Something in the Midst Chapter 7

Title:  Something in the Midst Chapter 7
Author: becky016
Warnings: Violence (Don’t read if you don’t like!)
Note: I will be using these (---) to divide my story as some scenes, may, jump back and forth to one another.
Disclaimer: I do not own TMNT

The woman remained calm, or as calm as she could while she waited for the young turtle to answer. Yet Ashley was too afraid to move let alone speak.
“Very well” with the wave of her hand Splinter was lifted from the ground and a sword was held to his throat as the ninja waited for the mistress’s next signal.

Julie then realised she had no choice but to intervene, she didn’t have her weapon on hand, not that she was in a position to fight. But still she had to try; she manoeuvred Kotaro from behind her, to the safety of the pillar.
“Taro listen to me, stay here, I have to help Ashley” she whispered as quietly as she could so as the ninja’s couldn’t overhear. Though the boy did not want to be left alone, he looked as though he was about to cry his eyes out. He definitely wanted his mother there.

“Hey Mr Turtle will protect you okay” Julie smiled as she lift the toy up and wrapped her nephew’s arms around it.
“Now you stay here, and be really quiet okay” Kotaro nodded as his aunt then went about finding a way to help her family.

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Raph, Mia and Robyn were still cornered in the narrow passage; the only exit was the one behind them and it could only be opened by a certain someone’s voice, by the very man who had them trapped.

The three of them refused to answer Bishop as he wasn’t their most favourite of persons, so instead the agent went to ask the next question that was racing on his mind.
“Alright then, as it is clearly not the most of happiest of reunions tell me; is my daughter here with you?” Bishop keenly asked with his brow raised.

“Pfft! like she’d ever wanna see your face again!”
“Understandable as that may be, I did what I had to do” both girls found that very hard to believe, as they felt the urge to pummel this guy to the ground. Raph however stopped them
“Listen up Bish if ya play along real nice an’ give us the password to save the girl, we may just consider going easy on you and your goons” Raph growled.
“Like I would ever just hand the password over to you” Bishop huffed.

“Agent Bishop…” Baxter’s voice
“Yes Stockman?”
“I think you would be pleased to know that I have two of those retched turtles in captivity…”
“Very good…”

“Heh, typical for Leo and Don ta get themselves captured” Raph boasted.
“You know were aren’t doing so well either”
“And it could be Charlotte and Mikey they’re talking about” Raph did not like the thought of that, but the sounds of the guns being charged up, stopped the bickering.

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“I’m gonna send some retrieval squads around the base, to find the remaining mutants… I’ll be bringing the rest of the prisoners to you shortly, but for now do what wish Bishop out”

“That doesn’t sound good…” Don whispered to his brother as they overheard the agent’s voice.
Both turtles were knelt to the floor with either palm placed on the back of their heads. Their weapons as well as Don’s bag had been taken away, and they were surrounded by guards.

Stockman then ended the transmission and turned towards the pair, with a snigger in his eye.
“Well it may be some time before we’re joined by your friends, so I guess it’s only necessary for us to finally see what is under those shells” Baxter laughed as his robotic hands ran together.

With another click of his fingers the henchmen went about strapping the genius and leader to the dissection table as were instructed.
“We don’t have time for this!” Leo growled, he instantly yanked himself away from the mens grip, and gave a high jump, split kick to both guards knocking either one out cold.

Maybe it was the thought of his wife being in mortal danger, or the idea that his entire family was pretty much about to be served on a silver platter. Did not change the fact that they still had a job to do and if they we still moving Leo wasn’t about to go down without a fight, and neither was Don.

The genius followed his brother’s example as he hurled himself on top of the guard’s shoulders, and clashed their heads together landing on his feet with ease as both bodies fell to the ground.
“What are you doing, you fools?! Stop them!”

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Charlotte and Mikey however were still hiding; they had noticed the noise in the area had diminished somewhat and so the red head decided to take another peek, but she quickly dived back as five men suddenly made an appearance.
“Right you heard Bishop we find the remaining turtles and then we exterminate them with the rest…” the first man instructed.
“How many are we looking for?” the second asked.
“Bishop has the male and two females, I don’t think he wants to move them until he has them chained up, just like he did with the other alien” the first replied.

