Chapter 6: New Encounter
Dragor was in astonishment as his attack was actually currently being blocked, let alone held back. Leo had appeared out of nowhere and had both his swords drawn and crossed together where Dragor's claws were pressing against them as he was attempting to apply more force, a crack began to appear on one of Leo's swords as he was forced down onto one knee and slightly forced back as he was protecting his brothers.
Leo growled as the crack on his sword began to spread more, "Will….you… two, please… MOVE!?" Leo shouted as he was struggling hard enough to hold Dragor back, Dragor growled loudly as he was also struggling as he pushed harder attempting to snap Leo's sword. Mikey and Donnie instantly stopped clinging to one another and jolted away, blood began to seep through the bandage on Leo's arm more causing him to flinch in pain slightly as the injury was reopening from the force. Dragor noticed this and smirked as he released his one hand and aimed it at Leo's injured arm, Leo saw the attack coming beforehand as he growled lowly and removed his swords from Dragor's one claw and dodged his attempted attack on Leo's injured arm as he leaped back.
Dragor stood on two feet and growled angrily at Leo but also was amazed. 'It's been ages since someone has actually been able to subdue me, especially with such an injury as well." Dragor smirked in a freaky kind of happy way as he glared at Leo's injured arm regarding his topic. Leo only glanced at the crack in his sword and sighed silently as he also glanced at his injury, "April is gonna kill me..." He mumbled. Mikey instantly rushed to Leo's side, weapons drawn as Leo stood up with both his swords to his sides, Raph threw rubble off of himself from the crash landing into the wall that Dragor had done and also rushed to join his brothers as he growled, "You are so going to pay for that!" Raph shouted angrily.
"Donnie!?" A voice came from behind Donnie as he was standing away from his three brothers who were confronting Dragor, Donnie turned around as he instantly knew the voice. "April!? What the heck are you doing here, it's dangerous!" Donnie yelled as he noticed immediately that it was her as she climbed a ladder to get up to the turtles. "I got a call that you guys were in trouble, so I woke Leo up and we came rushing on over." She explained herself as she walked over to Donnie and moved her look at Dragor, "WOAH! Ok now that is cool, who is that?!" April asked in amazement. "Mikey calls him, Dragor. He's apparently some kind of dragon mutant from another world, he's the one who wants the blueprint for the teleporter so he can bring forth an army to overcome earth and take it over. He was using the Purple Dragons." Donnie exclaimed as he looked at her and back at Dragor, "I told you something felt off!" April shouted in Donnie's ear angrily, Donnie freaked out at the sudden shout and glanced at her in surprise.
"Wait you got a call!? By who?" Donnie asked as he became confused from what April said before. April pointed down from the broken window they were standing nearby, her point was directed at Jenna who was still in the room with the other man as she was knelt down assisting the man who had got injured from the crash through the window as rubble had fallen on him. Donnie only looked back at April in confusion, April raised her shoulders and hands "I don't know, she still had my number and called me, I guess there's still some good in her? Or something was bothering her? I'm just grateful she did, or you three would've been killed." April stated.
Dragor let out a large growl as he glanced at the three turtles who stood in front of him, "Four of you turtles?" he growled lowly as he glanced at April. "Must be the girl that they protect that the purple dragon girl stated." Dragor mumbled as he was talking to himself as he was reading the situation with the enemies around him.
"You guys seriously need to start listening to Splinter's guidelines." Leo said angrily at Raph and Mikey, "We're a team and we stick together as much as possible, and we're brothers. You guys should've waited for me." Leo stated somewhat sadly as they advanced the enemy ahead without his consent or Splinters. "It was Donnie's call, not ours." Raph exclaimed as if blaming Donnie, "You still followed." Leo growled at Raph who also growled back. Raph glanced at Leo's injured arm and noticed the blood seeping through the bandages and remembered what Mikey had said before, Raph only sighed "Fine, You're right, bro. I hate being seperated anyway from my brothers." Raph stated as he smirked at Leo. The sudden agreement from Raph had shocked Leo a bit as he would normally continue the argument.
