Lost

Mikey!!!

Raph's P.O.V

"Really, Leo?" I say with a groan as I plop onto the couch next to Leo. "Space Heroes again? Can we watch something else for once? I'm sick of this damn show."
"Well I have the remote, so I get to pick the show." Leo gives me a snarky smile that makes my blood boil.
"Not for long," I say and I reach over him to grab the remote that is just sitting on the couch.
"Raph, stop it." He slaps my hand away and I growl under my breath.
"Give me the damn remote!" Leo snatches the remote off of the couch and he extends his arm away from me.
Yeah, like that's gonna stop me.
"Language, Raph."
"Shut the fuck up, Leo."
I lunge across the couch and I tackle Leo, pinning him on his back.
"You're making me miss the season finale!" He flips us off of the couch so I land flat in my shell.
Damn that hurt. Fucking Leo, why does he have to be like this?
"Yeah the season finale that you've watched eighty times!"
"It's my favorite episode!"
"Leo!" I yell and I flip into my feet. "Give it to me. Now." I tackle Leo again, this time we both tumble over the back of the couch and the remote goes sliding across the floor.
"Raph! Quit being so childish!" He yells as he pushes me off of him.
"Me? Childish? You're the one watching a stupid, shitty ass cartoon!"  I flip onto my feet and make a run for the remote.
"It's not a cartoon! And stop with the vulgar language, is that really necessary?" I feel Leo's hand wrap around my ankle and he pulls me to the ground.
"Ugh!" I yell in frustration and I kick my ankle out of Leo's grasp.
Out of no where there's a loud crash that came from Donnies lab, followed by Donnie yelling.
"Mikey!!!"
Leo and I look at each other then we both jump to our feet.
What did Mikey do now?
Leo and I run to Donnie's lab and we slide the big, metal door open.
When the door opens, the first thing I see is Donnie and Mikey cowering in the corner- and towering over them are three GIANT, mutated cockroaches.
"Raph, Leo!" Mikey cries out. "HELP!"
Fuck.
Cockroaches-
"Hey over here!" Leo yells and he bangs his fist on the metal door.
All three cockroaches turn to look at us. I can feel their big, black, beady ass eyes just starting into my soul.
"What the hell are you doing!?" I snap at Leo, and I can feel my own eyes about to bulge out of my skull. My breathing is getting faster and I can feel my heart rate rising. Out of all the things Mikey could've fucked up and mutated it had to be cockroaches!?
"I'm getting those things away from Donnie and Mikey. Help me-"
"My sais are in my room!" I take off running for my room- there is no way in hell that I'm fighting those nasty things! Is Leo insane?!
"Aren't they in your belt!?" Leo yells over his shoulder. Yeah, they are but Leo is fucking delusional if he thinks I'm going to fight those things!
I run into my room and I slam my door shut. I put my shell against my door and I sink to the floor. This can't be happening right now, it can't.
I put my hand over my heart to help me calm my nerves.
For whatever stupid reason, it helps me calm down when I feel my heart beating.
My breathing slows down and I tip my head against my door.
I think the others can handle them just fine on their own. I mean a three-on-theee fight? That seems fair to me. Besides, Splinter can help them.
I hear a loud crash, followed my a series of yells. I can't tell who yelled, maybe it was everyone.
No, I should go help them, the need me.
No, maybe not.
Ugh! Damnit Mikey.
I groan and I stand up, I pull my sias out of my belt and I look at them.
They're just some little bugs. I can beat them. They are just stupid nasty little bugs, that's it. I could step on them to squash them.
I mean they are mutated, huge, disgusting, bugs.
I shudder at the thought of them. And they could probably snap me in half with those giant ass claws they have.
I don't know why- I'm just terrified of cockroaches. I always have been.  When I was little everyone new that, and Mikey would prank me by letting one go in my room or he would yell "cockroach" randomly to scare me. A few years  ago I convinced everyone I was over that stupid fear. But I'm not- I just can't get over it.
"Raph!" I hear Leo yell as he pushes open my door.
"G-got them," I say, holding up my sais.
"They escaped into the sewers, we need to get them before they reach the surface. Let's go."
"Great," I groan and I put my sias back into my belt.
What a great way to spend my Saturday, hunting mutated cockroaches in the sewers. That's exactly what I wanted to do today.
I follow Leo and we meet the others, and Splinter, at the gate that's leads to the sewers.
"Be safe, my sons. There are a lot of tunnels, make sure you stay together."
"We will, Sensei," Leo says and he leads us out the gate.
"All three went this way," Donnie says and he points left. "We need to make sure that they don't find a way up to the surface."
"So what exactly happened?" Leo asks as we start walking.
"I was studying a drop of mutagen under my microscope when SOMEONE tripped and fell into my table, witch knocked my LAST can of mutagen onto the ground. And it happened to spill onto some cockroaches that were running through." Donnie gives Mikey a mad side glare. "I really needed that mutagen too. I was so closed to finding a breakthrough but now all my work is gone."
Wow, Donnie is really upset. His voice is more monotone then the guy's who announces the news.
"It was an accident-" Mikey starts to say but Donnie cuts him off instantly.
"I don't want to hear it." Mikey sighs and he kicks a pebble into the water.
"We have to split up," Leo says as we reach an intersection. "Uh, Donnie and Mikey go left."
"No, I don't want to be around him right now." Donnie says and he starts heading down the right tunnel.
"I'm sorry, Donnie-" Donnie puts his hand in the air to silence Mikey.
I glance at Mikey and he sighs and lowers his head. I think he was about to say something else but I guess he decided it wasn't worth it and he closed his mouth.
Leo glances at me and shrugs, then he does after Donnie without saying anything.
I guess that leaves me and Mikey to take the left tunnel.
Mikey sighs and he folds his arms over his chest. I walk up to him and I put my hand on his shoulder.
