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[Exploring and ninja-ing around is turning up a whole lot of dead ends and questions with no answers, so now Raphael is going to try his last resort.

Conversing with strangers.

Making sure he has his voice only function on (pretending that little SNAFU with it in his earlier conversation didn't happen) he reluctantly addresses his fellow...strand-ees.]

Okay, seriously. How many of you people actually buy that "you are in the in-between" story?

[the mystic new-age voice for the quote helps set the atmosphere, yes it is necessary]

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[action]

[Before this post, Raphael will be swimming around in the Water Sector, trying to keep as hidden as possible but needing to surface to breathe and also sneak back up onto the docks occasionally when he can't cross sections in water. He's a stealthy little bugger, so the average Joe might miss him, but anybody with serious training or extra-sharp senses might find him.

...or you might catch him when he's losing his temper and angrily kicking over a barrel after talking to yet another tree-hugging native yokel, whatever.]

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[what. too much?]

[Okay but really, Leo can't help a bit of a grin at that. It's not like he meant to embarrass Raph, but at least the message got through. And ordinarily he'd leave the katana at his side as a sign of continued respect, but it looks to him like this Raph has had enough of customs, so he obeys and knots them back up into their scabbards before rising into a stand.]

[...looking at Raph's flustered reaction, he's also finally starting to find a shred of familiarity in the situation. At least in addition to the still very prominent levels of WTF.]

I guess you might have a few things in common with my brother after all. [Okay yeah sorry, now he just sounds...a little bit amused. His Raph can get pretty embarrassed by all the formal stuff, too.]

[Well see, if it were Mikey bowing before him, or if it was because Raphael had won a fight, yeah. You stay down there for like ten minutes while he takes pictures and video.

But otherwise- IT WAS JUST EMBARRASSING OKAY

Raphael scoffs when Leonardo stands up -he wears his swords differently too- and does his best to pull himself back together.] Imagine that.

Anyway. What I remember before I showed up was fighting Snakeweed- [hold on] You know who that is?

Snakeweed? [what the heck kind of name is that] No, that...definitely doesn't ring any bells.

[He sees that judging look on your face Leonardo.] Wh- Look, Mikey named him. We just call him that to shut Mikey up.

You named him? [AND fought him? What exactly is this thing??]

He names things, the kid's a lunatic, I know. [MOVING ON.]

I was fighting Snakeweed with Leo -my Leo- and before that- [This throat closes up. He doesn't want to admit that he got his brother seriously hurt, not to someone who's essentially a stranger, even if he doesn't feel like it.] Before that...I was looking for him.

Anyway, Snakeweed knocked me into a wall and I saw stars, and then I'm getting pulled out of the water.

Edited 2013-02-13 08:01 (UTC)

[Sounds a bit similar to what had happened back in Leo's world - the part about being in a fight and getting knocked out, anyway. But he's already heard accounts from other people that they weren't in any danger before they got here, so...he doesn't put much stock into that.]

[More importantly. Leo's never heard of this "Snakeweed" guy, and he most certainly doesn't remember ever fighting anyone named that with his brother. This Raphael...it's like he's from a whole different world.]

[...]

[...there was a professor on the consoles the other day, and he mentioned parallel worlds, multiverses. Leo's got his experience with the Battle Nexus, and he's listened to some of Donnie's lectures on the subject, but...it all seemed so academic. It's not like Leo thought hey, maybe one day I'll be staring at an alternate version of my brother.]

[Assuming that's what's actually happening here. But he hasn't got a better explanation yet.]

Looks like none of us are in Kansas anymore.

Dude. [Slightly choked voice here. At least the humiliatingly lame quips are the same. That's totally a comfort except that it's not.]

...what? [It was clever!]

[No.]

Okay, so, if you don't know who Snakeweed is, do you know about Dog Pound? Bradford, I mean. Or Baxter Stockman, or the Kraang? Or the Foot?

[Dog Who and...wasn't there an utrom named Kraang or something?]

[Except he knows those other two, and oh, especially the latter. Leo's face darkens as he realizes the implications; it would figure, of course, that the Foot would be a constant within any world the turtles existed in.]

You mean the Shredder.

Yeah. Him too.

[So that's the same, then, even in this other freak bizarro world this Leonardo's from. Great. Awesome to know that no matter what, there's a Shredder out there to kick the shit out of his brothers.]

[Leo is sour about that for a few seconds more - what has their Shredder done to them, he wonders. Is he tied to them by such a far-reaching blood feud as he is to Leo and his own family?]

[But for now, he'll leave it at that. This probably isn't the time to be digging for those kinds of details.]

I've never heard of this...Dog Pound, or the Kraang. Stockman, though...now he's a pain in the shell.

What's up with that? How come you only know about every other evil-doer jerkoff? [What is up with this other dimension?

Actually, more importantly-] How old are you anyway?

Huh? [that takes him a bit by surprise, actually] I'm - my brothers and I are all eighteen.

[...........................

WHATEVER

THAT'S NOT A COOL AGE OR ANYTHING]

Huh. Figured you were thirty or something.

Thirty?

[RUDE]

[SHRUG] You act like it.

[Oh yeah now THIS is more familiar. That vaguely pissed-off-but-trying-to-be-better-than-you expression. Looks much more oft used on this Leo's face than HIS Leo's face, but still welcome than that calm, serene "I am so worldly and wise" one Leonardo was wearing earlier.]

Well - what about you? [This is now Leo struggling to sound like he's still being mature, but in all honesty he's kIND OF PETULANT ABOUT IT. HE'S NOT THAT OLD OMG] How old are you guys?

[...there is no way he's losing to Leo on this.

Raph throws his shoulders back and stands up straight which...still puts him a few inches below Leo WHO CARES]

We're eighteen too.

...

Really?

[Cannot hide his incredulous face. SORRY RAPH BUT YOU'RE SO TINY]

[SHUT UP]

Yeah really! Why wouldn't we be the same age?!

Uh, no reason! It's just that you're kind of...you know....

[Okay, so Leo said he'd be gone for most of the morning, and that's just great. He forgot to mention that he wasn't gonna bother showing up on time for them to leave for work. Not that he's eager to spend another afternoon serving Little Miss High and Mighty, but it was Leo's idea to go along with it in the first place. So he's pretty sure he died or something, because Leo's never late for anything.

So that means Raph's gotta go hunt his green butt down and figure out what the hell is going on.

What he sees is Leo talking to someone. His brain doesn't register who that someone actually is. He's more stuck on being pissed at Leo than anything else.]

Yo, Leo! Where the hell have you been? We gonna...

[Okay, hold the phone. About twenty feet away he realizes that is a turtle. A turtle who's seriously ripping off his style. What the fuck is that all about?!

So he storms up to the imposter, reaching out to grab him by the shoulder and and get all up in this jerk's face. He gets that the kedan are shape shifters but this is taking it too damn far!]

Just who the heck are you supposed to be!? You think this's funny!?

[If Raph hears 'short' out of Leo's mouth he'll- well he'll get angry because Leo's the one who said it. ONLY HE IS ALLOWED TO CALL HIMSELF SHORT! Or Splinter. Maybe Donnie if he does it sensitively.

It doesn't matter though, because some jackass grabs him and Raphael responds to that just as well as any other Raphael in any other universe would.

He throws a punch at the guy's face.]

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UGH I SHRIEKED WHEN LEO BOWED BTW

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AHH CUTE

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1/2

2/2 /CRASHES IN

HI ASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!