animegamefanatic: Yep. Louie's and Angel's apparent love arc began already from "The Fallen Angel" saga, which I had planned for some time since then. Louie's siblings - or at least Donnie, Leo, Arcee and Mikey - kinda already saw this coming back then, and it was Arcee who began first tease Louie for his attraction with Angel. The other turtles don't so far yet know about it, but just you wait till Louie's secret is fully revealed. I originally planned Louie to have an attraction with Sydney (Quarry) after her being retro-mutated in order to give her more "screentime", but I eventually changed it for him to have an attraction with Angel.
CT311998: Well, you did once asked if the fourth chapter of the first part of "The Girl and the Turtle" story arc was the last one, so I kinda decided to make it that way because of that. And as for my story (if that was what you meant), I actually started to work with it back in 2018, if I remember right, but I bided my time 'till I had a good number of chapters done till the half-way of the Season 1 before I published it after you published your own story. So even before you published your own, the only common thing between of our respective stories was your story's Cath and my story's Arcee being the secondly youngest members and the self-taught doctors of the mutant family. Pretty ironic, eh?
= TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 2003 =
= THE GIRL AND THE TURTLE PART 2 P2. =
Two days later.
Since Louie had given Angel the first turn to choose the activity for the night two days later, Angel had, of course, chosen as their second date night's activity some ninja activity in the Central Park. When they met at the park, Angel had initially asked Louie to teach him some of his ninja moves, but the turtle in black had a better idea to do so.
While still respecting Angel's choice for some ninja action in the park, Louie had suggested helping Angel to hone her senses and awareness of her surroundings in the manner of a game of hide-and-seek, with the entire Central Park being their playing ground, and going beyond of the fences was off-limits. All she had to do was to run around the park area and try to either look out for him or detect his presence and prepare to defend herself from his ambushes, while Louie himself would use both speed, stealth and invisibility to his advantage.
Louie had also given Angel a small word of warning because sensing someone's presence in the area and being fully aware of their surroundings were things that no one could master overnight, and he himself had the over decade of training experience about it.
That, however, hadn't prevented Angel from at least trying. And Angel had told him that her training with the Purple Dragons had already given her a clear concept about shadowing and stalking their target, lying in wait to ambush in the shadows as well as vigilance and stealth, which made her feel confident that she was gonna make it.
Though reacting with disbelief of the Purple Dragons being capable to such things as stealth and vigilance due to their brute strength but incredible lack of brains in the hand-to-hand combat, Louie was all too eager to put his ninjustu training into the test with the Purple Dragons' so called "stealth and vigilance".
And so, Louie had given Angel a ten minute head start into the park before he would start searching and stalking her in the shadows of the park and the night.
And after she left from their meeting spot, Angel began to put a very long distance between her and Louie, first running along the path to the half way of the park, before she left the path and began making several turns and detours to the left and right amongst the bushes and trees of the park - and staying out of the lights of the park's lampposts and within the shadows - in an attempt to both confuse and throw Louie off her heels, if he had already began to search for her.
Knowing a thing or two stealth and vigilance herself too, Angel also made several stops to hide behind some tree or large bush she came across, from behind which she cautiously and quickly peered around to see if Louie was anywhere in sight and to make sure the coast was clear for her to come out of hiding, and she repeated the same thing again and again, moving from one tree to another, from bush to another bush, or maybe from behind of some bench to under the bridge of the lake and so on.
Angel also kept a wary eye on all the shady places, as well as the bushes and trees, anticipating Louie sneaking in the shadows, crawling in the bushes like the fox, or running along tree branches like a squirrel.
She also tried to force the black-clad turtle out of hiding by shining the shady places with her flashlight - she hadn't told Louie that she had brought a flashlight with her, but even so she didn't keep the light on for a very long in case it might give away her position to Louie if he wasn't there where she anticipated him to be - and by poking both bushes and trees with a long stick, almost hoping to hit with it something hard like Louie's shell if he turned out ot be hiding there.
But for hour or two, there was no sight, nor sound, nor sign of the turtle in black.
But when Angel eventually found herself in middle of the small clearing in the woods of the park, something really began to happen...
First she heard a faint fast-moving steps and at the same time felt a cold draft of air behind her back - a shadowy figure darted past her across the clearing - causing her to quickly turn around and turn her flashlight on, pointing it towards the bushes... but she couldn't see anything or anyone.
Angel then heard the shaking of leaves on her right and turned her flashlight there. She managed to see the leaves rustling for a moment until they stopped like it had never happened. Angel went over to the leaves and began to poke into them with her stick to see was anyone in there.
Then she heard the rustling of the leaves but this time in the level of the tree branches on her right... again, and it sounded going along the edge of the clearing from her side to the other. But when Angel shone her flashlight up there, she saw no movements or leaves rustling. The branches and leaves were all still like nothing had never moved up there.
Angel then heard leaves rustle in a tree again, just above her behind her left shoulder and turned her flashlight there, but as she turned around she suddenly felt a cold draft on her left side - a shadowy figure swung by a chain across the clearing like a Tarzan without her noticing before vanishing into the trees in the other side of the clearing - making her to turn around again, but seeing nobody anywhere.
All of a sudden everything went quiet for a moment.
But during that quiet pause, Angel began to think about the situation a bit.
"Louie, of course." Angel mumbled under her breath, knowing already that her stalker was none other than Louie. "Should've guessed that it would be a futile attempt to try and confuse him by running around in the woods and the shadows."
The further Angel pondered the situation and these few previous tricks the turtle in black had already pulled on her, she realized that Louie was moving from his hiding spots and past her counter-clockwise while executing his tricks clockwise as an technique to confuse her.
Clever trick, she had to admit to herself.
"AGH!" Angel jumped when she felt something moving around her legs - a shadowy figure moved from her right on all fours and sideways like a crab, swiftly circling her legs before moving to her left before disappearing into the bushes unnoticed - but when she looked down, she saw nothing there.
"WOW!" Angel yelled again as she suddenly felt someone tapping her right shoulder from behind with a fingertip, causing her to turn around with her flashlight, but again she couldn't see anything or anyone there.
Then, all of the sudden, somebody landed pretty heavily in middle of the clearing behind her back, making enough sound for her to hear.
"AHA! GOTCHA!" Angel exclaimed triumphantly, thinking her stalker had made his worst mistake, and turned her flashlight to the middle of the clearing, only to see nobody in there, much to her disappointment... though she felt another draft of air pass around her, as if someone had just swooped around her from her right side and from behind her to her left, sending her spinning around.
And afterwards, she saw no one anywhere.
"Alright, Louie. You wanna play rought. Then let's play it rought." Angel said, eager for some payback.
Angel decided to face Louie at his own game, i.e. in the shadows with no light, completely silent and all available senses alert.
So she backed away from the bushes into the middle of the clearing to give herself enough room to detect Louie's sneak attacks on her and counter them in time before he gets to her again. Then she turned off her flashlight and put it away before she bent down and picked up another stick from the ground as an additional weapon in addition to the one she was already holding in her left hand.
Now ready, Angel stood tall, determined, confident, and tightening her grip on the sticks.
