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Destined To Be AU Main Post

Rottmnt Kill Counts Post

My BTHB Card Fics:

Gave Up Too Soon Attempted Murder "You're Safe Now" Severed Tendon Mutilation Painful Transformation Mistaken Identity Prank Gone Wrong Sound Torture Thrown Down The Stairs Hiding An Injury

A.O.D.K.T.H.B OC Event:

Day One: Saki Day Two: Kaede Day Three: Tauri Anex Day Four: Apple Day Five: Diego Day Six: Hope Sterling Thorne Day Seven: Aaron Day Eight: Lilymoor Day Nine: Ada Day Ten: Ace Yarrow

My Spookie April Art Writing Challenge Fics:

#13 - Epic The Musical char. #18 - Random-Fandom #16 - Ship Art #1 - Frog-Themed #3 - Char. Named Clementine #30 - Dynamic Pose #14 - Something Outside #26 - Your Fav OC #22 - Redraw Write Old Art

My Random Snippets:

Movie Night (Gone Wrong) Something To Be Afraid Of Remember Her (Non-Rottmnt) Hope and Leo Get Together Confrontation

Roller Coaster of Emotions Saga:

Roller Coaster of Emotions Part 1 Roller Coaster of Emotions Part 2 Roller Coaster of Emotions Part 3 Roller Coaster of Emotions Part 4 Roller Coaster of Emotions Part 5 Roller Coaster of Emotions Part 6 Roller Coaster of Emotions Part 7 Roller Coaster of Emotions Part 8 We're Not in the Apocalypse Anymore Part 1 We're Not in the Apocalypse Anymore Part 2 We're Not in the Apocalypse Anymore Part 3 We're Not in the Apocalypse Anymore Part 4 We're Not in the Apocalypse Anymore Part 5 We're Not in the Apocalypse Anymore Part 6 (DISCONTINUED)

RCoE + WNitAA Extras:

Family Spin-the-Bottle Night (post series)

Rise to Fluffy - Self-Insert/Ship One-Shots:

"We need to talk,"

DragonShell (Donnie x Jeremy) One-Shots:

one good reason it smells like learning and... crushes?

Hope's Hypothetical Ships:

SpikedThornes (Raph x Hope) One-Shots:

The Start The Start Part Two What we used to do

FireSpark (Mikey x Hope) One-Shots:

(nothing here yet)

PricklyPixels (Donnie x Hope) One-Shots:

(nothing here yet)

Hope in Other Iterations:

(nothing here yet; saw a friend do this and wanted to try it too)

2012 One-Shots:

Mutant Mayhem One-Shots:

"Please, stay for dinner!"

Snippets Based from Music:

Mr. Brightside w/Raph, Hope, and Leo

KPop Demon Hunters Fics:

Never Really Gone I [want to] see us holding hands again Pull You Back To Safety

My Analyses:

Casey Jr's Life Leo as a Tragic Hero

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Oh would you look at that, they put them in order from OLDEST to YOUNGEST

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BRINGING THIS BACK IT NEEDS TO BE SAID

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I've got a Zootopia 1+2 X rottmnt crossover cooking :)

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before I start explaining, I wanted to say that no, the turtles are not brothers. no, I won't be shipping them. no, this is not that kind of story

the zootopia 1 au is called Dream, Dream Big and the zootopia 2 addition is called Where We Went From There

some characters:

the turtles - obvi

Fernando and Rose - Leo's parents

Blaze, Willow, Penelope, and Jackson - 4 of Leo's 29 siblings

Miriam - Donnie's mom

Rex and Beatrice - Raph's parents

Ethan and Alexa - Mikey's parents

Benny - Mikey's brother

Professor Draxum - Leo and Donnie's medical teacher/Donnie's stepfather

Splinter - Leo's "grandfather"

Todd - fun-loving assistant teacher under Draxum (he gives out donuts everyday)/Leo and his sibling's old babysitter

