Midori: Chapter four
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"What the-?" Raph exclaimed as the female Turtle raised the naginata and swung the blade towards Leonardo, who was still in shock.
Raph ran and tackled Leo, the blade nicking his shell. Raphael jumped up to his feet, sai in his hands. "That's it. I don't know where you came from, but no one takes a swing at my brother and gets away with it."
Midori stood in place, ready to defend. She still wasn't sure about this whole situation. She didn't want to fight, but she owed Taro too much to let him get killed. She didn't have any choice but to fight when Raphael charged and took a swing at her. She could see the rage burning in his eyes and knew that this wouldn't be anything like her sparring sessions.
"Destroy him, Midori!" Taro commanded.
Raphael grinned as he forced Midori back a few steps. "Midori, huh? It'll be a shame to mess up that pretty face of yours."
Midori narrowed her eyes. "What makes you think you'll get that close?"
Raphael started. He'd been expecting something more along the lines of Tokka and Rahzar. He managed to duck the first strike, but she followed through with a blow to his head with the blunt end of her weapon. Raphael dropped like a rock.
Leo brought his katana up to block Midori's downward strike and pushed her away from Raph.
Mike and Don stood ready to jump in if their other brother fell. Leonardo seemed to be holding his own, but Midori was faster than he was. With a quick spin in the naginata Leonardo lost his swords. He tripped over Raphael and stared up at Midori.
Michaelangelo reacted before he knew what he had done. He reached over and pulled the Foot shuriken out of the wooden beam and flung it at the female Turtle.
The star-shaped blade hit Midori just under the left arm and she stumbled to the side, dropping her weapon. Leonardo pulled Raphael away as Midori sank to her knees.
Taro clenched his fist. "Get them!"
Michaelangelo and Donatello fought through the Foot to make a path for Leo and Raph. Raphael had regained consciousness but was walking unsteadily, leaning on Leo's shoulder. Leo had retrieved his swords and was holding back ninja as they retreated.
Midori pulled the bloodied shuriken from her shoulder and flung it towards the Turtles. Donatello managed to block it with his bo as they reached the exit.
Taro stepped down from his place and stood beside Midori. "Let them go," he told his army. He looked down at Midori, who turned her gaze towards the puddle of blood forming around her thigh.
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Donatello handed the ice pack to Raphael, who snatched it away roughly, placing it against the side of his head. Michaelangelo was checking over Leo's elbow, which he had hurt when he tripped over Raphael in the fight. Mike and Don had a few bruises and scrapes themselves.
Splinter brought out some healing herbal tea for his sons.
Leo flexed his elbow after Mike finished. "Okay, any ideas where that mutant came from?" He looked at his brothers. Mike and Don had blank expressions, while Raph looked pensive. "Raph?"
Raph just shrugged, but he still looked like he was in deep thought. Mike took a sip of his tea, plenty of sugar, just the way he liked it. "Could they still have some mutagen?"
Don shook his head. "Maybe, but I doubt it. I'm sure Professor Perry would have told us there was some missing before he disappeared."
"Okay, so maybe they made a third way back then," Mike continued. "And they just never let her out because she wasn't as big and powerful as..."
"No."
They all looked over at Raph. "You know something Raph?" Leo asked.
Raph placed his ice pack down on the arm of the couch. "She was smarter than those two pumped up morons we faced last time. She actually spoke in complete sentences."
"I didn't hear her say anything," Leo commented.
Don looked down at his bo. "Hmmm..."
Splinter turned his gazed to where Donatello was looking. It was a shuriken that was embedded into the bo. It looked like it had bloodstains on it.
Leo noticed it, too. "Wasn't that the shuriken Midori threw? The one Mike hit her with?"
Mike looked at the shuriken. He still couldn't believe he had thrown it at her, much less hit her. That blood on there was hers, and he had spilled it. He still felt bad about it, even if she had been trying to hurt his brothers.
Don nodded. "So what?" Raph asked. "You gonna dust for fingerprints?"
Don gave Raph a nasty look. "No, I'm going to analyze the blood. It could tell us a lot of things."
"Like what?" Mike asked.
"Like what mutated her, how old she is, what species of turtle she is, that sort of stuff."
Leo nodded. "Get on it." He rubbed the back of his neck. "One thing's for sure, they've trained her well. Better than most of the recruits."
Raph sneered. "Taro treated her like a pet, giving her commands like that. She may be smarter and a better fighter than Tokka and Rahzar, but she still just follows her master's orders."
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