Extra Chapter: Prank Wars

One night, while Maika and April were training in the dojo, Mikey came rushing in with a pot on his head. He stops in front of his father and weeps like a child. The rest of his brothers come in after him with kitchen utensils at hand.

"What did you do now Mikey?" April asked.

"That little monster was trying to sabotage dinner again to play his stupid prank!" Raphael aggressively answered as he gripped the wooden spoon.

"That prank was not meant for dinner! I was setting it up for something else." Mikey defended pointing a finger at Raph.

Raph grabbed his finger and bent it backward causing Mikey to scream in pain and retrieve his finger to his mouth.

"You were planning to make the food taste funny and poison everyone!" Donnie said.

"Enough, you are all young adults! You should act like one." Splinter said.

After the commotion and dinner, Leo, Donnie, Raph were left in the kitchen to do the dishes. Leo called his brothers to the sink,

"It's time for payback, we need to teach Mikey that his pranks are getting too harsh and that they need to stop." He whispered.

"Yeah, and I have the perfect plan…" Donnie said clapping his fingers together like a mad scientist concocting an evil plan.

The three brothers snuck their way to Donnie's lab without their victim, who was training with the girls in the dojo, noticing. Donnie explained his plan in the simplest way he knows his brothers would understand. After a while, Mikey said he'd sleep first as he stretched himself and headed to his bedroom. The girls were getting ready to go home as well as they grabbed their bags and walked towards the entrance.

"Okay guys, we'll see you in two days." April said.

"Wait… what do you mean in two days?" Donnie asked.

"I have an art project to do, and Maika is going to help me with it. See you guys." April said as she grabbed Maika's hand and gently pulled her to the entrance.

Maika just waived her hand before walking to April's side. Leo awkwardly raised his hand to gesture his farewell to the girls. Once they cleared their line of sight, the brothers jumped off their seat and proceeded with their plan. Donnie closed the door to his lab,

"Okay, commence plan "make Mikey suffer with pranks to teach him a very important lesson about how it's not good to use them against your own family"…" Donnie said rubbing his hands together as he faced his table full of chemicals and tools.

His brothers looked at him with confusion,

"What…? Too wordy for an action plan...?" he asked.

The boys nodded before Raph violently pushed him to the side.

"Stick to the science Captain Dork-azilla…" Raph said crossing his arms.

"Fine, just help me with this please…" Donnie said getting up and holding a few of his stuff and instructing his brothers to do the same.

The next day, Mikey woke up with a yawn. He grabbed his mask from the wheels of his skateboard that was leaning against his bed. He tied his mask on his eyes like he always does and faced the small mirror that was on his wall. He rubbed his eyes to clear his blurred vision. His eyes almost popped out of their sockets as he stared at the mirror.

"AHHHHH! What the heck!" He screamed as loudly as he can at the unnatural sight.

His brothers laughed as they sat around their dining table. They held their hands for a high-three. Mikey came out of his room to confront his brothers, and they did nothing but smirk and look too confident as they faced their work.

"You did this…" Mikey glared as he held his fist at a tight grip.

"Serves you right, this is nothing compared to all the pranks you pulled on us." Raph said as he crossed his arms.

"My pranks never went this far!" Mikey defended himself, raising his voice and throwing his fists over his head.

"Yes they did you dork!" Raph said as he hit Mikey at the back of his head.

"You mixed up the labels in my lab that I unintentionally blew a few of my instruments to bits because of a wrong mixture." Donnie said.

"And you messed up my comic books that I blamed Raph for it." Leo said.

"And you turtle-napped Spike that I freaked out and messed up everything in the lair." Raph said.

"Those things are not as bad as what you've done to me! Look at me! I'm freaking PINK! How am I supposed to be a ninja when I'm a walking cotton candy?" Mikey argued.

"Like we said Mikey, this serves you right… maybe next time you'll learn that your pranks are not funny, they just annoy people." Leo said as he threw himself on the couch and turned the television on.

"And besides, the paint will wear off in… a couple of days." Donnie said sitting on the floor to watch with Leo.

"A couple of days…?" Mikey echoed in disbelief.

"By then we hope you learn your lesson, Dr. Prankenstein." Raph said placing himself on the blue bean bag and pulling a comic to red.

Mikey retreated back to his bedroom,

"No one messes with king of pranks…" he mumbled as he slammed his metal door shut.

The other boys were feeling satisfied with themselves and went back to watching. That night, Mikey stayed in the lair because he did not want anyone to see him pink. His brothers went out to patrol. After midnight, the boys went back. They figured Mikey was already asleep so they didn't bother to check up on him. The next morning they expected Mikey to have prepared them breakfast like he always does. They find food but no Mikey, just a note.

