Chapter 18

"Raph…What?" Leo said, feeling like his brain has turned to mush

"What are you talking about?" Raph asked

"You…You died…I saw Coplan kill you" Leo said

"Kill me? No he didn't…He just threw me to the ground" Raph said

Leo snapped back, "What?...you…but"

Raph stood up, "Leo…I'm fine…Look at me" Raph said

"But…I saw you die" Leo stammered

"But I didn't…When he pushed me down I got confused when you and April screamed" Raph said

Leo wrapped his arms around Raph, "I thought you died" Leo said

"I'm fine Leo, Calm down" Raph said

"Guys! Casey!" April screamed

Raph and Leo ran to the window and looked down to see Casey still on the ground, trying to move.

"April you're going to have to go down there, We cant be seen remember" Raph said

"Yeah…Yeah I'll be right back" April said

Leo watched April walk out of the room, He turned back to Raph and looked at him.

"So…You guys saw Coplan kill me?" Raph asked

"…..Yeah…he impaled you with a sword" Leo explained

"How was that possible" Raph asked himself

"I don't know…He must have…." Then Leo remembered

"You're not Mikey"

"Leo? You ok?" Raph asked

"Leo" Mikey said beginning to cry "Leo Please…Let me help you"

"No…You're not real" Leo yelled

"Leo stop...Please" Mikey said crying

"No…No you're not real"

"Of course I'm real…Look at me?"

"No" Leo began to walk away from the fake Mikey, He fell for it once, But not again. He heard him crying behind him, just like how Mikey cries. He stopped, what was he doing. Walking away from his little brother as he cried. No. That's not him. It's just a trick. He looked behind him, looking at the Mikey as he held his head in his hands and sobbed. His stomach cringed. He hated to see Mikey cry, fake or not. He walked up to him.

"Mikey" He said reaching for his shoulder

Mikey slapped the hand away, "Go away, you're not Leo, Leo would never say what you said"

"Mikey!"

"Go away!" He said grabbing a nearby rock and ramming it into Leo's side, Making him fall

"Mikey stop!" Leo said holding his throbbing side

"Stop...You're not Leo!" Mikey said hitting Leo with the rock again, and continued to do it screaming "You're not real"

Leo tried to tell him to stop, but he wasn't letting up. "STOP!" He said pulling out his axe and swinging it at Mikey. He felt as it hit the side of his head, making him fall like a ragdoll.

Leo looked at the head of his axe, Seeing blood drip off. He felt tears emerge as he saw Mikey, Face down on the ground, With a big red slash in the side of his face.

"Leo!" Raph shouted

Leo snapped out of his trance, "He's done it before"

"Done what?" Raph asked

"Made me see something that wasn't there" Leo said

"What?"

"When we were in the city…and I was walking down the street alone, and Mikey came to me, he was so happy to see me….but I didn't think it was him, I thought it was one of Coplans things…cause when I got to the city, I saw you"

"You're pathetic, thinking we actually give a damn about you, why don't you just leave, no one wants you anymore"

"You're worthless, The worst big brother ever, I hate you"

"Me, Don, And Mikey have been talking...No one likes you, We go out and attack the foot ninja's hoping that you will finally die...I dream about slitting your throat and bathing in your blood...You're nothing..."

"Leo...Drop dead already...The world would be better without you"

"And…It wasn't you…and I thought Mikey was fake...So I killed him…But when we were together, we both saw him and he was alive" Leo said

Then Raph remembered seeing Leo when he entered the city.

"You pathetic excuse for a turtle, why don't you just disappear, make our live better...Make everything better"

"Every night..i wish for a better brother...And I get you, You're an insult to this family"

"I never loved you...Ever since the day you were born, I've dreamt that you would suffer"

"Why can't you just end your life and end our suffer already"

"You..Are...Nothing"

"So…Coplan can make us see things that aren't really happening" Raph asked

Leo nodded.

"What are we going to do?" Raph asked

"I don't know…But we aren't safe here" Leo said

"Then where are we safe Leo?" Raph asked

Leo looked down at Casey and watched April take care of him.

"We have to leave town" Leo said

"And leave Coplan hear to keep killing people?" Raph said loudly

"Look Raph, I don't have the answers, I'm just as lost as you are" Leo shouted

Raph stared at him, "I…I'm just scared"

Leo placed a hand on his shoulder, "I know you are…I am too"

They stood in silence, Then the door swung open and April walked in with Casey on her shoulder.

"How's he doing? Raph asked

"He's hanging in there, I fixed his dislocated shoulder down there, that was the only major injury" She responded

"April, do you know of any where me and Raph can lay low, we can't go back to the lair cause he knows where it is and we can't stay here" Leo said

"Umm, I should know of some places" April said

"Ok…Me and Raph will go back to the lair to pick up some stuff up" Leo said

"Sounds good, I'll have a place when you get back"

….

Leo felt weird walking into the lair, It felt like walking into someone else's house, that feeling of not wanting to touch anything.

"I'll grab our spare weapons" Raph said

"Ok"

Leo walked into the kitchen and examined the plate of food on the table, the pizza that Coplan had eaten when he was Mikey. Leo picked up the plate and threw it across the room.

"Leo!"

"What?"

"You better come see this" Raph said

Leo's curiosity shot up as he walked out of the kitchen and into the dojo, "What?" He asked. He saw Raph staring at a sword that was thrusted into the wall, with a note attached to it.

"What the?" Leo said

"Look at what it says" Raph said as he plucked the piece of paper from the sword and handed it to Leo. Leo took the paper and examined it.

'A little surprise for my best friends!

You're Friend

Dr. K Coplan'

"He was in here" Raph said

Leo read the letter a couple more times, "What do you think he could have done?"

"I don't know but I don't want to stick around to find out" Raph said

"Ok then lets go" Leo crumpled up the paper and threw it on the ground

Leo and Raph walked out, "Wait! I want to see if anything new happened on the news" Raph said

"Alright hurry up" Leo said, getting chills just from staying in the lair. Raph picked up the remote and pushed the button. The TV flickered and then the screen came on. The screen was black but a red word pooped up.

'Goodbye'

"RAPH NO!" Leo shouted, but was to late, all he heard was a large bang and a bright light.