Quarter Life Crisis
Disclaimer: I do not own them - so get with the program. That's right peoples The Poss is back! I have missed writing but I'm now back into it. Our boys in green are about 25 and their lives are changing and they don't know how to handle it.
Part One
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Raphael sat bouncing a tennis ball on the concrete wall as he sat between two brothers. Leo sat on his left nose deep in a book, while on the right was Don madly typing away on the computer. Every time the ball came back, Raphael would use more force to throw it at the wall. When the ball bounced past him, he grunted, got up and stomped over to pick it up before coming back to start his routine all over again.
"Ever heard of finding something constructive to do with your time?" Donnie asked, when the ball landed on his head.
"Time! Time – that's the whole problem – there's too much of it!" Raph cried.
Leo looked up and eyed his red masked brother. "There was a time when you complained that there was never enough time in the day to do all the things you wanted to do."
"That was Mikey! Besides that was back when there was the Shredder and the Purple Dragons to give me something to do with my waking moments. Back then there was skulls to be busted. What you think I should go out a bust some innocent old granny's skull in now?"
"Don't you even think about it!" Leonardo warned his hot-headed brother.
"I'm kidding believe it or not I do have morals. I do not believe in beating up old pensioners. I do believe that beating up thugs is a worthwhile cause for the great good of society. It gave my pathetic life meaning."
"You are telling me that busting the purple dragons skulls in every weekend was your life? You have hobbies," Donnie said.
"He has hobbies?" Leo acted surprised. Raph gave him an evil look.
"If you spend your time fulfilling your hobbies and interests, then you will find that you won't be bored. I know you have things you enjoy doing," Donnie told his brother.
"Teasing Mikey about Turtle Titan is a hobby, but it's hard to fulfil when he's not actually home," Raph muttered.
"Huh?" Leo asked, "Is that all?"
"It's my personal favourite. He's with his girlfriend – telling her all about stupid Turtle Titan. Man who is actually going to go out and by a stupid comic written by him!" Raph commented on.
"Teasing Mikey is not a hobby Raph," Don told him.
"Is to me, I mean he actually recons he'll be a millionaire from it! Gee, how many people besides him actually buy comic books?" Raph asked his brothers.
"If a comic is really popular then it will have a huge following of fans. I mean look at Spiderman and Batman, they were once humble comics – they have movies based on them."
"Yeah, but you recon they'll ever make a movie of Turtle Titan?" Leo smirked. He too laughed at Mikey's seriousness when it came to his comics.
"If they did, Mikey would be the first to line up for the part!" Raph chuckled.
"They don't even need to get an actor for the part, they'll just use a computer image since it would be cheaper and easier than to make a turtle costume for a human."
"You always have to bring science into every conversation, don't you?" Leo said looking at his brainy brother.
"It's what I do best."
"But what do we do with our lives now we no longer have the crime wave in this city? I for one do not want to sit down here for the rest of my life watching Dr. Phil."
"I'm going to get a Ph degree," Don informed them.
"How you goner hide the fact that you're a mutant turtle?" Raph asked.
"I don't have to, I'm doing it online."
"He's got an answer for everything this one," Raph pointed to the purple brother as he spoke to Leo.
"Well what are you going to do Leo?" Donnie asked out of curiosity. Out of the four of them, Leo was the one who had taken the whole ninjitsu thing to the extreme.
"I haven't really thought about it, I know I'd like to really see more of the world than boring old New York!" Leo answered.
"Hum… can see it now, mysterious sittings of the mutant turtle all over the country," Raph painted the picture of a news report.
"You know we could always start up a business over the internet?" Don suggested.
"Huh?" his brothers replied.
"Think about it, if we went into business, we could make enough money to own a decent block of land say out in Conneticuit and leave this sewer behind. It would mean we could have the freedom we always wanted, but it also gives us something to do work wise. I mean we have spent almost the first 25 years of our lives here in the sewer training and fighting the gangs of New York City – maybe it's time for us to try something new."
"But what about Master Splinter? He's still over in Japan and who knows when he'll be back."
"Leo, we can contact him via April or Casey. Besides – wouldn't it be nice for Splinter to come back to a nice country estate where he could meditate freely in the grounds without any of us being spotted by humans?"
"I actually like this idea of yours Don, I mean we could do much more outside of this stinking sewer than if we stayed in New York," Raph added in.
"I still don't know, what about Mikey and his girlfriend?" Leo asked.
"How the hell did he get a girlfriend anyways?" Raph butted in.
"Does it matter?"
"Yeah, it does! How come the brainless one gets a girl?"
"You jealous?" Leo asked.
"No, I am just wondering what on earth a girl would see in Mikey?" Raph said.
"Let's stay on topic here, I recon tonight we all sit down and come up with an idea for us to start up our own online business. I also think we should think about investing in shares," Donnie said, getting up and leaving them.
"Shares? I really wish he'd learn plain English," Leo scratched his head.
