Alright! THAT'S IT! I QUIT!

I tell you all I am totally fed up with this story! It's annoying! Really, it's true!

Every single time I try to end this thing something won't let me. So I hear by GIVE UP trying to end it! This story's going to go beyond the ten chapters I've written until an end comes to mind. So while I'm waiting for that to happen I'll just have to continue on with whatever chaos this brain of mine dishes out for me.

So here's chapter 10

Raph sat up slowly, his head ringing and rumbling as if dozen of little spiders were running around inside his head ringing bells and banging on drums.

"Eh," he thought, shaking off the images, "I'm turning into Mikey."

He shook his head slightly to rid it of the rumbling and then allowed his eyes to adjust to the semi darkness. The feeling of a plastic cot beneath him told him he was in the medical lab and an almost silent breathing by his side told him that one of his brothers was there. The being was breathing quietly so it couldn't of been Mikey, the youngest always snored slightly and shouted out his dreams to the entire household. Raph smirked, he knew who it was. Which one of his brothers always sat by his side when he was injured? The red clad turtle reached out until his hand brushed against familiar reptilian skin.

A mumbling, followed by a deep breath of consciousness slid into the air, "Raph?"

"Hey bro, so, what happened?" Raph asked.

Leo rubbed his eyes and got to his feet, "Thade gave you something to help you sleep."

Raph looked down at the bandage wrapped around his arm before narrowing his eyes, "I knew I shouldn't of listened to him! He said it was a shot of vitamin C."

Leo chuckled, "Yeah, that's sounds like him."

The red clad turtle looked at the glowing computer screen that let a small amount of light illuminate the room a few feet and then let his gaze travel to his older brother, his eyes automatically catching the sight of a bandage around his torso.

"What happened to you?" Raph asked, turning and reaching out to lightly place his hand on the wound.

"It's just where one of those 'things' clamped down with their claws," Leo explained.

"The others hurt?" Raph asked, his protective nature bleeding into his voice.

Leo smirked, "Well, Mikey's going to be enjoying 48 hours of video games, comics and movies."

"And what have we been subjected to?"

"I'm out for three days, you for a week."

Raph groaned, "A week? That's crazy!"

"Well, the others are asleep right now," Leo said.

"So?" Raph asked with a raised eye ridge.

"Let's escape while we can," Leo said with a smile.

"Race ya!" Raph said and shot off the plastic cot and to the door.

"You know Don and Thade are going to kill us, right?" Leo asked.

"I'm prepared," Raph said with a shrug as the two turtle brothers sat on the edge of a rooftop looking out over New York City.

"To what? Follow their orders?" Leo asked as they watched a large moving truck speed by at about 20 miles per hour over the set speed limit.

"No," Raph said with a smirk as he watched a man on a cell phone below fall onto his back after the speeding moving truck splashed him with a spray of water from a puddle on the side of the road, "I'm prepared to do the exact opposite."

"Hothead," Leo said affectionately.

"Fearless Leader," Raph retorted.

Leo turned his annoyed eyes towards his younger brother, "Why do you always call me that?"

"Cause it's true," Raph said with a shrug.

"I am not fearless!" Leo declared with narrowed eyes, "Where'd that come from anyways?"

Raph laughed as another car sped by the man who was still talking on a cell phone and he got soaked again. Then he turned to Leo, "Remember that time you got that gang member to trip because his shoe wasn't tied?"

"Raph, we were six, that was ten years ago," Leo said, his eyes growing in curiosity.

"Annnnnddd," Raph said, stretching out the word, "How long have you had the nickname?"

Realization hit Leo's eyes before he slapped a hand over them, "So it's all my fault?"

"Yep," Raph said with a taunting smile.

Leo sighed, "I suppose I'm resigned to it."

Just then, Leo's shellcell started ringing.

"Five bucks says it's Don," Raph said.

"Alright," Leo said, meeting the challenge, "Five that it's Thade."

"Deal."

Leo took out his shellcell and grinned at the caller ID, "It's Thade."

Raph groaned and bowed his head, "Darn it, five is all I have," he thought glumly.

Leo opened the shellcell and held it to his ear, "Hello?"