"C'mon, c'mon, wherever you are, Lover-boy." Angel dared with the low singsong voice, beckoning Louie to come to her.
Angel then stood there for a while, her narrowed eyes looking alertly from side to side, to the front and back, at her feet and up into the trees, awaiting for coming sneak attack in any minute, reacting to every sound she caught, whether the rustle of the leaves in the night breeze, the multiple sounds of the traffic outside of the park, or the people chattering and laughing in the distance.
For a moment, Louie didn't immediately made any more sneak attacks, making Angel suspiciously wonder if the turtle in black had already figured out her newest strategy and was biding his time for the next sneak attack when her guard was down.
But the two could play that game.
Angel continued looking around for Louie, but knowing that the turtle in black was watching her from somewhere, Angel started breathing louder and turn from side to side and back, giving the impression that she was getting impatient, tensed and sloppy with this.
Angel also added some juice into the facade by apparently overreacting to the every sound she heard by turning around and swinging one of her sticks hastily and wildly at the direction of the sound.
At the sound of the squirrel rustling the leaves in the bushes, she swung her right stick to her right.
At the sound of the car horn outside the pack, she swung her right stick to her left.
And even at the feeling of the cold draft of the wind against her neck, she swung her left stick to behind her.
And after she stepped on the stick, she swung both her sticks down.
"Come on, Lover-boy! Where are you?!" Angel let out, tryinmg to sound frustrated and frantic.
As the echo of her voice vanished into the night and it was all silent again, nothing happened for a while. However, it took not long when Angel suddenly caught the faint sound of the dashing steps coming from her right while she was looking to the left, and apparently were moving behind her back.
Driven by instinct, covered by her facade, Angel swung her left stick to the left as the sounds of footsteps went behind her back... then she felt a three-fingered hand grabbing her wrist from behind, stopping her swing.
That came momentarily as a surprise for her, but it quickly changed with the smile when she realized who it was.
"AHA! COTCHA!" Angel let out and swung her right stick at the shadowy figure - Louie - standing behind her.
"AW, SHELL!" Louie's voice gasped as he realized that he had got caught.
The turtle in black quickly leaned his head backwards to avoid Angel's stick, before he let go of Angel's arm and flipped backwards away from her, before the turtle in black made a mad dash towards the bushes to vanish into the shadows once more.
"OH, NO, YOU DON'T!" Angel shouted and, as a desperate method, threw both her sticks at Louie to somehow stop him.
She got surprisingly lucky, as one of her sticks found its way between Louie's legs, making the turtle in black to trip over and fall on his nose to the grassy ground, leaving him there to moan in defeat.
And to seal her victory, Angel took out her flashlight and pointed it down at Louie, revealing him, and making the turtle in black to raise his hands up to cover his face from the bright light that was aimed at his face.
"Some ninja, eh?" Angel teased as she walked up to Louie, giving the defeated turtle in black a triumphant smirk. "And you got fooled by that pretense pretty easily."
"No, I didn't!" Louie immediately denied.
As a response, Angel gave Louie somewhat of "evil smile", before she leaned down and moved her flashlight a little closer of downed turtle in black's face, illuminating his face even more brightly, forcing Louie to close his eyes and turn his head away from the bright light, while Angel forcibly demanded him to admit his mistake.
"ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT! Okay, okay, okay!" Louie shouted, showing Angel's flashlight away from his face. "Maybe I got a little cocky here and fell into the trap... But hey! You got me only by the rookie's luck."
"But at least I got you. That was the point, wasn't it, Lover-boy?" Angel said with the smug smirk, before she extended her hand for Louie. "You wanna rematch? Only this time we'll switch the spots."
"Ho hoo! You're on, Angel-cake!" Louie said, accepting the rematch before taking Angel's hand and allowed her to help him up.
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Two days later.
Tonight it was Louie's turn to choose the next activity for him and Angel.
Although they first met in the Central Park as arranged, Louie - without telling Angel what he'd got in mind for tonight - took them from there into the city where, to Angel's surprise, they climbed - or actually it was Louie who climbed, using both his Bitterfly swords and Manriki-Gusari chains while Angel held onto his shield - the outer wall of the Chrysler Building, heading almost to the top of it.
And as soon as they were both up there, Louie decided to take a little break at the edge of the building - because climbing up here along the outer wall to avoid being spotted by the people inside the building - had taken quite a toll to the turtle in black.
And while Louie was stretching himself up, Angel spent her time quietly watching both the bright moonlight in the sky above and the city below illuminated by thousands of lights, which reached far beyond to the horizon to the other side of the Manhattan Island, as well as to the other sides of the Hudson Rivers.
"Wow. I gotta admit that this... this is the beautiful view." Angel told the turtle in black, spellbound by the view.
"Yeah, it is." Louie said, as he walked up to her side and looked down at the city. "It's a big world for a one turtle who lives his entire life in the shadows of the sewers."
Angel laughed at this remark. "And even for the one who likes to live on the streets."
Both Angel and Louie looked out over the city and listened to all the sounds of traffic for a while in silence before Angel then turned to Louie.
"So, Louie? Why exactly you brought me up here? Just to watch the moonlight and the night view of the city?" Angel inquired, waving her left hand towards the moon in the sky and the city down below.
"Well, not exactly for that." Louie admitted. "You see, Angel-cake? I was actually planning for tonight's activity to go have some rooftop time. You know? Running along the rooftops, leaping over the gaps between the buildings, doing some cool stunts along the way and stuff. It's what Master Splinter's always saying: as turtles and freaks and ninjas, we cannot simply walk on the streets because we might be seen, so we mostly move around via the rooftops."
"Then why are we up here then?" Angel asked as she turned to look at the turtle in black. "Why did we even come up here in the first place if you were planning some rooftop time."
"That's why we're up here." Louie answered. "We're going to start the rooftop run from here."
"And how are we going to do that exactly?" Angel asked, slightly confused.
"Ooooh! But that's the beauty of it, Angel-cake." Louie said, enthusiastically and with the toothy grin. "We'll jump."
"We'll jump?" Angel repeated with the raised eyebrow, not really getting what he was actually meaning.
"Yes! We'll go by the way the ninjas use... and the way the ninja turtles use." Louie added.
"You're not..." Angel stammered, almost guessing what exactly Louie had in mind, but hoping in the back of her mind that it wasn't what he was thinking. "You're not actually... saying that... we're gonna..."
Then, the turtle in black all of the sudden and without warning jumped over the railing and dangled casually over more than seven hundred and fifty feet fall. leaving Angel so shocked by this that she jumped back and away from the railing.
"AGH! LOUIE!" Angel nearly screamed from startlement of what Louie just did that she jumped back, clutching with her hand to her chest like almost having an heart-attack.
"...that we're going to jump down from the chrysler building. Why, of course." Louie said with the smile, not minding about being in the potentionally life-threatening situation.
"WHAT?!" Angel exclaimed in disbelief and eyes wide from sheer shock when the realization of the meaning behund Louie's words hit her! "YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!"
"Nope." Louie answered, shaking his head. "I'm not."
