#electrokinetic mikey

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Also, PLEASE bring it back, I wrote an entire AU around that specific plot point right after the episode aired, I loved it to pieces and I was unbelievably confused all in one, it was a dream come true.

Like, he came back absolutely leveled up and full of awareness and there was barely any time to wonder if he was just a legitimate superpowered being or what. Before they ripped it away along with my jaw to be cute and return to status quo and just drop that whole deal like they dropped Mikey being nearly vivisected by the government. *breathes*

Rewatching When World’s Collide is so funny because I swear the only reason Mikey ended up with electrical powers had to be because in the middle of the writing process for the episode, the writers must’ve realized that they gave him like nothing to do when compared to everyone else so someone just went “lets kill him off briefly and then give him electrical powers when he comes back” and they just rolled with it not noticing how this plot line just happens and is never properly explained.

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This is the “Electricity Mikey” Reblog if you would let him keep his abilities. Ignore if you would shoot him with an electrical dampening cannon, leaving him powerless and inexplicably naked.

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Mikey just places a few gummies in front of the electric cat in a small bag, before nodding "Happy Halloween, fellow electrokinetic." - Mikey, yellow-white-and-jade

⚡⚡ Precious hums in satisfaction to the gummies and nods her head at the other.

“Thanks for the gummies!”

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Electric Youth

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2tvvRey

by BrightLotusMoon

After Mikey uses his sweet electrokinetic powers during the battle with The Newtralizer, he convinces Utrom Bishop to let him keep them. The turtles find creative ways to control him. This comes particularly in handy when a totally new alien species tries to threaten the planet's electromagnetic field, which is Mikey's speciality. With April's help, of course.

Words: 4039, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of Sunshine Child

Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Michelangelo (TMNT), Raphael (TMNT), Leonardo (TMNT), Donatello (TMNT), April O'Neil, Utrom(s)

Additional Tags: electric mikey, electrokinetic mikey, empath mikey, Psychic Mikey, Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Family Feels, Team as Family, Hugs all around, alien invasions

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2tvvRey

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I remember this post way back, I reblogged it really really excited because it helped motivate my fanfic "Electric Youth" (and nobody's gotten the title homage yet). I want to write more in that AU. Mikey and April make the greatest superhero team up since uhhh

Quick help me out here.

(When Worlds Collide is at once the best and worst episode because it gave Mikey amazing powers via death but took them away without giving him a chance and I still wanna fite about it holy shit don't get me started we could have legitimately had superpowered Michelangelo from my fucking 90s AU fic-)

An AU where Mikey got to keep his electricity powers after the events of When Worlds Collide, and eventually combined it with his Turflytle superhero persona to create Lightning Bug

Donatello updated his suit, so there are a few modifications to help him manage his new powers:

Electricity wings that allow for controlled flight using the air as a conduit

Gloves that can cut off electric flow at will so Mikey is able grab things without shooting jolts of electricity through everything he touches

An energy exhaust system so that he can use his electricity freely without worrying about destroying himself

Temperature/energy monitoring systems which warn him whenever he’s approaching a critical state (necessary if ever the exhaust breaks or is manually turned off in emergency situations)

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TMNT Headcanon: “The future only belongs...”

Hi hi hi. *bounce*  Soo, you know I couldn’t help myself and started headcanoning and head-writing as soon as “When Worlds Collide” was over, and I wrote this bit over the past week while writing other stuff, and it’s going to be a really long fic with actual science and characters wondering Hey yeah why is that a thing because heck off writers the fans may as well do better than you. Also my husband is like Donnie level nerd/geek for physics, chemistry, engineering, astrophysics, biology; and I have a habit of randomly asking him strange things that he randomly has the answers to. And generally when I come to him and the first thing out of my mouth is something like “So if a character has electrokinetic powers what sort of stuff could they do around the house?” I expect a realistic answer that takes two hours and includes a visual lesson on electrons and photons. Sooo yeah, here’s a sneak peek at a fic that is tentatively titled “Electric Youth” because I was a child in the 1980s, but it could change (if you don’t get the reference, try to guess) as the story happens. Also if you want, comment or PM me or PM me at FFnet especially if you know stuff about electric-powered superheroes.

