Ch. 2 (Edited for spelling errors. Hope I got them all but pretty sure I haven't)
The blind owner of 24/7, Mr. Murakami smiled as he herd one of his favorite customers enter with four other people. At first he thought maybe the mutant turtles were with her. He had grown vary found of the four unique teens and was happy that his restaurant was one of the few places they could count as a sanctuary. "Greetings April who are you friends?"
April smiled at the older man as he turned from whatever task he was doing to greet her and her new friends. Murakami had always been kind to her from the first time she came into his shop on what had been a generally bad day and the man had taken the time out of his work to just talk to her. He had listened to her complain about what she now would have thought of as small problems with a group of very stuck up girls at school. The man had really listened to her, not the half listening most adults will do to humor a upset child, and offered advice that had actually seemed to help. Add to the fact he had excepted the boys for their character and not by what they were, and the man had ended up with a customer for life.
Didn't hurt that his food was some of the best she had ever tasted either.
"Hi Mr. Murakami this is Alya, Nino, Adrein, and Marienette." gesturing to the Parisian teens out of reflex even tho she knew Murakami couldn't see it. "Their here from Paris for the Krang Science Expo."
"Ah yes," the cook responded as smile at the teens. "Good to hear that something good could actually come from those monsters' invasion." No one noticed the slight flinch April gave at the man's words. He had no way of knowing that because of experiments the Krang had done on her family for generations that half her DNA was Krang. Beside herself and most of the mutants she knew she would agree whole heatedly with his statement.
The French teens all greeted the noodle shop owner with Adrien saying hello in Japanese which Murakami returned followed by a polite bow that Adrien returned. Then he noticed the others starring at him. "What?" he asked sheepishly.
"Dude," Nino said, "How many languages do you know?" The DJ remembered that his friend had been one of the ones to help them learn English himself as he already spoke it.
Scratching the bake of his head in a nervous gesture the blonde replied sheepishly. "I'm only flaunt in English, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, and German."
Marienette's eyes practically turned into saucers on how smart her crush was, Alya and April just laughed while Nino shuck his head. "Dude I need to teach you to be a better slacker seriously. Your making the rest of us look bad." He teased the quickly reddening model.
After some good nature teasing the two boys got seated at the counter while April dragged Alya and Marienette off to a booth in the corner claiming she needed to have some girl talk with the two. "Wise man once said, man live happy and long life as long he doesn't intrude on girl talk." Murakami said with a smirk as the two boys laughed.
At the booth April set across from the two other girls as they tore into their orders of Pizza Gyōzas she thought of what she wanted to ask them. April hadn't had any female friends for quit a long time. The last one turning out to be a Krang spy made it a little hard to trust afterwords, but she felt she was hitting it off with this group and didn't want to screw it up. That was why she felt she had to figure something out first.
"We're all getting along great aren't we," April ask the two girls.
"So far the only people in America I haven't liked we brought with us," Alya said thinking briefly of Chloe and her crappy attitude.
"This whole trip been great," Marienette agreed.
"That what I thought," April said with a half smile before turning to the amateur fashion designer. "Then can I ask what I did to get the death glares at the Expo? I hope I didn't do something to offend you." April ask with hope not realizing till just then how much she was hoping she hadn't done something to screw up making some new girl friends. The boys and Casey were the best friends anyone could ask for, as close or closer than family, but they were teenage boys through and through and she was drowning in Testosterone.
Marienette turned redder than April's hair as Alya just burst out laughing. "You d-didn't do anything wrong." The girl with the blue bell eyes said looking like she was trying to sink further into her chair. April worried that she maybe should have left the matter alone at the distress it was causing the other girl.
Alya finely looked up to the heavens as if seeking some devine help in dealing with her best friend. "Oh just tell her Mari. If she spends anymore time around you and Adrien she's going to figure it out. Everyone else has."
Marienette's head snapped to attention at that. "Wait who else knows?"
"Anyone who spends five seconds around you two that isn't one Adrien Agressif." That was when she noticed their new American friend's look of confusion and realized that her and Marienette had switched back to French and the girl had no idea what was going on. "Sorry April," Alya said switching back to English so the girl could follow the conversation. "I'm going to tell her if that okay with you Mari?" She said looking at her friend.
"It's okay if April can keep it a secret," Marienette whispered wondering why she was trusting the new girl to the news of her crush. Before it had always been her and Alya's secret, and Tikki's of course but even Alya didn't know about her Kawami. But she felt she could trust April with this, and maybe miracle of miracles the red head might have any new ideas on how she can solve her issue.
A wicked smile crossed Alya's lips as she addressed April. "So how about it April think you can keep a secret?"
