(1st POV Donatello)

A pounding headache greeted me from my sleep. I must of fell asleep working too late again, I got to get up before Leo gets mad at me for being late. I cracked my eyes open before quickly screwing them up with pain and a groan.

"Donnie? Can you hear me?" Leo asked.

"Yes I can hear you, it sounds like you're and the lights are so bright" I complained. I heard some shuffling around before Leo came back.

"Ok, I have turned off the big light. Here is some water and painkillers." He offered. I opened my eyes slowly and sat up. I downed the medicine and saw Leo looking at me expectantly.

"Sorry, did not mean to stay up so late" I replied sheepishly.

"Donnie, do you not remember what happened?" Leo asked. "We were fighting the foot and you got captured" Leo said slowly. Flashes of the night began speeding through my mind.

"That's right. We were fighting the foot, and I followed Hun when he tried to run. There were too many chains hanging from the ceiling and my staff got caught, I was holding my own and Mikey came in, I thought it was gonna be ok, till something hit the back of my head…." I scrunched up my face as a wave of pain hit me again. "Then I woke up in a dark room, tied up om th floor when Tig…. Where is Mikey?" I stopped short. I could feel my heart squeeze itself as I remembered everything that had happened. "How long has it been since I got here?!" I asked frantically as I grabbed Leo by the shoulders.

"Calm down Don, its only been a little over two hours. Mikey was tired and went to sleep" Leo soothed as he lifted my arms off of him.

"No, no no no no" I started shaking. "NO!" I hollered as I shot up, knocking over the glass and shattering it, but I did not care. I was already sprinting towards Mikey's room. I barely registered Raph and Leo yelling at me. I got to the door and it was locked, it was never locked.


(1st Pov Raphael)

I turned towards the lab at the sound of breaking glass. Not even a second later Don goes flying past with Leo close behind.

"The shell is going on?!" I yell as I start running after them.

"I don't know, Don just woke up and then freaked out after asking about Mikey" Leo responded as we reached Donatello trying to break down Mikey's door.

"Donatello calm down" Leo ordered but Donnie wasn't listening. I grabbed him around the waist and yanked him away from the door.

"Stop freaking out!" I yelled.

"Let me go! I need to stop him!" Donatello screamed.

"Stop who? MIkey? Stop him from what?" Leo rapid fired.

"All this screaming outside of his room, and not even a peep from him, and you're still talking to me?" Donnie asked deathly quiet. I felt dread sink through my skin and I let go of him and kicked in the door to a clean room. Not just clean, spotless. Don fell to his knees and just started crying. Leo knelt next to him to try and calm him down and get answers. I saw bright orange fabric sitting on the dresser. Oh shell no, Mikey wouldn't. I thought to myself as I walked towards the dresser. I just stared at the well-worn, but well taken care of, nunchucks. Right next to Mikey's bandana. I grabbed it and went for Donnie, picking him up by his front shell with one hand and pinning him to the wall.

"Where the fuck is he?" I asked coldly as a shoved the orange fabric in his face.

"Raphael, the shell is wrong with you?!" Leo yelled as he pushed me away from the wall and Don fell to the ground.

"The shell wrong with me? I will tell you what the shell is wrong with me! This is what the shell is wrong with me!" I screamed as I thrusted the mask in his chest. The look of confusion on his face rapidly drained away to nothingness, all emotion left his face.

" We are all going to calm down, yelling at each other is not going to solve anything. Instead of screaming at each other in the hall ways, we will go back to the lab. Donatello just got rescued and doesn't need all this aggravation, especially since we have no idea if he has any internal injuries or a concussion. Raphael, help me get our brother off the floor" Leo ordered and for once, I did not feel like fighting.


(1st Person POV Leonardo)

The moment I saw Mikey's mask without Mikey wearing it, I shut off my emotions. I knew I did not have time to deal with any turmoil right now. I would deal with it later, hopefully when Michealangelo was safely back in the Lair. Once we got Donatello stabilized on the cot again we sat in silence for a moment, calming down.

