A/N I'm going to distinguish the different turtles by keeping the nicknames with the movie turtles, and the full names for the 2k3 turtles.
Chapter 14
As the months went on I got bigger and bigger, I thought I was going to pop. All I really did was hang around my cell and with close supervision, work out lightly. I sat on my little mattress as I thought about when I allowed the guys to bombard me with questions.
"What? How? By who?" Mikey shouted.
"How: Jackson told me it was one of the first injections." My face turned red as I had to explain the contents. "It was sperm in the needle and some mutagen. Obviously the sperm is what did it, but the mutagen is keeping the four of us alive. That's the big reason why we have to stay here longer. The universe we'll be transported to doesn't have the technology to extract the healing agent from the mutagen. As for whose: I don't know." I felt the red from my face cool down and I hoped I wasn't red anymore.
"So, it's just like what Sachs wanted with us." Leo concluded.
"Basically, except you know what your blood is being used for." I shrugged trying to see a bright side to this.
"Does Dr. Jackson know how far along you are?" Donnie went into 'Doctor Donnie'" mode and asked.
"A few weeks? According to his guess, I'm due in four months." I told Don. "The mutagen is making everything different."
Yup that was an interesting day. I had a feeling today would be too because Dr. Jackson said he'd let me know what the genders were, but honestly, I wanted to be surprised. We'll see if my curiosity takes over. Jackson led me to our usual check-up room, and waited to be told what to do. As usual, Jackson made sure the babies were doing okay, and gave me my mutagen shot. Something that started happening a week or two ago, I started to be able to stay conscious after receiving them. Doc, said it was because my body was building up an immunity or something to it. The only thing I was worry about was if I started growing a shell, then I was gonna beat the crap outta him. I got up after my shot and was led back to my cell. Once Jackson was gone, Mikey's mouth started.
"Are they boys or girls?" And a trillion other questions came.
Oh Mikey, I love you, but where's the damn off switch?
"Mikey, some parents don't want to know and the fire of questions isn't going to help her relax enough." Donnie butted in and I sent him an appreciated smile.
"Alright then." Mikey pouted.
In that day, I was in Jackson's office about ten times. He thinks I should be having the babies soon, but told me the babies were mutant turtles and should only need four to five months. I just smiled and nodded. One annoying thing was Leo and Donnie would be so annoying and ask how I was feeling every hour. Seriously I was able to keep time now! So here I was yet again in Jackson's room.
"How are you feeling?" He asked.
"Good, thanks." My feet were swinging as he went through the usual. When he was done I asked. "Do you know who the father is?"
Jackson looked up at me. "It could be any of them."
"Dr. Jackson, are you saying that any of the turtles could be one or more than one of my babies' father?" I asked.
"Yes, and please, call me Phil." He smiled.
"Okay, um, Phil, thanks." I followed him back to my cell.
Just as he left, dinner came rolling in. Perfect timing. I dug in and when I finished, I slid my tray under the door. The guys were all in their cells and I decided to take a short nap. So I lowered myself down and closed my eyes. I don't think it was even ten minutes that a sharp cramp snapped me out of my nap. Gasping, I rubbed my stomach. Calm down, just breathe. Soon the pain was gone and I saw that Leo was stirring in his sleep, and woke up.
"Leo, I need Phil now." I told him and he bolted to his feet and started shouting and banging on the door and walls.
"Hey we need a doctor in here!"
The others woke up from Leo's shouts.
"What's going on?" Raph asked, not being very calm.
"I think I'm going into labor." I said as I waited for another contraction. Phil ran into our hall minutes later and the next contraction hit. "Ow, ow, ow, ow."
"How're doing?" He asked.
I glared at him. "Really? You're going to ask me that?"
"Yes, I am." Phil answered and helped me up as I followed Phil's instructions to breathe, and honestly, I was going to hit him if he said breath one more time.
Finally we made it to his office, and he confirmed, I was having these babies today. That's when it really hit me, I was going to be a mom! These kids were going to be mine and I would have to raise them. They would depend on me to keep them safe and scare away the monsters under the bed. The contraction passed, but now I was trying to breathe through the shock of everything. Phil had left to get the guys because we were leaving. The guys got finally got into the room and Phil talked into his watch and Leo rushed to me. I grabbed his hand and held it tightly.
"How are you feeling?" He asked.