Secret League of Yokai - it's a secret (no it's not)

yes, Donnie, despite being Nick's rise vers. here, does have a still-alive mom. Nick deserved better, and we need to know if she's actually alive or dead

I know some of those might be a little weird, like the whole "stepfather" and "grandfather" situation with Draxum and Splinter, but here me out

Draxum was close with Miriam when they were younger, and by close I mean almost boyfriend/girlfriend, but he had to move when a medical school offered him a job and he choose that over her. Despite her parents telling her that staying in contact with him was a bad idea, she still did because deep down she knew she still loved him. Then she met Tim and four years later Donnie was born. Tim dies when their son is two. Miriam makes the decision to use what was the last of her money to get herself to where Draxum was and let's just say he's surprised to see her at his doorstep with a small, two year and five month old Donnie. she tries to keep a low profile in his house, taking up only one room and containing everything she owns in there, staying out of the way. over the years that changes, as she works more at the job Draxum got her, earning more money for more things. he saves up enough to afford an additional room to be built since Donnie had outgrown the mattress in his mother's room (by age, not size. definitely not size). Along with outgrowing it, he just didn't want to sleep in there anymore because Miriam was always gone at her job and he felt she didn't love him enough to ask for shorter hours or more vacation. he's really closer to Draxum, since the goat is home more and takes care of him. final point (bc I'm this person), somewhere between Donnie being 20-32(Nick's age in Zootopia 1), Draxum does make the decision to propose to Miriam, as he didn't get the chance to many many years before and regretted it. she says yes, they get married, Donnie's already been calling him Dad, the rest is history

As for Splinter, I'm not going to go into the full length lore like I did above, but he pretty much raised Rose like he did the turtles in the series

the last thing I want to go over is important places in the story, leaving the altered main city for last:

Paradise Medicinal University - Leo and Donnie's school

Hiddentopia High School - where Leo, Raph, and Mikey met; is hiding something

Ethereal Academy - Raph and Mikey's school

and for the city: Hiddentopia. it's Zootopia city but the Hidden City, underground and much bigger

thank you so much for reading if you're still here! if you like this idea, please do think about sending in an ask or two! this idea ball is still rolling, and the Zootopia 2 continuation still needs to be discussed! thank you all again!

(p.s. I shouldn't need to, but to prove to you all that this isn't a tcest story (I know the JudyxNick ship is a thing), I will be inserting in ocs as love interests for one turtle of each party (Raph or Mikey, probably Raph; Leo or Donnie, probably Leo :) )

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OKAY, Zootopia 2 and oc insert talk, here we go!

for the 2nd movie plot, they introduced snakes (spoilers, apologies), so I'm going to add in humans (NO I'M NOT I'M KEEPING IT AS SNAKES). April, Casey, and Casey Jr. since Gary De'Snake's (another spoiler, so so sorry) age isn't, like, fan-whateveryouwannacallit yet, I'm going to say he's 28, so April is also 28. Older than Leo, but younger than Donnie. Casey can be 30, and Jr is... well, Casey can adopt him when she's 22, and he can be 3 when that happened, so that makes them 19 years apart, so if she's 30, then he would be 11 (mathed so hard right there omg)

before I get into the plot of this actually, I need to get into the plot of the first one

basically, we know how Draxum was mutating people unethically in the show, going against the Three Heads. well, here, to connect both in the best way I can think of, Draxum is doing kinda the same thing to yokai, but he believes he's enhancing them to be a better version of themselves, and instead of doing it to predators like Bellwether, he's doing it to prey (Miriam was next before he got caught. she was the reason he did it all in the first place, you know, softshell and all. every other subject was just a test he was willing to spare to make sure the serum wouldn't change her beyond recognition or make it so that she forgot about Donnie. "It's called incentive," is something Draxum would 100% say to defend himself). anyways, to add more angst to it all, halfway through the story, Donnie figures out who is behind what he and Leo are trying to figure out. I want there to be a small sequence of him conflicted about helping out the one who was basically his father or the one he was slowly becoming friends with. of which he chooses his dad, and consciously sabotages the whole investigation (took me way too long to remember that word 😒).

