It was a couple of weeks since the last fight for Leo and Randall. Randall was at the lair when Don began to cut the stitches out of Leo's arm and leg.
Leo hadn't been kept down at all, he had just had to take it a little easier while he had stitches in. He had still done his katas and sparred with his brothers after a week. He was a fast healer.
Leo was glad to have the stitches out, and just two more scars added to his battle scarred body. Signs that he was a proud warrior and would go down as a warrior.
The lead turtle would gladly give his own life to save his family's, but he would always be grateful to others as well that would save his life too. Like Randall. Randall had saved his life that night. Someday, he might return the favor.
Leo was still willing to offer Randall more strategy tips for when they went out on patrols.
Now that he was well again, Leo had begun patrolling again with his family.
After what had happened, Randall only wanted to limit himself to patrolling one night a week. He wasn't so crazy for going out and fighting humans. He'd much rather avoid them, but he would be there for his friends when they needed him.
Randall was down in the lair with Mikey one night, while Leo and Raph patrolled the city. Raph had been anxious to get out of the lair, being the rebel of the group. Don had been working in his lab.
Leo and Raph were running over rooftops when they did run into some Foot ninjas. Foot Techs were among them.
The ninjas didn't take questions, and neither did the two turtles, they just fought. Even though the blue one had been out of action topside for awhile, he still hadn't lost his touch. The red and blue ones were the top fighters of the turtles.
And once again, sheer numbers were used to overpower the two turtles. But instead of killing them, both Raph and Leo were restrained. Then questions were asked.
"Where is your lizard friend?" A ninja asked.
"What lizard?" Raph said.
"The one that killed Hun!"
"We haven't seen it." Leo said.
"That's a big fat lie! Where is it?!"
"No, it's not! He was just there out of the blue." Leo lied again.
"We've seen that lizard before. We know he hides. Surely he's here tonight."
"No, he's not." Raph said.
"Boss, if it was here, surely we would be attacked by now."
"We're not getting anything out of them."
"Oh we will." The leader said.
Leo and Raph knew what they wanted and they weren't going to give them the satisfaction.
Then, all of a sudden, there were pricks in their necks, making both of them jolt at the pricks. And within minutes, they both got dizzy and stumbly. The ninjas let the turtles go down.
"Which one are we taking?"
"Since the blue one is the leader and he was with the lizard the night the lizard killed Hun, take the blue one. The Shredder wants him most of all anyway."
"And the red one?"
"Let him take the message to the lizard."
There was a note left with Raphael while they picked up Leonardo and took him back to the headquarters.
When Raph woke up later, he found the ransom note left in his belt.
"If you want to see the lead turtle alive again, you will give us the lizard that killed Hun. Or he dies. Midnight, down at the docks, two nights from tonight." The note read.
"I'll make sure to get Leo back." Raph didn't like this. The stupid Foot was ransoming Leo's life for Randall's.
Raph knew he would need help to get him back, but he knew to give them what they wanted. Randall would be a good distraction. And he could take the Foot down too. He had saved Leo doing it.
Raph went home and told his family about the run in and gave them the note. Even Randall read the note.
So it had come to this. "I'm not going down without a fight." Randall said.
"We'll be there to make sure they don't do anything stupid, but we are going to get Leo back." Mikey said.
"We know the Foot goons can't be trusted." Raph said. "We have to strike before then."
"Do we know where they are hiding him?" Randall asked.
"Probably at Foot headquarters right now. The Shredder has always wanted to take Leo out of the picture." Don said.
"I just hope he's alright." Mikey said.
"We do too." Splinter said. They would all end up going to save Leo's life.
…..
When Leonardo came to, he found he was lying on a cold, hard floor. He had a shackle on his neck and ankles. His hands were tied behind his back. He tried to get them loose, but to no avail. He had no defense against enemies like this.
He looked around himself. He saw he was in a big prison cage. But he was tied down, for what? He wondered where Raph was. He wondered where he was. He hoped his family would find him.
No matter how much he knew he would give his life to protect his family, he knew that he would always be glad to return to his family alive too. They meant the world to him.
"Where am I? Raph? Are you here?" Leo asked. All he got was silence. This place creeped him out.
Raph might have been unconscious, somewhere else or could have been being tortured. Leo really hoped he wasn't. And there was the chance he wasn't here and he had escaped.
Then there were some noises and some footsteps approached.
Leo wanted some answers. He also remembered the Foot wanted Randall.
He saw the Shredder and some ninjas behind him. He unlocked the cage door and walked inside.
"How the mighty have fallen." The Shredder said.
Leo glared at him. "What do you want, Shredder?" He demanded.
"I have seen a lizard among you and your friends. I demand to know what knowledge he has." Shredder said.
"He knows nothing."
"I'll be the judge of that when I meet him. And if he doesn't give me information, I'll be glad to have him destroyed."
Leo figured that. This maniac lived to destroy everything that didn't agree with him. And he knew Randall had knowledge of another world, but surely he wouldn't betray his former world? If only he could warn the others.
…
The guys didn't want to wait for the second day time to get Leo back. They went down to the docks to try to find him first. Splinter came too, as he could sniff out his son's scent the easiest. Randall was with them.
After searching through over six warehouses, Splinter soon did pick up Leo's scent. "He is in this warehouse." Splinter said.
"But how are we going to get in without being seen?" Don asked.
"Very carefully, my son."
"I can get in without being seen." Randall said.
"It might be easiest to send Randall in." Raph said. "Though I want to go in and kick Shredder's butt."
"We need to get Leo out before we start cracking heads, Raph." Don said.
"You can go in, Randall. Just be careful. The Foot clan may have sensors around that might even sense you."
"I'm sure I'll be fine." Randall said. Then he vanished and went to look for a way into the building. He took to climbing the walls first. He was trying to see if there were any weak windows he could sneak into.
