Happy Boxing Day Readers!
Hope you all enjoyed Christmas and are looking forward to seeing the New Year in.
Apart from uploading that Christmas One-shot on Christmas Eve, I took some time to relax, but now I'm back onto getting this fic wrapped up soon!
Last place we left off, Tyroth, the Knights and the Hamato Clan were surrounded by Yakuza Assassins armed with Guns! How are they going to get out of this?
Well grab your popcorn and read below to find out!
Chapter Sixty-Six
Catch the Cat!
As Pandora jumped onto the roof, she took a second to look at her wounds.
There was a deep wound on her arm where the bullet had ripped through her skin and her whole arm was soaked in blood.
The second wound in her side wasn't as deep, but it was still sore.
"Fuck!" she thought to herself "I need to get these patched!" She knew that if she returned to Mutopia and anyone saw the wounds, they would get suspicious.
She might have gotten her mother's ability to heal quicker than usual, but she couldn't heal no way near as fast as the Mutopians or even Tyroth himself.
The Hybrid clasped her bleeding arm and began to move over the rooftops, hoping to find a manhole to get back to the underground tunnels before either Hanako or Boss Kodama caught her.
As she ran, she looked behind her, yet she couldn't see anyone following her which reassured her, and she began to think as she ran.
"Maybe I shouldn't have gone through with this!" she thought "I couldn't have been caught and killed…"
"Yet your actions saved Tyroth's parents!" that little voice came into her thoughts "If anything, you should be proud of what you did!"
Pandora shook her head and kept running despite the pain.
"Not now!" she whispered, "Must get out of here!"
As she rounded a corner on the rooftops, the hybrid didn't know that Hanako and Boss Kodama were following her.
"She can't run forever!" Hanako snarled.
"If I can get a shot, I'll disable her for you!" Boss Kodama volunteered as he watched the rooftops.
Hanako smirked then suddenly Boss Kodama's phone rang, and he quickly picked it up.
"Yes? Huh?" he listened for a moment then he smirked "Very good! I knew I could count on you!"
He looked at Hanako who observed him in question.
"My assassins have surrounded that Dragon and his army!" he reported to which Hanako's eyes lit up.
"Brilliant!" she said, "Those freaks can't dodge bullets!"
Boss Kodama looked up at the rooftops.
"Find the Huntress." He said, "I'll deal with the Dragon and his Freaks."
Hanako nodded then ran after Pandora looking for a way to get to the rooftops whilst Boss Kodama went to look for Tyroth and the Knights.
Meanwhile Tyroth glared as he looked at the gunmen on the rooftops then at the ninja before them who were smirking.
He was furious that Kodama had pulled off a cowardly move, and he knew that bullets were harder to avoid.
He wasn't so worried about himself as he could heal quickly, but the others he wasn't so sure as if they hit a vital area, it would be fatal.
The Knights stood a better chance, but the Hamato Clan and his parents were another story, so he had to think carefully to get everyone away safely.
He looked up at the gunmen who all had their guns pointed directly at him and his friends and parents.
"Tyroth." Jack whispered and the Dragon could see he was looking nervous "What do we do?"
"I'm thinking Jack! I'm thinking!"
"Think faster!" Sharky growled.
"If they open fire on us, we're dead!" Percy whispered, his knees knocking slightly which Kate noticed, but she was too worried about their current situation to laugh at him.
"Be quiet!" Heather hissed "Let the Boss think!"
"I'd keep still if I were you, Dragon!" a voice shouted, and everyone looked over to see Boss Kodama walking over from a dark alley towards them.
Richard and Erica hugged each other in fear and Sephie stood in front of them to protect them.
"It's him!" Kate hissed looking at the smartly dressed Asian Man.
"Boss Kodama!" Sarah added.
"The One who shot Jake!" Amber cried.
Monalisa's eyes flashed, and she went mauve with rage seeing the man who tried to kill her brother and the same anger she felt when Shredder had killed Callum and led him to become Diablo.
Michelangelo saw his adopted sister's look and he swallowed in fear, as did Donatello who looked ready to stop her if she took off at Boss Kodama and Raphael felt the same.
Tyroth meanwhile bared his teeth.
"Boss Kodama!" he growled.
"Ah, so you do know of me!" the Yakuza Boss smirked.
"Been hard not to know." Jack growled.
"Quiet!" Tyroth said as he watched Boss Kodama walk closer to them.
"Well done, keeping your men, and women in check, otherwise, I just have to give the word, and they…" he pointed at the gunmen "Will empty their rounds on you all!"
The Knights, the Hamato Clan, Richard and Erica went pale in fear, but Tyroth still glared.
"And trust me when I say," Boss Kodama stated, "They know exactly where to shoot!"
Tyroth nodded yet still glared with his teeth bared.
"Fine!" he growled "What do you want?"
"What are you doing Tyroth?" Percy asked.
"Be quiet!" Tyroth replied "Just wait!"
"What's he doing?" Michelangelo whispered as he watched.
