*Izzy's P.O.V.*

"Guys, guys, guys! Get in your spots!" Mikey exclaimed as he grabbed his skateboard and climbed up the rump. "Alright, alright Mikey! But this is the last time!" Raph snapped in frustration as he and the other laid down in front of the rump. "Don't clip me this time!" Donnie exclaimed as he laid down. "Agh! I ate to much cheese!" Leo groaned to himself as he laid down. I think you all did, seeing that the Lair is covered with empty pizza boxes.

"I don't think this is a good idea Mikey." I warned my little brother as he climbed up the rump. "I have to agree with her Mikey! I'm all for fun, but I don't think we should do this in the Lair." Jack said with a nervously look. Mikey was able to talk the guys into it to bring the rump inside the Lair and to used the rump to jump over all three of them. He wasn't able to talk Jack and I into it, luckily. When they brought the rump in, Jack and I sat at the pool as we watched them.

"Chillax guys! It'll be fine!" Mikey exclaimed as he finally got on top of the rump. Jack and I looked at each other with a knowing look. This is not going to end well. "And now the kid goes for the World Record!" Mikey exclaimed as he got his skateboard ready. "He will attempt to jump three mutant turtles!" Yep! Totally not going to end well! "This is going to be a disaster." I said to Jack as I watched and waited for the soon to come crash.

"I can't believe he talked us into this!" Raph grumbled to Leo and Donnie as he looked glared up to Mikey. "Neither can we!" I exclaimed from where I sat, making Jack chuckle. "Booyakasha!" Mikey screamed and rolled down the rump. I nervously held my breath and watched with worry eyes. "What is going on in here!?!" Sensei screamed in anger, making Jack and I jumped in fright and surprise.

"Sensei!" Leo called out in alarm as he and the others jumped up. Mikey screamed in fear and crashed into them. Jack and I flinched when we saw and heard them crash. "Uh oh..." Jack quietly said when he saw an angry sensei walk over to his sons. "How many times have I told you, not to skateboard inside the Lair?" Sensei asked, furious. "None Sensei." Mikey answered from on top of the other.

"I shouldn't have to tell you!" Sensei snapped, even more furious. "You're right Sensei!" Leo said as he and the rest stood up. "We definitely should have know better." He said as he, Donnie and Raph glared at Mikey pointedly, making him look down guilty. "And we deserve to be punished." He finished as they all looked down guilty, with closed eyes. "Eh, some." Leo quickly added nervously as he opened one eye.

"And what do you think would be a fitting punishment?" Sensei asked as he bended down while he played with his beard, looking Leo right in the eye and putting him on the spot. Leo turned around and looked at his brothers for help, but Mikey was pretending to think, Raph was pretending to read a comic and Donnie was whistling to avoid the subject. Leo then looked at Jack and I for help, but we just shrugged at him, no knowing what to tell him. He looked at us defeated and turned back to face Sensei.

"Well, we..." He started as he rubbed his neck nervously. "We, we should... clean up our mess?" Leo said nervously with a smile, questioning his idea more than stating it. Sensei stood up stared with a stern glare and crossed his arms. "And then..." Leo started again nervously, before brightening up with an idea. "Think about what we did." The others immediately agreed, making Leo glare, thinking how they could have helped him earlier. But Jack and I looked at each other, already knowing that punishment couldn't and wouldn't be so easy.

"What about grounded for a week?" Sensei asked with a pointed glare, making everyone's, including Jack and mine, eyes widen in nervousness and worry. "Oh! I'm not sure that's-" Leo quickly spoke, against the idea of being grounded, but was interrupted by his brothers, who voiced their agreement and it really didn't help much. "I'm cool with the thinking!" Mikey exclaimed. "Really! That's not necessary!" Donnie added. "Maybe next time!" Raph finished.

"You're grounded for a week!" Sensei snapped, his word final. The guys groaned in disappointment before flinching when the rump fell down to its side behind them, breaking in many pieces. Jack and I flinched as well and looked nervously at the guys and Sensei as we all waited for him to explode again. But Master Splinter just pointedly glare in disappointment and anger at his sons. "Um..." Mikey started nervously as played with his fingers. "What about Izzy and Jack?"

"Oh, don't you bring me into this!" I exclaimed from the pool. "I told you this wasn't a good idea!" I defended myself. "And I told you we shouldn't do this inside the Lair!" Jack quickly added, defending himself as well. "Izael is punished as well." Sensei answered, wait what!?! "What! What did I do?!?" I exclaimed in shock. "My mochi ice-cream." Oh... that. I nervously smiled at Sensei, but he sternly glared at me pointedly, making me flinch.

Mochi ice-cream is a Japanese dessert. And it is one of Sensei's favorites. April had bought some for him, and he was keeping it for later. I didn't it, obviously! But I took his mochi ice-cream and gave it to Blizzard yesterday when Jack visited. When Sensei asked about it yesterday, I pretended that I didn't know what he's talking about. And I then later on called April and asked her to buy some mochi ice-cream so that I could replace the eaten ones. But, karma hit me hard. The stores were out of mochi ice-cream, and will only get in stock next week.

"Isn't that, like maybe a two day punishment?" I asked nervously, hoping to chance his mind. "What about my taiyaki?" Sensei asked with a knowing glare. I flinched again as he reminded me of his Japanese fish shaped cakes that was also given to Blizzard without permission. "Yeah... I'm grounded." I muttered as I laid my cheek against my hand. Jack patted my back, silently trying to comfort me. I smiled softly at him for trying, but it really didn't help much.

Suddenly, a snow globe portal appeared in the Lair. "Jackson Overland Frost!" North screamed as he came out of the portal and marched towards. Jack flinched and looked nervously at North with a slight of fear. Sensei looked at North surprised for a moment before looking back at Jack with a stern glare. "Who is this man in my home?" Sensei asked Jack with a glare, also catching North's attention.

"Shostakovich!" He exclaimed in surprise when he noticed Sensei. We all looked at each, wondering what to say, while North stared at Sensei with wide eyes, and Sensei stared with a glare. "Um, Sensei, this is Santa Clause." I said after I jumped over the pool and walked over to them. "North, this Master Splinter, our sensei." I added and waited for their reactions. North blinked a few times before he boomed out a huge, cheerful laugh.

"You must be the father! I thought you be big turtle and not big rat!" North said, his Russian accent sounding clearly, as he looked at Sensei with a big, friendly smile. "Is nice to meet you!" He added as he offered his hand to Splinter to shake. Master Splinter stared at North for a moment before smiling softly and shook his hand. "It's good to meet you as well." Sensei said with a small smile. North nodded with a bright smile before turning to Jack with a death glare.

"Want to explain this?" North asked as he lifted up a chewed up boot. Jack flinched when he saw the boot and nervously rubbed his neck. "You have a rat problem?" Jack asked, getting a stern glare from North and offensive look from Sensei. "No offense Splinter." He quickly added, apologizing to Sensei. "What about this?" He then lifted up a Russian hat, that was also chewed up and was covered in frost.

"Uh...you probable left it outside?" Jack asked, getting more nervous. "Oh, okay!" North said in sarcasm with a knowing glare. "How about this one?" He then lifted up a baby snow dragon, who had an elf in his mouth, holding the elf from his bell hat. The elf was glaring at Jack as Blizzard yipped and shook his head to shake the bell. Jack stared at them for a moment before sighing in defeat. "Yeah... I got nothing!"

"Thought so!" North said and pulled the elf out of Blizzard's mouth. "I told you, looking after dragon is big responsibility!" He said sternly as he handed Blizzard over to Jack. "You're suppose to look after him and stop him from doing these things!" "I'm sorry! I didn't think he would cause trouble!" Jack said as he tried hold Blizzard in one arm, his other hand holding his staff. But Blizzard was trying to jumped out and get the elf again.

"He's a baby dragon! It's what they do!" North snapped pointedly. "You shouldn't have left him at the Pole in the first place! You're suppose to keep an eye on him and train him!" He said as he continued to lecture Jack. "I do!" Jack exclaimed defensively, before thinking for a moment. "Most of the time!" Both North and Sensei shook their heads at him, and looked at each other knowingly. "You're grounded for a week as well." Sensei said sternly.

