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Central New York remained filled with chatter and kept bustling through the night with no end. The night sky coated the streets and buildings like a thick blanket, filling the alleyways with an unwatchable darkness and an eerie unknown. Everyone, without a single thought dwelling on what lurks beneath their city, strolled down the streets and went about their business, most with their oblivious gazes glued to the glowing technology in their hands, typing away.
Above their heads and blurring with unclear and questionable streaks, green figures leaped from one rooftop to the other with incredible speed, a red and yellow figure following close behind. On the sidewalk and ways ahead, a pair of human feet clapped vigorously against the sidewalk tar and sent a young girl zooming from one point to another faster than her legs were meant to carry her. Incredibly long and curly red locks billowed behind her, caused by her incredible speed, while her brown orbs still remained spread wide in horror. The farther she forced herself to run, the more her warm breaths turned shallow and fast, evidence of her unavoidable exhaustion. The exaggerated heels that were strapped to her feet caused their soles to sting and her legs to ache, but still she didn't think to take them off.
No one expected this to happen.
Earlier:
Within the endless maize of subway tunnels that wound deep beneath the city, four green figures were strapping themselves with weapons and egg grenades, hiding their eyes behind red, purple, blue, and orange bandannas. While their shells remained glued to their backs, they had no luxury with the supplies they needed for the night's objective – finding mutagen, so took great care to prepare. Once they were done, they all jumped from the abandoned subway station and into the Shellraizer with enthusiastic whoops, all ready to get the night's scavenging started (and finished).
Donnie had the normal locator grasped between his six fingers while they sped through the streets of New York in their vehicle, already on the trail of another canister, but while he barked orders, his mind couldn't help but wander towards April – as it so often did. Even if she forgave them for the horror they had caused on her father, he still couldn't help the horrific tang of guilt poisoning his mutant heart. Of course, a lot has happened since then – Casey joining their team for one, but that doesn't change anything for him – they still caused all this pain.
As if torturing his heart even more, a familiar tune quickly broke the sullen atmosphere that had somehow begun to ail the interior of the cart, compelling Leo to slam his foot onto the break, forcing the Shellraiser to a screeching halt.
"Donnie!" Leo and Raph snapped back to their brother's suddenly-excited face, but all he did was roll his eyes before he answered the welcomed call.
"Hay, April." He greeted the girl on the line with a cheery voice, the other two still watching him with clear annoyance (while Mickey kept dreaming of cats and pizza).
"Now? Where?" He responded to whatever the redhead was telling him over the phone, "Oh… okay. No, its fine, we're not busy with anything important. I mean, if it's urge— Alright. See you soon."
Donnie quickly noticed his brothers staring at him while he put the T-phone away, and knew immediately that they were looking for a detailed explanation to why he considered looking for mutagen to be un-important – however, with April being a variable, they didn't expect anything else from him.
"April told us to meet her by the noodle shop." He shrugged, the oblivious expression painted across his face revealing that she didn't say why, "Said it's urgent."
It took a lot of convincing for the others to agree to their detour, but when Donnie explained that the mutagen canister was close to Mr. Murakami's restaurant, they were off and knocking a dumpster from one corner of the street to the other with their sharp turns.
"Glad you could make it, Guys." April greeted the turtles while they hopped from the Shellraizer, one after the other in a perfect row, but despite the sweet tone in her voice, all three of them felt something was off – in fact, it was the sweet tone that might have caused their suspicions.
"Did you need us for something?" Leo pressed, but quickly cocked his hairless brow ridge while he watched her send him an innocent smile.
"Actually~" She sang and gently snuck her bangs behind her ear before she begun to sway on the balls of her feet, her arms neatly crossed behind her back, "Now that I think about it, I should have probably asked you guys before I…"
"Before you what?" The four mutants hummed nervously, clearly not liking where the conversation was going.
"It's cold out here, April." A smooth, pitchy voice interrupted any answer that might be given, making the entire team stiffen in horror – even April herself froze, knowing she was in serious trouble. "You said to meet you here, but this is getting ridiculous – my butt's freezing." The voice spoke again and April finally stepped out of the way to reveal the person hidden behind her, "I have a' party ta go to, ya know? My boyfriend's waiting already."
The turtles studied the young woman with utter distaste; from the exaggerated heels strapped to her feet, to the short skirt and mini-shirt barely hiding her tanned skin. Even her long, curly, red locks were perfectly pinned atop her head, while her eyes remained glued to the smartphone in her hand and her jaw clenched and unclenched onto the gum between her teeth – nauseatingly so. She looked like the complete opposite of April herself – a complete priss.
