Chapter 6

Soon, we arrived at the turtle's lair. I shakily stood in the living room, by myself. Donnie was experimenting on the mutagen, trying to make an antidote. The other three had gone to dig into some pizza.

I sighed and sat on the couch, alone in my thoughts and worry. I still wasn't a hundred percent sure I could trust them, but they were my closest allies at the moment. They were, at this moment in time, my only real hope.

Donnie suddenly came barrelling down the stairs. "Good and bad news. I know how to make the antidote!" He grinned.

"A-and the... bad news?"

Donnie hesitated. "We don't know what side effects there will be..."

"Well... what kinda side effects could there be?"

He sighed. "Minor ones, or major ones. It could be as small as a few gaps of memory, or..."

"Or...?"

"It... could... Negatively impact your health."

"Meaning?"

"Meaning..." Donnie looked solemn. "Meaning that... it- it wouldn't kill you, I'd never take a risk like that, but..."

"Whatever it is..." I took a deep breath. "I accept any consequences. I need to know. I need the truth."

"A-are you sure? Because the you I know would never risk her physical ability for something like that."

"Well..." I sighed. "Right now, I'm not the 'me' that you knew."

Raph nodded. "She's right, Donnie. Make the antidote."

Donnie nodded, and disappeared into his lab again. I looked at Raph, somewhat nervous. I mean, I needed to remember, I needed to know who I was... But what if... who I was isn't who I want to be? Did I really want to know?

I needed to. I needed the truth.


A few hours later, I was sitting in Donnie's lab. A greenish yellow liquid was sitting in a beaker. Donnie was putting that liquid into a needle.

I shivered. I was so nervous. Considering the last needle that had been shoved into me had taken away all of my memories, I think I was justified.

Donnie injected the antidote. I closed my eyes and waited.

After a few minutes, I opened them. Nothing. No change. I didn't remember anything.

"Do you know your name?" Donnie asked.

I bit back tears. "No..." I replied.

The antidote had been useless.