Ch6 The Parade

A/N Okay if you're at least up to this chapter and you think it sucks. Go ahead and stop reading.

Every year New York City has a parade for no reason at all. There people dress up in costumes, have big floats, and performances on streets. It was a day when people could actually have a random day of fun and amusement.

Casey sat on park bench with April looking at all the colorfully dressed people wearing masks, ninja costumes, and surprisingly there were some dressed up as the Teen Titans.

"Remind me why they're celebrating again?" Casey asked.

April replied back, "They don't really have anything to celebrate about; they just hold it every year."

"So it's a day about nothing?"

"Nothing? More like a day of fun!"

Casey decided not to ask no more, its day of fun so why not enjoy. He looked ahead and cringed at an awful sight.

Two clowns, one was dressed up in a crude yellow suit and badly applied make-up and another one had a green suit on and floppy blue shoes.

"Good evening there you two love birds!" the yellow suited man said, "I'm Mr. Funnybones, would you like a balloon animal?" he said.

Casey was starting to feel queasy, one of the things he hated were clowns. Especially ones in big yellow suits and big red noses, they freaked the hell out of him!

"No thanks, were good."

"C'mon I want one." April said. Casey sighed, well anything for April.

Mr. Funnybones blew up a long green balloon, stretched it, and twisted it into a poodle.

"Yay!" April was in childish glee.

"Hello I'm Mr. Mockingham!" said the clown in a green suit behind him. Casey was in utter disgust. 'Oh great another one!"

He tipped his hat to them and began juggling four objects he took out from his pocket. April was enjoying the show, but Casey wasn't, he wanted more than anything to get the heck away from them!

Mr. Mockingham then threw a pie at Mr. Funnybones he dodged it, and pointed past Mr. Mockingham. Mr. Mockingham turned around to have Mr. Funnybones throw a pie at him. April laughed and laughed, Casey just grunted.

"Thank You!" both clowns bowed down, but as they did several objects fell out of their suits including two wallets.

"Hey, that's my wallet!" Casey cried out.

"And that's my wallet!" April said as well.

Two clowns looked at each other, grabbed their loot and made a break for it!

"Get them!" April yelled and chased after the two thieves, and to think she fell for their funny act!

They raced into a crowd and lost them in a sea of bright masqueraders. "They won't get away with my money!" Casey huffed out of breath. "I think I see…OOMF!" April bumped into a hard shell of a turtle costume.

"April?" said the guy. April recognized that voice.

"Donatello? What are you doing here?"

*Two hours earlier*

"You think that maybe Splinter was a little too hard on her?" Mikey asked later on.

Leo replied back almost angrily, "More like unfair! Why did we give her all the blame? She doesn't deserve all of it. I don't know why she smacked that control but I think it was by accident. So what if she messed up this place big time? It's just once. We mess this place up many times before! Donny wasn't even suppose to bring in electronic vehicles anymore."

Raph sighed, "Well it's not like her fault the car ran over my DVD's, even when she did break the control by accident."

Don typed at his computer trying to make the cure for Roca, "Guys why do you think Mimi broke the control? I can tell she's quite upset."

Mikey thought for a moment, "Maybe it's because Roca played with us a lot more than with her?" Mikey's brain then sprung into a realization.

"Wait, We've forgotten about Mimi! We've left her out on everything we did, we never play or spend any time with her or anything, in fact we forgot that she exists! All she wanted was to play with Roca and have a real friend which we haven't been. WHY DIDN'T I SEE THIS BEFORE!? I'M AN IDIOT!!" he took a pillow and hit himself with it a few times saying over and over, stupid, stupid, stupid.

"It's all our fault." Raph said. "She's a lonely kid, and this place had been evrything but kind to her, and all we ever did was train without any thought if she was okay or not. Can any of you remember even playing or being there for her when her miming act caused her to cry or get chased by evil clowns?"

Leo had to agree, "We haven't alot ever since she moved in with us, but from now on when she gets back, we'll make it up to her."

""WAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" Roca cried from the couch. All of their heads whipped to Roca who was crying.

"What is it Roca?" Mikey tried to calm the oversized turtle tot. The tot only babbled and gurgle stuff they couldn't understand.

"Are you hungry?" Leo gave him a bottle, only for Roca to spit it out and cry more, inches by inches it grew. Raphael tried to wave a rattle at him, although it only agitated him.

"What about a lullaby?" Don suggested. He started to sing but Roca's cries only grew louder. "Mi…Mi!" Roca blabbed out.

"Mimi?" The rest repeated. Roca grew and grew up to seven feet high. It let out its strongest wail for its owner, "MIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!"