 Electric Youth (Part Four of “The Sunshine Child”)

 It had could have been different, in that span of a few seconds.

“No! Wait a second, guys, wait! No no, WAIT! BISHOP, NO, NOT YET, LISTEN TO ME!”

And Utrom Bishop had paused. He had paused just long enough to see the electricity suck back into Michelangelo’s skin like water into sand.

Panting, Mikey had kept his hands raised, pleading, words stumbling over each other. “Just…just gimme a while, please. Look. Give the cannon to Donnie, okay? We-we’ll keep it in the lair, and if I start to overload we’ll use it, just please please don’t drain me right now, please, what if we still need these powers, come on…!”

And something apparently shifted in Utrom Bishop. His robot head twitched. He lowered the energy dampening cannon. “Very well. But you understand I must let the Council know.”

“Yeah, sure, tell them whatever! I promise, I’ll be good! I’ll learn to control it.” A massive breath of relief expelled from Mikey’s whole being. He was quiet, save for his loud breathing.

Raph had stopped smirking and was staring at his brother, whose eyes were still wide and huge.

Utrom Bishop hefted the large gun into Donnie’s hands, eyes narrowed. “Do you trust him?” he asked.

Don blinked. “Well, considering his excitement and his desperate promise to commit to controlling himself, I do trust him. Mikey has matured a lot.”

Bishop sighed. “Remember my warning. You do not want to lose him again.”

“O-of course not. Never.” And Donnie’s eyes widened. His fingers tightened against the white weapon, as the Salamdrian commander stepped forward.

Leonardo blinked at his ceiling, crossing his ankles and settling deeper into his pillow. It was still hard to sleep. That had happened. All of that had happened earlier. He could hear the threats of Newtralizer, he could hear Mikey’s sudden scream of agony as he was electrified and disintegrated mid-leap…

With a frustrated huff, Leonardo sat up and threw back the covers. Tea, damn it.

It was getting warmer as spring ended but the lair’s floor was cool on his bare feet as he walked to the kitchen. Tea.

He was heating the kettle and reaching for one of the calming herbal blends when he heard the scrape of a chair. It wouldn’t have alerted him, if not for what sounded like static shock and a whispered “Ow again, damn it.”

“Mikey?”

He turned around, and his little brother looked up almost guiltily, his toe still grinding into the floor and his finger still bouncing rapidly on the table countertop �� the metal countertop. Leo blinked.

“S-shouldn’t you not be doing that?”

“M’tryin to figure out how,” Mikey said earnestly. Then Leo understood. Mikey had been randomly touching things, sliding his feet against things, waiting for the static shock to tell him what was safe. But what if nothing was…

Sighing, Leo walked over and gave his brother a one-armed hug. “I’ll admit, this is gonna be weird, Mikey. Are you sure you did the right thing in stopping Bishop?”

“Dude, are you even serious right now? Of course. I got this. I mean, I will. Get this. I said I would, didn’t I? I’m cool. I’m all good!”

Inwardly, Leo chuckled. Mikey trying to act smooth when everyone knew he wasn’t was always adorable. That was one of his real talents, calming down a situation with wit and strange banter until de-escalation.

“Don’t laugh at me, Leo, I’m really really trying this time.”

Sometimes he forgot just how empathic Mikey now was. “Sorry, little brother, it’s just…well, you’re my little brother. It’s not that I don’t believe you’ll be fine, I’m just always going to worry about you.”

Mikey grinned sleepily and nodded. The water boiled. Leo went and poured his tea.

“Hey,” Mikey said, “can you put a tea bag in a mug for me, since you’re there? With regular water? Actually, make it cold.”

Leo raised an eyeridge. “Okaay…”

He brought the mugs to the table and handed Mikey the cold, barely seeping tea. Mikey clutched it with both hands and stared at it. Slowly, a trickle of light blue electricity emerged from the skin of his hands and crawled toward his fingertips. Leo watched, fascinated. The static jumped from Mikey’s fingers to the porcelain, wrapped around it, and if Leo had blinked he would have missed the steam rising.

