...Yeah...I'm sorry for more than one thing...The long, long, long, long, long, long, lo- need I put more emphasison long? - wait for this chapter. My life has kind of been crazy lately. People have passed away and a lot of other complicated things, one being almost losing my flash drive that I keep all of this stuff on. I also had writers block. This chapter is shorter than most that I write. This also isn't very good, but it was the only way I could make it past this episode. So, those are all of the things I'm sorry for.
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Chapter 5
"Turtles in Space: Triceraton Wars"
Part 5

"For those of you just joining us you are witnessing the greatest upset in tri-sports history!" Raz announced.

"That's right, Raz. Five off worlders have just taken our beloved Prime Leader Zanramon hostage," Zed said.

"Can I knock them out now?" Alex asked, still annoyed. Those two Dino's really did bother her. She didn't really know why, but they did.

Alex was standing next to Professor Honeycutt with her Manriki chain our, swinging it so she had momentum in case she had to use it. She would rather be prepared. Not being prepared is preparing for failure (I can't believe I remembered that. Thanks Prim…). She'd rather not fail. That would mean death and she didn't want to die. She was only fifteen for crying out loud! That's too young in her preference.

"Drop the hardware or your Prime Leader is Lizard cutlets," Raph threatened.

"Do," Zanramon stuttered, "Do as he says."

"You know it's not every day five off worlders can bring a glorious Triceraton empire straight to its knees," Raz said. "You've really got to admire their spunk. So, what do you think Zed? Will they call a time out and make demands or go straight for the win with a hostile overthrow of the regime?"

Alex tried to ignore the commentators, but they were really loud and annoying. Her eyes had turned red earlier, but she was too distracted to really notice. She was glad the tinting wasn't there though. And her temper was still under control. She still wanted to hit the commentators though, but she guessed the others did too. So, she resisted from doing so.

Alex had taken one of the guns that they had gotten along with Donny, Mikey, Raph and Leo. She really didn't like guns, as said many times. But even to protect herself, she didn't like them. She would rather stick to what she had trained with all of her life. Using guns was just uncomfortable.

"So what do we do now, fearless leader?" Raph asked Leo.

"I don't know," he said a little irritated. "I'm trying to think over all that racket overhead."

"So I'm not the only one who wants to beat them," Alex said. "Thank goodness."

"Well you know Raz," Zed said. "This is clutch time. The deciding moment of-."

Someone shot at the hologram screen in the center of the stadium and broke it. The screen cracked and started to smoke. Alex laughed as she looked away from it and around her to see who had done the glorious deed. Raph was the one who had done it.

"That help?" he asked with a smirk.

"Actually yes," Leo said.

Alex ran over to Raph and threw her hands around his neck. "My hero!" she said. She kissed his left cheek and then his right one. "Thank you so much! You have no idea how much I love you for that."

His cheeks grew red and he seemed rather shocked. "You're welcome?"

Alex laughed and let go. Although, she was confused herself. Why did every guy she hug get embarrassed like that? It wasn't like she jumped him, wrapped her legs around his waist, her arms around his neck and planted one right on the lips. That, would have been embarrassing and uncomfortable. A friendly kiss on the cheek was nothing to get worked up over. At least, she didn't think so.

"Okay," Leo said, after looking away from Alex and Raph. "Let's try this. Professor Honeycutt take us to your lab. Prime Leader, you're coming with us. Everyone else stay here and don't move a muscle."

They all started to back up watching the people behind them as they went. They didn't want to take any chances. As they backed into the hallway, the backpacked guards started to move closer. So much for staying where they were and not moving a muscle… They listen great! As they got into the building into another hallway, the guards started to shoot at them.

"Call off your goons!" Raph ordered pushing Zanramon over to the shooting. "Now!"

"Hold your fire and fall back," Prime Leader said. Raph quickly grabbed him after they stopped shooting and they ran.

"Which way to the lab?" Leo asked Honeycutt.

"Well there are actually several routes. The Triceraton home world with its interconnected network of asteroid cities is a bit of a maze really," Honeycutt said.

"Show us the fastest way, Spike. Now," Raph threatened.

Raph's really good at that, Alex thought.

"As you wish," he said.

As he said, he showed them the way there. They came to a wall and an almost invisible door. It opened. It was strange. Why was everything triangular? Was it just because they were Triceratons? Because that's dumb. They were all sucked into it. It seemed it was a vent. (Okay, I'm really sorry that this description is really bad. I just didn't really know how to do this part.) They popped out into a lab.

Leo, Don and Honeycutt all landed on their own while Raph landed on Zanramon and Lex fell on top of Mikey. Alex laughed and looked at Mikey under her. "Sorry about that pal," she laughed. She rolled over and off of him as he laughed along with her.

"You wanted fast, didn't you?" Prime Leader said.

"I got your fast right here," Raph threatened, pointing the gun at him.

"Mikey," Leo said. "Give me a hand welding the doors and hatches shut. Don, Alex, help Professor Honeycutt with anything he needs to construct his Teleportal."

"You got it," Mikey said, running off to do his job.

"Uhu," Donny sounded, grabbing Alex by the wrist and pulling her along to help.

"Raph you got guard duty," Leo continued to instruct.

"Yeah whatever," he said.

Alex went to pick up some things, but stopped when her head started to hurt. It was strange. It came very sudden that time. Not like the last time where it came after her vision started to tint. This time, her vision turned completely without any warning. Her eyes had been green and then changed to red just like that. It was strange and scary.

Alex held onto the side of the work bench she was at and held her head with the other. She didn't want the others to see her breaking down like that, so she quickly stumbled behind some large machinery that she could hide behind. She leaned against it and slid down to the floor. Both of her hands gripping her head.

