Hey there to all of my readers. I want to apologize for my absence, I've had no inspiration recently for JYAD recently plus the fact that school was ending and the lack of reviewing I've had no desire or creativity to write JYAD until now!
Now, I'm not trying to play the whole, boohoo everyone take pitty on me! It's just the fact that your reviews push me to write this story more and more. I've been trying a lot harder to make May less of a 'Mary Sue' despite the first few chapters and I am trying to give her more of a purpose than just April's niece that fights and gets kidnapped a lot on the sidelines...blegh... but yea.
Combined with the end of the semester, my other fanfic I recently got into, I just had no inspiration. But it's back and hopefully I can balance working on both this and the other story. (for those of you that write like 15 different stories, I have no idea how the hell you do it!) If you like the anime one piece, check out my other fanfic!
Reviews puh-leaseeeeeeee! And extra reviews for making it a long chapter! ;)
-yesiamweird
"I'm telling ya right now, this is a bad idea!" Raph muttered as the gang walked into the entrance of the museum.
"Raph's right!" Mikey commented, "I've got a bad feeling about this!"
Shaking her blonde head, May giggled at the two turtles that had been dragged by their ankles by their scientific brother to the museum with May and Anna.
"What are you talkin' about?" Donny smiled, "It's gonna be great! How can you not be excited about being in a museum?" Raph and Mikey gave each other a look and frowned, "Boring!" they yelled simultaneously.
"You won't think that when we get to the main attraction!" Anna smiled leading the group to the exhibit they were heading to.
"Is it a snack bar?" Mikey smirked underneath his ridiculous beanie hat he wore to hid his bald green head. "Cause that, I could get excited about!" May rolled her eyes at the turtle and continued to follow behind Anna and Donny.
"They museum is closing in twenty minutes so there shouldn't be many people in here." Leo reminded the gang. "But just remember: keep a low profile!" Just as Leo had finished his statement Donny had stopped walking causing May and Mikey to bump into the turtle and just as the blonde was about to complain about Donny causing a collision, the turtle sneezed. Rather loudly actually.
"Bless you." May smiled.
"That's not exactly what I meant by low profile." Leo smirked patting his brother's shoulder.
"Are you okay Donny?" Anna smiled sweetly as the group gathered around the sick turtle. "You've been looking a little green…well…" She looked to the other three brothers with a frown, "Greener than usual…" She hesitantly chuckled and in hesitation grabbed May's arm pulling her away from the turtles and towards the exhibit.
"Woah, talk about awkward moment?" May shook her head confused by her friend's actions and smiled. "Where the hell is this exhibit anyways?" She muttered and then dropped her bottom jaw as her and Anna stopped in the threshold of the impressive Dinosaur exhibit. "Wow…" May smiled looking at all of the impressive fossils, paintings, maps and statues in the exhibit. "Don, get in here quick!" the blonde smiled walking forwards towards the impressive skeleton of a Brachiosaurus.
"Wow is right!" Donny smiled walking forwards. "This is one of the best exhibits of dinosaurs in the country!"
Mikey pouted walking next to May, "Oh yea Don, this is waaaaaaaaaay better than video games." Raph walked on the other side of the blonde with his arms crossed. "Ya know it's not too late to ditch this place and go find some kick ass action. Bishops monsters are still out there. Fighting them would be less painful than this!"
Anna titled her head to the side, "Bishop? Monsters?" She looked to her human friend and then towards Donatello who rolled his eyes through his dark sunglasses. "Look! There's a stegosaurs and an Iguanodon!"
Mikey bumped his elbow into May's side grinning widely. "Look! There's a Nerdosaur!"
Raph chuckled and continued on with Don's teasing, "And I see a Geekosaurus Rex!" Just then a growl came from behind the three teenaged ninjas frightening and causing them to retrieve their individual weapons ready to fight the creature behind.
"Guys, easy!" Leo covered up the three from a tour group gasping at the ninja group in shock. "Oops." May muttered throwing her Kusari back into its position underneath her trench coat.
"Did I mention the animatronics exhibit?" Donny smiled. "They are state of the art!"
"Look Donny…" Anna smiled widely. "Chickenosauruses!" Moving forward, and away from the group exhibit, the gang made their way to an even bigger bunch of skeletons making an impressive T-rex skeleton. "And look! There's the king!" Donny pointed to Anna as the two shared a moment in geeky-ness over the impressive statue.
"I'd hate to run into that in a dark alley…" May muttered crossing her arms. Leo and Raph looked at the blonde with concern as she shrugged her shoulders casually. "What? Knowing my luck- it would happen." She walked towards her strawberry-blonde friend and Don looking at the set of bones.
"Could you imagine what it would have been like? Herds of dinosaurs grazing peacefully, and then all of a sudden, the t-rex attacks!" He smiled like a ten-year old. Shaking her head at the happiness and sincerity of Donny and Anna, May looked up at the head of the skeleton and then took a step back. "Hey. Uh…Don. Is that supposed to be a robot too?"
Looking up nervously, Donny shook his green cloaked head. "Um…no. No its NOT!" He defensively held out his arms protecting both Anna and May while pushing them backwards from the moving skeleton as it growled and roared taking steps towards May and the others.
"Anna, get behind me." May commanded taking out her Kusari back into her trained hands. The bones broke apart in that moment and surrounded the group threateningly. "What the heck is going on!" Anna whispered and trembled holding onto the blonde's arm. "I'm not sure…" May gritted her teeth and swung the chain of her weapon defensively protecting her friend.
The bones gathered into a cluster that formed into a figure of a head. May tilted her eyebrows looking at the familiar face and then widened her eyes as the head began to laugh. "Greetings from the Cretaceous, you miserable reptiles. Fitting I should find you freaks here along with the dinosaurs for soon you too shall be extinct!"
"That's Savanti Romero!" Donny declared making May nod in confirmation. "Yup…Figured that…" She muttered stopping the chain from swinging.
