"Forget-Me-Not"

Monsters are not real. That's what the turtles though before now. There's something in town. He is taking away people, and with them, he is taking away all of the memories of the people. People are forgetting. One of the turtles is gone. But… Who was him again?

Forgotten

It all started at night. April and Casey were at the park, alone. April told Casey that she could help him to study for the Chemistry test they both had that week.

"Casey I promise it's not that hard. Just pay attention to what I'm telling you. I've been explaining this for hours."

"I know Red, but I just don't get it. I gave up on Chemistry a long time ago. I guess I'm just not made for it."

"You can't fail Chemistry again. You're gonna get kicked-out of the Hockey team."

"Ha, they can't kick me out of the team. I'm the best player they have."

"You don't know that."

"Of course I know. When we're speaking about Hockey, there's no one better than Casey Jones."

"So just because you're good at Hockey then you're planning to fail Chemistry once more?"

"That's right."

"Argh, Casey why do you have to be so stubborn!?"

Casey just gave her a small grin.

"You look cute when you're angry."

April sighted.

"So, do you plan to fail the test or should we keep going?"

Casey though about it. He loved spending time alone with April. He didn't liked to admit it, but he had a huge crush on her. Casey thought that it was cute and fun to make her angry. He was definitely mad for the cuteness of her angry face. He couldn't help it. On the other hand, he was really tired of listening to the same senseless explanation for hours. He hated Chemistry. For him, it was simply impossible to understand. None of the letters and it's values seemed to make any sense.

Casey was about to give her an answer, when they both saw a car, slowly driving into the park. The car seemed to have no driver nor direction. They both looked at each other confused as the car stopped, slowly crashing with one of the park slides.

"What the…?" Casey murmured as he took out his baseball bat and carefully started to walk towards the black car. "Stay back Red."

April just stood there in silence. What the hell was going on? That wasn't normal. The car seemed to be empty. She took out her weapon in case that she needed to use it, while Casey opened one of the car's door and looked into it.

"What's in there Casey?" She said a little frightened.

"Uh…" Casey started to look under the seats for anything suspicious, but everything was in place. He looked up to the mirror, just to find a girl sitting on the back of the car. Casey screamed and ran out of the car, freaked out for the little girl on the back-seat.

"Casey! What happened?! What's in there?!" April screamed as she ran to help.

"Oh my God! There's a girl on the back-seat! I'm alright." He said scared and breathing heavily. "I just didn't expected that."

"A girl?" April asked as she approached to the car. She looked through the window just to find a pretty brunette girl. She had no more that 12 years old. Her big brown eyes staring with a confused and scared look at the front seats. April could see a tear coming out of her eyes, although her long, straight black hair covered most of her face. The girl was really thin and her sadly opened mouth could show a gap on her teeth. April opened the back door of the car.

"Are you alright? What's your name?"

The girl didn't moved a muscle. She just pronounced two words.

"They're gone."

"Who's gone?" Casey asked, getting closer to the car.

The girl looked at them with her face full of tears.

"You have to help me."

"What happened?" April asked, helping the girl to get out of the car.

"I don't know." She cried. "Everything was fine. We were driving home, when a pale man appeared in front of us. He took away my parents. I hided under the back-seat. I don't know where did he went." She said with more tears coming out of her eyes. "I should have helped them."

April and Casey were confused. A pale man? That wasn't normal at all.

"It's alright Honey." April said as she hugged the girl. "We will help you find your parents. What's your name?"

"Alex." She said. "You have to get me somewhere safe. I think that the pale man is looking for me."

"Don't worry. We have some friends that can help us. My name is April and he's Casey. Now stop crying okay? Everything will be fine."

Alex nodded.

"Uh… Casey, why don't you call our friends while I stay here with Alex, giving her a little introduction about their appearances?"

"Okay Red, no problem." Casey agreed, walking away from the girls, to somewhere more quiet. He pulled out his phone and called Raphael.

"What's up Jones?"

"Dude, we seriously need your help."

"Why? What happened?"

"This is crazy, man. I was studying at the park with April when an empty car just showed up and crashed with a slide, then we found a little girl on it, saying that a pale man took away her parents and that she's in danger too. Can we take her to the lair?"

"Wow Casey, were you studying?"

"Raph! Can you focus?" He shouted nervously.

"Chill out Casey. You can take her to us. We'll help."

"Thanks man, see you." Casey sighted as he hung the phone. He walked to April and Alex.

"Raph said it was fine. Let's take her to them to see if we can figure out what happened to her family."

"See Alex? I told you that they'll help you and defend you."

Alex didn't even smiled, she just nodded her head. She had stopped crying now, but Casey and April could still feel her sadness.

