Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Today is Harry's 12th birthday so the Turtles have decided to try and make a birthday breakfast for their little brother, unfortunately Hedwig wasn't there to watch them and ninja skills apparently don't translate into cooking skills. After burning the toast into bricks, blinding Donatello with orange juice in the eyes, and worst of all cooking the eggs sunny side up instead of scrambled the kitchen was left a disaster zone.
"What have you boys done?!" Hedwig screeched, taking in the destruction, though to the boys credit they did manage to set the water in the sink on fire (don't ask).
"Wow guys" said Harry, in awe of the devastation. "I appreciate the sentiment but I think I'll just have cereal.
"It's not our fault" Leo defended.
"Yeah Mikey used to do all the cooking before Hedwig" Raph reminded him, also bringing notice that only three of the Ninja Turtles were in the kitchen. "Mikey, wake up!" the hot headed turtle yelled.
"Ah, I'm a mutant!" Mikey screamed from his room, much to his family's confusion.
"And he's just noticing this now?" Leo asks sarcastically
"Maybe it was that jelly bean and pickles pizza he ate" Harry suggested, causing Hedwig to shack her head at the strange pizza toping choice. Suddenly the turtle in question barges into the kitchen in a panic.
"Guys look at me, I'm covered in turtle zits" Mikey cried, pointing to the blemishes all over his face. Harry, Leo, Donnie, and Raph recoil in disgust.
"Don't worry Mikey it's just part of being a teenager" Leo reassured.
"Have you ever had them?"
"Heck no!"
"So much for comforting your brother" Hedwig muttered, draping her arm around the turtle she decided to try and comfort him. "Michelangelo, you're just growing up. I promise everything will be ok. In fact soon Harry will have pimples of his own."
"What?!" the young ninja shouted in horror, apparently Splinter forgot to mention that when he told the boy about puberty….or more likely Harry wasn't listening. At that moment Donnie stepped forward using a scanner installed in his T-phone.
"Ok Mikey, the good news is these zits aren't going to hurt you."
"That's a relief" Mikey sighed.
"The bad news is they'll continue to spread all over your body…."
"Donatello" Hedwig said sternly, but Donnie carried on ignoring his mother figure.
"…They'll keep spreading, and spreading, and spreading, and spreading" the purple turtle's voice grew more sinister and foreboding as he continued.
"And then they disappear in a couple of hours, right?" Mikey asked nervously.
"No and then your entire body will mutate into one huge giant zit!"
"Donatello!" Hedwig smacks the turtle upside the head for scaring his brother, but the damage is done and Mikey runs screaming into his room, locking the door behind him. It probably didn't help matters that Raphael spent a good twenty minutes afterwards calling him names through the door.
"Mikey, come out" Leo called, knocking on his brother's door. "It's not that bad and Raph promises to stop calling you names."
"That's right, I'm sorry for calling you names" Raph apologized, but of course that didn't last. "I'm sorry I called you names like crust muffin, fungus face, and Godzitulla: king of the puss monsters."
"Yeah I don't think that's helping Raph" Harry deadpanned, pushing his brother aside hoping to try and convince the orange turtle to come out. "Come on out Mikey, you can't hide in there forever. I promise it isn't so bad and you heard Hedwig, I'm probably going to get them too." Harry shivered at that mental image but Mikey didn't need to know that.
"Forget it guys!" Mikey cried. "I'm not coming out while I'm covered in gross slime filled zits!"
"Technically they're pustules" Donnie clarified, much to Harry, Leo, and Raph's disgust. "Filled with oil and sebum which is even grosser than slime."
"Not helping Donnie" Leo remarked, putting an end to his brainy brother's lecture before he caused them to puke. "Mikey, come out!"
"Forget it, I'm too hideous to be a ninja. I'll stay locked away in here forever." As he wallowed in self-pity, Mikey noticed something strange on his tongue, checking himself in a mirror he was horrified to see his tongue was covered in zits.
