#no seriously why didn't this awesome show get more attention?

[a-weird-cryptid]

So there has been an awesome, queer pirate comedy show since last year and nobody's bothered to tell me?!

I feel betrayed...

[iliveforyouilongforyouvesuvia]

Inspired by that one Heart Hunter interaction with Julian, how would the M6 react to a MC who's way stronger then they look?

Btw i seriously have to thank you for everything you do. Seeing you post puts the biggest gein on my face every time, you're awesome!!

The Arcana HCs: M6 when MC is stronger than they look

~ yes. Just ... yes. yes. thank you. and also, thank you for the compliment! knowing that people enjoy my ideas puts the biggest grin on my face too! cheers to you anon - brainrot ~

Julian

He was already very much in love with you before, but DAMN

He does not have enough room in his body for this level of attraction. The first time you display your surprising amount of strength he just about melts into the floor

For such a tall guy, he doesn't have that much mass on him, so having you around is a whole new version of things he didn't know he needed in his life

Pickle jar? He's asking you to open it. Something fell under the couch? He's asking you to lift one end while he bends over to retrieve it

Malak must have dragged his eyepatch back there, silly raven

Any chance to watch you be strong, really

He also adores the chance to get a good feel for your abilities up close, so you can expect him to be a lot more clumsy when you're around

Suddenly he can't step over anything without tripping and falling. He is not safe around stairs, doorsteps, cobblestones, or even that one kitchen tile apparently

He just likes the way you catch him

Asra

They knew post-recovery that you weren't physically weak, but they had no idea just how strong you had gotten

Until he randomly decided to get an overstuffed neon tie-dye couch to go under the window and you managed to get it up the stairs almost completely by yourself

They were completely caught off guard and are now very curious about exactly how strong you are

If you're willing, he'll ask you to lift heavier and heavier things each day until he gets an idea of how much you can manage

They also love to tease, so this is going to be their cue to baby their strong, capable beloved

You could be restocking a part of the shop and he'll take a crate of feathers from your hands and coo at you while he carries it to the next set of shelves

They love seeing you shine, though, so they won't hesitate to ask you for help with something heavy or invite you to try something physically impressive

He just adores everything about you, what else is there to say?

Nadia

The first time she sees your strength her eyebrows nearly meet her hairline. She is very, very impressed

She's stuck between not wanting to make you self-conscious and asking you to do it again so she can watch more closely this time

She'll end up asking you to do it again and then be uncharacteristically distracted for the next fifteen minutes

Will eventually ask why you're so strong

Is it the diet? The lifestyle? The magic use? A spell? The side effects of having the body of an Arcana? Being a shopkeep? A mysterious exercise regimen?

Now that she knows what you're capable of, she'll invite you to join her for more physically demanding tasks

If you didn't know how to fence before, you're about to learn. If weapons aren't your preference, she'll pick up boxing with you

She's not the type to brag but she does like to show off things that she believes are worth praising

She's going to ask you to carry lots of heavy things whenever her sisters are around

Muriel

You have no idea how relieved he is not to be the only significantly strong person in the room anymore

Do you know how awkward it is for him?

Don't get him wrong, he loves to help, but it's a little intimidating when every eye in the room turns to him as soon as someone pulls out a stubborn jar

And it gets even worse when all the attention makes him sweat and he keeps losing his grip

Now he can turn and look at you instead and his hands can stay dry

If you're up for it, he really appreciates the extra set of muscle around the woods. Sometimes the big, old trees fall across the paths, and while he can manage on his own, it's much easier with you around

He secretly loves it when you show a slight competitive side

It's fun to unnecessarily move a boulder across the clearing just to wait for you to not-so-subtly try to lift it yourself a few hours later

He has to be careful though, because he might choose something too heavy and then feel guilty when you pull your shoulder

Portia

Ilya was feeling petty when he stopped by earlier, which means he put a bunch of things on the top shelf again, and she's on her toes trying to reach them because she doesn't like using the stool, and -

Oh, that's so much easier, how are you able to pick her up like she doesn't weigh anything at all?!?

She's read about this in some of the fairy tale novels in the palace library and now she's even more convinced that you came straight out of a book

Mysterious? Magical? A partner in crime? A partner in crime who can dramatically carry her to safety? Be still her beating heart

She will ask you recreate scenes with her out of curiosity. What's it really like to be princess carried around the house? Can you uproot a small tree with your bare hands?

If a shipment of something heavy comes in she'll drag you to the back entrance to see if you can lift it (and to show off who she's dating to the palace staff)

She's also surprisingly strong, so heaven forbid someone ticks you both off during introductions on an ambassador visit. Those handshakes are going to hurt

Lucio

He likes to think that he's the brawn to your brains in your relationship, so when he sees you with both he's not sure how to react

Does he want to test his strength against yours and prove himself? Yes. Does he also want to receive the princess treatment? Yes

He'll go back and forth on how to proceed

Maybe he'll challenge you to an arm wrestle and let you win so you have to promise to protect him if anything happens

Maybe he'll just use his gauntlet to point out that yeah, you're strong, but he bets you can't do THIS (... oopsie)

A few broken tables later he finds that teaching you to fight is much better. He gets to admire your strength up close and still show off what he's good at

He also gets to give back, in a way. You've contributed so much to his growth as a person, now he has the chance to help you flourish too

He will brag about you in every town you stop by until the stories he tells become rumors that turn into legends

You're tired of disappointing new friends when you can't split a mountain in two with a flick of your wrist

[sashkapi]

I really want to know your head canon about Kick and Kendall as a couple? Plus it's it obvious that Kick will end up with Kendall ,they have kissed like 3 times . Jackie is obsessed with kick in an unhealthy way . Scarlet is a teen , ( kick is a kid) she is in one episode. April is kinda forgotten soo !

Plus don't you think Kendall is pretty attractive as per show standards, like tall , smart , elegance,has a awesome side?

Plus I really loved your fanarts 🌸

Part 2 of me being a mess for Kindall :)

Before that, eh, I honestly don't take the cartoon too seriously in a shipping perspective. If people like Kick x Jackie or Kick x Scarlett - good! It's their business, not mine. (In regards of Kick being a kid and Scarlett being a teen - it is kinda icky as their original ages, but most fanfics I red that include Kick x Scarlett are aged up a bit so it's not that bad. And eh, their age difference is like what, 2-3 years? That difference is nothing when you're adult)

(April?! Didn't she liked Kick in a "Whoa! Cool little guy!! Funny small dude!!! :D" type of way? I don't think that she is interested in him in any romantic way, because... their age difference??) (April is me, she is my self insert now /j)

Also - to me Kendall is a cartoon. They all are. Saying one is prettier than the other is kinda odd to me jdklfkgldg.

(Thamks <3)

OK NOW PART 2  FOR REALSIES

Them as a couple :)

1. They still fight. Pretty often. Now, however, their fights are more like play fights and they usually end with both of them giggling under their noses.

2. Kendall used to be quite jealous in the beginning of their relationship, but soon realized that her only "opponent" on that front is adrenaline. She already accepted that "Yep, I can not compete with that, sorry."

3. (I'm gonna put my "Kendall writes novels in secret" hc everywhere, yes) Kendall quite frequently gives Kick really cool stunt ideas and then asks him to tell her everything in detail. She hasn't told him about her hobby and everytime Kick asks why she has such cool stunt ideas and why she needs extremely detailed retelling afterwards, her reply is always "Y'know... Research..."

(She will tell him someday)

4. They are pretty good team when they are working together but don't leave them alone. They'll distract each other by flirting and get no things done.

5. Their dates are rarely normal. Even a simple walk in a park could end up with them in a middle of shark infested lake. Kick's doing usually. But their dates also rarely end in a disaster because Kendall prepares for almost everything.

Most of her clothes are waterproof for example.

6. Kendall sometimes calls Kick overly cute pet names just to mess with him a bit. She knows he doesn't like it but oh, the feminine urge to frustrate a man. Playfully.

7. The actual pet name Kendall has for Kick is "Tiger". She wanted to call him "kitten" but c'mon, it's too cute. She just made "kitten" more awesome.

Tigers are kittens too so yea

8. Kicks pet name for Kendall? "Fireball". Kinda based on her fiery temper and "Kendall" sounds like "Candle" and candles are lit up with fire.

Fir e ba ll

9. "Clarence" and "Kends" are names they don't like to be called. Unless it's each other.

10. Jackie wasn't fond of the news that Kick and Kendall started dating to say the least. However after some time (and stalking)(Jackie is deranged <3) Jackie absolutely stopped getting between Kick and Kendall. Why?

She started obsessing over Kendall too.

11. Kinda ironic but hand holding is their most frequent way of pda. And the most unconscious one too. They just kinda reach for each other from time to time and it's so casual that you won't notice if you're not paying attention.

12. Communication is their biggest problem because

  - Kendall has some social perception issues tm

  - Kick is as naturally good in extreme sports as he is clumsy in a topic of relationships

They have an extremely messy fights sometimes but both are stubborn and sometimes see their relationship as a challenge so "We WILL figure it out >:("

They don't realise but their relationship gives them both character development 👍

13. If you mess with Kendall, Kick will pick a fight with you. 25% is because hey, don't mess with his girlfriend. 75% is because "Listen, she WILL ruin your life. You're better off with me knocking you down a peg or two"

14. This hc contradicts canon a bit but I just think it's cute so screw it - Kick doesn’t blush. Well, not really. He does BUT only his ears turn red. And he wears his helmet 24/7

While his family, Gunther, Wade and Kendall have seen Kick without his helmet, only Kendall knows about this.

15. Kick, even before they started dating, realized that "Kendall is boring" is nonsense. He already knew she can match him in acrobatics when she's following his lead but then why this girl knows how to make an actual sharp knife out of potatoes? Why she can sleep through math test and still get a perfect score? Why does she knows the names and layouts of some undocumented and pretty dangerous places in Mellowbrook? How did she reach that point when she can tell an obvious lie to an adult in power and they will believe her no questions asked? Why does she knows how to operate a submarine? Why does she knows the exact names of parts in a motorcycle? (It's normal for him to know but why does SHE KNOWS?) (She reads a lot :) )

Kendall joked that she "expected the unexpected" when they started dating but never realized that it was the same for Kick.

16. Kick taught Kendall to rollerblade. (Yes, Kendall joked that she wanted to know how to do it so she can beat Kick in roller derby "fair and square") Kendall learned pretty quickly but kept pretending that she didn't so she could spend more time with Kick.

He knew btw.

They're cheeky with each other like that :)

Ok, I'll stop here. Trust me, the reason I was putting away this ask because I was deciding which hcs put here and which I wanted to keep to draw later. My draft had like 30 points to it..

[luigisblueoveralls]

The Grand Show

Luigi x Broadway!Fem!Reader

Requested by Anonymous

Summary: Luigi frequents the coffee shop you work at and has a crush on you but little did he know that you were a Broadway actress.

Notes: Some fluff and some angst if you squint, but that's really it.

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Every time Luigi saw you at your work, he would get nervous. You were kind and patient with him and even hung with him outside of your work. All it took was a little encouragement from his older brother, and he asked for your number one day. You said yes and exchanged numbers. Now, every morning, without fail, Luigi comes in and orders the same drink, a Americano, just to see you. In your eyes, you saw him as a great friend, but possibly more. Luigi was super cute and kind to you, but you know it wouldn't work out. You were currently in Brooklyn temporarily because you were going to be performing a Broadway play here at their local theater. You travel throughout the country doing this play, and you loved what you did. So why work at a coffee shop? Well, for some extra cash and to be able to act like a normal human being during the day, while at night, you were at the theater practicing your performance. You haven't told Luigi yet about what you do only because you didn't want to become attached to him and hurt his feelings. It's what sucks about being in Broadway.

"Hey, (Y/N)!" Luigi's voice suddenly knocked you out of your thoughts.

You turned to look and saw him excitingly waiting for you at the counter.

"Hey Luigi! The usual today?" You ask as you approach the register.

"Yep! Oh, so hey," Luigi started as he handed you the money for the drink, "I was wondering if you are free tonight if you wanted to hang out, maybe go out to eat?"

He was asking you out on a date. You want to so badly say yes, but you had practice tonight. It killed you on the inside.

"I'd love to, Luigi, but I'm gonna be busy tonight." You told him, seeing his face fall.

"Oh uh thats okay. What for if you don't mind me asking."

You were seriously considering telling him now, but you figured it would be best to wait.

"Hey, I'm fixing to go on my lunch break in a few minutes, so if you want to, just hang out for a bit, and I'll explain everything." You suggest to him.

Explain everything? Luigi thought. What does she mean by that?

"Okay!" Luigi said as he sat down at a table by himself to wait for you.

A few customers had come in to order something, and by the time you were done with their orders, it was time for your lunch break. You got yourself and Luigi a breakfast sandwich, and you punched out and went to sit with Luigi.

"Oh, you didn't have to get me something." Luigi said as you handed him the sandwich.

"It's no big deal." You reassured him.

"So," You start, Luigi giving you his full undivided attention, "I'm just gonna say it, I'm a Broadway actress."

Luigi's eyes went wide, and his jaw dropped.

"Y-You are?" Luigi questioned in excitement.

"Yep. I'm currently doing 'The Phantom of the Opera.'" You told him.

"That's awesome! When is the show date? I'll be there!" Luigi exclaimed.

"In a week." You answer, feeling your heart break.

You were getting attached to Luigi. You promised yourself it wouldn't happen, but it did. Frankly, though, you couldn't help it. Luigi has been nothing but kind to you and also caring. He was a great friend to you and made you feel welcome when you first came to Brooklyn a month ago.

"You'll see me there. Wait is this why most nights you couldn't make it to hang out?" Luigi asked, piecing the puzzle together.

"Yeah, unfortunately, that's why."

It was for another reason, but you didn't tell him that. You didn't want to.

"I mean, I'd still love to hang out before your show, but if you can't, I understand cause I will be there." Luigi reassured you, with a hint of pink blush forming on his face.

"I'll see what I can do, Luigi." You told him with a reassuring smile.

You could feel your heart pounding in your chest. You have feelings for Luigi, and you didn't want it to come to this. Because as soon as that show is over, you and your crew are getting on that bus and heading straight for Maine. And you didn't know how long it would be till the show would be over. You and the crew were hitting all of the states in the country, but it will probably take months to do that. You did not want to break Luigi's heart. Eventually, it was time for you to go back to work, and you said your goodbyes to Luigi. Throughout your work shift, you could not stop thinking about him. You wanted to be with him, but you knew it couldn't work out. You would be gone all the time and never get to see him. It just breaks your heart that this is all happening.

After a couple of hours, your work shift ended, and you headed straight for the theater to rehearse. It was nearly a week until showtime, and even though you've done this show like twenty times before, you still got jitters when it came close to showtime. Anything could happen.

"You okay, (Y/N)?" Your fellow thespian asked you.

"Y-Yeah. I'm okay." You reassure them.

Throughout rehearsal, your mind couldn't stop thinking of Luigi. Oddly enough, imaging him in the audience helped you practice better and helped you stay focused. The thought of Luigi attending your show excited you. He has always been a great friend to you. His sparkling blue eyes, his long, curly mustache, and how tall he was. It was official. You were in love with him. Your phone beeped, bringing you away from your thoughts. It was Luigi.

Hey, (Y/N). I hope practice went well. There is something I need to tell you in person and I think it's best if we could meet in person so I could tell you. Let me know when you are free!

Your anxiety grew. What did he need to tell you?

I am free from work tomorrow if you want to meet at a restaurant or something like that!

You reply quicker than you thought you would. As you started making your way back to your place, your mind was racing on what he could be wanting to tell you. You just hoped it wasn't the fact that he has feelings for you. Because if that were the case, you were going to hurt him and you didn't want that. You arrived into your apartment and opened your phone to see a response from Luigi.

That's good with me. How about that pizza parlor at like 11 am?

That seemed like a good time. Rehearsal didn't start until 3 pm.

Sounds good with me!

You replied. Luigi just read it and didn't say anything back. That worried you. You weren't sure on what to think would happen tomorrow. Due to your nerves and anxiety, you hardly slept. You did not want to hurt Luigi, in fact you wanted to be with him. It just wouldn't work out. The next day came quicker than you expected and you were getting ready to meet Luigi at the pizza place. The closer you got there the more your anxiety rose. You walked into the pizza parlor and immediately spotted Luigi at a table already.

"Hey Lui, how are you?" You greet him as you sat down in front of you.

"I'm fine." Luigi softly spoke.

You felt the pit in your stomach grow. Something was up and you knew it.

"Everything okay?" You ask him.

Luigi looked up at you with his blue eyes sparkling at you.

"W-Well, you know that thing I wanted to tell you about?" Luigi started.

You nodded in response, trying to keep your nerves at bay.

"The truth is, (Y/N)..is that I have feelings for you."

You felt the big pit in your stomach explode and your heart start racing.

"What do you mean, Luigi?"

Luigi paused to gather his words.

"Quite frankly, I am in love with you. You've been so kind to me and have been a great friend to me, and I guess I just developed feelings. You're also super stunning." Luigi confessed.

You were blushing, and your heart was racing with excitement, but you also felt sick to your stomach.

"Luigi.." You start as Luigi anxiously waited for your response.

Do you lie or tell him the truth? Either way you will be breaking his heart.

"I love you too."

Luigi's face lit up with excitement and happiness.

"Y-You do?"

It was as if this was a dream. He couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"Yes I do, Luigi. But.." You paused, seeing Luigi freeze, "I don't know how it would work out. You see, I'm traveling all across the country for this show, and I don't know when I will be done with it."

You expected Luigi to be heartbroken, but he was quite the opposite. Luigi held both of your hands tightly but not painfully.

"I will wait for you."

"What do you mean?" You ask him.

"I will wait for however long it will be until you finish your show. Whether it be a month or a year until you finish, I will wait for you (Y/N). You're an absolutely amazing woman. You're worth the wait." Luigi poured his heart out to you.

You could feel tears welling up in your eyes. Luigi was willing to wait for you. He wants to be with you that badly that he is going to wait for you.

"Lui, I don't want to hold you back."

"You aren't. I promise. I want you. I want to be with you and you only." Luigi reassured you.

"Oh Luigi. I do too."

The two of you embraced into a tight hug. You felt your nerves relax, knowing that everything was going to be okay.

"I'll be there in the audience cheering you on. You're going to do amazing."

"Thank you, Lui. Thank you. I love you."

"I love you too, (Y/N)."

The two of you hung out in the pizza parlor until it was time for you to leave to go to rehearsal. You were on focus and gave it your all during this rehearsal. It helped that your crush confessed your feelings for him, and you knew that you two would eventually have a relationship. A week passed, and it was the night of the show. You barely have had any chance to talk to Luigi except for telling him the ticket prices and when showtime was. Normally, you would be anxious before every show night, but this time, you didn't feel an ounce of anxiety. Knowing Luigi would be there eased your anxiety. You were right now coming back from a restroom break, literally twenty minutes till showtime, when someone stopped you. You whipped around and there stood Luigi, with a big smile on his face.

"Oh Lui!" You exclaimed, relieved to see him here.

You gave Luigi a bear hug as he held you back.

"You look amazing." Luigi compliment you and your outfit.

"Oh, thanks." You bashfully thank him.

Luigi was in a suit and bowtie, and he looked so dreamy in it.

"You look handsome. You should wear bowties more." You compliment him, making his face flustered red.

"Thanks." Luigi thanked you, "I know you'll do amazing (Y/N). Will I be able to see you after the show?"

You nodded at him in reassurance.

"Yes. I will make sure of it."

Luigi then smiled as he leaned in and pressed his lips onto yours softly. You kissed back immediately, longing for this moment to happen. His soft lips attached to your slightly chapped ones with his mustache tickling your nose softly made the butterflies in your stomach go wild. Your heart was exploding with delight. You wish this moment could last forever, but it could not, unfortunately. You pulled away first.

