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Noise.

It starts as just irritation. A metaphorical crawling under your skin. Things are too noisy, too bright, there is too much happening all the time and you can't take it all in-

Then silence it, make it yours, make it you, take control and destroy what will not submit

It sounds so inviting, a freedom from the noise, but its wrong, its wrong, its wrong and the noise is getting louder, mechanical and foreboding as it sees you, it knows you are there, and it wants to make you apart of it.

Anatawa hitorijanai

For a moment, there is quiet.

You breathe.

And fall through water.

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[Down the sewer tunnel and the world is]

[Quiet]

[There is a peace in that. There is quiet, only the soft sound of moving water, and the occasional drip. Far enough down its hard to hear the city street. Its dark, but not pitch black.]

[Its lonely]

[But]

[Sometimes everything is too much and this is what you need]

[For Raph specifically, he will probably realize this is the tunnel that Donnie would often disappear down when he was younger, when they were still figuring out all his ticks and neurosis, and he would just hide away for a time until either he came back, or someone (usually Leo) found him to bring him back.]

[ Oh.

Man.

It's been a while, huh.

Well, maybe if part of Donnie is doing a little brain hideout--

He thumps a mystic fist on the ground twice. A little Raph Is Here without, uh. Yelling.

Better if he rules out the most straightforward option first, after all. ]

[Been a while.]

[Sadly the knock does not yield any turtle brothers.]

[ That tracks. Worth a shot, though.

In that case, he's gonna keep heading down this tunnel on his Donnie hunt. ]

[Further down the tunnel, about where hidey holes start to be, turn a corner and-]

[Tunnel full of Kraang tentacles!]

[ There are no upsides to the fact that Donnie was out there in the real world very much manifesting entire Kraang tentacle things. Objectively. Having seen that is gonna live with Raph for a long time.

But in a roundabout way, it at least makes this straight-out-of-nightmares moment not paralyzing. He doesn't have to fight back the reflexive Nope quite so hard.

He'd fight it anyway, of course. He'd do anything for his brothers. But it's good not to waste valuable time with his own issues right now.

Gonna pull up some mystic gauntlets for the double effect of extra light and self-defense. It would probably take forever to simply rip all the tentacles out of his brother's heart himself? He feels like it would take a long time considering he's trying to do team stuff.

(Later. Later, Raph, come back later and take as long as it takes, you're not gonna leave him like this.)

Very very carefully proceeding. Keeping an eye out for. He's not really sure what. Donnie hints. Non-Kraang stuff. ]

[He won't get to proceed far. The tentacles are thick here, very thick and there, one of Donnie's hidey holes, is a thick nest of them-]

[There is also something grey in there that is definitely Not Kraang tentacles.]

[D20 roll for any retrieval attempts.]

[ !

THAT'S NOT ALIENS THEREFORE GOTTA TRY TO GET THAT OUTTA THERE STAT

(with a boa-bestowed 17) ]

[Oh those tentacles are definitely coming for Raph. Luckily he's got mystic energy to keep them at bay. They're also not as fast for some strange, Catherine-shaped reason.]

[Raph gets to the grey and it's very kid-shaped with green peaking out of the grey.]

[Another roll]

[ KID, KID-SHAPED, SMALL AND GREEN

Absolutely gonna keep at it.

We got an 18, boa said canonical big brother powers. ]

[Boa says Big Brother rights over Yandonnie rights]

[Have one small kid shaped object, freshly ripped from Kraang tentacles]

[Tentacles that are still coming for Raph and very small figure in his arms and starting to get some ground through the c
Mystic energy.]

[ So... so little. Tiny guy. Lil. Brain function overloaded by Tininess.

Raph's gonna try to become this little guy's small-scale mystic gundam and book it back the way he came. ]

[Big bro gets to be even bigger]

[The tentacles pursue! Or try to. They have been severely hindered and are in fact turning more....teal? The further he heads down the tunnel.]

[Trust exercises are power, Catherine absolutely cut down their threat level.]

[There is now one unconscious ten year old Donnie in his arms, complete with glasses and one grey rat themed hoody.]

[ 1. teal better than the original format, Raph does not know Catherine but he would lay down his life for her. He's taking this all the way back to the morals room bank and not stopping to think about other stuff until he's in there and back to a normal bigness level.

2. immediately sits on the floor with tiny Donnie and loses his whole mind HE IS SO LITTLE LOOK AT HIS LITTLE GLASSES HE'S SO SMOL HE IS A BABY

WHY IS

HE NOT AWAKE

this is the nightmare scenario ]

You're okay. Raph's gotcha, we're gonna get you set back up, you're gonna be fine-

[ gently? taps lil Donnie's face? ]

[Teal are still Bad, but it looks s standard bad over Super Bad, home trauma addition]

[There is a groan and shift in his arms. Child is alive at least!]

[ All ground gained is ground gained. Raph will one thing at a time his way through this heart sweep.

Case in point, child is alive! Victory!! ]

There you are. You scared the heck outta me, buddy. Time to get up, c'mon. Or else, uh- [ ?? ] I'll touch all your shelf stuff and put it back in the wrong order.

[.... honestly, that is an emotional connection for selfishness]

[It's not the snap awake of Donnue's usual, but there is a weak bap against his front and a groan] Leave m' order alone Raphie...

[ big internal WEH why can't they stay this little forever!! not nearly enough self-reflection to feel weird about how parental that sounds.

He's busy with his incredible power of not coming up with a plan until he's already doing the plan. Selfishness... of course. ]

Man. Still sleepin', huh? [ FLAGRANT tone of big brother ignoring. A rare menace rising back to the surface. Siiiiigh. ] Guess Raph's gonna shuffle your DVDs around so they're lined up from what he thinks is lamest to coolest.

[The TERROR!]

Don't. Touch DVDs. The're mi'e. And optimized to...objectively best.

[Bapping his chest, waking up, an eye peeking open blearily and grumpily.]

Opinions is always personal, little man.

[ Will tiny Donnie manage to dodge this annoying-ass head nuzzle? That's the real challenge. ]

How you feelin'? Anything hurt?

[Absolutely not, grumpily pouting at him for this clear harassment.]

I feel like I will never be clean again.

I don't think I can help with that one.

[ It did not deter the nuzzle. But he doesn't drag it out either, since Donnie was very accommodating. ]

I'm supposed to help get you back to... [ ? Hold on he's got it he's just gotta unscramble. ] Protectiveness? Right? Big metal guy.

[Pouts even more when he pulls back.]

[And lightly headbutts under his chin.]

[MAYBE SELFISHNESS JUST WANTS TO LIVE HIS TSUNDERE LIFE.]

What else would a Snapper Alligator bot be?

[A pause.]

....shit, how long have I been out? [Ruining his kid look with his bad language, but he's perking up more, looking around.]

Edited 2023-02-18 04:48 (UTC)

[ Raph was not made with the capacity to survive this. IT'S TOO CUTE. UNBEARABLE. HE GOT A HEADBUTT.

Selfishness can take pride in getting a free pleased rumble about it.

Also. That's really sweet and he feels a way about it. That association. Hashtag blessed. Truly a shame to have to give him not-great news. ]

Ay. Language. But... uh. If you being out is a big part of what set this whole situation off, it's been a few days.

[ Give or take. ]

A few days? Sacrifice was-

[He looks around and he tugs at his mask tails and points to a tablet. MAYBE HE WANTS TO GET CARRIED BY RAPH, MAYBE HE WANTS TO HOARD THE AFFECTION, you don't know him-]

I need that tablet.

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