Tmnt 2012

Well… that happened

Raphael lost his temper – again. The training session is always smooth like silk, until Leonardo and Raphael feel the need to test each other to the limit. Master Splinter would've expected more from his two older sons, if he hadn't been so used to this scenario by now. And yet, it still surprises him that his sons keep letting this happen despite them both knowing what the outcome of this action is. As Leonardo jokingly embarrasses Raphael, he will end up beaten to the floor by his hotheaded brother, and Raphael, because of his lack of self control, will be sent out form the dojo until he learns how to keep himself calm in battle. And thus, here we are. No one is happy about this.

"You know what? Forget this! I'm gonna go and get some real training!" Raphael says as he marches out from the dojo, leaving his brother with blue bandanna on the floor.

Master Splinter watches as his son leaves their home to go to the surface and let the temper out. A voice inside him tells him to run after him and make sure that he doesn't end up getting in trouble, but then another voice tells him to leave it be, that it will only get worse if he doesn't allow his son to evolve on his own. With a heavy sigh, Splinter closes his eyes for a second before he stands up and walks up to his other son, who's still on the floor while the other two has come to make sure he's okay from their brother's fury. His mind still focuses on Raphael and how he constantly decides that the best way for him to learn is the hard way. He closes his eyes and sighs out loud in front of his sons; he then starts to check Leonardo for any kind of severe injury that might have been caused. To his big relief nothing seems to be broken, cracked or knocked loose. Donatello helps him tend to the damages that Raphael did cause his brother, and occasionally Splinter sends Michelangelo to go and get some supplies that they require to treat some wounds. When Leonardo is patched up and his body has began to heal in the right way, master Splinter allows Donatello to help his oldest brother to his lab to make a quick checkup before he feels comfortable letting him be. When the two brothers make it into the lab, Michelangelo find himself standing next to his sensei.

"Are you alright, master Splinter?" He asks with a calm voice, which would be considered a step in the right direction for this over stimulated turtle, but in this scenario it's actually rather frightening that he is calm – he only is when he is deeply concerned after all.

The knowledge of that alone is enough to make Splinter sigh and pull his beard. He tries his best to think of something to say to his son to comfort him in some way, but knowing his son, it won't matter what he tries to say – he will still not believe it.

"Yes my son." Splinter says. "I am fine. A little worried, but fine."

"I understand sensei." Michelangelo says. "I'm a little worried to. Do you think I should go after him?"

"No, I don't. For whatever reason Raphael has decided to learn his lesson the hard way, we should not interfere with his wish. After all, we all know what way is the best for us to learn."

"If you say so."

Mikey looks at his father and sensei, knowing that he knows what's best for them all… but still, he can't be certain where this is going to lead them. It's almost funny how Raphael's anger outbursts always manage to get them all tangled into some sort of mess that has something to do with either the Kraang or the Foot. Knowing all that has happened before, all he's able to do right now is waiting for his hotheaded brother to return and help his brothers clean up the mess that he made. All he knows is that whatever the mess will turn out to be, nobody will be happy with it.

In the meantime Raphael has managed to reach the rooftops. He's still so angry that he keeps growling at everything at the same time despite the fact that nothing has happened or done anything to him whatsoever yet. That's going to change though. Why? Because I want it to, that's why. It wouldn't be a story worth sharing if nothing happened in it, now would it?

… anyway… After breaking some minor things on some of the roofs he jumps to, he eventually allows the world around him to have a small break from his rage. He sits down by a water tower and gives out a loud and big sigh. Why does it always have to be like this? It's the same kind of dilemma every single time! He tries his best to focus and maintain control over himself, then his stupid brothers – Leo in particular – has to act all childish and tease him with all of these stares, like they're constantly watching him to see how far he has left before he explodes. Then he always makes one of those really unfair moves that send him flying across the dojo and as he lies on the ground Splinter always looks down at him all disappointed and everything while he gives Leo all the glory of what a good son he is! He just can't take it! Why does it always have to be this way?! It's just not fair…!

He lets out another big sigh of frustration after going through the incident in his mind. As much as he hates to admit it, it does help with seeing things through other's perspective – however, it's always only after the incident has happened, so it only really works when you're having difficulties understanding what you have to apologize for. The real problem is that no matter how much he tries to apologize, his brothers never believes him, or they take the opportunity to make him rage again – like pretending not to hear what he's saying so that he eventually yells the apology at them and gets scolded for it. Yeah… that's exactly what it's like, and I'm not using any sarcasm.

