"So this is an automobile. Fascinating. I've only ever read about them and heard them in the distance."
Donatello glances at Subject sideways as he drives, mixed feelings swirling in his chest like a hurricane or a whirlpool or both. Destiny keeps her arms crossed over her chest, her ears perked and her body rigid.
"Although, this vehicle is quite different from the ones I am familiar with. This one is very makeshift...DIY, as I've heard it called. Is that not true, Donatello?" she continues, poking at the radio and the seats intermittently.
"Um...yeah, our family built this before we got back to New York after—" Donatello starts.
"The invasion? Ah yes, I saw the whole thing happening from TCRI. The Kraang were a lot more lenient with letting me walk around once they ruled the city." Her eyes flash as she gazes out at the road. "Are you saying that you are the ones who saved New York? I find that impressive."
"Talkative, huh?" Destiny mumbles.
Subject's head swivels to the wolf mutant. "Is talkative a bad thing? I can close my mouth and remain silent if you wish it."
Donatello smiles a tiny bit. "Actually," he says, halting a response from Destiny, "I find it thought-provoking."
"Oh, that is surprising," Subject says. "No one has ever said that to me before." Her eyes flash and she blinks once. "No one has ever truly had a conversation with me before, if you look at the great scheme of things. That is all the Kraang's doing, of course, something that further fuels my hatred for those dastardly creatures. I'm glad that you destroyed most of their work here on Earth."
Nobody has anything to say to that. Destiny pulls out her t-phone and Donatello tries to focus on the road. Subject falls silent and folds her hands in her lap. She doesn't utter another word, unfazed by the reactions of her rescuers as she looks around at the world passing by in the window. Her gaze holds what the other mutants imagine is amazement, since her facial expression is just as blank as it's always been.
"I'm calling Leo," Destiny mutters.
She dials and holds the phone up a little ways past her human ear, focusing her wolf ears in on the device as it rings. It takes a few seconds before Leonardo picks up.
"Des, is everything alright?" he asks.
"Yeah, sort of. One problem..." she starts.
There's silence on the other line for a moment before there's a tentative, skeptical, "What?"
"We've got a possible, uh...ally." She glances at the mutants beside her. "Meet us in the tunnels with the others?"
"Okay," Leonardo agrees, although his tone is still hesitant. "See you soon."
"South entrance?"
"Yeah, that works."
She hangs up just as the Party Wagon descends into the old subway tunnels. They drive along with only the rattling of the rails to soothe them until Destiny suddenly straightens, her hand flying out to rest on the door at her right as she stares at the tunnel curve ahead.
"Donnie, stop," she says. "This is close enough."
Donatello presses the brakes and stops the vehicle. As soon as it's still, Destiny leaps out the side and heads off, allowing Donatello and Subject to climb out themselves. Donatello reaches for Subject's arm with the intent of leading her to the correct spot, but jerks it back before he's fully grasped her forearm. She's warm and surprisingly soft, nothing like the metallic, hard exterior that Donatello had imagined before.
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Emotionless Mutation (Book Three)
Fanfiction"However, you say I am human in a sense, that my body is simply fused with the robot that I have been raised to believe I am. Could you teach me...emotion?" The Kraang tried to take over the city of New York twice, and only once did they succeed. Th...
