'SG10 is not due for another 6 hours. Who is dialing in?' Hammond ordered.
"I don't know, sir. We are not getting GDO code and I can't determine the origination coordinates. This is very unusual." Major Carter answered.
"Then, shut the gate immediately, Major. It's definitely not SG team."
'On it, sir'.
Carter did more typing and Hammond expected the gate to slide out and cover the Stargate's shimmering surface. But it didn't happen.
'What's going on, Major?"
"Gate is stuck, sir. The wormhole being generated is very unstable and as I said before, has unusual characteristics'. Carter started explaining but she didn't get far because all of sudden, a green creature hurled out of the stargate. It rolled and stopped at the bottom of the runway. It didn't move.
Hammond immediately pushed the red button on the command center wall almost out of reflex. security guards started running towards the gate room. As they were piling into the gate room, another similar green creature jumped out the stargate.
Guardsmen captain pointed his gun towards the second creature that uprighted itself immediately and warned it.
'Don't move or we will shoot'.
The green creature slowly held his hands up. Hammond took note of this and thought 'At least it seems to be familiar with our culture to hold it's hands up like that. It looks almost like a reptile. Wait, it's like a turtle, with a shell on it's back!'. Apparently, Carter must has had the same thought because he heard her gasp and whisper, 'a humanoid turtle?'.
Just as he was bringing microphone to talk to this strange creature, another two turtles jumped out of the gate at the same time. They were immediately on their feet like the second one. Guardsmen in the gate room tensed again and their captain brought his gun closer to himself while again shouting the warning to creatures not to move.
One of the new arrival immediately stopped moving but the other one growled and hunched as if to leap towards the soldiers. That had the soldiers actually cocking their guns.
'Raph!' At the sound of gun cocking, the creature that stopped moving barked out looking towards the other one that was hunching. Hammond thought that it must have been a command because the other creature relaxed its stance.
Hammond again activated his microphone when the second arrival started talking. Hammond had forgotten about the first two because of the tension brought on by new arrivals.
'Excuse me, sirs... but my brother here needs a medical attention. Please help us. We do not want to cause trouble.'
Hammond had seen many strange things being in command of this facility but he was quite surprised to hear it actually talking in English in such calm manner. From the way the creature spoke, he sounded like a male but somewhat young. By now, he noticed that each creature had different color of eye mask. The one that talked had a purple mask on. The one lying on the floor looked liked it was bleeding.
Hammond quickly talked into microphone to broadcast to the infirmary. 'Hammond to medical. We have medical emergency in the gate room. Need immediate attention'.
He then moved his focus to the creatures. Changing his microphone configuration to broadcast to gate room only, he started the initial introduction.
"This is General Hammond of United States Air Force. Identify yourselves. Why and how did you come through the stargate?"
The three creatures standing exchanged glances and the blue masked one spoke up.
'We are mutant turtles. We were at a facility in New York in a skirmish with our enemies who were trying to activate a gate like yours. We had an informant tell us that our enemy is trying to use the gate to conquer the alternate realities that are not technically advanced.- We were trying to shut it down so our enemy can't use it by overloading it when somehow the gate was activated and my brother here was thrown into it by our enemy. We followed in to get him back. We come in peace and we would like to go back as soon as possible."
Just has he was finishing his explanation, Dr.Fraiser and medical team ran in with stretcher. She crouched down and turned the turtle over on its shell to look at its injuries. Red blood was freely flowing from a gash on his shoulder. Dr. Fraiser started ordering her team to put the turtle on the stretcher. As they were hauling it on the stretcher, purple one slowly raised his arm to get an attention.
"Can I go with my brother? I know our anatomy and reaction to certain medicines. I can help. Please."
Dr.Fraiser looked at the purple masked creature and instinctively knew that he is very concerned about his brother. She looked up towards the command center at Hammond. Hammond nodded.
"OK, then follow me." She ordered the purple one and started running toward the medical room with him trailing close behind her. She could tell the injured creature is loosing it's blood fast. She needed to hurry and hoped the purple one can help her. As they were running, she glanced behind her and asked, 'so, what are you?" The purple creature gave her a small smile and said 'A teenage mutant ninja turtle. By the way, my name is Donatello. Please call me Don or Donny."