Last chapter so i hope that you enjoy it. xxx

Spirits, Machines and other things

Chapter 8

The three turtles opened their eyes to see that they were back in the dojo with the spirit capturing kit that they had been given. They heard a yell coming from the corner of the dojo, the brothers looked around to see a cloud of black, they could just see Mikey in the middle of it,

'MIKEY!' Leo called to his little brother but Mikey couldn't hear him,

'We have to help him!' Donnie said to Leo, Raph was filled with anger as he watched his baby brother lying in the middle of the black cloud crying,

'We're coming Mikey' Raph promised quietly, as he pulled out his silver gun and his brothers did the same, They ran closer to the cloud and started shooting at it,

'STOP!' The spirit screamed, there was a flash of light and the dark cloud had gone, leaving behind two Mikeys,

'Mikey?' Donnie asked as they both got up,

'Guys you're back!' One of the Mikeys shouted as he ran forward and hugged Donnie, 'When you left the spirit dude came and tried to kill me!' Then Mikey started to cry into Donnie's arm, Leo looked at the other Mikey that was just standing there looking terrified he was shaking,

'Mikey?' Leo asked, the other Mikey looked up in shock,

'W-who's that?' Mikey said in a shaky voice,

'Leo, which ones the real Mikey?' Raph asked as Donnie tried to calm the Mikey that was crying down,

'I honestly don't know..' Leo replied feeling nervous,

'Mikey?' Leo asked the one that was crying,

'That's not Mikey, I'm Mikey' Mikey said as he watched the crying one look round,

'I am Mikey, your the spirit guy' Mikey pointed a finger at him,

'Guys, you don't believe him do you?' Mikey asked looking hurt,

'We don't know which one is the real one' Donnie said softly, The Mikey that hadn't cried yet looked hurt,

'How can you not know?' They saw tears coming to Mikey's eyes,

'Oh don't pretend, you're not me!' Shouted Mikey at the now crying one,

'Hey don't shout at him!' Raph said angrily, 'Why don't we just shoot both of them?'

'WHAT!?' Shouted Donnie in shock,

'WE CAN'T DO THAT, WE MIGHT KILL THE REAL MIKEY!' Leo shouted just as shocked,

'No, the guy said that they only work on spirits' Raph replied as he rolled his eyes,

'oh right yeah, i forgot about that' Leo said quietly, 'Donnie you watch and get ready to shoot the fake Mikey, Raph and i will shoot these two to find out which one is real, Leo said as he pointed his gun at the angry Mikey, while Raph pointed his at the Mikey that was crying,

'SHOOT!' Leo shouted and they both shot at the same time, The one Leo shot at screamed in pain and turned into the spirit while the one Raph shot at fell to his knees and cried more,

'Shoot the spirit!' Donnie shouted and the three older turtles shot at the spirit, they didn't notice Mikey run out of the dojo, The spirit screamed in pain and eventually collapsed onto the floor, Donnie got the large, black metal tube out and pointed it towards the spirit,

'Bye' Donnie said fiercely,

'I may be going back to the spirit world without a kill but i did make your brother hate you so it wasn't a complete waste of time,' The spirit laughed coldly as he was sucked into the tube, Donnie quickly put the lid on and put if back on his belt,

'I guess we should give this stuff back' Leo said quietly,

'Mikey must of left the room... do you really think he hates us now?' Raph asked sadly,

'I don't know but i want this guy back in chains before he can hurt Mikey anymore,' Donnie said as he sat down, His brothers joined him in a triangle shape and held hand, they went back to the Spirit world.

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Mikey was lying on his bed crying silent tears, He couldn't believe that his brothers hadn't recognised him. He stared at the ceiling with sad eyes, he waited for his brothers to come out of the dojo.

...

A few minutes later The three turtles were back in their own bodies and were now walking out of the dojo,

'Man i hate that place' Leo said sadly,

'Yeah it's really gross and creepy' Raph agreed,

'Guys we should go and see Mikey now' Donnie said nervously as they headed for Mikey's room. When they arrived they could hear sobbing coming from inside,

'awww man, he's still upset!' Raph said feeling uncomfortable,

'Of course he is... come on it's now or never' Donnie said quietly as they walked into Mikey's room.

'Mikey?' Leo asked as he sat on the bed next to the shaking body of his baby brother, 'are you ok?'

'I can't believe you didn't recognise me...' Mikey said in a quiet, sad little voice,

'Mike we're sorry' Raph said desperately,

'We really are Mikey, we should have known which one was you' Donnie said sadly,

'I guess... we just didn't want to shoot either of you' Leo said softly,

'Yeah, you're our baby bro... we didn't want to hurt ya' Raph said,

'But you shot us both anyway' Mikey said quietly,

'That's because we remembered that the guns only hurt spirits,' Raph argued, Mikey sat up and looked at them all with tearful puppy-dog eyes,

'Really?'

'Yeah Mike, Really' Leo said softly to his little brother, Donnie pulled Mikey into a hug,

'I'm so sorry Mikey' Donnie whispered as he cried,

'It's ok Donnie' Mikey whispered back, Leo and Raph realised that both of their little brother were crying, so they joined the hug,

'We're all really sorry Mikey' Leo said quietly,

'Yeah, We love ya bro' Raph said happily,

'I love you guys too' Mikey replied, as they sat on Mikeys bed and hugged.

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The four turtles sat on the sofa and watched tv that night after their huge family hug, They missed Master Splinter and were sad that he had died at the hands of the strange demon, But they had each other. Leo took on the role of "father" to his little brothers but he still acted like a big brother. They still went out on patrol with each other, they still had their family moments and their fights. Everything went back to normal, but when you're a teenage mutant ninja turtle your life doesn't stay normal for long.

Can't believe this story is finished... I really enjoyed writing it and i hoped you enjoyed reading it! please review xxx