Chapter 3 Caged

* I'm sorry but my writing style changed again in this chapter. But I think I'm going to stick with this one I like it best.*

Oh and sorry it took me so long to update this so here is the longest chapter I've ever done. Tell me what you think.*

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When he woke there was a scrapping or shuffling noise all around him.

His eyes felt heavy he didn't wanna wake up from the escape that was sleep no one would but something was calling him back. Almost like he forgot something. Something important! What happened before the darkness?

Leo struggles to open his eyes. But after being hit with the sudden overwhelming need to get up. To check on his brothers and one brother in particular he manages to sit up. Looking around him he can see Don in a cage across from him and Raph in the cage on his left but what scared him the most was the cage on his right the cage that must have been Mikey's was empty. Panic quickly overtook him jumping to his feet he despritlly tried to push the cage door open. Hearing a grown from beside him. He looked over in time to see Raph trying to sit up.

"Raph! Raph are you alright?"

Groggily Raph looks in the detection of Leo's voice. You could see the shock on his face as he realized they were in cages.

"You an't look'n to good Leo. What happened? Where are we?"

As leo watched Raph get up and try to smash open his cage he looks at Donnie stirring in his cage.

"I don't know Raph I woke up here just like you did"

Don opens his eyes and regrets it instantly as a wave of dizziness overtakes him. He shuffles around a little trying to stand up. But barely manages a sitting position. He can see Leo across from him sending a worried look his way. But pays little mind to him since all he can here is Raph trying to break his cage apart from the inside.

Finally able to stand up he looks at his brothers and asks the question Leo had been too scared to. "Guys where's Mikey?"

Thinking back on it now Mikey wished he got the blessing his brothers did. But the Ratking wouldn't let him pass out. Wouldn't let him give in to the darkness he so wished he embrace. No instead he had to watch his brothers be swarmed with rats and one by one inevitably fall. He watched as the Ratking's rats dragged them away and watched and he himself fell into his enemy's grasp. He screamed for his brothers as they were thrown in cages and he was the one taken away from his family and the only people in the he felt truly safe with.

The irony of it all was almost funny. The darkness he craved so badly was just what he got I cold dark room with no doors and no windows. No way out and he sat there for he didn't know how long. He just sat in the darkness with no one around to keep him safe. No one except the got forsaken rats. They were everywhere. Crawling on him, over him. Biting and clawing at his skin. There was nothing he could do so he just sat there in the dark, and slowly among the dark and the rats Mikey fell in a restless sleep.

Those words hit Raph hard. What did Don mean where's Mikey?

Raph looked around the room. Searched every inch but his eyes kept falling on the empty cage across from him. How had he not noticed His baby brother was not there? There was no whining, complaining or crying. Yet it hadn't even acoured to him that Mikey wasn't there.

"What do you mean where's Mikey? Where is Mikey?" Raph more than yelled at his brothers. "Was he taken wit us?"

"I don't know Raph" Leo replied trying to keep his calm in check "Before I blacked out he was the last of us standing."

"Well do you think he got away that he ran?" Both Leo and Raph could see the hope in Donnie's eyes as he asked this.

But it was gone just as fast.

"Maybe Don" Leo said hoping the same.

"Come on Leo! Don't give him false hope. Mikey is a lot of things and dose a lot of things. But we all know he wouldn't run from a fight especially with us all down for the count."

Leo locked eyes with Raph and was met with watery eyes of his red banded brother. "I know Raph! Ok I know! You don't think we both

Know this he's stubborn annoying and a down right cry baby, but he would never leave us!"

"So" Don Hiccupped trough his tears "were is he?"

"Mwa ha ha ha ha! " All three brothers whipped around to see the one person they didn't want to see standing before them.

"That's the question isn't it turtles where is you're brother?"

"Where is he? You mummified pice of scum!" Raph looked about ready to rip this assholes head off and you know what so was I!

I don't know how Leo always kept his calm at times like this but right now even I could see he was starting to lose it.

The smirk on this assholes face was really running my patience dry and I don't know how long Raph can just stand there.

"Alright turtles you want your brother back so bad answer me one question a riddle if you will. If you get it right you may have him back. Oh but hurry up I don't know how long he can last in there. Last I checked it was getting colder"

"Wait! What?" Leo looked over at Don he was near hysterical

"he's cold blooded you can't do that how long has he been in the cold?"

Leo watched as tears ran down Donnie's face, and Raph looked about ready to just lose it. He knew he had to stay calm and be there for his brothers.

"What's the riddle rat for brains?" Leo asked with what little calm he had left.

"Very well turtle. I have streets but no pavement, I have cities but no buildings, I have forests but no trees, and I have rivers but no water. What am i?" With that the three brothers watched The Ratking turn and walk away. Just before he was out of there sight he called to them "I'll be back when you have the answer"

Leo and Don both looked over at their brother who was mumbling the riddle over and over just loud enough to here.

