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Chapter #58
*Still Tuesday May 24th, 2016. About 12 in the afternoon*
After quick introductions were made (and S2 finally calmed down after being told a dozen times that this April wasn't the scientist that was just seen on the television) the group began formulating a new plan.
April should have had the same finger prints as the April (what they were going to call A2, following their favored naming trend). This meant any information locked away through fingerprints, eye scans, etc. should work for their April as well. This meant that if the group moved fast enough then they could use their April to sneak in and retrieve any and all evidence of the radiated Tanzanite and hide it so that Karai couldn't get her hands on it.
The main issue at this current time was that in order to make a key card (another tool April might need when entering and maneuvering her way throughout the building) was that the photo portion of the I.D. needed to look like the red headed A2.
Of course, S2 had wigs and all sorts of makeover materials back at her place, so she hurried along with April as she brought the woman to her apartment for a makeover. She would then snap a picture of April to Donnie who would quickly generate a fake I.D.
The group would travel underground and hand the I.D. over to April as she entered the building to retrieve the Tanzanite. The Jay's and Sam would be tailing behind her as they snuck around and blended in with their surroundings, looking out for anyone who might interfere with April's part of the mission.
While S2 had taken April topside, Donnie discovered through some stolen electronic documents from the scientists working for OneLife Science that since their results were successful, multiple groups were going to split up the work and continue testing the Tanzanite in multiple locations. However, nothing said where these locations were just yet, but the documents did state when the materials were going to be shipped to their new locations outside the OneLife building aka the main and original facility.
Sam had offered to go topside and set up trackers (made by the one and only Donatello) that would carefully be placed onto the trucks carrying the radiated gemstones so that the group would know what buildings to follow afterwards.
The guys agreed to this plan. Leo and Raph traveled underground, following the exact steps Sam was walking up on the surface above. Mikey and Donnie followed along as well, but Mikey continued to listen in to the police scanners, and Donnie continued to use his tablets to hack into the company's database as a means to gather any additional information he could. Simultaneously, he was setting up the tracking system he had installed among the many other programs that could be accessed through the device he wore on his wrist.
Sam currently hid right behind a dumpster, purposefully moving it and placing it so that she could hide behind it. She had seen enough movies to know better than to hide in the dumpster unless it was a life or death decision, so she maneuvered the large object to benefit her instead of choosing to dive into it. About 15 minutes later, the trucks arrived at the time that Donnie had stated according to the online documents he accessed.
It was now currently 1p.m. Sam used a pea shooter to shoot tiny electronic trackers that were so small that they looked like flies that were darting towards the truck. 3 trackers were aimed at the 3 trucks that arrived. Another 10 minutes went by before the trucks finally loaded everything they needed and drove away.
"This is sergeant awesome stating that the mission has been accomplished" Sam said as she brought her wrist up to her mouth. She spoke into yet again a wonderfully tactical device that Donnie had created. It started as a Fit Bit that had been crushed by a bike that only Donnie would want to pick up and save. For all the teasing he got by Raph, moments like this made Donnie happy that he was the technological hoarder that he was, since the 'used to be Fit Bit' was now a basic communication device.
"Good job Sam" Leo said into the walkie talkie attached to the strap across his chest. "We're located by a manhole cover in an ally way two streets down from where you are. Head that way when the coast is clear."
"And then the waiting game begins. Someone please take a picture of Raph's face when he hears that" Sam snickered, knowing that right now the turtle was pacing back and forth, low-key jealous that Sam was the one doing the 'hard work' as she snuck around up on the surface.
"Just hurry up and get down here already" Raph growled into his walkie talkie.
"How many times have you paced back and forth now?" she chuckled.
"22. Now 23" Mikey stated, before a thump like sound was heard through the speaker.
"What a temper. Much wow" Sam teased, mocking her rough friend for his childish reaction to being teased.
"Tease Raph after you've returned underground" Donnie stated. "The last thing we need is for you to be spotted by Karai and allow her to see what you're doing and then let her figure out what we know. If we're lucky then she doesn't know anything about the materials being sent to different places yet."
There was no reply after that.
"You made her mad" Mikey stated.
"Who did?" Raph asked.
"I guess you."
"What?!"
"Well you responded first. The first to talk is always the one who did something wrong, that's why you spoke out of guilt" Mikey said with a cheeky grin.
"Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know the 'you smelt it you dealt it' rules applied here" Raph grunted, shoving his brother in the process.
"Both of you keep quiet" Leo hushed, waving at them to keep down.
He then turned around to Donnie who had suddenly began typing away at his tablet.
"What's up?" Leo asked.
"Sam isn't responding and she turned her device off. It was fully charged which means the battery couldn't have died."
Raph and Mikey had stopped horsing around at that point and walked closer to where their brother currently sat criss cross on the ground with his device in his lap.
