Sorry this one took so long. I was workin on other stuff too. i don't know if i'll do another. maybe i'll find something they're all like.

Mikey's POV

He's like lightning

There's this thing about Donnie. He can't really be described very well. Because he's always coming up with new inventions and I can never figure out his real personality. Because one day he can build a new weapon, and another day he's just built a new helpful gadget for around the lair. But sitting outside one day, I finally figure it out. During a storm, something lit up the sky. And it struck me. He's lightning.

It's more of it being inside him than actually being him. But I guess you could argue that too. Because as I said. He's a complex dude. Some days he actually acts like lightning. Others, you just get to see that little spark inside of him. It makes him happy. Because it works for him.

You can't really study lightning. Because it's there a split second, then it's gone. But that's like Don. One minute he's standing next to you, the next he could be off and running to his lab to work on some new idea that just popped out of the blue or, in a fight, attacking someone on the totally opposite end of the battleground. He's fast like that.

But if you could study lightning, pause it the split second it's there, then you'd see that it has many different branches too it. All going off in different directions, different lengths, and different brightness'. That is Don's mind. It's sometimes hard to keep on the same track he's on. We have to learn to jump from different topics with him to stay on track and understand what he's saying. He's always going in a million different directions at once. Always thinking.

That saves our butts sometimes. He figures ways out of a jam and ends up usually getting us out of some major trouble. And it's sometimes funny, all of the different things he puts together to make something. You'd think he had a plan all along. But he doesn't. Just puts all of the pieces together. All of the branches to make something shine. Made something totally cool and awesome looking.

Now, what if you were shocked by lightning? It wouldn't feel very good would it? This is Don when he's in fighting mode. When geek mode is turned off during a fight, fighter mode comes out full force. And it doesn't feel good. His bo goes a million miles an hour, like lighting hitting the ground in a split second. And instead of thunder, you hear the satisfying thud of people hitting the ground.

So, you say, what if geek mode is turned on? Ha ha! Then, my friends, he is the electrical current of the lightning. Because he makes things power. Without him, we would have no electricity in the lair. We'd definitely be doomed. He powers our heat, our lights, our water, and, of course, our T.V. He is ultimately our electricity. Like lightning.

Have you ever seen what lightning does to sand on the beach when it strikes? How it turns sand into beach glass? Donnie has some scientific name for it, and he loves the way just a shock of lightning can do that. But so can he. When he touches something, it 'magically' turns into something cool.

A steel plated truck becomes the battle shell. Old motorcycle parts becomes a shell cycle. Our toaster is fixed, an amazing T.V. stack is set up, and a million other cool inventions that seem to come into existence out of thin air. Just like beach glass. A flash of light, a crack of thunder, and bam! An awesome thing is made.

Now if you watch the sky when lightning flashes on a black night, what color do you see sometimes? Purple. Awesome isn't it? It totally fits. Because it's his color. He is our lightning that keeps us out of the dark because he powers our lights with his 'electricity'. He creates a thousand awesome gadgets and branches out a million different directions at once.

So if lightning can melt sand so much it becomes a single big piece of glass, it must be pretty hot right? It gives off a shock. This is Don's strength. It may not be shown all the time, but it's there. And when it comes out, it comes out in short spurts. Like lightning. And let me tell you. His bo staff hurts just as much as lightning does.

Donnie's a pacifist. But when you get him mad, his… non-pacifist side comes out. Like lightning only comes out during a storm, so does Donnie. When there's big trouble, or someone's threatening us, he comes out strong. He shocks us sometimes. Only about as often as lightning strikes a person though. But when he gets really mad, he goes bad-boy and woops some butts. Like lightning strikes.

Now what about kinds of lighting? There's lighting that hits the ground. Then there's lightning that goes from cloud to cloud appropriately called 'cloud lightning'. Those are Don's moods. Yeah. He only has two. Because he's a very easygoing guy. He doesn't lose it often and gets along with just about anybody.

Cloud lightning is his good days. Those happen most of the time. He doesn't get mad much so he's usually 'harmless'. Like cloud lightning. But he can have his bad days. Either when fighting, he just has one of those days where nothing goes right for the poor guy, or we get on his nerves too much. Then he can be 'dangerous'. Like ground lightning. Which is more painful.

Cloud lightning goes from cloud to cloud. It jumps from cloud to cloud like Don does in a fight. He's always going from person to person to make sure we're all alright. Ground lightning goes for a direct hit. And you don't want to be in Don's line of fire. Believe me. The thunder you'll be hearing is a hit to the head. Then blackness. Lights out for you.

But this is cool. Do you know lightning doesn't acutally hit the ground? The ground actually comes up to meet it. Not the ground really. Another, shorter length of lightning. It's weird. But when I thought about that, I realized that that was something that fits too. Do you know why? It's us.

As another length of electricity comes up to meet the longer one, we all come to meet Don as much as we can on anything. We help him if he needs it on either something he's building or just needs a friend sometimes. He's gracious enough to meet us the farther way. Because Don's nice like that. He know's we aren't quite as smart as he is on some things.

We don't always understand what he's saying or how he sees things, but we try to meet him at least a fourth of the way. Because even lightning needs help from another source. Electricity can't power itself. So we're there when he needs us. Because even though Don's smart, he sometimes needs someone to tell him what to do or help him out a little. We do that a lot.

One last thing now. Think about something. What if there wasn't any lightning? There wouldn't be a thunderstorm would there? You need lightning to have thunder. No awesome flashes of lightning to watch for. No rumbles to fall asleep to. We wouldn't have any thunder.

Now what if there wasn't electricity? Well there'd be a lot of problems, wouldn't there? That's what our life would be without Don. We'd have a ton of problems, but not just at the electricity level. Don's the electricity of our group. He has the spirit for us. He keeps up the 'we can do anything' mood. Without him, hope would be very hard to have. Because he shows us all the time that we can do a lot if we try hard enough.

He's our flash of geniusness. Our hope. Our weapon in war that knocks things into blackness and hacks into networks. He's part of our love. Part of our team. Our lightning. Our electricity. And without our electricity, life would pretty much be impossible for us.