Day 7: The best party ever!
It was the day of the party and Mikey still had lots to do. He and Taylor were literally shoving Mikey's brothers out of the lair so they could decorate the lair in peace. But, Leo Raph and Donnie didn't want to leave.
" Get out!" Mikey screamed and continued to push his brother out the door.
" Come on guys, only for a few hours." Taylor pleaded. She was pushing her back up against Raph, who would not budge from where he planted his feet.
" But we've been out and about for two days now." Leo reminded them. The day before they went out to do their own thing and the day before that, Leo and his two brothers went on a fake krang hunt. And now the girl and his youngest brother wanted them gone again.
" We're so close to finishing, just please get out!" Mikey cried and gave one final shoved to Donnie before falling on the floor. Due to the shove, Donnie stumbled forward and bumped into Leo.
" How long do we need to be gone?"Donnie wondered, shooting a glare at Mikey.
" Come back at 5:00. That's when the party starts." Mikey lied. The party did start at 5:00, but all the guest where coming at 4:00, so Mikey could surprise his brothers.
" Alright guys. Let's go." Leo sighed and began heading towards the door.
" Fine." Raph huffed and moved out of the way, causing Taylor to fall flat on her butt.
As the three older brothers left the lair, Taylor and Mikey exchanged an excited glance. Joy gleamed in their eyes as they got up and rushed to the back room. In a few minutes they returned to the living room with a box full of their party stuff. They began to sort through and organize it.
" So do you want to be in charge of streamers and I'll do balloons?" Taylor suggested and held up the packages of streamers and party balloons of all colours.
" Sounds good." Mikey agreed with a nod of his head and took the streamers from Taylor's grip.
Mikey ran back to Donnie's lab to get a ladder and Taylor started blowing up balloons of four specific colours. So since there was a limit to how many coloured balloons she need, Taylor needed at least four packages of balloons.
Mikey returned form the lab in a few minutes with a ladder in his arms and the streamer package in his mouth. He ripped it open with his teeth and set down the ladder. He first placed it near a ledge hanging over a little pool of sewer water. Mikey climbed up the ladder and began hanging the streamers. He used five of the six colours in the package, setting aside the pink roll of streamers.
When he was finished, Mikey moved on to a spiral wooden platform the turtles had leading up to the surface. That's usually where the turtles pick up their pizza when they get it delivered. The orange masked turtle hung streamers like crazy around that thing. Jumping from one platform to another, streamers where hung all over the place. The now colourful wooden platform was barely visible through the streamers, but if you go on it, it's like walking through a rainbow.
" How's the balloons coming?" Mikey called out as he jumped down from the platform and walked over to Taylor.
" ...Good..." Taylor puffed all out of breath, her face was bright red like a tomato, " I'm on my last round. How 'bout you?"
" Not bad. I just need to hang up some more streamers in a few more places and then we're good to go." Mikey reported and jumped over the couch. He began hanging streamers on the wall above the TV, " Hey Taylor?"
" ...Yeah?" She huffed.
" You know your only half way down with the balloons right?"
" What!?"
" Yeah, there's some more at the bottom of the box." Mikey informed with the tape roll in his mouth.
" Aw man!" Taylor complained and let the balloon that she was currently blowing up, deflate.
" Don't worry, we'll use the helium machine for those." Mikey assured as he hung up the last streamer and walked down the ladder.
" We have a helium machine! Why didn't we just use that?!" Taylor shouted in disbelief. She just spent the last 45 minutes blowing up tones of balloons.
" Not all balloons are meant to float." Mikey pointed out as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Taylor just moaned in response and continued to blow up the balloon.
After another 20 minutes, Mikey and Taylor both started working on the helium balloons. Mikey worked the helium machine while Taylor tied a string to each balloon and decorated it with coloured markers. She then would tie a string on the balloon and a rock on the string to keep the balloon from floating away.
All of a sudden a strange noise came from Mikey's direction and sooner then she knew it, Taylor got whacked in the face with a red balloon.
" Mikey!" She shouted through he laughter.
