Hello, sorry that I haven't been updating as frequently as I hoped, but this slightly long chapter might be enough to please you,
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"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
Heroes in a half shell,
Turtle Power!" sang Andy as we went through the sewers with each of us carried a pizza box. We decided that it would be best that we'd bring pizza to the lair, though the quantity was all Andy's doing. But it did take us a while to get to it…
Flashback
"Did you just say 'other Mikey'?" Andy asked, I can tell that she was containing her excitement, but just barely,
"Yeah, he and his bros are back in the Lair helping out Donnie, something about not having the right plans and that something didn't go right and he needed help-" Freddie yanked him by the collar of his jacket,
"What do you mean 'something didn't go right'?" she asked, all the fun that we had just evaporated in the heat of her menacing glare,
"Freddie," I said warningly but Raph went with the direct approach, by pulling her off his brother and was about to hit her,
"Raph Calm Down," both Leo and I said at the same time, he stopped at mid punch and let go of Freddie's sweater. I went to my friend as Leo went to his brother,
"What are you thinking Freddie, attacking his brother, he was only telling us the news and you just-" I started,
"He just said that something went wrong with the thing that brought us here, doesn't that make you even a bit worrisome?"
"You call this worrisome? It's more like overreacting, I thought that if you loosen up it would be better, but with just this news, you went all hostile if anything, please calm down, let them do what they do best, I bet Donnie asked them to come over to help because he didn't have the entire plans for the TDSP, I mean it took both Donnie's to make it, what not to say that he doesn't need help repairing it?" I said, hoping that she will think for once. The more we spend time here, the more I see my friends in a new light. Freddie is turning to a hothead, Andy is a happy-go-lucky fan-girl, and Ren was in her own little world with Leo… or something like that, I haven't been able to talk to her since we left the lair.
Leo and Raph were having their own conversation in low voices and in Japanese. I guess they didn't want us to hear what they were saying, so I walked up to Ren,
"What are they talking about?" I asked in Spanish,
"Nothing much, just that they should control the others emotions and if the other doesn't, they will get in trouble,"she answered,
"Oh, that's OK, thanks," I thanked her,
"Really Ren?" Freddie asked, Ren just nodded, making my hot tempered friend looked confused again, dampening the heat of anger that was there before.
"Now that we got that settled, can we go to the pizzeria?" Andy said, who sounded as though the tension of the fight was nothing more than a little scuffle, " Oh, we might have to get at least four, but then we not get the right ones they like, so maybe eight? But then they eat pizza like a starving piranhas so we might have to get more or –"
"OK OK, fine, if you just shut up!" Freddie said annoyed, I just hope that she would calm down,
"Freddie stop," I said with a bit more force than need be I guess, she blinked and looked away with an angry expression, I hope she wasn't angry at me,
"Well, uh, this way," Mikey said, looking a little freaked out at us, I took a deep breath and counted to ten in English, Spanish, and a bit of French that Ren taught me, I looked at my friends and gave them a silent, disappointed look in which I hope that they understood that I was not angry at them but was let down by their behavior.
End of Flashback
We were closing in to the lair, I began to think on what was I thinking about bringing my friends together when they were obviously so different. I hoped that they would have been good friends with one another, but to tell the truth, I only wanted to have them together so that they could see the real me.
With every one of my friends, I wear a sort of mask, in where I have a roll that I act out, the adviser to Andy, a sarcastic buddy for Freddie, and a friendly tutor/student to Ren, in which I like but those are only parts of me that I show, there are other parts of me that I haven't show to any one, not even my parents, and hoping that they would be friends when they are so different was maybe a lost cause.
I looked at Andy, who was just humming the theme song now, but was visibly excited to meet another bunch of turtles,
"Hey, Andy, if you keep bouncing like that, your pizza is going to change into pudding," I said, hearing a soft snort from Freddie, "you could give it to me and you can go ahead," she looked annoyed at Freddie but smiled at me and gave me her pizza.
As we went inside the lair, we heard several voices clamoring over each other. I went to the kitchen table to place the pizzas that I was carrying when I saw a little turtle with an orange bandanna grabbing things out of the selves. Marshmallows, jellybeans, chocolate sauce, and salty pretzels were in he's arms as he got out a peanuts butter jar when he noticed me staring at him,
"Oh, um, hi there dudette, I'm Mikey," he said with a smile, I blinked and shook my head,
"Hello Mikey, I'm Ruby," I said as I place the pizzas on the table, he spotted the boxes and went right at them,
"Great what did you get?" He asked as he placed the items next to the pizzas and grabbed a box, his face fell,
"Hawaiian? Seriously? Yuck!" He made a face,
"Hey, that's my favorite, if you don't like it then take the other one, it's pepperoni, just don't get your shell in a twist," I said, then face palmed, "Sorry I'm having a bit of an off day, I didn't mean to take it out on you," I heard a squeal from the living room and went out to see Andy hugging the living daylight out of little Raphael.
