The turtles were in the new lair (imagine the abandoned train station from the movies) just fixing thing up to make things feel as much like home as possible. They were being helped by their friend, Casey, who also helped with finding things in their old home that were left in tact. It wasn't many things, just the TV, their training equitment, a few pictures, and Mikey's DVDs and stakebroad, but it was more than the first time they lost their home.
"I tink dis is the last of the boxes." Casey said carrying a box. Leo walked up to him. "I got it Casey, thanks." Leo said grabbing the box. But then a picture fell out of the box that went unoticed by Leo, who was walking away. Casey was able to notice and pick up the picture.
It was a picture of Master Splinter sitting up a chair with 8-year-olds Leo and Raph sitting on each of his laps, and 8-year-olds Don and Mikey sitting on the ground on either sides of Splinter. But there was something wrong in the picture. There was another turtle, sitting in front of Splinter. He had a black mask, and was almost the same shade of green as Leo, but slightly darker. On his left hand was a dark green birthmark, maybe, that looks like a shuriken. He also had piercing, yet chibi-looking sky blue eyes.
"Whatcha got there Casey?" Don asked behind them. Casey looked at him and showed the picture. "A picture of you guys dat fell out o' one o' the boxes." He said. "Whose the lil guy in it?" Don paled at the sight of the picture, and so did the other turtles and Splinter.
Don snitched the picture from him and growled. "That's none of your business!" He snapped. Casey's eyes grew wide. "Ok! Geez man, sorry." He said waving his hands. Leo walked to Don and calmed him down. "Sorry Casey," He said. "He gets mad if he hears about our other brother, Beethoven."
Casey raise a brow and smiled. "You guys had anotha brotha?" He said. "Where is he den?" Both Leo and Don walked away while saying in unison, "He's dead." Now, it was Casey's turned to pale. "I'm...I'm sorry..." were the only thing that he had to say. "How did it..." Raph groaned as he was setting up his punching bag.
"'M the only one with da balls ta tell someone dis, so be ready." Casey heard sadness in Raph's voice, but being him, he wanted to know. So, he nodded as Raph was punching his bag while telling the story. "So, it went like dis..."
-flashback-
"Tag! You're it!"Young Mikey said as he touched Beethoven, or Venny for Short, and ran away from him along with the other three. "Not for long, Mikey!" Venny said chasing after the other four. They were running around the sewer, playing tag. The game had went on for a few hours, because they couldn't play with their toys since they broke.
The four other brothers were running from the youngest, until Mikey tripped over something. The other stopped to see if Mikey was ok, and what he fell over. It was a black object that was in the shape of a pointed finger.
"What is that thing, Donnie?" Leo asked Don, who picked it up and started inspecting it. "I don't know." Don said then laughed. "But it looked fun. Like a toy." Mikey was instintly recovered from his fall and ran to Don.
"A toy?" Mikey said then grabbed the object. "I wanna play with it." Raph humphed and grabbed the object. "No way, I wanna play with it!" He said. "No me!" Leo said grabbing the object too. "Me!" Don said.
They all started to fight over the black object, Except Venny. He sensed something wrong with the object. "Guys, I-I don't think that a-a toy. You should put in down before-" "Before what?" Mikey asked scowling at the black-masked turtle. "You'll go tell Master Splinter to ruin our fun?"
Venny's eyes grew as they were still fighting over the 'toy'. "That's not-" "Shut up, you little bug!" Raph shouted out of nowhere. "Yeah, you're always like this when we're trying to have fun!" Don said. "Why don't you just crawl into a 'no fun' hole and leave us alone!" Leo said.
Venny's eyes watered as the other brothers still fought over the 'toy'. But then, Mikey slipped his finger in the hole of the thing with a lever in it, and pull the little lever. The pointed end made a loud pop sound, spooking the turtles and making them drop it.
"What was that?" Mikey asked. Don looked at Venny and gasped. "Guys! Look!" He said pointing at Venny. The other three looked at Venny and gasped. Venny was passed out on the ground on his stomach with red stuff coming out of his neck.
Leo ran to him and started shaking him. "Venny, wake up." Leo said, getting no answer. "C'mon, this isn't funny." Leo was crying at this point. "Master Splinter!" Leo yelled picking up Venny and putting him on his back. They were all calling for Splinter as they ran back home.
-End Flashback-
Raph stopped punching and sighed as tears were treatening to fall down his face. "We told Splinter about what happened, he tried his best to revive him, but V'nny was already dead." Casey couldn't believe what he just heard. To lose a brother, event the most horrible of ways, would be devesating to anyone.
"I'm...sorry..." He said. Leo smiled sadly. "It's ok," He said. "He's in a better place now..."
-Meanwhile, in Huaco Mundo-
Aizen smirked as his Sexta-Hanbun Espada walked into the room. The room was dark, so all that could be made out was the jacket that only covered the top half of his body, and shorts the came to his knees. There was also a '6 1/2' on his right arm, a hole in his neck, and half of a hummingbird skull as a hollow's mask. And, if you squint your eyes at the Espada, you'd see the image of a giant turtle.
The Espada leaped to Aizen's throne and bowed before him. "You wished to see me, mi Lord?" He asked. Aizen's smirk grew wider. "Young one, I've noticed that you and your 'father' have grown powerful, especially you. You grew better and stronger than I expected when I found you and Grimmjow."
The Espada raised a brow, noticing that Aizen has the hougyoku in his hand. "Thank you, Lord Aizen." He said in his normal calm voice. Aizen chuckled. "Well, because of it, I have a little reward for you." He said.
The Sexta-Hanbun, with skeptism in his sky blue, black-pool eyes, listened to what Aizen was saying.