Hey we're coming up on chapter 15!
I feel like I should do something special for that, but I'm not sure what.
Oh! One more thing (sorry, but its important!) A client of my mom learned that I do graphic design, and is asking about hiring me to do some pinterest stuff for her. Nothings confirmed yet, but I may have to start switching to updating every two weeks, because the paying job comes first, and depending on how many she'll want done (if she does actually hire me) I'm going to be spending a lot of time on that and less time writing. I'm not sure 'cause this'll be my first official job that's not for a family member, but I'm excited about it and...yeah X3
On to the fic!
14.1 -2012
"Hey Karai," Raph called, slipping into the part of the sewers they'd declared as their 'Loop Lair'. Set a few tunnels away from the actual Lair, they typically met there every Loop whenever they could, "I think Don's awake. Him or Leo. Or both."
Karai arched a brow "Leo's not awake, trust me. Otherwise he would have been out there the other night when he was supposed to meet me for the first time."
They were sticking to baseline this loop, or at least trying to. Someone kept altering things, just enough that certain events didn't happen. Don had kept Mikey from bugging Raph the night they were supposed to meet pre-mutated Spyder-Bytes, Leo had muttered some lame excuse about Splinter being a light sleeper (even though he always slept deeper than the dead) the night they would have met Baxter Stockman (who was now in human jail and kept far away from any dangerous tech, not that it would have mattered because Donnie had never revealed his T-Pod, even though Raph had found it tucked away in his lab one night.)
"That's because he said Donnie needed him for something, but the next morning he asked Donnie if he still needed him, and Donnie just kind of stared at him like he didn't know what he was talking about." Raph argued. Karai hummed "Sounds like I need to talk to them," she tilted her head "Any excuses pop up to not go on tonights patrol?" Raph shook his head "Not by the time I'd left." Karai smirked. "Good." she turned and made her way to the exit.
"Should I be worried?" Raph called after her. Karai paused, turning her head just enough to look at him with a glimmer of amusement "Always."
14.2 -Movies
It was kind of handy having Leo awake. Every loop he woke up early enough, Leo would return on time from South America, and if he woke up after the fact, he'd either come home if he hadn't yet, or just walked around beating himself up for a few hours until patrol, when he'd take out his anger on the stone monsters. This loop was the latter. Only problem?
No stone monsters this loop. Or any other monsters, just the usual Foot Patrols, and with the death of Shredder they'd started reporting to Karai their sightings of the turtles before fighting them, and she usually called them off. Sometimes she had them attack, if they were doing something on the more illegal side of things, but they'd been doing pretty good about turning around in the years since her 'father's' death.
So instead, Leo had extended patrols, running them through drills. Finally though, after the third night of returning home at the crack of dawn, tired beyond relief, Splinter had stepped in.
Raph wasn't quite sure what their father had told Leo, but it must have been something he'd want to pay to see, because the next night they were back to the lair within two hours of leaving, and when Don had asked the blue-wearing turtle 'what about drills?', Leo had turned a shade of reddish green Raph hadn't known was possible, and muttered some half-hearted excuse.
Thankfully, the two unawake turtles had bought it, but when Raph had tried to press the matter later, away from prying eyes and ears, Leo had just grumbled something like "Next time I wake up, slap me into my senses before I do anything dumb like that again."
14.3 -Warriors
Having woken up as a dog mutant, Leo was pretty prepared when he woke up as a normal cat. Heck, with all the fighting they'd had to do (or rather he'd had to do over the past few eternities of loops with Raph just recently starting to tag along) he was even prepared when the memories kicked in and he 'remembered' he was a warrior of Turtleclan. - best name evah! -. Honestly the only thing he probably wasn't prepared for was the name changes.
Seriously though, who takes the perfection that is the name 'Leonardo' and turns it into 'Blueskip'?
Alright, so it kind of made sense. Blue, for obvious reasons - to him at least, his eyes were blue here and his fur was a scruffy black with a few white spots along his paws and tail - and 'skip' because he could never seem to stop moving. Back when they had first met April, she'd mentioned something about him possibly having ADHD, and after spending a loop where he replaced Donnie -soooo not fun- he'd learned the actual meaning, diagnosed himself, aaaaand yup. Definitely. Well, some loops anyways. Most of them honestly.
Stretching out his body, Leo glanced around the camp, trying to place actual names to faces.
Splinter was easy, white with brown splotches, narrow eyes, and a whip-thin tail. He'd been renamed 'Splinterstar', so that was easy enough too. April was a bright golden tabby with the new name 'Goldenclaw', probably for her temper which she had definitely carried over.
Raph, who wasn't awake this loop, was a massive, dark red form named, appropriately, Redlion. Then there were Donnie and Mikey, also known as Rainstep and Tawnyleap. Donnie looked quite a bit like Leo, but he was gray instead of black. Mikey was a flaming orange with white speckles, and extremely short-furred.
There were a ton of other cats Leo didn't recognize, most of them he figured were just normal New Yorkers back in the baseline loop.
Though there was this one weird cat with dark silver fur and dark brown eyes named 'Sharpclaw' that gave him really weird vibes.
14.4 -1987
Donnie hummed as he finished the final touches on his Trans-Dimensional Portal. It had taken a few loops to get it working from a two-way screen to its current state as a one-way screen. He'd still be able to go through it, but the turtles on the other side wouldn't see him when he first activated the portal, only after he walked through it. He figured this would be better for dimension-hopping, that way he could make sure there were Loopers-only on the other side before he walked through.
And, since he'd finally gotten word that another Donatello had woken up, well...what better way to test his new tech than by bringing the other Donatello here?
Aiming the portal projector, Donnie pressed a series of buttons, then pulled the trigger. With a humming-woosh sound, the projector fired, and an oval of light appeared in the air, showing what had to be the lair of the large turtles.
Man, April's camera had definitely not been lying. These guys were big.
They were also all crowded together, so he'd have to wait a while.
But hey, at least none of them had noticed it yet, and since their Splinter (who looked kind of sick, and not the good sick) had been looking in this general direction when he'd fired, and not said a thing, well then it worked!
14.5 - MB Movies
Infinite time loops was definitely a strange concept. Donnie probably wouldn't have believed it, if it hadn't happened already to him. Three times he'd gone through all their adventures, and once he'd 'woken up' as April called it, as a little kid. Now he was in his fifth loop, and all was normal.
Or rather everything was normal, until a glowing portal opened up in his lab, a ridiculously tiny turtle wearing purple mask and a belt buckle with the letter 'D' engraved into it stepped out, grabbed hold of Donnie's arm with surprising strength, and hauled him back through the portal, going on about tech, ideas, and Donnie had no clue what.
And now, he was in said turtle's lab, and trying to decide whether this was heaven or hell. Heaven because some of the tech this other version of him had was absolutely amazing, and Hell because it was apparently 1987 here, and half the tech Donnie was used to using didn't exist.
And that's a wrap!
14.1 - It's not Raph who should be scared X3
14.2 - Angry splinter is very angry.
14.3 - ...I had to ok? And there is a canon Sharpclaw I know, but like...what other name could be used for Shredder?
14.4 - Not much to say here
14.5 - or here
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~Savvy