It was a normal training session, though Amber chose to sit this one out. The music playing made her foot tap to the beat as she sat on the old trolley, but she jumped when she heard something hit it, electricity flying out. She looked down to see Raph had thrown his sai into the speaker. "Oh come ON…I just got that!" she jumped down, exasperated, when Raph started complaining that all their training was wasted because no one appreciates them. "Raph, you know what would happen if people knew about you guys…" he stormed off before she could try to calm him down, and she gave a frustrated sigh.
"He never listens!! I swear, I'm gonna beat some sense into his head someday!!" Before she could break something, April came from the flea market, and she calmed down slightly to greet her. "I got you guy's gifts." April gave Mikey a colorful lampshade, Donnie an old radio, Leo a book on historical swords, and held up a fedora that she was going to give to Raph. "He stormed off earlier…I'll give it to him…" Amber offered, and April thanked her. "I got you this, Amber. I thought you'd look good in it…"
April pulled a beautiful Japanese kimono out of one of her shopping bags, and Amber accepted it respectfully. It was made of silk, and reached her knees, with slits on both side up to where her hips would be, and the sleeves would reach her wrists, hanging down. It came with shorts of the same material, and the same white as the kimono, and both were rimmed in red. "I also got you this…they said it was an heirloom of a daimyo once…" April handed her a necklace, which looked like a strip of red ribbon, a disk of silver hanging off of it, with the kanji for 'Destiny' engraved on it. "Thanks, April." As Amber held it up, she tied the necklace around her neck.
"That'll look good on you, Amber…" she didn't notice the blush on the elder brother's cheeks as her own cheeks flushed crimson. "Thanks, Leo…" Amber put the kimono and shorts over her arm before April pulled out an old scepter, which she stared at for a while. Amber, deciding to train a little, went into a closed-off section of the trolley to change into a white tank top with baggy red Capri's and a white belt, before she put her honey red hair into a ponytail with a white ribbon, though no one really knew why she wore it all the time now, and tied a white headband on her forehead.
When Raph came back, she went outside to see what looked like a bolt of lightning hit the scepter that April was holding, and she stepped forward. "April!!" in a flash of light, April was gone, and replaced by a man that looked Japanese, who was wearing April's clothes. He started saying something in Japanese when he saw the turtles and Splinter, when Amber stepped forward, saying something soothing in fluid Japanese.
He seemed surprised, and said, in English, "You have my mother's necklace…" Amber stopped in surprise, looking at the necklace around her neck. "Really?" The turtles greeted him, and they befriended him rather quickly. "We need to get April back…" Amber said determinedly, and Donnie started researching.
As Mikey put on some shorts, Amber was filling a backpack with her weapons and carefully put the kimono and shorts in as well. When she came out, the backpack over her shoulder, she heard Donnie say that they had sixty hours to get April back, or they'd be stuck there forever. "Yeah, Donnie…no pressure…" she muttered sarcastically as Casey arrived. "Hey, buddy." She greeted quickly before she went over to grab her mace. Her swords were already in her bag, anyway.
As she hefted it to rest on her shoulder, Splinter told them to gather round the scepter. She strapped it onto her back, holding onto the scepter with her brothers. "Be safe, my children." "Yes, sensei…I'll make sure they're okay…" she smiled as the small piece inside began to spin, and lightning flashed. She closed her eyes, the light too bright for her, when, suddenly, all she heard was the sound of war.
She opened her eyes to see she was in a battleground, her backpack and mace still with her, though she was now wearing traditional Japanese armor. She saw her brothers on horseback, Mikey on backwards as he held the scepter. "Mikey!" She pulled her mace out, smacking an enemy away as they tried to stab her with a spear, and she raced to follow her brothers.
When they were in a safe place, Amber put her mace on her back before taking off the helmet, letting her hair fall down her back. "Where's Mikey?" they all looked around, and she punched a tree in her frustration. "We're here five minutes and we ALREADY lost Mikey!" "Calm down, Amber…I'm sure he's fine…" she could hear the note of worry in Leo's voice, but shrugged it off.
"Fine…let's just go get April…"