Hey everyone! Sorry I've been on spring break and trying to just rest from classes. yuck! But in case you havent seen it yet, check out my new one shot story called the future that never was! It is about Don's time in the SAINW episodes and it includes MAY! :) check it out!
But on with the story! Enjoy!
-yesiamweird
"…wish we could have said good-bye before he took off."
"Me too…"
May could hear Mikey and Donny conversing above her head and wanting the two turtles to realize that she was awaking below them she moaned softly.
"May?" Mikey patted her right arm. "You awake?"
She opened her eyelids and smiled at the concerned look in the orange bandana turtle's green face. "Mikey…I'm fine." She smiled and closed her eyes trying to lift her chest up.
"Stay down; your stitches might pop if you move too much." Donny rubbed her left arm in the hopes that she would be compliant to his wishes.
"What?" She had opened her eyes again and then looked to the annoying pain on the left side of her chest. "Leo…" she muttered resting her head against the pillow looking at the two turtles looking down at her.
Mikey nodded. "Yea, rest May. I didn't think you'd make it…but thank god we've got Donny here. He practically saved your life!"
May looked to her left at Donny and smiled, "Thanks brainiac." She moaned again as pain shot through her chest.
"Hey guys is May- May! You're awake!" She heard Raph yell and then saw his face look down at her concerned and yet smiling.
"Hi Raphie!" She smiled and then winced at the pain. "What the hell is going on with this cut!" She looked to Don hoping he would have an explanation.
"Leo luckily didn't cut through your bones, but he scratched them somewhat. You're gonna have to wear a big bandage for a while, sorry… If you want, April might be able to take you to the hospital-"
"No. I trust you Donny." The blonde placed a finger on her injury feeling the thick stitches that held her skin together underneath her heavily wrapped chest. "Where's Leo?" She asked pushing herself up to sit on the operating table in Don's lab.
Mikey and Don looked down at their feet while Raph just continued to glare. "No…What did he do?" May gasped thinking of some of the worse things Leo might have done while she was out.
"He is going on a journey," Splinter's cane echoed through the small room. "to visit the Ancient One in Japan."
"W-What?" May gasped once again and closed her eyes taking a deep breath as her chest flared up from her shock.
"Yes, Leonardo has already left. I do not know how long he will be on his journey…but for the safety of himself he needs to train under the Ancient One."
May looked up at the rat and examined his bandage over his left eye. She could see dried blood around his wound and instantly she felt guilty for some unknown reason. "I understand, Master Splinter…" May bowed her head and then raised it, "But what happens if he never comes back?"
Splinter sighed holding onto his old walking stick carefully. "I believe that he will return to us, Miss Gibson but I cannot say if he will be captured or worse…" He closed his eyes, May guessed to hold back a tear and without another word or the opening of his eyes, Splinter walked out of the room.
"Well this sucks…" May muttered crossing her arms carefully as to not hurt her injury.
"Yea…tell me 'bout it." Mikey sat on her left side letting his head hang low. "I miss him already…angry and everything."
May nodded and looked to the scientist, "Hey Don gimmie a hand, I need to pee." She held her right hand out and he helped her out of the bed.
"I got 'er." Raph took her right hand out from Don and pulled it around his shoulders helping the girl onto her feet and walking out the room.
"Thanks Raph." May rested her head on his shoulder causing him to tense up for a second and then relax continuing to help walk her to the restroom. He removed his hand from her hip and opened the door allowing her inside.
"I'll be right here if ya need me." He nodded and she gave a quick nod back and then shut the wood door behind her.
May stood there for a second and then looked to her left in her reflection from the mirror. She had one of her sleeping tank tops on while a bulky and messily white and red stained bandage wrapped around her chest and shoulder to put pressure on her wound. She could only imagine how it would look if she took off the wrapping, but shook her head at the thought and pressed onto the toilet.
Removing her training leggings she had been wearing earlier, she sat down and released herself taking in the situation placed in front of her. Leonardo was gone. Their fearless leader…would no longer be able to lead them until he returned, that is, if he returned…
She cleaned herself up and then slowly shuffled her feet back to the mirror and the counter looking hard into her sky blue eyes. 'What are you going to do May Gibson? Leo's gone…Now it's just you, Raph, Mikey and Don…for who knows how long…'
She didn't know where they came from but streams of salty tears rolled from out of her eyes and onto her cheeks rolling off onto the marble counter top. She didn't stop…the returning feeling of being smaller than a speck of dust on a piece of furniture. The hopelessness returned and threatened to kill her once more.