"There's nowhere that you can hid from my magic!" Savanti's voice boomed in the room. "Even in the distant past I can find you and send this message of your impending doom!"
Mikey smiled nudging Anna's side, "Oh, a message of doom. Whenever you care to send the very best!"
"You never should have interfered to capture the time scepter and now you all will pay! Mark my words turtles! Everything you know! Everything you care about will be erased! I will deal with Lord Simultaneous and the Timestress in due time. But wiping out your timeline will be a good start to my revenge!" The group of bones yelled making both May and the hot-headed bandana turtle growl. "Enough of this noise! Bring it now you overgrown pile of chicken wings!" Raph muttered jumping in front of the blonde ninja.
"Should you wish to try and stop me, I'll be waiting in the ring of fire!" Savanti laughed while Raph crouched down lower. "Hey I'm talkin' to ya!" He yelled jumping up to attack the bones but his attack went unnoticed as the pile of bones fell to the floor relieved of Savanti's magic.
Anna shifted uncomfortably and smirked. "I can't take you guys anywhere can I? Does this sort of thing happen often?" She looked to her blonde friend who nodded. "What can I say, just an average day with these guys!" She huffed and retreated her Kusari once again.
"Why is it that these guys don't stay down when we put a beaten on dem!" Raph growled walking next to Anna making her shift uncomfortably again. "Did you guys notice how he didn't respond to Raph when he threatened him?" Donny looked to his friends. "It was weird, like a recording! It was almost like he knew we would be here tonight and sent us this message from the past!"
"Do you think he can really make good on all those threats?" Mikey asked no one in particular.
"I don't know! Magic's not really my thing." Donny walked towards one of the maps hanging on the wall. "This is the ring of fire he mentioned. It is a string of volcanoes that surround the pacific from Japan to Alaska." The scientist of the bunch explained.
"Well that narrows it down…" Leo muttered sarcastically.
"This doesn't make sense…" Anna walked towards the map examining it carefully. "You can't meet in the ring of fire…one, because to meet in the middle of it, you would be in the middle of the ocean. A very dangerous and vicious ocean at that. And two. How in the heck are you all supposed to get there?" Anna looked back at her strange group of friends smiling. "You'd need a time machine or something!" She giggled making May slap her forehead realizing what was probably next to come.
As if on cue, a swirling green light engulfed the framed map making Anna screech from the unknown source surrounding her. Don quickly pulled her into his arms while he and the others took a few steps back just waiting for the person behind the source of light to reveal themselves.
"Hi guys!" a very familiar, cheery, woman's voice sounded as a tall blue unitard suit wearing woman walked out from the light. "Oh wow!" She smiled from ear to ear running over and hugging onto Leo. "It is like, so great to see you guys again!" She giggled latching onto Leonardo's frame just a little too close for comfort, May pouted crossing her arms.
"Uh. Rennet?" Leo gasped surprised. "Yea, it's been like, so long. Well in my world you never really know, ya know?" she smiled looking over to the others. Don lightly patted Anna's shoulders and then made his way to the apprentice timestress. "This can't be a coincidence. Rennet, what are you doing here?"
"Well, I'm graduating! Lord Simultaneous says this whole crisis is my final. And I'm like, totally stressed! And if- no, not if…when I pass my final exam I'll go from apprentice Timestress to Temporal Fraction Explorator First Grade! And I just came here to see if you guys wanna help me on my exam!" She grinned making May shake her forehead with both of her palms slapping her cranium.
"Why? Why me…Why me…." She cried making Anna tilt her head completely confused at the whole situation. "May?" She whispered pulling the blonde from her drama moment. "You know her?" She pointed a finger behind the turtles as all four huddled in a circle to talk about the whole situation of events.
"Yes…" May sighed looking up at the woman. "Rennet. Why would we help you pass your exam? Wouldn't that be like, cheating?" She imitated Rennet's voice.
"Oh don't be silly!" Rennet waved a hand at the blonde ninja's face, "There's no cheating when you save the world. It's either you do or you don't!" The statement didn't make May feel any better.
"All right, Rennet. We'll go and help you in any way we can." Leo informed the three girls as the turtle huddle resigned. "Yes! Don't worry this is going to be a breeze!" She smiled raising the Time-Scepter into the air.
"Whoah! Wait a minute!" Anna raised a hand in the air interrupting the conversation as if she had been in class with May and the others asking the teacher for permission to talk. "Rennet, right? I'm Anna."
"Oh of course I know you, Anna! Remember when me, you and May had to- oh wait…it hasn't happened yet…ha, sorry! I always do that!" The timestress smiled. Anna looked to her human companion wondering of the sanity of her friend. How she managed to be-friend four mutated turtles and deal with their companions, she'd never understand.
"Ahem, anyways. As much as I'd like to go back into time and study the dinosaurs, I can't say I stand much of a chance dealing with May and the others. I'd rather go home so I don't get in the way."
May snorted at her friend's statement. "If anything, you'd be the last one to get in the way, Anna." She crossed her arms looking at the giddy Rennet.
"Oh, no problem, Anna! Home it is!" She raised the Time-Scepter in the air once again making Anna disappear before May had any time to react or reject her action. She blinked at the spot her friend once stood in and growled.
"Rennet, you better hope you sent her home or so help you I'll-" She attempted to stomp towards the woman but a strong arm pulled around her waist yanking her back towards the center of the turtles.
"Calm down, Blondie." Raph smirked still holding onto her waist to ensure her change of attitude. Instead, May stuck out her tongue and turned her head. "She'll get what's coming to her if Anna isn't home tomorrow…"
"Okay…and besides my death threat, let's get going!" Rennet held the scepter into the air once more as a green light surrounded May and the others while the feeling of weightlessness took over her body. Just as fast as the zero-gravity feeling began, it stopped and hit her body like a ton of bricks. Or rather a ton of turtle shells falling on top of her. Typical.
