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one : โง prologue
a various! rise tmnt / reader fanfiction. [with textfic and lit!]
Kendra asks you to test out an app for her. Turns out, that app was not hers to let you test. And now you've stumbled into the groupchat of four vigilante, mutant turtles and consequently, their lives.
But seeing as you had just gotten out of a toxic friend group, you were luckily in dire need of a new one! So fun, how these things turn out for the better.
Posting on ao3, wattpad, and now tumblr! I hope the image formatting works omg! Enjoy!
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Your first day of Junior Year - yippee - and you started it like any other:
Getting work done, which consisted of the same icebreaker papers like any other classroom, doodling random scribbles in your sketchbook till the clock hit next hour, and passing between hours by blasting sped up tiktok songs through your earbuds because fuck talking to people irl.
Don't get me wrong, you weren't an outcast or anything. Sure, you had interests the popular kids might not have been into (take your embarassing and reawakened FnaF phase last year-) but you were widely liked, if not, then not necessarily disliked, by most of the people in your classes.
This was kind of a given, as you've had school with a good handful of these kids in your previous years.
Take Kendra and her little crew, for example. Kendra, Jeremy and Jase had been found in almost every tech class you took as a kid. (Ez school credits you just worked off instruction books) And ignoring their incessant bickerings amoungst eachother, or the ocassional cocky and narcissisticly snide remarks they'd give you if you asked them for help - they actually quite liked you.
Liked you is a nice way of saying you were an easy target for spreading havoc that wouldn't be traced back to them.
Did you know this? No. But that wasn't your fault, you're just a little optimistic about their underlying evilness that they're surprisingly so good at hiding from faculty.
"Hey, ___!" she would coo at you, "our club is entering an app contest, and we need some people to test it out. Can't make any reviews ourselves since they'd call us out on bias, ya' know?"
- All this to say, you weren't at all suspicious when Kendra walked up to you [Jace in tow and Jeremy nowhere to be seen] with a pleasant smirk amoung her bright blue lips, and a cheery tone to boot.
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She put an arm around your shoulder. Her silk jacket was really cold and she smelled like mint, a scent you found common in her clubroom. Maybe it was her signature that she threw across the room every day.
In front of you, she pulled her free hand out with her phone to showcase the club's aforementioned "app".
It seemed to look exceedingly similar to Funstagram.
"Uhh.."
"Don't mention what it looks like, this is just a wip - references were needed for beta," she spoke fast and mumbled, similar to the last three seconds of a commercial as if to help you ignore the blatant copyright.
"Basically what we need you to do is make an account, converse with the... other volunteers we asked, and in about a month or so let me know how it goes!" While talking, she meagerly scrolls through the app, showing you all the functions and controls.
Then, she sends the app's downloadable apk to your phone and explains that your help would be compensated.
You weren't interested until that last part, so you hurriedly downloaded it before the next period started and got to fuckin' work.
Now, when you typed "themaincharacter" as your username you weren't necessarily thinking anything cocky, you just thought you were being funny and a little cute. No one should give it a second thought, right? You'd be fine.
You needed a profile picture.
Fucking perfect.
And now you just had to look at the explo- oh what the fuck?
Okay... randomly added to a gc immediately after creating an account. That's chill.
You felt bad for BootyyyShaker9000. Dude looked like he was about to have an aneurysm.
Or.. I guess typed like it. Yknow.
Okay, so they're kind of funny. But you're still insanely confused and they're responding exponentially fast - you're about to get a headache.
Still, you were curious about them. You want to be cautious and polite, so better not tease them in case they're trigger happy with the kick button.
....You're kind of stupid.
Oh, okay, they're much chiller than you thought! And also just as stupid as you!
Not that you didn't register their names by now, but at least you're getting somewhere with your confusion. You're still a little guilty for the purple one.
... purple guy?!!!?!? DID YOU GET SUCKED INTO FNAF?!?!
The teacher was looking at you, so you decided to put your phone away for the rest of the class.
You could feel your phone vibrate with about 20 more messages before the bell rang.
Okay, sweet. If being accepted into a group of weird nerds online [who had just literally doxxed you] wasn't enough to leave you on edge, the blackmailing threat of some unknown stranger definitely set you in a sturry.
You had a handful of guesses as to who 'April' was. You knew about three April's personally from your school but none seem the type to talk to guys of this... energy. You made a note to be extra cautious tomorrow; already planning your inconspicuous oversized hoodie and baggy sweats to wear tomorrow.
You'll look like a major red flag or depressed college student buttttt at least you'll be harder to spot in a crowd!
You turned your phone off as you headed out the doors of the school. The battery was getting pretty low anyway. Your guess? Kendra totally gave your phone some virus to get dirt or probably destroy the group of guys you'd just become friends with.
You only had a few hours left before the day ended but it was most likely going to be filled with chores and applications to a part time job now that summer's over - so your schedule was pretty low on free time.
Not to mention now you have to wake up early for your second day of school. Early hours was not something you missed in July.
...All this to say, knowing the person you are, you couldn't risk hopping back in the group chat for the rest of the night. You'd hopped on your phone last year and it would take you till 4 AM before you actually went to bed only to wake up two hours later to get dressed for school.
Oh, you missed summer. Oh, you missed lonely, miserable and depressing summer so so bad.
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Word count: Around 1.1k, not counting the texts.
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