Author's Note: Here's the next chapter. I tried with it and I hope you all like it. Things should only get better from here. Please enjoy.
Chapter 5:Strange Turn
"Are you sure this is going to work?" Raph questioned his older brother, perched on the ledge of a rooftop with his two brothers as the dark sky covered them.
"Maybe, its Mikey's plan," responded the leaf green turtle as he turned to his youngest brother. "Mikey are you sure about this?"
The orange clad turtled had a smirk on his face as he looked at his older brothers, a look of worry on their faces. "Of course, I've seen this done so many times its full proof!"
"Please tell me this wasn't on a video game you played?" Leo placed a hand against his face, can't believe what kind of a response he'd get.
"No, I've seen them do it on the movies as well," Mikey responded, but that didn't make his brothers feel any better.
"Tell me why we're doing this plan?" Raph groaned, wondering again what caused them to go with Mikey's plan. His knucklehead brother wasn't the brightest bulb out of the four, and the kind of ideas he came up with usually didn't pan out right.
"Because it's stupid enough to work," Leo answered, not believing that he agreed that the plan would work.
"Hey, it's not stupid; I can come up with good plans!" Both of the orange clad turtle's eyes rose in insult.
"So tell me again why this good plan of yours involves Casey?" Raph asked as he turned his attention away from the streets.
"We need a distraction and he's our best bet," Leo answered for Mikey, both of his eyes not leaving the street.
"It's simple!" Mikey spoke with a grin. "The info said that there would be a few armored cars heading into their HQ to unload things. We have Casey drive in front of them and cause a commotion. While they're stopped we sneak down and hitch a ride underneath the cars and they'll bring us inside."
"As much I don't want to say it, I don't see any flaws in that plan," Leo sighed as he heard it again.
"That's a shocker," The emerald turtle shook his head as he looked back down on the street. Up the street were some head lights coming into view. "There it is!"
All three brothers were brought to attention as they looked over the edge and saw the incoming vehicles. There were about four of them, all black vans and tinted windows. They were lined up and headed down the street towards the Foot HQ. Things were going according to plan.
Reaching up to the headset Leo had on he contacted April; "They're coming give Casey the signal." There wasn't a response the blue clad turtle looked at his brothers, "Alright, get ready."
Down on the street the head van that was driving went passed the four way intersection. They were only a few minutes away from HQ, they can dump the equipment they were hauling. They were nearing another stop light when an old Junker drove out of an alleyway, prompting him to hit the brakes and hitting the horn.
Casey Jones smirked as he stopped right in front of the head van and got out of the car, putting on an annoyed face. "Hey, are you blind, I'm driving here!" Moving from the Drivers side the raven haired male waved his fist in the air as he stood right in front of the head van, the horn honking loud.
"Don't honk your horn at me!" He shouted louder. "Next time watch before you drive!" The sounds of the horns grew violent as the vans in the back sounded as well. Thinking he bought enough time Casey made his way back to his car, getting in, closing the door and driving off. Heading In the opposite direction he smiled as he brought up a comm of his own. "Yo, April it's done."
Sometime later the vans pulled in to the garage at the base of Foot HQ. They all pulled in and found parking spaces in the designated areas. The ones that were driving all got out of the vehicles and all walked together towards the elevator. They were going to worry about unloading their equipment later on.
Soon their footsteps started to fade and once they were out of hearing range three heads popped out from underneath the vans. The three brothers looked around and found the parking area cleared. Sticking to the shadows they slipped out from underneath.
"I can't believe that worked," Raph said as he kept his shell pressed against the van.
"See, I told you it was a good idea," Mikey grinned as he did the same.
"Ok, Mikey, you had a good idea, don't let that go to your head," Leo responded as he joined his brothers before reaching to his comm. "Ok, April we're in."
There was silence before their redhead friend responded. "Ok, judging by the layout I have there's only three ways out of the parking area. Either the way you came in from, the elevator, or the stairs."
"Most likely have to take the stairs, don't want to appear on a floor and accidently come across any foot," Leo commented as he looked around and found the stairs. "Now where are we headed again?"
"The eleventh floor, that's where the main security station is. You'll be able to look at the camera feeds and hopefully find Donny."
"Alright thanks, call you back once we're there," With that he ended the call. "Ok, lets move." All three brothers ran out towards the doors to the stairs, the thought of saving their brother still on their minds.