"Donatello, start from where you left off earlier" I told him.

"Yeah ok, yeah" Donatello sighed. He took a deep breath before he started.

"I had woken up in a dark room tied up on the floor. There was a single lamp on a desk, like some old movie, and Tigerclaw appeared."

"Tigerclaw? I thought he left" Raphael interrupted.

"He had, but he is back now. Apparently he wants payback for it." Donatello continued. He paused for a moment and looked at the ground. "I thought he was gonna try to get me to spill our secrets or something, but he asked me a question he already had an answer for." Donatello seemed to just stop there, frozen in thought.

"What did he ask?" I prompted. As much as I wanted all the details, I needed to know how this connected to Michealangelo's disappearance.

"He asked me if I knew what made us so strong, what would cripple us if it went missing." Donatello answered before his eyes snapped up to meet mine. "He asked if it was me, with my smarts, or Raph with his fighting prowess, or your Leadership skills. He didn't even give me a chance to answer before he told me I did not know."

"Are you insinuating he thinks it is Mikey? I mean he is our brother, but he isn't exactly good enough to cripple us if he isn't there" Raphael scoffed.

"How. Dare. You." Donatello shot up, pointing his finger and Raphael, rage rolling off of him. "Take that back."

"Make me" Raphael smarted off as he stood up as well.

"Sit down both of you, now" I ordered, and they complied. "Continue, and Raphael, no more interruptions." He scoffed but did not say anything.

"Before anything else could happen, there sounded like a scuffle outside the door and Tigerclaw taped my mouth shut and pointed a gun to my head. I couldn't see who entered at all. Tigerclaw greeted Mikey as if he was expecting him. I guess he was, because it was all a trap for Mikey, and I was the bait. He threatened to shoot me if Mikey did not drop his weapons, so Mikey complied. Tigerclaw said something about Mikey being the reason why the Lair was never found. He even said that Mikey could have beaten Sensei" Donatello stopped for a moment.

"Beat Sensei?! Who the shell…."

"Rapheal" I cut him off swiftly. He sunk back in his chair and crossed his arms.

"Mikey kept making jokes, even after Tigerclaw made his offer. He wanted Mikey to be his apprentice."

"His what?" Raphael interrupted again and this time, I didn't reprimand him.

"His apprentice. Mikey rejected him at first, but Tigerclaw basically said he would kill me if Mikey said no. Mikey made him a counter offer, saying that if Tigerclaw promised to keep himself and the foot away from us forever, then Mikey would do it. Then Tigerclaw pulled the hammer of the gun back and shoved my face into the floor. He thought Mikey would betray him. So Mikey swore on us, his family, that as long as Tigerclaw kept up his side of the bargain, that he wouldn't do so. Tigerclaw accepted and said that if Mikey did ever betray him that he would make Mikey watch each of us die a slow and painful death. Then he gave Mikey ten minutes to tell me his goodbyes before they were gonna knock me out, and two hours to get his stuff together here. I tried to convince him that we could run away to another country or something, but Mikey wouldn't budge. He swore on us he said. Then he gave me a hug, and stabbed me with a needle full of sedatives and brought me here. I guess he didn't trust the foot not to poison me." Donatello wrapped up his report.

"So he betrayed us using us as an excuse?!" Raphael accused.

"He didn't betray us!" Donatello yelled back.

"Don is right Raph, he didn't betray us. He protected us. He kept Donnie alive." I answered. I started searching for a loophole during the report and I finally found one.

"So he is gonna be Tigerclaw's lapdog, and we are just supposed to be okay with it?" Raph seethed.

"No we aren't. In fact, no where in the deal did it say we can't mess with the foot. If Mikey cannot break it, then we will do it for him" I declared. My brothers looked at me with a small spark in their eyes. We were going to get our brother back.