.' Moth stayed hidden and watched.
Quinn was gone (Moth hoped her friend was okay), some of the foot soldiers were also gone (possibly having been flung off of the roof), but Kai was head-on duking it out with Michaelangelo, who was taking on Kai and several other Foot ninja easily.
"Now Moth!" Venus called, Moth leapt out of the door and Raphael was hot on her heels, and his frothing jaws ripped the hunting knife from the strap on his chest.
"What the hell is that thing!" One of the Foot ninja yelled.
"Is that a wolf?" Another gasped in surprise when they saw Raphael; sure, mutant ninja turtles was nothing new to them, but apparently a bear with a coyotes head, with a coyote at her feet was a complete surprise. Dumb humans.
"Moth," Michaelangelo called to her, calling her by her name was safe since her comrades only knew her as 'Marlowe' "you get this Oroku brat and we'll deal with the crowd." So he wanted her to fight Kai?
Moth grinned; oh she was going to enjoy this….. "Raphael," she growled to her coyote and pointed at Kai "Sick 'im." She commanded. Hunting knife clenched tightly in his jaws, Raphael growled and charged at Kai.
"What the - !" Kai yelped as he was driven away from Michaelangelo and his katana fell from his hand. He had never seen a coyote before, and he'll admit he was a bit frightened by it. He back away as the blade-wielding coyote circled close to him, glaring at him with these burning dark eyes.
Moth chuckled seeing the normally arrogant Elite guard close to pissing himself "Pathetic…" She taunted, she made sure to change her voice so he wouldn't recognize her "Coyote got your tongue?"
"You!" He growled "Who are you?" He demanded.
"Hamato Moth." She replied, and drew out her scimitar "Now if you feel ninja enough, why don't you fight me, little boy." Man, she really was enjoying this, payback for all of the times she had to bow to this little ninja.
Kai growled and took out his kusarigama. "I'll destroy you, freak." He growled.
"Says the turtle." Moth snorted and got into stance with her swords "Now; less talk, more action!" Moth shot at him.
Kai barely had the time to raise his sword and block the strike. But the force pushing at him made him dig his feet to keep his place as he kept pushing back with all of his might. Kai ducked down in a sweeping kick to trip his opponent, who on the fall only grabbed his wrist and brought him down with them on the fall. Moth flung Kai a few feet away.
Kai jumped to his feet and charged back, starting a vicious swordfight between him and Moth. Kai was skilled, very skilled, and his training clearly showed through his performance. But, unfortunately for him; Moth was older, wiser (to um…. Some extent), more skilled and more trained. Foot ninja's were trained to get the enemy down; Moth was trained to make sure the enemy would never get up. Moth almost felt like lightening up to give him a better chance.
Almost.
When a particularly hard clash of their weapons made their swords fly out of their hands, they changed to hand-to-hand combat. Luckily, Moth still had somewhat of an upper-hand, she being in the prime of her life and Kai sill being an underdeveloped teenager, she had a physical advantage as well despite her being…. Female.
Kai threw a double-phoenix punch and his fist buried into Moth's stomach; she grunted and grabbed his wrist with one hand and his elbow with the other. She raised her knee and forced his wrist down on it.
There was a loud snap. Followed by an interestingly high-pitched scream from Kai. Moth dropped him and he fell to his knee clutching his broken wrist with his good hand.
Moth grabbed him by the front of his cowl, lifted him up slightly, dragged him to the storage shed (Oh, all of the other Foot ninja are distracted/being beaten up by Michaelangelo, Venus and Raphael by the way) and slammed his shell against it. "Now listen here, runt." She hissed "Tell your mommy and daddy that the Hamato clan has returned, and you're all in for a hell of a lot of payback." She dropped him and backed away.
Kai scrambled up and called for his remaining Foot ninja, at their masters orders all of them fled.
Moth turned to her family and grinned "I think he's got the message." She chuckled.
"That was Leonardo's son?" Venus asked as re-sheathed her long-sword "He looks exactly like him."
"He lacks the eyes of the devil." Mikey growled. Venus facepalmed and Moth rolled her eyes.
"Anyways, should we clean this blood off, or should I leave?" Moth asked.
Michaelangelo was about to answer, but then he tensed up "Whoever you are," he said loudly to no one in particular "get out hiding."
There was a nervous chuckle and someone emerged from inside the storage shed; a girl with long black hair, blue eyes, and pale skin with freckles. She had on a red mask and a black cowl, and in one hand she was twirling a butterfly-sword.
"Whoa, she looks like us." Moth whispered to Venus; red mask, black cowl, martial arts weapon? Either she somehow knew about them, or she was a rogue Foot ninja with a weird sense of fashion. She must have been in her late teens or early twenties.
"Who are you?" Michaelangelo asked, sounding a bit threatening, the girl only grinned.
"Sorry, I don't like to share." She said, then tipped her head to the side "Hmm…. Two turtles and a…. bear… wolf…. Thing." She stated.
"I'm the bear, wolf, thing." Moth retorted and crossed her arms. The girl laughed.
"What bring you here, stranger?" Venus DeMilo asked, her voice was not trusting.
"I like watching fights; I was going to take on those ninja punks myself but then you weirdo's showed up." She shrugged.
"A love of violence is a fatal attraction." Michaelangelo said, and he turned to Moth "You leave, we'll take Raphael and go home."
The black-haired girl tensed at that statement "What did you just say?" She asked, shifting nerously.
"What's it to ya?" Michaelangelo spat and he jumped off of the building and into the alley way.
Venus gave a curt nod before fallowing her brother, Raphael was tucked her hand-less arm. Moth gave a nervous grin under her hood an turned to the girl "Excuse him…. He has trust issues…. And a lot of issues…. But uh, I'll see you around." With all said and done, Moth bailed over the ledge of the building as well, back towards Foot HQ.
The girl crossed her arms and made a face "Ws it something I said?" She wondered aloud.
Read and review please, I haven't been getting much as of late.