"Guys…GUYS!" Mikey shouted as he stopped spinning one of his nunchucks and pointed. Both Raph and Leo looked at Mikey and where he was pointing, Dragor instantly seeped his hind claws into the ground and was directing his prepared pounce towards April and Donnie as he then darted at them as they were talking. "DONNIE!" Raph and Mikey shouted to alert him.
Donnie heard the yell and subdued his frighteness as he noticed Dragor charging at them, there wasn't much time to react but he acted quickly as he grabbed April and dodged the incoming charge. Dragor crashed into the wall that they were standing near as Donnie had April in his arms as they both glanced at where Dragor had crashed. Leo shouted at him and waved his hand directing him to come on as he wanted them to retreat as Dragor was too powerful and this was their chance. Donnie noticed this instantly and ran over as the group jumped off the roof and retreated leaving Dragor who fell through the wall and into the building.
Dragor instantly shook off the rubble as he crash landed and flew back up to the roof only to notice that the turtles and the girl were gone and had vanished. He knew they had retreated, left and hid somewhere, this angered him greatly as he let out an angered loud growl and directed his attention to the private room angrily. He dashed his way back into the room where Jenna and the man still were as they didn't dare leave the incident because of what Dragor could do. "Who was the blue one with the swords!?" Dragor commanded as he glared angrily at Jenna. Jenna looked at Dragor frighteningly "All I know about the blue one with swords is that we encountered him and the orange one at the apartment when trying to retrieve the statue, he protected the girl." Jenna stated as she glared at Dragor who growled lowly. "Apartment? Where is this apartment that this girl stays at?" Dragor smirked as he asked Jenna, "It's up north on broad street." Jenna stated worriedly. "So, he's protective. Such a sad weakness." Dragor laughed as he spread his wings and flew out the building heading North.
"AhAHh OUCH!" Leo yelped in pain and glanced at April worriedly. April purposely hurt him as she was restitching his injury that he reopened a bit from the fight back at the Purple Dragons base. Leo knew she was angry with him, and not just him but everyone else, she stopped and glanced up looking at all the turtles as they all were back in the lair in the sewers and in Donnie's lab. "I told you something was off, but nooo, you couldn't listen and things went badly, and you…!" She pointed at Leo next to her angrily, "Quit jumping into fights only to hurt yourself!" April said angrily at Leo who only looked at her innocently. She growled lowly at Leo and moved her look to Donnie "You knew as much as I did too but still proceeded, I know I agreed on it. But instincts normally don't lie." She stated as she also yelled at Donnie. All the turtles practically looked at her as if being scolded by their mother, all though Mikey wasn't really paying attention.
"Ok ok, calm down. We still got information and managed to survive in the end, were still here and breathing. So look on the bright side." Donnie said as he walked over to his computers and sat in his chair pulling up the blueprint on the monitors. "We know that this Dragor dragon mutant dude from another planet is attempting to build a powerful teleporter to teleport an army through in order to take over earth, he is using the Purple Dragons to find it, but we have it." Donnie stated. April sighed and placed her hand on Leo's injury as she stared at it with a sad look, "I know, it's just you three could've been killed if Jenna didn't call…" April said sadly.
"April is correct." A voice came from the lab entrance. "Splinter!" Raph yelped in shock, "You boys must overcome your problems and fears. This Dragor, seems very powerful and wants to do something remarkably bad that only we and these Purple Dragons know about. This Dragor also seems to remarkably be able to read situations pretty well, and is most likely already on about us slightly." Splinter stated as he directed his look at Leo's injury. They all knew what he was getting at as they remembered Dragor was focused on taking advantage of Leo's injury, which means he must've also read that Leo tends to be pretty protective, and that Donnie and Mikey tend to freeze and become frighten, and Raph's enthusiasm gets the best of him and still usually fails in the end. Though Splinter knew this might not change as it was also their strengths in their own ways, but must learn to build from it and also take advantage of it and read their enemies weaknesses as well.
