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Golden Angel
Chapter 20
“That was not pleasant…”
“I feel like I’ve been turned inside-out an’ back ‘gain…”
SMACK!!!
SMACK!!!
“OWWWWWWW!!!”
“Your whining is giving me a headache!” Artemis complained, massaging her temples.
“Um…Artie?”
“Yeah, Donnie?”
“I think we have some company…”
Turning, the gold-banded turtle gave a blank look to the soldiers with large, shiny guns…
“…Can we never find people who DON’T want to kill us?”
A laser hit the concrete near her foot, scorching the ground…
“…I’ll take that as a no…”
Widening her stance, she steadied her hands.
“Then bring it on…”
Lasers were fired, and she brought some of the alley walls to their defense.
“Ready, boys?”
Raph smirked, twirling his sai.
“I was born ready…”
“Then brace yourselves…”
Her hands fisted.
“This’ll be fun…”
The newly-made wall flew, hitting most of the unsuspecting soldiers.
The large water flask on her shell, the strap striping her plastron, popped open, and the water came out like a whip.
Some soldiers raised their guns, and she spun, the water cutting the blasters apart in their hands.
They were making short work of them, even if their opponents had better technology, and Artemis smirked.
“Well, that was easy…”
“Excuse me! Terrapin beings!”
Turning, the siblings caught sight of the strange robot waving to them.
“Follow me! The troops won’t give up so easily!”
Footsteps and lights signaled company…
“…I say we follow the robot!” Mikey shouted, running.
Lasers were fired, and the gold-banded turtle brought up an ice shield.
It actually REDIRECTED lasers, and she grinned a moment.
‘Waterbending SO rocks…’
“Guys, go!”
A snap, like wood in the fire…
“It’s cracking!”
Once everyone was in relative safety, she returned the water to its pouch before spinning sharply.
The wind knocked the soldiers back, and she used Airbending to speed her way up stairs to the roof.
“Hey, guys!”
She stopped, looking down…
“…I hate dead-ends…”
“Here comes the unwelcome-wagon!” Mikey warned.
“Quick! Into that truck!” Leo ordered.
“No! I hate heights!”
Artemis sighed, grabbing hold of the robot.
“How do feel about laser guns?”
The group jumped, Artemis spinning slightly so her Airbending would lighten the sure-to-be-harder impact.
Once on the garbage, she released the robot and cracked her shoulder, loosening the muscle.
“You know, you’re heavier than you look…”
“How did you manipulate the earth and water like that?”
“Oh, that…”
She smiled slightly.
“Let’s just say I’m one of a kind…”
“And she’s mean, too!”
SMACK!!!
“OW!!! ARTIE…”
“Now’s not the time.” Leo reminded.
“Where are we?” Mikey wondered, looking over the edge now.
“Somethin’ tells me this ain’t Manhattan…”
“I’m not even sure we’re on EARTH…” Don replied.
The truck stopped, and the group climbed out, Artemis helping the robot out.
“Ah, Earth…Is that your home planet? I don’t believe it’s in THIS galaxy…At least, I’ve never heard of it…Are you the dominant species on your planet?”
“WHERE ARE WE?!” Raph demanded.
“Calm down, son. You’re on the planet D’Hoonib in the Sitigon system. Federation territory.”
“A different galaxy?” Don muttered.
“Master Splinter is so far away…So helpless…We have to help Master Splinter.”
Artemis took the blue-banded turtle’s hand, giving a reassuring squeeze as she nuzzled his cheek.
“We’ll find a way…I know we will…”
“We don’t even know how we got zapped here in the first place…” Don mused.
“That question has been vexing me…How DID you materialize like that?”
“…I want to go home…”
The brothers gave the gold-banded turtle a curious look.
“Why?” Leo questioned.
She pointed.
“That.”
Following her eyes, they found a troop of soldiers…
“…RUN!!!” Mikey shouted.
Their escape routes, however, were blocked by more soldiers…
“…HIDE!!!!!!!!”
The orange-banded turtle hid behind Leo and Artemis, and the latter rolled her eyes.
“Little brothers…”
The group ran behind a food stand, and managed to sneak down the Mega Sewer Slide of Heart Attacks to safety.
“Check out THESE fancy sewers…”
Mikey whistled.
“Clean enough to eat off of…If only we had something to eat…”
SMACK!!!
“OW!!! ARTIE…”
Snorting a bit, she closed her eyes, filtering in the robot’s, Professor Honeycutt’s, story as she felt the water ripple and the walls vibrate dully.
Connecting to the system as she slowly ‘explored’ it, she filed away the story before the regular gentle sway of the air turned chaotic.