It was a long way to the lair. It was really awkward. At first, both of them tried talking to Alex, but she never replied. After some minutes, they figured out that she was really sad to talk, maybe she was just not in the mood.

They finally arrived. The four turtles were at the couch, waiting for them. Alex didn't even flinched. She ran straight to the turtles.

"You have to help me! Your friends told me that you could help!" She started crying again.

Leo kneeled in front of her. He grabbed her by the shoulders.

"Calm down okay? We'll help. Can you tell us what happened? I'll promise that we'll keep you safe."

She nodded.

"What's your name, again?"

"Alex." She murmured.

"Hey Alex, my name is Leonardo, the orange one's Mikey, the red one's Raph and the purple one is Donnie. Now, would you sit down and tell us what happened?" Leo said with a smile on his face, making Alex feel safer.

She nodded and sat down. She started to think, after some minutes, she finally talked.

"I lost someone, but I can't remember who… Do you?" She glanced with frustration to April and Casey, who just looked at each other. They realized that they didn't remembered either.

"Uh… Raph, didn't I told you?" Casey asked.

"… Did you?" He replied with a strange look at his face.

"I have no idea of what's going on." Donnie talked.

"… Okay, I have an idea. I can read trough your thoughts. Just, close your eyes and try to remember." April said, as she approached to Alex, placing her hands on the girl's forehead.

They both closed their eyes. After some seconds, April started to get images and even feelings. She saw Alex, she was at the backseat on the car. She could see two shadows of the people who were sitting at the front seats, but that was it, they were just shadows. Alex started talking to them about a horror movie. April figured out that they were going home after going to the movies.

"It wasn't that scary." Alex said to the shadows in front of her.

"Oh, come on, didn't you felt scared Alex? Not even a little?" That was a woman's voice.

"Well… maybe just a little, mom."

April remembered. The woman was her mother and the shadow who was driving was her father.

April saw that her father was about to say something else, when he quickly stopped the car. April could see why. It was a pale man standing at the road. April could just see his back, until the man looked at the car. He had a big grin, his teeth covered in blood, his eyes were red too. April felt the girl's fear as the man ran to the car and smashed the windows. He pulled Alex's mother and father out of the car and, as her mother shouted Alex to hide, the next thing she knew was that her parents were gone, just as the man.

April opened her eyes immediately, just as Alex did. Both girls were breathing fast and had a terrified look at their faces.

"It's her parents. We need to find her parents" April exclaimed to the turtles and to Casey.

"My parents? I don't remember having any." Alex said.

"Honey, I need you to tell me your address. Can you remember that?"

Alex nodded.

"Great, then write it down." April spoke, as she gave Alex a pen and a piece of paper.

"Okay… Hold on April, I'm not getting a thing of what you're doing. What did you saw?" Leo asked, confused.

"I... I don't remember, but I'm sure that we need to find her parents."

"April, she just said that she didn't recalled having any."Raph answered.

"Raph, everyone has to have parents. It's odd for a girl to don't remember them, don't you think? We need to check her house. We may find a clue or something."

"We'll I don't see why not to. I'll go with you, April." Mikey said with a slime.

"Thanks Mikey." April replied as she took the sheet of paper where Alex had written down her address.

" Fine, Raph, Mikey and April will go with me to check out the girl's house, while Donnie, I need you to give Alex a quick check-up to make sure that she's not hurt and Casey, help him take care of her. She might need protection." Leo ordered.

"Oh, right. Just leave me here to babysit, that's great." Casey answered, kinda pissed off.

"Casey, now is really not the time to argue. Stop complaining and do your job." April scolded with a little stress on her voice. Casey stood there, with nothing else to say, as his friends left the lair, leaving him alone with Donnie, who was holding his laugh and waiting for the guys to leave.

"Ha, she totally got you man, she left you speechless!" He laughed. "Oh god, come on Alex, lets check you up." He said as he left, taking Alex to his lab and leaving an angry Casey sitting at the couch.

Meanwhile, Leo, Mikey, Raph and April were heading to Alex's house. After some minutes, they finally arrived. The house seemed to have no one living there, but it was in perfect shape and clean.

"Leo, are you sure this is it? Are you sure you brought us to the right place?" Raph asked, confused by the look of the house.

"Well, this is the address that Alex gave to April."

"Let's check it out boys." April talked as she got out of the van.

"Guys, I think something's not right about this place." Mikey said as he looked at the house, with a little fear in his voice.

"Why's that?" Leo questioned.

"Because I just saw…"

"Mikey is just a scared little boy. Let's go. I plan to end the season of The Walking Dead tonight and it's already midnight." Raph claimed as he walked to the door.