It sprang up from the couch and headed out of the lair making the earth shake with each step.

"ROCA!" they all screamed. Boy, were they in trouble.

****

Mimi had made her way into the streets miming as usual but with the lack of effort into it. The mob from the car crash had forgotten about the incident since they captured a look alike midget clown, dressed in black and white, and sent him to jail, well he deserved it since he was caught stealing.

Few people didn't take see the mime. Some did but found it boring and went off.

From a few distances she thought she saw animals that looked exactly like the ones from Central Park Zoo. There was a hippo, a giraffe, a zebra, and four penguins, not too mention a lion that was getting whaled on by an old lady. The old lady finally gave her last blow and kicked it right in the batteries, leaving the cat in absolute pain.

"You think an old lady can't take care of herself? Next time I won't go so easy on you!" she popped back her dentures and sunglasses and left.

Mimi felt amused by the show of an old lady kicking major butt, but glumly went back to miming her way through the streets. Everyone ignored the mime and her unflattering imitations. Some didn't resort to hounding her for unintentional mockery like before and just glowered.

Mimi kept desperately going around for some praise for her talent, but nobody would.

Good to have gone out. Stupid mean Master Splinter, I just wanted to play with Roca and I get blamed for everything. Bad turtles made Roca like them and not me. Mimi thought to herself while on the job.

"Mommy look, it's a scary mime!" a boy pointed out at her. The mime waved at him smiling, she began to do imitations of animals to make him laugh, but this only scared him.

"Mommy! Mime scary!" he held onto his mom's skirt. The mother threw an angry look at her and took out an umbrella giving Mimi many whacks to the head. She made a scram for it like a Speedy Gonzalez running from Sylvester.

Running and running she finally stopped after a while and heaved a deep sigh. Sullenly, she continued wandering off into another crowd of people, this time without knowing a crowd of clowns.

"Hey there punk!" a familiar voice said. Yanking her head behind her, Mimi was face to face with Mr. Funnybones.

"You got a lot of nerve showing up here all alone kid! Didn't I say before if I ever catch your stupid mime self around here again I'll chop every single one of your limbs?" he laughed evilly.

Mimi got into a fighting stance.

"Oh look, the kid wants to fight us." Mr. Mockingham said humorously. 'What'cha gonna do kid, beat us up?"

Mimi looked at him for a second and gave a mighty kick under his belt. Mr. Mockingham doubled over and yelled out in pain, Mimi then took out pepper spray and sprayed the last contents of it at Funnybones. He screamed in agony as the liquid burned his eyes like acid. Through blurry vision, he managed to make out the black and white figure running at full speed.

"You little brat come here!" Mr. Funnybones chased after her. The kid was going to pay. His eyes may be sore and red but black and white made her the perfect target amongst the crowd of blue, green, and bright swirls.

Mimi ran and ran past all the people and pushed away for an escape from the clown.

Pushing past a small crowd she found herself in an alley, she skidded to a stop wondering if he was done with his pursuit.

No, he wasn't. Mr. Funnybones emerged from the crowd holding a knife. Mimi felt scared and alone. She couldn't speak, she was helpless, and she had nothing to protect herself with.

"I'm gonna teach you a lesson you'll never live to forget!"

The last thing Mimi remembered was a foot slamming into her abdomen and blacking out.

****

Roca had managed to slip through the manhole with effort due to his size.

He didn't know where he was going; all he did want though was Mimi. He babbled when he walked through the strange crowds of people in bright outfits. The song, "A Hard Day's Night" was playing on the loudspeaker.

He remembered how Mimi taught him that stuff that plays that way is called music.

Wandering off into parts unknown, Roca was feeling disoriented and terrified. He didn't know where he was and the people were making him dizzy.

'Mimi! Mimi!" he gurgled, he needed her hug so bad right now. Where could she be? A girl in a Magical Melody outfit was on top a float, he recognized her as the girl he saw in T.V. Recalling back a previous episode he had watched a day ago, Melody was looking for her sidekick bunny that was gobbled up by an alien and wanted to find which alien took him, she found him by using her 'gut'. The word gut, he learned from Donny meant stomach. So how does one use their stomach to find someone?

Roca listened hard to his tummy, but the only thing he could hear was his breakfast. Could that mean she was somewhere that had breakfast? A few people moved past him making him break his thoughts. Roca tilted his head wondering what they were doing. They were moving their body in the strangest way. They looked like they had eaten cake that made you want to jump around all hyper. Mimi showed him something on T.V. like this one time, she called it dancing.

