Hello guys and gals! Today I'm trying something new! This will be an Animorphs/TMNT crossover, with my favorite character, JADE! :D
Hope you enjoy!
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My name is Jade.
And today I was walking down a bustling street in what Americans called "The Big Apple".
Yes, New York. A place I had never been.
And... as always, there was about to be trouble like I'd never known before.
My family had decided to come here for a long deserved holiday, and against my protests, I was forced to come along. Jake and the other Animorphs had told me everything would be fine, although I did worry that the Yeerks could emerge at any time and one of them would be put in danger, or worse... dead.
Ithiell assured me that he would take care of everything, and let me know if I was needed, but it still didn't stop me from worrying.
For those that don't know me, I am a shifter. A shape changer, who has been through many battles with creatures called the Terinans. Then my dad got a job in America, and we all moved here. That's when I met them. By luck or by chance, I'm not sure. But myself and my team were thrown into another battle with aliens. Ones that were much harder to fight.
Yeerks are little grey slugs that can slither and flatten themselves as they crawl into your ear, completely taking over your body. Your arms, your legs, your eyes and anything you took for granted... gone. They move your body, use your voice, smile for you... and you? Well, you get stuck inside your own head, screaming and fighting for control. Sometimes people can push through... but not for long.
And these nasty little buggers had invaded earth, and who knows how many other planets.
Now, where was I?
Oh yes, back to New York.
"Ooomph!" I grunted as I was pushed rudely to the ground by some passer by. I hit the ground, bruising not only my behind, but my pride. Before I could shout an obscenity to whoever had hit me, they had disappeared into the crowd. I mumbled to myself, getting up and trying to avoid being hit again.
Tonight I wasn't just a sixteen year old girl enjoying a family holiday. Tonight I was doing recon, because it just so happened there were rumors of a higher up Visser coming into New York to check the progress of their invasion here. All I had to do was infiltrate the hotel which he was said to be staying, and work out the amount of guards he had, or even find out whether there was a pool nearby. Ithiell and Jake would be on their way in Ithiell's fighter, in case anything went sideways. Which it usually would. Rtaia and the others would be the back up for their back up.
What I didn't know was how differently this night would go.
I brushed myself off, continuing to head toward the street that this supposed hotel/motel would be on. I was also hoping I wouldn't walk into a trap.
I managed to get past the crush of people, moving towards a quieter street. Making sure no one was looking, I tapped my watch again, seeing the tiny little map come up.
"Where would we be without your genius, Ithiell?" I muttered to myself, seeing I was only a couple of streets away. I memorized the path, tapping the watch again, seeing it revert back to a normal old wristwatch. My footsteps quickened, and soon all I could hear was the sound of my feet thudding the pavement, and my heart thudding in my chest. I didn't think I had felt more alone than at that moment.
Without thinking, I started humming a song my mum used to sing when I was little, and that I now sung to my little sister Phoebe. I smiled, thinking of her cute little face, hoping her and the rest of my family were still sound asleep...
A cough brought me back to reality, and I looked up seeing a guy only a little older than me, smiling one of those nasty smiles, and I knew he was either out to rob me or worse.
Quickly, I changed my direction, fast walking across the street in hopes of deterring this delinquent, only to find myself almost walking into another guy that was wearing something similar to the first one.
Great, I had just walked into a gang's territory.
I fastened my pace, turning back the way I came, hearing them follow, snickering.
I tried to slow my heart rate, knowing I had to get out of here, or at least somewhere that I could shift and fight back.
Come on Jade! You've met Hork-Bajir who were three times the size of these guys! You'll be fine. I tried to convince myself, just as I looked ahead of me... and stopped in my tracks.
Two more gang members were licking their lips, coming at me. My eyes searched for an escape route, anywhere I could get the advantage on these thugs. My eyes landed on a dark alleyway. Unfortunately it seemed they had followed my gaze.
RUN!
I bolted for that alleyway, hearing the four start to chase after me, hoping it wasn't going to lead me to a dead end.
Gotta shift...
I reached the alleyway, feeling one of them grab my wrist. By instinct alone, I threw a kick which landed on his hip, knocking him down and freeing me to keep running.
"Where do you think you're going bitch?!" Another one yelled out as I pushed myself as hard as I could, the dark alley around me almost becoming a blur.
I was tempted to yell out some smartass comment, but then my heart sank as I realised I was running towards what looked like a dead end. There didn't seem to be any doors or windows I could throw myself through either.
"Fuck" I hissed, skidding to a stop and turning to face my pursuers.
Before I could think, one of them was throwing a punch at me, and I dodged it, landing an uppercut just under his ribs. It winded him, and he took a step back, anger on his dark features.
"Get the bitch!" He snapped at the other two, and I braced myself for an attack, knowing I had to really be on my guard.
One tried to grab me, but I used his own momentum, grabbing him and twisting his arm behind him, kicking him hard and causing him to face plant into the cement. The other one tried to grab me from behind, but I used all the strength I had to throw him over me, grabbing his arm as he hit the ground and twisting it, causing him to yelp in pain.
