Broken

Author's Note

First of all, I want to thank everyone for reviewing, but mainly leggo lover 99 for giving me continuous support to throughout the whole story. I also want to thank XxTurtletracerxX for giving me the idea of the tests, they really helped me carry on the story. This will be my last chapter, but I should be publishing a one-shot story this week due to a request.

Chapter 10: Midnight sky

Leo's POV

(1 week later)

We all still miss Mikey. Donnie barley comes out of his lab anymore, Raph isolates himself and me … I do nothing but meditate. We're all broken one way or another.

Right now we're on patrol, or at least we were on patrol – we had just finished. Instead, we were ending our everyday routine by heading to the place. The place as in where Mikey died. I honestly don't know why we go there; I guess we have some sort of hope that the building wasn't actually destroyed. Because if it isn't gone, then neither's Mikey. But we don't learn, every night we go … it's never there. And now we're all staring at a pile of rubble on top of where our baby brother once stood.

"Why do we do this?" Donnie asked. He just stared at the building below.

"Do what don?" Raph replied. He turned to face us.

"Why do we torture ourselves, by coming here every night only to see the same thing?" Donnie answered.

"Because we have hope Donnie." I stated and we once more stared down at the rubble. "You know, Mikey wouldn't want us to be acting this way. I mean sure, he'd want us to be sad, but I think he'd prefer it if we moved on but still remembered him. In a good way." Silence hung in the air, as my brothers took in what I was saying. After a few minutes, they nodded to me. "Are you guys ready to head back then?"

"Sure." They replied. We turned our back to our brother's grave and left for home.

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Nobody's POV

Hope can be good, but sometimes it's not.

When the world says 'Give up'. Hope whispers 'Try it one more time'.

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man.

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Once we arrived home, we all made our way to the dojo, for our daily remembrance ceremony. Don't get me wrong, I didn't find it boring or anything, they were just depressing.

When we entered the dojo, Sensei greeted us with a sad nod. He just hasn't been the same after the incident. We knelt before Sensei's shrine and in the centre of a circle of lit candles. Up on the top shelf, next to Tang Shen and Miwa's picture, was a photo of Mikey as a toddler, in an orange frame. He was on his plastron and was drawing a cat in his colouring book. His tongue was sticking out and he showed absolute concentration in his features. My eyes started to water; the ceremony began.

"My son, we very much miss you from here. You were a wonderful son to me and a very skilled ninja. I hope Tang Shen is looking after you now and that you watch over us now too." Splinter has tears running down his face as he struggled to continue. "It's hard to believe you are actually gone, but it's true and as much as it pains me to do so, we have to say goodbye. I love you my son and … I …" I sensed Sensei couldn't carry on, so I continued for him.

"We all love you, Michelangelo. And … I'm sorry that I sometimes looked down on you. You were so brave, as to run into a burning building to save a guy that once tortured you. I don't know whether this would sound wrong or anything, but I wish you didn't go back inside that building. To us, your life was much more important than Leader's and … do you know what? … When we were younger, me Raph and Donnie made a pact to always protect you, but I guess … you never needed us to. I love you bro and I miss you so much." We all had tears streaming down our faces now.

"Mikey … I miss you so much, bro. You were always just so happy and … the lair's just so quiet without you around. I don't mean for anyone to take this the wrong way but … it's extremely depressing the fact you're gone but … I'm proud of ya. You died like a true hero. You ran into that burning building and rescued a man that had done horrible things. I'm truly sorry for all those times I made fun of you and called you a bad ninja. I'm so glad you never took it to heart." Raph sobbed. "I just wish you were back here with us … I love you, bro."

"I love you baby bro." Was the first thing Donnie said. "And even though I often suggested you as being less intellectual … in most cases you were smarter than all of us. You big heart led you to make the right decisions and gave you a deep personality. Yeah you messed around a lot, but you were a very wise ninja. You know, when we were younger Master Splinter considered not training you, he wanted to preserve your innocence for as long as he could. But even though we have to go through a lot of violence thrown our way, you still kept that innocence in that big heart of yours … I really wish you could draw us one more picture or tell us another one of your jokes. Something to break the sound of silence that fills our home. I miss you so much bro, I wish you were back here."

"Guys?" A quiet voice asked. We all froze for a minute, then quickly ran out of the dojo and into the living room. There, standing at the entrance to the lair, was Mikey. Our mouths opened wide, he didn't have any scars and looked like he wasn't in any pain at all. I ran towards him, with Don and Raph right behind me. Once I reached our baby brother, I almost tackled him to the ground with my hug. Tears once again, ran down my face as I held our youngest close.

"Guys, what's with all the crying?" He asked. I released him from the hug.

"We thought you were dead." I stated. Mikey had a look of confusion on his face.

"I just woke up, how long was I gone for?" Mikey said.