"But we are this high up from the ground, and this is the chrysler building after all, a building over one thousand feet tall!" Angel reminded frantically before peering over the edge down into the city, before turning back to Louie. "You cannot be serious."
"I am, Angel-cake." Louie said. "That's the funniest part."
"Wouldn't it be easier to just go down either the stairs or the elevator, Louie?" Angel questioned hopefully, but Louie merely scoffed at the whole idea in the manner as if it was a worst idea compared to this one.
"PFFT! Where's the fun in that, Angel-cake." Louie said. "Stairs and elevators are usually off limits to me because of me being a ninja and being what I am. Besides, this is exactly what I told you four nights ago, about my and my siblings' unlimited freedom from society's rules."
"Is defying certain death by jumping off such a tall building part of this unlimited freedom?" Angel said with the dreadful thoughts, hoping that she was wrong.
"For a ninja turtle, yes." Louie answered. "So c'mon, Angel-cake! Let's go!"
Angel immediately felt the hollow feeling in her stomach about the whole thought of jumping off the building and falling down from this height. She immediately wrapped her arms around of herself to keep herself together and immediately shook her head, refusing to go down via this way.
"No, Louie. I... If I'm honest, I can't really do this." she said hesitatingly.
Louie then climbed back onto the railing in the crouched pose, looking deeply in the Angel's eyes.
"Angel? There's nothing to fear here. You don't have to jump down here yourself." Louie said calmly and assuringly, making Angel to hope that that last part was true, until... "Because I'll carry you on my shell all the way when I jump down here. All you need to do is to hang on tight... and to keep your eyes shut if that makes this more easier."
Angel blinked and stared at Louie with wide eyes in disbelief that he was going to carry her on his shell as he jumps off the building.
However, Angel was still hesitant and reluctant to do this. "Have you ever even done this before?" she asked, hoping that Louie knew what he was doing.(1)
"No! First time actually!" Louie answered almost immediately.(1)
"That's what I thought." Angel muttered sarcastically with the eye-roll.
"But hey...!" Louie said before he finally leapt to this side of the railing, to Angel's slight relief. "This'll be just like with the dude in the blue-red tights swinging past the tall buildings of the New York via these shooting-webs-out-of-one's-wrists thingies, and I've been dying to try the same with my Manriki-Gusari."
"You read way too many cartoons, Louie." Arcee said with the scoff.(2)
"Nope. That's Mikey's job." Louie countered before continuing. "But, hey. If I can do this, you can do this too. All I need you to do is to trust me."
Louie then hopped back onto the railing on one knee, before she extended his hand towards Angel, who looked at it, and then up to Louie, with some hesitation.
"Do you trust me?" the turtle in black asked.
"Well, I..." Angel stammered, still hesitant to do this whole thing while Louie maintained the deep eye-contact with her. However, the turtle in black never give her that old one puppy-dog-eyes-act - that would've been beneath of him - to convince her to do this, but rather that soft, reassuring stare that was asking for her trust in this, nothing more.
Also, wanting to go as toughie, not wussy girl, Angel really didn't see the other way out of this... and besides, she did trust Louie - as well as his brothers and sisters, her new posse, along with Casey - with her life. So, she saw no reason why not to trust Louie in this one.
"Aw, what the heck." Angel groaned with another eye-roll, before she accepted Louie's hand and allowed the turtle in black to help her up onto the railing.
"Good. Now, grab on my shell, tightly." Louie said, nodding his head to his shell.
Angel then walked behind Louie and, gulping slightly from the nervousness as she peered down into the city, grabbed from the turtle in black shell and hold on tight... hold on for her dear life.
"You have a firm grip?" Louie asked.
"Y-yup." Angel said with the small lumb in her throat.
"Good." Louie said... before, quite suddenly and without warning, he leapt from the rail, but grasped it with his hands, and took support from the wall with his feet.
"OH! OH MY GOD!" Angel cried, startled by Louie's stunt, that she instinctively wrapped her legs around Louie's waist and wrapped her arms around Louie's neck, from which the turtle in black didn't seem to mind of.
"You okay there, Angel-cake?" Louie asked over his shoulder.
"No, I'm not!" she cried frantically and angrily, breathing rapidly and her heart bumping rapidly inside her chest. "Next time, warn me before you do that, okay?!"
"Aw, come on! Don't start going wussy on me now, Angel! This is going to be funny ride." Louie assured as he prepared himself for the jump.
""Fun", you said?! Seesh!" Angel complained, fighting the urge to look down again.
"I'm almost good to go!" Louie informed. "Are you ready?"
"Sort of... j-just let me know first before you do anything else, okay?" Angel said as she braced herself by tightening her grip on Louie.
"Alright! Here we go! On the count of three!" Louie informed.
At this point, when Angel expected Louie to start counting on three, her mind started to raze, mostly berating herself for agreeing into this and wondering if there was still time to call this stunt off.
Too bad that she never got the chance when...
"THREE!" Louie let out as he let go of the railing before kicking with his feet himself and Angel away from the wall.
Louie then went into headfirst dive pose, extending his hands forward, as he and Angel began to fall down at high speed, both of them screaming at the top of their lungs.
"LOUIE, YOU SNEAKY SON OF AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"MEAN IN GREEN, HALLELLUJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The longer their free fall continued, their rate of fall increased rapidly, and the roofs of all the buildings next to the Chrysler Building, were closing in on them at breakneck speed.
However, at the half-way of the Chrysler Building, Louie suddenly and quickly straightened himself up and pulled out his Manriki-Gusari, which the turtle in black began to spin around before throwing them into the distance until they got caught into something - they smashed through of two windows next to each other at the top floor of the glass-walled building and wrap around of the wall between the windows.
"YA-HOOOOOOOO!" Louie let out.
"AAAAHHHHHHHH!" Angel screamed.
The turtle in black swung himself and Angel in Tarzan-style along the side of the glass-walled building before pulling the weights of his chains free with a powerful pull on the other side of the building where they began to fly upwards again.
From there, while pulling his chains in his wake, Louie and Angel began to fall back dowards... and this time towards the next hotel-like building's long balcony with the long swimming pool in middle of it, surrounded by the sun loungers, round tables with shade umbrellas, red couches and potted plants.
"Louie! We're falling towards that balcony!" Angel yelled, pointing at the balcony over Louie's shoulder as she hang on tight.
"I know!" Louie yelled back, non too worried.
Louie then threw his chains at the lights hanging in the wall above the balcony, wrapping them around them, and then he swung safely down onto the hotel's balcony. After landing on his feet, Louie pulled his chains free and started running along the balcony to the other side, where he made another long jump over the railing, beginning to fall down again.
Louie, however, whipped his chains forward again, this time towards the crawler crane next to the neighboring building under construction, making his chains to wrap around of its steel jib and swung them under it and past the building and towards another.
Two spotlights then appeared from behind the two buildings and moved towards each other and into Louie and Angel's flight path, forming a large X. Swinging them towards the crossed spotlights, Louie and Angel flew through between of them.
They flew then towards the next building, but this time Louie didn't whip his chains anywhere to wrap them into something.
And he didn't even need to, as the turtle in black landed his feet against the building's wall, before he suddenly started running down the wall at a falling speed towards the ground before.