"What?" Jack asked as his eyes widen. "I can't get grounded! I have places to go and bring winter!" He stated. "You have already brought winter to the places that need it. A week won't make a difference." North said knowingly with a stern glare. "You need to get punished for not taking a responsibility seriously!" He said as Jack looked down guiltily. "Is a week really necessary?" Jack asked nervously, trying to lessen the punishment.

North then lifted up an elf and showed it to us. It was a different elf this time, and he was frozen in ice with his bell chewed off his hat. We all flinched as Jack sighed sadly as he looked down at his pet dragon. "Yeah, never mind. I'm grounded." Sensei and North nodded to him with a stern glare and then looked to each other. "Jack can stay here until his punishment is over." Sensei said to North, who nodded to thankfully. North gave one last pointed glare to Jack and left the Lair with a snow globe.

"Now that, that is over," Sensei started with a stern glare. "Clean up this mess!" He snapped as he pointed to all the pizza boxes and soda cans. We all groaned and started to pick up the garbage as Sensei left and went back into the dojo. "I can't believe that I'm grounded!" Jack said in frustration as he picked up an empty box. He went to pick up another one but stopped when he saw Blizzard heading towards one of the guys skateboard's.

"Blizzard no!" He yelled as he dropped the boxes and flew over to the baby snow dragon. Jack quickly lifted Blizzard up before he could chew on the skateboard and sighed in relief. "This is going to be a long week." I said as I picked up the pizza boxes and soda cans. Jack and the guys nodded as we continued to clean up, and kept Blizzard from chewing things up.

***

We finished cleaning up before nightfall and we're sitting in the living room, bored out of our minds. Good news is, Blizzard is asleep, so we didn't have to worry about chasing him around and stopping him from chewing everything. But just in case he did wake up, we put him in a playpen that Donnie made. And to make sure he liked it in there, Jack made a mini, ice slide for him to play on, along with a scratch post and a ice bone, and Jack made sure the ice won't melt. As bonus for Blizzard, I put in my old teddies in for him to play with.

Raph was moaning and groaning as he walked up and down in annoyance and frustration. "Guh! This bites! I can't believe we're stuck down here for a whole week!" Raph said in annoyance, finally stopping his pacing. "Well it's not so bad!" I said, trying to be optimistic. "I mean, Sensei could've taken the TV away as well. Instead he's only stopping us from leaving the Lair!" I added to proof my point. "She has a point. It's not like we have nothing to do here!" Jack said agreeing with me.

"Yeah, well, we were stuck down here for 15 years! Going out at night is the highlight of our day!" Raph snapped at us. "Guys! Guys! You want to see what I made?" Donnie asked in excitement after he run out his lab. "This is how bored I am!" Raph said as he looked at us and then back to Donnie. "Yes Donnie! I do!" He said in annoyance. "Okay, okay, okay! Remember the other day? I was scrounging in that military junkyard." Donnie asked, his smile not breaking from his face.

"No." We all answered plainly. "Well! I found an incredibly advanced AI microchip, made from, get this! Self assemble, chain link, copolymer!" Donnie said, getting more and more excited. Oh brother! "That's my favorite kind of copolymer!" Mikey said with a smile before he continued reading his comic. I really don't think that you know what a copolymer is Mikey. I thought to myself before looking back to Donnie.

"Mine too! And I used it to make this!" Donnie exclaimed as he pulled out a round MP3 player. "The most advanced music player in the world!" We all walked over and looked at the MP3 player in amazement. "Whoa!" We all voiced out our amazement as we stared at it impressed. "So who wants to try it!" Donnie asked, his excitement still higher than ever. "I do! Toss me the T-Pod!" Mikey exclaimed as he raised up his hand to show his volunteer. Wait, what did he just say?

"The T-Pod?" Donnie asked with a confused frown. "Turtle. Pod. T-Pod." Mikey answered with a shrug before chuckling. "I'm so good at naming stuff!" Mikey said as Donnie handed over the T-Pod to him. Mikey then took the earphones and put them in his ears. Wait a second! Didn't Donnie say it was a military advanced microchip?

"You really gonna plug an advanced piece of military technology directly into Mikey's head?" Raph asked, having the same thoughts as me. "What if it melts his brain?" I asked in concern. "It won't!" Donnie answered calmly as he crossed his arms. "Even if it did, who'd know the difference?" He added with a joking smirk. We all watched Mikey nervously and waited for him to press play. Mikey stick his tongue out as he raised his finger up, slowly bring it closer to the T-Pod and pressed play.

"Aaahhh!" Mikey screamed the second he pressed play. "What!?! What's wrong!?!" Donnie asked in worry. "It's polka!" Mikey screamed as if it's his worst nightmare. We all rolled our eyes as Mikey fell down on his knees, crying. "Make it stop! Make it stop!" He cried out as he shook his head, as if he's in pain. Jack walked over to him and pressed the skip button on the T-Pod. Mikey stopped screaming and looked up at Jack with a smile.

"Thanks!" Mikey exclaimed to him. Jack just nodded as he walked over and stood next to me. He wrapped his arm around me, and we turned to watch Mikey again. Mikey was sitting on his knees with a smile, enjoying what he was listening to. He then slowly raised up from his knees, letting the music take control of his body. Mikey moving to the beat of the music and danced.

We all blinked as we watched the way Mikey danced. I'm sure if we all heard the music, we would understand his rhythm to the beat of the song. "That's it! I got to get out of here!" Raph exclaimed as he headed towards the exit. "Where are you going? We're grounded!" Leo reminded my twin as he followed him. "I don't care! I got to do something, or I'm gonna turn nuts!" Raph exclaimed and stepped on his skateboard, sending it up in the air and caught it.

"Let's find a skates spot!" Raph said after he caught his board. "Skates spot! I'm totally in!" Mikey yelled as he continued to listen music. "But what's Splinter gonna say?" Leo asked nervously. "I don't know what's going on! Because they snuck out while I was asleep!" Raph said, changing his voice to sound like Sensei. I frowned slightly to myself at my brother's response while Leo scuffed in disbelief. "Real mature!" Leo said as he shook his head and crossed his arms.

"Come on Leo! Live a little!" Jack said with a smirk as he twirled his staff and flew over to Raph. "What about Blizzard?" He asked Jack with a pointed look. "I played with him all day! He's tired out, and will sleep through the whole night! And if he does wake up, he's in the playpen! He won't be causing any trouble!" Jack answered. "We'll be back before morning and before Splinter or Blizzard wakes up!" I said as I got my wolf skateboard.

"I'm your leader! And as your leader, I say nobodies going!" Leo said with a glare. "Well, as your followers, we're going anyway!" Raph said as the rest of us, except Leo walked over and stood next to him. "As your leader, I am going with you! To lead you! Away from... bad...stuff." Leo said, getting a 'really' from all of us. I rolled my eyes at him while Jack just shook his head as he wrapped his arm around my shoulder.

"Ah!" Mikey suddenly screamed and fell down on his knees as he grabbed his head. "What's wrong?!" Leo asked Mikey, worried. "It's back to polka!" Mikey exclaimed as he lifted the T-Pod to us. Seriously Mikey? I mentally thought as both Jack and I rolled our eyes. "We got to get more tunes on this!" Mikey said as he looked back to us, not impress that there's only two songs on the gadget.

***

We got out of the sewer and the guys and I were rooftop running while Jack along with us. Mikey was skateboarding on the rooves while he was listening to music on the T-Pod. "Hey Beautiful!" Jack said with a smirk when he came over and flew next to me. I laughed softly as I looked next to me and saw him flying backwards on his back. "Jack! You're going to crash into something!" I said with a laugh as I continued running and jumping. "But I like the view I'm seeing!" Jack said with a playful pout, making me both laugh and blush.

Jack winked at me with a smirk and continued flying backwards as he stared at me. I laughed and shook my head at him as I continued running. But when he saw Mikey skating behind us, his fun smirk formed on his face. He flew over to Mikey and made ice rumps for him to use to ride up and jump over to the next rooves. Mikey cheered in excitement as he skated on the rumps. Jack laughed in joy as he continued making ice rumps for Mikey to have fun with.

"Hey Donnie!" Mikey called out after he landed on the roof. "Thanks for all the new songs!" He yelled as he continued skateboarding on the roof. "Wait! What new songs?!" Donnie asked in confusion. "Keep it down you guys!" Leo whispered-shouted at us in annoyance as we continued running. Donnie jumped up and backflipped over to Mikey, and landed on his hands on Mikey's shoulders. He held himself with a handstand on Mikey's shoulders and looked down at the T-Pod. "What the-!" Donnie exclaimed in shock.

