Laughter Lines, Part Nine by RomaMarufixx

Don/Mikey, Raph/Leo

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

Characters belong to Nickelodeon.

SAINW

The following morning, the first of many team practice sessions began. I watched for the first half hour, before grabbing a small plate of breakfast and a large mug of coffee before making my way to my lab to get started in trying to find out if anything was still on the old shell cell. I ate my breakfast first, knowing that if I didn't finish my food before I started, it wouldn't have been eaten, and took a large gulp of my coffee before plugging the shell cell into my computer, happy to find that it still connected.

Several hours of searching through every possible folder that I could find, it was clear that the shell cell had been wiped. There was evidence that the shell cell had been tampered with, possibly by Donatello himself who may have downloaded all the files onto numerous flash drives such as the one that I had found on the pier, unless that was the only flash drive that there was. There was the other possibility that someone else had hacked into the shell cell and had taken all the files that were left, and the person who had done this was more than likely the Shredder or someone that worked for him.

The tracking device in the shell cell was no longer active, it was possible that the protective layer over it had broken when it was thrown into the river and water damage had eventually killed the signal, which must have been why the signal disappeared many years ago.

Around midday Michelangelo came to my lab to give me some breakfast and to fill up my coffee cup as well as to tell me that Leo had decided to give them two team training sessions a day, each three hours long, much to Raph and Mikey's displeasure and he also said that I was more than welcome to join in on a few. I was happy too and I knew that despite the fact Leo had said I needn't be involved in the team sessions I knew that I would get dragged into a few before Leo deemed the team ready.

When Mikey left for the evening training session, I decided to take apart the shell cell to see if that gave me any other clues. It didn't. I packaged up the shell cell pieces, deciding that I didn't have the time to put them together tonight and stored them away for another day before making my way to my bedroom, only to be directed to the food hall by Mikey so that I could have some dinner.

The next day I spent another hour watching my brothers train before resembling the shell cell and storing it away again, and then meeting with April to see what the rebels were up to and to get an update on the Shredder, and she had little news, the rebels had succeeded on taking down a few of Shredder's operations but the Shredder changed his 'home' every few weeks, which made it hard to track him down, and even harder to make a plan of attack.

The rest of the week passed, and as the shell cell had proven to be currently a dead end so I decided to join in on the team sessions and Leo was very impressed with our progress, I knew that it wouldn't be long until we were ready to fight the Shredder when we found him.

"This still feels weird." Mikey said as he twirled his nunchuck using his robotic hand, using both of his weapons for the first time in a long time. "The more I think about how my arm is moving my 'chuck the weirder it gets."

"How long has it been since you used both your nunchucks?" I asked, curious but cursing myself inwardly as I had just bought up a sensitive subject.

"Gotta be close to twenty five years," Mikey said, looking at his robotic arm, "I lost my arm the week after my twenty third birthday." Mikey laughed and I smiled slightly, glad Mikey wasn't greatly upset with remembering what had happened to him. When Mikey looked back up our eyes met and he gestured for me to come closer to him, which I did.

"Do you wanna know how I lost my arm? The whole story?"

"Only if you're willing to tell me." I said as we sat down on the bed that we shared.

"I'll tell you the whole thing, Leo and Raph included."

"What's got you in such a sharing mood?" I smiled at my mate and Mikey went quiet, and I mentally cursed myself again.

"It's just...we never know what's going to happen when we go up against the Shredder, but what I do know is that we will all make sure that you get home so that what happened to us after you left never happens to your family." I waited quietly for Mikey to continue speaking. "Raph got very violent after the first few months of searching for you, he didn't care who he hurt to get information, that was the start of his problems with Leo. He wasn't really part of our team anymore but Leo tried to keep him close to us by...letting Raph use him for sex, despite how much that hurt Leo emotionally, he was just desperate to keep our shrinking family together."

"Soon that wasn't enough to keep Raph with us and he spent most of his time with Casey, when Casey wasn't with April. I'll never forget one night that Casey came into the lair shaking, he'd just watch Raph kill a man and didn't know what to do, so Sensei intervened, he was able to bring Raph home and he was still violent, he lashed out at all of us, in the end we tried to spend as little time as we could with him, Raph still tried to go to Leo, but Leo made it clear that their relationship was over."

