So a few days ago on YouTube a kind of 'trailer' for someone's RPG campaign combining both TMNT/After the Bomb and few other Palladium Titles like Beyond the Supernatural appeared, I waited on the edge of my seat for footage of the actual game to appear but unfortunately none did so. But that aside I could have titled this chapter 'Urine Trouble' for reasons that will become clear later in the trouble but decided not to because while bodily functions will become recurring motif in this story, the story is meant to be more profound than to have those kind of title chapters.
Taylor stomped looking for a place of still water where she could see her reflection, She still couldn't believe that Sow thought Zeb was the ravishing beauty! Of course Pigs shouldn't be great judges of beauty the Species' most notable traits are being fat and of often bald. Finally Taylor found a puddle of water where she could see her reflection, the Flamingo Chick peered down and saw to her horror, her downy feathers which had previously had been pure snowy white were now turning gray! Just a few touches of ashen gray around the edges at the moment but Taylor could see soon she would be completely gray!
"I'm turning gray!" She cried tears squirting from her eyes "Why didn't anyone tell me?! How long have I been turning gray!"
Ichabod heard this as he was approaching her...Instantly he tried to soothe his Favorite of the Mutant Cubs.
"Taylor..." He said reaching out to her, but the Chick pulled away from him "Taylor, it's all right...I know it seems hard now, but this is a normal part of being a Bird...Yes you'll have to be gray for a while, but soon those gray feathers will molt and soon you'll be in the beautiful pink plumage of an adult."
Taylor sniffled "How long will I have to wait?"
Ichabod flickered "Well..If you;'re anything like a Humanimal Bird you get you're adult plumage when you hit puberty so...When you're a teenager."
Taylor started "I'm only a year and half!" She wept "I have to be gray for all those years?!"
"Taylor..." Ichabod tried to pick her up again but again she pulled away from him "I know it seems like a long time...But...Everyone has an ugly phase...I kind of never left it."
Taylor stopped crying when she heard that, she looked at Ichabod.
"You? Ugly?!" She said "But you're the handsomest Human ever! You're a Human who looks like a Flamingo!"
Ichabod was taken aback by this for a moment but then he realized, his scrawny body, including his long, gangly legs, his rose red hair and even his bulbous nose, did make him seem very much like a Flamingo. Ichabod couldn't help but laugh upon this realization.
"That may be..." He chuckled "...But still..." Ichabod then noticed the ground just behind Taylor was moving like when a Mole is about to emerge, but he knew there was only one Mole in New Eden at the moment and she was currently too large for the size of the mound that was forming also, a familiar filthy smell alerted Ichabod's nose, quickly, Ichabod grabbed Taylor and held her aloft just as the disgusting slime monster poked its head out of the ground. In his fright, Ichabod let loose a stream of urine that landed on the emerging slime and when that happened...When the urine touched the slimy brown mass there was a hiss and the smell of burning some of the brown began to dissolve the Slime Monster writhed about for a few moments as if in pain, then it slithered back down its hole. Ichabod saw this and realized he had to tell the others...Tucking Taylor under one arm he ran back to the others.
Everyone looked at everyone else not knowing what to say for a few moments.
"So..." Raph said "These disgusting filth monsters...There one weakness...Is piss?!"
"Hang on Raph." Don said "There is...The probability that it's only...Human urine that effects them this way...After all...If these were Created by the Humans here to be hunters of animals...It would make sense that they would...Engineer a way for Humans to protect themselves against against them as they don't seem to be capable of discriminating."
"Geez." Mikey said "First your Dad wets his pants then you...Are there any...Health issues we should know about?"
Ichabod blushed bright red "It's a perfectly normal fear response! Beside if I hadn't done it, who knows what kind of damage that thing might have caused!"
"OK! Geez!" Mikey said "Just seems kind of weird is all."
"Ichabod is right." Don said "I think we should head back to where that thing emerged...Maybe there will some residue I can do tests on."
"Careful Don." Morgan said "That stuff is extremely toxic, you do not want any of it to touch you."
I think this is a good place to end it.