Alys Gaming Channel YT requested: Afters 'Mousers Attack' Donnie and Mikey spend their free time training and overwork themselves to become what they think Leo and Raph want them to be.

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B Team

"I don't think I can do anymore Donnie" Mikey complained from his place on the floor, "I'm so tired!"

Donnie was leaning heavily on his staff, his head spun wildly. He wobbled closer to his little brother and looked down at him, Mikey was looking sweaty and exhausted.

"But Leo and Raph expect us to give up" He mumbled, "We said we'd get stronger"

"Yeah but I don't feel any stronger" Mike sighs, "I just feel sore and tired all the time!"

The two youngest brothers had been grinding in their spare time for almost 2 months now. Ever since they were split into the A team and the B team, the two had felt lesser like they were letting their older brothers down.

They wanted to be stronger, better.

Maybe then they would earn their respect.

"That means it's working" Donnie swayed to the side. Mikey blinked through the sweat and frowned at his older brother, he really didn't look good.

"You ok bro?" Mikey quickly sat up.

Donatello had paled dramatically; he was covered in sweat and his eyes were half shut.

"Mmhm"

Mikey now wondered if Don had been training more than him.

"Donnie, you've just been training with me, right?"

Donnie shook his head.

"I've been staying up late to train" he mumbled.

"What? Why? You told me we needed to eat well, train hard and get our full sleep to get to their level!" Mikey scolded.

"Yeah but we both know I'm behind you" Donnie pressed his forehead against his staff.

"What? No-" Mikey shook his head but yelped as Donnie suddenly crumpled to the ground. "Donnie!"

He crawled forward and grabbed his brother's shoulder; he shook it in hopes of rousing him.

"Donnie! Donnie! Wake up dude!" Mikey rolled Donnie onto his shell; his brother didn't look seriously injured but he still wasn't waking up.

Michelangelo loathed to do it, but he knew he needed help, they both did. Splinter was away with April on a training retreat, so the only others were Leo and Raph.

He pushed himself to his feet and stumbled out the dojo, his legs were like jelly for the over exertion. He immediately noticed his two eldest brothers playing pinball.

"LEO! RAPH!" He called, the fear in his voice immediately drew his brothers' attention.

"What's wrong?" Leo immediately goes into big brother mode as he and Raph jog across the lair.

"It's Donnie!" Mikey panted before rushing back into the dojo.

Leo and Raph kneel by Donnie side and check him over.

"What happened?" Leo asked as he felt Donnie's forehead.

"Yeah, why are you both so sweaty?" Raph wrinkled his nose.

Mikey didn't know how to respond; he was just so tired! He felt tears prick his eyes.

"Mikey?" Raph pressed.

"He's not hurt… just kinda warm" Leo mused before looking at Mikey.

"We were just training" Mikey croaked, not looking anywhere but at Donnie.

Leo and Raph were about to say something when Donnie groaned from the floor, his eyes fluttered open.

"Donnie!" Mikey smiled in relief,

"You ok?" Leo asked gently, "Can you sit up?"

"Yeah but can you make the room stop spinning?" Don groaned as he sat up. "Urgh"

"You hurt?" Raph asked trying to keep the anger out of his voice, Donnie shook his head.

"Just a headache"

"You wanna tell us what's going on?" Raphael raised an eye ridge as his two little brothers glanced at each other.

"I just fainted, that's all" Donnie shrugged.

"Cause that's normal" Raph sniped.

"Why did you faint?" Leo ignored Raph.

"Um… e-exhaustion" Donnie winced.

"And why were you exhausted?" Leo sighed, sick of this one question at a time conversation.

"WE'VE BEEN TRAINING EVERY HOUR WE COULD! DONNIE'S BEEN TRAINING INSTEAD OF SLEEPING TOO!" Mikey blurted out.

"Not instead of sleeping" Donnie cringed at Leo and Raph's angry expressions. "Just before I sleep"

"Are you two idiots?" Raph growled. "No wonder you fainted! You've been overdoing it!"

"I wondered why we hadn't seen much of you two" Leo shook his head, "Why train so much? You guys never cared about it before"

"We were just trying to improve ourselves" Donnie sighed, "We didn't want to be the B team anymore"

Leo and Raph cringed.

"We were trying to be more like you guys" Mikey sniffed,

"We aren't as good as you guys and we knew that one day… we could get you hurt trying to protect us" Donnie shared a pained look with Mikey, "We just wanted to be able to help more"

Raphael stared at his two little brothers; he didn't know what to say.

Luckily Leonardo was always better at this part.

"Wanted to help more? Donnie you're a genius! There's no one in this family that helps us more than you! You are both perfectly good ninjas, just as good as Raph and I. We were just being assholes" Leo explained gently, "There is no A team and B team. Just us. We are all one team"

"Yeah! Mikey you have more energy than all three of us put together, your stamina is amazing!" Raph nodded, "You guys don't need extra training"

"Could've told us that before" Mikey groaned, "We're exhausted"

"Go have showers" Leo pulled himself to his feet, "Then you two are going to rest, your muscles must be in pieces"

Mikey helped Donnie up.

"But it's too early for bed" He frowned.

"We're not sending you to bed Mikey" Raph chuckled.

"You two are gonna relax on the couch with us" Leo smiled,

The youngest turtles grin before hobbling away to shower, Leonardo and Raphael sat on the couch to wait for them.

"Idiots" Raph smirked fondly.

"This was so unhealthy" Leo rubbed his face with his hands, "How did we not notice?"

"I don't know but we can help them recover" Raph patted Leo's shell, "They'll be ok"

Leonardo nodded.

"I know"

That afternoon the brothers lazed on the couch, ate pizza and watched movies. Leonardo and Raphael were careful to never have A teams and B teams ever again. They were all one team.

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