" I'm home!" I yelled out. No one answered. I peeked my head from the edge of the wall, and saw two bodies on the couch. Slowly walking over I saw my mom sleeping on dad's chest. They left the TV on playing a romantic moving. I smiled at the sight, walking down the hall and grabbed a blanket from the cabinet covering my mom. She stirred but didn't wake.
I've never seen my parents so close together like this before. An idea popped in my mind. I glanced at my mom's purse on the table in the dining room. She wouldn't mind if I took a few bucks just to buy a box of Antonio's pizza for tonight. I tiptoed taking a few bucks from her wallet, and snuck out the door shutting slowly so they won't wake up.
A cold breeze swept through New York. Looking at my watch, it was 3:45 it would at least take me 2 hours and back to get there. Hopefully they're not awake around seven, or they'd kill me. I shivered at the thought. I jumped down the steps and started my long walk down the streets of New York.
I hummed to myself most of the way and stopped to look at my watch every few times. It was starting to get dark by the time I made it to the shop. Lucky for me the place was still open, I went in and bought two large pineapple pizzas. The aroma just smelled so good my stomach growled in hunger.
Well my parents wouldn't mind if I just took one slice. I'm a growing fourteen year old, gotta eat right? I munched down on a slice as I left the shop. It was dark really dark. I looked at my watch again. It was already 6:48! And I still have to walk two hours back! My parents and going to break a fuse!
I started double timing it, I walked faster than I ever could. But then there was a sound that filled the quiet air. I stopped and looked into a dark alley. I know what you're thinking don't go into the alley! OH NO~! Too bad just did!
There was a mewling sound bouncing off the walls. It sounded like a. . .cat? I walked deeper into the darkness getting closer to the sound. Something hid behind a trash bin crying in pain. I knelt down on one knee, setting the pizza down.
" Hey there Kitty, kitty, come on out. I won't hurt ya." I said in a calm voice. Then the noises stopped. Which freaked me out. " Uh? Kitty, you there?" I called out in a whisper.
Suddenly the trash bin burst open and a big blob pink thing jumped at me screeching in the air. It tried to clutch onto my face as I held it back with my hands, but it only snapped at me with it's sharp jaws. I fell back onto the cold cement crying out in pain. " What the are you!?" I hissed through my teeth. It made a different screech and this time there was a sound of a car driving up from the end of the alley. My heart thumped in my chest trying to escape.
Two people stepped out wearing black suits, they had no expressions on their faces. Hell they looked exactly the same.
" Kraang, has obtained a young human female. The Kraang shall take her before the mutant turtles come. So we the Kraang could do experiments."
My mind froze. Experiments? What the hell is going on!? My arms were getting tired of keeping the squid at bay. I slammed it into the ground beside me and jumping to my feet I kicked it away from me.
A large hand grabbed my shoulder jerking me back, suddenly a black bag was put over my head enabling me from seeing. I flailed my arms in the air trying to kick them away but they had a strong grip on me. Then there was sound of the van door opening, making my blood freeze.
My body was lifted off the ground and tossed into the van. Stars flashed in my vision, when my head had collided with the metal of the van pretty hard. The van door slam shut and begun to move. My consciousness was drifting in and out, my body had lost all feeling. And everything just disappeared.
* Dimension X *
Stiff. My body was stiff as a board when I woke up, the back of my head ached and so did the rest of my body. I slowly sat up only to find my hands bound, by silver handcuffs. What the? Something was beeping loudly on my chest. A silver gadget blinked, it was literally connected to me, making my whole body heavy. I was in some kind of room it was covered in black and purple lighting, it matched the design of the device connected to me.
Where the hell am I !? This can't be happening what would these people want with me or whatever they are!? The memory of what happened that night flooded back to me. Aliens! There was a squid thing and it attacked me on my way- Oh my god! My parents don't know what happened to me!
The door opened and silver robots walked in holding shiny weapons.
" Subject X has regained consciousness, Kraang shall proceed with experiments." Two robots came in and started and tried to grab me.
