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Chapter #38
Sunday June 7th, 2015. About 12:00p.m. Minutes after entering the enemy plane, the fight begins with Bebop and Rocksteady.
Within seconds of the two groups of mutants (and a mutagenic human) meeting face to face, the fight had begun.
Leo ran towards Bebop, but the warthog was one step quicker and swung his fist forward. The collision made a brutal sound that echoed throughout the plane as Leo was flipped over onto his back.
Rocksteady had charged towards Raph. The turtle's punches did little to nothing as the rhinoceros picked him up and slammed the turtle onto his back.
Both turtles had received rough blows at the beginning of the fight, but as always, they were quick to analyze the situation and they bounced back fast.
Bebop was about to slam his elbow into Leo's chest, but he rolled away in time and then quickly got to his feet. Leo then took a step forward as he used all his strength to pick up the fallen mutant and threw him towards the front of the plane.
Raph had elbowed Rocksteady in the jaw, and within the two seconds the rhino spent rubbing his jaw, Raph had hooked his hands around the larger mutant and picked him up. He spun in a circle and launched Rocksteady towards the back of the plane where he crashed onto the tank that was chained to the floor.
Mikey had thrown his arm out to the side as a means to block Sam (why people kept doing this today, she didn't have a clue). Mikey's mindset was that Sam had blacked out three times while they had traveled from one plane to the next, so he wanted to keep her out of the fight as long as he could. So if Leo and Raph had these two giant mutants under control for now, then he wanted it to stay that way.
Meanwhile, Donnie had rushed towards the alien device and held it up high over his head.
"Watch it!" he shouted when Leo had thrown Bebop away from him.
"Careful!" he shouted when Raph spun and tossed Rocksteady off of him as if the rhino weighed nothing.
Leo run up to Bebop as he continued their brawl while Donnie grabbed the device and ran to the side of the plane where he would be away from all the commotion. Raph was about to start charging Rocksteady once more until he heard his youngest brother panicking from the other side of the plane.
"Uhhhhh guys?!" Mikey alarmed as he gritted his teeth and waved his hand towards the rhino's direction. Everyone but Leo, who was too busy spin kicking Bebop and connecting his foot with the pig's face, was now staring wide eyed as Rocksteady climbed into the seat of the tank. A wicked smile grew on his face as he sat down, took his aim, and began shooting away from the back of the plane.
Mikey knew Leo wasn't aware of this, so he dashed over and jumped onto Leo so that the two were now on the ground.
However, Sam had no idea where these bullets would land and if the two would make it down in time, so she jumped in front of them and used her wind powers to push the bullets upwards and diagonally behind them. The bullets dodged the two turtles, but they still trashed the front of the plane. Sam looked up to see the two pilots be ripped from their seats from the wind pressure as their parachutes then kicked in and let them float in the air.
She then looked around as the four turtles stood up from their various locations. Donnie and Mikey shot the rhino a depressed look, shocked at how dumb he truly was. Even Mikey knew that he was smart enough not to make such a dumb move as shooting off a tank's gun, well, inside anywhere ever.
Raph stood up and glared at the mutant as he shook his head.
Leo stood up and moved his arms in a way as if to question what the heck this idiot was thinking.
"Dude! Seriously?!" Bebop shouted.
Sam shook her head. "It's pretty bad when your own teammate is questioning your moves" she thought to herself.
Sam quickly looked around and observed her surroundings.
At the time, Raph was still near the back of the plane where the tank had been, Donnie and Bebop were on opposite sides of the middle space, and then she, Mikey, and Leo were further towards the front, but that was before the plane started tipping.
With no one controlling the plane and with all the huge gusts of wind entering the vehicle, the plane began to dip downwards and gradually twisting in circles as well.
Somehow this movement had caused Leo and Raph to literally get ripped from their spots and thrown to where the other was standing. Sam slipped and fell, and if she hadn't used her wind powers to launch herself forward, Bebop would have landed on her. Donnie slipped and lost his grasp of the device as it fell and landed in Mikey's hands.
