So...I've been putting off this chapter for a while, I've mostly been taking a big break from fanfiction to concentrate on my original fiction on Fictionpress which I see as more important
So Jonathan grounded Ichabod for the next few days so he could both heal from his injuries and not get into anymore trouble while Jonathan confronted the man who whipped his son the proper way…
As Ichabod and Marzipan lay together in the sofa bed in the dark, Marzipan heard Ichabod quietly crying…
"Oh Ichy…" Marzipan said quietly "...Does your butt still hurt?"
"It's not that…" Ichabod said trying to keep his voice as quiet as possible as he wiped his eyes "...I barely hurt at all after that ointment was applied...It's just...Now I can't leave the house well...I didn't tell about the two cubs who were fighting...I didn't mention it at supper because I didn't want to embarrass them and it wasn't relevant to me getting whipped…"
Neither of them knew...But Jonathan was listening from his bedroom, he had opened the door a crack, since his son had attempted to hide his injuries from him this very night so he felt obligated to listen to see if Ichabod was hiding anything else he really should be hiding…
"Today...When I got to the playground...I heard...It was Taylor and Zeb, they were...Arguing about...Who deserved my love more...They were saying some pretty nasty things to each other...And when I ran over and intervened and they say I my eight year old form...They were horrified and ran away...And I chased after them...And that's when we ran into the flower garden...I told Taylor and Zeb to run away before I whipped...I'm just worried about them...Since now I can't go out and check to see if they're OK…"
Jonathan took note of that and made a mental note to do something about that tomorrow...After all if Marzipan and Ichabod were through their mystical fostering, the parents of those Mutant Cubs, then he truly was their Grandfather and he had an obligation to help his Grandchildren…
Meanwhile after that harrowing rescue of Stripes from that light bulb-headed villain, Leo and two of his brothers Raph and Mikey were also kind of grounding the Mutant Tigress, they sat down with her and told them she had to reveal the full details of her past...No more secrets!
Tearfully...The Mutant Bengal Tiger didn't need to tell them the part she had already told them...That she hadn't been created in a lab located deep in the Canadian Wilderness as one of several female Mutant Animals created to be a combo of nurse and therapy animal, she was the largest of her 'Sisters' and a lot of people were skeptical about including a tiger in the experiment but her 'Father' insisted that the Patients would just see her as a larger version of a cat, but because of her strength and agility she would be particularly handy and being able to handle and restrain particularly...'Risky' patients…
Stripes told that the troubles began some time when she was thirteen years old "...We got certain news years in advance before the rest of society did…" Stripes explained when Stripes and her sisters were confined to their bedchamber for a certain meeting, Stripes knew something was up and even though her sisters begged her not to, she climbed into the ventilation system so she could spy on the meeting...And from there she heard of the new changes to policy...Horrible things...Changes to better suit the coming… 'New World Order' where all of Humanity would be tightly controlled in order to 'save the world' Once the humans left the room, Stripes secretly dropped down, stole the papers containing this information, and packing some other things into a bag, she slipped out of the Lab she had lived all her life and fled to...Ultimately she didn't know where...Just to get as far away from her creators as possible in hopes she could find away to reveal the evil plans to the world before it was too late…
At the end Stripes was shivering and shaking, Leo came over and hugged the Tigress.
"Stripes…" Leo said "...I think you should give us those papers…"
So not much happens in this chapter and yes I'm commenting vaguely on certain 'current events' (Remember in my fiction the Mutant Civil Rights Movement happened after season five of the 2003 Cartoon so the year is 2006)