[Open] We are from a distant galaxy

[faceguy]

WHO: Leo and you!
WHERE: The Peanut Party and the Agrii ship, + bonus network
WHAT: A new turtle joins the party
WHEN: Just before/right around the beginning of the event
WARNINGS: none so far

A. Network - Text

yes the rumors are true
the coolest, fastest, strongest, best looking turtle is finally here!

names leonardo but you can call me leo or leon
or any other nickname you wanna come up with, thats fine

if you know my bro donnie then im sure he already told you about me
everything he told you is true
unless it was bad
in which case none of it is true
real kidder that guy

anyway stoked to be in space
bummed about what this is gonna do to my snapchat streaks tho
cant wait to brag to everyone back home about it

im on the peanut party if you wanna hang

B: Peanut Party

This place... is absolutely nothing like Leo imagined being on a spaceship would be like. Even in most sci-fi movies, there aren't these massive green spaces and fake beaches (with purple sand??) and bars with glass that looks out at the swimming hole. Maybe a space station might be like that, but a spaceship?

Then again, maybe the greenhouse is a great idea for long term space travel. Maybe Jupiter Jim should have thought of that for some of his own journeys.

Leo spends a pretty long day just exploring the ship, in all the places he's allowed into. Catch him in the diner, examining the food past and beverage dispensers with some skepticism. Or on the artificial beach, dipping his toe in to test if the water is for real or some kind of hologram. Or in the training center, checking out the exercise devices (and hitting more than a few buttons at random).

Or finally he may be found loitering outside the cockpit. He hasn't committed to a data point just yet, so he's not allowed inside... but he really, really wants to see it. Maybe be a dear and let him in?

C: Agrii Ship

So there was some kind of big explosion, and now everyone is summoned back to the Agrii ship in a rush. At least no one is being sucked out into the vacuum of space, so it's not that bad.

Still pretty bad, though!

Leo actually isn't sure what he's supposed to do - he hasn't been here long enough to really understand the layout of the Agrii ship or the situation at hand, and trying to understand the Agrii themselves is pretty hopeless for him. Everyone is getting rushed to repair things, and Leo is left standing in the hanger, not sure which way he should be going.

For all his boasting of being the "coolest, fastest, strongest turtle," he sure does look like a lost fifteen-year-old right now.

Comments

[cactusy]

[... Huh. Would you look at that.]

wait, are all of you named after old artists?

[faceguy]

yeah dad had a thing for themed names ig
makes sense when you have to name 4 kids at once right?

but im named after davinchi who is obviously the best one and the only one people remember

[Sistine Chapel who?]

on second thought, fucking with the spelling bc she only ever heard Donnie say their names out loud

[cactusy]

Mikey = Michaelangelo, Raff = ???

it’s a fair guess haha

[faceguy]

raphael
no idea what he was famous for
our raph is pretty great at smashing though

C.

[crystalmaster]

Radley is pretty confused right now too, but when he sees a lost-looking kid, he has to stop.

"Hey there," he says.

[faceguy]

Leo startles at being addressed, and very quickly tried to make himself look like he isn’t as completely lost and useless as he feels. Yeah, he’s just… chillin’.

“Uh, hi?”

[crystalmaster]

“Things are pretty crazy right now,” Radley says. “Are you looking for someone?” Donnie, perhaps? He immediately notes the resemblance.

B

[thepurpleone]

It feels kind of like a low blow to finally have one of his brothers here only to have him on a different ship. Thankfully this is a problem relatively easy to be remedied, even if it is a pain having to literally shuttle to another ship. That they both have the same layout makes it easy to navigate at least.

Donnie comes across Leo at the beach, and if he can manage to get the ninja drop on him, he's just going to come up and shove his brother into the water while Leo's intent on investigating.

[faceguy]

Leo is just absorbed enough in what he’s doing that he doesn’t hear Donnie’s ninja sneak. Donnie is reward with a rather undignified yelp as Leo goes tumbling into the water with a satisfying sploosh.

He spits out water on his way out, glaring up at the culprit, who turns out to be exactly who he expected.

“Seriously!?” he gripes, splashing at Donnie. “Geez, a guy thinks he’s safe on his own ship…”

Leo says this like he wouldn’t have done the exact same thing if their places had been reversed.

[thepurpleone]

The reaction's enough to get a laugh out of Donnie, even if he is met with a splash of water to the face. Okay, he totally deserved that, but it's not keeping him from enjoying this.

