Inter-Dimensional
Chapter 4
Chapter 4
14th of October, 2012
2:58 pm
"So, how'd it happen?" Sky asked, as she walked down to her lab, the turtles following.
"How'd what happen?" Donnie replied. They were in Sky's lab, looking over the now mangled mess of what used to be the IDP Pad.
"How'd you manage to come here?" Sky asked again. Donnie, Leo and Raph all looked at Mikey.
Donnie spoke up. "I was going to send you back the VRP Headpiece, when Mikey came in, wondering what I was doing."
"I was bored!" Mikey exclaimed, gaining himself a slap upside the head from Raph.
"He then noticed the headpiece and went to pick it up. I yelled, which caught Leo's and Raph's attention. Since I had already put in your coordinates and such, so the pad was lighting up, Mikey claimed he couldn't move, so I went to help him, but then I couldn't move, it was as if my feet were being sucked into the pad. I warned Leo and Raph but they came on as well. So then they clambered on too. And then we were here." Donnie explained.
"That's a way to put it. We were thrown through it. That's how I remember it," Leo budded in.
"And then it just crashed afterwards," Raph added, nodding towards the wreck it was now.
Sky sighed and knelt down, picking up a piece of twisted metal. She stood up and went over to what was left of the control panel.
"It's not going to be an easy fix, I'll admit that," Sky started, and turned towards the turtles, "but in order to fix it quickly I'm going to need all of your help."
"What do you mean?" Leo asked.
"Well, we're going to need strength, and brains and patience, and of course, fun," Sky explained.
"So, where do we start?" Donnie asked.
"Well, I'm going to need to find the blueprints for the Pad, and your coordinates. Hopefully the IDP Pad in your dimension isn't destroyed," Sky said, walking over to her computer. Donnie appeared next to her.
"Okay, Donnie, I'm going to need you to go through yesterday's IDP Messages and find your coordinates and Dimension code, okay? I'll find the blueprints. And you three," Sky pointed towards Raph, Leo and Mikey, "I need you to sort through what's left of the IDP Pad. If you find anything that you think could be saved, put it over there," Sky pointed to a corner, "but if you think it's of no use, chuck it over there," she pointed to another corner. The three nodded and went over to the wreckage.
Sky then directed Donnie to one of her holographic screened computers for the IDP Messenger, and he began searching for the two. He found the coordinates easily and wrote them down, but it took him longer to find the Dimension Code.
As the turtles did their thing, Sky went onto another one of her computers. Sitting in her chair, she opened up several folders. She scanned through the names of several files, searching for a particular one.
I didn't know I had so many files, Sky thought to herself. The file then caught her eye. She opened the file, as Donnie placed a sticky note with the coordinates and Dimension Code in front of Sky.
"That was quick," Sky said.
"It wasn't really that hard," Donnie replied.
"True," Sky said, and pressed 'search' in the file. Donnie watched as she typed up multiple words, pressing enter, and then dragging a certain file onto a larger screen. Each file, Donnie noticed, only had few lines in it, and maybe a letter or number. The file names got weirder and weirder, like 'Sin City', 'Fresh Blood', 'Mystery Spot', 'Monster Movie', Wishful Thinking', 'The End', and multiple others.
"So what's up with the names of them?" Donnie eventually asked.
"Oh, um, well, I didn't want the project to leak out into the internet, which isn't likely to happen with the firewalls that my dad placed, but still, you can never be too careful. So I put different layers in different files with episode names from Supernatural, a TV show, so if I overlay them, the blueprints will come out," Sky explained.
"Huh, interesting," Donnie replied.
"Here, I'll show you, just let me get the last file," Sky said, and placed another file with the others. "Okay, JARVIS, overlay them please," Sky said.
"Of course, Miss Stark," JARVIS replied, and the file each became the size of the screen, overlapping each other and showing the blueprints for the IDP Pad.
"Fascinating," Donnie said.
"And that's not all," Sky said. "JARVIS, make the blueprints 3D."
"Very well," the AI replied, and the blueprints appeared in 3D, to scale, in the room, which in return, turned darker. The other three turtles looked over in curiosity.
"Awesome!" Mikey exclaimed, running a hand through the hologram.
"Yeah. So, the first thing we have to do is what's on the inside," Sky explained. Grabbing pieces off the holographic IDP Pad, she threw the holographic pieces over her shoulder, showing the inside of the IDP Pad. She then enlarged the holograph, so they were practically inside it.
"And this," Sky started, pointing at a certain point in the centre of the mechanism, "is what we have to start with." She said.
"I know," Donnie said, "I built one with the exact same blueprints in my dimension."
"Yeah, but they don't know," Sky said, gesturing to the others.
"So this thing is the thing you have to start with?" Leo asked, holding up part of the machine.
"Yes, the heart of the IDP Pad," Sky said, walking over to him. She placed her small hands around his large ones and looked at the item in his hands. "Damn, I'll have to make another one. This is just scrap metal."
