(A/N: this may be the last time I'll be updating in a while. I'm making another fanfic and I promise to update this soon! But that might take a while. About a few months for the next chapter? Life responsibilities come first!)
The Meanie Weanie Speed Demon (A/N: My classmate was the one who named this chapter.)
Rose stared at the mutants in front of her, stunned, she put the four pizza boxes she was holding on top of the stack that Mikey held and ran for the nearest manhole. "I did not expect her to act like that," Jel commented. "Rose wait!" April exclaimed as she ran after her.
Rose ran until she reached the nearest manhole. "Shiz..." She cursed as she climbed. She opened the manhole and closed it as quickly as she opened it. It was night now. She did not know how long it took them to get to the lair, or how long it took her to run to a manhole, or how many manhole covers she missed thinking that they weren't manhole covers. She heard a horn...a car horn. She turned only to see the headlights of a car. It was only then did she realize that she stood on the street. Before she knew it, she blacked out.
In the lair... April had returned, panting. She looked up to meet the gazes of the turtles and girls, even Vikie and Rili, who came over as soon as they heard. "So...?" Rili asked. "Did you find her?" Vikie added, worried of her best friend. "No..." April sadly said as she shook her head. "Eh, probably found a manhole cover and climbed up," Raph said. "But what if she got lost somewhere?" Jel said in worry. "Relax, dudettes, I'm sure she's fine!" Mikey said, plopping himself in front of the TV. "It's time for Chris Bradford and his 2 Ruff crew!" he exclaimed. Mikey switched on the TV, hoping for Chris Bradford to pop up, but instead, the news reporter, Joan Grody, did instead. "Good evening, I'm Joan Grody with a report of a girl run over by an unknown vehicle in Chinatown," she said. "Rose was hit by a car!" Vikie exclaimed. "Just because she said "a girl" and "in Chinatown" doesn't necessarily mean that she was that girl," Donnie said. A video of a black haired girl that lay on an emergency bed that was being pushed by doctors and nurses on full speed. "...or maybe she could," Donnie murmured. "She has been taken to the nearest hospital and is currently under recovery," Grody added. "We have to get to her!" Vikie exclaimed, dashing for the entrance. She could hear the calls of her friends, but all she did was run for her best friend.
Rose woke up in the hospital. Her room was white and bright. There was an IV tube connected to her right hand which led to an IV stand on her right, beside it was a shiny white nightstand. She wore a white hospital gown her hair was untied, laying itself on her pillow. There was a flat screen TV attached to the ceiling in front of her. "But she's my friend and her family is in the Philippines," she heard Vikie beg through the white door. "Sorry, ma'am, but unless she desires to see you, you may not enter," she heard a female doctor reply. "Can you check if she's awake?" Vikie asked. "Yes, ma'am, but if does not desire to see you, I'm sorry," the doctor replied. It was followed by the turn on the silver knob that was attached to the door. The door opened with a soft creak. There stood a fair skinned woman wearing a turquoise tank top and a black pencil skirt under a long unbuttoned lab coat. She had blue eyes and blonde hair that was tied into a braided bun. A silver stethoscope hung around her neck and she held a brown clipboard. She smiled, "Good evening, welcome to Doctor Joseph Woodman's hospital. I'm Doctor Claire Kurtzman," she greeted with a sweet and soft voice. "How are you feeling?" Claire asked. Rose just kept quiet. "That's normal...sorta," Claire said, walking forward. "Are you strong enough to see your friends outside? They're waiting for you," Claire asked. Rose nodded. Claire smiled with a nod," I'll be right back," she said, leaving.
