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The mud dogs were a… pretty well-known bunch. They’ve been doing a lot of stuff, breaking the law, and stealing things from people. You know, just… standard lousy things. About a year ago, they met this guy, said he was someone else, was not that person, course.
And they got mad.
Of course they did! They got lied to, why would they NOT get mad about that? They tried to kill the guy, blah blah blah, shit happened. Honestly? Dastardly Danny seemed the most hurt by it. He trusted that big green freak and what happened? He got his back stabbed.
Malicious Mickey seemed pretty bothered too; he trusted the guy as well and it felt weird to know that he was being lied to that whole time. He really thought that they could have been friends. Loathsome Leonard tried to get them to calm down, who cares? Ain’t like that guy was ever gonna come back, but… yeah.
They were all pretty down in the dumps for a bit after that.
Ha! At least Loathsome Leonard was back to being the leader. The boy in blue is always the leader! Like he said. They shoulda listened to him in the first place, then that wouldn’t have happened…
Though, sometimes, they have to be honest. They did think about that red guy, what was his name again? Eh, whatever, didn’t matter. They did sometimes think about him. Malicious Mickey thought that his plans of evil were really good! They were strange and seemed thought up at the moment but dang, if they didn’t get them a lot of money and a place to stay.
Now they have a new place to stay!
In jail… again.
Malicious Mickey was sitting on the bench, his tail pulled up his head rested against it while his fins were wrapped around, hugging it to his chest. Loathsome Leonard was walking back and forth in front of the bars, punching at them every once in a bit. He was pretty pissed at himself for getting them caught! How was he supposed to be a good leader if he gets himself and his group caught? Dastardly Danny was just laying on the bed his arms behind his head, staring up with a small frown on his face.
They tried to break out when they were caught; yeah, didn’t work very well. Got shot at, Dastardly Danny had bandages wrapped around his arm to prove that. He didn’t get hit, just grazed, but that was enough for him to be pretty dang pissed right now.
The other two knew not to talk to him when he was like that. Not that he would be mean to them or anything, more just he got overwhelmed sometimes. Dastardly Danny sighs and looks over at Loathsome Leonard and sits up on the bed, holding his ankles with his legs crossed. “Ey, stop banging on the bars. It ain’t helping and it’s giving me a headache”
“You shut your mouth hole, it’s gonna work” What would? Banging on the bars? Yeah, that’s gonna help a lot. Loathsome Leonard punches at the bars again then hisses, holding onto his hand his eyes shut tight. Damn it! Malicious Mickey looks at them, frowning, then turns his head down and moves his fins over his head to cover where his ears would be.
He hated it whenever they got caught.
The two of them started to bicker, Loathsome Leonard and Dastardly Danny. They argued more often when they were caught, they just butted heads sometimes. Dastardly Danny was overwhelmed and Loathsome Leonard disliked being in tight places.
While they were bickering, one of the guards came over to the cell and stood, with their arms crossed. Most likely waiting for them to stop their bickering. She was a fox, three tails though. She taps her foot on the bars, “Hey” she said to get their attention.
The three turn their heads quickly at the sound, and Loathsome Leonard squints, “What? Can’t ya see we’re busy here?” He snapped, which causes Dastardly Danny to push on his arm, muttering, “Shut up and listen to what she’s gotta say” Loathsome Leonard snaps his teeth at the other one, something he did when he was annoyed which made the other roll his eyes.
"Right," she starts, "Well you three are lucky, someone's come to bail you out" That was confusing, who would do that? Big Mama might have? But why would she go and do that?
Malicious Mickey stands up, moving over, "Who did that?" he asks.
"Raphael, like I said... very lucky" she turns, walking off which caused Loathsome Leonard to snap, "Hey! Don't walk away from us while we're talking to you, chick!"
She ignored him which made him huff and puff. Annoying! He turns to look at the other two, "Do you guys know who this Raphael fella is?" They both shake their heads, Malicious Mickey holding his fins together in front of him. They were both confused... well all of them were!
That was until there were footsteps and a very, annoyingly, familiar voice, "Hey guys..."
Loathsome Leonard slowly turns his head to look at the person that was talking. That big red turtle was there, holding his arms behind his back and looking at them with a little nervous smile.
“You little-” He runs at the bars, reaching out to try to grab him, “Get over here!” Dastardly Danny blinks then frowns and walks over, pulling him away, “Leonard, what are you doing? He’s the one that got us outta here” his eyes shoot up to look at Raph, who was frowning.
He sure has changed, got taller, one of his eyes was… pinkish? Sharper pupil. Weird.
“Don’t care, I’mma beat him!” He goes limp in Danny’s arms though, panting softly to try to catch his breath.
Raph sighs shaking his head and he walks closer. “Look, guys, I’m doing this cause I feel bad for what I did earlier, I shouldn’t have lied to you three.” He puts his hands together, smiling, “Raph’s gonna help you three get out of the crime life”
That made the three of them start to laugh, thinking he was joking… he was not.
And that’s how they were now walking out with him, he had the key to their cuffs and they knew that they wouldn’t be able to get out of these easily without that key… they figured hey, why the hell not try to work with Raph for a little while, up until he decided that they were good enough to take off the cuffs.
Then they would leave.
Malicious Mickey seemed to be having a hard time walking. Raph looks over his shoulder at him, “Hey, you need a little help?” When Malicious Mickey squinted at him, he corrected himself, “Do you want some help?”
“How’d you help me?” he asks, annoyance in his voice.
“Uh… try not to shock me, aright?” he asks, then walks closer and gently scoops him up in one of his arms making the other two blink then snicker while Malicious Mickey’s face went a bright color, “Hey hey hey!” he waves his arms the best that he could; a little embarrassed.
Raph laughs and looks forward, “Don’t worry, it’s just for now. I won’t drop you” The eel huffs but relaxes, grumbling under his breath as he looked forward. It… felt weirdly nice to be held like this, most wouldn’t even bother trying cause, you know, the fact that he could shock. He could control himself pretty well! Just… not all the time.
Loathsome Leonard and Dastardly Danny started to tease him all while he was ignoring them. He had the high ground now, boys.