Me: Daaaaaaaang. How long has it been since I updated this? Editing no count-y.
Leo: A long time.
Me: So…RECAP! Leo's in the hands of the Foot clan, thanks to his ex-friend Andrew. Let's adventure back to his house after a while and see what's going on there….
AND I have been editing, so you MIGHT wanna go back to chapter one. Just a suggestion. Oh, and Irma is NOT a Kraang in this! She is an actual PERSON! #FindTheRealIrma
Oh, and see if you don't get the reference in the chapter title.
"I'm worried, Father." Karai was pacing back and forth in front of Splinter, looking indeed, veryworried. "He should have been back by now!" Kris watched her, his face unusually serious.
"I am worried as well." Splinter confessed. "But I taught him well. He should be fine."
"Grandfather," Kris spoke up, looking at the screen of his tPhone. "He isn't on the map. Like, at all. His tracker isn't working." Karai looked over his shoulder, and sure enough, Leo's deep blue spot was absent from the map, nowhere to be found.
"Do you still think he's ok?" Karai asked, the dryness of her tone covering something else.
"I believe it would be wise if you called my other sons and their families, as well as Mr. Jones and Mr. Chapman." He said, worry creasing his features.
"Kris, call Casey and Uncle Ryan." Karai ordered, pulling out her tPhone, panic starting to leak into her voice, despite her efforts to remain calm. She frantically began dialing Donnie and April. "I'll handle everyone else."
"Hai, haha.*" Kris nodded and began dialing his 'uncle'.
"Hello? April?...It's Leo. He left to see Andrew about party supplies 5 hours ago and still isn't back yet….No, I don't know what happened!...No, he isn't on the map either. I don't know what to do, April!" Karai's voice had risen and was now very high. Kris was rather shocked to see his usually stoic mother in such obvious panic and immediately wrapped up his conversation with Ryan to run over to her. He gave her a hug, which she returned with her free hand, smiling apologetically. "Thank you, April. I'll see you later, then."
"April and Donnie are on their way, and April offered to take care of phoning the others." Only a hint of relief had entered her tone. "Hopefully, we can find him quickly."
"Mom?"
"What is it, Kris?"
"I think Aunt April's shy-kick powers can help." Kris appeared proud of this suggestion.
"It's 'psychic.'" Karai corrected. "And maybe you're right." She ruffled his hair, forcing a small smile. Kris grunted in protest, sighing when it made no difference. He ducked away, running up to his room to wait for the search party.
"Search party's here!" Angie called from outside, ringing the doorbell only a little excessively. When Karai opened the door to admit them, however, Ryan was the first through the door, all decked out in his goalie pads and armed with his goalie stick.
"Who dares kidnap my training partner and best friend?" He demanded.
"Dude." Casey interjected half-heartedly. He, too was armored by his hockey pads, but had two sticks instead of one.
"One of my best friends." Ryan corrected himself. He might have shrugged, but honestly it was difficult for Karai to tell underneath the bulky pads.
'Really not the time." Karai sighed.
"Uncle Ryan, Casey!" Kris came bounding down the stairs. "Didja bring me anything?"
"Sorry, sport." Casey said with a shrug that was much more obvious than Ryan's. "We came to help your mom find your dad. Maybe for your party."
"Dad went to see Andrew for party stuff." Kris informed the party as the others finally got in around the two bulky hockey players in their way.
"Andrew Wilson?" Raph asked. Kris nodded.
"Oh boy!" Ryan couldn't contain the pleasure, plain on his face as he pushed back his mask. "I've always wanted to cave his head in!" He twirled his stick around, grinning wickedly to reveal two gaps in his teeth; four missing on the top right, in the front, and two on the bottom left, further back. Both the result of playing "hardcore hockey" with Casey. This involved playing with no gear or padding besides the stick, and for Ryan, his catcher and blocker. So he'd been knocked in the face as a result of his lack of a helmet. This had taken place 2 years earlier. "Let's go get 'im!"
"We are not even certain that it is he who caused Leonardo's disappearance. They both could be in the same predicament." Splinter said, placing a hand on his former student's shoulder.
"So I can't bash his head in?" Ryan asked, frustration twisting his face. "Seriously?"
"I did not say that." Splinter said, smiling wryly.
"So I can." Ryan said, grinning slyly. "Fab-tastic." Splinter sighed and shook his head.
"Dad's tracker isn't on the map." Kris said, rather matter-of-factually.
"Case? Ryan? Mind if I join in your head bashing?" Raph said, his hand inching toward the hilt of one of his sai swords. Ryan grinned.
"The more, the merrier!"
Kris decided to start handing out invitations at this time and did so as the adults discussed a plan of action.
"It would seem, Father, that Andrew is behind this." Karai mumbled, not entirely ready to admit that Leo's friend would betray him.
"He has a Brooklyn accent," Irma pointed out. "I never trust a guy with a Brooklyn accent."
"Beatin' up Brooklyn bullies!" Mikey grinned, throwing an arm around Angela. "Just like old times?"
"Ho-yeah." Angie agreed.
"Any idea where he is?" Donnie asked, turning to April. April, in response, closed her eyes, pressing the first two fingers of each hand to the side of her head.
Elsa and Anna-who had come with their parents for lack of adult supervision at home-tore into Kris's party invitation.
"The Fortune Cookie Factory on Laird Street." April mumbled, still deep in concentration.
"The old, abandoned one that they still haven't torn down?" Angie asked.
"Yeah."
"The one where we used to fight the Purple Dragons?"
"Yeah."
"The one next to- "
"YES!" April shouted, glaring at Angela, who in turn, threw her hands up.
"Sorry, I was trying to get the specifics!"
"Anyway." Donnie broke in. "I'm sure that we'll find him."
"Arigato.**" Karai said gratefully.
"We need a team to go, and a team to stay." Ryan said. "Casey, you're team captain, you assign people to their teams."
"Splinter's captain for the team that stays here. For sake of my voice, we'll just call you guys the home team. The search party will be the away team." Casey explained. "Angie, Irma, Splinter, and….Mikey. You guys are home. Stay with the kids. Me, Ryan, Raph, Donnie, April and Karai are gonna be away."
"Why does April get to go?" Angie whined.
"Cuz she's the chic with the psychic powers." Ryan said, as Casey prepared to answer. Slowly, the latter closed his mouth. "Correct me if I'm wrong."
"You're right." Casey said with a shrug.
"Can. We. Go. Now. Please?!" Raph growled.
"Oh, fine." Casey grunted.
*haha is Japanese for Mother. So Hai haha means yes mother. Chichi means father. Might not show up in this, but is helpful to know.
**Arigato is Thanks for anyone that didn't know.
Me: Whoooooooooo suspense! R&R, F&F por favor! Vänligen! Bitte! Onegaishimasu! Os gwelwch yn dda! Ok, I said please in Spanish, Swedish, German, Japanese and Welsh! If that doesn't earn some reviews and follows and crap, I dunno what else there is to do!
