So, I actually had a day off, making this update possible ^^
A lot is happening in this one, therefore it might seem rushed,
but I actually spend some fair time writing it. You might even find it
slightly longer. Also, this fanfic will be fairly long, but not above 50 chapters.
If you find some errors, tell me and I'll try to fix it.
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The enemy were just about to enter when Donnie hit the panic button,
making the heavy metal door shut close and the lights turn off.
It was pitch black for approximately five seconds before a red light illuminated the lab.
"Cowards, open up or I swear I'll cut you all into tiny turtle pieces!"
Rahzar yelled as he used his claws to cut through the metal.
"I don't think scratching at the door like a cat is gonna help."
"You useless piece of a salmon, get to work or I'll bite your head off and give it to Tigerclaw!"
"No way you would, we're a team, you can't kill me!"
"I bet a certain tiger would love to feast on you, nothing beats fresh fish..."
Fishface looked at him in horror before sinking his teeth into the metal.
"What are we gonna do now?!" April asked Donnie who was busy overlapping the gaps.
They were a lot stronger than he remembered.
"I, I don't know! You two aren't strong enough to carry a mutant turtle alone are you?"
"Is pulling them by the shell allowed?"
"I don't care how you do it, just get them out of here, carefully! I'll try and buy you some time!"
"No way Donnie, where would we go?!"
"The emergency exit will lead you straight into the sewers! Now go, I'll find you later!"
Both April and Casey nodded before heading for the medical beds.
"Okay red, if I take Leo and Mikey, would you be able to take Raph?"
"I don't know, isn't he the heaviest?"
"At least you'll only have to deal with one!"
"Guys hurry!" Donnie was now leaning against the door, using all his strength to keep them out.
"Okay I'll try, just help me get him off the bed first, can't risk dropping him."
By working together they managed to lower all three turtles out of bed and onto the ground.
"Ahh I can't hold them out much longer! Get out!"
They hurriedly grabbed the turtles and pulled them out through the emergency exit as fast as possible,
and just in time, as Rahzars claws finally managed to cut through the door, making it fall completely apart.
The final slice had managed to cut through Donnies shell too, making him fall to the floor in pain.
Right outside stood two very unpleased mutants.
"Hehe, hi guys." Donnie nervously greeted for then being lifted by the head.
"Where are your brothers!"
"Huh, what brothers?" He muttered through the palm covering his face.
"Tell us or Fishsticks here will bite your toes off, one by one."
"I'm not gonna tell you anything dog breath!" Donnie snapped,
making the larger mutant hammer him into a wall, shell first.
"Aww, that hurt!"
"Tell me, now!"
They're sick Bradford. It's an contagious infection,
and if you as much as touches one of them, you'll get infected too!"
"You're lying!" Rahzar yelled as he shoved him into the wall for the second time.
"They're dying you idiot! Why try to kill someone who's already doomed?!"
The turtle yelled with hatred.
"Then why aren't you sick?"
"Who says I'm not infected?"
"Clearly you won't cooperate. Fishstick, go find the rest, I have some turtle soup to prepare..."
"No thanks, I'm not risking anything!"
"Good choice." Donnie gave him a thumps up, only rewarding him with another wall smash.
"Shut up! And you, go, now!" With that fishface headed for the exit,
the same exit April and Casey had escaped through only minutes ago.
"Get ready to die turtle." Rahzar held his hand in the air, ready to strike,
when Donnie spit him right in the face.
"Ewww! You little bastard!" As Rahzar backed off a bit,
the purple clad turtle managed to bite into his arm, making him loose his grip.
Donnie felt to the ground with a loud thud.
"You won okay, you happy now? The least you could do now is leave us alone to die!
There is no cure, we'll be gone in a matter of hours. Go tell it to your precious master."
The overgrown dog narrowed his eyes as if in doubt, but that quickly changed to a wide smile.
"Fine, may your death be filled with extreme pain and suffering."
With that he started trashing the place, starting by pushing the desktop over.
"Oh great, you killed my computer, bravo." Donnie commented from the floor.
"Hey, what's this?"
"No don't touch that!" The purple clad turtle yelled too late,
as he started throwing the chemicals around.
The lap was a complete mess when he finally stopped.
"You better be dead when I come back, or I'll make sure to kill you myself..."
With that he left the lair.
The genius tried his best to stand, but the deep slash in his shell stopped him.
The idiot of a dog had managed to cut him just right,
and now he couldn't move without feeling extreme pain.
Well at least his brothers managed to get away...
That thought died fast when he heard someone scream out.
He managed to stand by leaning himself against his fallen desk,
for them moving himself in the direction of the screaming.
"Hey Fishstick, l-leave them alone!" Was all he managed to yell out before the pain took over,
making him fall back down to the floor where he stayed.
...
"Let go off me you disgusting mackerel! Donnie!"
Fishface was holding a firm grip on April, who tried her best to get loose.
"Shut up girl, I'm not here for you!"