"Sam?" Donnie tried again as he talked into the walkie on his shoulder, wondering if he had fixed the problem. He then immediately got his t-com out as a means to contact the other humans in the group.
"Does anyone have eyes on Sam? Is she with anyone? Do we have footage of her?"
"Oh shit" the Jays oddly said in unison.
"What?" Mikey responded, without as much as a second to take a breath after the alternates spoke.
"Donnie I want you to hack into a camera on Douglas road, a side street. There's a small bakery with a security camera in the front. There's something you need to see."
Within 2 minutes Donatello had done as he was told, and the brothers all gasped at what they saw.
*A few minutes prior, Sam's perspective*
The timing was as ironic as it got. Just as Donnie was talking about making sure that Karai didn't learn about what they were doing, a young couple who had been teasing each other had playfully pushed the female in the relationship, causing her to bump into Sam as she was standing back up after tying her shoe.
"Oh I'm sorry!" the woman said as she turned toward Sam. Sam had never seen someone's expression instantly switch from one of playful joy to one of sheer terror and shock.
Karai had just bumped into her, and she recognized who she had bumped into without a second glance.
Of course, Tatsu was the male in the relationship and was standing right next to his partner in crime.
Sam knew she had to play it cool and brush it off. She needed to trick and convince Karai that she was an alternate of the Sam that the woman knew.
"Psh, honey I wish I had a man who joked with me like that. Don't apologize for being in love" Sam said in an animated tone.
At first the couple stood there, probably contemplating how to react to this situation themselves. Finally, Karai's eyes widened which signaled to Sam that Karai was falling into her trap.
"Why aren't you sweet" she replied. "but I really am sorry for bumping into you" she added. "Where are you headed?" Karai asked.
'Nice try, I'm not revealing where the gemstones are you idiot' Sam thought to herself.
"I was actually heading into that cute café over there" she said as she pointed to a café that was in the direction she was walking in. It was a small café that seemed like a chain business since there were such huge lines of people standing inside the facility.
"All my friends say it's perfect since there are drinks you can buy that aren't too sugary. I love sweets, but it's hard to eat sugary things when I'm trying to become a professional ballet dancer, you know" Sam stated. Her goal was to make herself sound like a totally different Sam than the one that Karai was used to.
"So how long have you two been together?" Sam asked, swinging her body side to side like a bashful child.
"Honestly I don't even know anymore" Karai chuckled, "it's been so many years now that I've lost track."
"Gee thanks" Tatsu said, wrapping an arm around the woman and pulling her in close.
Sam could easily tell that they were pulling an act of their own. Everyone in the Foot clan knew these two were an item, but they NEVER acted like this.
"Well we better get going now" Karai stated, "we have some errands we need to take care of. Nice talking to you" she said with a (fake) heartfelt smile.
"And I need to get in that line before it gets any longer" Sam replied with a giggle. "Take care now" she said before checking both ways and then crossing the street.
She stood in line long enough until she could tell the two had walked away. It took her awhile to determine this since she had been using reflections from various windows to see where the two were located, but when she finally knew for sure that they had ventured off, she left the line and snuck into the back where only the employees were supposed to enter.
She snuck through until she found a door that lead to the ally out back.
Once outside, she ran over to the nearest manhole cover and left downwards.
She was down at the far end of the sewer tunnel, but she was now in the same tunnel as the turtles.
"What happened?" Mikey asked as soon as the girl's feet touched the ground of the tunnel.
"Shit luck is what happened" Raph grumbled.
"What did they say?" Leo asked.
Sam had now jogged down and was standing amongst her mutant family.
"They did the same thing I did. They pretended they had never seen me before and acted like the opposites of themselves. They didn't let on, but I know they knew who I was. The fact that I was right down the street from the OneLife building, they had to have put 2 and 2 together."
"That and they watched you for 8 minutes while you stood in line at a coffee shop" Donnie chimed in. "Good job at using your surroundings by the way" he said as he fist bumped the girl.
"Thanks, but we need to change our plan, and fast."
"Why?" Raph grunted. "Karai doesn't know about the Tanzanite being taken away, right? Wouldn't changing the plan just let her know that something is up?"
"Yes and no. Karai and Tatsu are now probably somewhere still relatively close by to where they bumped into me. I'm sure they're waiting to see me exit the building so they can watch and see where I go next. They're probably planning to ambush or follow me since either would normally allow someone to find the answers they were looking for. If I can get them to follow me and then have them running in circles in the wrong building, then you guys can track the trucks and be somewhere completely different without them even knowing."
"And what if they split up?" Raph asked.
"Then I fight off one of them, and the four of you fight off the other. Plus you'll still have April and the Jay duo to help you out in regards to entering the buildings."
Leo nodded. "You make good points. Alright, we'll-"
"Nope!" Mikey announced.
"What do you mean no?" Sam asked with narrow eyes.
"This chick is at it again" Mikey stated with a clenched jaw. He turned a small tablet around for the group to see as they watched a live news feed about the project being separated into the four buildings.
