Chapter 9

Ch 9

As he stared at him, his brother, many feelings 
overcame him. Anxiety ruled; he was too close to 
meeting Hiroshi for this to be happening.  His brother 
could not be taken away from him again. He would not 
allow it. From the well-hidden corner  he had hidden 
himself in, he hear a bit of noise. He sighed. Hadn’t 
he taught them better than that? He slowly stepped out 
and began to approach the hushed voices. 

“Oyuki is inside that mess.”

“I know, not to mention Hiroshi apparently.”

“So Leo, who’s the chick?”

“We’ll worry about that later. Right now, we have to 
figure out a way to stop this.”

“So that’s where-“

“Raph..!”

“Ahem.”

All four whirled around. “Sensei!” Leonardo caught 
himself. He lowered his voice. “We have to get inside 
of there. Oyuki is in there as well as…”

“Hiroshi, I know. That is my brother.”

Then it was true. That really was Hiroshi. This upped 
the stakes even more. 

“Well how do we do it?” Raph twirled a sai. This was 
getting too drawn out for his taste.

“There is a manhole almost hidden by that garbage in 
the alley. I’ve used it before. There’s a side door 
there to the building.  Looked like a fancy lock, 
though.” Mike began to drum his hand on the ground to 
act out his nervousness. Splinter gave him a harsh 
look. “Oh, sorry.”

“Well, I am a great Locksmith.” Raph held up the sai.

“That works.” Leo looked the situation once 
over. “We’ve got to move though. More cops are showing 
up every second.”

The five moved back down the manhole they had emerged 
from and moved over to the one next to the bank.

Leo looked around. “Ready? Sensei are you going to 
come with us?”

“Yes, you made need help.”

“Alright, then let’s move.”

The garbage hid them as the moved out above.

Raph moved carefully towards the door. “One good thing 
about an alarm system going off is that no one will 
notice THIS!” Raph jabbed the sai into the door.  He 
looked inside. “Yeah, real professionals, don’t even 
leave anyone watching a side door.”

They filed inside. Leo nodded and pointed down the 
hall where noise was coming from.  They crept there, 
until they could see the bank lobby. People sat on the 
floor, their faces numb from the shock of the 
situation. Oyuki sat in the middle, her face more 
common, because she was beginning to get used to these 
strange situations she always managed to get herself 
into. 

Leo looked at Tess. She looked as though she was 
trying to hold in a panic attack. Her eyes were closed 
and she was trembling horribly. Her bottom lip 
shivered. Every once in a while, she would open her 
eyes to see what was happening, but would quickly shut 
them again. 

They quietly went back down the hall. 

“If we could distract those two in front for a second, 
and get Hiroshi and Tess out of danger,  then we can 
clean up on the other ones before they can do 
anything.” It was more mouthed than whispered, but the 
others understood what was being said.

Raph put his hand up like a gun and made a firing 
gesture. 

Leo nodded; the guns were a problem. “We need a 
distraction…”

“We don’t want all these people to see us.” Don stated 
the obvious problem that had been in the back of their 
minds the entire time. 

“They’re going to, I don’t see any other way of 
getting around it.”

Raph looked at Leo, “Then, THAT’S our two second 
distraction.”

“But—“

Splinter stopped the excessive talking by bringing a 
hand between Leonardo and Raphael.  This was not a 
time to argue. If they were out of options than so be 
it.  The expression on his face was rigid. “I will do 
it.”

Leo looked shocked for a second, then looked like he 
was going to disagree, then finally nodded. He made a 
few hand gestures that translated to, ‘Don and Mike 
cover Splinter, while Raph and I take the two out 
front, we then meet in the middle and take care of the 
rest.’

They snuck out. These guys were definitely amateurs. 
They did not have their eyes on the situation behind 
them. They only watched their hostages from time to 
time, but mostly the situation at the front of the 
bank. 

Splinter sighed.  His children were in place, ready to 
cover him. (Not that he needed protection, 
overprotective Leonardo, sigh again) That was not the 
problem. Very few people had seen him since his… 
change. His brother concerned him most of all, but he 
knew this time was going to come. Slowly he stepped 
out and looked at his surroundings. The first person 
to notice him was an older employee, probably a 
manager, at the bank. His bottom lip dropped. “Oh my 
God…”

This caused them all to spin around at the same time. 
And just like planned there were a few seconds of 
absolute shock. And that gave enough time for Leo and 
Raph to take advantage of the situation. Tess and 
Hiroshi, now focused on the thing that had come into 
the room, didn’t notice what was happening until  
after. Tess didn’t even realize the guy had let go of 
her hair, until she found herself pushed hard and her 
captor down on  the ground. Hiroshi’s experience was 
very similar. They both looked around confused, as did 
the remaining men. And that’s when the other two came 
out. Mike and Don teamed up with Leo and Raph on the 
other ones. With only a few left and the element of 
surprise, the fact that they carried guns did not 
matter that much. The fight only lasted a few seconds, 
leaving all the spectators gaping in awe. In the end 
there was a gun pinned to the wall with a sai. 

