Revenge of the Sith faded from the tv screens, signalling it's end. Leo—still excited all his predications were true—grinned hugely at me in an I-knew-it way. Mikey stared at the monitors in shock as the credits began to roll.
"I can't believe he killed Padmé and turned bad." He whirled around to face me. "Why is that one your favourite!?" He demanded, making me grin.
"Because it's so dramatic and so many things happen and after you're like holy shit, I need to watch that again. Plus, the end scene with Obi-Wan and Anakin is awesome. It's the longest duel in any live-action movie ever. Cool, right?" I caught Raph rolling his eyes from the beanbag on the floor, and Mikey wrinkled his nose.
"You sound like Donnie."
"Hey!" He yelled from his bed where he continued to read my astronomy book. I crossed my arms.
"If I were Donnie, I would have graduated high school when I was twelve," I argued. Instead, I was too busy failing. Leo laughed and nodded in agreement.
"When do you graduate?" Mikey asked.
"If I don't fail, it'll be another three years," I sighed. I was so close, but it felt so far away.
"Oh, that's not that bad." He smiled brightly and I envied his positivity. "Hey, Don! Can you invent something that can turn me human so I can go to school too?"
You'd only be that excited for the first week. Come the following Monday you'll want to die. I didn't want to crush his spirit though, so I let him be excited and fantasize about how perfect school is.
"Uh huh," Donnie agreed absentmindedly, as if he dealt with his brother's invention prompts all the time.
"Thanks, D! Alright," he rubbed his hands together and leaned forward on the couch beside me, "let's play some CoD!"
"You sure you wanna have your ass kicked again, li'l bro?" Raph teased.
He shrugged. "I have Raiya this time."
"Hey, what about me?" Leo asked, realizing he'd just been replaced by me. Mikey grimaced.
"Uh, you can go on Raph's team." Raphael seemed unfazed by this as he tossed everyone a controller and set up the game.
"Which one are we playing?" I asked.
"Two, it's the only one we have."
Nice! That one's my favourite. "Alright, you guys are in for it."
Mikey and I exchanged evil grins and I leaned back into the corner of the couch, locked and loaded for some ass-kicking. I quickly made a class for myself before we added some bots, chose our map, and began the game. Mikey and I spawned next to each other, with our trio of bots behind us. They raced off into the wasteland in front of us, but I crouched and waited. A skull flashed on my screen, indicating the direction in which one of my teammates was killed. I ran over and killed the other team member.
"Hey!" Leo cried. "Who killed me!?" I grinned and ran to the next skull indicator before it could disappear. Mikey eventually noticed my sneaky technique, and ran off to do the same thing. But no sooner did he leave me than I was suddenly killed. The killcam that played after was through a sniper's scope. Recognizing the angle the shot was taken from, I identified the location of the shooter and ran around, looking for a bot with an RPG. When I found him, I took the launcher from his corpse and fired it at the tower Raph was camping out in. I spared a glance over at him, unable to resist seeing the look of shock on his face.
"Weren't expecting that, huh Raphie?" I asked sweetly.
"Oh you're gonna pay for that," Raph promised.
Mikey laughed. "She's unleashed the beast!"
••• 影の秘密 •••
"Mikey get off!" I cried, seeing his character standing on the huge turbine in the middle of the landscape. He couldn't have been a better target if he was firing flares off and waving a flag saying 'SHOOT ME'. I glanced at Raph's screen, trying to figure out where he was through his gun's scope. The time remaining in the match read thirty seconds, and if we didn't get another point, we'd lose. Mikey hopped off the pipe just as he came into view on Raph's screen.
I elbowed him and hissed. "Don't die, we have to win."
"I know, but I thought I saw a dog."
Is he serious!?
"Unless one of us has a K-9 Unit scorestreak, there are no dogs in this!" I quickly checked all the sniper spots through my gun's scope, but found nothing. Raph's screen was black, telling me he'd suspected what I'd done and hid from any windows to press himself into a wall, rendering my screen-peaking useless.
