Angel: Forgot to mention this last chapter (mostly because it's been so long since I've updated this story), but I have 92 people favoriting my TMNT 2003 story! For those 2003 fans who've read my story and to people who are still reading it, thank you so much! I really appreciate it! And somehow, I have over 270,000 views on it, with more than half of the episodes having over 1,000 views! Yay! *throws up arms happily* I can't even describe how awesome this feels :D and yes, I've written the season 2 episodes from two weeks ago, but I'm not uploading them until it's time to release them. If I do it now, it'll give away spoilers…
A video plays, first showing the turtles and Amy at the destroyed Albearto's when they were helping April with the birthday party.
"Birthdays ruined."
Then it goes to the amusement part. "Parks destroyed."
Lastly, it's the museum where they were stuck together. "Museums vandalized. Tonight, on Cyber Sleuth, we reveal the culprits. Beware...the Mutant Menace!" Two mysterious figures appear in the video. One of them has the Albearto mask while the other has a duck mask.
"Mutant Menace?!" Mikey exclaims at the tablet. "Omigosh! They're talking about us!"
"I can't believe we're getting blamed for this! Virtually everything in there was somebody else's fault! ...I think," Leo glances around. Donnie lets out an annoyed sigh.
"So unfair...although it is a boost for my emotionally unavailable bad boy image...you know?" Donnie looks away.
"Look guys," Raph slides in front of them. "I think this might be an opportunity to turn a dark cloud to a silver lining. You fellas ever read this fine piece of literature?" He holds up a book.
"Horrible Wolfie, the Harmless Wolfpup?" Donnie reads the title.
"Yes! It's the touching story of a young wolf who shows up at a town full of humans, who all wanna run him through with a pitchfork."
"That's supposed to be touching?" Mikey asks skeptically.
"But Wolfie didn't run away. He performed a bunch of good deeds for the town, and they welcomed him with their hearts! So that's what we'll do! We'll get in our giant Tank, and we'll smash people in the face with good deeds!"
"Yeah!" Mikey bobs his head in agreement. "We are good-dooers!"
"Oh, this is gonna look great on my college application!" Donnie clasps his hands.
"Any votes for staying home during the anti-mutant panic?" Leo raises a hand. "No? Okay. Let's go!"
The turtles are visiting Amy's place to help her with the store, watching her make cupcakes.
"Can you stop staring?" She deadpans as she scoops frosting into a bag.
"We have to know the secret to your chocolate dream cupcakes!" Raph recites, holding up a finger.
"They're life-changing!" Donnie leans in towards Amy with crazy eyes. "We must learn everything we can...so that we can make more...and give them to the world..."
She rolls her eyes at their reasoning. "It's really not that complicated. Even Mikey could do it."
"Hey!" He pouts at her.
"But we can't see everything with these blocking the way!" Raph walks behind the counter, throwing a container of baking soda across the room. A loud crash is heard and Amy's mouth drops open. The turtles could only stand in shock and silence. Amy makes a sound of disbelief as she holds her temples.
"Oh my God...oh no...I just got that..." She murmurs in horror after a few minutes. Her eyes dart around the mess that Raph had just made. Leo and Mikey cringe at Raph, who's smiling sheepishly.
"That was an exclusive, rare item from my favorite movie...I can't-I waited two days in line to get it...the rose from Beauty and the Beast...with the glass and everything..."
The turtles take their cupcakes and slowly back away. Any moment now, that sadness would turn into anger, and they wanted to live.
"Now I have to drown my tears in those cupcakes..." She looks around for them, only to look outside and seeing them dash out with her cupcakes in hand. She sighs slowly at this.
"It's days like these that make me want to reevaluate my life..."
"So why are you doing this again?" She asks as she's standing in the Turtle Tank.
"Now, each time we do a good deed, we'll leave behind one of our friendly calling cards," Raph is driving the Turtle Tank.
"This good deed brought to you by the quote un quote Mutant Menace. Winky face!" Mikey winks at them. "Who wouldn't love this?"
"Guys, it's not the end of the world," Amy crosses her arms. "Not everyone is going to like you. That's life, just accept it."
