A/N: A very long chapter. I kinda kept writing without paying attention lol. There's a twist to this chapter and, the next one will have something very interesting happen. Keep reading.
Chapter 9
"Ah," I said as I stretched my arms over my head. Three days in a bed was horrible. I couldn't even get up to take care of myself. The doctor had come by this morning and removed the temporary heart pacer and raised my dosage for the pain killer drug.
I pulled a shirt over my head and wrapped a belt around my waist. I tapped on my shoes and slide opened my door.
"Hey look who's finally out of hibernation," Mikey said coming towards me. He walked around me checking me out. I crossed my arms and gave him a look.
"What?" I said to him.
"Nothing, hahaha… " he laughed and disappeared quickly to the table before I could punch him in the arm.
"Mikey what? Something wrong with what I'm wearing?" I said to him coming towards the table. He slide down the bench and picked up a magazine pretending to read it, he hummed loudly ignoring me.
"Hey good morning," Leo said to me his arms wrapped around a car battery.
"Good morning," I said to him then I turned to Mikey and narrowed my eyes at him.
"Alex," Donnie said from behind me, I turned around.
"Hey," I said to him. He had a steering wheel and some car parts in his hands.
"Doll face, you got to see what we picked up in the junk yard today…." Mikey said placing his hands on my shoulders. I looked around and didn't notice Raph or the girls anywhere, even Splinter wasn't around.
"Where's the girls, and Raph and Splinter?" I asked.
"Hehehe, come with me," Mikey said pushing me to the garage.
"Hey come on now, what is going on?" I said to him.
He then put his hands over my eyes.
"Mikey really?" I said to him trying to pry his hands off my face.
I heard voices of the girls and Raph in the garage. Mikey pulled his hands off my eyes.
"Ta da," he said extending his hands.
"It's…. Um," I said trying to figure out the right words.
"Its, a junkyard car," I said to them. It had no seats and well nothing.
"Yeah, but imagine how it will look like in two weeks," Donnie said putting down everything in his arms. He grabbed me by the arm to the driver's side.
"See here, I think maybe a navigation device with voice activation, and a tracking system?" He said, Nina smiled and closed the rusted hood of the car.
"Wait, you guys are going to build another car?" I said to them looking over at Yuri and Mari who where helping Raph adjust the damaged trunk.
Splinter came to my side and reached for my hand.
"See, the boys decided you should have your own ride, since you hate their motorbikes…. And the truck," he chuckled.
"Wait a minute…" I said to them trying to visualize how the car will look like when it's done.
"My own car?" I said to them.
"What's the catch?" I asked giving them a stern look.
"No catch," Mikey said pulling me away from Splinter.
"Was thinking maybe hot rode pink, or blue," he said waving his hands over the body of the car.
"A little pin stripe here, and maybe a lightning bolt," he made a sound effect with his mouth. I looked to him sternly.
"Black," I said to him.
"Solid black, nothing else, not pin stripe, no lightning bolt, nothing, just solid black…. Okay Mikey," I said tapping a hand to his shoulder. He smiled and shrugged.
They all looked at me.
"Girls got taste," Raph said and nodded.
"Are you guys seriously building a car?" I said to them.
"I have surgery next week guys, I won't be able to drive this thing…." I told them.
"No, when you are recovered Miss Alex," Aki said to me.
"Huh," I said still trying to imagine the overall outcome.
"It better not be hotrod pink, or any wild color, and it better look like a car, not like the inside of your truck," I said to them.
I put my arms on my hips and turned around leaving the garage. That's when I heard everyone laugh.
"Idiots if they think I'm going to drive a car that'll be…. Well, we'll see I guess," I said to myself. I shifted to Donnie's desk and sat down. I sometimes turn on the computer system over the entire city and just watch as cars drove by, people and well…. the city.
I sat in his chair and twirled around.
"Oh come on man, we should put some stuffed dice over the mirror," Mikey said coming through the door. Raph was with him.
"Why," he said trying to shut Mikey up.
I looked to them and tried not to laugh. Their arguments are so funny sometimes.
"Hey doll face, tell the dummy here that red dice over the mirror in the car would be so hot," Mikey said making actions with his hands.
"Shut up idiot," Raph said grabbing him in a choke hold.
"NO DICE MIKEY," I said to them as Raph pulled him through the place to the stereo system.
That's when I heard the garage door close and Nina and Donnie came through, I looked to Donnie and smiled.
"What?" he said as he came to his desk.
"Don," I said to him sitting on my knees I twirled around in the chair.
"Alex," he said organizing the scattered sheets on his desk.
"What yeah doing?" I said to him. He looked to me then tapped the pile of papers.
"What do you want Alex?" he said to me.
"Oh nothing," I said to him twirling around again.
"That chairs broken," he said waving a wheel at me.
"Are you sure there's nothing you want to tell me?" I asked him twirling one last time on the chair.
"Nope," he said and shifted his pile of papers to one side.
"Now get off," he gestured with his hands.
I smiled and slide off the chair.
"Uh huh," I said and went over to Nina.
Nina looked to me and waved.
"Miss Alex, I am glad you look well," she said. I looked at her and smiled.
