The day went by slowly, with Janine, Damion, and Travis catching up on last night's events(Damion and Travis leaving out the parts about the turtles and Master Splinter), and Simon working on his project some more. Ricky was blogging again, and Mrs. Johnson spent her time bringing in some of the plants from outside to keep them warm, then ordering a large pizza. Everyone finished dinner soon after, and by 7:30 Janine went home.
"Okay, mom, we're going out!" Travis called out. "We'll be back sometime tomorrow morning!"
"Okay! Be careful, you two!" Mrs. Johnson replied back.
"Damion, you remember where it is?" Travis asked, as the twosome were leaping across rooftops. Damion smirked.
"Of course. Follow me." Damion took the lead, leaping to the nearest manhole cover, and motioning Travis to follow. Travis slipped into the manhole, Damion following suit and sliding the cover back into place. Damion then resumed being the leader with Travis close behind. Unbeknown to them, however, an ominous shadow was following them. By 7:58 PM the twosome had entered the turtles' lair for the second time of their lives.
Mikey was playing video games, and Leonardo was watching television. Donny was not visible, probably in his lab. Raph was training with his sai. Travis smiled. These turtles acted like normal teenagers, like him. "What's up, guys?"
Leo and Raph looked over to the two frogs. Mikey remained glued to the arcade game, though. "What's up, Travis? Damion? How did it go?" Leo asked.
"It went much better than anticipated, actually," Travis admitted. "And I feel much better, too."
"Well, that's good," Leo said.
"Well, I wonder what we're going to learn on our first day," Travis said to Damion.
"I am eager to learn, too," Damion admitted.
"Well, since you two are new, I guess you might be taught how to fight better than Mikey," Raph joked maliciously, stopping his training. Mikey got a game over the same instant, and looked at Raph, pouting.
"Hey!" Mikey shouted. "Not cool, bro!"
Travis rolled his eyes at the brothers' antics, remembering the box of pizza he brought. "Oh, yeah, I brought pizza, too!"
Mikey instantly changed his mood, and quickly seized a slice of pizza. "Aw yeah! Thanks for hookin' a turtle up!"
Travis laughed at Mikey's enthusiasm. "Sure thing!"
Leo and Raph quickly found their way to the box of pizza, and help themselves as well. "Thanks, man," Raph beamed, swallowing half his piece in joy. Leo smiled and took a bite of his slice, too.
"Yeah," Mikey said between bites, grabbing another slice. "Hey Donny! Get over here before it's all gone!"
Out from his lab now, Donatello ran for some pizza for himself. "C'mon! Wait for me, fellas!" he cried out. The brainy turtle promptly grabbed two pieces of pizza, and ate one quickly. He then ate the other more slowly. "Thanks, Travis." Travis nodded.
"Sure thing." he said to Donny.
"Welcome back, Travis and Damion. Did all go well?" Master Splinter asked the duo.
"Hello, Master Splinter. It went much better than I expected. I feel much better that I confessed my mutation," Travis answered. The frog then remembered what he wasn't supposed to tell his family, and added: "Oh, and we left out everything about you guys, so I believe you're secret is safe."
Splinter nodded. "Did you bring your weapons of choice, then?"
"Aye, sensei." Travis pulled out his two, 8 inch kunai. "Here are my kunai."
Splinter examined the kunai with interest. "A fascinating choice. I take it you need more practice with them, Travis?" the wise rat asked.
"Yes. I'm not sure how well I am able to use my kunai in actual combat. Also, Damion, you don't have a weapon, do you?" Travis asked his friend, to which Damion shook his head.
"I suppose you may choose from a selection of weapons we have stored," Master Splinter smiled. He opened the cabinet of weapons and motioned for Damion to come to the cabinet. "Choose wisely, Damion."
The larger frog walked carefully over to the cabinet, and browsed the selection. After carefully scanning each weapon, Damion chose two identical 12 inch daggers. Each dagger had a flat tip, and tan leather was wrapped around the hilts of both. Splinter nodded. "A similar style as your friend. I hope that you can still cover each other's weak points."
"Aye, sensei." Both frogs said in unison.
Seeing the two of them together made Raph think about Spike. He knew Spike was somewhere, and he was going to find his buddy someday, and fix what Raph had done and felt responsible for. Raph knew he had to save New York City from its biggest problems first, though. He looked at Travis and Damion again. 'Someday. Someday I'll save you from that mutagen, Spike.' Raph held the leaf Spike always chewed on in between his three fingers, and twirled it around a bit.
As the group was getting ready for training, hidden in the shadows lurked a being with horns dotting his skin and shell, an intense, beastly look in his eyes, and a black bandanna over his eyes. He looked at Raphael and the leaf he was twirling, and a twinge of remorse jolted through the turtle's body. The moment passed quickly, but Slash chose to leave the family alone, for now. 'Maybe I won't need to kill Raphael's brothers, but I will need to free him some way. And I know just the hostages to go for.' A leopard-like growl softly reverberated in Slash's throat, before he disappeared into the shadows completely. He looked at an old picture of a family: Travis's family. It had Travis as a human 11 years ago, with Simon at age 6, Ricky at age 7, Mrs. Johnson, Grandpa Johnson, and Roy Johnson.
Ricky, Simon and Mrs. Johnson all had a cut through them.