" Get away from me!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. " Get away!" I kicked at them but they only shoved my legs aside and dragged me out of the cell. " Let me go!"
As I was dragged out I saw a huge animal being put back into its cell. It was covered in scales and scars. The 'Kraang' aimed their weapons at it, barking orders.
" The one called Leatherhead shall proceed back into Kraangs cell. Which is the Kraangs." The Kraang zapped him with their prods as the large creature called Leather Head lunged at them. It roared in the air in pain and anger.
We rounded a corner leaving the view of the scuffle behind. But the light of the weapons and tasers allowed me to see the shadows of the Kraang being torn apart and smashed. But then the roar suddenly stopped and a loud thud echoed through the corridor.
Tears trickled down my face, I didn't want to end up like that creature. I just wanna go home.
* One year later in Dimension X *
No one. No one was coming for me, again and again they came and did things. I gave up hope on the first day here as they stuck a needle in me and other things that I didn't know what. Turns out the device on my chest is what's keeping me alive in this place. It's like some kind of facility or base for the Kraang.
And that big creature Leatherhead turned out to be comforting to talk to. He was tormented from time to time from yours truly the Kraang.
" Carol?" A raspy voice called out.
" Yeah Leatherhead?" I sat curled up in the corner, my body ached as usual. It always hurts every second of the time and day. It was like endless pain.
" Are you alright?" He asked from across the hall, it was quiet and the Kraang weren't here to interrupt us this time.
" *scoff* No, I'm not." I clenched my fingers.
" The turtles will save us. Just hold on a little longer." He said in his most calm voice.
" What is it with you and turtles. I think you've been stuck here too long, Leatherhead."
" I know it is hard to believe, but you have to trust me."
" I do trust you. But I just lost hope a long time ago. And keeping yours up is just going to hurt you even more." I told him in a emotionless tone. " No one's coming."
" Don't ever give up hope. Carol."
I didn't say anything after that. I fiddled with my hands as they started to change shape. I don't even know if I'm human anymore. They changed into a paws, fins, claws, whatever I wanted them to change into. And it disgusted me. In just one year they turned me. . .
Into a . . .
into a mutant.
Suddenly the door to my cell opened but this time the Kraang didn't have any weapons with them. They only had a. . . collar? I didn't even try to resist them, it was pointless anyways. They slipped it around my neck. I felt it tingle in my nerves, shocking my body. Suddenly my body was moving on it's own. But I wasn't in control! The hell!?
One of the Kraangs floating on a hubber seat had pushed away on a control panel. A grin on it's face.
" Carol?" Leatherhead called out. But my body just ignored him as if he wasn't there. " Carol!?" He yelled in worry and anger. And For once the Kraang ignored him. " Fight it Carol!" He roared his warning as I disappeared from his sight.
* New York *
" April O'Neil is kraangs objective. We the Kraang must capture April O'Neil at the place called Roosevelt High School where. The Kraang will obtain her genetics project." The Kraang driving went over the plan about this girl named April. They probably wanted more subjects for their experiments.
I sat in the back of the van frozen as stone, as I screamed on the inside. This stupid collar around my neck is what's keeping me from tearing the Kraang apart from the inside out.
The Kraang jerked to a stop and the doors slammed open. The Kraang beside me held the panel to that controls the collar. My body moved on it's own, I jumped out of the van and started to enter the school. A women waited above the steps with her back turned. But there was a smell to her. . . Kraang.
I know they could disguise as humans but that's just creepy. I walked past her and down the hall where I slammed a door open into a hallway full of lockers. The lights were shut off, well a few were, it was still giving me a bad vibe about this ' mission ' .
The school was empty, I'm not surprised, it was almost nine. I stood at the end of the hallway waiting in the dark. I hate the dark. Hate it.
It felt like forever. My body ached but of course I couldn't move and my nose had that itch I couldn't scratch! My collar started blinking, making me jerk. There was a loud sound of footsteps and someone panting. I watched from the shadows, a girl with red hair running from door to door trying to find a place to hide.
