Hi ppls! So I'm so sorry I was unable to get this next chapter out earlier. My laptop died. Turns out the hard drive got fried and I had to get a new one. After several weeks, my laptop was fixed, but all my data from the old hard drive, including ideas for this story, were unacessable, and so now, I must begin new again

Its ok though! Nothing like a new start! And who knows, I may end up getting better ideas for this than the ones I already had planned!

Thank you so much to everyone that reviewed, favorited, and are following this story! I honestly didn't expect to get any reads from this! Yes, after re-reading my last chapter I did see I messed up on the part where Rocksteady is supposed to be knocked out but he was fighting when Bebop fired the lazer. Oops! I guess I belong on the Nick TMNT board of directors and story writers since they often forget things when writing the episodes (*cough*Season 3 ending*cough*Mikey and Casey reaction after earth destroyed*cough**cough*) Haha but I still loved that ending!

But all jokes aside, here is chapter 2! This chapter is a bit slow, not much action. Just warning you guys! And sorry for all the rambling!

Disclaimer: I do not, in any way or form, own the exsistence of Nickelodeon's TMNT characters, or in any other TMNT, ever.

Using her psychic powers, April was able to exit the school undetected. She had been able to "disable", or rather, break, the school cameras while remaining out of sight so that no footage of her leaving, and using her powers, would have been recorded. Once all cameras had been out of commission, she activated the fire alarm system using her psychic ability and quickly ran out of the doors. By doing this, she would have an excuse for having had gone "missing". She would simply explain to her teacher or the principal that she had been in the bathroom when the fire alarm went off, and this had startled her, causing her to run out of the building and go some distance away. She didn't know what else she would say after this, but that matter was for the next day. At the moment, she needed to focus on getting to the turtle's lair.

The red-haired girl reached a familiar alleyway with a manhole in the middle of it. The alley was empty.

Good.

Having had done this millions of times, she sprinted to the manhole cover and expertly slid underneath the lid, and climbed down the ladder. The familiar odor of the sewer immediately reached her nose and stung her sinuses briefly, but quickly went away. After having had visited the turtles so many times, she had gotten used to the smell. Or, as her favorite nerdy turtle would say, she had "habituated".

April let out a brief chuckle before her smile faded into a worried line. She remembered her "conversation" with Leo not too long ago. She had never heard him as desperate as he had been during the phone call.

"L-Leo? What's wrong?"

"I-I…they…..I need help!"

"Wh-"

"Come! Come quickly, please!"

And the line had been cut off there. The desperation in his voice alone had been enough to get her out of her confusion. Though he didn't mention where he was, she knew he meant the lair. But when she got there, she didn't know what to expect. Had someone gotten badly hurt? Did someone…...?

No. They couldn't have. But still. Something was gnawing at the back of her brain as she briskly walked along the "sidewalk" of the sewers. Once she had almost reached the lair, she sensed something….off. In a panic, she ran towards the home of the ninja turtles.

She had entered the lair hundreds of times before. It had always been a welcoming sight, and she always loved to glance around the home as soon as she entered. But this time, her focus was on three turtles laying on the ground, twitching occasionally, and one turtle looking over them, while glancing at the clock on the wall. His back was facing her.

"Oh….OH MY GOODNESS WHAT HAPPENED?!" Was the first thing that escaped the lips of the red-haired girl. The blue banded turtle whirled around so fast that his bandana tails hit his face. It would have been comical in other circumstances. Leo's eyes were wide in a panic, and he appeared to be shaking slightly. Tear stains were apparent on his mask.

The blue masked turtle stumbled towards her as he tried to form words, but all that came out were squeaky, uncomprehendble words. Finally, he sighed and shook his head, and he was able to utter the words, "I…I don't know."

April went around him and knelt down to observe the other turtles. She first stopped by Donatello. The braniac was on his side, with his eyes semi-open, and his hand kept twitching occasionally. She gave him a concerned look. Mikey and Raph were the same way. After standing back up, she looked back at Leo, whom had not moved during this process.

"What happened to them? What caused them to get like this?" The blue-eyed girl asked as she walked back to the leader.

Leo frantically shook his head back and forth. "We….it was some sort of machine. Bebop….and Rocksteady…..and the footbots! The machine fired this….beam thing and it hit them. I was pushed away from them and I couldn't protect them. I brought them home while they were unconscious. After they woke up they began convulsing and having seizures. I…." He then smashed his hand against the wall in anger. The wall cracked and Leo grunted briefly in pain. "I knew we shouldn't have gone!"

