AN: This is my first ever fanfic! Hope you enjoy my story. Reviews are always welcome.
Disclaimer: Sadly I do not own TMNT.
Mikey was in Don's lab working on the newest prank that had entered his mind when all of a sudden he heard the lair door open.
"Oh shell, my bros must have come home early" he thought as he went to peek out the open door to make sure the coast was clear.
His brother's had left a few hours ago to help April with her stores inventory. She had just got a new shipment of antiques and needed help organizing her stock. Mike had stayed behind uttering an excuse that he had to work on his katas. His bothers gave him a look that said they didn't believe him one bit but left it at that saying they would be back in time for dinner. Master Splinter had left earlier that same day informing his sons that he was going on a trip to help out an old friend who had recently fallen awfully ill. He was not expected home for two weeks at the very least.
"Mikey we're home and we picked up pizza, if you want some I left it on the counter!" Donnie shouted as he entered the living room startling Mikey who was attempting to sneak away unseen.
Just as he was about to close the door Don came round the corner and headed straight for his lab looking lost in thought. Mikey had just enough time to duck out of sight (back inside through the door he was moments ago closing). In doing so he had managed to knock over a small, weird looking machine that was sitting on the table he was now hiding himself under in the hopes that Donnie would fail to see him.
Beep, Rattle, Beep, Clang, Beep!
The machine came to life with an array of various sounds and lights. Mike made a snatch for it to try and shut it off before it caught Dons attention. As he reached for it a ray of brilliant, white light shot from the end that was facing the table and surrounded him. Everything started to spin, the world was a haze of colors and sound, forming into one massive twister with him smack dab in the middle. Then everything faded and went black.
Donnie was approaching his lab, while thinking of his newest invention, when he heard a loud thud as if something had just fallen to the floor. He made a dash for the door but before he could enter there was a radiantly, bright light that came from within the room and blinded him. After he recovered the use of his eyes (albeit with some remaining dark spots) he gazed around the area to see what had fallen. There on the floor near the table lay the very same invention (The Shrink-O-Ray) he had formally been pondering on! Don gently picked it up and examined it for any damage.
"Oh no, the entire circuit board is fried!" Don sighed "It'll take me at least a week to find all the parts I will need to repair the damage that's been done, and get it back into working order".
From what he could deduce from a quick but thorough inspection several fuses were blown, as well as a broke resistor and a couple cracked capacitors. Most were an easy fix, the only problem being one tiny fuse.
"How did it get on the floor in the first place" Don thought to himself "MIKEY!" he yelled as he realized that the only possible way that it would have fallen was if someone had bumped it, and Mike was the only one home!
"Guys" Donnie shouted for his elder brothers who were in the dojo sparring with each other. "Get in here NOW!"
When Leo and Raph heard the frantic call of their normally quiet brother they immediately knew something was wrong. The two older brothers leapt forward at the same time nearly colliding with each other in their haste to reach Donnie. As they approached the lab Don stepped out, a look of unparalleled worry on his face.
"Yo Donnie what happened?" Raph asked in his usual gruff manner "Ya sound like shred-heads right outside the lair".
"Don did another of your inventions explode?" Leo asked as he tried to peer into the lab to see how much damage it caused this time. "Are you hurt?"
"Mikeylabshrinkmachinenowhere " Don rushed ahead in explanation without even trying to catch his breath.
"What ya sayin, I don't talk gibberish!" Raph smirked.
"He's right Donnie you need to calm down or we won't be able to understand a word you're trying to tell us" Leo replied as he placed a reassuring hand on Don's shoulder.
Don managed a few deep, calming breaths before starting his explanation once again.
"When we got home I immediately decided that I would head to my lab to work on my newest invention- the Shrink-O-Ray (isn't that name just spectacular!) It's used to shrink household objects so that they take up less storage space." at this he held up the small machine that he had clasped in his hands. "As I was nearing the entrance there was a blinding light, it disappeared nearly as soon as it had started. I then walked through the doorway and noticed that my invention was on the floor. I picked it up and did a thorough check of its functions, most of which need to be repaired." he broke off with a frustrated huff "Do you know how long it took to find all the parts I needed to build this in the first place?" Don started to list a bunch of technical parts and equipment.
