"Alright, so what's the plan o' Fearless leader?" Raph asked as the four ran across the rooftops.
Leo sent a glare Raph's way. "We break into the Shredder's HQ first of all. Donnie," Donnie looked towards his eldest brother at the mention of his name, "you and Digital were trapped there for a while. Do you know where the prison is?"
"Yeah," Donnie nodded with a shiver, "I do. It's not pretty down there. But I think I can lead us down there."
Leo noticed the way Donnie shivered and looked to him a bit hesitantly. Maybe he shouldn't do this, Leo thought. "Um, are you sure you can actually do this?"
Donnie nodded, ambition ablaze in his eyes. "Nothing's stopping me from doing this. I can help, and I will help."
Mikey looked to Raph and Leo in wonder, but he shrugged. "As long as you think you can do this."
Donnie nodded. "I know I can do this."
The four brothers looked out over the rooftop that they now stood on. There it was. Shredder's HQ. Donnie felt an uneasiness grow in his chest, but he ignored it. He'd only get over his anxiety if he confronted it. And he couldn't risk never getting over it.
The four jumped to the roof of the HQ. They hid in the shadows of the surrounding buildings and walked stealthily.
"Don," Leo whispered, "where is the prison?"
Donnie gulped before looking through the glass rooftop. If I'm not mistaken, Donnie thought, there's the 'thrown room', and when Digital was brought out to me, she came out through the left door. Donnie moved quietly towards the left side of the 'thrown room' and peered down inside. There was a long corridor that lead to a staircase that looked very decrepit. He squinted his eyes, but he could not see past the grimey stairs.
"Down there." He directed with a point of his finger. Leo nodded as he walked towards the left part.
He took out the small lazer in his belt and cut a circle into the glass ceiling. Donatello looked over the rooftop and thought about how many times they had cut holes into that ceiling. This place must have looked like several grams of Hydrofluoric acid had eaten away at the roof, Donnie thought to himself.
After a bit, the circle came undone and the four slipped through the roof. As soon as they did, they all shivered. The atmosphere had changed quickly despite the not so dramatic change in elevation. "Man, why's it so cold down here?" Mikey asked as he crossed his arms in attempt to keep his arms warm.
"Well," Donnie said through shivers, "the lower underground one gets, the colder it becomes. Though we're not that far under, the delapitdated textures and lack of carpeting and heating may also be of some assistance."
"Save the nerd talk for later," Raphael said as he let out a shiver of his own, "let's just find Karai and get the shell out of here."
"Agreed." Leo grunted as a shiver escaped his body as well. The four descended down the dilapidated stair case.
Mikey whimpered lightly. "I don't like it down here. It's creepy, cold, and not to mention unsanitary."
"Since when do you care about cleanliness?" Raph sniggered. "I mean, have you been in your bedroom?"
Mikey stuck his tongue out at Raph. Leo growled at them. "Not the time."
"Guys," Donnie shushed, "be quiet. I think I hear something."
The other three stayed still and remained silent. Sure enough, another set of footsteps could be heard echoing off the stairway, walls, and barren floor. "Hide." Donnie instructed. As quick as the order was given, the four hid in the shadows, Mikey placing his hands at one end of the ceiling, and his feet at the other, Raph hiding on a banister from the ceiling, Leo hiding in the shadows of the wall, and Donnie hiding behind a giant machine that not even he knew what it's actions were.
Soon, the sight of metal armour could be seen coming down the stairs and going down into the cell room.
The Shredder himself.
"Karai," His deep voice sounded out in disgust and reprimance, "you have betrayed the Foot Clan by helping the disgusting child get out of here," Donatello had to stifle a growl. "Why would you do such a thing? And after I raised you!"
"You stole me!" Karai fought back. "You stole me and taught me to kill innocent people! Even you weren't all that nice to me when I was a child, and you know it! How was I supposed to leave a little girl who was terrified, sick, and upset alone? How could I not help her?"
"Because she is the enemy's daughter!" The sickening sound of a whip coming down upon flesh echoed throughout the room. All four winced.
She let out a cry of pain, and that's all it took. Leo slowly emerged from the shadows, a plan running through his mind. His brothers emerged as well with him. Hopefull, Leo thought, Shredder keeps speaking so he doesn't detect us.
And with that, Leo strikes.
His metal goes against metal.
"Did you really think you'd get in here undetected, Leonardo?" Shredder asked, a malicious smile etched across his masked face.
