A Million Miles Apart

A/N: New chapter time! Sorry that I've taken a few days, but I've been busy with having summer vacation. And also, about the poll, thank you all who have voted and I have now deleted the poll so you can't vote anymore. And with twelve votes the final result was eight against four, so the plot will be alternative 1 which is... (Drumroll please...)

Donnie gets separated from his family and gets sent into a different part of the galaxy and has to fight to stay alive and also help his friends in a way while also trying to find his way back home!

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Chapter 2, Suddenly a million miles apart

As we walked through the sewers we were all quiet and the atmosphere was really tense. Our argument back at the lair had gotten out of control and I guess that I had gone a little over the line, but Donnie had been just as bad. I've been trying to keep cool and focus on keeping the city safe from Shredder and Kraang. Not to mention our current Karai situation! Could you blame me if I was a little tense and stressed and wanting try and keep order in the lair?

But I had never expected that he would say that he hated us. None of us have ever said that before. Not even Raph during his worst temper tantrums.

We got onto the rooftops and ran towards April's house, where we were supposed to meet both April and Casey and then go off on patrol together. A while back, Mr. Kurtzman had told us that the Kraang were trying to open up their portal again and that they might bring out new mutants or monsters from their dimension. So tonight we were going to check it out, and then destroy their portal if we had to. It seemed to be at the same place where April, Donnie and Casey had found those Kraang worms a few weeks earlier, so that's where we were headed.

April and Casey were standing on the roof of April's apartment and looked up from the street, waving at us. But when she saw that we didn't smile, or respond in any way at all, April's smile faltered and she looked at me with concern. She walked up and placed her hand on my shoulder.

"Leo, are you guys okay? You don't look so good." I didn't know what to answer. I didn't want to talk about our fight, not yet. I looked at my brothers, who didn't look like they wanted to talk about our fight either. Raph had a sad/angry frown on his face and his arms crossed over his chest. Mikey's eyes were red from his crying and he kept looking down at his feet, rubbing his left arm subconsciously. And Donnie's expression was a little harder to read. It looked like a mixture of anger, guilt and hurt and he had his arms crossed over his chest, just like Raph. I shrugged and tried to smile.

"We've just had a little argument tonight, April. It's no big deal, really. C'mon, guys, let's get moving." I gently shrugged off April's hand and started to walk towards the edge of the building so I could spot the closest manhole. Raph, Mikey and Donnie slowly followed me, but April and Casey stayed behind for a few seconds, looked at each other in concern and worry and then joined us.

As we walked through the sewers, I thought over our fight back at the lair. Donnie had seemed really upset and hurt about what we all had said to him, (except for Mikey, that is, who hadn't really said much at all during our fight) and I could've sworn I had seen tears in his eyes. Donnie wasn't the kind of guy who would cry over nothing or simple, trivial things. So this had to be about something that really hurt him, and not something he just told us because he wanted to more recognition for what he did for us. I hadn't seen Donnie cry since we were about nine or ten years old, so the thought that I was responsible for making him cry was less than comforting. I looked over my shoulder and glanced at Donnie, who still had his arms crossed over his chest, looking down at the ground; the slight anger I had seen in his eyes earlier was replaced with sadness and guilt. I felt bad for seeing him like this, so I decided to talk to him about what had been said back at the lair later when we came home again.

The Kraang were busy preparing their portal for something. There were about fifteen Kraang-bots: five at the computers, programming the portal to open, I guess, and ten others were fixing the portal itself. We were all sitting behind a pile of fallen debris, looking down at the robots and trying to figure out what their plan was. Well, except for Raph, who grabbed his sai and was about to jump down to the ground and fight, but I managed to grab his arm just in time before he could.

"Hold on, Raph, let's listen to what their plan is before we destroy the place. It might be important." Raph glared at me and pointed down to the Kraang with the tip of his sai.

"Does it really matter? They're messing with that portal, and they're probably about to bring more of those Kraang-worms! Whatever they're up to, we have to stop them!" April shushed us both, pointed towards the Kraang and we both looked over to see what was going on. One of the Kraang-bots, who I guess was the boss right now, had started to talk.

"Kraang, when is the plan which is known as the plan of the Kraang that which is known as ready?" Wow, even after fighting the Kraang for almost a year I still couldn't get used to how the Kraang talked. Another Kraang-bot looked up from the computer.

"The plan of the Kraang will be ready in the time which is known as five minutes. Then the Kraatharagon will be that which is known as ready to be sent from that place that is known as Dimension X to the place where Kraang is standing in this place." Uh oh, that didn't sound very good. I signalled the guys to come closer so they could hear me.

"Okay, here's the plan. Raph, you and Casey take out as many Kraang as you can over at those computers. Mikey and I will will handle the other Kraang-bots. Donnie, you and April will try to close that portal. Got it?" All of them nodded and we split up.

Had I known what would happen in the next five minutes, I would've kept Donnie as far away from that portal as I possibly could, but I didn't. And I would live to regret that for a very, very long time.

Donnie and I snuck towards the portal and tried to stay in the shadows while the others were distracting the Kraang. I saw Leo slice through a robot and Casey hit another one in the head, making it fly off the neck like a hockey puck.

I quickly got other things to think of as Donnie and I came up to the portal.

"You know what to do to fix this, right, Donnie?" Donnie nodded and opened up a hatch that revealed a bunch of wires and started to pull at a few of them.

"Don't worry, April, I've done this before, remember? All I have to do is reverse the polarity and then-" Suddenly a Kraang-droid fired at Donnie's head, and he barely had time to dodge. Unfortunately the laser bullet hit the box filled with wires. The portal began to spark and purple light started to glow around the entire machinery. The other guys and Kraang-bots stopped their fighting and looked up at the portal, for a moment forgetting about the enemy. Donnie looked at the wires, which were now fried, then grabbed my wrist, pulled me over to them and tied us both to the portal while crying out to the others.

