Lost
Chpt. 7
His head ache was growing slightly worse and the pain in his shoulder with the bullet wound wasn't feeling that well either. It had stopped bleeding awhile ago, but his make shift bandages that he slapped on them in his apartment before calling Karai wasn't going to help keep away infections and it had been a few hours since then, he hoped. He couldn't be sure what time it was and hoped he hadn't been out for days, the infection was sure to come if that was the case.
"Karai, oh my Karai!" he called his voice hoarse, "Let's not play this game, come on, you know you want to just get to business already! Hurry up already!"
His voice echoed off the small holding cell, but still the eye hole did not slide open on the door to tell him their mistress was coming or that he was going to be dead before long. It was unlike the foot to keep their victims waiting this long, they were the type to simply get down to business, or was this a special torment reserved just for him?
His body twitched at the lack of motion, he hated it. He was going to go mad, just sitting like this not knowing what to do.
"Karai, Karai, my sweet Karai, your really pissing me off!" he croaked struggling against his bonds,"I swear to you, when you show your pretty little face to me again, I'm going to enjoy slicing it into shreds with a cheese grader and feeding it to the dogs so they can get the taste of human flesh and I'll enjoy watching them tear you to shreds! Stop ignoring me! You fucking slut!"
As silence met his ears, he sighed softly leaning his head against the back wall only to be met with shock as he heard some one call to him sarcastically," And I thought you were a gentlemen."
...
Mike didn't know what to do, his brothers were fighting about his oldest brother again, but now it wasn't the blame game.
"Why should I care if they kill him? He chose that path!" Raph yelled at Don who stared at him in disbelief.
"He's your brother," he snarled glaring into his eyes,"Even you couldn't be that heartless!"
"He was in the foot! He's no brother of mine!" Raph countered back their faces inches away from each other.
"He was confused! He's had a rough time, Raphael! And through it all, he helped us get April back!"
"For his own reasons!"
"Your unbelievable!"
"You must not be as smart as you think! He will turn his back on us the first chance he gets! Don't think I didn't read through that damned book! He murdered people without thinking twice! He killed his friend in cold blood!" Raph snarled at Don making his eyes shoot down into slits.
"Shut up! That's too far Raphael!" the two fighting brothers turned their heads back to Mike who was glaring at Raph as well,"He was sick for days after every murder! His friend tried to kill him first and he had no choice in the matter! Don't think I didn't read it as well! And we shouldn't even be arguing about this! He's our brother! Who cares what he's done? We should have gone to help him two days ago, not sat around arguing and taking turns flipping through a book!" Raph looked away disgusted to have lost a fight to Mike and Don smiled to him wondering when his little brother had grown up.
...
"April, what level are the holding cells?" Don whispered into the transmitter looking around the corner of the building toward the Foot building where to foot stood guard out front.
"It's on the bottom level, under the basement, but according to this diagram of the building, to even get there you have to take an elevator hidden behind a book case on the third floor near the dojo," April's voice said softly to him.
"Well isn't that just great, its right next to where most of the soldiers will most likely be," he sighed softly concentrating on the foot soldiers in front of him. He hoped he still had it in him to do this, even he had to admit he was a little out of practice to be wanting to take on the foot army and Karai.
If Don was nervous about this, it was nothing to the way his youngest brother felt. The only fight he had been in in the last three years was the one with the purple dragons and that was a humiliation all on its own, even Raph was getting beat up by Hun and in all retro speck it was dumb luck they got out of that fight in the wear house alive. If the lights hadn't gone out when they did, Mike doubted they would have survived long enough to make it to this new suicide mission. And they didn't start that fight, they were simply searching for spare parts for Don, but now they were starting it with people ten times more talented then the Purple Dragon. But as nervous as he was about this, he would do anything to get his big brother back, even Raph must have thought that for the fact that he was there at all.
"What's the plan?" Mike whispered to his brother sounding more excited then he felt.
"Don't have one," Raph whispered back, Don's eyes snapping to him in disbelief.
"We need a plan, we're not going to make it that far if we don't have a plan!"
"Well what is it? I don't have one," he said with a shrug staring at Don who looked like the drunk guy you just asked to say the alphabet.
"I don't know! Leo's always the one with the plan for these things!" he groaned back making Raph smile that he had just won this round.
"Oh alright! We don't have one! How are we going to get past the guards then?"
"I'll take the honors!" Mike said, his hand shot in the air, before Don could object to Raph's agreeing motion putting his palm out facing the guards, Mike's numb chuck was hitting the street light beside the building and his other was bashing into the non-expecting guards.