"I uh have to get to the stage." You said.

"Oh yeah. Don't want to get you in trouble." Luigi said, his face still covered in blush.

"Well, I'll see you after the show?" You asked, knowing damn well you would.

"Yes."

Luigi then hugged you tightly and kissed your cheek as he pulled away from you. You smiled at him one last time before you jogged away from him to hit the stage. As the show started, Luigi was in one of the front rows. He was non verbally cheering you on and was amazed by you performing. Even though after the show, you will both be crying, but for the time being, you were giving it your all as the love of your life was cheering you on, so happy to be your girlfriend.

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I hope y'all enjoy this! Again sorry for taking forever with the requests but I promise I'm getting them out I just want them to be perfect and worth y'alls time reading!! Hope you enjoy this one!

[hustlemeanokay]

The Ghoul v. Lucy v. Maximus Fallout *TV* Fandom Discord

I put "Fallout TV Fandom" discord because well... I've been in the FO fandom for years now and this whole implied racism thing is something new, at least from what I've seen and I've seen a lot in the fandom. This is something that honestly hasn't had a place. Because, there are Ghouls for starters, Synths second, and Zealots galore third in the games. Also, also - the games are set up for the players to assume that the Chinese (the "Red Menace") are this world's punching bag. So, this whole... people shipping Lucy with the Ghoul automatically equals racism thing? Yeah, I don't buy it.

Before I go any further, I want to put a disclaimer here - I'm a huge supporter of shipping all the ships. If you ship Lucy x Max, yaaas honey, get it. If you ship the Ghoul x Lucy, right onnnn, wooo! If you ship the Ghoul x Max?! Rock on, you do you, dude! Poly ship? The more the merrier! Seriously, ship all the ships. Now... as I was saying....

I don't buy it... for one big reason and this is it:

Fallout fandom ❤s Ghouls. For years now, Ghouls with attitude or tragic backstories immediately catch the attention of the fandom and are automatically slotted into the "THIS DUDE WINS" category.

[and this got really long so more below the cut so I don't clog up the dashboard]

The moment "the Ghoul" showed up with his cowboy get up and snarky attitude, smirk, and badass strut? Poor Max didn't have a snowball's chance in hell. And it had nothing to do with Max. Nothing at all. He could be this awesome character, he could be anything and everything and it wouldn't matter. Because a smartass Ghoul with a tragic backstory and a secret heart of gold? Forget-a-bout-it. Hook line and sinker for the FO fandom.

Personally? Team Coop all the way. And I'll tell ya why. I personally cannot stand the Brotherhood of Steel. And Max is just as in it as Danse ever was, or any of the other initiates. He is in it. And I get why. I totally get it. Also, he's a coward. He knows how to manipulate people, good intentioned or not. And he uses it. But he uses it in this kind of... sneaky way. He had lots of golden opportunities to tell Lucy the truth about who he was, including when they first spoke. She would have been none the wiser on what happened to his Knight (because fuck that guy, Titus was an asshole). But he chose to keep lying. For no reason other than it made him feel important. Lying to protect someone, their feelings or literally. Lying to preserve a secret that isn't yours, etc. Yeah, shitty a little but yeah, okay. But lying to literally make yourself better? When there's no need for that shit? Na.

Now, I know the arguments in the for column for Max. I get it. I do. He's a product of his environment, as are we all. But, he's kind of a loser. In that, he gets this big bad suit of power armor because to him that represents being a hero. And he thinks he's going to like go out and stop crime with it. Sure, a little juvenile but whatevs, that's completely fine. But, he almost immediately starts showing off for a pretty girl - which admittedly, probably not something he's seen a lot of (and Lucy's no better here with her big ol' anime eyes flashing hearts at him). But the point is... there are people around and Max is just laying waste to that place just as bad as the Ghoul is, with zero regard for collateral damage. Granted, no one got hurt, but that's not the point. The point is, if he was about the whole "knight" thing? He's completely missing the mark. Yes, I believe the BoS is corrupt ten ways to Sunday but that doesn't mean Max does. He's supposed to believe in things like honor and what it means to be a knight etc. The things he's been taught on top of the whole "seek out old world tech". Now, Max is funny - I will give him that. He's hilarious but at the same time - kind of one note. And again, product of his environment. But when he comes up on Lucy and her Dad, as it's been pointed out before, he doesn't even stop to see what's going on. He just frees Henry and doesn't even think. But that's the core of who he is. He acts first, thinks later. A lot of people are like that. Lucy is like that when she first leaves the vault. Both her and Max have been sheltered, in different ways but still sheltered. Difference between them is that Lucy is adapting and growing, learning.

So, you take this naïve, kinda boring Brotherhood of Steel sorta-Knight and pitch him against the Ghoul. Two hundred year old druggie who is like this strange combo of all of the fandom's most beloved Ghouls to date. There was no contest. To see this man who's been twisted by everything this world has thrown at him, who has sunk behind a role so far that it's not even an act anymore just to protect himself from all of it take on the Wasteland with now a dog and Lucy with him. Mister travels alone now not traveling alone? Of course people are gonna eat that shit up.

Now, personally, I think a future society, especially an apocalyptical one like Fallout, it would basically have nothing but tan people, where everyone is just a mix of everything because when you're facing down something like a fifteen foot tall fucking chameleon with razors for claws (deathclaw) - suddenly, race doesn't seem like that much of a fucking issue.

BUT I digress, a lot - point is... I think if it was Cooper Howard vs. Maximus? Max would win overall. But... the Ghoul vs. Maximus? There was no way Max ever had a shot. (With regards to shipping).

Also, also... on a final note.

[bobbydagen24]

Okay, this has honestly been in the back of my mind for years now, but I feel like I must ask. Did anyone else feel an immense feeling of anger/discomfort when Poppy brought the entire village into Branch's bunker? Because I did. When I first saw it, I felt uncomfortable. And to this day, I get the ick thinking about it. Like, I get why she did it, and I understand that it was the safest thing to do for the village, but like... I can't explain just how upsetting it was to me. Branch is a better person than I am, because if it were me, just... no. And she didn't even ask properly! And then had the audacity to say it was a solid burn returned like??? No? No it wasn't? That was a home invasion, not a snipe back at him, what? In what world is his comment on her life skills even remotely on the same level as her just letting the ENTIRE VILLAGE in his house? And they weren't even good houseguests either! They IMMEDIATELY started messing with his stuff, like, have these trolls never heard of proper guest etiquette? Look, I love Poppy, but she can seriously get on my nerves a lot. Especially since the movies made it so that in the end, she doesn't really learn much because her screw ups have a way of completely disappearing with little to no consequences.

To add to this, anyone else feel like when rewatching the first Trolls movie, that Branch was in the right, and that he was done so dirty by so many? Like, the ukulele scene. As a kid, I did think Branch was being rude, but now? Those 2 were literally out in the woods, with who knows what out there. Poppy literally got her friends kidnapped by a BERGEN literally the DAY BEFORE, and she's going back to singing loudly? Like, Poppy, babe, are you TRYING to die? Her whole song just shows how much plot armor Poppy has because, seriously? Not to mention, trolls are tiny, so her singing could genuinely put a target on them. I feel like the only reason Branch didn't up and say this is because it probably should be common knowledge, but apparently, pop trolls don't really have much common sense. I really wish they had Branch explain it though, because as a kid, I thought him to be a killjoy and unnecessarily bossy. But now? Yeah, I can see why singing in the forest when you're tiny might not be the best idea. Makes me wonder just how the pop trolls survived all this time?

I love Poppy, I really do. She's fun, nice, and is a complex protagonist (who is awesome and not a Mary Sue, though the same can't be said for TBGO/Trollstopia Poppy) whose character development is very visible. However, the writers really focus more on Branch's character development than hers and focus more on finding new ways to traumatize him than finding ways to make Poppy more mature, and that's what really bugs me about Poppy's character.

I really wanna start a petition for DreamWorks to lay off Branch for once and give Poppy more attention. I'm not asking to all out traumatize her (though the idea of DreamWorks giving her the Branch Treatment is funny in the mean way) but it would be nice if they gave her another journey where she has to learn and grow, and for there to be consequences that aren't easily waved away by a song and dance. TWT did a decent job at it (it could have been better, but it was a start), and I really need DreamWorks to do something like that (but better, obviously) again.

That being said, I do like how they handled Broppy. They went from rival/strangers to friends to lovers. It didn't happen instantly, and the progression of the relationship didn't feel rushed or forced. They both have an equal standing in the relationship and are supportive of each other. It's cute, and I'm glad DreamWorks at least got that right.

This should have probably been separate asks, but oh well. YOLO or whatever. I just really wanna know your thoughts.

I'm mostly of the same mind it angers me but I get why she did it I feel at the very least she should have told everyone to behave themselves and not act like they were teenagers throwing a house party while their parents were away for the night.

some people have said that maybe she did in on purpose to pressure Branch into going with her but I prefer to think that wasn't the case because in my opinion that would be straight up villainous.

a Royal abusing their power to put pressure on a civilian to Risk their life to rescue a group of your friends who are in danger due to your incompetent leadership.

not to mention a civilian who she knows is more terrified of the Bergens than anyone else in the village.

yeah that would make her an out and out villain imo so I prefer to think that wasn't her intention.

I don't feel its so bad it needs to be changed in the story overall but I would have liked it had Branch actually called her out on it.

basically just have him angrily point out to her after she acts like it wasn't a big deal because it was just a bunch of old Junk. that it wasn't just a place to him it was his home and that wasn't just a load of old Junk it was stuff he worked hard for years to make and it made him feel safer it was the only place he actually felt safe and like he could relax.

maybe prompting Poppy to actually give a more genuine apology as before she just thought of his home as him being over the top for the sake of it.

since she and the village just viewed him as a Drama queen and she didn't really realise his fears were actually so genuine that the Bunker actually mattered to him that deeply.

part of me thinks the intent by the writers was for her consequences in the first film to be being betrayed by Creek who she cared about but yeah that whole thing could have been handled better.

her and her dads leadership put him in danger and he literally said what he had to say in order to avoid being eaten alive he didn't really have any agency in the betrayal.

so Poppy's somber pleas for him to not go through with it kinda make me mad tbh like this whole situation is your fault yet my guy Creek is expected to die because of it.

so your incompetent dad can live? yeah no.

also if you made that Petition for Branch I'd totally sign it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

and I agree Poppy deserves some more focus and development tho a touch of angst for her I think could maybe be a good thing in making her character stronger.

like I've said before maybe having Peppy die in a future film and her at first trying to ignore her grief by focusing on her queen duties and slapping on her usual smile worrying both Branch and Viva.

or having her mother turn up in the future like some fans have suggested only for her to be a selfish villain who couldn't care less about Poppy and Viva.

and this is the proper shock to Poppy's "" family is always great "" mentality as even with Bro zone they worked things out in the end making her think no family could be entirely broken.

but her mother literally doesn't give a shit if her children live or die and she maybe abandoned them both when Poppy was a baby.

drawing a little contrast with Branch only for the mother to have zero remorse since she didn't want children and maybe she was only with Peppy for status as royalty.

and Bro zone could be shown as being more remorseful over the past even a while after the events of TBT which contrasts with Poppy's mom kinda nicely.

anyway I'm getting off topic a bit lol but yeah I agree Poppy needs more focus and Branch's needs to be picked on less by the writers.

but I feel a touch of angst directed Poppy's way could give her some good development and make her a stronger character overall.

edit. also as someone who doesn't like Hugs Poppy's smug stunt with the Hug time Bracelets does make me a little mad like tell the Trolls to Respect people's Boundaries Girl.

[novankenn]

Ah, come on!?!

THREE

Wolf Bete watched completely stunned as Jaune took off his VR Goggles, pulled a pillow out of the bottom drawer of his desk and fell asleep... in the span of less than a minute.

Wolf Bete: This is bullshit.

Pulling the lab coat tighter about his/her body, Wolf Bete idly started to look about the lab. Multiple monitors and screens showed stats, and had lines of code rolling past. Some even appeared to be possibly showing vitals. Which surprised Wolf a little bit. He/she was under the assumption that only they had been in the body building stage... but apparently that was not the case.

Standing up and making a considerable effort to insure the lab coat stayed closed, Wolf Bete started to walk about. Bare feet made slapping noises as they moved along the cold tiled floor. Carrying Wolf Bete along the wall of monitors and view screens, until he./she came to stop next to the only other desk in the fairly expansive room. Sitting upon it were several tablets, almost as if they had been tossed there out of annoyance. Picking one up, Wolf Bete started to read.

Wolf Bete: Hydra...hmm... regenerating grimm... hmm... eight heads... hmm... venom breath... that's so cool!

Wolf Bete lowered the tablet and gave the sleeping form of Jaune a glare.

Jaune: I can feel you starting at me. Stop it.

Wolf Bete: How could you?

Jaune: How could I what?

Wolf Bete: I'm not even done with quality control, and you're already making another... plus, this one has so many awesome powers! Regeneration, multiple heads... venom breath! Where's my special powers?

Jaune: Keep reading... and you do have powers.

Wolf Bete: But not venom breath!

Jaune: Keep reading, and do it quietly... I need sleepy-time.

Wolf turned his/her attention from the grumbling form of Jaune, who during the whole conversation hadn't once lifted his head from his pillow, and continued to read.

Wolf Bete: WHAT!?! How can you be a hydra with only one extra head? No Venom breath? No regeneration? What the hell! This is nothing like the first page!

Jaune: It's sleepy-time. Keep it down.

Wolf Bete: Seriously, dude, how could you let...

Jaune: (shooting Wolf Bete a glare from his pillow) I didn't let anything happen. I was out voted and my budget was cut.

Wolf Bete: Still...

Jaune: Still nothing. I do the best I can with what I have. If the BoD wants to yank two thirds of my proposed budget away from the development of a monster and... and... and...

Wolf Bete: And?

Jaune: Transfer it into our Mobile Applications Department to... to... (Jaune's deep blue eyes started to tear up) to...

Wolf Bete: To?

Jaune: Hire more people, so... so... so they can create larger and more DLC... (sob)

Wolf Bete sets down the tablet and turned his/her head away as Jaune starts bawling into his pillow, sobbing and choking about how he only needs one employee just to help out... just one.

Wolf Bete: Gee dude, get a gr...

PA: Proximity Alert! Proximity Alert!

Wolf Bete: What the hell is that?

Jaune: Crap, crap, crap!

Wolf watches as Jaune knocks his pillow aside and slaps on his VR goggles, before starting to type madly at his keyboard.

Jaune: Not good. Not good!

Wolf Bete: What's going on?

PA: Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!

Jaune: Shit! Shit! Shit! Fuck! Shit!

Wolf Bete: Jaune!

Jaune: Activate your armour! Someone has gotten into the lab facility! I'm activating the automated defence systems...

Wolf froze for a second and the frowned. Why was he/she naked if she/he had armour they could activate?

Wolf Bete: When were you going to tell me about the armour thing? Like I’ve been standing around basically naked and this whole time I could have been wearing something aside from your stinky lab coat?

Jaune: I don’t smell, and I’m tired, okay! Really… exhausted! So EXCUSE ME for forgetting something!

Wolf Bete: Take a chill dude! I was just asking!

PA: Automated Defences offline.

Jaune: Crap! Crap! Crap! This is SO coming out of my budget!

Wolf Bete: Seriously?

Jaune: Forget it, just forget I said anything. Are you ready?

Wolf takes a moment and thinks, instantly understanding how to activate their armour. A second later they were sporting bone white plated over their chest, waist, hips and upper thighs… the entire ensemble comparable to someone wearing a sports-top and biking-shorts, with matching armour plates on his/her forearms and shins.

Wolf Bete: Ready!

Jaune: Good! (Stands up and heads for the door.) Let’s go! We need to stop whoever this is!

Wolf Bete: You’re coming?

Jaune: Well duh. I need to observe you… make sure everything is working properly.

Wolf Bete: So you’re not going to help?

Jaune: I’m a listed non-combatant… so I can’t.

Wolf Bete: What if I start to lose? You mean you can’t even help me then?

Jaune: Not officially…

Wolf Bete: How about Unofficially?

Jaune: What are you worried about? You’re the best, most sophisticated monster I’ve ever made… so far.

Wolf Bete: That makes me… heh! What was that?

Jaune: What was what?

Wolf Bete: I’m the best you made… SO FAR? What is that suppose to mean? Like that is totally a motivation killer dude!

Jaune: It’s the truth! You’re the pinnacle of my work… but my work is always evolving! I’m always striving to be better.

Wolf Bete: So what happens to me when one of these ‘BETTER’ creations shows up? Do I get tossed by the wayside?

Jaune: No!

Wolf Bete: Then what happens? What happened to your other creations? Tell me that!

Jaune: They were retried and got office jobs at Head Office!

Wolf Bete: So you will… wait what? Did you say they have office jobs? What type of office job can a monster do?

Jaune: Well… I… um… well…

Wolf Bete: That was a lie! They’ll destroy me when you make my replacement!

Jaune: No they won’t!

Wolf Bete: How do you know? Where are your other creations?

PA: Intruder in sublevel three.

Jaune: There are none, okay? You’re my first!

Wolf Bete: Huh? How is that possible? Like… huh?

Jaune: I JUST finished my degree, and everything up until you have been theoretical prototypes… you’re my first design that the BoD has ever approved for actual production!

Wolf Bete: I’m the first? I…

Jaune: Yes, you are now… I need you to do your thing and get rid of our intru…

The sound of groaning and creaking metal caused both Jaune and Wolf to turn towards the locked steel door of the lab. A black glow surrounded the door, and the pair watched in amazement as the door buckled outward and then folded itself in half, before falling to the floor useless.

Jaune/Wolf Bete: Holy shi…

????: This is the end of the line Inner Circle! I’m going to shut down this vile hive of evil and villany!

Jaune: No…

Wolf Bete: Is that?

Jaune: Yes…

The pair watched as an armoured female figure stepped over the ruined remains of the door. Her bodysuit was a bright crimson red that matched her flowing hair. The metal plates of her armour, a golden bronze. Her facial features were hidden behind some sort of mask that covered her face, yet left her hair unhindered.

Jaune/Wolf Bete: The Red Huntress.

RH: Surrender and I will make sure the Vale Authority show you leniency, evildoers!

Wolf Bete: (Looking at Jaune) Did she just say evildoers?

Jaune: (Looking at Wolf) Yes.

Wolf Bete: I’ve just been born, and even I know that is lame.

RH: It is not lame! It’s heroic! Now enough! Surrender!

Jaune: You got this, Wolfie.

Wolf Bete: (Giving the Red Huntress a very toothy grin) Yeah, I do!

Wolf was a blur as they shot forward, closing on the Red Huntress in fractions of seconds. His/Her hands and forearms turning black and becoming wickedly curved and sharp claws. A shield of shining bronze appeared from nowhere, intercepting the attack, but the power behind the strike was enough to drive the Red Huntress back and into the far wall of the corridor.

RH: This monster is strong… I will have to be… huh?

Wolf Bete: That’s right, Red Huntress! I’ve got your number, and after I’m done beating you down, they’ll have to give me my new body!

RH: This is SO WRONG! I knew the Inner Circle were fiends… but… but this!

Wolf Bete: What’s wrong? Don’t tell me you’re…. HEY!

RH: (Booking it up the hall and away from the lab.) FILTH! SMUT! MY VIRGIN EYES!

Wolf Bete: You better run! I’m going to…

Jaune: Wolfie!

Wolf Bete: WHAT!

Jaune: (Turns his head, his face flushed red.) Put on the lab coat.

Wolf Bete: Why? I have my armour on!

Jaune: Ah… there seems to be an error with your armour… 

Wolf Bete: Error?

Jaune: Um… yeah… um… you’re not wearing it anymore. 

