Samantha Allan Park

by TheNerdyTomboyNewb96

Sam is a tomboy nerd whose life has been destroyed by the Foot. She has nothing but her older brother who's barely ever around. Somehow, fate leads her to discovering the turtles. Will they accept this stranger they just met, or push her away? Will this make her life better, worse? Involves canon material from movies, shows, and comics along with original content and characters.

26. Samantha Allan Park Ch26

Any references to TMNT or anything from popular media and culture is NOT MINE. I only own my OC's.

Chapter #26

*Monday September 1st, 7:30p.m.*

The turtles were sneaking around throughout the city streets, looking for any one lone member of the Purple Dragons. They hated how long they needed to wait, but they couldn't go out until it was dark enough and finally they felt that they would be safe enough to hide within the shadows. After searching for a while, Raph finally spotted a man with the Purple Dragons tattoo walking down an alley with a few other guys. The group of men said something amongst each other and then parted ways, and that's when it was time for the turtles to attack.

They all nodded in agreement of the plan and they moved swiftly down towards the ground. The man was clueless when a large green hand grabbed him and pulled him into the shadows of the alleyway he was walking by. He tried to yell, but Raph's hand muffled his voice. Leo and Donnie patted down his pockets until they felt and pulled out the walkie talkie from his jacket pocket.
"Mikey was this it?" Donnie asked.
"Yeah, it looked like that."
As soon as the man saw Michelangelo he truly began to panic, squirming as much as he could (which was barely at all) within Raph's grasp.
It took him a second, but Mikey recognized the face that was in front of him.
"Ohhhh hey guys, this was the guy I ran into the other day. Let me talk to him, kay?"
The three brothers looked at each other and shrugged.
Mikey walked over and shot the man an evil smile. He talked to the man in an animated yet twisted voice.
"Heyyyy buddy, remember me? I'm the guy you and your crew pissed off the other day. You're a horrible liar and didn't follow through on our deal, so I'm gonna take this okay?" he said deviously as he held up the walkie talkie and crushed it in his hands. "You're not going to use this anymore okay? And you see your legs? You better talk or else I'm going to break them as well, got it?"
The man shivered as he nodded his head.
Raph lifted his hand away from the man's face slowly in case he decided to start screaming and blow their cover, but he remained quiet which shocked the other three who had never seen Mikey talk or act in such a way, and to them it was a bit scary how easily he could snap and make this man fall for his 'tough guy' act. "Has he always been able to do this?" they thought to themselves as they continued to watch him interact with the man.
"Okay, okay. I'll do whatever you want, just don't kill me" the man begged.
"Pshh, we're not going to kill you, but we will find more brutal ways of making you talk" Mikey said with a sly grin as he nodded his head and cracked his knuckles.
"Alright, what do you want from me?"
"What is Shredder planning? What is happening tonight that is such a big deal?"
"Ummmm okay so Shredder has been getting these shipments of mutagen, I swear I don't know who from no one does, but he's been having the brainiac's of the clan use the mutagen to make weapons. From what I know those weapons are all ready to be used and will be used to attack people on the streets at 10p.m. tonight. They plan on stealing money, electronic devices, weapons, whatever they think they need to make their clan stronger. Ummmm all his non-fighters will be locked up in cells in about half an hour, if that means anything. That and anyone who tries to stop him will be killed OR will be forced into a position in the clan that Shredder deems fit, but that's obvious. Look that's all I know okay I swear! I'm only a Dragon so I only know a little bit. Hell we are used to bring in the shipments but then we don't even get a mutagen weapon, not even tonight when everyone gets one. It's messed up I tell ya."
"What did you expect? You're working for Shredder!" Raph cut in.
"But we were promised money, women, power! And we're all still waiting for that!"
Raph shoved the man into the wall so fast that the man couldn't even react and that fast was back to being held in Raph's strong grip.
"Bastard, you don't deserve any of those things just for being so greedy that you made the worst decision in the world and joined the dumbest gang ever" Raph said as he rolled his eyes.
"Why is Shredder doing this? What will he gain from taking over the entire city and forcing people into his clan?" Leo asked.
"I don't know all the details, but I've heard it has something to do with avenging his older brother, Oroku Nagi. Some guy named Yoshi wronged him or something in the past and Shredder aka Oroku Saki has been fighting to avenge him ever since."
"Well this is new information" Donnie stated. "Sachs never mentioned that to us when he told us his plan months ago when he captured us."
"It either wasn't that important, or Shredder didn't want us to know what his weaknesses were, and his older brother might be one of them. But we need one last piece of information" Leo said as he looked back over at the man in Raph's arms, "where are the Foot's current headquarters located?"
"Birchwood St. It's the tallest building, 15 floors to be exact, and it's right across the street from a parking garage that's only a couple of floors less."
The turtles all looked at each other and nodded. Raph clung tighter to the man as Donnie pulled out some bandage wraps from one of his pouches and used them to cover the man's eyes and mouth. The guys traveled quickly by foot since luckily they weren't far away from where headquarters was said to be. Raph had practically dragged the man along with him and once the group reached their destination down below, they hid in a nearby alley. Raph dropped the man on the ground and nothing could be heard except the creaking of a dumpster. The man tried screaming, but his sounds were muffled through the bandage wraps. He then sat quickly as he sensed a presence right by his ears.
"Don't worry, no one will hurt you. But we're going to leave you here so in case you're lying to us, no one will ever find you either" Raph whispered.
The man began to make noises again, but they were quickly cut off as the turtles flipped the dumpster over so that the man was now inside the dumpster as it lay upside down on the ground.
"Uh guys, we may have an issue" Donnie announced. None of them realized that as soon as the dumpster was planted back on the ground he had pulled out multiple devices that he was now using to scan for all types of cameras nearby.
"What's wrong?" Leo asked.
"There's cameras."
"No shit!" Raph said before being slapped by his older brother.
"Well, yeah. We expected that" Leo stated to Donnie, a bit confused as to why his brother was so worried since he had knocked out and altered cameras thousands of times before tonight.
"I mean that there's a ton more cameras than usual. This definitely has to be the right place based on that alone, that or their cover up building is doing a really good job at faking it. Regardless, it will take forever to enter the building and try to find out since it's going to take a long time to fix all these cameras."
"Are there any obvious ones?" Raph asked.
Donnie looked across his screens and quickly noticed a pattern.
"More than half of them have red dots. If you look up carefully then you can see a few of them on the roof above us. Why do you ask?"
"You still have that device you used to communicate with that cockroach?"
"…yeah?"
"Good stuff" Raph said as he then brought his finger and thumb to his mouth and whistled loudly. His brothers watched him with muddled faces as they wondered why he was just staring up at the sky like he was just waiting for something to magically appear. He then randomly started smiling as he continued to look up into the sky.
"Donnie, animal talking device" Raph announced as he held his hand out.
At first Donnie was reluctant to follow his brother's order, but he soon saw a pigeon flying down from above, and out of curiosity he decided to reach into his pack and hand his older brother the device.
Raph then held his arm out as the pigeon gently landed on it and softly cooed when the large turtle used his finger to gently pet and stroke the top of the birds head.
"Hey little guy, remember me?" Raph asked with a gentle smile. He then went to put the small head piece on the bird. The pigeon then started to hop to the side some, almost looking frightened, if pigeons could display that emotion.
"Hey now, you know I would never hurt you, right little guy?" Raph asked as he gently pet the bird again. The other three turtles could have sworn they saw the pigeon make a happy face of some sort and it kind of freaked them out since they didn't know how a bird could really do this. They then watched carefully as Raph slowly put the head piece on the bird.
"Alright little guy, spin around in a circle if you can understand what I'm telling you."
Jaws dropped as the bird then hopped around in a circle on the turtles arm and then faced him once he was done doing so.
"Ahhhh I knew it! Way to go little guy. Now I need your help alright? See all those lights up above? Those are from cameras and those cameras belong to men who want to hurt my brothers and me. You think you and your buddies can cover all those red dots for me?"
The pigeon blinked a few times at Raph and then flew off.
"Donnie start working on all the cameras that don't have red lights" Raph instructed.
Donnie nodded his head and got to work as quickly as he could. He could hear his youngest brother 'ohhh' and 'whoa'-ing as hordes of pigeons circled around and blocked the view from the cameras with red lights, one by one making each one obsolete in a sense, and by the time they covered the last blinking camera Donnie had just finished messing with the last of the other various cameras and devices set up around headquarters.
"Everything is done and we're free to move forward!"
"Well, wasn't expecting that" Mikey said with wide eyes, still in shock from what he just saw his usually hot headed brother do. He continued to stare at his brother this way as the original pigeon returned to Raph's arm.
"Raph, a few months ago there was an article about a large man who was spotted wondering around parks at night and being surrounded by animals, usually pigeons. Was that you?" Leo asked teasingly with a grin.
"What I do in my spare time is my business, okay?" Raph said in a low tone as he heard his younger two brother's chuckle from behind him. He pet the bird and whispered "thanks little guy" as he carefully removed the head piece from the bird and then handed it to Donnie as the bird cooed and flew away.

