Strong sunlight filtered into the room. A very pleasant sensation for a turtle to wake up to.
Donnie stretched out, pulling his arms across silk-like bed sheets and letting out a small mmm of enjoyment. He heard the door open and sat up.
Vatu wheeled in a trolley covered in alien fruits and confectionery. If Donnie was on his game he'd say that he preferred replicater-made earth food because he didn't know if this alien food was edible by his species, but the sunlight high he was on made him throw caution to the wind and accept the food.
"I'm sorry about that, " Donnie apologized, "Did I faint in the heat? I should have stopped by the ship to ask fugitiod for a spare suit so that wouldn't happen."
"No trouble at all, have something to eat."
The first thing he tried was a pink berry covered in sweet sauce. He closed his eyes in enjoyment and wondered how they got berries in a desert. Probably either greenhouse grown or imported.
"Can my friends come in and eat with me?" Donnie asked.
He felt a little bad about asking, just Mikey could eat the man out of house and home, but he wanted to share this with April.
"I'm afraid they won't be able to join us this evening. "
Donnie froze with a berry half way to his mouth, "What's that?
"Your friends won't be joining us this evening, or any evening, You were sicker then you think. They had to leave before the ion storm overtook them and couldn't take you with them, we have been treating you for three days.
"I was passed out for three days?" Donnie screamed."NONONONO!" He bit his nails and turned about in circles, the adrenaline in his veins telling him to run even though he didn't have anywhere to run to." WHY DIDN'T THEY TAKE ME WITH THEM!?", He exclaimed in disbelief, "I could have recovered on the ship!"
"It doesn't matter, you're here now, so we must make the best of it, all of your needs will be-" He was interrupted by Donnie jumping onto the trolley and -grabbing the front of Vatu's shirt- pressed right up against his face."Vatu! I need you to help me find a way to get through the Ion storm.""That is incredibly dangerous, I can't allow you to-""This is bigger than me, it's about a whole planet, earth is-"
"Earth!" Vatu said with incredulity. "Why go to such lengths to save a planet of people who fear you?"
Thrown by the question, Donnie paused in confusion.
"Earth is my home. The only one I''ve ever know, its culture's will always shape me, Japan and America. My favorite food is there, my friends' families." His eyes begged the older male to understand. "My father-" he pleaded, voice beginning to break.
"If your Entourage really can't get along without you then we'll send a shuttle to help your father relocate." Vatu said, almost flippantly.
"That's very kind.", Donnie said, and it did help him feel better." But I need to go."
"I can't help you."
"Then I'll help myself." Donnie threw open the window and leaped out of it, ignoring the surprised cry from inside. He crossed the flagpole on the way down, spinning around it and using its momentum to propel him to the ground safely. He ran across the road to a motorcycle like vehicle and hopped on it.
"Sorry, interplanetary emergency."
Ignoring the cries of "thief," he floored it, leaving dust in his wake as he sped across the land. He accelerated to top speed, only slowing when he came to the coast. Exhaling in frustration, he turned his bike around and sped alongside it. He hugged the ocean until the path began to rise, spiraling around a large peak. He ascended it thinking that he would be able to get a better view of his surroundings up top. The road became rougher and rougher as he ascended, until his teeth were chattering in his head from all of the rocks he crossed over. Getting aggravated, he turned the bike off and jumped off. Running up the peak on foot. He ran uphill full tilt, trying to not let the rocks get to him too much.
He sucked in a breath upon reaching the top."Noooo-" He breathed as he turned around and around, trying to take the whole view at once.
The shifting sand waves completely surrounded the island. The sound of the waves washed over him until it hit a roaring pitch.
He was stranded.
April threw open her shell cell and dialed again. Honeycutt came up online."Anything?" She asked."I'm afraid not, Ms. O'Neill."the Prof. Said. She closed the phone."see anything?" She asked Casey.
"Just more sand." He answered.
"This is bad, this is really bad.""Don't worry about it Red, we've been in worse spots before."
"But what if we can't find him? We're going to have to go on without him. And come back in a month."
