First Lie and Severe Punishment part 1


The nine year old turtles were becoming restless in their sewer home, Splinter knew they would some day get board but he wasn't sure how long it would take. He announced to his sons "boys, tonight as long as there's no humans around we will go to the park, I found one that doesn't have a lot of humans in it." all four were delighted, so later on that evening Splinter got the turtles ready to go up top, he just hoped that the boys would behave while up there.

Later that day Raphael went into the dojo, he knew he wasn't supposed to go alone but he didn't care, he found one of his Sensei's sia's and put it in his belt. Then followed his family out of the lair, after they reached the manhole that would take them to the surface Splinter turned and told his sons "what are the rules for going above?" Donnie answered first "don't get seen." Leo was next "stick to the shadows."

Mikey piped up cheerfully "don't talk to strangers and have as much fun as possible!" Splinter frowned at him and said "you are right about the 'don't talk to strangers my son, and I do want you to have fun." he noticed Raphael off to the side looking irritated "Raphael, what other rule is there for going to the surface?" Raph looked at his father then said "stay together, don't wander off, if you see some one coming then go hide in the shadows. And most importantly be safe, if you get hurt don't keep it to your self." Splinter nodded approvingly and said "that is correct my son, now lets go." the five of them scurried up the ladder that lead to the above, Raphael climbed up behind Leo who went first and then followed by Donnie then Mikey. Usually Raph would go first but he knew that Leo was afraid of heights so he went second so his brother would not be afraid.

Once they got to the park the turtles waited in the bushes with Splinter until he gave the all clear, Splinter watched the last family leave the playground. After the car went around the corner he said "OK my sons, its clear go play." the four turtles ran to the play area, Michelangelo went to the jungle gym, while Leonardo and Donatello went to the slide, Raphael couldn't decide what to do. He decided to go over to the monkey bars that were in the shape of a train. (A/N: had one of these at my old school playground.) climbing up he could see his brother's having fun, he just didn't feel up to playing and he also had his father's weapon in his belt. If he ever lost that he would be in so much trouble, although he knew he would be in trouble for just going into the dojo by himself and touching weapons. His youngest brother ran up to him "Raph, wanna play king of the mountain?" "nah, not tonight Mikey." "please? the others don't wanna play with me!" Raph smiled at him and said "sure, come on." they ran to the 3 story tall structure of a monkey bar and both began to climb, he looked over at Leo and said "hey Leo! Sure you don't wanna join us? Its fun up here!" Donnie and Leo looked up at the others and Leo said back "no sorry, I don't feel like falling tonight!" Raph snorted and replied back "yea OK... says the turtle that has no problem going down a slide..." Leo stood at the bottom of the structure that Raph and Mike were on and said "yea but that slide isn't that high up! Your too far up!"

Splinter watched in amusement as the boys played, suddenly his ears perked up, some one was coming. He rushed over to the boys and said to the two climbing turtles "boys quiet! Stay still, Leonardo, Donatello go to the bushes, some one is coming." Raph watched his two younger brothers run for the bushes, his father wasn't far behind, he looked down at Mikey who was several rungs below him. "Mike, come on up, hurry..." Mikey started to climb up to his brother, just as some people entered the park.

"yea hey guys, you wouldn't believe the loot I got tonight! Damn security guard didn't know what the hell he was doing!" the guy talking looked into the park, "hey, wait... is some one here?" the other four next to him stopped to look then one man with a ball cap said "yea, I see something... in the bush over there..."

Raph looked over at the bushes and saw Leonardo peaking out, he looked over at Mikey and said "stay here..." he climbed back down and dropped to the ground, the two men looked around and one said "what's that over there?" "don't know Jake, but lets see if it has any money."

Leo could feel fear creeping up into his gut as the two men made their way his direction, but then suddenly "hey over here!" could be heard, Leo looked over and saw Raph on the ground waving at the men. "hey what the hell?" 'Jake' walked over to Raph and Raph swung his leg out and tripped him knocking him down, the other man pulled a knife and said "try that again kid!" Raph didn't see Splinter or Donatello anywhere so he pulled out the sia and said "oh really... mine's bigger..." this made then men stop cold... "what the hell?" the man standing said... the one of the others that were still on the side walks say "get your asses over here! We gotta get going!"

Raph put the sia away as Leonardo approached him "where did you get that?" Raph looked down at the ground "well I uh..." "you got it from the dojo! Raph we aren't supposed to touch the weapons yet!" "and wacha gonna do Leo... tattle on me? I can just tell father that you let your self be seen!" Mikey climbed down and said "guys... what happened?" the people had long since left when Donatello and Splinter came back into view, Splinter asked "are you alright?" Raph looked over at his two brothers and said "yea we are fine." "did they see you?" Leo looked at Raph and Raph looked at Leo before Leo said "no father, they didn't." bowing his head he knew if Splinter ever found out that they lied that they were get in a severe amount of trouble. Splinter could sense that something wasn't right but he ignored it and said "do you want to still play a wile or go home?" the four looked at each other before Leo answered "can we play just a little longer?" smiling Splinter said "yes you can."