May escaped into her tears, allowing her body to sink into the floor resting her back against the cabinet as she curled into a ball. Not wanting anyone to see how weak she had become, not that anyone was in the bathroom with her; she hid her face in the palms of her hands and softly sobbed into them.
'Please Leo…I forgive you…just promise me you will return to us safely and soon…I miss you already…'
May hadn't a clue at how long she had been crying for, but she imagined it had to be a while since she heard Raph open the door slowly asking if everything was alright.
"May?" He whispered shutting the door. She could hear his footsteps closing in on her and then felt him crouching next to the girl pulling her carefully into his strong arms. "What are you doin'?"
The girl honestly didn't know why she had been crying…but she was. Wanting comfort, she pushed aside the shooting pain in her chest and hugged the hot-headed turtle tightly. "I'm not sure…" she whispered sobbing still.
She heard Raph sigh and then felt his cool hands rub her back and arm. "Ya gave me a freakin' heart attack. I thought you might have fallen over from the toilet or maybe got sucked down it or something." He muttered continuing to rub her gently.
May chuckled, "Sucked down the toilet, Raph?"
"Hey you never know. 'Specially with you…"
She smiled and looked up at the red bandana turtle. "Yea…Raph…why did he have to leave?" She whispered almost so softly he couldn't hear. But he had and shook his head. "I really don't know. Splinter told him ta go so you know he always follows his every order."
May nodded with eyes closed and buried her head in the soft skin between his plastron and shell and sobbing once more.
"May…" Raph huskily whispered raising a hand to her face and rubbed her cheek with his thumb. "Don't cry…" His other two fingers were lost in the tangles of her blonde hair. "Please?" he begged. "I tried…to stop him…"
Taking a breather, May felt a lone tear roll down her cheek and watched as it fell onto his emerald green skin, "W-W-Wha?"
He nodded, "I did. I ran after him as he tried to leave last night after Splinter told him to go. I tired…I tried to tell him we couldn't do it without him…but Leo was dead-set about leaving…he told me…he told me…"
"T-Told you what?" She raised her head to look into his masked eyes.
"I-I-I was the leader… I was to take his place while he was gone. Leading the team…and looking after you…" May felt as Raph clutch her cheek a bit forcefully and closed his eyes obviously scared by his brother's words. "I can't be the leader…that's Leo's job…not mine…" his voice trembled as he whispered his inner thoughts to the girl.
Not wanting to hear another word, May threw herself onto the turtle pulling him into a tight embrace. "You have to Raph…your brother's need you…" She whispered in his ear slit.
'I need you…'
Three weeks had passed since Leo had left for Japan. He hadn't called anyone. He hadn't contacted them. It seemed like he was gone forever…and never coming back…
May had walked back from school through the sewers with her head hanging low as it had been the past three weeks. Anna had figured and declared that Leo had broken up with her and after May constantly reminded her that he hadn't, May gave in and let Anna's story become true.
Leo had broken her heart. Figuratively and almost literally. The cut he had given to her was right above her heart and if it wasn't for her ribs and her ninja developed muscle, he would have sliced her heart in half.
"Hey May!" Mikey greeted her from the TV area. "How was school?"
May casually looked over at the turtle with her eyes while her head still remained looking down towards the floor. "You know…the usual." She muttered and threw her bag to the side of the kitchen table.
"You look down!" Mikey paused his game and ran over to the girl as she slumped into one of the kitchen chairs. "But I have a little surprise for you! Master Splinter agreed that we can go topside for a midnight run tonight! Isn't that great!" he smiled.
May nodded emotionlessly. "Yea that is."
From out of nowhere, a speeding sai flew over May's head and into the brick wall behind her. "I am so sick of your miserable attitude, missy!" Raph jumped down from the second story and slammed his balled fists down on the kitchen table.
"Raph!" Mikey growled, "What the shell? Can't you see May's still upset about everything?" the younger of the turtles defended the blonde.
"So am I! But I ain't lettin' it hold me back and making me into a miserable and suicidal state of mind!" he fumed at his brother and then looked back at the blonde. "Get ova it!"
May shook her head and stood to her feet and calmly walked in front of the pissed off turtle. "I'm sorry Raph…I'll try to be happier." She apologized looking down at her feet.