" Sorry." Mikey's voice was high pitched like a chipmunk. This caused Taylor to laugh even harder.
" Did you suck in helium?" Taylor asked and wiped a tear away from her eye.
" Mayyybeee..." Mikey answered, still in a squeaky voice. But sadly, it gradually faded away.
After about another hour of blowing up and placing balloons all through out the lair, Mikey and Taylor were finally done...with the balloons.
" Let's get some tables out before we continue with decorating." Taylor suggested after she tied the last rock to the last string of the last balloon.
" Sounds good bro." Mikey agreed and hopped off the couch. He and Taylor walked down a dark hallway to the back room of the lair and got out some tables. They were just basic plastic gray table that Donnie got from the junkyard a few years ago, thinking they might one day come in handy. Of course, before using the tables Mikey and Taylor gave them a good clean.
Once the tables where place all along the wall near the kitchen entrance, Mikey decorated them with more streamers. Taylor on the other hand started looking for the long roll of paper Mikey had in the party box and some paints. By the time she found them all, Mikey was done decorating the tables and went over to join Taylor, who was in the middle of the living room, setting up.
Taylor and Mikey began working on the final decoration, the banner. Since both are very artistic, they decided that this was a group project. Mikey really enjoys Taylor's company since she understands all of his artistic needs. They could spend hours just talking about drawing and art.
" What colour did you want to right the letters in?" Taylor questioned and looked over her shoulder while speaking to Mikey. She was by the couch looking through the party box and Mikey was on the floor where the party banner was.
" Hmm, green?" Mikey pitched his idea and Taylor nodded. She got out the jar of green paint and walked back over to Mikey.
Taylor and Mikey began with blue paint for one/quarter of the background. Their plan was to start with blue then gradually fade it into red. The red would then fade into purple and the purple into orange. They chose these four colours since the party is for Mikey and his brothers. They figured it was the appropriate jester to make.
Once the background was painted, with the additional shadows and light spots, and dried, it was time for the letters. So in green paint, Taylor and Mikey wrote 'Happy 30th Anniversary TMNT!' Then they added the shadows and the lighting.
It took quite a few hours, but the banner was finally done and looked like a real piece of art. Taylor helped Mikey pin up the banner on the wall behind the TV, so it could be seen right when you walk in. By the time the banner was up, all the streamers were hung, the balloons placed, it was 3:00. That gave Mikey and Taylor half an hour to set up all the food and decorate the plates and cups.
So for the next 30 minutes, Taylor placed and organized all the food they had prepared on the tables. Mikey took markers and decorated the bright green cups and plates he had got for the party. They spent the next 30 minutes getting ready. For this special occasion, Taylor agreed to wear a dress. So she wore the only dress she owned, the one she wore on her first date with Donnie.
The dress was a light blue, almost teal colour. It was strapless and the top of it was that fold over pattern. Like the turtles bandages on their ankles and stuff but it was much neater. Around the wast line was a black silk ribbon that tied in the back. The bottom of the dress was flowy and went down to her knees.
When Taylor came out of the bathroom from changing, she found Mikey right outside wearing the jacket of a white suit and a orange bow-tie. He was wearing his usual bright smile and Mikey escorted Taylor back to the living room and they waited for their guest to arrive.
Around 4:10, the first party guest arrived. Like proper party host, Mikey and Taylor greeted their guest by the door. They did this over and over again until everyone was here. It was now five minutes to five O'clock and all that Mikey and Taylor had to wait for was for Mikey's brothers to arrive.
" Ready to see what Mikey planned for us?" Raph asked with sarcasm in his voice, pretending not to care. But you could hear and see a glint of excitement in his voice and eyes.
" Yeah, finally we can find out what's been bugging us this entire week." Leo agreed with a slight chuckled as he and his brothers continued to walk the sewer tunnels on their way back home.
" So, how many things do you think are going to explode tonight?" Donnie wondered and spoke with a flat town. Knowing Mikey's parties, something was going to blow up and it will most likely be his brothers who have to clean it up. Younger brothers tend to get away with more things.
" My guess? Five." Raph joked yet was somewhat serious.
