Authors Notes: Here we go! A nice actiony chapter I guess...

Disclaimer: Will the owner of Violet and this plot please raise their hand...oh wait, that's me XD

Chapter 8: Brothers at War

After the two days of annoyance, my system is finally better, my egg now in my nest without the others knowing. I stretch before leaving the playroom, wondering what the time actually is now. I go back up in the elevator and find the whole penthouse in darkness; I guess it is early morning or something.

I go back to my room and flop down next to Mikey. He is out of it, in a deep sleep, so I try not to disturb him. I think tomorrow…well technically today…Leo is going to discuss the plan to go after Dun, which we will follow tonight. FINALLY!

I eventually lose myself in the thought of it all and fall asleep myself. It's not until I'm woken up later by Mikey that I realise.

"What time is it?" I groan as I sit up.

He grins, "About eleven, I didn't want to disturb you, but I got told to"

I smirk back as I get up, generally I don't like to sleep in; it's probably just from what happened that I had to sleep.

Pretty much immediately, I find myself in the meeting with the others to cause the final capture of Dun.

"This time, we can't let him escape" Leo speaks quickly, like he does when he's in 'Leader mode'. "Violet, remember, no risks" I merely nod. "We'll enter through the tunnels here," he points to the screen behind him where I provided a map to their lair; I feel like I've defied them for this.

As Leo continues, I find it hard to keep track on everything he says, I just can't stop thinking about it all.

"Got it?" He finally asks. Everyone nods, including me, I don't want to admit I fazed out.

I don't say anything, but something doesn't feel right, I don't know what…is it me? I can't shake this feeling as much as I try, so choose to ignore it; it's probably just nerves anyway…

That night, we all leave in the Hovershell and head to the drop-off points for each team. I'm paired with Cody, but I don't mind, I'd prefer to be with him than Raph who's against half of what I wanted this to be.

I can't help but wonder how they'll react; I've been gone for ages! And Dark Leo got taken in and saw himself I wasn't there, they could think I've gone and got destroyed with Sh'Okanabo…

"Violet?" Cody asks as he notices my hands are shaking.

I feel as if I'm not in control, but soon regain my composure. "I'm fine" I sigh as I continue on. We reach the entrance, "Ready?" I ask quietly.

He nods and I walk in slowly, ahead of him as instructed. I look around; it looks the same as I remember. I can feel they are here, and Dun, but I can't give any specific locations. I signal Cody to stay where he is and move towards the feeling I can identify Dun as, it's kind of obvious to be honest, all the others are bored and restless.

I head into a room and see Dun ahead of me, looking at a load of screens. I go to sneak closer but jump as he speaks.

"Ah, Violet, I wondered when I'd get to see you again" he turns to reveal a grin.

I can now see the screens closely; they are showing security cameras in the lair, explaining how he knew I was here. A sudden pain comes into my head and I scream out.

"I see you lost your master, but it doesn't mean I can't control you"

I growl at him, "Go to hell!" then run at him only to be stopped by some strange force.

"You and those freaks I must reside with can't hurt me" he smirks at me, "I placed hypnotic suggestions in all of you while you were here, just in case"

I sneer at him, and then fall forward, the pain worsening. "You think you can control me?" I shudder as I swear I just growled.

Even Dun recoils, "What?"

I black out for a few minutes, I only know because all of a sudden, I'm watching Dun leave, now in his battle suit instead of it following him like it was before. I shake my head and run after him, wondering how I can't remember a few minutes of my life when I didn't appear to be unconscious. I put it down to the hypnotic suggestion he mentioned.

"Stop you coward" I shout but freeze as I come running out to see all my brothers fighting, my real brothers vs. my clone brothers.

Cody goes after Dun and manages to stop him leaving, although Splinter would have got him if he had got out into the sewers. I glance Cody and Dun going into another part of the lair as they fight, but I can't stop myself from watching in horror as my brothers' fight.

Leo and Dark Leo's swords clash, both looking increasingly more annoyed with each block by the other. Dark Raph swipes at Raph with his Twin Talon Knucklers, Raph attempting to cut them off with his sai like he has in the past. Don and his Dark counterpart are merely attacking each other by throwing well-aimed punches and kicks at each other, both failing to successfully overcome the other one. Finally, Mikey and Dark Mikey; they are pushing against each other and seem to be arguing…probably about me…again.

