Disclaimer: No I don't own the TMNT sadly, but…SOMEDAY, I will own Donnie! And that'll be enough fer meMuahahahahahaaa!
Full Summary: My favorite turtle has always been Donatello, if you didn't notice from my other TMNT story. Well, I started to think, 'How would I react if I took a trip to New York from my boring state of Utah, and suddenly found myself in the TMNT universe? Well this story is all about what I think would happen…
Chapter One – My Hero!
I sat in my chair impatiently waiting for my plane to arrive, so I could head on to New York. I was taking a month vacation there and was staying with my Aunt and Uncle who live on Manhattan Island.
"All passengers boarding flight 23 please board the plane." The intercom blared.
I smiled, that's my plane!
I pressed my face to the window as the plane started to land at Manhattan Airport. Whoa, I had never seen so many tall buildings in one huge area before! The only place that had lots of tall buildings was in Downtown, Salt Lake, and they weren't very magnificent compared to these.
After finally landing and exiting the plane, I was met by my excited Aunt, and Uncle, and their two kids, my cousins, Sylvia and Luke.
We gathered my luggage and headed to their apartment next to tone of the busy streets of Manhattan, New York.
We unloaded my stuff into a small, but cozy guest room. My Aunt, and I sat down on the bed after we were done.
"Thanks for letting me stay here while I explore the great sights in New York."
"It's no problem, how old are you now?"
"I'm nineteen."
"My have you grown! I'm guessing that you already graduated about a year ago or so?"
I nodded.
"So what do you think your going to major in, in college, if of course, your going…"
I laughed, "of course I am Aunty! You know me, I dreamed of going to college when I was five, I thinking about majoring in something that has to do with technology, since I love it so much, maybe Electrical Engineering…"
"Well that's great dear," Aunty stood up and brushed herself off, "well, if you need me for anything, I'll be down in the kitchen making lunch."
I nodded, "okay, thanks."
After my Aunt left, I look around the room and sighed before opening the nightstand drawer and pulling out an action figure that I had kept for four years. It was a Donatello ninja turtle action figure. The paint on it was coming off in some places, but I didn't care. I grinned as I looked down at his missing right thumb, when I was about thirteen or fourteen years old, my very close friends and I were being dumb one day, and I threw him into a tree to see if he'd go right through, but he got stuck at the top. When we finally got him down by throwing a rock at him, he had a dented nose, the paint of was coming off, his bandanna was coming off, and his right thumb was missing.
My friends who actually knew about my infatuation for this turtle thought I was a complete lunatic, but even after all these years, I never stopped liking him, not once.
I put it in my big khaki pants pocket, and walked downstairs.
"It's like I died and went to techno-geek heaven…" I heard a familiar voice on a TV say.
My eyes widened and I ran to the place where I heard the voice.
I smiled as I saw my fourteen year old cousin, Sylvia, watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return to New York Part1, yes, I knew the exact episode.
Sylvia sensed my presence and paused the DVD, then looked back at me, "Hi," she said shyly, embarrassed that I had caught her watching a 'little kids' show.
"Hi, uh, do you like this?" I asked pointing to the TV.
She blushed and stuttered, "well not really, I'm just bored…" Ah the typically teenage answer.
Ignoring her answer I exclaimed, "I love this! Who's your favorite turtle?" I jumped into a nearby couch.
Her eyebrows furrowed at my reaction, but answered quietly anyway, "I sort of like Donatello."
I grinned even wider, "so do I! You're like the first person I know likes Donnie the best!"
Sylvia smiled and turned the DVD back on, and we both watched the episode, and the one's following. By the time we were done, my longing for him was further deepened.
Later that night, I decided to walk the streets of Manhattan, New York to get the feel of the city, and also just for some fresh air which wasn't very fresh, not like in Utah anyway. I looked up at the few stars, and to my surprise, a shooting star passed overhead. Immediately I wished a wish that I hadn't wished for a very long time.
"I wish that I was in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe with Donatello." I closed my eyes and sighed.
When I opened them, I gasped in alarm, I was no longer on the sidewalk, I was in an alley, and a big group of thugs were advancing on me.
I backed up into a wall and let out a shocked and terrified scream. But when the thugs walked out of the shadows, I clearly saw who they were, they were Purple Dragons! I let out another ear-splitting scream of fear and surprise.
Suddenly, the laughing Purple Dragons stopped. I saw fear envelope their eyes.
