Chapter 4
Secrets
Donatello drove down the highway to where the secret base was located. They had been in the van for almost 4 hours and still had some more to go. Mike was playing with his Gameboy and Leonardo was reading. Raphael was just listening to his music with his headset. It was boring and he was getting alittle bit grouchy from being in the van so long. He laid back on his pillow that he had brought with him and closed his eyes. He thought about the red haired girl again. How she was so beautiful and how she rode her horse with such grace.
When they arrived at where Don was gonna stop, Raph pushed everyone aside and jumped out. He needed to get the air and the stretch. He popped practically every bone in his body. He scratched his butt and looked at Mike who cringed.
" Geez Raph, why do you always have to do that ?"
" Cause it itched. Why the hell else ?" Mike just shook his head.
Boy I'm glad Raph doesn't wear some pants or underwear or else he'd be picking his ass all the damn time !
Don started to walk up a hill toward the mountains. Leo was right there with him. Mike jogged up to them, but Raph just hung behind as usual. He looked around the woods they were hiking in. There were a few animals, but not much to look at. He walked to the top of the wooded hill, he looked around. There was a large piece of land and then he could see in the distance alittle into the mountains, a facility. The place looked totally secured with a large fence around it. He shrugged and started to walk toward it when Don stopped him.
" Raph, we have to stay in the woods so we are not seen by them." Raphael flattened his eyes brows, but followed. He stepped over broken branches and sharp looking twigs. This was totally unflattering. Then to make thing worse his batteries died to his head set. He growled and put them in his backpack. He huffed and went on. It seemed like hours, before they made it to the security gates. There were no soldiers or guards around, so Don went to the back gate.
" Look we could get through here and climb the wall over there." He said pointing to the place to climb. He went under the gate and proceeded to the building with the others closely behind. Don looked at the building strangely.
" I wonder why there isn't much security. I mean you think a government facility would have all sorts of alarms, guards, and who knows what else." Leo agreed.
" Who cares. Maybe they just want to cut expenses." Raph said without a hint of care. Don looked to a part of the building that was alittle ways up.
" Hey that might be a ventilation tunnel. We can get in through there." Don started to climb the old building and took the screen off the vent. He climbed in with the others behind. Raphael looked around behind him to make sure nothing or no one was there. Then Don stopped at another screen and looked out. The others looked too as they crowded around.
It was a lab where some men were observing one of their experiment. It looked like a deformed dog with a vicious bite. He tried to attack them, but he was in a cage.
" Man I would hate it if that thing would get loose." Mike whispered to Leo who nodded his agreement with wide eyes. The crawled on down the tunnel some more. But something made Raph stop and stare out of another screen. The other turtles looked out and realized who it was.
It was the red haired girl that had been seen on her gray horse. A man injected her with some pink substance and she dropped to the floor with a thud. The man left the room and Raphael was suddenly flushed with anger. He pushed the screen off and looked around the room. He saw a camera and before it saw them he destroyed it with his sais. He came out and walked to her. Don came over and felt for a pulse and instantly found it.
" They just knocked her out, that's all. She should be fine." Raphael lifted her and brought her to the vent tunnel.
" Raph ! What the hell are you doing ?!" Leo asked.
" What the hell do you think I'm doing ?! I'm taking her out of here !"
" Raph, she could be an experiment ! A dangerous person like the cat hybrids."
" I don't think she is dangerous. And I don't care. I will get my own damn place if I have to, but she's coming." He went back into the tunnel leaving his brothers baffled, but defeated. They followed in silence.
" Look Raph, why don't you take her back to the van ? We will go on and then come back within the next two and half hours." Raph thought for a moment and the agreed. He turned and crawled with her in his arms held tightly against him as he went. His brothers went the other way.
Donatello studied all the different areas and people. Then he came to a place where there was no one around. He looked at the large computers and videoed experiments. He opened the screen and came out. Quickly he hit the security camera with his Bo staff. Leo picked up some of the videos and looked at the title. They were all experiment observations.
" Hey Don, just our luck. We can take these videos and watch them. We might be able to find out exactly what we're dealing with." Don nodded and Leo packed the videos in his pack. Don looked at several discs and cd's. He quickly began to put them in his pack. Mike came out with a Cd Rom attachment that Don could use to with his laptop. It also had a place for floppy disks. Don gave Mike a look, but he just shrugged.
" Hey they got a whole bunch more. I mean why not take some. They are trying to take our lives, so why not take some useful tokens for ourselves ?" Don shook his head in defeat and went back to what he was doing. Mike packed it and looked around some more. The place was loaded.
" Boy Donny, if this place was yours, I know you would never leave it." Don snickered.
" Ya, I love this computer stuff, but I don't like the negative science they are using it for." Mike nodded and walked around. They had taken just about every important thing in there. Mike then looked at a box titled:
Profiles
He opened it and looked at all the different CD's in it.
" Maybe this will help alittle." He whispered to himself. He loaded his bag with the information and looked at his brothers. Suddenly there were voicing coming to the door. Instantly, the turtles went to the vent tunnel and hopped in. They closed the screen and took off. The load they had was somewhat heavy, but they managed. They came to the open air and ran to the fence. The went under and out.
Raphael was sitting in the trunk with the red haired girl and admiring her every curve. Her clothes were abit transparent, but he didn't mind at all. He held her in his arms and on his lap. He started to caress her face and then wondered if he should. But she was soft and beautiful to touch. He had those butterfly feelings in his stomach as he touched her pale skin. She was so strange looking, but it made her so unique. He looked at her lips and then ran his finger against them. They were soft and tempting to kiss. But to ruin the romantic moment for him, his brothers showed up at a dead run and jumped into the van. Don started almost at once and speeded away.
" Geez Donny ! Are ya tryin to kill us here ?!" Raph growled angrily.
" Sorry bro, but we almost got caught and with these people I didn't want to do that." Raphael just rolled his eyes and covered the girl up with a blanket. It was gonna be a long drive, but now that she was in his arms, it didn't really matter.