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Samantha Allan Park Ch. #29

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Chapter #29

*Friday June 5th, 2015* *9 months since the fall of the Foot clan. 4 months since last chapter*

Sam was laying on her back on the top ledges inside the Jumbo Tron. She pulled her phone out and checked the time as she wondered what was taking so long for her friends to arrive. Just as she was looking at the time she saw a figure bounce off the side of the panels of the entry way above and then land on the further side of the squared spaced. Seconds later another figure appeared, extending their bo staff so that it stuck between the two panels of the entry way, allowing himself to swing himself down onto the ledges. The next figure bounced off the sides of the panels just like the first, and then the final figure hooked his katanas between the beams within the panels to swing himself down. Just as the final figure landed, the whistle was blown and the game began. “Alright guys! We made it just in time!” Donnie announced as the four lined up around the ledge and watched the game begin below. Raph was the furthest away, then Leo was on his left, then Donnie and then Mikey who stood closest to Sam. 

Sam sat up. “Just made it is right. What took so long?” she asked lazily. “Someone came up with a routine that we’ve never ever used and held us up” Raph said as he glared over at Mikey for a split second before quickly redirecting his attention back to the game below. The game was already picking up, and so was the guy’s excitement. “When I say go, you say Knicks. Go,” “Knicks!” “GO!” “KNICKS!” “Go, go!” “Shoot the ball!” The ball swished through the net and the volume in the stadium rose, and the volume in the small space was even louder as the guys began cheering and dancing around as their team scored the first point of the game. Sam couldn’t help but laugh at the four dorks in front of her. No matter how much their personalities differed, events like this brought them all together, and it definitely brought their silly sides out. “Were you sleeping? You look like you just woke up” Leo stated as he looked back at Sam who was now sitting criss cross in her spot on the upper ledge. “Nah, just laying down and getting comfy. Today was my last AP test and my last day of school” she said as she stretched out her arms. “I’m still surprised they let you graduate after missing the first three months of school” Raph said as he walked around the space and grabbed the pizza boxes, handing the first slice to Sam who was sitting right by the boxes. He could tell she must be exhausted if she hadn’t even reached for the food sitting right next to her. “Thanks” she said as she took the slice. “And luckily the New York Foot Survivors organization saved me on that one. They set me up for an incredibly adaptive and accommodating home schooling system that met me both at the hospital for the first two months and then at my apartment for the final month. I still can’t believe I was on ‘medical leave’ for that long though.” “Well you were hurt pretty bad, and you had a multitude of different wounds, and not just physical” Donnie stated as reached for the pizza boxes that Raph had tossed onto the upper ledge behind Mikey and himself. “True. I’m just glad all the hospital visits and meeting with therapists is over. At least it was all easier this time around, that and each individual visit was much quicker than they were in the past” she said with relief. “Plus, now that school is over with, I’m free to hang out with you guys whenever I want to” she said with a huge smile. Leo was now walking around the upper ledge. “What are you talking about? You see us plenty, even with all the stuff you have going on. I honestly expected to see you a lot less throughout this year.” He then took the slice that Donnie had tossed him as he continued to walk along the top ledge of their space. “Pshh I wasn’t that busy” Sam teased, waving her hand in front of her. This received a quick questioning stare from all four of the brothers. “Really? Let’s go around and list the events of your life since September 2nd of 2014 up until today June 5th 2015” Leo said with a smirk. “First there was you being hospitalized for two months and overall being out of school for 3 total months.” “And during and after your hospitalization you were working on classwork and studying for AP tests” Donnie added as he tossed a slice down to Mikey who was sitting on the lower ledge. “Then there were all the clubs you joined and had to get updates from through school” Mikey added. “Then you had nonstop dance and soccer practices” Raph added. “Plus secretly advocating in various ways for the NYFS” Donnie said. “Plus senior stuff like the senior vs. junior girl’s flag football game and the senior fashion show” Mikey added. “Plus you’ve taken up different odd jobs throughout different times in the year from private soccer lessons to group dance classes for kids as beginners and working for Murakami” Raph added. “And to top it off you’ve been helping with wedding preparations all throughout the year” Leo added. Sam squinted at him. “Okay I may have been a litttttttle busy throughout this past year” she said with a smile. “Well now’s the time to kick back and relax” Donnie said with a smile as he tossed Sam another slice and as he sat on the lower ledge to Mikey’s right while Sam was on Mikey’s left. “I mean, does it get any better than this?” “Yeah man, I wanna be down there” Mikey said, pointing his free hand down towards the large crowd below them. “Pshh, you sit your ugly self down there then you’d have people running for their lives” Raph said with a mocking smile. Mikey just smiled and ‘smoothly’ stated “You see me? I look goooood bro.” “Fellas aye, aye, aye! We got the best seats in the house right here. Anyone can sit down there” Leo said as he hopped down and now stood next to Raph on the lower ledge. “We saved the city, we should be on the Jumbo Tron, not in it” Raph replied back in a rough voice.

