Chapter 67

Ring! Ring!

"What's that?" I asked.

"What do you think it is? It's the shellcell!" Donny said.

"Ohhhhhhh! You gonna pick it up?"

"I--yes I think I should!" Donny quickly reached for the phone. "Sapphire?"

Ring! Ring!

"What?" I asked.

"Where'd you put it?"

"I didn't touch it."

"Well it's not here!"

Ring! Ring!

"Don't panic! It has to be around here somewhere!"

"Yeah, but the person calling will be waiting for awhile! What if it's important?"

"Then that could be a problem..."

"Wait a minute...the only people who know my shellcell number are April, Casey, Master Splinter, Leo, Raph, and Mikey." Donny glared at me.

"Maybe they did have their phones...sorry." I smiled a bit.

Ring! Ring!

"Sapphire! Where is it?"

"I don't know, let's think!" I leaned forward to rest my elbows on the counter while I had my index fingers pointing at both sides of my head as I stared into space.

"You idiot!" Donny hit me on the back of the head.

"I'm trying to help you!"

"Well, you could've helped me while I was trying to think of a plan to get out of here!"

Ring! Ring!

"How are we going to find it?" I asked.

"Look in places!" Donny said.

"Like where?"

"Under seats and other places!"

"Well, you've looked under every seat! I don't think it's here."

Ring! Ring!

"It has to be!"

"Hi! This is Donny. I can't talk now,"

"What's that?" I asked.

"My answering machine!" Donny's eyes wided.

"Just leave a message and I'll call back as soon as possible! Thank you and I bid you good day!"

I started laughing.

"I shoulda erased that last sentence when I had the chance..." Donny said.

"Thank you and I bid you good day? What the shell was that?" I laughed harder.

"Mikey dared me to say that, ok?"

"Yeah right!" I fell to the floor laughing.

"Thanks a lot!" Donny stared at me on the floor.

"I'm sorry! It's just--it's funny!" I started laughing at him even harder.

"Mikey! Shut up!" a voice sounding like Leo said.

"Who's that?" I asked.

"It's Leo! Shell!" Donny started looking around for his cell faster.

"I--fine! Donny, Mikey says hi! Ok, now what I was going to say--no! I'm not telling him that! Mikey I--if I tell him, will you leave me alone to tell Donny what I have to tell him? Thank you! He also says he just burped! Anyway--MIKEY! YOU JUST SAID YOU'D LEAVE ME ALONE! Yeah, you'd better be sorry! Ok, just to let you know, Casey adn April are at the hospital. Their fine, their coming home. Raph, Mikey, and I are home, too. Where are you? Come home soon because--Mikey...if you don't stop giving me bunny ears..."

"They sound happy." I smiled.

"Just look for the shellcell!" Donny said.

"MIKEY, I'M GONNA SCREW UP YOUR FACE IF YOU DON'T STOP NOW!" Leo yelled.

"That's my line!" Raph said in the background.

"I don't--fine! Then go screw up his face for me!" Leo yelled.

"Sure! Why not?" Raph replied.

"AHHHHHHHH! MASTER SPLINTER! RAPH'S GONNA KILL ME!" Mikey screamed.

"Tattle-tale!" Raph yelled.

I started belly laughing at them.

"Will you stop laughing? Help me look!"

"Shell, I wish I was at April's house now..." I sighed.

"Ok! Finally! Donny come home because--crap! April and Casey are home! I have to go! April's probably pissed because she can't have the baby!"

I got up to find the shellcell lying on the floor. I picked it up. "I FOUND IT!" Donny yelled with me. "Let go! I wanna talk to him!" I tugged.

"No, I have to talk to him first!" Donny tugged back.

"I'll tell ya what, if you don't call back soon," Leo said.

"I have to talk to him!" Donny grabbed the phone and it fell to the floor. "CRAP!"

"I'll call you back. Talk to you later! Bye! Oh! Wait! I have something important to tell you!" Leo said.

Donny swiped the phone off the floor before I could.

"Because April's in a rush to have the baby, the baby--"

"HELLO? HELLO? Leo? Hello? What happened?" Donny looked at the back of the phone. "ONE OF THE BATTERIES ARE MISSING!"

"It probably fell out when we were fighting for it and it droped on the floor." I said.

"Well hurry up and find it!" Donny started crawling on the floor looking for it.

I started looking for the battery, too. "I can't find it..."

"Look harder!" Donny said.

"We're not going to find it!" I said.

"Yes we will! If you help me!"

"Well I'm hungry, so I'm gonna sit out for a minute."

"What! You can't sit out!"

"But I'm hungry!"

"I don't care!"

"What do you think he was going to say about April's baby?" I changed the subject.

"I don't know! Just look for that battery!" Donny said.

"He said it was something important...you don't think she miscarried, do you?"

"I don't know!"

"What?"

"I don't know!"

"You don't know what?"

"I don't know!"

"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT?" I yelled.

"I don't know what he was going to say!" Donny said.

"I know that! I asked you, do you think April miscarried?"

Donny stopped looking. No. Why would she miscarry?"

"You know, from all the excitment." I said.

"You call this exciting?"

"You know what I mean!"

"Acually, I don't."

"I mean from her yelling and rushing to the hospital. Leo said that was the reason for causing the baby to do something. Something important."

"Well, we'll know when we find that battery and call him back!"

"What do you mean we?"

"Sapphire, we're not going to start that again!"

"I know, but I don't wanna look."

Donny shook his head.

"Listen, why can't we just drive back? The guys will see the battle shell and see that we're locked in and press the button!" I said.

"In case you didn't notice, metal shades came down before the iron bars."

"Why are you so protective?"

"So people don't steal our stuff?"

"Good point..."

"Where is that battery?" Donny started looking again.

"Right here." I said.

"When did you find it?"

"Before I told you I was hungry."

"Give me that!" Donny snatched the battery and dialed Leo's number (Donny put it on Speaker, just to let you know).

"Hi, Don." Leo said.

"Hi, listen, Sapphire and I are stuck in the battle shell. she pressed the button that made the alarm system came off. So, can you press the button?" Donny asked.

"Leo doesn't know where we are, dummy!" I said.

"It works wherever you are, stupid!"

"Well, excuse me, moran!"

Donny glared at me.

"Oh...yeah, we can't go back in the sewers yet..." Leo said.

"So?" Donny replied.

"I don't like the way he said that!" I blurted.

"Shh!"

"It's in my room..." Leo said.