Chapter One: Shell shock
"I can't believe you, Justin! Your such a dork." Alex Russo griped toward her brother. "Alex, you had no business being at that party. Not only were the kids drinking," Her brother replied as he cocked his eyebrow and made an angry stare take over his face " But Mom and Dad even told you not to go!" Alex spun around and let her brother have it, full force.
"I'm eighteen now Justin, you can't keep treating me like your 'little sister'. So what if there was drinking? Do you think I was going to? Y'know what, don't answer that. I don't care what you think." Justin was dumbfounded by his sister's outburst. Alex had been blunt with him before, but never like that. Although, he couldn't say he was surprised. About a week earlier, Alex had won the title of :Wizard of The Year. Upon this, chancellor Tootietootie asked for the family to record what they thought about Alex winning the reward. Justin recorded a rant about how he deserved the title over her, which really hurt his sister. Unfortunately for Justin, Alex was great at holding a grudge.
Justin broke out of his thoughts as he realized Alex was gone. He glanced up to see her running down the sidewalk, away from him. The eldest Russo shook his head in disbelief. She's running down the sidewalk, on the bad side of town with absolutely no one to protect her. Typical Alex. He pulled out his wand and chanted the phrase: "I yell because I care about you, now may your feet stick like glue!" And with that, the rebellious girl was stuck were she stood, earning a smirk from her brother.
Alex was alarmed by this until Justin strolled in front of her, an even angrier look on his face this time. "Alex, in case you haven't noticed, were in the middle of Queens! This is a horrible neighborhood, especially after dark! As a matter of fact, its a wonder I wasn't shot on my way here to drag you from your party..." He trailed off, but didn't lose his angry tone of voice. Alex simply rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. "Whatever, just take this dumb spell off of me." Justin loved his sister, but she could be extremely stubborn. With a flick of his wand, Alex was free of the enchanted pavement. "What do you think the worse thing that could happen to us is? I mean seriously bro, it isn't like a bunch of ninjas are gonna attack us." Alex said in a slightly mumbled voice. But just then, her luck turned from bad to worse.
A group of about ten ninjas surrounded them. The malevolent mercenaries were dressed in purple and black suits, only penetrated by piercing yellow eyes. Alex latched on to her brother, both of them trembling in fear. "You believe me about this neighborhood now?" Justin screamed in panic. "Surrender now, lets make this fast..." One of the ninjas hissed in a raspy tone of voice. Just then, Justin's protective instincts kicked in. "Who exactly are you creeps?"
"We are the loyal servants of the all powerful Master Shredder. He detected a lot of power in the both of you and he wants it for himself." One of them snarled as they slowly inched closer toward the siblings. Justin was horrified, but for the sake of his sister he would keep playing it cool. He always felt like it was his duty to protect Alex, no matter what. "Well, tell your master that there is no way he's getting our powers!" Justin yelled back, his voice cracking slightly at the end. "Look you can either go on your feet, or in a burlap bag. Your choice." The same ninja replied with a sinister chuckle. Alex whimpered under her brother's grasp, then whispered "Pull out your wand, we might be able to take them." Justin hated taking risk, but that was their only choice.
With a swift motion the two of them withdrew their wands. The sudden motion made the enemies close in upon them, fast as lightning. Justin dodged the edge of a katanna and shot a ball of fire at a cluster of about four ninjas. This was a successful shot and resulted in the defeat of the group. Meanwhile, Alex was fending off ninjas as well. One of them tried to rush her, but Alex quickly noticed him and kicked him in the gut. She smiled in self achievement when she suddenly noticed three more coming her way. Alex waved her wand and recited : "These stupid ninjas are now not, peaceful doves should fill their slots!" The trio was then instantly turned into birds, which fluttered away in panic. Hmph, about time I got that spell right.
Only two of the ninjas remained standing, neither liking the odds. "Now what was that about a burlap bag?" Alex asked sarcastically. The ninja remembered his words and growled but said nothing. Instead, he snapped his fingers and around thirty more ninjas appeared on the rooftops above their heads. Alex then bit her lip and once again crept behind Justin. "Someones a little quick with their comebacks aren't they?" The ninja responded once again creeping forward. "Keep that up and your pretty little face won't be so pretty anymore. Shredder will make sure of that." He snapped in a more vicious tone. "If you lay one hand on my sister I swear I'll kill you." Justin replied in a solemn, deadly tone. "We'll see about that."
The loudmouth ninja leaped towards Justin. Instinctively, the eldest Russo slung his sister away, which accidentally made her fall. Alex scrambled to get up as she saw the other ninjas leaping off the roof to come in for an attack, but she was then pushed back down by the ninja who stood next to the loudmouth. Justin hadn't noticed as he was too busy trying to hit his enemy with a spell. Man, he is way too fast! Then as if by freak nature, the loudmouthed ninja was behind him. "Hey kid, don't worry about me. Worry about your little sister." He teased laughing ferociously. Then Justin saw something that made his heart skip a beat.
The two ninjas, along with a few new ones were holding Alex by her arms. The other ninjas were enclosing the two siblings in a large circle. "Let go of her!" Justin screamed toward the group. Loudmouth snickered and pulled out his sword. Alex had a look of shear terror on her face, tears staining her beautiful complexion. "Say please..." Teased the ignorant ninja. "NOW!" Justin roared again feeling tears well up in his eyes. He began to cast a spell, but the ninjas behind him had just grabbed him as well. The ninja then turned his attention back to a deeply frightened Alex. "So much beauty for such an ugly attitude. What a pity." He remarked , pulling the sword to her neck. She shrieked in horror as he slowly ran the point along her neck not deep enough to hit her jugular, but deep enough to summon blood to his blade. I'm done for, so is Justin. It's all my fault. But when all hope seemed to be lost, Alex heard a loud and excited "COWABUNGA!"
