Author's Note: I'm so sorry for the long wait. This month has been a hectic and busy one with midterms and all. Forgive me for that, but it took a lot of my time up. Sorry if this chapter is short, but this is all that came to me when thinking of this part. Here's the chapter, enjoy.
Chapter 8: Planning
Silence filled the cell as the three brothers looked at the olive green turtle as if he was crazy. Escape from their prison? How were they going to attempt that? They were in a place that they knew nothing of and had no idea where to go.
"I'm not sure I heard you right Donny," Raph was the first one to speak. "Did you suggest we plan an escape?"
"Yes, we are," he nodded, the smirk still on his face.
"You know, Don is right," Leo walked to his brother's side. "We've been in here too long and look at what it's turning us into."
There was a silence as they all remember their treatment on the inside. All the taught, shocks, punishments, and beatings they received, it made them angry just thinking about it again.
"They pushed us around for too long…" Raph growled, fist clenched. "Alright, I'm in."
"So am I," Mikey responded.
"What do we do then?" Leo asked Don, Mikey and Raph now looking at the genius turtle. Since it is his idea they waited for his input.
"Well from what I can tell we all can contribute to something, aspects that are important for this to work."
"Lets hear it," Raph said next.
"Ok, Leo, you're going a making plans. You're going to be the key to helping us finalize a plan to get out of here," the blue clad turtle nodded at the statement, knowing it was true. Leo is always the plan maker and would take lead for this.
"Mikey, you watched more movies out of all of us, tell me were any of those films where the characters were in prison?"
"Uh…yeah, just a few," he responded.
"You're going to have to tell us the things they do, places to focus on and items we could use."
"Sounds good, I can do that," Mikey nodded.
Finally Don then looked at his last brother, "And Raph you have the watchful eye, you'll have to be our look out, and be on the lookout for weaknesses in the Triceraton's routines."
"No problem, I'm good at that," he nodded.
"Then what are you going to do?" Leo asked, now as all eyes were on Don.
The purple clad turtle responded by turning and holding up his right arm, showing the cuff and tattoo. "I'll find a way to try and get these removed, because unless these are gone then escaping is pointless."
The olive green turtle did have a point. Ever since they game here the cuffs and tattoos have been a real pain, literally. There was no way they could remove them at all and at the flick of a button their captors could restrain their hands and shock them into submission. Unless something is done about it then there's nothing they can do about it.
"Alright, this is going to take everything we got to accomplish, all of our training put together," Leo announced to everyone, looking at each of his brothers. "So that means there can't be any slacking."
"And no turning on one another just like we did," Don responded, looking at Raph and Mikey.
Raph sighed in irritation, "The tapping got annoying, I'm pretty sure it got to you all as well."
"Hey I was bored," Mikey defended himself.
"Besides it's not like we can just walk out of here when we want."
"Believe me," Mikey went next. "Being in close quarters with Raph makes me not want to do that again."
Leo nodded at the responses, knowing that was the closest they were going to get at an understanding. "Alright, then we begin our escape plan."
"So fearless, what first," Raph asked, as everyone looked at the blue clad turtle.
"Alright," He nodded, sitting down on the ground, his brothers following. "First off should be surveillance. We should learn the ins and outs of this prison, that means figuring out the guards patrol route, the layout of this place and the mechanics of this place."
Don nodded at the plan and took over, "Yes, we need as much information possible, going through this blind is a huge mistake. Plus we should also take any items that we can carry."
"That's going to be a problem," Raph sighed as both arms folded. "Our hands are cuffed as we're escorted to our cell, it'll be impossible to carry things that could help."
"Which means we can only lift smaller items that we can hide on ourselves," Leo said next, getting a nod from the others. Leaning forward he then used his fingers to draw in the dirt. "Now we need ideas on what we can do to escape, after we pick a plan we can go on from there."
All eyes then turned to Mikey, now it was his turn to input his advice on the situation. The youngest turtle then started to think, leaning back on the floor to get comfy. "Well from the movies I've seen most of the prisoners snuck out while everyone is sleeping."
"Could work," Leo responded with a nod, but had to give the negatives on it. "But the cell doors are the main problem, if we can't get them open then it's going to be a bust."
"Ok…no problem, let me think of another idea," he thought for another minute. "Usually prisoners make friends with other inmates and gets them to help."
"No way," Raph responded, causing all eyes to look up at him. "I looked at all the others here and they can't be trusted at all, especially that big guy from before."
"True, but we need all the options we can get," Leo responded as he wrote the ideas down in the dirt.
"Ok, but here's a good question," Mikey suddenly thought. Once we do sneak out some items where do we hide them? I mean there's no mattresses to hide them under, no cracks in the walls or the like."
"We can bury them, thankfully the ground is nothing but dirt," Don responded. "Chances are the guards won't look there, so we should be in the clear there."
"Alright, plus also we need to figure out how they treat prisoners, depending on their condition," Leo interjected.
"What do you mean?" Raph asked, wanting to be clear on what was being said.
"Like if they're sick, disobedient and the like, what they do can prove to our advantage."
"We already seen what they do if we're disobedient," Mikey shook his head, bring back the memories of the shocks they got.
"Either way we need to see if it only happens with us or with everyone, so chances are we're going to have to set up the other prisoners."
That just cause a smirk to appear on Raph's face, "Oh boy, you don't have to tell me twice."
"But we're going to need to be discrete, so our training is going to be put to the test here," Leo instructed.
"Don't worry about that bro, we've been training in stealth our whole lives, this'll be easy."
"But remember we don't have the shadows to help us," Don added in. "We're going to be in the open with eyes watching us, if we make one mistake it'll be over."
"Maybe a few distractions could be set in place," Leo suggested as he wrote more.
"Yeah we can get them to lose focus on us," Mikey nodded and I have a few ideas that can help.
"Good, now we-" Leo was cut off as their cuffs glowed and their wrist were binded together.
"Eep!" they all said as the doors opened, revealing five guards.
Thankfully Leo was blocking their view, so Don used his foot to erase the writing in the dirt just in time as they came into the cell. All four brothers stood up, eyes glaring at their captors as nothing was said.
The leader looked at them and spoke up, "As much as it pains us, we've been instructed to give you four yard time."
All four mentally gasped at this, remembering what happened last time. They weren't sure what was going to happen, but hopefully this time around it wouldn't be another beating. Their hearts raced as they were forced out of their cell and down the hall.
A/N: Hope you like, I tried my best and once again i'm sorry it's short. Now things with school seem to be slowing down, I'll try to get back on the horse again. Once again if anyone has any suggestions that they would like to see please let me know. Till next time.