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Mikey has always been an odd ball.
As kids he would constantly talk about “colors” talking to him and sometimes “flying around”. As you’d expect we never took him seriously, saying that it was his massive imagination.
But then it got…. Weird….
He would scream and cry about the “ colors” attacking him and or us, crying our names even though we where in-fount of him or responding
He’d scream and cry for hours until he passed out of exhaustion. I always felt uncomfortable with it, how it made him scream bloody murder for no reason but Donnie and Raph, sometimes even sensei brushed it off as him just wanting attention. It never felt right. And it never went away.
When we turned into teenagers he become,…… distant, always hiding in his room; only coming out to, cook, train, and eat. He’d always put on a face when we noticed and or asked him about his behavior, all of us became really concerned….
Raph had the most drastic effect, he’d always check on him when he fell asleep, making sure he ate enough(sometimes he give him extra, just in case) and he even tried getting into his old interest to try and make natural conversation with him to put more “normal” topics and interactions.
Sometimes he’d get somewhere, getting Mikey to reminisce on something besides the “colors” but it never last..
I just want my younger brother back, for him to laugh, dance, and be him again….. I miss him so much..
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The turtles sat quietly in the living room, Leo rewatching space hero’s, Raph playing on the pink ball machine, Donnie tinking in his lad working on his “big project”, and Mikey no where to be seen…. They all waited for nightly patrol in a couple hours spending their time in their own ways.
“GUYS I DID IT!” Donnie swelled pushing open his lab doors to tell Leo and Raph
“My machine is finally done!” , “Leo, Raph get in here!”
“Donnie you never even told us what you’re working on.” Leo replied turning off the tv to walk inside the lab.
“What is it now Donnie” Raph says annoyed turning away from the pin ball machine and dragging himself to the lab doors.
Inside, large scarp box’s of metal lay near Donnie’s desk, a small hat type object sits onto of the desk with a tremendous amount of wires connecting to his computer and a monitor that looks like the standard heart monitor.
“Whoa Donnie what is all this?” Leo asked, pointing the machine and turning his head at purple turtle who was taping at a small tablet.
“You now how we’ve all been worried about Mikey for years.” Leo and Raph eyes darkened glancing at each other then nodding at the question, “So I made this machine to help. It will give us the power to transfer our consciousness into Mikey’s mind in see his memory’s, imagination……. So we can finally see what’s been going on and try to help..” the mood in the room turned serious, all three of the brothers nodding to Donnie’s explanation,
“We’ll finally be able to actually help?” Leo questioned, walking closer to the machine to examine it closer