The leader, or what I thought was the leader, came at me again, and I was forced to let go, moving myself back and getting into a fighting stance.
He spat on the ground in front of me, getting into his own stance, smiling at me.
"You're gonna pay for that"
"Oh god, bad guy lines, really? I think you need a new hobby" I scoffed, knowing he'd come at me, trying to pick the right time to dodge. I had never faced this many people as myself before. Shifting was the last resort, as I wasn't sure if these four were Yeerks or not, and I couldn't expose myself or the others.
I saw the guy smirk suddenly, and he nodded his head. Before I could wonder what he was doing, a sharp pain exploded through the back of my head, and I collapsed to the ground, the back of my head throbbing.
I fought hard to open my eyes, the pain blinding me and almost causing me to loose consciousness, a part of me knowing I was done for if I didn't get back up and fight. I was either going to be killed or raped. Possibly both.
Gotta... get...
All I could feel was the pain as I tried to cradle my head, feeling blood dripping through my hair, seeing through barely open eyes the four of them coming at me. The last one, the one I'd managed to knock off first, had hit me with something hard. I hadn't even known he was behind me until it was too late.
"Hiiiiya!" I heard a shout, and one of the thugs swear, then sounds of a fight as my eyes refused to stay open to look, the pain becoming too much as I tried to get myself into a sitting position without much luck. From what I could hear, the thugs were getting their own back. There was a thud, and a clang, and suddenly what I could make out as two sets of footsteps running off, one of them wailing about monsters.
"Dude" A voice murmured, and what sounded like another voice shushing the first. I managed to turn my head, looking up through bleary eyes to see four large figures above me. Local people? I couldn't be sure. My eyes just wouldn't focus, and the pain was making it hard to think.
"She's badly hurt" Another voice said, and another hushed voice said "We need to get her somewhere safe, those guys could come back"
"Hospital?"
"No, too risky"
"What's that on her wrist? It's blinking"
"Don't have time for that!" Suddenly strong arms picked me up, placing me against something hard. Amour?
Could these people be vigilantes?
Finally the pain was too much, and my eyes closed of their own accord. Before I knew it I was drifting in and out of consciousness. I heard the voices arguing more, then I was moving. I felt like I was flying for a moment, an arm securely around me, and the next thing I could feel or hear was muttering about putting a bandage on my head. Something soft was placed under my head, and it was then I realised I was back on a hard surface. Yet... I couldn't work out where I was.
"She should be-"
Suddenly I heard Ithiell's voice through the communicator.
"Jade! Jade! Can you hear me! What happened? Your life signs..."
A grunt, and more voices as I faded back out before I could respond.
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I woke with a start, gasping and blindly reaching out, before a hand grabbed mine, squeezing gently.
"Whoa, easy Jade! You're safe now" Jake's voice was soothing, and slowly I was able to focus enough to see those big eyes of his starting at me, his hands gently clasping mine.
"Wait...what?" I looked around, finally able to see I was on some kind of makeshift bed, in the back of the fighter. I could see Ithiell at the controls.
"You're all right, but we found you on the top of a roof" He looked at me, almost asking me how I got there.
"I... there were thugs, but then... did you guys save me?" I tried to sit up, almost slipping back down, but Jake catching me and hefting me into a sitting position, shaking his head.
"Jade, do you remember what happened?"
I looked from Jake to Ithiell, then sighed feeling silly.
"Some thugs jumped me. I tried to run away, down an alley but they followed, one bastard hit me in the back of the head with something" Subconsciously, I reached around to the back of my head as I said this, wincing at the pain as I applied the smallest amount of pressure.
"But... your head was bandaged when we found you" Jake produced a small purple cloth "With this"
I took it gingerly in my hands, seeing blood covering it and realising that the boys must have given me first aid when they'd found me. I touched my head, finding the strong bandage now wrapped around my head. They had
"You don't know who saved you?" Jake asked, a expression serious.
I shook my head, a slight twinge of pain going through my head as I did "I couldn't see, I wasn't exactly in my right mind after that hit"
"Do we have allies?" Ithiell pondered.
"I don't know. Possibly just vigilantes wandering the streets" Jake muttered, almost doing the same facial expression as Ithiell.
"So... what do we do now?"
"Well, you can't go back to your family like this, so I'll call Marco and get one of the Chee up here" Jake pulled his phone out of his pocket, starting to dial.
I turned to Ithiell, and with Jake's help, managed to stand and walk over to him. His hands were flying over the controls, the a concerned look on his face.
"Ithiell"
"The Visser can wait. I think..." He turned to me "I think we need to find out who these people are"
"But, Jake said they're-"
"I know what Jake said. But the problem is..." He sighed, closing his eyes and turning to look straight at me.
"Jade, they left you on the roof of a ten story building, with no plausible way to get up there. At least not as a human. The fire escapes are too far, and there is no opening up on that roof"
"Ithiell, what are you saying?"
"I'm saying they are either super human... or there are more aliens on earth"
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