“Well,” he said, “That’s one way to practice.”

“It worked!” The grin Mikey gave him could have lit the room. “I did it! YES!” Happily, he sipped his tea, feet swinging, and Leo laughed.

Little things like this, he realized. Little tiny things like heating up a mug of water, not huge incredible things like…like battling an elecrokinetic reptile man or blowing up bits of a bug alien spaceship. Or creating a force field to hold back an explosion inside of a damaged bug alien spaceship. If he weren’t living electricity, able to move literally like lightning, he wouldn’t even be here.

That was the other thing. And no matter how many times Raph and April and Karai had gone over it, Leo still wasn’t sure. There had been a visible surge in electrical energy from all over the alley, they said, and then it all just…gathered and coalesced and…BOOM. And then there had been a Mikey from the ground up, from the skeleton up, screaming into existence and suddenly ready to run, like a newborn wild creature. There had been no fatigue, no confusion, just there and whole as if he had never been gone. That was what Donnie had been mumbling about on the way back to the lair, after dropping Mona Lisa and Karai off at the Mutanimals’ warehouse. Granted, Don himself had been in such shock over Mikey making such a grand entrance that he had somehow forgotten Mikey was alive (had brought himself back to life?) and couldn’t stop shaking his head while they waited for Raphael to say goodbye to Y’Gythgba (and it wasn’t like he wouldn’t see her again, but then Leo remembered how Karai had nudged him). It didn’t make sense, none of it made sense, April had reached out to Mikey had had to pull back as if electrocuted, she could barely sense him under the crackling strangeness and the darkness of it all.

“Leo, yours is getting cold,” and he blinked, remembering to drink his tea while watching Mikey stim and fidget and carefully spin his mug while murmuring, “I did it, I’m the best, I’m awesome” under his breath.

It was giving Leo room to think. The way he could move. The sheer ability to turn into energy and move in a blink, was that going to cause problems? It had saved him when he jumped from Dregg’s exploding ship. But was it costing him anything? Could he be in pain? April had said that Bishop’s warning of a burn out killing Mikey seemed extremely serious, but how well did Bishop know the turtles’ mutations or Newtralizer’s powers? And this was Michelangelo they were talking about. He had lived through some bizarre things. And, Leo mused, he had this odd talent for…attracting weirdness. He was just good at supernatural things. The demodragon seal, for one, they still hadn’t figured that out. Kavaxas may have been woefully out of touch by assuming the seal couldn’t be fixed (and with chewing gum for that matter) but perhaps Mikey just…had that aura. And it made sense, Leo decided, since after Splinter’s death Mikey had gotten spiritually very powerful, enough to become nearly telepathic. This, though, was nothing like that. This was physical actual energy. And it still affected Mikey; he had still had to avoid being shocked by Newtralizer. Donnie said he was going to test that; could Mikey eventually absorb external electric shocks, did he create his own energy or did he draw it from the environment, and where in his brain did he instinctively control his energy. Leo had filtered out the longer words, already exhausted.

And now he just couldn’t sleep, and now he was watching Mikey play with raw electricity like a toy, and—

“Mikey, what are you doing?”

Leo nearly inhaled tea and looked up.

Donatello was standing at the table, arms folded. Mikey had apparently been playing with the water, literally playing with it, Leo watched as plumes of steam danced across the table. Mikey’s face had the frozen whoops face of a child caught with a cookie. A grin stretched across his face, his eyes still wide and innocent as he looked up at Donnie.

“Heeeey, Dee. How’s it going?”

“Michael…” and Leo immediately ducked his head so he wouldn’t laugh; Don only used that form of their little brother’s name when he was really irritated, “…what did I tell you when we got home earlier?”

“Thaaat I wasn’t allowed to perform any electricity tricks and I was supposed to wake you up if I felt like my powers were overloading and I needed a release?”