He eventually manages to calm down a big and can see things through a more sane perspective than before. It really is true that anger clouds your mind and judgment and that is a very scary truth. But, with his mind cleared he decides that now would be a perfect time for a little training – like he said when he left, he's gonna get some real training on the street – no rules other than getting the bad guy no matter what. He barely makes it up on his feet again when he notice one of the Kraangs' white vans drive past the building he's standing on. The smile spreads across his face and he is already preparing himself for some sweet action.

The van drives legally for once. It's like they've finally manage to get the drive license the police asked for three decades ago. Cracking at his own joke, Raphael runs along the rooftops as he refuses to let the van out of his sight. When the action is so teasingly close he just can't help himself – the need for punching Kraangs in the head is too strong for him to resist. Not only that, but they're also always doing something that's going to end up being extremely bad for humanity, so he's actually getting a workout and saves the day, all in one – it's a win-win-situation – and he's not complaining about that any time soon.

The van drives out from the city and out to the docks where all the old buildings and factories are left to fall apart on their own. It would kind of make sense for them to use one of those buildings for some sort of secret experimentation of theirs that they want nobody to know about. Well, ain't that just too bad for them?

Raphael follows at a safe distance. Given the distance they've traveled, he now sure regrets not taking the shellbike with him on the journey. Sure, it would've been easier to detect, but man – that's one heck of a leg workout. Fortunately they've stopped and are now getting out of the van, and some droids without the human cover-up-masks are walking out from the building to meet with them. Hiding behind an old dumpster, Raphael tries his best to be sneaky about this. He really wants to pound their heads, but there's something about all this that makes him take the safe route for once, although we all know that can change. Once all the droids are done talking to each other they turn back towards the van and opens the doors at the back to take out whatever it was they were bringing here. Four out of six droids carry one big box each and starts walking back to the building and in through the front door, whilst the other two remains outside with weapons in hands. It just might be that they're patrolling the entrance incase some sneaky turtle followed them here. Well… they're gonna know that's not nearly enough to stop him.

With the temptation right in his face, Raphael quickly abandons the sneaky strategy and launches at the two guarding droids, and it's all over sooner than anyone could imagine – Raphael included. That has to mean that he just broke his old record! SWEET!

The door is open and there are no guards for as far as he can see. It sure seems like security wasn't prioritized at all. You can literally just walk in and be like: "HEY! The freak you think you doin'?!" and then you just go completely berserk and destroys the entire place just like that – now that would be something, wouldn't it? Heh… eh… back to the story. Once he has double-checked the entrance he goes further into the building and soon spots another big door, just like the entrance door only it's inside the building. For whatever reason that is, it has to be something important behind that door. And since it's so big and literally the only door that leads into this room, there's no way for him to sneak his way in that way. That means…:

"Warning! One of the ones known as the turtles is here in this building to stop us from completing the experiments we are doing in this building!"

"Capture the one who is one of the one known as the turtles!"

"You guys talk way too much." Raphael says. "You know that, right?"

Yes. He busted the door open and started attacking everything on sight. Yes, you guessed it right. Very good. You really do know the character by now. Storyteller is very proud. Why do I sound like a robot? I don't know. Let's just progress.

Now… let's see… Raph takes a small moment to count the amount of droids he's busted and the amount of droids that are left for him to bust. Let's see here… 14 down and 8 to go. The odds are with him on this one it would seem. But wait just a second. Just what is that big machine they're working on? It kind of reminds him of the mind switching one that made him end up in one of the brain bugs, but it's still different given the enormous glass container that's in the middle and filled with some sort of green liquid-slime-thing that's not mutagen. And what are all those tubes for? It's disgusting!

He picks up one of the droids and throws it to the other side of the machine, believing that was enough to take it down. The droid however is pretty fine and carefully makes its way to the control panel of the machine as Raphael keeps doing what he's doing – distracting himself. Once there, the droid presses the different keys and then activates the machine. Now, all they need is a sample from the one known as one of the ones known as the turtles to start the experiments that the one known as the Shredder ordered them to do. It's unfortunate that only one of the ones knows as the turtles showed up, but it will work for now. They'll get more chances. Now, it's time to at least get what they're offered. The droid focuses the machine on the one known as one of the turtles and hits the big red button. There's no time for Raphael to react once the machine sees him as its target.

