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[orangerazzmatazz]

[HELL-LO! It's you're very own Dr. Delicate Touch! Mikey! Send some pizza or leave a message! See ya! Hard as Nails!] The message is louder then it really needs to be, but no one can deny the energy.

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[Audio] - Backdated to after RoK mission

[tech_nically]

Mikey, it's Tech. I just wanted to check in on you and your Warden. I hope the both of you are faring better. My apologies for any inconveniences I may have caused during the mission.

Re: [Audio] - Backdated to after RoK mission

[orangerazzmatazz]

Dude. U were like, the least inconvenient so don't even sweat it.

I'm doing toooootally fine. super cool. George is stronger than one little battle. He's gonna be swining his own punches in no time!

[tech_nically]

Good to hear it.

But there was that one instance. I don't know the specifics, but it seemed my being badly wounded was cause enough for concern that your brother insisted I stay away from you, once you had brought attention to the matter.

[orangerazzmatazz]

Oh ya. that. don't worry about it. things were stressful but obviously we had it all under control. Not a big deal.

[tech_nically]

The situation was a precarious one overall. Our group was spread thin and caught between impressive foes. I do no wish to jeopardize a mission nor my own team if there is a concern I should know about, especially if we find ourselves on another mission together.

[orangerazzmatazz]

I mean. As long as you don't bleed it's fine.

[tech_nically]

You say that as though I intended to do so during our last mission.

May I ask why?

[orangerazzmatazz]

Vampire

[tech_nically]

Is this a recent occurrence? You did not exhibit any such thirst for blood so far as I have known you. In our previous mission we sustained more injuries, but you did not respond as you did this time.

...is this something to do with your encounter with the blood mage?

[Yes, he was at that debriefing.]

[orangerazzmatazz]

[The Heaviest of sighs.]

Okay, yeah, this was after the blood mage. Something happened and I went kind of... crazy. I can fight it off most of the time, and like when most guys here are giant robots it doesn't even matter but there was an incident at the ball and...

Well, when I smell blood I go all red and stuff and loose control of myself and will attack anyone nearby that has blood. It's like I crave it or something. I don't remember much but I... I remember enough when it happens even if it's kind of mixed up and fuzzy. And it's really hard to stop me. Donnie had to use a tranq last time.

[tech_nically]

[Ah.]

That is most troubling. I think an incident such as that, and the potential of it to trigger, should have been mentioned beforehand, although I do not fault you if it is something that did not come to mind. I do think it should be something to definitely take into consideration if you undertake any further missions, particularly with anyone organic. This is just as much for your own well-being as theirs.

...can it be reversed?

[orangerazzmatazz]

[Why does he feel like he's being lectured. You're not his dad Tech!]

I mean. We totally have it under control.

Donnie might have a lead on something sounds like. He went to do that while Leo and went to help you guys.

[tech_nically]

[Such is hardly his intention! He's merely pointing out facts.]

I shall trust your judgment on that.

[Not putting you under any pressure or anything...]

That is certainly good news. I hope his findings are successful.

[orangerazzmatazz]

Yeah. Me too.

[There was a moment where it seems he isn't going to say anything more but then--]

It just kind of sucks, you know? I mean this whole ship is filled with robots so it shouldn't be that big of a deal, but of course the guys most likely to trigger it is my own brothers and I've already attacked them once and...

[Maybe he shouldn't be saying any of this. But it's kind of nice to have someone to talk to about it outside of his own family. And Tech was a responsible adult, right? Someone smart and level headed and non-judgemental. Sometimes he missed having an adult around to talk to about some of this stuff.]

[tech_nically]

[He frowns to himself at this news. So Mikey's already endangered those close to him.]

That does make it especially inconvenient. But I would not say that it isn't 'a big deal' even if the ship were entirely of robotic lifeforms. You have been afflicted by something not of your choosing. It does not seem like a matter that should simply be gotten used to.

[orangerazzmatazz]

[Mikey almost laughs, but it still comes through a bit in his voice.]

That's like, my whole existence my dude. I wasn't always this cool you know.

[tech_nically]

I'm not sure I catch your meaning.

[orangerazzmatazz]

I'm a mutant dude. Y'know. Used to be a really cute adorable baby turtle, got infected with some ooze and the DNA of a martial arts movie star and became half human. Then I was raised, unknowingly, by said movie star who had been mutated by rat DNA in the sewers of New York.

[He says all of this very much like it is the most normal thing to say in the universe and Tech should, in fact, know or have guessed it already. It is fairly obvious.]

[tech_nically]

So...you were created. Accidentally, or intentionally?

[orangerazzmatazz]

I mean. Intentionally. But it didn't exactly go according to plan. So also accidentally? We were definitely oozed with human DNA on purpose though.

[tech_nically]

'Ooze' does not usually factor in with a transformation so much as a substance seeping out of something, so it does make your explanation a little more puzzling.

So...you were not meant to become humanoid turtles?

[orangerazzmatazz]

I mean, yeah, in a way we were. We were supposed to be the start of an army using Lou Jitsu's DNA but the lab blew up and stuff and he thought we were dead for a while until we attacked his lab.

[tech_nically]

[Tech goes silent for a long moment at that.]

...you were genetically engineered as well, then.

[orangerazzmatazz]

When you put it that way you sound like Donnie.

You kind of sound sad. You doing okay over there?

[tech_nically]

No, not sad. Thoughtful, I think.

I do not believe we have met prior to my becoming a Quetzalkin. Such is a result of a sequence of occurrences during one of our missions here.

I used to be human, a genetically engineered clone for the purpose of an army of the now former Galactic Republic.