LFLS [Unofficial] Sequel

Chapter 10: I Made This All Up

(One more meme its the last one I promise)

A few more months had gone by, Leo was able to speak on occasion but everyone had gotten used to him signing that there was no pressure on trying to force the progress. Liam started coming around more often too, he never went on missions since he was still just a human with no real training, but he did on occasion spar with everyone which was fun. 

In total it had been about 13 months since the incident and nearly a year since Leo was reunited with his family. Donatello had been in his lab for the past week, only coming out for missions and rarely even that. He was working on something big apparently.. 

The was the echo of Donnie's mad scientist laughter in the hallway, he came running out with wide smile, "I've done it!" He called, running to see Mikey and Leo in an intense ping pong match while Raph tried to keep score. "Guys! I did the thing!! Stop everything!"

Everyone looked to the doorway where Donatello stood, the stray pong ball hitting Mikey in the head and nearly knocking him over. 'What's up?' Leo signed, unaware he'd even been working on something this big recently. Both Mikey and Raph glanced to each other, having an idea but not the full picture of this new invention. "Leo I made you something! I was so excited I didn't even sleep- Here look I'll show you the details" He leapt into the room, the bags under his eyes finally visible.

"Okay so remember when you April and Liam helped me get my hands on all that old hospital equipment from that abandoned building and I upgraded it for us so we'd actually have a functional med bay incase something happened and then we did scans of us and I took a computed tomography scan of your scalenes and sternocleidomastoid to see the if my idea would be viable for your injuries aND IT WAS IM A GENEIOUS"

'English bro. Small words' He signed with an unamused expression.

"Ah- Right right okay here look." He pulled up an imagine on his wrist tech popping out the hologram of the scan. "So you had a few sprains like torn muscles and clear 3rd degree burns which is why you don't have much feeling there anymore but then there's also the shredded chords and folds inside from other stuff I wont get into everything- But! I was thinking and before we took the equipment I was working on this anyway but after getting a real visual I was able to really start working!"

Leo looked a bit confused, okay so Donnie understood the injuries, that was good. But what was he saying about making something? And having been working on it for.. Months without telling anyone? 

'Working?'

"Yesssss! Okay okay look here now- I've been working on this for three hundred and six days and I still need a few to make sure its fully safe and test it first but.. I think I found a way to fix your voice." 

Leo's eyes widened a bit, Donnie's been working.. This whole time alone, so he could talk again..?

'How? How does it work?'

"Ah I'm so glad you asked okay I'll try to keep it simple but basically I made my own nanotech! I had some work before on this kind of stuff but I never really had any single goal to work towards so it never went anywhere till now- But its with another invention of mine, liquid flextanium! Based off my other solid flextanium the near indestructible material that's soft and flexible but shiny and breathable and fire proof! Its like metal satin armor!! Right- the thing- Anyway I made a liquid version like a non-toxic paint, or glue? So we could use it on weapons and other stuff but then I thought about using it as an inner coating to not only strengthen the vulnerable parts but also repair  them."

"Donnie we are not drinking glue again-"

"Raph hush that's not what I'm getting at! Well.. Kind of- But there's more"

'More?'

"Everyone just shut up and let me explain my brilliance! This is where the nanotech comes in. Since my tech is adaptive and capable of learning I thought if I added that with the liquid there should be an easy way to coat the corroded chords and have the tech like, fill in the gaps and work with the rest of the muscles and stuff like tiny conductors for the sound waves and bioelectrical- Right, small words-" Everyone let out a little sigh.

"Okay.. I made robots small enough to fill in the damaged parts and pick up the slack that the rest isn't able to. You can still make noise so as long as there's a part that's functional the tech will understand what to do and help you talk, picking up the tones and emotions and everything with it- It'll sound just like you want! O-Only if you want to of course if you don't want it I understand and won't be mad."

"And that only took you a year??" Mikey added, still a bit lost but getting at least the basic idea, "Well like I said I had some work done before all this.. So it's more like three years to get everything out of beta- But yes! I pushed all other projects to the back burner for this because I wanted to get it done soon. But I also spent the last few months making sure there was no way I could alter it after it was done. I made it 100% hacker proof, no one can mess with my tech no deceives or software, completely waterproof and can withstand intense temperatures- So It would've been done sooner but I wanted to cover every single base before saying anything.."

'D. That's really cool but.. I don't know. I know you worked hard but I need to think about it'

"Of course, even if you say no I'm still going to use it, I'll sell it to like.. Hospitals or whoever needs it. So even if you end up not wanting it I'll still get to see how it works eventually. I started making stuff like that recently, since you came home I've been a lot more focus on making helpful things, that are actually helpful-"

Leo let out a little chuckle, 'I'm proud of you bro, keep up the good work' Donnie eyed the word "proud" Ah yes the approval of a beloved relative, he would chase this feeling.