Chapter 36: A new boy in town
Days after the dinner passed
The girls were in the dojo, training for patrol that would happen later that night.
"So, what are we doing after patrol tonight!"
Sera was doing backflips off the wall while Leah was practicing her tanto moves.
"We could finally study for that math test on Friday"
"But I hate math! It's so boring!"
Aubrey was stretching while doing the splits while Ray did pull-ups on the tree branch.
"Sera, math is important for everyday life" Aubrey said, she smiled and continued stretching.
"No it's not! It's boring! Ooh, how about we make cupcakes!"
"No!!" The other three girls shouted collectively.
"Aww!"
"Why don't we invite the chump over?" Ray questioned, then saw Leah and Sera's faces redden slightly. "Don't tell me he's one of your boyfriends too."
"Once again, he's my friend, not my boyfriend!"
"I call bullsh**!"
Tony walked into the lair, "Hey girls!"
When he yelled it startled Aubrey so badly she fell on her face.
"H-Hey Tony"
"Hey dork"
"What's up dude!"
"Tony, wonderful to see you again"
Ton smiled and started staring at Aubrey as she stretched, "Whoa! The girls in P.E. can barely do a pull up much less do a stretch like that!"
Aubrey blushed,"Oh! U-Um, Thank you" She twirled a strand of hair around her finger and turned red.
The guys were talking to each other as they walked into the Dojo which caused Donnie to freeze on sight as his precious cinnamon roll daughter was getting defiled by a human hormonal boy. But in reality Aubrey was just talking to Tony.
"Ahem." Donnie gritted his teeth and smiled creepily.
Aubrey looked at him and smiled, "Hi papa!"
This was the first time Tony has ever met Donnie so he jumped back in surprise, "That's your dad?!"
Aubrey nodded, "I did say I was half turtle and half fox!"
"Yes, I'm a turtle and a very skilled martial artist. One of the smartest men in the world." Donnie was intimidating Tony, very subtle but extremely noticeable to his brothers, Ray and Leah, Tony, and basically everyone else who isn't the most innocent of the group.
"Papa, we have a patrol tonight! Is it alright if Tony can stay here until we get back?" Aubrey looked at him with a begging look.
"Aubrey! That really isn't necessary!" Tony smiled, nervously trying not to anger Donnie.
"Oh, I don't think we'll have a problem! You girls, go have fun" Donnie smiled.
Leah nodded and gestured that they should go, "Let's move, team!"
"But can we make s'mores when we come back?"
"Yes, we can make s'mores when we come back"
"Yay!!"
Tony shook in fear as Donnie put his hand on his shoulder.
"Let's talk Tony."
"Don't kill him D!"
"I'm not, I just wanna have a nice talk with him... In my lab."
"Oh god."
The girls were running across rooftops as they were chasing Snakeweed who was kidnapping people. Snakeweed's latest victim: the pizza driver.
"No, not the pizza guy!! Take Aubrey!"
Aubrey shook her head, "He's getting away!"
"We see that!"
Snakeweed then ran into an alley where he was trapped.
"Perfect, now he can't escape!" Leah said.
"Good, now let's go weed waking!"
"Weed trimming!"
"Gardening!" Sera smirked, "Boom! I just blew your minds!"
".. let's go!" Ray said, completely ignoring Sera and started walking towards the alley. Until Leah stopped her.
"It's too risky to go after him full force" Leah looked up, "We'll take him from above, tangle him in the clothes line"
"That's gonna take ages and we should stop him now! I mean he's kidnapping people!"
"Not just people, people who bring pizza!"
"We take him from above. Now let's move!" Leah started climbing. The others begrudgingly followed.
When they finally got onto the roof, they were about to pounce on Snakeweed only to discover he was already gone.
"And the award for worst leader goes to-" Ray started but Leah interrupted.
"And how am I the worst leader, brute." Leah looked at her, waiting for an answer.
"We did this my way, Snakeweed would've been toast by now!"
Sera shuttered at the thought, "Ew, Snakeweed toast sounds gross" Aubrey pulled her arm back, giving Leah and Ray more space.
"My plan would've worked if you stopped second guessing my orders!"
"Then don't give bad orders, I won't second guess them!"
"Oh, and you think you could do a better job?!"
"Yeah, I think I could!"
Sera jumped into the conversation, "Let's compromise! I'll lead!" Ray and Leah looked at her with a look of rage. Sera immediately slinked away from them and back over to Aubrey.