one way that would go would be this:

"Leo." The slider ignored him. "I mean maybe it has something to do with--" "Leo!" "What?!" Leo demanded, whirling on him. Donnie's face fell back into a hard neutral stare. "It has nothing to do with anyone in the school, it's useless searching here." Leo narrowed his eyes. "It had to be. Your secret room was trashed, and I know no one outside would know about it." "Who or what we're searching for isn't here," Donnie repeated. "If I didn't know better, I'd think you were trying to protect someone," Leo raised an eyeridge. "I'm not," Donnie glared at the floor. "All I'm saying is searching here any longer is a stupid waste of time."

(in some part.... he was right. what they were looking for wasn't there)

that was before he found out about the Miriam thing, then he got protective of her, because Draxum wasn't really his dad, he knew that, plus Miriam always did her best, he knew that too, she loved him. going back a lot of steps, though, Leo got Donnie to go along with him only because, instead of the carrot pen, Donnie didn't want the video Leo had of him sneaking into a secret room he himself had made going out to anyone. the story ends with Donnie and Leo live-streaming their reveal of Draxum's lab to the whole of Hiddentropolis, Draxum being thrown in prison, and Leo graduating (Donnie doesn't because he wasn't really enrolled, he was only there for Draxum).

OKAY, now we can get into the second movie!

characters:

the turtles

April

Casey

Casey Jr

The Krang + Little

Altie Snowleaf (turned him into a reindeer :P; the mayor)

Nibbles Maplestick (keeping her the same bc she's funny :3)

Fernando, Rose, Leandra (Leo's grandma, that one brief appearance in the movie; also where his parents got his name), Penelope, Blaze, and other siblings

Ms. Big and Frida

Marjorie

Usagi

Sara, Ravyn, Cecil

Miriam

Draxum

Benny

so, humans. April and Casey are a couple, Capril fans rejoice, Jr is their son. as crazy as this is about to sound, I'm was going to keep the Lynxleys the same, but I also did recently finish a fic called Brother Dearest, and I really really like what they did with the whole Utrom Krang situation in rottmnt context, so I'm making the Lynxleys be the Krang now. especially since their was the old, main villain guy (Krang Prime), that one daughter(?) of his (sister Krang), and that one son(?) of his (brother Krang). fits perfectly. Pawbert can be the Krang I made a while back, I think I called him Little something, I don't remember though

going back to the first movie, actually, Big Mama can be representing the Mr. Big as the crime boss. plus, their names match so I can just make her Ms. Big instead. and Frida is Fru Fru. Lionheart stays the same

now oc insert time

Mikey and Leo are gonna be the two I give partners. for Mikey, I'm going to bring in Marjorie, who is normally an ogre? is that what Boss Beverly is? well either way, she's a raccoon now. as for Leo, should I just do Usagi? I don't really have an appropriate ship ready for him for this... yeah, I'll just add in Usagi for Leo and give into temptation by also throwing in Sara for Donnie. which also means he has kids. and since Ravyn in supposed to be older than Jr, it implies that he had to have had them before the first movie; 13 to 11

I'm realizing since I'm keeping the whole snake aspect, I need to update Jr. Casey and April still adopt him, but maybe a river flood or something happened where they live and they saved him. making him theirs after being unable to find his real mother (she died :( )

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I had a brand new au idea some hours ago and it has everything to do with the apocalypse. I assume it also had something to do with me wanting to rewrite my old (and now with ruined links) series/saga, Roller Coaster of Emotions and instead make it 12 Years Into Tomorrow OR reading a post-movie fic centering around Piebald, but that doesn't matter at all right now

