#consider Leo being able to stay in the in between of a portal

[alpinefrsh]

Hi!!👋

One of the first scenarios that popped into my head when I first read TIITTV (I found this series around the time part 5 was posted), was a Drista vs Krang kind of fight. And then I realized Drista may be invincible by default, but that doesn’t mean she’s all that dangerous. (There’s a difference between dangerous and deadly, Dris is definitely a little deadly) So I let the thought go pretty quickly. But I fell down the rabbit hole again and was like, ‘hey, what if we put the deadliest characters from each world in the same room and see who was more dangerous?’ Then I thought: XD as dsmp’s most deadly/powerful. But when considering XD’s powers, it made me realize how little he actually uses them. And that’s when I went back to Drista. Because listen, XD may be more knowledgeable about his powers(and therefore is more able to restrain them in power), but, what is essentially a ‘baby’ god… Drista is the personification of Chaos for a reason. She’s as trigger happy as a 14 y/o logging onto her older brother’s Minecraft server through his account and going crazy with operator commands. (See what I did there ;>)

I thought about this a bit too much and I honestly have no idea anymore. There is an unexpected amount of stuff to consider about the SMP gods, and also a bit about Krang too. Thoughts :D?

Thanks, hope you’re having a good day/night! <3

Hello!! o/

Oh, dude, that'd be kinda sick actually. Buncha flashy weapon and potion summoning shots. But yeah, not that she'd know how to actually use them effectively, lmao, she'd have no need to ordinarily.

Hm, I could see an AU where Drista decided to go along with Tommy to check out where she was sending him- but we slide back the timeline a little bit to take place during the Krang invasion. We place some slightly arbitrary limitations on Dris where she can't make another portal right away, but it's too dangerous for them to just sit around doing nothing, hence, joining the fight.

Hm... I'm not sure how much I'd want to take away the main fights from the original rottmnt cast, pretty big part of Leo's character arc in particular, but I could also see Tom and Drista clocking that the big alien flesh ship up in the sky as the probable source of their problems. Drista could hypothetically fly up and help with some portion of the fight, even if that's just by throwing down splash potions to help Leo and hinder the Krang.

I mostly like the thought of her and Tommy tearing up, like, krangified busses and shit. Both because it's badass, and because it doesn't interfere too heavily with how the original storyline plays out.

Alternatively- Krang 2 (the sister Krang) is still on earth in government confinement or something. If she were to break out, she'd likely want revenge on the Hamatos, and especially April, no doubt. I... Have some things that haven't happened yet that would technically make contacting the members of the dsmp possible, but I can't say anything about it yet because it's a pretty big spoiler.

But when things go sideways, Tommy could hypothetically use this unspecified method to contact some godly assistance from the dsmp. So that's a pretty feasible way of setting up a hypothetical fight between one of the Krang and Drista. I doubt she actually has much genuine combat experience, so I could more so see her acting in a supporting role for the others- ooh, she could have a cool scene where she summons a thunderstorm and starts fighting by summoning lightning.

It'd be hard to hit such a fast moving target though, so it's not a completely overpowered ability. Possibly have to get the Krang to stay still for a few seconds to land a shot on her?

Anyway, that's about the extent of my ideas for this concept. Although I'm fairly certain I'm not going to be involving the Krang at all in this series (outside of being mentioned), it was fun to think through the hypotheticals :D

You as well! <3

[kitthedruid]

[Ignore this it’s dumb and cringe and only going here by technicality]

There was nothing special about the fighter currently up in the Nexus. He hadn’t even been introduced as a Champion like most of Big Mama’s gladiators. He had been introduced as Fox, which… unimaginative much? He was a fox yokai. The only thing interesting about him was the fact that his fur was white, his eyes were different colors, and he carried a bō staff. That was what Leo thought before the fight started. 

Like he’d thought, the yokai was definitely no Champion, but there was something that caught his attention, though he couldn’t pinpoint it immediately. It was a lot of little things, really. The fact that these matches he’d been in were to the death, but he was still alive, and wasn’t a Champion… Either the ‘to the death’ thing was exaggerated to get the crowd excited, or something weird was going on with this. Then there was the way that the fox wielded his staff. He’d seen Donnie using his tech-bō enough to recognize a trained hand on a bō staff. It was a difficult weapon to use right, apparently. But he wasn’t using a single bit of the skill he could plainly see just in the way Fox moved and the position of his hands on the weapon. He was just… fighting with all the blind fury of a cornered animal. 

Ah-

That was it. He was fighting on pure animal instinct. 

