"I said I was sorry."

"That's no excuse. It's been nearly 5 years. You can't just come waltzing back to us, Aaron, and- and expect us to put up with this!"

"Hey. Don't blame me. Blame the cracked out inspiration behind Turtles Forever. It was like watching bad fanfiction. And then you can blame YouTube for making me daydream comparative and contrastingly about how y'all would be on dates."

Leo frowned, giving Aaron a hard look, eyes narrowing under his bandana, "'Comparative and contrastingly' cannot be used together as one adverb."

"If it's any consolation," Aaron shrugged, ignoring his correction "I'll be stuck on a date with Shredhead, too."

Leo placed his hands on his waist and shook his head, "This is the worst idea I have ever heard. No one will read it. No one wants to read it."

Aaron held up a finger. "Not the point."

"And the point is…?" Leo asks dryly.

"I've never claimed to be a good writer. I don't expect anyone to actually read this, but if I'm going to procrastinate properly, I need something superfluous to spend my time on. And after Nickelodeon put out a FOR REALZ crossover cannon TV movie of you guys meeting the other versions of you guys, I feel that that gives the entire fanbase license to run amuck with terrible fic ideas."

Leo didn't like the look of the smug expression on her face as she explained what…. Didn't even really answer his question.

"But-" he tried to protest.

"Now, I'm going to need you to round up my bachelors" Aaron interrupted, "and get Mikey to start cooking 10 meatballs and 10 loooooong strands of spaghetti."

"Aaron-" Leo tried again but the girl spun on her heel and took a deep breath before bellowing loudly into the silence of the lair.

"MIIIIIIIIKEY!"

Leo covered his ear holes, the sound was loud as shell and the pitch hurt a bit at such close range.

Aaron noticed his wincing expression and at least gave him an apologetic look.

"Sorry, college theatre classes have taught me the opposite of being a ninja. I'm now trained to scream over noisy crowds or to huge bandstands of people for hours… theoretically."

Leo just shook his head, rubbing his earholes and walking back off to the dojo. Nothing good could come of his being mixed up in this. He however did turn his head to call back one last warning over his shoulder.

"You know, if they haven't already, a fic where you date all the cannon characters is bound to get you labeled as a Mary Sue once and for all."

Aaron grinned, lifting her shoulders up to her ears in a shrug, calling back, "So Sue me!"