"splinter said that we were getting new recruits right? where the heck are they dude?!" came a whine from a sea foam tattooed turtle. 

"hold your horses mikey, they are from another show that got shut down because of the conditions. we have to stay alert and avoid any topics that may upset them. we are here to show them around, and make them feel welcome." leo corrected the whiny freckled turtle. 

"the hell I gotta be out here fer? it ain’t mah job ta do this shit" the largest of the group snapped, crossing his arms over his chest in annoyance. 

And finally the last of the group said nothing, keeping his clipboard tight to his chest as he waited patiently. this Donnie his job either, and he wasn’t going to be much help since he didn’t talk to anyone unless it was Mikey or Leo alone.

"stop complaining, your here because splinter requested it" leo snapped right back keeping his eyes forwards and ignoring the threatening growl he got. "ayyyeeeee were all friends here dudes~ right Donnie?!" the smallest giggled waggling his forked tongue about to his buddy who just gave an unnoticeable shrug in return.

"I.. guess this is the place." They had literally just been left outside the entrance by the person who was responsible for taking them. Donna was the one to talk, nervously standing with his fellow 'recruits' as they'd been called. He was wearing a baggy shirt to try and hide his bruises and scars since he didn't want to give anyone any ideas.

Lee was in the lead as usual, gesturing the little group forward to the entrance where they saw a group of 'freaks' waiting for them.

"I still don get why we gotta do this shit. Why the hell should we work for these guys anyway." Ralph complained,  being the only one not seeming at lease a tad nervous about their new home. It was all smoke and mirrors anyway.

"Because we have nowhere else to go. Someone’s gotta look after m..us." Mickey snapped back, staying close to his mute brother as they stopped infront of their soon to be partners

The ticket master also known as Daimyo gave a wave t the passing turtle, and pointed tot he curtain  just inside the clown mouth walk through to get to their guides. he did a double take when he noticed how much the newbie’s resembled the very much known 4 turtles. whoa, talk about deja vu

Leo saw the group and greeted them when they approached but paused taking not how similar they all looked. "welcome, uh- wow i wasn’t expecting this" leo was the first to speak, looking at his look alike, but quickly pushed the thought aside for now. "hello to al of you, my name is Leonardo" bowing slightly 

"welcome to the lower birth, the greatest show unearthed!~" mikey chimed in with a giggle, hey it was his job to say that! "whoaaa! dude you look just like me! we even have collars" gasping in his excitement. rattling the thick leather bindings chains to show his point.

Raph scowled slightly at his duplicate, just as scared up as he was if not worse. "the hell ya lookin’ at" he snapped when he noticed the other staring at him. he took a glance and Donatello who made no move, merely clutching his clipboard tightly. he still had not given up about finding out what the olive turtle was hiding under all those clothes. but it looked like now he got a free show from the other donnie look a like.

"introduce yourselves" leo scowled at his group, did they not have any manners?! 

mikey was the first to speak "oh yeah! I’m the great Michelangelo! mikey for short~ but they call me the turtle terror on duty" pointing to the shy scarf wearing turtle, "that’s donnie he doesn’t talk much so don’t get all offended if he doesn’t respond"

raph continued to scowl, with his mighty arms crossed. "raph" he simply said

"I. I’m Donna. A. and this it Lee, i.e. can't introduce himself because he c.can't talk." Donna was fidgeting nervously as he decided to speak up when his companions were just staring at the look a like turtles.

Mickey blinked at the freaky looking tattooed turtle. Wow, if he wasn't so freaky and tattooed he'd look just as pretty as he did! "I'm Mickey" He introduced himself with a wide smile. This turtle terror looked like fun, maybe he'd be allowed to play with him if he was careful?

"Ralph. And I'll let you know when I figure it out, ugly." He snapped back at his duplicate. He already decided he didn't like him... not that he liked many people anyway,  and he didn't even want to be here!

Raph’s eyes narrowed dangerously and curled his lip up in a snarl, "way ta go asshole, spoiler, ya look just like me. only a lot pissier" he snarled right back but when donnie at his side grabbed his elbow he didn’t move to actually go and punch the guy in the face. 

"calm down Raphael, you are still on thin ice after last time" leo hissed, pulling the curtain away to let everyone inside. "please right this way, we will be showing you the ins and outs of our little slice of home here. and we will be able to fit you all in with your talents." 

Mikey hopped along pulling his twin with him "whoo! your gonna love everyone here! and the food is to die for" giggling at the double meaning. 

"first things first, what are your talents, deformities ect. or perhaps what you did in the old show?" leo politely asked turning to the group. 

donnie made it his job to stay near the hot headed turtle to try and keep him at bay, as much as he didn’t want to. he and this Ralph were out for each others throats now, great, just great.

"I ain't as ugly as you, freak." Ralph growled, making a point of literally bumping his scarred double as he passed. "You guys got a fight ring here?" He asked looking around for any signs of one.

Lee was glaring at Ralph as if to warn him to play nice, nudging him and shaking his head before taking a good look around.

Mickey decided he liked his twin and was more than happy to run along with him and explore his new environment,  he didn't get out much apart from when he was entered in shows.

"W.well Raph performs in fight rings...L.Lee is a blade and acrobat performer a.and Mickey is a show pet." Donna was nervous to apparently become the spokes person for his group, no saying what he does since he didn't really have any talents. Lee signed something and Donna suddenly blushed. "R.right, uh. Lee just reminded me we never thanked you for showing us around and letting us stay here so, t.thank you."

Raphael growled low in his throat at the asshole who even dared try and push him around oh hell to the no. leo was on his side in a second with a finger in his face "don’t you dare, you step out of line again and i promise your therapist will be hearing from me" whispering harshly at the bigger turtle, fully intent on stopping any further argument. raph just bared his teeth and kept his distance for now, just wait till they were alone.

donnie shook his head in a no, but leo decided to make up his silence "no we don’t have a fighting ring, but i do perform sword fighting on occasions" he said before turning back to Donna "that’s great, you can perform with me" leo nodded to himself. "your quite welcome, its our duty to take in more of our kind i suppose you can say. here we do it because we enjoy it, or for the job. no one will force you into anything i promise." 

"totally! were like one big happy family! well most of the time, Raphie of there’s been a big shell but lately" grinning and wincing when the scared turtle smacked him. "shut up ya goof ball, i didn’t wanna be 'ere in dah first place"

"any how we should be able to fit you guys all in somewhere" motioning to the many booths filled with people and other freak show workers alike, some even performing their stunts. "or you could simply become maintenance, donnie here works on the train and fixes things when they break down. so he’s not really part of the show."

Ralph smirked as he saw the blue patterned turtle quietly scolding the supposed strong man. This guy was going down the first chance Ralph got.

Lee smiled when he was offered to join his double in a sword act. It’d be nice to perform alongside another turtle for a change instead of a human. He nodded eagerly and held his hand out for the other to shake.

"Donna heres not really good at anything so he can probably do that." Mickey grinned, throwing an arm around the shy turtle. "like a family? Cool! Hey Lee can I get tottoos too?" He asked the mute sounding excited at the idea only to have Lee shake his head and give him a stern look.

"So ya ain't got no fight ring and we ain't gonna be forced to do anything?... then so long losers." Ralph turned and went to leave only to be stopped by Donna suddenly scrambling in front of him. 

"Please? J.just give it a chance? We h.have nowhere else to go."

Leo gratefully shook his counterparts hand. only to have the Mikey’s pop in "aawww, if he got them we could totally be twins!" he laughed, "fork your tongue, sharpen your teeth and glue on a long tail, and we could be the turtle terror twins!" donnie gave a slight nudge for mikey to drop the subject who whined in defeat. 

"tch, why make 'I’m stay? 'e ain’t gotta stay. he can go fuck around somewhere else." raph snorted, but he suddenly got an evil idea, coming along with a shit eating grin. "on dah odah hand, he can work wit KC" and everyone of the senior freaks paused to stare at raphael. "no" leo stated firmly, that crazy weirdo was enough to handle by himself.

donnie shifted slightly, mikey noticed and leaned in to listen to his almost silent voice "Donnie’s right, he should stay here. its not like anyone’s going to you know.. Hire you on the spot cause of the way you look" mike pointed out.

"Awwww." Mickey said the said time as his 'terror twin'. "Hey can we like. Get fake ones for me? Or paint them on! Coz the Terror twins sounds cool and I get to keep my perfect looks." 

Lee sighed but seemed to be fine with that idea, just not wanting his little brother to do anything permanent to his body.

"Fine. I'll stay for now... who the hell is Kc?" Raph crossed his arms and looked annoyed at his couterpart.

Mikey bounced in excitement, "oh bro that’s a great idea! come on lets go find some paint! i bet casey and April have some spare pain lying around, catch you guys later!" mikey called to the group and pulled Mickey along to perform the oh so awesome transformation to his twin when he got the aye ok.

raph was ecstatic "KC’s jus a guy dat works in the slaughter house, dis place runs like an all year horror land" grinning at the thought of kc putting that ass i this place. 

