CHAPTER 3
It was a few days after the incident, and I was getting help walking up a flight of stairs. Scout and Fae on one side, Donnie on the other, Alexander sitting on his shoulder Ebony around my neck, Tobias perched on Scouts back. His wings fluttering keeping his balance on the shifting back he sat on. The turtle stopped at a door in the hallway that I had seen the others come down for bed. He let go making sure that I was steady on my feet before going to open the door.
When he did open it though the sight made me gasp, it was covered in a brown, coarse carpet, my tent set up in the corner, my blanket set on the ground under it. There was a few fake trees placed around the room giving it a forest like feel. I looked up at the ceiling to see it had been painted blue and the light fixture had yellow paint around it making it look like the sun. I turned to the other turtle shocked at what I was seeing.
"I know you don't want to stay any longer then you need to, but you should have somewhere that you can retreat to if you need. I have it to where you can lock it from the inside, and on the bottom your friends can come and go as well," the turtle said twisting his hands from nervousness.
I looked back to the room and smiled he understood exactly how I felt, he understood what I needed and it felt like a piece of me had fallen into place. A piece that I hadn't known that was missing. I turned back to the turtle and hugged him.
TIME SKIP
Another few days later the rat mutant that I have been told to call Splinter, pulled me into the room that contained a large tree and filtered sun light spilling into.
"Sit young one please," I sat down Alexander sitting right in front of me, Scout and Fae on either side of him. Tobias perched on my shell, with Ebony around my neck all of them glaring at the large rat in front of them.
"I will not ask you to stay, but in order to fight your enemies you will need to know how to fight and defend yourself, would you spar with my sons and see how well you can stand against them, just so we know how well you can defend yourself against the kraang?" he asked brushing his hand through his thin beard.
I looked down to my friends asking them silently what they thought. They nodded consenting to staying on the side line unless needed to interfere.
TIME SKIP
A week later Donnie was checking over my side seeing how well it was healing.
"It's healing up nicely Michelangelo, I'll be able to take out the stitches soon," the turtle said rubbing his finger lightly down the wound.
"Mikey."
"Pardon?"
"You can call me Mikey, it's what my friends call me," I said looking at him smiling.
"Thank you Mikey, I think it's time for lunch let's go eat," the older turtle said getting up and helping me to my feet. I giggled and let myself be dragged to the kitchen and pushed into the chair.
TIME SKIP
It was a few weeks later that I was given the all clear from Donnie to be able to show how well I could fight. The others I could tell were thinking that I wouldn't be able to fight, but I can and I'll show them exactly what I can do.
I walked into the dojo watching as my friends all filed to sit either under or in the tree, Fae and Scout under it eyes transfixed on me, Alexander and Tobias sitting on the same branch bodies tensed ready to jump in if needed. Ebony stayed around my neck, she stayed there to let me know when I was pushing to far.
The large rat stood in front of the tree his cane resting on the ground, the three older turtles standing in front of him, Donnie waved and smiled getting me to relax.
"Now it will be a one on one spar nothing more, understand?" The rat asked, and I nodded relaxing my muscles, my fighting style required me to be relaxed and calm minded.
"First will be Michelangelo and Donatello."
Donnie stepped forward, grabbing his bo-staff, he got into his stance, bo-staff placed in front of his plastron. I bent down a bit bringing my arms closer to the ground and narrowed my eyes watching and waiting for the signal to start. It was a loud shout of start and Donnie shot forward raising his spinning staff in the air. I waited for the right moment and lowered more to the ground. Right before he could lower the weapon I used both my arms and legs to jump into the air dodging the staff and landed on his shell placing my nails to his neck, his staff went rolling away from him.
"Yame!" Was called from behind me, and I stood and helped Donnie to his feet dusting him off. I offered a smile, he smiled back and hugged me, I knew then that he wasn't mad at me. Donnie walked over to the tree and sat down Fae and Scout coming up on either side of him.
"Next is Michelangelo and Raphael, Hajime!" Was called once more and Raphael rushed me.
I dodged to the side, turning around to keep him in sight and lowered to the ground ready for the next attack. He charged again and this time I waited until he was close enough and used his shoulders to vault over his shoulders twisting in the air and kicked out knocking him to the ground. His weapons went flying when he fell.
The yell came again ending the session and Raphael stood holding his chin, but a smirk was on his face. He raised his hand and I shook it, it felt like I was just excepted by him. He walked over to Donnie and sat on the other side of Scout.