The beat of the song and the merry wiggles and jiggles made him want to dance as well. Happily he began to dance just like the people, and most of them turned to see the spectacle of a giant dancing turtle.

"Look at the turtle dancing mommy!" A little girl said. One boy laughed and clapped at the sight. Roca waved his arms about and shook himself making people fall over with laughter. He gave a giggle thinking that he was making people happy.

From the corner of Roca's eye, he saw a black and white person miming the way Mimi did.

"Mimi? Mimi?" he wondered if that was her. Rushing towards the person, he grabbed the mime and hugged it.

"Mimi! Mimi!"

"Help! This crazy turtle is attacking me!" The mime yelled out, which is quite unordinary for a mime to. Roca realized at once it was not his owner, and dropped the mime in despair. He got the wrong one!

"Mimi! Mimi!" Turning from left to right he didn't know which way to go, Roca felt like crying! He wanted Mimi now! He misses her so! He did not know why he liked playing with the big brother turtles, but he suddenly wanted Mimi.

Not too far he spotted something running; it was black and white and far away. Something in his gut told him that it could be the person he was looking for. With each colossal step, he made his way to it.

***

"Wait a sec, Mimi's turtle is super sizing!?" April said quite shocked to hear something like that.

"Well, yeah it took off and now we kinda lost it." Leo said.

"It's a giant turtle, like that's hard to spot." Raph commented.

"Um…you might change your mind." Casey told him and pointed all around at the different cosplayers with turtle outfits.

"Oh boy…"

"WAAAAAAAAH!!!!" A loud cry broke out from somewhere.

"That's one sign of Roca, c'mon!" Raph dashed away.

Roca had found Mimi and Mr. Funnybones at an alley. Roca saw him holding a knife and Mimi beat up and bruised.

Something flashed in Roca's mind, he and Mimi had watched many things together and he identified quickly who the bad guy was and what a sidekick must always do.

"Get lost freak!" He yelled. Roca stared at him, then at the knife, then at Mimi. Something welled up inside of him; he didn't like the way the man yelled at him, or the way Mimi was now. Not one bit!

"Mimi! Mimi!" He squeaked.

"What? You're gonna try and fight me like this girl did?"

"RAAAAAAAH!!!" Roca roared out and rapidly grew ten feet tall, he charged towards the clown and lifted him off his feet.

'Hey! Hey I'm sorry! AAAAAAH!!!" the turtle threw him across the alley with one thrust.

"RAAAAAAH!!" He roared again and chased him. Mr. Funnybones ran smack into Casey and the Ninja Turtles. Casey cracked his knuckles at him.

'You got something of mine!" Mr. Funnybones immediately surrendered the wallet, right now he wanted to get away. He rushed off in a frightened hurry.

"What's that guy running from?" Mikey asked, he got his answer as the earth started to shake.

"RAAAAAAAH!!" Roca roared when he came out holding Mimi within his hands.

Raph, April, and Casey was in a stupor, "Aw shell…"

Roca frantically babbled at the turtles, scared that Mimi might never wake up.

"She's out cold." Don said carrying her into the Turtle Van they brought along.

"Not so fast!" Mr. Funnybones came back holding a gun,

BANG!

The bullet hit Roca's shell. Startled by the loud sound he let out another terrible cry. "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!" all of New York heard and saw the humongous crying turtle as it grew and grew and grew, until it was 150 ft tall.

The clown cowered in fear by its size and decided run for it again, but Casey tackled him and pinned the guy to the ground. "You ain't going anywhere!"

"Uh dudes, we've got a bigger problem now!" Mikey reminded. Roca cried immensely as the teardrops fell on them like bombs, the giant reptile ran past them, and the screaming people who fainted and or, hysterically screamed.

"This is so like the movies." Don said remembering that monsters always happen to appear in big cities, especially New York.

"Everyone get in the Turtle Van!" Leo commanded. All jumped on board with clown and mime in check. The clown was going to jail later.

"Okay this is gonna be a shell of a ride!" Mikey grabbed the wheel ready to take off when something viciously shoved him over.

BA-BAM!

Mikey was pushed to the side by one frenzied mime, "Mimi! What…but...how?" Mikey stuttered in surprise that she was awake. A second ago she was in the back unconscious,

MOVE OVER I'M DRIVING!!

She shouted at him silently, Mikey knew then exactly what she meant. Mimi turned up the engine and shifted into drive.

The van revved up and lurched forward pressing them all against their seats. The mime was now in psycho mode.

"Do you think the hit on her head had something to do with it?" Leo wondered.

Casey just shrugged as the van swerved to left then to right dodging every citizen on the street. There was no stopping her.