Rad looks up when he hears a hissy screech coming from the ceiling. He doesn't have more than a second to process what's falling before something small and very angry falls.
Right at his face.
He closes his eyes on reflex, more startled than hurt by tiny claws and little sharp teeth. His scales are too thick for skin to be pierced.
He feels a pebble? A chirping pebble? Land somewhere in the space between neck and shell, right behind his head. Another tiny on a shoulder, even if it doesn't stay put for long, little clawed feet running from one shoulder to the next before it takes refuge along with the chirping pebble, right in the pocket shell.
A larger weight is on his shell, he hears the sound of a scratched shell as the creature tries to escale up his scutes to reach the others.
Churring to reassure the tots (because the sounds are definitely turtle) he slowly raises an arm to carefully pry the hissy one away from his face— PFFF THE EYES!
Raph chuckles and craddles the angry tot to his chest, hoping that being close to the sound will call him down. The larger tot has reached his neck now, a tiny arm reaching forward as if to ask for the hissy one to be handed over.
Rad lays down on the floor, letting the tots decide what they want to do as he continues to churr reassuringly.
The blue light disappears as fast as it appears, and Michelangelo is only able to register just in time to catch the tiniest turtle. Michelangelo looks up as he recovers form the scare, blinking at the newly deposited children. The purple one skitters off into a corner of the room, staring at him with wary eyes. Best not to approach that one.
With a free hand, he types into the server to ask if anybody had lost four children. For evidence, he takes a photo of the one in his palm with the laptop's camera. He only gets messages upon messages of shock and confusion in return—most of them accusations towards neon!Donnie. So no one in the server is responsible.
Light scratching on his leg alerts him to the biggest of the new babes, looking and gesturing at his palm. The smallest one mews back, reaching out towards the spiky one. Michelangelo gives him the baby, to which he brings to the last one and the three huddle in a pile. So this was a thing that was happening. He's already taking care of four baby turtles. What's four more?
He should introduce them to the others as soon as possible.
He caught movement in his periphery, and noticed Sunshine had reached her hand across the table, palm up.
“I’m fine.”
“Bullshit.” She closed and opened her fingers. It wasn’t really an ask, was it?
He took her hand, and she squeezed his.
“You can go home Casey, you don’t have to put up with all this.”
Art for Chapter 14, Off Beat!!!!
Once again I have too much to say about this one, so here’s a cut:
I CAN’T GET OVER HOW CUTE SUNSHINE IS OH MY GOD. I love her so much, and writing this chapter made me love her all the more. For an original character that is so important to this story, she spent a lot of time extremely underdeveloped as a character, but writing her scenes with the boys here was so fun and natural. I beg you, if you just see my art and think she’s wonderful, please take a few minutes to read the chapter linked above. I wish I had the gumption to make this a comic that will get way more attention on tumblr than a fic does, but I promise you it is worth the read. This sweetheart and Casey mean everything to me.
About the art, actually: Last chapter I spent a whopping 48 minutes drawing Leo and Synth, and this time I wanted to spoil y’all with something more. So here’s all the shit I got- funky perspective, colorful and soft lighting that makes me wanna snuggle in a blanket, textures ERRYWHERE. Stealing a picture of a Lou Jitsu movie off the fandom wiki and distorting and applying textures over it until it hangs over her plastron. Yeah, that took forever but I’m pretty proud of that. CARNATIONS: You will not disappoint me! Did I mention the light? And how it comes from her and the flowers??? Process video is below, but I gotta tell you, it’s 12 hours condensed into 8 and a half minutes. Lights start flashing at the end so watch out for that if you’re sensitive.
I’m not competing in the competition however it dose look like fun the throw ones Au children in there, so here was my take on it. My future Mikey from Two Nardos would probably just chill out the whole time. But all of the Ralph’s would definitely get to him after while.
But anyway here is Some Raph appreciation these people have some great Au Raph’s. In order of where they appear from left to right
Void Brothers AU @noval1t