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[anything_it_takes]

[Holy crap, it's Leo on camera. And he seems a little tense - stressed, even. He's keeping his Pro Leader Face on but something has him rattled, badly.

One of his brothers is missing. If it had been Raph's place that was temporarily vacant, Leo wouldn't blink - Raph has his own friends and they do separate things now and then. But Donnie? Donnie hasn't been leaving his Metal Sector condo except to hunt for scrap metal... and it's been hours. Hours during which the resident genius is always in his lab suite.

Donnie is officially missing.

Leo doesn't really want to announce this across the mutant turtle community in one fell swoop, but he has little choice. He can't trust this message to the basic encryption setting, and he doesn't want to mess with the program Donnie hard-wired into his console for fear of breaking something. Right now it's fixed to a set group of IDs, and that's just where it'll have to stay for now.]

This is a Turtles-only broadcast. [Of course.]

When was the last time... anyone saw or spoke to Donnie?

If he's with you, let me know right away.

[Leo starts to turn off the feed, but pauses as he remembers an important detail.]

And - keep your replies to video or text. Donnie said using audio would "crack the code open like an egg."

[So yeah don't do that.

His expression darkens for a moment, eyes moving off-screen in thought, before he glances back up at the screen and reaches forward to end transmission.]

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Re: video;

[anything_it_takes]

[Leo doesn't know how much he can hope for results here, but it's still depressing to get a negative. His voice is low and controlled; he's positively distracted with worry, but still holding it together.]

All right.

Thanks.

video;

[michaeljangelo]

Have you been to his place? Were there any signs of struggle?

Re: video;

[anything_it_takes]

[Natch he has.]

No, all his stuff's there. [Tangled notes, bundles of wires, new and half-made tegaki and shuriken and smoke bombs... everything in neurotically organized chaos. Leo knows what Donnie's work area looks like and this is it; no one's touched anything.] He's just - gone. I saw him about ten hours ago, he was fine.

[Well. As fine as Donnie's been these days. Leo was pretty sure he'd been trying to build a particle accelerator from scrap metal.]

video;

[michaeljangelo]

Cripes that's ominous.

You uh...you okay?

Re: video;

[anything_it_takes]

[There is a distinct pause. Leo has a horrible gut feeling that Donnie is Gone. Not kidnapped, not AWOL, not distracted, just Gone. He's seen a few Network posts that mentioned missing foreigners. If this is a Thing that Happens around here...

That doesn't mean he'll forgo all the usual measures. It just means that a feeling of futility and loss will plague him the entire time, and with every negative confirmation the painful reality will sink in a little more.]

I'm fine.

[That was very tense and monotone, and his face is set in a leadership mask. Leo is so not fine.]

If you see him...

[Leo knows he doesn't have to finish that. Heck, he doesn't have to ask at all, he just doesn't want his own frame of mind to be the topic of conversation.]

video;

[michaeljangelo]

[Don't sweat it, Leo. Mike understands.]

Understood. And hey, keep me posted, would ya'?

Re: video;

[anything_it_takes]

[Mike is awesome.]

Yeah, I will.

[Thanks 'cuz.]