"Dammit!" Raph bellowed.
"I never thought I could be so mad at April man, but this chick is really getting on my nerves" Mikey groaned.
"So new-new plan!" Sam announced as she clapped her hands together.
"Hold on" Donnie stated. He held a finger up to make her pause, and then lightly shook that finger as thoughts ran through his head. "We can still use your plan, but we have to be careful."
"Elaborate" Leo demanded with curiosity.
"Sam can still lead Karai into one of the buildings as a decoy. This news report didn't state how much of the Tanzanite will be sent to each one. That means that if we can determine which building has smaller projects and lower amounts of Tanzanite then Sam can lead Karai there."
"And if I'm just blindly running around the building with Karai on my tail, then you guys can actually focus on getting the Tanzanite and getting out."
"Could Jay do the same thing?" Mikey asked. "Since Tatsu would recognize him. He could distract him as well."
The brothers looked shocked with wide eyes as they processed that Mikey just came up with a good idea to add to the plan. Sam, however, was giving the turtle two thumbs up for speaking his mind.
"Alright, contact the Jay's and inform them that our Jay is going to lead Tatsu into one of the buildings as a decoy. The rest of us will split up. Raph and I will tail Sam since Karai is already so close by. Donnie, you'll aide April and Mikey will go with Jay. That way everyone has at least one other person they can rely on. Each team consists of a human who can fight and blend in with their workplace surroundings while also having a ninja who has their back."
"Tell April and Jay to head for a fire alarm once they get to a higher level of the building" Sam cut in. "That will help clear out the building so that it's easier for us to move from room to room, and that goes for all of us having easier access of the rooms."
"That will help us lose track of Karai and Tatsu as well" Mikey cut in.
"Why?" Sam asked with a smirk, hoping once again that her friend would impress his brothers.
"Well if you guys get to a higher floor quick enough, then the crowds of people exiting the building will distract and prevent our enemies from finding us."
Donnie nudged his brother with a smile.
"Nice thinking. I'll contact April and arrange a meeting point nearby one of the buildings."
"I'll call Jay as well" Mikey added.
"We ready for this?" Sam asked as she faced the two oldest brothers.
"Tch, you have to ask?" Raph groaned as he rolled his eyes and gently pushed past her.
Sam faced Leo and quickly clapped her hands.
"That means yes!" she whispered in excitement as she turned around to run after her gruff friend, a perky pep in her step in excitement of all that was about to unfold.
Leo sighed. "Man you get way to excited to put yourself in danger."
The group finalized their plans. Mikey had contacted Jay and would meet with him at a building further down the street, and Donnie would continue to wait in a spot technically around the corner from where they were located.
To their amusement, and slight annoyance, the trucks had been loaded with other materials related to other projects as well as the Tanzanite, so the gemstones were actually very close by. Donnie assumed that someone either messed up that shipping order, or that maybe the drivers didn't realize their mistake until later into their job of transporting the materials.
Sam waited for Donnie and Mikey to communicate that they were with their human partners before setting off. Once Jay met up with her at the original location in the sewers behind the coffee shop, they were ready to go.
"Alright. So you're going to head into one building, and I'm going to head down the street towards the other. That way Karai and Tatsu are completely separated, right?" Jay reassured.
"Exactly. We want to get those two as far apart from each other as possible. That way every situation is either 2 or 3 against 1. The turtles will fight while we search for the Tanzanite."
"Okay we've said the plan about a million times now. Can we go?" Raph ushered.
"So impatient. Hope your future girlfriend likes things quick" she said with a smirk.
"Make a sex joke one more time, I fucking dare you" he grumbled, standing so that their faces were mere inches apart.
"Hopefully she also likes an aggressive dominate" she teased, patting his cheek.
"Jesus" Leo said, pushing past Sam to push Raph further back.
"Let's go!" Jay groaned, pulling Sam in the opposite direction.
"She started it" Raph mumbled.
"He's not wrong!" Sam called over her shoulder.
"Goodbye Samantha" Leo said through a gritted teeth smile, knowing that hearing her full first name would irk her.
"Awww you're next when I get back!" she called out.
Once Jay finally got his sister to focus, Sam slowly made her way above ground with him right behind her.
Jay was now wearing a wristband just like the one Sam had on (April had been given one before she left) and spoke into it as he pretended to scratch his nose.
"Mikey can you hear me?" He asked softly.
"Loud and clear bro."
"Let's go" Sam stated as she lead the way.
The two walked out of the alleyway that was next to the coffee shop and turned to their right so that they were now heading down towards the main OneLife science building.
"We have company" Jay whispered.
"Both of them?" Sam asked, assuming that Karai and Tatsu had been watching from somewhere nearby.
"Yup."
"Alright. I'll walk around inside this department store. You keep heading towards the furthest building." Sam then brought her wrist up towards her ear as if scratching it.
