Well time to finally introduce our villains! I admit I have a bit of a problem with writing too much build up and indeed this chapter is mostly set up for an intense action scene that we'll get to in the next chapter also there is a sly reference to the 80s cartoon with Circus Clown Pizza being a reference to Clowntime Food & Games which appeared in the episode 'Hot Rodding Teenagers From Dimension X' as an obvious parody of Chuck E Cheese
A few days later it was Lovelace's birthday. Because of her her rough upbringing in a lab, Lovelace couldn't be sure of the exact date of her birthday she only knew it was during springtime because she could remember the exact scents in the air that day…
(Reptiles always seem better at remembering their pre-mutation childhoods than mammals or birds, while Splinter had full memories of his life as an ordinary rat, he had been a full grown adult when he mutated and many mutants suspected Splinter was already a bit of a mutant even before being splashed with the ooze! After all...Whoever heard of a rat learning martial arts just by mimicking its human owner?)
While Madame Bodewell was willing to throw her mutant granddaughter's best friend a lavish birthday party at her mansion in the Hamptons, the Garter Snake Mutant was modest insisting she just wanted an 'average kid' birthday party at Circus Clown Pizza.
While Madame Bodewell felt that place gave her the Heebie-Jeebies she obliged so Lovelace celebrated her birthday with her best friend Scruffles the Maltese Puppy, along with most of the younger mutant students which of course included Bacon Bit...And with the Mutant Piglet's upbringing being nearly as rough as Lovelace's she had never experienced anything like this before! She had so much fun playing the games and eating pizza, cake and ice cream that she stayed way past the time she was supposed to come home...Her adoptive father Von Kaiser was going to be working late that night so he would be able to pick her up...So she was essentially a latchkey piglet which wasn't ideal but as she was eleven years old Von Kaiser trusted her to be mature enough to handle herself. (Really the German Boxer was still getting used to this whole parenting thing as he never imagined he would be adopting a Mutant Animal)
So Bacon Bit realized too late she had stayed out too long and thus had to walk home on an unusually foggy spring night in New York City...Which already was not great for Bacon Bit as pigs don't have great night vision and now she also had to deal with fog too!
So Bacon Bit began to slowly make her way home, thinking about how Raphael was always complaining about what he called 'Turtle Luck' which apparently meant bad things always seemed to happen to them because...Turtles are naturally unlucky it seemed? What Bacon Bit learned from Piston Hondo was that turtles and tortoises were traditionally seen as symbols of good luck! Maybe they bring luck to other people but not to themselves?
Well at that moment Bacon Bit was thinking of telling Raph that 'Turtle Luck' ain't got nothing on 'Pig Luck'1 She had learned that her own species was seen as lucky particularly in Asian cultures but that was because a pig is seen as good to eat! Hardly a lucky thing for the pig itself! Really what could be expected for an animal that even when it is alive looks like a sausage on legs?!
And then as if to emphasize Bacon Bit's point out of the alley stepped familiar figures from her nightmares...With flannel shirts, baseball caps and shotguns!
At first Bacon Bit thought she was dreaming but no this was real...These men were hunters and they were hunting for her!
So now that the Mutants who are reincarnated Mizzer Humanimals now know the truth of their past I think because of what Lovelace showed in the White Ronin like Dana she is also getting vague feelings where certain things feel familiar and Lovelace specifically not wanting a lavish party in the Hamptons I think relates to the former life she and most of the other reincarnated Humanimals had that all of them were among the 'Creme de la Creme' of Mizzer Society (I noticed that of the species among them they are all either domestic animals, carnivores or both) that is they were all rich gated community snobs you know...Beverly Hills types and so Lovelace remembering how much that life made her miserable just wanted a humble low brow Chuck E Cheese type birthday party where she could feel free to get a little sloppy with her friends