Just then, the lights all throughout the stadium dimmed and a loud voice came on over the intercom. The voice began talking about the Foot clan and how Shredder was now locked away. The voice then introduced Vern as the cities hero and savior for single-handedly defeating the Shredder as he was then called up for an interview with a female announcer who was standing on the court. During the interview, Vern had stated that he had received help from a few friends in order to take Shredder down.

“*gasp* No way!” Mikey exclaimed as he threw his hands out in front of him in surprised excitement. “He’s totally gonna give us props! Here it comes, ohhh here it comes!” “Thunder, and lightning!” Vern announced as he then kissed his biceps. “Awwww!” Donnie and Mikey groaned as they threw their heads back in disappointment and stood up while Mikey also waved his arms down towards the ground. “What is this?” Raph mumbled as he waved his arms down as well, annoyed at how the man reacted to the question asked. Leo noticed this and was slightly irked by the way his brothers were reacting to what had just happened. “Guys, you knew we couldn’t take credit for bringing down Shredder. Vern’s just sticking to the arrangement that we made for him” he reassured. He’d be a liar if he said he wasn’t a bit upset with how Vern had just handled that situation, but it also shouldn’t have been that big of a deal. They were ninjas and they were mutants, they would always live in the shadows and they should have known and understood that by now. “Yeah, well this arrangement has us spending the rest of our lives sitting in the nosebleeds” Raph groaned. Sam could sense the wheels turning in Mikey’s head as she saw his face light up as he said “speaking of nosebleeds” and then swiftly turned and grabbed something from Donnie’s pack. Donnie sensed this instantly and quickly walked over behind Mikey. “Hey! Hey what did you take?” he said in a worried panic. “Be careful with that, that’s my pea shooter!” Raph and Leo from the other side of the square, and Sam who was sitting on the ledge behind where Mikey was now all smiled as they saw Mikey crouch down with the pea shooter he had snatched from Donnie. “Oh I gotta see this” Raph said as he rushed over and crouched behind the other open space behind his youngest brother. “You got this” he said, encouraging his brother. “Head shot. Straight head shot” Mikey said as he tried to focus his shot on the perfect spot. He licked his lips and then blew into the device and within a split second the spit wad within the device had landed a direct hit on Vern’s face right in the middle of his interview. “OHHHHHH! Got him!” the group of five shouted as they all stood up and threw their arms up in the air. “That’s my boy!” Sam shouted as she carefully leaped down from the upper ledge and onto Mikey’s back. “Best sharp shooter in NYC!” “Oh my turn, my turn!” Raph said as he took the device from Mikey and set himself up. Mikey stood behind Raph on his right as Sam crouched down to Raph’s left while Leo and Donnie crouched down on the other side of the space off to the right of Mikey. “Alright you got this” Mikey said as Raph quickly set up and blew into the device so that once again a spit wad nailed Vern in the face and stuck to his face like glue.