"It got thousands of songs! And it keeps downloading new ones every second!" He exclaimed in shock. "So?" Raph asked after he jumped over and started running next to Mikey. "So, I didn't program it to do that!" Donnie said and jumped off Mikey's shoulders and run next to Mikey. "Wait, you didn't?" I asked over my shoulder as I run in front of them. "It's reconfiguring itself somehow!" Donnie said as he held his finger against his chin in thought. Donnie gasped in realization and looked over his shoulder as he pointed at the T-Pod. "It's that chip!"

"Whatever it is!" Mikey yelled out as he skated over to a big ice rump Jack just made. "It's awesome!" Mikey screamed from the top of his lungs as he jumped up the rump, into the air. Jack laughed as Mikey jumped up and flew back over to me. "Well he's having a good time!" Jack said with a chuckle as he looked up at Mikey before making a rump for Mikey to ride down with.

"Guys! We're ninjas! Remember?" Leo whisper-yelled at us in anger. "We move swiftly and here's the important part, silently!" He whisper-yelled as he looked at us with a glare, while we continued to run on the building with a higher roof than his. But when he glared up at us, he didn't see the end of the building and fell over. Leo screamed as he fell down and crashed through a roof window. Not a second later, we heard more crashes as our leader screamed. We all stopped moving when Leo fell and watched and listened how he crashed into things.

"Beehive!" I flinched as I heard my older brother scream. Leo soon fell out of a window and fell over the building, rolling down the stairwell against the building. We all looked down and flinched when Leo crash landed into a dumpster. "That's got to hurt." Jack said as we looked down at Leo, who was seeing stars. "That wasn't very silent Leo!" Raph called down to Leo with a smirk. "Or swiftly!" I added with a smirk as well. Raph and I fist bumped while Jack was laughing in amusement.

***

"Check that out!" Raph said when we landed on a roof. In front of us were cement stairs with hand railings and everything, a perfect place for teenagers to skateboard. "Let's grind it!" Mikey said as he continued to play on the T-Pod. "Who the heck is that guy?" Donnie asked as he looked down at a dark skin man in some kind of robot suit. "I don't know." I answered as we looked down at the guy. "But he needs a beat down!" Raph said as he glared at the guy.

"Hold on Raph! We don't know that he is going to do anything wrong!" Leo said to my twin. "He could be on his way to... church?" Leo, if you said costume party or comic-con, I would believe you. But I think church is the last place someone would go dressed up in a robot suit. "Is that what people wear to church now?" Jack asked with a frown as he looked up from the guy to Leo. "Not really." I said as Leo looked embarrassed. "He's wearing powered battle armor!" Raph said pointedly. "What kind of church is that?"

"A really awesome one!" Mikey said, making Leo facepalm. "Look! It's my call! I decide who get's a beat down!" Leo snapped as the guy got closer to a garage door. The guy stopped in front of the door, and instead of taking out keys to unlock the lock, the guy's blowtorch on his right arm turns. He brought it closer to the lock and started burning it. "That guy needs a beat down!" Leo exclaimed with a death glare.

We jumped down the building while the guy continued to blowtorch the lock. But is little flame didn't last long, because not a second we jumped down, the torched went out, signaling that it's out of juice. "Are you kidding me? Awe! Come on!" The guy exclaimed as he hit his now empty blowtorch. The guy then kicked the garage door in frustration and then tried lift the door up. But is suit wasn't strong enough to break the lock, and from the look of things, neither was he, because his knees where shaking like crazy.

We landed silently behind the guy and watched the sad show in front of us. "It's just kinda sad." Donnie said as he looked at the guy with pity. "Yeah! I don't know if we should pound him or buy him an ice-cream cone." Mikey said, sharing his own look of pity for the guy. "Halt villain!" Leo exclaimed as he took out his katana blades and pointed at the guy, also catching the guy's attention as he turned around. "Halt villain?" Both Raph and I exclaimed in shock. "When did we start talking like that?" Raph asked.

"We're heroes. That's how heroes talk." Leo said quickly in his defense. "Only in the comics Leo." Jack said as he rolled his eyes from behind Leo's back. "You will feel the fury of my powered battle-!" The guy started to threaten after he turned around and aimed his blowtorch at us, but froze in shock when he saw us. "Holy cow! You guys are turtles!" Well, at least this one didn't think we were Kung Fu frogs! "That's right!" Leo exclaimed proudly and stood up straight with a pose. "We're the Turtles of Justice!"

"Wow..." Raph said, breaking Leo's bubble. "I mean, just... wow." He finished with his hand against the side of his forehead in disbelief. The guy looked at us with a frown before glaring at us, and charging at us with a battle cry. The rest of us took out our weapons and charged at him as well. Well, all except Mikey and Jack. "WAIT!" Mikey yelled out, making everyone, including the guy, freeze and stare at him in confusion. Mikey took the earphones out of his ears and started humming a song as he spun the earphones around the T-Pod. He then placed the T-Pod in his belt and took out his nunchuck with a spin.

"Okay!" He said with a smirk before jumping up with a battle cry. Mikey front flipped over the guy's head and smacked him on the back of the head with his nunchucks. The guy lost his balance for a moment but was able to stay on his feet and glared at Mikey. Donnie rode over to the guy on his skateboard, and jumped up on the guys shoulders. He then used his bo-staff to pull out some wires from the suit before jumping back on his board.

Raph then rode over on his skateboard as well. He jumped over the guys head with his board, and cut some of the wires with his sai. Leo then rode over with his skateboard and ducked down as he rode under the guy's legs. He then jumped off his board and sliced some parts off the suit with his katana. I then rode over on my board and rode in fast circles around the guy, making him dizzy as he tried to keep his eyes on me. When he held his head in dizziness, I stopped and cut the rest of the wires on his suit with my kama.

But because of his dizziness, the guy tripped backwards and slammed his elbow against a window, breaking it and setting the alarm off. We all started stressing out when we heard the alarms and it only got worst when the guy started tripping over everything, making more noise. We shushed at him, hoping he will stop making a ruckus, because we didn't want to get caught. But it didn't seem to work. A whistle suddenly sounded and we looked towards it.

Jack was the one who whistled and he was standing next to a dumpster. He opened it and nodded his head towards it. We all smirked when the same idea came to our minds and nodded. We jumped over to the guy and picked him up. The guy cried in shock when we picked him up, and soon started crying out 'no' when he noticed we were taking him towards the dumpster. Jack opened the dumpster bigger for us, and we threw the guy into it.

"You're not the first to ever throw me into the trash!" The guy exclaimed in anger. "But I swear, that you will be the la-!" He continued, but before he could finish, Raph grabbed the lid and slammed the dumpster shut. Not a second later, the police showed up with their red and blue flashing lights. "Oh snap! It's the Popo!" Mikey exclaimed while Leo ordered us to go, and we jumped up the stairwell against the building. We all laughed as we jumped and got on the roof.

We jumped down to an alley that was far from the scene of the crime and skateboarded through the streets. Jack flew in front of us and started making ice rumps for us to ride and jump on. We all cheered and laughed as we continued having as much fun as we could before heading back to the Lair. "Nice! Ow!" Donnie exclaimed in excited as he jumped an ice rump and landed next to a manhole cover next to the rest of us.

We all smirked at each before Leo got down and lifted the manhole cover up, opening the sewer for us. He jumped down first, followed by Raph, then me, then Jack, then Mikey, then Donnie who jumped down last. Before we left for the Lair, Donnie quickly closed the hole with the manhole cover, and we skateboarded down the pipes. We continued skateboarding until we found the pool that was connected to our pool back in the Lair.

"How about we swim back instead?" I suggested when I saw the only clean water in the whole sewer. Our pool in the Lair and the pool next to us is cleaned with chlorine and stuff every second week or so. "I'm in!" Raph exclaimed while the others agreed as well. Others, accept Jack. "I don't know..." Jack said as he nervously looked down at the water. "Come on Jack! It's gonna be fine!" Raph said before he and the rest of my brothers jumped into the water.

