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The garage door had been built when they had originally sealed the tunnel off but at the moment they had no way of opening it. \n\nThey would all love to have the added freedom that being able to drive around brings. \n\nWhen he arrived in the tunnel, Donny saw Tello looking over his schematics with a cup of coffee in his hand. That would explain why there was coffee already made that morning. No one else in the lair drank it unless they were extremely tired. “This project is going to go a whole lot quicker with you here to help,” Donny said as he walked up to Tello. \n\nTello looked up and smiled. “This should be fairly easy to do.”\n\n“It should be,” Donny agreed. “The only reason it isn’t done yet is because I didn’t have the parts I needed until now. Trips to the junk yard have become a rare occurrence. That and I needed to make sure all of the security for the lair was in working order.” He walked up to stand next to Tello. “I take it I have you to thank for the breakfast,” Donny said holding up the pastry. \n\nTello nodded. “Leo told me that it was time for me to be added to the rotation.” He grimaced a little. “I’m not much of a cook. I burn water.”\n\n“You’ll learn,” Donny said before taking a bite. “If you screw it up enough, someone will teach you.” He took a drink of coffee to wash the roll down. “Let’s get to work.”\n\nTogether they modified and forced pieces that were never meant to work together in to one cohesive unit. Tello babbled almost constantly as they worked. Donny let him, figuring it was a way for him to cope with all that had happened. He half listened to stories about Tello’s brothers and occasionally made comments in relation to the antics of his own brothers. There were quite a few similarities between them. It left Donny wishing he could do the same with other Donatellos from the multiverse. \n\nTello suddenly stopped talking and Donny felt a swell of worry. He had only stopped listening for a moment. What had he missed? He looked over at Tello to see him staring off at nothing. “Tello?” Donny said softly. \n\nBlinking, Tello looked up at him. “I’m sorry.” He ran his hand over his head and rubbed the back of his neck. “I had realized that I was talking about the morning before everyone had died. It happened only a few hours later, that night.”\n\n“Do… you want to talk about it?” Donny offered. “I know you want to hold it in and push it down but… it does help to let it out.” He then quickly added, “You don’t have to if you are not ready.”\n\n“I….” Tello shook his head. “I don’t know.” Standing up, Tello raced back towards the platform. \n\nDonny followed and watched as Tello lifted himself onto the platform. Tello managed to make it to the staircase before his legs gave out. Collapsing to the floor, Tello curled up and rested his head on the steps. Tears flowed freely down his cheeks as he sobbed. \n\nDonny sat next to him and gently caressed Tello’s arm. “You don’t have to talk about it if you’re not ready. I know how hard it can be. It took me two years before I was able to tell someone about what happened to me. But it was easier for me to deny that it ever happened. That it was just a bad dream.”\n\nRaph emerged from his bedroom and joined them at the foot of the stairs. “What happened?”\n\n“We were working on the motor for the garage,” Donny explained. “He was telling me stories about his family. Then he got to the day where it all went terribly wrong.”\n\nRaph knelt down and pulled Tello into a warm hug. “I’ll take you to our room so you can get some rest.”\n\n“April was run through,” Tello said, without looking up. “We were all out, looking for Karai… Miwa. Her mutation left her confused. We had just saved the city from the Kraang and Leo insisted that finding her be our next priority. He… kind of had a crush. \n\n“We were all together; me, my brothers, April, Casey, Splinter, Slash, Leatherhead, Dr. Rockwell, and Pete. We were looking for her at an abandoned carnival. We wanted to make sure that there was no way for her to escape.” Tello remained limp in Raph’s arms as he spoke. His eyes were distant, lost in memory. They were soon joined by the others who all sat down to listen. No one dared to say anything as Tello told his story. As much as it hurt to hear, they all knew that it needed to be done. \n\n“Shredder and his men attacked. We thought that they were out looking for Miwa but they already had her. They were out looking for us… for me. He didn’t spare a single Foot Soldier or Foot Bot. Their headquarters were probably unmanned he had so many with him. \n\n“Stockman had failed to find a retro mutagen for Miwa. So Shredder… killed him and decided to enlist my help. To show his sincerity he ordered his men to kill everyone but Splinter, me, and my brothers. \n\n“Hun killed April. He ran her through the heart. Through the back. Casey screamed and ran towards her. He was cradling her lifeless body when Rocksteady dropped a car on them. Slash moved the car off. Casey was crushed but still alive. I have no idea how long he suffered before he succumbed to his injuries. It couldn’t have been long….