Angel blinked her eyes in surprise and amazement.
"You're running down the wall?!" she exclaimed. "Can this be even possible?!"
"Who cares as long as it works?!" Louie said back. "Besides, ninjas are the masters of surprises, including the wall-running! Believe me! I've seen it in the action before!"(3)
As Louie continued to run along the wall, a train track came around a bend right next to the building and below them. And speaking the devil, the train itself came just in time around the bend and right below them.
"Hey! Let's hitch a train ride!" Louie said, before he jumped off the building with the flip and fell down toward the tracks and the train.
Angel screamed again - as they were still quite high above the ground - as she watched over Louie's shoulders wide-eyed their free fall down towards the train tracks.
However, she also noticed that they were off-course... not to mention about the train having almost gone past them, with only two train cars left.
"Louie! We're off! We're off! WE'RE OFF THE TARGET!" she screamed in warning. "WE'RE NEVER GOING TO MAKE IT!"
"Are we?!" Louie challenged.
Louie then took out his chains again, spun them around over his head for a moment and then threw his right chain down towards the train, making it to wrap around of one of its pipe handles in the end of the last car as the train went past them, until it cut their fall and pulled the turtle in black and Angel in its wake.
"WOO-HOOOOOOOOOO!" Louie let out.
"HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIII...!" Angel screamed.
Louie then swung himself and Angel in an arc from under the train tracks to the other side of the train before letting go of the chain, while still spinning his remaining chain in his left hand.
Louie then threw it towards the last train car's other pipe handle and wrapped the chain's weight around of it, before he swung them again in an arc under the train tracks back to its right side, letting go of the left chain and grabbing again from the right chain.
"Louie! What are you doing?!" Angel asked.
"Just watch!" was all what Louie told her.
Louie then began swinging them alternately from under the tracks and between the structures holding the tracks up from one side of the train to the other via his chains, letting go of one of his chain and grabbing the other with each swing from side to side.(4)
"WOW! WHOA!" LOOK OUT! WOW!" Angel let out as they swung between of the tracks structures.
"Alright, Angel! Here we go!" Louie said after, what, fifteen or twenty swings from side to another, with them being now in the left side of the tracks.
Louie then swung them one last time under the train tracks to the right side, but this time pulling his left chain free from the last train car's left pipe handle, before he grabbed from the right chain. Then he would pull on it forcefully, which didn't just loosened it from around the train car's right pipe handle, but also jerked both Louie and Angel upwards and over the train.
Louie then wrapped his chains around his arms before he landed onto the secondly last training car's roof in three-point-pose, similiar to Spiderman's pose, literally hitching the ride on the train as it drove past the buildings.
"WHOA!" Louie whooped while panting, before she turned to look Angel over his shoulder. "That was refreshing, I tell you!"
Angel, however, didn't answer right away. The teen girl was breathing heavily and rapidly while holding her hand over her chest, trying to catch her breath after such of wild ride on Louie's shell.
"You okay there, Angel-cake?" Louie asked.
"Yeah...! (panting) I am... (panting)... I am okay. (panting)." Angel assured between the breaths. "I just... (panting) I just hope that... (panting) the next time's... (panting)... activity you... (panting) you choose is not... (panting)... is not... (panting)... quite as wild as... (panting)... as tonight."
"We'll, you'll see." Louie told her. "In four nights, after what you have in store for the next time in two nights."
The train, with Louie and Angel riding on it, then drove away into the city.
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Two nights later.
It was now Angel's turn to pick tonight's activity, and that was them going into the rap concert, where a famous gangsta rapper named Louis Jersey "L.J." Alcatraz, whom Angel idolized, was going to make his performance tonight. Louie was immediately into this, because he too idolized L.J. Alcatraz, as he absolutely loved to both listen and sing along his recorded rap songs in his personal karaoke club.
The two then took the buss to the rap concert that was happening at Madison Square Garden tonight.
And for this event, Angel had dressed into her street clothes she'd used during of her time with the Dragons and then when she met the turtles, while Louie had put on his old disguise he had used during of Casey's rescue mission in the Dragons' Lair
Angel had once again had her piercings on the left eyebrow and ears, her sleeveless hoodie, baggy jeans, the bands in her arms, the metal studded elbow pads, spiky bracelets and studded biker gloves.
And Louie wore his black thick leather waistcoat with the skulls in front and back and a blue baggy jeans, a blood-red bandana scarf around the neck, black fingerless gloves and a black open-face-helmet with the winged skulls in each sides, along with the bandanas around his arms with the loosely hanging ends, and finally a dark-green sunglasses.
With the tickets Angel had bought for both of them, they were allowed in Madison Square Garden - and just like in the Dragons' Lair initially, nobody bothered to question about Louie having a green skin, three fingers, two toes and weird-looking noseless face.
Madison Square Garden was filled with the people from all over New York City to witness this event, some of them dressed in normal clothes, while the majority were dressed either in street clothes or rap clothes.
There was a huge stage, with the huge Pro-Ject Speaker Boxes with the huge diamonds on top of them on each sides and a huge Custom Neon Sign reading "Alcatraz" with bright yellow lights in the back, the multicolored beamlights in the ceilings and a huge screen above the stage.
"LADIES AND GENTLMEN! WELCOME TO WITNESS THE PERFORMANCE OF THE LEGENDARY GANGSTA RAPPER KNOWN IN NEW YORK, L.J. ALCATRAZ!" the announcer of the concert informed to the audience through the speaker.
The crowd, including Louie and Angel in the front lines, errupted into a loud excited roar when on the stage stepped - and appeared on the giant screen above of the stage - L.J. Alcatraz himself.
He was an African-American slender yet muscular man in his early 40s. He had a clean mustaches, small goatee and braided hair tied in the back of his head in hip-hop style. He was wearing a white tank-top with the picture of the firing gun in it, emerald green rap jeans, ruby-red shoes. He had a gold plated teeth and wore a hip-hop gold-chain necklance with crystal A sign hanging in it. He also had a golden watch in his left wrist, a silver chain bracelet in his right wrist and the golden knuckle-dusters. And finally, he had a diamond-shaped tattoo in his left shoulder and a black flame-like tattoo in his right arm.(5)
"AND LET US WELCOME TO THE STAGE HIS DANCER GIRLS!" the announcer informed.
Alcatraz was then followed onto the stage by six stage dancer girls, two of which were Caucasians and four African-American. All of them were wearing different hair style and various colored shiny bikinis, shorts and boots.
One of the girls had a short blonde hair and she was in her turquoises.
Second girl had a short brunette hair and she was in her reds.
Third, and first African-American girl had a reddish-brown braided hair and she was in her blues.
Fourth, and second African-American girl had a red-shoulder-length hair and she was in her greens.
Fifth, and third African-American girl had a long dirty-blonde hair and she was in her dark pinks.
Sixth and last, and fourth African-American girl had a reddish-brown hair tied in the long ponytail and she was in her purples.
As Louie and Angel made their way through the huge crowd to the front seats, the spotlights were turned on Alcatraz and his girls and the dutes behind the Vinyl dj Sets began to play the rap music, with Alcatraz's dancer girls beginning to swing their hips with the tune.
