So obviously with what happened in the last chapter, someone spiritually attuned like Splinter or the Ancient One would quickly become aware of it.
Mikey let Vanessa look through his DVD collection, after some scanning through, Vanessa finally picked out one.
"I've heard things about this one..." She said "...I know it's a bit before my time..."
"Laberynth?" Mikey asked
"Yeah..." Vanessa said "...I was watching one of those funny web cartoons and they made a reference to this movie and played a bit from the 'Magic Dance' song then I found out David Bowie was in it."
She gave the DVD to Mikey and he put it in the DVD player.
Mikey was finding himself growing more and more fond of Vanessa and while he still hoped she could be cured of her Mutation, he was beginning to realize her Spider form wasn't so terrifying once you got used to it.
Vanessa once again perched on the sofa bed and Mikey took the armchair, Don came with the rest of the sausage and mushroom pizza of which Vanessa had only one slice before Raph had his tirade.
"Here..." Don said "I...I know you were pretty hungry but you only got one bite before Raph threw his hissy fit."
"Thanks Don..." Vanessa said as she took another slice of the considerably cooled off pizza, but there was still some residual warmpth she didn't mind she could eat room tempature pizza.
As they began to watch the movie, Splinter came in, he pulled out of his sleeve a comb April had bought for him to help groom his fur.
"Here My Dear..." Splinter said soothingly seeing the comb Vanessa pulled away
"Look," She said "I know my hair is messy but if this is going to hurt..."
"It will not." Splinter said "I know ways to get out the tangles in ways that won't hurt."
"OK..." Vanessa said "...Because Mom never learned how to do that."
Splinter began to ever so delicatly comb through her Peppermint Patty-esque mop of brown hair.
"Of all the things..." Vanessa said "Why did I keep my hairdo when I turned into a spider?"
"Don't know..." Don chuckled "...But we know someone who was Mutated into...A reptile...By the pink ooze and he also kept his human hair for some reason."
"He just doesn't have the confidence to pull off bald like real Turtles!" Mikey said
Vanessa found Splinter's combing very relaxing, so relaxing in fact she fell asleep fifteen minutes into the movie!
"We hadn't even gotten to the good parts!" Mikey whined as he pressed the stop button on the DVD player.
"My Sons." Splinter said "I wanted her asleep because there is something I must discuss with you...I have had a vision during my meditation, I fear something is coming something that will involve Vanessa..."
Meanwhile after several gargles of mouthwash after that vomiting Jonathan went to the galley.
"What happened to you?" The Clerk at this shift said when he saw Jonathan come in "You look like you've seen a ghost!"
Jonathan immediately stood straight up and turned his icy blue gaze on the clerk "And if I told you I had..."
The Clerk took a few steps back "I don't want to know..." He said "...Is there anything I can get for you?"
"I just vomited." Jonathan said
"OK..." The Clerk said "How about I just give a nice cold glass of water and samll bowl of white rice? That might settle your stomach and...It'll be on the house this time."
"Sounds fine." Jonathan said
The Clerk went to the kitchen, Jonathan could tell he was also going to tell the cooks what he had just learned and that might send the Galley staff on alert, that the Man come to study the Goop had just vomited maybe the Goop was a health hazard to humans? As Jonathan sat down as he thought about theis spreading of fear, he wasn't feeling his usual delight at the idea of the spreading of paranoa and distrust in a company no, this time he was feeling that maybe this time fear kight do some actual good if the lower staff got an idea that something was genuinly rotten in Denmark it might spread to wider society and there maybe hope whatever was causing this feeling of unease in himself might be revealed but then Jonathan realized that was probobly wishful thinking on his part...
What time was it? He checked a clock on the wall 11 PM?! Jonathan remembered taking a nap at like 8 AM as was suggested, I mean sure he had been up for more than 24 hours before then but he remembered previous times he had stayed up all night and seemed to get rested after three hours of sleep Why should a Beast of Terror like himself need that much sleep anyhow?
'There it is again...' Jonathan thought to himself as his tray of food arrived '...Suddenly I feel strange about how I've been for years something is making me feel like...I should be like a normal human...'
He thought back to that nightmare image of the crow with just a skull for a head, was that terrifying bird a forewarning of something to come like the Ghost of Christmas Future? Was this a sign he only had a short amount of time before...Something?
Man, for what was inspired by a prompt about getting a male character into an embaressing situation involving wearing a Speedo this story is turning out remarkably unfunny! It's like you get a movie at the rental store thinking it's going to be a raunchy Spring break comedy and instead you get Existential terror, yeah it might be happening to hot people in bathing suits but it kind of just killed the fun