Perspective: Michelangelo
I...I was not sure, but I really think that that was the tipping point for Leo upon seeing Fluttershy and Spike in containment. He proceeded to curse harshly to himself. I was sure that he would have started screaming and hollering if it was not for the fact that we were still incognito. I have never seen him this upset before. He was usually so calm and collected! Our plan never really work out anyways, I really did not understand.
Actually, I believe that that might be the problem right there. Now that I think about it, he is the one that usually comes up with the plans. Of course, not everything works out the way we plan for it to. If anything, we needed to start making more and more backup plans, as we seemed to be in dire need of them as of late. Leo took out his katana and angrily swung them around, slicing at the air as if there were multiple enemies in front of him. "Why!?"
"Dude, chill!" I said, holding up a hoof while still keeping my distance. I sure as shell did not want to get hit with one of those blades, although he knew better to put me in danger. When he noticed that I had taken a step back, he reduced the range of his slashes.
"Why didn't they run!? Fluttershy and Spike should've gotten away!" He slashed at the air, letting out a sharp cry. "This puts the whole plan into jeopardy! Why didn't Fluttershy and Spike simply fly away! That was the point!" I had a bad feeling about this. His face was going red with fury. I think he may have picked up some things from Raph, or so it seemed. I do not know, I am not a philosophical pony/turtle/thing. I think that was the right word...
"Leo! Calm down!" I tried again. He did not appear to hear me.
I think I broke him.
He continued to yell at himself, as he finally brought the sword swinging to a minimum. He was furious, and I knew that I needed to find a way to calm him down, fast. While he was occupied, I waddled next to him, while dodging his occasional slashes, and promptly smacked him across the face with an open...hoof? Gah! Hoof, hand, same difference. I do not really care anymore.
Leo reeled back with a hoof to his face, a look of complete astonishment as he stared at me. There was a brief silence as I rubbed my fist. I accidentally punched the hard part of his jaw. Apparently, ponies have more refined jaws than most of the bad guys that I fought back in New York. He let out a sigh as I finished rubbing away the slight uncomfortableness in my hoof.
"Thanks," he grumbled, gently feeling his cheek. I had unintentionally left a red mark on it. Oops. "I needed that," Leo looked at the floor, apologetically. I almost felt bad for him. The stress, man, it could not have been good for anyone. Being a leader had really put a burden on him, it seemed.
"So, now what do we do?" I asked, attempting to move on from the awkwardness that I had just created. Leo simply looked at the ceiling, as if he was thinking. Although, it did not take him very long to come up with another idea.
"Simple," he stated. "We go and rescue Fluttershy and Spike. I'm sure that Donnie, Pinkie and Raph are still out searching-"
"How do you know? They might have the stuff in tow and are heading for the exit as we speak." I brought up, but Leo shook his head.
"Not likely. If they had left, we would have known. They would have hinted at us somehow. Plus, I didn't see them on any of the cameras, and none of them seemed to have been tampered with, which leads me to believe that they are still sneaking around in the hallways or an elevator shaft, or something. You know how we do things, Mikey." He explained. I groaned, but he had a point.
"Come on," he continued. "Let's go find Spike and Fluttershy," Leo then opened the door to the room, as I trailed behind him. I suddenly found myself a little more excited.
"Well, time to save the day again! Do you think Spike will want some autographs? Agh! I forgot a pen-" SMACK "OUCH!"
"Payback."
***
Perspective: Donatello
Ok. This was getting weird.
The farther we trekked, the more and more Foot Ninjas we actually began to see. I was actually starting to get a little nervous. I was expecting there to be a decent amount of Foot in the area, say they did have a portal, but I did not expect THIS many. I mean...ugh! There were about a hundred in this wing alone! It was getting much harder to navigate the area. It got to the point of where we had to literally hide inside of a small closet just to make sure that we were not seen.
Raph let out a great groan in annoyance. "Great! Now what are we supposed to do? Hide like wimps? We don't have all day!" He said in a hushed tone. Even he knew that the room was not soundproof.
"'Course not! Just...just gimme a minute to think..." I said, I opened the door just a crack just to assess the situation. I let out a muffled gasp upon seeing that there were about three figures meagerly guarding the door, idly swishing their tails right in my face. They stared straight ahead, not even moving. Each of them held either a sword, or a spear. Great. In my shocked state, I failed to get a good look at them before I began to retreat.
I silently closed the door and looked back to Pinkie and Raph, who were both staring at me with an eye raised. I shook my head. "Yeah. There's, like, three out there."
"Hah! We can take 'em!" Raph announced, smacking his hooves together as if he was ready to pound the Soldiers to dust. I noticed Pinkie frown.
"...We...we can't just hurt them like that! It's not very nice!" Raph and I both face...hooved? Yeah. That. I need to learn more about horse anatomy. Do not get me wrong, but I did not study up on it much back in our world. I never really found it to be something that I absolutely needed to learn, so I put off the research for a bit. Boy, was I regretting it right about now.
