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[mnt_raph]

When Raph sits himself down at his usual spot by Bar, on his usual barstool, and has taken a drink of his usual drink from his usual stein, Bar supplies him with some extra reading material.

The movement of the letters forming in the pooling ink on the napkin catches his eye, and he sips as the words take shape.

On a napkin, written in her usual flowing script, is the following message.

X-23 has requested that Thor
train your brother.

"Which one?"

The words shift and gel, reforming anew.

Michaelangelo, of course.

"Mikey. Get trained by Thor. That's the guy with the hammer, right?"

Yes.

There's a five count as this news sinks in.
It's a good thing that the man has the presence of mind to put down his beer, because in the wave of laughter that follows...it surely would have gotten tipped over.

That'd just be alcohol abuse.

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[basic_powers]

When you're his age, you don't miss when someone starts laughing like that. Tyler, having been previously seated in the rafters reading his comic cooks, just has to investigate that.

It's probably no bet that Raph can probably sense the attention, so why bother sneaking up?

"What's so funny?"

[mnt_raph]

"Eh?" he says turning around towards the voice.

[basic_powers]

...Yeah, rafters, blonde kid lurking up innem with a couple of comicbooks rolled up in his back pocket. That's the source.

"You're laughing like someone just got pranked."

[mnt_raph]

He snerks.

"Prank kinda implies somethin' a little different. How you doin', kid?"

[basic_powers]

"Rafters are the best place to read comic books." He announces, grinning from ear to ear. "The only people that look up here don't care if I'm reading em up here."

[mnt_raph]

"Up's usually the best place to do most things," he says raising his stein in salute. "What're you readin'?"

Raph hasn't seen any comics in ages.
Not that he'd admit to have read any after the age of twelve.

[basic_powers]

"Superman!"

Tyler's digging one of the comics out to show Raph.

"Not allowed any Batman comics for two months since I got Peter with the paint bomb."

[mnt_raph]

He shifts on the barstool, so as to be able to lean up against Bar herself. It's less strain on the neck.

"You don't find him...kinda borin'?"

[basic_powers]

"No...sometimes I get kind bored with heroes that act angry all the time."

He's gonna plunk himself to lay down on the rafter, may as well get comfy.

"...an there're times Spiderman's kinda whiny."

[mnt_raph]

"Can't say as I read any o' his books back when I read such things, which ain't been for a long time now."

[ginsu_master]

Leo was walking over to say hello there, other brother mine.

Instead, he pauses just next to Raph and his eyebrows lower.

"I am afraid to ask."

This is never good!

[mnt_raph]

"Leo!" he says in loud greeting to his brother.
It's a loud greeting that's punctuated with a possibly-too-firm clap on the shoulder.

"You're not gonna believe this shit."

[ginsu_master]

He lifts both eyebrows now.

"What? Did Don turn himself into a giant jello monster again?"

That was a messy teenage adventure he does not want to repeat.

[mnt_raph]

"Better. Loads better. Tons better."

Which is saying something, because Raph remembers laughing really hard at that Jello thing.

"Mike. Is slated to train with. Thor."

[ginsu_master]

Leo blinks at his doubled over brother.

"Thor? ...as in the thunder god from Norse mythology?"

He doesn't know all his mythology well, he fully admits, but is that the guy that married the horse? Because now he is worried.

"...is he pregnant again?"

His question makes entire sense since his concerns are valid!

[mnt_raph]

"What?! No! Of course he isn't..."

Raph stops laughing, and now is joining Leo in looking a touch concerned.

"Bar? He ain't knocked up again, is he?"

Bar seems to groan in the way that all wooden things do when under stress.

No, say the napkin that appears before them both.

[ginsu_master]

"Well, that's nice to know."

Hurrah, he doesn't have to think up an escape plan for a maybe nephew/niece/entity from a land of gods!

"So. Why is Mikey being trained by a god?"



"Wait a minute, come to think of it, I haven't seen him in about a week..." That is never good.

[mnt_raph]

Raph joins his brother in a collective sigh of relief.

"Dunno," he says with a shrug. "This one here don't tell me nothin if she can help it. I only know that X signed off on it. So either he's really good about gettin' back on his game, or she's pissed at'im for some reason."