I jump up to a higher point and stand nervously on the edge, gathering my courage, and then at the top of my voice, I yell "EVERYBODY STOP!"

They all freeze and look up at me, each as surprised as the next.

I then find both Leo and Dark Leo say at the same time, "But what about…" One saying "…Dun" and the other "…Cody"

I climb down into the main part they are in. "Can't you see how similar you really are?" I ask.

Raph and Dark Raph turn away from each other, both speaking at once, "I'm nothing like him!"

I snicker, but merely add, "See?" I turn back to the leaders. "You may not be identical, but you're still related" I look at Dark Leo, "And I know how you resent Dun, and I now realise why you haven't already left him"

"What?" he growls at me.

"The whole hypnotic suggestion he bragged to me about, he's stopped you from turning on him by not letting you touch him, right?"

He sighs, "You're right Violet" He places his swords back in his belt, surprising the real Leo.

"If you let us help you, we can free you," I add, exchanging a smile.

I see him give Leo a glare but looks back to me, "I may not trust them, but I trust you with our lives"

I feel a light blush invade my cheeks. I turn back to Leo, "Take the rest of our team and help Cody"

"What about you?" I hear Don ask, still watching his counterpart suspiciously. "And what about them?"

"Just go, I have plans for these guys" I wink and before he can ask why I simply add, "We can't attack Dun, at least not yet"

My real brothers all run off leaving me with the clone brothers.

"And what is your plan?" Dark Leo asks me as they all gather round me.

"Well, you have a lab right?" I turn to Dark Don. He nods uncertainly, "What we are going to do is create an electronic signal to stop Dun's armour from working"

"Wouldn't that also stop the kids battle suit?" Dark Don asks.

I give a sinister grin, "That's where the rest of us come in"

He leads us all towards the part of the lair that looks suspiciously like Donny's lab from back in my time.

"If we use his hypnotic signals to our advantage, we can make it so it's only directed at him!" I continue as we run.

He starts typing rapidly at his computers, "So how will we attack him with this?"

I hold up my wrist, "Relay it to our gauntlets, then it will reverse his force fields and immobilise him"

He grins manically, "This might just work! How did you-?"

"I'll explain later" I start to run to the exit, followed by the very confused Dark Mikey and Raph, while Dark Leo seems to have got the gist of it. I shout over to the confused pair, "Just attack Dun"

We enter the room where the fray is, I have to jump out the way immediately as Dun shoots at me. I see my brothers are unsuccessfully jumping at him but being thrown away easily, while Cody continues to struggle with him, but Serling/Turtle-X is currently tangled in a cable from Darius's suit.

I dash at Dun, and manage to kick him, the arm I hit starts sparking and stops working.

"So you found a way around my protection?" he sneers, "No matter, I will still destroy you all!"

He goes for me, slamming the broken arm at me. Before I can react, the Dark Turtles attack…more specifically: protect me. They all form around me like my real brothers would, ready to fight.

"This ends here Dun," Dark Leo snarls from in front of me.

"You really think it would be that simple?" he laughs at us.

I jump forward, "NOW!"

We all charge him, attacking quickly and viciously. I use my high-tech tessen to cut loose important wires in the back of it; like I was trying to do to Cody's while I was evil. He hits me back; catching me in the plastron and making me loose my breath. I stop for a moment, panting to regain it then run back at him. I jump and flip over him and continue cutting as many of the wires as I can.

He once again grabs my arm and throws me backwards, towards the wall. Before I hit, someone stops me. I look up to find it's Dark Leo. I mutter thanks before running back with him, determined to defeat my opponent. This time, I run next to Dark Don who helps me elude Dun's blows by boosting me up with his tail into the air. I land atop the mechanical giant.

"You can't catch me!" I taunt, sticking my tongue out at him since I am so close to his head.

He looks angry and starts trying to grab me with his huge robotic hands. I take out one of the guns on his shoulder with another slash of my tessen. This only makes him worse, but all I have to do is let him focus on me a little longer then it will all be over. I jump over another attack but he manages to grab my foot, then, he holds me in front f himself, making everyone else freeze.