Really? Leo frowned. He didn’t remember that conversation.

“And what are you doing?”

“Yeah, but, Leo started making tea and…”

“Leo, can’t you sleep?” And Donnie turned worried eyes to Leo, who straightened and looked nonchalant as he could. “Actually, I couldn’t sleep. Too wired up from what happened today.”

“Heh,” Mikey giggled under his breath. “Wired. Heh.” And Leo rolled his eyes, even as he smiled. Well, it was true.

“You wanna see wired, I was wired, I was wired like a boss and it--”

“Mikey…” and Donnie sounded like a disgruntled yet resigned parent.

“Sorry, Dee, I couldn’t help it.” And Mikey sounded exactly like a chastised, actually apologetic, hyperactive child. Leo inwardly slapped himself; he was obviously loopy.

“And I decided to make tea,” Leo said, as if he were a hand slapping against the table ending whatever standoff between parent child. “And I heard Mikey, uh, experimenting with his powers. He asked if I could put a teabag in cold water, and then he heated it up. And he was really proud of himself, Donnie, I--”

“Wow, actually, that sounds awesome,” Don interjected. He sat down. “I wouldn’t mind seeing that.”

“Really?” Mikey’s smile turned megawatt. Ugh, puns, Leo thought, there will be an overabundance of energy puns in this house forever. He smiled to himself. It would be worth it if they really did find a way to control Mikey’s powers.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Michelangelo (TMNT), Raphael (TMNT), Leonardo (TMNT), Donatello (TMNT), April O'Neil, Utrom(s) Additional Tags: electric mikey, electrokinetic mikey, empath mikey, Psychic Mikey, Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Family Feels, Team as Family, Hugs all around, alien invasions Series: Part 4 of Sunshine Child Summary:

After Mikey uses his sweet electrokinetic powers during the battle with The Newtralizer, he convinces Utrom Bishop to let him keep them. The turtles find creative ways to control him. This comes particularly in handy when a totally new alien species tries to threaten the planet’s electromagnetic field, which is Mikey’s speciality. With April’s help, of course.

Since I was reminded of how Mikey should have kept his electric powers, have a thing again. It doesn’t have reviews because they’re over at Fanfiction.net. Part 5 kind of continues it. I’m thinking that the AU series is over unless I can work off more episodes. I think the Mikey The Lifegiver is finished, unless this fic I’m writing currently does what I hope it does. I know you guys like the Mikey The Lifegiver series, with Mikey being oxygen or air.

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Yay TMNT fanfic headcanon requests

*wriggles like an Autistic cat* I got fic requests that really delve into how my AU characters work. I love that. I love when readers pay so much attention to my worlds that they can ask for stuff that would probably happen anyway were I really thinking about it. Heee. Also, as much as I miss canon Electric Mikey, I have to remind myself that CFR Mikey has electrokinesis alongside his other psionic -kinesis skills. He just hasn’t used it since that final battle with the Alchemist, because it killed him and he gets twitchy about it. But that’s why Don and April and Gaia have been working with him. I like to call it psionic therapy because reminds me of the cerebral palsy therapies I had to have and essentially will always require. I don’t know if anyone has picked up on how I kinda use psionics as an analogy for disability and mental illness. The biggest difference is that psionics lets you control the world with your mind. It’s like in the world of the X-Men, where you don’t know what mutation you’ll have, if it will even be useful to fight with or defend with. Sometimes you get the biggest batch of psionic skills anyone has ever had, and sometimes you get color changing skin.

Being Autistic sometimes reminds me of Marvel’s mutants. I’m still an avid X-Men fan, have been since the early 1990s back before everything got so split and weird. Remember the comic Generation X? Oh if I had only known I was neurodivergent before 2012.

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Happy very belated third anniversary to this post.

I miss Electro Mikey.

My new aesthetic is Electric Mikey because my oldest firmest TMNT headcanon is telekinetic elemental empath Mikey able to manipulate the world around him. I am having the best fun writing these fics.

