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Chapter 2
"Turtles in Space: Trouble with Triceratons"
Part 2

The young redhead was so tired. She couldn't remember the last time she had ever been as tired as she was as she stood next to Raphael in a back alley. She placed her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes. She didn't care what he thought or even if she had permission. She was just too tired to care. She could feel Raph gently shake her shoulder.

"You don't mind, do you?" she asked, not moving or anything. The tone of her voice made Raph stop and just let her rest for a minute before they all had to continue moving. They were still on the run from the Federation. They had been moving continually ever since they got away when the tank exploded. That left no time to take breaks for food or sleep. That meant Alex was a very weary, grouchy girl.

It was just Alex, Raph, Mikey and Honeycutt at the moment. They were in a very small back alley hiding while Leo and Donny went to see if there were any patrols around. They needed to make sure the coast was clear before moving anywhere. It was rather troublesome. So much effort to just travel in the city. But it was necessary and couldn't be help. Alex knew that. It didn't mean she had to like it though.

"That's the fifth patrol we've seen in the last hour," Leo said as he and Don came back.

"Don't those guys have anything better to do?" Donny asked.

A strange growling noise made Alex lift her head and look over to Mikey. His stomach had been growling so loudly the past hour that it was getting rather ridiculous. If he didn't eat something soon, the noise from his stomach was going to act like an alarm giving their position away to the Federation soldiers. They had to get him something to eat and fast. Alex wouldn't mind a bite either.

"Yeah," Mikey said. "Like eat?" He then looked down to his stomach. "I know. Poor baby. You're hungry, aren't you?"

"We've got an entire alien army looking for us and you're talking to your stomach?" Raph asked irritated.

"Well, it's talking to me," he explained. "It's saying," he put his fingers together in front of his stomach and pretended like it was a mouth, moving it to his words, "Food. Food!"

Alex giggled. It seemed she was the only one to think it was funny. Oh well. Mikey thought she was funny and she thought he was funny. They had each other's backs.

"More than food," Leo said. "We need an escape plan."

"We need to get off this planet quickly and quietly," Honeycutt said. "And that means smugglers. I believe I know of one particularly sleazy in where we just might obtain off world transport. "

"Sounds like a plan," Leo said. "Lead on, Professor."

As they started to walk, Alex started to trail behind. She tried to keep up with the others, she really did. She hated to slow people down. Usually she didn't. She was usually one of those people up near the front. This was very unlike her. Maybe the battle at the TCRI building took more out of her than she thought. Then combine that with what had been going on when they were transported to another planet, she seemed to be overcome with fatigue. If only she had an hour or so to rest. To maybe shut her eyes for a moment…

"Come here," a deep, gruff voice said. Alex looked up at Raph confused. "You're slowing us down."

Alex looked down at the ground embarrassed. "Sorry," she said, trying to walk a little faster. "I'll keep up."

"You're not doing a very good job," he said with a laugh. "Come here."

Raph pulled Alex over his shoulders and positioned her over his back. He held onto her legs while she wrapped her arms around his neck so she couldn't tip over. She was embarrassed even more. Her face was as red as the bandana he wore around his face. However, even thought she was embarrassed, she wasn't uncomfortable. Even though Raph was a very tough guy and seemed to have a very mean exterior, Alex could tell that wasn't it. He held her there gently go that she could try to rest.

Alex knew he must have been tired too. They all were, but he offered to use some of his energy to help her out so she could gain more. It was sweet and a really nice thing to do for her. Alex didn't expect it out of him. She smiled and rested her head on the crook of Raph's neck. Her breath slightly warming his cold shoulder a bit.

"Thanks Raph," she said tiredly. "You're the best."

