Perseverance | By : EvaBrick Category: Comics > Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Views: 9920 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2 |
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One by one, the turtles rolled gracefully in through the window and crept quietly to the door. Leo opened it a crack and found that it led to a short hallway. Halfway down, there was a door. Raph opened it an inch and peeked in. It was a bedroom. There was no one in it. He looked at the others and shook his head. They moved further down to the end of the narrow hall and came into a large room. It was a kitchenette area that turned into a living room. They saw Mikey’s nunchucks and the bloody rags.
They moved closer to the couch, and there was Michelangelo. His left arm was in a cast and his left leg was bandaged. A wet cloth covered his forehead.
The girl was now curled up on the couch surrounded by books. She was fast asleep.
Don moved forward and knelt down at Mikey’s side. He checked his pulse and stuck his hand under his plastron to feel his temperature. A bit high, but not bad. He nodded to Leo. Mike was smashed up pretty badly, but he was gonna be ok.
The girl moaned slightly and shifted. She was waking up. As her eyes opened, Raphael jumped forward and clapped a leathery hand down over her mouth. Her eyes snapped open and she screamed into his palm. Wild-eyed, she tried to pry the hand away.
Leo stepped forward and sat on the edge of the couch. “Hey, it’s ok. We won’t hurt you. Just don’t scream ok?”
“Or else…” Raphael added.
She shot Raph a dirty look. Don snickered. Raph could be pretty scary, but she wasn’t going to take any of his crap. The girl glanced his way, then looked back at Leo.
“You promise not to scream?” he asked. She nodded. “Let her go Raph, she’s going to be good”.
Raph slowly took his hand away from her mouth, ready to put it back if she even squeaked. She sat up and moved away from Leo and Raph.
“Who are you?” The fact that she said ‘who and not ‘what’ was not lost on the turtles.
Don smiled. She was so pretty. “I’m Donatello”, he said. “That’s Leonardo, and he’s Raphael”.
Raphael glared at her. “What happened to Mikey?” he demanded.
Mikey opened his eyes and looked up at Raphael. “She’s cool, dude” he whispered and shut his eyes again. Raph visibly relaxed when he heard Michelangelo speak. Leo pulled out his Comm and called Splinter to let him know they’d found Mikey, then sat back on the couch.
“Ok”, Leo said as calmly as he could. “Why don’t you tell us what’s going on”. Don sat back in the lotus position and Raph took a seat in the chair. The turtles all leaned forward to hear her.
“Well...” she began, “I was working late in the store - much later than I normally do. There was no one on the street... I really should have called a cab, but I thought that since I only live a few blocks away, it’d be ok...” Don noticed that she was twisting her hands together nervously in her lap. He wanted to reach out and take them in his own, but didn’t move.
“I got almost all the way here... I was just outside my building when these weird people ran out of that alley down the street and surrounded me...”
“Weird people?” Leo said, frowning.
“Yeah. They were wearing funny black hoods that covered their whole heads... with a yellow logo on the forehead”. She shuddered a bit, still afraid.
“New Foot recruits” Raph said. “Sounds like a random hit”.
Leo nodded. “Then what happened?” he asked. “How did you get away?”
“He saved me”, she said nodding toward Michelangelo. “He heard me scream and came running... some of them ran away, but most of them didn’t stand a chance...”
She swallowed hard. She’d been so busy taking care of the injured turtle, that she hadn’t really processed the events until now. It was so horrible... this green creature came out of nowhere and tore into her attackers, knocking them every which way. His nunchucks spun so fast they made a high pitched ‘woooo’ sound as they whirled around in a blur. And when he hit them, the ‘crack’ sound of breaking bones was undeniable. Some of them fell to the ground, bleeding heavily and didn’t move again.
“I kicked some serious shell”, Mikey mumbled, gradually becoming more conscious.
The girl giggled a bit. “That’s what he said at the time too. Anyway, I was a bit scared of him, but not really... after all he had just saved me from a bunch of street thugs”. Don and Leo made eye contact briefly. She would have been gang-raped and possibly even killed, if Mike hadn’t turned up. The Foot almost always took their new recruits out for “a night on the town”.
“It’s probably better if she doesn’t know that”, Don thought.
“He told me he wouldn’t hurt me... he said his name was Michelangelo... he said he’d take me home... I was so scared... I went with him.”
“Asked me where I got the costume” Mike interjected. The turtles snickered, and the girl blushed.
“We were walking up the street, when a van whipped around the corner. Some of those weird guys were in it... they tried to run us over... we started running... Michelangelo told me that they were after him and that we should split up... he shoved me out of the way... I fell over”. She pulled up her pant leg to show them the mess of scabs running from her ankle up past her knee and under the cuff. It stung and her eyes welled up with tears. “They ran him over and kept driving”.
Raphael’s clenched his fists till the knuckles turned white. Don frowned. The Foot hadn’t tried that one before. Leo took a deep breath and sighed. “Poor Mikey...that explains the smashed Comm”, he thought.
“He wasn’t unconscious at first”, the girl continued. “He was able to lean on me and get into my apartment... he passed out where he is now... I couldn’t move him to the bed or I would have”.
“You did a really good job with the bandages”, Don said, examining them again.
“There’s 29 stitches in his leg too, and I’ve been force-feeding him this vitamin paste”.
“Don’t remind me”, Mikey muttered.
“Ok”, said Leo. “Let’s get you home, Mikey”.
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