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Chapter twelve

"Everybody, try to get to master Splinter!" Leo ordered his brothers. "Watch the frogs movements, we don't know what their capable of!"

"Oh, we'll be happy show you, senior!" Rasputin called out. Launching his long frog tongue from his mouth, wrapping it around Mikey's leg, and pulling him to the ground. The frog leaped onto the surprised turtle, and began to wail on him with his fists.

"Hey, get off me, man!" Mikey yelled, kicking his attacker off. "That tongue of yours is gross!"

Rasputin open his mouth, attacking the surfer turtle again. But this time Michelangelo grabbed the tongue, pulling the surprised Rasputin in, and punched the frog in the face.

Raph and Napoleon plowed into each other, grappling with each other like wrestlers in a bout. The two mutants shoved back and forth against each other, until the big burly bullfrog caught Raphael in a bear hug.

"Graaaahhh!" The brute growled, starting to crack the turtle's shell. "Napoleon crush little tortuga now!"

"Ungh! Not today, punk!" Raph balled up his fists, punching either side of the frog's head several times, forcing Napoleon to drop him. The large turtle tackled the dazed bullfrog to the ground, and punched Napoleon so hard in the jaw, that his bones cracked.

At the same time, Attila jumped at Donatello with his spear, trying to impale the shellback. The brainy turtle blocked the blow with his bo staff, and the two began stick fighting with their long quarterstaff-like weapons.

"Don't you turtles see the futility of this struggle against us?" Attila told his opponent calmly, thrusting and blocking Donnie's blows. "Statistically speaking, you and your brothers don't stand a chance against us."

"Maybe not, but we can't just back down when our sensei's life on the line!" Donatello protested, blocking two more of the frog's blows. Dodging two more thrusts of Attila's spear, he brought down his Bo staff straight down on top of the frog's head, knocking him down.

Leo and Genghis had noticed that each of them was the one giving orders to their respective teams, and each realized the other was the leader of the opposing side. The two commanders gave each other a nod of respect, before they began to duel with their weapons.

"Why are there only four of you attacking us at once?" Leo asked curiously, as he blocked a blow from Genghis's ax. "Your team appears quite skilled in combat, and you have the numerical advantage."

"You and your turtles are quite worthy adversaries, as well. A pity we must be foes with such honorable fighters." Genghis replied, as Leo's katana clanged against his ax blade. "And perhaps our goal is not to overwhelm you four with numbers."

Leo's eyes went wide at Genghis's words, and he turned to see the other frogs dragging Splinter's wounded form out through the hole the mousers made.

"Guys, this attack is a distraction!" Leo called out. "They're trying to get away with master splinter!"

The four turtles immediately abandoned their fights they were involved in, and they all went rushing after the fleeing frogs. But as soon as the ninja exited the hangar building, they found a whole swarm of the frogs, waiting in ambush.

"Oh, great." Raph grumbled, pulling out his sais. "It's a friggin' trap."

"Move in, my Brethren!" Rasputin called out above the sound of battle. "Show them what true frogs are made of! Do not let the shellbacks get away!"

"Guys, stay ahead of them!" Leonardo called back. "Don't let their arrows hit anything but your shells!"

The four turtles dodged the next volley of arrows, jumping and spinning out of the way to avoid the deadly shots. Leo sliced several of the bolts in half, while Donnie and Mikey spun their weapons to deflect several arrows.

"Don't let the arrow heads pierce your skin!" Donnie shouted back, knocking a frog down with his bo staff. "They're tipped with poison from the frog's own bodies."

"Thanks for letting us know, genius!" Raph snapped, jumping forward and stabbing a large bullfrog with his sais, and causing him to drop. "Now tell us how to stop them!"

"Dudes, there's too many of them!" Mikey exclaimed, slamming his nunchaku into a frog's head, and making him tumble over. "We gotta get out of here!"

Another volley of arrows came flying towards the four ninja launched a wall of shuriken to counter and defect them. A few arrows did manage to get through, however, grazing and nicking the turtle's shells.

"They have the numerical advantage!" Leo called out, blocking a frog's ax before slicing him down. "We need to get to the frogs who have sensei! It's our only chance!"

The turtles continued to fight, cutting down dozens of the amphibian foes, and trying to make their way back towards their abducted sensei. But for every frog and toad they stuck, two or three more would rise to replace them. The four brothers were only able to hold back the army of Punk frogs for so long, before fatigue began to set in.

"We have them now, my comrades!" Attila yelled, motioning the other frogs forward. "Move in for the kill!"

A sea of green rushed forward, engulfing the turtles in a tidal wave of croaking.