"Enjoy breakfast… I'm going to Itachi-san's to find out how to get this pink off me." Donnie read.

Raph clapped his hands and sat down. He grabbed his chopsticks and started feasting. Meanwhile, Leo contacted Itachi to check if Mikey has made it but Itachi doesn't answer and his calls go straight to voice mail. The relaxed Raphael just kept gorging down the food and tells Leo Mikey might be a goofball but when it comes to issues like this he comes through. Soon the brothers finish the food, do the dishes, and go back to hanging and playing in the living room. Leo dialed Maika's number, but no one answered. Leo was getting worried,

"Hey Don, can you try contacting April? I can't get hold of Maika or Itachi…" Leo said trying to dial again.

Donnie brought out his phone and dialed April, but to Don's surprise and worry April was not answering his t-phone as well.

"There must be something wrong; April's not answering his phone either." He said.

"Ugh, come on then we have to check it out. Something's really wrong I just know it." Leo said packing his swords on his back.

The guys followed and moved to the surface, first they investigated April's place. They landed on the fire escape and knocked on the window. Don knocked a few more times but no one was coming to great them. He looked through the tinted glass and saw no one.

"That's strange, neither April or Maika are inside." Don said.

"Weren't they supposed to be working on April's art project?" Raph asked.

"Well, yeah… that's what they told us." Don said.

Leo tried dialing Maika again, and then the guys heard her ringtone from inside the room.

"It's not like Maika to leave her phone just like that." Leo said turning off the call.

"Maybe she just forgot it and had to run with April to a store or something?" Raph said.

"Leo, try calling April…" Don said.

The same thing, they heard her ringtone inside.

"Look guys, this is nothing… it's probably just another prank Mikey is pulling as payback to the prank we did on him and if we just go home and wait this out, Mikey will give up and come back home." Raph said.

During Raph's words, Don was starting to pick the window lock. When they got in they were very surprised, everything was a mess. Paint were splattered everywhere, April's canvas was torn to shreds and most of her books were destroyed. Leo found Maika's beads from her black beaded bracelet scattered on the carpeted floor. Then Raph felt the most fear of them all, he saw the color of blood on the walls, on the ceiling and on April's sheets.

"Okay now that's scary." He mumbled as his eyes widened in anxiety.

Then Leo's phone rang, he answered it and it was Mikey…

"Mikey!... Mikey where are you?" he frantically shouted over the phone.

The response was less than helpful, it was Mikey's voice but it was choppy and static over the phone. After a few seconds, Leo could hear nothing but the dial tone of his own phone. He withdrew his phone from his ear and faced his brothers with a very worried face.

"It was Mikey… but I couldn't understand anything he said. Guys I really have a bad feeling about this." He said.

"Yeah no kidding Leo…" Don snarled having the same bit of worry as him maybe more because of his April being missing and might be in danger as well.

"We better get back to the lair and tell master Splinter the situation." Raph said.

"We should at least check if Itachi-san is at his home." Leo said leading them back out to the fire escape then to the roof tops.

When they got Maika and Itachi's home no one was there also and, like April's room, was a mess with groceries scattered and destroyed all over the floor. Leo rushed to Maika's bedroom, when he burst through the door, Maika's stuff were wrecked as if someone went through them frantically searching for something.

"What the heck is going one here?" Raph said walking to Leo's side.

Don entered the room in search for a clue, a mistake of the perpetuators. He opened Maika's black laptop,

"Guys check this out." He said as his brothers walked to him.

He played a video file that was on the screen. And they were very surprised, it was dark and only a deep voice could be heard,

"Did you like the show, boys? I'm sorry for the mess but it's just the opening act, our show has just begun!" Spotlights lit and revealed the tied and bloodied missing people.

The guys panicked as their eyes opened in horror and anxiety.

"I hope you accept my invitation to see the rest of the show, if you don't come…" the lights disappeared again and nothing but a scream was heard.

The guys could only imagine someone was tortured and to their worst fear it was one of their friends.

"Let's go, we have to find them now!" Leo and his brothers went back to the lair as fast as they could.

Leo and Donnie were in the lab with Splinter trying to figure out where the video was taken and Raph was packing weapons and secretly grieving over the state of his younger brother.

"I promise Mikey, I'll beat the green off the people who did that to you." He mumbled as he touched Mikey's face in a family photo he had taped to the wall of his room.

"Raph, we found them let's go!" Leo knocked on his metal door.

The brothers set out with their master's blessing. They walked through the tunnels following Donnie's calculation on the location of where the video was sent from. They surfaced to an empty part of the city. They walked a few blocks and then stood in front of an old and abandoned warehouse.

"Well, this is it…" Don said keeping his phone.

"Got to give them points for eerie place to be in..." Raph said.

"We can't just march in there; we need a plan b in case they overpower us and capture us as well." Leo said.