The camera got a shot of the fox yokai’s face, and- yep, that look in his eyes was definitely wrong. There was a fear there, which made sense, he was losing the fight. But Leo was good at reading people, and he could see the way Fox wasn’t all there. He’s feral. Leo had never seen a feral yokai, actually he wasn’t sure that was a thing. But this guy was definitely more ‘feral fox’ than ‘intelligent mystic being’. And- yeah, he caught those extra hand movements that left him open and vulnerable, openings his opponent was keen to exploit, Fox definitely had some mystic mojo going on. Or, well, he would, if the current arena wasn’t protected against mystic powers of any kind. It made Leo curious, eager to see previous fights Fox had been in where mystic powers were allowed. 

Leo winced in sympathy as Fox took a heavy blow and went down for probably the fifth time. The camera got a close up of his face as he coughed blood and struggled to push himself up. Leo grimaced. Stay down, fox dude, you’re hurt real bad. Fox dude did not stay down. He pulled himself upright, wavering just on his knees, and hissed at his opponent as he used his staff to get himself the rest of the way up. 

He leaned over to Mikey, the only one he could think would be able to read between the lines just as much as he had, “Is it just me or?” He trailed off, unsure how to finish the question. 

“Does he not want to fight? Yeah…” Mikey looked suitably distressed at Fox’s condition, and that basically sealed the deal for Leon. They had to do something. 

They had been given a vip box and an invitation once they’d all recovered from the Kraang. While they weren’t exactly keen on the Battle Nexus, one does not simply refuse an invitation from Big Mama. Though, Leo was sure she was using their presence for publicity and advertising somehow. 

He looked over at Mama’s personal box, and reached for one of his katanas as he considered. The arena was shielded from mystic powers, and that had been enough to stop his and his brothers’ ninpo before. Big Mama liked to be pampered though, and enjoyed using her own mystic powers to switch between forms as convenient. A subtle flash in the box, easy to miss, but Leon remembered what to look for.

“I’m gonna go greet our host,” Leo grinned and brandished one of his blades, “Anyone wanna come with?” 

Predictably, they all jumped up to join him, and Leo had to fight the urge to roll his eyes. Junior he understood, and his brothers, well, he understood, but that didn’t stop it from being a little suffocating. He slashed open a portal with the interior of Big Mama’s box in mind, and just like he thought, a brilliant blue portal opened up and he stepped through. Oh yeah, who’s the master. Leo grinned as he and his family stepped into the lavish box. 

“So~ Big Mama, good to see you, love what you’ve done with the place,” Leo winked, leaning on his katana with a flourish, “Curious question, though,” he pointed at the screen showing Fox, now making brutally quick counter attacks, “What’s with him?”

Okaaay… not exactly his best work, but… 

“Ahhh Little Boy Blue…” Big Mama purred, “Fantabulous to see you and your little family could make it… Though I’m afraid I don’t recognize the… plus one?”

Leo looked over his shoulder at Casey, who looked… impressively neutral for someone locked under Mama’s scrutiny. “Oh y’know, new friends and all. He helped save the world, only fair to bring him along. Now… about the weird fox guy?”

Big Mama rolled her eyes with a dramatic sigh, “Oh if you must know, he was found in that state, and no healing, mystic or mundane, snapped him out of it. All he would do is fight. So I let him.”

“That is a surprisingly straightforward answer..” Donnie commented suspiciously.

“I have nothing to hide!” Big Mama grinned, “In fact, you’re welcome to see him after the match. Though, I advise caution, like I said, all he does is fight.”

Leo narrowed his eyes, trying to read the spider yokai. She seemed honest… but it was hard to tell with Big Mama. He turned back to the screen and watched Fox get knocked down again. Though, when he collapsed trying to get back up, he stayed down. 

Big Mama hummed thoughtfully and tsk’d, “He’s quite powerful… but he never seems to win these no mystic powers matches.” She commented idly.

Leo raised a brow ridge. Likely trying to pique my curiosity more. He hated that it worked. “What does he do?”

“A very rare and very powerful mystic magic. Druidry. Natural and elemental magics, along with some shape shifting abilities that allow him to take the form of any animal.”

“… Yeah I think I understood about half of that…” Leo responded boredly. 

Big Mama gave him a critical look and Casey pulled his shoulder back.

“Like Draxum’s vines, but more natural, and more powerful.” The teen explained.

“Ohh~ he is a smart cookie. I think I like this one, my dear turtley-boo~” Mama teased. 

“Huh… I find that hard to believe. Draxum’s… stuff, is pretty tough,” Raph commented.

“If you don’t believe me, you’re welcome to look through the recordings of his previous matches. He either wins, or takes his opponent down with him. Every splendiferous time.” The grin on her face was nothing short of threatening, but Leo knew she just appreciated the show that such a fight put on. “The whole ~to the death~ thing, while exhilarating an idea for the crowd, is not really good for business. Deaths do happen in my Nexus, but I believe you’ll find that Fox is being taken care of in the meantime while you’re looking through the recordings.”