Wolf Bete: (Looks down and sees that they are indeed naked.) AHHHHHHH!!!

Jaune: There must be a calibration error or something… I can fix it… with a patch… but… put on a lab coat… please?

Wolf Bete: AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

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[review-anon]

Thanks Kaede, you’re awesome!

Erm thank you, to be honest I didn't know what was going on as I was talking to my friends about Christmas plans one second, and the next I was having the Voids hovering around me with a ghost being responsible. I just played the piano because it was the only thing I could think of.

Mikado teleported you here to get us out that situation so he probably knew the ghost didn't like piano music.

Oh really? I'm not pleased about that.

But still I'm glad that I was able to get you guys out that situation.

Hey Nikei...listen I have something to say to you.

Really? What is it?

I'm...sorry for letting you get captured and tortured by that tentacle monster. In hindsight I should have tried to save both you and Shuichi, but I was scared and I also didn't like some of what your comments to me and the other girls.

But that doesn't make it right. All you did was ask for cup sizes, which while its a inappropriate and perverted question, doesn't warrant you getting captured and spanked by a hentei monster, while watching a horror series about people turning into monsters. The punishment far exceeded the crime and for that I'm sorry.

Well...earlier I would have made you get on your knees and beg but that's just my anger talking there.

And besides you made up for it for saving me and my friends from that ghost girl as who knows what it would have done to us if you didn't show up like that. So yeah I say we are cool.

OH BOOOOOOO! I wanted there to be DRAMA between you two but all you do is play some music and now you are buddy-buddy?

You really let me down there Kaede!

Kokichi...That tentacle monster that capture both Shuichi and Nikei...did YOU have anything to do with it?

No of course not why would I-

*Suddenly a bullet flies by Kokichi's head*

AH!

Since Akamatsu over there isn't the expert at interrogations, I'm gonna ask this instead.

Did YOU summon that tentacle monster and order it to capture me and Saihara? If you lie...I will KNOW so don't even try.

And remember Kokichi...Nikei has a supernatural power to see lies. So you CANNOT hide from him.

Urgh...Divine Luck is the literal worst...FINE! I admit it! I DID summon that tentacle monster. After Sonia talked about Occult Weekly having articles to summon monsters, I grabbed a copy and used it to summon a monster.

I wanted to have a little fun with Shuichi and I hate how he spends all his time around you and that idiot with his murderer of a girlfriend. Sooo that's why I grabbed Shuichi for some bonding.

There was LITERALLY a dozen other ways to get Shuichi's attention that DIDN'T involve black magic.

Nehehehehe, but would it be fun~?

But why Nikei? I can understand you summoning that thing to bug Shuichi since you seem to be obsessed with him, but you and Nikei don't really interact with each other!

It was to get that annoying reporter off my back. He kept harassing me for information on my super evil secret organisation and while I normally love to brag about it...

He was asking too sensitive of questions and due to his stupid power that allows him to see through my web of lies...well he had to go. And I knew that you would prefer Shuichi over that perverted paper boy!

Unbelievable....you really tried to kill me off...

Well I'm gonna show you what happens when you fuck with me! I don't care that the Voidship has rules against killing I will make an expection for you!

You seriously cannot kill me! I'm too cute to die and I have to dodge Makiroll killing me mulitiple times a day!

DO I LOOK LIKE I CARE ABOUT THAT? YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW OUMA!

*Nikei fires more gunshots at Kokichi but they all miss him*

Erm...crap this isn't good I got run like now!

*Kokichi runs off with Nikei chasing him, firing more shots*

[lunatic-pudge]

Mpreg Postal Dude (Requested by Norman Reedus)

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Started playing Postal Brain Damaged. Turns out I still suck at shooter games. Oh well. I'll be playing Postal Redux after I finish Brain Damaged. Also, God is trying to Nerf me.

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-Now, you're gonna have to forgive me for not being the most educated on mpreg stuff. But this is such an interesting request (and I keep getting mpreg Dude art on my Insta feed) I had to take this request. Plus, like, why not? Let's get creative with this >:)

-I'm gonna leave some stuff up to interpretation, like this could be some sort of A/B/O scenario, or through some mysterious circumstances Dude became pregnant, or you somehow knocked him up, I'm letting you the reader decide how that happens

-Now, Dude didn't know he could get pregnant. He figured that since he's a guy, that was something he didn't have to worry about. So he didn't think much of it when he would start getting sick more often. Yeah, he was confused on why he seemed to have these random moments of sickness, but he just assumed it was his on and off drug use and his horrible diet

-You, being Dude's beloved partner, was there for him. Forcing him to rest, drink water, "No Dude, you can't have that, you're sick. Now go to bed." "But babe!" He be so whiny and adorable. He'd try to pick a "fight" about it but it so quick to accept defeat

-But then, you jokingly ask if he's pregnant, since he was sick, moody, was starting to get cravings, etc. Cue Dude staring at you blankly as he seriously considers it as a possibility. A very strange one, but still.

-It then leads to you both huddle around the computer looking to see if men can get pregnant. Turns out, it's a very real posibility. So cue the doctor's appointment!

-It seemed weird going to the doctor and being like, "Hey, my boyfriend and I think he's pregnant. Is he?" But the doctor actually considered it and had a blood test done, and it turned out DUDE REALLY WAS PREGNANT?!

-How could you knock my boy up like that?

-I'm just playing, but yeah. Our beloved gangly ginger is with child, somehow. And now it's time to figure out what to do. First thing is no more drugs and alcohol. It was a big fight at first but obviously Dude learned to deal with it

-Man, he'd be so needy while pregnant. Like constantly wanting more attention and affection from you. He'd be so distraught if you have to leave his general vicinity (you literally just had to pee). But he's so hard to be mad at

-The way he'd look so cute as his baby bump starts to show. You know you'd be rubbing your hands all over his bump. He'd let it cause it means getting lovins from you and that's really all he wants in life

-His craving are so weird. He's the type to wake up at 3am and want McDonald's. So get used to that. He'll also want to eat some of the weirdest food combos. Like, he'd probably eat that stuff when not pregnant, but the prenancy makes it worse

-You'll have to stop him from wanting to go out and cause chaos. He's even more quick to rush to violence if someone pisses him off. His jealousy is also worse than usual. Imagine getting murdered by a pregnant man cause you looked at his partner the wrong way. The baby craves the blood of the people that live in Paradise

-Don't have a gender reveal party. Just don't. He will somehow involve some Napalm into it

-CLOTHES SHOPPING FOR THE BABY!!!!! He doesn't care if he's having a girl or boy, they WILL be wearing dinosaur themed outfits. Dinosaurs are freaking awesome and he wants to show that his kid is the coolest. You two might've gone a little crazy with baby shopping. Oops

-I feel this is all jumbled, I think I'm transcreding to a new universe. But before that, I wanna leave you with one last scenario to picture. You and Dude laying in bed, his back pressed against you chest as you have his arms wrapped around him, rubbing his baby bump as you two talk about things such as what you two will be naming the baby. You just know this man is gonna be a sobbing mess when the baby takes their first steps and says their first words <3

[miss-andromeda]

All's Fair in Love and Science

Chapter 7: It's Nice To Have a Friend

~

After Donnie's bo staff breaks, his response is to take a broken Kraangdroid back to the lair for dissection. And upon closer inspection by him and Andi, they decide to cross their plans of making a compact battle mech with the advanced technology of the Kraang.

~

And we're back with probably my favorite chapter so far! Thank you so much for the positive reception that Andi's story has gotten so far - every bit of support just makes my day! Of course, a special thanks to @tinkabelle19 for her endless help and support 🩷

And with that, on with the show!

~

It was just another typical night for the boys. If typical meant fighting the Kraang in an abandoned warehouse.

They were doing their best to avoid the constant barrage of fire from the Kraang; dodging left and right, jumping onto walls, anything to avoid getting hit. But there were two factors that were making it difficult:

There were a lot of droids, and the Kraang just would not. Stop. Shooting. 

As Leo dodged more fire, he decided to inject a hint of inspiration into the others. "Keep moving! Don't let 'em surround you! Failure is not an option!"

Donnie ran alongside him, seemingly to correct him on his choice of an inspirational quote. "Technically, failure is always an option!"

But Raph wasn't in the mood for either motivation or corrections. "You know what else is an option? Slapping you!" Seriously, did Donnie always need to turn every life-and-death situation into a learning experience for them all?

But the chance for banter was interrupted when more Kraangdroids started firing at them, making the two scatter apart. Ducking in a corner, Donnie called out a threat to both himself and Mikey - maybe the latter could take care of the droid and help Donnie get back in the game. "Mikey! On the right!"

But Mikey didn't exactly understand right away. "Your right or my right?" When he saw the droid gearing up to fire at him, though, he understood what Donnie was talking about - his right. Doing a small handspring and diverting the attention away from Donnie, Mikey yelped as the droids continued firing at him. 

Donnie was grateful at the distraction, though. Getting out of his hiding spot, he leaped up and spun the bo around, ready to take out the droid with a single hit, and-

It hit the droid harmlessly in the head. 

What? How was that even possible? Normally the bo worked perfectly fine against them, what changed now?

"Are you kidding me? I hate this thing!"

But before Donnie could think of a plausible explanation (or better yet, be shot at by the Kraang,) Raph launched a sai at the droid and impaled it, before stabbing the head out of its socket and sending it flying. "Nice work." The red-masked turtle remarked sarcastically. "When we're done here, there's a marching band that needs a majorette."

He then ran off to fight more droids while Donnie stared at the bo with contempt - before remembering that he was in the middle of a battle and that standing around was about the most idiotic thing you could do. 

Meanwhile, Leo was dealing with droids effortlessly; jumping off of support beams and using both of his katanas to take care of two droids with as clean of a sweep as possible. Raph was the same way, leaping off another beam and stabbing a droid in both of its shoulders. 

Knowing that things were not going to end up well for them, one droid addressed another to unleash their secret weapon. "Kraang, the present is being a positive time to b the testing of the energy cannon." If this didn't care of the turtles, then surely nothing would. And besides, why not take them out using an awesome cannon?

Two other droids pulled open the doors, revealing a menacing-looking cannon that looked as high-tech as the Kraang's plasma guns. It had the same pink energy as the guns, and it looked to be extremely powerful. 

As Leo and Mikey finished off the last few droids, Raph and Donnie joined them as they stared down the cannon. "Everyone, stand your ground!" The leader ordered, all of them brandishing their weapons. Granted, it probably wouldn't be easy to take down a weapon that seemed to have no weak point, but it probably needed to be controlled by someone else. So they would take the droid down, then Donnie would do his thing and dismantle it, right?

Right?

Well, that was what they thought until the cannon started to charge up. And considering the intensity and volume of its charge, the boys knew they'd be cooked if they got hit with it. So they did the smarter thing:

"On second thought, run!"

Before they could, though, a droid hit the trigger on the cannon, releasing a powerful pink energy beam at them - and making them scatter. Mikey barely dodged it as he flipped over it, Raph jumped off the crate he had landed on when the cannon targeted him next, Leo made the same move as Mikey (with more grace, admittedly,) and Donnie...

While he ducked and successfully avoided the beam, his bo wasn't so lucky. It was broken right down the middle, almost as if someone had snapped it across their knee. This definitely was not helping his waning confidence about the bo that he was dealing with earlier. 

"Oh, come on!" He angrily exclaimed. Not only did he need to replace his bo now, he also needed a new weapon. Maybe now would be a good time to start working on that mech idea with Andi...?

From behind a pile of crates, Mikey decided to point out the obvious - which also answered Donnie's rhetorical question. "Dude, your weapon just exploded!"

Yep, definitely should start working on that battle mech. Along with, you know, getting a new bo staff so he wasn't completely at a loss during battle.

Once again, Donnie remembered that he was still in battle, so after running out of the line of fire from the plasma cannon and hiding behind a large crate, Donnie lamented over the loss of the staff. "How am I supposed to fight advanced alien technology with a stupid STICK?!" He yelled, deciding to toss it aside and fight purely through hand-to-hand combat. He had enough experience with it that he would be fine, right?

Meanwhile, the rest of the boys were fighting just fine. Leo had sliced through one while Raph impaled another, while Mikey had pounced on a third one with the kusarigama's blade (taking the droid's head off in the process) and leaped to take down another, whereas Leo and Raph had taken down two more with ease.

But it seemed to be for nothing, as more droids and the cannon started surrounding them - with the robots still firing and the cannon gearing up to show off more of its firepower. 

This was not going well. 

As Mikey and Donnie joined them (but were now cornered,) they decided to just swallow their pride and keep fighting. 

No way were they going to be taken down by some Kraang scum.

~

As they were further cornered into the wall, one droid addressed the one who was driving the cannon. "Kraang! Destroy those who call themselves the turtles when that which is the signal is the signal given by me!"

However, Leo had a plan - he threw a star at the crutch for a support beam, which ricocheted off the arms of a forklift and hit its controls, making it sputter to life and barrel directly into the Kraang - taking both the droids and the cannon down. The boys watched with relief as both an explosion and a crash occurred; indicating that the cannon had backfired horribly on the Kraang - and now they were lying helplessly on the ground.

Perfect opportunity for them to get out of there. 

They jumped through an open window (with the exception of Donnie, who had decided to stay back, for some weird reason) as Raph decided to comment on Leo's unorthodox way of dealing with the fight. "Dumb luck." He remarked. 

But Leo was quick to shut down such an assumption. "Wasn't luck, my friend. And 'dumb' had nothing to do with it." Judging by the proud look on Raph's face, it was safe to assume that the latter believed him - which was a nice change of pace.

Meanwhile, Donnie had emerged in the window and was struggling to pull something alongside him - along with not falling out of the window. "Hey, give me a hand with this." He requested, to which Leo understandably asked, "A hand with what?"

Judging by the slightly embarrassed look on Donnie's face, it wasn't going to be a fun task. 

~

"We're carrying this thing because...why?" Raph asked as he and Donnie dragged a busted-up Kraangdroid with them back to the lair. Admittedly, the sight was a bit funny to an outsider, but the annoyed look on the red-masked turtle's face made the scene a bit more pathetic than anything.

Donnie, meanwhile, was much more focused on merely carrying the droid home - completely ignoring Raph's slight aggravation. "Don't you want to know how these things work?" Only he would intentionally bring a robot that weighed at minimum 200 pounds in pure metal back to the lair with him and his brothers.

Raph wasn't about to have an intellectual conversation at the moment, though; he was too focused on just getting the stupid droid home. "I know how they work. You hit 'em 'til the brainy toy surprise pops out." While it was a crude way of putting it, he wasn't too far off from reality.

But Donnie's mind was still in "nerd mode" as Mikey opened a manhole cover for him to drop the droid in. "That's your problem, Raph." The purple-masked turtle commented, picking up the droid with a hint of strain. "You never think things through." He finished as he tried to drop the droid into the tunnel.

However, in true irony, it got stuck. 

"Is that supposed to fit?" Raph rhetorically asked, giving Donnie a deadpan stare like 'You really thought that was going to work?'

Not wanting to be outsmarted by such a careless (and admittedly, foolish mistake,) Donnie started to force the droid into the tunnel; kicking it, stomping on it - and yet, nothing. 

This was going to take a while. 

~

After what felt like forever, they were finally back at the lair - Kraangdroid still intact. 

While Mikey was indulging in a slice of pizza, Raph was feeding Spike, Leo was reading a comic and April was working on what looked like a document for a summer class, Andi and Donnie were dissecting the technology in the droid's exoskeleton - and reveling in how sleek and complex it looked. 

"This technology is light-years ahead of anything I've ever seen!" Donnie marveled to Andi, holding up a small gadget with wires sticking out the bottom. It looked vaguely like a miniature control panel for a droid - like that was what the alien hit with their tentacles to make the droid whirr to life. "Do you know what this is?"

Noticing that he was talking to her, Andi set down a piece she was examining (the wires strewn made her question if it was like a bone for the Kraang) and glanced at what he was holding up to her. Immediately, her eyes widened and her smile grew. "No, but it looks awesome! Maybe that's like a heart for them, since the aliens in their abdomens are like their brains?"

"Maybe...ah, I can't wait to find out!" Donnie nearly squealed, making April smile and shake her head in amusement at them as she continued typing. It was always funny (and a little bit comforting) to have Andi be so interested in technology (regardless of what it was,) but when Donnie was added into the equation, the reaction was doubly hilarious. 

Meanwhile, Splinter was carefully holding a new bo for Donnie with the utmost respect, and the serious look on his face told Donnie that he had better not break this one so carelessly as he had during the battle against the Kraang. 

"Look, Spike. Donnie got another stick to break." Raph remarked, carefully balancing Spike on one hand while his other tickled the small tortoise under his chin. 

"With all due respect, sensei, I can't keep fighting alien technology with a six-foot staff." Donnie admitted, sitting himself up so his head was resting about the staff. "I was hoping to upgrade my weapon."

Andi perked up at that; maybe that meant they would finally get around to working on that battle mech. She glanced down at the technology in front of her and started getting ideas...maybe that control panel Donnie had held up earlier could play a part in it?

"Hm. A seven-foot staff. Interesting." Splinter mused as he held the bo at his side, snapping Andi out of her daydream and making her giggle at the obvious joking tone in his voice.

"No, I meant using modern technology." Donnie clarified, subtly referring to the Kraang parts in front of them. 

But, continuing the joke, Splinter spoke in the same tone. "Ah, a solar-powered staff." That made Andi start laughing - while also writing in the notes app on her phone that that was actually a good idea for the future. 

"I'm serious, sensei!" Donnie protested, slightly pouting at Andi as she continued laughing - but he couldn't deny how cute she looked. 

"I know." Splinter merely replied, dropping the joking tone and going with a more fatherly one. "And yes, you may upgrade your weapon."

But Donnie was already prepared for Splinter to deny such a request. "That's totally unfair! You can't just-" But then he realized he misheard and glanced up at Splinter. "Wait, did you say yes?" That made Andi roll her eyes and snicker under her breath, while also remarking, "Geez, Don, learn to listen once in a while."

He then turned to look at her, raising a nonexistent eyebrow and his lips quirking up ever so slightly. "Okay, whose side are you on?"

Andi merely laughed again, meeting his eyes with a knowing smile. "Master Splinter's, duh. Once again, learn to listen."

Splinter smiled to himself before commencing with the explanation. "Ninjas have improved their arsenal for centuries. We are masters of adaptation."

"That is great!" Donnie cheered, still holding the control panel and standing up. "'Cause with this technology, I will be INVINCIBLE!" His mind immediately started racing with ideas. "What should I make? Electric sais? Multi-shot shuriken? Plasma swords!" He squealed. "I just gave myself goosebumps!"

But then he remembered the mech idea - and grinned at Andi in the process. "Actually, what say we finally get to work on that robot?"

She met his eyes with a bright smile. Finally, they were on the same page. "Let's do it!"

He could've melted with how pretty she looked. 

"But remember, technology is a means, not an end. It is you who must prevail in battle, not your weapon." Splinter added as Donnie and Andi picked up the broken droid and started to drag it toward the lab - clearly not listening to his advice. "Combat is not a video game."

"That's it! We'll turn combat into a video game!" Donnie excitedly told both himself and Andi, with him adding a "thanks, sensei!" and Andi smiling at him over his shoulder and yelling a warm "thank you, Master Splinter!" 

And as they made it to the lab, she grinned at Donnie with a gleam in her eye. "This is gonna be fun."

~

As the sounds of blowtorches, hammers and laughter emerged from the lab, the others resumed their own activities. Mikey was now asleep on the tire swing, Leo and Raph were playing against each other in virtual hockey, and April had retired from working - and was now checking up on a message board that she and Andi had started a few days before. And apparently, someone had sent in a video for her to watch. 

"Hey, guys! Check out this post I got!" April called to the boys, a curious look in her eye. 

