Teenage Mutant Ninja Trutles: Cyborgs and Human Androids
It's been four months since our last encounter with Shredder. After we defeated him and Karai, and made sure they had a nice and cozy jail cell, the guys decided to fully pursue their music album. We were scheduled to go to Chicago today. The director had to change the date due to some conflicting scheduling problems, but the new date is set.
What's happened with everyone, well Casey and April finally got married, they had a small lovely wedding. They held it at the house outside of the city, the one the guys bought… yup that one. Me and Vern decided to move in together, my apartment was finally fixed so we moved there. The entire building was rented out and new tenants have moved in to every floor.
Leonardo and Yuri both run Leo's dojo in the city; they've taken on new students and set up classes to teach basics of self-defence and martial arts. Donatello and Nina, let's just say those two followed in Leonardo and Yuri's footsteps, they ended up having a daughter they named Yuki… she's extremely intelligent and very adorable. Donnie and Nina both still work at the science lab and are currently working on the new robotics engineering program.
Michelangelo… well he's still crazy Mikey, he's been working on new material for upcoming rap CD's, and he and Aki are in this weird relationship. I don't know what it is and I don't even question it. Raphael, him and Mari are in this on-again-off-again weird relationship as well… they both work at Raph's gym and now have converted it to a unisex gym. They still get along…. Sometimes.
Yet today on the day we go to Chicago everything is complete and utter chaos….
4 hours before flight…
"Keno get down from there right now… I'm serious," I said to him crossing my arms. He thinks he's a strong daredevil turtle who thinks he can jump off my book case and not get hurt. Last time he attempted this he broke his arm against my glass table.
"No I don't have to listen to you," he said walking along the top of the bookcase.
"I'm serious I have no time for this right now, we have to be at the airport this morning and I need to drop you and Yuki off at home," I shouted at him. He walked along the bookcase taunting me.
"Keno come on stop playing…." Yuki said coming through the hallway with her book in her hand.
"Auntie is busy today," she looked at him and pushed up her glasses.
"Why can't you listen to me like Yuki does," I said to him as he bent down attempting to jump.
"Because you're mean…." He said then jumped.
"Ahh, Keno…" I shouted at him and grabbed him breaking his fault. He knocked me down to the ground with him.
"Uh that hurt… come on this isn't cool kid," I said to him pulling him off me.
"Whatever at least grandpa is more fun then you," he said and huffed.
"Woah what happened here," Vern said coming through the door.
"Keno was on the bookshelf again," I said as Vern helped me off the floor.
"Yeah… Aunt Alex doesn't know how to relax," Keno said crossing his arms.
"Maybe if you listen to her she will relax," Vern said to him and shook his head.
"Luggage is in the car…." He said reminding me about the trip.
"Oh, we have to go now…" I said fixing my dress.
"You look nice by the way, haven't seen you wear a dress like this in a long time," he said pecking my cheek.
"Ewwww…. Can we go now?" Keno said grabbing his back bag. Yuki did the same and pushed her book into her bag.
"Good god we're not going to make the flight on time… with traffic and the kids…" I started mumbling to myself looking at my watch. I frantically grabbed my jacket and awkwardly put it on while pushing the kids to the door.
"Call me when you get to the hotel," Vern said following behind us.
"Have a good work day, love you bye…." I said quickly pushing the kids out the door. He laughed and closed it behind us.
"Why does dad have to go on this stupid trip, they're all going… it's not fair," Keno huffed again as we ran down the hallway and down the stairs to the main floor.
I pushed them out the doors and they ran to the car.
"Whatever," he said and climbed into the back seat, Yuki slid in next to him.
I closed the door and came around the car getting in.
"Okay, good…. Seatbelts," I said and adjusted my mirrors; I frantically put mine on and started the car.
"Keno why are you so mean to Aunt Alex?" Yuki whispered to him.
"Because she and aunt April are mean," he said crossing his arms.
"Okay enough of that, we are not mean," I said to them pulling out of the lot.
"We live two blocks away why do we have to drive, we could've walked or ran… or flew," Keno said watching my navigation system change as we pulled out to the main road.
"You have no superpowers Keno," I said to him as we drove down the block to the subway station.
"Yeah I do… you just don't know yet," he said and looked at the garage door open as I pulled the car into the garage.
"Superman has superpowers," Keno argued as he opened the car door getting out. I turned off the car and sighed deeply.
