3918/Old Stuff New Stuff

Old Stuff New Stuff
Date of Scene:	24 October 2020
Location:	Sunny Rose Antiques <Closed>
Synopsis:	Harley, Mikey, April all chat together while the Antique Store is setup for possible movie-ins to enjoy and occupy the space that's gone unused for a decade!
Cast of Characters:	Michelangelo, April O'Neil, Harley Quinn

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Michelangelo has posed:
Safe to say the last few weeks for the turtles had been topsy turvy. With their Lair destroyed, the family had shifted out of the city limits in order to recuperate. With the wind back in their sails, they are now back in Brooklyn, staying in either Vanessa's old apartment or April's old antique shop. Given he knows April the best and really likes the general aesthetic that her pad radiates with, Michelangelo had chosen to stay with her for the interim. Of course, with arrangements like this? It's best to keep your space. Mikey has seen enough TV Drama to know that these setups can devastate relationships, so he's made sure to hang down in the Antique Shop during most of his spare time.

Sitting at the main counter area of the store, presumably where Maddie herself would have sat when making sales, the turtle scribbles away on a piece of paper before him. Dressed in his sweats and hoodie, the mask-less ninja has a rare look of concentration on his face, his tongue stuck out a bit as he doodles. "No...no... Gotta have a cool escape hatch here. And... and... secret bookcase here!" Scribble scribble.

April O'Neil has posed:
April is in full Fall Cleaning mode now, with flannel shirt on, her hair tied back, a dust mask on over her mouth and nose, blue jeans, some gloves and an assortment of cleaning supplies hanging from a Casey Jones tool belt around her waist. She's sorting out the stuff on the shelves of the store and putting some of it in to tupperwear boxes after cleaning, and wrapping them in newspaper.

"I should've done this years ago." She says, glancing over to Mikey. "What are you doing?" She aska as she takes a few newspapers and starts to wrap a glass lamp up in them before slipping it in to the box on the table beside her. "Are you making plans for your base scouting?" She asks, grinning behind her mask.

"I'm gonna fix this place up so nice ya'll aren't even gonna wanna leave... just you wait and see."

Harley Quinn has posed:
Harley is no fool. She knows there's been more people around than usual! Not that April's place wasn't a gathering of the unusual most of the times considering April's friends and even those that Harley sometimes dragged in. So she had noted some movement on the lower levels, or rather it had been perhaps because April had skipped on watching a particular tv show with her. So that gets the clownette to investigate.

The door down to the lower level opens up and she looks in, dressed in bright yellow overalls, sneakers, eating on a slice of pizza (pineapple free).

"Woah, what's goin on down heah? Awhe ya cleanin' the scene o' the crime?" she turns her nose a bit. "Considerin' the smell, seems hard that ya'll be able ta conceal anythin'" she comes down the stairs until she notes Mikey. "Anotha one o' ya!" she grins widely. "I am Hah'lee."

Michelangelo has posed:
"Yep. I'm designing the Mega Cool Ultra Super Base Deluxe. I call it the M.C.U.S.B.D. Er, trademark pending. Heh heh heh." With a satisfied purse of his lips and a lean back, the turtle stares at his blueprint as if Picasso had just drawn the thing himself. In reality though, all that's on the paper is a bunch of squiggly lines along with big arrows pointing to features such as the 'SPIKED BOOBY TRAP' and the 'SNEAKY SHURIKEN SPRINGS'. "I guess we can't go back to the Lair anymore, huh?" That seems to be said with a little tinge of sadness, his head tilting just a smidgen. "...but we can't stay here, either. What if your place gets totalled, April? I'd feel mega bad. The guilt would be next level." Clearing his throat as some dust falls across his nose, he waves it away. "So this place never opens anymore? Like, ever ever?"

Harley's sudden arrival causes Michelangelo to swivel, baby blue eyes looking at the clownette with an inquisitive expression. "Dude. I have two things to say." Two fingers are lifted. "One. Cool hair. Two. Where'd you get the pizza?" With his mouth widening into a wide grin, the hand turns into a wave. "Harley, huh? I'm Mikey. You already met my bros, then? April's mentioned you a few times. Good to finally put a face to the name, man. Hey. Harley." The turtle pauses as he taps his pencil to the bottom of his chin, suddenly looking very studious. "If you had to design one cool thing for a secret base, what would it be? Maybe a couch that comes out from the wall?"

