Heya Readers!
Last place we left off, it was revealed that a clone of Kemeko created by Dr Arden broke Pandora out of the torture chamber and escaped with her whilst the real Kemeko was still prisoner in the Foot Headquarters!
Will the Hamato Clan realise this Kemeko is a fake? Or will the clone keep up the charade long enough to get the Foot Soldiers down into the sewers?
Note: References to Tyroth Darkstorm's Fanfic 'Mikey's Date' is mentioned in this chapter, if you haven't read it already, go to Tyroth Darkstorm's Page to read it, or find in my favouraite stories section.
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Explanations
Back at the lair, Splinter, the turtles and Monalisa listened to the girls tell their story.
Pandora did most of the talking wincing a few times as Donatello dressed her wounds, soothed her bruises and burns as well as stitched up some deeper cuts, whilst Kemeko (Or rather, the Clone of Kemeko) kept her head down and nodded along with the hybrid.
Before Dr Arden, Arashi, and Hanako let her release Pandora, she had been briefed about who she was and impersonating as well as general important information so as not to be suspected straight away, but she decided to let Pandora do all the talking and hopefully learn more of what had happened not long ago so she could keep up the charade.
Pandora spoke of following Kemeko topside after seeing her leave the lair, then managing to pull her into an alleyway after seeing her in a market, then convincing her to come home.
"…I followed Kemeko from the rooftops so the humans wouldn't see, and I kept on following her until I was able to grab her, I would have brought her back to the lair if that spy hadn't caught us!" Pandora concluded to which Kemeko continued to nod in agreement.
"And that spy wasn't just another Foot Spy!" Pandora added "She's Arashi's lover!"
Hearing that, the mutant's eyes widened, though Monalisa looked disgusted, and Michelangelo looked like he was going to be sick.
"Eeewwww!" the orange masked turtle gagged "That evil guy has a lover?"
"I saw how he had his hands all over her!" Pandora continued "Kept calling her Cherry! Though her real name is Hanako!"
The mutants flinched and shook their heads.
"Yeesh!" Monalisa gagged, "And I was shocked enough to learn he had a niece before Kate disposed of her!"
"She was the one who brought us to the Shredder! Arashi's Whore!" Pandora went on "And he ordered me taken to the dungeons, whilst Kemeko was faced with the Shredder, I don't know what happened in there, but I was taken below, left to hang in the cells for over an hour before Dr Arden, Arashi, Hanako and the V5 came in and tortured me!"
"Oh my poor baby!" Monalisa cried in shock as tears filled her eyes.
"But I told them nothing!" Pandora went on "I told them I would never speak! They'd have to kill me before I let lose my tongue!"
Leonardo stared at Pandora then turned to Kemeko, his eyes blazing.
"You left the lair!?" he cried "And went topside and walked amongst the humans!? And you and Pandora got caught by the Foot!? How could you be so stupid?" he shouted.
"Leonardo!" Splinter gasped but he understood why his son was angry.
Kemeko flinched but kept her head down, yet she glanced at Leonardo and the others every few seconds.
"I didn't mean for it to happen!" she wailed "I didn't know Pandora had followed me! I just….I just….Because of what I did," she sobbed "I brought disgrace to you, dishonour, so I decided to run away…and because I am human, I blended into the crowd."
"She's got a point!" Michelangelo said.
"Shush!" Monalisa hissed but she knew Michelangelo was right.
"I followed her." Pandora explained from her medical bed, now treated in bandages and gauzes.
"I saw her leaving and I knew the risks if I went topside, but I was determined to bring her back!"
"You a very brave girl!" Donatello said as he wiped Pandora's forehead with a cloth.
"And we are grateful to you!" Splinter said, "And very proud of you, You were able to protect your cousin."
"I am grateful she found me!" Kemeko said.
"But you put her in danger!" Leonardo said severly, "Pandora risked her life to find you and bring you back!"
"What happened when you faced the Shredder?" Monalisa asked Kemeko "Did he tell you anything?"
"Did he lie to you about your real parents or us?" Michelangelo asked, "If I know Shred-head, he will lie and cheat his way to gain your trust!"
Kemeko took a few deep breaths.
"He did speak to me about my parents." She said quietly, "And he spoke how they deserved to die, how they had betrayed him."
"They didn't deserve death!" Michelangelo protested.
"Be quiet Mikey!" Monalisa snapped.
"It's what he said." Kemeko told everyone still in a quiet and mumbled voice "It was cruel what he told me; they didn't deserve what happened to them!"
She lowered her head more, as she was only told certain important things about the real Kemeko and what had happened with the Shredder, she had to be careful and decided to play the trauma card so as not to talk to much.
"Just looking at him was like looking into hell!" she sniffed "I don't want to speak about it anymore!"
Leonardo opened his mouth to speak again but Splinter stopped him.
"I understand this has been traumatic for you my child, for both of you." He looked up at Pandora on her medical bed and Monalisa and Raphael had gone over to comfort her after Donatello gave them the all clear as he was finished treating her injuries.
The rat then looked back at Kemeko.
"I understand this is difficult and you do not want to speak about it, sometimes it is hard for one to speak about the trauma who have I think it is best you have some rest, and then we will speak more about what happened later when you feel better?"
Kemeko nodded yet still kept her head down.
"Come." He said, "I will take you to your room." He held out his paw and Kemeko took it then he began to lead the girl out of the medical room, Leonardo following them.
As Splinter, Leonardo and Kemeko left, Monalisa looked at her daughter and tears fell from her eyes.
"Oh, my poor baby!" she wept "Those evil monsters!"
"Please, please forgive me…" Pandora whimpered "I know I broke the rules, leaving the lair and going topside during the daytime hours, but I had to follow Kemeko!"
