The Perfect Son

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Author's note to: Hayoyoh Asakura - I understand what you are trying to get at. It does seem slow in real time as heroes they should just charge in and save the girl. But movies don't deal in real time.

For this story in real time- Mike found the foot clan and returned home between 3 AM and 4 AM. The turtles plan on going around 1 PM after the shadows start to lengthen, by the time Don is done doing what he needs to it is too close to Noon. Not even twelve hours have passed. Realistically as ninja they would go in at night time for attack which would mean waiting till around 8 PM or later to attack. So realistically, it is hurrying while still preparing. Besides in the new movie just because Leo was taken at night and the turtles attacked at night -doesn't mean it was the same night does it? In stories one can take longer and give the detail that makes things so much better. Don't you think? Thanks for the review.

Chapter Twenty One- Attack

Raphael:

It was time, well past time as far as I was concerned, for action. I knew that normally, we'd be waiting for night fall for an attack , which would have meant longer hours of sitting and waiting. I think I would have gone ballistic if I'd been forced to wait for the proper ninja time to attack.

Don had learned that the warehouse had three possible entrances/exits. One was the large cargo doors for shipments purposes. That was the area Don planned to blow up with the explosives, it was far enough away from where he felt Leo and Christine were that it wouldn't hurt them, but would cause the diversion we were looking for.

One other entrance was across from the river opposite from the cargo doors and the third was on the side of the building and according to the plans Don had checked over was almost directly across from the hallway that lead to the basement. It was the side door we planned on going in.

Don had wanted to go plant the bomb on his own but I over ruled him. Someone had to watch his back while he set things up, and we were in enemy territory here, so it would only be wise to watch one another's backs.

Last thing I wanted was us to separate and then find out Don had been captured giving our surprise attack away and leaving it to Mike and I to try to get everyone out.

We had noticed a few of them, but either they weren't expecting trouble yet, or they just weren't aware of us -which was possible, because the Foot clan in New York wasn't exactly of the skill you'd expect of a ninja.

Oh well, very soon they will notice us.

Don's fingers deftly connected the bomb and set the timer. We had four minutes to make it around the side and hopefully do it without any of the Foot in the area being any the wiser.

I knew we had to stay together for this one, I couldn't leave my brothers alone they were counting on me. I would need them. What do ya know, I fin'lly learned team work after all. Here Splinter, and Leo always thought it had eluded me.

Suddenly I caught a glimpse of movement to my left, I acted instinctively grabbing a sai and tossing it before an alarm could go out, the sai found it's mark and the Soldiers gasped a little before falling to the ground.

"Good one Raph. That was close," Don whispered, "Let's move in we have about a minute and I want us as close to the door as possible when that bomb goes off."

I nodded, by the time the Foot noticed one of their sentries were dead it wouldn't matter. I retrieved my sai and followed after my brothers. I was rather glad that all our competitions were paying off in improving our skills, we'd need all the advantages we could get and very quickly now.

There were some shrubs near the door, that provided us with a little cover. I was mentally counting down what was left of the seconds, knowing that it wouldn't be much longer and we'd be making our move.

I felt the ground tremble slightly and my body tensed in anticipation. Don gave me a nod of his head. I leaped from the bush I was in and channelling some of the pent up energy and wild rage I'd been holding onto I broke the door open with a powerful roundhouse kick.

Don tossed a smoke bomb to give us a little concealment to get us in. As the smoke cleared it revealed the three of us standing back to back our weapons in hand and surrounded by Foot Soldiers.

I grinned a wolfish smile, "hi guys we were in the area and we thought we'd stop by and crash the party." I told them.

That was about all it took from them to go from stunned -huh, how did the turtles git here?- to attack mode. That is okay, I didn't mind I'd been waiting for this long enough. I was just hoping that it would be well worth the wait.

I leaped in the air doing a kick causing a few Soldiers to fall back.

A Foot Soldier with a katana was going after Mike, but Mike knew how to handle that sort of thing, he should, he sparred with Leo enough in the past.

Mike knew the best way of disarming a sword wielding opponent and I could see that was what he was going for.

Don was on my right and was using his bo staff to strike at two Foot soldiers at once, a jab to the left, quick one to the right followed by a hard jab in the stomach, knocking the air out of him.

I used my sixth sense to tell me how my brothers were doing as I started to concentrate and focus on the Foot Soldiers who wanted a piece of me.

A Foot ninja with a kusari gama came for me and I smiled. The four meter long chain attached to the long handled sickle was a very flexible ninja weapon. The chain could ensnare arms or legs, while the sickle could be turned on an opponent who was entangled in the chain. The trick was not to let yourself be caught up in the chain.