With that, she drifted off into a peaceful, long needed nap.

o-0-o

Alex woke up leaning against an alley wall. She rubbed her eyes a bit thought her mask. The mask of her suit was really starting to get uncomfortable. Her suit consisted of gloves that were fingerless and had protective steel in the outside it she found herself fighting against someone with a weapon and not one for herself. She also had steel pads on her elbows and knees. She couldn't be too careful. She had also gotten a mask than could be pulled up over the bottom part of her face, over her noise, but not her eyes or forehead. She had a green head band to keel her head out of her eyes and pulled up into a pony tail. She had a breast plate or shield that stopped just under her breasts, but covering everything, making sure she was protected. Under that she had a black shirt that had no sleeves and stopped a little further down that the breast plate. The pants were more like spandex than anything else. They were skin tight, but allowed air to get in so she wouldn't sweat as much. The knee pads were over the pants. Her sword was sheathed behind her back like Leo's was. She also had a belt where she could secure her tanto and fan. The manriki chain was wrapped around her waist like a belt.

It was a lot to carry around sometimes, but she was used to it. Even though a true ninja could make anything a weapon, she preferred what she had. That was why she kept it with her almost all the time. Each thing was important in one way or another. But, in her view, her sword was her most cherished. It had been given to her by her father, and when her family had been attacked and her brothers kidnapped, her sword had been taken from her. Her brother, Zack, had managed to get it back to her before they completely brainwashed him into being a minion for the Shredder.

Alex stood up off the ground and saw that they had surveillance on an alien food place and ducked back down. She didn't want to give anything away. She when over and listened to what Leo and Raph were saying.

Raph turned around and was a little shocked Alex there behind him. He had thought she was still over by the wall sleeping. He shook it off after a moment and continued on with what he was going to say. "This doesn't exactly look like your kind of place, Professor."

"Um, well, I'm very partial to the D'hoonibians spicy cheese disk they serve here. At least, I used to," he said, patting his metal stomach. The poor guy couldn't enjoy any of the foods he used to love while he was human.

"Whoa," Mikey said. "Alien pizza. What a concept!"

"We can't just walk in there," Leo said. "Our pictures are everywhere."

"Maybe it's time for the ninjutsu art of disguise," Donny suggested, turning and pointing to a clothes line in the alley behind them.

Raph, Leo, Donny and the Professor had all picked long, hooded cloaks. There weren't any more either so Alex and Mikey had to pull something else off of the clothes line. Mikey grabbed a pink piece of cloth while Alex grabbed a light green colored on. She slid on the girls outfit. She rolled up her sleeves and pant legs so you couldn't see the suit she had on underneath. She pulled her mask off, since the Federation didn't know what her face looked like. She had been keeping the mask on for that reason. She put the mask on her belt on her suit underneath so people couldn't see it.

Alex brushed through her long red hair and looked at one of the windows to make sure she looked okay. Usually, she didn't care what she looked like, but seeing as they were on a different planet trying to make themselves looked different, she had to make sure she did just that. The green outfit she had on fit her curves perfectly, unlike Mikey's outfit. Mikey's was the same as Alex's, but a different color, and since he wasn't a girl, it didn't look very nice on him as Alex's did in her's.

"I can't wear this," Mikey said. "I can't!'

"What? It should fit just fine," Donny said.

"These colors clash with my head band," he explained. "It's a fashion nightmare!"

Alex couldn't help but crack up laughing at that. Never in a million year would she ever expect any of them, even Mikey to say anything like that. It was just too great. "Please never say that again," Alex laughed. "You sound like my friends Emily and Kiley."

"Mikey, there's food in there," Don said. "Food."

Mikey just smiled and put the outfit on. "Does this make my butt look big?" he asked.

"Yup," Raph said.

"You're so mean," Mikey said. "Alex, what do you think?"

Alex shook her head. "Mikey, considering it's a girl's outfit and you're a guy," he looked at her hoping for a good review. Alex almost couldn't bear how cute his puppy dog face was. "Considering it's a girl's outfit, you work it great!"

"In your face!" he gloated to Raph.

"How do I look?" Alex asked.

Everyone took a look over to Alex. A bright red blush played out on her face. She was mainly asked Raph and Mikey, who were standing right there next to her. She didn't expect everyone to turn and look at her. It was embarrassing. What if she didn't look good? Maybe she should have picked something else to wear…

"You look great!" Mikey said. "But not as good as me!"

Alex laughed and punched Mikey in the arm. "Just try to blend in," Leo told them, still looking at Alex.