"stop trying to set him up raph, you know no one likes kc" leo snapped to quiet the snerking turtle. "KC’s just another freak here, he’s very..." waving a hand to think of a word "lets just say he’s a bit crazy" donnie shuddered at his side "but besides that let me show you were you all will be sleeping, we either sleep in the train cars, or set up tents in a blocker off part of the carnival" pointing just a bit away to the area. "for your all, i think for a time you will be close to us at all times so we can show you the ropes and how things work. were not accepting guests if you couldn’t tell, we should be opening here soon" leo just kept going on and on about protocol. 

donnie glanced at the turtle newbie’s from inside his darkly shaded goggled, mostly at ralph. his curiosity of how he got all those deep looking scars, and his clouded eye was almost to much to bare. 

Raph leaned down to his side and he flinched slightly "wanna try and sneak 'way fer leo notices?" he smirked. leo might be distracted enough the group could slip away and not have to listen to the blahing leo.

raph leaned over and said the same thing to donna, waiting for the other turtles reactions

"Later guys!" Mickey called as he ran off with his soon to be twin. This was more fun than he's ever been allowed to have in his life! "Who’s Casey and April? "

"More crazy than the scarred freak here?" Ralph gestured to his double with a challenging smirk. Leo glared at Ralph in a silent warning to stop it, but It was clear that Ralph wasn’t really paying attention.

Donna fidgeted but looked to the silent covered up turtle since the big turtle had asked him too. Was it safe to go with the scarred turtle? He wouldn't go alone, but maybe if the other went as well.

Raph snarled again, stepping forward to jab his finger into the duplicated chest threateningly. "ya bettah shut yer mouth fer i shut it for ya bitch" he hissed "who the hell ya think ya are? evah look in a mirror? ya ain’t no fuckin prince charming yerself"  he was more than quickly becoming fed up with this cocky piece of shit, he could feel his temple throbbing and his knuckles twitching to wipe that smirk away.

leo immediately took action and stepped between the two with a harsh glare "stop it both of you. or i will have you both removed and forced to take away your food rations" he threatened and raph immediately backed down. 

Raph had already had it taken away several times since he had been here, and damn it wasn’t a pain in the ass. "then tell fucktard here to keep his yap shut"

donnie silently motioned for the other olive turtle to come to his side to he wasn’t in the middle of the fray of spewing alpha males. clutching his clipboard tight stared at his duplicate silently before deciding on what to do. it was obvious if those two were gonna fight, then they were gonna fight. not even he could calm the beast.

"You want a go asshole! I'm partly blind and ill still beat ya shell to the ground." He only scoffed when Leo threatened to take their food rations. "I often don't get fed, I ain't taking no shit from anyone regardless what ya threatening!"

Lee stepped infront of Ralph and pushed him back, giving him a pleading look not to start a fight but he was quickly shoved aside.

Donna was glad of an excuse to get out of there and quickly made his way to the covered turtles side. "I.is Raph u.usually violent?"

Donnie herded the other olive turtle away from the scene, other freaks would step in to stop the two; or not. everyone was a bit afraid of Raphael’s temper, and with good reason. he was the strongman for a reason. taking a moment to process the other question gave a hesitant nod. and quickly slipped through his clipboard papers, he scribbled down a few words 'he’s taking part in anger management classes. he was doing well until that' giving a slight shrug, pulled the clipboard back to his chest. might as well show donna round, sticking with those guys weren’t making it easy any how.

that was the last straw "why ya cocky piece 'a shit!" he growled and shoved leo out of the way to get to the others face, leaping toward him and swinging his fists give his copy a good, solid beating to put him in his place. he could hear a few loud shout to stop but he didn’t process them instead focused on rearranging the others face.

leo had been trying to get in between the two but ended up getting an elbow to the face so he quit. fuck that yo. "ridiculous bunch of idiots" he hissed under his breath helping lee to his feet. whatever, they would wear themselves out and would get donnie back here to fix there wounds

Donna was nervous anyway and being around a real fight was almost terrifying. He watched the other writing down and nodded his understanding. "I.I think R.Ralph need them t.too... c.can't you speak?" He didn't want to sound rude,  and he hopes that it didn’t seem like it, he was just curious since Lee was mute but communicated through signs.

Ralph wasn't a push over and gave as good as he got in a fight. This was what he lived for, he was bred to fight and he clearly was good at it too, enjoying every swing as he ripped into the asshole hat was his counter part. They were evenly matched in strength but both fought completely differently, fists and feet flying to fast for most people to keep up with yet they were matching every one of them.

Lee sighed silently as he watched the strange fight, in the flurry of attack and defence it was hard to tell who was who with the similar turtles. He signed a quick thank you as his own counterpart helped him to his feet.

Donnie nodded after a moment, glancing around if anyone was listening and indeed there were to many people around. scribbling something down again, 'i can, but i do not like to speak with others I’m not familiar with. but i hardly speak so please don’t feel offended' nervously shifting waiting for donnas reaction. he didn’t have a definite reason why he did so, he was the one who worked he longest and had a gruesome past. so sue him if he didn’t wish to let anyone get close.

raph was having a hard time getting a good punch in, they were evenly matched but even with different fighting styles were able to block or take the punch. and much like a cartoon they were both able to land a good punch in the beak. sending them both scrawling to the ground on their asses having been tuckered out from a good fight. raph hissed and rubbed his spilt lip, and laughed, slapping his knees. "well shit, ya ain’t so bad" he laughed, anyone who would defend themselves from him were ok in his book.

leo made the most constipated face ever at the two now laughing and punching each other playfully and face palmed "i don’t understand anything anymore" he huffed and whacked both the bleeding turtles on the head "you both are going to get along now i hope?" narrowing his eyes..

Raph rubbed his head with annoyed look "i dunno mom, why don ya shut up and get back ta yer desk and find out later"

Donnie shook his head at the now beasties. he would give them a moment before checking for signs of a concussion, or other problems

Donna nodded and apologised, hoping he hadn't offended the other by asking him that and not about to push and ask why. He also didn't like to talk but it was mainly around humans since they were the ones who'd abuse him.

Ralph was laughing just as much as his double. "Ya ain't so bad yaself. Damn... ain't had nobody match me in a fight in years." He prided himself on having an almost spotless record on his winnings but this turtle had matched him blow for blow. "Ow" he complained when leo hit them both. "Watch it! Jeeze, now I'm glad ours don't talk." He mumbled, glancing to where Lee was silently seething at him for getting into a fight within the first ten minutes of being here.

If those two had ears, leo would be tugging them both up by it. "just get up" rubbing his temples as he tugged the two up. 

donnie carefully approached and kindly asked his twin to hold his clipboard. he got to work checking signs for serious injury but it was hard when you patient was waggling his eye brows and winking at you. shameless flirt, but it still made Donnie’s cheeks burn. to bad the area he didn’t want to be seen was revealed. he said nothing as he nodded to himself and checked ralph as well. when nothing serious came to his attention gave a thumbs up to leo who sighed. 

"aww where ya going brainiac?" raph teased as the olive turtles retreated away from the crime scene, enjoying how donnie scrunched up and walked faster.

"control yourselves from now on yes? " leo crossed his arms looking much like lee

Donna held the others clipboard and watched with interest how he checked for injuries on the two darker scarred warriors. Donna was ok at playing doctor but he could only do so much, luckily they got seen by a real doctor if it was serious but no one else cared if it was only minor. Thinking about that made him pull his baggy shirt closed even more. He was used to being naked but he'd like to hide his bruised and scarred body... maybe this Donnie had he right idea...

Ralph watched his double with interest as he shamelessly flirted with the covered up turtle. "Ya sweet on him or something?"

Lee was just glad that they had stopped fighting,  he'd seen Ralph fight and luckily this Raph seemed to be able to handle himself against the oh so similar emerald green turtle.

Raph gave a snort "guess ya can say dat, i just wanna find out what 'es hidin under all dem clothes" he grinned crossing his arms, but leo was quick to interfere "leave him alone raph, you know he’s very nervous around you" shaking his head. 

"Calm down fearless, its snot like I’m tryin ta get in his pants; least not yet" laughing at the face leo made. "What about ya? Ya sweet on anyone?"

Donnie noticed how his twin seemed to be trying to cover himself further with his baggy shirt. He quickly scribble d a few more words down 'would you like to get out of those clothes?'

"Nah. Ain't much time to look to be fair, not between fights." Raph shrugged. Honestly he'd near really thought much about stuff like that, Lee was a pain in the shell, Mickey was a little brat... albeit a cute brat, and Donna was, just sort of there

Donna nodded is head, looking extremely grateful for the chance to get some better fitting clothes that would cover his abused body. "T.thank you."

Donnie nodded stiffly, and went to nearly silently whisper in Leos ear 

"oh of course, we will meet you both here, if you see mikey and mickey tell them the say thing" leo nodded in understanding to Donnie’s duplicate, the poor girl had been fidgeting the entire time. 

Donnie quickly made a wide arc around the Raphael’s as he was going to call them now back to donna and lead him to his own personal hide away, a small shed that used to be used for housing the equipment for the cannons. donnie stiffly jerked himself around looking for proper clothing, and found a suitable long sleeve shirt and thick jeans. gently handing them to donna. luckily they appeared to be the same size.

raph gave a pfftt, "loser" he laughed loudly but in a playful way. 