"Hey! I thought you said you were getting good with that thing!" Raph grunted climbing off of the pile Rennet had somehow managed to not fall into. "Oh but I am!" She replied back. "Wow! I like, actually did it!"
Mikey helped May off of the bottom of the pile smirking, "Should we be worried she sounds so surprised?" He wondered aloud making May roll her eyes. Maybe she should have offered to go home along with Anna. Anything would have been better than to travel on another adventure with this shell-for-brains of a woman.
On second thought. She was totally going to regret not going with Anna. Somehow she just could feel the impending doom luring overtop her and the turtles.
"Wow! This is unbelievable!" Don couldn't help but to point out all of the grazing dino's wondering around the cliff below them. "Oh your toes guys, we may look like snacks to some of these things." He nodded making everyone nod in confirmation.
"Well I ain't afraid of no dino-brains! Letme at dem!" Raph took his sais into his hands ready to fight whatever came their way.
"Woah! This isn't some other type of dimension, guys. This is our past! If we do something to alter it, it could mean serious consequences for our future." Donny calmed the hot-head down sneezing at the end of his statement.
"So if I were to leave these clothes here you think some archeologist would find them and freak out?" Raph snickered clearly amused by his brother's hostility. "Maybe…" Leo nodded pulling off his brown trench coat and hat. "We'd better pack everything up!" The boys removed their human clothes and packed them tightly and securely onto their shells while May took the lookout seeing and observing every corner of the area she possibly could.
The world was certainly primitive that it was almost beautiful. Besides the fact that it felt like a sauna, the Jurassic world the dinosaurs lived in was quite peaceful and intriguing. For once, she hoped she could learn more about the world of the dinosaurs while she was actually in the past.
"Alright, everyone ready?" Leo asked placing his hands onto his sides ready for the adventure ahead. "Ready!" the gang stated and began to walk forwards.
"Now the first thing we will need to do is get a fix on our locat-" Don started to say but a loud obnoxious sneeze interrupted his command. "Heh, sorry…"
May felt something rumbling underneath her feet and looked down at the muddy brown clay below her feet. "Uh Donny?" She looked to the mutant hesitant for the moment expecting something terrible to come at the gang. In that split second, a scene from the Lion King flash through her mind during the part of the stampede where Mufasa was killed. She was right; an entire herd of upright running Dino's ran towards the gourd they had been walking in.
"RUN!" The leader of the ninja's screamed but it was an un-necessary command since the others had already taken off before he spoke. Pacing her strides, May dodged the beasts as best as she could even tripping up a few of them with her chain from her Kusari.
"Way to go, sneezy!" Raph yelled out through the rampaging footsteps.
"Well, I said I was sorry!" Don replied back. May had no time to express her anger towards the purple bandana ninja as more and more dinosaurs seemed to take over the area they had been running in. "And to think Anna bailed out on this!" Mikey laughed running alongside of his human friend.
"Ha, she would have loved it!" May chuckled breathlessly dodging a few stampeding footsteps heading her way.
"Hey guys!" Raph called out from what seemed to be above May and the youngest turtle brother. "Check me out! Dino surfing!" He smiled riding on the back of one of the dinosaurs. "I wanna try!" Mikey laughed climbing on top of a dino as well. "Your turn, May!"
Smiling, May swung her Kusari onto the tail of a dino ahead causing it to pull her faster into the pace. With the momentum of the dinosaur ahead, she flipped into the air pulling her chain off of the creature's tail while her feet stumbled carelessly, but safely onto the back of a dino. "Sweet moves, sis!" Mikey winked and held a green thumb up to the blonde.
"Hey guys! Follow me!" Raph jumped onto a giant stone boulder on the side of the gourd the dinosaurs had been running through out. Nodding their heads to one another, May and Mikey raced to the stone jumping safely onto the sturdy piece of rock alongside the Red bandana turtle.
"Ha! I win!" May smiled brushing off the dirt from her clothes. "Oh, heck no! I totally beat you!" Mikey smiled back. "Nope! I won!"
"No! Me!"
"No, me!"
"Oh shut up both of you!" Raph hit the backs of the fighting immature ninja's waiting for his other two brother's to join him and the other two. "And Mikey, May beat you by half a mile. Stop complaining."
This comment forced May into reaching over and nooging Mikey's head in victory. "Told ya!" She giggled and then pushed him to the side as Leo made his way to the rock.
"You guys okay?" He asked sweetly. It was almost hard to believe that only a few months ago Leo had been depressed and mentally unstable. But now, everything seemed right again. He was back to his usual cheerful and protective state reinforcing his status as the leader of the group.
With Rennet slumped over his shoulder, Don also made it to the boulder safely and just as the last bit of the stampede cleared out. "Well…" May smiled taking in a sarcastic tone. "That was fun- in a, we-almost-lost-our-lives sort of way!"
"Yea! Really nice save wit da Time-Scepter!" Raph grunted. Scared Rennet clutched onto the blue stick and frowned. "Uh, well it's not my fault! The Time-Scepter's not working!" She raised a palm in the air, "I don't know what happened…"
May and the others stood towering over top of Rennet as she lowered down to her knees thinking of a way to fix her stick. In the middle of the silence, Leo broke it by slapping his forehead with the palm of his hand. 'Well that's one way to break the tension…' May smiled looking over at the fearless leader. Even when things could be serious, Leo could find a way to break the others out from their feelings of doom.
Or in this case, feelings of not wanting to strangle the crap out of Rennet.
Being the sensitive one of the bunch, Don crouched down to the sitting Rennet, "Here, let me take a look at it. Maybe something tripped during the stampede…"
May simply rolled her eyes and looked out into the distance in front of them. Just as before the stampede attack, the primitive world was peaceful once again. It astounded her just how much things in this world- this past- went right back to normal as if it never happened. This type of stuff never happened in the city, let alone Manhattan.
