I know, I know…It's been over a month since I updated this but I haven't forgotten it. I'm just a little busy with school these days since I decided to take AP courses for the first time in my life. Anyways, you wanted a chapter.
I don't own TMNT! But I did just buy a really nice pair of socks.^_^
Michelangelo was doubled over with laughter, "No way dude!"
"It's true," Mikey said, waving the previously acquired Turtle Titan outfit at Raph.
"That's enough Mikey," Leo said, snatching away the outfit and tossing it onto Michelangelo who was slowly catching his breath once again while still laying on the floor clutching his ribs.
Leonardo walked up behind his younger counterpart and said, "Maybe we should all turn in."
"OH! MOVIE NIGHT!" Mikey and Michelangelo shouted together, throwing up their arms in glee.
They ran off, Michelangelo leading the way to fetch blankets, pillows and a movie to tide them over for the night.
Leonardo shook his head.
"I can't believe it, that's all we needed, ANOTHER annoying baby brother," Raphael said shaking his head like Leonardo had.
Raph scoffed, his blue eyes narrowing, "Please all we needed is another Mikey!"
Just then the orange masked turtles returned to the living room blankets and pillows pilled up in their arms.
"Didn't we just have a movie night at your place?" Donatello asked his younger counterpart.
Donny sighed and took out one of his purple wrapped nun chucks, spinning it absentmindedly, "Yeah, but it's MIKEY what else do you expect?"
"You've got a point."
Across the room Leonardo was by Raph, holding Michelangelo's turtle titan outfit, "Please tell me this isn't true."
Raph laughed and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "Well you know, there was stuff laying around and I was young and reckless."
"You're still young and reckless," Leo said, suddenly appearing behind them.
Raph jumped but then scowled, "Must you ALWAYS do that?"
"Hm," Leo hummed, placing his hand on the side of his head, "Yep."
Raph sighed and then his older brother laughed.
"You guys can unfreeze your brains about the Turtle Titan thing, he lost a bet to April," Leo explained.
"Oh, that explains it," Leonardo said.
"Give me that thing, I'm burning it!" Raphael shouted running in between them and snatching it up.
Leo and Leonardo turned to see the youngest turtles mocking Raphael, Raph too but he didn't appear to care too much.
"NO, DON'T BURN IT RAPHIE!" Michelangelo called, running after his red masked older brother.
"HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT TO CALL ME THAT!"
Crash!
"GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE BRAT!"
Quieting his laugher Mickey turned to the others, "Come on as soon as Raphael's done beating on Michelangelo they can join us."
He motioned to two large blankets spread out in front of the TV, automatically claiming the blanket on the left for him and his brothers.
"Come on bros," he said, as he reached up and snatched the remote from the couch to turn on the TV.
Leo, Raph and Donny all immediately joined him while Leonardo and Donatello sat down on the other blanket before being joined by a satisfied Raphael and a never-going-to-learn-his-lesson-despite-the-big-bump-on-his-head Michelangelo, who was patting a large bruise on his head and wincing each time.
"Hey, we need popcorn," Leo said, his green eyes drifting towards the kitchen.
"I'll get some," Mikey said, jumping to his feet.
"NO YOU WON'T!" his brothers said and pulled him back down.
"I'll get it," Donatello offered, climbing to his feet and heading into the kitchen.
"This movie reminds me of that game Destroy All Humans," Leo said.
"Dude, you've played that?" Michelangelo asked.
"Of course, we all have," Leo said, turning a confused eye on the older orange banded turtle.
"Weird, Fearless here hasn't played a video game in eight months," Raphael said.
"Can we switch Leo's?" Michelangelo asked, ignoring Leonardo's glare.
Mikey shook his head, "No way," he said throwing an arm over his eldest brother's shoulders and holding on tightly, "My big brother, get your own."
"But mine are boring," Michelangelo whined, "Your Leo plays video games, your Raph doesn't pound you and your Donny doesn't spend 24 hours in his lab."
"10," Leonardo reminded him.
"That too," Michelangelo said.
"Hey, I still pound the knucklehead once in awhile," Raph said, punching his baby brother in the shoulder lightly.
Donny shrugged, "I'm more of a biological and chemical expert. I know a few things about basic programming but, Leo's the mechanic."
Donatello turned in shock to the red clad leader of the younger team, "Is that true?"