"alright you trouble makers, lets get one thing straight. don’t start fighting again while we have guest" leo warned harshly. "we will open soon, and we can show you guys what its going to be like and how things run around here"

mikey giggled and waggled his forked tongue about and with one last brush stroke jumped back with pride "yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh~! dude we are now the turtle terror twins!" admiring his work and the now hooded turtle, long artificial tail and fake fangs. "all you need now is a prince Albert and we are perfect" laughing and snorting at the thought

Donna followed his duplicate into the old shed, trusting him more than anyone else right now. He couldn't help but blinking at the covering clothes, they... actually looked like they might fit him. He slowly took off his baggy shirt, nervously exposing his scars and healed injuries to this silent turtle. He got dressed and actually took a moment just to get used to the perfect fit, he'd only been given hand me downs that were either too small or too big for him. "T.thank you." He sounded so grateful for such a simple act.

Lee mimed another thank you to Leo and gave Ralph another glare for good measure, warning him to behave. He was glad to be free from their old nightmares show but Ralph looked like he was going to be more difficult without threat of abuse to hold him in line.

"Oh. my. god" Mickey admired his new look in the mirror, taking a moment to confirm that it was indeed him in he mirror. He looked so... like a freak! He always looked so perfect and now he looked freaky and a little scary, but luckily it was all fake, apart from the tongue he looked so similar to his twin. Well the tongue and ... "what's a prince albert?"

Grabbing his clipboard once again, donnie nodded his head. it wasn’t like he would give the poor turtle anyone else’s clothes, they probably wouldn’t fit. he decided not to ask about the many scares and bruises, he had been there himself. it wasn’t something he ever liked to bring up or even talk about. after the clothed were all on they headed back to meet the small group.

Mikey’s jaw dropped but smirked widely and puffed out his chest proudly. "its a piercing dude, you know down there" pointing to his crotch and playfully wiggling his hips. ""i always wanted to get one, but it got a butt load! i almost didn’t have enough! and the pain oh my god-" he swooned at the memory "but soooooooo worth it! ya wanna see it?" he nearly bounced in excitement at the thought of being able to show a newbie his favourite body warption.

Lee smiled as he saw his the nervous turtle actually dressed in clothes that fit him normal, signing that it looked good on him.

Ralph looked like he very much agreed too. The clothes hid his ugly scars but not his figure that the baggier clothes did. Actually the nervous olive turtle didn't look half bad.

"What you pierced your?... Can I see?" He was shocked that you could even do that, it must hurt like hell and that was one thing he defiantly wouldn't do to copy his twin. "Doesn't that feel weird?"

Leo to smiled at the other turtle who appeared to feel much more comfortable now that he was wearing proper clothes. "you seem to feel much more comfortable, ill be sure to get some outfits in your size after we figure out what you job will be donna" 

Raph nodded his head to with a raise of his brows "damn, look a lot bettah with that on" he chuckled at how much alike the two Donnie’s were, quiet and fidgety.

mikey did a fist bump and nodded "kinda, like after awhile you forget and stuff, well at least i do" giggling he rubbed his slip a few times to soften the hard shell, and out slipped his pierced dick, " i present you; prince albert! oh and a ladder, i forgot about that pfftt-" pointing to  many silver balls lining his turtle d.

“T.thank you. I.I've never had my own clothes before." He said quietly, still not used to being treated so nicely. Usually he was naked unless he was around guests, then he had whatever they could find to shove him in to hide his obvious abuse. Donna flushed violently at Raph’s statement, fidgeting as he felt like everyone was staring at him.

Mickey stared at the many shiny objects along his counterparts pierced member. There were so many! "Do they hurt?" Surely that had to hurt! Yet he still felt curious to ask "can I touch them?"

Raph gave a smirk watching donnas cheeks change in colour, well, interesting. donnie nudged the fidgeting turtle slightly as in 'its ok' still keeping himself quiet none the less. 

"say, now that i think about it, s'not like ya looked bad wit so little clothes" waggling his eye brows at the now blushing duo. holy shit this was suddenly becoming one of his favourite past times, how red can he get a pair of twin turtles? 

Leo on the other hand didn’t like it so much "leave her alone raphael, i don’t think she needs you haggling her" crossing his arms and tapping his sandal covered foot, jeez those so called terror twins better get here soon.

mikey moaned in agony at the thought "you have no idea dude, i had to ice my crotch for weeks afterward!" and lit up at the idea "sure! no smoke and mirrors, you cant fake this shit!" he giggled

Donna looked like he was trying to retreat into his shell, bright red and embarrassed by both Rapbs statements and Leos defence which was unintentionally a backhanded statement in itself

Lee tried to stop his counterpart but the other didn't seem to see him in time to stop his mistake. He instead shoved Raph to stop /him/ talking instead. They may not all be as close as these guys were but they looked after their own and Donna was clearly uncomfortable. 

Ralph suddenly seemed to chock on unsaid words as he heard Leos statement. "She!? Donna ain't a girl asshole. And he don't need you saying any different." He defended the shy turtle who seemed to be too embarrassed and uncomfortable to even try and stick up for himself.

"So why'd you do it? If it hurts so much how come you have so many?" It didn't make any sense to the fairly innocently ex-pet. Reaching out he gently ran a finger across a couple of the shiny silver balls along the sea green and artificially silver cock

Leo literally choked on his own flippin words and flushed a bright red covering his mouth in shock "o-oh gosh I’m so sorry! I just- i thought- Donna is just-" he took a deep breath to control himself "i am so sorry, i should have asked i wasn’t sure, i truly am sorry for the mix up" bowing slightly "the name donna just clicked in my brain as a females name, please forgive me"

despite that Raph whipped to the side to give a harsh glare at lee for shoving him. "the fuck was that for?!" he snapped but actually was able to take his classes advice and count to ten in his mind and just growled and looked away. he was tired for this shit. it was now that he realized just how nervous donna looked and kinda faltered watching their own Donnie try and awkwardly sooth him. "ah" he breathed in realization and rubbed the back of his neck.

Mikey made a face as if remembering why "cause bro, they look so cool~" grinning proudly and flicking his long tail about as the hesitant touch cragged over the metal balls "it sucks goin through those metal detectors though" snorting at his own joke watching with awe as his new twin stared at his cock as it had the answers to the universe

"Yeah it is a girls name. 'S part the reason he weren't in our show. They wanted a girl turtle not Donna." Ralph growled hotly. With no place for another male Donna was given the jobs no one wanted and was also the resident punching bag when the bosses got angry.

Donna was beyond embarrassed at being mistaken for a girl /again/  and had his arms wrapped around his chest as if making himself small. He was bright red and stayed slightly away from the rest of the group, glad that at least Donnie seemed to understand and be trying to help in his awkward silent way.

Mickey was gently touching each ball and moving them slightly now and then. The 'prince Albert' caught his attention but he was more nervous of touching that, gently pushing and moving it a little and amazed that it didn't seem to be hurting his twin

Leo raised his hands to Ralph, being all naw yo i wasn’t even talking to you. "As i said i apologize, I’m not the best with appearances, I’m colour blind and your skin looks like a pink to me"

Donnie ignored the bickering group, he knew that could be embarrassing and humiliating to be called a girl. But it is hard to tell if a turtle is male or female. 

The covered turtle flipped his goggles to the lightest setting so  his eyes were visible. "Stop." He actually spoke with a glare to the other bickering turtles. 

Leo paused when donnie actually spoke to the group, that was a first. Even if it was a simple word.

Raph’s eyebrows shot up when donnie spoke, he had yet to hear the little turtle speak it was weird and awesome to finally get out of donnie. Watching the olive turtle trying to comfort his twin everyone.

Mikey hummed slightly but giggled "aha dude anymore touching and you would be giving me a handy" making a weird giggle. And slipped himself casiously back inside his shell.

Ralph crossed his arms and glared at Leo. "And I'm half blind in one eye. Don't give me no excuse to be an asshole to Donna like that. Lee was trying to keep Ralph calm since he understood that it was just an embarrassing mistake on Leos part.

Everyone stopped when the previously silent turtle spoke for the first time, Lee had actually thought that he might be mute aswell until now. 

Donnie looked up from the point on he floor that had seemed to fascinate him when he was trying to make himself small. His counterpart had managed to stop the arguing with a single word!

Mickey blinked as he watched the other carefully hiding this cock back into his sell. "Handy?" When it came to things like this he had no idea with slang words.

The leaf green turtle sent his own annoyed glare at ralph, it was bad enough he made the mistake; he didn’t need to be judged and persecuted over and over for it. "It was a simple misunderstanding an i truly an sorry and have apologized. There is no reason to continue hounding me about it" crossing his arms defensively after everyone one quieted. But any further words died in his throat with Donnie’s stare.

Donnie felt his own cheeks flush now having all the attention on him and quickly flipped his glasses back to the darkest setting to hide his eyes, fidgeting just like donna. Now that that was under control turned back to donna and scribbled down a message 'Leos very large picture sort of person, he doesn’t realize small details unless he needs to'

Mikey cocked his head in his own surprise and herded his new twin back to the group. "You know! A hand job? You must not of experienced-" he paused and made an imaginary rainbow above his head "the wonders of sex!"