Now that all nearby cameras had been tampered with, the boys then ran across the street and got out their climbing claws as they began scaling the building next door to headquarters. After a few minutes they reached the top. It was a couple stories shorter than the headquarters building, so they launched their grappling hooks towards the roof of the taller building and once they each hooked onto a stable base the boys began climbing their way up. Mikey would have used his skateboard and glided up, but that could have been noisy and wasn't worth the risk, so this time he joined his brothers in taking the slower but safer way to travel.
Once they reached the top of the headquarters building Leo spotted a vent that curved up and out. He silently lifted off the cover and looked down inside. It seemed to go straight down and eventually curve inward which meant that it lead to other vent ways they could climb through.
"Alright guys, we don't know a whole lot about what's going on tonight. Because of this, we're going to travel around through the vents for a bit and try to gain some intel. Keep your phones SILENT, but still close so that we can communicate with each other in case we hear any important information. Ready?" Leo asked.
The remaining three brothers nodded in agreement and once everyone had placed their shell cell in a safe and accessible spot, they each followed behind Leo as they leaped into and down through the vent tunnelway.

They expected to slow down towards the bottom (of course they wouldn't have just landed with a loud thud at the bottom of the drop) and use the sides of the vent to slow down, but when they put their arms out they felt nothing, and what was worse was that as they came closer to the bottom, the bottom never came. Leo thought he was about to come crashing down on the bottom of the vent, but instead he fell right through, and all his brothers continued to fall as well. After the turtles had finished crashing to the ground and were now finally able to notice their surroundings, they realized that they were standing in the middle of one of the hallways of the building with numerous Foot soldiers watching their every move.
"You have got to be kidding me" Raph growled. He was mind blown by the fact that they had just entered the building and already they were hostages. How the heck had this even happened?!
"Drop your weapons and we won't fight, for now at least" one of the numerous masked faces called out.
Leo so badly didn't want to give in so soon, hell they had literally just got here, but he knew there were way too many soldiers for them to fight in this tiny little hallway. There wasn't really anything they could use to disperse, and a smoke bomb would lead to them jumping into another large group of soldiers. As much as he hated it, he knew that a momentary surrender was the safest move. Leo threw his weapons down onto the ground, and soon after his brothers followed his actions. The soldiers then forced their hostages to get on their knees with their hands behind their backs as the turtles were handcuffed with electronic cuffs. Too much movement caused them to send a nonlife threatening but still uncomfortable shock throughout the victim's body and they were extremely uncomfortable to begin with. There were no chains since the middle part was solid and stretched from one hand to the other. The boys were then told to stand up as they were lead to a cell nearby. 4 soldiers stayed with the turtles and continued to give commands as the turtles were forced to kneel on the ground and wait patiently for what was to come next. The turtles kneeled in a line within the cell with Mikey towards the far left wall, Leo next to him, Raph next to him, and then Donnie on the end near the right wall. They were placed on the right side of the room which left the entire left and middle sections of the room wide open.
It wasn't much longer until the door opened once again. Two people entered the room at that time: the first was Karai who looked more pissed off than ever, and the second was Sam. The turtles fought to remain calm when they saw the girl enter the room right behind their enemy. They didn't want to show any emotion and this somehow get Sam in trouble, and they hoped that that was why Sam seemed to bear the exact same expression on her face as she entered the room.
Karai stepped to the side as she began to talk to and question Sam.
"Explain this" Karai barked, arms crossed over her chest as she nodded down towards the turtles.
"…explain what?" Sam asked in an unconcerned tone.
"Why are they here?" Karai asked, her tone getting harsher and harsher as the two conversed.
"I don't know" Sam groaned. "I'm not the last one who spoke to them."
"You're the second to last from what we know of."
"So ask the last guy."
"We can't find the last guy."
"Well it's not my fault you suck at your job" Sam said in a derogatory manner.
As Sam spoke she made sure to look everywhere that wasn't at the turtles. She faced Karai, rolled her eyes and looked up at the ceiling, groaned and would look down at the floor, anywhere that would cut off her eye sight from the turtles. One good look at them would instantly throw off her tough act and her emotions would kick in and ruin everything she had built herself up to handle.
"Regardless," Karai began, "Sensei will not be pleased with this and you will be the one to blame. You're lucky that our scientists were able to create the hologram device that tricked them into falling from the vents."
This explained what the heck happened moments ago and why the turtles had gone from sneaky and strategic to free falling and becoming hostages.
"Funny. You take technology that isn't yours and know where that is, but you can't locate one man. The Foot really need to get their priorities straight" Sam mocked.
"ENOUGH! Are you on our side or not?"
"Duh" Sam said bluntly, rolling her hand in front of her as if she was confused as to how the woman could ask her such a thing.
"Prove it" Karai demanded.
Sam rolled her eyes as she turned around and took a step backwards towards Raph. Before anyone could react, Sam's eyes went blue and black as she kicked her leg back and used her heel to jab Raphael in the side where the skin between his shell and plastron was located. He hunched over to his side a bit and fought not to make a big deal out of the hit, but he couldn't help but let out a short and low volume groan. This was one of the most sensitive spots on both his and all of his brother's bodies and even though the pain would subside after a couple of minutes it still stung like hell right now. Sam immediately took a step away from Raph as soon as she landed the kick. Karai nodded in approval at Sam's annoyed face that was made to question whether her actions were good enough.
The turtles all looked at Sam and each hoped that this was all still part of her plan to fool Shredder into thinking she was truly on her side. They could tell by the way that she spoke that she definitely did not like Karai (then again, who did?) but that wasn't enough to convince them that she was truly on their side and putting on a show for the others like Jay had told them.
Karai grew a small but devilish smile on her face. "Perfect! Since you're still working with us to rid the world of the turtles, then you won't have any problems watching us test one of our new weapons on them."
Karai then signaled for one of the soldiers to come forward. In the masked man's hand was a whip, but before he could do anything Sam slapped the weapon out of his hands. Karai's first reaction was to go for her sword, but Sam instantly calmed her down.
"Oh relax! Your daddy gave me clearance to be the one to take them out, so that's what I'm going to do. Jeez" Sam stated.
Karai glared at her. "Do not diminish the role of the Shredder with such childish terms."
"Okay, okay. I'm sorry for not referring to him as the great and almighty Shredder, alright?" Sam mocked.
Karai rolled her eyes. "Just hurry up. Attack the blue one first since he's the leader."
"Eh, nahhh" Sam said.
"NO?" Karai furiously asked.
"I'll take the orange one. He's the youngest and they can't stand to see him get hurt." Sam emphasized the last few words of her sentence as she then turned around and practiced cracking the whip forward towards the side of the room that was empty. This revealed that the weapon was actually an electric whip. Sparks flew from the whip as it smacked against the far opposite wall. The whip was so powerful that Sam had to grab onto her right arm as her hand tightly gripped the handle so that it wouldn't go flying out of her hands.
Karai nodded, stating her approval of what the younger girl had said. She took a few steps back and waited for Sam to complete the deed.
Sam walked over and stood in front of Michelangelo. From the time she had entered the room, this was the first time that she had actually looked at any of the turtles. She faced Mikey and looked him straight in the eyes. She wasn't expecting it, but he had already been doing just that by the time she had turned her head to look at him. His sight was already in line with where hers would be, and now that she was standing in place, the two were unintentionally glaring at each other. No one knew it, and maybe the other hadn't either, but their glares were supposed to signal to the other that they wanted trust/were trusting the other.
Sam finally took a step forward and cracked the whip. The tip of the weapon was aimed perfectly so that it would nail Mikey right between the eyes, but the final blow never came. Within a split second of the whip being cracked it had somehow become frozen. The end of the whip, almost just touching Mikey's face, was frozen solid and was no longer usable as it stayed still in one position, no longer able to move now that it was covered in ice from the tip of the whip all the way down to the handle grips right under Sam's fingers. The entire time this was happening Sam and Mikey had never broken eye contact. The two were still glaring each other down, one set of eyes staring directly into the other, and it would have stayed this way if Karai hadn't interrupted them.
"WHAT HAPPENED?!" Karai shouted.
Sam finally broke eye contact as her serious gaze quickly transformed into a dull stare as she now faced Karai. "I don't know" she groaned, her voice filled with an immature attitude. "It was probably another interference from the human trials from my first day here. Sometimes the mutagen from day one comes back and randomly malfunctions" Sam said with a shrug of her shoulders. Her posture gave off an obvious 'I don't care' type attitude, and Karai picked up on this instantly.
"Sensei will be quite displeased once he hears of this, are you ready to face that type of punishment again?" Karai growled as she glared at the younger woman.
"Geez Karai, you really need to learn to control your temper" Sam said as she crossed her arms and shook her head in a way as to mock the other woman.
"Some people tell me I have a short temper, but I prefer to call it a swift and assertive reaction to BULLSHIT."
"Sorry but giving a fuck doesn't go with my outfit" Sam said with a shrug. It was obvious she was dodging Karai's threats, but her tactic did work at re-directing Karai away from her suspicions of Sam helping the turtles on purpose.
Over time, Karai had gotten better at reacting to Sam with her own sarcastic and nasty remarks since this was really the only way the two really knew how to communicate with each other. "Look, I don't have the energy to pretend to like you today. So leave, since nothing brightens up a room like your absence" the older woman said with a wicked smile.
"It's okay, not everybody has to like me, I can't force you to have good taste."
"I saw a piece of shit on the ground today, it reminded me of you."
"If you listen closely then you can hear me not caring."
"I would slap you but shit splatters. God, if you ran like your mouth than you'd be in much better shape."
"Oh please, you only have one advantage over me: that you can kiss my ass and I can't."
Karai shook her head. "It's so disappointing that your sarcastic remarks are the only thing you have going for you."
"Well hey, I do love sarcasm! It's like punching people in the face but with words."
"Hmph, well they do say that actions speak louder than words."
And with that Karai lunged towards Sam. Of course Sam had been expecting this at any time since this was her plan from the beginning. Karai's suspicions of Sam's loyalty to the Foot grew after she protected Mikey, so Sam purposefully had tried to annoy and argue with Karai to the point that she forgot about those suspicions and became more focused on a physical conflict. Sam also knew that Karai would be flustered if she lost and would leave the room either with or without Sam, and this was the goal that Sam was aiming for.
The boys sat in silence as they tried not to react as they saw the two women fight each other. Each turtle wanted to jump in and help their friend so bad, but they trusted that this was part of her plan and any sign of emotion would ruin whatever tricks Sam had hiding up her sleeve.
The other four Foot soldiers just stood there as well. They had their weapons in hand and seemed ready to strike at any moment, but the two women moved so fast around the room that they didn't want to risk the chance of hurting their master, so they too sat on the sidelines behind the turtles and watched. After a couple of minutes or so the dual finally came to an end with Karai holding a kunai knife right by Sam's neck.
"Any last words?" Karai asked viciously with a devilish grin.
Sam looked up the woman with the exact same expression and tone of voice. "It's a shame you never got that crack in your armor fixed" Sam replied.
Karai's grin quickly faded as she realized what was happening.

