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After talking to the little ones and thinking about it a little more, the brothers decided the Era of the Mad Dogs wasn’t over. Not yet at least.
They had a few options now, starting their career in their own world, go back to the minis world or go for a third realm.
The first one was out of the question. They wanted to do this on their own and given that their dear old dad was Lou Jitsu and they have been revealed as his kids a while ago, they are already famous. They are nape babies for titans sake!
It felt weird to go to the mini’s world, Donnie says it’s called 2-23 for some reason. They gained their fame through brainwashing. As needed as that had been at the time, they wanted a fresh start. One without brainwashing or a reputation.
“Why only one realm when we can go to multiple ones.”, suggested Mikey.
“Like a world tour!”, joked Leo.
His brothers groaned at the awful pun but a greed nonetheless. It was a pretty good idea.
Preparing everything was a mess. Donnie was working on the finishing touches of their portal device. The first version he made wasn’t powerful enough. After their little visit to the little ones, the device broke. Only a few seconds after they got back. Donnie inspected the artifact that had originally gotten them there a little bit more. Hoping it would help him. And help it did.
As Donnie worked his magic - no his genius, his brothers prepared everything else.
Leo packed them a few medications, they may not need them a lot but when they do need them the ones for humans do not work in the slightest. Raph and Mikey were getting a few more outfits ready for them. They couldn’t wear the same ones every time.
They did eventually confess their idea to their family. April wanted to join them, but couldn’t due to being stuck in exams. Cassandra and Casey were out of the city. Cass called it a training program. They hadn’t heard from either of the Jones for about two weeks. It made them a little nervous. Splinter was proud and stressed at the same time. His boys were following his footsteps into the world of fame but he knew the pressure that would put on them. Draxum inspected Donnie’s work to make sure they boys come home.
Before they left Raph went to see his boyfriend and let them know too. None of his brothers know what happened between them, not that they wanted to know Tao and their brother were grossly in love, but Raph came home smiling like an idiot with a new bracelet, clearly made by Tao. Tao was good with jewelry, who else would be of lot them, they made their families cloaking brooches.
“Ready?”, Raph asked his little brothers.
“Ready!”
“Donnie picked up the device from the little charging station while Leo collected the charger. The soft shell proceeded to active the device. A soft purple portal formed in front of them.
“I wonder what that worlds gonna be like.”, said Mikey.
“Maybe the other us are like weirdly big. Like Raph big!”, said Leo.
“Raph doesn’t like that.”, the oldest brother cringed.
“It’s very unlikely that there’s a version of us that’s bigger than Raph-a-la. Close but not bigger. It’s far more likely that we’ll see more versions of us that are shudder quadruplets.”, Donnie explained. Leo cringed at the idea. The remaining two looked at the twins confused.
Somewhere along his research Donnie found out that the four are quadruplets in most worlds. They’re the odd ones out. And something about the idea is being quadruplets made their skin crawl. That was almost as bad as finding out that Leo was more often than not the eldest brother and that Donnie was the second youngest most times. They had both prayed it was only in one world. The had hoped it was only the minis.
Raph and Mikey didn’t really care about all that. It was fun to rile up the twins though.
Finally, they stepped through the portal. They stepped out on a roof top. The world around them looked gloomy and sad. The fact that it was raining didn’t make it better. Mikey, never having been too fond of water, pulled up the hood of his sweater while doing his best to stay dry.
“Let’s get somewhere dry before Angelo gets too wet.”, said Donnie.
The four activated their brooches and left the roof top find a place to wait out the bad weather. They found a convenience store a few houses down.
Now they just had to work out their debut in this world! World 2-12 as Donnie called it. And no, they didn’t know why it was 2-12. Donnie refused to explain why.
“If you know, you know.”, was all he said to them.
While the four travelers are working everything out in a convenience store, four different mutant turtles followed their purple banded brother’s lead on a weird energy only to find an empty, even if wet, roof top.