Leo's Capture

Part 16

When the ninjas returned, Victoria was pleased to hear that the turtles had received the message.

A triumphant smile spread across her pretty face; of course she didn't mean what she had said in the note. She was looking forward rather to raising these baby turtles herself, and having the father back as well. She had gone to a lot of trouble to get these eggs, and having such an experiment work.

She was sure she would be seeing him in two days.
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Leo was panicked; he had more eggs and Victoria had them and worse, was threatening to hand them over to science. It took Donny nearly an hour to calm him down enough to start talking about a plan.

"You will meet with Victoria, as she has planned, but I will inject you with a tracker so that we will be able to follow." Don stated.

"Wait," Raph interrupted. "You plan on letting Leo go back to her? Why don't we just attack her outright?"

"Because she might do something to my eggs if we attack," Leo argued. "We don't know where they are. If we attack one place and they are not there, then she could break them or follow through with her threat."

"I don't like the idea of you goin' in there alone," Raph said, moving to stand closer to Leo. "I don't know what I would do if we lost you again."

"He won't be alone," Don interjected. "We will be with him, just at a distance. Once Leo locates his eggs, we will be able to attack then but not before."

Leo placed a hand on Raph's shoulder, "I know you won't let her keep me prisoner again and that you would do anything to save me."

Raph placed his hand over Leo's for a moment then pressed in for a hug, "We just got you back."

Leo returned the embrace; he had always felt a special bond with Raph. "I need to save my children."

Leo wondered where Don was going to inject the tracker.

"It might be better to put it under the bridge of your shell so they don't detect it so easily." Don said.

"Ok Donny, do what you have to do. This is scary for me to even think about going to face her again, but I won't let her give my babies to science to be exploited like what she did to me."

Don began getting a tracker ready to go under his brother's shell. Leo began to try to prepare himself for the meeting. Raph went to start taking some of his frustrations out on the punching bag. He wasn't happy about this, but he knew his brother's reasoning for it. Mikey went to go watch the other eggs for a little bit. And Splinter went to go meditate.
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By the evening of the second day, everyone was ready to go. They had their weapons ready and Don had his tracking equipment ready. A tracker had been implanted under the bridge of Leo's shell. It gave off a steady beep that could only be tracked by his computer.

Leo knew that he had to go to the location alone. He was nervous, but he didn't let it show. He made sure to keep in mind that he knew his family was close by.
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The meeting place, Victoria had chosen was Chinatown. After Leo's escape over a month and half ago, she didn't want to give him a chance to escape into water again, if their meeting was to be at the docks. And here in this part of the city, the buildings were more level with each other in case Leo might run and her men would be chasing him, but just keeping him from getting away again.

Victoria couldn't wait to see her turtle again. She gave her orders and her men rushed off to their positions. They were to watch for Leonardo and make sure he was alone. Any sign of trickery and she would leave to let him sweat it out for a few more days.
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Leo ran on the rooftops alone. He was more than comforted, having his katana with him. But doing this didn't make his fear go away. He knew he was trying to save his other eggs, and his family was following, but he just hoped Victoria wasn't going to be able to do something to him before he was able to get out again.

He soon arrived at the building the note had said to come to.

"Alright Victoria! I'm here! I won't let you hurt my eggs!" Leo yelled to get the woman's attention, or whoever came to greet him.

A bunch of ninjas came out of hiding. Over 30 of them. Leo felt his heart skip a beat.

"Nice of you to join us this evening, Turtle." A man's voice answered him.

"Look, just give me my children and this won't have to get ugly." Leo said as he prepped for a fight.

"Sorry, it doesn't work that way with Victoria. Getting you back is what she wants and she always gets what she wants."

"She's not getting me back without a fight. And I won't let her give my kids to science labs."

The man laughed and the sound of it had Leo rethinking his harsh words. Still Leo attacked.

Victoria's ninja rushed Leo. He managed to injure a good deal of them but there were too many, even for him. He had a moment of panic when he remembered Shredder and his Foot ninja attacking him, nearly killing him. He remembered his agenda. He had to make this look convincing. He couldn't just go with them without a fight or they would suspect.

He ran and vaulted over one ninja to land a spin kick on the side of the head of another. When he landed, he managed to sweep the legs out from under another and as he came up, he landed an uppercut on yet another.

That was the extent of what he could manage. As he followed through with the uppercut, his wrist was caught and his arm was twisted behind him. It was so quick that he couldn't recover from it, even if he wanted to.

Though he continued to struggle, he let them subdue him and they tied his hands behind his back. They dropped his katana to the ground and kicked them away. They dragged him away and he did his best to hold back his fear that something would go wrong.

He was taken to where a truck was and thrown in the back. He grunted from the landing. He lay on his left side and could only watch as the doors were closed and the truck started and took off to wherever Victoria was.

At least he knew that his brothers wouldn't be far behind.
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"His signal is moving again," Donny announced. "They must have captured him."

"Now what?" Mikey asked, looking over Don's shoulder. Raph stayed back with his arms crossed over his plastron, waiting for the signal to go.

"We should go check out the location of the fight, see if anything was left behind."

"Lead the way, Donny-boy," Raph said, holding his hand out for Don to take the lead.

When they reached the location, the three turtles looked over the area well.

A glimmer caught Mikey's eye and he ran to investigate. He found Leo's blades near a drainage ditch and picked them up. "It's a good thing we came to look." He held the katana up for his brothers to see.

"Leo wouldn't have chosen to leave those behind," Raph pointed out.

"Then all is going according to plan," Donny stated with a weak smile.

They had the van tonight so it would make getting away faster once they got Leo and his other eggs out of Victoria's hideout.