[LN] [Locked to Mikey and Bunny]

[othersdestructive]

"It wasn't a big deal. Everything worked out fine and I had an out so I don't see what the problem is. All of you are making into a bigger thing than it needs to be."

After storming off from the argument with Bunny over Raph running off to get Winchester's brother himself, he'd dragged Mikey into playing a video game. In reality, he'd have preferred to be alone but he could tell Mikey had been bothered by the fact he'd run off alone and gotten injured so he mostly just wanted to show him his arm was okay enough to play video games with it.

The problem was Mikey was still harping on what had happened out of concern.

Rather than being annoyed at Mikey, Raph was trying his best to put Mikey's concern to rest while channeling his annoyance into kicking his butt at Mario Kart.

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[bestnamer]

"I'm just saaaaaying. Buddy system."

Mikey had not yet identified that Raph's irritation ran deeper than mere complaining. Usually when Raph was in his worst moods, he went and ranted to inanimate objects, or punched inanimate objects. Vidja games were for mild irritation, so Mikey too was playing with aplomb.

"You know what they said, groups of three if Jack and Bunny aren't around. The two of us, and somebody with strong magic, like Mabel or Nico. And you went out without me! That's not right, dude. Santa's workshop is great and all, but a ninja wants to stretch his legs. Blue shell! Ohhhh, you are so WRECKED bro!"

Later that day, at 1 am in the morning

[othersdestructive]

Raph had a lot of steam to blow off, as per the usual.

Where he'd been, on the farm, with all his brothers and April and Casey, was the best place for him to have been. He'd had his brothers and his friends, Leo was healing up so that eventually they could go back and face the Kraang, and they had all those woods to run around in.

It had been a good place for him to work through everything, over losing, over the loss of their home and his father.

Now he'd been separated from most of his brothers (who needed his and Mikey's help to take back New York), pulled into some stupid conflict to save the world (again) and there was a lot going on that he was having trouble dealing with. He and Mikey's close call, the weird things floating around in his head, having adult authority figures that weren't his father trying to tell him what to do without knowing the right ways to help him work through things like Splinter had...

It wasn't easy for him to deal with. So he was trying to get all that energy out by working out in the gym in the lower levels, jumping around through the obstacles and utterly destroying the mechanical enemies, working through quite a bit of rage and frustration, judging from the stabbing. And the yelling. The wound to his arm, now almost already healed, wasn't even slowing him down.