Leo growled in his face. "We were hoping." Metal slid against metal and the weapons fell away from each other. Leo's face held a scowl while Shredder's held squinted eyes.
"How's the brat?" He asked with a bitter chuckle as his metal claws once again clashed with Leonardo's katanas.
Leo's scowl only grew wider. "She's not a brat! You'll never get your hands on her, ever again!" Raph leapt from the banister he had been standing on; his sais aiming for the Shredder and seeking for blood. Shredder slid his weapon away from Leo's only to knock Raph back into a wall, knocking over several boxes.
"Raph!" Mikey cried before charging at the Shredder himself. Mikey wrapped his kusarigami chain around the Shredder with a satisfied smirk before looking back to Leo. "Leo, I have him secured! End it now!"
Leo ran towards the two, in hopes of ending this feud once and for all. But Shredder broke the chain of Mikey's kusarigami and hit Mikey across the plastron with his metal claws. Mikey let out a yelp of pain as his shell collided with the wall opposite.
He squinted his eyes in pain as he looked down to his abdomen. Four neat cuts lined his plastron, each beginning to surface blood. He growled lightly at his soon to be new scars.
Donnie, the blade of his naginata out, charged at the Shredder, aiming for the face. The blade sunk into the Shredder's cheek; Donnie felt a new satisfaction rise inside of his chest. But Shredder took the blade out of his cheek and broke the stick-like weapon over his knee before throwing it across the room.
Shredder kicked Donatello right in his plastron sending Donnie into another wall. Leo growled and looked to Shredder. "Looks like it's you and me, isn't it?"
Shredder laughed menacingly before taking stance, his claws out to the side, but showing the claw part upward. "Soon you'll be joining your pathetic brothers on the floor." He snarled.
Leo could feel his grip on his katana handles tighten. He let out a battle cry before charging at Shredder.
He hacked his swords away at Shredder getting a few good hits, but not enough to take him down.
Shredder took his guantlet and swipped down on Leonardo, sending him backwards into a bunch of boxes.
Shredder laughed maliciously. "You cannot defeat me. No matter how hard you try you can and will not defeat me."
Mikey growled lightly and looked to his broken chucks. The chain was busted and all that was left was the handles.
Wait...
Mikey grabbed the handle of his nunchaku. If the button is still in working order...he thought as he pressed the button. He smiled in satisfaction. The blade still works.
He crept up behind Shredder, blade in hand. He took in a deep, silent, breath. For your family, he thought. And in one swift motion he slashed the Shredder in the back, the blade digging into his soft flesh. The Shredder stood there for a moment, shock and pain clearly written all over his face. His face whirled around to find Michelangelo smiling and waving behind him.
"Say goodnight you old bucket of bolts!" Mikey taunted as he shoved the kusarigami blade deeper into the Shredder's back, penetrating him all the way through the chest. Shredder stood there shocked once more before falling to his knees. Mikey ran over to Leo and helped him out of the pile of boxes.
"Hurry, Leo, we have to get out of here!" Mikey cried as he helped all of his brothers to their feet. Leo ran to Karai's cell and looked back to Raph.
"Raph, can you pick the lock?" Leo asked. Raph nodded and ran over, sai in hand. He inserted the middle
prong into the lock and jiggled it a bit. After a while the lock undid, and the cell door opened. Leo entered the cell and looked over to Karai, her forehead bleeding heavily and her ankle was swollen greatly. Leo gasped.
"Karai, you look terrible!"
"Thanks for the newsflash." She said as she attempted to stand on her own. Leo rushed over and wrapped Karai's arm around his shoulder.
He laughed nervously. "Right, sorry."
Mikey went over towards Donnie and helped him up. "You alright, bro?"
Donnie groaned as he stood. "I'll be fine. I'm just going to have to deal with a headache that will last me a year."
"Dudes," Mikey said as he picked up the other broken handle of his chucks, "we need to get home before the media is alerted."
"Mikey's right," Leo said as he assisted Karai out of the cell. "We need to go before Tiger Claw, Rhazar, Fishface, and any other of Shredder's henchmen are concerned by his lack of appearence."
"Then let's get out of here." Raph said as they all took off towards the door that they had entered.
OoOoOoO
"Aunt Karai!" Digital cried at her aunt's appearence. Digital ran to Karai and hugged her legs tightly. Karai was taken aback by the action, having never received a hug from her "father". She looked to Leo who nodded at her. Karai placed her hands against the child's back and offered what she had thought was a comforting squeeze.
