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Season 1, Episode 20 cont'd
   “Alright ladies and gentle turtles!” River announced, standing on a sturdy piece of scrap metal. All four of the girls and the turtles had gathered in the barn for the “showdown” between Sunshine and Raphael, the girls lined up to the left of the crudely drawn ring (basically a square made by dragging a stick to make the line) and the turtles to the right, each cheering on their champion. River held a can to her mouth, imitating a boxing referee. “Your basic sparring rules apply, I want a good clean fight, no weapons, no transforming, direct hits only, the first one to three points wins. Donatello and I will be convening on each decision. And… GO!”
      Both combatants immediately crouched into position, low to the ground. For a full five seconds neither one moved, simply staring (or not really in one case) the other down. The tension mounted, scaling as the turtle and the blind ninja faced off. Neither knew what that the other was thinking the exact same thing: piece of cake.
      Almost at the same time, they leapt into the air, black and green blurs. Raph got the upper hand immediately, grabbing Sunshine’s extended foot and swinging her around, tossing her on her side in the dirt. The girls winced while the turtles cheered. “Go Raph!”
      Sunshine gritted her teeth as her sisters yelled at her to get up, Donatello counting her down time. “One… two… three-“ and she was up again, planting her feet and reaching out with her senses and ninja training to locate him, forcing down her empathic powers. That would be cheating. She heard him a second before he dropped from above in a kick and leapt out of the way, sweeping her leg in a roundhouse kick, knocking him close to the edge of the ring.
      “Come on Raph, she’s like ten pounds soaking wet! Score a point already!” Mikey called, holding his hands around his mouth. Donatello and Leonardo were cheering on their brothers in a similar fashion, egging him on.
      “Cocky turtles,” Autumn grumbled, folding her arms over her chest. She glanced around at her other two sisters, shaking her head at them waving their fists and yelling. “Let’s go Sunny! Make soup outta him!”
      Raph grumbled under his breath as Sunshine ran at him, rabbit punching him so fast he almost couldn’t see. He rolled under her and used his legs to propel her forward, tossing her so she skidded in the dirt a good five feet. Dust gathered around her, obscuring her for a moment, and Raph was sure he’d knocked her out of the ring. But, when the dust cleared, her outstretched arm was still a good inch from the ring marker, making the girls whoop and holler and the turtles groan.
      “That the best you got, turtle-boy?” Sunshine grinned, kicking to her feet. She waved her fingers in a come-hither motion, not unlike what you would see in a martial arts movie. “I’m still going. Are we going to fight, or should I just take a nap right now?”
      Raph growled, immediately running and leaping in the air. Sunshine met him mid-air and they came at each other in a kick, Raph knocking her down because of his weight. She grunted as she skidded on the ground, again, her sisters jeering at Raph and his brothers whooping.
      Sunshine kicked to her feet, dusting herself off before taking to the air, landing upside-down on Raphael’s shoulders and throwing herself forward, launching him into the air. She did the entire move so fast he didn’t have time to react. He managed to land on his feet and immediately charged, only to have his momentum work against him this time. Sunshine twirled to the left, graceful as any ballerina, and gave him a roundhouse kick, smiling at his grunt as he went flying and landed in a heap. Once again the dust rose and fell, but this time, Raph’s toe was half an inch past the ring marker.
      Sunshine had beaten him.
      The turtles gasped and the girls cheered, Jasmine and Autumn picking their sister up to hoist on their shoulders while River and Donny double checked the line in the dirt. Yes, it had been smudged, clearly by a large turtle toe. No one could dispute who had won the match.
      “Judges rule that the point goes to the one, the only, Sunshine!” Jasmine announced grandly in her can, sticking her tongue out when the boys booed her off the metal heap. The girls took their laughing sister back inside the farmhouse, while Leo extended his good hand to help his brother up.
      “Hey, you ok?” Leo asked softly, dusting off his brother’s shell. All the brothers tensed, waiting for Raph’s post-loss rage, but they were all almost shocked out of their shells when Raph smiled weakly. He dusted himself off, wincing at a bruise in his side.
      “Yeah… I actually think I am,” he said softly. “She was… amazin’…” His eyes behind his mask became all glassy, and the other three groaned.
      “You’re not serious?” Leo gaped. “You actually like that she beat you? Who are you, and what did you do with my brother?”
      “Seriously, what happened to psycho Raphael, who went ballistic because he lost?” Mikey taunted from behind Donny.
      “Do you want me to give you ‘Pyscho Raphael’?” he growled, making his brother ‘eep!’. “Gotta love a woman who can kick some shell,” Raph said proudly, puffing himself up as if Sunshine’s skills were all his doing. The other three laughed, making him deflate and scowl, punching Mikey in the stomach out of habit. “I don’t see you three ugly reptiles doin’ any better!”
