Angel: Hey guys, I'm back. I'm actually on time too, because I was gonna stay for another week, but my Grandma is busy at work, so I couldn't stay another week. And this is only Mayhem's fourth appearance out of 35 episodes. They made a point that he somehow got a vial that Draxum wanted and they didn't even make him be centered in the plot. We still have a long way to go until the season finale, but I thought Mayhem was you know, important? What happened to him? Did they just forget?
I was able to watch The Purple Game on my phone while I was still in Florida, so I'll update that tomorrow. 21A is still missing so it might be another special or they just haven't released a name yet for it.
Amy's smiling as she remembers last night. Having a secret...whatever they were, with Leo, is exciting. She's never had something like this before...but she couldn't wait to see how it would develop. Given her past, there was some doubt that she would ever even have a relationship. With her mother and the shop, she didn't think she could have a pinch of normal life. Thanks to Leo, though, he was an unexpected source of entertainment.
Oh, and the kissing. He was a really good kisser.
Amy stifles a laugh to herself, giving a silent reminder to never let Leo know that. If he found out, he'd brag about it whenever the others would know.
Suddenly, she hears a knock, turning to the entrance to find the turtle himself. Since it's a Sunday, Smith's Sweets was closed for the day. She tries not to smile at how happy she is to see him, opening the door. He notices something and frowns.
"Dove, you okay?"
Oh. The bruise. Of course he'd notice.
"Yeah, she just..." Amy touches her right black eye. "Well, you know." Her mother hit her in the face with a lamp, but there was no way she'd say that. Her mother was making some minimal progress. She didn't attack Amy outright, which tells her that her mother could be slowly healing...
Leo groans, bending his head over so she wouldn't have to see it. He wipes his face with his hands. "How long is this going to be a regular thing? At this rate, you might need to move back in."
Amy stares at him in disbelief that he suggested such a thing. His tone also makes it seem like he's bitter about this.
"I'm sorry, I don't mean to be angry of it, it's just..." He bites his lip as he looks at her straight in the eye. "What are you going to do if she never gets better?"
"What, I can't come over if she hits me again?" Amy asks in confusion. They had been over this. There was no cure. She obviously couldn't just move away, but her mother is all she has left from her immediate family. She thought that it wasn't a problem to come over if her mother wasn't calm. It shouldn't have to be, her friends already knew her situation.
"No," Leo shakes his head rapidly, "That's definitely not what I meant. You know you're always welcome at the lair. It's..." He sighs slowly, leaning against the counter. "This isn't working, Amy."
She already knew what he was referring to. The capgras, not their relationship. The last thing she wanted to think about was if her mother continued to act this way.
"Can we just not talk about it?" She puts a hand to her temple. "My nerves are already shot and my face hurts like hell."
"I'm sorry, but I'm tired of seeing you go through this," He opens his eyes to see her tired look. Tired of hearing this, tired of having this discussion again, tired of what this brought her. That's just it. She's tired, he knew that. But she didn't have to go through this. She could have a normal life if she just left. "And honestly, I'm tired of not being allowed to say anything about it."
"I'm just trying to figure out what to do, okay? It's not that easy for me," Amy stares at him with eyes so sad, he almost regretted bringing this up. "You knew that when I told you."
"You keep putting it off!"
He had no idea where that came from, it just slipped out. But he meant it.
"Tomorrow you'll go back to help, and then later, you're going to cry to me about it again."
Amy's mouth opens in disbelief. She remembered a while ago, he said he could talk to her about it if she wanted to, but now, he's given her the benefit of the doubt. If he's changing his mind, she doesn't find it funny.
She leans forward a bit, dragging a hand down her face. "Please, Leo." She was silently begging for him to stop, for him to remember what she's going through. "I'm asking you to please lay off me."
Leo sighs in frustration that she wants to change the subject. "Why do you keep coming to me if you won't admit this isn't right?"
"Maybe because I trusted you!" She suddenly shouts as she stands up. He could see the tears in her eyes, making his heart swell. "And I thought that you understood! You know what? No. I don't care. If you can't understand, then get out!"
"Fine!" Leo storms out the door and she follows after him, slamming it. He turns around and uses his two hands to slam back angrily.