"Uh huh," I said again and piled up my magazines from off the table.
"I don't get it," she said looking at me.
I smiled and giggled walking past her.
I walked back to the garage where everyone else still gathered.
That's when I heard music blasting in the other room.
"Great," I said. I didn't hate their music but it wasn't my taste of music. They liked rock, and pop and Mikey liked anything catchy with a fun tune.
"Hey Alex," Leo said again looking to me as I came through the door. I sat down on a stool near the work bench.
"So what's going on with Donnie and Nina?" I blurted out abruptly. Everyone looked at me.
"Something's going on with them?" Yuri asked tapping her hand to Mari. Mari smiled and threw her towel to Aki.
"Uh huh," I said getting enough of a confirmation. I knew what was going on.
"Why what's going on?" Leo asked clueless.
"Seriously," I said to him. Splinter chuckled and came around Leo to help Yuri and Mari adjust the trunk.
Leo came towards me and reached for some tools.
"You do realize I know everything that goes on around here, I see everything…" I said to him waving a screwdriver in my hand. He extended his hand out to me.
I twirled around in my chair.
"Splinter's not the only one who knows everything," I said to him. Splinter seemed amused by my childlike behaviour and laughed.
"Hand it over," he said waving his hand to me.
"You seriously don't know what's going on with them? What do you guys not talk or something?" I asked him waving the screwdriver around.
"Yeah I do know," he said waving his hand again.
"Oh really?" I said and smiled. I jumped to my feet and ran behind Aki. She laughed and shook her head.
"Oh come on," he said chasing me.
I laughed and ran behind Splinter.
"You can't touch me," I said to him hiding behind Splinter.
"Yeah I forgot I can't beat you up cause you can't defend yourself anymore," he said tapping his head.
"No I'll just let Splinter take you," I said to him beaming a smile.
Splinter chuckled and shook his head. Yuri leaned in towards him.
"Do they always squabble like this?" She asked Splinter.
"Yes, yes they do… " he said nodding.
"And you let them?" she asked him again.
"As long as they don't kill eachother…. No harm done. I'm a grumpy old man, I can't babysit them all the time," he said shifting away from me.
"Hey, you're my shield," I said to Splinter pointing the screwdriver at him.
"Hahha, the dojo won't clean itself," he laughed and disappeared to the other room.
"Great I'm defenceless," I said and noticed Leo in front of me, his arms crossed.
"Screwdriver?" he said waving his hand.
"You win this time Leonardo," I said to him and handed him the screw driver. Mari and Yuri looked to eachother and laughed.
I moved around him and the girls towards the work bench.
"Oh and by the way, I think Nina and Donnie like eacother," I blurted out quickly as I reached for the door.
They all looked to me.
"Like you all didn't notice," I smiled and went to the other room.
The music was blaring loudly, Raph was at his punching bag, and Mikey was showing Nina his skateboard collection. I passed his wall of collection and shook my head.
I noticed Donnie fixing the chair at his desk. I shifted over towards him and clasped my hands together humming to myself. I was definitely going to get information out of him if it was the last thing I did that day.
"What?" he said to me.
I rocked back and forth on the balls of my feet.
"Chairs looking good," I said to him.
He looked at me and twirled his screwdriver in his hand then tossed it to his desk. He flipped the chair over.
"Get lost Alex," he huffed at me. I never seen Donnie so nervous before. I laughed and passed him tapping my hand to his shoulder.
"APRIL," Mikey chimed from behind me, he came towards her.
"Hey Mikey," She smiled at him.
"Wanna see my new board doll face?" he said. But before he could take her away I shifted between them.
"Uh uh, she's mine," I said to him pulling her by the arm.
I pulled her to my room and closed the door.
"Alex?" she said opening her water bottle.
"Donnie and Nina, I think they like eachother, and I don't mean, friends who like eachother, but like, like eachother," I blurted out quickly holding my door shut so Mikey wouldn't try to kidnap April.
She spit out her water.
"WHAT?" she shouted.
"Since when?" she said closing the cap to her bottle.
"I don't know, he won't talk…. But," I giggled.
"I know," I said again trying to be quiet.
"Oh my god," she smiled and covered her mouth so she wouldn't laugh.
"Donnie? Donatello…. Our Donnie?" she waved her hand to the both of us.
"Yes, Donatello, you know the computer nerd genius, wears tapped up dorky glasses and carries a bo," I said to her pretending I was wearing glasses.
"Wow, way to go Don," she said with a nod.
"I don't know if he actually talked to her yet, or if she knows…." I said to her quickly.
"Well let's find out," April said gesturing for me to move. I slide opened the door to my room and followed behind her.
"Hey I'm taking Alex to pick up some ice cream and junk food," April said pulling her keys out of her pocket.
"Awe yeah babe, don't forget the chocolate syrup," Mikey chimed.
"Nina want to join us? Show you around town?" April said elbowing me. I smiled.
"Uh sure, okay…" she said as her sisters and Leo came through the garage door.
"We're taking Nina for a car ride," April said to her sisters.
"Oh?" Yuri said placing a box down hear Donnie's desk.