      “Autumn and I are getting married!” Mikey wheezed dreamily, plucking petals off of a daisy (where he found one in the dead of winter, no one was entirely sure). “She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me… SHE LOVES ME NOT?! I was scammed!” He angrily tore the flower to bits and tossed the shredded remains in the wood stove. He plopped on the dirt floor and crossed his arms, sulking like a child.
      “What about you, brainiac?” Raph punched his brother lightly on the arm. “Any of these chicks interest you?”
      “No way!” Donatello sputtered, trying to hide a blush. “I’ve got more important, um, things to do! I’ve got tons of surveillance equipment to fix and, um…”
      “’Oh River, I’ve never met anyone as interested in the genetic makeup of African bullfrogs as me before!’” Leo mocked in a high-pitched voice, making his brother turn positively red. “’How do you feel about the links between plutonium and the household drain cleaner?’” The other two turtles erupted in laughter, bent over wheezing.
      “Knock it off!” Donny griped, pushing his brother away. “I saw you making goo-goo eyes at Jasmine earlier this morning. ‘We are in your debt forevermore! If it would be acceptable, would you like to spar later? Maybe over dinner?’ That would be your idea of a date,” the other two turtles laughed, falling on their shells while Leo growled. Soon it went from gentle mockery to an all-out brawl, four turtles wrestling each other amidst the dirt and debris of the barn.
      Unknown to the four of them, four human ears were hearing every single word right outside the open barn doors. Two of them giggled hysterically, while the other two flushed bright red.
      “Ahem,” an irritated and familiar voice rang out from behind them, making all four jump and turn. “Did I not teach you that it was impolite to listen in on conversations not meant for you?” Angel asked tersely, arms crossed and foot tapping impatiently. Her daughters all bowed their heads, mumbling, “Yes, sensei.”
      “Well then, you can all do the dishes after lunch today,” she announced, holding up her paw to silence their grumbling. “No whining, go practice balancing and stealth in the forest. Don’t even think about playing around, I can see everything, everywhere,” Three of them shuffled off, grumbling bitterly, while Jasmine sharply bowed to her sensei and jogged to take the lead of the exercise.
      “Couldn’t have done better myself,” Splinter’s gravelly voice rang out after the girls had disappeared from view. Angel chuckled as he moved to stand beside her, paws draped over the top of his cane. “Teenage boys are difficult enough to raise, yet it seems teenage girls are simply impossible.”
      “Some days it feels that way,” she chortled. They both cringed when large crashing noises erupted from inside the barn. Splinter sighed and shook his head.
      “It seems it is now my turn to put my children in line,” he groaned, rubbing his paw between his eyes. “Master Yoshi give me patience.”
      “I doubt very much even he would be much protection against our children.”
      “Tell me about it.”

      It was dark, the only light lit from above, from the moon. Autumn and River crouched again behind snow-capped bushes, keeping a careful eye on the bulking woman with the large gun. She barked orders in a bad British accent to small flying robotic spheres, and River had to cross her arms to keep her itching fingers silenced. What she could do with that baby…
      “Focus,” Autumn hissed, squeezing her sister’s shoulder. “We can’t let these goofs screw up again. Their ‘brilliant plan’ is going to go up in flames, I’m sure of it.”
      “I know, I know,” River grumbled. But the possibilities…
      “Parker! The Sorties have a signal!” the giant woman barked excitedly. “No two, wait… three signals!” She continued to yell into her communication device to Parker while Autumn and River sighed. This was not going to end well.
      “We’ll herd them to you. And Parker, no mistakes this time!” She lifted her gun, cocked it menacingly and followed the Sorties deeper into the woods.
      “So, feel up to more stealth and balance training?” Autumn smirked, leaping from her crouched position into the tree branch above them, without the slightest rustling of a leaf.
      “Sister, you know it!” River grinned, following the blonde. The leapt from branch to branch, closely following Dr. Finn as she noisily ran through the woods. They paused when she bent down and inspected a footprint. Both sisters rolled their eyes exasperatedly at each other when she pronounced the very obvious boot print as a bona-fide Green Man footprint.
      Suddenly, two furry green figures leapt out from behind the trees, making noises that the girls assumed were supposed to sound menacing, but in reality sounded akin to a dog with a cold. Dr. Finn was startled, and turned around sharply when a third figure behind her began spookily chanting “Goongala…. GOONGALA!”
      “What is the point of that?” Autumn whispered. “He sounds like an idiot!”
      “I don’t think even he knows,” River sighed. “We just need to keep an eye on them, in case they need us, which I have a sneaking suspicion they-“
      “I got one!” Dr. Finn screamed excitedly, and the girls looked down at horror at the Casey-monster, now wrapped in red netting. “Parker, alert the media! I want a press conference at dawn! By then I’ll have the other two!”
