Nine Inventions Created // 99% Locked Video to Family/Roommates/Danny // What Donny Saw - Part One
[Donny turns on the screen, looking very nervous.. and perhaps a bit afraid as he adjusts the communicator. When he's satisfied he straightens and glances just offscreen to where Raph is.] I.. I think I'm ready.
Come on Donny, ya can do this. [Raph says off camera, sounding a bit supportive.] Ya only have ta do this once.
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Come on Donny, ya can do this. [Raph says off camera, sounding a bit supportive.] Ya only have ta do this once.
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Leo?
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[The echidna is short and to the point as he waits for permission to enter the room, he probably wouldn't have said anything else except there was a quiet 'mew' Knuckles speaks again sounding amused]
And uh? I think Klunk wants into your room as well.
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[That makes Donatello blink. Knuckles came to see him? But before he can think about it further, he hears the little mew and surprises himself by smiling more.]
Come in, then. Both of you.
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Thought you could do with a cup...that's what Porker would usually do when..
[Knuckles trails off with a shrug.]
I guess you can only spend so much time with the Emerald Hill folk without something rubbing off.
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It's Klunk and the coffee that makes him relax all the more.]
Thanks, Knuckles... I really could use a cup.
[Nothing like something familiar to reassure you.]
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Talking like that couldn't have been easy.
[Porker never did after all.]
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Klunk lets out a mew.]
It... wasn't easy. But I need to do it. If I never face my fears, they'll hold me back. They've already been holding me back, making me less like myself.
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[Klunk looks up at the echidna and mews, but Knuckles doesn't react so Klunk wanders over to Don's desk, intently watching a pen the end of which was sticking out in the air having almost half rolled off the table.
Knuckles mean while is not looking at Don as he speaks.]
Loss tends to drive you a little crazy as well.
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[Don blinks and looks at Knuckles directly at that comment. It.. almost sounds like it's coming from experience, but Donatello isn't quite sure. He's quiet and looks down at his cup of coffee.]
... Yeah. Or.. at least, it changes part of you forever. I'll... never be quite the same, but I can become.. more normal. More like myself.
But I suppose that's how life works. It changes you.
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Knuckles nods, Porker, Sonic, himself, all three had secrets that were painful to carry, he didn't doubt for a second that there wasn't anyone in any world who didn't.
And he doesn't realise quite how much he's almost given away there.]
I...don't really like change, but it's not always bad.
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He nods softly in agreement to Knuckles' comment.]
Change... isn't always a good thing. But I'm glad I did get the chance to meet them, even if it hurt so much to lose them. [He glances to Knuckles with a smile.] They might not have been my brothers, but they're still my brothers.
[His eyes sadden a bit.] I was.. able to bring them back together as a family. We were all a family, for even a short while. [He takes a breath, eyes a bit distant as he looks down to the kitten he's petting.] And instead of slowly becoming even more like shadows of their former selves, they d-died without regrets. They died heroes.
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Knuckles blinks when he hears Don talking about his brothers still being his brothers, he hears the echo of his view on Tails in those words.]
Heh, I know exactly what you mean.
[Knuckles starts to look awkward as Don starts talking about family. but he moves closer to Don.]
Yes they did. But you're still here.
I don't know much about family...sometimes I don't think I've learned anything about friendship either...
But I know what it's like to be the one left behind.
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Donatello doesn't say anything in response to Knuckles at first, and then he looks up to him with the softest of smiles.]
You know more about friendship than you think.
[And then, he looks concerned.]
You were left behind, too....?
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What, you never wondered how come I don't already know about things like family?
[There's a small klack as the pen falls off the desk, Klunk looks down at it, then up and the two taking animals as if to ask how the pen got down there, Knuckles looks down at the pen too.]
The Floating Island, the Chaos Emeralds, they must be guarded, and I'm The Guardian.
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[Don glances at Klunk, too. A brief smile at Klunk for, well, being a cat, and then he looks up at Knuckles again, eyes soft. ... He understands what Knuckles is trying to say.]
Are you... all alone up there?
[... Floating Island? What? No, not important right now. Questions about that could come later.]
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