Hanging out with leo had a track record of going well.
We both had fun and waiting at the theatre, I was genuinely excited to see him again. He and I bickered about paying for tickets, but I got the last laugh because I beat him to paying for the snacks.
Leo told me the very basics of the series, Refusing to give me spoilers though and teasing me with 'youll see'. As the movie finally began to pick up the pace, leo would answer questions as I attempted to keep up on all that was happening.
The series seemed confusing but the complexity brought forth all sorts of creativity, and with all the potential for alternate universes everything was endless. Eventually the film came to an end, and we stood outside the theatre talking.
"Honestly jupiter jim is pretty cool." I smiled "I like the whole concept." Leo nodded. "I know right?" Our pleasant talk was cut short by an inhumanly large hand snatching me around the torso, and I was lifted to the face of a hippo man.
"Well well well, looks like little turtle has a new friend, how quaint." He mused in an accented voice. "I've been needing a stagehand for a while, and you should do perfectly."
I thrashed in his hold, unable to release fluffy or dig out my emergency brooch. Leo pulled out a long sword from god knows where, preparing to fight.
How the heck did he get that into the movie theatre?
"Ah ah ah, tisk tisk. Your little friend is coming with me." My captor grinned, and a smoke bomb was tossed at the cement. I coughed, and by the time I could properly breathe we were in some kind of run down warehouse turned stage.
"Now then, it's time to teach you the art of assisting, I've always wanted a stagehand of my own." Hippo chatted to himself.
"Who,.. who even are you?" I gasp, struggling.
"Ah, im called hypno potomus, but you can call me boss~"
-3rd person-
Leo immediately sent a distress signal to his brothers, and with donnies help over the phone managed to start tracking y/ns phone. His search led him to a looming rotted warehouse, and he busted in without much thought.
"Hypno!"
-back to your pov-
"Hypno!" Leo snarled, sword grasped in his hands. "Let her go and I wont wipe the floor with you."
"Hah, as if you could." Hypno snarked, the duo getting into a scuffle like I hadn't seen before. The two clashed harder than ive seen anyone fight, both parties absolutely ferocious. I took my chance to attempt an escape, wriggling in my restraints to hopefully free my bag enough so that fluffy could escape.
With some effort and some ropeburn, the top of my bag was free and fluffy clambered out, already beginning to gnaw on the rope. A loud crash caught my attention and I saw hypno toss leo aside like nothing. I bit my tongue and as soon as I was freed, grabbed fluffy and launched it at the hippo.
He caught fluffy with one hand, and grabbed me like a football. "Leo!" I yelled. "Leo are you okay?!"
"You really don't know what he is?" Hypno grinned evilly. "He's my friend, jerk." I spat.
"Ohh, sweet stagehand, he's not what he seems." The mutant laughs and as leo hurtled forwards with his sword raised, hypno flung his razor rings. I heard metal screeching against metal, and a force impacted hypno and caused me to fall.
My head hit the pavement and I yelped, clutching at my aching skull. Fluffy whimpered and climbed into my hoodie, exhausted. The dust began to settle and I saw a figure.. one I hadn't seen before.
Made of lean muscle, green skin covered in scales and a shell on its back, it stood above hypno who retreated hurriedly.
"Le...o?" I rasped, a hand pressed to the white hot pain on my head. Its head turned. I could see stripes on its body, giving him a flash of color. It was then he looked at himself, then and my face, and jumped.
"Oh no, no no no no no." He rushed over, three fingered hands cradling my head. "It's gonna be okay, donnies on his way!"
"Im.. fine? Its just sore...." I pulled my hand back to see it stained crimson, fresh with my own blood.
Ah, so thats why it hurt so damn bad.
My body fell out from under me and I was cradled in leos arms like a baby, his panic seemed to grow by the second while he awaited his brothers. "Hey, stay with me okay? Please stay awake?" His words began to fade as my vision darkened. I raised a non bloodied hand to trace one of the stripes on his face.
"Youre... so colorful." I whispered. "Like a painting.."
I heard the warehouse doors slam open and several panicked shouts before unconsciousness snapped me up in its gaping maws.
I hope my moms wouldn't get too worried while I was gone.
