Omg thank you ;-; I'm so emotional now. I thought you might think it was silly ;-; but I appreciate your screams of joy haha.
I was going to do art for it but I've never drawn in the style so it'd be so BAD XD
I REALLY don't want to post this. but it's fine. IT'S fine. It's stupid and lame, but I'm committing. While this may be a brain child of mine (honestly someone could've already made this and I have no knowledge of this) I'm not particularly attached to it, so construct as much criticism as you want. or kill me, either one works.
just a small warning, this is like. soooo not professionally written (or proofread) at all. it's just a bunch of different types of notes slapped on a page. good luck soldier.
@dreamweave01 this is for you
so the main thing i remember is that it's mainly donnie and mikey angst
OH OH i just got something BIG
so it started out with donatello being replaced by someone else for years and the other turtles had no idea. then it was him replacing himself and then it was leo instead and a few other different versions that i plot holed away. i ended up with raph, leo AND donnie being replaced by robots BY the real donnie (who had died along with the other two) for years and mikey had no idea. then i was like, hm another plot hole, robots dont bleed. and THATS where it all came together.... (evil hand mushing)
boom, bop, bam: they're from another timeline/multiverse
and then the angst started. (side note: i personally dont think i have a good handle on their characters/relationships with each other. i need to rewatch the show and watch the other ones tbh, please take this with the finest grain of salt you can find)
right now, it's just him and donatello in the lair, the other two are out or something. he overhears don talking about "day 1,100, didn't think we'd make it this far without michaelangelo finding out, etc."
"who are you? where are my brothers? what's going on?"
"get away from me. don't touch me"
"don't call me that, you don't get to call me that. not mikey, not mike, or mikester or angelo or anything, none of it!"
he's freaking out. 3 years? his brothers aren't even his brothers? initially he's flipping his shit, trying to get away from donnie(?). for all he knows they could be robots, shapeshifters, anything.
"hey bud"
"GET AWAY FROM ME" he's got his kusari-fundΕ spinning, pointed at leo(?)
leo(?) raises his hands "okay! okay! it's okay dude, i'm not gonna hurt you i promise", he reaches to lift his swords out and throw them to the side.
michaelangelo, breathing so heavily, lowers his weapon yet still spinning it. he's leaning side to side, lightly pacing but never turning his back to his brother(?)
"listen, uh. buddy, just come back home and we can talk about this. we'll explain-"
"no! i'm not going anywhere with you"
"do you really think we would wait this long to do something to you if we were going to?"
that stumped him. would they play the long game? tello would. but the others wouldn't and honestly, donnie would get bored eventually anyway.. maybe he should hear them out.
they all sit down together and donnie explains what happened.
at first, he tells mikey the truth and leo and raph immediately berate him for not going through with their inital plan to lie so that mike doesn't flip again. buuuut then I thought it'd be angstier to go through with the inital plan π«’
Donatello explains:
"So say," he draws two lines on a hologram, one purple, one orange. he points to the orange one, "this is your timeline and this is ours," pointing to the purple line
"In our world, you died. You weren't strong enough, too young maybe, to handle the ooze. As time went by things were normal for us, then out of nowhere a portal brought us to your timeline."
(context dump: the three completely grew up without him, mike has no memories of the portal why? idk yet...trauma response probably..)
L: "We were all confused at first but eventually we figured out that you had brought us here because your us's were gone."
R: "So we figured out the routine, the rhythm. Played the parts that you expected."
M: "So this is...my fault? I took you from your home and you, you just let it happen?!"
D: "I obviously have been trying to figure out a way back but alas, even the most genius of geniuses have trouble with multi-versal travel.
(an: i know, i didn't write much here. i got a little lazy, its literally just the climax)
big crazy scene, like wild colours (lots of orange and yellow) and destruction and stuff like the movie type shi.
D: "MICHAELANGELO, MIKEY, PLEASE. please. I know you're still in there. I- I'm sorry. You didn't do anything wrong. It was me, I lied to you, Mikey."
spell breaks (yippee)
M: "what?"
D: "You didn't pull us away from our timeline. I-" deep breath
"I pulled you from yours."
M: speechless, confused. vulnerable.
D: "You were all alone! You had nothing, no one left. I couldn't just abandon you."
"I thought it'd be perfect. We didn't have you, you didn't have us. It was the perfect puzzle!" sigh "and then we had to go and mess it all up by not telling you the truth."