Trust in the Shadows

The Mutation Situation: Part 2

Alyssa's POV:

Back at the lair, we're all in the living room to think of a game plan. Well, Donnie's mainly stressing out rather than thinking.

Donnie: "I can't think! I can't think! I'm seriously stressing here! Ok, think calm thoughts. Think calm thoughts."

Mikey: "You think he's a vampire? You think he'll drink her blood and turn her into the undead?"

Donnie: "Are you trying to freak me out?!"

Me (Translation): "Cálmate amigo. We'll find her, figure out what to do with her dad, and go from there. You trust me?" (Calm down, buddy."

Donnie nods with a small smile as Leo turns to ask Splinter a question.

Leo: "Sensei, say we're, um, trying to catch a stray pet. Like a cat."

Splinter: "A cat?!"

Leo: "O-or maybe a parrot? Um, what's the best strategy?"

Splinter: "Food, of course. Any animal can be lured by food. So what is this truly about?"

Me: "Trying--"

Raph leaps to cover my mouth and finish my sentence for me.

Raph: "Um, nothing, Sensei. Just talking about birds like we usually do."

Splinter walks off to the dojo.

Leo: "Food! It's so simple, it's brilliant!"

Me: "What do bats eat?"

Donnie: "Rodents and other small invertebrates. Oh yeah! And bugs. The bigger, the better."

Mikey: "So, where are we gonna find a huge bug? Dress up some sorry sucker in a giant fly costume?"

{Time skip}

To Mikey's dissapointment, he is that 'sorry sucker'.

Mikey: "I kinda feel like bait."

Raph: "Oh, don't think of yourself as bait, Mikey. This is your new superhero costume. You could call yourself, um, Turflytle."

Mikey grins at the idea.

Mikey: "Turflytle. Tur-fly-tle. Oh, yeah! I love it! Too awesome. What are my powers?"

Leo: "Um, you can hang from a rope."

Mikey: "This is sweet!"

I grin at his enthusiasm. That's what I've always liked about these guys. They've always made me feel like part of the family and that this is a real home, my home, as much as it is theirs. We then head out to find April and her dad.

{Time skip}

We fly through the sky on our wings, Mikey dangling from a rope connected to Raph's.

Mikey: "Turflytle is on the patrol. Buzz-buzz. His bug eyes spy every crime. Buzz-buzz."

Raph: "Would you stop saying 'buzz-buzz' after every sentence?"

Mikey: "I could do that. Buzz-buzz. But I probably won't. Buzz-buzz."

Raph annoyedly swings Mikey around to teach him a lesson.