"He still bought Leo an over the top present for Christmas and his following birthday, which made Leo happy but they still argued all the time and fought all time...after a while Raph just gave up. Raph was the first one of us...to receive our injuries, we had decided to go on a patrol, all three of us, it all got too much for us to handle and Leo told us to retreat and I did, but Raph had other plans, he stayed and tried to fight them off by himself, and I admit he did pretty well, but one of them got the upper hand and before we could get to him, the foot ninja had...gouged out one of Raph's eyes. Leo killed the man that did that and the others ran away...we were able to get Raph home and April and Master Splinter managed to stop the bleeding and fix him up, but Raph was sensitive about his injury for a long time, I've never seen his eye without his mask, and I guess I never will now, but I'm not complaining." Mikey laughed.

"Raph calmed down somewhat after that until a couple of years later when Master Splinter died...he died protecting us from the Shredder and Karai and at the same time Karai blinded Leo, well, she made his eyesight worse and eventually it just went altogether because none of us knew what to do to help him. A few days after we buried Master Splinter, Raph left again, I think he was living in Casey's old apartment when Casey moved in with April, back when they still had their homes."

"I take it that was around the time Shredder started taking over the word?" I asked, unsure of the timeline.

"Yes, everything fell apart pretty quickly after you left, just three years and we'd lost sensei and both Leo and Raph were seriously injured and not living at home anymore."

"Leo left the same time as Raph?" I asked.

"Well, he came back every now and again, but after we burned sensei's body and buried his ashes in the park Leo kinda...lost himself, and then I was all alone, occasionally April and Casey came to visit but then it became too dangerous to do so, so I was alone for a few years until April, Casey, Angel and a few other people moved into the lair with me when Shredder succeed in taking control of the city. That was around the time that we started the rebellion and tried to find more people who were hiding in order to help them along with trying to find a more secure, larger place as we started to get a bit crowded."

"How long was it before Shredder had control of the world?" I asked, intrigued.

"Well in the next two years he had control of all the major cities and after that it only took him a year before he had control of the world…"

"So around the time that he took over New York the time that you lost your arm?"

"Yeah, me and Casey were out looking for a new base, when we came across some foot ninja by accident. Shredder had obviously been upgrading his ninjas, I'm not sure if they were robots or not back then, but we were evenly matched and we still couldn't hold our own, one thing I'm fighting two ninja in front of me and the next there's a sharp pain in my arm and I'm on the ground, passing out from blood loss, watching as they knocked Casey on the floor and started beating him. I don't remember much more aside from arriving in the med bay back in the lair, they told me I lost my arm and I went into shock and when I asked about Casey everyone went silent." Mikey explained and paused as his eye misted over.

"Mikey you don't have to-"

"No, it's okay...eventually I found out that Casey had died, I'd watched him get beaten to death, they'd carried his body back to the lair and he was going to be cremated once April gave them her permission."

"Did April and Casey ever marry?"

"They married a year after you disappeared, it was just a small wedding with close family and friends up in the farmhouse, she's kept his name since he passed though...I talked to April as soon as I was allowed out of the hospital, she had been trying to get into contact with both Leo and Raph to tell them about what had happened to me and that Casey had passed away, but they weren't answering their phones. She had wanted to wait for them to be here for Casey cremation and burial but since they were ignoring us, she went ahead with it without them. A week later Raph turned up and April lost it with him, she screamed at him about how his best friend was dead and I had lost my arm and that he wasn't there for us and then Leo appeared a few weeks after that and she gave him the same talk."

"They weren't there for you when you lost your arm?" I asked, surprised.

"No, our family was in ruins, but after that I saw them more often than I used to, but they both wanted to do their own thing more often than not and I stuck with the rebellion."

"I'm so sorry."

"It's not your fault, it's not the fault of any Donatello, I don't know who to blame."

"I hope to find that out as soon as I can Mikey." I said as I cuddled into Mikey's side, enjoying both his heat and his scent.

"Thank you Donnie, I love you."

"I love you too."