"No! They wanna tarnish our name, we'll earn it back!" Raph declares, causing the girl to facepalm. They stop near a fire extinguisher, which is broken. Donnie steps outside, measuring it before a bunch of guns emit from the shell. He melts the extinguisher so that no more water is coming out of it, and they leave, throwing the calling card onto it. A fire man tries to access it, but since it's blocked, he can't.
A cat mews outside a window, and Leo thinks that it's locked outside. "Aw, kitty need to go inside?" He opens up the window for him. Mikey leaves the card. The cat was actually trying to get inside so that it could try and eat the pet canary.
Raph and Donnie stand in front of a broken sidewalk. Raph stomps so large that all the stones lift up. Donnie fixes the street, making it look good as new. A man and a dog trip onto it, getting stuck in the still wet cement.
"Boys, Mellie, we're good-dooers! And what do good-dooers do? They good do! And they do it well!" Raph places his hands on his hips proudly.
"New York is going to adore us!" Donnie presses a button to show the news. "Local news, a team of heartless pranksters dumped a quote un quote Mutant Menace evil winky face, are wrecking havoc across the city. We go live to unpaid reporter, Cyber Sleuth."
"The fire rages..." A car is on fire, the melted extinguisher still inaccessible. The cat is then grabbed by someone inside. "A canary flees for its life." Two workers try to get out the man and dog. "A Maltese is trapped in concrete. What do these tragedies have in common? The horrible villains called the Mutant Menace!" The duck shows the calling card.
"WHAT?!" Raph screeches at this. "We called ourselves the Mutant Menace as a joke! That's why we used the just kidding quotes! And the just kidding winky face!"
"They must've taken it the wrong way. Using Mutant Menace wasn't probably the best idea," Amy shrugs at him. "You could've just not melted the extinguisher. The cat thing is forgivable, but you also could've left a sign for that sidewalk."
"Raph, you know I love you, but people don't focus on punctuation when they're stuck in concrete," Leo pats him on the plastron.
"There's something familiar about those disguised voices..." Mikey presses his ear to the video.
"No doubt you're wondering who we are. We are none other than..." They remove the masks to reveal themselves as Baxter Stockboy and Brit Worley. "Boy genius Baxter Stockboy and millionaire kid Britney Worley!"
"It's Brit, not Britney!" Brit growls at him.
"Then you should talk to your parents about that."
"They were expecting a girl," He sags his shoulders a bit.
"What?" Mikey asks in shock.
"Baxter Stockboy?" The three who officially met him deadpan.
"And Brit...again," Donnie rolls his eyes.
"I am not looking forward to whatever that highly skilled underachiever has in store for us," Leo crosses his arms.
"Man, I thought we were done with those two," Amy crosses her arms.
"And never fear, New York! We will expose these monsters for what they are! We have been tracking them from the Stock N'Shop blimp, which my partner here paid for himself."
"No big deal," He brushes a fist against his suit smugly. Then the feed changes to show the top of the Turtle Tank.
"They're tracking us?!" Raph points to the video.
"Hey, we look like a giant turtle," Mikey points at it.
"Yeah, everybody was saying go stealth, go stealth, but come on, look at us! We have got it bad!" Donnie presses his face against the video.
"You too can track the Mutant Menace, by accessing the Baxter Stockboy/Brit Worley live stream...available for a reasonable fee."
"You give us the money," Brit gestures to himself, "And we give you the scoop."
"Aren't you already rich? Ugh!" Amy grits her teeth at them, clenching her fists.
"...We can't let anyone see us," Leo says slowly, "We need to get home, muy rapido!"
Amy couldn't help but grin a little. Raph pushes past him and slams on the accelerator. "What the-?" His eyes widen as he comes to a stop. An angry mob is blocking their path, with pitchforks and signs.
"It's them!" A man points to the Turtle Tank. "The Mutant Menace!"
"Get 'em!"
"Wait!" Amy cries out, crawling out from a window to look at them. "My friends were just trying to do good deeds so that they redeem themselves for their past actions! Yes, I know how they handled it was stupid-"
"Hey!" Donnie protests to her, but she ignores him.
"But they'd never do anything wrong on purpose. The Mutant Menace was supposed to be a joke, but it obviously didn't stick."
"They've kidnapped Amy from Smith's Sweets and brainwashed her!" Another random person points up at her.
"What? I'm not brainwashed!"
"Let's rescue her!"