April's mind flashed to the piece of the Sol Star hanging around her neck, the Tessen battle fan in her backpack, and the alien blaster setting next to it. Add to that the fact she could find her way to the lair of four mutant ninjas and their mutant sensei/father nearly blindfolded in the New York City sewer system, she would say she had the keeping secrets thing down. "My lips are sealed."
"Okay you see that cute rich boy dorky model setting over there with my equally yummy boyfriend," Alya paused turning to Marienette, "Don't ever let him know I said that." Marienette nodded her head quickly a giggle escaping her lips before Alya turned back to April. "Well my cute as a button friend here is crushing so hard she looks a lot like a health film on what happens when someone has a stroke whenever she tries to talk to him."
"I'm not that bad," Marienette protested but at her friend's knowing look she sunk down again. "I'm much worse," she whines.
April stole a glance at the two boys who were laughing at something Marukami had told them and then back at the two girls. "Okay I get the crush thing, he is kind of cute, but why were you annoyed by me?" Then it hit her. "Oh, because we where talking at the Expo."
Marienette became a babbling mess but luckily Apirl had ample experience in "Mikey Speak," so following the french girl was not an problem. "I know nothing was going on, and your not horrible person like Chloe, or his fan girls that are after him cause he's a celeb and rich. Matter of fact your super nice which is both good, and bad cause I think Adrien likes super nice and that bothers me a bit but your not doing anything wrong." Finely the girl seemed to take a breath from her small freak out that had came out almost as one word. She took a second to gather herself before saying very quietly, "Sorry."
April smiled at the other girl. She had a moment wishing she could introduce this girl to Michelangelo. With the cuteness and the awkwardness he would absolutely adore her. "It's
not an issue. He's cute but I'm not going to go after him or anything." Marienette sighed with relief.
"I figured you say that," Alya said a Cheshire grin coming to her face. "From what I've seen you've got a hand or two full yourself. Am I right?"
April almost choked on her coke at Alya's words. "I don't know what you mean. I don't have anyone in my hands." April replied her cheeks heating up.
"Oh really," Alaya said her grin never leaving her face. "So I didn't notice someone checking out a certain hooded fellow that so perfectly put Chloe in her place earlier, or a very found smile cross someone's lips when a mysterious voice from a camera spoke to us." Alya pulled out her phone holding it up like she did when catching action for the Ladyblog. "So what is the scoop girl inquiring minds want to know."
April paused a moment in her embarrassment to realize something she should have noticed before. It was something Master Splinter would have scolded her for not noticing sooner. Alya was a very observant person. More so than a lot people, and for the secrets she had to keep and the friends she had to protect that could be a very dangerous.
Deciding they hadn't touched on anything that could have hurt her friends she returned to the conversation. "I don't know what you talking about," she tried but noticed that even Marienette looked at her like she didn't buy it. "Okay it's complicated."
"That just makes it more news worthy," Alya said with a grin as she put her phone down. Despite her jokes she knew not to spill the beans on secret crushes told during girl talk. There where somethings you just didn't do and sleep well at night.
If you only knew April thought to Alya's joke. "Well Donnie and his brothers helped me out when my father was kidnapped," at the shocked look the two gave herself April had to fight back a grin. With all the weird stuff that happened to her the kidnapping on the service was not as strange as the rest. For a second she thought about telling them the truth about it being the Krang that kidnapped him but figured that would be too hard for them to swallow. Plus she had to keep the truths to a bare necessitates so not to risk the guys. So she pressed on to avoid too many questions.
"The guys who grabbed my Dad also were going to take me when Donnie and his brothers showed up and rescued me."
"So they're heroes?" Alya said a odd grin spreading across her face that made April nervous. "Are they superheros like Ladybug and Chat Noir?"
The question caused April to pause a moment hating that Alya was getting closer to the truth than the Kudiachi in training liked. But she was able to school her impression enough to not let it show and used a lesson Master Splinter had taught her about gathering information. Deflect a dangerous question with another question. "Who are Ladybug and Chat Noir?"
Alya started to speak when Marienette interrupted her. "No, nope, not going to happen right now." The other two teens stared at the blue eyed girl strangely. "Alya you are the number one Ladybug fan and know more about her than anyone." Except me she thought, because I am Ladybug, "Once you start talking about those two we will never hear what April has to say and I'm curious." What the red head was saying was not only coming off as exciting but romantic as hell and part of Marienette couldn't resist romance.
"Okay after April shares I'll show her the Ladyblog."
April put her own curiosity that was now peeked aside and continued. "Okay there I was more scared than I had ever been and suddenly there's these guys who didn't even know me jumping my attackers and pulling me to safety." She decided to edit the fact that they didn't save her then and had to raid a alien base and fight a mutant plant to actually save her. The memory did bring a smile to her face thou.