"Yeah we'll be back in a bit," I said pushing Nina towards the door.
"Bye," April waved and pushed behind us pushing us out the door.
We all piled in to Aprils car as she started the engine.
She turned on some music as we drove down the road. Nina looked out the window at the buildings.
"New York is huge," she said. I looked to her through the mirror.
April looked to me and winked.
"So Nina," I said to her looking out the window.
"Miss Alex?" she said shifting her gaze to me.
"Anything you want to talk about?" I asked her.
"Oh, what do you mean?" she said leaning in towards us.
"Oh, I don't know… maybe something important?" I asked her.
"I'm not sure what you mean Miss Alex," she asked. He didn't talk to her.
"Did Donatello say anything to you?" I said to her quickly.
"Oh….." she said and her cheeks turned red.
April looked to me and smiled.
We drove in silence for a few moments.
"Donatello is really, really smart," she started to say. April stopped at a stop light.
"I actually really like him," she said again.
"But…. He did not say anything to me, I told him my feelings yesterday," she said.
"Wait, he didn't talk to you, or say anything to you?" I asked her.
"No…." she said again rather quietly.
April looked to me and pulled over to the ice cream shop.
Nina and I followed April in to the shop. I started to pick up some chips and chocolate syrup.
Nina took them from me and carried them.
"So Donnie didn't return your feelings…." I asked her. She seemed very disappointed by this.
"No, I was rather disappointed…" she said to me as April ordered ice cream and asked for some nuts and sprinkles.
"I'm disappointed as well," I said to her, its not like Donnie to be this way.
That's when we saw a man come in behind us. Literally pushed me knocking me down.
"HEY," I shouted at him.
He pulled out a gun and two other men followed in behind him.
"Everyone behind the counter," he shouted to us and waved with his gun. Nina helped me off the floor, and we shifted behind the counter near the owner.
I tapped on my watch without him noticing sending a SOS to the guys.
Nina shifted in front of me protecting me.
"Don't anyone move," I half whispered to them.
"Take anything they have on them," he said to the other guy who shoved in near him.
He came towards us.
"Nice, two sexy babes and a …. Female turtle?" he said a little surprised.
"I thought those turtle ninja's where guys," he said again.
"Even better," he said pulling the gun around his body.
He was just about to touch me when I kicked his legs knocking him down.
"ALEX," April said.
"Don't fight," Nina said to me pulling me by the arm away from him.
"YOU STUPID LITTLE B-," he was about to say when Raph came through the door casually.
"Yes," April said with a smirk.
"Hey guys, there a problem here?" Raph asked twirling a toothpick between his fingers.
"Nothing that concerns you turtle," the leading gunman said to him.
"See the way I see it is you've got my girls…. So yeah, in a way it does concern me," he said not shifting away from the door. The gun man outside was tied up already by the guys, I could hear them talking.
"I don't think so," the other gun man I had hit said. He held a knife to my throat. April and Nina looked to Raph then to me.
"Turn around turtle and walk out," he said to him pulling me around the counter. Raph stood at the door and crossed his arms.
"I thought I already mentioned that I ain't leaving without them," Raph said to the gunman. He pressed the knife harder against my throat. I looked to Raph and gave him a little nod.
"Okay, if you say so…." He said and jumped at the gunman with the gun before he could open fire at him. Leo and Donnie came through the door and took down the second gunman.
"That was easy enough," Leo said as he tied them up.
I took in a deep breath.
"You guys okay?" Donnie asked looking to us.
"Yeah thanks guys," April said. The shop owner took in a deep breath and sat down on his stool.
"Thank you," he said to them.
"That was dope man," Mikey said coming through the door.
"Is there any more of these idiots anywhere, I haven't met my quota for today?" he asked and looked at us.
"Let's hope not," April said as she and Nina came around the counter.
"Ladies, here…. Please," the shop owner said handing us a bag with everything we had picked up.
"How much?" April asked reaching in to her pocket.
"No no, they saved my life and my shop," he said pointing to the guys.
"Thanks so much," I said and reached for the bag.
Leo took it from me. We followed them out the door.
"That was rather an interesting night," Nina said opening the door to Aprils car.
"We'll be behind yeah," Leo said as the guys jumped onto their motorbikes. I looked over to Donnie then back to the car.
"Hey wait a minute," I said closing April's door. She looked to me curious.
"Don I need to pick something up from the library," I told him trying to separate him from the guys.
"Oh?" he said turning on his bike.
"Could you take me?" I asked him.
April smiled and jumped in to her car.
"We'll meet you at home," she said opening her window.
"Okay," Donnie said extending a hand to me. I jumped on to the bike behind him.
"Let's roll guys," Leo said to his brothers as they followed behind April.
"The library closes in two hours, what book are you looking for?" Donnie asked as we pulled in to traffic.
"Actually, I wanted to talk to you about something," I said to him leaning against his shell.
"Oh?" he said as he diverted traffic.
"Nina… she said she talked to you yesterday about her feelings," I said to him.
He didn't say anything.
"She said you didn't return her feelings," I said to him again.
He didn't reply and clicked his signal to the left.
"Don?" I said to him again.
