So here in this chapter I realized in doing another Humanimal's POV of the Invastion, one thing I kept doing was showing the Invading Wrangler Ships as tiny shooting stars landing far away from inhabited areas (They're large spaceships they need large areas of flat land to land on) Here I decided for a change of pace a Humanimal is in a far enough away place that she gets a good up close view of a spaceship before it lands.
One night during summer vacation, Cactus found she couldn't sleep, she didn't know what it was, she felt hot in her bed sure...But there was something else, a tingling feeling she couldn't describe that made her feel anxious in her room...She felt like she had to go outside.
She got out of bed, put on her familiar purple dress, and quietly left the house to do some stargazing.
The desert skies are usually beautiful unfortunatly the light from the city had kind of stole the thunder from the stars...Feeling an intense need to see the stars tonight Cactus got on all fours and galloped through the Woodland Mammal District, through the Reptile/Amphibian District until she was truly in the barren wilderness of the dessert, this was risky because this completely barren land...As a Peccary her instincts told her to eat cactus if she needed water, but here the only cacti were in the people's gardens in the soil they imported, out here everything was just bare rock.
There is a proverb from Armenia 'Pigs Never See the Stars' well Peccaries aren't actual Pigs, and either way the adage doesn't apply to Humanimals of any species...As Cactus gazed at the night sky, she saw a couple of shooting stars! Cactus could hardly believe her luck when one of those shooting stars, came closer and closer...Then she realized it wasn't a shooting star at all! It was an enormous spaceship and it was coming down to land!
Cactus got down on all fours again and began running knowing what would happen, but she couldn't outrun a spaceship, the spaceship landed a few miles away on a flat space in the desert, and the sonic boom sent Cactus tumbling through the desert, turning endless somersaults, until finally she collided with a pile of rocks.
For a few moments her eyes were bleary with dizziness, as her vision began to clear she could see she was behind the massive jet black spaceship, what looked like Skeletons were pouring out (Really they were humans wearing skull-like helmets) an announcer on a P.A. System said "OK Boys, you know what to do! Capture every Humanimal and Human on this planet! Leave no intelligent being on this planet! Leave no loose ends!"
"Capture...Every Humanimal and Human?" It took a few moments for Cactus' dizzy brain to process what she had just heard then she she realized to her horror, this was an invasion! Cactus squealed which she probobly shouldn't have done as that probobly alerted the Wranglers there was a Humanimal nearby
Cactus was about to contine her run through the desert, when suddenly she was grabbed from behind and a strong hand covered her mouth! Feeling terror Cactus struggled with all her might but whoever was holding her was a lot stronger than her, she was taken behind the pile of rocks.
"Cactus!" Came a muffled voice "Stop struggling and squealing! It's me, your Dad!"
"My Dad?" Cactus squeaked
She turned and looked at the figure who seemed to be dressed in some kind of astronaught suit (Albeit one where the helmet had a muzzle) The figure took off his helmet revealing he was also a Peccery, Cactus looked at the eyes, they were pure black eyes, most Humanimals because of Bio-Engineering by humans with romantic imaginations are more likely to have blue or green eyes than black eyes even purple eyes are more likely to be found than pure black eyes. (Cactus' own eyes were brown a fairly common eye color for Humanimals) and even if a Humanimal had pure black irises like they would still sparkle like jewels, and she didn't see that familiar sparkle his eyes were like two lumps of coal...She knew then this had to be her Father!
"I'm taking you out of here!" Cactus said "Before you're taken as a slave!"
"What about Mom?!" Cactus asked
"There's no time!" Her Dad said "Also my ship only has room for one other passenger, I'm sorry but I can only take you!"
He led her to a strange machine...It was perfectly spherical and silver it looked like a giant pinball...
In earlier fics when Don takes off his bandana to reveal his eyes to Belladonna she remarks on how pure black eyes are a rarity among Humanimals (In my version the 2003 Turtles have black eyes with the expception of Mikey who has blue eyes, because in the TMNT and Other Strangeness Rulebook when going over the Turtles' Stats Mikey has the highest Physical Beauty Stat of his brothers at 16 going into what is counted as 'Supermodel Territory) So I figured Mikey having blue eyes is a hint to that difference