They start throwing tomatoes at the Turtle Tank, everyone peeking outside. Amy scrambles back into the vehicle.
"You know, you don't normally see pitchforks in midtown Manhattan," Leo couldn't help but comment.
"Oh mama, people are getting rustic out there," Mikey cringes at the angry crowd.
"We were trying to be nice!" Raph gestures to them, "They never read Horrible Wolfie?!"
"Um, Raph...that's the same book I used to read to my little sister and my niece," Amy raises a brow at them.
"Four shields down 50 percent," Donnie's eyes widen.
"Wait a sec, we have four shields?!" Leo screeches at him.
"We do not," Donnie deadpans and Trash Wizard lands on the glass, slightly breaking it.
"You shall not pass!"
Raph yells and pulls away from them. He manages to swerve to the right, but none of them notice a tiny blue robot following after them. It drives underneath the Turtle Tank, opening up to reveal six robots. They jump in and take control of the vehicle.
Baxter Stockboy grins when he sees that the control was a success, using a remote controller to drive the Tank. They all yelp as they speed up, Stockboy swerving the car so that it doesn't hit a man, but he drops his groceries.
"Oh, Raphaela, would you mind easing up on the gas, dear friend?!" Donnie exclaims at him, twitching a little.
"I can't, t-the controls are stuck or something," Raph tries slamming on the brakes, but they're inoperable. The levers move on their own. "No steering! Donnie, what's going on?"
"Oh no, oh no!" Donnie shouts, looking at his wrist computer. "Ah, okay, whew. Good news, guys, my engineering's fine."
"The bad news?" Amy raises a brow expectantly.
"Oh, and something's taking control of the Turtle Tank."
"How'd they get control of the Tank?!" Amy whips around in shock.
"Look out!" Mikey screeches as they're approaching Times Square.
"I'm trying the taxi rocket!" Raph presses a red button from one of the levers. The left rocket starts up.
"Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa!"
"Move out of the way!" Amy shouts to two people walking by. The Turtle Tank swerves to the right. Raph pulls the other lever, the right rocket activating. This causes the entire vehicle to turn, landing on billboards. Then it drives sideways, a woman looking up in surprise. They land in the opposite direction, heading away from all the people.
"Wow, nice work, Raph," Donnie pats his back. "But we can't keep this up forever, the rockets have limited fuel!"
Leo tries to open the door, seeing one of the robots gluing the door shut. "Trapped? I knew being nice to people would get us in trouble."
"You weren't being nice in their eyes!" Amy gestures towards outside. "You should've asked me before you went out doing that stuff."
"We were helping people!" Donnie retorts back. The control panel starts sparking, getting their attention. The robot chews through to get inside, jumping in front of them. A red screen appears, showing an incoming message from the boys.
"Chello~" Mikey replies, Raph pointing a finger into his face.
"Mikey, we do not chello the enemy!"
Amy rolls her eyes and answers the message. "Hello mutants! And the girl who ruined us! You no doubt have noticed my microbots are in control of your vehicle!"
The Turtle Tank swerves to the left, capturing a man with chickens before he rolls onto the street.
"What's your angle, Stockboy?" Leo wiggles his finger to the hologram.
"And what does Brit have to gain for it?" Amy narrows her eyes.
"Just watch!" They laugh, breaking into the screens at Time Square to show their faces. "New York, we will deliver the Mutant Menace to the steps of City Hall in five minutes! Subscribe and donate to our live stream and witness the spectacle, or see it in person, if you dare!"
"Premium tickets are for sale on his website," Brit points to him. "We accept cash, credit cards-"
"I hate those kids!" Leo kicks away the microbot. "They're gonna expose us all to New York just for money?!"
"Yeah, we don't have any money, we get by just fine mooching off of Mellie," Raph chimes in.
"Not you guys," Amy shakes her head. "They want money from the people. To exploit you for their own selfish gains."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're as poor as dirt," Donnie's spider shell flips through a stack of money. Amy snatches it away from him.
"Okay, I've told you a hundred times to stop going through my purse," She points a finger at him. "So quit touching my hard-earned money."
The Tank suddenly goes faster, knocking Donnie and Amy to the ground. The left rocket from the taxi powers up. Raph pulls on the right lever, but it doesn't budge.