Thousands of tiny needles connected to the machine with tiny threads sized tubes are fired at him and hits him all over the body, sucking small amounts of blood and different samples out of his body and to the machine. The procedure is very painful, but not very long. Once the machine has the right amount of the different samples, the needles are pulled back out of sight and leaves Raphael on a pair of weak and shaky legs. He falls to his knees as the machine begins to power up. All he can do is raise his head and watch as the many different tubes are being filled with his blood and samples before they send them all to the big container where they being exposed to the green liquid-messy-slime that immediately begins to show some sort of reaction to the blood and samples. The silhouette of a humanlike creature appears in the container as the blood and samples are being mixed together, the silhouette of a human sized turtle.

"The one known as Kraang is ready to begin the creating process for the experiment known as the experiment the one known as the Shredder demanded."

"You're helping the Shredder?!" Raphael yells.

Despite the pain he quickly forces himself back on his feet and throws himself across the machine, reaching out for the droid that powered it up. He makes it there, he pounds the droid into bits and pieces, and then he turns around to fight the rest of the droids as well as he tries to figure out just how to stop this process. His sais flies all over the place as the droids try their best to stop him. He carelessly throws everything at them, desperate to end the experiment before it's too late – no matter what the experiment is, it has to be really bad if the Shredder ordered it to happen!

When most of the droids are down, he turns towards the machine with both of his sais in hand. There's nothing in the world of Kraang that he hasn't been able to destroy with brute force yet, so why would this machine be any different? Lashing his sais at all of the parts that seems to be very important, Raphael destroys the machine bit by bit, trying his best to end it all right here and now. The droids become panicked as he keeps lashing the machine into billions of pieces, and they all hurry to the control panels that's scattered around in the building. Noticing this, Raphael decides to leave the machine for the moment and go after the droids once more before they manage to undo what he's doing.

The sounds of dying droids are very satisfying when you're a hero turtle with a very bad temper to deal with. With a big smile on his lips, Raphael check the area before he makes his way back to the machine. Sais in hands, Raphael walks up to the machine to finish it all off. He raise his right hand and is just about to start destroying it again when –

"WAAAIIIAAAAAAAUUU…"

What the heck…? Raphael looks up at the big container. It's full of cracks that have forced the liquid stuff to float out all over the floor and it's leaning up to one of the one pieces of the machine he has yet to tear apart. The container is empty by the look of it… but the angle he sees it from isn't really the best one. The sais are still in hand as he carefully makes his way up to the container to check out what that weird sound was. His eyes thoroughly search the container for anything that could have caused that… crying sound…?

So far so good, and he keeps closing in. Whatever it is or was, it's quiet right now. He tries poking the container with one of his sais, but nothing happens, so he then tries to lift some of the metal pieces from the container to get a better view into the container. Some of the pieces are stuck tight so he needs to remove them with great force, which causes the container to move a little, and that's when the sound echoes through the building once more. Jumping at the sudden sound, Raphael prepares himself to kill it as soon as he sees it – whatever it is. Given the fact that they literally used his DNA to try and create something his size and then the fact that he tore the machine apart during the creation of this… thing… things could be very messy and not so nice to look at.

He eventually grows tired of being so slow and careful – like an actual turtle is – and he violently grabs the broken container glass and pulls it off, clearing his way into whatever the thing is and goes for it. The only moment he has to actually look at the thing is when he raises his right hand to gather force to destroy the creature with… but he never manage to actually force the hand down. It is a very disgusting sight if he's to be honest, but not nearly what he had expected. Instead of a massive lump of messed up DNA that's ready to kill everything on sight… a very small human/turtle figure is laying in the remaining liquid and blood mix, looking very weak and miss formed. For a moment it opens its eyes and looks at him – big glowing green eyes – with so much life in them, and yet also so very tired. A moment of silence passes as the two creatures look at each other without doing anything.

"NOPE!" He says and immediately marches out from the building.

He's managed to mess up big times before because of his temper, but there's no way he's gonna let his family and team know that he literally just created a baby by busting some secret Kraang lab! Just think of what they will say… he can't even imagine what they would say! It's all for the best that they never know! No one must know! The best way for no one to know is to pretend nothing happened and make sure no one finds out that there's a baby turtle in the hands of the Kraang because of him!

