Chapter 2 "The Mutation" I was dragged down a large metal hall. It looked like something that I would have seen in a sci-fi movie. I had woken up in a vehicle sometime ago but no one answered where we were going. It also didn't help that I was scared out of my mind. Two smelly creatures were keeping me down. When we got to our destination, the man with the metal mask began dragging me down a hall. "Where are you taking me?" I asked. The man didn't answer. He only laughed cruelly. I tried to struggle away but I felt his metal claws dig into me. I didn't cry out but it hurt. I saw my blood drip from my arm. It was cool and free, as it ran down my arm. "Please sir, my parents are going to kill me if I don't get home and study. Please, tell me this is not going to be long. I really need to study," I said. "When I'm through with you, you won't be going home. SAT's won't even matter because you won't be you," he said sinisterly. I was suddenly scared. I had not idea what he meant by I wouldn't be me but from the tone in his voice, I knew that it couldn't be good. I wanted to get out of there but I didn't know how. I had no idea what to do. I was taken to a large room where I was placed on an operating table. I looked around. On my left I saw my best friend May who had disappeared a long time ago. She had a turtle crawling on her. Then I noticed that she was unconscious. Next to her was Nicole, one of May's friends who I didn't get along with in school. She was never nice to me. The two of us hated each other with a passion. We always fought about everything. I have yet to remember a time where we actually got along. Then on my other side was Lacey. Lacey was very pretty. She was also one of my good friends. We were like twins with May around. Her disposition was always very nice and very level headed. She had a very cute Russian accent when she spoke. Just then, I too went unconscious. When I woke up, I saw an incredibly large turtle standing over me. I jumped up. "Who are you? Where am I?" I asked. "Lin, it's me May. Remember me?" She asked. "No how can this be? May is.human," I trailed off when I suddenly noticed my appearance. "Linnea, you moron, you were turned into a turtle with the rest of us," sneered another turtle. "No shit, Sherlock! Do you think I'm as blind as you are, you ass?" I sneered back. I figured that turtle was Nicole. I noticed that she wearing a red mask. I thought it fit her fiery attitude. I saw Lacey was wearing a white mask. May was wearing a lilac mask. I wore a light blue mask. All of us were also wearing knee and wrist bands. I couldn't believe that I was suddenly a turtle, along with my friends and enemy. "Okay you two, there's no need to fight. We're in this together," said Lacy in her Russian accent. Nicole and I nodded. We both agreed that there would be no chance of getting out of here alive unless we all worked together. "Where are we? Does anyone know?" I asked. "No. All I can gather is that we're in some kind of prison," said May. Suddenly, the man in a metal mask entered the prison area, talking to a robot with a talking brain in it. We all watched as they stopped at our cell. "Here they are, Krang. The perfect thing to get those blasted turtles out of hiding," said the man in the metal mask. "Very nice, Shredder. They should be perfect for the little trap we intend to spring on them," said the brain. I looked at it in an odd way. I thought it was kind of odd. Besides who had ever heard of a talking brain? "We're not going to be part of any plan of yours," yelled Ms. Hothead, also known as Nicole. "Shut up, you hothead," I whispered to Nicole. Nicole glared at me before reaching to smack me. I managed to block. "They act like those turtles too," said the brain to the man in the metal mask. "So boss, what's the plan?" asked one of the smelly mutants. "You idiot, first we tie the little girls up. Then we wait for the turtles to come and then we destroy them," said Shredder. I looked at them in disbelief. There really were mutant turtles in New York! We all stepped back. I had no idea what this Shredder person was really planning. I was hoping that it was nothing that bad, but with the luck I had been having, it probably was.