Eyes widening, she bit her lip and flexed her fingers.
“GUYS…”
“Yeah, Artie?”
“I think I know what keeps these sewers so clean…”
A huge robot turned the corner, long appendages grabbing garbage and feeding it to the circular, blade-lined mouth.
“…RUN AGAIN!!!”
Artemis brought up the sewer water, breathing it to thick ice before following the others.
The wall shattered, and the robot started gaining on them.
“It’s gaining on us!”
“I don’t think we can outrun it!”
Artemis bit her lip harder, looking over her shoulder.
“Then we stop running!”
“If you guys can slow it down, I think I can stop it!”
The gold-banded turtle nodded, pulling up the water and blocking the mouth with an ice muzzle.
“Donnie, GO!”
He jumped onto it’s back as the others got long pieces of pipes to help her hold it back.
“Hurry it up, bro!”
“I don’t know how long we can hold it!”
“Raph, toss me a sai!”
Once the weapon was passed on, the ice started cracking as the sharp ‘teeth’ started chipping deeper in.
“Donnie!”
Artemis flinched at a mighty fissure in the ice.
“DONNIE!”
It shattered like glass, and Artemis slammed the sewer walls into the creature’s sides to stop its struggles.
The robot’s back sparked, and it died as Don was bucked off.
“See? Piece of cake.”
SMACK!!!
“OW!!!”
“Don’t EVER try that again! I almost had about three heart attacks in the last two minutes!”
Leo put his hands on her shoulders, helping her relax.
“We’d better get out of here before another one comes along…”
Agreeing, the whole group headed to the surface, hiding in an apparently-abandoned building with crates.
“The soldiers are everywhere…”
“Indeed.”
“We’ve got to get out of the city fast. Raphael, we’re gonna need some transportation.”
“Back in two.”
“Um…I’ll keep an eye on him!”
The crimson-eyed turtle sighed, rolling her eyes.
“If Mikey’s keeping an eye on Raph, I’d better keep one on Mikey…”
Heading for the ‘exit’, she flashed a reassuring smile.
“I’ll be back soon. Don’t worry, love.”
Feeling the vibrations in the earth, she headed for Mikey’s location.
He was being chased by a couple Federation shoulders, and smacked her forehead.
“I can’t leave him alone for two minutes…”
“ARTIE!”
He jumped behind her, cowering like a child, and the soldiers stopped, looking at her warily.
“The general said to be careful with this one. She uses some kind of magic…”
“He said not to use lethal blasts, too…”
She smirked, and water became ice claws on her fingertips.
“Hold fire if you want…Because I won’t…”
A tank stopped behind both of the turtles, and she quirked an eye-ridge.
“Easy…”
Suddenly, the tank’s nose knocked the soldiers down and out.
Mikey seemed confused, but the gold-banded turtle smiled.
“Great timing, tough guy. What took you?”
He opened the hatch, glaring playfully.
“Just get yer shells in the tank. We gotta go pick up the others.”
“Hold your shell…I’m coming…”
Mikey still clinging to her shell like a monkey, she made her way up and in.
Once everyone was picked up and safely inside, Artemis finally pried her youngest brother off her shell and leaned on the wall.
“Nothing like riding in style!”
“Couldn’t you have boosted something a little less, I don’t know…CONSPICUOUS. Something that might blend in better?”
She grinned.
“Leo, we’re in a tank. A TANK. I don’t see the problem.”
“This puppy’s invisible, it blends so well…”
They drove by a line of tanks…
BAM!!!
“…Raph…”
The red-banded turtle smiled sheepishly.
“Yeah, you better be sorry…”
“Donnie, return fire!”
“In a minute! My D’Hoonibian is a little rusty!”
BAM!!!
“LEARN FASTER!!!!!” She shouted.
“Perhaps I can be of some service.”
Honeycutt moved to the control panel, connecting.
“One of the perks of this robot body…Yes! I have weapons control.”
Artemis nearly fell over as the tank swerved and fired, and took hold of Leo’s arm.
“I HATE tanks!”
As they went through the smoke of a destroyed tank, they evacuated the vehicle and hid in
the alleys, watching to see if their bait was taken.
The turtle’s started sneaking away, but Honeycutt didn’t notice until Artemis tapped his shoulder.
“How do you know all those wonderful disappearing techniques?”
She smiled, taking his arm to lead him.
“It’s a ninja thing…”
The robotic scientist watched the female turtle before him, a bit perplexed.
If anything, she was kind to him, gentle even, her sharp tongue softened a bit.
Seeing her fight showed the rest of her personality, and he wondered how the two halves clicked together.
