sorry for the later update, took a while to write this, but don't worry i'll have more up soon :)
TMNT: the unexpected friendship
Chapter 20: Uncharted Territory
The last thing everyone remembered was a flash of light. It blinded them and they lost all sense of how they ended up where they were. When the light faded, everyone felt off center and confused.
"Ugh, that was unpleasant." Mikey said as he fumbled to stay standing.
"Anyone else feel a bit queasy?" Bianca spoke up as she held her stomach.
"Ugh, I feel like I've been turned inside out and back again." Raph complained as he cracked his neck loudly.
"Aw look, no Taiyo, what a shame…NOT." Mikey laughed but then realized he didn't know where they were. "But wait…what happened? That light, the strange lab; those weird robot aliens, where'd they go?"
"You mean, where'd we go?" Leo stated as he looked around curiously at their new location. Everyone followed suit until Donny pointed out,
"Some place I don't think we're supposed to be."
"Natives don't look too friendly." Mikey joked as they all stared at the armed men with their guns ready. Leo then started getting into leadership mode by saying,
"I think our best defense might be…"
"Some serious ninja butt-kicking action." Raph finished excitedly as he readied his sais as everyone did the same with their weapons. As they flew through the air to strike, the leader of the group shouted,
"Fire at will!" And guns were blazing and shooting everywhere. It wasn't hard to avoid their shots since they were messy with their aim. The guys were able to take them down easily as they weren't sure how to fight the gang. Once they were all taken care of the gang came together and stared at the unconscious troops.
"They admit anyone into the army nowadays, don't they?" Bianca joked.
"What the shell was that all about?" Leo asked on a more serious note.
"Whatever it was, it's not over. Look!" Donny pointed to the end of the alley way where more troops, this time double the amount of troops as they ones they had just taken out, came charging in and readying themselves.
"Well guys: fight or flight?" Leo asked the gang.
"I vote fight." Raph smirked as he twirled his sais.
"You always vote fight." Mikey and Bianca complained.
"Um, excuse me? Hello? Terrapin beings and friend?" Came a new voice. The gang turned around to see that a robot was addressing them. "Yes you, this way, quickly!" He said as he disappeared into an opening in the side of the wall. The gang exchanged a look but their decisions were made up when the troops started firing at them again. They jumped out of the way one by one into the hole, Mikey being the last coming in with a big landing after doing several flips.
"Whoa!" He yelled as he flew into the new room. He landed on his butt roughly. "Ow…"
"Hurry, hurry! Those Federation troops won't give up on the chase so easily." The robot pleaded as he rushed up the stairwell.
"Coming through slowpoke!" Mikey said jumping over Raph's shoulders and following behind his brothers.
"Uhm, why are we following someone, least of all a robot, being hunted down by the military?" Bianca wondered aloud.
"You rather have fun with those guys, guns a blazing?" Donny commented.
"No…But can we even trust this guy, what if he's a criminal?"
"He helped us." Raph added.
"Because we appeared out of nowhere like gods! He might be thinking he can use us to his advantage or something." Bianca pondered, but before her thoughts could be considered, they reached the top of the building and there wasn't anywhere else to go.
"Great, another dead end." Leo sighed.
"And here comes the unwelcome wagon." Mikey announced as the troops were making their way up the stairs to meet them. Leo looked around frantically and that's when he noticed a truck headed their way.
"Quick, into that truck!" Leo commanded.
"No, I hate heights!" The robot panicked as he tried stepping away from the ledge.
"How do you feel about laser guns?" Leo asked as he and his gang started to make their way down.
"You get used to it after a while." Bianca called as she jumped off the ledge.
"Down, down and away!" Mikey called as they landed in the truck. The robot still hadn't come down so he took a running start to make it into the truck, on the way yelling,
"I don't like this!" He managed to grab hold of the rim of the truck and the guys helped him get in properly.
"Great, we're knees deep in garbage." Bianca complained as she stuck her tongue out in disgust.
"Not like this is anything new, we've had to make escapes by hiding in dumpsters before, remember?" Donny reminded her.
"Yeah, but this is alien garbage, at least I could identify what I was sitting in, this is just absurdly gross." She stated firmly as she went to the corner of the truck, where there was the least amount of garbage. As she stood up she looked over the edge of the truck, the guys doing the same next to her.
"Where are we?" Leo pondered.
"Something tells me this ain't Manhattan." Raph grumbled softly.
"I'm not even sure we're on Earth." Donny stated. As the truck came to a stop, the gang thought it'd be best to get out and start looking for an escape plan or a safe haven.
"Ah, Earth, is that your home planet?" The robot asked curiously. "I don't believe it's in this galaxy, at least I've never heard of it. Are you the dominant species on your planet?" He asked as he got down from the garbage truck and they ended up in the middle of the pavement of a market street where people selling indescribable things.
"Where are we?" Raph growled, not wanting to answer his questions.
