When Shadows Rise | I

Ch. 21 | I thought you were on my side

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Thankfully for Donnie, being a ninja meant having fast reflexes. In one go, he was able to avoid getting barrel-smacked to the head and disarm the gun out of the attacker's hand. With one swift move of his naginata, he was able to trip the person and hold the tip of the blade centimeters away from their face, should they have the guts to get up.

What he realized, though, in a few seconds was that the perpetrator was not just anyone.

"April?!" Donnie choked out.

The redhead, once recognizing his voice, looked just as surprised as he was. "Donnie?"

Donnie retracted the blade and then scolded, "For God's sake, April, you were about to lose an eye!"

"Yeah, well, I could've blown out your brains!"

"I thought you were a Foot soldier! Can you really blame me?"

"Funny, I was about to say the same thing!"

Donnie rolled his eyes and took off his mask, sighing. "What the hell are you doing here?" He questioned.

April scoffed and dusted herself off before getting up. "No, what the hell are you doing here? We found this place first."

Donnie coughed. "We?"

Out from where April was hiding came Talia. It almost looked like she was relieved to see a familiar face.

"April and I hid when we heard noises," Talia explained. "We thought it was the Foot coming here because they missed something."

"How did you guys even find out about the warehouse?" Donnie asked.

"From Priya," Talia revealed. "She told me she did all the weird drop-offs here— following orders from my mother."

Donnie frowned. "That's it? Nothing more?"

Talia shook her head. "No. Priya may have helped, but she didn't know anything specific."

Now that's just ignorance at best. She never snooped around? Donnie thought.

As quick as a bullet, Donnie's brothers had joined the group; the commotion was pretty hard to miss when you were on the other side of the room.

"So it was you girls who disabled the cameras and and picked the lock?" Raph pointed at April and Talia, like he couldn't believe it.

"I don't have any experience in that," Talia admitted softly. "April did all the work."

The Hamato brothers stared incredulously at the redhead. April only shrugged. "Couldn't have picked the lock if Taly didn't have a hair pin. As for the cameras. . . we got lucky."

Raph snorted. "Lucky how?"

"They shattered. When I looked at them. . ." April imitated with her hands shards of glass falling. "My luck actually pulled through for once."

"Or they decided to break because you scared them."

"Fuck off."