"Last is Michelangelo and Leonardo!" was the last call and Leonardo stepped forward getting his swords from their sheathes. I narrowed my eyes and got ready for him to make the first move. He did he charged me and swung his sword at me I jumped over the sword landing lightly and kicked out behind me connecting with his leg. He flinched, but he stood his ground. He raised his sword once more and waited. I lowered to the ground once more ready to defend, Leonardo charged once more and I jumped up, but felt the hilt of the sword hit my uninjured side and I went tumbling to the side. I sat up and growled, that had hurt, but I wasn't going to give up on this I needed to prove myself.
Mikey are you okay, you are starting to get tired, Ebony hissed out. I nodded and got back onto my feet ready to fight.
I charged this time close to the ground and raised my fist and punched him in his beak, he fell back, and dropped one of his weapons. I charged once more and kicked him back to the ground knocking his other sword out of his hand and he didn't get up. I stepped back when the call was given to stop. Ebony hissed slightly worried about me, Scout and Fae came running up and started to sniff my legs and hands. Alexander jumped to my shoulder and started to talk to Ebony, Tobias came to rest on my shell rubbing his beak on my head.
I just stood there breathing heavily, glaring down to the blue banded turtle on the ground. He stood up a hand on his plastron. I glared harder, he was one of the few that underestimate me, just because I don't like violence doesn't mean that I can't fight, I just don't want to.
"I'm sorry for saying that you couldn't fight Michelangelo, I was wrong, I was also wrong to try to get you to stay forcefully, would you ever be able to forgive me?" Leonardo asked raising his hand to shake.
I looked down at his hand then back to him, and smiled. I took his hand and shook it, glad that he has seen that he was wrong. It seemed to be that he needed it beat into his head for him to understand, I'll keep that in mind.
IN THE CITY PROPER
A young girl walked down the road, she glanced behind her, she had been feeling uneasy lately. Donnie usually was following her, she was upset by it, but it had kept her safe on numerous occasions so she had dealt with it for a while.
She soon had confronted him on it, telling him that she never wanted to see him again, after what he had done. It seemed that he had taken it seriously as he hasn't followed her since then. She was a little sad about that she had been thinking lately that what Donnie had said the last time he had talked to her. Things happen for a reason, was this something that just happens for a reason?
She shook her head, she needed to get home soon, and get her life back on track. She had three tests to worry about not her missing mutant shadow.
She stopped again the feeling of unease rising in her belly once more. She missed her old friends, Leo was so stern, but a goofball, when it came to his favorite show. Raph was a little rough around the edges, but was soft and sweet to his pet turtle, it was nice to see him like that. And Donnie was so sweet and kind that she missed him helping her with her trigonometry home work, or help her by letting her bounce ideas off him while he worked on another project.
She sighed, she seemed to have ruined her friendship with the turtles after snapping at Donnie, so there was no reason to dwell on it.
BACK WITH THE TURTLES
MIKEY'S POV
"So you have a human friend?" I asked petting Scouts ears, as he sprawled across my lap, Fae was sleeping on my side, her soft breathing filling the silence between me and Donnie as we sat in front of the TV set. We were the only ones here, the other two having gone on patrol. Tobias shifted on Donnie's shell as the older turtle shrugged, Alexander sat in Donnie's lap enjoying being pet.
"Yeah we did, but she doesn't want to talk to us right now, the last time I saw her she yelled at me to leave her alone, we found you soon after so I haven't been around to see her anymore," he said pausing in his petting, making the cat mew at him.
"Oh what happened to make her do that?" I asked tilting my head to the side, feeling Ebony's scales graze my cheek.
"We accidentally mutated her dad," Donnie said looking away, I frowned, how did something like that happen?
"How?"
"We were tracking a kraang stealth ship, we found it and got in it, but during the fight the canisters of mutagen got loose and fell all over the city one of them landed on her dad and mutated him," Donnie said head hung low. I whimpered lowly I didn't like seeing him so down.
"Why did you stop going topside to see her?" I asked not wanting to, but it seemed he needed this.
"Because you needed me, she had just told me to leave her alone, and then next time going topside we found you, you needed me more then April did," he said looking at me, his deep red-brown eyes boring into me.
