WARNING: This chapter contains material readers may find distressing, also references to My fanfics 'Changes' and 'Cherished' are mentioned here.
Chapter Fifteen
Trapped Inside
If anyone could guess what was going on in the minds of Donatello and Monalisa's minds as they lay sleeping, they would probably be right in thinking they were trapped within their minds.
No-one truly knows what goes on inside when someone's in an induced coma, but one could only guess that being in a deep sleep they would be having dreams.
As Donatello lay there along with Monalisa covered in wires and breathing via a respirator, his body never moved, but his mind inside was filled with nightmares and horrific memories of what had taken place only recently when imprisoned in the Foot Headquarters…..
Donatello was held tightly in place on a surgical table as he watched Pandora get strapped to the table next to him by the snakes and Dr Arden and put under the drugs to be put in a deep sleep.
"Leave her alone!" Donatello shouted as he tried to struggle.
From behind him, he could hear Monalisa screaming and sobbing from a cage she was trapped in.
"No! No! My daughter! Leave her alone!"
Dr Arden smirked as he strapped Pandora down painfully but then he glared as Monalisa's screams were getting to him.
"Can't I work in peace?" he snarled then he lifted his wrist and fired a syringe at Monalisa, and she was struck with it, and she collapsed in the cage.
"No! Sis!" Donatello cried as he tried to pull himself free but to no avail.
"Ah, that's better!"
Donatello shook his head and struggled more.
Dr Arden then produced a scalpel and looked down at Pandora.
"Let's see what's in your DNA, Little girl!" he smirked then started to make a few slits over the hybrid's body.
Donatello felt tears form in his eyes as he watched.
It broke him, seeing his niece being sliced and cut for the secrets she held within her body.
He was instantly brought back to that dreadful time when he had been forced to experiment on Monalisa, and then cut Pandora out of her womb.
That scarred him deeply and despite the help he had gotten to live with what happened, it still haunted him inside.
"Stop! Stop!" Donatello yelled "You bastard! You evil shit! Stop!"
Dr Arden glared then he turned to Black Mamba and Cobra.
"Watch the hybrid!" he ordered then walked over to Donatello.
"I promised that I would punish you for trying to kill me and escape with the sluts, didn't I?" he snarled.
Donatello glared and spat in the Doctor's face making him recoil.
"Fuck you!" the purple masked turtle roared "Fuck you!"
Dr Arden glared then lifted his hand showing his syringes.
"For your punishment, I might just test my serums on you!" he smirked then he stabbed Donatello's shoulder with one of them and the turtle felt severe pains all over his body making him scream in agony.
Dr Arden laughed evilly.
"Oh yes! Torture serum! Makes you squirm!"
Donatello threw his head back and screamed as the serum ran through his veins before it subsided.
Even though it had only been seconds, it felt like a lifetime.
Dr Arden gripped Donatello's chin and made him look at him.
"I will make you suffer Donatello!" he spat "You will feel pain and agony before you submit to me as my slave!"
Donatello despite his agony glared at Dr Arden.
"Bring…Bring it! Fucker!" he spat "I won't break!"
Dr Arden leaned close to Donatello's face.
"I will break you!" he spat "I will! See if I don't!" he then drove his syringes into Donatello's lower stomach making him roar in pain and once again the turtle felt the same torture serum running through his body, making him holler and scream.
As he screamed, Dr Arden laughed and cackled, the scars on his face wrinkling horribly.
Soon the torture subsided and Dr Arden smirked then turned away from Donatello to focus on Pandora.
"Donatello? Donatello? Can you hear me?"
Upon hearing his name, Donatello looked around as he tried to find out where that voice was coming from, it sounded rather distant, but then it started to get louder.
"Donatello…Donatello!"
Just then a light started to shine brightly in front of him, it was so bright, Donatello could feel himself getting drawn to it.
At once he thought this light was what he feared, and that meant he was to go into the afterlife.
"What? A light? No…No…. I can't be…I don't want to go!" he started to weep.
"Donatello…Donatello my boy…. listen and follow my voice, we're bringing you back."
Donatello then recognised the voice.
"James?" he thought then looked again at the light then he reached out to it, then as that happened, he felt himself get pulled in, almost like some invisible hands were wrenching him forward.
As he was pulled towards the light, it started to change and Donatello could feel his body waking up, he could feel cool sheets under him, as well as needles in his arms and hands.
"Donatello?"
"Doctor! He's coming to!"
"Excellent!"
"Heart beats normal, all systems normal."
"Great!"
Donatello slowly opened his eyes, and he could see the same light as it was being moved in front of him.
"That's it, follow the light!"
It was then he heard James's voice above him and blinking a few times, he saw the Chimpanzee's face above him, that serious medical look he had when analysing his patients.
"James…" Donatello murmured, his voice raspy and his mouth was dry.
"Shhh Donatello." The turtle then heard Dahlia's voice next to him as well as a rubber gloved hand stroking his forehead.