"The sound you made just then," he snickers, wiping water away from his eyes like they're tears. He hasn't laughed like that in a while. It feels good. Maybe he should feel a little guilty for being glad his brother's stuck here with him but he's going to be selfish right now and take it for what it is.

"I'm just surprised you weren't already lounging in a pool float or something in there."

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[ephemerios]

More good news: You're on the best ship!

[ She's on the same ship he is. ]

[faceguy]

of course I am! where else would they put me?

are you on peanut party too?

[ephemerios]

I am indeed; I'm Chrissy, hi.

[ Their names may be attached to messages, but she figures it's polite to introduce herself anyway. ]

So how does one become the coolest, fastest, strongest, best looking turtle anyway?

[pursuitofcappiness]

Do I wanna know what a snapchat streak is?

[faceguy]

what are you, a boomer

[pursuitofcappiness]

A what?

B - Diner Man Notices You Noticing

[doubled_speed]

"Yeah, those are absolutely suspicious things, aren't they?"

Nothing like someone sneaking up on a ninja, right? You really get the advantage of the drop when you can move faster than sound. But really, don't mind Tommy and the small crate of fresh greens he's carrying.

"Also, don't hit the glitter buttons. If you make a mess that makes it into my kitchen, I'll find you and make you clean up every. Last. Speck. Pretty sure it's a biodegradable kind, but man, I don't need sparkle food."

[faceguy]

Leo jumps - how did he not hear this guys sneak up on him? He must be insanely quiet…

“So… these buttons are actually glitter?”

It’s soooo tempting to press it despite the warning, but he doesn’t… yet.

“Did these guys not know what we eat or something?”

[doubled_speed]

"They're left over from the Atroma's Drift Fleet," Tommy says simply as he continues to a counter to sort the veggies. "So it's not the Agrii that don't know. But they don't know a lot of other things anyway."

B. NUT (party) - training center

[spinsandneedles]

At some point, Sonic's rolled in and zipped up to the top of whatever the tallest machine in the training center is. Who knows how long he's been in here watching Donnie like a weirdo, but at some point he finally speaks up to make his presence know.

"That's probably a real good way to get yourself snapped in half by something."

Boop booping random buttons on crap the Agrii left in here is just playing with fire, bro.

[faceguy]

Leo jumps when he’s suddenly addressed, not realizing he wasn’t alone. He looks around for the source of the voice until he finds Sonic, perched up on top of the tallest equipment.

Huh, that must be the blue hedgehog. It wasn’t a fanciful description.

“Hey, it’s fine! My shell can take it.” Probably!

[spinsandneedles]

Sorry, Sonic likes to sneak up on people sometimes. He's a douche.

"You're more durable than the equipment, then. I had to stop trying to use the treadmills, they keep breakin' on me. So! How's it goin'?"

B - Cockpit [Preemptive apologies for Hargrove...]

[playingtough]

Nope, definitely not allowed inside. But Billy is. Because he's the pilot and this was one of the few places he could go where others really couldn't get in. Or that's what he likes to think. So after having some downtime in there by just relaxing with his Walkman, he decides maybe it's time to go back to the beach area.

Axe held over his shoulder and the headphones still on blasting a Metallica tape, he heads out. Only to find a large turtle loitering nearby. Billy shuts the door sharply, not trusting this newcomer that was a God damn turtle. First blue hedgehogs, now this.

"Who the fuck are you and why are you stalking the cockpit door?" The word 'freak' thankfully goes unsaid.

[faceguy]

Leo startles at the sudden appearance of the man, who does not seem happy to see him. Leo’s had people act annoyed or unimpressed by him since coming here, but he’s used to those kinds of reactions. This open hostility puts him on edge.

But it’s not like Leo’s never dealt with this, either, so he smiles and pushes off the wall, hoping to bring the temperature down a few degrees.

“Whoa, not stalking anything! I was just interested in seeing inside - it’s my first time on a spaceship!” He sounds excited about it, because he is.

“I’m Leo; I’m a new recruit.”

[playingtough]

That open hostility is probably not helped by the fact that he's got an axe with him. One that looks like it's used for fights and not just chopping wood. He pulls the headphones off to sit around his neck, but doesn't bother to stop the tape.

A new recruit? Recruited by who?

Billy looks over his shoulder to make sure the door shut behind him and then back to Leo once he's visually confirmed it had. "Pilots get to go in the cockpit, not new recruits." Why was he being mean? Probably felt like his isolation space was being threatened by someone's curiosity.

"I'm Hargrove and I'm the pilot. Do they not have spaceships wherever the hell you come from?" Tough talk from a guy that hadn't been on one either as of a month or so or whatever ago.