"Might be a little hard with how Alexandra," the Professors started, "You're name is Alexandra, I presume. Or is it Alexis?"

"Alexandra," she informed, "But I prefer Alex, Lex is even better than Alexandra."

"Lex?" Donny asked curiously. "Who calls you Lex?"

"Everyone at school," she said.

"Why?" Leo asked.

"It's really a long story and we don't really have the time," she said, not wanting to tell the story behind it. It was a little embarrassing for her. "Come on; let's get this thing done so we can get out of here."

The group of six casually walked into the place like they were regulars. Honeycutt walked in first in his tan cloak, leading them since he had been there before. Leo, Raph and Donny followed right behind him in their red cloaks. Alex and Mikey walked in right behind them. Mikey in pink and Alex is green.

"This had better be worth it," Mikey said.

They continued to walk further into the place. Wanted holograms of them were floating everywhere. The guys pulled down their hoods more while Alex didn't. Her wanted hologram was of her with her mask on. Nobody knew what she looked like without it on. For once she was really glad she had that mask.

Alex saw Mikey walk off to the counter where the chief was. She knew he was hungry, but couldn't he wait until they booked a ride first. Then they could eat and get out of there. I swear, Alex thought. That terrapin is run by his stomach.

The rest of the group continued to walk further into the place. It had gotten rather dark in the back of the building. There weren't many lights. And even more wanted hologram signs of them were floating around than in the front. That didn't make any of the feel any better about being there.

"I do believe these fine gentlemen can help up," Honeycutt said, pointing to two what looked like a blue Chewbacca and a purple skinned, red haired human. They were sitting at a round tabled on the corner of the room alone. They didn't look very gentlemen like to Alex. She didn't even want to go near them.

"We can do better," Raph and Leo both said the same time.

Before anything else could be said, a commotion could be heard coming from the entrance of the building. Federation Soldiers ran in with their snazzy uniforms, uniformed lines and fancy guns. One of them yelled, "Everybody freeze in the name of the Federation!"

"Man," Raph said, opening his cloak to grab his sai. "They'll let anybody in this place." Leo motioned for him to stop and he did.

The Federation soldiers started to make their way across the long room to where their little group was. "Come on," Leo said. "Back door." They continued to walk backwards to keep their eyes on the guards when Alex got a bad feeling in her gut.

Not now, she thought. Please not now!

Alex turned around to see a soldier behind them and Mikey walking into his gun. "You get back in there," he told them. He looked to Alex and said, "Except for you, cutie. You can stay here with me."

"Eeewwww," Alex shivered. The guy didn't look too pleased about what she said. If he didn't like that, then he wasn't going to like what she had to say next either. "What are you? Like, forty? Freaking pedophile."

"What did you-?" he started, but was stopped by Mikey.

Mikey turned around and said in a sweet girly voice, "You couldn't possibly hit a lady, but you know a lady can hit you." He took out a nun chuck and got the guy's gun away from him and then kicked him in the face. He fell to the floor.

"You go girl," a waitress told Mikey after seeing what had happened.

Federation soldiers came running to see what had happened. Mikey stood there, one hand on his hip and the other "in his hair" and said, "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful."

"Now you sound like Amanda," Alex said. "Please don't turn into her. She's a total-." She was cut off by the Fed. Soldiers.

"Troopers attack!"

Everyone through off their outfits and got ready to fight. Alex took on three guys at once. "Hi," she said, just standing there like a sweet little girl. "I'm Alex and I'll be kicking your butts today. Any questions?" They starred at her confused for a moment. "No? Good!"

She jumped up and did a split kick for two of them, hitting them in the chests, sending them backwards. Once she landed on the ground she did a front flip, kicking the third guy in the chest as well, making him fall as well. Alex ran back over to the group that was starting to get surrounded by a lot of Fed. guys.

"Oh dear," Honeycutt said. "They've got us surrounded."

"Take out this alien trash, but don't target the Fugitoid!" their commander ordered. "On my order!"

