Ninja Turtles does not belong to me; it belongs to Peter Laird, Kevin Eastman…. And whoever they sold the rights to.
Master Splinter, Leonardo and Donatello were still standing in place, their eyes as wide as human(mutant)ly possible. Raphael, and…. Michaelangelo, as Raph said he was, were standing at the entrance of their Lair. Raph had just hastily explained to him how he had found their altered kin. Now, however, there was just a looming silence as the facts began to sink in.
When the shock toned down, Leo lifted his katana out of the cross-sheathe on his shell "Why," Leo asked, narrowing his eyes and pointing it at the tallest reptile in the room "should we believe that you are our missing brother?" He demanded.
"Fearless." Raph said in warning tone, his blue-masked brother disregarded this.
"Last time I checked, Mikey was a turtle, not a feathered lizard." Leo reminded his family, all but Raph got a conbtemplative look.
All but Raph, and Mikey.
The raptor cross his arms and locked his blue eyes with Leo's white slits "Your name is Leonardo Hamato; you've dedicated yourself to the martial arts to the point of being borderline celibate. You got the chunk taken out of your carapace when Karai stabbed you." At this point, Leo tensed up but he continued anyways "You are the leader of this team, though originally we all thought it was going to be Raph. Whenever we were little you were afraid of heights…" Just to make sure they would be convinced, he added "And you're a closet fan of 'My Little Ponies.'"
While Leo's face flushed bright green, Donnie and Raph started roaring in laughter.
"Oww! Oww, my ribs!" Raph said between laughs, he grinned and looked over at his flushing brother "Really Leo? Really bro? Ya got the whole obsession with Japan goin' on, but you're a drooling idiot fanboy ova' My little Ponies?"
"I am not a drooling idiot fanboy." Leo stated in defense.
"I bet you have Rainbow Dash shrine in your closet." Donnie chuckled.
"I do NOT!" Leo shouted, if you could see past the white slits of his mask, you could see his eyes shift.
"Leonardo's strange cartoon infatuation aside," Master Splinter said "I must test you." He said to the raptor and walked right up to him – he narrowed his beady brown eyes and stared deep in the blue ones of the tall reptile.
The raptor clamped his maw shut – he felt as though his soul were being stared at. His eyes shifted aside a little.
"It is you, my son." Master Splinter stated wholeheartedly before stepping foreword and hugging the former turtle as best he could – it was rather difficult, with Master Splinter only being three and a half feet in height, and his altered son being nine feet tall. Mikey kneeled down and hugged back.
"Mikey….." Leo whispered in amazement, barely able to accept what his brother now looked like "Master how did you know?"
"Michaelangelo could never pay attention very long." Master Splinter replied honestly.
"I resent that!" Mikey retorted and made a pouty face.
Raph chuckled and punched the youngest family member in the shoulder "Good ta have ya back, Mike." The red-masked turtle said.
Don took a step foreword, swallowing his earlier guilt before saying "Mikey, I'm so sorry bro….."
Mikey looked at his brother confused – he felt a slight pang of agitation and for some reason, he felt as if he were threatened. But he ignored this; why would Donnie ever be danger? Donnie was his brother, his best friend….. "Sorry about what, Don?" He asked.
"I kidnapped you! Handed you over to Bishop! Now look what he's done to you!"
"What are you talking about?" Mikey asked, ridges furled in confusion "You didn't kidnap me….." His slightly jumbled up memories brought up a forgotten conversation, but he could only hear parts of it in his minds ear.
" – are unstable."
" I'm not… hurts because… nothing…. About it."
" Are you…"
"I…." Mikey trailed off, trying to shake off the strange gut-wrenching feelings. "Look, guys," he started "the way Bishop changed me…. My brain has practically transformed, I have some memory loss…. I can't remember some things." He told them sadly.
"Like what?" Leo asked, putting a comforting hand on his brothers forearm.
"A lot of stuff from when we were kids." Mikeys started "It's like my memory keeps skipping a couple months at a time….. A lot of chunks of memory are missing, like a puzzle, or a broken mirror…. Last thing I remember before the whole fiasco at Bishop's lab, me and Raph were eating pizza."
"I'm sorry bro." Raph said sympathetically.
"It's okay." Mikey assured "I still remember a lot of stuff….. The memories aren't destroyed, I just need to find them."
"Mikey," Leo got serious again "what transpired while you were at the hands of Bishop?"
Silence…..
"Believe it or not," Mikey finally said "it was only half-demented."