Hey! Roxy Goth here. Okay, first up really sorry for not updating for just over 4 months. Secondly, I hope the wait is worth it. This is the longest chapter I've ever written for any of my stories. Thirdly, thank you to…

Guest – here's Mikey's theory.

Annea101 – Glad you like these stories.

AnimeGirl9894 - Sorry I haven't updated sooner, as mentioned before I really like writing Mikey POV. Glad you like my descriptive skills.

Guest – We do all cope in differently in difficult situations, I do think Mikey uses humour as a shield though. Not that I blame him, can you imagine what it's like living his life? I wouldn't want to.

gima2618 – Yes, Mikey is a very good brother.

Sparkling-nexis137 – I really enjoyed reading your personal theory, I haven't watched Teen Titans, so I wasn't sure about the reference, but yours was an interesting theory to read. I used yours as a debating point, I hope you don't mind however Mikey's is a little different though…

And finally see chapter 1 for the disclaimer, and please enjoy. BTW, Happy New Year!

"Well." Mikey stretched a little. "My idea is a little…weird, so pay attention."

"Right." Donnie looked doubtful.

"So first of all we have to look at where everyone got sent. You got sent to a really bad world, right?"

"Mmm-hmm." Donnie was getting that glassy look in his eyes again, his younger brother hurried on.

"Meanwhile I got sent to a world where our family where superhero's!"

"I know, you told me." Although his older brother's voice was dull and emotionless, the hint of a smile was forming around his lips.

"Yeah…but I've not been entirely honest." Mikey admitted.

That got Don's attention. "You weren't?"

"Nah, I told you guys we fought Silver, right?"

"Yes."

Mikey lifted a hand and pointed at Donnie. "But what I DIDN'T tell you was that Silver was Splinter."

Don took a couple of moments to digest that. "Silver…the enemy your versions of us were fighting…was Splinter? I thought you said they said they lost him?"

Mikey gave a slightly strained laugh. "They did! They lost him to evil. I think it was the alternative version of you who told me that, you have a habit of being honest without entirely telling the full story."

Donnie gave a small laugh and shrugged. "I just try to stop you guys worrying."

"I know, I know. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah! So, we'll take mine and your worlds, because I don't know exactly what happened in Leo's and Raph's, deal? Unless of course you want to go and wake them…"

Donnie raised an eyebrow. "No thanks, I like my arms un-fractured, thanks very much."

"Just an idea. Anyway, we'll start with mine. I think that Draco sent us, wait for it….inside our own minds."

There was a pause. Then Don just went. "What?"

"Yeah! It's the perfect explanation!" Mikey got up and started pacing up and down. "Right, so none of us saw each other as we are now during the time we spent in different dimensions right?"

"Yes…"

"And what is a more perfect alternate dimension to be flung into than your own subconscious!"

"What? Wait, wouldn't it make more sense if the time I was travelling through time had no effect on me, but did on everyone else?" Donnie was getting into it now. "So in the eyes of everyone else I just disappeared because that's technically what I did? Logically, I couldn't be anywhere because I was travelling through time therefore couldn't be anywhere?"

Mikey paused, though it over and then shook his head. "That might explain yours, but it doesn't explain everyone else's."

Donnie tapped his fingers on the table. "None of us saw ourselves as we are now…"

"But we saw different versions of ourselves! That's what I'm saying, I saw you guys as superhero's! That's awesome; isn't it? Really you guys should be honoured, just saying." Mikey went over to the sink and got himself and Donnie a glass of water each.

"But you saw Splinter as evil." His purple-branded brother pointed out.

"I did. But he was lost to evil, now, I don't want you to think I'm being horrible here but I do sometimes wonder about father…"

"Wonder about him how?"

"I'm trying to tell you! Geez, quit butting in." Mikey hissed, suddenly aware they might be being loud enough to wake Leo and Raph. He paused and listened. Nothing. Sighing with relief he carried on explaining. "The way I see it, when Splinter mutated and met us, he had a choice. Either look after these four defenceless baby turtles or leave them to their own devices and go to try and swear revenge on Shredder, right?"

Donnie, looking intrigued at this point, nodded.

"So, we know what happens if he stays, this life, obviously, but what if he left? Well he would have already met us and mutated, and therefore we would have as well, so we wouldn't have to worry about still being non-nearly-human turtles. So say he wonders of and leaves us, we don't have discipline, proper training and have to fend for ourselves, so we have different names, different knowledge, and different strengths, you with me so far?"

Again Donnie nodded.

