5933/Secure the Sewers

Secure the Sewers
Date of Scene:	13 April 2021
Location:	Brooklyn Sewers
Synopsis:	Harley, April, Mikey and Donnie setup some security cameras in the sewers on April's BDay. Some good silly conversation takes place, and Mikey is scandalized by it all.
Cast of Characters:	April O'Neil, Harley Quinn

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April O'Neil has posed:
The Ninja Teenage Turtle Mutants that had been forced to vacate their hom eand move in to an abandoned mall have been growing tweary of their fear of aretribution attack from the Rat King. there had been leads, there had been follow-up leads, there had been additional fights with friends of the rat king, but nothing of where he himself had ended up or gone to.

April had been working with Donatello to increase security in the sewers and they'd setup a plan to rebuild the Lair and give off the impression that they'd moved back on to it.

This is what they'd been up to for the past many weeks. Restoring the Turtle Lair in the sewers while they really continued to live in the Mall. But with the Lair restored, they were growing homesick with the desire to return to it for real.

"Not, until he is off the streets." Leonardo had said in a group meeting. "We have to find him."

April had been there for that meeting, and so was HARLEY QUINN! The turtles still weren't sure about Harley, or at least 3/4ths of them weren't. Mikey loves her!

Mikey had volunteered to help Harley and April go around the sewers and setup cameras on the 1st of April, April's birthday. It was still early in the evening and the Reporter had gotten a shipment of cameras from Reed Richards.

So here the three of them are, wandering the sewers while Donatello is on a walkie-talkie telling them where to put them.

*crackle* "Right there, where you guys are now." *crackle* Donnie's voice says.

April pause and yanks another camera out of her backpack. She's wearing her black leather motorcycle jacket, blue jeans and a tshirt. She leans up to find a hidden place to stash the caemra, and flip it on.

Mikey skates past on his skateboard... helping a lot!

Harley Quinn has posed:
Of course Mikey loves her. They bonded over watching Dawson's Creek together. And re-runs! Because you can never have too much of Dawson. Which of course means Harley has been yapping about it during their walk down the sewers, "Ya know ..., still waitin' foh ya ta go back foh us ta watch the next season. And now that the hyenas don't even attack you all on sight anymoouh!" it was a struggle during those first times...

Harley is dressed like a proper clownette of the sewers. Which meant she brought her OVERALLS, dirt yellow, boots and a nice little mallet, just in case they had to play whack-a-mole with a rat or two. Always come prepared!

And so they go, with Mikey being more interested in skateboarding and Harley in talking about series. That is until they actually get to the job itself. "So, April!" and she moves closer, "How can I help?" peering at the cameras and making a face at it, tongue out. "Can ya see me now, Donnie?" a beat, "And now?!" then a little wiggle. "Maybe NOW?"

Helping!

April O'Neil has posed:
Mikey has his earbuds in, but he can still hear the girls somehow. "I'm telling you, Harleygirl, we need to start thinkin' modern and start watching stuff like--" He grunts as he jumps his board over the gap between the walking paths and over the grimy water between them. When he lands he continues.

"True Blood!" He finishes his thought, choosing a show that's at least within the last decade? So modern! "Vampires and love stories! It sounds like a hoot!"

April leans back from her tippy toes and looks up at the caemra before turning down to her bag to peer inside it while Harley makes faces in to it. "Huh?" April says as she looks up. "Oh yeah, keep doing that. Donnie can make sure its focused, or whatever..." April grabs another camera and starts to walk forward, taking it out of its box. She's got a bat hanging from her hip that she's dumping empty camera boxes in to after she gets them out of their fancy 'F4' boxes.

*crackle* "That's perfect, Harley. Hold there for a second.--" *crackle* "Okay, got it. You guys got another corner up ahead that you can put one in, there should be a few missing bricks in the stone work that you can put it in, I know that corner, Mikey crashed in to the wall there once. Thus the missing bricks." *Crackle*

"Did not!" Mikey replies, flying past on his board again.

