Disclaimer: I don't own the TMNT
A/N: Well, I got a large mix of amusement and sympathy from all you guys. I'm sure that Raph appreciated the sympathy part and is ready to 'fight or flight' about the amusement part. I won't do anything too bad to him, remember he's one of my favorites too! Work is still pretty busy, the surgeons are having a field day, so not sure how the updates will come so stick with me!
artykidd: somehow the mixture of sympathy and amusement cancel each other out! Poor Raph indeed! Jessiy Landroz: It's OK! Nothing you did! I know what kind of action you were talking about, I will incorporate it, but this isn't it so rest assured! Reijiro:I'm glad that you could appreciate to the hospital I work at, they not only warm their speculums but sometimes use lube. As for theorgans in the tail question, I'm not a leading expert on it. I worked at a vet clinic and know a bit.The organs aren't at the tip, more like the 'meaty' part of the tail (or so the vet told me!). In fact, on most occasions you can tell a male turtle because usually the tail is longer. SilentWater13:Ah! I missed your 'bloodthirsty' attitude! Way to go! RAPHAELFAN02: Well, your amused by it but imagine how Raph feels? hehehe, I suppose that's the reason for your amusement! Thank you for the review! moonie16: Well, if you were in that situation wouldn't you by panicky and nervous? I think so! Tewi: Thank you so much!
Chapter 10
Meet the Family
(you look at Raphael, who is careful to avoid eye contact and his face matches his bandana) Ahem. What? (you questionif he's going to continue) (he leans in and whispers:) You're not going to tell anyone, right? (you nod) 'cause I might not get close enough to kill you before you get it out, and I really don't want that. Alright? (you nod) Alright...don't remind me where we are, I already know. Hell, how could I forget. I know that I'd already been, uh, um, r-raped, but I don't remember that. Well, one thing was for sure, I sure didn't want this stored in my memory bank! So I had to do something...
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I guess that this is the closest to panic that I've ever been. All this, everything that had already happened to me. And now this!
This was so wrong!
"Secure his arms!"
Two women knelt down out of reach (darn!) in front of me and pulled wrist cuffs out of the floor with some type of cable connecting it to the floor. Then the reached for me.
No. Way. In. Hell.
My first punch knocked one clear off her feet and the next one, well, I'm sure that I heard bone crunch there.
The rest of the females looked stunned. "But he was so well-behaved!" They exclaimed.
Well behaved my ass.
The rest grabbed those cattle-prods and approached me. It was time to show what 'primitive weapons' could do. I pulled out my sais.
I got the prongs around one of the sticks and knocked it out of her grasp. It flipped just out of my reach. I used the same prong to sideswipe the female. She misted into vapor as my arm sliced where she was even as my other arm automatically flew to the others. By now the other two were up and pissed.
I learned something today: it is difficult to fight six-to-one when the six have advanced strength and powers and your own feet won't budge from the floor. Especially when the other six also carry things designed just to electrocute you. What'dya know. You do learn something new everyday!
Even as I was dealing with them I felt a zapping pain in the back of my knees. The electric zappers! My muscles spasmed and my knees automatically gave out. A forceful shove sent me flying forward to my knees. Acting in reflex my hands flew out to catch my fall, slapping their palms on the floor. Three pairs of nimble hands automatically slapped the cuffs on my wrists.
Did I ever mention how much I hate reflexes?
So now here I was, in the most humiliating moment of my life. I was on my hands and knees, unable to move, in a room full of six pissed off females who intended to violate me.
Turtle luck working true to form.
The balls of my feet were still glued to that wierd black square and the chords holding my wrist cuffs shortened to the point that I couldn't move my hands from the floor. Not to say that I didn't try to break free, of course. I yanked and pulled and twisted and bucked and did every other imaginable movement to break out of these infernal things. I knew one thing for sure that I sure as HELL wansn't getting it up the rear!
Their response to all my struggles was to calm down, collect themselves, and get supplies ready. All the while they were talking about what planet I was from and different ways that I could be transimitting whatever kind of disease to their world. What got me a little on the edge was how they would deal with these, including the words 'quarantine' and 'euthanasia.'
Holy crap.
I stopped my struggles as they approached closer, realizing that I might need the energy, in hopes that I could catch them by surprise with a sudden burst of it. Though what the Hell I could do with all limbs immobilized I have no fu#in idea. Not to mention that I must have pulled and twisted at least twenty different muscles and who knows what else during my escape attempt. Yeah, too bad I can't try one now that the cameras are out, huh? Isn't life great?
Naturally, just like my own true self, I got lost in these enraged thoughts until something like ice touched me, nearly making me jump out of my shell. WHAT THE HELL!
"He's clamped his tail down. Strong little sucker." The Elential behind me stated.