It was mid afternoon when a young rebel came running up towards April stating that she had some very important news concerning the Shredder and myself, which caught all of our attentions. Apparently the foot ninja that we had fought on the pier had reported back to the Shredder and now he is after Donatello. When I looked over at Leo it was clear that the time to attack Shredder was near, so when we had finished talking to April and the rebel, I lead my brothers into the lab to show them what I had been working on in my spare time.

"What's all this about then Don?" Raph asked, crossing his arms over his plastron as I lead them into the middle of the room.

"I thought we could do with an extra hand against the Shredder considering what technology he has access to in order to upgrade his armour."

"What did you build?" Leo asked, as I stood at one side of the room where my latest invention was hidden under an old sheet. I gave my brothers a wide smile as I revealed my exo suit.

"One of the rebels was able to find some of Baxter Stockman's designs for a similar exo suit for the Shredder, I assume his is far better than this one as the one they found was several years old but it's better than nothing and could give us a slight advantage." I explained.

"And you're expecting to wear the suit?" Leo asked me and I suddenly felt small.

"Well, yes, is there a problem with that?" I asked.

"No." Leo said, even though his jaw was clenched slightly.

"So what's the plan fearless?" Raph asked, obviously trying to turn the topic of conversation around so that it wasn't on me. "We now where Shredder is, we're battle ready, have we got a plan of attack?"

"The rebels are going to attack through the front and back to distract the ninjas that will be guarding both ways into the base and we can attack from under."

"And just how are we going to do that?" Raph asked and Leo looked towards me and I felt a spark of excitement go through me.

"The tunneler! Is it here?"

"I had some rebels bring the tunneler to the base, so that you could fix it up." Leo explained. "I'll go get them to bring it now." He said and walked out of the room.

"He's just worried about the fight, every time that we go up against the Shredder something seriously bad happens." Raph explained.

"But there is a better chance this time, we're all together, working together as a team, we have a rebellion by our side and the exo suit and the tunneler and…" I started to ramble, so Mikey put his hand over my mouth.

"We know Donnie, but you know Leo, he worries about everything." Mikey said and then removed his hand from my face.

"I know…" I sighed, just as several men and women came into the lab, dragging the tunneler with them and my face lit up in a smile.

As Leo wasn't with them, Raph asked one of the men where he was and then disappeared as they set up the tunneler where I asked them to so that I could get to work on fixing it up and getting it ready to take us into the heart of the Shredder's lair in hopefully, just a few days, otherwise it could be a very long time before we would be able to find him again.

Leo returned the following day to get the update on the tunneler and I happily told him that it would ready by tonight, to which he responded that we were going to take down the Shredder tomorrow night. He briefed me further before leaving me alone with the tunneler and my thoughts...despite how sure I was that we were going to win, it didn't mean that I wasn't scared or nervous or that my brain was running through as many different outcomes as I could think of.

I decided that those worries could wait for another time, right now I needed to focus on getting the tunneler battle ready for tomorrow night.

My heart was racing as I thought about what we were going into tomorrow night, we were going to take down the Shredder, or at least attempt to take him down. I wasn't going to pretend that we were going to be able to get out of this without at the very least a serious injury. I was shaking as I came into the bedroom and undressed, ready to try and get at least a few hours of decent sleep.

Mikey was waiting in bed for me and as soon as I got into the bed, I wrapped my arms around in and breathed his scent in, as Mikey kissed my forehead. The kisses made their way down my face and to my neck and I welcomed them happily, hoping that the kisses were acting as the beginning of foreplay. Mikey's metal arm reached to hold my arm and I shivered at the cool touch and I pulled him on top of me by the lip of his plastron as our lips met for a kiss.

"I love you Donnie." Mikey whispered to me and I smiled, bringing Mikey in for another kiss.

"I love you Mikey, please...make love to me." I sighed and churred as Mikey's hand cupped the growing bulge between my legs and I happily allowed my erection to slip free whilst Mikey did the same.

Mikey made quick work of prepping me as I was very urgent to have my mate inside of me, which I was gifted with a few minutes after I started begging, when Mikey slowly slid into me, making me moan loudly, but I didn't care, all I cared about at the moment was Mikey.