“OHHHHHH!”’s rang throughout the squared space once again as Raph and Mikey jumped up in excitement while throwing their hands up in the air with huge smiles while Leo and Donnie also had huge smiles on their faces as they brought a knuckle to their mouths in shocked excitement. Raph had been so in the zone as he quickly aimed his shot that he hadn’t realized Sam was crouched down to his left, so when he and Mikey had jumped up in excitement, Raph completely knocked Sam over to the side to which she almost lost her balance and fell down through the large opening leading down onto the court. Luckily, Raph had grabbed onto her arm and pulled her back in time (and luckily her natural muscles were toned enough that the swift pull didn’t hurt like hell) but for a split second she had been facing the bottom of the ground as if she was going to land a solid drop. The cheers momentarily stopped as they all witnessed what had just happened and were now waiting for a wide eyed Sam to react. Raph cringed as he reached his arms out in a comforting yet defensive manner. “Hehe, my bad” he said with an embarrassed and apologetic smile. Sam kept her wide eyed expression, but it was more comical than worried now. “Well that happened.” She tilted her head to the side some. “You good bro? Like, you have any issues you need to bring up?” Raph rapidly shook his head. “Nope all is good, perfect, totally fine!” The rest of the group chuckled at Raph’s reaction and how hasty his change in expression was whenever he did something that could cause harm to one of his family members.

Just then the group heard the announcer make it known that the interview was over as Vern groggily took his seat along the side of the court. Sam walked along the top ledge and around the guys as they all jumped to their feet and started flapping their arms (and somehow Donnie had ended with his arms bent like he was a chicken). “TAKE THAT FALCON!” the boys shouted as they also began to ‘KA-KAW’ likes birds in mockery of the man from down below. Once the four were done goofing off, Mikey and Raph had turned to their rights and were heading over towards where Sam was now standing as they reached for another slice of pizza. At that same moment, Donnie’s turtle com walkie talkie that was attached to his shoulder went off. “Hey what’s up April?” Donnie asked as he walked over towards the left and away from the group so that he could try to hear April better. The turtle com could be heard from anyone as long as there wasn’t a chord attached so that the voice on the other line could only be heard from that ear piece, but it was still difficult to hear if there was too much noise, that or if it wasn’t angled in the right direction. Mikey’s face lit up as he then rushed over and was now glued to Donnie’s back. “APRIL! Hey what’s up April? Oh nothing I’ve been working out aghh!” Mikey groaned as Donnie had pulled his bo out and extended it so that it zapped Mikey. Donnie had collected and studied some of the mutagenic weapons (the others going to the NYFS) so that the remaining Foot clan members couldn’t use them anymore, and in doing so he had found a way to update his bo staff so that it could use electricity as well, but without needing mutagen to do so. At moments like this, he was really glad that he had made the update.

Sam heard her friend groan in pain and instantly her eyes switched over to their blue and black colors without her even realizing they had done so. She was now glaring at an unaware Donnie as she took two steps towards him, again without realizing she was doing so, but before she could move any further Raph had caught on and swung an arm around her and pulled her back. “Whoaaa don’t worry he’s fine!” he said as he pulled Sam back and held her there for a second until her eyes returned to their normal color. “…what happened then?” she asked. “He was just being stupid and tried chasing after an adult woman who’s wayyy out of his league” Raph said with smirk as he looked up and mocked his brother, who scowled at him with a “heyyy” in return. Sam nodded her head. “Ahhh got it. Thanks for looking out dauntless” she said as she turned back to smile at him and put her knuckle forward. Raph returned the fist bump and then joined back with his other two brothers to keep watching the game.

