Chapter 4: Disaster & Trust
After encountering a strange technological chip, April, Leo and Mikey are ambushed in April's own apartment by a large man who is in a cult known as the Purple Dragons in which they always have some sort of Purple Dragon tattoo on their body. The man was presumed to be contained and in jail, but they thought wrong after this. Leo's right arm gets badly injured as the man was equipped with slight armor and blades attached to his arms that had pierced Leo's arm and right through his upper armor padding, as Leo had chose to take the incoming hit head on as he knew the man could easily direct his attack at Mikey and April and he didn't want that.
April was left on the balcony as Leo had jumped into battle to help Mikey with the enemy, she gazed at the blood on her left hand that was from Leo's injury after she had ran over to see if he was ok, and it seemed like it, but it still bothered her as he was losing quite a bit of blood. She moved her gaze at the strange chip in her right hand and moved it around, she then looked at the enemy that Leo and Mikey were fighting in the large living room area, the enemy was the same man that she had encountered in the alley last night that was helping two muggers hijack a poor girl and pinned her against a wall until Leo had arrived saving her, and presumed that the man was arrested. But he was here, in her apartment, fighting… and this confused April.
"I saw the cops and ambulance pull in before investigating Leo's little rescue… All the men were still passed out in the alley…" April began thinking as she watched the fight. "Maybe he broke free, or was let loose?" April stopped talking to herself as she remembered and came to a sudden realization where she could get answers. April quickly grabbed her phone out of her pocket and dialed a number, Leo wasn't wrong at all, cops would be sure to show up anytime now with all the ruckus and damage being done to the apartment. "April?" A voice came from the phone as she held it to her ear, "Adam!" April shouted as a loud crash could be heard, Mikey was thrown into a glass table but easily recovered. Adam was a cop, a cop chief to be exact and in command of most NYPD. Adam was like a second father to April, he was always the bestest friend she has had since she was a little girl and a close friend to her parents to this day, and she trusted him with her life.
"Is everything ok, what was that loud crash?" Adam asked and was about to ask more questions but April stopped him. "Not now, can you come to the apartment, like right this instant before any cops arrive, please, I'll explain everything when you get here." April asked him as she was also sounding rushed to purposely worry him. "Alright, on my way right now." Adam said as he hung up the phone. April sighed in relief and hoped he would get here before any cops arrived.
Leo had only one sword drawn, mostly to block the incoming sword attacks from the enemy's arms in which had blades attached to them. The man was pretty huge and muscular, but also fat and Mikey enjoyed playing around him because his attacks were decently slow, Leo was taking his time to observe the enemy and figure out a way to take them out. April noticed movement her through the balcony, it was Jenna, April stood up and looked over the railing and saw Jenna and her men about to enter a car. Jenna stopped next to the car door and peered up at the balcony, noticing April who was looking over and directly at her with an angry look. "Why are you doing this!?" April shouted at her, Jenna only smirked "Oh don't worry, I only sent him to kill your little friends, not you." Jenna entered the car as she chuckled along with her men and then drove off.
April growled slowly as Jenna had driven off but stopped as she noticed a cop car instantly pull over in front of the apartment, it was Adam and she was happy as he darted out of the car and into the apartment. After a minute or two, Adam appeared at the door and was already halfway through it but stopped with sudden shock and he noticed the fight happening and about to draw his gun only seeing two large mutant turtles armed with ninja weapons fighting a large man with armor on and blades attached to his arms. "Don't shoot the turtles!" April shouted at him as she approached the balcony door and hid behind it a bit. Leo had dodged an attack the enemy tried to throw at him as Mikey pulled the man back with his chain and grabbing his attention, Leo ended up landing next to Adam and only looked at him quickly then back towards where April was, giving her an angry and confused look. April only returned Leo's reaction with an innocent smile, she waved her hand at them asking for Adam to come over to her.
The chain Mikey had on the enemy broke loose and the man came running at Leo and Adam, Leo grabbed Adam as they both jumped out of the way as the enemy crashed into the wall. Leo helped Adam up to his feet and pointed towards April, "Go to her." Leo said, pushing him a bit in her direction. Adam was extremely confused but just went with it as Leo did just save him, he rushed towards April as April grabbed his hand pulling him into the balcony area. Leo and Mikey continued to observe and toy with the enemy a bit longer, allowing April to do whatever she was doing.
