I don't own TMNT or UY.
Quick update once again. Sorry if it bothers some people 8D;
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"Are ya kidding me with this?!" I yelled into my headset.
Don had been talking to Leo but I had to interrupt. I couldn't believe what I'd just heard! We'd come all this way, done all this sitting around, done all this waiting and now when we're suppose to be on the home stretch we get the rug pulled out from under us! What the hell kind of cruel joke is this?!
I gave a furious growl and plunged my sai into one of the guards that had come too close trying to sucker-punch me. He gave a cry and fell but I was hardly paying attention to what I was doing, letting my instincts do my fighting for me.
"Donny if this is some kinda joke it ain't funny!"
"You think I'd JOKE about this?!" Don snapped in ear angrily.
"Alright every-body calm down!" Leo barked.
I turned and delivered a hard kick to a guard's gut, winding him before I sliced him with my weapon, cutting a curve on his chest. He gave a yell and fell back, wrapping his arms around the wound. I did a quick look-around to make sure I'd got them all. I felt a soft bump against my shell as Mikey put his back to mine, I could hear the soft whirling of his nun-chucks as they spun. Seeing we were clear I started running down the hallway, Mikey following close behind.
"Leo What the shell are we suppose ta do now?!" I yelled into my headset.
He didn't answer me and I heard him stammer as he tried to think. Leo was hesitating; not a good sign.
"Raph they're following us!" Mikey called out, half-turned to look behind him.
I grabbed his shoulder and shoved him down a side-passage, following after him just as the shooting started.
"Leo, I don't mean ta pressure ya but we kinda need a plan here!" I yelled angrily.
"Alright alright!" Leo yelled back. There was a slight pause before he spoke again. "Don. Is there anywhere else in the base they could be keeping him?"
It was silent for a few moments before Donny spoke up again. "I... I'm sorry Leo. That's the only place they've got marked as holding specimens in this place."
"Ok." Leo replied, his voice remaining unnaturally even. "is there anyway you can find out where they would've taken the other creatures?"
"I can try but things are getting hairy Leo!" Donny said.
"I know I know!" Leo said back. I heard him give a tight breath. "Ok... We need to evacuate."
"We're just gonna leave?!" I growled, ducking behind a corner, dragging Mikey with me.
"You got a better idea Raph?!" Leo snapped. "Look if Jotaro's not here then what choice do we have?! Every-body get out the building and to the battle-shell! Donny, do as quick a search as you can with what you got but don't dawdle! If you can't find any info in 10 minutes just forget it and get out! Do you understand?"
"I got it Leo." Don said reluctantly.
"What?" Leo said and at first I didn't know who he was talking to. I realised he was speaking to Usagi who was still with him.
"Raph!" Mikey called out, skidding to a halt.
I stopped and turned to see what was wrong. Mikey'd come to a stop in front of a side-passage, staring down it. He turned to me and pointed. "There's an elevator!"
I nodded, turning and running down it, making sure he was following.
"Don, give us a few minutes and we might be able to get you some info on the other location, think you can stay put for another 5 minutes?" Leo's voice spoke in my ear again.
"You got it!" Donny replied.
"You're not gonna do somethin' nuts are ya bro?!" I interrupted again.
"No, we got a scientist here who Usagi is.... talking to." The break in his sentence told me all I needed to know.
"Tell Bunny-Boy he can do whatever he wants as long as ya don't push your luck over there!" I said.
"Just focus on getting out Raph! We got it covered." Leo said and it was clear from his tone he didn't wanna hear anything else about it.
Mikey and me made a run for the elevator at the end of the hallway, but just as we got close it dinged and the doors of it opened up. Out of it stepped 3 men, each wearing guard uniforms, guns at the ready. I swore, flinging my sai at them one after the other. The first caught one of the guards in the throat and he went down, firing meaninglessly as he fell. The second sai hit one of the others in the chest and he made a strangled noise, falling over. The third man dodged his fallen partners and raised his gun to start firing. Mikey shot forward, passing me and making straight for him. The man started shooting at him, seeing him the bigger threat but Mike was fast and flipped himself out of the line of fire. The guard turned to try and hit him but I sped up, giving a furious yell.
He spun around to me instead, his attention split between the two of us. He should've kept his eyes on Mikey though 'cause my little bro launched himself forward and gave the guy a hard blow with one of his nun-chucks before finishing the job with his second. The wood made a cracking sound like a baseball bat and the man doubled over in pain. I'd reached him myself by this stage and slammed a hard kick into his side, making sure he was down.
