Hello to everyone who has clicked to this, I hope that you enjoy what I have written, thank you.
Alright, this is all very strange, for one thing, though impossible, I am somehow in the lair of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! A few others and I of my school are in a way trapped here, although Andy seems to think she is heaven. I guess I should start from the beginning to make sense...
My name is Ruby Cortes, I was born in California, a few hours north of San Francisco, I'm Mexican-American with a light brown completion, brown eyes, mid-length black hair often in a French braid, and about 5'5". I usually wear jeans, sneakers, a t-shirt, and a magenta short sleeve hoodie. I'm about 19, but for some reason I look 15 or 16 because of my height and what my friends say that I have a 'kid face'. You know, kind of big eyes, slightly chubby cheeks, small nose, and, as another odd factor to them, that I have a shy demeanor.
So what if I don't speak as much as I like, I just like to kept to myself and not bother anyone, also I have this odd way of starting a conversation by asking questions that are very random. For instance, instead of a 'hello, my name is Ruby, blah blah blah', I would go 'hello, name is Ruby, do you like lizards?' ...-.-' Yeaaaah, odd way to start I know, but hey, it's who I am. Anyway, it all started as a basic study group meeting with a few of my closest friends, however, this was the first time that I got them all together at the same place and at the same time. There was only Andrea, Frederica, and Ren, who were all practically strangers to each other.
Andrea, or Andy as she prefers, is one of my oldest friends. She's a bit of a tomboy, but oddly enough still a girly-girl, if that makes any sense. She usually wears a purple tang top under her favorite yellow orange plaid shirt with a pair of worn out faded jeans and red headband. She has long wavy blond hair, blue eyes and pale skin. She is 5'6", 18 years old, good with any sport with a broad, and you wouldn't have guess what an amazing dancer she is. She is basically a true California girl. But she needs help with her general education classes that she's taking in college, which is hard because she is struggling with a family problem that she doesn't want to discus with me.
Frederica, who likes to be called Freddie, is very much a tomboy, pixie cut black hair with red bangs that fell halfway over one of her dark brown eyes, 5'9", 19 years old, also a Mexican-american only slightly darker in both skin and personality and very defensive of her friends and family. She learned gymnastics at a young age, because her parents hoped that she would have a go for the gold, in fact she did win a few metals in minor competitions, but she grew an interest in fighting and asked if she can learn martial arts. She got classes in karate, judo, and a few styles of Kung Fu, however she does have a temper that caused her to lash out whenever someone made fun of her, especially in her last year of high school when she decided to have her pixie haircut. She got into so many fights that it affected her chances to get a scholarship, so she had to settle for our college. So far that how much info I think she can share with me, but I'm patient. She usually wears a large dark grey hoodie with dark blue jeans, but underneath that she always has a tight sport shirt and black leggings that fitted her curvy body. I think it's out of habit from her training.
Ren is actually a foreign exchange student from Japan hoping to improve her English. I have known her for about a year and have been told that she is linguistics major. We met in English class when we were partnered up for an assignment. She already knows Italian, French, Greek, Spanish, heck even Latin, but she still has trouble with English. She said that she wants to move here and be a 'teacher of multiple languages'. Her words, not mine. She's also 5'5" and 19 years old, long straight black hair, dark blue eyes that almost look black. She usually wears a white long sleeve shirt with a black blue tux vest, black slacks and several blue bracelets on both wrists.
It was odd getting them all together. We all met up at my house after 4 and sat at the kitchen table. Ren pulled out an English book, Freddie got out an advanced geometry book and a few pieces of paper and Andy unloaded a heavy binder that had rumpled pieces of paper on the edges. Introductions were made and we sat in silence doing our work. I was already done with my general work, but I had to do a concept piece for my art class, as I'm hoping to be an artist one day. After almost an hour and a half of working, Andy stretch and yawned,
"Well, that's enough work for me, how's about some TV?" she said, got up from the table and went to the living room. Freddie and Ren looked up and stared at Andy, Freddie looked confused while Ren looked surprised.
"But, I have not completed my work," Ren said and looked over at the page Andy was working on, "and it do not look so that you have completed neither," it was the first time that she spoke all evening, I looked up and noticed the time,
"I think it's a good time as any to take a break," I suggested closing my sketch book and went to the kitchen, "who wants ice tea?" I asked getting the a few glasses out.
"Sure," Freddie mumbled placing her work sheet in the book page and closing it,
"I like would too some," Ren said, I blinked and was about to correct her grammar when a small squeak came from the living room,
"Ruby you didn't tell me that you had this," Andy came around the corner holding out a DVD box,
"What are you excited about?" Freddie getting up from the table to the small group,
"She has the TMNT movie: Turtles Forever," Andy squealed again and hugged the box to her chest. I knew that she was a big TMNT fan and would understand her excitement because I'm also a fan of the show I have seen the episodes on the web, but...