It took the turtles a second to understand as well. They looked closely until they saw where Sam's left hand was. She was also holding a kunai knife but this time the blade was pointing towards the lower right half of Karai's abdomen. From afar it looked as if Sam was aiming straight for the woman's armor, which wouldn't have made sense since it would have required a huge amount of strength to pierce the knife through that barrier, and even though Sam now had the strength to possibly do such a thing, her hand was too close to its target to create the force and momentum to complete that objective. However, a closer up point of view showed that there was a crack in Karai's armor that was large enough for the knife to fit. Sam had proven that she had studied her target well, and Karai knew that at this moment she and her opponent were now both evenly matched. She nodded her head and then Sam did the same as the two both backed away from each other. Of course, Karai couldn't just leave without getting her message across, so she quickly threw a punch at Sam's cheek before the space between them grew too large. Sam could easily have dodged the punch, but that would defeat the purpose of all she had done. Her objective was to make Karai leave the room and dodging the punch and therefore continuing the fight would have been the opposite of her objective, so she allowed Karai to follow through with her attack. Sam had experienced physical pains ten times greater than this one, but in the moment it still stung like hell.
The punch was so swift and solid that it made Sam's entire body turn with it. She was able to keep her balance and prevent herself from falling to the floor, but her body was now turned towards Mikey, and if her eyes were open, she would have been looking right at him. Sam knew this and fought to keep her eyes closed as she slowly turned back towards Karai. She refused to open her eyes until she was finally standing forward and tall once again.

As Sam opened her eyes she saw Karai glaring at her once again.
"We have waited a long time for this night, and I will not allow you to be the reason that we all lose everything that we have worked for, what our master has worked for. You wear the uniform that many for centuries have dedicated their lives to, so HONOR IT. If you continue to screw things up for us then we'll make sure you live, but you'll see everybody else parish, all thanks to your antics. That's what happened to all your siblings, remember? Your brother couldn't listen, so we had to put him in his place. Don't think it won't happen again." Karai waited for a response, but Sam just stood there and glared back at her. This signaled to Karai that she had struck a nerve and that the younger female was going to remain silent rather than fight back. Karai then turned toward the four soldiers. "Watch over her and the hostages. Don't let any of them leave this room. We have a busy night tonight and these five will be the most likely ones to ruin everything we've worked for, so guard them with your lives." These were her last words before she turned around and walked out of the room.

