12.1 2012 Verse Requested by RobinLost
"Okay boys," said Karai smugly as she addressed her three looping brothers. "You know the plan?"
"Yes," said Leo, looking at Karai nervously.
Raph just grunted in agreement while glaring daggers at the snake girl.
"Yup," said Mikey a little too cheerfully. "Operation Turtledoves is a go!"
"Operation Turtledoves?" asked Karai with a grin. "Nice name."
Mikey gave a small bow. "Thank you."
"Good, then everything better go according to plan," said Karai with a dangerous grin. "Or else."
The three turtles gulped nervously, and scrambled to get into their positions.
"So what's she got on you?" asked Mikey to his brothers. They were all being blackmailed by Karai in order to do this.
"Nothing you will ever find out about," growled Raph.
"Same here," agreed Leo. "Let's just get this over with."
Mikey looked disappointed at his brothers' brush-off, but he shrugged and ducked into the kitchen to begin cooking.
Later…
Donnie (Who wasn't awake for this loop) was working in his lab when his T-phone pinged that he had a text. When he saw that the message was from April, he could hardly contain his glee.
"She texted me. Yes!" he cheered with a fist pump.
His happiness was only increased when he saw that she was asking to meet him later that evening at Murakami's restaurant. He happily sent a reply that he'd be there, and retuned to his projects in a gleeful bliss.
He was so happy about it, that he failed to notice that Leo had snuck into his lab, and snatched his T-phone off the desk.
Once Leo had slipped back out of the lab, he dialed Raph's phone.
"Okay, phase one worked perfectly," said Leo, once his brother answered. "How are things on your end?"
"April hasn't even noticed I stole her phone," Raph replied, as he watched April study in her room through her window. "We need to tell Sensei to step up her training on being more aware of her surroundings. I'm barely trying here."
"We'll work that out later," said Leo, with a roll of his eyes. "Did you delete the text history?"
"Yup," said Raph. "Just give me a minute to put it back."
Raph hung up, and silently slipped back into April's room and put her phone back where he'd snatched it from before slipping back out the window. April was none the wiser.
A second later her phone chimed that she had a new message. Looking at it, she saw that it was a text from Donnie asking her to come to Murakami's later. Seeing no reason to turn him down, she replied that she'd be there.
"Well that was surprisingly easy," grumbled Raph.
Later that evening, Donnie arrived at Murakami's and walked into the restaurant. Murakami looked up when he heard the door open. "Good evening," he called.
"Good evening, Murakami-san," Donnie replied.
Murakami's face lit up at the sound of his voice. "Ah, Donatello, you've arrived."
Donnie raised an eye ridge. "You knew I was coming?" he asked.
Murakami looked like he was privy to an inside joke. "A certain young lady said you would be here," he said vaguely. "She asked me to prepare a table in the back."
Donnie's face lit up. "April?" he asked.
Murakami made a non-committing sound, and busied himself with making more pizza gyoza.
Donnie figured that was a yes, and sat down at the table Murakami had indicated.
A few minutes later the door opened again and April walked in. After calling a greeting to Murakami, she walked over and joined Donnie at the table.
"Hey Donnie," she said. "What did you want to talk about?"
That broke through Donnie's happy haze. "What do you mean?" he asked in confusion. "You asked me here."
April frowned. "No, you texted me, and asked to meet here," she said.
Just then Murakami came over with a large tray of pizza gyoza, drinks, one of Mikey's homemade desserts (not mixed with pizza), and a candelabra. He placed it down on the table between them, and turned to leave. "Have a lovely evening, complements of your family," he said cheerfully as he walked into the back of the restaurant.
Donnie's face turned beet red. "I'm going to kill them," he growled.
"Save some for me," said April, not looking pleased.
Donnie looked at April imploringly. "I swear I had no idea they were planning this. I am so sorry," he said in embarrassment.
April gave him a searching look. Then she shrugged, picked up he chopsticks, and helped herself to some pizza gyoza. "I believe you," she said after she'd eaten one.
Donnie blinked in surprise. "What are you doing?" he asked.
