Merry Christmas! Watched the Wild Kratts Christmas Special Today
From the darkling woods they come,
On cloven hoof and twisted claw
The Beastmen they are called, these ones;
Less than human, yet also something more.
So the Turtles, the Humanimals, and even the Wild Kratts followed Marzipan to a park in Queens, as Marzipan described it it was filled with rubble from the buildings that had been destroyed.
"Cubs!" Marzipan yelled "Cubs! We're here for you! We're here to take you somewhere safe!"
"They are here." Matoaka said quietly to Leo "I can smell them...I can also smell they are bloody terrified."
"Cubs!" Marzipan yelled "I know how scared you must be! I was once like you! But if you come with us you will be safe!"
Marzipan's ears twitched...She heard children's voices...Unfortunatly they were speaking in Spanish...Which she didn't speak.
"Does anyone here speak Spanish?" Marzipan asked
"I do!" Aviva said quickly "I can help with the translation!"
"Don't bother." Said a Grumpy Male Voice, and out from a pile of rubble peeked a scruffy Vampire Bat Mutant, he seemed to be Elementry school aged, but it was hard to tell with Mutants "We speak English just as well."
"Well then..." Marzipan said "Come with us...Your Folks could be waiting for you...Worried about you!"
The Vampire Bat quickly became nervous and shirked away, he resumed speaking Spanish to his Fellow Cubs and three very Young Cubs started screaming.
"Chac!" Came a emale Voice a Female Margay Mutant...A very pretty emale with long blonde hair that flowed down her shoulders "You are the worst! You are so scared by that Evil Rat you do exactly as he say!"
Chac started speaking quickly in Spanish but the Margay Girl grabbed him by the shoulders and started shaking him "If we don't speak up we'll never get another chance!" She yelled
Jonathan clutched his chest and began hyperventalating for a moment, that was ALMOST EXACTLY what Harely Quinn had said during the hearing with against Lyle Bolton...And to hear it the same thing spoken exactly by this Young Feline...
"Whoa! Whoa!" Casey said slapping onathan a few times on the back "Dude you..."
"I'm...I'm fine..." Jonathan said quivery "I...Just had a bad case of Deja Vu."
Leo...Tenderly...Slowly...Approached the Young Margay. He got down on one knee "What is your name?" He asked softly
The Margay Girl blushed and stammered "T-Triguina
"Who...Who is this Evil Rat you speak of..."
It was at that point, Nygma found them, he parked his car when he found Jonathan.
"Where the devil have you been?" Jonathan asked dangerously
"I..." Edward knew he could never reveal he had been seduced by an Animal...He would never live it down. "I..."
"Shhh!" Aviva sushed them both harshly
"The Evil Rat..." Triguina said "His name is Otto...Otto Rattus...He works for a Human named Feral."
Jonathan and Edward both felt cold all of a sudden.
"Really." Leo said
"He is not like any other Mutant!" The Young Margay said "He doesn't look like us...Like an Animal...He looks exactly like a Human."
Jonathan and Edward both felt a trickle of cold sweat ...They had seen Feral's Bodyguard...And they had both noticed something was off about his eyes, but neither of them understood why his eyes seemed so strange.
"But you know he is a Rat when you smell him!" Said the Feline Child "And when you look at his eyes! You see the Rat behind the eyes!"
"Really." Leo said
"Otto come to us when we came to this place!" Triguina was starting to hypervetalate "He say he will kill us! He say he will come to kill us soon! And we shouldn't bother to leave, because if we do he'll come to kill us faster!"
"Poor things!" Aviva squeaked wiping away a tear.
"Well..." Leo said "Otto may have said that...But he didn't think we were coming...And we...We will make sure he doesn't kill you."
The Young Margay then burst into tears, and burried her face in Leo's plastroned chest.
"You're safe..." Leo said soothingly as he picked her up and cradled her in his arms "You are all safe!"
And tha was when the rest of the cubs revealed themselves, two Emerald Tree Boas, a Boy and Girl were holding two Younger Cubs, the Girl was holding a Tree Porcupine Female and the Boy was holding a Giant Anteater Male both were crying and a White Hawk Girl was holding a Young Sloth Girl who was screaming her lungs out.
"The Cubs followed Leo and Marzipan into a Truck, where they were soothed and fed by Ninja Turtles, the Morning Glories and the Foot Ninja.
The Wild Kratts were a bit...Flabbergasted at this point...
Marzipan saw Triguina bite into a bar of chocolate and screamed and her tail floofed "Don't eat that!" She screamed
The Younger Feline was confused "Don't eat Chocolate?" She asked "Why? I ate it all the time at Maison De Fauna."
Ichabod soothed his Girlfriend "Remember our time with our Mutant Cubs?" Ichabod said "Mutants...Clearly don't have the same dietary restrictions as Humanimals."
As they drove back to Manhatten. Nygma, remembered, his plan...To get TCRI Mutants for Feral, to create more Youth Potion...He remembered his plan, yesterday was after his night of fun...He would return to First Earth, and...Capture those Five Mutant Zoo Animal Cubs and bring them to Feral...His heart was starting to race...He was terrified, after hearing what he just heard about Feral from these Cubs, and seeing these...Aninals...That Feline...Reminded him so much of his own Dear Daughter Pandora he was starting to attempt to retreat into himself so he would stay convicted to his plan...
The Wild Kratts meanwhile, watched all this happening. Martin thought about all the Normal Animal he had met and named...
"This Feral..." Leo said "We have to do something about this Feral."
"Eleanor..." Don said wistfully "For all her faults, I can't really blame her for coming to the conclustions she did."
"What do you mean?" Martin asked
"Eleanor was on the ball about this Mutation of Animals will not end with us...The Dominoes have been knocked over no stopping them...I am reminded of that quote from Jurassic Park, and I may be paraphrasing a bit here...Life will not be contained, it breaks through barriers, sometimes painfully sometimes dangerously but Life...Will find a way."
"I think...I am starting to understand what is happening." Martin said "...And it terrifies me."
"Why are you terrified?" Don asked
"The Mutations are not stopping." Martin said "The Planet's ecosystem has been contamanated with Mutagen and the ...I'm thinking about all the Baby Animals I've ever met...Some of them will come into contact with the Mutagen...And they won't won't grow up to be normal animals...They will grow into...Men and Women..."
"Well..." Aviva said standing up "...If that is what will happen we have to do our part, to create a world where they will be welcome, because if we have learned anything is that, People Animals can't live Free and in the Wild, they need a Civilized Place to live...If they are to become People...Let's create a place where they are free to be people."
Well I think I am obligated at this point to Mutate one the Wild Kratts Animals and write a story about that