"Since no one knew we knew each other and the guys who took my Dad were still out there they let me stay with them until my father was returned." April had to stop herself from laughing at all she was leaving out of the story. Even she left out the part about the boys being mutant ninja turtles she doubted the two french girls would believe the rest anyways. There were still days she woke up and had to remind herself that this was really reality.
"Well Donatello was the one who saw me and convinced his brothers to help me. He was also the one who was there for me when I was having some of the worst times about missing my Dad. He is probably the smartest person I have ever met and also one of the most caring. Problem is he is also one of my best friends even though I know he has had a crush on me since he first saw me." She realized that she wasn't just leaving out the part about him being a Mutant cause the girls weren't suppose to know about that but the for the simple fact she didn't think it mattered to her anymore. At first it had freaked her out of course, but she had stopped noticing it a long time ago. "I don't want to risk losing what we have now. Him and his brothers are like family."
"So what about Hood Boy?" Alya asked as April paused a second to gather her thoughts. This conversation was starting to feel way more serious than she had intended.
"Casey?" April took a sip of her coke before she continued. "Kind of similar. I was assigned to tutor him in math so he wouldn't get kicked off the school hockey team, which is his one and only motivation to go to school in the first place." Alya and Marienette chuckled at this.
"At the time me and the boys were fighting," Again April pressed on before Alya or Marienette could ask for more details. "Casey had been very understanding about what I was going through. We started to become friends. Then he goes and saves me too, from a big guy that tried to attack us on the way home." She left out the part about the big guy basically being a giant tank of internal organs and mutagen that could walk.
"Now I'm in a similar boat with him as with Donnie." April gaze lowered. She had these thoughts for a while now but somehow voicing them made the matter seem so much more real. "Casey's my friend but he is not shy about the fact that he likes me. Although it is hard to tell sometimes cause he is a terrible flirt anyway."
Marienette nodded her head in understanding automatically thinking of Chat Noir.
"Then there's the way they react to each other." April added a scowl coming to her face. "I mean it's not as bad as it was when they first met. Now they at least treat each other as friends when it comes down to it, but they honestly act like they have to compete with each other over everything."
"Compete how?" Marienette asked wondering what it would be like to have two boys fighting for her affections. "Arm wrestling and that kind of thing?"
"I wish it was that simple," April said her mind flashing to some of the stunts the boys had pulled. It took her a second to pick out the ones she could let slip to the girls. No way she could tell them about the time they kept score on how many Footbots they could take out, and she probably shouldn't mention the twelve races they've had over the New York City rooftops either. "Well there was the insult contest that lasted for four days. They had to use a different word for each letter of the alphabet and then start over when they reached Z." April was pretty sure Donatello cheated on that one at the end, he did say the words he used could be looked up in a dictionary but none of them had checked. "Then the time they timed themselves annoying Donnie's brother Raph and how long they could keep away from him when he blew his top. That one ended bad for both of them."
"I don't know if that is cute, or if you just have two lunatics that have crushes on you." Marienette deadpanned causing both Alya and April to choke on their drinks a little as they laughed into them. "But that is one of the problems isn't it April? Not only figuring out which one you like that way but what will happen to all the friendships if you choose one and not the other."
April paused again realizing that she had been wrong twice. Not only was Alya highly observant and smart but Marienette had a mind like a steel trap. "Got it in one."
"If I choose Donnie, Casey's going to go ballistic, which I know would start at least issues with Raph cause their best friends. It be some kind of guy code thing I'm sure. And if I choose Casey I may cause problems with all the brothers and I don't want that. Come to think I know I'd have problems with Raph, cause I think it's a bro code thing." April buried her face into her hands in annoyance.
Alaya raised her cup of soda up. "A toast. To boys. Man I hope their worth the trouble." The other girls laughed as they clink their plastic cups together. "So to review you've got two boys driving themselves crazy to win your affections." April nodded her head. "And poor Marienette can't talk to her crush with out sounding crazy." Marienette nodded sadly then took another sip of her drink while Alya added with a mischievous grin, "Oh and she has a superhero flirting with her too."
The baker's daughter's reaction was instantaneous and explosive, and he would realize later completely timed by her friend, as she blew out the soda she was drinking through her nose. April was thankful for battle harden reflexes as she scooted further into the booth and dodged the spray. After a few seconds of light coughing and good nature laughing from Alaya, Marienette was able to gain her composure to turn and glared at her friend. "I told you Alya Chat Noir flirts with everyone, not just me."
Marienette regretted for probably the fifty time that she had let it slip that the two times she helped her superhero partner as plan old Marienette, during the Evil Illustrator and Puppeteer incidents, the incorrigible flirt had called her Princess. The first few times Alya had brought it up had sent a panic into Marienette fearing that her friend may have figured out her secret identity, but no Alya had came up with a crazy idea that the cat themed hero may now like two ladies.