"NO!" Raph fumed and clutched the girl's arms raising her in the air to his eye level, "This is what I'm talking about! The real May would be up in my face fighting back!" he threw her to the floor not caring as she tumbled back losing her footing.
"Raph!" Mikey ran over to help May and then snarled back at his brother.
"Raphael!" Splinter's voice of reason calmed the heated situation. "What is the matter? I have granted you with a midnight training run and you are jeopardizing it?"
"No Master Splinter! It's May! She ain't right!" He pointed a finger as the girl stood to her feet calmly brushing off the dirt.
Splinter tilted his head realizing his sons meaning behind the outrage. "Miss Gibson, please. Would you join me in my room for a cup of tea?" He smiled offering his hand to the girl. She nodded and followed the rat into his safe-haven.
"Bro, serisouly? What the shell is your problem?" Mikey asked his brother in a very impolite manner.
"You know something is wrong with her Mikey! Don't deny it!" Raph shouted back.
Don walked over to the situation watching from his lab, "May's been hurt physically and emotionally from Leo leaving…you can imagine how depressed she is…"
Raph crossed his arms. "He's our brother, Donny! We've known him longer! If anything, we should be the ones depressed! Not May!"
"Raph, don't you understand! May loved Leo and after he hurt and left us like this…she's questioning everything." Don sighed, "Don't you see the way she second guesses everything in training? Leo was her voice of reason. The voice that told her she could do anything she put her mind too."
Mikey nodded, "We need to remind her of that…"
"Raph, I followed you after you chased Leo down the sewer." Don eyed his brother carefully resting his arms on his hips. "He told you to watch over her…this is what he meant! Don't you see! You need to be supportive of her."
Raph sighed shaking his head not knowing whether to be mad at Donny for following him, or grateful that he reminded him of Leo's statement. Closing his eyes and thinking pass the anger boiling in his head he sighed, "Yea I guess you right, Einstein…"
Don smirked and then walked off back to his lab while Mikey patted his brother's shoulder. "You got this Raphie!"
Raph quickly whapped his brother on the top of his head. "Call me that again and I'll shove my punching bad up your ass!"
"I'd say that's a new record on the Upper East Side run!" Don smiled looking at his timer as he and his fellow ninja's took a breather gasping for air after their run. "Great job guys!" He smiled recording the time in his shell cell.
May sat on the ground of the roof panting, greedily taking in as much oxygen as her lungs would allow her. It felt good to be free on the rooftops running all of her emotions out. Actually, she lived even craved sometimes for these types of runs.
"Good job guys!" Raph punched one of his fists into the palm of his hand. "May you really did good." He said almost as if he had been scripted to say it.
"Thanks…I guess…" She huffed and then stood shakily to her feet looking out into the city. "It feels good to be running free…" She whispered not realizing Raph and walked next to her nodding at her statement.
"No! Someone! Help me!" A woman's voice screamed in the alley below.
"Shut up!" Yelled another voice, a deeper voice…a man's voice.
May ran to the edge and crouched down looking as the street thug cornered a small strawberry blonde haired girl into a corner. "NO!" May gasped and without another warning swung her Kusari from her hip onto the fire escape on the next building and lowering herself in front of the man.
"What's a grown man doing picking on a young lady?" May snarled crossing her arms glaring evilly at the man. No way was Anna, another one of her friends, going to be harmed. "Why don't you pick on someone your own size?" She smiled and then kicked him across the face without another warning.
"M-May? Is that you!" Anna gasped rising to her feet behind the blonde.
"Hold on, Anna!" May commanded to her friend as the thug ran back at her. She used her scythe blade to block the thug's common knife out of his hands and to the floor. "Say goodnight!" May smirked and then used the blunt end of the blade to knock him out across his head.
"MAY!" Anna gasped. "W-W-WHA?"
May looked behind her at her shaking friend. "It's okay Anna." She smiled warmly. "You're safe." She threw her Kusari to the ground and ran to hug her female friend. "Please don't be frightened by me. I've been trained in the art of ninjustu and I was out on a training run with my friends." She explained.
Anna continued to shake and then raised a finger pass the blonde. "N-No…it's not you I'm scared of…it's…it's…turtles!" She shrieked.
May rolled her eyes and looked behind her at Mikey and Don in the middle of the alley while Raph threw the simpleton street thug into a silver trashcan. "Three giant…turtles behind you!" Anna clutched onto May's tender shoulder.