There were only a few seconds of silence left in the room until it was interrupted by a scratchy voice saying 'ALL CLEAR'. Suddenly, two of the soldiers quickly knocked out the other two as Sam ran up, and with her eyes quickly turning blue, jumped up and yanked down a vent cover on the ceiling. The two conscious soldiers behind the turtles removed their masks as four more boys leaped down from the vent ways above.
"Whew, well that was dramatic" said one of the now mask-less faces. The turtles quickly turned their heads back and forth as they recognized some of the faces in front of and behind them. The face that had just spoke was from an Asian boy that they remembered as Key, and the Asian boy next to him was Kris. The turtles remembered these two from Sam's soccer games that they had watched, and from those they also recognized Nathan, the white skinned and brown haired boy who was one of the four who had jumped down from the vent. The remaining three boys didn't look familiar. The first boy had black skin with short black hair, the second boy had light tan skin with brown and black colored hair that was pushed back off his forehead and Asian facial features, and the third boy had white skin with orange and brown colored hair that was also pushed back of his forehead. These four quickly ran behind the turtles and started fidgeting around with the locks on their arms as the two who were dressed as soldiers ran and were now guarding the door.
"Yeah but it was all necessary for the plan" Sam replied.
"And that was?" asked Kris.
"To get Karai to ignore her suspicions of my loyalty to the Foot and to leave the room" she said as she rubbed her cheek and her jaw, the stinging coming back from her talking and using the punched area.
"Ahhh so that's why you let her punch you. She would have kept fighting if you dodged her" said the tallest and lightest skinned boy.
"Yes! Thank you rad Brad!" Sam said as she pointed her finger towards the boy and smiled. The turtles tried to take in the names and faces of these supposed allies in case this info would be needed later for whatever reason.
"Alright," Sam began, "someone give me a run-down of what's going on-nghh." Sam quickly grabbed her wrist, instantly grabbing everyone in the room's attention.
The boy with black skin and shorter hair ran over and looked at Sam's arm.
"Is this from the mutagen?" he asked.
"Yeah, I lied about the human trials. I took a sample from the wrist compartment of my sleeve, you know my most recent addition" she said as she showed him a round section that traveled all the way around her wrist, "I've basically saved small doses of all different types of mutagen that my body can handle and have stored them here and obviously this time I used one that could freeze other objects."
"Let me see the sample" the boy said as he opened his hand in front of her.
Sam opened up the compartment on her sleeve and handed the boy a small vile of a light blue colored mutagen.
"How many of these did you take?" he asked.
"Three" she mumbled.
The boy leaned his head back in frustration. "Geez Sam you have got to be more careful. You were with me when we studied this type and you know that larger doses can be extremely dangerous!"
"Okay Josh I get it" Sam said as she rolled her eyes, still holding her right arm. "Look I had to be extra cautious this time and I needed to take precaution in knowing that it would work quickly when I needed it to, okay?" Sam then looked towards the ground as a slight blush came across her face. All four brothers looked at the new face of the boy that was talking to Sam, but this was only to hide that they had all noticed this blush that quickly spread along the girls face.
"Kevin do you know how long this should affect her?" Josh said as he turned towards the lightly tan skinned boy.
"About 5 minutes max since she was a match for that mutagen" Kevin replied.
"Alright then," Sam cut in, "then I'm going to disappear for those five minutes until I can feel my arm again."
"Sam wait-" Mikey said.
"Make sure you help these four out-" Sam said as she began to turn away.
"Sam wait up!"
"-and give them a run-down of what they don't already know." Sam had now reached the doorway and slammed the door shut as Mikey had just been released from his electronic handcuffs and had just rushed over to where she was standing, but not in time to catch her before she left and was now on the other side of the closed door.
"Sam, Sam!" he said as he banged on the door.
"Sorry man, she can't hear you. These rooms are sound proof" Josh said with a sorrowful expression.
By this time all the handcuffs had been unlocked and the brothers were now standing on their own, rubbing their wrists which had been bound for so long now.
Kris and Key walked back over to the guys as they began pulling weapons from the back packs that were secured tightly behind them.
"I believe these are yours" Key said with a smile as he handed Raph and Mikey their weapons while Kris handed Leo and Donnie theirs.
"Thank you" Leo said with a nod. "Now can you guys please update us on what is going on?"
Kris then took the floor as everyone listened patiently.
"It's about 8:15 now which means that Dragons and soldiers have been leading any and all non-fighters, so doctors, scientists, anyone whose job doesn't involve them to fight in anyway, they're all being locked up in cells similar to this one as we speak. The majority of the Dragons and Foot soldiers will be on the bottom floors getting their weapons set up and guarding the Mutanimals-"
"Wait I thought we helped free those guys!" Raph confusedly cut in.
Kris gave him an unfortunate expression. "Sadly Shredder had more soldiers from Japan coming in that night. The plan you all set up was genius, but the night just happened to be extremely unlucky."
"I bet they paid for that" Leo said with his eyes closed tight, trying to fight off any painful images of what the other mutants had to deal with after their attempted escape.

Kris sent him a small smile. "Don't worry, they're tough, every single one of them. And if you really want to help them then you'll help set them free again tonight. Right now they're all wearing collars around their necks that can harm them in various ways if they don't listen to the soldiers and the Dragons. The Mutanimals are going to be forced into destroying the city along with their masters as part of Shredder's plan. Meanwhile, select soldiers will be on lookout positions and guard the cells while the rest of the clan is attacking the city. Those loyal soldiers will be attacked by our rebel soldiers who will then set up devices along the lock boxes outside each cell door. Multiple scientists who are being locked away have devices that will detonate those devices so that they destroy the lock boxes and unlock the doors. They will also be deactivating the collars so that when the time comes the Mutanimals will aid the rebel soldiers in fighting and distracting the loyal soldiers. The rebel lookout soldiers will then help guide the non-fighters through the secret paths we've been working on for months now. We have stairwells, tunnel and vent ways above and below each floor, secret doors, all types of things we've been setting up for quick escapes. All the fighters on the lower floors will do what they can to weaken and fight off the loyal soldiers and those fighters will escape when they can.

Just then, a scratchy female voice suddenly started talking. "Attention, attention! We just overheard that in two minutes Shredder will be sending out a message that ALL soldiers and Dragons will be told to report to the bottom floors. I repeat ALL soldiers are going to be told to report to the bottom floors. From what we non-fighters have seen and have overheard, it sounds like Shredder is onto something since he knows the turtles are here. Everyone needs to PROCEED WITH CAUTION."

"Ughhhhhhh" all the human boys groaned.
"Who was that?" Mikey asked.
"That was our friend Lindsey, aka one of the people who has access to the collars and to the explosive devices" Nate said. "We were going to send so many rebels to knock out the loyals and then those rebels would place the devices on the lock boxes, but if Shredder is calling down EVERYONE way earlier than expected, then 1. We don't have enough time to set things up before he realizes his soldiers are missing, and 2. Now there won't be anyone up here in general to attach the devices without being seen."
"Well I guess that's where we come in" Raph said with a smile.
All the boys wide eyes were now facing Raph.
"You…you guys would do that for us?" Key asked, a bit taken aback.
Leo smiled as he walked over towards the teen boy. "That's one of the reasons were here. To get Sam and to help free you guys. That's what Jay told us and that's what we're going to do" he said with a nod.
Key couldn't keep from smiling the huge teeth filled smile that stretched from one side of his face to the other. He then put his hand out for a handshake in front of Leo.
"Thank you, you guys have no idea how many hundreds of thousands of people will be indebted to you after tonight."
Leo shook the boys hand and the conversation continued as to what would happen that night.

This time Josh took charge as he began going over the game plan. "Alright, you guys are going to follow us as we take you to one of our labs on the top floor. There we'll give you guys the bags with all the devices, don't worry they're not that big they're probably about the size of your palm. You're going to start placing them on the lock boxes throughout the 5th through 12th floors. Like Kris said earlier, the collars on the Mutanimals will also be deactivated around the same time so not to many soldiers should be able to head your way, but if any get by we'll try to send as many guys as we can up your way to help you out. One of our main goals is to prevent any Foot soldiers or Purple Dragons from leaving this building because that's how they'll start bringing the city to its knees, by using those mutagen weapons. That will be our main priority, but don't worry we won't leave you hanging either we promise. We need to move now though so that we stay on schedule so any questions or comments will be answered once we get to the lab."

The turtles nodded and the human teens nodded back. This time the boy known as Brad led the way. He put on a pair of tech goggles and right after he jumped back up to the vent that the boys used to enter the room in the first place.
"What are those for?" Mikey asked in excitement after seeing the super cool looking goggles.
Josh, Nate, and Kevin went to speak, but Donnie beat them to it.
"In simple terms they prevent us from falling into traps like the one we literally fell into earlier."
The three boys nodded in approval at the fact that their new companion must have known a good amount about the device in order to make such an accurate statement, and then they cringed as they remembered hearing about how the turtles were captured not much earlier that evening.
"Sorry about that" the three said in unison.
"Don't worry, luckily you guys had our back from the beginning being up in the vents and in the room with us the whole time" Donnie reassured.
"That was the original plan, but Sam was the one that contacted us through the walkie talkies and told us to hang tight and let her handle it" Nate stated.

