This chapter's going to be switching point of views a lot, so just heads up. :)

Chapter 10: Determination

Third Person

The three brothers bolted from building to building while Donnie stared at the small tracking device in his hands. As his brown eyes looked up from screen, he turned towards the edge of the building to look down at a white vehicle with Kraang droids buzzing around it.

"It looks like the same one we saw the day FishFace killed the clone…" Leo whispered as his dark blue eyes locked on a Kraang robot, who was shutting the back door of the van.

"What are we waiting for? Let's go!" Raph ordered as he jumped down. Leo scowled slightly at his younger brother's command, but wasted no more time, and jumped down after him. Within seconds Donnie was next to them both and they slowly made their way to the parked van.

"Hey! Ya stupid bots! I hear you have my brother!" The green eyed turtle yelled as he grabbed a robot and chucked it at the ground with a thump.

"Raph! Stop it!" Leo hissed as he ran forward and pulled the green eyes turtle back, "We need them alive so they can take us to Mikey!"

"I was gonna let them live, after I give them all a piece of my mind.!" Raph shot back at the oldest, with his face turning darker as anger overtook him.

"Leo's right, Raph… We need them to take us to Mikey. Without them, we might never find him..." Donnie announced, then took a small step back as the hothead growled out dangerously.

"It is the ones known as the turtles!" A robot notified loudly as it rounded the front of the vehicle with a large grey gun aimed at them.

"You want to fight, ya ugly brain!? Well! I'll show you who's fightin'!" Raph yelled as he ducked under Leo's out stretched arm and tackled the robot full on.

"Raph! You aren't helping! At all!" Leo grounded out through his teeth as he grabbed the belt of the second oldest, and hoisted him off the shattered remains of the metal body.

"Tell me where he is, or so help me, I'm going to find a perfect place to stab my sais!" Raph yelled as he twisted wildly to escape the leader's grasp.

"K-Kraang doesn't understand what the ones who are turtles are wanting…" The broken Kraang droid said in its robot voice.

"Of course you don't you pink blob! You're an alien from a different world!" Raph bellowed as he tries to thrust his arms away from his brother's fingers. "Where is my brother!? I know you have him! Ya better start talking NOW!"

"Kraang has sent the one known as Michelangelo to the place which is known as TCRI, which is where the one known as Michelangelo is and will stay…" The alien says firmly as its yellow and green eyes fly open to look at Raph's white dangerous ones.

"TCRI…" Donnie whispered as he looked to the south.

"Guys! Let's go!" Leo yells as he let's go of Raph's arm.

"I need to do one more thing first!" Raph hisses then he rams his foot into the body of the robot, and sends it flying into the street where a bus crushes it into the asphalt.

Mikey's POV

I'm so tired… So tired…

My brain was spinning frantically as I stared up at the smoke filled sky of the dead city…

My brothers… Are they happy with the clone… or has it finished them off by now, like he said he would... ? What are they doing right now…? Have a pizza party…? Playing video games…? Watching T.V. together…? If so, they are three lucky turtles… or four, if my clone is with them…

I blinked the tears out of my eyes and looked down at my hands, they were so red and burnt from the fire… Then my eyes fell down to the large wound in my chest Raphael had given me in his attempt to help…

I should stop fighting. There isn't anymore need for me in the world… I don't really do much except makes messes and screw things up anyway… But then again…. I did promise Raph I would get back to him… And I never break my promises.

Turning to the window, I stared at the shiny, slick glass before slowly pushing my aching bones, and screaming muscles up to stand. I need to get out of here, I have to… One way or another, I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep fighting, even if it kills me in the simulation, or outside of it...

Taking a deep breath I stood up straight and stared at my reflection in the window.

Third Person

"We're almost there! Keep going!" Leo shouted as he looked over at the large building of TCRI. He didn't need to look behind himself to see if his brother were following, he already knew they were both just as determined as he was to get their one true little brother back.

When they stopped at the edge of the apartment, they all looked over at the grey building of TCRI.

"How are we going to get in?" Donnie asked softly as he turned to look at the oldest.

"We'll make a run for it." Leo announced then he jumped down off the building.

"Good, just how I like it." Raph whispered to no one in particular as he followed the leader down to the ground.

"Oh boy..." Donnie muttered as he followed his two older brothers. Once they were all down, Leo sprinted to the door and pushed it wide open.

"Leo… This is sheer madness…!" Donnie whispered as he stared at the elevator on the other side of the room.

"No, this is determination." Leo whispered back then bolted towards the elevator. Raph dashed after him with the uncertain purple ninja on his heels.

Once he meet up with the elevator, Leo jammed his finger into the button, and when it didn't open immediately, Leo started punching it.

"Cool it! We don't want to break our only way to get to Mikey!" Raph hissed to the oldest as he pulled out his sais and watched as the Kraang started to run towards them.

"It's being slow!" Leo yelled as he punched the metal door right when it slid open to admit the three. Jumping inside, Leo turned and started to punch the highest number on the wall while his two other brothers dove inside. The Kraang stopped marching towards them, and started shooting laser like bullets right when the door shut with a slam in front of them.

"We don't know where he is…." Donnie announced to the others once he thought they were safe from the ricocheting bullets.

"I don't care. I'm going to find him." Leo hisses as he watches the buttons light up as they pass the floor.

"Same here." Raph notified them as he jabbed a thumb at himself, "I won't rest until that little ninja is in my arms, safe and sound."

Mikey's POV

I was going to do it. I was going to get out of here… One smash and I would be free falling to the hard, deadly, painful ground...