Leo grinned, “I have a better idea. Why watch a recording when I can see for myself? Me versus him, mystic powers included. Whenever he’s all healed up, of course.”

Big Mama raised a brow, “And why should I allow that?”

“After the whole invasion situation? You need a headliner fight to get back in business. Everyone’s scared and stressed and dealing with the aftermath. Rat-jitsu’s son versus powerful druid warrior? Now that’s exciting. People will love it.” Leo explained, trademark grin plastered on. Take the bait, take the bait. 

Mama gave a humm as she thought about it. “Perhaps…” she narrowed her eyes at him, “But what do you get out of this?”

“Uh, I thought we went over that already?” Leo chuckled, c’mon c’mon, “I get a chance to see what he can do up close and personal. Plus, y’know, fame and glory when I win,” he winked. Confidence is key. 

Big Mama sat back, watching him with scrutiny. “You’ve outplayed me once, my dear turtley-boo… I will not have it happen again. I will need some… assurance that there will be no dizzy-dazzling…”

“Like what?” Crap, she’s made me. 

“Hmmm…” She grinned, steepling her fingers and tapping them against her lips thoughtfully, “You do me some favors, run some errands. Nothing illegal, I may have less than legal operations, but I do know you and your family, and I know you’d never agree to do anything illegal. Potentially dangerous or life threatening though.” She grinned, “That way, whatever you pull, I get your services in return until I feel the offense paid back in full.”

Leo sighed dramatically. Raph and Pops always swear by honesty, let’s try that. “Alright, you got me, I was planning to try to snap him out of it, portal him out of here if I had to.”

Big Mama laughed, “Well why didn’t you say so?! You are welcome to try, though I do advise caution, he will try to fight you.”

Leo blinked, “Wait, what? You want me to try?”

“Well of course!” She replied, “I am many things but a monster is not one of them. No person - yokai, mutant, or human - should be deprived the safety of their own mind. If you can help him, by all means, go ahead and try!”

“Huh… Alright, I’ll admit, that was unexpected,” Leo grinned, “But much appreciated, we’ll be taking him with us, I have a few ideas, and we can handle his injuries just fine.”

“Very well,” Big Mama gestured to one of her employees, “You there, take them to Fox.”

“Yes, Mum,” the yokai saluted, and gestured for the family to follow them.

[imagine-pleasantnonsense]

Of Late Nights and French Movies

Summary: 

After Donnie is woken by a nightmare following Many Unhappy Returns, Donnie and Leo take comfort in each other's presence, and a few shared words.

Ao3: [link]

Pairing: none

Words: 1304

A/N: I wrote this very early in the morning when I definitely should have been sleeping, not proof read or beta'd, but fuck it, I'm posting it because if I don't post it now I never will.

based on a post i saw by @boficionado

He can’t breathe.

Metal arms around his throat.

No- they were purple vines.

Metal.

Vines.

Metal.

Vines.

He can’t breathe¬

        Donnie eyes shot open and he gasped for air, still unable to get any oxygen to his lungs as his heart pumped too fast in his chest. He furiously untangled himself from his bed sheets and threw his feet over the side of the bed once he was free. The cold of the floor helped ground him if only a little, but his throat still felt constricted.

He reached up and tried to pull away whatever was restricting his airflow, but he only found his pyjama shirt’s collar. He undid at least half of the buttons of the shirt, ignoring the sound of a button hitting the floor as he was a bit too rough with the fabric. It was fine, he could fix it later, all that mattered right now was that he could breathe.

He yanked the shirt down to sit loosely around his upper arms, too distraught to bother with actually taking it off.  He sucked in a lungful of air, desperate to be rid of the burning in his chest. He sat quietly, the only sound in his room his ragged breathing.

His voice was course as he tried to reassure himself.

         “It was just a dream…”

But it wasn’t. Just months ago, he had felt the same desperation for air as one of Draxum’s vines had closed off his throat. And just before that, the feeling of his own tech constricting his airways by Kendra’s hand still haunted him.

Clearly, it still haunted him.

His head felt clearer with the oxygen now returning to his lungs, he finished unbuttoning his shirt, letting it to sit open over his shoulders.

His head was pounding, and his throat felt raw despite it only being a dream, this time anyway, and with the memories of the not actually just dreams still fresh in his mind he felt that his chances of getting back to sleep that night were slim to none.

Donnie grabbed his phone, noting the time only enough to recall that it was very early morning, before he left his room.

The halls leading to the main atrium were dark, his family having gone to bed even before he had earlier that night.