Rose was left alone for a while. After after minutes, Claire opened the door and let her friends in. They looked...different, well, everyone except April. Some of Violet's hair was in a side pony while the rest ran down her back, she wore a hot pink long sleeved shoulderless top with straps of the same color that had the texts "NYC" written in bold black with a pair of purple leggings and a pair of black converse. Tash's hair was Ina a high pony with a white blue-tinted black blue-polka dotted scrunchie and she wore a red top with one sleeve on her left over a brown tube top with one strap on the opposite side with a pair of black leggings and the same pair of converse she wore on the first day of school. Rili's hair was in a ponytail and she wore a brown v-neck with a small pocket on the left side of her chest that had a Rillakuma head attacked to it with a pair of blue denim pants and a pair of black converse with Rillakuma heads attached to the ankles. Jel's hair was in a high ponytail with a thick black scrunchie and she wore a lime green shirt with a emerald green jacket, a pair of black blue denim pants, and a pair of black converse. Vikie's hair was now long and was in a pony with a white peach-polka dotted ribbon. She wore a grey short sleeve and a rich black jacket with a pair of blue denim pants and a pair of black converse. "Rosie! Are you okay?" Vikie asked, running towards her. Rose nodded. "Would've been here sooner if we didn't trip in sewage," Tash said. "And you can thank Vikie for that," Jel said quickly, pointing at Vikie. "Well excuse me, but I was in a hurry!" Vikie retorted. Jel held her hands up in defense.
Back at the lair, the turtles resume in their normal activities, as if nothing happened. Well, every turtle except Mikey, who was panicking about Rose. He wanted oh so badly to have human friends. "Dudes, what do you think happened to her?! Is she okay? Can she still breathe? Is she still alive?!" Mikey exclaimed, swooping in and disturbing his brothers at every question. This earned him a slap in the face. "Calm down, man!" Raph exclaimed. "But, dudes, what if something happened to her?" Mikey whispered. Raph scoffed. "As if we care," he replied. Leo sighed. "Mikey, we know that a car crash is something bad, but we don't have to fret over it. It's none of our business," Leo explained. "Leo and Raph's right, Mikey, unless that car's a mutant, or the girl was April, it's nothing we should get our heads in," Donnie added. The news came up, interrupting whatever show Leo was watching. "This is Joan Grody, bringing you more news about the recent car crash. While the police were investigating the crime, they have found something other than blood," Grody reported. On the small icon on the upper right, there showed a picture of a glowing substance mixed with some blood. "Is that... Mutagen?" Donnie asked, setting his laptop down and walking towards the screen. "This strange substance is dubbed "mutagen" by scientist. They say that mutagen us what the Kraang used to invade our beloved city," Grody reported. The screen switched to Jack Kurtzman, a journalist the turtles knew. "Whatever that was its gone now. And I will do everything in my power to get to the bottom of this," Kurtzman said. "Could this mean that the Kraang are back?" A reporter asked. "I can't say for sure, but I hope not," Kurtzman said. "There you have it folks, there is nothing to fret about... For now. See more from Grody to the Max," Grody said in a deep voice, ending the news. The three turtles were stunned while Mikey had a flat facial expression, sending a glare to his brothers. "You were saying?" Mikey asked in a deadpan voice.
Back at the hospital, the girls watched the news on the flat screen,ending had been on the entire time. "Aw, sewer apples," April silently cursed. You know Kraang, always going after her. There was a T-phone ring. April grabbed her phone and to see it was Donnie. "Hello?" April said into the phone. "April, we need you to do us a favor," Donnie said. "I told you we should check it out! But what did you do? Nothing!" She heard Mikey exclaim. "We got it the first time, Mikey, you don't need to rub it in our faces," she heard Raph. "April, you're with you know, the girl at the car crash, right?" Donnie asked. "Yeah, why?" April asked. "We need you to ask her the last ting she remembers about the incident. We need the most information we could get this car that hit may be a mutant. Not that I'm jumping to conclusions, but still," Donnie said. "But the way she's headed, she's only willing to nod and shake her head," April said. "You have psychic powers, don't you? Put them to good use," she heard Raph say. April looked back at the girls, who looked like they were talking about the situation. She looked left and right before silently walking out the room. She took a double take on the corridor to make sure she was alone "Raph, this girl freaked out when she saw you, how do you think she would react if she knew that I have psychic powers?" April hissed, voice slightly above a whisper. She didn't get an answer, instead she only received a long beep. April sighed and sat on a steel chair nearby the room, her head hung low. Little did she know, on the other side of the door, the five girls were listening to the entire conversation.
"Oh my gosh, you heard that? She's psychic," Jel said. "Says the girl with ice powers," Vikie said. "Oh, right, I forgot that I had them," Jel said. "So what do we do? What if we're next?" Tash concluded with evident fear in her voice. "Then we're all goners," Vi (new nickname for Violet) said, suddenly serious. This was no laughing matter, it may be in time, but at the moment, it wasn't even close. "So what are we gonna do about it? It's not like we can sacrifice each other just to track that guy down," Rili said. "Alright, visiting hours are over, it's time for her to rest," Claire said. The girls said their good byes to their friend and went out. When they were all out, Claire led them to her office. "I think I can help," she said sternly.
