It's Okay To Be Different | TMNT Donnie X OC Love Story

bringing them back

The battle between Ipos and Phenex was extremely easy now that the twins had reverted to their original body. The twins were much bigger in size, and they were somewhat experienced in battle.

Jophiel shot a beam of light from her halos while Raziel erupted rocks from his body and launched them towards the enemies. In a matter of seconds, the Devaigelients were down, the wheels cracked apart.

"Don't send backup." Raziel boomed, and sent an asteroid towards the dying Devaigelients' bodies.

The battle was over, but now the underlying issue concerning their friends became prominent. As they squirmed back into their Terran forms, Raziel couldn't take his eyes off of the slack jawed faces crowding him.

"What was that?!" Donatello screeched, clawing at his face.

"No! Don't do that!" Raz exclaimed, pulling his turtle friend's digits from their face. "Jo, make sure nobody else is hurting themselves. We have to get back on the Ulixes to help them."

Jophiel nodded, understanding her brother's command. She was pretty taken aback, as Ziel had never taken such an authoritative position before. Still, she rounded the drooling mindless others and herded them inside.

"Is anyone still sane?" Jophiel asked aloud to nobody in particular.

"I am." Mikey rose his arm in a schoolchild manner.

Raziel pulled Mikey up. "That I expected."

"What's wrong with everyone?"

"Well since you're kind of brain dead it would be easier for you to take in the true Sarchagelian form." Jophiel examined Maya's dilated eyes with her thumb and forefinger. "But everyone else isn't. So we have to reverse the unimaginable terror we unleashed upon them."

Mikey looked confused.

"Undo the crazy." Raziel translated.

"Oh! How about reminding them of things they like? I think about pizza like, all the time!"

"Perfect! That will work perfectly!" Jophiel patted Mikey's head. "What does everyone like?"

"Hmmm, Maya likes me and Iris likes Fugitoid right now but not like that." Mikey began to babble to himself. "Leo likes Space Heroes. Raph likes smashing things. Casey likes hockey. April likes...what does April like? Oh! That crystal! And Donnie likes tech."

"Let's bring them back."

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Almost everyone was back. Except for Donnie. Even after multiple attempts to coax him with technology, Jophiel was unsuccessful in her labors to bring him back. Raziel felt a knife twisting at his gut, as well as his chest. Why was he so stressed?

"Let me try something." Raziel mumbled.

Ziel moved to grab his black bag and pulled out his rock collection. He swallowed his pride, trying to tune out everyone's future reactions, and began to speak.

"I-um, I like rocks. You can find them just about anywhere. This one's a bismuth. I like its geometric structure. And I have a rock on my necklace here, it's a stone from Sarchagel. On Earth I wore a necklace with an Earth stone, but I changed it when the world ended. I want you to come back, Donnie. So we can talk about rocks and stuff together..."

Donnie's face was still blankly staring at Raziel. A quiet tear fell from Zi's cheek. His face was red out of nervousness.

"Just come back, okay? Just, stop being so stupid and come back."

"You want to talk about rocks with me?"