‘Violent and passive…Rough and gentle…She’s right. She IS one of a kind…’
“I feel like I’ve been turned inside-out an’ back ‘gain…”
SMACK!!!
SMACK!!!
“OWWWWWWW!!!”
“Your whining is giving me a headache!” Artemis complained, massaging her temples.
“Um…Artie?”
“Yeah, Donnie?”
“I think we have some company…”
Turning, the gold-banded turtle gave a blank look to the soldiers with large, shiny guns…
“…Can we never find people who DON’T want to kill us?”
A laser hit the concrete near her foot, scorching the ground…
“…I’ll take that as a no…”
Widening her stance, she steadied her hands.
“Then bring it on…”
Lasers were fired, and she brought some of the alley walls to their defense.
“Ready, boys?”
Raph smirked, twirling his sai.
“I was born ready…”
“Then brace yourselves…”
Her hands fisted.
“This’ll be fun…”
The newly-made wall flew, hitting most of the unsuspecting soldiers.
The large water flask on her shell, the strap striping her plastron, popped open, and the water came out like a whip.
Some soldiers raised their guns, and she spun, the water cutting the blasters apart in their hands.
They were making short work of them, even if their opponents had better technology, and Artemis smirked.
“Well, that was easy…”
“Excuse me! Terrapin beings!”
Turning, the siblings caught sight of the strange robot waving to them.
“Follow me! The troops won’t give up so easily!”
Footsteps and lights signaled company…
“…I say we follow the robot!” Mikey shouted, running.
Lasers were fired, and the gold-banded turtle brought up an ice shield.
It actually REDIRECTED lasers, and she grinned a moment.
‘Waterbending SO rocks…’
“Guys, go!”
A snap, like wood in the fire…
“It’s cracking!”
Once everyone was in relative safety, she returned the water to its pouch before spinning sharply.
The wind knocked the soldiers back, and she used Airbending to speed her way up stairs to the roof.
“Hey, guys!”
She stopped, looking down…
“…I hate dead-ends…”
“Here comes the unwelcome-wagon!” Mikey warned.
“Quick! Into that truck!” Leo ordered.
“No! I hate heights!”
Artemis sighed, grabbing hold of the robot.
“How do feel about laser guns?”
The group jumped, Artemis spinning slightly so her Airbending would lighten the sure-to-be-harder impact.
Once on the garbage, she released the robot and cracked her shoulder, loosening the muscle.
“You know, you’re heavier than you look…”
“How did you manipulate the earth and water like that?”
“Oh, that…”
She smiled slightly.
“Let’s just say I’m one of a kind…”
“And she’s mean, too!”
SMACK!!!
“OW!!! ARTIE…”
“Now’s not the time.” Leo reminded.
“Where are we?” Mikey wondered, looking over the edge now.
“Somethin’ tells me this ain’t Manhattan…”
“I’m not even sure we’re on EARTH…” Don replied.
The truck stopped, and the group climbed out, Artemis helping the robot out.
“Ah, Earth…Is that your home planet? I don’t believe it’s in THIS galaxy…At least, I’ve never heard of it…Are you the dominant species on your planet?”
“WHERE ARE WE?!” Raph demanded.
“Calm down, son. You’re on the planet D’Hoonib in the Sitigon system. Federation territory.”
“A different galaxy?” Don muttered.
“Master Splinter is so far away…So helpless…We have to help Master Splinter.”
Artemis took the blue-banded turtle’s hand, giving a reassuring squeeze as she nuzzled his cheek.
“We’ll find a way…I know we will…”
“We don’t even know how we got zapped here in the first place…” Don mused.
“That question has been vexing me…How DID you materialize like that?”
“…I want to go home…”
The brothers gave the gold-banded turtle a curious look.
“Why?” Leo questioned.
She pointed.
“That.”
Following her eyes, they found a troop of soldiers…
“…RUN!!!” Mikey shouted.
Their escape routes, however, were blocked by more soldiers…
“…HIDE!!!!!!!!”
The orange-banded turtle hid behind Leo and Artemis, and the latter rolled her eyes.
“Little brothers…”
The group ran behind a food stand, and managed to sneak down the Mega Sewer Slide of Heart Attacks to safety.
“Check out THESE fancy sewers…”
Mikey whistled.
“Clean enough to eat off of…If only we had something to eat…”
SMACK!!!
“OW!!! ARTIE…”
Snorting a bit, she closed her eyes, filtering in the robot’s, Professor Honeycutt’s, story as she felt the water ripple and the walls vibrate dully.
Connecting to the system as she slowly ‘explored’ it, she filed away the story before the regular gentle sway of the air turned chaotic.
Eyes widening, she bit her lip and flexed her fingers.
