Ch 11 Disappointments and Failures.

Leo stared at his father and shook his head. Even with all the scars that littered his face, he could still see the man he once loved. His fist clenched and he shook with anger as the two of them stared at each other.

Oroku Saki finally stood up from behind his desk and made his way slowly over to Leonardo, his eyes uncaring and cold. From his right side, the figure in the shadow also began to move. Leo's eyes showed surprise at first, then he let out a light chuckle upon recognizing the person.

"Chris Bradford." His voice was filled of hatred as the tall brown bearded man stepped forward. "I should have known you'd be a part of all this too."

Bradford scowled at the turtle. "You should not have run away Leonardo, your aunt would still be alive." Bradford responded with a scowl. "Unlike your mother."

Leo clenched his fist. "I know you had something to do with her death." Now he turned to his father. "All these years and we...I thought you were dead." He swallowed hard and fought back the tears. "Why have you now come back?" He clenched his fist. "What do you want with me?!"

"What I want is none of your concern." Saki scowled down at him in disgust.

"It is if I have something to do with it!" He yelled.

Saki backhanded Leo hard causing him to fall hard to the floor. "You have no right to question me." He told him. "The only reason I allowed you to be born was so I could have your DNA." Leo put a hand to his cheek and looked up at him, fire burning in his eyes. "You were nothing more then an experiment." Saki spat out the words like venom. "A test subject that would give me what I needed. But she found out and took you away before I could get what I wanted and all our evidence, all our research was burned in the fire!" He reached down and grabbed Leo's arms angrily pulling him off the floor. He brought his face close to his, almost shaking him. "Without the file, the information, it took me years to duplicate the process. When I finally figured out what we had done and it could be duplicated, it was time to return and finish what I had started so many years ago." He grabbed his chin hard. "But we had to deal with her first." He nodded to Bradford.

"It wasn't hard to slowly poison her." He laughed. "That's why the doctors couldn't help her. The cancer was created and not curable."

Leo fought back the tears that threatened to fall. "She loved you!" Leo reminded Saki. "How could you do this to her?" He gritted his teeth. "To us?" He roughly shoved Saki's hand off of him and backed away from him.

"Your mother was a fool, and it was her foolishness that led to her undoing." He turned hard cold eyes on him. "If it wasn't for me needing mutant DNA, I would never have had anything to do with your mother...or you." He let out a cold dark laugh. "Do you really believe I could love something as hideous as a mutant freak!" Saki watched with pure evil delight as Leo's face twisted into a pained scowl. He was just about to turn away when Leo let out a loud yell and charged at him, smashing his right fist into Saki's scarred face. Xever and Bradford quickly grabbed him before he could continue to fight.

"My mother was right!" He screamed at him. "You are nothing more then a monster!"

Saki reeled back and place his hand over a now bloody nose. He looked down and laughed at him. "It was that fire that I saw in your mother that made me realize I underestimated her. But I won't make the same mistake with you." He grabbed a handkerchief out of his pocket and looked at the other humans. "Bring him!" He ordered turning back to the exit.

He was brought back to the elevator and after getting in, Saki pushed a button marked thirty eight. A few moments later, the elevator came to a stop on the thirty eighth floor and opened to another long hallway. It was late into the evening and the building was empty except for a few people. Leo looked around as they walked, seeing rows of cubicles and offices. He was led through another door and hallway and then eventually into a white examining room where on counters sat several beakers, microscopes and a variety of other lab equipment. Sitting behind a desk was a thin dark skinned man of average height and afro like hair. Leo gasped when he saw the man.

"I remember you." He said looking at him. That night so many years ago was now coming back to him in full force. "You survived the fire." He looked him up and down, no scars that he could see. "Unharmed too."

"Trust me freak, I didn't escape completely unharmed." He said and rolled up his right lab coat sleeve revealing a horribly scarred arm. "Thanks to your mother, I have burns over most of my body." He turned to Saki. "The equipment is ready, we just have to make sure his DNA is still viable."

Bradford and Xever forced Leo's coat and shirt off, they then placed him on a examining table and strapped him down. He looked up at Saki. "How can you do this to me?" He asked, tears falling down his cheeks. "I'm your son."

Saki looked down at him and laughed coldly. "You are nothing to me." He turned to the man in the lab coat. "Stockman, do what you must."

Stockman walked over to Leo with a large needle and grinned down at him evilly. "This may be very painful." He told him. "I suggest you hold still."

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Raph, Donnie and Mikey made their way in the family truck to the TCRI building and parked in Donnie's designated spot. He pulled out his t-phone and began putting in a sequence of numbers. Within seconds, he smiled at his brothers and gave them a thumbs up signal. "The security cameras are now being blocked and on a continuous loop. We can sneak into the building and go anywhere without being noticed."

