Mayhem.

Chuckling and snuggling the little girl Mikey eyes Don and his eager hi - hiding a snigger in the golden hair of the little girl. " fridge looks a lot brighter - love it Malcolm." he grins through chuckles.

And wondering at the book but figuring the girl was bringing something to go over whilst they all trained. First the kids then themselves? awesome!

With Malcolm being snuggled he rubs the little gold head and grins at Raph - who was clearly gonna catch Don and Leo up on kiddies whilst they had been gone. Waiting to be led away to begin and giving skinny Don a smirk, " would like to see whatcha got."

Splinter chuckles and nods to, " We will be happy for you to join us then Donatello." hiding his mingle chuckling at Don's eager greeting.

Whilst wiping away a few stray happy tears and shooing Erica up away from the little boy gently to scoop the golden child up and hug him, " Ratpa thinks he looks good ont he fridge too... come my sons, pick a small turtle or girl and lets get to showing them some moves so yous can then wow us all with your training. The rest of catching up we can do over dinner.' and very proud of himself little turtle in arms Splinter turns towards the exercise area.

He grinned, yes the girl wasn't weirded out by him!

And he was helping his fellow Don, not flirting with the girl himself.

He gives Leo a respectful bow of the head, " Thanks, thouguh I am not the best example of our Ninjitsu training," same disclaimer he gave his counterpart, just encase they were looking to be wowed by skills.

hearing Splinter and watching him go with the proud little gold turtle and sighing a bit, " my Raph made our Splinter as happy as hurricane in a trailer park too when he adopted Chompy. Looks like yours was just as keen to be a grandfather too." He chuckles and looks about to make sure children were spoken for, Elena still in Mikey's hold. Duncan with Leo, Randal with Don and a little blue turtle hovering beside Raph and looking up at him. Donnie would love to hold one but figured Raph would want to.

He waits to see before following the ratman.

Malcolm muffled a happy cheer against Erica - then he was in Ratpa's arms and nuzzling into the soft fur not sure what was happening but everyone liked him and Leo making the fridge better! So he was happy tail wagging! and beaming at Leo over Splinters shoulder.

Randal gave a soft chirp resting his head on Don's shoulder still hugging his car to his plastron and recognising himself in the picture on the phone and pointing at it with a soft sound. 

Duncan was churring so hard all his small self vibrated! chirp chirp and small snout brushing along Leo's and the big turtles shoulders just relishing the attention.

Him and Randal both waving after their gold brother.

Liam waits looking upwards at Raph, his efforts to put his arms up became a wave after Malcolm grinning and chirping.

Leo laughed softly at Elena’s excitement.

”Well, it takes a lot of practice, and commitment, but if you stick with it, and keep trying then I think Elena: Warrior Princess might just be a possibility.”

Leo may not be quite the sucker for baby blues, but he is a bit of a sucker for someone being interested in ninjitsu. Especially seeing as Erica and Elena may need some self defense training moving forward.

”Maybe you’ll learn something new to take home then. Leo responded to Donnie’s disclaimer.

Leo looked over as Raph mentioned some incident with a ball, but clearly now was not the time. He made a mental note to ask about it later if Raph doesn’t bring it up first.

And it did seem that this other Donnie was correct. Master Splinter did appear to relish his new role as Ratpa.

Leo then nodded at Master Splinter and, since he was already carrying Duncan, made his way to the dojo,   He nuzzled the boy one more time before setting him in his spot on the mat.

Don blinked then grinned at the hand on his shoulder, and the returned greeting. Her hand was so soft!

And space for music noted! Pun intended in his head only. And there will probably be ridiculous space, between photos, videos and music. He'll have to see if he has another drive like the one in his phone, though his storage is crazy for different reasons. Mostly because of all the other items he makes his phone interface with or control.

And remembering how Malcolm knew her at first, he asked Don’t you sing? Curious, and innocently enough. She sang to the kids back when they met. And he can say that without explaining that he and Raph had once broken into her apartment.

When Raph came over with the phone, Don turned his attention to the pictures appreciatively. For the most part he was quiet, though he did marvel at the oh so still Mikey.

When Randall noticed himself in a picture, Don responded to him.

”So you like cars huh? Me too! He nuzzled the boy as Master Splinter started off with Malcolm. And Don followed Leo.