The sometime super-heroine knew something was a miss as Alya smirked. "Nope, I checked. I've re-interviewed most of the girls that I know the tomcat has had contact with, which is most of the girls in our class and a few he has either saved from Akuma attacks or have been Akumnized themselves. And the one constant is that while he may be goofy and a joker he hasn't given any of them a nick name. The only two girls his given a flirtatious nick name are you and Ladybug my dear breaker of superhero's hearts."
This stopped Marienette dead in her tracks. Chat always flirted with her as Ladybug, she just assumed it was all part of his arrogant hero act, but if what Alya was saying was true what could that mean? Could her partner really be interested in only her and her alter ego? Naw, Alya also thought at one point that Chloe was Ladybug, so even thou she loved her friend dearly she knew she wasn't always right.
Luckily Marienette was able to put aside that train of thought as April spoke up. "Okay I give who is Chat Noir and Ladybug?" This earned the American a look from Alya like she just asked what direction was up.
"You seriously haven't herd of Paris' superheros?" April shuck her head no. "Okay now I'm worried about what they teach in schools here in the States."
"It's not like they teach a class back home either," Marienette said with a giggle.
"That's only because Mr. Damocles refuses to except my petition."
Picking her phone back up Alya's fingers flipped through the apps with a well practiced ease before flipping it back over showing a picture of two masked figures. One a dark haired girl wearing a red skin tight suit with black spots and a blonde boy in a black leather cat suit. Alya went into a quick description about who Ladybug and Chat Noir were and how they saved Paris from Akumas on a almost weekly bases.
Something seemed familiar about the two but April couldn't place it. She felt something push at her powers as she looked at the two, and she realized whatever it was it was keeping her from seeing something. Like a unseen wall that she could feel her power push at slightly. Like her power was trying to help her see something that was there but her regular human eyes couldn't.
Whatever it was April became distracted from it when Alya spoke with mischief in her eyes. "So this one here," She said indicating Marienette with her head, "stutters like someone with a head wound anytime she talks to a boy she sees everyday in our class, but from what I've been able to gather gives sass to sexy cat boy of Paris' version of the dynamic duo. Now does that make any sense?"
Marienette decided to go with the mature response buy sticking her tongue out at Alya and then becoming very interested in her remaining Pizza Gyōzas. April couldn't help but add her own teasing to her new friend. "The real question we should be asking is why Marienette feels so comfortable around someone dressed in leather S&M gear?" Marienette's face went almost the same color as Raphael's mask as Alya laughed so hard she had to bury her head into her heads for a second.
The blogger composed herself a grin firmly locked on her lips before she spoke. "That the best part. He said in an interview that his suite isn't made of leather,"
"Whats it made of," the redhead asked as she saw Marienette put her hand over her face obviously knowing what the answer was.
"He said it's made of boyfriend material." There was a slight pause before the two girls started giggling again looking at Marienette. The designer tried to do a Chloe worthy turn-your-nose-at-those-beneath-you head turn, but the two girls infectious smiles ruined it as she wasn't able to hide her own giggle.
"Harpies," she said her own grin ruining the put upon effect she was going for before going into a story about how Alya had totally fallen for a prank Alix and Kim had put together the second week she was at school. The rest of the meal was filled with embarrassing stories, opinions on clothes and music, and a few critiques on which boy in the the french girls' class had the nicest butt. Nathaniel would have been surprised to learn that he made the top three. April treasured having a moment to just be a normal teenage girl.
She knew with her life it probably wouldn't last long.
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"What you watching it looks cool D?"
At the sound of his youngest brother's voice Donatello did his usual mental checklist. Mikey wasn't touching any of his experiments, didn't have any of Donnie's tools, and he was setting next to them in their den area without his hands on Donnie's laptop. Situation safe for now but be on Mikey alert his brain informed him before he answered his brother's question.
"It's not a show, this is that girl April and Casey were showing around the expo blog. It's called the Ladyblog and appealingly showcases two real superheroes that have been saving Paris from something called Akumas."
Michelangelo's head invaded Donnie's space as he shoved closer to get a better look at the computer screen. "This guys are real?" Mikey's grin spread as he watched the video showed the two heroes make an impossible leap to clear the top of a roof before taking off further across the Paris rooftops. "That so cool. What's their names" Wait I know." A green figured touched the screen leaving a slight pizza grease stain on the hero dressed in black. "Catscratch," Donnie could feel his jaw lock as Mikey made a bigger smear on his screen as he dragged his finger to the female hero. "and the Amazing Bug0."
"MIKEY," he shouted slapping his brother's hand away from his screen as he produced a cleaning cloth and wiped the smear away. "That's not their names."
"So what are their names my son?"