My head snapped to my left when I thought I saw a shadow move. Then to the right, then right in front of me.
I shadow lashed out at the gang sending them flying in every direction, and eventually running for their lives.
My eyes widened and I gasped, I knew the weapon it was holding, a bo-staff! It turned around when I gasped and clumsily stepped out of the shadows for a split second but it quickly jumped back in. That short second was all I needed to have, for I saw it's green turtle body, and… his purple bandanna.
I fainted.
I opened my eyes and looked around, there was darkness everywhere, confused, I sat up.
"W-where am I?" I asked.
"You are at our home, but please don't be alarmed," a warm, familiar voice said.
I snapped my head in the voice's direction, Don stepped out of the shadows and my eyes widened. It was really him! I was about to blurt out everything to him, but I caught myself, I really did not want to scare him off, not while he was within my grasp, what am I saying?
Don seemed surprised, "your not frightened of me?"
I shook my head, "no, how could I be, you're my hero!" I almost covered my mouth for my response, my stupid mouth! Now I blew it!
But Don seemed to interpret it differently, he smiled, "aw, it was no big, just doing my job. But is your head okay? You hit it pretty hard when you fell."
I shrugged and rubbed my head instantaneously, "Its okay, but it sort of hurts."
"Let me take a look at it," he walked over and gently brushed away a few strands of hair on the back of my head and started to lightly run his fingers over a tender bump that had formed on my head. I winced slightly.
He backed away quickly, "sorry, its just a small bump that'll be there for a couple of days, and it should just bruise, nothing bad. Just be careful with it."
I nodded and just stared into his eyes, I couldn't believe it, he was here, he was real!
Nervously, her smiled, "I'll, I'll be right back." He then backed up out of the room.
I sighed and laid back down. I could get to know him better, better than I already knew him. But I'd have to tell him everything, well maybe not everything, I'll leave out the parts of me loving him, for he'll also be telling his brothers everything probably.
Done walked in with something that smelled really good.
"Here's some herbal tea to help the swelling on your head."
"Tea? Does it have caffeine?" I asked.
He shook his head, "no, but it'll help."
I smelled and put out my hands for him to set the tea in, "thanks."
"No problem," he said softly as he placed the tea in my hands. Immediately I started to softly sip the tea. Once I was done Donnie reached forward to take the cup from me, but I shook my head. "I'm fine, plus, I kinda want to see your home." I smiled sweetly. The truth was, I was dying to see the turtles' home with my own two eyes.
Don narrowed his eyes, "are you sure your head is not hurting?"
I rolled my eyes and stood up before he objected, "of course my head hurts, but if you say the tea is going to help, I guess it'll help sometime."
Don still had his eyes slightly narrowed, but he permitted me to go.
Remembering how crazy these guys were about pizza, I suddenly felt hungry, "um… do you guys happen to have any pizza? I'm having a sudden craving for it."
Donnie smiled the most adorable smile I had ever seen! "Sure, I'll have Mikey fix you one, he's the cook in the family." Done left to fetch Mikey.
I nodded, then glanced to my right to see all of the many different shapes and sizes of TVs. My eyes widened, this was better than on the cartoon, "Wow," I ran over to the sofa and flopped down on it. I searched for the remote for a minute, until I finally found it and was going to grab it, but somebody else's green fingered hand snatched it up before I could. I scowled and looked up at my perpetrator, Donnie. "What'd you do that for?"
He tapped his head, "watching TV will only worsen your headache.
I folded my arms, "so.'
Our human friend, April, watched TV when she had a headache, and afterwards… lets just say my brothers and I vowed that we would never let a female with a headache near a TV while we are around."
I grinned and laughed, "too much female emotion for you guys, eh?"
He smiled and nodded.
Mikey entered the area, "so the dudette finally woke up and she wants pizza!"
I nodded, he looked really tired, like he had just gotten out of bed, what time was it anyway. I looked down at my watch, two in the morning? Not believing my watch I asked for the time, "what time is it?"
Don lifted up his wristband and looked at the watch underneath, "about two AM, you've been out for about four hours."
My eyes bugged out, "I am so sorry you guys! I didn't realize what time it was!"
Mikey waved it off, "it's so problem, I'm always up for pizza, and Donnie's used to it, he always stay up late on the computer and doing other things. Plus, it's a good thing Donnie came to get me cuz' he can't cook worth crap even if you just have to set it in the oven on a time limit! He always burns the food to a crisp!"