April O'Neil has posed:
April wraps the lamp up and slides it carefully in to the box with the other similiarly sized items that she'd already gotten cleaned and wrapped up. She then raises her eyes up to look at Harley and smirks-- though hidden behind the mask --she shakes her head softly. "Ya caught us red handed, Harley. We're cleaning up after murderin' a bunch of bill collectors." She teases, her voice muffled by said mask over her mouth.

April takes a break from her cleaning though, and walks toward where Mikey is, she yanks her mask down off of her chin, and reaches for her water bottle to raise it up for a sip. When she lowers it, she looks to Mikey once again. "You've named your base the MUCUS BD?" She asks, butchering his acronym in her head, but still! She smirks at him. "The lair can probably be salvaged, eventually, we just gotta let the heat die down, I think. Though its up to your brothers, really. All of you decide on that. I'm just here to help, and don't worry about this place. I've bought more cameras, and I've told a few cop friends that I might be getting targeted, so they said they're going to be patrolling around here more frequently for me."

Harley Quinn has posed:
"Somethin' foh yoh base?!" Harley looks suspiciously up at Mikey, then to April before she gestures about the place. "So ya comin' ta live heah? Makes sense. Casey told me a bit about the shit that happened." But the question is an important one. What to put on a secret base indeed! "Well, I am gonna guess ya already got all the cool secret exits. I was gonna say havin' a biiig swimmin pool. Not that I am biased oh anythin' but ... ya know." she winks at the turtle, grin widening and she taking another bite out of her pizza.

"And the pizza, got a couple, for me and the hyenas." a look at April. "And foh April too! But she ditched me ta come down heah ta clean up! Priorities, April!" she admonishes, though she is mostly joking right now.

The talk about cops does make her look at April a bit weird. "Callin' the heat on me, oh no... Hope it's bribable cops. Not that I got any money but .." It's known that she and cops never saw each other eye to eye, even after stating she is all reformed now.

Michelangelo has posed:
"No, but I like //your// version better." Mikey notes with a short laugh. "Heh heh. Mucus. But yeah, it'll have all these cool hidden doors and levers that do all sorts of things, right? Did you ever watch that cartoon called 'Hey Arnold'? It was about this dude and he lived in the attic. But his room had all these cool things, where stuff folded out from the wall! It was legit, man." April's kindness in letting the turtles stay in her crib isn't lost on the baby brother, who just nods a bit in reply. "Thanks April. You're one in a million, huh?" Drawing a line through the title of his document, he writes 'MUCUS BD' atop it instead. "Will the cops be okay if they see us? Some people still get their freak on when they see something as badass as us, y'know."

"Pool, huh?" Harley's suggestion is met with a curious sounding 'hmm'. "I like where your head's at, girl. Maybe a secret underground pool? Like the ground opens up with a 'FFSSSHHHHH' or something?" Mikey expands his arms to demonstrate said motion. But, you're biased? Do you like swimming or something?" That line of thought seems to be broken by the mention of hyenas. "...wait. What? Did you say hyenas? Like, REAL hyenas?" Michelangelo just stares at Harley, unsure if he should be excited or concerned. Given the look on his face though, it's leaning towards excitement. Sort of like that look you see kids have the day before Christmas. "And hyenas eat pizza? Damn! That's so awesome!"

April O'Neil has posed:
April caps her water bottle and sets it back down on the table, then puts her hands on her sides as she looks between the two of them, Harley and Mikey. A faint smirk shows on her lips. "We'll watch the tv show here in a bit. The guys texted me to say they needed to come back to town, and I figured this is the best place for them for now, Vanessa is offering her old apartment too."

She leans over against the counter to sort a few things out and replace a few others on her belt. "If you guys get a pool, I'm going to be there all the time." She tells Mikey with a smirk, before looking between them again. "Real hyenas, yes sir. They used to scare the heck out of me at first too, but ... they're big sweeties now, really, and finally mostly potty trained."

April shakes her head at them both as she walks toward one of the front windows with the curtains draped over them. "The cops shouldn't bother either of you. They're scared of Harley, and they... well, you guys don't walk out in the open anyway." She states of the Turtles, glancing over to Mikey with a smile. "Usually, anyway."

Harley Quinn has posed:
"Who doesn't like a personal pool?! And since we were talkin' about suggestions..." Harley raises her shoulders in a shrug, looking around a bit more, "But anyway! Ya know I can help, April, I may be squattin' at yoh place but doesn't mean I need ta be useless right?" she offers without hesitation. The clownette isn't without her generosity afterall! "And not just by hammerin' down those that went and took out yoh otha secret base." her eyes briefly on Mikey.