Time began to become a lost factor to Donatello as he sat in his cell, shell against the wall. His captors left him there for a long time. The olive green turtle couldn't tell if he had been left alone for half an hour or a day or so. He was so tired and weak right now that he couldn't think straight and even attempt to move. Being without sleep for so long, had caused his mind to be all jumbled up.
Both eyes stared at the door, part of which he was hoping someone would enter. He'd been staring at it for a long while and he had trouble trying to figure out how to occupy himself. Sleep would have been a godsend right now but thanks to the electrodes on him plus the hidden camera somewhere inside the cell he wouldn't be getting any rest right now.
"AH!" Both of Don's eyes widen as the familiar shock of the electrodes surged to life for a second. All his senses alert as the fatigue currently forgotten for a bit. "Wow…I didn't even know…that I closed my eyes." Apparently from time to time he had been closing his eyes withoug knowing it. It was like his body was shutting down on its own.
That surprised the turtles since he didn't even notice that he began to nod off. That just proved how tired he was. "Ok…how long have I been here?" he asked himself as he started to think. It had been hard keeping track of the time since there was no window. "Now what happened last time?" He tried to think of what the Foot did before they threw him in his cell, but the memories from earlier were fuzzy and hard trying to remember.
A hand reached up to rub his eyes, but the feeling of his skin meeting his hands made him froze. It all then started to come back slowly, "Oh yeah…they took and burned my bandana…and Bo staff…and did something else?" Once his memory was fuzzy and had trouble remembering.
His thoughts were interrupted as the sound of his cell door opening hit his ears. Tired eyes looked up as three Foot ninjas walked in, but something was different. "What the?" he spoke in a low voice, around each one of his captors arms were a tied colored cloth. What made things weird were that they were the colors his brothers wore, orange, red and blue.
The ones wearing the red and orange cloths came and started unlocking the chains. The one wearing the blue stood there and spoke, "Come Junko, your break's over."
That statement caused Don to scowl, that was something that got him a bit angry. Junko is the new name that they gave him, and addressed him by that instead of his true name. "It's Donatello," he responded weakly.
That statement was met with a punch to the plastron, which knocked the air out of Don's lungs. "It's Junko," the one wearing blue spoke.
Donny grunted as the pain in his plastron subsided and looked up. There were so many things he wanted to say right now but the colored cloths were on the top of this list. "What are you…planning?"
"That's for us to know," was the response as the chains were now released.
The ones wearing the orange and red cloths then picked up turtle and started to drag him out of the room. Don gave in and let them, being too tired and weak to put up a fight or even try to walk out on his own power. The last coherent things Don could recall were his hands being tied behind his shell and then the black bag being placed on his head.
"Forsake your family," the blue cloth Foot ordered.
Donny breathed in heavily as he was slumped forward in the chair he's restrained to. His head was in a daze as the statement was told to him, once again they were doing the same torture again. The olive green turtle given up on keeping track at how long they been at it. His mind couldn't keep track of time at all.
"N..N-No," he tiredly responded, and was rewarded with another shock. He cried out as his body jumped in the chair. Just as quickly as it started it ended, but right after Don was punched across the face by the Foot wearing red.
Don panted some as he tried to breathe, but a cough escaped him. "When will…it end?" he thought to himself. Part of his body started to grow numb as his hands and arms started to tremble.
"Acknowledge the Shredder as your master."
Don took in a deep breath before giving his response, "No…AH!" he shouted as he was shocked once more. Once that passed a stun baton struck Donny in the plastron, causing him to slump forward as the air was knocked out of him. It took a few seconds before he could gulp up some air, but at caused him cough a few times. He still tried to breathing in as much air possible despite the coughing.
Both eyes kept blinking as his vision started to become unfocused. He tried his best to get everything back into focus. It was hard since his body was radiating in pain, and was numb. Surely if this continued then chances are he might pass out, but since they were preventing him from sleeping they probably would make sure that didn't happen.
"Alright move him," one of the Foot spoke, which surprised Don as he felt himself being unlocked from the chair. Once again he's too weak and tired to put up a fight. Lifting him up then then started to drag the olive green turtle by his arms, not bothering tying them up. Both of Donny's eyes closed as the black bag came over his head again.
Back in New York inside the Foot HQ Leo, Mikey, and Raph hand managed to get inside the vents and were making their way towards the main security station. Leo was in front as he crawled through without making any kind of sound. They had been navigating for a few minutes and they knew they were approaching.
