Daniel
Donnie headed quickly and quietly to the lab with the core held protectively in his arms, wrapped in the soft purple fabric of his hoodie. He clicked the button beside the door and closed it, sighing and feeling relaxed at the fact that he was alone now.
Well, technically he wasn’t, due to the fact that the mystery boy was inside this shining blue gem that he brought over to his lab table and set down gently. He pulled his desk chair over and sat down, reaching out to trace his fingers over the grooves and curved edges of the gem like item. The temperature seemed to slowly be lowering, becoming colder, though currently was more of a room temperature “hm I wonder what I’m supposed to do with this thing” he mumbled to himself.
Donnie laid his head in his arms, thumb rubbing against the core as he watched it.
The image of the male in the alley played in his mind, the blood, the clear vivisection cuts. Would he be, okay? Was this gem really him? His eyes were very pretty…wait what?
The turtle shook the thought from his head, groaning and sighing, just watching the item. He remembered a single name, the male from the alley had said jazz, likely a name of a person, perhaps parent? Sibling? Friend? He wondered if he could figure out who he was based on just that variable alone, unless he was from another world or dimension completely, then that would prove finding out more to be a bit harder.
He rubbed his face, sitting up and pushing himself to his large screen and keyboard, beginning to type, the pleasant sound of clicking making him lose himself in the act of research.
He began to search for anything, anything at all about blue gems, mystic beings, green portals, the name Jazz. He wasn’t able to find much of anything that was reputable. Some dumb ghost blogs and other little things, though most led him to dead ends.
He groaned after a few hours of research, mindlessly clicking, he found something finally “infinite realms…” he muttered and clicked on the link that sent him to a page, blue screening his entire setup. His eyes widened and he pushed his seat out from under him, ignoring how it rolled away “HOLY- “he blinked wide eyes, immediately beginning to click and type his way around the virus that was trying to attack his computer and erase everything he had learned so far (which was almost all sources that led to some tourist town in Illinois).
He furrowed his drawn-on brows and somewhere along the line his screen went black, bright greens and purples attacking each other in strings of code “oh ho ho no you don’t- you can’t out hack me you little- “he growled.
Soon he reached a screen that held the text wall:
UndeadPharaoh: You won’t get past my walls b00tyyyshak3r9000.
He growled and as a courtesy typed back.
b00tyyyshak3r9000: watch me.
and thus began a beautifully complicated battle between two tech geeks, it honestly ranged on for hours, Donnie hadn’t realized just how long he had been going on against this guy, but eventually his lab door received a knock, and he whistled over for SHELLDON to take over, which the drone gladly did.
He groaned and rubbed his tired eyes, which were irritated from how long he had been staring at that screen. He went to the door “identify yourself” he spoke, and his brother spoke from the other side of the door “its Mikey, Raph said if you don’t go to sleep, he’s goanna burrito you because the suns Comin up soon” he explained, and Donnie blinked.
“What?” he looked back at SHELLDON who was typing away in his place, still in a vigorous hack war with whoever was on the other side of the screen “SHELLDON time” he instructed “it’s currently 6:34 am” the drone responded, and Donnie rubbed his face “yeah tell him I’ll be out soon” he spoke and soon heard feet walking away.
He couldn’t believe how long he had stayed up just going back and forth with this guy, surely the person on the other end was also tired. Donnie decided that he’d let SHELLDON hack while he slept. Honestly a better idea that not sleeping and getting interrupted in the middle of it by Raph’s burrito attack.
He yawned and went to gather the core into his arms again, the shining gem a bit colder than before, not by much but Donnie noticed it. He still had it wrapped in his hoodie, mostly to hide it as he headed out of his lab, locking the door behind him and going to his room. He walked past a worried Raph on his way, muttering a reassuring “goodnight” before disappearing into his room and crawling into his bed. He held the core on top of his plastron, looking at it “I should have asked your name…I hope you’re okay, you’re really causing me a lot of trouble mystery boy” he muttered.
It wasn’t long before the softshell was asleep, he wasn’t aware of his older brother coming to peek at him, taking notice of the core and growing curious before leaving the room.
When his body woke him from his calming sleep, he groaned and rubbed his eyes, blinking and sitting up, feeling the core roll off his plastron, he quickly caught it. The softshell gave a breath of relief as he stared at the gem “okay, just have to get through breakfast and then we can go back to figuring out what you are” he murmured tiredly, still not really fully awake.
As if on cue, his curtain was swung open and there stood Leo “DEE GET UP ITS BREAKFAST TIMEEE” he beamed, always the more energetic of the two twins in the morning “ugh be silent Nardo, you’re going to give me an aneurism” he groaned and climbed out of bed and pulled on his hoodie. Donnie, currently not wearing his mask, grabbed his glasses, yawning as he taped the arms onto the side of his head and grabbed a purple scarf to wrap around the core.
He huddled it close to himself again, leaving his room, Leo having watched this whole thing, crossed his arms “are you...are you raising a rock? Dude you are weird” he laughed, and Donnie felt annoyance hit him as he glared at him.
“it’s not a- I don’t have the patience to explain to you the complexities of this object” he spoke, walking past Leo and to the kitchen “GUYS DONNIE IS RAISING A ROCK!” Leo beamed, laughing, as he ran past his twin and to the two other brothers who were seemingly making pancakes.
Mikey blinked, looking in curiosity “what? Donnie, you have a pet rock? I thought dad said we couldn’t have pets!” the smallest whined.
Donnie groaned “it’s not a pet! Its- UGH shut up!” he huffed out, hugging the core closer when Raph came over and leaned towards it. Donnie growled, stepping back “Can you give me some space!” He was beyond annoyed this morning. He had things to do, and his brothers were being nuisances.
“Sorry dee, just curious is all, if it’s not a rock, what is it?” Raph questioned “does it have a name” Leo chimed in, reaching to touch it and Donnie stepped away from them, baring his teeth at Leo “he- it does have a name…its uh…” He looked down at the core, silently hoping the boy within would just tell him his name now, but that was absolutely ludicrous….
Dan—
He blinked “wuh- uh it-its Dan!” He spoke, absolutely unsure what that echo was, but the distorted sound was similar to that of the mystery guy’s voice. Immediately the core began to react, the scarf began to feel cold, and he shivered a bit at the feeling. He could feel it was upset at that, the sense of the cold chill of fear rising up his spine made him swallow and stumble out more words.
“I-I mean Dan-Daniel! Daniel, its name is Daniel.”