TMNT The Fallen

Chapter Three Horrifying Truth

As I lay there on the cold, wet sewer floor. I dream, I dream of sensei. And my family. I dreamt back to the good years. When me and my brothers were just turtle tots. To be honest, we haven't changed much from that time til now. Except when raph got mad, he cried. But in my dream, me and Mikey were playing with building blocks and Leo and raph were playing tag. Sensei watched us all play and he loved us all. I don't remember much after that except for sensei hugging us all. I woke up with tears in my eyes. I realized by that time, my brothers were probably looking for me. I couldn't show them my tears. But they had to know the truth. No matter how horrible or no matter how much I didn't want to believe it. They had the right to know.

I walked out of the sewer tunnel, sleepily. I had forgotten about the stealth bike. But there was no time. I had to hurry back home before my brothers came looking for me. But as soon as I walked out the tunnel. I heard a noise that sounded like a motor. It was the stealth bike! Somebody stole it! But who? I ducked back into the tunnel. Then I heard a voice yell, "Donnie! Dude, where are you?!" I jumped out of the tunnel. It was Mikey. He said, "don't scare me like that man! Me and the guys thought we lost you! Wait are those..?" He was staring at my face. I guess I didn't wipe away my tears good enough. I said "nothing. Let's go home." Mikey said, "no. We gotah save splinter! We found the note in the dojo!" Dammit! I thought. I forgot to dispose of the note so they wouldn't find it. I guess I gotah tell him the news now. I said, "Mikey. There's something you should know." He said "what?" He had a worried look on his face, like he already knew what I was going to say. I delayed what I was going to say so I smiled and said, "your right, we have to save sensei. But what about Leo and raph?" He said "they'll catch up, now hurry and hop on!" So I did. I should've told Mikey the truth. But I was too afraid to and I didn't want to break his fragile spirit. But how did he know where to go?

We sped in the tunnels. It's been at least five minutes of riding in the darkened sewer tunnels. Good think the stealth bike had headlights. But then I thought. Wait, this isn't the way to the home of the shredder. I was deep in thought, too deep in fact. Because I didn't realize that we were headed straight to the lair. I realized it a second too late. I thought I was done for. They found out, and they knew it was all my fault. Leo and raph were standing there in front of the shellraiser with crossed arms and angry expressions on their faces. When Mikey stopped, the stealth bike came to halt. Then raph looked even more angry, like he was about to attack me. His left brow started to twitch and so did his upper lip. As I got off, he ran towards me. I closed my eyes as right as they would go because I knew he was about to hurt me. I said, " I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Raph, please don't hurt me!" He hugged me and said, "why would I hurt you? We were worried about you! I thought something bad happened to you!" I pushed him off and pointed at him and said, " who are you and what have you done with raph?!" They all started to laugh. Then Leo said, "c'mon guys! Stop fooling around! We got to rescue sensei!" I gulped. I was afraid to tell them the truth. The horrifying, unrealistic truth. I stuttered. "Gu- gu- umm, guys?" They all stared at me like I was wasting their time. So I just shook my head to say, "Nevermind." We all boarded the shellraiser because the thought we were going to save sensei. They thought he was still alive. We traveled through the sewer tunnels and right before we reached the back entrance into the city, I blurted out, " he's dead! Sensei's gone!" Leo halted the shellraiser to an ear splitting stop and the shell raiser flipped. One, two, three times. It was totaled, and because of me not telling the truth soon enough. We were all unconscious. Waiting to wake up.