Laughter Lines by RomaMarufixx

Part Eight

Don/Mikey, Raph/Leo

This is turtlecest, don't like? Don't read.

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SAINW

I had spent literal hours trying to hack into the flash drive which could hold very vital information, but to no luck, I was getting closer to breaking down all of the levels of security, but it might be a while before I got anything out of it. So while I was waiting for another level of security to be disabled by my systems I decided to head down to one of the small kitchens to get myself a cup of coffee as fuel for the next couples of hours.

Returning to my lab I worked on the flash drive for as many hours as I could before I was dragged off to bed by Mikey to make sure I got a decent amount of sleep before I went back to hours in front of my computer.

I had decided to leave my programmes open on the computer during the night, hoping that they would chew through more layers of security, and it had but I still have more to get through, at least I was down to less than one hundred layers. Whoever's flash drive this was, they certainly didn't want the wrong people get their hands on it and that gave me hope that it may be the Donatello of this universe.

With no interruptions I would get into this flash drive by tonight, but I knew that it was unlikely that I would have no interruptions so I was aiming for tomorrow.

Like I had thought, several hours later and sixty levels of security still to work through, Mikey walked into the lab and waited for me to realise he was there before speaking to me.

"Mikey?"

"Can you come with me?" Mikey asked, offering his robotic hand to me, which I took and allowed him to lead me into a room that I had ever been in before, where Leo and Raph were waiting for us.

"Raph? Leo? What's going on?" I asked, starting to get worried.

"Mikey believes that you are keeping something from him and from us." Leo said and I turned to look at Mikey.

"What?"

"Yesterday, when you said you were cleaning stuff up on your computer, you seemed really tense and wanted to change the subject whenever you could." Mikey explained.

"I…" I was trying to think up a lie, but with all three staring at me, I decided to tell the truth. "I went to talk to April about when you guys found the shell cell signal at a pier, I wanted to find out which pier it was so that I could have a look for myself, but she couldn't remember which pier it was, so I went out and looked at all the piers." I said and I noticed Raph glaring at me, so I rolled my eyes. "April knew I was going out, and she could track me if she wanted to."

"Did you find anything?" Leo asked me.

"I found a flash drive at the pier, inside some wood of a building, I've been trying to get through all the levels of security on the flash drive to see what is on there."

"Do you think that...it might help us find out where….what happened to Donnie?" Mikey asked and I nodded.

"Hopefully."

"Donatello, would you like to show us where exactly you found the flash drive?" Leo asked.

"You want me to take you to the pier?" I asked and Leo nodded.

The four of us made our way to the pier where I had found the flash drive and showed them where exactly it was where I found it.

"What's with the M?" Mikey asked, looking at the letter which was above the small hole.

"I think it was left here so that it would be easy to find but not too obvious."

"Wouldn't it have been better if he put a D there?" Mikey asked and I looked around at him, as did my other two brothers. After a while the reason why the M was there must have clicked in Mikey's head.

"Oh."

"Well done knucklehead." Raph said as he justled Mikey's shoulder and moved closer to me. "Is that flash drive the only thing you found in there?"

"I don't think much else would fit in there, it's a very small hole but I'll have any look." I said s I fished out my pen and shone the light back inside the hole, looking around in all directions but the only thing that was there were several small bugs. "Nope, nothing else."

"I still can't believe that flash drive is here thirty years later." Leo said, glancing across the river.

"Maybe it hasn't?" Mikey suggested and again we all looked at him.

"What are ya' talkin' about?"

"Maybe Donnie came back here at some point and put the flash drive here?" Mikey said and turned to look at me.

"Well, the flash drive was old, it could have been here for years or decades, but when I get into the flash drive I will be able to tell, hopefully, when it was put here."

"Well there doesn't seem to be much else here, when Donnie gets into the flash drive, we'll see if it gives us any idea as to where the shell cell is or was." Leo said. "Let's get back to the base."

I was left alone for the remainder of the evening and I finally got down the the last ten layers of security, and whizzed through each until I got to the final layer which was locked, with a question that was written across my screen.

"On a November night, where is one intimate?"

I assumed the question was asking where does someone have sex on a November night and the 'one' that the question was referring to had to be either me, Mikey or the both of us. But I didn't know the importance of any day in November, so I would need Mikey's help to get into the flash drive. As soon as I told Mikey that I needed his help, he was by my side in the lab joined by both Raph and Leo, eager to see if I had managed to find out what was on the flash drive.

"What have you found?" Mikey asked, looking over my shoulder.

