Chapter 88
The next morning...
I ran into Donny's room. "DONNY! IT'S MORNING!" I jumped on him.
"OWWW!" Donny pushed me off.
"Sorry..."
"You know, your sixteen...almost an adult...you shouldn't be doing that anymore..."
"Why?"
"I just said, your almost an adult."
"Yeah, see, there's the problem. My age will mark me as an adult, but my brain will still think that I'm a kid. So therefore, when I tun eighteen, I'm still going to be a kid."
Donny shook his head.
"I mean look at Mikey. All of you guys are 21 and Mikey don't even care. He doesn't care about age, he just cares about being a kid." I said.
"Ok, now that's true, but you still need to take on responsiblity." Donny lecured.
"I am! Donny, I am! But that does not include jumping on top of you in the morning! So I can still do that!"
"Not unless I break my shell..."
"Donny..."
"What?"
"Anyway, just tell me what happened to you and Mikey."
"When?"
"When you taught Mikey how to drive."
"Ohhh! That!" Donny glaced at the clock. "Can we wait until it is not 4:30 am?"
"No." I answered.
"Well, too bad! Go back to bed!"
"But--"
"Sapphire, I'll tell you it in the morning! I promise!"
"But it is morning!"
"Yeah, a little too early in the morning!"
"So?"
"So, go back to bed!"
"But I'm wide awake!"
"I don't care! I'm not! I'm sleepy!"
"And who cares? Not me! Just tell me the story, and then we can go back to bed. Or you can at least..." I said.
"Sapphire--" Donny started.
"Please, Donny? I mean, how long will one little story take?"
"I don't know...with your mouth shut, maybe 30 minutes...with your mouth open, most likely six hours."
"Yeah, well, six hours later when you finish the story, you can go back to bed."
"It'll be 10:30..."
"Oh...well then I promise I won't talk."
"Promise?"
"Yeah."
"You promise?" Donny asked.
"Yeah!" I replied.
"Really?"
"Really what?"
"I mean you really promise?"
"Donny..."
"I mean you really, really, really promise to keep yuor mouth shut?"
"It's not that hard!"
"For you it is!"
"Donny, just tell me the story..."
"No wait--go wake up Raph and tell him that I need the video camera!"
"Donny!"
"Ok! Ok! Sorry..."
It was silent for a moment.
"Well?" I asked.
"What?" Donny replied.
"Are you going to tell me the Mikey story or no?"
"I will."
"Ok, then tell me. Because I meant for you to tell me now."
"I know."
"Then...?"
"You really promise, huh?"
"Donny, I'm this close to ringing your neck..."
"Sorry..."
"Can you tell me now?"
"Hold on I have to savor the moment...and the promise..."
I hit Donny on the head. "Just tell me!"
Donny ducked. "Alright!"
(Flashback) Donny's POV Like it always is... ((And this is a continuation to the Raph Story))
"You blew up my Battleshell..." I was ready to cry.
(End of Flashback) End of Donny's POV
"You cried?" I asked.
"Hey! You promised! Remember the promise!" Donny yelled.
"Sorry..." I started laughing a little bit.
(Flashback) Donny's POV
"I'm sorry..." Raph said.
"You blew it up!"
"I said I'm sorry..."
"Cool!" Mikey yelled.
"It's not cool! He blew up my battleshell!" I yelled.
"I know...sorry...so when can I drive it?" Mikey asked.
"When I fix it..." I said.
"Oh...how long will that take?"
"A while..."
"Oh. Well, you better go work on it. If it's gonna take awhile, I do not want any delays on my driver's test!" Mikey left.
"Um, sorry again..." Raph ran away.
Two weeks later...
"Mikey!" I yelled.
"Yeah?" Mikey replied from the other room.
"Come here!"
"What?" Mikey walked in.
"I think the battleshell is ready." I said.
"Really?"
"Yep."
"Can I try it out today? I mean now?"
"I don't know..."
"What do you mean you don't know?"
"Knowing that Leo lost the first battleshell, and Raph blew up the second battleshell, I can only imagine what your going to do to this one..."
"Please?"
"I think you should get more comfortable in a reagular car before you try and destory the battleshell."
"Ok, Well then what other car do we have?"
"Well, I figured that since I'm not allowing Leo and Raph to drive the battleshell anymore, and I'll probably ban you, too, so I decided to make each of you a shellcycle."
"A what?"
"A shellcycle. It's a motorcycle. Raph gets the red one, Leo gets the blue one, and you get the orange one."
"What about you, though?" Mikey asked.
"I'll make myself a purple one the next time I have free time." I said.
"Ok. So you want me to test this out first so I can get used to the whole driving thing?"
"Yeah."
"But I don't know how to drive..."
"I know. That's why I'm going to let you get used to it on here, and while you getting used to it, I'l teach you. That way, you'll be all set and ready for the battleshell."
"But, how can you teach me to drive on this?"
"Well--"
"Isn't it built for one person?"
"Um...yeah..."
"And you said that you wanted me to drive a regular car to get used to it, right?"
"...Yeah..."
"Well this isn't like the battleshell...in fact, it's not even like a regular car. I love it and everything, thank you, but this won't help me learn how to drive a regular car and or the battleshell."
"You have a point..."
"So...what are we going to do?"
"I don't know..."
"Can we just go into the battleshell and start there?" Mikey asked.
"Um, sure...I guess so..." I replied.
"Yay!" Mikey ran into the battleshell and I followed.
In the battleshell...
"I love this!" Mikey exclaimed.
"So do I. So, don't blow it up or anything!" I yelled.
"I said I was sorry!" Raph said.
"Where did you come from!" I asked.
"Leo and I were always in here." Raph answered.
"Leo's here, too?" I asked.