Though, he wasn’t as surprised as he should be to see lights shining into the hall when he finally got to the atrium doorway. They flashed in that way only late-night TV in a dark house could, and when Donnie rounded the corner, he saw Leo curled up in front of the TV with a hot drink and a blanket wrapped around his legs. The TV was set to what seemed to be a foreign film, with the volume down low and subtitles flashing across the screen.

They made brief eye contact as Donnie made his way across the atrium and into the kitchen.

He made quick work of getting a glass of water, which he downed immediately following a painkiller, and then used the water left in the electric kettle to make his own mug of tea. For once he made the healthy decision to forgo coffee late at night.

Once his own tea was steeped, he disposed of the bag and went back to the living room to see that Leo had readjusted his position so that there was room for Donnie on the couch.

He said nothing as he set his mug on the coffee table and laid down beside his brother, resting his head on Leo’s lap and pulling the blanket from off the back of the couch over his body. It was only a moment before Leo’s hand was rubbing Donnie’s head, massaging gentle circles over his temple. They stayed like that for a while, only the dull sounds from the TV breaking the silence as neither of them followed the movie. Donnie had deduced the film was in French after realizing he understood the what the quiet voices of the characters were saying as a dying man’s son spoke about monetary affairs to a group of doctors.

Donnie would occasionally move to take a sip of his tea, and every time he’d curl back up with his head in Leo’s lap. Leo’s idle ministrations a continuous reminder of where Donnie was whenever his mind would wander back to his dream.

As the main character was escorted from a hospital to a cabin by a lake, Donnie spoke up.

“Insomnia?” He asked. His voice was nonchalant, tired, but Leo knew him well enough to catch the amount of care behind the single-worded question.

“She’s a bitch.” Leo replied just as simply. “Nightmares?” He added afterwards.

Donnie felt a tightness in his throat as his mind flashed back to the moments from his dreams, but he was quickly brought back by the feel of Leo’s hand on his forehead.

         “Yeah.”

“Do you want to talk about it?”

“Not really.” Donnie’s voice was barely above a whisper, and he moved from the topic. “Is the tea I got for you helping at all?”

“Not really.”

And then it was quiet again.

The two brothers laid together, cast in the gentle glow of the TV, and watching as a man died surrounded by his friends and family.

Donnie finished off the last bit of his tea, feeling little to no affect from something that was supposed to help induce drowsiness and he made a mental note to try a new brand.

On screen the main character finally passed away, and the quiet, melancholy tone of the film's current scene offset the comfortable silence between the two brothers. Each took the moment of reprieve in their usually very loud home.

They were so used to the rooms being full of sounds and life, if not music, or movies then laughter or yelling, and the quiet of the night with the more rambunctious brothers soundly sleeping was enjoyable. But the middle brothers would both be lying if they said the lack of sleep wasn’t starting to get to them.

“Maybe we should consider therapy.” Leo broke the silence as the credits begun to roll over the screen. “You can do it online and they don’t even have to see your face anymore.”

“I think the lies we would have to come up with to justify your intense fear of the lair getting broken into and the events leading to me being strangled twice would be a bit hard to explain to a psychiatrist. Not to mention our daddy issues.” Donnie was only half joking about the last part.  

“As long as our nights get a bit shorter is that really such a heavy price to pay?” Leo’s voice was humorous, but Donnie could hear a note of desperation behind it.

The ease at which they had fallen into this routine was from countless nights of similar outcomes. Donnie falling asleep only to be woken up mere hours later to find Leo hadn’t been able to sleep at all. While the nightmares about being strangled were new, they were only the newest in a long list of nightmares he had suffered from for years. And Leo had suffered from insomnia for about the same period of time.

“Maybe I’ll look into it.” Donnie eventually said. “Or maybe there’s some Yokai group therapy session that we can sign up for.” He joked.

“I do know at least one portal into the mystic city now, though your germ-hating butt will not appreciate it.”

“I’d swim in garbage if it meant getting a few more hours of sleep every night.”

“Noted.” Leo replied as he begun looking scrolling through the lists of movies for something new to watch.

“Wait- you chose that movie?” Donnie asked.

“I was in a French mood.”

[undercoverwizardninjaturtle]

A long night Prolouge: a ROTTMNT fanfiction (rewritten 2022)

Summary: The purple masked turtle looked back to Hueso, again he couldn't help but take notice of the bruises and dirt under the normal sterile turtles nails ,” Hueso,” he started, “ it all started yesterday, the longest night of my life.”

Word count: 1385 Pairing: None, less then none

Rating: G

Who to blame: @sallychoasaura and @yeetusdeefetus

Now you might be asking yourself “wait! Charmy already wrote this!” And I did, except I want to work on it again and wasn’t happy with the way I had rewritten it. So now it’s cleaner and more tolerable, and I hope y’all enjoy it again

Run of the Mill Pizza never knew a moment's peace.