I bent down to retrieve my sai when the man I'd hit in the chest spun around as I got too close, raising his gun. I froze, not expecting him to still be up for a fight. Mikey had seen the danger though and pounced him, bringing down the butt of one of his nun-chuck right in the man's face. The guard collapsed, no longer a danger. I leaned forward to get my weapon but started when Mikey gave the man a second, hard strike with his chucks. He delivered a third before he let the guy go roughly, standing up again.
"Geez Mikey relax!" I said, pulling my sai free.
He spun to face the hallway behind us, getting his nun-chucks into a spin again. "They're still coming!"
I grabbed him by the shoulder again and shoved him in the direction of the elevator. "Get in!"
I pushed the fallen guards out of the elevator doors and hit the button for the highest floor I could. Mikey was facing the doorway, still twirling his 'chucks. The doors closed just as our perusers came into sight. I heard bullets hit the other side of the steel doors and the elevator started moving upwards.
I was panting, trying to catch my breath as I turned to Mikey with a deep frown.
"What the heck was that back there?" I asked him.
He gave me something like a pout. "What?"
I gave a low growl. "You know what! Ya didn't hafta hit him like that!"
He pulled a face at me. "Oh sure Raph, like you've never hit harder than needed." He grumbled.
"Yeah but... you don't!" Was all I could manage in response, frustrated.
He stared at me for a few moments before he shook his head and turned to face the elevator doors again. "I just didn't want him to get up again."
I made a noise, feeling the corner of my mouth pull slightly. I reached out and put a hand on his shoulder, giving it a hard squeeze.
"Don't freak out on me now Mikey. Save it for when we get outta here ok?" I said to him.
I saw him bite down on his bottom lip but he nodded, keeping his eyes on the elevator doors. I sighed, letting go of him.
"...He's not here Raphie." He said, his voice sounding much shakier.
I winced slightly but tried to shake it off.
"Then we just gotta make sure to get outta here in one piece so's we can find him." I said, pretending like it was no big deal.
Mikey nodded, but it looked slow and forced.
The elevator dinged and we got ready, hiding ourselves on either side of the doors as they opened.
Some-one outside let fire, piercing several holes in the elevator's back wall. After a few moments it stopped and some-one walked in to inspect the inside.
I let fly with a right-hook to his jaw, instantly putting him out of commission. As he fell I caught him, tearing the gun from his hands before facing the open doorway and firing away randomly. The other guards yelled and all ducked for cover, ripping open the doors that fanned out from the hallway and taking cover behind the corners where the passage forked. I motioned for Mike to follow me as I stampeded down the passage, the gun still in my hands.
Leo doesn't approve, but I gotta admit, I like guns. It's not that I got some kind of kick out of them or anything, I just found them a really interesting piece of machinery. I approached them the same way other people would a car. Getting enjoyment out of taking them apart, learning how the work and the engineering skill that went into making them. As for what they did, ya know, shoot things, I never really saw it as 'pure evil' like Leo did. Any moron could kill something with a gun, that ain't a skill. But being a good shot and knowing how to handle the hardware to its full ability and not hafta kill anything, now that's my idea of skill. But I never used the things if I didn't have to, Master Splinter taught me that much. Have confidence in your own skills and weapons, and only if you ain't got a choice do you pick up a rifle. I knew why he taught us this and I can see his point. But I still had respect for the weapon. I can't help it, it's just the way I am.
"Don!" Leo's sudden voice in my ear gave me a bad start. "We've got something for you! See if you can find any information on a base somewhere along the Upper New York Bay."
"No problem!" Donny replied.
"Hey Leo where are you guys?!" I called into my headset, firing off a few warning shots at some guards to let me and Mikey through.
"We're coming up on ground level! We'll be taking the main entrance outta here. How about you two?" He replied.
"We're close to the top floors, I think we're gonna hafta take the roof." I said as Mikey cracked one of his 'chucks over a guard's head.
"Alright." He said.
"Got it Leo!" Don's voice interrupted. "There's a large base near Liberty State Park next to the waterfront!"
"Get any info you can Don then get out of there!" Leo said to him.
"Ten-four! 2 minutes and I'm gone!" Donny replied.
