A/N: Wow, I took a long time for this, eh? Well, it's been half-way done for a while. It's just... Okay well this week's exam week which means SUMMER VACATION next week. That should give me the much-needed break to get my fics updated. I'm currently working on Tales of Turtle Tots too to post soon. I'm not so happy how the tot-scene began but it's gonna get better. I'm also writing a fic I should start posting called "Daddy's Little Princess" about Mikey having a daughter by mysterious circumstances named Lorelei, only living heir to an alien planet. I also writing in a few others...too many to say here really...

Disclaimer: I don't own them, for if I did, Splinter-sensei would kill me. I would not want that old rat's anger directed at me. All I own is the plot, Dr. Elias Svone, and his minions.

I know what's Svone's capable of. I mean, Donny's still not really the same after that future dream stuff. That's why when he entered the small room I was chained up in, I already knew this wasn't going to be good… I squirm against the glowing rings binding me, hoping desperately to get loose. Images of my capture flash before my eyes…

"Run, Michelangelo!"

…I hope sensei's alright. He tried so hard to keep Svone's men away from me…

…Blood pooling on the ground…

…I know they must have really injured him. I remember…

"I can't! Sensei…!"

…I squeeze my eyes shut. I'm sorry, sensei… I tried…

…Arms grabbing me; dragging me away…

…I tried…

"Michelangelo…"

I barely open my eyes to look at Svone as he says my name. I tug harder against my binds. I already know it's hopeless…

"Again we meet." He says as if continuing through my silence, "This would be the third time I believe. You remember now, right?"

"What was that stuff you put in me anyway?" I ask, grumpily.

"Just another experiment I've been working on. It replenishes lost memories, as you are aware of now I am sure. Useful if someone acquires an annoying bout of amnesia, you see. My tests show it didn't quite work as expected, but we can work with that."

"What do ya mean… You've been watching me?"

"Michelangelo," He says, sighing in an almost degrading way, "I watched Donatello weeks before I lured him to me. I'm very thorough in my experiments."

"We're not your guinea pigs." I growl, sounding almost like Raph.

"Oh but you are, Michelangelo. You are the one thing that can help me perfect this drug and you have no choice but to." I struggle harder as he nears me and squeeze my eyes shut. I feel him connect things to the side of my head and I blink an eye open to see him walk away. "This may hurt." He warns with a smirk before pressing a button on the control panel. Suddenly I feel as if my brain's being hit with a lotta electricity at once. I don't notice as I scream out in shock and pain as my vision goes white before the blurry edges of color blink across it. I don't know when I lose consciousness, but it sure was a relief when I did…

When the three brothers arrive at their home, they freeze at the door. The lair was a mess of overturned furniture and ripped papers. Leo was the first to spot Splinter when they scanned the room. He quickly ran over, almost tripping over misplaced items scattered over the floor. "Sensei!" He said as he knelt down in front of the unmoving figure. Splinter's tail was practically curled around him where he laid on the floor. He was situated in a such a way that it looked as if he had just not moved once he fell. A puddle of blood lied beneath him and Leo carefully turned him onto his back so the long gash across the rat's chest could be seen. Splinter's face scrunched up at the movement; a groan of pain leaving his mouth through his clenched teeth.

"Are you awake? Can you say something?" Leo asked, frantically.

"Michelangelo… Must… Can't allow them to…" Splinter began muttering, sounding vaguely delirious. Donny slowly joined his brother and gently and quietly checked their teacher over.

"Father…? Please, tell me what happened. Where's Mikey?" Leo tried again. Splinter continued muttering, most of the time incoherently.

"Leo?" Donny said as he gently turned Splinter's head. "He's delirious because…he may have a concussion." He pointed to a small amount of blood behind Splinter's ear.

"Shouldn't there be more blood?" Leo asked.

"Not if there's swelling inside his skull…" Donny said, "But hopefully that's not the case because I can't do anything about that. Only a doctor could…"

"Hopefully…"

Donny carefully picked Splinter up and laid him on the couch before running to get his supplies to bandage his injuries. Raph ran up to Leo then looking worried. "Mike's gone. There's evidence tha fight carried up ta Mike's room and around it. I think they took 'im, Leo. I think that's what those bastards meant when they said 'contained'. We gotta find him. Who knows what that jerk Svone's doing ta 'im!"

