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nights-flying-fox · 7 months

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It's Not Always the Rabbit Who Takes the Wrong Turn

Chapter 2: Two Leos, No Leo

Leo wakes up somewhere very familiar, and yet not. Meanwhile Donnie has a theory.

Word Count: 3477 ☆ Fandom: rottmnt ☆ Warnings: brief mention of wounds, nothing else ☆ AO3 Link: Here!! ☆ Previous Chapter: AO3 / Tumblr

Leo wasn’t sure what was going, or why he was sleeping in such an uncomfortable place (his bed wasn’t like this). A buzzing sound of loud chatter filled the place too, which was the worst. He hardly could make up words.

“It wasn’t me-”

“-no –machine—”

“I—clone—eo—”

He knew those voices.

“Then how—o Le—”

Family, it was his brothers.

It was them.

His mind was slowly catching up with reality. As sounds became more and more clear, Leo’s memories of what had happened returned to him as well.

“Please Casey—”

“They all die!”

“It isn’t about me.”

Leo opened his eyes wide open, shooting up with the sudden worry. His family, he had to be sure they were okay. He had to see them.

“L-leo! Slow down, you’ll hurt yourself!” He heard Raph before seeing him. There he was: big, strong, healthy. All good, just a few healing wounds. He looked all okay.

“R-raph?” Leo asked, voice a bit weak.

Raph examined him while he placed Leo back on the bed carefully. “Is it really... really you? Leo?”

Leo had priorities though. “Are you okay?”

“Wha- oh- yes I am good, but I need you to stop moving.” Raph said softly.

“I—” Leo tried to move to look at him better, but the sudden pain made him gasp. He cursed under his breath, wincing.

“The painkillers should kick in soon.” He sighed, clearly not happy seeing Leo like that.

Geez, Krang must’ve hit him badly back on Technodrome. And when he was returning home. Eugh. At least his family knew the basics of healthcare, he was grateful for that. Talking about wounds and family... “How’s everyone? Dad, Donnie, Mikey, April? Casey Jr.?”

“Everyone’s okay, see?” Raph smiled, albeit his worry was still readable on his face. He gestured to the space around them, and Leo followed his direction. To be honest he was surprised he hadn’t seen Donnie and Mikey before. They were behind Raph, looking at him. Leo couldn’t see any injuries, much to his relief.

Except... those scars (or they were burns? They looked like lighting scars though...) on Mikey weren’t here before. He turned to Raph to ask, but then he noticed the healing wounds he had seen before were scars, fully healed.

...Had he slept that long?

“Are you really Leo?” Mikey asked, distracting him. Beside Mikey, Donnie looked at him in a way that made Leo’s worries worse. It was that untrusting face, the suspicious one. Had something happened to Leo, like in Jupiter Jim’s New Adventures Vol. 7 where JJ’s appearance was altered? Oh, pizza supreme in the sky please no! He was the face man (and the leader, sadly), he couldn’t lose his good looks!

Leo smiled at his brothers, not letting his thoughts spill out. “The one and only!”

“Don’t be so sure about that, pal.” His voice said back. Leo turned towards the sound’s direction and saw his own face looking back at him.

Leo stared at him, then turned back to look at his brothers. “Not to worry you guys, but I think I hit my head worse than I thought.” It was probably the concussion. Yeah.

His brothers glanced at each other, nervous. Oh, they were worried. He didn’t miss how Raph glanced at the other Leo too.

“Guys, I’ll be okay, no big deal.” Leo tried, but the pain wasn’t helping. Ugh, he really wanted to get over this and figure out what was wrong with his body right now. “It is just a few injuries—”

“Shell cracked, wounds on right leg and also broken, rib damaged and a broken bone. A few minor wounds. The rest is nothing that won’t heal in a day or two.” His other self interrupted.

Oh it talks too! How great. “I wasn’t talking to you, halluci-leon.” Leo huffed. “You’d expect yourself to understand that.”

Other Leo rolled his eyes, “You’d expect the stranger doppelganger of yours connect the dots faster, but here we are.”

“Leo! Be nice to yourself!” Mikey scolded.

“He can handle a few jokes.”

“You are seeing him too?” Leo turned his attention back to his brothers. Mikey nodded, so Leo asked the next logical thing: “Ooookay, what did Donnie do this time?”

Donnie gasped, a bit dramatically in Leo’s opinion, “How dare you too! As if I’ve ever broken Papa’s rules.”

Everyone in the medbay turned to him, various expressions of disbelief on their faces.

“You all are terrible.” Donnie crossed his arms.

“Love you back, Dee. Anyway,” Other Leo looked back to Leo, “I don’t think Donnie did something this time.”

“Then what’s going on?”

“We were hopping you’d tell us.” Other Leo said. “You’re not a Casey Junior case, are you?”

“Uh, no.” Leo noticed the relieved breaths.

“Are you a clone?” Donnie asked.

“No.”