I was thinking of calling his au Third Times' A Charm

essentially, the rottmnt movie efforts ultimately fail, leaving the world under apocalyptic siege for the second time. Events play out similarly to how they many can only assume they did in the original future timeline -- same events, same times for those events -- all that, except less death, which I'll explain in a second. the whole point of this is to 'fix' the future timeline while also not doing that at the same time

so, anyway, about the less death thing. this time around, they have a Casey Junior on their side. he's already been through everything that happened and everyone has faith he can do it again. he does end up doing just that by being able to remember when, where, and how very important people to the Resistance die and making sure it doesn't happen this time around. however, he does end up dying seven years into everything, which leaves Casey with the desire to make up for his absence and have a child. since this apocalypse still ends in 2040 and started in 2022, that would make her... ten by 2040. which makes a good reason for forcing someone to go back into the past with her

now, Carey, she's Casey's daughter. as much as I would love to have made Casey have a son like had previously occurred, I also wanted to have some more differences, so I decided to continue the female Casey thing instead and henceforth Carey was born

in the end, since Donnie and Raph are still alive by the point, I imagined a reverse end-of-the-rottmnt-movie scenario where instead of Leo coming back through Mikey's portal, he goes in through Mikey's portal. so just imagine the scene but with much older turtles and Leo going in not out. and Carey's there too :)

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completely ignore that last dumb paragraph, it literally makes zero sense now that I'm looking at it again

but while I was making a oneshot that is now gone, I came up with some new ideas for this and Carey as a person

for one, Carey could Casey JR's daughter instead of Cass's, if only to refuel my love for the rarepair I may or may not have created, idk, Casey Jr X Sunita. so, Carey's their daughter now. in addition to that, I've never really made an oc have any disabilities or special conditions before (other than kleptomania or a severed leg, but we don't talk about those :) ) so I'm making her mute. whether she was born with it or not, I'm not sure yet, but I thought it would be kinda cool. plus, it gives me an excuse to use the custom three-finger sign language idea that most everyone seems to like

anyways, that oneshot also got me thinking about how complicated this thing is. I mean, the present turtles go back in time with April and Jr and Carey, which gives the past versions of them three different versions/ages of a Casey Jr. I'm not even sure how I'm going to write out how past Casey Jr would feel about that, ngl

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When Raphael was five and Leonardo was four, they received their gargolyes, Mila and Kielo, respectively. They both became practically inseparable with them within the first week.

As strong as the bond was, however, it didn't last. On Raphael and Leonardo's fourteenth birthdays, when business for them started to grow, the close relationship began to crack. There are some days where the brothers regret it, but that never made them go against what their mother always said: "Having friends will only hold you back from great opportunities! Believe me, I learned the hard way!"

"You two don't have to stay quiet here," Mila breathed.

Raphael and Leonardo glanced at each other. The latter looked away first with a sigh from his nose. Neither said anything.

Raphael eventually looked away too with a frown on his face. Mila moved to his front to button the suit she had finished re-fitting. She noticed his expression and hers grew sad. She took a step back before nodding and walking away. Kielo joined her once he finished with Leonardo. The turtles turned toward the door and left without so much as a second glance.

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this takes place some years after the first one; ages-wise, beginning of show ages. I'm planning on making a next 'part' be some context as to what the hecky is going on (Donnie and Mikey centric again)

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Donatello wouldn't say he ever enjoyed making fun of or pranking someone. He didn't want them to be upset or mad at him, because then he would be forced by his little brother or a teacher to apologize or fix it.

But, then again, he also couldn't exactly say no to his little brother either. Unless he wanted bugs in his bed that is.

"Michael, if you color there, so help me."

The little box turtle froze, about to draw a cat on their father's shirt. "But where else am I supposed to draw?"

"I don't know, just not there!" Donatello whisper-shouted.

