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A/N: Wouldn't you know it! I finally get my computer hooked up with internet and it won't let me update the chapters in the 'simple mode!' It will only let me under 'HTML mode.' Personally, I'm not a computer fan, but I'm able to update using the mode provided. I had to dig through the cobwebs in my brain to bring back High school computer class to know how to do paragraphs and stuff under it. That took a while. If there are any computer wizzez out there I have one request: help me! So yeah, this is going to be a relatively short chapter. Sorry!
Jessiy Landroz: Well, I really appreciate the compliment. I always hope that I'm being 'different' from the rest (is there really another story of the TMNT getting pregnant?). And I'm happy to hear that I'm somehow giving out a decent plot. You are one of the readers that shows up at every chapter review and that means a lot. Hope that I can continue to reel in your support. greshunkai: Gory? I'm glad that you enjoyed it and weren't too freaked out. moonie016:I'm glad to hear that you are hooked on Vivid. What happens...I won't tell you! hahahaha! RAPHAELFAN02: Yeah...I guess that you could say that there would be a lot of 'ticked off moods' going around. I'm also happy to hear that I have you hungering for more! Mwahahaha! Reijiro: My, you just figured out every possible way that They could live, didn't you? Worst thing is that you guessed the one that I'm going to use! Despite your insightful and fullfilling hypothesis, you have yet to accurately figure out exactly how I'm planning on doing it! I'm going to keep an eye on you, young lady! Pretender Fanatic: Although it sounds like you enjoyed it, you seem to be a teensy weensy bit overwhelmed by the bloody stuff. Maybe it's the fact that Raph just killed four elentials, including the sister of his nemisis. Yeah. Wonder how that's going to turn out, huh? artykidd: The guilt I feel touches me to the deep depths of my soul, I assure you. I hope that some of your kids have such excellent grades that they can survive the flunk. :)
How to: Ride Off Into the Sunset
Before I could even comprehend what I was doing I was sprinting to the window with every muscle in my body straining. Reaching my arms out, I launched myself out the broken window, cutting myself on broken glass in the process.
I didn't care. Vivid was in danger.
Surprisingly, it wasn't until I was airborn that something occurred to me: how was I supposed to save her?
Holy shit. This can't be good.
As stupid as it might be, I just shoved that thought in a different corner of my brain for a moment as I spotted Vivid falling below me. Clasping my arms and legs to my body to make myself more streamlined, I went after her.
The wind whistled in my ears and flapped my cheeks as I went faster down to her. I came closer and closer.
There she was.
I reached out and grabbed her arm. Pulling her to me I hugged her to my chest, wrapping both my arms around her. Instinctively I curled my body around her, as though I could protect her from what I was certain was coming up.
The time went by like it was slow motion. But even still, the ground was coming up awful fast. Slowly I closed my eyes. I was beginning to get scared. I wanted it to stop. I wanted her to be safe...
I don't know what made me open my eyes, but when I did, I saw something that scared the crap out of me...the ground was rising up to meet me. I had no clue what to do, not that I could do anything in my current position. I just stared at it opened eyed as the (concrete?) broke and crackled as the patch of ground loomed up from its bed to beat me.
As my shell touched the ground, the thing gave a little as if to cushion me, at the same time I realized it was a slope. A steep slope.
I rolled down the hill, curling my body around Vivid, letting my shell take most of the beating. We finally rolled onto flat ground. The steepness of the hill was so severe that we continued for a full couple of minutes until we crashed to a stop, slamming against something. It was then that I opened my eyes.
It was only about five feet across, but it apparently met me at about the third or second floor.Then it smoothed out like a ramp. Weird.
Wait.
Was that another power? I already did wind, right? Maybe this was earth?
Just then Vivid moved and immediately my thoughts vanished. "Vivid? Are you alright?"
She blinked and looked up at me, her blue eyes staring into mine. Then she closed them and took a deep breath, as if to prepare for something. "Raph..."
"Yeah?"
"I...I need to tell you something..."
"What?"
"I..."
She never finished her sentence. Just then, the three elentials that I distracted earlier came up into view, trailing the rogue bike. Immediately they spotted the giant ramp jutting out of the ground and all three dropped their jaws and stared at the thing, stunned. Of course, knowing my turtle luck, they spotted us next.
Well, maybe turtle luck was working after all. For when I got up, I found out that what we slammed into was a bike propped up against the wall.
Holy shit this is going to rock.
It was a medium sized bike by my standards, then again this world is populated by petite women so I shouldn't have been surprised. Then again I'm not a tall giant myself and swung my leg over the seat. Grabbing Vivid's arm I hoisted her up behind me. Instinctively she wrapped her arms around my waist (sigh!) and just like that we were off.
Literally.
This thing went off like a dog who's had his balls pinched.