"I don't know." Donatello said quietly "But we have to trust him!" he looked up at the gunmen on the rooftops.
"We have to do as he says, otherwise, we'll get guts and brains full of lead!"
Michelangelo gulped fearfully.
"Oh man." He said as his knees trembled "I'm kinda starting to wish we were back at the Foot Headquarters now!"
Meanwhile Pandora kept running, but then she heard someone jump onto the roof behind her and her stomach lurched as she saw Hanako running behind her.
"You can run, but you can't hide little girl!" Hanako shouted after her "And you won't get far with those wounds either!"
Pandora snarled then looked at her bloody arm and saw the blood was leaving a trail!
"Won't be long till you succumb to those wounds!" Hanako shouted "And you'll fall! Then you'll be mine!"
"I won't!" Pandora thought "I refuse!" she looked at her arm wound, and she could see it was showing signs of healing, but it was still painful, as was the one in her side.
As she kept running, she suddenly saw several individuals on some nearby rooftops, all wearing suits and holding guns!
"What the hell?" she thought then started to run towards them, Hanako not far behind!
At the same time, the Japanese woman saw the hybrid run in the direction of the suited men and women and she realised she must have seen what was happening.
"No!" she thought as raced after the hybrid who started to go for one of the individuals.
Meanwhile, unaware of Pandora and Hanako topside and not far away, Tyroth glared at Boss Kodama as well as looked at the gunmen surrounding them.
"I have to play this out carefully," he thought to himself "One wrong move and we'll be seriously hurt, or worse, killed!"
Boss Kodama watched the Dragon pondering then looked at the Knights and the Hamato Clan.
"Well," he said tapping his chin with the barrel of his gun, "It seems my assassins and those gangsters I've hired weren't lying, you do exist!"
He analysed Tyroth.
"And my partner has spoken a lot about you!" he said, "Been told many stories about how you tore through armies of ninja." As he spoke, he looked down at the remains of the ninja Tyroth had killed earlier.
"That you're completely indestructible."
Tyroth's eyes blazed.
"You want to see how much damage I can do right here?" he snarled as his body began to glow red with mana.
The Ninja standing nearby flinched as they watched the Dragon, yet Boss Kodama didn't move.
"This guy's either fearless or he's clueless." Amber said as she observed how calm Boss Kodama looked as she saw her brother get more and more agitated.
"Won't be long before he's a shish kebab!" Jack whispered.
"He thinks he's got the advantage." Kate said looking back at the gunmen "And Tyroth knows that he knows that if he tries anything, Kodama will give the word and we'll be rained on with bullets!"
"Why doesn't he do anything?" Michelangelo whined softly as he watched.
"Quiet!" Monalisa hissed "Tyroth and the Knights might be able to withstand the bullets if these jokers fire down on us, but we won't be so fortunate, and also…" she looked to Richard and Erica still standing behind Sephie "Haven't you forgotten we've got a couple who have no chance!"
Michelangelo gulped and he nodded.
"Right." He squeaked "We gotta trust Tyroth."
Raphael glared and he signed 'Not got much of a choice!'
Just as everyone wondered what was going to happen next regarding what either Tyroth or Boss Kodama would do, a yell was heard followed by a thump and everyone looked over to see one of the gunmen fall over the side of the roof!
Sephie as she saw that realised the chance for her parents in laws to escape and she turned to Richard and Erica.
"Go!" she hissed "Whilst they're distracted!"
Richard and Erica didn't argue, and they both raced into a nearby alleyway!
"What the hell!?" Boss Kodama cried then, he heard a growl and he turned to see Tyroth going for him, claws and teeth bared and his mana glowing.
Stunned, but thinking quickly, the Yakuza Boss dived to the side and rolled over before shouting.
"Shoot them down!"
Upon the Yakuza Bosses words, the assassins got into action and began firing their guns!
At the same time, the Knights and the Hamato Clan leapt around the place to avoid being shot at!
Michelangelo screamed as he did a forward somersault to get to Kate and get her away from the rain of lead.
Monalisa meanwhile turned to the other turtles.
"Get the others out of here!" she bellowed.
"Mona?" Donatello asked.
"Do as I say!" Monalisa shouted then she turned to Boss Kodama and went for him, her fans drawn and her eyes blazing!
"Mona! No!" Sephie shouted reaching out for her sister in spirit, but she shrieked as she felt a bullet graze past her shoulder, and she stumbled clasping the wound!
"Sephie!" Amber shouted and grabbed her before pulling her into the same alleyway that Erica and Richard were hiding in.
The other Knights scattered, Sarah managed to avoid the bullets as she ran around, and she grabbed Percy and Jack before they could get shot.
Heather meanwhile grabbed Sharky and lifted him up to fly him to another alleyway to get away from the gunfire.
Tyroth as he looked up from trying to attack Kodama, he realised he needed to deal with the gunmen before they hurt his friends, and he opened his wings and flew up as the gunmen fired their bullets at him!
"You think those lead pellets can stop me?" he roared as he opened his arms and flames started to show through his sharp teeth.
