Brice was terrified.
Her legs hung from the ceiling chain and her face was blindfolded. The girl swung around violently, trying to free herself,
But It was no use.
Grunting in defeat, Brice let her body ease for a moment. Her arms were still bound painfully tight to the back due to the rope. It was pointless to free herself….maybe she could try to make out her surroundings instead? Exhaling, she let her senses adjust to the environment….
The soft sound of the humming machinery could be heard in the background, buttons were being pressed….but what in god's name was she dangling over? Brice figured it was some tank of liquid substance, since it was small ripples she could hear. But, WHY was it so enormous? And WHY was it glowing so bright that the bag on her face did nothing to hide it?
So many questions, so LITTLE answers….
From what Brice could remember from the events of her kidnapping was that her captor was a bug mutant. Brice heard of rumors of mutants running around New York, but she never went deep into thought about them. Mostly because it sounded ridiculous and unreal…until now…
Breathing picked up a bit,
The "insect" planned to do something to her, she could feel it.
Speaking of which…
A buzzing noise could be heard drifting near her. The mutant seemed to sense her distress.
"Now…ZzZz….don't be irrational..zZzz…now that I'm in charge…YOU will help me keep order..zZzZ in this city…" the creature advised, he tugged the chain her body dangled from
Brice whimpered out a sob, fearing what plans this THING might have in store for her. It was clear that the monster was HIGHLY intelligent, and with all this technology…was it planning to experiment on her? And what did it mean by "help keep order"? What-
"You will ZzsSoon become a half…zZzZ..human half…ant…ZzZzUPER MUTANT mMmHahmmHAHA!, the creature cackled, it grabbed onto the chain and shook it a bit.
Before Brice could speak she felt the chain drop and her body with it.
Screaming in terror, her body plunged into the tank.
At first, Brice didn't feel anything , but seconds later she felt acid against her liquid seeped into her figure, the pain was unimaginable! Wailing, she slowly transformed…along with her thoughts and mind…
'I need to breathe!'
' I need…tu…breathe…'
' I…needs…to-'
'I-'
Whatever happened, the once teen girl didn't feel like herself…she felt different…the senses around their being was different….what were they…?
After a hard tug the rope was off, they swam around in the substance to try and get out. They managed to get to the edge, but fell off, hitting the ground hard..
Groaning…they are trying to look up for anything…anything…? What was happening? The mutant whimpered, the pain was still there, flinching every time it tried to stand. They managed to crawl under a dark space, leaving a trail of the blue substance behind them. It was blurry…so blurry-
The insect from earlier flew near her.
" YeszZzZ…now that you have become like me,..zZzZ I could order you to be my friend!zZzZ" the insect gave a small pat on the newly mutated girl's head.
"Like me"…?
What did it mean by-
Looking down, Brice noticed she only had three fingers. Her eyes widened, she shakingly lifted her hand to her face. Her skin was a shade of dark pinkish purple and-
Oh god…
Why was her skin so leathery?
Brice shook, not being able to process this, she wailed, but the voice wasn't her own. It sounded raspy and painfully hoarse. Slapped her hand over mouth, but then she touched something even more horrific. Her cheeks had small mandibles and she could move them…
" Oh don't be upset…zZzZ..you'll get used to your new and DEFINED look…zZzZ" The fly moved closer to her, but Brice flinched away from him in the corner.
She whimpered and said simply. "W..Who…a..re…you…?"
It blinked before replying "My name…zZzZ is Baxter Stockman..zZzZ….but call me Baxter for short..zZzZ"
Brice was still shaking…
'What did you do to me…?'
—-
"Come out with your hands up!" a cop and his partner pointed their guns at her and the other bug mutants.
She didn't know what was happening. All Brice knew was that she wasn't in the right mental state. Everything around her was different and her senses seemed more intense. Her hunger was to…
She also didn't remember how she got there either. "Stockman" stated that they needed money so they went to rob a bank. Everything after that seemed blank.
"Which one?" the mutant named "Slander" mocked, and the bugs stepped out of the building.
"What the heck are these Jim?"
"Filthy, DIRTY, HIPPIES!" Wait what? "Hippies"? Did she really look like that? Brice wasn't able to look at her reflection yet, and part of her feared what she might resemble…
"Stupid COPS!" Slander snarled before using his claws to repel the officers to the wall of the building. The mutant girl flinched at his choice of violence and stepped away. It was clear to avoid Slander as much as possible tonight…
"Get the cashzZzZ!" Baxter ordered her. She looked away, not wanting to obey him. Brice knew that she didn't want to participate in breaking the law, especially with the madman who mutated her.