Raph opened the house. The door wasn't locked. Before entering, everyone took out their weapons. They stepped inside. The house smelled as if not even a soul had entered in years. It was really dark. April tried turning on the lights. No electricity. It's walls were all white. Some of them were crackled. The house had few furniture. Just the basics, like a table, some chairs and a couch. It was all covered in dust.

"Okay… We'll split up and search…" Suddenly, Leo was interrupted by Mikey.

"Split up? You must be kidding Leo. I'm not splitting up in this place."

Leo sighted.

"All right, we'll go in pairs. I'll stay with April, Raph, you'll go with Mikey. We'll check the down-floor. You guys check up-stairs."

"Great, leave me with the one that's afraid of the dark. Let's go Mikey. The sooner we get home, the better." Raph sighted as he started walking upstairs. Mikey quickly followed him.

Once they were upstairs, they saw a big hallway. The only things in it were dust and four doors. Two of them were at one side of the hallway, one of them was at the other side and the last door was at the end of the hallway. They were all closed.

"Raph, what if we just tell the guys that we checked and that they were all empty?"

"C'mon Mikey, don't be such a baby."

As he said that, Raph opened the first door. As they went inside, they saw that there was nothing in the room, but a mattress covered in dust. They opened the second door. Another room, but this one was smaller. The third door was a bathroom. The smell wasn't good. The mirror was all rusty and the bathtub seemed to be full of fungus. One more door left. The one at the end of the hallway.

Raph took a deep breath before opening the door. Then, he did. When the door opened, the two turtles were amazed. They never thought that what they would find behind that door was a girl's room. Completely ordered. No trace of dust in the room. The bed was made, the walls were pink. It was a lovely room. She had some paper butterflies hanging from the ceiling. She also had drawings and pictures of her at the wall.

Raph and Mikey entered the room to get a closer look of the pictures. It was her, Alex. She was alone in most of the pictures. Some of them were with friends, but there were some where she appeared to be alone, but her body was positioned like if she was hugging someone. Also, no trace about her parents in the pictures.

"Okay, I'll say it. This is odd."

Mikey just heard Raph's words, no answer. He was amazed and confused at the same time. Could Alex live all by herself at that house? What about her parents?

"April, Leo!" Raph shouted, without taking his look off the room.

"What is it?" They could hear Leo's voice talking from downstairs .

"Come up-stairs. You guys won't believe this!"

"Tell us what did you found."

"Come over and see it for yourself Leo! I'm serious!"

"Dude, we're busy, come down!"

"Ugh! I hate it when he's that lazy! I bet that they haven't even found a thing, or at least something as strange as this. Stay here Mikey, I'll go to show stupid Leo the way upstairs."

With that said, Raph ran out of the room, downstairs, as Mikey stood there, watching everything. He opened the drawers, where he found some candies and things like letters from her friends, but nothing from her parents. He also checked her closet and her desk. Still nothing. He looked at the floor. He saw a trace of drops. They were blood drops leading under Alex's bed. Mikey's heart started beating faster. He gulped as he kneeled to see what was under the bed. As he took a deep breath, he opened his eyes to find nothing under the bed, but at the other side of it. Mikey saw a pair of pale, human feet. They were covered in blood. There was a man standing just in front of him. Mikey screamed as he stood up, finding nothing at the other side of the bed.

"Everything okay Mikey?" He heard April's voice coming from downstairs.

"Oh, god." He shouted as he ran out of the room, closing the door behind him. He turned around, ready to run with his brothers, away from that house, when he saw it. A pale man with no hair, all his eyes were red and in blood, just as his ripped clothes and his teeth. He had a knife on his hand. The man grinned as he walked slowly towards Mikey.

Mikey couldn't even scream. He was petrified. He took out his weapons and shaking, he got ready to fight the man. Suddenly, the man started running with the knife ready to get trough Mikey's skin. Mikey screamed once more and hit the man with his nunchucks. As the man fell to the floor he heard his brothers and April running upstairs.

"Mikey! Are you alright?!" Leo shouted.

Mikey couldn't move nor talk. Also, he couldn't stop shaking. When he looked at the floor, the man was gone. No trace of him, no trace of blood. He saw Leo, Raph and April standing where the man was, at the start of the stairs.

"Mikey talk to us! Are you okay?!" Raph asked as he ran to where Mikey was.

"W-we need to get out of this house." He said shaking.

"Okay… Just let me show Leo and April what we found in that room."

Raph got Mikey out of his way and walked to the door at the end of the hallway.

"Don't open that door!"

