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"Mikey..." April placed her right hand on Mikey's shoulder and rubbed his shell with her left hand. "Calm down..." she smiled apologetically at Donnie who was watching his brother with anxious eyes. "It's okay, Donnie. We've been through so much over the years, Mikey never stopped thinking of you all."
"I didn't," Mikey spat the words out as if they were venom. "But they did! Leo and Raph, they both just left us without a word. Whenever they bump into each other, they fight and we're stuck nursing their injuries. They forgot about our family, April."
"Perhaps this is just their way of coping with stress, Mikey. We're not teenagers anymore," she glanced at Donnie. "Well...We aren't anyway. But that's my point; life is a constant survival these days and we knew this. Leo and Raph...They're hurting too."
"What was that?" a voice grunted, the door swinging open as if somebody had kicked it. Stood in the doorway was a turtle wearing a long black coat that almost touched the ground and a pair of glasses with black lenses. He had several scars over his head and his legs which could be seen from under the open coat. He wore a thick belt around his waist and was holding a katana in his left hand which Donnie simply blinked at as his thoughts took over.
Before Donnie could utter a single word, Mikey suddenly spoke up, "Knock before you come in here. We could be planning our next move, Leo...Not that you'd care either way," the moody way that Mikey spoke to Leo concerned Donatello but it also confirmed that he was staring at his future older brother Leonardo.
"Well, I hear no strategies being discussed so I think that settles that," future Leo responded with the same snappy-tone as Michelangelo. He suddenly looked around, holding up his katana as if he were about to start fighting with it. "There's somebody else here," Leo announced to the room. "Is it an intruder, April?"
"No, Leo," April said quickly as Mikey stood in front of Donatello with his hands hovering over his nunchucks protectively. April swallowed and spoke again, "Leo, put down your weapon. We're all friends here."
"I can sense a different presence," Leo snapped, keeping his hold on his katana. "I sense a younger energy here, what's going on?!"
"Just drop the sword, Leo," Mikey ordered, pulling out his nunchucks. "You're making a scene!"
Donatello walked straight past Mikey, their shoulders brushing together as Donnie headed towards Leo, his mind focused on trying to calm the situation. Leo heard the footsteps and raised his katana but made no movement as Donnie got close enough to stand in front of his brother. He slowly held out his hand and placed it on the handle of the katana and pushed it down, which Leo automatically dropped on the ground as he placed his own hand on Donnie's head.
"Donnie?" Leo whispered, recognising the particular scent and touch as one of his younger brothers. "H-How? This isn't possible..."
"Leonardo," Donatello spoke with a quiet tone. "You're...partly right. I'm not from this timeline; I'm from the past...But, as you said that you can sense a young energy, I think you know what this means."
"He doesn't know about this world, Leonardo," April explained as gently as she could. "He's only 15...He doesn't have Donatello's memories..."
Without saying a word, Leonardo gently pushed Donnie's hands away from him and then picked up his katana from the ground before exiting the room in total silence. Mikey huffed and turned on his heel, stomping towards the computer screens displaying codes and locations, not bothering to go after his older brother.
"Why are they all acting so different?" Donnie asked, trying not to sound irritated with his brothers' behaviour towards each other. After seeing the way that Mikey and Leo rubbed shoulders, Donnie was a lot more anxious about seeing what future Raph was like. "April, what happened to my brothers?"
April sighed heavily and folded her arms, "The Shredder happened, Donnie," she answered simply. "We were all young when he was able to find the lair; blew it to pieces, actually."
"What?" Donnie cried, his eyes wide with horror. "How? Why?"
April sighed heavily and folded her arms, "After the lair was attacked, we all had to make a new home. Mikey and I headed out to find the others while he tried to nurse his injured arm but..." April's face paled at the memory before she continued with a shaky voice, "Mikey's arm injury got infected so we had to amputate it so the infection wouldn't spread. Later on, during a mission when we were still just kids, we got ambushed by the Foot which caused Leo to permanently lose his sight and he became bitter and angry afterwards. Mikey lost his smile and carefree nature and swapped it for anger and frustration," April's voice softened along with her gaze. "I often think about our times together as kids, those memories are few that I cherish. You're all my family that I hold dear...But that family is slowly breaking away," she glanced over her shoulder at the memorials of Master Splinter and Casey. "Piece by piece..."