Changes: A TMNT fanfic Chap 1

Changes: A TMNT fanfic

Chapter 1: Exposure


Zachary Smith, a brown haired hazel eyed seventeen year old, left the Manhattan high school, waiting for his friend Zoey to come up, and pulled out his Nintendo 3DS from his green windbreaker's pocket, and began playing Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance for a few minutes, looking up when he heard some people approaching, and, recognizing the voices, he quickly hid behind some bushes, waiting for the school's local bullies, dubbed “The Wild Pack”, to pass by.

“-ure it's a good idea to join up with them, Herb?” a thin & spindly looking male teen with messy black hair wearing a sweater asked.

“Of course it is, Elias!” Herb, a muscular Hispanic kid wearing a muscle shirt said.

“Yeah!! All we gotta do is help them out with a few jobs, and we'll get paid a lotta cash!” a very beautiful Caucasian girl with long blonde hair said in a slightly covered New York accent, clinging to Herb lovingly.

“I dunno Anna, I mean, tangling with a gang like the Purp-” a brown haired boy said worriedly, but got interrupted by Herb.

“Shut it, Nelson! We don't want everyone knowing about who our business partners are!” he hissed.

Still hidden from behind the bush, Zachary's eyes widened. 'Are those guys getting tangled up with Purple Dragons!? I mean, those guys are money lovin' idiots, but even they gotta know better than that.' Once the gang had left, Zachary emerged from the bushes and brushed off his clothing.

“Zach!!” a red-haired girl shouted, running over.

“Hey Zoey.” Zachary said, his mind still on what he saw.

“What's wrong?” Zoey asked, so Zachary explained what he heard as they walked to his home. “No way... Purple Dragons!?” she said in shocked disbelief.

“That's what it sounds like.” he said as they approached his friend's house. But as he turned to leave Zoey grabbed his shoulder.

“Wait, Zach. Meet me outside the Bronx Zoo, 8:30, okay?” Zoey asked.

“8:30? Isn't that past your curfew?” Zach asked confused.

“Just promise me you'll be there, okay??” she said.

