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"Right, okay, so we have four frightened horses cornered in an alleyway with no way out, which also mean they're going to be stressed. And a stressed and frightened horse is not something you want." Don recited, staring at the four horses.
The two adults were protectively guarding the younger foals, but they had their ears up and tails swishing.
"Alright then fearless, what do we do?" Raph asked.
Leo carefully considered before answering. "I'm…not sure."
"Great, just great. Well, we can't leave them here; we don't even know where they've come from!"
"There's a gypsy camp just up the road. My bet is they've escaped from there." Don informed his brothers.
"Dude that's it!" Mikey yelled excitedly, then stopped when the male horse gave a threatening neigh, quietly he continued. "If these horses belong to a gypsie camp then surely that means the people that own then are there to right?"
Raph rolled his eyes. "Well I bloody hope so otherwise we're screwed."
"No wait, let me finish. Surely if we go to the camp and ask the owner of the horses to come with us to get them back, that'll work, I mean think of it from the horses point of view, it'll be a lot less frightening for them if it's someone they know trying to lead them someplace, am I right? Am I right?"
"He's right." Don backed his brother up. "That'll work."
"It might work, however theirs one little problem." Leo paused and then snapped. "We're mutant turtles! We can't just go wondering into a gypsie camp asking if the owner of four horses can come and collect them please! We'll be chased out!"
"Fearless is right." Raph nodded. "It won't work."
"Plus theirs the horses to think about." Leo added. "If we're of getting the gypsies that gives these four the perfect opportunity to escape, which is exactly what we don't want."
"However…" Don quietly cut in. "if one of us went and got the owners, and the other three stayed here and kept an eye on the horses, that could work. I mean it'll only take one of us to go and get them, providing we pick up our top-gear stuff on the way there, and if the other three guard the exit so the horses can't get out…so long as there's no sudden movements…that could work."
"Well, it's better than having a stare-down with them." Leo sighed, caving in. "the next thing we need to decide is, who's going?"
"I'll go." Raph said immediately.
Next to him Mikey snorted. "Like that'll work."
"Whaddya mean, like that'll work?!"
"Because your you raph, you walk into that camp and you'll give those poor people a heart attack!"
"What about me?"
"Fearless, if I'm not goin' then you're sure as shell not going!"
"Anyway. We need you here to keep an eye on the situation, I'll go." Mikey grinned.
"You?"
"Of course! No one can resist the mike-ster!"
"You walk into that camp and I think you'll get a second opinion."
"How about don?" Leo suggested, cutting of Mikey's comeback.
"Me?"
"Yes, you. I mean your better at explaining this kind of stuff than we are, and you have a…calming presence about you. You're good at diffusing situations without violence, which is what we need now. So you go."
"Much as it kills me to admit it, fearless has a point. Don you go."
"Hey what about me! I'm adorable!"
Raph gave Mikey a quick whack round the head. "You're annoyin' that's what you are. No, don'll go."
Cornered, the tech-loving turtle sighed. "Alright then I'll do it…"
"Wait, will you be able to make it?" Leo quickly questioned, remembering don's fall. "I mean, you fell pretty hard."
"Leo, I'm fine, I told you I just winded myself. I'm pretty sure I can make it. Just keep an eye on those four." He jerked a thumb in the direction of the horses, who had lowered their aggressive stance, but were still clearly on guard.
"Alright then. Call us when you're on your way with them, and if you get into any trouble."
"Will do!" and just like that don was gone.