The words of their fight keep playing over and over again in her mind as she stares out the window from April's bathroom. She's since fixed her eye with makeup. Nothing about...whatever it was about them has been easy. In fact, they were more different than alike from one another, but they tried to make it work anyway. It's almost as though the universe brought them together and pulled them apart just when they were starting to grow as something more...
A few stray tears roll down her cheeks as she watches the people outside the window. Amy still can't wrap her mind around everything that had happened in the last few hours. Going from a secret fling to a fight about whether or not her life was normal, only to find out that he was tired of this.
That part really got to her. Did he really think that she was going to give up on her mother? Although, the more she thinks about it, the more she acknowledges that friends never stay long after they find out.
Mayhem and Chewbacon are smiling as they look out the mirror. The pig is totally covered in mud.
"I was trying to give Mayhem and Chewbacon a bath, like the great pet sitter I am," April grins as she gestures to herself, glancing at Amy. Then the smile turns into a worried frown. "But he poofed them away and somehow, they got stuck in the mirror!"
"Aww, poor little fellas," Mikey pouts at them, but the two don't seem worried in the slightest unlike April.
"You guys can get 'em out, right?" She asks in concern. It was a long shot asking her friends, but they were the only ones she could ask...
"Of course. We're experts on mynthic stuff," Leo brags, crossing his arms. Amy is caught in the corner in his eye and he huffs, turning away. Of course he missed her, but she's too insistent on getting hurt for the sake of helping her mother. While he wanted her to have at least one family member around, he didn't like the fact that it was technically risking her life in the process...
"Um...you mean mystic, right?" April asks as she eyes him. "I think I should call Donnie."
"No!" Raph exclaims, getting all of their attention. "I got just the plan to get them out."
"Don't do it," Amy shakes her head.
Later, the whole bathroom is a mess, with the mirror still intact. Amy facepalms at him, sighing slowly.
"I told you."
"MY BATHROOM!" April shouts as she arrives back with Donnie in tow.
"So, you thought smashing everything but the mirror, would get him out of the mirror?" Donnie asks, pointing at everything.
"I had nothing to do with this," Amy holds up her hand. Raph gasps in realization, pointing to the mirror.
"I could smash the mirror!"
"You can't smash the mirror with them in it, they might get trapped in the netherworld," Leo points out, trying to stop Raph's arm from punching the mirror.
"Not only that, that's seven years bad luck," Amy calls out, wiping her nose as she's looking out the window.
"Omigosh!" Mikey looks at the mirror, the two pets' tails disappearing. "They're fading! We gotta do something! Donnie," Mikey reaches into Donnie's shell, pulling out random items to his brothers' annoyance. "Whip up one of your magic science potions and get 'em out!"
Donnie pushes Mikey away using an arm from the spider shell. "Okay magic science, not a thing. But, segway, whenever I get stuck with a tough problem, I look for answers at my local library!"
The three brothers stare at him quietly, and Amy could literally hear the crickets.
Yup, Leo totally doesn't know what a library is...wait, why am I wasting my thoughts on him? I'm mad at him.
"It's a big place full of books."
Leo fake snores, a snot bubble coming from his nose. Amy stifles a laugh, covering her mouth. Somehow, despite being angry with him, he can still make her laugh.
"They are like comics, but thicker?!" Donnie exclaims at them, which comes to their understanding.
"Oh, okay. Like comic books," Leo nods in agreement.
Donnie shouts in frustration, all of them leaving the still shocked April.
Amy comes to a stop in front of the library, lifting off her helmet as the others jump out. They wait until the janitor leaves for them to come out of their hiding spots. Donnie smells the paper from a book.
"These walls contain the sum knowledge of entire civilization."
The girl glances behind him to see the Mona Lisa with a blue bandana and a sword, the painter Raphael with a red mask, and the Statue of David with orange shorts.
It may be sum knowledge, but it's definitely not accurate in his eyes.
"Whoa!" Mikey points to an open comic book. "Jupiter Jim saves a cat!"
Raph and Leo peek in awe. "Yes, right," Donnie deadpans, remembering that his brothers aren't on the same level of intelligence. He glances at Amy looking through the shelves.
"Ooo, Leonardo Da Vinci's biography," He snatches the book out of her hands. "Are you a fan?"
"N-No!" She snatches it back. "I was just observing." The last thing she needed today was Donnie asking her a million questions about what her favorite books were.
"So where do we start?" Raph asks as Donnie skims the shelves. "There's like a million books here."
