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Moore let out a
deep breath before slamming his hand into the punching bag,then jabbing with his
right before ducking back and swing his leg forcefully,on the impact the chain
on suspending the bag broke and it flew towards the back of the
gym.
"that makes,a good 20 minutes I think,that`ll do for
now"
---
Tom pushed open the door of the Magma Pit,its hinges
creaking quietly.A feeling of nervousness came over him as the entire crew were
sat around the bar,all staring at him.He looked up seeing Reiko leap from the
railing of the second floor and swinging from chandalier to chandalier before
reaching one that had several bulbs blown.Returning his gaze to the bar he
smirked,Diana was sitting on the bar with her back to Tom,too busy chatting to
Vile to realise he had arrived.
"hi guys"
All : "yo!"
He
smirked and walked over to the bar,hopping up onto one of the bar stools and
resting his arms on the bar top.
"whats yer
poisen?"
"strictnine..heh,so whats this about Max?"
"well,I
figured it was time we introduced a new character into your
scripts"
"oh?"
"yep so,erhem drum roll please"
All eyes
turned to the bar as Dragoon pulled a rope above the storeroom entrance,a huge
poster of Tom flowed down into view,though it wasn`t exactly Tom.He was wearing
a strange black outfit with a large MB on the chest,Spunky was on his
shoulder,squeaking as it saw himself on the poster Toms
shoulder.
"what...da foink?"
"the amazing Mutt-boy and his daring
stunt rat Spunky!"
"....your sick,you realise that"
Diana tried
not to laugh,Vile however was rolling on the floor,barely able to breath he was
laughing so hard.
"...yes very funny guys...very funny"
To puff of smoke
appeared around Tom's head. Next thing to know the twins were sitting on each
shoulder.
ES: Wow...Uncle Tommy's going to be in the movies?!
B:
And so is his rat. Kewl!
"gah!"
Tom
did a double take but Reiko swung down and caught the kids as the black haired
teenager hit the ground.
"...what did I tell you two to not
do?"
"spring up and suprise ya....oh"
"...yea..just do me one
favour okay?"
"maaaaaaaaaybe"
"..just don`t tell anyone about this
okay...thats all I ask...all I ask"
---
A quietly snoring Moore
swung side to side in his hammock,Tito lazily batting away a fly that was
buzzing around his ears.
ES: But
why?
B: Yeah, it's so kewl. You're in the movies now.
ES: You own
the place and yet, you have not stared in anything.
B: Besides, the rat's
kewl too. And really he only listen to you right?
ES: Unlike Mr. Jingles
in the 'Green Mile'. He does fetch spools for anyone willing to feed him. I
think he kewler.
B: There's no such word as kewler.
ES: Yes it is.
It's right next to bester.
B: There is no such word as that either.
ES: Is too.
B: Not.
ES: TOO!
The twins started to
get into each others' faces as they argue. Tom got between the too, before
things got too rough.
Tom: Let's try not to get this place blown
up...huh? Can we?
B: Fine. It there are such words, then Tom's rat are
thoughs. Not some stupid mouse.
ES: Mr. Jingles is not stupid. He's
kewler.
B: Not.
ES: Too.
B: NOT!
Once again the
twins were in each others' faces and this time lightening crackled from
Bastian's hands and flames burst around EmberSkyes's.
Tom once again
split the twins up and sighed as Spunky lept down from his shoulder.
"so
your impressed with a mouse fetching a spool huh...let Spunky show you his
trick"
The two calmed down and watched as Spunky disapeared behind the
bar top before coming back out with a tiny helmet on his head and a peice of
string in his mouth which was connected to a small cannon he was dragging behind
him.Running back behind the counter he returned with a match in his
tail,striking it off the barrel he lit the fuse and jumped inside the
cannon.
Tom quickly set the twins down and packed up before taking out a
baseball glove,just as the cannon fired Tom jumped into the air and caught the
singed rodent and held him up as the rat stood up and quickly threw his helmet
into the air squeeking loudly.
"well?"
ES: .....
B:
.....
Twins: Can he ride a motorcycle?
Spunky sighed and
clambered down Tom until he was on the floor and skittered behind the bar
again,driving out in a mini motorcyle with a side car.He hopped up onto the
handlebars and with an angry squeek did a quick pose on his hindlegs.
"he
says happy now?"
ES: He's
cool.
B: Should be happ to have in the movies. Maybe you'll get some
money in.
ES: Yeah.