"Fine, the team is yours, Ray! I'm out of here" Leah looked at her then walked away.
"I can't believe she's gone"
"Aww, don't worry Sera! Leah just needs some space" Aubrey patted her back. Sera gave her a look. "You meant the pizza girl, didn't you?"
"Yeah.."
Leah ran across rooftops and landed on one with a billboard, "She's such a pain in the!" she threw ninja stars at the billboard and stomped around.
"Someone in a bad mood?"
Leah gasped and turned around, it was a boy in a foot clan ninja uniform.
"Foot?" Leah scoffed, "Did Light send you to scare me? Well... You just made my night" Leah pulled out her tanto.
"Oh cool off, princess."
Leah growled, "Don't call me princess." The boy lunged at her. She fought back and knocked him out after 3 seconds.
Leah was out of breath and leaned closer to him, to see if he was still breathing then he woke up and flipped them over so that he was on top.
"Hey!! Let go of me!" Leah struggled. The boy stroked her cheek, moving her hair out of her face.
"Heh, I've seen kunochi's who aren't even close to your level, you were actually a challenge" He smirked and took off his mask. "The names Andrew"
He had purple and blue hair, some kind of scales on his face, his ears were webbed, his eyes looked more fish-like, he had a scar over his eye and his lip, lips and ear piercings.
Leah blushed as red as a tomato as the boy smirked.
"See you around, princess." Andrew threw a smoke bomb in her face and disappeared.
Leah groaned and rubbed her eyes as they turned red.
"What on earth was that? She asked herself and stood up, still rubbing her eyes.
Aubrey and the others were in the lab, she was circling all the Snakeweed sightings on a large map with Ray and Sera watching. Ray started to get impatient.
"Aubrey, we have to find Snakeweed's hideout!"
"I'm working on it."
"Then work faster!"
"Do you think yelling's gonna help me?"
"No. I think hitting is gonna help!" She responded and cracked her knuckles.
"I'll work faster" Aubrey muttered to herself and started to work faster.
"That's the spirit," Ray smiled and folded her arms. At that moment, Leah came back and saw them.
"It's Lele!" Sera exclaimed, they all noticed her eyes were red and watering, " And she's been crying! Aww, you missed us" she ran towards her and hugged her.
"I got hit with blinding powder." Leah grumbled and gently got out of Sera's hug.
"Sure, you big softy!" Sera smiled.
"And where have you been?"
"Don't see how any of that is your business" Leah put her hands on her hips.
"Fine. Whatever."
Aubrey looked between them, "I-I managed to find out where his lair is"
"Where is it?"
"Well, it should be at the corner of 47th and-" Ray cut her off.
"Actually, you're on a need to know basis. Guess what, you don't need to know."
Leah growled and walked to the living room, she sat down on the couch. Seeing that she can't go on the mission, she decided to watch her favorite show: Space Heroes.
This current episode was about the captain and his traitor girlfriend, her rat, Captain Ryan crawled into Leah's lap and she started petting him.
"Whoa, relationships are tough" Leah sighed, and continued thinking about the strange boy she met.
"Leah?"
"Yeah dad?"
"What are you still doing here? Where are your cousins!"
"I have no idea" She dismissed her father and her uncles, she kept watching her show.
"What do you mean, 'you have no idea?' Leah?"
"Ray thought she could lead the team better so I let her"
"Child, are you sure that was a good choice?"
"Raph!"
"What? You ran off to be with Karai, Mikey got hurt and I almost killed you! I assume, like father like daughter, will be playing into this scenario!"
"No offense, Uncle Raph! Boys aren't on my mind, I'm too focused on other things" Leah said.
"Once again child, neither was your dad, yet, here we are"
"In other words! You shouldn't let Ray lead because you got angry at her!"
"Why not, dad?! I have made every decision since they got here! I work with so much pressure on my back and all they do is complain! Is it so much to ask for a simple thank you?!" Leo breaks out the cane again and smacks it on the floor in front of her.
"Of course it is Leah!! Being a leader doesn't equal appreciation or equals very little of it! It's about being responsible, even if the pressure is too much! Now go find your cousins."
Leah sighed and put Captain Ryan in his cage, she grabbed her tanto and walked out of the lair. She began walking around the city, looking for her cousins.
"What if I don't want the burden?" She asked herself as she looked at a street sign, "Aubrey said on the corner of 47th and-"
"Didn't think you'd be back out here this quick"
Leah gasped and turned around, she saw Andrew hanging from a fire escape.
