Mikey was beyond happy for the group hug. If they were hugging, they were good and that’s all he wanted. As far as he was concerned they were gonna be just fine as long as they were getting along. It might be a simple hope but that’s all he wanted.
“Yes, very responsible and very careful.” Mikey nodded like he knew what his brother was talking about. He was at least careful sometimes. He laughed as he threw his nunchucks on the pile of the weapons. “They survived this long! They’ll be fine, Raph.” He was just excited to see what his brother was planning.
Ah, group hugs. Donnie never felt more restricted but he’d let his brothers have this. For a minute anyway before he was pulling himself out of the hold.
“We don’t know what that means but okay.” They’d never really used the brakes when they were on their adventures, it was, in fact, all gas. Donnie sighed before gently letting his bo staff fall in the middle. He’d taken to using the wooden one his Dad had given him as opposed to the the Tech one he’d made. “That’s because these were treated as heirlooms for years before we threw them in a circle. Anyways, what’s the deal here, Nardo?”
🐢 ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ─────────── “ heirlooms shmeirlooms. ” leo singsonged. “ if we’re going to work on understanding each other better. we need to know how each other us tick. in general and on the battlefield. not only that, we can’t be one trick ponies. if we’re going to defeat shredder we have to push ourselves. we’ve gotta get uncomfortable, boys. each of us either have long range or short range attacks. our weapons heighten our strengths of speed, power, agility and so on. two of us have to actively think about not stabbing other people while the other two swing their weapons around without much thought of that. so, we’re going to train using each other’s weapons. ”
grabbing the weapons he handed them off each to his brothers. raph’s sais going to mikey, donnie’s bo staff to raph, mikey’s nunchucks for himself and his katanas to donnie. he stopped in front of his twin and eyed him before handing off his weapons. “ the amount of faith i’m putting in you is so astronomical. if you even think about stabbing someone i’m going to be very sad, so like don’t. ”
“If Dad could hear you...” But he dropped it, there was no point in arguing right now. He had to admit he was really impressed with Leo’s idea. He knew his brother was smart and had a good understanding of what they did but he hadn’t really shown it much. But here he was challenging them and proving that he not only knew how to use his own weapon but he understood how the weapons his brothers used worked too. “That’s a very good idea, Leo. A terrifying one but you’re not wrong about us having to broaden our horizons.”
Raph took the staff and looked over where Leo handed his sais to Mikey. Not that he didn’t trust his brother but they weren’t used to sharp weapons. “Mikey please don’t swing those.” He whispered to his younger brother.