when it was time to go the four young turtles followed their father to the sewer grate, Mikey followed behind Raph this time and noticed something shiny in his belt. Raph felt the tug on his belt and spun around "what are you doing?" "what are you doing with this?" Mikey held up the sia and Raph looked at him dumb founded "Mike, give it back!" Splinter had not noticed his two sons holding back as he kept walking with the other two in toe Mikey pulled the sia back out of his oldest brother's reach and said "not until you tell me what your doing with it? You know we cant have these yet!" "I know I was just seeing if it fit into my belt!" "looks like it does now you gonna put it back?" "well yea, when we get home, now give it to me!" making a grab for it both boys had the handle and played tug of war with the sia, after a couple of seconds the sia fell from both of their hands and landed into the sewer water. Raph turned to Mikey angrily "now look what you did!" "me! Your the one who took it in the first place!" "yea but I was gonna return it! Now its lost!"

just then they could hear further up the tunnel "Raphael! Michelangelo! don't dawdle my sons!" both boys looked at each other and Raph said "this ain't over Mike!" they ran up the tunnel to catch up with the others, Splinter was waiting and asked
"what kept you my sons?" Raph shrugged and said evenly "Mike thought he saw something so we stopped to try and see what it was." Mikey's jaw dropped, he looked at his oldest brother and then said "um... yea, I thought I saw something but Raph said it was nothing then we could hear you calling for us and we came back..." this time it was Raph's turn to be shocked, he thought for sure his youngest brother would rat him out, but instead lied right along with him. Splinter looked between his two sons and said "OK, lets go home." Leo frowned and said "you both are lying..." Raph just frowned back and said "no we are not, besides its not like you haven't lied tonight too." Splinter had walked far enough ahead that he had not heard what the boys were talking about, once at home he told them, "OK we are going to have a short practice then you can have some free time before bed." he could hear the protests but they still followed him to the dojo.

He paired Leonardo with Donatello for some sparring, Donnie could see his older brother was distracted as they began their session, after a few moments Donatello took Leonardo down. Raph and Mikey were both amazed that this happened usually it was the other way around. Splinter tapped his walking stick and said "Leonardo, why are you distracted my son?" Leonardo looked over at his two brother's on the side lines and then said "it's nothing Sensei, I think I am just tired." nodding Splinter told him "very well then, Raphael, I would like for you to spar with Leonardo." Leo looked over at his older brother and gulped he knew Raph was bigger and stronger then he was. They faced each other and bowed before getting into position, Raphael easily took down his younger brother with in a minute. Donatello stood next to Mikey and whispered "why is Leo having such a hard time tonight?" Mikey looked at his brothers on the mat then looked at his older brother and said "i r-really a-am not sure."

Splinter heard what Michelangelo said and knew something was wrong, when this particular child is hiding something he develops a stutter. "Stop." Raphael and Leonardo stopped their session and faced their father, "stand before me my sons." all four of the turtles lined up in front of their father as Splinter walked from one end of the line to the next and said sternly "is there something going on that I should know about?" Donatello looked at his three brothers as he noticed that Splinter had not looked his way once, the other three turtles chorused at once "no Sensei." he looked at Donatello and told him "Donatello my son, practice is over for you, you may go have some free time, but please no mixing chemicals again."

Donnie smiled inward at that and ran off to go play for a bit, Splinter looked at his remaining three and said "boys, Leonardo should have been able to defeat Raphael and draw a tie with Donatello, now I want to know, is something going on?" all three shook their heads no, "did something happen in the park that I should know about?" once again they shook their heads, Splinter frowned deeply and said "Michelangelo, did something happen in the park that I need to know about?" the other two knew why Splinter asked him directly, Michelangelo had a slight stutter when he was lying or trying to hide something he has done. Mikey looked at his brothers, and tried to talk with out stuttering "no, father, n-nothing happened." there it was he had tripped on his words even if it was slight giving his son a stern look he said "are you lying to me?" that did it, Mikey couldn't hold back "n-no m-m-master S-Splinter, I-I am not lying to you." Leo and Raph knew they were about to get it, Splinter knew about Mikey's problem though he tried hard to control it. He turned to his oldest two and asked "why is he stuttering if nothing happened?" Raphael just shrugged and said "don't know, maybe he just imagined something happened."

Raph knew he was really gonna get it when Splinter found out that all three of them were lying but he him self was guilty of lying several times already to Splinter's face. All of the turtles knew that Splinter was very strict when it came to dishonesty, Donatello learned his lesson just the year before when he slipped out of the lair and went to the junk yard alone. Splinter had found out about it but Donatello kept denying it and lied to him repeatedly until Michelangelo ratted his brother out with his stuttering. Leo and Raph looked at their father and gulped they knew the penalty for lying was very strict, but at this point it was best to say nothing. Splinter looked up at the clock and saw it was bed time and said "we will talk about this more in the morning, it is time for bed." the three turtles walked off to their rooms, "oh and Leonardo, would you get your brother and tell him it is time for bed." Leo looked back and said "Hai Sensei."

