A/N: I meant to write this last week but I didn't have the time... sorry! Also, this may be my last update for a while since winter break is coming up and I'm going somewhere, so... yeah.

I don't own TMNT.


Mikey's POV

I don't remember when I fell asleep, but I know I woke up a few hours later. I still can't believe that Donnie is...

Well, I don't want to believe that. Maybe he's still alive...

My eyes wander around the room and I see a plate of food and a bottle of water that wasn't there before. My stomach rumbles. It's been a while since I ate something and all I really want now is pizza.

I look over at the food on the plate. It's a yellowish-orange color and looks like nothing I've seen before. It kind of looks like apple sauce and mashed potatoes mixed together. Yuck!

There's no way I'm going to eat the food, so I open up the water bottle and sniff the water. Donnie once told me that water by itself doesn't have a smell, so if this water is really water, it shouldn't smell like anything.

Double yuck. The supposed water smells worse than rotten eggs! Somebody must have put something in it, maybe poison or some kind of drug or something. Either way, I'm not going to eat or drink anything. I already learned not to trust the Foot.

I sigh and lean against the wall. What am I supposed to do? I'm chained up, the door's locked, my nunchucks are gone, and I have no idea where my brothers are!

The door suddenly opens. I look away, knowing it's the Shredder.

"Um, I- I want to help."

I turn around and see that it's not the Shredder. It's Dexter Stockboy, or whatever his name is. I always forget.

"And why should I trust you, Dexter Stockboy?" I say, glaring at him.

"It's Baxter Stockman!" he corrects. Then he looks down. "I never wanted to work for the Foot anyway. Heck, I never even wanted to be a bad guy! But I got my life in a mess and now here I am, working for the Shredder." He sighs.

I don't say anything and just nod at him to continue.

"Listen, I want to help. I thought you guys were bad at first, but now I know. I can take you to your brother."

Raph? They have Raph, too? Well, of course I want to go to him! I nod excitedly. Maybe he can be trusted...

Dexter Stockboy - I mean, Baxter Stockman - takes off the chains with some things he brought. "You didn't eat or drink anything, did you? Everything given to prisoners are poisoned or drugged."

I shake my head. "No! Just take me to my brother already!"

"Follow me." Stockman walks out of the room and I follow him, closing the door behind me. We pass several other doors leading to other dungeon cells until Stockman finally stops at one that's really far away from the one I was just in. He unlocks the door with a key and lets me inside before closing and locking the door. Maybe he did that so the Shredder won't notice, but I don't care. I just want to see Raph already.

My brother turns around and says, "Mikey?"

I stare at him and my jaw drops open. "Donnie?"


Raph grabs onto the end of his grappling hook that is still stuck next to the window. Good thing I left this here!

He tucks his sai into his belt and carefully hoists himself onto the window ledge. Then he takes out his grappling hook and tucks into his belt, too.

He quickly jumps onto the next window ledge, then the next, and so on until he reaches the roof.

He looks down below him. The ground is so down low. If he hadn't grabbed onto the rope of his grappling hook, he would've been dead by now.

He has to find his bros. The window he just fell out of isn't an option, of course. But maybe there's another way in where he can sneak inside, unnoticed.


Leo wakes up and glances at the clock. It's exactly five am. No matter how late he sleeps, he always wakes up at five, even if he's injured. It's a habit.

Leo grabs his crutches and painfully makes his way to the living room. April's still there, looking out the window.

"Hey, April," Leo says. "Donnie didn't come yet?"

"No," April says softly, still looking out the window.

"We should go look for him. He could be in trouble," Leo says.

"You can't go. You're too injured to go, but maybe Casey can, whenever he wakes up," April says. "Anyway, Donnie might just be sleeping or something, or maybe he found Mikey or Raph."

"Maybe," Leo says. He sits next to April, and they both look out the window, waiting for the other turtles. They ignore the fact that they may never come home.


Donnie's POV

Hours pass, and there's no sign of the real Mikey or Raph. It's boring, being stuck here with nothing to do but think.

If only I could get out of these stupid chains! But they're too tight and I don't have anything to take them off or break them with.

The door opens, and somebody walks inside. I squint my eyes, trying to figure out who it is in the dim light.

It looks like Mikey. The real Mikey. His mask ends are short, he has those tiny freckles and light blue eyes, and he walks just like him.

"Mikey?" I say.

Mikey's jaw drops open. After a few seconds, he says, "Donnie?" He sounds really shocked.

"That's me," I say. "Why do you look like you've just seen a ghost?"

"Th- that's 'cause I saw you and you were d- dea..."

"What?"

"I was in a room and the Shredder threw you in and you weren't breathing!"

I stare at him wide eyed until realization hits me. "That was just a clone, Mikey."

"Really?" he says, relieved.

I nod. "Come here, Mikey."

He listens and snuggles in my lap. "You're real! So you are alive!"

"Yup."

After a moment of silence, Mikey looks up at me with those innocent baby blue eyes. "Do you think Raph hates me?"

I consider this. Raph does get annoyed by Mikey a lot, but he would do anything to protect us. "No, Mikey, he loves us all. I bet he's looking for us right now!"

"Really?" Mikey says. I smile and nod.

He snuggles in closer into my lap and closes his eyes. He must be tired from all that's going on.

"Donnie?" he says a few minutes later.

"Yes?"

"I love you."

I look at him, confused, but he's already sleeping.

"I love you too, baby brother," I whisper before I fall asleep, too.


A/N: I really liked writing the end of Donnie's POV... it's just brotherly fluff. ;)

Things might speed up in the next chapter(s) because it took 10 chapters for the first day and I don't want each day to take 10 chapters each, too!

I'll say it here again: This may be my last update for a while since winter break is coming up and I'm going on vacation.

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