I giggled and looked over at the blushing Don. Tapping his foot with mine teasingly I teased, "so you can't cook worth crap? That's okay, neither can I, I'm more into technology and science so I usually forget about whatever's cooking, I can only do the microwave." I watched his reaction carefully.
Donnie's eyes widened slightly, the sparkled with interest, and another small adorable grin started to creep upon his lips.
"Uh, oh, we got a connection going!" Mikey teased and elbowed Don.
Don's blush came back brighter than ever, "don't you have a pizza to cook Mikey?" He mumbled softly.
Mikey laughed and left to find the kitchen.
He looked so cute, all flustered and embarrassed, "so, I'm suspecting you like technology and science, no?"
"Does he?" Mikey called from the kitchen, "he's absolutely crazy about them! You couldn't ever get him to stop inventing, not for anything!"
I grinned, "inventing? Do you mind if I saw some of your inventions?"
"No, of course not! Follow me, I'll show you some of them." He started to walk away, so I jumped up and followed after him.
"Remember to show here the Battle Shell!" Mikey's voiced echoed from the kitchen, "and don't forget to tell her that it was my idea!"
Entering the room I had woken up in, I realized that this was actually Don's room, and I had slept in his bed! I almost started to freak out.
Don led me farther across the room to this lab like place, he started to pick up and show me weird shaped objects that he said he was still working on. He led me over to a monitor and said it was the security system, I was intrigued by it and started to linger there until I realized that Don and wandered away. I ran over to him where he was standing in a small cold corner, "this is my latest and hardest project yet."
"What is it?" I asked.
He turned very serious, more serious than normal, "I think I can trust you, I don't know why, but there something about you that makes me want to trust you. Mikey is that only one that knows about this, I don't want you to tell any of my brothers, and especially not my Master, okay?"
I nodded, excited to be offered this privilege
Taking a deep breath, he told me, "I'm working on a formula to turn us human, so we can go out in public as normal people."
My eyes widened a bit, but then my brow furrowed, "If it's for such a good cause, then why don't you want your brothers, and your Master to know, excluding Mikey of course."
"They might think it's too dangerous and forbid me to do it. Although, I am thinking about telling Raph, but absolutely not Leo or Sensei!"
I smiled, "what?" Is it because Leo's Splinter Junior?" I cursed my big sarcastic mouth right then.
Donnie quirked and eyebrow, "how do you know my sensei's name?"
"Um…" I didn't know what to say, I very well couldn't tell him! Thankfully, I was saved by the bell, er, Mikey.
"Donnie, dudette, the pizza's done!" He yelled into the room.
I let out a sigh of relief, "let's go get us some pizza!" I practically ran out of his lab and room, then to the kitchen that I had just seen Mikey disappear through.
Once inside, I seated myself down at the table and grabbed myself a slice of pepperoni pizza that was sitting in the middle of the table. Right as I finished my first piece, Donnie walked in. I quickly grabbed another piece and started to stuff it into my mouth.
"Um…er, what's your name anyway?" Don asked flustered.
"Kristy" I said quickly though a mouthful of pizza.
"Kristy, could I talk to you?"
I nodded, "Sure, talk."
"um…privately." He inquired looking at Mikey.
"Donnie, look at her! She's starving for my pizza, and isn't wanting a lecture at the moment for cryin' out loud!" Mikey objected, thankfully.
Ironically enough, I looked up at Don with bulging cheeks full of pizza.
Donnie took one look at me and burst out laughing, I scowled. "Fine, just come to my room when you're done," still laughing, he walked out of the kitchen.
I started to eat a little slower now that he was gone, and Mikey noticed. He strolled over and leaned against the table, "so, got any idea of what Donnie boy wants to talk to ya' about?"
Looking up, I swallowed the pizza, "um…no…".
He raised his eyebrows, clearly not believing me, "really? Your actions are telling me otherwise." Mikey stood up straight and walked back over to the sink, "You know, you can trust us with anything, even your deepest darkest secret." He grinned and winked.
I wiped my hands off on a napkin, and straddled the back of the chair so I was peering at Mikey over the back of it, "Mikey, if I tell you this, you can't tell anyone, especially Don, and you can't laugh, just hear me through, okay?"
Mikey turned around and leaned against the counter, "I promise, like I said, you can trust me with anything."