From the moment Hueso opened the doors and barely dodged a rampaging crowd, to at night when he had to chase those same customers out with a broom, he didn’t have a moment's rest. Not that Hueso could blame them, it wasn’t easy living in a Human city, and as far as he knew, he was one of the only establishments in New York that provided accommodations for humans, yokai, and mutants. Well, other then Middle of the Road Pizza a few streets away, but they were less of a rival then they were a blight; he would consider Big Mama’s hotel but at least Hueso’s pizza was legal.

‘Course now after twelve simultaneous retirement parties (which somehow ended in a giant fight between all of them) Hueso was finally able to sink into a chair (that he had been using as a weapon a moment ago) and sprawl his limbs out.

��You ok, boss?”

Hueso finishes wiping off his face in time to see a glass of water being offered to him, “Thank you Lex.” he takes a long drink for the first taste of water he’s had in hours, “I just pulled something tossing out one of those mutants,”

“The pig one that sweat a lot and kept criticizing our meat?”

“Si, that bitch.” Hueso stretches again. For the first time all night his business was empty. The only evidence that they had been busy were the scattered napkins and new bite marks in the tables. The only person who stayed behind was Lennox, one of his newer and younger hires that towered above everyone, as most dragon yokai did, with dark gray scales, but with a leaner form and a gentle look in his brown eyes. Hueso slumped into one of the clean tables, “Sit, we can take a break for a bit.”

Lex looks around the room for a moment, undoubtedly making sure there wasn't a customer hiding (again) before he sits down on the other side, just as a knock echoing from the kitchen causes the two to both sigh loudly. Hueos waves as Lex braces to stand up, “I got it, relax for a bit.” Truth be told it wasn’ unusual for him to get ‘off hour customers’, namely those who couldn’t afford to pay and were too proud to come in during business hours. He always saved as much food as he could for him especially with the influx of the mutants in the city.

As Hueso makes his way back to the kitchen, he presses a hand to the middle of his back to relieve some of the pressure, putting on a patient smile. But as he opens the portal of his back door that smile immediately falls back into a scowl, “Oi vey.”

“Hey Boneman,” Leo offers a weak wave.

“No, NO, Not today,” His migraine was coming back in droves, “It's one thing when you harass me as paying customers-”

“Thanks, you shouldn’t have!” Leo ducked ,” Come on D-“

“Wait a minute –“Hueso spun around but not in time to keep Donatello, who he just noticed was there too, duck in after his brother. Before he could curse his bad luck, Leo walked smack dab into Lex. Causing the red slider to yelp in surprise, jumping back, “Holy-“

“Need help boss?” Lex asked, glaring down at Leo with enough heat to set a fire. Which had probably occurred to Leo as well, since he was now hiding behind Donatello. But then he saw that one of Leo's eyes was swollen shut, his mask cast with a sheen of dirt. He glanced back at Donatello only to see he was in the same condition, except he was half asleep, holding his ruined mechanical shell to his chest with his cheek resting on it. The two of them shared enough bruises to nearly change their foundation for their skin, Leo has a grip around his brother's shoulders as though he was afraid he’d fall asleep right on the spot, “We wouldn't be here but we’re too tired to get back home. Can we crash here for a little bit?” Donatello asks.

Hueso may be tired but he was never heartless, waving his hand tiredly at Lex, “It is fine, they can stay.” It is almost worth the incoming headache to see Donnie and Leo both light up. Leo moves as though he’s about to throw his arms around Hueso but he raises his hand again, “Go get a seat, are either of you hungry?”

“STARVIN’” Hueso should have known it was a dumb question as Leo’s eyes lit up, “I’ll take a bucket of mint chocolate ice ream, a bottle of hot sauce,” Leo looks to his half asleep brother,”You?”

“Oyster crackers. A bucket of oyster crackers.”

Well, if they were going to be leeches, at least they were cheap leeches. “Go take a seat. But you're cleaning up after yourselves,” Hueso says with a wave, Leo responds with a gesture he can only assume is a salute and walks behind Donnie to guide him forward by the shoulders into the restaurant. After a moment there's a sound of pans hittin the floor, a convenient cat screeching, and the swinging doors causing Hueso to drag a hand down his face

“You sure you don't want me to kick them out?”

“No no it's fine, they’re good kids.” he says even though he wasn't sure he believed it half the time, “They just happen to be more annoying than a dog that’s stolen your leg. I’ll get what they need. Why don’t you enjoy your break in my office?”