"And see, April understands me. A pool is basically a numbah one priority foh every secret base!" And that's a fact! Harley bobs her head back and forth at the mention of hyenas. "Bud and Lou. They awhe the sweetest things on this side o' New Yoik and ..." a pause. She squints her eyes at Mikey. "What ya mean about hyenas eatin' pizza?! Yoh a turtle!" she pointing at him as if it was not obvious.

"It's cool that ya guys awhe comin' heah ta live in. What kinda movies yoh into?" Again she squints her eyes. Is it a test? Could be! A lot can be said about someone by the movies they like!

Michelangelo has posed:
"Man, the pet store is really branching out, huh?" Mikey notes with an air of confusion once April confirms that the hyena is in fact real. "Big sweeties? I'll have to meet them one day." The mental image of April at the pool has the turtle grinning like the horned up teen that he is, doubtless envisioning the reporter in some fancy sort of swim ware. "We... will definitely have to get a pool." Pause. "...definitely. I've made the executive decision." That train of thought shifts once April so casually lets slip that the cops are afraid of the clownette, which once more gets her another curious look. "...cause you own some hyenas? Is that why they're scared of you?"

"Our other secret base was just an old space in the sewers. My new base will be wayyyyyy better. And hey, I'm a //ninja// turtle. Everyone knows that pizza is an important piece of the ninja diet, dude." That's right. EVERYONE. "It's been like that since ninjas were kicking samurai butt way back in the day. That's how they always won. Are your hyenas ninjas?" He lets that question linger. Maybe they are. "Nina Bud and Ninja Lou?"

The question about movies earns a hard sounding 'hmmmmm'. "Well, April and I were watching Dawson's Creek before all this happened. I know it's not a movie, but we got up to season four. You seen that?"

April O'Neil has posed:
April's eyes are over the curtains, peering out at the street as she listens to the two of them talking. She glances back at them and just smirks at Mikey. "Good luck finding a pool though. I've been watching urban exploration videos on Youtube, and I saw one with an abandoned high school that had a huuuuuuge pool. Of course it was filled with junk that looters and kids had just thrown in to it. But still. That's an issue with abandoned places these days, is that there's a lot of people trying to find these places now, to record them and put their footage online."

With that said, April walks toward one of the empty shelves she'd cleared off. "So my plan is to push all these off to the back, and then throw down one of the rugs from the back, put some furniture here... like a living room setup. We can bring one of the game consoels down, and go get you guys a new tv. It'll be great." She motions to the back room, the door beside the bathroom entrance. "There's all kinds of old furniture in there, beds in, we can turn that into like a sleeping barracks. It'll be like... I dunno, a fire station? How they all sleep in a barracks-style room." She grins then. "I did a remote piece at a fire station last week... Fire fighters are great..." april can day dream about hot people too!

Harley Quinn has posed:
"Suwah .., let's say it's the hyenas that make 'em scared o' me..." But then Harley shakes her head slowly, "Used ta be a big name criminal a while back. In Gotham." she explains to Mikey. "But sorta reformed now." sorta?! But she is quick to go past the subject. The question if her hyenas are ninja make her curious. "I am not suwah if they awhe.. Is there a way ta know?" she taps fingers on her chin. "Can they be trained? Maybe ya could be theah sensei." she nods a bit. "Yea, we will definitely need ta see about ya meetin' 'em, see if they will accept you as theah mastah ninja trainah!" there. Now Mikey has students.

She looks back towards April with a small grin when she talks about fire-fighters. "Uh uh, they suwah awhe.." a wicked little grin on her expression too. "And ya didn't even invite me ta go! I thought we weah besties!" shame on April! But then she cackles. "I hope you had fun.."

And just in time to hear Mikey talk about Dawnson's Creek. "Oh be still my flutterin' heart. Dawson's Creek! O' course I know it! Though I ain't seen all o' it... Soon though!" she then pointing with a thumb towards April. "She is great at organizin' stuff ain't she?" she comments about the way in which April just explains how they will get the new secret lair going.

Michelangelo has posed:
"Maybe we should move into an abandoned high school then or something?" Mikey wonders. "So long as it's not haunted!" The turtle cringes and grimaces, clearly not keen to hang out with a place that ghosts frequent. "Abandoned places might be the way to go, even if it's hard. I have like, NO coin, girl. Zip. Nada. Apparently Leo flew to Japan the other month? Meanwhile I somehow have not enough cash to catch a bus." With the talks of pools, Mikey engages his 'bikini vision' as he looks between April and Harley, a goofy smile on his face. "Heh heh."