"Yo ... lady ... need ... to ... breathe," he said trying to pry off Andy from his neck, she let go but she was still hopping from all the excitement that she had filling inside her,
"Sorry, but I can't help it, *squeal* you guys are so darn cute, I'm also a big fan of '87s Raphael. You break the forth wall almost all the time, how do you know that you guys are a show? Do you see a screen or something? Or - or do you just randomly look out into space and expect that someone is there?"
"Breathe Andy, breathe," I said going up to her as I looked over at the group. The other '87s turtles were holding the pizzas that the rest of the group brought, and they also looked confused with Andy's reaction towards them,
"Um, who are these girls?" Little Leo asked his counter-part,
"What I want to know is if it's true what she just said," He responded, "you guys knew that you're a TV show? And didn't bother to tell us?"
"Hey we were trying to get home at the time," little Raph said sounding annoyed,
"Yeah and we were also a bit busy trying to stop Shredder, or did you forget that?" Little Mikey said,
"Well, that makes sense," Mikey said out of the blue, we looked at him, "remember all those times that Raphael kept looking to the side like someone that wasn't there? It really annoyed Hun the last time we fight him,"
"Well duh, it was an '80s cartoon," Andy said, it looked like a rant was coming on, "they always interact with the audience, but he does it almost all the time and is the most comical doing it, which is why he is one of my favorite versions of Raphael. I mean really, the one-liners, the sarcasm, the way he actually shows that he cares about his brothers yet still holds a stubborn streak, what not to like about this guys," she went and hugged him again before I had a chance to stop her, "I just hope that Mona Lisa doesn't get jealous of all this attention I'm giving you,"
"Well, I don't know about Mona *gasp* and I don't mind at all lady, it's just *cough* you're ... closing ... my wind pipe," little Raph said as his face turned a little red from embarrassment or was it from lack of air, I shook my head and pinched Andy's collar bone on both sides. If you ever tried that, you would know how it feels,
"Ow! Hey ouch! Ruby! What-ow ow ow!" She exclaimed,
"Andy, remember our little talk about attention?" I asked her, she nodded,
"Yeah, which is why I'm giving him all of mine," she answered and only ever slightly looked at Mikey then little Raph, I groaned. She was going at this the wrong way, she can't just shift her attention to another turtle and hope that the pervious one will miss her, it may be a cartoon world but it won't go with its logic.
We've been here in real time, no breaks, no skip scenes, and no real dangers so far, so no plot. If everything was a story then the villain would have shown up by now and I am happy that it hasn't. And if it is a story, then it's in a weird reality show or a strange soap opera...
Oh god I hope not.
"That's not what I meant Andy, anyway they're here to help Donatello with the TDPS, so I think it would be better if you don't accidentally suffocate one of their brothers," I looked at her sternly, then looked at the other turtles, "Sorry about her, she just gets uh, a bit excited when she meets one of her uh, heroes," they smiled and nodded in understanding,
"It's ok, we're used to it," little Leo while little Raph was rubbing his neck,
"Speak for yourself," he whispered,
"What are you talking about the '80s, its only just 1989, you can't call it the '80s yet," little Donnie said, the girls and I looked at each other then looked at the other taller turtles, then looked at the little guys, I thought 'well, it's one way to break the ice,' so I started,
"The year right now is 2013, almost 2014, we are from a world that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are fictional characters, starting from an underground comic which is turtle Prime, then turned to cartoons which you are the first, then movies-"
"But I will not see the Michel Bay film, only if the reviews are good, maybe, just maybe I'll watch it," Andy interrupted, which caused the little turtles, who were getting plates and placing the 'topping' on their pizzas, and the older turtles, who were only getting pizza, to all look at Andy with a confused expression,
"Wait, wait, wait," Mikey said as he shook his head, "Michel Bay, The director of the Transformers movies? He's making a movie about us?"
"I thought he was focused on the fourth Transformers movie," Leo said, but more as if he was talking to himself,
"Your world Bay maybe, but in our world he's only the producer of the film, and since in our world knows who you are, and the Bay in your world doesn't know you, of course he would be focused in another film here," I said trying to find reason in it,
"But casting Megan Fox as April O'Neil is ridiculous!" Andy said loudly,
"WHAT!" the '03 turtles almost yelled,
"No need to shout," I said as I saw Splinter come out of his room,
"Oh hello my guests," he said, then spotted the '87s turtles, "and welcome my turtles," going towards Leo, speaking to him in Japanese, his face rather serious. I looked around and didn't see Donnie in the group, well, only little Donnie, and he was here with his brothers, but not the other Donnie.