"Donnie I need you to go in through the back, see if you can find the girls, Itachi-san and Mikey before things turn for the worst." Leo relayed.

"What about you guys?" Donnie asked.

"Raph and I will fight; distract the people inside so you can search." Leo said.

"And then what?" Donnie asked but Leo hesitated to answer.

"Let's do this." Raph said bringing his closed fist to inside of their circle, Leo and Don did the same before they split to commence their rescue plan.

Donnie walked silently to the side of the building, while Raph and Leo went in through an open window on the second floor. And inside was truly pitch black,

"It doesn't seem like no one is in here, are we sure this is the right building?" Raph whispered as he cautiously walked through the dark.

Suddenly they were knocked off to the first floor by a powerful force. They slowly picked themselves up and readied their weapon. But it wasn't long before something keeps beating them up and knocking them down in all direction. Raph swung his Sais uncontrollably in hopes of hitting something. But soon after a few grueling minutes of being knocked all over, Raph and Leo were knocked out.

Leo groaned out as he opened his eyes. He felt his hands and his entire body restricted. He tried to wriggle free but as he did he heard a cry out for pain.

"Raph…?" he said.

"Who do you think?" Raph responded.

"What's going on?"

"Donnie…? I thought I told you to look for the guys." Leo said.

"I was, but I was fighting in the dark then I was knocked out. And now I'm here tied up with you guys." Don answered.

"Great… Leo, do we have a plan c?" Raph sarcastically asked.

Lights turned on, their backs were tied together and they faced all different directions. A shady figure standing to the side started talking to them.

"So you really thought I would let you get in without giving you our deluxe amenities?" he said.

"Why don't you come out here and say that to my face, you creep!" Raph angrily scowled.

"What have you done to our friends?" Leo asked glaring at the figure which was in front of him.

"Oh don't worry, they're also enjoying themselves." The figure answered as the shadow of its arm gesturing them to the side where a few more spotlights lit revealing the dangling bloodied prisoners.

"April!" Don shouted as his eyes were filled with horror, the girl he cares for the most is covered in bruises, her face flinching in pain and her entire body hanging above the ground from the strength of her thin wrist.

"Maika…" Leo mumbled as his mouth dropped in shock and his eyes opened in anxiety, Maika's body had numerous cuts and lacerations, her face was full of bruises and cuts that it was barely recognizable as the beautiful girl he always saw and the ropes that constricted his arms and mid-body was hurting her even more as he hovered off solid ground.

"Mikey!" Raph glared his concern for his beloved younger brother who was hanging upside down, tied by his large green feet, his body full of red, blue, and black bruises and his shell damaged with deep scratches.

"Now that everyone's here let the game begin!" the figure shouted and the boys started spinning.

"Why are you doing this!" Leo shouted was the platform they were on started spinning faster and faster.

The boys closed their eyes as they were starting to get dizzier and dizzier one revolution after the other.

"Payback…!"

They were surprised at the voice who responded, they opened their eyes to see in a flash their little brother grinning at them holding a rope and the next yanking it pouring buckets of pink paint all over them. The spinning started slowing down, and when it stopped, they say Maika, Itachi and April holding on to ropes and yanking it all together spilling buckets of glitter and sparkles and a whole net of cute stuffed toys all over them. They all took out their phone and starting taking pictures. The disoriented guys can't do anything to stop them and just opened their eyes in surprise and shock.

"Like I said, no one messes with the King of pranks." Mikey grinned as he walked towards his team of pranksters who were equally happy and smiling at their victims.

"You guys were in on this with him!" Raph shouted trying to stand up but wobbles to the side crashing to a few wooden planks set off to the side.

"What you did wasn't very nice." April said.

"But he started it." Donnie said as April placed his arm over her shoulders to help him stand up properly.

"You guys are his older brothers; the way to discipline him on his pranks is not to prank him back…" Itachi said as he approached Leo,

"Ignore them, let him get bored and give up… he does this to get attention from you guys." He whispered.

"Mikey's not the kind to get bored and give up. We'll end up falling in to his every prank if we don't do anything about it." Leo whispered back as he rubbed his head.

"Yeah, probably, but you do realize that he takes his pranks a little bit higher than what you guys can do to him. Maybe next time not so extreme or you'll end up killing each other with pranks." Itachi said helping Leo.

Maika approached Leo and helped him get up to his feet.

"Don't worry after this, no more payback for a while." Leo slyly smiled as he stared at the smirking Maika.

"The prank war is won by the king of pranks! I am undefeated." Mikey shouted as he threw his hands up above his head.

"And now the king is going to be killed!" Raph picked himself up from the floor and ran after Mikey with his Sais drawn.

The others just laughed and chuckled as the two ran around the floor.