"Got it!" he shouted…before he became the cushion to Donnie's fall since the older brother could not find anything to grab onto. Donnie quickly squirmed and crawled away towards the very front of the plane where the steering mechanisms were located.
"I'll take that!" Bebop announced as the device literally just landed in his hands.
Mikey stood up shakily and rubbed the back of his head.
"Yeah I don't got it" he said, right before a large box fell on him.
"Don't worry guys, I'll level out the plane!" Donnie announced as he sat in the front seat.
At this point Sam was moving all over the plane. She was trying to only use her powers when she truly needed to, so she was using her skills from basic training in order to dodge all the violently falling and flying boxes. Leo and Raph were trying to maintain their balance and dodge all the debris as well, but there were certain times where the plane would twist and the two couldn't control their movements, including the most recent movement where they went to dodge falling boxes and instead both ended up landing on Sam in the process.
"Sorry" they cringed.
Sam looked dazed as she lay there.
"Awesome…" she mumbled, not being able to say much else after having the wind knocked out of her like that.
Leo then quickly pulled her up and towards him as he jumped back away from another falling box.
"Sam! I could use your help!" Donnie shouted from the front of the plane.
Sam did her best to maintain her balance as she moved, but Leo and Raph could sense that she needed some help. Leo held onto Sam's arm as he carefully helped her jump over towards Raph. Raph then held onto the girl as he dived forward, avoiding a spiraling Bebop in the process. Sam turned back once more and saw that the remaining three turtles were overall managing to take care of themselves. Knowing this, she deemed it okay to crawl towards the cockpit and join Donnie in the front seat.
"Oh wow" Sam said with wide eyes as she now for the first time realized that there was little to no type of steering or anything to keep this plane up in the air.
"Sam, you think you still have some energy left in you?" Donnie shouted through the loud winds rushing by them as they continued to spiral downward.
"I can do whatever you need me to!" Sam shouted back.
"There's a chance I'll need to you fly under the plane and use your strength to push it back upwards. I'm trying to do that now and I'm failing!" he shouted as he struggled in controlling the steering wheel of the plane.
"Alright!" Sam said as she went to stand up.
"NO! Don't go until I say so!" Donnie shouted.
Sam nodded. "Got it!"
Donnie noticed that as she talked to him, she also continued to watch what was happening behind her on the plane.
Sam saw Mikey literally running in circles from the top to the side walls to the bottom of the plane in a continuous pattern.
"Careful! As some of the items may have shifted during flight!" he shouted as he forcefully stomped onto a fallen Bebop's chest during his energetic and momentum filled run.
Bebop grunted as the device flew from his hands and into Mikey's. The youngest turtle held onto the device above his head, but he didn't have the best grip on said device. Raph stumbled near Mikey as he fought to regain his balance after diving with Sam towards the front. Because of him not regaining his footing, he stumbled near Mikey and the device banged Raph's head due to Mikey's weak grasp.
The device then went flying backwards towards Leo who had literally just finally regained his balance within the flying vehicle.
Bebop quickly flipped onto his feet and charged towards Leo. Of course, the turtle was much quicker and leaped up in time so that Bebop ran right under him and smashed into his companion who had been strapped in his seat in the now upside down tank. The force from the hit caused the chains to break as the tank crashed onto the ground. The impact was so heavy that Rocksteady's head literally smashed through the metal of the plane.
Sam sighed out in relief as she saw Leo roll away in time before the tank would have squished him onto the floor.
Sam then turned her head when she heard Donnie make a weird panicked sound. Sam's eyes went wide and her jaw dropped as she saw Donatello sitting in the driver's seat with the handles to the steering wheel now completely disconnected from the rest of the plane as Donnie held it in front of his face with wide eyes of his own.
"Are you…holding the thing that keeps us alive…in front of your face?" Sam asked with what would be deemed a hilariously dumbfounded expression, if they weren't about to crash into the ground.