"I can't steer, and I can't stop!" Raph waves his arms in alarm as he sees people in front of them.
"Step aside, it's portal time!" Leo stands in front of them, waving his sword around.
"No! Stop, no!" Donnie yells at the top of his lungs.
"Leo, don't!" Amy calls out as he creates a portal in front of the vehicle. Suddenly they're not in New York anymore, but about to be eaten by a large monster. The others screen as Leo blushes in embarrassment. He quickly waves the sword again, making another portal that sends them back into the city. Amy sighs in relief, but since the microbots have control, they slide to a stop in the back.
"Hey, one of Leo's portals didn't work, we all totally expected," Donnie deadpans, Amy slapping him on the arm. He then sees the floor hatch. "Oh, Newton's apple! How could I forget the floor hatch?" He opens it up, where all they could see is road. "I can just shimmy out and-"
"No time for that!" Raph grabs him and throws his brother away. "I'll go!"
"But Raph, it's not-"
He jumps anyway before Amy could warn him...and he gets stuck in the hatch, wiggling around.
"...big enough for you to fit," She finishes her sentence with a sigh. Raph shouts in alarm as he sees a large pothole up ahead, with traffic cones in front.
"Donnie!"
The cones hit him in the face. "Ow, ow, ow! Make this hatch bigger, ow, ow, ow!"
"I made it to your specs, but that was when you were in your 'doing sit-ups everyday' phase," Donnie murmurs, looking away.
The Tank jerks around again, the boys grinning evilly. The microbots then beep as City Hall is up ahead!
"Three minutes till the reveal of the Mutant Menace!"
"What do we do, what do we do?" Mikey panics a little. "What do we do?!"
"We send this gas bag on a highway helium!" Donnie fires a bowling ball towards the blimp, shooting out three more. The boys get an alarm from inside the blimp, cringing and rapidly pushing a button. They're sent flying out of the blimp with a parachute before the bowling balls hit the blimp, causing it to fall.
"Ahh! Now they're shooting blimps!"
"The whales of the sky..." A fisherman comments, the boys safely landing in front of City Hall.
"Step right up, folks! Any moment, you get the whole Mutant Menace, the dangerous spectacle sweeping New York!" Stockboy starts off.
"One dollar per person, cash preferred," Brit rubs his fingers together, the crowd holding up money.
"Okay, we're out of jet fuel," Leo rushes up front. "We're out of bowling balls, and we're gonna be exposed to New York, smelling like the inside of this Tank!"
The smell hits Amy's nose, causing her to faint.
"Relax, Leo," Mikey speaks up from behind. "We still have nature's bowling ball: me," Mikey gestures to himself. He puts his limbs into his shell, bouncing into the bowling ball launcher. "Launch me, baby!"
He's shot into the sky. "Hot soooooup!" He gets out of the shell, flinging his weapon around. "Mystical whip!" It hits the back of the Tank.
"No, no, no!" Donnie shouts as they're about to hit someone.
"There they are!" Stockboy points behind the crowd. "They're right behind you!"
Mikey spins around on a pole. "There they are! Turn around, turn around!" The boys shout, but the Turtle Tank turns right by the crowd just as they turn their heads to see nothing.
"Hey, that's an empty street!"
"Oh come on!" The two shout in frustration. The crowd starts complaining as tomatoes are thrown at them.
"My dad makes all your cars!" Brit shakes a fist at them. The Turtle Tank drives away and Mikey sighs in relief.
"Mikey with the save!" He congratulates himself, but the Tank is still under control by the robots. "Oh no..." He yelps as he's thrusted forward, a man with a tow truck standing in the street. He shouts at the Tank, which breaks through the construction pickets and soars up into the air. Mikey yells as they jump across the bridge, landing in the water. The microbots are touched with the water, shutting themselves down. Leo lifts up his head to see Mikey sliding in front of him. Amy gives him two thumbs up.
"Nice one, Mike! You see that, Raph?"
Raph can't speak as he's still stuck in the hatch, holding his breath.
"Oh...right," Amy cringes at him.
"Hey Donnie, we're sinking and Raph is swallowing the Hudson River," Leo calls out.
"Do you really think I would've built this tank without an amphibious mode?" He presses a pink button, a happy birthday banner coming out of nowhere, shooting the two with confetti. Amy and Leo glance at each other, unamused. "Oh, that is the wrong button. Here we go!"