Coming across a vent cover Leo looked down and smiled. Below were an array of video monitors with imagines on them. From where he was the leaf green turtle estimated about three guards inside. Two looking at the monitors and one standing watch over them. Looking back Leo made hand signal that signaled for Raph and Mikey to follow his lead.
Carefully getting a grip on the cover Leo pulled until it came out and set it aside. Looking back inside and making sure they wouldn't be seen he lowered himself into the room. Dropping to the floor his feet made no sound upon contact. His two brothers followed as the leader crouched and approached the standing guard. Standing up right next to him Leo reached out and grabbed the man, making sure to cover his mouth first. His arms enclosed around his next as Leo started to squeeze.
Mikey and Raph followed suit and did the same to the last two guards. There were some struggles but after a few seconds the guards went limp as they passed out from lack of air. Once they were out they let them go.
"Ok, search the monitors for any sign of Don," Leo instructed as he got back on the comm with April.
"Alright, Fearless, but it's going to take a while," Raph responded as he and Mikey looked through the monitors.
"April, we're in," Leo spoke.
Alright, are you looking through the monitors?"
"Yeah, Raph and Mikey are doing it."
A few minutes passed as the brothers looked through the monitors. Nothing had come up, not even anything that would lead to a location. "Leo we looked through the obvious places but we can't find anything," Mikey spoke as they continued to look.
"Not good, if we can't find him on the monitors then we're going to need to check the whole building."
"That'll take too long," Raph turned to his brothers. "Especially with all the Foot around."
"I know, but he has to be around here somewhere," Leo then reached for the comm. "April need some help, we can't find Don on the monitors."
"Ok, give a sec-no!" April suddenly spoke.
"What happened?!"
"I think someone in the system spotted me, I'm locked out." Right after she said that an alarm sounded, surprising the three.
"Crap, they somehow found out we're here!" Mikey spoke out loud.
Just then a voice sounded from some speaker, "Attention, our system had been compromise, there might be intruders in the base. Lock the whole building down."
"We have to go now!" Leo told his brothers.
"We can't leave without Don!" Raph argued, shocked at what his brother said.
"We can't do anything with the whole place alerted, we can easily get captured if we stay."
"Don't you care that we're so close!" Raph growled.
"Raph, I agree with Leo," Mikey spoke, causing his brother to turn to him. "I want Donny back a lot, but it's saddens me to say that it's not going to happen today. We have to go, now."
Raph stayed silent, but then growled after hearing his brother. With a yell he then stabbed a monitor with his Sai. It broke and caused a few sparks to fly out.
Huffing he pulled his weapon back and placed it back in his belt. "Fine, lets go then." Nodding they all made their way back to the vent.
Don's vision was returned to him as the black bag was removed from his head. Both eyes squinted as the light blinded him for a bit. Slowly over the next few seconds both eyes opened as they adjusted to the light. Getting a chance Don looked down at himself, assessing his situation.
Currently he was strapped down spread eagle on a large metal table. Metal manacles restraining his hands and legs. The table was placed in a horizontal position. Gritting his teeth the Olive green turtle decided not to test the bonds, it wouldn't be any use. Looking around he found the same Foot Ninjas with the cloths tied to them.
The one in blue came up to him, "Tell me something Junko. How would it feel if something you trust so much, turns against you?"
"What do you mean?" Don responded, snarling at the name he spoke of.
"What is the one animal you trust most of all?"
Both of Donny's eyes narrowed at that question. "Animal…I trust?" His thought as he tried to think about it but his mind wasn't working properly.
"AH!" Don cried out as a shock brought him back. Once again he must have started to nod off without knowing it.
It was then the red cloth Foot ninja came over, holding a box. Removing the top the blue cloth ninja reached in and pulled out a large gray rat. An eye rose as Don saw this, "What are…they up to?"
Smiling under his mask the one holding the rat started to walk around Don. "Does this look familiar to you? Who does this remind you of?"
"What are you doing?" Don asked, a bit of worry escaped him as he watched.
"Why don't you imagine this is that rat sensei of yours," he stopped by Don's left side.
"Splinter?"
Squeezing the rat, the animal made a sound as it was brought closer to Don's arm. Out of reaction the rat reached and bit the skin.
"AH!" the olive green turtle flinched as he was bitten. It may have been quick but it still hurt. But then something else came into Don's mind. "Wait is that rat…uh…man what was the word…I can't think straight!"
