Chapter 6

Donnie stood near his desk as he watched the chemicals mix. He felt so uncomfortable, it was because his older brother Raphael was keeping a constant watch over him. He tried to ignore him but he could feel his brother's eyes on him, watched every move he did. Donnie sighed then looked at his brother, annoyed by him.

"Raph, don't you have anything else to do at the moment?"

"Nope." Raph admitted with a shrug. "Did you create it yet?"

"I am pretty sure I answered you few minutes ago, no. I'm not close to it yet."

"Well then figure it out!" Raph ordered him angrily. "Leo is not having fun, it's not fun for him to be locked in a canister!"

"Do you think I don't know!?" Donnie yelled back. "At least I am working on something, unlike you who finds it so useful to just worry me as I work."

"Oh yeah?! Well, if you needed help, why didn't you spit it out? Do I need to ask?"

"You want to help good!" Donnie stomped and got the mutagen locater and handed it to Raph. "Get me ten canisters of mutagen so I could work on them. Happy now?"

"Very!" Raph admitted wit a glare.

"Good!"

"Good!"

The two of them turned and left to do their work, Donnie went back to his desk and sighed with relief. Finally he was able to work with peace.

...

"Hey Mikey?" Raph called him.

He found his brother in the living room with Leo. They moved Leo there so he wouldn't get bored from the lab. Mikey sat with a pile of comic books next to him, he showed his collections to Leo one by one to entertain him. Which worked very well.

Mikey turned when he heard Raph, he looked at him with a smile and gave him attention.

"Hey Raph, what's up?"

"We've got a mission to make."

"Awesome! What is it?"

"Donnie needs ten canisters of mutagen, it's up to us to go find it." Raph told him.

"Okay, but what about Leo?" Mikey pointed at the giant turtle who looked at them.

"Well, we could keep him with Donnie until we're back."

Mikey frowned. "But the lab isn't fun.."

"The faster we get some canisters, the faster we get back to Leo." Raph told him.

Mikey then nodded, he walked to Leo and patted the canister.

"Don't worry bro, I'll be back in a minute. Then we could watch some tv together." He told him.

...

Few hours later..

"Then after I created the retromutagen for Mr. O'niel.. April still didn't love me as.. You know.. As I thought she would.." Donnie told his mutated brother, as he worked on the mutagen. "I mean, I saved here father! And she just thanked me once and never mentioned it again."

Leo looked at his brother sympathetically which shocked Donnie very much.

"Even as super mutant, like how Mikey calls you, you still care for us..."

Leo pressed his head on the glass when Donnie placed his hand on the canister. Donnie looked sadly at him, then sighed.

"Leo... I don't know how to do it." He admitted. "I'm trying.. But. It's just so complicated."

Donnie looked at his desk then back at Leo.

"I need to figure out how to use the retro-mutagen on you with out causing you problems. I just don't know how..."

"Do not give up now Donatello." Master Splinter told him as he entered the lab.

"Sensei.."

"My son, listen to me. You were able to create a cure for Kirby." He reminded. "You did not know you were going to do so. You believed in yourself, you had very strong determination thus you were able to succeed." He placed his hand on his son's shoulder and gave it a gently squeeze. "I believe in you my son, we all do."

He wrapped his arms around Donatello and pulled him to a hug.

"I don't want to fail you all.." Donnie whispered as he buried his head in his father's neck.

"It is not called failure if you tried my son."

They stayed close to one another before Donnie pulled away, Master Splinter moved closer to the canister and pressed his hand on it.

"Even if you are not able it help him, we will learn to adapt." Master Splinter assured him. "Now I want you to go and rest while I take care of Leonardo."

"But Sensei. I still need to-"

"Rest. Now." Master Splinter told him sternly.

"Hai Sensei." Donnie bowed then exited the lab and went to his room.

...

"This way Mikey," Raph pointed at the docks.

They both jumped from roof to roof as the went closer to where the mutagen was. When they arrived at the docks, the tracker beeped, Raph walked forward as it signaled. He then realized the mutagen canister was in the water.

"Over here Raph!" Mikey pointed at the water and indeed something glowed there. It was the canister.

"Good, now we have three." Raph said.

He jumped in the water and swam to the bottom to get the canister. He swam up and gave it to Mikey.

"Seven more to go.." Mikey sighed.

"Let's head back." Raph told him.

"Wait, now?"

"Yeah, we'll continue tomorrow. We should head back now, it's getting late."

"What about the rest? We still have seven more!" Mikey whined.

"We'll continue tomorrow Mikey." Raph repeated. "I promised Sensei not to be late. Let's head back, now."

Mikey followed his brother's order and they both headed back to the lair.

They didn't notice the van, few blocks away, that drove in the ally as it chased a huge mutant monkey.

The mutant monkey tried to hide from the van, but it was able to find him. The monkey ran again, then stopped when it reached the dead end. The van stopped behind him and two men came out, each one of them held a gun. Without further delay the two men shot the monkey with darts and knocked him out.

"Sir, we captured Dr. Rockwell." Said one of the men on the phone.

"Excellent." A rough voice replied. "Bring him to me."

"Yes sir."

...

To Be Continued...

Hi there! I'm very sorry for the delay, I was and still am pressurized with school studies and I had to put the story on hiatus. Hope you guys enjoyed chapter 6! Sorry to say this as well, but chapter 7 might take time. I'll try my best!