Walking through the alley, I checked my scanner for any signs of trouble lurking. I heard a short beep. Something was moving, about two rooftops away. Since it was unidentified, chances were high that the creature was a mutant. Since I came out to track some mutagen for a trap that Karai was planning on building, I hadn't turned my mutant identification app, which I downloaded recently with all the mutants in New York City, on. I was about to though, when an idea hit me: What it if was a ninja turtle?
I didn't work directly with the reptiles, but Karai tells me about them. She should; I'm pretty much the only good friend she has. We met a looong time ago, when I was 12 and she was 14. (See my story Karai and Ivette, BFs and Sisters.) "The way to tell them apart are the colors and weapons", she has said. "Leonardo is the one with a blue mask, Raph has a red mask, the nutty turtle has an orange one, and the tall one wears purple." "Purple? Are you serious?" "I sure am, Vette." She just laughed, and of course so did I.
I've always wanted to meet them, and Karai tells the most epic stories, thought, in reality, she only has a few, and I think it would be pure awesomeness if I got to fight a Turtle and actually talk to one of them. Even a glispe would be good enough for me. Sadly, (rolls eyes), the closest I've gotten is when I had a mutagen tracking mission with Karai, and the Turtles showed up on my area scanner. Karai left to take care of that, and I was left to complete the mission on my own. Ugh.
Sometimes, though I know it's crazy, I wish the Shredder would let me go on a mission for the Turtles, but no, only in my wildest dreams will that ever happen. (sighs) I can only hope.
That's when I got an awesome idea: what if I just went and saw the Turtle myself? And when Shredder asked me why I did't use my app, I can say it was broken? Perfect! But then I remembered that Shredder would want proof. Well, I thought, I can just break it myself. I'm pretty talented at that...
But what if I wrecked the whole system? Was it really worth the risk to see some lousy mutated turtle? I pondered that for a few seconds. YES! IT WAS WORTH THE RISK!
I just decided to ignore my sensible, common-sense side, aka Ivie-the-Boring, and let my reckless, fun side take control, aka Vette-the-Epic! (I know, cheesy names. That's what Karai calls them. Probably because she was too tired to think when she came up with them.)
I made my way to the rooftop, jumped behind a water tower. I clutched my black cloak. Please, I silently begged. Please don't let this be all for nothing...
I took a breath, and slowly peeked on the side of the tower.
It... was... a... turtle. A mutant turtle. With weapons, twin sai to be precise, and a long, red, and tattered mask.
YES!
I used my glass-spy-vision-goggles to take pictures. I got ready to send the coordinates to Shredder so he can watch me fight him and promote me, when I clumsily dropped my scanner. It made a loud clunk.
Oh crap.
Thank you soooo much for reading! I had to edit this part... I went over the episodes and it turned out I had forgotten Karai didn't know Donnie's and Mikey's names, and that she only knew Raph's nickname. Sorry for the change!