April gave him a sly smile. "The way I see it. We get a delicious free meal and good company. We can get back at the others later. For now lets just enjoy the evening, and plot our revenge."
Donnie turned red again, but this time for an entirely different reason. "O-okay," he stammered happily as he reached for his own chopsticks. Suddenly he didn't know if he should stay angry with his siblings, or if he should thank them instead.
What the couple didn't know was that when Karai had talked Murakami into letting them do this, she had also left a hidden camera to watch their whole evening back at the lair.
Karai and Mikey smacked a high five/three. "Operation Turtledoves is a success," said Mikey cheerfully.
Behind them, Raph held his hand out to Leo. "She didn't walk out. Pay up," said the red wearing turtle with a smug grin.
Leo frowned, but handed Raph a five-dollar bill. "How'd you know?" he asked.
Raph shrugged. "I kept ragging on Donnie that it would never work between him and April, and he kept proving me wrong. So I decided to stop underestimating them."
Leo looked thoughtful at that.
"Indeed, this was an impressive trick you all pulled on your brother," came a deep voice behind them all.
They all jumped and saw that Master Splinter had walked in on them, and was looking at video screen attentively.
The three turtles all shifted nervously, but Karai just smiled.
"Thank you, Father," said Karai smugly. "We try."
"I assume you were the ringleader of all this, my daughter," said Master Splinter, eyeing her with an amused expression. "How did you manage to convince the boys into helping you?"
Karai's smirk widened, and the turtles all looked like they wanted to pull into their shells in embarrassed. "Never underestimate the power of blackmail," she said.
12.2 Next Mutation Verse
Venus had been meditating in her room when a shout pulled her from her trance.
"Yo, Venus, come out here!" called Leonardo's voice.
Wondering what he wanted now, Venus stood and exited her room and entered the main area of the Lair.
Standing before her in a row were all four of the other turtles. Each appeared to be hiding something behind their backs, and the expressions on their faces were a wide variety. Leonardo was bashful, Michelangelo was grinning in excitement, Donatello looked smug, and Raphael looked like he wanted nothing more than for the floor to swallow him up.
"What is going on?" she asked in confusion.
The four turtles exchanged glances, then with a flourish they all revealed what they'd been hiding. "Happy Valentine's Day, Venus!" they chorused, each holding out a gift. Leonardo held a bouquet of roses, Michelangelo presented her with a pink teddy bear, Donatello held out a bottle of perfume, and Raphael reluctantly gave her a large heart-shaped box of chocolates.
Venus blinked in surprise, then beamed at the four of them. "Thank you all," she said as she took the gifts, giving each of them a kiss on the cheek as she did.
From his seat, Master Splinter watched these proceedings with amusement. "Kids," he chuckled softly to himself.
12.3 2012 Verse (Mentioned in 7.9)
Karai had just been passing Leo in the Lair, when Michelangelo came flying out of nowhere and kicked the two of them into a supply closet. Before either of them could recover their senses, they heard the telltale sound of the door being locked, and something heavy being placed in front of it.
"I'm going to kill him," said Leo, as he shoved a bucket off his head and glared at the door.
"Not if I kill him first," hissed Karai, as she pulled herself to her feet.
Despite their combined efforts the closet door remained stubbornly closed.
"What'd he put in front of this?" asked Karai in exasperation.
Just then they heard a loud growling snore from the other side of the door.
Leo listened closely to the sound of the snores, and made a face. "My guess would be a napping Leatherhead."
"Great," said Karai sarcastically. It had taken the combined effort of all of them to carry Leatherhead to the lair when they'd first met. They'd never get out of this closet with just the two of them.
The two sat down in defeat. They both knew that Leatherhead could sleep through anything short of a Kraang invasion, and both Donnie and Raph were not likely to come to their rescue out of weariness of the croc. Splinter was out meditating, and would not be back for hours. That left Mikey, he was the only one who dared approach the crocodile for any situation, but he was also the one who'd put them in the closet in the first place. They weren't likely to get out until the youngest turtle got bored with his joke.