“What are they saying? Do they have Robyn?” Mikey whispered as he wanted to get a closer look.
“Shh!”
“What was that?” the two turtles flinched in hopes that they wouldn’t come over, but the sound of footsteps drawing nearer proved otherwise and as quickly as it started, silence fell.

“I’m gonna look again” Charlotte whispered, but it was ineffective as the pair were suddenly faced off with a gun aimed right between the eyelids.
“FREEZE!” having five men against two mutants, almost seemed unfair. But still Michelangelo had a trick up his sleeve.

Both he and Charlotte looked as if they were trapped, as they were cramped in the corner, with their palms in the air.
“So much for being the back-up team…” Charlotte quoted.
“Oh hi there, sorry to both you, but have you seen any other turtles that look like us?...”
“What are you doing?” Charlotte spoke through her teeth.
“Just play along… Ya know another turtle, one with a blue mask and the other who looks like my foot!” Mikey lunged his foot forward, throwing the man off guard.

As he fell, he unintentionally wound up pulling the trigger, sending a whole number of rounds off into the air.
“Get down!” each of the men plunged to the ground in efforts to avoid the fire, which gave both mutants a chance to escape. Although it wasn’t easy as they had to evade the gunshots also, at first it seemed impossible as Charlotte tried veering out of the way. Mikey however was agile he jumped on the crates and held his palm out for her to take.
“COME ON! MOVE YOUR SHELL!”

The red head took it, and the pair ran towards what appeared to be an elevator sidestepping over each of the men. Once the gunfire had stopped one of the ground got to courage to lift his head up as he saw the intruders at not too far a distance.
He grabbed a hold of his weapon, aimed and fired.

“Ahh! Hurry up!” Charlotte cried out, using her elbow blades as best she could to protect them from harm.
“I’m trying! I’m trying!” no matter how many times Mikey pressed the button the door was not opening quick enough.

The sound of <b DING! </b> alerted them and the metal doors widened and they ran inside. The pair turned and saw the guy speeding towards them, still opening fire. They pushed themselves on either side of the lift to dodge it.
“HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!” by the time he had reached them the doors had full closed and the turtles were on their way to the lower levels.

“DAMN IT!” he threw his fist against the wall as he pressed against his collar, this was not going to look good for him.
“Sir this is squad A, the mutants have escaped into the lower decks…”

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“I repeat the mutants have escaped”
“Then go after them, alert every single force we have, I do not want them to escape! Do you understand?!” Bishop bellowed.
“… Yes sir, squadron out”
“Bishop!”
“Urgh… what is it Stockman?” the man sounded out of breath for some reason, which was strange for an android.

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“It’s the turtle’s sir they have eluded us yet again…”

There the robot sat amongst a demolished lab. The shelving and chemicals were all scattered and smashed and the once utensils that hung above the dissection table were now left dangling from the ceiling. Loose wires hung left right and centre as sparks of electricity erupted from the ends and sadly for Baxter the man was left without any vision as his holographic inducer had been damaged in the fight.
He was being assisted by his fellow scientists even though, he did not want it.

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“Will you get off of me, damn it! Those simpletons have destroyed my lab for the last time! I swear I will have my reve…” the agent ended the transmission before anymore could be said. He always hated it when Baxter whined; the man then heaved a sigh whilst rubbing his eyes as he was growing tired of this.

“Heh, looks like your team hasn’t changed at all, ‘ave they? They still stink at fightin’ us” Raph smirked.
“Raphael be quiet” Mia warned, she knew what this guy was like if you hit the wrong nerve, though that could have been said for him as well. Still she was glad to hear that Leo was okay.

Bishop had a feeling this might happen, so he had another idea.
“Your there! Take your team and search for the creatures!” his soldiers gave their respect and did as they were ordered as they marched down the hallway and back into the base.

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The alarm system was activated, and hundreds of fighters raced to get themselves a weapon.

Don and Leo were currently being chased down not to mention having to fight off against a number of bad guys in the process. They took cover behind some empty caskets, which were brought to the facility and used to hold a number of aliens. Nevertheless, they were becoming tired, and it seemed as though their rescue mission was becoming more of a breakout.