“Alright, I'll be there.” Zach sighed, then headed for his own home.

~~~8:30 P.M.~~~

Zachary waited outside of the Bronx zoo with his half wolf, half Alaskan Malamute named Remus. “There ya are, Zoey. Why'd you want me to come all the way out here?” he asked her.

“Well... you see-” Zoey began, but stopped when she realized something. “Why'd you bring Remus?”

“Mom wanted me to walk him, but what was so important that I had to risk going through New York at night!?” he explained impatiently.

Before Zoey could snap at him they heard a what sounded like trucks rapidly approaching. Zachary quickly pulled her and his dog into the bushes in time as several large armored trucks rounded the corner and smashed through the Zoo's gates.

“What the..?” Zoey asked, keeping her head inside the bushes as the van opened up, revealing several familiar figures leaving the front of the van.

'The Wild Pack...' Zachary thought with worry, which increased when he saw a large muscular man with a Chinese dragon & clawed foot tattoo emerge from the other side, a set of scars in the shape of claws also visible on the side of his lower face.

“Alright, you all know what to do,” Hun shouted to the Purple Dragons & Foot Ninjas who emerged from the back with several cages & canisters of neon yellow slime being carried behind them, “but for you idiots who weren't paying attention, get as many animals as you can so that the Shredder can use this new batch of mutagen for his army. He doesn't care what kind of animals you get, as long as they're fighters!”

The Purple Dragons quickly got to work, going to the cages of several animals and going in, making sure they got the animals into contact with themselves and then added the mutagen to them, causing them to mutate into humanoid creatures, much to Zach's shock.

'The rumors were true....' he thought, and he quickly pulled out his cellphone & started recording the Foot Ninjas & Purple Dragons mutating the animals, and a few of the gangsters who volunteered to be mutated into hybrids.

“What are you doing!?” Zoey asked in a hushed whisper.

“Gathering evidence!” Zachary whispered back.

“Oh....” Zoey said, quickly pulling out her own cellphone and recording the ninjas as well, the both of them hiding whenever someone glanced at them. Remus was also unusually quiet, as if he himself did not want to be discovered.

Unfortunately, their cover was blown when a spider crawled towards Zachary and he cried out before he could stop himself. Two Foot Ninjas immediately came over and pulled the two teens out, ignoring the dog as they dragged them out.

“You and your stupid arachnophobia..!” Zoey angrily muttered.

“Hello Zach.” Herb said, grinning evilly.

“You know them” Hun asked suspiciously.

“Classmates of mine.” Herb explained. “Mind if I personally teach them about what happens when they mess with your business?”

“Go ahead.” Hun said, handing Herb a pipe.

However, before they could start the “punishment”, a Purple Dragon came running up, sounding terrified. “Sir! The Turtles are here! With that vigilante!”

“What!?” Hun said angrily, just as five “people” appeared.

One of them was a guy wearing a red shirt, cut off biking gloves, a golf bag over his shoulder full of sports equipment like hockey sticks, golf clubs and baseball bats, and a skull-like hockey mask. However, he was the most ordinary of the group, since his companions where four humanoid turtles in differently colored masks and with different weapons.

“It's Jones and the Turtles! Get them!” Hun shouted, the Purple Dragons & Foot ninjas running at the group, who drew their weapons and fought the ninjas.

While everyone was distracted, Zoey grabbed the Purple Dragon restraining her and threw him against the one holding Zach, freeing him. “C'mon, we've gotta get out of here!!” she said, grabbing her friends arm. Unfortunately, they were stopped by Herb knocking Zachary down with his pipe.

“Neither of you are going anywhere!!” Herb said, continuing to pummel Zachary with his pipe.

Before he could knock Zachary out with a final hit to the head, his pipe was snatched away by a turtle in an orange headband and wielding nunchukus.

“Not cool!” Michaelangelo shouted, whacking Herb with his nunchuku.

Zach managed to force himself to stand, but a Foot ninja got knocked into him, sending him towards some cages. While he was recovering though, he suddenly felt like several knives were being stabbed into his back, and it was only because Zoey managed to get him away that the lion and tiger did not do any life-threatening damage.

“Just hang on Zach!” Zoey said anxiously, pulling him towards the exit, accidentally stepping on an escaped Komodo Dragon's tail at one point.

“Whoa, look out!!” Donatello shouted, when an escaped elephant panicked and ran into the containers of the yellow slime, splashing it on everyone but Hun, the turtles, & Casey, who all managed to avoid it in time. The others, however, weren't so lucky as they got splashed with the substance.

Zachery got a mouthful of the stuff, and immediately he felt great pain as his body started expanding, his canines extending out, his bones broke only to heal in a new shape. His spine extended from his body, forming a long and thin tail, his ears moved from the sides of his head higher up, and they turned cat-like, he felt something sharp grow out from his hands, and his new claws scraped at the ground, leaving deep marks in the ground thick orange & black fur grew out.

Zoey had also gotten a face full of the ooze, and also felt changes occur in her body, mainly her form became more sleek than muscular, her skin dried up into thick scales, her finger grew long, thin and slightly hooked talons. Her feet went through a similar change, her shoes ripping apart from her feet growing too big & long for them. She hunched over, trying to suppress a scream when her own spine extended out into a tail, but unlike Zach's hers was stronger. Her teeth became needle-like while her beautiful red hair fell out to the ground.

Remus yelped when he got the burning yellow mutagen in his fur, and started whimpering in pain when he felt his body expand, his paws turned into more humanoid hands, his back legs became more supportive for standing upright, and he felt his intelligence increase to near-superhuman levels.

Zach laid on the ground, panting heavily, his vision blurry, but he tried to look up when he heard sirens approaching. He tried to get up when he felt himself being picked up and carried away. He tried to look so he could see the one carrying him, but he soon blacked out.