I ran past a door and came to a halt, turning to look at the sign on it. It was a small picture of a staircase and the words 'to roof' printed under it along with 'Authorized Personnel Only'.
"Found an exit Mikey!"I called to him, shooting the door handle before kicking it in.
The door opened to a concrete stairway leading upwards. I ushered Mikey inside before turning and firing off a few rounds to discourage the guards from following us before I ran after him. We bounded up the stairs as fast as we could, heading for the roof and our escape. Once or twice our route was blocked by another door through which some guards tried to cut us off but with the gun in my hands as well as Mikey's quick moves we were able to either finish them off or at least break through them and keep going. Near the top the gun emptied on me and I turned, throwing it at our perusers, getting great satisfaction when it hit one of them square between the eyes. We reached the plain looking door at the top of the stairs and I threw my weight against it, causing it to burst open.
Water hit me as I stumbled out the doorway, half-turning to make sure I still had Mike with me. Rain was pelting down on the rooftop and an angry rumble crackled through the clouds overhead.
"Time ta go Mikey!" I called to him, running for the edge of the roof.
Bullets flashed and buried themselves in the concrete but the heavy downpour weakened the men's aim and I made the jump for the next roof over without so much as a close call.
"We're out Leo!" I reported into my headset, not slowing down.
"On my way out too!" Donny added.
"Head for the Battle Shell! We're right behind you!" Leo answered.
I lowered my next jump, aiming for the fire-escape opposite me instead of the roof. The iron creaked as my weight slammed down on it. I heard the twang of a clothes-line before Mikey landed beside me and we swung our way to street-level like we were climbing on monkey-bars of something. With the rain the clothes-lines were empty and made the trip a lot faster and easier. The minute my feet hit asphalt I ran for the first man-hole and pulled it open. I got Mikey inside before following him, leaving the lid open by a crack before running down the dark-tunnel
Adjusting my mental map of the area, I sprinted what you could roughly call 'across the street' and down a side-street before stopping under an alley. I hurried Mikey up the steel ladder before following him again, this time making sure the man-hole was properly covered. Hopefully they'll think we tried to give them the slip on our home turf and not look for us on street level.
I straightened and quickly took in the area. Once I figured out where we were I motioned for Mikey to follow before I left the alley. Normally we'd never use the sidewalk for a getaway but seeing as it was the middle of the night and with a storm having broken out there was little to no chance of being spotted by any pedestrians. I lead my bro down the street 'till we reached the alley Don had backed the Battle-Shell into. We hurried into the darkness, pulling open the doors to the van and clambering inside before closing them behind us.
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There was nothing else to do but wait for the others. Mikey sat himself in one of the back-seats, his knees drawn up against his chest. I stood near the front, rinsing out my bandanna tails as an excuse to twist my hands around something. I hadn't switched on the interior lights, afraid it might give away our position. Neither of us said anything.
A few minutes later one of the doors were pulled open and Donny stumbled inside, out of breath. I held out a hand and helped him in, checking him to make sure he was unhurt. I noticed that he gave me a once over as well, doing the same thing. Once satisfied he let his shoulders drop and turned to stare at me with sad, brown eyes. I pulled a face and gave him an sheepish shrug, not knowing what to say to him. He sighed, moving to take a seat. I gave his shell a well-meaning pat as he did so.
A little later the doors opened again and Usagi got in, followed by Leo. I came closer, not liking that they'd taken longer than Don who'd been the last out the building. Leo shook his head at me, assuring me they were both unhurt.
Usagi took the seat opposite Mikey, his clothes and fur soaked by the torrent outside. The silk hung heavy and his fur stuck to him, making him look thinner than he was. Just like the night we'd plucked him out of Brooklyn. He was staring passively at the floor, water running down the length of his whiskers. He said nothing.
We waited a few minutes for the area to calm down before Donny turned the ignition and started up the van. He pulled out of the alley and started driving us home. I'd taken the passenger seat, my arms crossed tightly across my plastron as I glared at the dashboard in front of me. I clenched my teeth and gave my head a slight shake. I twisted myself to look behind me.
Leo was standing next to Usagi's seat, resting against a control panel to keep his balance. One of his hands was pressed against the controls to stop himself from falling over, the other one was gripping Usagi's shoulder, firmly but gently. Usagi was staring ahead of himself, lost in his own mind. Mikey sat curled in his chair, hugging his knees as he stared out the van window. The only sound being the rain pelting the roof heavily.
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