At an apartment somewhere in New York, the turtles stood on a fire escape by a window as Donnie silently knocked in it. "Dr. Kurtzman?" He called out. "Are you in there?" Donnie asked. A man came up to the window and saw the turtles. He gasped. "Quickly, inside, before someone sees you," he said, letting the turtles in. "Dr. Kurtzman," Leo started after he got in. "About the car crash?" Kurtzman interrupted, closing the window and curtains. "Yeah, pretty much," Donnie replied. "I haven't had enough time to investigate yet, the only clue we have, is this..." he said, holding up a small tube with a glowing liquid. "Let me take a closer look," Donnie said, walking over.
Claire set down a black notebook in her wooden table. Her office was like any other, a small black organizer on her table, a stack of drawers with some plants on top on one side, and a human sized plant in the other. "What's this?" Vi asked, opening the notebook. Inside the pages were several sketches of the Kraang. "What is all this?" Vi asked, setting the notebook down. "The Kraang," Claire said. "A race of alien beings from another dimension, they tried to take over New York City, and even though they succeeded, someone was always there to stop them," she explained. "Who?" Jel asked. "The turtles," she replied. April gasped. "April O'Neil, as you know, the Kraang are looking for you. But after several failed attempts, they disappeared, I don't know to where, but I do hope on here. Not on earth. I don't want to know how or what stopped them, but if I'm right, the turtles have something to do with it," Claire said. "You know about the turtles?" April asked. "Oh, indeed, I know them very well, but I haven't talked to them personally," Claire said. "I know about you more than any of them. That crystal on your neck," she said, pointing to the Aeon crystal on April's neck. "I'm not saying this the way any of the turtles, or my husband would say it, but I think that the crystal should be destroyed. I'm not saying that you should do it now, but you should. It is your choice. You may take your time, but your time is running out," Claire said. April gasped. "What do you mean "her time is running out"?" Vi asked, putting her hands and all her weight on the table. "It won't be long and she will be corrupted by that Crystal, not just mentally, but spiritually, too," Claire explained. "Meaning?" Tash asked, still confused. "Meaning, April O'Neil, you could be worse than the Kraang, worse than the Triceratons, even worst than the Shredder," Claire said, each notch getting lower and lower. There was knock on the door. "Oka-san?" Came a voice. "Sharon, my daughter, come in," Claire said. The door opened.
There stood a girl with light brown and gold eyes, long jet black hair, heavy makeup, and pale skin wearing a black rip-sleeved tank top, a short long-sleeved leather jacket, black leather pants, black gogo boots, and silver wristbands. "You wished to see me, Oka-san?" she said in a mysterious voice. "Yes, Sharon. Girls, meet by daughter, Sharon," Claire said. The girls turned to her, April gasped. "Shinigami?" April asked. "Nice to see you again, little red bird," Shini teased. "W-what? B-but last time I saw you," April stammered. "Last time you saw me, Leonardo joined the foot," Shini finished. "What's he foot?" Tash asked. "The foot is the former enemy of the Hamato clan, the turtles' clan. If the shredder wasn't defeated, then they would still be enemies," Claire explained. "So is the shredder truly defeated?" Vi asked. "If you ask me, I have no idea. Ask my daughter," Claire said, gesturing to her daughter. "The battle has just begun," she finished.