Lex glares at the dining room door before huffin out smoke through his nostrils, “If they bother you too much let me know,” he says before walking away, disappearing into said office. Bless that kid, Lex was a little paranoid but loyal. But considering the last time one of those turtles showed up ended in a unicorn stampede he really couldn't blame him. Hueso hovers around the kitchen, grabbing the hot sauce and dumping a bag of oyster crackers into a soup bowl (a bucket didn't seem very sanitary). Before he grabbed the ice cream he made sure to get his first aid kit from under the sink

By the time he finally joins them in the dining room, the two of them are slumped in the same side of a booth. Only jolting awake when Hueso rapped the table top, the two jumping awake, “You can at least be awake when you eat.” At first Leo blinks around in a way that makes Hueso think that he forgot where he was at until he sees the food, “Bless you Boneman, bless all your bones.” before tearing open the ice cream and twistin off the hot cause cap and dumping all the liquid inside stirring the horrific contents inside. If Hueso had a stomach it would have twisted inside out. Leo takes two bites with a blissful look on his face before spotting the first aid kit. “Thanks Boneman,” he says pulling open the first aid kit and poking around the contents, Hueso knew for a fact that Leonardo always carried a personalized first aid kit and the fact he didn’ have it raised not only Huesos interest but his concern, “I am assuming you two have had a long night?”

A pained tired noise escapes Donnie, that Hueso almost can’t recognize as a laugh, as he raises his head from its resting position Hueso looks to Leo as he readies a bottle of alcohol in his hands and a napkin in the other before turning to Donnie. It was only then that Hueso noticed the scratches on the soft shell turtle's shoulders. They probably had been deep enough to bleed at one point Leo started to clean at them with the alcohol. But whether they didn't hurt enough to warrant a reaction or Don was too tired to react he didn't know, “So, since you're darkening my doorstep, do I get to ask what happened?”

“Why don’t you ask him?” Don jerks his head towards the turtle tending to his shoulder

“Me?!” Leo was often so dramatic Hueso couldn't tell if he was being sincere or melodramatic. Or both,”I'm a victim here!”

“ No I'M the victim here, because of you I had one of my battle shells destroyed, I was in JAIL, and worst of all, I’ve seen things that I can never unsee,”

“Yeah! I know ‘cause I was THERE Donaldathen! Do you think I had fun?!” Leo demands. Despite his tone and volume he gently places the gauze on Don’s shoulders and tapes them in place, “I was tricked! I Betrayed! Bamboozled and Yamboozled-”

“Yamboozled?” Hueso asks

“-YAMBOOZLED!” HE repeats louder, “Where’s my sympathy?!”

“My sympathy died with my innocence!”

Seeing as Hueso hosted crime bosses at least once a month, he was not unfamiliar with arguments breaking out in his restaurant. But with a finely tuned clearing of his throat the two brothers looked to him, “Now, not that I don't love having you two intruding my place of work after hours and regaling me with half a tale, but would it kill you two to fill me in on what happened?”

The brothers look at each other for a moment, Donatello quirks his brow, “Leo-”

“No, NO! We swore behind that vegan Arby’s to never talk about it again! We made a twin promise!”

“Just because you shook my hand when I passed out does not make a twin deal!” Don reaches past Leo into the first aid kit and pulls out a instant ice pack, cracking it before slapping it over Leo’s eye hard enough to make him yelp loudly and glare over at the purple turtle before reaching up to hold the ice pack in place, “Shell hole, I was gentle with you.”

Donatello seems to ignore his brother for a moment as he turns forward to look at Hueso. It wasn’ exactly a secret that Donatello didn’t get a lot of sleep, he was the only person Hueso knew who drank coffee with pizza, but between the dirt caked under Donatello’s normally pristine nails and eyes dark enough to either be bruises or exhaustion, maybe both, it wasn’t hard to see that Heuso was in for a hell of a story.

“Hueso.” Donatello starts, “It all started yesterday, the longest night of my life.”

[zoetekohana]

I finally watched “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” and I wrote down all my reactions:

Here it goes... COWABUNGA MY TURTLE DUDES.

Ooooh I love the use of ninja throwing stars for the Paramount stars.

I’m also digging the music.

TURTLE FORMATION

Omg, Mickey, no squirrel formation. (I don’t want to see those creepy squirrels from the 2012 series.)

Honestly, even though the plot of the 2014 film wasn’t great (hopefully this one will be better), they had the personalities down to a tee, and it’s great to see that’s still the case.

The way they depict the sibling relationship between Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mickey is so awesome to watch. Not to forget: the fact that they actually act like teenagers is such a plus.

Case in point: Donnie repeatedly telling Raph to “do it do it do it do it do it [the shellskateboarding thing]”. I love it.

Hahahaah, Kevin the pizza guy. Such a nice Kevin Eastmann cameo!

