Cody Jones continues to make me insane yknow like - the boy has nothing to do in the present day, he's not allowed to go out so he stays in and reads April and Casey's journal and collects old items at least remotely related to their adventures, and it's!! It's mostly not their stuff, did you notice??? Because April and Casey's and the turtles' homes kept getting destroyed so there would always be less and less left behind, and so most of what he has are Foot clan flags, and Shredder and Stockman mechs, and superhero outfits! And he so desperately longs to know more about his family, to live vicariously through them, that he MAKES A WORKING TIME MACHINE????
EVEN IF THE TIME WINDOW ONLY WORKED AS A WINDOW AS IT WAS INTENDED TO THAT IS STILL A TIME MACHINE!!
Like, that is how much this poor kid wanted to connect with his family. Is that not so freaking sad??
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You Weren't Supposed to Get Hurt
Title: You Weren’t Supposed to Get Hurt
Day: Febuwhump Day 13
Prompt: You Weren’t Supposed to Get Hurt
Fandom: TMNT 2003 (Fast Forward)
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Author: aquietwritingcorner/realitybreakgirl
Rating: T
Characters: Cody Jones, Starelee Hambrath, Agent John Bishop
Warning:
Summary: Cody quietly walked into the hospital room, and looked down at Starlee, who was laying so very, very still on it. This wasn’t supposed to happen. She wasn’t supposed to get hurt. But she had, and it was all his fault.
Notes: does no one else wonder what happened to Cody when the guys went back to the past? Because I do. That can’t have been easy for him.
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You Weren’t Supposed to Get Hurt
Cody quietly walked into the hospital room, only the slight stutter to his entering step giving away the hesitation he had in coming in. Machines beeped and holoscreens showed readings of the figure lying in the biobed. Cody approached the bed, contrite as he looked down at Starlee, who was laying so very, very still on it.
Starlee wasn’t supposed to be still. She wasn’t supposed to be quiet either. Starlee was supposed to be full of life, zooming from one place to another on her skates, and giving him that look that said she knew what he was up to, and that she had a backup plan. She wasn’t supposed to be lying in a bed, unconscious, with a head injury that they weren’t sure the effects of.
Her parents were on their way. It would take them a couple of days to get here, but Cody had made sure to book them the fastest transportation that he could get. Telling them that their daughter was seriously injured had been the hardest thing he’d ever had to do, especially since it was his fault.
Cody stood at her bedside and grasped the bed rail.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “You weren’t supposed to get hurt. You weren’t even supposed to be there. I thought—I thought I could handle it. I know… I know my training isn’t as good as the guys was, but I thought that I knew enough, that I had learned enough that I could handle things and… I was wrong.” He swallowed, “And you paid the price for it.”
He suddenly sat heavily in the chair that was next to the bed, not even looking at Starlee, but instead staring down at his hands.
“I… I didn’t know what else to do. Uncle Darius is a wanted criminal. The guys and Master Splinter have gone back to the past. Serling fell in with them. So, I thought… when this problem came up, I thought…”
Cody closed his eyes and leaned his head on the bedrail. For a few moments, he said nothing, letting the silence envelop the room.
“I thought that you didn’t know, or that I had fooled you, but you were the one that had me fooled. You came back, because you knew I was doing something dangerous, didn’t you? My plan was going to fail, but you saw that and came up with a solution. And it worked. It worked Starlee. But I would have rather it not worked or got hurt myself then have you get hurt.”
Cody looked up again, staring at the very still, very quiet Starlee.
“I’m so, so sorry, Starlee. You weren’t supposed to get hurt.”
A subtle throat clearing caused Cody to look up and over towards the doorway. President Bishop stood in it, and for a moment, Cody just stared at him, before he realized that he should probably stand up. But Bishop didn’t seem to mind, just gestured for Cody to stay seated, and walked further into the room.
“I heard what happened,” he said. “I thought that you might want to know that all of the Dark Turtles are in custody.” Bishop looked down at Cody. “Technically, you are the closest thing they have to family, so guardianship falls to you.”
