Author's Note: Sorry for the wait. Been busy these last few days. Plus I just started school again, so a few hours of my day have been devoted to that. Anyway I tried with the chapter, the last half of the story could have been better. I just really wanted to get through this part. Still, enjoy.
Chapter 6: Recovering Part 2
The drumming of his own heartbeat is the first thing Leo heard as his eyes opened, revealing a blurry world before him. Just then he silently cried out as a horrendous pain shot through his plastron. Both of his hands moved up to clutch it but that caused a few pops to sound from his arms, causing more pain.
Eyes shutting, he could see his eye lids as he turned to his side. Planting his hands on the ground Leo grunted as he pushed himself up, eyes opening once more but his vision much clearer than it was before.
"G…Guys?" Leo's called out hoarsely as the sight of his brothers came to him. "AH!" he cried out as he moved forward but a sharp pain flared up in his plastron, right where his ribs were. Reaching up he was surprised to feel something wrapped around him. Looking down he found his own belts wrapped around where his ribs were. "What the…"
Just then he looked back up at his brothers. He saw Mikey with a belt wrapped around his arm, maybe to stop blood. Then he looked over at Raph, who had his leg wrapped up in a way, just like the way Don did when they sprained apart of themselves.
"Don!" Leo cried out as he moved over to his second youngest side, noticing that he was bloody and didn't looked to have at least been patched up.
Sitting down next to his brother Leo then grunted in pain as he pulled the olive green turtle into his lap. "Donny, wake up…" he tried to rouse him but it was no use. Both of the blue clad turtle's eyes closed as he then looked over his body, checking the conditions.
Donny's wounds weren't that bad but they were worse near and on his face. There was dried and fresh blood, welts bruises and various cuts. The memory of what their captors did to the came back as Leo's fist clenched in anger, furious as to what their captors did to him and his brothers.
Both of his eyes then saw the bowels of water before him, and then the damp purple bandana draped on the side of one. It clicked into the leaf green turtle's mind, he knew what happened right now, "Shell Donny…why didn't you fix yourself up first?"
Leo's head shook as he looked down at his knocked out brother. This is something that Don would always do, put his brothers before himself. It was always like that even when they were children. Even when they were hurt he would treat them first before he took care of himself. Now chances were he was paying the price for that.
"Ooohhh!" a painful groan came from behind, which prompt Leo to look back.
"Mikey!" he called out, watching as his youngest brother came to, only to cry out and clutch his bandaged arm.
"Shell…I feel like I got hit by the battle shell," the sea green turtle spoke out as he painfully sat up, still holding his arm. The same pain that Leo felt washed over him as well, but then briefly forgotten as his surrounding came into view. Then the memory of earlier returned, and the situation presented itself before him. "Or more like Triceraton."
"Mikey, you ok?" Leo asked, still sitting with Don in his lap.
"Yeah, I'll make it…maybe after a long nap though."
"I need your help, Donny did it again."
"What?" Mikey questioned, then saw Leo's belts positioned on his upper plastron. Looking down he then saw his arm wrapped with a belt like a bandage. He then looked at Don and saw his condition. Then compared it to Leo's and then himself. "Oh shell!"
"What's with the-AH!" they both looked and saw Raph awake and trying to get up, but his injuries prevented him from doing so.
"Raph, don't try to move," Leo tried to say. "You look more banged up than us."
"I've taken worse beatings than this," The red clad turtle grunted as he tried to get to his feet but cried out in pain as he applied pressure to his left leg. He fell to the ground, clutching the bandaged limb. He looked down and saw it, "What the shell!"
"Don did it again," Leo answered the obvious question that was to come.
Raph then looked up at his older brother, a bit of worry washed over him as he then looked at his second youngest brother. Then a bout of anger flared in him, at the Triceratons, not his brother. "Those good for nothing…"
"Save it Raph, Donny may be in worse condition," Leo tried to tell his angered brother.
"Why do you say that?" Mikey grunted as he painfully crawled over to his older brother, to help any way he could.
"I see a lot of damage done to Donny's head, and since he managed to bandage us up that meant he fell asleep, which is bad."
"You mean he might have a conclusion?" Mikey asked.
"Concussion numbskull," Raph corrected.
"Guys this is bad, from what I can tell Don might not wake up," Leo announced sadly. Now this piece of news got their attention, this was bad now.
"How so?" Raph asked.
"Concussions are basically bad damage to one's head, it's very dangerous to fall asleep when you have one."
"What do we do Leo?" Mikey asked with a worried expression on his face.