Erica was glad those big blue eyes of her sister were levelled elsewhere, because she was a huge sucker for them!

And apparently Mikey was too, she giggles and waits until their moving to answer Don, moving along with him and holding the book, now able to answer him. " I love to sing, and dance, should hear my science love song." she offers softly just to the Don moving watch the red toddler in his arms.

She did feel a little better with all the comfort and condolences about her and a couple of promising to be awesome distractions ahead.

Elena grins at Leo " I will work harrrd I swears and annnd and be able to kick much butt!" the fiercest face she could put on.

Well she thought it was so scary a face!

She wraps arms tight about Mikey's neck and snugs them.

Raph waited until they were sort of milling about and lining upwith the kid they each had and line up beside Leo, now mentioning the ball softly, " good news in the ball is no longer flat... bad news it got torn apart by the boys." he tells Leo in verylow tones, " I don't know if we have to worry about it, they were never too rough with Elena, in fact they seemed instinctively aware she lacks the natural body armour they have and haven't tackled or jumped on her... but something was triggered and they stalked and hunted that ball, got it between their jaws and well this is whats left of it." he flicker though photos to the ball in its torn apart at the seams state.

He wasn't worried for Elena though, he'd watched them like hawks playing with the ball and the boys treated her like one of their own.

Leo laughed. "I'll bet you will, Elena. Just make sure it's only bad guys." The scary face was really coming off far more as just adorable.

Leo is listening to his brother, but he's watching the kids. "Haley mentioned predatory games.  It sounds like it's normal, but should be discouraged. That's encouraging that they're being gentle with Elena though. But we should be careful when they're together."

Master Splinter had said he would work with the boys, so Leo waits to take cues from him. He vaguely remembers training as a small child, but cannot remember what they actually did. He's curious to see how Master Splinter does this.

Mikey awwwwed and snugged elena, " you will kick tail with that sharp face."

omg it was soooo danged cute!

He was in full admiration Leo managed not to go all gushy over the blue eyes like he had. Mind that was Leo.

He places the sweet girl on her feet.

Splinter gently placed the little gold turtle down and tapped his shell gently pushing him towards the lining up brothers, girl and bigger turtles. , " When yous were so young my sons and we began some forms it was mostly focusing on getting the forms right and holding them, because focus is hard for little ones - yes even you Leonardo." a bit of a teasing grin and encouraging the small gold turtle towards Donnie.

" these are your most basic forms, yous all know them, take your small charge through them, and remember be patient. And show your forms, this includes the tumble at the end."

He does the four basic stances as he speaks, slowly, one at a time including the neat somersault at the end. It was the most basic of the basics. but where all beginners began.

"I would love that." Don responded softly to Erica as they move. And he does hope that he will get a chance to hear that song sometime soon. In the meantime, he has an idea for the phone that will make it a little unique. He files the idea away though for a more appropriate time.

Don then takes Randal into the dojo and listens to Master Splinter's instructions. He pulls Randal a short distance from the others to minimize distractions, and starts trying to get the child to do the forms along with him.

" Maybe before yous head out tonight after children are in bed?" Erica offers with a wink and moves away from the floor space.

She chuckled at Elena efforts to be scary - yep totally adorable. 

Moving to a wall she slid down to watch the group.

For the moment the book forgotten. Watching the turtles and rat moving. Along with her small sister who had had no defence sort of training just like Erica.

So she was definitely making it interesting for Mikey to try changing her ballet moves into katas.

Savage Mikey - slid out of the portable portal and snuck across the garage - well he assumed it was or maybe it was a cross over lab like his Donnie's? maybe? 

He sneaks over to the desk and fingers wriggle - but before he could even attempt the mutagen - he reads the labels and is reminded he is not supposed to!

Riiiiight.

And he's off again sniffing, his Donnie's unique weirdly antiseptic hospitally metallic scent and another - he assumed the other Don, not as antiseptic smell more machine oily and metal.

Moving into the main - lair? he was pretty sure almost moving towards the kitchen - no!

following the smell of Dons he joins what he isn't aware is the end of the little turtle s-

OMG widdle cute turtles! -

training - and a little girl!

Awwwwwwwwww

Infact he slips in behind his counterpart and copies him. Like a shadow!

