Chapter 21 –House warming party time.
After a bit of planning with a lot of help from Donnie's brothers and Master Splinter Donnie and April finally finished planning the house warming party. Donnie was also able to make a lot of important changes and modifications to the secret underground tunnel that he discovered. With his brothers help he built a pedestrian path way and installed security cameras for safety reasons. A few days later it was party time! Mikey was not only the DJ he made the food for the party as well. April and Donnie invited the mighty mutanimals to attend along with April's dad Kirby, her Aunt Carol and the turtle's old friend Casey Jones was able to attend even though he thought he wouldn't be able due to his busy hockey schedule but lucky for Casey Jones he was able to get some time off. With the entire guest in attendance Mikey went to his DJ booth and started talking through his microphone, "Hey what's up everybody. This is DJ Mikey here along with my co DJ Ice Cream Kitty here at the house warming party of my brother Donnie and his beautiful wife April. Say something to the party guest Ice Cream Kitty." "Meow." After that Mikey continued, "Let's get this party started!" Mikey cranked up the music and everybody was dancing. While the party was going on Pigeon Pete was looking for something to eat. "I wonder if they have any bread?" Pigeon Pete asked himself. Then Leo called out to Pigeon Pete, "Hey Pete what are you looking for?" Pigeon Pete replied, "Oh I'm looking to see if there is any bread around. I'm hungry." "Come with me to the buffet table" said, Leo and off they both went. When they got to the buffet table Pigeon Pete saw a plate of different rolls which made him a happy mutated pigeon. "I knew you would like them. Mikey prepared them just in case if you were able to come" Leo told Pigeon Pete. Then Pigeon Pete replied, "I have to thank Mikey for making this delicious bread and the happy couple for inviting me and the rest of the team to their party."
While the party continued Doctor Tyler Rockwell was being a bit of a wall flower. April's aunt Carol saw Doctor Rockwell not dancing so she went up to him. "Doctor Rockwell? Is everything ok?" Carol asked him. "Yes everything is fine. I've never been much of a dancer even back in my College days long before I became a mutant chimp when I attended some of the College parties" Rockwell answered. Then Carol said, "Well maybe you just needed the right dance partner" so she took Rockwell by the hand and lead him to the Dance Floor. At first Rockwell was a bit nervous but once he wrapped his arms around Carol he become less nervous and they started dancing together. "Forgive me madam but I forgotten your name. I know we met at the wedding but we never had a chance to talk more" Rockwell said to Carol. She answered, "Its ok. My name is Carol O' Neil. I'm Kirby's twin sister and April's aunt." "Ms. O' Neil you are a wonderful dancer" Rockwell told his dance partner. "Thank you and by the way you can call me Carol" she replied. When the song was over that everybody was dancing to Carol said to her dance partner, "thank you for dancing with me Doctor Rockwell." "Your welcome and please call me Tyler. I've never met anyone who was such an amazing dancer until today. You were right all I needed was the right dance partner" Rockwell replied.
As the party continued Raph and Slash were catching up. A long time ago Slash was once Raph's pet turtle who he named Spike that he loved and cared for very much. After Spike accidently got into some mutagen he mutated into a giant talking turtle just like Raph and his brothers did when they were baby turtles. On top of that Raph was super annoyed with his brothers so much to the point that he wished he was fighting bad guys on his own. When Raph found out that Spike mutated they partnered up to take on the bad guys and Spike changed his name to Slash. However the mutagen messed with Slash's head and he started attacking Raph's brother's which made Raph really angry and realize that family is important no matter how much they bug you. Later on Slash created his own crime fighting team called the mighty mutanimals. (I added this part just in case any of you out there had no idea about Raph's and Slash's history). "How have you been Slash?" Raph asked his former pet. Slash replied, "I'm doing well. The mighty mutanimals and I have been kicking a lot of bad guy butts lately because where there is trouble brewing the mighty mutanimals will be there to stop bad guys in their tracks." "That's good to hear and who knows maybe my brothers and I will fight alongside you and your team again just like when we defeated the kraang and saved the world" said Raph. "I would like that very much Raphael" Slash said to his former pet owner and friend.