"Uh… Lumina?" April hummed hesitantly, not knowing if grabbing her friend's attention was still the best way to got – judging by the turtles' still-frozen states, at least, "These are the friends I told you about…"
"Hmm?" The redhead hummed with disinterest, but still pushed herself off the shop's outside wall and stepped forward, taking her time before removing her gaze from her phone and onto the strange new friends April wanted to introduce. Everyone watched as her brown eyes rose from their feet to their faces in the slowest movement they had ever seen, every second feeling doom looming higher over them, and could see her eyes growing wider and wider with every passing second.
"Lumine, it's okay, they're the good guys." April tried to stop the clear explosion that was ready to come, but it was no use, before anyone could stop her from doing so, Lumina grasped her hair and released a shrilling scream of terror, letting her now-destroyed phone shatter against the ground by her feet. She quickly turned herself away and dashed down the street, her heels sliding in one spot before they finally scraped against the tar and pushed her forward.
"Wait!" April screamed after her, but didn't seem to reach her friend at all, "Wait, Lumina! They're not going to hurt you!"
"What. Were. You. Thinking!?" Raph finally hollered at April, his eyes burning with rage, and forced her to flinch away from him, "Did you not understand when we told you not to reveal our secret!?"
"We'll talk about that later!" Leo intervened, "We have to catch her before she tells anyone!"
"Right!" Everyone chorused before they disappeared onto the rooftops and after their new friend, completely forgetting the Shellraizer where it stood.
And that is what brings us back to where we were – Lumina running for her life from something she had no idea wasn't threatening in the least. Time and time again, she heard April's voice yelling at her to stop, but the pounding in her chest and ears forced her forward. Her aching legs carried her through the streets – people watching her everywhere she went, but doing nothing to help – until she finally made a turn for the worse and froze in front of the alleyway's brick-walled end – there was no escape in sight.
"Please, Lumina, you have to listen to me." April's voice once again filled her ears, but the loud crashes that sent the ground shaking under her feet afterwards was quick to dismiss her friend's reassuring words and force her to whip around towards the mutants, compelling her to push her back up against the ragged wall. The turtles loomed over her like a dark cloud, only their eyes glowing through the shadows in front of her, and the closer they came, the more her heart hammered between her lungs.
"Get away from me!" She screamed desperately, and for a moment, the situation felt like it was spinning even more out of control, but it was a simple crack that forced a silence over them all. Lumina, Leo, Raph, Donnie, April, Mikey – they all glanced up towards the sound above the new girl, but it was only five of the six that looked horrified at what they saw. Still encased within the class confinement, bright green ooze sliced through the darkness above them, conspicuously rolling atop the fire escape, with no cause for its movement in sight, but it was the clear crack in its side that made their stomachs lurch.
With unblinking and curious eyes, Lumina watched a single drop squeeze from the canister and speed down toward her - she didn't move. "No~!" She heard five voices vibrate against the alley walls, everyone jumping her way with every speck of desperation they had, but with not knowing the horrors it may create, Lumina watched the droplet carefully and did nothing to stop it from colliding with her eyes. It was immediate – a scorching heat burnt her eyes like fire and made her scream in agony, her hands quickly covering her face as a hopeless attempt to stop the pain.
"No…" The team breathed hopelessly, knowing there was nothing they could do to stop what has been done.
An unstoppable heat spread from Lumina's eyes to her brain without a care, then begun to sting her scalp like a million spider bites, compelling her screams louder and fiercer. Along with the eyes hidden behind her hands, the roots of her hair lit up with a familiar green light just as her legs buckled beneath her, letting her fall to her knees. With horrified eyes, the team watched as her hair suddenly turned colorless from roots to tip, eliminating the beautiful red color it had and bleaching it to a shade whiter than snow. However, with a heart-wrenching and unexplained turn, the air suddenly turned quieter than a funeral – Lumina's screams fell short, her mouth frozen agape, and her body remained still in its in place while the green glow flickered to nothing.
"Lumina?" April breathed and cautiously stepped closer, but couldn't help but gasp as the now-white-haired girl collapsed against the alleyway floor. "Lumina." She repeated and quickly rushed to her friend's side, but only to freeze at the sigh before her. "Guys…" She whimpered and compelled the other four to step closer, quickly causing them to experience the same state of shock when they gazed into Lumina's eyes. Brown irises were nowhere in sight, only white circles were in their place - even the dark pupils in the center gone without a trace.
"SHE'S BLIND!?" They all screamed in disbelief.
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