Ch3 Vaudevillian Catastrophe
I just thought that TNT by AC/DC would be a good song for Mikey to sing. It could've been Raph, but Mikey seems more like the eager type to show off. If any of you are thinking I must've been on crack to make Mikey sing this or any reason why he shouldn't be the one to sing this...well its here already. SO EAT IT!
Any suggestions for this story would be appreciated.
Somewhere down in the depths of New York, underneath the busy streets, the honking cars, and pedestrians, through the twisting maze of the sewer systems, there lay and empty abandoned subway. The old station had expensive colorful paintings hung on its creamy tile walls. Various sculptures occupied the corners, and fancy swords and other bladed weaponry were placed on one side of the room, and other elegant items like music boxes and jewelry were displayed on shelves, making this place somewhat neat and sparkly despite it being rendered dingy and useless.
A chandelier hung above the living room giving the place a heavenly glow. There was a fancy sofa in the middle next to a sleek black piano, on the sofa laid a snow-white mutant rat with blazing bi-colored eyes watching t.v. Yumiko the self proclaimed Lady Thief, lazily flipped through the channels in complete boredom.
"Cynthia, I want to be with you!" Raoul said.
"Boring! I've seen that one a hundred times already!" she bellowed. She switched to another.
"Why are you so afraid to love me?" A man with dark hair said to a woman.
She changed to another channel huffing madly, her face was red all over. "NEXT!"
"Welcome to the Ultimate Boxing Channel, two female champions, Artemis Dane and Margaret Shelly are about to duke it out in the ring."
"Finally some action!"
"All for the love of a man!"
"Useless!"
She slapped a pillow to her face and groaned, "Is there anything that is not about love!" she switched to another channel, and thankfully it was a documentary about mimes.
"Mimes have long disturbed people with their silent acting, most of them were favored by kings and theaters," A few mimes were presented on stage acting out what appeared to be a wizard casting a spell on a girl.
"And some were not." A mime on screen was shown being locked out of the gates shivering from the freezing snowy weather. The mime had short black hair and big brown eyes clouded with sorrow and loneliness of life, her white-make up looked crude and smudged as if it was just smeared on, covering most of what appeared to be bruises on her.
"My gosh!" Yumiko said aloud, that looked just like her Mimi! A few more scenes flicked on showing the black and white figures grabbing invisible ropes or making invisible walls. The one that looked like Mimi jumped up on the air and landed in the arms of a ninja turtle.
Yumiko blinked and shook her head, did a turtle just appear on screen with a mime?
Squinting, she knew she had to be seeing things. Focusing more, she saw the ordinary mimes climbing up an invisible ladder and gave out a sigh of releif. She was seeing things; it had to be the tea she made.
Watching more closely at the climbing mimes, everything was indeed normal. Except that the ones in mime outfits were ninja turtles!
Her jaw dropped, three more ninja turtles came into view wearing the same sweaters. They took it off and waved it around their heads party style. Yumiko rubbed her eyes and slapped herself. What in the world were turtles doing in a mime documentary!
"As you can see here," the narrator continued, "the ninja turtles are our heroes in a half shell that protect us from the evil that goes bump in the night." Yumiko did not restrain herself from going into shock.
Leo came into sight and kicked a foot ninja into a garbage truck, "There's Leonardo."
Mikey struck a ninja with his nunchakus, "Michelangelo!"
Don steered the wheel of the van, "Donatello!"
Raph stood above a building looking below at the city, his bandanna billowing in his face, "Raphael!"
That was it, she knew she was going crazy. Just when she thought things were going out of whack in this t.v. show Splinter came out of nowhere wearing a striped red and white long sleeve with a black hat, giving him a French visage.
"While the turtles kick bad guy butt, Master Splinter who has taught them everything they knew about ninjutsu, pursues a young lady rat who he successfully marries."
A pretty tan rat went to his side and took hold of his arm giggling in a girlish way, Splinter beamed with delight and jumped up aboard a cruise ship kissing his newfound love, the ninja turtles waved good-bye at the love birds from a dock
"WHAT!" her face turned hot red and clenched her fists.
