A/N : Yes, spelling I know working on it. First TMNT fanfiction, please read, love and review.
April was the second one to awaken in the lair. They had stayed up way too late watching movies. She quietly stretched dislodging herself from the small pile of sleeping turtles. She took a quick mental headcount, Donnie had been curled next to her on the couch keeping her warm, Leo was sort of sitting sleeping against the bottom of the couch, Raph and Casey were in a pile by the TV. April smirked and pulled out her phone. This was too cute not to take a picture of as she watch the two hot heads snore and drool on each other.
Mikey was no where to be seen but the yummy smell coming from the kitchen told her his location. Stretching once more she moved towards the amazing smell. Pushing past the curtains that served as a door she smiled. "Are those pancakes?"
"Not just any pancakes, my turtletastic, extra happy flappy jack pancakes!" Mikey was practically giggling with joy.
"Come on sit, these are done." He gleefully pushed a chair by the table and as April took a seat he dropped a pile of green pancakes in front of her.
He sat across the table from her fluttering his best biggest Mikey eyes. "Well tell me what you think."
April hesitated " Gee Mikey, I've never seen green pancakes before."
"Girl you know its just food dye. Like I would ever give my girl swamp algae. Even though its super good." Mikey playfully ruffled April's hair.
April took a tentative bite, her eyes went wide. "Mikey! These are amazing!"
Mikey nodded "Yeah girl, I said they were awesome."
"Hey any for me?" Donnie asked, rubbing sleep from his eyes. "Here April," he said holding his hand out to her. She accepted the two white pills he offered, swallowing them down obediently.
She looked at Donnie. "Thank you."
He blushed and rubbed the back of his head as Mikey dropped a plate of pancakes in front of him. For a bit the three of them just ate in silence. Each had there own thoughts.
"I was thinking maybe I could try to find the birth records of the names Kurtzman gave us, see if maybe I could hack into some information he couldn't." Donnie started. April frowned a little sighing.
"I would like that Donnie. I'm just worried about them, if they are alive, if the Kraang don't have them, they don't have a family like I do to protect them. I mean, they are like me, you guys have each other but it would be so cool to have someone who was going through the same things I am...like the pain." She mumbled.
Leo choose that moment to enter the kitchen. He had hear everything. "I agree with April, we need to find her...cousins." April shot Leo a look, he held up his hands in defense. "What? I wasn't sure what to call them."
"Leo has a point April, there is a chance they also have the same Kraang strain in there DNA that you have, it would make you half siblings really." Donnie offered. April growled slightly. She didn't like being reminded of her Kraang DNA but Donnie had a point.
"I'll just go start looking now." Donnie called.
By lunch the lair was in usually form. April was in meditation alone beneath the tree in the lair she had grown to love, Mikey had gone out to skateboard in the tunnels. Raph was watching sports on the TV. Leo was sparing with the dummy. Casey had gone home, he had homework to take care of. Donnie was still trying to hack into any records he could relating to Antonio and Lilac.
April relaxed, only when she was mediating did her head fully stop hurting. "Hey..." a voice, not her own, popped like a bubble in her mind. April opened her eyes. There was no one in the room and the few times she heard the Kraang they had not spoken like that. Blinking, she closed her eyes again. After a moment the voice came a second time. "You okay? Hey..." April bit her lip and decided not to risk an answer.
"Guys!" she called running into the room "I heard a voice."
"W...What? What voice?" Raph stammered before the explosion. Suddenly the turtles found themselves thrown back into the far wall.
"Guys!" April screamed and she moved to go to them. The energy wave had passed through her harmlessly. "Hey..." the bubble word burst into her mind again. Turning she saw a boy her own age but with some serious muscles unlike Casey who was sort of scrawny. "Sleep..." April found her eyes closing at the command. She slumped and the stranger in black grabbed her before she could fall.
"No April!" Leo screamed struggling to his feet and falling. "APRIL!" they others were shouting now trying to move. With a smirk the figure turned and tossed April over his shoulder.
