pyrighteous | [PSL] Hunter in New York

Sometimes humans find their way down there.

[Don't mind Splinter focusing very intently on his food for the moment.]

Sometimes April comes with us, but not usually.

Oh. So ... kind of like Luz, then.

[ He takes another bite of pasta. Titan, that's so good. ]

It's worth checking. Maybe there's a way back from there.

Yeah. Our guy who can make portals is down there, so we can probably just go to him instead of waiting for him to come back up here.

And - and we can see the city at the same time.

[ He gulps down some water too. ]

Okay! That's a plan!!

[Raphael finishes the last of his food with Flapjack settling on his head (it's a red thing) and nods.]

(Good plan. Just make sure you get plenty o' sleep.)

Yeah. We've got an extra car you can sleep in no problem.

[ Red buddies!! Flapjack peeps contentment from his perch, which makes Hunter glance up. ]

What's a car?

Those big metal things we walked past on the way in.

Course that's a subway car, there are all kinds of cars.

Oh. Are they different from the surface cars then? Because one of THOSE bit me.

Bit?

[Oh everyone stops to look at him at that. Even Leonardo's otherwise relaxed demeanor is tense for a second.]

...Bit how? It didn't have ooey gooey tentacle things did it?

-- What?

[ For some reason, Hunter FLINCHES at the mere suggestion of ooey gooey tentacle things. ]

N-no, it was just - it was big, and it was fast, and it clipped me with its teeth before it ran away!

[Anyone left eating slowly lowers their forks looking between each other nervously.

Finally Donnatello steps up, poking at a couple things on his wrist computer.]

(What exactly did it look like? What details could you make out?)

Uh - I - I think it was black? It had these glowing eyes at the front, and these metal lines? A-and it had a human captive inside it who yelled at me.

(Hm.)

[That isn't much. So he'll pull up a picture of just a regular ass car on his holo-screen and bring it over.]

(Did it look like this? Or more menacing?)

Y-yes! That's it! I mean, the shape was a little different, but -

[ Hunter got clipped by a regular ass car. ]

[The tension practically bleeds out of everyone at that. Okay, good. Splinter just nods before hopping off his chair and starting to head back to his chair in the living room. He trusts the boys to take care of this for tonight.]

Okay, you'll be fine. You said it bit you? Lemme see?

Did. Did you think was something else? With tentacles?

[ He awkwardly pulls up his pant leg? Those are some nasty bruises - not quite the right color for a human - but no broken bones. ]

[Yeah after a couple years of working with and around the youkai, that miscoloration isn't a huge deal. Leonardo hands his plate to Raph and motions for Hunter to follow him.]

We've dealt with some weird stuff. Sounded like something we didn't wanna deal with again, but that's just a normal human car.

[ Hunter glances at Flapjack - who is taking a nap on Raph's head - before obediently following Leo. Limping a little. ]

What kind of weird stuff?

Centuries' old demons, aliens, run of the mill mutants, you name it.

[Leo's just leading him to their sort of sparse medical bay - mostly just a cot, working table, and medical supplies. But he'll tap the cot for Hunter to sit on so he can take care of that.]

Keep that pant leg up.

[ He does, despite his confusion? And… frankly that rattled off list makes him relax. He sits on the cot. ]

Oh. I mean. I’m not sure what an alien is, but the centuries-old demons are usually pretty chill if you don’t make them angry.

[He kneels down to look at it closer. Looks like just a bruise and nothing too serious. He'll dig around in the kit for some disinfectant and then bandage padding so nothing bumps up against it and get to work.]

This one wasn't. No matter what we thought could happen, there wasn't any reasoning with it.

[ Hunter holds very still as Leo works, trying not to flinch? He is totally flinching whenever Leo gets at the scrapes with disinfectant.

There’s other recent scrapes too, not from a car. And an old scar on his ankle. ]

Really? What did it want?

[Weird. Well, he'll take care of those too. Just get some gauze to wrap around the whole calf at this point. Stayin busy.]

Mindless violence? Destroying humanity. [He glances up at Hunter before focusing on what he's doing again.] Tried to kill our dad and destroy our family specifically.

[Shredder did enough damage. Destroying their home, killing GramGram- His fingers tighten around the gauze wrap before he forces them to loosen up. Easy.]

[ Thanks Leo. Hunter makes it as easy as possible.

He watches that reaction - winces a bit, regretting having brought it up but… ]

Why your family specifically?

[He ties that off and sits back on his heels to examine his handiwork. Looks like it'll stay for now.]

Long story. Just - family thing. [As much as he's willing to be open about a lot of things, the Hamato clan history is not one of those things. He just met this kid and doesn't know what's up just yet.]

Either way, that thing's gone and we're still here kickin' it so, win one for us.

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