"Stop wit all your technical what not and git on wit it already!" Raph intervened having enough of hearing about all the various parts of the weird machine. From what he could figure, from the ramblings of his intellectually inclined brother, it was a very high tech piece of junk meant to shrink stuff down for storage.
"And what does all this have to do with Mikey?" Leo asked apprehensive of the answer he was about to receive.
"That's what I'm trying to explain to you. Mikey was the only one here! He must have been in my lab for some reason or other, heard me coming, panicked, and knocked the Shrink-O-Ray off the table, resulting in it turning on and shrinking him!" he said patiently as if explaining something to a child for the very first time.
Meanwhile (as his eldest brothers were absorbing what the genius had said) Mike was in the process of waking up.
"Man what the shell happened"? he said while he rubbed his aching head. In a flash everything that had happened came rushing back! "I remember now, I was gonna prank Donnie then there was that weirdo flash of light, the spinning, and the tornado of colors (man that last part was pretty groovy), I must have blacked out after that." Mikey thought while he managed to get to his feet, the world spinning a bit as he stumbled forward.
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!" Mikey jumped as he heard the shrieks that escaped the mouths of Leo and Raph.
"I said that I think my invention shrunk Michelangelo." Donnie groaned
"SHRUNK!" Mikey squeaked upon hearing what his intelligent brother had just said "This is so not cool." he thought as he gaped at the room that was no longer spinning, instead he noticed that he was now able (if he felt the desire to do so) to cross the threshold of the mouse hole in the corner and see what was on the other side.
"I'M SMALLER THAN A MOUSE!" Mikey yelped as he rushed around like a chicken with it's head cut off, starting to panic.
"Shh! Did you guys just hear that?" Leo inquired of the others
"Ya, dat sounded like Mike, cept not as obnoxiously loud as he usually is".
"No one move, if he really did get shrunk, we don't want to step on him".
Everyone froze while they waited to see if their baby brother would make another sound, or even better, manage to reach them of his own accord so that they wouldn't have to move their feet and risk squishing him.
"Okay, I need to reach the others and have Don turn me back to my normal size". He gulped, "before something totally, terrible happens"! Mike started off determinedly in the general direction of his bros voices.
Mikey made his way through a jungle of discarded technical components to reach the doorway. At times he would run into a dead end or need to climb up tall piles of various objects Don had left lying around on the floor. To the miniscule turtle they felt more like mountains. He eventually found his way through the maze and peering out saw his three brothers all standing stock still right outside the entrance to the lab. As he rushed forward he tripped over an abandoned screw on the floor and went flying through the air. Fortunately for him he landed on something soft (and green)!
"Huh! What da shell, something just landed on my foot." Raph glanced down confusedly to see what looked like a large beetle clinging to the big toe of his right foot.
"What in the world are you complaining about?" Leo groaned wondering what his short tempered brother was on about now.
"There's a big, green beetle sittin on my foot!" Raph squeaked. He really hated bugs! So, while trying not to move in fear of stepping on his baby bro, he couldn't help shaking his foot around to hopefully dislodge the disgusting insect.
Mikey (who had recovered from his trip) was currently in the process of riding Raph's toe like a mechanical bull while the latter was flinging his foot around working on ridding himself of what he imagined was a gross, green-shelled bug.
"Raph you need to control yourself and stop moving around. It's just a little insect, where as you are a mutant turtle, it cannot possibly do you any harm." Don reasoned
"What do ya want me to do then, let it sit there all day and..." but, before he could finish his rant they all heard a tiny voice call to them from below.
"Hey dudes, I'm down here", came a squeeky voice. His three brothers looked down at the exact same time to see Mikey (who was now leaning back on Raph's foot as if it where a throne) staring up into the middle of the circle the elder turtles where standing in.
"Mikey!" Leo and Don exclaimed in relief while Raph snarled (embarrassed to be made a fool of) "Mikey you had betta git off of my foot… unless ya wanna go for a short flight dat is!"
Mikey quickly took the hint and slid off his temperamental brothers foot to land safely on solid ground. He then tilted his head back as far as he could and met his brother's gawking eyes.