In the shadows of Shredder's throne room, Karai sat patiently waiting for her summoned underlings. After what felt like hours the door opened revealing Dog Pound and Fish Face.
"Bradford, Xever enter" Karai orders, granting them permission to enter the room. On command they silently approached the throne. Well it would've been silent had Dog Pound not got his tail caught in the door, causing him to trip and fall, his massive weight breaking the glass cover of the water tank causing him to go for an impromptu swim.
"Congratulations, you've gone from stealthy ninja to idiot man-dog" Fish Face laughs.
"I detest this horrible body" Dog Pound curses. "What I wouldn't give to be human again."
"Would you two hurry up?! I don' have all day" Karai snaps, her patience for their foolishness growing thin.
"Don't get comfortable, Karai. Shredder is the only one worthy of that throne" said Fish Face, his loyalty being solely to The Shredder not his daughter.
"Dad put me in charge while he's in Japan, remember? So either learn some respect, or I chop off your robo-legs and drop you in the sewer got it?" the kunoichi threatens. Xever finds that he has no choice but to comply, he's well aware that Karai could easily make sushi out of him. "Now listen. I need someone to help maintain my Foot bot soldiers on a daily basis. Someone who can be bought, someone who can be easily intimidated, someone like…."
"Baxter Stockman" Fish Face suggests, but Dog Pound holds a grudge.
"Stickman" the dog mutant growls. "We haven't seen that little worm since he tried to kill us, in that damn maze of his."
"Stockman's perfect" Karai decided, their personal grudge with the man meant nothing to her. "Find him and bring him to me. Think you two idiots can handle that?"
"Right away boss" said Fish Face begrudgingly. Understanding they were dismissed, the two mutants leave to begin their search.
After failing to convince Mikey to come out of his room, the rest of the brothers spent the day enjoying Harry's birthday. Which included a lunch (thankfully cooked by Hedwig), a few gifts from his family, some well wishes from Mr. Murakami and his friends in England, overall not a bad day. Though Harry was starting to worry about the orange turtle.
"Maybe we shouldn't have teased him so much" he said in concern.
"Eh, he's just over reacting" Donnie dismisses, as they gather around the TV to watch Harry's movie pick for the night. Short of teleporting in and forcing Mikey out of his room, there wasn't anything he could do Harry deciding there was nothing he could do and simply watched the movie in peace. As they were about half way in Raph noticed some movement out of the corner of his eye, Michelangelo was trying to cross the room using an empty pizza box to hide his zits in embarrassment.
"Hey guys look its Mikey and he brought his own pizza. His face!" Raph laughed, much to Mikey's annoyance. "Now come on and zit down. Ha! "Zit down" I slay myself."
"Raphael!" Splinter snaps, putting an end to the mean spirited teasing. "You should know better than to mock someone's appearance. After all what would the human's above think of yours?"
"You're right, Sensei" the red turtle sighs, his father's words getting through to him. "Sorry Mikey." Sadly Mikey's self-confidence was at an all-time low.
"Just kick me out Master Splinter" he sighed miserably. "I can't be ninja if I look like a moldy pickle."
"And why not?" Splinter demanded, not seeing any reason why his son should give up on himself. "I do not let my appearance stop me."
"Yeah but old people never care what they look like…or smell." Mikey grinned sheepishly as his father sent a light glare in his direction. However something else was bothering Splinter about Mikey sudden and explosive zit outbreak.
"My son, I sense there is something you'd like to tell us."
"What? No! I mean I didn't do anything" Mikey tried to deny frantically, causing the family to focus in on him.
"Michelangelo, what did you do?" Hedwig asked, her tone leaving no room for him to wiggle out of this.
"Um I might have sprinkled a little mutagen on my skin" he admitted nervously, revealing a jar of the ooze.
"Why?!" Hedwig and the other brothers demanded, while Splinter waited patiently for the orange turtle to finish explaining his foolishness.
"Why would you do that?!" Harry demanded.