Karai shot Leo a sidelong look. "You do realize why he locked us in here right?"
With her enhanced vision, Karai could clearly see Leo turn scarlet despite the darkness of the closet.
Karai smirked at the sight. "Still stupid and adorable I see," she teased.
"You-you still think I'm adorable?" asked Leo in surprise.
"You're only proving me right about the stupid part," said Karai.
Leo ducked his head bashfully.
"Well I think you're beautiful," he muttered softly.
Unfortunately for him, she heard it. "Really?" she asked, a bittersweet smile spreading across her face.
Leo flinched at being caught, but managed to nod his head. Then he froze as he heard the sound of Karai shifting herself into her serpent form. He felt her tail wrap around his torso and arms, and could barely make out her serpentine head as she leaned in close to his face.
"Do you ssssstill think that?" asked Karai, purposefully drawing out her S in a hiss. Her forked tongue tickled his face as she spoke. It was clear she was trying to scare him, and make him reconsider his opinion of her.
"Yes," said Leo with conviction, not missing a beat. "You are beautiful, Miwa, even like this."
Karai froze at the sound of her real name and at the answer Leo had given.
Leo shrugged as best he could, despite Karai's tail pinning him in place. "After all, I'm a mutant turtle. Who am I to judge someone based on their looks. I can only give my own opinion, and to me you are beautiful."
Karai was silent for a long moment. Then she burst out laughing.
Leo shifted uncomfortably at being the cause of it, and due to the fact that her laughter had made her grip on him tighten almost painfully.
When she finally stopped laughing, she loosened her grip, but didn't let Leo go. Instead she curled herself around him till her head was resting on his shoulder.
"You really are adorable," she said softly in his ear.
Leo once again found himself turning red, and he had a silly grin on his face.
They sat there for a minute in silence before Leo had to ask, "Are you going to get off me?"
"Hmmm, no," said Karai in a cheeky voice. "You're comfy."
Leo only rolled his eyes and did his best to get comfortable. He walked into that one.
An hour later, Leatherhead finally awoke from his nap and left. Only then, did Raph dare to go to the closet to free their older siblings, despite Mikey's protests to leave them in there.
When Raph unlocked the door and peered inside, a wide grin spread across his face. He wordlessly motioned for his brothers to join him.
Inside the closet lay Leo and Karai curled up together and fast asleep.
"Awwww," said all three turtles in unison (though Raph's was more mocking than his brothers').
Just then, Karai's eyes snapped open, and zeroed in on Mikey. With an angry hiss, she unwrapped herself from Leo and shot towards the youngest turtle. Mikey let out a terrified shriek and bolted, Karai hot on his heels.
Leo had been jostled awake and sent sprawling when Karai dropped him. He slowly picked himself off the ground, and reluctantly faced his brothers.
"Sooo," said Raph with and evil grin on his face as he leaned against the doorframe. "Anything good happen?"
Leo scowled at his brother, and shoved him aside. "Shut up," he growled.
"I'd go sleepover at Casey's tonight if I were you," said Donnie teasingly. "I'm pretty sure you wont want to be in the Lair when Master Splinter finds out you were sleeping with his daughter in the closet."
Leo blanched at the thought, and rushed away to pack an overnight bag. His brothers' laughter followed him as he went.
12.4 2003 Verse
Casey fidgeted with his tie, and glanced down at the flowers in his hand. "You guys really think she'll like 'em?" he asked nervously.
He was visiting the turtles while they were out on patrol before his date with April. He'd planned to take her to a fancy restaurant, and was feeling out of his depth. He was looking for advice, but what romantic advice he expected to get from four mutant turtles (who'd never had a date in their lives) was beyond them.
Raph rolled his eyes. "For hundredth time, Yes! She'll love them. Now stop stalling, and go give them to her already."
"You'll be fine Casey," said Don encouragingly, giving their friend a thumbs up.
Mikey snickered. "You can take on Purple Dragons, Foot Ninjas, and the Shredder, but you're scared of sweet ol' April?" he asked with a grin.
