4. Power Spike
"They should be back by now." Raph was pacing back and forth.
"Chill, you're acting like a nervous parent waiting for their child to come home from their first date." Mikey said flipping through his comics.
"Date? Who said anything about this being a date?" Raph turned and glared at Mikey.
"Relax Raph. Nothing is going to happen to her. She's with Leo. He won't let anything happen to her because of you. He knows you have feelings for the girl." Don said.
"Feels? Who said I had feelings for her?" Raph blushed.
"Dude the whole world knows. It's kinda obvious." Mikey replied. Raph blushed harder.
"I only like her as a friend!" Raph yelled.
"Right!" Mikey and Don said and rolled their eyes.
Splinter chuckled. "Kids."
Just then the door open. Leo walked in with Yuki in his arms. Raph freaked. "Yuki! What happened to her? She ok?"
"She's fine, Raph." Leo said when he rushed over to them. Raph immediately began to look her over for any harm. "We were attacked by the Foot. But she used her powers and got us out of it."
Leo handed Yuki over to him. Yuki seemed to know she was in Raph's arms and snuggled close to his chest and mumbled. "I wanna cookie, Raphie."
Leo smiled. He had to admit she was cute. "She'll be fine. And we are friends now so you don't have to worry anymore."
"That's good to hear." Raph smiled at his brother. "Thanks for doing this, Leo."
"Don't mention it. I finally understand why I was so defense about her."
"Why is that?"
"Uh!" Leo stared at his brother. He promised Yuki he wouldn't tell and he almost slipped. "Oh never mind. It's was really nothing. I gotta go….um…train….yeah that's it train. BYE!"
"What was that about?" Mikey asked.
"Think Leo found out something about Yuki that Raph doesn't know?" Don asked.
"Like what?" Mikey asked and Don just shrugged. They turned their attention back to Raph holding the sleeping girl in his arms. He took her to her room. Raph gently laid her down on her bed then sat next to her. He reached out and brushed her bans away from her face and smiled. She stirred at his touch and opened her eyes halfway.
"Hey." Raph spoke softly to her.
"Raphie?" Yuki looked around her room. He smiled at her. He loved it when she called him Raphie. She only did it when she was tired, wanted something from him or just feeling like being cute. Yuki shot up in bed. "Leo? Where's Leo?"
"It's ok. He's in the living room with the others. He told me what happened." He placed a hand on her shoulder to calm her down.
"Oh, that's good." Yuki laid back down with a sigh of relief. "I forgot and thought I transported him away too."
They went quiet for a few minutes. Yuki struggled to sit up. "I better start making dinner."
"Hold on now. You aren't going to cook tonight." Raph put his hands on her shoulders and gently pushed her back down. "You are going to lay here and rest. I don't want you getting sick."
"But…."
"No buts young lady. You do as you're told." Raph said in a stern but comforting and worried voice. Yuki reluctantly obliged.
"Ok, Raphie." Raph smiled and tapped her nose with his finger.
"That's my girl. I'll bring you some food. Now you stay here and rest."
"Yes, daddy." Yuki smirked at him. He just shook his head and smiled then left to go cook supper.
"How's she doing?" Leo asked.
"She fine, just resting." Raph replied.
"She sure is a trooper." Don said while working in his lab. "I wonder if I could study her powers and see if I can figure out a way for her to get control over her powers. This can't be good on her body."
"What do you mean, Donny?" Leo asked.
"Just a theory but…." Donny looked at his brothers and sensei. His eyes stopped on Raph. He wasn't sure if he should say anything or not.
"What is it, my son?" Splinter asked.
"Well my theory is that if she doesn't get control of her powers she could hurt innocent people and possibly…" Don paused and looked at Raph again. "…..cause some serious danger to herself."
Raph felt his heart stop. He never thought about that before. Some how he just managed to push it out of his head. Everyone was quiet. Don did have a point. As for now she was aiming her powers at her attackers. But how long will that last?
"So…." Mikey piped up. "When is Yuki making supper?"
"Mikey!" The brothers yelled.
"What?" Mikey shrugged at them.
A few weeks later above the surface trouble was brewing at the Foot headquarters. Shredder slammed his fist into the wall. "Why can't my most elite ninja capture one little girl?"
"Master, she is under the protection of those green freaks." Hun said timidly.
"I know that! Those turtles have been nothing but a thorn in my side since the beginning." A chuckle came from the shadows in the corner. "Who's there?"
"I told you the girl would be hard to capture." The voice said.
"What do you want?" Shredder demanded.
"I'm only here to offer you some help."
"What can you do that my ninja can't?"