"Guys, let's go!" Leo shouted from the vent above. With that, everyone in the room was now crawling through the vent ways. They twisted and turned and climbed up and slid down until eventually they were led to a stairwell. It seemed sturdy, but definitely dusty and unused. After a few more minutes the group stopped at the top of the stairwell as it completely stopped in the middle of a wall. Brad adjusted his goggles as he stared at the wall while the other human boys all put their ears up against the wall, listening closely. After a couple more minutes had passed by, Brad nodded to the boys as the all carefully pushed on the wall. A space about three feet long and six feet high slowly began to open as the boys pushed forward and slid the cover to the side. They then entered the space as they walked into the laboratory.
Kevin walked over towards the far wall and grabbed a large rolled up sheet of paper off the top of a cabinet along with three large brown sacks. "Here," he said as he gave the sheet and the sacks to Donnie, knowing that he would instantly start looking over and examining the sheet and the devices within the bags, which was exactly what he was doing now, "these are the devices that you will place on each lock box and this is a map with the entire layout of the building PLUS all our secret spaces. Use this to guide you through the 5th to 12th floors in case you need to hide or escape or anything to protect yourselves."
Leo didn't not trust the group, but he was curious as to some of their actions. "Hey, how come you handed all that to him?"
Kevin paused. "Oh sorry, you're the leader so I guess I should have handed all the materials to you. My bad man I just know he's the brains of your team so I-"
"How do you know all of that?" Leo asked.
"A lot of us have known about you guys for a while now after the incident at the Sachs Estate months ago. We also know about the soldiers breaking into and destroying your home."
"Did you guys have to do with that?" Raph asked, growing a bit concerned.
"Luckily no, we were all working on different missions at that time, but everyone in the clan knew about those events. We were all told to be on alert for you guys, that kind of thing."
"So what happens when hundreds of thousands of people who know about our existence are set free?" Donnie asked.

Kris took the floor, acting as a momentary leader. "Don't worry, these people have been waiting for years for a chance to escape from the clan. I'm sure you know about Sam's reasons for joining, right?" The turtles nodded in response. "More than half the people here joined for reasons like those, hell that's the reason that I'm here! We didn't ask for this, but we are asking for a chance to escape and go back to the way our lives used to be. Sadly there are some people here who don't even know what that life was because their entire lives have been here. People of all kinds from all backgrounds have been forced to join the Foot for whatever reason Shredder deemed fit, so if you help them live freely again, they would never ever expose you guys. Trust me, if something crazy like that ever happened then it would easily come out among the survivors who was dumb enough to leak info about your existence. So many people are already fans of you guys after the way you fought Shredder on top of the Sachs lab building and they'll do anything they can to protect and support you guys now. Also, a lot of people have come to love the Mutanimals, so they'd be extreme hypocrites if they protected them and then leaked info on you guys. Just trust me when I say that no one will expose you guys to the public. Okay?" Kris asked, hoping that he had pleaded a reasonable enough case to get the turtles to trust and believe the honest words that he had said.

The turtles all looked at each other and then looked at Mikey. They knew that he had the purest heart of their family and left it in his hands whether or not they should trust what the boy had just told them.
Mikey kept a serious expression on his face, but he nodded his head. "I believe him. They were right behind Sam after she protected us from Karai, and if she trusts them then so should we. If he says that the rebels are on our side then we need to give them a chance. If we can't give them a chance then how can we ever hope for humans to accept our existence in return?"
The three older brothers smiled at their baby brother. He was a complete doofus 99% of the time, but then he had his rare moments like this when he truly got his act together and was able to make such clear and well thought out decisions. How this came from the same person the three would never know.
"Speaking of which," Mikey started again, "where is Sam? What will she be doing? When do we get to talk to her?"
That's when the smiling faces of the human boys soon turned into ones of sorrow and frustration.
Kris put his hand on Mikey's shoulder as he spoke. "Look, you have to listen to everything I have to say before you jump to conclusions, okay?"
Mikey nodded and Kris gave him a reassuring smile as he pat his shoulder and brought his arm back.

"Sam has been training as a right hand man for Shredder so that he would truly believe that she was a loyal soldier for his clan. Because of that, she should be right by his side tonight and will be doing her best to distract him from the chaotic events going on around him when his plans get all messed up. If Shredder is distracted then leaders like Karai, Tatsu, Sachs, and Hun will have to rapidly be giving orders over top of each other which will continue to screw things up for the clan even more and will also make it easier for us to take them down. This also means that Sam will probably be the one to fight Shredder throughout the night, but thanks to her skills and her devices, she's literally the best one for the job. Of all the rebel soldiers she's definitely one of the best in the business and is the perfect person for this job. Once the Mutanimals have helped knock out a lot of the loyal soldiers and helped destroy their weapons, they will rush to help Sam out as well. Her goal is to keep Shredder near the top of the building so that she can try to knock him off. If Shredder comes crashing down to the ground from the 15th floor then this time he'll fall to his doom. His armor from last time was destroyed and even if for whatever reason he has a trick up his sleeve that keeps him alive, there won't be anyone around to save him and bring him home for medical treatment."
"Sorry I know this isn't the time for these questions, but how did Sam become the perfect person for all this?" Leo asked.
"About a month or so before she joined us, someone spotted a girl running around with you guys and one of our new objectives was to study the subject. None of us knew it at the time, but that girl ended up being Sam. When she followed Jay here on her first night she basically offered herself for human trials to Shredder to prove that she wanted to join the Foot clan. She then trained with us and quickly rose up in the ranks. Then there was the night you guys caught her. Shredder obviously wasn't happy about that and he began losing trust in her, so she offered herself up to him again and basically begged him to train her so that she could hunt and kill you guys herself. She knew that she would never actually do that, but she had to do whatever it took to keep you, Jay, and everyone else safe, so she did what needed to be done to earn his trust. Trust me no one likes that she's in this position, but she has incredible skills to begin with, she knows a lot about different mutagens she can combine with the sleeve device that she built, and she's been with Shredder side by side for a few weeks now, so she literally is the best person amongst the rebels to fight him."
Leo nodded his head. "Sorry to ask, just-"
"Don't worry about it. Sam wasn't the only one who was put in a tough situation. You all went through some tough and crazy shit in how all this was handled and we get that. None of this is easy and some people's lives have been toyed with in much worse ways because of the Foot clan. Sadly you guys are just four more names to the list of victims who have been hurt by the Foot" Kris said in a sympathetic tone.
"Nice to know you're the guys she's been hanging with then" Leo said kindly.
"Oh trust me there's a lot of us, but all that's for another time. We need to go soon and be ready for when Shredder sends that message for all soldiers to meet. I'd advise starting on the lower floors so that those guys can escape quicker than the ones who are closer to the top of the building."
"Alright, we'll do everything that we can to assist you guys" Leo reassured.
"Here take this" Brad said as he handed each turtle an old looking walkie talkie.
"Are you sure these will work?" Raph asked. "They look pretty worn down."
"Well that's the point" Donnie cut in, "this stuff is so ancient that it would be more difficult to detect the signals and intercept the messages being sent back and forth. There are courses that teach you how to intercept and disconnect conversations through newer devices, but not on how to handle devices as old as these."
"He's good, we need to find him and talk to him more one day" Brad said as the other nerds of the group agreed, which also got a smile from the surprisingly bashful Donatello.
"Alright, it's time for our groups to split up. Be careful and good luck to you four" Kris said.
"Same to you guys. Update your group if you can and we'll do everything we can to get those devices in place."
"Lindsey, aka the voice from earlier, she'll let you know when the devices are being set off, and then updates will be sent from then on as to what's going on.
Everyone nodded in agreement and the two groups split up, each getting ready to complete their own mission.