"It's not that Alex," he said to me in a monotone voice.
"I do like her, but… well," he said again trying to find words.
"Well what? What are you afraid of?" I asked him leaning in to him.
"I'm trying to have a real conversation here Don," I told him as he pulled on to a different road.
"Alex," he said stopping the bike near the library.
"Look, I don't think we… I mean me and Raph, Leo and Mikey should be worrying about relationships right now," he said turning off the engine.
"Are you kidding me, you guys deserved to have happiness in your lives," I said to him tapping his shell.
He pulled me around him, and on to my feet.
"Alex…. It's too dangerous for us," he said. I wasn't sure what he meant by this.
"Dangerous, how?" I asked.
"I thought about it long and hard after I talked to you the other night. I mean… we are now well known in this city, people are always trying to target us, it's bad enough you and April are also targets because you're close to us. Imagine what would happen when our enemies, bad guys and people found out we had girlfriends…" he said looking to some people as they came down the library stairs.
"That's what you're afraid of?" I said to him. I touched my hands to his face to get his attention.
"So all of you are holding back your feelings because of this fear?" I asked him. He took my hands off his face.
"Alex, please understand, your friends are great… they're nice girls, they've been very helpful to us, and even brought you that car from the junkyard. But we can't think about relationships right now, it's too dangerous… for us and them," he said to me. I pressed my lips into a hard line and pulled my hands from his.
"I don't think it would be dangerous at all," I said to him and turned around climbing the stairs to the library.
He shifted the kick stand of his bike and followed behind me.
"Alex it's not like that," he started to say. I ignored him and pushed the door open.
I came up to the counter where a lady with pink colored hair stood. I pressed my lips into a hard line as she came towards me.
"Hi," she said as her gaze followed Donnie. He wandered off to the science section.
I tapped the counter to get her attention.
"I'm looking for some martial arts books," I said to her.
She looked back to me.
"What you? Aren't you with him?" she said pointing her pen towards Don.
"Yes why does that matter?" I asked her. She rolled her eyes and pointed to the second floor.
"Hey, so what's it like," she said to mean leaning over the desk. Her breasts where half popping out of her shirt. How do they even employee people like this?
"How's what like?" I said to her.
"Like, he's so cute and all, do they date?" she asked me quickly.
I looked at her and turned around.
"What section?" I said again.
"Section C," she said, as she came around the counter.
I shifted towards the stairs to the upper level, and looked to Donnie, he nodded to me.
That's when I noticed the librarian come towards Donnie.
I shook my head and leaned against the bars listening in.
"Hey, could I help yeah find something?" she asked pretending to look at some books.
"No, I found it thanks," he said carrying three books in his arms.
"Oh, you like science stuff?" she said pretending to sound smart.
"Yeah," Donny replied pulling his glasses up.
"I see," she said following behind Donnie as he put the books down on the table. He shifted his eyes towards me and then to the books.
"So, hey like was wondering if you and your boys date people…" she asked rather rudely.
He looked to her and pushed his glasses up again.
"Sorry, seeing someone…." He said and picked up the books again to go to the counter.
"Hahahha," I laughed and heading to the C section.
"M, m…." I said to myself skimming my fingers along the books.
"Here we go," I said smiling. I slide out a book called 'ancient Japanese samurai martial arts techniques.' I looked at it, but just as I was about to open the book and skim through it, a huge surge of energy blew the book from my hands and knocked me to the ground.
"Aaah," I shouted.
Donnie looked to the stairs and ran to me.
"What happened?" I heard some kid say over me.
"Hey Alex?" Donnie said lifting me up.
"What happened?" I said to him touching my head.
"You tell me, are you okay?" he asked looking at the book I had on my lap.
"Should I call an ambulance," a kid asked.
"No, no, she's fine…" Donnie said helping me up to my feet.
He picked up the book I had with me and helped me down the stairs.
My head was throbbing; I must've hit it against something when I fell. Donnie pulled the books to his bag and over his shoulder. He extended his hand to me.
"What's wrong?" he asked as he started up the bike.
"I don't know," I said to him climbing on to the bike.
"Are you sure your okay?" Donnie asked as we drove away from the library.
"Yeah, I think so…." I said to him holding the bag in my arms.
"I'll get the doctor to check you over, I'll call him when we get home," he said. He sounded worried or concerned. I looked to him.
"Donnie, I'm okay really… I just picked up this book, and it got heavy, really really heavy and then a surge of energy threw the book to the ground," I said to him.
He looked down at me and then back to the road.
"That book is really light Alex, how could it be so heavy," he asked diverting traffic.
I rubbed my head again.
"You hit your head on the metal bars," he said.
"You could have a concussion," he said again.
That's when I got really dizzy and blanked out, I fell against Donnie's arms. He slowed down the bike, and stopped at a red light.
"Alex? Alex?" he shook me.
"Damn," he said as I heard the bike speed off again.
"Donnie what happened?" I heard Splinters voice as Donnie carried me through the door.
"She blanked out, she fell down at the library and hit her head," he said putting me on the couch. Everyone hovered around me.
"Get her a cold cloth, now," Splinter said.
"Right," Mikey's voice said.