"Let's not forget the turtles, for they too have found girlfriends!" A crowd cheered as four female turtle mutants surrounded the heroes and whisked them away.
"Wait, what about the little mime?" Yumiko asked worriedly almost panicking. The narrator answered, "Oh her?"
The scene shifted to a little Mimi le Mime, her mime clothes were dirty and tattered, her hair was disheveled around her face, and she looked so thin as if she was malnourished so badly, her frail body shook as she now stood outside in the snowy streets, everyone passed by with a blind eye to a misfortunate.
"Mimi was forgotten as she was made to live in the cold, abandoned by her friends who have gone off and married." A passing car ran over a puddle splashing the girl wet to the bone, a tear rolled down her face and sobbed.
She shook her head in disbelief; her friends couldn't have left her, could they? Donatello relaxed on a beach with his girl, "Hey where's that kid you were talking about? What's her name again, Mi..mi.. Misa?" she asked.
"What kid?" he replied listlessly before making a toast.
At last, the camera moved back to the mime, but she was no longer there, instead there was a grave with the name Mimi on it, and Splinter passed by with his wife unaware of the burial.
Yumiko couldn't take it anymore, something inside her finally snapped, she clutched her head and shrieked to the heavens like it was the end of the universe, and indeed it trembled to the sound of her cry, screaming how the show had lost all sense of reality, in truth, it was her who was losing it.
"It's my fault that Mimi was abandoned by them!" she yelled hysterically, if not, insanely was more like it. "If only I was there to take her back when I had the chance, then she wouldn't have to suffer this cruel fate, and Splinter wouldn't have to marry that ratty skank and have me instead!" she immediately caught what she said and gasped.
"I… I have to get Mimi!" she grabbed a coat and ran to the sewers. Why did I say that? She thought to herself as she ran. My gosh, was this the start of insanity?
The cabaret was filled with many fancy dressed customers, lights lit up the stage with red and black curtains. A bar was set at the side with a lone male bar tender wiping the glasses.
A woman on stage sung her number and after she had finished with a groovy end, the crowd jumped up and applauded wildly. Mimi peeked from behind the curtain, a number of ten performers were lined up in front of her looking a lot more professional than she was.
"Thanks for sneaking us back stage." Leo whispered behind her, the girl nodded and pointed over at Splinter, he was still quiet as ever and his expression still grim.
"Mimi! Can I act? Can I? Can I?" Mikey enthusiastically asked jumping up and down like a kid in a candy store.
She shrugged at him, as long as he can do something that entertains.
"Move it already!" Raph yelled at some mime making a wall in his face. The mime took a step back knowing this was not the type of person to rub the wrong way.
Several other mimes surrounded Donatello who stood rigid and shaking with intense fright. "I…I…hate…mimes!" he said in clenched teeth. He has always hated mimes, it took some time for him to get used to Mimi when she first came into their home, but she was easy because she was adorable and friendly, these were just creepy!
They mimed their way around him and some mimicking his solid form, all they wanted was to have fun with him. But Don wanted was to get the hell out, they would not give him personal space, six inches wasn't, try six feet!
Roca crawled over to Splinter's shoulder, You should try to have fun and enjoy, don't mope around. Remember what you taught us? Misery never solves a problem when one is too attached to it.
He said in his strange turtle language that he understood. A bit of the rat's sensibility sprang back, Roca was right somehow. How can he be the sensei the boys admired if he can't bring himself stop languishing?
Three turns later Mimi was up, Leo cheered from the side quietly as she got on the center of the stage. Raphael crossed his arms eyed her, this was the first time she was actually on stage.
The spotlight shined down on the kid, the blazing light made her stand out more than she wanted to. She stared out across the audience as the many eyes that gawked at her childish presence. The burning gaze that they gave was enough to hit her through her heart, her chest tightened with pressure. Slowly she lifted her arms to mime, but something was wrong. She had frozen in place. She tried again to mobilize her limbs, but they just didn't seem to respond.
Move! Move you dumb arms!
The limbs hardened even more as she commanded their movement, her fingers tremulously tried to function properly. All the eyes just kept staring, all of them expecting her to do something well. A lump in her throat formed as her heart started to beat fast, and the whole room started to spin. Fatigue overcame her body and mustered every thing she could not to faint.
