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     "We don't need to think about her. We got pizza, we got music, let's just chill!" said Michealangelo.
      He was cool, my kinda dude. His mind seemed to be permanently set on "party mode".
      So we all sat down at their kitchen table and began eating pizza. They were messier than me and my dad, and had the tendency to toss a couple of slices at each other.
      "You guys are insane." I laughed as I had my mouth full of pizza.
      Then I saw a moldly egg roll tossed my way.
      "Euw! That's so incredibly gross!" I said, even though I was still kind of laughing.
       I found a piece of pizza crust and kneeled on my chair with it.
       "Okay, who threw that moldy egg roll at me?" I asked, poised to throw my piece of pizza crust.
       "It was him!" said Raphael and Mikey as they pointed at each other.
        "Well, one of you is gettin' this." I said, and threw it at them.
         It hit Raphael. Now at this point, everyone seemed to think that Raphael was about to get really pissed. But instead, he rolled up some greasy extra cheese from his pizza, and flung it my way.
         "You want a food fight, kid? I'll give you a food fight." he said.
         "The name ain't kid, aight? It's Andre, get it straight." I said, not being mad though. I was just kinda challenging his patience, just to see what I could get away with, seein' just how far he'd take my attitude.
         "All right, Andre, I'll give you a food fight. But I'll warn you right now, I'm a master at this." he said, holding up another moldy egg roll. One only wonders where he got those from.
         "Oh really? In school, I'm the one most likely to get detention cos of starting a food fight, and finishing it well. You're dealin' with a pro here buddy." I said, readying myself with the rest of my pizza slice.
        Then we stared at each other for a moment, and glanced at our ammunition, and then burst out laughing, putting whatever we had back down.
         "Where are you getting those moldy egg rolls from anyway?" I asked.
         "Last week's food fight." replied Raphael. I guess they were all over the place then.
         "Gross." I said.
         Then this song that I knew really well, and loved, came on the radio.
          "Hey, this is my song! Yo, turn that up." I said.
         Mikey turned it up, and I was just hummin' it, eatin' pizza, and dancin' a little at the table.
         I opened my eyes for a second to see everyone staring at me, Mikey was laughing.
         "What? You never seen someone enjoy a good song before?" I asked, not stopping my dance routine.
         "No, it's just that, you're so quiet about it. Get loud about it!" said Mikey as he stood up.
          "Say what?!!" I asked with this smile on my face.
          "Get loud, get down, and get with it!" said Mikey, and he started dancing all around the table with this manequin that they had (for what purpose? I have no clue.).
          I got up, and stood on my chair singing the song as loud as I could while Mikey and his "girlfriend" danced around the table.
         Soon, everyone joined in, doing their own thing. Leonardo and Venus were doing their own kinda weird dance. Raphael got into the groove, and Donatello, well, I didn't really know what he was doing. He was just kinda laughing at us all, and doin' some kinda weird dance (if that's what you'd call it). These guys were the funniest, craziest characters I'd ever met. Mikey's "girlfriend" lost an arm while he was dancing with her, and I burst out laughing, along with Raphael.
           Splinter just watched us all for a while, laughing to himself. But he soon found the noise to be too much, and went into that abandoned train car that they had.
          We partied for a good while, until it was nearly 12am, and I knew that I had to get home.
          I got off the table that I was standing on, and stood up on the ground. "Listen everyone, I gotta bounce. My dad's gonna be home soon, if he's not there already." I said.
         "Ah man, can't you just make something up?" asked Mikey.
         "Naw, he won't believe another story. I gotta go, but I'll see y'all later." I said.
         "See ya 'round Andre!" said Raphael.
         "Aight, peace y'all!" I yelled back to them as I left.
         I had learned my way out of their home by now, and went on my street. My dad's car just pulled up, so I couldn't just come in. I went around to the other side of the building where my room window was, and climbed up the fire escape.
          I got up there, and crawled into my bedroom window, leaving my sneakers outside because of how filthy they were. I quickly ran into the bathroom, and got into the shower so my dad wouldn't notice how dirty I as from the sewers.
         The door to our house opened a little while later, while I showered.
         "Hi dad!" I yelled from the bathroom.
         "Hey Andre!" he said, then I heard him go into his room.