Raphael is running as fast as he can away from the building and back to the city… but after some time, he slowly starts to slow down. There's no one around that building. No one knows about what they were doing part from the Kraang. He literally left a… a… a baby in the hands of the Kraang… in the hands of the Shredder!

He stands still, thinking about what his options are right now, falling to his knees as he does. But then, he turns around and goes back to get the little blob out from the container. Checking a couple of times that there's no one around to see this; he picks up the blob from the disgusting liquid in the container. The blob is small enough for him to carry with just one hand, so he decides to carry it with just one hand. After all, it's a blob, not a baby. Or, at least, that's what he's trying to tell himself.

Some would think that it would be hard to sneak around in New York City as a mutant turtle with a baby – I mean blob – in one hand, but not really. Then again, he is a ninja, so that might be the reason. Making his way into one of the alleys that leads home, he checks around before opening the manhole and climbing down the ladder with one hand only. Okay, it's not as easy to close the manhole as it was to open it with one hand only. That he must admit. But it's still not nearly hard enough to be compared to try and make a ba-blob stop crying due to the smell. This time both hands are required for him to look at the blob and try to determine just how to make it stop smelling everything down here, but after a while, the blob gets used to the smells and eventually becomes immune to it. Killing a sigh, Raphael proceeds. He's now holding the blob with both hands just to feel a little bit more in control over its… episodes.

As he closes in to the lair, he suddenly begins feeling a lot more nervous than he already was. What if they see him with this thing? What will they say? What will happen? Just what will they do to it? Why is he even freaking out over it like this? He looks down at the blob and sees how it looks back up at him. The big green eyes are very bizarre to look at. It just makes it all so much more obvious that it is part him. Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, Raphael carefully peeks around the corner into the "living room" to see just what his brothers are up to, where they are and how to avoid them. Figuring out how to get from there and to his bedroom without being seen or heard, the little blob finally gets the chance to taste the red bandanna around the big creatures head as the two ends of it falls over the shoulder and right into its hands. Feeling the soft tugging on his bandanna, Raphael looks down at the blob and sees how it's sucking on his bandanna. It seems happy – and more importantly: too busy to make a noise.

"Whatever makes you happy." He whispers to it, and thus begins his journey to his room.

Mikey is watching TV in the living room, should be pretty easy to avoid when he's this distracted. Donnie is in his lab as always, keeping himself both too busy and distracted to bother checking on their hotheaded brother. Leo is in the dojo, still recovering and still training with master Splinter. Despite being busy with other things, Leo will always be the more difficult one to avoid, and we haven't even started on mentioning master Splinter. It wouldn't be surprising if he already knew about the blob and about everything that happened in that building by now. And yet, just like that, Raphael has made it to his room. Locking the door behind him to prevent any unwelcome guests, Raph decides to place the blob on his bed for the moment. Tired of always carrying it, it's the best place for it to be anyways.

He watches the blob for a moment, thinking about just how this day could've been sooooo much more different, or rather; so much more like any other days, if he hadn't ended up getting involved with the Kraang, if he hadn't lost his temper like that. If only he had tried to do the exercise that master Splinter showed him to keep his temper in control. If only… if only he wasn't such a hothead to begin with! He sighs loudly, not caring if anyone can hear him or not. The door is locked so they can't get in anyway.

Taking a deep breath, Raph closes his eyes and focuses on the darkness it provides. Then, he opens his eyes and looks down at the blob that resting in his bed. A moment of silence passes, like before, where nothing happens except for him looking at it. And… given all that's happened today and just how much time that has passed between then and now, it might be a little too late to say this, but…

"Well… that happened."

Well, that is the first chapter of this brand new adventure of mine. Please don't kill me for the changes; I really do like it better this way. Instead of an m-preg story, we have a no-preg story to work with. Where could this possibly lead us I wonder? I'm also going to stick to the "tradition" of mine where I'm kind of like breaking the fourth wall with the readers or something like that. It's a fun thing to do, and I did it a lot in Parenthood, so I'm gonna keep doing it in this story.

- Raphael being the only one who's able to talk like normal cannot be a good sign.

TMNT 2012: Apparently you end up getting a baby if you rage too much. Who would've thought?

Next chapter: When I have the time.