Everyone was dancing and having an awesome time at April and Donnie's house warming party. Even Leatherhead was dancing which made Mikey happy and say, "Whoa Leatherhead you know how to bust out some sweet dance moves. THAT'S AWESOME!" "I didn't know I could dance like this until today Michelangelo" Leatherhead said to Mikey. While Casey Jones was attending the party he was chit chatting with April and Donnie. "It's good that you were able to make it Casey" April said to Casey. He replied, "I had some time off and how I can miss attending this party it's awesome." Then April said, "I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying yourself." After that Casey asked Donnie, "So Donnie what's its like being married?" Donnie answered, "It's wonderful especially when you're married to a wonderful and amazing person like April." Then Casey said, "I hope to someday to find true love like how you two found each other. Sure being a famous hockey player is awesome but still it would be nice if I had somebody special in my life." Then Donnie said to Casey, "Someday you will find the one for you. It took me a while to work up the courage to confess my feelings for April because I thought she wouldn't love me back but I was wrong and today we're happily married and god blessed us with our daughter Maggie." Casey felt inspired at what Donnie told him and thanked him for his words of encouragement.
Mikey had something extra fun planned for the party so he got his microphone and said, "Hey everyone as an added fun bonus I think it would be awesome if some of us who are brave enough to come up here and sing karaoke. I even have a karaoke machine and a screen set up." All the party guess were surprised and somewhat delighted at the same time because they were up for hearing anyone brave enough to come up and sing their favorite song. "Ok who's brave enough to come up and sing first?" Asked Mikey. For a short while everyone at the party became real quiet because they were all nervous until Donnie and April said, "We'll go first." Mikey was happy to hear Donnie and April actually volunteered first because he thought nobody was going to sing and they both agreed on a special song they wanted to sing together. "Donnie and I want to sing No Matter where you are from the movie The Book of Life." After that Donnie asked his brothers to sing back up which they agreed to even Raph who nobody thought would want to sing. Then Mikey said, "Alright then I'll start the track" which he did and Donnie and April started singing together.
Donnie and April: "I will stay by you. Even when we fall. I will be the rock that holds you up and lifts you up high so you stand tall."
Donnie: "And I won't let you fall. I won't let you…"
Donnie and April: "Go! No matter where you are. No matter where you are. I'll be there. No matter where you are. No matter where you are. I'll be there."
April: "So tear apart these giant hearts. That beats inside us now. Let's give ourselves our promises of our unending…"
Mikey, Raph and Leo sing together: "Love!"
Donnie: "And I won't you fall."
Mikey, Raph and Leo sing together: "Won't let you fall."
Donnie: "I won't let you…"
Donnie and April: Go!
Mikey, Raph and Leo sing together: "Won't let you go."
Donnie and April: "No matter where you are."
Mikey, Raph and Leo sing together: "No matter where."
Donnie and April: "I'll be there."
April: "I will be there."
Donnie and April: "No matter where you are."
Mikey, Raph and Leo sing together: "No matter where."
Donnie and April: "No matter where you are."
Mikey, Raph and Leo sing together: "No matter where."
Donnie and April: "I'll be there."
Mikey, Raph and Leo sing together: "I'll be there."
Donnie and April: "No matter where you are."
Mikey, Raph and Leo sing together: "No matter where."
Donnie and April: "No matter where you are I'll be there."
Everyone all together: "I'll be there!"