I reared back, he stopped seeing his friend because of me, I was the reason he lost his friend. I shrunk away from the older turtle and tears gathered in my eyes. Alexander stood in Donnie's lap and jumped to my shoulder. He started to purr to calm me, Tobias flew over to my shell and rubbed his beak on my head. Fae woke and growled slightly in sleepiness, before turning and seeing her turtle becoming sad, she stood and looked around.
Scout started to growl a little at the purple banded turtle in front of me. I stood and ran to the room that was given to me locking the door the way Donnie had shown to me to do, Fae and Scout running in through the little door on the bottom. I hid behind a tree and started to sob, Ebony hissing lightly starting a song that she and the others had learned. The others joined in and sang softly, cuddling into me the fur and feathers around me warming me.
I settled down and grabbed Alexander and cuddled him to my chest, a few tears falling down my cheeks. I jumped at the knocking from the door, Tobias looked at me, questioning. I nodded and he flew over and unlocked the door, and flying back. Donnie opened the door, and came in.
He sat next to me, and wrapped his arm around my shell, Scout sat next to him, Fae on my side. I sniffled and looked up at him.
"I'm sorry that I made you lose your friend," I said rubbing my nose.
"You didn't make me do anything, I wanted to help you, you needed it more then a girl that no longer wanted me around her, because of one accident, I saw what she was doing and I didn't want anything else to do with her until she apologized. I've already apologized to her several times, now it's her turn," Donnie said wiping the tears from my eyes, and I smiled happy that I hadn't ruined something of his.
A phone ringing brought the moment to an end, Donnie took out his phone to answer. He seemed to get anxious the more he listened to the other person. I blinked, when he lowered the phone.
"April just called," he said looking at me a frown on his face.
"What do you want to do?" I asked hugging Alexander closer, he started to purr louder.
"I want to help her she is the only link to the kraang we have and she doesn't need to fall into their hands," Donnie said looking at his phone.
"Alright, I'll help in any way you need me to," I said letting Alexander climb to my shoulder Tobias perching on my shell, and Fae and Scout standing on either side of me.
"I don't want you out there just yet, while the injury is okay for a friendly spar, for an enemy fight, it could become a problem, I dont want you hurt again," Donnie said standing and petting Alexander under his chin.
"Well take Scout with you, he can look for her on the ground and let you know where she is, he can look for her a lot faster on the ground then the roof tops," I said Scout looking at me then walking over to Donnie tail held high in the air.
"Are you sure?" Donnie asked, I nodded and smiled petting Fae's head. "Thank you Mikey, I'll be back soon I promise."
"Okay, Scout listen to Donnie okay," I said looking down at the black and white dog who's tail was wagging so fast it was a blur.
I followed Donnie out of my room, and watched as he jumped over the turnstiles of the entrance, he disappeared around the corner Scout on his heels.
DONNIE'S POV
I ran down the sewer tunnels Scout right behind of me, his claws scraping the ground, his breath chuffing out of his chest. I made it to a man hole cover that would be closer to where April was and lifted the lid and helped the dog jump in to the alley above us. I joined him and held out a shirt that April had left in the lair, he sniffed the item, then sniffed the air, before taking off down the street tail streaming behind him.
I followed from the roof tops, Mikey was right Scout was faster then jumping roof tops, I followed the dog as closely as I could. He stopped suddenly and sniffed the air again, then turned the corner and jumped into a battle with the robots knocking the bots to the ground away from April.
I jumped down to cheek on her make sure she was unharmed, she stood once the bots had been cleared and dusted herself off.
"Nice of you to join me," she said making Scout turn and growl lowly before jumping another bot, biting down on what would have been a jugular if the bot had been human.
"I'm sorry but not knowing where you were exactly was a difficult feat," I said hitting a bot with my bo staff knocking off his head.
"Oh yeah that would be difficult, sorry, so what's with the dog?" April asked pointing to Scout who was slicing through bot after bot.
Before I could answer Karia joined us on the ground, making Scout turn and growl, coming to stand next to me his back bent and fur standing on end.
"Oh it seems that you have gained a pet, how sweet."
I narrowed my eyes Mikey hated for his friends to be called pets, they were his friends and family, not pets. I gripped my staff and shifted stances.
"Scout protect April, I'll take care of her," I said looking down to the dog, who nodded and jumped in front of the red head and stood tense in front of her making sure no one would hurt her. I nodded and attacked Karia.