Before he could give the order, a huge explosion blew a huge hole in the wall, knocking all of the soldiers down. In the hole stood very tall beings. They looked like triceratops. They were walking on two feet though and had hands with opposable thumbs. In their hands were (can you guess?) more guns! They wore breathing masks over their faces with their horns sticking out.

"Find the Fugitoid!" their leader ordered. "Destroy the rest. To victory!" The Dino's also started to shoot at them. The Fed soldiers ran for cover while Honeycutt just tried to walk away. Leo jumped over and picked him up and carried him behind the bar for protection. Alex had seen Raph go back there earlier to get cover.

Alex was straight in the line of fire. She quickly ran under a table where Donny was. It was safe from fire and Don had a gun. It was good protection.

"We need a way out of here!" Mikey yelled from behind a pillar.

"Finally," Donny said, closing the gun he had been working on. "I'm on it!"

"What are you planning, Don?" Alex asked.

He knocked on the table to see how sturdy it was. "Structurally sound," he said. He pressed a button and placed the gun facing down under the table, like the leg. He pulled Alex out with him and got on top of the table. He dragged Alex up too, even though they were even more in the cross fire of everything. She trusted him though, so she went along with whatever it was that was playing out in his head.

"All aboard the turtle express!" he called, telling everyone to get on the table. Mikey and Raph got their very quickly.

Leo was much slower because he was pulling Honeycutt with him. Honeycutt feel and when Leo was about to pull him back up, one of the Dino's shot at Leo so he couldn't. Then they grabbed him before Leo could. They tossed him out of the room so they couldn't get him.

Leo jumped on the table. The gun under the table exploded, sending the turtles and Alex playing on the table out of the hole in the wall and into the air. They all tried to balance the table as it slid across the ground like a wheel less board. They kept knocking people out of the way. They ended up hitting some steps to a building and were sent flying forward.

"Get your hands off me!" Honeycutt could be heard yelling. "Let me go! Help, I'm being robonapped."

"Guys," Leo said, pointing at a ship that the Professor was in. "Look." The ship took off with Honeycutt in it.

"Come on," Mikey said. "They're getting away!"

"Hey guys," Donny said, running over to an old flying car thing. "Check this out!"

"That bucket of bolts?" Raph asked.

"Oh yee of little faith," Donny said. He opened the top of the engine and started to fool around to get it to start. He hopped in as the engine started up. It started to smoke up as he said, "I am so good!" It was still working though.

"Side car!" Mikey yelled. "I call side car!" He hopped into the sidecar of the craft while Donny and Raph sat up front and Alex and Leo sat in back. Poor Alex wanted shotgun. Oh well.

"I don't know if I trust Donny's driving," Alex muttered to Leo. The craft floated up and then suddenly flew forward very fast. They almost hit a couple people at Donny tried to get it up in the air more and under control. "See what I mean!"

"Uh, I meant to do that," Donny said.

Alex screamed along with everyone else in the craft as they approached two very tall, very close sky scrapers. The space between the two buildings was unbelievably small and their craft wouldn't be able to fit. They were going to crash. Alex didn't want to die on a foreign planet. She didn't want to die yet period. She was only fifteen for crying out loud.

As they approached the buildings, Donny turned the craft sideways so it would fit, but in doing so, Alex tipped out of the craft. She tried to grab onto the side, but her hand slip. She was about to go falling to her death when Leo grabbed onto her wrist and pulled her back in. She wrapped her arms around him and thanked him over and over again.

"That's why you wear a seat belt," he told her, buckling her in.

"Gotcha," she told him, not letting go of his arm because she was a little shaken up.

Leo just looked at her while she looked up at him. She couldn't see his eyes color, but she was guessing it was something like a warm brown color. Brown eyes would suit him nicely. They were warm and strong like he was. Alex smiled at him, and before she could think about what she was doing, leaned up and kissed his cheek.

"Thanks," she whispered loud enough for him to hear, but nobody else. She smiled even wider when she saw a red tint to his cheeks and the shocked expression on his face. She turned away with a pink blush of her own tried to pay more attention to what the driver of the vehicle was doing, but she still couldn't get what she did off her him.