Though he only provided her with fragments, April was able to piece together what had happened. She put a hand on his shoulder, which was shaking. New fresh tears stained his blue bandana and fell onto the floor. The sight tore her heart.

"Why, April?" He whispered. "Why am I such an awful leader? I can't even protect my brothers. I couldn't protect my father."

April looked away. It had been so long since anyone had mentioned Splinter to her. Leo was still so young. Younger than her by one year. To have his father taken away from him like that, and have all burden Splinter had placed on him was just so unfair. And now he was scared and worried for his brothers.

"Leo," She began, and pulled him into a firm hug. "Don't ever think of yourself as an awful leader. You tried your best to save Splinter. If anyone is to blame, it should be me. I was up there. But when Shredder injured me, I was unable to focus my powers on him. And so I decided to take care of Raph and make sure Shredder didn't come near him. That was the best I could do. I'm sorry.

"N-no! I've told you before, April. Don't ever blame yourself! No one knew it would happen—"

"Exactly," The blue-eyed girl smiled shakily. "No one knew. And though you may say your 'instinct' told you something was bound to go wrong, instincts can be wrong. Look at me. I never would have known what would have happened to Splinter that night, and I'm part psychic." She laughed weakly. "But I guess what I'm trying to say is, don't blame yourself for Splinter, nor what happened to your brothers. Though I don't really know the situation that happened, I'm sure you did your best to protect them. And that is what matters. Now all we can do is wait and see what happens. Their minds appear to be resting and at ease, so don't worry."

The human felt the turtle relax just the tiniest bit. When she inspected the turtles, she sensed that they were at ease, as if sleeping. However there had been something else she had sensed. Something, empty. But she didn't want to worry Leo at the moment.

Leo pulled away from the hug and gave April a tired, shaky smile. "Thanks April." He murmured. "I'm so sorry I had to get you out of school. I just…..I just didn't know what to do. They actually were unconscious when I dragged them back to the lair, but they woke up once, and they acted very weird. Almost like they didn't know me nor anything else." Worry began to form in his eyes again.

April frowned. "So they had woken up once before?"

"Yes. And that's when they began to have seizures. And it just wouldn't stop. That's when I called you. The seizures had just finished as soon as you got here."

The human girl furrowed her brow even more. "Then that's…..that's almost 20 minutes!" The tone in her voice made Leo worry once again. She noticed this and quickly said, "The good thing is that it is over and hasn't come back! Hopefully the worst is over with. Like I said before, now all we do is wait. Then once they wake up, Donnie can figure out what hit them!" Leo simply nodded absentmindedly.

The psychic inwardly sighed. No matter how convincing she had tried to seem, her solution was not a good one. It was not at all credible. A seizure for that long could have caused major brain damage. April was no expert on the brain, but even she knew about that. And if she did, Leo did too. But what else could she have said? She needed something, anything, to make Leo forget worrying.

"Let's go and watch some TV for now yeah? I believe there is going to be re-runs of the original Space Heroes in a couple of minutes! And I'll take some tea!"

The blue banded turtle looked at her, then back at his brothers, then he sighed. "I guess there's no use in worrying right now, if there's nothing I can do in the moment."

"Exactly! And, we can keep an eye on them from the living room! Go turn on the TV. I will be right there!"

The teenage girl kept smiling as best as she could as Leo left to the "living room" somewhat reluctantly. Quickly, she turned to the kitchen and let out a breath of air she didn't realize she had been holding. That had been such a horrible excuse to keep Leo from worrying more than he had to. Hopefully it worked. She heard the television turn on.

There was a shattered cup on the floor with liquid splattered all over. Leo must have been trying to make himself tea earlier that morning. Quickly, she cleaned up the mess and proceeded to warm some water. The tea leaves were nowhere to be found, so she decided to use the tea bags, despite Leo's hate for, as he called it, "automatic tea". Once the water was hot enough, but not boiling, she poured the scalding liquid into two mugs with tea bags and she firmly grasped both handles as she made her way to the living room. Leo was "watching" the television, though in all reality, April could tell his thought were far from the cartoon.

