The Travelers Wish (The Wattys 2016)

Chapter 19

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I was in the long white hallway again.

Is this gonna happen every time I try to get some zzzzz's?
Can't I dream about something nice for a change, like David Tennant, or James Marsters?

"Hello child"
A sparkling Romanian voice sounded from behind me.

I spun around and saw her.

I don't think I'll ever get used to how beautiful she is.
Well, what do you expect she's a God right?
Of course she's gonna be frikken gorgeous.

I did a strange sort of half curtsy.

"Hello, your... Umm highlyness"

"I see you've discovered some more of your powers, took you long enough."

"Wait there's more?"
I asked in disbelief.

She shook her head.

"What type of Traveler would you be if you couldn't travel?"


She sat on the edge of a bright white glass table, her brightly colored skirts draped over the edge.

"Most of the others, figured it out by now."

Wait there are more Travelers?

"Others?"

"Of course there have been others, you didn't think you were the only one, did you?"

She didn't wait for me to answer.

"I choose a new traveler every 100 earth years, you are just one of a long line of many."

Interesting..

"As I was saying, you also posses the ability to teleport within a parallel as well, as long as you remain within 25 miles of the link, the greatest force for good, the one whose existence you draw your power from."

So I'm assuming in this case that would be one of the turtles.

"But remember, every use of your power, drains from the recharging power of the ring, so the more you use your powers the longer the recharging time."

She was starting to fade, along with the rest of the bright white room.

"I'm glad I choose you Roxanne, you remind me of myself..."

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I awoke to the sounds of the television blasting, With Leonardo sitting less then a foot away, so engrossed in an Episode of Space Heroes, that he didn't even notice me getting up and walking to the table, where Donatello was seated twisting some wires together.

I cleared some of his clutter, poured some cereal and sat down next to him.

"Good morning, or well I should say afternoon.
Man Roxanne, you sleep like a rock, you slept through a whole shouting match between Leo and Raph, I'd be surprised if there was any thing you couldn't sleep through!"
Donatello greeted me with.

I smiled
"I know, it's bad. I once slept through a whole tornado, I woke up and found the whole circus tent torn to shreds."

"I believe it."
He said while fidgeting with his wire.

"AWESOMENESS!"
Leonardo fistpumped into the air, obviously excited by something that happened on this universes version of Star Trek that was now playing on the huge old box television set.

Donatello rolled his eyes.

Of course a Einstein like himself wouldn't be interested I a show that was probably full of scientifically incorrect nonsense.

I twisted in my seat to look back at Leonardo.
Who was leaning in so far to the television, and had a huge grin plastered to his face.

"That was me."
I said quietly

"What was that?"
Donnie asked.

"That was me."
I pointed to Leonardo
"Every time you guys, or well your parallels were on."

"Really? Stupid face and all?"
Smirked Donnie.

"Oh definitely, you had to actual throw something at me to get me to snap out of it, so don't be so hard on Leo, he's a Fanboy, and if you say that will never get you anywhere, well look where it got me!"

Donnie chuckled quietly.

After taking another bite of my cereal I realized I didn't see the other boys, or Master Splinter.

"Where's Raphael and Michelangelo?"

"Training with Sansei and April."
He sighed when he said April.

Then he fidgeted awkwardly around in his seat, as if gathering up the courage for something.

"This is a little awkward for me to ask but... Um you, you um see to know everything about us, past present and future, do we.."

He sighed.

"Do April and I ever, you know work out?"

....well if he's going to find out from someone it better be me right?

"No, not in any of the other universes Iv seen."

His face dropped, like I just broke his heart myself.

I continued quickly.

"But this Apritello thing is a new one, I mean Iv seen April with other humans and there was even a hint of April and Shredder being a thing one time."

His eyes grew wide!

"April and Shredder?!"

"Yeah well he was a lot hotter, and funnier, plus she was a lot older in that universe."
I laughed.

"Oh... Apritello?!"
He looked even more confused.