Spunky quickly
hopped off the small motorcycle and skittered up Toms jeans leg,clawing his way
up the back of the teens t-shirt before plopping down in the tangled spiked mess
that was Toms hair.
"I have a good cast...problem is coming up with a
movie to use em in,besides the radio station is bringing in a bit of money with
the advertising and such...plus our DJ has become pretty popular"
Vile
swayed slightly in his spot before Dragoon and Diana quickly moved to catch him
before his helmeted head hit the bartop.
"must`ve been working all
night...hey Sanjuro give me a hand to stick him in the
backroom"
"huh...alright"
The brownhaired youth smirked and
vaulted over the bar counter and shouldering Vile while Dragoon held up the
other side,both shuffling into the backroom to stick him down
somewhere.
Twin sat down and
looked like they were thinking hard.
B: How about "Rat and the
motorcycle"?
ES: "The Rat who roared"?
B: I know...I know.
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Rats and their Master Shelldon"?
While the staff got
the bar dolled up for a party that night Tom was sitting at a table with the
twins,letting them feed Spunky small bits of cheese Dragoon had gotten for
him.Watching the white rat nibble contently on a bit of chedder Tom looked
around the bar,he couldn`t help feeling proud watching the motley bunch of pals
he had acquired over his travels but his reflection was interrupted by the doors
being pushed open,all eyes turning to a lil black haired boy carrying a
backpack.A picture in his hand and Tom recognized the necklace it was
wearing,his eyebrow raising,he watched silently as the child who was only at
most 10 walked over to the bar,pulling himself up so his eyes were above the
bartop.
"uh mister?"
"yes little one?"
"have you seen this
guy?"
Dragoons eyes widened on seeing the face of the young man in the
picture and pointed over at Tom,the little boy nodded,taking the picture back
and walked over.Standing but a few feet apart the child looked up at Tom,his
eyes taking in the disheveled look,the rat skull necklace and the messy spiked
hair he shared,suddenly he ran forward and hugged Toms
legs.
"DADDY!"
Tom paled and could only blink.
The twins look over
at Tom.
ES: Did he just say daddy?
B: I didn't know Unlce Tommy
was a daddy.
ES: Gee...and Uncle Tommy said that no woman would want
him.
The kid looked up
at the scrawny punk figure of Tom.
"Er....h-hi...junior?"
"yay I
finally found you,mommy said I wouldn`t be able to but I did then she said you
might not be remember but you do and now I finally have my daddy again
yay!"
"er...."
"see see,there you are and theres mommy
see?"
The young boy handed a picture to Tom and sure enough there he
was,now the memories came back to him,ones he wanted to
forget.
"er...."
Kor looked over at Tom.
"jeezus you sound
like a stuck record"
"don`t be mean to my daddy"
Dragoon and the
assembled cast were completely nonplussed over what was going on,but he was
brought back to reality as Vile finally arose.
"At least I know the kid
was permanently damaged after that kick"
As Jr let go of Tom the teenager
could only flop down into his seat,the kid scrabbling up into a chair beside
him,staring at him,fidgeting with the necklace he wore.Spunky squeaked quietly
and looked round the back of Toms head at the child,tilting his head to the
side.
"...Ashleigh..."
"something you want to tell us
Tom?"
"huh....later okay guys...so Jr what are you doing
here?"
"well mommy got sick and said she might not be able to look after
me,she wanted to send me to my uncles but I said no and came to find you,she
misses you daddy but now I`ve found you she can see you again
right?"
".....maybe..."
Reiko swung from the chandaliers looking
at the scene upside down.
"okay now someone explain something to me,if
Toms 16 how can he have a son thats more than 4?"
Kor piped up at
this,finally able to contribute.
"thats easy...we used the Wily Wrist
Weapons to get around,got em off Bass`s old man before he passed on,when it
sends you to a new realm it records what state you were in and when you leave
and arrive in a new one it resets you to that biological
state"
"what?"
"it reset our age each time we went into a new
world"
"oooooh...man Reines gonna be pissed"
Tom smirked and
managed a weak laugh.
"when is she not?"
"point taken"
Jr
had climbed up on the table now and was creeping towards Spunky who was staring
at the kid.
"daddy is that your pet?"
"yup,thats my rodent partner
Spunky,its okay Spunk he ain`t gonna hurt you..I hope,don`t worry Jr he dosen`t
bite unless its cheese"
"cool"
The stunt rat nodded and padded
over the kid,sniffing his hand and squeaking.Tom sunk down in his seat and set
his head down on the table,the twins watching him.
"whats wrong uncle
Tommy?"