"Huh? What the-?" Raph's growl broke May out of her thoughts to turn to the overgrown turtle being nudged from below the boulder. A triceratops dino had been sniffing Raph's ass- so to say- almost with a hungrily smile on its large leathery face.
"Aw look Raph! You've made a friend!" May patted his shoulder standing alongside of him while Mikey bent down to pet the beast. "Hi there big fella!" He smiled, "You should embrace this, Raphael! Not many people think you smell good!" He chuckled almost having too much pleasure from his own joke.
Just before Raph was about to pound his younger joking brother into the ground, May looked behind his shell at his clothes wrapped tightly behind. "Losing something, Mike?" She frowned pulling out the mini bag of potato chips from Raph's possession and stretching them outward to scold the orange bandana turtle.
"Uh, well…I always keep a spare bag of chips around!" He smiled victoriously. "You never know when you might need a snack!" But his statement was cut short as May threw the small harmless bag into his face.
"I swear…" She muttered walking to the opposite edge of the boulder. "Between Mikey and Rennet, I'm surprised I haven't gone mad by now!"
"Same…" Leo and Raph muttered crossing their arms at their blonde friend.
"Awww You're a good dino! Aren't you!" Mikey resorted back to the curious and hungry triceratops beast below. "You just wanted a little snack. Here ya go!" The turtle threw a handful of the chips into the creature's mouth. "I'm going to call you Zog! Maybe you're Zog's great-great-great-great-great grandpappy!"
"Zog was an alien, Mikey! And I hate to point out you could have just change all of human history by feeding that dinosaur a processed potato chip from the future!" Don scolded but his comment went unnoticed as Mikey continued to feed the dino more chips. That is, until Raph smacked him across the head. "Way to go dumbass!"
"Rennet, are you sure the scepter isn't going to work?" Leo growled hinting his agitation towards the whole situation. May had to admit, this was one of those days that she wished they could just all live in peace in their sewer home and not have to deal with aliens, time-bending masters, or ninjas that constantly wanted to kill her and them.
But then again…where's all the fun in that?
"Oh, it's not supposed to glow red! I think it might be over heating!"
May looked back out into the forest with a wave of calamity flowing throughout her mind. "Hey Leo…" She muttered not bothering to look at the turtle in case the situation became disastrous. "…something's coming." She finished just as four snarling dinosaurs stomped forwards to the boulder the six rested on.
"Oh no! Deinonychus! They are the most vicious and fearsome of the carnivores!" Don explained.
Raph snarled just like the dino's and looked to his left at the timestress, "So what was that you said before Rennet? Refresh my memory… Oh yea! 'This is going to be a breeeeeeeeeeze!'" The angered turtle held onto his sais tightly while trying to imitate the woman.
"Watch out everyone! The Deinonychus are super smart dinos. They also have razor sharp teeth and powerful jaws with a sickle claw on each foot!" Don instructed once again to the group. "You know, being a dino-geek was a lot more endearing when we were about to get eaten by actual dinosaurs!" Mikey whined from his brother's side.
"Anything else, Donatello?" May mumbled holding her Kusari tightly in her small hands.
"Uh. Did I mention…" Don began to say but one of the dino's already finished his statement as it jumped onto the boulder May and the others had been stationed on. "THEY CAN JUMP!"
Without another warning, May felt her body being yanked into Leo's arms and dragged down from the boulder to the muddy clay ground below. "RUN!" He commanded taking a hold onto her wrist trying to persuade her to run with his speed.
"You know. For a turtle. You're god damn. Fast, Leonardo!" She breathlessly yelled and then screamed letting his hold on her wrist loosen as a dino jumped in between the two. "Hey! Leo!" She yelled swinging her chain while memorizing the beast for the moment. "We can't cut it down! Remember! Donny said it would change the future if we did something not of this time period!" After she finished the beast growled and attacked the blonde but luckily for her training she avoided the beast by hoping into the air and jumping on its back towards Leo.
"Right. Forgot about that." He sheathed his swords and then pulled the girl behind his shell. "Stay behind me."
"For once…" May breathlessly gasped, "I'm not going to complain." She watched him smirk and then leap into action kicking and punching the beast in various places until it growled and sunk into the muddy ground below. The creature stood up from its position and then ran off into the thick jungle-like forest to the side.
"Great job, fearless!" May helped the turtle back onto his feet and then the two made their way over to the others.
"Hey, why'd they run off? You think we scared 'em?" Raph asked the leader.
"Nope."
"You think somethin' really horrible is commin' now?"
Leo paused and nodded. "Yup."
The ground began to shake underneath the turtles and human's as the stupidly stood in their position. "Greattttttt." The blonde mumbled to herself and watched a giant Tyrannosaurus rex appear from the shadowy side of the forest.
"Look! Savanti Romero!" Leo pointed out the goat-like man sitting atop the t-rex's back. "Welcome turtles, to your extinction!" He laughed manically and charged the beast forwards to the group.
"I called it! It was a trap! Come on, pay up!" Mikey laughed providing the comic relief for the moment but then screeched as the beast lunched towards the center of the group. Towards Rennet. "Move!" May quickly pushed the girl out of the way resulting in the dino smacking May's body instead of the valuable Timestress.
Coughing and trying to rid her chest of the tightening constricting her lungs, May attempted to sit up to run and help face the others. From what she could see in the distance, Leo had taken a hold on Rennet while he and the others were quickly being surrounded by more of the Deinonychus's from earlier.
"Yo! You alright?" A raspy voice called to her side while a cool hand rubbed her arched back lifting her to a sitting position. "Raph. You big lug." May smiled closing her eyes at the worried turtle. "Yea well someone's gotta save ya ass now and then. Come on."
He lifted her up onto his shell and avoided the attacking dino's using his highly developed ninja training. "Raph look!" May pointed up in the sky as what appeared to be a group of flying dinosaurs with one clutching Rennet by her blue cape. "Great! Just freakin' great!" The turtle growled deep in his chest making May's arms wrapped around his neck tense at the vibrations from his animalistic abilities.
