Hello turtle fans! So excited to finally post my first TMNT fanfic! I've been a shellhead for years!
I love the 2012 series episode 'Slash and Destroy,' and I loved the part with Leo joining that little girl for her tea party. It was so adorable! I wanted more of it, so this is just what I think how their tea party went before the scene cut back to Raph's fight with Slash then back.
Please enjoy ;D
This was embarrassing. Leo was just thankful that his brothers weren't around to see, which would be twice as embarrassing.
How hard was it to keep hands on one stinkin' canister of mutagen?
First a pizza-delivery guy picked it up, then an antique seller, then a man bought it for his daughter thinking it was a glow lamp.
He followed the two to an apartment building. Trying to snatch it with a grappling hook didn't work. His hook hit the door just after they closed it. He had no choice but to find which apartment they lived in and get that canister back. After scaling the sides, looking through the windows, he finally spotted who he was searching for.
There sat the same little girl in what appeared to be her bedroom. The walls were pink with butterflies and flowers, there were stuffed animals on shelves and other fantasy figurines.
The girl with light red short hair and a teal dress was sitting at a small table with a stuffed bear and a doll. She was having a tea party with her toys. She had the canister, which was a relief. The horrifying thing was, she had opened it and was apparently using the ooze as her tea.
"Here you go, Ruffles McBearington. One nice cup of green tea," she said to her teddy bear. Leo cringed with worry as he watched her pour the glowing ooze into one of her little tea cups.
"No time for stealth," the mutant said to himself as he started climbing through the window. He couldn't let her drink that mutagen. Just as the girl was raising the mutating ooze filled cup to her lips, Leo sprang forward. "Huh! Yah!" he exclaimed as he somersaulted then kicked the cup right out of her hand.
The cup flew across the room and broke against her door.
The girl said nothing as she stared at the spot on the door her tea cup had splattered. Leo looked there too, relieved that he stopped her just in time. Then his eyes went to her. She was starting at him now. Still saying nothing.
Shoot, Leo thought. I might have saved her but she saw me. And she's still looking at me.
Any second now. Leo was waiting for her to realize what was standing in her room and start screaming.
Instead, her head tilted to the side, looking at him curiously before grinning. She picked up the canister and held it out to him.
"Would you care for some tea, Mr. Turtle?" she asked him sweetly.
Now it was Leo who was looking at her curiously. Or more like totally baffled. She wasn't scared of him? Leo sighed in relief that her wasn't gonna freak out. "Uh, sorry, little girl. I really need to grab your tea and take off," he said to her, reaching his arm out to grab the canister and leave before anything else happened.
But the little girl pulled the canister back and hug it to herself.
"I'll scream if you go, Mr. Turtle! My daddy's room is right next door!" she said before sucking in a deep breath and holding it, prepping her lungs.
Leo gasped. He didn't believe she was bluffing.
She might be fine with his presence—whether she thought he was imaginary or whatever—but if she screamed and her dad came in, he would definitely freak out.
No one was likely to believe a child if they told them that they were visited by a giant talking turtle in their room. But an adult who knew better would not be so intrigued.
"Okay, okay! Stop! I-I'll stay!" Leo whisper/shouted.
Satisfied, the girl un-puffed her cheeks and breathed normally. "Good," she said with a smile and put the canister down. "We're going to need another chair." The little girl stood up, grabbing a slightly bigger chair from her desk and pulled it over to the table. "Move over, Ruffles McBearington! We have a guest!" she scolded her teddy bear as she pushed his chair over. Leo watched as she rearranged the chairs to fit all four of them. "Please, sit," she said to him, holding onto the back of the new chair.
This felt weird, but Leo sat down, his back facing the door. Because of his shell and his katanas, he didn't fit too well against the back of the chair. Plus, his legs were too long to fit under the table, so he had to bend them weird. But he made himself fit. If he was gonna get that canister, the best thing he could do was just play along for the time being.
Now the blue-masked ninja was really glad that his brothers weren't there to see this.
The little girl took her seat directly across from him, her back to the window. Once settled in, she grabbed the canister again.