I tucked one sai in my belt and snatched the chain in the air as the Soldier swung it towards me, while I blocked the strike of the sickle with the sai I had held onto. I managed to get enough of the chain to swing it around and entangle his arms, effectively hand cuffing him.

This was something I had learned to do on Mike years ago. It worked well here and I knocked the Foot soldier out giving him a good enough thump that he ought to be out for some time, and then of course he'd have to free himself of the chains around his arms.

I glanced upward and saw a catwalk that spanned the width of the warehouse and noticed other catwalks up near the ceiling, Foot Soldiers were lining up on them ready to take aim with bows and arrows.

"Break. Flip" I yelled to my brothers. They obeyed and we managed to get out of the way just as a volley of arrows landed where we had once been.

To be on the safe side we flipped and kicked our way a little further in the direction we needed to go in. I figured we were about halfway to the hallway that would lead us to where Christine and Leo were, then we'd have to get them and get back out.

I had a feeling the Foot weren't too serious as of yet because we were going further into their territory after all. For the number of Soldiers I could see in the warehouse, we could have been in big trouble if they did get serious.

"Now we have to watch above as well as around us," I grumbled.

"Shuriken!" Don yelled, his bo was all ready battling away the throwing stars.

Mike whipped his chucks around to deflect the ones that were coming his way and I used my sai as best I could. I think the only ones that hit us bounced off of our shells.

Damn! We really are getting good at this.

"Let's try to keep moving," Don suggested.

"Ah Don, have you noticed the wall there, and the door to the hallway there?" I pointed, "Did you realize we can get trapped in that hallway?"

"Ah yeah, let the Foot know Raph, good idea you've got there" Mike laughed as he glanced over at me, "Whose side are you on anyways?" He paused and looked up at a soldier who was nearing him, "All right a fellow chucker. Come on Foot I'll give ya a lesson."

"We don't have a choice Raph," Don insisted, "that is where the others are being held and that is why we are being allowed to go that way."

"They are letting us?" I snapped, not liking this idea one bit.

"Think about it Raph, it makes sense," Don hissed as he countered an attack from a couple of Foot Soldiers.

Mike was still giving his lessons on chucking to the Foot soldier, he was at the moment naming each of the techniques he was using as well as the variations that he had given names to. Mike was always in his element with any opponent who bore his signature weapon.

I had a Foot who decided to match his daggers against my sai, which helped ease my frustrations -at least a little- over the very idea that we were heading for a trap.

The Foot soldier was quick enough to get past my sais and slice my arm. A sai point quickly paid him back by digging into the palm of his hand and I put more weight behind my weapon, thrusting it further until the point of the sai came out the back of his hand. The Soldier dropped his dagger and while he was dealing with the pain in his hand, my other sai gave him a calling card in the gut.

The next Foot soldier to challenge me was slower on stepping up to the plate, especially after I had dispatched his comrade so easily. My next challenger turned out to be a team one with a katana and one with sais. That is okay I could handle that.

Don and Mike also seemed to be getting at least two men each but I knew they could handle it, as long as we continued to watch each other backs and keep moving towards the hallway.

The Foot Soldiers were trained to fight, that is if you could call it that, and they could handle weapons to a point but most of them didn't have the training or skills to back it up. They had maybe trained for three years, or so, if that, and it couldn't match the intense training we had.

We were trained from early days on first in simple stuff, like agility, acrobatics and early hand to hand, then moved on to wooden weapons before real weapons. We learned how to handle all sorts of weapons, before we were allowed to chose just one for ourselves. So these elementary ninja weren't zactly in our class.

We knew the strengths and weaknesses of each weapon. The Foot were able to handle throwing weapons and might learn one or two other main weapons and that was it. This gave us an advantage, but when they out numbered us like now that advantage didn't give us much help.

Don dispatched one Foot Soldier by jamming the end of his staff into the Soldiers throat, then spinning his bo about to knock the Foot across the head. I could see Don had a bad wound on one arm from a bisento blade the Foot had been carrying.

There seemed to be a momentarily lull only to be followed by darts coming our way. The others noticed the darts and without being told we leaped as one to get out of the way.

Ninja weren't against using poison tipped weapons and I didn't want to find out the hard way if these darts had been dipped in something special or not. By now we had reached the wall, all we had to do was edge along the way, to the hallway and duck into the hall.

Two of us would have to stay at the hallway to hold back the Foot while, probably Don, went to get Christine and Leo out of their prison. We had to insure that no soldier made it past us to get at Leo or Christine.

Great! Almost halfway there, then comes the hard part. Getting back out!

TBC