"WHERE ARE YOU TWO!" a voice bellowed out.

Leo pulled the shellcell away as the loud voice made his ears start ringing.

"Don?" he asked, "What are you doing with Thade's shellcell?"

"I was fixing it previously. Duh-! NOW STOP TRYING TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT! WHERE ARE YOU TWO!"

"Heh," Raph said smugly, "I win."

Leo rolled his eyes and answered, "We're topside."

"WHAT THE SHELL ARE YOU TWO DOING UP THERE!"

"Talking," Raph said calmly.

Don groaned, "What happened to the days when you two couldn't agree on anything? I swear, you two must be twins!"

Raph and Leo both rolled their eyes.

"We've just come to a mutual understanding," Leo explained.

"And we don't agree all the time," Raph argued.

"And we never argued that much from the beginning," Leo said, "You and Mikey just blew it out of proportion."

Don sighed on the other end, "Just get home now, don't you remember what happened last month when you randomly decided to go topside? Mikey went into hysterics thinking something had happened when you didn't come back for two days, Thade ran himself ragged and I couldn't get any sleep."

"Hey, we left you all a note," Raph protested, "It's not our fault that Klunk decided to drag it off and bury it like a dog."

"Just get back here before someone goes crazy."

"Fine," Raph sighed as Leo closed the shell cell.

"We're Swiss cheese," Leo commented as they both stood up.

"If Thade and Mikey are up when we get back we'll be cream cheese bro," Raph said as they walked to the opposite side of the building and prepared to jumped down into the alley when a scream rang up towards them.

"STAY AWAY FROM ME! I'M WARNING YOU!"

The turtles jumped down onto the fire escape silently and glanced down. Then, they saw a black form flying towards them. They dodged just in time to see a Foot soldier fly through the window that had been behind them. They glanced back down in the alley to find an old friend of theirs fighting the Foot.

"Hey," Raph said, "It's Angel."

The purple haired teen was in her gang outfit, something she had saved when she had once tried to join the Purple Dragons.

"Let's help her," Leo said, unsheathing his swords.

"I call first punch!" Raph said excitedly and both brothers dove into the battle.

It had only been a small group so the battle was over in a few minutes.

"Ah," Raph said while tucking his sais back into his belt, "That was a refreshing workout."

"Leo! Raph!" Angel called, running up to them.

"Hey kid," Raph said, "So what was that all about?"

"That's why I'm out here and in this thing again," she said, motioning to her current outfit, "I was heading to the Purple Dragons' hideout to see if I could find out what happened."

"What do you mean?" Leo asked.

"Well actually this happened to me the other night too, apparently the Foot's looking for Hun, he's disappeared."

"Disappeared?" the turtles asked in unison.

Leo and Raph looked at each other.

"I'll call the others," Leo said, taking out his shell cell, "I'll wait for them here."

"I'll go with Angel then," Raph said.

A few blocks away Bishop growled and kicked at the body of a dead Foot soldier. Now he wasn't only just, not happy. Now, he was angry. The scanners his scientists had made read that he had fired and hit the red masked turtle, but the chip now lay on a once alive Foot soldier at his feet. (Remember the Foot soldier that was disguised as Raph?) But why had a Foot soldier been there in the first place?

Bishop returned to his headquarters outside of New York City, fuming. Someone was going to be on the receiving end of his anger…

Karai paced back and forth across her, well the Shredder's throne room, scowling. A small band of Foot soldiers entered the room and she sharply turned to them her eyes narrowing in disgust.

"An unsuccessful mission I assume?"

"None of the Purple Dragon gang members have any knowledge of Hun's whereabouts," one soldier responded.

Karai slammed her fist into the wall, "The Foot clan will fall all over the world if that information is found by any civilian and reported to the law. Right now, I have a missing fugitive, none of the turtles in my grasp, businesses to run, paperwork to fill out, a missing Foot soldier and the E.P.F. breathing down my neck! LEAVE ME!"

The Foot soldiers bowed and quickly exited the room. Karai had become just as fierce as her father after the Utrom's banishment. Karai walked over to the sign of the Foot hanging on the back wall of the throne room and scowled, she would have her revenge against the turtles and she would find Hun. He could not hide forever.

