TMNT Bayverse - Egg

Red alarms flashed silently in the Sacks Industries lab. While Donatello extracted Stockman’s data onto his holographic glove, Raphael kept watch at the entrance with his sais at the ready, breathing in the heavy scent of ozone and mutagen from Dimension X

Raph:
“Hurry up, Donnie”

Raph whispered, glancing toward the shadows in the hallway

Donatello:
“Just a sec—...”

Donnie paused when his scanner emitted a rapid beep

Donatello:
“Wait. There’s a biological signature behind that false wall.”

Raph didn’t wait. Using his brute strength, he ripped the metal panel off in one piece, revealing a hidden chamber. It wasn’t a computer, but an incubator. Instead of a piece of the portal, inside lay an ostrich-sized egg resting on a thermal blanket. Its surface was a creamy, opaque white, with the soft, elastic texture typical of reptiles

Raph:
“What the heck…?”

Raph sheathed his sais and walked over to the incubator’s glass

Donatello:
“It’s a soft shell.”

Donnie said, shining the light from his visor behind the egg

Donatello:
“Raph, look at my screen. It’s not a modified animal; Stockman used Krang’s mutagen to create life from scratch.”

Under the light of Donnie’s lamp, the egg’s membrane revealed an unmistakable silhouette: a tiny shell, three-fingered hands, and a round head. Feeling the heat from the lamp, the little one stirred slowly, stretching a small hand against the elastic wall of the shell. It was one or two weeks away from hatching

Raph:
“It’s… one of us… Donnie, get this thing out of here. We’re taking it with us.”

Donatello:
“Are you crazy? If we take it out of the atmosphere and the controlled heat of the incubator, it could go into thermal shock and die.”