Alcatraz then moved the mic in his left hand in front of his mouth and began rapping.
"Yo, every Street'y punk,"
"Hear Mr. Alcatraaz's song!"
"His cannons banging loud like nuclear explosion."
"Killing all those who sucks,"
"Leaving nothing for the grave tombs!"
"Coming storming into bank,"
"Hunting for wild'a cash'a!"
"Giving mercy no for the losers who deny your access!"
"I'll say "Gimme my money,"
"Or see ya in Hell, ya jackass!"
"Any dynamite in mega sleeve?"
"In my poker card, just ya wait and see!"
"Throw it on the table, and blow up the bridge!"
"Along with peoples in their cars,"
"Into their watering graves, yeah!"
The entire audience howled at the Alcatraz performance, jumping excitedly or to the music, waving their arms in the air or punching the air, or shouting from the top of their lungs over all of the noise something like "I love you, Alcatraz!"
"WOO! GO ALCATRAZ!" Angel whooped as she jumped along the rap-music while punching her fists alternately in the air.
"YOU'RE TALKING, MAN!" Louie roared, swinging his own hips while waving his arms repeatedly up and down.
Alcatraz and his dancer girls kept dancing with the music, with the dancer girls beginning to lift one leg high up and then the other in the perfect unison.
However, one of the girls, the African-American girl with shoulder-length red hair in greens, accidentally kicked the mic out of Alcatraz's hands!
"Whoops!" Arcatraz led out as the mic flew out of his hands and hit to the stage and rolled away... into Louie's hands as the turtle in red caught it.
Instantly after Louie caught the mic in his hands, the music stopped... and the eyes of everyone nearby turned straight to Louie, glaring at him as if he had just ruined something special, like tonight's event, even if Louie hadn't done yet anything.
"Uh, oh!" Angel gulped at the situation.
Right before they were going to a rap concert as she had suggested for tonight's activities, Angel was starting to have a second thoughts about the whole thing because the fact is, and ironically, learning from past experience that had already happened once, that going to a concert, where there are a lots of people, would involve a huge risk that Louie would end up, by any accident, revealing himself as a turtle behind his disguise in front of all of New York. And of course, Angel had no intention of getting Louie into such trouble, which is why she almost called off the whole thing to suggest something else to do that wouldn't cause any harm for Louie.
However, Louie had managed to convince Angel not to call off their night at the rap concert despite the huge amount of people in there and the risk of him getting possibly exposed to the large crowd and half of New York. Louie had reasoned that because the whole crowd would be too focused in following Alcatraz's performance, and with him being within the massive audience - which he referred ironically as a needle in a haystack - they would never even pay attention to him, thinking that he was just one amongst the many of them. And if they did, his disguise would cover his identity from them.
With Louie's convincing and reasoning, even if Angel was still a reluctant to go to the concert merely out of worry for Louie, she agreed to go there with Louie nonetheless, but not before she had made Louie to promise to be careful with his disguise and attempts to cover his identity, so that what happened back in the Dragon's Lair during of Casey Jones' rescue mission wouldn't repeat itself in here.
Well ... in Angel's eyes, everything had just gone completely wrong from what Louie had imagined and said, because he was now the center of attention the entire Madison Square Garden.
"Maybe it would've been better if we'd never come here in the first place." Angel said with the worried grimace.
Louie, however, wasn't too worried about the situation, not even when he looked up from the mic in his hands and saw Alcatraz standing right in front of him, hands on his hips and hardened frown on his face while glaring down at the disguised turtle in black disapprovaly.
"Uhh... I think that you dropped this, Mr. Alcatraz." Louie said humbly and tried to hand the mic back to Alcatraz.
However, Alcatraz didn't accept the mic back from Louie, much to the turtle in black's confusion.
Instead, he pointed his finger at Louie's face almost as if...
"Yo, newbie, drop down my mic if you're afraid for a challenge. This is big boys' zone, not newbie's playground, so don't cry "mommy" to me." Alcatraz said in rapping tone straight in Louie's face, both challengingly and mockingly.
The whole crowd around Louie then burst out into the roar of laughter at Alcatraz openly calling Louie a newbie.
"Yo, folks! Join me to show this newbie that we mean business. His choice to either take up the challenge or else he can just get outta here in disgrace." Alcatraz added, rallying the crowd into encouraging Louie either to take up the challenge or just leave the concert in disgrace.
"YYYYEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHH!" the entire crowd yelled, before they split into four jeering choruses.
"NEWBIE, NEWBIE, NEWBIE, NEWBIE, NEWBIE! NEWBIE, NEWBIE, NEWBIE, NEWBIE, NEWBIE!"
"GO HOME! GO HOME! GO HOME! GO HOME! GO HOME! GO HOME! GO HOME! GO HOME!"
"DISGRACE! DISGRACE! DISGRACE! DISGRACE! DISGRACE! DISGRACE! DISGRACE! DISGRACE!"
"OUT OF HERE! OUT OF HERE! HE'S NOT WELCOME HERE! OUT OF HERE! OUT OF HERE!"
Louie looked around of him wide-eyed under of his shades, and saw the whole crowd around of him jeering at him - except Angel, who stared at him with growing worry - or daring him to take the challenge or just leave in disgrace.
However, instead of cowering in front of a crowd of bullies like a misfit little kid thanks to his honed mental toughness - and out of his own hunger for challenge - Louie put a delighted and confident smile on his lips before moving the mic in front of his lips.
"A newbie? You called me a newbie, L.J. Alcatraz?" Louie said in mock hurt, aiming an accusing finger at the rapper, before turning to aim it at the while crowd around of him, while raising his voice for the whole audience to hear it. "ARE YOU ALL CALLING ME A NEWBIE?! YOU DARE CALL ME A NEWBIE IF YOU HAVE NO A SLIGHTEST CLUE WHAT THIS "NEWBIE" CAN DO!"
The entire crowd fell silent at this, staring at Louie with wide eyes, including Alcatraz and Angel, as Louie continued.
"YOU WANT THE TRUTH ABOUT ME?! YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH! NO TRUTH-HANDLERS, NONE OF YOU?! SO I'LL ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE TO DERIDE YOUR TRUTH-HANDLING ABILITIES!" Louie announced in the mic.(6)
Louie then climbed onto the stage, with Alcatraz stepping back to give the turtle in black some room, and the spot-lights all turned to Louie, who was now seen in the giant screen.
Everybody in the crowd, including Angel, turned their eyes into Louie on the stage - or in the screen - in anticipation for some kind of performance from the turtle in black in disguise that would challenge Alcatraz's own.
Louie then cleared his throat near the mic, making it to be heard to the crowd to inform them that he was ready to start.
"Hey, dudda, don't yo push me down, will ya?"
"Me no afraid you, punk'a. I've seen much of worst'a."
"That maxes you just one amongst everybody elsa."
Suddenly, even with a few words that radiated fearlessness and confidence from the turtle in black, the audience was taken aback with surprise and impression of the start of his performance. Even Alcatraz looked taken aback, while Angel smirked proudly at her Lover-boy.
