AN: This is the chapter I cried writing...good luck. *hands out tissues*
Song: Not Gonna Die - Skillet
The building crumbles to pieces, making every mutant on the outside grow stark with fear. Every one of the teenagers' friends, the newly-humanized Foot Clan mutants, and the Jones family stare in shock, unable to move or function at all. Silence fills the air, one that leaves a cold tension and the feeling of death all around them.
Destiny stumbles forwards, her eyes wide and her face agonized.
"Dean!" she screams, knowing that her son is somewhere in that wreckage with her nieces and nephew.
"Dean!" Venus shouts, her green eyes filling with tears.
Mitch holds the turtle girl back, his blue eyes drowned in sorrow as he stares at the wreckage. Annalise moves to her son with Michelangelo at her side, the three looking out at everything with shock and sadness on every face. Venus sniffles and turns, hugging Mitch tightly, and the boy doesn't pull away as he sinks to his knees and engulfs her in his warm embrace.
Destiny moves to the rubble, leaving Leonardo on his knees nearby, still weakened.
"Des..." he croaks, trying to stop her.
"Dean! DEAN!" she keeps shouting, morphing into a wolf and clawing desperately at the stone. "DEAN!"
Donatello and Raphael leave their wives, rushing forwards and helping their sister. The two women hug each other and tremble as they stare at the site, feeling almost too stunned to cry.
Destiny sniffs through the wreckage, catching the scent of her young family members. She follows the trail swiftly, finding the spot where it's strongest. She claws at the large slab of concrete blocking it desperately, her claws growing bloody and aching with every swipe. She keeps trying, her motherly instincts spurring her forwards. Then, with a final burst of adrenaline, she shoves the giant blockade out of the way, finally seeing the teens hidden in a crater in the pavement.
Dean lays on the ground, his body battered and bruised and his clothing torn open with bloody cuts. His wings are shattered and twisted at odd angles, his legs obviously broken as well, his handsome face streaked with dirt and deep cuts. Dakota is curled up near him, her eyes shut and her body as limp as her oldest cousin's. Asher and Copeland are still awake, but their eyes are only on their injured siblings and friends as they hold whatever injuries they sustained.
"Dean..." Destiny whispers, her eyes filling with tears as she collapses into the hole. She pulls him close to her chest, stroking his hair and wolf ears gently as she cries, rocking him in her arms. "It's okay, sweet boy. Mommy's here...I'm here...please hold on, baby. Don't go...I don't want to lose you."
Raph and Donnie stumble over, their eyes overwhelmed with emotion. Destiny presses her lips to her son's forehead, her eyes squeezed shut as tears run down her scarred face, her wings wrapped around them both and shielding her son's broken body from the view of others.
"Copeland," Raph breathes, leaping down into the crater and pulling his daughter to his chest. "I thought I lost you. Don't ever do that again!"
Copeland returns the hug, her body shaking. "Dad? Are you...crying?"
The red-masked turtle shakes his head, harshly wiping away the tears slipping down his face.
"No, Copey. It's just really dusty here," he mumbles, kissing her forehead gently as he hugs her even tighter. "Oh princess...I was so scared."
"But...you're never scared."
"That can't be said anymore."
He looks her over, noticing a bloody cut on the right side of her plastron. A lightning bolt shaped chip can be seen, the opposite of his. She notices his gaze, sheepishly putting her hand over the cut and averting her eyes to the ground. He only hugs her again, crushing her against his plastron.
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