"Faster." I moaned and Mikey complied, increasing my pleasure. Our love making was long and gentle, with the occasionally rough movement that had one of us yelling out in pleasure. When we came down from our highs, I was still clinging to Mikey as if he would disappear if I let him go.

"We're going to take down the Shredder tomorrow." I promised Mikey, as well as reassuring him and myself. "And then we're going to help this world get back to how it used to be and we're going to find out what happened to Donnie, and-"

"And then you're going home." Mikey said, completing my sentence although not the way I had planned to finish it.

"Once I've finished everything here, then I can go home." I said and there were a few moments of silence before Mikey spoke.

"I'm going to miss you...so much."

"Well, if everything goes well, you'll have your own Donnie back." I said, trying to lighten Mikey's mood.

"You're very hopeful."

"You're not?"

"It's been thirty years, if Donnie were alive he would have told us in some way or another."

"But he did, we're just finally piecing all the clues together!" I said, but Mikey was silent, just looking upwards with a blank expression. "We're going to find him." I said again and Mikey turned over to look at me.

"I love you."

"I love you too."

Raphael and Leonardo undressed for the night in silence, before Leo got into their shared bed and Raph went into the adjoining bathroom. When he came out, Leo was asleep or at least pretending to be, so Raph quietly crawled into the bed quietly and pressed his body against his mates, hooking an arm around his waist and burying his face into his neck.

"Raph…" Leo mumbled against the pillow he was lying on.

"Hm?"

"What are you doing?" He asked and moved his head slightly so that he could see his brother.

"Nothin'" Raph smirked as he began suckling at the skin of his mate's neck.

"Raph, we need a good night's rest."

"Yeah, I always find that I sleep better when we fool around." Raph smirked as his hand dipped lower down Leo's plastron.

"Hmm…" Leo moaned and Raph grinned and began grinding against the other turtle. Leo couldn't deny his body's reaction and his mind was telling him this could be his last night with Raphael, so he ought to make it special. He pawed at the nightstands top drawer to retrieve the lube as Raph's talented hands worked on getting him to drop down. Once Leo had the lube in his hands, he pushed Raph back and changed their positions, much to Raph's displeasure.

"Hey, I was-" He began to speak but was cut off when Leo kissed him, distracting him as he lubed up one of his fingers, pressing it into Raph, who grunted into the kiss, pulling away for a second and mumbling, "bastard" before continuing their kiss, releasing his erection as Leo added a second finger to prep his mate.

Once Leo deemed Raph ready enough, even though Raph said he was ready a while ago, he let himself drop down and slicked his erection with lube before pressing gently into his brother, who was not happy with the initial penetration, and hooked his legs around Leo's hips an pressed him forward, causing his entire length to fill his brother.

"Ah, fuck, there it is." Raph moaned and Leo laughed.

"You're so impatient."

"Well, maybe if ya' weren't so slow." Raph teased and Leo pulled back and thrust hard again into his brother, making the both of them moan. Leo grabbed a tight hold of his lover's cock as he thrust in and out, as fast as he could to increase Raph's pleasure, whilst trying to hold off his orgasm. Nothing ever changed, it was always a race of who could get who to go over the edge first, of course the person topping always had an advantage, but it didn't always mean that they won.

Leo could tell by how Raph's inner walls were squeezing around his cock that he was trying to get his brother off first, but Leo wasn't going to have that, he knew Raph's weak spots too. Bending forward, he bit down as hard as he could on his brother's shoulder, without breaking the skin, and his brother came almost instantly, swearing as he did so.

The squeezing around his shaft got too much and Leo let himself go, climaxing into his brother before collapsing on top of him, much to Raph's displeasure.

"Get off me." Raph groaned as Leo's entire body weight pressed down on him, and trapped his wilting erection.

"Sorry." Leo chuckled and pushed up and moved to Raph's side so that the younger turtle could tuck himself away and get comfortable. "I think I needed that." Leo sighed and closed his eyes as he felt a wave of tiredness go over him.

"Yeah I know ya' did."

"Thank you Raphael, I love you." Leo said as he started to drift off to sleep.

"Yeah, I love ya' too bro." Raph said as he lay awake, looking up at the ceiling. Now that Leo was able to sleep, he couldn't, all he could think about was what they were going into tomorrow and how badly they could come out.