CH:16 Ninjas Down Under

Leo steps back looking like a kid getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar, making me giggle. I give him a little push to snap him put of it by throwing him off balance before I head over to see what's up with Mikey and Raph, as Leo follows behind. Donny even comes out of his lab when he heard the commotion the two boys made when they came back.

"Those shell brained foot ninjas! They are all over the sewers", growled Raph as he walked straight over to his favourite punching bag to release some anger.

"We had to ditch our boards so they wouldn't follow us. That one was my favourite!" Mikey complained as he sulks through the door.

"Nice quick thinking though", says Leo trying to cheer Mikey up.

"Why are they even down here?" Asks Mikey in a groan of pain for his lost skateboard.

"Probably because we stole their fancy sword that we're currently using as a power source." States Donny.

"And I mean, where else are four Mutant Turtles going to live in New York?" I ask, heavy with sarcasm, remembering being called a demon by two of the first three people I've seen face to face, Foot Clan not included.

The turtles all look at each other then back at me before Leo asks, "You're point?" Totally not amused by my suggestion.

I put my hands up defensively being overly dramatic, getting an eye roll out of Leo before I say, "I'm just wondering if you guys are going to do anything about this? I mean, they are invading your home turf."

Raph chirps in with, "That's exactly what I was saying the Whole WAY BACK!!", practically shouting in the end. Then he throws one of the sais from the head of the punching bag at Mikey.

He quickly knocks it away with his nunchuck as he yells back defensively, "Hey! I told you, man! If you wanted to take them on, we were going to need REINFORCEMENTS!!"

We all look at Mikey in surprise. Except for Raph who is just steaming in anger. "That's actually a good point." says Donny completely in shock that he said those words to Mikey.

"Comic book 101, brah!" Sates Mikey with a hang-loose hand sign, making Donny facepalm in return.

"Well, with all of the camouflage upgrades we did to the lair, they shouldn't be able to find us", stated Donny, quite proud of his work. "But that's only if we stay in our lair." He continues with an apologetic look.

"Great! So we're trapped." Grumbles Raph, "I hate that!" He then continued letting his anger loose on his punching bag.

"Well this is your home turf isn't it? Is there a place we could lead all the Foot Clan down here to take them all out in one go?" I ask while I scratch the base of one of my horns.

Donny thinks for a bit before saying, "There is the flooding chamber. It should be more then large enough to hold them all."

"But how are we going to get them all there?" Asks Raph as he walks up to our little group, clearly feeling a lot better now that we're working on a plan.

I smile before I point out, "Like ninjas of course. I even have some pretty neat recipes for smoke bombs to give us extra cover."

"No offense Ying, but your white skin isn't very ninja-esk." Mikey says while looking at me with worry in his eyes.

I look down and hold my chin in thought before replying, "Yeah, I've been thinking about that and I might have a way to make my own ninja outfit." I finish with a smile.

With that we all went our separate ways to get ready for our counter strike. I gave Donny three separate recipes to make smoke bombs, so he went off to this lab to work on them. Raph and Mikey are gathering other supplies we might need like rope and ninja throwing stars. And I asked Leo if he could help me with my outfit. With a heavy blushing face, he agreed.

Leo brought me back to his room but this time he followed me inside. I'm still wearing my black pants, black long sleeve shirt and my favorite combat boots, so I didn't have to worry about most of body. I found a bunch of thick black wraps that I want to wrap around my tail but I need a second pair of hands to do so. As Leo is helping wrap my tail, I was cutting two fair sized holes in the top of a black ski mask for my horns to go through. I struggled for about 5 minutes to get the mask over my horns and head before Leo started to help with that as well.

He chuckles as he pulls my mask down over my face asking, "Does this happen a lot?"

"More than I would like to admit. There's even a saying among the people about getting caught unaware with clothes on your horns." I answered with an embarrassed smile, making him chuckle again.

After I tucked my braid into my shirt and put on some black gloves, you pretty much can't tell that I'm white except for around my eyes. I even tried glowing up a bit and the only thing you could see is my horns glowing purple. 'Full ninja mode' I couldn't help think to myself when I looked in a mirror with a smile growing under my mask.

"All right, I think we are done here" says Leo as he start heading towards the door, "We should probably see if the others need any more help." With that we head back to the main chamber.

Leo goes to help Raph and Mikey so I decide to go find Donny to see how the smoke bombs are coming along.

As I enter his lab I immediately get hit with a smell of a bunch of different chemicals. "Hard at work, I see." I jokingly say as I approach him.

Donny looks up as his eyes go wide when he sees me saying, "Wow! You really look like a ninja now!" Making my violet eyes sparkle with delight at his compliment.

"Thanks Donny. How's it coming along?" I asked as I gesture at his workbench.

"These recipes you gave me are quite interesting." He holds a little black ball up, "This one makes a dark cloud of smoke that expands pretty far." Then he holds up a blue little orb, "This one releases a bright light with a loud bang." And then he holds up a red one, "But I haven't tested this one yet" as he looks at it curiously.

"I am honestly quite glad that you didn't test the red one in here. It should have quite the explosive power." I say with a nervous chuckle, making Donny's eyes go wide.

He puts four of each into five bags and then we go join the others in the main chamber. Once we are all gathered, Donny starts handing out the ninja bags but he hesitates to give the last one to Mikey. "Don't waist these. They are hard to make and I don't have enough supplies to make more." He warns Mikey kind of angrily before handing him the bag. Then Donny gives everyone the explanation on the balls just like earlier, before we head out to face the ninja menace.