My Brother's Child.
I'm back! Well anyway, I don't own the turtles and various other characters I'm going to use, won't tell you who yet cause that could spoil it, however just to ease your mind a little, it's a crossover with a very well known movie. The rating may go up at a later date , but I'll come to that when I come to it, Anywho, on with the story, enjoy. P.S: I do own, Nikki, Chrissy and Kimieko.
Chapter one: Shadow.
Leonardo watched as Mikey and Nicole fought over the the television set, Mikey wanted to watch a movie and she was set on watching some friend of hers in a ballet. Raph was keeping well away from it and was listening to music in his room, Christina was sitting at Donatello's computer looking totally confused as Donnie leant over her and tried to explain something technical about the computer to her. April was at her apartment, or should he say her and Casey's new apartment and Splinter was meditating in his room. Leonardo couldn't help but sometimes feel a little claustrophobic at times with the two girls now a permanent fixture in their layer. Nicole couldn't go home as the whole country seemed to be hunting for the resident freak to cut her open and she only ventured out now as the Cat. He looked back at the two fighting on the couch like a couple of children and watched as she successfully managed to get the remote away from Mikey and turn it over to the arts channel to watch Swan Lake in which her friend was apparently playing Odette in (the swan for anyone who doesn't know – it's what the movie The Swan Princess was based on), he felt a sudden pang of jealousy as his brother came out of his room and draped himself over his girlfriend and gave her a kiss. For what must be the thousandth time in three years he wondered why it had been Raph and not him that had found love. Leo felt so lonely it hurt sometimes and he felt he just wanted someone to make him as happy as Nikki Made Raphael. He got up and placed the book in his hands on the table and headed to the door.
"Where are you goin'?" Asked Raph just as he'd reached it.
"I'm just going to get some air I won't be long." Leo said simply and left.
He sat up on the roof of a Cafe, and looked up to the stars almost willing to see a shooting star so he could make a wish, not that he believed in superstition like Christina or anything but April had told him a lot of people did that and he would do anything to be normal, if only to stop feeling so alone. For years he'd tried to ignore the feeling, the hurt he felt from being different that meant he would never be a part of the 'real' world, his world was the shadows, a place where most ordinary kids would never dream of living. He looked down at the mass of people milling around on the streets below, they didn't know how lucky they were to be who they were, to be human. Leonardo was so lost in thought that he never heard the small whistle of the tranquilizer dart speeding his way until it was too late and he found himself cursing as he slipped into unconsciousness.
When he woke up he was in a moving vehicle, where they were gong was anyone's guess. He slowly rose to a kneeling position and looked around. It was similar to the battle shell, but it was designed to keep the occupants in the back locked inside. With him were other kids his age some a bit younger, one looked familiar but he ignored that as he felt the restraints on his wrists and a further chain around his neck that attached to the wall of the vehicle his katana were gone along with his belt and scabbards.
"What's going on?" Leonardo said quietly to no one in particular.
"Anti mutant creeps. They've kidnapped us." The girl he thought he'd recognized answered his question. He looked over to her, obviously confused and she rolled her eyes. "You don't honestly think you're the only one do you?"
"One what?" He asked thinking that the question was probably as stupid as it sounded.
"Mutants stupid, haven't you been watching the news?"
"No not really, and I thought all that was just rumor." He looked at her as some light filtered through the slated windows. She was Japanese, about his age, maybe Nikki's making her a year younger and her hair was about shoulder length, her eyes were green and her hair was jet black with electric blue streaks all the way through it, including her fringe. She wore a skinny top that was ripped in places, black flares and a pair of trainers. He still couldn't figure out why she looked so familiar but either way this girl was extremely beautiful despite the scowl she wore. He noticed that one of the younger kids was cradled in her arms, looking petrified and the other kids weren't much happier. "Are all of you mutants?" He almost kicked himself as he said that, if they weren't then why were they here?
"Yep, me, this little guy," she looked down at the small boy in her arms that was no more than eleven and then over to another girl of about her age, who he noticed, to his surprise, that she had light purple skin, dark purple hair and odd markings on her face, "and Clarice over there go to the same school, we were grabbed on a field trip the others I don't know but most likely they were grabbed from parks or even their homes. I wouldn't put it past some parents to have told these creeps about their kids themselves." She said the last part bitterly and pulled the boy closer as he began to quietly cry.
"Do you know where we're going?" Leonardo began to study the interior of the van and the restraints that held them to find a way out.
"Genosha, probably, or somewhere else remote where they've set up a mutant camp."
"A what?" his attention was back on her now.
"You know like the Nazi's, a place where they hide away unwanted races and force them to work or. . " she stopped herself as if she'd forgotten who was in the truck with them, "well it's not nice. It's not legal either." She finished.
"What's your name?" Leo asked.
"Kimmieko." again familiarity niggled at the back of his mind but he couldn't for the life of him figure out why, he'd certainly never met this girl personally before.
"I'm scared Shadow." a small voice came from the little boy in Kimieko's arms.
"It's okay Toby," Clarice said to him, "Kim and me won't let anything happen to you we promise, right Kim?"
"Right squirt those creeps won't lay a finger on you!" He gave them watery smile and continued to hide in Kim's arms. Leo almost asked what Toby had meant by Shadow but was interrupted by the vehicle stopping and the doors opening. Six men with guns trained on them were outside and they did not look friendly.
"All right muties, get out and don't bother trying anything those collars round your necks are designed to suppress any dangerous powers you may have." the man that spoke held up a remote and the chains fell away from the collars around their necks. "Come on freaks we haven't got all day!" They all got to their feet exited the truck rather awkwardly and were pushed and shoved towards a large cargo plane. Leo noticed that the men were nervously looking up at the sky and at their surroundings as if anticipating an attack. Inside the plane their group were walked past a small number of what looked like temporary cells all doors were closed except one at the end which they were promptly forced into, the door closed and locked behind them.
Leo's internal body clock told him they'd been in that plane for at least six hours before they were revisited by the armed men and told to follow them, this time the other cells were also open and a large number of people were being led out of the plane. Outside was, what looked to Leonardo, a prison there were exhausted looking people working on some sort of dam and a large ominous building in the back ground. A skinny man in a lab coat approached the large gathering of new 'inmates'.
"Welcome to Genosha, mutants. You have no rights here and you will do as your told or face the consequences, any attempt to escape will result in punishment and any attack on a human will result in execution do I make myself clear freaks?" He spat. The crowd didn't answer they all looked so terrified, Leonardo looked over to Kimmieko and saw that she too was blatantly sacred but was trying to hide it with another scowl. He had to wonder how he'd let himself slip enough to get into something as deadly as this and how he and his new friends were going to escape this forsaken place.
Can ya guess which movie yet? Well, just to warn you I actually borrowed Clarice from the comics, just to confuse you, but as I liked the character and they killed her off I thought I'd borrow her for this. I hope you enjoyed this one and you'll understand the title later on I promise. Toodles, Angel.