13 Inventions Created // [99% Locked Vid to Family/Knux/Minny/Danny] // What Donny Saw - Part 3
((OOC: FORGOT TO SAY THIS. Backdated to Sunday!))
[Video]
[The video starts off pointing to the desk. It'll be video to start.]
Mikey.. said I could show you guys these. He made them just for me... but I want you to know what my other brothers looked like. Just so you know... a-and just in case they show up or anything. [That last part is added hastily.
Holding the communicator steady, Don puts down the first picture, which he's managed to find a frame for.] Mike. [After a good thirty seconds or so, another framed picture.] Leo. [Another thirty seconds.] Raph.
[His voice is quiet during the entire thing. The picture hesitates there for a long moment, then abruptly switches to text once those thirty seconds are up. Don's not thinking about flow so much as his train of thought.
This time, he doesn't ask for anyone to be with him. He doesn't want anyone to be with him. This part of the journey... he wants to take alone.]
[Text]
This is hard, even to type. So I'm just... going to type it. I'm not alone. I know I'm not alone anymore. And I've gotten to the point where I can remember my brothers in that world with a smile.
So it's time for me to finish the final part. I've delayed it too long. Even though I know it'll hurt.
[And there's a long pause that doesn't translate to text before he starts typing again. The rest goes fairly quickly, mechanically. Who knew it'd be so much easier--almost cheating--to not say anything aloud. There are pauses and spurts, but he writes diligently. With text, no one can hear you stumble over your words.
Problem is, he can't get himself to edit it. To make it seem more coherent. He never wants to look at it again. Mikey is Mike now as a result of a conversation with his own Mikey. But that future Michelangelo... if he ever shows up here... Don will still call him Mikey.]
Like I said. Mike was the first to die. He died saying something to me. I'll never know what.
Then Leo. Then Raph. Then Karai. And then I killed Shredder.
I've never felt that sort of anger before, after Mike died. That sort of rage. The pain--I was looking forward to helping my family become a family again. We were together, but we really weren't. Mike was the one who watched out for me the most, out of the three. I was the last thing he thought of.
I turned my Karai Legion's machine guns on Shredder. Crying out. "You'll pay for this, Shredder! If it's the last thing I do! You. Will. Pay!" The bullets kicked up dust from ricocheting off him and onto the floor. I couldn't see him, thought he was dead. And then his arms came out of the darkness and grabbed my exo-suit's arms. Then ripped them off. And then I got kicked.
Leo saw I was in trouble. Leo called out for me, but he never came. Leo died fighting Karai. He beat her.. but didn't kill her. A Karai Legion attacked him from behind, and he destroyed it. His back was turned. She sliced him across the back. Leo fell to his knees, then... I guess he rolled onto his back. I didn't see. I was too busy tring not to die.
Raph called out for Leo. He forgot I even still existed. Attacked Karai in a suicidal fit of rage. She cut him down, the force of her strike knocking him back. He... managed to crawl over to Leo, saying his name--twice--and then fell, partway on top of him as he died. In the end, he still loved Leo, as much as he blamed him for what happened to Master Splinter. His last thoughts were of Leo.
April took Karai out with a rocket.
I continued leading Shredder towards the Tunneler. He didn't know what I was doing, gloating that I was the last of my race, preparing to.. destroy me. But he didn't have a chance--I activated the Tunneler's chains to wrap around the both of us, pulling us towards the drill. At the last second, I got out, and he kept on refusing to believe what was happening until.. he couldn't. Never before had I wanted someone to die so badly. And never before had it left me feel so hollow afterward.
After. After that, April and I spoke. I was in shock, unable to grieve. Shredder was gone, but that world was still a nightmare. Even if April insisted it wasn't, insisted that I had given them back their future. Because their future was gone. I was the last. The only.
And then I began fading out. The pull was stronger that time. I knew I was going to leave. As I left, April said to remember that there was always hope, no matter what. Next thing I knew, I ended up here.