Raph’s attention focused on the approaching now twin turtle terrors. "How much ya guys wanna bet mike showed the kid his dick"

Ralph growled but bit back a retort because of the glare Lee was giving him. He was just really defensive of Donna because he'd done some pretty bad things to him in the past, Donna originally meant to breed with him when Donna was thought to be a girl.

"I.its ok.. I s.should be used t.to it." The breeders he was bought from had sold him as a female, apparently he looked quite feminine since there always seemed to be confusion. It wasn't Leos fault, just a misunderstanding,  if the others hadn't have corrected him he wouldn't have done it himself.

"Uh, no. I've been chemically castrated." He said as of it was a common thing. He'd had it done as a child so didn't know any different or that it wasn't exactly something someone would usually choose to do. It meant he didn't really get turned on either unless he was physically being stimulated and that had never happened. "Why would I have sex when we're all males though?" The innocent turtle thought sex was only for breeding and he could do that so didn't see the point.

Lees eyes went wide when he heard what Raph said. He must have misheard right? Why would Mikey show Mickey his... oh god. He didn't know if any of the others understood his signs but he was trying to ask why the hell he would do that. Lee being over protective of his little brother

Donnie felt a harsh stab in his heart at the others words, remembering reading the bios of these newbie’s. donna was supposedly bought for illegal breeding only for them to find donna a boy, at least his new clothes gave him more of a boyish look. the name though might through some people off.

mikey jaw dropped and shook his new friend like he had grown a second head "are you crazy?? donnnieeeeeeeeee! we have a virgin! besides you now!" mikey giggled when the olive turtle whipped around dangerously "aheh, you know...not that that’s a bad thing..." trying to play it off. raph snorted hearing the comment and raised a brow at the quickly signing turtle near by, and guess what? he had no clue what the hell he was saying. "you are missing out bro! you can have sex with any gender~" grinning displaying his sharp pointed teeth missing the desperate signing of lee. "did you not get the sex talk?! holy crap guys this is my time to shine!"

Leo face palmed when the two finally made it back, nodding slightly at the others new outfit. "mikey please, we don’t need you displaying yourself to everyone. no one really was to see...it" leo started "and don’t put any ideas into his head, who knows what weird things you are able to come up with" mikey whined and wagged his tail.

Lee gave a frustrated groan, a vague gurgled noise coming from his throat once he realised that no one understood him. Trying to make his point he pulled Mickey away from Mikey and stood protectively in front of him.

Unfortunately for Lee Mickey was now curious. "Really? But... sex is just for breeding isn’t it?" He asked trying to get around his brother to go back to his twin and discover 'the wonders of sex' "I can't breed."

Ralph didn't realise how innocent Mickey was. "Jeeze kid, how can ya not know /that/" He laughed. Both him and Leo had been studded out at least once for illegal breeding, not knowing if it was successful or not since their boss wasn't responsible for any clutches that came from the deal, the cops couldn't trace the crime to him that way. Ralph had also assaulted Donna during mating season a few times, the first time being when Donna was newly bought and the reason they discovered /he/ wasn't a she.

Donna hugged himself tighter at the talk of virgins. "M.must be nice to still be i.innocent." He said under his breath, talking to himself and smiling sadly. He envied Mickey for a lot of things. Since the youngest didn't hit season he was never a target or in any danger of sexual assault,  and he was too precious to be physically abused as well

"heck yeah dude! people do it for lots of other reasons to, like for the pleasure, orrrrrrrr to be all i love you baby-" leo did slap a hand over Mikey’s blabbering mouth with a slight annoyed look. "i believe i said to stop before you ruin another innocent brain with your strange kinks and fantasies. there’s no telling you have already showed him your crotch. that i still disapprove of you doing by the way" he teased slightly, but mikey grinned behind his mouth cover and siddled up to his mate. "aww~ your jelly!"

donnie felt his heart throb out for his twin but remained silent. it simply wasn’t fair, he read the bios and donna might not have been part of the show before, but he certainly had the worst background. just like him. with a trembling hand scribbled down a small note for only donna to see 'innocence has nothing to do with you, your fine the way you are. what happened to you was not fair to you in anyway shape or form' he quickly wrote a bit more 'your safe from all that here '

leo faltered at the mention of mating or breeding. "that is a subject i should touch on. when mating season rolls around our show is down for a week or so to let the hormones pass. we usually try and the more 'alpha males' i suppose you could say or the most aggressive are separated from the least demanding." he explained "in other words, its a way to keep the 'alphas' from flipping and going crazy for a potential mates scent. there are a few exceptions like if you have a mate you are to secure yourself together or apart to wait it out. but those are rare cases. we usually divide everyone up"

"Awww. But I wanna hear!" Mickey complained as Leo stopped Mikey from telling him about sex. "Do you guys have sex?" He pouted when Leo nudged him and gave his trademark 'shut up and forget about it' glare. "B.but.. you never let me have any fun!" He whined at his big brother.

Donna actually teared up slightly as he read Donnie’s note. He'd never had anyone say anything as nice as that to him. Was he really safe now? He wasn't even sure what was safe since he'd learnt to always be alert and do whatever he was told to make his life easier on himself. He was told he was useless so many times he had come to believe it himself. 

"Wish we'd had something like that before." Ralph grunted, once again feeling guilty about what he'd done to Donna in the past. "Ya better have a strong cage waiting for me then." He warned, knowing he was fiercely aggressive during his season.

Leo felt his own cheeks burn slightly at Mickey’s question and coughed slightly, forgetting he was holding Mikey’s mouth "sure dude! leos my home boy" giggling when leo once more slapped his hand across his mouth. "please ignore him" 

while donnie and donna had their own little nearly silent conversation everyone else blabbed away. raph crossed his arms with a slight look, he wasn’t the brightest guy alive' but that meant something bad must haven happened in the past for him to need a more protective surrounding. "got cages all shapes in sizes, ya aint gonna have a problem" he snorted "it aint to bad wit no submissive scent hanging around, but damn its hard" and he knew from experience dude.

a loud shrill of a whistle alerted the freak show goers the guests were to be let in in a few minutes and leo went into serious mode. "that whistle tells us when we open and close. and since its your first day you we will most likely slip up or stay as a group depending on your reference" leo straightened his swords on his shoulder and guided them all to his own little booth/performing area. "we aren’t necessarily confined to a booth, your more than welcome to walk around and perform. mess with the guests but don’t touch unless they touch you first" leo said

donnie felt it was necessary to try and tell donna he didn’t actually work in the performing area, so he asked if he would like to just sit at one of the food booths or other novelty booths using his wrinkled paper.

"Ya best hope ya right there pal. All this strength can do some damage, an I ain't got the best control" He warned his copy as they followed Leo to his booth.

Lee stayed with Leo since they were both sword acts and they other had mentioned working together before, adjusting his own swords and belts to prepare to perform. This set up was so different from what he was used to, the other show being more of a circus style set up for their performers and a cage for the fighters with a few wagons of animals and different attractions.

"I'm sticking with Mikey!" Mickey declared with a wild grin on his face. This was going to be so fun and he could even get answers from Mickey without his brother being a killjoy about it.

Donna was grateful and agreed it would probably be best for him to be selling stuff since he wasn't good and anything to perform. He did ask if Donnie was going to be at a booth though or if he was going to go off and do something else.

Leo decided to answer before raph could” I am highly aware, raph has the same problem" he responded only to get a slight growl from Raphael. "Ya sayin somethin fearless?" The leader just ignored him when they made it to leos booth, waving to Mickey and Mikey when his mate dragged him to the entrance. Mike loved to greet the visitors. "Yyeaahhh!~ were gonna go greet the folks! Oh and we always have to greet; welcome to the lower birth, the greatest show unearthed!" He giggled as they dived in from of the curtain only to startle some humans.

Raph scowled "i aint hanging round yer shit leo. 'M goin ta mah own booth" raph said without and care and offered his new buddy to follow or stay with the butt plugs; he could careless.

Donnie gave a hesitant nod as they took over the food booth from a two tailed lizard. 'I do what i can here, i don’t like to be around when we have guests but its just so you can get used to how things will be' he scribbled quickly. "Well lookie here, got ya two ta keep us company" raph grinned when he got to his own booth which coincidently was right across the olive turtles food wagon

Mickey laughed and ran alone with his twin as they scared the unsuspecting turtle. Honestly Mikey was only a little nervous of being around humans, mainly just not knowing what to do or how to act. He was just following Mikey’s lead and trying to learn his strange song like chant.

Ralph shrugged and followed his counterpart to the strongman booth, grinning at Donna and Donnie when he saw that they were right opposite them at a food wagon.

Donnie nervously tried to familiarize himself with the wagon before any guests came in, stopping once in a while to read a note from Donnie. "I..I just do what ever I'm told to do for the day... u.usually s.selling tickets, c.cleaning o.or sometimes I.I have to h.help with a p.performance" Donna only stuttered when he was nervous, which was almost all the time. He hoped that everything would go alright today and they could just get used to their new home.

Mikey laughed and recited the phrase, and pulled back the curtains to allow everyone inside. Giggling and randomly commenting or nipping as people passed "just go all loosey goosey~ and when you get more out going we could totally say the same things at the same time, and mimic each other you know!?" Turtle terror laughed and bounced excitedly "this is gonna be so much fun!"