The Shellraiser being thrown into the park stopped my fight with Karia and we looked over to where what had happened. The large Bradford bot was not what I was expecting. I looked towards the vehicle that should have contained my brother's and saw them several feet from the car. I nodded and turned to April after hearing Scout growling barks, she was being attacked by Karia. Scout jumped out of the way of her tanto, and jumped to bite her arm, he landed on her chest her arm held in his sharp teeth growling.
"Scout, Mikey is not here, your with me, and we don't condone killing," I said making the dog stop and let go of the arm. He turned to me his green eyes boring into me a glare in his eyes. I held my stance on it and he nodded and backed off stopping to stand beside April still ready to defend her.
I finally had a bit of time to take a look at the drone that had followed my brothers here, and saw the messily placed back panel, and smirked. I whistled calling over Scout, Leo now taking on Karia, so no need to worry about if April was safe from her. I was taking on the drone so he couldn't hurt her either. Scout joined me and waited, I pointed to the drone's back I needed it off. The dog nodded and jumped high into the air, and landed on the drone's shoulders using his back paws to paw off the panel while covering the optics with his front. I whistled once more and he joined me.
I brought out the blade in my staff and stabbed it through the wires in the back, shorting out the bot, it fell to the ground sparking. I stood up and looked towards Leo who was watching Karia climb to the roofs again and leaving nursing her arm.
"Hey Donnie I just wanted to say- OH MY GOSH I forgot about Casey!" April started before a realization came to her eyes and she took off down the road. I shook my head and bent down to Scout and scratched him behind his ears.
"So what's with Scout? Where's Mikey?" Raph asked starting over to the Shellraiser and helping Leo right it.
"Mikey asked him to help me hunt down April so we could help her after she called me in the lair," I said Scout staying by my side, nipping my fingers.
"Ah makes since now lets get home before the turtle climbs out of his shell with worry for his dog," Raph said climbing into the righted car, Leo following him, I let Scout climb in before me. I went to sit in my usual spot, Scout by my feet, and took out my phone. I opened it and a photo I had snapped of Mikey when he was laughing at something his friends had said to him. I smiled, remembering when it was April on my phone, now Mikey, I have a problem, but didn't care. This way I could have a picture of him while he was gone traveling.
We made it home, I put my phone away, and watched as Scout bounded out of the car and into the lair barking the whole way. I laughed when I heard Mikey call out his dog's name, I came into him hugging Scout close to his plastron. He looked up and saw me his eyes widened and he ran up to me the dog still in his arms, who just went limp resigned to being carried around for awhile. I wrapped my arm around the turtle's shell and pulled him in, hugging him to my plastron, being careful of the dog in his arms.
"I'm glad you both came back safely, how did it go with April, did she finally apologize?" he asked walking over to the couch.
"No, but I think was going to, but she needed to help a friend of hers," I said sitting next to him letting Alexander jumping into my lap letting me pet him.
Before he could say anything else though April walked through the door, I looked up and stared at her wiping all expression from my face. I scooted closer to Mikey shielding him from view, knowing how nervous he is about new people.
The girl nervously entered the lair hands twisting in front of her, she glanced around, eyes darting around looking for anything that could jump out at her.
"Hey everyone," she said waving, smiling.
"Hi," I said narrowing my eyes feeling Alexander jump onto my shoulder, his fluffy tail flicking on my neck.
"I just wanted to apologize for how I treated you all, I wasn't thinking straight, and I took out all my confusion and anger out on you. So I just want to say I'm sorry," April said bowing her head.
I looked back over to Mikey, he shrugged eyes wide and hugging Scout closer to his plastron. He tilted his head towards the girl and smiled. I smiled back and turned back to April and stood up, Alexander steadied on my shoulder a glare aimed towards the red head.
"I accept the apology, but I need a bit of time to forgive you, you really hurt me with what you said and did. You don't have to stop coming down here, but you need to give me a little space. Okay?" I asked standing in front of the red head arm crossed a growling cat on my shoulder.
"I understand, I realized how much I hurt you, I will do what ever it takes to mend our friendship," she said looking hopeful. I nodded and turned back to Mikey who was smiling brightly at me, his blue eyes shining with happiness.
"Um Donnie? Who is that?" April asked taking a step closer, but stopping when Scout growled and Fae stepped forward, her lips drawn back.
"He is Michelangelo, someone who is injured and needs rest, Leo and Raph will explain while I go and make sure his wound is healing nicely before going to bed," I said turning Mikey towards the bedrooms and locking the door behind me.