Leonardo found his younger brother in the living room reading "Master Splinter says it's time for bed." Donnie looked up from his book and said "did you tell him." with a frown he asked "what do you mean?" "did you tell him about the sia?" "no, because he only asked about the park." Donnie put his book back on the shelf and began to leave the room, "just remember Leo... I couldn't sit for quite some time after Splinter caught me..." with that said he left his older brother to his thoughts and made his way to their bed room. Leo went to Raph and Mikey's room and knocked on their door, "come in..." was heard and Leo entered Raph sat up and said "what do ya want Leo?" "Raph, we either need to find that sia or confess to Master Splinter." Raph frowned "i am the one that will get into trouble over the sia you were the innocent bystander, besides you just lied, you didn't do anything worse then that."

Leo bowed his head and said "but I got seen, that is a big no no." "its not punishable by butt whoopin though bro. He will just make you do flips, or give a lecture." Leo climbed the ladder and sat on the edge of his brother's bed and said "but Raph... I lied too... and I am with holding information, on top of being seen... we haven't had to deal with being seen before... I am scared..." Raph put his legs over the edge of his bed and sat next to his brother, wrapping an arm around him he said "it will be OK... if we get caught then I will take the fall OK? Just remember I was seen too, and I talked to the guy as well as threatened him with a weapon... so I am in some deep trouble too." Leo looked down, the room was quiet except for the sound of their baby brother snoring softly in the bunk below them. Raph could still feel the fear radiating off of his brother, "Leo, please... it will be OK..." Leo looked at him with tears in his eyes "yea but... he isn't expecting you to be perfect... if you haven't noticed he keeps getting on to me when ever I mess up..." "Leo, Splinter may choose you to be leader some day but just remember... we are only nine years old... its in our blood to make mistakes... besides it isn't like you went and robbed a store or anything... you were just seen..." Leo looked down again and just said "yea I know... but..." Raph told him sternly "you better get back to bed, we don't want Splinter to come and check on us and see you up." Leo nodded and quietly jumped from the top bunk and walked out of the room. Raph watched him leave then laid down putting his hands behind his head, he knew what he had to do... before he knew it he fell to sleep.

The next morning after breakfast Splinter told the turtles "OK, we are going to have weapons practice." this made Raph and Mikey stiffen up, Splinter handed Leonardo the bokken, handed Donnie the BO and Mikey the nun chucks, when he went for the sia's they were not there. Turning to the turtles he said "does any one know what happened to the sia?" Leo, Raph and Mikey looked at each other and Raph said "no Master Splinter." "they were there yesterday." Donnie chimed in, he received an elbow from Leo which Splinter didn't seem to notice. Splinter walked over to Donatello and said "if they were there yesterday then why are they not here today? Did you have something to do with this?" Donnie gulped and said honestly "no father, I did not." Raph tensed up as he noticed Splinter staring at his brother hard, he said to his father "Donnie wasn't in the dojo yesterday father..."

Splinter walked over to his oldest and said "do you know who was?" Raph gulped, he knew he had to go out and find that sia before he told his father the truth. "no sir." Leo felt like a rock was in his stomach as he heard his brother tell yet another lie, Splinter walked over and stood over him "Leonardo, do you know what happened?" Leo felt like the world was falling down around him as he shook his head not daring to speak. Splinter watched his second eldest and asked "are you lying to me, my son." Raphael could feel a rock in his own stomach now as he heard his younger brother lie for him again "no, father." now Raph knew more then ever he needed to find that sia. Splinter stepped back and saw that at least two of his sons had a guilty look, and two looked to be hiding something, he told them all "boys we will continue practice, and I expect that there will be no problems, Raphael you will use a BO for practice today." Raph nodded and took a BO down off the weapons rack, Raph looked over on the wall and shuddered when he saw the discipline paddle... he knew that only got used when some one lied or took something they were not supposed to... he gulped and turned back around to face his father, Splinter could see the look in his son's eyes and knew that something was troubling him. "Raphael, you and Donatello will practice together since you both are using BO's today, Leonardo and Michelangelo will practice together."

After practice Splinter could tell something was very wrong with three of his sons, they had done something but he could not tell what. Raphael approached his father and asked "may I go for a walk?" he knew they were allowed to go outside the lair just so long as they were careful "yes you may my son, but please take one of your brother's with you." Raph nodded and went to find Leo "Leo hey, Master Splinter said I could go for a walk, wanna go with me?" Leo looked up at him from the couch and said "sure."

The two turtles walked for some time before either of them spoke, Leo broke the silence "what do you think he is going to do when he finds out?" Raph looked at him and said "i am hoping nothing, I am hoping to find the sia and replace it before he gets too suspicious." they walked a little further before Leo realized where they were at, "this is where you and Mikey lost the sia!" "yep, I wanted to find it." Raph sat on the edge of the walk way, Leo stood there in shock then said "Raph you have no idea if it's still there! Or even how deep the water is!" "I can swim Leo and it will be fine." what neither of them noticed that there was some one lurking near by in the shadows watching them, the figure looked on and whispered to his friend "what the hell is that?" the shorter figure told his friend "lets go find out..."


A/N: I decided to break this chapter up into two parts, find out next time what happens when the mysterious figures lurking in the shadows comes near our boys in green.