"What's your location April?"
"I'm a few streets back. I see Karai and Tatsu."
"As soon as you see them follow Jay and I, you head down towards the building nearby mine."
"Understood."
Sam turned to her left and entered the clothing store. She went straight towards an escalator that would make herself very visible to Karai who quickly took the bait. She walked towards a window in the front of the top level of the store and watched as Tatsu took his bait and continued to follow Jay. Sam then walked further inwards towards the middle of the store.
She then pretended to take a selfie and as she pretended to edit it, she actually sent a message to Donnie informing him to send her a message once he was with April in the back alley by their building.
10 minutes later she received the text. She waited an additional 10 minutes before deciding to leave the store.
Right on cue, Karai made her way to the escalator and was on her way down and out of the store as well.
Now was the time to truly put the plan into action. Sam took a deep breath before she turned to walk down the side walk towards the building. While April had her clearance card, Sam and Jay had located back entrances that they could sneak into.
"How are the cameras Donnie?" Sam asked, scratching her chin.
"Cameras in all 3 buildings have been altered to 2 hour previous. You're good to go as long as no one is out back" he clarified.
"Just what I wanted to hear."
Sam turned at the corner, taking a bit of a longer route to get to the back of the building. Obviously walking straight up to the building and then heading towards the back would be sketchy as hell. Instead, Sam made a few turns so that she would duck from under a few railings and through an alley way to get to the building.
It felt odd though. Karai had been following her the entire time, which meant the plan was going just the way they wanted.
Of course she wanted the plan to play out the way they had planned, but it just felt...odd. Where were the other soldiers for an ambush? Where was Karai's sneak attack? Unless Karai planned on using Sam to lead her to the gemstones first and then she would launch a surprise attack on her. Sam nodded to herself. That idea made more sense. Obviously she wouldn't attack now when she didn't even know where exactly the gemstones were located. Why make the job harder on herself?
Sam crept up to the door and realized the locks had all already been disarmed.
She huffed. 'Show off' she thought to herself, knowing that Donnie had to be an overachiever and think of quick decisions all on his own.
The plan was for her to rush towards the nearest stair case, and once Karai was so far up, set off and alarm so that large crowds of people would be heading downstairs, preventing her from following Sam any further and preventing her from learning where the gemstones were being kept.
Thanks to Donnie's quick thinking, Sam now could rush into the building without any hesitation. She sprinted down the hallways as soon as the door opened up.
"Guys enter and hide once she's in" Sam huffed towards her wrist as she ran. She rounded a corner and thank god the door opened to a stairwell that lead to the roof of the building.
She used her wind powers to send her soaring up towards a higher floor near the top of the stairwell. She stood and waited to see Karai enter that stairwell as well which would guide Sam to quickly pull a fire alarm...but Karai's face was never seen.
"Guys? Did Karai enter the building?" Sam asked into her wrists communication device.
"She's in there. You don't see her?" Leo responded.
"She didn't follow me into the stairwell."
Had running so quickly into the building changed Karai's game plan? What was she thinking now? Sam knew it had been too easy to lure her in up to this point.
Just then the fire alarm went off.
"Shit" Sam mumbled.
"Sam, tell us that was you" Raph whispered worriedly through the connection.
"Unfortunately not. Where are you guys?"
"Down here."
Sam looked down and saw the two turtles waving.
"Hide under-"
"We know" Leo cut in. The two turtles hid under a gap underneath the stairwell.
"J2, where do I need to go? I need to get there quicker than planned."
J2 had stayed back at the lair and was using his technological skills to guide the groups in each building as he accessed digital blueprints of each buildings layout and private documents about what was being studied and held within each room of each building.
Sam hated blindly entering a building like this, but they just didn't have the time to properly plan like they usually would ahead of time. They needed to act and they had needed to do so fast, so she would have to put up with not being as prepared as she would have liked to have been.
"Alright Sam" J2 began, "you are currently on the 40th floor of a 50 floor building. The materials are located in a lab on the 20th floor. And, ohhh…" his voice trailed off.
"What's wrong?" Sam asked. At this time she began walking downstairs since there were large crowds of people leaving from that and from above floors by using the stairs where she was currently standing and talking to her brother's alternate.
"I'm checking various security cameras from all 3 buildings and I just spotted Karai. She's on the bottom floor. That means you both have an equal chance of reaching that floor first before the other does."
"Yeah, but she doesn't know what floor to head towards, right?" Sam asked into her wrist. She was currently and mentally thanking the lord that multiple other people were talking with ear pieces in and with fancy watches and even devices that were located in pockets or on glasses. Because of all the fancy technological gadgets, talking into her wrist didn't seem odd to anyone.
"You never know, she may have more tricks up her sleeve that we aren't expecting. Just get there as quickly as you can. I'll alert Raph and Leo. I know they're hiding right now so I'll do so cautiously."