Donnie: “When I say Knicks you say Go.” I’m reminded of the failed “When I say Vol you say Tron.” speech. But at least the bros got it right.

Vern The Falcon? Oh no....

Hahaha, shooting the little spit balls at Vern and then mimicking his falcon. See, such teenagers.

APRIL IS CALLING DONNIE.

I REPEAT APRIL IS CALLING DONNIE.

Yes, I ship them. Shush.

Also, that blonde wig + glasses look really good on Megan Fox? 

Baxter Stockmann... He’d go with a FLY FORMATION.

Donnie to April: “Do you need us there?”  Awwww.

April to Donnie: “That birthday present that you made for me?” AWWW.

Yes, April, explain Baxter the difference between geek and nerd.

Omg, Baxter, that laugh.

Ofc there needs to be some Megan Fox fanservice... /eyeroll (She was pretty badass going undercover, but still that was unnecessary.)

HAHAHA I LOVE THE DONNIE SMILEY FACE ON HER WATCH WHEN THE DOWNLOAD OF THE FILES IS COMPLETE!

Oh no, the pizza slice on the basketball court....

Poor Mikey, he just want to “LIVE UP THERRRREEE. Up there where flowers bloom.” (And now I have that South Park song stuck in my head.) 

Also, a Transformers reference, really?

Wait;;; How are the copied files on April’s watch being deleted? She downloaded them? She wasn’t streaming them....

But good on her for discovering that Baxter is working with Shredder (where did that hunch come from though?) and that he + the Foot Clan plan on breaking him out when he’s being transferred.

Casey Jones as a law enforcer? That’s new? 

Ngl, I don’t really like that detail. It doesn’t suit him.

BEBOP AND ROCKSTEADY!!!!! :D

It’s not a Michael Bay production without car explosions. /eyeroll (again)

Also, NYC believes that Vern stopped the Shredder. Why didn’t the NY police ask him to accompany this super important transfer?

Hahaha, that tmnt theme’d honk. I LOVE.

Great updates on the Turtle Shell, Donnie.

Raph when taking out the last of three foot bikers: “That’s how I roll. That’s how you roll.”

Why didn’t Raph stay on the bike? He could cover more ground that way.

Soooo, Baxter knows of the Turtles. 

I love how personalised the Turtle Shell is.

Hi there, Krang! 

So, lemme get this straight: Krang needs the three teleport devices he sent to Earth to join them into an arch capacitor to teleport the Technodrome to Earth to conquer it. But he was able to teleport Shredder to where he was. Something does not add up there... 

So many plotholes.

But whatever, I’m still enjoying this. :) 

Donnie and April make such a great team.

But how is she going to get to the TCRI’s mainframe? (Also, how is she going undercover everywhere? Isn’t she recognised as a television reporter?)

Chief: “Manhole covers?”

That was some nice exposition on Jones wanting to become a detective. Like really? It was so odd to tell your superior who’s clearly mad at you that.

The casting for Bebop and Rocksteady is so spot on.

It’s still weird not to have the Shredder vs Splinter backstory. It feels like Splinter is just there now? He’s more important than that. :(

Is that barkeep the Vulture from b99? 

Quickly looked it up, yep, that’s Dean Winters. :D

It’s not a Turtles movie without some Vanilla Ice. ;)

Reporter thing aside... Why go on this important undercover mission on high heels? Everyone can hear you. That’s not stealthy there, April. 

I get that the purple ooze is different (iirc from the 1987 series) - although I’m not a fan of a different kind of mutagen -, but why not mention the green ooze? They have the green mutagen from the previous film that mutated the Turtles and Splinter? Or am I completely remembering the 2014 film wrong?

Also, how did Shredder shoot two darts into two different directions? 

Yes, that gun has two barrels, but he shot both darts practically at the same time?

Also, how are they mutating into a warthog and a rhinoceros without the DNA from those animals? 

The way they transformed, that sequence, was pretty cool, though.

Hmm, so we all have a dormant animal gen. It’s an explanation for not needing the animal DNA, I guess.

YES TO HBIC APRIL O’NEIL!

So Casey wants to be a detective, but then suits up as the Hockey Vigilante we know and love. That really doesn’t make much sense.

April to Casey: “Stacey Moans?”

Stacey’s mom has got it going on.... And now I’ve got that song stuck in my head, haha.

Amell physically makes a good Casey Jones. But I’m sorry to say, he’s so stiff and mainly has two faces: this :| or this :D. I’m not a big fan of this casting. I’m okay with it, but idk.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And Koteas is forever my favourite Casey Jones. 

Casey to the turtles: “Do not eat us humans.” Are we really going with that joke?

I love Mickey’s introduction of the Turtles to Casey. :D

DONNIE’S POSE . <3

Haha, Mikey and Raph keeping Casey out of the huddle.