"We told you guys that we're fine," Raph said, "Now quiet down."

The five turtles were gathered on top of a building next to one that was all too familiar for one of them.

Don had out a pair of binoculars, watching the back doors of the warehouse next door, "Still, you two should be back at the lair."

"We're quite able to take care of ourselves Don," Leo said, annoyed by the threats and complaints coming from his brothers.

"But what if we get into a fight and one of you gets hurt worse?" Mikey said.

"Watch out Mikey," Raph said, "You're turning into a lecturer."

"Ok, she's inside," Don reported as he watched Angel walk inside the building with other members of the Purple Dragons.

"Let's move," Leo and Raph said together and both took the lead, hopping onto the roof of the next building.

As the other turtles landed Mikey sighed at the handy sun roof on top of the building, "Why do the bad guys always pick buildings with sun roofs? How stupid are they?"

"They're criminals Mikey, that just proves that they're stupid," Raph said as the group glanced down into the building. The place was old, run-down and looked like it had been through a large fire some time ago.

When the meeting was over, a boring and tedious two-hours later the Turtles met with Angel beside the building.

"Anything Angel?" Leo asked.

The young teen shook her head, "Nothing. No one knows where he is but members have heard that the Foot are looking for him. Word is, he stole something from Karai that could shut down the Foot for good, all over the world."

The turtles gasped.

"Then we've got to find Hun before anyone else, if there's a chance to stop the Foot for good, we have to take it," Leo said.

"I'll see what I can find," Don said with a smile. He could hardly believe his ears, no Foot, ever again! They could live a somewhat peaceful life! Of course there was still Bishop, and the Purple Dragons themselves.

Mikey was kind of torn between the good side and bad side. No Foot clan ninjas attacking them ever again. Good. Of course, that meant that there would probably be more struggle powers among the streets.

Raph scowled staring at the blank wall of the building. Yeah, no Foot sounded good, but if they did find Hun they'd be saving him from the Foot. It came down to a mental battle, who did he hate more? The Foot? Or Hun? He mused on this before deciding it was better to save Hun, he shivered, after all Hun was one person, worldwide, the Foot could be thousands if not millions, who knows. Better to cut down the numbers.

Leo watched each of his brothers' reactions and then noticed Thade staring up at the building's rooftop. After they had arrived here, his ranting had stopped and the eldest hadn't said a word since then. Deciding to talk with his older brother when they arrived home Leo turned back to Angel, "Don't do anything reckless, stupid or dangerous but anything you can find out will help us out a great deal."

"I'll call April," Don said as the Turtles made their leave.

Don, Raph and Leo climbed up the fire escape they had come down and back onto the building they had first stopped on. Mikey was about to follow when he realized that his eldest brother hadn't moved away from the wall he was leaning against.

"Thade?" he asked, stepping up and placing a hand on the yellow clad turtle's shoulder.

"Huh?" he asked, looking over at his baby brother.

"What's wrong Bro?" Mikey asked.

Thade looked back at the building, "Do you remember this place Mikey?"

The orange clad turtle looked back at the building and let his eyes wonder over patches of blackened, burnt debris and it's crumbling walls, "No. Should I?"

"The last time you saw this place, it was on fire," Thade reminded him softly, still gazing intently at the rooftop.

Mikey then stepped back with realization, "This is where you were created, right?"

"Yeah, created," Thade said almost without moving his mouth.

"Oh, sorry, it slipped," Mikey said apologetically.

"It's alright," Thade said with a sigh, his shoulders rising slightly and falling once again.

"Come on, let's catch up to the others," Mikey said, forcing a smile onto his face, trying to cheer his older brother up.

"Mikey?" Thade asked.

"What?"

"What do you think about clones? Livestock or human?"

Mikey stopped and his eyes widened the slightest bit before narrowing in determination, "Dude, we're not going to abandon you just because you're a clone made by one of our enemies. Stop thinking like that."

