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Coward by Andrias_Scheuchzeri
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
30 Nov 2025
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Michelangelo had always wanted to see the bright, blinding sun, the robust trees whose leaves would change into sunset colors and then fall. The mountains, too, far away into the deep horizon, imposing, unmovable and inmortal, the rivers and lakes, ever flowing and alive.
Not like this though. Not with his brother, his oldest and invincible brother beaten up and in a slumber so deep he might never wake up.
Death was creeping around them, waiting to get as much lives as possible, ever patient and calm.
Death was coming for Leo, and Mikey was scared.
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Mikey is scared of death and has a bad time. Also he's having weird dreams hmm what could that mean?
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only bad thing about a star is they burn up by nonsensicalapathy
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW Comics), Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
23 Nov 2025
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"Ah, you caught me."
He steered a questioning gaze towards her as she shrugged, her smile hadn't faded once, "I am a Yokai as well, but different from the ones you know. The truth is I am here for a reason," Finally, her gaze lowered and her smile dropped, "When you wake up again, you will be human— fully."
"Wait— what—"
"I am sorry for what I am about to do."
Hot white pain burst through his skull like an explosion of stars, and suddenly its dark, as if he ceased to exist once again.
or Mikey gets sent to another universe by a meddling Yokai.
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Intuition by Kalopsian_turtlez
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003), Death Note (Anime & Manga)
28 Oct 2025
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Michelangelo speaks with her Shinigami, Light. And her father comes to realize something is terribly off with his child.
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- Part 61 of One-shots
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Strange isn’t Special. by Kalopsian_turtlez
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
27 Oct 2025
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Michelangelo sees an old cartoon he used to watch as a turtle tot, and is instantly struck with an existential crisis that feeds off his disintegrating ego and self esteem.
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- Part 60 of One-shots
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the Sewers Reek of Death. by Kalopsian_turtlez
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
26 Oct 2025
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Michelangelo is struck on the head by a strange Notebook that falls from the heavens. Upon taking it home, A God of Death appears to inform him of the power he now truly possesses.
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- Part 59 of One-shots
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Cyber Echo by Kalopsian_turtlez
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
28 Sep 2025
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Michelangelo remembers dying, but he can’t seem to remember why his brothers seemed so happy about it. When he does find out the reason, his entire grasp of his own life and existence become confusing and distressing
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- Part 54 of One-shots
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The Trouble With Alien Creeps by Multidimensional_Scribe
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
28 Sep 2025
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What if Leo, Don, and Raph witnessed Mikey being sexually assaulted by that alien in the episode "The Trouble with Triceratons" and did something about it?
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The Impossible by UlisaBarbic for BrightLotusMoon
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
16 Aug 2025
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The aftermath of the fight with Kluh has severe consequences. Not only is Michelangelo seriously hurt but now the things he’s kept pressed down for so long see an opportunity and force their way to the surface.
This family loves each other but they have some healing to do. In more than one way. It won’t be easy and it won’t be quick but they don’t abandon each other.
It’s time they remembered that.
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Smoggy Constellations. by Kalopsian_turtlez (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
12 Aug 2025
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Michelangelo has never seen the stars before, and never hopes to see them again.
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Sickeningly Salty by saltshakergirl18
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW Comics), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
12 Aug 2025
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You see, while Mikey might’ve found all of his brother’s weapons and masks, he had only found and buried one of their corpses, Leo’s. When he went back to the destroyed base Mikey had found him under the rubble, shell crushed and head almost detached from his neck. Raph’s body was at the bottom of a river, so no one has gone to retrieve him. But Donnie’s…
Donnie’s body was just gone, just like splinter’s, taken by the Foot Clan. At the time, Mikey had no clue what they were going to use it for. Maybe as a trophy, a sick reminder of what they had done. Maybe they just kept it just because they could, just so Mikey couldn’t bury it. But now he knew what they used it for.
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- Part 2 of my last ronin au
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Filthy, Disgusting, so Ugly. by Kalopsian_turtlez
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
06 Aug 2025
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Michelangelo develops an eating disorder, oops.