I felt a cold cloth over my forehead, and a light shining on me.
I shifted my hand over my eyes.
"Get that thing out of my face," I said. The doctor looked at me and clicked the light off.
"Sorry," I said to him sitting up.
"Alex, do you remember anything?" the doctor said sitting on the stool.
"I hit my head on something," I said to him looking around the room.
"You've been asleep for about one hour," he said to me. Has it really been that long, it felt like I just left the library?
I looked around the room and saw that I was strapped to a heart rate monitor again. There was also a scientist standing next to Donnie at his desk. They were looking at some tissue samples. I checked myself over to see if I had any Band-Aids anywhere.
"Alex?" the doctor said distracting me.
I looked to him.
"You had a minor concussion," he said tapping the heart monitor screen.
"This is very strange," he said.
Leo and Raph stood near him watching me.
"What's strange?" Donnie asked coming towards us.
The scientist bent down and looked at the monitor as well. Both doctors seemed to be talking to eachother.
"I'm broken, yeah I know…" I said to them shifting my feet over the couch.
I noticed Splinter and Mikey hovering near the back of the couch while the girls stood near Raphs workout area, listening.
"What's going on?" Mikey asked leaning over the couch.
"This is impossible," the doctor said looking to me. He pulled the little pads off my chest.
"What's impossible," I asked him.
"See Alex, this line here…." The scientist pointed to the screen that had wavy lines on it.
"This line represents your heart disease, when Dr. M had your heart monitored three days ago, this line was slower and inverted," he said showing me a long sheet of paper that had lines printed on it.
"Now, the line is normal," he said touching a hand to his face trying to figure it out.
"Meaning?" Raph said stepping closer towards the screen.
"Meaning, her disease disappeared within the course of three days, which is physically impossible," Dr. M said also trying to comprehend how this happened.
He sat down on the couch next to me.
"You see, when Alex was on the generic mutagen her heart was being protected by it, so the disease was slowed down and hidden to her, she had no pain or side effects," Dr. M said as he looked to everyone.
"Yeah and….?" I asked him pulling my shirt together.
"So explain what happened at the library," the scientist asked.
"I picked up that book," I pointed to the martial arts book Nina had in her hands. "I wanted to get it for the girls so maybe…. They could learn stuff from it, I was going to train them myself but….. I can't anymore… I didn't want to ask Splinter, he does so much already…." I said a nervously.
"You could've asked me Alex I would've been happy to train them," Splinter said sitting on the opposite side of me.
"And then what?" Dr. M asked.
"Well, I picked up the book right off the shelf and it was so heavy, so so heavy, I couldn't even carry it… that's when I felt this surge of energy pass through me and knock the book out of my hands, it was so powerful I fell over," I said to him making motions with my hands.
"Hummm," the Dr said standing up. He placed a hand to his head thinking.
That's when I heard Vern and Casey come through the door with April.
"You okay?" Vern asked.
"Yeah I'm fine," I said to him. They came towards Leo, and he started to explain what happened.
"I have a theory," Dr. M said after a few moments.
April sat down beside me, watching as the doctor paced around.
"When Alex was in a temporary acoma three days ago, you had told me that she was in combat with the spirit of her staff," the Dr said.
"Yeah?" Donnie asked trying to figure out where this was going.
"Well what if the staff exchanged its spirit for hers, making her extremely powerful, she may have sacrificed her skills, but the staffs power resides in her," Dr. M explained.
"That's it," the scientist said standing up off the stool.
"There's a medical journal, a scientific journal I once read and came across, of Japanese samurai warriors who exchanged their spirits for that of their weapons… merging with them, becoming one. This explains why Alex's heart is fully healed," the scientist said to Donnie.
"Woah, woah, woah, back up here… so you mean to tell me, that Alex and her staff are now one?" Raph said his voice sounded agitated.
"Yes, that's the only reason why her disease is completely gone, the scar on her face has fully disappeared, and the skin sample we took, has fully healed….." the doctor said pulling up my sleeve.
"So, I'm like a mutant," I asked sarcastically.
"No, you're not invulnerable like they are, you can still get injured and hurt," Dr. M explained.
"So I'm cursed," I said pulling down my sleeve. "Great," I huffed and crossed my arms.
"Just when I thought I was going to live normally, without any skills, or…. Whatever," I said agitated.
"Now I find out that I'm bound with my staff," I said and pulled my hair from my face.
"Only one way to find out for sure and test this theory," the scientist said.
"You'd have to pick up a weapon again, the spirit will pass through you to the weapon restoring its power…." He said guestering for a weapon. Splinter shifted between him and me.
"She will do none of that sort," he said crossing his arms. I stood up behind Splinter and stood next to him.
"So if the spirit will pass through me to the weapon does that mean I'll be sick again?" I asked trying to make sense of everything.
"No, your fully cured, the spirit will still be within you, but the weapon will be your shield, you're form of defense, it'll protect your body outside, and the spirit will protect you inside," Dr. M said to me.
"No way," I said crossing my arms.
"It is Miss Alex's choice…" Yuri said defending me. She too shifted away from her sisters. Everyone now stood in a circle around the couch and the doctors.