"But Raphael, a library is a treasure hunt. You never know what gems you may find along the way," Donnie grins confidently.
"Ah, like a book on how to catch? Heads up!" Leo throws a book at the back of Donnie's head, causing him to fall. It goes flying near Amy and she glares at him. He returns the glare.
Raph and Mikey look between them, sensing something...off. "You guys okay? You haven't spoken to each other for hours," Raph raises a skeptical eyebrow. "Do we need to have an intervention?!"
"Nope. We're just fine," Amy grits her teeth.
"Peachy," Leo snorts, and besides, his interventions were less than successful.
"And ow," Donnie deadpans to get their attention, lifting up his fallen goggles to his eyes. He scans the shelves. "Ah ha! There's something interesting in that section on rocks."
"Said nobody ever," Mikey replies sarcastically.
"Ha, you're right, geology stinks," Donnie chuckles a bit and Amy rolls her eyes.
"Not what he meant."
Donnie goes to open it, but somehow it flies into the air and grows larger, opening itself up. "Whoa..."
"That's awesome!"
"What the?!"
"Libraries rock," Leo comments with a grin before they're swallowed up by the book. It shrinks back to regular size and lands on the ground. The pages are flipped, showing each of their faces before two pages reveal the five, dropping them into the ground. Donnie has a happy grin on his face, gasping at the large mystic library in front of them.
"Holy Gutenberg, it's magnificent!"
The yokai bat librarian sits on top of a large pillar, stamping turned in books. "Watch and learn, lady and gentleturtles," Donnie slides over to the column and shimmies up it. "Ah, salutations, good-"
"Hush," She holds up one of her large fingers, "Library voice."
"Ah heh, but of course," He winks at her. "Most of my illiterate colleagues and I are..." She flaps her fingers together, indicating him to hush lower. "In need of some crucial mystic research..." She gestures for him to be even lower. "With the lives of beloved pets hanging in the balance." He smiles widely when he's done.
"You guys!" Amy hisses from down below as the other turtles are playing around. "Okay, be that way," She stomps over to Raph's 'vehicle' and kicks it down, causing him to bump into Leo.
"Ow!"
She whistles lowly, sweeping her hands clean. She then spins around, firing an electricity bolt and knocking the stamp out of Mikey's hand.
"Hey," He complains down at her.
The bat librarian, while thankful, is annoyed by the mess the turtles are making. "I see. You children will find the kiddy room to your left."
Donnie slides onto her desk. He was gonna have to up the ante if he wanted to help Chewbacon and Mayhem. "But would a child have a platinum library card?" Donnie holds up his library card, which is indeed made of platinum. "Would a child have won the National Library Competition three years in a row? Would a child be an expert in Dewey Decimal Mathematics? I can divide by biographies!"
She shushes him again and he leans in towards her ear. "Biographies!"
The yokai facepalms in defeat. "Fine! You can go to the main library, so long as you shhh!" She flicks them all on the head except for Amy, patting her on the head. "If my hush bats hear anything louder than a whisper," She points up to at least a hundred bats in the ceiling, "They'll lock you up in the kiddy room."
"Got it!" Raph whispers, giving a thumbs up. The librarian narrows her eyes at them, getting a feeling that they won't last long. He wraps his arms around Donnie and Leo. "If we get locked in that kiddy room, we'll never find what we need to help Mayhem and Chewbacon, so be very quiet. Wait..." His eyes dart to Leo, Amy, and Donnie, and those three only. "Where's Mikey?!" He lifts up the two turtles. Amy taps his shoulder, pointing up ahead. Mikey has a big grin on his face.
"Oh no," Amy murmurs in realization.
He takes a deep breath. "ECHO!" He shouts into the halls, turning around with a big beam towards them. The hush bats obviously hear it and take him away. "I regret nothing!"
"Mikey, you idiot!" Amy whispers after him.
"Is he gonna be okay?" Leo asks Raph quietly.
"In the kiddy room?" Raph snickers to himself. "He'll be fine."
Mikey lands in the kiddy room, which has a bunch of toys and books. He looks up, still with that childish grin on his face as a train passes by.
"Hey, a choo choo!"
He looks back to yokai children, who stare at him. "New toy," A purple blob points to him.
"Where?" Mikey asks cluelessly, gulping as he gets surrounded.
