{"id":3802,"date":"2012-02-27T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2012-02-27T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:53:08","slug":"1998-05-letters-from-michaelangelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/1998-05-letters-from-michaelangelo\/","title":{"rendered":"1998-05 &#8211; Letters from Michaelangelo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there hi there ho there!<\/p>\n<p>Whoa! It&#8217;s been a majorly whacky Spring so far! But then&#8230; that&#8217;s nothing new for us, is it? I like think there must be some little dude walkin&#8217; around scheduling all this weird stuff that happens to us&#8230; it couldn&#8217;t ALL be happening by chance! Well&#8230; who knows, eh? It&#8217;s kinda weird thinkin&#8217; about all the different coincidences that had to occur for us to be mutated in the first place! I guess we were destined to have a whacky life from the day we left the pet store! And ya know what? I wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way! I&#8217;d much rather be battling the bad boize than munchin&#8217; worms in an aquarium, lemme tell ya! Heh heh! Um&#8230; no offense to those of ya who LIKE to munch worms! =P<\/p>\n<p>So yo! Mondo Gecko was here the other day!!! I haven&#8217;t seen my dashin&#8217; thrashin&#8217; crashin&#8217; bud for like decades! Turns out that he&#8217;s been playin&#8217; in a band down in Brazil!!! He sez that everyone thinks that he&#8217;s some guy in a costume, and that they&#8217;ve been selling lots of tickets to their shows! They&#8217;re callin&#8217; themselves El Diablizard&#8230; which doesn&#8217;t translate into anything, but they think it sounds cool. Hmmmm&#8230;. =&gt;<\/p>\n<p>So me and Mondo decided that since he was in town, it was time to carve some pave and hit the pipes! Mondo claimed he was outta practice, but he was slicin&#8217; the dicin&#8217; like I&#8217;ve never seen! I really AM outta practice with my skate, as I&#8217;ve been doin&#8217; more sno rollin&#8217; lately&#8230; I made like a meatball too much tryin&#8217; to follow the megamutant thrasher!<\/p>\n<p>Mondo knows alotta Spanish now, I&#8217;m hopin&#8217; to see him more often and mebbe learn some from him. I really dig Spanish! It sounds so cool! Mebbe I can get south o&#8217; the border some time and meet the rest of the guitarin&#8217; Gecko&#8217;s crew and learn some choice phrases. That&#8217;d be mondo for sure!<\/p>\n<p>So anyways, as Mondo and me (sounds like a movie!) were cuttin&#8217; the scrug, o&#8217; course we hafta run smack dab into trouble, right? Right! It&#8217;s like the law!<\/p>\n<p>As soon as we bolted outta the sewers into the light of night, Mondo careens right into a band of those lamer Dragon Lord Juinors, the Rank (and they ARE rank!) Leon thinks mebbe they were tryin&#8217; to find our sewer hidey home&#8230; so I s&#8217;pose it was good we found &#8217;em first! These guys are pretty tough, and we were outnumbered 5 on 2. We didn&#8217;t have any chance to make a hasty retreat (not that Mondo would do that anyways&#8230; he&#8217;s as loco as Raphael most of the time!) I flipped out the Turty communicator to call for back-up, but Leonardude, Venuts and Donny-San were busy somewheres else and Raph was off with Casey&#8230; but Master Splinter was home, and he said he&#8217;d meet us and that we should keep the evil lizard dweebs occupied &#8217;til he arrived. No problemo!<\/p>\n<p>The Rank are strong, but they aren&#8217;t real fast&#8230; well&#8230; not as fast as me and Mondo anyways! We thrashed &#8217;em and bashed &#8217;em a bit, always stayin&#8217; just outta reach! It was actually kinda fun! Mondo almost got caught once, but he managed to do this amazimundo ollie offa a wall about 6 feet in the air. He cracked back and then popped a rail upside one of the Rank&#8217;s foreheads, putting him out like a birthday candle in front of El Nino! The Diablizard had made his impression&#8230; on the noggin&#8217; of the Rank! Just about then the Super Sensei shows up with some weird little teapot on a string kinda thing, except it had incense burnin&#8217; in it. The Master started swingin&#8217; the little teapot thingy around his head, and the incense smoke started creating a big cloud over his head&#8230; the 4 remaining Rank turned to face Splinter&#8230; so I decided it was a good time to launch an offensive of my own! I picked up speed and headed for a pair of the lizard dudes&#8230; just before I reached &#8217;em I gave a good hoot and they turned to face me&#8230; just in time for me to grab their skulls and do a Moe on &#8217;em! I clicked their chins together as hard as I could and went blastin&#8217; on by. I didn&#8217;t knock either of &#8217;em out, but it sure put a serious damper on their vision and coordination!<\/p>\n<p>About that time, the whacky smoke cloud of Splinter&#8217;s was starting to take a shape&#8230; like a big dragon, wings and all! It was totally freaky! The 2 healthy Rank were wicked shocked by this&#8230; and looked around dazed and confused. The Smoke Dragon then let out a horrifying roar that surprised Mondo and me so much we both pulled a Waldo and went flyin&#8217; off our decks! Well, the screamin&#8217; smoke dragon then took a bite at one of the Rank! This freaked the freakies out totally! They picked up their knocked out bro and headed for the hills! The two I had given the skull-pull to were still dizzy, and as they went to run, they smacked right into each other! It was a hoot! The Smoke Dragon took a bite at them too, and then they regained their senses well enough to beat feet outta there! It was great!<\/p>\n<p>Mondo and I got our boards and asked the Sensei how the heck he did that! The Smoke Dragon was still kinda weavin&#8217; around in the air, but it was quickly fading away.<\/p>\n<p>The Master just looked at us with a wink and a nod and said &#8220;I believe that I did that very well.&#8221; He laughed and headed back into the sewer! I love that guy! I dunno how he did it, but it was an awesome sight to see!<\/p>\n<p>So for the next few days Mondo and me hung until he had to head home for some gigs. It was so cool to see him again! If you&#8217;re ever in Brazil, keep your eyes peeled for El Diablizard&#8230; tell &#8217;em the Smoke Dragon sent ya! =)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the news, and I&#8217;m outta here! Take care of yourself, amigo!<\/p>\n<p>Adios!<br \/>\nMikey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there hi there ho there! Whoa! It&#8217;s been a majorly whacky Spring so far! But then&#8230; that&#8217;s nothing new for us, is it? 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