"Nooooo!" Donnie screamed.
Five minutes later Leo was the first to struggle to his feet, followed almost instantly by Raph and Donnie. "Spread out and find her, keep in touch via the shell cells. Donnie call Mikey tell him to start looking." Leo commanded each taking a different tunnel. No one was taking his family. Not if he could help it.
Tony cursed to himself. All these tunnels freaking looked alike! He had been using Lilac's mental imprint as a way point, a spark in his mind leading him back to safety but he was sure he was not going the same way he had been. A thought that was confirmed when her turned a corner and bumped into said little sister.
"Lilac! I told you to wait at the hide out." he chastised.
Lilac looked up at him, her eyes red like she had been crying. "I was worried you wouldn't come back so I followed. I'm not helpless." She asserted.
Tony sighed. He could be mad at her later. First they had to get out of here or there wouldn't be a later. "Come on!" he yelled racing down the tunnel. Lilac at his heels. Turning left, then right, then left again, grrrr it all was the same. He slid to a stop so quickly Lilac bumped into him.
"Shit...dead end." He said.
"You've got that right pal." A voice growled from behind them. The red turtle was there, twirling something metallic and sharp in his hands. It was only a moment before the others arrived. Tony put April down behind him.
"We've had years in these tunnels." Leo spoke as he drew his swords.
"Did you actually think you could get away?" Donnie's voice was full of anger as he approached them.
Tony was panting, he wasn't ready for a fight. That outburst had taken a lot of his strength. Lilac saw the look in his eyes and pushed herself between the reptile mutants and her brother just as the turtles attacked. Standing head down Lilac touched her temples, Leo, Raph and Donnie felt themselves pushed back by an unseen force but it wasn't like before. It didn't hurt.
"What?" Leo asked touching the invisible but very solid surface separating them from April and her kidnappers.
"Feels like some kind of force shield." Donnie said rubbing his hands over the outer edges. "Kinda like a big bubble."
"Bubbles can be popped." Raphael said grimly. "When I get a hold of you little girl, it won't be pretty."
Lilac shook her head trying to clear Raph's anger from her mind. She had a very weak mental block when shielding but Tony had taught her not to be afraid of anything horrible whomever outside the shield dreamed of doing to her. She could fight the thoughts of fear and pain.
"Hold on, Don't let him in your head." Tony said, watching her nod. Another minute passed and Tony came closer. "Just a little longer Li." Tony whispered in her ear. "I've almost got my second mental wind."
"Hey guys! Whahoo!" Mikey called skateboarding into the tunnel. "What are you waiting for? They've got April!"
"Wait Mikey!" Leo called but it was too late as Mikey slammed comically into the bubble. Lilac saw and giggle. It was only a moment but just enough for Donnie to notice the ripple, the briefest of changes in the stabilization of the force shield.
"Leo what are we gonna do? That guys going to be read for a fight in just a little bit." Raph hissed.
"Owww" Mikey whimpered from the floor.
"We have to think of something." Leo wracked his mind for ideas. His eyes searching the surroundings.
"Leo I may have a solution." Donnie offered and the turtles gathered into a huddle. "Did you notice when she laughed the bubble ripped, as if it weaken for a moment?"
"No." Raph hissed.
"Well it did. I think just like before with April, this all has to do with mental energy. He mentioned not to let you get in her head Raph. Maybe that exactly what we need to do." Donnie offered.
"You mean threaten her?" Leo asked, slightly offended at the idea.
Donnie shook his head, "Not quite, Mikey up for a little fun?"
"You know it Bro!"
"Okay, so here's my plan." Donnie began to whisper.
"Donnie that is either stupid or brilliant." Raph sighed.
"Just go with it." Donnie hissed.
"Okay Mikey, your move." Leo said.
"I've got this bros. No worries" Slowly Mikey approached the bubble, he watched as the girl stiffen, as if waiting for an attack.
"So what the difference between a piano and a tuna?"
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