Lover Of My Mutated Heart

Chapter 11 ( Woah ) Hope P. O. V.

I ran over to Donnie and hugged him. I said thank you and darted out the room and down the stairs into the living room area. It looked really nice but smelled like the dump that warehouse was in. A shiver ran down my back thinking about it. I walked towards the couch and peered over it. There was the red head girl who brought me clothes, there were three turtles with bandana's arouns there face. I only recognized the one in red, Ralphael, I think. There were playing a game I've never seen before. I smiled at them laughing and the red one being a grouch. My smile fell when someone spoke, "I see you are awake, my child." Everyone turned around but I was the only on the floor bowing. I could the others get up and walk around me slowly as if they were studying me. "My child, you may stand." I stood up in one movement with my head head still bowing, "Yes master." I felt a hand on my shoulder so I looked up and introduced myself. "Master, my name is Hope Olivia Penellope Essen. I apologize for disturbing you. I will return to the quarters I slept in if that pleases you." I heard a chuckle from the giant rat. " My name is Master Splinter, and you did not disturb me, my child." and with that he left to what I assumed was his room. I saw everyone staring at me so I asked, "Do any of you know where Donnie keeps his books?" The one in blue introduced himself and the others. "I'm Leonardo but you can call me Leo. The one in orange is Michaelangello but you can cll him Mikey. This is Raphael but you can call hime ralph or ralphie." Leo grinned as Ralph glared at him then at me,"Call me that and you won't see daylight again, got it?" "Yes, very much understood." Leo shook his head and said, "Why do you want to know where Donnie keeps his books?" I saw Donnie at the bottom of the stairs out of the corner of my eyes. "I would very much like to keep my I.Q. at 589, if not higher." Donnie looked wide.eyed as he came closer, "589 is how high your I.Q. is?" I nodded and looked confused. "Isn't that below average? That's what mother and father tells me." Everyone had a “Are you kidding?” look on their face. I blushed at my ignorence that I was told,since I was obviously wrong. "Why would your parents say that? That is way above average!" April, the red headed girl told me. I shrugged embarassed and walked to Donnie. "Can we go and read now?" I whispered in his ear. He smiled and nodded.

He lead the way to a beautiful homemade lab. He gestured tom the books on the shelves on the other side of the wall. My curly brown hair bounced as I ran to the books. I squelled in delight as I saw the books were huge. One caught my eye though, it was labled, Retro Mutagen. I picked the book off the shelf and walked to the corner I sat in yesterday. I read about more than half of the book and noticed something wrong with the equations that filled the page. "Donnie?" "Yeah...?" "Hope, and there's a problem with these equations." He walked over and reached his hand for mine to pull me up. I pointed to the numbers in all the equations and said, "For the retro mutagen to work properly these equations have to change. This equation says that for this to mix right this has be multiplied by 82945956.66856 units, when it should be divided by 9665.596 and then multiplied by 9666825955.696956 units. Then there's this one, it says that the mutagen would have be increased for the formula and it should be mixed with this chemical when it should be equal with that chemical. For this one, it says the formula should include this chemical, mutagen, and that chemical when all it needs is a mililiter of algae." Donnie stood there dumbfounded so I put the book down and pulled him towards the computer. I typed in codes and formulas. I got put goghles and gloves on. I passed Donnie some goggles and got right to work. About five hours later I got the result the book couldn't. "See, Donnie? Now you have retro mutagen!" I exclaimed really loud loud since I was excited. Everyone came rushing into the room, even Master Splinter. Ralph came up to me and picked up by my collar and said, "What bout mutagen?" his tone was dark and scary. I wriggled trying to get out of his grip. That's not going to work. Suddenly a brilliant plan came to mind. I slipped out of my shirt and ran behind Donnie. "Retro mutagen, Donnie and I came up with it. Why is it so important?" All eyes were on Donnie and I.