"Calm down, son. You're on the planet D'Hoonnib in the Citeon system, Federation territory." The robot explained. Everyone was dumbfounded by that one.
"A different galaxy?" Donny gaped.
"Master Splinter is so far away; so helpless. We have to help Master Splinter." Leo stated, as he felt awful not being able to help his sensei, his father, any sooner.
"We'll find a way, Leo." Raph sighs sadly, trying to comfort Leo.
"We don't even know how we got zapped here in the first place." Donny stated.
"That question has been vexing me, how did you materialize like that?" The robot agreed as he was oozing curiosity.
"Guys, you can compare theories later. Right now, we've got company." Leo stated as he pointed further down the street they were on
"Ugh, more of those bozos." Raph stated, annoyed with the fact there was no way of shaking them off their tail.
"Don't look now, but those bozos brought a tank!" Donny gasped.
"How come bad guys always have the great toys?" Mikey complained. As the gang tried to run away from the tank, they realized that there were guards on all sides of the market street.
"Great, so we're surrounded, anyone got a plan?" Bianca asked pleadingly.
"Just one." Leo stated as he led the group to the an abandoned pile of objects that were sitting on the corner of the street.
"Uhm, how does this help? We're sitting ducks-" Leo turned her head and she was staring at what his plane was" …here." They found an opening to the sewers. "Oh, well then, after you." She coughed as she gestured to the strange cover. He went down first and his brothers followed him, Bianca followed next and then dragged down the robot with her.
"Well, that's a lot more fun than going through our sewers back home." Bianca laughed lightly as she landed firmly on her feet, thankfully not landing in the sewer water like the robot did.
"Check out these fancy sewers, clean enough to eat off of. If only we had something to eat." Mikey awed as he looked around.
"I still wouldn't do that, despite how clean it seems." Bianca argued. Suddenly a small terrapin alien in a robe holding a cane came into view along with four little rats with antennas on their heads and masks following behind. Bianca and Mikey exchanged a look and then stared at them again.
"Whoa…bizzaro world." Mikey stated.
"So, what is your story? Why are those soliders after you?" Donny asked the robot curiously.
"Are you a criminal?" Bianca asked accusingly.
"Hardly." The robot laughed. "I do owe you a full explanation though. You see, I am Professor Honeycutt, or at least, I used to be. I was the most brilliant scientist of all D'Hoonnib. I had just completely my mental wave helmet, a device for boosting mind powers, like telepathy and telekinesis when I was rudely interrupted by General Blanque. Just because he's the head of the Federation military of this sector, he thinks he can call anytime he wants. You see, the 'good' general wanted me to build my tele-portal device: a device capable of transporting beings from planet to planet. I invented the tele-portal as a way to promote peace, but General Blanque had other ideas."
"Typical dictator, why am I not surprised." Bianca sighed rolling her eyes.
"You're quite right. He wanted to use it as a weapon for death and destruction, and that's why even though he was funding my work, I could never build it for him. It was then I received a distress call from my worker robot S.A.L., he had become entangled in some wires, an electrical storm was brewing, and we were struck by lightning. The lightning must've triggered my mental wave helmet, my body was destroyed by my mind was transferred into S.A.L.'s robotic shell. Apparently the 'good' general had been constantly spying on me and was well aware of my transference into this robot body; he was overjoyed. You see, robots have no rights, the general could do anything he liked with me now; the tele-portal I wouldn't give him when I was human he could take from me now that I became a robot, so he sent his men after me. But with some help from some large hermit crab like creatures, I was able to elude Blanque's soldiers, at least until I came into the city. Which is when you came in."
"Guys, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Leo asked with a tinge of happiness in his voice.
"That an extra large serving of kung pow chicken would be really good by now?" Mikey asked as he rubbed his stomach and licked his lips. His brothers rolled their eyes.
"The Professor's tele-portal, right?" Raph corrected.
"Right. If the Professor here,"
"Can build his tele-portal," Donny caught on.
"Then we can use it to go home." Raph stated happily
"And save our families." Bianca cheered happily.
"Home." Mikey sighed dreamily. He then shook himself out of his dream like state and addressed the Professor. "Uh, don't get me wrong Professor Robot-o, these sewers on your planet are nice, but they don't have that same sewer fresh stank that ours sewers have."
"How do they keep these sewers so clean?" Raph asked.
"Probably something to do with that!" Donny stated loudly as he pointed to mechanical arms that were coming into view.
"Run?" Bianca asked hopefully.
"Definitely, run." Leo responded as he grabbed her hand and dragged her along as he ran ahead with his brothers not far behind.
"Oh dear!" Honeycutt cried as he tried his best to keep up.
"It's gaining on us!" Mikey called to the gang as the machine was getting closer and closer.
"Shouldn't that thing recognize that we're living organic material? This shouldn't be happening!" Bianca complained.
"Well how about you take it up with him?" Raph joked.
