Timbers & Rivers (Leorai)

Chapter Fifteen

"Remember that time when you dropped your ice cream? Yeah... Well next time... YOU PICK IT UP AND YOU EAT IT!" - Pewdiepie

I went up again, to the gloomy charm of post-apocolyptic Salt Lake City. I was warned in an old mall about a new herd of Lurkers approaching...

Raph was leading his family onward through the middle of Salt Lake City, when they heard the loud sound of glass shattering. All six immediately took out their firearms and unlocked the safety clip, pointing them in the direction of the noise.

After about five minutes of waiting, concentrating, and staring at nothing, Raph sighed and put his gun away.

"Probably just glass finally collapsing. Keep moving." He ordered and the group put away their guns and obliged, hesitantly. All briskly remembered the days when Leo lead, he was better, more safe, more cautious, naturally a leader.

"Raph, I don't think it's possible for glass to just collapse like that." Donnie tried to explain, key word: tried, but Raph was having none of it. The said turtle, well, lizard, ignored the genius and continued marching.

"Whelp, better do what the dude wants. Sorry D." Mikey sighed and ran ahead to catch up with Raph.

As the rest of the group ran forward, Splinter's ears twitched and cautiously looked back at the noise. He hesitant looked back and ran to catch up; something had felt familiar about what, or who, had made the sound.

"Master Splinter." April called softy, she had ran back when she saw the said rat looking at the direction of the noise. "I felt something, with my powers. It felt... Familiar."

"I too sensed it, my child. We must make haste, it has been too long since we have last seen a monster." April agreed, they last saw a mutant a couple hours back; it was unusual too see so, not much.

"Raph, where exactly are we going?" Casey groaned, he was getting sick of holding a gun ready and walking around for hours.

Raphael froze where he was currently positioned. "Uh... W-Well..." He stuttered, trying to find an answer; he actually had no idea about where they were going. No idea. At all.

"Wait wait wait wait! You mean to tell us... You don't know where we're going!?" Donnie screamed in anger. "We've wasted air filters!"

"Ugh whatever! Let's just... Keep fucking walkin'." He growled and marched ahead, smirking when his crew ran up to catch him.

"Raph! Don't walk away!" Don started to yell but froze when a gunshot rang through the air. Donnie let out a strangled groan before falling to the ground; he had a bullet wound in the bottom of his neck, not the jugular but it was very close.

"DONNIE!!" Mikey sobbed.

"DROP YOUR WEAPONS AND GET ON THE GROUND!" A feminine voice shrieked at the team. They had no choice but to oblige.

Soon, an entire crew of seven walked out from hiding, their leader a tall woman with auburn hair. They surrounded the family, guns pointed. There were three woman and four men, to be exact, they like the same age as the turtles and their friends (obviously not Splinter).

"HANDS BEHIND YOUR HEADS!" The same woman shouted, and yet again they did as 'asked'.

"Who are these people, Sofia?" A man asked, he sounded Russian, the man sounded panicked and aggressive at the same time.

"Artyom, calm down. I think they're the newcomers."

"Oh my god! Where're Leo and Chris when you need 'em?" Another woman whined and rolled her eyes when two more people ran over to them. "Speak of the devil..."

"GUYS!!" Sofia shouted. "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!!??"

"WELL SORRY BUT WE'VE JUST FOUGHT OFF A HERD OF LURKERS!!" A man shouted back, he had wolf ears and tail. The other man crossed his arms.

That explained the absence of monsters.

Sofia's gaze softened and she cleared her throat in embarrassment. "Oh... Sorry." She said, quieter.

"Are you Nazis?" Another man asked cautiously, he sounded like he was from Denmark.

"No!" The Hamato's yelled in a panic. They didn't believe that Nazis were still real.

"Whatever. We can't believe you! Give us your names!" Sofia ordered, they immediately didn't like her.

Once all names were given, the strangers' attention was now on an equally shocked soldier next to the wolf-man. He narrowed his eyes at the newcomers. "You shouldn't have come here." He hissed dully.

"Whatever, dude. Anyways, why don't you give us your names!" Raph decided to sass, he sensed deja vu with that man.

"Why the heck would we give Nazis our names!?"

"WAIT!!" April yelled at the top of her voice, so much it hurt. Once all attention was on her, she talked. "You're Leo and Karai's friends, four men, three women. I recognise some of your names." Karai stared in shock.

"Karai is not with us anymore." Artyom growled and clutched his gun. "She left us, stayed with you, Leo came back." He gestured to them both.

"Exactly. That's exactly why I said you shouldn't have come here." The man next to wolf-boy, now they knew was Leo, growled.

"Leonardo." And elderly voice spoke out and Leo stared at Splinter, for he didn't speak until them. "Why are you not with the Dark Ones?" He still hadn't forgiven him for hiding the truth.

"He still speaks to them." A man who had white hair stated quietly, with almost a growl. "With Chris too. They just communicate."

"Wait a second! We gotta get back soon, admiral only allowed four hours. It's been three!" Leo panicked. "We're making a move on the Nazis at five as if I'm not there I could lose my job or-" he ranted until Sofia cut him off.

"CALM DOWN! Just say that we found Nazis and we danced." She said loudly, all seemed to forget about the Hamatos. "Maybe a salute'll make you feel better?" She smirked and saluted him teasingly. "Commander." She smirked even more when she saw Leo's irked expression.

"Don't call me that."

"Why? Commander."

"WHATEVER! Let's just go!" Leo grumped and looked over at his ex-family for a little. "Leave them to do what they need." He ordered and the group began to leave.

"WAIT!!" Raph shouted in despair. "HELP DONNIE!!" They turned back and looked at Donatello's limp, but alive, body, Leo then glared at Sofia. "YOU GUYS SHOT HIM, YOU GUTS HELP HIM!!!"

All of the, seemingly an enemy, crew looked at each other questioningly and turned to Leo respectively. He gave his answer.

"Okay..."