Donnie quickly grabbed his bo from a spot on his pack and then grabbed Sam's hand.
"I am now" he said as he nodded to her with a slightly confident slash nervous smile.
"How ya doing up there Donnie?" Leo's voice echoed from further back inside the plane.
"Uhh, everything's great. I'm doing awesome!" he called back, hoping that this would really be the case with him and Sam working together.
"Now?!" Sam called out to the turtle sitting next to her, a small smirk crawling up on her lips.
"Now!" he shouted back.
Sam flew forward and then under the nose of the plane. At the same time, Donnie had extended his bo staff so that it now connected into the spot where the steering handles had been. Donnie pulled back as far as he could so that the steering mechanisms would pull the plane up. Sam was now using all her strength to fly and push the plane upwards as much as she possibly could.
Sam couldn't help but close her eyes as she saw the ground closing in faster and faster, until suddenly she felt the weight above give some.
She opened her eyes to see that Donnie's plan had worked and that both their strength's had pulled through as the plane began to scoop itself back up into the air.
Meanwhile, in the back of the plane, everything that had been flying around was now falling straight through the back open whole in the plane.
Raph was tripped by a sliding box as he collapsed onto the surface of the plane. He dug his sais into the floor of the plane in order to prevent himself from falling backwards with the rest of the debris. As he continued to use his sais to stabilize him, he rolled to his right and then to his left in order to dodge multiple other sliding boxes that were about to fall out the back of the plane. Then he rolled as hard and as fast as he could to the right side of the plane as the tank began to slide backwards. As the tank fell backwards, it broke off the rest of the back of the plane so that now a huge hole was visible, meaning that anything that fell without anything to hold onto would fall to the ground. Luckily, Raph dug his sai into the floor so that his body was outside the plane, but he was still planted in one spot. The two larger mutants went flying out the back, and if Raph hadn't just grabbed onto his brother's hand, then Leo would have been sent flying with them.
Raph swung him and his older brother back into the plane as it spun once again.
Mikey had still somehow managed to maintain his spot closer towards the front of the plane.
"Guys, where's Sam?!" Mikey called out as he spun in circles looking for his best friend.
In his distracted frenzy, Mikey completely missed a box that slid past him and was now aiming for Raph. The large turtle dove to his left and avoided the box, but as the plane now projected forward at a tremendous speed, Raph was not able to stand back up.
Sam had just now returned at this time through the front of the plane. She grabbed onto one of the seatbelts from the side and latched onto it as she wrapped the belts around one of her wrists, but still keeping it slightly loose so that it wouldn't rip her hand off depending on a traumatic and forceful impact or collision.
She saw Leo spin around and grab Raph's hand, the roles now reverses from what they were mere seconds ago. Leo was just starting to pull his older brother in when a piece of the wing (what was left of it) broke off and caught part of Raph's foot as it pulled him along with it.
"RAPH!" Leo called after his brother.
Sam was able to look out and see that they were relatively close to the water now, so that should mean that Raph would land hard in the water, but he should still live. They weren't high enough up where the collision would feel like hitting solid ground. He would be a bit beat up, but with his physical build, he should have been alright.
Sam didn't have time to think about anything else as the plane quickly continued to drop down. Within seconds the plane crashed onto the surface as water came crashing inside the plane.
Mikey leaped over to protect Sam, but he was a split second too late. He was still able to engulf Sam in his arms, but only a second after the water violently swarmed through the inside of the plane. The water gushed in rapidly, and before Mikey could get to Sam, the water shoved her backwards as her head smacked the wall of the plane.
Although Mikey was able to grab onto Sam and close his arms around her, the river began to rapidly suck the plane further and further down into the depths below, proving the river was much deeper than it appeared to be from a higher surface. The momentum of the plane being sucked downward ripped the turtles from where they had been standing and threw them all around the inside of the plane. Luckily, they were turtles, meaning they could breathe underwater for a relatively long time, and this made maneuvering their way through the debris pretty easy once they were out from the plane itself.