Splinter grinned watching his sons, the grandsons and that pretty little girl - amused at the last.

they were working really well with the little guys, Donnie and Malcolm, Duncan and Leonardo, Randal and Donatello, Michelangelo and Elena, Raphael and Liam working together.

Erica actually joined in between the Donatello to try the basic stances herself.

And Splinter managed to keep a straight face when another joined them. Not saying anything, guessing Leonardo would sense the new one too - but curious to see if the others would. though he was exceptionally good at sneaking.

Raph was NOT paying attention, he was flipping out with totally unmanly barely suppressed soft squeeeeeees as Liam or as heis calling himin his mind mini Leo basically nailed his stances - but couldn't hold them for long and his tumbles at the end always had a small tail sticking up in the wagging -



so no he didn't notice with the cute on the loose the new turtle join them.

Erica did move between the Don's and their toddlers - cause she kept giggling at Mikey and Elena and then after reading the first leaf of translations she knew immediately they didn't fit or feel right to the texts and she was intrigued and slightly behind the turtles over this way was giving the stances a go.

the tumbling of course she had down to an art by now no one became a dancer without that.

Elena miiiiight be combining some of her stances with ballet, she was a good tumbler and had good balance -and giggled cause Mikey copied her!

And he looked funny !

She didn't see the slightly smaller, and more slime green turtle copy behind him in strange... cloths?

And copying them.

Pretty sure he was nailing these moves! grinning down at the small giggling girl -

no one raph gave into being Ser Raphie so easily for her, it was delightful!

And she was not bad at the stances ! Moving himself and watching her as they switch from a defence basic kata stance into the arms up and on toes with Elena - pleased to hear her giggling and thanks to that not at all aware that he'd gained an extra shadow.

Leo did notice the new arrival, but as Master Splinter isn't reacting, Leo assumes there's a reason. While his own brothers are focused on other things, he does meet the new arrival's eyes before turning his attention back to Duncan.

Duncan came to the end of his routine again. Leo laughed softly as he helped the boy up once more.

"That's great, Duncan! Why don't we focus on that tumble for a moment." Leo smiled gently as he helped Duncan get back in position to try again. He had a feeling they were reaching the end of the boy's attention span, but the rolling was fun and needed a little more work. He hoped this would at least get a couple more moments out of the boy.

There was internal squeeeing. First when Erica winked and offered to sing her song after the boys were in bed, and again when she joined in training between himself and the other Donnie. Every once in awhile, he will glance her way to see how she's doing.

Don almost missed Mikey's entrance.  He probably would have between Randal's adorable attempts at the kata and Erica's presence right beside him. The second is probably the bigger distraction. However, Don has a couple things working in his favor. A big one is that he happens to be standing where he can easily see both Mikey and the door. So when the other Mikey slipped in and starting shadowing, Don is facing them. That's a pretty big advantage his brothers don't have, but that wasn't what he noticed. No, he noticed that the room was more crowded than it had been a moment ago. Even with the distractions, that's a hard one for him to miss.

When he notices the other turtle, he's not as Splinter and Leo stealthy about it. He is given pause, less by the new Mikey's presence and more by the crazy get up he's wearing. He doesn't say anything though, taking his cue from Leo and Master Splinter, who had to have noticed. There's a slight laugh as he turns his attention back to Randal. They're coming up on the tumble. Instead of demonstrating the tumble again, he kneels down to spot Randal through it.

And Donnie actually missed his own brother for now - focused on helping little gold complete his stances and then that tiny little push off into his tumble...

He'd watched amused as Erica moved closer. Then she joined them sort of. And that was cool.

He pretended not to notice, her much except keep an eye on her, though she certainly knew where her body in the space she'd found between them and was able to keep movements flowing and smooth and aha she was a dancer for sure.

He mostly focused though noting the little dragonish features on Malcolm. Mostly his color, the bright jewel gold he was certain was a dragon trait. Noting during a laugh one of his incisor teeth in the front was a little wobbly and under it when the boy licked a differently shaped tooth... well he thought it looked like that from brief glimpses

It was the laugh of his counterpart that gave it away and he glanced away from the little turtle he was gently tugging to his feet and then seeing him....

haha he grins and rolls his eyes, well Leo had warned him of Savage Mikey.

and here he was.

