Chapter 1 : 6 Months

Warning!

As this is a Walking Dead AU, this writing contains gore, death, and some swearing! If you are uncomfortable with such things then I recommend not reading this fanfiction.

Donnie picked up a can, looking it over, once he clarified it was empty he threw it behind him and sighed.

The brunette stood up from his crouching position and pushed the door to the pharmacy open. He turned to look at his older brother, "Raph come on, we have to be quick, otherwise Leo's going to get worried and send someone to check on us again."

Raph, who had been standing a distance away from his older, faced him, "I get it, just go in, I'm just making sure there aren't any mutants." He stated, looking back once more to make sure the area was clear before following his brother into the pharmacy.

Before Donnie could go any further into the store and hand reached out to stop him. "Raphael, there's no reason to check the store again! Everytime we come here there's no mutant!" The boy complained.

"Yeah, but someone who's not a mutant can sneak in here."

Donnie sighed in annoyance and allowed his elder brother to search the place. Once he was given the sign that the place was clear, the boy opened his backpack and began filling it with all sorts of medicine, while Raph tried his luck with finding more food and water.

'This is the last bottle of cough syrup, this is not good.' The teen thought to himself. This pharmacy had been easy to access because it was near their base, and mutants tended not to come to this part of the city. But this pharmacy was running out of supplies that they could collect, meaning they would have to find another store, deeper in the city where majority of the mutants were.

But they needed more drugs and medicine. One reason being the fact Mikey's immune system was weak, meaning he would need medicine to make sure he doesn't catch a cold. Another reason is the fact Donnie wanted to try using different types of drugs in order to try and find a cure with Dr. Rockwell.

A loud clang broke Donnie's thoughts, and the boy immediately took his Bo Staff in his hands and hid behind one of the shelves. He turned to look at his brother who had his Sais ready, back against the wall near the door ready to attack anything that came through the door.

The moment Donnie noticed a figure enter the store he signalled Raph, and the older teen tackled the figure, taking it to the ground.

Donnie ran to help but stopped when he recognized a familiar voice, "Wait! Wait! Guys it's me!"

Raph immediately stood up, "Casey? What the hell are you doing here!?" he grabbed his friend by his hood and pulled him up.

Casey wiped his clothes from dust and turned to face the two brothers, "Leo was starting to become, 'worried and anxious Leo' so I volunteered to go check on you guys"

"Well ain't ya just a saint! Leo shouldn't worry Me and Don can handle ourselves just fine!" Raph exclaimed.

'Said the guy who didn't let me in a pharamcy we already cleared before because he was worried about a mutant being in there.' Donnie thought, he instead said, "This place is empty, we collected everything here, we should head back now."

"Yeah, Leo might panic again if we take too long!" Casey yells as he heads for the exit.


Leo paced around the room, 'they've been gone for too long' he turned to check the camera footage. Donnie and Dr. Rockwell had set them up a couple months back.

A voice spoke up, surprising the older teen, "Leo it's okay, Raph and Donnie are ninjas like you! Besides they know how to handle mutants." It was April O'Neil, one of his friends.

Leo sighed, "I know, but we have so much to worry about, from other survivors, to finding Sensei."

April shook her head, placing a hand on his shoulder, "I'm pretty sure you're gonna die from worry one day. Ever since we came to New York you've been such a worry wart."

Before Leo could reply to his friend a loud bang could be heard in one of the rooms.

April turned towards where the sound came from, "Looks like Mikey woke up and most likely tripped over something, I'm going to go check on him." and she walked off.

At that same moment Leo noticed movement on one of the screens and he immediately turned to face it properly. He is relieved to see it was his brothers and Casey.

He pressed a button on the keyboard, which allowed access to the base, another thing that made Leo grateful for having a genius younger brother and a scientist as a friend.

The teen heads into the main living area of the base to greet them, "Glad to see you guys are back"

"Glad to be back" Casey replied, taking a seat on the couch.

Donnie ignored him and turned to his older brother, "Sorry we took too long Leo, but we have a slight problem." He took his bag and dumped the continents on to the table, "The pharmacy is empty, we can't get anything from it. If we want more supplies then we have to go deeper into the city."