Back at the Purple Dragon base, Jenna watched as Dragor had flown off, she looked down at her boss as he seemed to be ok now and also terrified of Dragor. "We must obey him, otherwise we're all dead. I just as much do not want an army of dragons as powerful as him here, but we have no choice." He stated as he looked at Jenna, "Sure we do." Jenna said as she pulled her phone out and dialed a number.
April's phone in her pocket began to ring as someone was calling her, she had just finished putting new bandages on Leo's arm and grabbed her phone from her pocket and answered. "April?" A voice came from the other end, it was Jenna. This surprised April, and she put her on speaker for the rest of the group to hear, including Splinter, "What do you want Jenna?" April questioned confusingly. "Look, the reason I helped is because I don't like this weird monster's plan...it isn't what I… we wanted. We don't really have a choice but to obey him at the moment, and I see your turtle friends as the only option we have in order to beat him… especially the one in blue as he seemed to fear and be angered about him the most…?" Jenna stated as she was sounding worried, everyone looked at Leo who was confused and shocked with all the eyes directed at him. "What!? Just because I managed to hold him back from you two doesn't mean I can beat him… he still cracked my sword and pushed me back!" Leo exclaimed as all eyes still were on him. "Yeah.. but you weren't around to see Dragor's strength, I mean, he sent Raph flying into a wall with just his fire breath. And his speed is insane too, and you managed to directly get in front of us just in time and actually block and hold him back." Donnie said to Leo, "And she just said, he seemed frightened by you specifically." April added.
Leo only innocently looked at everyone as he became more confused and not to get any stupid bright ideas and it scared him a bit. "Look all I am getting at here is that I can be the inside information for you guys, I know you guys have the blueprint." Jenna said as they all directed their looks back at the phone in shock. "How did you…?" Donnie began as he became confused, "I mean, why else would you follow. I mean, I know for April's sake to find out why I barged into her apartment looking for something, but I figured it was something more. That reminds me, he's headed for your apartment, April, I hope you aren't there." Jenna said, "I'm not there, no one is there at the moment. But why my apartment?" April asked. "I had no choice but to tell him it was your apartment where the statue was for the blueprint, and I also told him that's where the blue and orange turtles protected you. I guess he wants to take advantage of that? I don't know." Jenna stated with a sigh. "Thanks, Jenna." April said as she hung up.
April turned her look to Leo, "Apparently he wants to use me to get to you? But he can use the others too, or even innocent people…" April said as she confused herself. Donnie sighed as he placed a hand under his chin and started to think, "Apparently Leo is the key to defeating him? But so long as he doesn't have the chip or blueprint in his possession, we're all good unless he comes across our lair and finds it. "Yeah, I'm just gonna jab him with my swords a few times and it's a victory." Leo sarcastically stated as he was completely unamused. "April, you'll have to stay here with us, it is dangerous to go back to your apartment." Splinter stated as he looked at her. "Heh… I might as well live here at the rate this is all going at." She remarked with a sigh.
Donnie couldn't help but to struggle as he thought hard. Mikey noticed this, "What's wrong D.?" Mikey asked confusingly. "Somethings been bothering me… if Dragor is from another planet, then how did he get here? And if the chip is centuries old, then how did the chip get here? And if he is here for the chip and planning to build a teleporter that requires materials earth does not have, then that must mean the materials are also here on earth, hidden." Donnie exclaimed as he turned his look to the group. "He also stated earlier that it's been ages since someone has subdued him, which makes me conclude that he is probably the only one of his kind and most likely the strongest? Which means there's only certain other special people who can subdue him..?" Donnie was beginning to confuse himself. "Which is Leo apparently…? But there are billions of living people and most likely mutants too who could probably subdue him… Leo only managed to block his strength directly with his swords, not bare hands. That doesn't mean it would be the same for the breath attack that Raph took. But it still doesn't change the fact Dragor was amazed and slightly frightened with mostly Leo…" April stated as she glanced at Leo and then back at Donnie trying to figure the puzzle out.
