"No, Mikey breathed, staring down at his mind-controlled friends.

His attention turned to a thump.

Thomas had jumped onto the flat edge of the hanging light behind him. In one swift motion, he drew his sword and sliced one of the two cables holding up the light that Mikey was on.

The light immediately tipped and swung limply by one cable, giving Michelangelo no time to react. He fell a great distance before crashing onto the hard floor.

"Why do you persist?" asked the same cold, deep voice. "Your friends have already succumbed to the great power of the machine."

Mikey weakly lifted his head, trying to see the features of the man who was proudly patting the machine, but he couldn't. His vision was fogging and unfogging and turning black at the edges.

"Well, if you don't know when to give up..."

Mikey was immediately surrounded by Donnie and the mutanimals.

He forced himself to his feet, now seeing two of everything that was before him.

"Attack him!"

Somehow, he miraculously managed to get Donatello's bo staff from him and reluctantly hit him onto his back.

But you're not supposed to be attacking them, he thought.

He clumsily fumbled for a shiruken, knowing that he didn't have much of a chance. He aimed it between Rockwell and Slash at the machine, then waited a moment for his double vision to combine before throwing it with a flick of his wrist.

Feeling sick, he closed his eyes. Thwack. The shiruken cut the wires.

"No!" the cold, deep voice yelled.

Donnie stopped in the middle of an attempt to strike Mikey. They stopped, one by one, before looking confusedly around them. Donnie rushed forward, seeming to be the first one to put two and two together.

"You did it!" He beamed his gap-toothed grin at Mikey.

Michelangelo gave a weak smile, leaning unsteadily on Donnie's staff. The world seemed to be spinning around him, one way, then another.

The staff made a hollow clatter as it bounced on the ground, and Mikey collapsed beside it.

The last things he saw were Donnie's shocked, concerned eyes before everything faded into black.