"Please understand, the spirit of the staff is too strong for Alex to sustain within her body, that is why a force of energy passed through her to the book, it assumed it was a weapon and it was trying to escape," the doctor said pointing to the book.
"The spirit is trying to escape, and restore itself," the scientist explained. He shifted over to some of our weapons we had hanging on a shelf. Splinter shifted behind him cautiously watching him.
"A staff was it," the scientist said. He picked up one of the bo's hanging there and turned around. Splinter extended his hand to him, he passed it over.
"Alex," Splinter said coming towards me.
"This is your choice," he said extending his hand to me.
Leo shifted closer.
"Woah, woah, this is crazy…. She made it clear a few days ago that she cannot fight anymore, we were under the assumption she needed a heart pacer, now she's fully healed," Leo said throwing his hands in to the air. He shifted near Splinter.
"The disease was hidden this whole time and we didn't notice it, after her weapon was destroyed it became visible again because the spirit of the staff was locked, when she touched a book of martial arts, the spirit awoken and attempted to escape curing her entire body of anything that was hidden in it," the Dr explained again.
I looked at the staff in Splinters hand and then to everyone around us.
"No, I'm not doing this," I said and pushed past Raphael towards the dojo. I pressed my hand against the touch pad and the dojo door opened. I went in as it locked behind me.
I didn't care or want to care what the doctor's where both saying. It was true however, I remembered reading about this in a science journal in a Japanese library one time as well, and monk Miyatsu also mentioned something about it too. He had told me that if I sacrifice the souls of 100 men and the staff takes their shadows it breaks leaving its wielder to fight the spirit of the staff. The wielder would have to sacrifice its skills to the staff in order to live. However, if the wielder picks up another weapon the cycle starts all over again.
I sat down on the dojo ring and shifted my knees to my face.
"This is my curse, this was bestowed upon me because I choose to learn shadow fighting," I said to myself as tears streamed down my face.
That's when I heard the door open then close. I looked behind me and dried my eyes.
"Alex," Splinter said. He pulled the bo behind his back. He came around me and sat down in front of me.
"I'm not touching another weapon again, if I do the entire cycle starts over, I'd have to fight…. If I take any lives…." I stuttered trying not to cry.
"Then don't take any lives, fight along side your brothers, and your new friends…. Help them defend this city, as it was chosen for them and you my child," Splinter said trying to comfort me.
"This curse…" I said to Splinter. He held his hand up towards me cutting me off before I could say anything.
"This isn't a curse Alex, its your destiny, you were chosen for this…" he said trying to comfort me.
I stood up to my feet. He stood up as well swinging the staff around his body.
"This is a curse Splinter, all because I didn't listen to the monks, because they warned me about this, and I didn't listen." I said to him agitated.
"Then listen now, the spirit could kill you, its trying to escape because its to powerful for your body to sustain," he said walking around me. I watched his moves.
"I'm not fighting anymore Splinter…" I said to him. He looked at the staff and twirled it in front of him.
"This isn't your curse Alex, I believe you are the chosen one, that you're life has meaning," he said to me.
He extended his hand towards me, I looked at the staff.
"No," I said shifting away from him. He swung the staff around his body again.
"Then you leave me no choice," he said and swung the staff quickly around himself and knocked me down.
"Splinter," I said surprised he actually did that. I rubbed my back as I shifted to my knees.
I heard someone talking behind me, but before I could turn around to see who it was Splinter knocked me down again swinging the staff to my side.
"AAAHHH," I said and hit the floor. He shifted his feet together and twirled the staff.
"That hurt," I said angry. I wasn't going to fight Splinter but he did push me to far.
I jumped to my feet and forcefully took the staff from him. That's when I felt a huge surge of power cross from my body to the staff changing it, it was no longer a normal thin bo, it had changed to what my staff looked like before. Including the Japanese markings and the white wrapped ribbons around it.
"What the….."I said looking at the staff.
"This isn't your curse Alex, it's your destiny," Splinter said coming towards me. I looked at him.
"I would like you to train your friends, and your brothers, become their mentors, and help guide them when they fight….. along side them. I'm a grumpy old man who has very little patience; I still have a hundred years in me, but…. Training is becoming harder and my patience as well," he said placing a hand to my face.
He smiled and looked behind me.
I turned around and noticed everyone had gathered in the dojo.
Yuri and her sisters came towards me. They bowed down.
"It would be an honour if you could train us…. We would love to learn from you," Yuri said. Leo tapped the Raph's arm, they all came towards me and bowed down as well.
"Dudes, Alex looks so cool…. She's like Splinter now," Mikey half whispered to his brothers in a half bow. Donnie hit him shutting him up.
I took a step back hitting in to Splinter.
"I can't do this," I half whispered to him.
"Yes, you can…." He said touching my arm.
"I want to make a few things clear," I said looking to all of them. April, Vern and Casey were standing near the door, they seemed surprised to see me with a weapon again.
"I'm still Alex, not sensei, or master…. Or anything like that, so don't call me that. Splinter is still in charge here, consider me his assistant," I said to them.