" Oh come on guys, give Mikey some credit. This could be one party where he actually doesn't get someone injured." Leo attempted sticking up for their little brother and wrapped his arms around his other two.
" Doubt it." Donnie and Raph spoke simultaneously.
After that it fell silent since the turtles came to a stop. Leo, Raph and Donnie made their way back to the lair and was standing in it's doorway. The lair was completely black and not a noise was being made. No voices, no noise makers, nothing.
" This is our lair, right?" Raph mumbled to Leo and Donnie as he continued to stare at the darkness.
Before anyone could respond, the lights flickered on and everyone jumped out yelling surprise. Donnie screamed and hid behind Leo, who was frozen with shock. Raph was staring in amazement at the scene in front of him. Donnie and Leo joined in on Raph's amazement as well.
In front of them was a room full of people. Well, not people, mutant turtles. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from all shows. There was the original 1987 cartoon turtles and next to them was the red sky turtles. They don't have many differences, just one is darker then the others. Across the room, the 2003 ninja turtles stood beside the live action ones. With the live action ones, there was a fifth turtle with a light blue mask, her name was Venus. Then near the middle of the room stood the Fast Forward turtles with all their glowing gear and some very plain looking turtles, they were the back to the sewer version. Also, there was the original April O'Neil and the 2003 April. The 2012 Casey joined the party along with the 2003 Casey Jones. Unfortunately the other April's and Casey's couldn't make it.
From the centre of the room, Mikey and Taylor emerged. Mikey was holding a video camera in his hand.
" Welcome to the party my brothers." Mikey greeted his final guest. Both him and Taylor had huge grins upon their face, " By the way, nice scared Donnie." Mikey taunted and raised the video camera up, to show that he had it all on video.
" D-did you guys plan this?" Leo spoke in utter amazement.
" Yup." Taylor responded and gave a satisfied nod.
" This is amazing!" Raph admitted in astonishment, " How did you pull it off?"
" It wasn't easy!" Mikey declared with a wave of his hand, " But with hard work, sweat and tears. The most amazing party was born." Mikey bowed when he finished talking. A roar of clapping erupted in the background when Mikey finished his speech, " Now, who's hungry?"
Loud cheering came from the crowd and they all made their way over to the tables that held the food. Mikey led his brothers into the living room and over to the food table. Once everyone got their plate of food, the crowd began to split up and mingle. All the Leo's went in one corner and all the Raph's in another. The Casey's hung out with the Raph's and Master Splinter began talking with the April's. The Donnie's were all standing over by the 2012 Donnie's lab, chatting about science, math and inventions. And, naturally, the group of Mikey's stayed by the food table.
Taylor stayed by Mikey for the first part of the party. Everyone had a whack of questions or compliments about the party, so they decided to stick together instead of everyone looking around for both hosts. After a little while, when the questioning died down, Taylor decided to go check up on the Donnie's. She sneaked up behind her Donnie and wrapped her arms around his neck from behind.
Donnie turned around to see who it was, and found Taylor behind him.
" Hey." Donnie laughed as he greeted her.
Taylor took her arms off of Donnie's neck before responding, " Hey. How do you like the party?"
" It's awesome." Donne told her then looked Taylor up and down and smiled, " I like your dress." He recognized it from their first date.
" Thanks." Taylor blushed. Donnie then wrapped an arm around Taylor and urged her forward.
" Guys, this is my girlfriend, Taylor." Donnie introduced Taylor with a hint of pride in his voice, " Taylor, meet Donatello, Donnie, Don, Don, Donnie and Donnie."
" Hi." All the Donatello's responded simultaneously and Taylor gave a wave of her hand.
" Quite question Donnie." The red sky Don spoke, " How did a nerd like yourself get someone like that, to date you?" Don spoke as if he was actually curious, and not as a joke or sarcasm.
Donnie, Taylor's Donnie, and herself exchanged a glance before he answered.
" I dunno, maybe it was my irresistible charm." Donnie joked.
" 2003 Don, can I just say that I was a big fan of your show as a kid. I use to watch it all the time." Taylor confessed and brushed a piece of hair behind her ear.