"Ooh! That guy knows his tunes!" one from amongst the crowd exclaimed out loud.
Louie then continued, while holding high up between of his fingers the photo that showed some members of the Purple Dragon gang to show to the crowd in the giant screen, before he flipped it around to show Hun's sneering face.
"I've faced a lame-os like Purple Dragons many times over. Especially their sausage-fingered leader Hun, whatta loser."
"That fat man's an ape with the muscles in the place of the brains smaller than even ones of stegosaurus'."
"He cries for "mommy" like a girl every time he gets kicked in his lardy bottom."
ELSEWHERE
In the dark room, someone was watching the rap concert on live from TV, including Louie's rap performance that mocked the Purple Dragons and Hun.
"WHAT?! WHAT DID HE CALL ME?!" the familiar voice errupted in fury, slamming his huge fist against the nearby table with such of force that the table snapped in half.
BACK IN THE CONCERT.
"OOOOOOHHHHHHHH!" the entire crowd gasped at Louie's boldness to make fun of the most feared street gang in the Eastern Side, especially their well-known notorious leader.
"That dude doesn't fear the Purple Dragons, and even has a guts to make fun of them under their noses?" somebody said in the crowd.
"Yeah! That's right!" Louie said, as if hearing the one who had just said that. "I'll laugh off every time I hear the name "Purple Dragons", and when I hear the name of that lardbutt Hun, well, I'LL LAUGH EVEN MORE! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!" Louie laughed in the mic, before he continued.
"Well, ain'ta finished here, ya folks. I gotta whole full list of super dorks."
"Don't know where to start'a, but let ya mega to give you soma appetiza."
Louie then held up the next photo for all to see, which thic time showed the disgraced scientist, Baxter Stockman himself.
"I know'a certain glasses-headed geecko, who demolished my home once. Baxter Stockman, the name of this crackbrained madman's was."
"That nutcase thinks he's a genius, but the only thing he'sa good at, is only bragging babbling about his oversized ego."
"I'm telling ya, he ain't nothing compared to my bro'ra, Donatello."
ELSEWHERE
In another dark room, that resembled somewhat of the hospital room, someone else too was watching Louie's rap performance, and him mocking Baxter Stockman's intelligence compared to Donatello on live.
"This is an outrage! AN OUTRAGE! HOW DARE THAT INSOLET DIMWITTED BRAT MOCK MY GENIOUSNESS?!" the familiar voice said angrily, slamming his robotic hand against the armrest of something that looked like the wheelchair.
BACK IN THE CONCERT.
"BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO!" the crowd booed in disapproval, though not for Louie but to the photo of Stockman in the giant screen.
"YEAH! THAT'S IT! GO ON! LET IT ALL OUT! BOO AT HIM! BOO AT STOCKMAN! BOO AT THAT MADMAN! I DARE YA!" Louie encouraged the crowd, before he continued.
"Then there's this next one, but warnin' ya,"
"this one ain't for'ta lame-os! The last guy is a big guy."
"The one ya don'ta wanna ranna into in dark alley alone."
Louie then held up the next photo for the crowd to see, showing in it the Shredder himself in his armor.
"He'sa boss of the Leg-Clan known for their super smelly feet, And this metallic scarecrown is called by the name of Shredder."
"That old-man broke my arm, but he gotta back fora tons of the times the weight of the water tower that broke his bones."
"I'll remember that a day when the Loseredder ended up as'a pancakes."
ELSEWHERE.
In the large room that resembled the room of the Japanese house, someone was watching Louie's rap performance from the holographic screen.
"WHAT?!" roared the familiar deep and raspy voice, before the said person slashed the wooden table before him into pieces with the pair of Tekko-kagi claws.
BACK IN THE CONCERT.
"OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!" the crowd cheered as Louie squeezed his hand into fist around the photo of the Shredder, crumbling it into the ball, before rising his fist high up.
"SO, SO LONG, SHREDHEAD! FROM HELL'S HEART, I STAB AT THEE!" Louie roared in the mic, before he continued.
"Alright, dudes and dudesses, I got the last guy yet."
"He thinks he's a big toughie. But that ain't true, believe me."
"I'va met him many times and he ended up a total goofie."
Louie then held out a new photo for everybody to see, showing Tatsu's scarred face in it.
"Ever since the blackout, me and this douchebag, we go a way back. He's one of the kinda guy who is literally scared of the rats!"
"Tried to break me bones, but got him everytime pissed off when I made a joke about his hideous face."
"Just before me and mega pals threw him away like yesterday's garbage."
ELSEWHERE.
In the dark room that resembled the Dōjō, someone too was watching Louie's performance on live at the moment.
"KORE WA BŌKYODESU! BŌKYODA!*" the familiar voice said in rage in Japanese, slicing with the sword a nearby practice dummy into three pieces: the head, torso with three limbs and a leg. (This is an outrage! An outrage!*)
BACK IN THE CONCERT.
The crowd erupted into another deafening uproar of cheers and high-pitched squeals at Louie's rap performance, jumping and waving their hands up or punching the air. Even Alcatraz's dancing girls had joined in cheering at Louie and even dancing to the music around him.
"WOOOO, HO-HOO! GO, LOUIE!" Angel cheered, jumping and raising her hands up and down.
However, the only person who wasn't as enthusiastic about Louie's rap performance as everybody else was, was L.J. Alcatraz himself, whose faces were hardened into a disapproval, if not even a rather envied frown, while scowling at the turtle in black.
"MORE! MORE! MORE! MORE! MORE! MORE! MORE! MORE! MORE! MORE!" the crowd demanded, and Louie was more than happy to give them some more.
"So you guys wanna more, oh, you d'oh?"
"Well, I got one more left! This one's a fresh meat."
"Never met yet we've all seen him in TV and in the newspaper."
Then Louie held up a newspaper from a few days ago, showing to the crowd the release of William Dandelion from the pretrial custody on the front line.
"BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO!" the crowd booed again at William Dandelion's picture on the newspaper in disapproval, apparently having heard from his release and were all very displeased about it as well.
Louie then continued and didn't mince his words to make openly fun of Mr. William Dandelion under his nose.
"We keep'a saying that the dandelions are the beautiful flowers. But this one'sa rotten that it no good even for the bees."
"That's Mr. William, the owner of Dandelion's laundry company where he launders his millions of dirty money."
"Where'd he got his vast fortune, I wonder? By playing and cheating in Monopoly?"
The entire crowd then erupted into laughter at Louie's words, greatly amused by him, while ridiculing William Dandelion and his so-called "honest" Dandelions' Laundry Company.
However, L.J. Alcatraz was now staring at Louie with wide-eyed, stunned look, as if Louie had just said something that had got the legendary gangsta rap star totally taken aback.
Louie grinned widely, obvious that he had won the crowd's favor and having won the rap battle against Alcatraz superiorily fair and square.
Louie then turned to Alcatraz and tossed him his mic back, and the still stunned rapper grabbed it out of the air somewhat awkwardly, his wide-eyed gaze never leaving from the turtle in black, who crossed his arms over his chest and winked at the rapper his eyebrows smugly.