She winced for a second and then smiled. "Don't worry 'bout them!" She giggled, "Those are my friends."
Anna shook her head even more terrified. "What?" She shrieked again.
"Oh no! Are you alright?" Don walked alongside of May looking at the girl backing up against the wall. "You're bleeding on your arm."
"It-it talks!"
May giggled and then looked to her turtle friend. "This is Donatello, Anna. He is our doctor of the group and he can take real good care of ya if you want him to look at your cut."
"May…turtles…ninjas?...wha?" Anna shook and then her eyes rolled in the back of her head as she slumped forwards.
Don reacted faster and caught the girl. "I don't think we should take her to the lair."
May agreed. "Just bring her to the roof until we can get her to wake up." She smiled.
Anna slowly opened her eyes and smiled at her blonde friend. "Oh May! I had the craziest dream. You were there, and I was being attacked and there were these giant turtles and I-" Anna smiled and then looked around on the rooftops and squealed spotting the three turtles on the side of May.
"Anna! Calm down. I'm about to tell you something that you have to promise you will not say to another soul." She held out her pinky finger to the strawberry-blonde haired girl. "Promise?"
Anna whimpered and then nodded her head and grasped May's pinky with her own.
Taking in a deep sigh May pointed to the turtles, "These are my friends. They won't hurt a soul unless they have too." She explained. "They are mutant teenaged turtles, the same age as you and me, and they have been trained since they were mutated to be ninjas. Do you accept this?"
Anna blinked a few times and then held her arm in front of her chest and quickly pinched her skin. "I guess…I'm not dreaming am I?"
May giggled and patted her friends shoulder. "No Anna, you're not. Don't worry they are a blast of fun." She looked over as Mikey slowly crouched next to the two humans.
"Hi." He smiled warmly, "Name's Michelangelo, but you can call me Mikey!"
Anna blinked a few more times and then closed her eyes returning his smile. "I'm Anna!" she opened her eyes and then looked back at May. "Why haven't you told me about this a long time ago? How long have you known them? Are there more like them?"
"Well, for starters, is there any particular order you want those answers in?" May stood to her feet and held her hand out to help Anna stand to her feet.
"Not really…"
"Okay, I've known them since I moved to NYC. Actually, they saved me from being attacked by the Purple Dragons. But they know Aunt April and do you remember Casey?"
Anna nodded.
May pointed to the red bandana turtle, "That's Raphael's friend. April's dating him because of them. But I didn't want to tell you about them because let's face it, would you have believed me?"
Anna shook her head.
"I didn't think so. We get mixed up in a lot of trouble, so I didn't want you or the others to get involved either." May crossed her arms, "And you've already met one of them already. Remember?"
Anna shook her head confused at first and then gasped, "Leo! He wasn't in a costume! Oh my goodness!" She looked to Donny and waved, "Good to see you, Leo! I like your headband!"
May and Mikey giggled while Donny blushed, "Actually, my name's Donatello. Leo is…well Leo…"
"Leo's on a little vacation right now." Raph grunted.
"Oh. So there are more of you then?" Anna looked to Raph and then Donny. "Sorry about that, Donatello, was it?"
Don smiled, "You can call me Donny or Don."
May waved her hand in the air bringing the attention back to her, "But you know now and you have to promise you won't tell a soul about them. Trust me when I say, you don't want anyone to know that you know us. We have some pretty horrible enemies you don't want to get involved with."
Anna smiled and hugged her friend tightly and then pulled back placing her hands on the blonde's shoulders, "I've wondered why you have always been so standoff-ish since I met you, May. I'm glad I know the real reason now." She looked to the three turtles and nodded, "I think if I told anyone about you guys- uh turtles, they'd put me in the loony bin for sure! Your secret is safe with me."
May placed her hands on her hips, "This includes Lilly! She can't know either!"
"What! Really?" Anna pouted and then watched as the turtles crossed their arms and looked grimly at her. "Oh…okay I understand." She nodded and then gave May a concerned look, "So you were dating a mutant turtle this whole time?"
May sighed and nodded her head. "Yes. I know its crazy but-"
"Aw you don't have to defend yourself." Anna smiled and looked over at Mikey, "They are pretty cute- well for mutants and turtles that is."
"You should know, Anna, that I am the Battle Nexus Champion of the multi-" Mikey started to brag when both Donny and Raph hit the back of his head.