"We know baby." Monalisa assured her daughter as she hugged her "There is nothing to forgive, you did a brave thing!"
"You are my brave Tigress." Raphael soothed as he joined in the hug, his own tears falling "You may have broken a rule, but you did it for the sake and life and safety of your cousin and honoured sister, any of us would have done the same!"
Donatello and Michelangelo were quick to agree.
"Of course, yes!" Donatello said.
"Absolutely!" Michelangelo added "We all watch each other's shells!"
"I never imagined Kemeko would leave the lair like that though!" Donatello said as he looked out of the door to the main lair where he could still see Leonardo and Splinter accompanying Kemeko to her bedroom.
"Me neither!" Michelangelo agreed "But after what happened, her finding out she's the granddaughter of the Shredder, and because of him, Karai and Chaplin are dead."
"It would make anyone snap." Donatello ended "Still, it was unwise of her to do such a thing!"
"People can do crazy things." Monalisa said "When they hear such devastating news."
"But luckily, Pandora managed to find her, and bring her back, even though…." He paused as he screwed his eyes shut and hugged Pandora tightly.
"Oh, my tigress, I'm so sorry…if only…"
"Don't blame yourself daddy." Pandora soothed as she hugged her father "I told those bastards nothing! They tried to break me, but I never backed down!"
"And we're proud of you Geisha!" Donatello smiled "But now, you need to rest, let your wounds heal."
"He's right Geisha." Monalisa said giving her daughter a kiss on her head "You do need to rest."
"Will Kemeko be alright?" Pandora asked.
"She will baby." Monalisa soothed "Hopefully Leonardo won't be too hard on her, but I do hope she's realised what she's done, and how dangerous the situation was."
"She's a wise girl, and very remorseful if she does something bad or against the rules." Donatello said.
"That's true." Michelangelo agreed.
Pandora tried to get off the bed so she could go to her room, but once again her purple masked uncle stopped her.
"You need to stay here in the medical room for a bit Geisha." Donatello reminded the hybrid before she could get off the bed, "I need to keep an eye on you for a few hours, after what you went through."
Pandora sighed.
"Alright Uncle Don." She said as she settled down on the medical bed.
"Good girl." Donatello smiled.
Raphael and Monalisa hugged and kissed Pandora reminding her again how brave she was then left the room.
Michelangelo also hugged and kissed Pandora saying how proud he was of her and that he'd pick up some books, magazines, her ipad, or anything else from her bedroom to keep her entertained whilst she rested in the medical room to which the hybrid was grateful.
After Raphael and Monalisa left the room, the couple made their way to their bedroom and Monalisa couldn't help but break down in her mate's arms.
"Our little girl!" she wept "Our poor brave girl!"
Raphael held his mate close, his own tears falling, as well as rage boiling up in him at what those evil people had done to his child, but he had to keep it together, he knew that after they had settled things here with the children that himself and everyone would go and take out the Shredder for what he did, but the priority was making sure the children were okay and being there for his mate.
Raphael knelt on the floor of the bedroom holding Monalisa close.
"Our poor little Geisha was taken and tortured, and we weren't there to protect her!" Monalisa sobbed as she pounded her fists on Raphael's plastron in grief, yet Raphael held her tightly.
He didn't know what to say back, but he felt it best to just hold his mate close and let her cry, he too felt like screaming, and he decided once his mate had calmed down enough that he would take out his anger on his punch bag.
Meanwhile, Splinter and Leonardo had taken Kemeko to her room.
Splinter let Kemeko sit on her bed and the Asian girl curled up in the foetal position.
Leonardo sat behind Kemeko and placed a paw on her shoulder whilst Splinter sat on the dressing room table stool.
He was angry that Kemeko had just gone and left the lair and had gotten caught by the Foot and that Pandora had been tortured.
Even though he knew Kemeko hadn't meant for it to happen, he couldn't believe she had done it.
He wanted to give her a good talking to about it, but after everything that happened as well as the advice of Splinter, he had to let it be for now, he needed to calm down, as well as let his wound heal and let Kemeko think about what had happened and the consequences of her actions.
He sighed and looked at Kemeko who still had her back to him as well as remained curled up.
"Kemeko." He said, "I can't tell you how disappointed I am in you, you've never done this before, I'd expect that from your cousin, but you put yourself and Pandora in danger too!"
"I know father." Kemeko sniffed, still curled up "And words cannot express the guilt and regret I feel, and I know fleeing the Shredder, sneaking to the dungeons and getting her out doesn't make up for what I did."
Leonardo took a deep breath.
"You need time to think about what you did!" he said, "But we will be discussing this later, alright?"
Kemeko nodded.
"I understand." She said, Leonardo then stood up and walked with Splinter out of the bedroom.
As the blue masked turtle and the rat left, Kemeko waited a few minutes to make sure they were gone, then she sat up and a small smirk formed on her mouth revealing some of her teeth to be pointed, and her eyes flashed as they turned snake like for a moment.
"So far, so good, they haven't suspected me," she thought to herself "But I'm going to need to find out some more information about this Kemeko I'm copied from, just to buy me time until I can get the Foot Scouts down here."
She got up from the bed and started to look through Kemeko's room.
"I know the Turtle scientist Donatello will have made sure the security systems are working, and he'll be smart to make sure any tracking signals can't be traced, so I'll need to work from the inside to get the Foot down here, and hopefully before anyone suspects me…"
So the clone is inside the lair, and has been clever enough to avoid talking too much, pretending to be traumatised, and now she's alone she's going to see what information she can find out in Kemeko's room!
So far no-one had suspected a thing, but how long can the clone keep it up before she's found out? Well, keep checking back to find out readers!