Hey everyone, time for the final installment of One and Three!

Wow, and to everyone who does and doesn't know, this story and Old and Young were inspired by Ironi Numair's one-shot, Eldest.

It's good! Go read it! And review it! It's awesome!

Anyways, I'm borrowing a weak internet connection from one of my neighbors since my internet has already been disconnected for my move.

"WHAT!" Raph shouted, stumbling backwards and just catching himself on the curtain before he fell down on to the cement floor.

Leo smiled sadly and turned back to him before sitting cross legged in front of the stones. The eldest held out his hand with a kind of regretful look overcoming his face.

"I had a feeling you'd be the one to figure it out. You messed up my entire plan when you came home early."

Raph looked at the offered three fingered hand for a moment, like he wasn't entirely sure what it was, as if it had been transformed from when he had previously set eyes on it.

"Come on, want to know my memories?" Leo asked.

The funny thing was, Raph didn't even remember taking the hand, didn't remember ever sitting down, he didn't even remember anything after he took a cautious glance up at his brother's eyes. After that there was a bright, white, light and it was so intense, as if it were a laser burning his eyes. Weird, their memories hadn't started off like this.

Raph found himself, once the blinding light had cleared, standing in the laboratory he recalled from his own memories. Only, a few things were different, a few tables he recognized by their various chemical and possibly coffee stains were on the opposite side of the room, a few computers seemed a bit older than he recalled and a few of the people seemed different as well. There were no bright and clear distinguishing marks on the scientists though a few did seem different than he remembered. One thing on the other side of the room did strike him as familiar though. Their nest.

Raph almost made his way over to it before a hand on his shoulder made him spin around quickly, expecting danger. When he met his blue masked brother's gaze he breathed a sigh of relief. He tried to speak but a sign from Leo made him snap his beak shut. The blue clad turtle shook his head, but still didn't say anything. Then, he looked around cautiously, as if something or someone was watching them before he pointed to an opening doorway.

Two scientists were wheeling in a large incubator. They pushed it into the center of the room before a man wearing a construction helmet entered the room behind them and bent down to lift a panel on the side of the incubator. After taking a good look at the blinking lights and wires inside he opened a panel on the floor, connecting two large tube like chords to the empty sockets in the opened panel.

"Well, your power supply is working quite well," the man said before tipping his hat at one of the scientists before making his way across the room where a red tool box lay on the ground.

Leonardo looked away from the construction worker and then turned to find that Raph was gone! He panicked for a minute until he spotted his younger brother looking down into the incubator the men had just wheeled in. Leo smiled and walked up beside him, glancing down and spotting three figures that made his emotions act as if they were warring with one another inside his mind.

Raphael on the other hand, turned his gaze from the three turtles in the incubator to his older brother beside him.

Baby turtle with olive green skin-nope

Baby turtle with blue-green skin-no match

Baby turtle with sage green skin-no

Raph finally caught his older brother's eye and raised an imaginary eyebrow of confusion.

"Bro, if this is your family, then where are you?" the red banded turtle thought.

Leo smiled, the smile itself was half amused and half sad. He ran his hand along the glass of the incubator, although he could easily faze through it if needed, and then he pointed strait down to a mound of sand.

The imaginary confused eyebrow raised again.

Just watch. Leo thought, once again directing Raphael's eyes downward. The mound of sand was beginning to shake, like it was a miniature volcano getting ready to erupt.

But what came out of the sand was not the red hot, fire dotted lava that covered the earth when such a mountainous thing exploded. What revealed itself in a matter of seconds was a very tiny turtle egg and what broke its way through was a tiny, innocent, leaf green skinned turtle.

Raph looked to Leo in shock, asking by his eyes, "You?"

The blue clad turtle nodded and watched as his younger brother turned back towards the scene. The tiny turtle was standing up and glancing around questioningly at the others around him. Then, before either Raph or Leo could move, the scene around them faded, their environment then turned a pale white before similar images began to fade back into their sight. They found themselves in the same lab as before, but a quick glance at the updated technology around them revealed that some time had passed since the last scene.

Raph looked back and forth between all the scientists running around before turning to Leo again with the question of, "What happens now?" hidden in his eyes.

Leo pointed to one of the glowing doorways and frowned as a large cart was rolled in. Finding that they were still standing by the incubator, Raph looked down inside it and smiled at the sight of the four brothers curled up together although there was a stab of something akin to betrayal. After all, this was his brother, or at least, the guy he had known as his brother for 15 years and seeing him, even in his infant turtle form, curled up into a mass of other turtles stung something under his skin like that irritating itch on your back you can just, never reach.

"Alright, they've undergone their physical," a woman said, approaching the incubator and staring down at the little turtles inside.

The young teenager that was rolling in the cart picked up a small cardboard box from the cart and walked over to the incubator as the lights were turned out, the little turtles' heat source suddenly vanished and Raphael noticed one of them shivering slight from within, if a cold-blooded animal could really shiver.