"A champion? Geeze, May! What types of stories have you been holding out on me?" Anna giggled.
May fumbled around with her Kusari and simple shook her head. "You have no idea."
Anna had been very accepting of the turtles during the past four weeks. She hadn't been brought into the lair, since she was afraid of going underground –she was terrified of going on the subways even- but she visited the turtles and May in their garage above the ground. They shared many stories with the strawberry-blonde and for a while everything seemed to be back to normal for May and the turtles.
It was the start of her spring break in the afternoon and May had been training with Raphael in the dojo of lair. She was eager for the evening ahead since Anna had finally gained enough courage and promised the turtles she was going to visit their home. With Splinter's blessing, the evening was planned.
Raph grunted as he blocked one of May's punches, "Excited for Anna tonight?" he muttered throwing a kick as she twisted out of the way.
"Yup!" She smiled and then dogged to the side of the turtle and caught his punch in her hands. "Too slow!" She giggled and then flipped behind the turtle.
"Actually," Raph grunted and then quickly ran to the side of her snaking his arm on her waist and pulled her to the floor pinning her to the ground. "You're too slow." He smirked looking down at her.
May attempted to pull herself away but he was too strong for her. She looked up into his red mask trying to regain control on her breath. "You win." She muttered and Raph released her arms still pinning down her bottom half.
She giggled at him. "I told ya you won! Get off of me!" May sat her torso up and attempted to push him off of her but instead Raphael held her wrists in mid-air not allowing her to move once again.
"Raph!" She giggled closing her eyes as her breathing increased once again. "Raphael!" She opened her eyes smiling at the turtle. "You win! Let me go!"
Despite her admits to defeat he continued to hold onto her wrists. "May…" He whispered. "You're scar…"
Confused, May looked down at her chest. She had been wearing a black tank top that she often wore for her lessons, but now that she had a battle wound she often forgot that it could be easily seen and also easily prone to being reopened.
"I'm sorry…I didn't mean ta-"
"It's fine!" The blonde cut him off. It had slightly been reopened once again and she would need stitching just as she always did. "Don can fix me up in a jiff."
Finally releasing her arms, Raph swiftly sweeped May into his own arms before she had a second to deny his help, "Donny!" He called out bringing her to the lab.
"Raph!" May groaned, "I'm just bleeding, not to death!" She pouted.
"What seems to be the trouble this time?" Donny smiled crossing his arms.
Raph placed the girl on the countertop, "I didn't mean ta, I swear we were just training and-"
"Raph! Enough already!" She smiled closing the emerald turtles beak shut. "Don just a stitch or two." She responded normally.
Donny shook his olive green head and searched in his drawers looking for his supplies. However, Raph was the one catching May's attention as he intertwined his hands into hers looking down at the floor.
"Raphie, you didn't do it on purpose. Don't feel bad. I promise." She smiled looking up at him and placing her free hand on top of his hand holding hers. "Please?" She begged.
"Alright I-" Don walked back and then gave Raph and May a strange look. They were holding hands and he was pretty sure Raph had almost come close to crying. "Ahem!" He coughed pulling the tension from the two back at him. "I need to give you some pain killers. Hold still." Donny pushed pass Raph and stuck a needle into May's chest filling it with a comforting numbness.
Carefully the brilliant turtle raised a thick black thread and small sharp needle to the girl's chest. "You know, May, this thing opens up one more time and I will personally take you to the hospital myself. I know a good bit about human anatomy, but I'm not a real doctor." He huffed sewing her back together.
"Nah. I trust ya." She smiled and then winced as he finished the last thread.
"May, ya can't keep doing this to ya body! Donny can only help so much." Raph held onto her hand tighter but she simply shook her head confident in Don's handy work.
"All done. Take it easy for the rest of the day. But that should be easy since Anna's coming over." Donny smiled and then cleaned up the area.
"Come on." Raph picked her up like last time and not wanting to tear her fresh stitches out, May complied with the turtle's actions. He walked her over to the TV area and sat her next to Mikey on the dingy blue couch she had called her bed when she first lived with the turtles.
"Mikey, what exactly are you doing?" May giggled noticing he was attempting to practice his lame magic tricks with his deck of cards.
"Practicing! Gotta impress Anna when she comes over!" Mikey stuck his tongue out trying to figure out his next move.
"Yea. A real turn on that is…" Raph muttered and walked out of the area to clean up the mess he and May made in the dojo.