"No use worrying about it until it happens. We still have time.", Casey said breezily. An explosion went off in the distance.
"What was that?" April asked.
"I don't know, let's go check it out." Casey said, turning the craft to face the sound.
"We were supposed to be looking for Donnie." April reprimanded.
"Raph is always complaining about turtle luck. He claims that if an explosion goes off anywhere in New York it'll happen by a turtle. So let's go see if it's a family trait."
Sgt. Stripes glowered as the attack raged on."those creeps are just getting bolder and bolder by the day." he snarled, "hold the line."
The workers ran to the newly arrived crates, attempting to unload them before the fight got heavy. As they lifted one up the side came loose and green alien boy fell out of it.
"And who are you supposed to be?"
Donnie rolled to his feet."I'm sorry about stealing away in your crate, but I'm trying to get the mainland and no one will help me."
"You picked a bad time to get stuck on this rig boy, we're settling in for a battle."
"I don't have time to sit around," Donnie pleaded."Please, I know engineering knowledge is really valuable on this planet. I'll write you a how-to pamphlet on anything you want to know if you can get me to the mainland."
"You're an engineer? Shoot, fix my oil rig and I'll get you anywhere you want."
Donnie saluted."consider it done, sir."
_/ O
"Hey, I think I see Donnie."
" What? Where?"
"Over there, Red" Casey said.
*Crash* They screamed as their hovercraft jerked under them and took a nose dive.
They hadn't even seen the shots, but the smoldering hole in the back of their craft was all the evidence they needed. They braced themselves for impact and April held onto Casey's waist as their craft skirted across the deck of a sand-sea ship and came to a stop hitting the mast.
They wasted no time leaping off and dispatching the Pirates that attacked them.
"How are we going to signal him?"
"It looks like he's tearing off someplace really fast. Maybe he's trying to get onto a shuttle to escape?"
"We have to stop him. We will never catch him if he runs off."
"Easy enough, I'll just use this blaster thing to knock out that bridge."
"Casey, wait-"
Donnie wove through the shots, normally being under fire would get his heart beat, but right now it was steady as a clock. "Just get to the rig Donnie." He thought to himself, "Just focus on this one thing and take it from there."
He neared the bridge and nearly reached when a blast from a ship knocked out the bridge, splintering into 1 million pieces.
All of the thoughts racing through his brain stopped, leaving behind a Holocaust of silence.
Gone. All gone. The fate of a whole planet altered with one blast from a gun.
While his mind remained blank, his body moved of its own accord.
Backing up a few spaces, he'd jerked forward into a run, moving full pelt towards the edge he leapt off and stretched his arms wide, fingertips outstretched.
He flew down, down, down, until he reached the dangling bridge and grabbed onto it, slamming into the metal hull of the fort, he moved, dragging his way up up the frayed ropes.~~~
"Huh ... I thought I would stop him for sure."
"I'm not sure this is helping, he looks very determined to get where he's going. I think we should help not hinder-"
"yeah, yeah, I gotcha."
Donnie looked around, trying to find a long plank or something that he could use to get across to the oil rig.
He heard a blast go off and looked up to see a large shadow descending on him.
He let out a shriek of terror, ran around in a circle trying to spot somewhere that he could run, then scrambled out of the way.
A small smoldering pirate ship fell out of the sky, scraped along the fort, and slid into place between the fort in the oil rig forming a bridge.
Donnie boggled in confusion.
"Casey!"
"What? I'm helping."
Donnie picked up and abandoned tool chest, and got to work. Swiftly sealing all of the cracks, and screwing loosened nuts tight until his fingers were slick black with oil.
He climbed back down the rig to meet the foreman.
"Now we can go pick him up!" April said cheerfully as Casey hopped out of the gunners seat.
"Yeah, Hey! Look! A kitty. Hey little kitty, are you here to help keep away all those nasty space rats?"
"Kitty?" April muttered, racking her memory, her eye's widened and she spun on her heel. "Casey look out!"
"What's the matter Red? It's just a cute little-"
Casey made the mistake of picking the alien up to skritch it's head, The cat seized its opportunity and clung to his face scratching madly.
