Hey guys. So, I watched The Scorch Trials a few days ago, and this little baby has been kicking around in my head since. It's not exactly a crossover between tmnt and maze runner, more of if what I think would happen if the plot was a little changed and the maze existed in tmnt 2012's world. I changed the plot, the names of the characters, and a bunch of other stuff. It's my first fanfic, so I would really appreciate reviews and ratings...and stuff.
And no, I don't own tmnt :(
What woke him was the horrible grinding of metal against metal. It vibrated the rusty floor beneath him, his body felt like jelly being shaken around in a child's lunchbox.
His body felt strange to him. He sat on the floor, his bottom quivering, and simply stared as he moved his pale, scrawny fingers. He listened to the grating of the metal that surrounded him as he frowned, deep in thought.
Something dark fell into his eye. He leaped up onto his feet, as he gave a surprised shout. Whatever it was, it was gone. He raised a hand to his head and felt a large lump of hair beneath his palm. Another dark lock dropped onto his face and he sighed with relief, grateful that it wasn't anything else.
The room he stood in came to a sudden stop. Off balance, he flew off his feet and landed on his side, gasping in shock.
Small beacons of sunlight shone through the gap under the doors of the cage-like space. He heard voices on the other side, but his mouth was too dry to shout out to them.
Using the new light, he quickly looked around the steel contraption and was beyond surprised to see five other boys, all unconscious in the garage-sized room.
The doors swung outward, and he shut his eyes against the sudden blinding light. Someone grabbed his shoulder and steered him out onto the grass. He opened them again and was consumed with anxiety. Almost fifty teenagers stood in front of him, the five other boys from the cage were being held up off the ground by ten of the younger-looking teenagers.
"What's your name?" A gruff looking male about fifteen asked, his dark brown eyes full of authority and curiosity. He didn't answer. He didn't know. His first memory was waking up inside the rusted enclosure to his left. He didn't know what he looked like, it was a sickening feeling.
Brown-eyes didn't look surprised. He nodded and turned to face the carriers of the unconscious males. "Take them to the health room." He ordered, before bringing his attention back to the conscious newbie, who was staring around the glade. It was as big as two football ovals side-by-side with gleaming stone walls surrounding it, forming a giant rectangle. Each of the four walls had a slit in the middle, serving as doorways.
Brown-eyes clicked his fingers in front of him, snapping the youth back to reality. "My name is Zachary, and I run this place, alright?" He growled deeply. The newbie nodded slowly. A weird feeling at the back of his mind told him that he was usually on the other end of this conversation.
"You'll be shown where you're going to sleep, and you'll stay there until someone comes and gets you, understood?" Newbie nodded again. Zachary gestured and another young man, about fourteen, came forward. He had curly orange hair and sparkling baby blue eyes. At the sight of those eyes, Newbie received a pang of confusing homesickness. "Hi. I'm Owen." He chirped happily. Again, Newbie only nodded, his face an emotionless mask. Owen's smile dimmed, but didn't disappear.
Owen showed him around the Heart, as they called it. The dining pit, which was just a pit where a fire would burn every night, the farm, and then the 'meeting hall.' Which was simply a crate surrounded by nothing but grass. Throughout the tour, only the tour guide had spoken.
Finally, they reached a cluster of trees, with six hammocks hanging from in between the trunks. Small items surrounded the makeshift beds; water bottles, a mirror and clothes. "Help yourself." Owen told the new arrival. "This is where you and the other newbies will be sleeping." With that he left.
The unaccustomed male used his alone time to lay and rest in one of the hammocks as he looked more closely at himself. He wore simple white sneakers, pants and shirt. The only colour he wore was a strip of cobalt fabric wrapped around his left forearm. He picked up the mirror gently, scared to look. He slowly raised it to his face. He froze. Asian complexion, bright blue eyes, whiter-than-paper skin. It was not his face. That was not who he was. that was not Leonardo. Leonardo. His name. Feeling giddy, he tried to remember more, but nothing came to him.
Beyond frustrated, he stood and walked away from his new sleeping quarters, towards the closest gap in the stone walls. Nobody was around, the rest of the humans in the Heart were busy working in other little huddles spread out across the space, yet no work stations were near the barriers.
Leonardo stood in front of the doorway, unaware of what to do. There had to be a reason why they seemed to avoid them. The sun had begun to set. It cast long shadows, and enveloped most of the Heart in shade.
A cry erupted from the other side of the wall, and several older teenagers appeared, running towards Leo as if their lives depended on it. Others arrived behind Leonardo, shouting, "Who was that?" and "Hurry up!" The screams continued, buy the runners didn't stop to help.
What happened next almost made Leo pass out. The walls began to move. Silently and swiftly the gap between them got thinner and thinner.
One of the runners tripped, but nobody stopped. Leo didn't know what was happening, but he knew that they weren't going to make it into the Heart.
He didn't think about what he did next. He sprinted forward, ignoring the horrified shouts behind him, through the almost-closed gap and stopped on the other side, just as the walls crushed together behind him."