\n\n“Next was Pete. Tiger claw shot him.\n\nTello paused for a moment. Raph rubbed his shoulders and planed a chaste kiss on his head but said nothing. It was up to Tello to continue or not. They didn’t know who everyone in the story was but that didn’t really matter. What mattered was that Tello was letting it all out. \n\n“Fishface managed to kick Slash, knocking him into Dr. Rockwell…. The spikes on Slash’s shell… they crushed Dr. Rockwell. When Slash got up, Dr. Rockwell was stuck on him. Slash tried to get his dead friend off. That was all the distraction Shredder needed. He came out of nowhere and cut Slash’s head off. Raph lost his focus after that and he was easily captured. \n\n“Seeing that our friends were being killed, Mikey fought to protect Leatherhead. They were so close. Leatherhead was our friend because Mikey never gave up on him. He saw the good in him and… fought to bring it to the surface. I had never seen Mikey fight so fiercely. \n\n“Leo went to try to free Raph but he was overwhelmed. With two captured and five dead, we surrendered, hoping to save Leatherhead’s life…. \n\n“… It didn’t. Rahzar ran him through the chest with his katana. \n\n“In a matter of minutes, we were captured and all of our friends were dead. \n\n“Master Splinter and my brothers were locked up in cages that dangled from the ceiling and I was chained to a work station. To… motivate me to work, Shredder dunked Mikey’s cage into a large tank of water and kept him under. Then he would bring it back up and Mikey would gasp for air. \n\n“Shredder said that he knew turtles had the ability to hold their breath for a long time and that he wanted to test Mikey’s limit. Each time he dunked Mikey cage into the water, he kept it under for a few seconds longer. I could hear the panic in Mikey’s voice. The motivation worked. I made the retro mutagen for Miwa. \n\n“I handed it over to him and begged him to pull Mikey back up. With a nod of his head, Mikey’s cage was pulled out of the water. I was put in a cage that was raised up next to my brothers’. \n\n“Shredder used the retro mutagen on Miwa and it worked. She was human again but she still hated him. She cursed his name and spat in his face. Shredder ordered his men to lock her up. And then… he looked at Rahzar and nodded…. Mikey’s cage was plunged into the water for the last time. \n\n“We begged for Shredder to bring it back up but he stood there, cold as ice, and watched Mikey drown. It took so long to happen. I will never forget the panic in my little brother’s eyes. \n\n“And then Raph’s cage was lowered.” He reached up and held Raph closer, turning slightly in an attempt to seek comfort. “He tried to fight. \n\n“They got him up on a table and strapped him down…. Fishface stepped forward. He pushed a needle into Raph’s ear slits to deafen him. Then he took out his butterfly knife and… cut Raph’s eyes out. Raph screamed in pain, begging him to stop. \n\n“When Fishface was done, he undid the straps and stepped back. Raph was in shock and he was scared. He frantically called for our father to help him. \n\n“Splinter begged Shredder to stop. He said that he would freely give his life if Shredder released us. But, Shredder only laughed, saying that Splinter’s life was already his to do with as he pleased. He was going to make him watch his sons die before killing him. \n\n“Fishface toyed with Raph. He darted around him, cutting him. Panic took over and Raph ran. They had opened the pit in the floor and Raph fell into it. There were spikes at the bottom. He was killed instantly. \n\n“I expected my cage to go down next but it was Leo’s turn. He was in such a state of shock and despair that he didn’t even put up a fight. They laid him down to a table and sedated him. Rocksteady got to be the one to torture Leo. Tigerclaw didn’t look too happy about it. I guess the ones who got to do the torturing had to win the right. \n\n“While Leo was sedated, Rocksteady removed his plastron. It seemed that it was something he had done before. He eviscerated Leo. They put up a curtain so Leo wouldn’t be able to see what had happened to him and then they let him come out of his sedation. It’s amazing what someone can live through and for how long, so long as the proper procedures are in place. \n\n“They waited for him to be coherent before removing the curtain. It still took him a moment to realize what he was seeing. When he realized it he let out the most horrific scream. He then slipped into a state of shock. I watched his heart stop. \n\n“I was sure I was going to be next. I looked over at Splinter to say my goodbyes and I could see that he was broken. He told me that he was sorry. I made sure he knew how much I loved him, that I was happy for the time we had together, and that none of this was his fault. \n\n“We were both surprised when his cage started to lower. He looked up at me and I could see the frantic determination in his eyes. As soon at the cage was opened he attacked. Even though his hands were bound he fought. He even managed to kick Bebop into the pit before the others overwhelmed him. \n\n“They bound him up and hanged him upright between two pillars. Shredder then proceeded to skin Splinter alive. ‘It will adorn my walls with your sons’ shells,’ he said while he carefully removed my father’s flesh. ‘And your hide will become a rug for my thrown room so that I can have the joy of walking over you every day.’