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Electric Mikey is still canon just hidden where we can't see, shut up

In a PM with an equally bitter salty writer fan:

Re your latest review of my Sunshine Child story! You said “Story: He Is Quantum (Part Three of The Sunshine Child) Chapter: 1. From: Silexwitch I so enjoy these. Mikey and his blossoming powers. I really like how they each have their own reaction to his telepathic sendings. I’d love to see them try and figure that one out, but then again Leo is spiritual, Raph is emotional and Donnie is logical, so I guess it makes sense. But Donnie’s theory if Mikey could telepathically/empathetically make someone do something, that’s going to be a real test, one that might be pretty damn scary for them”

OMG you are so enjoying these, Mikey and his blossoming powers! Do you even know how happy that makes me?? AAAAAAAAH I love even small comments like this

Ahem.

Yes, and now Electrokinetic power will be added because Mikey damn deserves it.

I am so bitter that I will do an entire backstory where Mikey’s original mutation was that point five chance of making a psionic mutant on Earth, and the Utrom Council realizes it. Like my series “Mikey The Lifegiver” but closer to whatever canon does. Thus I will follow the episodes and tweak them! See I am so bitter that Bishop drained Mikey’s powers that I will make sure it didn’t happen. And whilst controlling the electricity, Mikey develops more psychokinetic ability, like energy manipulation with healling and empathy that projects to become clairvoyance and telepathy. How does that sound?? I mean it might as well be an AU of my AU.

Plus, I plan on waiting for the Father and Renet episodes but my firm headcanon is that Electric Mikey retained some power and only uses it in between episodes where the audience cannot see. That’s the fanfic domain ha ha hahaha

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Everyone Do The Electric Slide Mikey Dance

Uh oh. So, canon finally did it and gave Michelangelo psi based superpowers, albeit for three quarters of an episode, so my unique AU fanfiction is finally something acknowlegeable. So that means that in CFR Mind Games and any sequel to CFR Crossfire, I could hype up Psionic (Epileptic Autistic) Mikey's telekinesis to show off the electrokinesis for real rather than pretend. Although I might be forced to kill Splinter anyway. Mikey The Lifegiver is meant to ignore the last two episodes of Season 4 onward and the Cold Fire Rising universe is still happening in mid season 4 after their return to Earth. Only the Sunshine Child AU is following canon, thus I'm so damn glad I waited for the episodes before continuing. The story I'm working on takes place right after the previous arc but I'm already outlining a psychic electrokinesis story in which they find a way to control the electrokinesis, with B-Team angst and Raph/Mikey fluff and Mona Lisa being a natural prankster. But more importantly, this also means that other writers will write Electrokinetic Mikey...and it makes me SO FREAKING HAPPY that it's already happening, because we will totally headcanon that he keeps the powers for as long as possible before they need to use the draining cannon. GO. WRITE THE THING. I LOVE YOU.

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TMNT Fanfic Headcanons: “The Sunshine Child” goes nuclear testing

More Headcanons! Less B-Team, more Raph/Mikey empath stuff. Raph channeling how others feel to keep himself level, Mikey training him. Ooh, and something something “He’s not a brute, he just feels a lot and it’s usually anger”, and the two of them deliberately wrestling and poking so it releases stress and Raph is all “Why didn’t we do this years ago” and Leo facepalming and Donnie just shrugging passive-aggressively.  Mikey keeps a telepathic connection when Raph and Casey go out crime hunting. “Raaaph, you’re getting upset again, here, have some calm.” “Raaaph, you’re too scared, have some excited anticipation!” “Raaph, the criminal is scared so take his fear and use it to punch his face in.” And Raph learns how to empathically pull in external emotions to benefit himself, and Mikey is all “LOL you’re like my underling now, you must call me senpai” and Raph threatens to kick his ass and Mikey empathically projects a “you won’t hurt me, you love me” energy vibe, and Raph gets annoyed by it until he learns how to block it using Mikey’s own teachings, and Mikey’s all “very good, but I’m still better” and while it is extremely useful in battle, it gets annoying at home. Raph learns how to channel everyone else’s emotions into physical strength. It helps him to soothe his own temper tantrums. So, Donnie and Leo don’t have that kind of power but they do have their own blocks against Mikey, which they will use passive-aggressively when he whines at them psychically, from across the lair. And then one day they find that their natural talents have heightened, so that Leo is more immediately strategic and Donnie is more immediately technical. Leo is like, “I don’t think Master Splinter would have trained us in this” and Mikey is like “Whatever, it’s still like mystical or spiritual or something, let’s all go to the astral plane and have a dance party.” And he’s very good at opening astral portals because of his abilities to empathically sense an entire environment and his latest ability to access electricity (because heck you, show writers, I’m keepin it) so he teaches himself to rip apart spacetime, to combine psychic empathy and electrokinesis to manipulate the world, and they’re all super grateful that he’s a loving, gentle, organically happy optimist, because look what happened to Dark April.