“GUYS…”
“Yeah, Artie?”
“I think I know what keeps these sewers so clean…”
A huge robot turned the corner, long appendages grabbing garbage and feeding it to the circular, blade-lined mouth.
“…RUN AGAIN!!!”
Artemis brought up the sewer water, breathing it to thick ice before following the others.
The wall shattered, and the robot started gaining on them.
“It’s gaining on us!”
“I don’t think we can outrun it!”
Artemis bit her lip harder, looking over her shoulder.
“Then we stop running!”
“If you guys can slow it down, I think I can stop it!”
The gold-banded turtle nodded, pulling up the water and blocking the mouth with an ice muzzle.
“Donnie, GO!”
He jumped onto it’s back as the others got long pieces of pipes to help her hold it back.
“Hurry it up, bro!”
“I don’t know how long we can hold it!”
“Raph, toss me a sai!”
Once the weapon was passed on, the ice started cracking as the sharp ‘teeth’ started chipping deeper in.
“Donnie!”
Artemis flinched at a mighty fissure in the ice.
“DONNIE!”
It shattered like glass, and Artemis slammed the sewer walls into the creature’s sides to stop its struggles.
The robot’s back sparked, and it died as Don was bucked off.
“See? Piece of cake.”
SMACK!!!
“OW!!!”
“Don’t EVER try that again! I almost had about three heart attacks in the last two minutes!”
Leo put his hands on her shoulders, helping her relax.
“We’d better get out of here before another one comes along…”
Agreeing, the whole group headed to the surface, hiding in an apparently-abandoned building with crates.
“The soldiers are everywhere…”
“Indeed.”
“We’ve got to get out of the city fast. Raphael, we’re gonna need some transportation.”
“Back in two.”
“Um…I’ll keep an eye on him!”
The crimson-eyed turtle sighed, rolling her eyes.
“If Mikey’s keeping an eye on Raph, I’d better keep one on Mikey…”
Heading for the ‘exit’, she flashed a reassuring smile.
“I’ll be back soon. Don’t worry, love.”
Feeling the vibrations in the earth, she headed for Mikey’s location.
He was being chased by a couple Federation shoulders, and smacked her forehead.
“I can’t leave him alone for two minutes…”
“ARTIE!”
He jumped behind her, cowering like a child, and the soldiers stopped, looking at her warily.
“The general said to be careful with this one. She uses some kind of magic…”
“He said not to use lethal blasts, too…”
She smirked, and water became ice claws on her fingertips.
“Hold fire if you want…Because I won’t…”
A tank stopped behind both of the turtles, and she quirked an eye-ridge.
“Easy…”
Suddenly, the tank’s nose knocked the soldiers down and out.
Mikey seemed confused, but the gold-banded turtle smiled.
“Great timing, tough guy. What took you?”
He opened the hatch, glaring playfully.
“Just get yer shells in the tank. We gotta go pick up the others.”
“Hold your shell…I’m coming…”
Mikey still clinging to her shell like a monkey, she made her way up and in.
Once everyone was picked up and safely inside, Artemis finally pried her youngest brother off her shell and leaned on the wall.
“Nothing like riding in style!”
“Couldn’t you have boosted something a little less, I don’t know…CONSPICUOUS. Something that might blend in better?”
She grinned.
“Leo, we’re in a tank. A TANK. I don’t see the problem.”
“This puppy’s invisible, it blends so well…”
They drove by a line of tanks…
BAM!!!
“…Raph…”
The red-banded turtle smiled sheepishly.
“Yeah, you better be sorry…”
“Donnie, return fire!”
“In a minute! My D’Hoonibian is a little rusty!”
BAM!!!
“LEARN FASTER!!!!!” She shouted.
“Perhaps I can be of some service.”
Honeycutt moved to the control panel, connecting.
“One of the perks of this robot body…Yes! I have weapons control.”
Artemis nearly fell over as the tank swerved and fired, and took hold of Leo’s arm.
“I HATE tanks!”
As they went through the smoke of a destroyed tank, they evacuated the vehicle and hid in
the alleys, watching to see if their bait was taken.
The turtle’s started sneaking away, but Honeycutt didn’t notice until Artemis tapped his shoulder.
“How do you know all those wonderful disappearing techniques?”
She smiled, taking his arm to lead him.
“It’s a ninja thing…”
The robotic scientist watched the female turtle before him, a bit perplexed.
If anything, she was kind to him, gentle even, her sharp tongue softened a bit.
Seeing her fight showed the rest of her personality, and he wondered how the two halves clicked together.
‘Violent and passive…Rough and gentle…She’s right. She IS one of a kind…’