Mikey woke up to the sound of water. In fact he was sitting in a puddle? That wasn't here before? Oh god it was cold! He looked around himself the water was about a foot high but it was rising.

It was pouring down from the hole in the ceiling the one he remembered getting thrown in.

"H..Hello? Is someone t..there?

"I'm here turtle. a gravelly voice calls "Tell me Are you more scared of the water or of the dark?" Mikey can hear him moving around above him when th figure stops by where the water was coming from Mikey starts to panic. As the water increases in speed Mikey sees the water is already at his waist and the ceiling is maybe six feet above him. All in all he was screwed.

"Well Turtle? What scares you more? Answer me!" the voice snapped at him he knew he had to answer.

"T..The Dark. I'm More s..scared of the dark! Mikey called up.

"Good to know" and with that the water slowed and the figure left Mikey in the dark with the water almost to his eyes.

It's a good thing I'm a turtle Mikey couldn't help but think to himself.

"Don you've been at it for ten minutes" Leo didn't know what to do he had no idea what the answer was and neither did Raph. If Don wasn't under such stress he would have got the answer already.

"I'm sorry Leo ok! Mikeys the one who loves riddles not me….. Wait Mikey! He told me this riddle before it was in one of the books he had as a kid

*****FLASHBACK START******

"Donny play with me? Please" A six year old Mikey whined

Donnie looking up from his crayons "No Mikey I'm trying to draw"

"Tell you what Donny ill tell you a widdle if you get it wrong we play if you get it right I'll go bug Raphie. Ok?"

Little Donnie thought this over for a moment before deciding he was much smarter than his brother and would win this bet hands down "Ok Mikey what's the riddle"

Mikey looked at Donnie a smirk on his face and said "I have streets but no pavement, I have cities but no buildings, I have forests but no trees, and I have rivers but no water. What am i?"

Don stared at Mikey for a few seconds before blinking. Surprised that his brother not only said that correctly but also that he remembered it all. But the thing that really left him speechless was that he had no idea what the answer was.

"I... I don't know Mikey what is it?"

"It's a Map Donny" came the all too happy reply "now you have to play with me!"

"Ok Mikey I lost ill play with you. What do you wanna play? Don asked happy to play with his brother.

"Well let's do more Widdles?"

*****FLASHBACK END*****

"Guys the answer is map!" Don exclaimed happily

"How do you know don?" Leo asked scared that there may be consequences if they were wrong.

Raph finally deciding to join in on the conversation sighs

"Ya Donnie how do you know?"

A look of determination came over don as he simply said

"Simple Mikey told me."

And those four words put aside all doubt

"Well turtles what is the answer?" the brothers looked around them but could not see where the voice was coming from.

"Map The answer is map!" Donnie yelled in no direction unparticular. With that all four cages opened and the voice called to them in a calm clear voice.

"Go straight through the door in front of you the door will lock and I will bring you your brother." The three brothers entered the room and heard the door lock behind them.

"Don?" Raph asked

Surveying the room dons eyes landed on the stuff in the corner

"Yes Raph?"

"Why is there blankest and medical stuff in the corner?" they all herd Raphs voice waver a little.

"I don't know Raph but I do hope it's not for Mikey"

Mikey was starting to panic there was only about two feet of air left above him and wasn't sure how much longer he could swim, he was cold and couldn't feel his legs anymore.

Mikey heard a loud scraping sound like mettle on mettle but right before he could see what it was he started to lose consciousness.

"I'm sorry bro's" and with that Mikey once again fell into the darkness. But just before he was submerged in the frigid water. An arm grabbed him and pulled him out.

Only maybe five minuts later a voice came over a speeker.

"Step back to the wall if you want your brother."

Don and Leo did as they were told no questions. Raph was a little more hesitant but after a few moments he did so as well.

The lights go out and they here the door open I loud thumping noise then a clicking of the door closing. The moment the lights turned back on the three brothers ran to Mikey's side.

"Mikey? MIKEY! Come on bro wake up!" after getting no answer Raph looked at don. "Don what do we do?"

"Leo get me the blankest in the corner he's freezing. I need to get his temperature up!" Leo looked around franticly before spotting the blankest and running over to grab them.

"He's going to be okay right, Don? Leo asked barley hiding the desperation in his voice.

"I don't know Leo. But for the next few hours we need to monitor his temperature. I think that basted had him under water so we also need to check for pneumonia"

At that last part Raphs eyes when wide!

"Wait what? Don he can't get that it almost killed me when I had it"

"I know Raph we will just have to wait and see what happens."

All three older brothers look down at Mikey all making a silent prayer that he will come out okay.

"We need you little brother, Wake up." Leo let the silent tear fall ans he watched his baby brother get covered in a blanked to bring up his temperature.

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