Hey all lads and lasses, and welcome to yet another Tmnt fic of mine, the sequel to 'Ancient Legacy'. It's also my first crossover, so this is gonna be interesting to say the least. Let's get this show rolling!
Mutants Misplaced
Chapter 1
Displaced
Mona and the turtles had gone to Mutopia, Chicago, to spend some time with their friends there, Tyroth, Sephie and the Chicago Knights, as they called themselves. The nights were filled with fun activities, including the odd movie marathon and several video game tournaments.
They still trained with their weapons at least once a day, as well as going on patrol every night. They split into groups so that there was one 'veteran' paired with each 'rookie', with the exception of Tyroth, who was on his own like so many times.
For the most of the patrols, it was quite calm, but each group encountered a handful of thieves, burglars and gang members that they dealt with with no real difficulties. It was on their way back to Mutopia, after rejoining with the rest, that they came across the biggest hit of the night.
Another gang had broken into a jewelry store and the thugs were filling bags with valuables. They were just about to load up in the two vans they had outside the store, when the mutants struck.
Nine of the ten thugs fell shortly after the battle started, being no match for the thirteen mutants, but the last one managed to slip into one of the vans with one of the bags, and escaped.
The Knights stayed behind to take care of the fallen thugs for the police, while the ninja hurried to the rooftops to pursue the van. By cutting corners where they could, they managed to catch up with the vehicle as it sped through the city.
"Isn't there some way to stop that idiot?" Raph asked.
"I could shoot the tires, but that could send him crashing." said Sephie.
"That could endanger a lot of people if it goes badly." said Mona.
"We must find another way, we can't keep up with him all night." said Leo.
"Let's hope he's almost at their hideout, so he'll stop or at least slow down." said Donnie.
"I agree, don't... Hey, where's Tyroth?" said Mikey as he couldn't see his large dragon friend anywhere.
The thug made a sharp turn to try and get away from the strange creatures that he had seen following him in the door mirrors. Shortly after he turned onto the smaller street, something hit the hood of the van hard. The airbag deployed and the engine died almost instantly after the impact as the van came to an abrupt stop.
Pushing the airbag out of his face, the groggy thug looked through the windshield and went pale. Standing on on knee on the demolished hood, was a large red humanoid dragon with a large sword in both hands, that had been driven into the engine block of the van, covering the dragon was a red glow.
The dragon pulled out the sword and set his glowing red eyes on the thug. A clawed hand came crashing through the windshield, grabbing the thug by the collar and pulling him out of the van while he screamed in fear.
Pulling the thug up to eye level, the dragon opened his mouth revealing a set of sharp teeth with flames coming out between them.
"You break the law, we break you." the dragon said with a dark voice.
Knocking out the terrified thug, the dragon grabbed the bag and left by flying away.
Landing on a rooftop nearby, the dragon met up with the six mutants.
"How did you get ahead of him?" asked Sephie.
"I had a hunch of where he was going, so I took a shortcut." said Tyroth.
"Good work, but don't you think that was a bit excessive?" said Leo, looking down at the remains of the van.
"Maybe a little, but it worked, and it was fun."
"Showoff." Raph snorted, but Tyroth only chuckled.
"Come on." he said "Let's head back to the store and drop off this bag, meet up with Jack and the others and then go back home."
"Sounds like a good idea to me." said Donnie.
As the mutants prepared to head back, Mikey spotted a reflection of the moonlight from something lying on the roof.
"Hold on." he said as he walked over to the object. "Looks like you dropped a necklace when you flew here, big T."
Picking up the necklace, Mikey saw that it was made of silver and quite ornate. The pendant was circular and flat and easily fitted in Mikey's palm. The edge around it was shaped like a snake biting its own tail with the head at the top of the pendant. A seven-pointed star covered most of the pendant with a round diamond in the middle. Between each of the stars points, sat one triangular gem, each one being one of the colors of the rainbow, clockwise from the top, red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue and purple.
Holding it in his hand, the necklace suddenly flashed with a sharp white light, startling the turtle. From the pendant, a large white sphere spread and started sucking him in.
"HELP!" he screamed.
"Mikey!"
Dropping the bag, Tyroth rushed to his friends aid, grabbing his wrists and tried to pull him out of the sphere.
"I got you!"
"Please don't let go!" Mikey cried.
"Not gonna happen!" said Tyroth, but despite his strength, he couldn't pull Mikey away from the sphere. In fact, Tyroth felt that he too was being pulled in. The others noticed this and grabbed onto the dragon, hoping that their combined strength could save both of them.
When it seemed that they had managed to counter the pull, a white glow spread quickly from Mikey to all of the others. Then in another bright flash, the sphere was gone and so were the seven mutants, only the pendant and the bag of stolen jewelry remained on the roof.
A bright flash appeared high up in the evening sky, and from it seven humanoid reptiles fell helplessly towards the ground.
"What the shell?!" Raph yelled.
"Grab on!" Tyroth called to his friends as he tried to reach them all. Sephie managed to throw her arms around her lover's neck and helped Mona to grab onto his waist. Leo and Donnie each held onto the arms, while Raph and Mikey found grip on Tyroth's legs.