I stayed behind and looked at my boyfriend in worry when I saw the fear in his eyes. "Jack, are you okay?" I asked as I stepped next to him. "Yeah..." He said nervously without looking away from the water. "I, uh, just have bad experience with water." Jack said to me, before muttering to himself softly. "And thin ice." I don't think he wanted me to hear that, but I did and I didn't bring it up. I didn't want to push him and dropped it for later. If he wanted me to tell me, he will when he's ready. "Hey," I said softly as I put my hand on his shoulder.

"It's okay. You don't have to swim with us if you don't want to. You can ice skate through one of the bigger pipes. Or you and I can just walk back to the Lair." I said with a softly smile. Jack smiled back softly before nervously looking back at the water. "You guys coming or what?" Mikey asked from the other side of the pool. He and the others were waiting for us as they swam in the pool. "You guys go ahead! Jack and I are going to walk back." I said to them as I took Jack's hand and started walking.

"But it was your idea to swim." Donnie said with a frown. "Yeah!" Jack said as he stopped us from walking and looked me in the eye with his blue eyes. "I don't want to ruin your fun." He said, making me smile softly. "You're not! I just don't want to force you into something you don't want to do. And I don't want you walking or flying back alone." I said as I squeezed his hand in mine. "Go swim with your brothers!" Jack said with a smile and softly pushed me towards the pool.

"But what about you?" I asked as I looked at him over my shoulder. "Don't worry about me!" He said as he continued pushing me. "But- Whoa!" I started but before I could finish, Jack pushed me harder and pushed me right into the pool. "Jack!" I exclaimed after I came up to the surface, while he and my brothers were laughing. Jack made a chair float with his staff and sat down on it before floating over to me. "Now you get to swim and I don't have to walk alone!" Jack said with a smirk as he looked down at me from his float.

I rolled my eyes before laughing softly at him. "You didn't have to push me into the pool, you know?" I said as the guys started swimming down one of the tunnels. "I know." Jack said as he floated down the tunnel on his chair while I swam next to him. "But it was just to fun to past!" He said with a smile. I shook my head with a soft laughed and started swimming backwards on my back. Jack smiled down at me and winked at me, causing me to blush with a small smile.

Not long, we soon came out of the tunnel, and was now in the pool inside the Lair. I swam closer to the chair float and started pushing it towards the stairs. The guys were already there and was busy getting out of the pool. "Alright! We made it home!" Raph exclaimed as he got out of the pool. "Ssshhh! It's 2 A.M.!" Leo whisper-shouted at my twin after he shushed him. Jack got off the float and flew over to the cupboard where we keep the towels.

"And Splinter is still asleep! This is epic!" Mikey whisper-exclaimed in excitement as Raph threw in skateboard somewhere in a corner. "And from the looks of things, neither is Blizzard." Jack said as he flew back over and handed me a towel. I thanked him and started drying myself off. Well, tried to, because I swam in my clothes, that were boots, jeans and a green t-shirt. Note to self, don't suggest swimming if you're not wearing swim wear. "It's not epic!" Leo quietly snapped at us with a glare.

"It was a really bad idea!" He added as I started drying my long, brown hair. "No it wasn't!" Raph said before front flipping over and landing on the beanbag. "We got out there and stopped a sleaze-ball! So, what's the problem?" Raph asked as he laid on the beanbag with his arms crossed behind his head. "Well, if you ask me, I think the only bad idea was swimming in jeans!" I said as I continued drying myself as best as I could.

*Jack's P.O.V.*

"And boots!" Izzy said as she walked over to the couch and took off her boots. I chuckled softly as I watched Izzy complain over her wet clothes before noticing a worried Mikey. He turned his back to the others and was busy checking himself. "Mikey, you okay?" I asked him silently, not getting the others attention. Mikey checked in his belt again before looking up at me. "Yeah dude! I'm fine! Totally chill!" Mikey said with a nervous smile, making me suspicious.

"You sure?" I asked with a suspicious frown. "Because it looks like you're checking yourself as if you lost something." I said before my eyes widen in realization. "Mikey, did you lose the T-Pod?" I asked the orange masked turtle. "No..." He said an innocent smile. "You sure?" I asked suspiciously. "Yes! Totally! Everything is cool!" He quickly answered before doing a fake yawn, getting everyone's attention.

"I'm tired! You guys tired? I'm tired! I'm going to bed! Because I'm tired! Good night guys!" He said really fast before running to his room. "What's with him?" Donnie asked with a frown, along with the rest of us. "Beats me." I said, still frowning in suspicion. "Hey is it just me, or did he say, "I'm tired", three times, in that fast talk." Izzy asked as she started drying her hair again. "That's Mikey for you!" Raph said after a shrug and laid back on his arms.

"Well, I say we follow his lead and go to bed." Leo said as he crossed his arms. "We had a long day and long night. Good night guys." Leo said and walked towards his room. Donnie said his good night as well and left the living room. "Hey Jack? You mind getting me some more dry towels?" Izzy asked as she stood up from the couch. "Sure thing!" I said and flew over to the cupboard and got some. I flew back over to her and handed them to her. "Thanks!" She said after throwing the used towel over on her shoulder.

"You want to go to bed?" Izzy asked as she started drying her hair again. "Yeah, sure." I said with a shrug as I put one hand in my hoodie's pocket. "Come on then!" She said as she walked towards her room. "Whoa, wait!" Raph snapped as he looked at his twin sister with wide eyes. "He's sleeping in your room?" He asked, his eyes not moving from her as he pointed at me. "We don't have any spare rooms, and my room is the only one big enough for two people." Izzy said with a shrug.

"He can sleep on the couch!" Raph said with an annoyed glare. "For a whole week?" Izzy asked, with a 'really' face expression. "I don't see why not." Raph stated, making Izzy roll her eyes and me glare at him. "Raph, he's just going to sleep in the same room as me! Not in the same bed!" Izzy said in frustration. "We're not?" I asked without thinking, getting a glare from Raph and a 'not helping' look from Izzy. "No, we're not." She said pointedly to me before looking back to Raph.

"Don't get your shell in a twist Raph."

I quickly covered my mouth to stop myself from bursting into a laugh. While Raph looked at his twin sister with wide eyes again. "Nothing's going to happen!" She said as she took my hand and headed towards her room. Well, our shared room for the week. I looked over my shoulder with a smirk and looked at Raph. He was still sitting there with wide eyes before blinking and snapping out of it. "No funny business!"

"Whatever!" Izzy said without looking at him as she waved her hand at him. I chuckled softly at scene between the twins, and continued following my girlfriend. We got to her room soon and went in. Izzy walked over to her bed and laid the towels on the bed. While I walked over to Blizzard's playpen and checked on him. Still sleeping peacefully. We decided to put Blizzard and his playpen in Izzy's room rather than Donnie's lab. For the safety of Blizzard, and Donnie's inventions.

"I'm just quickly going to get changed." Izzy said as she got her pajamas from her closet. "Okay!" I said as I put my staff against the wall next to her bookcase. "Good luck getting out of those wet jeans!" I joked as she walked out of the room. "Very funny!" She said with a playful eye roll, making me chuckle. Izzy left her room and I laid down on her bed as I waited for her to come back. While I waited, I couldn't help but remember that day.

The day I died.

The day my little sister and I went ice skating. How the ice started cracking under her feet. Jack, I'm scared. Her voice echoed in my head as I remembered how scared she was. I was scared to that day. But I wasn't scared for my life, I was scared for my sister's life. When I reached to grab her, the ice started to crack under my feet as well. As the ice cracked, I froze and started thinking how I was going to get my little sister to safety. I looked to the side and saw my shepherd staff, that was out of reach.

We're going to have some fun instead. My voice echoed in my head as the memory played in my mind. I told my sister that we're going to play hopscotch, and used three jump steps to get to my staff. But when I got my staff, I noticed that she was still to far for me to reach, even with my staff. She will have to move a bit forward for me to get her. I told her it was her turn and she took a deep breath for stepping forward. One. I counted as she stepped.

But when she stepped forward, the ice cracked more. She gasped in fear, but I told it was okay and to keep moving. She moved her next step, only to freak out more when the ice started cracking more. Two. I told her one more and took it. Three! I grabbed around the waist from the hook of my staff and threw her to the edge of the frozen lake, where the ice was thicker. But when I threw her, I stumbled a bit back and fell down on the ice.