"AHH! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!"
Donnie stood in front of the Sargent, panting and dripping with black oil, "Ok chief, I made good on my part of the bargain."
"You did good kid, I think- Ambassiter Vatu?"
"Ah, there you are."
Donnie spun around in surprise.
"I thank you for looking after my ward, Sargent, he shouldn't have gotten this far at all, but I suppose it's my fault for thinking that he couldn't get off the island. I'm going to take him to a more secure estate."
"You can't do that." Donny snapped, he turned to face the Sargent, "You promised you would take me to the mainland if I helped you. Don't go back on your word now."
"I'm sorry, kid. If it was anyone else I'd chew his face off after all you've done for us. But this is so far above my pay grade, that it would be like pitting a spotted saw-maggot against a boot."
Seeing the Sargent wasn't going to be any help Donnie pitted his ire against the Wolf behind him.
"You can't do this, I'm not your ward! And I won't-"
The two Sentry bots that flanked each side of the ambassador shot out many cables that wrapped around Donnie and bound his arms to his side.
They lifted him off his feet and dragged him into the shuttle.
"You can't do this. You don't have the right. I'm gonna- April?"
He glanced out the window to see April and Casey run into the fort.
"April? Wait.. Stop the car. Stop the- "
Vatu lowered a window between them, cutting Donnie off.
Vatu opened the car door. Donnie slide out of the slackening coils and trudged out of the vehicle.
"I must say I'm disappointed." Vatu said. "I expected a mind like yours to be better able to handle a change in fortune."
"You..." Donnie said quietly, clenching his fists until the blood bleached out of them.
He whirled on the old wolf and pointed at him accusingly. " You took everything from me. My team didn't leave me here. They're still looking for me."
"What are you saying? They-"
" Don't lie to me! I saw them. They were looking for me. Do you realize what you've done? Your selfishness might have decided the fate of a whole planet."
He looked into the old wolf's eyes unflinchingly, daring him to attempt another lie. " Has the Ion storm parted yet?" He demanded.
Vatu pinched his lips together. "Has it?" Donnie demanded.
The old wolf sighed. "I had hoped that it wouldn't come to this." He opened his mouth. His lower jaw parted into two parts.
He clamped his three jaws down onto Donnie's head and poured out all of the psychic energy he could muster. The turtle's body convulsed, then went limp.
"Ooh, I feel a little dizzy. " Donnie mumbled as Vatu let him go.
"It must be the heat. Why don't you tell me about your new project as we head back home."
"Sure. I think I can figure out a way to improve retromutagen. I don't know why it's taken me so many years of living here to get around to it."
Leo careened his way through the sand ocean on his harbor scooter.
This was getting exhausting.
He slowed to a stop and opened up the shell cell.
"Find anything?"
"Nothing," Ralph answered. "And I've checked three islands already, no sign of him yet"
Leo shut the cell and reopened it, dialing again.
"I'm afraid we haven't had any luck finding out where he might've gone." The fugitoid answered. "but I'm still going through the official channels."
"I want to*cough**cough*help too." Mikey said.
"You did your best Mikey, stay with the Fugitiod and recover." Leo ordered gently before redialing the cell.
His first call kept ringing for a moment and he was starting to think it might not answer when April opened the line.
"Not now, Leo. We are talking to someone who we think saw Don."
"What! Hold the phone up so I can listen."
"Yeah, he was here. He fell out of the crates for some reason, said he was trying to make it the mainland. Seemed really desperate."
"And then?" Casey grilled.
The Ambassador came by collected him. Felt bad for the kid, he seemed really distressed about it."
"Do you know where they went?" April asked.
"Yeah, they took a high-speed shuttle to East Island."
"In that case, did you catch that Leo?"
"Yeah, I think I'm right by there. Call Ralph, tell him where to go."
He shut his cell, then started the Ignition.
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He drove the bike onto the shore and jumped off it, landing ankle deep in the sand-water.
