Chapter 6: it's on

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I crash through bodies with my skin tearing about from the harsh impacts of sharp objects. I follow all my enemies, not to their destination but to where they're trying to get away from.
Donnatello!!!
Rapheal!!!
Mikalangalo!!!
Where are they?! What if they're hurt?? I'm leader, this was my plan, it's all your fault Leo!!!
I can feel my consciousness crushing me on the inside... Until, I see three colored turtles fighting back to back. All three with pure will boiling in their eyes. They're cut up sure, but not near as bad as me or as bad as I've seen them before.
I want to go up to them! I should help!
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Blocking quickly I'm brought back into reality, I'm in a fight my self. A fight I've been looking forward to for a looong time. It pains me to admit, but when he hits me with his claws I feel more alive than I have in a painfully long time. No more leader, the guys have it figured out. No more responsibility, just for a moment I feel free. I forget my surroundings and the people around me. And focus on my fight, letting out all my fury. I can feel my self breath freer, move swifter. Like all the weight I've carried my whole is being lifted off my shoulders; if only for a second.... I feel relieved.
We fight for what seems to me, like hours. Cutting, slicing, with strangely no interferences, I guess the people left in the corridor can take one look at us and know if they get in the way, doesn't matter who, they will be cut down in moments.
THIS IS CRAZY!!! I feel like I'm in a deadly dance. One wrong move and I'm dead. Only now it isn't metaphorical....
We go on and on and on, until we both can barley more any more.
"You've gotten much stronger, Leonardo." I hear him breath.
I stand for a moment and contemplate if I should reply or not, finally pride takes control, "Seams to me you've just gotten weaker. I am no child Shredder, not any more."
We stay in dead lock for 'ages' staring at each other. Seeing what the other has been through in the two years we've been separated. He might not be strong, but he has surely toughened in the mind. He looks as if he can take anything I'll throw at him.
"Let's just see then!" He huffs loudly, as if reading my mind, and backs up. As do I, getting in position for the final strike. Then, I hear a scream. Not any scream... RAPH'S SCREAM!! For, FOR ME!!!
I turn my head sharply and am immediately horrified! The bricks of responsibility and the weight of leader ship and oldest brotherhood stab me. I feel them slamming into my chest and bring me back down to the place I was born and raised in... My leading oldest self who has to carry the weight, because no one else can...
Mikey's looking at me with a terrified face and Dons holding on for dear life as he works at the computer doc, trying to shut the machine he's been order'd to stop by me. Raph is on a ceiling banner holding on for dear life. He's right above the Horrendous machine, one small slip up and he's dead!
I turn and see The Shredder charging me. It was the attack we'd both been waiting for soooo long for. Though all the sudden I can't help but feel this one slice could wait a bit longer. Turning in the opposite direction as I had planned only moments before, I ran. At an insane pace I dash to my baby Orange cladded brother. He's slipping into a vortex that has just appeared into the machine. I grab him and practically drag him to Donny.
After getting him to hold onto something, I start to work my way as best I can to Raph. It isn't easy, climbing up a smooth pole while being pulled harshly in the opposite direction. Some how I make it up and after a while of inching to him I reach Raph.
"Come on!" I yell so he can hear me.
I take his hand and try my best to pull him up. It's near impossible to stay balanced on that bar with out falling off. As soon as I get Raph up I slip and almost fall right into the swirling black and purple abyss that lay beneath me. Luckily Raph is right above me and grabs my arm. With some effort he pulls my ragdoll body back on to the banister and manage to make our way over to the others.
THIS IS CRAZY!! WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!!
"HOW IS EVERY ONE?!" I ask as loudly as I can. The vortexes winds are so strong and loud now we all have to hold on for dear life and it's whistling winds hurt my ears.
"FINE!" Raph screams wrapping his arms around a new pole, as the one he had, just snapped in half and is about to get thrown away.
"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Mikey yells. "YOU KNOW! THE FIGHT WITH SHREDDER!! THAT WAS INSANE LEO!!"
I look at them; what does he mean insane? Did I really look that bad?
Shaking my head, I look at Donny focusing hard trying to shut down the system while trying to stay alive.
"HOW'S IT COMING DON?!!"
He turns at me and I see sweat being sucked away from his face. "COULD BE BETTER!" He admits with worry, "THIS BABY WAS BADLY BUILT! SHE'S BEING DIFFICULT TO FIX!! CAN'T FOCUSE VARY WELL WITH ALL THIS ACTION!!"
I hear that. It's a miracle none of us have been hit by anything yet.
We wait and wait trying to keep quiet so Don can concentrate. It stays that way for ages until I hear a scraping sound followed by a slam.
Behind us is the The Shredder.
"COWARD!!!!" He screeches at me with a vicious look in his eyes. What's wrong with him? He lets go of the bar he was holding and plummets forward. Right at me!! At impact we both go flying, with my brothers trying, and failing, at grabbing me.
I cat fight with Shredder as we fall, until I crash into into something hard and get knocked out.
When I come too I feel a splitting pain in my head.

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