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These last weeks have been... tense in the farmhouse, it was hard to believe that New York had been taken by the Kraang and Leo still hadn't woken up, in all this time they'd all tried to help around in the house to be some kind of help, that included Mikey
He's been the one who takes over cooking and cleaning the house, and he wasn't going to lie it was soooooooooo boring, it was hard trying to keep up the good mood while everybody was feeling angsty, with the fact that nobody has been talking to him lately too caught up in their own emotions, made him feel lonely, ice cream kitty has been the only one to talk to him in days! well he was the one talking to her but you can't exactly blame him it was so silent lately, he didn't like the silence it always felt like he could drown in it
That's why he got so startled when from out of nowhere he heard a loud bang coming from the forest outside, after hearing that he rushed outside to see what in the world had happened, outside in the middle of the woods he saw a bright yellow light that had started dimming until he couldn't see it anymore, he was tempted to go toward that place but he figured out it was better to wait for this bros, but when they didn't after a few minutes he got a bit nervous, he isn't going to lie he's have been feeling on edge lately but whit everything that has been happening he thinks he has an excuse

He quickly made his way back to the house toward the bathroom where Raph had been keeping watch over Leo when he arrived at the door he opened it without even knocking, to his relieve Raph and Leo were still in there Leo still looking as dead as ever and Raph with the same angry face he's had these couple days, they where okay, but that immediately brought up another question in Mikey's head, "DUDE what's up with you didn't you heard that bang!?" He asked his brother who just stared at him with an annoyed look "Mikey im not in the mood for your bullshit right now, why don't you go botter Donnie or something?" Well that was just plain rude, so he just gave an offended look "What??? You didn't hear it?? We need to go investigate! I saw this weird light coming from-" he couldn't finish the sentence when his brother interrupted "SHUT IT MIKEY... im really not in the mood today so just go away!" Mikey just turned back and came out of the bathroom with a frustrated grunt, he knew when to drop it he's brothers never listened when they got like that
So he started going towards the bedrooms if he wasn't mistaken April was in her room sleeping she surely had been awakened by that sound right? When he arrived she was sitting up in the bed looking a little annoyed when he entered she turned to look at him and asked "Mikey what's up with all the ruckus??? You woke me up" he ran up to her and started shaking her "so I wasn't the only one who heard it!!! Come on we have to go tell Raph so we can go investigate and-" when he was just about to drag her to the bathroom she stop him "Mikey what are you talking about? I woke up because I heard Raph and you screaming at each other" Mikey couldn't believe it! "So you didn't hear that sound in the forest???" She looked confused for a second before coming up with a conclusion and with a sigh she looked at him with pity "Mikey are you sure it wasn't your imaginación? I mean not to be mean but neither I nor Raph heard anything and I doubt Donnie or Casey heard anything if they haven't come out of the barn, maybe you're just a little stressed from these last days" Okay maybe he was feeling a little bad now, really? Stressed???
"Why don't you take a break? You have been the one taking care of the house lately maybe you just need to rest a little" Wow she didn't believe him, to be fair he was apparently the only one who heard and saw that light, but still!!! Couldn't they at least try to check with him the forest? "Maybe you're right, I'm going to go see what I can find on TV..." he ofc wasn't going to watch TV he wanted to see what that was about but she didn't need to know, she probably was just going to worry more "Good, you should take a nap though you seem a little out of it recently I can't exactly blame you with everything going on" after that...weird interacción they both said they're farewells, the last thing Mikey saw in that room was April searching for something in the closet of the room,
So with that disappointing visit, Mikey found himself right in front of the forest, he didn't want to go but he HAD to check out what was that light and no, it wasn't because he liked shiny things it was a strange feeling that has been bothering this entire time since the light, he felt attracted to that place, to find the source of the light, but he still felt uneasy, like man this felt like the start of one of his horror movies, the next thing he knows he finds a horrible creature that murders him and he goes missing so his bros go to find him because of the previous conversation and then they start dying one by one and then then, ok FOCUS he was getting off track and that fantasy wasn't helping with his nerves at all, Mikey looked into the now dark forest night had just fallen a few minutes ago while he was still talking with April and isn't that great!? Just like in horror movies, so with one last grande towards the house, he murmured to himself "Raph if I die here I'm going to hunt you the rest of my life" and with that said and promise he started walking towards the depths of the forest,
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After some time Mikey wasn't sure anymore what he was searching for, it had been about half an hour since he started walking and nothing strange had happened so far, honestly, he was about to give up and go back to the farmhouse when a strange light caught his eye it was very dimmed but he didn't care he finally found something! He started running towards the source taking notice of how along the path there were splashes of a weird yellow liquid he had never seen before those splashes were glowing a little but he didn't stop to see he instead kept running towards the largest source of light,
When he arrived he saw the same yellow liquid he'd been seeing along the path although it seemed to be more like there was a little Ball of energy covered in it, it was small but from where he was he could still feel a very powerful kind aura it was something he's never felt before it was kind of overwhelming, he didn't know what to do so he slowly started approaching and when he suddenly stopped when he heard a noise coming from that strange ball, a little sniffle and a voice so small he couldn't hear what it said, this was strange and something he didn't expect, he didn't know what to do!
So he just did the first he thought of
"Hey, little ball...thingy are you okay?" He asked as he ceased his approach, that little thing jumped startled by the New voice that it hadn't noticed, then started moving, and suddenly Mikey saw two little circles in the ball which he assumed were eyes because of the way they closed and opened "...who are you?" He heard a voice coming from the ball, well it didn't seem like a treat maybe it was some kind of alien that arrived to earth! "My name is Mikey little dude! What's your name?" The ball was trying to wipe little tears coming from its eyes when he answered "I'm... I.. I think my name is orange I don't remember... much.." well that was strange "So what are you? Are you some kind of alien? Do you come from another world?!" Mikey was getting excited when he remembered "Hey are you crying? Are you Hurt? Or um" the ba- orange looked at Mikey somehow even with only eyes he managed to look nervous "I'm not sure I think something bad happened, I feel so sad but I don't know why... everything hurts I don't think I'm in my body anymore, did I ever had a body?" Mikey wasn't sure what to do, on the one side he didn't know what orange was nor what his purpose was, on the other side he hadn't done anything so far he was crying when he arrived and he mostly sounded lost and sad... YOU KNOW WHAT? He didn't care what his brothers would tell him now, he wanted to help this dude, and he will,
So he started getting closer until he was right in front of him and he got to the floor to talk face-to-face with Orange and said "Dude how about I help you out? I'm not sure how to but you seem lost so maybe you can come with me, and be my friend! I'll help you remember everything!" Orange was stunned upon hearing this, he looked at Mikey's face searching for any signs of malice but he didn't find anything then he asked "Why would you help me? You don't know anything about me" "Well I do know you are sad and alone, I can't leave you alone dude! That would just be rude, and im not exactly know why but you feel familiar, somehow I do know you aren't lying... SO what do you say? We'll find out about you're surely dramatic Backstory together!" Mikey saw how Orange seemed surprised and maybe a bit hopeful, his eyes changed to crescents as he looked at him and said "Thanks for helping me I wasn't sure what to do anymore" Mikey looked at him and with a wide smile said, "no problem dude, that's what rad dudes like me do".

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Mikey saw how Orange seemed surprised and maybe a bit hopeful, his eyes changed to crescents as he looked at him and said "Thanks for helping me I wasn't sure what to do anymore" Mikey looked at him and with a wide smile, "no problem dude, that's what rad dudes like me do".

" Now let's take you to the farmhouse I'm sure you'll love it!" Just as he was going to get up he stopped in his tracks "Wait will I get in trouble for going into to forest without anyone?" Orange looked up at him a bit confused now and asked "You're not alone?" Mikey who was now sitting up looked at him and said "Na, dude I'm with my bros and some friends, at a farmhouse not far from here, although it's kinda quiet lately" Mikey looked down for a moment before "Now that I'm thinking about it I'm going to be in so much trouble I didn't tell anybody where I went, I've been gone for hours and I'm breaking the stranger danger rule" Orange wasn't sure what to say so he just said what was on his mind "um it's okay I'm sure we can explain together" Mikey looked at him and smiled "yes! You are correct let's get going it is kinda far from here we we should get going" Mikey reached out and took Orange with both his hands "WHA-" Orange made a startled noise as Mikey started walking/running back to the farmhouse "MIKEY SLOW DOWN!!!" "OH sorry hehe"

They had been walking for about 10 minutes when something started feeling...wrong, both Mikey and Orange felt weird, Mikey's arms felt numb and it wasn't because he was tired, both of his hands felt like they had fallen asleep, while Orange felt more in contact with Mikey if that made any sense, Orange who was currently just listening to Mikey's mindless ramblings took notice how Mikey suddenly stopped talking and walking altogether,

 he looked up to find Mikey staring at him or well at his own hands, he looked perplexed trying to find a reason why his hands felt like this "Gosh my hands Sting! Am I allergic to you or something???" He passed orange from both of his hands to only one so he could look at it, he was shocked to see that the palm of his hand was starting to turn a similar tone of yellow as orange, and he could see a small crack forming around it, he hadn't been able to see it properly with the light coming from orange "HUH??? What the?? Orange what is this?" Mikey saw how the yellow and cracks started expanding even more "í..wĥæts hªpën-" Mikey looked at his other hand just to be greeted by the sight of orange flicking out of existence as if he had just been mere fire, Mikey was full-on panicking now, he saw both of his hands Boeing consume by the light and the cracks, it hurt like hell, it felt as if he was burning alive, soon after his arms turned yellow it started spreading to the rest of his body,

He was terrified of what was happening so with the little strength he had he started running toward the house "GUYS, GUYS!!! HELP o flip flip flip" where orange?!?! What's happening!?!?! Is this why his brothers told him about stranger danger!?, his head was a mess and he wasn't paying attention so it wasn't a surprise when he tripped with a random rock, he fell and hit the ground with his face, his arms didn't respond to him actually none of his body did, he couldn't move the yellow and cracks had consumed most of his body only missing his eyes...was he going to die here? It felt like, everything hurt so bad, god he wished he could see everyone, he closed his eyes he heard familiar voices in the distance screaming his name but he couldn't focus, he couldn't stay awake, he lay there letting the cracks cover his eyes.

He missed Leo...

He thought he had died but then his senses started coming back, he was being carried by someone, they were running and moving him around a lot, like OW his whole body still hurt a lot and the running part wasn't helping, next thing he notices were voices panicked ones they were screaming instructions and reassuring words, he still couldn't move much but with all his might he opened his eyes, he saw blurred colors red and green carrying him, Raph to their side purple, black and orange, those must be Donnie, Casey and April, he was safe and tired really tired, it was okay Donnie would know what had happened and where was...Orange, it was okay maybe he could sleep a little. Man he was so going to get in trouble now.

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he was safe and tired really tired, it was okay Donnie would know what had happened and where was...Orange, it was okay maybe he could sleep a little. Man, he was so going to get in trouble now.

When Mikey woke up the first thing he felt was cold and then a strange feeling of familiarity came, he felt at peace, but he knew he couldn't stay like that forever so he started opening his eyes, all around him was dark, then his mind caught up with the fact that he was in a really dark place with no gravity, "WHOA" Mikey suddenly couldn't stop himself from spinning around, "what's happening???" Mikey was starting to get kind of dizzy when something came crashing into him that stopped all the spinning, "MIKEY, THANK GOODNESS YOU'RE HERE I don't know what happened, and you were melting and I disappeared and and and I could feel pain and I didn't-"

"Hey dude calm down, you don't know what happened????" 

Mikey who was now holding orange in his arms "Wait so that means... YOU ARE POSSESSING ME, YOU ARE A GHOST!!!" Mikey was now waving orange up and down in his excitement "Say what?? I thought you said I was an alien." Mikey stopped moving Orange around a said "It's because you obviously are an alien ghost" Orange stopped for a moment to think "Hm... that makes sense, but what now? I didn't mean to possess you" Now it was time for Mikey to stay still "Hm I hadn't thought about that, you said you could still see what I saw right?" Without them noticing their surroundings started getting clearer "Yeah while you were awake I could see and feel everything you did" The background was getting clearer "Dude I think I know what I need to do, going to the smartest person I know...aaaaawww im going to get in so much trouble now"

 the space in which they were in was getting more noticeably clearer "Um I'm sorry for everything that I've done Mikey I- wait is it just me or is everything getting brighter??" Then Mikey's body in there started getting transparent "WHAT??? WHAT NOW!?!?" Orange just got as close as he could raising the little balls of energy he had as hands "Wait I think you are just waking up, don't worry" Mikey started hugging him, or at least as much as he could "ok, it's ok... I'll get us some help orange" everything was White now and he could no longer see orange who was previously in his arms "it's ok Mikey as long as you believe in yourself you can do anything, I'm sure you'll get us out of this issue" and then he could no longer see anything 

Had he fallen unconscious again? Oh wait no he was waking up, he heard blurred voices around him, and he could only make out some of the words they were saying 

"Do-nie - wh- look like -at!?!?!"