"Nothing yet, I'm on the final layer of security and a question has come up which I don't know the answer too but I thought that you might." I explained.

"What is the question?"

"On a November night, where is one intimate?" I read the question from the screen out loud and Mikey blushed, yet frowned.

"Um, it doesn't say anything else, no a more specific date or a year?"

"No, nothing but that."

"Um…" Mikey hummed whilst staring at the screen.

"Did you and Donnie get up to something super kinky sometime in November?" Raph laughed and Mikey glared at him but then his face lit up like he had remembered something.

"Mikey, what is it?" I asked.

"Um, shortly before Donnie disappeared...we had date night at central park and we ended up...having sex in some bushes before we went home and...we almost got caught." Mikey told us.

"You got caught?" Leo asked with his arms crossed.

"Almost." Mikey corrected him.

"So the answer is Central Park?" I asked Mikey who nodded, so I typed in the words and the screen changed, showing the files inside the drive. There were only ten or so files in the flash drive, but it was something, I hovered over the first file, a voice memo, which had not been named, but it did have a date.

"It's dated a week after Donnie disappeared." Mikey said quietly, by my side.

"Did you want me to leave you alone to listen to it?" I asked, looking at Mikey and then at my other two brothers.

"No, you can stay." Mikey said, his eyes not leaving the screen as I clicked on the voice note. Unfortunately there wasn't much noise other than the sound of someone walking on gravel and it only lasted thirty seconds. The next voice note was two days later, and I pressed play without waiting for my brothers to say anything. The first ten seconds were the same sound before, although this time somebody spoke, a voice I recognised as my own.

"I don't know what happened or where I am, it looks like I'm still in the city but I don't recognise anywhere near." My voice sounded from the recording. "I'm not sure how far I am away from home, I decided that it would be best to record myself...in case anything happens." The voice continued and I looked at my brothers, watching their features go from happy to sad. "I'll check in, in another...hour." And then the recording ending.

I waited a few seconds before clicking on the third file, another voice memo.

"I forget to check in at the first hour, my phone says it has been...five hours, and I am in the same place, I seem to be going around in circles and it's starting to get dark, I'm going to find somewhere safe to spend the night and in the morning hopefully I will be able to get out of wherever I am." The final few seconds were quiet before the voice memo ended and as I went to click on the next file Leo stopped me.

"That's enough for tonight Donatello."

"But-" I began to argue.

"Donatello." Leo said firmly and his eyes drifted towards Mikey and my eyes followed his and my heart dropped. I knew that these files could be upsetting to my brothers, especially since these were actually videos and voice memos from this universe's Donatello, but that had left my mind and what was on it was finding out what happened to Donatello. Looking at Mikey now I could see how these were affecting him, how seeing his own Donnie was upsetting him. I jumped up from my chair and brought Mikey in for a hug.

"Mikey, I'm so sorry." I said into his neck as I nuzzled there.

"It's okay." Mikey hiccuped. "I didn't know that would affect me so much."

"It's okay, we won't go through any more files today." I promised as I pulled away and looking around I saw that both Raph and Leo were gone.

"It's okay if you want to go through the rest." Mikey said. "I'm gonna get something to eat and then head to bed, but don't stay up too late."

"I'll try not to." I smiled and we shared a kiss before he left the lab and I went back to the computer, clicking on the next voice memo, dated twenty hours after the previous memo.

"I'm beginning to think that this place isn't real, there is no one here and it looks like no park in New York that I know of and everything seems to be timed, the days, the sounds, the wind, the weather...either that or I'm going crazy." End of voice memo.

The rest of my night was filled with going through the rest of the files and making notes as I did so, to help for the search for this universe's Donatello or if he was...if he had passed, I could find out when and why and if possible find his body.

Fourth file, a video file, Donatello filming his surroundings whilst talking, an artificial park, no animals, no people, always sunny, sun goes down and rises at the exact time every day. He estimates that he has been in this place for at least three days, but he is unsure how long he was unconscious for.

Fifth file, audio file, nothing but static, dated the day after the previous file, three in the morning.

Sixth file, audio file, mumbled speaking, dated the same day at four in the afternoon, thirteen hours after the previous file.

Seventh file, audio file, dated the following morning at nine. Donnie explains that he woke up the previous morning to a small room, metal walls that had interfered with the shell cell but now it was working.

Eight file, video file, filming around the small block room, half hour after the previous file.

