The Shadow's Secret│TMNT

38 || COD

Revenge of the Sith faded from the tv screens, signalling its end. Leo—still excited all his predictions were true—grinned hugely at me in an I-knew-it way. Mikey stared at the monitors in shock as the credits began to roll.

"I can't believe he killed Padmé and turned bad." He whirled around to face me. "Why is that one your favourite!?" He demanded, making me grin.

"Because it's so dramatic and so many things happen and after you're like holy shit, I need to watch that again. Plus, the end scene with Obi-Wan and Anakin is awesome. It's the longest duel in any live-action movie ever. Cool, right?"

I caught Raph rolling his eyes from the beanbag on the floor, and Mikey wrinkled his nose.

"You sound like Donnie."

"Hey!" He yelled from his bed where he continued to read my astronomy book.

I crossed my arms. "If I were Donnie, I would have graduated high school when I was twelve," I argued. Instead, I was too busy failing. Leo laughed and nodded in agreement.

"When do you graduate?" Mikey asked.

"If I don't fail, it'll be another three years." I sighed just thinking about it. I was so close, but it felt so far away.

"Oh, that's not that bad." He smiled brightly and I envied his positivity. "Hey, Don! Can you invent something that can turn me human so I can go to school too?"

You'd only be that excited for the first week. Come the following Monday you'll want to die. I didn't want to crush his spirit though, so I let him be excited and fantasize about how perfect school is.

"Uh huh," Donnie agreed absentmindedly as if he dealt with his brother's invention prompts all the time.

"Thanks, D! Alright," he rubbed his hands together and leaned forward on the couch beside me, "let's play some CoD!"

"You sure you wanna have your ass kicked again, li'l bro?" Raph teased.

He shrugged. "I have Raiya this time."

"Hey, what about me?" Leo asked, realizing he'd just been replaced.

Mikey grimaced. "Uh, you can go on Raph's team." Raphael seemed unfazed by this as he tossed everyone a controller and set up the game.

"Which one are we playing?" I asked.

"Two, it's the only one we have."

Nice! That one's my favourite. "Alright, you guys are in for it."

Mikey and I exchanged evil grins and I leaned back into the corner of the couch, locked and loaded for some ass-kicking. I quickly made a class for myself before we added some bots, chose our map, and began the game. Mikey and I spawned next to each other, with our trio of bots behind us. They raced off into the wasteland in front of us, but I crouched and waited. A skull flashed on my screen, indicating the direction in which one of my teammates was killed. I ran over and killed the other team member.

"Hey!" Leo cried. "Who killed me!?" I grinned and ran to the next skull indicator before it could disappear. Mikey eventually caught on to my sneaky method and ran off to do the same thing. But no sooner did he leave me than I was suddenly killed. The killcam that played after was through a sniper's scope. Recognizing the angle the shot was taken from, I identified the location of the shooter and ran around the map, looking for a bot with an RPG. When I found him, I took the launcher from his corpse and fired it at the tower Raph was camping out in. I spared a glance over at him, unable to resist seeing the look of shock on his face.