"Your hands are so cold," Leo stated.
"Yeah, it's a condition," Sky said, "My body doesn't produce its own body heat. Well, it does, just not much at all. You're cold blooded, right?"
"Yes, we are," Donnie said.
"So you would produce about half of the body heat a human produces. I only produce ten per cent of a normal human's body heat," Sky said.
"So are you always cold?" Mikey asked.
"I can always feel the cold. And I can always feel the heat. I can feel all of your body heats without even touching you. I can even feel Raph's from here," Sky said, pointing at Raph who was placing some twisted metal in the junk corner.
"What?" He asked, turning around.
"Besides, I'm used to the cold," Sky said. "My dad doesn't think I was born with it though. He reckons that I was tampered with before I landed on his doorstep. Like you guys, I never knew my mother. But at least you know what she looks like, and her name. I literally know nothing about my mother."
"I'm sorry about that," Leo said.
"What's there to be sorry about? That's the past. Now, that can go in the junk pile. It's useless to me anyway. Anyone want a snack?" Sky asked, as Leo tossed it.
"Oh, me! Me, me, me!" Mikey said, throwing his arm in the air and waving it around.
"Okay," Sky smiled. "I'll bring chips. Any flavour in particular?"
"Anything's fine," Leo said.
Sky nodded and made her way upstairs.
"Poor Sky," Donnie said, once Sky was out of view.
"Is it even possible to be so cold?" Raph asked.
"I don't think so," Donnie replied.
"Her hands were just cold. It's like she kept them in the freezer or something," Leo said.
"Yeah, earlier when we fought her, and we held onto her arms, they were cold too," Mikey added.
"Now that I think about it, yeah they were," Leo said, throwing another piece of twisted, charred metal into the junk pile.
"Okay," they heard Sky say, "There's Salt & Vinegar, Chicken, Barbecue, and Plain chips," she said, holding four bowls within her arms. She placed them on her desk, and the four turtles came over. Sky then grabbed the single hologram of the main piece of machinery, and started grabbing materials.
"Wait, you're actually building it yourself?" Raph asked, as she placed some of the materials on her work desk.
"And?" Sky said, looking over the blueprints once more, and comparing it to the 3D model.
"Nothing. It's just the fact that you're a girl. I didn't really expect you to be so hands on," Raph said.
Sky turned and charged at him, throwing punches. He blocked, and attempted to strike back, but she didn't stop until she got a good punch in; that and Leo and Donnie were pulling her away.
"You're such a jerk! Get out! Get out of my lab now!" Sky screamed, and he left without a word. She shrugged off Leo and Donnie and went back to her desk. She sat on her stool and placed her head on the desk, blocking the light with her arms.
The three turtles waited awkwardly in silence, not sure what to do. Sky then sat up, turning to face them, her face expressionless.
"Please make sure he doesn't break anything," she said and went upstairs, taking the fixed VRP Headpiece with her.
Leo then turned to his remaining brothers. "Do what you can down here, I'll check on Raph. Mikey, go make sure Sky's okay."
"Okie dokie," Mikey said and went upstairs, Leo following closely behind. They saw Raph on the couch staring numbly into space.
Mikey started to ask a question. "Where did–"
Raph pointed upstairs, and Mikey went up, taking two steps at a time. Leo stayed with Raph. Mikey went into a hallway, and peeked in a few of the rooms. He eventually saw Sky in one of the rooms. She was lying on her bed, the VRP Headpiece she grabbed earlier on a desk.
"Sky?" Mikey said quietly, walking in. He noticed the cardboard cut-outs of himself and his brothers, and three framed posters of them. She didn't move.
"Sky?" Mikey repeated, a bit louder this time. He walked over to her and tapped her shoulder. Again she didn't move at all.
"Sky? Don't be dead!" He yelled loudly.
"I'm not dead you idiot!" Sky said, whacking his arm. "Now move, you're blocking the sun."
He moved, and she patted the bed beside her gesturing him to lie down next to her. He did, and he could feel the warmth of the sun immediately. The two lay in silence, enjoying the rays of the sun through the window, when the door swung open.
"What happened?" Sky heard Leo ask.
She shushed him and again pat the bed.
"Why?" She heard Raph ask.
"Just do it," Sky replied, and the two lay on the double bed around Mikey and Sky. They also felt the warmth.
The four of them just lay in silence, the afternoon sun blanketing them in warmth.
Donnie, on the other hand, was looking over the blueprints for the heart of the machine. He noticed that a major piece was missing. He went upstairs in hopes to ask Sky, but the house seemed abandoned. He called out for Sky and his brothers, and ended up going upstairs. He noticed one of the doors was wide open. He peeked in, and noticed his brothers and Sky lying on the bed.
"What's going on here?" he asked. Sky lifted her head, lazily looking at him. She beckoned him over, gesturing to the bed. He sat down on the sun heated bed, and was immediately attracted to the warmth, he laid down along with the others, and soon drifted off to sleep.