When I looked up and saw my sister smiling at me, I smiled in relief and stood up. I took a step towards her, but that's when I realized that I was back on the thin ice. Because the ice broke under me, and I fell into the water. The last thing I heard was my little sister calling my name, and the last thing I saw was the full moon as I slowly sink down in the cold water, and the darkness slowly took over.

"Jack you okay?" I suddenly snapped out of my memory lane and looked up. Izzy was back in the room and was staring at me in worry. "Yeah, I'm fine." I said with a half smile as I sat back up on the bed. Izzy's eyes narrowed slightly as she walked over and sat down on the edge of the bed, next to me. "Are you sure?" She asked me as she looked at me with her green eyes. "I'm okay, really!" I said as I took her hand in mine and squeezed her hand gently.

Izzy didn't look convinced for a moment before sighing softly with a smile. I returned the smile and laid back down after moving a bit over on the bed. I then gently pulled her down to lie down next to me and held her in my arms. Izzy blushed with a smile, and laid her head on my chest, listening to my heartbeat as she wrapped her arms around me. I started playing with her hair as she drew invisible pictures on my chest with her finger.

"You were really deep in thought." Izzy said after a moment, as her finger draw a pattern on my chest. "Yeah?" I asked as my fingers brushed through her hair. "Mhm, you didn't even notice me entering the room." She said as she drew a circle, before stopping and looking up at me. "What were you thinking about?" She asked softly as she looked into my blue eyes with her green eyes. "My past." I answered honestly as I stopped brushing her hair with my fingers and laid my hand on her shoulder. Izzy laid her head back on my chest when I wrapped my arm around her waist and pulled her closer to me.

"Was it a good or bad memory?" Izzy asked as she started drawing patterns again on my chest. "A bit of both." I answered as I held her in my arms. I didn't have to see her face to see the confusion and answered her before she questioned. "It's complicated." I said, not wanting to talk about that day at the moment. Not now at least. One day, I will tell her how I became a Guardian. But at this moment, it isn't the time bring up that memory.

"You know you can tell me anything, right?" Izzy softly said to me as she looked up at me. "I know." I said as I pushed a strand of hair behind her hair. I stared deeply into her green eyes before pulling my face closer to her and connected my lips to hers. Izzy breathed softly as our lips connected and slowly started to move her lips against mine. Without breaking the kiss, I slowly rolled us over and deepen the kiss.

I pulled away for a moment and stared into her eyes as we both took in a breath. "I love you." I said softly as my lips graced softly against her. "I love you too." She muttered against my lips. I reconnected our lips and passionately kissed her. Izzy sighed softly as she wrap her arms around my neck. I licked her lip gently, begging for an entrance as I continued kissing her soft lips. She parted open her lips and softly moaned as my tongue entered her mouth.

Our tongues wrestled against each other until mine won and roamed in her mouth as I continued to passionately kiss her. She moaned again and wrapped her arms tighter around me as she kissed me back with as much passion as I am. We continued making out until we both got tired and asleep in each others arms.

***

*Izzy's P.O.V.*

It was the next day, and Jack and I woke up to an over-excited baby dragon, who was playing with his new toy teddy. We went to sleep around 3 A.M. and Blizzard woke us up at 6. So, saying that we're tired is the understatement. We tired to go back to sleep, but Blizzard was yipping around as he played with his toys, and soon started crying to get out of his playpen.

We got out of bed, tired as ever, and Jack took Blizzard out of his playpen before taking the dragon out for his morning business. I got dressed for the day and made the bed. I yawned tiredly as I walked over to Jack's staff and took it before I left my room. Jack was sitting on the couch in the living room, trying to stay awake as he played with Blizzard. "Here." I said with a yawn as I handed his staff over to him.

"Thanks." Jack tiredly said after a yawn. I sat down next to him and laid my head down on his shoulder. "So... tired." A sleepy Mikey said as he slowly walked into the living room. He yawned and fell face first onto the beanbag, snoring the second he hits it. "Wake up Mikey." Raph tiredly said as he gently kicked Mikey's leg. Leo and Donnie walked in soon later, yawning like the rest of us. "Come on Mikey." Leo said as he gently shook Mikey on the shoulder.

"Sensei wants us in the dojo to train." Leo said, making us all groan. "Sleep now, train later." Mikey muttered as he tried to sleep on the beanbag. But both Raph and Leo were shaking him on the shoulders. "Can't we reschedule or something?" Jack asked as he laid his head on his hand. "No, we can't." Leo answered before yawning as he continued shaking Mikey. We all groan in tiredness and irritated, not wanting to train now.

"I know we are all tired." Leo said as he finally got Mikey awake and sitting up. "But the sooner we finish training, the sooner we can go back to sleep." We all groan again, before slowly standing up and tiredly walked towards the dojo. Jack called for Blizzard before standing up, and walked next to me while Blizzard happily walked behind us and followed us to the dojo. "Let's hope we're doing simple exercises today." I muttered tiredly before yawning again.

Master Splinter told us what to do and sat down, crossed leg in front of the tree to watch us. We started training, but we were so tired, that we kept doing everything wrong. Like Raph for example, he's suppose to do a Koho Tenkai, but he was he was rolling around like a ball, a very tired ball. Leo yawned tiredly before falling down on his knees. He did a handstand and started push ups. "Knees higher Leonardo!" Sensei ordered, but Leo was to tired and fell face first to the ground.

"Extend Michelangelo!" Sensei ordered to Mikey as jumped around on his hands. "Focus Izael!" Sensei ordered to me as I tired to stay balanced on the floating rock. My tattoo was a mountain, so I could do earthbending like Toph, from Avatar: the Last Airbender. Sensei told me to balance myself on a floating rock while floating and spinning three small rocks in front of me. But I was so tired, my eyes kept closing and kept losing focus.

"Raphael! Do you call that a Koho Tenkai? Because I do not!" Sensei snapped, getting more and more furious at his students. Donnie was about to do a triple backflip, but before he could begin, Blizzard run in front of him and tripped him. "Whoa- AH!" Donnie screamed before falling face first on the ground. "Ouch!" He said as he rubbed his head. Sensei looked towards Jack, about to snap at him, but glared in anger when he saw the Winter Spirit leaning against his staff, asleep. "Jackson!" Sensei yelled in anger.

Jack cried in surprise as he woke up, before falling back on his back. He silently groaned in pain before groaning louder when Blizzard run over and jumped onto his chest. "Yame!" Sensei ordered and jumped up from where he's sitting. We all kneeled down on one knee, in a line and looked up at Sensei. He looked at all of us with a stern glare. "Is there something you want to tell me?" Sensei asked us pointedly.

"Something we want to tell you?" Mikey asked before smiling innocently. "Nope!" He said after a small shrug. "You all seem tired." Sensei said with a knowing glare, making us nervous. "We're not!" Leo said as he waved his hand while Mikey smiled big and bright. "Wide awake!" Donnie exclaimed as he sat up straight, smiling big as well. "Fresh as daisies!" Raph exclaimed as he moved is arm in a hook punch form. "Up and ready!" I exclaimed as Jack wrapped his arm around my shoulder and smiled big.

We all were smiling big as we all mentally begged that Sensei won't catch our lies, but Mikey just had to yawn and fall down face first, before snapping back up. "So you would not object to a little, Randori?" Sensei asked as he lifted up a wooden sword. My brothers eyes widen in fear when they saw big, wooden sword. "Well..." Mikey nervously gulped as he and the others nervously looked at each other and back to the Randori.

Sensei's glare deepened and raised the Randori up, and that's when Jack and I found out what the Randori is used for. In seconds, there were a lot of smacks and a lot of ouches. Especially from me, ouch, ouch, ouch, OUCH! We all groaned in pain as we laid on the floor and rubbed our sore spots on our bodies. "I hope you have learned, turtles and teenagers, that truth isn't the only thing that hurts!" Sensei said as we all continued groaning in pain.

We left the dojo and sat in the living room. "That's going to leave a mark." I groaned as I rubbed my shoulder. Jack took his staff and formed six snowballs with it. "This should help." He said as he picked them up and handed one over to me. I took the snowball and placed it on my shoulder, flinching before sighing as the cold helped bring the pain a bit down. "Thanks Jack." I said as he walked over and handed a snowball for the others. They each said their thanks and placed their snowball on their body where it hurt the most, sighing in relief.

