TMNT Love Story
Chapter 4- Pizza, Training, and smoke bombs
* I skip throughout different episodes in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle show *
"It's delicious. Is this pepperoni and cheese?"April questions and I nod my head.
"Yeah, it is." I say, smiling and then place the third pizza into the oven after I sprinkle cheese on it. I go over to the table and grab myself a small slice and see the others grabbing pieces for themselves.
"Man, this is fantastic, Angel."Mikey says, smirking at me and we high five with Leo, laughing.
"Yeah, surprisingly it is pretty good." Donnie says and I smile at him.
"So what is on the agenda today?" I question the group, curious to know what the guys are doing and everyone else as well.
"Well lately there has been some activity with the Shredder that we might look into later on." Leo says, moving to stand close by to me. My body automatically tenses up, as I start sensing that Leo still wants me to answer the question from before.
"I'll likely going up to my new place. I could grab you some of my old clothes for you to try on if you want?"April says to me and I smile, nodding my head yes.
"Sure, that would be great." I say back to her.
"So what about you, Casey?"Ralph asks, smirking at him.
"I've got things to do as well."Casey retorts back.
"What about you, Master Splinter?" I ask him and he looks at me, giving me a knowing smile. The guys all share a look, knowing something that I don't.
"Well, I was hoping to work on your training. I want to see what else you are good at and how much you know about Ninjitsu." Master Splinter says and I groan. The guys all burst into laughter.
"You didn't answer my question from before, Angel." Leo whispers to me and I smirk at him.
"You won't get an answer from me, Leonardo. I don't trust that easily." I whisper back, my smirk still present on my face. I move closer to Master Splinter.
"I would love to work on my training a bit more as well." I say to him and bow out of respect.
"I would love to see this session." Ralph says, smirking and I roll my eyes.
We all head to the training room and I move to the centre of the room, getting into my normal fighting stance. The others all gather around the room in various places as Master Splinter walks and stand in the centre with me, across from me. Mikey leaves the training room to take out the third pizza. He returns moments later with a slice of pizza in his three fingered green hand. Master Splinter and I bow to each other.
"Now, what do you want to see?" I question him.
"Well, I want to see how far along you are in your Ninjitsu practises."Master Splinter says and I nod my head. I get myself into a ready position, squaring my body towards Master Splinter.
"Also, Donatello I'll show you how to make a smoke bomb later." I comment to Donatello.
"Awesome. Alright."Donatello says to me, excitedly.
Master Splinter makes the first attack on me and I instantly block. Before he has time to make a second attack on me, I crouch down and swing out one of my legs, hitting both of his from underneath him. He lands on his back and before he has the seconds to get up and attack, I should roll forward onto him and pin him down. I make sure that he can't get up at all. He nods his head in a bow and I bow back, then I stand up and get off of him.
I turn my back towards him and prepare for him to attack him, like I know he will. After all, one of the first lessons that I have learnt is that you never turn your back on your enemy. Master Splinter sends a punch towards me and I reach out just in time to grab his arm. I use his arm and flip him over my shoulder and onto his back, placing my foot on his throat. I look down at him and he nods his head. I remove my foot from his throat and bow in respect as he gets up. He bows back and we stand straight up after bowing.
Around the room, all you can hear is silence except the breathing of those around Master Splinter and myself.
"Well done. I see that you are very skilled. I think the lesson is done."Master Splinter says, and I smile at him. He turns and walks towards the kitchen and out of the room used for training, waving his paw dismissively towards everyone; indicating that we may do as we please.
"That was awesome, dude!" Mikey exclaims, grinning at me.
"Yeah, it was pretty amazing."Donatello says, and the others agree.
"Thanks."I say, blushing a tiny bit.
"Well, I'm going to get those clothes for you to try on."April says and I nod my head. She starts to leave slowly.
"I'll go with. Someone needs to protect you."Casey says, catching up to April and April rolls her eyes. Soon they are gone from my eyesight. I smirk to myself.
"What are you smirking at?"Donatello questions me, and I glance over at him.
"Casey and April are crushing on each other. Anybody could figure that out."I say to him and he gives a laugh. Although I swear I see a pained look cross his face. I go to ask about it but decide against it. If I asked him about it then he would ask how I saw and how I knew. I don't want to talk about my past. There is likely a love triangle going on between Casey, April and Don. Raph comes and sits beside us.
"You know I would love to train some time with you."Raph says and I can tell it's difficult for him to admit something like that. I notice Donatello's eyes widen in surprise after his older brother says that to me. I nod my head at Raph.
"Yeah, may be some time we could train together."I say, smiling back at him.
"Why not now? You don't look too busy."Raph asks me, giving me a questioning look. I look between all of the turtles.
"Well, I want to play this new video game that I got with her. You do like video games, right?"Mikey says to me and I feel myself panic slightly as I think about choosing between the brothers.
"Actually, I thought Angel and I were going to meditate together. Weren't we?"Leo asks as well. I hold back the urge to narrow my eyes at Leo. The only reason why he would consider hanging out with me is to get close enough to figure out the answer to his question from earlier and I'm not letting that happen.
"Actually, you guys, Angel promised me that she would show me how to make a smoke bomb more powerful."Donatello proudly says to his older and younger brothers, as they all fight over me. I let out a thankful breath of relief.