"Hang on, April. I just have to destroy Lame-onardo." Raph assured her before reverting his attention back to the game. 

Both of them had regained a sense of focus at that, hands keenly maneuvering their characters around to hit the puck. The game was all tied up at this point - one good power shot would secure either one of them a victory. Their characters moved around at the same time and in the same direction, only raising the stakes-

Until Raph got sick of the stalemate going on and slammed his hand down on the button for a power shot, destroying Leo's character with the puck and getting him the necessary victory point. 

Leo gave him an unimpressed stare as Raph reveled in his victory with a little dance, before giving his brother a proud smirk and shoving him aside, before going to join April on the couch. "So what's up?"

Unbeknownst to him, Leo had followed him and hit him once in the head as penance, before looking to April's computer.

"Andi and I set up a message board to collect unusual sightings around New York." She filled them in. "People send in pics, videos...sometimes we even get stuff that could help us track down the Kraang and find my dad. Like this video of a gas explosion." A video then played, showing clouds of gray, murky smoke - and a single Kraangdroid walking out of it. 

"A Kraangdroid." Leo remarked, admittedly both intrigued and a bit unimpressed (seriously? That was the best the citizens of New York could do?). But upon hearing that ill-fated word, Mikey was startled awake with a "WHERE?!" before yelping in panic as he fell into the wading pool. 

The three glanced at him with a mix of annoyance and unamused, before Leo decided to get them back on track. "We'll check it out tonight."

"Why not now?" April asked, her tone now adopting a hint of impatience. If they waited until nighttime, then that would give the Kraang ample time to either move their location or carry out whatever new plan they had.

Leo's answer was both obvious and simple. "Because it's daytime. We can't let anyone see us."

But April wasn't about to take that as an answer. "Well, I can." She only replied, closing her laptop and standing up, heading directly for the entrance. 

Leo immediately stopped her. "April, think about this. It could be dangerous." While he did respect her tenacity, she didn't have nearly (or really, any) experience with the Kraang as they did. If she wasn't careful, she could easily end up like her father - or worse. 

But speaking of Kirby-

"You know what else could be dangerous? Standing between me and my father." April told him sternly, the look in her eye telling him that she wasn't backing down for any reason. 

Unless...

Almost as if on cue, Andi stepped out of the lab, giggling to herself at a joke Donnie had told her before. "Let me just go to the bathroom first and then I can show you the gun." Her smile was on full display as she caught sight of the Mexican standoff between Leo and April. "What's going on here?"

Leo was about to ask if she could talk some sense into April, but the latter simply told her, "I'm gonna investigate a nearby Kraang base. See if I can pick up on any plans."

Immediately, the color drained from Andi's face and her eyes went wide - and her smile faded instantly. "Wait, what? Are you crazy?!" She rushed over to face April, grabbing her shoulders in a desperate attempt to stop her. "Did you forget that you were nearly another hostage of theirs?! They're probably looking for you! What if they find you?! What if you're taken again?!" She then got even more scared as her green eyes met April's blue ones. "What if they do something worse?"

For a split second, April's determination and confidence faltered. But then she remembered seeing her dad being taken in that helicopter...and the steely look in her eye returned. "I'll be careful, Andi. Nothing's gonna happen to me." She assured her, pulling her into a hug to calm her nerves. 

And while it didn't help her completely, the vague scent of her honey shampoo was enough to make Andi let out a shaky breath. "You'd better be, O'Neil. Or I'll kill you myself." She muttered, making April smile softly at her and pull away. 

"I'll be back before you know it."

She then turned around and left the lair, leaving Andi to watch her and wrap her arms around her own abdomen. 

"Is she always like this?" Leo asked her in an attempt to snap her out of her anxiety. Which kind of worked as Andi sighed and nodded. "Determined? Absolutely."

Donnie had noticed what was going on from the lab and was now standing in the doorway. Seeing Andi like this made him feel like his heart was in his throat, so he resorted to what he tended to do when she was in pain or scared - a strong distraction. "Uh, hey, Andi? Maybe you can show me the gun now?"

She tore herself away from the path April had taken and met his eyes, slightly nodding in agreement. "Yeah, um...sure." She agreed, taking one last glance at the entrance before walking back with Donnie into the lab. 

"She's gonna be okay...you know that, right?" He tried to comfort her, making her give him a weak smile. 

"For both her sake and mine, Don, you'd better be right."

~

As she crouched behind a dumpster, watching a droid walk go up to a locked door with the most advanced keypad in the world, April was having second thoughts for a moment. Maybe Andi was right...maybe this was a stupid idea, and maybe it was tempting fate by sneaking into a Kraang base. 

But then the image of her father in that helicopter flashed through her mind again, and she took a quiet, but deep breath. She could do this, she just had to be stealthy. 

She quickly ran to hide behind a crate directly in front of the door, then watched as the droid inputted the code. "Okay, Kraang creep..." She mumbled to herself, the newfound rush of adrenaline taking over her. 

As soon as the door opened and the droid walked inside, April smiled to herself. "Lead the way."

This was not going to be easy, she could tell. 

But that was fine with her. 

~

Meanwhile, Andi was still in thought as she and Donnie were putting the final touches on the robot. While it didn't distract her from her work, she was still wondering about April - flashes went through her mind of her best friend being discovered..and she sighed at the thought. "She'd better be okay..." She muttered to herself, her grip tightening on the wrench she was using to tighten a few bolts.

And Donnie caught onto that as he put down the blowtorch he was using and turned to face her. "She will be." He tried to comfort her. "You know her better than I do, but I've kind of gathered the idea that April's tough. Not necessarily scrappy, but she's quick-witted and can hold her own."

Andi smiled to herself at the assumption. "You'd be right about that." She quietly said, but sighed as a new thought crept into her mind. "I just...I worry about her. She's the only person that I've ever really considered a best friend, and to lose her...it freaks me out. That's why I had such a knee-jerk reaction before...a-and remember when we met and I started to panic around you?" When Donnie silently nodded, she bit her lip in shame and looked down. "That's, um...that was why."

"Andi, is it okay if I hug you?"

She immediately looked at him. "What?"

"Is it okay if I hug you?"

The fact that he asked that made her heart skip a beat. "Um...sure, okay."

He then put an arm around her, going to rub her shoulder. "I get where you're coming from." He admitted softly. "But you know the cool thing about being a ninja?" He asked, making her raise an eyebrow at him. As a little smile formed on his lips, he decided to make her laugh a bit - even if it meant looking like the biggest idiot on the planet with such reasoning. "You get to save the people you love."

Andi rolled her eyes, but the smile on her face told Donnie it was affectionate. "Same thing with being a superhero, according to the multitude of movies and comics. Your point?"

Donnie couldn't help but smile more; she was starting to feel better. "My point, Miss Rhodes, is that Darwin forbid April is kidnapped, we're gonna save her. Nothing is gonna happen to her - whether that's because she's careful and doesn't get noticed, or because we bust in, beat the Kraang into the ground, and make sure she's safe." He then met her eyes, trying his best not to melt under her gaze. "And considering you've got that awesome new laser gun now, chances are you'd be able to join us."

Andi smiled the same way as him, her focus going towards the straw training dummy with the gaping hole in its chest. "Yeah, don't think the Kraang would be safe from that." She agreed, making Donnie chuckle and nod in agreement. 

"Precisely."

She then looked back at the stocky robot, doing one last once-over to make sure no glaring issues needed to be addressed. When she was satisfied, she nodded and pursed her lips. "You think Engelberger is ready to be presented to the others?"

"Yeah, I think-" Donnie then noticed the name she gave the robot and smiled in understanding. "Yeah. I think Engelberger's ready for battle."

~

As they started to walk the robot around the lab for a brief test, Leo, Raph and Mikey were all in the living room. Mikey was nearly finished with (what was likely) his second pizza of the day, Raph was dangling a piece of lettuce in front of Spike to get him to eat, and Leo was tuning into the latest rerun of "Space Heroes."

Currently, Captain Ryan and his crew were exploring a new planet, but something felt off about it - specifically the lack of life on there. "What do you make of this, Dr. Mindstrong?" He asked the green-skinned intelligence agent. After a brief scanning of the environment by his scanner, Mindstrong appeared confused and slightly disgruntled/ "This is very disturbing, Captain. Er, sensors indicate-"

Before he could explain what the scanner was picking up on, a hot pink moth-like creature latched itself onto Mindstrong's head and put him under mind control, making Mindstrong add (with a more wispy voice, this time,) "Everything is...fine..."

"Great galaxies!" Ryan exclaimed, making his loyal lackey Crankshaw ask (mostly for the sake of the audience watching - like Leo,) "Captain! What's happened?"

Considering "Space Heroes" was the typical Saturday morning cartoon, Ryan exclaimed (or moreso explained,) "Dr. Mindstrong's been taken over by the Cortexicons!"

Leo fed into the cheesy action of the show, letting out a quiet gasp at the revelation. 

In typical Crankshaw fashion, he started to freak out. "What'll we do?! WHAT'LL WE DO?!" He was then met with a slap across the face from Ryan to calm down. 

"There's only one thing we can do." Ryan told him, then turned to the camera in dramatic fashion. "Dr. Mindstrong must be destroyed!"

Leo watched in stunned silence as Ryan's blaster hit Mindstrong - even if he knew Mindstrong would be fine in the next episode, the action and drama never failed to compel him, regardless of how cheesy it was. "What a hero..." He murmured, admittedly wondering if he would need to make that same kind of sacrifice when it came to a future mission with his brothers. 

He hoped not, but the possibility was there. 

His pondering was completely broken at pounding footsteps echoing throughout the lair, making him scowl at the annoyance. Raph was more confused (though he looked just as aggravated as Leo,) while Mikey...well, upon noticing the miniature earthquakes, Mikey quickly closed the box containing the final slice of pizza and held it tightly to his chest, in pure fear of it being destroyed. 

What emerged from the lab was a small, stocky robotic turtle with its hands in front of it. It had a small antenna on the back of its head (so it could be controlled by both Donnie and Andi,) a metallic yellow plastron with wires protruding from its front (that was mostly because they ran out of yellow paint for the scrap metal and decided to leave it as is, deciding it was to look like a belt,) and a yellow stripe across its eyes, like a bandana. It looked like a small robotic ninja turtle. 

And it looked amazing. And it seemed to be able to talk as its mouth opened and a speaker was shown, and Donnie's voice echoed out, "Take me to your leader!" Its mouth promptly closed at that - before opening again as Andi's voice emerged from the speaker. "Good introduction."

Mikey looked to be unamused as he called out, "Leo, it's for you." He told the blue-masked turtle, admittedly a little upset that the introduction to such a cool invention was so...lame. 

Leo promptly answered the call, doing a once-over of the robot with confusion - and a hint of intrigue. "What is this thing?"

Donnie and Andi walked out of the lab, each holding a wireless remote controller. "Gentlemen!" Donnie exclaimed, then giggled when Andi added in a mumble, "And Raphael."

This made Raph glare at her and made Andi smirk in response as Donnie continued the spiel, while she held a hand out to the robot like she was the assistant to a game show host, demonstrating the fabulous prizes the contestants could win. "This is the future of ninjutsu!"

Deciding to get her back for the comment, Raph remarked, "I always thought the future of ninjutsu would be taller. Makes sense that he's taller than Andi, though."

"If I weren't holding this controller, I would smack you."

Raph only smirked at her this time as Mikey 'awwed' at how petite the robot looked. "He's so cute!" He then decided to tickle it under its chin - before immediately regretting it as the robot's endless arsenal was unleashed. Small missiles on its shoulders, lasers on its elbows and knees, a GPS tracking device, red bat wings...if anyone wanted to take this on in a fight, they probably wouldn't come back alive. Mikey stumbled back and yelped in panic as he fell back onto his shell. 

Andi and Donnie shared a proud smirk with each other. "He doesn't like being tickled." The latter simply replied as he pushed a small pressure-sensitive panel on the top of the robot's head to store away the weapons, before lightly patting the top of its head. 

This was going to be fun, indeed.

~

Meanwhile, the Kraang base was just as sterile and cold as April thought it would be. 

Droids were walking through the area and scanning it for any sign of unwanted life, all while chirping to themselves. It created for an incredibly eerie atmosphere - and admittedly, it scared April a bit more. Now that she was in the belly of the beast, so to speak, it felt more intimidating than thrilling. She was starting to understand what Andi meant when she brought up the risk of getting caught. One wrong move and she was history. 

But it was worth it if it meant finding out any plans - or better yet, finding any clues about her father.

As she hid behind a crate and watched a droid walk past her, she silently crawled to her left and started to eavesdrop on a conversation that two other droids were having. It sounded important - and it seemed like they were talking about exactly what she wanted. 

"Is that which is the unstable mutagen ready for using in the experiment that Kraang is being ready to begin?"

Translation: Is the unstable mutagen ready for the experiment?

"The unstable mutagen will be tomorrow unleashing in the water supply."

This went without saying.

April gasped at the prospect, though it was quiet as she curled back into the fetal position. "The water supply? Oh no..." She whispered to herself, but immediately started to weigh her options. She had gotten the information she needed, but the droids were still standing there. But then again, she could make a break for it, if she was careful...

But then the droids continued talking and she stopped thinking, going back to eavesdropping. 

"Many infected humans will mutation. This is being a good way to perfect the mutagen to the point of perfection."

Translation: With the humans becoming mutated creatures, they could use them as experiments to continue honing the mutagen. 

Okay, that was dangerous. 

The second droid then left, and as April tried to get a bit closer (while also maintaining her cover behind the crate,) the fire extinguisher on top of said crate fell with a loud 'clang,' making her cringe and crawl behind an adjacent crate as the droid caught wind of the extinguisher and went to check out what caused the commotion.

This was bad.

~

As the droid picked up the fire extinguisher and went to find the culprit, April immediately started to think of how to get out of there. "Think ninja, think ninja..." She mumbled, frantically searching the room for some way to escape. 

But then she saw the open window panel, and it hit her. 

She gasped in excitement, but quickly covered her mouth and internally cursed herself as the droid heard her, then dropped the extinguisher again and started to walk to where she was. 

Okay, now she had to book it.

And thankfully, as soon as the droid stopped in front of the crate (where she would've been,) she was gone. It walked a little further - mostly wanting to see if the culprit had moved to another part of the base - but when he looked to the right, he saw the fluttering window panel. 

And as it went to go investigate what could've caused it, it didn't notice April running up to it with a lead pipe and hitting it directly in the head with all of her might, hoping to knock it out. 

Unfortunately, it didn't do the trick, and the droid turned around to face her, completely unphased. 

April gasped again, this was just what Andi had warned her about. Now she was about to be taken and never see her, the boys or Splinter again and likely never see her dad again and-

No. Not if she could help it. 

Before the droid could sound any alarms or attack her, she swung the pipe again (this time, with much more force,) and sent the droid flying through the window panel and onto the ground. As she watched the gross alien...thing squirm out of the droid's stomach, she caught her breath for a moment as the adrenaline wore off. 

Dropping the pipe, she ran for the exit before any other droids could spot her. 

Mission accomplished.

~

Back at the lair, Mikey was proceeding to make faces at the robot while Andi watched him with an affectionate smile and roll of the eyes, while Donnie was explaining how they created it to Leo. "Isn't it cool? We reverse-engineered it from the Kraangdroid!" 

"Okay..." Leo asked, more confusion in his tone than amazement. While it was cool, he didn't necessarily understand why they needed a droid to begin with. It wasn't like anyone was injured and the robot could take his place, so why create something like this in the first place? "Why?"

But Andi was quick to reply with a confident (and admittedly, soft) smile. "So he can handle the dangerous stuff while you guys stay out of harm's way. Plus, it's cool to have a robot on your side, don't you think?"

But Raph immediately found a way to make fun of that. "Oh, I get it. This is for wimps too afraid to fight."

While Andi rolled her eyes at the taunt, Donnie decided to play into it. "No, it's for wimps too smart to fight." He then realized how dumb that sounded as he tried to rectify that statement. "I-I mean..." Meanwhile, Andi facepalmed and shook her head, trying her hardest not to laugh. "Good response, Don."

Meanwhile, Mikey was knocking on the top of the robot's head curiously - and an idea hit him. "Ooh, let's call him Metalhead!" 

Andi took her hand away from her face, going to jump in and explain he already had a name. "Uh, actually, he's already-" She then saw Donnie shaking his head at her, his eyes saying 'don't try to change it, Mikey's pretty dead set in his ways with names.' So she nodded, but slightly huffed to herself at having her and Donnie's creation have his name changed right in front of her. 

Ah, well.

"Why you ask?" Mikey asked with a smug smile, completely ignoring Andi's slight annoyance. "Because he's got a head and it's made of-"

Exasperated, Leo facepalmed this time and cut him off. "We get it."

Raph still took fault with the idea of a robot fighting - at all. "I don't need a toaster to fight my battles for me."

Andi's annoyance melted away as she smirked at Raph. "Is that because a toaster is smarter than you?" She couldn't help but giggle as Mikey gave her a high-five and Donnie and Leo snickered, all while Raph was glaring at her - though there was a tinge of affection in his eyes. It was kind of nice being able to hurl insults with someone who could actually respond - and respond well.

But eventually Leo got back on track. "Er, this is ridiculous, guys. It takes the whole point out of being a ninja."

"It's exactly the point of being a ninja!" Donnie told him, a bright smile on his face. "We adapt." He briefly explained, alluding to the message Splinter was giving him earlier.  "Now watch this. Attack the drone! Give it all you've got!"

Andi had to hold back her smile, she knew exactly what was to be expected from this. 

"You're sure? I don't want to break your toy." Leo sarcastically asked, before Raph pushed him aside with seriousness in his eyes. "I do."

He then stepped in front of Metalhead and unsheathed his sais as Donnie pressed a button on his controller to power him up. 

Growling to himself, Raph sprinted forward and jumped, ready to impale Metalhead directly in...well, the head. 

Andi smirked over at Donnie and nodded as if saying, 'Let him have it.' 

And Donnie agreed, flipping two switches and grabbing Raph's wrist before he could get an attack in. Metalhead then swung Raph back and forth like a ragdoll, before throwing him into the wall casually. 

One down, two to go. 

Immediately, Leo and Mikey jumped into the fray and revealed their own weapons, before going into a frenzy trying to get some type of damage on Metalhead. The clanging of blade and iron against metal was palpitating (and even made Andi cover her ears with how loud it was) but nothing was enough. 

Giving a confident (and gap-toothed) smile to her, Donnie flipped the same two switches and grabbed both Leo's katana and Mikey's kusarigama, then slammed them together - causing the brothers to do the same. The distraction gave Metalhead the chance to step on Leo's foot (which likely caused at minimum some broken bones), making him yell in pain and giving the robot the chance to send him flying into Raph - after Donnie grabbed Andi's shoulders and moved them both out of the way. 

Two down, one to go. 

Metalhead immediately turned to Mikey (who jumped in surprise), and with one punch, sent the youngest flying into his older brothers.

Three down, none to go.

"I kicked your shells!" Donnie gloated, giving Andi a high five and a gigantic smile. "And I didn't even have to use the laser cannon!" He added, holding his controller close to his chest with a smile. "And, furthermore, you didn't even get to see the awesome stuff Andi included!"

At hearing that, Andi's smile turned shy as she blushed from embarrassment. It was common to hear someone call her smart, she was used to that. But to hear someone acknowledge her talents in engineering, and to have that someone be as smart and nice as Donnie? She had to admit, it was an amazing feeling.

"Face it, guys, with this thing? We're invincible." 

Slightly bitter about losing to a robot, Raph stood up and brandished a sai. "Oh, yeah?" He asked, loosening Donnie's grip on his controller and sending it onto the floor, making the purple-masked turtle glare at him and Andi snap out of her slight daze at the sound. 

