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"So where's the bad guys?" Mikey asked Leo, twirling his nunchucks. The two turtles were on the rooftop of a building across the street from their target. Waiting.
"We have to wait for the signal." Leo held his own katana at the ready, though not quite as antsy as Mikey.
"What's the signal again?"
Before the eldest turtle could answer, a blaring alarm sounded from the building across the street.
"That." Leo replied simply, preparing himself to jump down onto the street. "Come on!"
Mikey followed as both turtles raced towards the entrance of the building, just as a bunch of guards burst through the door.
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Rayn watched anxiously as Raphael inserted his sai into the door lock, turning it expertly and waiting for the click. Once the reassuring sound hit her sensitive ears, she followed Don and Raph into the newly opened doorway.
"Okay, Raph, you're—" Don started, returning his bow-staff to it's spot on his back.
"Yeah, I'm guard duty. Gottit." Raph interrupted Don, who looked slightly annoyed but didn't comment.
Leaving the red-banded turtle at the door, Don and Rayn proceeded further into the room.
The room was large, with a bunch of machinery scattered throughout. It looked like a really large boiler room, mixed with a laboratory.
Lined against one wall were a bunch of lab tables, strewn with Different amounts of scientific equipment. And in the middle was a large boiler-like machine, which seemed to be powering the building.
"What are we looking for, exactly?" Rayn whispered to Don.
"I'm not too sure." He replied, much to her uneasiness.
They spread out, looking around at the different equipment scattered throughout the facility.
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Casey climbed back into the Battle Shell next to April, after having triggered the perimeter alarm in the building that they sat across from.
"Man, I wanna be out there with them." He complained as he watched Leo and Mikey fight the goons that filed out of the building.
"Well, they're distracting the guards so Rayn and Don can find whatever they're looking for." April replied. "If you join in, too, they wouldn't be distracting them for very long."
"True." Casey cracked his knuckles, still eager to join in the fight. "Maybe they'll save some for me later."
Meanwhile, across the street, Mikey had leapt onto a parked car and was eagerly whipping his nunchucks in the direction of approaching guards, knocking them in every direction. Leo had taken a position near the entrance, using his swords to throw his opponents towards Mikey.
"Hey, I think we're doing a decent job distracting." Mikey commented, knocking another guard to the ground. "But where do these guys keep coming from? How can they even pay this many guards..?"
"There's not that many." Leo answered, herding another guard towards Mikey. "I think that was the last—" With one swoop, Mikey had the guy groaning on the ground. "One." Leo finished, lowering his weapons. "I think the distraction is over."
Mikey jumped down and hurried towards his brother, who was peering into the entrance of the building. "Now what?"
"Let's go see how far they've gotten." Leo answered, and both turtles hurried into the building.
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"Hmm." Rayn had positioned herself near a computer desk, which was displaying a login. She adjusted her fingers on the keyboard and tried entering a password. To her surprise, the screen flickered and proceeded past the login screen. "Wylan, that bonehead. He didn't change his password? Seriously?"
Don peered over from his side of the room and started to head in that direction before noticing something in the shadows. "Hey, wait—"
Before either could respond, a surprisingly quick Wylan had appeared out of some corner of the room, grabbing Rayn and pinning her to floor. He pulled her backpack from her back, throwing it across the room in the direction of who-knows-where. She let out a scream before he covered her mouth, pulling out a knife from his belt and holding it by her neck.
"I was expecting you to be dead, actually." Wylan replied, as if in continuation of the conversation. "You're the only one I told my password to, and with you gone I thought I was fine."
Donatello had withdrawn his bo-staff and started to race across the lab, jumping narrowly over a lab desk.
"Uh-uh-uh." Wylan called out in a sarcastic manner. "Don't come to save the girl or she'll lose a significant portion of her head."
The turtle stopped, lowering his weapon but maintaining an angry look towards the man. "Let her go, y-you—evil prick!" He yelled.
"Rayn, I believe we have matters to discuss." Wylan, ignoring Don, tightened his grip on her hands as she continued to struggle. "You have something I want, and there's something I can give you in exchange. Do what I tell you, and I might let you live."
Rayn, still unable to speak, just struggled all the more and tried to kick Wylan in the face, which he managed to dodge with a smirk.
"She doesn't have what you want!" Don informed Wylan angrily, in an attempt to distract him.
"Oh, she doesn't?" Wylan turned towards the turtle, letting his gaze fall on the purple-masked ninja. "Then tell me, who does?"
Don watched as Rayn stopped struggling to look at him with a puzzled expression before he continued. "It's, uh, destroyed." He explained. "We destroyed it, it's at the bottom of the river in tiny pieces now. Rayn doesn't have what you want, so just let her go."
From behind Don, Rayn spotted a slowly approaching Raphael at the open door. He peered inside, pausing and assessing the situation, before looking at her and backing up into the hallway again.
He's probably going to get the others to help, Rayn realized. She needed to keep Wylan distracted.
Wylan uncovered her mouth and shoved her to her feet roughly, still holding the knife by her neck. "Is that true, Rayn? The robots are destroyed?"
She nodded, afraid to speak. Partially because of the knife by her neck, partially because she was a horrible liar.
"I don't believe it." He looked around, searching for her backpack. "You've gotta be lying, you'd never destroy your robots."
He was right. She wouldn't, not unless she absolutely had to. There was just too much work and technology put into those bots to destroy them forever.
A ninja star flew past Don and towards Wylan, hitting him on his shoulder. The man yelped and dropped Rayn, who rolled away towards Don.
With a flying leap, Raph, followed closely by Mikey and Leo, entered the room.
"Show's over, you're outnumbered." Raph called out, twirling his sai. "Now would be the time to surrender before you face some serious payback."
Rayn crawled towards her backpack and snatched it up protectively, glaring at Wylan.
Wylan backed away until he felt something solid against his back - with a quick glance, discovering he had his back placed against the wall.
"What do you freaks want from me?" He shouted, voice quivering slightly.
"We want to know what you're doing to give off a signal that's effecting Rayn." Raphael growled, holding a sai closer to Wylan. He flinched but looked confused.
"What are you talking about?"
Before anyone could move, there was a crash at the door that someone had shut in the scuffle and the large, overbearing body of Hun entered the room.
"Oh great, not him again." Mikey muttered.
Rayn, still on the ground, got to her feet and backed away from Hun, towards the guys.
"Ah, Rayn, I see you're well." Hun smirked. Rayn gulped.
It was going to be a long night.
What does Hun have in store for the group? What "present" was he talking about? When did the plan go so wrong? What do you think will happen next?
Let me know what you think of this chapter, it's taken me a while to update the story.
