Don't Asp Me!
By: Tidota Eru
Ch.1: Deal With Zixx
The sun shone brightly down on the penthouse where the turtles now stayed. It had almost been a full year since they have been in 2105, and it just so happens Rapheal's birthday was on the anniversary since they have time-warped to this time. It was quite a conicidence that Cody Jones time machine malfuntioned on that exact same day and transported them here. Although right now none of Rapheal's brothers seemed to keen on celebrating his birthday at this moment.
Leo was busy on the rooftop helping Master splinter teach Cody some new moves, Don was working in the lab with Starlee, and Mikey was busy playing the new version of Helix 2 Unleashed! Where is the birthday boy you might ask, well why don't we just have look in the dining area where Serling is washing the dishes.
"Oh please Master Rapheal do cheer up," said Serling to the tempered turtle sitting slouched in a dining chair.
"Hey around my 'big' day, not to mention it being a full year since we got here you can't help but feel a little homesick," grunted Raph.
"Then may I sugguest that you take a stroll downtown to calm down your nerves?" asked Serling.
"Not a bad sugguestion" said Raph "I'm tired of sitting around here anyway,"
Moments later we see Raph walking down the streets of a very changed New York. He hasn't gone far when the sounds of both people and alien screams reach his ears. Running towards the disturbance Rapheal sees his old 'buddy' Triple Threat climb through the broken wall of a bank.
"It's shell-kicking time!" said Rapheal bringing out his laser sais and dropping a flying kick on one of Triple Threat's three heads.
The red head growls at seeing Rapheal and says "Well look who's here, it's the turtle that took our belt,"
The yellow head laughs and says "Our belt...our belt,"
"Let's teach him a lesson," says the blue head and all ogether Triple Threat tackles Rapheal in a nearby building's wall.
"How's that for payback," growls the red head.
"Don't know" says Rapheal "but I'm just getting started,"
With a yell Rapheal crosses and uncrosses his sais giving birth to a wide red arc of incredible energy knocking Triple Threat off his feet. The wail of police sirens indicate Constable Biggles arrival so Raph decides to make like a shadow and disappear. Turning into your basic back street alley Rapheal stops when he sees a cloaked figure standing before him, and not just any cloaked figure either. Torbin Zixx!
Needlesss to say Rapheal and Torbin Zixx didn't get along all that well with each other. Torbin has a knack for holograms and uses them every chance he gets to aviod being captured or just to get a good laugh since Raph keeps on falling for them. Just another reason why Raph hates the future. Right now Torbin was clapping his hands with a big smile spread across his face.
"Not bad" said Torbin admiring Raph's recent handiwork "but still not good enough to catch me."
"We'll see about that," said Raph and rushes towards Zixx, like usual the Zixx proves to be a hologram.
"That never gets old," laughs the real Zixx from the rooftop above making Raph even more angry than he already is.
A breath-killing chase ensues as Rapheal chases the real Torbin Zixx around town until Zixx stops in what looks like a long forgotten warehouse. Most of the windows had been boarded allowing very little sunlight to pierce the darkness of the room. Zixx stood a few feet away from Rapheal as he entered.
"Welcome to my parlor said the spider to the fly,"
Before Rapheal could even react he was attacked by some kind of blue energy chains and was attached to the wall, his wrist com landing on the floor. Struggling to free himself from his bonds Rapheal glared at Zixx as the space criminal stepped forward.
"Now mabye we can talk...," said Zixx before being interrupted by a furious Rapheal.
"Talk?!" spurted Rapheal angrilly "you had me chase you all around the city just so we could talk?"
"Well I got your attention right?" said Zixx. Rapheal remianed silent.
"Look" Zixx continued "I need your help with certian affair. General Aspa, leader and founder of the Cobra Gang, is planning some sort of 'surprise' for Earth and I need someone he doesn't know to find out just what it is,"
"Sounds like he needs a 'snake' like you, why a turtle like me?" asked Raph partly saracastic.
"Always with the jokes" said Zixx "it just so happens that Cobra Gang is just a fancy word for people who know how to fight, and you do know how to fight,"
"And you don't?" asked Raph.
"Like I said "answered Torbin " he would easily recgonize who I am, so I need you to infilitrate his base for me,"
"If I refuse?" asked Raph clearly not wanting to help Zixx.
"Then you leave me no choice," said Zixx pulling a dark long oject from his pocket.
Rapheal looked to see the form a hooded cobra in Zixx's hand. Placing the snake on Raph's shoulder both criminal and captive watched as the cobra slithered down to Raph's leg and took a big bite. Raph stifled a scream as the energy bonds around his arms and legs finally broke apart allowing him to fall to the floor in a jolt.
Calling the cobra back to his hand Torbin watched as Rapheal struggled to get up. The red-masked turtle could hardly move after what had just happened. Torbin grinned at his little snake friend.
"Cobra venom" said Torbin mysteriouslly "dangerous to both human and alien. I give you about two days before the posion fully contaminates your body and you die, unless of course you help me. Help me stop Aspa and I'll provide you with the antidote, deal?"
"Deal," said Raph.
He didn't really want to help Zixx, but what choice did he have now since Zixx had posioned him? The only way for Raph to be cured was to help Zixx and trust that Zixx had the antidote and would give it to him. Although the words 'trust' and 'Zixx' never got along together in the same sentence.
"What's the plan?" asked Raph.
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Meanwhile, back at Cody's Penthouse, Leo was looking all around for Rapheal. Check Raph's room, no Raph. Check the living room, no Raph. Check the kitchen, Serling, but no Raph. Taking a deep breath Leonardo asked Serling "Have you've seen Rapheal, we're supposed training together?"
"Your brother left a little while ago to blow of some steam" said Serling "try calling him,"
"I will, thanks" said Leo and turned on his wrist com "Raph, are you there? Raph?"
No answer. Leo tried again and again, repeating the same message until worry overfilled him. Raph wasn't responding to his wrist come. Had something awful happened to him while he went to blow off steam? Knowing Raph that's bound to be exactly what happened.
Rushing to tell Cody and the others that Raph was probally in trouble Leo's mind kept on replaying bad images that had happened sometime in the past. Reaching the living room Leonardo shouted "We need to go right now, I think Raph is in trouble,"
"Again?" asked Mikey stopping his video game.
"Don't worry Leo" said Don just stepping in with a bunch of party decorations "just activate the tracers in the com-link and we'll find him no sweat,"
Dropping the decorations on the floor Don punched in a few keys on his communicator a a tiny white dot flashed on and off his screen. After looking at it for ten seconds Don could tell something was wrong, the dot wasn't moving.
Heading into the HoverShell Don and the others soon located Raph's wrist com to be in an old, abandoned warehouse on 17th Street, but there was no sign of Rapheal. Now worried filled all of thier minds as each of them wondered what had happened to Rapheal?