"The Timestress and I have a date with a meteor, you miserable turtles!" Savanti called out riding on the back of a pterodactyl as the two flew off into the red Jurassic sky.
"So what do we do now?" May gasped as Raph flung her off of his shell and to the ground. "We go save Rennet." Leo took out both of his swords pointing towards the direction Savanti flew in. "Do we have too?" May whined trying to copy Michelangelo.
Leo sighed, "May, as much as I and the others would not like to save Rennet's sorry butt, she's our only ticket out of here." The blonde nodded and then patted Don's shoulder, "Unless Donny-boy here knows of a way that we can all hibernate till the year 2000! How 'bout it!" She looked at all four turtle's frowning faces. "On a side note, do turtles even hibernate? Do you all?"
Donny waved her hand off of his broad shoulder shaking his head, "Yes. And no now come on. We need to save Rennet."
"Wait a second." May stopped the turtles from continuing on once again.
"What is it this time!" Raph crossed his arms over his plastron chest not happy about the interruption yet again from the female.
"This is the second time this week I haven't been the one kidnapped or in distressed." She smirked shinning her nails on her clothes. "If I do say so myself, it looks like I'm on a no damsel streak!" She giggled making the turtles shake their heads.
"May…" Leo muttered. "Not now…"
"Alright." She nodded continuing on with the others. "I just thought we should note this epic moment so that always remember, I am NOT always the damsel!" She grinned from ear to ear.
"In a minute I'm about to make you a damn damsel in distress." Raph muttered loud enough for everyone to hear, including the blonde. "Ow! What the hell?" He grunted feeling the sharp edge of a rock hit the temple of his head. Glaring with a stern face, May passed the emerald turtle.
"I'm watching you!" She mouthed silently and then continued on the path for what seemed to be like hours as they hopelessly found not one trace of the Timestress's whereabouts. It was really getting annoying and at this point, May was ready to say good reddens.
"Man, we've been walking around for hours!" Mikey whined. "I know Rennet said this was a big test for her. But come on! It's looking like an F so far!"
Sighing and sitting on the ground, May continued to pout. "You'd think that Lord…whatever the hell his name is, would have come back and helped her out by now!"
"Yea right, that guy is an asshole!" Raph muttered standing over top of the blonde protectively. He could tell she was starting to tire in this primitive green house atmosphere and quite frankly he along with his brother's were too.
"I hope she's okay…" Donny frowned. "Enough guys. We are going to find Rennet." Leo smiled making the group ease of their worries from the calmness of the leader. "She'll be okay…"
"She'd better be…" Raph muttered helping the blonde below him stand to her feet.
"Let's keep moving forward." Leo nodded once again leading the way through the thick forest. As the group trotted along the path the katana wielding turtle made, May noticed a hunched over turtle falling behind. "Donny?" She walked over to him and then gasped as he sneezed loudly and harshly. "Geeze Don, this cold of yours is really starting to take its toll on you." She patted his shoulder and helped him arm to wrap around her own shoulders. "Do you need a break, Donny?" Leo asked running over to the two.
"Do ya need a chip?" Mikey smiled revealing another bag of potato chips he had stored away for safekeeping.
"I'm fine, it's just a cold. But…"
"But? But is never a good sign…" May smiled as the turtle pushed off of her support to stand on his own. "But we may not have enough time to make it out of here. Even with Rennet. From the looks of things around here, we are in the late Cretaceous period and with the way Savanti has been talking about meteors and extinction… See that big star up there? Well I don't think it's a star. I think it's a meteor. The meteor!" He pointed in the red sky towards a big bright star gleaming from a distance.
Realizing the impending doom looming over the group of ninja's made them all react a different way. May nodded biting the inside of her lip while Leo smacked his forehead once more. "Thanks for the pep-talk Don!" Mikey stuck his tongue out while Raph's growl grew. "This just keeps gettin' betta and betta."
They continued to walk behind Leonardo until they arrived near what May remembered from her class and from Anna's and Don's explanation from the museum as the ring of fire. Out in front of the group surrounded a line of active glowing volcanoes spewing hot red lava from the tops of their peaks.
Memorized by the beauty of the glowing red lava, May stopped from the group watching the liquid pour from the mountains towards the sea below. It was honestly and purely a beautiful sight she couldn't tear herself away from.
"May? What are you-" Mikey pulled her wrist towards him while the other three continued on.
"Mikey." She smiled still not taking her eyes off of the lava. "Look…" She smiled still watching. "I know we are supposed to be saving Rennet and be all worried about her 'n stuff…but just look at this sight." She began to talk without thinking of a reason to why she would be sharing her emotions with the jokester of the group.
"This place is so primitive. So…minimal…" She looked over to her turtle friend and grinned. "It's beautiful." She nodded and then giggled. "Sorry…sap-o-meter, I know." She figured he would state his usual comeback when he thought someone was being cheesy or mushy.
But instead, Michelangelo, the so-said immature one of the bunch shook his green head and smiled. "No…it is…beautiful, I mean….really. It is…Come on, we better not stray from the pack." He muttered dragging her along as the two shared a giggle with one another.
About an hour or so down the pathway, the group arrived at the edge of a clif resulting in their continuation forwards no longer possible. "Um, hey. What the shell is that?" Mikey pointed out in the distance to what seemed to be like and enormous pile of bones overtop of a sea!
"Great. How much ya wanna bet Rennet's at the top of that thing?" Raph muttered to himself as the group continued on the sides of the cliff overlooking the shore. Hearing a group of screeching roars coming from the below, May and the turtles jumped into the bushes putting them away from the small raptors scourging around ahead.
"Shoot! Velociraptors." Donny muttered through his soft breath.
"Oh crud, those are the worst ones. I saw Jurassic Park twice!" Mikey whimpered.