"Andy, I don't own a copy of that movie," I said holding out a hand to inspect the box, it looked like the movie cover, the '03 turtles jumping out weapons in hand with the title above them, I turned the box over and saw the '80 turtles gathered around in the right hand side with the short summery of the movie in the left hand side. I continued, "For one thing, we don't keep the boxes anymore," Andy snatched the box back,
"Well, I say we watch it," she opened the box and went back to the living room, I sighed and went to follow her. She already placed the DVD in the Blu-ray player and turned on the TV,
"Come on, nothing bad is going to happen," she said as the menu can up and she pushed play. Oh, how those words of irony come up when you least expect them to be, I sighed again a looked at my other friends,
"You don't mind watching a cartoon, do you?" I asked hoping they would, even though there was a tiny voice in the back of my head to not do, but it faded away when Freddie gave a small smile,
"Sure, I used to watch them when I was a kid, where do you think I got the idea of learning how to fight," she said going to the couch, Ren came to me and asked
"TMNT? As ninja turtles?" I nodded and she smiled, "I have seen the '80s vision and they very funny," she said with a giggle,
"Well Reni, you're in for a treat, not only do you see the greatest versions of the turtles, but you get to see them meet and join forces to fight off their most hated enemy, they even got some of original voice actors to be the themselves again, oh don't get me started on-hm" Freddie clamped a hand on Andy's mouth,
"Stop or you're going to ruin it for us," she said looking kind of scary with her narrow eye and her have hidden eye, Andy's eyes widen and nodded, Freddie removed her hand and sat down on a far corner of the couch. I sat next to her so that my other friends wouldn't be afraid of the couch. Ren sat on my other side and Andy sat on the other corner, I find it odd that all my friends were strangers but they all like TMNT, at least we all have something in common.
As the movie was ending with the turtles saying good bye to one another, I got up and went to pack up my stuff. I checked the clock and saw that it was almost seven,
"Girls, why don't we call it a night," I asked gathering my books into my backpack, a whine came from Andy, Freddie got up followed by Ren and went to their bags,
"Awww, do you have to? The movie's not even over," Andy whined. It was sort of true, but I had to be responsible and tell her times up, besides they all came by bus and I was their ride home. I looked at her sternly and she sighed, "Alright, I get it." she got up, stretched a bit and got the remote to turn off the TV.
That was when all hell went loose.
As Andy pressed the button to turn off everything, the '03 turtles pressed whatever button to send them back to their proper dimension. A bright flash went over them, but instead of fading away and the comic turtles have their say, the flash got bigger,
"Ah, girls?" Andy said worriedly, "what's going on?" I looked at the TV, my eyes widen as it looked to be morphing into odd shapes. I barley realized that I was walking towards it with my backpack on when Freddie grabbed my arm. I turned to look at her to ask what's wrong when my pack touched the morphing TV. It stopped moving and started to make a strange moaning sound, that turned in to a whirling sound that made me think of the ocean for some reason. Then out of nowhere the wind started to pick up, which was strange because I didn't open any windows. I felt myself being pulled, not by Freddie but by the TV. I tried to get away from it but it was already too late, it caught the end of my braid and the harder I pulled, the more it pulled back. I tried to press a hand on the glass for support but it went through!
The first thing in my head when I ever come in contact with something that is unusual or something new would be sayings like 'cool, how they do that' or 'what an odd thing,' but when this happened, the first thing that came in my mind was 'I wonder if this is what Alice felt while going through the looking glass,'. The second thing that I thought was 'oh hell, what's going on here?'. Like I said before, I'm an odd person.
Anyways, as my arm went through the TV, I lost my balance and fell forward. I felt a tug on my sweater and guess that someone was pulling me back. I closed my eyes and felt something else was pulling me through the portal. Yeah, I'm calling it a portal, because what else could it have been. With the feeling of being the rope that was used in tug-a-war, I tried to feel for any form of substance to help me push back out. Nothing was there, and I felt that the portal was winning, then with a gut wrenching moan the portal pulled its hardest and I was falling. Someone was still holding my sweater and it felt that whoever it was not alone because I heard of my friends scream. Freddie was cursing, Ren was saying something in French, or maybe Italian, and Andy was just belting her loudest. I opened my eyes to see nothing but white spiral with neon green lines coming up in random times. The screams and roaring of the portal were all that I could hear, then I heard nothing as I saw the white spiral opened up to some sort of ground.
I heard from somewhere that if you are relaxed when falling, you would be less hurt because your muscles would turn into something like cushions to ease the fall, instead of tensing up and getting yourself a broken arm or killed. But it's kind of hard to relax when you have NO IDEA ON HOW YOU WERE FALLING IN THE FIRST PLACE! Yet I was able to somehow release tension on my body and waited for impact.
Wham!
My knees and palms were scraped, my head hurt but I seemed to be OK,
Wham!
Something or someone fell on top of me,
Wham! Wham!
Make that three. I felt myself going numb, thinking to myself 'no, not save,' I tried to get up but having about 400 odd pounds of human on my back, I wasn't able to move. The last thing on my mind before I passed out was 'this is probably how Alice felt when she when down the rabbit hole.'