Damn right! No one's touching that! I tried, with my tail down everything was covered up. Then I felt cold fingers try to pry it loose. SHIT! A stream of curses railed from my mouth, some so horrible it would make a sailor blush. I know it made some of those b!t#hes do that! I rocked my body, trying to dislodge her fingers while roaring at the top of my lungs. Immediately they leapt on me trying to get me to sit still. But there was no stopping me, I've never had this much adrenaline pour through my system like this and they were in for one hell of a fight before I was through!
It was about then that my motto on 'turtle luck' failed for the first time. Suddenly, my feet were no longer immobile.
My foot slid across the tile, no longer glued in placeand immediately I realized what happened. Too bad they didn't just yet. hehehe. Payback.
My heel swung out and cracked the cold-fingered lady in the nose. I kicked it again to catch her just below the ear. She was out cold.
With my hands still glued to the floor I swung my bottom half up and over, twisting my hands with the motion and managed to squash two of the females trying to hold me down under my shell. Then I kicked off and snagged another, wrapping my legs around her upper torso as I continued my descent and sent her head crashing to the floor in a move that any wrestler would envy.
With one out of commission, three stunned, and two too shocked to immediately act, I needed to find a way to get my wrists free. I spied one of my fallen sai a scant two inches from my left hand. Stretching my fingers, I strained to reach the best weapon in the world.
Only now the other two had recovered from their shock and grabbed their zappers and charged.
Muffling a curse I cartwheeled my legs in the air in a half windmill, (the best I could do with my hands the way they were) all the while reaching for my sai. The two females took a step back as I spun my legs this way, then that...twisting my abdomen more than I ever thought I could with this shell on my back. Learn something new everyday indeed!
Got it!
Doing the best I could with the heels of my hand locked to the floor I somehow managed to get the tip of my sai into the edge of the tile that the cuffs were connected to. I pulled and pried at it for all I was worth.
By now the two I squished with my shell were getting up and beginning to join the fight. How was I going to get out of this one?
Fighting upside down while immobile without the use of your arms is harder than it looks, believe me. Especially when the fight is one to four.
Somehow two of them managed to snag one of my feet. Immediately I swung my other foot to kick them, only for that one to be grabbed by a third. Shit. Fu#k. Crap.
The blue haired one glared at me, holding that zapper with blood trailing from her nose and from umpteen different other places on her face. Her glare (even though I saw it upside down!) was nasty as she raised her zapper, aiming at what? Between the legs...SHIT! The zapper came down.
It was at that blessed moment that the tile came loose. Of course, I was in something of a panic a bit stronger than before (after all, I was about to get my privates zapped!) so I was really using a lot of force on my arms. Once the tile suddenly gave way, my built up momentum swung the jagged piece of tile straight up the blue-hair's labcoat and crumbled with the force of impact.
She suddenly retched, dropping her zapper as her hands flew to her groin and she slowly toppled over in the fetal position, nursing her injury (wow, I didn't know it hurt for women too!) As luck would have it, when she dropped her zapper it landed straight on the foot of the one holding my left foot. She yelped and automatically let go of my foot to grab her own. My leg swung out and crashed into the nearest woman holding my right, while my now freed hands grabbed the ankles of the other and pushed her feet out from under her. She crashed to the floor, her face scant inches from my own and I finished that off with a well placed head butt.
Too late for most of the show, the one that I performed the wrestling move on earlier was now getting to her feet...but so was I. With cords trailing from the cuffs onmy wrists I bodily picked her up and chucked her right onto the zapper victim. They both went flying straight into a shelving unit which naturally toppled all over them the moment that they hit. Funny how that always happens, huh?
A well placed kick sent the groin victim skidding across the floor, making her crack her head on the wall. I gues that I'm stronger than I thought. Or maybe it's just because I'm royally pissed off!
The last one. The one that I had kicked in the head. She's the only one still standing. Filled with fury not yet quenched I whirled around to face her. She took one look into my eyes and actually whimpered. Wringing her hands nervously she looked at me with terrified eyes and began to dissolve into mist.
Oh no you don't!
With practiced ninja speed my fist flew out and I grabbed her throat just before she dissolved completely. Catching her by surprise she flew back together and stared at me with terrified eyes. "No...Please..."
Puh. She looked pathetic. And I was still ticked off. With an angry jerk I twisted her around so that she was bent over. With a heavy hand I smacked her bottom. She jumped and gave a strangled yelp as I spanked her. I know it might have been mean to others but I sure as hell was reveling in the moment. Again and again and again. I spanked her hard. She was sobbing after a bit and I whipped her around and glared at her. Her hands seemed torn between clutching the wrist that held her throat and rubbing her sore bottom. With a swift punch I knocked her out.