Raph might not have noticed the new comer at all had he not caught the mini Leo up in a snug chuckling cause he was sure the little guy purposefully made a face at him this time! 

And now he catches site of instead of Mikey leading Elena through the kata in full they embellished it with something that looked very dainty and that might require Mikey to get himself a tutu... wait...

oh no - its the other one...

And what the heck was he wearing?

And dammit Don had been getting a little more flirt from Erica with that wink and promise of a song... still training with the big boys to show off still right?

Erica could do the moves, but was not much better than Elena in keeping it strictly kata,,, she found a stance was great to shift her hips in the kind of belly dances moves, or pusher own flexibility a little further. 

though through the tumble she turned into a bridge she noted the extra turtle and brings her feet back over her head to the floor to stand up.

Liam was the first one to lose his focus and when Raph scoope dhim up he squeals a little and laughs, blue tail wagging away and watching Raph's face.


Randal went to tumble again but as he bent and Don dropped down at the perfect moment for him to get a wonderful surprise when he looked between his own knees and saw Don there, he hears Liams laugh and his own bursts forth his stuck up in the air tail wagging and giggling now.


Duncan nods eagerly at Leo ready to, "t ummmy!" again - his brothers laughter slightly putting this one off though so he sought of rolled out of the move half way through and looked up at Leo from the floor on his shell and sniggered too.

Malcolm heard his brothers and chirps - cackling out loud.

None of the little turtles aware yet of the new one.

Elena was in perfect pose - up on her toes - then the giggles... and she grins looking around her spying the little guys in various states of giggles gurts and hahahaas herself, " ooooy your makin it hard to do this!" she informs them. But she too was losing her focus there was only so much three years olds and a five year old could manage seriously.

Mikey feels nervous under this Leo's eyes but his own are his usual friendly blue and guiless sort of innocent gaze in return. He grins seeing all these little turtles and the little girl.

And realising all but his own counterpart knew he was here he leaps upwards and flips over him landing with a " ta daaaa hello my interdimensional brothers... Sensei..." torn for a moment and bowing to Splinter than Leo... as his own was now his Sensei. " I'm Mikey!' his grin wide and friendly.

He hahaha'd with Elena dropping the stance and grinning around at the sudden plague of sniggering that spread among the children, poking his tongue out at Leo, " your mini me start this by the Wa - aaah!" he informs their leader pointing at the little blue boy in Raph's muscular arms currently laughing - then he hopped back in surprise with a " that was a manly yelp!"then eyes this small, bright booger green... him!

" awwwwwwwwwwwww lookit he has freckles." he dawws squeezing a cheek in a light pinch. " I'm Mikey too - what are you wearing?"

Woooooowwwww... And he catches himself staring at Erica in the bridge then kicking over smoothly like that. And he promptly looks back down at Randal as the kids start to break into giggles.

"Oh, you think that's funny, huh?" Don laughs as he picks the giggly child up and briefly tickles his side before pulling him into a hug.

There's another glance at Erica before he looks away again, he's still thinking about that bridge. He'd been fascinated when April had done that years ago too. Most of his fascination is that humans can bend like that at all! Regardless of who it is. Funny thing about a rigid shell, Don and his brothers, though all very flexible, could not do that with their backs. They had an alternative, but there was a bit of a hop involved, and it wasn't a position they could hold like that. So very distracted now. Luckily for him, Erica did that after the Other Mikey came in because he definitely wouldn't have noticed now. Erica as an individual is far more distracting than April ever was, so now that that bridge has been thrown into play too... he's sunk. He is careful not to stare again though.

Mikey's girly scream - there was nothing manly about that shriek - barely registered, but it did, and it managed to drag him out of his distracted state. At least enough to focus on the Mikeys instead. Sort of. He miiight be able to pull himself together again by the time they get lined up  for their own training.

Leo smiled a little, noting that Donnie's trained positioning, even in these most basic forms, was ever so slightly different, though he had adjusted well, and was showing Malcolm what the rest of them were doing. Leo had caught the younger turtle falling back into his old positioning before adjusting to the new ones a couple times.

He takes a moment to see how the others are doing, just before the giggle fit broke out. Well... they're probably done here now anyway. He can't prevent the grin at Elena scolding the giggling boys while in the middle of her ballet kata. It was a little unconventional, but then so was Mikey. And Elena was learning the positions. How she learned them was a little less important at this point.