Airbags are deployed, lifting the vehicle and Raph out the water.
"Dumb Stock N' Shop publicity stunt!" A man grumbles.
"Total scam! I spent 60 dollars on a pitchfork for nothing!"
"Noooo!" Brit shouts as he's stripped out of all of the money they made. Police sirens are heard.
"Baxter Stockboy, Brit Worley, we're taking you in for unlicensed advertising, causing mass hysteria, and driving a blimp without a learner's permit. Alright, take him to kid genius jail and take Mr. Worley here to a real jail cell."
"Mark our words, this isn't the last you've heard of Baxter Stockboy!"
"And Brit Worley! Let me go, I will sue you!"
"Well..." Mikey says dejectedly. "I guess we'll never get people to accept us of being good-dooers like Wolfie..."
"Maybe not, but we'll keep trying. Because we're the quote un quote Mad Dogs! Winky face!"
"Hey, uh, Raph," Donnie says, holding the same book. "Did you ever finish reading your book here? Because turns out once the villagers accept Wolfie in their hearts, he eats them all."
"Gotta start reading stuff till the end."
"Ugh," Amy facepalms at him before smirking. "Maybe you don't have to keep trying."
"Huh?" They all ask in confusion.
Amy walks up to the crowd, as they've arranged a rally to fix everything that the 'Mutant Menace' did.
"Hey, it's Amy!"
They start to cheer and she waves sheepishly to them, clearing her throat. "Yes, the Mutant Menace isn't real...but my friends were behind all of that stuff. It's not their fault. They just wanted to do something nice for you."
"Then where are they?"
"Yeah," Other people start agreeing with the man.
"They can't show themselves to you," Amy holds up a hand. "But I can assure you that they never meant to inconvenience you all. Take it from me, Amy from Smith's Sweets, that there are good mutants out there. I didn't believe it out there, but...not all mutants are bad," She smiles a little. "After all...the ones who tried to help are my family."
The turtles start tearing up, except Donnie of course.
"Aw, Amy's really changed her opinion on mutants now," Mikey grins proudly.
"Well, not totally. There's still Draxum and those other bad guys," Leo chimes in, smiling at the girl.
"I'm not crying...she's crying!" Donnie wipes at his eyes.
"Perfect," Leo kisses Amy's cheek as they were kissing in her loft. "So tan and strong," He sucks her earlobe, making her gasp. He does the same with the other ear and kisses the soft flesh on her neck. "Gorgeous. Soft. Just like you. You have no idea how beautiful you are. I'm going to tell you that every day."
Amy blushes, not used to all the praise. She never considered herself anything special and certainly not beautiful. But she doesn't mind Leo saying it.
"Leo, I like the attention. It's nice. It makes me think I'm something. Almost. I'm not that pretty and my past...well."
"You are something, Dove," He plants a kiss on her lips. "You're a work of art. Mine and I'll never stop admiring you and wanting to hold you. Nothing about you is ugly. You're perfection."
Amy reddens at the praise again. "Thank you..."
"No. Thank you," He reaches out and strokes her cheek. "Thank you for letting me have you and getting to know you better. I know it wasn't easy letting me and allowing yourself to be this open."
Amy smiles softly. "Well, that's a sign of trust, you know. I can be honest when I'm with you. I like having attention and...feeling special."
He smiles back. "I'm glad that I can make you happy and grateful that you agreed to let things between us play out."
She laughs sheepishly at her expectations, rubbing her neck. "Ha ha...sorry about that. I can be pretty stubborn."
"Eh," Leo shrugs at her, stroking his thumbs on her waist. "I actually like it when you're playing hard to get. It's like a little game between us. I know it's only been a few weeks, but I swear I won't hurt you again. No matter what, we'll stay together."
"Right," She hugs him in agreement and he hugs her back. "No matter what..."
"I'll make sure that anyone who hurts you will die by my hands!"
Her eyes widen as she pulls back to look at him. His face is all scrunched up to look tough.
"…If the lake drowns me, will you kill that?"
He pauses at the question, sweating a bit as she bites her lip, trying not to laugh. She can tell that she's stumped him because…
There's really no logical answer for that.
