The Inventor

"Alright guys," commanded Tommy. "Here's the plan."

"Since when are you the leader?" Adam questioned.

"Mark isn't here, so that job falls to me!" Tommy hissed. "You got that, brainiac?" Adam stepped back and watched as Tommy laid out his plan on the ground before them. He examined it and frowned.

"There's too much protection around those walls. Someone's going to have to take them out before we even have a chance of getting in there." Tommy looked up at him with a smile.

"Charlie and I can take out the guards with no problem. The tech is all up to you."

"Me!" Adam cried. "I've never worked with technology in my life! How can you expect me to be able to disarm a security system?" Tommy didn't reply, walking away swiftly with Charlie on his tail. Adam sighed in exasperation, and then followed.

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The enemy's fortress stood tall and proud in front of them. Adam could feel himself cringe at the sight of all the security based around it. He was going to have to disarm that?

"Go ahead and work your magic." called Tommy, breaking Adam out of his thoughts. He and Charlie had already taken out the guards. Adam looked at the closed hatch and gulped. But as soon as he touched the first wire, a wave of recognition swept over him, sending his mind back into what he guessed was the past.

But it was not like anything he had ever seen before.

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He was supposed to have been asleep, but that is not what the great inventor, Donatello Hamato, had wanted to do at that point. He was working on another of his many inventions, one that was sure to make both him and his brothers extremely happy. The door behind him creaked open. Donnie turned to see his oldest brother, Leonardo, standing in the doorway. He smiled weakly.

"Hey Leo, I thought you'd be asleep by now." His brother looked back at him sternly.

"Don, you need to get some rest. It's like three in the morning." Donnie looked back at his project and sighed.

"Yes, Leo." With that, he got up from his desk and followed his brother out of the lab.

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Weapons… Fighting… Blood… Brothers… They may not have been human, but they were so much more. Leo was their leader, Raphie was their fighter, Mikey was their heart, while he, Donnie, was their resident genius. He really had worked with machines since he could manipulate parts with his three green fingers. He didn't know what had happened to them, or why they had been transformed in this way at all. All he knew was that it was his duty to break into the compound and save his eldest brother and their father.

The Fighter

Tommy watched as Adam worked on the control panel, his hands flying to the tools at his side every once in a while. He smiled to himself. Tommy had known that Adam would be able to diffuse the control panel. After all, Adam was his smartest brother.

It was all a matter of remembering. Memories had been flooding Tommy's brain for the last couple of hours. For a while, he hadn't even known what to think. How could the four of them, different in so many ways, actually be brothers? The more he looked into it, the more Tommy realized that this fact was definitely true. They were one big, dysfunctional family.

Mark was definitely the oldest, and Tommy could tell that him and "Fearless", as he called him, never got along very well. Next was him, while the third oldest was his genius brother, now called Adam. Charlie was the youngest, with a crazy fun-loving attitude to prove it.

He had to credit Mark with helping him figure all of this out. The week before he had disappeared, Mark had been acting really strange. He kept slipping up when he talked to them, and seemed to smile a lot more. Mark could never get himself to call them by what they considered their names, and after a while Tommy saw why.

The lives they were leading weren't their real lives at all.

He was not supposed to be Tommy Cossack. Instead, he was supposed to be Raphael Hamato, and apparently he was actually a large mutant turtle that knows ninjutsu. Weird, right?

He had other things to do at that moment than reminisce. Without a second thought, Tommy ran into their enemy's stronghold, taking out foot left and right. It was time to get his brother back.

The Heart

Charlie hadn't known what to expect when Adam finally broke through the security system. His mind had wandered back into his memories and revealed all that had been hidden from him. It was all so intense, yet exciting. His brothers and him were like superheroes, hiding their secret identities and fighting crime all the while.

He knew that his spirit was what had kept the team going for so many years and that if he let up now, they all just might fall apart. So, Charlie kept a smile on his face as he, Tommy, and Adam entered the inner sanctum of their enemy's fortress.

The Leader

Mark felt broken. His sensei had been kidnapped and taken before his eyes, and he had watched as his friends… no, his brothers, had become the targets of three of the Shredder's most fearsome assassins. He had basically given up hope.

That is, until a loud crashing emanated from outside the room he was being detained in. The door crashed inward and, when the dust cleared, in rushed his brothers. Adam immediately set to work on the electronic lock, muttering quietly under his breath. Tommy and Charlie stood on guard at the door. As soon as the lock was picked, Adam ran inside and wrapped Mark in a tight hug.

"Leo, don't ever abandon us again!" he cried. Mark smiled as Charlie and Tommy came over as well. They knew, they all knew!

"What a touching family reunion." came a voice from behind them. The four brothers turned, and found themselves staring into the eyes of an enemy they had been fighting for ages.

The Shredder.