"You know what I mean!" Donnie said exasperatedly as he frantically went to grab the controller. And right as he grabbed it, Splinter appeared in front of him, making him perk up. "Sensei! I was just wondering if Andi and I could take Metalhead for a spin tonight?"

"You may."

"That's totally unfair!" Donnie argued again as Andi walked over to help him up. "You can't just-wait, what?" Once again, Andi snickered under her breath, her grip nearly loosening on his arm. "0 for 2, Don." She muttered, making him playfully glare at her. 

Smiling again at their banter, Splinter walked over to the robot to examine it more closely. "You have created this new weapon, we must see how it works." He explained, lightly patting the top of his head.

"That's great!" Both Donnie and Andi said at the same time, making them look at each other with a confused look on their faces - while Donnie appeared to be...blushing, much like Andi was before. To divert from his embarrassment, he managed a sheepish, but well-meaning "thank you, sensei."

Splinter turned around to acknowledge them, the embarrassed look on Donnie's face making him smile once more. "But it is a test only. Do not take it into combat." He added, making both of them nod in agreement. 

"No problem, sensei." "Of course, Master Splinter."

Satisfied with their answers, Splinter retreated back to the dojo - and out of earshot from Andi and the boys. 

And immediately after he left, Raph asked the obvious question. "You're taking it into combat, aren't you?"

"Totally!" Donnie giggled to himself, holding the controller to his chest. As he grinned at Andi, though, he noticed for a second that she looked unhappy. "You okay?"

She was about to say 'fine,' but relented and shook her head. "Just...I'm still worried about April, it's been over two hours and she still hasn't come back yet. Plus, is Engelberger really ready for a battle now?"

He smiled and patted her shoulder comfortingly. "He'll be okay. And as far as April goes, if you want, we can search for her as we're testing him out. We'll just do a scan of the city, chances are she's on the street or she's back at her apartment." He suggested, watching her visibly relax and smile at the suggestion. 

"Yeah, I'd like that."

~

And there they were in the quiet and brisk night, running across rooftops and perching themselves on the edge of one, overlooking a Kraang base. Leo was first to make it, then Mikey (as he took a makeshift zipline over,) then Raph as he rolled onto the rooftop, then Andi as she ran up, laser gun in hand. She had decided to go with them mostly to get a good look at Metalhead in the field, but a bonus was that she wanted to find April and ensure she was okay.

Though speaking of Metalhead...his footsteps could be heard from Texas as he took the same path as Leo and Andi; crossing rooftops and causing some damage to the roof as he jumped down, then ran over to the four of them. 

Mikey and Andi were cringing (him at the lack of stealth, her for the noise,) while Raph and Leo were completely unimpressed - with the latter throwing in a facepalm for good measure.

And as a small amount of steam blew out of the sides of Metalhead's cranium to avoid overheating, Andi checked him over to make sure nothing was damaged while Leo decided to rub salt in the wound about how much he was failing. "Should we double back? I think there's a car alarm he didn't set off."

Raph decided to continue the teasing. "I kinda like it. It goes nicely with all the sirens and cries for help."

Andi rolled her eyes as she stood back up, brushing off any debris from her dress. "Oh, will you guys just can it?" She asked sharply, resting her elbow against Metalhead. 

And Donnie agreed with her through the headset he was wearing in the lair. "Yeah, seriously. You guys are just jealous 'cause you're out there in the cold and I'm here eating Mikey's pizza." He then decided to rub it in further, much like his older brothers were doing before. "Don't worry, I'm saving a slice for Andi as well." That made Andi snicker and smile. "Appreciated."

"Hey!" Unfortunately, it wasn't appreciated by Mikey as he shot her a glare and punched Metalhead in the arm - before realizing how bad of a mistake that was. "Ow!" 

But it was immediately interrupted as a familiar voice called out from below, "Hello?"

"Guys, quiet! Somebody's coming!" Leo told them, making them all crouch over the edge of the building, just in case they didn't recognize who it was. And they were not about to be spotted again by someone else - first Vic, then Bradford, then Stockman. What next, the Shredder himself?

But then again, Metalhead didn't help with how loud he was when getting into a crouching position - many whirring sounds and even a beep here and there.

"Andi! Guys! It's me!" 

At her name being called, Andi leaned in to get a better view of who it was - and she nearly burst into tears at who it was. 

"April!"

She practically lunged for the nearest fire escape as she jumped onto the ground - and the second she hit the asphalt, she ran into April's arms, squeezing her so tightly she was afraid she was going to break the girl's ribs. "By Copernicus, I'm so glad you're okay!" She exclaimed, pulling away to frantically check her over. "Wait, are you okay? Broken bones, internal bleeding, any bruising?"

"Andi, I'm fine." April giggled and lightly pried her off, before holding out her arms and spinning slowly to demonstrate. "See? I'm okay."

Satisfied, Andi nodded and sighed in relief. "I know, I-I'm sorry." She explained, trying to calm herself down. "I just...I didn't hear from you, so I got worried and started thinking the Kraang had gotten you and..." But before she could continue, she sighed again and pulled April into one more hug. "Moral of the story, I worry about you."

April smiled at her reassuringly. "I'm okay." She confirmed, though her smile was replaced with a calm sigh as she saw the boys still on the roof. "Oh, good. The boys are here." She waved for them to come down - mostly so she could share the Kraang's plans with all of them. "Guys! I was just looking for you!"

Unfortunately, none of them were expecting the idea that Metalhead would be right behind them, and before Andi could explain the robot to her, the whistling could be heard as he landed right in a dumpster, making both girls yelp at the sound. 

And as he struggled to free himself from the dumpster, Leo gave him another facepalm as Andi opened the lid so he could get out more easily. Until finally he was out, and his stocky self was present and standing in front of the others.

"Still, he's stealthier than the real Donatello." Raph remarked, but April looked at the robot in confusion. "What the heck is that?"

"It's Andi and Donnie's latest creation, Metalhead." Leo briefly explained as April then turned to look at her best friend like 'You did this?' 

"Catchy name, huh? My idea." Mikey added proudly as he leaned his elbow against Metalhead.

"Yeah." Andi briskly added, gesturing to the bulky droid. "He's meant to be a weapon for battle, allowing the user to stay out of harm's way while still contributing to the fighting." She then leaned in to whisper to April so Mikey couldn't hear, "His actual name is Engelberger, but Mikey wanted to call him Metalhead so that's just his nickname." That made April smile and roll her eyes, only Andi would gatekeep something so dumb as a name. 

"Sorry, girls, still getting used to the controls." Donnie explained the commotion before as the megaphone was exposed from Metalhead's mouth, creating an unnecessary loudness in Donnie's voice and an obnoxious ringing that made everyone cover their ears - and even made Andi wince at the sound. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to install that in the first place. But thankfully, the controls were fixed as Metalhead's mouth closed and Donnie sheepishly explained again, "Megaphone button got stuck."

Andi smiled softly at him before turning back to April. "So did you find any news about the Kraang?"

"Oh, right!" April's expression then turned stormy. "It's serious, they're gonna poison the city's water supply with mutagen!" 

Immediately, the boys and Andi started to get concerned. "The whole city will become a disaster area!" And Donnie (through Metalhead) added, "There'll be mutants everywhere!"

Andi started to picture it immediately - mutated citizens roaming the streets, them being used as experiments by the Kraang...it'd be terrible. And maybe they could use these mutants to kidnap the people who weren't affected by the mutagen? The thought alone made her shudder. 

However, Mikey saw the positives in it. "Wow! Think of all the friends we could make!" He suggested, subconsciously throwing his arms around Metalhead. But when the rest of them gave him a disapproving look (like 'what is wrong with you,') Mikey tried to justify it. "Excuse me for being a glass-half-full kind of guy."

Deciding not to berate Mikey at the moment, Leo gestured for the others to follow him. "Let's go!" 

Metalhead immediately went to follow him, with Donnie adding, "Yeah, the Kraang don't stand a chance!" But he was immediately stopped by Leo - making both Donnie and Andi confused. "What?"

"Donnie, I need you to hang back. Metalhead is just too clumsy, it'll get in our way." Leo reasoned with him, making Donnie stumble over his words at such a ludicrous accusation, as well as Andi scowl at the blue-masked turtle, taking slight offense. 

"Are you kidding me, Leo? He may not be the most graceful, but he can still fight! He's got the range that you guys don't have; a flamethrower, lasers, a plasma fist, he can do stuff you guys can't!"

Leo shook his head, unconvinced. "Andi, it's just too clumsy. If we allow it to go with us, we'll get our shells handed to us." He sternly told her, only earning a glare from her. 

His point was only proven when Metalhead knocked his arm into a handful of trash cans, startling April. Though, because it was Donnie, he immediately tried to rectify his argument. "I did that on purpose to emphasize my point."

"You're not coming, Donnie." Leo simply told him, then followed Raph and Mikey as they ran for the Kraang base.

As Metalhead stood there with his head down and Andi had her arms crossed and was scowling at the ground, April decided to comfort both of them by putting her hand on the robot's shoulder and squeezing Andi's hand reassuringly. "You guys can come up to the roof with me to watch the fight?" She offered, making Andi visibly soften and Donnie smile to himself, though he knew the girls couldn't see it. 

"Sure. That'd be good, April."

~

And as Leo, Raph and Mikey left to storm the base, the girls and Donnie were left on the edge of the roof with a perfect view of the fight.

As April and Andi exchanged a concerned look, the latter let out a soft sigh as she looked up at the sky, trying to calm her nerves. She knew the boys would be able to hold their own in a fight, especially against the Kraang, but there was always a hint of irrational fear in her mind. It especially didn't help that she was so close to the action - the first time that this was the case. 

Moving Metalhead to glance at her, Donnie's heart started to crack a bit as he saw how scared she looked. If he were there, he would do what he did before when she was scared about April; put an arm around her and help her calm down. But considering it would be a bit unorthodox to hug a teenage girl as a robot, he decided on another method, mostly in an attempt to get her mind off it. 

"So..." Donnie intentionally played up the awkwardness in his tone as he spoke to the two of them. "...you guys like heavy metal?"

That got a chuckle and an affectionate eye roll from April and a little smile from Andi, which made Donnie beam from behind the screen. 

It was definitely a start. 

~

The trio had finally made it inside the Kraang base and were perched on a beam in the rafters - and the sight was an all-too-familiar one. There were at least 20 to 30 droids down there, and chances are there were more either outside or ones that had left the base to tend to other tasks. 

Long story short (and as Leo put it,) "It looks like a Kraang picnic down there."

Raph immediately started to hype himself up - and did the same with his brothers. "Ready to bash some bots?"

Continuing the alliteration, Leo agreed with a confident smile, "Destroy some droids?"

"Clean some closets?" Mikey added with a bright smile - but he quickly realized his error as Leo and Raph stared him down. "Uh...I meant to say, 'crush some Kraang?'"

Without responding, Leo jumped from the beam and Raph followed, the two of them taking down two droids almost instantaneously. And to ensure that the second droid was completely finished, Raph stabbed his sai into the droid's face and ripped off the external face, showing a purple control panel that must've controlled its eyes and speaker. 

"Booyakasha!"

Mikey was right behind them, landing on top of two more droids and punching them with all of his might, nuts and bolts flying everywhere as he continued to ensure that they were really dead. It wasn't until Raph picked him up by his shell and dragged him away from the unmoving droids did he stop. 

Hiding behind another beam, the trio looked around to see if they find any more droids (or better yet, the device they'd be using to inject the mutagen into the city's water supply) and then rolled to the left behind a set of waste barrels to meet even more droids, some with mutagen canisters while others were holding their plasma guns - in case they caught any unwanted visitors. 

However, what gave them away was another Kraang droid that fell behind them, cursing at them in its native tongue (which just sounded like robotic gibberish) before becoming unresponsive and laying on the ground.

The boys winced at that - but as they turned around, the same group of droids they were spying on were staring directly at them - and were charging up their guns.

And almost immediately, they were being fired on, making the trio yell in fear and retreat behind a set of waste barrels.

Between a rock and a hard place. Great.

~

Meanwhile, the girls and Metalhead were still on the rooftop - and the soft silence as they watched the fight was both comfortable and a bit nerve-wracking. 

Andi's nerves had calmed down as she rested her head on April's shoulder and squeezed her hand, but she was still silent as she looked back up at the sky, smiling to herself as she could see her constellation. Her other hand unintentionally went to her necklace, making her smile at Metalhead before going back to watching the chaos in the building.

The robot turned to face her and Donnie's eyes caught sight of her, making a lovestruck smile form on his face. Immediately, he muted the speaker (and made sure Andi couldn't hear him by asking 'can you hear me now?,' then took her silence as an affirmation,) then dreamily sighed as he admired her. She looked so pretty in the moonlight...and the fact that she was wearing the necklace that he made her made his face turn bright pink.

"Look at her...oh, she's so beautiful. So radiant...and by Darwin's beard, I've never met anyone so smart." While he still admired her, his smile started to turn a bit sad - though it was still there. "But I know that she'd never go for something like me...who could love a mutant?" He put the controller down and put his hands over his face, rubbing the sides of his face carefully.

"Gah, if only she could love someone like me!" He exclaimed, then sighed to himself as he calmed down. "She'd make me the happiest turtle this side of the Atlantic...and I'd do everything to make her the happiest girl, no questions asked..." Out of instinct, he picked up the controller again, his gaze averting to it. "But, to be fair, Donatello, your feelings for her aren't gonna change the fact that she's always gonna be a friend to you. You know darn well that at the end of the day, even if she never loves you back, she's still gonna be your lab partner and especially your friend."

He then went back to look at Andi - and at this point, April had taken notice of his prolonged staring and smirked at him, making him chuckle nervously, but still continue his monologue. "Because there's just something about her. Whatever it is, I want to be there for her, no matter our relationship. Friends, boyfriend and girlfriend-" He giggled like a child at that image. "-er, whatever it is, I'm gonna be by her side no matter what."

Noticing April was smirking at Metalhead, Andi followed her gaze and chuckled at him. "Don, what are you doing?"

Immediately, Donnie snapped out of his daze and unmuted himself. "Uh, nothing." He quickly replied with another nervous laugh, before adding to himself, "Thank Darwin she didn't hear that..." 

That made Andi raise an eyebrow and smile at him. "Hear what?"

April snickered at that, while Donnie immediately replied with, "Uh, nothing! We're good, everything's good!" To divert from embarrassing himself even further, he decided to look back at the building. "So, um, how do you think the fight's going?"

Ironically, the second he asked that, a massive laser beam struck the corner of the roof they were resting on (missing Andi by only a few inches) and making them all fall back in fear.

Once the shock wore off, Andi glanced at the robot with a terrified look in her eye. "Not great?" She asked, her tone taking on a higher register, then bit her lip as an idea came to her. "I think that's a sign that you need to join your brothers."

"Right." Donnie agreed - and right as he was about to leave, he turned Metalhead to look at the girls. "I'll see you guys on the other side." He said, almost ruefully, though a  smile could be heard in his tone. When they waved back, he turned back around and jumped onto the adjacent roof, going to look for a viable way inside. 

"Be careful!" Andi called out to him, then turned to April once he was out of earshot. "So why'd you think he was staring at me earlier?"

April only smirked at her as she started to lead her back to the fire escape so they could go back to the lair. 

"No idea, Andi."

~

Before Metalhead could reach them, though, the trio found themselves overrun by fire - and it was becoming more apparent, especially to Raph that they couldn't keep running. "Leo! We're running out of-" He was cut short by them scrambling behind a set of crates and barrels - which was basically a dead end if the wall had anything to say about it. 

"-room."

"We're trapped!" Leo agreed, lightly cursing to himself at such a dumb mistake. 

Mikey, however, tried to spin the situation more positively. "Or maybe they're the ones who are trapped, hm?" But when he poked his head over the barrel he was hiding behind and was met by a plasma beam narrowly missing his head, he realized it was pointless arguing with Leo. "No, it's us."

Great. Hiding behind debris and being met with continuous fire - and no way to counteract it. Unless something big happened in the next ten seconds, the boys were likely toast. 

Thankfully, that big something happened, as the sound of a window breaking could be heard from a mile away and Donnie's excited cheer followed as Metalhead jumped through the window, landing directly on a group of Kraangdroids - but the pose he was in made the entire moment seem less triumphant and more ridiculous. 

"What are you doing? What is wrong with your arms?" Leo scolded him, referring to Metalhead's arms being splayed on either side of him. Rather than a hero, he looked like a child that was struggling to keep his balance. 

Donnie, of course, wasn't aware until Leo pointed it out to him. "My...hands aren't on my hips?" Leo only responded with a stern "no!" while Raph facepalmed at the sheer absurdity of it. Thankfully, Donnie realized his mistake and sheepishly explained, "Sorry, forgot to press B." After pressing the right button, Metalhead's arms went to his hips, making him look much more like the hero he was trying to be. 

Unfortunately, the Kraang were not interested. Immediately, they powered up their laser guns and aimed directly at him. 

~

The trio exchanged looks with each other (like 'is this seriously going to work?') all while Metalhead continued to stand directly in front of the fire, taking every hit with no real fightback. It was almost like Donnie had stopped controlling him - or more likely, his cockiness was starting to get the better of him because he knew Metalhead could withstand a lot of fire. 

Almost definitely the latter.

And that was only proven further when the Kraang stopped firing (seeing it was doing absolutely no damage) and in a surprisingly brazen move for Donnie, he exclaimed, "Now it's my turn!" He then equipped the laser cannon he was hinting at earlier and boldly proclaimed, "Eat hot laser!"

Immediately, droids were being mowed down left and right - and from Donnie's end, he was excitedly pressing every button on the controller like he was playing a first-person shooter. It was thrilling, a video game come to life. He laughed with glee as he taunted the droids and cheered himself on, and then as he pressed another button, the plasma fist Andi referred to earlier was unleashed, hitting droids with as much force as a freight train and leaving no prisoners behind. 

It was amazing - and Donnie got so caught up in the rush that he didn't notice Andi walking back into the lair (April had decided to go back to her apartment so as not to worry her aunt) and smiling at his inane nerdiness. The fact that the robot was working as well as they expected it to was amazing too...but there was something about seeing Donnie this happy that just made her feel giddy. 

And once the plasma fist came back to Metalhead's arm socket, Donnie felt the need to gloat. "Hey, Raph! How's it feel to be shown up by a toaster?" He called out to his brother, making Raph grumble at him, Andi facepalm (and making Donnie jump,) and Mikey yell out, "Burn!" 

Once he calmed down from Andi lightly scaring him, Donnie addressed what he assumed was a compliment from Mikey. "Yeah, I thought that was a good one."

However, Mikey was referring to the flamethrower Metalhead had equipped as well. "No, burn!" He yelled, pointing to the group of droids sneaking up behind Metalhead. 

"Oh, right." Donnie quickly remembered and muted his mic, then switched Metalhead's hand from the laser cannon to the flamethrower, before incinerating each droid he saw. At the same time, he threw an embarrassed smile towards Andi. "You...heard all that?"

She only laughed and nodded. "It's fine. Kind of cute when you're so excited like that."

Donnie only blushed crimson as he smiled goofily - before unmuting his mic. 

A fallen droid, however, had started to notice something. The design on Metalhead's cranium... was Kraang technology, was it not? "That thing which does violence at Kraang used to do violence for Kraang!" And then it powered down, leaving the small alien in its abdomen to crawl out and start to scheme.

In other words, they had caught on that the boys (or rather, one of them and their friend) had been using stolen Kraang technology. 

Not good. 

Meanwhile, Donnie had switched back to the laser cannon and was starting to fire more recklessly - accidentally firing at the trio still in hiding. "Dude!" Mikey yelled in fear, making Andi cringe and Donnie sheepishly apologize, while Leo chastised him by saying, "Donnie, watch the friendly fire!"