"Why not Mikey?" With that said, Raph opened the door. "April, Leo, come to see this. This room is not like the rest of the house."

When the turtles and April saw what was inside, it had changed. There was nothing inside. It was all covered in dust and had nothing inside, but a dusty mattress.

Raph and Mikey were speechless.

"So… What's so special about this room guys?" April questioned.

"I don't understand… what the hell happened?" Was all Raph could say, when he heard his phone ringing. It was Casey.

"What do you need Casey?"

"Raph, she's gone! Alex is gone! There's no trace of her. We've looked for her in the entire lair and she's gone!"

"Wait a minute. She's gone? We told you to take care of her Casey! What happened?"

"I don't know man! Donnie was checking her up at the lab and he told me to stay outside because he needed privacy, then I saw him getting out and saying that she had a sprain or something and he was going to get bandages. When he got back, he told me that she was gone!"

"Oh, god! We're on our way. Keep looking for her."

Raph hung up the phone.

"They lost her?" April screamed.

"Looks like. Let's go."

They ran out of the house. Mikey hadn't said a word. They got into the van and started their way home. They arrived a few minutes later. When they got out of the van, they saw Casey watching TV and Donnie reading a book.

April ran to the living room.

"Why aren't you searching for her?" She shouted.

Donnie and Casey looked at each other confused.

"Looking for who April?" Casey asked.

"What?! Looking for Alex you morons!"

"April, who's Alex?" Leo questioned.

April felt really confused.

"Alex! The little girl Casey and I found at the park! We just checked her house you idiots!"

"Chill out April! We were just patrolling. We didn't entered anyone's house." Exclaimed Raph.

Donnie put away the book that he was reading. He didn't remembered the reason why he was reading a book about monsters. He hated that subject. They weren't real.

"Uh… How are you feeling April? You may have fever. Come with me to the lab, I want to check everything's fine with your health." Donnie stood up and took her to the lab.

Mikey hadn't even talked. For some reason he felt scared. When he closed his eyes, a pale man with eyes full of blood grinned at him. He just didn't knew why.

Leo's phone started ringing. Leo took the call. Everyone heard what Leo was talking about, everyone but Mikey, who was too deep into his thoughts to pay attention. Leo hung up the phone.

"Come on guys. We have to get to the museum before the purple dragons steal something valuable. Donnie, April! Are you ready guys?"

They both came out of the lab.

"Yes, we are Leo." Donnie answered.

"Is everything okay with April?" Casey asked.

"Yes, I don't know what the hell was I thinking about. I don't even remember saying anything about a girl, but anyways, let's go."

So they did, they got into the van and drove to the museum. They made a whole plan for breaking into the museum on their way and as soon as they arrived, they were ready to enter. The turtles, April and Casey climbed to the top of the museum and before starting the plan, they saw that the Purple Dragons had left a rope hanging from a hole they did on a glass.

"Idiots. Let's just get inside like they did." Raph said as everyone ran towards the rope. Finally, everyone got inside.

"Okay, we'll split up in different teams to find them. This is a big place and we don't have the time."

Leo started to say the teams in which they would split up, but Mikey couldn't focus. He wasn't paying attention. He couldn't. He kept seeing the man's face at his thoughts. Over and over. He needed to tell someone. He was getting really scared.

"Mikey, are you listening? You'll split up with Casey and Donnie."

Mikey broke out of trance. He needed to tell Leo about the man. He remembered seeing him in a hallway.

"Leo!"

"What is it Mikey?"

"I need to tell you something. I…" Mikey stopped. He didn't knew what to sayer exactly. It would sound crazy.

"Tell me later, okay?" He said with a smile as he went away with his team, April and Raph.

Mikey had no option, but to follow his team. Finally, Leo's team founded the Purple Dragons. Mikey's team went all the way to help. The battle started. Mikey stayed at the room fighting with Leo, Donnie and April, while Raph and Casey exited the room, following two of the Purple Dragons, who had ran away of the room.

Mikey started to fight. He needed to stop thinking about the man. He was fighting one of the dragons, Mikey was winning the fight. He finally accomplished to get the man to the floor. The battle seemed to be mostly over and Mikey was about to return to where the team was, when he heard some words coming out of the Purple Dragon's mouth.

"Who the hell are you? A fourth turtle?"

"What?" Was the only thing Mikey could say.

"Orange huh? Always thought a fourth turtle would wear black or something."

Mikey was confused. He decided to ignore the man. He saw Casey, he was the only one still left on the room. He was staring at Mikey with a confused look.

"Uh… Casey what's up? Where are the others?"

Casey stood there, like if he didn't knew what to answer.

"I'm sorry… Do I know you?"

