Chapter 2: Brotherly Love.
"LEO! WHERE'S LEONARDO!" Donatello screamed frantically. Mike and Venus rushed into the room to see what was the matter. "WHERE'S LEO?" Donatello repeated.
"Leo? He is spying on the Dragon Lord. You know that," Venus answered. Donatello groaned.
"Not THAT Leonardo, but THAT Leonardo!!!" Donatello screeched, pointing to his computer.
"What?" Venus said looking confused.
"Ooooh! THAT Leonardo!" Mike said, understanding what Don had meant. He shrugged. "I dunno".
"Isn't Leo there? What a pity," Raphael said, leaning against his door frame.
"What did you do Raph?" Donatello said angrily.
"Let's just say that Leo left as a loser," Raphael answered with an evil grin on his face.
"RAPH!" Donatello yelled, quickly figuring out what Raphael had done.
Splinter entered the living room. "What's is all this bickering about?" he demanded.
"Donny's upset because I beat him at one of his computer games," Raphael lied to Master Splinter.
"Well then Donatello, please calm down. It is only a game," Splinter said. "Kids," he muttered to himself as he returned to his study.
Donatello glared at Raphael before returning to his computer. He sat there for a few minutes contemplating on how he was going to get Leo back into the game. An idea popped into turtle's head. "Donny you're a genius!" Donatello quietly said to himself.
'I'll marry Leo back into the household!' Don thought while clicking on the 'Create a Family' button. He made another Leonardo and moved the single Sim onto his own plot of vacant land. Donatello then put up a wall and bought a phone. The turtle saved the game and went back to the main household. He purchased a bunch of party balloons and set them outside. Now all he had to do was to wait for the new SimLeo to arrive.
After getting a few annoying visits from the Goths, SimLeo finally arrived. 'But who will I marry Leo to?' Donatello thought as he watched SimLeo heading towards the main entrance. 'I can't get Leo to fall in love with Venus because she's already in love with me, and that would make Leo and me hate each other. Raph is too anti-social to get him to love someone, and Leo can't marry a cat, so that only leaves…'
SimMike greeted SimLeo at the door.
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Mike looked around the lair. Venus was on the couch meditating and Splinter was playing chess with Leonardo. Raphael and Donatello were nowhere to be found. "Hey where's Raph and Donny?" Mike asked, bounding over to Leo.
"Don's at the junkyard and Raph should be here, but as usual, he's not," Leo said, sounding a little annoyed. Mike wisely decided not to press on with the matter, and looked around the lair to find something fun to do. He noticed that Donatello's the 'Sims Unleashed' game was on pause. Naturally, Mike's instincts beckoned him to play with it.
Mike sat down on the computer chair and continued playing where Don had left off. Mike's eyes opened wide when he saw SimMike kissing SimLeo… passionately. "GROSS!" Mike called out. Leo, Splinter and Venus looked at him for a moment before returning back to what they were doing. A sly mischievous grin formed on Mike's face. 'Two can play at this game,' Mike thought to himself.
He waited until the carpool arrived and ordered everyone to go to work, except for SimMike and SimVenus. Mike glanced around to check that Venus wasn't anywhere around the computer before attempting what he was about to do. The turtle looked at the interactions SimMike had available. 'Oooh! Flirt should work!' he thought. SimMike flirted with SimVenus. A negative sign appeared above the female sim's head. SimMike tried to flirt with SimVenus again, only to get the same result. 'Hmm, this game is more realistic than I thought!… Maybe I should actually try talking to Venus for a change…' Mike commanded SimMike to talk to SimVenus. This time there was a positive effect. 'Excellent,' Mike evilly thought, as he continued to change the game to his liking.
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Donatello entered the lair with an armful of broken objects that he'd found at the junkyard. He dumped the knickknacks on his overcrowded computer desk before eagerly returning to his game. He really wanted to get SimLeo back into the household today. So he ordered SimMike to invite SimLeo over, via the telephone.
While he was waiting for SimLeo to come over, he instructed SimDon to finish making the potion he had started using the chemistry set. It only took a minute for the purple potion to be completed. SimDon turned off the chemistry set and moved away looking for something else to do. SimRaph eyed the abandoned potion carefully. After suspiciously looking around, SimRaph drank the flask's purple contents. SimRaph spluttered and choked before turning into Frankenstein.
The monster yelled and threw multiple tantrums. The beast clogged up the sinks and toilet, broke every electronic piece of equipment and painted a pretty picture which could later be sold for over $100. "Typical," Donatello muttered as he watched the transformed SimRaphael destroy everything in the house through his temper tantrums.
Leonardo wandered over to the computer to see what his younger brother was doing. SimKlunk's litter box had been neglected and now cockroaches and flies swarmed the computerised lair. "Wow, you've really made this game realistic Donny. You've got the sewer cockroaches and everything," Leonardo complimented.
"Huh? Oh!" Donatello exclaimed. He quickly ordered SimKlunk to hunt the offending insects. Naturally SimKlunk didn't obey. Leonardo continued to watch the screen behind Don's shoulder.
"Hey… where am I?" Leonardo asked.
"When I wasn't watching, Raphael played the game and made you move out," Donatello informed. A doorbell sound was heard. "Here you are now."
SimMike greeted SimLeo at the door. The two sims walked in and had a bite to eat. SimMike then kissed SimLeo.
"Don… What are you DOING?" Leonardo said, looking at his brother as though he was some kind of sick weirdo.
"I'm trying to get you back into the household, Leo. The only way I can do that is by making your sim counterpart fall in love with someone, so then hopefully you'll become friendly enough and the 'Move In' option should appear. It's too hard to make people really good friends because all of the interactions quickly turn into intimate ones, therefore it's easier and quicker just to let you fall in love with Mike," Don hurriedly explained to a freaked out Leo.
SimMike was offered the 'Move In' interaction with SimLeo. Don clicked it and waited anxiously for SimLeo's response. The turtle cheered when SimLeo accepted the invitation.
"But… Why Mike!? If you wanted me to fall in love with someone, then why didn't you make me fall in love with V…" Leonardo stopped himself before he said too much. Don turned away from his computer to look at his leader blush profusely. Suddenly, an idea popped into Leo's mind about how he could make the game even more realistic…