Swapped

Waking up

Rise universe
2012 Leo's pov:

My eyes begin to open and immediately something is wrong. I look around and become immediately aware I'm in a room I've never seen before. There are posters on the walls of things I don't recognize, I've never seen any of the furniture in my life. In fact this isn't even my bed. I sit straight up and scan the room around me, it looks like a repurposed train car. The metal walls are painted blue, fairy lights hang from the ceiling, action figures sit on shelves. Not exactly a scary place to wake up, but the fact remains I'm not supposed to be here. I was home when I went to sleep. I pick up a phone from the table text to me, and blink in surprise at the time.

10:28 pm, I'm usually up by 6:30 at the latest why did I sleep in so much? Why would sensei let me stay in bed so long?

I have a pit in my stomach, something is very wrong here. I cautiously get up to investigate. Even the way I hold myself feels wrong, and maybe I'm going crazy but am I taller? I look down and stop. I stare down at a pair of legs that are definitely not mine. My feet are smaller and more human, I look at my hands and it's the same thing, they are slimmer. My skin tone isn't the same, still green, but a much different shade. I see a mirror across the room and rush to it.

I look into the mirror and staring back at me is a stranger. My eyes widen and my mouth drops open. I lift my hand and trace one of the curved red stripes on my face. I'm still a turtle, a red eared slider from the looks of it, but how is this even possible? I take off the pajamas im wearing to see what else has changed. My shell and plastron are much different, both are shaped differently than my old ones. I discover more stripes on my arms and legs, these ones are yellow. I see a blue mask and go to put it on, at least something is the same, well sort of. It's a different shade with longer tails but it's a blue mask nonetheless. Along with the mask I put on the rest of the gear sitting with it. I grab a single blue handled ōdachi, my signature katanas no where in sight but at least it's something. I ready myself for a fight not knowing what waits for me outside or how this is even happening. Cautiously I open the door of the train car and step out.

I'm in an abandoned subway station, there are other train cars that I can only assume are more bedrooms. It reminds me vaguely of the lair but so much bigger and brighter. Beautiful graffiti covers the walls, the place is a lot to take in but I keep my guard up. I keep my sword firmly in my grasp as I slowly make my way further into this new lair, scanning everything around me for clues. A very large figure appears across the lair, there is something very familiar about him but I can't place it. He spots me, and opens his mouth to speak.

"Good morning Leo!" He calls out with a bright smile making his way over to me

I'm not sure what I was expecting, but this is not it. As he approaches my eyes widen at the red mask and I connect the dots. this like 7 foot tall beast of a turtle with massive spikes and sharp teeth is Raphael. He gets to me and I have to tilt my head up to make eye contact due to the height difference. My mouth hangs open slightly.

"Raph!?" I manage to spit out and I'm immediately startled by my own voice.

"You okay man? You seem a little freaked out." Raph asked gently.

I glance up at him, and clear my throat before speaking.

"I'll be fine, but what's going on? Why do I look like this?" I ask, clearing my throat apparently did nothing as my voice is still higher than it's been in years.

He raises a non existent eyebrow at me.

"Uhhh...what are you talking about?"

"What I'm talking about is that I don't look or sound like me!" I burst out getting a bit overwhelmed.

"Rightttt...how about we go talk to Donnie."

He looked really concerned now, taking my arm he leads me to one of the train cars and I couldn't bring myself to fight him on it. Maybe Donnie could tell me what's going on.

The strange tall Raph knocks on the door, a turtle wearing a purple mask, goggles, and...eyebrows...answers the door.

"Yes?"

"Oh uh sorry to bother you Donnie, but Leo's acting weird and I was hoping you could see if he's alright." He rambled on.

"Right. I guess I can take a look at him." He turned to me
"Get in here."

I listen and enter as he closes the door behind me.

"So...what seems to be the problem?" He asks looking zoned out.

"You're going to think I'm crazy, but ever since I woke up everything has been wrong. No one and nothing looks the way it should... I don't know maybe this is just a really really weird dream." I explain knowing how insane it sounds.

When I look back he's staring at me 'oh no here it comes' I think expecting him to tell me I've lost it.

"You're not crazy, and thankfully neither am I. I think I know what happened." He responded sounding shocked and relieved at the same time.

I look at him exactly for an explanation.

"The same thing happened to me Leo, since Raph thought you were crazy then it's probably just us. I think I was wrong before about the Kraang's machine not working, it just didn't work right away. This definitely isn't home at least not our version of it." He rambled, eyes wide.

"Woah Donnie slow down, what are you talking about?"

"The Kraang did switch our minds, not with each other, but with our counterparts from other realities. We're living as ourselves from another dimension."

An: I hope you enjoyed this chapter I tried my best lol, it was more difficult to write than I anticipated but necessary to the plot, also I can't figure out the layout of the rise lair so I'm so sorry if it's inaccurate.