"To make myself cooler" Mikey explained. "You guys keep treating me like I'm a goofball. So I found this vial in Donnie's lab, the label says it'll make you super cool."
"No! It says you're supposed to keep it super cooled. As in temperature!" Donnie corrected. "This is a reject batch of retro mutagen Mikey. It's dangerous!"
"Well you could've made it clearer!" in response Donnie turned the vial around revealing numerous warning labels. "That's still not clear enough."
Heading into the lab Donnie began a quick examination of Mikey's blood and he didn't like what he found. The retro mutagen had destabilized the mutagen in his system and Donnie estimates that he only has 3 hours before Mikey goes boom.
"I'm going to explode!" Mikey screamed.
"Like a massive zit" Donnie confirmed, much Harry, Leo, and Raph disgust.
"Is there anything you can do, Donatello?" asked Hedwig, concerned for the youngest turtle's life.
"I should be able to work up an antidote but I'm missing one key instrument. I'll need a molecular centrifuge to mix the solution."
"Any idea where we can get one?" asked Harry.
"Yeah the last place I saw one was at TCRI."
"But we destroyed that place when we took down The Kraang" Raph reminded them. "There's nothing left."
"Well we've still got to try" argued the young wizard, this was the first year Harry could remember celebrating his actual birthday and he wasn't too keen with marking it with the death of one his brothers.
Hurrying to TCRI the brothers split up to search the ruins left behind from their battle with The Kraang. Sadly they really made a mess of the place, making their chance of finding the centrifuge slim at best.
"Is this a centrifudge?" Mikey asks, holding up a class container.
"Centrifuge" Donnie corrects. "And no, that's a beaker."
"Is this the centrifudge?"
"No that's a microscope."
"Is this the centrifudge?"
"That's the same beaker! Aw this is hopeless" Donnie groans in a mix of frustration and despair. Suddenly Leo signals for them to be quiet, as they hear someone moving through the halls towards their location. They don't have to wait long as their mystery guest reveals himself to be Baxter Stockman, carrying a box of scavenged Kraang equipment.
"Yes, yes this is perfect. Bio enhancers, DNA catalysts, soon I'll be able to make my own mutant army." Stockman spoke to himself. "Powerful. Unstoppable…."
"Dorkster Blockhead" Raph interrupts, annoying the scientist as once again his name is forgotten.
"Baxter Stockman! What, Turtles? Here now?" he questions, shocked to be in the presence of his hated enemies once again.
"Hey Donnie check it out" said Harry, pointing to a piece of equipment in Stockman's box.
"He's got the centrifuge!" Donnie announces. "Hand it over Storkman."
"It's Stockman. And no it's mine. I found it first" he argued childishly. "Mousers, attack!" On command the robots attacked, their mechanical jaws snapping at the brothers.
"Don't let them pop me!" Mikey screamed fearfully, aware that he was basically a ticking time bomb.
"Then take cover!" Harry recommends, as he slices through one of the robots. Following his younger brother's advice Mikey tries to avoid the Mouser robots, leaving his brothers to deal with the nuisances. But before they could really get started a new enemy entered the fray, as Dog Pound smashed in through the ceiling crushing the Mousers beneath him.
"Well if it isn't weasely, little Stickman" the dog mutant smirked, still remembering the trouble the scientist had caused him in the past.
"Back off, Dog Pound. We found him first." Leo orders, getting the mutant's attention.
"But if you're good, maybe when we're done you can have him as a chew toy" Harry quips, as he and his brothers prepare to fight for their prize.
"Stickman and the Turtles, and I thought I was having a bad day" with a battle cry Dog Pound charges the brothers, deciding to deal with them first before moving on to Stockman.