\n\n“By the time Shredder was done, Splinter was dead. I then had to watch as they cut my brothers’ lifeless bodies from their shells. \n\n“I was laying there, numb as they lowered the cage. I didn’t care what they did to me; I was ready for it to be over. They opened the cage, dragged me out and threw me on the floor. Shredder stood over me, dropped my weapon on the floor next to me, and said, ‘You will be allowed to live. Your suffering will last as long as you live. You can wallow in misery in your home or come here and attempt to avenge your family. No one here will ever kill you. That is something you will have to do yourself.’ \n\n“He then knelt down close to me and whispered, ‘But there are some who believe that if you were to take your own life then you will not go to the same place as your loved ones in the afterlife. Would you like to test that theory?’\n\n“When I didn’t move, I was picked up, carried out and dropped in the back ally. \n\n“I don’t remember making my way back to the lair. After a few days I started building the robots, with the plan of attacking Shredder. But, I was too scared so I never finished and I gave up. I live in the delusion that the robots were my brothers for a while but deep down I knew that it wasn’t real…. I just wanted to die. That’s when you found me.”\n\nRaph held Tello and continued to caress his carapace in an attempt to soothe him. There were no words that could be said. \n","writing_bbcode_parsed":"Warning: Graphic descriptions of character death.
With a spring in his step, Donny left his lab and headed down to the kitchen. There was already a pot of coffee ready so he helped himself to a cup. Grabbing one of the cinnamon rolls from the plate on the counter, Donny left to get his morning started.
There were some projects that were too big to fit in his lab so they were conducted down in the tunnel, away from the platform. The Battle Shell and the Shell Cycle were also kept down in the tunnel. They had been moved there before they had sealed the tunnel off. Now Donny was working on a way to have the tunnel wall open so that they could one day drive them again.
He had all that he needed to create the motor strong enough for the ‘garage’ door. Now all he needed to do was put the thing together. The garage door had been built when they had originally sealed the tunnel off but at the moment they had no way of opening it.
They would all love to have the added freedom that being able to drive around brings.
When he arrived in the tunnel, Donny saw Tello looking over his schematics with a cup of coffee in his hand. That would explain why there was coffee already made that morning. No one else in the lair drank it unless they were extremely tired. “This project is going to go a whole lot quicker with you here to help,” Donny said as he walked up to Tello.
Tello looked up and smiled. “This should be fairly easy to do.”
“It should be,” Donny agreed. “The only reason it isn’t done yet is because I didn’t have the parts I needed until now. Trips to the junk yard have become a rare occurrence. That and I needed to make sure all of the security for the lair was in working order.” He walked up to stand next to Tello. “I take it I have you to thank for the breakfast,” Donny said holding up the pastry.
Tello nodded. “Leo told me that it was time for me to be added to the rotation.” He grimaced a little. “I’m not much of a cook. I burn water.”
“You’ll learn,” Donny said before taking a bite. “If you screw it up enough, someone will teach you.” He took a drink of coffee to wash the roll down. “Let’s get to work.”
Together they modified and forced pieces that were never meant to work together in to one cohesive unit. Tello babbled almost constantly as they worked. Donny let him, figuring it was a way for him to cope with all that had happened. He half listened to stories about Tello’s brothers and occasionally made comments in relation to the antics of his own brothers. There were quite a few similarities between them. It left Donny wishing he could do the same with other Donatellos from the multiverse.
Tello suddenly stopped talking and Donny felt a swell of worry. He had only stopped listening for a moment. What had he missed? He looked over at Tello to see him staring off at nothing. “Tello?” Donny said softly.