As if his mind had been read the Foot ninja spoke, "Don't worry it's not diseased, we can't let you die on us." Donny remained silent, not wanting him to know he was thinking that, if he was.
"Like I said, imagine if this was your rat sensei?" The blue cloth one walked around, rat still in hand. "It would be as if he's the one causing you pain." Once again the animal was squeezed, prompting the rat to lurch forward and bit Don's other arm, who winced and hissed in pain as it happened again.
"So how does it feel that someone you trust is giving you pain!" The rat was made to bite Donny multiple times on the arm.
The olive green turtle hissed and cried out as the pain build up more. His body wiggled around the best he could to try to avoid the bites, but that didn't help. When it started to become too much he closed his eyes and tried to implore any kind of meditation technique he knew to dull the pain. But right when his eyes closed the shocks started up again, opening then back up. He tried to think of something but couldn't coherently come up with something. His is mind is still tired and his brain was scattered.
"AHH!" Don screamed real loud as the rat bit onto his left arm but clamped right on it. Seeing this the one holding the rat twisted the animal, further widening the bite till it was roughly pulled off. Once the creature was off the wound left over radiated in pain as Don started to rapidly breath. Both of his fist clenched as he pulled at the restraints, desperately wanting to rub the pain away.
The three Foot ninjas all laughed as they saw the torture happening. The blue cloth ninja then held the rat up to the turtle's face. "If you think that's painful, then we haven't even started yet." Don continued to breathe fast as he looked at the ninja. Part of him was started to become fearful.
Silence filled the lair as the turtles, Splinter, April and Casey sat in the lair, all of them at a loss for words after they retold what happened.
"We couldn't stay in there…not with the alarm going off," Leo spoke as he looked at the ground. They managed to crawl through the vents and found one that lead outside. Luckily no shutters were in place, so they managed to escape easily.
"This is truly disheartening my son," Splinter spoke, feeling down after the failure of his sons mission.
Raph's hand curled into a tight fist and it shook, "We shouldn't have left…we could have handled it."
"Raph it was the only right call," April spoke from her spot on the couch. "If you didn't leave then chances were that you could have got trapped inside."
"Then we'd have no chance at saving Don," Mikey spoke, sitting on the armrest of the couch.
"It's better than leaving him in the Foot's hands!"
"Stop it Raph, there's nothing we could have done," Leo spoke with a stern voice, eyes locking on with his brother.
"There was so something we could have done, but now we not get another chance at this!" the red clad turtle shouted.
"Raphael, calm yourself!" Splinted scolded his second oldest, who just angrily grumbled to himself.
"So what now?" Casey asked, standing up. "I mean what options do we have left?"
"There's nothing we can do," Leo sadly responded, still looking at the ground.
"What if they weren't keeping him in their HQ?" Mikey spoke, causing all of them to look at in confusion.
"What do you mean?" Raph spoke.
"What if they're holding Donny somewhere else in the city? What if they thought we come to their HQ first?" They started to think of that and it made some sense. "He could be somewhere else in the city, and we don't know about it."
Leo nodded as he looked at his brothers, "Then we have to look around the whole city then."
"No way, Leo, no way!" Raph angrily responded as he turned and stood in front of his brother. "That could take weeks, and god knows we left Don with the Foot for too long already!"
"Don't you think I know that?" Leo responded calmly, even though he wanted to lash back but refrained. "I know we all want Donny back right now, but we have no other choice. The Foot headquarters will be locked down for who knows how long and we're not sure how we're going to get back in there. And what if Mikey is right and Don is being held somewhere in the city? This is what we have to do now. We. Have. No. Choice."
Raph gritted his teeth and gave a loud shout as he turned and stormed off to his room, too angry to deal with this anymore.
Splinter saw this altercation go on and couldn't help but sigh sadly as a small tear fell from his eye. It pained him that Donatello was still in his enemy's hands. It made him worry as to his condition, he wanted his son back so bad, but couldn't do anything about it. "My son…please be safe."
Don sat slumped forward in his cell, sluggishly rubbing the wounds on his arms where the rat bit him repeatedly. He had no idea how long it lasted, but the torture got much worse. They kept having the rat clamp onto a part of his body and then twist the rat while still clamped on. It was like stabbing someone with a knife and twisting it as it was still embedded. Boy he was thankful once it ended and he was unstrapped and taken back to his cell.
