Laughter Lines by RomaMarufixx

Part Eleven

Don/Mikey, Raph/Leo

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

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SAINW

I had eventually moved myself from the storage closet to the room that me and Mikey were sharing so that I could take a shower, before going to find Leo and Raph, who were talking to a large group of rebels.

"What's going on?" I asked my brothers.

"We're going to go to a few of the mutant camps and work on freeing people as well as trying to find some more supplies." Leo explained. "Do you want to come with?"

"Sure...where is Mikey?" I asked, wondering why he wasn't with Leo and Raph.

"He went ahead with some other rebels, we'll be meeting up with him once we have freed the people from the mutant base we have been assigned to." Leo explained and I nodded as we made our way into the yard where the vehicles were and the three of us and seven more rebels got into the back of an old army van and travelled to the mutant base that we had been assigned to.

I had been told that Angel wanted to destroy all the mutant camps in New York City, once they had been freed of their prisoners and raided for their supplies, she had several groups that she wanted to take down a base in a day. Many argued that they should be taking down more than one, but she explained that freeing the people, finding supplies and bringing them back to the base and getting the settled in would take a lot of time, so it was more logical to just go after one, and I agreed.

The base that we went to was one of the smaller bases, but could still have held up to one hundred mutants and possibly some humans. Most of the guards had fled, fearing what would happen to them, but there were some that had stayed. They were easily taken down by our team and we made our way around to collect all the prisoners, many of whom had not eaten in days...we even found a few dead bodies, which we decided to take back with us after everyone else was back at the base.

Since the van we came in could only told a maximum of twenty people at one time, we would have to be making several trips to the base and back in order to take all the prisoners to the base. Two of the rebels would be driving the car, whilst the other rebels waited with the prisoners, guarding them and the three of us were sent inside to take everything of possible worth from the base.

"I don't understand why they have so much medication if they ain't gonna use it for the prisoners." Raph said, we'd all seen the state of the prisoners, they couldn't have had any medical care since they had been brought to the camp.

"Probably just for the guards." I said. "Some of this is really good medicine, have we enough room for all this?" I asked Leo.

"We'll make several trips if we need to, Angel said she wants everything of importance." Leo said, rummaging through the rest of the medicine cabinets. Once the room was clear of everything that would be of use to us, we made our way back to the rest of the rebels to put it in the van to be taken back to the base. We'd just gotten into the hallway when he heard a noise coming from one of the rooms that we had yet to go inside.

"Stay here." Raph ordered, taking out his sais and walking towards the door.

"Raph don't-" Leo tried to argue, but Raph didn't listen, he just threw the door open to show...a small pale blue...alien?

"What the fuck, who are you?" Raph crudely asked the alien, who looked even more shocked than the three of us. The alien looked at each of us, stopping to stare at me, their eyes getting wider.

"Donatello?" It said, it's voice sounding like a young English man.

"Do I know you?" Was the first thing that came to my mind.

"Do you not remember me?" He asked and it suddenly hit me that this alien was talking to the wrong Donatello.

"I'm not the Donatello that you think I am." I said, and when the alien looked at me in confusion, I explained further. "I have been bought here from a different world, a past world, and the Donatello here has gone missing, he's been missing for thirty years."

"Thirty years?" The alien questioned.

"Yes."

"But, I've seen him, we met several times before I was captured and taken here." The alien said, stepping out of the room, but keeping a safe distance from Raphael who still had his weapons out.

"How long ago were you captured?" Leo asked.

"Ten years ago, give or take." If someone dropped penny you would have heard it, the room was dead silent as we all took in the fact that this alien had seen Donatello, twenty years after he disappeared.

"Where did you last see him?"

"It was in New York...the county, not the city, up north, I was going into the city but he refused to come, which I guess is a good thing, considering…" The alien said, waving his arms around at his surroundings.

"You ain't heard from him since?"

"No, not a word…" The alien said, looking at Raph. "Are you Raphael?"

"Yeah…" Raph said, still not letting go of his sais, even though me and Leo had made no move to draw our weapons.

"Donatello has told me much about you, and Leonardo and Michelangelo, he longed to see the three of you again some day." The alien told them.

"We ain't ever left New York, why didn't he come and see us?" Raph growled.

"Um…" The alien squeaked and Leo placed a hand on Raph's shoulder trying to calm him down.

"I'm sure Donnie had his reasons Raph, he may have been trying to protect us."

"Whatever." He said and stormed off.

"I'm sorry...I did not mean to upset him, I have no idea why Donatello chose not to come back here…"

"He'll calm down." Leo said and left as well, leaving me alone with the alien.

"We're trying to collect as much of the resources in this base as we can, afterwards we will be more than happy to take you back to our base."