Blinking, Tello looked up at him. “I’m sorry.” He ran his hand over his head and rubbed the back of his neck. “I had realized that I was talking about the morning before everyone had died. It happened only a few hours later, that night.”
“Do… you want to talk about it?” Donny offered. “I know you want to hold it in and push it down but… it does help to let it out.” He then quickly added, “You don’t have to if you are not ready.”
“I….” Tello shook his head. “I don’t know.” Standing up, Tello raced back towards the platform.
Donny followed and watched as Tello lifted himself onto the platform. Tello managed to make it to the staircase before his legs gave out. Collapsing to the floor, Tello curled up and rested his head on the steps. Tears flowed freely down his cheeks as he sobbed.
Donny sat next to him and gently caressed Tello’s arm. “You don’t have to talk about it if you’re not ready. I know how hard it can be. It took me two years before I was able to tell someone about what happened to me. But it was easier for me to deny that it ever happened. That it was just a bad dream.”
Raph emerged from his bedroom and joined them at the foot of the stairs. “What happened?”
“We were working on the motor for the garage,” Donny explained. “He was telling me stories about his family. Then he got to the day where it all went terribly wrong.”
Raph knelt down and pulled Tello into a warm hug. “I’ll take you to our room so you can get some rest.”
“April was run through,” Tello said, without looking up. “We were all out, looking for Karai… Miwa. Her mutation left her confused. We had just saved the city from the Kraang and Leo insisted that finding her be our next priority. He… kind of had a crush.
“We were all together; me, my brothers, April, Casey, Splinter, Slash, Leatherhead, Dr. Rockwell, and Pete. We were looking for her at an abandoned carnival. We wanted to make sure that there was no way for her to escape.” Tello remained limp in Raph’s arms as he spoke. His eyes were distant, lost in memory. They were soon joined by the others who all sat down to listen. No one dared to say anything as Tello told his story. As much as it hurt to hear, they all knew that it needed to be done.
“Shredder and his men attacked. We thought that they were out looking for Miwa but they already had her. They were out looking for us… for me. He didn’t spare a single Foot Soldier or Foot Bot. Their headquarters were probably unmanned he had so many with him.
“Stockman had failed to find a retro mutagen for Miwa. So Shredder… killed him and decided to enlist my help. To show his sincerity he ordered his men to kill everyone but Splinter, me, and my brothers.
“Hun killed April. He ran her through the heart. Through the back. Casey screamed and ran towards her. He was cradling her lifeless body when Rocksteady dropped a car on them. Slash moved the car off. Casey was crushed but still alive. I have no idea how long he suffered before he succumbed to his injuries. It couldn’t have been long….
“Next was Pete. Tiger claw shot him.
Tello paused for a moment. Raph rubbed his shoulders and planed a chaste kiss on his head but said nothing. It was up to Tello to continue or not. They didn’t know who everyone in the story was but that didn’t really matter. What mattered was that Tello was letting it all out.
“Fishface managed to kick Slash, knocking him into Dr. Rockwell…. The spikes on Slash’s shell… they crushed Dr. Rockwell. When Slash got up, Dr. Rockwell was stuck on him. Slash tried to get his dead friend off. That was all the distraction Shredder needed. He came out of nowhere and cut Slash’s head off. Raph lost his focus after that and he was easily captured.
“Seeing that our friends were being killed, Mikey fought to protect Leatherhead. They were so close. Leatherhead was our friend because Mikey never gave up on him. He saw the good in him and… fought to bring it to the surface. I had never seen Mikey fight so fiercely.
“Leo went to try to free Raph but he was overwhelmed. With two captured and five dead, we surrendered, hoping to save Leatherhead’s life….
“… It didn’t. Rahzar ran him through the chest with his katana.
“In a matter of minutes, we were captured and all of our friends were dead.
“Master Splinter and my brothers were locked up in cages that dangled from the ceiling and I was chained to a work station. To… motivate me to work, Shredder dunked Mikey’s cage into a large tank of water and kept him under. Then he would bring it back up and Mikey would gasp for air.
“Shredder said that he knew turtles had the ability to hold their breath for a long time and that he wanted to test Mikey’s limit. Each time he dunked Mikey cage into the water, he kept it under for a few seconds longer. I could hear the panic in Mikey’s voice. The motivation worked. I made the retro mutagen for Miwa.
