Hello everyone, here is the next chapter of the prologue. I'm going to have a few more prologue chapters like this. After that I am going to begin the first season of the series.
Prologue 2
Electronics & Mayhem
1 week after rescue
Leo and Raph were training in the center of the room. That is how it usually worked. Splinter liked to have two turtles practice fighting at a time so he can keep his concentration on them and not two separate fights. Mickey was probably in a nearby room watching TV. Donnie should have been in his lab working on something, but he was nowhere to be seen. I was kneeling next to Splinter when I decided to go and look for him.
I left the lair and saw Donnie running towards me.
"Hey, Mac! Did Splinter send you to find me?" He asked me, almost out of breath.
"No, I don't even know if he has realized that you're missing. Why?"
"Good, come with me. I need your help." He started running away and I followed. We ran for probably half an hour before we finally stopped.
"Okay…whoever said that turtles are slow are…" I took a deep breath in, "Ahh… what is that smell?"
"That would be the…"
"Not the sewer, it is something else"
"Ohh… We are right next to the city's landfill."
"Yeah, that would be it… so why are we here?"
"Look out there." Donnie and I lifted the manhole cover, and he pointed towards a small device.
"What's that?"
"It is a cellular telephone. I have read about them in a washed up magazine. You can talk to somebody no matter where you are."
"That sounds amazing, but what do you need for?"
"Well, I was just wanting to ask if you would go out and get it for me. I'm not allowed to go on the surface, and we were really pressing the limits on saving you. But you can go to the surface whenever you want."
"Ok, I'll… give it a shot." I climbed out of the sewer and looked around for the phone. I saw it and started to move towards it. I moved slowly and kept low to make sure that I was not seen by anyone, for all I knew Sensei's guards were still looking for me. I made it to the phone when I heard some movement. I put it in my pocket and signaled Donnie to get down.
"Ahh…what have we here?" I panicked and tried to hide from the man. I could not see who he was, but I could see that he was a large man and wore strange clothes. His voice was deep and also slightly boomy. "I appears that we have a visitor in our humble home. What bring you here, little boy?"
"I…I'm uhh… I was just exploring with my brother."
"Ahh… The youth… Always adventurous no matter the generation. I have a theory about that…"
"Umm, sir… I would love to hear your… theory, but I have to go find my brother."
"Ahh yes… may I help you find him while I tell you my theory?"
"Mnm… sorry, sir, but no. My brother is very… shy."
"I see… and I have a theory about that too, but if you and your brother are ever around here, make sure you come and visit me."
"Yeah… we will make sure to come over." With that, the large man turned around and left. I released a breath that I did not know that I was holding. I ran over to the manhole cover and knocked on it.
"Mac? Is that you?"
"Yeah, I've got the phone that you wanted. Help me lift the cover." It took all of our strength, but Donnie and I managed to open the manhole so that I could get in.
"What happened? I thought your old sensei found you."
"I thought so too, but it wasn't, thankfully. It was an old man, he seemed very smart too."
"Really? And he wasn't surprised to see a boy in the sewers alone?"
"Nah, he thinks that it is natural or something like that." I reached into my pocket, "And here is your phone."
Donnie gave me a huge hug, "Thank you, Mac! I'll start looking at it at one. I'll let you know how I'm going with it."
"No problem, Donnie. Now, we should probably get back to the lair before Splinter realizes how long we've been gone."
Two weeks after rescue
"Mac! Mac, come here!" I heard Mikey yell from across the lair.
"Shh, Mikey, Master Splinter is meditating."
Mikey's voice went to an instant whisper, "Sorry, I just wanted to know if you wanted to play with me."
I could not help but smile at Mikey. He has been overly excited about having someone new to play with, "Sure, Mikey, I'll play with you." Mikey's face went instantly happy, "What are we playing?"
"A game that I found on the side of the road the other day, Mario Kart!"
"A racing game, this will be fun."
Mikey got the game ready while got comfortable with the controls. They were simple enough, but I knew that if I lost I would not hear the end of it until I left the lair for good. Mikey sat down next to me, "Are you ready?"
"As ready as I'm going to be." I told him.
The game started up and we had to pick the track. I let Mikey take care of that. Then there was when we had to pick our characters."
"I'm getting the turtle dinosaur. RAHHR!" Mikey yelled in excitement. He picked what definitely looked like a turtle but it had large spikes on its shell.
"Hmm… I think I'll pick this guy." I selected a then looking man in green clothes, dark blue overall, and a large green hat.
"So the human picks a human, huh?"
"Just as the turtle picks the turtle."
Our racers were dropped onto the track then the timer started 3…2…1…GO! Mikey and I were neck and neck until he got a hit by a shell that the computer threw at him. "Shells betray you."I was the undisputed leader of the race. The second lap came by when Mikey managed to come up with a plan to get back.
"Hey, Mac! Heading your way!" He threw a long string of banana peels in front of me. I managed to dodge them all but Mikey caught up with me. It stayed like that for all of the rest of the lap and all of the final lap. We made the final turn and the finish line was in sight.
"Sorry, but I am going to be the new champ." Then, there was a noise that was beeping over and over again. "What is that?" As soon as I said that, a blue, flying shell was right over my head. Mikey slammed on his brakes leaving me in the lead. Just inches away from the finish line, the shell blew up, allowing Mikey to finish in first place.
"Yeah! Ladies and gentlemen, turtles and rats, I bring you Michalangelo, the Mario Kart champion in this section of the sewer!"
Splinter walked in and was sitting right behind him, "Is that so, Michalangelo?" Mikey's face went was white as possible.
"Ohh… uhh… Master Splinter… I was, uhh…"
"If you shout any louder, you might attract the other champions in the sewer."
"Yeah, Master… Just looking for a challenge."
Splinter picked up his walking stick and hit Mikey in the leg with it. "Silence, Michelangelo, it is a virtue that you need the most, for if there is a challenge out there, it will find its way to you."
"Yes, sensei." Mikey said the fell back into his seat, "You want to play again?"
"I'll accept that challenge."
I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Please let know what you think about this chapter. Did I do good? Bad? Have any ideas? Are you going to hunt me down? Please put it all in the comments, especially that last one. (Bonus points if you can name the mystery man, Mac's character, and Mikey's character)