"What are you dudes staring at, it's not like I meant to end up the size of Shredders brain!" Mikey stated with a laugh, trying to break the uneasy silence while his three (now giant) brothers stared down at him, mixed emotions playing on their faces.
"Hahahahaha" suddenly all three of the older turtles broke out in uncontrolled hysterics. Partially due to the joke but also in part to their baby brothers predicament.
"Hey guys, if you're laughing at my joke then that's fine, but if you're laughing at me it's not funny at all! I could get stepped on, or worse flushed down the toilet!" His voice shook on the last part and he shivered, thinking of all the terrible outcomes that could occur now that he was so micro-teeny.
"Serves ya right for all the pranks ya try to pull around here! Now you've gone and gotten yourself into a LITTLE bit of trouble, haven't ya?" Raph snickered between fits of laughter.
"Raph's got a point Mike, maybe you should try to turn this into a SMALL learning experience!" Leo lectured, chuckling a bit, but was interrupted before he could continue.
"Mikey's right you guys, this is not a laughing matter, why don't we all try putting ourselves in his TINY shoes." Donnie snorted at the joke then continued, "But seriously, imagine how he must feel to constantly be on the look out for incoming feet".
"Yea so enough of the wise-cracks!" Mikey pouted "So what are we going to do? I'm not gonna be stuck like this forever am I? That would be a major bummer dudes."
While talking they slowly move to the living room Mikey catching a lift with his oldest brother. They settled down on the couch and continued to discuss the fiasco they now found themselves caught in the middle of.
"Don't worry Mikey", Donny reassured his only little brother. "I should be able to reverse the effects of the Shrink-O-Ray once I'm able to scavenge around for the components that were ruined when it fell"
"How long do you estimate it will take you to find all the necessary parts Don?" Leo inquired
"Not long. Most of these parts are fairly common place", he paused, scratching his head. "There's one fuse that I might have a little trouble with though. All in all I should have it fixed in about a week".
"I need to stay like this a whole week? What will I do? I can't play video games cause the remotes too big. I can't read comics cause they're on the top self in my room. I can't skateboard cause my board's twenty times bigger than I am! This week is gonna totally blow"! Mikey kicked a crumb then slid off the couch, turned and walked away to find something relatively entertaining to do.
Meanwhile Donnie contemplates on how he'll go about finding the necessary parts to fix the shrink machine and Leo and Raph try to figure out how to keep Mike out of trouble in the mean time. They stay like that for a while before Leo breaks the silence.
"He looked kind of depressed, maybe we shouldn't have made fun of him earlier" Leo said in a regretful way remembering the way his baby brother had walked dejectedly into the kitchen a short while earlier.
"The Knucklehead had it comin and ya know it!" Raph pointed out. "It was only a matter of time till he landed himself in some kinda trouble or other. With all the pranks he pulls, one was bound to go wrong at some point. It just so happened to be sooner rather than later".
"Raph, that's not fair. I know that Mike can be a bit… mischievous sometimes." Donnie defended.
"Sometimes?" Raph interrupted
"Okay most times , but still I'm sure he feels bad enough already without our teasing. We should be supporting him, not telling him how terribly he screwed things up this time."
With that the three dispersed to do what was needed to prepare and restore their youngest brother back to his normal carefree self once more.
Mikey was in the kitchen. After having scaled the cupboard, he had managed to obtain some of the leftover pizza from earlier. He was now busily devouring it as he thought back on the situation he now found himself in .
Leo decided to meditate on the issue, so he left for the peaceful solitude of his room. Clearing his mind he focused on the problem at hand, letting himself fall into a tranquil state of mind.
Raph took a rather different approach, deciding to take out his pent up aggression from the whole mess on his punching bag. It never stood a chance as Raph hit it with a mean right hook.
Donnie went out and started searching for the necessary components needed to rebuild the Shrink-O-Ray. The Junk yard was his best bet at finding anything useful.
All four of them were wondering how long it would be until Mike was back to normal once more.
AN: Next Chapter will most likely be up tomorrow. Hope you liked it. Please Review, any constructive criticism you give will help improve my writing for the future. Thanks for reading.