Leo was the first to return to the surface as he leaned onto a large broken piece from the plane.
"Everyone okay?" he called out.
Mikey was then the next to return to the surface. He swam over to a flattened rectangular box where he could lay Sam down on her back. Sam was coughing like crazy, but she still managed to give a thumbs up as she lay back down on her back.
Mikey sighed in relief.
"We're good!" he announced to his oldest brother.
As Mikey then swam over to a nearby floating tire, Donnie then popped up and leaned on the box that Sam was laying on.
"I'm good!" he called out. He quickly scanned the area in case anyone had any injuries, and in doing so, he realized they were down a brother.
"Wait, where's Raph?" he called out.
"Fell about *cough* a minute or so ago. Not much debris around *cough cough* so he should be fine" Sam said, sitting up some at first and then collapsing back onto her back once she got her message out.
Just then, Leo spotted Bebop on a large floating engine piece as he made his way down the river. Both mutants spotted the device further down the river and they both made their move. Bebop belly flopped into the water so that he could move quicker down the river towards the piece, while Leo pushed his floating piece from the plane away as he attempted to swim down the raging rapids.
Donnie quickly stood up onto the box carefully and scooped Sam up in his arms. At this time their floating spot was closest to the shore, so he quickly leaped onto some other floating debris and made his way to dry land. He laid Sam down on the ground in a spot where he felt she would be safe.
Sam began to stand up.
"No!" Donnie yelled back to her.
Sam looked up at him in surprised confusion. She had not been expecting such a harsh reaction from the turtle.
"You've saved us multiple times already Sam. You've pushed your powers further than ever today. Stay here and stay safe! I mean it!"
Donnie then spotted a different floating box that was closing in on the portal device. He dashed
across the debris until he landed on that box.
Sam would have chased after him…if her coughing weren't getting the best of her. She still wanted to be close by in case she was needed, so she carefully jogged along the shore, hiding behind the trees as she watched everything that was happening.
Sam was the only one that saw Leo duck under a branch and swim under water towards the device while Donnie was rowing his way closer above the water.
Leo burst upwards through the water, but he collided with Donnie. The two bumped into each other and because of this they both lost their handling of the device.
"Leo no!" Donnie shouted in frustration.
"I saw it Donnie!" Leo barked back.
"Man, I could have warned one of them about the other. I need to get back out there!" Sam thought to herself.
She continued to watch as Bebop grabbed onto the device and then pulled himself up onto a large flat piece that had broken from the plane. Of course Leo was only two seconds behind as he leaped up onto the surface and then completed two spin kicks. The first launched the device out of Bebop's hands and high up into the air. The second launched the device backwards away from where both of them were standing as the device landed in the water between Donnie and Mikey.
Sam's anticipation was cut off as she heard a familiar voice.
"Sam!"
Sam turned around to see Raph running up behind her.
"Get down!" he yelled.
Sam did as she was told as Raph ducked down next to her. She soon saw why he instructed to her to get low as they both watched the tank floating by quickly along the river.
Sam knew where the turtles were since she had been by their side on the surface.
"The guys are right in that thing's direction. You have to hurry." She quickly looked around her.
"Go up this incline right here, it leads up ahead quicker than down here" she commanded.
Raph nodded and did as he was told, and he was grateful for Sam's input. Because he had taken this small incline, he had reached his brothers just in time before the tank appeared. Mikey and Donnie hadn't seen the tank because it had fallen underwater due to the force from going through the rapids. It was like it disappeared for a few seconds and then reappeared right behind them out of thin air. The movement from the tank rising up pushed Mikey's raft up high enough and to the side that Mikey was in the clear, but Donnie was now standing on his box right in the direct spot of where the bullet would fly. He wanted to move, but the uprising of the tanks had caused violent waves that shook the box Donnie was standing on, making it difficult to maintain his balance. Raph dashed over and leapt high and far enough that he was able to grab onto Donnie's shoulder and move him far enough in time that the bullet just missed piercing through Donatello.