Taking that seriously, Donnie started to be more cautious in his aim again - and once he was back in his element, he started to taunt the droids he was firing at like they were generic enemies in a video game. "Here's some for you! And some for you! And oh, yeah, I saved a little for you too! How'd that taste?"

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Andi roll her eyes and shake her head - which he couldn't deny made him giggle a bit. "What?"

She only smirked at him. "You're just a dork, is all." That made Donnie only giggle again - and his cheeks turn pink. "I've been told that on quite a few occasions." Andi's smirk only grew further as she decided to continue the charade. "Have you now?"

Overhearing what was obviously flirting, Leo and Raph shared a smirk (they were totally going to use that against him later) while Mikey let out a quiet and prolonged 'aww.'

However, that 'aww' caught Donnie's ear and he snapped out of talking to her, going back to fighting the Kraang - which seemed to be going like a dream, until he accidentally hit a supply of gasoline tanks, making them explode and Metalhead go flying, crashing into a nearby support beam.

And what was worse - the antenna on his head chipped off.

"No, Engelberger!" Andi exclaimed with concern, while Donnie gasped at the text that appeared on screen: 'LOST SIGNAL.' "We lost the control signal!" He frantically tried hitting buttons in a vain attempt to get Metalhead back under their control - before Andi smacked him nervously on the shoulder and pointed his chin to the screen - which normally would've made him turn a thousand shades of red, but right now he was too bothered (and even a little bit stunned) to notice.

"What's that Kraang doing?" They both asked as the alien from before climbed atop Metalhead's chest. 

Unbeknownst to them, it was connecting itself to the control panel on Metalhead's flat cranium - and while it did get an intense electric shock from it at first, it was still able to connect itself to the mainframe. Instead of his eyes being electric blue, they became a dangerous pink. 

Not good squared.

"Uh, oh...guys?" Donnie called out to his brothers, desperately trying to get their attention. "If you can hear me, you might want to run!"

Andi gave him a look like 'Seriously?' and grabbed the unused second headset that Donnie had set up for her. "Might want to is an understatement, run like there's someone chasing you with a taser!"

Before they could take their advice, though, the trio looked up at what they were dealing with. 

Purple flames enveloped the new Kraang-ified Metalhead, and his mouth was bright purple as well as he spoke. "The ones that which are called turtles will now be called turtles that are DESTROYED!" At 'destroyed,' the speaker in Metalhead's mouth was exposed, only adding to his newly-established intimidation factor. 

Not necessarily understanding the gravity of the situation, Mikey let out a sigh of relief. "I was really afraid of the beginning of the sentence, but then I sort of just lost interest towards-" 

But he was cut off by Metalhead pointing the laser cannon directly at him. "-okay, now I'm afraid again."

His scream pierced through both Andi's and Donnie's headsets, making her cover her mouth in fear and him frantically search for a way to gain some level of control back. "Come on, maybe if I override-"

"Donatello!" 

Splinter's booming voice appeared behind them as he placed his hand on Donnie's shoulder. "The time for games is over."

With a sigh, Andi agreed and slipped off the headset, watching with a heavy heart as Donnie let the controller fall to the ground. Well, it was fun while it lasted.

"You're right. My brothers need me." 

He gave Andi an apologetic nod (which was replaced by a soft smile as she gave him a sad, yet supportive one at his decision) and was about to leave before Splinter yelled for him to stop. When Donnie turned around, the wise master tossed him his bo - everything was coming full circle.

With a grateful bow, Donnie was about to head out again - but this time, Andi stopped him. 

Running up to him, she gave him a mischievous smile. "When you see the Kraang again, tell them this for messing with Engelberger." She then whispered something into his ear - making him look at her with confusion. "What does that even mean?"

"Just trust me, yell that to the Kraang for messing with us and our creation. I'll explain it when you get back."

Still confused, Donnie nodded before turning back and finally getting on his way.

Time to finish what he started.

~

Unbeknownst to him, the trio had started to attack Metalhead - unleashing any type of strike they could get on him. Mikey had even swung a nunchuck at the laser cannon to stop it from firing, but it didn't seem to work as the robot only tossed it aside and aimed the cannon again.

"Give him everything you've got!" Leo urged them as he and Raph lunged to attack - and eventually Mikey joined in, hitting Metalhead with as much force as they could muster. But the sounds of iron and weight against metal were telling as he looked completely unscathed by such a frenzy - just like before, there was hardly anything the boys could do to even get an attack in. 

Urgh, why did Donnie and Andi have to make the thing so durable?

"He's got to have a weak spot!" Leo added, still continuing to slice at Metalhead with the katanas, almost like he was desperately trying to break the invisible shield around him. Of course, to no avail. 

But Mikey thought of a brilliant idea. "This always works!" He remembered and kicked Metalhead directly...in the groin.

But he remembered that he was a robot, not a human, and the orange-masked turtle winced in pain. That likely caused a few broken toes. "Well...usually."

With that brilliant idea being a bust, Metalhead saw the opportunity to deliver a swift punch to Mikey's abdomen, sending him flying into the support beam...just like before.  He then turned his attention to Leo, punching him directly in the head - and doing the exact same to Raph, sending both of them onto the floor next to Mikey. 

Oh no cubed. 

And as Metalhead and the other droids cornered them, the stocky robot decided to give them one last chance to plead their case, so to speak. "Now Kraang will destroy you. Which one wants to be the first to be destroyed by Kraang?"

But a familiar voice was heard from the ceiling of the building. "Me!"

Doing a front flip from the broken window, Donnie had his bo staff by his side as he stared down the droids, a newfound sense of adrenaline (and warranted anger) surging through his body. To see what the Kraang had done to not just his brothers, but also Engelberger...

Deep down, he knew the Kraang should've been lucky that Andi wasn't by his side.

"Donnie!" Mikey's voice broke through his anger - but along with being happy to see him, the orange-masked turtle also appreciated the flair Donnie delivered in arriving. "Bangin' entrance, dude!"

However, Donnie's priorities were still on the Kraang. "You guys deal with the droids. I'll handle Metalhead."

No arguments came from the trio as they immediately went to deal with the other Kraangdroids - while the Kraang-controlled robot addressed Donnie. "It is the maker of the tech which was the tech that was of the Kraang!" And as the droid and Donnie stared each other down, both prepared their weapons - Metalhead with the laser cannon and Donnie with the exact opposite - a wooden bo staff. 

"Come on, give me your best-" But his taunt fell by the wayside as he immediately fled from the homing plasma fist - until he used the staff as a bat and rerouted the fist to hit Metalhead directly in the cranium. He then followed it up with some direct hits from the staff - but metal against wood sounded almost as bad as metal against iron.

Like all of the other hits, though, it did absolutely nothing. It was like Metalhead grew entirely bored of the whole charade and started aiming the laser cannon directly at Donnie - and started firing immediately after, causing him to flee again.

His movements in avoiding the fire were nothing short of graceful. Careful dodging, flipping, using the staff as a vault - and yet Metalhead was still locked in on attacking him before anything else. 

And then a stray beam broke the staff clean - again.

"Not again..." Donnie nervously told himself, immediately looking for a viable replacement. He made a note to himself: 'Look into making a weighted staff. Or at least surround your new one with some type of metal coating so this doesn't happen again.'

However, Metalhead wasn't interested in mourning the staff; immediately, small orbs emerged from his eye sockets and locked onto Donnie, making him gasp and leap to a safe hiding place immediately - being involved in the explosion that followed would have been catastrophic. Agh, why did he insist that they include such a thing?

He made another note to himself; 'Tell Andi she was right about the exploding eyeballs. Knowing her, she'll probably like hearing she was right.' 

While the thought of her made Donnie smile for a second, the image of her faded immediately when he was met by a loud metallic 'clang' - the intensity of the exploding eyeballs was too much for Metalhead, as he fell over. 

Emerging from the waste barrel he was hiding behind, Donnie caught a glimpse of the now decaying support beam - and coincidentally enough, it was right above Metalhead. Ideas started flowing into his mind. 

"That might work..." He mumbled to himself. All he needed was a distraction. 

And what better way to distract them was to use the insult that Andi had requested he say? "Hey, Kraang!"

Immediately, he was met by gunfire - but emerged unscathed as he stood facing them. And now to "avenge" Andi:

"The one who is called your mother wears the boots that are made for combat!"

The Kraang, however, didn't get the joke - or maybe they did and were just majorly offended. "The comment that is made by you shows ignorance by Kraang! The ones known by you as mothers-"

After getting that out, though, Donnie was ready to take them down once and for all. "Just come get me!"

Metalhead understood that completely clearly, though, as he launched a multitude of exploding orbs towards Donnie - and instead of running away, he ran towards them and leaped over the robot (while at the same time, dodging a heavy barrage of fire from the laser cannon) - and causing the robot to dismantle the support beam. 

It creaked and groaned, but as Donnie landed right behind Metalhead and held out the broken staff, he let out a soft, fearful whimper as the beam came crashing down.

But instead of it crushing him (or allowing Metalhead to destroy him,) it bent the stocky robot forward, allowing the staff to impale it directly in the chest. 

He did it.

"Booyakasha!" Donnie cheered as a victory - just as the others finished picking off the other droids, and Leo was getting the final one off of his katana.

"Sounds weird when he says it." Mikey commented lightheartedly - but Raph decided to let Donnie have his moment by merely replying, "Sounds weird when you say it."

Though, the Kraang weren't entirely done with the boys just yet. "That which is the revenge will be had on those who are calling themselves the turtles." As if to specify what kind of revenge (and to get back at Donnie for destroying the robot,) the alien made the robot power down and then leaped onto Donnie's face, making him scream and then crawl away, as if disgusted by what he just had to witness.

But the shock wore off as a smiling Leo, excited Mikey, and unamused Raph stood over him. "Nice job, bro!" Mikey cheered, and Leo agreed with a "Way to go, Donnie."

Once the purple-masked turtle stood up with a smile growing, Raph decided to knock his happiness down a peg - even if it wasn't entirely meant as malicious. "Yeah, not bad. Except for that part where you and Andi built the thing in the first place. And the part where it broke. And the part where it tried to kill us! And the part-"

"Okay, I get it!" Donnie cut him off, his good mood now faltering. He and Andi were so happy about having a robot mech as a weapon, it was going to revolutionize combat forever...

Ah, well. Back to the drawing board, he supposed.

~

Things had seemed to go back to normal in the lair, as Leo and Raph were roughhousing at the arcade machine - while Mikey was a bemused spectator to it all. Currently, Raph was in the middle of playing, but Leo was teasing him about his score. "Ah, so close to my high score! Aww!" The two then proceeded to muscle each other out of the way of the game - Raph so he could beat Leo's score, and Leo so he could avoid that from happening. 

Donnie and Andi, meanwhile, were lamenting over the loss of Metalhead - he was using the soldering iron they had used to weld him together on a small metal beam, while she was quietly watching him. "So...I guess Engelberger's gone, huh?" She mumbled, making him nod sadly. 

"It was for the best though. We may have been a little too overconfident in his abilities that we didn't factor in the prospect of the Kraang taking over his mainframe."

She only nodded back - and the silence encompassed them again until Splinter noticed them and walked over. "Donatello? Andromeda? What troubles you?"

Donnie let out a sigh as he set down the metal beam. "This was our fault, sensei." 

And Splinter seemed to agree with them at first. "You are responsible, yes."

"Yeah..." Donnie sighed as Andi moved a bit closer to him, resting a hand on his shoulder to comfort him. 

"Responsible for destroying the mutagen. Responsible for saving the people of this city. Responsible for defeating advanced technology using only ingenuity, bravery-" He then gestured for Andi to interrupt him, making her smile gratefully at him as she squeezed Donnie's shoulder. 

"-and a stick."

He gave them a touched smile as he tried not to revel in her touching his shoulder - and he already missed her warmth when she removed it. "Thanks, sensei. Maybe you're right."

Splinter only gave him a proud smile. "I am."

"I guess with proper training, there's nothing better than a wooden stick."

Satisfied with such an answer, Splinter left them be, checking to make sure the trio hadn't beat each other up at the arcade machine yet before heading towards his room to rest for the evening. 

"Oh, I just remembered!" Donnie exclaimed as he sat back down next to Andi. "What did that line mean? You know, the one you asked that I tell the Kraang?"

Her smile then melted into a smirk as she leaned in to whisper what it was - and while he did turn a deep scarlet, he also cackled at the absurdity. "That's what I said?" When she only shrugged innocently, he laughed again and threw an arm over his eyes. "Oh, that's a new one." He then gave her a playful grin. "Do you mind if I steal it?" 

She only giggled in response and nodded. "Definitely." Her eyes then lazily drifted over to the rocket-like missile prototype he had built days before - and another smirk formed on her face. "You know, now that you're without a weapon for a little while, since Master Splinter needs some time to fix the staff, what say we start brainstorming ideas for a new one?"

Donnie eagerly nodded - and when he caught sight of the prototype she was looking at, he grinned like a mad scientist. "Like a laser-guided, missile-launching wooden stick?"

He then proceeded to demonstrate what it could look like (mostly through spinning it around) and making her laugh - but that faded when it hit the ground and... activated. 

Oh no to the fourth power.

The boys' roughhousing (which had actually devolved into Raph choking out Leo and Mikey serving as unofficial mediator) ceased instantaneously - and their faces melted into panic. 

"It's not supposed to do that! RUN!" Donnie screamed as he pushed Andi over to the trio, making her yell one more thing as the boys covered her to make sure she wouldn't get hit by the blast:

"THAT'S HOW YOU YELL AT SOMEONE TO RUN, DON!"

~

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[solarsavoy]

Everything for Krystar, here we go! 😁

🪩—Would you want a movie adaption, TV, or something else? Animated or live action?

Definitely an anime! No live action. No. Will not approve. Nope. Never!!

🎧—What would the soundtrack be like?

I'm not sure because I've never really paid attention to soundtracks before, but I'd try to add some rock sounding songs for things like fight scenes and such and I 100% want "Still Here" by Digital Daggers to play during the end of the Fragment series. These are non-negotiable. Also, I need an extended opening sequence for Fourth Fragment that goes to I Prevail's "Pull the Plug". Also non-negotiable.

✅—Which character/plot point/etc would be your favorite to see on screen?

The end of the Fifth Fragment... It's what inspired me to start writing the story again at age 29. I saw the ending so clearly in my head, and I'd absolutely love to see it on screen someday, going to the some "Still Here" by Digital Daggers, bawling my eyes out. I'd probably watch it over and over again because that would mean it was finished, that I made it, that the scene that drove me to write so much since then is finally a reality.

If I'm being honest though, seeing the opening scene described below would be just as awesome too, but not near as powerful as seeing the ending. And then there's the Echo series because Stag... Grr, what a jerk, making a whole ass second series just so he can get more screen time. XD Seriously, the story was supposed to end with the Fifth Fragment and then Stag went and made a whole origin story which started a whole other series and it's all his fault it's going to be twelve books now. All Stag's fault. XD

🥀—Which character/plot point/etc is most important for an adaption to get right?

This isn't for all adaptations, just for mine. I need the characters to age the way they do in the story. Because I deal with time, we sometimes go forward and back and characters will be younger and older and this is impossible to do for live action without changing the actual actors. Second to this is my secrets. If I say a detail is important, they better damn well include it in the fucking anime or I'll be pissed. Look, it's important!! Like, if they decided to exclude Taki's interludes or show an extra scene that wasn't in the book because it wasn't in Deshi's POV, then I am not okay with it. The fact that it's in Deshi's POV is very important to me, okay? There are other things, but I'd hate to draw attention to them by pointing them out here. XD Girl's gotta keep her secrets close to the chest, you know.

❌—What’s the worst thing an adaption of your WIP could do? Your absolute worst nightmare?

Making a live action anyway and destroying it like they did Percy Jackson. They changed his 16yo prophecy to 25yo, they didn't have the characters look or act like they're described in the book, and it's like they didn't even read the actual books at all… Don't do that to me. Read the fucking book. Follow the fucking book. Adapt the fucking book. I get that some changes will need to be made for different media types, but there's a right way to do it and a wrong way. At least make it look like you read the book, okay?

🎬—Who would you cast as your characters?

This will take some listening to VAs. The only one I'm sure of, absolutely non-negotiably sure of, is John Burgmeier for Mythren using the same voice as he uses for Shigure from Fruits Basket. Non-negotiable. As for the rest, I'm going to be listening to a bunch of voice actors over the next week so I can pick some for other characters. I will say that I'd love to get Vic Mignogna and Jason Liebrecht for a role, but I'm not sure which ones yet.

🎤—Describe the opening scene

I'm not sure I'd keep it this way which is why I'm sharing it, but this was the scene I first envisioned when the story idea came to me at age 12. There's a girl with her head laid down on a desk and she's presumably sleeping during class. Her desk is right next to a window that goes outside, but instead of the city, it's a meadow. Inside, the colors are dull and boring, but outside the meadow if vibrant and beaming with life. The camera zooms into the window until the classroom and sleeping girl's head are out of the frame and then it goes out to the meadow, traveling out towards something in the distance. It starts to focus on the back of the head of a girl, possibly the same girl, with long, dirty blonde hair going all the way past her backside. She slowly turns around, her hair flaring out, and looks at the camera sadly. She isn't wearing any clothes, but her hair covers everything. Her hands pull out what looks like a glowing blue item (I later decide this is a blue flower) and the sad glow fills her face, making her look sadder. The colors start to fade, to the bland look the classroom had, but it keeps going and going until everything around her is dark and black. She opens her mouth to breath, but then drops the flower, which starts to wilt as it too fades, and cluthes at her neck. Then she she too fades, after she struggles to breathe and eventually stops moving. Then the title would appear: Krystar: First Fragment. This is the scene that 12yo me came up with. I've never forgotten it. I remember attempting to draw it even, but those pictures are long gone. 😅 Whatcha think?

💿—Free space for anything I didn’t mention! Talk about things you would add, things that are important to you, or even lay out the plot of every episode of your Netflix Original if it suits you!!

I haven't planned out that much detail for it actually. I'd love to break out of the standard 13/26 episode blocks and just do as many as are necessary for each book. I've also considered separating B1 in half and doing the second half with B2, for reasons. Either way, the details of each episode I think would be better laid out in comic form, which I do plan on making someday, but the ideal goal is for it to be an anime. Someday, someday.

Thank you so much for the ask, tuuli! You just never let me down. 💙 Hope there was some interesting stuff here for you!

Ask thing.

[shadowonwater]

Pokemon Scarlet Playthrough part 15: The gang gets together, beginning of the journey into the sparkling land, and Time Machines

Playthrough Masterlist

So it really is just a coincidence pretty much that Arven happened to recruit my other friends. I find it very funny that all Arven needed to do to get Nemona on board was to tell her that there would be strong Pokemon, that was all she needed, ha ha, that's my Nemona!

With Penny he asked Clavell about people who were good with technology. I figure he didn't tell Clavell why he wanted someone who was good with tech though. Arven mentioned that they were doing this to help me, and that's why Penny got on board. Arven mentioning that she's old fashioned with how she feels about debts got me thinking about Team Star's code.

So I do find it funny that I'm the only one here who's friends with everybody. Makes me think of a birthday party. Like you can have a core group of friends but the members of that group will still have friends outside the core friend group. So it can be odd going to a friend's birthday party and like the core friend group is there and makes up most of the people, but then there's a few other people there who are just strangers to everybody else but the birthday kid.

We hear Sada and she's like "oh good you're here [insert my name]. And you brought friends" So she tells us where to go. I feel bad for Arven because it looked like it wanted to say something to his mom. She's also paying more attention to me than she is him. I feel bad for him. So yeah, I'll go in the gate next, see what happens.

So poor Kori is scared because it was already hinted that something traumatic happened to it. And Sada says to ride it down to the ground. And immediately I'm like "all four of us? is there enough room?" Well I guess there was, although Penny had a precarious position.