She rounded a corner, where the disguised Kraang bot was waiting. I felt my body change, it hurt from the previous experiments but it's not like they cared. I was used to it any ways. I was on all fours and I came up behind the girl. She gasped out loud and started looking around panicking.
The girl ran past her running down a hall turning another corner.' ' ( Kraang bot) slowly followed after her. I walked beside the bot growling. The stupid Kraang had turned me into some kind of large wolf, at least I think that's what I was. Just as we were going to turn the corner where the girl was gone. But she jumped from out of nowhere with a surprise attack, she shoved the schools mascot's head onto Ms. Cambell. The bot shoving a large head of a . . . viking? The bot struggled to get it off dropping the clipboard.
The head burst apart, and she did not look happy. The eyes of the bot was glowing red. It turned its attention to me and pointed down the hall. My body followed the order and sniffed the air down the hall with more lockers. The girl was gone but I could still smell her presence. The Kraang slowly walked past the lockers looking in them through its openings. My ears perked up as I heard panting coming from one of the lockers.
But then there was another sound that echoed through the school. The robot looked back and an alarm went off in it's heads.
" The ones that are called the turtles are here." It said in it's old lady voice. It made it's way back to the entrance of the school and so did I changing back into my normal form.
I'm sure no one won't notice the thing on my chest that's been keeping me alive for the past year. In a world where I couldn't breathe. How do I know this, well I had tried to taking it off once till the Kraang came into my cell and fixed the filtration device. And it wasn't pretty.
I stood beside the robot with my back turned. I heard voices.
" Okay I feel stupid." A gruff voice whispered.
Someone groaned in annoyance. " Aprils gotta learn that T-phones are for emergencies only."
When he said the name April my body jerked. I turned to face- Turtles!?
" A-A-April O'Neil!" The bot turned twitching. I turned, my hands clenched into fists cracking them.
" Sewer bunnies." The one in the red deadpanned. He raised his sais in a defensive stance.
The bot's arms folded up arming itself screeching in the air. It targeted them, shooting two missiles at the mutants. The Turtles were sent flying to the sides.
" Leo I think this does count as a-" The orange yelled.
" An emergency! I know!" The blue called Leo yelled back.
The bot screeched as it was about to dive on them. They dodged to the side, from it's powerful punch, breaking the flooring.
The red one sprung on it stabbing it in the hand. The bot held out its hand to stop the turtle. The mutant stabbed a sai right through the hand. The Kraang smirked and spun him in the air throwing him atop of the trophy case.
I walked over to the purple one that groaned getting up from the floor, using a wooden stick for support.
I growled at him as he realized that I was standing before him. His eyes widened in shock as I grabbed him by the shoulder throwing him over head of me to the top of the steps where the other three turtles were.
I leaped up the steps in one jump. To stand beside the old woman Kraang. We faced the turtles with nothing between us.
" Alright guys lets put old mother Hubbard back in her cupboard!" The blue one, Leo spoke. It was the most weak phrase I've ever heard.
The others groaned behind him at his failure of a catch phrase. " Dude it, literally hurts just to listen to you sometimes." The red one spoke.
The purple one eyed me in suspicions. " Guys isn't that the girl that went missing two months ago!?"
They all eyed me in confusion, they noticed the Kraang devices that covered my body. Did he say two months? That can't be.
" Nows not the time Donnie." Raph yelled.
The Kraang bot opened its missiles chambers and fired again. This time the turtles acted quick. The red one threw ninja stars, destroying the missiles before they could reach them. Leo and Donnie jumped from side to side on the walls aiming their blades at the Kraang and cut its arms off. It's face fell off revealing its circuits.
" Mikey the water fountain!" Leo yelled.
I looked to the little turtle wearing the orange mask. Immediately I charged at him but it was to late he had already sprayed the droid. It started to jerk and flail everywhere. Falling to the floor emitting smoke.