"Don- know---radia---trange---energy!"

"Wha-cou---ave--happ--ned?"

"Guys--he's--aking_up!"

When he was finally able to open his eyes the first thing he saw was everyone in the house (minus Leo, sadly he was still asleep) looking directly at him with worry, he also noticed how he was in the farmhouse now, and then he noticed how much everything hurt a lot, his joints were tired and it hurt just to move them, and strangely enough in some parts of his body he felt as if he had been recently burnt, his shoulders thighs and some parts of his face felt like this.

"MIKEY YOU ARE AWAKE!!" Raph immediately got to him and had a firm grip on both his shoulders at first he started looking at him with relief and then the usual anger "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, WERE YOU DOING OUT THERE?!?!" Now Mikey felt a little bad, but he didn't quite regret going to the forest he wouldn't have found orange if he didn't.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF WE HADN'T FOUND YOU, YOU WOULD BE IN THE FOREST KNOCKED OUT, DO I HAVE TO REMIND YOU THAT THERE MIGHT STILL BE HUMANS AROUND?!?!?"

"RAPH cut it out, you can get on Mikey's case later but right now I have to make a full examination to see if he's ok EITHER way, he will tell us EVERYTHING, I need to know what he did to cause all of... this" Donnie looked dead serious it was obvious he was also mad but he was keeping his composure, Mikey looked to the side trying to hide his shame, that was the first time he noticed both April and Casey, he must really be out of it if he hadn't noticed them earlier, Casey looked kind of worried but that wasn't really strange given the situation, what WAS really strange was the strange look he was receiving from April as if she was looking right through him as if she could see orange inside of him,

 Donnie was still trying to calm down Raph and Casey were just asking April if she was ok when he heard a familiar voice beside him "They seem jolly are they your family?" 

He swears he turned around faster than he had in his entire life

"WHO'S THERE?!?!" what he sees is something that even though he doesn't recognize him he knows is orange

he looked more anthropormofic than before he had a torso and a head, but his lower half looked like a ghost without legs half disappearing he didn't have forearms but he did have three-fingered hands, in the back of his head he had what looked to be some type of cloth, like his mask tails! But it was kind of hard to tell given the fact that he still was just a yellow glowing figure, but he wasn't exactly plain yellow, in what he thinks are supposed to be his shoulders there were splotches of red, in his chest he had what looked to be an upside down triangle and an upside-down lightning Bolt, they were red with purple and red with blue respectively, apart from that he also had some cracks in his face and chest, he looked COOL! He had both his hands raised in surprise

"Mikey what was that???"

Mikey looked at the others now noticing the silence in the air, everyone was looking at him with various degrees of worry on their faces

Now he had to explain himself didn't he? Well this was going to be difficult.

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they were all sitting in the living room listening to Mikey closely as he tried to explain what could be the weirdest story he's ever told them, orange had separated from the group being distracted from the conversation in favor of looking around his new surroundings, when he finished talking there was a thick silence, one that proved the found the story hard to believe, in the end, Donnie was the one who ended up breaking the silence “that…actually make kind of sense” everyone in the room, minus April, quickly turned towards and asked “wait it does?!?!” Donnie cleared his throat before he began to explain.

“While I was checking Mikey for any injuries I obviously took notice of those weird marks he has all over his body pretty quickly-” “Wait what marks??? last time I checked none of us had marks” They all looked at Mikey with a face that pretty much said ‘wait we forgot to tell him so who's going to tell him???’ which only confused him even more, April was the first one to talk “well… when we found you in the forest you looked kind of… different?” he started to check his body to see what she was talking about,

surely enough he started to notice that in fact, he did have new marks on his body, specifically on the parts in which he felt a sting, his thighs, shoulders, and face had them, he quickly turned to where the new spirit form of orange was looking out the window looking disconnected from everything and clearly paying no attention at all, Mikey wondered if he was the reason he had those new marks I mean he also had some red ones in his shoulders like Mikey”

 “sooooooo…I was kind of worried since I've never seen that happen to anyone, so I decided to run a couple of tests to see-” he was interrupted by Raph before he could continue “Wait, when did you have time to run this test? I was right here, and I never saw you do anything other than the standard procedure!” 

“While you went to get the other materials I needed for the rest of the check-up, now stop interrupting me! As I was saying, from what I could determine with what little I did he seems to be radiating some type of weird energy which is way more concentrated in those marks” April looked at him and said “I'm not sure about everyone else but I feel something different in here like someone else is here… I don't know if I'm explaining myself”

Casey looked at her and then at Mikey before starting to talk “Well I don't feel anything but if you and that nerd believe this crazy story then I don't really lose anything in believing too” ignoring the way Donnie groan at the use of the nickname Raph said “ well if we're all going to believe this bullshit I would like to have a conversation with his mysterious person” “dude if you guys cant see him how do you expect to talk to him?” Raph just crossed his arms and said “You have a mouth right? You’ll just tell us what he says” That made sense, Mikey turned around and screamed out for Orange ignoring how everyone was taken off guard, orange turned around finally paying attention to the group, in a blink of an eye orange was already in front of Mikey who did end up jumping a little at the sudden appearance,

 “yes? You're done with the story? I was just looking out the window and actually wanted to ask you about the chickens, one of them seems a little sad "

"wait really? oh I gotta check on that, I've been the one taking care of them”

“that's so cool!, do they have names?”

“yes actually they all do, I couldn't leave them nameless”

 the sound of coughing from Raph got him on the rail again, right the questions “Um actually the others wanted to ask you a couple of things'' orange stared for a few minutes before talking “Sure but um… some warning I still don't remember anything before meeting you”  Mikey turned around and gave the others thumbs up in a sign that orange was paying attention

everyone looked at each other for a moment to see who was going to ask first, Casey put up his arm and asked “So do either of you have any idea what orange is?” Mikey quickly answered the question “Yeah we think he is some type of alien ghost, that seems to be the most reasonable explanation” Raph slapped his hand in his face and turned to Mikey

 “That is stupid, how did you even come up with that conclusion?”

“well he looked strange AND he possessed me, so it's the only logical explanation”

“Excuse me? Who are you calling strange-looking? I look normal thank you very much”

Mikey just looked at Orange with a look that said ‘You really haven’t looked at yourself right?’

“well maybe the way he looked was because he was a ghost and that's just the universal look of a ghost” Casey said while thinking about how he would look like a ghost, which actually gave him another question,

“Wait, what does he look like?”

that picked the interest of the others who actually had no idea what orange looked like

Mikey looked at Orange and then at the others,

“When I first met him he looked like a ball of light with a little face, but now he looks like an actual spirit, like a silhouette? maybe? I don’t know how to describe him sorry” he said shrugging his arms

Donnie took a step forward and asked “Wait, so he changed forms after he merged with you?” Mikey nodded to answer the question,

Donnie looked like he was thinking so much even muttering to himself at one point, Raph as impatient as ever ended with the storm of ideas Donnie had going on “Care to share with the class what you thinking over there don?”

Donnie looked up to see them before clearing his voice, “Right so, I was thinking that maybe there is an actual reason that Orange merged with Mikey when they came into contact”

orange stared at Donnie from Mikey’s side and said “I didn't merge with him at will, I didn’t want to do that, it hurt a lot” Mikey repeated out loud so Donnie could hear too

Don as a response explained furthermore “what I mean is that even if it wasn’t voluntarily maybe it was more of an instinct, maybe orange’s body- eh spiritual form? decided that he couldn’t stay exposed and that's why he merged”

April piped up “That actually makes sense, Mikey said he saw some type of yellow liquid, and he said that orange was in the middle of the mess, he also said that he now looks more like a silhouette, maybe that's what he was supposed to look like if we’re actually going with Mikey's theory of him being a ghost, the maybe without a fiscal body he was melting or disintegrating to the afterlife or something like that”

Donnie looked at her and smiled “Exactly what I was thinking about”

“So Mike just saved someone from death without either of them knowing? cool” Casey said looking oddly excited about this whole situation

“Ugh, just what we needed, can’t you like- I don’t know to separate them? we need to focus on more important things like making sure Leo gets better AND stopping the krang!”

“I'm not sure, I would need to test a little more to see how to make that possible, and even if I did I would have to make sure Orange doesn't die or something, because I really doubt that Mikey will let me separate them if orange is going to die”

“Exactly! I promised to help him, I can’t back down now!”

orange looked at Mikey eyes softening and smile stretching, if he was honest he was really stressed like, he didn't remember anything from before meeting Mikey, and now he was stuck with people whom he didn’t know (which, no offense to them they look like great people, but he still doesn’t know them, and even though they look familiar it didn’t make it less awkward) and if they want the could just get rid of him and left him to die, he was glad to know that Mikey at least wouldn’t let that happened, it comfort him a little

it made him feel a little hum inside of him, one that he swears it made him shine a little brighter than before

orange suddenly zoomed back into the conversation 

“ok, follow me Mikey” Donnie started to walk out of the house and towards the barn, just then did Mikey started walking dragging Orange with him who didn’t understand what they were going to try to do

“so what are we doing” he asked Mikey to be enlightened in the situation

“Donnie is going to run more tests on us and see if he can do anything right now since all of his stuff is back in New York, didn’t you pay any attention?”

“I may have spaced out a bit…”

“Don't worry dude I do that all the time no need to be ashamed”

“heh yeah”

and just like that the two turtles and a spirit entered the barn and started with the tests, which to Orange and Mike’s dismayed they ended up spending 5 hours in there.

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for having most of his equipment back in new york Donnie definitely had LOTS of things he could do here, they were in there for so long that it looked like the sun was going out!!! (which actually gets him wondering how long he was knocked out…or what time it was when he went out to investigate) “ok mikey, i think i got all the information i can get right now, i think now it's just better for you to go to sleep”

orange, who during all the test he had been by his side looked up to Donnie and said “sleep? I'm pretty sure it's already morning!” mikey nodded at this comment and said “dude i doubt i can get any sleep right now, i'm not even tired, actually that kind of strange do you think it has something to do with the both of us being connected?” “maybe, your brother said something about a strange energy, maybe it's that?”

Donnie was just looking at that direction without either of them noticing, he had lots of questions regarding this situation and even if they had spend literally hours in the barn he didn’t had much information, he was actually thinking about going back to the place where mikey first found orange, maybe in there he would find more answers to all of his questions…it was kind of odd to see mikey talking to nothing even with the knowledge that mikey could actually see and hear someone in there

Donnie was about to tell mikey to go to bed already when suddenly there was a small hiss of pain coming from mikey, he quickly made his way over where he was, unknown to him besides mikey orange was curling on himself feeling pain in one of his floating hands, when he turns to see mikey he saw him cradling his hand with donnie at his side trying to know what has just happened to his brother

“mikey! please tell me what happened” Donnie didn’t know what was going on, mikey was fine and talking to orange just a moment ago! Was orange doing this? Is Mikey hurt? How was he hurt? Could he help him somehow? Donnie was kind of panicking at mikey’s lack of response, some minutes passed before mikey looked at donnie and uncurled himself still holding both of his arms close to his chest he looked a bit confused “uhhhhhhhh i don’t know what just happened bro” a small pained expression crossed mikey’s face before he started moving his hand to look at them

Donnie also looked down and to his surprise he could see small cracks on mikey's fingertips he quickly grabbed both of his arm and started inspecting them to try to come up with a reasonable conclusion to what those cracks were, they weren’t big but he could see some type of golden liquid coming out of them, it was a strange sight thy kind of looked like small bleeding cuts, maybe they were judging by mike’s pained reaction, Donnie

“Do your fingers hurt?” Donnie looked away and went to the table he had in the barn, mikey however turned to look at his side where orange was, orange had some small tears forming in his glowing eyes he was sad…but that confused him, why was he sad? this feeling just came out of nowhere after mikey came back to his senses, why was he crying? and most importantly, why could mikey feel his sadness?