"....oh...nothing much...oh wait,you two don`t get sarcasm yet do
you?"
"sumtimes,like when mommy lets daddy think hes winning an
arguement"
"heh..uh Jr could you stay with my friends here for a bit,I
have to go do something okay?"
He smirked watching the young`in stroke
Spunky,the rat loving every second of it.
"I`ll take that as a yes
heheh..."
Walking out he nodded at Kor who followed after him,as they
exited the bar Kor finally asked where they were going.
"gonna find
RedWaters,hell even FireMaker will do I need some kind of parental advice on
what to do"
"okay one question what exactly happened in that kids
world?"
"...you remember Ashleigh don`t ya?"
"lets
see,blonde,hot...loved animals"
"yea,thought you`d remember the important
bits ouw...well don`t you remember the reason we were stuck
there?"
"because Dragoon crushed the WWW when he landed on it and your
arm,she was the nurse at the hospital"
"I could`ve fixed the triple W
anytime I wanted..but I wanted to stay there with her Kor..."
"I thought
Reine was the love of your life"
"she is...but I had never felt anything
close to love before Kor..what I feel for Reine is more for Ashleigh but when I
was with her I had no comparison..."
"I always thought you were a pure
boy but you got laid before me"
"well no I still am"
"...now I`m
really confused"
"when I realised I had to move on she still wanted a kid
and knowing I couldn`t marry her we agreed on a different method but obviously
it worked"
"ooooh the closed room and turkey baster
method"
"....I`m seriously keeping you away from Vile from now
on"
"soooo,you know where they are?"
"nope but any second now the
twins will probably pop up so we can ask directions"
"well why ask
them?"
"Dragoon never had a kid...Vile is...well Vile,the rest of the
studio are mostly single,India and Moore have since moved,no clue where they
are,Reds the only one I know with kids"
"ah"
OOC: Miss Turtle
Fanatic is going to introduce you know who.
"Redwaters?! Hey, are you looking for her too?" A large turtle came
around the corner, a gym bag slung on his shoulder. He carried his bo staff in
one hand, like a walking
stick.
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After a good long rest,
Redwaters go up and looked at the time. "Oh my gosh. I'M LAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE!!"
She quickly jumps into the shower and out again. Blows a kiss goodbye to her
husband and rushes out the door. "I can't believe I overslep. I hope I still
have a job." She comes to a screeching halt infront of the resturant and sneaks
her way to the back where the kitchen
is.
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FireMaker is suddenly
awaken by his wife's scream and wearily gets out of bed. He takes his time in
the shower and gets out in time to feel someone tugging on his towel. Racqel
looks up at him. "I'm hungery." she says as she rubs the sleep out of her eyes.
"Mommy left without breakfast....and I don't know where the twins
are."
FireMaker lets out a deep sigh and goes to get dress. He comes back
and Racqel waits in the kitche for him, she too is all dress. He scoops her up
in his arms. "I think we should go out to eat and at the same time look for the
twins. Just in case they decide to do something...um...not nice." "Ok." Racqel
agrees and the two head out of the
house.
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The twins stay in
the bar and watch the boy play with the rat.
ES: Soooo. How long have you
know that you had a daddy?
B: Sis! That's not a thing to ask when meeting
someone.
ES: Well...what is?
B: Um....Hey, so how is your mother
doing?
ES: That's no better. He already said she was sick.
B:
Oh...yeah. Well...um why don't we let him start the coverstation
then.
ES: Good idea.
Kor and Tom looked
at each other before back to Don.
"I`m hoping..."
"yes I took the
bus and not the sewer system"
"phew...just that Bit and Byte started up a
curry resturant,who knows how much is floating in those
pipes"
"ah"
"yea well we are looking for her at any rate,I`m
guessing from your freshly arrived look you don`t know where she happens to
be?"
"well in a letter she sent she said something about a
resturant"
"oh yea,forgot she worked,come my silver haired and green
shelled companions lets get moving"
---
"I always knew I had a
daddy,mommy showed me pictures of daddy and me,she had this really cool one
above the fire of him and her before they had me and as for mommy..I`m sure
she`ll get better,yea she will I know it,thats why I`m gonna take daddy back so
we can be one big family again"
Don just realized that he was talking to people he didn't even know. "I'm sorry. How rude of me to not introduce myself. I'm Donatello, when I'm in a disguise name is Don Terell, you know when I'm among humans who don't understand. I'm Redwaters's other husband. Perhaps we can do the other introductions on the way down to the resturant?"
