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A/N: Well! I'm glad that you guys didn't think that that chapter was as stinky as I thought that it was. I didn't originally plan for Mikey to mess up like that but it just sorta came out. Seemed appropriate. From some of your reviews I understand that you think the same here! Well, anywho enjoy!
Chapter 26
Waterworks
(Raph glares at you) Yeah! That is the last time that I trust Mikey! I don't know what came over me! Trust him with a plan? I must've knocked a screw loose somewhere along the way. Then again all this baby crap probably didn't do me too well either. Baby...well, isn't this friggin turtle luck true to form? Huh. I still can't get over this friggin kid. Damnit Mikey! Why'd he have to go and ruin all that! Now I have to choose between saving his sorry a$$ and strangling the b!t#h that I've been dying to do since I was friggin impregnated! Impregnated! How many guys would put up with sh!t like that! I must be one of the most freakishly patient guys around! (he yells and lobs a heavy object across the room. You duck the falling debris. He glares at no one in particular, huffing like a mad bull.) Aw, sh!t! Here's the damn story already!
My sai flipped in my hands and my blood calmed at the feel of their familiar weight. The elentials were already heading towards my dangling brother.
Honor had her head turned, and was slowly turning her body to see what was happening, all the while giving orders. Shehad temporarily forgotten about me, seeing that I couldn't use my powers at the moment.
Big mistake.To an ninja, powers aren't everything. Still, I had to reachMikey in time.
With the steel prongs poking themselves between my fingers, I swung a punch at Honor's neck. But as friggin turtle luck would have it, I had another contraction. My punch was veered off by the muscle spike and instead of hitting the soft unprotected flesh of the neck I ended up striking her cheek. The longest prong slid deep into the flesh between the jaw, laying her cheek wide open. The other two did damage as well. One of them grazed her upper neck, not deadly but still quite painful I'm sure. The other let us see what it looks like underneath her eyebrow.
I didn't stay a milisecond longer to see what would happen. Immediately I took off running, only hearing her agonizing scream at my ruined punch echo behind me. I guess that ruined or not I stil did some damage! Wonder if they have plastic surgery on this planet?
My belly bobbed so roughly at my uneven steps that I winced at it. Leaning over at a deeper angle while I ran helped it out some, it also gave me an advantage of weight. I toppled through countless soldiers by me throwing my weight around. I slashed blindly as I went. I was finding it hard to concentrate. But I had to reach Mikey. Contractions or no. But man! They sure were a lot closer together than before! Is that normal? I have no clue.
I flet blows rain down upon me constantly, then it began to get really thick, forcing me to slow down. It only took me a couple of seconds of actual fighting to figure out that I was doing downright horrible. What did this kid do, suck the fighting skill right out of me? For one of the first times that I can remember I began to feel scared in a fight. Well, maybe not scared...let's call it a tad bit fearful. Yeah, that's it. It just felt like me going up against Splinter when I was six. I was losing miserably.
I could still hear Honor screeching like a banshee in the background somewhere. Not sure exactly where because the screams echoed throughout the large room. I tried to back up against the overwhelming force only to find my way blocked by even more soldiers. I don't know exactly when I started doing this, but I could feel myself beginning to make peace. Was I preparing for death?
It was then that something odd happened. A bright flash of light, no, lots of flashes of light blasted through the space. The blindingly bright flashes immediately seemed to burn my eyeballs right out of my sockets. I shut my eyes and sheilded them with my hand the moment that I noticed them. I think that my mask protected me from a bit of it. I could see the light through my closed lids and the hands that were blocking it. No blows rained down upon me at this time. I didn't know what to think, until I heard two very familiar battle cries.
I heard rather than saw the bodies being struck and hitting the floor all over. I heard Mikey giggle, then chains rattling as he hit the floor with a loud whine and a groan.
Man, Leo was going to kill me.
Slowly I opened my eyes and discovered that with the brightness dimming I could see a little. The shapes were incredibly fuzzy, but I could make them out. Then I saw a familiar green skinned, blue bandana wearing turtle stalk towards me. Man, even through fuzzy-vision, I don't think that I've ever seen Leo look so pissed.
I tried to stand up straight but found it was harder than I thought. Not only was the weight of my gut weighing me down suddenly (I felt like I had a giant turd in there that I needed to poop out,) but those friggin contractions were conspiring against the normal workings of my body! That didn't stop Leo though.
He grabbed the collar of my plastron roughly and pulled at me a little bit. Then he slapped me! I don't just mean just a little 'oh naughty you' slap, but one that left my head ringing, plus I think he took a layer of skin off of my cheek. And it wasn't just once either. Noooo, that would be too easy for our fearless leader! He slapped me again and again, foreheand and backhand like I was a friggin child!
The worst friggin part about it was that I couldn't really stop him. My arms were more bruised than I thought they were, and I felt incredibly exhausted, even though I've been through worse fights before. The slaps weren't as painful as you would imagine. My belly took care of that with the contractions. It's kind of like taking your mind off a stubbed toe by cutting off your finger, if you know what I'm saying. It was just so damn humiliating!
Finally I brought my leg up and managed to shove a knee pad into his crotch. He staggered off a little bit. By this time I could see better and saw that he was wearing what looked like 'super sunglasses' on top of his head probe thing. I could still see the pissed off look in his eyes though. I will never forget that look, will treasure it forever!