So we get to the ground and I'm like "Wait, where's Nemona?" But the other character's are focused on Koraidon's fear. Kori's like "I'm out of here" and hides in its Pokeball. And then they're like "Wait where's Nemona?" Well she comes running up and is like "yooooo this place is awesome!" And she's right, it is.

So I noticed that 1) I can't ride Koraidon because its hiding 2) the music is fucking amazing 3) the Pokemon battle music is also amazing. Seriously I'm going ham for this music! It's fantastic! It also has got me thinking about how good the dungeon music was from PMD.

Going on, this place is so sparkly! There are sparkles in the wind, the water is sparkling. Some of the trees have crystals at their base. This place is beautiful! tbh, I was imaging Area Zero to be more like a thick jungle, but this place feels like some kind of fairy land. And I mean that, in that this place is both dangerous and pretty.

So Sada told us to go unlock the locks on her lab. I gotta say, why do people put locks on the outside of places? Locks should go on the inside unless you want to trap someone. It's just bad design. So we gotta go to the research centers to unlock them. I bet there will be boss fights. I'm guessing... Tera raids? Tera raids do take four people and there are four of us.

Also one thing I should bring up... Sada talks like a robot and I'm quite sure I know why, unfortunately. I saw fanart, and it's not like I was looking for Scarlet fanart, mind you, it just showed up in my feed because I like Pokemon. So I kinda know what's up. I don't know specifics at least.

So while walking there occasionally my friends stop to chat. But I need to pay attention or else I'll miss what their saying. The first went fine. But the 2nd time a bunch of wild Pokemon were chasing me and they kept interrupting the conversation by battling me. It's hard to read when you're also trying to dodge wild animals tackling you. I think I missed part of the conversation. :( They were all talking about how they met me though. Of course Penny didn't go into details, lol. Going to the research base next.

So I've reached the first research station but I forgot a few other comments I wanted to make. 1) there are some weird berries here that I've never seen before in Pokemon games, help to make this place feel alien. 2) When I was talking about how sparkling this place is I forgot to mention that it fits with the whole Tera thing. What with the crystal theme.

Anyway a Glimmora blocked out path. I guess it was maybe supposed to be a boss battle but I didn't even get a chance to attack. Nemona's Lycanroc took it out instantly. Is this how Arven felt when I was doing all the kickass-ing when we were fighting the titans? I was kinda hoping for a more epic boss battle with all of us, but hey there's time for that to happen still.

So Glimmora is for sure weird looking but I have one and so does Geeta (which Nemona mentions) I did happen to find it in a ordinary cave but I got the feeling it was a rare spawn. I know that they drop the material for Tera blast. Since Geeta has a Glimmora and gave me Tera blast, and that Glimmet are probably more common in Area Zero... I bet Geeta has been here before.

We unlock our first lock, and poor Arven is completely ignored by his mom again. And there's a gross dusty old bed that can restore my health if I so wish. But most interesting are the notes on the desk. It talks about a [redacted] being that tera energy seems to come from and something about it having a hexagonal pattern. I bet this thing is like Eternatus. Like something that has Ultra Beast/Alien vibes. It's be weird and spooky I hope. And like Eternatus, it's where this special energy comes from. I will continue on now.

Made it to lab two. At the point where Arven was talking about what happened last time he went to Area Zero, right after he mentioned being attacked by a mysterious Pokemon, I ironically was attacked and pulled into a Pokemon battle with Corviknight. So yeah Arven snuck in to try to find his mom but had to retreat because his dog got hurt.

I feel real bad for him. He grew up taking care of himself and learned cooking because no one did it for him. He literally had no one looking after him. Does Pokemon have child protective services? I think Arven really could have used them.

So when we approached the 2nd station we had a run in with a Scream Tail. Afterwards Arven and Penny are like "Was that even a Pokemon?" And me a Nemona are like "well yeah it's a Pokemon, it looks like one and uses moves, doesn't it" what looks like a duck, quack likes a duck. I find the game's insistence of not calling them Pokemon annoying. They are 100% Pokemon, like why is this being called into question?

If I lived in the Pokemon World and saw a Scream Tail with no context, I'd be like like "Oh, it's some weird form of Jigglypuff I haven't seen or heard of before, I wonder where it's from." Like Pokemon forms are a thing. Just because it doesn't look exactly like you thought it would doesn't mean it's not a Pokemon. My gosh!

So Sada is like, "yeah that's a prehistoric Pokemon." and "There's a time machine in my lab." And Penny's like "say sike right now." Anyway from the sounds of it Arven knew she was working on a time machine and was trying to get it working.

Reading the notes around the lab, they just talk a lot about how unstable Tera energy is. But I guess Sada figured it out eventually. In other news... warp pads! Haven't seen these in a while. I can go to the other visited Research Baes or the Gate itself. Oh right and another thing... I wonder how Arven managed to get to the ground from the gate. It's not like he had Koraidon back then.

I'll cut this post off here, but i'm going to keep playing and start working on a new post, see you soon.

[kats-chaotic-wonderland]

Clone Adoption Agency (Chapter 7)

So, this was originally planned to be chapter 6, but it was too long so double uploads! Woo! Enjoy!

Kaviir landed the ship with little incident and was soon back inside the stale white walls of Kamino. She was looking around rather hurriedly for Jango. However she bumped into Darman along the way.

“Ow, hey watch it- Oh! Kaviir! Hey!”

"Darman!" She hugged him excitedly, he could feel her clothes were soaking wet, "Have you seen Jango?"

“Uh, I think he and Kal’buir are speaking with Lama Su right now.” He nodded, sure of his memory, “Why? Want to talk to them?”

"Yes! Can you take me to them?" She asked

“Yeah!” He grabbed her hand, “Let’s go!” He led the girl to a large room with multiple chairs in it. Kaviir could hear arguing from the other side of the wall. She frowned and moved Darman against the wall behind her as she inched closer to listen in.

“You can’t seriously be okay with this, Fett!” Kal shouted

“I’m not, but this is their rules, and their facilities. We need to-“

“What? Play along? Bend to their rules? It was a KID, Jango. What if they-“

“Gentlemen.” A smoother voice spoke up, “I’m terribly sorry you both had to deal with this, we do our best to keep our personal affairs away from outsiders. I can assure you, this won’t be a problem again. And the responsible pods will be dealt with appropriately.”

Kaviir frowned, this didn't sound good.

Skirata cursed in mandalorian and stormed out, he didn’t even notice the two kids as he walked away. Jango spoke some more with Lama Su before leaving as well.

Darman gave her a worried look, but she nudged him to go around and catch up with Kal. He nodded, gave her another worried look, then reluctantly left.

Kaviir followed Jango as he left and got his attention,"Jango..."

He spun to look at her, “Oh, Kaviir, what’s going on?”

"Mom told me to come get you. " She looked worried,"Also... I really need to talk to you about something."

“What’s wrong?” He knelt down next to her and placed his hands on her shoulders, “Is she hurt?”

"Well..." She explained about the Aiwha

“Okay?” Fett sounded confused, “I don’t know what she’s planning, but it sounds like she just wants me to watch you, so… come on.”

"Okay." She nodded and followed him.

“So, you go to ride an Aiwha, eh?”

"Yeah." She grinned,"It was awesome."

“I’m glad you had fun, just don’t tell Boba.” He chuckled.

"Why?"

“He’s been pestering me to take him fishing for one. If he hears that you RODE one, I’d never hear the end of it.” He smiled and ruffled Kaviir’s hair.

"See, now I have to tell him." She giggled

“Ah, but then you’ll make ME sad.” He gave her a playful frowning face, “That wouldn’t be very nice, now would it?”

"Hmmm... Touchè." She grinned

“But more impressively, in my opinion, is that you learned to fly your moms ship. That thing is actually a refitted mandalorian blockade buster, don’t know if you know that.”

"I did not." She shook her head

“Yep. That bird has some major firepower. Broke through a federation blockade once back on Hutta.” Jango laughed, “Your mom was like a one woman army.”

"I believe that." She nodded,"one hundred percent."

“Maybe she’ll show you how to use the weapon systems too. You’ve never known funny til you’ve seen a Nemoidian cha’kaar trembling like a baby for you to NOT blow his treasury into low orbit.”

"That does sound funny." She giggled

They arrived back at his quarters where Boba was looking out the window. He smiled when he saw Jango, “Hey dad.”

“Boba, good news. I brought you a friend.”

Kaviir waved,"Hey Boba!"

“Oh, hey.” He smiled and walked up to her, “It’s been a while since you’ve been here.”

"Yeah, we've been busy." She smiled

“I can tell. How’s training going for you all?” He asked.

"Pretty well." She shrugged,"Eventually the boys will catch up to me in hand to hand."

“And maybe one day you’ll be able to shoot.” Boba teased.

"Ow, that hurts." She joked and clutched her chest like she was shot

“Call it how I see it. So what’s up? Why are you here? Not that I’m complaining.”

"Mom's busy, Jango gets to play babysitter for me.' she shrugged

“Fun.” He nodded, “Want to do anything?”

"Could play a game." She suggested

“What kind of game?” Boba asked

"Dunno, hide and seek?"

“Not a lot of places to do that in here.” He sighed.

'Hmm.... What do you usually do for fun?" She asked

“Umm, I usually go on jobs with dad offworld.” He shrugged, “Sometimes, anyway.”

"Wow, haven't been off world in a while."

“Really, your mom doesn’t take you?” It was weird seeing a clone call Vette anything other than commander.

"Nope. She doesn't leave either." She shook her head

“That’s weird. I wonder why dad can?” He looked over to his fathers dressing room.

"Probably because he's higher up?" She shrugged

“Fair enough.” He nodded, “Want to see some of the places we’ve been?” He smiled.

"Sure!" She grinned

Boba grabbed a holopad and began scrolling through captured images of all of the places they had visited. Kaviir looked with him excitedly and asked plenty of questions. They chatted about those things that kids do. And eventually Jango had to put Boba to bed. They said their goodnights, and soon it was just Kaviir and Jango.

Like usual when she was here after something chaotic, he brought out the sweets and they settled down to talk.

"So, you said there was something you wanted to talk to me about?" He asked sliding her a bowl of frozen sweet cream.

She nodded and looked at it,"Jango.... I need you to promise you won't say anything about any of this to Mom, or Kal, or anyone. Ever." Her eyes flicked up to his, holding a pleading gaze.

He furrowed his brow and nodded,"Of course, but what's so worrisome you can't tell your mother or Kal?"

"Well.... I think it'll make things worse for everyone...." Then she quietly began to explain about seeing the incident with Kal, then the vents, then the kaminoan child hiding in her closet.

By the end Jango was a mixture of stunned and concerned. "Twins...." He mumbled while thinking everything over.

Kaviir nodded, realizing what he meant. Leruc had lost his mother, brother, and family that day. "Jango.... he's not safe here." She frowned,"They'll kill him."

He sighed and rubbed his eyes, this was a dangerous situation. They could take this childs rescue as an afront and make it a problem for them. Putting all the kids at risk. "Let me see what I can do. For now keep him hidden. I'll help with getting him extra food and clothes."

"Thank you Jango." She hugged him tightly, he sighed and returned the affection,"I know I keep asking a lot of you. But I really appreciate everything." She said softly.

"Don't worry about it kiddo, you're doing just fine." He said gently.

They ate and worked out a few details about how to help Leruc. After another hour or so, there was a knocking at the door as Vette stepped through, she was soaking from head to toe, but looked rather pleased with herself.

Kaviir looked at her concerned,"You uh....look kinda wet."

“We were out in the ocean, hun.” Vette removed her helmet and smiled

"Touchè." She nodded

“Come on, let’s get home. Unless you want to stay and pester Jango some more.”

"I do, but I am also wet and very tired." She sighed

“Then let’s go before you catch another cold and Scrubs has to give you another steroid booster.”

"Oh how terrible that would be." She said sarcastically

“So you admit it.” She ruffled Kaviir’s hair and walked her back, “Come on, little one.”

"Okay one sarcastic remark doesn't make it true." She sighed

“No, but it’s fun to tease you, I won’t get to do it forever, you know?” Vette laughed

"Eh I'm sure you'll find something." She shrugged

“Think so? What am I going to do when you’re all big and strong?” Vette pulled her close, “My baby girl all grown up?”

"Tease my husband?" She shrugged

“That will be your job, baby girl.” Vette smiled.

"Why?" She looked confused

“Teasing your husband? I’m not going to be there to pester you two all the time.” Vette laughed, “Now hush, I’m not ready for you to go yet.”

"I'm not ready for boys yet." She shook her head

“Damn right, you’re not.” Vette scooped her up and tossed her gently in the air, pulling her back down into a hug as they continued to walk. Kaviir could tell it was a little harder for her mom to lift her now with how old she was getting.

She hugged her tightly,"Yeah."

“So. Did you have fun riding the aiwha?”

"Yeah!" She grinned,"I love him, I've named him Squiggles."

“Her.” Vette corrected, “You’ve named HER squiggles.”

"Sorry, lady Squiggles." She corrected

Vette shook her head, “You named it…”

"Yes I did." She nodded

“Why did you name it?” She looked to her daughter.

"Because." She shrugged

“Well, who knows, maybe it bonded with you.” She shrugged as they returned home. She set Kaviir down and sat on her chair, leaning her head back, “What a day…”

Kaviir flopped onto the floor,"Seriously."

“What are you doing down there, goober?” Vette smiled.

"Dying." She groaned

“Aren’t you a little young to be doing that?” Vette sat on the floor next to her.

"Yes." She huffed

“That’s too bad. Guess I’ll just go eat the rest of that cake by myself.” Vette shrugged, and hauled herself up to go to the kitchen.

"That's just rude." She huffed,"I'm dying and cake is the only cure."

“I could also get you know who in here if you’re dying.” Vette teased.

"Don't you dare." She shot her a look

“Then come over here and get some cake.” Vette grabbed two plates and some cutlery.

She hopped up and went over to her.

Vette gave Kaviir the last corner piece along with a playful wink. She thanked her but was confused by the wink. Vette sat down with her own piece and they began eating. After they had finished, and Kaviir sneaking Leruc some cake, they all passed out for the night.

Hours later Kaviir woke up from a thunder clap, she went to get some water and peeked in to check on her mother. Looking at the bed she noticed that Vette wasn’t there. She frowned and rubbed her eyes,"Mom?" She called out as she looked around.

But she wasn’t anywhere in their quarters.

Something made her uneasy. Kaviir checked on Leruc, decided to let him sleep. Then she slipped out into the facility. She spent the next hour searching. Deciding it was best to narrow things down she went to see if she was with Jango. But she could hear as she traveled further the sound of an aiwha from somewhere in the facility, it did not sound happy. Furrowing her brow she followed the sound. She was soon standing over a massive hangar with a caged aiwha in the middle. Vette was feeding it something. She furrowed her brow and made her way around to get a better look. As she got closer, Kaviir could see they were simply large fish from a decently sized bucket.

She made her way down and went over to Vette,"Mom?"

Vette looked up suddenly, “Kav’ika? What are you doing here?”

"I woke up, you weren't in the room." She looked at her confused,"Why is he in a cage?"

Vette looked beyond tired, her head was swimming in thoughts as she struggled to find the right thing to say,“Kaviir, can I ask you a question, and you give me your honest opinion?”

"Sure?" She nodded still confused

“If you saw me with one of the boys, fighting off a group of bullies to keep him safe, but they killed him anyway, what would you do?”

She furrowed her brow,"Fight them? Or get an adult? Why?"

“Because your mom is about to do something very dangerous, but necessary, for all of our sakes. I can’t stop you from worrying, but please… don’t think any less of me.”

"Mom...what are you going to do?" She looked concerned, worry laced in her voice.

“I’m going to keep you safe. I’m going to keep them all safe.” Vette sighed, “Go back to bed, little Nexu.”

"O...Kay...." She said carefully,"....mom?"

“Yes, sweetheart?”

"Don't do anything stupid."

“I’ll do whatever it takes to make sure none of my kids get hurt… especially you.” She sighed and grabbed an long metal pole.

"Mom."

“Go to bed, Kaviir. That’s not a request.” Her eyes held dark circles beneath them as she looked back to her daughter, something was clearly eating at her, and Kaviir could guess it was only going to get worse.

She didn't move,"Mom."

“I said go to bed, Kaviir.” Vette’s voice became more stern. Her grip around the pole tightening as the Aiwha’s pupils narrowed between the two of them.

She face palmed irritated,"Mom!"

“That’s an ORDER SOLDIER!” She slammed the blunt end of the staff onto the ground as it roared to life with electricity. The aiwha roared angrily, but seemed to retreat from Vette as its eyes were filled with a primal sense of fear.

Kaviir pinched the bridge of her nose and mumbled something very aggressive in mandoa, then she crossed her arms and gave Vette a glare,"Will you knock it off. Why do you always get so pissy when I want to ask for a hug. Damn."

Vette sighed, “Because I can’t keep you all safe with hugs… I can’t be a mom if you’re dead on some battlefield, or taken away by the Kaminoans in the middle of the night…”

"No, but you can keep the nightmares away with a hug." She huffed,"especially the ones that come up when you leave me alone in the middle of the night."

“I’m sorry, little one.” Vette shook her head, “the nightmares will have to wait, I need to keep you safe. Once I know they won’t take you away from me… once I keep away the monster out here, then I’ll take care of the ones in your head.”

"Fine." She huffed and turned to leave,"whatever you say Commander."

Vette could feel the tears welling up. She wanted so badly to turn around and pull her daughter into a hug, to take her away from all of this. She hated that she had to do this just to make sure Kaviir was safe. She could hate her if she wanted to, all that mattered is that she would live.

Kaviir could here her mothers sobbing through her helmet.

Every ounce of preteen angst shattered at that. Kaviir stopped and felt her chest clench. It only took a moment, the next thing Vette knew Kaviir had walked back over and wrapped her in a hug,"Mom... please don't cry." She could here the girl fighting back a sob,"I'm sorry... I shouldn't have acted like that."

“It’s okay, sweetheart.” Vette deactivated the staff and held on to her daughter.

She held her tightly,"I love you."

“I love you too, baby.” Her hair was mess still.

Kaviir tried to fix her hair,"You need rest mom." She said sadly,"Please."

“I know, baby girl, I know.” Vette sighed, “I just need to do this.”

"just please, take a break afterwards." She sighed,"Just one day."

“You should listen to her, Ruusan.” A familiar voice called out.

Kaviir looked towards them.

Walon Vau was standing there with Delta Squad. “You’re no good to any of them like this.” He folded his arms over his chest, and his expression looked almost sympathetic.

For once Kaviir didn't glare at him she just looked back to her mother.

“Funny coming from you.” Vette sighed.

“Then maybe you should be curious if it’s to the point where I’M the one telling you.” He looked over, “The boys can handle watch duty for tonight, I’ve been meaning to teach them about Sentry detail anyway.”

“Vau… that’s not-“

“I don’t care, Vette.” It was odd hearing him use anyones first name, “Get to bed. Or I’ll tranq the both of you and haul you back to your quarters myself.”

"Mom, please." Kaviir asked softly

Vette looked between the two of them and sighed before nodding towards her, picking her up and carrying her off towards their home.

Getting inside Vette dropped her armor and helmet haphazardly and went to the bathroom to freshen up.

Kaviir waited up for her.

Vette returned in nothing but a sleeveless top and her underwear as she collapsed into bed. Her hair was a bit neater now, but her eyes still looked glazed over.

Once they were settled Kaviir climbed into bed with Vette and cuddled up to her. Frowning she cuddled beside her,"I love you."

“I love you too, Kaviir.” She wrapped an arm over her shoulder and held her close.

"Sorry..." She said softly

“Why?” She mumbled from the pillow.

"Because it's my fault we're here.... it's my fault you're so stressed...." She wimpered and buried her face into Vette's side.