Once he was sure that they all had a good grip on him, Tyroth spread his wings as much as he could to slow their decent. It worked, but not enough, even though they started to slow down, they were still falling at high speed.
"We're still falling too fast! Can't you pull up more!?" Donnie yelled.
"Too much weight! I'm already past my limit, if I pull up any more, my wings might be ripped clean off my back!" Tyroth replied.
"Look! Down there!" Mona yelled. "A lake! The water might cushion our fall!"
Agreeing with Mona, Tyroth turned his body and aimed for the lake. But as they came closer, they were still moving to fast.
"We must jump backwards!" Donnie told the others. "It'll decrease our speed even more!"
"Abandon dragon!" Mikey shouted as he pushed away from Tyroth, the rest of the mutants soon followed.
One by one, the six mutants hit the water with a splash. Tyroth tried to pull up and started climbing high up into the air again. The strain on his wings were great and as he continued upwards, he heard a horrid pop sound as pain shot through his left wing and shoulder blade. Shortly after, he couldn't continue his ascent and started falling again.
"Shit!"
A few seconds later, the large mutant hit the water with a large splash.
Resurfacing after getting their bearings, the turtles and lizards breathed heavily as they paddled water, the currents were quite strong.
"Everyone alright?" Leo asked.
"A bit shaken and slightly bruised, but otherwise fine." said Raph.
"Same here, but the water's freezing cold!" said Mikey.
"No it ain't, but it's not that far from it. Remember, we're coldblooded." said Donnie.
"Guys, where's Tyroth?" Sephie asked.
"I think he hit the water too." said Mona. "I'm pretty sure that there was another splash after us."
Sephie started to look worried as she looked around for her mate, but he was nowhere to be seen. Deeply concerned, she dived into the depths of the lake. It didn't take long for the others to understand what she was doing and they quickly dived after her.
A short moment passed and nobody surfaced during that time.
With a splash, Tyroth was brought up to the surface by Raph and Leo, each holding one of the dragons arms. Coughing to clear his lungs of water, Tyroth breathed heavily as the mutants headed for shore.
"You okay?" Leo asked as Tyroth sat down on the rocky shoreline.
"More or less, but my left wing hurts badly."
"Might be dislocated. I should be able to fix that, but it will hurt even more." said Donnie.
Tyroth grunted in pain as Donnie was able to push the wing back into its socket. Trying to move his wing, Tyroth was satisfied with that it seemed to be back to normal and the pain would pass, but he wouldn't fly for a while.
"You can't swim, huh? Didn't see that coming." said Raph.
"I can swim, but I'm not good at it, especially not since I mutated. My wings get caught in the currents and act like sails, pulling me along."
"Um, guys? Where are we?" asked Mona as she surveyed their surroundings while trying to get warm after the nearly ice cold water.
"Canada?" said Mikey questioning.
The land was rugged with lots of cliffs and stones of varying sizes, grass and shrubs covered most of the soil where the mighty fir trees hadn't taken root and several chains of mountains, with snow covered peaks, could be seen in almost every direction.
"I'm not sure we're even on Earth anymore." said Donnie looking at the evening sky.
"What makes you think that?" asked Sephie, while giving Tyroth's shoulders a well needed massage to ease the pain.
"Well, for starters I don't recognize any of the constellations, and I know for a fact that Earth don't have two moons."
The other mutants looked at the sky and were shocked, there were indeed two moons, one of them more than twice as large as the other one, which seemed to be slightly larger than their own moon. The large moon had a reddish color while the small was more silver or gray.
"Great. Lost in space again." Raph growled in annoyance.
"This has happened to you before?" asked Sephie.
"A few times, yes." said Leo "I thought we had told you about that, but that doesn't matter right now. We need to make a fire so we can warm ourselves."
"I'm afraid that's not our only problem, Leo." said Tyroth looking at a nearby chain of mountains. Dark clouds moved over the peaks towards the lake.
"A storm?" said Mona.
"Yep, and not just any storm, that's a blizzard heading this way." said Tyroth. "And a nasty one, at that."
"How can you be so sure?" asked Raph.
"I've lived almost a hundred miles within the Arctic Circle for ten years, I've seen plenty of blizzards during that time. The climate here is almost ideal for such a storm. We need to fin shelter and fast, it'll hit us in an hour or so."
"Like the water and air here wasn't cold enough, now we're gonna be buried in snow. I swear, something out there want to turn us into reptile pop sickles." said Mikey.
"There might be something at the base of those mountains." said Leo, pointing at the same mountains as the storm was coming from. "I think I saw a structure of some sort from the air right before our... landing. If nothing else, there might be caves there that we can use."
"It will take time to walk there, but what choice do we have?" said Mona.
It took the mutants nearly an hour to make it tot the base of the mountains, where Leo had seen this structure. The first snow from the storm had hit them shortly after the strong winds and their toes and fingers had started to go numb from the cold, but Tyroth seemed to be less affected by the cold than the others.
