Song Within A Shell

Saccade

"Do you think she'll wake up? "

"Well we've tried everything except smacking her" I say cracking my knuckles.

Fallon interrupts "Ketra don't... Maybe if we just-"

"I'm just gonna take her earbuds out!" Phoebe says pushing past us.

Once she took them out Nike woke up almost instantly.

"Huh... And I was gonna hit you." I chuckle, and Nike just glares at me sleepily.

"C'mon we're in New York! Let's go ninja mode and jump around have some fun!" Phoebe says shaking the hanging chair Nike was in.

"Fine fine! Let's... ugh... go get on the suits!"

We all jump up in a high five and run to the back of the bus where our room is. Under each of our mattresses was a black, skin-tight body suit that had had a hooded jacket of our favorite color, and a matching mask!

Mine was a red long sleeve jacket and the hood had a sharp peek at the front. The mask, also being red, made my caramel brown eyes look almost gold. I then plucked my lucky daggers from my suit case, and went to wait for the others.

Phoebe came out with her like green hooded vest and green mask. She has a pair of twin pistols with silencers from our home planet. They make the gun shot sound like just a mere breeze.

Ophelia came out with her short puffy-sleeved jacket and her tomahawk. The tomahawk had a slightly curved handle so when she threw it, it would come flying back like a boomerang.

Fallon came out next. She didn't necessarily have a jacket, it was more or so a cloak with a hood... it was purple, and she carried a bladed whip. It looks like a sword, but once she presses a button on the handle the blade separates. She also has a utility belt with a lot of things from our home worlds tech.

Finally out comes the once sleepy Nike. She had a royal blue hooded leather jacket. And her compact
Scythe. When she travels she has to hide the scythe, so she made the handle retractable, and it locks into position when it's being used.

"Are we ready.... For our first New York patrol since 2012?!" Ophelia squeals.

"SHHHH!" I shut her up by tapping her forehead with the butt of my dagger.

She giggles. "Sorry."

"Ok Let's go..." Nike says while jumping out of the parked bus window. We parked outside of the time square stage and we used the scaffolding to hoist ourselves up to get to the higher buildings.

New York was beautiful... the lights flashing, the constant sound of some tiny alley brawl, and an idiot getting his face pounded in. Sadly, New York is the place where the highest Kraang sightings have been so we've got to keep our look out for them.

"Hey girls.... Look about 100 yards over on the roof." Fallon says using a pair of "scientific" binoculars. We all look in the direction she pointed at, and sure enough there was something...

Something big... well slightly taller then normal size, and there's at least four of them....

"Ok... Let's split up, circle around them from all angles. Don't harm them unless necessary... they could be good mutants like the ones from Hawaii." I roll my eyes and go south towards them, head on. Fallon takes the sky with her rockets, Phoebe takes west and Ophelia takes east. Nike on the other hand has already made it safely across to the building they are standing on and is hiding on the ledge of a billboard that's on the edge of the at partner complex.

Once we all reach about a safe distance from the group of four a herd of footsteps comes from the east... OPHELIA! We all turn our attention towards that direction, as well as the four tall mutants, and see a large group of ninja like people surrounding Ophelia.

She seems to have successfully knocked out a few, but I can't just stand here and watch. I risk my cover greatly, and jump up screaming, "Don't you touch her!" I swipe my daggers cutting one of their heads off. Wires and sounds of sizzling come from its stub neck.

" A robot..." I mumble

We fight off the rest of them, and manage to get it down to about nine, who then run off. We turn our attention back to the decapitated robo-ninja.

Nike spoke silently, "Fallon, this is all you..." Fallon sits with her legs crossed, examining the head, and with a final silent gasp she looks up surprised.

"Y-you guys... This is Kraang Tech!" She squeals.

"Which means..." Phoebe says.

"It means we can have the upper hand on them...."

" Not necessarily...." four shadowy figures come from above and we all draw our weapons and stand in front of Fallon as she tries to gather Kraang parts.

" We don't want to hurt you... we just wanna know who you are and how you know what the Kraang are..."

Nike pauses and holds her hand up,
" Girls... weapons down" I hesitate but put my daggers into their holders and cross my arms.

" We aren't going to tell you who we are, but let's just say the place we once called home was destroyed by the Kraang... and now we want to protect others from them." Phoebe speaks up.

"And Ya know, the usual beating them to a pulp..." I pipe in. I hear a low chuckle from one of the shadows.

"Look we'll take down our hoods, if you come out of the dark scary place!" Ophelia says.

Nike takes down her hood, her blue hair long and hanging off her shoulders. I do the same but my hair is in a ponytail, I won't let it flow gracefully.

The others do too, showing their purple, orange, and green hair. and finally the shadows step out revealing four turtles... who happened to be four of the more attractive mutants we've run into.

"So are you ninja?" The one with a blue mask like Nikes' said as he set his twin katanas into their holders.

"Eh...more or so guardians... but we know ninjutsu and many other fighting skills." Fallon says.

" Oh... because you did well against the Foot-Bots... there were about fifty of them-" the purple masked one said but was interrupted by Fallon.

"Fifty- three to be exact." She says.

"You counted them?!" The orange masked turtle said surprised.

"My Cordial Ocular Network Tech Abridged Central Systems, or my CONTACTS counted."

The four turtles were speechless.

"So what are your names?" I ask.

" I'm leo... those are my brothers... Mikey, Raph, and Donnie."

" What are yours?" Raph asks.

"You'll find out soon enough..." I said with a slight smirk. I put up my hood and jumped down into the alley with Nike in front of me and everyone else behind.

But when those turtles looked down to se where we landed they wouldn't see us... how do I know?

Because we're awesome!

~•~

When we got back to the bus I went to sleep before everyone else and got my phone and listened to some of our music before I drifted off. The last song I heard before my phone died, and I feel asleep was "Saccade"

" Ooh ~ Oh!
The buzzing sound and noise surrounding me
The Thunder coming from the crowd.
The winds are wild
This is the time where I can be a child!
The worlds my storm
And I'm the Thundering Saccade!"