Race. [TMNT 2012]

034. Companions; Raphael

Song: Kids In The Dark - All Time Low

The Footbots don't even have time to react.  Using my ninja stealth, I take down all three of them without being detected.  Once I am sure the coast is clear, I motion for Charlotte to step inside.

   She immediately wanders over to the wall covered in small television-like screens.  Each one is connected to a different camera located in certain parts of the lair.  Just like Charlotte mentioned before, four of them are put up somewhere in Shredder's throne room.  There's even one in the cell area, proving my theory right about us being watched in there.

   Charlotte scans the hundreds of buttons on the table before us.  Her expression droops to a frown and she furrows her eyebrows.  "Got any idea how to turn these things off?" she asks after a minute of puzzled silence.

   I whip out my sai.  "Yeah, I've got a pretty good idea," I say through gritted teeth.

   "Raph, don't-" Charlotte starts to protest, but she's too late.

   I start pounding my sai into the tray of buttons repeatedly.  I instantly regret it, however, when sparks starts to fly off.  The surveillance screens flicker off, yes; but so does the rest of the power in the room as well.  We are left in complete darkness.

   "Good going, genius," Charlotte remarks sarcastically.

   "Hey, you didn't have any better-" I start to snap at her, until I notice her eyes glittering with amusement.  Instead of yelling, I wrinkle my nose and point a sai at her, though it isn't in a threatening way.  "Ha, ha.  Very funny," I sniff.

   Suddenly, the door into the surveillance room opens.  Fishface's shadowy outline looms in the doorframe, his eyes glowing with triumph.

   "I thought I would find you in here." He smirks.  "I knew you were traitors all along.  Now I have something to report to Master Shredder." He sounds more overjoyed than Michelangelo when a new Crognard the Barbarian episode premieres.

   I hold my sais out to my sides and curl my lip dangerously.  "You won't be telling him anything," I growl.

   Before Fishface can escape, I lunge at him and slam him into the floor.  I wrestle him down and raise my fist to punch him.  Just as my hand collides with his temple, he hooks one of his robotic legs under me.  I get twisted and tossed to the side, lost in the effects of gravity until I am lying winded on the floor.

   Fishface smirks deviously and leans over me.  He opens his mouth, surely to make a mocking joke, but I doesn't give him the opportunity.  I leap up, grab one of his arms, and try to flip him.

   Unfortunately, I miscalculate his strength.  I end up being picked up and spun around in circles until I smack into a wall.  I groan in pain as I sink to the floor, rubbing my arm.  A dark bruise is already beginning to form on it.

   Still, I don't give up.  I stand up, making sure Fishface keeps his eyes on me.  I don't want him going after Charlotte.

   "You're going down, ugly sushi platter!" I snarls as I charge at him.  I yell and ram my head into his chest, forcing him into a wall, just as he did to me.  I put my sais back in their sheathes and pin Fishface's arms against the structure, glaring furiously at him.

   "The Shredder is done!" I spit as my mouth nearly foams with rage.  "And so are you!"

   A new voice speaks, sending a chill up my spine.  "Think again, turtle."

   I gasp as claws sink into my shoulders and drag me away from Fishface.  I know before I turn around that it's Tiger Claw.  Horrified, I realize that Rahzar accompanies him.  I am no match for all three of them!