chapter 1
It was at the market area to get more info and to be able to mingle with aliens that Mikey heard the crying. He followed it to a dark alley that everybody else was passing by with no indication they heard the crying. So Mikey went in and followed the crying to a trash bin. he opened it to see a child, new born, by the size of it. It was a lizard like alien with light blue skin, he couldn't see the color of the eyes, because they were closed from crying. Mikey bent down and picked the child up and cradled him in his arms.
"hush now sweetness don't cry," Mikey cooed to the young child.
It stopped crying and opened big purple eyes and looked up at Mikey. It cooed and turned its head to the side gaze never leaving Mikey's eyes. Mikey smiled and it got bigger when the alien smiled back with a toothless smile. the alien started to giggle when Mikey shifted it closer to his plastron.
When he made it back to the ship he found that everybody else had basically been chased back to the ship after angering an alien or two.
"So where were you during all this Mikey?" Donnie asked walking up to him.
"Oh I found this little alien in a trash bin in a dark alley way all the other aliens ignored the crying so I went to investagate and found them," Mikey said showing off the young alien.
Leo stood up and looked closely at the baby alien.
"what is it?" Leo asked.
"well from what I can see of it, its a baby Lizdron," the professor said coming closer to examine the baby.
"what is a lizdron?" Raph asked grumpily.
"A lizdron is an alien race of lizard like people the baby seems to be newly hatched, from the color of its scales," the professor said turning to Raph.
"What do you mean 'from the color of its scales'?" Leo asked looking behind him towards the robot.
"Well lizdrons are born with light blue scales, they will change color as they age some are green, blue, red, orange, etc." the fugitoid said.
"That's cool can you tell if this one is a boy or a girl?" Mikey asked holding up the baby, who has fallen asleep.
"Yes just let me scan it," the professor said before his eyes turned a bright orange and scanned the infant. "He is a boy."
"Thats cool, hmm, I think I'll call you Gaberial," Mikey said holding the baby closer and rubbing his head against the baby's.
"Mikey what do you think you're doing? You can't keep him," Leo said turning back to Mikey.
"What do you mean of course I'm keeping him, he was abandoned I'm not going to just leave him to die," Mikey said clutching the baby closer to him.
"I say we let him keep th baby Leo he's obviously grown attached to him," Raph said.
"Raph its not a pet its a baby think about that," Leo said turning towards Raph with a glare.
"I know that Leo, but no matter what you do Mikey will keep the baby anyway so why bother," Raph said. "Besides it be cool to be an uncle," he continued.
"Thank you Raph, what about you D what do you say about me keeping him?" Mikey asked turning to his last brother.
"I think its a good idea Mikey it might teach you something about responsibility," Donnie said smiling at his little brother.
"See Leo at least two of my brothers have faith in me," Mikey said before turning around and walking away from a shocked Leo.
"Well that was harsh, and that's coming from me," Raph said.
"Its not that I don't have faith in him, its just we're on a mission to save the Earth not baby sit," Leo said crossing his arms, hiding his hurt feelings from his brothers.
"Sure its not Leo, even i can tell that you don't have any faith in him what so ever," Donnie said also walking out of the room as well.
"Its true Leo you were a little harsh on him he wants to keep the baby that was abandoned let him its not like you to just tell him to basically kill the baby and be done with it," Raph said walking out of the control room.
Leo thought about that and realized that's exactly what it sounded like he said to Mikey that he had no faith in him to raise the baby and to just leave it to die. Leo grew very sick at that thought and ran to the bathroom.
MIKEY'S P.O.V.
I started to walk to my room when I heard Donnie behind me.
"Wait Mikey I want to do some research on how to care for a Lizdron and I want you there to learn as well okay?" Donnie asked catching up to me.
"Okay D that's cool," I said turning to him and followed him to the lab he set up.
Once we entered the lab, Donnie set up a place for me to set Gaberial while we did some research about his species. I didn't really want to put hi down, but i understood the reason behind why Donnie wanted me to set him down. I wouldn't be able to focus if I was holding him. Donnie set up the computer looking up baby Lizdrons and how to raise them if your not a Lizdron. The first thing that popped up was a picture of a baby Lizdron with light blue scales and bright blue eyes. The picture continued through the baby's life of his scales turning from blue to a bright orange and him growing teeth. So Donnie clicked the link under the picture.
A webpage came up explaining the scales being a light blue when first hatched, but the first year of life they will gain their permanent scale color. It said there is no way to tell what scale color a Lizrdon will have when its first born. Though Lizdrons only have four eye colors purple, blue, brown, and pink. unlike the scales the eye color they hatch with is their permanant eye color. Baby Lizdrons will feed off of milk from their mothers or baby formula specially made for it. It then listed all the ingredents and the specifacians for the amounts needed for each baby. Donnie did the math and found that Gabe could have regular baby formula found on Earth and he promised to have some made at all times until we made it back to Earth. 'That's a relief,' I thought. It turns out we would need diapers as well so Donnie said he would figure out how to make those. That was basically it for the website. It helped, but it could be a little more helpful.
I walked over to Gabe and rubbed his small head gently, he continued to sleep. He was so cute. He started to snuffle in his sleep,it was adorable.
"Don't worry Mikey I'll make a crib and some toys for him okay?" Donnie asked looking down at Gabe.
"Thanks D," I said picking up Gabe and walking out of the lab.