         Ah yes, I sneaked in just in time.
        "I am, the slickest. Oh yeah, who's bad. Can ya say, Andre?" I said to myself as I showered.

        The next day was a Saturday, and my dad was just chilling around the house, so sneaking out wasn't an option. I decided to spend some time with him today, we didn't ever talk much.
        Later on that night, we were just plain bored, and I wanted to see the Turtles.
        I looked out the window and looked around. There were some big, weird shadows traveling in the dark. They disappeared just as quickly as they appeared. I knew that it couldn't be the Turtles, there were too many to be the Turtles. My curiosity was overwhelming me.
        "Dad, can I go out and get us some pizza?" I asked. It was a weak attempt at going out, but I had to see what was up.
        My dad looked at me suspiciously. "Why you wanna go out at 11pm just for some pizza?" he asked.
        "I'm hungry." I said.
        He gave a small smile. "And you haven't been out of the house all day, go on, go ahead. But you better bring back pizza or else you ain't goin out at night to get nothin' no more." he said.
        "Sure thing." I said as I leaped up from the couch.
        I then grabbed a $20 bill from him as I dashed out the door.
        Outside, I went across the street to the pizza shop. I looked down the street where the strange shadows went, but decided to get the pizza instead. Something about those shadows told me not to follow them.
        I was inside the shop and ordered a large spinach pizza, it was my dad's favorite.
        So I just chilled inside the restuarant as I waited for the pizza. But as I waited, two big guys in black slickers came in. You couldn't see their faces or their hands or feet, they just looked like walking coats. It was creepy, and I knew that it wasn't the Turtles because these dudes didn't have shells.
        I pretended not to be scared, but how can you not be when two mysterious-looking dudes just stand there, and without ordering pizza?
        I finally got my pizza, and was walking back to the apartment. The two dark figures from inside the pizza shop began following me, slowly, but surely. I was nervous as I-don't-know-what. My palms were beginning to sweat, and I had a bad feeling about this.
        So, I began walking faster, and the two guys behind me picked up the pace too. Everytime I walked a little faster, the two guys would change to that same pace. Now I knew that they were after me. So I did what I knew I had to do; I ran. I dropped the pizza and ran.
         The two guys behind me ran after me, and I was scared. I began screaming. I needed somone to hear me, to help me. I dashed around a corner, and kept running.
          After a while, I stopped. I knew this part of town, and it wasn't too bad. I looked around, and it seemed as if the guys had stopped chasing me. So I turned around, but I didn't expect to see what I saw. One of the creepy dudes was coming after me, and as I looked around, they had surrounded me. There was no escape. They grabbed me, and took me away to who-knows-where?
         I was put in a cage that hung from the ceiling in a room that looked a lot like a laboratory, and the creepy guys took off their coats. They were a bunch of lizards! Really big lizards with red eyes. I was scared half out of my wits.
         "What kinda mess is this?! Turtles, now lizards?!" I exclaimed.
         "They're dragons actually." said a voice, I saw this really weird, whacked-out looking guy with white hair come from another part of the room.
         "ILL. What the heck are you?" I asked, sounding more calm than I actually was.
         "What do you mean what? I'm a human!" said the guy.
         "Nah ah. I ain't never seen no human look like you do. You look like a crack fiend who'd been livin' in the dark for way too long with a metal plate in his head." I said. He did look like one.
         The so-called dragons and weird guy looked at me for a moment, probably confused by my attitude. I did have a heavy one.
         "Anyway, you all can tell Dragon Lord that his dinner is here." said the weirdo guy.
          The dragons left.
          "Wha, what is this about dinner? I know y'all ain't talkin about me." I said, getting more nervous than I already was.
            "Of course we are. See, every night, the Dragon Lord has his dragons go out and catch him some dinner. It's usually a poor human from off the street or something. But tonight D.L. wanted something more rich. So they got you." said the weirdo guy.
         I remembered hearing about this Dragon Lord dude from the Turtles. Lucky me to meet him in this, way. "So, he's gonna eat me? And y'all think that I'm just gonna let him?!" I asked, getting frustrated.
         "Well it's not like you have a choice. I'm just going to give you the injection that I give all the victims, you'll die, and then the cooking will commence." said the weirdo guy.