“Don… are you… still tracing the cosmic energy?” Leo panted.
“Yes” Don pulled out the device, and saw that it was very faint but still visible.
“We need to go down to the next level… hopefully Renet should be there”
“Guys?!... Guys?! Is… can anyone hear me?!” Charlotte’s voice suddenly emerged from out of nowhere, though it was interrupted by static.

“Charlotte we’re here, where the shell are you both?” Leo said.
“Uh, thank god… are… th… others with… you?”
“No, we were hoping you found them” he said again.
“What’s up with the lack of speech?” Leo said to his brother.
“It appears as though our transmission is being cut off somehow, so we aren’t able to fully converse with one another, probably best to make it short, we have to meet up, find Raph and the girls, save Renet, and get the shell out of here before our heads are blown off” Don said.

“OVER HERE!” a voice cried out. Leo pressed his ear piece as he was about to give the final orders.
“Guys listen up, Donnie thinks he has a lead, meet us on the third floor and together we’ll end this”
“Understood… bro just one problem…” Mikey’s voice warned.
“What’s that?”
“We’ll we… ‘re on the thi…rd floor kinda but… we’re”
“Just say what you have to say Mikey” Don growled.
“We’re trapped in… the el…vator, Bishop… cut… power” Charlotte voice said.

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The red head and orange turtle waited nervously, they could hear something going on above them and it didn’t sound good.
^{“Cut the line! That’ll finish them!”} the voices were faint but they were clear to make out.
“EPP!” Mikey shrieked in his girly voice.

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Seeing as he was alone, Robyn figured she had the chance to nab this guy. Without warning she threw her belt forward at rapid speed. However Bishop saw this coming, he grabbed the wiring between the blades and yanked it down, dragging Robyn with it.
The turtlette crashed to the floor before she felt something being whipped around her wrists in order to bind her. She was then hurled back and forth into either side of the passage.

Bishop knew all too well how to handle a weapon of this kind and he was going to use it against her.
“Don’t think that I’ve forgotten your moves miss Hayes, after all I was the one who taught you that move” her wrists were chafed from the blades as they were doing a fine job of cutting away at her skin.
“If I remember correctly…” she grunted as she got to her hands and knees, spitting a glob of blood to one side.

“You implanted that move into my memory, when you turned me into what I am now…”
“I guess it’s safe to say you haven’t forgotten everything” he smirked.

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The men were swift to get the lines and chains cut as they went about finishing the mutants off once and for all. The lift swayed too and froe, creaking loudly as Mikey and Charlotte struggled to keep their balance.
“Shell… I don’t wanna go out like this!”
“How did you expect to go out?”
“I dunno, maybe with an explosion… as the turtle titan, you know something that people will remember me by AH!”

The second line was cut and now only one chain was keeping them steady as they were a few minutes away from being splattered like pancakes.
“HAH!”
“YA!”

The pair suddenly heard a ruckus above them and the sounds faded within seconds. It was then that the air vent above them shifted about before it was removed entirely.
“Leo!”
“Bro are you a site for sore eyes” Mikey gleamed. The leader held his palm out for them as they didn’t have much time. His other hand was holding tightly onto Don’s staff as the genius was the counter weight for all of them. He was surrounded by the unconscious guards and it didn’t look as though they were waking up anytime soon.

But sadly for him a final man appear out of thin air and he went to take the turtle out with one blow.
“RAAH!” Don retracted his staff back as he twirled it forward before plunging it into the guy’s gut and the individual wound up collapsing backwards. Upon realising what he had just did, Don had heard the elevator chain break and the metal transport drop to the ground.
“No! Leo! Mikey!” Don cried out as he ran to the opening and glanced over the edge.

Once the dust cleared he was then able to relax as he spotted each of them safe and sound. Leo had used his katana to stop them from falling as both his comrades clung to his body for dear life.
“Could have used a warning Don” Leo frowned.
“Sorry” once again the turtle held his staff out to them as he pulled them up one by one.
“Urgh… I don’t think I’m ever going to step foot in one of those again” Charlotte breathed.
“Come on, it’s not over yet”

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“I was hoping for something more impressive, but even then I suppose it’s a lot to ask for” Bishop boasted.

Mia presented herself before him, as she wielded her fans out of hiding. With one swipe she broke the chain that had her comrade caught. It may have meant breaking Robyn’s weapon, but she had no choice. She no longer cared about the past, nor how powerful this guy thought he was, she was not about to let her fear of Bishop stop her from aiding her friend.