"Everybody, hang on to something!" He yelled loudly, just as the portal started to suck up everything in the room. Donnie and I felt the wires tighten around us as the portal tried to suck us both in. Leo grabbed onto some debris that was stuck between two big rocks and held onto Mikey's arm to keep both of them from flying through purple vortex, while Raph dragged himself and Casey behind the same debris and clung onto it for dear life.

"What's going on, Donnie?! Why is the portal sucking in everything like a tornado?!" Mikey yelled as loudly as he could to be heard over the winds at Donnie, who clung onto the portal's metal beams.

"I- I don't know! The Kraang fired at the wires and I think it's causing the portal to malfunction and suck everything back into some other planet or galaxy! But I'm not entirely sure!" Leo held Mikey as close to himself as possible while he clung to a pipe in the pile of debris. He looked over at me and Donnie.

"Do you think you can shut it down, Don?" I heard Donnie laugh to himself before he answered.

"You're kidding, right? The portal is out of control right now, there's nothing I can do to stop it now!" Raph groaned loudly and I heard Casey yell back to Donnie.

"That's just great, Donnie! Can this possibly get any worse?!" Just as he said that, I heard a snap and looked down at the wires. I saw that one of the wires that Donnie had tied around his waist had started to break. Donnie saw this as well and clung to the metal beams even tighter.

"Donnie, grab my hand!" I cried out and reached for him. Donnie looked at me, stretched out his hand and grabbed mine just as the last wire snapped and I was yanked forward. I painfully felt the wires around my waist tighten at the added weight. The others cried out in fear and panic when they saw what happened, and I heard Leo cry out in terror.

"Donnie, do not let go!" Donnie looked over his shoulders and glared at Leo while trying to hold onto my hand.

"Why on Earth would I let go?!" I grabbed Donnie's hand with both of mine and tried to pull him back to safety; I barely managed to move him an inch, the power of the vortex was too strong. Raph and Mikey also looked at us and looked like they were about to run forward and save him, if they could.

"Leo, we have to do something! We have to save him!" Mikey called out to Leo, who looked down at him with equal fear.

"Yeah, I know! But we can't, we'll get pulled into the portal, too!" Raph growled at Leo, was about to yell at him but he saw something, pointed with a panic-stricken expression and cried out to Donnie.

"Donnie, look out!" Donnie and I looked up to see a Kraang-droid flying towards us with his gun pointed at us, and before we could react, the robot fired his gun and hit Donnie straight in the chest. Donnie yelled out in pain before he lost his grip on my hand and tumbled into the portal with a scream of terror.

"DONNIE!" Leo screamed, joined by Raph and Mikey. I reached to try and grab his hands again but they were just out of my reach.

"NO! GUYS! HELP ME!" Donnie cried out in fear. He flailed his arms around to try and grab onto anything so he could save himself, but couldn't find anything within his reach.

"DONNIE!" Raph cried and reached out his hand for him, even though he must've known it was too late. Then the Kraang fired again and hit Donnie in the head, making him scream in pain before he lost consciousness, just before he was sucked in through the portal. As soon as he was out of sight, the portal closed and we all fell to the ground. Leo got up first, ran to the portal and looked through it, even though it was closed and the only thing we could see was another sewer tunnel.

"DONNIE!" Leo looked frantically through the tunnel as if he could find his brother in there. "No! NO! DONNIE! Donnie, please, can you hear me? Where are you?!" Raph and Mikey ran up behind him and looked through the tunnel, even though there was nothing to see other than a few frightened rats and filthy wrappers. I cut through the wires with my Tessen and ran up to the others, along with Casey not far behind.

Mikey fell to his knees, buried his face in his hands and started to cry loudly. I knelt down beside him and placed both hands on his shoulders to try and console him. Leo placed his hands over his face and I could hear him crying, too, though not as loudly as Mikey, and he soon fell to his knees as well. Casey tried to place his hand on Raph's shoulder, but he slapped his hand away, saying nothing. His breathing was heavy, his eyes were frantic, his body tense, and I could hear him mutter to himself.

"Donnie, no..." His breathing quickened, he clenched his fists tightly and then he threw his head back and cried out so loudly that his voice echoed throughout the entire sewer system of New York City.

"NOOO!"

The sky was dark, and the night was cold. The military forces had been patrolling all day and it was getting harder to hide from them. I had been hiding up in my cave for quite a few days now and the shields I had programmed for protection were starting to wear thin. I had very little technology to work with, here in my cave.

Suddenly a bright light shone in the sky, disappearing just as quickly. The rational person inside me told me to stay in my cave and stay safe. But the scientist in me told me to go and explore what had happened. That side eventually won and I quickly ran out of the cave and towards the woods. What I saw was not what I expected.

In a clearing I saw a big terrapin creature laying in the dry grass beside a broken robot and some sort of alien squid that crawled away, squealing in pain and anger. I knelt down beside the terrapin and looked him over. He had a big wound on the side of his head and another wound on his plastron, and he was very much unconscious. His face was scrunched up in pain and his breathing was shallow.

I felt bad for this poor and wounded creature and thought over whether I should help him or not. I was a fugitive and I would most likely be hunted the very next day, and who knows? This creature might be even more dangerous than my current enemies. But I couldn't just leave him like this. He would die if I did. I made up my mind, lifted the creature and held him bridal style, and hurried back to my cave to take care of his wounds.

A/N: Done! Can you guess who that unknown character in the end was? If you have any guess, please do share in your reviews!

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