Leo noticed that Erica was having a little trouble keeping it strictly kata as well, and he's amused by that. But again, she's learning, and he was glad to see her join in. Perhaps they could arrange a session for just her later. Don's distraction at the bridge is less amusing. He should know better. Though Leo shouldn't be surprised. Don had reacted when April had done that too, and Don's relationship with April had always been strictly platonic. And he's pretty sure Don would like something different this time. Raph too, if the look on his red wearing brother's face it to be trusted.

Leo laughs at Duncan sprawled on his shell and giggling. He reaches down and picks the boy up.

Just as Leo is wondering what it's going to take for Mikey to notice his shadow, the other Mikey makes his move. And Leo is sure this part of the training session is over. He doesn't get Duncan started again, and responds to Mikey ‘s bow. It’s a bit of a trick with Duncan, but he holds the child close and listens to how this conversation plays out.

Chuckling Splinter moves forward, chuckling. " Welcome Michelangelo of another, and thank you for mostly not disrupting the end of this session it is important for the young and new both." he bows back moving to Leonardo's side, saying softly to him. " we all did much better today."

And they had, even the children had been mostly focused until now, but that was to be expected they were young and forty five minutes or near enough to it was quiet respectable for them. 

Leaving it to Leonardo to direct how he wanted the big boy training to go, as he had said that part of their exercise routine was now up to him completely. 

The girls might need some more focused help and he is a tad amused by Donatello's and Raphael's distraction in the older girl. Well that was to be expected, they were after all young men themselves.

Liam cheekily just waves back to Mikey him and his brothers giggling more at Elena's sort of scold and Mikey's girly squeak1 He wraps arms about Raphaels shoulders and nuzzled closer hugging - soft sniggering still. He may have started it but he was forgiven he knew. the new turtle he waves at from the safety of Raph's arms and offers a cheery " Hiiii."

Randal nods at Don's question, squirming and cackling at the tickling, a little breathless at first thanks to the tickling but he too nuzzles close... watching the human too with a soft oooo cause he's never seen humans do that before. " yeth funn!'

Duncanwas all helpless giggles for some moments cause of Leo's laugh and his own brothers giggling. And during the bow he clings and snuggles and nuzzled making a soft " weeeeeeeeee." sound enjoying the brief sensations of butterflies in belly.

Malcolm unawares he is being somewhat studied he is all too happy to giggle and offer his arms up to Donnie too eager for hugs!

Leo got a distinct 'You're up' impression from Master Splinter, and he moved to take Duncan to a spot close to the wall where he could sit and watch the next part of practice. He nuzzled the boy and set him down.

"I think you guys are going to watch for a little while, then you'll probably get to go play." Leo informed gently, hoping that his brothers would follow suit.

He then moved to take control of the session.

"Alright, guys. Let's line up. My brothers need to try yesterday's kata again." It's not particularly uncommon to work on a single kata for awhile, but this time his tone is a little pointed, because yesterday had been pretty disastrous as a training session. He then addressed their guests. "Donnie, Mikey, unless there are objections, watch us go through our kata, then I would like to see what you have been working on. Afterward, we'll spar."

Erica shivered - she was slightly more aware of Don's stare than Raph's - and not only because he was closer.

She see's he's not looking now as she stretchers a bit and moves closer to Don and Randal seeing Leo take Duncan to sit and she offers arms for the red boy, " here canI take him, I wanna watch you, you all for a bit too." smiling. 

Maybeeee her cheeks a bit pink.

Churring and nuzzling Liam Raph lightly growls, " You cheeky boy, just cause you are like a little Leo don't think you'll get away with it all the time." only playing cause he knew full well if it came to him he would of cause let the little tyke get away with mostly anything.

He chuckles and follows Leo over to put Liam down beside his brother. A glance at Leo and bit of a huff for old times sakes, but he wasn't protesting really as he knew yesterday had been sad.

When Elena caught sight of the other Mikey and her reaction was to squeal happily and say this was awesome! Mikey laughs still eyeing his counterpart, it was...weird and exhiliartaing to face a version of himself, is that what it felt like for Don and Donnie?

He scoops the girl up bridal style snuggling her, " you are not wrong warrior princess, this is danged cool huh?" taking her over to where the little guys are being lined up.