So, that's.. it. It's over. They're all dead and it's over. I'm not afraid anymore.
[And that's where the transmission ends.]
[Video]
[The video starts off pointing to the desk. It'll be video to start.]
Mikey.. said I could show you guys these. He made them just for me... but I want you to know what my other brothers looked like. Just so you know... a-and just in case they show up or anything. [That last part is added hastily.
Holding the communicator steady, Don puts down the first picture, which he's managed to find a frame for.] Mike. [After a good thirty seconds or so, another framed picture.] Leo. [Another thirty seconds.] Raph.
[His voice is quiet during the entire thing. The picture hesitates there for a long moment, then abruptly switches to text once those thirty seconds are up. Don's not thinking about flow so much as his train of thought.
This time, he doesn't ask for anyone to be with him. He doesn't want anyone to be with him. This part of the journey... he wants to take alone.]
[Text]
This is hard, even to type. So I'm just... going to type it. I'm not alone. I know I'm not alone anymore. And I've gotten to the point where I can remember my brothers in that world with a smile.
So it's time for me to finish the final part. I've delayed it too long. Even though I know it'll hurt.
[And there's a long pause that doesn't translate to text before he starts typing again. The rest goes fairly quickly, mechanically. Who knew it'd be so much easier--almost cheating--to not say anything aloud. There are pauses and spurts, but he writes diligently. With text, no one can hear you stumble over your words.
Problem is, he can't get himself to edit it. To make it seem more coherent. He never wants to look at it again. Mikey is Mike now as a result of a conversation with his own Mikey. But that future Michelangelo... if he ever shows up here... Don will still call him Mikey.]
Like I said. Mike was the first to die. He died saying something to me. I'll never know what.
Then Leo. Then Raph. Then Karai. And then I killed Shredder.
I've never felt that sort of anger before, after Mike died. That sort of rage. The pain--I was looking forward to helping my family become a family again. We were together, but we really weren't. Mike was the one who watched out for me the most, out of the three. I was the last thing he thought of.
I turned my Karai Legion's machine guns on Shredder. Crying out. "You'll pay for this, Shredder! If it's the last thing I do! You. Will. Pay!" The bullets kicked up dust from ricocheting off him and onto the floor. I couldn't see him, thought he was dead. And then his arms came out of the darkness and grabbed my exo-suit's arms. Then ripped them off. And then I got kicked.
Leo saw I was in trouble. Leo called out for me, but he never came. Leo died fighting Karai. He beat her.. but didn't kill her. A Karai Legion attacked him from behind, and he destroyed it. His back was turned. She sliced him across the back. Leo fell to his knees, then... I guess he rolled onto his back. I didn't see. I was too busy tring not to die.
Raph called out for Leo. He forgot I even still existed. Attacked Karai in a suicidal fit of rage. She cut him down, the force of her strike knocking him back. He... managed to crawl over to Leo, saying his name--twice--and then fell, partway on top of him as he died. In the end, he still loved Leo, as much as he blamed him for what happened to Master Splinter. His last thoughts were of Leo.
April took Karai out with a rocket.
I continued leading Shredder towards the Tunneler. He didn't know what I was doing, gloating that I was the last of my race, preparing to.. destroy me. But he didn't have a chance--I activated the Tunneler's chains to wrap around the both of us, pulling us towards the drill. At the last second, I got out, and he kept on refusing to believe what was happening until.. he couldn't. Never before had I wanted someone to die so badly. And never before had it left me feel so hollow afterward.
After. After that, April and I spoke. I was in shock, unable to grieve. Shredder was gone, but that world was still a nightmare. Even if April insisted it wasn't, insisted that I had given them back their future. Because their future was gone. I was the last. The only.
And then I began fading out. The pull was stronger that time. I knew I was going to leave. As I left, April said to remember that there was always hope, no matter what. Next thing I knew, I ended up here.
So, that's.. it. It's over. They're all dead and it's over. I'm not afraid anymore.
[And that's where the transmission ends.]