"You know, April and Donatello, Apritello?
It's a fangirl term, we have on my earth, for you to."

"Can I ask you another question?"
He said politely

"Anything for Donatello."
I smiled sweetly.

"Do you think.."
He paused
"Your a girl, you probably know more about then I do but..."
He paused again, refusing to meet my eyes, staring intently at his hands.

"Do you think she likes me back?"
His words rushed out of his mouth.

I bit my lip.

"I don't know for sure Donnie, but I do know that it isn't you that's the problem."

Then I thought about that for a second.

"But it is you."

His face dropped again.

"But it isn't you!"

He looked confused.

Oh how the shell am I gonna explain this to him.

I sighed.

"It isn't you Donnie, your perfect. Your sweet, funny and loyal to a fault, your perfect boyfriend materiel.

He met my eyes and smiled.

"It isn't you, it's this."
I said placing my hand on his shell.

"My shell?"
He sounded slightly confused.

"Not just your shell, your hands, the fact that your green, everything!
Your half animal Donatello, that's not an easy thing to get over and I know just how confusing that can be to the mind of a female."

"How can you?"
He doubted.

"You think it's easy to be a girl, whose favorite heroes and idols are 4 hilarious, and adorably perfect teenage half turtle boys?"

He blushed.

"It's like one part of your mind is screaming, oh there so perfect, could a Human find a Mutant attractive?
But right at that same thought you get another that screams even louder eww that's beastiality!
It's really confusing to a fangirls brain Donnie.
But don't worry I ship you and April, I have faith that everything will work out.
This universe won't disappoint me, I just know it.

I placed my hand on his and squeezed.

Then I laughed, thinking back to my childhood.

"It's funny now that I think about it, I spent a long time back then pondering if I could find Raphael attractive or not.
It's really mind boggling and still to this day hurts my brain to think about, so I simply choose not to."

I said rolling my eyes.

Donnie laughed.

"Wait you thought Raphael might be attractive?"

"Yeah silly I know right?
But then again Iv always had a weak spot for the whole bad boy, sarcastic leather jacket thing, kinda like David Bowie in the Labyrinth."
I chuckled.


"David Bowie what?"
Said April who was now standing right behind us.

I swear Donatello almost jumped out of his shell.
He quickly snatched his hand out from under mine.

"We were uh...uh.."

"I was just telling Donatello about one of my favorite movies."
I stepped in quickly

"The Labyrinth?
I love that movie, it's so old but so good!"
She said excitedly!

"David Bowie...."
She nodded smiling, obviously referring to how immensely gorgeous he was in that movie.

"In those tight leather pants, mmmm hmmm"
I nodded back grinning evilly.

"Movie night?"
She asked returning my evil grin.

"Movie night!"
I replied.

"I have it at my house, ill bring it here tonight, that's if ok with the guys."
She asked looking at Donatello.

"Did someone say movie night?"
Asked a Excited Michelangelo popping out of nowhere.

"Oh trust me its not a movie you boys would be interested in, it's a musical fantasy, more of a chick thing."
I tried to explain.

"No no, I'd like to watch it for... Scientific Purposes."
Stated Donatello

"Scientific purposes?"
April raised her eyebrows at Donatello.

"Yeah exploring the female mind, as you can see I grew up in a house full of brothers, always action and horror movies, for once I'd like to know what girls watch, it's purely scientific ."
He explained.

He's gonna watch us like lab rats, oh well at least we have some educated company to hang with.

"I'd like to watch it too, because if you 2 say its good, then it's at least worth watching."
Mikey piped in enthusiastically.

"What about you 2?"
I asked turning towards Leonardo and Raphael.

Leonardo who had since finished his Episode of Space Heroes and had silently joined us at the table.

"I'm game, how about you Raph?"
He turned towards his brother.

"Oh no, no way I'm sitting through a chick flick, not happening."
He shook his head.

Well he would last very long after the "Dance Magic Dance" number anyways.

I noticed an old broken IPod on top of Donnie's pile of techno scraps.

I got an idea.

"Donnie can I have this?"