Raph gets a text from April as she's pointing at the pets' arms and legs disappearing.
Guys hurry!
"Guys, Mayhem and Chewie are fading away fast. How do we find the book that'll help us save 'em?" Raph frowns at the text.
"Very simple," Donnie takes hold of a crystal orb. "Every library has a catalog. I'm sure in a mystic library, you merely summon it." He shakes the crystal ball and it shows him a helpful book. "Here we go: Completely Compendium of Escape Rituals. It's in room 16, corridor B, moving stairs, left at the Iblis Tapestry."
"Donnie, you wanna write this stuff down?" Raph asks as there's no way they could remember all that.
Donnie lifts his goggles confidently. "The brain is nature's notepad, Raphael. I have already memorized the directions in song form." He throws the ball, and it hits someone, causing him to shout. He gets taken away by the hush bats.
"Sorry about that," Amy whispers to him as he's glaring at them. "Good job, Donnie," She pats him on the shoulder, Leo looking at them in jealously.
The three head towards the stairs and Amy silently follows as she's lost in thought. Even from their first meeting, she pushed him and others away. She pushed him away because she didn't want him to see her vulnerable side. Any time she did, people would just leave before they got a chance to know her. A mutant she never expected to be with romantically, but the turtle that she wanted in her life as a trusted friend.
Then she allows herself to go on a date with him, but it was too late. He had given up on trying to understand. So when she allowed herself to go on a date, he had to be sweet and take her to Coney Island. That stupid trip. She still couldn't believe that he did that for her.
Though...it was really nice that he put that much thought into it...
"What are you doing to me, Leo?" She whispers to herself. "I wish I knew how to quit you."
She thought he liked her enough to get past the whole capgras delusion problem. She thought that he was the one person in the world who never cared about the flaws she had in her life. The flaws that she would do anything to make disappear, but she knows she can't.
But she chose to be with him anyway, despite all of that. She wanted to see what they were capable of together because they were better together than they were apart. She chose to allow herself to be in...not a relationship, but something, and opened herself up to him in ways that she never imagined she would, only to have her heart shattered by him with a few words.
He was done. They were in a fling for only a day and he already decided that he wanted no part of this. After only months of knowing what the illness resulted in.
When she heard him say those words, she didn't want to believe him. She thought that he was just joking as usual. But when he yelled at her like that, she knew the truth and she felt her heart shatter into a million pieces.
He wasn't the same turtle that she had grown to like over the last few months. He looked the same, but the feelings she felt for him weren't the same. She doesn't even know if she can look at him now after that fight. Deep down, she wanted to go back in time and erase that dumb squabble.
She wanted to go back to the start of everything and erase the accident and start over. She wanted to protect her heart and stop Draxum from hurting the one thing that she cherished.
Apparently, everything she had known from the start was wrong and now she'd have to deal with the consequences of having a mother who would never remember her...
She needed to talk to someone, for support. Otherwise, she wouldn't know what to do. Probably not Splinter, though.
"We better move fast!" Raph's urgent whisper brings her out of her thoughts. "Mayhem and Chewie don't have much time."
Near the ceiling, Foot Brute, Brit, and Foot Lieutenant just happen to be there, seeing the four walking down below. "What are they doing here? Can't we enjoy a nice peaceful Sunday without those clowns showing up?" Foot Lieutenant asks bitterly.
"That witch must be here trying to figure out how to shut me down," Brit is in his yokai form, shaking his fist. "Well, she won't take me alive!"
"I got an idea," Foot Brute rubs his chin. "Since they're always messing up whatever we're doing...why don't we mess up whatever they're doing?!"
The three laugh evilly. It was time for them to know how they felt for a change.
"Room 16, take corridor B, down the stairs past the Iblis Tapestry," Donnie slides to the edge, rapping out the directions. Amy rolls her eyes in amusement. She had to admit, the song was distracting her from...other things in her life. "Slapping bookies after bookies show the way to the hall, but the pole through the hole to the waterfall!"
Leo is backing him up as Raph looks around. "Keep it down, Donnie."
"Donatello, with the book in his hands, saves the day and proves to everyone that he's the man!" Unfortunately, he rapped that too loud, causing him to get taken away by the hush bats. "Popo comes in and takes him away, but Donnie will live to see another day!" He shouts to the open-mouthed trio.
