A gentle runaway

Chapter 1 - Earthquake

(Quick warning: this is a fanfic that takes place after the kraang's defeat, but there is no Triceratons or any of the space plot, shorting it all out: the Kraang are gone for good, Shredder is dead, Splinter's alive yadayadayada, hope you like my work)

It's a normal day in the turtle's Lair, everyone is trying to keep it together after the almost end of the world, most of humans are confused for what happened but no action is being taken whatsoever so... it's cool.

While Leo was rewatching Space Heros for the 184th time Donnie and Raph walked into the living room arguing that raph broke his T-phone again and Donnie is refusing to fix it because he has better stuff to do, Leo barged in trying to calm the situation down as easily as possible so he can go back to the TV and watch the now paused show, meanwhile, Mikey just finished making dinner, and accidentally, he bursted into the scene with a big smile until he realized the tense atmosphere that was going on, Raph and Donnie came home with bad news.

Apparently, a bunch of Kraang items are still going around the city and they found some signs of kraag crystals on a abandoned building, they knew what to do, and immediately took off to the mission, Mikey was still processing the sudden amount of info that was just rushed/dumped on him, and followed his brothers as soon as he, with tear of sorrow, packed their food for later.

They arrived on the location in minutes but were unsure if there was anyone in there, perhaps someone dangerous was waiting for them in there, maybe Baxter Stockman was there experimenting on the crystals, or maybe even Tiger claw, The guys thought, the idea alone made their little brother groan loudly of frustration.

🟠- "AAAAUUUGH! Dudes! Why can't we never have a break?! Like, we just saved the world last month and now we're just jumping into action again? We just recovered!"

🔴- "Shut up, Mikey! If you're just lazy then go home and stop bothering us, coward!"

🔵- "Raph."

🟣- "Just leave him alone, he's probably just scared as always, I mean he has lived in dimension X for a while with this kind of thing, right?"

🔵- "DONNIE!! Argh, stop picking on him, Mikey. You can come with me on this on, alright?"

🟠- "I'm not scared >:T"

With that, the four turtles quietly sneaked into the 4 floored building, they were on the 3rd floor, Leo signed so Raph would search downstairs, Donnie would search around the area, while him and mikey would search upstairs, the 4th floor, the place was large but recked, it looked like it could fall apart anytime, everything was dark and messy, the glass windows were stained and could barely be seen through, it looked like an business office, desks with broken computer and papers scattered all around.

They looked around for a couple minutes and found nothing, some strange noises came for the lower floor and since it didn't seem dangerous, Leo told Mikey he'd be back in a bit and went down to check on his other brother, right as he left the scene, Mikey found himself alone in a dark room, he felt a chilly breeze in his shell, until he started to feel something, like a presence, not a dangerous one tho, it was like a magnet, attracting him, it felt shiny and familiar, as he slowly approached it he felt a rumble on the floor.

He noticed some cracks appear around the walls and he rushed to the shiny presence without thinking, he saw on the corner of his eye, a bag, like a mailman's, but dusty, he jumped to grab it and a piece of the ceiling fell right where he was a second after the jump, he's startled, holding the bag, he rushes to the pile of broken pieces of concrete and contorted iron canes, he digged, hurting his hands but he couldn't care less about it, he found exactly what he expected, he placed it inside the bag and started to desperately look for a scapeway, he heard his brother call out for his name from the other room, he runs to the voice of his brother but falls in a hole on the floor and held on for his safety, he tried to craw back up but he's crushed by a wall that fell on him, with only his upper half visible through a door nearbly, he tried yelled for help but was silenced by the sight of his brothers, leaving the building.

He looked at the window and saw them outside, climbing up the next building, they called for him a minute ago and now... they left him behind, he was scared and alone but wouldn't give up on everything because of that.

He struggled but managed to get out of there and had an idea, he turned his both ends of his nunchucks onto kusarigamas, he broke one of the windows and, using his weapon as a hook, he hanged the mail bag on the emergency fire stairs of another building, now he only had to.... had to... what is this feeling?...

The building tumbled...

Leo, Raph and Donnie finally reached the top of the building.

🔴- "Phew! First one to get to the top! I win! Haha!"

🔵- "Cut it out, Raph. You just won because my ankle hurts!"

🔴- "Oh, stop crying, princess! It's just an ouchie."

🟣- "Guys, you sure Michelangelo made it out?"

🔵- "Well, I saw him running away as soon as the place started to shake, the building is weak and it shouldn't be hard for him to scape by now, besides I think I heard him break a window,."

🔴- "Wait, if that's the case... where the hell is he?"

They all look to each other and start to look around for their little brother, Leo calls for him, Raph searches any sight of Mikey in the distance, as for Donnie, he looks down and sees the single paired nunchuck with a strange object hanging from it, he warned his brothers, so Leo was quick to jump down there and catch it, he brought it up there, and the brothers gathered by to see it, Leo takes a look inside the bag and nothing but shock, his breath faded as confusion and fear flooded him and his brother's minds, he pulled out two pieces of kraag crystal, both with slight hand prints of blood.

Silence fell upon the three brothers as Leonardo hesitantly turned around, shaky breath, eyes widen getting more and more full of tears, but not a drop is seen, Raphael closes his fists and jumps at the crumbles of the building, looking for him, he's about to cry, then began to fall down his cheeks, small drops falling one after the other, like a waterfall, he wipes the away and tries to hide it, Donnie is calling out for Mikey again and again but no answer, Leo joins Raph on the digging, all to find nothing.

A hour passes by like a blink, Mikey had passed out deep under the wrecks, when he wakes up, he finds his way out of the wrecks and crawls his way into the sewers, his brother went home, but he doesn't know if he wants to, he might even be useful for the team, but he felt like it didn't matter, so much has happened, and his brothers won't change, the idea of taking some time for himself sounds as tempting as it always was, he's hurt, he's tired, and his work is done for now, he crawls back to the surface and sees a van on it's way out of town, Mikey had an idea, the van was empty and the driver was tired, so Mikey wrapped himself in a coat he found in the trash, the driver was almost asleep and didn't even looked at him, he just took off didn't question anything, Mikey, also tired and injured,fell fast asleep.

(I'll post chapter 2 soon)