The people started to mumble, all waiting for something to happen, but the clock ticked away by thirty seconds, and they were getting impatient.
"C'mon already!"
"Move kid! If you're gonna do something do it already, we've got other things to watch!"
A sweat dropped down her face, her knees started to knock together. She'd had this thing before, Yumiko called it stage fright. She heard Raphael whisper over to Leo, she knew that he knew that she was gonna chicken out like many times before she got onstage, and that she had always been a coward. Mikey and Don desperately tried to encourage her.
"Mimi!" Splinter whispered from across the side, she looked over at him and saw him sign, Have courage! You can do it!
Although she was so much in panic it was hard for her to believe. Then something happened. A pretty pink rose fell upon the stage at her feet, someone had thrown it, and a red ribbon was tied to the stem, her master used to have those kinds of pink roses. That's when it hit her, she looked above and smiled.
She squared her shoulders and positioned herself to mime all she can mime, and went to work. She played imaginary tug-o-war, climbed ropes, walked down the stairs. The people oohed and ahhed at her talent, the way she did it looked realistic. She dished out every mime trick in her hat and added a few tricks of her own, she pretended to do a boxing match as both contenders, sword fight an imaginary enemy, and a castle invasion.
To add to all of it, she was doing katas. The turtles looked on with amazement; this was like a tribute to them! Splinter smiled as she did Mikey and Raph's kata, all with grace and a style of her own. Raphael felt his mouth twitch upward, he felt sorta…happy.
Mimi took out a baton and did Donatello's kata with her own moves.
Some of the onlookers could not help but think that the mime must be doing martial arts poses, either way it's good. Splinter was the happiest as he watched the girl mimic his teachings and putting it on stage.
She then finished the series of katas with a dramatic poise of a ballerina. The crowd was lifted to its feet clapping with adoration. Mimi bowed and bowed as roses were thrown to her feet, tears came to her eyes. They loved her! They really loved her!
Her accolades came most from Splinter, who was more than ever now livelier than before. The katas that she did were stupendous and it excited him to see his moves being portrayed.
"YAAAAY MIMI!" Mikey picked up the girl and spun her around beaming with pride. "Mimi you're the mimiest mime I've ever known!" he said and gave her a noogie.
"Not bad kid, you didn't chicken out this time." Raph commented, she stuck out her tongue. Told ya!
Leo nodded, "that was brave of you." The girl blushed as Donatello took her from Mikey.
"Remind me to watch you again."
Mimi handed the pink rose to Splinter, and he took it grinning, "Thank you Mimi, I owe you for helping me out."
He gazed at the flower awkwardly, this rose was pink and not red like the ones on stage. He noticed the red ribbon and smelled the scent that wafted around it, he cringed. He knew that scent anywhere. His head whipped from side to side, she was here somewhere.
"Next up, Michelangelo the…turtle?" the man announced uncertainly as Mikey walked on the stage with his peculiar presence. "Hi" he said.
"Uh… what's with the turtle outfit?"
"Oh this? This is for my act!" he bragged showing off his reptilian self.
"Peep! Peep pi pi pi!" Roca peeped from the side, Go! Let em have it!
Mimi waved, Good luck Mikey!
The mike was thrust to his hand to start his song, "Okay everybody this song is called TNT by AC/DC."
A man let out a scream and hollered from the back, he was clearly an AC/DC fan.
"What!" Raph yelled out, that was his song! Why would Mikey want to sing that? Guess he couldn't get it out of his head once he had played it five times in a row.
"Hit it!" Mikey yelled and the spotlight shifted speedily to him.
The heavy beat of the drums started, the electric guitar stripped the atmosphere of any classical music and all there was, was the sound of heavy rock n roll.
Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi
See me ride out of the sunset
On your color t.v. screen
Out for all that I can get
If you know what I mean
Women to the left of me
And women to the right
Ain't got no gun
Ain't got no knife
But don't you start a fight!
Plenty of men cheered with the thrill in their blood jumping up and down howling like animals. Many of the guys were old time rock n roll fans and were tired of the cheesy classic stuff they were getting in the club. Its high time things changed a bit, all of them roared loudly while their wives covered their ears shaking their heads. A woman whispered to another displeasingly.
