Tap-tap-tap-tap. Whoosh. Splash! Tap-tap-tap-tap-CLANG!
"Whoops, sorry, guys." Mikey said as the other three glared at him angrily. "What part of 'night patrol' do you not get? Maybe you forgot about the fact that we're supposed to be completely silent!?" yelled Raph. "You're not so quiet yourself," Donnie smirked. "Guys, shhh. There's the Purple Dragons." Leo hissed, right before Raph was about to knock the purple clad genius's lights out. "Lucky," Raph muttered, while Donnie's smile turned a few levels brighter.
"Alright, you got the tech?" Fong, the leader of the Purple Dragons, asked at the small group beside him. "Good? Okay, let's move." Then the Dragons ran away from the small computer store.
"Okay, let's not move until we know who they have with them." Leo instructed, only to have Raph make a disgusted face. "What? No, we attack them right now before they can get away." "But we can stand a better chance if we know who they have with them." "But we can stop them faster if we do it MY WAY!" "But it might not be successful if we do it YOUR WAY!" The brothers continued bickering, when the Purple Dragons started hearing them. "The Turtles! Let's get out of here," Fong said, and the gang raced away.
Leo and Raph continued arguing for another few seconds, before Leo noticed that the Dragons had gotten away. "Great job, Raph, while you've been questioning my orders for the past few moments, the real enemy got away!" "Well if they did then I guess it's all your fault!" Raph snapped. This irritated the leader extremely. Why did Raph have to blame him all the time? None of them got it. Raph, always whining that he was the one that was misunderstood, that he should be leader.
Snap.
Mikey, with his constant pranks that were nothing but annoying and his carefree, no, careless manner in life. Who had never understood or felt the weight of responsibibilty because of being the youngest.
Snap.
Donnie, always caring only about his inventions and Timothy and pretty April, those being the only things he ever felt responsible for, but then again, he hadn't done a great job of taking care of them, had he? Most of his inventions got destroyed, Timothy got mutated, and April almost followed the same fate!
Stretch…..
Why did he have to always be the responsible one when they always fooled around and never seemed to care about how he felt? Didn't they know that every single failure, every single mistake was at his cost? His job was hard enough, but now his brothers made it almost impossible. Why couldn't they… just… LISTEN!
Snap!
Suddenly, Leonardo collapsed. "You okay, Leo?" Raph asked, immediately regretting arguing with his leader. Maybe the stress was too much for him… Leo was still for a solid ten seconds, each one making a deeper sense of dread into Raph's heart, until his brother started coughing violently. Donnie gulped. "We'd better get him back to the lair." Raphael nodded.
Leo was getting worried. It was normal to go into stress while arguing with the red clad turtle, in fact, it was almost expected. But he had never went into this kind of seizure before. He felt like he was turning to ice. What's happening?
The other three turtles had just helped Leo get back to the lair when he suddenly stopped sputtering. "I feel…fine."
"Maybe, but you still need to get checked up." Donnie replied, looking into his documentaries to search for the possible cure. "No, really. I feel great," the leader said, backing up into his room. "Leo, come back here now!" he heard Raph say. That was it.
Leo turned, his eyes flashing blue. "I TOLD YOU, I'M FINE!" He screamed.
Everyone was stunned. Their older brother had always been the responsible one, the one that never lost his cool, the one who was always trying to pan it down. He had never released an outburst like that over a simple disagreement. However, Raphael refused to back down. "Dude, tell us what's wrong. We can help you."
Patience at an end, Leonardo raced towards his brother with ferocity, then raked the claws that had somehow appeared on his hands down his younger brother's face.
As Mikey's mouth dropped open, Donnie tried to recover himself. This... this didn't make sense! All the science and logic he had learned defied what he had just witnessed. If he had been correct, his older brother had just grew silvery claws, ran over to Raphael at the speed of light, then attacked him, physically. This should be impossible...
Raph was getting confused. Everything was a blur. What had just happened? He seemed to remember Leo scratching him with- Were those claws?- but that couldn't have happened. Leo would never have done that, right? It was impossible. Purely impossible.
Meanwhile, Leo shook his head, disoriented. Although the claws were already disappearing, the situation was too much for him understand. What's going on? He remembered Raph yelling at him, and he had lost his temper. But… What was with the claw marks on Raph's face? How had he gotten so hurt? And why were Mikey and Donnie looking at him like that?
"You…you… you grew claws, Leo. Metallic, gleaming claws. I mean, they looked more like gloves… and you looked like a totally different person… and then… YOU ATTACKED RAPH!" Donatello started freaking out. "It's… it's just an illusion, right, just a joke?" Mikey asked, trembling. Leo looked around him for a few moments, processing this new information. Since when did he start growing claws and losing his temper? If not for the scratches, he would have not believed it. However, he knew that he had to calm down Mikey, Donnie, and Raph before they started to break down. "Yeah…yeah, just a joke Mikey. I got a little angry and punched Raph. As for the scratches... Maybe he got hurt during the patrol. The claws weren't real." Mikey sighed with relief and turned away. His brother didn't believe it. Donnie was beginning to clam down, saying, "Come on, Raph, I'll fix you up." Even the red masked turtle was beginning to believe the explanation.
Mikey looked back at his leader, then back at Raph. Although he had to agree that Raph's injury was a bit harsh, he was bound to get hurt someday, accounting all the fights he got into. Mikey mouthed a quick "It's okay", then walked after his brother. It was alright. If Leo said it wasn't real, it wasn't real. So it couldn't have existed.
However, the leader's eyes told the true story.
Wow, this is coming out WAYYY better than I expected, I thought I would totally mess it up... :D