Splinter's voice came from right behind his two youngest causing them both to jump and Donatello to have to scramble to catch his laptop before it hit the ground. The mutant master ninja didn't even bother to hide his chuckle. He found it was good to remind his teen boys that he could still sneak up on them without them knowing with relative ease. It gave them something to think about when they were scheming something. It was also kind of funny.
"Sensei do you have to sneak up on us like that?" Donatello said.
"Sorry it's a ninja thing." Both boys could see the sparkle of mischief in their father/teacher's eyes. "So you were going to inform us on these French superheros."
Donnie turned his attention back to the computer screen moving it so Splinter who was still standing beside them could see better. "Their name's are Ladybug and Chat Noir,"
Mikey crossed his arms in a pout. "Mine were better."
Donnie ignored him as he continued. "They've been saving Paris from a super villain that turning other people into super villains with something called an Akuma. I haven't gotten to far into the Ladyblog yet but it seems interesting and legit. Imagine real life superheroes. Guess we're not the only strange thing in the world huh?"
"Many things in heaven and Earth my son."
Donatello noticed that his father was now thinking hard about something. "Isn't a Akuma a demon in Japanese mythology?" he asked. He and Leo spoke flawless Japanese but he didn't know anyone that was a bigger source for lore and legend from the Far East than his father.
"That is the most common meaning yes, but there was also a ancient band of warriors that helped save Japan from a invading army that went by that name. They were rumored to have magical powers." Donatello was about to ask his father more on the subject finding the whole thing fascinating when he realized two things.
One his laptop was no longer in his lap.
Two Michelangelo was already across the room at their kitchen table.
Jumping to his feet shouting Mikey's name he forgot about their conversation as he ran over to retrieve his laptop from Mikey. Who was busy trying to get the Ladyblog members to start a petition to get Ladybug and Chat Noir to change their names to the ones he had picked for them.
Deep in thought Splinter turned to go back to the dojo. He had some meditating to do. If the information he gathered from his sons it seemed that three Miraculous had been activated and one had been taken by evil. He wondered if he could justify solving his issues here or if he should put all that aside for the greater honor of his clan.
He snorted to himself as he already knew what Oroku Saki would do. It didn't matter that the debt owed to Tentochu and Kuro Neko was also owed by the Foot Clan as well. His former brother was far too near sighted in his twisted view of honor.
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Fong, Tsoi, and Sid were bored. They been waiting at the street corner that Hun had told the three founding members of the Purple Dragons to meet him at for two hours now, and the three hoodlums' very short attention span was already way past their usual stress levels. The worst part was Fong was pretty sure that the boss was making them wait on purpose. He had been going on and on lately about how they needed to be more disciplined if they ever want to make the Purple Dragons a force in this city. At least that's what Fong thought he was saying. He really wasn't listening.
The whole thing made the sometimes second in command miss the days that Xever ran the gang. Before he back the mutant freak called Fishface. Xever spoke Fong's language. He knew that the main order of business was making money and causing chaos. Even when they got a serious job going Xever always made sure to keep them focused on the those two goals. Hun had big dreams for the Dragons and focused most of their time trying to make them something more important in the Shredder's organization.
Of course Fong wasn't stupid enough or crazy enough to ever voice these complaints anywhere Hun would hear them. Purple Dragons didn't get health benefits after all.
Seeing a group of teenagers leaving Miurkami's Fong smiled as he got his other two accomplishes attention. Will it looks like they had found some fun and didn't have to disobey Hun. Fong took in a few things about the group. One they looked around at New York with the obvious air of tourist, and second while the group was talking excitedly in English they each had a fairly clear french accent to their words. In Fong's many years experience mugging people this all added up to this group being a easy target. His favorite kind.
Tsoi pulled a solid looking chain that he had placed a massive padlock on the end of, testing the weight as Sid gripped the lead pipe he had been carrying. Fong smiled as he pulled the meat cleaver he had been carrying in his belt at his lower back. Now they were ready to show these tourist some New York hospitality. "Excuse me can we trouble you all for a donation to a very important charity?"
The blonde boy was the first to turn and noticed the Dragons' drown weapons. Fong noticed the boy's posture change from open and friendly to steely as he stepped in front of his friends. Fong chuckled to himself as he thought of the price he could get for the boy's silver ring at a pawn shop he knew that didn't bother asking a lot of questions.
"What charity is that?" the blonde asked as he friends noticed the gang members with a look of fear in the other boy and one of the girl's eyes, and another steely gaze from the skinniest of the girls that almost caused Fong to laugh out load.
Fong raised his meat cleaver so that the street light caught and reflected back at the would be hero causing a look of worry past over the boy's face a second before the steely look returned. "Why the Purple Dragons retirement found that is. No better reason to give up all your money and valuables."