Leonardo heard the screams again, and bolted towards the noise, once again ignoring everyone else. Left, right, left again, he weaved his way through the labyrinth, every second the pain-filled screeches grew louder. He skidded around another corner to see a girl lying on the ground, bloody, as an enormous grey creature loomed over her. It looked like a massive cyborg spider, shining metal fangs and legs, but a raw, fleshy body.
Leo didn't even falter. He ran towards the monster as it reached down to finish the job. He streamed around the girl and leaped onto its back, grabbing the loose skin near its head, Leo pulled, saving the female from its jaws.
He wasn't completely aware of what happened next. Her screams, his jump from its spine to the ground, and the beast's own massive flesh and metal scorpion piercing its own back. It collapsed onto the cobblestone, unmoving.
Before the bleeding female could protest, Leo scooped her up in his arms and began to retrace his steps back to the other runners near the closed doorway.
His feet and breathing were completely silent, the only noise came from the whimpering young lady in his arms.
"What was that?" She whispered, staring closely at Leo's face. "You actually killed it." Leonardo quickly glanced at her before returning his concentration on the labyrinth. "What was that?" He repeated, the tone of his voice told her that he expected an answer. It was hard to refuse. "Crushers. They come out at night and crush your bones so fine that by the time they're done, your just a sack of blood and meat. Trust me, It's not pretty." Leo grimaced and ran faster than any of the runners had ran when they sprinted for the door. Except this time, Leo didn't trip, and he didn't leave anyone behind.
"I'm Angel by the way. You a newbie?" She asked, looking over her carrier's shoulder, looking out for more crushers. "Yep. My name's Leonardo. Call me Leo." He replied. "Nice to meet you, Lee. Where'd you learn the sick moves?" She murmured. Leo shot her an irritated glare. "First of all, it's Leo, not Lee. Second," His face fell. "I can't remember." Angel knew how that felt. She didn't know her past either. Nobody in the Heart did. She didn't want him to stay sad so she chose it to ignore the second comment. "Whatever you say Lee." If looks could kill, Angel would of tried her luck against the crusher.
The two rounded the corner and slowed to a regular-paced walk. Five of the seven runners from earlier sat looking defeated, leaning against the walls or just simply sitting there. They ignored the two as they sat down and Leo began inspecting Angel's wounds. She had a decent sized cut on her right forearm and a twisted ankle. Leo untied the blue fabric form his arm, noticed that it was a mask and then wrapped up Angel's cut. Her ankle would heal on its own. Angel broke the silence. "why bother? Nobody has ever survived a night in here." She dipped her head towards the cobblestone, her purple and white baseball cap, hid her face. Leo mustered an encouraging smile. "We will." He said, tucking a curly strand of pink hair behind her ear.
An inhuman screech reached their ears. "Crusher." Angel mumbled, horrified that another of those things were near them. Leonardo stood firm, listening. It sounded extremely close. As if on cue, the tap, tap, tapping of metal on stone got louder as it got nearer to the seven teenagers. A thick metal leg appeared at the end of the passageway. Then another. The crusher's legs grated against the stone on both sides. It was far bigger than the one earlier. But Leo refused to lose his nerve.
It was now or never. He charged at the horrific beast. The tail flew down just as Leo slid across the ground under the monster, the stinger smashed the stone only a few centimetres away from his head. He jumped to his feet behind the crusher and climbed up onto its backbone. The scorpion like stinger was still stuck in the stone. Leo reached down to the crusher's face and gripped his metal fangs in his hands. He pulled them apart from each other and soon one gave away. The hideous monstrosity howled and screeched in pain. Leo leaped back onto a ground. he rolled under the body of the crusher and stabbed the fang into its chest.
The demon-like beast was injured but not dead. The tail was pulled loose and the metallic animal stumbled back. It screamed again and began to retreat.
Leo quickly slipped out from underneath and jogged back over to Angel, the other teenagers looked on with awe-filled faces. He saw Angel's face turn from surprised and amazed, to horror-filled. Her mouth opened wide as she screamed, "Leo!" Something large and solid bashed into his back, sending him flying into the wall. As he laid there with blurry vision, Angel hopped forward and snatched up the fallen bloody fang. She stabbed the giant tooth into the crusher's face. With one final cry, it finally curled up and died.
Angel travelled as fast as she could on one foot back to Leo. He gave her one last smile before his vision went dark.
She carried his limp body over to the corner, with the others joining her. They all were still in shock of what Leonardo had just accomplished.
Already Leo's back had began to turn purple. She didn't try to wake him. He needed rest. Throughout the night, the group rotated positions. Two would keep guard while others slept. Luckily, nothing else came near them, and before they knew it, the sun was rising.
The walls split to reveal seven teenagers, all snuggled together asleep.
So...Whatcha think? Please review, rate and whatever. See ya next chapter :)
I told you it wasn't really a crossover.
And this is just the begininning...MOOO HAHAHAH