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It was a normal day in the lair.
Donnie was working on a retro-mutagen in his lab while Leo and Raph were arguing in the living room. "It's your fault if we get caught one of these days!", Leo yelled.
"Yea?", Raph replied "Aren't you the one who always wants me on his team?"
Donnie sighed. They had been fighting for hours now. And all that noise made if hard for him to concentrate on what he was doing.

Then, Mikey came running in with a terrified expression on his face. When he saw Donnie he ran up to him and clung to him for dear life. Donnie carefully put down the chemicals he was working with and hugged Mikey back: "What's up Mikey?"
Mikey looked up to his big brother: "They're going to fight!" Don rolled his eyes. I knew he wasn't a genius, but I would have thought he had noticed that by now.
"They have been fighting all day, Mikey", Don said calmly "They do that all the time" But Mikey shook his head: "No, man! I mean real fighting! As in: with their weapons!"
Don looked his little brother in the eyes. Mikey was usually pretty good in predicting behavior.
"I promise I'll go and have a look right after I finish this, ok?", Donnie asked. Mikey nodded and let go. He put himself in Don's chair and waited for Don to finish his work.

Just as Donnie wanted to add one drop of a blue looking chemical in the mixture, there was a loud noise from metal against metal coming from the living room.
This made Donnie add five drops instead of one. He turned to Mikey and yelled: "RUN!"
The newly produced liquid was steaming and could explode any second. He ran behind Mikey, but none of them were fast enough.

A loud BANG sounded through the lair, making both Leo and Raph look up from their fight.
When they saw smoke coming from the lab, they dropped their weapons and ran to the door.
But before they could reach it, Mikey came out coughing. Raph immediately ran up to him and grabbed him by the arm: "What happened?!" But Mikey kept coughing.
Leo was waiting for Donnie to come out, but even after a full minute he hadn't shown up.
So he turned to Mikey, who finally could breathe again: "Where is Donnie?" Mikey looked around, but couldn't see Donnie. This made him panic: "I don't know… He was… And I was… And then he…"
"Okay", Leo interrupted him "you: sit down for a while and take deep breaths. Raph, come with me"
Raph didn't bother to argue and just followed Leo. He was still mad at him, but Donnie was more important.

As soon as they entered the lab, they saw the mess: there were pieces of paper lying everywhere, tables were turned over and the air was filled with a thick black smoke. But they didn't see Donnie anywhere. "Split up", Leo ordered. Raph nodded and went right, while Leo searched the left side of the lab.
After a couple of minutes, Leo saw Don's desk lying in a weird position. Like something was supporting it… Leo's eyes grew big when he saw Donnie lying underneath it. "RAPH!", Leo yelled "over here!"
By the time Raph arrived, Leo had kneeled down to Donnie and tried to make him look him in the eyes. But all he did was cough a little. Then, Leo looked up at Raph: "We've got to get him out of here"

Raph looked at the desk and nodded: "I'll push the desk up, you pull Don out"
Leo agreed and grabbed Don under his arms. How is it that he's so thin?, Leo wondered once again.
"On three", Leo said "one, two, three!" Both of them put all their strength to it.

Once Donnie was free, Leo put him back on the ground to wait for Raph to put the desk back down. Don would kill them if something had happened to his precious desk!
When Raph joined them, they both slung an arm over their shoulders and helped Don out of the lab.

When they returned, they saw master Splinter sitting next to Mikey rubbing his shell.
They put Donnie on the ground, next to Mikey. As soon as they let go of him, Mikey grabbed Donnie tight. And although it hurt him a bit, Donnie hugged back. Master Splinter smiled at the sight of his two youngest sons hugging. Then, he looked up at the oldest two: "What happened here?"

"I'll tell you what happened!", Raph said "we were talking and suddenly mister leader over here took out his swords and attacked me!" "What?!", Leo yelled "That's not true!"
Splinter sighed and looked at the other two. Mikey was still holding on to Don's arm, but looked very frightened.
But Donnie… He looked like he was going to explode any minute.
And he was right.

"SHUT UP!", Donnie screamed. This made both Raph and Leo jump back from surprise. Donnie never lost his temper! "I am sick of these constant fights of you two! If you can't work together, than there's only one solution. We change the teams. I take Raph and Leo with Mikey"

"What?!", the other three brothers said together. "I don't want Mikey!", Leo said.
But Don's look made him silence himself before even master Splinter had the chance.
But the last comment made everyone agree with his plan: "If you guys don't do this… I'll go on strike!"

Splinter had sat himself down next to Mikey by this time and was watching the scene with uttermost interest. I never knew he had it in him to be a leader, he thought.

Author's note: Hi! I know, still working on another one. But because I always like it to have 2 stories running, I thought I'll put it up already :)
I got this idea while I was sitting on the bus coming home after school… don't know why I got that idea actually,…

Anyway, read, review,… :)