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Finally back from their mission, Hound and turtles came to the warehouse and were welcomed by everyone. The ones who were on the terrace remained there but autobots came closer. Hound parked himself to a spot Donnie instructed. The bearded bot remained in his vehicle form for washing the paint off. ”Angelcake!” Mikey cheered and was about to dance his way to the terrace when Hound cleared his throat. ”Did you forget something?” Hound sneered.
Crosshairs laughed at Hound's appearance. ”Looking good Hound! Spring's new fashion?” Bumblebee joined into the laughter and Hound growled. Drift wasn't pleased neither. ”I feel that you have had enough laughter for this evening.” Drift cut in but Crosshairs brushed it off and they walked back to terrace.
”Ups, sorry man.” Mikey remembered his promise and sheepishly scratched his head. He brought water hose and cloth. ”You will be clean in no time....I will be there soon April!” He then started his work. Rest of the turtles worked on the cover to take it off of Hound except Donnie.
”Little help here Donnie?” Leo glared at Donnie while holding rope. ”Yeah, wat ya doin'? Haven't ya done with writin' dat novel ta agents earlier?” Raph demanded to know as well what his brother were doing now. Uncovering Hound wasn't too much work but it would have been nice change for their genius to do some physical work.
”I just make sure there is nothing else going on according to our encounter with them. Last check ups so to say.” Donnie answered while walking towards the terrace focusing on his device. Autobots stepped aside from his path since they wanted to give him peace to work. After all, the turtle made sure they all would be safe from suspicious minds. Also, the mentioned turtle didn't seem to knowledge his surroundings too much.
Raph and Leo were soon done taking of the cover and put the ropes and the fabric back to their rightful places. ”Dis has been interesting way to spend a evenin'. Don't ya think so fearless?” Raph smirked to Leo and got equal one delivered back to him. ”You are absolutely right teddy bear.”
Raph rolled his eyes to this nickname but smiled. He was too excited about their guests to be angry. They both turned around only to see confused faces of Bumblebee and Optimus. ”What makes Raph teddy bear?” The yellow bot asked. In his opinion nothing had showed that the turtle in red would resemble fluffy cute toy bear. Mikey heard their conversation and giggled. ”Raph's cuddly personality.” Leo snickered and earned Raph's strong nudge to his elbow while Mikey laughed.
”Never mind dat moron.” Raph gave dirty looks at his brothers who still were amused over the joke. Bumblebee was happy to their answer. He hummed thoughtfully and turned to head over the terrace. ”This is your family's inside joke?” Optimus request and Leo nod.
Meanwhile donnie had reached the stairs leading to terrace. He had walked very slowly while working. ”Everything is a-okay.” Donnie raised his head. ”Hi April!” He noticed her and they hugged. ”Hey, I was suppose to hug her first!” Mikey yelled upsetly after he was done washing and drying Hound. Sound of their youngest brother complaining turned their attention to him. Donnie felt bit victorious to be first one even if it was childish. Leo amused and Raph bit annoyed.
” How it is important? I understand the she is your friend but...” Hound asked after transforming. Mikey went fully into praising April ” It is like angel giving blessings, finding a new sick song, winning a game, pizza giving a hug!” The last one was least to say odd and none of them understood it. ”Pizza giving a hug?” Hound asked. It sounded disgusting. Leo and Raph looked at each other puzzled before just giving up to understand. ” Let's just... head over the terrace” Leo said and did as he said. Raph and Optimus followed him.
”If it's important to give hug, I can lift you there faster than you can run.” Hound offered to Mikey just before Mikey was about to dash. The orange wearing turtle smiled brightly. ”Dude! Thousands times yes!” Hound chuckled and offered his hand. Mikey hopped on it and cheered all the way to terrace even if it wasn't full run. ”Look at me! This is coolest thing ever!” Leo and Raph looked at their brother's merry ride. ”Can't say dat I ain't jealous.” Raph admitted as he walked with Leo to terrace.
”Hey, someone can give me ride to terrace now as well.” Brains commanded. He had been working and studying the portal machine long enough and needed to talk with Donnie. Brains got Crosshairs to do the deed. ”Thanks” He hopped on the small table where he was earlier. ”Now then, let's get into business.” Brains looked at Donnie.