Dog Pound swung his massive fist at the brothers only for his attack to be held back Donnie and Leo's respective weapons, leaving the dog mutant open for a counter attack. Coming from above Harry attempts to bring down an axe kick to Bradford's head, but the Foot ninja simple steps back abandoning the clash with the two turtles and evading the young human's attack. Dog Pound moves in to attack Harry, only to be sideswiped by Raph's flying kick sending him staggering into Donatello; whose staff strike to the head set the large mutant up for Leo's follow up sword attack to the chest.
"Time for Baxter Stockman, super villain to make his narrow escape" the dorky man narrated to himself, as he took the opportunity to try and escape as his enemies fought. However his retreat didn't go unnoticed, for as his brothers were busy holding back Dog Pound Mikey caught sighting of the fleeing scientist.
"He's got the centrifudge!" he called alerting the others. Not about to let his target get away Dog Pound grabs hold of Donnie's staff mid-swing and tosses the turtle at his brothers, knocking them into the corner of the room. With four out of five brothers taken care of for the moment, the dog mutant rushes past Mikey, knocking him out of the way and grabs Stockman.
"You're coming with me" Dog Pound growled to the frightened dork. Desperate not to let the precious centrifuge get away the boys charged after them only for Dog Pound to smash one of the support beams, covering his escape as the falling ruble threatens to crush the brothers.
"Mikey, lookout!" Harry warns, teleporting himself close enough to tackle them out of the way of a large piece of concreate. "They got away."
"And they've got the centrifudge" Mikey cries desperately, as the Dog Pound and Stockman were long gone. With nothing else they could do the brothers decide to return to the lair, hoping to think of a different way to cure Mikey or track down Stockman.
Sadly they weren't making any headway on an alternative cure, not even a boil removal potion was doing any good.
"Man, Snape is useless!" Harry yells in frustration. "He gives this huge speech about how amazing and invaluable potions are. And they don't do jack! In fact I think it made it worse!" Sadly the young ninja wasn't mistaken. In his attempt to remove the zits, he had actually caused the zits on Mikey's shell to increase in number and in some cases size. Despite the fact he'd actually brewed it perfectly and according to the potion's listed uses should've been effective.
"Argh! I can't believe that flea bag beat us!" Raph yelled, just as angry as Harry though he decided to take his frustrations out on pounding the nearest cushion.
"Calm down guys" said Leo, trying to keep a level head. "We need to focus on what's important finding that centrifuge and curing Mikey." At that moment Donnie came into the living room, rolling in white board with a diagram displayed on it.
"His zits are getting more unstable. If they pop it could cause a chain reaction" he explained, directing their focus to the chart, which displayed in very nauseating detail about what would happen should any of Mikey's zits pop, ending of course with the dreaded explosion.
"What?! So I pop either way!" Mikey cried in horror, as it was made clear either pop a zit and explode early or wait it out and still explode.
"We just have to keep you safe" said Donnie calmly. "It's too dangerous to leave the lair."
"But I never got to visit a wax museum. Or learn pig Latin. Or open a mummy's tomb, where the mummy comes alive, but he's so cool we form a hip-hop group and travel around the world together in a gold UFO….I wanna do that."
"Right" Raph says slowly, trying to process the chaos that is Michelangelo's mind. "Listen Mikey, we're going to get that centrifuge. We'll do whatever it takes to fix you."
"Wow Raph thanks" Mikey says emotionally, he moves to give his brother a hug but ends up falling on the ground as Raph isn't about him as long as he's still covered in zits.
"Alright, Dog Pound and Boxcar where could they be?" Leo asks, focusing the team back on their main objective. "The old city dump?"
"Nah, they turned it into a retirement home" Raph informs, striking out that idea.
"The abandoned nuclear plant?"
"Now it's a nursery school" Donnie replies.
"What about Baxter's old lab?" Mikey suggests.
"Why would Dog Pound capture Dexter and take him to his old lab?" Rap questions, not seeing the logic. Growing desperate about his situation and frustrated about how quickly his idea was dismissed, Mikey decided he'd had enough.
