TMNT Fan Fiction

One shot: It starts with a game dude…

Disclaimer: Nope don't own them

Mikey's POV (age 8):

Donny has such neat stuff! He has this little remote control car that goes real fast and it is red and… and now he has a computer too! What do I have… a box of broken crayons and the Sunday newspaper to draw on. I want Donny's stuff! But when I go to play with his stuff I get sent to bed early. It's not fair!

I don't care if he built it, he is always building stuff, at least he can share the wealth. He built the radio, TV, water heater, oven, stove, refrigerator, and heating system and we all use those things so why can't I use Donny's computer. Raph and Leo don't care, they are always watching TV or practicing ninjitsu for Dad but I do.

That's how I found it. After being sent to bed early again, I waited until Dad was busy with Leo and Raph in the Dojo and Don with his computer, before sneaking out. That was hard because we share the same room, which made it all the more tempting for me to play with his stuff. It's not fair!

I wondered aimlessly around the tunnels until I saw it stuck among the refuse. The casing was cracked, it had a small computer like screen but it wasn't a computer. It was better then a computer! I don't know what it was but it had to be better because it was mine.

I flipped the switch to turn it on and… nothing happened. Why me? I can't fix this stuff and if I give it to Donny he will fix it and then it is his and if I told Dad then he will know I left the lair. Not fair, not fair, not fair! Wait, Donny's been doing this stuff since he was three, why can't I do it?

When I got home I snuck it into my bed and during my free time I was careful not to be seen as I cleaned it out, took it apart, studied all the pieces, and put it back together and flipped the switch and… nothing happened. For a whole week I kept at it, I even watched Don to see what he did to his stuff and tried to copy him but nothing worked. It was late in the night of the seventh day when a horrifying thought came to me, 'what if I never fix it?'

I turned over and buried my head in my pillow trying to stifle the sounds of my crying but Donny heard. He kept asking me what the matter was and if it was a bad dream until I broke down and told him, after pleading with him not to tell Dad or Leo and Raph because those two would tattle on me to Dad that I had left the lair. He agreed and then offered to fix it for me.

"No," I almost shouted, "then it will be yours and not mine and its mine I found it and I am going to fix it! But… but I can't. I tried and tried and tried!"

Don was quiet for a long time before he said, "Well if I show you how to fix it and you fix it then it well be yours." My mouth dropped open. I had never thought of that.

Over the next several nights he taught me how to repair and maintain my game dude. And when one night when we went out on a foraging trip for electrical stuff so Donny can make a microwave, he found me some game cartages. Then one night my game dude was working, I let Donny play with it, and Donny let me type on his computer. I was right, my game dude is better then a computer because it has fun games on it and not boring pages full of print, I get enough of that in school.

It's been over a year now and when Donny has time he will show me how fix other appliances around the lair as I help him by giving him the tools he needs. Donny knows everything even though he is starting to talk like he needs subtitles. I have to be careful not to slip up and use big words in front of my brothers and remind Donny that not everyone talks like he does or one day he really will need subtitles.

For my tenth birthday he found me a broken Walkman and told me that if I fix it, it is mine (that he gave me in secret while in public he gave me some more game cartridges for my game dude with Raph wondering where in the heck I gotten that annoying toy in the first place). It took me a week to repair the Walkman and even though it isn't as good as his repair jobs it still works.

Sometimes I would fix little things around the lair by myself but always in secret. I think Donny has never told anyone because he likes having a secret that just the two of us share and boy is it hard keeping a secrete with ninjas in the family!