It was over so quickly. The police were ready to barge 
in at any second, agitated by whatever happened on the 
inside of the bank. 

Raph pulled the sai out of the wall. 

“Nice Raph, that was real safe.”   Leo smirked as he 
was running by. 

“Leo?”

They both turned to see a girl looking up at him. 

“Hey Tess, hey look I gotta go.”

“No,” she got up. “You are not leaving me here by 
myself. I’m coming—“

She found herself grabbed by the wrist and dragged by 
Leo’s friend. “Fine girl, but hurry up!”

“Hiroshi!” Leonardo yelled.

The old man shook his head. The sensible thing to do 
would be to wait for the police to come in. To NOT go 
with these things, but he was looking for brother, and 
they knew him. He ran along.

“Come on O!” Mike grabbed her arm and the group left, 
leaving the rest of the people in the bank very 
confused. 


“We gotta beat the cops to that door with the manhole.”

“Manhole?”

“Not now, chica.”

“Raph!”

“NYPD, ha, still doesn’t have this door covered.” Raph 
looked around. That’s when the gunfire started. They 
glanced up towards the roof.  “Well not on the ground 
anyway.” 

Don popped the cover. Splinter went down first. Leo 
gave Tess a small supportive smile as he grabbed her  
hand. “Down there, now.”


With gunfire Tess was not going to argue. Ick. Next 
went Mike and Oyuki. Hiroshi began to look as if he 
was going to argue. Raph grabbed him and climbed down. 
Leo next, then Don. 


Tess never thought anything could smell when she 
WASN’T breathing through her nose. They all began 
running. At least they were on some part that wasn’t 
wet. Oh nevermind. That part ended. Yuck. Raph looked 
at Leo. “Apartment?”

“Yeah.”

And so they began to trudge through ankle 
deep...stuff. She was falling behind. Leo stopped for
a second and waited for her for a second. “At least 
it’s not deep now,” he gave a small smile. “We have to 
hurry... and sorry about knocking you down back there
in the bank.” He gave another small smile.


Tess slipped. She was trying to hurry. Really, she 
was. Now it was on her hands. It was on her hands and 
she was now running away from the NYPD. Her parents 
were probably going to be pissed about this one.  
Yeah, running away from the NYPD while chasing some 
turtle boy in the sewer. 

Leo brought her out of her short daydream by scooping 
her up. “Sorry, but we REALLY need to go” 


A couple of seconds later they reached another 
manhole. Tess was never happier. “Where are we at?”


The girl she had bumped into the bank smiled at 
her. “My place.”  Tess hadn’t noticed her before. I 
guess she really did have friends who could take care 
of the situation. 


They left the old boiler room and successfully snuck 
up to April’ apartment.  And then everyone was quiet. 
Oyuki went into her room for a second, then came back 
bringing a spare set of clothing. She handed it to 
Tess. “My name’s Oyuki, by the way.”

The numb shock thing was starting to come into 
play. “umm. Thank you.”

Hiroshi began to speak as well. “Yes, thank you, thank 
you for saving my life. But I am asking you for one 
more favor. Please, tell me where I can find my 
brother.

There was a moment of silence before Splinter began to 
speak. “Hiroshi…” 

That voice! Where did it come from? “Yoshi?”

“Yes.” Hiroshi turned to see the thing from the 
bank. “It is me.”

Hiroshi’s head felt light. “It is not. It cannot be—“


That’s when the language switched to Japanese.

“(It is me brother, now you know why I have never 
tried to contact any of you.)”

“(But how, HOW?)”

“(It is a long story. I-)”

Hiroshi could not believe what he saw. He needed to 
escape. “(I need some air, I will be back.)”

Hiroshi turned off and practically ran out of the 
apartment. Mike, who was not going to allow for his 
sensei to be hurt, followed.  He would explain to him 
somehow, he would make him see.

When he got to the bottom of the stairs, he turned 
around. “Why do you continue to follow me?”

“If you would just listen for one second.” 

“No, I need time to think.” 

Hiroshi headed out the door, and Mike, not completely 
in his right head, followed him out into the 
daylight. “You cannot desert him now, Hiroshi.”

“Do NOT tell me what to do child!” Hiroshi needed to 
escape, he needed to get away.. he turned around and 
ran.

“Hiroshi, look out!!!” Mike saw the car coming, and 
Hiroshi did not. Mike did not think as he ran to push 
him out of the way. Tires screeched and Mike rolled 
right onto the hood.


A man got out of the car followed by a teenage girl 
passenger. He turned to look at who had run out in 
front of his Mercedes. “What in the world?”


The girl finally spoke. “Dad, it’s one of those things 
that saved me today at the bank. See I wasn’t lying. 
Oh Daddy, do something, I think you killed it!”


Chapter 10 coming soon!!!



 













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