"I'm never lying again!" I groaned as I moved the snowball to a different spot. "Me too." Jack said as he sat down and put a snowball on his head. "I almost forgot about Randori." Donnie said while the guys nodded in agreement. Blizzard yipped as he walked into the living room and tried to climb up the couch next to Jack. Jack bended down and picked Blizzard up, before placing him between him and I. The dragon looked at my snowball in hand yipped at it. I sighed slightly and brought it closer to him.

But instead of taking it, Blizzard blew an ice breath at it, cooling the snowball. I smiled brightly at the baby dragon as blew ice at the snowball and placed it on a sore spot. "Thanks Blizzard!" I said and petted him on the head. Blizzard yipped and laid down as he watched us. Now and then, one of us would bring our snowball to Blizzard and let him cool it again for us. It went on until none of us hadn't anymore pain.

Later on, Leo put on the TV to watch Space Heroes while Raph started reading his comic book. Donnie went to his Lab, and Mikey went to the kitchen to eat some leftover pizza. Jack and I played with Blizzard with his toys. "Here you go Blizzard!" I said as I took a squeaky toy and squeezed it, making it squeak. Blizzard yipped excitedly at the sound and jumped up as he tried to grab it from me. I laughed as the baby dragon jumped around and gave him the toy.

Blizzard's tail moved side to side, like a dog's tail when it's happy, and happily chewed on the squeaky toy, getting excited every time he heard a squeak. "I think he likes it!" Jack laughed as watched his pet dragon played with his toy in joy. Blizzard yipped excitedly as he spun around in a circle before grabbing the squeaky toy again and squeaking it. We both laughed at the baby dragon and continued to play with him.

"We may have started this rebellion by accident, but by the rings of Nebulon, we are going to finish it on purpose!" Leo said as he copycatted the TV. "Seen this enough times there chief?" Raph asked after he lowered his comic book. "Would you shh!" Leo shushed Raph without his eyes moving away from the TV screen. "This is the best part!" He said, but the TV had other plans. "We interrupt this program to bring Breaking News!" The TV said as they stopped Space Heroes.

"Awe!" Leo groaned sadly before staring wide eye at the TV. "We've received shocking footage of an assault on the TCRI office complex in Brooklyn!" Jack and I looked up as well and gasped when we saw the guy from the other night. Only this time, he was in a big robot suit. "Isn't that the guy from last night?" Jack asked as Mikey and Donnie came into the living room to watch the news as well. "Seems like it." I answered as I watched the news.

"At last! I will have my revenge!" The guy yelled out from the TV, in a Dark Vader voice. "Who-who are you?" One of the office workers asked. "You'll never know! I'm the thing that haunts your nightmares! I'm the nameless shadow who-" "Baxter?" A different worker asked, interrupting his 'oh so' amazing speech. "No." The guy quickly said in his normal voice. "Baxter Stockman?" The camera zoomed out and showed the worker hiding under the table.

"No!" The guy exclaimed nervously when he realized that his identity has been compromised. "Hey everybody! It's Baxter Stockman!" The worker exclaimed with a smile as he pointed his thumb behind him, at the guy, who we now know is named Baxter Stockman. "I think his name is Baxter Stockman." Raph said as he crossed his arms. No! Really Raph? We did not think that at all! Note the sarcasm and the eye roll!

"Is this because I fired you?" A different voice asked, who I assume is the boss. "That copy machine was already broken when I-" Baxter started to talk before stopping himself and changed his voice back to Dark Vader. "I mean, I don't know what you're talking about!" He said and glared at his ex-boss. "How did he upgrade his armor so fast?" Leo asked what we all were thinking. Baxter war cried as he moved, before the video footage froze. But when it froze, it showed a clear image of the T-Pod on his suit.

"He has the T-Pod!" Donnie snapped as he turned to Mikey. "Oh, um, ha! I might of dropped that during the fight." Mikey said while smiling nervously. "You drop it during the fight?!?!" Donnie exclaimed in rage. "Nice going Mikey!" He snapped while we all glared at Mikey in disappointment. "It's your fault!" Mikey yelled back with a glare. "How's it my fault?!?" Donnie snapped. "You know I can't be trusted with nice things!" Mikey exclaimed, getting the mother of all fire death glares from Donnie.

Mikey shrank down as he received the glare and slowly crawled away. But when Mikey looked up again, he flinched when he saw an angry Winter Spirit in front of him. "Hehe, hey Jack." Mikey laughed nervously. "I asked you if you lost the T-Pod and you said no!" Jack exclaimed with a glare, making Mikey flinch. "If you had told me the truth, I could have flew back and got it before that Baxter guy did!" Jack continued, making Mikey look down more guilty. We shook our heads in disappointment at Mikey.

"So the AI chip is upgrading his armor the same way it upgraded the T-Pod?" Leo asked as he tapped his chin with his finger. "And if it keeps going, there's no telling how powerful he'll get!" Donnie explained as his anger turned into worry. "This has gone way to far!" Leo said as he turned around to face us. "We have to tell Splinter about this!" He said. "What? That we turned some nut-job into a supervillain?" Raph asked with a glare.

"Do you know what he'll do to us after that?" He snapped knowingly. "I mean, he pounded us into the ground just for being sleepy!" Raph added to proof his point. "Oh man! I can already feel it!" I said as I already started rubbing my shoulder. "Look! We beat Stockman once, we can beat him again!" Donnie quickly said as an idea formed in his head. "We track him down, grab the T-Pod and get back here before Splinter knows anything."

"If my opinion counts for anything," Mikey said as he laid upside down on the beanbag, reading a comic book. "Donnie's right." He said as he turned a page. "Hey, thanks Mikey!" Donnie said with a smile. "But it doesn't!" He soon added with a glare. "Didn't think so." Mikey admitted as read his comic.

***

We snuck out of the Lair the second it became nightfall and when Blizzard fell asleep. We tracked Baxter down and found him in an abandoned warehouse. "I'm not Baxter Stockman! I am... the Bax-Man!" Baxter exclaimed as he talked to himself. "No, no... I am... the Suitinator!" The what now? "Awe! That's terrible! Captain Punch-you-hard? Ah! Why this so difficult?" He groaned as he, sorta, crossed his metal arms and laid his head on them.

"I kinda liked the Suitinator!" Mikey said, making us all shush him and say his name annoyed. "You guys again!" Baxter exclaimed in shock when he saw us circling him. We all stood in battle stance with our weapons ready. "Alright Stockman, nobody wants to hurt you." Leo said to him with his katana blades ready. "We don't?" Raph asked as he frowned at Leo. "Did we miss a meeting?" He asked as he pointed to him and me. "Yeah, did we?" I asked as I looked at Raph with a frown.

"We just want the T-Pod!" Leo said, ignoring Raph and I. "Give up my source of power. Why? So that you can laugh at me again?" Baxter asked as he glared at us and stood up. "Throw me in a dumpster!" He exclaimed as his voice turned into Dark Vader again. Our eyes widen in surprise, before both Raph and I smirked. "Sounds good to me!" Raph and I said and raised up our weapons. Raph battle cried as he charged at Baxter and jumped up.

But before he could hit Baxter, Baxter's robot arm spun quickly and punched Raph right into the wall. "Oh, it's on now!" I yelled and charged at him, but he punched me into the wall next to Raph. I groaned as I fall down and landed on top of my twin's shell. "Izzy!" Jack exclaimed as he flew over to me. "You okay?" He asked as he helped me up. "I'm fine, thanks for asking." Raph muttered in sarcasm, but Jack just ignored him. "This guy is getting on my nerves!" I said as I glared at Stockman.

"I'm going in again." I said as I picked up my kama, and looked down at my wrist. It was still a mountain tattoo. "Freeze the floor so that he slides and trip!" I said to Jack and charged before he could stop me. "Wait! Izzy!" Jack shouted at me, but I just ignored him as I jumped up and landed with punch to the ground, sending an earthquake to Baxter. Stockman lost his balance for a moment but didn't fall. "How'd you do that?" He asked me in shock.

"Let's just say I ain't normal!" I said and stepped hard on the floor, cracking it, and earthbended some boulders up in the air. Jack flew over and froze the floor behind Baxter. "You can fly?" Baxter exclaimed in shock. "You can see me/him?" Jack and the rest of us asked in shock. "Of coarse I can see him!" Baxter exclaimed, probable thinking that Jack is just a normal teenage boy. Jack just shrugged and blast ice at him. Baxter quickly blocked the ice with his arms, and gave me the chance to strike.