Michelangelo deflated slightly before moving up and preparing to scribble a beard to match the mustache his brother drew. Donatello merely watched, the one drawing being enough for him. Their dad might be upset, but like Donatello said before, he couldn't say no to his little brother.

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part of another something new, but this one'll make it past just a concept hopefully

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Re-reading your own fic is wild.

Okay, that's a really good sentence. Typo. Typo. Huh, did I write this? It's actually not bad. Typo. Hm, I would cut out that part now, but it kind of works. TYPO. Oh, this part is really good. That is the wrong word, wtf? I'm enjoying this more than I thought I would. ANOTHER TYPO? FFS.

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a btw before you start reading: this is not Rise, this is not 2012, this is not any of the iterations, this is my own personal one I made a year or three ago that I am reviving in a new light I hope will be better than before

also inspired by fanart :)

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Raphael found himself staring into the mirror at... everything. At the half-heartedly wrapped bandages now dangling off. At the blood staining the sink and dripping down his arm. In hindsight, he probably should've told his brothers about this.

But he didn't, and now there was no way in the world he could. They would freak out if they saw him in such a condition.

He placed his hand on the hot side of the faucet, turning it all the way until it couldn't anymore. Just how he liked it. He cupped some in his hand, going to splash some on his right arm, but it was gone by the time he got there. He grumbled petulantly, knowing anyway it wouldn't have worked. New plan.

Right as he took one step toward the tub, the door to the bathroom opened. He didn't need to turn around to know who had just walked through it.

"Michelangelo," he grit out quickly.

"Don't 'Michelangelo' me at a time like this, mister," the orange turtle huffed, having tried to replicate Raph's tone with his name. "This isn't something you can excuse with a few overly-kind words and apologies this time."

Raph scoffed. "That's a Leo thing, Mikey. I, for one, would probably punch you in the face first. Then apologies or whatever come second."

Mikey scowled. "That's not better."

"Says you. Donnie would totally agree with me," Raph smirked.

"Well he's not here right now, I am, and I don't agree with you," Mikey swung the towel around his neck and placed it on the nearest hook, then twisted the water off with a free hand. "I'm going to go get a first aid kit. You are going to fill the tub and sit in it until I come back, understand?"

Raph deflated. "Yes, Mikey."

"Very good," Mikey smiled. "Make sure to take those sad bandage excuses off before you get in too!"

The red turtle frowned. "Yes, Mikey."

Michelangelo's mask tails vanished around the door's corner. Raph kicked his foot lazily along the floor.

"Younger brother."

"I heard that!"

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"You have to roll all the way or it's all pointless."

Leo's scowl at the dough morphed into a look of surprise when he turned his head. Señor Hueso approached him slowly, adjusting a sleeve. The bone man stopped behind the young turtle.

"The goal is to get the dough flat, not bumpy."

Hands placed themselves over Leo's own in order to guide. Leo, however, focused on anything but the words being spoken or the motions his hands were moved to do. His idol, practically second dad, was helping him! Señor Hueso never helped him! He felt a tap on his head.

"Pay attention, Pepino. This information is important if you want to make a real pizza someday."

Leo listened and watched intently as Hueso repeated what he had said before. Right as the impromptu lesson finished, Leo's dad reentered the kitchen and upon seeing them, smiled. He looked exhausted.

"Shift's over," Frankie breathed a sigh of relief. "Time to go home, son."

Leo flashed Hueso an excited, happy grin before leaping off the stool he had been using. Frankie held his hand out and Leo put his close enough to it to look believable (having a body made of slime made it hard to hold hands). Frankie offered his friend a grateful grin of his own, then led Leo away.

Hueso watched with a fond smile, mentally preparing himself for a little box turtle to beg him for lessons the next day.

