Chapter 6

When they walked into Leatherheads lab and looked around for Donny. The room was large and had much space, as they looked around they saw two open balcony's coming out of the wall at different levels with stairs leading up to the different levels.

As everyone looked around, Leatherhead pointed up to the top balcony where he kept the equipment Don wanted him to prepare. "He's up there" Don was standing in front of the large cylinder where they kept Don when the outbreak first came out, with a small table to the left, piled with test capsules and papers.

Everyone looked up, squinting to try and see what Don was doing up there.

"Oh NO" said leatherhead as they watched Don pick up a tube and put it in a slot in the containment unit "He just put a red tube in there, we half to get up there fast"

"Why what's happening?" asked Raph concerned by the oh no

"The blue tubes are sleep gases and the red are terminal gases"

"My son" said Splinter looking upward concernedly for Donatello

The turtles ran for the stairs when the realized what Leatherhead was saying. As they ran up the many stairs they could still see their brother up ahead of them. They saw Don standing looking into the containment unit. They were all thinking to themselves hoping Don was reconsidering the whole suicide plan.

Don looked into the Unit; he thought what was going to happen? How would it feel? Would he see his family? What would they think to see him with them? These and many more questions raced through his mind with in just a few seconds. He smiled at the thought. Then he felt a pounding in his head he swung his hands to his head squeezing his head in pain, he knew it was happening, he was turning. It was now or never.

Everyone watched as they ran, as Don threw himself into the unit pushing a bottom as he went in. The door closed, gas filled the unit. Everyone reached the top, but they were too late, there was a beep from the machine, then the door opened as the gas came out, Don's limp body feel out to the floor. Before hitting the ground Leo caught him then fell to his knees holding his brother, then turning him over to his back. He looked at his brother's face sadly.

Don's eyes burly opened, but he blinked multiple times. Nothing in front of him became his brother looking down at him. "Leo?" he said weakly looking up at his brother, then seeing the rest of his family around him.

"Yes Don, it's me" he said sadly looking down at his dying brother

"I...I'm sorry I failed everyone"

"No my brother you didn't, we are all proud of you"

Leo tried to stay strong and not cry but he felt it coming, a tear ran down his face as his brother's eyes and his body went limp. Leo looked around at everyone sadly Mikey had tears running down his face then grabbed onto Raph, who put his arms around the youngest but also not taking his eyes off of Don's body with disbelief he was really go, he turned to Splinter who was also very upset and crying, the leatherhead who stood sadly, with sad eyes.

All the sudden Don's eyes opened, then light shown out of them like a flash light, his whole body started to lift into the air as it lifted out of Leo's arms and into the air Leo stood up, everyone looking at Don confusedly. Don's mouth opened light came out, then the light started to form a shape it was a solid shape of the second mutation monster Don turned into, it growled a loud angry growl then exploded into dust, Don got lowered back to the ground then eyes and mouth both closed, all light disappearing.

Don's eyes shot open, then gasped for air coughing like he choked on the air then sitting up. He looked around seeing everyone's confused and shocked yet relived faces. Leo moved forward hugging his younger brother.

Later that night Don sat in his lab confused about the last week, and lost in his thoughts of what happened, for the first hour he barley remembered anything, then everything rushed back to him like a tidal wave striking at full force, he didn't know what to think. The last week he lied to his family, ran from his family, killed his family, and then almost killed himself because he killed his family. And he knew his family wanted to talk to him, but he was afraid to face them.

He heard a knock at the door, interrupting his thoughts, he looked up to the door seeing Leo peak his head through the door, then walk in.

"How are you doing?" he asked

"I'm fine, I ran some tests and amazingly there is no mutagen left in my body" Don held up two graphs "see the one on the right was from a few months ago, the one on the left is from now, see that spike on the right that's the mutagen and now in the left it's gone"

"That's good then, that you're healthy"

"Ya I guess since I was the monster and technically asleep when I went into the unit, it just killed the mutagen" Don paused for a minute "Okay what do you want to talk about because, my health probably wasn't what you wanted to talk about"

"There is a lot I want to talk about... I know it was terrible..." Leo began but got cut off

"No Leo you don't... I killed you all, it wasn't just a dream, it was real, everything was real" Don raised his voice but tried to avoided eye contact.

"Okay, maybe I don't but... why didn't you tell us, Raph had to go to you... I know we all go to you to talk to for advice but you can come to us we can try to help"

"I know I realize that I should have trusted you all... I was just scared, I didn't know what you would think if you knew I could go all monster any minute, I have been told how I almost ate mikey's leg off"

"As long as you know you can come to us, like we come to you, you need someone to talk to too."

"Thanks Leo" Don said understanding everything that was being said

"Let's go out for tea" don nodded then walked out to the living room where Don saw the rest of his family sitting with a glass of tea, Don sat down between Leo and master splinter and faced Mikey and Raph.

Everything was quiet for a few minutes "So ya talked to him about the trusten us issue" said Raph to Leo beside him in a whisper

"Ya" Leo nodded "He understands now"

"Good"

Don looked down at his cup trying to avoid eye contact with the rest of his family. "My son, I and your brother's fear you keep much to yourself and we fear of your thought of where you belong in our family"

Don looked at splinter while he was talking but he also looked at his brothers who where drinking there tea quietly "Donatello you do not fail us, you do not fail me as a son or a student, you aren't the strongest in a fight but your strongest in your mind" Don looked up to splinter with sad eyes "To all my son's" now all turned to splinter "Our family if like a puzzle if one is gone we are not complete, we all fit in some way, and to fit together we must connect"

"Yes master" they all said at the same time

"Donatello, do you now understand. What I am saying?" Splinter asked Don

"Yes sensei, Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"

THE END