After his session in the dojo with Master Splinter had ended following dinner Mikey had gone into his room, he had been excused from patrol tonight, his brothers had left with plans to join April & Casey on their patrol, this had given him the chance to read the diary finally.
Mikey began to read, he read how Mr O'Neil was doing research using a pair of turtles, he was studying to see the psychology, he first bred a pair of turtles that he acquired once they reproduced, then he wished to see if he starved them whether they would reduce to cannibalism in desperation.
Mikey continued to read on he saw that the two turtles eventually starved to death and in fact didn't eat each other. He decided to repeat the experiment on the hatchlings of the now deceased turtles, but with a twist by taking one out and starving it to the point of death and putting it back in to see if it's siblings would help it survive or be indifferent to it's fate.
Mikey read the weak small turtle which he knew from his memories was himself, was too weak to even eat not having the energy to even forage to find it, how the siblings would regurgitate their food to feed him and how they took the food to him after that until he was strong enough to go and get it himself.
How his pre mutated body had a higher metabolism and his body was quicker than the other three to break down his food meaning he needed more food to survive, his body attacked any food and broke it down faster than before & one turtle the longer and thinnest turtle often chose to share his own food to allow the smaller one to survive and even thrive so he too became under weight but not as dangerously so as he had been, though all three turtles took turns, despite being solitary animals by nature.
Mikey welled up he knew now that the two dead turtles he'd seen were in fact his parents & how horribly they had died and how his brothers had kept him alive and had they not done so he would of shared the same fate, how his body was permanently altered by his starvation and it was all done deliberately in the name of 'science'.
He read on to see the circumstances that lead to them being in a adoption centre, and saw that it was the birth of April that saw him give up the turtles willingly ending his turtle psychology study and publishing his research.
Mikey put the diary in a bedside drawer of his room. He now knew his past he didn't feel as good about it as he'd hoped but knew what Kirby O'Neil had done, he assumed he didn't know he and his brothers were those turtles but he would be telling him.
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Mikey felt the pangs of hunger and sighed he went out to get some food, he sat down and was eating his midnight snack as his brothers returned from patrol with April and Casey in tow.
Mikey felt grief and despair he didn't seem to be able to let it go but he wasn't ready to talk to his brothers about it, he wanted to confront Mr O'Neil first and more importantly he wanted his parent's remains back so he could lay them to rest with dignity and respect, the fact they'd been left to literally rot away without a care like they were trash made Mikey angry, angrier than he'd ever felt before in fact.
As his brothers went to help themselves to some left over pizza along with April and Casey,
Leo asked him, "You feeling better now Mikey?" but Mikey was away with the fairies so didn't answer him, "Earth to Mikey!" Leo repeated,
"What dude?" Mikey replied quite harshly by his standards, being snapped out of his thoughts by Leo's voice.
"You ok?" Leo asked again, sitting next to him, Mikey shook his head,
"What's wrong?" Leo asked concerned,
"Humans are bad news, some are really bad" Mikey said looking at April and Casey, Leo was shocked by Mikey's outburst not sure what triggered the normally fun loving turtle's rant.
"Why are they here so late?" Mikey asked changing the subject wanting no further question tonight, but April heard him and asked him,
"Do you not want us here Mikey?" Mikey knew April wasn't to blame but all the same he felt an unease within him with her being near him with him sitting on his secret about her father.
"Just wondered, it's late, you don't normally come this late" Mikey said, making a effort of softening his tone toward her,
"Yeah my dad's home now & I kinda snuck out, I'll probably wake him if I try to sneak back so the guys said I could crash here that ok?" April said, Mikey nodded, knowing he was home he knew he could go and confront Mr O'Neil anytime he was ready.
"Casey did you sneak out too?" Mikey asked,
"Casey Jones is his own master, I'm just keeping April company" Casey replied.
"I'm gonna go to bed, night all" Mikey said as he departed abruptly.
"That was weird even for him" Raph said,
"What's going on with him Leo?" Donnie asked his oldest brother,
"no idea Donnie but lets get to the bottom of it in the morning, Splinter could of found out during their chat earlier, there's a reason we were kept away cleaning all day and he held Mikey back from patrol, we will talk to him tomorrow" Leo stated.
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Mikey's Memories
FanfictionWhen Mikey gets a trigger that leads him to have memories of his life as a turtle pre mutation, he learns things he wishes he didn't about a certain someone, how will he cope and make sense of his past and how will his family react?