Author's Note: This is just a silly little one shot I came up with one night while lying in bed listening to our washing machine go nuts in the room next to mine. It's amazing the amount of noise an uneven load or just a load of two or three items will make…not to mention the kind of trouble three rambunctious seven-year-olds can get into. It's really pretty stupid actually, but I find humor in it so hopefully you all will too. Since I wrote it down kind of strange, lemme give you kind of a "back story" so you can kind of understand what they're doing and why…

The boys found a blanket lying next to the washing machine their mothers use to do laundry with. Seeing what they believed to be George and Henry's baby sister Mitsu lying in the blanket, they devised an evil plan to put her, blanket and all, into the washer and close the lid, not realizing the washer was primed and ready to be used.

(PS: "Brains" is Henry's nickname)


Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

Whack! Whack! Whack!

Thud-Whack! Thud-Whack!

George: "Uh-ooooh…"
Henry: "I told you this was a bad idea!"
Dale: "Cram it, Brains!"
Henry: "You cram it! This was your idea! Fix it!"
Dale: "My idea?! You thought it up first! It was your idea! We were innocent bystanders!"

Thudthudthudthudthud!

George: "It's gonna bloooow!!"
Dale: "Run for it!"
George: "We can't just leave her there!"
Henry: "Sure we can! It's good practice!"
George and Dale: "For what?!"

WHACK-THUD! WHACK-THUD! WHACK-THUD!

Dale: "We gotta stop this before it gets any worse!"
George: "It's worse…"
Henry: "Bubbles?!"
George: "Who put soap in there?"
Henry: "DALE!?"
Dale: "Oh like you two hadn't thought about it!?"

WHACKTHUDBUBBLE! WHACKTHUDBUBBLE!
WHACKTHUDBUBBLE! WHACKTHUDBUBBLE!

Dale: "Our dads are gonna kill us!"
Henry: "Someone get a mop!"
George: "Forget the mop! We've got a runaway washer with out little sister in it!"
Henry: "Ok! So someone stop that washing machine!!"

THUD! THUD! THUD…

Dale: "?"
Henry: "?"
George: "?"

:rinse/spin cycle starts:

Henry: "Dale! Pull the plug!"
Dale: "I can't! That thing'll eat me too!!"
Henry: "George! Lift the lid and get her out while there's still hope!"
George: "I-I-I…"

Spin Spin Spin Spin Spin

Henry: "Mitsu!
George: "Mitsie!"
Dale: "That thing's gonna eat her alive!"
Gwen: "WHAT THE SHELL!? What do you boys think you're doing? How many times have you been told the washer and dryer are not toys?"

:boys turn, completely surprised and see Gwen standing behind them holding one-year-old Mitsu in her arms:

Dale: "Mom!"
George: "Aunt Gwen? You've got Mitsu?"
Henry: "But then who…"

:washer finishes. Gwen takes blanket and doll out and hangs them up to dry before turning back to the boys before her.:

Gwen: "You three better have a good explanation for this mess. And we'll hear it after you've cleaned up all these bubbles and water."

:boys blush and look at soap suds on floor as Gwen leaves:

Henry: "Well…now I know I can't call on you two if I ever get eaten alive by a runaway washer."

:George and Dale glare at Henry and shove him into waiting dryer before slamming door closed on him.:

George: "Cram it, Brains."


Final Author's Note: Hope you all enjoyed it. My original plan was to have it be five or six year old Leo, Raph, and Don who thought they'd lost Mikey to a killer washing machine only to find he'd been with Splinter all along...which really probably would have been funnier and if I just inspired someone to try that more power to you…but I couldn't figure out how or why they'd have access to a washing machine. But if you can figure out rhyme or reason as to why they'd have access to a washer at such a young age and want to steal my idea and write that story yourself…feel free.