Nine file, video file, Donatello is in the city, he is breathing harshly. The date is the same day as the previous two files but several hours later, in the evening, verging onto the following day. It was very windy, can just make out some mumbling about needing to get home but being worried that his shell cell would be tracked, and that was the end of the video.

The tenth and final file on the flash drive was a picture.

I clicked on the photo's file and it can up onto the screen. The paper was crumpled and slightly dirty but I could make out a drawn map of Manhattan and an arrow pointing towards the pier that I had found the flash drive on. The photo had been scanned and there was something on the other side, a map of the pier where the flash drive had been found and a note at the bottom, saying that he had given the shell cell under the sand of one of the piers stands and that he had taken all the files out and put them onto a flash drive and had taken that with him.

So the shell cell was left at the pier over thirty years ago under the sand somewhere that the others must have missed, but the flash drive wasn't placed there at the same time, at least it wasn't mentioned. I printed out both sides of the photo and then removed the flash drive from my computer and put it into my belt, worried that if I left it in my computer or in the lab that someone would take it or misplace it, and I needed what was on it, I needed it for Mikey.

I left the lab and made my way to my room, hoping that Mikey would still be awake so that I could tell him what I had found. Lucky for me, he still was and was sat on the edge of one side of the bed, taking a sip of water, looking like he was about to go to bed.

"Mikey?"

"Wow, coming to bed already?" He smiled and I couldn't help but smile back.

"I've gone through all of the files."

"Did you find anything that might lead us to Donnie?" Mikey asked, his smile gone, his expression serious.

"Not much, just a bunch of audio and video files about the park he was in, and then a small room and the second to last file was a video, he was running through the city, he wanted to get home but he thought that he might be being tracked." I explained.

"What was on the last file?" Mikey asked and I handed him the photo, with the map of Manhattan facing upwards.

"There was a photo, a double sided piece of paper was scanned, on one side is that map of Manhattan, pointing to the pier where I found the flash drive and on the other side is a map of the pier, he says that he left the shell cell in the sand under the pier, the picture points to exactly where it is, but nothing about the flash drive is mentioned."

"So the shell cell might actually still be there?" Mikey asked, looking over each of the maps.

"I think so, we could-"

"We'll go tomorrow."

"But-" I tried to argue with him, but it didn't work.

"You need rest, the shell cell hasn't moved in decades, I'm sure that it will still be there tomorrow." Mikey said, standing up, making it clear that f I didn't get into bed myself, he would make me, so I took off my gear and my mask and got into bed and Mikey soon joined me, holding me as we fell asleep together.

The following evening, the four of us made our way to the pier to search for the shell cell. Both me and Mikey went into the water to search through the sand whilst Leo and Raph kept a look out. We were only searching for an hour before we found the shell cell, it was very damaged but there was still a possibility of being able to get something from the old device.

"We better get going, it's not safe around these areas anymore." Leo said and turned around. "Damn." He swore as several ninjas ran towards us. We all unsheathed our weapons as I hid my shell cell in my belt.

Not may of Shredders ninja's were human nowadays but there were a few around the city that the Shredder kept around for unknown reasons. These ninjas were highly skilled, they had to be in order for the Shredder to still want them around and not replace them with robots or in the rare case, mutants. They also reminded me of how out of shape the team was in, it was obvious that they had not fought together in a very long time, and although all my brothers were skilled warriors, they were not as good as a team as they used to be, that, along with the newly fitted body parts, may have thrown them off.

Out of the six foot ninja that had come at us, we have managed to fight of four off before Leo decided that we need to retreat, splitting up into pairs and going two separate ways back to the base so that they wouldn't follow us home.

"That was appalling." Leo announced to us when we were all back together in the safety of our base.

"Ah, shit Leo don't start." Raph said as he tried to catch his breath.

"If this is how we are as a team, we can not go out there again together with the dangers that we will face, it is far too dangerous."

"What do you suggest we do? Have a team practice every day and just ignore everything going on around us?" Mikey asked.

"Team practice everyday is a good idea Michelangelo, but we won't be ignoring the world, April and most of the other rebels can take care of things for the time being whilst we sort ourselves out."

"What about me?" I asked and all eyes turned towards me.

"I don't believe there is any need for you to join the session Donnie, you can focus on getting whatever you can from the shell cell."

"Okay."

"Once I deem us ready, we'll make a plan to take down Shredder…" He said and looked directly at me, "and then we'll get you home."

"But-" I tried to protest.

"And then we'll get you home." Leo said more firmly and I said no more, it was clear Leo wasn't going to change his mind. We were going to take down our greatest enemy and then I was going home, whether I wanted to or not.