Was he in his lab? Getting a plate and a few slices of meat lover's pizza, I went to see if he was in his little fortress. They others were entranced with Andy's explanation of the goings on in our world and how it contrasted with theirs as I knock the lab's door, no one answered,
"Hello?" I asked, "Donatello are you in there?" I heard something like glass break and the scratching of a chair on the floor, a moment passed, for some reason I felt myself getting nervous in that millisecond, but then he opened the door,
"Um, hi," he said in a strained smile, I looked at him,
"Hi," I said, remembering what happen here, "I brought you some pizza, in case you were hungry," I handed him the plate, shifting my gaze away from him, not sure how to handle him, "the others are in the living room if you want to join them,"
"Yeah, well, thanks," taking the pizza as he also looked away,
"No problem," I said, as I tried to think of something to say, but before I could think of anything, I blurted out, "I'm sorry," at the same time he said the same thing. We blinked and looked at each other,
"Ok, I know why I am sorry, but why are you sorry?" Donnie asked,
"I don't know," I said, "I guess it was something to say, and," should I tell him what I heard? "I kind of overheard your conversation with Raph before we left." Why did I say that? His eyes widened and he stepped back a bit.
"o-oh, well, ah, I," he studded
"Yeah," I said lamely, "well, I kind of heard only the part of you guys, well, talking about me, and I kind of figured that you guys have heighten senses because you are part animals, so that would contribute the idea that you are affected by pheromones and when I was well, you know, emanating them, you reacted. And I fully understand the chemistry of this, I also want to apologizes that I couldn't control myself and" my ramble was interrupted by Donnie pulling me into his lab, closing the door behind me and backing me up against it,
"I understand the science of it as well," he said placed his hands on the door, basically trapping me, "but I can't control it any better than you, like you said, the chemistry is there in front of us and it surrounds us,"
"And it's turning you possessive," I said, remembering something from all those animal documentaries, "like in all animals, their behavior changes if they are in heat," then I thought of something, "so that's why Raph is so different, he's actually being nice,"
"What about Raph?" he asked, his eyes narrowing,
"He was with me almost all the time while we were up top," I said without thinking, the look on Donnie's face was a bit nerve-racking, I couldn't tell what he was feeling. Settling his hands on my shoulders, he pulled me to the side he opened the door and left. I panicked and followed him,
"Donnie, you better not be thinking what I think you're thinking," we were still in the hallway as I said this, pushing him slightly to the wall.
"He shouldn't be trying to get with you," he hissed, "I told him that you needed space, and he just-"
"Oh that's smart, coming from you and what you just did," I snapped, he looked shocked, I shook my head, "Sorry I-"
"Why do you do that?" he asked, I looked up at him with a questioning expression,
"What?"
"You apologize whenever you speak your mind or when you show any form of strong emotion, why is that?" his voice was sincere but I was not going to answer that until the problem in hand was solved.
"Don't try and change the subject, you were about to rush at your brother because of something so insignificant-"
"You're not insignificant-"
"But I'm not important enough to break your brothers bond, I may be one of the first girls to not scream at you, but I shouldn't get in between you and your family," I said, then shook my head again, "man, that so sounded like a line from a movie or something," I shivered, he looked at me with a sly smile, a small chuckle,
"I don't know how you do it, but those things that you do make you rather cute," he said, I scrunched up my nose,
"Don't call me cute!" I said, "I'm not that word. Cute is for kids, puppies, kittens, those little monkeys that are the size of a figure, I am not cute," I took a deep breath. Trying to calm the blush that was on my cheeks, "Besides, your brother was a true gentleman, so no need to get upset," I walked back to living room, hopefully that I would cool down before any of the other guys would notice. I heard shuffling behind me and Donnie came back to me with his plate of lukewarm pizza.
"I'll see how he is for myself," he said, then softened, "you're right, I haven't been acting normal," I looked at him and smiled,
"There's the old Donnie I wanted to see," I said, "reasonable and optimistic," I went to the table and happily saw that a few slices of Hawaiian were missing from the pile. I felt a tap on the shoulder, turning to see Master Splinter,
"You girls are a wonder," he said, "You are bringing forth a form of my sons that I haven't seen in a long time, and you especially made a miracle right now," I blinked,
"What sort of miracle?" I asked, he smiled,
"You actually brought Donatello out of his lab," he answered, I smiled, laughed and got a slice of pizza.
Again, I'm sorry that I haven't been updating as usual, I'm kind of suffering from writers block for the in-between scenes, I do have an idea for the middle and end, but I kind of in a stand still in getting around those big parts. So it might be another while until the next chapter, but if you have some suggestions, I would like see them, I will include your name for were credit is do. Hopefully this will work well for all of us,
'til next time.