Chuckling, Louie then turned away from Alcatraz and back to the crowd, holding both his hands and forefingers up in triumphant, earning another "WWWWOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" roar from the audience, including Angel.
However, the turtle in black wasn't done yet.
Louie then walked up to the edge of the stage and knelt down, holding his hand out towards Angel, beckoning her to join him on the stage.
"Come on, Angel-cake! Join me!" Louie called. "The audience is ours to take! Let's give them our best shot together!"
Angel, all too gladly to accept Louie's invitation to the stage, and encouraged by the people around of her who gently pushed her forward, took Louie's hand and allowed him to pull her up onto the stage to perform the rap with him, with both Louie and Angel putting their arms over each other's shoulders while Louie held the mic in front of them.
Louie then pulled the mic closer of their mouths and they began to rap together.
However, while the audience's attention was in Louie and Angel, Alcatraz pulled back behind of one of the huge speakers and touched to the earpiece in his right ear as if making secretly a contact to somebody.
"Yo, boss. Are you seeing this?" Alcatraz asked in loud whisper while glancing in Louie's and Angel's direction once more before pulling back to his hiding spot. "I think that we got a couple of troublemakers here."
"Tell me about it..." the voice in the other end of the line said dryly.
Meanwhile, the mobster boss Mr. Nosy, along with Gabriel "Gabe" Harris and few other mobster-like bodyguards - including Mr. Nosy's two person al bodyguards: a turquoise-suited one with mustache and reddish-brown hat, and a brown-suited one with hooked nose and a golden hat - were watching Louie's and Angel's rap performance from the Madison Square Garden's private box. Mr. Nosy was holding his own earpiece while Alcatraz's voice came through it into his left ear.
"...because you let that kid to beat you at your own game and steal your show." Mr. Nosy chided.
"I didn't believe that newbie freak could've taken up the challenge. He caught me totally off guard." Alcatraz protested.
"By the way how he openly and rather boldly insults the Purple Dragons and Hun, as well as that disgraced scientist Baxter Stockman, and even the Foot Clan and the Shredder... and by the way how he takes an insolent step too far to insult the boss under his nose!" Mr. Nosy said with dead serious voice.
"I agree, boss." Gabe said, as the grumpy thug took from next of him a violin case, opened it, and took out a sniper rifle with the silencer.. "Should I take care of him, boss?"
Mr. Nosy, however, never taking his gaze away from Louie and Angel, put his large hand over the rifle and gently lowered it down.
"Not here, Mr Harris. There will be too many witnesses and security guards." Mr. Nosy said.
Gabe sighed with disappointment before putting the rifle back into the case and putting the case away.
"Should me and my guys take care of them afterwards the concert? Somewhere where there won't be any witnesses?" Alcatraz asked, sounding a bit too eager to get back at Louie for beating him in the rap battle and literally stealing his show.
"No." Mr. Nosy said, denying the suggestion. "This must be done carefully and with observation before direct action."
"So, what are you thinking, boss?" Alcatraz asked, sounding a bit disappointed as well.
"That girl with that boy. We know who she is." Mr. Nosy saidm eyeing both Angel and Louie with particular interest. "Angel Bridge, a former recruit of the Purple Dragons, who according to the rumors defected from the gang for some vigilante in the hockey-mask, who in turn is rumored to be in the league with some... freaks. And less that three weeks ago, my guys I sent to retrieve the girl on the boss' orders got ambushed by some freak they claimed being capable to pull its head inside its body... like a turtle."
"Like a turtle?" Alcatraz questioned, sounding surprised.
"As ridiculous as it does sound, yes." Mr. Nosy said. "My guys even claimed that the creature used the darkness to take them by surprise, moved much faster than you can blink an eye, being even capable to stay a step ahead of the gunfire, is strong enough to throw my boys around as if they weighed nothing, and even tearing two fire escapes from the walls, fights even harder than a boxer and knows twelve martial arts at once, defeating all eight of them in the matter of twelve-point-fifteen seconds."
Alcatraz was quiet for a moment in the other end of the line, obviously taking all of this in had got the rapper taken aback even further than Louieäs superior performance.
"Impossible!" Alcatraz gasped in shock and disbelief. "That thing must be somekind of demon!"
"Well..." Mr. Nosy said, rather unaffected. "I'll make even these kinds of "demons" bleed to death for breakfast!"
"So what do you want me to do, boss?" Alcatraz asked again.
"Approach those two after the concert. Offer them a ride back to their homes with your own personal limousine, and find out where they live. Also give the boy a little warning about, what could happen if he is brave or foolish enough to mock the people of the underworld without knowing what kind of things he might get himself and all those he cares about involved in. And as a precaution, plant a couple of microphones into them so that we can further spy on them." Mr. Nosy instructed.
There was a moment of silence in the other end, indicating that Alcatraz was thinking all of this over.
The first part, that he was supposed to congratulate Louie for beating him at his own game, and that he should offer them a ride back home with his own limou, didn't suit him well out of bitterness over his defeat in the rap battle, and was almost ready to object this plan. However, in the very last minute, Alcatraz decided to follow the given instructions instead, because he knew it wouldn't be wise to go and say "no" to a big-nosed man known for threatening to make people, both witnesses and underlings, just more of sheep for the slaughter.(6)
"Very well, boss. I'll do as told." Alcatraz finally said, albeit reluctantly.
"Perfect. See that you don't fail me, or I'll have a lamb for the dinner tonight." Mr. Nosy threatened before ending the connection.
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After the concert ended and everybody began heading back to their homes, Louie and Angel were walking side-by-side from Madison Square Garden, heading to a nearby bus stop to hitch the bus-ride home, both of them literally laughing out of breath.
"Wow! That was WICKED COOL!" Louie let out, raising his hands high in the air.
"WOO! YEAH!" Angel cheered, spinning around and making her long pigtails swing around in her wake. "That was a good one, Lover-boy!"
"Yeah, Angle-cake! That was awesome! WOO!" the turtle in black wooed, almost not caring if the passers-by and other bystanders would hear him. "I think I pretty much left the legendary Alcatraz licking his wounds when I won the favor of his entire audience, and probably most of his fans."
"Well, do you think that Hun and the Purple Dragons, or Stockman, or this Tatsu-guy or even this Shredder-guy himself, or maybe even William Dandelion himself would be pretty pissed off when you ridiculed all of them openly back there?" Angel asked, not too worried about what kind of consequences that might bring upon them.
"What about it?" Louie asked. "What those lame-os Dragons can do? And what about that sausage-fingered stegosaurus-brained lardbutt Hun can do? Come cry to me for hurting his feewings?"
Angel chuckled lightly at this, though she tried to hold herself back as Louie continued.
"And what about Baxter Stockman? That glasses-headed geecko who's only bragging babbling about his oversized egos, while his geniousness loses catastrophically to Donatello's."
This time Angel failed to suppress her next wave of laughter, as she was too amused by Louie's comments about the villains to hold herself back.
"And what about Tatsu, that scar-faced douchebag, who is highly afraid of rats and got at least twice thrown off from the high spot like the garbage into the trach can."
