(ALright, I'll post the last chapter to the cross over tomorrow, hope everyone is having a good weekend so far!)
(X over)
The Elementals toted the turtles back, it was a really good thing they were above average strong, especially for Elemental standards because the boys they were carrying were big boys. Especially red mask, large mass of pure muscle, but hey, they would do the same for the girls, and have already helped in ways the Elementals could never repay. Once they got back to the camp, they went straight to the Geo section, they held all the medical equipment on their side, what little amount they were able to steal or scavenge up.
"Lay them down" Clayshah said calmly but urgently,
"What happened to them?" Inferna actually looked a little emotional, the first time in a long while, it was good to see, Starstriker just wished it was a happier emotion.
"It was that blast, it wore them down. Put them on beds, we need to figure out what to do. Energon?" Energon did a world of good for all the Elemental race, but could the turtles consume it? Striker looked at Clayshah questioningly.
"No, their blood isn't compatible with it, I'd have to figure out how to alter it." Clayshah stressed, she took a blood sample from one of the turtles and started to get to work, she really didn't want to take poke around with their blood, but she had to. And if it wasn't for the fact she was trying to save their lives she would respect their privacy, but they were dying, so fuck it, not like she could use their blood for anything, Elementals were already technically mutated via radiation.
"Do it fast" Striker replied, it was more out of worry than an order, which is why her Geo friend wasn't ripping her throat out, she looked at the turtles, deep in thought, trying to figure out how to further help them.
And just as if something or one was answering her, their pouches began to glow brightly, all the girls including Clayshah stopped dead in their tracks at what they were doing. But the one it hit the hardest was Tempest, upon seeing them, she stopped, thinking for a moment, then quickly went for blue mask's gem.
They had a connection somehow, she had no idea how. But hopefully she could use that connection to help him, she felt protective of him for some reason. Striker watched her, and immediately caught on to what she is doing
"Guys, go to the turtle of you element, get their gem, you'll need to give up some energy for them, and make it very quickly!" Striker, upon that blast of knowledge from Mizuchi, knew she had the aspect of life, and could literally feel theirs slipping away. Not to mention their breathing was becoming very shallow.
"The hell is this bull shit" Inferna muttered, continuing to dig around in Raph's pouch.
"If I touch something I am not supposed to, I will shoot myself" she promised, she'd find a gun somewhere, somehow.
"There's an image" Clayshah responded, finding a gem residing in purple mask's pouch. This turtle had so much god damn stuff, how the hell did he stay agile? Clayshah gently held the gem in her hand, and took a deep breath, then released energy into it. Wait, what the hell? How did she automatically know what to do?
She tugged some energy out of the purple crystal, a little strained, then got it into Donnie. Holy hell, taking that energy felt like lifting an elephant after a conditioning workout, because of that, she was unable to do a full transfer because her energy reserves went down too much, her entity went to reserved/defensive mode.
It was the same thing with her sisters, they couldn't take more energy out of the gem, but did as much as they could, luckily it was enough, because the turtles all arched back and gasped for air.
Tempest watched the blue banded turtle like a hawk as he went limp again. The only thing that put her more at ease was the fact that her was breathing easier and alive.
Purple mask opened his eyes up, only for a moment, looking dazed before they slipped back shut. He was still too exhausted to stay awake and talk.
Raphael opened his eyes, took one look at Inferna with a penetrating gaze
"Great...that's twice now...I'm never going to live this down..." just like that, he passed back out again, Inferna wasn't as concerned considering his breathing leveled out and was more strong too. But wtf. Again?
"I want, what this mother fucker is on…" was all she could manage to get out.
Mikey's eyes open and he calmly looked at Ariel. smiled at her as he placed a hand on hers. Before mumbling tiredly:
"I knew you guys would figure it out…" his hand slipped back down as he took a few good breaths as he looks curiously around. Ariel was also curious by him too, his touch was one of friendship, she gathered that much, it was one where he was familiar with her, and comfortable. Yet he just met her, he was adorable though, like a little curious puppy, she shall protect the little puppy turtle dragon.
"Anyone else have a sudden urge to smack them?" Clayshah suddenly asked and to everyone's surprise just about everyone raised their hand except of course Ariel. She was too sweet, even despite her ferocity on the battle field.
"Smack later. We have a lot of work to do and a lot of damage to fix. Tempest, with me please." Striker sighed. She was so tired, but her entire species was in her hands now, and she was going to die before allowing them to.
