TMNT Brotherhood von -Anele- ================================================================================ Kapitel 4: Chapter IV --------------------- The water hit Mona hard, drawing all air out of her lungs, pulling at her limbs. But she held her arms tight together pressing Macy towards her. She didn’t care, what happened to her. She was only happy, that she did managed to get to her son just in time, before the water filled the lair. As soon as she felt, that her head was out of water, she tried a few experimental breaths. Mona choked out water and looked down at Macy. He had pressed his face against her chest and wasn’t moving. “Macy?”, Mona called softly to him. At first nothing happened and the female lizard felt an iron knot forming in her stomach. But as quickly as it came, it vanished, because Macy lifted his head slowly. He chocked too and tried desperately to get some air into his lungs. Around them were noises of shooting and cries. Mona got a scream from Leo. She jumped just in time, before a few laser beams crashed the area, she had just sat on. “Get the children out of here!” came another shout from Leo. Mona followed and rushed towards the big entrance of the lair. Vee came right behind her, Yoshi in her arms. “Let’s get out of here”, Mona said. Vee looked at her, then turned slightly back to the big robots, that marched around the lair, tearing it apart. “Take Yoshi”, the female turtle then said. She handed her son over to Mona. “Mommy, no”, Yoshi cried and held onto his mother. “No, honey. You go with Auntie Mona now. I’ll come for you later. I have to help the others.” Mona looked around too. “You should come…”, she began, but Vee had a stern look on her face, that told Mona, that arguing was pointless. Vee always had that look on her face, when she had to make decisions. Mona was never sure, if her friend had developed that determination because, she was the mate of the leader. Sometimes she thought so, because Vee could transform into a lioness, when she had to protect her loved ones. “Take Yoshi and run. Maybe you find Don. Bring the children out of the sewers. We will hold them off.” Yoshi was still struggling, but when Vee put him on his feet and knelt before him, he felt silent. “I need you to be strong now, Yoshi. You must take care of your aunt and cousin until you find Uncle Donny.” A similar stern look formed on the little turtles face. “I can do that”, he said with a strong voice. Vee kissed him. “Climb onto Auntie Mona’s back”, Vee said. Mona knelt down and let Yoshi climb up. “Hold tight now, Yosh. No matter what happens, don’t let go.” In her arms, Macy was shivering. He was terribly frightened. The female lizard looked back up into her friends chocolate brown eyes. “Vee, listen, we can find another place to life. Don’t try to make a last stand.” Vee smiled. “We follow as soon as we can.” A loud crash got all their attention. One of the big robots came crushing down on the ground. “Go, quickly!” Mona didn’t waste another second. She grabbed Macy a bit tighter and ran out of the lair into the sewers, praying, she would bump into Donatello. The female lizard ran through a few tunnels, searching for a letter, that would lead up to a street near April’s and Casey’s apartment. Just as she spotted one, she saw a few lights coming towards her. That couldn’t be Don. Shorty after the lights came a soft scretching sound. More robots came towards the lair. Mona knew, she couldn't run back, so she just headed back to the last sideway and ran down the tunnel. She needed to hide the children, she could not risk to even be found with them. From the corner of her eyes she spotted a small niche. It was barred with wooden boards. Mona knelt down and told her nephew to climb down. She wanted to push her son away from her, but Macy held tight. "Just give me a minute, honey", Mona said as softly as she could. Behind her the scretching sound became louder and she could see the light starting to fill the tunnel. "They coming, Auntie Mona", Yoshi wispered. Mona made quick work of the wooden boards with her kusarigama. As soon as the niche was free she pushed her son inside and told Yoshu to climb after. Macy was quick to crawl out again, but was pushed back inside by his mother. "Stay inside, both of you and hide", she told the children. "Do not come out, until you hear and see one of us." Macy wanted to crawl out again, but Yoshi grabbed him. He nodded into Mona's direction and dragged his cousin, who was crying now, back into the niche. As soon as the crys fell quieter, Mona rose to her feet and walked towards the light. She was greeted with a tall metalic object, that shot it's lights at her. Both arms ended in laser guns. The female lizard dogged and jumped on top of the machine and ram the sharp end of her weapon into the robot. Electric sparks flew out and the bot swayed a bit, but it didn't went down. Instead ot turned around and followed Mona back into the main tunnel. The female lizrad ran, but she didn't came far, because the bot shot a lazer blast towards her. It missed, but hit the wall instead. It collapsed and blocked Mona's way, forcing her to head back. The bot waited for her, shot another blast. Mona jumped out of the way, but a piece of the exploding tunnel wall hit her on the left shoulder. She fell down, but got up quickly. Giving up was not an option. Neither was running back, but she could go no were else. If she did, the bot would either find the lair too or the niche with her son and nephew. If she could just make some time to call Don. He would know, how to shut that thing down. But she had not such time, so she had to shut the machine down the old fashion way. But how? Another blast told her, the bot was way to close for comfort. The explosion next to her, threw her a few feet away and the female lizard made a hard contract with the stone wall. Not being a turtle, she felt a stinging, sharp pain in her back. Luckly, the impact had not been hard enough to cause damage. Mona lifted her head and saw the robot coming towards her. But she also saw something else. Aparently the last explosion had damaged the bot more at the place, where she cut the metal open with her kusarigama. Cables protruded out of it. Mona made a side flip and into the tunnel next to her. The bot followed once more. The female lizard noticed, that the had rushed into the same side tunnel, where the niche was. She couldn't go any further inside. The robot was unfortunately blocking the entrance.The cables on top of it sparked and shined in a bizarre way in the dark of the tunnel. Mona looked back, right to the place, where she knew the niche was. She couldn't go further. She couldn't go outside. There was only one option. Take the robot down now. The female lizard jumped. That seemed to surprise the bot, because it took no immediate action. Mona used that to her advantage and grabbed the cables, that were leaking out of the machine.She landed behind the bot and put the cables into the water right behind the robot. An enormous shock sparked through her body and he felt her fingers closing around the cables even tighter. Even if she would have wanted to let go, she knew, she couldn't. Her entire body cramped. When the last piece if electricity of the robot was used, the robot fell forwards and landed in the water with mix of a splash and a shatter sound. It overshadowed the sound of a much smaller body landing into the water behind it. A small cloud of smoke emerged into the tunnel. Hosted by Animexx e.V. (http://www.animexx.de)