"Andrew"
"Aww, still remember my name? Adorable"
"Adorable? Please, you say that to all the girls"
"Hmm, not really"
Leah shook her head, "You're not here because of my looks, are you?"
"Who knows, I might be or because I want a rematch"
"Oh?" Leah smiled softly and pulled out her tanto. Andrew smirked, climbed down from the fire escape and pulled out his weapon.
"Maybe after this I could treat you to dinner"
"Don't flirt with me, I don't do relationships"
"How about we make a wager?"
Leah looked at him, interested and winning the fight against him.
"I pin you down first, I take you out on a date, you pin me down first, and I'll do what you want next time we meet?"
"Deal" Leah smiled and started climbing.
Meanwhile with the others
Sera, Ray, and Aubrey were walking in the sewer under 47th and Mercer Avenue. While Aubrey was looking at the map, Sera gagged and plugged her nose.
"Ew, it really stinks down here!"
"It is a sewer Sera"
"I mean more than usual!" Sera replied and gagged more "Ugh, where does all this come from?"
Ray and Aubrey stopped walking and looked at each other for a second. They looked at Sera and Ray gestured to Aubrey that she told her.
"Um... Sera, it's actually..." Aubrey whispered in her ear causing Sera to jump back in disgust.
"Ew!! Don't they know some of us live down here?!"
"Keep it down dorks!" Ray shouted at them and continued walking.
"Wow, you sound just like Leah," Aubrey said to herself. Unfortunately, Ray could hear her perfectly.
"You say that one more time, I'll shove your head in this sewage."
"And now, you sound like you again."
Ray kept walking, she was thinking about how upset Leah was at her. Eventually, the three stumble upon Snakeweed's lair and they see a bunch of green glowy tubes, some were taller than others.
"This doesn't make any sense! His lair should be right here" Aubrey said, she was in disbelief.
"You don't say" Ray muttered in response and looked around.
Aubrey looked up and gasped in shock. The three decide to start looking around and Sera pokes her head into one and an unconscious human body floats up to the top.
Sera gasped,"He's growing humans!" Aubrey looked at her with a disappointed look.
"He's not growing them, he's holding them captive"
"For what? He can't eat them"
"Maybe he's turning them into fertilizer"
"Is that really where fertilizer comes from?"
"Actually most fertilizer comes from..." Aubrey whispered in her ear.
"Ew!! Is there anything that doesn't come from that?!"
"Enough! Let's get them out of here" Ray used her sai's to cut them out. Sera pulled one out and the three of them hid.
As the humans woke up and helped each other out the sewer. Ray, Aubrey and Sera came out their hiding spots, with Ray getting a smug grin on her face.
"Not only was that a job well done, it was a job well done.. without Leah" she said and smiled. It was all good, until:
"My fertilizer!" A voice shouted. The three turned around and saw SnakeWeed standing behind them.
"What now, boss?"
"Let's kick his a$$."Ray smirked evilly, pulling out her sai's as the others looked at each other in fear and pulled out their weapons.
Back with Leah and Andrew
Andrew was getting close to pin Leah down but she fought back, stronger.
"Ya know.. You aren't as bad as you say!"
"Oh? What part of swinging a sword at my head don't you understand!"
"Heh, the rooftop, remember? You had a chance to kill me, but you didn't take it!"
"Because, you and Light are the first two people in this city that don't bore me!" Andrew argued as the two continued their fight. Then it boiled down to Leah, holding her tanto close to Andrew's neck and Andrew, holding his weapon in front of her neck. "Besides, I doubt you're as good as you say!"
"Oh? Which part about me says that?"
"Don't say your goody two shoes act doesn't fade after a while"
"How do you know it's an act?"
"Because there's no way a lady of your skills could hate the better alternative! To have fun! To live your own life!" This made Leah's blood boil so she pushed him off her and held her tanto to his face.
"I see I finally struck a nerve."
"Because I beat you?" Leah scoffed, getting distracted for one second. In this second, he jumped out in front of her and their positions once again, flipped flopped. Meaning, he pushed her to the ground and held his weapon in front of her face. But this time, he moved his weapon away from her and smiled.
"See that High Rise?" He asked her and pointed to a different building taller than all the others.
"Yeah"
"Meet me there at midnight."
"Why?"
"Because I have to show you something" he said, collecting his weapons and jumping away from her.
