The Perfect Son

Disclaimer: I don't own a single ninja kicking mutated turtle.

Author's note for: Haoyoh Asakura: Yes, the Foot in the story are not the sort of ninja who are trained for many years. But in the warehouse you probably have around 400 or more Foot soldiers. That's about one hundred soldiers to each turtle, with those odds, even with the better training the turtles could be killed. 100 to 1 odds aren't nice in anyone's book. Plus Raph and them are probably going consider Leo as useless in the up coming fight - they don't know he has his memory back. It is up to Don, Raph and Mike alone to save their friends and protect them from harm. Remember Leo was almost killed by about fourty foot soldiers in this story.

In this story I lean heavily on Mirage comic books- the red masks for all the boys, Leo's memories, Mike mentioning Blood Sucker- these are all found in Mirage comic books. While the turtles in Mirage comics may fight during the day for the most part they don't go out during the day. Yes, the new cartoon uses some of the Mirage comics for their works, but there are many changes too. So, for this story, the boys going out during the day is rather unnatural and not considered normal- they might fight in the day if they are out in the country, or on an alien planet but for the most part no fighting with Foot is done at night. Mixing media and saying well in this they did…is fine, but I'm not following the movie media-any of the movies four of them the older three and the more recent one- or the cartoons (eighties or the more recent) or any other version of the turtles but one. Mirage comics, which you can actually read some of them on the official TMNT website. Thanks for the review.

Chapter Twenty Two - Trapped

Leonardo:

I had more problems then I should have had with that lock, either I had lost my touch, or the lock had been tampered with to insure that it was difficult to open without the key. Raph was the best lock picker in the family, no matter how secure a lock was he could pick it in no time flat; unless it happened to be one of the newer high security locks that used security cards or what have you, then Don was the one to assist in that area. Raph could usually get combination locks easily enough. I wished Raph was here.

I knew he was close, if the faint rumble of Don's bomb had meant anything. I sighed and realized that the lock just wasn't going give that way, well in that instance there was always Raph's other version of picking locks.

"If ya can't pick it bust the door down."

It wasn't exactly the best advice in the world, but this was one bit of advice I was willing to follow. Kicking the door down would probably be faster. I'd have to be careful though, I had lost muscle tone and hadn't done any training the whole time I'd been with Christine.

"Christine back up and give me some room here. I need to try and kick the door down and doing kicks on the stairs will be difficult enough." I informed her.

She nodded and backed up.

I still heard no sound from the cell we had left behind, pathetic ninja, I swear the Foot were getting worse all the time.

The door was thick and heavy so it took a few kicks before it finally broke and I gave it one last hard kick giving it all that I had. I huffed, my chest heaving from the exertion of it alone.

I glanced back at Christine, "Come on, stick close to me. But stay behind me as much as possible." I warned her.

"All right Leo," She agreed, she clutched the knife close and ready.

I was rather shocked that none of the soldiers in the warehouse had come to the relentless pounding on the door, of course my brothers probably had them busy elsewhere, in the warehouse, which gave us the opportunity to escape that we may not have gotten other wise.

I could hear a lot of noise at the other end of the hallway, and could see black garbed Foot soldiers near the end of the hallway, where the main area of the warehouse was but their attention was not on what might be emerging from where we were, rather it was directed elsewhere. The sounds of fighting was unmistakable. I knew my brothers had a lot to do with the diversion they had given Christine and I. From the sounds of things they were most likely near the hallway.

I motioned to Christine to keep quiet and keep her back to the wall as I silently moved down the hallway, towards the opening. I sensed someone drawing closer and my body tensed ready for attack, I was sure some one must have noticed us creeping stealthily up the dark passage towards the main warehouse.

I gripped the sai in my hand preparing myself to attack, or parry any strike that might come.

When suddenly, around the corner into the opening of the hallway came my three brothers- they had clearly been a lot closer then even I had thought. Raph grabbed Christine and I, pushing us back the way we had come as a volley of arrows was shot into the hallway's opening.

The Foot stood at the door to the hall blocking it off, they had us effectively pinned down.

'Great, trust my headstrong brother to get everyone trapped in this dead end.' I thought to myself.

The Foot didn't seem to be making a move, but then again they didn't really have to, they knew as well as I did, that for us to escape we had to go out past them. The hall was too narrow to allow too many Foot in at once, we could easily hold our own here, but they could wear us down slowly. At least we didn't have to worry about any attack from the ceiling, as it wasn't open. The Foot knew they couldn't come at us too strongly in the narrow ailse, we could easily have the upper hand. Any weapons shot down the hall could also, be deflected fairly easy. We were pretty much safe here we just couldn't get out.

At the moment we were pretty much at a stalemate.

"Nice move Raph," I grouched at him.

"Hey, it's not my fault. Not this time. We had no idea you two had escaped or we would have waited for you to come to us," he growled back at me. Then he blinked as he took in the sais held in my hands. "You've got weapons Leo." His tone was shocked and the look on his face was stunned, he clearly hadn't been expecting that.

Don and Mike whipped their heads around at that announcement.

"LEO"S BACK!!!" Mike crowed and pushed through to hug me and throw a mock punch my way, which I easily deflected.

Don's eyes were shining brightly behind his red mask, " You remembered didn't you?"

"Yes, I did," I agreed, " and I'd love to enjoy the reunion but I think we have more pressing matters to deal with first, and I'd still like to get a pair of katana if I can."