"Don't!" Leo warned her while trying to not be too loud, when she tried to take the top off.
The girl stopped and looked at him. "Why not?"
"Because-" Leo paused. Was it smart to tell her that it was mutagenic ooze? He didn't want to scare her. Would she even understand? "That's not green tea," he finally said.
She looked at him with narrowed eyes. "I know it's not. I'm just pretending it is. I wasn't really doing to drink it," she told him in an annoyed tone. It was glowing liquid from a lamp her daddy just bought her. She knew it wasn't for eating but she thought she could at least play with it.
This made Leo feel a bit better. This girl had some common sense. Still. Even if she wasn't going to actually drink it, if any of it got on her, she was in trouble.
"Well, okay. But still, you shouldn't have opened it," Leo said told her. "It's full of dangerous chemicals. Bad stuff that will make you sick. You shouldn't even touch it." That was a slightly less scary explanation that wasn't a total lie. Leo just hoped she accepted it and put the canister down.
The little girl said nothing, glancing at the canister in her arms curiously. "Is that why you kicked the tea cup out of my hand?" she asked him. Leo just nodded. So she did understand. He let out a small sigh of relief when she got up from her chair and finally put the canister down, leaning it against the table. Then she walked up to his side and place one of her small hands on top of his. "You're a hero, Mr. Turtle," she said to him with a sweet smile on her face. Leo looked back into her big blue eyes with even more surprise, then smiled back. The girl then grabbed a plate from the table and offered it to him. "Cookie?" she asked.
Leo looked down at the plate and took one. "Thank you," he said respectfully.
"We can still have pretend tea without that nasty, lamp goo," the little girl said as she put the plate down and went back to her seat.
"At least the cookies are real," Leo said. He took a closer look at the cookie with a bit of uncertainty. "What kind of cookies are these?" He knew a bit more about human food then he did before he and his brothers got to explore the surface but he still didn't know a lot. Sweets were a category most foreign to them.
"They're snickerdoodles."
Leo looked at her with a raised brow. "Snickerdoodles?" That was a funny word.
"You've never had a snickerdoodle?" she asked, surprised. "They're full of sugar and cinnamon and are really yummy," she said, picking one up and taking a big bite. She smiled as she chewed.
Leo shrugged and took a bite of his. He smiled too, loving the sweet, chewy treat. "Mmmm! Yum," he hummed as he chewed. Cinnamon was wonderful!
When the girl finished her cookie, she grabbed the tea pot in the middle of the table. "Would you like some tea, Lady Jubilee?" she asked the doll to her left. "Why of course, Miss Robin," she said in a sophisticated, British accent before pretending to pour tea into the cup in from of the doll.
Leo popped the last of his cookie in his mouth, chewed, and swallowed.
"Your name's Robin?" he asked her. He hadn't caught her name before.
"That's Miss Robin, my fine gentle fellow," she scolded him, still trying to sound sophisticated. "This is a tea party after all."
Leo just smiled, nodding his head. "Of course. My apologizes, Miss Robin," he said. Maybe playing along won't be so painful. He grew up with three younger brothers who liked to play a lot of weird games. Never any tea parties, but still. "May I have some tea?"
"But of course, Mr. Turtle," she smiled back, reaching over the table and poured imaginary tea into his tea cup. When she was done, she put the tea pot down and grabbed the sugar bowl and cream jug in each hand. "Cream and sugar?" she offered.
"Sugar, please," Leo replied.
She put the cream jug down and took a tiny spoon out of the sugar bowl.
"One lump or two?"
"One is fine."
The little girl, Robin, pretended to scoop sugar out of the bowl, then held the tiny spoon over Leo's cup and turned it over, pretending to drop it in his tea. Then she did the same with her own tea cup before putting the sugar bowl back on the table.
Leo watched as she picked up another spoon next to her tea cup and started stirring with it. After spotting a spoon next to his own tea cup, Leo decided to follow her lead. These weren't the kind of tea parties he was used to. He had tea with Master Splinter often in the dojo, but there was a big difference in the etiquette here. So he would do what she did. He picked up the spoon and started stirring the air in his empty cup.