Orange was trying to wipe the tears off his face while looking so confused, although Mikey thought he knew why Orange was sad, in the time he was frozen he was able to see something. It was like he was somewhere else, with someone else sitting beside him.

he remembers, they were fighting again at first it was a really strange occurrence, they had always been close and even if they fought it wasn’t like this, serious fights were so strange but lately they been fighting more often, he was seated beside —------- , he also hated when they screamed at each other “they’re acting like dum dums, i don’t get why they’re fighting now the mission was a success!” a distorted voice spoke from the person beside him, he tried to look at him but his brain seemed to only register a blur of purple “well dear 4ng3/@ why don’t we watch a movie and forget about them for a bit? while it pains me to leave this work unfinished i believe  we are both tired from that fight, why don’t we watch jupiter jim last trip to the moon in your room?”

 at that moment the world started to blur in interrupting the memory, the last thing he remembered hearing from that was, orange agreeing to that offered that had been made for him

mikey didn’t know what all that was or even who that shadow had been, but it was clearly someone orange had known before, his attention suddenly went towards his hands again as he turners sharply back just to see Donnie getting some of that golden liquid from his fingers with a cotton swab, after getting that sample he started applying disinfectant and wrapping his fingers, it was the best he could do without properly knowing what those cracks were, he was murmuring some hipotesis he had but it was really low and mikey didn’t caught any of them

When Donnie finished wrapping mikey’s fingers he turned towards his brother “mikey, if you can hear me now can you please explain to me what happened? even if you don’t know tell me what you felt or what you were doing?” mikey looked at his side, orange had managed to wipe away the tears and now was looking at him with a concerned face “i think… i saw something important” his eyes kept darting from orange to donnie, he had no idea who to look at when telling what was obviously a memory that didn’t belong to him, Donnie looked at him with a serious look in his eyes “can you explain what you saw?" Mikey just looked at orange one last time before he started telling them what he had seen.

when mikey finished the story he turned to look at orange trying to see how he was doing, orange was frozen in place he couldn’t move maybe that information didn’t seem like much but to him it meant a lot…he could remember that moment not in great detail but he certainly remember how he felt at that moment… he remember he used to have a brother or more? it was all so fuzzy but he definitely knows that he wasn’t alone before,

Donnie at the contrary of orange was moving a lot around the barn practically multitasking apart from trying to come up with a good theory about what had just happened he also started analyzing the sample he took from mikey,

and mikey had no idea what to do, donnie was busy and orange seem to be having an existential crisis, man this sucks and the fact that he could actually feel orange’s emotions didn’t make it any better he definitely was having a bad time and mikey had no idea how to help! usually he knew how to help his brothers when they were upset…well at least Raph heck! He even knew how to make April and Casey better but that was different! He's known April and Casey for nearly two years, and he's known his brothers all his life, but he only met orange a night ago, he still didn’t know how to make him feel better!

…it was so awkward, D definitely was lost in his own world now an orange was still processing everything, after some minutes of thinking he finally came up with a solution, it definitely wasn’t perfect but it was better than nothing “hey orange” mikey put a hand in his shoulder suddenly cutting of the train of thought that he had going on in his head “why don’t we go into the farmhouse and watch some tv? I recently discovered this new series called Cognard. It 's so cool! i definitely think you’ll like it dude its a great series” orange looked up at him he gave him a small smile of appreciation and nodded “yeah… that would be cool lets go”

Orange finally moved from the position he was in, Mikey hopped off from the chair he was seated in. Mikey turned to look at Donnie who was looking at the sample that was under a microscope “Hey D!” Donnie looked up and turned to look at him “me and orange are going back to the farmhouse to watch some tv, want to come? Donnie looked at him and then at the sample, he looked indecisive but ultimately he turned to mikey and said “no, thank you I want to finish this first, but if something else happens or the pain comes back you got to come here as quick as you can and tell me! and make sure you aren’t alone. I don't know what more could happen, This is entirely new to us!” 

“well technically i wouldn’t be alone because orange is here with me” at this response orange let out a small giggle

“mikey! you know what im talking about as much as orange is around you i'm not sure about how much he can interact with his surroundings” ‘ and also i don’t know if he’s the one doing this to you’ that was the one the thing donnie left unsaid

“yeah yeah D, got it! i'm sure casey will want to watch cognard with us” mikey started going towards the exit with orange and before closing the door he turned around one last time “we’re going! make sure to eat something AND get some sleep, don’t think i haven’t noticed the fact that you haven’t left the barn in all this time dude” and just like that mikey closed the door and started going towards the farmhouse with orange

Donnie rolled his eyes at this and with an exasperated sigh turned around to continue looking at the sample, there was something about it that seem wrong, Donnie didn’t know exactly how to describe it but it felt like it was bad news, like it was something that wasn’t supposed to happen in this universe…or in any other universe for that matter.

“well the quicker i finish analyzing this the sooner i’ll be able to find a solution”

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it was late…really late, everyone was really shaken up and the city above them remain as chaos, even after they had manage to lock away the krang there still was lots of damage control they had to do, new york was a big city, many buildings had collapsed during the attack and many had perished by various causes, some had been crushed by falling buildings, some were attacked by krang infected and some were crushed by others who had tried to escape them.

of course it was a disaster out there, but down everything had slowed down, there was nothing else they could do even if they wanted, they had all been really hurt and their only medic was down for the count, donnie had stepped up trying to help with all of his knowledge even if medicine wasn’t his speciality, casey jr surprisingly also knew a little bit about medicine, apparently it was a basic requirement for soldiers that were often sent outside the base in the future, they were also able to contact Draxum who found himself trapped in the hidden city after the higher ups closed all the portals in a way to prevent any krang of entering,

Draxum was able to get himself out (mostly to some shady connections he had), he immediately got working trying to stabilize Leo, who out of all of them was on the worst state, had gone unconscious a few minutes after his rescue, they weren’t able to get him to wake up, he was covered in blood, bruises and cuts, most of his limbs twisted and broken, and his shell…his shell was in a horrible state as it was basically falling apart, his plastron was worse, giant cracks running through his torso, it was in a similar state as his shell, blood and organs seeping through during the whole trip Raph and Donnie had to hold basically his whole torso together.

Draxum by some miracle and lots of mystics he was able to keep Leo mostly stable with him falling sometimes into a bad state, his shell was kept together with some of draxum’s mystic roots and lots of bandages and gauzes, he made a spell on him, one that would put him in a coma in hopes that his body would work faster, the only reason why Leo wasn’t dead already was because he had design their body’s to be able to withstand great amounts of damage they WERE originally made to become warriors they would have needed to keep fighting even if they were greatly injured,

 after he was done with Leo he talked to the other members of the family, he asked were Mikey was, but nobody dared to tell him the truth, they themselves still couldn’t believe it, instead they told him that while he was occupied with leo they treated mikey and left him sleeping in his room…they just couldn’t tell him everybody knew how much Draxum loved that turtle, even if he would never admit it he had grown to love him as a son, a son who never doubted that he could be good.

after some lies being said, Draxum excused himself, he was going to research a way to help them heal faster, he quickly explained that he had a theory, he was going to make a synthesized a version of the ooze, one that would heal damage really quick, it wouldn’t heal them instantly but at least they wouldn’t be falling apart.

they had finally started treating Raph and Donnie after Draxum left, finally calm knowing that they wouldn’t be losing another family member when after a few hours of april got a call of her mother, her mother was freaking out, she had been busy attending people all this time as she was one of the only medics that was ok to do so, she had just been able to get a break and she immediately called her, she was very worried about her, and asked her to go meet her as quick as she could at central park (sadly enough the hospital was one of the buildings that ended up collapsing), her mother was really worried and even though she didn’t want to leave the guys alone she also wanted to check on her mother really badly, they totally understood her worried and they even insisted she should go with her,

3 hours after that they had finally finished treating all of their wounds, Raph had a cast around his broken arm alongside a heavy bandage alongside his other arm, the krang infection had left lots of cuts and chemical looking burns, his shoulder and shell also bandage up, the wound in his shoulder was deep enough that it needed various stitches and bandages. his eye was deemed completely blind, he had 3 big scratches across his eye and the same chemical burns he had in his arm, needles to say he had a bit bandage in that side of his head, and from casey’s suggestion they had hooked him up to some antibiotics, he had explained to them that in the future he was able to see some people who they were able to cure from the krang infection, one of the side effects of the krang infection was that after being cured it would instead be replaced with a normal but non less lethal infection.

with lots of help from splinter they were able to stitch up Donnies shell and hands after applying some burn cream like they had done with Raph, his shell wasn’t in a great state, he had jagged cuts that run down his entire shell in some strange pattern that completely overshadowed the scar he had form the shredder, his arms had were covered in little cuts from the time when the krang had discovered them and some big ones in his arms from when he had first tried to control the technodrome, apart from that all around his body he had burns like Raph, it was needles to say when they finished with him he looked like a mummy covered head to toe with bandages.

when everything had calmed down Raph stayed in a mattress that splinter and casey had dragged from one of their rooms (they hadn’t let them bring them over there), splinter was held tightly in Raphs arm, at the moment Raph started weeping into his fathers arms, finally being able to do it for the first time in hours, the knowledge of what had just happened finally sinking in, it hurted way more than anything Raph could think of his little brother was… gone and he wasn’t able to do anything,

it hurted, he had basically raised him when their dad couldn’t, he took care of him his entire life, he was the one who thought him lots of things, like manners, he was the one who mikey used to go when he had nightmares , he was the one who would protect him from anything he was scared, whether they were fictional things like ghosts and nightmares, or real things like the shredder, he knew mikey wanted to be braver, to help them like they helped him, but now…he was gone Raph wasn’t able to protect him, he had just watched as mikey crumbled away into nothingness with the biggest smile in his face knowing that he was able to at least protect one of them… he watched as his little brother disintegrated in Donnie’s arms he just stayed there with Leo, what else could he had done?

HE WATCHED as Donnie cried over the remains of his little brother,

 Donnie stayed at his side in another mattress,he wanted to go there, to hug his big brother to at least try and console him, but he couldn’t, he couldn’t move to do anything, so he just stayed there and watched as his dad tried to calm his eldest son, time flew by and Donnie kept staring at the same spot, but when he had finally gotten himself out of this state he noticed that Raph was fast asleep whether it was from the exhaustion or the medication Donnie didn’t know how he had fallen asleep nor did he cared, and at one point casey had gotten out to sit at the door of the medbay.

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Casey wasn’t feeling great about this whole ordeal that had just happened, it felt like when he arrived to the base from a failed mission, from those times when his group were discovered and attacked, when they barely made it back alive, but this was different, in a sense yes those were similar situations, they were home extremely hurt after a mission, but this wasn’t HIS home, it was theirs, his home wasn’t around anymore, for the first time in several hours after the fight was done everything fell down into casey at ones, had he finished his mission successfully? Was this a success? technically he wasn’t able to stop the krang from being released, and even if they were able to send them back it was at a great cost

…was this a success? he wasn’t sure, everyone was hurt…and he was gone, at fourteen… that absolutely wasn’t supposed to happen, had he done wrong by telling him about his abilities? but if it wasn’t for him Leo wouldn’t be here, but to be honest he wasn’t sure he would make it, and wasn’t that a horrible thought? mikey had given up his life for his brother, Casey knew for sure that he wasn’t supposed to die, he still had a lot to live for, he still needed to be the great warrior he had been, that great brother that had supported everyone in need, that master that lightened the path to many through the mystic art… but at the same time that wasn’t him…right?

 That version of him was dead,and he would have never been him, casey really couldn’t help to ask himself, what could he have been in this timeline, one in which he didn’t need to be THAT master that had supported everyone emotionally even if he himself was struggling…he really was gone huh?... everyone he ever knew…was gone…both Mikey’s were gone, had he been responsible for that? Master Michelangelo was gone because he sent Casey to the past, and Mikey was dead because Casey told him about his abilities without explaining what had happened to Master Michelangelo. If he had known about the consequences would he have done it either way? Casey knows that his version would have, maybe it wouldn’t have mattered if he had warned him beforehand, maybe he shouldn’t have told him at all, 

…this was his fault wasn’t it? maybe if he had approach this situation differently maybe then they wouldn’t be hurt, he had forgotten that he currently was older than them, that was a strange thought knowing that they practically raised him, he could always looked at them for answers, but now he was the eldest amongst them and that was strange, maybe, he shouldn’t have gone to them for answers, maybe the he wouldn’t have hurt them, he wouldn’t have killed them, they are suffering because of his failure in this mission, he thought that he was ready at first but now, he wondered why couldn’t master leonardo have came instead of him? Was it because of his injury? but he had completed missions with worse injuries! Did he send him back because he was the best option or because he wanted to save him?... Is it selfish of him to want master Leonardo to have come to the past instead of him?

would it have been better if he had stayed behind instead of him? if he had given him enough time for him to cross the portal?... if he had died instead of him? he certainly was better at making plans than him, maybe if he had appeared instead of him they would have taken this more seriously, heck maybe if he was sent here instead of him he could have stopped the key from being taken in the first place! Maybe Leo wouldn’t be in a coma, and maybe just maybe Mikey wouldn’t be dead…

with all of these thoughts and what if scenarios Casey couldn’t help but wonder, was this mission a success? he wouldn’t have gotten an answer as he was utterly alone, for the first time in his whole life he felt utterly useless, he had lost all of his love ones in just a couple of hours, he couldn’t help to think that maybe he wasn’t the best option to send, and maybe it would have been better to let that spot to his master and perish with the rest of his companions…with his family, and really wasn’t that just a selfish thought of his?