"You okay?" Mikey smiled looking over at the girl.
"I'm fine. Just overworked myself again." She smiled and stood placing a finger to her lips. "I'm going to change!" she whispered and then tip toed out of the room and into her own. Carefully, she peeled off her workout pants and then replaced them with her favorite pair of blue jeans.
She winced slightly removing her black tank top from her torso. "Not as easy as the pants." She muttered to herself and then walked to her closet searching for another tank just to make sure the stitches didn't pop out without her knowing if she wore a tee-shirt.
Finally finding her comfy faded grey tank, she threw it on as best as she could. After, she quickly searched for a matching pair of flip flops and placed her feet in each one and then exited her room and resumed her position back on the couch.
"Took you long enough." Mikey muttered with a smile. "I've resorted to making a house of cards! Maybe Anna will be impressed by this instead!"
May giggled, "Doubtful, but worth a try." She watched him stack the cards carefully. It was soothing watching him and eventually she fell into a quick nap. That is, until Klunk hopped onto her lap and purred loudly indicating for her to pet the kitten.
She moaned and then smiled at the orange kitty, "Mikey, your cat can be annoying…" She giggled and lightly stroked Klunk's back, "But it's a good thing he's cute." She had never really thought of herself as a cat person before but Klunk was different; he was almost like another person in their weird family.
"Good afternoon Miss Gibson and Michelangelo." Splinter bowed entering the TV area and then sat on the recliner on the side of the couch. "When is your friend visiting, Miss Gibson?"
"Uh, later this afternoon, Sensei." May smiled. She had been so glad Splinter accepted her request of a visitor. There was only one catch, Anna had to be blindfolded just like their guests on Christmas Eve that way she would not know the exact way to get into the lair.
"Wonderful." Splinter smiled and then looked over at his youngest son, "That is- uh, a very impressive edifice, Michelangelo. Dare I ask how many hours you have spent building it?" Splinter questioned as May tried to contain her giggles at his question.
"Good question, Sensei!" Mikey smiled, "Hey Raph, what time is it?"
May looked behind the couch towards the lonely emerald turtle punching the crap out of his bag. If she had to guess, he was blowing off some steam from their earlier match and no doubt blaming himself for her injury.
"Like I wear a watch?" Raph responded and then kicked the bag once more. "How should I know! Hey Donny, wha time is it?" He looked to Donatello who had moved from his lab to working on his submarine in the pool in the brief amount of time that May had taken a power nap.
Don stopped the welder and removed the welding mask from his face, "Beats me. Ask Leo."
May could feel everyone wince at Don's reply. He hadn't realized Leo was no longer with them. Feeling as the shroud of emptiness sucked the life out of May just as it had done about a month ago, she sat back into the couch and stopped tears from rolling down her cheeks by closing her eyes.
"Sorry…" Donny dropped his tools and then hopped away from his project, "Leo's been gone about two months and I still forget he's not here." May could hear two sets of footsteps walking over to the group.
"Master Splinter, when do you think Leo's going to come back?" May opened her eyes and looked down as she pet Klunk nervously.
"And is Leo coming back normal? Or like, more normal?" Mikey sat into the couch pulling away from stacking his deck of cards. "Cause before he left he was acting kinda…ya know!" Mikey proceeded to twirl a finger around the temple of his head indicating how loony Leonardo had been.
Raph gave him a good smack upside the head. "OW!"
"I do not know my sons." Splinter sighed, "Leonardo is on a pilgrimage to find the Ancient One, and to find answers. Such things are beyond time."
"Well," Don spoke up in the tense silence. "I miss having him around."
"As do we all. We must have faith that he will return, when he is ready…"
May sighed as Klunk jumped from her lap and onto the top of the couch. She watched as the cat playfully stuck his paw in the air waiting for her to play with him, but she had not been in the mood after their current conversation. She looked up catching a worried glance from Raph and quickly adverted her eyes back to the cat picking him up and placing him in her lap once again.
"Hey guys! I'm about to put on the last two cards! Watch!" Mikey smiled trying to distract his family from their depressive faces. He slowly and carefully placed the last two cards from his deck of 52 on the top finalizing his impressive pyramid.
"Good job Mike-" May started to congratulate the turtle when an alarm interrupted her. And then it suddenly stopped just as fast as it started.
"That's not supposed to happen!" Donny exclaimed running over to his lab and turning on his computer monitor that surveyed the outside areas of the lair. "If something triggers the alarm it's supposed to keep ringing until I turn it off!"