"Okay, switch over to Splinter, he decided to go and get revenge on shred-head as already stated, so he builds armour, trains himself more and all that stuff. He somehow manages to come up with the name Silver, god knows how, I'm still working on that bit, defeats Shredder and having had his taste of power becomes supreme ruler of the universe. Ah." Mikey paused. "Actually that doesn't work. They said 'we lost him to evil' which indicates they knew him before. Maybe he took them in raised them, giving them completely different names for god knows what reason, they managed to defeat Shredder at which point…"

By this time in his monologue Mikey was pacing up and down so fast Donnie thought he might be about to wear a hole through the concrete. "…At which point he said 'Okay, you've done my bidding – fend for yourselves and throws them out at a point where they're old enough to remember him as nice Splinter instead of evil Silver, but not old enough to be strong enough to defeat him straight away, maybe…ten? That's plausible, right?"

"Don't see why not." Donnie said, sipping on his water.

"So Splinter goes power-mad, renames himself Silver for some reason to be established later, the brothers train and aim to become strong enough to overthrow Splinter, I mean Silver. Silver, definitely Silver, and then your awesome-ness turns up and helps them to do it and what do you think of that?" Exhausted Mikey sat down and gulped down his water.

Donnie looked at him and said with a small smile. "I think you either have a fantastic imagination or a weird subconscious. So basically you're worried Splinter could have or still could turn to evil and that's where your experience came from."

Mikey nodded.

"Okay, brilliant, well, not brilliant, but you know what I mean. The point is, what about mine?"

"Yours?" Mikey took his glass to the sink and refilled it. "Your one is a little different, do you mind some blunt talking?"

Donnie shrugged. "Knock yourself out."

"Awesome! So, I'm going to ask you a simple question, ready?"

"Ready."

"Can you think of any situation that would make you willingly abandon us?"

"No." Donnie said firmly.

"Good, chill bro, that's what I thought. Okay, so what about against you will?"

Donnie considered. "My main thought is kidnapped, possibly by the Shredder, but we have other enemies as well…"

"Okay, so now, what do you think we'd do? Me, Raph and Leo."

"Well, hopefully you'd try and find me." His older brother said, in a deadpan manner.

"Obviously, yeah we would." Mikey was quick to assure him. "Okay, next question, honestly what do you think of our medical skills?"

Donnie couldn't have looked more surprised if he tried. "Medical skills?"

"If you went missing do you think we'd have the capability to do what you do?"

"Ah, with you. You, honestly no. You know a bit about the basics, but anything complicated and I know you'll go to pieces. Sorry, Mike."

"No, it's fine carry on."

"Leo I think would try and study it to the best of his knowledge, but he doesn't have the…how do I put it? Qualities needed to be a doctor. He wouldn't listen, always would think he knew best and if it was Raph I can see him getting fed up and sedating him just to get some peace and quiet. As for Raph, he knows quite a lot of First Aid, I have taught him. He knows what to do if an opponent cut one of our limbs of...oh." Donnie suddenly stopped.

Mikey frantically waved his hands to get him back to planet earth. "Forget that, Donnie? Don? Don-a-tel-lo? That's better." The youngest breathed a sigh of relief as Donnie's eyes swam back into focus. "What about April and Casey?"

"April I can see using every resource at her disposal to try and find me. Or any of us for that matter. Casey, I can see him and Raph trying to find me via fighting the Purple Dragons or The Foot."

"Good, good we're getting somewhere. Finally, what about me and Splinter?"

"I think you'd try and find me as well. Another thing I just though." Donnie went quiet again before suddenly starting up. "If I left, Raph and Leo would fight more I think."

"You do seem to be able to stop an argument with a look at times." Mikey commented.

"Oh, many years of practice, Mikey, many years of practice. Anyway, you tend to try and diffuse their fights by humour which doesn't work. Splinter can diffuse them easily, but after he dies, if I'm not there, who?"

"Okay, I think we have enough for my theory now." Mikey announced. "Ready."

"Totally."

"Okay, here goes. First of all the fact that they were surprised to see you indicated there'd stopped looking. However I think we can rule out you going of your free will, I can't see any situation that would logically have that outcome, so to speak. Oh, check me getting all scientific!" Mikey caught his brothers look. "Okay, carrying on. So they'll assume that you've been kidnapped. Now, step aside for a moment, the reason you're gone is because this is your subconscious worry of what will happen if you disappear, right? Just to get that clear."

"Carry on, Mikey."

"Got it, right so, they assume you've been kidnapped, they look for you, they don't find you because you're not anywhere, right? So tensions will rise, going of other times one of us has gone missing. Leo and Raph will fight more and I'll try to break it up. That won't work. Now Splinter gets older as time goes by, say that April is trying to look for you with Casey. Casey and Raph go out fighint together don't they?"

"Yeah."

"And Raph is hot-headed. Say they had a massive fight or they've had so many Raph has lost all repsect for Leo's opinion. So he and Casey find some Foot or Feet or whatever you want to call them and fight them. However probably because of the simple fact that Raph acts before thinking and also contributing the outside factors, he might slip up, get stabbed in the eye."