He lands roughly in the kiddy room, looking up to see Mikey wearing a bib as the other kids are playing tea party with him.
"Mikey!"
"New toy!" His brother shouts with a big grin, laughing in relief.
"What?" Donnie opens his mouth in shock as they surround him...
April sends an update about the pets, with only their heads left.
Where are you guys?!
We'll be back soon!
Raph sighs slowly, facepalming. "Write it down I said, but no...the brain is nature's notepad!" He mutters bitterly over their situation.
"Now you know how I feel all the time," Amy places her hands on her hips.
"Guys, relax," Leo pops up from behind them. "I know Donnie's once again messed up our mission as he does on virtually every mission-"
"Are you trying to get Donnie fired?" Raph points at him accusingly.
"What?" Leo laughs nervously with a grin. "No. We'll settle that later. We're gonna save Mayhem, and maybe Chewbacon, we need to remember the song. How did it go? Something about a room?"
He gets a book thrown at his head and he grits his teeth at the innocent looking Amy. "You did that on purpose!"
"Oh yes, because everything is my fault," Amy whispers back, crossing her arms.
"No, it's Donnie's."
"Would you stop blaming your brother for everything? Like you could do it better!"
"I can!"
They both glare at each other, veins clashing from their foreheads. Raph pushes them away from each other.
"Focus, and stay quiet," He warns them with narrowed eyes.
As Amy, Leo, and Raph are trying to remember that stupid song, something catches her eye. She squints her eyes as she steps closer, gasping when she can see it clearly. "What?"
People might be calling her crazy, but she's staring at…
Marco and Lucia.
She rubs her eyes, to make sure she's not dreaming, but they're really standing in front of her right now. Marco grins as Lucia waves and then suddenly, they're gone.
She didn't know why, but she had the sudden urge to go and follow them. Amy rushes down the hall without another word.
"Hey!" Raph calls out to her in a whisper, "Mellie! Stop!"
"Where are you going? Going off on your own isn't gonna help!" Leo whispers to the girl, but she doesn't listen. He tries to go after her, but she's already gone, causing him to grunt. The look in his eyes show how much he missed her, though...
"Room 16, take corridor B," Raph recites, but he can't remember the rest all of sudden. "Ah...then what?"
He bumps into someone, knocking him to the ground. "You run into us," Foot Brute jerks a thumb to himself.
"Step aside," Raph points at them in annoyance, Leo's mouth open wide. "We're on a crucial mission."
"Which is why we're gonna throw a monkey wrench into your plans!" Foot Lieutenant grins, Raph standing up.
"Amelia will rue the day she crossed me," Brit rubs his hand.
"Dude, you seriously need a hobby," Leo whispers to him.
"Oh yeah?" Raph goes to punch Foot Brute, who catches his fist. The hush bats loom over them and they glance up at the ceiling nervously.
"Raph, we can't fight these guys," Leo grabs hold of him. "We have to be quiet, or we'll never get the book to free Chewbacon and Mayhem."
"We'll fight them as quietly as the quietest vine in the jungle of silence!" Raph hisses, turning back to Foot Brute. He would never turn down a fight. Foot Brute blows dust at him, to get him to get set to the kiddy room as revenge.
Raph is about to sneeze, but Leo covers his nose with his finger. The hush bats narrow their eyes as they watch closely. "We don't have time for this! We have to find Ames and get the book!" Leo whispers to him. Deep down, he couldn't stop caring about her, and at this point, she might be in the kiddy room...
Pfft. No she wouldn't.
Amy rushes past book shelves, sliding around the corner and coming to a stop at a dead end. "Ha…I must be insane to think that I saw-"
She turns around, freezing when she sees her siblings again. Her eyes start to water at the sight of them. It was her family…
Baron Draxum shot purple vines, causing the accident. Young Alina looked at her sister's blood-stained face, then at her brother.
"Lucy? Big brother!"
She started to cry as the sirens were heard.