"Show off," Raph groaned as he walked up to Mike who had a broadened grin then glancing down at the knocked out guards on the ground. Then walking into the building, Don following, not sure if it was such a great idea to just use the front door of their enemy's hide out.
...
To their surprise there was no one in the lobby as there had always been in the past, in fact if it hadn't been for the guards in the front this place would seem deserted. You didn't have to have Don's brains to realize something was up, they were preoccupied by something. Swiftly Don kept to the shadows as he raced toward the elevator his brothers behind him even as the elevator doors clicked shut, it seemed odd that they hadn't been caught on surveillance by now.
Don had a horrible feeling about all of this making him sick. The elevator was too slow, and he felt a deep regret of using it instead of the stairs, what if a trap was waiting just for them on the third floor.
"I like this song, it's catchy," Mike said with a smile, Raph's hand as if on instinct hit his brother across the head, a snarl creeping across his lips. The lights flickered softly in the elevator, making Don hold his breath softly as it stopped for a few seconds then flared back to life as if nothing happened. Making Don let out a sigh of relief, but also making him more nervous as to what the foot where up to.
As they stepped out on the third floor there was still no sign of any life. The only signs of life were the faint shadows coming from the dojo across the room, all moving in swift unison motions, making Don ever more nervous.
Softly, they crept to the book case and holding his breath tightly Don picked a book off the shelf, as the case silently slid open he let out a breath in relief. This was almost too easy, was the only thing going through Raph's mind as they began to walk down the stairs. Their hearts stopped as they heard someone yell in front of them, it made them hurry down the rest of the steps. Ahead of them was a long hall way, with small cells on both sides of the room, then at the very end of the hall was what looked like the torture room, it had a single table in the middle of the room with shackles to contain the arms and legs, then scattered across the walls were weapons with dried blood across them. It was the only room in the hallway that was not completely closed off by a thick metal door. As they walked along, they knew exactly where there brother was, in the last cell on the left side they could hear their brother calling Karai a fucking slut.
" And I thought you were a gentlemen," Mike said sarcastically pressing his head against the small eye hole slot making his brother inside the cell blink twice.
"What are you doing here?" He hissed staring at Mike,"Your going to get killed!"
"I missed you too, Leo," Raph smirked gently pulling on the thick door handle, and to Don's ever growing surprise it wasn't locked. As they walked in though, the door snapped shut behind them making Raph instantly begin cursing as he yanked on the door, his older brother rolling his eyes behind him.
"You didn't question the door was unlocked?" he groaned shaking his heads,"Let me guess, you didn't even bother to look up the foot's technology, or else you would know that they don't use keys, everything is controlled by computers, honestly, you need to learn to think things through better if you want to even say your my blood!" he coughed lightly as he sighed and laid his head back against the wall.
Raph knew instantly he was his brother, only his brother would have the balls to criticize someone who came to rescue him from utter peril,"You know maybe we should have just let you get yourself out of this mess!"
"Maybe you should have, because I have an excellent plan," he snapped, Don couldn't help but smile, he missed these two fighting and it seemed no matter what condition they were in, they had to fight about something.
"Do tell..." Raph said slouching on the ground in their limited space. Leo glared at him softly.
"Ok, fine, I'm going to sit here and wait for something to happen," he snapped another headache starting up making it nearly numb,"Ok,I don't really have one, but I'm thinking."
"Oh and your mockin our plan!"
"Hey, I at least I know what I'm dealing with, you just ran into something blindly," Raph's eyes shot down into slits, his arms crossed across his chest leaning against the wall.
Don was instantly by his bound brother looking at his brother's pale skin to the sweat rolling down his face in the relatively cool room. Softly his fingers brushed against his forehead, knocking away a few strands of the fake hair.
"You have a fever," he said softly Mike's face dropping instantly to worry. Even Raph, though he would never admit it, was slightly worried.
Leo shrugged softly smiling,"The foot, were never the ones to actually care and treat wounds," His eyes moved toward his shoulder concealed by the black jacket,"I think it finally infected."
The four brothers were all silent at those words, but there silence was disturbed as the shackles above Leo's head came free and Karai's voice came from somewhere above them.
"Well, well, isn't it sweet that the brothers are finally united?" Leo's eyes glared to the voice but he remained silent and still,"Too bad I must break away the reunion, I'll give you a few moments to say good bye to your brother before he must go away to help me resurrect my master, but don't worry, you'll all get a chance to see him once more, my master that is."
"I'll take your bluff," he softly whispered the others looking to him confussedly,"She doesn't have the kinks worked out of whatever she's doing, thats why the lights keep flickering."
As if on cue the sinlge light in the cell began to flicker softly before become steady once more.
Don nodded softly starring to his older brother waiting to take any command, his brother quickly looked to the door then back to his brothers.