Angel laughed now a little harder, shaking her head.
"And whattabout the Shred-dude?! Remember, the Mr. Leader of the Stinky Feet-Clan got crushed into pancakes under the water tower, so he simply cannot do anything except rage in his grave."
Angel was now laughing so loud and so hard that she bent over, holding her stomach with one hand while waving her other hand towards Louie, pleading him to stop.
"AH-HAA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT, LOUIE! PLEASE! YOU'RE KILLING ME!" Angel lauhed.
"What?!" Louie asked with the shrug. "I never even got to our newest friend, Mr. William Dandelion, Angel... cake?"
Louie was quickly cut off when he heard the sound of a car engine approaching behind them, sounding just like the said car was coming right towards them and slowing down.
The turtle in black and Angel, who had laughed the silliness off her system and managed to pull herself to gether at last, turned around and saw how shiny silver gray hummer limousine - with an armored exterior, black and definitely bulletproof windows, lights above the cab, gold flagpoles on each corner of the roof, and in the center of the limo on either side were smaller versions of the Custom Neon Signs reading "Alcatraz" in bright lights - parked right next to them.
"Whoa." both Louie and Angel gasped in surprise and amazement.
The window of the limousine then opened up, revealing to the two L.J. Alcatraz himself relaxing inside on the seat, flanked by all his six dance girls.
"Hello there, dudes!" Alcatraz, pulling a facade over his face to hide the resentment he still held for Louie for losing a rap battle, greeted the two.
"L.J. ALCATRAZ!" Louie and Angel gasped in unison.
"That's me, L.J. Alcatraz, a walking rapper legend. So unique that you will never see another like it." Alcatraz said, which was his catchphrase whenever his name was said out loud.
"Yep. That's the guy, alright." Louie said, nodding his head and turned to Angel, while pointing his finger at Alcatraz.
"Definitely." Angel agreed, before she stepped forward. "Well, hello, Mr. Alcatraz. I am Angel Bridge." Angel said, holding her hand over her chest while introducing herself, before she touched Louie's right shoulder with her hand., "And this is my friend, Lorenzo."
"But call me "Louie" if you like." Louie added, pointing at himself with his thump.
"We're both big fans of yours as we have heard so much about you and we have listened to many of your records." Angel told him, while Alcatraz moved to sit next to door and rested his right arm on the window shade while listening her.
"Such as "Shaking my sackles, baby!", "Jailbreak Party!", "Rules are for Losers!", "The Bank Gig!", "Boom, Boom, Dynamite!", "Nothing Better Than The Car Chase!", "Guns Go Off!", "Cool Guys Rocks, Coppers Sucks!", "My Turf, My Fort!", "Let's Bring Gunfire Down, Baby!" and so on." Louie listed.
"Including "Hot Babies in the Car Race!". So, it's actually quite an honor to meet you in person like this." Angel finished, holding out her hand.
"Honor is all mine, young lady." Alcatraz said, taking Angel's hand, shaking it lightly and squeezing it tight.
"Wow. Just like they say. He has an iron grip." Angel said, feeling the noticeable tightness of Alcatraz's squeeze in her hand before letting go of his hand and shaking her own a bit.
"And it is an honor to meet you too, Lorenzo." Alcatraz said as he held out his hand towards Louie, whch the turtle in black took and shook it.
However, Alcatraz glanced down at Louie's hand and noticed it having a green skin and three digits instead of five, much to the rapper's surprise.
And when he tried to squeeze his hand, he was caught by surprise when Louie squeezed his hand two times harder than he could squeeze the turtle in black's, making Alcatraz's grimace from slight pain a bit, which he quickly hid under his facade.
"Same words, Alcatraz." Louie said back, not noticing the rapper's reactions to the appearance and from the hard squeeze of his hand, before he let go.
"Oh! Whatta iron grip." Alcatraz mumbled under his breath, shaking his hand sligtly, before he turned back to the two.
"For what do we earn this honor?" Louie asked.
"I just wanted to personally congratulate you for... for your performance with which you beat me in that rap battle back there." Alcatraz said, pointing his thumb back Madison Square Garden. "No many have ever managed to beat me before. Is that a natural talent of yours?"
"Well, not exactly." Louie said, lightly shaking his head. "That got a years of practice."
"Ah ha. I see." Alcatraz nodded his head. "Anyway, as your reward for your accomplishment, shall I offer you two a ride home in my personal limousine?"
Both Angel and Louie stared each other wide-eyed for a moment, surprised and in disbelief that Alcatraz himself was offering to give them a ride back to Angel's place in his personal limousine.
"I think I might have got something in my ears, or did I just heard him right?" Louie asked, still in disbelief.
"If you even have anything close to the ear holes in your head, Lover-boy, I think that you did." Angel joked lightly.
The two of them then turned back to Alcatraz. "Wow! Many guys don't even get the once-in-the-lifetime chance to get in the legendary rapper's personal limousine. Cool!" Angel said, amazed.
"Like a dream come true." Louie agreed. "Except that we were just about to take the bus-ride back to Angel's place. So, so sorry to say this but I think we'd..."
"Oh, don't be daft, Lorenzo." Alcatraz said, cutting him off. "Bus-rides are for lame-os! But the rides onboard of the personal limousines is a cool guys' thing."
"Well, I don't know." Angel said, rubbing the back of her head, trying to come up with an excuse in order to avoid mentioning that "never board a stranger's car" rule."
"Please. I insist." Alcatraz said, before he closed the window and then opened the door, beckoning the turtle in black and Angel to come onboard.
Louie and Angel exchanged glances with each other, still wondering whether or not it would be wise to accept the once-in-a-lifetime invitation to ride in Alcatraz's personal limousine.
TO BE CONTINUED...
I fan-casted this actor to voice L.J. Alcatraz in my story.
- Andrew Kishino as L.J. Alcatraz. (Known for the role of Janja the hyena from the Lion Guard and ironically the Shredder from Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.)
Note: I've been thinking of re-considering changing some voice actors of my OC-characters, including my own versions of Tatsu and Jennika and my OC turtles.
TRIVIA
1) = Reference to the Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs scene: (Buck, Crash and Eddie hitch the ride from Pteranodon) Crash: "Have you ever flown this before?" Buck: "No! First time actually!"
2) = Something what Leo told Mikey in "A Better Mousetrap saga" and "The Unconvincing Turtle Titan Saga", even if Louie denies this as Mikey's professionality,
3) = Louie refers to the Foot Ninjas running up walls during their first fight with the Foot.
4) = Louie's train-track stunt is similiar to Elastigirl's stealth stunt from the scene in Incredibles Movie, where she sneaks into Syndrome's base via the monorail.
5) = My newest OC, L.J. Alcatraz's design here is based on the Simpsons' Character with the name of Alcatraaz from the Pranksta Rap episode, and his and Louie's rap battle is actually based on his and Bart's rap battle in the same episode. The only difference is that I made my Alcatraz resentful of Louie for beating him at his own game.
6) = Edited reference to Sideshow Bob's line from "Sideshow Bon Roberts" episode: "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth. No truth-handler, you. Bah! I deride your truth-handling abilities!"