I started punching the boulders one after the another towards him. Baxter walked backwards as the boulders hit him, but before he could step on the ice, Baxter's robot arms shot a soundwave at me. "Whoa!" I screamed before crashing back into the wall. "Izzy!" Jack cried out, but before he could fly over to me, Baxter grabbed him and threw Jack into the wall next of me. "Of coarse my first adult believer is a evil Brainiac!" Jack groaned as he slowly moved back up on his feet.

"I'm gonna kill Mikey for losing the T-Pod if we survive this!" I groaned as I stood up as well. "Move your shell Izzy!" Raph yelled as he and Donnie run past us. "Why?" I asked and ducked when a laser came over my head. "That answer your question?" Jack asked as he stared with wide eyes at where the laser hit. I nodded quickly and grabbed Jack's arm. "Pretty much!" I exclaimed as we run after Raph and Donnie, dodging the lasers as best as we can.

As we all run, I earthbended a mini mountain in front of us. All 4 of us jumped over and hid behind it as we duck for cover from the lasers. "What now genius?" Raph asked Donnie after hid behind my mini mountain. "Is that Leo?" Jack asked after he looked over the mini mountain and ducked back down. I frowned at my boyfriend's question and looked over as well. When I looked over, I saw Leo, but his head was cover in some kind of metal object that was shooting lasers.

"Why is Leo's head in a metal object? And why is he shooting lasers at us?" I asked after ducking back down from a laser. "We can figure that out later!" Raph said as he ducked from a laser. "Right now, we need to figure out how to get that thing off him!" He said and ducked from a laser. I should have made a bigger mini mountain! "I got an idea!" Donnie exclaimed when he saw a big, broken piece of glass. "How is that going to help us?" Jack asked when he saw what Donnie was looking at.

"Just trust me and help me lift it up!" Donnie said and crawled over to the glass. Raph, Jack and I looked at each other for a second before sighing. "This better work!" I said as I crawled over and helped Donnie lift it up. Jack and Raph soon came over as well and helped us lift the glass up. We lifted the glass above our heads, and one of the lasers hit the glass. But instead of breaking, the glass reflected the laser to a different direction. The laser bounced from one pipe to another until it hit the metal object on Leo's head.

"It actually worked!" I exclaimed after the laser broke the metal thing on Leo's head and freed him. We all jumped over my mini mountain and run over to Leo. Leo stood up, dizzy and with his masked turned around. "Thanks." Leo said after turning his mask back, right. We turned and glared in anger when we saw Baxter walked towards us laughing. Not only was he laughing, he was spinning a screaming Mikey around on his own kusarigama like a nunchuck. We grabbed our weapons and charged at Baxter.

Baxter span Mikey and threw him at Raph, but my twin grabbed our little brother as they flew back. Before Baxter could pull Mikey back, I grab the chain and pulled it straight for Jack to freeze it. Jack quickly froze a spot on the chain and we both jump back for Leo before he jumped down and sliced the chain, freeing Mikey. Donnie then jumped in front of Baxter and got the hidden blade inside his bo-staff out and went to slice at Baxter. But Baxter grabbed the bo-staff in his robot hand and crashed it.

"Hey!" Donnie exclaimed annoyed and backflipped back, away from Baxter. He looked down at his now broken weapon with an annoyed look and threw it away. The rest of us quickly run over to Donnie and stood next to him with our weapons ready. Mikey quickly shook his dizziness away and glared at Baxter, holding his last nunchuck. Every single one of us battle cried and charged at each other, and attacked.

Usually, the good guys win and the bad guys get their butts whipped. Only this time, it didn't happen. Long story short... we got our butts whipped, or in my brothers chase, shells whipped. And let's just say, it is very, embarrassing.

After we lost, Baxter grabbed all of us, and held us captive in his robot hand. "Haha! Oh yeah!" Baxter cried in victory and broke the wall when he walked through it. Baxter then walked over to an open dumpster and threw us in it. Of coarse he throws us in the dumpster! I thought to myself as I mentally rolled my eyes. Baxter looked down at us, laughing evilly in amusement while my brothers (except Mikey, he looked scared), Jack and I glared at him.

"Foolish turtles! Did you really think that you could defeat me?" Baxter said in his Dark Vader voice. "Well, yeah." Mikey answered honestly... with a cooking pot on his head? How did that get-? Never mind! "All my life, people have laughed at me! The other kids in school! My co-workers! The woman who fixes the copy machine! How was I supposed to know you don't pour toner in the top?" Okay, here's some advice Baxter Stockman.

One, you should have ignore your bullies in school. Two, don't give your coworkers a reason to laugh at you! And three, maybe you should have asked first before you poured toner in the top! If you did all three things, you would have had a normal, happy life with a job!

"But when they behold the power of this suit, they won't be laughing anymore! They'll tremble in terror!" Baxter screamed as his suit suddenly started getting bigger...and stronger. "What's happening?" Leo asked with wide eyes as we watched Baxter's suit transform. "Stockman and the T-Pod." Donnie said in fear. "They're..." His eyes widen in both fear and realize. "Merging." He continued as Jack protectively wrapped his arms around me held me close. "They're becoming one single entity." Donnie said as Baxter's suit finished upgrading.

"The Stockman-Pod." Mikey said as we all stared wide eyed in fear at Baxter in his new upgraded suit. "Run!" Jack yelled out and shot ice at Baxter's face, blocking his view. I quickly earthbended a boulder up and punched it towards Baxter, causing him to lose his balance for a moment and moved away from us. We all quickly jumped out of the dumpster and run out of alley. Not a moment later, Baxter started running after us.

"The Stockman-Pod is right on top of us!" Mikey screamed as we all run away from Baxter. "Stop calling him that! That's a stupid name!" Raph snapped at Mikey. "Split up! He can't follow us all!" Leo ordered. "No way! He's going to follow me!" Mikey screamed, scared. "Why would he follow you?" Leo asked as we all continued running for our lives. "They always follow me!" Mikey exclaimed as if it's a fact. "Works for me!" Jack exclaimed as he flew next to us, getting a glare from both Leo and Mikey. "Stop being paranoid and just do it!" Leo snapped.

"Let's go baby!" Jack exclaimed and picked me up bridal style. "No fair!" Both Mikey and Donnie exclaimed when they saw us flying. "Sorry guys! Only room for one!" Jack called out as I wrapped my arms around his neck. "Good luck!" I called out and Jack then used the wind to fly faster as we all started to split up. Not long after we all split up, we heard a panicking Mikey. "Ahh! I told you he was gonna follow me!" "Sounds like he's following Mikey!" Jack said as he flew us away from Baxter. "Rather him than me!" I said as I held on tighter to him.

***

"Shh, guys! Quiet! You're gonna wake him up!" Leo whispered yelled at us as we silently walked into the dark Lair. But as we walked in, we all repeatedly shushed at each other, and kept on saying that we are quiet he/she isn't being quiet. Just as we started walking down the stairs, entering the Lair, the lights suddenly turned on. We all froze in mid-step, and looked up with wide eyes. "Ahh! Sensei!" Leo exclaimed in fright when we all saw Master Splinter standing next to the dojo windows.

"And where have you been?" Sensei asked with a knowing look. "Nowhere?" I said nervously. "How did you get so hurt?" Sensei asked plainly as he pointed at us. "Oh!" Leo exclaimed while he quickly hid his broken katana blades behind his back, uh, shell. "That! Um, well! We were, um?" Leo said as he started thinking up a lie, before looking at us for some help. "Hit?" Raph said as he covered his black eye from Sensei.

"Yeah! We were hit! By a...?" Jack quickly said, but didn't know what to say further. "By a..." Donnie said, before thinking what he'll say next, as he cover the bruise on his arm. "Bus?" Mikey said with an innocent, nervous smile, making the rest of us look down at him with wide, disbelief eyes. Sensei's eyebrow raised up slightly as he frowned down at Mikey. Mikey then smiled, only to have some of his teeth fall out, making Sensei's eyebrow raise higher.