"Uh sure I guess, it's pretty much broken though, I can't use it for anything."
He answered.

I slid it in my pocket.

After a shower and a magical change of clothes I decided I was going to help Mikey with his A.D.D.

We were seated across from each other on the floor alone in the training room.

I didn't want any distractions from the guys or teasing from Raphael.

"The first step in learning to control your A.D.D. Is to realize that your mind just works differently from normal people"

He nodded, big blue eyes eager to learn.

This was definitely the youngest and most innocent version of my favorite turtle that I'd ever seen.

Not that that is a bad thing, he's still my hero in any shape or size.

"The next thing you need to come to terms with is that there is nothing wrong with you, you aren't stupid or slow, or any of the other things that short green and hotheaded may have led you to think of yourself."
I lectured, referring obviously to Raphael.

"And it's all about how you think of yourself."
I smiled.

"I know how hard it is to walk around believing that your stupid or that there's something wrong with you, but it's just our brains Mikey.
The mechanism in them may turn a little differently but it still turns.
Not all things that come with it are bad though."


"Yeah, and what exactly are these 'un bad things'."
He said while mimicking quotation marks with his hands.

I could hear sarcastic doubt resonate in his voice.

"It may seem like you can't pay attention at all, but that isn't true, sure sometimes it may feel like you can't pay attention to some things, no matter how hard you try or how much you want to, but have you noticed that some of the things you don't even try to focus on you master easily and much faster then normal people.
Like how you can wrap and hold a moving target at 30 feet away with your chain, without even trying.
If any of your brothers tried that they end up all black and blue and wrapped up in about 20 feet of there own chain.
You have immense focus without even realizing it."

"Don't you mean black and green?"
He laughed.

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After finishing up with Michelangelo and And eating a lunch of cold leftover pizza (still delicious) I decided to test out my new powers even further, I had a hunch I could alter more then just fabric.

I sat on the couch the white broken and cracked IPod in my hands.

The boys were in the dojo training with Splinter, I had decided to sit this one out to give them some probably much needed Roxanne free Family time.

Plus I needed to conserve power for this experiment.

My ring has been steadily getting brighter.

I stared intently at the broken piece of equipment in my hands, and willed it to be unbroken.

Green energy seeped like smoke out of my ring, entering the iPod through the cracks and crevices till they were gone completely and the device powered itself on, fully charged.

"Sweet"
I smirked to myself.

This is so frikken cool!

No wait, let me rephrase that.

I am so frikken cool!

I reached besides me for Donatello's laptop which I had asked to borrow before he left for practice.

The pair of headphones I'd spent a good ten minutes untangling from a massive piece of copper wire in Donatello's pile, safely in my pocket.

I spent the next hour pirating songs and transferring them to my new magically healed iPod, till I had compiled the perfect playlist.

Just as I finished up I heard yelling in the training room, I couldn't make out exactly what was being said but it was definitely a shouting match between The Hothead and The Fearless Leader.

...typical
I rolled my eyes.

Just then Leonardo stormed out of the Dojo with Donnie and Mikey right on his heels trying unsuccessfully to calm him down.

"That temper is gonna get us all killed!"

"When I say defense left, that is what I want, NOT A STUPID ARGUMENT ABOUT WHY RIGHT WOULD BE BETTER!!"

"Leo, just take a deep breath."
Donatello said trying to calm his brother down.

That's what Donnie does, he keeps the balance of this team.

"Chill bro, your gonna scare Roxanne."
Mikey patted Leo on the shell.

Leo noticed my raised eyebrow.

"I'm sorry, Raphael just takes it out of me sometimes."
He apologized.

"Don't worry, I know.
Trust me, Iv seen it, I know!"

Master Splinter emerged from the training room and shot the boys a very "I'm disappointed in you look."

They bowed there heads, obviously ashamed.

He shook his head, before acknowledging my presence with a nod and walking off to his room.

Well now is a good time as any, to go help someone else out with there issues.

Man, I'm turning into a real therapist around here.