"What the heck IS GOING ON!?" Adam shouted at April as he crouched near her and glared at her. "You've been here two days and your place is already getting destroyed by monsters!?" Adam added. April only looked at him angrily, "Those monsters saved me more than once, and they aren't monsters, they are mutants, turtle mutants and my friends." She stated with a serious angry look at Adam. "Look, I need you to keep the cops out until they can beat that guy, please." April asked him. Adam sighed, "Apartment mayhem was all over the police radio as soon as I arrived, lucky for you I told them all to stand by outside the apartments and not enter until given further orders." Adam said as he moved his look at her hand, "Thats…" April sighed in relief and noticed him looking at her hand, the one just about covered in blood, her expression of relief dropped to a sad look as she lifted her hand a bit and also looked at it. "Don't worry….Not my blood…" She said sadly and pointed towards Leo who was still fighting. Adam looked to where she was pointing, which was one of the turtles, he noticed the one in blue and black had a bad injury on his arm and was constantly bleeding. He moved his look back at April, "You said they have protected you more than once, and I am guessing the one in blue protected you again?" He said looking at her hand again, "What exactly is going on and what are they?" He asked her.
April looked at Adam and back down below the balcony as she noticed multiple cops arrive but didn't move from their position or enter the apartment as they were ordered. She was grateful for this and would explain as fast as she could to him since there are still higher ranked cops than him that could eventually order them to engage, she moved her look back at Adam and nodded and sat on her knees. She pointed at Mikey and Leo's direction of the ongoing fight, "They are known as mutants, and to be exact, the one you call in blue, his name is Leonardo, the one in orange is Michelangelo, they saved me and helped me since I arrived here in New York and are practically my first friends even though they aren't human. And I am sure you remember Jenna, well, Leo and Mikey came to help me with arrangements of the apartments and she appeared out of nowhere about an hour ago looking for a statue that my parents had kept here, and apparently she was after this chip." April waved the chip in front of him. "She then came barging in breaking my door a bit as the statue was a secondary one she came across and was fake, so no chip. And Leo and Mikey were being protective as she was being aggressive towards me and she didn't like that, so she sent that large man up here to kill them and not me. That man I also came across last night in an alley with two other muggers before Leo came and took care of it, and I even saw the cops arrive as he was knocked out. So my question for you is, what the hell is he doing here in my apartment, I thought he got arrested." April explained and asked Adam.
It was a lot for Adam to take in, but he understood most of it. He turned his gaze to the fight and looked at the large man, the man matched a description that occured last night. "He broke free from the cops that were attempting to contain him last night, apparently he wasn't fully knocked out. And it seems, he is also part of the Purple Dragons." Adam stated. April nodded at him as they both looked at the chip in April's hand, "What could they want this for?" April questioned. Leo gave Mikey hand signs which were orders on what to do, Mikey nodded at Leo and pulled out his gusari chain and swung it a few times before throwing it and wrapping it around the enemy. Leo sheathed his katana as he observed throughout the fight that his neck had a gap from the armor he was wearing, Mikey restrained the man with the chains preventing him from moving and attacking for a short period as Mikey wasn't that strong. Leo darted around the enemy and jumped onto his shoulders placing both hands into a fold and puncturing the pressure points on the man's neck which is normally a technique commonly used to knock out opponents, Leo applied more force to it this time as it seemed to not keep this man knocked out for long last time.
The man collapsed to the ground as Leo leapt off clutching his injured arm painfully. Both Leo and Mikey were steadily out of breath as the fight did last awhile, but was pretty much toying around and observing the enemy to learn the aspects of his movements. April stood up quickly and grabbed a random cloth on the ground rushing to Leo, she wrapped the cloth around his Injury and looked at Mikey who retracted his gusari chain and folded it. Mikey put the chain away as April called to him and tossed him something that he instantly looked up and caught, Mikey looked down at his hand to see that it was the chip. "Can you take it to Donnie to see what's on it? I am curious to know why the Purple dragons are after it." April stated as she was looking at Mikey, she moved her look too Leo who was looking exhausted but was also angry with her and she didn't care if he was, he had lost quite a bit of blood and too much blood loss can result to dizziness and tiredness and he was showing signs of this and wanted to treat his injury asap. "Leo's staying here too." April said giving Leo a persistent angry look as she was putting pressure on his injury with the cloth to slow down the bleeding.
