P.V.O (Techie Style)

From: Donatello

I just love being a techie. I don't have to go anywhere or fight anyone. I can just sit back in the comforts of my own home, in front of my computer, and watch someone else do all the footwork. I can even make snide comments for my own enjoyment. Plus, from here, I can go get me something to eat or drink if I wanted to.

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm getting ahead of myself here and should explain.

This afternoon Raphie ruined one of those 3-D puzzles that Leo and I were working on, the Statue of Liberty. How unoriginal of us, isn't it? Anyway it had taken us weeks to get of grueling patients to get halfway through it. And then…we got to watch it fall to the floor in millions of pieces. Well maybe not millions, could be a bit of an exaggeration on my part, but you get the idea. Anyway Raph wasn't even the least bit sorry about what he did, so Leo and I decide to get even with Mikey's help.

What we did was we all went up to the rooftops and Mikey trips up Raph so he was too far behind to hear Leo suggest playing blind-man's bluff. After talking my red clad brother into being it, we ditched him once he blindfolded himself.

Knowing that Raph was going to be really mad we three decided to go out for pizza before going home. It was about an hour after we ditched Raph that we got home, but he wasn't there. "That's strange." I muttered.

"Maybe he hasn't figured it out." Mikey teased.

I shake my head. "Nah. Raph's slow, but he isn't that slow."

"He's probably out blowing off steam." Leo suggested.

"Maybe…" I replied.

I went over to my computer and sat down in front of it to work on a project. But I couldn't work for long, because something about Raph not being here bothered me. I know him, he should have already been home ready to clobber us the minute we came in through the door. So I pulled out my Shell Cell, phoned him up, and found out that he's over at Shredder's place. "What the shell for?"

"Cause he's up to sumpthin' and I wanna know what it is." He said.

Well I figure that he can't do this alone, so I tell him to try the new feature on the Shell Cell I put on. It transforms into a communicator/scanner, making it so not only can I monitor his movement, but also talk to him too. And the first thing I tell him to do is go to the control room in order for me to hack into Shredder's system.

Just as he was about to get to the door that would get him into the control room, the klutz trips an alarm then tries to take on as many Foot soldiers as he can. 'The goober is gonna get himself killed this way.' I think as I gave my forehead a smack. "Raph, you need to get out of there." I told him.

"No way do I run away, ya know dat." Raph replied.

"But you're seriously out numbered." I told him sternly.

"Not anymore" Raph said.

"Ok, sure not now. However you'll never get into the room with the alarm still going." I pointed out. "Look, you're going to have to do a tactical retreat and stash yourself somewhere until the alarm dies down.

Finally getting it through his thick skull that I'm right, Raph runs to hide in an air duct.

'An interesting choice.' I thought.

When it was all clear I watch my brother pull himself out of the air duct and go back to the control room. Again the idiot manages to raise another alarm, because he couldn't take out all the tech-flunkies before one of them could hit the call button. Lucky for him I was able hack into the system the minute he entered the room. (Am I good or what?) I disable the cameras and sensors so dear brother won't trip another alarm, bringing the whole Foot clan down on him. Then I set up a dummy program so that the tech-flunkies, when they wake up, would think nothing happen. Unfortunately for Raph I couldn't turn off the traps, but luckily for me he didn't have time to razz me about it cause he had to run before an army of Foot soldiers bust in on him.

As he runs out of the room I tell him that he's got to go up to the forth floor, but that he can't take the elevator cause a bunch of Foot-tech ninjas were coming down it. Of course he wasn't too happy about having to run up a bunch of stairs, nor was he going to be any happier when he ended up facing the muzzle of a Socom (a semi-automatic pistol with laser sight).

Me, on the other hand, couldn't be more excited. I couldn't believe that Raph didn't know that he was facing off with the Solid Snake and that he was about skewer his forehead.

"Raph, wait!"

"Not now."

Let's just say it took me awhile to convince my red bandanna-wearing brother not to kill the guy and get him to understand that we need him to tell us about Metal Gear. Cause, to tell you the truth, I had no shelling idea what it was. After that I try to patch into the guy's Codec, but for some reason I got a busy signal. 'Strange…' I tried again and got the busy signal once more. "Maybe they're trying to contact us." I tell my brother.

