Dark Waters

Chapter Thirteen: Reunion

Chapter Thirteen: Reunion 

  

Hours later, Leopard found himself lying on the ground with a splitting headache, and not in any mood to get up or at least, open his eyes.

Mental note to myself, the Dark Flame Ninja commander grumbled inwardly. Kill Hank once I get back from this mess.

He wasn't really sure what had just happened but he was sure that the blond moron was involved somehow and he was going to pay for it later.

It all started with a normal reconnaissance mission in the T.C.R.I. building which also house those damned Guardians who kept on messing with his Master's plans. All he had to do was get in without being captured using the building blueprints that Hank handed to him earlier that day, disable the building's security system and map the area, so that his Master and Hank could get inside the main core and activate the self destruct sequence that will cause the building to implode and kill everyone inside the building and get the hell out without being noticed.

Simple enough, right?

He was almost done hacking through the rest of the building's mainframe when he heard a few explosions outside the old air vents. Leopard contacted Hank through the comlink and demanded what was going on but all the Red Basilisk leader would tell him was: "Its nothing for you to worry about, Fearless."

Once again, Leopard silently swore that he would kill the big blond moron once this mission was over.

He was about to contact Hank again and demand another explanation when suddenly another loud explosion rocked the building, and Leo found himself falling down and hitting the hard steel floor seconds later.

He swore he heard voices shouting and screaming amid several explosions.

He also swore he heard C'tan shout, "Get away from there!!!" before the world turned upside down and everything turned dark.

So now the Dark Flame Ninja commander found himself lying on the ground with a really bad hangover.

Once more he heard voices in the area, the sound dragging from his previous unconscious state like nails being raked through a blackboard wall.

"...Is he alive?"

"...Still breathing."

 Slowly he cracked one eye open, and wincing inwardly, he found himself looking at his reflection. Or rather, what his reflection would look like if he wore a red bandanna over an unruly mass of hair and if he had amber brown eyes.

Immediately, an image from one the files Hank handed over to him as soon as he got from mission in Japan flashed into mind.

"Mizu..." Leopard whispered softly as soon as his ninja instincts immediately kicked in and he leapt a couple of feet away from those three teenage ninjas, landing on crouching position and ready to attack. "Great, the situation just keeps getting better and better." he muttered, his free left hand reaching over his shoulder to grab Rapidfire(he had no orders to kill anyone just yet.) and...

He blinked. His swords were gone.

He turned to look at the three teens. There, just behind where the one in purple knelt on the ground, lay both Rapidfire and Quicksilver covered in their sheaths.

Apparently, those three took his swords while the explosion knocked him out.

They took his swords...

No one been able to do that before. Even if he were unconscious, Leopard would suddenly wake up if someone would try to take one of his swords from him, no matter how stealthy that someone may be.