Baxter grumbled, " I am your bosszZzZ! You LISTEN TO ME! Or…" he pulled out a peanut butter chocolate bar "No candy..~" he seemed to wave it around.
Brice scowled,
Was he seriously going to bribe her with a candy bar? Like fucking hell she was gonna-
Her stomach betrayed her, and Brice could feel her body not cooperating with her thoughts. Her mandibles chittered rapidly and the mouth drooling from starvation. The mutant girl crumbled to the ground, holding her stomach as it ached with hunger.
"zZzZ If you want food, then you need to do what I sayzZzZ, now OBEY and get the money!" Stockman pointed to the bags of cash.
'I really don't want to-'
Her stomach clenched, and shivered.
'-but I'm so HUNGRY I might die!' In defeat, she obeyed and went to go get the cash.
Stockman cackled "YeszZzZ, YESS! You're listening! You like me! You both really like me!"
Brice scoffed, no amount of pity she felt for him could stop her from rolling her eyes. This guy was a real toaster.
As Brice stepped outside with the money bags she spotted two people in front of the bank. A teenager with a heavy amount of hockey gear and a turtle looking mutant. She froze and stared between them and Baxter, wondering what was going to happen.
"Okay, So not shredder! But gotta say, these insect dudes look pretty cool!" the teen remarked with a smug grin. Baxter seemed irritated at the teenager for some reason. Did they know each other? The rowdy looking teen tapped his hockey stick on the ground, readying himself to attack.
"But just because you have a sweet thorax, doesn't make it too cool to squash!" Brice couldn't help but cringe at that remark, typical juvenile cockiness…
Brice caught eyes with the turtle, seeing the fear in them. He stared at her for a moment and shrieked, looking away.
Was she really that disgusting to stare at? Clenching the bags of money, her lips quivered.
"Right Ralph?!" the turtle didn't answer, he seemed even more distressed than before, "Ralph" took a step back, looking like he was gonna run.
"Ralph?" The teen noticed that his turtle friend wasn't responding and looked at him. "Uh, HELLO? Earth to Ralph?" he went back to his fighting stance and attacked. He went for Brice first.
"GOGALLA!" He swung his hockey stick at her face. She shrieked and avoided the hit, dropping the bags she did her best to avoid being bashed by the hockey stick. Brice needed to defend herself, being attacked like this was irritating. What did she do to get assaulted by some Hockey star wannabe? She hissed in anger.
Brice managed to use her strength to punch him in the stomach, a loud "OOF!" escaped his breath. She also managed to grab his hockey stick, and play "tug of war" by trying to get it out of his hand. Her mandibles snapped aggressively.
"Woah! Look at this one Ralph! Ha, those trippy mandibles are so cool looking and DEADLY looking." the punk seemed awed at how her mandibles were rapidly snapping at him. She blinked, did he just compliment her bug features? Though she didn't know what she looked like, it felt oddly warming that she wasn't being gawked at.
Ralph was fighting Scumbag, but he appeared to be avoiding him rather than fighting.
"Yeah! Mandibles GREAT!"
"Wait, you look more like a chick than a BUG" he glared suspiciously at her face. Brice flinched, she clutched hard on his hockey stick. How was she supposed to respond to that? Should she respond? A hesitant whisper escaped from her throat.
" I…I'm not.."
Stockman's anger increased and he yelled "Don't just stand therezZzZ! FIGHT HIM!"
The Hockey teen immediately kicked Brice off, and whacked his hockey stick to the head, immediately knocking her out.
—-
Brice moaned and groaned, her head was ringing and pounding. Her senses slowly adapted to the surroundings, finding out that she was in some type of abandoned warehouse. Managing to open her eyes she found out her body was laying on some dirty blanket. Her ears then caught a familiar voice…
"You really have bug sized brains don't you? This hideout is weak sauce!" She blinked and looked up to her right to find the same hockey teen from earlier stuck in some type of web on the ceiling. Did they capture him? It seemed like it, but what would Baxter need him for?