Thade bit his lip, sighed, bowed his head and closed his eyes tightly. It wasn't really that he thought that they would abandon him but because of his memory. He didn't have a full 16 years of memory, a memory that would tell him who he was. Long-term memories defined who you were and that was one thing he didn't have. He had two years of memory, not enough to really define, yes, he was a doctor and a biologist, but why? He doubted being shoved into a tube for months, growing at an exceeding rate to become what he was now, was the reason for his interest in the subject and study. Plainly put, he was identity crisis.

Mikey frowned, "Come on bro."

"You didn't answer my question," Thade reminded him.

Mikey frowned, "Dude, you don't even need to ask. You'll get the same answer from the rest of out bros. Clones are not livestock. I remember once Donny was telling me about alternate dimensions and how the you in the other dimension always makes a different decision than other yous in other dimensions. Maybe that's all cloning is. A peak into other dimensions. You'll never be exactly like one of us. Different decisions make different people, well in this case, turtles."

"So, human?" Thade asked curiously.

Mikey sighed and shook his head with an affectionate grin on his face, "Bro, we're not exactly only human, turtle definitely. Now stop worrying about it."

Thade looked up at the building again and then at his baby brother before smiling, "Thanks Mikey."

"It's what I'm here for Bro, now come on, I predict that there will be pizza tonight."

"Please tell me we're not out of coffee," Thade said as the ascended the building to catch up to their family.

"Don't worry, Leo grabbed an extra can of coffee when he was out the other day."

"Good, I need the caffeine," Thade said with a tortured frown.

"You two are going no where this time I have enough sensors around this place to catch even a flea moving. If you leave the designated area I will know," Don said, his eyes traveling around the room and then over at his red and blue masked older brothers who were stranded on the couch, "You'll thank me for this."

"Do I look thankful?" Raph growled.

Don smirked and walked out the door with Mikey, "We'll be back soon, we just have to pick up the pizzas and the scanner at April's."

Raph huffed before turning to Leo, "Now what? We're stranded, on the couch of all places."

"TV?" Leo said.

"The remote's on top of the TV, we can't get up to get it. How are you going to turn on the TV?"

"Watch," Leo said with a smirk, "Oh Klunk!" he called, reaching down into the couch to pull out a bag of cat treats.

"So that's where Mikey stashes them," Raph said, not that he'd been looking for them the other day or anything.

The orange cat meowed and appeared on the living room table.

"Don can see this you know," Raph said, his eyes going to a moving camera in the corner.

"Yeah, I know," Leo said, taking out a treat and tossing it at the TV power button.

Klunk, following his nose, ran after the treat, running into the TV as well, accidentally pressing the power button.

"I'll never figure you out Fearless," Raph said while shaking his head before he realized that the channel was the news channel and right now, they were on the weather.

Needless to say, it wasn't long before he was asleep.

"If only I had a camera," Thade chuckled as he walked out of his lab and saw his red masked brother sleeping while resting his head on Leo's shoulder.

Leo, unable to get up because of the sensors and not wanting to wake Raph up was forced to sit there and endure the amused look from his older brother. Then, he noticed that the yellow clad turtle had his duffel bag with him.

"Where are you going?" Leo asked as Thade walked to the door.

"The junkyard I need to find a biological cell disrupter."

Having no idea what he had just said Leo simply replied, "Yeah, good luck with that. Don't be gone too long though Don and Mikey should be back soon.

"I'll be back as soon as I can," the eldest said, exiting the lair and stepping out into the sewers.

Once he was well enough away from his home Thade took a deep breath and leaned against the side of the sewer tunnel. He looked down at the bandage surrounding his left hand. He unwrapped it slowly, wincing when he noticed the brown and black splotches that now dotted his once light green hand. He cursed under his breath as he rewrapped his hand with the white bandage. He had already taken a closer look at the cells. He remembered the information from Bishop so long ago. A mistake once every twenty-six times. He could tell from the splotches and the familiarity of seeing dieing plants. The cells that pigmented his skin to turn green was similar to the chlorophyll cells that turned plants green. When they died, they turned brown before turning black and deteriorating into the earth.

He knew that something had gone wrong during his creation. He wasn't perfect but to watch his own cells breaking down before his own eyes. He'd done everything he could think of but he didn't have the basis catalysts and mixed DNA samples that Bishop did, meaning…

Bishop was his only hope.