"I do. Or at least I think I do. I mean, it seems most of my induced nightmare about Mikey have some semblance to the truth…" Donny said as he walked towards them from his lab. "It's that dream of his. Svone experimented on him then and now he's experimenting on him again…"

"You don't know if that's what really happened." Leo said.

"I know enough." Donny said back as he began bandaging Splinter's wounds.

"Well we still gotta get Mike back no matta what Svone's doin' ta him. We all know it's gotta be bad." Raph said and his brothers nodded in agreement.

I can see flashes of my life passing before my eyes. It's like I'm dying, but it never ends. And there's that pain. It doesn't go away for a second. It's the worse thing I ever felt in my life. I wish it would just end. Eventually, I don't even care in what way it ends. If I just die, the pain will be gone. That's all I want.

By the time it's over, I lie limp in my binds. I don't want to move at all and I feel strangely numb. I vaguely hear Svone moving around before he tips my face towards him. "Worn out already? We only just began. I haven't even started on the actual tests yet."

"What are you going to do…?" I ask him, softly.

"See how much memory I can bring back once your mind has been wiped clean…" He says. My eyes widen fearfully. I don't want to lose my memories. I don't want to forget… Svone smiles and holds up a long needled syringe. I stare at it hoping against hope he won't use it, but what would be the point of showing it to me then? He tilts my head a little, exposing my neck more, before inserting the needlepoint into my skin up towards my head. I squeeze my eyes shut afterwards. I don't notice him remove the syringe as a result.

At first I feel nothing. Then a white flash crosses my vision. I scream out as an intense burning pain fills my head. I tug against my binds only subconsciously as I try to fight away the pain, but the more I do so, the more painful it becomes. Eventually, I can't take it anymore and I gratefully slip into unconsciousness.

Raph anxiously paces back and forth, fists clenched tightly at his side. He was having a lot of trouble staying still for longer than a minute. He didn't know how long ago he began pacing and he didn't care. Mikey was out there somewhere with the Svone nutcase and his sensei was lying delirious on the couch as he fought against pain and death. Raph wasn't in a good 'resting' mood.

"Raph!" Leo snapped, obviously agitated.

"What?!" Raph whirled on him.

"Sit down or something. You're driving me crazy!" He said. Leo was sitting on the floor next to the couch Splinter was lying on in case their father ever became coherent enough to tell them what happened. Donny was in his lab searching for anyplace Svone could have taken Mikey. They had little options and Raph wasn't the only one at the end of his wits.

"You?! Do you have any idea what this means?! This Svone guy's a fuckin' nut! Just think about what he could be doin' ta Mikey right now!" Raph snapped.

"I know, Raph," Leo said, his eyes squeezed shut at the idea. "I know, but there's nothing we can do about it right now. We have no idea where he's holding Mikey right now. The last place he used we destroyed. You know we don't have a single lead to his current whereabouts so cool off and be patient."

"Patient? Heh, yeah, right. Like I can be patient when my little brother's in danger. Do you even care?"

"Of course I do," Leo said with a sigh of impatience as he laid his head in his palm. "I really don't want to deal with you right now. Just cool it." Leo's eyes glanced towards Splinter as his sensei's delirium continued between ragged breathing.

"I'm gonna kill Svone. I wanna feel his blood on my fists as I punch that smug smile off his ugly face. I wanna be tha one ta end 'im personally. He ain't gonna come back once I'm through wit' him." Raph vowed as he enunciated each word with a punch to his open palm. He then turned and dealt a hard punch to the nearby punching bag. His vision clouded over as he let out a roar and, imagining the bag as Svone, rained punches and kicks to it with growing ferocity. "I. Want. Him. Dead!"

A hand on his shoulder had him whipping to face his careful brother. Leo swiftly backed away as Raph, still in blind fury, went to swipe at him. "Raphael," Leo said in a clear voice as he moved into a fighting stance. With a determined look, he gave Raph a signal as he drew a single katana. Still in a fury, but knowing the challenge for what it was, responded with drawing his sais. The spar that then commenced was full of energy that both brothers needed to expel in their frustration.