The craft when even faster and Alex grabbed onto Leo once more. He covered his mouth like he was going to barf. "If you barf on me I'll kill you!" Alex yelled. Even though nobody really enjoyed going that fast, they caught up to the Dino's and Professor quickly.

Alex got an uneasy feeling and let go of Leo, looking back behind them. There were three Dino's following them on strange jet pack like things. When she looked back, it caught Leo's attention and he looked back too. They started to shoot at them.

"We've got Horn Heads on our tail!" Leo informed them.

"Man," Raph said, slamming his fist onto the side of the craft. "I wish this flying bathtub had some weapons. We're sitting ducks!" One of the lazars almost hit Raph in the head. "Whoa."

"Turtles actually," Mikey corrected.

"Whatever," Raph said.

Donny moved the craft so they were flying straight up. "This is just going to take some extreme flying!" Donny justified.

"I was afraid you were going to say that," Raph said.

Don changed the course and went into the forest below. He weaved in and out of trees everywhere. Alex really didn't trust his driving. She'd prefer it if Raph was the one driving. He was much better at it. She could justify her choice by the tank driving and his with the motorcycle Donny built him.

One of the Horn Heads flew right into a tree. "Oh yeah," Raph said. "These bozos may be tough, but Donny here learned to drive in New York City."

"That doesn't make me feel any better about the drivers back home Raph," Alex said.

They continued to get shot at by the other two Horn Heads. They got hit in the back making it smoke and catch on slight fire. Leo unbuckled and got out of his seat. He unbuckled Alex and pulled her out of her seat.

"They've got to have some weapons in here," Mikey said.

"Like Master Splinter says," Leo said, standing up in front of Alex. "Anything can be a weapon in the right hands." He took out his swords and Alex caught on. She pulled out her sword and helped him cut out the seat they had been sitting on. Leo lifted it up over his head and yelled, "You guys look tired. Have a seat!" With that, he threw the seat at them. It hit one of the Horn Heads and sent him falling down to the forest below.

"Ah, leave the shiny buttons alone, Mikey!" Don told Mike.

"But it might be something really good," he protested. He pressed a button and it made a strange, unpleasant sound. "Or not."

The connector between the main craft and the sidecar dislodged and Mikey went falling away from the main craft with everyone else in it. He started to flail his arms every which way and screaming like a little girl. While they were paying attention to Mikey, the last Horn head shot the craft.

"We're hit!" Donny yelled, stating what everyone else already knew.

Mikey's car wasn't falling as fast as the others so he jumped when it was above it and Leo and Alex pulled him into the back of the car with them. They quickly bucked themselves with the belts that were still attached to the craft.

"I'm saved! I'm saved!" Mikey rejoiced.

The Horn Head flew over and pulled off the back fin of the craft, then flew up to the front and landed there. He bent down, pulled off the front part where the engine was. He tore of off and threw it to the side before flying off.

"We're going down!" Donny yelled.

"We're doomed! We're doomed!" Mikey yelled instead of being saved.

The craft when falling down to the forest below as the all screamed bloody murder. They hit the top of the trees and the branch after branch until they would smash against the ground. "Hit the brakes!" Mikey yelled. "Hit the brakes!"

The craft hit roots as it smashed against the ground. The craft tipped over and everyone was thrown out of the vehicle. Alex coughed from all the smoke and dirt in the air. She tried to get up, but her leg was tangles in the seat belt in the back that she had been seated in. She pulled out her sword, cut herself free and fell to the ground with a thud. She groaned painfully as she stood up. The others didn't seem too happy either.

"Nice landing Bro!" Raph complained.

"It could have been worse," Don said.

"I don't think so," Leo said, rubbing his head. "We lost the Professor. We'll never find him now. Which means we'll never get home. We failed ourselves. We've failed Master Splinter." He leaned his head against a tree.

"Lighten up Leo," Raph told him with a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "We'll find a way."

"We always do," Mikey added.

"Well," Donny also started in, "I took the liberty of attaching a turtle tracker to our little metal friend." He took out his little locating device and smiled brightly.

"Nice work Donny!" Leo complimented in a much better mood.