Raph grinned from ear to ear, "There is enough soldiers out there packing them, shouldn't be any trouble. Welcome back Leo, ya couldn't have timed it any better."

"I noticed That" I remarked sharply. But I was glad they were all here. I knew we stood a better chance of getting out of this if we were all together, and it felt good to know that they were here, to guard my back. "Don, what can you tell me about the warehouse?" I asked, knowing he'd have the best idea.

Mike glanced down the hallway at the soldiers who waited patiently for us to get closer, "You know I have a feeling I've seen this somewhere before," he mumbled.

Don passed by Mike to come to my side so we could discuss things, "Déjà vu?" he asked Mike.

"Nooooo," Mike drawled, then snapped his fingers, "Wait, I've got it. Star Wars four A New Hope." He grinned triumphantly.

" New version or classic old version?" Christine wondered.

"Does it matter?" Mike replied with a shrug.

"No, not really. Unless you're one of those who feel the updated scenes are atrocious and a way for the maker to generate more money." She paused briefly, "By the way when you came in here didn't you have a plan for getting out?"

Mike's grin grew wider and cocked a thumb back towards Don who was busy filling me in. "He's the brains Sweetheart."

I turned around trying to keep a straight face and not kill myself laughing at Mike and Christine's antics. "Cut it out all ready." I ordered both of them.

Mike looked at Christine, " I think we've been sent to the garbage compactor Princess."

"Use the force Mike," Christine quipped.

Raph rolled his eyes grabbed Don's bo staff from his brother, " I'm going use the force!" he threatened as he lightly bopped Mike on the head with one end of the staff before tossing it back to Don. " If Splinter was here he'd kick your ass Mike, and you can bet I'll kick your ass later just because."

I couldn't help it, try as I might I couldn't hold it back I started to laugh at their antics and I received the oddest looks from all my brothers because of it.

Raph shifted uneasily then came over to me, " it is going be a lot harder going out then coming in."

"The hardest part is just getting out of this hall way." I muttered.

Raph nodded, as if in agreement. "Mike, Don how about Wild Card?"

"It could work Raph," Don admitted.

"Wait, what is a wild card?" I demanded, not sure I liked the sound of it.

"Watch and learn Leo, back us up and look out for Christine bro." Raph said quickly.

His answer did little to reassure me, "Raph you aren't going do something crazy are you?"

All ready he was doing it. Damn him!

"No Leo," Raph answered, "we all are. That is what Wild Card is all about."

Suddenly, I had to wonder what Raph had been teaching my brother's in my absence and how had he managed to get the others to go along with him?

Mike and Don hunched over so they were facing the end of the hall where the Foot were their backs to us. Mike had his hands down on his knees, so he was bent,almost, in half. Don standing just a little taller up then Mike but still slightly hunched- with just a slight bend to the waist, his bo staff out and ready to defend in case the Foot got anxious and decided to strike. As he was closest to the Foot it was a good thing that he was prepared, to knock any weapons that might come his way.

Raph ran and used first Mike's carapace then Don's as a stepping stone pushing off for more height on his jump his sais drawn and as he started to come down, in the open he did a split kick, knocking out two soldiers and his sai was flashing away.

Don who had waited, until Raph was air born and the Foot were probably focused on Raph, whirled around and ran towards Mike who now had his hands cupped low. Don stepped into Mike's cupped hands, Mike helped lift him up to give Don further distance with his back flip, so that Don landed fairly close to Raph. His bo staff was spinning and thrusting madly into the thick of soldiers.

This unexpected maneuver had made it so the door way was clear enough for us to at least leave the hallway and hopefully, not get pushed back in.

Mike and I kept Christine between us as we raced to join the battle, as soon as we emerge from the hallway, Don and Raph helped close in and protect Christine as much as they could, it was better that we shield her, and keep her out of the fight as much as possible. The Foot soldiers were not highly skilled warriors but they could do a lot of damage to Christine.

A Foot with a jo staff challenged me. I grinned if I could get the staff away from him, Christine could use it to give her a little extra protection, it would have at least a longer reach then the small knife she held.

The jo staff was only four foot in length, two foot shorter then a bo staff, and one foot longer then the han-bo or half bo as it was sometimes called.

I concentrated on trying to disarm without breaking or damaging the wooden staff, as I wanted it in one piece. I raised one sai blocking a downward swing of the staff, then used the other sai to catch the jo further down and gave a quick twist and jerk move. The staff sprang free from the Soldier's grip and I gave him a side kick, then swept his legs out from under him using a low sweep kick.

"Christine, here take this, use it as best you can. If and when you need to." I handed her the jo staff and took the dagger from her with the intention of tucking it into my belt.

But I had to back up as I saw a Foot soldier swinging a bisento blade towards my outstretched arm, as I back stepped I twisted my arm about to hopefully avoid it getting too damaged, while I brought it in closer to myself. Christine rammed the staff past me into the Foot Soldier's stomach forcing him to back up, winded. I lunged forward using the dagger along his arm then gave him a couple of hard snap kicks, one to his gut and as he bent over in pain, the other snap kick to his head.

One more down and a few hundred to go by the look of the room.

"Leo" Raph's voice called me from the other side of Christine. I turned my head slightly and saw the katana, he had raised in one hand, he tossed it to Don, who easily flipped it towards me.

I had just enough time to tuck away the dagger before I caught the handle of the sword, my brother had won for me. I took a couple swings with it getting the feel of the balance, and weight of it in my hands. I silently nodded my approval.

Now it was time to really do some damage.

TBC