Part 15,
I looked out the window of a cargo plane as it was landing in New York. I couldn't wait to get home, I said good bye to the Shapers that morning, before jumping on the plane. I sat watching the plane wheels come out, and go down to touch the ground. I was home, New York, but now thoughts that made me scared went through me.
What happens if my brothers don't trust me and kick me out? What would they think of me, after killing millions for evil reasons? Would Master Splinter take me back in? And wrose of all, What if Mikey is dead?
Once I got to the sewers, the fear went through me more. I didn't want to go anymore... I wanted to hide away, I have dishonored Master Splinter's teaching, I was no good to be a leader anymore. Raphael would never let me back in, I was an outcase. I looked behind me, at the long way I have come from to go home. I looked ahead, to see the door of the lair. Would they want me back?
I walked up to the door, it was quiet.. too quiet. I looked at the time, it was around noon, lunch time. At this time, Mikey would usually be playing his music full blast... Donatello would be typing away at the computer, finishing stuff before going to bed, and Raphael would have the TV on. But all was quiet, no music, no sound of typing at the computer and no sound of the TV. This had me worry, I grabbed out my swords, ready for something to be wrong.
As I went in, I saw nothing wrong, but at the same time, I saw no one. I walked through the room, it was quiet and empty. Than I heard a noise of something drop. I ran into the other room to see Donatello sleeping on a chair. Asleep at this time of day? I better go check on Master Splinter and Raphael... and find out if Michaelangelo is still alive.
I went to Master Splinter's room, it was dusty as if no one has slept in here for days. I ran to Raphael's room, it also was empty.. was Don really sleeping there... it hit me something must have happened..Raph and Master Splinter's room were dusty and dirty... as if they haven't been in their rooms for awhile, where could they be? I went to Michaelangelo's room. I saw his body lying on the bed. With all kinds of stuff on him, to take care of him. I've seen this kind of stuff in hospitals, with stuff put in his arms.
I walked over and put my hand on Mikey, he was hot with a high fever.
"Mikey?" I said, seeing if I could wake him up. "Mikey... you ok?" Mikey didn't move. I tried again, now worried.. is he going to live. Don must be alive for him to be taken care of. "Mikey.. come on wake up!"
"I'm sorry Leo. He's not going to wake up." I turned around, Donatello was standing behind me wiping his eyes as from just waking up. "What are you doing here Leo? Or am I dreaming?" I smiled to see Donatello's face, but at the same time a tear came down my face for Mikey being out like that. I blamed myself, if I never got caught... how could I let something like this happen.
"I'm back Donny. Some friends got me free." Donatello smiled and gave me a hug. A tear went down his face, I felt it hit my shoulder... how much I missed him. I never knew how much this place and my brothers really meant to me, till I lost them for so long.
"Welcome back Leonardo." Donatello said as he let go of the hug and looked me in the eyes. "I've missed you so much." I looked around the place, there was dust in almost all the rooms but Mikey's room, the living room and the kitchen. I looked up to Donatello.
"I've missed you? What about Master Splinter, Raphael and Ninjara? Where have they been? Why is the place so dirty? What's going on?" Donatello looked down, than walked into the living room, he had something to tell me and from what I could tell, it wasn't good news. "What's wrong?"
"I better start at the beginning..." Donatello sat down and looked up at me. "You see Leo, after we lost you, we kept searching for you. We had the idea that the W's got their hands on you, since it was the W's that you were after that night, but another one of our fears was the Government." He reached over and picked up a news paper. "This paper said that something, that wasn't human was said to be found in New York, the police have taken it in and haven't let out what they found. Of course we jumped right at that."
"Did you find out what they got?"
"Yea Leo, but let me get to this. We went to an office where it was said the thing was being kept. Mikey and I guarded the back, while Raph tried to get in. But a guard notice him. It wasn't to long before he ran out and told us to start running. I asked him if he saw anything, but Raph saw nothing of what was going on." Don looked down, this story was long and I knew it, but it must also be a painful one. "The lost of you got Master Splinter sick at first, but we needed his help, he might be the only one who would be able to find out what was in the building."
"SICK?! MASTER SPLINTER WAS SICK?!"
"Yes Leo, he worried so much about you after you didn't return that night. He worried himself sick, infact he didn't have us work out for a few weeks because we couldn't get him out of bed." I fell down into a seat when I heard that. Master Splinter ill over me? "Master Splinter blamed himself for you being gone, he was the one to teach us Karate, and if wasn't for him you wouldn't have been out that night." I looked up at Donatello, who was taking this real hard. "Mikey also took it hard that you were gone, but he hide it as much as he could. Raphael took it I think the worse. He went out looking for you every night. He kept blaming himself as well, you asked him to go with you that night and he said no. He remember that so well." I looked down remembering that night, and how Raph snapped at me about going, that his show was coming on and he didn't want to waste his time going out looking for W's.
"I'm sorry he went through that." I said looking down.
"Well we kept trying to get in the building, but later learned it was moved to area 51. We went there, but couldn't break in, but things got worse, some of the guards there caught me. They gave me a shot that knocked me out, when I woke up, I was alone in a room. The door was locked. I feared them having me, and what they could have done while I was out. I got the door opened and went into a hall, only to find another door not to far down the hall, I peaked in to see something, at first I thought it was one of the Sons of Silence, but than I realized this was one of the aliens that ppl say they see, it was a Gray." Donatello picked up a picture of an old alien drawing from one of those papers that has that kind of stuff. "It looked just like this. I turn and went to run out of the place, but I turned to see eye to eye with another Gray. Once it touched me I went out again. The next time I woke up I was straped to a table with a few grays over me."
"You were taken by these GRAYS!!!"