It still freaked Sam out that there were aspects to these new powers that she had that she still had absolutely no control over and no one else had any clue what to do about them either. Ever since Mikey had saved her and the mutagen from her sleeve had been injected and surged all throughout her body, the mutagen had now become a part of her. The guys would tease her in saying that now she was technically a mutant like them, though she had no problems with this whatsoever. Ever since the mutagen had become a part of her there were now moments like this that neither she nor anyone else could explain. One of these new aspects was that regardless of whether she used the strength or wind powers her eyes always switched over to their blue surrounded by black color. Another new aspect was that whenever she sensed that one of the brothers was in trouble, her powers would kick in and she would instantly feel the need to protect them, almost like she was Bruce Banner going Hulk and had no idea why she was doing so and couldn’t refrain from doing so either. It was like she would fall into an unconscious protective state. This had happened a few times. The first time happened when Donnie had lightly burned himself in his lab and for whatever reason Sam’s powers kicked in and she literally smashed the device that had burned him without her even realizing she had done so until about thirty seconds later after he had calmed her down. There were other times where Raph was chasing after Mikey because of something stupid that youngest had done to annoy his older brother and Sam had gone off. What was strange was that there were other times where Sam saw this happen and yet nothing was triggered. There was one time she watched Raph and Leo get into a verbal argument and she was set off, but that only happened once and literally every other verbal argument she had observed within the group had never set her off like that one individual argument had. She also trained with the boys as often as she could, and again, nothing during these sessions had ever set her powers off, so it was difficult for any of them to learn from the occurrences to notice any similarities or any patterns. The only thing they had learned so far was that if they intervened immediately after they noticed the change then they had a chance to calm her down and prevent anything serious from happening, and luckily nothing serious had resulted as of now.

“Oh Baxter Stockman.” The sound of Donnie’s voice somehow pulled Sam away from her wandering thoughts, and now her mind was filled with curiosity as she wondered what Donnie and April could be discussing that he had walked off to the side so he could focus on the conversation. Sam sat up on the top ledge behind where the guys were standing as she slipped an ear piece out of her pocket and clicked a button on it that would instantly let her hear what was being said in the conversation as if the phone was right at her ear. At this point, Sam had heard April share some information about Baxter Stockman and how she thought he was now working with the Foot Clan. “Shredder. Do you need us there?” Donnie asked. “Pshh, Baxter’s a softie” Sam muttered aloud, that fast completely forgetting that she was supposed to be acting sneaky and wasn’t supposed to be listening, which Donnie made evident as he turned around and shot her an irked slash confused look. Sam shrugged with a smile as Donnie rolled his eyes and turned back around in order to continue focusing on his conversation with April. April let out a low laugh on the other line. “Pretty much what she said. Oh, but you know that birthday present that you made for me?” “The watch yeah” Donnie replied. “I want to use it to try and hack into Baxter’s emails.” “Okay April but if you want to hack into his accounts you’ll need to get close.” “How close?” “Your watch needs to be within three feet of his device. iPad, iPhone, whatever.” “Got it. Good looking out buddy. Talk to you soon.” Once the phone clicked off Donnie turned around and stared at Sam. Sam was sitting up straight with her legs crossed as she shot him a wide smile. “How sweet of you too look out buddy. You’re just the best” she teased as the turtle walked over and sat next to her, playfully pushing her over (Sam not having the best balance in the way she was sitting) as he spoke to her. “I’m sorry, but last time I checked, you said you weren’t going to sneak around behind our backs anymore” he questioned with a smile. “Oh because intercepting one whole phone call is sooooooo despicable. I’m such a horrible person!” she said as she pushed him back, using just enough force to get him to topple over slightly the same way she just had. “You said it, not us” Raph said with a smirk as he turned to face her from his crouched position on the lower ledge. Sam responded with a mischievous look. “You know I could easily get revenge on your for knocking me over right now, right?” Raph looked at her with a raised brow and stood up to completely face her. “Alright let’s go” he said as he cracked his knuckles. Sam’s eyes went wide and without speaking or hinting at what she was going to do, she rolled backwards and to her left so that she moved behind Donatello and then rolled again so that she was now standing on her feet as she ran around to the other corner of the square…at least that was the plan, but in the midst of sloppily getting to her feet so quickly she had slipped when jumping from the upper to the lower ledge and had fallen onto Mikey. Luckily he was sitting far enough back that this didn’t cause anything serious to happen, but of course Leonardo jumped up in a panic. “Sam!” “Hehe, my bad” she said as she looked up at Leo apologetically. She then turned towards Michelangelo to whom she was still leaning on from the fall. “How you doin?” she said in a lightly exuberant voice, to which her friend rolled his eyes and pushed her back to a position where she could stand back up. “Ugh, please be more careful” Leo groaned as his gaze turned back towards the game playing on down below now that the situation was calm and no longer seemed to be a serious matter. Raph had now moved to Leo’s right and was in a crouched position with Leo standing up next to him. Donnie was also in a crouched position but was to Leo’s left. In order to help Sam stand up, Mikey had scooted forward some so that he was now sitting at the edge of the bottom ledge. In one hand he held a pizza box, in the other he was eating a slice of pizza that he seemed to be enjoying a little too much, though Sam found this hilarious. Sam had walked so that she was now sitting in-between Donnie and Mikey as she also sat on the edge of the bottom ledge. “Pshh, I’m always careful” Sam said as she waved away Leo’s comment. “One of you easily could have fallen after that stunt you just pulled” Leo replied, his eyes faced downwards as he spoke so that he could continue to watch the game. “Really? Do you know how skilled the five of us are? What are the odds that one of us would…” Sam’s statement began to fade into mumbles as she watched a piece of pizza fall onto the floor of the stadium as she spoke. Everyone then looked up at Mikey with looks of worry and fear as Mikey responded to these looks with one of timidity and embarrassment. That quickly, a player from the opposing team had slipped on the piece of pizza that had fallen and before the man’s body had even hit the floor the turtles were already on the move and ready to escape from their small space. Sam however couldn’t contain her panicked excitement and froze in shock as her jaw dropped and shouted “OHH!” for a split second before Donnie instinctively covered her mouth and basically swooped her up in his arms as he trailed behind his three brothers as they immediately rushed out of and away from their normal spot which would no longer be seen as so. Once they reached the beams above, Donnie placed Sam down as the two rushed after the others and caught up within seconds.