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Entire season: Not enough Lightning Mikey.

*bangs on table* Give. Mikey. Back. His. Powers.

(He would learn to control them. My headcanon is that Bishop didn't remove all the power and one day Mikey has smaller but more controlled power and he teams up with April.)

Awesome episode. My one complaint?: Not enough Lightning Mikey.

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I can relate Ninja Turtles to anything else and I love it.

We're watching the episode of Black Lightning where Jennifer burst into pure energy, like the Phoenix Force.

And that made me think of the TMNT 2012 episode where Dark April burst Donatello into molecules.

I know Ciro wanted a tribute to Chris Claremont's Phoenix Saga, but I never considered that a huge part of the tribute was Donnie being exploded.

I actually have electromagnetic energy as a special interest, because of my special interest in parapsychology, psionics, and neuropsychology. It's what fueled the psychic Mikey headcanons in the 1990s, because the 1987 show made him lowkey empath and intuitive.

Husband's special interests include all kinds of physics, especially astrophysics, as well as chemistry. He's often the one who I go to for questions about biology, anatomy, science, martial arts, fighting, medicine, plants, foods, nature... my husband's brain is full of millions of facts in a patchwork of knowledge. Over his life he's been exposed to so much information and activity, including CSA, family abuse, fighting, martial arts similar to Bruce Lee and even mystic arts with qi manipulation, science experiment, military works, home and garden maintenance, home economics, cooking, medical treatment, visual arts, how the body works and breaks.

He's been talking about how electricity works and how it could work for superpowers for ten minutes and he's glowing.

I forgot where I was going with this, sorry.

Oh, right. I've always felt Meh about 2012 April because of how she was written, particularly the Phoenix thing. Plus, the romance angle with emotional manipulation always bothered me. And they never followed up on Donnie's molecular explosion and the fallout with April, and they probably should have dropped the romance thing and turned it platonic and cautious.

Electrokinetic Mikey in season 5 was wonderful and I wrote a fic where he got to keep those powers and despite side effects everything was fine.

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TMNT and Teen Titans part 1?

I had a very, very involved dream and decided to write down as much dialogue as I could, because if I play it right it could become a new AU fic. It would have the same “Mikey is naturally spiritual with ESP” theme that runs through all my stuff, but this time there are five superheroes who are totally up for turning him into Shiny Mikey whether his brothers are ready or not. Plus, Starfire would just adore him and squish him haaah.

In my dream, The Titans were a blend of Original and Go!, since some of the Go! episodes really are funny and silly and insightful. It’s a trash fire show. But it has moments. I’m hooked on Pretty Pretty Pegasus, okay. The Night Begins To Shine is a new autistic interest by itself. This is what I could scrounge up, very free floating, no real context, but there is definitely room for world building. I’ll need title recommendations. I loved the design of 2D animated 2012 kids during the first crossover with 1987 so I pictured them like that rather than CGI, not just in Jump City but in their own New York.

TMNT Meets Teen Titans (working title)

Scene (?)

“Mikey is…” Leo paused. He shrugged. “Mikey is friendly. He wants to make everyone happy. It makes him happy. There’s not much else, I mean, he doesn’t have hidden layers. He’s a happy-go-lucky fun-loving optimist who uses humor to diffuse tension. What you see is what you get.”

