Where We Collided || ROTTMNT ||

Returning Home

Raph's shell was absolutely destroyed and Donnie had consulted with Leo on what they should do with it. The both of them watched the hole drip blood as Donatello pulled the gauze away to reveal it.

"Guess I really did make an Anti-Raph gun," Donnie mumbled, leaning forward to look at the hole.

He himself was fully wrapped in all sorts of bandages, plasters, and gauze. Leo's stomach was wrapped in bandages as well, they still had to find a way to fix his plastron and shell. Donnie knew he would come up with something to fix those holes. He had caused them, after all, so he should also be able to fix them.

"What about SHELLDON?" Mikey whined from behind, holding the robot's destroyed body.

Donnie had instantly plugged SHELLDON into Donatello's mainframe after they had returned from Dimension X, and the robot had stated that he was fine. He could wait for a new body, he had the time. Raph, on the other hand... Not so much time. So, Donnie ignored Mikey in favor of a more pressing matter.

"I think we should make a keratin glue," Donnie stated.

"Can you fix the hole with that?" Donatello asked, curious.

"Sure, I just need to make some," Donnie replied. "Can I use your lab?" he inquired.

Donatello nodded and replaced the gauze, making sure that Raph was still comfortable where he was before showing Donnie to his lab. Leo rolled his eyes at them and sat next to Raph, who smiled at the two genius turtles as they made their way to the lab, bickering and exchanging knowledge.

"They're so alike," Raph said quietly. "Yet so different at the same time."

"That's true," Leo chuckled.

They watched Mikey, too, as he made his way over to greet Klunk, setting SHELLDON's body down to pick up the small kitten. Michelangelo joined him with ice-cream kitty and the two of them smiled at each other. Surprisingly, Raphael decided to join them, feeding a snapping turtle that was as big as Raph's head.

"What is that?" Leo asked, completely dumbfounded at the coloring of the baby turtle.

"This is Chompy Picasso," Raphael explained. "He's an alien."

Leo's jaw dropped and Raph belly-laughed.

"Why am I not surprised?" Raph said, still laughing.

"He's got an alien girlfriend, too," Mikey grinned from his spot.

Raphael shot him a look, but Leo already had a grin on his face.

"You're kidding?" he chuckled. "An alien girlfriend? What's she like?"

"She's a Salamandrian," Raphael explained. "I saved her life on an ice planet when we went to space."

"Oh," Leo said. "So there's a gentleman hidden under all that anger?" he teased.

Raphael swatted at him and Chompy cackled at their antics. Leonardo watched them from the kitchen, surrounded by Karai, April, New April, Casey, Cass, Splinter, and Lou, as well as Draxum, who had disappeared during their fight.

"Where did you go?" New April asked him sternly. "We could have needed you!"

Draxum leaned away from her accusing finger and scoffed. "As if you needed me," he said, and he was right, they hadn't needed him.

New April pouted. "I still would have enjoyed the support," she muttered.

Draxum rolled his eyes, and Huginn and Muninn snickered from his shoulders. Splinter watched the two gargoyles with fascinated eyes, completely enamored with their mere existence.