Leo held back a small painful yelp as he stayed silent, he was too angered and exhausted to argue with April and he did agree with her he would stay and allow her to help him with his wound. She did warn him he wouldn't like what was going to happen but he wasn't expecting to constantly expose himself in the span of only two days for the first time of going top side, Splinter will for sure being overly angry with him when he finds out about what happened here, especially exposing himself to a cop of all people. Mikey looked at Leo hoping for a negative order that she was kidding about him staying here that had a cop in the building along with cops surrounding the building, sadly Leo only looked down and away from them all without a word or signal. Mikey didn't like this, but he trusted April and he knew Leo did too as he moved his look back at April and clutched the chip in his hand "You got it." Mikey said as he turned and ran towards the balcony passing Adam who was slowly walking up towards April, Mikey had climbed the apartment building to the roof and was gone as he would return to the lair to give Donnie the chip and bad news.
April looked at Adam who was beside her, "You can't tell anyone, and I mean no one about them. Please, I trust you more than my own parents right now." April asked him with a worried and sad look on her face, Adam noticed she held onto Leo as if protecting him from any incoming bad thing that Adam could pull on him. Adam could also tell she cared about these turtle mutants a lot even though she has only known them for two days, Adam watched April grow up since she was just a little girl and always played and did stuff with her and was her only friend, he was happy for her more than anything. He smiled at her "You have my word April, but you gotta promise to explain more to me and the info about that chip regarding the Purple Dragons." April's sad expression turned to a very happy looking one as she looked at Adam, "Go treat him in your new room, I'll keep the cops from entering that room specifically." Adam added on as he pointed towards the open bedroom door. Luckily for April there was a restroom with the bedroom that had a first aid kit in it, so she nodded to him as she helped and assisted Leo to the bedroom.
Adam had the cops come up to the apartment that waited outside to restrain the large man Leo and Mikey took down, and just as they were ordered, they stayed away and out from the bedroom as they all investigated elsewhere in the apartment. April dug through the restroom cabinets looking for the first aid as Leo sat criss crossed on the bed still giving the silent treatment, she didn't care if he did and with how angry he seemed to be with her, she didn't wanna encourage him to talk anyway at the moment as he looked like he was about to pass out from tiredness. She knew it wasn't just because of blood loss, the man he was fighting was pretty much focusing on wearing out Leo more than Mikey, and she could think of multiple reasons why. Mikey is always pretty much full of energy and not easy to wear out, Leo was injured and pretty much used that to his advantage, but it could have also been that he remembered Leo's substantial looks from back in the alley last night and wanted payback and was pretty much very angry.
Leo's wound was bad, the cut was long and pretty deep, the blade did shred through his black bandages and armor leather hand padding and directly into his skin causing constant bleeding through the entire fight since it happened. So of course blood loss would take place, but she was glad it wasn't worse and was just a large bad cut on the arm, if it was something more fatal or severe the blood loss could result towards leading to death, but in this case it resulted to unconconscious, but still, even a injury like the cut on Leo's arm could still lead to a fatal if not treated after a while. April was grateful she was into medical schooling, it was probably her best class throughout school at the farmhouse so she knew what she needed to do, and Leo's injury would definitely need stitches.
April found the kit as she happily grabbed it, she also grabbed a clean cloth and wet it with warm water and pulled out a needle. She stood at the entrance of the restroom door, "I heard you're afraid of needles, no?" April said raising and showing Leo the needle in her hand. Leo only looked at the needle and back at her confusingly as he raised an eye, "That would be Raph, not me." Leo said, showing hardly any reaction to it. April raised an eyebrow as she walked over to him, sitting next to him on the bed also crossed, she grabbed his injured arm and let it relax on her lap as she placed the warm cloth on the wound, the warmth normally would help slow down bleeding and she sort of needed the bleeding to slow down or stop so she could see where she was stitching. She sighed sadly "Guess I heard wrong." Leo looked at April a bit and noticed she seemed worried, and didn't like the situation, let alone all that has happened, especially her new home getting decimated by Purple Dragons.