The entire group traveled in speedy silence for the longest time as they ran and then climbed to the vent-way that lead to the roof and then traveled downwards along the side of the building (which they could do now since there were no crowds nearby with people that could see them) which lead them to a manhole that lead that back to their safety zone of the sewers below the surface. Once the group had been running for a couple of minutes underground, Donnie felt that the others probably felt a little calmer and could actually breathe again (which was how he was feeling right now) so he tried to start some type of conversation so that the run wasn’t completely and awkwardly dead silent in attempts at easing the tension from before. “Well that was a close call” Donnie called out from the front of the group where he was running. Mikey was using his skateboard to pick up speed as he launched himself overtop of Donnie and grinded along a rail that was higher above where everyone was running. He then jumped over to the next rail but then kept his feet planted as he looked up through a sewer drain opening. “Now we have to find a new spot to watch the game now Mikey…MIKEY!” Raph shouted after he almost collided with Donnie who had almost collided with Mikey who had completely stopped in front of the continuously moving group. The three brothers skid to a stop and walked back over toward the youngest when they realized that he was completely distracted and was no longer moving. “Mikey, what’re you doing?” Raph asked gently. At this point all the older turtles and Sam were now standing around Mikey as he looked up in astonishment at the sights in front of him. “It’s the Halloween parade bro. I always wanted to be in the Halloween parade. It’s like the one night of the year where we actually fit in” he said as his excited expression faded into a gloomier one. “Mikey, we’ll never fit in” Leo stated in a solemn tone, but trying to switch over to a more light-hearted tone as he added “we’re ninjas, we live in the shadow. Let’s go.” He then patted his brother’s shoulder as he led the way and began running away. Raph followed and Donnie looked towards his younger brother and nodded his head to the side in a silent way of signaling that all was okay as he also tailed his older brothers. Mikey looked up one last time and then sighed, but before he began to run, he looked to his left and saw that Sam hadn’t moved yet and was just staring at him. He squinted his eyes at her. “What are you thinking?” Sam just shrugged her shoulders, not speaking and not displaying any real emotion. The only expression she displayed was raised brows and pursed lips as she shrugged. Mikey nodded his head at her. “…blend in. I should blend in with my surroundings in the light, just like a ninja hiding in the shadows.” He began to smile as he faced his friend once more and patted her on the shoulder. “Thanks Sam” he said as he then found a way to lift himself up onto the surface. Sam smiled as she watched her friend raise himself up out of the sewers and into the crowded streets. “Glad I could help.” And with that she began jogging so that she could catch up with the others.