At the same time, Monalisa ran towards Boss Kodama who saw her coming towards him.
"You!" she screamed.
Boss Kodama glared and pointed his gun at Monalisa yet just as he fired, she did a forward roll and kicked her legs as she hit him in the chest making him drop his weapon!
"You bastard!" the lizard lady growled as she leapt up again.
Boss Kodama glared and took out a couple of short katanas and got into a fighting stance.
"Got a grudge against me freak?" he asked as he blocked one of Monalisa's attacks.
"You have no idea!" Monalisa snarled as she slashed with her weapons, yet the Yakuza boss dodged her moves, She then stabbed with her closed fan, but Kodama blocked it.
Meanwhile as that all happened, Pandora smirked as she turned to Hanako with her fist up, when she had seen then gunmen, she had seen Tyroth, her family and the Knights surrounded and being threatened to be shot to death.
She knew she was taking a huge risk, but she decided to take the chance and create a distraction and she had tapped the nearest gunman on the shoulder making him turn around and she had punched him in the face making him fall off the roof and distract Kodama giving Tyroth, the Knights and the Hamato Clan a chance to attack!
"You little brat!" Hanako snarled "Messing up mine and Kodama's plans!"
Pandora just smirked.
"Gotta suck right?" she teased then stuck two middle fingers up at Hanako before doing a couple of backflips and flipping off the roof to the alleyway below.
Hanako ran to the edge where she saw the Hybrid land on the ground then she saw Sarah the Cheetah along with Percy the Grasshopper and Jack the Wolf in the same alleyway.
As Pandora landed, her heart leapt to her throat when she saw the three Knights standing there sheltering from the gunfire.
The Cheetah, Wolf and Grasshopper were alarmed but they soon recognised what they had been shown from the images Hugh had provided them on the attacks the previous evening ago.
Yet because it was dark in the alley, they couldn't see clearly who it really was.
"The Huntress!" Jack cried.
"Shit!" Pandora thought and she quickly turned tail and ran in the opposite direction!
"Hey wait!" Jack shouted after her, but Pandora ran as she knew if they got a good look at her, her cover would be blown.
"After her!" the wolf ordered Sarah to which the cheetah took off after the hybrid!
As Pandora rounded a corner, she turned to see Sarah running after her!
"Aww shit!" she thought "There's no escaping her! I got to slow her down!" she turned another corner, then as she did, she saw what was ahead and smirked.
"Perfect!"
She ran down the alleyway, and Sarah followed her.
"Wait! Stop!" the cheetah shouted, "We want a word with you!"
"Not a chance!" Pandora thought then she gave a leap and onto a fire escape before flipping onto it.
Sarah meanwhile raced forward, she saw the hybrid leap onto the fire escape then raced to run underneath to climb up after her, yet as she did, her feet felt wet and sticky then heavy, and she almost fell over!
Looking down, the cheetah's eye's widened as she realised, she had run into some wet cement and had gotten stuck!
"Oh, for fucks sake!" she groaned then looked up to see Pandora vanish over the rooftops.
"Damnit!"
She pulled hard to try and leg her feet free and she managed to get the edge before tripping and falling flat on her face!
"God damn!" she cursed "Fuck this!"
"Sarah?"
The Cheetah looked up and she saw Percy, Heather and Sharky running over.
"Sarah?" Sharky cried "What are you doing down there?"
"Where's that huntress?" Heather asked.
"She got away!" Sarah growled crossly.
"What!?" Percy cried "She managed to escape you? I thought you could run faster than that!"
Sarah banged her fist on the ground and held up her cement covered feet.
"Doesn't help when you get stuck in wet cement!" she shouted.
Seeing her feet Percy started to laugh.
"Oh Man!" he cried "You didn't?"
"She did!" Sharky sighed and walked over before pulling Sarah to her feet.
"How can you get yourself stuck in cement?" Sharky asked.
"Well excuse me!" Sarah shot back "I was watching that Huntress more than watching my route!" she then looked at her ruined shoes.
"And I only just got these!" she lamented.
"Oh, forget the shoes, we'll get you new ones!" Heather shot back "Where did that Huntress go?"
"She headed that way!" Sarah reported pointing at the rooftops and Heather flew up to have a look only to see that the rooftops were empty of any life except a few drops of blood not far away.
Heather examined it then looked to see a few more drops further on.
Narrowing her eyes, the dragonfly flew on a little further to see if she could find more of a trail, but she found nothing else, as if the wounds the figure had gotten had stopped or she had been able to stop the bleeding.
"Damn!" she thought "She got away!" she sighed defeated then went back to the others hoping to help Tyroth and Monalisa then get everyone back to Mutopia before the public discovered the commotion.
So Pandora, as the Huntress, despite her wounds, she managed to cause a distraction for the Knights and the Hamato Clan so they could escape, yet not without wounds, and Sarah very nearly caught her, but thanks to the wet cement, Pandora got away, but will her luck run out before she's achieved her goal?
Well, again, thats for me to know, and you to find out!