Thinking back to when the teen knocked her out, she hissed and rubbed her skull, the pounding didn't stop. The punk could really hit hard,
" How about one right…HERE!" Out of the blue, Slander spewed his acid like body fluids at the teens face. Brice immediately gagged, never in her life was she so disgusted, looking away nauseated she caught eyes with Baxter.
Gulp
Oh no…
She got knocked out by someone who was CLEARLY Stockman's enemy. What would he do? Was he angry with her? Would he find her useless and kill her?
Mandibles twitching, muscles tensed, she got ready for what fury he might-
That's when Baxter threw the peanut butter candy bar at her lap
Flinching, her body jumped and she let out an animal-like screech. Brice stared between him and the candy bar on her lap, clearly confused.
Baxter replied " zZzZ…You did well for your first time, zZzZ…, since you obeyed and fought back AT FIRST, I'll give you a pat on the back for your…MISSTEP...zZzZ.." He went back to looking at the punk teen being covered in bug fluids and started to cackle.
Sighing in relief, she tore open the candy bar and munched on it so quickly that it was gone in ten seconds. Finally sated from hunger, Brice looked between Slander and Baxter, wondering what they planned to do.
Slander landed in front of Baxter perfectly, "You know, the filthy Human is right, when the turtles realize that their pet monkey is missing…"
"Turtles"? There were more like that "Ralph" guy from earlier?
"ThiszZzZ is going to be the first place they look!" Stockman looked between Slander and her, "We need a new hideout!" he started to think, his wings fluttering.
"Egh…someplace fortified, hard to reach…" Slander shifted his body, the human mutated face on his neck looked around in nervousness.
Brice spoke up, "Uhm….excuse me? I'm sorry to interrupt, but who are these t-turtles you speak of?" They both snapped their heads at her, she flinched, worrying she said something offensive. There was a moment of silence until Baxter coughed awkwardly ,"Oh yeszZzZ, that's right, you don't know about the turtles!" He flew up into the air and landed in front of her, he offered his small mutated hand to help her stand. The bug girl hesitated at first but she grabbed it.
Baxter explained, "The turtles are our enemies, specifically enemies to shredder! They are obstacles to OUR plans..zZzZ.", Brice was still confused, wondering who this "Shredder" was. "Uhm…Shredder? Who's shredder?" Baxter looked up into the ceiling in determination. "Shredder is my master and the one who gave me the honor of bringing his reign of control over the city back!" Baxter awed in giggly delight "He likes me! He really LIKES me..!"
The mutant girl was starting to question if Stockman was mentally okay. Yes, he kidnapped her and mutated her into some bug creature, but seeing him so excited about pleasing ONE person made her think his insanity was much deeper than expected….
Brice looked at Slander questioningly and pointed at Stockman, Slander shrugged, not really knowing what was wrong with him either.
Stockman finally snapped out of his trance " But firstzZzZ, we solve a bigger problem ZzZz…One that is destroying Shredder's empire…Karai."
—-
The bug girl gulped,
Baxter said he wanted her barge in and attack this "Karai", at first she begged for another solution, but the house fly insisted that her strength was comparable due to the mutagen.
Baxter also said that they would be having those "foot bots" allying with them in the attack. Not sure what that meant, but she accepted regardless….
…..
Accepting….she was just accepting everything, but why? Sure she was scared of Baxter but…she didn't have to be here either…For the most part, Brice knew that there was a chance the housefly might be able to change her back if she listened to him. But knowing his intentions and how willing he was to threaten her, probably not.
'It's not like I could go home either, what would my family say if they saw what I had become? My life changed so fast…I can't even remember my last name. Where would I go If I don't listen to Stockman?'
She needed to focus…
Brice inhaled and exhaled, she was hiding on the beams of the building, managing to get a good view of Karai.
She watched and waited for the two foot ninja to leave from their status report. Brice jumped off the beam and pounced onto Karai's back. The armored women hissed.
"What the-!" Karai wrapped her snake arms around Brice and threw her off, Brice yelped in surprise but she managed to land on her feet.
Brice's mandibles twitched and she got in her best fighting stance. Karai got in her fighting stance as well, glaring at the intruder while pointing her sword.
"Hisss, Who are YOU?! Are you with the shredder?" Karai flared out her teeth and pointed her sword.
Brice's eyebrows furrowed, and she stuttered "I'm-It's not like t-that…" Baxter then came through the automatic door along with Slander right behind Karai.