So then Raph tells me he's going to tell Snake to tell Otacon (Snake's techie) to stop trying to contact us. But instead of actually getting anywhere that might help, he gets into a fight with the guy over who should let who contact whom. So while he's duking it out with the guy, I try one more time. 'Busy signal again.'

Frankly I don't care who makes first contact. If they want to, let them. So I wait…and wait…and wait, but nothing is happening. 'O-k…he's probably waiting for me to make contact with him.'

I give it another try and hit the same busy signal as before. 'Now this is starting to get annoying.'

Knowing that it we were going to continue this cycle and that Raph will continue fighting with Snake, I started to thinking of another way I could contact Otacon while he's trying to contact me.

Don't ask me how it happened, because I haven't the faintest idea, but eventually Otacon and I finally made contact with each other. In introducing ourselves we got into a heated debate over whether it was a good thing that wires were colored.

Personally I think it was, but…

From Otacon

This is absolutely amazing. I mean it's got almost everything a Japanese anime would have. There's ninjas, suspense, action, (did I mention the ninjas?) And let's not forget that strange creature, who is a ninja too. Luckily I kept from nearly falling out of my seat when I saw the mutant turtle appear on my screen, but I didn't keep from spilling my coffee in my lap when Snake pointed his gun in its face (and it was hot too, ow).

Good thing I was able to get Snake's attention before he put a hole in the young turtle's head. We need him to find out more about this Shredder character and all I need to do is connect into that little communicator on the side of his head.

…

That's strange, I'm getting a busy signal. Better try again…still busy. Well I better connect them some how, because Snake is getting impatient. And believe you me you don't want the guy like that, because he tends to get physical.

Snakes got a good idea. He's going to ask that young turtle if he would be so kind as to tell his brother to stop what he's doing so I can get in.

Oh, he doesn't want to? Hey if Raph wants me to back off, I can do that. No really. I can wait for Don to connect to us.

Snake? Snake what are you doing? I said it was ok for me to wait. See? I'm waiting…

Oh boy…he's getting into a fight with the young turtle.

First it starts of with the sweep-kick which is being dodged by the back-flip. Snake lunges for the throat, but is denied by Raph with a back-flip kick. Now the turtle is charging while the human waits for him. They've locked hands, testing to see whose grip is tighter. And now the young turtle is bending his opponent's hands backwards, but not for long cause now the human is breaking free of the hold. (You know? Maybe I should I think about being a sport announcer on my time off, cause this is kind of fun.) Yikes, Snake's got Raph pinned quite well there. In fact that looks like that hurts.

Waiting for Don to contact me isn't doing anything. I'd better try again before my mercenary friend really hurts the young turtle.

Dang, still busy.

Oh, now Raph has Snake pinned to the wall.

Hey. I'm getting something. Yes! I'm getting a call! We're finally connecting through to each other.

"It's about time. My name is Donatello."

"I'm Otacon. Does your brother know he's pinning Solid Snake to the wall."

"Yeah, Raphie knows. But he's such a hothead that he doesn't really care."

"I know what you're talking about. Snake can be that way sometimes too. So how did you managed get in?"

"I crossed a couple wires. It's a good thing they're different colors, cause I'd hate to blow up my computer in the process of making contact."

"I think color wires are a waste of time. If you don't know where they go or where they're from, then…"

"But what about bombs? How would you disable those without them?"

"Well you see…Oh, that's got to hurt. I bet Raph is seeing stars now."

"What?"

"Snake just head butted your brother and is now kicking him in the chest."

"I saw that move. Now he's trying to do a sweep kick. Ha! Raph dodged it."

"Don't you think we should stop this?"

"Yeah."

(Beep)

"Not now!"

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"So Otacon, what were we talking about when we decided to interrupt their fight?"

"The importance of why wires are colored, I think."

"Yeah…"

A/N: Yeah, maybe this chapter is a little bit lame. But I thought it would nice to get everyone's side before moving on. ;p