Rayn opened her eyes.
There was a bright light shining directly upon her, and she lifted a hand to try to shield her eyes only to discover she couldn't move it. Upon inspection, she noticed her hands were bound to the side.
"Ah, you're awake." A voice said. A huge man with tattoos on his arms approached her and laid a hand beside her head. Rayn squinted to get a better view of him. He had a braid going down one side of his broad shoulders, sporting a tank-top looking shirt and dark pants.
"What do you want from me?" Rayn yelled.
"No need to yell, child. I'm going to be the one asking questions now."
The man came closer to her until all she could see was his ugly face. Try as she might, she couldn't back away and all she could smell was his breath. Hasn't he ever heard of breathe mints?
"Does this look familiar to you?" The man held up a picture of a grimy-looking metal suit of some kind, looking aged and really, really dirty.
"No? I don't know what that is?" Rayn snapped, struggling in her bounds.
"This is a suit your employer, Wylan Malone, fished out of the river. You've heard of him, right?" She winced. What did Wylan do this time to piss this guy off?
"Our sources state that Mr. Malone was using the suit's technology to create some kind of special robots, and you were the head of that project."
All of a sudden, realization hit her like a bullet. My robotics project? What?
Mr. Breath Mints read the recognition on Rayn's face and smiled. "Now are you going to tell me more about this.. Project or am I going to have to force it out of you?"
"Yeah, fat chance of that." She spat. "I'm not telling you anything."
"Ah, so we have a tough one." He reached for a thick needle full of some kind of green liquid sitting on the table next to them. "Master Shredder wanted to use you for his own projects, so maybe you'd be of more use to him.. This way."
Rayn screamed as he smiled.
"I hope we find some of those foot goons tonight." Raph shouted as the four brothers leapt between rooftops.
"We're just going on patrol, nothing too fancy tonight." Leo quickly replied.
"But I really want to kick some heads in." Raph retorted as he stopped at the edge of a building, followed closely by his brothers.
"Tonight's not the night for that." Leo peered into the streets below. Just a bunch of cars, no sign of anything - no gangs, no robberies, nothing for them to stop. No fights.
But, as he said that, they heard sounds of breaking glass and screams nearby. Fate had her own plans for them tonight.
"You were saying?" Raph laughed and started to run in the direction of the sounds.
Leo sighed as Don and Mikey followed behind.
"Come on, Leo. We can't let him have all the fun." Mikey yelled to the eldest turtle.
Leo reluctantly followed as his brothers leaped across the rooftops.
Rayn felt the pain radiate through her body and could distantly hear her own screams as she felt her body change. She had no idea what the dude had done to her, but she could feel herself shift and change - and her world twist until it was something entirely different.
"What are you doing to me?" She screamed at him.
The jerk didn't respond, just laughed and left the room.
It felt like hours passed before Rayn was finally able to think clearly, and when she blinked and the fog cleared, she realized she wasn't bound anymore.
She flexed her hands and shakily got to her feet. Now that she wasn't blinded, she could clearly see she was in a room - like a laboratory, maybe?
There was a large window on the wall and she guessed it had two way glass, because there's no way they'd let her just leave. Right?
Rayn walked over to the door, and as she did so she caught a glimpse of her reflection.
She felt a drop in her stomach and tried to keep from crying out.
Rayn had a medium, slim build with long red hair, usually tied back in some form or another. She still wore her jacket, cargo pants, belt, and boots. The main difference about her appearance was the addition of cat ears. They were black, on the top of her head and as she noticed them she saw them move downward, as if in sadness, like the way cats do sometimes.
Protruding from her lower back was a tail, fluffy and long, reminding her of Kiki's. She looked at herself in horror and realized she must have been transformed somehow - into this new, mutant? Form of herself. It seemed like something out of your generic comic book story, but it wasn't. It was her life and it was all to real.
That's when Rayn decided she had to get out of here, and prevent these people from getting whatever they were searching for, including her.
She had to get out of here.