May and the others chased after the turtle and watched as he typed a few things onto the screen. "It's not supposed to turn off by itself…unless, someone just deactivated our system!" He yelled as the computer screen went fuzzy.
A loud and rumbling thud echoed and shook the lair making Raph draw his sais ready for anything. "Um, what is that?" Mikey muttered as he retrieved his numchucks into his trained hands.
"Whatever it is, it's coming through the front door!" Raph yelled.
Not wanting to be defenseless, May quickly ran to the dojo despite Splinter and the turtle's pleas to stop, and she regained her weapon just as a large and powerful blast busted down the moving wall and then the entire wall to the front of the lair. She gasped as two large robot suits walked through the hole in the lair.
"And just when you think things couldn't get any worse!" May muttered as what seemed to be a hundred Foot soldiers ran into their home.
"What the! The Foot!" Mikey screeched.
"But how! How did they find us?" Donny responded. Quickly, May ran back to her mutant friends ready for the fight of her life.
"Don't matter how they found us, they found us! Now let's kick the shell outta them!" Raph motivated the other's springing into action.
May wasted no time hesitating and she immediately swung her Kusari chain around a group of ninjas and with all of her might threw them to the floor. Not thinking, she cried in pain after she finished her move at the burning pain in her chest.
"She is injured." May heard one of the masked Foot Soldiers say. She growled and then ran towards the man and kicked him in the face and then roundhouse kicked him to the side. "Try to say I'm injured again! I dare ya!" the blonde threatened.
"Everybody!" She heard Mikey call out, "Watch your backs!"
May growled as he distracted her with his pointless comment and then punched a ninja in the gut while striking another while swinging her scythe blade.
"It's hard enough watchin' our fronts!" Raph responded.
May looked over to the red bandana turtle watching him almost be blown away by one of the huge robots that knocked down the wall. "Raph!" She called out and then ran over to him as he free himself from destruction and towards the girl.
"There's too many of them!" She kicked a few out of her way and looked to the turtle as the two became surrounded. "We have to back out!"
"Back out?" He growled and blocked a few from attacking the girl, "This is our home!"
Eventually, May and the other's found themselves surrounded by a circle of Foot Ninja. "Aw shell!" May looked to Raph as he gasped looking forwards at the front of the lair.
From what May could see past the smoke, a large and very intimidating shadow was walking through the dust. "No!" She gasped as well looking into the glowing red eyes of the figure.
"It-it can't be him!" Donny cried.
"Master Splinter? Any chance this is just another mystical attack?" Mikey hoped.
Splinter took to the front of his students shaking his head, "No my son, this is real! All too real!"
"The Shredder!" May barked out nervously brushing her hand through the strands of her blonde hair. "But I thought you guys said the Utrom's sent him into exile?" She looked frantically to Donatello.
"Yea, and it didn't take!" Raph growled back.
From out of nowhere, four Chinese hat-wearing ninja appeared as the Shredder made his way from the dust. May recognized this four ninja as the Elite Ninja's that had attacked her and the others during the fight that resulted in April's apartment blowing up.
"Oroku Saki is gone thanks to you all!" A female's voice yelled through the Shredder suit. "But the Shredder lives on!" The woman picked up the mask to reveal non-other than the evil witch, Karai, in the suit.
"KARAI!" Donny yelled.
Splinter simply shook his head, "So the daughter of Oroku Saki has become the Shredder…Why?" the rat glared.
"Honor demands it, Splinter-san." Karai held up a fist with her hand that happened to have the two pronged blade at her wrist. "After you helped the vile Utrom's exile my father, I vowed to avenge his honor!"
"You dare speak of honor?" Splinter snapped, "Your father murdered my Master Yoshi! Your father HAD no honor!"
Karai's eyes lit up and she growled, "You will PAY for your LIES! All of you!" She looked at the bunch and then frowned even bigger, "Where is Leonardo?"
May walked forwards. "He isn't here, bitch!"
"You know, you just missed him. But if you leave now, we'll let him know you stopped by!" Mikey held May's shoulder back before she could walk further.
"You mock me! The fact you all still live, mocks me!" She returned the mask to hide her face. "Destroy them! All of them!" She commanded. "Leave no one, ALIVE!"
I know I didn't add a whole lot of stuff going on during the two months span, but I honestly couldn't think of anything. Reviews appreciated!