I searched around for something to cut the cuffs off my hands and finally found a suitable, but wicked looking knife (wonder what they used that for?) With the cuffs off I collected my sais. Calmly I stretched my tense muscles real quickand nonchalantlysauntered out ofthe room.
Hope that they learned better to mess with Raphael. Better luck next time.
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"What did you do! That entire room is shut off for the rest of the week!"
I smirked. Damn I felt proud of that! "They tried to do something that I didn't want them to do. Thanks for shutting off the camera. And was that you that released my feet from that black thing?"
Vivid sighed. "Yeah, I did. And it wasn't easy so you better be grateful."
"I suppose I might be." I said with nonchalance. She glared at me and slapped my arm. I laughed outright and slapped her butt without thinking.
Immediately she turned bright red with surprise and embarrassment and railed me with slaps that would do any wimpy nerd proud. Of course I knew that she must be holding back, but for some reason that made me feel good. Like warm inside. It's funny, that feeling. Can't quite describe it.
We were in a pinnace, some type of car that flies. You program where you want to go and it takes you there. I could never do it, I'd probably have it take us to the moon. Never was one with techno stuff. But Vivid was brilliant. Or at least I was beginning to think so.
She was waiting for me outside the door as soon as I was out of that Hell hole. Ordering me to be quiet she skillfully led me like a trained puppy through all the incoming security, gaurds, and a Hell of a whole lot more who had reacted to that, ah, commotion that I made. She did this with all the subtleness of a trained ninja, for we weren't stopped once. Three times she dragged me into some dark spot to hide from a troop of graysuites, which she somehow managed to spot in the massive crowd. Afterwards she changed out of her catsuit into one of those wispy shirt/skirt thingies. They really look nice on her, maybe more so than anyone else I've seen.
She didn't ask what happened in the chamber, didn't ask for details which I was grateful. She only asked if they 'got to me', and looked relieved when I smiled and said no. She looked so happy, it made me happy.
I was also quite proud of myself. A year or so back I stormed a warehouse with a kid while blind. I know none of my brothers ever did that. Now I can boast to myself that I was able to successfully hold off for a small while six fighters once while my feet were immobile and once when my hands were. I'm sure that not everyone can say that. But for all this pride in myself that I feel with this, I've never really been one to talk or even mention most of my private battles. Unlike Mikey...I miss that bonehead. I really hope that they're safe.
Vivid slowed her slapping and then I suddenly snatched both her wrists in one hand and held them over my head. She was caught by surprise, as was I by my movement. For a moment we just stared at each other. It was an odd, heated moment. That's the best way that I can think to describe it. It was like that funny feeling that I felt before only different, stronger. More powerful and intense. I felt the familiar feeling of a stirring in my loins and heat swamped my body. I was out of breath.
Her blue eyes were beautiful. She leaned in a little closer, her lips slightly partedand I did by some unknown instinct. Her small pink tongue flecked out and licked her lips nervously. Oh wow! My instincts were screaming at me to react. But how? My mind didn't know for sure, but the rest of me seemed to know exactly what it wanted to do. It was exciting.
We were so close to each others faces that I could smell her breath, her hair, her skin. I could feel the heat from her body, as I'm sure she could feel the heat from mine. It was like there was an oven going off between us. Slowly I released her wrists and she brought her arms down just as slowlybut didn't step away. Something really funny stirred in my belly. That same thing that I've been talking about that I can't quite describe.
Slowly I reached out my hand and touched her elbow. Her bare skin felt soft under the thick, calloused fingers of my three-fingered hand. She looked deeper into my eyes and I could feel the heat from her and inhaled it like a man starving. My other hand reached out and lightly brushed her chin. Her hand touched my stomach. We reached closer...
"Approaching Destination"
The jarring words of the computer broke the moment, whatever it was. She jumped back with a gasp and her hands flew to ther face. I stood there and stared at her, not knowing what to say. What had just happened there? Were we about to...apparently she didn't know either.
The computer choroused it's message again and Vivid whirled around to go to the console. Pushing a few buttons and pulling a few thingies, she got the computer calmed down. Then she turned to look at me, her face all business as she said "We are withing a mile of my home. It will just be a moment." she might have been all business, but I swear I could see something different in her eyes. And a lovely pink tinge to her cheekbones. What was it...
The best thing to do would be to act like it never happened. After all, she had a job to do and I had to get this parasite out of me somehow. I can't believe I just thought that, I sound like Leo!
In any case, the subject was dropped for the time being.
The pinnace slowed and landed smoothly. The hatch dropped and we both walked out. The sun was still as bright as Hell.
"Why is it always so bright around here? It looked like noon when I first came here, and that was at least a few hours ago."
