001; Audio - The one where Mike tries to make sense of this.

[michaeljangelo]

[Mike knows the rules, and he knows them by heart: When you're in a new place, and you aren't sure of your surroundings, you stay hidden to stay safe. Someone will come and find you. So when the kedan deliver him to his suite, Michaelangelo stays there.

It's only after he's lowered all the shades, explored the suite from top to bottom, and booby-trapped the front door with common household items, that Mike turns his attention to the communication console. Mike's access and familiarity with all things computer has been limited at best, with the bulk of his exposure coming in the form of play-testing what ever new video game Donatello had been coding. So it comes as more than a little bit of a shock to him that the console is as easy for him to work as the skim-milk blue guy with a similar number of fingers on his hands said it would be.

It doesn't matter that he's not home, or that the people who found him aren't quite human, or even that anyone who saw him on this vidscreen thing could easily just assume he was some sort of special effect added in post production.]

Um...hello? I.
I'm just looking for my brothers. There was a light from some sort of machine. They started to disappear without me. I just. I just want to find them.

Leo? Donnie? Raph? Please tell me you're out there. Please?

Comments

[audio] ENCRYPTED ~100% TO KNOWN TURTLES (2012 Raph)

[boselfdestruct]

Mikey?

[okay, so he was a week off in his estimates. STILL.

But he sounds a little funny. IS HE SICK OH NO.]

Where are you? [pause] --Wait! Nevermind. Don't answer that just yet. Did you get some water already?

Re: [audio] ENCRYPTED ~100% TO KNOWN TURTLES (2012 Raph)

[michaeljangelo]

Donnie?!

[The connection must be bad, because that almost sounds like Donnie.
Almost.]

Yeeaaaah, I've got a glass right...oh no is...is there something wrong with the water?

[audio] ENCRYPTED ~100% TO KNOWN TURTLES (2012 Raph)

[boselfdestruct]

No, no. It's fine. Just make sure you get a lot of it. Getting dragged out of the ocean isn't really good for anybody, you know? [COUGHespeciallyturtlesCOUGH

hum de dum doesn't know they're not showing up in the ocean anymore]

Okay- Where did they take you? What district are you in?

[That's as vague as he can get without asking Mikey to give up his exact location when he can't encrypt, which AHAHAHAHA no, and it worked for him and Raph.]

[audio] ENCRYPTED ~100% TO KNOWN TURTLES (2012 Raph)

[michaeljangelo]

Iiii don't know, actually. There wasn't any ocean, or any dragging.

...

Well, okay. A little dragging, but that's just because my legs kind of stopped working for a little while there.

[voice]

[seriouslytwisted]

[Oh great, DONNIE found this before Raph did. Now he's going to need to explain some shit, which no thank you. Not to an affronted Donatello.]

You. How old are you?

[Not a sure-fire way to tell, but it's worked thus far. It's a good start.]

Re: [voice]

[michaeljangelo]

[Raph doesn't sound completely right, but he sounds right enough for horse-shoes and hand grenades. It's not as if the payphones of 1986 NYC gave the best, most clear connections anyway.]

Who's asking?

[The smile and relief in his voice is audible.]

[voice]

[seriouslytwisted]

[oh my god okay so this mikey is also a pain in the ass]

I'm asking you, genius, now give me an answer before I come over there and take it right outta your mouth myself!

audio;

[fotia]

[name confusions is go!]

Uhh. Hi? Who in the world are you?

Re: audio;

[michaeljangelo]

Uh...I asked you first!

[No, he didn't, but Mike's not going to let something as simple as fact get in the way...]

Re: audio;

[fotia]

[a moment of silence please as he questions your level of intelligence]

Uh, but you already know my name.

[and a little bit haughtily] I mean, I know I'm pretty popular around this side of the Turtle but seriously, I can't possibly memorize the voices of all my ardent fans.

audio;

[dracobin]

What do your brothers look like? This city is quite big, but I may have seen them around somewhere.

Re: audio;

[michaeljangelo]

They uh...well. Um. The thing is, chances are better that you haven't seen them. Or rather that they haven't let themselves be seen.

But...okay, maybe. Uh they're...turtles.

audio;

[dracobin]

[SO EXCITED more talking turtles, this is the greatest.] Oh, a turtle! I have already met one turtle, his name was Donatello; is that the Donnie you mentioned? You are a turtle as well, then?

text; WRONG LEO BUT I'M TAGGING ANYWAY

[squint]

Any luck so far?

text, GIVE ME ALL THE LEOS! I WILL COLLECT THEM LIKE POKEMONS!

[michaeljangelo]

yes! ithink

[Pardon his typing, he prefers joysticks to keyboards.]

text,

[squint]

Good. You have someone from home, that's something you can hold on to.

[video]

[alpha_squad_leader]

Hey. Your brothers wouldn't happen to be big turtle guys, would they? Because if they are, I've met two of them.

Re: [video]

[michaeljangelo]

[There is a green face on his screen now.
A GREEN FACE!
ON HIS SCREEN!
NOW!]

Uh...they miiiight be.

[video]

[alpha_squad_leader]

[Green and smiling.]

Well, if they are and if they haven't contacted you already, I'm pretty sure they will soon. They should be around somewhere.

I'm Victor, by the way.

audio;

[storm_warning]

Try putting their names on a milk carton and you might have luck, because this place doesn't always like giving us the people we know.

audio;

[michaeljangelo]

Do...do they even have those here?

audio;

[storm_warning]

[Okay, point.]

So you'd be better trying missing posters, so what. Point is, you've got to be lottery-lucky to get anyone you know to show.

video;

[zerotoawesome]

Hey! We have a full set now... Sort of...

You're Raph's bro, right? Turtle Raph, not some other lesser Raph?

[video]

[michaeljangelo]

You know Raph?!

[video]

[zerotoawesome]

Course I do! He's totally my bro. Er... Not his bro bro like you, but just a bro, you know?