Lost in the woods
LOST IN THE WOODS
Disclaimer: No I didn't make up the Ninja Turtles concept – shame really – I'd be rich now. Oh well, here's another one of my stories. They seem to be flooding out of me at the moment. Also new story!!! Read and Review.
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Please Note: Italics is the flashbacks to the turtles' childhood. Yeah warning – there is a toddler turtle's scene in this chapter.
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Raphael awoke to a killer of a headache. He rubbed his head, as a dime light made his eyes open and close. He knew that this headache wasn't due to a night of drowning his sorrows, which he had done a couple of times before hand.
He could hear another person breathing not far from where he was lying. He knew immediately that this sound belonged to one of his brothers. He could recognize their breathing patterns anywhere, even without their sent.
"Hey Mikey! You okay, bro?" Raphael asked the blackness. No sound.
"I say Mikey, it's me Raph, you okay?" Raphael started to get worried. His brother was never this quiet – there was something wrong. Raphael forced himself up onto his knees and crawled over to where he could hear the breathing.
"M…Mikey?" Raphael gently tapped his little brother's foot. Worried, Raphael quickly moved to feel for a pulse. After finding Mikey's pulse to be normal and his breathing normal for his sleeping brother, Raphael started to ease up a little.
"Come on Mikey" Raphael said he wanted his brother to jump up crying "Tricked you!" But he did not. Raph grabbed hold of Mikey's three fingers hand and held onto it.
"Yo, Mikey let me know you're okay. Please be okay." Raphael pleaded. He didn't like the limpness of his brother's body or the silence. Raphael tried to squint to make an idea of where he was. He knew by the smell of the air that he was not longer in New York, let alone the sewers of New York. He rubbed just below his butt, when he remembered what had happened to him.
It had been the night before and all four turtles were on patrol when they went to the aid of a zoo keeper in central park, who was being ambushed by a group of foot ninjas. Leo and Don had managed to move the foot away from most of the animals, who were becoming distressed by the commotion. Mikey and Raph had brought up the rear, when Raph felt something bit him below his shell. Knowing he was highly allergic to bees, he had called to Mikey for assistance before everything went black.
"Then it wasn't a cruddy insect, cos I know your not allergic to anything Mikey," Raph spoke to the sleeping form. "Oh sorry, you're allergic to math and especially algebra, but hey I'm with you there kid."
"Raph… Raphie…." Came the faint voice of his little brother.
"Mikey! You okay!" Raph hugged his little brother, who was still floppy from the shoot he'd landed.
"Owe! My head hurts!" Mikey cried, when Raphael made him sit up too fast.
"Oh sorry," Raphael helped his brother to lie back down.
"Where'd those dudes with the guns go?" Mikey asked.
"Huh? So that's what it was? What kind of guns Mikey?"
"Them ones zookeepers use," Mikey replied, rubbing his neck.
"So where's Leo and Donnie? What happened to them?"
"How should I know? I didn't see them after they went the other way to us," Mikey replied.
Raph just thought for a moment.
"Hey Raph?"
"Yeah, what?"
"Am I right in thinking we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto?" Mikey inquired, offering a weak smile. This gave Raph the confidence that Mikey was going to be alright.
"For once in your life, your thinking is correct. This sure as shell ain't New York! Smells too clean to be New York," Raph said.
"Then where are we?" Mikey sat up next to his brother. His head was still spinning from the drug inside him; he leaned onto his brother for support. Usually Raphael would push him right off, but Raphael could tell Mikey was not yet strong enough to sit up without assistance and let it be.
"Let me help you lean against this pole and I'll go check it out," Raph helped his brother against the pole.
"Don't be too long," Mikey pleaded. He didn't like the idea of being in this strange place on his own.
"I'm just gone' to be looking around, I'm not leaving you." Raphael said, as he walked into the darkness, feeling his way with his hands.
Moments later he was back bending down to Mikey on the floor.
"We're in some cave, seems that who ever got us thinks we're still out and left us here until maybe the morning. We need to get the shell out of here before they come back. You up for any walking yet?"
"Um... yeah…" Mikey started to get up. His legs felt like jelly and he flopped down again. He got up and flopped down again.
"Right, jump on my back," Raph turned round so his shell was facing Mikey.
"I can walk its okay…" Mikey was surprised by Raphael's generosity.
"No you can't, not just yet. I'll carry you for a while, til you have your strength back."
"You sure?" Mikey asked, before he dived into the deep end of taking advantage of Raphael's assistance.
"Mikey we gutta leave now, not next week and I'm not going without you, so come on!" Raph grumbled, as he felt Mikey's wait get onto his shell.
They left the cave, with Mikey on Raphael's back, and Raph started to press onwards towards the scrub ahead of them.
"Do you know where you're going?" Mikey asked.
"I'm a turtle, aren't we suppose to know our way back to where we came from?" Raphael said, as he tried not to trip over a tree root.
"That's sea turtles bro," Mikey chuckled; Raph was finally admitting he enjoyed being a turtle. He rarely did that these days and Mikey – being the one who usually went on about being a turtle as if it was the best thing in the world, loved the fact that Raph – the hothead – shared the same love for his own species.
"Who cares – they got shells, and we got shells! As far as I am concerned it's the same thing. Now shut up and concentrate on building your strength up again. I don't know if I can carry you all the way to New York!"
Mikey giggled at this thought, here was his brother trying to show he cared. A thought crossed his mind of Raph actually walking through the entrance of the lair with Mikey on his back and Master Splinter, Leo and Donnie completely stunned that the two youngest turtles made it home from their captors safely.
