Bookworm1978: LOL! When I read Raph tell Donnie to stop staring like a creep. I nearly feel from laughing. Again, you had so completely captured these characters, and how they would be if Shredder was their father/leader. I liked the explanation. Sounds legit. Also, yeah. April. She's great! Oh, dear is Donnie about to become this version's Stockman?! Scary. And for the record, Donnie is my favorite too! But I like Mikey almost as much. I love me some B team. _ They are so neat to watch together. Thanks for taking the time to respond to our comments. It took me some time to get used to it, but it's super considerate. Maybe I should do that with my stories from now on?
Me: Donnie? Stockman? I would never be so cruel. Oh, wait. I would. AHAHAHAHA! *ahem* I love B-team too! I'm like Donnie, and my little brother is like Mikey, so we're like our own little B-team. I feel like this story will head in a good direction, and I adore these reviews I keep getting. You're all beautiful!
Guest: (This is a really long review) This chatper made my day not because of April and Donnie, but because of the reactions... April lashing out at them made me laugh I'm not sure if you were going for comedy with the lines of "Raph's quick smack to the back of his head shut him up fast. And after that, for the longest minute there had ever been, there was silence. April frowned. "My dad..." Donnie pursed his lips, placing a comforting hand on her shoulder. "I'm sorry." But, instead of crying, April exploded. "You didn't even try to save him!" That made me laugh. You have an awesome way of making the characters with an evil side and with the personalities given. And you mentioned in the author's note that you planned someone besides the Kraang to be the villains and I can't wait to see who it is. The one thing I love most about this fic is that whenever I am done reading a chapter, I can't wait for thr next one to come out. As for the favorite turtle thing it would be Leo becasue I relate most to him... we both seem like we have an idea what we're doing when there is absolutely no idea what's going on. And Mikey mostly because he is just entertaining. Mikey is running and screaming around the room with the wasp chasing him, while the others watch.) Raphael: "He's really turned running away screaming into an art form." Donatello: "Well, at least he's good at something, right?" (Mikey trips and falls to the floor.) Donatello: "Good-ish." Funny line from Parasitica ep.
Me: Yeah, my plan was for April's first impressions of the turtles not being too great. She doesn't really like them too much, but she's okay with Donnie. I definitely was going for comedy with the Donnie being a dork thing. Cause everyone loves dorky Donnie(tm). I can't wait to reveal the new bad guys, but I don't think I'll be able to reveal them fully until the season 2-ish area. There's a certain character I'm surprised no one's asking about. But, I can't give anything away.
Donnie's feet refused to stay beneath him long enough. He just barely had managed to stumble back to the lair in a love-drunken stupor. Raph was very surprised to see his nerdy brother fall over himself before collapsing onto the couch.
Leo tilted his head, leaning over Donnie's inert body as said turtle continued muttering nonsense through a sleepy smile.
"Um... Donnie?" Leo waved a hand in front of his face. "You okay?"
"Great..." He murmured.
Raph's eye twitched slightly before he shoved his face back into his comic book. "Um, okay then."
Soon enough, after a well needed night's rest, Donnie was up, in the lab, with its quiet atmosphere, save for the beeps of machines and the blubs or boiling experiments, that everyone other than him found slightly unnerving. The entire place was rigged up with the best tech he could scrounge from the garbage.
The walls were black, giving the room a dark appearance, and the desks and tables were organized with tools like scalpels, syringes, flashlights, gauze, scissors, sterilizing agents, clotting agents, clamps, retractors, and duct tape. Duct tape could fix anything, even a crack in an astronaut's helmet! Or a chatty brother.
Off to the side stood a small, secluded corner with portable lights that shone down on an operation table with restraints. The bottom still had a smudge of something foreign that refused to be washed off.
That brought back memories of the time Mikey had accidentally stuck himself with rusty metal. The little turtle had been cooperative enough while Donnie was cleaning the wound, but the moment he'd brought out the tetanus needle, things had gone chaotic. Of course, with the help of his siblings, he eventually got him strapped to the table tightly enough to administer the vaccine. Hadn't that been an adventure.
