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Breathe in. Breathe out.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
The rabbit exhaled, both hands gripping onto the katana he held in his center. His eyes remained locked on the ninja robots in front of him, waiting for them to make the first attack. Yuchis’ ears perked up, staying alert through every second in this training session. Three foot soldiers sped at him, swords pointed at the rabbits body, aiming to kill but he quickly jumped over the robots, his hand grabbing the shoulder of one of the robots, then throwing it back at the others.
They quickly regrouped and stood their ground – Usagi held his katana high and charged forward. Metal swords clashed against each other but it didn’t take long for Usagi to come out victorious. With a final precise strike, he stabbed the robot through its metallic heart, the oil running the robot splattering on his face and blade.
He took in a deep breath and sat on the floor to regain his composure. It was an easy fight for him but it was currently 7pm at night – he had been training for the last 9 hours. Yuchi wiped his face but the oil only traveled deeper into his fur, causing the dirty feeling Usagi has had on him since the morning to intensify.
A few minutes later, he heard footsteps coming from the hall which prompted him to quickly get up and pretend to clean up despite feeling like he was about to collapse.
“ Oye, conejo , Master Shredder wants to see you in an hour. Límpiate y come, parece que él tiene que decirte algo importante .”, Fish face ordered, spinning the blade in his hand, “Don't be late.” As quick as he entered was as quick as he left and Usagi sighed, his perked up ears now flopped behind his head.
A meeting at this hour? Luckily Usagi was given time to prepare before seeing his sensei. He picked up his oiled covered katana and left the dojo to get ready to see Master Shredder.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
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“Hey Leo, you’re going to miss my AWESOME dinner meal that I made for us!”, Mikey shouted from the kitchen, to which Leo sighed and dragged his hand across his face.
Man, he was too tired for this.
He lazily got up from the floor and turned off the TV, dragging his feet to the kitchen to join his brothers, April and Casey.
“It’s just pizza.”
“Yeah, that I ordered and picked up from the delivery guy!”
“You mean you picked it up at the corner by the manhole cover. Very strenuous, mikey.” Leo shook his head, grabbing a slice to eat. “April, Casey, are you coming on patrol with us tonight?”
The ginger nodded, swatting away Casey's hand from her plate, “Get your own slice, johns.”
“Pizza isn't the same if it's not from your plate, red!”, he smiled cheekily and Donnies’ eye twitched. Raphael saw this and he held back his laughter, “Looks like someones mad.”
“He’s not respecting her personal space! There's still a whole other box left over!”,Donnie protested, his cheeks flushed a light pink.
The others laughed softly, continuing to enjoy the evening.
“Alright, meet me in the living room when you’re all ready to go,” Leo said, cleaning his hands from the pizza grease, “I’ll be there in a minute.”
Everyone nodded and proceeded to finish eating and prepare for tonight's patrol.
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“Last one to the TCRI building hatched from a rotten egg! Or… yeah i don't know what else to add,” Mikey laughed glancing over at April and Casey who just rolled their eyes. The turtles sped across the rooftops, all trying to be first place in Mikeys usual game while April and Casey got left behind. Raphael grabbed his Sai and threw it at Mikey's feet, causing the younger turtle to trip and fall flat on his face while Raph burst out into a fit of laughter, retrieving his Sai and moving on.
“Hey, that's not fair! You cheated!”
“You never set any rules, so it's completely fair!”,he yelled looking back at Michelangelo before stopping dead in his tracks, eyes traveling to the old warehouse in front of him.
“Is it just me or does the zombie wolf guy and Fishface look like two people who don't want to be followed?”Raph raised his (non-existent) eyebrows, crossing his arms as he waited for Leonardo, Donatello to turn around and for Michelangelo to catch up.
“Isn't that the old Kraang base we trashed?” Leonardo asked, “What would they be doing there?”
“Well, who do we know that works for Shredder and would be interested in old, stolen Kraang parts?”, Donatello questioned, an unamused look on his face.
How typical. It was so obvious, you’d think Rahzar and Fishface would be more discreet.
In unison the brothers, excluding Mikey said, “Baxter stockman.” – and Michelangelo spoke confidently with them, “Donatello.”
Their heads turned over to their younger brother staring at him blankly. “Baxter stockman!”, he chuckled nervously.
I wasn't wrong though. Don steals kraang parts all the time.
He huffed, turning away from his brothers in shame – “We’ll check it out.”
“What about Casey and April?”, Raphael inquired.
“They’ll catch up, if I were to guess Casey’s slowing April down.” Donatello rolled his eyes, preparing to go down to the warehouse.
“Let’s just go.”
The turtles got down from the building's rooftop and crossed the street swiftly to avoid being seen. Luckily, it wasn't that busy in this part of town so the risk of being seen was minimal.
They climbed to the top of the warehouse's glass rooftop, peering inside. Just as suspected, Fishface and Rahzar were ordering foot bots to put the leftover Kraang tech in a bag.