“Are you a shapeshifting alien that fell from the sky via a meteor and is trying to trick us to eat us and then replace us with your kind?”

“No. Mikey, what the heck?”

“Okay, this doesn’t make any sense if you keep saying no.” Other Leo groaned.

“It is not like I don’t want to help here.” Leo glared at him. He was as lost as they were, and it lowkey began making him feel rather anxious. “How about we try different questions?”

“Good idea. Uh, what year is it for you?” Raph asked.

Leo smiled. Big guy most likely had an idea. “2020.”

“You know Casey Junior, so did the invasion happen?”

“Kicked Krang butts, stopped it from happening.” It sounded so simple when he said it like that.

“How long did it pass since that?”

“Well, you see, I just got out of the Prison Dimension.”

“YOU DID WHAT?!”

“WHAT?!”

“OMIGOSH.”

Yelling and his other self looking at him in shock. This went on better than he expected.

“How did... what...” He mumbled before taking a deep breath, “How did you get outta there?”

“Portaled myself out...” Leo replied, a bit distracted by how everyone reacted. “Am I missing something? Like I get it, it was a dangerous decision and all that but this is not the reaction I was expecting.”

“You are looking almost all fine, for the starters.” Other Leo said, “I wasn’t as good looking as you buddy. Congrats avoiding some punches, good for you!”

“Not just that, but did you say you portaled yourself out?!” Raph gasped.

“You didn’t even have the time to progress everything that happened to you!” Mikey exclaimed.

Amongst the worried talking, Donnie interrupted. “Gentlemen, do you realize what does this mean?”

“What?” Leo was going to handle the other information later.

All eyes turned to Donnie. “Your portaling has malfuctioned and you ended up in the wrong timeline.” He explained.

Leo blinked. Portaled myself to the wrong timeline?! “Are you sure about that?”

“That’s the most likely theory I got.” Donnie confirmed. “We need to get on some details to confirm it though.”

“Maybe Draxum or Junior can help too, right?” Mikey smiled.

“If we ever need help, perhaps.” Donnie was still not fond of the idea of asking for help from Draxum, but this was a better answer than the ones they’d gotten in the past months.

“At least that explains some things...” Other Leo sighed.

Leo was glad for the answers, but unfortunately, the answers didn’t help his worries. Made them worse even. “I need to go back.” He tried to get up, but Raph stopped him.

“You can’t until you heal properly.” He said softly.

“Raph, I know you mean well, but I need to go back to my timeline.” To his timeline, and to his family. To his brothers and sister and father and friends, who were all beat up and probably mourning him.

To his family, to the place he belonged.

“I don’t think you can portal yourself back like this. You might end up hurting yourself worse.” Other Leo said. “Trust me, just stay like this for a week. With how Draxum created us, your bones will heal in no time. So will your shell. I am sure your ninpo needs healing too.”

“My ninpo?”

“Overuse of ninpo can be damaging.” Mikey informed.

Leo wondered how did he know this. Or why.

As if he read his mind, Mikey elaborated. “Casey Junior explained that in the future because of the overuse of ninpo his Mikey suffered a lot from side effects. Draxum agreed too.”

“What sort of side effects?” Leo asked.

“Wounds on body, damaging your ninpo extremely badly, aging faster...” Mikey began counting.

“Aaaand that’s why I must run some tests on you.” Donnie interrupted, goggles on his eyes.

Tests didn’t sound fun right now, “They better be quick.”

“I don’t think you should worry.” Other Leo said. “Though that explains the wounds in your hands.”

What wounds..? Leo turned to look at his hands, bandaged. He didn’t feel any pain, but it was probably the painkiller. Good to see it was starting to work. Then he looked at Mikey again. His arms, the strange wounds—

“Are those scars from overuse of ninpo?” Leo was looking directly at Mikey.

He avoided his eyes, “Yes.”

“What happened?” Was it during the Krang attack? After? Did his Mikey get those wounds, or could he stop that?

Silence.

Now, that won’t do. He was wounded, tired, and confused. He wanted answers, and he was going to get them. “Okay. Since no one is talking I guess it was bad. Did that happen during the Krang invasion attempt?”

Raph sighed, “Yes, it did. But I am not sure this is the right time to talk about this.”

“No, it is! I need to know, so when I go back, I can help.”

“I don’t think you can do that.” His other version said. “That happens while you’re in the prison dimension. Or rather, probably around the time you escaped or shortly after that. Donnie, correct me if I am wrong, but even if after a week he manages to portal himself back at the same time he left, there isn’t much of a chance he can stop it, right?”

Donnie hummed, “I don’t think he can even manage to go back to the time he left. Though time is a tricky concept, and there are many theories, and—”

“Alright, alright, I get it. Fine.” Leo was so not in the place to listen to detailed explanations of time and space. Not when his mind was getting more and more nervous. “So let’s say I can’t go back for a week like you said, I need to know. Post Krang, what happened? What have I caused to change?”

Did I put anyone in danger again?

