Someone requested a one-shot in which Mikey is kidnapped and tortured before he is rescued by his brothers, and afterwards he acts so angry and bitter toward them, although they try to help him. The details of Mikey's traumatic experience was left up to me. And so I thought of something that would hopefully send a positive message to those who have been through something similiar.
WARNING: This chapter is rated M for EXTREMELY disturbing content.
NOTE: There will probably be grammar mistakes which I will fix later.
"Mikey...please-"
"I SAID GO AWAY!"
Mikey threw his Unicorn Man action figure at the door, and it broke into pieces upon impact. Angry tears continued to pour down his face as he laid back down on his bed and pulled the covers over his head.
Outside his bedroom, he could hear Donnie sigh in defeat and walk away. As soon as his brother left, he buried his face in the pillow and wept.
He wished everyone would just leave him alone...
...
"STOP!" he screamed pleadingly as he was forced on the table facedown. The cold, clawed black hand pressed down on his neck, nearly crushing him. From the corner of his eye, he could see his captor smiling sadistically at him, baring his sharp, jagged teeth.
"Please..." Mikey squeaked, tears streaming down his freckled cheeks.
"Shhhh...just relax," the stranger chillingly shushed him. "Let it happen." He started to nibble at the short ends of Mikey's mask. "Let it happen..."
...
"Still no progress?" Leo tiredly asked Donnie, who dragged himself into the living room.
The genius Turtle sighed and shook his head.
Sitting next to Leo on the couch, Raph clenched his fists and snarled. In a fit of rage, he grabbed a pillow and threw it across the room. "RRRRAAAAHHH! I HATE THIS! WHY WON'T HE TALK TO US?!"
Leo tried to soothe his brother's anger. "Raph, calm down. We need to be-"
"DON'T EVEN START, LEO!" Raph screamed in his face. "It's been two weeks already! TWO WEEKS!"
"I know, Raph," Leo calmly said, his hands raised. "But we can't force it out of Mikey. He needs to come to us when he's ready."
"And if he never does?" Raph snarkily remarked. "Huh? What do we do then, Sensei?"
Now Leo was becoming irritated and he narrowed his eyes at his brother. "Raph, not this again," he sternly said.
"Enough!" Donnie barked, earning a surprised look from both brothers. "The last thing we need right now is more fighting! We need to start acting like adults instead of children for Mikey's sake!"
Leo sighed dejectedly and nodded his head. "You're right, Donnie. Sorry."
Raph only growled and tore off the couch, stomping to his room and slamming the door shut.
...
"MIKEY?!"
Raph tore the door down and ran into the lab where his little brother was being held. He was horrified to see Mikey curled up on the floor next to a table. His arms and shoulders were covered in swollen red bumps. His blue eyes were trembling and unfocused, and his breathing was uneasy.
"Mikey!" Raph started to run to him, but then he sensed something come down upon him from the ceiling. He jumped out of the way in time, and was now face to face with Mikey's captor: a mutant scorpion humanoid with multiple red eyes.
He sneered at Raph and licked his lips with his freakishly long tongue. "Oh, goody," he chuckled darkly. "Another Turtle for me to play with." His stinger twitched as he raised his tail.
Raph felt anger burn in his veins. He was going to tear that smug bug apart with his bare hands.
...
Raph attacked the practice dummy with everything he had. He hissed in pain when he felt the sting on his hand become aggravated. That stupid scorpion stung him in the midst of the battle, but thankfully Donnie was able to save both him and Mikey from succumbing to the poison. At least he was stung only once; Mikey was stung multiple times during his capture.
But there was something that Mikey was keeping from them. Something else had happened to him before they rescued him, something terrible. But for some reason, he refused to talk about it. And every time they tried to confront him about it, he'd only scream at them to leave him alone. Sometimes he'd even attack them, and Donnie had to sedate him once.
It frustrated Raph that his little brother kept keeping it to himself instead of turning to his brothers for help. More than anything, it hurt him to know that Mikey didn't trust him enough.
He punched the dummy one last time before he walked over to the couch and sat down, staring numbly at the game consoles that lay on the floor. He missed playing video games with Mikey. He missed laughing and having a good time with him. He even missed being hit in the face with water balloons and chasing him around the lair immediately afterwards.
He just missed Mikey.
Subconsciously he reached to touch the teeth marks on his right shoulder.
...
"I SAID DROP IT ALREADY!" Mikey screamed in Donnie's face. "I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT ANYMORE!"
The doctor of the family flinched away, but he still tried to calm his raging brother. "Mikey, it's okay," he gently told him. "We just want to help. But we can't if you won't talk to us."
"Donnie's right, Little Brother," Leo joined in, looking at Mikey with sad eyes. "Whatever's bugging you, you have to let us know. That's what family's for."
Mikey only glared at his eldest brother hatefully and shook his head. "No," he hissed. "Go away."