'Damn it' Leo thought, "The further we go into the city the more mutants there are' He stared at the items before turning towards Raph and Casey, "You guys organize all of this stuff, count it up, add it to what we currently have and write it down. Donnie you come with me, we need to look at the map and choose a route that can get us to another store safely."

Donnie nodded and followed after Leo.

Raph and Casey began to look through their supplies, Casey wrote down whatever Raph told him too. Eventually Raph came upon some cough syrup, "Mikey probably needs some of this stuff. He's probably in his room with April."

He was about to head to Mikey's room when Casey stopped him, "Wait, I'll go." He held out his hand for the bottle.

"Why would ya-" Oh.

Raph's memory kicked in, 'That's right, Casey, Don, and April got this weird love triangle goin on.' Raph paused for a moment and stared at Casey's face, 'Oh do I wanna help today, my best friend, or my brother?'

He shook Casey off, "Nah man, I'll do it, enjoy counting all the supplies without me!" The tanned teen smirked and could hear his friend whine behind him.

When he enters the room he's greeted with, "Hey Raph-NOOOOOOO!"

He smirked as he tossed the bottle towards April who had been sitting on a chair next to Mikey's bed, "Sorry kid but you gotta take the medicine, even if it tastes like shit."

"Couldn't you have gotten one that's like pizza flavoured?" Mikey whined.

Raph thought about a pizza flavoured medicine, but the thought of food being turned into liquid did not seem appealing. "Tell me Mikey, how would medicine that tastes like pizza do any good?"

The moment Mikey opened his mouth, a spoon was shoved in, the shock caused Mikey to swallow the liquid, "IT TASTES SO BAD! I'M GOING TO DIE!" the blonde held his throat while gagging.

April sighed, placing the bottle and spoon down, "Mikey, I think it's supposed to be the opposite way."


Casey was getting bored, he already finished supply count so he decided to go see what Leo and Donnie were doing.

As he entered the room he heard the two talking.

"-eo, I don't think that route is safe either, Purple Dragons are all over that street."

"I know, but the other route has mutants."

"We can always take the rooftops, that usually safe."

"Yeah, but we might run into-Oh, Casey" Leo turned to face the teen, "You and Raph finished?"

"Uh, yeah, you guys trying to find another place we can ransack?" Casey gave Leo the notebook where he had written down the number of supplies they had.

Leo nodded when he looked at the list, "We have enough to last a week. Casey you get in touch with Slash's group, I'll talk to Usagi's group."

When their group became too large to handle, it was decided that the group would split into smaller smaller divisions. But they were all still part of the Hamato Clan. Slash had taken 4 people while Usagi his friend Gennosuke, and a child by the name of Kintaro.

Leo shivered at the name 'Kintaro' He was not a big fan of the kid.

Slash's group decided to stay close, living underground with them, just in another area, while Usagi decided to be someone who was constantly moving. At times he would be in New York, other times he would be in New Jersey.

One thing they all decided on before splitting up was to keep in contact with each other. Donnie had created some type of strange phone for everyone, and they all agreed to contact each other at dusk and dawn everyday.

"Hey Donnie, are you sure that you did see-"

"Yes, I'm sure" Donnie cut his older brother off, "Leo, I'm sorry to say, but there's like a zero percent chance of Sensei surviving this by himself, and at this age especially, even if he's a master of ninj-"

"Don't say there's zero percent! We don't know! He could still be alive, I can feel it."

"That's a gut feeling, which doesn't tell us anythi-" Donnie's sentence trailed off as Leo left the room.

"I'm just going to contact Usagi for now." and he shut the door.

Casey who was still in the room, awkwardly spoke up, "I don't wanna throw my opinion out there, but I also know that there's like, you know, now way that my family made it, but I still wanna believe that they did because I haven't seen them at all. So it's still possible right?"

Donnie sighed, "Yeah." He turned to face the map again. The brunette agreed with his love rival, but he did want to hope like Mikey and Leo were doing, thinking their father was alive. It would hurt to have that hope broken and taken from him.

So assuming the worst was just better.