He assumed it was possible after all, they shivered and they were cold-blooded. He watched with feelings of confusion as the woman scientist lifted the baby turtles out of the incubator and placed them in the cardboard box the teenager held open for her.

"I hope Gorge likes the new auditions to his little pet shop," the woman said with a soft smile at the teen in front of her.

The said teenager half returned the smile and then spoke slowly, "Yeah, it's the first time Grandpa's letting reptiles into the store."

"Well, there'll be another batch soon," the woman said, motioning to a second incubator on the opposite side of the room.

With that final motion, Leo grabbed Raph's arm and pulled him to the other incubator where both of them spotted three eggs laying in the center of the nest. Raph glanced back at the teenager as he carried the box towards the cart and then at the three eggs in the incubator before him. He decided that the three eggs in the incubator were him and his younger brothers' eggs, but how did Leo get here if he was over there?

How?

Suddenly, the hotheaded turtle felt his stomach drop. Something, something must have happened. That's when Leo turned him around and made him look as the teenager walked forward towards the cart and motioned to the hanging cable before him.

Raph wanted to shout out, "Hey Idiot! Watch out!"

But somehow, it was physically impossible to do more than move your lips in this place. No wonder Leo hadn't said anything to him yet.

Leo's shoulders sagged and he closed his eyes as the door opened and another scientist wheeled in a large rolling shelf full of beakers and bottles of different chemicals. One with a shelf in front of him, unable to see, another with a box in front of his face. So it was only expected and not wished for when they collided.

The red banded turtle couldn't explain what happened next. There were crashes of metal and glass hitting and shattering on the tiled floor. The thud of the cardboard box was then followed by the almost silent clacking of four tiny shells against the floor. The scientists in the room rushed to their friend and Raph went to join them, forgetting for a moment that he had no influence in the realm of a memory.

A hand enclosed over Raph's and pulled him back. He glanced back only to see Leo shake his head sadly. Then he reached towards the incubator beside them and pushed his hand through the glass. It spoke the reprimand to Raphael, 'you can't do anything'. Growing angry, Raph tore his hand away and rushed over to the pile of debris, he had to know what happened…

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…

…

After seeing this memory and a hatching, this was the ABSOLUTE last thing he wanted to see.

The four baby turtles were spread out among the chemicals and broken glass on the floor. None were moving. The logical fact that Leo was still there so he couldn't have perished here in this accident, totally flew out of his mind. The sage skinned baby turtle was curled up in his shell, but wasn't moving. The blue-green skinned turtle was laying on his plastron, eyes shut and blood along his mouth. The final, olive green skinned turtle was on his side, a crack running down the center of his shell. Then his eyes flew to the youngest turtle, his older brother, he didn't like that he couldn't take a moment to stand amused at the irony of that sentence. His eyes focused intently as he knelt by and tried to reach out for the little turtle but his hand phased through, soon his grasp grew desperate. His protective nature just wouldn't allow anyone or anything to hurt his family, and this was the worst torture of all, seeing it happen and being unable to do anything about it.

He wanted to yell at the scientists to stop worrying about that other scientist and teenager that had been in the accident and start worrying about the injured baby turtle. So he jumped when a hand landed on his shoulder, then he relaxed when he recognized the touch of his older brother.

Then, they were surrounded by white lab coats.

"No good, this one has a broken spine."

"Internal heart implosion, he must of hit the ground plastron first."

"Impaled lungs."

There was a silence as Leo dragged Raph away from the group.

"Wait! One's still alive!"

There was a great rush as the woman that had handled the turtles before sprinted across the room, holding the smallest and youngest turtle in her hands. She ran to the other incubator and quickly placed him inside. Raph's eyes widened. That's what had happened!

Then the room began fading and-

The turtles returned to reality, finding themselves sitting across from one another in the sewer tunnel. The miniscule stones still sat there, silent as gravestone ghosts.

When Raph finally gathered words in his head he looked up and found Leo's eyes shining, they were slightly moist.

The red banded turtle wasn't one to give sentimental comfort, so he said what he deemed was one of the most stupidest things he could ever say.

"You know, if it had been you and your brothers that mutated," Raph said slowly then paused for effectiveness until Leo looked up at him.

Raph lowered his eyes and smirked, "You would've been Mikey."

It was a tense few seconds before the eyes that once alluded tears, drifted out of the eyes slowly while his chest rumbled, not from sorrowful cries, but from a small yet very significant short stream of laughter. One could be forgiven for thinking it was nothing but a short, sharp chuckle, but there was something in the atmosphere and in Leo's smile that told Raphael that Leo was truly laughing.

THE END!

YAY! Now I only have two stories to finish!

It's Not OK

And

A New Start

I'll probably be finishing A New Start before I post the next chapter of It's Not OK though so look out for it!

I hope you enjoyed this story! Review if you want, but I'm just happy enough to have finished this. ^_^

~Moonsetta