"You were gone for a week." Donnie answered. "Wait you just woke up?" Mikey nodded. "Where did you wake up?"

"The exact place I was when the building exploded, which really confused me?" Mikey replied.

"But we looked through that building's rubble every night and you weren't there. Not to mention the fact that … what's that?" Donnie asked while gesturing to Mikey's arms. Mikey's arms had orange swirls on the inside going from his wrists to his elbows.

"Well … that'll fit into the story." Mikey stated.

"What story?" I asked.

"Well if I was gone for a whole week and this appeared, then it must be true." Mikey said to no one in particular.

"What must be true?" Raph asked slightly irritated.

"This whole week, I was in the spiritual plane." Mikey stated.

"What?" Donnie asked.

"I thought we had to be at the farmhouse to go there?" Raph added.

"Talk us through what happened, Mike?" I said.

"Well … I woke up in the woods and that deer guy was there and he gestured for me to follow him, so I did. I'll tell you the short version okay?" We all nodded. "He led me to a valley and told me to race him. Oh yeah, he talked. So anyway, I raced him and he won. He told me how we all had our different best abilities and that mine was agility. He trained me for a whole week and at the very end … I beat him! But as soon as I did that, these orange swirls appeared on my arms. And just before I woke up, for real, he told me that you would all have your turns as well."

"Did he say what our best abilities were?" Donnie asked.

"No, but he did say that your turns would come soon." Mikey answered.

"What-" Raph was interrupted by Mikey yawning loudly.

"Sorry bro, continue." Mikey said.

"Actually." I cut in. "I think we should continue in the morning.

"Fine." Raph said. He hugged Mikey and whispered in his ear "Love ya bro." Then left for his room. Donnie did the same but didn't whisper the last part.

I hugged Mikey too and said aloud. "Love you bro." Then headed off to bed.

Just before I reached my room, though, I heard Mikey call out. "Love you too bro." I smiled.

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Mikey's POV

Even though I yawned, I wasn't actually tired. So after I said goodnight to Leo, I sat down on the couch for a bit. I felt a hand rest on my shoulder and I looked up to see Master Splinter.

"Sensei!" I shouted and jumped up to hug my mentor. "How come you didn't come out before with the others?" I asked as I drew away from the hug.

"I felt as though you needed a moment as brothers. Although I was able to catch the reason of why you weren't here for a whole week. I'm proud of you, my son, for your bravery and accomplishment. Now, even though you may think you aren't, I know you're tired; so off to bed." Splinter stated.

"Hai Sensei." I hugged him once more, then headed off to my room; lay down on my bed and closed my eyes.

03:07 am

I've been lying on my bed for two hours now and haven't gotten any sleep. Maybe I could go for a night-time run. I'll have to sneak out, though, there's no way they're letting me out of their sights.

I slowly crept to my door and poked my head out to see if anyone was awake; no one was. All clear now's my chance. I snuck out the door and silently leapt over the turnstiles and out into the sewers.

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After 10 minutes, I reached my destination; Fallout (the building), that's what I named it. I sat on the edge of the building and looked at what could've been my grave. If the deer guy hadn't taken me to the spiritual plane … then I would've died. Memories of the week we were held captive flashed in my mind and I felt a tear slide down my cheek. The moment was short lived, as I heard someone shift behind me. I jumped to my feet and spun around; nunchucks in hands, only to realise it was my brothers. I lowered my weapons down and reoccupied my seat on the edge of the building, my brothers soon joined me.

We said nothing because we all knew what each other was thinking. And after a few minutes, I sighed and looked up into the sky. There were no clouds; it was a clear night. Little bright lights stood out against the pitch black sky.

I lay down, still looking up into the vastness of space. A shooting star darted across the sky; my finger followed the misty train it left behind.

Constellations lit up the sky. Leo roared; claiming his territory. Scorpio raised his stinger. Orion fired an arrow across the sky. Cygnus flew over a lake of black.

More shooting stars flew across the sky; I sighed once again and noticed my brothers were laying down beside me.

"It's all over now." I said as we watched the glistening midnight sky.

Author's Note

Well, there you go, the last chapter of my story. I hoped you enjoyed it and I would love it if you could write a review saying what your favourite part was. I really enjoyed writing this story and I'm sad to see it's finished.

Oh, and by the way, the constellations were all related to one of the brothers. Leo = well duh Leo. Scorpio = Raph. Orion = Donnie. Cygnus = Mikey.

I know there was a lot of brotherly fluff in this, but wasn't it so sad and adorable at the same time.

And did anyone get the Fallout 4 reference from earlier on?

Thank you so much to anyone who read this story, once again, I really enjoyed writing this and please favourite and review.

Wolfangel33 xx

P.S Did you really think I'd kill Mikey, he's my favourite. Lol, that was a horrible cliffhanger.