Workout Plan 1: Warm Ups

Rating: T

It was early, before breakfast even when April rolled over to find the other side of the bed empty. She felt around blindly with her hand before opening one eye to look around.

"They're up already? Don't they ever take a break?" She groaned as she got up. She made her way to the bathroom. April took a quick shower and went downstairs where she found Splinter and Asha sitting at the kitchen table.

"Why is everyone up so early? Don't you know we're on vacation? That means stay up all night then sleep all morning, you guys need to learn vacation rules or something," April complained slightly, although her voice was chipper. She poured herself a cup of coffee.

Splinter was smiling at her over the rim of a hot cup of tea.

"Good morning April. Did you rest well?"

"I sure did. How's your knee?" She asked as she took a seat. Splinter smiled as he absently rubbed it.

"It's much better now that I'm not in the damp confines of the sewer."

"Good, good. So, where're the guys?"

Asha lifted a brow. "You can't hear it?"

April listened. Sure enough she could faintly hear music coming from the barn.

"Workout?"

"Workout."

"And you're not out there with them?" April asked Asha. She got an incredulous look on return.

"I'm not going out there. I went into that barn and entered a strange turtle man-cave environment, and I backed out of there slowly," Asha said laughing a little. Splinter sighed, he knew exactly what she was talking about.

"What?" April asked laughing now herself.

"Come on let's go on out there so you can witness it for yourself," Asha grabbed a muffin that Mikey had baked the day before, as her and April made their way to the barn.

As they approached they could hear very loud music playing. Aloe Blacc's I'm the Man was blasting through the air, and all the brothers were singing along.

Leo and Raph were weightlifting, while Donnie was doing one of those undulating rope exercises, with the two very thick and long cables attached to the far wall. Mikey was busy doing one-armed push-ups. None of the brothers acknowledged the two women watching them from the doorway. April stood with her mouth hanging open. Asha wasn't lying, this was a man cave times a hundred.

"You can't beat me Leo, just give it up!" Raph called over to his brother. They were side by side laying on makeshift weight benches, apparently having some type of contest.

"Just…keep…thinking…that," Leo was grunting with every lift. Raph on the other hand was smooth and steady. Asha thought this was one contest Leo wasn't going to win. She shook her head at the spectacle and made her way over to Donnie, while April went to cheer Mikey on. He promptly begged her to get on his back while he did push-ups. It was cute how he still wanted to impress her. She giggled and climbed onto his shell.

Donnie was so deep in concentration, that he almost hadn't noticed Asha watching him. He was singing the lyrics to the song as he worked out, and to her surprise he had a decent singing voice. It was deeper than his speaking voice and quite pleasant.

"H-hey Asha," he said adjusting his mask since he wasn't wearing his glasses at the moment. He stopped working with the ropes and stood up straight.

"Hey Donnie. You don't have to stop, I like watching you guys," she said lightly punching him in the arm to make him keep going.

"You like watching me work out?" he chuckled a bit as he asked.

"Yeah, especially since I hardly ever see you doing it. I figure you had to get some exercise in at some point. Although you're obviously not as crazy as those two nutjobs," She said pointing over her shoulder at Raph and Leo who had now gotten into a contest of who can jump rope the longest. Donnie glanced back over at his brothers, smiled and shook his head.

"I don't think anybody is as crazy as those two," Donnie said starting the ropes back up again. Asha left him to it as she walked back over to Raph and Leo, who had now been joined by Mikey, the self-proclaimed jump rope champion of the world.

"I've got this in the bag. You two should just sit back and watch the master," Mikey gloated, eliciting a groan from both his older brothers.

"Can it Mikey before I kick your ass," Raph threatened casually.

"Get angry with me, you should not, my young padawan," Mikey said in his best Yoda impression.

"Oh lord, now look what you've done Raph," Leo complained. "He's gonna do that the whole time we're here now. Raph's eyes got big as he completely stopped jumping rope to somewhat get into Leo's face.

"It ain't my fault he's an idiot!" Raph yelled, pointing his finger at a smug Michelangelo, who simply continued jumping rope and winning since both his brothers had stopped in order to argue.

"Well you should at least try not to encourage him then," Leo retorted, already surrendering the slight argument.

"Do, or do not, there is no try," Mikey said still skipping rope with his eyes closed and a grin on his face.

"Shut up Mikey," both his brothers yelled, even more upset to realize they had lost the little competition. Raph looked disgusted for a second before turning to Leo.

"I still kicked your ass in weightlifting though. You ain't never gonna win that," he said sitting back down on the bench and readjusting the weights for his leg exercises.

"Whatever, but I got you on this next set of reps though," Leo said, sitting down and doing the same thing as Raph.

April and Asha shook their heads smiling and left the barn. They strolled back towards the house in companionable silence. They passed Splinter who was sitting off to one side in the back yard underneath a tree, apparently meditating.

"You gonna start breakfast for the guys?" Asha asked April as they entered the kitchen through the back door.

"Are you kidding me? Mikey would kill me. He thinks he's the master of any kitchen he comes across. He already arranged stuff, I don't even know where all the pots, pans, and utensils are." April said as she sat on the couch and opened her laptop. Asha chuckled as she made her way upstairs.

Asha wanted to do her pole exercise, but it was in the barn and she wasn't gonna do that in front of the turtles, while they maintained that man cave. So she settled for 250 reps of HIITS and called it a morning. She took a shower and had an idea. The image of Leo lifting weights had gotten to her, and she couldn't shake it. She went into the bedroom to get dressed, and then had a wicked thought. It was about time to get this show on the road.