Chapter 5

This wasn't going to be good.

They had started to drain their blood and all I could do was sit and watch them do it. I had started to think of these guys as friends, which was rare for me. But, now, I couldn't even do anything to help them. 'Damn, I feel useless.'

Suddenly, alarms started to sound out. Once they did, my father turned quickly to one of the techs. "I'll take this canister back to New York to withdraw the mutagen," he instructed. "Make sure that you drain all their blood." As he went to walk out, he grabbed the box containing the canister of blood. "Time to take a bite out of the Big Apple."

Once he left, I heard fighting going on behind us. I then watched as Raph came into my sight line. Raph looked around at his brothers and then looked over a me. I nodded, telling him that I was okay. He nodded back then looked towards his brothers again. "Leo!" he called out.

"About time," Mikey said a little slurred.

Raph tried to break the glass but he only bounced backward. He pulled out his Sais and was about to try again when a voice stopped him.

"Raphael, glad you could join us," the Shredder said. "The fourth cage is for you."

Shredder started to walk towards Raph, grabbing him by the throat and threw him into a lower level, breaking the concrete ceiling. They began to fight but from where I was tied up, I couldn't see the fight. I then heard two sets of footsteps. Then April screamed for Raph.

"Three, four total turtles, and one is fighting a robot samurai, why no," I heard a male voice mutter. I recognized the voice as Vern Fenwick, April's old camera man.

April then ran over to where I was tied up. "What do I do?" she questioned me. "How do I get them up?"

I looked to the three turtles in the cages, thinking. "Adrenaline," I told her, and she looked at me confused. I nodded my head towards the medical monitors, and she looked towards them. Looking back at me, I told her again. "Adrenaline."

She ran over to the monitors and tried to find the button for adrenaline. Once she found it, she continued to press it, trying to hurry the process. Vern joined her as she started to scream at them to get up. Suddenly, they all started to jolt awake, and broke the restraints that were holding them. They then broke out of the cages, glass shards going everywhere.

They all started to talk all at once and were running around with a lot of energy. I started laughing at how funny it was and Leo noticed me. He rushed over and broke the chains that were holding me. I nodded in thanks and Leo nodded back before he ran off to find Raph. Vern urged April and I to follow him and we ran out to the exit.

Near the exit, we met up with the turtles. Raph stopped me and handed me my sword. My eyes lit up and I quickly took it, putting it back into its scabbard. I gave Raph's arm a quick hug and I noticed his cheeks got a little darker. Coming out of the exit, we watched a chopper fly away. "Sacks is airborne," Raph called out.

"Flight time to Manhattan, nineteen minutes!" Donnie informed.

"Get us out of here Donnie!" Leo ordered.

Donnie pulled his goggles down and looked around spotting a large semi-truck that was empty. He then spotted more Foot soldiers. "Oh my gosh, they have guns."

They all got into a semi-circle around April, Vern and I when they started to fire at us. Leo shouted for everyone to get down. When the shooting stopped, you could also hear what sounded like ricochet. "Are you guys okay?" Leo asked.

"We're bulletproof," Raph stated in amazement.

"Sweet." Then they started to fire again. "Can you drive that truck?" Leo asked Vern. When Vern nodded, Leo turned to his brothers. "We're on Raph. Ready?"

Raph took the nearest gunman out and then they all started to fight off the Foot soldiers. I ran with Vern and April to the cab of the semi. I got in the back as Vern got into the driver's seat and April got into the passenger. "Vern, you know how to drive this, right?" April asked in a rush.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," he responded. "Just got to hotwire this thing, I guess. Classic blue wire/red wire situation."

I leaned over and dropped the keys down by pulling the visor down. "Keys."

"Yeah, keys are better."

Then I heard a banging behind me. "Drive!" Raph voice yelled.

"I'm on it!" Vern called back putting the semi in drive.

"Come on!" Raph said impatiently. "Come on!"

"That's all I need is a backseat driving talking turtle," Vern said with sarcasm. As Vern drove off the Sacks estate, he started to apologize to April. "I shouldn't have doubted you. Sorry I didn't stick up for you. I can't believe that you're not crazy! How crazy is that?"

I snorted at that. But looking forward, I saw a Foot SUV ahead of us. Someone came out the top with a rocket launcher. "Vern!" I warned.

Vern saw the vehicle and tried to turn out of the way, but it was too late. The rocket hit the side of the truck and made us spin around. We ended up tilting at the edge of a large decline. We all saw where the Foot were out of their vehicles and coming towards us. Vern tried to put the semi into drive and go but we just kept tipping. Eventually, we went over, and Vern turned us around. Mikey then decided to pop in.

"Just keep going straight," he said in between bumps on the road. He then appeared in front of April. "What's up angel cakes?" He then disappeared.

After a moment, April fished out a red camera and held herself out the passenger side window to take some pictures. "April! Be careful!" I shouted at her, worried about my friend.

"O'Neil, what are you doing?" Vern asked. He then stopped and starred at her butt. "Yeah, that's good. Make sure your getting everything."

"Vern look out!" I shouted. Too late. Vern hit a giant snow mound and April was flown out of the window.

"Vern! Rosy!" she was screaming. She managed to open the door but was barely hanging on. I climbed into the front and reached out to grab her by the arm. Pulling her inside the cab, I reached around to pull the door closed. Once I got back in my spot, I looked ahead and saw what I didn't want to see: a cliff.

Leo suddenly appeared at April's door. "Hi. Change of plans. Oh, come on." He looked past the drivers window to see Kurai pointing one of their shock claws at them. "Guys get down. Get down."

We got down just as the claw launched in through the window and latched onto Leo. I looked towards Kurai and then saw Raph plow into the armored vehicle. Looking back towards the cliff, I watched as it got closer. "Uh, Leo," I said drawing his attention back to the cliff.

Leo reached across to grab Vern but looked straight at me. "Grab on."

I wrapped my arms around his neck and locked my grip so I wouldn't fall. We went blasting through the driver's side door. Rolling around in the cold snow is not something I wanted to do, but there wasn't any way around it. I kept my grip locked around Leo's neck and there were moments where I almost slipped.

"Mikey!" Leo called out to his brother in orange. "Grab the cable!"

"I got it!" Mikey yelled back at us, and then started to yell no.

I looked over my shoulder and saw the cliff right next to us before we went over the edge. At the last moment, Leo drew one of his swords and stuck it in a crack in the rocks. We stopped short, and Leo grunted at the weight in his arms. I looked at him and he starred into my eyes. "Don't let go," he told me forcefully.

I gave him a nervous smile. "Trust me, I wasn't planning on it."

"I hope you have a parachute under that shell," Vern said as I heard the others above us.

"Hey guys!" Donnie yelled from above us and getting everyone's attention. "It's the maintenance hatch! Our ticket home!"

"A little help, please," Leo shouted back at them. I looked up as we started to move and found Raph lifting us up.

"Guys, we gotta hustle," Donnie rushed urgently. "Shredder's over New York City!"

This was going to be fun.