Both eyes were shaking as he tried to keep them open, but had trouble since they felt like they were made of lead. After today he felt more tired than before, but yet he wouldn't be allowed to sleep. He was really starting to lose focus with the lack of sleep. His mind couldn't think, his movements were sluggish, and from what he could tell it was as if his pain radiated more because of it. Plus it was like his awareness was really off.
It took the olive green turtle ten minutes after he was returned to his cell to realize that his captors didn't chain him up again. It was weird at first, but his head started to ache as he started to question this. In the end he just let it go and continued to nurse his wounds. Luckily they numbed down a bit, the soothing rubs making him feel better as he-
"AH!" he shouted in surprise as the shocks happened. "Not…again…" he slowly thought. "Why the sleep De…Dep-De…Sleep loss?" He thought, not being able to remember the term. He couldn't remember some of the big words so he had to go with the simple terms. His head started to hurt once more as he thought again, fatigue being felt again.
His head perked up as his door opened again, a bit of fear seeped in as who he saw it was. The Shredder walked into the room and had a…irritated look on his face. Either way Don glared at him, wondering what he wanted and what he was going to do.
Oroku Saki looked at the turtle before him before turning and looking out the door, "Get in here now!"
Just then a small raven haired male, who wore a white coat came in, holding a medical kit. Apparently he looked scared.
"What that…S-S..Sh..ell..." Don tried to think but still had trouble.
Oroku then grabbed the male by his coat and brought him up to his face. "Treat his wounds now…and if you so much as make him yelp, you'll regret it." He then tossed the man closer to Don. "And take those electrodes off!"
The olive green turtle looked on in confusion as the man got closer, but out of instinct he sluggishly moved away. But then his head jerked as he caught that last sentence, take the electrodes off?
"Stay still turtle, he's going to treat your wounds," he heard Shredder say in an angry tone.
"Is he…angry at me…or…s-someone else?" Don still moved away. There were so many things he wanted to say right now, but all that managed to come out was, "Why?"
"Unfortunately after I left, my men decided to do what they wanted with you without my knowing. I'll deal with them after I make sure this medic properly takes care of?"
"What's his…uh…angle?" he thought. As his arm was taken by the medic. A bit of relief filled him as the electrodes were disconnected from the batteries and removed. Both of Don's eyes squeezed shut as they were removed from his skin. It was almost as it they were fused onto him and taking them off were like ripping the skin. Once they were fully removed the medic took a damp cloth was placed on the bites.
Don hissed in pain but then something surprising happened. Oroku backhanded the man in the head, "What did I tell you!"
"I'm sorry, it's alcohol, it's supposed to sting," the man trembled with his words, scared.
"I stand by what I said, don't harm him!"
"Y-Y-Yes sir!"
Don sat there confused at what was going on right now, the Shredder is caring that no harm come to him? Either way he let the medic do his work, both eyes wearily looked at the items that were use. The smell confirmed that it was indeed alcohol, which was still surprising. Once his arm was cleaned up the medic took out a roll on bandages and wrapped up his arm then repeated the same with his other arm.
Once his wounds here taken care of Shredder ordered something else, "Now give him the painkiller."
"Pain…killer?" Donny accidently said.
"Yes, I rather you not be in any pain, plus this will make you tired," Oroku responded as he stood over the medic like a hawk.
"But..but…can't…sleep…" His mind was overwhelmed at what was going on. He was confused, really confused, he didn't know what to think, heck he could barely think at all. It was then he felt a prick of a needle being stuck into him then the feeling of something entering his system.
"I also found out they were depriving you of sleep, I'm changing that."
"But…why?" Donny almost cried out in relief as he could feel all the pain started to numb, but also his eye lids felt much heavier.
"That's not what I told them to do," it was then he turned and called for someone. A new foot ninja came in, but this one wasn't wearing a colored cloth. He carried in a bed roll and set it up next to the turtle.
Confused at this Don couldn't prevent the Shredder from coming over and easily maneuvering the olive green turtle to lay on the bed roll. "As long as I'm here, I'll let you sleep."
That was the last coherent thing Donny heard, the side effects of the painkillers made him more tired as his eyes slowly closed. Once again he almost cried out in relief as no shocks came. Just like that his whole body shut down as the sweet arms of sleep finally took hold of him.
A/N: Hope you like, I wonder if anyone can guess where i'm going with this. If so good for you. Things are going to pick up in the next chapter. I'll work on it and have it up soon.