Mikey's POV...
so I am not related to my brothers? I wonder what this means for me now? How can Splinter still love me if I am not his real son? Wait... wouldn't i have ta be a rat to be related to him by blood?
All around the room I see different medical equipment and a buzz saw above my head.
I guess this is it? I will never see my brothers again.
I see Bishop come back into the room, he is smiling at me.
"Are you ready Michelangelo? Now with out any interruption i will be able to do your dissection."
I can hear the buzz saw start up, the evil look on his smug face was the last thing I was going to see before I am taken from this world...
Normal POV...
Just outside the Lab...
Splinter stood outside the lab where he had seen Bishop take his youngest son, he followed the direction he had seen him come from and eventually found the cage that held his other three children captive. He silently ran to their cage and noticed there were no guards.
The three turtles looked up at their father and all started speaking at once. Splinter raised a hand to calm them and said as he picked the lock with his nails.
"Come my sons, we must hurry, we must get your brother before its too late."
As they ran to the lab they saw several men coming their way, they made quick work of defeating them before continuing up the hall to the lab. Once there they found no guards, just Bishop and Michelangelo. Raphael had found his sia and threw it with precision and struck Bishop directly into the chest. He fell back and landed on the floor, to their surprise instead of there being blood sparks flew from his chest.
Leo was shocked and said.
"He was an android? What the hell?"
Raph threw his second sia and hit Bishop in the head for good measures.
"Lets hope that he don't get up anytime soon."
They freed their surprised brother and ran from the lab out to the helicopter where Casey and April were waiting.
Michelangelo remained silent during the rescue and flight back home. Once home he had gone straight to his room.
Splinter asked his sons.
"Did something happen? Why is Michelangelo so upset?"
Raph answered.
"He found out Splinta that we ain't related to em. Bishop did a blood test to check our DNA to find out if we was blood relation or not, and he announced da results to us."
Donatello sighed and told Raph.
"Remember what my results were? Mine was that I wasn't even blood related to Mikey not even as a distant cousin. He is more related to you then me."
Splinter sighed and told his sons.
"It should not matter my sons weather you are related or not, the point is your my sons."
Leo suddenly grinned and said.
"I have an idea, remember that song that we used to sing to him when he would get scared and have a nightmare about loosing us?"
Raph said.
"Yea the one we was talkin about earlier?"
Donnie looked between his brother's utterly confused.
"What are you two talking about?"
Leo turned to him and explained.
"When we were much younger Raph and I heard this song on the radio that you had built out of some spare parts. It was called Brothers till the end, by this male singer. Any way, you two got scared when some sewer workers got turned around and wound up in the lair."
"Yea you both freaked out when one of them pulled out a pocket knife."
Raph through in that last part.
Leo continued.
"Any way, that night we herd that song come on and after that we tried to memorize it. When we did and it took several days. We went to your rooms and we sang the song to you Brothers till the end. It seemed to make you more comfortable."
"We didn't sing the entire song, just the chorus."
Donnie nodded his head and told them.
"For the life of me I cant remember that."
Leo put a hand on his shoulder and told his younger brother.
"Bare in mind Raph and I were 7 at the time, you would have been 5 and Mikey 4. After what we found out today."
Splinter frowned at hearing this.
"What do you mean Leonardo? What happened?"
Donnie was going to jump in but Splinter stopped him and pointed to Leonardo.
Clearing his throat Leo said.
"Well Sensei when you adopted us 15 years ago. Raph and I had already been in this world about 3 years we are twins, Donnie would have been one and Mikey was a hatchling. We also found out that Mikey might be a distant cousin to Raph and I."
Splinter looked over at Donatello and then said.
"What about Donatello?"
Leo looked down and then said.
"Uh... according to the blood test... Donnie isn't even in the same gene pool as us."
Donnie looked at his father and said.
"That doesn't bother me Sensei, you raised us as brothers. And brothers we will always be, I know I always felt I was different and never knew why. But now that I know I don't care, Raph, Leo and Mikey will always and forever be my brothers."
Splinter put a hand on his shoulder and told him.
"You have a point my son, and your right. You and your brothers will always be brothers no matter what happen."
Raphael had disappeared to his room momentarily and came back with his stereo in hand and a CD.
Donnie and Leo stared at him and Leo asked.
"What's that Raph?"
Raph gave him a grin and said.
"oh you will find out dear brother, come with me."
He had put batteries in the stereo and lead the way to Mikey's room, Raphael was not surprised to find his baby brother's door locked. That usually happened if he was upset.
Raph turned on the radio and had it set on the chorus of the song:
We were rocked in the same old rocker
Fought over nothin' but it was somethin' back then
Don't always see eye to eye
But let's face it, we'll take it for each other on the chin
We were brothers when we started
We'll be brothers 'til the end
Raph and his brothers waited for a response from the turtle on the other side of the door. He played it two more times before the door cracked open and Mikey peeked out. And grinned up at his brothers.