'How old are theses guys?' I thought, Mikey seemed so much more mature.
I took a deep breath, "ok, I'm not from around here, in fact, I think I may even be in a different dimension than I was before. I live in West Jordan, Utah, and I'm taking a vacation here, New York, I just barely arrived about twelve hours ago, and am now staying at my Aunt and Uncle's. I need to tell you something before I go any further. In my dimension, you guys don't exist, you guys are actually a TV show. My favorite TV show, when I was fourteen or so, I started to fall for a cartoon character…"
"As in falling in love?" Mikey asked innocently.
I nodded, "yeah, as in falling in love. Can you guess who this cartoon character is? You know him very, very well."
Mikey shook his head.
I gulped, there was the confession, after this, everything will be so much easier to tell. "I had, have fallen in love with… with, your brother Donatello." I waited for his outburst, but it never came, I was impressed and surprised, so I continued.
"Anyway, I was taking a walk at about ten o-clock, I looked up into the sky and saw a shooting star. I immediately made a wish. That wish was: I wish I was in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe with Donatello. I closed my eyes for a second and when I opened them, I was in an alley, and purple dragons were advancing on me. And that's when Donnie came in, although at the time I didn't know it was him. When he had finished off the Purple Dragons, I realized it was him, and that my wish had come true, I fainted. So that's my story." I watched Mikey for some type of reaction.
"You know, you should tell him." Mikey said quietly.
"Are you crazy, he'd freak out or something! Or even worse, avoid or ignore me!" I exclaimed.
Mikey nodded, "that's true, but I don't think Don's like that, maybe wait a few days and then tell him."
I thought about this, maybe he was right. I sighed, "I don't know, I need to go talk to him, maybe even tell him." I stood up and started to walk out of the kitchen but I turned around and smirked, "I didn't think you could give advice like that Mikey."
Mikey rolled his eyes, "hey, when your tired you sometimes do weird things okay?"
I laughed and replied, "go back to bed Mikey, you do look tired." With that, I turned and left the kitchen.
Arriving at Donnie's room, I peered quietly into the doorway, he was meditating on his bed. What scared me though was when he said, "come in" and suddenly snapped his eyes open. I almost peed my pants!
"Geez, don't do that freaky ninja thing! It scares the crap outta me!"
"There's another thing, how do you know that we are ninjas?"
"Um…"
"Kristy, I think there's something your not telling me, you cant trust me with anything."
"Gosh, what's with you guys and, 'you can trust me with anything'?"
Don quirked an eyebrow.
"Mikey did it too."
"I see, so, will you tell me just how you know our sensei's name, and how you know that we are ninjas?"
"I'm kinda tired…"
"Kristy…" he whispered deathly quiet.
That shut my sarcastic mood right up.
Please, I need to know?"
"Why? Why do you need to know so much?"
He shut his eyes again, "because, if you are keeping a secret like that, knowing everything about us, Sensei, and especially Leo will not trust you. You do not want that to happen, do you?"
I shook my head, "no, but this, this is kinda personal…"
"Then tell me the non-personal parts."
"Ok…I guess…" I told him everything that I had to told Mikey, but leaving out the 'I love you', part.
After I was finished, there was that sparkle in his eyes again, and that adorable smile of his!
"Another dimension? Awesome, I should look into this, maybe I could get you back home."
"Go back? But, maybe I don't want to go back."
He lifted his head up to me, "but don't you want to go back to your family and home?"
I peeled my eyes away from his and looked around, "I really think, that this is my home, I feel so comfortable here, plus…" I stopped.
"What? Plus what?"
"Nothing its nothing."
"No its not, tell me."
"Geez your demanding aren't you!"
Don grinned, "that's my specialty."
"Now your just started to sound like Mikey."
"Hey! No I don't!"
"Your starting to sound like the fifteen year old Mikey, how old are you anyway?"
"Twenty."
"Wow, one year older than I am."
"You're nineteen?"
I nodded my head, "yeah, you guys aged at the same time I did… That's amazing!"
He smiled, "all the more reason I want to figure out this dimension thing, its like our dimensions are parallel or something! It's so intriguing!"
I giggled, "of course to you it would be, you're the Donatello the Turtle!"
He grinned, "the one and only," and the he stood and bowed.