Sam sighed out in relief as she saw Raph, Donnie, and Mikey bob back up in the water. They had lost control of grabbing onto the device, but at least they were safe now. Sam continued to creep along the shoreline as she hid behind the trees while watching the fight continue on. She spotted the purple device in its clear box as it now floated straight back to where Bebop and Leo were fighting. Of course, Bebop was the one who had grabbed onto the device in the middle of the fight.
"I should be out there" Sam muttered angrily under her breath while she hid, "I could have helped prevent that from happening."
The bullet from the tank then crashed into a large tree right over top of Leo and Bebop. As soon as the pig got his hands on the box, Leo tried to yank the device away. Unfortunately Bebop had the better stance and was able to remove the device from Leo's grasp right before he used it to knock Leo off the floating piece from the plane. Leo landed safely in the water, but just like his brothers, he was now nowhere close to reaching and retrieving the piece needed for opening the portal. To make matters worse, the tree that had been hit now fell over onto the spot where Leo had been standing. This then launched Bebop back towards the tank where Rocksteady grabbed onto him and pulled him up so that they both were high and dry.
Sam groaned as she then watched the tank come to a halt as it was stopped by some larger rocks. This wouldn't be such a big deal, you know, if her friends weren't floating further away down the river.
"Hehe, bye turtles!" Bebop shouted.
"Heads up!" Rocksteady shouted as he pointed behind them.
Sam turned towards the turtles as her face now unintentionally matched theirs.
None of them had realized that the turtles were now about to fall down an extremely large drop from an incredibly tall waterfall.
Sam began to shake in fear as she watched her brothers as they inched closer and closer towards the dangerous drop.
Sam wanted to just assume they would be safe. They were turtles after all, so they could swim and even hide in their shells if need be…but what if there was more than just the water fall?
What if there were sharp rocks at the bottom of the drop? What if the fall was so high that it was the equivalent of jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge? What if they all fell unconscious during the fall and drowned? They could swim underwater for a very long time (based on what Donatello had told her) but even he had confirmed that they could only swim underwater without any air for so many hours. What if they drowned before they woke back up to get more air?
The more dreadful questions Sam asked herself, the angrier she got. She didn't realize it, but she was running. She also didn't realize that the turtles could still see her as she now ran up a small incline and then leaped down towards Bebop. She would never know the terror that filled all four turtles as they watched Sam punch Bebop right in the jaw and then spin and kick Rocksteady in the gut, knocking them both over as they fell into the water along with the device.
The four turtles knew that she was using her powers too much at one time, and that she was straining herself in the way she had been using her powers in the last hour than she had ever used them before. They knew this, but Sam did not. She was so absorbed in attacking the two men who possibly just stole her brothers from her that she didn't even hear them screaming her name as they all fell down the waterfall until it was too late.
She turned and her heart sunk as she watched the four turtles disappear down the falls. The sounds of Bebop and Rocksteady climbing back up onto the tank brought her back to her current situation as she realized she needed to retrieve that device for the portal. She may not have been able to save her family, but she would do everything she could to avenge them and honor them by completing their mission and keeping the city safe.
Sam used her still relatively new power of using her wind strength to pull the device from the water and back towards her. As soon as the device touched her fingertips she turned her body, jumped back onto dry land, and ran. As soon as her feet hit the grass, she began to wobble a bit.
"Oh no, not now!" she thought to herself. She couldn't have another blackout here. Luckily she had just felt dizzy for a literal second and now she was running into the forest, but she was terrified of what was to come. She had a strong hunch that if she used her powers anymore that she would officially black out again, but now was a moment where she needed them more than ever.
"Awwww no Beebs! Where'd she go?!"
"I see bushes moving that way!"
