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Martin knew he shouldn’t feel bad about Chris and the others stopping Donita, but he couldn’t help but feel the guilt since it was during her fashion show and the freed Dracos scared the clients and buyers at the show. He thought he could just sleep it off. Unfortunately life is never that simple.
It had been almost a week since the fashion show disaster and he still felt all the guilt he had a week ago, maybe even more. Martin knew Chris didn’t do it on purpose, ruining the fashion show that is, he deliberatly stopped Donita like he normally would. But ruining a fashion show with an audience, that could ruin their reputation. That was low, even for Chris.
Martin knew he had to do something, he would snap soon if he didn't. He didn't even know his own brother anymore. Who's to say he really knows himself or if Chris had influenced so much of his life that he didn't know what he liked and what Chris liked. Martin could only come to one conclusion. He was having an identity crisis.
Since it was like 3 in the morning and was wide awake with the guilt he decided to try and organize his things, god knows if he is actually disorganized or if it was because of Chris. Martin quietly made his way out of his room and to the storage room within the Tortuga, sneaking as quietly as he can past his brother's room and the rooms of Koki, Aviva and Jimmy Z, knowing that they will question him and try to stop him. When Martin got to the shed he decided to start with his old backpack from when he was in college and Chris was in highschool.
Inside the backpack he found all kinds of things, odd things obviously. By the time Martin was done with the backpack he found his studded black and blue leather fingerless gloves, a few Draco lizard charms, cords for bracelets/necklaces, several different colours of permanent hair dye, including his signature blue, Chris's usual green and purple like Donita's hair, as well as his year book.
Upon opening the year book and flipping through the pages he found his photo and was shocked to see part of photo Martin's hair dyed purple in the same colour as Donita's hair. He most certainly didn't remember that. As Martin continued through the book he found Donita had also gone to the college, there was even a picture of them together, underneath it read 'most likely to be fashion icons/models, Donita Donata and Martino Kratt.' It was strange, only Donita called him Martino and he still had the purple in his hair, a complete match to Donita's in the photo.
"I really must have gone to one to many college parties" Martin muttered to himself, how else would he be able to forget an important part of his college life.
Just as he was about to close the book he saw that in photo Martin's right ear was a stud earring, he didn't know he got an ear piercing. As he put the book back something shiny caught his eyes as he shone the light from his flashlight into his packbag, ironically the bag was also blue. He pulled the shiny object out of the backpack to find his golden stud earring in a sandwich bag, he was tempted to put it back when he remembered the pictures in the year book, he was a whole different Martin, or Martino, but why, and why didn't he remember it.
Mind made up, Martin grabbed the box of blue hair dye and put it into his blond hair. After his fringe was permanently dyed blue, he found a piercing gun and re pierced his right ear with his old earring. He pulled on the leather studded fingerless gloves and pulled the Draco lizard charm on a cord and put it on his right wrist, competing the new look.
With that out of the way he decided to go for a dive in the Murray River since they were currently at the side of the river, he may be questioning everything, but still is the swimming brother, he still loves to swim, to adventure, to see new animals and places.
The freezing cold water already improving the blood circulation, he swam and dived in the river till 6 in the morning. Martin has chosen 6 in the morning to return because Chris and the others often woke up for the day at that time, 6:15 for Jimmy Z but he didn't want the others asking where he was. Unfortunately for Martin, he forgot that at this time of year the sun rises at 6 rather than a later time like 7:45. Luckily it was only Aviva awake when he got back and the others were still in the waking stages.
"Hey MK. where have you been?" Aviva asks eyeing the back of Martin's damp hair.
"Just for a dive in the river" Martin says laughing.
"At this time of day, wouldn't it be freezing? Why would anyone want to swim in water that cold?" Koki asks walking over to her work station.
"It improves blood circulation and the immune systems, plus it really helps one wake up and I love nothing more than an early morning swim" Martin laughed.
"Morning Martin" Chris yawned walking right past his brother without noticing anything different about the blond.
"Morning bro, not a morning person I see" Martin laughed seeing his brother's tired expression.
"Uh hey Martin, what did you do with your hair?" Jimmy Z asked causing the two girls to turn to him and really wake Chris up.
"Oh, you know, I found some hair dye in my bag and thought I would dye my hair, again" Martin explains sheepishly.
"What do you mean again, Martin? You've never had your hair dyed" Chris asked.
"So you really didn't know?" Martin asked crossing his arms.
"Know what?" Chris asked confused.
"That I had my hair dyed in college" Marin vaguely explained.
"What, no. What colour?" Chris asked.
"Same colour as Donita's actually" Martin smirked at his brother.
"There's no way" Chris argued.
"Uh, yes way" Martin argued back.
"Any proof of that?" Koki asked distracting the brothers from their argument.
"Yes actually, here" Martin grabbed out the year book and flipped through the pages to his school photo.
"Any proof that it wasn't just a one off thing?" Aviva asked.
Martin flipped through the pages to the photo of him with Donita.
"Anyway, creature adventure, kayaking, let's go kayaking in the Murray River, how often are we at the river" Chris offered excitingly, being the younger brother he is.
*Time Skip*
Chris had gotten captured, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴, Martin thought rolling his eyes, he was sitting around in the Tortuga while Aviva was working on the platypus creature power disk and studying Plato, and he was bored out of his absolute mind.
Then it hit him, Gourmand had taken the platypus eggs to cook, therefore he needed some customers, and who better than his highest paying customers Zach Varmitech, and Donita Donata.
𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘪𝘵! 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴, 𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘨, 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴, 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘯𝘦.
With his mind made up Martin slipped out of the main room and off to a small secret room that he had set up in the storage room earlier with all his things from his 'past' life. And besides, Donita's birthday is soon, so why not just brush it off as a birthday gift from a secret admirer.
With the creature power disk for the platypus being worked on he shouldn't have to wait long to go save Chris and slip the bracelet in with Donita's stuff. It was perfect, it was a wicked plan.
Putting the undeniable plan into action was a lot easier than he thought, once the bracelet was complete and in a gift box all he had to do was bide his time until the creature power disk was ready so he didn't seem all to eager to go.
"Hey, what are these little black dots all over your bill, Plato?" Martin pointed out looking closer at the bandage on her bill back in the control room. Of course he had noticed them earlier but he needed more time to set up his plan.
"That's it!" Aviva declared, "that's the answer" she grinned, smiling to Plato.
"I'll never doubt a platypus again" Aviva smiled, hugging Plato.
"Or a Kratt brother?" Martin challenged.
"Don't push it" Aviva huffed.