"Don't you trust me? I did bring you the Demon's Eye, didn't I?"
"This is true."
"Then trust me. I have the right thing to capture the girl." A low growl came from the corner and two glowing red eyes appeared. "You just have to keep you end of the deal when she is captured."
"Of course." The shadow disappeared with his monster.
"How are you feeling, Yuki?" Don asked. He had Yuki hooked up to his computer with some wires stuck to her forehead and a blood pressure cuff on her right arm.
"I'm fine." Yuki was concentrating on a brick sitting on the floor in front of her. She too was sitting on the floor with her legs crossed. She was concentrating on the brick, both she and the brick were glowing.
"Ok then go ahead and try to lift the brick off the ground." Don ordered in his usual gentle tone. Yuki focused on the brick and a minute later it started to rise off the ground. She held it about five inches off the ground. The others were standing around watching the little experiment. The lines gliding across Don's computer began to go up and down slowly then increased. "Hm."
"Hn…." Yuki began to loose control over her powers. The brick began to shake back and forth.
"Hold it, Yuki." Raph said.
"Just relax." Leo added.
"I'm…trying." Yuki replied but she couldn't hold it. Her powers snapped and the brick went flying towards Mikey.
"Yips!" Mikey dropped his bag of chips and dove out of the bricks way.
"Un….." Yuki swayed then fell backwards.
"I gotcha." Raph said as he was by her side in an instant. He held her as she tried to get the room to stop spinning.
"I'm s….sorry…." Yuki whispered.
"It's ok, Yuki. I got what I was needing." Don said kneeling beside her and placing a hand on her shoulder. "You did just fine."
"Too bad we can't say the same for the wall." Mikey said looking at the mess the brick made. Don went back to his computer as it finished calculating her powers.
"Hm….I was right…" Don said looking at the paper that came out of his printer.
"About what? Your theory?" Leo asked.
"Yuki is slowly going to loose complete control of her powers unless she can get then under her complete control." Don said.
"How does she do that?" Mikey asked.
"That is the one question I don't know. I'm a scientist. I don't know much about magic." Don replied. "Only if there was away….Yuki isn't there anyone in your family that can help you?"
"The only other….one that has….abilities like mine is my aunt." Yuki tiredly replied.
"Where is she?" Splinter asked.
"She lives in Japan." Yuki replied.
"Then we should get a hold of her and…." Don started.
"We can't."
"Why not?" Leo asked.
"She's not listed in the yellow pages." The guys exchanged confused looks.
"What do you mean?" Raph asked.
"My aunt takes in kids who have magical abilities of their own. She teaches like a school of gifted kids who defend the world against…creatures of the night, if you will." Yuki explained. "You can't find her. No one but herself and her students know where the school is."
"Then how do you get a hold of her?" Mikey asked.
"You don't. She gets a hold of you."
Suddenly it felt like the whole world around them was shaking. Mikey dove for cover as a brick came smashing down right next to him. "What the shell is going on?"
"Take cover my sons!" Splinter ordered and they obeyed. The shaking continued and caused the TV remote to fall off the coffee table. It hit the floor and the TV turned on to the news.
"And reports continued to flood in about a monster causing chaos in the midtown area of the city. Wait a minute…we are going there live."
"We are here live as this monster continues it rampage down the city streets. Attempts are taking place to try and stop this monster but…..nothing is happening."
"Let's go guys. Time for us to step in." Leo ordered and they head for the door.
"I'm coming too." Yuki said.
"No! You are staying put!" Raph said.
"I'm going with you, Raph." Yuki replied. "That thing has magic powers. You guys don't stand a chance against it. You have to let me go!"
"She does have a point." Don said.
"It's your call, Raph." Leo said. Raph stared into Yuki determined eyes. He was torn in two. On one hand she was right, they don't have a chance against this thing but on the other hand he doesn't want her to get hurt.
"Raph…please. I need to be by your side in this." Yuki begged.
"Alright." Raph sighed in defeat. "But if you start loosing control I want you to get out of there and haul shell back to the lair."
"Right." Yuki nodded.
"Good lucky, my students." Splinter said as he watched his students head for top side.
They piled in the battle shell and soon found themselves face to face with a new hairy opponent. Leo asked, "What the shell is that thing?"
"It looks like a huge hairy over grown gorilla!" Mikey said. "How the shell are we suppose to fight that thing?"
The monster picked up a car the threw it at them. Don replied, "I don't think we can, Mikey."
"Y-Yuki…."
"Did that monster…." Raph started.
"Just say my name?" Yuki finished the sentence for him.