"That is very kind of you, thank you." The alien said and followed me outside as we put the medical supplies into the van as it continued to take prisoners to the base. The alien, who had revealed his name to be David, a name that was given to him by Donatello as he could not remember his name when he came to Earth, helped us with collecting supplies, despite Raph's protests about not wanting his help.

Eventually we had stripped the prison of anything valuable and had marked it so that it could be demolished later, or whatever Angel wanted to do with it. The ride back to the base was quiet and slightly awkward as I sat in silence next to David and Raph glared at him whilst Leo's hand rested on his thigh to try and calm his mate even though it was clear that he wasn't going to be calm until he hit something.

Mikey's team had got back to the base minutes before our own and as much as I wanted to rush to Mikey to tell him what had happened to us when we were out, I stayed back and let Leo tell him whilst Raph went into the base so that he could work out his anger.

I watched Leo talk to Mikey for a while and introduce him to David before I also made my way into the base, but something stopped me in my course. It was a piece of paper that was folded in half and seemed to have been recently placed there as it had not been damaged by the weather or anyone standing on it and with my curiosity getting the better of me, I picked it up and unfolded it. On the piece of paper were just two words, 'Thank You' in handwriting that I recognised straight away, because it was my own.

My heart began racing and I looked around to see if one, if this world's Donatello was anywhere and two, to see if anyone had seen me pick up the letter. There was no sign of any mutant turtles besides myself, Mikey and Leo and nobody seemed to be looking in my direction, so I hurried inside to the room that had become mine. Of course this time I would tell Mikey what I had found, if he came back to our room, but I didn't want to tell everyone else if it just ended up being another dead end.

Mikey never came to bed, at least not the one that we were supposed to be sharing, so I decided to go about my day and try and talk to him if I saw him and the first person I saw when I stepped into the lab was Mikey, filling up the medical cabinet with the supplies that we had raided from the mutant prisoner.

"Hey." I said, and cursed myself at how quiet I sounded, Mikey probably didn't even hear me.

"Hey." Mikey replied, glancing at me quickly before getting back to his job.

"Did you sleep well last night?" I couldn't help but ask him and he stopped what he was doing but refused to face me.

"I slept fine." Mikey replied and a short silence followed before I spoke up again.

"I found something yesterday as I was walking into the base and I wanted to show it to you, partially because it freaked me out and partially because I didn't want to keep any more secrets from you." That made him look at me.

"What is it?" He asked and I took the piece of paper out from my belt and handed it over to Mikey who opened it up to look at what it said.

"What freaked you out about this?" Mikey asked and I frowned.

"What do you mean?"

"It just says thank you? It could be from anybody to anyone." Mikey stated and handed me the piece of paper back.

"But it's my handwriting." I said.

"No it isn't Donnie."

"Yes it is, how can you not see it?"

"Just let it go Donnie, you're stressing out about nothing."

"I thought you would be more happy about this."

"Why? It's nothing Donnie." Mikey said and I sighed before walking away to sit at my desk, trying to ignore the other turtle in the room.

"So Leo told me about the alien you found at one of the mutant prison camps." Mikey said and I sighed, I was too annoyed to have a decent conversation with him.

"That's part of the reason that I showed you the letter." I heard Mikey walk over to me, but I ignored him in favour of entering the new supplies on a small database that I had created.

"Well it is nice that you decided to tell me about that." Mikey said and I ignored the jab. "Is there anything else that you found when you were out?"

"No, I told you I wasn't going to keep anything else from you Mikey." I said, looking up at my mate. "I promise you, I won't keep anything else from you as long as I'm here."

"I know you won't." Mikey said. "Because you're going home today."

"What?"

"Take off the bracelet." Mikey said.

"W...what?" I asked and Mikey grabbed my wrist, so I stood up. "Mikey get off me!"

"No, not until I've got this stupid thing off!"

"Mikey!" I screamed as he pulled the bracelet off my wrist. It only took a few seconds for me to start to glitch, feeling the pull of my universe trying to take me back. I closed my eyes and waited to reappear back in my world, but then the glitching stopped. I opened my eyes to see the bracelet back on my wrist and Mikey's hand on top of it.

"I'm sorry." Mikey sobbed. "I don't want you to leave."

"Mikey, what's going on?" I asked, placing my hand under his chin to make him look at me.

"I don't know Donnie, I've been struggling with a lot of things since my Donnie left, mostly by myself, and since you appeared….I don't know…" It hit me that Mikey might be struggling through some kind of depression, and had been for some time, with losing his Donatello, Master Splinter and Casey and the world crumbling around him and Leo and Raph leaving him…

"It's okay Mikey." I said as I pulled my brother in for a hug. "It'll be okay, I promise."