"See! You guys never take me seriously!" But adding to his frustration his brothers go back to discussing possible locations, causing Mikey to decide to head off on his own. Something that Harry alone seemed to notice. Not wanting him to go it alone the boy teleports into the tunnels in front of Mikey.
"So what makes you thinks Dog Pound went to Bixter's old lab?" he asks, wanting to understand his brother's reasoning.
"Well I figure, Dog Pound probably needs him for something and let's be honest Baxter's not good for much outside his lab." Mikey explained, leaving Harry dumbfounded by his sound reasoning.
"Wow Mikey, that makes a lot of sense. Let's check it out." Grabbing his brother's hand Harry teleported them to a rooftop near Stockman's lab.
Mikey's hypothesis proved true as Dog Pound and Stockman walked into his laboratory, repaired from the last battle against Harry and the Turtles, and now equipped with a giant vat of mutagen ooze.
"So a giant tank of mutagen, eh? Planning on making some mutants?" Dog Pound questioned.
"Um, yes. A…a whole army for us to command. Just you and me" Stockman lied, misunderstanding the dog mutant's interest in his plans. "Um not that I'm complaining but why are you keeping me alive?"
"Because Karai wants it this way" Dog Pound growled, leaning into Baxter threateningly. "Believe me, I still owe you bigtime for trapping us in your little "Maze of Doom.""
"So you've beaten me to the punch" said Fish Face, walking into the room. "Why haven't you taken this traitorous lump of flesh to Karai?"
"I will" Dog Pound promised. "After he turns me human again." This shocked the rooms other occupants as neither of them were expecting to hear that.
"What? You can turn us human again?" Fish Face asked, tempted by the idea. Desperate to stay alive Stockman promises that he can figure out how to return the pair to their human forms. But Dog Pound isn't foolish enough to take him at face value and attaches a dog collar, equipped with vials of mutagen to Stockman's neck as insurance. Should he fail or betray them Bradford would push the trigger exposing Stockman to the ooze.
Unbeknownst to the villains Harry and Mikey are hiding in the rafters above waiting for their chance to grab the centrifuge.
"I knew it. I knew Baxter would be here hatching a plan, wearing a dog collar." Mikey whispered, as they watched from their hiding place.
"Really Mikey?" Harry questioned sarcastically. "You knew he'd be wearing a dog collar?"
"Alright not the dog collar part" the orange turtle admits. Spotting their prize on Stockman's desk, Harry signals for Mikey to lower his kusarigama chain. Sadly things didn't go as smoothly as they planned as the chain accidently bumped against Dog Pound's shoulder, who proceeded to use the chain to pull them down to the ground.
"Fools" the dog mutant growled.
"Look we just want that centrifuge" said Harry, wanting to speed things up for Mikey's sake.
"So why don't we just take this little gadget and get out of your fur" Mikey added, approaching the centrifuge only for Dog Pound to slam his giant fist onto the table.
"I'd rather you stayed, and people think I'm ugly" said Dog Pound commenting on Mikey's zit covered appearance.
"Hey, he's still looks better than you, you mangy mutt!" Harry quipped in defense of his brother, and further provoking Dog Pound. Feeling blood thirsty the dog mutant tosses the detonator to Stockman's collar to Fish Face and charges the brothers.
Evading Dog Pound's initial attack Mikey goes for a counter attack only for the dog mutant's giant fist send Mikey flying into the rafters. Coming to his brother's aid Harry lands a solid kick to Bradford's jaw, followed by a powerful jab to the gut.
Angered by this Bradford swings his massive fist at Harry only for the boy to flip over the attack, countering with a smoke bomb in the face. With Dog Pound temporarily blinded Harry attempts to go after the centrifuge to be sideswiped a table thrown by the angry dog man. With the young wizard ninja out of the fight for the moment Dog Pound jumps up into the rafters to deal with a now recovered Mikey.