*About 8:30p.m.*

The turtles were hiding out in the unused stairwell as they waited for the call to come in that they could start placing the devices along the lock boxes. They were waiting on the 5th floor of the staircase so that it would be quicker for these hostages to escape compared to those who would have to run, climb, or whatever they needed to do down to escape the building. Donnie was sitting on the steps as he got out a rewired GPD device and began setting it up so that he could use it to take care of any cameras that were detected within each hallway.
*click, click, click*
Kris had mentioned before they left that they wouldn't be able to actually talk into their walkie talkie's since that would be a dead giveaway in the crowded room down below filled with Foot Soldiers what they were scheming, so instead the boys would just click the button to their walkie talkie three times exactly to signal when it was safe to start placing the devices on the lock boxes.
Now that the turtles has been given their signal they set out to complete their mission. They slowly and quietly opened the door as they filed out into the hallway. Donnie led the way so that he could use his GPD device to detect any cameras within each hallway. He pulled up the pages he used to detect various types of hidden cameras and once he believed he had altered each one, he waved his brothers on to place the devices on the lock boxes. Leo, Raph, and Mikey ran down the hallway as they took a small device from each sack and placed it on top of each lock box that they ran past. There were five cells on the 5th floor so it didn't take long to complete the task once the cameras had been altered, and that quickly the four turtles were able to move onto the next floor.
Overall this ran pretty smoothly. The group followed this pattern on the 6th through 11th floors until they then received an actual call from Kris across the walkie talkie's.
"Hey guys just a quick heads up, Sachs apparently was sitting in a safe space somewhere and detected the cameras had been changed. He contacted Shredder and to keep things short, soldiers will be heading your way very soon. The battle down here started not too long ago and it's pretty chaotic, but we're going to try and send rebels your way as soon as we can. Oh, and apparently Sachs has some of the older Mutanimals with him, another sign that Shredder was probably onto something. From what we've seen all the collars have been disabled, but we don't know if Sachs or Shredder have anything they're hiding up their sleeves, so if you come across them then please try to act cautiously since if the mutants attack for any reason then I guarantee it's not because they want to, it's against their will. Be careful and hopefully we'll see you soon."

"Alright guys, we need to be careful from now on. We'll try to do what we can on this next floor, but be prepared to fight at any moment" Leo stated.
The boys used the secret staircase as they made their way up to the final floor for their mission. They weren't sure if the devices had detonated yet and if the non-fighters were being set free, but they knew that they had to keep planting these devices in their given locations in order for those innocent lives to be set free at some point throughout the night. They reached the next floor and this time all four brothers ran to try and plant devices on the lock boxes since Donnie no longer needed to alter the cameras since they had already been caught. Just as the last device was placed on the box, the sound of footsteps grew louder and louder from one of the main stairwells nearby.
"We can't use any of the secret passageways since that will lead them to the escapees, we need to find somewhere to hide and fight, now!" Donnie exclaimed.
"Is there anywhere nearby on the map?" Leo asked.
Donnie tried examining the map as quickly as he could.
"There's some space towards the top floor that we could use to distract-"
Just as Donnie finished saying this, a large group of Foot soldiers came running down from the opposite side of the hallway.
"Donnie…" Leo began.
"Got it! I know this map inside and out, so follow me!"

The tallest of the brothers sped off as he led the way out of that hallway and towards one of the main staircases. Instead of running up the staircase all the way to the 15th floor, the turtles grabbed onto the rails where they curved and each quickly swung themselves up until they had reached the highest part of the staircase. This bought them a few minutes to spare as they waited for the soldiers to run up and chase after them.
"In order to buy more time then we need to split up. This stairwell is in the middle of the building which means that outside this door are four hallways, so each of the four of us is going to run off and fight off as many of them as possible alone."
The brothers all nodded to each other as they quickly dispersed. Soldiers were now flooding the stairwell and within seconds of the brothers dispersing the soldiers were now storming down the hallways after them.
Donnie had sprinted towards the hall leading behind the staircase and took off. He could hear the sounds of footsteps growing closer and closer to where he was standing which meant that he would have to act quickly. He quickly turned his head and was shocked to see how far back the soldiers actually were, and to take advantage of this he started the fight off by launching shuriken stars back at the soldiers. It didn't do much but it slowed them down a little bit more. Donnie then made a right and continued to run. He figured that there was a 50/50 chance he might be running into Raph soon if he had made two left turns after leaving the staircase, and this thought was soon confirmed as Donnie could hear the sound of his brother grunting as came up on another corner where he would be turning right.
"Raph!" Donnie called out, signaling to his brother that he was nearby as he rounded the corner.

The two were now running towards each other as Raph yelled for his brother to go up. Donnie nodded as he leapt upwards but pulled his bo staff out and let it hang down. Raph grabbed on and swung it so that it launched Donnie towards the soldiers who had been closing in on Raph. Donatello successfully knocked out the first four soldiers who had been running towards them and he quickly jumped back to his feet as he swung his bo as another three soldiers came running at him. His bo connected with each sword that was swung at him, blocking each swift attack that was aimed at him. He waited for the right moment and used his weapon to push back the other three. He then jumped up and kicked both of his legs outwards in a split position, kicking both soldiers at his sides and knocking them down as he did so. This just left the last soldier in front of him. The two continued on with their battle as the soldier pulled out a second sword and quickly swung both blades towards Donnie. Donnie was careful in how he held his bo as he blocked the man's attacks until finally he held his weapon horizontally and waited for the man to bring both blades down at the same time. Donnie caught them with his bo staff and then shoved the man's blades upwards as he then kicked the man's leg. As the man came tumbling down, Donnie then swung his bo so that it whacked the man's forehead and knocked him out cold.
"Nice shot" Raph said as he jogged over and stood next to his brother now that he was done fighting his own small group of soldiers. That was what confused Donatello at the moment.
"How many soldiers did you just fight?" Donnie asked.
"Five, why?"
"I only fought three after knocking out four, so a total of seven."
"So what's the problem?"
"There should be way more than that. There was a large group of soldiers running up that staircase, so where are they now?"
Just then Mikey came up from the left and Leo came up from the right.
"Are any soldiers following you two?" Donnie asked as he and Raph got their weapons ready to fight.
Both Mikey and Leo stood there confused.
"Dudes, only like four soldiers followed me around and knocking them out was a piece of cake" Mikey stated.
"Same, I assumed the majority were following you two" Leo said as he carefully walked over towards his brothers, never letting his guard down.
"Wait, so no one is being followed right now? After all those people we saw we're all alone now?" Raph asked.
"They must be waiting for us somewhere. They're planning something, and right now they're probably waiting for us. They knew that we would have kept running around in circles, well technically in a square since the building is in the shape of-"
"Get on with it!" Raph urged.
"Right, hehe. If we were to just keep running around and around, they would start finding ways to corner us into wherever they would want us to go. Guys, did any of the soldiers ever try to keep you against the walls, or try to knock you into a side room or anything?" Donnie asked.
The boys all shook their heads.
"How about this, did they just continue to chase you in a line, and possibly turn you around when you began going straight for too long?"
Raph continued to shake his head, but Leo and Mikey were now nodding.
"What's the point?" Raph asked impatiently.
"They're not trying to push us out and corner us in the hallways, they're trying to get us to go inwards. They wanted to block our paths so that we couldn't keep running around the outside of the building, they want us to head inwards where this large room is" he said as he pointed to a large open space on the map. "Why they want us to go here, that I don't know."
"If we know this, do you think we should head straight in?" Raph asked.
Leo paused before he spoke. "Normally I would say no, but if we wait too long then the soldiers might head back downstairs, and we can't let that happen. We'll slowly head into the center room and we'll go from there."
The brothers nodded as they slowly and quietly walked through the hallways. Not long after, soldiers from three of the four sides came rushing at them. The turtles darted through the hallways as they made their way towards the large room. It was dark inside, but as soon as the turtles stepped foot into the room, the lights suddenly came on. The turtles came to a halt as all the doors in the room shut and soldiers came flying down from a walkway that ran around the upper half of the room. Within seconds there were soldiers on every side of the room as they gathered around the turtles who were now forced against the wall.
"Well, looks like we found out why they wanted us in this room" Raph groaned.
All four turtles had their weapons out and ready for whatever came next, but they definitely weren't expecting what did happen.
With almost perfect timing someone had leaped down from the walkway above and landed directly in front of the turtles. They were wearing black, but the guys knew that she was on their side as they now stood facing the back of Sam as she kneeled sideways in front of them, wondering how this next event would play out.

*Earlier that evening, Sam P.O.V.*

Sam ran and hid inside a small office as she fought to control her breathing. At this point she couldn't really feel the pain in her arm anymore since she was so distracted by everything that had just happened. How had the turtles even known about tonight? She had lied to them and did everything she could to push them away, so why were they here?! She then remembered that the other night her older brother had a small mission to take care of and she wondered if he had anything to do with it.
"Damnit Jay" Sam whispered to herself.
Thoughts were running all throughout her head as she wondered what the turtles thought of her after the stunt she had just pulled moments ago. She didn't know what information they were given before they had arrived and she was afraid to find out, but depending on what they did and didn't know could have made the entire situation either better or worse. She assumed that they knew all the key details since they hadn't really reacted when they saw her enter the room. A small smile appeared on the girl's face as she realized that the turtles not reacting probably meant that they knew she was on their side and that in order to protect her act then they needed to do whatever it took to trick Karai into thinking they felt nothing towards her, hence them not reacting to her entrance. This momentarily put Sam at ease…until she realized that she had kicked Raph in one of their most sensitive spots. Sam cringed as she remembered this and the motion made her arm hurt a bit more.