April looks up ahead and back to Harley, she offers her the flashlight to carrya nd shine around to help too. She grins at her. "Brithday in the sewers. Yay." April says quietly with a grin showing after.

Harley Quinn has posed:
"True blood? What?!" Harley clearly has opinions about some things, and series is high up on those. "Not sure I am much into Anna Paquin, if ya know what I mean, mmm? Besides...!" and now she waves a finger towards Mikey, "Aren't yoh a teenager or somethin'? Ya can't go and watch that show. It has seeeeeexxxxxx." yes, she draws out the word for emphasis. "Ah well, just don't tell Leo and I am in.. but if they start sparkling I am out!" even Harley has limits!

And now her attention is on the camera, doing all sort of poses for it. Showing her 'guns' which means just flexing her nearly unexistent muscles to the camera, then swinging the mallet ... Which perhaps goes a bit too close to comfort. Though when the confirmation comes she gives the camera a big thumbs up and a beamy smile. "Glad to help, Donnie!"

"Ya know, when ya said ya wanted ta go to the sewahs I was thinkin' like this club in town that's like the dregs of debaucherie." she waving her hands about while she explains. "This swamp o' bodies all lookin' foh one thing, gettin' dirty!" a wink given at her friend, "Wasn't imaginin' actually goin' to the actual sewers!"

"But I still came prepared.." She then whispers, turning her backpack to her front to reveal a champagne bottle while Mikey is busy ahead. "And I have my gift foh you later!"

April O'Neil has posed:
Harley's comments on the True Blood show get an initial roll of his eyes. "Anna is a Oscar Award Winner!" He retorts, knowing that for some reason. "Wait, they go to funky town in that show too?? Oh man, I'm SO down for it now."

Donnie chimes in on the radio to say that he's not allowed to watch it.

Mikey starts to argue with Donnie on the radio as he skates up ahead of the girlss, talking about embarassing him in front of the fine ladies and all that kind of thing.

April walks with Harley at her side and stares at the next camera as she listens. She laughs at the debauchery club. "Maybe we'll do that later, after we ditch the minors." she says with a big grin over to her roomie. When the bubbly is brandished April's eyes go wide and she purses her lips together. "Mmm... its still early, but is it too early to get the party started?" She asks with a grin to the Clownette. It's about 6pm in the early evening yet still, and April had prefaced by saying that they'd do more than just go to the Sewers, once they got done there.

Mikey rolls back by still arguing on the radio as he does another jump off a makeshift ramp made out of scrap metal.

"Gifts too?" April asks. "You're spoilin' me, Harls." She says with a grin while they reach the brick wall with the missing bricks just like the Techie Turtle said there'd be.

Harley Quinn has posed:
"O' course they go down to funk town. I mean ya got a vamp, a faerie, a werewolf, and some kind o' love triangle goin'. And I got all this from just seein' the pilot episode! So ...., ya can imagine how it's gonna go DOWN!" See, Harley knows her series, even if she has only watched one episode! But then she breaks into a cackle when Donnie barges in to forbid Mikey from watching it. "The law has spoken! So no watchin' Mikey.., maybe in a couple of years or so!"

With April then accepting to go to some club later on Harley rubs her hand deviously. "Excellent. We shall have fun. And now we won't even need to get all those tinder matches foh it either. Just go right to the source.." eyes sparkling with that intense look of hers. Yet as for the following question...

"It's never too early ta get started!" And she goes and pops open the bottle, some of it sizzling out while the cork gets sent flying into the dark unknown of the sewers. "Ya go and start.." she extends the bottle. "It's your birthday!" she states. Apparently it's a tradition.

"Damn right, gifts. Ya know, it's about time I used it for doin' somethin' moouh than gettin' free drinks. But you'll know what I mean..."