" Come here!" A body shoved me to the ground pinning my arms.
" Hold her down, Raph!" Donnie yelled rushing over. Then he stopped realizing something. " April! Where are you!?" He yelled out.
A door slammed open from down the hall where the girl stomped out and kicked the droid in the head. " And stay down!"
She went over and touched Donnie's shoulder, making him blush. He held out his arms for a hug, only for an awkward moment to happen, Donnie chuckled nervously. " Y-you are so welcome." He rubbed her head.
" So what the heck is that thing?" April asked as they looked closely at the droid.
" It looks like a Kraang droid. Minus the Kraang." Leo rubbed his chin.
" Uh guys a little help over here!" Raph yelled.
I struggled under his grip trying to escape. But the Kraang that was controlling me couldn't get him off. The others looked at me, they ran to help Raph to hold me down. Mikey dogpiled on Raph which wasn't much help.
The air was knocked out of me by the weight.
" Donnie are you sure this is the same girl?" Leo asked.
" I'm sure of it, but she looks very different. From the pictures on the news." Donnie bent down to look at me closely.
I was on the news? My parents must be looking for me.
" What's this around your neck?" He spoke to himself as he reached out to grab it. It made me fight them off even more, well against my will of course.
" Be careful Donnie." April told him, making his cheeks blush a bit.
" Let me just take a look at this." He yanked at it around my neck trying to get it off. " This is on pretty tight." He strained.
" Move aside Donnie." Leo spoke. Donnie turned to see him charging with his sword.
" Wait! Leo you might hurt-" He was cut off by the sound of metal being sliced. My eyes widened in shock, I looked at the collar that was now sliced into two.
". . her." Donnie finished. He looked at Raph and Mikey fighting each other on top of me. Making me hiss in pain. " Guys get of her!" They stopped messing around and jumped off with their weapons drawn. Just in case I attacked them.
I got up off the floor and looked at the collar on the floor. I just couldn't take my eyes off of it.
" Look she's speechless." Mikey yelled with a big smile on his face.
I looked around me, eyeing the turtles. A tear fell off my face. I looked at the orange one. Leatherhead was right. There are mutant turtles, he always talked about the one called Mikey. Not to far away I heard a siren approach the school just down the street. I glared at Mikey.
" Leatherhead sends his regards, turtle." I changed my form into a cat and dashed out running underneath Raph's legs. He tried to grab me but missed. I ran out of the school and perched myself on a tree waiting for the cost to be clear.
" She got away!" Raph yelled.
" Did she just say Leatherhead!?" Mikey froze in shock.
" She turned into a cat! How is that even possible!" Donnie yelled, his jaw hitting the floor.
" We'll have to figure it out later. Right now we have to go check out the World Wide Genome Project."
I could've sworn I heard them say something about a Genome Project. New York never had one. Ever. The turtles fled the school and onto the rooftops. I jumped off the tree and turned into my normal form. I leaped up the fire escape and followed after them.
* Genome Facility *
I changed into a bird after I got tired, of jumping from building to building. They made it to the large Facility. But it looks like I wasn't the only one following them, a dark figure followed close behind in the shadows, keeping their distance.
The turtles made it to the building and it wasn't really that hard to miss. The place was tall and round like a giant cylinder. They busted open the roof door and made their way through the vents. And so did the person following them.
The curved hallways looked exactly like a Kraang base. Well the design does. Donnie hacked into a door with a tiny device. The door slide open and they found two Kraang bots patrolling the room. I flew through the doors before they could close and perched myself on a metal beam on the ceiling.
Donnie and Mikey took out the bots quietly, Raph stuffed them in a compartment.
" What are those?" Leo whispered asking Donnie.
The room was filled with all types of DNA from any animal on the planet. A large tank of mutagen was built into the middle of the room along with a large control panel.
" Well it looks like they're collecting DNA from every plant and animal species on earth." Donnie answered.
" What!?" Leo whispered loudly.