He ignored the feeling of the granules rubbing between his toes as he dragged his feet through the viscous liquid that was trying to sand his skin off.
The island wasn't that large. the only building he could see was a house on the top of the sandy path winding around a small mountain.
He coasted through the alien foliage, and came to a perch on top of a giant alien mushroom.
He paused and overlooked the compound. He could see two sentries weaving around it, and two other sentries guarding the door.
He dispatched the two outside easily, then clawed his way halfway up the Gateway and hung down from it in between the two other sentries.
"How's it going?" He asked, as they pointed their hoses at him.
He swung back and forth between the white gloppy projectiles as the two robot shot at each other. Apparently they weren't programmed for fast learning, soon they had gummed up each other's hoses to the point they couldn't shoot anymore and fused each other in place.
Landing softly on his feet, he entered, padding softly over the soft expensive looking rugs.
The house had many exquisitely carved pillars holding up. The entrance way greeted him with a large statue made up of a shiny rock. Shiny rocks are usually expensive, based on his earth experience anyway, he didn't know about alien shiny rocks. But going by the fact the man could afford his own private island Leonardo just assumed that he was packing some serious green.
He wondered how much of that had been funneled into the security budget.
To the left, there was a large living room, to the right, the kitchen, in front of him was a staircase.
He looked into the dark staircase that led downward and strained his ears, He couldn't hear anything which meant it was probably a basement.
He stole upstairs past the office where the old Wolf was pacing and listening to the radio, a smaller black fox playing on the ground with a stuffed toy. He managed to ghost past the open door without the old Wolf seeing him, he didn't look into Vixens room which was helpfully labeled with an exquisitely carved plate.
He paused at the threshold of the staircase and listened, hearing a whirring sound above him, he sliced the motion sensor in two, short-circuiting it before it could sound an alarm.
Stealing the staircase to the one door and led to he listened for a moment, and not hearing anything decided to venture inside.
He opened the door to see Donatello sitting at a desk with his back to him, writing out a blueprint for something.
"Donnie?" He asked, first surprised, then worried, something about this situation didn't add up.
Donnie turned around to look at him, "Can I help you?" He asked, sounding confused.
"Donny, what are you doing here?" Leonardo asked, his eyes seizing of his brother for anything that could explain this; Electric collar? Chain around the ankle? The confused stillness that comes from a tranquilizer shot?
"We've been searching for you all day, why didn't you send us a message after what Mikey went through. What have those fools done to you?"
"I have no idea what you're talking about, who are you?"
"I'm your brother!" Leonardo exclaimed in shock, his unease growing into a heavy dread.
"Brother? I don't have a brother." Donatello stood up, realizing that Leonardo wasn't just a guest. He screamed "help! Intruder!"
Leonardo across the room and placed a hand over Donnies mouth, putting a finger to his lips and shushing his little brother.
"Donnie, I don't know what they did to you, but you can't possibly buy this. You're a turtle! You can't actually believe that you belong on a desert planet. If you just think about this-argh! "
His body convulsed as an electric shock wracked his body.
"Leo you fool. " He reprimanded himself as he blacked out. " You let one sneak up on you with a taser."
welp. that was chapter 2. No space mutants in that one.
I think It would be really cool to have an episode where we got to see one of the other planets that had been attacked by the Kraang, most of the mutants we've seen touched humans and became mutant humanoids. Mutants on other planets would be even more alien and strange. I also want to see an Donnitello episode from the space ark. And no. I don't count the one where fugitoid got beheaded. That was a space gremlin episode that had Donnie fiddling with robotics in the background. Getting an episode like that wouldn't even be hard. All you would have to do Is start an episode with Leo and Karai in a cell and Leo saying something like. "The last time I messed up that badly was on an alien planet on the other side of the galaxy." and then Karai could say something like. "Now that's a story I need to hear." and it would work because she didn't get to hear about the space stuff and the turtles were gone for three months, so there had to be more adventures that we didn't get to see.
Flashback episode, Nicktoons. make it happen.
Sorry about not posting when I said I would, I got distracted by life, the universe, and everything. That happends to everyone sometime right?