Tempest nodded, poor Tempest, she was exhausted as well, but they had to stay aware and get ready for the next inevitable battle, because whether they liked it or not, it was coming, it always came in as a rushing storm.
"So, do you guys have names? Or do we just keep calling you red mask, blue mask, orange mask and purple mask?" the Aero rubbed her face, trying to keep herself awake, everyone was fucking tired. The energy transfer didn't help but they all would take being tired over losing the lives of such loyal terrapins
"All of you drink some energon now" Clayshah ordered, as a medic, she had authority over them, her sisters needed some damn food.
"Are we allowed to?" Their energon rashings have been very low, they couldn't afford to waste or eat too much, security in the Autobot cities have been over the top. Courtesy of the mech they saved of course, and they were suffering greatly for it, their metabolisms have all slown down but majority of them were starving.
"After that, yes. If there is another attack later today I want you guys to be able to at least defend yourselves" Clayshah replied. They would probably pass out in exhaustion at the rate they were going before battle. Inferna did the honors of grabbing a few cubes and handing them to her sisters in arms
"This is going to be an oh so long night. I can feel it already" she announced
"Hey, at least we haven't had a predicon attack, we have a new leader, and we've only had 1 attack today. We aren't doing too bad" Ariel reasoned, it was actually a pretty good damn day, she was going to be happy about every little thing she could, it kept her sane.
"Annnnd you jinxed it" Inferna huffed.
Mikey chuckled weakly at the smack comment. He was finally waking up a bit more, becoming more aware of everything. He looked back at Ariel
"I guess it's safe enough to tell you that at least. that one over there is Leonardo. but we call him Leo for short. he's our leader and big brother. pretty cool guy...until you get on his bad side. not a smart thing to do. that's Donatello, Don or Donnie. he's our smart guy. can fix anything" there was a sudden grin and mischievous gleam in his eyes
"That's pumpernickel. a bit hot headed at times so I'd watch the temper, And I'm Michelangelo, but you can call me Mikey" He finished.
Inferna wasn't believing him for a moment, before this giant war, they were all immature kids that loved to cause trouble. It might have been a while, but she still called bull shit, but if it got under red mask's skin she would totally call him pumpernickel
"One of these names is not like the other. Is his name seriously pumpernickle?" She had to ask. It was bothering her, she was a little OCD like that.
"Yeah, we gathered that he is pretty protective. Such a strange name" Clayshah noted, referring to Raph.
"You guys speak in so many riddles. It is strange Michelangelo" The Aero said. Why did he have to watch what he said so much? And why were even their names "safe enough"
"And what the hell did Pumpernickel mean: 'great that's twice now'?" she has never seen the fucker. The hell is he talking about? Sure there were so many weird creatures on Element that made these guys look less deadly and normal, like, you have no idea how much that radiation messed up animal DNA sometimes.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you..." he assured, then he sighed.
"Not sure I really believe what's going on. was too much crazy going on right now, even for my taste" the poor guy. This world and all the war was clearly something he wasn't used to, and all the girls had sympathy for him for that reason. Inferna raised a brow and gave Mikey a flat look, strolled over to his berth, pulled a chair, and sat by him
"Try us. We want to help you get back home, we don't want you here" oh, that might have come out a little harsh, meh, fuck it, she was an ass hole after all.
"What she means is. You guys seem nice enough, especially for all your help, but it is sounding like your real life was nowhere near this. You don't deserve to stay in this hell hole" Inferna looked at her. This mother fucker speaking for her… But yeah that is what she meant. She simply nodded her head at Ariel with a: 'yeah, that, what she said'
Mikey chuckled again
"It's fine. We don't want to be here either" he struggled to sit up.
"No offense intended. We like you and all, but we'd rather be home... having a hard time mixing what I know with what I see... maybe I shouldn't have said that... I dunno. I'm not the smart one, Donnie is…" He finally managed to sit up, Ariel giving him a little help. But he was stubborn and tough for not being a seasoned warrior. The Elemental girls respected that. Clayshah looked up from her work, glaring at Mikey
"Lay back down. You shouldn't even be talking, you should be resting like the others" she looked pretty ticked, like a cat with her ears back and tail and hackles fluffed up.
"We're kind of being hypocrites here. Anyway. Where are you guys really from? I believe the earth part. But something definitely doesn't add up" all there were, were dinosaurs there right now. Not humans, and nothing radioactive, so how the hell did the mutant turtles become who they are?