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something, something, something, an au where Mikey and Leo are adopted by Sunita's family :)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

[crowinaflowerfield]

I had a brand new au idea some hours ago and it has everything to do with the apocalypse. I assume it also had something to do with me wanting to rewrite my old (and now with ruined links) series/saga, Roller Coaster of Emotions and instead make it 12 Years Into Tomorrow OR reading a post-movie fic centering around Piebald, but that doesn't matter at all right now

I was thinking of calling his au Third Times' A Charm

essentially, the rottmnt movie efforts ultimately fail, leaving the world under apocalyptic siege for the second time. Events play out similarly to how they many can only assume they did in the original future timeline -- same events, same times for those events -- all that, except less death, which I'll explain in a second. the whole point of this is to 'fix' the future timeline while also not doing that at the same time

so, anyway, about the less death thing. this time around, they have a Casey Junior on their side. he's already been through everything that happened and everyone has faith he can do it again. he does end up doing just that by being able to remember when, where, and how very important people to the Resistance die and making sure it doesn't happen this time around. however, he does end up dying seven years into everything, which leaves Casey with the desire to make up for his absence and have a child. since this apocalypse still ends in 2040 and started in 2022, that would make her... ten by 2040. which makes a good reason for forcing someone to go back into the past with her

now, Carey, she's Casey's daughter. as much as I would love to have made Casey have a son like had previously occurred, I also wanted to have some more differences, so I decided to continue the female Casey thing instead and henceforth Carey was born

in the end, since Donnie and Raph are still alive by the point, I imagined a reverse end-of-the-rottmnt-movie scenario where instead of Leo coming back through Mikey's portal, he goes in through Mikey's portal. so just imagine the scene but with much older turtles and Leo going in not out. and Carey's there too :)

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okay, listen, people who think this, I get your 'Donnie's good at dancing', but, and I say this respectfully, no he's not

Donnie likes to dance, people like to dance, but half of the time that does not mean they're good at it. Donnie is absolutely not good at it whatsoever

If you recall the Bullhop episode, Donnie was second to last on the dance machine, right in front of Bullhop himself. and in the Clothes Don't Make The Turtle episode, a majority of the dance moves Donnie did were not good at all

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Leo didn’t need to tell them to move– if Don was already busting himself out they’d be there to back him up. It was a no brainer. 

April threw Donnie’s laptop back into her bag and followed the turtles across the rooftops towards the wailing siren and the looming building. Leo stopped them when they got to the next building over and they silently dropped down the fire escape to the streets in tandem. April could tell by Leo’s hard stop as he got to the edge of the alleyway that things weren’t exactly as they were hoping (Donnie busting through creepy government goons). 

“Holy–” Leo breathed out, only for Mikey to shove forward with his hands to his mouth. 

“DON! Where ya’ at!?” their youngest hollered, giving April flashbacks to her short stint of hanging onto Karai’s spirit. Luckily for them all, Raph was already on top of it, grabbing up Mikey and smothering the yell. 

“Shh! Shh–” he hissed, even as Mikey flailed a bit in his grasp. Once he’d settled enough, Raph released him so that they could all process… whatever mess was happening in front of them. 

This had probably been a garage. The rows of overturned trucks bearing the EPF logo were a good hint. The gaping hole in the garage door told some sort of story, but no one really had a good idea what story it was telling. Because it certainly didn’t look like anything Donnie’s ninpo would’ve done. It was too… messy.

There were agents on the pavement. There was blood, and bullet holes and wreckage that evoked more monster movie than ninja breakout. Mikey was the first to break the hanging silence that had chills creeping up the backs of their necks. “Did… What happened? Did Donnie do this?”

April was the next to snap out of it, gritting her teeth into a vicious smile. “I can find out!” she volunteered, shoving the boys aside before they could talk her out of it. She was the human here, and that meant she could hypothetically waltz into the weird government building without getting dissected. It was really her duty if you squinted, so... “APRIIIIIIIL O’NEIL! Undercover baby!” 