The four turtles peered down from the top of the rooftop at the scene before them.
Below, the sounds of shouting echoed upwards and the brothers watched as Purple Dragons gathered toward what looked like a business man, shouting in fear for help to the empty alleyway.
"Oh man, should we help him?" Donatello commented, looking at his brothers.
"Yeah. Let's show him what it means to be mean and green." Raph commented back, not hesitating before jumping over onto the fire escape below.
"Raph, wait—oh shell." Leo watched as slowly his brothers all followed suit, leaving him alone.
Wylan Malone stood at the end of the alley, watching as he was slowly approached by three of the Purple Dragons. He knew who they were, but he didn't think they'd try to attack him.
Wylan didn't even know what they wanted.
He didn't bother trying to bargain with them, because he had nothing to give — his wallet only had enough to buy food and other necessities, he didn't carry cards, he didn't have any weapons. The young man was wearing his usual long trench-coat like coat and black pants, wearing heavy work boots and glasses.
Wylan didn't even dress rich. He just dressed like the geek he was - owning a high-end tech company, trying to invent knew things with the help of his friend Rayn.
Rayn, who went missing. Possibly kidnapped or worse. Did she have anything to do with this?
In fact, he knew these gang members were saying things but Wylan's brain just kind tuned them out, in fear.
"Hey, kid, you mute or somethin'?" one of them yelled, catching his attention.
"No." Wylan replied simply despite his fears, the word barely making it out.
The gang members advanced, laughing menacingly and making crude remarks, and Wylan closed his eyes. He braced himself for them to beat him up, or whatever - but that never came.
The sounds of metal and fighting broke across the empty silence. Suddenly, he opened his eyes and he wasn't alone.
Between Wylan and the gang members were four green masked.. Creatures. They moved like a blur, fast enough that he couldn't bear to hope to catch up. It was almost like Rayn when she practiced her yoga - except faster and more fluid.
Raph spotted the man at the end of the alley cowering, and as he kicked a gang member away, he called out to Wylan. "Hey man, you okay?"
Wylan jerked his attention towards the mutant. In fact, his knowledge of biology was coming through and he realized the creature was in fact a giant turtle.
And said turtle was making quick work of his opponents. Soon, all three had no kick left and were left dazed and confused on the ground. Wylan realized it was just him and these turtles.
Except.. Wylan's keen senses spotted another guy across the alley. The gang member was holding a phone to his ear and frantically speaking into it.
"Hey, that guy's calling for backup!" Wylan called out to his rescuers. Four heads turned and spotted the gang member, who dropped his phone in surprise and yelped.
"We got a squealer?" Raphael shouted as he drew his sais and twirled them in his hands.
Crying out the goon got to his feet and tried to run away, only to be blocked by Raph.
"Raph, wait." Leo shouted as he and Mikey came towards the fight.
Donatello, meanwhile, was cautiously approaching the figure at the other end of the alley. Sensing Wylan's fear, he put his bo-staff away. "Are you hurt?" The turtle asked cautiously. "What did those guys want from you?"
Reluctantly, Wylan let the turtle help him up. "I don't know." He said shakily.
"Well—" Before Don could say anything else, he heard shouting come from the end of the alley - and saw more of the Purple Dragons entering the alley.
"You heard the boss - we need to catch that guy!" One of them shouted.
"Just stay behind us." Don told Wylan, who had yelped in fear. "We'll take care of them."
Wylan gulped and watched as the turtle went to join his brothers in the fight. Boy, would this be a long night..
Rayn had, somehow, managed to open the door.
She didn't understand how, but after a lot of tugging and pulling, she somehow got it.
Rayn also could feel herself stronger - her..alteration must have helped with that. But her captives didn't seem to have predicted that.
She slowly exited the room, her tail twitching automatically behind her as she walked into a corridor.
I hope this was long enough and an interesting read - next chapters will probably get better. Stay tuned! Really enjoying writing this so there'll probably be frequent updates.