He holds a gun towards my head. "Stop or the girl gets it!"

"Don't listen to him!" I yell as I dangle above them.

The all falter, the clones and my real brothers. Cody finally frees himself from his entanglement but see what is happening.

Dark Raph finally makes a move, jumping and gashing at the hand holding me, it breaks open releasing me and I land in front of Dun on the floor. Dark Mikey then attacks one of the legs so it malfunctions and he topples over.

I walk over to Dun, then give him a demented grin, "Nighty night!" I punch him in the head so he falls unconscious.

"Whoa! You guys were amazing!" Cody yells as he dismounts his battle armour.

My real brothers don't say much; I'm not really surprised though.

"Let's get him out of here before he wakes up" I point at Dun, letting the Dark Turtles rip open the armour, as I know they've probably wanted to do that for ages.

While my real brothers deal with getting Darius to the Peace Keepers, I stand with Cody and my clone brothers.

"So now what?" Dark Mikey looks at me, obviously not wanting to separate again.

I grin, "Well, you could come back with us to the penthouse"

"And live with them? Forget it!" Dark Raph growls at Cody and me.

"Wait, listen to me, the others live mainly on the top level, there are many levels below that aren't used"

Cody looks surprised by what I'm saying, but finally catches on.

I continue, "You could live with us without having to face the others, then you'd still be with me and you wouldn't have to worry about fending for yourselves"

None of them speak, probably because they don't want to admit they'd really like that.

Finally, after a moment of silence, Dark Leo steps up. "Okay Violet, we can at least try it, for you"

The others nod slowly.

Cody grins, "Cool! That's great guys!" He moves towards Turtle-X again, "You coming?"

"You go ahead, I'll help these guys get ready"

Cody leaves to take the others back home and get the area I was talking about ready for them.

"This'll be a new life for you all" I smile to them, "You'll finally be free, no more masters controlling you"

We walk out the area we were in and back to the main part of the lair. I help them gather the few bits they own that they'd like to keep, one of which surprises me. Dark Leo owns a plant that looks a bit like one of Master Splinters. When I ask he explains what happened a while ago when they tried to attack the turtles.

"I'm proud of you," I hug him, he doesn't really resist, probably wanting my affection. I can't believe staying with my brothers for a while had such a good impact on him, teaching him to share like I had kept telling him.

After, I am led to their ship, the Terrorpin. It looks vaguely like the Hovershell but I don't want to say anything.

"You've been busy!" I comment to Dark Don as we get in. He doesn't respond though, blushing slightly and grinning kind of shyly at me instead before taking off.

We fly back to the penthouse in his machine, on the way he shows me how to pilot it for some weird reason, I guess it's because I can understand easier than his brothers.

When we get back there, Cody meets us and leads us down to the level, which is now theirs.

"See? Isn't this better?" I show them around the area.

"Then if you want, you can even come upstairs, but I've given you all you'll need down here" Cody smiles at them.

I tell Cody to let the others know I'll be staying down here tonight to make sure they settle easier. At least all the problems seem to have gone now, I guess there was truly nothing to worry about before. Now I'm safe and with both sets of brothers, and furthermore, happy.

"Violet, what's this thing?" Dark Mikey asks from in his room.

I enter and have to restrain my laughter. "That's a bed silly! You know, what you sleep on"

He looks confused, "We've always just slept on the floor"

"Well now you don't"

I leave his bedroom with a sigh and flop down onto the sofa, next to Dark Leo.

He gives me a knowing glance, "Not easy, is it?"

"Huh?" I rub my eyes tiredly.

"Looking after them"

I roll my eyes slightly, "I just want you guys to be happy". I then grin at him, "So are you going to go to bed, fearless leader?" I know the others call him that too, I just couldn't resist.

"Don't push your luck," he grumbles as he gets up and tries to hide a yawn. I let him go off to his room and sit there for a moment, feeling myself drifting off.

"I'm back…" someone hisses before I loose myself in my sleep.

Extra Notes: Awwww...you gotta love Dark Mikey :3 I got rid of a redundant bit at the end which was basically Violet waffling on about the "I'm back..." when she woke up. The next chapter will go into it somewhat ;)