Next Gen Episode 4: Donnie and Hana's Time

Donnie and Hana's Time is the fourth episode of TMNT X Pokemon: Next Gen.

#### Common Area

Yoshiro sat on the bench, silently hearing his mother and the others talk from the kitchen. They were loudly talking. He rolled his eyes at the stuff he heard. He glanced up to see Hana sitting on the steps of the lab. Her hair was in two braids, she had wrappings around her head, and a patch that covered her eye. Hana chewed on her tongue as they both listened to the grown ups in silence. She cleared her throat and moved her bangs a bit.

Hana: Sooo, how's the air down here?

Yoshiro eyed her, raising a brow. He didnt answer though. She huffed and puffed a bang up that was in her face.

Yoshiro: It's nice. Not as nice as the air outside but still.

Hana: I see... (stands up) Well I think I'm gonna get something to eat.

She took two steps before she tripped over her feet, she yelped and flew onto her front, groaning at the pain the floor had stored for her. Surprisingly when she rolled over she saw Yoshiro hovering over her, giving her a look of a little amusement mixed with a 'are you kidding me'.

Yoshiro: (chuckles) You okay?

Hana: I'm okay. I'm just a clutz so falling down is what I do on a daily basis. Help me up?

He shakes his head.

Hana: Are you scared?

Yoshiro: I'm not scared!

Hana: Then help me up! I can't stay like this forever!

Yoshiro growled, grabbing her hand as he helped her get on her feet. The two didn't pull away but just looked at one another, butterflies fluttered her stomach, as she observed his face. A smile withdrew from her face.

Hana: Thank you.

Yoshiro: Uh-huh. So how are you feeling?

Hana: Feeling fine. That Crush Claw really made a number on me.

Litten: If I just dodge the attack, than you won't suffer like this.

Hana: Don't blame yourself. You can't win at every fight.

Treecko: Sometimes you lose but you have to keep trying until you're succeed.

Litten nodded.

Hana: Something wrong? You have been acting weird lately.

Yoshiro: It's nothing really. I was gonna capture that Zangoose but you already took it.

Hana: Oh... I'm so sorry. I didn't know you want a Zangoose. I should give it to you.

Yoshiro: No no. I don't think so. You capture it fair and square. It won't be right if you just give it to me. I have to capture my first Pokemon fairly.

Hana: Okay. Guess that's fine.

Donnie: (walks in) Kohana, it's time for your check-up.

Hana: Again?! But that was 3 hours ago!

Espeon: And we're gonna check to see how your wounds are healing. Now if you excuse us, we'll be heading to the lab for a check-up.

Hana: (sighs) I'll talk to you later.

Yoshiro: Yeah... (sighs) Jeez... I can't believe this.

#### Donnie's Lab

April: Donnie?

Donnie: In a minute. I'm just checking on her injuries.

April: You know she doesn't need these checkups right? She's perfectly fine.

Donnie: Perfectly fine? That Zangoose attack her!

April: I know that! But you shouldn't overreact these things. I remember when you were so worried about me every time I have injuries even though I told you I was fine.

Donnie: That's because I don't want to see my princess, I mean queen, hurt. I love you so much and I still love you now.

April: Uh-huh. But all we need to know is Hana is okay and well. I believe you two need to go on a stroll.

Hana: Mom, I'm not five anymore!

April: You are now. You need some father-daughter time. So you better move your shell or Rocky should move you.

Donnie: But...

April: Go!

Donnie: Yes ma'am! Let's go before your mother becomes even more angry.

Hana: Right! I hate it when mommy gets all mad anyways.

#### Kitchen

Irrilia poured some cereal into a green bowl, she sat down, with a book in her hand. Remy came in, settling across from her, smacking his book on the box before she had the chance to open it.

Irrilia: Excuse you.

Charmander: Do you mind? We were gonna pour some cereal!

Remy: Don't excuse me. How are you just calmly sitting there? When we have a possible killer on the loose.

Irrilia: You mean Zangoose? Don't worry. It's in its Pokeball and Hana would never let it out unless it's during a battle.

Remy: I wasn't talking about Zangoose, idiot. It's Yoshiro! Yoshiro is the possible killer on the loose!

Charmander: Wha?! Don't be ridiculous! Sure he has a temper but Raph has that kind of anger as well!

Froakie: So?! He could kill anyone including us!

Fawn: (appeared upside down from the ceiling) I think you're being a bit paranoid.

Together: (shrieks) Fawn!

Remy: What's the deer doing here? And why are you upside down?

Fawn: Because a vampire is usually sleeping upside down and I was sleeping until I heard your conversation about Yoshi-kun. He doesn't seem to be a bad guy.

Remy: What do you mean?! He can't be trusted!

Fawn: (to the audience) I don't think so. (to Remy) He can be trusted. It's just he needs some time to be able to trust us.

Froakie: Nope! We're not gonna trust me and that's final!

Bulbasaur: And they're leaving.

Irrilia: Let them. Rem has always been stubborn and a hothead. Anything could set him off.

