"Hey!" Epps called out with a grin. "Anyone want to go to Hawaii? I'll just have Jetfire open the back and kick you out. I'll have you on the ground in a few minutes."

That joke was met with groans and eyerolls from everyone in earshot.

"Sure." Mikey replied. "Just as soon as you find someone nice enough to shovel what's left of me into a bag and teach the bag how to walk."

"I can't do everything for you clown boy." Epps grinned wider at him.

I chuckled a little from where I was leaning against Leo, just waking up from a nap. I rubbed my eyes and sat up with a stretch, wincing as my body let a few pops go. He gave me a small grin as everything settled back into place. "It seems your little nest isn't so comfortable after all."

"Still better than sitting on the hard floor." I leaned back against him and brought my blanket up around me again before I snuggled into his arms. I was happy, warm and relaxed. If I closed my eyes and drowned out the flying noise, it almost felt like I was home. That illusion was quickly kicked out of my head when the whole plane suddenly shook.

That was the first clue that something was wrong, the second was Hide popping out his cannons. "Decepticons!" he roared as he stomped towards the cargo door in the back.

Sunny and Sides were already there, an excited, almost evil gleam in their eyes. "Busting Cons never gets old." Sides happily informed Sunny, who grinned in agreement.

Will scrambled into motion. "Medics! Secure everything down! The rest of you, get those rocket launchers and get into position! And everyone, make sure you tie yourselves off! I don't need one of you to fall out of the damn plane!"

Leo quickly grabbed a line that was attached to the wall behind us and wrapped it around our things, shoving me out of my cozy hole so he could do it faster. I muttered obscenities at him as I picked myself up off of the floor. A soft, quiet chuckle met my ears as Emily came over and handed me a harness. "Here, strap this on. Before he gets excited and gives you another shove and you roll out the back of the plane."

"Throw his ass out of the back of the plane if he does it again." I muttered as I slipped it on and hooked it up, amongst another shudder.

Once I was in it she clipped a strap to it that was attached to the top of the plane. "The set up is rigged to where you can move freely around, just try and not to get tangled with someone else. Jetfire hates it when his lines get tangled."

Leo caught me as the plane shuddered harder this time. "Oh yay. Another thing to worry about. As if being shot at in midair by Cons wasn't enough."

Emily just gave me a slight smile, then looked doubtfully at the other harness she held and Leo. "I...don't think this is going to fit..."

Leo gave he a small smile, fully aware of her shy nature and not wanting to startle her, even though his eyes were already lighting up with that fire you knew was the prelude to someone getting his ass whopped. "I'll make due, just give me the line."

She handed it to him and he wrapped it around himself and tied it off into a knot. just in time too, because a wind began to rip through the space as the back of the plane opened. Sunny and sides were out of it as soon as it opened up far enough for them to slip through, with Sides cry of "Jet-judoooooo!" filling our ears.

Raph rolled his eyes. "And how exactly are they supposed to get back in the damn plane?"

Cris just shrugged, but had a wide grin on her face. "I love those boys."

Will crossed his arms in exasperation. "Someone better, because i'm about to shove one of Hide's grenades up their asses. Didn't i say I didn't want to lose anyone out there?

"Maybe they thought you didn't mean Bots."

Will just gave her a long, level look before he joined his men at the back of the plane. We followed him, but stayed out of they way as they returned fire at the Cons that were hounding us.

"Should have known the going was too good." Epps muttered as he fired out the back.

"They're not stupid Epps." Will told him even as he opened fire. "Well, Starscream is, but the other higher ups have a smart head on their shoulders. Most of them were concentrated on the asian continent already, now that we are heading that way I think they've figured out that we may be after the same thing."

Leo shook his head. "And we don't even really know what it is we are after."

"Something big by the way it looks." Epps replied as he reloaded. "Big enough to grab their attention enough to want to keep us away from it."

"Down!" Hide thundered as a Con flew by the opening, firing inside as it did. We all dropped to the floor as small arms rounds strafed over our heads to slam into the interior further in.

Bee responded with a blue plasma shot of his own that hit more true and a wing exploded on the Con and it began to spiral away towards the ocean below, a long black cloud marking the path it took.

But he wasn't the only one that got a hit in, his was just more noticeable at first. The flyby had shot through a few lines and a few soldiers began to get pulled out of the plane, Adam among them. The bots were able to grab most of them but Ari's terrified scream told us he wasn't so lucky as he was swept out into the open air, his line trailing behind him.