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- Part 48 of One-shots
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A Furr-Ever Reminder by saltshakergirl18
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW Comics), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
26 Jul 2025
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Ronin felt his heart stop and time slow as he looked at the stray cat. The similarities were almost uncanny. It was a calico cat with more orange spots than black, a white belly, and those eyes,
Those damn greenish yellow eyes that stared at him, almost like it knew what happened. It looked almost identical to Klunk. The universe was practically taunting him. Going “hey, remember your cat?”
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I add on to Mikey's already horrible trauma in The Last Ronin
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- Part 1 of my last ronin au
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'AOtGO' - Aftermath by Zelgadis55
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
10 Jul 2025
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2k12 side of 'AOtGO'. For months, Mikey was at the tender 'mercy' of the Kraang. His family thinks he's dead, he's been rescued by the wrong family and now must learn to fit in in a dimension not his own. All while searching for a way home for both himself and the missing member of his adopted family. 2k3/2k12 crossover.
This story can be read without reading the other stories in the 'AOtGO' series. This is the 2k12 universe side of the story.
Comments, thoughts and concrit are always welcome.
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- Part 8 of AOtGO
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1987 Verse, post episode “The Gang’s All Here.” Donatello confronts Michelangelo about his decision to use the antimutagen to become human, despite knowing how dangerous it was. It turns out his reasons are…complicated. And what began as an older brother scolding a younger brother turns into a soul baring session of secrets that shouldn’t be kept.
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Expectations vs Reality. by Kalopsian_turtlez
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
03 May 2025
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Michelangelo delves into a reverie of how his brothers would see him, but a mishap proves his daydreams very different from reality.
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- Part 32 of One-shots
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I am stuck in a dream - TMNT 2012 by toffee_flower
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
01 Apr 2025
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(CURRENTLY EDITING CHAPTERS, STORY MIGHT BE WEIRD UNTIL IM DONE LMFAO)
Mikey’s always been a bit up in the clouds, but none of his brothers knew why. They assumed it was just because he didn’t have as many brain cells as the rest of them. But, after the Kraang invasion, it only seemed to get worse.
Now they’re interested, and Mikey’s not really ready to tell them.
[First 5 chapters happen BEFORE the main plot, just to provide insight and background!]
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Stronger together by Theawesomeninja_XD
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
30 Mar 2025
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We're no babysitters sequel..
In which the 12 quadruplets find their way back into the rise dimension and their younger counterparts. Although this time, it seems like the quadruplets need them just as much as the now teens need their older friends...
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- Part 2 of Memories AU
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TURTLEVERSE by Mx3i505
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2024), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Movie 2023)
21 Feb 2025
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Turtle multiverse GC?
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- Part 2 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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it’s alright, we’ll survive (cause parents ain’t always right) by Anonymous
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
06 Dec 2024
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The four “sons” and “only” daughter of a ninjutsu master who only had them to continue his legacy and to replace the hole in his heart left by the death of Tang Shin.
The daughter of an overbearing, overprotective, and suffocating dad who won’t give her any freedom ever since her mom died.
A boy who’s only reason to live is his little sister.
A “witch” who is judged both at home and at school.
A girl in the foster system who hates everything and everyone.
And the “perfect” and “straight” son of the head scientist of TCRI who only has his mother to confide in.
What happens when they all meet?
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- Part 1 of TMNT: Human AU
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So Here's to the Heartache by Writing_In_Denial for ForestWhisper3
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
27 Nov 2024
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The brothers had changed over the nearly four years they had been estranged. Their broken shards shattered by grief shifted to make something else. Something more resembling someone whole. Though Michelangelo? While the others may have been broken, the years had been most unkind to him. Michelangelo left parts of himself behind mentally and physically. Parts in which he could never get back.
The only question is, can the brothers help him build something new where he had chipped portions of his old self away?
Would he even want to?
[OR: The long-awaited sequel to YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE MEANS (and it's killing me)]
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- Part 3 of Gravitational Collapse