They grabbed their weapons and got out of the truck, keeping close to the wall they peeked around the corner and saw the three purple dragons standing outside the doors keeping watch and looking very bored. "How do we get around those jerks?" Mikey asked sounding nervous, absentmindedly fingering his temple where a visible scar reminded him of the bullet that grazed him.

"We take them down the best way we know how." Raph said twirling his sais. "Together."

Mikey steeled himself. "Then I want Fong." He said, gritting his teeth.

The three turtles readied their weapons and let out a loud war cry charging at the three dragons taking them completely off guard. The dragons startled at the sudden noise and, after composing themselves ran toward the turtles with their fist and switchblades raised.

Raph took Sid who was stronger and more muscular. "You're going down this time for good for what you did to Leo and Mikey." He told him swinging his sais toward Sid's head. Sid dodged and threw a punch at Raph who blocked and punched Sid in the stomach with the butt of his sai. Sid doubled over and Raph gave an uppercut to his jaw hard enough to send him reeling backward and smashing into Fong who was fighting Mikey.

Sid fell to the ground, panting hard and groaning. He held his jaw and looked up Raph cross eyed. Raph jumped on him and smashed his fist into Sid's head and his head hit the pavement hard. He watched Sid's eyes roll to the back of his head and fall into unconsciousness.

Mikey meanwhile fought against Fong, striking him hard with his nun-chucks along his body causing the human to drop his blade and try to stop the blows. After seeing him get hit with Sid, he dropped his chucks and began pummeling him furiously. Fong put up his hands in an attempt to block him. Mike eventually jumped up and began bouncing around like a boxer in the ring. "Get up Fong!" He screamed. "Fight me in a fair fight without your gun or knife!" He demanded.

Fong looked up at the smaller turtle and laughed. "You want to fight 'mano y mano' turtle." He sneered. "You're on." He jumped up and swung his fist at Mikey's head only to miss. Mikey ducked then twirled around and caught his foot on the back of Fong's legs. Fong once again found himself on the ground, he looked up in time to see Mike's fist coming down on his nose hard.

Fong hit hard against the concrete and stared up at Mikey in disbelief. He brought his hand to his nose and held it. "Yo'd boke ma nde?" He said in disbelief.

Mikey looked down at him with hate, he grabbed Fong's switchblade. "Be glad that's all I broke." With that, he threw the blade onto the ground hard. Sid looked in fright as the knife landed in between his legs extremely close to his crotch. "Get outta here." Mikey said gritting his teeth. Fong got up but as he did, he smashed into Tsoi who was fighting Donnie, Fong fell to the ground unconscious. "That'll take care of you for a long while." Mikey said as he nodded toward the fallen dragon.

Donnie ran to Tsoi and swung his bo at his head, Tsoi blocked and kicked sending Donnie against the wall but he quickly flipped and pushed himself back at the dragon and smashed his head into his stomach causing him to reel backwards and fall to the ground. When he sat up, Donnie took his bo and smacked him several times in the head. "That's for what you did to my brother and my friend." He told him. He took his bo like a bat and swung the staff along Tsoi's head smacking him hard. Tsoi fell to the ground stunned and bleeding from his head. He sat up in time to see Donnie's fist coming toward him and smash him in the mouth knocking him out.

"Nice going guys." Raph complimented, panting hard. They made their way into the building. "Where to now?"

"The elevator." Donnie said pointing straight ahead. They got on the elevator and stared at the many buttons. "Any idea which one?" Mikey questioned.

The other two looked at each other and Donnie pushed a button. "Baxter works on the thirty eighth floor and since he and Saki seem to be working together..."

"We get it Don." Raph said getting irritated. He was worried about Leo and just wanted to find him. "Let's just find Leo and get him out of here."

The other two looked at him. "He'll be okay Raph." Mikey said. Donnie placed a hand on his shoulder and nodded. "We'll get him out of here." He smiled. "And you two can live happily ever after." Raph growled at the sappiness of that thought but chuckled inwardly to himself.

The elevator stopped and the doors opened. "Which way Don?" Raph asked.

Donnie looked around and pointed to the right. "Baxter has a lab over there, let's check it out."

They wandered toward the far end of the hall and eventually came to a door with a nameplate: Baxter Stockman.

"Let's sneak in quietly." Donnie said sternly, looking at Mikey.

The three silently crept in and they found themselves in a large white room with several tables that held a variety of lab equipment. But there was no sign of Leo or anyone else for that matter.

"Where are they?" Raph huffed.

Donnie pointed to a door at the far end of the room. "Let's check there."

"Okay D..." Mikey urged. "Lead the way."