Donnie steadily balanced the distance of the microscope eyepiece to the slide as he observed the blood sample Karai had generously donated. A moment ago he'd dropped a tiny bit of the ooze into the sample. If his assumptions were correct, something should change within the cells.
Donnie's fascination was piqued as the cells trembled slightly, then began morphing and changing, growing small spikes and irregularities before settling back down. He swore he saw a few of them merge together. Fascinating!
Though his eyes were occupied, Donatello heard the footsteps approach him from behind, and felt the hand on the back of his chair.
"Any luck with the ooze, Einstein?" It was Karai.
Donnie shook his head slightly before adjusting the fine focus knob. "Not really." He muttered. "I've run some tests, and it looks like it changes human cells into strange, animal hybrid ones." He looked over his shoulder at her. "I... I think this is the same stuff Father found in Hamato Yoshi's lair." He scowled, turning back to the cells, frustrated and impatient. "If only I had a few more clues..."
Karai frowned, coming around the side of the table. She leaned on the edge casually. "I think you could use a break."
Donnie didn't even look up as he laughed. "Ha! No offense, Neesan, but this isn't just something you 'take a break' from."
Karai scowled. She didn't like being ignored. She came around behind Donnie and grabbed his chair, pulling it back on the spinning wheels, forcing more distance between the nerdy turtle and his experiment.
"Hey!" Donnie protested, turning to glare at her.
Karai's face was just as stern. "We're going on patrol to see if we can discover more about those Kraang things for Father. Are you coming or not?"
"As much as I'd like to," the sarcasm dripped from his voice, "I can't. Father wants more info on this stuff." He stroked his chin in thought. "If only I had a test subject.
Karai huffed, but walked away, leaving the scientist to his work. "Fine. Well, catch you later, little brother."
Karai pinched the bridge of her nose. It had barely been five minutes, and Leonardo and Raphael had already begun fighting.
"I still don't get why you got to be leader." The hothead huffed, puffing his chest out indignantly.
The more rational brother crossed his arms. "Because I came up with the plan. Now, everyone knows what's going on, right?"
"Totally!" Mikey said. "But... could you maybe explain it one more time?"
Leo smacked his forehead. "The truck that attacked last had the same logo as this building." He gestured down to the building they were staking out. "We wait for someone to show up, jump them, and make them tell us everything about those creatures."
Karai came up next to the oldest turtle and sat at the edge of the roof. "Are you sure anyone's gonna show?"
Leo smirked. "Trust me." He said. "They'll be here any minute."
And he was right. They'd chosen just the right hour to come out. Wide awake and alert, the turtles spotted the truck immediately when it pulled up.
They watched the man get out of the car. He was sickly pale with greasy black hair, wearing a muscle shirt, even though he had no muscle. He looked around warily before heading inside.
Leo put a finger to his lips before motioning for the others to follow. From an above window, the Ninjas watched the man enter the warehouse and walk along, unsuspecting. Leo made a few hand gestures, indicating that he would take him out. The man crouched down by a few boxes to retrieve their contents. That was when Leo struck.
He landed silently behind the man and, using the side of his fist, hit the man over the head. Any cry died in his throat as he dropped sideways.
His siblings dropped down behind him, silently, swiftly, seriously, like a Ninja should.
"Alright," Raph punched his fist into his hand. "So, do we wake him up and question him here?"
"Actually," Karai stepped past Raph with a knowing smile playing on her lips. "I heard Donnie needed a test subject back at the lab." She said as her brothers began to wrap Mikey's Kusari gama around the man. Karai's eyes narrowed deviously. "And I think we just found the perfect one..."
I used a microscope once. Leaf cells look cool, but you get over it after a while.
Also, I suppose the turtles are better fighters now because it didn't take much to get Snake down. Also, I've met Shinigami now. She's AWESOME!
I love Donnie's lab. I made it evil. I make everything evil! What is wrong with me?!