Karai gasped, and pointed out her sword at the housefly, "Stockman?!" Brice didn't move, she waited for Stockamans next order The foot bots surrounded Karai, making her outnumbered.
"Karai, no ninja's to help you…?" Slander tossed the two of the foot ninjas from earlier on the ground, Karai stepped over them and scoffed.
"Of all the FREAKS shredder would send to take me down, he sends a bunch of BUGS!" She spat out the last part with distaste.
"I am his indispensablezZzZ allyzZzZ!" Baxter Retorted with pride, Karai rolled her eyes.
"I can't wait to dispense with YOU!" Karai flared her snake arms out and pounded on Baxter, his body was thrown to the wall with a great force. A loud "Oof!" was heard and before Karai could attack with her snake arm again, Slanders ass opened and spat out a spider web, catching her arm.
Karai gagged.
"Okay, that's just gross."
Brice could honestly agree, she looked at Stockman who was giving a hand motion to attack. The bug girl sighed, she really didn't want to but if the madman got angry, then it could be really bad for her…Using her body force and strong legs, Brice pounced on Karai, man-handling her. Karai grunted and kicked Brice off, two foot bots she managed to cut in half
But soon she was propelled in the air by a spider web, she growled as Slander shot more webs at her.
"FirszZzt, we will end you…" Karai struggled through the web. "And then we will those zZzZtupid turtles!"
Brice then spotted shadows by the window…
Were those the…?
"Who are you calling zZzZstupid, zZzZTUPID!" A turtle with an orange mask jumped off the window complex and onto Baxter, the turtle used his weapon to bash Stockman. The housefly landed on the floor, completely blacked out.
Then chaos ensued.
Brice went to hide behind the chair Karai was sitting on earlier, she watched as the turtles fought the foot bots. They all seemed highly skilled, specifically in martial arts.
It felt strange, watching a bunch of mutants fight ninja robots and a human one with supernatural abilities. What the actual hell was happening? She hoped to any god out there that this was all just a really bad dream…
When noticing the one called Ralph hallucinating, she could tell since his eyes were dilated and he was running around like crazy.
That's when she also noticed that Baxter was distracted…
Huh
'Maybe I could walk away and hope he doesn't see me'
Hrmm…
` The fight is almost over…I better make a run for it if I want to escape' so she did, Brice ran as fast as she could to the nearest exit by the window.
Brice managed to avoid any hits from the turtles, the orange one spotted her and yelled "Where do you think you're going ANTRAX!" The bug girl stopped and stared at him baffled, of all the names…
"Huh, see how fast I came up with that-oof!" He was tackled by the foot bots. She rolled her eyes and continued her way to the window.
But before she could, the one called Ralph grabbed her wrist. She gasped, and turned back to beg for her life, but instead Brice felt green skinned lips touch hers.
Her face went pale and her body froze, completely shocked.
Of all the things that happened to her tonight….of the weird and fucking ridicoulos events she went through….this was probably the most jaw-dropping.
Brice still didn't move, the way his tongue entered her mouth and how he moaned while kissing her was so intimate.
Her cheeks flushed a bright crimson on her purple cheeks, never in her life was she kissed like this before. Actually, she had never kissed anyone at all before, this was her first kiss….
The purple and orange turtles stared at the kissing in confusion.
The purple yelled "RALPH!"
Ralph opened her eyes to meet hers, he blinked before gasping in horror. He pushed her off HARD, and she landed on her back. She shakingly stared at him, why did he just…?
" Look, sorry to interrupt what both of you were doing but-"
Ralph interrupted " We-we weren't-" he slapped his forehead in dismay before catching eyes with the bug girl on the floor, he noticed that she wasn't like the spider/beetle he fought earlier. She seemed…almost human with bug features, she had grayish purple hair and pink eyes with no pupils, her mandibles and dark purple skin tone, not to mention her three fingers she had on each hand.
She had a very feminine frame, her clothes looked ripped and her eyes looked-scared.
She looked scared…but why?
It took Ralph a second to process what he just did and how that affected her…
OH
Oh no…
Oh please in the ever loving god no
Brice whimpered
Baxter was gone thankfully, but what happened right now stunned her. She was kissed and then she was rejected.
She didn't know what to do, she was mutated and forced to fight, and now THIS
THIS happened!
Tears poured from the eyes she ran, not bothering to listen to the calls of the other turtles
She didn't want to hear it,
'I just want to be alone right now…'