They clearly didn’t want to talk about it. Couldn’t blame them. Leo wanted to forget that day too, but he couldn’t. Not when he didn’t know his family’s fate.

Finally other Leo took a step forward, “I wasn’t able to keep my katanas. I got trapped in the Prison Dimension with... him.” Leo watched as other Leo stopped for a brief second. “I am not sure for how long, but until Mikey ripped space and time to save my butt.” He smiled towards his little brother, “Our mystic warrior, Raph, and Donnie got me out. Closed the portal. Raph had some scars, he and Donnie both had similar wounds to Mikey’s on an arm but it wasn’t anything too serious. Even Mikey’s healed pretty fast. Donnie was stubborn but Mikey told us about his shell, some wounds there, but it was all stuff they can do without us. Dad, April, Junior, they all were fine too.”

Those were good news. No major injuries that they’d need his help. Good.

“To be honest, it was me who was beat up badly. So in your timeline that does not happen.” Other Leo turned his attention back to Leo, “Like I said, lucky.”

Leo cringed, “Eugh boi, glad I wasn’t you. No offense.”

“None taken.”

There was something Leo wasn’t telling him, but he didn’t want to dig into that. Not when his brothers were here. It could be something that should stay between Leos.

“How’s the scan, Don?” Other Leo turned to his twin, who no longer wore his goggles.

“I couldn’t find anything new.” Donnie replied.

“Good! Then you can go back home right after you heal, but we should probably ask Draxum first.”

Mikey was right, but that didn’t mean Leo was happy about that. He wasn’t fond of Draxum’s company as much as his twin. “Just make sure he does not throw me off the roof or the window or something.”

“You are never gonna let it go, will you?” Raph asked, most likely tired of hearing the same thing again and again after almost two years of the event. Too bad for him, he was going to hear it for forever.

Both Leos answered at the same time: “Nope!”

Donnie glared at them, “There is two of them now. We are doomed.”

Mikey’s face lit up with realization, “We still haven’t figured out how to call you, other Leo!”

“Easy, Lameonardo.” Raph teased.

“Come on Raph, you can do better than this.” Leo smirked.

“I think other me deserves a great title, like World’s Greatest Ninja.” Other Leo joined.

“We are so not calling any of you like that. Never.” Donnie glared.

“How about something silly, like uhh Poptart?” Mikey suggested.

“Poptart?” Leo repeated.

“I am hungry.” Mikey shrugged. “How about uh- double marked Leo?”

“Double marked?” Leo asked.

“Because there are two Leos and that makes double marks!” Mikey grinned.

“Sorry Mike, but that doesn’t make any sense at all. Maybe if he had some sort of extra markings then maybe it could work.” Other Leo replied.

“What was the Spanish word... tio? Ah no...” Raph struggled to remember.

Meanwhile, Leo cringed, “Please don’t call me tio, it literally means uncle.”

“I was trying to find the word for brother.” Raph explained.

“Hermano. But I dunno, not really a nickname.” Leo hummed.

“You know, we could call you Neon.” Other Leo said. “Like... Neon Leon. But you’re the Neon and I am the Leon.”

Leo smiled at him. Like the name he had chosen for the video game records. “That’s not bad, other me.”

“Thank you other me.” Other Leo made a dramatic bow. No- Leon made a dramatic bow. Right.

One week. He had to wait for a week, and then he could go home. He could do that. All he wished was that his family would wait for a week too. Just one week.

Donnie had never felt like this before. He didn’t exactly know what this feeling was. Worry? Sadness? Anger? Desperation? Maybe it was all of them together.

His dumdum twin had just sacrificed himself.

Not only that, but his dumdum twin’s tracker didn’t work. Donnie couldn’t see his vitals or his location!

"I don't understand!" Donnie kept staring at his screen. The lights representing his family shone brightly, except for blue. There was nothing blue on the screen. Nothing to prove Leo was back. Nothing to prove Leo was alright. "We saw him get into that portal. He must be somewhere, there is no possibility of the tracker not working."

"Maybe while fighting against Krang it got broken or something." Mikey tried to reassure.

"Maybe." Donnie repeated.

"Well, if he isn't here then he must've portaled somewhere safe." Raph said, no longer upset about Donnie putting trackers on them. "Maybe Dad and April are luckier. Donnie, you keep trying to find him."

Donnie nodded, determined eyes fixated on the screen and his hands tapping it without a break.

As Raph was about to move, he heard the call coming from April. "Found him?"

"No, so you didn't either." April's voice sounded worried.

This didn’t make any sense. None of this made sense. Where the heck was Leo?!

"He isn't here." Raph replied, trying to keep his anxiety under control.

"But where he could've gone?" Mikey questioned.

"He has some favorite places, doesn't he?" April said. "We can check them."

"He wasn't in his best shape, he might have accidentally portaled himself to somewhere randomly like the old days." Raph agreed.