He left his shell cell at the dump and made his way to the building he was created in, right back to the beginning. Each room seemed deserted, doors falling down, debris piled up everywhere, dust and ash covering everything. It had clearly been abandoned since the fire but, he had no other leads to Bishop's whereabouts.

He reached the top floor and tried opening the door. Said door ended up falling in since it's hinges were long rusted and Thade stepped back when he realized that this was THE room. Desks were crowded around a large space where four tubes sat upright. He kept his eyes on the tubes and walked towards them, reaching out and touching a metal plate in front of the first one that was colored blue.

T-7651

He shivered as his thoughts returned to the days he had spent locked in that thing. Then, he went to the next running his hand across the next plate, then the next one, then the final one.

Red: T-7652

Purple: T-7653

Orange: T-7654

He frowned and lowered his eyes to the floor, "My brothers."

He walked away and turned his attention to any open manila folder on one of the desks. Maybe he didn't need to track Bishop down at all. The information he needed might be right here! Hopes rising he walked over to the folder and then his heart sank. Photos. There were photos of them all. The first photo was labeled, T-7652.

"Raph's clone," Thade thought.

The clone was about the size of a three year old child, only the being had too much muscle. The passage beneath the picture claimed it was heart failure.

The next one, labeled T-7653 was Donatello's clone.

The photo showed a being without a skeleton, kind of like a baby, only cartridge instead of bones, not strong enough to support the weight of a massive brain.

Then the last was Mikey's.

The photo was of a small toddler turtle creature. It-well, he looked like he could just be sleeping but the passage underneath claimed the second heart failure.

"And now," Thade though, looking down at his hand, "My cells are falling apart and dieing."

His light green hand hovered over the photos while he felt bile climb up his throat. The pictures were grotesque but he couldn't look away. It was like there was an insisting ticking within his skull. Every tick, every second passed by too slowly. Then, a hand fell onto his shoulder.

"I see you've returned T-7651," said a cold but altogether too familiar voice.

The yellow masked mutant turtle pushed the hand off and stepped away while turning to face Bishop and raising a hand to rest on the yellow wrapped handle of his sword. The human just grinned wickedly.

"My name is Thade," the swordsman sneered while slowly unsheathing his sword and pointing it at Bishop.

The human looked indifferent but then gazed down at the turtle's wrapped up left hand, "Having some problems?" he asked expectantly.

Thade growled, "I've looked at the cells, they're randomly deteriorating and no serum is stopping it."

Bishop grinned in an evil-manner, "Poor thoughts to come alone," he said gazing around at the shadows where none of the other turtles were.

"There's no need to involve them, now give me answers!" Thade demanded.

Back at the turtles' lair, Mikey and Don were walking into their home, five pizzas stacked up in Mikey's hands while Don's gaze was focused on a small device in his hand he had gotten from April since they had had to pick up the pizzas there. They couldn't find a pizza place that would deliver on their specific err…sewer tunnel. Don, not paying attention, ran right into Mikey's shell.

"Hey, Mikey!"

"Dude," Mikey snickered, "Look."

Don walked around his younger brother and saw what he was chuckling about. When the scene was in front of his eyes he wasn't sure to join Mikey in laughing or go, "Aww."

Leo and Raph were still healing so, they both voluntarily were forced to stay in the lair and on the couch in the main room. This time Don had put up heat sensors, movement sensors, and a sonar sensor. Apparently, Leo hadn't figured out how to get past them or he didn't want to, but Don doubted he would've moved anyway. Leo was watching the TV while Raph was asleep, his head resting on his older brother's shoulder.

"HEY RAPHIE!"

The red clad turtle jerked awake, causing all of the sensors to go off.

"Dude, I wish I would've gotten a picture of that," Mikey said while laughing.

"Mikey…" Raph growled, tightening his hands into fists and getting ready to pounce if necessary.

Mikey gulped at the angry look on his red masked older brother's face and held up the pizzas as a peace offering.