Raphael patted his hands with a bit of chalk, cracked, and stretched his joint for his upcoming lifting. "Dun sweat it donna, ya get the occasional asshole whose gotta comment. But hey a mouth full of 'is own teeth shuts 'I’m up pretty quick" the emerald turtle grinned at the memory. 

Donnie shook his head, bad idea despite how much the man deserved it. 'Its alright, you maybe come one of the maintenance workers if you don’t have any for a lack of a better term freak nature.' The covered turtle quickly scribbled. 

Leo calmed himself with a meditation like stance while mostly human guest started to pour from the curtains. A faint mad laugh along with a revving of a chainsaw was the signal to everyone they were indeed open. 

Raph punched his fists "ya can lift heavy shit cant cha?" He grinned at his duplicate.

"Aww that'd be awesome!" Mickey grinned, bouncing slightly as he pretended to drop the curtain on someone, only to catch it before it came down on top of them.

Ralph copied his look a like in chalking his hands and stretching. "I'm probably stronger 'an you." He challenged, the competition would make up for the fact there wasn't a fight ring here and Raph had already proven he could give him a challenge.  "And yeah Donna, don't sweat it. Some asshole give ya trouble just call out and we'll sort em out for ya."

Donna saw the first few guest coming over and suddenly it was like he was replaced by a different turtle. His stance was more relaxed and happy and his fake smiling was eerily convincing. There was no sign of any nerves or shyness, he was the last turtle you'd expect to have a dark past. "Hi, my Names Donna. How can I help you?" He addressed the first customer without so much of a single stutter

Lee sat down on a stool at Leos booth and started to sharpen his swords up for a show. His blades weren’t as impressive as his twins and the cheaper metal blunted very easily which was why he had to carry a sharpening stone with him at all times

Mikey nodded and giggled, waggling his tongue at someone who walked faster "see? its fun!" letting the curtain fall once the flow slowed. "any questions newbie?~ cause we literally have hours to kill" rattling his chains and bouncing happily at random times.

Raphael smirked and punched his fist "dat a challenge chrome dome?" eyes flashing with mirth at the idea of a challenge. nodding along with his twin at his words. no way he would let anyone pick on Donnie, that was his job only damn it. he went for one of the tires near by, and with a grunt was able to lug it over his head. "beat that " he grinned and tossed the tire away uncaring for the small crowd they formed. "bring it mofo" he challenged playfully

donnie had to pause and watch Donna work, he was like a whole new person. he turned slightly to appear he wasn’t watching but far from it, he didn’t like that one bit. no one just goes from a nervous mess to a perfect employee in seconds. "hi, can I get a hot dog please?" the man asked a bit werided out that there were turtles working at the food stand, but the two worked together and got the man his food, and he quickly paid and wandered off. donnie nudged him slightly and quickly scribbled a few words 'what’s wrong?'

"So what else do we do? Uh... to be honest I'm still curious about sex now. Do you and Leo really?" Mickey asked with a childlike wonder and curiosity, not even knowing how two guys could do that

"Maybe it is" Raph grinned as he watched his copy throw the tire. It took him a tad longer to mimic what the other done because of his bad knees but he managed to match him. "Lay down the rules and ill smash ya shell into da dirt!"

Donna fidgeted slightly, pulling on the bottom of his shirt to make sure it stayed down now that they had a few moments along again. "Ah. I... I.its just an a.act.... t.ta make people think... I.I have to act n.normal." If people suspected abuse then Donna was in trouble. If he acted as scared of humans as he was or they got a compliant or comment about him then he would be beaten and punished. Slowly he'd created this persona to call upon when he was in public around humans, it wasn't normal and was probably not helping his mental state much, seeming to border on a controlled form of Jekyll and Hyde disorder

Mikey lazily waggled around like he was jacked up on mountain dew. Totally ignoring the what else do we do for now for the more important topic yo "yeah dude! Were matey mates and stuff. Well only a few times since we just made it to that level" poking his clawed fingers together "what do you wanna know? There’s alllllll sorts of stuff i can teach you young padawan" he grinned "sex isnt just for mating and making little ones, you can have it for pleasure orrrrr to show someone you love then and all that mushy stuff" poking his twins chest "come on how do you not know that!? I mean booty sex is like magic"

"Alright how bout dis? Lift as much as ya can, when one of us cant lift, they loose. Losers gotta do whatever dah oddah says" holding his hand out with a grin, no way he was loosing this one.

Donnie held his clip board tighter, digging his nails into the scratched wood. How disgusting this turtle had been put in such a mind set his personality was switched to please those humans. With his insides boiling quickly scribbled a bit of a longer note 'your safe here and no ones going to hurt you here, and i know no one here will let that happen again. You can be yourself, no smoke and mirrors. There’s no need to act as if everything is right as rain. It will only hurt YOU more'

"So it feels good? Mating season isnt so good though. But Maybe if feels better when you go though it?" Mickey shrugged, honestly he didn't really understand what mating season even was apart from Ralph and Lee got really moody and violent, mainly Ralph though. "I can't feel that though"

"Pfff no problem shell for brains. Your going down." Ralph grinned cockily and shook his others hand. He wasn't going to lose to anyone even outside the ring.

Donna shuddered slightly and sadly shook his head. "I.I don't want p.people seeing me l.like this." He was scared enough of humans without them either pitying him or judging him for how pathetic he was. He had no self worth and didn't want people to know that he was so worthless. He still didn't believe that no one would hurt him here, he'd gotton so used to his abuse that he couldn't imagine life without it.

Mikey’s face plummeted "you cant? Awww dude your missing out. Its so cool and all the different positions are just- ahhh~" he sighed just thinking about it. Whoops! Don’t wanna get a stiffy when not wearing any clothes. "I don’t like all the hormone junk, but i kinda like mating season. I just think its funny to see all the alpha dudes go all crazy" laughing more to himself than anything. Only to suddenly stop "hey isnt that coming up soon? Or am i getting hoagie Thursday mixed up again??"

Raph flexed a bit more than necessary bow that donnie was watching along with a small group of curious freak show goers. "Hold on ta yer shell, its gonna be a hard ass whoopin" and after a moment to steady his extra patted knees, was able to lift an anvil with a slight growl over his head. Only to let it fall to the floor with a loud slam.

Donnie felt a lot of sympathy for the olive turtle, surprisingly they were a lot alike. He wasn’t wandering around when they were open. He didn’t like associating with humans either 'i understand donna. If you wish we can go back to where the animals are kept. Its an open area and its where i work on the canons. That way you don’t have to be around everyone'

"Nah. I don't really understand it, ya'd have to get Donna explain it to you. I don't hot season and I don't feel 'in the mood'... wait, that’s the right term yeah?" He was so confused about sex and lust. "Uh...  Ralph’s pretty scary during season, and he and Lee fight a lot. Donnas always more scared around that time." Mickey shrugged. He never really paid attention to when or why things happened,  no one paid attention to him during their seasons.

Ralph wasn't as used to lifting anything but his opponents, taking longer to lift the anvil but then showing off even more once he did by throwing it slightly in front of him.

Donna nodded his head and agreed to get away from the humans with a little sigh. He was used to being just in the background and staying out of sight. Part of him thought that it was Donnie’s way of saying that he wasn't good enough to tend to the booth but he pushed those fears to the back of his mind, Donnie wasn't like that, he was just trying to help

Mikey felt bad for his twin "me neither brosif. I don’t go into the cycle; dunno why but i do get hot and bothered randomly during the season" shrugging "old Raphie boys a handful too, he’s all grrr spread legs me mate you" he tried mimicking the larger turtles voice. "Don’t lemmr forget cause it goes in one ear and out the other"

Raph had to nod at his duplicates display and could tell he was getting close to the others limit, he was about to taunt Ralph when he say the twin olive turtles leaving the food booth and asking another worker to take over "wonder where there goin" he grunted more to himself. "Alright shell fer brains, lift a dumb bell with t'ree hundred lbs and ill call dis shit a draw"

Donnie quickly led the other back past the tarps and booths separating the free area from the actual show. 'There’s not much to do back here but your free to do as you please' he quickly wrote down, donnie went straight for the many strange or with deformities. Usually this was Raphs job but he was growing fond of spike and slash; raphs two headed pet turtle.

"Oh I know why. I had these weird injection thingies when I was little so I don't, you know, get the urge to mate. I thought sex was just mating though. I didn't realise you could do it for pleasure... or with a guy for that matter." He explained as he looked around at everything that was going on, he really didn't get out much and his was all so exciting for him just to be outside and allowed to walk around. Mickey burst out laughing at his twin copying the hot head turtle. "Ahahaha I can so see Ralph like that."

"Hey where’s Donna off too?" He asked as he looked over and saw the two shy turtles leaving their booth. "Call it a draw? Heh, sounding cocky there bud." Ralph snorted before adding more chalk to his hands to get a better grip before taking hold of the heavy weight to start the lift.

Donna looked around at the mutated and deformed animals in the cages, following Donnie over to the two headed turtle. "W.whats happening with sleeping arrangements?" He wondered whether they all slept together like they did at the other show of if they slept separately.