I nearly fell off the thing as it shot forward and Vivid tightened her hold on me. Still she slipped (her arms weren't long enough to go around my waist) and instead clung to my shell like it was made for her. (teeheehee!)
I turned it towards the elentials and immediately two of them scattered from this mad turtle on a hot bike. The other froze in terror (guess I looked pretty scary) and managed to mist herself just in time for me not to cream her. The elentials immediately headed for their bikes, but they were already dots in my mirror and I was already headed into the alleys.
I nearly scared the shit out of myself. They might make it look really easy in the movies, but dodging a fast moving vehicle in a narrow space with sharp twists and turns isn't as easy as they make it look. (yeah, believe it or not) Especially when you're not really all to familiar with the thing.
Well, I nearly collided with two walls, but had managed to make it out unscathed. I'm getting the hang of this air-transport thing. There's a neat trick where you can turn the bike on it's side to make the sharp turns, the air goes against the wall and it works! Yeah, I got the hang of this! I can do it! Yeah...
WHAM!
Well, after we bounced off the wall, ricocheted off the other wall, slammed into the trash cans, landed in a pool of I-don't-want-to-know, and when we had to scramble against the pavement to escape the air bike that was following suite I had a thought; maybe I shouldn't have done that.
Yeah. A real genius.
Stiffling a groan I heaved myself off the ground. My arms and legs were covered with road rash. Luckily it wasn't as bad as some of the stuff I've seen on TV. Swiftly I looked around for Vivid and heaved a sigh of relief. Apparently I took the brunt of the damage. She had only some minor scrapes and bruises, but her forehead was bleeding. I scampered over to her to look but she stopped me with one hand as she looked me up and down in horror.
"RAPHAEL! Your hurt!" Her voice was laced with concern.
I shrugged. "It's nuthin'."
"Nothing! You're bleeding! Look at yourself!"
I looked down. "It's only skin."
Alright, I admit it, I did kind of a light explanation of my rash...
The sound of the airbikes echoed from the other alley. (it sounds kinda like a loud bike at a distance, kinda faded) The other elentials were coming.
It was then that the adrenaline left my system and I began to feel again. And it was then that I truly realized how 'skinned' I really was. I kinda froze. It was like a really bad sunburn; it hurt to move. Vivid came at me gently and touched my elbow (thank Sensei for knee and elbow pads!) and slowly led me away. Where to: neither of us knew. Were were we?
You know, it's funny sometimes. You meet someone, and you never expect to meet them again. But you did them a favor, so they look for a way to help you out. Well, that's kinda what happened to me.
You can imagine my surprise when a familiar figure scampered out of a tiny little door. It was that little elf-looking man that I had met earlier. He took one long look at me and Vivid and gave us both a sympathetic smile. Then he motioned us forward.
"What is he doing? Why doesn't he talk? Should we trust-"
"It's alright, Vivid." She looked at me. "I kinda know him. Helped him out in a way. He's good."
She still looked a little suspicious, but followed him. The engine noises suddenly got louder and we both shuffled after the elf-dude faster.
He led us to a dingy brown wall and it was only when he lifted it away that I realized that the dingy brown wall was covered with a dingy brown blanket/cloth/whatever. On the other side there was an opening. We had to stoop to get in, but we did. It was a small area, we both crouched in the space (doing that much movement hurt like hell!) and he dropped the blanket behind us. He didn't follow us in, there wasn't room. I was too busy gritting my teeth against groaning in pain with this road rash to complain. Vivid tried, though. I grabbed her hand and she looked at me.
"But, but he..."
I did my best to smile and squeezed her hand. She took a breath. Then she leaned over to me and before I knew what happened she kissed me.
It was really soft at first, then it went deeper and despite the pain in my arms I couldn't help but put my arms around her and hold her close. It was like nothing that I've ever experienced. Like hot and cold at the same time, zingy and zangy, tingly and numb. This feeling warmed at my lips and seeped slowly downward until it touched every cell of my body like a white hot furnace. I drank into her like nothing I ever have before. I couldn't believe it.
When we separated both of our breathing was heavy and somewhat labored. We were still scant inches from each others face and I could feel her warm breath against my lips just as I could feel my own against hers. She looked into my eyes and swallowed hard.
"Raphael."
"Yes, Vivid."
She closed her eyes and inched a little closer "I need to tell you something. I..."
"Where'd they go!'
"Damn!"
The voices of the elentials cut into us, startling us. Immediately we separated like naughty schoolchildren caught in the act. I still reached for her hand and squeezed again. She looked at me and smiled as she squeezed back. Yes. She was right. We should continue this another time.
"Hey, there's a male! Hey! Male! Get over here now!"
"Where is he! I know he's somewhere, their bike is in the next alley!"
(silence)
"Over there? Alright then, you better be right, male!"