But this time Mikey isn't caught off guard as avoids Dog Pounds attempt to crush him under his sledgehammer of a fist, countering with a few blows to the jaw with his nunchucks. Growing ever more frustrated Dog Pound pursues his prey, who continues to evade his every attack resulting in his massive fist damaging the beams beneath them. Losing his temper Dog Pound launches into the air in an attempt to bring his fist down on Mikey, who disappears from view at the last second thanks to a now recovered Harry teleporting them to the ground. Unfortunately for Dog Pound the force of his attack proves to be too much as the wooden beam snaps under him, sending him falling into the mutagen tank below.
"Hey Mikey." Harry calls.
"Yeah."
"What do think happens when you mutate a mutant?" The answer to Harry's question soon reveals himself as Bradford leaps out of the mutagen in his new "super" mutant form. "Oh, that."
The second dose of mutagen had done major changes to Bradford's body. Now appearing similar to a skeletal 'werewolf' that has slightly darker fur with more of a silver tone, a longer snout with larger teeth, and his hands appear to be made entirely out of bone.
Harry hated to admit it but this new form was actually intimidating. Scratching his claws alongside the mutagen tank's base the new super mutant approached the brothers, who were left stunned by this new development. With lighting fast movement the super mutant grabbed hold of Harry and Michelangelo, trapping them in his powerful grip.
"I can feel the mutagen coursing through me. I'm faster. Stronger. More powerful than ever. I feel like a ninja again."
"Plus you don't have zits which is a bonus" Mikey commented, his tone making it clear he found it unfair that his second exposure to mutagen wasn't as beneficial as Bradford's.
"To thank you for this, I'll make your ends swift." And Bradford nearly succeeded as he threw the boys with tremendous force towards the nearest wall. If it wasn't for Mikey slowing them down by using his kusarigama to attach a line to the rafters overhead the brothers would've ended up splattered all over the wall. Frustrated by his enemies continued existence Bradford let out a vicious roar but Harry and Mikey had now regained their cool.
"Bring it on you razor faced dog!" Harry taunts.
"Don't ever call me dog!" the super mutant growls.
"Whatever you say, Rahzar!" said Mikey adding his own taunts, and giving Bradford his new mutant name. Tired of being on the defensive Harry decides to launch the start of their counter attack, using his speed clones to surround Rahzar. But the mutagen has boosted all of Rahzar's senses allowing him to sniff out the real Harry hidden among the illusions and his newly enhanced speed makes it a simple matter to catch him in between jumps.
Seeing his kid brother was about to torn to shreds by Rahzar's claws, forgetting the risk of exploding Mikey tackles Harry out the way but before the claws can tear into him, Raph's sai suddenly comes flying out of nowhere deflecting the attack.
"Get away from my brothers!" Taking advantage of Rahzar's distracted state, Raph lands a powerful flying kick to the jaw knocking the dangerous mutant back and giving the boys some breathing room for the moment.
"Oh hey guys" Mikey greets, though grateful for the help a little of his earlier frustration slipped into his tone.
"You're lucky we noticed you were gone in time Mikey!" Leo nags.
"And even luckier I knew you'd come here! And Harry what are you doing helping him? What were you thinking?" Raph demands.
"So we're just going to ignore the fact Mikey was right" Harry deadpans. "Raph lookout!" but the warning came too late as the red turtle is sideswiped by a flying kick from Fish Face. This of course leaves the others dealing with Rahzar, who charges the remaining brothers swiping his claws, but the boys manage to dodge the attack giving Donnie and Leo their first clear look at the new Bradford.
"So what happened to Dog Pound?" Donnie asks, stunned by the dog mutant's new appearance.
"He got double mutated. Now I call him Rahzar" Mikey informs. Taking a crack at the super mutant Leo comes down on Rahzar with a sword attack, but his enemy's heightened sense picked up on his approach and easily sidesteps the turtle's attack. Grabbing Leonardo by the head, Rahzar slashes his claws across the turtle's chest sending him flying into a wall.
