Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Nickelodeon owns tmnt. This is 2012 tmnt btw.
It was another usual night in New York. Except for the lone figure running across the rooftops. His long tail was curled around something, holding it. In his arms he carried a small figure, his big gauntlets covered the small one almost completely. He held the turtle child close to his chest in a very protective way. The small turtle looked up to him with big red brown eyes.
"Dede. Where are you taking me?" The child's small voice spoke.
Dark Don didn't look down to the child, but looked on ahead. "I'm taking you to a very lovely lady. She will take care of you." He answered.
"Why? I like you taking care of me." The turtle child answered. He leaned into Dark Don's plastron, closing his eyes. He liked to listen to the sound of his caretaker's heartbeat. It always managed to sooth him.
"Because my little Donatello, I have some business that I must take care of. Big turtle business that you can not be around for. But don't worry, April will give you exactly what you need." Dark Don answered. He gently stroked the top of the young Don's head. More to sooth himself than the child.
Soon he stopped at a familiar balcony, April's apartment. More specifically, the widow to her bedroom. The purple clone shifted the small Don to one arm, then opened the window with the other. He then placed the young Donnie into the room. He moved his tail around to the tot and gave him the backpack. The little Don took the backpack in his small arms. Then Dark Don placed his hands on little Don's shoulders.
"Here we are my little Donatello. You must promise me you will be on your best behavior. Wait until April wakes up, then give her this. Ok?" Dark Don said as he gave the Donnie tot an envelope.
"Ok Dede. I promise I will." The little Donnie responded. He put the backpack on the floor and took the letter.
The small Donatello looked just like the real Donatello. Except for a few things that is. The biggest thing is that this Donnie was only 5 years old. The next thing was that little Donnie had on an old worn purple t-shirt. One of the sleeves seemed to be cut off. Also, little Donatello did not have any sort of ninja type stuff on him whatsoever.
Dark Don then gently took little Don's face into his hands and then kissed his forehead. "I will miss you so much my little Donatello. Don't forget to read your books and learn as much as you can." Dark Don said.
Little Donnie went onto his tippy-toes and grabbed Dark Don's face. Then he stretched as much as he can up to kiss Dark Don's forehead. Dark Don smiled and leaned down, making sure little Don didn't hit the crest on top of his head.
"Bye bye Dede. I'll miss you too. Come back soon ok?" Little Don said.
A sad smile graced Dark Don's lips. "Ok my little Donatello." He said. Then he stood up, closed the window, turned and left.
Little Don looked around the room. There was a lot of interesting things in here. He wanted to see what they all were. But Dede told him to never take or go through someone else's things without permission. So instead he curled up on the floor next to his backpack. He closed his eyes and took and nice few hours long nap.
When the sun started to rise, rays shone through the window. Little Don peeked his eyes open as the rays hit his face and woke him up. He yawned and got up. He rubbed the sleepiness out of his eyes and went over to April's bed. There he waited right besides the bed for April to wake up.
April reached over sleepily to shut off her alarm. After a couple of attempts, she got it off and opened up her eyes. The first thing she saw was two big red brown eyes starring at her. Of course she jumped out of bed with a short yelp. She held a hand at her heart as she looked down at the child.
"Did I scare you April?" Little Don asked with a concerned look. "I'm sorry. I don't want you to be scared." He looked as if he was going to cry.
"No no, you didn't scare me. I was just startled. I wasn't expecting to wake up to a little turtle in my room." April said with a forced grin.
Her attempt to calm him down seemed to have worked. Little Don smiled up at her. Then he held out the envelope to her. "Dede gave this to me to give to you." He said.
April took it, wondering who in the world "Dede" was. Also, if this was really Donnie or not. She opened it and took out the letter. She saw there was a flash drive also in the envelope. She then looked at the letter and read it.
bDear April,
I apologize for the startling awakening. The child you see before you is not the Donatello you know. This one is a clone. But he doesn't know that, so please don't tell him. I don't wish for him to know that yet. He's too young to understand. But anyways, I have left him in your care. There are some things I need to take care of and he can not be around when I am doing so. Shredder is close to creating a perfect clone of Donatello. If he does so, my little Donatello will be destroyed. Along with myself, but that's beside the point. I can not allow Shredder to harm my little Donatello. So I ask you April, please take care of him for me. I beg you. And please don't refer to me as Dark Donatello when my little Don is around. He calls me Dede and doesn't know our real names or that we're clones too. Dark Mikey is Mimi, Dark Raph is Red, an Dark Leo is Blue.