"Marco…Lucia…how…"
Instead of answering, they gesture for her to follow, and she does. Surely the two didn't mean any harm…it felt like they're really here…
Raph steps on Foot Brute's foot, causing him to grunt quietly, even though it really hurt. Leo licks his finger and gives Foot Lieutenant a wet willy. He covers his mouth, grossed out as he accidentally pulls on his partners' underwear. Brit glares down at Foot Lieutenant as the two turtles try not to burst in laughter. The three notice this and smirk, Foot Brute shaking his butt while Foot Lieutenant makes funny faces. Brit plants a banana peel and slips on purpose. The two cover their faces, Leo grabbing a book and making himself act like a duck. Raph shakes his head, also making funny faces. The next few seconds of them trying to one-up each other is so ridiculous, yet Amy herself would laugh if she was there. Everyone else is watching them weirdly, leaving the area. Leo trips on a book that's about avoiding tripping.
Foot Brute laughs loudly, realizing too late what he's done. "Uh oh. Put me down!"
Foot Lieutenant flips through a book, ripping out a page and making Origami soldiers...however, they're tiny, but they do land on Leo's shell, tickling him. Because of his loud laughing, the hush bats lead him away. He spots corridor B just before he's taken to the kiddy room.
"Raph! Corridor B!"
"I copy." He glares at Foot Lieutenant and Brit. One baddie down, two more to somehow get rid of...by himself.
When the three come to a stop in a dark room with medieval furniture, Amy couldn't help but feel a little creeped out.
If the Mystery Gang and their Great Dane show up, I'm hauling shell.
"How…I saw you guys! You were…" She pauses as she couldn't even finish her sentence. It would be too much.
"Big sis?" Lucia speaks up…without using sign language. Okay, Amy might be going crazy by talking to thin air in other peoples' eyes, but Lucia would never outright speak. "Why are you fighting against Draxum?"
She blinks slowly at the line of questioning. Why would she ask such a thing? And how does she even know his name?
"I-I don't…what…"
"Draxum is clearly the one you should be allied with."
"That's crazy talk!" Amy immediately protests. "He's a psycho! He messed up Mom!"
"That was just an incentive," Lucia waves it off. "You have so much better with him than with those idiotic turtles."
"How'd you know about them?" There's no possible way they could know about this stuff…she's never spoken about any of this to her family; her mother didn't need to be involved with her personal life and get hurt again. Her father was never informed about the true cause of the crash while he was still alive…so how could they know so much about her now?
"What we know is irrelevant. We're pawns to the game," Marco shrugs it off. "What you need to do is quit the bakery and join the Foot."
"I don't care who you are, I'll never do that!" Amy screams as she runs towards the door. She had to get out of this place, it was doing…something to her head.
"Don't you see that Draxum is the right path?"
Amy pauses as she was reaching for the door knob. Her eyes are wide in horror as she tries to figure out what's wrong with her head...
Foot Lieutenant throws more paper ninjas, but Raph blows them onto the duo. They get tickled, causing them to laugh and they get flown away too. "Put me down!"
"Don't mess with the hair!"
"Yes!" Raph whispers in victory. His phone buzzes, luckily on vibrate, and he answers April's call. "April! Can't talk right now."
"What's going on?!" She shouts loudly. "They're almost faded away!"
Raph's eyes widen as he glances back at the horde of hush bats. "On my way! Tell little buddies Mayhem and Chewie to hang tight!"
He runs to his right and jumps into the space of many staircases, falling onto another one and running down the next. He glances back at the bats that are getting closer, screaming and bumping onto the steps again. He falls through empty space and lands on the floor, grabbing a rolling shelf and rolling down the hall. He screams as he plants his foot into the shelf next to him, flying books into the bats' eyes. He speeds so fast that he knocks a couple down, a yokai glancing at the area.
"You said so yourself many times: those bozos mess up everything. Even the smart one…but with someone as powerful as a warrior mutant scientist, you would be unstoppable. You could have…anything."
Amy narrows her eyes. Having everything but her friends…would be wrong. That wasn't how she wanted to live. Money, power, immortality…she didn't care. Her friends meant the world to her no matter how many times they push her nerves.
"…Who are you?"
The two stare at her as she turns around, glaring at them. "My brother and sister would never say this…this crap about being someone I don't want to be. But how am I seeing you…?"
Amy coughed after she was sprayed in the eyes with the purple spores. Baron grinned as he left, holding the purple Oozesquito.
"…That damn bug!"
She rubs her eyes harder, looking at her fingers to see residue from the spores. Looking up, she sees that she's alone, blinking back tears. For a few seconds, it felt so…
Normal.
All she can do is stare at where her siblings were as the hush bats come to take her.