      “Not if we have anything to say about it, you cow,” Autumn growled under her breath. They watched as Michelangelo destroyed a Sortie with a log, and River went bounding after Donatello being chased by two others.
      “I knew this was a bad idea,” Donny huffed, leaping over logs and snowdrifts to get away. Suddenly, he heard the whistling of something being thrown in the air, followed by two small explosions: he looked behind him and breathed a sigh of relief at the sight of River leaping into the air and grabbing her fans. She gathered the non-sparking parts off the snow-covered ground and tucked them into her gi for later. Maybe this wouldn’t be a wasted trip after all.
      “Boy, am I glad to see you!” he panted, bending over to catch his breath. “I never should’ve listened to Mikey.”
      “I’ve only known him for a couple days and even I got that rule down pat,” she chuckled, wiping the snow off his “fur”. “Now let’s go help Casey and Mikey get away from that freak.”
      When River left to help Donny, Autumn jumped from the branches and walked past Mikey, smacking him on the back of the head before using her kamas to slice Casey from the netting. “We’ve got to disappear before she comes back.” She shot a dark glance at Mikey, who had to decency to look embarrassed. “Let’s move!” The shot into the woods just a moment before Dr. Finn found the shredded net. They heard her shrieking easily a mile away.
     “The look on your face when she netted you!” Mikey howled, ignoring Casey’s jab to his stomach and Autumn’s dirty look. “Priceless!”
      They waved at Donny and River, who then both helped Mikey out of his Green Man costume. Suddenly they heard a growling, making Mikey chortle.
      “Knock it off, Don, Doctor Freakster’s like a mile away.”
      “Um…” Donny paused, arms full of dried grass. “That wasn’t me. I’m over here.”
      “Wait, then who…” Four pairs of eyes turned to face Donny, then widened when they focused on what was behind him.
     “Um, Donny! Right behind you!” Mikey squeaked, jumping behind Autumn for protection. She rubbed between her eyes in irritation. If you weren’t so freaking cute, I’d’ve put you out of all of our miseries already!
      “Wait, what? AAAGH!” Donny shrieked, turning and seeing a real Green Man behind him. He scrambled behind River, who gave her sister a ‘Why do we even bother?’ look.
      The Green Man sniffed the air, then nosed Autumn aside before nudging at a small brown pouch on Mikey’s belt. “Hey, what’re you doing? Leave me alone, eat someone else! I’m all green and slimy!”
      “Hey sweetie,” Autumn cooed, rubbing the top of the Green Man’s head. “You hungry, boy? Want some nuts? Here you go,” she snatched Mikey’s bag of pistachios, ignoring his protests, and poured some into her palm, giggling when it’s furry face began to eat out of her hand. “Oh, you’re such a good Green Man monster, yes you are!” Everyone except River gaped at how she scratched the monster under its chin, making it purr in contentment. “It’s a bummer we can’t keep you.”
      “Why would you want to keep that thing?!” Mikey squealed, hiding behind the blonde when the monster shot it a look of annoyance. Yous intteruptin mai pets.
      “It’s just a big ol’ sweetheart,” River giggled, scratching it behind its tiny ear. Suddenly, she and Autumn were thrown back when a high-pitched sonic sound rent through the air, and the Green Man reared back, shaking its head to get rid of the sound.
      “Easy boy!” Autumn stood in front of it, holding up her hands. “It’s ok, what’s wrong? What’s upset you?” But the monster continued to roar and rage, snarling and standing on its hind legs.
      “It’s those orbs!” Donny pointed. “They’re upsetting him! That high-frequency wave must be driving him crazy!”
      “In English Donny!” Autumn snarled, trying to calm the beast down.
      “It’s like a dog whistle for Green Men!” River yelled, grabbing her sister and rolling them into a log before the claws of the best came down on her.
      The Sorties surrounded the Green Man, blasting it not only with the sonic shrieking, but also with bolts of electricity. The poor creature howled in pain as it was shocked over and over again by the flying sphere, slowly herded away from the group.
      “Come on!” Mikey grabbed Autumn’s arm, pulling her out of the snow. “We have to save the big green dude!”
      “Oh, now you like him!” Autumn huffed irritably, but hid a smile. Maybe Mikey wasn’t such a whiney wimp after all.
      They followed the Green Man and his tormentors back to the truck where the girls had saved the turtles earlier that day. They cried out in alarm as the chamber was locked, with the poor Green Man locked inside.
      “River, Casey and I will get him out of there, and get the tape of Mikey taking a stroll,” Donny said softly. “Autumn, you and Mikey have the pleasure of distracting Dr. Finn.” Autumn and Mikey nodded, grinning at each other.
      “Ready, turtle-breath?”
      “You first, blondezilla.” They ran back into the woods, where they were sure they could hear Dr. Finn running and laughing. Autumn kicked her foot out, knocking the crazy scientist into the snow. Dr. Finn groaned and pulled herself up, flicking on a flashlight and looking into the woods nervously. She backed up slowly, right into a waiting Michelangelo, who grabbed her gun with his feet.