"Its freaky how close they are in attitude isnt it!?" Suddenly gasping "oh dude we gotta mess with them, its to great to resist" he squealed "step back bro! Doctor prankenstein is going to strike again" he quickly fled their post to his little secret water balloon stash. "How about water balloons to the face?? But you gotta hit and run like hell!" Laughing happily at the thought. 

Raph gave a small shrug "bet there goin ta Donnie’s work space, Don looked like he was gonna crawl inta his shell" actually forgetting they were on duty and indeed working. He would have to ask about that later. Actually missing ralph lifting and only turned his attention back when the loud slam of the weights were dropped down "shit, guess we are matched"

Donnie quickly fed the little turtles/turtles before placing them back gently into their cage.  And answered the other 'you all should be able to have your own tent if you wish, but if you feel more comfortable having someone with you until you have adjusted that would be fine'

Mickey loved to mess with Ralph there was only one thing that held him back. "But... we're working. Won't we get punished?" Mickey never got hurt enough to leave marks but he'd get starved or punished in other ways if he caused trouble or broke rules, the worse being left out in the open tied to a stump on his own, being scared of getting left behind or forgotten about. He liked it here, wanting to stay in everyone’s good books so he didn't get punished or abandoned. 

Ralph was panting and sat down to massage his aching knees. His padding and supports weren't the best and didn't really so much against heavy lifting. "Y.ya manage a hell of a lot better than m.me though"

"M.Mickey can't b.be by himself." Donna said quickly. They would hopefully be together or Mickey would stay with Mikey if the turtle terror didn't already share with Leo.

"Pfftt this isnt my job, i do what i want. I do escape acts cause I’m like Harry Houdini! " he giggled and held the now full water balloons "like Leo said no ones going to get mad, were kinda free roaming, but there should always be someone in the food booths" pointing out randomly. "Ok we gotta get up on the booths so they don’t see us coming, then when they are pissed as heckle and start tryin to climb up, jump down to the other side and run as fast as you can to leo and lee!" He waggled his tongue about quieting themselves now positioned over the bulky turtles. "Ready??"

Raph patted the others shoulder and cracked his fingers, "lots a practice, ill get ya some better wraps and shit fer yer knees. I got bad ones too, these do wonder fer me" pointing to his own only to get a face full of water balloon. "MIKEY!!!"

donnie gave a little nod and stored the information away for later, 'Mikey doesn’t like to be alone either' he scribbled as he adjusted and checked all the locks on the cages to be sure they were all locked and secure. 'Its probably scary to be here all alone any how, you just got here'

"In not your job?... so what is our job?" Mickey assumed his job was to go around and entertain or freak out the guests. "Ok so... just throw and run?" Mickey asked as he picked up a water balloon himself.

"I'd still whoop you ass of ya had a ring here" Ralph grinned cockily. "Yeah these are a bit shit. Barely last a few fights and apparently ain't to good at lifting either." He started to work his knees deeper before they were suddenly hit by something that splashed water up into his face. "Oi! What he shell!" He turned to see Mikey and Mickey laughing from the roof of a stall nearby. "You little shit!"

"A.actually s.so far its not as scary as where we were." Donna admitted with a sad smile. So far everyone seemed really nice and helpful. It was a little overwhelming actually to be treated as an equal. It was probably because they'd only met other turtles though, other animals couldn't really treat them like animals like they’d always been treated.

Mikey squealed as the darker turtles screamed at them, "jump dude!" he pulled Mickey along to the other side of the booth giving them a head start and darted to the twin leaf green turtles performing and minding their own business. Mickey dived behind leo who was just about to breath fire when the two took cover behind him "ahhh! leo! raphs going crazy again" half screaming half giggling to himself. 

Leo narrowed his eyes at the charging twin turtles and held up his sword threateningly "what do you think your both doing?" 

Raph snarled and wiped his drenched bandana "ya fuckin kiddin?! those lil-" 

"i was talking to them, not you two" and mikey made and awkward laugh.

donnie didn’t respond right away, 'i would hope you don’t feel scared here. you haven’t met everyone yet but you will in time,' he stopped for a moment debating on his next note 'i know it took me a while to adjust when i first arrived'

Mickey ran as fast as he could to dive behind Lee as his twin did the same. Like Leo Lees hands came up to hold his swords threateningly, only he looked more like he was accusing the scarred turtles and took a step forward to glare and point his swords directly at Ralph. 

"Oh back off Lee, he deserves it." Ralph growled while shooting his own glare at Mickey. 

Mickey made himself small as Leo sounded angry or annoyed at them, they were in trouble weren’t they? He always tried to be a good boy and now he was going to get punished on his first day here!

Donna looked at that last note and then back to Donnie. It made sense that he 'arrived here' but it just never occurred to him. Lee and Mickey were toddlers when they were bought and Raph was a young child. Donna was a lot older and arrived just before his preteens. "Y.you weren't a.always here?"

"What have i told you about messing with your pointless pranks " leo scoffed and kept the two snarling turtles at bay "next time mikey, I’m not going to protect you, despite being my mate i will not stop raphael from destroying you because of your actions" leo sighed an placed his swords away. 

"Are ya fuckin kiddin!? That lil shit does it all the time! Ya aint even gonna punish him!?" Raph growled just aching to teach the squirt a lesson 

"what am i to punish him with? He’s only messing with you both. As much as he deserves a form of punishment i find it hilarious you both let them get to you" leo crossed his arms like a know it all. Mikey grinned an gave the thumbs up to his twin "but don’t think I’m finished with you Michelangelo, stop dragging innocent victims into your shenanigans" rolling his eyes.

"This is fuckin bullshit, ya always let him get away wit stuff. But when i do somethin ya get all up in mah shell" raph narrowed his eyes at the other turtles 

"that’s because you are prone to more violent out burst, mikey was only messing with you both" with that leo gently guided lee to lower his blades.

Donnie jerked away like donnas words had burned him but quickly corrected himself. It took a full minute for the olive turtle to respond 'yes an no. I have been here the longest' don thought of his next scribbles carefully 'I’ve been here for a long time, but i wasn’t always part of this show' handing donna the note to read only to dig his nails into the wood of his clipboard

Mickey stayed curled up behind his brother and trusted him to protect him and the over protective mute didn't let him down as he gave Ralph a look that could melt steel with its intensity. 

"Don't worry Mickey, ill get ya back for that." Ralph growled, the two of them wound each other up all the time so it wasn't much different then usual.

Lee shot his double a glare as he lowered his blades and then made a gesture towards the scarred turtles that was very accusing before he offered Mickey a hand up and hugged him gently since he seemed a little worried. 

Ralph only growled deeper. "Just because he's ya bro don't mean ya gotta take his side all the time. He fucking deserves some punishment for a change.

Donna flinched as his twin jerked so suddenly from him question. "S.sorry I d.didn't mean to.... y.you don't have to tell m.me" Donna felt like he'd hit something deeply personal and saw how tense the painfully shy turtle suddenly was. "I.I understand if y.you don't w.want to..."

Raphs fuse died down but was still ticked over this stupid thing "just ya lil shits wait, we'll get ya back" grunting he turned along with his twin back to his booth. "I’m all up fer stuffin spiders in Mikey’s pillow case "raph piped up when they were out of ear shot.

Leo rubbed his beak when mikey tried to suck up to him by kissing his cheeks and hug him. "I didn’t know you too were brothers" leo decided to ignore his mate for the time to speak with lee and mickey. "Told you mickey, Leos like raph repellent" giggling to himself.

Donna quickly wrote 'its alright donna, you didn’t know. I just have triggers about my past' he looked at donna through his darkly shaded goggles and thought. Only mikey and leo knew why and how he got here. 'I guess its only fair you know my past, i read all of your bios before you arrived. But i wont tell you. If you really want to know talk to leo or mikey' an with that donnie turned to sit and grab his tool box. He liked to keep his past to himself, but he did feel like he invaded the newbie’s privacy by reading what they did at their past show. Keeping to himself now he motioned that they would be closing soon.

Ralph followed his double muttering ugly curse under his breath about unfair treatment and mainly pissed at Lee. "To bad we're so used to bugs, gonna have to think of something better for Mickey and Lee."

Lee nodded as he looked over his protesting little brother, just making sure he wasn't marked or injured which was a lot harder under all the paint he was wearing now. 

"Yeah dude! Totally worked." Mickey grinned, only to get smacked across the back of his head by Lee. "Ow! Yeah we're brothers. But I'm the pretty one"

"Sorry..." Donna suddenly seemed to pale once he heard that his twin had read their bios, so he knew /everything/. He had hoped to keep their past as secret as possible but apparently that wasn't an option after all. "O.oh... I.its fine... y.your past is your b.buisness..."

"yeah i dun like bugs anyway" raph grumbled rubbing his neck to think of some kind of revenge "what’s that lil punk 'fraid of?" raph asked, "might as well do it on all of them, cause why the fuck not. leos been pissin me off since i got here" growling and deciding not to go back to their booth, to instead just venture around and lunge at random people.

mikey whined when leo did the same, rubbing his abused spot. "no kidding, totally the pretty one" mikey grinned, technically he was commenting himself so two in one whoop! "leos just got no sense of style, i mean look at him-" he motioned to the miss matching colours "but then again your colour blind soooO~" mikey laughed while leo huffed and a bit of pink stung his cheeks. 

