A/N - This is my first attempt of writing a story. I am planning on writing in more of a series format, rather than one long story. Having said that there will be multiple chapters in each story.

Also, I will try and upload at least once a week.

I hope that you all enjoy my story. Reviews are welcome.

Disclaimer: I do not own TMNT nor any of the characters.

Chapter 1 – The beginning

"Another night, another routine patrol." Donatello sighs as he enters his lab. "At least I can have some freedom within my Lab, without my brothers trying to outrank me." Metalhead looks at Don and nods his head in agreement.

All four of the turtles were out trying to stop another one of the Kraang's plots to conquer the world. There Don was just about to take out a group of Kraangdroids when Leo came out of nowhere and took them all out. Normally this wouldn't phase the purple-banded turtle, they were a team with the objective of stopping the enemy and Leo was, admittedly, a better fighter than he was. However, lately Don has been feeling that Leo has not even given him a chance to prove that he's improving.

He hears a knock on the door. Great, it's probably Leo. He's come to have a go at me about having to come and "save" me from those Kraangdroids.

"I'm not interested in talking to you right now, Leo." Don says without looking away from his laptop.

"Are you interested in talking to Mikey?" is the puzzled reply from the door. Don looks up and sees that it's his younger brother.

"Oh, my bad" Don says sheepishly, "What's up?"

"You're not chilling with the rest of us like you usually do after a victory over the Kraang." Mikey says calmly, "Also, why would you not want to talk to Leo? If you had a fight, just look at his friendship with Raph, they fight all the time but you will rarely see them away from each other."

"No, we didn't have a fight. It's more of we probably would have one if I do talk to him."

"Oh," Mikey exhales, "Still, you should come and watch a movie before we go to bed."

"Thanks Mikey, but I'll be ok." Michelangelo doesn't believe his brother, but decides that it is best to leave Don alone.

Meanwhile in the lair's open area, Leonardo and Raphael are discussing the events of the night.

"Well Raph, I think tonight went pretty well." Leo states triumphantly.

"I honestly don't think it could've gotten better." Raph replies eagerly. "Even Mikey's joking around didn't slow us down."

"Well," Leo states coldly, "Donnie could've watched out for himself more. I had to come in and save him from a group of six Droids. I think his mind is too distracted in focusing on finding an anti-mutagen to cure The Pulverizer and Kirby."

"I think you should give the genius a break. After all, it must be frustrating not being able to find a cure." Raph sternly utters, "Besides, you never even gave him a chance to fight those bots."

"When Donnie can prove to me in our practices that he doesn't need us to fight his battles, then I will. But his anti-mutagen cure seems to be distracting him too much from his ninjutsu training."

Raph just stares at Leo. Leo might be fearless, but I know that Donnie isn't. He was going to lecture Leo about it but Mikey comes back from Don's lab.

"So," Mikey interjects, "What movie should we watch tonight?"

"My sons," Master Splinter enters the room, "It is getting late. I feel that it'll be best if the movie waits until tomorrow."

"Awww, really Sensei?" Mikey pleads.

"Yes, you have an early training session in the morning."

"Oh, yeah," Leo reminds himself, "Come on guys, we don't want to be tired for that."

"Good night, Sensei" Mikey says as he heads to his room.

"Good night, Michelangelo" is Splinter's response, "Leonardo, where's Donatello?"

"I believe he's in his lab, no doubt trying to find a cure for the mutagen." Leo tells his sensei, "Raph, why don't you go and let him know Sensei's wishes."

"Why me?" Raph puzzles, "You're the leader."

"I know, and that's why I'm leading you to go to his lab." Leo chuckles as he heads to his room. Raph growls in anger.

"Is there a problem, Raphael?" Splinter questions, not moving since the conversation started. "Should I go instead?"

"No Sensei, I'll go." Raph pronounces calmly

Raph heads into Donnie's lab without knocking on the door. He sees the genius turtle just staring at the laptop screen. He can sense some distraction in his brother's face.

"Hey Donnie," Don jumps in his seat and quickly closes the laptop. "Sensei wants me to remind you about the early training session tomorrow."

"He wanted you to remind me?"

"Well, he did want Leo to but he decided to let me do it." Raph brushes off the slight insult, "Anyways, what we're you looking at on your laptop?"

"Oh, nothing important," Don quickly responds, "well, not to you anyway."

"Come on brainiac, after getting virtually no sleep last night with your anti-mutagen experiments, you really should get some sleep."

"I'm not leaving here Raph." Don says sternly.

"What, do you need me to punch you?" Raph replies with a smirk on his face.

"Fine, I'm going." Don gets up and leaves the room, followed by Raphael.