Raph glances back at the bats, looking at a certain tapestry.
Down the stairs, past the Iblis Tapestry.
"Sure hope that's an Iblis," Raph says, as he doesn't know what an actual one looks like. The shelf runs over a book, tripping him. "No!"
He jumps to the tapestry, spinning around and dangling as the bats get caught in the fabric. It rips due to the weight and he uses them as a parachute. He's then met with moving shelves.
Slapping bookies after bookies show the way to the hall.
"What?" Raph asks in confusion. "What is the point of this?!" He gets hit in the face with a shelf, knocking him around. "Power smash-a-roni!" His aura manifests and he growls like a gorilla, hanging onto a shelf. He bursts into another side of the room, freaking out other people and making them go to the kiddy room.
A pole to the hole to the waterfall!
"The waterfall!" Raph recognizes it, running towards the waterfall. He slides up it, the hush bats still flying after him. He bursts through a fountain...and finally comes across the book. "The book! I'm coming, Mayhem and Chewbacoooooon!"
The hush bats burst out of the hole, surrounding him. "I don't have time for this!" He controls his bigger self so that it pulls him out. "Bringing like a boss!" He flies towards the book, crashing into it as the bats follow. The librarian is peacefully stamping another book when something breaks above her. She looks up to see a hole in the wall, with shelves flying off as Raph reaches out towards the book. Her eyes widen slowly and he finally grabs the book. He falls, but the hush bats catch him, bringing him to the kiddy room.
"I got the book! Let's go save Mayhem and Chewbacon!" Raph exclaims, looking back sheepishly as he's caused a huge mess.
"You!" The librarian recognizes him immediately. "I'll pummel you into papyrus!" She grows larger into a different form.
"Uh, um..." He glances behind him to see the kids playing drums, with Donnie and Leo fanning Mikey. The Foot trio are tied up.
"New toy!" Mikey points to the librarian. He has face paint, made to look like a tribe leader of some sort. The kids surround the librarian, doing whatever they wished to her horror.
Amy suddenly appears in the kiddy room, frowning sadly. "Mellie! Hey, where'd you run off to?"
"Probably to get away from you," Foot Brute and Foot Lieutenant laugh, making Amy's blood boil. She lets her fists speak for herself as she punches both of them across the face, to everyone's shock. And, to top it all off, she walks away without another word. The turtles follow after her.
"That was awesome!" Raph cheers and she clenches her fists.
"Yeah baby! Nothing gets past you!" Mikey cheers, but the girl is silent.
"Now we can go back and rescue your pet, and it's all because of my superiorness," Donnie brags, dancing around Amy and holding out her motorcycle helmet. Leo seems to be the only one noticing that Amy hasn't said a word so far.
"Will you just stop?!" She snatches the helmet and throws it to the ground, cracking the glass. She continues her walk, much to the confusion of the four.
"What'd I say?" Donnie wonders as they glance at each other. She looked as if...
She saw a ghost.
"Now, the final step," Raph presses his hand to a symbol in front of the mirror. "Boom!"
The mirror flashes, releasing Mayhem and Chewbacon.
"Come here, coochie coo..." Raph holds out his hands, but Mayhem scratches his face. The pets land in their owners' arms.
"Guys, you did it! Thank you!" April says gratefully, holding Mayhem away from her. "Okay Mayhem, time for your bath."
At that word, Mayhem poofs into the mirror yet again, confusing them. "Okay, I'm smashing him out!" Raph breaks the mirror and Amy facepalms at Raph's glass-inflicted hand. "There. That wasn't so hard, now was it?"
Amy walks towards the bathroom door. "Um...Amy? Are you okay?" Mikey asks slowly, causing her to pause.
"...I need to be alone right now."
And then she's gone.
Amy decides to go downstairs to surround herself with the closed shop, for closure. Baking was the one thing she stuck with, and it was probably the only thing she knew was right in her world…but now that she's calmed down…she doesn't want to lose anyone else in her life, so there was only one thing to do.
Pulling out her phone, she calls April, knowing that she won't tell anyone about this conversation.
"Hey hey, girl! What's up?"
"April? I need you...something happened, and...I need to talk to-"
Suddenly the door bursts open and she's surprised to see a panting April standing there.
"Girl talk?! Oh, I have been waiting months for this!"
