Mikey, Raph and Donnie all raised their hands up in surrender, knowing better than to resist against armed Purple Dragons. Shredder marched forward, causing the crowd to part as he grabbed Angel by the wrist and thrust her forward so that she fell to the ground.
"Angel!" Raphael yelled, moving to run to her but stopped when one of the Purple Dragons jabbed him with their gun.
"I knew you'd come back," Shredder said smugly, he glanced down at Angel. "I suppose your job as bait worked as we planned, girl."
Angel glared up at the Shredder as the cruel man pointed to Donatello. "You," he ordered, "drop your weapon and surrender to us, now."
Donnie didn't move but his expression hardened, "Only if you spare Angel and my brothers."
"Donnie, don't!" Raph snarled while Mikey made a simple grunt in agreement.
"Whatever you need," Donnie said slowly and cautiously, holding out his staff to drop it if the Shredder complied with his request, "I'll help as best as I can. So, please, let them all go; that's all I'm asking."
"Well," the Shredder shrugged, reaching down and pulling Angel up by her wrist so that her back rested against his armour. "I could do that," he looked at Donatello carefully before chuckling quietly, "or I could just do this."
The entire area seemed to silence completely as Shredder suddenly lifted his clawed-hand back and then thrust the two blades straight through Angel's stomach. The sound of metal meeting flesh echoed in Donatello's mind as he held on to his staff weakly, only able to watch as Angel's eyes widened in shock and pain before she dropped to her knees and fell to the floor, unmoving.
Donnie's heart thudded fiercely against his chest as he suddenly couldn't breathe. He clasped his two hands over his mouth as his entire body shook with shock and fear as he stared at Angel, who was lying on the floor a short distance away; a small pool of blood filled the tarmac under her body and her cheeks were damp with tears.
"ANGEL!" Raphael roared, ripping his twin sai from his belt and taking out three of the Purple Dragons who dared to stand in his way. He held out his weapons as he grew closer to the Shredder. "That's it!" he screamed, tears leaking out of his good eye. "I'm going to kill you!"
The Shredder unsheathed his twin blades from both hands and deflected the blades of Raphael's sai just in time before they hit his armour. He kicked Raph hard in his stomach but the red-masked turtle recovered quickly and blocked a second kick with his hands. Shredder backed away from the furious turtle and held out the bladed-arm with Angel's blood on it, flinging his arm outward so that it spattered on the floor. Raph cried out in rage and ran after the Shredder, not caring that the Shredder's plan was to take advantage of the turtle's temper.
"Hang on, guys!" came a welcoming voice as April, herself, suddenly swung down from the metal fence with several of her own armed men, who went after the Purple Dragons. Just in time, she was able to block Rahzar's attempted-killing strike with his claws by unfolding her tessen in lightning quick timing before she swept her body so that her legs sent him on the floor.
Leonardo leaped over her head, using the fence as a spring-board to launch himself, feet first at two Purple Dragons who still had their weapons targeted on Donnie and Mikey. Leo slashed the guns into pieces with the sharpened blade of his katana and then ran to Donnie and felt his body movements, taking mental notes of Donnie's shaking.
"April, Donnie's in shock!" he called, causing April to abandon her fight with Rahzar to tend to Donnie, the sight that met her when she got closer, stunned her into stillness. She covered her own mouth with her right-hand as she looked at Angel's body.
"No..." she whispered, her eyes filling with sorrow. "Not you...Not Angel too."
"Get it together, O'Neil!" Leonardo screeched from the distance, abandoning his fight as he ran towards the stunned group. "Mikey, get Donnie away from them!"
"You will not interfere, freak!" Fishface roared angrily as he spotted Leo racing to his brothers' aid. April snapped herself out of her shock and ran over to help Leonardo face off against the foot soldiers. Mikey defended Donnie with his own weapon until a fast force batted Mikey away like an insect.
"What?" Donnie stuttered before a loud, heavy figure jumped down from behind him. He felt the razor sharp claws grab him by the head as he was lifted off of the ground. Rahzar, Donnie thought to himself as he winced as the mutant dog tightened his grip. Donnie began positioning his staff in order to get a perfect aim in order to knock himself out of Rahzar's hold. His plan was successful as his staff bent slightly and allowed him to slam the Bo full force into Rahzar's face, causing him to drop Donnie and roar in both pain and fury.
"April! Leo!" Mikey dodged a blade and several chains before swinging his nunchucks around and knocking every enemy surrounding him to the floor. "WHAT-THE-HELL-IS-TAKING-SO-LONG?!"
April was holding up fine against several footbots as she sliced at them with the sharp blade of her tessen. She was able to duck and jump over close enough to Donnie in order for them to double team Rahzar, Donnie swinging his staff at Rahzar's legs while April leaped over and kicked him in the stomach, sending him flying into the sharp wired fence behind him.
Before anybody could make another move, a loud, shrill screech drilled into everybody's ears as a large, slithering serpent-like form began to work its way through the large numbers of foot soldiers.
"There she is!" Leonardo yelled joyfully, yanking his katana free from one of the robotic foot ninja as the large form stopped behind him, shadowing him from the blood-red sunset. "There's my girl."
A/N: Angel, noooo T_T ...On a positive note, I wonder who this serpent-like figure is, hmm? ;D Any guesses? :D Thank you for the support, as always! You're all the best ^^