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a couple of hours had passed since everyone had fallen asleep, well almost everyone, donnie hadn’t been able to fall asleep, don’t get him wrong he was exhausted, everything in his body ache but he couldn’t sleep, his brain just wouldn’t shut up, he couldn’t stop thinking about everything that had just happened, what was he supposed to do now? they were all hurt and the integrity of the lair was compromised, even if they had been here for hours since invasion it didn’t change the fact that the lair was damage heavily going in pair of what had happened to their first home, the only reason why they were here was because of the situation, everyone was hurt even splinter and their human companions were hurt mostly big bruises, scratches and even some cuts that had needed stitches, they were fighting the krang alone they where bound to come out with a few wounds, april had gone with her mom before they got to check her so they weren’t sure about her,

but the point still stranded they hadn’t left because they couldn’t risk moving Leo too much, maybe when Draxum was finished with the synthesized ooze they could finally go somewhere saffer, either way everyone in new york were busy in damage control to worry about mutants at the moment, Donnie got up from the mattress he was in and started walking out of the medbay passing by the figure of casey who had at this point fallen asleep in a sitting position with faint tear tracks in his face, donnie walked through some debris of the lair, while thinking of all the things he needed to do, trying to stop himself from thinking trying so hard to distract himself from all that has been going on, he was able to locate the destination he had been heading to and without hesitation he opened the doors to his lab,

 when he stepped inside he got to his computer and he quickly started to assessed all the damage done to the lair and its systems, when he was done he started looking through his lab looking through every single one of his inventions, even the ones he had discarded a long time ago , then his blueprints, his plants, he even checked that not even a screw were missing and if something was missing, he would start searching for it, everything to put this final thing he needed to do pushed aside, he didn’t want to do it, he didn’t want to think about it, but eventually he ran out of things to do,

everything ache even more from all the moving, he knows he shouldn’t be moving it was something well known, when you are hurt you have to rest to get better, but right now what he needed was to get everything sorted out, he was almost done, he just needed to do one more thing, one that he really didn’t want to do, but if he delayed it then he would never do it…and in all honestly it wasn’t something he would let anyone else do it, not april, not leo, not even Raph,

 with a shaky sigh he made his way back into his desk and turned on the computer and clicked open a filed, he was quickly meet with his screen being covered completely with lots of different pages of information that were similarly laid out but with different things in every page, after he organized the papers a little he finally started updating all the medical records of his family, it was hard describing how hurt they all where specially leo, he had taken a few moments in the middle of updating his file,

 and then he finally came to time he dreaded the most, the part he had tried to delay the most, he didn’t want to think about it, but at this point it was inevitable, as he slowly started typing out in the computer he tried so hard not to look up at the file while typing, he really tried, but when he was finished typing he finally looked up, he wasn’t able to stop himself from doing it, the file took all of his computer screen he could see this new page in full display, the words that confirmed all that he had tried to ignore this whole time, he looked at the screen reading the same paragraph he had written a few minutes prior “perish in the battle ground” that was the only thing he had gotten himself to write he couldn’t describe what had happened in great detail even if he had wanted to,

it hurted to see this simple words, it hurted to look at the smiling photo of his brother that the ile had, it was as if it was mocking him, his little brother was gone yet that photo of him was still smiling at him…like when it happened he wasn’t able to stop himself from remembering,

that time they were all celebrating, they were hugging, they did it! they stopped the krang they saved everyone, but then everything went down, everything went down when Leo started coughing and whimpering in pain, he had gone to inform the others what had happened and asking for transport, Raph was cradling Leo in his arms trying to ease his pains, prying to keep him from bleeding out, and when he had passed out cold in the spot that's when everyone started panicking, Donnie and Raph started doing the best the could do, which was mostly taking all the cloth the had on them (it wasn’t much, just their wrapings and masks) and giving an attempt of first aid, some splints for his broken bones, trying to stop the bleeding and an attempt to keep his shell together,

he should have noticed, when mikey went quiet, he should have notices when he wasn’t with them trying to help Leo,

he only noticed when he fell to his knees, the sound got his attention. When he finally looked at him he was horrified, mikey looked in so much pain, his eyes were wide with terror as he looked at his arms(he knew what would happen) “mikey…?” when Donnie finally found his voice, MIkey looked at him for a few minutes before his eyes soften (he absolutely knew what would happen) Donnie in just a few seconds found himself at his side ready to catch him when he started falling (he knew what would happen to him) 

“MIKEY! what's wrong???” (but he refused to believe that) Donnie looked at the brother he was holding in his arms, the cracks in his arms had spread, they were now covering his legs torso and some parts of his face, it made almost all of his body look like it was glowing yellow, “its ok angelo, i- i can fix this just- let me” as he was about to put on his goggles to access anything he could a hand stopped him mid action, mikey took Donnie’s hand in his smudging it with a yellow liquid that had started coming off of him, “its…ok Dee” (he refused to believe that he had given up) the cracks around his body consumed him, the same yellow liquid staining other parts of donnie’s body as he started hugging mikey closely “Mikey…please i, i can do it, i can fix you” (but…) a weak giggle came from mikey as a big smile came to his face while he muttered those that would be his final word ( he had hadn’t he?) “its… ok i love you guys…so much”

at the moment when he finished muttering those words he went limp, and Donnie just couldn’t process as mikey’s body started to crumble apart…as his body disintegrated in his arms, Donnie looked down at his arms where his little brother have been just a few minutes ago, he stared as a piece of orange fabric burned down into ashes, he just stared as the splotches of yellow quickly turned from that bright yellow into dark red, he wasn’t sure when he had started crying, and he definitely wasn’t sure when he started screaming… screaming in total agony as he stared at the all the blood he knew belonged to his only little brother,

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he didn’t want to remember, but he did

the screen of his computer was turned off from the lack of usage, he stared at his hands drilling holes while he remembered what had happened, he turned his head to the side not wanting to see his hands and remember all the blood, what he found instead was a little orange stool,he remembered something else at the moment… when Raph and Leo started fighting, it started affecting their family dynamics, they couldn’t all be in the same room without a fight, he didn’t like the yelling, so he locked himself in the lab, whenever a fight broke out he would immediately go into his lab and ignore everybody,

that was until one day, a fight had just started so he also had started making his way to lock himself in, but before he could arrive there, he heard crying, not knowing what to do he slowly made his way to the source of the sound, finding his little brother curled into a tight ball in the kitchen floor crying softly, that day he didn’t lock himself alone in his lab, he couldn’t leave mikey, before that, they were closed when it came to do mischief together, but not that much into emotional support thing, everything changed when he found mikey crying, 

he wasn’t good when it came to emotional talk and comfort, everybody knew that, and they respected that, when mikey was sad it was usually Raph who helped him feel better, even Leo sometimes, but Donnie rarely did it,

that day Donnie realized something about those past days with those fights, mikey had no one to rely on, both Leo and Raph were to busy fighting to realize the damage they were doing, and while Donnie was ok as long as he got to shut out everybody and got time for himself, mikey wasn’t like that, those fights were affecting him even if their brothers didn’t realize it, when Donnie saw that he knew he couldn’t leave him alone, yeah maybe he was awkward when it came to comforting people, but he still wouldn’t let mikey alone,

every time a fight between those two broke out the first thing he would do was search for mikey and then he would get them into his lab and lock the doors shut, mikey spend more and more days with him as time went by, more of mike’s things could be found in his lab, a stool so he could sit beside him, a notebook and many colors so he could draw and give him ideas, movies and comic books they would watch together, many pillows and blankets so they could both sleep right there and avoid their brothers, he will admit, mikey had always had free pass when it came to fiscal contact, mikey always had permission to hug him out of nowhere unlike others (the rest of the family), but… all this was a new found closeness to his little brother he had just found, and he like it,

the lab had always been a really personal space in which he didn’t like other people in, but that day, when he brought mikey in, it was different it wasn’t bad it didn’t felt wrong, it was okay, Donnie felt good and mikey did too, the lab had felt warmer than it had been, it felt safer, even if he didn’t admit it he felt better than when he locked himself alone those first days, he learned how to help mikey when he was feeling bad and overwhelmed from all that fighting, and mikey learnt how to help Donnie too, even if it was a subconscious thing, he felt better when mikey was there with him, they would chat and joke together, mikey even started helping him in some projects, mikey became Donnie's lab assistant

Now sitting in the dark lab…alone, he couldn’t help but think that it felt cold, empty, even before Mikey, it had never felt this cold…

When did he start crying?

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Donnie was disturbed, to say the least, he needed to tell the others his discovery, and fast, he made his way towards the farmhouse, when he entered he quickly started searching for all the residents in the house, fortunately it doesn't take him long to find the majority, mikey casey and april were watching tv in the living room, well more like april and casey were watching tv, mikey seem to have fallen asleep on the floor, it looked like someone put a blanket on him (most likely april), he wasn’t sure if that was just mikey being mikey or if it was a side effect of what was happening to his brother, either way he needed him awake for the news

he made his way over and both humans noticed his presence “hey Donnie, got anything new?” April greets him getting a simple nod as an answer, something wasn’t okay and that was pretty evident at least to April “hey man you’re covering the tv!” casey complained as donnie got in front of mikey and started shaking him “mikey, wake up i got news” mikey grumbled a little and tossed away from donnie “five more minutes…” donnie wasn’t impress by these, sure lately mikey has woken up earlier than the others, but that doesn't changed the fact that back home he was always the one who struggled when it came to waking up,

“mikey! this is serious, we NEED to talk” he said while he started shaking him more violently, mikey groaned and finally pushed himself up “im up! im up! dude… can’t a turtle sleep in peace?” orange who had actually fallen asleep on top of mikey was sluggish, barely waking up, he had fallen from the top of mikey when he got up, mikey looked down noticing orange on the floor next to him, then he realized what happened and with a snort he said “heh sorry dude”, Donnie from the side had an odd expression, he wasn’t sure what to feel with the new discovery “is orange here?” Mikey looked up from orange and stared at him. “yeah he’s been by my side since the forest incident, i'm not sure he can separate from me dude”mikey gasped at the thought “ what if he’s like a guardian spirit or something! and that’s why we can’t separate!? it’s like the plot of one of my comics!” at his side was an orange who looked beyond confused, he still wasn’t fully awake, and at his other side donnie looked at him with a frown on his face ‘ a guardian’ donnie mulled over mikey's words for sometime before shaking his head to get rid of those thoughts,

“Raph is with leo, right” he looked over at his human friends “yeah, he still glued to his side” casey responded “ok i’ll be easier to go to him, than to  get him to come to us” with that said he stood up practically dragging mikey up with him as he still was holding his shoulder tightly he then proceed to guide him to the stair trusting that the other two would follow behind him, they went up and went to where Raph was looking at the unconscious figure of leo, when he heard the approaching he quickly got himself up and paid all his attention to them “did anything else happened” they went inside and donnie cleared his voice up before he started speaking in a serious manner “ok, so i made a new discovery with everything happening with mikey”

“Is something wrong donnie?”  Raph asked concerned (not that he showed it in any way) taking in how serious donnie was acting,

“yes actually” mikey turned his head to look at him with wide eyes “i believe that mikey is in danger… and that orange is the reason behind it” “what?!” Orange, who for the first time was actually paying attention to the conversation for once, exclaimed in clear confusion “but, i haven’t hurt him at all! why would i!?” Mikey got away from Donnie, shaking his hands off his shoulder and voiced orange’s same confusion to Donnie “what??? but the lil dude hasn’t done anything to me bro” 

“Um, maybe we should let Don explain? maybe he just didn’t word it correctly we all know how insensitive he can be “ casey exclaimed trying to calm mikey, he ignore how donnie glared at him for the description he used, he wasn’t insensitive, he just said the truth,

“yeah im pretty sure he has his reasons” april looked at him questioning him 

“i mean what i said, maybe orange has been doing it without noticing, but he is definitely hurting mikey” after that was said everyone was looking worried, mikey was just looking at orange who looked more than concerned and guilty ‘was he really hurting the person who wanted to help him?’

donnie started talking again without giving anyone else the chance to speak “so, while i was checking mikey there was  this… accident where mikey got mysteriously cut in his fingers, there was this weird looking liquid oozing from the cuts, i took some of it to investigate what it was before cleaning and disinfecting it correctly” Raph looked at mikey’s direction noticing that he was cradling one of his hand wich more bandages that what he would usually wear,

“what did you discovered” april asked softly

“I found out that the glowing liquid is some of Mike's blood… it was glowing because something was attacking his cells directly, not like any infection or sickness… Do you guys remember the weird energy readings I got when we first found him?” everyone looked at him and slowly nodded,

“ Well what I saw under the microscope was Mikey's cell disintegrating, his cells started moving and glowing yellow before they started chirping away! this has never happened before, heck if never seen or known about anything like this happening before this”

“what you mean to say is that the energy is attacking mikey’s body?” april now looked at mikey, but he still was looking at his side while being uncharacteristic silent,

“Wait” Raph suddenly got everyone's attention as he spoke with a tone that said he just realized something important “mikey…mikey, MIKEY!” mikey jumped in his place as he finally turned his attention back to everyone present, they were all looking at him in a worried manner ‘dudeeeee that’s so creepy!’ “What's up Raph?” Raph seemed annoyed that he wasn’t paying attention but he moved on for the sake of not forgetting his train of thought “you said that you found orange in a puddle of yellow liquid right?” 

