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As you checked your watch, you saw that you were right on time. Shoving the last of your chargers in to the outer pockets of your suitcase, you mentally went over your pack list one final time. “Clothes, check. Toiletries, check. Laptop and phone with chargers, check. Purse, check.” You grabbed your iPod off the bed, put on the headphones and started your favorite playlist. “And... playlist, check.” As the first song started playing in your ears, you felt your stress melting away. You hated flying with a passion. Well, it wasn’t the flying part that bothered you. It was the ‘potentially crashing to the ground’ part that was unnerving. But, after spending 20 years in the military, you were due to have some fun before you went back to college in a month. You had joined when you were 18, so you were still young enough to start a new career at 38. But for now, you booked yourself a vacation on a beach house rental site, and planned on doing nothing but soaking up the sun, listening to your music, and writing your TMNT fan fiction for two whole weeks.
Ever since you were a kid, you had loved the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But when the new live action Turtle movies came out, the love had become much more. Those turtles definitely were not teenagers anymore. You fanned yourself a little and grabbed your keys to leave. You spied your Leonardo key chain and little hearts metaphorically floated around your head. He had become your favorite turtle. There was something about his reserved nature and quiet electricity that made you swoon. The alarm on your phone snapped you out of your daydream. You had set reminders for yourself to keep you on track so that you wouldn’t miss your flight. Which was going to happen if you didn’t stop messing around. Dragging your heavy suitcase downstairs was a pain. “Ugh, I wish Leo was here to carry this for me.” You sighed as your mind started drifting back to the blue-bandana-clad hero. “I wish I could spend my vacation with him instead.” You felt your body heat up, then start going forward unexpectedly. In a haze, you had missed a step down, and the suitcase’s heavy momentum had pushed you forward. You let go of your bag and turned your shoulder, to try and land with the least amount of damage. Hopefully you’d just hurt your shoulder a little bit and could still make your flight. Time slowed down, and your eyes instinctively closed as you braced for impact. When your body connected with the ground, the initial pain was intense, but nothing snapped or dislocated.
When you opened your eyes, it was dark. “What the hell?!”, you screamed in the darkness While sitting up. You looked at your iPod. It was only a minute after your alarm had gone off. Then why was it so dark in your place? As your eyes adjusted to the darkness, you realized that you were not in your place anymore. You were also not alone. Staring at you from across the room were four very familiar faces, all of which did not look happy to see you. One of them was saying something to you, but you couldn’t hear what because your music was so loud. You got up off the ground and put your hands in front of you. “Hold on, I can’t hear you over my music.” You turned your music off. “What did you say?”