Mikey's mind then drifted to a part of his past which was fairly simular.
"Mikey make sure you don't fall. Master Splinter will kill me if he finds out you've followed me!" a young ten year old Raphael called to his brother.
Mikey was holding onto the narrow piping with both hands and slowly pulling himself along the piping.
"Yeah well why'd you come this way anyway? The other way is much easier!" Mikey replied, as he tried to hold onto the piping.
"Because there's not fun going the other way. Besides I can pretend to be Indiana Jones this way. He don't take the baby easy way when he can fight all the snakes and things." Raphael replied.
"I don't like snakes Raph. Do you think there's any in the sewers?"
"Mikey you ever seen a snake down here?" Raph asked his bother.
"No, I don't want to either."
"There's only four reptiles down in these sewers Mikey."
"Really!! Oh no, not crocodiles!" Mikey got worried.
"Mikey, you're not a crocodile are you?"
"No"
"Turtles are reptiles stupid! There's four of us down here."
"Yeah, I am not stupid! How do you know anyways?" Mikey let go of the pipe and put his hands on his hips and looked at his brother.
"Donnie told me."
"Donnie don't know everything, you know. He didn't know how that you need special rice to make sushi now did he!" Mikey recalled an incident when the four turtles had tried to make sushi for their father's birthday.
"Well, if you don't believe me ask him when we get home! Now come on!" Raph was aware they were closer to dinner time and if they were late – he'd be the one to cope it – as he was the oldest.
"Okay, me coming." Just then Mikey slipped and started to fall……
"Raphie…….!"
"Mikey!" Raphael ran down to where his baby brother had fallen into some sewer muck.
"Owe, me leg. I want Splinter!" Mikey started to cry loudly.
"Okay, hang on me get you to Splinter," Raphael tried to pick his brother up, which was not that easy, since Mikey was almost as tall as Raphie. Raphie knew the only way he could get Mikey home was to have Mikey piggy back him.
"Grab hold of my shell, I'll piggy back you," Raphael waited for Mikey to pull himself on to the shell that belonged to his brother.
Raph carried the crying and injured Mikey back to the lair, where Splinter must have sensed something had happened for he was there waiting for them and took the crying Mikey off his brother and laved him on the couch.
"Hey Raph, you remember when I broke my leg when I was a kid?" Mikey asked.
"Huh, which time?" Raph asked, he couldn't remember off the top of his head.
"That time I followed you and fell into the sewer muck. You piggy backed me then too."
"I think I am too generous to you Mikey!"
"What?" Mikey asked.
"You know what I means Mikey!" Raph replied, he huffed from carrying the heavy Mikey on his back.
"Oh yeah I do."
"I didn't carry you on my back. Didn't I just go get Splinter?" Raph couldn't remember helping his brother all those years ago, heck that's eight years ago – he can't remember that far back.
"No, you carried me all the way home on your shell. Maybe that's what your shell was made for.."
"Mikey you talk total crap at times."
Silence between the brothers, except for Raph's huffing and stumbling with his brother getting heavier as they travelled.
"Think I need a rest, so get off for a moment," Raph asked his brother, who quickly did as he was told. Mikey knew Raph was being highly generous by carrying him. Besides Mikey felt he was able to walk now.
"I can walk the rest of the way," Mikey told his brother.
"Good."
Just then their sharp ninja hearing skilled picked up another sound of something else was walking through the forest, heading their way. The two ninjas jumped up into the tree above and sat and waited. They watched for anything to come into view on the forest floor below, but nothing came.
"Let's take the trees," Raph whispered to his brother. They both travelled through the trees for about ten minutes, when Mikey heard something again.
"Raph!" He hissed.
"What?!"
Mikey pointed to something that was now directly beneath him. It was the size of a human, by this wasn't just any human. It was a woman and she was sobbing and covered in scratches and her clothes were ripped.
"Should we help her?" Mikey looked to his brother.
"She'll freak even more when she spots us. But maybe we can do this without her seeing us," Raph suggested.
"Tell her to not look up at us."
"Then she will definitely look up. Let me handle her."
"You always get the babes." Mikey pouted, but then smiled to show he was only teasing.
Raph gave him a dark look and then looked down to see the women was now wiping her eyes.
"Hey lady, you alright? Now please don't be afraid, we promise not to hurt you. We're lost in this wood too."
The women looked around her. She didn't look up into the tree above her. Raph motioned for Mikey to move round and climb down to her.
"My brother's coming down. Please don't be alarmed. We promise not to harm you." Raph used his most polite voice, which he only used for the ladies and old people he was helping, oh and Master Splinter.
"Okay, but please don't come near me until I see you," The lady said, as Mikey climbed down the tree. In the dark she couldn't really see that the person in front of her was indeed green with a shell on his back.
"Hey, my name's Mikey," Mikey smiled and put his hand out.
The women then noticed that the hand held out to her was actually green and had only three fingers.
"What are you?" The women asked defensively.
"Good one Mikey" Raph said form up in the tree.
The women looked up and thanks to the moon light caught Raphael's figure in the tree.
The women let out a scream and like most women who meet the turtles did the most usual thing – fainted.
So who's this mystery woman and where on earth are Mikey and Raph? Will they make it back to New York? Also where's the other two turtles? Will Leo and Donnie wondering where their little brothers are? What actually happened to them in the zoo?