Part 13..
I held my blades over Shredder, I felt as if I would bring them right down into Shredder. But in my mind, I knew I didn't want to do this. I fought the blades, Terror and Killer stood up. I brought my blades down, hard at Shredder, but before they reached him, Terror has hit me off Shredder.
"You have won Leo. You are the first command out of the Earth W's." I looked down when I heard Killer say that. I felt that I went lower than I ever did before. I looked at Shredder's body, I'm so sorry Shredder, I thought to myself.
Killer looked at me and smiled. I got up and headed towards my room. I didn't say a word. When I got to my room, and looked at the date, I know it's close to Christmas, but how close? I looked up to see it's Dec. 13, Friday the 13th!!! No wonder I was having such a bad day! I wonder if I could get away to say hi to my brothers on Christmas, but right now that didn't matter all that much to me, I was ill. I lyed down on my bed. I want to go home, but now the W's would never let me go.
It didn't take long for a Doctor to come in the room. I looked at him, I never saw a doctor here before, if I ever did get taken care of it would have to be when I wasn't awake.
"Who are you? What are you doing in here?"
"My name is Prof. Matt. I'm your doctor here." Prof Matt! Could this be! Is it him! The one that killed the Shaper's brother Jim!!!
"Since when do I have a doctor here?" I said backing away. With all the pain, I knew I had to move. I couldn't just sit there.
"Since you became first in command. I got told to come in here and to make sure you're in good shape." I didn't want this guy touching me. I looked at him, as a nightmare. I never had a doctor, for what would a human know about a Mutant.
"I'm in good Shape. I don't need a doctor."
"Settle down. I know you're not use to being taken care of by a human, unless there's really a April O'Neil who takes care of you, like in the show `The Making of Metalhead'." Prof Matt smiled. He didn't mean me harm, but I still didn't trust him. "Besides, I've taken care of a Mutant Turtle before. When your brother was here, I was one of the doctors trying to save him, before you came and took him away." I settle down, because of the pain in me, I needed help, if I wanted it or not.
In an hour Prof. Matt left me, I was so happy to see him gone. I sat in my room for days. I didn't want to go out of the room. Blades started to bring me food on the second day, when he noticed I wasn't coming out. I looked up at Blades as he walked in my room.
"How is the Shredder and Mokeshan?" I asked from my bed. I couldn't even look Blades in the eyes. The blades on my arm got control of me for a few seconds in that fight with Shredder... and that was a deep pain with in me.
"Mokeshan is doing ok. Infact she was in the lunch room for her first time since the fight."
"Shredder?"
"He's ok, but boy is he mad. He's been having a lot to drink, and has killed a few W kids just walking down the hall. If I were you, I would stay out of his way."
"Don't worry, I'm out of everyone's way." I turned over in my bed. Blades set some food down.
"Don't put it like that Leo." He saw I wanted to be left alone. He turned and walked out. I sat up and took the food. I felt bad at how I just acted to Blades, but I really didn't want to talk.
The next few days, Blades would just come in and leave my food. I didn't talk to him and he didn't talk to me. After a week of this, Terror came in.
"How are you feeling? Shredder and Mokeshan didn't hurt you this bad to hold you down." I looked up at Terror now I felt the anger inside of me, for what he has done. I didn't say a word. "You're the only quiet one here." He stopped to see if I would talk yet, but not a word came from my mouth. "What's wrong with you DAMNIT!!!" Terror walked over to me. "I want you to TALK TO ME!!! WHY ARE YOU STAYING IN THIS ROOM." I just looked at him as he yelled, than I fell down into pain. But I still didn't make a noise, I was mad at Terror for what he's done to me. I looked Terror right in the eyes.
"Oh! I got it." Terror said backing off. "Those blades on you are finally doing their job. You are getting anger in you, to where you can't control it." A smile went across Terror's face. "Well my dear friend, you are going to be working for us easier." He walked out of the room. That's when it hit me, he was right. These blades were getting to me, so much to where I've locked myself in a room. I sat down looking out a window, I was only, tired and hungry for some of Mikey's home made pizza. I wonder how Mikey is doing.
"Leo, Terror was right there." I looked up. Mark was in my room. I looked back down. "Leo, you have to cheer up. Look at what is happening to you." I looked back up at Mark.
"Why fight back? I can't get away."
"You! Leonardo... the Leader of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.. giving up! I don't think so Leo! It's not you! Your brothers are in a fight, besides this one right now and they need you!"