"I hope he didn't portal himself to Tahiti." Mikey sighed. "Not the worst place but…"

"How about the Hidden City? Or Hueso's?" Raph guessed. "I don't think he's somewhere hard to reach. We just need to keep searching!"

"You are right, my son. We must keep searching." Splinter's voice said softly.

Raph smiled at Mikey, then at Donnie. That's when he noticed the concern on Donnie's face. "Donnie?"

He didn't answer. Instead, he kept staring at the screen.

"Donnie, are you okay? You're worrying me." Raph watched as Donnie took a deep breath.

Then he finally said, "He might have portaled home."

"What? We just searched the whole lair." Raph didn't understand.

"We did. But our lair. Our timeline's. What if he didn't portal to our world. Then he would end up portaling into a different universe or timeline, and that would explain why I can't find him no matter what I do! Because even broken I'd get signals! I did the design and coding and everything, I know how it works!"

"Donnie, what are you talking about?"

"Remember how Casey came from a different timeline? This might have created an issue in time and space and with Leo's messy portaling the dum dum might have ended up in a whole different timeline." He told them. “Or maybe it is something about ninpo and the dumdum mystic stuff! I don’t know, but he has portaled somewhere out of this planet at least once! You saw that too. And that is exactly why there is a possibility he has done that or something similar again.”

Donnie had seen how Leo had opened a portal purely by accident and ended up getting them almost eaten by some sort of creature while trying to escape from Stockboy’s plan. They had spent nights talking about how far he could portal. This should be the answer.

Because any other answer would mean there was something worse happening. Donnie refused to believe anything worse was happening.

Raph and Mikey looked at him, both looked even more worried now.

“If it is really that… Then what will we do?” Mikey asked.

“We keep searching,” Raph said. “But in case Donnie is right, we must prepare for that. What do you need, Donnie?”

Donnie thought for a second. “I need to start doing some research and gain some information. I already had a plan for a dimension travel machine, but we need to be sure Leo is not here. Also it would be great if there is any more information I can gain about his mystic powers…”

“I’ll try to reach Draxum.” Mikey announced.

Donnie was relieved, “Thanks Angelo.” He really really didn’t want to ask for help from the yokai.

“Boys, I know it is hard but now I want you to stay there and treat your wounds.” Their dad said after a deep breath. “April, Future Boy and I can keep searching.”

“But—”

“Raphael,” Splinter interrupted again. “We will find him, but I cannot lose any of you too.”

Raph seemed to be still upset, but he sighed and gave up fighting against Splinter. “Okay. We will join you as soon as we can.” He nodded to himself.

Donnie glared at Raph. How could he give up so fast? Leo might need them! They didn’t know how much time they had! What if he was hurt? What if he needed them? What if they were losing time—

“Donnie?”

Donnie looked at Raph.

“Are you okay?” He asked, genuinely worried. Again.

“We must keep searching. Or at least try to gain more information.” Donnie said.

“We will, but first we must treat our wounds. Dad’s right about that.”

“And what if he is in the need of our help? What if he right now needs us?” Donnie retorted, voice a bit loud.

“We can’t help him if our wounds get infected.” Raph pointed out. “If anything happens to us, we can’t help him.”

“We can try and communicate with Draxum meanwhile.” Mikey said gently.

“We will go back into searching right after taking care of our wounds, okay?” Raph reassured. “I am worried too, so the faster we get this done, the better.”

He was right, and as Mikey said the time they would use to treat their wounds wouldn’t be fully wasted if they managed to reach Draxum. “Okay.”

“Good. That’s a plan. Now, to the medbay.” Raph led them.

Donnie slowly followed, trusting Raph’s words.

That was a plan. A plan so they’d find him. Donnie knew they would. Because none of them would ever stop till they did. After all, they had hope.

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mathmusicninja · 6 months

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Fun facts and little details about my fic "Wow, What a Coincidence" (part 2) featuring Phone Free Week and the kids' fortunes

(part 1) (part 3)

(spoilers for WWAC under the cut)

The mystic lady’s scene was fully written before I gave her a name (Madam Meredith). I still have to look up her name every time I want to use it.

Madam Meredith tells Dee that her fortunes “are not cheap cookies to be handed out at random.” After her experience with Big Raph, she does not tell this to other groups, and she does, in fact, give ’12 Donnie a fortune cookie because she can’t read the fates of people from other universes

All of the Rise kids’ fortunes reference their ninpo.

