Note: Yes, I know last time I forgot the Halloween scene. SORRY! I updated this chapter. Don't be mad!
The rain started to fall harder and harder as the night wore on. Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and their little sister, Ming, were racing each other to see who got to the top of the Empire State Building first. Of course, Ming was cheating by throwing smoke bombs in her brothers' ways, and using her powers to move faster, but her brothers were easily making up for it.
Ming was so close. She was almost to the top. Almost beating her brothers. Or, she was, until Raph charged past her, pushing her out of the way.
"Hey!" Ming cried out in surprise.
"You snooze, you lose! And I win!" Raphael laughed, pulling himself onto the top of the Empire State Building. Ming climbed up, a close second.
"Hmph! I almost won, you cheater!"
"Cheater?" Leo asked, climbing up beside her, with Don close behind. "Who was throwing smoke bombs in our faces?"
Ming grinned. "Me." She admitted proudly.
Mikey climbed up last, and punched Ming's arm. "That last smoke bomb nearly caused me to fall off a building and break my neck!" He glared.
Ming laughed.
Leo shook his head. "Okay, guys, turtle formation!" He smiled.
Ming loved turtle formation. She executed her part perfectly, so it was a complete surprise when she landed on Donnie, who landed on Raph, who landed on Mikey, who hit the bird statue really hard. Leo almost fell, but Don caught him with his Bo Staff.
"Hey, what happened to turtle formation?" Leo questioned, holding the staff for dear life.
"Turtle formation? I thought you said 'Squirrel formation!" Mikey admitted sheepishly.
"Say what?" Ming cocked her head.
"Why would he say 'Squirrel formation'? What the heck is squirrel formation?!" Raph asked angrily, cuffing Mike upside the head.
"Guys chill out, let's go!" Don cried, swinging Leo to safety and following, executing turtle formation, NOT squirrel formation.
Ten minutes later, they were racing across a conjunction of pipes toward the basketball stadium.
"Okay, guys, you know the drill. Get that box from Mikey!" Leo commanded, for Mikey held a pizza box with pepperoni and three cheese.
Throughout the hustle, each of her brothers took a shot at grabbing the pizza. Leo grabbed at it, but missed. Raphael tried to snag it, almost falling off the beam he had been balancing on. Donnie tried to use one of his gadgets to get the pizza, but got hit in the face by the box. Mikey nabbed the box back.
"My turn." Ming smiled evilly to herself.
Wiggling her fingers, a stream of blue sparkles surrounded Mikey, and lifted him into the air, causing him to drop the box, which Ming then seized. When she snapped her fingers, the spell broke, and Mikey landed flat on his shell.
Emerging out into the Jumbo-tron, Ming sat cozily with the box of pizza. Each of her brothers grabbed a slice as the game started.
Ming wasn't really into basketball, or, really, any sport, but her brothers seemed to love it so much that she didn't complain when they made her tag along.
"Alright, when I say 'go', you say 'Knix'. Go!" Donnie called.
"Knix!" Ming replied in time with her brothers.
"Go!" Don yelled again.
"Knix!" The others chanted, cheering.
It was barely a moment later when Raph and Leo almost got into another argument about the "arrangement" that the family had.
"We saved the city." Raphael growled. "We should be on the Jumbo-tron, not in it."
Ming silently agreed, as the lights started to dim and a deep voice reverberated throughout the basketball court.
"One year ago, our city was plagued by the notorious Foot clan, until, from out of the shadows stepped a beacon of hope..."
Ming rolled her eyes, knowing what was coming next.
"He was a humble camera man..." The deep voice continued, telling how this "humble" camera man "single handedly" defeated Shredder and his Foot clan. Ming sighed.
"Give it up, for Vern 'the Falcon' Fenwick!" The voice finished, and "the Falcon" stepped onto the court with a reporter.
"Well, Jane, I didn't do it all alone, really." Vern admitted.
"Oh, he's totally going to give us props! Here it comes, here it comes!" Mikey squealed happily.
"I had help from a couple of my friends." Vern held up his arms and flexed his muscles. "THUNDER AND LIGHTNING!" He cried, kissing his "muscles".
"Guys, you know we can't take credit taking down Shredder. Vern's just sticking to our agreement with him." Leo reminded his disappointed siblings.
"This arrangement has got us hiding in the shadows! Man, I'd like to give him a nosebleed..." Raph growled, upset.
"Speaking of nosebleeds..." Mikey grabbed a peashooter from Don's shell and aimed it at Vern carefully.
"You got this, Mikey, you got this." Raph urged. Mikey launched the peashooter.
It hit Fenwick square on the face.
"My turn." Raph sneered, grabbing the peashooter and launching it again. Again, it hit it's target easily.
"Take that, 'Falcon'!" Raph laughed, as they all circled around, flapping their arms and cawing like birds, mocking Vern.
Donnie seemed to get distracted by a phone call. Ming paid no mind to him. She was actually enjoying the basketball.
Later in the game, as Mike was enjoying his pizza, the last piece slid out of the box and fell on the floor.
"Uh-oh." Leo whispered. The tension was so thick you could slice it with a katana blade. Ming glared at Mikey.
"Man, that was the last piece. I was going to have it!" She growled, jokingly.
The five watched the pizza intensely. They watched in horror as one player slid on the slice. The moment he hit the ground, they vanished.
"Smooth, Shell brain." Raph growled at Mikey.
"Sorry." Michelangelo muttered.
"Now we're going to have to find a new place to watch the game! Again!" Don criticized.
"MIKEY!" Raph yelled, as Mikey stopped in front of a sewer grate.
"What are you watching?" Ming asked, sliding to a stop beside him. The others gathered around them.
"It's the Halloween parade, bruh. Always wanted to be in the Halloween parade. It's like the one night of the year where we fit in." Mikey gazed at the people in costumes walking past, waving banners and having fun.
"Mikey, we never fit in." Leo told him, then, more cheerfully: "We're ninjas. We live in the shadows. Let's go!"
"Yeah." Mikey nodded, as Leo started to head down the tunnel. "Let's go!"
But instead of following the other down the tunnel, Mikey found a platform that rose up to the streets.
"Mikey!" Leo hissed, opening the manhole cover just a little. "Mikey, what are you doing?"
"Hey, this is my city, man! These are my people!" Mikey grabbed a mic from a man dressed up as a DJ.
Ming rolled her eyes as Mikey shouted: "New York in the house! WHOO!"
Raphael, having had enough, grabbed his little brother's ankle and pulled him back into the sewers.
"That was the most amazing thing ever!" Mikey grinned, breathless.
"What part of ninjas move in the shadow don't you understand?" Raph smacked Mikey's head.
Suddenly, Donnie's phone rang again.
"Oh, hey, April!" He said.
Ming blocked out the rest of the conversation, turning to Mikey.
Knowing better than to interrupt Donnie when he was on the phone, she scolded Mikey in a harsh whisper.
The siblings quickly got back into the sewers, sliding down a water slide to get to the lair faster.
Once they got there...
"Hold it right there!" Sensei Splinter shouted. Ming froze in her tracks.
Well, I'm busted. Ming tensed up, fearing only the worst.
"Sensei, the Foot are going to break Shredder out of police custody tonight!" Leo explained.
"Say what, now?" Ming gasped.
"Weren't paying attention to the phone call, were you?" Donatello asked smugly. Ming shook her head.
"I'll fill you in later." Don pulled Ming down to his garage lab, where he worked on larger projects.