Leo smiled and nodded, his green eyes contrasting his red mask as a kind of holiday tribute, though it was far from the holidays at the current time, but perhaps it was different in the younger team's world?
"You mean nothing explodes when you touch it?" Donatello asked in wonder.
Leo pointed to Donny, who in turn, glanced at the floor quickly while laughing under his breath, "I didn't mean to make the toaster explode, it just kind of happened."
Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo turned and stared at their older brother. The blue masked leader of the elder team couldn't conclude why mechanical things malfunctioned while he was around them, they just exploded, or shorted out, or ran down, etc…
"Shh guys, the movie's starting," Mikey said, getting to his feet to look for the light switch.
Once the lights were out the two families settled down to enjoy the movie, which was Star Wars. Halfway through the movie Donatello looked over and saw the younger turtles were all asleep, not surprising since they were adjusting to the time scale of their new environment. What caused Don to keep staring though was the way his counterpart was snuggled up to the younger team's leader and the fact that Raph was quieter than his own older hotheaded brother when he snored. Not that it still didn't sound like a chainsaw or anything. Michelangelo glanced around at his family and caught Donatello's glance at the younger family. He too glanced over and saw how his counterpart was snuggled up against the red clad leader as was Donny and the blue clad hothead of the team was laying beside Mikey.
"They're kind of cute you know?" Michelangelo said randomly.
"Yeah," Donatello agreed.
"Oh please, it's like I have four more little brothers," Raphael said while rolling his eyes, but the scene he had to admit, was cute, he just didn't really like many cute things.
Leonardo nodded his agreement as he stared over at the younger team. His own red banded counterpart had a protective arm around both Donny and Mikey and after the youngest flinched in his sleep, probably from a nightmare, Raph reached out to rest a comforting arm over his youngest brother, his palm resting on Leo's plastron. One big, happy family.
"Four more little brothers," Leonardo thought, and strangely, he was at peace with that.
The next day wielded surprising results.
"We found it!" Donatello shouted as he ran through the door with Leo behind him.
"What is it this time?" Raph and Raphael said in unison while rolling their eyes.
Leo ran past the older purple clad turtle and snatched up a small, quaint device from his hand, "The centralized cell defragmentation unit processor, duh!"
Michelangelo leaned towards Mikey where the two orange clad turtles were sitting on the couch, "What did he say?"
"Is a part for the machine to get us home," Mikey explained, he at least knew that much.
"Oh," Michelangelo said and the two youngest returned to their video game, Michelangelo getting quite a moral boost as he won every game, it was like his younger counterpart was trying to lose. On the other side of the room Raph and Leonardo stood up from their meditation while Donny and Raphael backed away from the punching bag they had been hitting in constant, rapid succession.
"Ok, what does all that mean in American?" Raph asked, his annoyed blue eyes locked on his older brother.
Leo rolled his green eyes beneath his mask and sighed, "It means we have everything we need to go home, we just need to put everything together."
Leonardo crossed the room with Raph, "May I ask where you found this centralized cell de-"
"Defragmentation unit processor," Leo said, finish up the question of his counterpart, "We found it at an abandoned base outside of the city, Donatello told me it belonged to some crazy scientist you knew."
"Stockman?" Raphael asked as he and Donny followed behind Leonardo and Raph.
Donatello nodded, "Come on Leo, if we get to work now it'll be done by tonight."
Leo nodded but yawned, "Given I can stay up that long. You guys have the weirdest time schedule."
"There is one problem though," Leo said.
"What's that?" Donny asked, although he was sure he wouldn't be able to comprehend what his older brother was about to say.
"There's one piece we still need, you see, this dimension is so technologically disadvantaged from our own that if we apply our sciences to unsteady pieces and disconstant elements and principles than the physics of both our worlds could coincidently merge and-"
"Get to the point!" Raphael yelled.
Leo sighed, used to it from his own brothers he dumbed down his explanation, "If we're not careful, our two dimensions could come together, mold and sub atomically explode."
…
Silence.
"Dude, what a bummer," Mikey said as he made his character fall into a pit trap.
TBC…
Ok, two chapters remain. You know this story seems kind of bland, so I have to get one of them in trouble in the next chapter, or maybe I should just make their dimensions explode. I never ended a story that way before...hmm...well, we'll see later.
~Moonsetta