"Superman is not a turtle Keno," I told him opening the door for Yuki; she grabbed her back and jumped out.
"Shows how much you know…. DAD," Keno shouted running through the door.
"It's about time… what took you guys so long?" Leo questioned picking up Keno and hugging him.
"Your son was on the bookshelf again thinking he could fly," I said coming through the door.
"Hi dad," Yuki said to Donnie as she came over to his work space.
"Keno I told you over and over again you can't fly…." Leo said to him putting him down.
"I don't care I don't have to listen to aunt Alex anyway… and yeah I can fly, you just don't know it yet," he huffed again and crossed his arms.
"Oh yes you do," Yuri said behind him. He's scared of his mom; he slowly turned around and stepped away from her then ran to his room.
"Dudes we got to go like yesterday…" Mikey said grabbing his bag and hugging April and Aki.
"Yes we do," I said as the girls hugged me.
"Call us when you guys get to the hotel," April said as I hugged her.
"For sure… and could you and Casey check in on Splinter and everyone while we're gone," I said to her. Casey smiled and shook his head.
"Yeah yeah go the traffic is crazy right now," Casey said waving for us to leave.
"BYE KENO," I shouted at him. He opened his bedroom door and looked at us.
"Little man don't give the girls a hard time… or April understand, behave," Leo said kissing his forehead.
"Yeah yeah," Keno huffed.
"Dudes…. And Alex taxi is here," Raph said at the garage door. Donnie pulled his glasses to his face and hugged Yuki and Nina.
"Be careful, and have a safe trip…" Splinter said following us to the door.
"Love yeah Splinter, bye," I said to him as we ran out the garage door it closed behind us.
"Whew," I said taking in a deep breath. The taxi had made it to the airport with two hours to spare. I was relieved, getting through baggage claims, scanners and to the terminal was going to take us a while.
"Relax we have plenty of time," Raph said touching my shoulder.
"So this will be the first time for you guys flying first class huh?" I said to them and smiled.
"Yeah we usually fly cargo," Mikey teased and rocked back and forth on his feet. He was watching the switch board change.
"Fly cargo… that makes us sound like we are luggage bro," Donnie said touching Mikey's shoulder.
"Dude not luggage just over sized turtles who fly in the hangers so we can rock out and kick bad guys butt's…." Mikey said making no sense. I looked at him and shook my head.
"We have to get to terminal C86" I said to them noticing our flight number on the screen.
"Let's rock and roll," Leo said picking up his bag and my luggage.
"Woah didn't pack light did you, Alex… we're only going for a week," Leo said to me holding my suitcase.
"A girl needs things Leo," I said and followed him.
"Yeah Leo jeez," Mikey said humming to himself. I tried not to laugh as we approached the baggage check.
"Uh, hi…." A lady behind the counter said looking at the guys.
I handed her our tickets.
"Uh huh Chicago," she said looking to her computer.
"Never had turtles fly first class before," she said nervously tapping on her computer.
"Don't worry they don't bite, well not all of them… Mikey sometimes talks to himself, and thinks he's all that… which he's really not…. So don't worry they're harmless," I smiled and took the tickets from her.
The guys chuckled and shook their heads.
"Nice Alex, you just made us seem like harmless pets…. Or something like that," Raph said poking my arm.
"Can it," I muttered and smiled at the lady again.
"Okay well your bags are good to go, you have to go around the cue, and to inspection," she said pointing to the long line up.
"Great," Donnie said and picked up his bag.
"Thanks," I said to her and turned around following the guys.
"Talking, walking turtles… and I thought I've seen it all," the lady said to herself as we walked away.
"This is ridiculous," I said looking at the line up.
"Patience is a virtue little one," Mikey said in this weird Asian accent.
"What are you a Jedi or something?" I teased him hitting him over the head with my magazine.
"Girl if I were a Jedi…. I wouldn't be this cool," Mikey said crossing his arms and nodding.
"Wow, really why did we bring him?" I leaned over to Raph and whispered.
He chuckled and shook his head at me.
"Okay next," the lady at the end of the cue said. She gestured her hand towards the large metal detectors.
"Woah, uhhh large turtles…" she said holding her hands up to us.
"Uhh huuh," she said extending her words.
I rolled my eyes.