Their fortunes in plain English:

Little Raph: Canon didn’t intended for him time travel/dimension hop, but he did and took it like a champ. More troubles will come (i.e. canon events), but he’ll gain more power (i.e. ninpo) to bear it. His Rise family (6 people—Lee, Dee, Angie, Lou, April, one nebulous space for Draxum and/or Casey Sr. (and/or Casey Jr.??)) will depend on him, and he depends on them. Little Raph won’t be the leader forever since Lee will take over that role in time

Lee: His future is muddy because there are a lot of different versions of Rise!Leo—even canon has two of them—and Madam Meredith maaaay be able to see some of the fanon versions of Peepaw Leo too. When she says “you must come back” she’s talking about the fact that if Lee and his brothers aren’t in the Rise universe when Shredder or the Krang show up, their world is doomed. He’s going to get his ninpo from his family, and if he looks into his family history enough he’ll find the scrolls about the Shredder and the Krang and can probably? maybe? prevent that from happening

Dee: In ’03, Donnie has to live with the fact that if he disappears, an apocalypse will happen (SAINW). Dee became Dee because ’03 Donnie was trying to save SAINW Donnie. Dee knows this. He knows that ’03 Donnie’s choices had inter-dimensional consequences. But Madam Meredith tells him that Dee will never have to carry that burden--he isn’t the hinge point of an apocalypse, plus Dee will have ninpo, access to ’03 Donnie’s systems, and all the ’03 brothers, so he'll be fine. If Dee wants to, he could be a great mystic. Also he needs to stay close to his brothers and the ’12 guys and they’ll protect him from Old Hob

Angie: His is probably the most straightforward. He’s seen ’03 Donnie struggle with depression his whole life, and he’s become a bit of a therapist as a result. And he’ll become the greatest mystic warrior the world has ever seen and all that.

“June” (aka Rise April): We don’t see the specifics of her fortune, but Madam Meredith absolutely knows she’s a human and thinks it’s hilarious. She makes April squirm a bit by basically calling her out on it (Dee caught the implications and also thinks it's really funny). She also gets a few cryptic words about how she’ll become family with the turtles, be a bridge between them and society, help save the world with them, etc. but she doesn’t fully understand it at the time

While they’re in the Mystics tent, Dee starts drawing new schematics for his battleshell. Later that week he implements the upgrades so it can fit any of his brothers as a moment’s notice, as we see later in the fic

During the Phone Free Week scavenger hunt, Little Raph always insisted on being the one to read all the clues.

Little Raph won’t admit it because he knows he’d get instant backlash, but the Phone Free Week scavenger hunt was his favorite day at camp :D

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boxfullaturtles · 9 months

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Can you tell about your future Rise Tmnt fic? The crossover one? Is Raph with Jak and Daxter?

Oh!! Yeah I can do that! I'll never write the thing so I don't mind talking about it lol

So it is very much a self-indulgent, "everybody lives" kinda thing. The file for it is saved as "Mikey Saves Everyone But Loses Them in the Multiverse". The plot is thus:

After Splinter dies in the Bad Future, Mikey's like "Nope, no, not losing anyone again." and starts making his own plans. Little by little he starts sorta dripping his own mystic energy into his family with only one order: take them somewhere safe, somewhere far away from the Krang, away from the apocalypse, somewhere they could all be happy and safe. Anywhere but that version of Earth.

And it works!

The second Mikey's body is ripped apart opening the time gate, his own mystic powers snatch up the pieces of him and whisk him away. Yeah, reforming kinda...sucks. But hey! He's alive! And in a city! With no sign of the Krang! But then the processing of being ripped apart and put back together again kind of catches up with him and he passes out. Right as somebody else finds him.

Mikey wakes up in the sewers. In the lair of another group of turtles. His mystic powers have thrown him through dimensions and he's ended up in the lair of the 2007 turtles [because they are my boys and I love them very much and they get no attention]. There's some tension and confusion and probably some nickname shenanigans; I thought it'd be cute if the 07 guys started calling Mikey "Sunny" idk. But anyway, Mikey searches for the energy of his family only to find...they're not in this world. He reaches farther.....and farther.....and farther still. They're scattered. They've been thrown into a bunch of different dimensions. Mikey probably should have been a bit more specific with his mystic energy. But he knows they're alive!

So now it's just a matter of going to get them. And jumping dimensions is going to take a lot of energy and Mikey can't do it all at once. 07 Splinter and the boys say Mikey's more than welcome to use their lair as a place to come back to, since he doesn't have a home. And once Mikey's recovered enough, he reaches towards his first family member and makes his first leap.

I never thought up a specific order for these events to go in, but it would be Mikey storing up enough energy to hop into a dimension, find his family member, and jump back with them to the 07 world. For sure I knew he was going to save his brothers and April, but I wasn't certain about him being able to rescue Cassandra and Draxum? That's a lot of work,,, Maybe Draxum sensed what Mikey was doing and told him not to. Maybe Cass heard them arguing and Draxum told her what was going on and she told Mikey to focus on saving Casey Jr instead. I dunno, I didn't plan that far ahead. I didn't actually figure out where April ended up either :/ There's just too many fun places to put her where she could be so cool and kickass!

Anyway!

Yeah, since this is an excuse for a big crossover with multiple media, I'm not going to take the time to explain all the plots of the other media in detail. So if you're confused uh...wiki? I guess? Also, I figured the way Mikey's powers worked was when his family members died, his mystic powers snatched them up and threw them into a safe place.