"Why would he lie? I know his master, he'll get hurt bad if he does."
"Well, good for her! C'mon girls! Let's ride."
He came back over to us and lifted aside the cloth.
Vivid leaned forward and strokedhis cheek. "Thank you, little man."
We rode through the grass, the air from the air bike sending the dew flying. Some of it hit my legs. I was grateful for the cool contact. My road rash went from sensitive and painful, to stiff, sensitive and painful. I had hurt like hell. It wasn't so bad now. On top of leading the elentials away, the little man had dissappeared, then come back with a bottle of some type of ointment. It was flourescent orange and smelled like grapes (tastes like shit). But once that stuff was rubbed on my tattered skin, oh man it was like a man dying of thirst jumping into a pool of water it felt so good!
It felt tremendously better than before, though I was still stiff, sensitive and painful. Though only a little bit. It was only after the fourth applying that I realized that this must've been some type of quick-healing stuff. No wonder it tingles.
Anyway, like the female she is Vivid insisted on babying me. Of course I hated it (cough) with a passion (cough, cough). Yeah. Never mind. Well, she still insisted on driving, and I must admit...it felt kinda good to just lean against her. Terrified of our crash, she was going so slow that I didn't even have to hold on, and I guess I also kinda fell asleep on her shoulder a few times too.
Yeah, well, never mind about that.
Yeah.
I told her where Amuke and Kartal were, and Iwarned her that they'd probably try to kill me as soon as they saw me. This didn't seem to faze her, in fact it seemed to piss her off. (Cool!) And, once again I was right. (I can't help it, it's a gift.)
Amuke came to his feet with surprising silence for a heavy triceraton, his eyes never leaving mine. Then I steppedoff the bike slowly and his eyes widened a bit when he saw the state of my skin. I must say right now that it looks a bit worse than it is because the bright orange goop was kinda showing around the edges of my ghashes, outlining them. Kartal did waste any time at all. He squealed with sympathy and scrambled over to me, his protruding belly bobbing back and forth as he hurried to assist.
Alright. Vivid babying me: Ok. (Kinda like it) Kartal babying me: It'll be a cold day in Hell.
I stopped him before he could reach me, my arm grabbing his shoulder. I winced at the sudden motion and Kartal gasped, his eyes awash with sympathy. He reached out "I want to..."
"No."
"But can't I..."
"No."
"But-"
"Siddown."
He tried to protest further, then I squeezed his shoulder. I don't mean the friendly 'hey man' squeeze. I mean that I was putting in some muscle squeeze. The pinch the muscle kind.
He winced and gave me a shaky smile. "Ok. Just tell me if you need any..."
"Down."
He waddled over again and sat down. Amuke ignored the whole interaction. He was already sitting back down, staring at me and waiting for an explanation, but of course first he wanted to talk to Vivid.
Hell, I was waiting for answers too.
I slowly sat down on the ground they cleared out and Vivid told us what happened.
"I went to Heaven, because that's the best place to find information. I know someone there, not personally, I just know them to be a good source so I went to find her first. Well, what I didn't know was that she worked for Glory."
Amuke's tail thumped hard on the ground and he growled.
Vivid gave a shaky smile. "Don't worry about her, Raph put one of his sais right through her back." Amuke looked at me in surprise, but I said nothing. I wasn't going to explain myself to a friggin dinosaur. "And he killed the other elentials in the room, then he killed Glory."
Now you'd think they never heard of a tempermantal turtle killing the baby sister of the ruler of their quadrant of the galaxy before. What a ruckus.
They were both talking at once, so basically I didn't know what the Hell they were saying. I just clamped my jaw and closed my eyes, willing myself not to lose my temper against these two boneheads. Not only would I hurt them, I really didn't want to move right now.
Luckily Vivid came to my rescue, or theirs. Either way.
"LOOK! Guys, listen to me! We need to get mom and the others!"
That quieted them both down. Both their wives were in danger. "Where are they?"
"They went to Ivory city."
Simotaneously Amuke glared at her and Kartal gave a gasp of fright, clapping his hands to his mouth.
I looked at both of them. "What's got your panties in a twist?"
They both looked at me like I was some idiot (was I?) and rolled their eyes. With a worried look on his face (didn't know he could look like that) Amuke sighed and explained.
"Ivory city is the capital. It's where Honor lives!"
A/N: I'm sorry it took so long to update this chapter. I know that you've already heard this excuse a thousand times but we were swamped at work. Plus I'm working my three-day. Once again the surgeons are having a field day and women are popping babies out. But I figured that I better update if I don't want to be hunted down and tortured into updating by a mob of angry reviewers. (Here's the chapter! Please! Put out your torches!) Plus that HTML thing (once again) sucks!
Anyway, remember if you read it, review it! That's all for now! Toodles!