Vivid smiled, her eyes still distracted. "We don't have night. We have five suns that are in constant orbit. That's why this fabric" she fingered the filmy shirt she had on "is so popular. This is actually the thickes fabric we have. My catsuit was thicker, since I was going to Earth, but everything else is thin and lightweight. Because it's always sunny and hot. That's why are eyes are like this."
"Huh?"
She sighed as we stepped off the pinnace. All we saw around us was dense jungle, of course really hot and sunny. We started walking down a road of some sort and continued to explain. "On your planet, creatures who only come out at night have large pupils, correct?" I nodded. "Well, here we only have bright sunlight so our pupils are constantly constricte to the point that they're nearly nonexistent. They are very useful, unless we go to a dark planet. Then most of the time we need some sort of eyewear to see better."
I nodded. It made sense. Vaguely. What I really wanted to know is what was going on in that pinnace but I felt nervous about pushing the subject. For all the front I put on in front of my family, I've never really been with a girl, or even touched one with any kind of interest in mind. And now,... I honestly felt like hugging someone, possibly more. Is this normal behavior? Maybe I should have my temperature taken...
"Well, I was wondering; why are you taller than all the other Elentials?" I quieried, reaching for anything that would distract my wandering mind.
She looked at me and quirked a smile. "Two reasons really. For one thing, most Elentials prefer a shorter mate. It's sort of a dominance thing...But under normal circumstances it doesn't really matter anyway. Not only do we have total control mentally and physically, the characteristics of males don't really transfer to the offspring."
I quirked an eye ridge at this. "What?"
She shrugged. "It's just the way it is, that's why all Elentials basically look like their mothers. My father, on the other hand, is much larger than my mother. And he chose to come here." I opened my mouth but she stopped me. "Remember, my family are 'rebels'. She went to his planet and courted him. Now, for some reason my sisters and I not only got some of his height, but his eyecolor and the color of our hair from him as well. My mother jokes that it's because he's reptilian, we think it's becasuse he actually loves her and she loves him."
I fell silent at this. I know that she told me that she didn't believe in what her species did to their mates, but for some reason I continued to think that she would be 'affected' by the popular surroundings.
"My sister did the same with her mate as well. They are going to have their first child soon."
My head snapped to her and I opened my mouth to speak but stopped when we finally reached her home.
It was basically a huge off-white dome with several adjoining smaller domes. There was a small clearing in the lush forest around it.
She took my hand (ZAP!) and smiled as she led me up the pathway to the stairs. "Don't worry, they know you're coming."
She opened the arched door (man, is everything curved around here or what?) and entered a spacious room. despite the pure white of the outer walls, the inner room was swamped with rich color. Paint, fabrics, rugs and of course the worn, comfortable looking furniture made it feel warm and inviting. It was like casting a spell. I mean hey, it would had to to make me think even remotely like that.
Her family was emerging from the hallways and I steeled myself for the intro. I never was good with howdy-dos.
Apparently when she forwarned them she made me sound like a nervous wreck, 'cause they came out one at a time as though if they came out all at once I'd explode or something.
The first one coming was dressed just like Vivid, only it was much skimpier. Her hair was a deep blood red and fell to her waist. Her dark ocean blue eyes flashed provocative thoughts as she shook my hand. "Hey,I'mHeartfelt." Her smile actually twinkled. I felt trouble stirring with this one.
Then came another sister, this one more modestly dressed with a floor length skirt and long sleeve shirt. She was joined by a sandy haired muscular human man with green eyes anda protruding belly (heaven help me.) Her shoulder length hair was powder pink and she had blue eyes so light they looked crystal. She smiled politely and touched my hand as well. "Hello Raphael, my name is Blush."
After that came her parents. And it shocked the hell out of me. Not the mother, who introduced herself as Purity. She looked normal enough for an Elential. Short, shapely, with silver white hair and light green eyes. I mean she was nice and even invited me for something called 'crutes.' It was her father that surprised me. Just like Vivid said he was tall, at least six foot. He was powerfully muscular and had deep reddish-brown skin, which I'm guessing the daughters got their hair color from since he had none. How do I know you ask? Because her father, Amuke, was atriceraton.
I was still kinda stunned when Vivid quietly said "Well, Raphael, meet the Family."
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A/N: I know, sucky place to end and, once again, I'm not too happy with the chapter. Does it have enough action? Romance? Drama? (Yeah, I'm being dramatic) Normally you guys insist that once again I have it upside down but I'm still uncertain.I know it took so long to update but really I can honestly say that this is the busiest month that I've ever had in this ward. The surgeons sharpen their tools constantly (please, protect your appendix!) Well, you know the drill. Review to your hearts content, nitpick, comment, ask questions, and do whatever you like. I like the long ones so don't worry about being wordy. Well,I gotta go now. Y'all have a nice day! Toodles!