“Wait April–” Leo started, trying to grab for her just a moment too late. She was already in range of where the cameras would see her, so the boys couldn’t follow without being giant idiots. Leo grimaced, dropping his hand defeatedly. “Aaaand she’s gone. Awesome.”

April intentionally ignored Leo calling out for her as she bolted for the gaping hole in the garage door. Metal was bent outward in twisted ribbons, hanging over her head as she stepped over the remains of the base of it. There was a smouldering fire in the corner, singing the hallway it framed. There were more people in view now that April was up close. Bodies slung against cars or walls, crumpled like ragdolls and bloodstains only partially hidden by the dark clothes they wore. Shattered glass sparkling against the blacktop of the parking lot. 

April swallowed down whatever feeling was gripping her lungs and put her hands to her mouth. “HEY! Anyone alive?! What happened here!?” she shouted out, stepping carefully around the mangled bits of the nearest car and moving further inside. 

Behind it, something moved, stuttering back to life. “Get– Get outta here–” choked out a voice. A man, April recognized immediately, as she moved the rest of the way around the car. An agent in vaguely torn up gear was laying underneath a discarded car door. He stared at her from behind the visor of his helmet, and even then April could tell he looked frantic. “It’s– It’s not safe, you gotta go, kid–”

April dropped down and hauled the car door off of his body, letting it fall to the side with a crunch. “Who do I call!? What happened– Is– is this another invasion!?” she asked, letting panic bleed into her voice. Panic that she didn’t really feel. But hopefully he wouldn’t notice that it was faux, that she was digging for information to be confirmed.

Thankfully, this dude was far too concussed to question if she was being genuine. “Monster– some turtle creature thing busted out– Listen kid, get out of here, go home. It’s loose, it let everything out–”

“That’s quite enough, agent,” a new voice snapped. Like ice cracking. Like being plunged into shadows. April had to force herself to move enough to see who this new voice belonged to. The man’s expression softened incrementally, but it didn’t do anything to soften the intense air he carried with him. “You’ll scare her.”

Despite the jagged, bloody tear in his pant leg, he walked smoothly across the garage with his arms held stiffly behind him. There was nothing remarkable about this man. He was plain, with a pristine black suit (other than the tear) and tie. And yet, April found her voice caught in her throat. His gaze, covered by a pair of thin sunglasses, felt like being pinned by a predator. 

April stared at him as he came to stand in front of her. He tried to make himself seem friendly, but the hairs standing on the back of April's neck screamed at her to run. The man cast a glance at the hole in the garage door before nodding at April. “I’d ask how you got in here, but that one is obvious. Instead, let’s just make sure you get home safely, alright?” 

April felt herself take a half step backwards. “I uh– My brothers are out on the street, I’m alright to just walk back–” she said, forcing herself to smile. 

The man stared at her blankly. “Really, I insist. This area is compromised," he replied simply, like it was just common sense. And to be fair, that would be reasonable if April didn’t feel like staying near this guy was the fastest track to get herself or her brothers arrested. Or worse. “We should get you all home–”

“No, really,” April said again, backing towards the garage door and motioning emphatically. “We’ll be fine, we’ll go straight home.” 

The man's next argument was interrupted by some creature scrabbling its way out of the no longer burned hallway. They both watched as the vaguely dinosaur-shaped creature was shot down with tranq darts, and a couple agents came jogging out of the hall after it. The man let out a subtle sigh. “...Alright. I trust you’ll keep all this to yourself? We wouldn’t want to cause a panic. We have this well in hand,” he said, and despite the smile he maintained April could feel the threat in his next words. “We can’t have rumors spreading, you know.” We’ll find you.

April set her jaw and nodded along. “Yeah, right. Of course. We don’t want anything crazy happenin’ like last year…” she said, tip-toeing along the wrecked car so she could get outta there as soon as possible.

He made no move to stop her. Just watched, looking smugly at her like he’d already won. “That's right. Miss…?”

April tripped over her own feet a little bit. “Uh– Summer. My name’s Summer.”