Leo just shook his head, reaching up to untie his own bandana to use to clean the blood off his brother. "There's not much we can do. Just clean off Don and pray he wakes up."
"He will wake up," Raph insisted, not wanting to think of the brutal outcome.
"Lets…not get our hopes up," the leaf green turtle responded as his bandana come undone.
"Fearless don't-"
"What can I do to help?" Mikey spoke up, silencing Raph up, wanting to avoid a fight at such an important moment.
"Hold Don's head up," Leo instructed as his brother was taken into Mikey's hands. The blue clad turtle moved over to the bowel of water and dipped his bandana inside. Don did enough and it didn't feel right to use his to clean his own wounds with. "I need to clean the blood off."
The youngest nodded as he kept his brother's head leveled, while he watched his brother carefully cleaned the blood off. Leo tried to be as careful as possible because of the welts and scabs that may be on his face. He may not be as skill as Don but he did know how to treat some wounds.
"I tell ya," Raph grunted, as he crawled over to his brother's side, being careful not to put pressure on his leg. "Donny is going to get himself killed if he keeps doing this."
"I know," Leo responded in a low voice, concentrating on his work. "But you know how Don is…always caring for others before himself."
"That caring it going to be the end of him one day," Raph responded.
"Please…just…stop," Mikey pleaded, looking at them. "There are important things right now than us arguing." He knew that a fight might start so the sea green turtle tried to defuse before it could start.
"We know Mikey…it's just…" Raph sighed as he looked at his knocked out brother. "I think he really done it this time."
"The only way we'll know he's ok is if he wakes up," Leo said next.
"When he wakes up," Mikey corrected his brother, not wanting to think that way. They had to think positive right now and hope for the best.
But unfortunately fate seemed to have thrown them a curve ball, as their cuffs glowed and their wrists were binded together. They were caught off guard by this that they tried to once again pull them apart with no success.
"Oh no, not now!" Leo said out loud.
As soon as he said that the doors to the cell opened, revealing four Triceraton guards, who were grinning like madmen. "We meet once again prisoners."
Raph growled as all his pain was forgotten, even the one in his leg, as he stood and charged them. But unfortunately the red clad turtle's movements were slow and he was immediately caught and lifted off the ground. "Get your paws off me!" Raph shouted as he thrashed around to get free.
"Didn't get enough huh?" the guard said as he walked in further and slammed Raph into the ground, on his plastron, causing a huge cry of pain to sound from him. Immediately Raph tried to get back up but he's firmly pinned down, plus his weaken state made it worse. "Time for another sample."
The other guards came in and shoved the other turtles to the ground, holding them in place. It was no use fighting them after a huge beating, so they didn't resist. Their eyes widen as the same differently dressed Triceratons came in, holding those weird Syringe guns. They didn't need to guess what was happening next.
They cried out as the needles pierced their skins, and blood vessels. They could do nothing but watch as more blood is drawn from them, the needles inducing more pain as they remained inside. Donny fortunately was spared the pain as he laid still out cold. A minute passed as the blood filled the pint sized glass tubes as the needles were roughly pulled out, causing more grunts to come out.
Just like that the three were released and they remained on the ground as the guards walked out. The cell door closed soon after, leaving them locked within. Their cuffs dimmed as their wrists were released.
Raph let out a loud growl as he got back up to sitting position, "Those good for nothing dino rejects are totally asking for it!"
"We know Raph," Leo grunted in pain as he sat up. "But there's nothing else we can do, especially in our condition.
"When we get free they are so going to pay for it," the emerld green turtle's teeth gritted as his fist started to shake from keeping it clenched. "And why in the shell did they take blood from us again!?"
'No idea dudes," Mike responded as he rested his shell against the wall, leaning his head back. "I'm not in the mood to think right now."
"Still whatever they're doing it for it must-" Leo is then cut off by a groan. They all turned and saw it was coming from Don, whose eyelids were shaking.
"Donny!?" they all spoke, crowding around their bother, looks of hope and relief on their faces.
Another groan came out of the olive green turtle as a hand came up to rub his head, both of his eyes opening. "Ugh…I have a terrible headache."
"Don!" they all shouted as they pulled him into an embrace. They were glad he's awake, so now they didn't have to worry about him not waking up.
"Not so tight," Don said as he managed to push them away, pushing himself up to sitting positon. Wincing as he felt pain in his arm, prompting him to look what's causing it. "What the…what happened?" Donny asked as he clutched his bleeding arm.
"They took another pint from us," Raph growled as he moved closer to his brother. "But before we address that." He then pulled his hand back and swung it but Leo blocked it. But then the leaf green turtle back hands Don In the back of his head.