"I'd rather not…" She said sheepishly.
"I don't think we can out run it." Donny said hopelessly.
"Then it looks like its time to rage against the machine!" Leo commanded.
"If you guys can slow it down, I think I can stop it." Donny stated. Leo looked around as it came closer and then his eyes landed on the ceiling.
"I got an idea." He said as he jumped into the air and sliced some bars from the ceiling to use to corral the machine to stop moving.
"Good thinking!" Bianca cheered as she grabbed a pole and started to use all the force she could to keep the machine in place.
"Mikey, think fast!" Raph said as he kicked a bar in his direction.
"Hurry Donny!" Leo grunted as he, Raph and Mikey joined Bianca stopping the machine monster.
"Don't just stand there and stare geek-a-zoid, get to work!" Bianca whined. Donny flipped into the air and did his best to avoid the machine's mechanical tentacles. He soon landed on the machine's back and looked around for a solution.
"Donny, I don't know how long we can hold this thing!" Mikey yelled. Donny found a panel and he opened it with his staff and looked at the very complicated wires, not know exactly where to do. Professor Honeycutt got a pole from the ground and decided to help the gang out in stopping the monster.
"Raph, toss me a sais!" Donny called over the rearing of the machine. Raph did his best to stop the machine and throw a sais up to his brother and Donny caught it, struck the sais into the machine, and then the machine reeled back like a horse and threw Donny off and onto the ground before it shut down.
"Ah, see, piece of cake." Donny laughed nervously as he handed Raph his sais back.
"Let's try and get out of here to avoid another 'piece of cake'." Bianca suggested. Leo looked around and found a ladder that led to the surface. Everyone followed after Leo and arrived in an secluded alleyway near the market place again. Unfortunately someone noticed their appearance and called to some guards to come over.
"Goodness why is there always a tattle tale?" Bianca complained as the gang once again began to run away. They found an abandoned workshop and decided to stop for a moment to rest.
"These soldiers are everywhere." Raph complained as he leaned against the wall.
"Indeed." Honeycutt agreed.
"We've got to get out of the city fast." Leo suggested. "Raphael, we're going to need some transportation."
"Back in two." Raph said with a thumb's up and headed out of the workshop to search the city.
"Uhm, I'll keep an eye on him." Mikey said sheepishly as he ran off too in the same direction Raph went.
"Do you guys trust him?" Bianca asked as she used her thumb to point behind her to where Mikey disappeared.
"No, but it's easier than trying to argue with him." Donny laughed lightly.
"Good point." She laughed.
"So how did you end up meeting these fellows, are you the minority on the planet? A pet or servant of some sort?" Professor Honeycutt asked.
"Pardon?" Bianca growled as she lit her hand on fire and held it up threateningly. "I'm no one's pet!"
"Ah, I see, you're an Itonaminian." Honeycutt observed. Bianca used her hand to extinguish the flame she created, as she looked at him funny.
"…Did you just insult me?" She asked almost shocked.
"No I just realized that you couldn't be anything else with your abilities, and also I scanned your biological composition." He replied simply.
"You scanned me?" Bianca covers her chest protectively, she felt somewhat violated from the comment.
"What's an Itonaminian?" Leo asked curiously.
"It is what someone would call the natives of the planet Itonami."
"Itonami?" Bianca repeated.
"Yes, you must know about it since you are definitely from there."
"Uhm, I think your wiring's messed up. I'm from New York, I'm a New Yorker." Bianca joked.
"My readings are never wrong, you have Itonaminian blood and energy radiating off of you, and your attitude seems to fit appropriately since Itonami is a warrior planet."
"Well, I still think you're absurd." She huffed as she tried to pay the remark no thought, but with Phoenix saying that he needed to explain things to her further didn't help the situation.
"No time to talk, looks like someone found us!" Donny called out as a tank approached them tauntingly. Everyone readied his or her weapons.
"Brace yourselves." Leo warned. Then the tank turned off and the lid popped open to reveal Mikey and Raph waving at them with smirks on their faces.
"Quit goofing around and hop in." Raph said as he and Mikey disappeared into the tank again. Everyone exchanged a surprised look and then put away their weapons and headed for the tank.
"Nothing like riding in style." Donny complimented as Raph began driving the tank once everyone was in.
"I can't believe you stole a tank." Bianca said as she was undoubtedly impressed with Raph.
"What can I say, when you've got it, you've got it." Raph laughed with a grin.
"Yeah you do!" She laughed too.
"Couldn't you have boosted something a little less, I don't know, conspicuous? Something that might blend in better?" Leo complained.
"Are you kiddin'? This puppy is almost invisible it blends so well." Raph argued.
"Hey, don't worry about it, they've got their toys, and now we've got ours." Bianca added as she kicked back into a chair and relaxed. Suddenly though an alarm blared in the tank and the radar signaled they were being followed.