Mikey didn't replied. Everything was really confusing.

"Are you like their cousin or something? Lost brother?"

"Uh… It's me. Mikey."

"Mikey? I'm sorry dude, I can't remember you, but you can go with the guys, they are at the other room."

Mikey didn't answered, again. His heart was beating faster. He ran out of that room. He founded Leo.

"Leo, thank god." Mikey ran to hug Leo. "I think something's wrong with Casey. He's at the other room. Where are the others."

"Hey, calm down. The other ones left to the van and I'm sure that Casey is fine. Now, stop worrying, I'll help you. First of all, what's your name?"

Mikey was speechless. It was like if they didn't even recognize him.

"How do you know our names? Do we know you?"

Questions just kept coming. It was official. They didn't knew him. Why? He was his little brother. Mikey couldn't do it. He couldn't answer those questions. He was terrified.

Mikey ran away. He needed to get out of the museum. Maybe it was just a nightmare. He climbed the rope until he got to the ceiling. He was just about to cry, when he founded Raph at the top of the museum, ready to climb down and get into the van.

"Raph!" Mikey shouted. "Please tell me that you know me!"

Raph looked confused.

"Of course I know you moron. You're a pain in the ass, how could I forget you."

Mikey sighted. That was a relief.

"Raph, you need to help me. Everyone's forgetting about me." He said with teats in his eyes.

"Forgetting about you? Stop saying nonsense. Let's get to the van."

Mikey did what Raph said. When they got to the floor, they started walking to the van, when Mikey saw something. It was the man, smiling at him, in the middle of the street, with a knife on his hand.

That was the moment when Mikey remembered everything. He remembered Alex. He remembered being at her house looking for her parents earlier that night. He remembered. How could he forget? How could his brothers forget? It was like if neither Alex nor her parents had ever existed. That's when he got it. That monster took them away and as he did, he took away their existence. Everyone forgot. Like if they weren't even born.

The man kept smiling at Mikey, waving at him.

"Raph… There's a man on the street." He said. He didn't knew what to do. He needed help.

"Mikey… What man? I see nothing."

"The man on the street! He's covered in blood and waving at us!"

"Mikey, are you feeling alright? There is no one there."

Raph couldn't see it. It was just him. Mikey knew it. Everything made sense now. He was going to be taken away. That's why everyone was forgetting about him. Even Raph would soon lose his memories about him. Mikey started crying.

"Mikey, what is it?"

"We need yo run. Now!"

Mikey started running, taking Raph by the hand with him. He could saw that the man started running too. Why him? Why was he going to be taken away? Out of all the people in New York. Mikey entered into the nearest sewer, taking Raph with him. He could see the man grinning at the other side, at the street, ready to enter to get him. In that moment, Mikey understood. He couldn't ran away. He was gong to be taken away, even if he didn't liked it.

"Mikey, you need to tell me what's going on!"

"Raph, listen to me. I remember everything. Sooner today, we were checking out a house, a girl's house. Her name was Alex. April and Casey founded her at the park. She lost her parents and we were going to help her. You can't remember any of this because all of the memories of that girl and her parents were took away from this world by a monster, the same monster that's after me right now. That's why no one remembers me and soon, you won't remember me either."

"Mikey, nothing of the things that you're saying are making any sense!"

"And they won't, so just listen to me! I ain't got much time left and I just want to say that I love you man! Do not forget me! Promise me that you won't forget me!"

"Mikey, I won't!"

"Good… I love you Raph! I love the others too!"

As soon as Mikey said that, the sewer opened, and the man pulled Mikey up to the street. As soon as Raph saw that, he ran up to the street too. He could just see Mikey. He was paralyzed. Mikey could see the man, who walked toward him with the knife ready to stab him. Mikey closed his eyes as the man pushed the knife into Mikey's plastron. Mikey let out a small shout and with that, he vanished.

Raph was speechless. He didn't saw the man, he didn't saw the knife, he just saw his little brother disappearing.

"Mikey! What the hell is happening?! Don't go!"

He was all alone at the street. It didn't made any sense. Where was him?

"Oh shit…" He said in frustration as the tears started coming out of his eyes.

"Remember Raph, remember." He kept telling to himself. "I'll found you Mikey."

The sun came up. The turtles had morning training with Master Splinter. Leo and Donnie were having breakfast, when Raph entered the kitchen. He didn't said a word. He just sat down on the table, ready for breakfast.

"Raph, are you okay?" Leo asked.

"Yeah… I just… Feel like if I forgot something really important."

So, that's the end of the first chapter! I hope you guys liked it. I'll try to update next week. Thanks for reading and don't forget to leave me a review with your opinion.

Bye!