"When the doors open, there will be at least four guards, she will most likely send the elites for this job if I know her, that gives you an advantage," he said simply looking to his brothers.
"You've lost your mind, haven't you?" Raph voiced their thoughts Leo smiling to him.
"Maybe, but I know the foot better then any one, " Leo quickly said his eyes going to the door every few seconds,"There only on business and have no thoughts of their own on anythings, and their orders will be as followed 1. Bring me to Karai, nothing is to happen to me until she gets what she wants. 2. Make sure nothing happens to you guys until the master is back, I don't know why, but her master has something against you guys," the brothers couldn't help but sigh at what they always felt was obvious news, but listened to their brother closely any way,"And finally the most important thing, don't fuck up." his eyes shot to the door once more then his talking quickened and at the same time got more quiet making the brothers pay more attention to him.
"Listen closely, don't try to stop them when they take me," Raph's eyes were the first on him,"No offense, but I didn't need you in the first place, I'm not leaving without Karai's head, but I can't blame you guys for being alittle slow."
Don and Mike were already holding Raph down at those words as Leo contiued,"Alright, here's the plan."
...
Just as Leonardo expected, Karai sent exactly four foot elite to the cell and also as he expected, three of them were leading him off to where Karai was and only one stayed to keep an eye on the others. A smirk crossed his face, everything was going according to his plan. If his so called brothers wanted to get out alive, they should stick exactly to his plan. Softly he shook his head, was it him or were the foot just predictable? Just as he thought that, the foot rounded a corner disappearing behind the sliding doors of an elevator.
...
Inside the prison cell the elite could hear a constant bickering that was turning deadly, fast. He thought by banging on the door a few times and telling them to knock it off their bickering would stop their petty fight. Little did he know, if anything that made it worse.
"Mike, you little fuck up! If it wasn't for your stupidity, we wouldn't be here right now!" one of them screamed and the sound of a smack echoed across the walls.
"Yeah well, Raph, at least I wasn't the one who got my face pounded in by Hun! Just face it, all you are is talk! You couldn't beat a chicken!" at that, there was loud sounds of pounding and the other yelling for them to stop already. That was it, he had to stop this before it got to far out of hand. He pushed the cell open (first calling into the main system to unlock it), not noticing the shadow of one of the brothers creep out the door, his eyes were focused on the two on the ground the one with the red head band had his hand tightly around the orange ones neck ready for another strike.
"Knock it off! Knock it off, right now!" he yelled at them, making the red banded one smirk and his brother smiled brightly.
"He did ask for it bro," Mike said smiling even more brightly, his brother instantly raising himself off his brother and kicking the elite to the ground, making his hat fly from his head and skid onto the floor. Mike quickly jumping over him giving him a wave as he ran through the door of the cell his brother then slamming the cell door shut behind him and quickly to buy them some time, Raph grabbed one of the weapons off the wall of the torture room and slammed it through the door and the pipe beside the door.
"You couldn't beat a chicken?" Raph questioned looking at Mike who was laughing beside him as they hurried up the stairs.
"Hey I was under pressure! You can't expect me to be witty 100% of the time!" he said with a laugh his brother rolling his eyes beside him,"And why did you hit me so hard? That really hurt you know!"
Raph just shook his head coming to a halt at the end of the stairs making sure no one was coming out of the Dojo,"I foresaw that stupid remark..."
Phase one:
You'll need to start a fight, if I'm correct and she sends an elite, to ensure they don't fuck up the mission he was assigned, the elite will step into the cell to break up the fight if its big enough and all the while one of you needs to sneak out before your noticed and let the other two handle the elite. But that part will only work if its an elite, because trust me, lower ranked foot soldiers just love to hear prisoners ripping each other apart.
...
Don silently crept across the corridor, keeping his shell pressed against the wall. Across the room was his destination, the master control room and without even looking at it, Don knew he needed an access key to get into that room. His eye scanned across the hall until it hit his target, a foot soldier all by himself. Before the lone ninja had time to sense him there, Don already made his strike knocking him to the ground then swiping the access key from him.
As he stepped into the room the electronic steel doors closing behind him, he felt like he stepped into a science fiction movie. All around him were computer screens showing every single floor on the surveillance all broken up into small screen images on the one screen, then the one on the other side and middle had a screen saver up on them showing the foot insignia upon it then in front of the screens was a stretched out key board and a single chair sat in front of it. Don smiled, this was his field of expertise, he hoped the foot were as dumb as his brothers always said they were as he sat down behind in the chair and stared at the screens. The first thing that caught his eye on the video screen were his brothers, Leo was on the top level surrounded by elite ninja but it didn't stop him from spitting in Karai's face as soon as she came into view, he gulped down as he watched her smack him across the face. He then saw his other two brothers on the floor below him in a fight with some foot soldiers.
