[Video]

[meanandgreen]

[Things just kept gettin’ better and better. Last thing he remembers is getting attacked on that rooftop by a bunch of Pinocchio wannabes pretending to be ninja. And now? Now he’s stuck in another dimension in some city that’s supposedly floating on a giant freakin’ turtle.

Needless to say, Raph was Not Happy. He had no idea where his brothers were, and he was starting to wonder if this was like the thing with Draco and the Daimyo’s son. Constantly getting hurled into other dimensions was really starting to tick him off.

At least those kedan guys seemed all right. They took it pretty well when he’d given one of them the shakedown while he was trying to figure out what the shell happened. The guy didn’t even fight back, and Raph felt kind of bad about it in retrospect, but there was nothing he could do about that now.

The best part was that most of these guys around here looked just as weird as him. Some of them were even uglier. You never knew if the guy next to you was gonna have tentacles or gills or an extra arm. He liked it. Kinda felt like walking around the Battle Nexus. Even the buildings looked kinda similar.

That was the only reason why Raph even thought of getting on that computer. Since nobody's screamed or tried to dissect him yet, the way he looked obviously wasn't a factor, and if he was gonna find his brothers, it was the quickest and the easiest way to do it. Not to say it still didn't make him nervous, but finding his bros was all he cared about. He'd just have to suck it up and be careful, because the sooner he found them, the sooner he could get his hands on whoever the heck was responsible for this mess.

And if he couldn't find them, then he'd just have to do it alone.

So, here goes nothin'.]

Bet you think you're real funny, puttin' me on a giant turtle. People seriously gotta work on their sense of humor.

[Raph's not even sure if whoever's responsible for this little unexpected vacation can hear him, but he's mad, okay? So what if he vents a little?

He glowers into the camera, cracking his knuckles]

Any of you people know how the heck we got here? 'Cause I'm about this close to marchin' into that palace and showin' little miss Emperor exactly what I think about her business.

[All right. Enough of that. Gotta keep it together. He folds his arms over his chest, getting down to the real reason he posted this.]

And I'm lookin' for my brothers. They look a lot like me, so you'd know it if you saw 'em.

[He's kinda dreading the answer to that last one. Wouldn't be the first time he wound up in another dimension alone, but after that crazy fight back home, he just needed to know they were okay.]

Comments

[video]

[meanandgreen]

Thanks for the advice, but this ain't my first rodeo. Trust me, I can handle it.

[video]

[backwordscompatible]

You sure about that, cowboy?

A lot of us are fighters of some kind here. If she's still in command, you know there's gotta be a reason for that.

[video]

[meanandgreen]

You're not gonna convince me not to go up there.

[He knows there's risks, but there's no way he's just gonna roll over and let this happen to him or anyone else.]

[video]

[backwordscompatible]

Can I at least get you to think it over first?

I mean, what kind of powers do you actually have?

[video]

[meanandgreen]

[Powers? Well that's a weird way of phrasing the question.]

I'm a trained ninja, and I can handle it myself.

[Okay, so this girl means well, at least. And he really isn't gonna just jump right in there without thinking it through. He might be impulsive, but he's not stupid. Most of the stuff he's saying about pounding the crap out of people right now is just macho bullshit. Not to say that isn't what he wants to do. He just likes having his shell in one piece.

Still, he doesn't need some girl telling him what he should or shouldn't do.]

[video]

[backwordscompatible]

[She's not knocking the ninja claim. Her best friend was practically one, as well, and she knew first-hand how even a "normal" human could fare against someone with powers. Her expression even betrays the hint of respect she has for someone with that much training.]

How long've you studied?

[video]

[meanandgreen]

Pretty much since I could walk, I guess.

[Since before he can remember, that's for sure.]

Maybe sixteen years?

[video]

[backwordscompatible]

You're sixteen?

[She wasn't expecting him to be so young. Then again, she didn't really know much about anthropomorphic turtle ages.]

[video]

[meanandgreen]

Eighteen.

[Not like you can walk the minute you were born. Or hatched and mutated by alien ooze, in his case.]

[video]

[backwordscompatible]

Oh. [Again, she didn't know how it worked for turtles.] Same for me, I guess. Except it'd probably be closer to eleven or twelve years' worth of training.

[video]

[meanandgreen]

[So she's a fighter, huh?] That mean you're gonna help me face down the Emperor, or are you gonna keep tryin' to convince me otherwise? 'Cause I'm still not changin' my mind.

[video]

[backwordscompatible]

[Sort of]

Not right now, I'm not.

Even I'm nowhere near powerful enough to take her on. I'm not sure anybody here is.

[video]

[meanandgreen]

[He plants his fist into his open palm with a meaty smack.] Guess we'll see about that.

[video]

[backwordscompatible]

[Yeah, she doesn't even blink at that.]

Guess so.