Sincerely,
Dark Donatello
P.S. The flash drive is for Donatello. It has much needed information in it that he'll want to see./b
April looked at the letter with wide eyes. She couldn't believe what she just read. Was this seriously happening? Well at least it answers the questions she had. But now it raised more questions. A bunch of questions swarmed around in her head.
She looked over to little Don. He looked back at her with such cute big red brown eyes. How could she even think about saying no? He really was so cute. But she cant take care of him here. She should take him down to the lair. The turtles and Splinter would be better at taking care of him then she would.
"My name is little Donatello." Little Donnie said, snapping April out of her thoughts.
She smiled at him a stood up. "Hi little Donatello. I just need to change my clothes and then I'll take you somewhere. Ok?" She said.
"Ok. Where are we going?" He said as he watched April take clothes out of her dresser drawers.
"We're going to a place called the lair. There you'll meet some good friends. Now I'm going to go change. You stay right there. Don't go out of this room." April said. Then she went to get dressed.
Later April managed to sneak little Don down into the sewers without anyone seeing him. April carried him down the ladder. Little Don walked besides April, holding her hand. He wore his backpack on his shell. They soon got to the lair. April picked up little Donnie and went through the turnstiles. She put him down once she got through them.
"Guys! Get out here!" She called out. The turtles came out of the kitchen once they heard her.
"April! You're early- and what is that?" Donnie said, first really excited then confused.
"Aww! He's so cute. Look at his little shirt and his little backpack. Who is he April?" Mikey gushed over the cute turtle tot.
"April, what's going on here?" Leo asked seriously. April gave Leo the letter. The other three turtles gather around Leo and read the letter. When they were done, they were all shocked. Donnie took the envelope and took out the flash drive.
"I don't believe it. I should look at this right away." Donnie said.
"I think it's so cute!" Mikey said then he went over to little Don. "Hi there little guy. I'm Mikey. What's your name?"
"My name is Little Donatello. It's nice to meet you Mikey." Lil Don answered.
"Aww! That's so cute! Now we have a Lil Don and big Don!" Mikey gushed so much. He could barely keep himself from taking Lil Don and hugging and squeezing him.
Lil Don smiled. "Oh, I didn't know there was another Donatello." He said. Lil Don then went over to where the other turtles were. He looked up at Donnie.
Donnie looked down at Lil Don. "Uh, hello there." He said. Lil Don smiled and let out a small laugh.
"You look just like Stuffy." He said. Donnie blinked a couple times, not knowing how to respond to that. But he didn't have to since Lil Don took off his backpack and opened it up. He took out a stuffed turtle toy with a purple masked sewn onto it.
"This is Stuffy. He's a stuffed animal toy that is a turtle. Dede gave him to me. He also made his mask and sowed it on so it wouldn't fall off." Lil Don explained.
"Oh. That's... great. How cute." Donnie said awkwardly. He then pat Lil Don's head. Leo shook his head in amusement.
"You need to work on how to interact with children Donnie." Leo said as he walked up to Lil Don and then knelt down. "Sounds like he is very special. Dede must really care about you." Leo then said to Lil Don with a smile.
Lil Don nodded with a big grin on his face. "Oh yes! Dede is the best caretaker. He told me that Stuffy is a scientist, so he knows everything. And he said that Stuffy will always protect me." He said while hugging the plush toy really close to him.
"That's amazing. My name is Leo. These other turtles are my brothers. The big grumpy turtle over there is Raph." Leo said while pointing back at Raph with his thumb.
"I'm not grumpy." Raph muttered under his breath, with his arms crossed.
Leo then stood and held out his hand for Lil Don to take. "Come on Lil Don. Let's go to the kitchen to get you something to eat." He said. Lil Donnie gladly took Leo's hand and was lead off to the kitchen.
When they left, Donnie looked confused. "Since when was Leo good with children?" He asked out loud.