I started laugh, the older he got, the more charming he was, he was even more perfect in real life than in the cartoon. I was laughing so hard that I sort of bend over slightly, so when Don stood up straight again, he mouth touched mine. We immediately stopped laughing and were frozen on the spot. My eyes were already closed, so I opened them slowly to meet Don's surprised eyes. He pulled away blushing, "um, I'm really sorry about that."
I just about fainted there! I was pretty much kissing him! I was kissing my turtle, my love! I was disappointed that he had pulled away instead of leaned in…ok that's just gross, but alas, its true!
"No, its fine. So where do I sleep?" I asked trying to change the subject.
"On the bed you wok up in" He stated simply.
"But that's your bed."
"I'll take the couch."
"No, I'll take the couch, its your bed."
"No, I will."
"I will."
"I said I will."
"For heavens sake Donnie I will!"
"No! You're my guest!"
"How about you both sleep in the bed!" Mikey teased grinning from the doorway.
Don turned red again.
"Mikey! Never, ever, would I do that!"
He put his hands out in front of him innocently, "hey, I was just trying to help, because with the way you two were going at it, you were going to wake up everyone in Manhattan!"
"Whatever Mikey, Donnie, I insist that I take the couch."
Mikey walked over and whispered something into Don's ear right as he was about to object to me, it sound sort of like, "just let her sleep on the couch, member', women always end up getting their way in the end."
I snorted, "yeah right! It's men that always get their stupid way! I get the couch!" With that, I ran out of the room and flopped down on the couch and folded my arms as Don came and looked down at me over the back of the couch.
I sneered up at him stubbornly, "I get the couch and that's final!"
He shook his head, reach down, picked me up into his arms and started carrying me to his room.
I started to kick and scream, "let me go you big turtle! That's not fair! This isn't very gentlemanly! I get the couch!"
All the while, Don just shook his head. And right as we entered his room, I heard another door slam open and what sound like Raph's voice, echoed throughout the lair, "WHO'S SCREAMIN'! I'M TRYIN' TA SLEEP!" Heavy footsteps started for our room. And for the first time since I was here, I started to feel a little scared. I wrapped my arms tighter around Don's neck, and tried to get as close to him as possible, I knew what Raph was capable of when he was mad.
Don barely glanced over his shoulder as Raph stormed into his room. "Donnie! What is all the ruckus! I'm tryin' to sleep, for cryin' out loud!" Mikey mush have hid or else Raph wouldn't have come to Don's room.
Don turned around, "I know, we heard, Raph, just go back to bed, there'll be no more screaming tonight."
Upon seeing me, Raph grinned, "what were you doin' to her Donnie?"
"Nothing…"
He was cut off by me, "he won't let me sleep on the couch! I insist that I sleep on the couch!" Again, I started to flail my legs, trying to get out of Don's arms.
Raph's face darkened and he scowled, "so that's all it was about, the couch? Why didn't you just let her have the couch Donnie, you probably woke everyone up with the way she was screamin'"
"Hey, I'm right here!" I stated feeling insulted and ignored.
"Raph, go back to bed."
Raph huffed and turned around and stiffly walked out and back to his own room, slamming the door shut.
Donnie looked down at me, "are you going to calm down now? Because I'm not going to set you down and just have you bolt again until you calm down and go to sleep in the bed."
I pouted, I really needed to learn the puppy dog pout from Mikey, "Fine."
Don smiled and set me gently down.
I folded my arms and stood there not moving.
"Well go get in bed."
"I'm not five."
"You're sure acting like it, do you want me to pick you up again?"
I shrugged, but I was thinking, "YES!"
He narrowed his eyes, I get the couch."
"No."
Sighing, he picked me up, I didn't give him that much of fight his time, but instead allowed him to set me softly down in bed. He pulled the covers up over me and tucked them in about right under my chin, and was about to leave but I stopped him.
"Hey! If I'm five, don't I get a goodnight kiss?" 'Please say yes!'
Don smiled, walked back over, leaned down and pecked me on the forehead, "good night sweetie." He teased.
"Now you have to read me a story."
"Don't push it," Donnie smiled and left the room, shutting off the lights.
Before he left I said, "good night Daddy, er, Donnie." I grinned as I heard a snort as the door shut, I snuggled into the pillows and blankets that smelled so much like him and sighed, "this was going to be the best vacation ever."
Author's note: The Kristy in this story isn't the same Kristy in my other story, I just like the name. The stuff about the action figure and what happened is all true! Please R&R!