"Yeah, real invisible." Leo said sarcastically as Raph just grinned at him cheekily. The situation got more serious when they were struck from behind. "Donny, return fire!"
"Uh in a minute, my D'Hoonnibian is a little rusty." Donny said as he hesitated when looking over the control panel. They got shot again and were driving into some of the market streets stands.
"Can't you drive?" Bianca complained.
"Course I can, I own my own motorcycle!" Raph argued.
"Apparently not a hovercraft tank!" Bianca countered.
"Donny, you better figure out how to fire this puppy or else we're gonna be smoked turtle meat in a can." Raph warned.
"Perhaps I can be of some service. One of the perks of this robot body." Professor Honeycutt approached the control panel and his mechanical fingers disappeared and a key popped out of his wrist and inserted his hand into the machine. "Yes, I have weapons control." thank goodness he did since a tank was coming right at them from the front.
"Tell me you're not playing chicken Raph." Leo almost begged, as Raph wasn't planning on slowing down.
"A turtle is never a chicken." Raph stated as he got the tank to move to the side as the tank in front shot a tank from behind. "Now Doc!" Raph called out as Honeycutt got the laser beam in position. "Fire!" An enemy tank was successfully blown to smithereens.
"Way to go Professor!" Bianca cheered.
"We have another one on our tail!" Donny warned.
"Not for long!" Raph said as he came to a large wall and used the wing of the tank to run against the wall and create debris to land on the tank behind them.
"There's one more up ahead!" Honeycutt warned.
"Fire!" Raph commanded. And another tank was destroyed. As they cleared the smoke left behind by the tank they just blew up, they realized there were a lot of soldiers standing by waiting for them.
"Abandon ship!" Mikey cried as they all piled out of the ship as the soldiers began to blast it until it finally blew up.
"Aw, and I wanted to keep it." Bianca complained as she watched from the safety of the alleyway where the gang had escaped. Leo signaled for everyone to move further into the shadows and everyone did, except the Professor who didn't understand the hand signals and hardly noticed they were gone.
"Now where did those little fellows go?" He asked himself as he looked around for his new friends. Bianca and Leo went back for him and Leo tapped him on the shoulder. "Ah, how do know all those wonderful disappearing techniques."
"Shhhh." Leo said covering the robot's mouth.
"It comes with being really good at being silent!" Bianca whisper yelled. For a while after that the gang and the Professor wandered around the city looking for a safe place to crash and devise a new plan, but with the troops sweeping every area it made it hard to stay out of sight.
"That's the fifth patrol we've seen in the past hour." Leo announced as he and Donny came back from another scouting from around the block.
"Don't those guys have anything better to do?" Donny wondered.
"Yeah, like eat?" Mikey whined as his stomach roared in hunger. He patted it comfortingly. "I know, poor baby, you're hungry aren't cha?"
"We've got an entire alien army looking for us and you're talking to your stomach?" Raph complained.
"Well it's talking to me, it's saying: food, food." Mikey says while moving his hands to make it look like his stomach had a mouth.
"More than food, we need an escape plan." Leo stated.
"We need to get off this planet quickly and quietly." Honeycutt agreed.
"Easier said than done Doc, I thought we were just focusing on getting out of the city?" Bianca groaned as she sat down in exhaustion. Wandering around the city was taking a lot out of everyone.
"We won't be safe with the Federation dominating this planet. We'll have to use smugglers. I think I know of one particularly sleazy inn where we might just obtain off-world transport."
"Sound like a plan. Lead on Professor." Leo said gesturing for Honeycutt to lead the way. After avoiding the guards once more, the Professor led the gang to a restaurant that looked run down and hidden away from the city, for good reason.
"This doesn't exactly look like your kind of place, Professor." Raph commented as he stared at the run down place.
"Well I'm very partial to the D'Hoonnibian spicy cheese disc they serve here. At least, I used to be." Honeycutt admitted.
"Whoa, alien pizza, what a concept." Mikey laughed.
"We can't just walk in there, our pictures are everywhere." Leo stated. There wasn't a wall on that restaurant that didn't have their pictures up.
"Maybe it's time for the Ninjutsu art of disguise." Donny suggested as he pointed behind them at some clotheslines that were dangling cloaks. The guys went to work taking them down one by one and Mikey and Bianca were lucky to get stuck with some oddly designed pink dresses with hoods.
"I can't wear this, I can't!" Mikey complained as he held up the piece of clothing in disgust.
"What? It should fit just fine." Donny stated.
"These colors clash with my headband. It's a fashion nightmare." Mikey whined.
"Mikey, there's food in there; food." Donny said temptingly, and Mikey fell right for the bait.
"At least we'll be matching, not that I'm happy to wear this either." Bianca complained as she tried adjusting the garment to better suit her. It was huge on her.
"We can be sisters!" Mikey joked.
"Okay, let's not make this anymore weird than it has to be." Bianca said backing up from him as she threw on her hood. Once everyone was dressed, they went into the restaurant with their hoods tightly over their heads as they saw even more posters of them were inside floating around.
