I love cliffhangers, don't you?

Ming bolted after Donnie and the others to his monitors, while a second alarm started blaring as well.

"Oh no, oh no." Donnie panicked, staring at the screens. "We got two breaches. Fan room, weapons wall."

"Mikey, flank right. Donnie, on me. We gotta go!" Leo barked, running for the weapons wall.

Ming felt her heart pound in her ears as she instinctively ran after Mikey. She heard Master Splinter yell for them to get back, and suddenly the weapons wall exploded in a shower of bricks and debris, sending them each flying back.

Ming looked up from where she had fallen next to Mikey, horrified to see flashlights beam through the dust. There had to be, what, at least three dozen soldiers? More?

And they had guns. How do you fight guns with swords and bamboo sticks?!

She heard a growl and glanced over to see Splinter leaping forward and taking on at least four or five of the ones that had electric stun batons.

"Two here!" One soldier yelled, upon seeing Leo and Donnie rising from the floor.

"Neutralize them!" Another commanded.

"They've got tranq darts!" Donnie gulped.

"Well, don't let 'em hit your skin." Leo responded.

As they leapt to their feet to fight off the soldiers shooting at them, Mikey and Ming were ducking behind the couch. Ming clenched her fists as she heard the soldiers moving towards them, and glanced up at Mikey, who grabbed his nunchaku and winked at her.

He popped up, twirling his nunchaku and deflecting darts. "Wassup bruh? Oh, you think you can handle this, huh? I'm a snapping turtle, fool!" Mikey joked as he leapt over the couch and used his momentum to kick three soldiers in the head, yelling "Snap! Snap, snap!" as he did, but lost his footing and missed the landing.

"I meant to do that!"

Ming peeked over the couch, then ducked again as shots flew over her head. What was she going to do?! What could she do? Her brothers were using their shells to block shots from behind, but she didn't have that natural armour.

Ming glanced over at where Splinter was pummelling multiple soldiers at once, using his tail to wrap around another's throat and smack his head repeatedly against the floor. He didn't have that natural armour, either, and he wasn't hiding scared.

Raph punched one of the soldiers hard enough to send him crashing into the couch. The soldier had an electric stun baton.

"I'll just borrow this." Ming grabbed the weapon from the unconscious man, and snuck around the couch. There was a soldier near her who was firing at Mikey and wasn't paying her any attention.

Ming snuck up behind him. She found the button for her new toy, and jabbed him in the back with the zappy end. The man fell to the ground, his head colliding with the concrete.

"Oh, I can work with this." Ming grinned, twirling the weapon before going for another target.

"We got a breach in the fan room!" Donnie reminded Leo, swinging his bo to disarm two soldiers at once and take them down.

"Raph, get to the fan room." Leo commanded, elbowing another one to knock him out.

Raph snarled. "Why are you always tellin' me what to do?!" He clenched a hand into a fist and pulled his arm back to throw a punch. Leo ducked just in time, glancing behind himself to see the soldier that Raph had just knocked out what had been about to strike at Leo.

"Just go." Leo tried to appear unfazed. As Raph ran off to follow the order, Leo noticed April crawling to hide behind the sofa.

"Ming! Grab April and get outta here! Now!"

Ming glanced up from the strangle hold she had just successfully pulled off, and nodded to Leo. After all, she'd only successfully knocked out three soldiers to her brothers's, what, like, ten at least? Each? She didn't exactly trust April- after all, this whole thing was her fault for being so nosy- but Ming couldn't let her get hurt, either.

Ming ducked under another soldier, as Mikey appeared out of nowhere on his skateboard and knocked the soldier out for her. The two bumped fists before running off in separate directions.

"April, come on, follow me, keep your head low." Ming instructed quickly and quietly. April nodded, following the girl as they stayed crouched along the wall. If they could get past the soldiers towards the back of the lair, there was another hidden entrance. It was a back entrance that was more of an emergency exit.

As they crawled around the fight, Ming watched her brothers tirelessly take down soldier after soldier, each of them fighting like their lives depended on it. Because they did.

Their lives were in danger, and here she was running away, ducking under the fight and trying to sneak out.

Like a coward.

She was following orders. Leo told her to get April out.

He only told you to do it so you'll leave, too. He doesn't trust you.

Ming gritted her teeth. Now was not the time for this back-and-forth with herself. She had to follow orders. Whether her brothers believed in her or not didn't matter right now.

"Come on." Ming growled, more at herself than at April, but as they kept moving, Ming noticed movement from the corner of her eye.

Through the hole in the wall that had just been made, stepped a huge man dressed in spiky armour that looked like traditional samurai armour... except for how robotic it appeared. Ming froze as the man leapt from the entrance to Splinter in one leap, and she shivered upon hearing what Splinter called him.

"Shredder."