So Raph lands in Haven City, from the Jak and Daxter video games. And you might be saying, "But Sage! Haven City isn't safe! Why would the mystic energy put Raph there!?" Ah, but what if this is post-Jak 3? Far enough along that the Metalheads have been driven out, the walls repaired, and the city is rebuilding. So Raph crash lands in Haven and there's some kerfuffle about this big guy covered in scars and looking like he just climbed out of a war zone. Which he did. And he's spooked and the Freedom Guard are spooked and everyone's yelling and poor Raph is just "whoa, hang on, idk what's happening??? who are you??? how did i get here?? ....where is here???"

I really just liked thinking about Raph helping Haven rebuild and feeling good about doing something peaceful. Jak and Daxter probably tell Raph about the history of Haven and at some point I think Raph should get to go to the Wastelands and run loose and punch some Metalheads and throw a car. I can also see him sorta bonding with Torn. They're both veterans, in a way, and probably closer in age. But Raph probably looks at Jak and Daxter and is reminded of his little brothers somehow and he's definitely picked Jak up and walked off with him like "nope, we're done, shut up". He and Torn probably talk about what they're supposed to do without a war going on, if they're not soldiers than what are they, and heavy stuff like that. Raph's not sure if he'll ever see his family again, he's not sure what happened to him or how he ended up in Haven. He's just trying to make the best of a confusing situation.

He's over the moon when Mikey finally shows up. He's so excited to introduce Mikey to his new friends. I never decided if there was a time gap kinda thing; like if for Mikey had lost Raph five years ago, then Raph would have to wait five years in Haven for Mikey to come get him. Or maybe what was five years for Mikey was only six months for Raph or something. Maybe every Hamato spawned in a new universe at the same time. I dunno, never decided. But either way you know there's going to be lots of hugging and crying and shouting. Mikey filling Raph in on everything he's missed. Raph asking about their family. Mikey explaining how he got to Haven and everything. And then probably some tearful goodbyes because it's doubtful that Raph will ever get to see Haven or the friends he's made there ever again.

Leo ends up in Japan, between the Edo and Meiji periods. Pros: he knows some Japanese well enough to get by. Cons: anyone who sees him thinks he's a demon and either runs screaming or tries to stab him. Yeah, he's not too keen on that. So he hides and sneaks around and steals or hunts for what he needs. But people are aware of his presence and they don't want him near their village.

So they call a Mushi Master.

Yeah, Leonardo gets to meet Ginko, from Mushi-shi. ("But Sage, Mushi-shi isn't safe! The mushi--" "Shut up!!! It's my comfort anime and it is calm and beautiful and chill and this is my au I do what I want!")

So Ginko comes to talk to this "demon" (that he's thinking is probably just some mushi or someone who's messed with things they shouldn't). And he finds a bipedal turtle with a sword who's missing an arm and speaks some really janky, broken Japanese. The two of them fumble their way through a conversation until Ginko is able to put together that Leo is not a demon or a mushi and he's from somewhere else and just wants to find his brothers. And they end up traveling together, with Leo heavily disguised and usually hanging back when Ginko gets up to his mushi business. Which, lo and behold, Leo can see mushi too! He thinks they're funny. Ginko smacks him when Leo tries to taste one. ("I've eaten worse." "I don't doubt you, but DO NOT.")

Leo traveling around with Ginko kind of gives him a lot of time to think. He's able to slow down and process things and he actually really mellows out. Spending time with someone like Ginko, just wandering around and taking in the sights, learning about nature and the world, just experiencing it, does wonders for Leo. He's still a traumatized war vet, but just living like he does when he's with Ginko is very healing for him. He still explodes into tears when Mikey comes to get him. Because he thought he'd killed his baby brother and here's Mikey, running to him with open arms, with no malice in him whatsoever over what happened. And Ginko gets to be like "oh lord there's more of them". And maybe Mikey sticks around for a while at Leo's prompting because he knows Mikey would LOVE this mushi stuff. But they do have to leave eventually, they've got a family to get back to. So Mikey probably gives Ginko a hug and thanks him for taking care of Leo and hopes maybe they can meet again someday.

Donnie lands smack dab in the middle of the Motherlobe. Psychonauts HQ. Psychic central. It's...a bit of a rocky welcome. He's panicked, the Psychonauts are panicked, everyone's freaking out and ready for a fight. Not really sure how they resolved that, to be honest, but they probably eventually figure out that Donnie doesn't actually mean anyone any harm, he's just lost and confused and displaced from his home dimension.

Truman and Hollis likely don't want Donnie leaving the Quarry or the Questionable Area, because they're not sure how he wound up in the Motherlobe or how people would react if they saw him. He's a bit pissy about essentially being under house arrest, but there's not much he can do when they've assigned one of the best Junior Agents to keep an eye on him. Donnie probably spends some time trying to shake Razputin but Raz is also a middle child and he's a top tier Psychonaut and he's a stubborn little shit. So eventually Donnie has to concede that he's not going to be able to get rid of Raz and bemoans his fate as Raz follows him literally everywhere.

