Turtles Forever

The Entity Below

"It's quite simple to understand," Donnie explained, using some donuts and a large grapefruit on the table. They were set in order like the planets and sun. Everyone gathered around, listening. Mona was holding Elizabeth in her arms as the baby tried to reach for one of the donuts. "The longitudinal span of the other eight planets, moon and the sun, culminate within a geocentric sector of 14 degrees to perform a grand planetary alignment with Earth. Say this grapefruit is the sun, right? And the Earth is the third donut from the-" However, he paused when he sees that the Earth was gone and there were crumbs left in it's place, instead.

"Hey! What happened to Earth?!"

Loud chewing sounds made everyone look to see Mikey chomping down on the donut.

"What?" he asked, in a muffled voice.

"Shell for brains," Raph commented, hitting him on his arm, making Mikey spit out crumbs. Elizabeth laughed.

"But, Don," Leo spoke. "none of this should have an effect on the Earth, right?"

"Astronomically speaking, the planets are just too far apart to exhibit any additional gravitational pull," as soon as Donnie finished, the entire lair began to shake violently. However, just as it started the quake suddenly stopped.

"And that was just an random earthquake, right?" Mikey asked, nervously. The lair began to shake again, making everyone fall to the floor. "Right?"

Elizabeth began to cry while Mona tried to console her, bouncing her in her arms.

"You two, okay?" Raph asked.

"We're fine," Mona answered. Raph reached out and cupped Elizabeth's cheek and she stopped crying. The baby cooed as she reached out for Raph. He took her from Mona, holding her, rocking her gently until soon Elizabeth was fast asleep.

Leo sees the remote next to him and picked it up. "Maybe there's something in the news about it," he said, turning the TV on.

"A live feed from the university's seismograph rating in at 7.8 on the Richter scale. Closest estimates puts the epicenter thousand miles south of Greenland. Scientist believe that with the current shifting with tectonic plates, we may be witnessing the birth of an new island or even a subcontinent. With the displacement of water so massive, it's dangerously raising the sea level. Unstable temperatures have prompted violent thunderstorm, due to reach the East seaboard within an hour."

"It...doesn't make an sense," Donnie commented. "There must be something else at work here."

"I told you we should've listen to the guy carrying the 'the end is near' sign!" Mikey exclaimed.

"Including power outages-" The TV cuts off as the whole lair went completely dark.

"No way!" Mikey exclaimed.

"Aw, great," Raph complained.

"Think the whole city is out?" Leo questioned. Suddenly, a blue glow caught everyone's attention, that was coming from Donnie's lab. Donnie looked in confusion.

"Hey, guys, check it out," he called out. They walked into his lab to see that the underground crystals were glowing. "Impossible," Donnie picked it up. "this crystal was completely burned out."

"It's not now." Leo pointed out.

"It seems to be supercharged," Donnie explained.

"How?" Raph asked.

"I don't know," Donnie answered. "It might have something to do with the alignment or-" He glances over to see Mikey chewing on another donut.

"What?" the orange masked turtle asked, in defense. "It's Pluto. Who cares about Pluto?"