“Whatever they want those parts for can't be good,” Leo sighed. He slowly walked to a more hidden spot of the roof to get a better angle, “Okay, i have a bold and fearless plan, you must follow these orders without question so we dont fa-” Before Leonardo could finish speaking his own narration of space heroes, Raph smacked Leo on the face, with a smile.
“Whatever you say, doofus.”
Raphael was never one to follow orders. This usually led to fights between the two but right now Leo didn't have time to react because his brother broke a part of the glass ceiling and jumped down.
“Are you serious?! We nee-”,
“Leo! We don't have time to make a plan anymore, let's go!” Donnie urged him, jumping down after mikey.
The blue masked turtle groaned, following his brothers. This was stupid. HE was the leader, not Raphael. Master Splinter chose him but his hot-headed brother never seems to accept that fact. They all dropped to the floor, landing swiftly at their feet. “Okay Idiots, this can either end in a beat down or a beat down with more beatings. I’d prefer the second option but it's up to you.”, Raphael said confidently, his hands ready at his sais’.
“Grab the tech and go! We’ll keep them busy.” Rahzar yelled at the footbots, ready to fight. As long as the tech was retrieved to the shredder, he was content. Plus, beating up some turtles never hurt anyone – in the long run at least.
“Ah, tartarugas , I'm happy you’ve come. I’ve been craving turtle soup for some days now.” Fishface laughed, taking out his blade.
“Yikes, is it just me or did Rahzar get uglier since the last time we saw him?” Mikey giggled, swinging his nun-chucks.
“For once little brother, I can agree with you. Man, Fishface you need to take a shower you STINK!”Rapheal smirked, pulling out his sai. He could never get bored of provoking these overgrown man babies.
“My name is XEVER!” Fishface yelled in frustration, but did not move to make an attack. This was odd to Leo, usually they would have already been fighting but they hadn't done anything.
They’re probably just buying time for the footbots to escape. Shit.
“Guys, focus! Donnie, Mikey go after the footbots! Me and Raph will take care of these two!” He yelled at his brothers, but before they could move, something was let loose on the ground.
The turtles groaned in pain, vision now distorted.
“What the fuck?!” Raphael cursed, covering his eyes to prevent any more blinding powder from straining his eyes.
The burn overtook Leo’s sense but he did his best to maintain his composure, unlike the yellow masked turtle who was kicking the floor and screaming, “GET IT OUT!! GET IT OUT!! IT BURNS!!!!”
The two villains laughed at the struggling turtles, “This is fun but I'd rather physically beat these idiotas. ”Xever grinned, going to walk up to the turtles but Rahzar held him back.
“Dont.”
“Are you serious!? You’re gonna listen to that dumb rule!?”
“Yes I am, and you better too.” Rahzar spoke. It was obvious he was the more mature mutant compared to his ‘partner’, but deep down he was a little upset he didn't get to hurt the turtles.
Leo was able to hear fragments of their conversation but he couldn't understand what Rahzar meant by ‘rule’? Is that what he even said? It was hard to make out what the two were saying with Donnies aggressive coughing. “Shit.” He mumbled, blinking rapidly. Leo gripped onto his katana, ready to fight despite his weakened state if it meant stopping whatever Shredder planned.
He wobbly ran at the two but was knocked back into a wall by an unknown force. Leo groaned, now completely unaware to make out his surroundings. His head was pounding, his lungs felt dry and eyes still burnt from the blinding powder. He weakly looked over at his brothers, only being able to see blurry green figures and .. a black figure? Maybe it was just because of Leo's messed up vision but the figure was moving faster than light. He disarmed Raph and wrestled him, tumbling his brother to the floor, grabbing Donnie's bo staff, smacking him and mikey with it, then grabbing Michelangelo and throwing him at Donnie and Raph.
“What..?”
Was all Leo could manage, before the same black figure walked up to him, grabbed him by the front of his plastron and dragged him to his brothers. Leo tried to struggle but it was no use. He was immobilized at the moment and any strength he had left simply dissipated.
“Pathetic.”
Leo heard someone mumble but he was unsure if it was Rawzar, Fishface or the black figure. There was no way it was a footbot – it was way too strong. The blue masked turtle moaned, before finally knocking out cold with his brothers.
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As all the turtles were out cold, Rahzar clapped, a wide smile spread across his ‘face’, his sharp teeth now on display.
“You did well, Samurai Rabbit. I’m pleased.”, the dog said while picking up a few remaining kraang parts the foot bots could not grab.
Usagi scoffed and removed his mask, “I don't care about pleasing you, I had a job to do and I did it, I don't need a mutts’ recognition.”
Rahzars eyes widened but no words came out of his mouth. He was trying to process what the rabbit had said to him – It was rare he was disrespected, especially from a teenage RABBIT. “You’re going to have to step up your game, Bradford. Aquele coelho está pegando fogo. ”, Fishface laughed, walking out the door behind Usagi. (TRANSLATION: That bunny is on fire.)
He grumbled, following the two mumbling out curse words in japanese.
“I can hear you, idiot!” The bunny yelled at Bradford who was exiting the warehouse door while Usagi hopped on one of the Foot clan Motorcycles, speeding away.
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