“I handed it over to him and begged him to pull Mikey back up. With a nod of his head, Mikey’s cage was pulled out of the water. I was put in a cage that was raised up next to my brothers’.
“Shredder used the retro mutagen on Miwa and it worked. She was human again but she still hated him. She cursed his name and spat in his face. Shredder ordered his men to lock her up. And then… he looked at Rahzar and nodded…. Mikey’s cage was plunged into the water for the last time.
“We begged for Shredder to bring it back up but he stood there, cold as ice, and watched Mikey drown. It took so long to happen. I will never forget the panic in my little brother’s eyes.
“And then Raph’s cage was lowered.” He reached up and held Raph closer, turning slightly in an attempt to seek comfort. “He tried to fight.
“They got him up on a table and strapped him down…. Fishface stepped forward. He pushed a needle into Raph’s ear slits to deafen him. Then he took out his butterfly knife and… cut Raph’s eyes out. Raph screamed in pain, begging him to stop.
“When Fishface was done, he undid the straps and stepped back. Raph was in shock and he was scared. He frantically called for our father to help him.
“Splinter begged Shredder to stop. He said that he would freely give his life if Shredder released us. But, Shredder only laughed, saying that Splinter’s life was already his to do with as he pleased. He was going to make him watch his sons die before killing him.
“Fishface toyed with Raph. He darted around him, cutting him. Panic took over and Raph ran. They had opened the pit in the floor and Raph fell into it. There were spikes at the bottom. He was killed instantly.
“I expected my cage to go down next but it was Leo’s turn. He was in such a state of shock and despair that he didn’t even put up a fight. They laid him down to a table and sedated him. Rocksteady got to be the one to torture Leo. Tigerclaw didn’t look too happy about it. I guess the ones who got to do the torturing had to win the right.
“While Leo was sedated, Rocksteady removed his plastron. It seemed that it was something he had done before. He eviscerated Leo. They put up a curtain so Leo wouldn’t be able to see what had happened to him and then they let him come out of his sedation. It’s amazing what someone can live through and for how long, so long as the proper procedures are in place.
“They waited for him to be coherent before removing the curtain. It still took him a moment to realize what he was seeing. When he realized it he let out the most horrific scream. He then slipped into a state of shock. I watched his heart stop.
“I was sure I was going to be next. I looked over at Splinter to say my goodbyes and I could see that he was broken. He told me that he was sorry. I made sure he knew how much I loved him, that I was happy for the time we had together, and that none of this was his fault.
“We were both surprised when his cage started to lower. He looked up at me and I could see the frantic determination in his eyes. As soon at the cage was opened he attacked. Even though his hands were bound he fought. He even managed to kick Bebop into the pit before the others overwhelmed him.
“They bound him up and hanged him upright between two pillars. Shredder then proceeded to skin Splinter alive. ‘It will adorn my walls with your sons’ shells,’ he said while he carefully removed my father’s flesh. ‘And your hide will become a rug for my thrown room so that I can have the joy of walking over you every day.’
“By the time Shredder was done, Splinter was dead. I then had to watch as they cut my brothers’ lifeless bodies from their shells.
“I was laying there, numb as they lowered the cage. I didn’t care what they did to me; I was ready for it to be over. They opened the cage, dragged me out and threw me on the floor. Shredder stood over me, dropped my weapon on the floor next to me, and said, ‘You will be allowed to live. Your suffering will last as long as you live. You can wallow in misery in your home or come here and attempt to avenge your family. No one here will ever kill you. That is something you will have to do yourself.’
“He then knelt down close to me and whispered, ‘But there are some who believe that if you were to take your own life then you will not go to the same place as your loved ones in the afterlife. Would you like to test that theory?’
“When I didn’t move, I was picked up, carried out and dropped in the back ally.
“I don’t remember making my way back to the lair. After a few days I started building the robots, with the plan of attacking Shredder. But, I was too scared so I never finished and I gave up. I live in the delusion that the robots were my brothers for a while but deep down I knew that it wasn’t real…. I just wanted to die. That’s when you found me.”
Raph held Tello and continued to caress his carapace in an attempt to soothe him. There were no words that could be said.
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