" Thanks." Don gave Taylor a smile. She wasn't use to not seeing a missing tooth.
" So what were you guys talking about?" She wondered, changing the subject.
" I was actually just about to show the other guys my lab and-" 2012 Donnie answered but stopped mid sentence when he got tapped on the shoulder. He turned around and seen Raph, along with original Raph behind him.
" Donnie, dude you have to check this out!" You can tell Raph is excited when he starts talking like Mikey, " This guy sounds exactly like you!" Raph gave the original 1987 Raph a shove towards his brother.
" Raph," Donnie faced his brother, " It's impossible for two people to have the exact same voice."
" Is he always like this?" 1987 Raph asked. As he spoke all the Donnie's eyes went wide.
" Whoa, you do sound like me." 2012 Donnie spoke in pure amazement and his eyes were full of wonder.
" Yeah." Original Raph laughed, " Freaky."
Before the conversation could go anywhere else, Mikey's voice yelled from a far.
" Who wants cake?!"
Immediately all the turtles began to walk over to the food table and one of them even yelled 'Cowabunga!'
The cake, was four tiers, each one of them green. On each tier was a coloured stripe, or a mask. On the bottom was a blue mask, the next had a red, then purple, and last orange. On each mask was two white eyes outlined in black. And to fill in the gab between each tier, yellow icing was piped. On top of the cake sat a 3 candle and 0. The writing said, 'Happy 30th anniversary turtles!'
The cups and plates that everyone ate and drank off of where bright green. Each cup and plate were decorated like a different turtle. And the jokes ' Hey, I never thought I'd be eating off of your face,' and
' Look, I'm drinking your brain,' was told quite a few times. All told my Michelangelo's.
After cake and refreshments, everyone began dancing to the music Taylor and Mikey had playing in the background. The boombox, made by Donnie, was placed right beside the TV and was now blaring rock music. People, and turtles, were dancing like crazy. Jumping and moving to the music, the living room was like one big dance floor. And everyone was having a great time.
" Okay, okay. I have to admit, that was a good party." Raph said and plopped himself on the couch. The party was done, and the living room a mess. Everyone was too exhausted to start cleaning and decided to leave it till morning.
" You did good Mikey and Taylor." Leo congratulated the two part planners and sat down on the couch as well. Leo had one hand on his stomach as if he ate to much, he did however eat three pieces of cake.
" Yeah, and nothing blew up this time." Donnie pointed out and practically fell on the couch.
" It was most enjoyable." Splinter agreed, " But it is late. I'm going to rest. Goodnight, and happy 30th anniversary my sons."
" Goodnight Sensei." The four brothers replied at the same time. When Splinter left, Mikey and Taylor joined the three older brothers on the couch. Everyone was all tired out from partying all night.
" Sooooo, was this an awesome party or what?" Mikey wondered but already new the answer.
" Yeah, it was pretty awesome." Donnie agreed then stifled a yawn.
" Was it the best party ever?" Taylor asking jokingly, not expecting an answer.
" Actually, I think it was." Leo almost laughed as he spoke.
" Aw, thanks guys." Mikey smiled, happy with himself.
" Yup, this was a great party. Good job little bro." Raph said affectionately then grabbed Mikey's head and gave him a nuggy.
But Mikey didn't mind. He was too satisfied with himself to be bothered by Raph. Even while getting nuggied, Mikey was smiling, knowing that he had succeed. All the hard work and planning had finally payed off. He had surprised his brothers, made delicious food, and threw one heck of a party. With the help of Taylor of course. But Mikey was actually over thrilled with joy. For once, one of his parties went according to plan. For once he didn't mess up. This secret party of his went perfectly. And Mikey could fall asleep tonight knowing that he in fact, had thrown the best party ever!
The end!
Alright so that's the end of this 'short' story! Thanks to everyone who read it and reviewed! Remember, it's never too late to review even though the story's over, I would still love to hear what you thought of it! Please, let me know! With that being said, I hope you enjoyed this and happy (late) 30th anniversary to TMNT! :D