“Yeah dude! everything was glowing with that stuff, why you ask?”

“oh dear god…” while mikey hasn’t catch up it seemed like donnie did

“Mikey, do you understand the implications of that?” everyone's mood darkened and Raph swore under his breath,

“...uuuuhhhhhhhh, oh! i got it, orange broke one of those glowing sticks, that liquid looked like the stuff inside those tubes, i know because i still remember when i did it, i ate it because it looked yummy but it definitely wasn’t, i gave me a tummy ache” orange looked at mikey processing the fact that he was accidentally hurting him (and also surprised that he actually ate the liquid of a glowing stick. no, wait i think he did the same too)

“no, mikey… What did your blood look like?” donnie was talked in order to explain to mikey,

“yellow?”

“And what did that puddle you found in the forest look like?”

“yello-” Mikey finally understood what his brother had been implying and suddenly with the realization came the panic and fear, he glanced at orange’s direction with a small frown, how should he handle this, he needed to get rid of him if he wanted to survive but he also wanted to help him and if they got rid of him he would die, and mikey wasn’t sure if it was even possible to help him,

orange winced when mikey looked at him, he knew what was going to happen, mikey shouldn’t have to deal with this, he hadn’t known the turtle for very long, but something that he learned very quickly in his time with him was that he was very kind, and he was killing him…he obviously didn’t want to die, but he didn’t want mikey to perish trying to help him, so he completely understood that they were going to separate them, and without a body he would die, the fact that he came in terms with that didn’t meant he wasn’t scared of death,

everyone was silent for a couple of minutes taking in the current situation before donnie spoke and said,

“i think it's obvious that we need to get orange out of mikey’s body, i did said that we should wait until we're back to new york but given this new discovery, i should start searching for a way to safely take orange out so that we don’t hurt mikey more”

“wait! you can’t take him out he’ll die! You yourself said so!” Donnie looked at Mikey, surprised that he out of all people was protesting against saving his own life, and Raph was angry that Mikey was choosing to save someone that should already be dead and that he had just met a night ago, over his own life!

“Have you heard what we’ve been saying or are you just dumb enough to not understand?! you’ll die if he stays there! and we can’t let that happened” Raph spoke with anger, hiding the fear he had for his younger brother, he knew mikey for him it was normal to get attached rather quickly, but this time they just couldn’t humor him, it was too dangerous

“hey! I'm not dumb! I do understand what's happening, but if you get him out he’ll die! we can’t let that happen dudes, aren’t we supposed to help people?”

“uhm mike? bro, i know that you're used to helping, but you can’t do that if you’re dead you know?” Casey spoke up for the first time in a while. “I mean wasn’t he supposed to be dead already?”

“I know… but! can’t we at least try? I kind of promised the little dude right here?” orange looked at mikey, he was kind of surprised that mikey was still trying to help him (ignoring the feeling of annoyance at the name he was just called, why was he even annoyed?)

“mikey.. I think they’re right, maybe I should go, I'm only hurting you, and I certainly don’t want you dead, you're a great guy!” orange spoke putting a ghostly hand in mikey’s shoulder

“wh- what!? you can’t be serious you’ll die! and I promised to help you!” everyone in the bathroom that couldn’t hear orange stilted wondering what orange had said to get mikey so frantic, but from what he said they kind of had an idea of what he had said

“mikey?” april spoke up wanting to ask what orange had said, but mikey ignored her in order to continue talking to orange

“It's ok Mikey, really, I appreciate a lot the fact that you’re willing to try, but I can't do this to you!”

“But, you’ll die!!! i- i can’t let that happen” at the moment mikey remember orange’s memory, he hadn’t seen much, but something he knew for a fact was that orange had a brother, a brother who probably thought that orange was dead, and while we technically was, he still had a chance to get back with him, his brother was probably sad…he couldn’t let someone lost their brother, specially if there was a chance to help him!

orange had a brother 

(mikey wasn’t looking at orange anymore) 

and even if orange was dead there still was a chance to get him back with him 

(he stared at the body of his older brother)

 they thought that orange was dead 

(he was getting worried that he wasn’t going to wake up)

but if he could help, then maybe 

(but he still had hope that he was going to be okay) 

orange could go back with him 

(and if he had hoped for his older brother, what stopped orange’s brother from having some of his own)

 maybe if they tried they could save him 

(maybe they hoped that orange would go back to them, even if that was realistically impossible)

(mikey knows he wouldn’t want all the hope he has crushed, then who was he to crush the hope from orange’s brother?)

orange seemed to caught up to the fact that he wasn’t looking at him anymore, he turned to see the slumped figure on the bathtub, when they first entered the room when donnie guided them inside, he noticed the comatose turtle but he didn’t come near, he assumed that he was one of mikey’s brother, he wanted to come near, but the sight of him unconscious was unnerving and he wasn’t sure why (from the back of his mind faint memories played, the was a golden light, a portal with two figures inside, one seem to be escaping the other one, and then the slumped figure again, right, the turtle in the bathroom looked like his br073r when he got out of the pr150n d1m3n710n, then everything started hurting) 

everything seemed to freezed, orange tried to sped closer to the unconscious turtle, but a voice stopped him from advancing getting his attention back to the topic in hand

“mikey, please you need to understand, this is the best to do! and from what we’ve heard orange agrees with us, we just want you safe, we can’t lose anyone else” april spoke in an effort to try and get mikey to agree, mikey payed attention at him he looked sad at the thought of that happening, remembering everything they’ve lost, their dad… he knew his brothers couldn’t take that, remembering Raph’s anger when sensei was thrown into the whirlpool

he looked once more at orange, who stared at him, his eyes morphed into an empathic look, he floated near mikey gave him a big hug, and said “it’s ok, don’t worry i understand, i know we’ve only met recently and now we will be saying goodbye, but it felt like we’ve known each other my whole life, thank mikey…

mikey looked down at orange he couldn’t move he was kind of overwhelmed, he looked at his brother with a frown and said

“ok… we- you guys are right we should do this”

Why was he being so emotional? He hasn't known orange for that long but he was already so attached to him, orange was right, he felt like they’ve always known each other, like they’ve always been together…

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after the whole conversation was over they separated once more, donnie went back to the barn taking Raph with him with the excuse that he wanted to talk to him about something, april and casey tried talking to mikey, to at least him some sort of comfort but the turtle asked them to give him and orange space, they understood so now, they are both in that bathroom completely alone except for the slumped figure in the bathtub, mikey was sitting crossed legged on the stool Raph had previously been and orange was floating beside him, mikey was firmly holding at leo’s hand while orange just observed,

“are… you sure you want to do this?” 

“you heard them, im hurting you, it's the only way” mikey frowned at that response and turned to look at him

“But couldn’t we try to find a better way?” mikey knew he was probably being dramatic but he didn’t care at the moment,

“im…not sure, maybe we could come up with a solution” oranged looked a little brighter at the thought, maybe they could try to separate them in a way that neither die!

“wait…really??? oh cool!” if mikey was being honest he was actually expecting orange to tell him that it wasn’t worth trying, but this was a better response,

“yes, yes we just have to stay positive! we can always try, you know what time is it? It's brainstorming time baby!”

“oh heck yeah! i knew you weren’t going to follow my brothers plan” mikey said with a sigh of relief until orange spoke next

“oh no, i am going to follow that plan if we can’t find a safer method first, man i want to live but i still won’t put your life in more danger than i already have” mikey suddenly felt a little more anxious knowing they now had a deadline, he was about to speak when a sudden knock on the door took both of their attention, they turned to look at the door before mikey replied, “come in!”

april opened the door slowly, her eyes looked around for some time like looking at something strange before shaking her head and turned to look at mikey, “im…sorry to interrupt but i heard from outside a little about your conversation and…um” she looked kind of embarrassed about listening to a seemingly private conversation “i don’t exactly want to assume anything, but where you talking to orange about a better way to get him out? i kind of had an idea and wanted to share it with you two” she looked pretty awkward just standing there but on her face was a kind and questioning smile,

“Wait really?!” mikey chirped enthusiastically at this, orange at his side also looked way more excited than before, his eyes forming the shape of crescent moons as a way to show a smile,

April looked less nervous at this response “yeah, I mean like, we know that orange needs a body to survive right? that something we established but does it have to be necessarily an organic body?”

there was a small pause before mikey turned slowly at where april assumed orange was standing, raising his hand to his mouth and whispering a small question,

“What does organic mean?”

April facepalmed at the question, and orange took upon himself to answer it

“she mean a living thing” orange was kind of concerned about the lack of knowledge but ultimately decided to ignore it,

“Wait, so you're saying that orange could have a robotic body?!?! that sounds wicked cool!” orange also looked quite excited at this,

April chuckled a little before answering “well we don’t exactly have the materials to make a robotic body just laying around mikey” both orange and mikey deflated a little about this, “then why are you bringing it up if we can’t even do it dudette?” 

“I said we couldn’t make a robotic body, but I have an idea of something we can use. Come on lets go ask donnie if it's even possible before getting our hopes up, if it doesn’t work i’ll help you two come up with better ideas” she extended a hand towards him, he firmly took it getting up from the stool

“Hey Red, did you manage to tell Mike about the plan?” suddenly casey spoke from the doorway while looking at the scene in front of him, mikey turned to look at casey in surprise, somehow he had forgotten that casey was still in the house,

 “were going casey” she rolled her eyes in amusement and turned to mikey one last time, “come on before he gets more impatient” mikey heard a little chuckle coming from orange behind him, he himself let out a giggle before starting to walk towards the door with april and orange following closely, 

after everyone left through the bathroom door everything was left in darkness, with only the unconscious body of a turtle inside, 

his hand was left dangling out from the bathtub, mikey had forgotten to adjust it before leaving, a blue and orange lightning appeared briefly on the hand before being absorbed once again before yellow glowing stripes appeared all over his body, in his face two red stripes started glowing over both eyes,

his face squinted a little in pain before going slack once again, the glowing went down leaving the turtle as if nothing had ever happened…

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When they finally left the farmhouse to start going to the barn, “her mikey, the last one there hatched from a rotten egg!”