"What can I do? I'm stuck here! I have three different things holding me here."
"I only know of two... what is the third?" I looked down and looked at my arms. Than looked back up at Mark.
"I have the problems of a bomb in NY, the pain Terror gives me and these blades. That's what's keeping me here!" Mark smiled at me and took a seat.
"You only have two things holding you down my friend... well to tell the truth one thing."
"WHAT?"
"You see, those Blades are not holding you here, you're just stuck wearing them, and getting upset easy. And that bomb, I don't think it would go off."
"Why not? Doesn't Terror do what he says he will."
"Yea, most of the time, but he can't in NY. Because around 45% of the kids here are being held by that one bomb, if he blows up NY many of the W kids will leave and he knows it. The only problem you have is the pain, and you'll never guess what."
"What?"
"I know how to stop that pain. We've done it once before, but it almost killed the person."
"What did you do? Can this be done to me?"
"I'm not sure. But you see what happens is that put some computer chips with in your blood line with that shot... the computer chip double each time they give you pain, that's why the pain gets worse. What they do to cause the pain is let you get shocks threw the chips. So if the chips are taken out, than you'll be ok. Free of everything besides the blades."
"Tell me what to do, and I'll be up to it! I don't care if it gets me near death, just don't kill me, than I'll never be free." I stood up, I was happy about this new news. Mark looked at me, I could tell he was worried.
"This has never been done with a Mutant before, just one human. It could be hard, and I can't say you'll come out of it alive... because I don't know." Mark looked down. Than the thought of Prof. Matt hit me.
"Hey... didn't you tell me Prof. Matt died in a fire at the lab he worked at in Japan?"
"Yea, what does that have to do with what we're talking about?"
"He's my doctor... how is that." Marked smiled, I could tell I got the worry off the top of his head for this little bit, and this will answer who Prof. Matt is.
"You see, his twins are working here. So if you bump into two Prof. Matts here, don't be surprised. Now, lets get back to work. We have to save you, before those blades do do you in all the way." I saw Mark meant what he said.
"So what do we do?" I asked walking towards the door. Mark stood up,
"Your going to have to come with me." He walked over to me and grabbed my hand. "Oh and Leo, if they cause the pain while we're trying to save you, it will kill you. So lets just hope that they don't notice your gone." I looked at Mark, now I was worried, he could tell.
"Me too." Next thing I knew everything went dark. The shaper shaped over me. We were moving, but where too.. I had no idea.
We came up in a house. It was a nice little house, but old. You could tell the walls were old, and the house wasn't going to stand forever, as if it will go down soon. This teenager was sitting on the couch, the funny thing was I knew him. It was the person who was Cherly's, it was Mikey.
"Hey Mark, what are you doing home so soon?" Mikey said turning off the TV. Mark looked at me, than looked at Mikey.
"Mikey I need your help." Than Mark looked at me with a smile. "I know how to make sure they don't know you're gone." Mikey walked up to the two of us.
"What do you want Mark? Why is the Turtle here?"
"I want you to go to W HQ and shape as Leo. Stay in his room and don't talk to anyone."
"For how long Mark?"
"Till one of us comes and get you."
"Ok." Within that Mikey shaped away. Than it hit me, the Shapers said they would help me with the fight with the Shredder, but I didn't see them at all that day.
"Mark.. I didn't see you the day you said you would help me with the fight. Where were you guys?" Marked smiled at me. Than started walking towards a back room.
"You see, we were with you. You don't think you could have stood through all that pain without any help. We were there, using some of our powers to keep you on your feet. It got real hard after he cut your shell, where the sais went in. We lost control of you there. But you took care of the Shredder the rest of the way without our help." He opened a door, Peter was sitting on a bed, with a book in hand. Than I remember my book, but than I figured I could pick it up sometime when I wasn't in danger. "Peter, he wants to go through it." Peter stood up and walked towards us.
"Than to the basement. We have to work fast, if we mess up any second of time, it can kill him. Get Kevin, we're going to need all the help we can get. Where's Mikey?"
"Mikey is taking Leo's place at W HQ. I can get Kevin, Peter take Leo down stairs. Let's get this over with." Mark turned and ran the other way, this was my first time being a lone with Peter. I followed Peter to a wall, he hit the wall and it opened to some steps going down.
"Why is your basement hidden in your own place?"
