Chapter 4: Dealing With It
Shock. Staring at the blank concrete miles below us. This can't be happening.
This cannot be happening.
Except it is.
Leo is gone. Again. Why does he always do this to us? To me? It's not fair! Leo's my big brother, he shouldn't be taken by every evil thing we meet! He should be telling me not to sleep with my mask on or I'll wake up with a rash-thing because I drool, or helping me beat that boss level that I just can't seem to crack, and it just wasn't fair!
If Leo were here right now, he'd ask me if I was gonna do something about it or let life walk all over me. And I'm not a doormat!
Having made up my mind on this whole situation, now it was time to tackle an even bigger problem: Donnie and Raph.
Besides Raph, the one with the biggest temper is Donnie, and he doesn't look like he's doing too good, which can't mean anything good for me, either. One of Raph's famous growls of rage draws my attention to my right. Who knew he could get that red? Is that steam coming out of his ears?
Uh-oh.
I jump to the side just in time for the shuriken Raph throws in rage to only scrape the back of my shell. I love being a turtle. A soft whistling I only heard because I'm an awesome ninja makes me turn to my left.
Looks like I'm about to get an answer to a very important question- "How does Donnie get rid of anger?" The answer comes sooner than expected.
Donnie lunged toward Raph with a feral yell, moving his bo staff so it was parallel to the rooftop. There must have been some sort of secret language they haven't taught me, because Raph just let it happen, only dodging Donnie's attacks. Never attacking. Keeping his sais in a safe position so as not to accidentally injure Donnie more than the fight had. If you call us getting our shells kicked a fight.
When Donnie was finally tired out, Raph helped him up, then came over to me and pulled me off the ground.
"We can't lose another family member." He shook his head sadly. He was right, even though we had spent almost a year without Master Splinter, the wound was still fresh. Not having anything to keep us busy was certainly not helping us any. I think that was one of the reasons Leo had us out here tonight- to get our minds off of Sensei.
It worked.
"We need to go back to the lair, see if we can dig up some information on where that Deathstroke guy might have taken Leo," Donnie interrupted my train of thought.
I nodded, then remembered something very important. "Guys! Hold up." I held out my hand for dramatic effect, "I think I remember Karai telling me a story once of how Shredder used to be good buddies with this creepy eye-patch guy when she was little, and how she used to spy on their meetings. She couldn't remember his name exactly, but she knew that he had this aura that gave her chills. That dude's aura gave me major creeps, dudes." When I finished my retelling of Karai's story- I think I botched it a little- Raph looked at me like he'd never seen me before.
Donnie simply exclaimed, "Mikey, you're a genius!" before taking off in the direction of the Mighty Mutanimals' new place.
"Donnie, wait!" Raph yelled, "Where are you going?" He threw his hands in the air as if the indicate a really big Kraang ship, but then I remembered we kicked their tentacles back to Dimension X, and also that we had a bigger problem to deal with.
Raph took off after Donnie, and being the only turtle left out of the loop I think I just created, I ran off after Raph.
I love when Donnie acts his age and leaves everyone behind him to their confusion.
It's so fun.
Alright peeps, here's your disclaimer, I don't own the turtles or any of the characters in this story unless I happen to make an OC out of an innocent bystander. Just gonna warn you, I wrote this at 8 pm when I should've been studying for my Science test, so I'm sorry if it sucks. I have no idea when I'll have the next chapter up, but if you want more of my stories, check 'em out! I'm starting a One-Shot collection for my TMNT fanfics, and I am currently taking requests for that if you wanna PM me or just leave me a review. If you wanna just review my story, I would love that, but no flames please, only constructive criticism. I think I better cut off this AN before it gets too long. :l Until next time!