"Hello, Digital." She said.
Donnie looked to his brothers and daughter. "I'm going to patch Karai up. When she's done, I think we should surprise Master Splinter with her appearence."
Karai looked to Donatello. She smiled slightly with a bit lip and nodded once. "Sure."
"That would be amazing." Leo agreed.
Mikey placed a hand on Digital's shoulder. "Go distract Splinter so he doesn't know that we're home," Mikey took Digital's watch off of Karai's wrist and attached it to Digital's wrist once more. "When it's ok to bring him out, I'll message you a winkey face, got it?"
Digital nodded out of ecstasy. "Yes, Uncle Mikey!"
Mikey put on a playful mask of sterness. "Then why are you still standing here soldier? You have a mission so do it!"
Digital giggled before standing at attention. "Sir, yes, sir!" She chanted before running to the dojo where Splinter was deep in meditation.
Digital smiled. He'll self distract, she thought as she took a meditative pose herself. She closed her eyes.
I guess meditating for a while won't harm anything, she thought.
OoOoOoO
She couldn't quite make out the scene in front of her.
It was blurry.
It slowly became a bit more focused. In front of her was a boy with brown hair, green eyes, and blue glasses.
"No. They were going to kill me. For some reason, though, they didn't. They shot my brother, and he's, well, he s gone now." She felt herself say.
The boy had an apologetic look on his face as he placed a hand against her's. "I'm sorry."
Digital's eyes snapped up and looked into the boy's green eyes. Her eyes took in every single detail of him. His beautiful, short, brown hair. His emerald green, glistening eyes. His pearly white teeth. His white skin. The dark, pink color of his lips. "It's ok."
He smiled gently as their faces became just a few inches away from each other's. "I never did ask your name."
Digital smiled back gently. "Digital, but you can call me Digi."
The boy smiled back. "People call me..."
OoOoOoO
Digital snapped out of her meditation as she felt something vibrate against her wrist. She looked at her watch that had a winkey face. She smiled as she crawled into Splinter's lap, a common way she woke him up out of his meditation stances.
Splinter opened his eyes and looked down to the small girl in his lap. He smiled gently down at her. "Is there something that you need, Digital?"
Digital nodded gently. "Can you come see an invention I was working on? I've been working on it for a while, and I'd really like some feedback on it."
Splinter chuckled lightly before placing Digital back on the floor and standing. "Yes, Digital, you may show me the invention you have been working on."
Digital smiled widely as she all but ran out of the dojo and out to the den where Karai was standing with a bandage tied to her forehead along with a splint on her ankle. Everyone's excitement all but grew as Splinter rounded the corner. "Slow down, little one." He chuckled. When he entered the den, however, his eyes grew wide with shock and surprise.
He stood there for a while processing what he was seeing in front of him. If it was true or not.
"Miwa?" He spoke at last.
Karai looked to Leo once more. Once again, he nodded. Karai limped towards her father. She stood there for a moment before wrapping her arms around his waist just like the first time she had met him as her father and not an enemy. Slowly, Splinter's arms wrapped around Karai's abodmen.
Just like the first time when she was family and not an enemy.
At the sight Digital couldn't help but run to her father. Donatello picked her up and held her to his plastron. It didn't bother him that she was ten. She'd never be too big or old for him to hug tightly.
"Daddy," she said, "is Shredder gone now?"
Donnie nodded as Digital lied her head against his shoulder. "Yeah," he answered with a smile, "he's gone now," He placed his lips against Digital's forehead. "And now I know how Master Splinter has felt when he lost his daughter."
Digital glances her eyes around the room. Her eyes landed on Leo, Raph, and Mikey smiling with happiness. Then her eyes glanced to her grandpa hugging his daughter.
"What does it feel like?" She asked.
He sighed gently as he placed his chin on top of her head. "It's the worst pain I've ever experienced," he answers. He looks to his father who was hugging his adoptive sister and sighed once more. "The absolute worst."
And...done! This story is over! Hate to hear that? Well, guess what?! I promise you, I guarantee you, that there is GOING to be a sequel AND threequle! I have actually been planning this for a while. I have quite a bit of the sequel all ready and typed up. So that may be either uploaded tomorrow through next week. Stay tuned! Did you like it, love it, hate it? Let me know! Your opinion matters. :)