Family is Forever

Mascot Melee: Part 3

Aria's POV:

Mikey drops a smoke bomb to the ground, blinding our opponents. We reappear on the billboard showing the Turtle-potamus meme. The five of us then start a collective dance before we leap to stand in our original place, arms crossed and confident grins on each of our faces.

Raph: "It has been brought. Now let's go get Dad's robe."

Atomic Lass: "Give us the green, green!"

Atomic Lass throws her mallet at Donnie, who ducks as it lands behind him. She then goes to attack Donnie as his staff shifts into a mallet.

Donnie: "Sorry! Gah, run!"

The staff flies at Lass as she stumbles backward from the impact, her costume's head falling off.

Donnie: "Oh, no. No, no."

Mikey: "Omigosh, you knocked that lady's head clean off."

Lass stands upright as a man's head pops out of her costume.

Raph: "You!"

We turn behind us as Lass' mallet breaks open to reveal that they've been stealing people's things, including Raph's wallet.

Raph: "You stole my wallet! It better still have my 'Teddy Bear Town'-Hey!"

The woodpecker leaps to attack Raph, with Raph dodging his attacks.

Raph: "Alright, let's see what your ugly mug looks like."

Raph punches the woodpecker costume's head off to reveal a mutant cockroach. Raph yelps in surprise as the other mascots remove their costume heads to show the same thing.

Donnie: "Metamorphosis, that took an unexpected left turn."

The man in the Atomic Lass costume morphs his head to reveal that he's also a mutant cockroach.

Sgt. Woodpecker: "You thought you were the only mutants in New York?"

Me: "Look, all we wanted was a little money to buy our father a birthday present."

Sgt. Woodpecker: "Boo-hoo. Tell it to one of your brother's teddy bears."

Woodpecker picks up Raph's coupon and tears it to shreds. Raph dons an angered look in offense as he goes to stand before me.

Raph: "Don't you dare make fun of Dr. Huggenstein, Captain Snuggles, or Cheech!"

Raph dons his tonfas and punches Woodpecker with an angered battle cry. Mikey leaps to stand before Raph with an excited smile.

Mikey: "Let's get everybody their money back!"

Me: "Now you're talking!"

Donnie leaps to my side as we tackle the mascots with our weapons. I take on the Junkyard Dog, Mikey takes Robot Vampire, and Donnie takes Atomic Lass.

3rd Person POV:

The Junkyard Dog switches to Leo, kicking him into a hot dog cart. Leo retaliates by squirting him in the eyes with mustard before kicking him away.

Leo: "Lame!"

Donnie holds off Lass's attacks as much as possible before calling in some technological assistance.

Donnie: "Spider shell, engage!"

Donnie leaps into the air, his previous battle shell deploying onto Lass as his new one attaches to his real shell. Lass retaliates by revealing her extra tentacles, causing Donnie to deflate in disappointment. Meanwhile, Mikey's doing well against Robot Vampire.

Mikey: "Ha! You give robot vampire cockroaches a bad name. Cowabunga!"

Mikey uses his kusari-fundo to fling Robot Vampire into a billboard, the same billboard Donnie is crawling up to avoid Lass as she follows him.

Donnie: "You are ruining my childhood fantasy of the two of us fighting crime together in Uraniumville."

Lass tackles Donnie to one of the billboard's railings, with Donnie fending her off with his staff.

Donnie: "You've left me no choice. But we'll always have Times Square."

Donnie presses a button on his staff, emitting a blue blast to send Lass flying through the air and into a hot dog cart.

Aria's POV:

I leap to Donnie's side with an arm extended to help him up.

Me: "Her loss. Speaking from experience, you're the best crime-fighting partner in or out of Uraniumville."

Donnie gives me a small smile in thanks. He then looks me over with a sly smirk.

Donnie: "So, what do we call you now?"

Me: "Call me 'Black Beauty'."

Donnie smirks as he gives me a quick kiss in admiration.

Donnie: "Not a problem, Beautiful."

I smile warmly before we both leap to stand beside our brothers as Raph has secured our money.

Raph: "Thank you, Times Square."

{Time skip}

After returning the mascots' loot to their rightful owners, we bought Dad's gift and now stand before him with sweet smiles.

Turtles & I: "Happy Birthday, Dad!"

Raph hands Dad the box with the robe inside.

Splinter: "Aw, what is this?"

Dad opens the box with a proud smile.

Splinter: "My children, you honor me. The silky smoothness against my fur, unparalleled. It is really exquisite. I will save it only for the most special occasions."

Our smiles drop in confusion.

Leo, Raph, & I: "What?"

Mikey: "Huh?"

Dad grabs the TV remote and switches it to a 'Lou Jitsu' exercise channel.

Splinter: "Now, who's up for training? As luck would have it, I'm already wearing my jumping jacks robe."

Dad starts doing jumping jacks while the rest of us look on in horror. Mikey goes to hug Raph's side.

Mikey: "My eyes!"

If this isn't a night terror, I'm firing the writer.

End of Episode 9