As I took a staggering step, I froze when I heard the sound of metal shoes sliding towards me.

"You won't get out of here you fool."' The soft growl of the Shredder whispered to me as he moved closer. I slowly turned my head to stared into his eyes behind his silver helmet, and I held my breath.

"It is useless to try. There is no hope for you. Your brothers don't need you anymore. This world doesn't need you anymore."

He kept getting taller, and his eyes started to glow a dark red color as he walked towards me. I could feel myself being to cower back against the wall as he moved closer.

"The only way you can escape, is death by my hand." And as he said it, his blades came out of his wrists.

Third Person

"Okay you stupid Kraang. You listen carefully, and you answer fast or I'm going to chuck out a window! Where is my brother!?" Raph yelled as he shoved his sais into the metal arm of the blue robot.

"Kraang…" The robot began, but didn't have time to finish before Raph chucked him out the window. It broke with a loud smash, and a thousand shards of glass rained down to the floor.

"Raph!" Leo yelled as he stared at the shattered imprint the Kraang left.

"He was too slow." The hothead exclaimed as he turned and sprinted down the long narrow hall.

"You didn't give him a chance to say anything!" Leo bellowed as he ran side by side with with the red masked turtle. As they ran, Donnie saw a white platinum table and he frowned in thought then said, "Guys, I think this is it! I think we're on the right floor!"

"Good." Leo said as he turned the corner to go down another hall, and saw up ahead, a group of Kraang bots. Running faster, Raphael charged towards the robots, and smashed two into the wall with his shell.

"That was for my brother you useless pink blobs!" Raph growled before he turned his head, and watched as Leo kicked down another robot.

"Guys…" Donnie whispered as he pointed a finger into a large room, and Leo and Raph quickly poked their heads around the corner to see glass cells with different kinds of mutants in them.

"Looks like we found the room." Leo muttered softly then put his finger to his lips and signaled for silence. Then he lead the other two to the wall and they quietly slipped along it. A couple times they moved past a couple robots who seemed to be more interested in the other mutants than the turtles sneaking past them.

"I don't see him in any of these…" Donnie whispered in Leo's ear after he had searched the room three times.

"He's probably in that room…" Raph whispered as he stared at a door frame that was semi-dark inside; which was on the other side of the room. They all shared glances with each other when they heard agonizing yells and pain-filled screams ring throughout the darkness within.

"Let's go." Leo whispered, then he flipped over the top of a glass cell and sprinted into the darker room, and hastily began to search the cells. He was forced to stop when a Kraang droid looked over at him with its glowing pink eyes, then without hesitation, Leo took out his katana and sliced the robot in the middle of the body. Looking around again, once the robot was sprawled on the floor, Leo heard a soft gasps from Donnie, and looked over at the purple masked ninja.

"I… I found him…!"

Mikey's POV

"No…" I whispered as I pushed myself against the wall and watched as his deadly blades grew longer and sharper.

"I will end your useless life. You will no longer exist in this world or any other."

Don't listen to him… You are needed… You need to get out of here…! Keep fighting him, he's just a simulation! Hurry! Just go!

Turning to the window again, I put my hurt right leg in front of me, and I sprinted the best I could towards the window. Closing my eyes, I turned my head and smashed into the glass. Tiny blades sprayed at my body and nipped at my burned skin, then I could feel the air fly past me as I plunged towards the ground….

Third Person

"He's getting worse by the second! Get him out Donnie! Do it now!" Raph yelled as he pressed his face against the glass and watched as Mikey screamed loudly.

"I'm trying! I'm trying!" Donnie yelled in frustration as he twisted a couple wires around, trying to figure out how to open the locked cell door.

"DONNIE!" Raph bellowed as he pounded his fists on the window.

"Got it!" Donnie cried as the door shifted, and Leo shoved it open, and allowed the other two to bolt inside.

Mikey's POV

I had to open my eyes, and when I did I couldn't help the loud scream that left my mouth. The ground was coming faster than I thought. But then, it almost felt like I was moving in slow motion… Maybe if I flap my arms, I could starting flying...

Third Person

"Wait! Don't take the wires off yet! It could hurt him!" Donnie yelled as Raph grabbed all the wires in one fist.

"Guys! His heartbeat is slowing down!" Leo shouted as he presses his fingers to Mikey's neck.

"That's it!" Raph bellowed as he yanked all the wires out at once.

Mikey's POV

I was ready for the ground… Closing my eyes again, I felt the sudden burst of pain fly up my muscles. All my bones seemed to break at once as the sidewalk exploded. Then surprisingly, I felt like I was floating.

Opening my eyes, I looked up at the sidewalk, but it seemed to be upside down… Then I noticed that where TCRI was, was a large patch of dirt…

I think, I think I'm under the simulation…. Floating… Drifting…

"MIKEY!" I heard in the distance, and I looked around for the source of the noise.

"Please wake up!"

Who was that…? Where did it come from…? It sounded so familiar, and yet, unrecognizable…

"Is he… Is he d-dead?"

Dead..? Am I dead…? Is this what dying feels like…?

"His breathing is beginning to slow down…!"

Mine…?

I soon noticed I wasn't breathing…. I tried to breathe, but it hurt too much…. It was so much easier not to breathe…

"We got to get out of here!"

"How!? There's going to be Kraang droids everywhere!"

"I don't know okay!? We just need to go! NOW!"

Where were those voices coming from…? Why did they sound so familiar…?

It was becoming harder to concentrate… I was starting to forget where I was, what brought me to this place… Who I was or where I belong…. It all just left… I could only close my eyes and feel the sudden darkness take over me...