"Shit!" Sam was actually beginning to panic now. She had faced tough humans with her natural strength, and she had fought mutants with her powers, but facing two gigantic mutants with just her own muscle and no one else to help her, that was suicide. She didn't know what else to do, so she just kept running. What was worse, if they were anything like the Mutanimals, then they had a keen sense of smell. This meant that hiding wasn't an option, so her literal only option was to run as far as her legs would allow her to go. Her speed and stamina were the only things she had to work with at this point, so she would cut and start running in different directions, she would leap over and duck under different pieces of the terrain, she was doing whatever she could to make the mutants run tougher than it would be for her. This worked at times, and she could tell because the footsteps behind her would become fainter, but within minutes later they would return. Loud and noisy footsteps closed in on her many times. She had to have been running for at least an hour now. She felt like she had been running in circles and honestly she had no clue where she was, she just knew she needed to survive.
That's when the worst thing of all happened. She didn't black out, but her body tensed up. It was like she had been shot with a tranquilizer, but she checked her body and there was nothing there. Her vision blackened some, but it came back. Taking a wild guess, she assumed that overusing her powers and then pushing her body through such strenuous conditions had forced her body to just shut down. Because she hadn't used her powers in over an hour, she did not blackout, but she lost all control of her movements. Her body continued to move on the inside (her organs working and functioning) but the outside of her body froze and she collapsed to the ground.
She tried crawling under some nearby brush, but it was too late.
Bebop and Rocksteady, huffing and puffing, walked over and looked down upon the girl who was lying face first in the dirt.
"WHOO! Man I never thought you were gonna stop!" Rocksteady announced.
Bebop wiped the sweat from his head.
"You're one tough cookie girly, but nothing that we can't crack" Bebop said with a wicked tone to his laughing voice.
"Heh, let's crack her alright" the rhino said, cracking his knuckles.
"WHOA! DUDE!" Bebop shouted, pushing his friends shoulder. "What's the matter with you Rock? You know we don't kill women! And we ESPECIALLY don't harm them if they can't fight back!"
Rocksteady looked down at the ground, ashamed of his comments.
"I'm so sorry man, I just keep getting carried away today."
"Hey, it's okay buddy. We've had a rough first day, stresses you out ya know?" the warthog said as he comforted and cheered up his friend.
"So, what do we do with her?"
"Hmmmmmm" the pig thought out loud, "well we can't kill her cause that would go against our morals…" His face then lit up and a devious expression covered his face.
"I guess we'll just let fate decide what happens to her."
Bebop carried the device as Rocksteady grabbed Sam's legs and dragged her back to the river. Sam hadn't realized how close she been to the shoreline as she came to the end of her long run, but she hoped she was much further back than earlier that evening. Her hopes seemed to have been fulfilled since she didn't see any familiar scenery when the mutants brought her back to the river.
Bebop found a log and dropped it in the water, and the Rocksteady placed Sam on top of the log. It was heavy enough to carry her, but her bodyweight made the log sink down just a tad bit. Because of this, water rushed against the sides of Sam's head. The water filled her ears and made it so that she couldn't hear anything. She had no idea what the two mutants were laughing at, but she assumed their laughter was aimed at the blank expression on her face. She would never reveal any emotion to them that they had won, but apparently they found all this funny anyway.
Sam watched the mutant's wave goodbye as they kicked the log off the ground so that it now floated away down the river. Sam's back was laying on the log which meant that she could not look in any direction but up towards the sky. She sighed, wondering if this was the end for her. She definitely never would have expected THIS to be the way she died, but she knew there was nothing she could do to avoid it. She felt tears begin to prick her eyes but she quickly blinked them away. She felt that crying would signal defeat, and she would never admit defeat, even in death she would go out like an honorable warrior.
She kept waiting and waiting for her body to gain control of itself once again, but this never happened. She guessed she had been floating for about 20 minutes now and she knew she couldn't have run that far away from her original starting point since she kept circling around and running through past different areas where the trees would get in the mutants way or where the ground went uphill and downhill, different things that would make their run much more difficult than hers. Knowing this, she just kept waiting to reach the waterfall. Knowing these were her last moments, she tried convincing herself that the deadly fall would be more like a steep drop on a roller coaster. She then started imagining what it would be like to go on a roller coaster with the turtles. It amused her to think of the muscular turtles trying to fit into the harnesses of a roller coaster when they struggled just to get their harnesses set up for laser tag. And then the worst thought hit her: she would never see her brothers again. She sighed, long and slow. This was really it. She closed her eyes, hoping that if her eyes were to stay closed forever then at least she would end seeing happy thoughts as she replayed some of her happiest moments with her new family.