"Oh...no.." April said worriedly. Everyone looked at her in confusion. "If Dragor is going to my apartment… and he actually goes inside and searches… I left the broken half of the real statue in the bedroom, and if he finds that, he'll know we have the chip and blueprint." April said worriedly. Donnie only sighed, "Nothing we can do about it now, he's probably already there and noticing we aren't there either. All we can do is sit and wait." Donnie stated. April sighed, "Well I know I gotta stay here, but I gotta just quickly check up with Adam and give him the news, I texted him earlier that I would meet him outside his place in the alley to talk in a few minutes." "Hmm, take my sons with you. I rather you not go alone." Splinter said as he looked at her reassuring her that he wasn't going to keep her locked up down here because of the situation. "I'm gonna stay here and see if I can find more information on the statue and possible sighting on a mutant dragon, seems like Dragor might've been around for a while." Donnie said with a wave as he turned to face his computer screens.
Splinter had already walked out and left, returning to the dojo, April and the other three turtles let Donnie do his thing and left the lab and lair as they exited the manhole on the alley they needed to be on to meet Adam at. A few minutes passed as April and the three turtles stood in the Alley waiting, Adam walked out of his place and came around the corner as his place was right next to the alleyway and he waved at the group as he approached them. They were all pretty much in a circle that Adam had joined, "So, what happened?" Adam asked. April explained most of the situation and incident that happened at the Purple Dragon building and with the turtles, also remarking how Dragor seemed to be in fear of Leo.
Adam looked at Leo confusingly, "So you're practically the key to beating this Dragor?" he asked. Leo only raised an eye, "So it seems… but I think it isn't just me as there are still many unknowns regarding it." Leo stated. "We want you to stay away from the Purple Dragons for a while, Adam. Please, because of this Dragor guy, he is most likely to kill innocent people to get to Leo or to get what he wants. And if he finds out that you're with us, things will be really bad." April said seriously.
Adam sighed but agreed, he believed April and the turtles about a dragon mutant on the loose planning disaster on the world and hurting those who got in his way and those who are close and in relationship with that person which was April and the turtles, and Adam if he were to find out. Leo could suddenly feel a presence behind him as everyone was distracted with looking and talking to one another, before he could react he felt one of swords quickly being pulled out from his sheath, Leo instantly turned around in sudden surprise as well as the others did, they all noticed a young boy who had Leo's sword in his hands pointed upward and staring at the blade in amazement. "Casey!" Adam shouted in surprise.
Casey looked at the blade from top to bottom and noticed the cracks in the blade, he glanced at Leo. "Dude, the heck did you fight! This is so cool!" Casey shouted in amazement as he swung the sword around, Leo only sighed in slight relief, worried it was something possibly more dangerous like Dragor suddenly appearing. He walked up to Casey and forced the sword out of his hand, taking it back. "It's not a toy." Leo stated as he glared at Casey, sheathing the sword back.
"Casey, what the hell are you doing out here!? And what?! Not, oh my god giant talking turtles? You're just amazed and surprised with a sword?!" April yelled at him. Adam only looked down with a facepalm and sighed, "Well duh, when you play so many games with monsters on them, it doesn't really surprise you much even if you see them in reality. But weapons, ohhh yeahh! Dude is that a real nunchuck!?" Casey shouted as he ran to Mikey, crouching and poking the weapon excitedly.
"Casey, weren't you busy playing games? I also told you to stay inside." Adam said to him unamused of the situation. Casey shrugged, "I got bored, so I came to see what was taking you so long. Wasn't expecting my own dad to be friends with mutants, this is so cool!" He said, continuing to poke at Mikey's nunchucks.