But he doesn't get to mope for long because there's a lot of interesting things for him to poke his snoot into. The Questionable Area alone is bizarre as hell but then Donnie meets Otto and Sasha and then there's THREE mad scientists in a room and it all goes to hell. In a very spectacular manner, probably. Donnie's infinitely curious about psychic powers and he definitely keeps himself busy, both out of curiosity and because he probably wants to know if these powers can get him home. There's probably some shenanigans with the Brain Tumbler and how people shouldn't try to read Donnie's mind and Milla acting motherly towards Donnie even though they're almost the same age and it makes him feel so small and young and he might sit with her for a while and meditate. They probably talk about losing people. Donnie gets weirdly attached to Raz and then meets Lili and learns she can talk to plants and his botany enthusiasm just goes NUTS.

He does genuinely invest time in trying to find his family, maybe build a portal home. But he's extremely wary about actually building anything; he's worried about it going wrong or, even worse, unleashing the Krang on this unsuspecting world.

So he's relieved when Mikey comes for him and gets all huffy when Mikey immediately makes friends with Raz. But he's happy to see his brother again and he does not cry fuck you Mike. Donnie's probably a little reluctant to let the mysteries he hasn't solved with the Psychonauts go but Mikey just laughs at him and says they can try to come back some day.

And then the whole family gets to reunite! They're all together again! Without war, without the Krang, just with each other! I didn't really have an ending planned for this--maybe they stay with the 07 turtles, maybe they jump between worlds looking for a new home, I dunno.

It's just a silly, self-indulgent au that I will never write but amuses me to think about. Because I think they deserve a happy ending.

I did start replying to this last night but then it was like 10.30 and i needed to sleep lol Sorry about the long post,,,

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Tampa Bay Weekend

OY Veh! Blue Jays open the first week of the season 1-5. Uncle Ted told me not to worry because the best is yet to come. No use getting too excited over the first six games of the season, let’s see how much the record improves after the next six games.... which are against the Mighty Milwaukee Three Brewers (2 games) and then comes the four game acid test against Baltimore.....

In the meantime here is a summary of the Lost Weekend in Tampa

Game 1 Kendrys Morales hits a Grand Slam. Marcus Stroman 6.1 innings strong innings. 5Ks 2 walks. Final Score 5-2 Toronto, Blue Jays First Win of the Season.

Game 2 GAS CAN FRIDAY at the TROP Francisco Liriano leaves his velocity in Dunedin gets hammered for 5 runs in 1/3 (one third ) of an inning. Liriano's early exit earns him a 135.0 ERA. One wonders why Russell Martin is not catching Liriano Friday night, Jarrod Saltalamacchia is. Let's be clear, I am not a Saltalamacchia fan. Maybe The Braintrust don't want Salt catching Aaron Sanchez on Saturday. Liriano is a veteran he should be able to throw to Saltalamacchia..... Media types all raise this non issue. Reality is Manager John Gibbons wants to get his bench players playing time in the first six games and Friday night is Saltalamacchia Night. No Big Deal. Now back to the Friday night roller coaster...

Jays down 6-2 after two innings...and battle their way back to 6-5 after 5 innings. In the T6 they walk their way to a 7-6 lead thanks to back to back bases loaded walks off unknown Rays reliever Xavier Cedeno. The Jays bounce back!. Awesome stuff. The game could be blown wide open if the next batter is not named Justin Smoak. Smoakless kills the rally as swings at a 2-0 pitch and lines out, leaving three runners stranded. This hurts....Collecting meaningful RBI's is not in Smoak's DNA.

In the B6 Ryan Tepera gives up a leadoff walk and Gibby decides that Tepera has done enough shutting down the Rays for two scoreless innings. Manager John Gibbons goes to the pen and brings in the red bearded gas can JP Howell. Unfortunately for the Blue Jays faithful Howell rips a page from the "Liariano Tropicana Playbook" and gives up a double, a four pitch walk and double and a walk. The 7-6 lead is gone and the Jays trail 8-7. Still No One Out and Howell leaves the game with the bases loaded in the B6! Howell's ERA sits at 54.0 ....Manager John Gibbons realizes he picked the wrong guy to replace Tepera, he wanders out to the mound and brings on Joe Smith (His Real Name) to face Evan Longoria. Strikeout. Smith allows a base hit and one more run scores but that's it. 9-7 going to the 7th. Gas Can Friday lives up to its hype.... The 12,842 fans get bonus Gas Can entertainment as Manager John Gibbons brings in Cool Hand Loup into the game to pitch the seventh...Loup does not disappoint. He gives up a run run in the 7th and one in the 8th. Surprisingly Cool Hand strikes out 5 of his six outs. Go figure. Jays go on to lose 11-7 in Tampa and are 1-3. The record is of no concern because it's just four games in to the season and as Uncle Ted Rogers told us "The Best is Yet to Come". This game hurts. Bats rally to save Liriano and the lefties (Howell and Loup) wipe it all away.