Leo didn't even stop to think as he launched himself out after him, cutting his own line in the process so he could reach past the length it gave him. I didn't even have time to let out the startled scream that wanted to pass through my lips as he dove for that trailing line and catching it before it disappeared over the loading ramp. Then with the hand that still held the katana, he stabbed that sword into the last few feet of metal and snagged them both to a halt. You could clearly see the strain on his face as he fought against numerous forces of nature, gravity and who knows what else to keep his hold firm.

Mikey was the next one to act. He pulled out a kunai, leapt up and cut his line close to the top and reached out to grab Leo's fluttering strand and hung there a moment on it. His legs were wrapped around the still tied down line before he went to work on tying the two loose ends together and secured them with a firm knot. Then he carefully walked backwards along the ramp, feeding the line through his hands as he went.

My heart was beating wildly by the time he finally reached Leo, with not much line to spare. Leo, with a large amount of effort, pulled Adam's line back in and towards his younger brother and managed to hand it off before another hit rocked the plane. That was all it took for him to lose his grip, and he went over.

"Leo!" Mikey and I both shouted together as the falling turtle tried to grab Adam's line, but found it just out of his reach.

"No!" Mikey roared, his normally happy features twisted with anger and grief at the loss of his oldest brother.

I stood in wide eyed shock at what happened before my eyes started to water. Just like that...he was out of my sight...gone... "No..." I echoed Mikey in disbelief, then screamed it louder "No!"

The pain I was feeling in my heart almost made me miss what happened next, and I couldn't make sense of it when I did see it. The pouch Mikey had tied to his side began to glow, brightly, from the inside out. Whatever was in there was shining bright enough to where it was clearly visible through the material.

Once it reached a certain brightness, bright enough to where you couldn't even look at it, the winds began to flow around the plane, harder and faster. But it didn't disrupt Jetfire's flight path in the least, it was causing havoc to the Cons out there though as a fierce whirlwind tore through their ranks. Fierce enough to where some were torn to pieces from it. I had never seen winds that strong, nor even heard of it before. And amid all of that destruction, something happened I couldn't believe I was seeing.

A massive gust came from behind and below us, carrying a very confused and bewildered Leonardo back up with it. He seemed to just glide effortlessly back onto the plane before he was gently set back down on the edge of the ramp, right next to Mikey. Then he gripped Mikey's line in a death grip, his green face now very pale and his eyes wide.

Raph was the first one to snap out of that befuddled daze we all were in at what we just saw. "Somebody help me pull them in!" He snapped as he closed in on the line.

Optimus beat him to it and carefully began reeling in the two turtles and the human who was still dangeling out the back. By the time all three were safely back inside, Mikey's pouch had dimmed again.

Donnie walked over to him, just as stunned as the rest of us. "What to you have in there?" He asked in a strained, shaky voice.

Mikey's hand shook as he dipped it into the pouch, and pulled out his gem. "This...it's the only thing I had in there..." He swallowed hard as he looked at it, then at Leo. Leo returned that gaze, just as shook up.

He didn't have time to say anything about it though, because that's when I crashed into him, hard. My arms wrapped around him in a hard hug of relief even as his came around me. Ari was giving Adam the same treatment.

It was about that time Sides' head came popping down from the top. "Stupid winds took all my Cons." He grumbled before he got a firmer grip on the edge and swung his lower body down and back inside. Sunny came back in right behind him and the door closed back up again. "Where did that windstorm come from anyway?"

No one answered him, but Mikey was still staring at the gem in his hand, that was still shaking. He stared at it a long while before he closed his fingers around it and tucked it back in his pouch.

It took just as long for me to calm down to the point I could step back from Leo. "Are you alright?"

"I'm...fine..." He slowly replied, he still looked a bit wild around the eyes though. Then he swallowed hard. "Cris?"

She walked over to us where she was watching with a mix of awe and disbelief. "Yes?"

"You remeber that time I made you jump out of a plane?"

"Yes."

"I'm sorry about that. And I'll never do it to you again."

"Oh?" Her eyes lit up with amusement then. "And it only took you falling out of one yourself to see how shitty it is?" She crossed her arms. "Now you know how I felt."

Leo nodded and turned to go to the front of the plane. "Yes, I do."

"'Bout damn time someone sees my point of view around here."