“Yeah, I doubt that,” Robin smirked, draping over the back of the couch with his coffee.

Leo glared. “Scuse me?”

“Everyone has layers,” Cyborg said. “Even the ones where you just see surface stuff. Take Beast Boy. He’s pretty much the same as Mike, right? Except he’s got a surprisingly huge amount of dark depth and intensity.”

Leo stammered, blushing. “W-well, yeah, but…that’s what I meant, like, I know Mikey gets sad, he gets depressed and dark sometimes, like everybody, but–”

“Sounds like you don’t know your youngest brother as well as you should,” Beast Boy smirked wider from the floor.

“Shut up, you little goblin…”

“Aww, is Leo pulling a me?” And Raph sauntered in with Starfire, both sweating after a training session. “Man, she’s like Master Splinter, she keeps going. Leo, you should train with her!” “Raph, they’re insisting there’s a dark side of Mikey that we never see,” Leo said in an odd, wheedling tone.

Raphael frowned. “Dark? Michelangelo? Nahh. Well…maybe. If push came to shove. Like, when I got bit by Fishface, he stayed with me and you should’ve seen how mad he got when Bebop and Rocksteady came near us, took them down like it was nothing. But that’s just ninja skill and athletics, Mikey was always the fastest and most acrobatic. Dark, though, no way. He’s too…sunny.”

“Cheerful,” came Donatello’s, voice, as he finally emerged from Cyborg’s work station, tapping away on a tablet, eyes alight. “Organically optimistic. Anger makes him feel physically sick, although he seems to store a great deal of it – did we tell you about that adventure we had going into his mind?”

“Donnie, can you look at people when you talk to them?” Leo snapped. Donnie sighed and sat on the couch and put the tablet on his lap.

Robin suddenly whirled toward the hall leading to the bedrooms. Raven walked out, Mikey gripping her hand in his and swinging them, a wild grin lighting up his face.

“You smell like incense,” Raph noted.

“We were in the astral plane!” Mikey chirped. The three brothers froze. “Raven says I’m one of the strongest spiritual minds she’s ever seen. See? Sensei was right, wasn’t he, Leo?”

“Wait, you meditated willingly?”

“You reached the astral plane by yourself?”

“You can’t be stronger than me!”

Cyborg and Robin exchanged a long, quirked glance.

Raven flushed, carefully eased her hand away, and smiled a tiny smile. “Well…yes. He’s strong. His aura is very…encompassing. Cuddly. Strong. Bright.” She looked up. “Dangerous.”

“Is not! You just said cuddly.”

“I meant that it could overwhelm, Mike. You…you hold on to things. People. You love too much. You don’t want to let go. You might not know how. Your emotions are your strength and your kindness is your weapon. Your aura was pulling my aura in like a hurricane. You wanted to connect badly and you relied on your natural charm, but you didn’t have any discipline or specific focus.” She smiled a little wider at him, as his eyes were widening and looking watery.

“Let’s put it this way. If you were like me, you could envelope an entire city in your aura and no one would even know. You could project nothing but calm and happiness and it would still be a problem because nobody would know anything else.”

“Ya mean…brainwashing?” Mike’s lower lip trembled.

“In less harsh words, sort of. Look.” She took his hands and faced him. “Remember what we talked about once I pulled us back out in there? I’m willing to teach you how to manifest and control these abilities, but that means delving deep into your soul and unlocking all the parts we need.”

“What unlocked parts?” Raph asked. “Mikey’s an open book!” Leo nodded emphatically.

They didn’t notice the very hurt look Mikey shot him. The Titans and Donnie did.

“Mikey,” Don said carefully, “I know you hide everything behind the jokes and the pranks and being loud. After Sensei’s death, your cheerfulness was almost out of hand.” Mikey flinched so hard that Raven tightened her grip. “But you know you can tell us anything. You can tell me anything.”

