Forget me not

Part two: trust me

     "MIKEY!" Donnie yelled but the box turtle didn't open his eyes until he heard Leo "DONNIE LET GO!" The purple turtle ignored his brothers yelling to look at his other brother on the verge of tears. "Angelo, you need to leave" he finally said. "B...but i-" Donnie cut him off before he could continue his attempt to argue "leave now." not knowing what else to do he turned and left. Donnie waited until the younger turtle was completely out of the sewer before letting go of leo. "Nardo why'd you attack him?!" He stared at the blue turtle who kept looking where Mikey had left. "Why did I attack him?! Are you brainwashed or something?! It was a mutant that we didn't know and It was in our lair !" The purple turtle looked at him confused. "What are you talking about?! Nardo, that is our brother!" Donnie sighed. "Donnie, Leo, why are you two fighting now?" said their oldest brother as he entered the room.
     "Raph!" Both of the smaller turtles yelled in unison as they then both tried to explain at the same time. "One at a time leo first" "There was this random mutant in our lair claiming to be our brother and donnie believes him!" Leo exclaimed "He IS our brother leo!" the purple turtle chimed in. The oldest looked at both of them before he spoke "D there's only the three of us we don't have a fourth brother." Donnie looked at them "you can't be serious... he's IS our brother!" "let it go d c'mon we have tra-" before the snapping turtle could finish his sentence his brother had started running to the exit. Leo right behind him "D GET BACK HERE!" the blue turtle yelled. The scientist looked back at his brothers to see Leo obviously getting closer. "BACK OFF NARDO!" When that didn't make him stop he yelled for his drone companion "SHELDON!" The drone came flying over and stopped in front of Leo making him slide to a stop while Donnie started climbing out of the sewer.
     Once out he raised his arm to look at the tech band on it "I need to meet back up with angelo so i can figure out what's going on." he used the arm tech to text his youngest brother telling him to meet at their spot. "Hopefully he remembers it '' he heard the sewer lid start to move so he quickly jumped up to the closest roof and started running towards the woods. He had to figure out why neither of them knew who mikey was. There was no way he was wrong; he had too many memories with all four of them together. Michelangelo is their brother isn't he? What if he's not. What if i'm wrong. He shook his head trying to get that thought out of his head. Mikey IS his brother. This wasn't as reassuring as he'd hoped. Maybe when he meets up with his youngest brother they can call April and dad. they would remember. They had to. Donnie knew he wasn't going crazy.
     Donnie finally got to "the spot" their codename for a treehouse he and mikey made around 4 years ago. "Dang it, I forgot how tall we made this, ''he said, sighing. "Of all times to forget my battle shell" He started the climb wishing he'd worked on his cardio more. When he finally got to the top he started to speak as he pulled himself into the treehouse through the hole in the floor.  "Angelo? Are you he-" Before he could finish he got slammed to the ground behind the entrance of the tree house. "D! I WAS SO SCARRED YOU WEREN'T COMING!" The purple turtle looked at his younger brother who was hugging him tight. He wasn't usually a big fan of hugs but now it was under different circumstances so he reached over and pat mikey's head a couple times. This reminded the younger turtle which of his brothers he was with, making him let go and stand up. "Sorry donnie i just got excited your shell ok?" d looked at him and could tell he had been crying. "It's fine. Let's talk about what happened, ''Donnie replied. Mikey answered with a shaky voice "I don't know what happened! I promise I didn't do anything!"
     Donnie sat up and looked at mikey. "angelo he doesn't know who you are at all and neither does raph." "w...what?! How could they not know me?!" The smaller turtle looked like he was going to start crying again. Correction: he did start crying again. "Hey it's ok I'm sure if we call april she can help us figure this out". Donnie pulled his phone out of his pocket and dialed her number, deciding to put her on speaker. "Hey donnie where are you?" April's voice came through but Donnie didn't answer so mikey did instead. "April! We ar-" the purple turtle put his hand over mikey's mouth. "D who is tha-'' the purple turtle cut her off by hanging up. The two turtles stared at each other, the taller taking his hand off of his brother's mouth. d started dialing a different number not putting it on speaker this time. "Hey dad... How many brothers do I have?... yes i know it's an odd question just answer............ thanks..."
     D hung up and put away the phone before looking at his brother. "Angelo i'm the only one who knows who you are..." mikey's eyes widened. "What?! What do you mean?!" There was silence for what felt like forever to the younger turtle before his older brother finally spoke. "Did anything weird happen last night?" "no! Nothing!" they just stared at each other again before d's phone chimed drawing his attention back to it. It was a text from Leo asking where he was. He put the phone back in his pocket ignoring the text. "Was that leo?" Michael asked with a nod from his brother. "What's it say?" The purple turtle looked at his brother. "Just him asking where i am" The phone started ringing but Donnie ignored it. "Oh...." They just stared at each other again.
     "Mikey... are you lying to me?" Donnie said keeping eye contact. "About what?" the purple turtle paused. "Are you actually our brother? Am I going crazy? I.. i just need to know" Mikey's heart dropped. "OF COURSE I AM?! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!" " angelo no one remembers you except me im sorry but i'm inclined to believe them at this point.'' Mikey stood up. "Fine, just go home, I can figure this out alone." Donnie stared at him "look Angelo i just-" "no i understand just go." A loud beep came from donnies pocket. He reached back and grabbed his phone out of it looking at the screen for a second before the two heard a voice. "D?! ARE YOU UP THERE?!" It was leo.
     Donnie looked at Mikey who was facing the opposite direction. He walked over to the hole and climbed down out of the treehouse without saying anything else to his youngest brother. He waited until he was at the bottom of the ladder to speak."Yes i'm right here nardo" the blue turtle ran over hugging him. "Oh me gosh donnie don't run away like that!" "yea sorry nardo let's just go home" his brother let's go to start walking back towards the city donnie right beside him. "Does this mean you're no longer brainwashed or whatever was going on in your weird nerd brain?" Donnie looked back at the treehouse for a minute then at his brother. "Yea sorry I don't know what was going on.'' Leo looked at the treehouse. "What is this place anyway?" " oh uh, just a tree house I made for when I needed to be left alone for a while." The blue turtle started heading back towards the treehouse. The treehouse mikey was still in. "Cool! Can I look around it?!" Donnie started to try to think of something to keep his brother from going in there. He may not believe Mikey but he still felt a need to protect him. "NO! I- uhm im making something for you and raph so you cant see it!" Leo turned around to look at Donnie just staring at him suspiciously before walking back over to him. "Fine but you owe us a pizza for making us worry so much." donnie let out a sigh of relief "yea yea lets just get home"