She takes a look at the missing bricks then extends one hand to be given a camera. She expects April will be busy drinking after!

April O'Neil has posed:
There is a method to Mikey's skating madness. He feels he's keeping a watch on the girls by skating back and forth like a good patrol officer. There may be some truth in it, even if his attention is a bit misguided at times.

"Fine!" The turtle in orange says. "We'll just stick to Twilight then." He skates past Harley giving her a silly look cause he knows she hates those movies. His eyes bulge at the bubbly bottle though and he shakes his head at the two of them. "April, your birthday, your rules. Keep that stuff away from me though, I need to keep SHARP for DANGER lies around every corner!"

He pulls out his nunchuks and starts swinging them while skating away down the side path.

April hands the camera over and takes the bottle from Harley. She makes a little face at the bubbles pouring over her hand and then raises it up to sip it. The first sip is tasted, then a bigger drink is taken while Harley sets the camera up for Donnie.

Glug glug glug.

"Ahhh..." God that stuff is really good." She looks at the label again and then up to Harley. "So what did ya get me?" She asks with a grin. Please say it isn't anything alive."

"No more Hyenas!" Mikey shouts from about 15 feet down the tunnel.

Harley Quinn has posed:
"Mikey..." And now Harley looks solemn. "If you wanna look sparkly you just needed ta ask. I got the glitter.." yes, she does. And who knows, maybe she even has some confetti in that bag of tricks of hers! Considering it's April's birthday there may even be explosive surprises... Of the good kind of course! "But good on refusin' the booze, Mikey. Bonus points for ya.."

She busies getting the camera in place while April gets on glugglugging (That's totally a word), grinning at her, "That's mah gal! Did ya leave anythin' foh me." then a wink, "And o' course it's good stuff. I only get good stuff." in fact the champagne being the rather expensive type. "Which leads me right to what my gift is!"

The camera is now set, so she is free to open her arms to the side as if she was in a show. Which in this case is the show of revealing April's gift! "And it can totally be anythin' alive, dependin' on your perspective. But..!" a beat, "As you know, I am a VIP of a certain exclusive club." had she told April? She doesn't remember. "The Hellfire Club! And being a VIP I was able to secure you a night in there with all the perks of being a VIP! Sort o' like a night to unleash ya know? Think it's suitable considering you awhe turnin' 23." a smirk on her lips and her hands resting on her hips. "You awhe gonna looove it."

April O'Neil has posed:
Donnie radios a confirmation that the camera was placed right and Mike is curving his way down one of the hallways up ahead. "Woah! A Boomerang!" He shouts before exhaling. "Well, part of one..." He can be heard murmering. "Glitter? Pffff, crazy girl, I have a glittering personality, I don't need to wear it on my fine leathery hide!" He cackles maniacally as he skates on ahead.

April is sampling more of the champagne when she hears the gift come up and it makes her shoot her blue eyes back over to the Quinnful one. Her eyelashes flutter as her eyelids react first to the gift.

"Hellfire club?" She questions. "That place is super exclusive!" She seems unsure of this at first but then she grins and starts to laugh knowingly. "Wait a second... I've always wanted to get in there fot he ... ya know, inside scoop. I hear all kinds of questioanble things go on in there. You know how to give me a good gift, nobody can say otherwise."

Of course April turns it around to amke it about News and her Job. Of course she does!

She offers the champagne bottle back as she reaches for another camera while Donnie prattles on about where to put the next one.

Harley Quinn has posed:
"I knew you weah gonna love it!" Harley takes the bottle and swings it up to her lips, neck craning back and she drinking like the winebeast she is (or in this case champagnebeast), chugging it in before she finally relents and lets out an appeased ahhhh. "Mmmm, just perfect! Not as cold as I was hopin' but then again I didn't know we weah coming to the sewahs! Which is just the coolest ways ta spend a birthday. All we need now is some crocodile attack. Isn't that the legend? Crocodiles livin' undah New Yoik?" a pause, "Actually, in Gotham you'd be amazed at the kind o' things ya can find down theah. Even penguins, and little rockets on their backs and ...." a shrug. ".... well, Cobblepot has always been a loon." is she rambling? Yes, she is.

