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Day 1: hello my name is michelangelo hamato (also known as mikey, angelo, and orange) and im here to write that i. AM. DONE. with my family, all week, all damn week! They have been hiding something from me!
It all started after they came back from a mission a week ago (they went without me because i was asleep, like deeeeeep sleep) and ever since they have been acting, off? Mentally unstable? After they returned they were all more injured than usual as well! I just thought it was a bad day but then dee asked to give my phone an update. (it was a censor, has censored most post my feed on anything is very small for anything recent)
Then it only got weirder! The next day Casey jr was over at our house (which to be fair isn't a completely new thing just not something that happens often) and they were talking about something but when I saw the look in his eyes. He was petrified. I tried to ask him what was wrong but he just looked at me and then we got interrupted by Leo (he was weird as well).
After that i tried talking to everybody about it but nobody would tell me what happened all i got was ‘not now, mikey’ and ‘its fine!’s from them, and then they began saying that I can't go outside anymore, like, at all! And that's when i decided that i was fed up with all these secrets, i tried listening in but i kept getting caught by SHELLDON (and april sometimes) of all people!
That was 5 days ago, and I'm beginning to get worried. They keep coming home more injured, seem more stressed, and won't tell me a damn thing! So here I am now, walking outside into creepy woods (because it’s the place they’re going to find me the least) looking at the cloudy sky and wondering what's so dangerous!
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Just as mikey finished writing that down in his journal (its the only place hes sure they cant spy on) he trips over a rock and falls, his phone clatters on the ground next to him “eughh” he groans out before reaching towards his phone, successfully grabbing it before getting up to see, a.. Egg ? Well it’s definitely bigger than any bird egg he knows, and longer too! It has a weird curve to it and almost resembles a bean? He cautiously walks over and takes a closer look at the bean-not-egg to see it has small cracks
Mikey stands there unaware of what to do, on one hand he feels bad about leaving broken still seeming alive, he touches it feels a slight heartbeat, definitely still alive egg out in the wild to likely die!, on the other hand he has no clue what it is, and isn't even supposed to be out here nevermind bringing stuff home with him!
But as Mikey looks back at the egg he can’t help but feel a sort of familiarity, despite the fact he's mainly upset at his brothers for lying to him, hiding secrets, and giving him weird rules. He's also just… lonely, because of whatever happened they also haven’t been spending a lot of time with him either. I mean sure he has Flame (listen there working on the name he doesn't have any better names for the demon in his nunchucks at the moment!) but no amount of talking with Flame can replace the twinge of loneliness and even jealousy he has whenever he sees them all go out of the lair together, without him.. Maybe this egg is just what he needs, a new friend!
Mikey lightly chuckles to himself “Injured and alone huh?” he begins to open his bag, this may be a problem. “I don't have enough room in here for you… looks like we're doing some cleaning out!” mikey looks through his stuff, a first aid kit, pencils, his journal and a few sketchbooks, oh and don't forget the spray cans! He decides to make the choice based on what he's likely going to need in the near future, or has more of at home. “Well goodbye spray cans!” he chucks them out, they clatter on the ground next to him as he picks up the bean-not egg gently and puts it in his bag “off we go home, better hurry before shelldon wakes up!”
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Mikey's on his way home as he hears a weird noise from the alleyway, he was taking the rooftops instead of the street, it was safer without having Flame on him. Despite Mikey's gut instinct he peers down into the alleyways and … WHAT THE FUCK . A GIANT. HUMANOID. WASP. EATING… is that... Mikey's going to be sick, he can't help but look on in horror as the mutant wasp feeds from a human corpse, his mind thinks back to the krang, their slimly appendages, the transformed foot clan soldiers, his brother's yellow eye, he feels a movement on his shell snapping him back to reality
It’s the egg, he figures he better hurry home. He scurries back home what he witnessed repeating in his head like a loop.
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Mikey arrives home, thankfully shelldon is still charging, seeing that today he been dealt a small grace he runs to his room to quickly clean himself off (and further inspect the bean-not-egg he brought home) he finishes drying off quite quickly and opens his bag but suddenly hears a voice intrude, “What-cha got there?” oh thank lord its just Flame “n- nothing just a egg-i-snuck-in-from-outside” he stammers out a big quicker than he met to “hmm, a egg you snuck in from outside i s- WAIT WHAT ?” Flame screeches as they realize what they just heard “I know you went outside but what?! You have to tell me! Full detail now! What happened out there!” Flame demands, Mikey then explains what happened as he went outside, while he does so he begins to look around the room.
“WOW, that is.. A LOT” Flame finally says after being filled in “anyways what are you looking around for?” they ask intrigued. “I'm looking for a good place to put this while having it not be obvious!” mikey responds frustrated “well why don't you just put it in the other cart? I mean you have 2 for a reason” Mikey suddenly lights up at this “Why didn't I think of that sooner! Thanks Flame , you're a genius!” he chirps “never wasn't” is all flame says in response they are dragged with the bag by mikey into the other cart, littered on the walls is Mikey's paintings, he didn't really have a use for this room other than as an ‘art room’ he sets flame and the bag down as he grabs a few of the discarded cardboard boxes “so what exactly are doing?” Flame asks for clarification, as he takes the egg out of the bag and places it into one of the boxes “I’m stacking the boxes with eachother to hide it!”.
As he says that he takes out a marker and scribbles onto the box on top of the egg box ‘ DONT PUT WEIGHT ON THIS BOX’ after everything is sorted out he sits back to look at his masterpiece “hmm smart” Flame hums, Mikey suddenly pulls out his phone. Something has been bugging him since he saw the wasp-mutated-monster-thing “whats up angie?” Flame cant help but ask “its just, I was wondering, what if the egg is one of them.” There's a pause “WHAT” Flame shrieks “WHY DID YOU BRING IT HERE TH- oh yeah you just told me why” they interrupt themself.
Mikey finishes googling ‘what do wasp eggs look like’ only with slight flinching due to Flame’s yelling “yeah.” is all he responds to Flame with only to pause at his screen “uhmm, angie? Ya good?” they raise their non-existent eyebrow with worry “no that cant be right..” mikey mumbles, seemingly googling it again…and again, he dryly chuckles “So they did know” “uhm angie what do they know?” there's another pause “they know about the wasps anything about them is all censored for me now.”
Mikey feels his stomach churn at the realization, they knew something this dangerous was happening and didn't even think of telling him!? He's their brother! How could they not tell him this?! “Wait so they knew?!” flame interrupts his internal dialog “yep” he sourly spat “how could they not tell me this!? I'm so tired of being coddled, And this time I don't even know why that is! Last time they told me about this, why not now! He wants to scream to shout at them but he knows he cant, he looks over at flame and they both know why, they’ll know he lied as well, and more importantly it will put the egg in danger.
He knows his brothers and he knows that if they purposely begins looking for signs of whats the next time hes going out, or what’s the next time he breaks the rules it will be a matter of time until they find out of his new little secret, they both look like their about to say something until their interrupted by a voice “MIKEY? BRAH WHERE ARE YOU THE FAM IS ABOUT TO COME BACK” oh yeah, shelldon must have finished charging.
“COMING!” Mikey yells grabbing Flame just before he walks out of the second carts door he turns around, “goodbye” “see ya later” both he and flame whisper to the egg closing the door.