By the end of it, both were breathing hard but they were still determined to the finish. Eventually, Leonardo spoke. "I know you want revenge. We all do. You're not the only one who wants his blood." He spoke firmly as the spar continued, but by now, he was mostly watching Raph carefully. Raphael said nothing so Leo continued, "We're in the same boat here. Think about it this way. If we start looking now with zero clues as to what we're dealing with, how far do you think we'd get? I'll tell ya: we'd get nowhere. This guy's smart. We know how he works, but that's not enough to base a search on. All we know is what he wants us to know." Leo stopped talking as Raph dealt a significantly heated strike that nearly cuffed Leo's head off if his katana hadn't moved to defend. "So we have nothing to go on." Leo continued again. "Nothing."

"I hate his games!" Raph growled.

"I do as well," Leo said, calmly.

"Tha fuckin' bastard!" Raph roared as he made to punch Leo with the hilt of his sai. Leo silently deflected it with an upward thrust of his arm. "How dare he do this?! How dare he take Mikey! I shoulda killed him myself afta he did all that ta Donny! I shoulda ripped 'im apart fer that! He should neva have survived! How dare he?!" With one final strike, he sunk to his knees. "I shoulda done somethin'. Awe fuck!" He punched the floor with dispelling anger. "Why didn't I do anythin'?!"

"We couldn't." Leo said; a single katana held loosely at his side as he looked down at his brother.

"He nearly killed Don with his experiments. And now he's got Mike? Damn, what are we gonna do?! What if Mikey ends up like Donny did? What if he kills 'im?!"

"Raph, I-" Leo began before noticing Donny standing near his lab door with a mixed expression of pained remembrance. "Awe, Donny…" Raph looked up as Leo said that.

"N-no it's okay," Donny immediately said, shaking off the memories, "I'm fine. You can finish talking or whatever. I'll just…go back in my lab…"

"Donny," Leo said to stop him, "Did you find anything?"

"Oh um…no, not really," He said as he awkwardly reached behind him to grab hold of his mask tails in a nervous habit. "…Sorry."

"Don't worry about it," Leo said with a small smile, "We knew it was going to be difficult. Take your time if you need it."

"'Kay."

"Hey Donny?" Raph said as he got to his feet. Donny made a 'hmm?' sound before Raph continued, slowly, "Ya ain't gotta worry 'bout Svone, gotcha? I'll take care o' him personally fer ya. He ain't gonna live afta this."

"Thanks…I think," Donny said, still slightly uncomfortable, "Um…just don't be rash about it, alright? I don't want you getting hurt 'cuza me…"

Raph cracked a smile at that. "Don't worry about me, little brother."

"Okay…" Donny still looked nervous. A nightmare prominent in his mind that wouldn't go away.

"AAAARRRUUUGGHH!"

The three brothers froze momentarily before each turned to Master Splinter. The old rat was tense in a pain he was now trying to hold back. The three ran over, Leo taking the spot nearest. "Sensei?"

Splinter waited to speak until after the pain became bearable. "Leonardo…" He said through clenched teeth, his voice breathy and weak.

"Yes, father?" Leo asked.

Splinter felt for his son's hand, his eyes never opening. "Michelangelo…must find him… His…mind in danger…"

"We don't know where he is…" Leo began, his voice higher then normal.

"Listen," Splinter said, his dark eyes falling on his eldest son, "He's not far. Svone…" He closed his eyes and turned his head to the ceiling, "…Svone close… Same place… All those years ago, it's…the same place…"

"Sensei?"

Splinter looked back at him, eyes dulling even though he's trying to hold on. "Research and Development building… Almost right above…first lair… Bet he thought that was funny… Take my son away…have him so close… If only I had gotten my hands on him then…"

"Sensei, what are you talking about?"

"That first time… Michelangelo…he was eleven… Do you remember?"

"…No," Leo said, "But we did hear about it from Mikey…"

"I'll help you remember…Leonardo," Splinter said, "If you let me."

"Of course."

A/N: So it's been a while. Now you must review so I know I didn't lose ya. ;) Please y'all? *puppy-dog look* I'll give cyber-cookies to all who do so. :D