"Yes they're large walking talking turtles, they don't bite or have rabies, they have all paperwork and have the key to the city… anything else," I said to her and to the guys at the metal detectors.
"Smooth girl," Mikey chuckled behind me.
"Wow Alex relax," Leo said putting down my bag.
"Okay… well one at a time," she said as she waved her hand for us to go through.
I rolled my eyes again and sighed.
"That girls got problems," Donnie said leaning in to Leo.
"Hahaha, don't say that to her face Donnie," Leo teased as I walked through the metal detector.
"That thing on your head, has to come off…." The guy standing by the gate said to Donnie.
"Yeah yeah," Donnie sighed and pulled his gear off his head putting it into the bucket with his bag.
He walked through and didn't beep.
"You too buddy those chains around your neck, everything has to go in the bucket," he said to Mikey as he came towards the gate.
"Dude I got yeah," Mikey said taking everything off from around his neck and placing them in the bucket.
He went through as well and didn't beep.
Leo and Raph did the same and took off whatever they were wearing; they put their bags and mine in the bucket and walked through. They didn't beep either.
"Okay your good to go," the guy at the end of the conveyor belt said. We grabbed our stuff and walked through another set of doors.
"This is painstaking," I said as it took us twenty minutes to reach the gate.
"Alex relax will yeah, you've been on edge all morning," Leo said patting my head.
I pushed his hand away.
"Yeah because your son hasn't listened to me for the last two days, I thought we'd be late for the flight, and… I'm managing a bunch of teenage turtle's record contract; yeah I'm on edge…" I said to him and huffed.
"Hehhee, well consider this a vacation," Donnie said adjusting his gear over his head again.
"Vacation… psssht, right…. And won't that thing interfere with the planes controls?" I said pointing to Donnie's head gear.
"Nope, it's modified," Donnie said and smiled.
We sat down on the chairs waiting for the terminal gate to open.
"What is with Keno anyway lately he's been so defiant and stubborn…." I said to Leo as he pushed the bags together.
"I really don't know why he's acting this way, April said the same thing this morning…Yuri's going to have a talk with him about his behaviour and I'll be sure too as well when I get home," he said leaning back in the seat.
I looked at Mikey and pressed my lips together so I wouldn't laugh at him.
"You brought a yoyo?" I said watching him twirl the thing around. He smiled and nodded.
"Sure thing girl," he said and hummed to himself.
"Alex girl you know better than to question Mikey's actions, it only results in punishment of an immense caliber," Donnie said reminding me of the bucket of honey incident that happened as revenge for smothering Mikey.
I rolled my eyes and sat back in the chair.
"So how long is this flight anyway," I asked looking to the ceiling.
"Four hours," Raph said looking at his itinerary.
"Great," I mumbled to myself.
"Ma'am," a lady said to me. I looked over at her.
"We are boarding first class right now, may I see your boarding passes," she asked extending her hand to us. She looked at the guys cautiously as she ripped a piece of their passes.
"Yes yes, they are turtles, they walk and talk…." I said to her and sighed.
"Hahaha, sorry she's been on edge all morning," Leo said coming around her to the terminal.
"Maybe you guys should wear a card around your neck saying you're walking talking turtles," I said to them as I walked down the long terminal to the plane.
"Maybe you should wear one that says annoying obnoxious talking older sister," Leo teased. I turned around and glared at him.
"Yeah yeah keep walking," he said and turned me around pushing me to the plane door.
We smiled at the flight attendant waiting for us.
"Uh, welcome…" she said looking to the guys.
I held out our passes.
"First class, good thing the seats are bigger," she said and gestured her hand for us.
"Great," I said and sat down in one of the seats.
"Sweet they twirl," Mikey said twirling in the seat.
I shook my head at him and stood up helping the guys push the luggage in to the overhead compartments.
I sat back down again.
"Well this is going to be interesting," Donnie said as people started to fill the plane.
"Yup because they've never seen walking talking turtles before…." I said this to the crowd of people who looked at us awkwardly as they made their way through the plane.
"Alex…. Girl really chill out," Raph said touching his hands to my shoulders.
"Right, I don't like it when people look at you guys as if you're….." I tried to think of the right words to say as not to sound arrogant or rude.
"Weird, awkward…. Mutants," Raph said tapping my head.
"Exactly," I said and sighed again.
