Disclaimer: I do NOT own the Ninja Turtles! How many times do I have to put this up to get the message through to all of your thick skulls, you stupid lawyers!…(clears throat)

I got plenty of reviews so far and all I can say is… WOW! My story is becoming a favourite! (sniff) You like me! You really like me! And this is my first fic too. I feel so loved.

Fancy-pants- In answer to your question, the MCMs have the same type of battery as a digital watch, so they're made from the same material of a watch for scuba divers. I have one!

Aaron Smiley- I'm glad you like the one part of my last chapter. When I saw them kiss in " Worlds Collide: Part 1" I was all "They kissed! They actually freaking' kissed!" Good times.

Okay, I'll stop yakking and get on with the fic.

After consciousness finally came back to him, Casey opened his eyes and awoke from his mysterious slumber. He couldn't remember why he had fallen asleep; it was like his brain shut down on him for a half an hour. He rubbed the back of his head of its sudden pain and concluded he fainted because of a nasty bump on the head. He just couldn't remember what caused it.

"Glad to see you're awake."

Casey turned his head to the voice to find Raphael and April on his bedside.

"Feeling any better?" April asked.

"Just a bump on the head, that's all." Casey replied, rubbing the sore spot on his cranium.

Raph sighed, "I'm glad that ugly mess is over now. My bros and I are still in a bit of shock when we saw you two smooching like that."

Casey's eyes widened, "Say what?"

April giggled nervously. "Well…to get away from Matthias's attention I had to… well, you know."

Now it was all coming back to him. He got that nasty bump because he wasn't paying attention to the fall he had when April parted their lips by surprise. "Oh, yeah, that…" He turned his glace away from April and she did the same; Raphael tried not to laugh as he saw both of them blushing furiously.

"Well, nothing really new happened." Raph managed to say. "Mikey just met this girl named Lily, that's all. To be honest, I think Mikey is beginning to have certain feelings for her."

"What makes you say that?" Casey asked.

"Well, he seems to be blushing around her a lot. After meeting her he ran right into a wall. That shell f' brains has really got to pay attention to where he's going."

Meanwhile, in the centre of their suite, Lily, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Donatello were playing a 4-player fighting game on their big-screen TV. Since the players could be divided into teams, Michelangelo begged Lily to be on his team while they faced-off against his brothers. A strange gift they seemed to posses was that they could play the game and chat with each other at the same time.

"So, how did you get to be on this trip anyway?" Don asked Lily.

"My dad needed some time away from work, so my mom and I used the vacation money we always save up and spent it on this cruise," said Lily. "I'm sleeping on one of the lower-level decks; since there's no way we'd ever get into first-class. Also, my parents thought it'd be a great chance to meet some guys," she rolled her eyes with no desire in her voice for her last statement. "I get too much attention already from men at school. That's why I'm thankful for summer."

"Why's that?" asked Leo.

"There's a lot of popular and cute girls at my school and unfortunately, a lot of people think I'm one of them."

Michelangelo tried very hard not to blush at this comment.

"But those types of girls are a bunch of witches; I'd say something more honest, but I'm not the type to curse." Lily continued. "I'm lucky I can last a week of school without a guy trying to hit on me." She looked at the disguised turtles and smiled. "You guys on the other hand seem different. That's why I've got good vibes from you and your bros, Mikey."

Michelangelo became entranced by Lily's dark brown eyes, which unfortunately made him loose focus of the game and accidentally made his game character die. He slapped his head in stupidity, for it was that move that made Leonardo and Donatello victorious. While his brothers hi-fived each other, Michelangelo's face turned glum.

"If anyone wants me I'll be at the ice cream parlour." He said depressed.

He walked over to the ice cream parlour in their suite and placed his mouth under the funnel where the ice cream out. He pulled the lever for the chocolate ice cream and the brown, frozen cream began to ooze out the funnel and was welcomed into his mouth. At least the chocolaty ice cream made him feel better. His brothers shook their heads at the silly way he was eating the ice cream. He immediately put his head out the way at the embarrassment of Lily giggling at him.

Splinter shook his head. "Sometimes I don't know what I'll ever do with you, Michelangelo."

In the awkwardness of his behaviour, Michelangelo pulled out an ice cream cone and filled it with the chocolate ice cream from the machine. "Uh…ice cream?" he asked while handing it to Lily.

Lily, still giggling, took the ice cream from his hand. "Dude, you're hilarious!"

Mikey blushed. "Really?"

"Yeah, of course. Thanks for the ice cream."

Now that that mess was over, everyone came out and offered he or herself an ice cream cone to eat while enjoying each other's company. Michelangelo didn't know why he was being so shy. He'd normally eat ice cream that way if he could without a care in the world. He never felt this way about a girl before; he guessed that Lily was that kind of beautiful girl whose true grace he could only see. He wasn't sure what it was he was feeling, but he'd find out soon enough.

It was a big day for all of them on the cruise ship, and they were all having a good night's sleep that night. Michelangelo, however, was not quite having that kind of sleep. All he could seem to dream about was Lily. He didn't mind it or anything; it was just getting on his nerves a little.

"Donnie," he whined to the turtle sharing his room. " Donnie?" he said a little louder.

" Donnie! Donnie! Donnie! Donnie! Donnie!"

Without noticing, a pillow was thrown at him by his brother. "What is it Mikey?" he asked impatiently. "Some of us are trying to get some sleep."

"Don, is it normal to think about girls when you're sleeping?"

