Chapter Five: Sorry and Secrets
After Rachel had fainted, Michel had carried her to her room and put her on their bed to sleep. He then refused to come out because he wanted to watch over her until she woke up. Jack had taken everyone to the living room and made them all a cup of tea each. "Sorry about that. Mama has been extremely fragile since she began pregnant, though she does not like to admit it."
April smiled kindly. "It's alright. What about me, where am I?"
Donatello got a dreamy look in his eyes. Maggie sighed. "Dad, why don't you call Mom?"
"Right." Donatello snapped out of his dreaming state. He got out his T-phone and left the room when future April began screaming.
Sensing the tense in the situations, Leonardo got up. "I better go call Karai, she'll want to know that Miwa is home."
Raphael also got up. "I'll call Mona."
An hour later, Rachel had woken up and was now sitting with the family, although the past turtles and April kept staring at her (and her huge baby bump) like she was going to faint again. Future April (Ape) was chatting with her past self. Karai had hugged Miwa to near suffocation and was talking to Mona, who was holding a eighteen month old turtle/lizard hybrid called Pandorica (Dora) while the turtles were waiting for Michel to return. Mikey remembered the shocking realisation of how the future turtles could walked among humans...
Michel had finally returned with a still slightly wobbly Rachel and said that Rae and him had the biggest house, that the 'people from the past' as Mikey had called them, would live at the house until they could go home. Michel then picked up what looked to be a metal mask with a black expression and put it on, he en said "Michel, 001". The mask had immediately covered him in a bright light which soon faded and left him with pale white skin, shaggy blonde hair and blue-grey eyes. He wore black jeans, an orange shirt and black trainers with a orange stripe down them. He looked human! He then looked at the shocked faces of the past, shrugged, said "Be back later." And left.
Rachel then had to explain that what Michel had put on his face with called an 'ID Mask', and was an invention of her own doing. She had made one for each of the turtles and children so they could live normal, or as normal as they could, lives.
Donnie had gone nuts over it, saying that Rachel could be an inventor. Until Donatello put a hand over his mouth and pulled him put of the room, saying that Rachel couldn't handle stress right now.
Michel hadn't been gone long when he returned with a big of shopping, holding his left arm rather stiffly. Rachel looked at Michel and sighed. "Again?"
Michel nodded and they both left the room.
Mikey stared after them. "What happened to him, I mean me?"
Raphael, Leonardo and Donatello glanced at each other. Leonardo sighed. "He, well you, lost something important, physically."
"What?"
"Arm." Michel had returned and he was missing his left arm from the elbow down. Rachel was carrying a dull grey mechanical arm that had its wires exposed. Michel looked rather downbeat.
"How?"
"Fight."
"Are we going to get anything else out of you?" Asked Leo, already knowing the answer.
"NO!" Leonardo, Raphael and Donatello all shouted. Raphael sighed. "We've tried to get the story outa him but he won't tell us."
Just before anyone (particularly from the past) could ask any more questions, Rachel quickly noted the time (11:30pm) and almost shoved everyone from the future out of the front door (except her children) and showed the past to their rooms. Then went to bed. Jack and Eve looked at each other and shrugged at their mother's behaviour and went to bed. As they passed their parents room they didn't hear their father whispering to the silence of the night, "I have to tell them some day. I've been keeping secrets for far too long."