"We're used to it Alex, that's why we stayed underground all this time… now that we have the freedom to come and go in the city, people are still going to look at us weird, it's a matter of acceptance not arrogance," Leo said shifting into the seat across from me.
"Touché," Donnie said agreeing. He and Mikey sat to the opposite side of us.
As people started to fill the plane the captain came over the intercom and addressed the passengers. I clicked my seat belt on and looked out the window as the flight attendants closed the doors and prepared for takeoff.
"Hey Alex," Leo said distracting my thinking. I turned and looked at him.
"How come you haven't set a wedding date yet?" he asked. I knew he was going to ask, they've been asking me for over a month now.
"I don't know guess haven't had much time to decide yet," I said to him then looked out the window as the plane started to lift off the ground.
"Your scared aren't yeah," he said again. I looked at him sternly.
"I'm not scared; I just haven't had time to think that's all…." I said ending the conversation.
"Why are you so anxious for me to set a wedding date?" I asked him lifting my feet over the edge of the seat as the seatbelt sign went off.
"Just curious," he asked and leaned back in the seat.
"You're never curious, there's a reason you asked so talk…." I said to him.
"Vern said something to you guys didn't he," I said turning my seat to them.
"No he actually didn't… you're lucky he's a very patient guy, but I was just curious… honestly," Leo said holding his hands up.
"Uh huh," I said and turned my seat back to the window looking out to the sky.
"Wow she really is on edge," Raph said to Donnie as he set up a chess board.
I didn't pay attention to them much the whole time while we were in the air. Donnie played two chess games with Raph and Leo, while Mikey hummed annoyingly in the background.
"So…. Uhhh, refreshments," a young male flight attendant said to us as he brought his cart through the aisle.
I sighed and turned my chair around.
"Yes their turtles," I said to him, he looked at me as if he didn't seem to care.
"Nevermind," I said.
"Anything to drink?" he asked me holding up a cup.
"Water," I said to him. Raph looked at me and chuckled.
The guy plopped some ice in to the cup and poured the water, he handed it to me with a napkin.
"Thanks," I said to him and put the cup into the cup holder. He pushed his cart through the curtain to the other part of the plane.
"Hahaha, wow," I heard Raphael say after a few moments. I looked at him agitated.
"What?" I said to him.
"He gave you his phone number on the back of the napkin," he chuckled and held it up.
"Haha, wow girl… a phone number, pretty hot…" Mikey teased and threw some peanuts in to his mouth.
"Hey Mikey…. I hope you choke on those peanuts…."I said to him sarcastically.
Donnie looked at me then Mikey and chuckled.
"That's not nice girl," Mikey said mumbling.
"I think now you might want to consider that wedding date…." Leo teased and looked at the napkin.
"Hahhaa, should call him bro and like totally prank him," Mikey joked. I rolled my eyes and turned my seat around again.
"Damn that flight felt long," Raph said stretching his arms. I pushed my sunglasses over my eyes.
"So, do we take a taxi?" Leo asked as we looked to the revolving doors.
"Apparently not…" Donnie said pointing to a driver who held a sign in his hands it said A&G guests TURTLE POWER.
I looked at them then smiled.
"Guess we have a driver," I said and came up to the man.
"Hi," I said to him.
"Wow when the boss said I had to pick up turtles from the airport, I didn't think he meant real walking talking turtles," the driver said and took my bag.
"Well that's us," Mikey smiled.
"Okay then… well I'm James I'll be your driver for your entire visit to Chicago, anything you need please call me, here's my card," he said and handed me his card. I looked at it and pushed it into my jacket pocket.
"I'll take you to your hotel," he said turning to the doors. We followed him outside.
"Woah," I said stopping, Raph and Donnie hit in to me.
"Woah," they both whistled.
"Dude, we get a limo ride?" Mikey nodded checking out the long black car.
"Surprised," the driver said holding the door opened for us.
"Yeah totally," Leo said as we all piled in to the car.
"This is one sweet ride," Donnie said amused at the interior.
"The boss is looking forward to meeting with all of you tomorrow morning, I'll be at the hotel by 10 am," he said to use from the front seat as he pulled out of the airport lot and in to traffic.
"Guys this is so cool," I said to them.
"Totally," Donnie said looking out the window.
We drove for what seemed like an hour, the entire city was huge. Not as big as New York of course but Chicago was nice, it seemed quaint. Our hotel though was something else.
