The path to redemption (Never did run smoothly)

The mutant apocalypse. It was supposed to go as planned - to turn all humans into mutants, or to kill them off. It backfired for two, however; one turtle was now human, and, accompanied by an old foe, they must learn to survive in a world where people want to detain them. To experiment on them, to torture them. Life won’t be easy, it never was, but he wouldn’t stop trying until he found his brothers - dead or alive. /\TMNT/\“What if they are dead? What am I supposed to do - I can’t- I can’t live without them.” “Are you not doing so right now?” The older man questioned, a look on his face the younger couldn’t quite read. “You may not be thriving, but you live - and if you live, they will live inside you, alive or not. You are carrying your family’s legacy-” He reached out to press a hand to the young boy’s chest, right over his heart. “Do not forget that, Cub.”