The lab door creaked back open and the purple banded turtle remerged looking a little more irritated and confused than he did earlier, Mikey turned his head from the TV, there was some fighting show on, a typical Raph choosing. Seeing Donnie's expressions, he pondered whether to try and cheer him up a little,
'HEY, D...guess who's joining the B team tonight' he grinned opting to try as he nudged his red clad brother, giving one of his famous Mikey smile's.
'You wish' Raph scoffed,
'Don't call us that Mikey...its literally so insulting' Don furrowed his brows and groaned as he walked passed the two sitting turtles and slid his bow staff into its strap on his carapace with one hand. He still held his Tphone in the other, his hazel eyes still focused on its lit up screen as he typed away, Raph momentarily glanced his way then turned his attention back onto the TV, not really taking any notice of Donnie's expressions, unlike Mikey.
'Come on Raph, you know you wanna come to the B side...pizza on me?' Mikey giggled as he nudged his older brother again. Raph made a grunting sound and using one hand he face palmed Mikey, pushing him away.
'Not a chance little brother...but you can still get the pizza' he sneered, his emerald eyes narrowing with a smirk that Mikey met with his own.
'Ahh come on Raphie, my big bro, my angry red brother from a probably angry red mother' he joked as he wrapped his arms around Raph's arm. A scoff emerged from Raph and he couldn't help a slight chuckle in response. Mikey was a pain in the ass but he sure did always know how to make his family smile, even splinter and that was a hard task because the ninja sensei always kept such a serious persona at all times.
The whole A team, B team crap was bullshit anyway Raph and Leo knew that, it was just something they cruelly made up to wind their little brothers up at one point a while ago, and it just...sort of stuck, it didn't bother Mikey as much as it bothered Donnie though, Mikey just went with it.
Before the pair could say anymore Donnie caught their attention.
'HEY, April have you heard from Casey? he should have met us here by now and he isn't answering his cell at all' Donnie called to April who was currently in her room, the spare room that she currently held vacant due to all kinds of drama that had been going on with the kraang and her dad.
This caught Raph's attention in particular as he looked over to Donnie who was still fiddling away with his Tphone and raised an eyebrow.
Donnie stopped at the end of the hallway as her door creaked open, then her voice emerged,
'what?...no I've not heard anything Don, I did send a text about 40 minutes ago, but he never answered, I just figured he was probably on his way, riding his bike here so he couldn't text back?' she answered quizzingly, now a little concerned by Don's tone.
Raph pulled his Tphone from his belt pouch and dialled his vigilante friends cell, now overcome with the same bad feeling that Donnie and now April were experiencing, Mikey watched with wide blue eyes as he lifted the phone to his ear and the sound of the ring tone muffled through the speaker of the small device.
The phone rang a dozen times before going to voicemail, and again, and again, and again it just just rang to the same voicemail, by the 5th voicemail Raph was irritated, it weren't like Casey to not answer his phone, he never went off the grid like this.
Raph scoffed 'damn it Casey' in a whispered tone as he stood up and stomped over to Donnie and April who were beginning to track him on Dons tracker app.
Mikey hung his arms over the back of the couch again and watched the scene unfold before him, a little worried himself,
'I got this...bad feeling...ever since he didn't respond to that first text' Donnie stated as he typed away on the device. Mikey pulled himself from the sofa 'I'll go get Leo' he yelled as he jumped to his feet and ran through to the bathroom.
Mikey banged a tune out onto the door 'LEO!' he almost sang out,
The door soon flung open 'Mikey?' Leo asked in confusion, 'What's up?' He turned back to the sink and turned the tap off before stepping out.
'Don't know bro, something about Casey and Don has a bad feeling' Mikey answered with a shrug, Leo frowned at his vague response, needing more details as he moved passed him to go and join the others in there concern.
He picked up his belt from the stand on the way and began to adjust it onto his waist 'Casey?' he murmured with a frown as he walked over to the group followed closely by his freckled younger brother.
'I've found him' Don spoke, his finger resting on his chin deep in thought.
'He's in Eastman's lane for some reason, hasn't moved for around 50 minutes by the looks of it' he was puzzled,
'maybe he's just talking to a pal?' Mikey shrugged.
Raph playfully slapped the orange clad turtle around the head again,
'Mikey his only pals are all in this room' Mikey frowned at the red clad turtles statement then his eyes glanced to April who was addressing him.
'He's right Mikey' April added, 'I go to school with Casey, there's only us...he doesn't exactly get on with many at school as you can imagine, it is Casey after all'
'I can imagine' Raph scoffed as he dialled the the vigilantes number again, eyes not moving from that small red bleeping dot on donnie's device, and that bad feeling began to seep through him again.
'Cause for concern Don?' Leo gestured to the Tphone in Dons hand, waiting for confirmation from his genius brother on whether to act or not.
Based on previous encounters Don as well as the others would definitely put it down as a cause for concern, something was up.
'I would say so, with everything top side lately cant exactly rule out trouble' Don nodded, and that was all Leo needed.
'Ok then im calling it, lets go see if that idiot's ok' Leo sheathed his katanas and looked to Raph who was already sliding his Tphone back into his belt. They subtly nodded at each other in understanding.
'Ok let's go team' he ordered as he lead the way out of the lair, Raph and Donnie trailed behind and April glanced back at Mikey who was picking his chucks up from the ground that he had dropped there earlier,
'You coming mike?' She smiled, sparing her worry about Casey.
'Me?' he pointed both hands to himself 'miss a chance to save Casey's sorry ass and get to rub it in for the next few weeks, maybe even months if I play my cards right! Hell yea I'm coming dudette' he beamed as he ran along after the gang.
'See ya later dad!' Mikey called to the still meditating Splinter, and then the lair fell silent.
