#draxum is lawful neutral

[n0rthernghostbat]

Ship chart of Barley and his husband, Draxum

this is all canon, my dm said so

[murasakibonnet]

Murphy’s Law

How did we get here?

Part One of my Liminal Space Au which I’ve linked the Masterpost of here. I’d recommend reading that post just to get some context on what’s to come in this little blurb. 

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Two years after the Kraang invasion, the boys and April have uncovered that the U.S. government is secretly kidnapping and experimenting on mutants. During one of their missions, they encounter a yokai with the ability to supposedly move both forward and backward in time, but only by a few days. They try helping this yokai only to learn that the Earth Protection Force (EPF) has fatally injected them with a rather lethal amount of modified Empyrean they harvested from sister Kraang when she was captured and studied.

They were only able to neutralize this yokai by using the Kraang technology that initially nullified their mystic powers like in the movie and while the yokai is able to move spatially through time and space, they aren’t exactly capable of changing the state of their own body so in essence without intervention they could have died of old age so to speak.   

With their last few breaths, the yokai transforms into a pocket watch that contains a rather alarming amount of mystic energy similar to how Karai was transformed into a sword to seal the Shredder. The watch is bestowed upon the boys for the time being as Draxum is in Japan meeting with some of his old colleagues. Donnie tasks himself to see whether or not he’ll be able to either harness the powers of the artifact/further study how the effects of empyrean could lead to such a state in the first place, (perhaps to even find a way to reverse it).

He spends a couple days troubleshooting theories here and there but by the end of each session he seals it up by manifesting a purple bubble around the object using his mystic powers. 

On one particular day, he steps outside his lab while studying the artifact to retrieve one of the packages he’s ordered from online, but not before sealing the pocket watch in a suspended purple orb, just in case. Shelldon accompanies him since the package he ordered was larger than he could handle.  

He’s away from his lab for exactly seven minutes. 

Leo and Mikey step into the room two minutes after, trying to scope out what Donnie’s been up to and whether or not he’s withholding some goodies. They do the obligatory search through his stuff calling dibs on doo-dads here and there, before they finally come across the Chekhov’s gun of this story, the pocket watch. Leo is more fascinated by the orb and how it suspended the item playing around with it carelessly. 

He throws it over to Mikey who catches it worriedly but Mikey proceeds to squish the orb noticing how it really does have a rubber bubble like texture before throwing it back to Leo. 

Raph, who’s big brother senses have been tingling, checks out the commotion coming from the lab because he knows Donnie stepped out just a moment ago. He’s about to reprimand them both for going through Donnie’s stuff without him present but almost instantly Leo hurls the orb at his face and Raph proceeds to block it out of instinct with his ninjutsu unknowingly causing the orb to react poorly and begin to bounce around the room carelessly knocking over much of Donnie’s lab equipment and research. 

The brothers do their best to avoid the projectile all the while the pocket watch begins to pulse from the rough treatment. Leo’s able to portal it within Mikey’s reach who in turn is able to use his mystic whip to grab it. However, the whip grips it a bit too harshly causing the purple bubble to pop and the pocket watch unceremoniously drops to the cement crackling in green power. 

Raph and Mikey automatically panic worrying about how Donnie’s going to retaliate in regards to them trespassing on his research. They approach the watch and scoop it up, placing it on the table it was originally set upon. 

Leo’s slightly more worried about how the pocket watch is behaving strangely but is distracted as Donnie runs into the room, having left his package with Shelldon, since he was able to hear the yelling from quite a bit away. 

Raph and Mikey immediately begin coming up with excuses for their presence turning away from the discarded watch. 

Big Mistake.

Donnie’s the only one paying attention to how the watch surges with green energy quickly pulling Leo close to him so that he can hastily manifest a small wall shielding them from it. When the light dims, Donnie notices how Raph and Mikey’s image glow aggressively green and practically start glitching out of reality. He can only watch on in horror as they panic at the circumstances until they just blip out of existence and he proceeds to run to their last position yelling out their names frantically. 

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“Donnie?” 

Donatello’s eyes snap towards Leonardo and only then does he notice that his brother’s shoulder got nicked by the green energy and it’s quickly spreading to the rest of his body. 

“Leo,” he begins repeating desperately. He retreats back to his brother. 

“What’s happening?” Leo observes his hands glitching before looking up back at Donnie reaching out to him. 

They grasp hands but Leo is as good as gone within the next couple of moments. 

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This is pretty much where Cause and Effect diverge as mentioned. Cause following through with present Donnie’s POV and Effect following through with Leo, Mikey and Raph’s POV in the future. I do actually plan on making a small comic for this when I get the chance.