"As foh questionable things, well maybe! I mean, it's not like I paid to become a member. I just saved theah asses from the scarecrow eons ago.." she passes the bottle back to April. "Think it's a good place foh ya ta go and have fun though. BESIDES the job part." she nudging the other girl with an elbow.

"And Mikey, I liked that response! Do ya wanna be my sidekick?" She then asks over to the skating turtle. "I need someone ta match my glitterness!"

She then starts to walk further ahead to where Donnie is telling them to place the traps.

April O'Neil has posed:
"Sidekick??" Mikey can be heard responding as he skates back down the tunnel twoard the girls. "No way, no how, Pigtails. I'm going to the top! My personality is too good to be anyone's sidekick!" He passes her by and smiles right atHarley. "Not that I would mind being at your beautiful side, my girl." He playfully flirts with her as he rolls right on further by toward the back end of the way they'd come, keeping up his patrol. "Go easy on that booze!" He shouts to the girls as he keeps going. "I don't wanna carry you both home!"

Donnie and April have a back and forth about where to put the next camera and he tells her that there's some pipe work up ahead that should have a nice box cage to hide one of the camera's.

April looks over at Harley and just laughs softly. "You know I'm still deflecting your Tinder stalkers since you put me on there, right? I'm not sure I need to add in the infamous dungeons of the Hellfire Club to my growing public debauchery profile. I'll get people showing up at the apartment with like... leather and whips, or something."

She takes the bottle back to get another drink of it, some of it dribbling down her chin so she wipes the back of her hand across her lips and chin to keep it from pouring down her front and wetting her shirt like some kind of slob!

Harley Quinn has posed:
"You know ..." Harley muses while they share the champagne bottle and Mikey is roaming around, "Theah's somethin' delightfully amusin' when it's a teenage mutant ninja turtle tellin' us to go easy on drinkin'. I dunno why." a beat, "Might be that I'm just crazy." a shrug and she walking along to those pipes. "Uff, these pipes need some cleanin'..." a sigh. "But I will be drunk soon enough that I won't be smellin' this no moouh!" small blessings.

Another laugh leaves her at the talk about Tinder. "What? I am suwah ya loved it! Ya can send the stalkers ta me so I can knock 'em down though." Then blue eyes turning to fix on April. "And I mean, people showin' up with leather and whips at your appartment wouldn't be the craziest thing ya've had gettin' in theah." she notes. With reason! "I mean, killah dolls, dimensional nexus thingamagigas, spectres.." she is counting by her fingers. "I could say more too!"

She gets another drink from the champagne, and being a total slob! Ms. Wet Shirt.

April O'Neil has posed:
Mike takes his board over another jump, scaling over some wet cardboard boxes that were filled with old magazines that were thrown away down the sewers ages ago. He lands over them and shouts something about him being the best at the X-Games there ever was. "Are we done yet?" He calls out back to Apri and Harley.

"Almost!" April shouts back to him as she looks over at Harley and laughs softly at the finger counting. "You're... not... wrong." She says with a little follow up groan. "And to be a bit positive about it, I have had a few good dates with some of the men from Tinder. No, like love connections, but i've made a few good contacts out of it."

She smikrs at something that crosses her mind. "I might have you beat up the one who was married and cheating on his wife though. He was hoping for a 'hookup girl'. I shot down that pretty quick. But he's still e-mailing me asking for trists off to ski resorts and such."

She exhales and looks around as they reach the next intersection. "Ah there." April approaches the pipes that have the cage box between them. She winches when she sees its filled with trash. "Donnie." She starts talking in to the radio about it annoyed!

*crackle* "Thats how it'll stay well hidden!" *crackle* Donnie reasons back to the Reporter.