Back with the others, their fight with Snakeweed isn't going well.. At all.
Aubrey was flung from one of Snakeweed's tentacle weeds into a wall as Ray attempted to attack the giant mutated plant from behind. Her attack didn't work and she landed right next to Sera.
"Wow! We're totally losing!!"
"Just... Go for the head!" Ray said, Sera nodded and went for Snakeweed's head, which caused him to use one of his weeds to wrap it around her ankle and fling her into the wall.
Ray and Aubrey froze, then screamed, "SERAFINA!!!!" Ray started running over to her, dodging more of his weeds. When she did get over to her, she started shaking her. Aubrey managed to hit Snakeweed, distracting him from the others.
"Ray! How is she?"
"She isn't waking up!"
"So, what do we do now?!" Aubrey shouted, trying to keep Snakeweed away from them.
Ray, having no idea what to do, started to freak out and couldn't give her an answer. So Aubrey took matters into her own hands and used her boa staff to tangle Snakeweed up in his own tentacles and ran over to them.
"Ray!" Aubrey shouted and started to shake her. "Listen, we don't have a lot of time until he finds a way to get himself unloose!"
Ray snapped out of it and picked up Sera bridal style, the two ran out of Snakeweed's lair but not without him putting tracking devices on the back of their clothes.
"I'll find you, little girls! Mark my words!" He growled as the girls ran away.
Miles away from the other girls Leah was currently on Tony's balcony, knocking on the window, awaking the teenage boy.
Tony woke up and walked over to the window, half asleep.
"Ugh... Leah?" He asked himself, then he opened the window and sat on the windowsill.
"This better be important, okay? We have school tomorrow" Tony stretched his arms out.
"I met someone earlier."
This caught his attention, he then grabbed her by her shirt and pulled her close.
"Tell me, everything!"
"Well.. he's really cool"
Tony nodded and gestured that she continue.
"He's also a martial artist"
He nodded and started smiling.
"And.. he's in the.. Foot clan" Leah finished, getting quieter as she said it.
Tony froze for a moment to process, then bonked her on the head with a comic book.
"Are you crazy?!" He yelled.
"Tony, he's different, he's-!"
"In the foot clan."
"Well, yeah but he's-"
"In the foot clan."
"Look, I know I shouldn't be hanging out with him!"
"Yeah, you know why? BECAUSE HE'S IN THE FOOT CLAN!!!" He yelled.
"Tony, he's fun! And I'm tired of being the responsible one! When do I get to have fun?!"
"Leah, I understand but..." He realized how happy she was, he sighed "What does he want?"
"I dunno, I'm meeting him at the Bylery Building. He's got something planned."
"Yeah! Like pushing you off the Bylery Building! It's a trap, Leah!"
"I don't think it is. There's good in him, I know it!"
Tony sighed, "I just... hope you're right, Lele" he closed his window and turned around.
At the lair, Leo and Mikey were playing a video game, Donnie was tinkering in the lab and Raph was punching the training dummy. Doing everything just to pass the time. Until Ray and Aubrey came in yelling, "HELP!!" at the top of their lungs.
"Help!!! Sera, SnakeWeed, Wall!" Ray had Sera in her arms which caught all their attention.
"Girls, what happened?!"
"Uncle Leo, it's all my fault!" Ray set Sera on the couch,"I just froze up! I mean I have no problem risking my life but risking my cousins..."
"Now you see what Leah has to deal with? The responsibility of being a leader"
"I know... I hate it. We need her back! I... need her back" Ray said, finally admitting her mistake.
"Then go and find her."
"But I don't even know where to start!"
Aubrey poked her head up,"She's going to the Bylery building!"
"How do you even know that?"
"Tony text me" She smiled adorably.
Meanwhile at the Bylery Building, Andrew was pacing around waiting for Leah to show up.
Leah jumped onto the roof, placing her hand in her tanto holster.
"Thought you were gonna be a no show, but you don't disappoint me."
"What do you want?"
Andrew tosses her a pair of binoculars and points at a window. "Look for yourself"
Leah put the binoculars on and looked into a penthouse apartment. In the apartment, there was a special item on display.
"The Blades of Oroku Saki..." Leah spoke softly.
"The old Foot Clan Master, they're ancient and priceless.. And they'll be yours.. if you help me"
"What do you mean?" Leah looked at him, confused.
"You know exactly what I mean! We're gonna steal them!"
"Steal them? No, it's wrong!"