"You guys sure you wanna be my brothers I am nothing but a screw up... besides you heard Bishop... I'm just a distant cousin..."
Donnie put a hand on Mikey's shoulder and told him.
"Mikey, if you recall, my results came back that I am not even in the same gene pool as you three. So
don't feel bad."
Mikey looked up at him and said.
"How bout I be your brother Donnie? That way you are not an only child?"
Donnie reached out to the older two and they encircled Mikey and Donnie told him.
"I'm not an only child Mikey, I have a younger brother and two older brothers, I am far from neglected in this family!"
Splinter stood back and watched his four sons as they made each other feel better about the testing that Bishop put them through.
Several days went by and April came down to the lair early one morning and scared the family due to her not calling ahead of time.
Leo asked her.
"What's the matter April?"
April held a manila envelop in her hand and was out of breath.
"Some guy in a black suit dropped this off at the store last night!"
Donatello took it and saw on the front it said TEST SUBJECT: DONATELLO.
Donnie frowned and looked at his brothers then back to April.
"What other characteristics did this guy have?"
"He had dark sunglasses, wore a dark suite and tie, dark hair. He was probably six feet tall or taller."
The brothers looked at each other before Leonardo said softly and in shock.
"Bishop..."
Raph frowned deeply and said.
"Say what? How?"
Splinter told his son.
"If he was indeed a robot then some one could have repaired him."
Mikey looked at his older brother's hands and said to him.
"Open it Donnie! What's in it!"
Donnie looked down at his brother and said.
"OK OK I will open it."
Taking a small knife he slit the package open and pulled out a thick wad of papers. There were four half inch thick stacks of papers each had their initials on them.
"I think this really is from Bishop, look it has our initials on the tops of them."
He passed the other three to the others.
Raphael read his aloud.
"Raphael, you left before you could find out any more about those samples I took. Here are just some of the things I found.
You are a red eared slider turtle, and you are 18 years old. You are Leonardo's twin brother, chances are you are only moments apart from each other in actual age."
Raph looked over at his brothers who were listening with interest. Leo told Raph.
"Mine says the same thing as yours does Raph. Hey our papers are thinner then Donnie's why is that?"
Donatello flipped through his pages and then said.
"I will read mine, but just know, my feelings wont change after I tell you all what it says."
Donnie cleared his throat and read aloud.
"Donatello, oh Donatello, you are an interesting turtle to study. You are indeed only 16 years old, but your a cross between a box turtle and a red eared slider. That is why your skin color is a little darker then the others.
And it also explains your high intelligence level.
You also have some human DNA in you as well, when you mutated you must have been touched by a human before meeting Splinter. You also have rat DNA in you as well, so in a sense you and Splinter are biologically related.
The reason his stack of papers was so thick was because it was the print out for all of their files put into one for his own records.
They all looked over at Mikey who just stared at his blankly. Donnie took his papers and read them as well aloud.
"Michelangelo, as you know your the youngest turtle, your only 15, but you should know that you are also a red eared slider. But you had to have come from a different cluch then the others, making you a cousin. But you should know that you also have human DNA as well, so you have a chance to be related to Donatello."
As Mikey took his paper back a smaller piece of paper fell to the floor.
Leonardo picked it up and read what it said.
"I'm back online terrapins and I will be coming for you!"
Every one looked at each other before Donatello said.
"Other then the creepy note, the information is pretty interesting."
Raphael asked his genius brother.
"So what did he mean by you have human DNA?"
Donnie frowned and read over his paper again before answering.
"Honestly I don't know Raph, I will have to further research it. But are you OK with all of this Mikey?"
Mikey looked up from his paper and told him.
"We are always gonna be brothers till the end right? Non of this changes that."
Leo wrapped his arms around his youngest brother and told him.
"That's right, Raph and I used to sing that song to you when we were younger. Because you would get scared for one reason or another."
Raphael looked at his family and said confidently.
"Ya know guys, if ya think about it, its gonna take every thing we got to take down Bishop. And I for one believe that song holds a lotta truth fo that battle."
Mikey looked over at his older brother and said softly.
"That's right Raphie."
He held out his hand when Leo let go of him and said with confidence in his voice.
"Brothers till the end!"
They all did a high three and shouted.
"BROTHERS TILL THE END!"
A/N: so how did you guys like it? It was supposed to have a different ending, but a reviewer wanted to know what else could be told by their DNA testing so I made a little longer ending for them.
Please review, let me and mistystar123 know how you liked it. This is our first team up story that either of us has done. I know I helped out with 'My Honor' but this was a story from my and mistystar123's imaginations.
Hope you enjoyed!
Disclaimer: I do not own the song 'Brothers til the end' by John Micheal Montgomery. Nor do I own the turtles... just sayin...