"SHOULD BE RAISING MONEY FOR HOSPITAL BILLS INSTEAD YOU JERKS!" A new voice shouted out just before a thrown metal fan slammed into Fong's face.
April came around her friends at a run catching her tensen on the fly as she zeroed in on her next target, the mustached gang member holding the chain. She cursed her lack of attention as she closed the gap on the Purple Dragon. She hadn't been paying attention staying behind slightly to get a order of Pizza Gyōzas for Mickey, payment for losing to him in Ultimate Mega Strike 3, and hadn't seen the Dragons walk up on the Parisian teens.
April's training kicked in a she closed in the gang member who realized she was coming for him. When he realized the danger her was in she was already too close for him to used the chains greater reach against her. Her tensen flashed disarming him and a second before her follow up roundhouse kick floored him as well.
By then the big muscular Dragon shuck off the shock of her speedy attack and was on her in a second the pipe in his hand swinging for her head. April almost laughed on how much this trio use to scare her, now they were nothing more than a warm up. Closing up her fan she jabbed it into his throat causing him to stumble and cough just before a focused strike to his temple dropped the big man like a sack of bricks.
There was silence fore a moment before Alya's voice rang out, "Yeah girl power, way to go April." The red head turned to her new friends her face reddening up so much that she knew it was turning into one big freckle.
"Did I mention I take martial arts?" April said relieved that Alya hadn't gotten her phone out to record the event. That was not a conversation she wanted to have with her Sensei.
The sound of a slow clap behind her caused her to turn around just as a familiar voice spoke. "Yes you are much improved Ms. O'Neil." April didn't need her special powers to feel the malice in the polite sounding words. "I so wanted these three to be conscious when they met the new recruits."
Hun, the current leader of the Purple Dragons, stepped into sight causing April to drop into a fighting stance, the fifteen or so guys all sporting brand new Dragon tattoos that walked up behind him made her drop her hand into her pocket hitting a button on her turtle shaped cell phone.
The Jeet Kune Do fighter made a show of putting his spike braced knuckles on before he removed his sunglasses. "So no freaks or that Jones moron tonight?" April noticed that the new recruits had already spread out cutting off any escape they might have.
April knew that she just needed to stall for time till her friends arrived. Her and the guys had taken Hun and his loser Dragons down on several occasions. And she knew the guys would come up with some way to do it where the French students wouldn't see them. She would just have to be ready for that moment to come.
That is why she would reason later she had decided to poke this particular bear with a stick. "Will I thought about calling the guys, but I figure it's only Purple Dragons. They're about as dangerous as a kindergarten class right?"
A cold rage passed through Hun's eyes. April knew she had hit a sore point for the gang leader. He ambition to make the Dragons something big in New York hadn't bore fruit yet and despite his calm demeanor in most things he was raging on the inside about it. April felt rage fill his mind at her comment. To his credit his voice was steady and didn't show any of the rage as he spoke. "Take them and make sure to hurt Ms. O'Neil in as many different ways you can think off." With a snap of his fingers the Dragons attacked.
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As she ducked and weaved around attackers April came to a realization. If this kept up much longer she was going to have to each use her powers or find her way to her bag and get her blaster out. Her train of thoughts were interrupted as she had to side step a poorly thrown right jab smacking her opponent up side his head with her war fan before dancing out of the way of two more of his fellow gang members.
During the first rush the Parisian teens had surprised April in their reactions. Instead of panicking and freaking out in a way that would have complicated the situation a thousand fold. The four had backed up against a wall, scared but not freaking out. She guessed that having to survive super villain attacks on a sometimes daily bases makes one pretty level headed in bad situations. Nino had picked up a metal trash can lid and Alya had grabbed a beer bottle both taking swings at any of the Dragons that came close. Not really all the effective but better than nothing.
But Adrien and Marrienette's reactions were the real surprise to not only her, but from the looks of it Nino and Alya as well. The petite girl had scooped up the chain that the mustached Purple Dragon had dropped while Adrein had picked up the pipe the muscular gang member had wielded, and they started to attack the group of hoodlums while still staying back enough to help their friends.
The model used the pipe like it was a fencing foil moving in for quick strikes to exposed areas or quick swipes at knees and ankles to topple the usually much bigger opponents. Then he dance back out of the way only to repeat the lunging attacks a second later. While the would be fashion designer would either wrap the chain around legs or arms throwing their enemies off balance. Once or twice she would send the heavy lock crashing into the face of a Dragon. Anyone got too close to her was usually met with a grim faced Adrien Agressif and even once a clumsy attack from Nino and his trashcan lid.
Despite how surprising of a fight her allies were putting up she could tell it wouldn't last. She could already tell that both Adrien and Marinette were slowing down from exhaustion and unfortunately she had already figured out that Alya and Nino couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag.