Raph simply laughed, "Puh-lease! That's a Velociraptor? Ohoho, so scary!" He snorted to the two frightened turtles while May and Leo continued to not say a word. Just then more of the small raptor creatures appeared out of nowhere now, as if May hadn't been frightened enough as it was, terrifying the human.
"Uh, did I mention they hunt in packs?" Donny smiled nervously. "Give me a minute and I'll come up with a plan." Leo muttered thinking of a way to ensure his girlfriend and brother's safety.
"Leave it to me, bro!" Mikey grinned and then took out, yet, another bag of chips from his clothes from the museum earlier and threw a rock at the bottom of the plastic bag. "Hey fido! How do you like some 20th century Dino-Chow!" he called out throwing the bag.
"Mikey? Where the hell did you put all those bags in your clothes earlier…and why?" May whispered dumbfounded by his actions.
"More importantly, those dinosaurs are carnivores, Mikey! They won't eat potato chips!" Donny growled almost replicating Raph's angry growl.
"And dey looking up here like we're the Dino-Chow!" Raph smacked his youngest brother and sighed. "Shell-for-brains!"
Leo looked below and then fell back clutching his katana in both hands. "Leo! What's the plan?" May gasped standing up and pulling her Kusari out from its position on her hip.
"Plan B!" He muttered as the raptors surrounded the gang of ninjas. "And what exactly is plan B?" May wondered aloud feeling a bead of nervous sweat run from her hair line down to the side of her jaw. "Plan B! RUN!"
"RUN!" Raph yelled out, "THAT'S YOUR BIG MASTA PLAN?"
"Raph!" May pulled his wrist down to the side of the water and jumped onto the massive pile of bones. "Just do what he says!" She hurriedly climbed the pile almost imagining she was rock climbing instead of bone climbing. It wasn't the fact that she was climbing on dead rotting bones that bothered her, but instead the smell of the bones that just about did her in.
It was horrible, like rotting meat that had been sitting outside the hot sun for days. And she had been dumpster diving with the turtles many times before so she thought she would be used to a horrid smell such as this. But this…this was nothing compared to the worst dumpster she had smelled.
"Ewww! Please don't tell me what I think this is!" May smiled at Mikey's screeching voice.
"It's piles and piles of hundreds and millions of dinosaur bones!" Don gasped speechless.
"Ahhhh! What did I say? I said, DON'T tell me!"
"Turtles! Hurry! I think I hear someone yelling at the top!" May climbed up taking the lead until she could walk on her feet instead of using her hands to pull her up to the top. Sure enough, Rennet and Savanti had been at the top waiting for what seemed like a storm to blast the timestress away. Sadly, May almost thought about letting Savanti's plan to succeed but then remembered they needed Rennet alive to get back home.
'As soon as we get home, I'm killing that woman…' She thought nodding to her despiteful plan.
"Savanti!" Leo yelled out as a streak of lightening flashed and thunder boomed making for an epic moment to rescue the girl in distress. "Let her go demon!"
"Persistent little reptiles aren't you! No matter, your fates are sealed!" The goat-man snickered clearly not fazed by the group of ninjas.
"Guys!" Rennet called down from below. "He's like, totally insane! He's going to destroy the timeline. Like, your timeline…and like, me!"
"Fools! In a matter of seconds, my magic will call down a bolt of maverick energy that will be channeled through the Time-Scepter, joining with its power and incinerating your precious Timestress! Her destruction will release a blast of magical energy straight into the sea of the melting core of the planet!" Savanti explained his master plan to the group.
"Oh no! A blast of that magnitude would set off every volcano in the ring of fire, changing the rotation of the earth just enough to cause the asteroid that wiped off the dinosaurs on Earth to miss!" Donny explained the seriousness of Savanti's plan in what May considered to be call in English. "Humanity would never exist. We would never exist!"
Laughing on the opposite side of the bone platform, Savanti smiled, "No more turtles. No humans. No more Rennet. And with the power a sacrificed timestress will give me enough power to rival Lord Simultaneous himself!"
"Rival this, wackbag!" Raphael lunged out notoriously throwing the first punch of a fight as usual while May and the others stayed behind.
"Don. I'm going to get Rennet free. You guys just…just do whatever!" The blonde ran off towards the chain holding the Timestress's left leg in place.
"Oh hey May! Thanks for saving me!" Rennet smiled as she kicked the chain loose from its hold on the bone platform.
"Oh don't thank me just yet…" She smiled to herself running over to kick the other leg chain free from its position on the platform. As it broke and freed the woman now dangling by her wrists on the chain, May couldn't help but to laugh at her. "About time." She muttered to herself and then gasped as a shadow loomed over top of her figure.
"And what exactly are you trying to do here, human!" Savanti had covered himself in dino bones sort of like armor while attacking the blonde ninja. Luckily for her, the armor slowed him down and she avoided and kicked the goat-man in the back avoiding his attack.
"Stopping you, once and for all!" She kicked his side and then ran to the spot where Rennet's right hand dangled. "Don't worry Rennet, I won't let you fall…you're lucky we still need you 'cause I would drop kick you in a heartbeat." She pulled the chain upwards using all her strength until Rennet could use her own body weight to lift herself up onto the bone platform.
"Sorry!" she grinned hesitantly and then held her chained wrists to the blonde. "A little help, please." Rolling her eyes, May pulled out her Kusari and slashed the chains apart using the short blade of her weapon. "Don! Rennet is free!" She called out pulling Rennet on her side and escaping the fuming Savanti's looks.
"Say goodbye to the Time-Scepter, demon!" Donny yelled out as he threw his bo-staff directly at the set of bones holding the valuable stick in place. As it fell towards the water below, a panicked Savanti lunged towards the stick grabbing it just before it tumbled to the sea. But at that moment, the bolt of red lightening set to destroy Rennet hit the demon, goat-man instead incinerating him into nothing while the scepter continued its journey into the water below.
"Ouch." Mikey laughed not receiving a comment from any of his brothers or the two females.