Don and Leo shook their heads. You think Mikey would've learned by now…

Raph shot off the couch, the alarms going off again. The pizza boxes went flying while Mikey shot off as well, heading for the kitchen, Raph trailing two seconds behind him. Leo jumped up just in time to catch the pizzas before they made a huge mess that he would have to clean up.

"How was your nap?" Don asked.

"I don't take naps unless I'm sick-"

"Or in critical condition," Don finished, "I know, but Thade's going to kill you. Where is he anyways?"

"He said he had to run to the junkyard for something," Leo said with an indifferent shrug.

Then, shouts came out of the kitchen.

"No Raph, not the rolling pin!"

"Get back here pipsqueak!"

CRASH!

Leo groaned and set the pizzas down on the coffee table. Great, something for him to clean up, and he'd somehow get water and soap into the stitched up wound on his side, his older brother would be angry and he'd been in for a rant from Don and Thade, and Raph.

"Wow, Mikey is the only non-lecturer," Leo realized and then jumped to the side as a green and orange blur sped past him and Don.

A green and red form followed with a black object in his hand. The said object was a mystery since it was a blur as well. It's identity was revealed though when Mikey's voice rang back to them.

"NOT THE FRYING PAN!"

The level headed turtles sighed in unison.

"I wonder when Thade's going to be back," Leo thought, stalking off to stop the chase/fight before someone was holding their head in agony.

CLANK!

Too late…

Ok, that's it for chapter 10. Hey if anyone at all is still reading this please tell me. I don't know when this story will officially be over but I've just added something interesting to the next chapter.

Preview for Chapter 11:

"I'VE DONE ALL I CAN LEO!" Thade shouted, his face growing hot and his hands tightened into fists.

"WELL YOU BETTER DO MORE SUNSHINE!" Raph yelled stepping up beside Leo.

"Guys, this arguing isn't going to help Donny," Mikey protested, walking in between his bickering older brothers.

Leo's narrowed eyes met Thade's, as he spoke through clenched teeth, "If it weren't for you this wouldn't have happened and my brother wouldn't be in a coma."

"WHAT? SO THIS IS ALL MY FAULT!"

"YOU'RE THE ONE THAT DECIDED TO SNEAK OFF TO BISHOP'S WITHOUT TELLING US!" Raph yelled, stepping forward with a growl.

"Raph!" MIkey said sternly, holding him back from attacking the yellow clad turtle.

The red masked turtle huffed and turned on his heel before marching back into the medical area.

"Look Thade," Leo said with a glare, "When Don does wake up. I want you gone. Out my home, out of my city and AWAY FROM MY FAMILY!"

The angry, blue clad turtle turned and stomped into the medical area while cursing under his breath.

Thade turned away and felt tears sting his eyes, an entire year, a family, all gone just because of-

His thoughts stopped with the feeling of a hand on his shoulder. He turned and met Mikey's wide, blue eyes.

"They didn't mean it bro, they're just scared," Mikey said with a forced smile in an attempt to console his eldest brother.

The yellow masked turtle felt the tears leaking from his eyes, he never thought that Raph would, even Leo would never- Sensing the strain in Thade, Mikey stepped forward and hugged him. A few seconds later, Thade returned the hug hesitantly.

"I'm sorry Mikey. I-I didn't mean…" he trailed.

"I know big brother, don't worry, everything will be ok."

Thade nodded but frowned disputably at the lie. It would never be ok, not after what he was about to do.

Hours later, Thade was pacing the rooftop of an abandoned apartment building that reminded him much of the one he had cared for Leo at. He swallowed a choked sob and sat down, holding his head in his hands. Then, he took a deep breath as he sensed an incoming presence.

"You came," said the being.

"You know what I want," Thade said, choosing to stare at the ground other than the black clothed figure next to him

"Here," the being said, tossing something towards the turtle, "Strait from Bishop's laboratory."

Without looking, Thade caught it and stared at the green liquid.

"That's for putting Donatello out of commission, your next assignment is Michelangelo. Remember, Leonardo and Raphael must be brought down simultaneously."

Thade took a deep breath, this would all be over soon.

Well that's the preview. Any thoughts?

Please review?

~Moonsetta