“oh, you're on!”

 mikey started running as fast as he could to pass the short track as fast as he could, oranges went running (gliding???) beside him while laughing leaving the two confused humans behind, but if april took a guess it would be a race,

When they got near enough, Mikey heard both his brothers shut up when they noticed that people were about to enter the barn. Mikey opened the doors way too excited to care about breaking anything, both his brothers turned to look at him, they were confused at his brothers change in demeanor, Raph would have guessed that his brother would be more bummed out because of orange’s situation,

“DONNIE, DONNIE, DONNIE!

wegotanideamaybewecouldmakeanartificialbodysoorangedosen’tdie and and and”

“Mikey calm down! I never understand you when you talk like that!” donnie said looking exasperated some of the previous tension rolling off his shoulders, Raph looked at mikey he looked annoyed, 

april and casey arrived and stood beside mikey before they made their way inside, casey punched lightly mikey’s shoulder before pointing inside,

“what mikey meant to say is that we wanted to ask you something donnie” april said while going to stand beside him

“a question, what is it?” donnie turned to look at april looking way more curious now,

‘Well, me and red were thinking that maybe this situation with orange could be solved in a better way, you know? so no one has to die?” he said now leaning against a wall near Raph, “what are you implying?” Raph turned to look at his best friend’s face now with a more angry expression on his face,

“Ok bro! Listen, what if we placed orange in another body! like a nonliving one, and no, i don’t mean a corpse like i suggested that once, i don’t know why you keep asking that whenever I bring up a solution like this!”

on the background you could hear casey asking raph about the corpse sounding so confused

“ok im ignoring that last part…but i…didn’t really think about that, i'm not sure i’ll work, heck, i'm working with almost zero information” donnie looked unsure, he was definitely considering this as an option,

April frowned a little before speaking up “well it can’t hurt to try, right? there’s nothing we lose”

“uhm we do lose! orange dies!” Mikey spoke up, sounding mildly irritated, beside him orange placed a hand on his shoulder.  “it’s ok mikey, that was the original plan, besides we don’t know if this one will work, maybe it will. We just gotta have hope!, I'll be doctor positive if it’s needed!” he said while closing his eyes in an upbeat manner, it looked like he was smiling,

“dude…” mikey looked a little unsure but ultimately decided to smile “you’re right we gotta stay positive”  that was when he finally noticed the others were looking at him “man, we really need to figure out how to communicate with orange, i swear it's weird thinking there’s a freaking ghost here” casey said, “honestly i kind of forgot he follows you everywhere” donnie said looking annoyed 

“Casey is right, as impressive as that is” Casey shouted an indignant HEY at that comment  “We definitely need to figure out what to do, but first things first, if we are going to do this plan of yours we still need where to put orange that will cause no issue. I don’t have things to make a robotic body here so we need to figure something out”

“well, like i told mikey, maybe it’s not necessary a robotic body…i actually had an idea of something we could use, wait here” before everyone could say something else she bolted out of the barn into the farmhouse, they were left in an uncomfortable silence with only mikey (and orange) fidgeting, this was only for a few minutes before april came back with something on her hands,

Casey snorted at the plushie april was carrying “wow red, you really wanna get the turtle team going huh?” april rolled her eyes while making her way to mikey, she extended the plushie and motion him to take it “haha no that was only a coincidence, this was an old toy of mine, the last time i was here i kind of forgot it in the closet, i thought that maybe we could try and use it”

“huh, i you don’t mind the possible destruction of the plushie i suppose it’s okay to at least try” donnie said looking at the toy with a face that told mikey he wasn’t sure if he felt offended at the form of the plush, Raph definitely looked annoyed at it as his best friend kept poking fun at him in the background saying they both looked alike,

orange started leaning close to mikey to better see what would hopefully be his new body, the plushie was medium size, not too big and not too small, it looked like it was standing on two feet, strangely enough it looked just like mikey and his brothers the most prominent differences were the colors of the plushie, the bodies color was a deep cadmium green (how the heck does he know the names of hue colors???) and the shell was a dark shade of blue with a yellow square in the middle. It looked…familiar, but there was something missing and he couldn’t quite put his finger on it.

When he zoomed back in at the present mikey started running outside the barn looking pretty excited, donnie sighed in exasperation and Raph punched Casey in the shoulder for all the jokes he made about the plushie. Orange started running to catch up with mikey although at this point he already lost him inside the house, he went searching for him before he spotted him in the bedroom he was staying, he was sitting on the ground besides a nightstand that had a drawer open, he seemed to be tying something around the head of the stuffed animal, orange made his way to mike’s side a sat down next to him.

“what are you doing?”

“I'm making your new body even more awesome dude!” when mikey finished he moved the plush to show orange, around the head was place an orange bandana

“look! now we match, i'm not sure why but i thought it would look pretty cool, i gotta say i was right, we will look so epic bro”

“Omigosh, it looks adorable! i love it” orange looked so excited

“yeah, i used one of my spare bandanas, although since the head it's kind of small the short tails are a little longer than they should” mikey looked mildly irritated, orange gave him a big hug

“Well I think it looks awesome that way!”

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this was a very surreal situation if you asked Leo, after his battle with the shredder he lost all consciousness, and he wasn’t sure how long he had been out, but when he woke up all he saw was darkness, he had been disoriented and confused, he felt a strange surge of energy through his body, kinda like getting shock or burned but strangely enough it didn’t feel unpleasant, it was as if someone he knows woke him up…or atleast someone that felt pretty familiar, he wasn’t sure what it was, after sometime floating aimlessly he figured out fairly quickly that he wasn’t really awake but instead he was in some part of his subconsciousness, he didn’t know how he had gotten there, but he suspects that it had something to do with that weird energy he had felt earlier,

he had been trying to figure out what to do (he was in a panic, how would he be able to wake up now???) when he heard someone, he was sure that in his mind he should be alone so it did startle him quite a bit, 

“hello? someone there?” it was the voice of someone that sounded around the same age as him, a teenager, but if his limited time in the surface has taught him something was to never underestimate an enemy,

he tried to reach for his katanas on his back, but he tensed as he felt nothing, well he was still trained in hand to hand combat, that will have to do “who 's there? and how did you get in here?” he spoke with a stern voice as a sign that he wasn’t afraid of whoever was there (he was mimicking captain ryan’s voice)

“wow uhm, how about we chillax amigo? I'm not here for a fight, I'm just…lost?”

“you got lost in my mind?” maybe… it wasn’t his mind after all? but that didn’t make sense, all this place, all his surroundings…he could feel it, this definitely was his mind, how did a random guy get here?

“wait…this is WHAT?! jeez how did I even get this lost? and i thought mikey was the one who got lost the most, uuuggghhh… que se supone que voy hacer ahora???? carajo” 

Leo was…confused, this guy sounded genuinely lost, he kept rambling to himself in a language that he didn’t know, was that spanish?.... wait did he just say mikey?!?!

“How do you know my brother's name?!?!” he kept twisting his body around trying to locate the person he was talking to, he finally came to a halt when he saw something out of place, something that seem to be glowing in different colors, although there was one that overshadow the yellow and red, blue, 

“huh? um my guy that’s my brother's name, hehe well i guess our brothers share names, what a coincidence…”

the figured looked nervous even if his voice didn’t quite match the energy his fidgeting was giving, after some minutes in which neither of them knew what to do, that figure decided to take the first step, he made his way over to where Leo was causing the turtle to tense, during this conversation he never drop his fighting stance,

“welp, i guess i should introduce myself shouldn’t I? you know, since i'm the one hunting you, my name i leonardo, but you can call me leo” the figure said while extending his hand towards him, 

after hearing this leo falter a little before speaking once again, “my… name is also leo” he could argue they just had the same name, Leo wasn’t an uncommon name, but with the comment of his brother name earlier and this situation got him believing this was more than just a coincidence, 

the figures hand tensed before falling down, he looked confused, he open and closed his mouth trying to speak but he found himself speechless, leo’s stance finally dropped at this sight, it was obvious he wasn’t at threat right now, it just seemed that there were many things going through his mind, he stayed in that place starting at his three fingered hand while mumbling to himself for some time, leo was about to speak again, he was going to ask who he was once more, when the figured abruptly turned to look at him

“hey by any chance do you have another two brothers called Raphael and Donatello? and maybe a dad called splinter, and a sister called april???” Leo was quickly taken back by this, how did he know all of that? he had just gotten the sister part wrong but otherwise he had been correct, Leo was just getting more and more confused by the minute,

“how did-”

“oh my god, this is actually happening WOW ok, i think i need to sit down, just wow…” the figured crouch down, or at least tried it was difficult without a floor, he looked both overly excited, overwhelmed and scared at the same time, Leo had no idea one could look like that, a heavy silence fell on top of them before he decided to ask his question once more,

“Who are you?” he kept looking at him while the other seemed to be thinking about his ext words,

“...has your donnie ever talked to you about the multiverse theory…?” this really took Leo by surprise, he hadn’t been expecting another question in return, he took his time trying to remember even though it didn’t took him long, it had been an evening Leo was watching space heroes, in that episode in specific captain ryan and his crew found themselves going to a parallel world where they met other versions of them, Donnie who had been out of his lab for a chance took notice of this “huh, i think i’ve never seen this episode, there aren’t many shows that look into the multiverse” “the multiverse?” After that Donnie explained a little about the multiverse, even daydreaming and explaining that this theory has never been proven, he even told him that there could even…be other…versions of them out there…

“haha, you look shell-shocked” the figured…no, LEO told his counterpart who had just begun realizing what was going on,

Leo fell onto a sitting position next to where his counterpart was crouching, they once again where left in total silence, all this situation was tense and awkward.

“Okay the atmosphere here it's too heavy, how about we talk about something else? you know getting to know each other? I mean I know we’re both the same person but I doubt we're the same, we… also need a way to name ourselves, i don’t think i can keep calling you my counterpart in my head forever” the glowy version of him started rambling about the different nicknames he could go by although he still looked pretty nervous, Leo wasn't really paying attention to him he was still processing the absurdity of the situation, at one point his glowy counterpart seemed to have changed the subject of the conversation now rambling about not understanding how his brothers came up with half of the nicknames he has…strangely enough this soothed leo’s worries it felt familiar, he sounded a lot like mikey.

“you should go by blue…” Leo hadn’t even realized he talked until his counterpart stoped talking and turned to look at him,

“blue? How did you come up with that? i never mentioned that name”

“i uh, i just thought it fitted since, you know, are glowing blue and that is our color…but now that i think about it it sound like i'm just color coding you so that i can keep the name, ugh i'm sorry i didn’t mean it like that” gosh this was so strange.

“na, don’t worry i can go by blue, i don’t mind, that is my middle name after all”

“your middle name…?” him and his brothers didn’t have a middle name, it was kind of strange to think that his counterpart had one, and it was even more strange to think that it is a color.

“yeah, although i think it’s suppose to be like our first name since it was the first one we were given, but it would sound so strange that way, ‘Blue Leonardo Hamato’... you know what, that doesn't actually sound as terrible as i thought it would sound, either way don’t you have one?”

“no, none of us have one, well, Casey’s middle name is Arnold…i think” 

“oh well that sure is something…i have no idea what to tell you, not everyday you meet an alternate version of you… do you like jupiter jim movies?”

“I've never heard of them, what are they about?”

“you’ve never heard about them?!?! oh buckle up cause im about to tell you the story of the greatest franchise, second to lou jitsu, that the world has ever seen!”

Just like blue started explaining the main plot of some of the movies, this really reminded Leo of some of the chapters of space heroes which led to him talking about the show.

neither of them had any idea how this situation even manage to be but both of them were sure that they would be stuck for sometime together, even if they didn’t tell each other the situations they were in before getting there,

they might as well get along in their time being.

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3 months have gone by since all the situation with orange happened, in all this time donnie had been working on some sort of device to be able to get orange out of mikey's body, it was a real struggle for him but at least he was able to use some notes he had stored in his phone about krang technology, he specifically based this on the mind swapping device they has encounter.

Meanwhile the others had been able to find a way to communicate with orange, apparently while he was more like a ghost he could still hold things, they gave him a notebook and a pencil he always carries around this days, it makes it easier to both talk to him and to know where he is, although it was pretty freaky to see a floating notebook it was nice to atleast get to know the one possessing the youngest of them, by this time they all had talk to orange at least once, april thought he was nice and casey de found entertaining talking to him, orange had tried talking to raph but he refused to talk to him, orange was sure he didn't like him because of the whole accidentally hurting mikey thing,

 since they had to make a device to separate them they had to stay together longer which meant that mikey had gained a few new injuries, some cuts, bruises abd even burns! which orange wasn't happy about nobody was, but raph was the one who said it out loud even if orange was there, that usually ended with yelling and aggressively marked words in the notebook, orange didn't like how he always implied that he hurts mikey on purpose and he wasn't just going to stand there hearing those accusations.