"Come on, they're just sitting there collecting dust! Don't you wanna stop being responsible once?"
"No, this is wrong! I don't know who you think Oroku Saki was but he was no one to worship!" Leah said, she grabbed his arms.
"What the hell are you talking about?!"
"You don't have to live like this" She slipped her hands into his and began to intertwined their fingers, "Come with me, you will be safe"
"Safe, huh?"
"Please" she put her hands on his cheek.
"You make it sound so tempting.." he said and started to lean closer to her but smirked. "Maybe another time, cutie" before Leah could comprehend what happened next until she was pinned face first to the ground.
"Let go of me!!" Leah struggled, whipping her hair back and forth. At this moment Ray finally found them.
"Leah, wha.. What the hell are you doing?! Who's this?!"
"Um... Ray, Andrew! Andrew, Ray!"
"What are you, friends with him?! We're out here risking our asses and you're up here making out with the Foot!"
Leah struggled more, trying to get out of his grip.
"Andrew, let me go!"
"Aww, but I'm having too much fun!"
Leah finally got out of his grip, "Ray, let me explain!"
"Oh this will be fun!"
"Me and Andrew have a shared interest in martial arts and swordsmanship" Leah was trying to explain.
"I finally found you little girls!!"
The three of them turned around and saw SnakeWeed climbing the building.
"Oh thank god" Leah muttered.
Ray and Leah got into their fighting stances while Andrew leaned back and watched.
"All is forgiven, you're the leader again, welcome back!" Ray said quickly.
"Oh great!" Leah pulled out her tanto as SnakeWeed lunged at her. She started cutting some of the tentacles and dodged others then saw Andrew watching her.
"Andrew, please! Help us!!" She shouted at him. He didn't say anything but kept watching and decided to throw something at her. This time, it wasn't blinding powder.
Leah gasped and closed her eyes then opened them and realized he threw a dagger with his name engraved on it near her head. Then an idea started to sprout in her head and smirked.
She grabbed the dagger and used it to slice the tentacle that was holding her then she sliced the tentacles that were holding Ray.
"Ray, follow me! I've got an idea!"
"Your the boss"
Leah slid down the building and used her tanto to slice any tentacles that got in her way.
Ray followed after her, using her claws to slide down. Unfortunately for them, Snakeweed regenerated his arms very quickly and used some to throw them at a wall.
"Now what?"
Leah then saw antifreeze gas tanks, she looked at her tanto and the dagger.
"Keep him busy!"
"Really?"
"Trust me!" Leah said, she ran towards the tanks. Ray shrugged and started attacking Snakeweed.
"Over here dorkweed!!" Leah yelled. Snakeweed turned its attention towards her and started attacking her.
She moved out of the way quickly which caused him to explode the antifreeze all over him, and Leah used her weapons to add a whirlwind of oxygen, making him as frozen as a block of ice.
"Ray! Now!!"
Ray used her anger to spark a fire into SnakeWeed making him explode.
"Nice work"
"You too, princess" Ray looked down, "Hey.... I'm..." she mumbled something.
"What was that? I couldn't hear you"
"I said... I'm SORRY!!!" She shouted as loud as she could.
"Geez.. Apology accepted"
"Let's head back home"
"Gladly"
The two girls were back at the lair, Leah was standing next to Sera as the turtles watched them.
Leah held a piece of pepperoni pizza in front of Sera's face, making sure the smell got right into her nose.
Sera slowly opened her eyes and smiled,"Pepperoni!" She grabbed the pizza and started eating it.
"Sera, you're okay!! Don't pull that sh** again!!"
"Ugh, I had the weirdest dream! I dreamt that the stuff in the sewers came from-"
"Um for.. forget about it Sera, it was.. just a dream." Aubrey says and gives Leah a look that says go with it. Leah nods, gives Sera the slice of pizza and promptly gets dragged away by Ray.
"What is it now?"
"So, we're just gonna ignore the guy that tried to kill us?"
"He didn't try to kill us! He saved us!"
"He threw a dagger at our heads!"
"He threw a dagger near our heads"
"He's in the Foot Clan!"
"Nobody's perfect"
"Ooh, are you two finally bonding~?" Mikey asked them, smirking.
Leah looked at her and smiled, while Ray only huffed, folded her arms, and looked away.
"Whatever." Ray secretly smirks.
"It's possible"
"Aww!"
Leah started walking away, smiling to herself, staring at the dagger.
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