"Leonardo is still in lead, do as he says, and if you have a problem with it, discuss it and find a resolution," I said sternly.
I walked up towards them and stood between Leo and Yuri.
"We have a few rules that we abide by," I said to Yuri and her sisters.
"We don't lie, we don't have secrets, and we respect eachother," I said to the girls.
"Loyalty, honour and dignity, that's what we follow," I said to them. I pulled my staff to my back. April, Casey and Vern nodded their heads and smiled as they walked out of the dojo.
"We train at dawn, at the old pier," I said to the girls as I walked out behind April. Leo looked to me and smiled.
I had gone in to my room for the rest of the evening. I didn't want to talk to anyone; I was upset, and frustrated. I wanted to just punch something or beat something up to relive my frustration.
I would see the guys shifting around the place, the girls were researching the martial arts book I had brought back with me and April, Vern and Casey had disappeared again for the evening.
I shifted away from the door and to my bed. I looked at the staff as it rested along my dresser.
I picked it up and looked to the ceiling of my room. It had an escape hatch, most olden day subway carts usually had them. I stood on my bed and opened the hatch. It was a tight squeeze but the roof of the cart was pretty close to the roof of the subway station. I managed to squeeze myself up there and slide down the back side of the cart.
The back of the subway carts was close to a long wall with an emergency exist to the far side of the closed off section. We never could get back there because of the tight space in between the wall and the carts, but I managed to shift myself along the carts to the back door. I clicked it opened carefully pushing the bar out. There was an alarm system on the outside of the door which Donnie managed to install from the exterior of the garage. I shifted my hand to the camera blacking it out as to make it think it was in a black room.
It didn't go off; I closed the door behind me and ran through the garage to the door. I opened it and went outside. I needed some air; I looked up to the black sky and decided to go for a walk.
I pulled my shirt closed up to the last button and pulled my staff close to me. The night was cold, I decide to go to Raphael's gym to let off some steam. I never usually go there, I hated work out machines and most of the equipment he had there was for body builders.
I walked down the street to the other side, I looked at the walking man light as it flashed, I took in a deep breath and sighed then walked down the side walk and passed Leo's dojo. I stopped near the window and looked in, I thought for a moment, maybe I should go in there?
"Nah," I said to myself. I walked a few blocks down from the dojo to a larger brick building. I shifted around the building quickly so no one would notice me and to the side door. I reached to my hair and slide out a bobby pin, I put it into the lock and twisted.
One thing I knew well was how to pick locks, there wasn't any building in this city I couldn't get in to.
The handle clicked, I turned it… that's when I heard the alarm system go off.
"Damn, I forgot about this thing," I said quickly punching in a random number.
"Ah, no no…." I said trying another number. I knew I had one more chance so I tried the number of our system at home; it was my birth month, day and the four. The alarm shut off.
"Whew," I took in a deep breath. I closed the door behind me and locked it.
I lifted up my sleeves and turned on the light.
"Wow," I said as I looked over at the punching bags, and training mats. I was at the back side of the gym the side that had everything kick boxers would want.
I put my staff against a walk and went over to the cubicles. I pulled out some of the white tape and powder, I wrapped my hands with it twice and powdered them.
I tapped my fists together and stretched my arms rolling my shoulders. I noticed a large stereo system in the corner, I pulled out my phone and connected it to the system. I cranked up the sound and let my music play.
"Hey Alex," Mikey said sliding open my bedroom door. "I ordered some pepperoni pizza," He said, then stepped in.
"Alex?" he looked around my room.
"What do you mean she's gone Mikey," Leo said looking at Donnie's screens.
"Meaning…. The girl isn't in her room," Mikey said crossing his arms he looked to the screens as well.
"Can you track her Donnie?" Leo asked as his brother clicked on the computers keypad.
"No she doesn't have her watch with her, and if she does have her phone the GPS is probably off or in a place where I can't locate it," he said as images shifted between the screens.
Splinter came out of his room and stood behind them.
"Well go out there and find her," he said to them agitated.
"Where are her favorite places to go," Nina asked pulling her arms through her long trench coat jacket.
"I'll go with Mari, I'll search around the area's not to far from here, the ice cream shops, the dojo, maybe even the gym…" Raph said grabbing his sai's.
"She hates the gym," Mikey said as he pulled his nunchucks to his belt. Aki slipped on her jacket too, and pulled the hood down over her face. It was a common thing with them to do this, they were used to it in Japan. The guys didn't seem to mind it or question it.
"I'll go with Yuri and take Donnie and Nina with me, maybe she went to April's, or Vern's," Leo said pulling his katana's to his shell.
"Aki," Mikey said to her as he followed out behind Raphael.
"Meet back here in two hours," Leo said outside as they jumped on to their bikes. The girls got on behind them.
"Keep in contact on your CB's," Donnie said pointing to their devices on the bikes.
"Does she do this often?" Mari asked Raphael as he sped down the road.
"No, but when she's frustrated or angry she goes places to let off steam," He said pulling in to the parking lot of my apartment complex.
"Is this her apartment?" Mari asked getting off the back of the bike. Mikey pulled in after him and turned off the bike's engine. She looked up to the large brick buildings five story levels.
