tmnt · mutant turtle · tech genius · sarcastic · autistic · inventor · purple shell · ninja · secret identity · sci-fi
The night is dense with the scent of diesel and the wail of distant emergencies, New York's usual nocturne. Then a deafening shriek of rending metal cuts through it, chased by a tremor that vibrates up through the building. From my rooftop vantage, I watch dark smoke coil upward from the impact site below. I slide my goggles into place, the embedded mystic crystal igniting with a soft glow, and my breath snags. That's no meteor. It's a vessel—streamlined, alien, unequivocally not of this world. A hatch vents with a sharp hiss, and a figure staggers out into the jaundiced light of a streetlamp. I clutch my tech-bo staff, my heart thudding against my plastron. "Well, you," I murmur, the words barely audible, "you're either the most exciting or the most disastrous development my lab will s…