Chapter 23
"Don? Are you ok?" Mikey asked
Don felt his vision slowly come in and out of view, he felt his knee buckle and he fell hard to the floor.
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Raph looked down where Coplan use to be, seeing nothing. He then looked up at Leo, seeing his face grow more and more pale.
"Leo…You ok? You don't look so good" Raph said
Leo felt his brain grow larger to the point of bursting. He fell to his knee's, then face first into the ground, falling into a deep darkness.
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"Don!" Mikey screamed, running to his side and examining him. He grabbed his shoulder and shook him slightly, "Donnie…wake up" Mikey said. He heard a sound that made his heart drop, looking up, his fears were confirmed as a whole crowd of zombies broke through the window and made their way into city hall.
"Shit Don" Mikey said, pulling out his Desert Eagle and began taking zombies down.
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Raph hurried down next to Leo, placing his hand on his neck and feeling the small bumps, indicating he was still breathing. He heard the sound of some footsteps getting closer. The heavy clunks of metal boots hitting the floor.
The UFTU
Raph's heart dropped as they got closer. He quickly looked around the lair to find anywhere he can hide him and Leo.
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Don's eyes snapped open, he felt his pulse rise when he looked around and saw nothing but complete darkness. He rubbed the ground and felt the cold, smooth metal ground. He lifted up into a sitting position and tried to focus his eyes in the darkness.
He frantically looked around and slowly started to panic, "Hello!" He called out
He heard a scuffle in the distance, which made him tense up. He stayed perfectly still, straining his ears to listen for any more noises off in the distance.
When he didn't hear anything for a while, he pushed himself off the ground and stood up. He began to carefully walk forward, being cautious of his surroundings. Even though he couldn't see anything.
He tried to keep his breathing as normal as possible, one mistake and he could probably start hyperventilating. He bit his lip and continued down the path to darkness. Then he heard a sound which made him stop, standing still.
"Who's there?" He heard
The voice sounded strangely familiar, a voice he hadn't heard in a long time.
Then out of the corner of his eye, a light flicked on, lighting only a small spot. He looked at the light for a second before hearing the voice again, "Head for the light". Giving commands made the voice even more recognizable. "Ok" Don responded and started heading toward the light.
As he drew closer and closer, noises started entering his ears, like footsteps, metal slightly tapping against each other. But as he looked to the light, he saw a person enter the light before Don did. The figure stood with his back facing Don, and then he turned around, Don's heart dropped.
"Leo?" Don said softly
Then Don felt a sharp pain in his head, he groaned loudly and closed his eyes, suddenly hearing gunshots and yelling. He opened his eyes, vision going in and out of focus, he didn't quite understand what he was seeing, but it looked like a ceiling quickly moving with him. He looked down and saw a crowd of zombies chasing him, noticing he was on the ground and begin dragged. He looked up again and saw Mikey shooting a pistol and slowly dragging Don across the floor, away from the zombies.
He felt another sharp pain in his head and closed his eyes, once he opened them again, he was back in the room full of darkness, seeing only one light, and Leo standing under that light.
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Leo squinted in the darkness, someone was out there, he heard them. He waited in the light for the person to walk into the light. He sighed and crossed his arms, looking out into the darkness. Then he heard the footsteps again, coming closer and closer. He uncrossed his arms and awaited the person to show up. Then he felt a sharp pain in his head, he held his head and closed his eyes, groaning in pain.
When he opened them again, he noticed that he wasn't standing in darkness anymore, but he was laying down in a new kind of darkness, with this one, he could still see a little bit. He saw the patched of light that seeped through whatever was blocking him, when he looked through it, he saw four UFTU soldiers walking around there lab.
He looked around and saw Raph lying right next to him, Leo noticed that he was panicking a bit, but he tried to keep himself silent. When Leo looked around again, then he noticed where he was. Lying under a pile of rocks caused by the explosion.
Leo looked back through the rocks and saw a UFTU solider looking at the pile of rubble they were under and began walking toward it. He then felt another sharp pain in his head and closed his eyes. He felt hands on his shoulders, shaking him slightly.
He opened his eyes and saw Don standing right in front of him.
"Don?" Leo said
Don looked at his face, examining it. "Leo is that you?" He asked
"Who else would it be?" Leo said
Don slowly backed away, "Don what's wrong"
"You're not Leo" Don said
That's when the memory slammed into Leo's head
"Oh my god Leo" Mikey said running toward him and kneeling next to him. "What happened to you?"
Leo pushed Mikey's hand away and looked at him.
"Leo...What's wrong" Mikey asked worried
"You're not real" Leo said
"What are you talking about?"
"You're not Mikey" Leo said standing up and stepping away from him
"Don…Don it's me…You got to believe me" Leo pleaded
"Prove it"
"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?"
"Whenever, you would stay up at night to work on you work I would always try and hide the coffee so you couldn't get any" Leo said
Don was quite for a second, "I'm sorry, but that's not enough…I already walked around with one imposter of a brother for too long, I'm not going to be stupid this time" Don said
"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
Don began to back away into the darkness, "No" Leo said softly, he had to think of something that only Don would know.
"Madison Square Garden…Two months ago" Leo shouted
It was quiet, to quiet. Don slowly walked back into the light, looking at Leo.
"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 cringed at the memory, then continued, "you and I went out patrolling and we found that dead little girl…you went into depression for days after that, you wanted to find the guy who did it, but never did"
Don's face was unreadable, as it always was. Leo walked up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. "I'm sorry" Don said, wrapping his arms around Leo and hugging him tightly. Leo embraced him as well and smiled in relief, "its ok…Are you ok" Leo asked
"Yeah…I'm fine…But where are we?"
"No clue…I was in the lair with Raph before I passed out and ended up here" Leo said
"Same here, I was talking to Mikey and then I just passed out" Don said
"You found Mikey!" Leo almost shouted
Don didn't know how to answer, "Yeah…I found him" He finally said
"Is he ok?" Leo asked
"Yeah, he's good!" Don said
Don then noticed the large cut mark running down his plastron, held together with large staples. "Leo! What happened to your plastron?" Don asked worriedly
"Oh…Well while you were gone…A lot of things happened to our world…Dr. Coplan has gone mad with power…Me and Raph went to investigate a hospital and he was there…he shot up the place and I got captured…He was in mid vivisection when Raph, Casey and April came to save me"
"What! Oh my god" Don said
"Yeah…It gets worse…a lot of innocent people are dying…he's created this special forces unit that was sent to find us…but Coplan had gotten out of hand and stared randomly killing people"
"That bastard needs to die" Don said
"You don't need to tell me twice" Leo said
Then they both heard something that made them silent, Don looked around for the source of the sound, but when he looked back at Leo, he saw a large dark hand form behind him.
"LEO!" Don screamed
The hand grabbed Leo and pulled him into the darkness, "NO!" Don screamed, then felt something hit his chest and sent him flying into the darkness, he hit the ground hard, looked up and saw the light go out, and then Leo's screams pierced his ears.