8: First Mallynap: Action | Voice

[after_march]

[April is very quietly arranging flowers on the kitchen table when the droids come tromping through the door. She can hear the metal footsteps in the hall, and without even thinking drops what she is doing and runs barefoot out the kitchen door. April's special fear of killer robots gives her the adrenaline rush needed for a sprint through the snow

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[honorthecode]

April! Where are you?

[honorthecode]

And do what? Run out there and freeze to death? We don't even know where they took her.

[This was different from home. Even with the Triceratons, they at least had some idea where people were being taken.]

[meanandgreen]

Great. You're givin' up even faster than you did last time.

[honorthecode]

I'm not giving up. I'm trying to think of a plan. [That won't get them killed]

[meanandgreen]

[It's then that Raph finally notices the sword, and a whole new flash of anger bubbles up inside his chest.]

Where'd you get that?

[honorthecode]

[Yeah hard to miss considering he's carrying it in his hand, since he doesn't have his sheathes.]

Your room. I wasn't going to go against those things unarmed. [Not that it mattered against those drones]

I'm not keeping it, just borrowed it. [Because it's not his sword.]

[meanandgreen]

How many times do I gotta tell you to stay out of my room!?

[honorthecode]

What is the issue? This is the first time I've entered your room since showing up here. I didn't think you would mind me borrowing a sword...considering we were chasing after a bunch of drones that busted into the house and kidnapped April!

[meanandgreen]

[His expression darkens.]

Give it back.

[honorthecode]

[He'll give a sigh and stops. Why do you have to be so stubborn?]

Fine...I just borrowed it. I wasn't going to keep it. [He'll turn toward Raph and hand the sword to him, hilt first of course. He can see it must mean something to him to be this stubborn about it.]

[meanandgreen]

[Raph takes the sword and cradles the blade in his hands.]

And don't touch my stuff.

[He stomps off angrily up the front porch steps. If anyone needs him, he'll be in his room, slamming the door loudly behind him.]

[honorthecode]

[There's another sigh, just like old times, sort of]

Fine.

[He'll walk into the house a little more sedately, though he's tense. He'll take in what's left of the chaos from the robots busting in and the fight and make sure Derek was still alive as well.

It's a bit before he's heading to his and Don's room. He knocks as warning, before he's opening the door, and walking inside.]

[i_speak_softly]

[Don is sitting on the bed, staring intently into his laptop, not even seeming to notice that Leo has returned. He might be muttering to himself a little.]

[honorthecode]

[Leo will walk over to his seated brother, and lean to eye the laptop screen.]

Anything? [He knows he probably knows the answer though, having a feeling of what his brother was trying to do.]

[i_speak_softly]

[An indrawn breath is the only sign that you might have startled him.] Got to have a signal...

[honorthecode]

Signal? I hope you can find it. Would be good to have a way to find April.