"As good as I can right now." I gasped and looked up at him. "I'm scared."
"Everything's gonna be okay. I'm not leaving you." Leo tried to comfort me as Phil announced our transport.
A bright light flashed from his watch making us all shield our eyes and when it dimmed we were in the center of TCRI, aka Utrom headquarters. Leo held me up and Mr. Mortu and Donatello ran up to me. Let me tell you, I was star struck. They helped me to their delivery room and I made them let Leo stay with me. My Donnie look so confused as Donatello started shouting orders and shooed the others away.
(Mikey's POV)
"Mikey, get them to the waiting room until we're done." The smaller Donnie told…well me…no not me, um the Mikey wanna be?
"Got it, bro!" He called and I got even more confused when he sounded like me too. Then the smaller Mikey ran to us. "Okay, you three, follow me." He told us and led us to a room with a bunch of chairs in it. "Don will let us know when we can go back."
"So where are the others?" Donnie asked.
"Um, Leo should be on his way, Raph, I don't know." He scratched the back of his head. We all got quiet for what felt like hours.
"This is awkward." I chuckled, breaking the silence. "Are you me?"
"Dude…" We both said.
"Alexa, tried to explain it to us before." Donnie butted in. "This is just a different universe. Different universe, different turtles."
"That makes no sense." Raph grumbled.
"And us being real made no sense to Alexa." I added. "I have a feeling this is going to seem pretty normal soon."
Raph rolled his eyes and silence covered us, but I did notice Michelangelo staring at me. That was weird. I watched out of the corner of my eye as he just stared and stared. Dude, what was his problem? I just fiddled with my fingers and sat in one of the chairs. Being quiet is not my favorite thing to do, that was Leo's job! I was just so excited for the babies to come, and so weirded out by this little Michelangelo staring at me. Shell, we didn't even have our masks or clothes, I feel naked! I turned to talk to Donnie to get my mind off of my lack of clothes.
"How do you think she's doing?" I asked Donnie.
The sounds of babies crying made my head snap in that direction and a smile spread on my face. They were here!
(Alexa's POV)
Two of the three of my babies were crying and as I calmed myself down, or at least tried, I stared at Donatello to see if the baby was okay. My head was resting on the pillow and Leo was watching Donatello too.
"Is he okay?" I asked as the other two were wrapped in a blanket.
"He's breathing, and we're running a few tests to make sure there's nothing wrong." Donatello answered. "I'll go get your brothers." He told Leo.
An utrom came over to me and Leo and handed the two health babies, one boy and one girl. I held the two carefully in my arms and smiled at their small green faces. They were in color coded blankets, pink for the girl and blue for the boy, and as I spoke to them quietly, they drifted to sleep.
"He'll be fine." Leo told me as the others walked in.
"I want to see the babies!" Mikey yelled and the girl started crying. Don yelled at Mikey, quietly, and I got the boy to relax. "Sorry," Mikey whispered, "what are you going to name them?"
Hmm, I know one was going to be named Yoshi, and I want their names to mean something. Oh, but I really like the names Ethan and Damon. What about a Japanese name? "How about Yoshi for one of the boys?"
"I like it." Leo smiled.
"Um, for the girl now…" I looked down at her and all I could think about was how beautiful she is. The guys started teaching me some Japanese and I always looked up different names for characters in my fanfictions. "Kiyomi."
Mikey walked over to me and smiled. "It fits her."
(Kiyomi means pure beauty in Japanese.)
"Now the third one."
"Where is the little guy?" Mikey asked.
"Right here." Donatello said as he into the room with my third baby in his arms. I pulled my knees up and Donatello set him in between Kiyomi and my third baby. "He's perfectly healthy." He smiled as he left the room.
"Donnie." He turned his head. "Thank you." I smiled and looked down at the three. "Are there any names in Japanese that mean something along the lines of peace or a peaceful person?"
"Yasuo." Donnie said.
"I know what I want to name them." I told them. "The oldest boy is Yoshi, the girl I want to name Kiyomi, and the one who gave me a heart attack is Yasuo."
"Can I hold one of them?" Mikey asked.
I laughed. "Sure, but be careful." Mikey came over. "Who do you want?"
"I want to hold all of them, but let's start with Yoshi."
I past him to Mikey and the others took their turns holding the babies.