The girls, Shini, and Claire leave the hospital. "Where are we going?" Tash asked. "We're going to my home," Claire replied. "Why? How is that supposed to help us?" Rili asked. "You'll see," Claire replied. It took about half an hour but they got to Claire's apartment anyway. "We're here," Claire said, gesturing to an apartment. "Finally!" Vikie said in relief. They all walked into the apartment. When they got to Claire's doorstep, Claire got her key chain which had several keys attached to it. When she found the right one, she was just about to it through the keyhole until... "Holy Chalupa!" Exclaimed a voice (Donnie). "Was that..." Tash asked, unsure of what she just heard. Claire quickly unlocked the door and opened it to see the turtles and Jack. Donnie was sitting on a chair by a table close to the wall while the other surrounded him. "Donnie?" April asked. "Quickly, inside," Claire said, pushing them all in then locking the door. "Claire, what happened?" Jack says. Claire blinks. "I fell off a cliff and died!" Claire says dramatically in a high pitched voice accompanied by matching gestures. "I brought teens and Sharon, silly," she said, switching back to normal. "Tasha?" Leo exclaimed, backing away. "You seem scared. You saw me like, two hours ago," Tash said in a deadpan voice. "You guys know each other?" Claire said in a sweet high pitched voice. "Okay, quit wandering away from the topic, Donatello, what's up with the mutagen?" Jack said sternly. "If I'm not mistaken... This is mutagenic gasoline," Donnie said. "You mean the one from the Speed Demon?" April asked in worry. Donnie nodded. "But it exploded right in front of us!" Mikey exclaimed. "How can that be?" Raph asked. "I don't know, but he's in New York now, and we're gonna stop it," Leo said sternly. "Speed Demon?" Rili asked. "Fill you girls in on the way, we gotta track it down," April said as she was about to jump out the open window with the turtles. "On the way? It's not like we could jump across rooftops," Jel said. "Oh, right," April remembered. "Shinigami, go with the turtles, I'll stay with the he girls," April commanded. "With pleasure," Shini said. She threw a smoke bomb and bats surrounded her, when they disappeared, she was wearing a witch hat and her clothing was cover by the cape she wore, but under it, she wore a black and gold bodysuit with a pair of black boots. "See you later, little birds," Shini said, following the turtles out the window.
"So let me" (pant) "get this" (pant) "straight," Tash panted as she, her friends and April ran down the tunnels of the sewers. Tash was a fast runner, so she ran alongside with April, but, man, she was pooped. Vikie, Vi, and Rili ran ten feet behind them while Jel ran twenty feet behind April and Tash. "A mutant car" (pant) "threw people" (pant) "off roads" (pant) "got Donnie" (pant) "and nearly got a guy" (pant) "named" (pant) "Casey" (pant) "but failed because" (pant) "you guys crashed into" (pant) "him" (pant) "when he was about to" (pant) "grab Casey?" Tash panted. "Yes," April said normally, as if they weren't running. They soon reached the lair. April slid to a stop while Tash did her best stop,with out tripping, once she was done with that, she put her hands on her knees as she panted. A few minutes later, Vikie, Vi, and Rili came. Vikie rested her arm on a turnstile, Vi leaned against the wall, and Rili sat on one of the turnstiles, all of them panting. About ten minutes later, Jel came in, more pooped than ever. "Is everyone here?" April asked her tired friends. "I" (pant) "think so," Tash replied.
The pool of water at one side of the lair began to stir. Rili narrowed her eyes. She held up one of her hands. She closed her eyes and took a breath. When she opens them, the water began to rise into a small hill. She took another breath, she held out her other hand, closed both her hands into fists, then when she opened them, the hill of water collapsed, then a second later, it exploded into several water tendrils, resulting to Rili's hair to fly and her eyeballs to turn blue and glow the same color. Each were about 10 inches wide but 10 feet long, each was surrounded by a glowing blue aura. The water pool began to stir again, April readied her tessen and Rili took a stance, fist surrounded by a glowing blue aura. The water stirred more and more by the second, making Rili take a step back, and April to lean forward. It wasn't long until a green head with a blue mask popped up from the water, gasping for air. April and Rili dropped their stances, but Rili's eyeballs were still blue, her hair still flying, and fists still glowed. "...Leo?" April asked. Another head popped out. Then another, then another, then another, then a black pointy hat on a head, all were gasping for air. "Guys?" April asked. "Hey, April!" Donnie greeted, waving his hand at her. Rili sighed, her eyes and hair returned to normal and the tendrils automatically returned to the pool in the water as she redid her ponytail. "Report," Leo ordered as he got out of the water. "Nothing much, the only thing actually close to a clue were some tire prints followed by a puddle of mutagenic gasoline," April reported, holding up a test tube filled with that stuff. "Hmm, maybe I can track him down," Donnie said, walking forward and taking the test tube out of April's hand. "Are you sure?" Vikie asked. "I'll do my best," Donnie replied.
(A/N: Chapter done! Anyway, I'm not updating until someone says so in the review. And I can't make a RaphxKarai fanfic...yet. See ya next time!)