Casey gave Mikey a dry look. "Oh yeah? I dare ya to say that to her face. Then we'll see who's scared."
Mikey thought it over, and gulped. "Touché," he said.
Leo shook his head in exasperation. "You'll be fine, Casey. Just be yourself, and treat her right. You have nothing to worry about."
"Now get goin'," said Raph, giving Casey a shove. "Or you're gonna be late. Then you will have something to worry about."
"I'm goin', I'm goin'," said Casey as he left.
The four turtles were watching him go, when Don noticed that someone else was watching the vigilante.
Don frowned at the badly dressed punk who was watching Casey from across the street. He seemed to have a little too much interest in him to just be a bystander, especially when the punk began to follow Casey at a distance.
Pulling out his binoculars, Don took a closer look at the punk.
"Uh oh," he said, as he lowered the binoculars.
"Uh oh?" asked Mikey looking over at him. "What uh oh?"
Don pointed to the punk. "Looks like we have a Purple Dragon scout. From what I can see, he's tailing Casey and sending info over his cell phone. I'd bet money, he and some of his friends are planning an ambush for Casey to walk into."
Leo frowned. "Looks like Casey'll need some help to get to his date on time."
His brothers nodded in agreement and took off.
A few blocks away, a dozen Purple Dragons stood in an alley waiting for their prey to fall into their trap.
"What's takin' that hokey-faced freak so long to get here?" asked one impatiently.
The leader of the group shot the complainer a glare. "Our boy said he'll be walking down that street any minute, so shuddup and be ready."
Just then their scout was thrown at their feet unconscious and tied up. His cell phone was tossed out next to him with a shuriken imbedded in it.
Four dark shapes melted out of the shadows with weapons at the ready.
"Sorry boys," said the red masked turtle menacingly. "Looks like you're getting us instead."
The alleyway quickly descended into chaos, and the gang members were sent running home to lick their wounds.
Meanwhile, Casey arrived at The 2nd Time Around, oblivious of the fight his friends had gotten into in his place.
He knocked on April's door, and gaped at the sight of her when she opened it.
"G-goongala," was all Casey could say as he handed her the bouquet of flowers.
April smiled and smoothed down her long gold dress. "I'll take that as a complement," she said. She then took the flowers and smelled them. "Thank you Casey, they're beautiful."
Casey rubbed his head sheepishly as April went to put them in water. "Thanks," he said. "The guys helped me pick them out. I don't know what I'd do without them."
April returned and wrapped her arm around his. "I know what you mean," she said. "Shall we?"
"We shall," said Casey with a goofy grin. And the happy couple headed out into the night.
12.5 2012 Verse
Living out in Northampton, there were some things that you could count on. For one, you were (as Raph so astutely puts it) in the middle of bum fuck nowhere. The distance between houses was wide, and you could spend your whole life never knowing who your next-door neighbor is. Because of this, Northampton is the perfect place to go if you want no one to know if you even exist.
So imagine the residents of the O'Neil house's surprise when they received a letter in the mail one fine afternoon.
April placed the mysterious letter on the dining table, and all the teens stared at it apprehensively.
"I don't recognize the return address," said Leo as he examined it.
"It's addressed to all of us," said Casey as he squinted at the writing on it. "Even you guys."
"Someone knows where we are?" squeaked Mikey in alarm.
"What if it's a trap," said Raph, fingering his sai. He looked like he wanted to stab the letter just in case.
Donnie had been examining the letter, but he stopped and gave Raph a deadpan look. "How do you put a trap in small envelope like this?" asked he dryly.
"By lacing the contents with poison," said Karai matter-of-factly. "Then when it's opened it spreads through the air or is received through skin contact."
The rest of the teens stopped and stared at the snake girl.
Karai blinked at the scrutiny and shrugged. "Well that's how I would do it," she said.
Everyone took a giant step back from the letter.
Donnie ran out to the barn and returned with one of his gadgets and scanned the letter. "I'm not picking up any traces of poison," he said as he analyzed the results. "I'm ninety percent sure that there isn't anything harmful inside."
