Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Next Generation

Chapter 7

We landed softly behind some crates and morphed back into people. I peeked out, and just as I suspected, about a hundred or so Foot Clan ninja were standing in the open space. It looked like they were awaiting orders or something.

"Alright, let's bust some heads." Taylor said (typical). She tried to lunge forward out of our hiding spot but I grabbed her arm and cut her off.

"Wait." I said. "We're looking for the leader. Starting a fight with these guys will bring us way more trouble than we need."

Taylor groaned. "What are we supposed to do then?" She demanded.

"Body tackle the first person that's not a Foot." I replied.

Athena peered around the boxes. "Like the character with the pink hair and the revealing outfit, perhaps?" She asked.

I looked. Sure enough, there was a girl with bright pink hair and a two piece outfit consisting of the shortest skirt I've ever seen adn a navel-showing top that I know my dad would never let me wear. I nodded to the girls.

"Okay," I whispered. "On my count, 1, 2..."

"Um, Val?" Athena whispered. "Taylor's gone."

I looked behind me. As I should've expected, Taylor had already made her move. I facepalmed myself. Meanwhile, Taylor was already taking a swing at the girl with pink hair, who calmly stepped to the side and dodged her completely. Taylor tried again, but the girl tripped her and she faceplanted on the floor. The whole building shook, black ash falling gently from the ceiling.

I sighed. "Let's just go." I said, and Athena, Tawny and I all jumped out to help Taylor.

I'll admit, this girl was good. Whoever taught her knew what they were doing. After a minute, when the four of us paused for a moment to catch our breaths, she spoke.

"Listen, I think I know a way we can both get our points across faster." She said. She nodded to the Foots, who had been waiting obediently for orders. they turned and walked away in creepy robotic unison. Then she looked at us.

"So, you're the mutant brats." She said. Tawny growled. Taylor narrowed her eyes, so she looked even more cat-like than usual.

"How old are you?" Taylor asked, gripping her sai.

"14, why?" The girl replied.

"Because you do NOT get to call us brats if we're older than you!!" Taylor exclaimed.

"Technically, only Val and I are older than her." Athena reminded her. Taylor scowled at her.

"Well it still counts!" She replied.

I glared at her. "Does it matter? And anyway, who are you, and why did you send your Foot goons after us?" I demanded.

She laughed. "My name's Luna. and I didn't send the Foots after you. My boss did."

Athena crossed her arms. "And I'm guessing you're not going to tell us who it is." She said in a half-bored, half-exasperated tone.

Luna smirked. "You're smart, Spidey. My boss will meet you later."

I scowled. This was getting old. "What does your boss want with us?" I demanded.

Luna rolled her eyes. "Isn't it obvious? My boss has some unfinished business they'd like to wrap up- by destroying you and your freak family."

That was it. I snapped. Sweeping my leg, I knocked Luna to the ground and pointed my staff at her; the end with the hidden blade, which I had opened.

"You keep those hot pink manicured claws away from my family," I snarled, "or I'll beat you so hard we'll find out what color your hair really is!" (Tawny went wide-eyed at this and commented, "ooh, snap.)

Luna stared up at me, her expression half saying "go ahead, stab me with your pretty stick, I dare you", and half "OMG OMG I don't wanna die what do I do what do I do....?!?!?!?"

"Val!" I looked up. Athena laid a hand on my shoulder. I sighed and retracted my blade.

"That's a warning, Luna." I said, glaring at the smirking pink-haired girl. She stood up.

"I knew you'd be too weak to do it." She said. I gritted my teeth. Jeez, I'm acting like Taylor, I thought.

She snapped her fingers and the Foots reappeared.

"Unfortunately, I have orders not to kill you crummy mutants- yet." She said menacingly. (Tawny gulped a little, resulting in her being smacked upside the head by Taylor.) "So I'm letting you go. Unless you'd rather stay, or course. I haven't got anything to do and I've got plenty of back up just in case..." She trailed off, looking at her army of ninjas.

Taylor hissed a little (a habit she just can't control sometimes when she's really mad). "We'll kick all of their butts and then beat you to a pulp you fat-headed, obnoxious, snot-nosed little BUBBLE GUM HEAD!!!! " She shouted. Athena and Tawny held her back, while she yelled, "Let me at her! I'll show her who's gonna destroy who here! Come on, I can take her..."

I backed away towards the exit. "No thinks." I said, glaring at Luna. "And we'll be going now."

Luna held up her hand. "Wait, before you go-" she tossed me a piece of paper. I caught it and looked at it. Written on it was a phone number.

"What is this?" I asked. Luna grinned.

"It's my cell. Tell your uncle Raphael to call me!"

All movement stopped at that comment. Even Taylor stopped trying to get at Luna. I'll admit, we were shocked.  It was like one of those moments where music is in the background and then that "whaah?" noise plays like a record player scratching off. If I could describe how we were feeling, it would look something like this: O.O

I shook my head to clear it. "Okay, now we're really gonna kick your butt!" I replied, crumpling the paper and tossing it away. "Come on guys." I pulled out a smoke bomb, threw it, and we disappeared.

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