Fawn: But I think we should help him! After all, he's family and family always stick together like glue! My mother always say that whenever I feel down.

Irrilia: Fine... I'll go talk to him.

When the two come out of the kitchen, Remy and Yoshiro are arguing again.

Charmander: Remy, stop! We don't want to have another fight in here!

Yoshiro: You may not hit people, but I think words are the worst to throw at someone. Physically she will heal, but mentally I won't. I'm a basket case, but you're a joke. You're not a leader, you're just someone who pretends!

Irrilia: Pretend? How dare you say I pretend to be a leader! I *am* a leader!

Yoshiro: Whatever! I'm outta here!

Litten: Yoshi, wait up!

Raph: Irrilia, what's going...?

Irrilia: Leave me alone! I'm going to my room to cool off. (leaves)

Flareon: Something pissed her off.

Raph: Yeah... We gotta do something.

Mikey: Someone needs a talk.

Jolteon: You and Leo should do it!

Vaporeon: What?!

Flareon: No way in hell they're gonna do that! 1. Mikey doesn't have any kids and 2. Leo only has a son! How are they gonna talk to a female like Irrilia?!

Jolteon: It's worth a shot.

Vaporeon: He's right. Who else is gonna do it?

Flareon: (sighs) Alright, we'll do it your way. It's only because me and Raph have to jet.

Jolteon: Yes! I knew you would agree eventually!

Flareon: (groans)

Vaporeon: It's only for now.

Flareon: Uh huh...

### Yoshiro

Yoshiro sat on the side of the sewers, listening to the sound of water falling from the nearby drains, he gazed at his reflection. He skimmed the scar on his eye, not really remembering where it came from. He didn't know much of his father, and the last guy they were with was just as abusive as his father was. Why was he like this? He remembered how his incident with Hana, thinking back on it, he didn't know why he got so mad. He knew his father was a bad man, but how bad was he?

Litten: Yoshi, it'll be okay.

Yoshiro: How would you know?

Litten: I'm your Pokemon partner. I know how you feel. And besides, you're starting to cry.

Yoshiro: No I'm not!

Anger slowly gripped him, causing the emotional boy to hit the water, ruining his reflection. He did it again, and again, slamming his fist into the water till he reached the floor. The pain grew numb, he noticed he was bleeding, but he didn't care, maybe he could just bleed to death, and there'd be one less basket case to worry about. He lifted his fist up again though this time, he felt a grip around his wrist. He immediately took out his pocket knife and was ready to just stab anyone when he saw it was one of the turtles. He froze mid way of getting his knife out. He widened his eyes, staying silent. Afraid to speak.

Litten: (hisses)

Flareon: Whoa, whoa, whoa. We're not here to hurt you. We just wanna talk.

Litten: Talk?

Flareon: Yes. Just talk.

Raph: You doing okay?

The kid didn't speak, he hardly moved, only to pull away from Raph, clutching his hand to his chest. He looked away, ashamed. Raph watched his movements closely, he settled on crossing his legs and leaning against the wall. He sniffed the air a bit.

Raph: Man, it smells. It smells more than it used to when I was a kid. Thats for sure.

Yoshiro: Huh?

Raph: Listen. I was like you when I was a kid. A lot of things stank. Not doing what you want, listening to stiff adults. The thing that stank more was...having people who riled me, and then acted like I did a crime when I unleashed my anger.

Flareon: Boy you did. Those were good times. Good times...

He hugged his legs after he leaned against the wall, staying away from the cold water. He glanced over to the red masked turtle. Raphael. His mother mentioned him in her stories she always told him when he was a kid. Raph sucked in a breath and exhaled.

Flareon: Keep talking to him.

Raph: Right. I see it though. From my family's side. I actually realized it when I hurt my brother's one time. I was lucky he didn't keel over then. Anger is your worse enemy. My daughter is getting her anger in, Splinter always cursed me with a fathers curse. Back then I just laughed it off. Till she could talk. When she threw her first tantrum... I knew then I was in for it. Karma was hitting me hard.

Yoshiro: You sound like a great dad.

Flareon: Actually he's the worst! But he tries. He does better then the others. That's for sure.

Raph: Pyro...!

Flareon: Telling the truth here!

Yoshiro: (laughs) I wish I grew up here. Maybe then... I wouldn't be such a basket case.

Raph: Yoshiro, you are not a basket case.

Yoshiro: I am to.

Flareon: Nuh-uh! I won't believe it one bit! You're just a kid with anger problems. We all have anger problems! More so then others! But you shouldn't blame yourself for your existence!

Raph: Pyro, enough. Let me handle this. I know how it feels like to be unwanted. I remember one time when I was angry at my brothers and sisters because they always blame me for everything. This is where Spike was mutated into Slash. When I found out he was going after them, I have to do something. My family are more important to me than anything. I didn't want to make them suffer. I just want them to understand how I feel. I felt like the black sheep of the family.

Yoshiro: The black sheep eh? That's how I feel like.

