Lost in the Woods
Chapter 2
Disclaimer: Read the one in the last chapter! Sorry just joking!
I do not own the turtles, I do own the women though – whoever she is.
"Now what?" an orange clad turtle asked his brother.
Raphael bent down to take a look at the women.
"Think she's coming round," Raph answered.
"What? What happened?" The woman mumbled. She took one look at Raph's green feet and began to cry.
"You have that affect on people don't you Raph?"
"What you on about?" Raph looked to his brother.
"She's crying. You tend to make people cry, especially when you pound their heads in."
"I'll pound your head in a moment if you don't stop talking!" Raphael warned.
"Please, please don't hurt me. Please I just want to go home," The women cried.
"We ain't goner hurt ya, lady. I was threatening my brother – he doesn't know the meaning of shut up sometimes; actually make that all the time. We are lost in this place too. Maybe we could help each other get back to where we're supposed to be," Raph said gently to the women.
"You're not going to hurt me? You're not with those others?"
"What others?" Mikey asked, coming to join the women and Raph on the forest floor.
"Those, men. They were going to do things to me."
Mikey looked confused at his brother, who was just as confused.
"Are you seriously hurt?" Raph asked.
"No just bruised and a crushed spirit. My name is Molly what's yours."
"I'm Mikey, that's Raph – he's the scary one." This earned Mike a death stare.
"You don't look like humans?" Molly asked.
"Na, we're turtles, see the shell?" Mikey turned so she could get a better look at his back.
"Are you for real?" Molly asked.
"Trust us – would you want to carry around this heavy shell on your back if you had a choice?" Raph stated.
"I never knew there were any turtles as big as you in the world."
"Only us and our brothers, we're a rare species so to speak," Raph told her.
"There are more of you?" Molly looked interested.
They suddenly heard someone else approaching.
"Yeah, but no time to talk about it right now, someone's coming," Raph grabbed hold of Molly and pulled her up on her feet and the two turtles and girl ran off into the scrub.
After what seems ages Molly started to pull back, she had a killer of a stitch in her side.
"Please, please wait," She let go of the green hand, which held hers.
"You okay?" Raph looked back at her.
"I got a stitch."
"Yeah they can be killers, hey," Mikey smiled at her.
"Well, I'd feel better if we get a little more distance before we fully stop for a bit. Do you mind if one of us carries you?"
"Hey!" Mikey protested at the offer – he was not up for running, let alone running and carrying a woman on his back.
"I'll do it!" Raph hissed.
Molly looked around at the two turtles. They did not cause her to feel threatened.
"Okay, you can carry me, Raph," before she could finish, the red masked turtle were carrying her.
After some time they came to a creek, "Let's stop for a rest here. We can get a drink."
All three run-a-ways soon lapped at the water only then releasing how thirsty they were.
"You got your sais Raph?" Mikey asked as he saw a fish swimming past.
Raph looked down to where his weapons usually sat and was surprised to notice that whoever had caught them hadn't bother to take his weapons away. He looked to Mikey – who seemed to still have one of his weapons.
"Where's the other one?" Raph asked Mikey knew what he was talking about.
"Don't know. Can I borrow a Sais and catch us a fish?" Mikey asked.
"This ain't a time to catch your self a new pet, Mikey!" Raph put his hands on his hips at his brother. Molly just laughed at the two strange but amazing creatures that were helping her.
"I want to catch us some breakfast, stupid!" Mikey replied back annoyed that Raph was showing him up in front of Molly.
"Don't know about you, but I prefer my sushi cooked!" Raph said, winking at Molly, as she got his joke.
"Duh! I was goner cook it, stupid!" Mikey replied.
"What with? You need fire to cook your fish. Hum… don't see any fire trees around here?"
"Raph, we put that glass in the sun, over some leaves – we get fire."
"He's quiet a boy scout your brother," Molly giggled as the two boys argued.
"He's a ninja not a scout. Wish he'd remember that!"
"Raph, it says so in Donnie's boy's annual that he got when he was eight."
Raphael rolled his eyes at his brother.
"Who's Donnie?"
"Our brother," both turtles replied.
"He's the scientist. You ever need anything fixed – see Donnie. Except when there's a Star Track marathon on," Mikey informed Molly.
"Mikey, do you really think she gives a hoot about Donnie? She hasn't even met him!" Raph yelled.
"Oh touchy, remind me when we get back to tell Don that Raph don't care about him and that maybe he shouldn't hurry up in fixing the hog for him," Mikey teased.
