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Knock, Knock. Leo looked up from the curled up position that he had fallen asleep in while crying for his brother. "Leo, ya in there?" Raph called through the door. Leo stood up and turned to open the door, when he did he saw his big burly standing there looking broken and lost. "Yeah Raph, what'd you need?" He asked while wiping the sleep out of his eyes. "It's your turn to go keep an eye on Mikey, Don can't do it right now and I told him that it was no big deal. Just leave 'im alone he'll talk to ya if he wants to, k?" Raph explained as he turned to leave. "Ok, thanks Raph, just let me grab a bite and I'll be right there." Leo said as he walked followed Raph down from their rooms to the kitchen.

He saw Donny sitting on the couch, he was curled up into a ball, staring blankly at the floor. Leo wanted so badly to ask him what was wrong, but decided to head Raphs' warning and not ask him anything.

He walked into the kitchen he grabbed a cold piece of pizza and headed off to Donny's lab. Leo was depressed the second he saw his baby brother, he was all bandaged up and laying helplessly on the cot Don had set up for him. "Oh Mikey, I'm so sorry." Leo softly sobbed as he sat, to be guardian over his baby brother. "I'm so sorry."

It had been 3 days since that day. Mikey was still lifeless and unresponsive. They had tried to contact Master Splinter, but they were unable to reach him.

It was the middle of the night and Raph had volunteered to stay the nights with Mikey so that Leo and Donny could sleep, God knew that they needed it.

It was normal, or as normal as it could be. Mikey was still, and unmoving, until all the monitors that Donny had him hooked up to started going off and beeping erratically at the same time. Raph ran as fast as his legs would allow him to get Donny, and find out what was happening.

"Donny, wake up now! There's something wrong with Mikey!" He yelled as he violently shook Donny to get him awake.

"What, what's wrong!" Donny asked as he ran/was dragged by Raph to his lab. He stopped cold when he saw all the monitors going off wildly. His mind going into over drive as he set to turning all the monitors off.

"Donny, what's going. What's happening!" Raph asked, worry and concern for his baby brothers life clearly in his eyes.

"His heart rate has stopped, and he's not breathing!" Donny shouted as he set to doing CPR. "Raph, I need you to pump his heart while I breath for him. Pump 10 times, then stop to let me give 2 breaths, ok!" Donny instructed.

Raph immediately started doing as Donny had told him to, his body now on auto-pilot. "Please don't die Mikey, please don't die!" Raph begged as he fought to save his brothers life.

Leo was awakened by yelling. 'What's going on?' He thought as he rapidly sat up and tried to work the sleepiness out of his system.

"NO!"

Leo instantly recognized Raph's anguished scream. "No! Mikey!" He whispered out loud as he ran to Donny's lab. He was rounding around the door frame Donny immediatley came up and and stopped him. "What's going on Don? What happened?" He asked while trying to force his way past his little brother.

Donny's face was enough to tell Leo what he didn't want to know. His face was masked with an extremly miserable look, words unable to cross his lips. He just shook his head from side to side.

Leo looked over his little brothers' shoulder and saw his strong brother was crying uncontrolably and craddeling Mikey in his arms. Mikey was just lying there, far too still and far too quiet.

"His heart just stopped, and he quit breathing. We tried to save him, but it was no use." Donny choaked out, tears spilling onto his face.

"Donny you did yor best, it..."

"DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME IT'S GOING TO BE OK, LEONARDO! How many times did he make us be a family, drag us away from what we were doing and make us sit down and be a family? What are we going to become without him!" Donny yelled.

Leo was frightened, Donny never yelled, but he understood why he had. "I'm sorry, I just don't want you blaming yourself for this." He tried to sooth his flustered, and frightened brother. "Let's go and be with him." Leo said, guiding Donny to be with Raph and Mikey.

They slowly walked over to their convilsing brother and joined him, holding on to their dead baby brother. The one person on in the universe that they had each sworn to protect from any danger.

They all cried like this for a few seconds until they heard the front door creak open, and the immediatly stopped all their tears and froze, praying that no one had found them.

"My sons, where are you?" They heard Master Splinter call.

Leo tried to speak, but his throat was raw from all the crying.

Donny tried, but the words couldn't find their way past his lips.

Raph tried, but he only mannaged a strangled cry. "Master..."

Master Splinter appeared instantly in the doorway of the laboritory. "My sons, what..." Then he saw his youngest's lifeless body. "What has happened to Michelangelo!" He shouted as he stood there, waiting for an expination or movement from Mikey.

That sent his 3 eldest sons over the edge. they all broke out in a fresh wave of tears, unable to bring themselves to tell their master what tragedy had befallen their baby brother.

"My sons, let me see him." Master Splinter cooed softly, understanding that his sons were broken in so many ways right now, they would be unable to tell him anything.

Leo, Raph, and Donny all backed away from the body of their youngest sibling, but then Donny saw something. Mikey's hand twitched.

"Wait Sensei!" He exclaimed as he shoved his other brothers away, laying his head down on Michelangelo's chest. He waited in silence, then. Thump...Thump

"GUYS! HE'S ALIVE!" Donny shouted as he held up Mikey's head and waited for him to open his big, beautiful, blue eyes.

Oww, my head. Mikey thought as he tried to sift throught the fog that was surrounding his mind.

"Michelangelo, look towards me." He heard a voice say. He looked in the direction of the voice and saw his masters master. Master Yoshi.

"What are you doing here? Your dead." Mikey exclaimed as he started to back away from him.

"I know, but now it is time for you to move on."

"Wait! I can't leave my brothers, they need me."

"Yes, I am aware of that, but if you return to your body, then you will be in a great amount of pain."

Mikey thought for a second. Could he really die, knowing that his brothers would most likely break apart if he did?

"I'm sorry Master Yoshi. But I can't leave my brothers to suffer without me. I have to go back." He explained

Yoshi smiled as he nodded in compliance with Michelangelo's decison.

"Mikey, come on bro, come back to us!" Raph softly encouraged to the young turtle that he had taken from Donnatello's arms.

Mikey twitched twice more and then gasped deeply as he opened his eyes for the first time in days.

"MIKEY!"

"MIKEY!"

"Michelangelo!"

Mikey smiled happily as he was surrounded by his entire family, and then crushed in a hug. "Hey guys, what have you been crying about?" He asked, seeing the tear stain on their masks and faces.

"We just missed you so much! Don't ever leave us again!" Donny exclaimed as he looked on his baby brothers face with the biggest smile he had worn in a long time.