Donatello gave his brother a raised eyebrow. He wasn't quite sure where Michelangelo was going with this.

"It's just," he continued, "that Lily keeps getting into my dreams. Every time I dream myself as the Turtle Titan, she's always the one I have to rescue and suddenly I'm about to give her the Spiderman movie kiss. Doesn't that sound odd to you?"

Don gave it some thought. "Well, there's a perfectly logical explanation to this dream you've been experiencing about an individual of the opposite gender who you have certain interests in. But I'll just say it as simple as I can: Mikey, you're in love."

Mikey's cheeks became as red as tomatoes. "I…you really think I'm getting a crush?" He hid himself under the blankets. " Oh, man!" his voice muffled. " Cruise ships must have some kind of 'love curse' on them. I can't believe I've actually got a crush."

"Relax, Mikey," Don said to the sheets of his brother's bed. "Everyone goes though that stage, even us. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone."

"Promise?"

"Promise. Now, let's just get some sleep." Donatello was just about to go to sleep, but then he realized something was missing. "Hey, Mikey, would you mind handing me back my pillow?"

He just stood still as a pillow flew right into his face. With that, he finally was able to get some shut-eye.

While everyone was getting a good night's rest, Raphael was wandering the rest of the outside of the cruise ship. He had some late-night steam to blow off and he wasn't going to waste it inside. The tall, wide buildings of New York City were a better place to blow off steam because there was a whole lot more space. He was basically the kind of turtle to release his energy in the open-air

He was just about to head back into his room, when he suddenly heard voices coming from the deck.

"Hey, someone stop that kid!" a voice in the distance yelled.

"She's getting away with the food! Hurry, capture her!"

Raphael looked raced down to the deck, hiding in the shadows, to see three chefs were chasing what looked like a girl carrying a burlap sack. It was too dark to see, but he recognized the shape of a chef's hat. It looked as though the girl had stolen some food from the chefs' kitchen all for herself and was making a break for it. With careful coordination, Raphael was able to pull the girl off of the ground, leaving behind the sack. The chefs were questioning the disappearance of the girl and forgetting about the sack, but they just took the food back to the kitchen, hoping their boss wouldn't find out.

When the coast was clear, Raphael dropped himself back down to the deck, taking the girl with him. He turned to her and gave her a cold stare.

"Alright, just what do you think you're…"

When the moon came out of the clouds in the sky, its light gave a better view of the girl to Raphael, making him slightly gasp. The girl had raven black hair down to her waist and bright green eyes. She wore a blue jacket with jeans, black shoes, and fingerless gloves. Raphael wasn't sure what was going on, but as he looked at the girl, he could feel his heart beating faster than usual. He was beginning to think this was what Mikey felt when he met Lily. Unfortunately, his train of thought broke when the girl kicked him right in the shnoz. As he stepped back, he knew just because she was a girl, it didn't mean he couldn't have payback for his nose.

"You'd better leave me alone you, freak!" the girl screamed at him.

"There's no way that's gonna happen until you explain why you were stealing from those chefs!" He yelled back.

"It's none of your business!" She was about to walk away, but Raphael jumped above her to face her.

"Look kid," Raph said. " We can either do this the easy way or the hard way. To be honest, I'd rather do it easy 'cause I don't wanna hurt ya."

The girl charged right at him to punch him, but he kept dodging her punches and blocked the last one. While he was still blocking, she kick the side of his leg, causing him to lose his balance and fall. Luckily for Raph, as he jumped back up to his feet he was able to kick her in the in the face, but as her was going to deliver a series of punches, she mimicked his same tactic of evasion. Unfortunately, they were fight too close to an open pool and as Raphael was able to hit her directly, she was knocked out and suddenly fell into the pool and began to sink to the bottom. Raphael gasped at what he had done and dove in after her. He began swimming under for his life to reach the girl who was about to drown. When he got a hold of her, he rushed back to the surface and took himself and the girl out of the water. As he laid her on her back, he began to push his hands into her chest to perform CPR, no matter how embarrassing it was.

"Breathe, darn you, breathe!"

He took a big gasp of breath and released as much air as possible into her mouth, until finally, she woke up and began choking out the water. Once she was done, Raphael embraced her lightly, tears falling from his eyes.

"Kid, I…I'm really sorry. I didn't mean for any of that to happen. I'm so sorry."

The girl didn't know how to feel then; it was like feeling two emotions at the same time. She felt mad for him getting in the way, but he really didn't look like he wanted to fight her. Also, he was the one who knocked her unconscious and nearly made her drown, but he saved her from drowning and felt deep remorse. One emotion she felt was anger, but the other one felt so new to her.

As Raphael let go, she blushed and said nothing. She had no idea what to think of him; her emotions felt so out of control. He was about to leave her, when he looked back at her.

"Just so you know," she said, "My name isn't 'kid', it's Mari."

Raphael nodded. "Mari, huh?"

She closed her eyes. As soon as she would open them, her opponent/saviour would be gone, blanketed by the shadows of the night to leave her. But when she opened them for real, he was still there.

"You need a place to stay tonight?" he asked.

He could tell she was on this cruise all by herself. With only a smirk on her face, she nodded and walked towards him. He lifted her up and set her on his back, piggybacking her all the way back to his room and leaving the memories of the night behind.

Okay, well, Raph looks like the next one to fall in love with someone. Oh, and as for the game they were playing, just picture it as something like Super Smash Bros. Melee. Well, tootle-o and review! Hey, I rhymed!

I can't speak Donnie's scientific language, so I'm doing my best. XP