Cause I'm T.N.T I'm dynamite!
T.N.T and I'll win the fight
T.N.T I'm a power load!
T.N.T Watch me explode!
Raph had to scream out loud with his brothers, he was really good! Donatello couldn't believe of all the talents Mikey possessed, he thought singing wasn't one of them, as for Leo and Master Splinter, they tried not to grimace through the blaring music.
I'm dirty, mean mighty unclean
I'm a wanted man
Public enemy number one
Understand
So lock up your daughter
Lock up your wife
Lock up your back door
And run for your life
The man is back in town
Don't mess me 'round
Cause I'm T.N.T I'm dynamite
T.N.T and I'll win the fight
T.N.T I'm a power load
T.N.T Watch me explode!
Before he could continue the song any longer, the music was cut off abruptly, and the men stopped cheering wondering what was going on.
Mikey looked around and saw a woman holding a cord from the music projector, and her face was twisted in disgust at him.
"Such vulgar music, from vulgar trash." She hissed.
"What!" Mikey growled.
All the men booed in unison chanting, "We want rock! We want rock!" but they were unfortunately silenced by their domineering housewives.
"We cannot have such ugly music in this club, we only have classic jazz and nothing of such distasteful genre. No, not genre—it's noise! And talk about your costume! Ugh! How dare you wear such a grotesque thing, who in the right mind would wear that?" she pointed at his turtle exterior.
"HEY!" the boys yelled out from the side of the stage offended. Mimi felt hot red anger rising to her head, how that woman dare insult her friend!
"C'mon lady we were just having fun!" Mikey protested, "As for my costume, its individuality!"
"Get out, we don't allow your kind!"
The men booed at her, "What gives you the right! We like him!" a guy said, they all yelled in agreement.
"I'm the manager's wife and what I say goes!"
Unable to take anymore of this, Mimi marched over to her and signed furiously at the manager's face.
Her hands rapidly went all over the place and to the point where it annoyed her, "If you don't like the rules, leave! I can't have such brainless jests like you wash up in my cabaret, thinking they can score an audience. Mimes have no real sense of art."
*WA-BAM!*
Those were her last words before she was tackled to the ground by Mimi, she grabbed a fistful of her hair trying to tear a chunk off and scratching her face.
"Get this animal off me!" the woman screamed.
"Mimi no!" Mikey pulled the raging mime off who was swinging her arms wildly.
Lemme at her! Lemme at her! I'll kill that stupid no good son of a-
"No Mimi let's go!" Mikey tugged her by the arm but she refused to leave. That damn lady! Hit her Mikey hit her!
Leo rushed over to control her from any more wild acts, "Stop this Mimi!" he took her by the waist and lifted her away.
"That's it! I'm calling the cops!" the lady threatened, but as she headed to the nearest phone the lights gave out and there was only darkness. The bewildered people gasped and a ripple of commotion passed through them.
"I can't see!" Leo said fumbling his way around, a moment later the lights came back on and the lady was gone.
"Where'd she go?" Mikey asked looking left to right for her presence. They decided to head off now that the people were beginning to fuss about the mime's assault. Better not let the authorities find out. The boys sneaked in the back entrance as normally as they entered before, hoping that Mimi's attack would not forbid any more mimes or people donning turtle suits to ever walk into the premises again, or at least give them a bad reputation.
Splinter looked back at the entrance of the cabaret, his nose and whiskers twitched with intuition, he grunted before going, the scent of sake lightly laced the air. He knew for certain, that Yumiko had been inside.
Yumiko dusted her hands after finishing tying up the manager's wife. She was out cold and placed in the very back of the stage, her mouth had been gagged and her whole body was wrapped in thick rope.
"Sorry miss, I can't let you call the authorities on my Mimi, she's not meant to be any trouble with the law. Don't worry, someone will find you here by tomorrow morning."
She gave a swish of her tail and trotted off like the proud lady rat she was. Peering out the window, she saw the gang head down the sewer. This time, she will take her back, no matter what.
I have no idea why i chose Mimi to do katas, i just thought it would be cool.