Huffing furiously, he blew air through his cheeks just like I'd done on many occasions and glared at me. Here it comes... "How dare you, you idiot! Do you realize how incredibly stupid you were! You have no idea, do you! You NEVER do! You never, never do that to me again, do you understand me Raphael! And don't think that Master Splinter won't hear about this when we get home, because let me assure you, he will! And don't you think that you're getting out of it, either! I still can't fathom you doing something that stupid, especially with Mikey!" I heardMikey let out a loud whine of protest from the other side of the room where Donny was helping him up andI grinned. Luckily Leo was too pissed off and enjoying his tirade too much to notice."What were you thinking! I know, you weren't... you were just-"
I stared at him with blank eyes. My cheeks were burning and my pride was beaten, battered, and left to whimper in a kiddie's corner. But for some reason I just swallowed it. It's not like my pride wasn't hurt already, being pregnant. Yeah, even still I'll admit that it's unusual for me not to get pissed off right away. But it was something else too. As I stared at Leo practically screaming in my face, pacing the floor like a mad mother hen I thought of just that. Or maybe an upset child who's crying because they lost their favorite toy or something. Either way, I'll freely admit that I found the image funny as Hell.
It started with a smile, then I cracked out a chuckle, until eventually it turned into full blown, uproarious laughter. The kind that had me slapping my thighs, the type that would give you a stitch in your side, the kind that brought tears to your eyes. Of course my laughter was cut short every couple of minutes by the contractions (don't know how I pulled this off) but continued nonetheless as the subsided.
Leo stopped in his tirade as though someone had jerked him with a string. He stared at me for a moment, mouth slightly agape, eyes disbelieving. He obviously didn't expect this reaction. Well, his reaction I found even more hilarious. My laughter continued to a higher caliber.
Then the funniest thing happened. His face turned purple, his jaw clenched and his fists tightened. I swear he was about to explode right before my eyes. This was too good! At this time, Don and Mikey came up behind him. Mikey, seeing the whole thing was laughing as well. Donny, being more reserved and plus still over with the others trying to work the chains loose, limited himself to a huge grin with the occasional snicker. Leo's head whipped over to them so fast I'm surprised he didn't get whiplash. The laughter quieted, but the grins remained. Glaring back at me, he stalked over to me, I'm sure with the intention of ringing my neck.
Of course, he never got the chance. Otherwise I'd never been able to tell this story now would I?
Well, all this time the contractions continued, until another one came just as I was taking a step back from my approaching brother. Then I felt my legs get wet. Immediately I thought that maybe I'd laughed too hard, obviously I've just pissed myself. But I guess that that wasn't it. There was more than I thought, and it pooled on the slick, shiny floor that I was standing on at the time. Anyone who's ever seen those 'slippery when wet' signs will know what I mean. That it's slippery when wet, duh!
Which is exactly what I found out first hand. My heel touched the small pool and immediately the ground went out from under me. I landed hard flat on my shell, so hard that the impact shook me. I had to hold my breath for a moment to will the sudden sharp pains that sprung up all over my body.
Of course Mikey burst out in a fresh stint of laughter at my fall. Leo looked slightly less perturbed but still pissed off. Then he looked at the liquid and his face went slightly pale. His eyes never leaving mine he slowly turned his head in Donny's direction. Don was still working on Amuke's chain. Apparently when Mikey fell from it all he managed to do was to get it further entangled. He did manage to slip Amuke's position slightly, in such a manner that his left hand must've been numb by now, which is why Don was concentrating on the more difficult chains that Amuke had rather than some of the others which were easier.
He turned his head at Leo's question: "Donny! When your pregnant your pee is still yellow, right?"
Don looked confused for a moment, and cocked his head at Leo's question. "Huh? What do you mean, of course it is! Unless they drank so much water that it looks more clear, but none of us has really done that. What are you getting at?"
"What if it's clearish?"
He shrugged. "Oh, well with a pregnant person it's probably amniotic fluid." He continued working until he fully realized what was said. Then he stopped so abruptly that he almost fell. "Wait a second. What did you say!"
Mikey looked at me with a cocked head. "What's amniotic fluid?"
Leo knew what it meant, and so did I. We both shared similar pale complexions. No. Not right now please! About then another contraction hit and I held my breath, waiting for it to pass all the while 'bearing down' since I was in the perfect position to do so. Maybe I really did just have a big turd in there... Apparently this was the wrong thing to do because Leo immediately pounced on me.
"No! Don't do that! Not here! C'mon Raph, please! Let's get out of here with the others, c'mon!" He tugged at my arm, trying to physically drag me up. Of course, I could name about a million spots on my arms that were extremely 'tender' from the fight I'd just experienced so you can say that I didn't take too kindly to his tugging.
Mikey still looked at all three of us in turn and sighed in exasperation. "Guys, what's amniotic fluid!"
Everyone ignored him but one person. The moment we heard that person's voice everyone froze. This couldn't be good.
The person stepped forward, not wearing her usual smile due to her lack of a chunk of cheek. But her eyes bored into mine. "My dear MIchelangelo," Honor whispered. "It means that Raphael's water just broke, and he is closer to delivering my child. The son that I need to claim ultimate power."
Aw shit.
A/N: Well, I hope that this chapter suited you guys and you aren't unduly dissappointed. Let me know what you think and tell me your ideas and predictions about what you think will happen. I love those. Hell, write whatever your heart desires!
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