"You're the best my dude" Sam said before placing her arm back at her side. Well, sort of. Her arms were sort of shimmying in all different directions since she was trying to maneuver herself throughout the crowd. However, she didn't want people to go crazy if they saw her reacting frantically. She needed to stay calm as well in order to keep everyone else calm, so she carefully but still as quickly as she could, moved around the group as she made her way down the stairs. She tried to stay as close to the wall as possible when traveling down the staircase since she knew she would need to eventually open the door that would provide her access to the 20th floor.
It felt like an eternity since she had to move so slow due to the numerous amounts of people, but she finally reached the doorway to the 20th floor. There were grumbles and scowls from people as she barely was able to open the door, but she squeezed her way through and was now standing in the very silent hallway of the designated floor. Everyone must have already made their way down the stairs since the hallway was dead silent. Once the door had closed behind her the noise from the hustle and bustle in the staircase had been muted, for the most part at least.
As Sam crept through the hallways, her left hand carefully placed low and towards her back in case she needed to rapidly reach for a weapon, the only sounds she heard were the hums of machines scattered throughout the different lab rooms. She was afraid to communicate through either her walkie or her wrist device since she feared that even the slightest sound that came from her would alert someone, specifically Karai if she had made her way up here and was now lurking or hiding, waiting for Sam to reveal her location.
Sam clung to the wall, her back as close to it as she could get but without being noisy when doing so, as she peeked around the corner. She waited for a few seconds before continuing her journey down the hallway, poking her head into each room as she looked for anything that resembled the blue Tanzanite gemstones.
As she continued her search she began to wonder about the turtles. How were Mikey and Jay doing? They had to travel to the furthest building and supposedly had Tatsu on their tails. Had he caught up to them yet? And what about Donnie and April? How were those two holding up? If things were going according to plan then they should have had the easiest job…which now made Sam stop and question why Mikey hadn't gone with April?...THE LOCKS! Sam said, literally nodding to herself as she stood in the middle of the hallway. Jay could pick locks on her own, whereas April…had a key card…so that wasn't it. Oh! But she also had the least fighting experience, so if something went askew then she would have Donnie there to back her up.
Sam then went to take a few steps, and then paused again. But...Mikey could still defend April as well. He may flirt a bit, but...why had they paired them up the way they did?
Wait, why was she trying to find a reason why Mikey didn't get the easier job? Mikey was a badass and while he would never admit it, he was a highly qualified fighter! So why was she standing here trying to figure out why she hadn't mentioned him in getting the easier job? It wasn't like Mikey couldn't handle a tougher position with handling Tatsu on his own while Jay found the gemstones. But, did she not want Mikey to have the harder job because it was Mikey?
That didn't make any sense! Why would she purposefully want one of her brothers to have an easier job than the others?
Sam snapped her fingers as she thought to herself and realized that it was because he was her best friend. Obviously Mikey could hold his own, but Sam was thinking with a best friend mindset in not wanting anything to happen to him even though she knew all her brothers were bad-asses and could handle anything!
As she rolled her eyes at her silly thoughts she then realized she wasn't creeping down the halls anymore and quickly got back into her stance as she continued to think to herself. She then wondered why it had suddenly gotten so hot in the room. As she passed by an office with a very fragile looking glass door, she could see her reflection in the glare on the door that her cheeks were now very red. She assumed that was because it was so hot in here, what else would explain he sudden flushed cheeks?
Just then she felt her phone vibrate in her pocket. She discreetly removed her phone and read a message that had been sent from J2. The message read:
KARAI HEADING YOUR WAY! Most of the people out of the building, she had made her way to the 5th floor by the time she pulled the alarm. She has a scientist held at gunpoint who I assume is leading her to the Tanzanite. I messaged Leo and Raph and they're now running up the stairs towards you! Also I just got word from…
As Sam was reading the message, she heard the click of a door opening. She ducked into the closest room with an open door and hid behind a lab desk. She peeked out carefully, making it so that you could only see her around the desk if you really stood there and focused on it.
"It's just around the corner, I promise!" a frantic voice exclaimed.
"Shut up! Just lead me to the gemstones" replied a tough female voice.
Karai. She had already arrived with her hostage. Sam prayed that they would walk by the room so that she could attack her with the element of surprise. This would be even more perfect since the turtles would be showing up soon, meaning that whoever continued to fight Karai would then keep her busy while another member from their group went off and fetched the gemstones.
Sam guessed that it must have been her lucky day since Karai then walked by with the man…only he turned to then enter the room that she was in, so maybe not so lucky after all.
Sam ducked under the opening for people's legs under the desk, hoping with all her soul that they wouldn't need to access anything near the desk.
"Sooooo" the frantic older male voice began, "are you also behind the other two buildings being evacuated?"
"What are you talking about?" Karai asked abusively.
"You know, people were talking about how our other two buildings are also being evacuated. Apparently fire alarms were pulled at all 3 buildings. Is that because of you?"