Warm, wet tears ran down her cheeks. She tried to wipe them away, but more and more just kept coming down. She choked on a scream that fought to get out. She couldn't have the guys hear her though. She couldn't have them worrying about her while they had bigger and more important things to worry about. Like trying to get back home in one piece, not that Alex was in a whole piece really. Something was up and she knew it was the affects of the ray she had been hit with when attacking Foot headquarters.

Alex knew she was going to have to tell the guys what was going on when they got back. She didn't want to, but it had to be down. She was a risk. If they had shot her with the same ray her brothers had been shot with, then there was a chance that she was going to chance into what they were. She didn't want that and she was going to fight it with all of her might, which was most likely the cause of all her pain, the resisting of the transformation.

But if it really was like her brothers and she really did become like them, then how much of a risk was she for them? Her brothers wouldn't snap out of it when she tried to talk to them so what would be so different with her? What were the chances that she wouldn't be able to change back? She knew how they fought. She knew where they lived. She knew where every one of their security cameras, motion detectors and thermal imagine cameras were in the sewers that Donny had put up. Would she be forced, or if she was in the state her brothers were in, just told to tell where they were and tell them?

Wasn't the Shredder gone though? Didn't Leo cut his head off? She wasn't there so all she had was their word, but their word seemed rather trustworthy. But if he was really gone, why was this happening to her. Was she bound to be a minion even thought the Shredder was gone? Was he really gone? If he was gone what was to come of her if this was still taking her over. Was she bound to die from it?

Like stated before many times, she didn't want to die.

The pain had started to stop and was now just a migraine. Her vision was much clearer, but still tinted red to an extent. She knew her eyes were still red along with being blood shot. They were also puffy and even redder from all of the tears that had fallen out. She wondered how much of a mess she looked. It couldn't have been pretty considering they had been there for almost three weeks. It hadn't seemed like that long though. Where did the time fly when you were fighting aliens in outer space?

"Alex?" she heard Donny call out.

Alex quickly got up off the ground, tried her face off and turned to see Donny rounding the corner. He looked at her curiously and then concerned. He could tell something was wrong. Her red eyes and puffy face proved it, but he didn't get the chance to ask before she said, "I was just looking over here for some things. There's nothing good, sorry." Her voice was weak and shaky. It cracked a couple times as she spoke. She cursed herself for sounding so weak. "What's up, Donny?"

"We've got everything," he said slowly. "We've about to head out."

"I'm glad you found me then," she replied, trying to smile but not succeeding very well. "I wouldn't want to be left behind, now would I?"

"I guess not," he said. "But are you all right?"

"I'm fine," she lied.

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Maybe it was the pain in her head or maybe it was that she was embarrassed that Donny had seen her in the state she had been in, but she stood away from everyone on the shuttle they were taking to Prime Leader Zanramon's personal cruiser in the hanger. She stood at the back with a gun watching to see if there were any guards spying on them. She wasn't really doing her job. She was too distracted. In her mind, she kept trying to play what would happen if she told the guys what had really happened to her when she was kidnapped by her brothers. First off, she'd have to tell them that her brothers were the Elite ninja. Leo knew because she had told him and Raph knew because she accidentally blurted it all out in front of him when they were running from the aliens at the TCRI building. She still had to explain to him what had happened.

Alex didn't know how they would take it. After all, they had been nearly killed several times by the Shredder and her brothers. Almost succeeding with Leo. She didn't know if they would be willing to help her get them back. She knew Leo and Splinter would, they had already told her so. But what would Donny, Mikey and Raph think? Raph would surly get mad. He always did. Donny might want to figure out what technology Shredder had used against them to make them that way, but she had no idea how Mikey would react. He was just so random.

Alex was taken out of her thoughts as Leo yelled, "Guys get down! It's a trap!" And shots flying pasted her. She ducked and started to shoot back at them, keeping some of them at bay, but the shuttle they were on was moving so her range was limited. They still made their way closer as they grew closer to the ship. Leo jumped down and fought off the Dino's shooting at them. Alex stopped shooting in fear of hitting Leo.

Mikey and Donny shot overhead, making part of the ceiling fall down on top of some of the Dino's. There were still a couple shooting at them. Leo ran back over to their craft and got back on.

"Order your troops to stand down!" Raph ordered the Prime Leader.

"Stand down!" he yelled stepping forward. "I order you to-!"

He wasn't able to finish what he was saying. One of the shots his right under the Prime Leader's feet, causing him to fall to the ground on his back and then bounce onto his stomach. Alex inwardly flinched as she saw him hit the ground. She had done that before, if not exactly that, something very similar. She was just glad it wasn't her and was him.

"What about our hostage?" Raph asked Leo.

"No time," Leo replied. "Leave him!"

Professor Honeycutt lovers the shuttle into the Prime Leader's personal ship. Alex could see that the soldiers running over to the Prime Leader who was still laying on the ground from when he fell. The last thing she saw was when the soldiers got to the Leader before they completely went into the ship.

When they landed in the cruiser, they all bolted for the control room to get the heck out of there. However, Alex didn't run like the rest of them due to her head hurting more and feeling quite weak. She slowly made her way over to the cockpit and sat down on some of the stairs as the Professor too the pilot's chair. Alex could see them talking, but the throbbing in her head only allowed her to hear her heart pounding and her blood pulsing through her veins.

Something was very wrong. This was different from the other times. She wasn't going to make a fuss about it too the guy though, seeing as they were trying to get them all out of there. So, slowly getting up from her spot, she moved over to one of the other small stair cases in the corner and sat there holding her head. She was breathing heavily. Her heart rate was faster than normal. She couldn't hear anything and all she could see was red.

What the heck is happening to me? Alex asked herself. That was the last thing she remembered before passing out. She slumped down on the stairs, her head falling against the wall next to her.

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