April groans and whines as she puts the camera up amongst the trash and feels it brushing wetly against her hand. "Ew..." She drops it and aims it at she and Harley. "There, is it good?"

Donnie says it needs adjusting and April whines again.

Harley Quinn has posed:
"And Mikey, everyone needs theah Robin. It's not as if ya can't spread yoh wings and go to other flights after! Look at Nightwing foh example. Which speakin' of..., have you seen the derriere on the man?" Harley chef kisses as if in approval. She stops near the intersection, looking as April gets her hand stuffed into the muck.. She turns her nose a bit. "No no no..."

The clownette moves in to gently set April aside when she is told to go adjust the camera. "It's a rule that birthday gals don't get theah hands on muck..." a pause to ponder. ".. twice.." and so she gets on adjusting the camera herself. She appears to have no problems in dealing with muck though! "Lots o' experience..." she explains. " ... ooo, I wonder what this mushy thing is..." she then comments, hand deep inside as she moves the camera about.

"Glad ya got some cool dates. I mean how else ya gonna find love?!" Though her expression turns to a rather annoyed one when she mentions the married man. "I hate cheaters." her tone now darker. "Just give me an address and I will have it done."

A smirk, "Or maybe I will sic the hyenas.."

April O'Neil has posed:
Mikey comes skating toward Harlye and April and leaps up in to the air to grab one of the metal pipes. He swings himself up and in to a half circle that ends with him squatting on top of the pipe up above their heads.

"His what?" He asks about Nightwing's butt, not knowing that word. April smirks and tells him what Harley meant, and he gets eyes wide. "No, I most certainly haven't!" He jumpos off of the pipe and back down to his board as it rolls back from a slope on the concrete wall. "Drunk girls.." He mutters as he rolls back the way he'd come.

April looks over to Harley and shows her a little grin. "You'r the sweetest, Harley." She says as her roomie tags in to adjust the camera in the mucky muck. "Hows that?" April asks over the radio.

Donnie confirms its good and adds a nice compliment for Harley's camera placing skills.

April grins at the Clownette and pulls out another box from her bag. "One more." She says, before taking another sip of the bottle and handing it back to Harley. "You know I don't like putting the Hyenas at risk... Last thing I want is some animal control agents showing up to try and take them." She's gotten fond of Bud and Lou, and vice versa!

"Lets just set up a trap for him and then send the evidence to his wife and let her deal with it." She says with a little grin as she starts to walk forward further down the sewers.

Harley Quinn has posed:
Harley lets out a little chuckle when Mikey reveals not knowing what a derriere is, "Ya need ta woik on yoh french!" but then April is explaining what it is and she just laughs louder. "Well, next time he's around I will show ya!" she tells the young turtle.

With round one of camera adjusting done she goes for round two when the other one is given. Not even bats her eyes! She's a trooper! "Animal control? Oh, I have some stash just foh that, in case I need ta bribe 'em." she says in quite the natural tone. Clearly she is not above solving her problems with money!

"Yet yoh idea does have some merit, we might have ta go with that. I mean, he must be eatin' on the side a lot if he's sending you those proposals, just a mattah o' followin' him and takin' some pics.." a plan is forming already.

Her hand finally comes out, dripping with muck which she shakes off firmly before looking around for somewhere to clean them..

Eyes then go to April, a wicked little grin on her expression..., and then she moves in to wrap one arm around the other woman so they start walking down the tunnels again.

"Ya know, was a great idea to spend this day down heah. Thanks foh bringing me along!" she was nice enough to not get her hand touching on April so no muck on her!

April O'Neil has posed:
April just smiles at Harlye's words as they walk further down the tunnels together. "Don't worry, we're almost done. Then we'll go get cleaned up and go do something actually fun."

"Rude." Mikey says as he rolls past the two girls again on his board. "You still gotta come have a piece of cake that we made for you, Apes!"