The turtle van soon pulled up to the warehouse where the signal was still coming from. Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo all got out and went looking for their missing brother.
Leonardo was in the lead with the tracker. It led them all right to the surgical room. But what they saw when they found Donatello instantly made them all stop in shock. They couldn't believe it when they laid eyes on their genius brother.
He was covered in wounds and his own blood. It instantly made them all bring up something. When they all got rid of their contents, Leo said, "We have to do this, guys. We have to get him out of here."
"Yeah, we know." Raphael agreed.
"Michelangelo, go get the blankets and bandages out of the van." Leo ordered.
Mike didn't even question the order. They all knew this was an emergency.
Leonardo sliced the bonds holding Donatello to the table. He and Raph got him off the table and to a clean spot of the room. Leo checked for a pulse and found it.
Donny's pulse was very weak and he was very pale.
Mike returned with the blankets and bandages.
Sitting Don up, Leonardo and Raphael wrapped some blankets around Donatello's middle. They put two on to start with so the blood wouldn't soak through one. Mike bandaged his right arm where the cut had been made.
"We have to get Donatello some major medical help." Leonardo said.
"The zoo's still open, Leonardo. It's the safest place for him to get medical treatment." Mike said.
"Good. Let's go." The turtle in blue said.
Together, all three of them carefully carried Donatello out of the warehouse and to the van. Donatello's life was on the line right now.
Donatello was laid gently on the floor and Leonardo made sure to watch over him. Raphael was put in charge of driving. He had to get to the zoo and fast. They were far from the city zoo.
Raphael tried to get through the dangerous traffic of New York as fast and best he could. He tried not to have to move Donatello with stressful moves.
It took some time, but eventually, they got to the zoo. Mike was ordered to run in and get Dr. Jane Goodfellow while Leo and Raph stayed to get Donny out of the van.
When he got in, Mike was breathing hard. "Dr. Goodfellow! I- nneed- you!"
"Michelangelo? What are you doing here? What happened? You are breathless." The black veterinarian woman said.
"Donatello- needs- your help. He's hurt!" Mike said.
"What happened?" She asked.
He gained some breath back and explained, "We were attacked earlier by robbers and they set us up to take Donatello. They knocked us out and took him. When we came to, he was gone. We just got him back and he's very hurt. You've got to help him. He's nearly dead!"
"Then lead me to him." Jane said.
The two of them went back out to the van. In the back, the woman saw what Mike meant. There were blankets wrapped around Donatello's middle that were blood soaked everywhere. Bloody bandages on his right arm and she noticed one of Donatello's legs was all bruised and colored. It wasn't in good condition at all. It was obvious he had a broken ankle and leg.
"Bring him into the clinic guys." Jane ordered.
The three of them carried the unconscious genius into the clinic. There were some passersby that saw the situation they were in. The ninja turtles had a wounded comrade.
They set him up on the table for large animals.
"Thank you guys. Now I should do this alone." Jane said.
"Just do the best you can to keep him alive." Leo said.
"I will. Now go."
The three of them went into the waiting area. This was so hard on them. They weren't going to leave their brother alone here though.
After they were gone, Jane Goodfellow got to work. The stomach area looked to be the most important area that was hurt, as the blankets were just soaked with the blood. She knew she would need help. She went out and called in one of her assistants.
A dark-haired man in a lab coat came in to help her. He helped move Donatello so Jane could take off the blankets being used as bandages. What they both saw beneath the blankets was so horrific!
Donatello's sides and plastron were completely cut to pieces!
"What kind of man could do this to him?" Jane asked.
"A monstrous one." Her partner said. "I've never seen a plastron looking this bad ever."
"Now we have to fix this. We also need to check his internal organs too." Jane said.
She set up a mask to go over Donatello's face to deliver oxygen and to keep him unconscious before she went to work. She also hooked him up to a heart monitor. Her assistant put a needle in his left arm for medicine to be introduced and wrapped it up.
They went about examining inside and out of Donny's belly. The side wounds needed to be treated first. Then they would look inside for damages.
There was dried blood on his sides, and it was still coming too. Jane and her assistant took some thread and needles and they both sewed up his sides. They had sewn them up in the nick of time. They were beginning to look infected.
The humans admired the stitching in the skin. The skin around the stitches was pale and swollen, but the stitches themselves were neat and even.
Then they went into the plastron next to check for any damaged organs and there were indeed some cut up.