Cody looked up at Bishop for a moment, and then back down at Starlee. “I…I’m not sure what to do. After all, they’re the reason that Starlee is—I just wanted some fam—It wasn’t supposed to happen this way.” He cut himself off from anything further and took a minute to gather himself before he looked back up at Bishop. “Can they stay where they are for now? Just until I get this all figured out.”
Bishop nodded. “For a few more days, yes. But they can’t stay forever.”
Cody took a deep breath. “I know,” he said.
Bishop reached a hand out and put it on Cody’s shoulder. “You might want to know that the Blue One asked me to pass on a message to you. He said that he didn’t mean for the girl to get hurt.”
Cody blinked back up at Bishop, taking a moment to process those words. “Thank you,” he said after a moment.
Bishop nodded, removed his hand, and then turned to leave. “Mr. Jones. The government thanks you and Miss Hambrath for your help in capturing these dangerous criminals. We can only hope that rehabilitation will be successful.”
Cody blinked at Bishop “Yeah,” he finally said. “Rehabilitation. I—that sounds like a good plan.”
Bishop nodded. “You should also know that Miss Hambrath’s family will be slightly delayed due to a report of the invasive scablen beetles on their next shuttle,” Bishop said. “They are being transferred to a different shuttle, one that was bringing experts in various medical fields to Earth for a symposium. Fortuitous how that happened.”
Cody’s breath caught as he realized what Bishop was saying, but he slowly nodded his head instead of saying anything. “Yeah, it is fortuitous,” he said.
Bishop walked towards the door again, but then he paused, and turned around. “Mr. Jones. You are… aware… of my more sordid past. Perhaps not all of it, but in more detail than many people. If I have learned one thing in all of my years, it’s that improper training is often worse than no training. I’m not saying that the Splinterson clan trained you improperly, but that you haven’t learned your limits and how to implement it yet. However, if you would like to continue your training and learn how to implement it properly, then I can open certain avenues for you.” He nodded his head towards Starlee. “It might prevent things like this from happening again.”
Cody nodded slowly. “I—thank you, Mr. President. I’ll probably take you up on that offer.”
With a final nod, Bishop left, and Cody turned his attention back to Starlee. He stared at her for a moment, before reaching out and picking up her hand.
“You weren’t supposed to get hurt,” Cody said. “And I never want to see you get hurt again, Starlee. I’m going to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again.”
And if that meant he was going to throw himself into new training, work on rehabilitating the dark turtles, and put every bit of O’Neil Tech’s influence and money behind Starlee’s recovery, then that’s what he’d do.
Because this? This could never happen again.
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As I tumble back down into the TMNT rabbit hole, I find out that Fast Forward has a second unproduced season that’s known as Season X.
Season X would have given us:
A martial arts master that comes out of one of the turtles’ favorite hi-chop-socky martial arts films and wrecks havoc till Splinter kicks his ass.
The alien Shredder, Ch’rell, coming back with a new Triceraton based body and thus becoming TriShreddaton.
The turtles finding out that Leatherhead is still alive and kicking a 100 years later.
Boss Zukko and Torbin Zixx scamming different crime syndicates by Zukko pretending to turn Zixx in and collecting the bounty money on Zixx’s head.
Tech Turtles, evil robot versions of the turtles.
The Dark Turtles doing a heel-faced turn and getting a redemption. (I will forever be salty that this never happened.)
Jammerhead hacking Constable Biggles and turning him into a corrupt cop.
Serling getting shrunken down to the size of of an action figure and sent back to the past to interact with the turtle tots thanks to a Time Window experiment gone wrong.
The turtles meeting Usagi again, in space.
Triple Threat taking over a prison ship and then he and the other criminals ransack NYC.
Turtle Titan II making a second appearance.
Cody fluxing in and out of existence from the turtles being in the future for too long.
The turtles and their allies have a giant face off between TriShreddaton, the Tech Turtles and Darius Dunn. The Dark Turtles even join the fray as reinforcements for the turtles.
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