"Got us a UAV!" Mikey announced. I checked my minimap immediately and ran toward the only red dot that was along the perimeter of the map. Raphael cursed and ran from the tower he was in.
"Mikey he's coming your way," I whispered, hucking a flashbang as far ahead of me as I could. There was an explosion and Raph's screen flashed white while he tried to switch his gun to a pistol for better close-range shooting. Mikey yelled in surprise and started emptying his whole clip on him, without aiming once through his sight. I was about to kill him for not hitting Raph at all, but then the match ended, telling us we'd tied.
"Mikey!" I cried, "You did it!"
"Yeah! And I got the final killcam! Look!" I turned to see a replay of Mikey shooting at everything but the disoriented person in front of him, until a few shots managed to hit him in his groin.
"Aw yeah! Nut shot!" He cheered. We laughed and high-fived enthusiastically. Raphael's jaw was clenched as he stared at the screen.
"You guys wanna rematch?" I asked.
"Only if we get Mikey," Leo muttered. Raph seemed to perk up at the mention of redeeming himself and getting revenge on me. Mikey rubbed his hands together and laughed evilly.
"Let's do it!"
••• 影の秘密 •••
"Guys," I laughed," come on, I just got lucky."
"Three times in a row?" Mikey pouted, arms crossed and turned away from me on the couch. Okay, maybe I should've gone easier on them, but I just couldn't help it!
"I'm goin' on your team next time," Leo said, shaking his head. "You killed me at least twenty times." I grinned.
Thirty four, but close enough. Raph stared at me.
"How much do you play that?" I shrugged.
"Olivia and I play it all the time because it's the best game we have where we can play on the same team." I smiled sheepishly. "She got too annoyed with me winning all the time, so we just kill bots."
"I wonder why," Mikey muttered. I laughed and elbowed him lightly.
"I'll teach you my ways sometime. Once you become worthy." He grinned excitedly as if I'd just offered him world-renowned pizza.
"Deal, but I'm done being killed for today."
Fair enough. "Okay, what are we gonna do then?"
The youngest turtle hummed to himself as he tried to decide.
"Uhmmmmmm... Oh! How about you get a tattoo!?" Leo shook his head and Raph shot him an incredulous look the younger turtle took zero notice of.
"Are you crazy?" I asked. "There's no way I have that kind of pain tolerance. Plus, Olivia would kill me if I came home with a tattoo."
"That's why you get a small one in some place she'll never see," he stated. I glanced at Raphael, unable to decide if Mikey was serious or not. The red masked turtle looked about as clueless yet horrified as I was.
"Mikey, I'm not sure I want Raph stabbing me with his 'torture stick', in places even Olivia doesn't see." The mere thought of it had my heart thundering and my body tingling with anticipation, making me question what I really did want. Leo choked on a laugh, then quickly covered it up with a cough. Mikey finally seemed to clue in, realizing his idea wasn't exactly a good one.
"Oh yeeaaah, good point... Okay, new idea!"
AN: I am ruthless when it comes to COD lmao
Another short chapter I know! I'm sorry! I promise the next one will be longer and less boring because I have the CUTEST shit planned within the next few chapters, you have no idea XD
Anyways, TSS is starting to feel like it's entering the movie plot super fast now, which makes me sad because there's so much I still want to happen and it feels like I'm running out of time lol. Like you guys I WANT THEM TO KISS SO BADDD BUT I WANT TO SAVE IT FOR THE IDEAL MOMENT AND ITS SO HARD. I will say that they'll for sure kiss before the end of TSS, but I honestly have no idea when loolll sorry guys but it totally be worth the wait so don't worry.
Also, if anyone is a Star Wars fan I've started planning a fanfic based off the movies and set one year before Rogue One. It's called Operation: Silver Dawn. The main character is basically like Saw Gerrera's adopted daughter and she's sent on a mission to Lothal at the same time Cassian relocates to the same place with a similar mission. They run into each other and end up working together and possibly falling in love (I haven't decided on that part yet). So yeah, if anyone would be interested in reading it, let me know!