The damaged organs were sewn back up and they would wait to see what happened. Then they got back to work on the plastron, putting epoxy glue and a covering over the whole plastron. Donatello was going to be so sore when he woke up. Then his middle was bandaged up again.
Next, she and her assistant undid the bandages on Donny's right arm. Blood had soaked through them too.
The wound was good and deep. This too would require stitches. Jane stitched up the wound, then bandaged it back up in fresh gauze.
Then the two humans set about treating Donny's broken leg.
An x-ray was taken and it showed that the ankle and the lower leg bones were completely shattered. This wasn't going to be easy.
Jane held Donatello's body down while her male assistant put the bones back in place. Then they got to work putting a cast on the leg and foot.
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Out in the waiting area, Donny's brothers were all pacing anxiously. This had never happened before. They hoped Donatello wasn't going to die.
After what seemed like forever, Jane came out to see them.
"Guys." She said. They all came over to her with anxious looks.
"Is he going to be ok?" Leo asked.
"He made it through the patching up, but he's very weak yet. He's so pale from the blood loss that I think he needs a blood transfusion. I need one of you to contribute some blood." Jane explained.
"I'll do it." Leonardo instantly said.
"Okay. Come with me." Jane said and Leo followed her.
Raph and Mike were still worried. What was going to happen?
Jane led Leonardo to a chair where he sat down and the assistant handed him a sugary drink. "You need to drink that, so you don't get dizzy from the blood amount we need to take from you." The man said.
"Ok." Leo said and began to drink the soda. He downed it pretty quick. Then he was given some fruit juice.
Leonardo downed it quick too.
"That should be good enough. Now to begin the transfusion." The assistant said.
Leonardo removed his left elbow pad so that the needle could go in his vein and collect his blood. A needle was also sticking out of Donatello's left arm so he could receive Leo's blood.
It took some time, but the transfusion was soon done. Leonardo now had to wear a small bandage on his left arm, and there was one on Donny's left arm too.
Now that it was over, the man, named Dr. Matt Baines, and Jane moved Donatello off the table and onto a mat on the floor. Leo would have liked to have helped, but he was a little weak now from the transfusion. He was a little lightheaded.
Jane got Donatello hooked up to an IV next. He was still hooked up to the heart monitor and the blood transfusion had helped to pick up the rate of Don's heartbeat. Color was coming back to his face.
"So what now?" Leo asked.
"We've done all we can for him. Now we can only wait for him to wake up. You can stay with him if you want." Jane said.
"We aren't going to leave his side." Leo said.
"Just keep an eye on him and don't do anything to him. If anything should change, come and get me. I'll be staying here overnight too." Jane said.
"Thank you for all you're doing, Doctor." Leo said.
"You're welcome, uh?"
"Leonardo."
"Leonardo." Jane said.
Leo sat down close by Donny.
Jane went out and got Raph and Mike and said they could see their brother now. They instantly came in and saw that Donatello was still in an unconscious state and he was all bandaged up.
"We still have some blankets out in the van. Could you two go get them?" Leo said.
They wanted to be of use and instantly went to go get the leftover blankets in the turtle van. They brought them back and covered the genius turtle up.
"How's he doing?" Mike asked.
"He's doing better since the transfusion, but he's still not come around once. All we can do is wait." Leo explained.
"He better not leave us like this." Raphael said. He couldn't help it that tears had formed in his eyes.
Tears had also formed in Leo's and Mike's eyes too. They didn't want to lose Donny. He was the one that worked with the big technology when they ran into tech savvy enemies. But even when he came around, Donatello wouldn't be in any condition to fight for a long time. Whoever had done this to him had known what they were doing.
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Many hours into the night and all of the turtles were sleeping by their injured brother. They all had reluctance to leave his side. Jane had brought them all some food, but they all, even Mike, were hesitant to eat. But Jane talked them into eating their dinner and that Donny would need them to be strong to help him out.
Donatello was going to be sore when he woke up, but there was also a chance he could have been traumatized too. That would be hard to deal with, but they had to be strong for him to get him through it.
Beta read by Turtlefanforlife1982.
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Dr. Jane Goodfellow is not an OC. She was in one episode, What's Michelangelo Good For? just so you all know. She's an African American.
And when I imagine the zoo clinic Donny's being treated at, it's more the one from the episode of The Planet of the Turtleoids when Krang and Shredder and their mutants were getting ready to mutate some more animals.
