A full moon illuminated the barren ground sprawled beneath, a wasteland littered with heaps of scrap metal and random refuse. The dystopian quiet was marred not when a mystic portal glowed in the starry sky, nor when a strange figure leaped through, holding a sword as she hit the ground running.
It was when a fiery demonic face sailed out of the shrinking portal, its eerie cackle ending with a thunk as it wrapped around a heavy pillar dumped among the rubble. Bugs and rodents skittered away as a cacophony of combined screams rang in the night air. The portal closed right as the other end of the kusarifundo cleared, carrying with it its noisy passengers before gravity unceremoniously dropped them on the dirt.
Usagi was the first to rise out of the tangled limbs, long white ears popping out of the lump.
"There!" the rabbit pointed at their running quarry, unable to get up with Leo on top of him, "Leonardo-san, move!"
"St-stop squirming!" the red eared slider retorted, each attempt to get up doing nothing but slamming him back down onto the poor squashed bunny beneath. "You're making me lose my balance," he whined.
"A'right, a'right I'm gettin' off!" the big snapping turtle mutant hurried to get off the top of the pile.
"Ow! My tail!"
"Sorry Mikey! Jus'... jus' gimme a min-"
"We don't have a minute! She's getting away with Leo's sword," an exasperated Donatello sent mechanical limbs flying out of his oibako. After a comical whir, 4 turtles and a rabbit stood in a neat row, with the rabbit facing the opposite direction.
"Why am I facing...?"
"GO!" Donnie yelled as he ran after Akari, his brothers rushing alongside him.
Usagi, still puzzled, quickly turned bunny tail and chased the brothers after the head start.
"Akari-san, stop!" Usagi called out, "We know not this place, it's dangerous! We must all stay together."
She stopped in her tracks as a large shadow loomed over her, blotting out the moonlight. Looking up, sapphire eyes widened in shock, "Bakeneko!"
A giant cat lunged at her, mantis forelegs grasping.
"Abunai!" Usagi cried out in warning, swinging his katana to draw the feral behemoth away from her.
"Mrs. Nubbins! What are you doing outta your cage??"
Thrown into the middle of chaos (again), Leonardo bumped into Repo Mantis, bringing them both to the ground.
"You! I want you and your... your cohorts out of my junk yard!" the mantis grabbed at the turtle's shoulders for emphasis, "Do you have any idea how long it took me to get her back in the cage last time??"
"Don't worry, Mr. Repo Mantis, sir!" Leo drawled, "We got it aaaall under control," right then Repo grabbed him to move out of the way as a dumpster was bounced off the spot they just jumped off of.
Mantis glared at the red eared slider, looking completely doubtful.
Leo could only shrug and grin.
Raph crashed straight towards the mutated feline to grapple and pin it down, "Go after her! I got dis!" right before the monster cat flung him up in the air faster than you could say 'nya~'.
"Y'know I love kitties of all shapes n' sizes," Michelangelo tossed the weighted end of his weapon, wrapping chains around the beast cat's throat right after it caught his oldest brother in its mouth, "But ya gotta stop. Eating. My brothers." With a yank he forced Mrs. Nubbins to spit Raph out with a loud and wet phtooie!
"Keep her still!" they heard Repo Mantis before they saw him run to the crane as fast as he can, operating the heavy machinery to whip out a huge cage and dropped it around the cat.
"We did it!" Mikey cheered as he put away his weapon, "So we good now?" the youngest turtle asked the mantis.
"Git outta mah junkyard!" he answered as he turned away to put his kitty back in the massive cat tower made of piles of scrapped vehicles.
"Ugh, to think Don and I were SO close to getting the key to the junkyard from him!"
"Huh," Raph got up, "Well dat's just ungrateful."
"Raph," Donatello reminded him, "You and Leo snuck into the school bus Repo expressly told us to stay out of."
"Oh excuse YOU," Leo waved his arms, feet wide apart in a defensive stance, "We were looking for mystic metal!"
"All you guys found was Mrs. Nubbins," Don, nonplussed, leaned forward with his hands on his hips, one brow raised, "Repo Mantis' giant mutated cat with cannibalistic tendencies."
"Well we got out of there just fine, didn't we?" Shaking off cat spit, Raphael turned to his littlest brother, "Nice save by the way, kiddo!"
Mikey jumped up to hug him, "I'm just glad you're ok!" before his nostrils flared in disgust and jumped off, "Pee-yew ya smell like yesterday's sushi, bro!" he whined, fruitlessly wiping the smell off himself, "Aww nononooo... It's clung to my skin!"
A blur of white sped past them, followed by another.
Oh, right.
"Please, Akari-san," Usagi called out. "Come with us and we will bring you back to your family safe. We are not your enemies!"
Don's battle shell broke out of the oibako with full thrusters lifting him straight off the ground. He dived from above, tackling her, who fell down with a surprised cry.
"Donatello-san!" The ronin shouted in frustration. So much for convincing her.
She lashed out with the sword, which Donnie dodged by a hair.
"Whoa! That is SO unsafe, you could poke an eye with that!" he scolded, not letting go.
The white tigress stamped her heel right on the turtle's purple (toeless-)socked foot, eliciting a curse "Jumping Jupiter Jim, whutdafuq!" as his drawn brows knitted in pain.
Leon went for his Odachi, grabbing her wrist and twisting until she lost her grip. He snatched his sword back as it dropped, just in time to duck out of her extended claws' range.
Her struggles were enough to wrench herself free, and she ran out of the junkyard gates to the first exit she could find: a strange hole in the stone ground. In a hurry to evade her pursuers she blindly jumped into the darkness, arms outstretched.
"Ok, first: the good news. Leo got his sword back," Don started, limping towards where his brothers gathered around Usagi.
"Yaaay," Leonardo proudly brandished his sword before his cheer weakened under the humorless gaze of the rabbit.
"And the bad news?" his leporine rose eyes flashed with impatience.
"She jumped into a manhole," Don pointed to said manhole, "She's in the sewers."
"She escaped to the sewage tunnels?" Usagi repeated, wanting to tear his fur out.
"Relaaaax," Leon slung an arm around the rabbit's bristled shoulders, "We know the sewers like the back of my hand!"
"Yeah, we'll just follow her down," Raphael placated, "Like, whut's the worst dat could happen?"
Leo's odachi was stolen. Again. Mikey flung his mystical kusarifundo through the portal and Usagi and the Hamatos managed to follow through. The group ended up in Repo Mantis' junkyard. What's the worst that could happen?
Of course I'm reading your fics :D I love them <3 And re-reading my favourites an also good thing. (That part from the present when River take Rose to eat always makes me hungry 🥺) and this Fic always make my day no matter what :'D You know our babies just too naiv and they just too baby yet to know what the real world is :'D I love them x3
Of course I'm reading your fics :D I love them <3 And re-reading my favourites an also good thing.