"Ninety percent?" asked April doubtfully.
Donnie nodded. "Well, ninety point three continuously to be accurate."
"Well then you can open it, genius," said Raph scornfully.
Donnie scowled, but he reached for the letter. He pulled out a pair of tweezers and carefully opened the envelope and pulled out the contents.
Inside the envelope was a white lacey card. Donnie lifted it up to read. His face turned an even greener shade than usual. He dropped the card and raced from the room. "My eyes!" he wailed as he ran. "They burn!"
The remaining teens cautiously leaned over to look at the card on the floor, before recoiling in disgust and getting a safe distance from it.
Written on the card in fancy calligraphy was an invitation to the wedding of Bigfoot and The Finger. Included with the invitation was photograph of the happy couple wrapped in a loving embrace as they kissed each other passionately.
There were just some things that can never be unseen.
12.6 1987 Verse
Mona Lisa snuck over towards the line of party goes set to board the cruise ship. All she needed was to find someone who will let her pretend to be his date so she could stop Captain Filch's plan.
As she scanned the crowd for an opportunity, a voice rang out behind her.
"There you are! I was beginning to think you wouldn't make it!"
Mona Lisa jumped and wheeled around. Standing behind her was someone dressed in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle costume. He walked up to her and presented her with flowers.
He gave her a wide smile and Mona Lisa began to get an inkling that it might not be a costume he was wearing. Or if it was, it was a very good one.
"The name's Raphael," he said brightly with a small bow. "Would you care to join me for a lovely evening tonight? I have tickets for the cruise if you're interested."
Mona Lisa couldn't believe her luck. She also couldn't help feeling a little guilty. This sweet guy must have her thought she was his date.
"I'm sorry," she said, and tried to give the flowers back. "I think you have me mistaken for someone else."
Raphael would have none of it. He pressed the flowers to her hands and said, "You are Mona Lisa, right. The amazing mutant who stands against Captain Filch."
Mona Lisa nearly dropped the flowers in shock. She gave the turtle a suspicious look, but he quickly waved it away.
"This isn't a mask you know," he said pinching his own cheek to prove it. "I really am a ninja turtle. Me and my brothers already got Filch arrested this evening, so I thought maybe you'd like to have some fun?"
Raphael gave her a winning smile and held out his hand in invitation. "So why not? It's not often I get to take a cute girl like you to a fancy party like this."
Mona Lisa's face melted into a large smile, and she slipped her hand in his. "Lead the way, doll," she said.
Raphael beamed at her, and for the first time since her mutation, Mona Lisa felt pretty again.
12.7 2012 Verse Requested by ZorinBlitzFan
Donnie wasn't sure if he should like this situation, or if it should creep him out.
For this loop, he wasn't the only one to be in love at first sight. For some reason, April had fallen head over heels for him the second he'd saved her from the Kraang.
The only problem was, she was acting as enthusiastic about her pursuit of him as he'd been in the baseline loop (at least until Bigfoot showed him how it felt to be on the other side of it, and he toned it down a notch).
"Hey Donnie-boy," said April flirtatiously as she poked her head in his lab. "Mikey and Raph said they found a section of the sewers with water clean enough that we can go swimming in it. Wanna come?"
She then stepped in the lab, revealing that she was already wearing her bathing suit. A sight that made Donnie turn bright red as he stammered that he was coming.
Maybe he did like it a tiny bit, but her behavior was so un-April like that he couldn't wait for the next loop where she would hopefully be back to normal.
12.8 Usagi Verse
It was a typical snowy, winter day for Mariko, at least until there was a loud knock at her front door. She knew it could not be her husband, as he was to be busy in the village the entire day. Nor could it be her son, Jotaro, as he had gone off with his friends for the day as well.
Mariko answered the door cautiously, but was surprised to see that no one was there. She pushed the door open further and stepped out to look around. There wasn't a soul in sight.
It was then that she looked down in search of footprints, and saw something that amazed her.
There at her feet was a vase full of red roses in bloom. In wonder, she kneeled down to touch one of the petals, only to draw her hand back in shock when she realized that the flowers were fresh.