As soon as the song was over the entire guess clapped and cheered because it was an enjoyable performance. "Thank you everybody for liking our performance and thank you to Leo, Mikey and Raph for being our backup singers" Donnie and April said to everyone and to Donnie's brothers. "All righty then thank you my brother and sister for being brave enough to come up first to sing. Is there anyone else who would like to sing something?" Mikey asked everyone. The next person who wanted to sing next Leo and he started singing the theme song to his favorite TV show Space Heroes. After Leo was done singing the entire guest didn't know what to say because they stared in shock that Leo knew every word except for Raph since he knew that his brother always wanted to sing the theme song to Space Heroes for all to hear. Maggie on the other hand rather liked her Uncle Leo's performance because she kept smiling at her uncle while he was singing. "Ok thank you Leo for singing the theme song to Space Heroes. Anybody else wants to sing something that has nothing to do with Space Heroes? A lot of other people actually got the courage to get up and sing their favorite songs except for Master Splinter who enjoyed watching the performances.
Later on the guest were getting hungry so it was time to eat. As always Mikey made pizza with different toppings both normal and abnormal on each of the pizza pies. There was also a bunch of different flavored sodas at the buffet table. For dessert a strawberry short cake was served that April made herself which everybody took a slice of which everyone enjoyed. Pigeon Pete enjoyed the cake the most because he thought it was some kind of sweet fruity bread with cream. After the guest were done eating they all went back on the dance floor. Donnie and his whole family both human and mutate all took turns dancing with Maggie who enjoyed dancing with each of her family members. Mikey even busted out some sweet dance moves along with his friend Leatherhead who discovered earlier at the party that he can actually dance. It was getting late so the house warming party came to an end. The guest helped with the clean up because they were grateful for being invited and the mess was pretty big. Everything was cleaned up in no time flat. Slash walked up to the couple and said, "thank you for having me and my team the mighty mutanimals at your wonderful house warming party and it was good to see you again Donatello, April and Maggie too." "I'm glad that you had a good time. We look forward to the next time we see you either here at the farm house or in New York if we're kicking bad guy butt together" replied Donnie. Pigeon Pete even remembered to thank Mikey for the delicious choices of bread which Mikey was happy to hear that Pigeon Pete enjoyed.
"Um Carol?" said Rockwell. "Yes Tyler?" Carol answered. "I was wondering could I get your number so I can maybe call you sometime to go dancing or to just enjoy each other's company?" Then Carol said, "of course. I enjoyed spending time with you." Rockwell was surprised to hear that and said, "I didn't think you would since I'm a mutate chimp with a very high IQ who was once human and a scientist." Carol replied, "Tyler you're a wonderful person and it doesn't bother me that you look this way. After all my niece is married to a giant talking genius turtle who knows ninjutsu so who would I be to judge a person based on their appearance." After Carol said that it made Rockwell smile knowing that Carol didn't think he was just some freaky mutate chimp. After the cleanup was done all the guest went home. Leo, Raph, Mikey and Master Splinter thanked Donnie and April for having them as well and gave Maggie a good night kiss before taking the secret tunnel to get home faster. "That was fun Donnie especially when we sang together" said April. "I'm glad that you had fun. I enjoyed myself as well and partying with everyone was a great way for everyone to have some fun in our new home. Now that's over let's enjoy some family time with just you, me and Maggie for a while" said Donnie. April couldn't agree with Donnie more about what he just said. After that the proud parents gave Maggie a bath, gave her milk and put her to bed before going to bed themselves for the night from all the fun that they had from their house warming party and being around friends and families who they loved very much.
Author's Note: Oh wow this is chapter 21 of my fanfiction. It took me a while to write because I want it to be good. For fun I thought it would be a good idea for Donnie and April's house warming party to have a little karaoke fun. For a song choice for the happy couple I had them sing No Matter Where You Are from this movie I freaking enjoy a lot called The Book of Life. If any of you have seen the movie then you have to be familiar with the song Maria and Manolo sing at the end of the movie. As I said before I don't own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or characters associated with TMNT. I also don't own The Book of Life or any of their songs. I just thought it would be fun to include it in my fanfiction. One more thing folks the next chapter of Teenage Mutant Ninja Family will be my last chapter so please stay tune for the final chapter which I'll be writing soon so make sure you stay up to date when I update this story for the last time.