Vette pulled her close and held her, “No, don’t you EVER blame yourself for this. Jango called me in, not you. I was the one who accepted. You didn’t do anything wrong.”

"I did....I told you to stay.... I wanted to train with the boys." She mumbled

“And you’ve made them so happy. They feel like they have something to live for besides the fighting.” Vette kissed her forehead.

"But you're scared."

“Of course I am.” She sighed, “I’m always scared somethings going to hurt you, but I can’t let my own fears hold you back.”

"I want you to talk to me."

“I know, sweetheart. I’m sorry I haven’t been able to talk like we used to. It’s a hard one to get right. But let’s rest for now.”

"Okay..." She nodded quietly

“We can talk tomorrow, and I’ll take the whole day off… okay?”

"Okay."

“We can do whatever you want, just the two of us.”

"Mhm." She mumbled sleepily.

Chapter 8

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Scott Pilgrim vs Anthrax(and emotions)

Context: Was written with Frantic Fanfic by meself, the only prompt skipped was Pens + added the last few words after the timer ran out and idk why text changes randomly. Actual context/plot: so erm basically Scott gets a bottle from Ramona but when he shows Wallace there's Anthrax, Scott gets sick but then he goes out for donuts and Wallace and Scott have happy domestic moment and then cuddle :3 then after that Scott worrying and Wallace comforts him. This was really fun to write, very impulsive but fun!! Not directly stated but implied Scott x Wallace

Scott opens his door and finds a strange bottle on the ground. He was curious, since of course Wallace wouldn't do this. He didn't think at least. He pulled out the corkscrew and pulled out the letter from inside the bottle. It was from…Ramona? What did she want to talk about? They had barely met yesterday…was she already longing for him? Despite what his ego wanted to hear, he erased that idea from his head. She was too cool to already go crazy for him. He read the letter and as he skimmed it one thing really drew his attention. She…she admitted he was cool? And she liked Sonic??? This was the best day of his life!! He ran back inside to show Wallace the letter, though he knew he probably wouldn't care. Still, he had to share his excitement with somebody.

Scott pranced in and handed the letter off to Wallace as he skipped inside, with a big dopey grin on his face. Wallace just sighed and started reading what dumbass shit Scott was so fucking happy about. He glanced through the letter of mushy gushy shit until he saw the last words. He froze, even he couldn't believe this.

"…Scott."

"It's great right?? She's so cool and awesome and pretty! Maybe we're really meant to be…"

"…about that. Did you read the last line?"

He cocked his head to the side like a dog. "No, why?" He frowned, he hoped he wasn't messing with him or anything.

Wallace chuckled. "She's asking you to marry her. Looks like the line about Sonic somehow reeled her in."

"…wh-what…???" He said as he sneezed into his elbow. "Ugh…but seriously what??"

"But I mean who could blame her? Who could resist your precious little face?" He said with only slight sarcasm in his tone, grabbing at his face like an overecentric aunt would.

"Wallaaaccceee!" He groaned, but he didn't move his hand. "I'm serious! Why would she ask me over a letter?"

He shrugged. "She does have seven exes, communication isn't her strong suit." He said matter of factly.

"I just…Wallace I'm not ready to be married!" He said, shaking his shoulders.

"Well I would take it at the rate you're going. Not a lot of girls are into Sonic fanboy historians." He said, smiling and shook the letter a little to flatten it out a little to reread to see if that was actually what it was.

As he did so, some kind of powder came out of the letter. Scott started to sneeze much more as a result. He was a wheezing mess, his arm going up involuntarily after each sneeze as his snot embedded itself onto the inside of his elbow and his eyes got teared up.

"What the heck is that stuff?"

Wallace shrugged. "Probably Anthrax."

"….?"

"The stuff that kills people?"

"Wh-Wha-" Before Scott could even get his words out, another sneeze overtook him, blowing the booger straight out of his nose.

"God you're a mess." Despite that, Wallace got up and pulled out a can of leftover chicken noodle soup and squeezed it out into a bowl, giving it to him with a plastic spoon.

"Oh, thanks." He said, disregarding the spoon and just chugging like a drink. Wallace rolled his eyes, but Scott liked doing it this way, as the soup went faster into his system as he felt the warmth enter his body and spread all around. It was kinda nice. He burped and wiped off his mouth.

"…anyways," Wallace began. "But who would send Anthrax to you? Unless the girl of your dreams is the girl of your nightmares."

"…uh…" He shrugged, as though he didn't have a whole team of exes ready to kick his ass.

"Lovely." He sniffed the air, and something didn't smell right. "Scott…did you take a shower today?"

"Yes!"

Wallace corked an eyebrow.

"…you didn't have enough money on your card for me to get shampoo."

"There is 4 unopened bottles of shampoo that only you use."

"What? You use them too!"

"Scott, unlike you, I don't want to smell like "Sonic the Hedgehog smell: new blueberry scent!" but that's just me." He said, putting his hand over his heart.

"…" Scott didn't say anything, just looking away awkwardly. He got up and put on his shoes.

"Where are you going?"

"Donuts."

"Scotty, use your words." Wallace said with a smirk.

Despite his annoyance, he complied. "To Julie's coffee shop to get donuts. I'm hungry."

"But I thought I 'didn't have enough money on my card'! How will you pay for them?" He asked in a fake concerned voice. "Plus, you're still sneezing."

"…I'll be fine." He just glared at him before trying to move on. "…what kind do you want?"

"Boston cream."

"Boston cream!?" Scott asked, like it was just the worst thing in the world to ever want.

"…yes? Is there a problem with me asking that you use my money to get me a donut?"

"Well, I mean they just suck. Jam filled ones are the way to go."

"You're saying I have shitty taste? Ok…" He looked up at him, his face dropping as though he had lost all respect for him.

Scott stuck his tongue out to him and left.

"I hate to see him go, but I love to watch him walk away." He said to himself, chuckling.

He walked all the way to Julie's coffee shop and returned home with a whole baker's dozen.

Wallace perked up and walked over to the box. He searched for the perfect Boston cream… …only to soon realize that Scott had only gotten one. He wasn't very surprised necessarily, just disappointed. Still, he was surprised that he even remembered to get him one.

Wallace sat back down at his chair with his Boston cream donut, munching on it happily. Scott sat on the floor next to him, gorging himself with his precious jam-filled donuts.

"Y'know Scott you chose a bad place to sit."

He looked up at him curiously.

"You're at the perfect height to do…" He put a hand on his head, giving him an affectionate noogie. "…this."

Despite how annoyed he would usually be at this, considering he had his donuts and he was already feeling crappy, it actually felt kind of…nice. He still didn't react much though, just simply smiling as he shoved the next donut into his mouth. They didn't have many authentic domestic moments like this, where it was clear that they weren't just joking around but actually cared about one another.

Wallace was a little surprised but happy to comply, rubbing around his ears and the back of his head. Scott smiled wider as he finished his 12 donuts, jam all across his face.

"Jesus, you're a mess." He said, though in a more caring way than he usually did.

"Oh boy, how can I ever repay you for telling me something so important?" He asked sarcastically, looking back at him.

He pretended to fake think. "Hmm…I don't know. I'll let you know one of these days."

Despite the…odd circumstances of that day, they continued to enjoy that moment for a lot longer than they usually would have. Eventually, night fell and Wallace felt a pair of arms around him in his sleep. He didn't understand really why Scott had decided to cuddle him tonight or, at all really, but he didn't mind it either. They both went peacefully off to sleep, thinking of that

day.

The next morning, Scott woke up first. He got his hands off of him immediately. He didn't even remember doing that in the first place…nonetheless, he got up and walked to the kitchen. He yawned loudly as he felt something within him was…different. A good different. It seemed like there was never any snot in his nose in the first place.

"How odd…" he thought to himself, but after a second, he didn't really care, despite the fact he had no medicine and the only real difference he did differently was the fact he cuddled with Wallace.

He waved off any thoughts he had of that nature. After all, he still had that damned letter to think about. What if she was joking? He didn't know why he thought that, I mean they had a really good time and everything other than that last line seemed realistic enough for her to think. He was surprised that she would tell him any of that, but still. Maybe this was her way of breaking up with him. An…odd…way of breaking up, but marriage, especially so early on in a relationship, do usually scare people away.

He just sat down in one of the kitchen chairs, looking down at the table. He wasn't doing much, just staring. But in his mind, he was spiraling with all the possibilities of what could be happening. He didn't even know why, considering logically, they had just met, if she didn't like him, he shouldn't care. But…logic was not in his favor, and he felt connected to her a lot more that he thought he should be. After all, she was the girl of his dreams.

He hugged his knees as he saw Wallace finally enter the kitchen. He jumped a little, trying to reorganize his thought processes to appear somewhat put together. He put his legs down immediately, sitting up fairly straight.

"Hey"

"…hey." Wallace looked at him from the corner of his eye, eyeing him down. This was unusual behavior for Scott, usually he didn't really care if Wallace was in the room or not, no matter what he was doing. No. Matter. What. But now, he was acting like a dog that was scared of upsetting its owner.

He sat down at the table across from him. "Thinking about the big ex still?"

"The big what…? Oh, no, not her. The girl of my dreams."

He rolled his eyes. "Of course you are."

"Well…that letter she wrote." He looked at him like that short explanation somehow explained all the feelings he was feeling.

Despite this, Wallace seemed to understand. "Right. I'm wondering if one of her exes wrote it."

"What? Why?"

"No matter how hot you are, I don't think anybody would want to marry you after one date. Plus, if she's willing to marry you, why would she want to poison you with Anthrax?"

"Oh yea I forgot about that…"

"You just casually forgot about the thing that could kill you?"

He nodded. "…still."

Wallace sighed, walking over to him. "You're too much of a wreck to handle right now, even for me." He said as the only explanation for what he would do next. He wrapped his arms around him.

Scott was…taken a back like this. Despite being friends, they usually didn't do friendly gestures like this. However, he welcomed his affection in this trying time. And seemingly, all his worries faded away. Maybe all he needed was Wallace after all.

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🦅Being Shiratorizawa's Manager🦅

Tendou Crushing On The Manager

Tendou Satori featuring Shiratorizawa x GN manager

Warnings: Swearing probably (I just put this because I swear alot 😅)

AN: This is an Anon request!

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I totally believe Tendou would be on the the best partners in the HQ realm

So when I say that you are SO lucky to have grabbed the attention of this one YN 😍

I mean it whole heartedly!

Tendou is friends with alot of people

BUT he doesn't have crushes of flirt with just anyone...

Oh no no no!

So when SHIRATORIZAWA 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 gets a new manager

Tendou is intrigued to say the very least 🤔

Only Ushijima and Semi have met you so far and they both refuse to tell Tendou your name

"Come on Semi Semi!"- Tendou

"No and stop calling me 'Semi Semi'"- Semi

"Ushiwaka 😭😭😭"- Tendou

"No 😐"- Tendou

Ok FINE 😤

So Tendou not so patiently waits for your introduction

And when the day comes, let's just say he's completely knocked on his butt

Because omg are you amazing!

No stunning? No perfection? No awesome sauce?

All of the above ✔️

Tendou immediately starts in on you

He will latch himself to your side the entire practice

It does not matter what you are doing, Tendou is there

Filling water bottles 👉🏻 Tendou's carrying them

Helping Ushiwaka with spiking practice 👉🏻 Tendou's blocking

Helping Semi with serving 👉🏻 Tendou is yelling "GO SEMI SEMI" from the sidelines 🤣

His crush is gradually developing on you

He finds you attractive from day one but Tendou needs more than just attraction physically

He needs emotional and mental attraction too

So when he cracks a joke and you laugh, you are mentally earning points

When you get a pop culture reference he makes, he probably dies a little inside 💀

And when the latest issues of Shōnen Jump falls from your backpack, omg he will probably faint 🤣

In fact, that probably seals the deal for him

However 👀 there is one tiny little problem 🤏🏻

That tiny problem comes in the form of other middle blockers

Mainly Matsukawa from Seijoh

You see, I think Mattsun would be the most viable threat to Tendou

Fellow third year and resident hottie next to Iwaizumi Hajime himself 💅

So when Shiratorizawa faces Seijoh in Season 1

Forever freaking bitter we will never get to see that match 😒

Tendou is on edge 😳

Like I dont think he shows that he's on edge but he's been building up the courage to ask you out for weeks now

Please he's bugged Semi and Reon for weeks to help him out

He totally planned everything out

Like he wanted to do something so sweet and so Tendou

Reon suggest sparklers

It probably was going to involve fireworks but Semi shut that down

I feel like Tendou would be a pyromaniac

So Tendou was going to ask you out by lighting sparkles and writing it in the air 🥺

Please how freaking cute

Anyways, too bad your name is YN and you don't get nice things 😅

Because the moment you guys step into the finals, Tendou is on edge

Pls being in the same arena as Oikawa would make anyone jumpy 🤣

So far, there has been no sign of Mattsun or any of Seijoh

You go about your tasks, completely oblivious to everything

You live in your own world YN 🌎

The guys are practicing then you tell coach you are going to fill the water bottles

Tendou is mid spike so he does not notice you've left

But someone else notices 👀

At the water fountain, you gracefully fill the bottles and put them back into their holder

You turn to leave and run smack into Matsukawa and Kindaichi

Seriously they were having a middle blocker meeting or something 🙄

"Oh I apologize! I didn't see you there!"- you

"Really now?"- Mattsun

"Well I mean you are tall but like you just kind of appeared"- you

Mattsun just watches you with a smirk 😏

"Ok well, I've got to get back to my team"- you

"Here let us help you with those"- Mattsun

"Uhh ummm thanks"- you

I mean why strain ourselves yn 💅

You talk with them while you walk because why not!

You hand the crates over and walk with the trees

It's like walking in a forest

Relaxing 😌

They are nice guys and we aren't rude

Back in the gym, Tendou finished his spiking drills and looks for his Yn

Yes HIS

Sorry YN you've been claimed

You might not know it but it's happened 👏🏻

So when Tendou sees Matsukawa helping you

He freaking loses it

Tendou 👉🏻🔥 👄🔥

He will stomp up to you and pull you towards him

Heck he will literally throw you over his shoulders and hall you away

"Tendou what the heck!"- you screaming

"I'm saving you YN don't fight it"- him

Tendou turns to face Matsukawa and does the "I'm watch you" finger gesture

You know the one

Matsukawa just smirks as Goshiki takes the crates from him

Kindaichi is so confused and also kind of scared 😅

Tendou finally sets you down and you just glare at him

"What the heck Sat-"

"YN go out with me!"- Tendou

You 👉🏻👁👄👁 whet-

"I like you YN go out with me"- Tendou

Yn was too stunned to speak

👁👄👁 you- you like me?

Great job keeping it together YN 👍🏻

"Yeah I have for a while! So what do you say?"- Tendou, practically begging you with his eyes

"Ok 🥺"- you

Seriously he will give you a hug so tight that your bones will probably break

Hug him back

Semi is actually tearing up 🥲

He might look hard but he's so happy 🥰

Tendou doesn't release you for the rest of the game

His eyes train from you to Matsukawa the entire time 🤣

After Shiratorizawa wins, you give him a huge hug and he finally chills out 🫂

You fall asleep on his shoulder on the bus on the way home

He's taking a million selfies 🤳🏻

Just let him be YN, he simply adores you 🥺

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I can't understand why people like WWX...

He's exhaustingly hyper active. He bullies people at school and gets them in trouble just for funsies. He breaks rules just because. He sasses back and disrupts classes and conferences. He murders people and then sends their corpses back to murder their families. He shows off. He's oblivious to the others and when/how he hurts them. He gets everyone awesome killed.

Honestly, if people hate WWX so much why the actual @#?$ are they even bothering to be part of the fandom or read the novel in the first place?!

I try to be as open minded and respectful of everyone's opinions - but this is a little insane! I know there are a lot of people out there who argue that WWX is a little morally grey. MXTX didn't intend for us to read him like this, he was meant to be the hero, the moral compass that everyone else should follow. WWX and LWJ are meant to be the moral ideals. He is a hero ❤️

But I digress.

Firstly, he's not exhaustingly hyperactive. He can be calm and steady when he needs to be. But even so, his energy is infectious and endearing. I don't usually bother with this stuff, but because you asked so nicely, I will hand your ass to you on a plate answer your question.

You are calling WWX a bully because of the way he treated 'people' - who?! Unless you are referring to LWJ...Which wasn't bullying - it was teasing, because, and this might shock you.. but, he FANCIED him!!! Subconsciously, yes, I know. But he was acting like a lot of silly boys do with their crush. He just wanted his attention, and when he didn't get it - he teased, because getting a reaction out of him was at least something. It was harmless teasing. WWX would not bully anyone, he's empathetic and sweet natured. If he thought he'd actually upset LWJ, he'd stop. Oh, and apparently he only gets people in trouble for 'funsies'... If you're refering to when LWJ got disciplined as well, that was his choice, WWX didn't expect him to actually do it! It's a pivotal point in their relationship!!! Firstly, as soon as he realised that LWJ was about to punish himself as well, he tried to stop it all and take the full punishment himself. He was horrified LWJ was about to be hit also. After this, when he saw him in the cold springs he couldn't help but gush over how much he admired him. Because, WWX has always taken the punishment himself. It's always just been just him and he's always thought it was unfair. It's a poignant moment.

'He sasses back and disrupts classes and conferences.' Lmao! Sorry I had to take a moment. Alright, nerd! 🤣 Sorry, lost my composure there... But seriously, he didn't sass back, he was making a valid point. He goes on to use this later in the book. LQR picked on him. Besides, what's wrong with a bit of sass! He is sassy! So what! As you're about to find out for yourself, so am I!

The conference...He only disrupted a conference because he wanted to know where the Wen refugees were. Sorry you think that the lives of innocent people should wait till the end of the conference...

'He murders people' - okay... Well he did, but it was revenge. His whole entire sect was brutally annihilated. He was left to DIE in the burial mounds, a period in his life so awful the author refused to write about it because it would be too depressing. There are a lot of hints throughout the novel that it was mentally and physically torturing for WWX. He was there three months. Three whole months of absolutely god knows what. Fighting for his life, fighting to control the awful things that resided there and fighting to become more powerful - all while recovering from having his golden core ripped out of him not long before. So excuse him if he's a little bit peed off. Excuse him if he kills the absolute psychopaths that caused the whole thing. He lost control and killed people, yes, but this was in self-defence and he was pushed so much he couldn't control his emotions or the corpses. Sorry he was so traumatised he couldn't keep control...

'He shows off' - I think someone is jealous 😂 He's confident in his abilities, he's worked hard to get where he is. If you're referring to the time he took one third of the prey from the competition on Phoenix Mountain, he only did this because he can't stand JZX and his showing off. He wanted to bring him down a peg or two. And he did, in the most epically understated, yet cool way. He's protective of his shijie and still holds a grudge for JZX's rude behaviour back at the CR.

'He's oblivious to others and when/how he hurts them.' - He's the most empathetic, caring person in the novel, as I said earlier. Yes, there are misunderstandings - that's another major point of the novel - but he never intentionally hurts others. He isn't aware of LWJ's true feelings, due to so many different factors I'm not even going to explain. He is always trying to make others happy and respect their feelings. He even tries to get on with JZX for his shijie in the end. If he's ever hurt anyone, it was due to lack of communication from both parties. And the minute he realises he's hurt someone, he always tries to clear it up.

'He gets everyone awesome killed' - .... Who? You mean the mass murderers, the psychopaths and the general villains of the story? If you mean his own Sect, that wasn't his fault and this would have happened regardless. It was only a matter of time before the Wen Sect came and annoyed them either way.

Honestly, who the f wrote this - sounds like LQR, XY, JZX and JGY sat down and composed this 😂

I don't usually do this. But hey, you asked for it! Why don't you go hide back under your bridge and read something else, maybe a nice picture book with less words and a basic plot 👍🏻🧌