"oh yea you,Cor
told us about you well I`m Tom and this is my hederal life mate
Koryorto"
"yo"
"well now that thats done lets get
moving,resturants lets see...yea down the alley and to the right
c`mon"
---
As RedWaters finished one order she walked out to get
out of the heat of the kitchen,seeing two teenagers with cheesy grins and an
overgrown turtle doing the same.
"hi"
Redwaters runs up
to Donatello and throws her arms around him. "Oh hi honey. I see you finally
decided to come up from New York to join the rest of you family. How are the
brothers?"
Donatello blushes a little as he hugs back. "Oh, they're doing
fine. So is master Splinter, April and Casey." "That's great." Redwaters
replied, she looked over to see Tom and Kor. "Hey guys. What's
up?"
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FireMaker and Racqel just came
out of the bakery with a bag full of doughnuts. "Let see..." FireMaker says
looking up and down the street. "Where could your twin siblings be..." "Where do
you wanna look first?" Racqel asks with a mouth full of doughnut holes.
"Hmmmm...let's try up near Dragoon's. He has a nack for knowing where almost
everyone is."
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The twins grow bored of
the bar and they turn to Tom's son. "Say, you're new around here right?" Bastian
asks.
"Yeah."
"So why don't we show ya around?" EmberSkyes pipes
in, know what her brother had in mind.
Tom jr. piped up
quickly.
"yea yea,that`d be cool"
Dragoon looked over from the
bar,while Kagen the masked jester and Reiko swung from the chandiliers while
Sanjuro watched from the platform suspended above the ground floor.
"now
now you two,Tom said he`d be back soon,I don`t want you running off with his
son"
"aww...."
---
Kor leaned back in the stall with a
smirk.
"well something was up anyway"
"Kor!...uh I was just
wondering if you`d feel like giving me a bit of advice"
"on what....or
should I not ask"
"on parenting.."
"yea seems Tom has himself a
son,kept it pretty bloody quiet"
"A son. Oh that's
wonderful. I always knew that Reine and you were together. Your chrades of love
and hate weren't fooling me one bit." Redwaters let's go of Don and embraces
Tom. Then holds him out at arms distances. "So what is it you want to
know?"
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The twins looked at each other in
disappointment. Then both grin slyly. They turned back to Tom Jr. "Don't worry,
we know how to get out of this. Just as Reiko swung at the right point,
EmberSkyes let a flame shoot out of her and melted the chain that held the
chandiler. Reiko and the chandiler cashed down around Dragoon and San. Then the
two combine their power to make a thick mist to form around the room. When
nobody could see, the twins lifted Tom Jr. onto their clouds, with Spunky and
took off out of the bar.
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Awhile after the
incedent, FireMaker showed up with Racqel. The mist was just finishing
disapating. "I take it, the twins were here?"
"wow now,hang on
there,its not Reines"
"you`ve been cheating on her?"
"argh will
you please listen...before I met Reine I met this other girl,this is even before
the studio started and the kid is hers and...mine"
"oh..so what is it you
wanted to know?"
"well..I really have no experiance looking after kids
except a lil experiance chasing after your twins"
---
Dragoon tore
the chandilier off from his shoulders while San tried to shove a dazed Reiko off
him.
"yes and if I were a petty man you`d be paying for repairs but just
go and make sure they don`t cause anymore trouble"
A sweatdrop drip
down FireMaker and Racqel's face. "Heh, sorry. We've been look for them all
morning." FM said. "So um...we'll be leaving now. Zoink!" FM speed out of the
bar so fast, that Racqel was floating in the air as the end of his arm where she
held his hand.
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Rw: Well
mostly, every child is different. You just have to understand the addituted of
the one you have and see what kind of treatment you have to do from
there.
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ES: So what do you
what do see first?
Reine wasn't
watching and she felt a cloud graze over her head.
"HEY!" she yelled at the
twins. "Watch where you're going! This is a public stree---" she paused and
looked down at Tom Jr.
"...For the love of God...it's a mini
mutt..."
Tom Jr stood up and
fixed himself up,looking up at Reine with big green eyes.
"a mini
what?"
---
Tom scribbled what RedWaters down on a notepad and bid
his goodbyes quickly,not sure if it was safe to have left the twins alone with
his son and he was pretty sure he caught a glimpse of their cloud from the
corner of his eye zoom past.As he walked out of the resturant he looked both
ways,in one direction little bits of cloud and in the other direction..his son
speaking to Reine.
".....oh sweet merciful christ..."