That was impossible. It was the middle of winter and snow was still falling. Roses could not, and would not flower for months.
Then who could have left them?
Mariko again searched for the one who put them there, but saw no one, only the faint impressions of footprints that were already filling with snow.
From a safe distance away, Usagi watched from his hiding place as Mariko gently picked up the vase of roses, and carried it into her house. Once the door was shut, he sighed and walked away.
Even after so long, the rabbit samurai could not help but still carry a torch for Mariko. Especially after living a few loops where she had been his wife rather than Kenichi's. His memories from those loops were some of his greatest treasures.
After hearing about this particular holiday from his kame friends, he could not resist leaving her with a token of his affection, even if she was unaware of what receiving it on this particular day would mean.
He knew, and that was enough.
12.9 2012(ish) Verse Requested by RobinLost
Karai was not happy. Once again she was stuck in a loop where she had to constantly wear a stifling floor length dress, and people expected her to act ladylike. She also appeared to be the only one awake for this loop.
But that wasn't the worst of it. No, the worst was that she actually was Oroku Saki's daughter in this loop. Or rather, she was Saki Capulet's daughter.
Karai wanted to bang her head against the balcony she was standing on. She was in a Romeo and Juliet version of her world, and from the looks of things, she was supposed to be Juliet.
If she died over a boy in this loop she was going to kill someone.
Of course, that begged the question that if she was Juliet… "Then who's the Romeo I'm supposed to fall for?" she muttered aloud.
"I take thee at thy word:" a voice cried. "Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo!"
Karai whirled around to see a chubby boy in a turtle costume clinging to the edge of her balcony.
The Pulverizer was supposed to be her Romeo?
Karai stared at him in utter disbelief for a few seconds before she shrieked, "Oh HELL No!" and shoved him off the balcony.
A few days later, Verona was in an uproar about the latest scandal. The Capulet heiress had abandoned her family, and run off with a rogue swordsman named Leonardo, and his band of brothers. In light of that news, Saki Capulet transferred all his hatred towards Leonardo's family, and all but forgot about his blood feud with the Montagues.
Oddly enough, Timothy Montague the Pulverizer went missing from the public eye not long after that as well.
12.10
Raphael is in red,
Leonardo wears blue,
All the Turtles want to say,
Happy Valentine's Day to you.
A/N Here's my Valentine's Day loop. I hope you enjoyed it. Happy Valentine's Day everyone. Also, don't forget to Read, Review, and leave Suggestions.
12.1- Thank you RobinLost for the suggestion for this loop. It was a lot of fun to write.
12.2- Venus gets Valentines from her boys, awww.
12.3- Donnie mentioned this happening in his phone conversation with Don03 back in 7.9. I thought it'd be a good one to add to this. I meant for it to be a short and funny little thing of Karai teasing Leo while they're in the closet, but it turned into something a little deeper.
12.4- I like 2003 Casey and April. Especially since their romance can be chronicled throughout the series, but it's never too in your face. It's cute, and you can really see them fall for each other over the seasons.
12.5- the 2012 series has a lot of fodder for romance stuff. I thought The Finger and Bigfoot were hilarious, but I would not want to go to their wedding. Karai's comments are loosely inspired by an episode of NCIS
12.6- I really wish they'd done more with Mona Lisa in the 1987 series. I think she and Raphael were cute. Plus she was pretty cool in her own right.
12.7- ZorinBlitzFan wanted Donnie to have a little more luck with April. I think this might be a little more than luck, but oh well.
12.8- Mariko is Usagi's childhood sweetheart, and after a brief romance Mariko got pregnant with his son. Without knowing this, Usagi left to become a samurai, and Mariko married his rival instead. It wasn't until later that Usagi found out that he had a son.
12.9- Again, thank you RobinLost fro suggesting this post. I'm sorry I didn't get to the Midsummer Night's Dream suggestion, but I don't know that play as well as I know Romeo and Juliet. I have a book on the complete works of Shakespeare, so I'll read the play and try to post a loop on that later.