"Dude, I am NOT sleeping in the same room as Raph. I hope he crashes at the other place. He talks in his sleep all the time! But it's like... really angry. Angry sleep shouting." Bleeaahhh. "You know who's even hotter than fire fighters?" Pause. "Ninja turtles." Swish!

Turning on his seat, Michelangelo regards Harley with a look of fascination. "In Gotham? Always wanted to go there. But, uh, I'm probably not really the Sensei type. Especially for hyenas. That's more Leo's thing... maybe Raph's thing. Definitely not me. But hey! If you like watching Dawso get up to antics, you should watch some next time when me and April get into it? Do you remember what season you were up to?"

April O'Neil has posed:
April is walking over to the back room that she indicated would be like fire fighter barracks, she leans in and flips the light on, but then just leans against the door frame and looks back at the both of them. A grin is given to harley. "It was work day time, super serious mode. Channel Six stuff. But we could go back by there some time, I told them I'd bring them a gift basket, or something."

Her gaze goes back to Mikey who's doing Mikey things, and she smirks at him. "You're right, Turtles trump Firefighters." She crosses her arms at the mention of Raph's sleep talking, which makes her frown. "Means he's struggling with stuff on his mind, usually. Poor guy... we gotta find a way to work on his anger."

"He probably will sleep at Vanessa's. Because of that. You know how he likes to pretend to be the loner and all." At the mention of Mikey not having any money, April glances to Harley. "You know, we've talked about hiring a Hyena Walker. And all this talk about Ninja Training them..." She smriks. "Makes me think Mikey, you'd be a great companion for them, if you'd be up for walking them. At night, of course, out in the park nearby. We'd pay ya, right, Harls?" She asks her roomie.

Harley Quinn has posed:
OOoh, gift baskets! Harley looks all too mischievously at April, replying. "Now we just need ta figure out a way ta get me *into* a gift basket..." she comments, never losing a chance to tease. She also walks over towards that backroom, taking a peek inside. Meanwhile she comments about Dawnson's creek. "Like I remembah. Dawson was movin' from one girl to the otha, then back. The usual. Uh, maybe second season..?"

Though as the talk shifts to the other turtle brothers she mmms, "Raph. That's the grumpy one, right? And Leo is the stoic, stick up his thingie type.." yep, knowing them for a night was enough for her to label the duo!

At the suggestion for a Hyena-walker Harley rubs at her chin. "Well, ya do make sense Apes..." she looks back at Mikey. "Would you be up ta such responsibility. Walk my hyenas? Not lettin' 'em go aftah people too? They can get a bit playful if they awhe hungry...." she comments. "But they awhe good souls, really! We could pay up." a glance at April. "Which means I will have ta go rob a bank soon foh it." she is joking. Probably!

Michelangelo has posed:
"That's always been Raph, really." Michelangelo comments about his brother, unsure on how to best deal with it. "Him being angry is as routine as the sun coming up, man. It'd be good if we could figure out something to help though." Brightening considerably at the notion of walking the hyenas, the turtle sits up straight at first before standing. "What? Really? you'd let me walk the beasties? That's sick! Awesome! I'll totally do that." There's NOTHING suss about a mutant turtle walking a couple of hyenas, after all. "Maybe they can go after people just a little bit?" The helpful suggestion is made with a beaming, toothy smile. "I'll make sure they don't EAT anyone, of course." Harley's comment about robbing a bank is met with a stunned expression, before the turtle laughs nervously.

"Let me get my compy out, Harley! We can watch some Dawson's Creek. I can set it up. You got pizza, right? April, you in? You've earned a break. We'll have to re-watch some episodes." As he's already standing, the blue-eyed turtle makes way across the room to duck into the apartment proper. "We'll have to order more pizza!" He calls back, disappearing from view.

April O'Neil has posed:
April just laughts at the gift basket with Harley Quinn inside of it. "We'll figure ethat out. Might be a pricey basket for a human to fit inside of it." She adds on her way back across the store. "I suppose I can take an hour or so off, get some lunch." She tells Mikey. "But I wanna make sure to get this done before the others get here. I hate that feeling of being in a new place and not seeing the best it can offer right off the start, I want people to feel... /welcome/ ya know?" She's got high standards, especially when it comes to caring for people that mean a lot to her.

"But yeah, come on, we'll go watch a few episodes." She pops her gloves off and drops them on the counter. "And I'll cover the Hyena walking, don't worry, Harley." she smiles to her roomie, shoulder bumping her as well. Her podcast is doing quite well after all, as her internet 'fame' grows.