The Curse of The WereTurtle
By: Tidota Eru
Author's Note: Due to Confusion on my part I've decided to redo the chapters of this story to fit the orginal idea before FoxFire, the Amarok, and the other characters were added. If this news disappionts any readers or reviewers I apologize. I can only hope that you can enjoy the abriged version of the The Curse of The WereTurtle. Anyway Caio.
Ch.1: Trick or Treat
The sky had been painted a firey orange as the sun started to set only moments before. Shadows of nearby buildings darkened the streets and alleys. But just inside a plush New York penthouse located in the year 2105 the turtles were preparing for their favorite holiday of the year, Halloween.
This would be the first, and probably only time the turtles would get to see how Halloween went on in 2105, there was only one problem. Cody had never heard of the holiday! I guess theres no reason to dress scary if humans and aliens now coexsist with each other is there? So much for fun.
Mikey was the most disappionted because that meant he got no candy this year. And the candy just happened to be his favorite part. All a sudden the humbug of the future a.k.a. Raphael entered the room. His face showed his famous "we are not amused" expression as he plopped himself down on the couch messing with the holographic remote.
"I hate the future," Raph whispered under his breath.
Everybody but Raph seemed to enjoy the lifestyle 2105 had to offer. A free ticket for finally being able to walk in daylight, faster mode of travel, new villians to face. You'd think these kind of things would make Raphael love the future right? WRONG! The only thing that irritated Rapheal the most though was that there was no "shred" of peace and quiet anywhere in the whole house. Pun intended.
Master Splinter and Leonardo were busy teaching Cody balance on a spare broomstick lying around in the closet. So when Raph entered slamming the door behind him the noise was loud enough to distract them and cause Cody to fall.
Reacting quickly Serling who was busy cleaning at the time and Leo both rushed to the rescue, but Leo caught Cody first. Master Splinter could easyily detect that Raphael was distressed about something. the question was "What?"
A knock suddenly came ringing through the whole penthouse indicating somone's prensce. You think this place would have a doorbell like any other home, but no even soming as simple as a knock on the door could be heard.
Serling disappeared to greet the guest and soon came back with a person neither of the turtles had seen before. She was alien, you could be sure of that, aliens pretty much had an animal theme going on these days. She was a fox. not just any fox mind you, a fox with wings.
Bowing she said "It's very nice to make your aquitance, my name Ruby Stone. Cody has informed me that you turtles have come from another time and wish to be sent back home. I think, if you allow me, to see if there's anything I can do to help,"
"For a hottie like you?!" said Mikey paying more attention to how Ruby looked than anything else "oh yeah!"
Ruby just stared at Michealanglo her eyes narrowed with disaproval, luckily Raphael took that as his cue to swipe Mikey one on the head.
"OW!"
"So when do we get started?" said Don walking up to Cody and Ruby.
"As soon as possible," said Ruby and walked off with Cody and Don not to far behind.
"Man" said Mikey still drooling on the way Ruby's body moved even as she walked out "the girls here are hot!"
Leo laughed and said "She's not exactly your type Bro,"
"Neither are Raph and Joy," said Mikey.
"Zip it Mikey!" said an offended Raph "we're just friends that's all,"
"Oh...really?" Mikey teased.
"That's it!"
With that Raph started to chase Mikey around the living room in full-fledged fury. Serling had to keep on his toes to catch all the antiques the two turtles kept on knocking over in their rush around the room. Leo and Master Splinter shook their heads at the scene. Some things never change.
Meanwhile, in the lab, Ruby, Don and Cody were all looking over the pieces of the time machine. Ruby ran her hand along the machine's chrome surface and examnied the many wires conntected to and from the machine to the computer that ran the whole thing.
"This machine is clearly state of the art, but the pulse on the power generated is very low" said Ruby " I could probably provide enough energy for a dismensional shuffle to retreive a large enough power source, but not much else,"
"What's a dimensional shuffle?" asked Don.
