Okay-- many many thanks to Splinter/Terran. Actually, this is FOR Terran, cause she "bugs" me to write! In fact, she will be doing a science report as well! THANKS again, Splinter/Terran!

TMNT are not mine! Bugs are the evilest things on the face of the earth!

Science Report--BUGS!

Why I Hate Bugs

By Hamato Raphael

I hate bugs. All bugs. Bugs is the worst things on the Earth, except for Mikey. But then, he bugs me, so I guess they are related.

Anyway, I hate bugs because they gots six legs. SIX legs! No wonder they run so fast! They crawl on you with those scritchy lil feet and they look like monsters on a movie with them bug eyes of theirs! They can get in yer ears and mouth when yer sleepin', and they prolly are planning on taking over the world even though they can't really control it.

They gots three body parts called the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. The legs are attached on the thorax part, which makes no sense ta me, but then I didn't make 'em.

Bugs is supposed ta be useful, but I don't know how. Except somethin' about pollinating flowers and that makes seeds grow and then the plants can have more plants 'cause of the seeds-- sounds disgusting to me! I mean, BUGS help plants have SEX! EWWW! Only don't tell that to Leo 'cause he'll quit wantin' to go to the park and playing in the flowers.

Bugs are the most living things of all living things. They are called "invertebrates" 'cause they gots no backbones, but they sure crunch when ya stomp 'em. That's 'cause they gots a exoskeleton, which means they wear their bones on the outside. That sounds cool, actually, it would keep me from gettin' hurt, I mean, a shell is kinda like wearing yer bones on the outside, but it's only good for so much!

Bugs live everywhere all over the friggin' world especially in that one tunnel close to home, damn bugs! But I don't think they live in Antarctica, even though that name has "ant" in it- hahahahaha!

Anyways, like I was sayin', bugs bug me and I don't like 'em even though they have been around since practically forever and will prolly be around after the world ends. Wouldn't surprise me if they could go to other planets and cause trouble there, too! They did in that one movie we watched the other night!

And that is my report on gross, nasty, creepy, evil, and just disgusting BUGS!

The End.

Splinter shook his head. Perhaps it was a mistake to ask Raphael to write a science report on the insect world after all.

He glanced at his beaming son, who was evidently proud of the fact that he had produced such a magnificent paper on such a terrifying subject.

Well-- what would it hurt, just this once?

"Well done, my son," he said, putting the paper into his desk drawer and handing his son a sticker to place on the "Science Reports" chart. "You may go play for the rest of the afternoon."

As Splinter watched his "tough guy" proudly strut out of the "classroom" (for Splinter's room was deemed that during certain times of the day), he shook his head.

He took it out of the desk drawer and reread it.

"Well, at least it did not turn out as his report on turtles did-- a ten page rant on the evils of brothers in general and Michelangelo in particular," he sighed, but he knew that eventually he was going to HAVE to convince his son that there was an important difference between Fact and Opinion.