"Hit by a bus?" Donnie snapped at Mikey in disbelief, while the rest of us shook our heads. "Well what was I supposed to say? Meteor? Cow? Flying building?" Mikey snapped as he death glared at Donnie, who returned the look. "Enough!" Sensei ordered and slammed his staff to the ground. We all quickly jumped up in fright and stood up straight. "Tell me what happened." He said with a calm voice.

***

We went inside the dojo and Sensei everything what happened last night and tonight. "And then I threw hot cheese in his face and ran away." Mikey finished our long story as we all sat in front of Sensei. "Very resourceful Michelangelo." Sensei said with a calm voice, before raising it in disappointment and anger. "But I'm still highly disappointed in you all! The first rule of being a ninja is 'Do No Harm'!" He said as we all looked down to our laps in shame.

"Unless you need to do harm! Then do lots of harm!" Sensei with his stern voice, making me mentally nod in agreement with him. "You're right Sensei. I guess we did make a mess of things." Leo said as the rest of us continued looking down at our laps in shame. "So, what do you think would be a fitting punishment?" Sensei asked with a knowing voice. Leo thought for a second before answering. "We need to clean up our mess."

"Yes. You must stop this... Stockman-Pod." Sensei said. "But Sensei, if I remember correctly, the guy already kicked our shells." I said as I mentally flinched as I remember how he threw me into the wall. "Yeah, and now the guy also more powerful." Jack added, sitting next to me. "How are we suppose to stop him?" Donnie asked Sensei. "I know! I'll hit him really hard!" Raph said as his fist punched his hand. "Brute force is not the answer. You will need to rely on your ninja training." Sensei said. "Excuse me, Sensei, but ninjas never had to go up against guys in armor!" Mikey said as if it's a common fact.

But Sensei glared at Mikey and pointed his ears to our left, towards a wall paintings of ninjas fighting against a samurai who's wearing armor. Mikey smiled nervously and looked over to where Sensei's ears pointed at. His eyes widen in shock and realization, along with the rest of us, before nervously rubbing his head. "Oh, I mean, ninjas always had to go up against guys in armor!" Mikey quickly said with a nervous smile.

"Nice save." Both Raph and I said plainly, getting a nod from Mikey. "Sensei, what was their secret?" Leo asked as he stared at the painting in wonder. "They understood that you do not fight the armor. You fight the man inside." Sensei said as he walked over to the last wall painting, where the ninjas defeated the samurai. We all looked at each other in realization, knowing what we had to do next. "Why are we all looking at each other?" All except Mikey.

***

"Are you sure this is gonna work?" Donnie asked Leo with a doubtful look. "Like Sensei said. Don't fight the armor. Fight the guy inside." Leo said with a proud smirk. "And one thing we know about bad guys," I said with a smirk as I crossed my arms. "They love chasing Mikey!" I finished, making Raph smirk and Jack laugh. "Guys!" Mikey screamed as he run over to us. "Stockman-Pod's got missiles!" We quickly jumped out of the way and ducked in cover for the incoming missiles. Mikey jumped and run up the water tower before it exploded from the missiles, jumping up to a phone line above us, and hang up there with his nunchuck.

As the water tower burned down, Stockman-Pod, yes I'm calling him that, walked over while laughing evilly. Jack froze his feet to the roof while the rest of us surrounded him while spinning chains like lassos. We threw our chains around him and started pulling them as we walked backwards, pulling the chains tighter around Stockman-Pod. Mikey jumped down from the phone line and smirked. "Now who's trembling in terror- Whoa!" Mikey joked before screaming in surprise when Stockman-Pod broke the chains.

Stockman-Pod looked down at Mikey and grabbed him by the face before throwing him into the next building, crashing though the wall. "Mikey!" Donnie called out in worry. "That's it! You're going down!" Both Raph and I said in anger and charged at him, along with Leo, Donnie and Jack. Donnie lifted himself up by using his bo-staff and kicked Stockman-Pod repeatedly before jumping up in the air and hit him with his bo-staff. Stockman-Pod stumbled backwards and glared at Donnie.

But Leo then jumped in and started slicing his katana blades at Stockman-Pod. Stockman-Pod walked backwards as he tried to avoid the blades. Raph then jumped behind him and started stabbing him with his sai. Stockman-Pod turned around and went to hit him, but Raph jumped up and started stabbing on the top of the suit. Raph jumped down when Stockman-Pod tried to grab him and charged again. But in mid air, Stockman-Pod punched Raph and send him flying right into the wall.

"Raph!" I called out to my twin before glaring at Stockman-Pod in rage. "You're going to regret that!" I yelled at him and charged. I earthbended two giant boulders up and threw them at him. Stockman-Pod dodged one and punched the other one away. I raised another boulder up, but before I could punch it, Stockman-Pod suddenly grabbed me and threw me against a wall. "Izzy!" Jack called out and flew over to me. Stockman-Pod tried to grab him, but Jack flew up higher and shot a strong force of ice at him.

Stockman-Pod stumbled backwards from the strong force, giving Jack the opportunity to fly over to me. "You okay?" He asked me as he helped me up. "That guy is really getting on my nerves!" I said in annoyance. "You're not the only one." Jack said as he glared towards Stockman-Pod. I looked over and my eyes quickly went wide in both fear and worry when Stockman-Pod grabbed Leo and Donnie, and threw them off the roof. "No!" I screamed and run towards the them.

Luckily, Raph came to them at time and grabbed them before the hit the ground. "Gotcha!" He said as he held them on their arms. Jack and I quickly run over and helped Raph get them back on the roof. "You guys okay?" Jack asked, but only got a nod from them, for they were slightly out of breath. We all looked up with wide eyes when Stockman-Pod stopped in front with us. "Any last words?" He asked us in his Dark Vader voice. "Just one..." Leo said with a glare.

"Bees!"

"Bees?" Stockman-Pod said in confusion with a frown. "Bees!" Mikey screamed while sliding down the phone line with one hand, holding a beehive in the other. Mikey let go of the line, landing with a roll before jumping jump Stockman-Pod and shoved the beehive in Stockman-Pod's face. The bees started going crazy in Stockman-Pod's suit and he started screaming in pain as the bees started stinging him. His suit expanded from in the middle, and showed the T-Pod clearly.

"The T-Pod!" Leo exclaimed when we all saw it, while Stockman-Pod was moving around, waving arms around as the bees flew around and stung him. We all lined up and charged at him. Mikey jumped and hit him with his nunchucks. Donnie then jumped up and stabbed him with his bo-staff. Raph then jumped up and sliced him with his sai. Leo jumped up and sliced at him with his katana blades. Jack froze the floor behind Stockman-Pod and shot a blast of ice at him with his staff.

I then jumped up and sliced at him with my kama. I then roundhouse kicked at him, making him stumble backwards and slip on the ice. Stockman-Pod slipped and fell off the roof. Leo jumped down to him, standing on top of the suit with his katanas ready. He glared down at Stockman-Pod before raising his katana blade and stabbed the T-Pod, breaking it and pulled it out the suit. The powered battle armor got shut down.

A swollen Baxter climbed out of the powered down Stockman-Pod suit and looked up at Leo in fear. The rest of us jumped down, landing behind Leo and glared at Baxter. "So, we'll call it a tie?" Baxter asked us nervously. "Wanna call it a tie Twins?" Leo asked Raph and I with a smirk. "I don't know, Raph?" I asked with a smirk. Raph smirked as well and cracked his knuckles. "Not yet." We both then grabbed him and climbed down to an alley.

"Jack, do you mind?" I asked with a smirk. "Of coarse not!" Jack said, smirking with a chuckle and opened the dumpster for us. "No, no!" Baxter exclaimed when he saw the dumpster, and screamed when we threw him in. "Now it's a tie!" Both Raph and I said with a smirk, and slammed the dumpster door close. We all laughed, high fiving or threeing and headed back to the Lair.

***

"You all showed wisdom and great skill in defeating the Stockman-Pod. I am proud of you all!" Sensei said with a proud smile, as we sat in front of him in the dojo. "Does this mean we're not grounded anymore?" Leo asked with a hopeful smile, belong with the rest of us. Sensei closed his eyes, playing with his beard, smiling in thought before opening his eyes again. "Yes." He answered with a smile, making us smile brightly. "But first," Sensei suddenly said with a stern glare.

"Randori!"

"No!" I screamed while the other screamed in fear, as we all moved over each other as we tried to run away. Like I said, tried. Just one last word.

Ouch!