Blue Can Fade To Black (rottmnt)

Aftermath

No...

"Mikey!"

The box turtle half turns just as the weapon comes down on his shoulder.

No.

Blood splattered across the alley floor.

Mikey cries out in pain, falling to the floor, blood oozing from a deap cut to his shoulder blade. Raph and donnie cry out in alarm and fear as they run to aid the box shell.

No.

Leo is frozen in place, watching as donnie kneels down next to mikey and puts pressure on the wound.

The man was quickly subdued by raph, yelling profanities untill raph had, had enough and threw him roughly against the brick wall, knocking him unconscious once again.

How did he let this happen?

"-Leon!" Donnies voice snapped him out of his pitty party and he jumped into action.

"I'm going to make a portal home! Raph pick him up and keep as much pressure on the wound as you can! Donnie contact dad and tell him to get the medbay ready."

For once, they didn't argue and simply did as he had ordered. Donnie took out his shell cell and quickly phoned dad as raph delicately picked mikey up. Leo held up his katana and attempted to make a portal, it failed the first time causing him to curse under his breath but the second flickered to life a moment later.

Leo gestured for the others to go first, to which they complied and soon the slider followed. The lair auditorium greeted them.

Raph was already running to the medbay with donnie close behind.

Leo stood frozen. He couldn't process what had just happened. Mikey was hurt, mikey could die. Under his leadership, mikey could die...

He heard splinter and april begin to demand answers up ahead, he shook his head violently and ran towards the med bay where everyone was gathered.

"Where's blue?" Leo heard splinter ask. He charged around the corner, putting a hand on the door frame to right himself.

"I'm here, dad." He said, panting slightly at how quickly he had sprinted to get here.

"What happened?" The small rat asked, approaching the slider. His eyes were serious and worried. A quick glance behind him showed donnie and april already working on mikey, the orange turtle's breathing was shallow and he was so pale leo almost couldn't recognize him.

Leo brought his gaze back to his father, not wanting to look at his vulnerable sibling anymore.

"Four gang members were harassing a woman, we went down to stop it and knocked them all unconscious, while we weren't paying attention one with a machete got up and-" Leo's voice cracked near the end. He cut off, not wanting to finish his sentence. His father nodded, his brow furrowed in thought.

Leo, not caring if his father was done talking yet, pushed past the rat and went further into the medbay untill he was standing next to raph, who was watching donnie and april with an unreadable expression.

"-He needs more blood-"

"-He's going to need stitches-"

"-hand me those bandages-"

Words blurred together, leo went numb, not quite comprehending anything around him anymore. He had been feeling so many emotions prior, but now they had just stopped. Leaving nothing behind, but a living, empty shell of a person who would stand here untill the end of time.

He didn't know how long he stood there, he knew things were being said. Knew things were happening around him, important things. Yet he couldn't process any of it. He feared he would stay here forever, that no one would be able to save him from this oblivion.