"Then let go off her!" Casey yelled as he hit him in the head with a metal pipe,
sending him right to the ground.
"Well that was easy." He acknowledged as he dusted his hands off.
"Yeah, a little too easy... Come on, we gotta get out of here!"
April grabbed the back of Raphs shell and started pulling, and so did Casey.
They hadn't been walking for more than a minute before Casey stopped up.
"Why are you stopping? Is someone following us again?" April asked worried.
"I think I heard a whimper." They were quiet for a moment as they listened.
"Well It's not Raph." She informed. He looked down and realized that Mikey was, in fact,
the one complaining. He let go of both turtles and sat down beside him.
"Could you stop pulling us around, you're making me nauseous."
"Sorry buddy, it was kind of an emergency."
"Huh? I don't remember any emergency. Where's Donnie? I need Donnie..."
"He's on his way, don't worry." April reassured as she continued forward.
"Hey red wait a second. Are you sure he's following?"
"Well yeah he said he- wait..
I think you're right, Donnie might be in serious trouble! We gotta go back!"
"Right. You ready to continue buddy?" Casey asked as he grabbed the top of his shell.
"No, I'm not feeling good, can't we stay here?"
"No we can't stay here Mikey." April reminded him.
If the scenario had been just slightly different, then sure,
but right now the time was against them, so a break didn't seem appropriate.
"We aren't too far okay, just hold on a bit longer..."
"But moving hurts!" The smallest turtle started whining as Casey moved him slightly.
"Hurts where exactly ?" He looked at the human boy in pure confusion.
"I... I don't know, I just, I feel weird, in my stomach..."
Both teens looked at each other and nodded.
"Just try and ignore it for now, we can't do anything about it..."
With that they continued walking.
A sudden wet feeling made the freckled turtle nervous.
carefully he laid a hand between his legs. The answer leaved him in utter shock.
"Leo, you awake? Please, it's important!"
"Sure Mikey, what is it?" The leader asked weakly as he opened his eyes.
"This." He showed him his hand. The older turtles eyes doubled in size.
"Stop! " Leo suddenly cried out.
"What? what is-Holy cheese that's a lot of blood!"
Casey yelled up, making April freeze in terror. "...Red, I think we have a problem..."
April let go off Raph to see what was going on. "Oh my..."
Mikey was bleeding from the lower part of his shell,
and a trail of blood had followed them a good amount of their way back.
"Mikey, no wonder it hurt."
She admitted as she sat down beside him and lied a hand on his plastron.
"A-am I gonna die?"
"No, you aren't gonna die, we'll take good care of you... Does it hurt a lot?"
"What hurts?... Where am I? Why's there two of you?"
"? Mikey, how many fingers am I holding up?"
"F-fingers?"
"What's your name?"
"Huh?"
"Casey we gotta get back right now!"
...
April and Casey uneasily entered the destroyed lab. Donnie was nowhere to be seen.
"What happened in here?! Donnie!"
"Rahzar is what happened..." A tired voice replied.
"Donnie!" She ran in the direction of the voice only to find him lying on the floor.
"Hey April..."
"You're hurt! "
"No it's fine, really, it isn't that bad.." He assured her as she turned him around.
"He cut through your spine, how is that being fine?"
"Just, get some duck tape, we'll patch it up. It'll heal in no time."
She found the duck tape and plastered it to his cracked shell. "Hey, are they okay?"
"No, Mikey is bleeding badly, he needs your help."
"Wait, Mikey's bleeding? From where?!"
"From the, uhm, lower part."
"That's not supposed to happen, we gotta- AH!" He tried standing without luck.
"Rahzar will be back with the foot clan any minute now!
I told you guys to escape, why did you come back!"
"We couldn't just leave you here, you're family, and family sticks together."
"Really? You think of us as family?"
"Yeah, you're all like brothers to me."
"But I'll only slow you down. your apartment is the closest from here,
and yet it'll take at least two hours for me to get there.
As fast as this is developing, they might die in the process."
"What are you saying, that we just leave you again? No way!"
"Then what do you suggest?" All three looked in the direction of the shell raiser.
"... That could work..."
...
"April look out!" Donnie yelled from the back of the car.
"I'm doing my best, don't be a backseat driver!"
"I'm the one having a drivers license, why couldn't I be the driver?" Casey complained.
"Because, you're gonna hit something in the process."
"And she isn't?"
"At least she's trying to avoid it!"
"Sure, I drive through a shop window once, and suddenly I'm banned from ever driving again!"
"You almost killed the cashier!"
"Yeah, but I didn't!"
"Could you guys shut up, I'm trying to drive here! Have you inserted the IV's yet?"
"Yeah, they're now receiving the antibiotics."
"Well that's great and all, but how do we get them upstairs when stuck to an IV stand?" Casey asked.
"We'll just take the bags out and replace them when we get to the apartment."
"Well sure that could work."
"We'll have to go several times though."
"And how are you planning to get up the stairs?"
"Walk. It's not like I'm totally disabled."
