Chapter Seven: And Time Stood Still:
Splinter
was in his room meditating when he felt it – a disturbance in
the
air. He couldn't tell whether
it was good or bad, but whatever it was, it was
coming, and it was
coming fast…
Meanwhile, Donnie was so close he could taste
it. All the concoction needed
was one more final ingredient and
then it would be done. Of course, it
wouldn't be the real deal,
but it was as close to the ooze as he could get.
It was worth a
try, it would be a risky one but if they pulled this off
they
wouldn't have to deal with the Shredder anymore. The ooze
was part of their
creation and Donatello was hoping it would be
part of Shredder's
destruction. They would use their enemy's
own weapon against him. They would
be the ones with the last
laugh.
Donnie
could feel his nerves. He was starting to shake. If something
went
wrong, there was no telling what would happen. Donnie stopped
and took a
couple of breaths.
Now he regretted being genius of the group.
"Come
on, last drop, and it will all be over." Donnie said to
himself,
hoping it would calm himself down. It did.
Don
was about the final bit in, when suddenly the whole lair was full
of
blue light. It
was very similar to the one April's
Uncle artefact
gave off.
He placed the vial down as carefully
as he could. He met up with his brothers in
the den.
"What the shell is going on?" Donnie asked.
"I have no idea." Leo answered.
"We're
'bout to find out." Raph said, pulling out his weapons, ready
for
whatever was coming in.
"WHOA!"
Brock cried out as she felt herself being pulled through the
time
warp.
She landed on something with a hard floor. The light went out,
and
when she blinked a few times, her vision cleared, she couldn't
believe where
she was! She was back at
home, the original den, with the boys surrounding
her!
"Who
are you?" Leo demanded, following Raph's actions by pulling
out
his swords.
"Leo…?"
she questioned, she'd know him anyway. It was just so odd
seeing
the turtles as their younger selves, they were so different in
this
time line, so much happier. Then she spotted him. "Raph…?"
All she wanted to do was run into his arms and tell him how
much she loved
him, but she knew she couldn't. She had to do her
best to compose herself.
Brock thought she could handle
this, yet the tears were coming.
"How do you know who we are?" Donnie asked her curiously.
"We have no
idea who you are…"
Raph studied her a
bit. He had a strange feeling that he knew her, but he
wasn't
sure where or how. He didn't like that. It freaked him out.
He
didn't wait for her to answer her brother's questions. Raph
went for her.
Brock smirked. She got herself ready for him
by pulling out her sais. She
blocked his as soon as they aimed for
her face. Raph stepped back. It seemed
the girl was trained in the
ways of the ninja, just like them, but she
wasn't Asian. He
gritted
his teeth. He wasn't about to let some girl beat
him. He tried
again.
As much fun as she was having, Brock knew she couldn't
waste time. She took
care of him by punching him in the gut,
sending him flying. Raph landed with a
loud crash against one of
the far walls. This gave Brock plenty of time to
make her way to
Don's lab.
"Where are you going?" Donnie demanded, following her.
"Oh, I think I like her!" Mikey said with
a laugh and a pointed finger in
Raph's direction.
Raph,
who was now getting up, made a mental note to kill Mikey later, but
he had to
take
care of the girl now. He cracked his knuckles and tried again.
"Geez Raph, when are you ever just going to lie low!"
Brock demanded and
made a round kick in his direction just as he
leapt
towards her.
"Let's see weirdo psycho girl 2, Raphie zippo!" Mikey declared.
"I don't think this is the time." Leo warned Mikey.
"Can't you just let me enjoy the glory here?" Mikey pouted.
"It doesn't do well to gloat in one's pain." Leo reminded him.
"Okay, see I
know you're talking, but all I see is this." Mikey
returned
playfully, putting up his hand and moving it in a talking motion,
in
which nothing was coming out of.
"Now, yer gonna get
it!" Raph promised the girl, and this time he
wouldn't let her
get away.
Before Raph knew it, she was all ready facing him.
"Please, we can finish
this later, I just need to do something!"
she pleaded with him through her
eyes.
Raph stared back at
her. This girl's eyes was telling him something, he
wasn't
sure what but he couldn't shake off the feeling that it
was
something big. He twirled his sais before putting them back in
their place.
"Thanks, trust me, you won't regret this!"
she said to him and
continued her way into the lab.
"Look lady, this is my lab!" Donnie made known.
"I know," she
said. "Where is it, where is it?" she asked herself.
Brock
cursed herself for not asking their Donnie where he'd kept
this
particular project. Then she spotted it off in the corner.
"Bingo!" she
reached for the vial of liquid.
"No! Don't touch that!" Donnie warned her.
Brock ignored him.
She beat him to it. She knew the measurements that needed
to be
placed. She carefully took care of Don's experiment. The ooze was
now
completed, but this time, no explosion, just a sea of green.
She sighed with
relief.
Donnie stopped dead in his tracks.
"What the…?" he couldn't even
finish. This was crazy.
First, a girl out of nowhere pops up, and now she
finishes his
experiment… Something just wasn't right with this world.
"How?
What? When?"
"I guess that leaves how and when doesn't it?" Brock returned him, placing a top of the small bottle before tossing it back to him. "I'd get rid of that if I were you." She warned him.
"What did you just do?" Donnie asked her.
"I just saved you a world of trouble Donnie." She
answered. "You
don't have to worry anymore, everything is
going to be fine."
"I knew everything was going to be
fine!" he informed her. "I had
everything calculated multiple
of times!"
"Everything but your balance." Brock corrected.
"Enough science talk." Leo ordered as he and
Mikey and Raph joined them
in Don's lab. "You've got a shell
of a lot explaining to do."
"Don't worry, you'll see."
She promised them. "But I have to go
back home, someone is
probably waiting for me." The thought of Raphael alive
again
brought a smile to her face.
Raph caught her looking at him.
"Ya know if ya take a picture, it'll last
longer." He told
her.
"Nah, you might break it." She returned playfully.
"Catch you on the
flipside, the future one that is." She threw
in, giving them a hint of where
she came from.
The turtles
exchanged glances. She caught Donnie's eyes. They went wide.
She
smiled and nodded at him. He finally got where she came from, because
not
too
long ago he was where she'd been. She took out the artefact,
and tried to
turn it on… She waited for the light to consume her
again. It did, but only
for a second, then it went out. The time
machine went dead in her hands. Why
wasn't it working?
"No,
no, don't do this
to me." She told it, and tapped on it a couple of
times.
The
artifact
came back to life. The room filled with light once more, and for
a
split second, it did warp
her, but not to her rightful place in time, just
back to where she
was. Brock felt herself go a little wobbly, her knees were
giving
in below her. She tried to hold her stance, but she failed. Brock
went
to the ground.
The turtles surrounded her. "Hey, are you okay?" Leo asked her.
She looked towards Donnie.
Brock didn't have to tell him anything, he knew
what was going.
"No Leo, she's not okay…" he paused. "The artefact
isn't
working. She can't go home."
TBC…