He didn't mean to stare! He didn't! But... she did the thiiiiing with her baaaaack... In fact, he was so pointedly not looking that he was slightly surprised when Erica came over and spoke to him.

"Sorry, I-- Um..." He can feel his own face flushing slightly, pretty sure he had been caught looking.

He nuzzles Randal one more time before handing him off to Erica. Thank you... She's so close in order to take the child. Right there! It's intoxicating! Aw... the pink is cute. And... she's going to stay and watch! Which is both exciting and terrifying! And yes, he's blushing too, but he turns more of a brownish color against olive.

Only once she goes, will he move to his spot between Raph and Mikey.

Mikey grins, " It's my Savage Mikey wear, necessary when interdimensional hoping." He beams and is feeling right at home watching eagerly the gather of children - eeeeeee the little turtles are so cute! He claps his Donnie on his shoulder, " Donnie how do we go about getting more of them at home?" 

And then his attention is caught by Leo and he nods agreeably, " okay okay okay can't wait to join in!" he enthuses moving towards the collection of children.

Splinter grins and moves to where the katas would be done indicating he would join this bit, as one of Leo's students, how things come full circle.

He would have to drop out of the sparring but he was up for some exercisers to stay spry and strong!

Erica fought giggles and snuggles the red boy, and cause he's distracted with she lightly and chastely kisses the brownish colour in those cheeks, " nothing to be sorry for and your welcome." she moves away carrying the boy placing him down with his brothers and giggling a bit to herself now moves to sit with them.

She draws the book to her thighs again and takes out another of the translations just to trace the ink stretches and again the ones in the first few pages, heavy parchment pages...

Mmmmm 

"Savage mikey - I like it... maybe I need more outfits aside from Turtle Titan." he muses and his arm load of wriggling giggling little girl gone he lines up with Splinter. Ready!

ready to work hard this time and totally show off.

The little turtles were reluctant to be so easily put down - trying to snug and nuzzle and hold on a bit longer. then once down they do nuzzle each other too and chirping delight, re arranging themselves in order, Elena, then Liam and Randal sat side by side Duncan beside Randal and Malcolm on his other.

Randal had poked his tongue at his brothers before - hah he'd had soft human! and like them now he glanced at her from time to time wondering what she had and whether she would read it out to them but most of their attention was on the bigger turtles.

And he was kissed again!! He's frozen at least for a moment, blushing even darker. She smelled of vanilla... and honey. Definitely honey in there. Even with the-- And clearly he waited a moment too long, because Leo is shouting his name! ACK!

He runs over to his place, clearly flustered. He really needs to pull himself together. He manages to take a deep breath. He can do this. Another breath, forcing himself to calm down and focus on what he's supposed to be doing. He manages to turn his attention to Leo and the session. ...barely.

Leo blinks slightly when Master Splinter takes a student spot. He's sure there's something going on! At least testing how he responds to the unexpected. Alright, fine. He's got this!

Their guests are in place, and his brothers are still not in position. Well, Raph is. Mikey at least appears to be on his way. And Erica and Randal are over by the wall, ready to watch. And Don is... standing there. He gives his brother another moment in the interest of a better training session. Calling out Don already will just fluster him. Once it becomes clear that waiting isn't going to work, Leo tries another tactic.

"Donatello!"

Effective, yes. But there are typically consequences. He's worried about today's session now.

Once Don has actually come over and taken his spot, Leo gives him a brief moment to calm down before getting everyone moving through the kata.

Raph raises an eye ridge, wow he was in place before everyone usually Leo had to warn and threaten Splinter wrath or blackmail to get him here - 

what have the kids done to him?!

And wait Splinter is joining the.... mmmm on this side?

Wow....

And he smothers sniggers at Don - lightly fisting his shoulder in commiseration, hey aside from April they had few experiences with young women sooo a guy could be forgiven for some fluster right?

Usually Mikey would laugh out loud and make his brother even more flustered, but decides to follow Raph's example and not - and even with the amusement it looked like Don was ahead on brownie points with their feminine guest and their father was joining them.

So it's a grin at don and like Raph just a tap of elbow to sides to help bring him back into focus - then they began...

Annnnnd it did feel better today more on point, and Mikey was trying to remind himself not to show off yet, not now, though it was hard there was another him watching and the young woman!