"why don’t you run along,-" but suddenly the bell echoed through the area, closing was in 5 minutes. "ah, perfect, closing." leo repeated from his mind. 

Donnie felt awful that he actually sat down to read their information and curled slightly 'I’m sorry, I’m the only one who knows anything about you guys. i was going to keep it to myself.' god why did he have to get stuck reading them? now he felt like a weirdo. and the covered turtle gave a helpless shrug, but instantly stood, 'quitting time' he hastily wrote and grabbed his clipboard and led the way out

"Our wagons were full of em. Ya get used to em after awhile" Ralph shrugged. He'd had a fear of bugs as a kid but when you were around them all the time you have to get used to them eventually. "Mickey? He's a little prince. Dun get punished like the rest of us coz he always gotta look so perfect. Terrified of being alone though."

"Yeah well your the pretty one of your group" Mickey grinned cheekily as he mirrored the two sided compliment. "Ooo he's colorblind?  At least you can understand him. Donnas the only one who reads signs. Lee sighed and rolled his eyes, once again hitting his brother upside the head and pointing away from the booth to tell him to leave.

"I.its ok... w.we're new a.and it makes sense for y.you to read up on us... I.I trust you not to say anything." Donna smiled awkwardly. Honestly it might be a good thing that only the silent turtle knew about them, he could help them out but wouldn't tell anyone else about them.

Raph grunted in thought "lil squirts are jus' gonna have ta wait then. be really shitty ta shove 'I’m in the animal cage on 'is first day" he might be an asshole but he wasn’t about to do that....well maybe to mikey. "whateva we can think of that crap later, I’m ready ta hit the hay, and mikey when i see him"

leo led them all back to the tents where many others were heading as well, some still locking up for the night. "since i didn’t have time to request more tents from splinter, you all can bunk with one of us. i don’t very well care whom-" 

"ah dude lemma sleep with you! and lee and mickey can have my tent!" leo gave him a look and gave a look to the others if that was ok 

"don’t you think we should ask them? right now they are our guests and should be comfortable" 

"woulda loved dat treatment buttplug" raph grunted when he and ralph passed heading to his own tent....only to realize it wasn’t going to be big enough for the both of them, not that he was going to share with ralph anyway. that was his space, no way he was letting anyone in it. "well fuck" he mumbled crossing his arms.

donnie simply nodded leading donna back to the turtle group trying to sort out sleeping arrangements. "well, you and donnie switch them. donnie and donna are smaller and you should be fine, if that’s alright with them" leo spoke up witnessing the olive turtles coming to a stop near them.

Lee held Mickey and seemed to decide he wanted to stay with him, nodding his head to Mikey that he could stay with Leo. "Oooook, guess I'm with Lee then" Mickey laughed.

Ralph also didn't like to share his space with anyone and just crossed his arms looking pissed. "So I gotta share a tent?" He grunted and looked around the assortment of turtles. Looks like he was either with Donna or Donnie then.

"I.I have to share with R.Ralph or Raph.." Donna asked, sounding more nervous then usual and only Donnie and Lee knew why. Maybe it’d be better if he shared with Raph?

Mikey squealed in delight, wagging his long tail happily. "trust me its only temporary, i forgot to send a request for more tents before you arrived. ill be sure to have them here tomorrow." the leader tried to sooth his mistake. how could he have forgotten such a obvious detail??

donnie tensed at the mention of sharing with raphael, and his cheeks burned from under his goggles. the covered turtle quickly cut in, scurrying over to leo quickly to whisper silently in his ear. 

"alright, donnie can share with ralph and donna, you can share with raph" leo didn’t really know why donnie wanted it to be this way but hey, donnie always had a reason to do his thing. 

"tch, avoiding me again" raph snorted more to himself that donnie preferred to bunk with ralph for the night. well fuck man. he patted his twins shoulder in a good luck, cause donnie was a weirdo about his stuff. he opened the flap of his tent and pointed in for donna to head on in.

donnie did NOT like the idea of someone sleeping beside him in anyway shape of form. at night was the only time he was able to take off his clothes without anyone seeing. great, donnie held his board tight and said nothing expecting ralph to follow.

Lee waved his hand to say that it was ok, they could manage sharing a tent for a night or two, this place seemed a lot better then whefe they'd come from anyway.

Donna shifted nervously as he made his way to Raphs tent, easily ducking under the huge turtles arms to get inside and try and familiarise himself with the layout of the tent.

Ralph grunted and pushed Donnie aside slightly to get into the tent, he was used to having his own corner of the fair size wagon he shared with the others during the night, he didn't have his own wagon or tent but he had his own space. This tent was fairly small though and he didn't like it even before Donnie came in with him

Raph couldn’t help but feel a little honoured he got stuck with Donnie’s twin, cause he was a derp like that. a few sleeping bags, a duffel bag of raphs clothing, and a make shift table made out of pizza boxes "not much, but I’m stuck wit it" raph grunted when he made his own way inside to slip past donna to sit on his old mattress like ground. they had tents over their heads, but to keep them dry they were supposed to have some kind of futon shit under whatever they had to sleep on. unfortunately for raph he wasn’t so lucky to have a mattress, just a few sleeping bags. he easily tossed donna a spare and uncaringly untied his bandana, and removed his belt and knee wraps. leaving him naked, or what turtles considered naked. "ya gonna stare all day err ya gonna strip cupcake?"

leo let mikey excitedly drag him into his own tent for the night, of course leo was intent on actual sleep. especially with their new neighbours just near by.

donnie pause when ralph rudely shoved by him to get to HIS tent, clenching his clipboard in annoyance. this wasn’t where donnie usually slept anyway, he usually snuck off to one of the train cars and he may very well do that if this brute pushed him the wrong way. oh what he did for the sake of others. he simply remained silent when ralph all but made himself the boss of the place. and took his sleeping bag and rolled it out intent on just going to sleep before anything went down. not removing any clothes, all but his goggles so he didn’t break them in his sleep, revealing a strange discoloration around his eyes like a lightly painted on bruise. donnie lied still and waited for ralph to shut the hell up and go to sleep.

Donna looked around the tent and strangely enough found it quite nice in a cramped kind of way. He turned away as Raph go undressed and nervously fiddled with the bottom of his t-shirt. "L.look away?" He asked as he tried to be quick stripping off his borrowed clothes, maybe he could get into the sleeping back before Raph could get a good look of his abused body.

"So ya do got eyes under those goggle things. Nasty rash ya got there. That all over ya body or what?" Ralph asked as he lay back on the sleeping bag, not tired just yet and curious about this Donna look a like

Raphael rolled his eyes and covered his eyes instead of actually turning over, finding that groove he had been working into the ground to make himself comfortable. how could he resist a peek? it would give him a hint on what donnie was hiding under his clothes. what he wasn’t expecting was little scars and bruises to be tainting donnas olive skin. while donna tried to burry himself in the sleeping bag "dun mean ta pry err nothin, but ya sure looked like a kicked puppy with all dem marks" raph said softly feeling bad for the shy olive turtle. he had his own scars that littered his body. it was never fun.

Donnie’s eyes snapped open and narrowed his eyes at the other, but remained silent. why that- he merely pulled his face mask up closer to his eyes and brought his scarf up as well and ignored ralph hoping he would stop. but knowing raph, ralph was just as stubborn and wouldn’t drop the subject to easy. donnie with a butt ton of agitation flipped over so his shell was to the prying turtle. intent on just out right ignoring him.

"Y.you were meant t.to look away.." Donna curled up in the sleeping bag, not used to the 'luxury' of bedding. He felt like he was doing something bad by being in a sleeping bag, beds and bedding were for humans, not for animals. It was so drilled into him that he ended up coming out to lay on top instead of inside it, even though he had to curl up to try and save himself from the cold he was too conditioned into that way of thinking. In plain sight now his scars were even more visible along with barely healed bruises and deep groves into his shell as if he'd been hit or whipped hard. He stayed with his shell to Raph but before he had curled up it was clear to see that his plastron and the edges of his carapace were cracked,  both sides of his upper plastron broken and part of it looking like it could have been snapped off by force.

" 's why ya stay all covered up like that? It ain't natural for a turtle to wear clothes." Like Donna all of them had been told enough times to believe that they were animals and didn't deserve things humans had, like bed or clothes. It was the reason they only wore clothes if they were given them for a show, usually they weren’t allowed to wear them because it seemed like they were trying to be better than they were. Ralph however was more than happy to break the rules now they were free and had no problems settling down in the bedding. "Ya seriously gonna sleep like that?"

"Yeah...sorry" Raph swallowed seeing all the cracks, and the scars and bruises didn’t belong on someone like donna. He seemed to be so shy and almost like a scared kick puppy. People like he and ralph should have scars, not someone like donna. He rubbed his face thinking of what to do watching the other turtle curl above the sleeping bag. " gets cold here, i dun think sleepin on top is a good idea. Ya wanna blanket instead?" Not really sure what donnas reasoning was. He if not he could always pull him closer to keep him warm, body heat yo.