The whole ground seemed to shack and an explosion in the distance could be hears. "What was that?"

"Fighting," Leo said. "Nearby. Come on!"

Leo led the way to the explosion. "Ah, just once I wish we were running away from the explosions," Mikey complained as they ran.

They stopped and hid behind a bush to see what was going on. There was a base that the Dino's had. Two Dino's were dragging Professor Honeycutt into the bas and away from the gunfire. Federation Soldiers were shooting their way to try and get the robot back. It seemed everyone, including the ninja, wanted Honeycutt. The poor robot.

"Guys," Donny said. "The Fugitoid's in there somewhere."

Raph stood up and said, "It's rescue time!" He took out his weapons and jumped forward with everyone right behind him. Instead of taking out her sword, Alex pulled out her manriki chain and started to swing it slightly to get momentum. They jumped and dodged gunfire to try and get to the door.

The Dino's started to retreat back into their bunker. The door started to open as the guys and Alex took cover behind a mound of dirt. Alex watched the door start to close and started to get fidgety. They either had to get in there or they wouldn't be able to get home at all.

"The Horn Heads are booking," Raph said impatiently. "Come on!"

He got up with Alex right behind him. They ran as fast as they could and managed to slide in just as the door was closing. There were a couple Dino's in there that started to shoot them, but Raph had a gun and started to shoot back. Alex hid behind him so she wouldn't get hit. The Dino's retreated and shut the door behind them.

"These blasters are way cool," Raph said, hitting the button to open the door with his elbow while Alex walked into the hold where they were in. She could hear the guys come in and the door shut once more. She was busy looking at some boxes when the guys walked up beside her.

"I don't understand," Leo said. "Why would a bunker have a cargo bay?"

The whole thing seemed to shift. "Maybe because it's not a bunker," Don replied.

Without much warning, the gravity in the room disappeared and they all went flying up to the ceiling. Alex hit her head and said, "Ow. Hey guys, did you know there's a ceiling here. Watch your heads." Of course she was joking around.

A couple minutes later they were able to move away from the ceiling and float around freely. It was kind of fun once you got the hang of it. You just hand to move the right way to go where you wanted. Alex always did think it would have been fun to have no gravity like they did in the movies. It was like a game. When would she ever get the chance to do it again? She wanted to make the best of it.

She spun around and laughed as her hair floated in her face. She pushed off of a box and floated over to Donny, who was looking out a window. It was so cool. They were in space! The guys could honestly say they were the first turtles in space…

"Guys, check this out," Donny told the others.

Mikey managed to float over to the window and take Alex's spot. She had moved away enough so that anyone of the others could take a look if they wanted. "We're in space?" Mikey asked dramatically.

"Really?" Alex asked sarcastically. "I hadn't notices. Maybe that's why we have no gravity!" She was just playing around with Mikey. He knew that too. Otherwise she might feel a little bad, making him feel dumb and all.

The whole cargo hold shook and a loud, screeching sound came from one of the windows above them. The glass on the window was cracking. Oh, Alex thought. That's not good. That's really not good at all. We need to get away from there, now!

"Get away from there guys," Donny said, reading Alex's mind. Great minds think alike.

Then the window finally cracked enough where the air was getting sucked out like a vacuum and things started to get lifted off the ground of the cargo hold and out into space. The guys and Alex directed a very large metal container over to the window and got it to stick there to prevent any more air from being sucked out. The metal started to implode, but stuck there and did it's intended job.

Alex suddenly found it very hard to breath. A lot of the air that was in the hold had been sucked out and they were left with almost nothing. They were going to suffocate. That was a wonderful way to die. At least Alex got to travel to another planet and go into outer space. Who was she kidding? She didn't care. She wanted to freaking live!

"We don't have any," Mikey started to say, freaking out and using up oxygen.

"Air," Raph finished, but doing the same thing.

"Save," Leo said weakly, "you're breath."

"But how do we?" Mikey started but was interrupted.

"Save your breath!" Leo told him once more.

"But!" he protested once more.

"Save your breath!" Everyone told him.

Great, Alex thought. I'm really bad at holding my breath!

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