"Yes, but it didn't last long Leo. I was able to get away, I broke the straps and got my hands on a knife from a table off to my right. I fought my way out of the rooms, but they didn't seem to be trying to hurt me."
"This is weird Don! The Sons of Silence wanted you before with the TurnStone and now the Grays got you? What's with aliens and you?"
"I don't know Leo, but I found out I was still in area 51, it seemed like some of the Grays must be friends with some humans. I ran, till I was out of area 51, with guards after me, I didn't think I was going to get away, but Raph and Mikey were still trying to break in. I bumped into them, and they told me where to find the Turtle van, the three of us ran to it. We went to Las. Vegas and took a plane back to NY. I told them what happened on the way home, and that I didn't see what they took from New York, meaning I didn't know if you were there or not." Don put the paper back down. I looked back at Mikey's room. I worried about him, I could see Donatello is worry about more than just that right now. I had to find out more.
"We kept trying to find out, but couldn't go to area 51 again, so I taped into their computers. But it had nothing about what I wanted. But I found so much out, about aliens and how much they really know. I mean, they know so much, why don't they tell ppl? But we kept searching. Until one day a letter appeared on the table, Mikey was the first to find it. It was a note saying you would be at Roy's. Mikey and I thought it wasn't for real, but Raphael jumped at it. When Raph returned to tell me that you were there, but he didn't believe it was really you, we caught on that it had something to do with the W's, and we knew that for sure."
"I wonder who left the note?"
"We still don't know that Leo, but that wasn't the only time that happened. The note was signed a "A Friend" we didn't believe it was a friend, but now we know who ever it is, is trying to help us. A new problem came up that day. It was Ninjara.. when Mikey and I saw her, we freaked, I thought if Ninjara just came back to say be friends we would lose Raphael at a time like this. He wasn't himself, to much wanting to find you, and Ninjara would be to much on him. But she wasn't coming back for that..she needed our help and missed Raphael. We took care of Raph and listen to her story."
"I better hear this story."
"Ok, well here's what she told us. It starts from a few years after we left, she was having troubles there, but the troubles just got worse and worse... you see, one of the ppl there, didn't want her there. But at first she didn't know who it was, but things started to happened. She said someone was trying to kill her. With in the year, she said a few W kids jumped down taking her sword, before she could attack, Mokoshan saved her, from that attack, later they learned that part of the pack was turning against having a fox there with them. When she learned who their leader was, it was no surprise, the same person that brought Raphael to the site, pointed out the window at Mokoshan with Ninjara. It was Revyen." Donatello paused to take a breath, I should have know Revyen was up to something. "The pack went in three different ways, one went on their own, to get away from the fighting. Revyen took the other part of the pack and kept attacking Mokoshan's pack. The fights got worse, and for some odd reason the W's joined in, helping Revyen."
"The W's were causing Ninjare problems at the same time they had me? I wonder why? I know I didn't hear about this."
"Well what ever the reason, it got Ninjara to see she took the wrong road, she wanted to return to Raphael. She asked for our help to end the fight there. So we went and fought, until we got another note, saying that you would be would be at Cherly's in LA. So we jumped a plane and went. That was our second time hearing anything about you. I was so shocked to hear that you weren't a clone." Donatello looked down, "Even though Raph won't say it, he's really sorry about the sais going into you. I think he said it, but he took that real hard. After I took you back to the W's, Raph got over me heavy about that. We went to help Ninjara again, a few months went by of this fight, till we got another note saying to go to MI. It said where and gave a time." Donatello got up and walked over picking up a note, I couldn't tell the hand writting, but it was from that time.
"I wonder who was helping you?"
"We don't know Leo. But that was the third time we heard about you. We went, Raphael wasn't planning to take it easy on you at all. It hurt Raph that you were able to plow into him like that. He really did feel bad after the fight. But it wasn't to long before the next note appeared in my hands. It said to go to New York, on 34street, we remember that as a Foot hide out that we found out about awhile ago. We went there, leaving Raph with Master Splinter. We got to 34th street just in time from what we could tell. It hurt that you had to leave with the Shredder. Shredder sure did want to kill us, just like the good old days." Donatello smiled at me, than put down the letter.
"We did more of the fight, the W's were getting harder on the clan, we we didn't stop, Ninjara needed us. Later Mikey went out get some pizza, we were home to get some stuff for the fight with Ninjara's clan, which wasn't going to well. When Mikey didn't return, we got real worried. Boy was I shocked to walk in later and find you, Raphael and Ninjara fighting amoung each other. I was happy in a way to see you home, but shocked to see Mikey the way he was. I couldn't let you leave, there was no way on earth I could do that. After hearing your story I knew you had to leave. When Raphael and Master Splinter returned.. we got news of a big battle, Ninjara and them returned leaving me hear with Mikey to be taken care of." Donatello looked down, than looked at me. "Leo, I... I... I haven't heard from them since, and I can't leave Mikey alone." I stood up, Master Splinter needed my help.
"Donny I'll tell you what, first thing in the morning I'll go to Mokoshan's place and find out what's going on." I picked up a Turtle com and looked at it. "I'll keep in touch with ya and let you know if anything goes wrong." Donatello looked down.
"Ok Leo, but you better be careful."
"I will Donny, but before I go, I need to get some sleep." I went off to my room. "Good night Donny."
"Night Leo, good luck tomorrow." As I walked to my room, I looked at Michaelangelo... I could see the pain he was feeling from the look on his face, I don't think things are going to turn out right, but I had to hope for the better. I returned to my room, looked at the dust on everything. I took my blankets off my bed and shaked them around till they weren't as dusty, I'll have to have Donatello do the laundry while I'm away. I clawed into bed, and closed my eyes. Tomorrow is going to be a long day, I hope Master Splinter, Raph and Ninjara are ok.