"OW!" he cried out, rubbing the throbbing spot. "What was that for?"
"How many times do we have to tell you to treat yourself first before us!" Raph shouted at his brother.
"Do you know how much danger you put yourself into by doing something stupid like that!?" Leo lectured alongside Raph, wringing out his bandana before tying it back on his face. "You basically risked not being able to wake up, you should have at least made sure you didn't have a concussion."
"And you're trying to make me aware of this by causing further damage to my head," Donny responded, still rubbing the back of his head.
"We're just trying to remind you of the severity of the situation you put us through," Leo responded, eyes locked on with his brother. Even though he's hurt he's in lecture mode.
"Do you know how worried you had us?" Mikey put in his two cents. "Knowing that you may not wake up, and knowing that you took care of us first before yourself."
"I had to, you guys were more important," Don tried to defend himself, managing to find his bandana and picking it up.
"More important than your health?" Raph asked, stern look on his face.
"Yeah," was all he said, tying the bandana back around his head, it still a bit damp.
The response caused them all to be silent, a sigh soon following. "Don, it's not like we don't appreciate the help…it's just that…" Leo started to say.
"We don't want you to worry us more than needed," Mikey finished. "The next time something like this happens, please think smarter."
Donny remained silent, taking in what his brothers said. He really wanted to treat himself first, but he always put his brothers before him, which made things much harder. Knowing deep down that he would continue to do that. "I'll try," he said.
"And this time you better mean it," Raph responded, as he stretched his injured leg out, looking at the makeshift bandage. "So doc, what's wrong with us?"
Donny didn't say anything as he crawled over to where his bed is and rested his shell against it. Taking a few breaths before going back into doctor mode. "Well, Leo first off you may have some bruised ribs, so the upper part of your plastron may hurt if you apply pressure."
"So…" Leo reached up to the belts that were the makeshift bandages.
"Best not mess with them," Don warned, before he looked at his younger brother. "Mikey you were lucky, all you had were bruises and welts and a bit of blood. I accidently tore off a scab while cleaning your wounds so best leave the belt on for a bit."
"Ok, thanks," he nodded.
Now he looked at his last brother, "Raph you may have a problem. I'm not sure but your leg may be broken or sprained."
"Oh swell," he folded his arms.
"Just tell me, are you able to put pressure on your leg?"
"Just a bit, but too much and it hurts," the red clad turtle responded.
"Well then it might be a sprain, just a small one," Don sighed, leaning his head back. "Just keep off it and you'll be fine in a day or two."
"Ok, now what about you?" Leo asked.
Don took a minute to think over himself, noting the condition he is in. "Since I'm awake I can rule out concussion. So I put myself with Mikey, just some bruises and stuff."
"So, we're in the clear?" Mikey asked.
"As long as there's no more surprise attacks on us, yes."
They all nodded. "That's good," Leo said. "Now back to another issue."
"Yeah, why are they drawling our blood?" Raph brought it back up.
"I have no idea," Donny responded, bring a dissatisfied sigh from his brothers. All in all they hoped he could at least give a plausible explanation to the situation. "But whatever it is, it's not good. There's a purpose for it, but I doubt we'll be able to find out."
"Afraid you would say that," Raph responded as he then moved over to one of the bowls that held the water. Taking a minute he looked at it carefully and it was indeed water. "I'm surprised they left us this."
"Me too," Leo responded, agreeing his brother. "I thought they would let us die of thirst."
"No," Donny responded, shaking his head. "Remember they want us alive so they don't want to risk anything."
Raph then picked the bowl up and took a sip of it, drinking some down for a few seconds before stopping, letting out a satisfied sigh. "Either way it's quenching."
"Best save some," Mikey suggested as he moved over to his bed. "Who knows when they'll give us more."
"Mikey's right," Leo nodded his head. "Best ration it."
"And even though we just woke up I suggest we get some more rest," Don told them all, earning looks of confusion from them all.
"Why?" Mikey asked.
"Come on, in the state we're in, I doubt we could do anything else. Besides it'll help our recovery a lot better," the purple clad turtle responded, slowly hauling himself on his bed, making sure not to wince from the pain he felt.
"You know," Raph spoke up. "That actually makes sense."
They all nodded, finding their genius brother's explanation right. They were still hurt and needed time to recover, and rest would do them good. So once they got situated they got on their beds and all fell asleep. It would take time but they could overcome anything else that comes their way.
A/N: Hope you like. I tried a lot with here and I hope it's good. Now there's going to be a timeskip in the next chapter, maybe a few days. Things might get a bit edgy in the next chapter. Still I'll try my best. Till next time.