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[semilethal]

" You are conversing with Donatello- or you would be if I weren't so horrendously busy. Leave a message. Leave an articulate message. Leo, you can just hang up. "

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[semilethal]

Or, here's an idea. I build us plane. [more reliable and more likely to work, besides.

-ah, the kettle. donnie glares at it like someone else put the kettle on the stove and made it make that horrible sound, but he's up and pouring water into their mugs all the same.]

[neonleon]

Wait, you can do that?

[They could travel so much if they had their own plane and didn't have to worry about like. IDs and security. Tahiti! Toronto! Anywhere!]

Have you been holding out on us?

[semilethal]

Leonardo, please, at any given moment I am holding out on all of you. [if u knew everything he was working on at all times ur lil triangle head would explode]

But regarding the plane, no. It's logistics. [brings the mugs over and holds one out for his brother to sit up and take.] Building a plane is easy. Storing it and sourcing the room for a runway is not. I thought about doing some sick disappearing runway thing under Central Park, but there are so many utilities. [so many.]

[neonleon]

Oh. But how cool would it be, right?

[SO COOL. He's practically beaming as he sits up to take the mug.]

Okay okay okay, what's the coolest thing you've been holding out? I gotta know.

[semilethal]

Oooh, the coolest? Oh man. Uh... [so like, he's mad bc all his work and facilities and everything isn't here, but leo? ASKING about his work??? ASKING FOR DETAILS? like donnie is going to pass up this opportunity] Well, for some reason that drill really hit it big with you guys, so I was trying to think of something to top it ever since. So I was thinking- air strikes. Unmanned short-range fleets are a lot easier to launch than passenger, and they could use rotary flight so I wouldn't need a runway for any of them, but even if they did I could probably make it near vertical? And not just for combat but also if we needed some stuff then just BAM, I tap a few buttons, we get an air drop of supplies or weapons or food or whatever.

[neonleon]

[He was genuinely asking.

The problem, unforeseen because it has never happened before, is that he has nothing to occupy his hands with. And without that, he's left to sip tea and listen. And listen.

And listen.

And oh my goddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd does he ever stop.

He's almost dozed off by the time Donnie finished, having gathered that Donnie was wanting to make something to transport their weapons like the drill. That's it, that's all he had to saaaaaaaaaaaaaay why does he take so many words to say so little.]

Uh huh.... Right.

[semilethal]

-but Donatello, you might ask, what about the assembly? Not of the drones themselves obviously, that's child's play, [yeah he's not stopping]

[neonleon]

Donnie! Donnie, okay so.

[Just gonna cut him off, save himself the brain exhaustion here.]

So you said this stuff [He gestures to the poor lonely espresso machines on the floor] you said is a job you're doing?

All right, so I'll check out the arena and what weapons they have there. Find out what cost we're looking at and let you know, yeah?

[And if he fights to earn a little himself in the arena, who's to say.]

[semilethal]

[SCOWL. don't ask questions if you don't want a 30 minute ted talk!! how rude. he even let you lean on him ever so briefly, the least you could do is feign interest in his work for four to five business days]

Yes, fine. Jobs like these aren't exactly going to get us far, but I think I need a little more time before using- uh, other methods.

[neonleon]

[Sorry, bro, but he does not have the mental real estate to hear your two hour long ted talk four days a week. He's putting together planning.

As he sips his tea.]

Uh huh. Other methods that I'm sure our father and brothers would all agree to if they were here but they're not so we make do and do whatever we have to even if that means I won't say anything as long as we get what we need.

[See he can talk long sentences too. Another sip.]

Do you want me to look at a bo for you or do you wanna try to rebuild tech-bo here?

[semilethal]

Nyyyeeeauuugggh. if you would look into it. [hATES IT. he wants to have flame throwers and buzz saws and various weaponry god damn it!! an entire battalion's worth of projectiles!!! god he's so mad] I'm not going to have the resources for anything decent for a while.

[neonleon]

[ooooh Donnie hates it, he can tell. No flamethrowers or buzz saws or even the big hammers to put on.

Another sip of tea.]

Good because I already asked about that too. I'll see what they have.

Uh. I guess... [Good big brother? Hizen had joked that he was a 'good' brother, but Leo is trying to take that seriously.] Metal if they have one?

[Not likely, but never hurts to think about. And if Donnie can use the metal for something else, why not?]

[semilethal]

Natch. [wooden? with no mystic powers? what is this, the stone ages? or the...the wood ages, he'll workshop that joke first] Whole paycheck, huh...? [looks over at the espresso machines and sighs.]

[neonleon]

[Sip sip.]

I can earn some money in the arena, too. [He's helping, shut up.]

[semilethal]

That would be a good cover. [because he is going to Steal as soon as he gets the appropriate hardware and writes up the program]

[neonleon]

Yeah. So...

[So. This is... fine. A plan, he's good with a plan. Both of them working on getting money, and he'll get them some kind of weapon in the meantime until they can figure out how to get their weapons back.

Still at a loss for their powers though. That's going to handicap them a bit.]

Donnie... [He hesitates for a second, fiddling with the handle of his mug.] You trust these people? As far as working with them?

[semilethal]

[glances up from where he's been starting to tinker with the nearest espresso machine, his own mug of tea cooling and forgotten somewhere.] Of course not. We don't know these jokers. They could be holding Raph and Mikey somewhere, for all we know.

[neonleon]

Same page, then.

[Good. And god he hopes they aren't. Sure, Mikey can keep Raph from going.... Raph-weird, but it's no substitute for knowing they're all safe.]

I don't care about this whole faction setup thing they've got going either.

[semilethal]

Yeah, it's dumb. [LIKE, DONNIE DID NOT ASK TO BE IN UR GANG? or kidnapped, for that matter. his loyalty is to his family first and his science also first and then everything else on this blight of a planet is a lightyears-distant second.] I think you're technically not supposed to be here or me over there or whatever, but who cares.

[neonleon]

If they didn't want that, they shouldn't've put us in separate groups.

[Simple as that. He'll keep the other housing in Shuten, but he's taking Donnie up on staying here. Besides, with as many people as have been confusing them for kappa, they could easily just trade masks and no one could tell the difference probably.]

[semilethal]

[yeah they're like, identical. to humans anyway.] Precisely. Go get your things, then. [y'know, if he has any, but donnie assumes leo has accumulated at least some knick-knacks since coming here.]

[neonleon]

[Surprising everyone, he has not. It's been like... A day?]

Got everything right here. I was gonna grab stuff to take to the sewer, but didn't make it that far.

[semilethal]

It's just as crowded down there as it is up here. [oh so donnie DID look. hypocrite.]

[neonleon]

Yeah, but I found a spot-

[Wait.]

YOU LOOKED TOO!!

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[semilethal]

[oh f-]