Karai slithers onto Spike's plastron the next morning as Spike snores contentedly.

"Ssssspike!"

Spike rolls over onto her side, almost crushing Karai's tail under her. The snake woman puts her hands on her scaly hips, frowning at her. Her forked tongue darts between her teeth as she thinks. "Sssspike!"

No response.

The door opens. "Spike, yo, rise and shine!" Michelangelo shouts. He glances at Karai. "Are you trying to kill her or wake her up?"

"She issss a heavy sleeper," Karai remarks.

"You're telling me. She's worse than Raph." He strides into the room. "Oh, she won't be needing this model of the original Enterprise, right?"

Spike's eye snaps open and she rolls over all the way, hand outstretched.

Michelangelo yelps and ducks under Spike's swipe. "I was kidding, I was kidding!"

"Kid, you better be." Spike sits up and gropes for her mask, sliding it on and knotting it in the back. She groans and rubs her eyes. "What time is it?"

"Nine o'clock in the morning, dude. Splinter wants you to spar with Raph!" Michelangelo claps his hands, grinning. "Can't wait, right?"

"When?" she asks blearily.

He looks at her. "Uh, right now. Come on! Get your shell out of bed and let's roll!"

Spike throws a pillow at him. "Get out."

"Fine, fine. Grumpy turtle." Michelangelo closes the door behind him.

Spike rolls out of bed and grabs her belt, strapping it on. "Where did you disappear to last night?"

"I informed Angel of the sssituation that had developed and told the mutants to return home," Karai explains. "They found a Dragon band on the way back."

"Oh no."

"That Mona Lissssa is adept with her tail," Karai says. "Strong."

Spike nods. "Alright. Strong. Noted."

"The fox is deadly. Quick."

"Noted."

Something bangs at the door.

Spike reaches over and yanks the door open, glaring up at Raphael. "Can I help you?"

Raphael crosses his arms. "Depends on whether or not you're done gussying up."

"Whether I'm done doing what?!" Spike thunders. She plants a hand in the middle of his plastron and shoves him against the wall opposite her little cubby in the wall. "Red, you're really pushing it."

He shoves back, beginning to grin. "I know. It's a living. You woke up on the wrong side of the bed?"

"You could say that." Spike crosses her arms.

"I'll just sssstay in here." Karai wisely shuts herself into Spike's quarters.

Spike reaches up and closes her fingers around the toothpick. "Wouldn't want you to get splinters when I push your face into the dirt." She pulls it out and flips it towards a discard can in the living quarters. "Right?"

"You're a cocky one," Raphael says. "You really are."

"Thanks, Red. C'mon. Let's show Master Splinter who the best fighter really is."

Raphael smirks and leans over. "I think we both know who that is," he whispers into her ear.

Spike crosses her arms as his smirk starts to affect her mental capacities. "I think we do."

"What is this, pro wrestling?" Leonardo demands from the kitchen. "If you're going to go at it, just do it! Enough smack talk and get to the dojo."

"Aye-aye, Captain."

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