"I only did that to get you to chase me."

"Well it worked."

"Aaahh! I'm a hero!"

The end credits started rolling and so did Mikey's eyes, "That is SO inaccurate!"

"Not really." Raph said sarcastically.

"His lab does NOT look like mine." Donnie observed, a smirk crossing his face, "Doesn't he wish it did."

Leo just shook his head and went to make L.S.A.S. (Leo's Super Awesome Soup).

Donnie stood to go to his lab, but Raph grabbed his arm, "Hey, you're not getting away that easy. We still haven't finished."

Donnie sighed and shifted to a more defensive posture, "Mikey, start the clock."

"Go!" Mikey shouted and dove behind the couch for cover. And to keep the stopwatch in one piece.

"Stop!" Raph yelled, scooped up the small turtle on the table, brought him into the kitchen and came back just in time to be ready when Donnie got impatient and said "Go!"

Ten minutes later Leo screamed, (surprised, surprise,) "Stop!" and everyone sat at the table like it was a magnet.

.Raph reached up and grabbed the light to stop it from swinging just as Master Splinter (humanized, so, imagine Sensei Wu) and Karai (who's a good guy) walked in.

"I hope I didn't make a mistake leaving Leo in charge?" Splinter asked, not really concerned.

"No. Mikey's only a little beat up." Raph told him.

Karai sat down and sniffed the air, "L.S.A.S.?" she said excitedly.

Master Splinter sat, closed his eyes and, when he opened them, Leo started filling bowls with soup.

The Next Day…

"D-Donnie?"

"What?"

Mikey rubbed a hand up and down his arm and spoke, "I may, may, have, uh, touched your experiment?"

You don't just TALK to Donnie while he's working, and you don't tell Donnie you TOUCHED his stuff and, if there is one thing you absolutely, definitely DON'T DO, it's tell Donnie you touched something WHILE HE'S HOLDING A BLOWTORCH!

Donnie glared up at him from working on the Shell Raser. (that's how it's spelled. Don't believe me? Watch closely.)

"Which one?"

"The one I'm not supposed to touch…"

Donnie sighed, stood up, and crossed the white floor to the table cluttered in test-tubes, beakers, and, mostly, a large glass jar full of glowing, reddish-brown liquid. "Did any spill on the floor?"

"Um…Yes…That's why I needed the paper towels."

"Wait! Did you actually TOUCH the slime itself?"

"I Uh…No. Wait. Does it count if I made…indirect contact through the paper towel?"

"Hmm, does touching a paper towel SOAKED in the stuff count? YES!" Donnie yelled and placed his hands on the table trying to think of a solution to this infinitely BAD problem. Donnie sighed, reached into the cupboard and pulled out a canister full of green ooze. "Hold still…"

"Ow!" Mikey yelled as the mutagen touched his arm.

Raph and Leo had come to see and Mikey started screaming and ran to his room.

Leo sat outside the door and listened for the voice.

"Leo? Tell me the story of how we got here."

There it was. "Well, as near as Donnie and I can figure, some mutagen splashed on the sidewalk, we walked through it and mutated."

"Then what?"

"Then I found Master Splinter, then we found Donnie, then you, then Raph."

"What did we look like?"

"We were almost up to Karai's waist, and, wait, you know this story too well."

Mikey moaned on the other side of the door, "Tell about that one guy..."

"The T.V. show writer?"

"Yeah."

Leo sighed, "We had been on patrol when we heard something. We decided to check it out and ended up saving Mr. Hoglick from the Krang who thought he was trying to blow our cover.

I guess that's where he got the idea that the Krang were bad guys, anyway we saved him, all names were heard, and, well, he thought that would make a good show."

"He was right." Raph said from the kitchen where he was mixing pancake batter.

Then the screaming started.

Ten minutes later Mikey came out in jeans and an orange hoodie over a black T-shirt.

Everyone recognized it as their little brother, but no one registered what it all meant.

Mikey refused to let anyone see him or touch him, he just sat in front of the T.V. and whispered things to himself.

Donnie sat down on the couch and looked at Leo for assurance before speaking. "Mikey, do you want to go on patrol with us? I would happily stay with you if not."

"No, you go ahead, I'll be fine." Mikey sighed then continued, "I'm sorry about your experiment Don."

"Don't worry about that, we fixed it, right?"

"Right, it's fixed." Mikey turned but his brothers had already left, leaving him alone to mull over his thoughts.