If he suspected she was lying, it didn’t show at all. “Thank you, Miss Summer. We’ll  handle everything. This kind of situation is exactly what the Earth Protection Force is here for. Run along now,” he said, dismissing her and turning his back to her so he could deal with both his dinosaur and the bleeding agent on the ground.

The instant his eyes were off her felt like a release. April turned and bolted for the garage door, not stopping as she leapt over the threshold. 

The man turned his head enough to watch her retreat, his expression going cold again. And once she was out of earshot he put a finger to his earpiece. “Pull all the footage we have of that girl immediately. Find out who she is. And get maintenance and med evac down here already! This mess won’t clean itself.”

The electric blue of Leo’s portal flooded the lairs' living room, partially obscuring the projection screen as April and the boys returned home. Splinter sat up in his armchair, taking a quick headcount and frowning when it came up one turtle short. “Boys! Where is Purple?” he asked. “You were going to get him, weren’t you?”

Leo let the portal close and sheathed his swords before crossing his arms with a proud smirk. “He wasn’t there! Looks like he busted himself out already,” he said brightly. “He’ll probably be home soon to brag about it.”

April rubbed her face a little bit, glancing at Leo. “I dunno Leo, I know you guys ain’t everyone's cup of tea but calling Dee a monster seems kinda… off brand. Plus it was major weird vibes in that place,” she protested, drifting further into the room to take a seat and steeple her fingers.

Raph and Mikey found places to sit or hover as Leo blew a raspberry and rolled his eyes. “You clearly haven’t tried to get between Donnie in a bad mood and something he wants–”

Mikey put his hands up, placatingly. “I think we’ve all been bitten by Donnie enough to know what he gets like when he’s freakin’, Leo,” he said flatly. 

Raph nodded along, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. “Name callin’ aside, they said it was a turtle, right? It’s probably Dee,” he agreed with Leo. 

April sighed into her hands. “They just said it was a turtle monster. That’s all I got.”

Mikey glanced around the room meaningfully. “Okay, then… where’s he at?”

Leo took out his phone and opened Donnie’s tracking app. He frowned at it. “I don’t know. His tracker’s still not working,” he admitted, the confidence in his voice waning a bit. 

Raph was quick to slap his shoulder and grin. “Well, if it was him escapin’, then he’ll be home soon. Mike, go rustle up something Donnie’ll eat and we’ll figure out the specifics when he gets here.”

Mikey relented easily, having something to focus on. April looked less satisfied with the idea but they didn’t really have any other leads. 

So everyone settled in. They waited.

Hours passed. 

They waited. 

Donatello did not come home. 

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HI GUYS! I've decided that finishing this story is more important than finishing it as a comic specifically. Here's the next chapter :) <3 love you all!

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new oc, Shawn, mutated into a.......... uh red-eared slider directly after the Mystic Mayhem episode, briefly hating the other four turtles before falling for Leo

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GUYS GUYS GUYS

BIG NEWS

Leo's little saying, hachi machi, it means 'bee city' in japanese

Hachi means bee, Machi means city

or Hachi could mean '8' too

so 'eight city/town/neighborhood' or 'bee city/town/neighborhood'

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guys, I was just searching for names for minecraft frogs and I wanted to go for all L names, so of course Leonardo came up as an option, but under the name it listed some people the name could be derived from, and no joke one of the guys listed was a mathematician named Leonardo Fibonacci

like what if this guy is the real reason Donnie says Fibonacci as a battle cry? he's not, but like..... what if?

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screenshot just in case:

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guys, I was just searching for names for minecraft frogs and I wanted to go for all L names, so of course Leonardo came up as an option, but under the name it listed some people the name could be derived from, and no joke one of the guys listed was a mathematician named Leonardo Fibonacci

like what if this guy is the real reason Donnie says Fibonacci as a battle cry? he's not, but like..... what if?