Chapter 2-Going Solo

In Mikey's bedroom…

When Mikey entered his bedroom, he closed his door instantly so that none of his brothers saw or heard him crying.

He walked over to his bed and laid down on top of his blanket with his comic book held close to his chest before he started to sob heavily as he let out all of his bottled up emotions that he couldn't release in front of his brothers earlier. The reason was that he felt that he was already a burden to them with his past actions, so he didn't want to trouble them even more with his tearful emotions since there was a chance that he would be made fun of and scolded for doing so.

Mikey just couldn't understand why his brothers would talk about him behind his back in such an awful way, but then again he had a feeling that his brothers would express their real thoughts about his role and purpose in the family and team at some point. He only wanted to help keep his brothers from going insane by telling them jokes and helping them stay positive during missions, but after what he overheard earlier it was clear that they weren't happy with his actions at all and that showed him how much of a failure he really was. In fact, two of his three older brothers clearly stated that they didn't want much to do with him anymore.

After shedding a few more tears, Mikey sat up and decided that enough was enough of being labelled 'the useless screw-up' in the family and team and began to hatch a plan on what he could do to prove himself, and it was then that an idea came to him.

"If my brothers say that I'm hardly helpful to them during missions in Cyberspace, then I'll prove them wrong by going in there and getting more of Master Splinter's data bits all by myself…!" Mikey said firmly to himself as he sniffled and wiped the tears from his face.

With his mind made up, Mikey decided to set his alarm for 1am after midnight on his clock and closed his eyes as he laid back down to sleep to re-energise himself since he knew that he had to wait until all his brothers were asleep in their rooms before he could put his plan into motion, and he knew that he needed to be 100% ready for what's to come.

5 hours later…

Mikey woke up immediately after his alarm went off and turned it off straight away before any of his brothers heard it through the walls. He then rose from his bed and stretched with a yawn before he stood up and walked towards his desk and grabbed a piece of paper and pen to leave his brothers a message in case they find out that he was not here, before he walked out through his bedroom door, despite still feeling a little tired from waking up too early.

He reached the computer system and was surprised to find that Donnie was not there, meaning that Leo must have forced him to go to bed since he would stay up all night to try and find more of Master Splinter's data bits on his own. With this in mind, Mikey felt relieved knowing that no-one was there to stop him from carrying out his plan and wasted no time in heading towards the main computer to start up the cyber portal.

Before he stepped onto the portal's platform, Mikey grabbed his cyber device that would be used to safely store Master Splinter's data bits in as soon as he found some.

"Ok, here I go…It's now or never…" Mikey said quietly with determination before he walked onto the platform and the machine began to slowly transfer him into Cyberspace.

In Cyberspace…

Once his body was fully transported into Cyberspace, Mikey immediately activated his Cybernaut Armour and his cyber vehicle, which he hopped onto and turned on his navigation screen before he started driving. A minute later, he got a signal that was coming from the data bits which were located 2 miles away from where he was now, so he increased his speed and followed the path that was in front of him and towards where the signal was coming from.

Soon, Mikey reached his destination and he smiled with relief as he saw a large cluster of Master Splinter's data bits right in front of him. He then got off of his vehicle and walked closer towards the cluster whilst he took out his device to turn on the storage app, readying it for the transfer and storing process.

As he was doing this, however, Mikey didn't notice that an ominous presence was watching him from a distance and it was slowly starting to move closer towards him through the electrical currents flowing through the same path that Mikey was standing on.

After a couple of minutes, the data bits were successfully transferred and stored safely within Mikey's device, much to his relief.

"Alright, I did it! Now, I should get back to-"

"Well, well, well…What do we have here?"

Mikey was cut off suddenly by an eerie voice that he recognised all too well, and he turned around to find the source of that voice in front of him; it was the Cyber Shredder!

"Shredder!" Mikey shouted as he quickly hid his device with the data bits in and then readied his weapons.

"So, the youngest and foolish turtle has decided to enter Cyberspace all alone and without his older brothers to protect him!" Cyber Shredder taunted as he readied his bladed gauntlet.

"You don't know a thing about me, Shred head, and I don't need my brothers to protect me as much as I need to!" Mikey said firmly despite feeling a bit nervous since he really was all alone with his and his family's greatest enemy.

"Don't you, now? Well then, this shall make it easier for me to take away that of which keeps your strength going…" Cyber Shredder said as he got closer to Mikey.

"Wha-Aarrrggghh!" Mikey was cut off by the extreme amount of pain as Cyber Shredder attacked and stabbed him swiftly through his chest with his bladed gauntlet, revealing a pierced piece of his heart in a digital form from behind when the blades went completely through him. Cyber Shredder then grabbed Mikey's heart piece and slowly pulled out his blades, causing Mikey to fall and land hard on the ground as he gasped for air before he spoke.

"Now, your brothers will have no choice but to come for you and it will be because of you that they will run right into my hands…ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!"