Suddenly

A/N: Alright, let's see this is probably going to be my first attempt at a TMNT story, especially since this is supposed to be a long-going story. Now, here is the first chapter, so enjoy.

TMNT © Mirage

01: Exploding Rice?

"Boil water for ten minutes, then soak for another fifteen minutes," Leonardo stood there, skimping as he read over the small print of instructions. He needed to get this right, if he didn't he'd never hear the end of it and that was one thing he didn't need. "Heh, seems easy enough," the young turtle spoke to himself before setting the box on the counter, gathering up whatever he would need.

Now what was this turtle doing exactly? Well, simply he was making dinner for his family. It was suppose to be a kind gesture for all of them to sit down and just relax after all that had taken place. Leo thought it was a good idea at the time of course he'd never known how much work he'd actually have to put into it.

"Alright, so I got the water boiled, now what?" Leo stood there for a moment, attempting to remember what the box said.

"Was it soak or cook the rice?" the turtle didn't really have much of an idea, he was pretty sure a certain other turtle would have no probably with this, but he wasn't about to ruin his surprise just yet.

Leo didn't really know what he should have been doing, he paused to think it over before coming to the best solution. "Of course! I need to cook the rice." And with that the young turtle extended his hands out as he scooped the rice before dropping it onto a pan to begin cooking.

It didn't take very long for Donatello's fire alarm to start blaring, alerting the others of a potential fire that was about to occur.

Michelangelo had been seated on the top of the couch, attempting to best his hot-headed brother in video games when the alarm blared. Mikey was very startled by this, falling backwards off the sofa and onto the floor with a loud Thud! Raphael would have more than likely laughed at the scene if his ears weren't ringing from that accursed sound.

Donatello had been busy working away in his lab, doing an extremely dangerous experiment that needed his utter concentration.

He had just only to squeeze single drop from the medicine dropper and his experiment would be complete, that was until-BUZZZZZ!

The second that alarm went off, Donatello's experiment was ruined. He squeezed too much of the liquid and an unfortunate explosion happened soon afterwards.

Master Splinter was the only one who didn't seem to suffer from the sound. He had simply been meditating when the sound filled the lair, breaking the Master's concentration. Master Splinter just sighed as he rose to his feet and entered the lair with a headache soon to follow.

"Leo! What'd ya do?!" Raph yelled the second he entered into the kitchen, looking just utterly surprised. Mikey had followed quickly after his brother, immediately he burst into laughter at the sight he saw.

Leonardo stood there, a look of absolute annoyance appearing across his face. Never had he had such a hate for rice, especially burned rice.

The eldest turtle was covered from head to toe in rice, the food somehow exploding on him and covering the entire front half of his body.

Raph was still speechless while Mikey laughed on, unable to keep himself standing as he fell to the floor clutching his stomach.

Master Splinter had came into the kitchen, quite unsure of what to make of the situation. "What in the world has happened my sons?" questioned there Master, eyeing Leonardo curiously.

"Yeah bro, what's with the rice? It'd explode on ya or somethin?" Raph asked between small snorts of laughter once he finally snapped out of his shock. "Ha Ha Haaaa! He...the rice...Ahhahahah!" Mikey was very amused with what happened, this evident with his laughing fit. He didn't think anything else was possibly even funnier, but something else was.

Master Splinter stood there, an odd scent drifting in. He lifted his nose up, sniffing the air to try and find where the odd smell was coming from. The more he sniffed the closer the smell came, just what was it? Master Splinter paused as the smell got stronger and surprisingly stinker. He pitched his nose in order to keep himself from smelling that scent any longer.

"Oh man, what's that smell?" Raph asked as he spun around, trying to find the location of the smell. His expression changed from that of a disgusted one to one of amusement.

He found his smell and couldn't help but laugh at it.

"What? What's so-Ahhahahah!" Mikey sat up, looking to see why his brother was laughing only to end up laughing himself. There standing in front of them was another mess, Donatello to be exact. Donny stood there, his face covered completely in smoke. It looked as if something had exploded on him and he didn't enjoy it. "Which one of you bozos set off the alarm?" Don asked as he crossed one arm over the other, looking ticked off.

"Ask Leo," Raph replied as he stepped aside to allow his brother to get a better view of the mess that was conjured up. Leo turned his head to gaze at Don and his brother gazed back, neither one seeming particularly happy. Raph and Mikey were laughing their heads off at their brothers disasters, leaving Master Splinter with a slight headache.

"That's it. Leo you're ban from cooking ever again." Leo sighed, he tried to do something nice and only ended up with a bigger mess than necessary. Next time he was going to let Mikey cook, at least he didn't explode rice.

Being outside at night was probably his favourite thing besides video games or comic book. He was able to go from roof to roof scanning the city just for fun and having no worries. Sure that's usually how it ended up being but Mikey had bigger things to worry about.

"Man, how did I get stuck with pizza duty?" the youngest turtle grumbled as he jumped from the ledge of one roof to the other. "I didn't blow up the kitchen or part of the lair." Mikey paused for a moment as he felt something wet fall on his head.

"Huh? Wha?" He looked up at the sky with dismay. The clouds were an odd grey and seemed to be growing more violent in appearance. "Ah man! Rain?! The pizza's gonna get soaked and me too!" Mikey whined as he hopped to the next building. He sighed, today just wasn't his day first Raph had beat him in their game, then his dinner got burned and finally he was stuck getting his new dinner while it rained, could it get any worse?

"STOP! Get back here!!" Mikey had stopped altogether when he heard someone yelling from below. "Quick! Catch the kid or boss'll have our heads!"

The turtle gazed down, somewhat confused. Some thugs ran down the narrow alleyway chasing after what appeared to be some kid. "Man, can't these guys pick another day to be evil."

With a heavy sigh the orange-clad turtle jumped down, ready to save some helpless civilian.

Well...that was the first chapter. Hope you enjoyed it. I worked all day to get this done right and hopefully I did. It's not very long but still has some action to last.

I did my best to make sure every character was well, in character. Please do tell me and any of them seemed off, this was my first attempt and I tried to get it right. Also I don't know if Leo is actually a bad chef, I'm just assuming he is. Please do say if he isn't. Right rate and review please! Ciao!