Running over
quickly his mind raced on how he could explain this without receiving a bullet
in the brain,sadly as soon as he got near his son ran over and hugged his
legs.
"Daddy!...I was wondering when you`d come back"
"I-I can
explain this..."
Looking at Reine he was hoping the lines in her
trenchcoat around her hip was just the result of her not ironing it,instead of a
concealed weapon.
Redwaters blinked a couple times. "Well he certainly took off in a hurry." She turned back to Kor. "So have I introduced you to my other husband?"
Reine looked at the
mutt and his mini partner. She put a hand on her hip, watching Tom.
"I knew
you were a mutt---but at LEAST I thought you weren't that disgusting of a
person." she scoffed and shook her head.
With that she turned and
left.
Kor blinked a few
times.
"uh...Other?...husband...isn`t that like uh..bigamy or
something?"
---
Tom shrugged and looked down at his
son.
"Daddy who was that lady?"
"thats one of dads
friends"
"...shes not very nice..."
"I know...but there are
times...oh and jr,I thought I told you to stay at the bar"
"ah well
uh...uh...uh...it was your rat,he made me do
it!"
"...yuh-huh..."
---
Speaking of which,said white
rodent was currently clinging for dear life as the cloud started to speed
up.
ES: Hi Uncle
Tommy.
B: What's ya doing
now?
-----------------------------------
Rw: Depends on who's asking.
As far as we know, we're happy.
D: So you this is where we're located
now. Community seems...um...nice.
ooc: um...right...any objections to me jumping in on this? After my reading a bit to catch up on what's currently going on that is of course.
no objections
ooc: Ok, Cor's
filled me in on things.
The door to the bar opened then closed again.
The man that came in, after taking off the deep red cloak and revieling the
somewhat dated and very well worn outdoors attire, looked around the bar for a
moment. He shrugged and found a stool. Looking at Dragoon he half smiled, "So
what do you serve here and how much does it cost?"
Spunky shivering
from fear quickly pounced and stuck his claws into the front of Toms
t-shirt,holding on with all his puny rodent strength,Tom smirked and put a hand
over the rat.
"well right now I`m hugging a stunt rat while holding the
hand of my son...and about to scold two disobediant lil kids who were told to
stay put"
"wow I wanna see that,so where are
they....oh"
---
"well its not like I mind you having more than one
spouse,hell Viles got 3 remember....so can I ask how you met big green and
shelled?"
---
"Well depends on how much your willing to pay,it
goes from water,sodas,beers all the way up to the Magma poisen,costs a hell of a
lot because of the low chance of you remembering you ever drank it
heheh"
"personal creation?"
"exactly,now let me see the colour of
your currency and I`ll work out what it comes to"
At this the stranger
held up a wad of green notes and Dragoon nodded.
"right then take a seat
and I`ll serve up your likings"
The man nodded and made himself comfortable, "Just out of curiosity what's your list of strong drinks? Not meaning anything like moonshine or anything like that....its water to me. I mean something that'll kill most people. That and haggis, if you've got it." He appeared calm, odd considering what was going on in the rest of the bar. That and to anyone magicly inclined he also had a real faint black aura about him.
The twins looked at
each other then back at Tom. They showed him the big cute baby eyes. "You're not
going to stay mad at us?" Bastian asked. "Yeah, are you, Uncle Tommy?"
EmberSkyes asked. They gave a couple
blinks.
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Redwaters turned to
Kor and scratched the back of her head. "Wow, not many people ask. Usually I get
the funny looks of having two and that they are even the same speices." Don gave
a chuckle.
Rw: Well, it was back in New York...The first welcome party
met were from the Purple Dragons. This was with FireMaker and I, back when FM
and I were just fellow travelers. It went from a little battle of
about...um...
D: I think about 30 of them. Then it move up to
about...well...hmmm I'd say a good couple of gangs.
Rw: Yeah, sounds
about right. Anyway, Don was driving around in the Battle Shell when he came to
our rescue. He took a dagger stab for me, near the end of the fight. So we had
to take him home and seeing as that we had no place to stay...he offered to let
us move in with him.
D: After a couple months...and a bunch of adventures
later FM and I end up battling over Redwaters, we even got to
dueling.
Rw: Eventually we got things worked out and well...here we are.
*Looks down at her watch* By the elements. I'll late. *Tears of down the ally,
thru the streets and busted into the kitchen and dashed into the
back.*
Don looks at her cloud dust and blinks. Then he turns back to Kor
and cocks his head to one side. "Is this how she been of
late?"
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