Mikey, on the other hand, waved their concern off
"I'll be fine as long as I don't do any jumping jacks. I'm just sitting here chillin' with friends." he looked at them all
"Let's just say that what we said earlier is true. you guys have so much to live for...if you open yourself up to the possibility... man...this sucks... so much, I want to tell you but not sure if I should…" all the girls were curious about the stranger, but they were also respective of him too.
"Do we ever get a time of peace after meeting the Cybertronians?" Ariel asked, her eyes showing their exhaustion, not just physically, sure she was a naturally born warrior, but all this fighting and bloodshed was hitting her in every negative way possible, just like it was with her family.
"He's from the future" she leaned back in the chair, arms crossed, a: 'check mate'
"Huh. Cool." come on, it wasn't the weirdest things the girls have ever experienced, they were abducted and experimented on by aliens after all. Clayshah's concoction flared up
"Ok. Definitely not that one…" she said.
Mikey rubbed the back of his head
"Donnie is going to kill me... he's been harping on us for interfering ever since we got here…" he looked a bit sad, then cracked up laughing as clay's concoction blew up.
Red mask opened his eyes
"Will you keep it down you loudmouth!" he growled
"That reaction could have been way worse.. one bad calculation…" she quickly went over her current notes and scrubbed her head, between needing to give the turtles sustenance, she couldn't experiment too much with the energon, because, again. They were so low on it and they still needed to feed their clans, and that was a lot of mouths to feed, especially the growing little ones.
"He'd have to expect you guys to spill the beans eventually. We can usually put two and two together pretty quickly" Ariel reassured
"Striker and Tempest trying to figure out how to confront those Cybertronian neutrals?" Inferna quickly asked, Clayshah scratched out something on her notes
"I believe so."
"What is the point of that action?" Inferna huffed. Neutrals were Cybertronian hippies who were too scared to fight, what could giving them a safe haven possibly do? Striker walked back in
"Because Inferna, we become allied to the neutrals, it will send the Autobots a message that we can be peaceful with Cybertronians. Also they can help us get resources, they know the planet better than us by a long shot. And they can go into the cities without getting killed on sight or hunted down by enforcers. We have a lot to gain by becoming allies to them. Now, while Tempest finishes up the plans, I need you to go with me on a patrol. Makes sure no rogue Decepticons escaped to the outskirts and to keep an eye open for more patrols"
"Ah, you're going to do the traditional: 'leader leads patrols and warriors into battle' thing?"
"I am going to bring things back to the way they were" Starstriker promised. She will do everything she can to be exactly like her Supereon, she will only do what is best for her people, always. Inferna finally turned the red banded turtle, hiding a smile, maybe humor wasn't so bad and could actually help her, who knows.
"Crap Pumpernickel, you always such a crabby ass after using a ton of your energy to blow out a bunch of cons?" Inferna couldn't help it, she had to, she just had to, Clayshah snickered and kept working, her goofy sister always had to irritate people.
"Pumpernickel? who the fuck is…" red mask, finally able to talk, took him a while to get his bearings too, he glared at Mikey, it was obvious since Mikey was trying not to laugh
"MIKEEEEEY!" he lunged at Mikey and Mikey tried to run. Both end up on the floor. Mikey squealing as he tries to crawl away from a crawling Raph
"Enough!" Leo's voice cracks out in the room. He took the words right out of Clayshah's mouth, she didn't find the two amusing considering their condition.
"We had one close call and we don't need another!" Leo finished. Donnie was laughing quietly, he didn't want to fire up the pyro turtle all over again.
"His name is Raphael, not pumpernickel" he corrected, still amused.
Mikey and Raph settled down at the warning, but they were now stuck on the floor on their stomachs, which was funny looking especially with their pouty expressions. Donnie just had to rub it in though
"And here I was thinking that turtles usually got stuck on their backs..."
Leo just sighed and put a tired hand to his forehead. It was the turtle face palm, aw yus. Raph kept a look of fire on Mikey
"You just wait until I get my hands on you...you better hope she forgets that shit..." He promised darkly. Damn, he really did have a temper. Mikey's response to this was crossing his eyes at him
"Oh no, it's going to stick, just in spite of you now. that'll teach you to use me as a dragon foot mat" she doesn't think Raph saw her, or he probably did, she doesn't care, she hauled him up, then put him back on the med berth
"Now if you'll excuse me, we have a patrol to run. Be back later~" she followed after Starstriker.