Passing a large rock, the mutants were relieved to see that Leo had been right, there was some kind of building at the base. It almost seemed like it had been carved right out of the mountain wall a long time ago.
A great arch rose from the ground, with a large bearded face carved on the very top, the curved roof extending into the mountain wall, all covered by layers of moss. A slightly rusted but ornate black metal door sat in the middle of the arch's wall.
Pulling the door open, the seven mutants entered a pitch black room, and, once the door was closed, they couldn't see anything.
"Any more bright ideas, bro?" said Mikey to Leo.
"Shut up, Mikey." said Raph as he gave the younger turtle a slap on the back of the head, despite the darkness.
"Ow! How can you do that in this kind of darkness?"
"Lots of practice."
"You guys wait here, I'll see if I can't find us some torches further in." said Tyroth.
"You think you're gonna find any?" asked Donnie.
"If there are any, I'll find them. Dark vision, remember."
"Yeah, you can see in complete darkness. Lucky you." said Raph sarcastically.
They could hear Tyroth walk away deeper into the room, possibly even into another room. Then it was quiet for a time, during which, they tried to keep warm, even though it was warmer inside than outside, it was still cold.
After a couple of minutes, they could see light coming from what seemed to be a corridor. As it got closer, they could see that it was Tyroth, who had found what he was looking for, carrying one lit torch in his right hand and three more unlit ones in his left.
Lighting and distributing the remaining torches, Tyroth walked back into the corridor with the others following him.
"You guys are not gonna like what this place is." he said.
"A temple?" said Leo.
"No." Tyroth lifted his torch higher as they entered a large hall, illuminating the most of it. "A tomb."
The room had a high ceiling with two rows of four pillars spread across the length of it, on each of the pillars were the same faces as on the arch outside, all facing the middle of the room. Both the pillars and the walls had shallow carvings that looked like giant fingerprints and gave a smother look to the otherwise rough design.
A large fire pit was in the center of the room, right in front of a black metal throne with markings similar to that of the door. Sitting in the throne was the corpse of a warrior, all dried up and shriveled, still clad in his armor consisting of large shoulder pads and chest plate that left the stomach bare, armlets that only covered the lower arms, boots, leather loincloth with metal plates and a helmet with two horns pointing straight up. In the lap of the warrior laid a large sword, similar to Tyroth's but slimmer and more ornate.
On either side of the throne, were four caskets of the same metal, an additional eight were risen against the walls.
"Ugh, creepy." Sephie shuddered.
"It's nothing to be worried about, love." said Tyroth.
"Still, it feels disrespectful to stay here." said Leo.
"Yeah, I don't like it." said Mona.
"Not like we have much choice. Either we stay here until the storm passes, or we go back out and try finding someplace else." said Donnie. "And judging by how it was outside just now, I don't think we'd last very long."
"So either way, we're joining the dead tonight." said Tyroth.
"Dude! Did you really have to say it like that?" said Mikey.
"It wasn't on purpose. Now, let's start a fire and huddle up close to it."
It didn't take long for them to start a fire in the pit, having a dragon as a friend was a clear advantage, and there were a decent amount of firewood near the pit. But, they didn't know how long the storm was going to last and eventually the fire would die.
Sitting close to the warm fire, the mutants felt how the cold started to leave their bodies.
"So, is this some kind of viking tomb?" asked Mona.
"Could be, if we were still on Earth that is." said Donnie.
"Not really, there are similarities though, but also clues that says otherwise." said Tyroth.
"What about those horns on that dead guy's helmet? They look rather viking like to me." said Mikey.
"There has never been any proof that vikings had horns on their helmets, or wings for that matter, very few have been found. The same goes for armor, the warriors did wear some form of scale armor if they went into battle, but vikings were raiders and often at sea, so they probably used leather armor as it was lighter and more flexible, if they wore any at all that is. But if this ain't Earth, and they have or had vikings here, who knows."
Time passed and soon the mutants had fallen asleep, exhausted from the night's events. Leo and Tyroth was still awake and tended to the fire.
"That's our last piece." said Leo as he threw it into the pit.
"Which means we have to find more to stay warm." said Tyroth as he gently move Sephie's head from his lap to the floor and stood up.
"You're not going out there, are you?"
"We need more wood, and I know how to survive in these climates, dad made sure that I had Arctic survival training 101. Besides, I got my own fire and a good healing rate that will help me."
"Hmm, alright then, just be careful."
Tyroth nodded and left the hall, heading for the exit, leaving Leo the only one awake. He was hoping that Tyroth would return soon, not even he could survive indefinitely in a blizzard, it would also be good to get some sleep once Raph and Donnie took the next shift.
As Leo stared into the dancing flames, he heard something moving in the hall. With one hand on the hilt of his katana, he looked around from his seat, but couldn't see anything.
'Must have been a rat or something.' he thought.
But as he turned his gaze back to the fire, the dead warrior's fingers twitched and it turned its head at the mutants.
'Phew' Far too long for a first chapter. The team may be in danger, sleeping in that old tomb. Some of you might already know where they've ended up, either from looking at the details in the story or reading the details in the description.
If you don't know, don't read the description! You'll find spoilers!