"If I were you then I would focus on leading me to the gemstones" she bit back.
"Yes ma'am. Of course. We need to go through this room."
'Shit, I'm missing his instructions' Sam thought. She very slowly slid her phone out of her pocket and began to text J2, ignoring her message from before.
Did you see what room I just jumped into? After you inform Leo and Raph where I am then make sure to record everything that scientist is telling Karai.
Sam sent the message and then froze at what she heard next.
"Did you get them yet?"
Sam's palms became very sweaty since something wasn't right.
That was Tatsu's voice. Why was he here? He was supposed to be following Jay, so when did he stop? Why hadn't J2 said anything? Sam knew that he wasn't trained to spot things in a crowd like the rest of them, so maybe Tatsu had slipped past his view as he studied and scanned the layouts of 3 different buildings.
Unless…had something happened to Jay and Mikey? No, no way! There's no way Tatsu could take them both down. Sam could feel her phone vibrating, meaning that someone was sending her messages, but she knew it was too risky to respond when both villains were right there communicating. The messages would have to wait.
"I got them right here. You know our randevu point, right?" Karai asked.
"Yes. I'm sure the turtles will be coming for us soon. Leave the scientist and head for the randevu spot. I'll be there once I take them down with our secret weapon" Tatsu replied with a smirk.
She heard footsteps running and then heard a door open and slam shut. Sam didn't know the layout of the building, so even though the door sounded like it had come from further down the hallway, she wasn't quite sure if it was really a door that led to the stairs or not. However, if it was, then the guys really would be fighting against Tatsu right now. This meant that as she heard Karai leave then she needed to follow behind her.
Sam quickly sent a message on her phone to Leo's and Raph's stating that she would trail Karai towards her randevu point while they fought Tatsu. As soon as Sam hit the send button she rolled out from under the desk. She ignored the scientist still in the room and sprinted with the quickest footsteps she could muster. She heard a door close and by the time she rounded the corner she realized that this led to the stairs.
Sam peeked through the window in the door to make sure that no one was hiding right outside the door.
Once the coast was clear, Sam opened the door without making even a creak. She looked up as she heard another door that sounded as if it was closing and saw that the door all the way at the top of the stairs had just closed itself shut.
Sam assumed that this meant that Karai had been heading up towards the roof. Sam wanted to check her phone to see if the guys had replied since she now realized that they weren't fighting Tatsu in the stairwell. However, Karai could be escaping with the gemstones now, and depending on how many she needed, she may have had enough for whatever she was planning with Stockman back in their dimension. This meant that Sam didn't have time to check her phone and instead needed to catch up to Karai immediately.
She leapt over the railing and used her powers to shoot herself up to the top stairwell like a rocket, just like she had done earlier.
Once she gingerly landed at the top of the stairs, she once again peeked through the window that looked out onto the rooftop. She saw no one, which was obviously very suspicious. She just heard and even saw that this door had shut which meant that someone had just left through this exit. Were they hiding behind the small boxed off area on the room where this exit way was located?
Sam removed her tonfa from the two pockets along the sides of her backpack. She then sent another quick message to Leo and Raph informing them that she was about to walk onto the rooftop and to meet her there as soon as they could since she would be fighting Karai.
She took a deep breath and slowly opened the door.
She took a few steps forward, waiting for someone to either come running up to her, or for someone to throw something at her from afar. Her eyes were blue and black so that she could further prepare herself using her powers for anything that her enemy might throw her way.
Just as expected, smoke bombs were thrown and within seconds Sam was surrounded by smoke.
"Shit" she mumbled as she pulled her shirt up to cover her mouth and nose. She hadn't put her mask on in the hurry to go into battle, a careless mistake that was no one's but her own. She hoped this smoke was just a distraction and was not poisonous since she knew there was a good chance she may inhale some of it.
Already on alert, Sam sensed a body racing towards her as she twisted her tonfa to block a sword that was aimed towards her head. Both bodies leapt backwards as a light breeze began to blow the smoke away.
Just as Karai began to charge towards Sam, more smoke bombs were thrown from behind the space where the door was located.
It was assumed the plan was to have Karai charge Sam head on while Tatsu threw smoke bombs as a distraction from afar.
Sam knew she could handle this, she knew she was trained for this. From self-defense programs, from the Foot, and most importantly from the turtles. She had been trained on how to handle these situations.
She closed her eyes and listened to every movement that Karai had made.
She heard another cut being made towards her waist, but it wasn't quick enough, and Sam spun her tonfa to knock the blade away.
She then heard the slicing of more than one blade and assumed that two people were now fighting her based on the angles they were coming from.
Sam was getting frustrated that the smoke bombs just kept being set off. She assumed Tatsu and Karai were throwing them as they fought her since two swords were being used as the two enemies swords were constantly being swung at her.