"Wow," I said as we pulled up to the hotel entrance.
"This guy must have really liked your demo CD," I said to them exiting the car.
"You're all checked in no need to see reception," the driver said handing me a small envelope. I opened it and pulled out the hotel door keys.
"Cool," I said and handed one to Leo and one to Donnie.
I looked at the key and read it.
"Wait the presidential suit… WHAT?" I squealed.
"Yes ma'am, Mr. White always ensures his talent have everything they need when they come to see him," he said gathering our bags.
Mikey and Raph looked to eachother.
"AWESOME," they both said and high fived eachother. We followed the driver in to the hotel as a concierge took our bags.
He didn't seem to question the fact that I was with walking turtles, even while in the elevator he seemed bemused by the guys chatting behaviour.
"Here we are," the boy said opening the door to our room.
"Uhhh, I think I've died…." I said to them as I walked in to the large hotel room.
"This place is bigger than my apartment," I said walking through the place.
"Wooooohooo, this is like totally rad," Mikey said checking out the bedroom.
"Thanks," Leo said to the boy as he brought in our luggage and then left .
"Guys this is totally cool," I said to them as I checked out the bedroom.
"We really didn't expect this, I mean our demo CD is just basic, nothing really too fancy…" Leo said behind me. I turned to him and smiled tapping his cheeks.
"Leo this is totally out of this world," I said to him and pranced around him checking out the rest of the room.
"Alex, doll there's two beds… wanna share," Mikey teased and twirled his yoyo.
"Not with you," I said to him. Then my phone rang and vibrated.
"Hey Vern," I said answering it. Mikey made a face at me so I had to turn away to the bathroom so I wouldn't laugh at him.
"Chicago already," he said on the other end.
"Yes and the hotel is freaking huge, it's the presidential suite," I said to him and sat down on the bathroom floor.
"Nice…" he said that's when I heard a lot of commotion in the background.
"Throwing a party without me?" I said hearing cheering.
"Nope, Casey and I are watching the hockey game on TV…. Freaking awesome," he said then I heard Casey over the phone.
"ALEX YOU MISSED A PENALTY SHOT…. IT KICKED SERIOUS ASS," Casey said in the background.
I laughed and shook my head.
"So what's going on there?" Vern asked. I opened the bathroom door and noticing Leo and Donnie on the phone and Mikey was three way talking with April and Aki.
"Do you really want to know?" I asked him and closed the door.
"Hit me," he said. I laughed.
"Well Leo's on the phone with Yuri and Keno apparently Keno attempted to jump off the train carts again, this time Splinter caught him before he broke every bone in his body." I said hearing the conversations in the other room loud and clear.
"Donnie is on the phone with Yuki, apparently her model airplanes propellers aren't working so he's walking her through some steps to get them working again." I said then went silent for a moment.
"Oh god," Vern said.
"Mikey is three way calling April and Aki and it seems like an interesting conversation… don't ask," I said to him again.
"And Raphael?" he asked laughing.
"Well since him and Mari are in this weird on-again-off-again relationship, they barely talk much… so I think he's knitting something," I said opening the bathroom door again.
"He knits what?" Vern asked.
'I told you not to ask," I said to him then laughed again.
I walked through the room to the bed room so I could change out of my clothes.
"Keno I said you can't have a pet tarantula… no, your aunts April and Alex hate spiders…." Leo said as I passed him. Vern herd this and laughed.
"No, no Yuki you need to adjust the blades so they are facing east," Donnie said to her. I shook my head.
"Yooooooo girls sup babes," Mikey said to April and Aki.
"Oh my god what have I gotten myself in to," I said to Vern as I closed the bedroom door shut.
"You chose to be their manager, you have to live with the consequences," he said again.
"I know I know, and I chose to live with them too… god," I said to myself awkwardly balancing the phone against my ear and changing.
"Hahhaa, well babe, I should let you go and enjoy your… well evening…" he said.
"Don't kill them," he said again after a moment.
"I'll try not too," I said to him throwing my shirt to the bed.
"Love yeah, have fun," he said then I heard Casey in the background saying bye.
I laughed and hung up.
"ALEX BABE," Mikey said coming through the door.
"AAH, GET OUT…" I shouted at him holding my shirt to my body.
"Woah pretty hot," he said and chuckled leaving out the door closing it behind him.
"MORON," I shouted after him.