Just then a pair of nun-chucks penetrated the ninja circle and wrapped around loudmouth's sword, returning to outside the circle like a boomerang. The two weapons landed back in the culprit's hands who then joked "You silly foot ninjas! Like, didn't your mommies tell you not to bother girls?" Everyone turned around to see a large turtle, standing on his hind legs. He was decked out in orange knee and shoulder pads, and a matching mask covering his eyes. "Let go of her dudes!" He demanded.
"You ninja turtles don't scare me! Bring it on." Loudmouth growled. The turtle shook its head, and turned around calling out, "Hey dudes! The foot ninjas say they aren't scared of us!." Just then three more turtles appeared from an open man hole behind him. " Then lets make 'em!" Growled a turtle decked out in red. The other two, who were sporting blue and purple nodded in agreement as they ran towards the foot ninja's blockade.
The turtles in orange and red defeated a few of the ninjas forming the circle and rushed to save Alex. Meanwhile, the other two went to give Justin a hand. The turtle in red gave loudmouth a swift kick to the face rendering him unconscious , while the one in orange tore Alex from the grasp of the foot ninjas. Once free, he pointed towards to man hole they emerged from "Just hang over there dudette while I go help free your friend, kay?" Alex was extremely scared, not only by the near death experience, but also by the large turtle who just saved her. And so she did the only logical thing to do, she fainted. "Or, I could carry you..." muttered the turtle as he scooped the young wizard up in his arms and ran towards the man hole.
"Hey Mikey! Your saving her not marrying her, man!" Hollered the turtle in red towards his brother. "I'll be right there Raph, The girl passed out!" Mikey gently placed the girl next to the man hole and ran back into the intense battle. Once he returned, the only foot ninjas left were five that were refusing to let go of Justin. Mikey ran to join Raph in helping their brothers liberate the Russo.
"Need some help there guys?" Raph asked, already aware of the answer. The purple masked one whacked a foot ninja off of Justin with his large wooden pole and snapped "Duh, Raph! Stop being a shell head and help out!" Raph stabbed another enemy with his sai. "Alright, chill Donny!" He teased at his brother. Mikey was on the other side of Justin, helping out the blue masked turtle. "So Leo, why do ya think the foot losers are after these two?" He asked, slamming his nun-chucks in a foot ninja's face. "Never mind that now, dude! We gotta save him before we can ask him questions." And with that, Leo used one of his swords to slice through a foot ninja.
There was only one left now, and Justin struggled to break free of it. "Hold still bro-ham! I'll get that loser off ya!" Yelled Donny. But Justin wasn't listening, he was too panicked by his surroundings. Donny tried to get a decent shot at the ninja but couldn't do to Justin's squirming, so he eventually just swung the pole and hoped for the best. It struck the ninja in the arm, making it collapse and crack it's skull on the pavement, but the pole continued downward and hit Justin in the head. This left him in the same state as his sister, out cold.
"Like, what do we do now? We can't just leave them here." Mikey insisted. Raph turned to his brother, and replied "Why can't we? For all we know, the foot clan has a serious beef with them. I don't wanna be involved." Raph was always the rude type, only truly caring for himself in the long run. "If that's the case, they'll definitely need our help." Snapped Donny, who tended to be the brains of the group. "Dudes, arguing isn't getting us anywhere. Lets take them to Master Splinter, he'll know what to do." Leo suggested as he threw Justin over his shoulder, receiving a nod of approval from each of his brothers.
After very carefully easing the Russo siblings down the man hole, the turtles began to head back to their sensei, Master Splinter. He was the one responsible for teaching them the skills they knew today. The sewers smelled awful, but they had lived there for eighteen years now and were used to it. The group walked through vast labyrinths of tunnels, and had to climb a ladder or two to get to their final destination : The turtle's dojo.
As soon as they entered the dojo, Raph hopped onto the couch and switched on the TV. Donny rolled his eyes at his brother as he placed Alex on Mikey's bed, while Leo placed Justin on Donny's bed. "Dude, not cool. At least act like you care!" Mikey snapped at Raph, still glued to the television set. "I care bro, just have a different way of showing it." His voice faltered at the end, realizing how lame his excuse was. "Sure you do. I'm gonna go check on them." Mikey grumbled as he walked away.
He approached the beds to find that Justin and Alex were still both unconscious. Mikey turned to his left and saw Leo and Donny, going to search for Splinter he assumed. This gave him time to fully analyze the two of them. He first looked at Justin, he had slightly messy black hair that spiked in front.
Mikey took his attention away from Justin because let's face it, his brothers would dog him forever if they saw him studying a dude like that. So he switched his gaze over to Alex, who he had saved earlier. Back in the street, he didn't pay her much attention. But now he was looking at her, no he was staring at her and couldn't stop. She had beautiful locks of flowing black hair, and a face that could tame any man- or turtle who saw her. She wore a purple long sleeved shirt, layered with a black tank and purple jeans. But while taking in her beauty, Mikey noticed the dried blood on her neck. He took a napkin from the floor,which read Papa John's across it and dabbed it on his tongue. He began to carefully wipe the blood off, still dazed at how beautiful she was.