Sam's eyes went black as she used her wind powers to scatter the wind away within mere seconds. As soon as she did so she brought her tonfa close to her face, preparing herself for what was to come as soon as the smoke cleared.
Sam was ready for anything. Weapons, distraction tactics, anything a fighter might use she was prepared for.
At least, that's what she thought as she stood there and watched Karai and an unexpected face that had been fighting her.
Sam stood there in shock, and that fast a tranq dart had been launched at her and landed on her arm.
A rush of emotions flooded through her. Disappointment for allowing herself to get distracted, pain from the face she was seeing, and fear from what would happen next.
"Chuck?" Sam asked as she now stared at her younger brother. He held a katana blade in his hands, standing as if he knew how to hold them.
Sam shook her head. "He's not real" she said as her eyes grew wide.
She knew it was bad to reveal her emotions, but seeing him like this shook her to her core. The distasteful look on his face as if they were enemies, the way he was holding his sword as if this was his weapon of choice.
This wasn't Chuck, especially since this looked like Chuck from years ago before he died, meaning this couldn't be real. Yet Sam fell for the trap and took the bait, and now she had no clue what would happen to her now that she had been shot with a tranq dart.
"It's not" she heard Karai say as she stood off to the side, "but this is."
Sam then sensed a presence behind her, and just as she spun around to face the intruder, she once again paused as she took the bait.
She was now facing her adopted brother Brian who was glaring at her as if she was the scum of the earth.
She shook her head, pained by the thought of having to fight her brother, but her movements were unintentionally slow when she went to block his punch that landed right at her nose.
Sam stumbled back and realized that her reflexes were failing due to the tranq dart.
A normal person would probably have fainted at this point, but the weird sensation in her body told her that the mutagen in her veins was fighting as hard as it could to keep her awake.
She tuned just in time to block a punch once again aimed at her face from Brian, but then couldn't react in time to block one from her younger brother.
That fast the fight had switched from fighting Karai to fighting her dead siblings, and thanks to the tranq dart, she was more so struggling to defend herself and block attacks than actually fight.
Punches and kicks were aimed her way, one after another.
Sam wanted to ask questions, but the tears forming in her eyes and barely being able to breath from defending and also feeling groggy made it so that she didn't even have a voice.
Out of the corner of her eye, Sam saw someone run up and enter the space on the rooftop, and that fast it was now Karai who was throwing a punch at Sam. Karai then spun and kicked Sam so then it sent her flying towards the edge of the roof.
Sam was lucky enough to grab onto a railing placed along the side of the building, but she knew she didn't have the strength to hang on long.
Even if it was a sign of weakness, Sam tried to scream so that one of the turtles could hear her, but still nothing came out.
Her body had grown so weak and fatigued that she couldn't make a single sound. The only bit of energy she had within her was to hold onto this beam with all of her strength and might.
"Ahhhh I've waited for this for so long. SO LONG!" Karai cheered.
Sam now saw that it was Tatsu who was standing on top of the boxed doorway.
"You…bitch…" Sam was able to mumble.
"Hmmmm? What's that?" Karai provoked, knowing that even these mumbles were draining the little bit of energy the girl had left.
"This was your plan all along" Sam almost whispered. "You wanted to get me away from everyone, didn't you? Separating was what you wanted. Then you targeted me using them, and now you're going to have the turtles watch me as you-"
Sam blacked out for a split second and lost her grip, but quickly grabbed onto the next rung on the railing before plummeting down to the ground.
"Honey, I would keep quiet if I were you. We don't want you to fall too soon." She said with a devilish smirk.
"You're not wrong though" Karai continued. "Yes we want the gemstones, but you were also our objective. See, we made a deal with Kraang that we would do whatever it took to get Shredder back, and that includes some small dirty work that includes you. So we followed you, and Tatsu returned to this building so that we could gang up on you. We assumed you knew as much about this building as we did and tricked you into coming up here alone since you didn't realize we both made our way up to the roof. That way, I could test out my new toys to make you fight your dead siblings while the turtles are nowhere to be seen. Ha! Your dumbass fell for everything way too easily" Karai laughed with a cackle.
"You know, it took a while to decide whether to use them, or to use these guys" she said as she then tuned as with the press of a button, Sam's brothers turned into Raph and Leo.
"But I thought it would be more fun to use these two, so that was my final pick" she said as she switched the turtles back into Chuck and Brian.
"How?" Sam mumbled.
Karai smirked as she leaned over and looked down at Sam, who was still dangling and just barely holding onto the railing.
"Don't worry-"
"NO!"
"Everything will be explained-"
"DON'T DO IT!"
"Once you wake up."
Karai then kicked Sam in the face, instantly making her black out.
That meant that she didn't realize Leo and Raph had made their way to the roof and were now rushing over to the railing, forgetting everything and everyone else around them as they panicked and shouted as they looked over and down from the rail.