"Mikey – if you're catching a bloody fish, then do so. You're giving me the cruds."
"Ewe! Told you not to eat that tin of baby custard last night!" Mikey said.
"What custard, I never eat custard you little," Raph grabbed his brother and yanked the Sais back.
"What kind of food do you guys eat?" Molly asked, she was interested in what giant turtles eat.
"Raph here really enjoys baby food," Mikey jumped from rock to rock, avoiding Raphael.
"I do not! I never eaten it in my life," Raph turned to look at Molly, "We eat what everyone else eats – food."
"You did when you were a baby," Mikey said.
"How the hell would you know what I ate as a baby, I can't remember so why should you? You're younger than me," Raph pointed out.
"How can you be sure of that. Splinter just guessed. For all we know I could be the oldest, and not Leo!"
"Mikey use your loaf – there is no way on earth that you're the oldest, so get over it." Raphael said, as he walked back to where Molly sat.
"Is Leo your other brother?"
"Yeah real bone head. Thinks he's Mr Perfect," Raph told her.
"My oldest brother's the same," Molly said, "Thinks it's his job to tell the rest of us what to do."
"Yeah that's Leo. Do you think they've ever meet, Leo and your brother?" Mikey said.
"Yeah Mikey, Leo's best mates with him. What do you think?" Raph shoot at his brother.
"Hey, you got a brother like Raph, who always picks on you?" Raph throw a stick at his brother.
"So how long we been walking?" Mikey asked.
"Oh let me just check my watch, oh that's right, I don't have one because my little brother broke it last week," Raph looked into Mikey's face.
"How'd you do that?" Molly asked the orange masked turtle.
"I kind of dropped it into the bath."
"Oh dear!" Molly said.
"Yeah, meanie here wasn't a happy little boy about it. I had to leave the lair, otherwise I may not be right before you now."
"Oh he doesn't look that dangerous. I'm sure he's never killed a cockroach before," Molly said.
"Babe, mind if I call you that? He's killed many a cockroach and put many a purple dragon in hospital. And that's just on his good days, you don't want to see if on a bad day – it's like you need like twenty body guards to stay safe. Or you could just use Master Splinter, I usually do, he's better than 50 body guards."
"Mike – shut up!" Raph said, as they came near a highway.
"I can hear cars," Molly said.
"We're near the highway," Raph said, "see if you can see a sign, it'll tell us where we are."
"I can see a sign," Mikey said, pointing to sign that said road works.
"Yeah that really tells me where we are," Raph sycastically said.
"I'm only trying to help, dude."
"Hey guys, I think if we walk along here awhile we'll find a sign," Molly said.
"Yeah so long as we stay out of sight of traffic, I'm happy for that," Raph said, "Come on Mikey."
Mike followed behind his brother.
Meanwhile back in New York two other turtles were back in a lair with their father, crowded around the computer.
"Sensei, they seem to be somewhere just north of the city. As you can see, they are moving quiet a bit. They must have escaped the scientists, though I do not think they realize that they are actually going in the wrong direction. They're going east, when they need to move south-west." Donatello informed his father, who looked concerned – as any father who was missing two sons would. The lair was unusually quiet for a Saturday morning – a little too quiet for Splinter's liking. There was usually a fight going on about this time of the day, with the television blaring as Mikey watched his cartoons.
"What should we do? Their turtle-coms don't seem to be working," Leo said, as he was trying to get contact with his lost brothers.
"They could be out of range, just as well I got a tracking devise on them, so we know where to start looking," Donnie said, as he clicked a new window to get a street map of where his brothers were.
"So we're going to go get them? Is it safe? What if it's a trap?" Leo asked.
"Leo, they seem to be running east for over half an hour, before that they were heading south, but they then started going east. I do not think they are trapped anymore. I'd say they got out of where they were, you know those two, can't stand still for long," Donnie said.
"Sensei, what do you think we should do?" Leo turned to the old rat next to him.
"I think we must go after them, though Donatello, why do they seem so disoriented? Could it be due to unfamiliar surroundings?"
"Or maybe the drug the zoo keepers used is still in their system and clouding their better judgement. It seems Raph is more alert than Mikey, as Raph seems to keep stopping for Mikey."
"Mind you, Raphael can be the most focused when in difficult situations. I feel it a good thing that they are together, I just hope they stay together and do not argue and split up."