Raph, who stood at the doorway of Mikey's bedroom, sighed in frustration and stomped over to the bed, grabbing Mikey by the shoulders and giving him a shake. "Alright, that's it! I've had it with this hateful attitude of yours! You'd better start-!"
"RRRAAAAAHHH!" Suddenly Mikey bit down hard on Raph's arm and the older Turtle screamed in pain. The others immediately moved in to pry Mikey off of him. Teeth marks were on Raph's shoulder by the time they managed to pull Mikey away, and they even started to bleed.
Mikey screamed and writhed and kicked as Leo and Donnie held him down on the bed, and it scared Raph to watch. It reminded him of a scene from that movie The Exorcist. Mikey did, indeed, look like he was possessed, and for a moment, Raph truly believed that he was.
As he struggled to keep Mikey down, Donnie turned to look at Raph. "Raph! You hold him while I go get the sedative!"
Reluctantly, Raph walked over to the bed and helped Leo hold Mikey down while Donnie ran to the lab. Even he, the strongest of the four, had trouble keeping Mikey down on the mattress. It was like the kid had superhuman strength, and again Raph wondered if Mikey really was possessed by an evil spirit. In less than a minute Donnie returned with a syringe and quickly injected Mikey with the sedative.
Within seconds Mikey started to calm down and his arms and legs went limp. Donnie sighed sadly and gently patted Mikey's knee.
"I'm so sorry, Mikey," he softly said. He really hoped that it wouldn't come to this, sedating his own brother.
...
As he passed by the dojo, Raph thought he heard the sound of someone grunting and peeked his head in.
Leo was practicing his swordsmanship, but he was a bit sloppy in his moves, like he was unfocused. Or perhaps even angry.
"Leo?"
Said Turtle stopped and turned his head to see Raph walking into the room. He panted and wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Hey, Raph."
"You okay, bro?" Raph asked, noticing the distress in his brother's voice.
Leo stared at him briefly before he closed his eyes and slowly shook his head. "No. Not really."
Raph nodded. "I hear you. Everything's so messed up, ain't it?"
"Totally," Leo murmured sadly.
"I just..." Raph sighed and kicked at the floor. "I just wish Mikey would just talk to us, but it's like he's built this wall around him and is keeping everyone out. Maybe he's too ashamed or too scared. I dunno."
"I think I know what it is," Leo said, opening his eyes and revealing unshed tears. "As much as I hate to admit it."
"W-What?" Raph kinda knew what Leo was suggesting, but he'd rather deny it. It would totally destroy him if anything like that were to happen to any of his brothers.
Leo closed his eyes again, the tears now sliding down his cheeks. "Raph, I think that..." he swallowed around the lump in his throat before he continued in a quiet, pained voice. "I think that Mikey was...was...oh, god...!" He covered his face with his hand and began to sob.
He was the leader! The Sensei! How could he have allowed this to happen to Mikey, the youngest and most innocent of them all? He silently prayed to his father for failing him. He would never forgive himself for as long as he lived.
"No," Raph shook his head and began to feel a little bit angry. "No, I don't believe that."
Leo sniffled and dried his eyes before looking at Raph. "Raph, I don't want to believe it, either. But we have to face reality and accept it if we're to ever help Mikey."
"No!" Raph began to raise his voice, still shaking his head. The very thought of Mikey being...it infuriated him! "No, that's not...! That can't happen! Not to Mikey! I wouldn't allow it! They'd have to kill me first!"
"Raph-"
"NO!" The hotheaded ran to the rack of weapons and flipped it. He grabbed the kamas that lay on the floor and sprinted toward the door.
"RAPH!" Leo caught him by the arm and held him a tight grip. "Wait!"
"LET GO!" Raph screamed, struggling against his brother with all his might. "I'M GOING AFTER THAT MONSTER! I'LL KILL HIM FOR HURTING MIKEY!"
"Raph, listen," Leo grunted as Raph continuously elbowed him in the plastron. "Killing that guy won't...won't make things better! Not for you or Mikey!"
"OH, YEAH?!" Raph glanced back at him furiously. "HOW WOULD YOU KNOW, HUH?!"
"Because..." Leo looked away, a look of guilt and remorse on his face. "Because I already killed him, myself. After we rescued Mikey."
Raph instantly stopped struggling and looked at him stunned. "What...?"
...
"Heh...heh heh heh!" the scorpion chuckled weakly as he held his bleeding arm. He was being cornered by the Leader in Blue in an alley. But even if he was going to die, he would have the last laugh. "You know, I wish I could've played with you before I died...like how I played with your brother."
Leo instantly got a dreadful feeling in his gut. "What...What do you mean, 'play'?"
The scorpion's grin only grew wider and he chuckled again.
"What did you mean by that?!" Leo demanded, starting to fear the worst. "What did you do to my brother?!"
The bug started to laugh maniacally, infuriating him even further.