This meant that Sam would never get to check her phone and realize that J2 had warned earlier that Tatsu had left the furthest building and was now heading back towards hers.
It means she would never receive the message that Leo sensed something wasn't right and told her not to pursue Karai alone after getting the same message about Tatsu.
It meant that she didn't know that Jay and Mikey had retrieved their gemstones and had made their way back and were now hiding out in an abandoned apartment across the street, meaning that right now Mikey could see everything that was happening as tears poured from his eyes and even though he was shrieking for Sam, he was in such a panic that he heard nothing but his heartbeat echoing throughout him.
She would never know that Jay was literally in the crowd of people with the intentions of sneaking in through a back entrance in the main building, now looking upwards in horror at his sister as he collapsed to his knees as he watched the last few seconds before his last sibling would leave him from this world and join the others.
She would never know that Donnie and April had retrieved their gemstones and had just run out onto the rooftop of the apartment complex across the street, and that while April was tending to one woman's wounds, Donnie just caught glimpse of his two older brothers running to catch up to a girl who had been kicked over the edge of the building, losing his shit since he couldn't come up with a plan quick enough that could save his friend in trouble.
She would never know the looks of horror on each of their faces as her limp body went soaring down towards the ground.
Leo and Raph had run over and couldn't stop the tears that were already falling from their eyes, knowing their friends fate. Instinctively they both reached over the edge, as if that could somehow pull their friend back up towards where they were standing.
Donnie had crouched down and was a crying mess, tears instantly falling from his eyes the second Sam's hands were no longer attached to the railing. He knew he was nowhere near the roof of the building and that by the time he got there that it would be too late. For the first time in his life he was in a situation where there was nothing he could do or even plan for someone else to do that could possibly save his friend at which he mentally cursed himself as he screamed for his friend who was now plummeting towards the ground at a rapid speed.
Jay was literally screaming his lungs out as he stared up in horror at his sister who was reaching his spot on the ground way too quickly. At that point there was nothing he could do but scream for help as he watched his sister fall faster and faster to her death.
And then there was Mikey, who was just so scared and furious that he was pounding away at the glass window in front of him, as if breaking through the sturdy material would somehow allow him to reach his best friend. He beat his hand against the glass until he smelled blood and then finally stopped, feeling weak himself. Maybe it was that physical fatigue, but he stopped slamming into the window and instead just left his head pressed against the glass as he continued to cry and whimper his friend's name, dragging his bloodied hand down the glass, wishing he could somehow just grab onto her.
No one wanted to watch her land, but something in them wouldn't let any of them look away from her. These were the last seconds where they would ever see her and they wanted to remember positive and cheerful images of her, but something in each of them prevented them from looking away from the gruesome scene they knew was coming.
Suddenly, a small portal opened up. No one knew where it came from, but it opened just in time and swallowed Sam up. As soon as her body passed through the portal, it closed up and vanished, erasing any trace of its existence.
The guys froze, tears still in everyone's eyes and vomit being released from Jay's mouth as they all processed what just happened.
They were terrified and none of them knew what to think, but they realized one thing: Sam's body wasn't crushed into the concrete.
This meant that Sam was still possibly alive, and that was enough to make everyone continue to fight on.
AHHHHHHHH I'm sorry that this isn't even an update and instead is me just cleaning up this chapter, since there were tons of typos and parts that didn't emphasize what I wanted them to when I uploaded it the first time.
Things have been interesting this summer. Like, a mix of it was just wanting to relax since last semester left me so freaking drained. I want to become a teacher, I really do, but my university made me so depressed for a solid 2 months or so, and I was actually supposed to graduate and didn't, so there was that.
That and for years now I never had a desk because there was just so much crap in my room and so I would literally type papers and lesson plans and everything uncomfortably in my bed and honestly I think I put off writing for a while because of that discomfort. Like I know that's horrible to say, but it's partially true. That and I was just always typing and in front of my computer to the point that I think I became sick of it and just didn't want to type. Of course ironically, now that summer is over, I FINALLY HAVE A DESK and my creative juices are flowing. Not gonna lie, I might rush this arc a little bit only because when I listen to music, my mind is already playing out scenes from the next upcoming scenes and moments that will come about once the group finally returns home.
After saying that, I can still confirm that this series is not dead, but I also don't want to lie and make it sound like I'll be back soon. In 8 weeks my life will no longer be scripted for me for the first time in my life. I may have a lot of free time because of that, but it also depends on what comes about in my career in being a sub, a long term sub, or possibly even jumping right into a teaching position.
I honestly have no idea what's to come, or how soon I may update again, but I do know for a fact that in some point in life I will officially update again.
Until then, take care to whoever may read this, and if you ever bookmarked or saved or whatever to this series, then I hope you're willing to stay with me and continue reading when the time comes. Love you all 3000, and I seriously mean that. This story is like my baby and the support that I've received over time truly means the world to me.
Until next time my peoples