Chapter One

Annabelle blinked slowly and opened her eyes.  She had fallen asleep in the lab again.  She slowly sat up and yawned, stretching as she did so.  She had head prints on her forearms from her nap and her legs had fallen asleep.  She stood up to shake off the sensation.  

“Asleep again?” She turned and saw her brother Skip.  His white bandana fell over his shoulders.  He was wearing the same thing he always did.  His ninja gear.  

“Sorry…I was just working on something and I didn’t even realized I fell asleep and-“

“Just messing with you sis!” He walked over to her and patted her on the back.

“Oh…..right…” Annabelle said. “Well I will be back in a minute.”  She had to pee, so she went to bathroom.  She stared into the mirror…her dark red hair was a little messy.  She brushed it and then looked again.  Her eye…the scarred one had gotten all crusty and sore…she hadn’t put any of the medicine on it.  She rubbed it gently.  It didn’t really hurt…but she looked into the mirror and frowned.  There were so many things wrong with her.  But she had only herself to blame….

She finished her business and went back to the lab.  With the same gloomy look on her face.  

“Well, well!” She heard Orion behind her.  “Hello beautiful!”  He smiled.

“Shut-up!”  She snapped.  

“Dude sis….chill out I’m trying to give ya a compliment!!!” Orion defended flipping his blonde hair.  His brown bandana showing off his blue eyes.  

Annabelle shrugged him off and went back to her chair…returning to her project.  Orion sat on the desk and stared at her. “So whatcha making this time??”  He asked.

“Could you get off my work please??” She asked.

“Orion…instead of meddling why don’t you find something useful to do.”  Skip suggested.  “Like hiding behind a garbage can…”

“Can it brainiac!  I wasn’t talking to your shell!”  Orion stood up.

“Why don’t you make me you waste of a specimen?” Skip said.

“You’re ass is cruisin’ for a bruisin’ dude!” Orion said taking out his tonfa.

“You don’t want to fight me.”  Skip said.

“Cause you know you’ll loose!” Orion said.

“GUYS!” Annabelle snapped. “Please! Stop fighting!  I hate it when you guys fight…” She returned to her desk.

“So anyways…” Orion crossed his arms.  “Whatcha workin on this time…”

“It’s supposed to make our weapons stronger.  This way we don’t have to exert as much force…it’s confusing…”

“Better weapons! Dude how you can you possibly go wrong with that!” Orion lifted his arms behind his neck and smiled.

“There are several ways I could go wrong with it.” Annabelle said.  “I could use the wrong power source and they could fail…”

“She could get the chemical makeup wrong and instead make the weapons heavier instead of lighter…” Skip added in.

“Nobody asked you!” Orion snapped to Skip.

Annabelle got up and went to her project letting her brothers fight.  She looked at it…it was a small table in the center of a glass sphere…by setting the weapons inside….she could make them more futuristic and lighter and maybe give them special abilities.  She looked over the chamber to make sure everything was ready.

“Shut up stupid!” Skip yelled.

“Why don’t you  make me!” Orion yelled pushing him.

“Fine! Maybe I will!” Skip pushed him back.

“Boys!” Monet came in. “What are you doing?”

Skip and Orion were in the middle of a fight and Annabelle was actually ignoring them.  “Please don’t fight!” Monet pleaded.

Skip and Orion weren’t paying any attention.  Monet tried to pull them off of each other, but it didn’t work.  “Mikey! The boys are fighting! I need some help!”  

Annabelle left her sphere to help her mother as Mikey came in.  

“Stop fighting!” Annabelle yelled.  They didn’t listen.

Monet grabbed Orion and Mikey grabbed Skip as Annabelle tried to push them apart in the middle.

What happened next was kind of confusing.  Someone pushed Monet and Mikey off….and Annabelle was thrown into the sphere and then Skip pushed Orion into a control board.  Lights started flashing.  “What the-“ Annabelle covered her eyes and vanished….

When the lights stabilized….Annabelle was gone.

“What the shell did you do stupid!” Skip looked at his brother.  

“What did I do! Your ass pushed me!” Orion yelled.

“SHUT UP!!!” MIkey yelled looking at them. Monet grabbed them by their shoulders and looked at them sternly as she stood them up.

“Dude….where’s Anna….” Orion realized she was gone.

“What…wasn’t she just…” Monet looked to the sphere…it was empty. “ANNABELLE!!!!” She yelled frantically.  She ran to the sphere. “ANNABELLE!!!” She yelled collapsing onto her knees in tears.  Mikey walked over to her.  “Annie!!!” He called.  

Mikey then glared at them. “DONNIE!!!!  We need your geeky shell now!!!”

Donnie was there in a heartbeat.  Mikey explained what happened. “You want me to find out what happened to her….”  Donnie said.  Monet looked at Donnie with tears in her eyes. “Bring my baby back…”