Mikey also didn't like any of it, he wanted everyone to get along, but he guessed that if raph didn't fight about something he wouldn't be raph. Him and orange had been having a great time, they would be hours talking and playing every game they could come up with, they had become really closed in this short amount of time that it was really impressive, although donnie had been very worried because of the same thing, if this didn't work and orange did end up dying he knew mikey would be devastated at losing a friend, not like they had many to begin with,

That's why when the day they were going to make the extraction arrived he was very nervous, he hadn't talk to orange much but he still didn't want to kill his little brother's friend,

"Donnieeee, is all of this really necessary??? I feel like im about to get torture or something" Mikey whined to his older brother who was making sure everything was in place, "mikey you are not gonna get torture, but we need this many connections so there is a plenty of space for orange's energy to come out so it doesn't come out all at once and hu-" "don, we don't care, lets just get, done with this already! Why did you even wake us up?!" Casey interrupted him, he was very annoyed not understanding why the purple turtle decided to wake everyone up at 4 am for this,

"I'm sorry we don't have the same sleeping schedules as you, but we still haven't gotten used to sleeping at night and we were already awake. I figured it would be best to get this done before mikey gets more hurt! It's not my fault you woke up" surprisingly enough the turtles still hadn't adjusted to this new sleeping schedule and donnie specifically was very sleep deprived so he may have been a bit rude there, not that he cared much when it came to casey either way, "jeez donnie i understand you want to get this done as soon as possible, but we're not going to sleep when you're doing something like this, so don't get all snippy here, you're not the only one tired" april spoke up, she was also woken up by the commotion and she definitely didn't have enough energy.

Mikey was worried, and not only because of all the things connected to him, but also because of all the 'what ifs' that could happen, he only stopped when a familiar feeling rested on his shoulder (which had some strange things connected in) he turned around to see orange who had placed a hand on him to try and bring some calm, he was also connected to lot of things but he didn't seemed too bothered, "hey, its okay, lets just be positive and think we will be alright!" Mikey gave him a big smiled and nodded to him making the weird machine in his head wobble, donnie squeaked in surprise and quickly started rearranging it again and telling mikey off for moving so much, that got a laugh out of orange "dude, how come he hasn't had to put anything more on you??" "It's because he hasn't moved as much as you have!!" Donnie answered the question which got another laugh out of orange before he responded himself "i'm not sure, but it feels familiar jaja" a quick flash of a memory came in mind,

"welp M1k3\ i guess we are done and, as promised, here is your lollipop" a smeared of yellow and orange quickly took off some strange things that were on his body before taking the candy from the purple blob "thanks d@π!"

"Ok ok, let's get this over with im getting anxious" raph said with an exasperated sigh, orange was brought back to reality now finally noticing how everyone looked beyond tense, guess he wasn't the only one scared about all of this,

It seemed like mikey was about to speak before he stopped dead on his tracks, orange also felt it, a bolt of energy and emotion rocked through his entire they both tensed and turned in almost exact synchrony, everyone else in the room notice the strange reaction of mikey, "is something wrong mi-" april was promptly interrupted as both mikey and orange started taking all of the things donnie had put on them in a very desperate manner

"WHAT!?!? LEAVE THOSE ON!" donnie tried to stop them but it was already too late as they completely took them off, out of nowhere a symbol appear on orange and mikey's chest, although the others couldn't see the one on orange, the other two turtles present at the time froze as they recognized the symbol, it looked a little different but it was undoubtedly the hamato clan symbol, before the others could even react mikey bolted out of the barn, orange following closely, only leaving behind his forgotten notebook

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It had been a few months since leo met his counterpart, they both had bonded pretty well if you asked him they didn't really other options since they were stuck, leo had tried meditating trying to see if he could somehow wake himself up but after a fee hours his counterpart stopped him explaining that comas were protective responses to severe damage and that it was likely that he was alive because of this, which kind of disturbed leo but who was he to say anything? Aparantley his counteroart is the team medic.

They has been talking about their brothers when they started to notice that the surroundings were starting to chabge for the first time since they arrived there. 

"Hey is it me or is it brighter here?" Blue asked the turtle beside him who was starting to get up, "yes... I- i think i'm waking up..." Leo looked as his body started looking translucid, blue stood up to see how leo started to disapear as their surrounding was turning an almost blinding light "oh thank goodness, i was starting to worry you were going to be left in a vegetative state because of all the time you were unconscious"

 "Wait, THAT WAS A POSSIBILITY?! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!"

"Well, I didn't want to scare you! I mean we are mutants im not sure how much our healing capacity changes from human's, like i could try to tell you from my personal experience but it's not like i woke up or anything" blue responded with a smug face on, leo just groaned at this, by this point he kind of expected this from the other turtle already, but it was still pretty annoying,

"Either way, since you are waking up, what do you think will happen to me? Will I get stuck here in your head? That would suck, i mean don't get me wrong amigo you are cool, but you're kind of empty headed if you get what i mean"

"guess we're about to find out" was the last thing leo said before everything disapeared,

When he gained consciousness he felt pain, lots of pain, he tried moving but he found it was a very difficult thing to do so instead he opened his eyes, he was alone in an unknown place, completely defenceless... Oh he was starting to panic, "gu-" he tried calling out to his brothers but stopped on his tracks as two things registered on his mind, first his throat hurts A LOT, second... That wasn't his voice... He sounds different, why does he sound different? Why-? What happened? Where was he? What should he-

He was brought back to reality by a gentle hand on his shoulder, he blinked in confussion before he turned upward now noticing that blue had been able to get out with him,

"Hey, it's okay, you're okay, well you look like a mummy but you're alive and from what I can see you've been taken care of since you went into a coma, I'm sure your enemies wouldn't do that so you must be surrounded of allies, you're fine"

Blue looked at leo trying to calm him down, he was taken lots of guesses with that statement, but after waking up from a coma that long you shouldn't be moving around that much before any check ups, and keo was sure squirming a lot which make him figure out that he didn't know this place.

Blue turned his attention to leo's appearance, he looked different, he had the exact same stripes like him, and the hamato clan symbole was active over his chest, which blue noticed that was the same for him but there was only teo dots glowing, which was...concerning but he suppose it was because he was in another universe, but why are there two? Shouldn't there be just one if that was the case?"

Leo who finally seemed to calm down also took noticed of this stripes as he looked at himself in the reflection of the water he was in, he is in a tub without his mask...blue was right he looks like a mummy, but before he could think furthermore about all this a sudden voice cought his attention, He turned towards the door of the room he was in, that was his little brother's voice, he was calling his name and he could hear rapid steps, it sounded like he was running up some stairs,

Leo tried to reposition himself, he wanted to get out, he wanted to see his brothers, but blue seemed to think different, "whoa there, carefull you're going to irritate your injuries" despite his warnings he didn't really listened he just turned to look towards the door in expectation, when it finally opened, blue didn't even need to look to know that it was his counterpart's mikey, he decided that it was better to let them have some privacy, he's heard enough about him to know that leo would be in good hands, even if mikey is a little rough sometimes he knew that for sure the rest of leo's brothers were also on their way,

With this blue stepped to a corner of the room, he would say it was a dark corner but the light coming out of his body seemed to illuminate the space, he still wasn't even sure the others could see him, but he didn't want to risk making this an uncomfortable situation,

Leo couldn't even say a word when he felt mikey embrace him in a thight hug, it hurted and he couldn't help but whine at the pain which surely got mikey to realize that leo was most likely in pain, he stopped the hug instead just holding his shoulders while talking a mile an hour about how he was so worried about him,

"leo! You're okay! I was so worried, you've been asleep for a month and you just wouldn't wake up, and you looks so dead i started to get really anxious and, and-" it looked like he finally took in leo's appearance, he looked at him and his brows furrowed before questioning leo "did you find a ghost while you were asleep dude???"

Leo was so confused, but as his eyes finally adjusted to the light in the room he was finally able to see his brother with...yellow marks on him??? But the he noticed something else, or rather someone else, they looked like blue, but they were glowing yellow, mikey whi seemed to notice his eyes moving turned to see the figure befire turning to look at him once more "you can see him...?" Before he could reply blue did,

"...mikey?" He turned to one of the corners if the room looking at blue (so that's where he went) even though he only had eyes leo could clearly see how shaken he looked..was that...his brother? The other michelangelo? 

"Oh man, you really found a ghost while you were asleep..."

Blue took a step closer to the other figure, he wasn't sure how to feel, one of his brothers was here, he wasn't alone! But...that also meant that mikey was dead...he died and he wasn't able to save him, how did he even die? When did he die???

To both of the blue turtles surprise after blue pronounce his name orange almost immediately turned to look at this dimension's orange turtle, looked just as confused

"Do...you know him?" Orange was confused, he was sure he had seen this guy at least once, but he said mikey, was that memory mike's instead of his? Or did they know each other? 

"Uhm no, sorry dude"

Blue was just stunned, why did he asked that?

He lifted a hand up towards orange he wanted to pat his head, he has always like that, but irange just took a step back while looking at blue full of skepticism

"I'm sorry, but ...do i- do i know you?”

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Not long after mikey entered the bathroom leo's other two brothers, and his human friends, soon followed inside as well, the two turtles shouted his name and were quick to embrace him in a big hug,

"Leo! You're awake and-I need to get you checked out" Donnie said with relief, but he still seemed a little worried, he knew very well the effects that a prolonged coma could cause"

"Raph, could you get me my med kit from the barn while I start with the check up?" Donnie turned to his red brother briefly before turning to Leo once more.

"Yeah, i'll get it, wait here" raph got up and ran to the barn itching to do something to help, meanwhile donnie started doing the standard procedure, like checking leo's pulse, but he quickly froze in place as he finally took notice of his brother's appearance, he mindlessly started tracing the new yellow stripes that littered his brother's body,

 "Leo... Do you know when this happened?"

"It's... a long story" leo replied trying not to show a pained face at donnie messing with his injuries,

"Well we have plenty of time while donnie pokes at you" mikey said, he already had an idea since it was pretty obvious, he had new marks, like him, and there was a new ghost around... Now he was just wondering how that happened

The two humans also seemed to notice but didn't say anything, this was obviously a private moment between family, yet they also didn't leave the bathroom, they were still worried for their friend.

And on a dark corner of the bathroom two glowing ghosts sat next to each other in the most awkward silence either of them had ever experienced, neither of them knew what to say, what was blue supposed to say to his little brother who didn't remember him???

Orange took sometime to collect his ideas, to try and find the right words to say to someone that seemed to know him, yet there was one thing that kept his mind occupied with something else, he was kept trying to discover who the other soul beside him was, the first thing he said was 'mikey' yet he wasn't looking at mikey, he was looking at him, it looked like he was trying so hard not to just throw himself at orange and held him close,

Orange turned to look at blue and finally asked what had been itching in his mind for so long,

"I...do know you, right? Like, I think I kind of remember you... I can see you hurt, you were being held by someone else, i think"

Blue not exactly expecting that quickly straightened himself ready to respond

"YES, i- i mean yes, that- that was the last time i saw you too"

"You were someone close to me...right?" He felt a little silly with how nervous he was acting, he may only remember 3 months of his life, yet he was sure he was anything but nervous when it came ro heart to heart moments,

"Well, i sure hope so considering i'm your older brother hehe" blue gave a nervous chuckle, watching orange carefully to see his reaction

Orange eyes widened at this revelation, he knew he had at least a brother considering his previous memories with that purple figure but the revelation that he had two, and potentially more, was very overwhelming

"Oh..." After sometime of orange debating what to say he decided to say the first thing he git in his mind

"Well at least i can see the familiarity"

This got blue cackling, he eventually stopped and the settled again in silence

In the end orange asked another big question he had,

"Did we knew them?" At the confused look that his brother gave him orange clarified a little more his question

" The turtles... Mikey's name was the first thing you said we you saw us" 

At this blue's face fell as he placed a hand on his shoulder,

"Nah hermanito, you got it wrong we didn't knew them before, i just met leo a few months ago, it's...a bit difficult to explain since you likely won't remember the jupiter jim reference jaja"

He seemed sad and orange in all honestly had no idea how to make him feel better, instead he opted to give him a big hug,

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The check up on leo was VERY extensive, donnie really didn't want to overlook anything specially concidering the fact that leo brought with him a new spirit, which was still something they haven't talked about, he wanted to know how much time they had with leo before the need of the extraction of the new spirit, although to his surprise there wasn't really much energy being released, unlike orange this new energy on his big brother didn't do any harm at all.

They asked leo what had happened, how did he get possesed while on a coma? But leo didn't answer, he told them that it would be easier to explain to everyone together, he had been looking at an empty corner of the room, donnie could only guess he was talking about orange,

After everything had settled in they decided it would be better to move to the livingroom in preparation of the extensive conversation they were just about to have, 

They helped leo to the sofa and started explaining most of the situation, leo was not having the greatest time, new york was taken by the krang, master splinter is... Dead, and he is currently useless until he heals which according to donnie it will take time, time they didn't have,

"I was making a medicine so you would heal faster but something came up" donnie explained

"Which, actually quick question, how did you get possessed while you were in a coma!?" And of course it was casey to address the elephant in the room,

Leo looked at the furthest corner away where orange and blue were talking, blue was explaining the plot of one of the multiple Jupiter Jim movies, leo had heard a lot about them on their time in his mind although he doesn't think he's heard about this one, blue was smiling with a laid back posture but it was quite obvious that he was nervous he seemed a little too stift to be true,

Leo frowned "i think it would be best if we explained to everyone at once"

"Wha- oh! Wait you're refering to orange and the other one right? right? Are they not here?" April spoke looking around before her eyes stayed briefly on the corner where they were although eventually she went back to looking at leo,

Mikey answered before leo could "not exactly, dudes are speaking over there" leo turned towards him at this answer,

"You really got to tell me how you met him, but... Yes i think it's important for them to be here, does orange really not remember anything?"