Donatello looked over at the wolf who was smiling gently at him.
"Good morning sleeping beauty!" she chuckled.
"Good morning?" Donatello rasped "Wait…what happened?"
"You were poisoned by Komodo Dragon." James reported "According to what we discovered, your slash wounds were infected, so much so we had to put you in an induced coma to save you."
"A coma?" Donatello rasped "How…how long was I…?"
"About a week." Dahlia replied, "We had to purge you of the poison and putting you in the coma helped your body heal."
Donatello then started to remember as he was being led out of the Foot Headquarters by Sephie and Amber and then feeling the poison do its work and he had collapsed.
"You're very lucky my boy." James said, "If it had been any longer, you would have been beyond saving."
Donatello was silent for a moment then his eyes widened as he remembered his family and he wondered if they were alright.
"Mona!" he cried "My brothers! Pandora? Kemeko? Are you okay?!" he tried to shout but his voice was still raspy.
"Calm down Don!" Dahlia cried "You still need to remain still for a while!"
"Where is my sister and my brothers?" Donatello asked desperately.
"It's alright my boy." James said "They're all alive! If not injured and traumatized."
Donatello turned his head and he soon saw Monalisa lying next to him all hooked up with wires.
"Sis?" he then went pale, and tears formed in his eyes.
"Black Mamba!" he said "She poisoned her! Is she alive? Is she okay?"
"Shhh! Shhh!" Dahlia tried to calm Donatello down "Please! You need to be still!"
"Mona!" Donatello started to wail, and he pulled off his respirator mask and tried to reach for Monalisa "No! I should have been helping her! She was dying!"
Dahlia bit her lip and tried to keep Donatello down, he was still under the effects of the drugs to put him in the coma, and he wasn't fully awake, she was scared that he would hurt himself if he tried to move.
"Donatello! Donnie!" James said loudly "Please! Listen to me!"
"No!" Donatello wailed "I was supposed to help my family! It was my job! I couldn't help them when they needed me!"
Dahlia then tried to keep more of her weight on Donatello, but the turtle was started to squirm and flail around.
"Doctor! This is serious!" the wolf cried "He won't settle!"
James then took over on holding Donatello down being slightly bigger and heavier than Dahlia.
"Prepare a sedative!" he ordered to which Dahlia nodded and ran to the surgery table, almost tripping over a bed's legs as she did so, but she grabbed a clean syringe and filled it with a sedative and ran back.
Donatello sobbed and shook his head about as he lamented over the fact he had been unable to help his family, that and the trauma from the nightmares he had suffered in his coma.
Dahlia quickly tapped the syringe and looked down at Donatello.
"Hurry Dahlia!" James barked "I can't hold him down much longer!"
"Hold on!" Dahlia cried and she inserted the needle into Donatello's arm, injecting him then placed a cotton ball on the wound.
No sooner was Donatello injected than he stopped flailing and relaxed back on the bed.
James sighed with relief and stood up.
"Thank you my dear." He said gratefully.
Dahlia nodded, then the door opened making them both jump and turn around to see Raphael standing there.
The Red masked turtle jumped when he saw Dahlia holding the syringe but then he looked down at Donatello.
He then signed 'What happened?' his lips moving forming the words.
James sighed.
"Your brother is awakened from his coma." He reported "but he, like Kemeko is suffering badly from PTSD."
Raphael lowered his head sadly and walked over to his sedated brother before stroking his forehead which was very clammy.
'My poor brother.' He mouthed.
He then looked over at Monalisa and pointed to her with a questioning look.
"When can your mate be woken up?" Dahlia asked to which Raphael nodded.
"She still needs time." James reported "But she is making good progress."
Raphael looked disappointed but he was relieved that his mate was getting better, and the poison was leaving her system.
He walked over and sat next to her placing his hand on hers.
Dahlia looked at James sadly then walked over to Raphael.
"How are you getting on since we discharged you?" she asked.
Raphael looked up and signed 'So, So.'
"That's okay." Dahlia replied, "And how is Pandora?"
Raphael blinked but then he lowered his head in sadness.
Dahlia bit her lip and looked at James.
James then spoke.
"How is she coping?" he asked the turtle and Raphael sighed again, he lifted his hands to sign but wasn't sure how to explain that way, so he pointed to his lips for the two medics to read them.
'She is very upset, angry, more so than usual, I am worried.'
The Wolf and Chimpanzee read the turtles' lips then looked at each other worried.
"Poor child." James said, "We are aware of Pandora's temper, and how she reacted to the injuries of her loved ones."
"I wonder if Sephie has tried to talk to her?" Dahlia asked, "I can only hope, but she can't force Pandora to speak of she doesn't want to."
"I suppose only time will tell, my dear." James replied.
Donatello has awakened from his coma, yet he like Kemeko is suffering mentally, and who would blame him after all he went through?