She spent most of work that day mulling over Raph's words, each time she came to the same conclusion and then immediately shook it off. She just kept telling herself too weird Jules too weird until her mind replied why? After that she kept her focus firmly on work. By the time April showed up to close the shop was organized neat and so clean you could eat off the floors, after giving her a weird look April offered to close up so she could get to practice. Oh god practice, as if it wasn't bad enough with Mikey being nervous now she was too they would probably end up fluttering around like a couple of butterflies in a hurricane.
She took longer than usual eating supper and changing her clothes. Damn it why couldn't I just keep my mouth shut, now I'm dreading spending time with my best friend she thought as she drug her feet through the dank smelly tunnels. She paused at the door to the lair taking a deep breath ok Jules you can do this its only Mikey, Raph probably didn't even tell him you know and with that she pushed open the front door of the lair. Everything was quiet, too quiet the hairs on the back of her neck began to stand on end, something wasn't right here. She knew she should turn around and get help but something made her creep forward toward the living room. There the furniture lie in ruins around the floor and there was no sign of the guys or master Splinter. What the! She crept forward toward the overturned couch, oh god please don't let there be anyone under there she thought.
As she approached the couch she got the feeling she was being watched, by more than one person, was this a test she wondered Mikey was always telling her that a true ninja can sense danger coming, she wasn't sure how though cause instead of telling her he got caught up in telling her stories about all the stuff Master Splinter could do. And as her mind wandered off on that thought for a fleeting second the danger presented itself, she heard a quick movement behind her and turned to see who was there but was greeted only with a brilliant flash of blue light!
She felt funny like she was dissolving, the room was fading away quickly, she vaguely heard Mikey's voice calling to her, and the sounds of the others yelling and then she was gone.
As quickly as she vanished from the lair she appeared somewhere outside, where she wasn't quite sure she stood dazed for a moment before a huge screen in the sky caught her attention.
He was just as she had always pictured him from the guy's stories; cold, cruel looking it was the Shredder. She whirled around and everywhere she looked she was greeted with the same familiar red symbol: the foot! The sky was blackened and dismal the air felt even dirtier than normal and there was a voice ringing in her ears coming from the screens "Beware what you do the Shredder is watching, Always watching" she stood for a few more moments not sure what to do then she heard a robotic voice call out to her.
"You there what are you doing out, curfew had passed" She turned to see a dozen or so robots with guns dressed in black suits with the symbol of the foot blazing on their arms.
"I… I'm sorry…. I ..." She didn't know what to say she was so confused what kind of robots were they and why did they have guns? Before she had time to come up with fears they were confirmed as the guards raised there weapons and aimed them at her. Her mind froze … what do I do oh god... Wait... Don't panic you can do this….. Um… uh… cover find cover she repeated those to words in her head like a mantra as she surveyed the scene around her, spotting some rumble to her left she sprang for it as the sounds of the guards weapon echoed in her ears. She leaped a little less gracefully that she had hoped over the rumble and to safety but the shots didn't stop in fact now that she listened they didn't even seem to aiming at her anymore. She closed her eyes and listened there was a battle going on out there some one had come to her defense, some one was attacking the guards. She carefully peered out around the rumble expecting to see many people fighting but now is was just five or so robots and her defender, she couldn't make him out clearly though he moved too quickly so quickly in fact that he made a scrap heap out the guards in a matter of minutes. The unknown fighter paused to survey his handy work before calling out to her.
"You can come out now, there gone, we won't hurt you" Damn that voice sounded familiar but it was too deep to be anyone she knew, and who was this we he was talking about, oh god please don't let her savior be a crazy guy with six personalities, She glanced out from behind the rumble and now noticed a women with short ill cut dark hair standing a little closer, the other figure was still a little out of focus, damn the air here was black. She ducked back behind the rumble, not sure if she should trust these people or not. She heard the deep voiced figure curse then start striding toward her.
"Damn" she cursed she must have jumped behind the only piece of cover with no other way out, she didn't have too long to beat herself up over it thought before a strong hand grabbed her from behind by the shoulder and pulled out of the rumble and whipped her around to face him. And so she came face to face with her defender.
"What the hell……… Mikey!"