"Oh wow! This is great! I'm going to graduate! Yahooo!" Rennet dumbly hugged the closets person next to her, being the blonde-haired human, May. "Please…don't make me hurt you!" She pushed the woman off of her frame and then stumbled as the bones below her feet began to crumble.
"Great! Now what!" Raph snarled out. "Savanti's magic must have been holding the bones up! Run!" Leo commanded but it was too late. The six fell into the murky water below without another warning.
Gasping and flapping her arms around, May rose to the surface of the water and fumed. If she were to fume any more she was pretty sure she'd boil the water. "Well that was fun…not!" Mikey latched onto his drowning human friend and pulled her to the surface with the others.
"Well…" Donny gasped resting on the brown somewhat sandy beach front. "We saved the future, but this just means that the asteroid will hit now…but I don't know when. Three days. Three weeks. Three years even! But it will hit!"
May coughed up so choking water from her lungs and gasped. "So without the Time-Scepter, we are stuck here, huh?"
"We're doomed…trapped and doomed….nice." Raph shook his head laying his shell that sunk into the sandy surface below. "Just freakin' great…"
"Shhhh. Calm down Izzy!" May smiled patting her pet of a dinosaur while she rode on the beats back and neck. "Let's go that way." She nudged her Iguanodon pet to the right side of the thick leafy forest they were surrounded in. In these woods, everything seemed to be three times the size as if should be in the time period May had grown up in. After being trapped for what seemed to be months in the Cretaceous period of Earth, May had gotten fairly used to the primitive world of the Earth's past.
Izzy growled for a second and then stomped on a tree trunk blocking the bath. "Thanks girl." She patted the friendly dinosaur's leathery head and then thought back to the day she had first met the Iguanodon. She and Rennet had been searching for food in the very same forest when a heard of Brontosaurus made their way through the path not even noticing the small humans below their feet.
About to be crushed by the foot of the large dinosaur, Izzy ran out and pushed the blonde out of harm's way. From then on, Izzy and May were inseparable except during the night when Izzy slept by the turtle and female human's campout on the edge of the forest and close to the edge of the sea.
Growling once more and standing on her hind legs, Izzy stopped walking forwards breathing deeply. "What is it, girl?" She whispered shaking slightly at the fear of having a rampaging beast attack her and her friend. She and the others avoided being eaten a couple of times, but every time the threat came, she would become terrified, even more scared than the first attack they had when facing Savanti so long ago.
After waiting for a bit, Izzy continued forwards towards a pool of crystal blue water in the middle of the overgrown forest. "Wow…" She gasped breathlessly. "It's beautiful…" the blonde slid off of her dinosaur ride and towards the edge of the water.
The crystal blue hid nothing from the depths of the body of water. A few large fish swam in the middle of the pool, while small colorful fish played in the shallow edges. Throwing off her boots to the side, May placed a foot into the serene water and then another taking in the moment to finally relax.
She had been doing a good job keeping calm throughout the whole situation. Sure they knew they were doomed for life without the Time-Scepter, but the fact that at least she was with her four best friends in the world calmed May from her anger towards the Timestress.
"No one is here right, Izzy?" She looked around the surroundings and then to the warm brown hazel eyes of her lathery overgrown pet. The beast closed her eyes and grunted making May smile. "Good. Don't look then!" She removed the primitive excuse for clothes she and Rennet attempted to make while stuck in this prison and dived into the clod blissfulness of the pool of water.
"This doesn't seem real…" She closed her eyes floating on top of the surface feeling the cooling water bring her body temperature to a normal rate. With the atmospheric conditions of the green house effect surrounding the Earth, it made life very hot to a point May almost considered walking around naked. The chill of the cold water made her feel alive once again. Like a human and not a savage rampaging around trying to survive the primitive life of the Cretaceous.
Taking in as much air as she could, May dove into the water to look at the surface below. The water was much too potent for her or the others to open their eye lids for a long amount of time in the sea they lived alongside. But from the looks of this blissfulness, May figured the water would not sting her blue eyes and sure enough it hadn't.
She smiled looking at the groups of giant rainbow fish carelessly going about their lives swimming through the seaweed and coral. It was almost like a dream to see something so beautiful like this in such a dangerous and scary world. 'I wonder if I'm hallucinating…' She thought swimming back to the surface and gasping as the air filled back into her tired lungs.
She looked to the left smiling at Izzy sleeping and resting peacefully while protecting May as she swam. It was too bad to think if they ever found the Time-Scepter, she wouldn't be allowed to bring her pet back to the future. But then again…it had been a few months and she seriously doubted they would ever find that stupid blue stick before the asteroid hit.
Walking out of the water while the crystal blue liquid drenched off of her now cool naked body, May stood alongside of the edge of the water reaching for her clothes to pull back on. As much as she'd love to run around naked, two turtle friends of hers would surely oppose and resort to putting on clothes for her. As much as she loved those two turtles, they're possessiveness throughout the primitive world was getting to be draining.
Always, they wanted her by either one of their sides, always making sure she wasn't in harm's way, or a rampaging dino wasn't about to swallow her whole. That's why she was enjoying the serene moment in the pool alone with only Izzy, the calm and just as protective dinosaur by her side.
She expected one of the two to realize she ran off with Izzy and come looking for her so she decided it would probably be for the better that she wait here until they 'rescued' her.
"Ah…" She sighed sitting down still naked while resting on Izzy's leathery belly. "This is perfect." She smiled closing her eyes enjoying the sounds of the wildlife in the distance. 'If this was an app I would totally buy this so I could fall asleep to this sound every night…' The blonde thought nodding off into a sweet slumber.
The effects of the sauna-like heat began to take effect once more once the cooling ability of the water evaporated from the girl's body. As if she felt like her body was literally being boiled alive, May woke and stood to her bare naked feet from Izzy's grasp. "I'm going for another dive. Let's head out after this." She nodded and then jumped in splashing the friendly Iguanodon in the process.