Their real saving grace April knew was the fact that the thugs mainly seemed to be focused on her. Obviously wanting to get points with the new boss for taking out the one out of the group that he actually hated. So many of them were swarming her that she had almost completely stopped fighting back except when she caught a obvious opening and was mainly focused on dodging. She had been through endurance training so she knew that she could keep this up but if the blonde and bluenette went down she would have to split her attention even more on keeping her friends save and defending herself and that would be the end of this fight.
Almost to prove her point a shout from Marienette caused April to turn just in time to see a goon yank the chain out of the girls hand almost pulling her off balance, then a "KA-YA," announced that Hun had decided to join the fight as he slammed a powerful kick into April's side.
The kick knocked her off her feet. She rolled with the attack back flipping back to her feet next to Adrien and a now weaponless Marienette. Hun grinned letting April know that he figured that the fight was about to be over. April felt her anger, and with it her power, rise as unnoticed by those around her a few small pieces of trash and other things found on a New York street started to lift into the air around the red head.
Behind her and unknown to each other Marienette and Adrien both had the exact same thought. "Screw secret identities I've got to put a stop to this." They both started to open their mouths to call out a phrase as April felt a blast of telekinetic power build in the palm of her hand.
"GOONGALA!"
The shout stopped both Marienette and Adrien from finishing what they were about to say as well as causing April to lose the power she had gathered as a smile crossed her lips. The next instant Casey Jones was in middle of the group of Purple Dragons in full vigilante gear hockey stick swing scattering the goons in his first pass.
Hun moved in to attack but both April and Casey were ready for him. April closed on him just as he reached Casey throwing a kick at the gang leader's side forcing him to block, which left him wide open for Casey to shove his homemade taser into Hun's chest. The man cried out as electricity shot up down his body for a second before he jumped back to regroup with his followers. Hurt but not out of the fight. The smell of burnt skin reached April's nose causing her to wonder if the wannabe Bruce Lee would be sporting a potato masher shaped burn scar from now on.
The arrival of the young vigilante caused a momentary pause in the fight. Casey turned to the group lifting up his hockey mask a face painted like a skull and grinning ear to ear greeted the group. April had a moment to wonder if he had taken time to do his face paint before coming to her rescue? If that was the case she was going to make him eat his hockey stick.
"Casey?" Alya said taking in the teen's appearance. April wonder how she was going to explain this one to the French students. Oh me and Casey are just normal teenagers like you guys we just fight gangs, evil mutants, and ninjas as a extra credit project. This was going to be one fun conversation.
"The one and only," Casey said with a wink that caused a frown to cross Nino's face. "Okay at the signal we need you guys to follow April out while me and my sidekicks take care and Hun and his Dragon losers."
Adrien started to speak but Marienette beat him to it and April for one was impressed by the strength she had in her voice. "We can't leave you here to fight these guys alone." April agreed with the remark and would demand to stay and fight except for one fact. Casey's poorly dubbed "sidekicks" were the Turtles and there was no way they could take out the Dragons with the Parisian teens watching.
She was going to have a hard of enough time convincing Alya not to post this all on her Ladyblog without the added bonus of explaining the fact that their saviors were four mutant turtle ninjas and her best friends. "Trust me guys I want to stay and help too," the redhead turned to the model and the fashion designer letting them see in her eyes that they she was very serious about her want to stay and help. "Casey and the guys can take these morons but not if they have to watch after us and we're all nearly dead on our feet."
She saw both Alya and Nino nodded in agreement but both Adrien and Marienette hesitated. April got the feeling that neither of them felt comfortable backing down. Strange neither seemed like the fighter type but their strength of will and bravery were saying different. "Okay." the designer said and April could tell that seemed to cost her a lot.
A cocky smirk that both seemed familiar and out of place was on the blonde model's face. "So what's the signal Hockey Puke?"
Casey had slapped his mask down as the Purple Dragons started to charge again but April could practically see the smirk under his mask. "Same as always," tilting his head back he shouted. "BOYA!"
Michelangelo's voice echoed through out the night finishing the battle cry. "CASHA!" Then the street exploded in purple smoke swallowing up the gang members.
The next instant was all movement. Casey shot forward on his roller blades into the smoke as April noticed movement inside the smoke and the sound of the Turtles battling the gang members came to her ears. But that was all she had time for. She had a mission and that was to get the French students out of there.
In a blur of motion she put her tensen into her pocket running past Marienette and Adrien garbing a hand of each as she practically dragged them off away from the fight. "Move now!" she said Alya and Nino already running with her. She wasn't sure despite what they said that Adrien or Marienette would have gone on their own. That was why she had grabbed their hands. That and it helped stop her from turning back to aid the guys herself. She hated to leave a fight unfinished.
