Mikey and Leo were holding April by both of her arms. Donnie sat in the corner, holding his staff to his chest as a weak version of defense and Raph was on the couch, laughing at the whole scene that played in front of him. The scene where April was being restrained by two ninja turtles due to the face that she wanted to pound their brother.
"Let go of me!" April screamed, struggling against the two. Hoping to get past them like she has been for the past fifteen minute. "I just wanna tell Donnie something. Something that's really, really, really important? So," She stopped struggling for a moment. "Why don't you two just ease off? AND LET ME AT HIM!" She began to move around again, thrashing side to side in a poor attempt to free herself from their clutches.
"Yeah" Raph smiled evilly. "You should let go of her, like she said, she just wants to tell Don something." Mikey and Leo both directed steal glares at him, while Donnie coward in fear. How did this happen to him, how'd he go from showing his brothers and April his newest remedy to cowering in a corner hoping that the girl he had a crush on doesn't beat him to a pulp. Oh yeah, he turned her into a MUTANT! How could he keep forgetting that?
"No! They should not let her go!" Donnie screamed, trying to fall deeper and deeper into his corner. There was no way to get out, he cornered himself. "She'll kill me if they let her go!"
"Maybe, you deserve it!" April yelled.
Suddenly, she dug her foot into Mikey's and spun away from Leo. Then, she lunged. Donnie screamed again and April was on top of him. If this was any other situation, he'd probably be ecstatic, but in this one, April was punching him in the face. Not the ideal circumstance he'd like to be in with the girl he had a giant crush on. Actually, it wasn't the ideal circumstance he'd want to be with anyone.
He held his hands up to his face. There was no way for him to retaliate, it's not like he could hurt April. No way. Peeking in between his fingers he saw her. Even beating Donnie to a pulp, he found her as beautiful as ever.
Raph cupped his hands around his mouth and used them as an amplifier. He smiled broadly before shouting, "Hit him in the knee, that's his number one weak spot!"
April slammed her elbow as hard as she could into his left knee. Donnie yelped out in horror and looked up at his attacker; he was going to be the death of him. Trying to hold in the absolute pain he was in, he looked back down to see to halves of his staff, April must've broken it. April positioned her elbow to his other knee. Donnie slammed his eyes shut and prepared for the blow. This was really pathetic.
"Enough!" A voice echoed through the lair and all eyes searched for who it came from. Splinter. Everyone forgot he was in the room. He strode across the lair and stood behind April; she turned bright red and got off of Donnie. Bowing to the sensei, she ran off to the couch and sat next to Raph who gave her a quick two thumbs up.
"Good job, kid!" He whispered and nudged her to the side, stifling a laugh that still seemed to echo.
"Raphael!" Splinter growled. "That will be enough!" Walking over to Donnie he held out an outstretched hand. The young turtle grabbed his it and began to get up. At first he wobbled side to side, but then straightened himself out. He couldn't let his brothers and father see how he had just gotten beaten up by a girl, but still he felt so sore. He would have never expected that April would be so . . . strong.
"What should I have expected? Donnie thought bitterly. "She has lived in New York all of her life, I guess her being able to beat up a non-reactive mutant turtle should be a definite possibility."
"Do you have an antidote? Something that would be able to turn April back into a human?" Splinter asked.
"No, Master Splint-" Suddenly his father let go of his hand and Donnie was on the floor again. He rubbed the bottom of his shell in pain and he looked up to see every one of his brothers, even Raphael, looking down at him pitifully. Quickly, he looked back down and turned bright red in shame. Today was definitely NOT his day.
"Insolent boy," He growled and spun on heels, heading for his room. "Donatello, make a cure, I'm going to meditate on it." Opening the sliding door, he disappeared into the dark abyss.
Everyone watched Splinter leave and the room stayed awkwardly quiet for several minutes. The room slowly emptied and the only two left were April and Donnie. They both stayed in place, not bothering to say a word to each other. Donnie because he was afraid anything he said would only be fuel for the fire and April because she wanted him dead at the moment.
His mind began to wander about the antidote he was supposed to make to turn her human. What was it suppose to be made out of? Mutation Chemical? Should he make it like he made the Turtle Chemical, except with human DNA, human hair, and something a human would eat? No. That doesn't sound right. The only way he could find out what he needed to make for the antidote was to take samples and do tests on April. He looked up and saw her staring into the distance, looking like she was deep in thought.
He cleared his throat. "Uh, April?"
"What?"
"About the antidote I, uh, need samples from you and I need to, uh," He paused, "Do some tests on you."
She got up, 'Ok, let's go." Strolling over to where he usually worked on experiments, April left the room while Donnie sat on the floor in awe. She took what he said pretty well, much better than he expected. Maybe she'll stop being mad at him. Walking back in, she looked at him with a steal glare that was so cold that it sent shivers down his back. "I'm not doing this because I want to; I'm doing this to turn back into a human and then leaving this place. I can find my dad myself. Now, let's get started." Or maybe she won't.