Donnie had to resist throwing his only pillow at Ralph’s face, not at all liking the fact he had to sleep in his clothes either. It wasn’t quite nice either ralph was trying to get into his business, he was actually surprised the other didn’t snap since he was trying to ignore him. Sighing in annoyance he gave a slight glare in ralph direction as he had to get his clipboard. 'I don’t have much choice with you here' and with that he chucked the paper in the bigger turtle and flopped back over to go to  sleep.

"Y.yes please. B.beds are for h.humans,  not animals l.like us" Donna shivered as Raphs words were proved true, it was very cold, in the winter they were aloud a blanket in their wagon so that would be ok right? "T.thank you." 

"Pfffft Donnas naked most the time anyway. Ain't nothing to be ashamed of it ya got a skin disorder. And hell me Raph and Donnas covered in scars sa don't worry' bout that." Ralph shrugged, trying to get Donnie to relax around him, he wasn't going to judge but he was curious about he silent turtle and what he was hiding under his clothes.

Raph face immediately scrunched up "hell no" he said having had to remove himself from his cocoon to get donna an actual blanket. "ya aint lower than a human, if they say so punch the fucker right in his teeth" raph demonstrated with a clenched fist. "ya aint no god damn animal, and ya dun need ta think ya are cause a bunch of scum sucking humans said so" he stated and gave donnie the thickest blanket he had, before getting back into his own bag. "welcome, but dun think yer just dirt on there feet, if anything we should be stomping over them" raph stated finally, oh he hated humans that thought mutants weren’t equals. his best friend was a human, and the first time they met he literally punched his front teeth out for making fun of him for being a turtle. and they quickly became best friends after the fight. the last thing he wanted was donna to think he was nothing compared to an ugly human.

donnie really wished he had a brick wall to bang his head into right now. couldn’t he just drop it? he was just as bad as raph himself. the point of his clothing wasn’t just to hide his past from everyone else, but to hide it from himself. it wasn’t a matter of hiding, it was a matter of preventing the unstoppable triggers, and memories from flooding back. he did flip over to face ralph but merely gave him a hard look. wondering if he should just go to one of the train cars like always.  keep your pillow donnie keep your pillow.

Donna whimpered slightly as he curled back up under the thick warm blanket. "F.fighting only m.makes it worse." Donna had a gap in his teeth from being punched in his face hard enough to knock out a tooth, if he was good then he was less likely to be hit and abused.

Ralph actually laughed at Donnie’s hard glare, Donna never had it in him to give a look like that. "Alright alright. It ain't ma business.  Ya just spiting yaself anyways. Can't be comfortable sleeping in clothes. Plus ya all covered up anyways,  not like anyone 'd see ya in these things." He rolled his eyes, the sleeping bags were thick and the tent was fairly dark so he didn't see the problem here.

Raph usually wasn’t one for comforting, or into all that mushy shit you see on tv. he just wasn’t the type of turtle, he usually didn’t know what say most of the time. but seeing the drowned puppy look cross Donnie’s face hit him right in the feels man. "ya dun gotta worry bout it anymore, totally different place and new people, aint no one gonna mess wit ya here 'specially wit me around" he promised feeling a bit mushy at his words but ignored it. he didn’t know exactly what these newbie’s went through, but everyone of those scars had a vicious story. "git some sleep donna," he finally just said and punched his pillow a few times to get himself settled in.

donnie hated to say it, because he hated being wrong, but ralph was right. it was dark, he had his blanket, and everything. its not like he would see anyway. with a nearly silent sigh donnie moved and flung his pillow in Ralph’s face and quickly shred the many layers of clothes he wore including the bandages on his legs before snuggling back into his sleeping bag. as long as it stayed above neck level he should be fine. but he felt more than exposed with just his head revealed. he had no idea if ralph could see him clearly but his look so read 'happy now?' Donnie’s arms are covered in cigarette burns from his last 'master' while his body has a bunch of other burns all over and junk.

Donna felt touched by the others concerned and assurances. He was so used to being treated like trash that his eyes watered at being told anything else. He was to conditioned to believe that no one would ever treat him like that again, determined to just do exactly what was expected of him so he'd didn't get punished here. He liked it here and didn't want to disappoint anyone. "Y.you don't need t.to f.fight for me" He didn't what Raph to get in trouble or hurt because of him.

"Hey!" Ralph gave Donnie a sympathetic look once he'd lowered the pilllow and saw the burns and scars that covered his body. He could recognize the cigarette burns easily from his own experiences,  though he had nowhere near as many as the silent turtle. He didn't get a good look and he was honestly glad because he had he sudden need to rip apart the person that did that. He had the decency not to mention that he saw and just throw the pillow back. "Better? That’s gotta be more comfortable" He said knowingly. "Sleep tight now Donnie-boy"

Raph snorted but peeked an eye open "ya kiddin? if someone messes wit ya jus' lemme know sweet heart" he teased slightly "i do the same fer donnie, no ones gonna get bitched at while I’m alive and kickin' " and that was a fact. "dun worry 'bout me, 's you 'm worried about. bein shy out in the world people will walk all ovah ya"

donnie rolled his eyes to himself and settled in unknowing that ralph saw, oh dear. getting the courage, donnie spoke in a soft airy voice "good night" but it was a gamble if ralph heard him or not. not to far away, leo and mikey were snoozing peacefully along with lee and mickey in their own little tent. too bad the whole show wasn’t aware of a large, red turtle had snuck into the animal cages for the night.

"T.thank you." Donnas tear started to fall silently, not used to such kind words even said in such a macho fashion. "P.people don't n.notice me when I k.keep to myself..." He explained why he didn't like to be around people,  if he wasn't noticed he wasn't beaten or made to do dangerous things that would get him hurt anyway. It also meant he wasn't fed sometimes but he could live with that, being the skinniest of the new recruits. He didn't even class the 'sweetheart' as teasing, it was one of the most affectionate things to call the turtle who was used to things like 'useless scum' and 'good for nothing animal'.

"Night Donnie boy" He smiled, hearing the little turtle speak for the first time. His voice was so soft he'd almost missed it, so close to Donnas but also different. He'd defiantly make sure no one hurt this little turtle again, not while he could still breath anyway

Raph panicked watching donnas eyes spew tears, shit what did he do!? "aw come on donna dun cry, yer alright" he tried to sooth, since their space was so small he was able to reach over and rub the others rather boney shoulder. note to self fatten him up. "ya really are like Donnie’s clone err something, he dun like bein 'round no one either. always goin off ta do god knows what by 'imself" he found himself cocking a lopsided smirk in the dark. "aint no one gonn amake ya do anything, ya got mah word there donna" jeez when did he become such a sap? oh yeah when he realized donna looked just like donnie.

donnie couldn’t believe it but he felt a bit at ease despite having a total stranger at his side, literally an arms length away. but he still didn’t want to sleep with him right next to him, that much he did know. while ralph slept he took the chance to roll over and study what scars he could see. this poor turtle, brought in to fight illegally he might add in a side show. it was disgusting anyone would do such a thing to anyone. but they were 'freaks of nature' and there was always going to be someone who spat at their feet.

Donna flinched slightly as the touch but his tears fell faster from the others assurances and comfort. He felt like he could trust Raph and moved a little closer to him, feeling safer being so close since he believed Raph would protect him. "T.thank you... y.ou don't have t.to be so nice t.to me."

Raph had fallen asleep fairly quickly, being more comfortable in the bedding then anywhere he'd slept before and snored lightly.. as he slept he occasionally mumbled and shifted about, the blankets coming down to reveal the lightning bolt crack in his plastron and even more of his scars. Unlike the others he was proud of the majority of his scars, the ones he'd earned in vicious or difficult fights. He tried to ignore the scars he'd gotten from their 'masters' for losing or not giving a good enough show for their liking.

Raph gave another snort "why wouldn’t i be? Ya aint done nothin ta me. No reason i wouldn’t treat ya right" he chuckled at his next words "bettah soak it up while ya can too, i really aint the best with words" shrugging from inside his sleeping bag. He really wasn’t he was actually surprised he was helping donna feel better "now stop dat crying sweet heart,"

Donnie’s grip on his pillow tightened watching the blanket slowly slide down. He felt bad for the fighter, but it seemed they were all in a line of feeling sorry for each other. He got his own having been the personal pet of his last show. Not that he had much choice and lets just say, he loved fire. Especially putting out cigarettes on his arms and using his body for his own drawing pad. There was no telling how many initials were scared into his skin.

With a final look donnie flipped over and pulled the covers over his head an fell asleep soon after.

"I. I’m sorry.." Donna blushed from his own tears as he rubbed his eyes. "I.I've never had someone be t.this nice to me before." He apologised softly with a small smile. He hadn't expected to get along with the huge scarred up turtle but. Raph had made him feel so much better just by talking to him like a person for a change.

Feeling his heart crack that someone had not even tried showing donna any form of assurance made him sick. He just gave another reassuring pat to donnas arm before closing his eyes, if he talked any longer he knew he would just tug him close. Ew did he just say that!? He shouldn’t be having feels. Everyone slept peacefully for the night, all except donna who tossed and turned in dream land seeming to be having a nightmare, luckily with a loud grumble raph flipped over and cuddled the other turtle to his chest.