The Travelers Wish (The Wattys 2016)

Chapter 7

There stood my 4 greatest childhood heroes...

Leonardo the leader, clad in the blue mask, wise and very dedicated and trained better then almost anyone at the sword art called Katanas.

Raphael the rebel, he appropriately wore the red mask, and had a rough New Yorker accent. Hotheaded but caring, and a master of the short blades known Sias.

Donatello, tallest of his brothers and thinner as well, a genius in his own right, building military quality inventions since the age of 6. He fought with a Bo Staff, and wore a dark purple mask.

And my favorite, Michelangelo.
Hilarious and fun loving, a prankster, though a bit air headed and naive. But don't let it fool you, there is no one more skilled at nunchaku, or nunchucks.
His mask was orange.

At an instant I knew I was in the nickelodeon version universe.

I guess with an endless supply of parallel worlds, this one was bound to exist, I must have unknowingly picked this one.

Michelangelo stood there in silence.

"Ehh...what, how did you know my name?!"

The shortest turtle, with the orange mask and freckled cheeks spoke.

Oh adorable Michelangelo.

I can't believe this is really happening!
I'm meeting my childhood heroes,
I should be nervous, or babbling, or something...
But I was surprisingly, confident, almost cocky and I had a feeling my last encounter with the goddess of travel had something to do with it.

"I know all your names." I said cooly as I sat up and realized my right wrist was chained up. "Now Donatello if you could unchain me please, I'm not here to kill you"

Mikey and Donnie both looked at Leo, while Raph just crossed his arms.

Leonardo contemplated for a second.

Then nodded at Donatello.

Donnie cautiously moved to the side of the bed, and handed me the key.

I unchained myself, and started to rub my wrist.

"You know Donatello, you didn't have to make those so tight, Im very attached to my hand."

"I didn't put those on you, Raph did."
Donnie said to me looking offended.

"Oh, Raphael did... Hmm Figures."

This made the red clad ninja turtle annoyed.

"Who and what are you, and exactly how do you know our names?"
He told me.

I Felt a second wave of confidence surge though me as I stood up.
My 5'3 frame only about an inch taller then then Michelangelo.

"I know all about you ,more then you probably know about yourselves even though non of you have ever met me."

Then I smiled at Michelangelo

"And no Michelangelo I can't read minds."

He looked freaked
"then how did you know I was gonna say that?!?"

Donnie got that look, that look he gets when a lightbulb goes off inside his ever busy mind.

"Wait... Are you from the future?"

I smiled

"We'll I guess you could say I'm from your futures, and pasts, iv seen the things you've done and will do
In this reality and others."

I don't know how I was acting all confident and all knowing.
I guess the ring had something to do with that.

"Do you understand the concept of parallel earths?"
I asked, looking at Donatello.

He nodded.

I looked around to his brothers.

They looked as confused as most of the people I tried to describe Doctor Who to.

I sighed.

"Imagine an uncountable amount of earths all stacked next to each other, in the same place but on different planes of existence. Where everything is almost the same as the original but with something a little different, a little twist, a different version.
The same but different."

Donnie nodded, Raph and Leo had faces that clearly stated, oh I get it.

Mikey stood there looking more confused then before I started.

I sighed again, classic Michelangelo would have understood.

"My Name is Roxane, and I am the traveler."

It was amazing how easily it was for me to explain this with such confidence, like I'd done it a million times before.

"I posses the ability to travel between the parallels, I come from a version of earth were your existence as well as the existence of many others is in the form of fiction."

"So, your saying that where your from, we're stories?"
Leonardo asked puzzled.

I blushed.


"Well not just stories, more like comic book and cartoon heroes, and then there was the 4 movies, well 5 if you count Turtles Forever, which I don't but..."

I trailed off as I saw they were having a hard time taking this in, even Donatello.

"Let's just say I'm your biggest female fan and Iv traveled the stars just to meet you."
I said sarcastically.