He went around the surface of the building and found a smaller ledge roof where he got on it and walked around and looked inside. If it wasn't for his contacts, he wouldn't be able to see anything good. But in there, he did see what looked like a prison cage. There was a door that led to another room, but in that cage, he saw Leonardo.
Randall saw that Leo was tied down and restrained, but he didn't look hurt. But it was possible. He tested the window pressure. It didn't resist. That did it.
He looked around for something, but there was nothing on the roof to help him. So instead, he went back to the others and asked if he could borrow a weapon to break a window.
"They might hear you." Don said.
"No one is in the room."
"Alright." Don let him have his Bo staff to go break the window.
"You might need one of these to break the chains." Raph said, handing him a sai.
"Thanks."
"If you're not out in a half hour, we are coming in after you." Splinter said.
"Alright."
Randall climbed back up the wall, if a little differently holding the weapons. He broke the window with the Bo.
Leo heard glass breaking. He hoped it was his family.
Randall left the Bo outside. He still carried the sai. He went into the room, using the ceiling and walls as his cover. There was also a lot of boxes in the room too. He soon reached the other side of the room and Leo's cell.
"Leonardo." Randall said.
Leo heard his voice. "Randall?"
Randall appeared at the front. Using Raph's sai like a key, he got into the cell.
"Randall, you shouldn't be here alone. They have a ransom for you." Leo said.
"I know. I saw the note. Raphael brought it to the lair. But I was the only one who can sneak in unseen."
Randall used the sai to break open the cuffs on Leo's arms and legs. He was more careful on his neck.
"Are they here?"
"Yes. Let's go." Randall said.
The two of them tried to sneak out, but before they got far, some ninjas came into the room. "Where do you think you're going?"
"You're not keeping me here!" Leo yelled at the human.
"Come on!" Randall said.
Leo followed him. They both ran.
The ninja hit a button and the alarm blared. It alerted other ninjas.
The Shredder heard it too and he wasn't going to let Leonardo escape so easily this time. He went with them.
The others outside knew cover had been blown when the alarm sounded.
"We can't wait any longer." Raph said.
"Now we go in. We are getting them out." Splinter said.
They went up to the roof first where Randall had said he had seen Leo to see what they were up against. Don's bo was on the floor and he got it back.
There were ninjas rushing to the area. They dropped into the room to find their brother and Randall.
Leo had had to stop and fight hand to hand to let Randall escape, but the lizard was having none of it. He had stayed behind and he stayed invisible, but he was fighting too.
Then, out of nowhere, a net was thrown onto Leo. "Hey!" He went down and ninjas held him down.
The net had struck Randall's side, but didn't catch him. He got away.
"Did you really think you were getting away, Leonardo?" The Shredder now appeared.
Randall now saw what they meant about how the Shredder looked.
"Let me go, Shredder!" Leo demanded.
"You are too much a prize to let get away. I think I can do something about that." Shredder said.
Ninjas were well off to the side, making sure he couldn't get out of the net. They hoped their leader would do away with the turtle.
Randall wasn't going to allow this maniac to kill the turtle's leader. He growled and got into position. He jumped down from the ceiling and right onto the Shredder's back, knocking him down. Then he got in front of Leo. He hit the ninjas away with his tail invisibly.
The Shredder got up. "What's going on here?"
Leo was starting to get up. He knew it was Randall.
There was noise outside the room as Leo's family was fighting the Foot clan.
"You're still not getting away." Shredder said and now that he was up, he was getting closer to Leo, who was still struggling to get out of the net.
But then, there was a big weight thrown onto Shredder's front this time. There was some snarling and growling, and it knocked him down again, but this time, he didn't let it get away.
Using his left gauntlet, with the longest blades on them, Shredder sliced the blades down with all his might.
There was a big cry of pain and the weight rolled off the Shredder when they both went down. Then Shredder got up and looked behind himself.
To the ninjas' eyes, before them was a big purple lizard lying on the floor that had materialized in front of them. There were two very long gashes on his lower back to the side of his stomach from the right side.
Randall was trying hard to breathe and feeling pain in his body.
"So, you're the troublesome lizard that's given my ninjas so much trouble and killed Hun." Randall heard the deep voice behind him.
Randall looked behind him. The armored up leader of the Foot clan stood behind him.
"I've been wanting to meet you."
Randall tried to get up, but he just couldn't. His blood was running like crazy from the wounds created. He growled. "Stay away from me!"
"I think I'll avenge Hun instead and Stockman can have the rest." Shredder said.
Randall watched as the Shredder was about to step in and finish him, when a sai connected with the blades that came down. It totally surprised Randall. He thought he was going to be finished.
Leo had found the sai that had been in Randall's hand. "Leave him alone, Shredder!"
The Shredder continued to fight Leo and soon the other turtles and Splinter burst into the room, fighting the other ninjas and Splinter eventually taking over fighting the Shredder.
"Don! Get over here fast!" Leo called out. He was now able to get by Randall's side and he saw how bad the wounds were.
Leo took his belt off and began wrapping it around Randall's middle, despite Randall's groans of pain.
Don came over and he saw the damage that had been done. "What happened?"
"The Shredder wounded him while he was protecting me." Leo said.
Don began taking his belt off too. He did have some bandages on him. Leo's belt was containing the blood on his back. The bandages were put on his lower side and wrapped up with Don's belt.
"We need to get him home." Don said.
Soon, the Shredder and his ninjas were defeated or unconscious. The mutants had to get out of here and get Randall to safety.
Leo and Don carefully picked Randall up. They had the Battle Shell waiting outside.
As they left, the Shredder was at least glad to have finally seen the lizard he had heard so much about and that it wasn't invincible. He would get it back one of these days.