If you have an idea for a prank that April, Leo, Mikey, Raph, Donnie, Splinter, or even Spike can pull, you can tell it to me and I might consider putting it in!


"Hey, Leo," Mikey called to his brother from his position in the bean bag chair. Leonardo looked at his brother, irritated that someone would dare talk to him while he was watching Space Heroes.

"What, Mikey?" he said bitterly.

"Does it bother you that you're in a last place tie in the Prank War with Spike?" Michelangelo snickered.

"Hey, Spike is a real player in this war!" Raphael interrupted, having heard the conversation coming from the kitchen where he was feeding his pet turtle some lettuce. "He's a warrior. And he'll win!"

Leonardo rolled his eyes. "Right, Raph. And, no, Mikey, it doesn't bother me. The Prank War barely started just two hours ago! I have lots of time to catch up! Now, go away. Captain Ryan is blasting the Decepticons!"

Michelangelo knew better than to intervene with Leonardo and his geeky obsessions so he strode away and got busy with practicing the art of teasing with Raphael, who was still soaking from the water balloon attacks from the last prank.

Leonardo didn't even turn his head from the television a few minutes later when he heard Michelangelo say "Aww..so cute! Best buds: Raph and Spike! Announcing your engagement soon?"

To which Raphael's reply was: "Hey, Spike, your favorite show is on: 'Does Mikey Bend That Way?' New episode!" After that, there had been a lot of garbled screaming and Michelangelo bolted out of the Lair and into the tunnels with Raphael on his heels.

Now, it seemed that Leonardo was alone and had the Lair to himself. April was practicing in the dojo with Master Splinter and Donatello was working in his lab on who-knows-what.

The Space Heroes episode ended and Leonardo shut off the television. Standing up, he remembered all the times in his past when Michelangelo had called him "the worst prankster the world had ever known".

"Time to prove Mikey wrong." The blue-masked turtle said.


Michelangelo sauntered into the Lair, his chest heaving and his breath short and quick. After Michelangelo had teased his brother Raphael, the red-masked turtle had finally gotten sick of it after almost five minutes and had chased Michelangelo around the sewer tunnels for nearly an hour. The orange-masked turtle had barely managed to lose him. Raphael was probably wandering around the tunnels in the north, still looking for where his brother was.

"Man, Raph is relentless,"Michelangelo said to himself, noticing no one else was in the room, even Leonardo, who had been watching television an hour ago. Then, an idea popped into Michelangelo's head and his eyes lit up excitedly. "I did a prank!" Technically, he had. Michelangelo had been chased by Raphael to some of the farthest tunnels, and then Michelangelo had escaped his brother's sights, but Raphael still thought he was there-obviously, because he hadn't returned to the Lair yet. Maybe Raphael had gotten lost. Michelangelo fretted over that for a moment, then shrugged it off. "Eh, he can find his way back."

Having officially decided that he had pulled off a prank, Michelangelo decided to find April and tell her about it. Since she was the Prank War scorekeeper, only she could add points to the score sheet. "Now, where could she be?"

His question was answered by a loud, feminine grunt from the dojo and the sound of a practice dummy being hit. Apparently, April was deep in her training with Splinter. Michelangelo considered waiting until she was done, but he was too excited and started walking to the dojo.

Just as he was about to open the dojo door, a shadow bolted out of the darkened hallway to his right-the one where he and his brothers' room was down. Michelangelo braced himself and held his hands close to his nunchucks-just in case he needed to use them.

Only when the blur stopped running and came to a rest near Michelangelo, could he tell what it was: Leonardo. Michelangelo rolled his eyes, angry at himself for being scarred. "What is-"

Leonardo cut Michelangelo off. "Mikey, something terrible happened! You have to see!"

"Right now? Come on, I was just going to tell April about a prank I pulled. Can the emergency wait a few minutes?"

"Prank?" Leonardo froze up for a few minutes, interested. It seemed as if the fact that Michelangelo was now two points ahead of him in the prank war was more interesting that whatever emergency he had witnessed. That gave more fuel to Michelangelo's idea that Leonardo was pulling a prank-a bad one, so far.

Leonardo caught himself fumbling and went back to his act of being terrified. His gripped Michelangelo's shoulders and shook him back and forth. "Mikey, it's terrible! You must see!"

"Did someone die?" Michelangelo chuckled, not scarred in the least. Leonardo scowled and brought his hands back down to his sides. Sighing, Michelangelo said,"Okay, lead the way." He decided just to play along, since Leonardo never was a good prankster.

Leonardo led his brother down the hallway and brought him to a stop in front of the turtles' bedroom. The two stood near the closed door and Leonardo said,"Remember your comic book collection, Mikey? Nearly 100 books and you kept them in our room?"

"Yeah..." Michelangelo answered. "...What did you do with them?" He pressed a finger against Leonardo's plastron, now considerably worried.

"I didn't do anything!" Leonardo defended himself, shaking his head and trying to look innocent. Leonardo was never really a good actor, either. "It was all Spike!"

"Okay, so what did you make Spike do?" Michelangelo accused.

Leonardo began to dramatically ease open to door, slowly. At about an inch per hour. Michelangelo grew impatient and began to tap his feet. "All right, get this over with, Dr. Drama."

Leonardo rolled his eyes, obviously disappointed that his prank wasn't having the effect he wanted it to. "Sure thing." He thrust the door all the way open and while it was bouncing off the wall, squeaking protest to its hinges, Leonardo shouted,"Witness the horror!"

Michelangelo didn't even look into the room for nearly thirty seconds. He just stood in the doorway, staring at Leonardo. "Witness the horror?" he asked in disbelief, obviously not amused.

Leonardo stomped over to Michelangelo and forced his head to turn towards the room. What Michelangelo saw was very confusing at first.

Spike was there, in the middle of the floor. Around him were little shreds of paper with superheroes and action balloons doodled on them. Some of the pieces of paper were even placed around Spike's mouth.

Michelangelo obviously wasn't figuring it out, so Leonardo explained. He pointed at the small turtle in the room and said,"Spike ate your comic books!" There was an awkward silence, in which Spike looked up at Leonardo dully, as if saying,'Seriously, dude?'

"Spike. Ate. My. Comic. Books," Michelangelo repeated slowly. He glanced over at Leonardo, who was still in a dramatic actor's pose. "Really? 'A turtle ate my comics?' That's even worse than 'A dog ate my homework'. Did you expect to believe that?"

"Uhh..."

Michelangelo kneeled down next to Spike and pulled one of the little pieces of paper off the floor. It depicted a poorly drawn Superman shooting a laser gun at Spiderman, who happened to be holding Captain America's shield. "There are at least ten things wrong with this drawing!" the orange-masked turtle vented, ripping the piece into five even smaller shreds. "One thing wrong with it: you drew it! Nice prank."

"Hey, I was pressed for time-I didn't know when you'd come back to the Lair! This was the only prank I could think up!"

"You peasants and your tiny minds. You should know better than to mess with the king of Prankdom," Michelangelo said, waving a finger right and left in front of Leonardo. He stuck his tongue out and traipsed out of the room.

Leonardo, shoulders sagging in defeat, watched his brother go. "Maybe I am the worst prankster the world has ever known."

Just as he was picking up the scraps of paper, April's voice rang through the Lair, sharp and clear. "One more point for Mikey!"

(Scoreboard: Donnie: 1 Splinter: 1 April: 1 Mikey: 2 Raph: 1 Leo: 0 Spike: 0)

Just so you know, the practical joke Leonardo tried does not count as a point for him since Michelangelo didn't fall for it. Sorry this chapter came so late!