Donnie's attempt to take on Rahzar ends just as poorly, as the super mutant easily grabs the genius terrapin by the face before he could even swing his staff. But before the dog mutant can finish the purple turtle, Harry comes to Donatello's aid coming in with his flaming fists. Unfortunately for the young ninja, the super mutant is able to evade his every attack. Growing tire of the boy's magical attack Rahzar uses the captured Donatello like a bat and uses him to smack Harry away like baseball sending them both flying across the room.
"Donnie! Harry!" Mikey cries in concern for his brothers. Things only get worse as he notices the centrifuge lying by Rahzar's feet. In a desperate move Mikey charges the super mutant, just barely managing to avoid a swipe of his claws as he maneuvers through the dog mutant's legs, retrieving the precious machine. But at the same time makes himself the focus of Rahzar's attention.
Of course things go from bad to worse when Fish Face forces Stockman to release his Mouser robots to attack Leo, Harry, and Donnie. Plus with Raph busy with Fish Face Mikey was left alone with Rahzar and if he didn't have enough to worry about his zits were getting close to popping. The fact he was currently running for his life as Rahzar chased after him, swinging his claws probably didn't help either.
Finally Mikey found himself with his back against the wall, and it looked like he wasn't going to make it. As he began to despair he noticed the central power line for the lab, and idea was formed.
"Here boy, good dog!" Mikey taunted, tricking Rahzar into pouncing at him. Just before the dog mutant's claws could reach him, the orange turtle leapt out of the way, leaving Bradford's attack to pierce the power line and getting a few thousand volts.
"Everyone get to high ground!" Donnie ordered, having an idea of his own. Once the brothers were safe in the rafters Donnie used his staff to break open one of the fire sprinklers, releasing the water onto their enemies down below, and with the power line cut Rahzar, Stockman, and Fish Face end up learning what a bug zapper feels like.
"Dude I'm about to pop, and I think we just destroyed the centrifudge" Mikey cries in despair, having dropped the tool during the fight.
"Don't be so sure" Raph smiles, revealing he had managed to rescue the piece of equipment. With the centrifuge in hand Harry teleports the brothers back to the lair.
Waking to the feeling of something tapping against his collar Stockman awakes to the sight of Karai standing over him, her blade poised to pierce his throat.
"Rise and shine Stockman" the kunoichi smirks. "You're working for me now. Well me and the Shredder."
With the antidote complete the family gathers in Donnie's lab where he finishes dripping the solution onto some acne pads. Something that he admits the reasoning behind was simply because he thought it was funny.
"I must commend you on your resolve Michelangelo" Splinter praised. "You thought you needed to improve yourself but you had everything you needed in here" he finishes poking the youngest turtle over his heart for emphasis.
"See guys who was right about Baxter's lair. That's right me." Mikey taunts his brothers, causing Splinter and Hedwig to shake their heads in amusement.
"You had no clue" Leo denies good naturedly.
"Actually Leo, Mikey had some really sound reasoning" Harry admits. We really do sometimes underestimate you Mikey.
"I only hope things won't be so hectic once Harry starts getting pimples" said Hedwig.
"Please I'll be totally chill."
"Oh so you aren't bothered by the zit forming on your forehead" said Splinter, causing his youngest son to check a mirror.
"No! I'm going to explode!" Harry cries desperately.
"Hang on Harry!" Mikey cries, grabbing a few more acne pads off Donnie's desk the pair begin to vigorously rub the pads over Harry's face, much to their family's amusement.
"So when do we tell them that normal pimples aren't explosive?" Donnie whispers.
"Hmm, when I stop finding this funny" Splinter chuckles. That'll teach him not to listen when I try to teach him about puberty.
AN: Thankfully it didn't take as long as I feared it would to get my laptop back. Anyway I decided to try something different for when I have main characters spread apart in different locations for this chapter. I'd appreciate it if you let me know if you think I should go back to the way I wrote before or if it's easier to follow the story this way.
As always thanks for reading. Please leave a comment/review I do read them.