“You’re wrong about what you said you know, about claiming that we had forgotten… we’ll never forget what you did to us, it still haunts us to this day! None more so than Julie…” Mia explained, Bishop did not like to hear his daughters name as far as family goes, he had no family.
“But it seems that you have forgotten the most important lesson you could have taught us” she said again.

“And what would that be?”
“To always expect the unexpected…” it was then Leo, Don, Charlotte and Mikey flew into action. He did not know how they got there, and nor did he care, he was not about to let them win.

The first to reach him was Leo, the turtle hauled his swords down, but they were blocked of as Bishop still had Robyn’s weapon in hand. He used the blades to wrapped the swords and throw them to one side. Don was next; he landed behind the agent swinging his staff down low, knocking the man on his back.
Charlotte then roared as she threw her elbow blade down, and Bishop instantly caught it in his palms. The two then fought for a moment before Bishop slid his legs out from under her and kicked her hard in the gut.

“C!” Raph caught his girlfriend, and the turtles all gathered together. With the help of Mikey and Mia, Robyn managed to get to her feet, and their enemy also got the chance to pull himself together as well. Taking this guy on one by one wasn’t going to work.

So in an effort to end this quick, the four brothers charged forward.
“HAH!”
“HEEYA!”
Still fighting hard, Bishop whirled the bladed belt in his arms as he took out both Don and Mikey. Both turtles were thrown to the ground leaving Leo and Raph still charging. The red banded turtle swiftly avoided the blades as he caught the wiring with his sai and stabbed the weapon in the ground to stop the motion.
He then kicked his leg high as he caught Bishop in the jaw. The man was thrown off for a second giving Leo the perfect opportunity to strike.

Out of the blue, Bishop felt something long and sharp being held to his throat.
“Enough…” the turtle panted.
“Heh, I was wrong… you have improved” the man smirked but before he could fight back, he himself was cornered as Raph had taken a hold of his coat and dragged him over to the lock.
“Now Bishop give us the voice key!” he said.
“Over my dead body” he grunted.

His head was shoved into a wall, by none other than Raphael.
“That can be arranged!”
“Easy Raph don’t knock him out just yet” Leo said calmly, he then turned to his wife who took the place of his brother’s place. She held her fan to the man’s throat as they would only give him one last chance.
“Now the password”

The man huffed, he hated too loose but he knew when he was beaten. Pressing a button of the pad a small micro piece popped up.
“Subject… nine, zero, one…” he muttered, the pad bleeped away and the door opened.
“See was that so hard?” Raph asked before throwing a punch to the guys face.

They then made their way inside which looked like to be an interrogation room of some kind.
“Hey you okay?” Mikey ask Robyn as she continuously rubbed her stomach with uncertainty, not to mention she was limping.
“Huh? Oh yeah, nothing I can’t handle…” she replied, as she followed the others.

They then noticed behind a glass window, the female prisoner hung from her chains. A few strands of her blonde hair were loose from her headdress; her once blue attire was now torn to shreds as well as being stained by splashes of blood and bruises.
“RENET!” Don and the others rushed over to aid her, to open the door they needed a palm print but Raph just pulled out his sai and stabbed the machine, causing the glass to open up anyway.

“She’s the one we’re looking for?” Charlotte asked.
“I gotta say I was expecting someone a little… different”
“Would you guys just help us!” Raph bellowed.
“Stand aside” Leo said, with one swipe of his sword he was able to brake the bonds completely and before she hit the ground Don had caught the timestress in his arms.

“Renet?... Renet! You okay” he shook her a little and that’s when she slowly came too.
“W-wha? Donatello? ... Are you like… really here?”
“Yeah it’s me, and we brought reinforcements too, don’t worry we’re gonna get ya outta here” the turtle rose to his feet as they were about to leave before Mikey noticed something being held in a containment unit.
“Better not forget this” he grinned.

The girls recognized it as the strange staff in Julie’s drawings, and true to form it was strange.
“Come on, I don’t want to have to stay here any longer” Leo said.
“Amen ta that” Raph said. But they were surprised to find that Bishops unconscious body had suddenly disappeared.

Not that it concerned them any longer, they got what they came for and that was that.

TBC…