Sorry about not updating this story for a while! I'll try to add chapters more frequently.

And, 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!


It was almost lunch time. Ever since the cake prank about an hour ago had Raphael or Donatello been heard or seen. Splinter had assumed that they were off in some secret location plotting a huge practical joke to get back at him, as the two turtles were furious at being duped so easily-Donatello, because he hates being outsmarted, Raphael because, well, he just gets mad easily. In the two turtles anger, their brothers Michelangelo and Leonardo believed that neither Raphael or Donatello stopped to consider how ridiculously hard it would be to prank Splinter perfectly, without the rat knowing what was coming. The only time that had happened was about six years ago, and Splinter has banned the turtles of talking about it.

There was a loud sound of something hitting the floor in Donatello's lab, then Raphael shouted some very choice words, which led Leonardo, who was in the kitchen, to assume the falling object had landed on Raphael's foot. After the shouting, Donatello and Raphael in the lab became completely silent once again and those who had been sniggering at Raphael's high-pitched yells went back to whatever they had been doing before.


Leonardo was only half-reading the comic book in his hands. Every minute or so his mind would wander off, imagining hilarious pranks he could do, and then he'd snap back to attention and have to reread a whole page his glazed eyes had only looked at, but had not taken in. This happened several times, until Leonardo finally fell asleep, face-down on the comic book. Apparently training and Splinter's prank had really tired him out.

April, yawning in her own tiredness, walked into the room from the dojo where she'd just finished a training session. She dropped her tessen weapon onto the table, where it loudly clanged. Leonardo woke up with a jolt, shouting something inaudible about water balloons. When he'd calmed down, he spotted April sitting opposite him at the table, head in her hands as she watched him, amused. "Hi," she said.

"Hi," Leonardo replied, beginning to read his comic book again. When April wasn't looking, Leonardo's eyes swept the room, checking for any prank booby traps she might have set up while he was sleeping.

"Guess what, Leo?" April said nonchalantly.

"Hmm?" The blue-masked turtle was barely engaged in the conversation. He'd made it to the big fight in his comic book.

"I have some secret information."

"Neat...Wait, what?" Leonardo suddenly perked up. "About what?"

"The Prank War."

"Of course." The turtle went back to his book.

"You don't seem interested," April observed.

"Is it that obvious?" Leonardo said. "Well, don't you think that someone who's never pulled off a prank in their entire life would have fun during a prank war? I'm also bad at knowing when they're going to happen. I'm going to get pummeled with pranks."

"Wait, you've never pulled off a prank?" April asked, as if horror-struck.

Leonardo looked embarrassed. "Well, it's not as if I haven't tried, because I definitely have. I just don't know. Mikey can do them day after day and someone almost always falls for them. Then I try and-and suddenly I'm a laughingstock."

"Aww, are you sad?"

"Am not!" Leonardo said a little too defensively. There was a small chuckle from somewhere but no one noticed because the noise because it was drowned out by more sudden shouting from the lab.

"Donnie, and I thought you were a genius! We can't put it there! Splinter'll notice it!" After that there was lots of grunting and angry shouts as if Donatello and Raphael had begun to fight.

April and Leonardo glanced at the lab, and then each other. The blue-masked turtle chuckled. "Honestly, that's the best they've ever worked together." He hoped that he and April were off the subject of his horrendous pranks now.

Unfortunately, they weren't. The next thing April said was,"Leonardo, I'm sure if you really want to pull of a prank, you can. You might even surprise yourself." And with that she stood up and pulled a slice of pizza out of the refrigerator. When she sat back down, Leonardo was once again fully immersed in his comic book.

"Thanks, April," he mumbled.

After that, things were silent. April was eating her pizza and seemed to have run out of things to talk about. Leonardo had finished the comic book but had started it over again because he was too bored to find anything else to do.

More shouts came from the lab, this time exuberant, rather than angry. "Raph, that's perfect! Go set it up, go set it up!"

Leonardo just noticed he'd read the same speech bubble in the comic book five times in a row. I'm so bored, he thought.

Suddenly, April screamed. Leonardo stared at her. "April, what's-" And then it happened. At first he thought he'd been hit with a tidal wave. Cold water drenched him from head to toe and left him sputtering in complete shock. "What? W-what?"

A puddle of water formed under his chair. April, who had barely been hit with any of it, stood up and cheered. "Nice one, Mikey!" She began to clap.

Michelangelo strode out from beside the refrigerator where he had been hiding and bowed. One hand was clutching a rope, which was strung around a pipe near the ceiling directly above him. The rope's other end, barely two feet under the pipe, was tied to one end of a crate.

"How was that water balloon, Leo?" Michelangelo teased. Apparently the crate had been holding a very large water balloon, and all the orange-masked turtle had to do to drop it was pull on the rope, which would make the loose end of the crate hit the pipe and tip out its contents. Surprisingly clever for Michelangelo.

Leonardo looked down at his comic book, one of his favorites, and saw that it was completely soaked. Beyond repair. Angrily, he stood up, saying, "What did I tell you, April? I suck at pranks! And I can't even notice when they're coming. Go ahead, start laughing now, because I know I'm going to lose this war!" He dropped his comic on the ground and brushed all the orange water balloon pieces off his face. With that, he began to stomp out of the room, but stopped when he reached Michelangelo. Pointing at the orange-masked turtle he said,"Mikey, all your solo pranks are the same! Can't you think of anything besides water balloons?"

"Touchy!" Michelangelo said in shock.

Before Leonardo could walk away, however, there was loud cheer. Splinter strode out of his room, all his hair on end as if he'd just stuck his finger in a light socket. Donatello and Raphael were running along by his side, whooping and hollering with glee. "We got Splinter, we got Splinter!"

Splinter, Donatello, and Raphael reached the surprised faces of April, Leonardo, and Michelangelo. Chuckling, Splinter said,"Don't even ask."

Everyone became too busy laughing to notice Leonardo madly stomp away. He had an evil gleam in his eyes. Voices rang through his head, which included Michelangelo repeatedly telling him "You couldn't do a prank to save your life!" and even Leonardo himself saying "I know I'm going to lose this war!"

He smiled menacingly. Being pranked by Michelangelo had embarrassed and angered him and now he was ready to do the same to his orange-banded brother. "I'll show you, Mikey!" And he completely forgot that there was no way that could possibly happen, because in his brothers' eyes, he was the worst prankster ever.

(Scoreboard: Donnie: 3 Splinter: 2 April: 2 Mikey: 4 Raph: 2 Leo: 0 Spike: 0)


Oooo, what's Leo going to do?