"Guessing Donnie told you some facts?" Leo asked as he looked at her confusingly. April only had both her hands on his injured arm, staring at it as blood seeped through the cloth. She nodded, "Just what you guys were afraid of… I kinda mixed you with Raph there. But one thing does bother me, he doesn't know what you're afraid of." April looked at Leo, "What are you scared of, Leo?" Leo gave her a somewhat surprised look, but looked away from her and back down, "Losing the people I care about… My brothers, You, Splinter…" Leo stated as it just came out, he hasn't told anyone what he was afraid of, his fear was only known by Splinter alone. April looked back down at his arm, "Does it hurt?" She asked him. Leo looked back at her giving a confused look wondering why she was asking such an obvious question, "Of course it hurts…" he exclaimed. April moved her gaze back up at him looking unamused, "You're giving that look like, why would I ask such an obvious question?" Leo only reacted with hesitation as he had no words to respond, but was suddenly engulfed. April had suddenly moved and hugged Leo, Leo was too surprised at the sudden action and very confused as he placed his uninjured arm on her back confusingly.
"Because I care about you too, Leo. If anything happened to you or Mikey, I don't know what I would do… You guys are the only friends I have ever made in my entire life. I don't care if I've only known you for two days, Adam has been the only friend I've had since I was a little girl, I don't care if you guys are talking mutants or monsters or whatever, you still have human emotions and a caring heart." April exclaimed as she wouldn't let go of him due to her emotions getting the best of her. "You guys have been there for me the past two days, what do you expect me to think and ask?" She stated as she let go of him and then gave him an angry look, Leo was practically speechless as he looked at her confused still, due to the angry look she was giving him. "And you need to stop being so reckless, don't sacrifice yourself ever!" She yelled at him as she shook him a bit, "And don't pass out on me until I stitch you up! Idiot!" She exclaimed.
"Ok ok! Jeez!" Leo exclaimed as he stopped her from shaking him, April sat back down angrily and placed the cloth back on his injured arm and growled lowly. April could tell Leo was having a hard time staying awake as he slumped over looking down again closing his eyes, she was practically going to be an ass on purpose as she grabbed the needle she placed on top of the kit next to her. "AaAAahh OUCH!" Leo instantly shouted and looked at April angrily who smirked at him slightly, "Oops, probably should've said I was going to start stitching." She stated with a small chuckle.
April placed a hand on top of Leo's injury, she had already finished stitching and wrapping the wound after a couple minutes had passed. Leo was pretty much passed out on the bed as he couldn't stay awake any longer, so she let him rest. She worried the injury would leave a scar considering it was pretty bad and deep as she looked at the wrapped wound and sighed, she placed a blanket on Leo and cleaned up the mess on the bed putting stuff back in the restroom. April sat back on the bed and grabbed the remote to the TV that was in front of the bed, turning it on. She sighed as her apartment mayhem was already on the late night news, cops were still in the apartment as only an hour had passed since the incident, so she decided to give Donnie a call to see if Mikey made it back and if he found anything regarding the Chip. She pulled her phone out of her pocket and dialed Donnie's number that he had given her to stay in communication with them.
"April, you ok? Mikey just got here about twenty minutes ago and told me what happened." Donnie asked as he answered her call. "Yeah it's all good." April began, "Yo, I got me a pizza lowrider!" Mikey shouted in the background causing April to giggle slightly. April peered over her shoulder giving a worried expression as she looked at Leo who was pretty much still unconscious and resting, "Is he always this reckless?" April asked Donnie as he was trying to shut up Mikey. "What?" Donnie said confusingly as he didn't understand her due to him being distracted with Mikey. April sighed, "Nothing, have you found anything regarding that chip?" She asked turning back and watching the TV.
"Yeah actually, Mikey instantly just handed it to me and started jabbering a bunch of nonsense. I just opened it a few minutes ago, and apparently the chip contains a blueprint for building a teleporter not of earth. Like it even has materials listed that I don't even know what they are…" Donnie stated and explained to April. "A teleporter?" April confusingly questioned as she stared at the TV confused, wondering what the hell the Purple Dragons wanted a teleporter for, let alone no man has ever been able to build one on earth nor scientist.