"I don't think they'd be that dumb to split when they're both lost, no matter how much they're driving each other up the wall," Leo stated.
"True, I think we should get going, before they do have a fight and split. I will hock up my laptop in the turtle van and we can keep track of them. Master Splinter, do you want to come for a drive?" Donnie shut down his computer. Splinter just nodded.
"Mikey, I telling you hurry up!" Raph called to his brother who was off near a bush.
"When you got to pee, you just have to bro. Hey stop looking!" Mikey cried, as Raph moved towards him, checking that his brother was not just messing around.
"There's nothing to see. You'll need a microscope to see that!" Raph walked back over to Molly who was taking a rest.
"Just as well we found that farm back there. Means we now have enough food until we get back to New York," Raph said, putting the left overs into a backpack.
"We can't be too far from New York when both of us were abducted and brought out here," Molly said.
"I think we keep going and find a decent place to set up camp for the night, cos I sure do need some rest and that drug they shot me and Mikey with, I think it's still making me woozy."
"I think it's cruel what those zoo keepers did, how can they harm any creatures. I thought people went into zoology for the love of animals, so why harm them."
"I don't know. Don says studying species is important sometimes, especially for their survival. The beauty with having seen and caught us means they can earn a nice buck off us, for discovering a new species. Though the thing is, they see us as animals and without feelings. I'm not saying animals don't have feelings, but we definitely have human traits along with those from our turtle heritage," Raph told Molly.
"Yeah we eat better than normal turtles, they just eat fish and lettuce – we eat pizzas, kebabs and chips," Mikey walked up to them.
"So how come you guys became this way? Were you born like this?" Molly asked.
"No, we were born your ordinary pet shop turtles," Raph began.
"But then this kid bought us and there was an accident, he dropped the bowl we were in and we fell into a sewer," Mikey told her.
"Then the truck that was involved in the accident up on the street, a canister fell in after us, hitting the ground."
"Smash!" Mikey make the sound effects.
"So there's this green slim all over us, so we're small baby turtles crawling around in what we call ooze."
"That's when old Splinter dude came along and rescued us. Instead of turning into a giant turtle, he turned into a giant rat. He's definitely gets first prize for being the giantess rat in New York!" Mikey said.
"Yeah, okay Mikey. Therefore, that is how we came to be. Splinter kind of took on being our father and raised us up like we were his own kids."
"Yeah and did everything a human parent would – like read bed time stories and give you hot coco when your sick. That kind of thing, except he never did bake us home made cookies, baking simply wasn't his style," Mikey went on to tell Molly.
"He sounds a really nice guy," Molly said, "You sound rather attached to him, the way you speak of him."
"Well, he's all we got," Raph told her.
"Let's find us a place to stay tonight," Mikey suggested. The three began their search for somewhere safe to stay for the night.
"This'll have to do. It's not the Hilton, but it'll be alright for one night," Raph said, as they found an old tree stump that fitted the three of them comfortably.
Mikey was already preparing their meal; Molly helped him, while Raphael gathered branches for them to sleep on.
Later on that night, as they had all fallen asleep, Molly woke up screaming. The sound startled the two turtles, which jumped up ready for action. It was more a reflect than anything else.
"Hey, what's the matter?" Mikey went over to Molly. She was crying and rocked backwards and forwards. Mikey looked to Raph for help.
"Hey Molly, your safe, we're here, we won't let any harm come to you, will we Mikey?" Raph said.
Molly just continued to cry and stare off into space. She then finally moved and wrapped her arms around Mikey's shoulders and began to sob uncontrollably into his shell. Mickey had never had a girl sob like this on him before. He was nervous about what to actually do.
"Put your arm around her, try and pat her back and calm her down," Raph advised his brother.
"Since when were you an expert on crying females?" Mikey asked, Raph just rolled his eyes.
Molly slowly stoped sobbing and slightly pulled away from Mikey enough to be able to see his face.
"I'm sorry for waking you. I am really sorry," Molly sobbed, "I just had a really bad dream. Those men, what they would have done if I hadn't run away."
"You feel safe with us, though don't you?" Mikey simply had to ask.
Molly smiled, "I have never had anyone show me as much kindness as you and your brother have, and you are both true gentlemen. I know you're both turtles, but you know what I mean don't you?"
"Sure we do," Raph said, leaning back down to go back to sleep in his new position.
"Think he's got the idea. Why do not you lye back down and try to go back to sleep. You've had a long day." Mikey smiled at her.