Friend or Foe? Edible or No?
“Explain to us why you wanted to come back again?”
Gareth, in his vampire form, let out a groan that sounded more of like a hiss with his fangs, “Because I wanna see the turtles!”
Tangle Web pinched what would be the bridge of his nose on his mask and shook his head, “This is a stupid idea-“
“It’s a great idea, okay! Don’t you wanna see the turtles?!”
“Ugh! You’re no fun! We’re finding them anyways!”
Tangle Web groaned, but reluctantly followed suit with the vampire and the symbiote, all three of them jumping from rooftop to rooftop. That was until Carnage held out a clawed hand,
The symbiote was pointing to the street. The vampire and the masked vigilante looked over to where their friend was pointing.
Surely enough, the head of a familiar blue masked mutant turtle was poking out of one of those holes that led to the sewers, moving the lid out of the way and beckoning upwards after he had climbed out. After him was an orange masked mutant turtle, a bit smaller than the first. After that was a purple masked one with goggles and a metal purple shell. The last was the largest. His shell was spikey and he wore a red mask.
The three figures on the rooftop ducked to avoid being seen, using the shadows to their advantage at hiding their figures as they observed…
“I swear! You had to be there!” The blue clad turtle said to the purple, waving its three fingered hands in the air, “it was huge and goopy! One was a vampire and one had a mask like Scarlet Spider around here!”
The purple masked turtle had his arms crossed over his chest and he rolled his eyes, “Nardo, if I hear another word about this goop monster-“
“Alright, you two,” the red one got between them, holding his arms out, “if it makes Leo feel better, we’ll keep an eye out this time, got it?”
The orange turtle shuddered, “Eugh! Goop monster? Ewwwwwww!”
The four turtles chatted amongst themselves for awhile… that chatter turned into a heated conversation as they argued which pizza place they could go to this time.
Gareth yawned, Carnage had a brow raised, and Tangle Web was holding his head in his hands and grumbling to himself. Things like ‘I could be on duty right now’ or ‘I could be petting my cat.’
The vampire elbowed the masked vigilante. When Tangle Web lifted his gaze, Gareth had a mischievous grin on his face. Tangle Web’s visors widened and he shook his head,
Gareth smiled with his fangs, “Yes.”
Before Tangle Web could say anything else, Gareth was already crouched down on all fours and leapt off the building, Carnage following suit. Tangle Web groaned before swinging a web and jumping off as well.
Gareth landed on the street with a tuck and roll, landing on his feet on all fours crouched low. The orange masked turtle screeched and jumped back behind the tallest turtle as Gareth bared his fangs with a nasty smile. The blue and purple jumped back also near the taller and the red turtle did not hesitate to bark at his brothers to stand back as he narrowed his eyes and spread his arms to protect the turtles behind him.
Carnage landed behind the red turtle and that gave the tallest a fright, snapping his head behind himself and trying to gather the others as they got their weapons out in a ready stance. Their eyes were wide-
“See?! I told you so!” The blue one shouted.
Tangle Web landed on Carnage’s right, Gareth’s left, dislodging his web and standing tall. The masked vigilante stood at least 6 inches taller than the red masked turtle, which was daunting to the four. Carnage was way taller than all of them, bearing his teeth. Gareth barked out a laugh,
“Aye! Told ya we’d see them!” The vampire snapped at the masked vigilante over his shoulder.
Tangle Web rolled his eyes under his visors and stared at the four turtles. One had a bo staff, the blue one had the swords like before, and the orange had two nunchucks. They crowded around each other, their shells touching back to back as they stared at the three figures before them,
“I’m warnin’ ya, don’t take a step closer!” The red one barked.
Carnage narrowed his eyes, “Hm… a fighter…” he growled, lifting his chin up, “but to many spikes for my liking… I wouldn’t call it edible…”
The blue masked turtle let out a small peep of alarm before shaking his head and narrowing his eyes, gripping his weapon handles.
Gareth stuck his face close to the smallest turtles, making intense eye contact, which made the orange masked turtle jump in surprise,
“Ya think their blood taste good?” The vampire asked, titling his head.
The smallest turtle bared his teeth, “We’ll beat you to a pulp before you can find out!”
The vampire cackled and backed up with a smirk, “Whoa there! Don’t be so snappy! It was a joke!” But something told Tangle Web that his friend was considering it.
Carnage took a few steps to the side, looking down at the purple turtle, “Aye… smells like softshell-“ he hissed, “I’d have better luck with this one…”
The purple clad turtle gripped his bow staff, the blue clad turtle stepping forward next to the purple.
Tangle Web looked between his two friends and let out a low hiss with his fangs,
“If you guys just wanted to see if they were edible, you didn’t have to drag me along to find out,” he squared his shoulders and took a step forward, looking down at these mutants,
“Mind my friends, they’re a bit… iffy… at this time,”
The blue clad turtle stared at the masked vigilante, “Back away from my brothers!” He took a step forward, “Who are you and what do you want?”
Tangle Web held his hands behind his back, tilting his head, visors narrowing, “I guess we were just… curious,” he shrugged, “not gonna lie, didn’t actually wanna come-“
“We made him come over anyways!” Gareth perked up.
“-but” Tangle continued, “since we’ve seen ya, I think we can go-“
“Whaaaat? Why?!” Gareth grumbled, “I wanted to see how fast they can run away! Practice my pouncing!” Gareth made his hands into claws and waved them in front of him like a cat.
The tallest turtle let out a low growl, “Maybe you should listen to your friend and leave us alone,” he said in a low voice, “we don’t want trouble…”
Carnage was still staring at the purple clad turtle… they seemed to have been having their own heated conversation before the symbiote’s attention was caught by the masked vigilante,
“Alright,” Tangle Web raised his palms up in surrender, “we’ll leave ya, no trouble,” he said firmly.
Gareth rolled his eyes with a groan. Carnage gave one last menacing look at the purple clad turtle before both the vampire and the symbiote gathered around Tangle Web, leaving the circle the turtles were in before open.
“Cmon, boys,” Tangle Web waved over Carnage and Gareth, “let’s find you both food before you actually do decide to eat these fuckers,”