"Are those swords on your back?" Robin asked, making Leo stop stirring.
"Oh, uh…yes," he answered somewhat timidly. He was hoping the fact that he was carrying weapons didn't frighten her. If she got frightened, she would scream, and that would bring in her father.
"So you are some kind of hero," she said, her face filled with delight and intrigue.
This relieved Leo once again. It genuinely surprised him that almost everything about him not only didn't terrify this little girl, but actually made her happy. She liked him so much she threatened to scream for her dad if he didn't stay to play with her.
"You could say that," Leo shrugged, putting his spoon down.
He watched as Robin picked up her tea cup with the saucer underneath it, then lifted the tea cup by the handle, still holding the saucer under it.
Leo did his best to gently pick up the small saucer while keeping the cup from falling over. Then he picked the cup up from the handle like she did and stated raising it to his lips.
"No, no, no. You have to hold your pinky out," Robin said to him, stopping him in his movement. Then, to emphasize her point, she held her tea cup out a bit more, showing that she was holding her tea cup's handle with all of her fingers except her pinky, which she wiggled to show she had it sticking out.
Leo looked down at his hand, a bit unsure. "Uh…I don't really have a pinky," he told her, sticking out his smallest finger which one could consider a pinky.
"Are there other talking turtles like you?" she asked curiously.
This time, Leo knew he had to lie to her. He wasn't supposed to be here, so he shouldn't give her any more ideas that he was even real. "Nope! Ah-uh, heh. Just me. Mr. Imaginary Turtle," he told her with a nervous chuckle, putting extra emphasis on 'imaginary.' Then out of nowhere, something came crashing through the ceiling, landing to the ninja turtle's right, just missing the table. It was Raphael! And he appeared to be struggling against a bigger, mean-looking, blue-skinner turtle mutant with a spiky shell. "Raph?" he said, caught completely off guard.
"Leo!" his red-masked brother turned his head to him, then looked down at the table and at Robin. "Having…tea time?!" he shouted, annoyed as he held off the other turtle's hands pressing down on him.
The new mutant pressed Raph back a bit, only for Raph to push him back further, then the big guy launched the both of them straight toward Robin's window, blasting a giant hole through the brick wall. Robin watched the whole crazy scene from where she sat without uttering a single word or exclamation of fear.
Leo put his tea cup and saucer down and stood up. He had to help his brother. And with all those crashing noises, Robin's father was likely to come bursting in any second to check on his daughter. Fortunately, Robin was okay. She didn't get hurt from any of the building rubble around her room, nor did she look frightened by the destructive intrusion on her tea party. Just surprised, like he was.
This girl just kept surprising him.
Leo glanced down, remembering the mutagen canister leaning against the table. He grabbed it and made for the hole in the wall behind Robin. "Next time, I'll bring the tea!" he shouted to her before jumping out. He doubted that there would actually be a 'next time,' but that didn't mean that there wouldn't either. Just probably not until after her ceiling and wall were fixed.
"Bye, Mr. Turtle!" he heard her yell back as he ran to catch up with Raph and the new mutant.
As he got further away, Leonardo grinned.
"Bye, Robin."
Note: I picked the name 'Robin' for the little girl because in the TMNT 2003 series (season 4 episode 18 'Trouble With Augie'), April had a sister named Robin.
I heard from somewhere that her name was meant to be Chloe, but hay, it wasn't mentioned in the episode itself, and I already had Robin on the brain when I had this idea. I just love matching/combining stuff from the 2003 series with the 2012 series. I love both SOOOO MUCH!
I have this little theory that the little girl from this episode is actually Casey's little sister.
It kind of fits; she was out with her dad when he got her the mutagen 'lamp' and only mentioned her daddy when she threaten Leo that she would scream. Nothing about a mother.
And Casey, the few times he mentions his family, he only talks about a dad and a little sister.
This April is an only child and Casey is the one with the sister, so she might as well have the name Robin. That was my thought process.
I have more story ideas that involve Robin aka Casey's little sister, and other ideas from the 2003 series put into the 2012 series.
Anywho, hope u liked this ;D Please favorite, follow and/or review!