"Do you not realize what your cannon did earlier-"
I quickly interrupted him. We did not have the time to argue about small things. "She's right. We can't take them out very stealthily, considering that Pinkie lacks the knowledge to...uhm...get the job done effectively. We could try to take them on, but we risk blowing our cover. All in all, it's a bad idea." I concluded. Once again, Raph groaned.
"Well, what do we do? We can't get out of here, and we're runnin' short on time," he asked. Suddenly, Pinkie gasped. I almost found it kind of cute. Her eyes almost puffed up. But something weird happened, her tail twitched multiple times.
"Uh oh!" She stated, looking around almost nervously. She backed herself up against the wall on her hind legs, as if she was being accused of murder. It was extremely hard to tell if she was trying to be funny, or serious.
"What? What is it?" I asked. Once again, I had another bad feeling.
"My tail twitched eight times!" She exclaimed, a little louder than I would have preferred. Luckily, the guards outside did not seem to hear. Raph furrowed his brow.
"What? What does that have to do with anything?" he asked.
"My Pinkie Sense is going off! It means that the door is going to open in approximately forty-five seconds!" She admitted. My eyes widened. Wait...Pinkie Sense? Was that kind of like the Spidey-Sense? Was Pinkie psychic or something? I had no idea...
"...What?" Raph said rather dumbly. "You gotta be kidding. Since when do you tell the future?" He rolled his eyes, crossing his hooves vexingly as he sat his rump on the ground. I was a little torn at the moment.
"It's true." She suddenly set all of her hooves on the ground. "My Pinkie Sense never lies!"
"...That is the dumbest thing I have ever-" Raph stared, but everyone stopped dead in their tracks as we heard a voice just on the outside of the door. It was a new voice, and it was rather gristly. To be honest, it made the fur on the back of my neck stand up.
I could not for the life of me understand what the Foot Soldier was saying, but I knew that we needed to get out of there, quick. I scoured the darkness of the room. "We have to get out of here!" I said. Pinkie and Raph quickly got to work, looking for any sort of exit. We were quickly running out of time. I believe we only had twenty seconds, if Pinkie's guess was accurate.
"Come on!" I said to myself. Time almost seemed to slow. The air in the room had suddenly gotten very stuffy. Part of me wanted to pass out.
"Up there!" Pinkie suddenly shouted, pointing up to an air vent that lied on the ceiling. I cringed. Darn it Pinkie, TOO loud. There was an exchange of words from the other side of the door. Oh no! In a flash, I stuck my bo staff across the door, lodging it in place. The door handle shook vigorously as the pony on the other side of the door grunted with exertion. But it was in vain. Well, that gave us a few more seconds. Although, we still needed to hurry. I had to admit, even I was surprised with the durability of my bo staff sometimes.
Raph had already gotten the grate open, causing it to hang from two bolts. Luckily, it was easy to reach if you just stood on your hind legs. We tossed Pinkie up first for obvious reasons. When she was safely in the air vent, she reached out her hoof and hoisted Raph up with her.
That just left me. I had to be quick. The door's pounding was getting more harsh. The moment I grabbed my bo staff, the door would open. "Get ready!" I said, still in a hushed tone. Raphael quickly reached out his hoof.
The door was literally beginning to shatter. I could see various cracks in the wood, and it was only getting worse with each pound. Not at all hesitating, I grabbed the staff and jumped upwards, silently praying that Raphael would grab my hoof. I felt a force pull me upwards, right into the air vent.
I closed the grate behind me just as the Soldiers opened the door. "I know I heard something!" One of them said. Pinkie, Raph and I all observed through the grate. None of us made any sudden movements, or even breathed for that matter. What almost made me nervous was that they did not appear to be Foot. They just looked like regular ponies, albeit similar. The three of them were tan in body color, with a short brown mane. The only thing that differentiated them was the fact that they all had different eye colors.
"What the..." The blue eyed one said upon trotting in. He kept his sword at bay. My mind was wracking itself. Are...are the Foot Ninja working with someone? If they were the Foot, they would be wearing the outfits, right? My head was starting to hurt. "I know for sure I heard some kind of high pitched noise..."
Raph and I both glared at Pinkie, who cuddled her hooves to her chest like a child, blushing and giving us an innocent smile. Man, Mikey sure lucked out with Pinkie.
I sighed.
"You're losing it, brother." The one with hazel eyes said. Wait, 'brother'? The one with blue eyes stomped his hoof, childishly.
"I really did hear something!"
The remaining pony rolled his green eyes, as he began to slowly walk out of the room. "Have fun explaining this mess to the boss." He said. "I'm going to go alert everyone, just incase you did hear something. Don't you worry."
Why does everything seem to hate me? I sighed silently as the other two "brothers" left the closet. Pinkie and Raph finally let out the breathe that they were holding in, although Raph immediately turned to me. "What do you think they were talking about? Boss?"
"I don't know, and I really don't want to."