“But I can’t!” Mike exploded, and his brothers winced in shock. “You expected me to be the goof, so I’m the goof, so I don’t even bother to show you when it hurts!”

“Uhhh…” Beast Boy stood up slowly. “Maybe this should be a private family thing.”

“No,” and Robin folded his arms. “If we’re all going to work as a team to protect both our worlds and our cities, we’re going to get all of  this out in the open. Especially as Raven just revealed some incredibly useful and powerful information.”

“Not just that,” Raven said, “What about that time he got electrokinetic abilities after being shredded out of existence? He could still have them, even after nearly a year.”

“When did you tell her about…never mind.” Don bit his lip. “Look, Agent Bishop’s dampener cannon took those powers away because they were overloading him and they were going to burn him out.”

“You sure he was telling the whole truth?” Cyborg asked. “Electrokinesis can be controlled easily enough. Besides, that cannon might not have gotten all the ability, there could be just enough of a spark deep in his central nervous nervous system to ignite and bring at least a portion back. Not enough to be nearly as strong as he was back then, but–”

“COOL,” Mikey cut in, eyes the size of dinner plates.

“Well, Bishop is kind of a lying liar who lies,” Raphael grumbled.

“If I supplied Raven’s powers with an electromagnetic charge,” Cyborg mused, “I bet she could find the part of his brain that still holds the memory of that power and tweak it until it released the ability to call back that specific electrical power…”

“Yes please!” Michelangelo squeaked, bouncing so hard he moved from Raven to Cyborg in a blink, arms wrapped around the metal waist, eyes shining and puppy-begging.

“Plus,” Raven added, “I sensed a strong potential for extrasensory perception, which would make sense, since he’s connected to Dimension X via the mutagen’s affects on his particular brain pattern and wiring.”

“Are we sure it’s a good idea, rooting around in Mikey’s brain?” Leo asked. “It could hurt his brain.”

“Who would know the difference?” Don said automatically, old sibling teasing snapping into place. Every head turned to him. So, their brand of sibling humor was not going to fly here.

“It…it was a joke,” he murmured.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Mikey’s wide, lamp-like eyes full of tears. Mike whispered to Cyborg, who ground his teeth and looked ready to punch the other three turtles in the mouths.

Starfire rose higher into the air, eyes glowing. “Am I hearing this correctly? Are you all so accustomed to mocking Michelangelo’s preferred forms of intelligence, expression, input, sensory process, that you would naturally assume he is utterly incapable of being the great warrior he clearly is inside? Has this been happening all your life together?”

Michelangelo shifted, throat clearing. “When…when Sensei gave us our weapons when we were really little, he gave me my nunchucks because he thought they were perfect for me but he never explained why, or who I was, like with the others. So I made them perfect for me. I don’t think anyone ever believed in me. So I pushed all the sadness down until it got buried.”

There was a slight silence.

Starfire erupted in rage, and in a flash, she had grabbed Mikey and was hovering, cradling him like a child, energy flashing and hissing around her. “This is unacceptable! None of you are allowed to speak poorly of him! He is now under my protection as Princess of Tamaran! Shame on you!”

Mikey just stared at her, mouth open.

“From this point onward, Raven and I will take Michelangelo under the wing, and his natural abilities will be allowed to flourish. If any of you say anything mocking his brain, I will threaten to force feed you zorka berries until you choke!”

Leo, Raph, and Don had shrunk back, while Raven and Cyborg were holding back laughter.

“Well,” Raven smiled, “this will be fun.”

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Welp, my Electric Mikey fanfic is going in a really weird direction that I did not expect. It's cool though. Because I can use the whole "Leonardo and Michelangelo have the strongest ability to sharpen their intuition" speech from Splinter (back in Tokka vs Earth) to include Mikey's spiritual empath powers to boost his electrokinetic power. And then April and Leo can help. That was the entire point of the Sunshine Child AU anyway. To explore Leo and Mikey being Spiritual Intuition Bros with Ghost Splinter. Now that actual canon gave Mikey electrokinesis for an episode, I can push it a little more. Also, I get to create a new alien race, yay.