Chapter 1: Tiffany

I gaped at the buildings around me. These were huge skyscrapers, and 30 story apartments, not the small, one to two story buildings and suburban-style houses that were just here not two seconds ago.

I turned to Breann, who's expression matched my confusion and surprise.

"Umm... What just happened?" I wondered aloud.

"I don't know! All we did was tap these two gems together and... and..." Realization dawned on my best friend's face as she trailed away.

I looked down at the black gem in my hand. It was glowing softly. I noticed now that it had a splash of blood-red on it.

Breann and I had found these two gems laying on the ground. One black, one white. I chose the black one, and handed her the white one. Originally, we had thought they were just pretty, shiny rocks. And, of course, being the crazy, stupid maniacs we were, we tapped them together.

That's how we wound up here.

"Where are we?" I asked. Breann shrugged. I noticed there was a splash of blue now on her white gem.

"Here, tap the gems again." Of course. Leave it to Breann to want to go back to school, back to Westlock, back from the coolest thing that had ever happened.

"Fine. Spoilsport." I scowled. We tapped the gems, and...

Nothing happened. We tried different angles, different ways, we tried tapping the red and blue parts, the black and white parts, so on and so forth.

None of it worked.

"Okay, so we're stuck here. Wherever here is, anyway." I sighed. On the outside, I made myself look totally upset, but on the inside? On the inside, I was praising the Lord and thanking my lucky star. This was the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me, and I was totally stoked. There was no way we had magically been transported to a random city just to continue lame, normal living. Something else awesome was about to happen, I could feel it.

"Here? It looks like a city." Breann stated the obvious. I rolled my eyes. So much brain in that head of hers, so little common sense. Some days, I was the one to snap the "No, duh." back into her.

"Yeah... Like Gotham city, or Las Vegas or..." I gasped. Breann obviously looked like she doubted Gotham city (can't say I blame her), but what if... What if...

"What? Where else do you think we are? In one of your Pokemon worlds?" She asked sarcastically.

"Three words for you." I read a billboard behind her. "New York city!" I squealed.

Breann turned around and stared. It was an ad for a dentist just off of Main street, but it said, right there in bold letters: "Only Found Right Here, In New York City!"

"We're in New York! Breann, we're in New York!" I was excited. We had dreamed, wished, PRAYED to go to New York city. Why, you may ask?

Four words: Ninja Mutant Turtle Teenagers!

Yeah, we are both fanatics. To say we're obsessed, would be an understatement. A HUGE understatement, to be honest.

We have our separate interests, of course, Breann being a Jedi and a Harry Potter lover, not to mention her absolute LOVE of cats, and me with Pokemon, dinosaurs from Jurassic park, and my obsession with Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.

"I... No... I don't believe it. New York? Why... How..." Breann spluttered.

"I don't know how, but I know why!" I took off running towards an alley, dark and empty. Breann, though reluctant, followed.

Quickly, I dug two pieces of string out of my pocket, and made necklaces out of the gems, handing the white one with the blue splash to Breann, tying the black one with the red splash around my neck. Breann tied hers around her neck, and then turned quizzically to me.

She looked like she wanted to ask a question, but I didn't stick around to hear it. I was already trying to pull the manhole cover off the sewers. It didn't budge.

"Tiff... Tiff, listen to me... Tiffany, stop! You can't lift that!" Breann groaned.

"Okay, heavier than the movie makes it seem. That's okay! Rooftops await!" I excitedly headed for the fire escape, but Breann stopped me.

"No... You can't! We aren't ninjas, we can't jump from those heights or make those gaps! There is no way. Besides, maybe it isn't their world. New York is a real city, remember? Maybe we just got transported a couple of hundred miles from Alberta to the states, and just happened to land in New York." Breann shook her head.

"Then what is THAT?!" I asked, pointing at a dark shape that sat on the roof, watching us. Breann gaped when she saw it.

The figure turned away when he\she noticed we had seen them.

"No, wait!" I called, yelling after them. I climbed the fire escape (which took longer than seen in the movie) and scrambled onto the roof, my best friend close behind.

I ran for the next roof, but just before the gap, Breann grabbed my arm.

"Tiffany, you'll get yourself killed! Don't do it!" She warned. I looked at the receding shadow, who was practically gone now.

I sighed. Breann was right. There was no way I could make that jump. I wasn't physically capable.

Following Breann back to the fire escape to climb down, I took one more look at the opposite roof.

Meh, never know until you try. I thought, running at top speed towards the gap.

"Tiffany! You idiot!" Breann shouted.

I kept running, and when I finally jumped, I shut my eyes, and begged myself to make it.

I landed squarely on my feet in the middle of the opposite roof, safe as can be, not a scratch or bruise. Cheering, I turned to my friend, whose eyes were wide and disbelieving.

"C'mon! Try it!" I yelled.

She glared at me for not listening to her, took a deep breath to gather her courage, probably sent a prayer to the Lord, and ran across the roof. She squeezed her eyes shut as she leapt over the alley, did a flip, and landed right next to me, completely unharmed, eyes still closed tight.

I grinned. "You can open your eyes now."

She did, gaping at what she had just done.

"Let's go!" I called, leaping to the next roof. Breann following, getting more and more confident with each jump.

Soon, we could see a large figure up ahead. A figure who's direction went from forward to straight down.

I ran harder, following into the alley, grinning as I saw an open manhole, the cover resting beside it. Breann jumped down next to me.

I headed for the manhole. Breann followed, knowing nothing she said was going to change my mind at all.

Sloshing through the sewers, we came upon our quarry, a giant, six-foot turtle wearing a red mask and equipped with two sai.

We continued after him. I was extremely excited, and wasn't paying attention to where I was going, especially not when I walked head-first into a wall.

Upon closer inspection, I discovered this wall was green, six feet, had a shell, wore a red mask, and held a sai next to my throat.

Dang it.

Busted.