"Walk? You weren't even able to walk to the shell raiser, you're pretty much paralyzed."
"Well true, but only temporary.
Sometimes I'm able to wiggle my toes, and there's nothing wrong with my arms.
Who knows, I might be up and running in a matter of minutes!"
April thought about it for a moment before answering:
"Okay fine, I'll let you take the stairs, but only if you're up for it."
April turned her head to give him a warm smile.
"Thanks, now look at the road please!"
"Oh right, sorry."
The purple clad turtle looked back down at Mikey who were resting his head in his lab.
He had just finished installing the drip when the freckled turtle started to move uncomfortably.
Donnie took out a moist cloth and started cleaning his little brothers lower part clear from blood.
The coldness made him flinch, and small whimpers escaped his mouth, as the pain worsened.
"Sorry bro, I know it hurts, but it has to be done, it'll take some time before the medicine kicks in."
"How much time exactly?" Casey asked.
"I'm not sure, an hour maybe. How far are we?"
"We'll be there in about fifteen minutes."
Everyone went quiet for a minute, making the car engine, the faint moans,
and Leos irregular breathing the only sounds present.
No one had anything to say at the moment...
...
"D-Donnie, are you there?" A confused Leo asked as he blinked repeatedly.
He had been absentminded for a fair amount of time, only speaking gibberish,
As the loss of air made him slightly lightheaded.
He had been pretty stable for a while,
no coughing, only tiredness and confusion.
"Yeah, I'm right here, no worries."
"Why did you put a snake in my arm?"
"It's not a snake, it's an intravenous drip feed, it'll help you get better."
"But I don't feel better."
"No but you will. I only installed it some minutes ago, it'll take some time before it starts working.
We just gotta be patient."
Leo nodded faintly and pointed at Raph. "What about that, is that supposed to happen?"
Donnie looked at Leo confused, then realized what he meant.
The red clad turtle was having a severe nose bleed, which didn't seem to stop any time soon.
"Paper, we need more paper!" The genius hurriedly found a paper towel and ripped it apart to stuff it up his nose. "You awake? Can you hear me?" He got a low feeble mumble in return.
"Hang in there buddy, I'll get you something for the headache." Donnie took out a bottle of prednisone.
It was hard to get him to swallow it, but it succeeded eventually.
A sudden sneeze made Donnie turn his head back to Leo, who was holding his nose.
"You okay Leo?"
"No, my chest is burning, my head is pounding, my eyes stings,
my whole body aches, and now my nose is running too."
"Hey let me look at it." The purple clad turtle removed the older turtles hand. What he found wasn't slime.
"Leo your bleeding too! Hold on, I'll get you some paper!" Donnie reached out after the paper towel,
but the sudden fast movement was too much, as his shell gave out a loud crack.
He could feel the pain coming back stronger than earlier, as he found himself unmovable.
"Hey what's happening back there?" Casey asked concerned as he looked backwards.
"I, I can't move..." Donnie responded with slight pain in his voice.
Casey noticed immediately and hurriedly jumped over the front seat.
He then sat down beside him. "Anything I can do?" He asked as he made him lie down carefully.
"L-Leo is bleeding, get him some paper."
The boy did as told and helped the leader in blue control the bloody nose.
"Anything else?"
"Just, give me some pain killers will yah?" Casey nodded and started searching for the bottle.
He had just opened it when April drove over a bump,
making the pills fly into the air and onto the floor."
"Aww man, sorry about that!" Casey apologized as he started picking them up.
"It doesn't matter, just hand me one!" Donnie snarled. He couldn't be immobile at a time like this.
The boy immediately placed a pill inside the turtles mouth. He had no problem swallowing it.
He tried to sit back up, but it was pretty much impossible. He was utterly stocked.
The genius moaned as he looked in the direction of April. "How far are we?"
"Actually we're here." The red head reported as she stopped the machine.
"You can't walk in that condition Donnie, you'll need assistants."
"Yeah, I guess. Just try not to drop us." The purple clad turtle advised.
"We'll be careful." With that she opened the front door and jumped out.
She opened the back door from the outside and grabbed Leo as the first one.
She held him underneath his shoulders as Casey grabbed his legs.
"Is this position okay with you Leo?"
"It's fine, thank you."
Slowly they managed to get him out of the shell raiser and in through the front door.
They then climbed the long staircase.
It took then about fifteen minutes to get all four turtles into her apartment,
Donnie being the last, but it succeeded eventually.
Both teens were breathing heavily as they sat themselves on the floor,
since all the furniture now was occupied.
"Okay let's never do that again..." April thought out loud as she massaged her shoulders.
"Yeah, seriously, you guys are heavy!" Casey agreed as he stretched his back.
"It's all in the shell." The purple clad turtle acknowledged as he unintentionally closed his eyes.
April let out a faint smile as he stood up and started covering every single turtle with a blanket.
"Sleep well guys, I promise I'll keep an eye on you tonight."
With that she turned the lights off...
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