Raph: See? You're not much a bad kid as everyone says it. You just have a problem controlling your anger. And I'm like that and still like that today! But I learn how to control my anger. If you need anything or want to ask, just come to me and we can talk it out. Maybe even punch some dummies to blow off some steam. How does that sound?

Yoshiro: Okay. Guess I can do that.

Raph: Atta boy. Now we should head back to the Lair. Your mom is getting worried.

Yoshiro: (nods) Okay. Thanks for everything, Raphael.

Raph: No problem. After all, I was like you when I was at your age. So it feels good to talk to someone who had the same problem as I did; anger.

Yoshiro: (giggles) Yeah... So Raph, do you ever had to hit women before?

Raph: Me? That's a weird question to ask me. But I did hit a woman once.

Litten: That's surprising!

Flareon: It is but we did hit your mother before. Granted this was before the whole family crap and she was with the Shredder.

Together: Shredder?

Litten: Who's Shredder?!

Yoshiro: Mom didn't mention him at all.

Raph: There's a good reason for that. It's a guy we killed long ago, well that's what Leo thinks, though he's out there. Somewhere. We really don't know if hes dead, but he's a psycho who took your mother away when she was a baby. He raised her and well you know...

Flareon: Made her believe he's her father and Splinter kill your grandma! He's a cruel man who only thinks for himself! He was our longest enemy we could think of! He tried everything to destroy us including Splinter!

Litten: So he's very selfish.

Flareon: Exactly! That's why Karai and Yuki would never mention it!

Yoshiro: Than, what was his real name?

Raph: That would be Oroku Saki. That's his *real*name before becoming Shredder and taking over the Foot Clan long ago before your mother took over.

Yoshiro took that in, the name sounded familiar, from somewhere. He put it in a file in his mind, he's tap onto that later. He sighed feeling a little light headed.

Yoshiro: Raph... Uh...

Litten: Uh-oh! He's being light-headed!

Flareon: Must have been from the bleeding. Come on. We should get back to the Lair quick and take care of it.

Raph: Exactly.

### Donnie and Hana

Donnie sat next to his daughter at the place where they'd get pizzas. He sighed as he sipped on the soda he went up to get, Hana was next to her dad, fiddling with her small gap, trying to stick a quarter she had found in between.

Donnie: What do you think you're doing?

Hana: I'm trying to do a trick I saw someone do on TV. You stick a quarter in you teeth, close your mouth for a bout a second then you open up your mouth and poof it's gone.

Donnie: I knew we should've kept the TV away from you.

Treecko: So how long is she gonna make us stay here?!

Espeon: We'll come back home when we want. She's not the boss of us...much.

Hana: Well, daddy, are you *really* mad at Yoshiro?

Donnie: No... I'm more mad about his actions.

Hana: He didn't attack me! He only yelled at me.

Donnie: I am well aware of that. But still,...

Hana: Don't call him dangerous! Besides, it was my fault. I pushed him, I kept talking, I kept pestering him. I should've listen to him and leave him be. He warned me dad. And... (chokes up) And he snapped. He didn't attack me or anything. He just snapped. Now cause of me, he's being talked about, like he's a problem. Cause of me.. he's being treated like a criminal. And its all my fault.

Donnie: Hana...

Hana shook her head, she got down from where they were sitting leaving her drink and started off. Donnie watched her, quickly following her, abandoning his drink as well.

Espeon: Now, now... Please don't cry.

Treecko: If only we have tissues around here.

Espeon: We can talk about this.

Hana: I don't want to, Sputnik!

Donnie: But if you keep it up, it's gonna explode.

Suddenly, Zangoose comes out of his Pokeball.

Hana: Zangoose?

He rubs his cheek against her in a gentle manner.

Hana: What else can I say? No one will listen to me. I'm just the baby of the house. My words don't matter, nothing I do or say matters.

Donnie: That's not true...

Hana: See! right there. Everyone tries to baby me, because I am the baby, but I can handle this. I may act dumb, dense, and I maybe clutzy, but I don't need to be babied, just like Yoshiro doesn't need to be punished for my faults.

Espeon: We know you can handle these things.We know that. But since you have these health problems, we're just worried about your well-being. We're not babying you because of you can't handle this. It's only because we want you to have as a normal life as possible.

Donnie: You really like this guy huh?

Hana: I think I'm in love with him. I mean how did you know that you were in love daddy?

Donnie: W-well...uh... Um... ya see when two people... No that's the birds and the bees. We can have *that* talk when you're a bit older and have some... sexual relationship... If you know what I mean.

Hana: (laughing) I know what you mean! I'm obviously not ready for that! Besides, (laughs) I never seen you so nervous like this before! No wonder mama fell for you. You're the dork I get my genes from.

Donnie: Correction. I don't wear jeans. You get that from your mother.

The joke her father shared let out another laugh attack on his daughter. Donnie smirked, he let his serious side go for a moment after thinking about what he just said and joined in the laughter.

Zangoose: The Lair's up ahead!

Hana: Let's go!

Treecko: Right! (runs)

Donnie and Espeon: Wait for us!

[EPISODE COMPLETE]