MOMENTS LATER
Donnie and Brains talked privately in the terrace office while others get to know each other even more. ” Who were the one that made me sound like some sort of goddess?” April gave fake stern look at turtles. Most likely it would had been just Mikey who had praised her non-stop. ”You are pretty!”, ”an brave”, ”who said you are not one?”, ”You deserve compliments”. Turtles just went being honest, kind and some just went teasing her. So it was all of them, she sighed. Compliments were nice and all but enough is enough. Splinter chuckled and got April do the same.
Mikey was sitting next to their female friend, enjoying last bites of the meal. Other couch was taken over by Leo and Raph. Splinter had seated himself on armchair. Autobots were next or near by the terrace. ”I am sure they don't overly admire you....at least too much.” Crosshairs commented and looked at Mikey. ”Yeah, like he say.” Mikey swallowed and put his plate away.
Mikey seemed to like April the most, Crosshairs thought. Or at least show it the most. It would be nice if Mikey would to praise him as well. But that was Crosshairs being bit cocky.
”We should get more car chairs to you so you don't need to sit on floor.” Mikey smiled. ”Car chairs?” Raph repeated him and was interested.. ”Yeah. They are cars but used like chairs! Car. Chairs! Though I don't know if we can get the car chairs you like the best.” Mikey explained and was thoughtful of his last sentence. He wanted to give very best to them. ”Well, I goin' with dat one. We can get cars so you can rest ya masses nice n cozy.” Raph complied and nod to Mikey who was happy to have his brother to agree with him.
”We are happy whatever you can give us.” Drift expressed what his friends and he felt. ”As soon as Donatello and Brains have discussed, we can plan even more of how to proceed in here.” Optimus added. He wasn't sure how long they were going to be in this Earth. However, they would to their best to trouble their host as little as possible.
Mikey let out burp before getting on his feet. In his eyes he had joyful glimmer which Splinter knew well. His son was up to something you wouldn't be sure if it was good or bad. And the rat was sure it had to do something with their quests. ”Hey Optimus?” Mikey had the most innocent face and voice of the time. ”Yes Michelangelo?” Optimus focused on the turtle.
”Aw, man. Just call me Mikey.” Mikey pouted for moment before going back to what he was about to ask. ”May I hop on your shoulder?”
Mikey wanted to experience fullest of their quests abilities, features and whatsoevers. Why not climb up and down the tallest bot of the world? Splinter looked at his son but let Mikey just be. He was adult after all, he could do his own decisions. The rat actually appreciated Mikey's traits, his forever young playful mind. I should tell that to my son more often, the rat thought to himself as he sipped more of tea.
How would Optimus reply to this odd request? Splinter was very interested to this. April was entertained and hoping Optimus would say yes, Raph and Leo not that amused, and autobots had each more or less amused and more or less horrified looks. Who would ask mighty and noble Optimus to be, what, a plaything?
”Yes.” Optimus said after short silence and got gleeful Mikey jumping on his shoulder. ”Look, look! I am tiny!” Mikey beamed like child to his family from Optimus' shoulder. ”April cheered from her spot. She was also feeling this child enjoyment which happened only with when Mikey was around. Bumblebee cheered. Crosshairs laughed friendly. Drift watched this event with what you would say terrified feelings. Hound scratched his head and didn't know what to feel.
”Just how old you are?” Leo was half amused and half peeved over Mikey's childish behavior. ”Don't you remember?” Mikey asked with concern, did his oldest brother forget how old he was? Leo felt like Mikey just told dad joke and he rolled his eyes and sighed. April and Raph snickered over Leo's annoyance. Mikey didn't get what they were laughing about and climbed his way to other shoulder while autobots talked with him. Raph was bit jealous how Mikey was first to ask to be there. Maybe he would ask to be there too....maybe. Perhaps later.
Just then Donnie and Brains came out of the office. They looked at Mikey on Optimus's shoulder. ”Um, what's going on?” Donnie asked. ”Never mind that now. Do you know how to fix the machine?” Leo raised from his spot with Raph. Others attention were drawn to them as well. ”We have now discussed and made preliminaries to fix the portal.” Brains announced while Donnie carried him and Mikey jumped back to terrace. ”What kind of preliminaries?” Optimus asked and leaned closer. His men came closer too to hear everything.