She was so wrapped up in these more peaceful thoughts (in hopes of leading to a more peaceful ending) that she hadn't realized she was no longer moving down the river. It wasn't until she felt small waves rise up and over her while she lay on the log that she felt the need to open her eyes. Seconds later, two tech covered arms were picking her up and carrying her towards 3 more sets of arms that helped pull the tech arms and herself back to dry land.
She was fighting so hard not to cry at how relieved she was. It was still hard for her to hear anything because of how much water was now clogging her ears, but right now she was pretty sure that she didn't want to hear what was being said anyway.
The water finally settled, and she honestly didn't know what to make of the first sounds she heard, since the first sounds were multiple yells and shouts from the four brothers in front of her.
"Sam can you hear me?" Donnie kept announcing.
"I knew this would happen! I told you we should have let her stay home!" shouted Leo.
"Dude are you serious right now? Like, how does that help?! " argued Mikey.
"It's not that she's here, it's that she can't listen! She knew that if she was that weak then she needed to lay low!" bellowed Raph.
"We shouldn't have left her alone!" countered Mikey.
"Oh so I was supposed to drag her around like a doll?! She was weak Mikey and she needed to lay low! Do you even hear yourself?!" shouted Donnie.
"Her life wouldn't have been at risk if she stayed home!" Leo yelled.
"Stop targeting me like I planned this Leo!" Donnie shouted back.
"I'm sorry" Sam mumbled.
That fast all the shouting and arguing came to a halt.
"What happened?"
"What hurts?"
"What did they do to you?"
"Where did you go?"
Each brother asked their own question, over and over again, panic now flooding through their veins.
"I ran…then I couldn't move…" were the only words that came out of Sam's mouth.
"What the hell were you thinking?" Leo asked in a dark and pained tone.
Sam felt her stomach twisting from her guilt.
"I…wanted to help-"
"And you thought killing yourself would be helpful?" Leo bit back,
"Dude" Mikey said, nudging his brother, "back off."
"He's right" Raph stated, glaring at Mikey. "She made a stupid decision."
Leo then started glaring at Sam, though she could only see this in her peripheral vision as she continued to stare at the ground.
"No 'help' is worth it if it means losing you in the process. I thought you had learned that by now. Especially if you're here on missions like this."
Sam felt the glares from Leo and Raph. She was terrified to say anything, not that anything could justify her actions anyway.
"Let's go" Leo said in a low and furry filled tone.
The turtles stood up and waited for Sam to follow, only for her to continue sitting back and leaning on the tree they had her propped up against.
"Sam?" Donnie asked.
She continued to look at the ground as she spoke.
"I still can't move" she said just loud enough for the group to comprehend what she said.
Leo and Raph both clenched their fists as they stormed off. They would help carry Sam, but they both knew they would unintentionally carry her in a rather rough manner because of how pissed they were. They also knew Mikey would be more than happy to carry Sam back. No matter how pissed he was, they knew he would always be gentle with her no matter what. The group trudged through the forest as Donnie figured out where they needed to go to board a cargo plane back to New York.
It was going to be a long plane ride home.
So, was Sam in the right or wrong to act out and keep using her powers even when she knew she shouldn't? And do you think she has been in control when using these powers, or are her powers controlling her?
And wow, when you go back and watch these scenes over and over again, there is so much you realize you had never noticed before! Like I've watched this movie many, many times, but when I watch on my laptop and can rewind the same short scenes over and over again, there is so much you never realized was there. I tried to incorporate as much of that as I could into this chapter, especially so that it made everything make sense and come together smoothly.
Hope you all enjoyed this chapter!