"You know him?" Raph asked as he looked at April. April shrugged, "Yeah… Adam has been friends with my parents since I was born… Casey here is his son and we've played games together a lot when younger, last time I saw him was a year ago." Mikey pulled the Nunchuck out from the sheath of his belt that Casey was poking at and let him play with it and also showing him some basic nunchuck moves.
"Dude, you guys are muscular too." Casey said as he poked at Raph's shoulder who was close to Mikey. Raph waved his poking finger away, "Knock it off!" Raph growled at Casey and crossed his arms directing his attention back to April and Adam. Casey only giggled and poked Raph's shoulder again, Raph twitched an eye and growled, which made Casey poke again, "That is it you brat!" Raph shouted as he was about to pounce on Casey but was stopped. "Enough!" Leo shouted at Raph with a growl, Raph peered under his upward arm at Leo angrily and growled lowly but listened as he stopped and glared at Casey who chuckled.
Adam sighed, "Thanks for the heads up." April smiled at him and nodded reassuring him as they both looked at Casey, "I'll be staying with the turtles, so no worries regarding where I'll stay. Mind telling my parents an excuse and that my phone is off?" April asked innocently for the favor of Adam, Adam only smiled and chuckled a bit, "Of course I can. I got that covered for you." Adam said reassuring her.
"Thank you so much!" April said happily. "Woah, you're staying with these dude's, can I come?! Please, please, please, please!?" Casey sobbed as he approached April, pleading at her. April only raised her hands up half way innocently, "That's not my call to make…" She said as she glanced at Leo. Leo went wide eyed as he noticed this and looked at everyone who was also looking at him, 'What's with everyone looking at me lately…' he thought as he sighed. "No, no way. Not with what's happening, too dangerous." Leo stated as he was standing crossed armed glaring at Casey.
Casey schooched his way towards Leo with pleading eyes. Leo only looked at Casey seriously, still remarking that it was a no go, but was shocked when Mikey also schooched over pleading with Casey as he took a liking to Casey. Raph noticed this and only raised his hands and looked away wanting no part of it, Leo looked at Adam with a confused expression.
Adam sighed, "I mean… If it'll get him out of the house. The kid can defend himself just fine because of Hockey… trust me on that part. He also knows self defense that I taught him from police training. He isn't big on spilling the beans either, so no worries." He stated as he reassured Leo who was trying to not put more in danger, but it didn't seem like it was working with Casey here who kept insisting to come along and know more. Casey reminded Leo of April when he first met her down in the sewers, persistent. Leo glared at April not amused at all, "This was you when I first met you." Leo stated as he pointed at Mikey and Casey below him who were on their knees all sparkly eyed. April only gave Leo an angry look, "Well excuse me for liking to meet new people, even it's giant talking turtles. And I am glad I was persistent! Now I know it seems to work and convince you!" She growled.
"Pleeeeeasssseee!?" Both Casey and Mikey asked as they looked up at Leo. "Oh for the love of- Fine!" Leo growled giving up as he started to angrily mumble walking back to the manhole they came out from. April turned to look at Adam before she followed, "I'll keep you notified on Casey and the Purple Dragons. Don't worry." She said to him reassuring him as she waved him off following Leo, Casey followed April, Mikey and Raph followed along, Adam waved them off as they all went down the manhole. "Sewers huh, Gross." Adam said with a sigh as he turned and walked off back to his apartment.
Just as Donnie said beforehand, Dragor did reach April's apartment quickly, he didn't bother to go inside it as he hovered over it and peered through the windows and glass doors as the placed was pretty much trashed, he noticed no one was there and it upset him greatly as he let out a growl, he noticed people below him who were walking in large groups look up and notice him and pointed at him shouting "Look, what is that!?" Dragor only growled and instantly turned around and started flying back to the Purple Dragon base, "No matter… I have other ways to get the blueprint besides the chip. Those turtles better not get in the way!" Dragor growled letting out a roar as he flew back to the base.