”Making money.” Brains looked at his leader. Autobots mumbled to each other. ”What do you mean?” Mikey was first to ask and came closer to Donnie and Brains. ” You know how I mostly use whatever metal we can find?” Mikey nod. It was true; Donnie rarely bought any metal, they just used whatever they found and saw useful.
”This case is different. WAY different.” The genius glanced Brains before continued. ”We can't use old or wrong type of metal to fix the machine. It's too risky and dangerous. So for now we have to make money, save it and wait until we have enough of it to buy right kind of metal.” He ended his explanation. ”Which is also happens to be expensive one.” Brains pointed out. ”And we might also need to buy more cords.” Donnie added. ”Need to check that powersource too.” Brains topped it.
”Okay okay! We get dat.”, ”Buying some important stuff.” Crosshairs and Raph exlaimed at the same time and surprised each other with that. ”Can my men and I do something?” Optimus queried. There had to be something for them to do.
” For now no. Though I do have some ideas. Like Brains said, we need to check that powersource. To speak in English...” He started, glanced his brothers for moment and earned grunts from them. They had often asked Donnie to ”speak in English” when he talked about science. Now he was mocking them. ”We need to take the powersource off and slowly empty it from most of it's energy. That way we can see if it has damage at all. There are other parts that need attention too...” He mumbled.
”How long this all is going to take?” Crosshairs asked. ”Roughly to say, weeks. Perhaps months but we can say better after studying it tomorrow.” Brains explained. ”Today we find fine money making businesses and rest. Need to catch some z's.”
”And party!!” Mikey cheered. He was more than happy now that he knew their quest were going to stay longer than he had thought. Of course he was sad that autobots were stuck in planet with just few friends but he was going to make their stay blast.
”After all, we seem not to be in hurry, so...” Mikey waited someone to join in. He was in luck because; ”We party!” Bumblebee sang. He started to play music and danced with Mikey. Drift rolled his optics but others bots seemed to be fine or they just didn't their emotions.
”Actually...um...uh, never mind. Better happy Mikey than whining Mikey.” Donnie tried to cut in but gave up. ”Something that needs to be done now?” Leo glanced at their youngest brother dancing before looking at Donnie. Optimus did the same with his soldier. If needed to they would make their youngest ones work....or not.
”I need computer system brought in here. I have better parts in the lair....” He suddenly looked at Mikey and smiled Optimus did the same. Mikey had some crazy party moves and taught them to Bumblebee. He had even made Crosshairs move along with him. Maybe Mikey was right about party, Donnie thought. And truly they were not in hurry.
”After we had the parts in here, let's follow Mikey's lead and have some fun today.” Donnie surprised his brothers in good way. ”Let's do dis”, ”Sounds good.”, ”agreed.” as the turtle brothers and Optimus showed green light to enjoy the evening, others relaxed as well.
LATER
Once computer was up and going, Donnie went to his work to make some money. Brains promised to keep him company which the turtle was delighted. They liked each others wits and enjoyed their evening on their task. Meanwhile everyone else enjoyed themselves and each others company by partying. Conversation flew along with laughter and some music. Optimus, Hound, and Splinter remained observing but enjoyed not less.
When April's time came to go home, Raph escorted her. "I will try to come here tomorrow if I can." Was last she said before leaving. Splinter left to the lair at the same time. " I am looking forward tomorrow. Rest well my friends." He wished to them all. "That should be all for today...Are we leaving?" Donnie was surprised when he and Brains came out of the office. "Time sure flies faster when you have fun." He acknowledged and placed giggling Brains on the little table. After some pleading, Mikey finally agreed to leave with rest of his brothers back to the lair. ”See you tomorrow!” He did his goodbye.
Once their host and their friend were gone, it felt oddly quiet first. "This has been kinda loud day and now It's almost too quiet." Crosshairs pondered. "You want music?" Bumblebee asked but Crosshairs shook his head and said it was okay. "Just need to calm down and get some z's" Hound breathed tiredly and began to look good spot for himself.
”They are great beings.” Drift shared his feelings as he settled down to rest. He was interested to talk more with Leonardo and Splinter about meditating and their training. ”Indeed.” Optimus agreed. "Who knows, maybe this is what we needed to experience." He continued and got others interest. "We share mutual feelings of being... partly outsiders. We share same values and interest. I feel we find each our own mutual friend in our hosts, so to say.". Autobots hummed in agreement as they all now found their sleeping spots. "Rest well my men." Optimus said before falling to sleep.