"This have better be worth it." Mikey grumbled as he hated his outfit. Then he saw that there was a little bar in the center of the room serving food. He rushed over and looked at the menu. Bianca followed him curiously. He looked over the menu not understanding it very well by the looks of it.
"Excuse me, garcon, uh. I'll have what he's having." Mikey says on the spur of the moment as he points to a alien next to him eating a pink mush that didn't look pleasing, so Bianca decided to step in.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, it sounds gross." Bianca said.
"What?" Mikey asked curiously. Bianca took the menu and looked it over quickly and then whistled for the chef's attention.
"Excuse him, he's new here. We'll have a number four, please!" The chef nodded at Bianca and started making something for the two of them.
"Wait, you can read this stuff?" Mikey asked in shock.
"Yeah, it's in plain English, I thought you could read?" Bianca laughed.
"I can to read! But this isn't English." He said flipping the menu open again for her to see.
"What?" She took it and focused on it for a moment and then saw the weird writing the words were scribed in. "Oh wow, that's weird, since when did I read D'Hoonnibian?"
'It is because I can read any written and spoken language.' Phoenix replied simply inside Bianca's head.
"Oh, that makes sense." Bianca nodded.
"What does?" Mikey asked. Bianca forgot that no one else could hear what Phoenix was saying.
"Oh, sorry, Phoenix just said that I have the natural ability to read any language since Phoenix is a god and can read anything." The chef placed down their food on the table and Mikey gasped.
"No way, is this the cheese disc?" He was already on the verge of drooling all over the plate of cheesy goodness.
"Duh, I thought since you're you, we should try it." Bianca laughed as she took a slice and waited for him to take his. "To getting out of here." She said holding up her slice. They toasted their slices and each took a huge bite out of their slice and Mikey gasped as he stood up and cheered.
"This is the best thing ever!" He sang loudly as he did a little dance around out of the pure joy his stomach was going through, but he was dancing a little too crazy as he accidentally bumped into someone. "Ah!" He gasped.
"Hey, beautiful." Said the alien Mikey had bumped into, he thought that Mikey was a woman in his pink getup. Bianca had to hold down her laughter as even though the creature had six eyes that he was so blind to see Mikey under the hood. "Are you a library book, cuz I'm checking you out?" The creature put a tentacle around Mikey's shoulders and Mikey had to try and maneuver his way out of the situation but was failing. Bianca laughed at how Mikey wasn't prepared for something as crazy as an alien hitting on him, no matter how much Splinter could've taught him.
"Hehe, I'm not a library book." Mikey giggled like a girl.
"You're new here, I like that in a woman." The alien purred as he tried to get closer to Mikey.
"Lay off slick, this is a girl's night out." Bianca said, finally deciding it was a good time to intervene and save Mikey's butt. She dragged Mikey by the arm away so he was closer to her.
"I don't mind having the both of you." The alien smirked crookedly as a tentacle found a way under Bianca's chin.
"Oh that's it!" Bianca growled as she was about to give this guy a knuckle sandwich, she was taken by the hand and swung around and collided into someone's chest.
"Hands off, she's with me." Came Leo's voice. Bianca shifted in place and got a look at Leo glaring down the alien who had taken a few steps away from her. Bianca had to calm herself down and not blush at the protectiveness.
"I'm with you?" She asked coolly. He looked down at her and raised an invisible eyebrow.
"What? You want to stick with the tentacle man?" He laughed jokingly.
"Oh no, no, I'll stick with you. I just…"
"What?"
"I don't know, it's funny seeing you act like this. It's, refreshing." Bianca said smiling sheepishly as Leo looked at her confused for a moment but then smiled back at her. Unfortunately the little moment was ruined when Mikey decided to karate kick the alien still not getting the message to quit it with the smooth talk to the ground, and Mikey's hood flew off his head. Everyone saw the moment and the chef from before had just picked up the phone and was undoubtedly calling the Federation troops to march on over here.
"Way to go Mikey, you just had to bring the sex appeal." Bianca hisses.
"What? I can't help it, it just comes so naturally to me." Mikey replied sheepishly as he shrugged. It didn't take long for the Federation to storm the place and ask everyone to clear a path as they searched for the gang and as they called Honeycutt "The Fugitoid". Leo looked around and noticed a back door of the restaurant.
"Back door. Come on." Leo instructed as they made their move towards the door.
"You, get back in there!" Came a booming voice from behind the group. they all turned around to see Mikey with his hands up and a gun to his shell.
"You couldn't possibly hit a lady? But you know, a lady could hit you!" Mikey used his nun chucks to take down one of the guards and he fell down instantly, but unfortunately that blew their cover. The troopers gathered and stared at the group. "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful." Mikey taunted with one hand behind his head and another on his hip, striking a mock pose.
"Troopers, attack!" Called out one of the troopers.
