Notes: I know this is going to seem weird at first but hang in there.
The three remaining turtles and Splinter were helped back into the medical bay where the Utroms could finish with tending to their injuries. Leonardo's arm had begun bleeding again when he pulled his stitches by accident. When they entered the room they found Michelangelo was not in the room.
Raphael was the last one through the doorway and stopped abruptly. "Where's Mikey?" He demanded.
The Utrom who had started taking the bandage off of Leo's shoulder stopped. "I'm afraid Michelangelo didn't make it."
"You let him die?!" Raph yelled at the Utrom. If he wasn't in so much pain and if Splinter wasn't standing in front of him he'd have torn the alien apart.
"No," the Utrom said quickly, "we did everything we could for Michelangelo. He had a grand mal seizure and there was nothing we could do."
"Calm down Raph," Leonardo said wincing in pain as he moved closer. He was in a lot of shock over the loss of his youngest brother but he was worried that Raph would destroy the aliens that had saved them. Well most of them. "I'm sure they did everything they could for Mikey."
"No they didn't! They said he was going to be okay!" He reminded Leo. "We were only gone an hour and now he's dead!"
"My son calm down," Splinter said placing a hand on his son's plastron. He turned his attention back to the Utrom. "Where is Michelangelo now?"
Professor Honeycutt entered the room at that moment. "I can take you to him," he said. "Follow me."
Raphael was the first one to follow him out the door ignoring the pain he was in. He needed to see for himself that his brother was dead. When they entered the room, Professor Honeycutt pulled the sheet down from over Mikey's body. Raph moved closer and reached a shaking hand out to touch Mikey's neck. He felt nothing. He passed out from a combination of pain and shock.
Donnie groaned as he caught his brother with one arm. The Utroms had moved in quickly to take Raphael away from Donnie. Donnie looked at them gratefully before he also reached out to check his younger brother. Had it only been an hour since he had last seen Mikey? Mikey had been twitching and breathing last time he had seen him. Now he was still and not breathing. He looked back at his father waiting for him to do something.
Splinter walked over to where his son's body was laying and placed a hand on his forehead. He closed his eyes and said a silent prayer for his son.
Leo stood back watching. He knew as leader he had to hold it together for the rest of his family. He saw Splinter's shoulders starting to shake and he turned and left the room as quickly as his aching body would allow him.
Notes: Sorry for the short chapter. I was going to write more about the uh reality (it'll be explained I promise!) Mikey's in but I didn't want to take away from this chapter. I don't think his brother's will stop Raph if he ever found out what the Utroms did though!