She grabbed her throbbing arm as she slowly slid down and sat against the wall behind her. It terrified her to think of how Raph now thought of her. She would have been lucky if he had forgiven her in any way after all she had done to him, and if he had been generous to even reach that mindset, would he truly forgive her now after she had hurt him AGAIN?! Would any of the others think the same way now?
That's when she thought back to how Mikey had looked at her, the way he had never broken eye contact with her. Sam went from grabbing onto her hurting arm to then grabbing onto her shirt in front of her chest. Her heart was pounding as she thought back to when she cracked the whip in front of Mikey. Again, thoughts were soaring around in her head. The first main thought was of how he had trusted her. He knew she would choose him so that he would stay calm because he knew she could only 110% trust him. He had known she wanted his trust and he had given it to her, but that's what brought on the second main thought. What if she had messed up? What if she hadn't used a high enough dosage of the mutagen and the whip didn't freeze in time, or even at all? What if she had hurt Mikey?
Sam hadn't realized that her arm was feeling better as she now brought her knees up to her chest and as her hands grabbed onto the side of her head as she now rocked back and forth.
"Calm down, calm down, calm down, calm down" she said over and over again to herself. As much as she dreaded when she would have to face the turtles again, she knew now wasn't the time to start worrying about it. She had to keep her head in the game and focus on the task at hand, and now that her arm was feeling better, she needed to go find Shredder and follow through with her part of the plan.

As Sam exited the room and headed towards her meeting spot with Shredder on the 4th floor she mentally went over her part of the rebellion in her head. Over and over again she mentally prepared herself for what was to come next.
Finally, Sam had arrived at the meeting spot. As she stepped foot into the smaller training room she hid her shock in seeing Tatsu standing next to Shredder.
"Forgive me for being late Sensei. I had some sudden matters to attend to" Sam said as she walked over towards Shredder and bowed in front of him.
Shredder looked at the girl with the same evil stare that he used towards everyone.
"I heard" he replied. "Somehow the turtles knew about tonight's events and decided to stop by for a visit. What a coincidence."
"With your permission Sensei I would like to-" Sam said before the man in front of her held his hand up and signaled for her to stop. She closed her mouth and she looked up at Shredder whose expression had become more stern.
"You see Samantha, I already have suspicions that it wasn't you who warned the turtles, but rather your older brother."
Sam remained calm, but instantly tried to carefully defend her brother.
"But Sensei…I don't understand, what would be his reason for-"
"For you of course. Your brother has always been foolish and never could follow my orders, no matter what I did to teach him a lesson. He couldn't listen when instructed not to go to the cops, so I had his parents killed. He then refused to join when I asked him to, so I had his adopted parents killed, and then he wouldn't act in missions I commanded him to, so I had the majority of his siblings killed. I thought that by leaving one sibling alive then he would have a reason for living, which meant that I could still control him however I wanted, but by giving him one final chance to prove himself to me I made a grave mistake, and that was letting you live and turn into what you have become."
By this time Sam was standing quietly. She wasn't sure where Shredder was going with all this, but she wasn't going to interrupt him either. She stood their patiently as she listened to what the man had to say.
"Letting you live that night gave way for a broken child to find something that would make them whole, and for you that was the turtles. They gave your life meaning again in ways that your brother couldn't, especially since he was always here working for me. Because of that, even when you came to work for me, you continued to put them first. I gave you so many chances Samantha and you had such great potential for becoming a true and honorable Foot Soldier, but even after all the ways I had to convince you to join my side, you continued to fight for them!" Shredder said, yelling at the last part and clenching his fist in anger. "Karai told me about your mutagen malfunction. Please Sam, tell me, do you think I'm stupid?" he asked as he glared at the girl.
"I'd never think such a thought" Sam responded calmly.
"Heh, I beg to differ. I have your records from the human trials and you haven't had a malfunction like that for a long time, so this unexpected mishap is total bullshit. I was also informed of which turtle you chose to harm and the eye contact between you two, and it doesn't sound like the type of connection you make with an enemy, but rather like you're trying to send a signal to an ally. I should have known better than to have given you the chance to train under me, and such a betrayal doesn't deserve punishment, but rather, it deserves death."
Sam grinned as she stared up at the man. "So, tonight is the final battle between us, huh?"
Shredder smirked as he glared at Sam in a way that sent a chill up her spine.
"Oh no, tonight is a very important night for me, the night when my clan takes over the city under my control. I have much more important matters to attend to, so I'm going to trust one of my most loyal soldiers to end your life."
That's when Tatsu took a step forward and sent an evil smile in Sam's direction.
Sam's eyes went wide as she realized that this would ruin the plans that had been set up for that night. Her job was to fight and distract Shredder, not to play around with Tatsu!
"Coward! You can't even handle your own dirty work?!" Sam shouted as Shredder began to walk out of the room.
He turned his head to look back at the girl one last time as he stood in the doorway. "You're not important enough to be dirty work. You're simply just taking out the trash, scraping off the dirt on my shoe. You are nothing and will always be nothing, especially when you're rotting in the ground."
And with that, Shredder walked out of the room, and Tatsu came charging at Sam the moment his Sensei left.

Sam quickly brought out her tonfa and drew them so that they were blocking her face as Tatsu's sword landed right on top of them. Sam pushed back as hard as she could and leaped as far away from him as she could. She didn't want to use her sleeve and it's power unless it was completely necessary because it took a while for it to charge, that and after just using mutagen capsules not much earlier than when this fight started, using another capsule of any kind so soon could also have some deadly side effects. Sam knew she was on her own for this one and she prayed that she was prepared. She only had three sets of weapons on her: her tonfa, Chuck's sais, and Chuck's nunchuks. Right know she was using her strongest weapon as she launched herself downwards towards her opponent.

For the time being Sam was fighting defensively. Tatsu was one of the strongest and most skilled fighters within the building, hence why Shredder brought him over from Japan to help him take over New York. She tried to study his moves and wait for the right moment to try attacking herself, but she wasn't sure just when to start fighting on the offensive side. She could sense the man getting cockier and cockier as the battle drew on, and that's when Sam realized his weakness.
Sam continued to block his moves until at one point she faked a block. She moved her arm as if she was going to block his blade, but she quickly moved her arm back. The blade came close to slicing into her forehead, but she knew she could be quicker, especially since this pull back caught the man off guard and his lunge forward to hit her was a bit clumsy since he assumed the shot would be blocked. Sam took advantage of this as she forcefully brought her elbow forward and smashed it against his face. Tatsu then tumbled back some as Sam ran forward and pushed him down on his back. She hoped to have ended the battle there, but she knew that would be way too soon for an opponent of his stature. As she ran back over to him, he swiped his leg to the side to move his body out of the way and pulled a kunai knife out of his pocket to block his head for safety, which ended up being the right move as Sam launched a shuriken star at him. It would have hit him right in the temple if the kunai knife hadn't blocked it. Sam was then tripped as she also lay on the ground next to the man. The two paused for a moment as they realized this was an extremely awkward position to fight in, so they both slid away from each other to give themselves room to quickly stand up and once they did so they were once again charging at each other.
This time though, Sam slid down so that Tatsu would either have to jump above her, or would bring something down to cut her as she slid by, and this time she was happy that he did the latter. Sam watched carefully as she slid so that she would know which way to dodge, and as she slid by the blade that was way too close to her face, she hooked her tonfa around it as she curved back towards Tatsu who currently had his back to Sam in the position she was in now. She then used the tonfa in her left hand and batted it against his legs, once again making the man stumble, only this time Sam attacked repeatedly on the spot. She continued to hit his legs and dodge as he threw stars at her, but it was much more difficult for him to aim when he felt the pain of his legs being beaten over and over again by the girl's tonfa. Once it was obvious that Tatsu's legs had gone numb, Sam stood up so that she could get a better look at how injured he was. Tatsu tried to sit up, but failed as he was kicked back down. He held his arms up so that he could defend himself, but he was now so weak that even this became a challenge for him. He was able to defend himself for so long until Sam finally had hit his arms so many times with her weapon that he couldn't even hold his arms up anymore.