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They had gotten about three blocks from the fight, which was also about three blocks from the motel her new friends were staying when April had them all stop. Everyone but her was seriously winded from the fast pace she had set. She had a moment on how much her body had strengthened since her training had began.
Alya was the first to recover coming up to April as she was pulling her T-phone out of her pocket. "What was that and why was Casey dressed as a hockey fan that had gone over the deep end?"
"Mainly cause he thinks he looks cool." April had found the number she was looking for and hit the dial button. "Can you give me a minute Alya I've got to check on the guys." Alya was about to say something when she saw the worry in April's eyes. The kunoichi in training knew that the guys could take that group of morons with ease but Donnie wasn't answering his phone. Just before it was going to go to voice mail and cause her to call her again the phone was answered but not by Donnie.
"Hello this is the Big Dork Ninja's phone."
"Raph?" April said recognizing the red clad ninja's voice. "Why you answering Donatello's phone?" Then a taught struck her like a bolt of lightning to the spine. "He's not hurt is he?"
Raphael chuckled which caused April to relax even before he spoke. She knew the hot head would not be joking if one of his brothers was hurt. He'd be breaking whoever hurt him in very violent ways. "The brainiac fine. Just dropped his phone roundhousing Hun."
"What happened? Is everyone okay?"
"Against that bunch of losers?" Raph sounded offended by the idea. "They weren't eve a warm up. Only one conscious right now is Hun and I bet he was wishing he wasn't." April herd the sound of something connecting with flesh and grunt of pain in the background.
"What happened?"
Raph let out another chuckle and April worried about what was amusing the hell out of the mutant. "We'll he decided to say some very ungentlemanly things about you and what he would do the next time he saw you. Well Donnie and Casey asked the rest of us to stay back as they gave him a lesson in the proper way to treat girls."
April had a terrible thought. She hoped that the two guys didn't turn this into another competition between them. Hun was a scum bag but she didn't really want his death to be on her and the guys' hands if she could help it.
"I don't think the Purple Dragons are going to have a leader for awhile. Donnie how long would that usually take to heal?" he shouted off into the distance.
She herd Donnie shout back with anger in his voice. "Two weeks," then a shout she recognized as Casey's and someone crying out in pain. "Okay maybe a month."
"You get the civies out safe and sound?" April looked over just now realizing the other four weren't even hiding the fact they were listening in on her conversation. She could see a million questions running trough their heads. Alya looked like she was about to burst a blood vessel.
"They're good. I was about to get them to their motel just wanted to check on you guys."
"We're cool. Get them home safe and then get back in touch with us. Old Fearless wants to do a debriefing. Probably wants us to start saluting him soon and calling him Captain."
April laughed at the reference to their team leader's obsession to Space Heroes. The last thing she herd after say bye to Ralph was said leader shouting, "Okay guys that enough. Biting is very dishonorable. I'm talking to you Donnie."
Looking up she noticed that Alya had her phone out and was pointing it at April. For a second the red head wished more Purple Dragons would show up. Punching her way out of that seemed like it would be easier than this.
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Hawk Moth rose at the sound of the door opening behind him and turned to face his master. His voice almost cracked at the sight before him only his iron nerve covering up his reaction knowing that showing that he felt pity for this man would be seen as a dishonor, and he would be severely punished. A part of the Parisian Super villain wondered for a second why he worried about punishment. Before a few weeks ago when he had became the Shredder's servant he had never feared punishment from anyone since he was eight years old. This thought was crushed and pushed aside by a wave of anger so strong it left him shaken. Anger aimed at his master's enemies that had dared put him in the condition he saw before him.
When his master had checked on his progress earlier he had been up and about moving on his own and Hawk Moth had hoped that perhaps his recovery was doing better, but seeing his master in a wheel chair being pushed by his tiger mutant second in command meant his master had pushed the pain killers Stockmen was giving him too hard again. His strong will and desire to get back into battle against his foes was awe inspiring but was servery hindering his healing process. The damage done to him by the rat mutant would have killed most men.
"Is it ready?" his master's voice caused Hawk Moth to snap to attention.
A wicked grin crossed the Miraculous wielder's lips. "Yes master," with a dramatic swipe of his arm and bow he presented the obsidian sphere that now pulsed with an excess of the same energy that he filled his butterflies with. "The Night Stone is filled with my energy. All that is required is for me to let my kawami rest for a night and feed and we are ready to make this city yours."
"Good," Shredder said raising himself up further in his chair. "And the other business we discussed?"
Raising his cane so his master could see the black Akuma inside. "That to is ready my master. Tomorrow your enemies and this city fall."
Author's Note's: Okay I blame Shinigami for how long this took. She showed up and was such a cool character it actually made me have to stop and rethink a few things in my story. Hope you all enjoy this