"I'm almost happy to hear them say that, I hate this getup." Bianca sighed happily as she ripped off the awful pink getup. She then unsheathed her tonfas and sprang into action. She was fighting along side Mikey as they were cornered by a few troopers, but Mikey turned around and saw that the plate that the guy was eating full of pink mush was still there and Bianca and Mikey exchanged an all-knowing look.
"You know, I've heard that the food here is extraordinary pecan." Mikey mocked the guy's voice from before as he threw the mush into the trooper's eyes and Bianca and Mikey had their open opportunity to take them down. Donny was near them taking down a few by himself. He knocked one into the wall and the trooper dropped his gun, and so Donny seized that opportunity to take it for himself.
"Fascinating, shouldn't be too hard to find the on switch." He said as he studied the unique looking gun. But as he was studying it, he neglected that there were troopers that were stalking towards them, soon he found his shell back against his brothers in a close-knit circle.
"Oh dear, they've got us surrounded." Professor Honeycutt said worriedly. Donny was still playing with the gun.
"Donny, now's really not the time to go all Bill Nye on us right now." Bianca yelled at him.
"I'm devising a plan, don't worry." Donny chided.
"Take out this alien trash, but don't target the Fugitoid. On my order!" Said the head of the troopers as he and his fellow troopers pointed their guns at the gang.
"Uhm, I'm worrying." Bianca squeaked, but there was an unexpected explosion from behind the troopers and they all were blown back as newcomers arrived on the scene. They were decked up in a different uniform from the Federation and they all were orange skinned triceratops type creatures.
"Find the Fugitoid, destroy the rest! To Victory!" The head triceratops shouted as he ordered his men to begin firing. Mikey and Bianca hid behind a fallen table.
"Well there's something you don't see everyday." Bianca huffed, as she gasped for needed air, she was getting exhausted.
"I know…that metal arm is wicked!" Mikey awed as he looked over the table to see the head leader's mechanical arm.
"Did the fact that they're triceratops just fly over your head!" Bianca yelled. Unfortunately one of the triceratops found them and removed the table harshly.
"Yeah, now I see what you mean." Mikey mumbled. He moved out of the way but Bianca was a bit too slow and the alien grabbed her leg and threw her into a bar area off to the side and she fell on the ground with a grunt. She looked up and found Leo, Raph and Professor Honeycutt staring at her. She tried managing a smile.
"Hey guys…having fun?" She tried to move but grimaced slightly as she pulled herself to lean against the island that was blocking everyone from sight.
"Man, who invited the dinosaurs?" Raph complained.
"Triceratons: a ruthless and war-like race. They're the sworn enemies of the Federation. I simply can't imagine what they're doing here." Honeycutt explained and then suddenly a Triceraton came over and tried to grab the Professor but Leo was quick enough to kick him far away.
"Hm, now I see why. They're after you, what a shock." Bianca said breathlessly as she addressed the Professor.
"What? But how could they know about me?"
"Who knows but who cares, they're obviously not our allies." Bianca sighed.
"We have to get out of here." Leo ordered as he looked over the edge of the island to see Donny standing on a table and then yelling,
"All aboard the turtle express!" The four exchanged a look but then decided better not to question Donny and run to him as fast as they could without getting shot by either the Federation or the Tricertons.
"How on earth is this safe?" Bianca asked worriedly as she hopped up onto the table next to Donny and Mikey.
"That's the beauty of it, it wouldn't be safe on earth, but see, we're not on earth." Donny reasoned.
"That's not what I meant!" Bianca screamed as the table suddenly exploded under their feet and take off, as the Triceratons were able to grab for Professor Honeycutt, and there was no way to go back for him as the table flew out of the restaurant and down a few streets before crashing into a building, everyone was sprawled out on the ground.
"Can we promise to not do that again?" Bianca groaned as she rubbed her head and managed to get off the ground.
"Guys, look!" Leo called out as he pointed to a Triceraton ship that was holding Professor Honeycutt taking off into the sky.
"Come on, they're getting away." Mikey called out.
"How are we supposed to catch them when they're way up there?" Bianca asked hopelessly.
"Hey guys, check this out!" Donny called out as he walked over to a vehicle, though it wasn't in the best of shape so everyone looked at it skeptically.
"Dat bucket of bolts?" Raph asked in disbelief.
"Oh ye of little faith." Donny laughed as he popped the hood of the vehicle off and started messing around with the wires. Then suddenly it came to life and the headlight light up. "I am so good." Donny said proudly from the front seat, before the vehicle started smoking and everyone began coughing.
"Sidecar, I call sidecar!" Mikey called happily as he began to strap himself in. "Warp nine, Mr. Sulu, take us out of orbit." Mikey joked.
"Hey Don, want me to drive?" Raph asked hopefully.
"No Raph, you drove last time and we nearly got blown to bits, leave it to the professional, the one who actually built their own muscle car." Bianca said representing Donny as he took the wheel.
