The Turtle Charm

Unnoticed

"Well, we'll just keep an eye on the Foot," said Leo, "We know where they're hiding out. If we see the key, we'll just swipe it from them."

"Now you're thinking!" said Raph, "What's the plan?"

"Plan? To kick some shell of course!" Leo swiped a katana, opening a portal, which we all fell through.

"Bad plan!" said Raph as we landed at the top of an abandoned building.

Gathered below was a small army of Foot ninja, surrounding an opening portal. "It's already started!" said Casey, who'd managed to free himself from the chair.

"Not if I can help it," said Leo, rushing in, giving everyone else away at the same time.

"Oye, that doesn't look good," I said to myself as I tried to remain obscure, but some sort of feeling left me conflicted, "I can't just let them do things by themselves. I have to do something!" As I began rising, a few stray shurikens hit too close for comfort," Then again I'm not like them. I'm a normal girl from a normal farm in a normal world..."

Despite thinking this, that feeling inside me compelled me to move. I wasn't stupid enough to run through the middle of the conflict, staying in the shadows, trying to move quietly and quickly toward the opening portal. As I got closer to my target a rather tall brain creature crawled out. It was larger than the average one depicted in TMNT 2012, but smaller than Krang Prime. And way more gross looking in person.

He reveled in his return and, for a small moment, I lost hope. But then I figured if there were others, I'd rather not meet them. So as he turned to call out to his kin, I pulled the plug. The trade-off was that I was noticed. 

"What? How dare a puny and weak creature such as yourself to interfere in the return of the Krang." A tentacle shot out and wrapped around me squeezing my lungs out. Then various objects started hitting Krang in the head from April's direction.

When one thing, a glass test tube, crashed into him and shattered, he screeched in pain. "Oh, I knew that stuff was nasty!" said April as she threw several more vails of that blue liquid. 

A tentacle was cut by a katana's blade. "I got it!" said Leo, catching me, "Oh, and Tina's here too! Wow, I did not notice you at all..."

"Oh no, you don't," said Krang as he shot a weirdly sharp-looking Tentacle at us.

"Leo!" Raph blocked its way. The tentacle stuck through the edge of his shell, chipping it. Any closer and it could have been fatal. The big guy huffed, as pieces fell away. 

"Raph!" yelled out the brothers. Donnie added, "Guy's I'm getting us out of here!"

It's hard to explain, but some sort of energy, the others' emotions, coursed through me from the earring. I picked up a piece of the shell in one hand and my other's grip tightened around the key as various emotions like shock, fear, and fury flooded my heart. The most intense emotion though was guilt.

"Give up this useless resistance," laughed Krang, "Once I get my tentacles on that key, it'll be over anyway!" 

"You want this key?" My grip around it tightened even more, "I'll give you this key!" I said leaping from Leo's arms and rushing past Raph towards the creature. I gave him a right hook and the key shattered in my grip, many pieces scattering who knows where. 

"No!" Krang sharpened a tentacle once more, sending it towards me. It would have probably ended me if I didn't end up saved by a box that sped me away to the safety of the Turtles' lair. 

Ejected and collapsing to the ground, the energy, those emotions, continued to vibrate through me. I felt like my cells were ripping themselves to shreds before repairing themselves and doing it again. I think I also barfed and peed myself a little right before I blacked out again.