"WHAT DID YOU DO?!" Leo screamed as he charged at him, and before he even knew what he was doing, he stabbed the scorpion right between the eyes, instantly killing him.
But he didn't stop there. He pulled the sword out and stabbed him in the same spot again, and again, and again, snarling like a beast. Pretty soon the mutant's head was split right in half, and Leo's conscience slowly returned.
He looked at the bloody mess he had created in horror and remorse. Even as the rain came pouring down and washed the blood off his hands, he still felt dirty.
...
"I let my anger cloud my judgement," Leo looked down at the floor in shame.
"Yeah, but...he got what he deserved!" Raph said, trying to comfort him. "Leo, you did nothing wrong."
Leo shook his head. "I did, Raph. Sensei said that revenge only leads to more pain. And he was right. I acted like a wild animal instead of a reasonable person and took someone's life, and now I have to live with this guilt for the rest of my life. And even after I killed him, nothing got better. In fact, everything took a turn for the worst." He looked up at Raph with wet eyes. "What Mikey needs, what we need, is healing. And the first step is for Mikey to pour it all out. We need to help him with that."
Raph took a deep breath and let out a heavy sigh. "You're right, Leo. I've been approaching this wrong. Let me go talk to him. He trusts me more than anyone."
Leo looked a bit unsure but he nodded his head. "Okay. Just...don't push him too hard or lose your temper with him."
"I won't. I promise."
...
Mikey woke up to the sound of someone knocking on his door. "Mikey?" he heard Raph's voice, which was unusually soft. "I'm coming in, bro." He squeezed his eyes shut and pulled the covers over his head. The door creaked open and he could hear his brother's heavy footsteps enter the room.
Raph stopped when he noticed Mikey's most prized possession, his Unicorn Man action figure, lying in pieces on the floor. He picked them up before he continued on his way to the bed. He sat on the opposite side, giving Mikey his space, and fiddled with the figure's arm.
"I thought this was your favorite toy?" Raph quietly said. "Why would you break it?"
"Don't call it a toy," Mikey mumbled under the covers.
Raph flinched. Smooth, Raphael. Real smooth. "Sorry. I meant, uh, collectible."
"What does it matter?" Mikey sniffled. "It was gonna break someday anyway. Everything breaks, no matter what we do to protect it and keep it safe."
Raph closed his eyes, willing himself not to break down at that moment. He knew exactly what Mikey was implying here, and it absolutely broke his heart.
Mikey was comparing himself to a broken toy. Played with and abused to the point that it fell apart. And it was all because of that sadistic, perverted scorpion. But Mikey wasn't a toy. He was their brother. Their precious little brother.
"Mikey," Raph whispered, trying so hard not to cry, "we know."
Mikey paused before he spoke so quietly that Raph could barely hear him. "What?"
Raph hated to continue, but they both needed this. "We know what that guy did to you."
The freckled Turtle popped out from under the covers, eyes wide with fear. They knew. They knew about...
"N-No, he..." he stuttered, clutching the blanket so tight that his knuckles started to white. "N-Nothing like that h-happened. I...I was-"
"Mikey..." Raph couldn't help but let the tears escape from his eyes as he looked over at his brother. "It's okay."
Mikey shook his head, shedding tears of his own. "No...I-I wasn't..."
He didn't expect Mikey to come out immediately and walked over to the other side of the bed, sitting next to him. He then proceeded to pop the pieces of the Unicorn Man figure back in place. "You're right, Mikey. Everything breaks at some point, including people." He smiled sadly at Mikey as he handed him the now repaired toy. "But that doesn't mean they can't be fixed. Sure it won't be easy, and nothing will ever be the same again. But as long as we have each other, Mikey, we can get through anything, even this."
Mikey bit his lower lip and hugged himself, slowly rocking back and forth as the strangled sobs started to come out. "I..." he made a pitiful squeaking sound, "I feel so...dirty..."
Raph immediately wrapped his arms around his little brother, stroking his bald head. "You're not, Mikey. We still love you, and we always will, no matter what."
The dam that held back Mikey's feelings finally collapsed, and it all came pouring out as Mikey buried his face in Raph's chest and wailed at the top of his lungs.
Soon Leo and Donnie were entering Mikey's room, having heard his cries, and they sat down on the bed together and formed a protective group hug around their little brother.
"We're here for you, Mikey," Leo whispered in his ear.
"We love you," Donnie softly told him while rubbing the carapace of his shell.
"And we'll fix you," Raph kissed his freckled cheek.
And for the first time in weeks, as he basked in his brothers' love, Mikey smiled.
If you were ever sexually assaulted or touched inappropriately, don't keep it to yourself. Tell someone. Otherwise it will slowly kill you inside.
A shout out to those who have come forward and let it all out, and a prayer for all who have been abused.
I still have a few more requests to do so request box is still closed but reviews are always welcome. :)