"Nope... does this have anything to do about other spirit calling orange mikey?" Mikey really didn't understand that part, at first he had thought that blue was talking to him and he might just not remember, that was until he saw blue, he looked devastated but not at him, he was looking at orange, orange had looked just as, if not more, confussed as how mikey had felt at the moment, but he didn't he still had tried to comforted him as much as he could, leo looked sad, but not the same as blue...more like an empathic sort of sadness, they stayed there like that during leo's whole examination,

"Wait what??? What do you mean he called him mikey?" Raph spoke loudly while donnie at his side just squinted his eyes, "yeah that's part of why i think it's important for everyone to be here" Leo stopped for a little and lowered his head in shame before speaking again "can someone call them over... Please? I don't think i'll be able to raise my voice much" as in clue casey, who was one of the closest with orange apart from mikey, turned to look at the corner where he presumed were the two spirits, since mikey and leo had been looking at that direction, and screamed "hey guy c'mere and stop being emos over there" 

Blue and orange finally stopped their conversation and looked up to them, they approached the group and took place behind the couch where mikey and leo were currently sitting on, and after leo told casey to turn around because they were already there, they all sat there in an akward silence, while everyone was looking at leo for him to explain, meanwhile he was still trying to figure out how to start april spoke up seeing how he had no idea where to start "how about you start by how you first met up?" 

Leo looked at blue and turned back to the group "well when i was in a coma i wasn't exactly... Unconscious? I was in my mind it was strange, it was as if i was in a void, i could see my body abd move around but there really wasn't much other than that, i was there alone for not that long until... I saw him, we've been. Talking for the last months"

There was some silence but when it was evident that leo was finish Raph was the first one to speak out loud "wait so you were just floating around in you empty ass mind and just suddenly were possessed???" 

Leo thought for a moment before nodding "yeah thats practicaly what happened, blue also doesn't remember how he got there, he really was lost when i found him" 

"So the new spirit's name is blue?" April asked to leo to which he only nodded

"Well that wasn't as long as i thought this story would be, like dude you said it would be difficult to explain" mikey pouted sounding a little disapointed about the short story

"Im not finished mikey, he- uhm, he knew orange before they died, and orange's name was mikey, well... It was michelangelo" there was some silence until it was suddenly interrupted by mikey who had turned to look at orange with enthusiasm "DUDE! We have the same name!!!" Orange seemed a little out of it but after shaking the feeling away he turned to look at blue with wide eyes

"You got to be kidding me! There's no way!" Casey exclaimed in disbelief

"Sorry leo but you've got to admit that it's kind of hard to believe, i mean Michelangelo isn't exactly a common name" april said trying not to sound harsh, while everyone kept talking about the improbability of orange and mikey sharing names,

orange had turned to look at blue "hey... Uhm i have a question what is your real name? I don't really remember" orange said with a tint of embarrassment, blue turned to look at him and gave him an empathic smile "well technically you do know my name, just not my full name" orange gave him a quized look before it actually click "ohmigosh you're actually named blue??? But then why am i Michelangelo we could have at least stuck to a theme you know?" Blue laughed at this reaction before he spoke up again to clarify "like i said not my full name, my name is Leonardo Blue Hamato, and we did stick to a theme since your full name is Michelangelo Orange Hamato"

this must be the most confussing thing orange must have heard in his life, yet again not like he can remember mlst of it, wasn't that leo and mikey's name? Well excluiding the colors, mikey, who apparently had been listening to their conversation seemed to be thinking something similar "dude that can't be your name those are my and leo's names!" Mikey said sounding upset by this situation, was this a joke?

To everyone else in the room it certainly didn't sound like a joke, they all freezed with variating looks of shock in their faces, they were all looking at them waiting for an explanation, leo who had also been listening had his hand on his face in total disapointment, why does blue keep dropping information in the worst times possible?!

Leo not really knowing how to go from there decided to explain it the same way blue had, with some help of course, so he turned to look at donnie who currently looked bewildered and was trying so hard to make sense of this situation "hey donnie, do you remember that space heroes episode we watched together a while ago? The one with the parallel worlds?" Donnie came out of his confused state and looked at leo's direction "what? Leo why dows that matter kno-" then in looked like he finally made the conection himself he looked at him with wide eyes and slacked jaw

"No way... Leo are you serious?!" He raised his voice in disbelief, leo only looked at him and nodded before speaking again " yeah and i might need some help explaining to the others" he looked sheepish as he said this

They stood there for some time while donnie processed all this information, then he was suddenly reminded once again that nobody in this room but him and leo had any sort of context as raph spoke up

"You care to share with the class here genius?" Donnie turned to look at him, he looked back at leo then at his friends and raph abd with a sigh he asked

"Ok, has any of you ever heard of parallel worlds or the multiverse theory?"

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"so... You're telling me that orange and... Blue, are mikey and leo from another dimension...? Im sorry but that shit is just dificult to believe" raph said as he crossed his arms, donnie had just finished explaining the concept of the multiverse and nobody really knew how to react to this new information,

"I don't know man from our time knowing orange i can actually see the similarities with mike" at least casey seemed to know what to say

"Actually i might agree, they have the same silly vibe" april spoke on the other side of the room where she was sitting on the couch, mikey turned practically glowing with excitement "DUDEEE, WE ARE THE SAME PERSON!!!" mikey turned to look behind the couch where him and leo were, with blue and orange behind, he grabed orange's shoulders and started to talk about how everything made scence now and how similar they were,

Leo who had stayed silent this whole time spoke up, with a littke but of struggle to keep his voice up, and asked a question "so what now? What do we do with them?" It's not like he wanted to get rid if orange and blue, he had gotten quite close to him in his time during the coma, but he did understood that him and orange needed ti go back to the rest if his familly, they has to go back to their universe and he was more than willing to help, 

They all stayed silent for a while before donnie spoke up reminding everyone what they were doing before leo woke up "we should continue with the procedure, we still need to take orange out of mikey's body" mikey seemed annoyed at this but didn't said snything, everyone started to stand up ready to head out "wait! What do you mesn by take him out?! Is sonething wrong" blue spoke out in confusion while movibg closer to his brother, leo, who was also confused, decided to repeat blue's question out loud,

Everyone stopped before donnie decided to explain "well the energy that Orange is produccing is so strong that mikey's body can't handle it, so we are trying to take them apart, which reminds me i also have to examine you two to see if we have to do the same" blue's mind was runing wild thinking of possible explanations of why this would happen, leo didn't have much chance to think of it before casey spoke up "soooo, are we bringing leo along or should someone stay with him?" April looked at him for a minute thinking if what casey had just said "well i don't think patients who just came out if comas are suppose to move too much, i can stay with leo if you want" donnie looked at leo briefly before taking mikey's hand and started shoving him towards the exit door "yeah that would be for the best, thanks april" he smiled at her before finally managing to get mikey out

Casey and raph followed suited and as leo saw them dispeared he heard mikey's protest at being manhandled and otange's laghing at his friends protest, he was about to talk to april but noticed blue's behavior he had positioned himself at the window looking at the group of teenagers entering the barn, from the reflection leo was able to see his exprasion that showed some anxiety he seemed eager to go with them but he also didn't looked like he wanted to separate from leo's  side, or maybe he couldn't? Leo didn't know, either way he looked like he wanted to be with them, 

Leo turned to look at april vefore speaking up "actually... I want to be with them, you know when they do it?" April didn't seemed surprised by this instead just furrowing her brows "leo i just said you aren't suppose to move around, i think it's going to be okay, donnie has been working in this for months nothing bad is going to happen" april told him while taking a seat at his side, leo lookes at blue who was still lost in thought, then he turned to whisper at april "i know but blue seems nervous i think he wants to be with orange" april then realized that even if leo and blue were friends now that didn't change the fact that everyone else was a stranger to him and he was basically leaving his younger brother to go trough an untested procedure with said strangers, with a heavy sigh april stood up once again she stood up and started making her way to the door "im going to tell the guys, im gonna need some help to get you there without injuring you furthermore" leo gave her a smile while nodding,

Blue watched as she webt out with a face of confusion, he made his way to leo and asked "hey so what's up with her? Wasn't she supposed to stay here to babysit you?" 

"Jaja, She's just going fir someone we're going too, im worried obout mikey" not entierly a lie on his part, blue looked at him wide eyed before smiling at him, or as much of a smile you can converge while not having a mouth, 

Shortly after april's departure raph came back with an annoyed expression "you're really lucky that donnie has a spare chair you can use" he came up to leo and stopped at his side "unfortunetly for the both of us i'll have to carry you to make sure you don't fall and break a bone or some shit" leo didn't want to be carried, he never like it "do you have to?" Raph was already lifting him up before he even said it "docs orders" was the only thing he said as he started making his way to the barn, blue walked at his side barely hidding his laughter, leo blushed in embarrassment

"what are you laughing at?" 
"Nothing nothing! You just don't expect such a short guy to be strong kibd of reminds me of orange when we were back in our universe" blue said with a fond look in his face,

Now it was leo's turn to laugh, raph hated ti be call short abd here it was someone right in front of him calling him short, of course he couldn't hear blue but it still was funny,

"Ugh really hate knowing someone is here, that's just fantastic" raph didn't like being left out of a conversation

Leo and blue cackled at this, fo far this day for leo had been horrible with all the bad news but... Blue really helped feel this less stressfull
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Everything was crumbling apart, it had been months since the invasion, it had been months since they lost mikey and leo, and it had been just a few weeks since raph fell into a coma, donnie didn't know what to do, casey junior had warned them about the infection that was likely to follow the possession but they weren't prepare for how ruthless it would be,

They didn't have enough resources to treat the infection, the damage that the lair had sustained was a lot and they lost most of the medicine, their human friends tried to find as much  medicine as they could but it was difficult enough for normal humans to get some, they tried some of draxum's medicine but it wasn't working either nobody knew what to do and donnie was terrified,

He had already lost two of his brothers he couldn't lose another one, he didn't kniw what he would do if he lost his last brother, so thats how he found himself at late hours of the night trying to make a cure for his older brother, he wasn't even that good when it came to making their medicine, that was...leo's job,

 he shouldn't be there realistically he should be in bed resting so that he could heal his injuries but that's never stopped him before and certainly no one was there to stop him, april's parents weren't letting her out of their sight, they had been able to  convinced her parents that junior was a friend of april's that lost his house and family in the invasion and needed a place to stay, not exactly a lie, and cass decided to stay on the streets to control the sudden spike of criminal activity,

and splinter... He locked himself in his room, again

So donnie was on his own definetly not taking care of himself he had decided to move most of his equipment to the  medbay were raph was currently located he refused to leave his side, but kately he was also starting to feel bad, his hands wouldn't stop trembling, and maybe it was from the exhaustion of not sleeping in days or maybe it was from the wound in his arms, but that didn't  mattered, his head hurted and he was starting to feel dizzy,

Before he knew it he had to put down the chemicals in his hands to not drop them, he couldn't think anymore, everything was too much the sound in his head was so loud, his body felt hot and cold at the same time, everything hurted but he had to keep going because then raph would... No! He couldn't he couldn't! HE COULDN'T
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Donnie was tired he turned the chair he was in around to look at his older brother, he... Could't think, his brain was mush, he was tired, donnie stood up with dificulty pushing down the feeling of nausea that he felt, he waljed until he was at his brother's side he looked at his face, he looked peacefull despite being at death's door, the antibiotics that were currently hooked up to him were already running out, donnie looked at them, those were the last ones they had, and his other experimental batches had been a total failure.

Donnie took them off before putting some normal vitamins in hopes that it could help at least a little, he took out his phone and sent a quick text to soril asking for more atibiotics, april responded saying that she would try her best to get more, he didn't responded, he considered going back to work but he couldn't, he turned to look at raph once more,

Then out of an irrational idea he hopped in the bed with him and hugged his older brother just like when they were tots, when he had nightmares and his brothers were there, he wished this was all a nightmare,

For him it was easy enough to just fall asleep then and there