"No, she didn't."Raph says, getting temperamental.
"Yes, she did. She said so before her and Master Splinter started their training match."Donnie says, reminding calm as his brothers' eyes all narrow in trying to remember.
"That is true. I did tell him that I would."I say back to them. Leo's, Raph's, and Mikey's eyes widen in recognition when they remember that I did say it.
"Oh yeah. I remember now. Sorry."Raph says and then stomps off to the room used for training. Leo huffs and then plops down on the couch in the living room, turning on the TV to Space Heroes. Mikey, after hearing the TV turn on, races after Leo and starts fighting over the TV remote with him. I roll my eyes at their childish behaviour.
"So, shall we?"Donnie questions me, turning towards me and giving me a smile.
"Lead the way."I comment back to him, smiling right back.
Don leads the way, heading towards his lab and I follow him into it. My eyes widen in astonishment as I look around his lab-type lair. Mechanical machinery and technology, such as computer hardware and engineering type stuff, are scattered around the room on various tables. There is even a medical table set up, which I remember waking up on when I first down here after healing Raph. I smile as I look around the room, walking to various tables and looking at everything; lost in the world of science that I have always had a burning passion for.
"Angel...Angel?"Donatello calls out to me, and I turn and look at him.
"Huh?" I ask him, sort of dazed from being sucked into my own little world of science.
"I've been calling your name for the last five minutes. What's wrong?"Don questions me.
"Nothing, I just got lost in the world of science. It's been a secret passion of mine for years."I explain to him. I then walk over to where he is sitting on a chair in front of a desk. He appears to have what looks to be a smoke bomb in front of him.
"I completely understand. I'm the genius of the group, as you can likely tell from my humble lab."Donnie says, waving his hands to show off his lab to prove his point further. I smile and laugh as he does, and he grins back at me in response.
"Yeah, I can tell. I mean not to sound mean or anything, but between us, the others don't seem to compete with your brains and don't look to be as much of a genius as you. You are definitely the brains of the bunch."I say to him with a short laugh.
He laughs with me and then turns forward towards the desk and starts tinkering away with the smoke bomb. Before I have time to stop him from making a possible mistake, the smoke bomb goes off and instead of white smoke exploding everywhere, black smoke comes out instead. I stare at Donatello and see his face go from super focused to very confused and then finally to a smile as he starts laughing at his mistake. I burst out laughing along with him. We both smile at each other.
"I was about to warn you about the scientific error that you made but before I could, the bomb went off." I say to him, grinning at him and he rolls his eyes at me.
"Oh sure. I bet you would have loved to tell me that it was going to happen."Don says, sarcastically and this time I roll my eyes, laughing. Before I can make a decent comeback at him, a knock on the wall is heard. I look over and see April standing in the door way with a plastic bag of clothes in her hands. I smile at her and she smiles back.
"Hey. Umm.. I have some old clothes of mine for you to try on. They might fit you."She says to me and I smile at her. I walk over to her and she hands me the plastic bag of her old clothes. I hold the bag by its handle.
"Thanks. Do you know where I could change and try the clothes on?"I ask her as I step out of Don's lab and look around.
I see Master Splinter on the couch in the living room and spot Raph and Casey wrestling with each other. I notice the light on in Mikey's room so he is likely reading his comic books and I know that Leo is likely meditating. I walk over to Master Splinter.
"Master Splinter, do you know where I could change in private?"I ask him, nervously. He looks up from watching the soap opera on the television.
"You may use my bedroom or one of my sons' bedrooms."Master Splinter says to me and I bow in thanks.
"Thank you." I say to him and then head to his room. I glance around me and see that Donnie is still in his lab, working away and that April is sitting with Master Splinter on the couch.
I open the sliding doors and walk in. I look around the room, and after seeing no one else in the room, I shut the sliding doors. I snoop through the bag of clothes and see a variety of clothes, such as undergarments, pants, shorts, t-shirts and tank tops. I pull out a pair of sweat pants and grab a random spaghetti strap tank top. I try on the sweat pants and see that they fit me perfectly.
After I take off my black long sleeved shirt, I pause and look at the tank top; almost afraid to try it on. After my parents' death, I did escape from the Shredder, but years later he captured me and held me as his prisoner. I had experiments done upon me while he held me hostage against my will. From the experiments done on me, the scientists cut me open and left nasty scars upon my body. They injected needles that had tubes filled with a variety of colours into me.
Now the reason why I wear long sleeved clothes is so that I don't have to look or have others see the scars that I have and be reminded of those memories that have given me nightmares for years. The experiments that were done to me, sometimes weren't only with needles but other tools as well; whether it was metal tools or not. I have never showed my scars to anyone. I'm afraid of someone judging me and calling me hideous or ugly; or any other painful names. The scars make me feel that I am those things and that I deserve to be casted away like a rag doll.
I look at the tank top before me and debate with myself about trying the tank top on, standing in my sports bra with my back towards the sliding doors. I have scars on my back as well and all over my body, from my head to my toes and they look like jagged zigzag lines. I hear a gasp from behind me and my entire body freezes in place. My eyes widen as I realize that someone sees my scars and that I didn't hear the sliding doors open at all. Shit...