"Yeah. Leo, where are you?" Raph looked under a seat.
Leo popped out from underneath a different seat. "I thought I told you not to let Mikey or Donny know that we were in here?" Leo yelled.
"I know," Raph explained. "But I had to tell Donny sorry again because he keeps bringing me blowing up the last battleshell up and he's making me feel more and more guilty every day!"
"Fine! But if you have to tell Donny that we were in here, don't tell him that I'm in here, ok?"
"Sorry."
"Why are you guys in here, anyway?" I asked.
"We'd figure we'd see Mikey screw up." Raph answered.
"Good enough reason..." I sat down in the front seat. "Everyone buckle up!"
Leo and Raph sat down and buckled up their seat belts.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Hold it!" Mikey yelled.
"What?" I asked.
"When Leo learned how to drive, he didn't have me or Raph here. When Raph learned how to drive, he didn't have me or Leo here. So how come that when I learn how to drive, Raph and Leo get to watch and make fun of me?"
"True..."
"You were too there when I learned how to drive!" Raph yelled.
"No I wasn't!" Mikey shot back.
"Yes you were! Remember? Your water bottle?"
"Oh...that...but that was because I wanted to see the inside of the battleshell! Not because I wanted to see you screw up, like your here to see me do now!"
"Guys! Stop! Mikey, just start driving and Raph and I will act like we're not here..." Leo said.
"I don't care if you act like your not here! You'll still be here! And I'll still know that your here!" Mikey yelled.
"Guys?" I asked.
"What?" Leo and Raph replied.
"I hate to admit it, but Mikey's right. He has a point." I said.
"What point?" Raph asked.
"The point is that when you learned how to drive, Mikey and Leo weren't there, when I tried teaching Leo, you and Mikey weren't there, and now it's not fair if Mikey learns how to drive, and you and Leo are standing over his shoulder laughing at him everytime he screws up." I explained
"So your kicking us out?" Raph asked.
"Yeah!" Mikey yelled.
"Awww..." Leo and Raph left.
"Finally!" Mikey yelled. "Can we start now?"
"Yep!" I sat down in the front and Mikey sat down in the drivers seat.
"Ok...what do I do first?"
"See that lever?"
"No."
"Mikey..."
"What? There's no lever!"
"It's right there! Right next to you!"
"Ohhh! Now I see it!"
"Yeah...Dummy..."
"Ok, now what?"
"Put it in drive."
"Where's drive?"
"It's the D on the PRND."
"Where's the PRND?"
"Right there..." I pointed to it on a screen.
"Ohhh...how come there's a box around the P?" Mikey asked.
"Because your in Park mode right now...move the lever so that the box is around the D."
"What's the D?"
"The D is drive."
"Ohhh...ok!" Mikey moved the box around the R.
"Ready?" I asked.
"Yup!"
"Ok, now, do you see those two petals by you feet down there?"
"Yeah."
"The left one is the brake. The right on is the gas. Step on the gas."
"Ok." Mikey stepped on the brake. "We're not moving..."
I looked down at Mikey's feet. "No kidding. I said that the right petal was the gas! Not the left."
"Oh. Sorry." Mikey switched petals and slammed his foot down.
"NOT THAT HARD!" I yelled while trying to see where we were going since we were going backwards. "STEP ON THE BRAKES! STEP ON THE BRAKES! WE'RE GONNA CRASH!"
Mikey slammed his foot on the brakes. "Sorry..."
"We almost crashed!" I looked at the PRND and saw the box around the R. "I told you to put the box around the D! Not the R!"
"I couldn't get it on the D!"
"Then why didn't you tell me!"
"I don't know..."
"Mikey..."
(End of flashback) End of Donny's POV
"This isn't funny," I interupted. "This is boring."
"It will get funny, beileve me...now shut up and let me finish." Donny said.
(Flashback) Donny's POV
I moved the lever so that the box was around the D. "Now step on the gas petal."
"I can't!" Mikey yelled.
"Why?"
"My foot is stuck!"
"What!"
"Yeah..."
"How could it be stuck!"
"I don't know, Donny! It just really hurts!"
"Mikey! How am I supposed to--"
"Just get it out!"
"Where is it?"
"Down there?"
"Where is down there?"
"It's stuck underneath the petal!"
"I can't see it!"
"It's right there!"
"Move your other foot!" I pushed Mikey's other foot away causing him to trip and fall and bump into a button and push it.
BOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!
"What was that!" Mikey asked.
"Mikey, you just shot off six missiles..." I said.
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"...Really?"
"Yeah..."
"COOL! Let's do that again!"
"NO!" I yanked Mikey's foot unstuck by accident and accidently pushed him so he pushed the lever into reverse again. Then he put all of his weight on his right foot and pushed on the gas petal.
(End of flashback) End of Donny's POV
"And there's where you don't want to know the rest..." Donny said.
"Yes I do!" I yelled.
"No you don't!"
"Yes I do!"
"No you don't!"
"How do you know what I want and what I don't want?"
"I know everything."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"Then what's my real name?" I asked.
"What do you mean?" Donny replied.
"Since you know everything, you should know that you and Leo and Raph and Mikey gave me the name Sapphire. But Sapphire isn't what my real Dad and mom gave me."
"Then--"
"And who was that person locked in the mall with us?"
"I don't--"
"Is my real Mom dead or alive? What's her name?"
"Sapphire--"
"Is my real Dad dead or alive? What's his name?"
"Sapphire, I think we--"
"What's his nickname? I'll give you a hint, it begins with an S."
"I really think--"
"Come on, Donny, if you know everything then tell me the answer to these questions. Because half of them, I don't even know, and I would really like to know."
There was a very uncomfortable silence.
"I'll be up in my room..." I left.