      “Parker,” she whispered, crouching down, as if that would shrink down her enormous size. “There’s another one, maybe two, I’m not sure, but there’s more out here with me! Hunting me! Do you read me?” She growled in irritation when all she heard was static. “Parker!” Dr. Finn gulped and panted, edging her way of the clearing slowly, then screaming when her gun fell from the trees, mangled and twisted.
      “No!” she shrieked, shaking her head in denial. “This can’t be happening!”
      “BOO!” a surfer voice encased in shadow yelled right in her ear from behind her, and she screamed, running out of the clearing. Autumn and Mikey both dropped from the trees, laughing and giving each other a high-five. They headed back to the clearing they found the Green Man, smiling when they saw her with her children.

      “So, you mean to tell me that poor Casey spent all night in that van?” Jasmine arched an eyebrow at her sisters. They all tried not to bust into chuckles again. Casey had looked downright ridiculous in his Green Man getup.
      “He volunteered!” Donny protested. “Anyways, no one will ever listen to Dr. Finn again. She’s the laughingstock of the scientific world now, and the Green Man, er, Woman is safe and sound in the woods, with her children.”
      “You have done well, my son,” Splinter praised. “Michelangelo, have you finished exposing that tape?”
      “Just a sec, sensei!” Mikey ripped out the last length of black tape and, after a moment, crushed the hard black plastic, just for good measure. “All finished!”
      “Hey guys,” Raphael called, stepping out from the side of the farmhouse. “Come around back. There’s someone I want you to meet.” He focused on Sunshine, who was sitting on the bottom step, eyes closed, waiting for snowflakes to fall on her eyelashes. “Especially you, Sunny.” She started, opening her eyes and turning her head towards his voice, and smiled, pulling herself off the step and dusting off all the snow. She pulled her hanbo from its carrying strap on her back and began sweeping it in front of the ground in front of her, making her way to Raph.
      “Hold out your arm,” she said softly to him. He held out the crook of his elbow, and waited patiently while she felt down his arm, sliding her hand around his bicep. “Lead the way.” He chuckled and led her and the entire group to the barn.
      Raph pulled his arm from her hand long enough to open the barn door ceremoniously. “Allow me to introduce you to Leonardo, new and improved.” Leo walked sheepishly into the sunlight, pulling out his new katana blades.
      “Hey everyone.” He smiled at Sunshine, then realizing she couldn’t see, said, “I thought a lot about what you said, Sunny, and I just wanted to say, well, thanks.” He slid his katana back into their sleeves on his back as she approached him.
      “Now there’s the great Leonardo everyone’s been talking about,” she smiled, placing her hand in the middle of his chest. “Warrior, brother, friend. I knew you were in there.” She gestured for him to bend down, and without warning gently began to “see” his face with her fingertips, brushing against his jaw and feeling the eye mask he and his brothers always wore. After a minute she stepped back and bowed deeply, a sign of respect. Leonardo just smiled and bowed back.
      “Guys, I think its time we return to New York. The Shredder has a lot to answer for,” he said with determination.
      “We’re ready, anytime you are,” Jasmine stepped forward, pulling her single sword out of its sleeve. Her sisters followed suit, pulling out their weapons, ready for the fight ahead.
      “No, this is our fight,” Leo shook his head. “You’ll only get yourselves hurt again.” Visions of that night, of the screams and blood, filled his vision. He shook his head, trying to clear it from his mind.
      “First, who exactly pulled your shell out of there? Second, when he attacked my family, it became our fight as well,” Jasmine twirled her sword and slid it back into the sleeve with a metallic rasping sound. “We’ve lost our home, everything we built, to that monster. We’re not taking no for an answer, and we will fight alongside you. All of you.” All of the girls nodded in agreement, grim determination on their faces.
      Leo looked like he wanted to continue arguing, but Splinter placed a hand on his shoulder. “A wise leader, my son, accepts assistance with humility and grace. We would be honored for your family to join us, Master Sensei,” he bowed deeply to Angel, who bowed back silently. She smiled, a look of pride on her face. Her children had spoken, and they would indeed fight alongside their new allies.
      Leo sighed, then extended his hand out to Jasmine. “All right, we can use all the help we can get.” They broke apart, and she put her hand out again, palm down. Her sisters piled their hands on top, looking at the turtles expectantly. After a nod from Leo, the four brothers piled their hands on top of the girls’.
      “Shredder…” Jasmine smirked, locking eyes with Leo.
      “We’re coming for you!” He finished, and they threw their hands into the air with a “yeah!”.
A/N: Anyone recognize the horrible grammar the Green Man's thinking in? R&R and remember, if you want an email update, leave your addy!
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