Air Hockey

"Come on Jungle Boy, that's the best you can do?" Raphael taunted as he scored a point, tying him with Leonardo.

"Give me a break! It's been a long time since I played." Leonardo said as he placed the puck back on the table and smacked it.

"A long time? Don't use that as an excuse for your lack a skill. I saw ya playin' with Don yesterday." Raph blocked and hit the puck back to Leo's goal.

"He needed someone to help him test it. He would have asked you or Mikey, but both of you went to see Rush Hour 3 with April and Casey." Leo barely blocked and hit the puck back to Raph; scoring a point.

"Man…" Raph groaned as he put the puck back on the table.

"What's the score now little brother?" Leo asked as he stretched his right arm behind him.

"93 ta 92." Raph muttered as Mikey came into the room, rubbing his eyes.

"Are you two still at it? You've been playin' all night!!"

"That's cuz I'm gonna beat 'im." Raph hit the puck to Leo, bouncing it hard off the sides of the table.

"Beat me? I believe I'm winning." Leo blocked the puck and, when he hit it back, it went into Raph's goal.

"My sons, what are you doing up so early?" Master Splinter asked as he came out of his room.

"They're playin' air hockey. They've been playin' all night!" Mikey complained.

"I knew I should not have allowed Donatello to build that table." Splinter sighed.

"Build what?" Don walked into the room and yawned.

"That contraption. Leonardo and Raphael have been playing all night." Splinter sat on the old sofa and turned on the news.

"Sweet! How's it working?" Don ran over to the side of the table.

"Like a dream." Raph scored another point.

"What's the score anyway?" Mikey moved closer to the table also.

"94 ta 93…I can't believe that Jungle Boy's beatin' me!"

"Hey Raph, guess what." Leo said as a small smile crossed his face.

"What?" Raph looked up into Leo's face.

"I win." Leo slammed the puck hard enough that it flew out of the slot after it went in the goal.

"Leo!! You cheated!" Raph complained.

"How could I have done that?" the smile on Leo's face grew bigger.

"You distracted me. Whose genius idea was it ta play till 95 instead of 100 anyway?"

"Yours." Leo stretched out his right arm again.

"Play ya five more?" Raph asked, pleading.

"I can live with that." Leo bent over the table again as Raph whacked the puck.

"I wanna play the winner!" Mikey bounced up and down as Don came to stand next to him.

"I'm sure it'll be Leo." Don folded his arms.

"I'll bet ya one free movie with all the fixin's that Raph'll beat Leo." Mikey smacked Don's shoulder as Raph scored a point.

"You're on." Don shook hands with Mikey as Leo scored a point. They watched in silence as Leo scored three more points.

"Raph…I win again." Leo chuckled as he scored the last point.

"Pay up little brother!" Don laughed as he put his arm around Mikey's shell.

"Um, I changed my mind, I wanna play Raph!" Mikey tried to take the mallet from Leo.

"Come on Mikey, I gotta defend my title." Leo pushed Mikey away.

"What title?" Raph asked "King of air hockey?"

"Nope, Casey's got dibs on that title. I'm just reining champion of the custom made table." Leo tightened his mask as Raph handed his mallet to Mikey.

"Ugh…fine, but we're only playin' till 50." Mikey reluctantly took Raph's place. Don put his arm around Raph's shoulders.

"So Raphael, I'd bet you one week's worth of undisturbed sleep that Leo wins again."

"Bring it on genius. Come on Mikey!!" Raph cheered, he needed that sleep really bad.