Unknowing to the submerged human, the Iguanodon began to growl as an intruder walked over to the area.
Gasping as she reached the surface of the water once more, May ran her fingers through her now brown wet hair and turned to face Izzy. "Leo!" She ducked into the water and covered her breasts. He smiled as a response to her surprise and laughed casually while petting her Iguanodon pet. "How'd you find me?" She smiled submerging herself into the middle of the pool to try to hide her nakedness from the turtle. But the crystal blue water revealed all.
"I have my ways." He smiled mischievously and then removed the armor protecting his body.
"Come in, the water's great!" She smiled swimming back farther as he jumped in diving down deep to the bottom of the pool.
As he surfaced, May removed her hold on her naked body and swam closer to the mutant turtle. "This water is amazing right? Almost like a dream." She smiled revealing her white teeth. Despite not having toothpaste, May resorted and figured out a way to remove the scum off of her teeth. Besides feeling dirty and needing a bath, brushing teeth was the next most disgusting feeling May could think of.
"It's perfect…just like you." Leo swam closer to the girl but not too close to feel as if he was trying to overpower the woman. She was naked after all, and even that somewhat tensed him as well as her.
"Please…" She pushed the water to the side and then clung to Leo's neck still submerging her intimate parts below the liquid. "Leo…I missed you." She hugged his neck feeling the coolness of his own skin combined with the chill of the water gave her skin the relaxing and pleasuring feeling of Goosebumps.
Leo hesitantly chuckled wrapping a hand around her waist making sure to not touch anywhere but her side. "You've only been gone for a little while. Three hours tops."
May shook her head looking into his green face, "Not that…I miss you while you were gone…even while you were with us a few months ago…you…you weren't the same." She lightly kissed his beak and lips and then smiled once more. "But you are the same as the turtle I once fell in love with." She released her hands and dove into the water once again teasing Leo from their intimate moment.
Crashing out of the surface, May looked back at the puzzling face plastered on the leader. "Come on fearless…" She took a few steps out of the water revealing her entire back side to her love interest. "Let's get back before the others think we've been eaten…"
As the routine went along every night, Mikey and Rennet went out by the sea to hunt for fish to eat for dinner while May and Donny made preparations for the grill to cook their catch upon. "Hey Donny!" Leo called out making both the scientist and the female turn their heads to the leader. "Come here, I need a word." Leo waved him forward.
"I'll be back…" Donny smiled sweetly at his friend and then made his way to the fire place. "Here, I'll trade spots wit cha!" Raph walked over to May as Donny took Raph's position next to Leo in front of the fire.
"Thanks Raph, but I got it…" May smirked walking over from the grill to the inside of the hut minding her own business.
Not noticing that Raph had walked into the logged room with the girl, he reached a hand out pulling her back side to his front. "May…" He whispered and opened his mouth once again but nothing came from out of his lips.
"What's wrong Raphie?" She turned around to see his grim face and then caressed his neck with her warm sensitive hands. "Tell me…something's gotten you down…" She kissed his beak and then smiled.
"I just…I…never mind…" He pushed her off and then placed a big green hand on top of her head. "Raph!" May pulled his wrist back to face her and shook a confused face at him. "Tell me…I can tell something's been on your mind for a while now…"
"I…" He started to say but then remembered he was a man- or rather- turtle of action. His words always seemed to only confuse or hurt the people closest to him. Reaching out once more he pulled May into the deepest kiss he had given her while pouring out his feelings of hopelessness.
Every day he thought nothing but how to get her and his brothers out of their death sentence. If it wasn't going to be the asteroid Donny constantly reminded them was nearing, then surely they would be killed by one of these monstrous beasts as a snack.
As the two pulled away from their kiss, May smiled lightly fingering the details of Raph's facial features. "It's okay Raphael…as long as you're here with me I always feel safe." She read the words from his kiss and then giggled. "Let's go, I'm sure Mikey is hungry."
"And you're sure there's no way for you to contact Lord Simultaneous?" Donny asked once again to the dirty-blonde haired Timestress. "For like, the billionth time, NO!" Rennet replied back to Donny. "When are you going to give it a rest!"
"Hey! I'm not even finished with you; Little Miss It'll be a breeeeeeze!" Raph growled pointing a finger out at the woman.
"No way!" the jokester of the group called out interrupting the conversation by the fire. "I don't believe it! The Time-Scepter!" Everyone jumped from their position and ran towards Mikey cutting open the fish for dinner. "It was inside the fish! It must have swallowed it!"
"Awesome! We can go home!" May smiled for the first time in three months finally feeling relief from non-existanceness.
"Woah there. I'm just saying, we've got dinner on the grill so there's no need to rush!" The orange bandana turtle tried to convince the others of his dinner plans but they weren't buying. "Oh okay. Never mind! I'm all packed, let's go!" He smiled giving the Scepter to Rennet.
"We'll have to destroy the camp so that there's no evidence we were ever here…" Donny muttered looking around the area.
"Great, you guys do that while I say goodbye!" May ran off to the side towards the area Izzy slept indicating to the others her farewell to the large lizard. "Izzy?" May patted the Iguanodon's head causing her to open her eyes. "Izzy, I have to go back home now." She hugged the creatures head and then kissed her cheek. "You need to go back to your family. Do you understand?" She looked into her warm brown eyes and smiled. "You were the best pet I could have asked for. If you weren't so big, I'd seriously consider bringing you back…" She hugged the beast once more and then waved goodbye as a tear fell from her cheek to her collar bone.
"All ready?" Rennet smiled holding the Scepter into the air. "Then let's go!"
Ha, clearly you can tell I have a disliking towards Rennet. If it weren't for the fact that she's just so stupid, I'd probably like her. But she is so I don't! BTW, because it is the month of May, my computer constantly wants to type the date instead of May's name. Ugh it was annoying! Hope you enjoyed!
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