But instantly his eyes came off the video screens, he had a job to do. He needed to shut down their computer systems controlling the robotic foot and also he needed to open the exits. As he stared at the computer before him, his mind went alittle off the plan ahead as he softly began to hack into there other programs including new technology and plans. It was like being in candy land for him, as he scanned through their new foot designs, they were ingenious he almost wanted to join up with the foot just to get a taste of the technology they held. He smirked to how smart the evil in society could be and how dumb the government was, half the funds for the foot technology came from the government without them even knowing. The shredder suit they were planning to make was the most advanced of all mixed with alien technology and US army's own technology, it was truly beautiful to any one who knew anything about machines. As he clicked on prototype designs and typed in what he thought was the pass code, his heart sank as the words: Unauthorized Personnel flashed across the screen, as he began frantically typing in passwords he had used in the past to hack into the foot's computers he was shocked to see that the foot were defiantly smarter then they looked even without the help of Baxter Stockman.
"April! April!" he acclaimed hastilly into his transmitter as slowly the screens began to shut down and a flashing red light glared before him.
"What is it Donny?" she asked in a worried fashion.
"April, I need your help hacking into the main computer and over riding the system," he said hastily continuing typing frantically into the computer.
...
Outside the door of the other two brothers rushed into the room where all the sirens were flaring off behind the door they knew their brother was in. They didn't have much time to worry about their trapped brother though as foot soldiers began hurrying up to them with their weapons drawn ready for the kill.
...
Up on the top floors of the foot building Karai glared impatiently to the minions who were setting up the ritual, Leonardo swaying slightly from the fever, but still stayed up right smirking at Karai who had reduced to cursing, it wasn't working like she wanted it to. Taking a deep breath, she softly turned to the turtle's smirking gaze, roughly grabbing his hand and slitting into it making him wince gently the chanting ninja around him giving him a deeper head ache. His pendant glowed dimly as she dropped the blood onto it, but slowly flickered out like a candle seconds later.
"Why isn't it working?" she barked to her minions who just stared at her.
"I don't know mistress Karai, it must have something to do with the blood!" the minions had no clue what to say about it, this was an ancient ritual they knew little to nothing about.
Leo stared at the pendant then to the guards around him who were too busy looking to Karai to even be paying slightly any attention to him, swiftly without thinking it much though he shoved the elite aside with his shoulder then grabbed the pendant rushing for the elevator ignoring his weakened bodies pleas to stop, he heard Karai yell stop him from behind him as he slammed the button down on the elevator sighing with relief as he leaned against the wall. Just as it went down another floor, the light flashed off in the elevator and it came to a sudden stop. This could only mean two things: the electricity was out or the main computer was locking down the perimeter because unauthorized personnel were in its files. He cursed knowing it was the later option. Looking up, he formed a plan quickly in his head of how he was going to get out of here.
...
Don quickly began typing into the computer, outside all he could hear was the sound of some sort of battle, he hoped his brothers were alright. Finally, he managed to get though to the computer after typing relentlessly for what felt like hours and also due to April's help. Quickly, without even taking the time to finish looking at their prototypes, he began to re upload the systems and quickly shut down the foot ninja and opening the exits.
As the doors opened in front of him he met his brothers accusing eyes, scattered around them were the deactivated foot ninja, Mike and Raph looked like they were ready to kill over as they stared at him.
"Dudes, where do you think Leo could be now?" Mike asked what they were all thinking, but just as it was asked, it was immediately answered as Leo's half lifeless body slipped out of an air vent duct above them.
"Funny," he grumbled,"I was certain this was the lobby, not the second floor."
Raph rolled his eyes helping his brother off the ground and letting him lean against him,"Let's get out of here before anything else happens... by the way I thought you wanted Karai's head."
Leo just shrugged,"I need to be able to think more clearly to get her head, no that will have to wait for another day."
Phase two:
While the others are fighting the elite down in the cell, one of you needs to go to the main control room. There you will need to unlock the exits which will be sealed off since their trap is over and their pray is inside it, you will also need to shut down the guards, believe me if you don't you have more problems then you bargained for on your way out, the regular foot are bad enough, besides I hear that Karai has made double or maybe triple amount more of the robots since she got back here, such a shame, there not as fun as the genuine ninja. In Japan the elders forbid the robots, but in New York its like every time they attack me all there is is the robot foot, but any way... It would also be unwise to try to sneak peaks at their files, they will most likely have different pass codes and such, it may even shut down all systems meaning more guards and more of a hassle. And from there head for the exit and after that your on your own. Good luck.