"I guess you earthlings would call it taking a chance" said Ruby "I will pour some of my power into the machine to give it enough power to do a search through the cosmos in order to find a better means to stabilize it's aparent feild giving you guys the energy you need to get home. However..." she paused "the shuffle is as unpredictable as the weather, there's no telling what dimension it may land on or it will have enough power to keep the creatures from the unknown world from stepping through themselves,"
"We'll take the chance" said Don "tell us what to do,"
Hours seem to have passed as night slowly began to fall upon the city while the team of Don, Ruby, and Cody worked hard on creating a link so that Ruby could channel her energy into the time machine. By the time they were done it was midnight.
"I am ready," said Ruby.
"Then let's do it," said Donatello.
Typing in a few keys into the machine Donatello stared over at Ruby who was now surrounded in a glowing red aura. A metal ring had been clamped around her wrist in order to transfer her energy into the machine for the dimensional shuffle. That's when, just as the process was getting under way, all heck broke loose.
Ruby began screaming in pain as a jolt of stray energy surged through her body. Cody was looking frantically between Ruby and the time machine. Everything machanical seemed to be on the fritz, and that of course included the mighty time machine itself.
Needless to say as soon as things started going haywire Serling, along with Master Splinter and the rest of the turtles dashed into the lab to see what the shell was going on. Veiws of thousands of different dimensions flashed through the time machine's portal screen and then suddenly three beasts emerged from the portal entirely.
The creatures were all colored dark green with flashing red eyes and small white horns on their noses. Three spikes erupted from their back and each side of their tails contianed three spikes each. Their claws seemed to be extra sharp, so did their teeth. As a final touch each had a yellow belly that glowed with the light of the harvest moon.
The worlds continued to slide and Ruby screamed from the intense pain she was suffering from the hands of the machine. Sensing her weakness the three creatures that had stepped out of the portal approached her.
"Don!" shouted Cody "cut the power!"
Don worked frantically at the control panel trying to free Ruby from the single metal ring that kept her binded to the machine. But even Mikey could see that they weren't going to able to save ruby in time. Jumping to her rescue the orange-masked turtle tried to keep the beasts at bay in order to stall for time. Raph and Leo weren't far behind.
SNAP!
The metal ring clamped arounded Ruby's wrist snapped off. Drained and exhausted from her intense endovour the winged-fox fell to the floor unconious. Master Splinter and Serling carried her out of the line of fire to safer ground while Don finished shutting down the portal before something else could escape, then joined his brothers in the fray.
The middle creature was obivously the leader of the pack and pounced at Raphael while the other two went after the rest of the turtles. Don and Mikey were facing off together againist one of them, Leo was keeping the second creature away with his kitanas, but Raph's creature was different case entirely.
This one kept growling like a demon gone wild! Showing off his teeth and claws whenever he could. There was no way to land a direct attack on this guy. However, at least he had something to defend himself with, Cody was practically helpless without Serling to act as his battle suit.
Apparently the creature realized this cause just as Raph backed away searching for a better shot the creature eyed Cody, its eyes glowing with hunger. Time seemed to go slow as the creature pounced towards his new found prey. Claws out and teeth bared.
Raphael could feel himself running, but everything seemed painfully slow. Hands out the red-masked turtle managed to push Cody out of the creature's path, but the victory was short-lived when a hot, scorching pain cut across his chest.
The creature's claw had struck Raphael across his chest leaving a bloody trail of three marks to show where the injury had taken place. Landing on all four of his feet the creature growled and ran out through the ten story window, the other creatures following behind.
Mikey thought that the creatures would splatter on the ground, but no, they landed as nimbly as a cat on their feet. Soon everyone's attention though turned to Raphael. The red-masked turtle had covered his chest in order to stop the bleeding, but still some blood dripped onto the floor.
Ruby was still unconious as Master Splinter and Serling deposited her off to lay in a bed beside Raph sometime later. A bandage had been placed to stop the blood and help it to clot around Raphael's chest. Raph took a deep sigh of relief when he was finally left alone in the infirmy with an unconious Ruby for company, and soon fell asleep.
Meanwhile the rest of the gang started to wonder about those creatures that now wondered around the streets of New York City. What were they? And worst of all, what were they able to do?