Donnie winced and Mikey looked at him sympathetically. "Yeah not a nice idea, sorry bro. he's injured, let's say that's where Casey is killed to. He goes back to the house, him and Leo get into another major fight. April finds out, she's already started the resistant with Casey. She goes mad and Raph's not exactly thrilled either, neither am I or Splinter for that matter. Basically we're all really annoyed, so we go and storm Shredders hide-out as revenge for both Casey and also with a hope of finding you. Now, Leo gets wind of this and decides to fight for 'honour' or simply because he's protective of us and at that point he probably doesn't want to lose someone else, with me?"

Donnie smiled softly. "That does sounds like Leo."

"So of they go, except even with Leo's brilliant leadership qualities, we don't have you to do all the technical things, so they fight. Leo's ends up blind and I end up with my half my arm sliced of. Again sorry for the imagery. Now, as you correctly pointed out Raph knows how to deal with sliced-of limbs…"

"Amputation."

"Whatever. The point is that's why I don't die. Leo's eyes are probably really messed up, which might explain why he wears the glasses. And Splinter dies as well, protecting us, like you said. Although he might have died because none of us know as much about medicine as you do. Anyway April lives. With me so far?"

"Yeah." Donnie's voice sounds small and childlike, slightly startled by this it took a couple of moments before Mikey was able to speak again.

"Good! Er…where was I? Oh yeah! So, by now the family is really fractured, we've lost you and Splinter. Raph and Leo get into a raging argument and Leo tries to deal with it himself, but can't so he bottles it up instead. To avoid injuring Raph further, or me for that matter, he removes himself from the picture. Simple. Except not really because he doesn't explain this to Raph, Raph's furious, thinking Leo's abandoning us in our time of need. He is, but not for the reason's Raph thinks. So Raph storms of. Me and April band together and run the resistance. As the years go by Leo and Raph have calmed down and probably re-thought their actions. But because they're both so pig-headish and stubborn they don't want to admit it. And they don't want to go to the resistance, because where would they start? Plus they might bump into the other. What happened when you got there out of interest?"

Donnie flinched before hesitatingly explaining the events that lead to Raph, Leo and Mikey's death.

There was a heavy silence then Mikey nodded. "So…despite the fact you were wearing heavy machinery…it didn't help? You couldn't save us?"

His older brother frowned a little. "You don't have to rub it in."

"I'm not." The younger said, hastily. "I'm not trying to at least. But remember, this is all subconscious. Of course…of there's a though…"

"What's a though, Mikey?"

"The reason we died, despite your best efforts was because you don't think…you don't think you'll be able to save us…if something…really does…go…wrong." The orange banded turtle spoke hesitantly, partly because the idea was just forming and partly because he was watching Donnie's face, which crumpled further as Mikey carried on talking.

As his brother finished his theory, Donnie burst into tears. Mikey was immediately up and hugging him. "Calm down, Donnie, calm down. There we go." By this point Mikey was wondering if everyone in his family had turned deaf. For a family of ninjas who prided themselves on observation they weren't being very observational.

"Sorry." Don hiccupped. "Oh god, I'm being such a wimp. Raph would hate me…"

"I think Raph would understand." Mikey said, reassuringly.

"Why do I have such a depressing subconscious?"

The youngest considered. "I think it's because you want all of us to be safe. That's why you've made the security, that's why you're always working to get things fixed. You don't want the subconscious to become the conscious so to speak. Donnie look at me."

His brother did so.

"Listen up, because for the rest of the year you won't get another gem like this. I can't assure you that future isn't going to happen because it might. Fighting with the Shredder is so unpredictable no one knows what the future holds. But I do know if you ever went missing we would search everywhere for you. Plus we'd have some idea of where you were when you were taken and who took you. And knowing you you'd leave us some clues."

Donnie gave a laugh. "What like Scoby-Doo?"

"Yeah, but without the dog, which is kinda the point of Scooby-Doo, but I'm getting off track. The chances of your subconscious becoming reality has as much chance as Splinter turning evil or us four being named Graviturtle, Shellectro, Griddex and Blobboid. And yes, those were seriously their names."

Donnie was full on smiling by now. "Shellectro sounds a cool name."

"Really, I prefer Blobboid. Anyway, are we sorted?"

Donnie sat up straight. "Sorted."

"Brilliant, let's go back to bed then because there's a, oh flip, an hour and 47 minutes till training."

"You do realize that means we've been talking for 2 hours three minutes, right?"

"Geez, if Splinter asks this never happened right?"

Donnie rolled his eyes as he got up. "Oh, don't worry, I'm not going to go spreading this around the lair."

And so together they left the kitchen.