" Building blocks, dude. Pssh! I'll drop the science on you later." Mikey spoke acting calm.
" I wonder what their doing with all this DNA?" Donnie asked himself.
" Well whatever it is, it can't be good. We'll shut this place down!" Leo ordered.
" Hey where's Raph?" Mikey pointed out.
" Got'cha!" Raph yelled, getting everyone's attention.
I changed my form and watched from above in the dark. I don't know how Leatherhead found these mutants useful they just goofed off half the time. Leatherhead is probably worried. I frowned.
" Karai!" Leo said with a hint of anger.
" Ka-hoo?" Donnie asked confused.
" Bet ya think you're pretty slick!" Raph boasted.
The woman twisted her arm in his grip and flipped him on his back and stomped her foot on his plastron.( stomach ) " I have my moments." She spoke through a metal mask.
I watched in curiosity as things took a turn in the situation.
Raph spined on his shell trying to kick her legs from under, but she jumped back before he could. The two were moving too fast I couldn't tell who was winning. Well until she headbutted him, knocking him over the large glass tank of mutagen. Leo yelled for them to stop. But Karai didn't listen, she jumped down, unsheathing her blades.
Just as they were gonna go again, Leo got between the two shoving them both aside.
" Enough! Your gonna set off-" He was cut off when he stumbled back and his hand touched the panel, making the colors turn red. He shut his eyes in anger at his mistake. " one of those." He added.
" Nice going Leo! You're protecting her!?" Raph pointed his sai at Karai. " What is wrong with you!?" He turned his anger on his brother. " She is bad news!"
" No she's not!" Leo yelled.
Karai got in Raph's face. " Yeah I am."
Suddenly all the doors opened in the room and the Kraang came marching in. I felt my anger rise just at the sight of them. They all surrounded the turtles holding their energy weapons and aimed.
" The ones who are not authorized by the authority of Kraang, to exist in this place. Will now be destroyed by Kraang! In this place."
Man their dialogue always got on my nerves. The turtles pulled out their weapons.
" This day just keeps getting better." Karai grinned, putting on her mask.
I jumped down kicking one of the Kraangs in the face knocking him back into another one like dominos. " Don't just stand there!" I yelled at them as lunged on another one ripping apart it's head from it's body and kicking it away.
Karai was the first one to move, the Kraang started to fire all at once. She threw a knife right between it's eyes and landed a kick on it's neck.
A Kraang tried to cut Leo with its chainsaw weapon, but he held it back with his swords. " Look! See, she's on our side!" He smiled watching Karai take out the Kraang.
" Are you even listening to yourself!" Raph yelled as Karai ran past him.
" I like your brother Leo!" She said intervening in the conversation. He jumped in the middle of three Kraangs that tried to shoot her down, but she was just moving too fast. She sliced all three of them at once. " He's almost as entertaining as you."
" Oh when this is over I'll show you how entertaining I am!" Raph growled with a Kraang's hand stuck on his sai twitching.
Just as I finished off the Kraang I was handling, another one grabbed me from behind wrapping an arm around my throat. " Kraang has obtain Subject X. Kraang will inform the Kraang back at the Kraangs Dimension." I clawed at it but it didn't budge.
I felt it lose it's grip and fall to the floor with a thud. I turned to see Donnie holding out his blade or staff whatever it is. He just smiled at me, he was to distracted he didn't notice a Kraang came up from behind him aiming its gun. I lunged over him making him shut his eyes. I dragged down the last Kraang stomping it on the face, or wherever it was.
" Thanks." Donnie eyed the Kraang I took out. I smirked. " Don't thank me just yet, turtle." I cringed in pain as my body ached. I was already over exerting myself. It's been forever since I had anything productive to do.
There was a loud rumble coming down the hall, and the sound of marching. Reinforcements. A large laser cannon drove in we all backed up trying to keep our distance but we were surrounded again. " Krang is now arriving to provide the help that has been requested by Kraang."
" We're trapped!" Leo yelled.
