Raphael ran through the snow at a stunning pace, his flat feet were ideal as a built-in snow shoes, but it wasn't fast enough. His brother was kidnapped, and it was all his fault. Well technically it was Leo's fault. If he weren't so preoccupied with saving EVERYONE, including their foes, they probably wouldn't be in this mess. Still, Leo had a lead, wanted to follow it, and he had let him go it alone. He should've known it would be a trap, but that didn't matter now. This was a new set of players, ones they hadn't encountered before, and they had Leo, and what’s her face. He wasn't going to tell Master splinter that he'd let his emotions get in the way of the mission, again.
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Under the mountain he was jogging across, the proffesser was watching Raphael's brother on a monitor, intrigued as ever. "How are his vitals holding?" he asked.
"Same as before sir, his endurance in this climate seems to resiliant for his reptilian make up, but its not as strong as we'd surmised." one of his officials replied.
The proffesser seemed disapointed for a moment, then snapped back. "Exercise system 03.2." He ordered. "Yes sir." his underling said at the keypad.
Leonardo on the other hand was doing some running of his own, he was running through the mountain side as fast as his legs would carry him. He didn't know why, or where he was going, but he kept on running. Everything seemed so involuntary, so alien. He heard a voice in his head, it was the same voice as the one he'd heard outside his tank.
"Begin time space manipulation..." Suddenly he realized he was coming up on a cliff's edge.
He wanted to stop running, but he couldn't somehow. Instead, he was running faster, faster, he'd never run this fast before. He was getting closer and closer to the cliffs' edge. Were these people trying to make him kill himself, test his obedience? If they were, they were doing to good of a job, he tried to stop with everything in him, but to no avail. Suddenly he saw another ledge across the canyon on the other side. Perhaps they wanted him to leap across the precipice, which led to the next problem, it was roughly half a mile away from his side.
"Initiating sequence now." The voice said in his head again.
"WHU!?" Leo asked, suddenly he was there, a foot from the edge, he suddenly knew, he had to Jump. He bounded from the cliff's edge with all his might, and all the training in long jumps he could muster. Then suddenly all went black.
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"GET UP FROG FACE!" There was a boot in his gut, he woke in pain. "I said get up!" The rough voice, yet feminine said again. The boot again careened towards his belly, but this time it was caught out of reflex, twisted, and polted towards the wall, taking the body that was wearing it with it. He sprang up, everything was dark, but he a could tell wear things were by the sounds around him, and the smells, a ninja's first prerogative is to know their surroundings, visibly and other wise. He was either up from a very disturbing dream, or had made it somehow, and was back in...wherever this place was.
Right now, he'd just thrown SOMEONE with a cleated boot across the room, and she'd hit the wall in 6 seconds, that meant the room was probably not all that big. At the same time, he knew whoever it was he threw against the wall was coming up again by the noise she was making. Leo braced for an attack, and tried to adjust his eyes to the darkness, until he found out that he was unable to see because he was BLIND. "GREAT!" he said out loud, he heard whoever it was roar in rage as they charged him, "Well at least you let me know were your attack is coming from." He said, as he skillfully caught the kick, surprisingly though, out of the foot he now held, sprung spikes. One of the spikes clipped him in the shoulder, "Aaaaugh!" he wailed in pain, and surprise. He heard the assailant attack him again. This time he had no idea what he was getting into so he just went into Fu Tzi mode, "
You are my foe, and I your foe, I will destroy you.".
He leapt in the direction of the scream and spun, to his prediction, he felt the scraping against his shell of a spike trying to jab him in the air, counting on this he grabbed on of the spikes, and broke it off with all his might. He heard the perp cry out in pain, "
Oops." he thought, that was most likely part of her body he broke off, what ever she was. This still didn't change the fact that he was at a disadvantage, and was the one being held against his will. Maybe she was too, maybe if he could talk to her, let her know they were on the same side, they could-
He suddenly bent backwards anticipating another jab to his face with another spike, "
I'll have to pacify her first, get her to listen." He thought to himself. She had a human body, one that apparently projected spikes in various areas, he had to find a way to touch her again to- AH! Yes, exactly like a normal human, one with spikes coming out every which way. This meant she had pressure points. He awaited another attack, and blocked it. He stepped back to give the look he was tiring, it worked flawlessly; she yelled again in fury and jabbed at him stepping forward. With her a voluntary step closer to him, instead of stepping back again, he lunged forward, spread out his hands making her arm go apart, then began going through the power jabs of his own. His master Splinter had taught him to find these pressure points on his own without seeing, so it was actually easier to find and poke them blind.
He unleashed 5 lightning fast punches and jabs, each hitting squarely on their targets, within 4 seconds she was rendered immovable.
She swayed for a bit, then fell on her back, there was -
CLACT- noise as she did, as if there were antlers in her back that broke her fall, probably more spikes.
He got close to her face, more or less, and said: “Listen to me, I'm prisoner like you, if your being held her too then-" He didn't get the chance to finish for he was plucked up from behind by something with incredible strength, and hoisted up to this new person's face.
From how high he was lifted of the ground, he could tell he was roughly 6'10 if not taller. By the knuckles which now held his throat, he could tell this guy was WICKED strong!
"Don't suppose you’re the Landlord?" he choked out. He heard a low growl emanate from the assailant’s maw, like a lion or tiger, then was slapped by an enormous backhand across the room were he again hit the wall, and went out like a light.
"Thank you sabretooth." said the professor looking down at the strange green creatures body, limp on the floor. "We've yet again seen a piece of his innate abilities. It will seem to be all we can do to INHANCE him in anyway." he said with delight. "Are you getting any of this?" he said looking up at the camera in his cell. "Indeed..." Came a robotic voice.
"Whatta we do with the porcupine?" Sabertooth growled.
"Put her back in her chamber." the professor said still focusing on Leonardo, "This has got me thinking, I believe its time for a test in his endurance in BATTLE rather then the elements.."
Sabertooth smiled and let a low growl like a dog that anticipates meat...