Mikey snickered as he wondered what Raph's reaction would be to his latest prank. Upon seeing his little brother snickering the purple clad turtle grew suspicious.
"What'd ya do, Mikey?"
Mikey smiled. "You'll find out in about three, two, one."
"MICHELANGELO!"
Mikey laughed as he waved to Don. "Gotta go, Don. If I don't make it out alive, you get every piece of technology I have!" Mikey ran to his hiding spot that Raph has never found, but today he wasn't so lucky.
Raph found Mikey in between a crack in the wall and pulled him out of his hiding spot by the arm roughly. He smacked him so hard on the head Mikey fell back. For once in his fifteen year life Michelangelo was terrified of his older brother.
But this time was different. Instead of hurting his brother with his fists, he hurt his brother with insults.
Something Michelangelo had heard to many times. In his opinion he'd rather be hurt with fists than with insults.
"Michelangelo, you crossed the line! Why can't you just leave me alone or do us all a favor and get lost?!"
"Raph, I-"
"Why do you have to be my brother?! I'd rather have the Shredder as a brother than you!"
"I-"
Gosh, you're such a liability, Michelangelo! I wish you weren't my brother." And to top off the cake he added, "I hate you!"
A tear had already escaped from Michelangelo's eye. He quickly got up on his feet and ran out of the lair in search of a manhole cover so he could escape into the cold winter air.
Back in the lair:
"What the shell, Raph! What'd he even do?!"
Raph huffed in anger. "He painted my room pink!"
Donnie was now frustrated at his red clad brother. "Raphael, do you even realize what you said to Mikey?"
As Raph recalled to the argument he slowly realized what he had said. "What have I done?! I've gotta go find, Mikey!" Before Don could retaliate Raph already had a coat on and was out of the lair.
Back with Mikey:
I walked on the roof tops of New York shivering my shell off.
Maybe Raph was right. I am a liability and I guess I am a sorry excuse of a brother. Aw, shell, this is all my fault. I don't blame Raph for getting angry at me. I guess I did go overboard this time.
I hit the button that brought the blade out of his kusarigami and slamed it down into the roof in despair.
Why am I such a liability? Why am I a failure? Why am I a burden? Why am I so weak? Why am I everything my brothers aren't? But what hurts the most is that I could tell Raph meant every single word he had said. I could see it in his emerald green eyes. Hear it in his thick Brooklyn accent. Just plain sense it.
"Please leave me alone!" I heard a young girl yell. I followed her voice to see a bunch of purple dragons surrounding her with a bunch of blades.
I jumped off the buliding and began my attack on the PD's. Soon they all fled leaving me with the girl.
"Who are you?" I asked gently.
"Angel, who-who are you?"
I was confused. "Wait, you're not afraid of me?"
She giggled. "No silly. You saved me. You're a good guy. What's your name?"
I smiled. "Michelangelo, just call me Mikey. Where's your coat?"
She looked at her arms. "Mean bullies took it."
I looked closely at her arms to find blue patches on her arms. I have to get her warm quickly.
I looked up and frowned. Several PD's were pushing the snow off of the building right above Angel.
"Watch out!" I yelled as I pushed Angel out of the way. When the snow toppled on me I felt pain and coldness. Then blackness.
Angel's POV:
"Mikey?" I called worriedly. No answer. Tears gathered in my eyes. Never had I been so scared in my six year life. Even when my parents abandoned me.
I looked at my feet and found an object that looked a lot like my new friend's shell, but it was a lot smaller.
I picked up the object and looked at it in awe. It was a phone. I quickly went to his contacts and went to the first one that looked exactly like him, but with a red mask instead of Mikey's orange one.
I tapped on the contact and waited for the turtle mutant to answer the phone. "Mikey?!" The voice asked.
It sounded incredibly hopeful.
"No, this is his friend Angel! Come quick! He's burried underneath the snow! Please hurry!"
"Angel, where are you guys?"
I looked at the street sign. "North street! Please hurry!"
"Angel, stay on the phone I'm heading there as fast as I can. My name's Raphael by the way, just call me Raph. Can you talk to my brother? Is he still responsive?"
"No. I already tried calling his name and he won't answer me."
"Ok, call our brother Donnie. He has a purple mask ok?"
"Ok." I hung up and immediately called the purple clad brother.
"Mikey?!" The same hopeful tone was in this brother's voice as the other's.
"No, I'm his friend Angel. Come quick! Your other brother, Raph was it, told me to call you! Please come quick!"
"Alright, Angel I'll be there as soon as I can."
"Ok." I hung up as I heard something dropping in the snow behind me. It was another turtle with darker green skin and emerald green eyes and a red mask.
"Are you Angel?" He asked me.
I nodded and pointed to the snow mound. "He's under there."
Raph got on his knees and dug in the snow. Feeling helpless, I got on my knees and began to dig with him until I saw a light green hand.
"I found him!" I called to Raph. Raph came next to me as we dug like crazy until we found Mikey's entire cold body. Just as we did a giant van came up next to us. The turtle known as Donnie came out along with a blue masked turtle both wearing coats like Raph. I had forgotten in all the excitement that the mean men had taken mine.
The three turtles loaded Mikey into the van. I began to shiver like mad as part of my skin turned blue.
"Do you want to come, Angel?" Donnie asked me. I nodded. I tried to stand up but fell to my knees as I rubbed my arms while shivering uncontrollably. The blue clad turtle came over to me and picked me up and placed me on a seat in the van.
"Where is your parents, Angel?" Donnie asked me.
"I-I d-don't...have a-any." I shivered.
The blue masked turtle looked at me in shock. "Do you have a coat?"
I shook my head. "Th-The m-mean m-men took it f-from me."
"Donnie, do we have any other blankets in here that we didn't use for Mikey?"
"There's one in the back, Leo." The blue clad turtle who I guessed was Leo grabbed a blanket from the back of the van. He covered me tightly in the blanket.
"Angel, can you tell me how long you've been out in the snow without a coat or any long sleeves?" He asked me in a serious tone.
"A-A w-week." I said as black spots danced in my vision as I let the darkness take over me.
Donnie's POV:
"Donnie, Angel passed out." Leo said in a panic.
"Leo, take the wheel. I need to see how bad both of them are." I pulled over the Shell Razor and allowed Leo to take the wheel. I looked at Mikey first. He had medium frostbite on a very small part of his skin. I then looked at Angel. She had major frostbite on her left arm and minor frostbite on her right leg.
I covered both of them up heavily. "A-Angel?" I heard a weak voice call. I snap my head over to Mikey to see his eyes partially open.
I walk over to him. "She's ok, Mikey. She's got a bit of frostbite however like you."
"I-I want her n-next to-to me." I nod and smile sadly. I pick up Angel surprised by how light she is. I laid her on Mikey's plastron and watched as he relaxed with her next to him.