Way to point out the obvious.
" No! Your trapped." We all looked at Karai who was casually leaning against the control panel that could mean something bad. She had a finger ready to push a random button. " What happens if I do this?"
" No!" Raph yelled in a panic.
" Don't do that!" Leo warned.
" We're so dead." I deadpanned.
" Highly undesirable outcome." A Kraang answered. I can't believe a Kraang just answered her question.
She grinned under her mask. " Well now I gotta.". . . And she pressed it.
We all waited for something to explode instead. All the animal DNA tanks started to drain out all at once. It was merged with the mutagen in the large tank that decorated the room. It started to glow rainbows and smoke started to come from the top. The room was covered in a dark green mist.
The Kraang cried shooting wildly in the air. And as the mist settled half the Kraang were taken out. And what stood before us was a. . . I don't know what the heck it is!
It had an octopus's body and jelly fish eyeballs that looked like a kitten. Ii meowed folding it's webby ears.
" Awe! He's so cute!" Mikey looked at the creature with adoration. I have no idea why Leatherhead believes in these,these. . .Turtles.. I facepalmed after he had said that.
The large kitten-pus thingy grew to it's full height roaring and flailing it's tentacles everywhere. It raised a tentacle and slammed it down towards us. We dodged to the side avoiding the blow.
The Kraang started to fire at the mutant with a barrage of lasers. The mutant roared in anger and charged at the Kraang like a bull. Was it part bull?
" Woah that is wicked!" Karai awed it.
" How the heck am I gonna name this!?" Mikey threw his arms in the air.
" Good question." Karai said as she lifted an empty Kraang suit on her back. " Well see ya!"
She said before jumping off onto a ledge. She set the bot down to push the button to open the door.
" You're not gonna help us beat this thing!?" Leo yelled, at her in anger. " It's your fault!"
She heaved the thing bot on her back. " I'll let the hero's handle it!"
" I trusted you!" His voice sounded betrayed and hurt.
" I know! That's messed up right!" She said before she escaped.
The creature turned to us it's eyes covered in a wave of electricity. But the Kraang got in front of us and fired again at the mutant, only to get smacked through the air.
The turtles scrambled around trying to distract it and go in for an opening blow. It grabbed Raph but he wiggled out of it's grip. " Nice try Octo- punk!" He yelled before getting slammed with a tentacle.
" No, no! Call him Octo-eyeballed-jellybug!" Mikey spoke out loud, but the name just didn't fit the creature. He slumped his arms, " nah, let's just call him Justin." A tentacle slammed him against the wall, and Raph as well. Donnie was zapped with electricity. Leaving only me and Leo.
Leo looked around and then to me.
" I hate the Kraang." I deadpanned. " Let's just get this over with so I can go rest." I cracked my aching neck. I took a deep breathe and changed form. One that I knew that would help the most.
Leo watched me in awe and shock. I roared in the air as I took on the image of Leatherheads. The creature turned its attention to me narrowing its eyes. I growled back and charged. It tried to hit me with it's limbs but I grabbed them and chomped down, making it cry in pain. I can only retain my form for so long. I tugged on it's arm, making it trip.
I changed back exhausted. I knelt down on one knee panting. I looked at Leo who was still shocked. " I'd hurry up and take out. . . Justin if I were you before he get's back up." I fell to the floor as my vision turned to a blur. Guess I was more tired than I thought.
Leo looked at his swords in his hands and screamed in the air like a battle cry. Everything was a blur. And before I knew Justin was set on fire and broke through the wall screeching in pain.
" HA! Take that Justin!" Mikey boasted.
The walls started to crumble around us. I tried to get up, but my limbs didn't want to budge, I wasted to much energy.
" Come on guys lets get outta here!" Leo ordered.
" Wait what about her!?" Donnie yelled, looking back.
" Grab her and lets go!" Leo yelled.
I felt someone lift me up, I didn't stay awake long enough to find out what happened next. I just wanted to rest.