"It's all under control." Donny nodded as they took off, really, really quickly.
"I take back what I said!" Bianca screamed over the wind rushing through them. Everyone else was screaming their heads off as Donny fought with the vehicle for control.
"Uhm, I meant to do that." Donny shrugged sheepishly, but everyone began to scream again as they headed for a very close opening and Donny had to maneuver the vehicle so it was on its side. Once they were out everyone took a deep breath. Soon after more screaming, they had finally caught up with the Triceraton ship, but they weren't alone anymore once they entered the woods. Triceratons were tailing the gang from behind.
"We've got hornets on our tail!" Leo announced as they began to shoot at their vehicle.
"Man I wish this flying bath tub had some weapons. We're sitting ducks!" Raph complained as he narrowly missed a laser beam that was aimed at his head.
"Turtles actually!" Mikey corrected.
"Whatever!"
"Lemme try something!" Bianca said as she stood up on her knees in her seat and turned around and started shooting fireballs at the tailing Triceratons, but there was no way of getting a clear shot with them shooting and Donny's reckless driving skills. "Can't you drive any steadier?"
"Not unless you want us shut down!" Leo pointed out.
"This is just going to take some extreme flying!" Donny said as he began to start a nosedive towards the trees.
"What do you call this kind of flying?" Bianca yelled.
"I was afraid you were gonna say that." Raph grumbled.
"Oh yeah! These bozos may be tough, but Donny learned how to drive in New York City." Raph said proudly as due to Donny's careful maneuvering through the trees, or some would say lucky maneuvering, one of the Triceratons that were following them crashed into a branch.
"He's crazier than any New York driver I know, even worse than tourists and taxi drivers!" Bianca argued as she shrank more into her seat and tried to keep her stomach in check.
"We've gotta have some weapons in here!" Mikey hoped.
"Like Master Splinter said, anything can be used as a weapon in the right hands." Leo said as he stood up from his seat and took out his swords. "You might want to move for a moment." He suggested to Bianca sheepishly. She stood up and moved forward as Leo then sliced the chair off from its hinges and threw it towards one of the Triceratons. "You guys look tired, have a seat!" Leo called as the chair soared back, and another Triceraton was successfully knocked down.
"Uh, leave the shiny buttons alone, Mikey!" Donny pleaded.
"But it might be something really good!" Mikey argued as he pressed another button and the sidecar separated from the main vehicle. "Or not! AH!" Mikey screamed as he started making a nosedive towards the ground.
"Mikey you idiot!" Raph roared over the wind.
"Not for long!" Bianca called out as she got out of the vehicle and jumped off.
"Bianca!" Leo cried as he tried reaching for her, but then he sat back down when he realized she was flying due to her fire elemental powers. She was soaring towards where Mikey was going and got as close as she dared.
"Mikey grab hold!" She said with an outstretched hand. He unbuckled himself and made a jump towards her and grabbed her hand as she tugged him up slowly towards where the rest of the boys were, who were unfortunately were hit while Bianca was away. Bianca dropped Mikey into the seat next to Leo and stayed flying next to them for a moment to say,
"Hold onto something, I have an idea!" She then flew under the vehicle and pushed with all her might to level it slightly and soften the inevitable rough landing they were bound to have. On the way down, Bianca made sure to look out for the branches and maneuver her way to keep her and her friends safe and successfully got the last Triceraton to crash into a branch on the way down. Unfortunately as they neared the bottom, Bianca started to lose some of her strength and she had to let go and fell behind and tumbled to the ground not far from where the vehicle crashes into a tree. Mikey quickly runs over to Bianca to hug her tightly.
"My hero!" He cheers as he kisses the side of her face and she laughs lightly as she hugs him back. he helps her up onto her feet and the two of them make their way over to the others, still recovering from the fall.
"You could've softened the landing a bit more." Raph groaned as he cracked his neck.
"Hey, at least you're not road kill." Bianca huffed.
"She's right, it could've been worse." Donny agreed.
"I don't think so, we lost the Professor. We'll never find him now, which means we'll never get home." Leo sighed deeply as he was feeling more down on himself than ever. "We failed ourselves, we failed Master Splinter."
"Lighten up Leo, we'll find a way." Raph said trying to bring up his brother's spirits.
"We always do." Mikey chimed in.
"Well, I took the liberty of attaching a turtle tracker onto our little metal friend." Donny said on a brighter note as he pulled out a little device with Professor Honeycutt's location displayed on the screen.
"Donny you are so good!" Bianca cheered happily.
"Nice work, Donny!" Leo agreed, but the moment was paused when a loud explosions going off in the distance. It shook the ground lightly and put everyone on high alert.
"What was that?" Raph asked.
"Fighting, nearby, come on!" Leo ordered as he ran off towards where the sound was coming from, everyone in tow.