"He'll get over it, just give him some time." Mikey doesn't even look at me, instead he just turns away and he starts walking. I follow after him and my mind races to find something to say. I want to comfort him, but it's usually the other way around. I'm the upset one and he's the one who lightens the mood- even if he does it in an annoying way.
And usually I'm the one nagging on Mikey for being a screw up. But I guess Donnie has that part covered.
But right now he genuinely looks really upset. I don't like seeing him like this.
I can feel rage starting simmer inside of me, I'm mad at Donnie for treating him like that. But then again, if Mikey pulled some shit like that to me, I would be pretty damn pissed too. Either way, I hate seeing Mikey like this.
And yeah, I'm pretty pissed that I have to go searching for cockroaches down the sewers but I know it was an accident. I know Mikey can be a klutz sometimes- a lot of the time I mean.
"Now witch way do we go?" Mikey says interrupting me from my thoughts, his voice is very monotone too. His cheery, joyful spark has simmered out.
"Left?" I say with a shrug. "I think if we go right it would lead us in the direction of Leo and Donnie."
Without a word, Mikey turns down the left tunnel and he puts a headlamp on. He pulls another out from his belt and he hands it to me.
"Oh, thanks." I put the head lamp on and I turn the light on. That was actually a pretty good idea.
"So, aren't you going to yell at me too? Leo and Donnie did."
"Nah, not this time. I think they have it covered."
"Are you feeling alright?" Mikey asks and he looks over his shoulder. "You never pass up a chance to yell at me."
"I'll yell at you if you keep naggin about it." I say, my voice full of anger. More than I meant. I guess the anger that I have towards Donnie and Leo slipped out a little bit.
"There's the Raphie I know," he says with a pathetic, forced laugh.
"Don't fuckin call me that Mikey." Mikey fake laughs again and then he pauses. He puts his arm out so I run into it too.
"What the hell-"
"Shh!" I can hear something off in the distance that sounds like a big rat running through the sewers. "This way!" Mikey takes a sharp left and I dart after him.
"Mikey I think it's just a rat!" I yell as I chase after him. I know it's not a rat, but wishful thinking I guess.
"No that's what the cockroaches sounded like!"
If we run into a cockroach there is no way that I will be able to fight it.
And there is no way in hell Mikey can fight it of himself. I mean, I'm not saying I don't have faith in Mikey's fighting skills but...okay yeah that's what I mean. Mikey takes another left.  At this point I have no idea where we are.
"This way!" He says as he goes to take another left. "I saw one."
I saw it too. It's huge, creepy back had vanished into another dark and twisty tunnel.
"Wait!" I yell and I grab Mikey's wrist. "One went this way." I pull him into a tunnel that curves right. It feels like I'm running down a small slope but I'd rather be in literally any other tunnel as long as there's no damn cockroaches in it.
"Raph wait!"
I can't let those things get us! If we run into them I just know I'm going to freeze- and I'll stand there like a fucking coward while Mikey gets his shell beaten off of him. And I'm not going to let that happened, there ain't no damn way.
"Raph stop! The current is getting stronger!"
Leo and Donnie can take all three of those freaks easily. They are just big stupid cockroaches, how would they have any fighting skills? I just need to make sure that Mikey and I don't run into them.
"Are you listening to me?!" I can feel Mikey try to pull his wrist out of my grasp but I only hold on to him tighter.
I will make sure the cockroaches can't lay one of their slimy claws either one of us.
"RAPH!" Mikey screams and I glance back at him. As I glance over my shoulder I lose my footing and I fall into the water.
Gross!
I pull Mikey down with me, and to be honest I almost forgot I was still holding onto him.
Why is the water getting deeper? And it's going faster like a river.
"What's going on!?" I yell over the sound of the rushing water.
There is a loud sound off in the distance. It sounds like a waterfall.
"RAPH!" Mikey cries as he looks ahead of us. The tunnel just stops and through the opening I can see another tunnel in the distance. And water is just pouring out of the opening.
This can't be good!
I grab a sai out of my belt using my free hand and I stab it into the ground. It hits something and then we stop. Mikey swings past me and he dangles off of the edge.
"Pull yourself up!" I cry to Mikey as I start to lose grip on my sai.
"I can't!" Mikey's wrist is starting to slip out of my grasp now too. I can't hold onto both!
There's no way in hell I'm going to drop Mikey.
"Hold on!" I yell and Mikey pulls himself up and he grabs my wrist with his other hand. "Hold your breath!" I cry out as I let go of my sai.
Mikey and I go hurtling downwards to the giant whirlpool. I take a deep breath. Mikey screams as we fall through the air.
This is it. We are going to die because of me.
I pull myself down to Mikey and I loop my arm through his.
If somehow we survive this we need to stay together, if we get separated there is no chance that we can get home.
As we get close to the water Mikey straightens himself so he goes in it feet first, I copy him.
We shoot under water and the current starts pulling us into circles as it drags us down to the center of the whirlpool, witch is like a giant bath drain.
I can't see anything! The water is so musty and there are bubbles and debris everywhere.
The current speeds up more as we get closer to the drain.
Mikey! I lost him!
Suddenly something big and hard bumps into me and then I feel a chain wrap around my shell. Thank God, it's Mikey, unless someone flushes nunchucks and chains down their toilet.
Mikey I am so sorry, if we make it through this I promise I won't ever beat on him again!
Him and I get dragged through the drain and now we are in some kind of tunnel, I think. I still can't see anything.
"GYAH!" I cry out as my back slams against something and all the air gets knocked out of my lungs. Agonizing pain shoots through my entire body.
Everything is black.