"I'm sorry, how did you get here so fast?" Amy asks in confusion as April lives kinda far from here. Far enough to not get here in under a second like she just did.
"Say no more! I have just the thing."
"So, what's on your mind?" April asks as the two girls are eating ramen. Amy sighs as she puts down her chopsticks, wondering if she should just back out now. No. No, she can't back down. She's a warrior. All she had to do was not mention his name and everything would be fine.
"If you had a fight with someone..." She starts off, not sure how to word this right. "Because of a family member...what would you do?"
April smirks, having a hint of what this was about. "Is this about Leo?"
"What?" Amy sweats a bit, wondering just how April knew that. She didn't even imply that it was Leo. "No!"
"It's okay if it is," April shrugs at her, "And if it's not, you don't have to tell me. But I would just talk it out, and then you'll be okay!"
"And...if that someone doesn't want to hear it?" Amy bites her lip, remembering how Leo stormed out. She never expected that of him.
"Then they'll just have to get over it and accept the fact that family is important!" April recites with a nod, crossing her arms. "Boom. Giving advice like a boss."
"Okay, Raph is having too much influence on you."
"Love you too, Amy."
Amy paces around, not sure if he would even show up. If he did, that would mean he understood her situation. And if he didn't...
Well, she didn't want to think about that possibility.
Someone lands in front of her door and she stops in her tracks, silently hoping that it was him. She slowly turns around, relieved to see Leo standing there and not a robber. Slowly, she walks up to the door and opens it, letting him in.
They take a seat at the table, waiting for the other to stay something, to make sure that they were still okay.
"I'm sorry," Leo starts off first. "That I was angry. I was wrong to speak to you like that...and I shouldn't have made you cry. I just...can't stand to see you go through this anymore. I care about you, you know that," He sighs slowly, dragging a hand down his face. "And I do care about what you're going through. I just...snapped. And when you called, I was so happy."
"...I care about you too," She admits and he looks relieved. When she asked him to come over, he was scared that...that she wanted to be done with him. "Listen...this...us. You're supposed to trust me, like I trust you."
He squeezes his eyes shut at how he acted. "You may act like an idiot..." She looks annoyed as she uses the last word, her eyes softening. "But you're my idiot. And besides...I won't be alone. We're going to get through this...together."
Leo places his hand on top of hers, squeezing it. "Tell me what I can do to make it up to you."
Amy shakes her head. "I just want you to be there for me...and understand why I can't give up on her. She's my mother. She's my only family—biologically. I can't just forget about her and leave her to be alone with her illness..." She sniffles and he winces at her teary ears. The last thing he wanted to do was make her cry. "You're the only one I know who believes in me and I don't wanna lose that. And for you to just abandon me like that...I thought that you would understand that she's suffering, Leo...please don't tell me that I was wrong..."
"I do understand," He leans forward and hugs her tightly, not wanting to let go. "And I didn't mean to make you upset. I've always believed in you, Ames. I never stopped."
"I'm sorry too..." She whispers softly. He looks down at her to see her lost look.
"I was the one who was an idiot, dove, not you," He raises a brow at her.
"No," She shakes her head, blinking back tears. "For having my mom..."
"That's not your fault," He says sharply. "I wouldn't be doing this whole thing if I had a problem with you having an mentally ill mother. I just worry, you know." He reaches out and gently wipes her tears.
"I know..." She murmurs, wrapping her arms around his neck.
"...I missed you."
"I missed you too, Leon." She could tell he meant every word, meaning she could trust him.
"Leon, hmm?" He looks at her with an amused smirk, silently happy that she used his nickname.
"Don't push it," She deadpans with a blank look before taking a deep breath. "…I saw my siblings."
His eyes widen and he swallows in a gulp. "Um…can you repeat that? Because ya lost me."
"No, really!" She protests, letting go of him. "They started talking to me, and it seemed like we were a family again…until they tried to convince me to change sides. I said no! But they were talking crazy, saying how their death wasn't important! Like they're trash! But they're not!" She blinks back tears.
He engulfs her into a hug as she sobs into his chest. He says sweet nothings into her ear until she calms down. "Remember that stuff he sprayed me with?"
"Don't remind me," He grunts at the memory.
"That's what caused me to see them…Leo, can you stay with me tonight? I-I don't wanna be left alone."
"Of course," He smiles softly, "Who am I to deny my lady?"
