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After Donnie ran off, interpreting Splinter's advice of "combat is not a video game" as "make combat like a video game", he'd been in there for a while.
Of course his brothers, and April, left him to it. The latter sat on one of the seats in their little tv area, checking on her status of the blog she made. Each of the turtles tended to their own pass times; Mikey lying on the tire swing, and Raph and Leo playing their digital hockey game.
"Hey guys," April's eyes widened with excitement, and she turned to Raph and Leo. "Check out this post I got."
"Hang on April, I just have to destroy Lame-onardo." Came Raphael's snarky reply. He and his brother's focus increased on the game, both tied 2-2. Finally, after enabling a cheat code to win, Raph hopped from his seat, victorious. Leo gave a small gasp as the puck shot down the middle of the screen, completely obliterating his character, then pouted, giving Raph the stink eye. Raph was a sore winner sometimes, as demonstrated by his little victory dance he did on his way to the other. Leo scoffed and rolled his eyes when Raph used his shoulder as an arm rest, and smirked down at him.
The blue clad turtle was about to chew him out before he was pushed just because, stumbling and falling with an "unh!" on the other side of the arcade machine.
"So, what's up?" Raph hopped onto the chairs, sitting on the left of April. As soon as the words left his mouth, he felt a hand smack the back of his head. He shot a glare upwards toward Leo, who smirked back at him at his allotted revenge, on the right of her. He'd save the beating for him later.
"I set up a message board." Said April, click-clacking away at her keyboard. "It's to collect unusual sightings around New York." As she spoke, Leo and Raph watched intently as she scrolled down the feed of the blog.
"People send in pics, videos, and I also might get some stuff that'll help us track the Kraang and find my dad."
Leo perked up at the information. He wouldn't lie, he was a little impressed with her thought process on how to keep them on top of Kraang activity. It was a rather smart idea, even if other ideas she has aren't.. very similar. April pulled up a video containing an unknown area filled with smoke, a Kraangdroid stepping out of the foggy area. "Like this video of a gas explosion." She added on, enhancing it so they could better see.
Leo sneered. "A Kraangdroid."
"Where?!" Mikey's panicked response shook him bad enough for him to shoot out of his tire swing, but that ultimately resulted in him falling into the water below. The three on the couch stared at him momentarily, some processing what just happened, and others.. mentally shaking his head..
"We'll check it out tonight." Leo spoke with determination, turning to look at April. The human girl wore a skeptical expression. "Why not now?" She huffed, her tone lilting in slight agitation. Leo already didn't like that. "Because it's daytime." Came his reply. "We can't let anyone see us."
"Well I can." April shut her laptop rather harshly and bounced from her seat. She planned on leaving her computer in the lair, and began walking for the exist.
"Oh, boy.." Raph rolled his eyes with a sigh as Leo jumped to chase her, blocking her path before she could make it out. His eye ridges creased with an equal irritation, and his tone was firm. "April, think about this." He started, holding up his arms about halfway, halfheartedly. "It could be dangerous."
He'd let her get into all the trouble she wanted, but Donnie likes her for whatever reason, so he didn't want to be on the other end of that stick.
"You know what else could be dangerous?" April pointed an accusing finger, then crossed her arms, unmoving. "Standing between me and my father."
Leo scoffed at her attitude, tilting his head and raising one of his eyes in major disbelief. "Really?" He laughed humorlessly. "You're gonna go interfere with the Kraang by yourself because you can't bother to be patient enough for us to help you at night?"
April blinked, surprised at his words. Leo was never one to start an altercation, especially out of pettiness. Usually that was Raph's thing. But Raph's sitting on the couch, legs crossed and an elbow resting on his knee, his head in his hand. He watched this with a knowing smirk. This was Leo's time.
"No, you know what?" Leo threw his hands in the air haphazardly. He sounded exasperated as all hell. "Go ahead and do whatever stupid wonton idea you have. I'm not molting my shell over it."
"What is with you?" April barked back, her hands clenching to fists at her sides. "My father-" Leo cut her off before she could pull that card again.
"Is not the only thing that matters right now, April. It's not all about you, and you won't get anywhere throwing these pissy fits because you want your dad back oh-so badly. We've offered to help, and still offering to help. However that attitude is not gonna get us to help. We have our reasons for not going to the surface right now- reasons that you can literally look at and see why."
Leo was done with the bullshit today. Honestly, he might just go out to the surface to find a different love interest for Donnie, because this one was not it.
"Well excuse me if I want to do something instead of waiting around all day!"
"You're not excused!" Leo shot back, walking back to where Raph was sitting. The red clad turtle was holding back laughter, having very rarely seen Leo get to this point with anyone, even his own brothers. The shit was hilarious, and the glare Leo gave him made it even harder not to laugh.
April stared at him with her jaw on the floor, flabbergasted. Eventually she sported the angriest expression she could muster, and stomped her way out of the lair, even more determined to do her stupid plan on her own.
Leo plopped down on the floor and looked through his Space Heroes collection. Watching and reciting the episodes always calmed him down. Raph couldn't help but snort, lying on his belly now. "You really couldn't hold that one in, huh?" He asked the leader. Leo scoffed again, his lips pressed in a thin line. "She's gonna either get herself in trouble, or get us in trouble." He said.
"And I'll be damned if I let her get us in trouble."