Sam looked down at the man in front of her. She hated him with all of her being, but she wasn't a murderer. Tatsu was obviously finished for this fight, so instead of killing him she decided to pin him, but of course in a pretty brutal way. I mean hey, he was still the bad guy, and if he got back up then he would have tried to kill her for sure, so it was only fair. Plus he had done ten times worse to her than what she was going to do to him, so again, only fair.

She grabbed two of the kunai knifes that had been thrown at her and shoved them into the man's palms, pinning him to the ground as he groaned in pain. He would never yell out and show his enemy that he was suffering, but his groan was all that Sam needed to hear to know that she was momentarily safe from his attacks. As she stood up and began to walk out of the room she heard him mumble "you would have been such a good soldier…it's such a shame we'll have to kill you…you'll never survive tonight, one of us will finish you-"
That fast the man was out cold as soon as Sam's foot connected with his face. She shook her head at him.
"Yeah, and I'm sure you could have become an American hero if you used your skills towards a worthy cause. It's a shame you'll rot in jail once you're captured tonight" Sam thought to herself as she exited the room. Tatsu could have been a true hero and saved so many lives, but sadly life somehow showed him the wrong path and taught him to fight for the wrong person. It was a shame, but sadly these things happen.

Sam was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't realize Jay was now running in front of her in the hallway she had just entered.
"Sam?! Wake up!" he said as he ran up to her and shook his hand in front of her face.
Sam looked up at her brother. "Dude I'm fine, I just let my thoughts get a hold of me, but don't worry I'm fine. Where is everyone and what's going on right now?"
"The guys that were in the room with you, by the way how's your arm-"
"It's fine tell me what's happening!"
"Okay, okay" Jay replied as he held his hands up in defense, "the guys from the room you were in earlier with the turtles, they informed them of what was going on tonight and the four of them volunteered to help us out. They're the ones who have been going around and have been placing the devices on the lock boxes so that the hostages could be set free! While our guys were blending in and acting as if nothing was going on, they were secretly helping move our plan along. Once the signal was sent, the collars were deactivated, the battle began, and the hostages have begun to escape!" he stated with a smile.
Sam continued to give her brother a serious expression. "Is everything alright? How is the plan playing out so far?"
"Many of the hostages have already left the building, but there's still a large amount who still need assistance in their escape. The Mutanimals are now fighting with us EXCEPT for the older ones."
"What's wrong with them?" Sam asked, tilting her head to the side.
"Shredder sent the older ones off with Sachs. A lot of us think it was a precaution he took since he began to suspect something was up once the turtles arrived. Anyway, they're all with Sachs whom they would have attacked on the spot, but from what some hiding eyes have told me, Sachs is keeping Professor Jordan Perry as his own personal hostage by gun point, so the Mutanimals are playing dumb with their collars so that he doesn't harm Perry."
"So Sachs is still in the building, how about Hun and Karai?"
"They're currently on the lower floors helping their Soldiers and Dragons fight off the rebels. So far we seem to be winning that battle thanks to the younger generation of Mutanimals, but we need to be cautious since a lot of rebels are needed to help the hostages escape, so the battle could flip at any moment if our numbers downstairs drop to low."
"Okay…Where are the turtles?" Sam asked softly, both worried for their safety, but also terrified for when she would have to face them again.
"I believe they're somewhere upstairs. Once Sachs, who was watching from a security room down below, picked up on the changes in the cameras times and what not, he sent soldiers upstairs to chase after the turtles. That's the last I heard of their situation."
Sam nodded her head, praying that all four of her friends were alright.
"Okay, I'll go head upstairs to help them. If you leave now then-"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! I'm not leaving!" Jay said defensively.
"Jay I was just with Shredder and he knows you're the one who contacted the turtles, and YOU IDIOT!" Sam said as she started slapping her brother's shoulder, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?! WHY WOULD YOU VISIT THEM?!"
"Ow, Sam stop!" Jay said as he basically wrapped his arms around Sam so that he was now holding her in a bear hug like stance. "We needed their help and you know it!"
"I tried to ask them for help and you know what they did!"
"They kicked you out, I get that" Jay said as he now held his sister in the same stance as her back was against his front. He rested his chin on her head as he continued to speak.

"Sam, if this were a normal teenage situation in any way then I would kick their asses for the way they treated you. But it's not, and as much as you don't want to think about that night, you know it's true. Everything about your side and their side of the situation is royally fucked up and that's why so many of us are even in this situation, because the Foot have given us unfair and fucked up choices, and that includes what happened to all of you that night. You're hurting, trust me I understand that, but tonight all that needs to be pushed aside. Everyone here knows that those four took out Shredder on their own when they knocked him off that building and had him come crashing down in the middle of the streets of New York, and already they've helped us so much in following through with our plan. I know you're scared to face them, but please work with them. They need you as much as you need them, and all of us need all five of you tonight."

Sam was silent as she processed her brother's words and she knew he was right. Everything he said was true and she knew that she had to act as a leader and not as an emotional teenager. Now wasn't the time to focus on emotions, it was time to keep her head in the game and stand tall and fight with honor and protect those who needed someone to look up to.
"*sigh* alright, you win. But you need to leave now!" she exclaimed as she broke free from her brother's grasp and turned to look up at him with teary eyes.
Jay gave her a gentle smile as he put his hand on her shoulder. "I know Shredder and the entire clan is after me now. Don't worry, because of this everyone is positioning me to help aide the escapees throughout the secret passageways. I've been instructed not to fight unless it's to defend the hostages. Is that alright?" he asked in a teasing manner.
Sam looked down at her feet. "If you die…I'll kick your ass" she said as a tear rolled down her cheek.
Jay pulled her in for one last hug. "I won't die if you promise you'll do everything in your power to stay alive as well."
Sam nodded into her brother's shoulder as they continued to hug. After a few seconds the two backed away and they went their separate ways. Jay headed down the hall and leaped upwards, reaching for a vent where the tunnel way would lead to one of the secret stairwells, and Sam ran towards the elevators. There was no one there at the moment, so she hopped inside and checked her sleeve. She had enough power for one quick ride, so she leaped up, removed the emergency exit window from the top of the elevator, and after adjusting her sleeve she used it to force huge gusts of air from her palms as she soared up to the top floor of the elevator like a rocket.
She then pressed some buttons on her sleeve that added to her powers for a split second as she punched the door. The doors to the elevator soared all the way towards the other end of the hallway as Sam quickly got to her feet and ran up a nearby staircase. This led her to the balcony of a large training room below, and as she walked over to peer over the edge, she was shocked to see all four of the turtles standing below her as they were surrounded by Foot soldiers.

At first she was just happy to see that they were all still standing and didn't seem to be badly harmed. This allowed her to let out a quick sigh of relief, but this was no time to celebrate. Sam crouched down and whispered into her walkie talkie "if any rebels hear this, this is Sam Allan Park. Our guests will need our help in fighting off a huge mob of soldiers. Get as many people to meet up along the balcony of the large training room on the top floor, and bring the gas guns. I have a plan. Use the green lights on the guns to signal when I should corner the turtles with me. I can protect them from the knock out gas. Over and out."

And with that Sam leaped up and over the balcony and landed right in front of the turtles as she quickly began to plan her next move.

Ahhhhh I wanted this to be the last chapter for the finale but I was wrong. I made it too long for a finale, so this is the pre-finale! Haha the next chapter will be the official end…or will it ;)

You'll just have to keep reading to find out. But hopefully you're still enjoying what you've read so far and I hope you're anticipating what's to come.

Comments and constructive criticism are always appreciated, and I hope you're enjoying the story! :D