"Yeah, she comes here on the weekends, we pretend we don't know that… but we know that her date nights with April are her get-away-from-us nights," Mikey teased, he tapped a hand to Mari's arm and walked passed her.
Aki looked to Mari and shrugged her shoulders.
"Interesting," Aki said as Raphael pressed his fingers against the finger print recognition pad lock near the door of my apartment.
"Yeah, Donatello installed this for her a few months back, place got trashed pretty badly," Mikey joked and followed in behind Raphael as he opened the door.
"She hasn't been here," Raph said as he flicked on the lights and looked around the place.
Mari and Aki walked into my large opened living room space and looked around.
"How do you know she hasn't been here?" Aki asked looking towards the kitchen and down the hallway.
Raph turned on the hallway light and looked around.
"Because she has this trait, she always comes in to the living room, throws her jacket to the stool…" Mikey gestured with his hand pretending to throw an imaginary jacket to one of my bar stools.
"…. She opens the fridge, complains that we ate all her food, pulls out a milk carton, goes to the couch, sits down and flicks on the TV," he said walking through the kitchen then back to the couch.
"Yeah it's a pain in the ass trait," Raph said flicking the hallway light off.
"And sometimes, she'll hover around her bookshelf," Mikey said looking to her book shelf. Mikey turned and looked to the girls.
"Let's go, we'll cover the dojo next," Raph said at the door.
"Also, the place is spotless," Mikey said as he followed behind Aki and Mari.
"Huh," Mari said as she pulled her jacket closed.
"So you have a dojo outside of the station?" Aki asked as Mikey pulled out of the lot.
"Yeah its Leo's he opened it, he trains people three or four times a week, there's classes set up, Alex sometimes helps him…" Mikey said as he followed behind Raph.
"I'm surprised all of you work among people," Aki said again.
"Yeah, this wouldn't have happened if we hadn't helped the police department bring justice to the city, it was mostly April who helped us get out here," Mikey said to her.
"Hey it's Donnie," his voice echoed on Raph's CB. He picked it up and clicked the button.
"We just checked her place, she wasn't there, I'm heading over to the dojo…" Raph said to him.
"We just checked some of her favorite hang out spots, the mall, library, and we are heading to April's next," Donnie said to him then clicked off.
"All of you care for eachother I noticed, very much…" Mari said. Raph titled his head to the side and looked to her then back to the road.
"Yeah, we do…." He said.
"You and your sisters seem to get along well," Raph asked as he stopped at the stop light.
"We aren't real sisters, we were found together, we grew up together," she said to him.
"You are real sisters if you grew up together…. None of you left," he said revving the engine.
"Hmm," Mari said to herself. Mikey whizzed past Raphael and pulled in to the lot of the dojo.
Raph pulled up near the sidewalk.
Mikey looked through the window.
"I don't think she's been here bro," Mikey said shifting along the glass.
Raph took the keys from his bike and flipped through them for the dojo key.
He came to the door and opened it.
"Alarm dude," Mikey said as the alarm went off.
"Yeah, I got it," Raph said putting in a code. The lights were automated and they went on as he stepped away from the door.
Mikey walked through the dojo to a small hallway at the back of the dojo that led to the weapon room and back office.
"Nope, not been here," he said as the light went off as he came back through.
Raph seemed agitated or angry, he grunted and flexed his arms as he walked through the dojo.
"She's really pissing me off," he said as they piled outside the door. He closed it and locked it.
"Hey, come on…. When we find her keep your cool man, don't blow up at her," Mikey said climbing to the seat of his bike.
"I'll keep my cool alright, I'll kick that stupid little brat's ass," he said as he revved his engine.
"I don't understand, why would you be mad at her, I am very concerned about her well being, and yet you seem agitated…." Mari asked Raphael as she jumped onto the back of his bike. He sped off down the block.
"Because she's a stupid mule, she does this often and worries the crap out of us," Raph said to her.
"Do you not think that maybe being forced to be a ninja again may have resulted in her disappearance," Aki half shouted to Raphael as Mikey swerved the bike near him.
"Obviously, but she never talks to us about her problems, when she does its usually stupid things, she never expresses her feelings or emotions to anyone," Raph said as he pulled in to his gyms parking lot.
"Dude, she has been here." Mikey said noticing some music blaring.
Raphael shook his head and pulled out the key to the side door. He opened it and noticed the alarm was disabled.
"Yeah she's here alright," he said coming through the door.
"Yo doll face," Mikey said as he came through the gym towards the punching bags. Raph pulled him back.
"Don't," he said to him.
Mikey looked at him then to me and crossed his arms.
"She's training?" Aki asked next to Mikey.
"She's blowing off steam," Raph said leaning against the wall.
"Well we should take her home," Mikey said to him.
"No, you take the girls…. Tell Leo she's here, head home…." Raph said to Mikey.
"I'll stay here with her until she's done," he said to him again.
"Alright," Mikey said tapping the girls on their arms.
"Are you sure its safe for her here?" Mari asked Raphael.
He looked to her, "seriously?" he said and pulled a toothpick to his lips.
"Nevermind," she said and followed behind Mikey.