"Ugh, just once I wish were running away from the explosions." Mikey complained as they trekked to their location. When they knew it was close by, they all crouched down and peered though some bushes that hid them away from sight. They found the Federation fighting the Triceratons.
"What have we stepped into this time?" Raph asked.
"World War Z?" Bianca suggested.
"I'd say World War T for Triceratons." Mikey joked.
"Guys, the Fugitoid's in there somewhere." Donny said in shock as he looked from the handheld device to the building that was on the other side of the fighting.
"It's rescue time!" Raph declared as he took out his sais. Without another remark the gang charged into action and dashed across the field as quickly as they could, avoiding all shots and trying not to direct attention upon them. Though it was hard avoiding all the shots since they were coming from every angle, so the gang decided to duck into a small trench near the Triceraton's base. As they watched for an opening to charge the bunker, Raph pointed out that,
"The horn head's are booking, come on!" He called as he jumped into the closing door, not enough time for anyone else to follow him.
"Raph!" Bianca called out frantically but Leo pulled her down and covered her as he protected her from the shots rom the Federation.
"He'll be okay, he'll open the door." Leo said in hopes to calm her down.
"But that place is flooded with Triceratons!" She shrieked. They look up and they see that door was opened just a crack.
"Told you." Leo smiled at Bianca and led her towards the door and the rest of the gang jumped through the small crack and Raph closed the door behind them. Bianca whipped around and threw her arms around Raph's waist and hugged him tightly.
"Raph!" She gasped as she squeezed him some more. "Don't do that, okay? We're not losing anyone else!" She said looking up at him firmly.
"Sorry to have worried ya, kid." Raph laughed lightly as he messed up her hair. She shoved him off and laughed,
"Don't call me kid." She nudged him roughly in the side and then had her breath taken away when she looked into the hull of the Triceraton bunker they've entered.
"Whoa…" It was huge and filled with a bunch of cargo, which was weird, everyone was picturing something very different.
"I don't understand; why would a bunker have a cargo bay?" Leo asked.
"Maybe because it's not a bunker…"
"Guys, check this out!" Donny announced.
"We're in, space?" Mikey freaked.
"We've already been in enough space to last me a life time!"
"Get away from there guys…" Donny warned as the crack in the wall opened up dramatically and started sucking everything out into the dark depths of space. Raph and Leo got behind a moving container that was bigger than the gap and everyone helped to push it open, to make sure it would cover the gap completely. Once the gap was closed, they floated around for a bit until
"We don't have any…" Donny was holding his throat as he gasped.
"Air!" His brothers called out frantically. Bianca stared at them oddly.
"Save, your breath." Leo said though Bianca didn't understand why.
"Wait, why can't you breathe?" Bianca asked curiously as she stared at them from her upside down position.
"You…can?" Mikey gasped.
"Save, your, breath!" His brothers pleaded as he went quiet again.
"I guess so, but I'd focus on you guys for now." Bianca said nervously as she tried to right herself and help get closer to the gang.
"But…" Mikey was about to protest but his brother interrupted again shouting,
"Save, your, breath!" Suddenly their eyes started dilating and they were hardly moving. Bianca freaked of course.
"Guys…guys!" Bianca called out as she shook each one, none of them looking good. Then if she couldn't get answers from them, she would have to use her old trick. She focused carefully and a few moments later she felt four brainwaves intertwine with hers. 'Okay, can everybody hear me?'
'You can do four way?' Raph asked as he looked at her curiously.
'Guess I can, just did it on a whim, anyway, what can you guys do to stay alive.' She sighed as she strained to keep the connection up. She closed her eyes in concentration.
'Give us some oxygen.' Mikey pleaded.
'How exactly…?' Bianca thought for a moment and then blushed red and her eyes snapped open. "No. No way!" She said aloud as she yelled at them. "And besides, I don't think I need the oxygen to breath right now, I think Phoenix's powers are kicking in again." She sighed as she created the connection again as she couldn't hold it during her outburst.
'There's an ancient technique that Master Splinter taught us long ago.' Leo thought as he floated around.
'That's right! Chi gun!' Donny agreed happily.
'What's that?' Bianca asked warily.
'It's a breathing technique that controls one's breathing.' Leo explained.
'And that'll help you?' Bianca asked hopefully.
'It's worth a shot.' Raph sighed. As they each concentrated, they got themselves into mediation poses and soon she couldn't hear their thoughts anymore. She guessed that it worked. So she decided to drag their bodies down towards the ground so when gravity came back they wouldn't hit their heads. Bianca luckily found some rope and tied them to a container that hadn't seemed to be moving. Once she checked their heartbeats just to make sure they were still alive, she sighed and tied herself to the box as well to not float away.
"Don't worry you guys, I'll protect you, no one's getting near you guys while I'm around." She sighed as she sat down in the air and watched them cautiously, then she looked out the window, not knowing where they were exactly, and that making her extremely nervous. "This puppy better land soon."