"Because Mikey takes a lot friends here, and if they saw the stuff we had down here, they would find out we're the Shapers in no time flat." When I got down stairs I saw what he was talking about. Computers not of this world were everywhere. There was so much stuff here, Donatello would have a field day.
"Wow! Nice place." I said while looking at a small robot cleaning up the place, than I looked over to my left to see more steps down. "What's down there?"
"We don't have to go down there. It's just a hiding place for something else that's from our planet. We can't keep her out in the open, because ppl would notice her, so she stays down there. When she wants to run around we take her to another world near by, like Mars or the moon. The dark half of the moon is a good place to play for her."
"What is she?"
"She's a 40 foot talking White Cat with wings. They were the care keeper of our planet, she's one of the oldest, and knew my mom and dad well."
"Cool!" Peter pulled out a table, and started grabbing some stuff out.
"First thing I'm going to do is see if there's hope for you."
"What do you mean? Hope?" This worried me, is telling me that there might be a chance I wont be able to get free.
"Well you see, if you got too many of the chips for pain in you, we wont have enough time to remove all of them the right way. And if we remove them the wrong way, they'll all go off into a pain that will kill you. I have only 1 and a half minutes to remove all of the chips."
"Oh, I see." I looked down, that didn't sound good. I thought of all the times I've gone down into pain for not listening to Terror. Like going home those few times and talking back to him. I've done so much stuff I didn't know how many of these chips are in me.
"Take a seat here Leo." Peter said pointing to a chair, with some wires around it. I felt as if I was going to be put to death... it looked so much like it. Once I sat down, he started to put some of the wires on me. Than put a hat of some sort over my head. I looked up at them. Than he turned on something, I could feel the wires shacking, I could tell they were doing something. But what? I kept my eyes on Peter, to watch his face. Around 10 minutes went by, Mark and Kevin came down stairs. Kevin looked at me, than looked at Peter. Peter now looked down.
"Well Peter.. is there hope for Leo?" Mark asked walking towards Peter.
"I don't think so Mark. He's 1,000,0034 over the limit of chips. I think it would be to dangerous to take him under for this. There's no real way to save him." That's it! I thought to myself, just find out there's to many chips and I'm doomed.
"I'll go through it anyhow!" I said from the seat.
"No Leo, it will kill you!"
"So what... if I live I work for the W's.. if I die I work for the W's.. so what's the big different! I'll tell you what is different! If this works and doesn't kill me, I'll be free. I want to go through with this!"
"Leo, your blades are talking. You can't go through with this, we won't do it!" Peter said walking towards the steps.
"So you're just going to give up on me! I don't think so!" I jumped Peter knocking him to the ground. Peter looked at me.
"Stop this madness! I'm telling you the truth... and you're going to have to live with that!"
"No I wont! Either you guys save me now, or I'll go to someone who doesn't know how to remove them! I won't rest till these chips are out of me!"
"Man, and I thought Raphael was the Turtle that acted like this." Kevin said as he pulled me off of Peter. "Give it a rest Leo. We did the best we could!"
"No you didn't!!! If you gave it your best than I would be free right now!"
"Chill Down!!!" Kevin grabbed me up against a wall. "We're not god, we're only god's pets. We can't control if you live or die, and if you die it's going to seal your life in the W's forever! So stop this madness.. and I mean now!"
"I want free." I said, as I slip out of Kevin's hands onto my knees on the floor. "I just wanna be free."
"Oh, like what the blue birds flying by you!" Kevin said looking at me. "That's not easy Leonardo.. and if you just go mad like this, than you have picked your own life.. don't let these blades control you." I looked up at them, tears going down my eyes. I was mad, anger and dieing in my own tears.
"Please.. help me.. I can't take another day in the W's." Peter walked over to me. And put his hands on me.
"It's not fun to be a leader who's depressed. We'll take a shot at it, but I can't say you'll come out alive, because this is harder than you'll ever know. If I see any trouble, I'll close you up and wake you up." The other Shapers looked at Peter. "Get on the table Leo." Peter grabbed out a shot as I got on the table. He put the shot in my arm.
Next thing I knew I was looking at my own body. Am I dead? I was out of my body.. what's going on. I don't see the Shapers.. they should be working on me. I went to leave the room, than I saw fire coming up all around me. I backed away from the fire.
"Nice try Leo! But now you're ours for ever..." I looked to see Terror looking at me. I backed away to bump into Killer.. it was over. The Shapers couldn't save me, I was now a W forever.