Leo about Casey: “Raph, grab Friday the 13th.” Great reference.

Casey: “And have the most pretentious names ever.” 

”Is it me you’re looking for?” ♫ Omg, Splinter listening to pop ballads. I love. xD

Of course Donnie could turn the ooze so they could become humans.

Don’t keep secrets from your brothers, Leo. 

Awww, Mickey. The one who wants to be among humans the most. :(

A Turtle Christmas album?? I WANT!

Leo: “There’s only one vote that counts in this family: Mine!” Harsh, bro.

Awww, ofc Donnie loves museums. :)

Casey to Vern: “See you there.” Mikey to Vern: “See you there.” Vern: “He already said that.” That made me laugh more than it should have.

I love how Leo and Donnie are riding the subway like that.

They’re not monsters. :’(

I want to give Mickey a big hug.

Leo to Splinter: “I can’t get them all on the same page, to think with one mind.” Splinter to Leo: “You shouldn’t want them all to think the same. It’s their different points-of-view that makes the team strong. A good leader understands this. A good brother accepts it.” I love this. 

Seriously, the personalities and the interactions are so on point.

Where did Beebs and Rock get a tank???

So many fistbumps in this film, omg.

I forgot to mention this before, but I like that Donnie isn’t as muscle-y as the others. I do like these different personal designs.

Also, Donnie easily jumping to go to the other plane. That was great.

Raph: “What would Vin Diesel do? No regrets, no fear.” Hahahaha.

Whoa, really, shooting from a tank inside a plan? “Dude seriously” is the right reaction.

Also, how is Donnie able to stay inside that open cockpit??? 

Lbr, Donnie is the mvp in this film.

“THIS PIG IS FLYING!” Hahahahahaha.

Raph seeing that turtle. A reference to Spike, maybe? :D

Okay, that entire river sequence was AWESOME!!! 

I wouldn’t change one things about it: from seeing the turtles swim under water, to Raph saving Donnie from the tank missile, to the four of them hiding in their shell (along with that “ploemp” sound effect) when going down the water fall.

Leo (sarcastically): “Thanks, guys. Real time effort.” Wow, way to be a dick there. :/

”Justice comes in all shapes and sizes.” That explains Casey Jones suiting up in his hockey vigilante get-up, I guess. But idk, that little plot could have been written better.

Come on, Vern, you can step up. :)

Oh no, Vern missing the obvious there with the location of the data storage of that hidden camera. hashtag relatable

Leo: “We may be brothers, but we’re not a team.”  That hurts....

But that portal technically isn’t your science, Baxter, it’s Krang’s. The names you mentioned might become footnotes, but so would you.

Donnie gathered all that information rather quickly? Unbelievable quickly?

But again, he’s the mvp!

I love that old video console on Donnie’s wrist.

They’re turtles forever. :)

I really thought Shredder was going to say that Baxter would always the same, aka “a fly on the wall” instead of “a footnote”.

Vern: “When something bad happens, you want to be with the turtles.” That is true.

Haha, oh u Shredder. You betrayed Baxter to have all the glory, but you didn’t consider Krang would betray you?

KRANG DOESN’T SHARE FOOD.

Oh, I noticed that Triceration next to Shredder! :D

Wow, Jade spoke for once. :o

I like the way the police protected the Turtles from being seen by the public.

Raph: “SURF’S UP, NY!”

Again with the heels, O’Neil?

I love that shot with the four turtles standing on the edge of the almost finished Technodrome.

Mikey calling Krang “a chewed up piece of gum” and then Leo continuing with “Bubblicious”, haha.

Mickey: “I’m vertical.”

Mickey is the second mvp this film.

I really really love that Donnie and Mickey get most screentime this film.

Great how Casey tricked Beebs and Rock like that. :)

TEAM EFFORT, BB!

Leo: “We got something nobody else has.” Leo, Donnie and Mickey: “Turtle power!” while Raph: “Garbage truck!” Hahahaha.

But seriously: TURTLE POWER!

Finally, April being a reporter again.

Chief to the turtles: “Last name?”  Hamato immediately came to mind, tbh.

Some Capril flirting. ;)

HEROES IN A HALF SHELL! ♫

I love the comic style in the end credits. 

But see: Splinter’s actor isn’t even mentioned in the special part of the end credits. He deserves better and more.

All in all, despite its flaws (too many expositions or Krang being the main villain with hardly any screentime f.e.), I really enjoyed watching this. It’s so much better than the 2014 one. 

(I do hope for actual one on one friendship between Donnie and Mickey next time, though. I love the turtles most together, but separate friendships I love them the most.) (And on that note: Where was my Raph&Casey romance friendship?)

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