Game 3 Saturday Night Early Bird at the Trop. Aaron Sanchez vs Chris Archer at 6:10pm This game begins at 6:10pm ...Six Ten PM. Never heard of that start time for a MLB game. !!! Concessions must have an Early Bird Special going tonight. Come to find out that it's Kevin Kiermaier bobblehead night! That and the early start gets 21,838 to the TROP.

The early start is good for the pitchers who both dazzle thru 6 innings. In the T8 the Jays break a 1-1 tie with a Josh Donaldson base hit scoring Russell Martin who walked. B8 Joe Biagini gives up a run and it's 2-2 going to the 9th No decision for Chris Archer or Aaron Sanchez who both pitch well. Final line for Sanchez: 7ip, 4h, 1r/er, 3bb, 6K. 101p/59 strikes. Final Line for Chris Archer 7.2 IP / 5H/ 2ER/ 3BB/ 8K.

Just because the game starts early it does not mean it ends early...2-2 goes to extra innings at 9:15pm...Just at 10:00pm the Rays get a bases loaded walk and win 3-2. The Early Bird Game goes 11 innings and takes 3 hours and 55 minutes to play. Jays are 1-4 in the first week of the season. No worries eh? it's just 5 games.... Oy Veh!

Game 4 Sunday April 9 Marco Estrada Hat Trick Jays score 2 in the first inning and nothing else all afternoon....highlight of the day may have been a benches clearing meeting at second base as Troy Tulowitzki has words with Steven Souza Jr Tulo unhappy with late slide at second base. In his next at bat Souza jr hit a three run HR off Estrada who gives up the long ball THREE times in five innings of work. That’s a Hat Trick ..... Josh Donaldson leaves the game with right calf tightness...tonight Blue Jays say he is day to day. Not a good day and not a good first week of the season.........

Other Notables from the weekend

On Friday the Baltimores acquired ex Blue Jay righty Miguel Castro from the Rockies, per a club announcement. A player to be named or cash will head back in return. Interesting, wonder why the Braintrust did not go after the 22 year old Castro....unless his arm is not salvageable....

The Rays released Cory Rasmus, (the little Hillbilly). Colby Rasmus, The Hillbilly, did not appear in the Jays Series. Both boys are on the DL , likely making Moonshine for Daddy Rasmus. Rays looked good without The Hillbilly, they may not be in a rush to get him off the 10 day Injured list. Cory is likely going to the minors

Saturday Night Warning...Ex- Blue Jay Prospect Kendall Graveman -who was in the Josh Donaldson trade, was toying with a no hitter through 6.2 innings. Mike Napoli hit a two out home run in the 7th to end the drama. Even if Graveman throws a no hitter the Blue Jays still win the Josh Donaldson trade.....

Rowdy Tellez...Hit a Monster HR at Olympic Stadium last Saturday vs the Pirates and hit two HRs in Buffalo's Home Opener. I am starting to understand why Edwin was expendable.....

The Blue Jays called up Casey Lawrence and moved right-hander Bo Schultz from the 10-day disabled list to the 60-day DL on Friday. Lawrence, 29, has been with the Jays organization since signing as an undrafted free agent in 2010. I never heard much about him until this weekend. He is likely headed back to Buffalo Monday or whenever the Jays need to make a roster move. Schultz is done for the season

Hot Prospects Japanese superstar Shohei Otani was featured on 60 Minutes tonight. The 22 year old Japanese player pitches like Yu Darvish and hits like Bryce Harper. He is touted as the Japanese Babe Ruth. Lots of articles about him on line. Speculation is Otani will sign with a MLB club later this year and play in North America in the 2018 season. He wants to hit and pitch. This could be interesting....

Terrible Endings....Jeremy Guthrie. now 38, was blasted for 10 earned runs in the first inning Friday night when my Washington Nationals / Expos were in Philadelphia . Guthrie last appeared in the big leagues in 2015, when he struggled with the Royals. He pitched in the Marlins and Padres farm systems last season and struggled, posting a 6.60 ERA or higher at each stop. Nonetheless, the Nationals signed him to a minor-league deal, and he posted a 2.41 ERA with 15 strikeouts in 18 2/3 innings this spring. Guthrie got the hook after giving up 10 earned runs after 2/3 of an inning, that happened to be the first inning Friday night. Guthrie is one of 11 starters in baseball history to allow 10 or more runs in one inning or less. He has done it twice. It also happened against the Yankees in May 2015, when he pitched with the Royals. Embarrassing for Guthrie and for the Nationals for thinking that this guy could actually help them. It gets better, Sunday night there are reports that Washington is now going to re-sign 42 year old washed up closer Joe Nathan to a minor league contract....Talk about no depth in your minor league system

Enough for now. Home Opener Tuesday at 7:07pm. Welcome week #2 and good riddance to Week #1

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