Just as she caught up to the group who was now walking, she heard Leo ask a question. She paused in place, not sure what to do. The three brothers stopped walking and paused, realizing that it had been awfully quiet behind them for far too long. They all turned around to see Sam staring at them, all by herself. “Sam, where’s Mikey?” Sam stood there with her mouth open, feeling ridiculously unprepared, and disappointed in herself because of this. “Usually I’m good at this but I’m failing miserably” she eventually was able to spill out as she shrugged her shoulders and shook her head. Raph happened to look up at saw his brother talking to a man dressed in a Transformers based costume in the middle of the street.   “Are you kidding me?” All the brothers ironically stated at the same time. Leo saw that Mikey had begun to walk again and ran over to where the next manhole cover was located. He lifted it and called out to Mikey…only to have him jump down onto the cover that Leo was holding as it also pushed him back down. Sam’s jaw dropped. She wanted Mikey to gain some confidence in himself and gain the freedom and pride in being who he was by blending in with the people of the city, but she never expected him to react that way to seeing Leo. “I didn’t tell him to do that!” Sam said as she frantically pointed back and forth from the manhole cover above to where Leo had landed. Leo looked over at Sam irately in a way that Sam hadn’t seen in a long time, not since that incident last year. This threw her off as she stared in his direction but then looked downwards towards his feet, feeling a mix of emotions after being stared at the way she had. Leo sensed this and withdrew from this stare immediately, but he was still pissed at what had just happened and at how Sam had disrespected his instructions as both the leader and the oldest brother to his youngest brother and most vulnerable teammate. “Sam?” Donnie asked in concern, which also lead to Leo softening his expression some. “New York in the houseeeeeeeeee!” Mikey shouted out from above. “Ughhh” Raph said as he rolled his eyes. “Where the hell did he get to?” he asked as he stormed off in pursuit of forcing his brother back underground, unlike the way Leo had gently tried to coerce him to come back down a minute ago. The sound of Mikey’s voice had pulled Sam out of her funk as she also looked up towards the roof above them which lead to the city streets. “Sam, you good?” Leo asked in a softer tone. She then looked over at him and with a blank expression as she nodded at him. “Good” he said, the strictness returning to his voice but not as strongly as before. “Because we’re going to have some words when we get home later.” Still somewhat phased, Sam nodded her head and replied with a soft “yeah”, the only thing she could think to respond with. What the hell was wrong with her right now?

Mikey being forcefully pulled down into the sewers by Raph somehow officially broke her from this lost and dazed mindset as the group now stared at the returned turtle in front of them. “That was the most amazing thing ever” he said with wide eyes and a huge smile on his face. “What part of ninjas move in the shadows don’t you understand?” Raph snarled as he glared at his younger brother. Donnie heard his turtle com ring and answered the call as he took a step off to the side. “April, how’d it go?” he asked. Sam made it obvious that she was back to normal (as normal as she could get that is) as she walked over and held onto his arm as she listened to what April had to say, almost like his arm was the phone itself. He couldn’t help but grin at the girl and her dorky antics as he pulled his arm away from her as he also listened and responded to April. “Hey you got in. What did you find?” “Hold on, the files are erasing. It’s some sort of self-destruct program.” “Erasing?” Donnie questioned. His brothers could tell that this was now a more serious conversation, so they all kept quiet so that they could do their best to listen in, but more so that they didn’t break Donnie’s concentration and thoughts as well. “Before they started erasing I had a chance to read a couple of Baxter’s emails and I was right. Baxter is working with the Foot clan. Shredder is being transported to a prison in upstate New York tonight and the Foot clan are planning on hitting the convoy.” Donnie’s face displayed how worried he was about what he had just heard. “They’re gonna break him out of police custody. He’ll be free again” he stated, his voice slightly raising as he spoke. “Who Donnie?” Leo asked. Donnie turned to face the group, his worry evident in his eyes. “Shredder.”

Then and there, each of the five looked at each other and nodded. They knew their ‘relaxation’ time was up and that now, as sudden as it was, now was the time to continue on with their fight against the Shredder, and they quickly worked together to form a plan as to how they would stop the devilish criminal from escaping.