"Here," She set the steaming mug down next to him, and she took a seat on his other side. Leo mumbled a small "thanks" and top a sip of tea. He frowned and turned to look at the girl. "Really?" He said, holding up the tea bag. April shrugged and gave him a small chuckle.

"Oh come on. I couldn't find the leaves. Give a girl a break here!"

Leo grunted and continued to drink his tea. There was silence after that, with the exception of the television. After about 10 minutes, a faint noise came from their left. Immediately, Leo stood up and ran to his brothers. April put her cup down and followed suit.

"Guys!" The eldest turtle shouted in relief as he saw his younger brothers stirring. Raphael was the first to speak.

"Ugh…What….what happened? This headache feels like its breaking my skull apart."

"RAPH!" Leo exclaimed and went to hug his immediate younger brother. Raphael groaned in protest and mumbled something about getting back to sleep. Donnie and Mikey were the next to become conscious and they too began whining about a huge headache. Leo immediately went to hug them, while crying tears of joy. April stood to the side all this while, not wanting to interrupt their little "reunion". She was glad the turtles were ok. But still. She couldn't shake that "empty" feeling away.

"Whoa dude, those better be tears that are falling on my back!" Mikey said in disgust. Leo was currently hugging him tightly while crying. "Why are you crying though, bro?"

Leo let go of him and wiped his eyes. "I thought I had lost you guys! I don't know what the beam did to you, but you guys seemed to be in a lot of pain. I tried to help calm it down, and it seemed like the pain went down, but then you guys woke up and didn't seem to recognize me. Then you began shaking as if having some sort of seizure. And It just wouldn't stop. For about 20 minutes."

"20 whole minutes?!" Donnie exclaimed. "I do remember being hit by the beam, but I don't remember waking up, nor the seizure. But that could have caused some cerebral damage. I should conduct some tests as soon as possible."

"You said a beam hit us. I don't remember that either," Raph said as he rubbed his head.

"Ah, it must have been an incidence when the most recent memories before the insult to the brain are the ones that are wiped out. This is known as the term, retrosplineal amnesia!" Donnie chirped.

"Umm," April cut in. "Don't you mean, 'retrograde amnesia'? I remember you mentioned it to me once."

The purple banded turtle frowned in thought and came to a realization a couple of seconds later. "Oh. Yeah. Hah! That's what I meant!"

"Blah, blah, blah," The green eyed turtle mocked as he rolled his eyes. "Who cares about all these sciency terms. What matters is that we are fine. Nothing happened to us, and we probably had some side effect thing from the beam. SO fearless leader over there can stop his crying."

"Wait." All eyes focused on the eldest of the brothers. "So you guys don't feel anything different? You guys aren't concerned that beam did something to you?

The three younger brothers looked at each other. The youngest decided to speak. "Well, I mean. I feel fine. I'm pretty sure Donnie and Raph do too." Said turtles nodded in agreement. "I don't see why we need to worry. You need to chillax, brah."

"Besides," The intellect added, "I am going to scan myself, Raph, and Mikey just in case. But in the meantime, don't stress yourself too much. We are fine!"

"Aww. Do I really need to go and get scanned?" The baby-blue eyed turtle whined.

"Yes, Mikey. It's crucial. C'mon Raph."

The green eyed turtle was about to turn to leave, but suddenly said, "Wait, what about Leo?"

This caused the smart turtle to stop in his tracks and turn to face the leader, who replied, "I didn't get hit with the beam, so I don't need scanning."

Donatello eyed Leo, about to agree with the eldest's response, until he noticed a dry, yet faint trace of something dark red from the turtle's nose and mouth. "Leo? What is that?" He stepped closer to the leader.

Leo took a step back from every step Donnie moved forward. He knew exactly what his younger brother was talking about. It really wasn't anything to worry about, as the bleeding had stopped, so he didn't want to worry them unnecessarily. "It's nothing. I just got hit in the face during our battle."

"I should still check for a broken nose and teeth. So come with us."

Seeing as there was no way to back out, Leo followed his brothers into the lab.

…

The blue banded turtle couldn't help but notice that Donnie seemed distracted. Or, something else. But he appeared to be very clumsy while searching for his scanning device.

"Now I know I left it here! I just used it a couple of days ago!" The purple banded turtle exclaimed as he tore open a drawer and shuffled the contents inside, causing a flood of papers to tumble out. He didn't bother collecting them. He shut the drawer halfway and forced another one open. Instantly, his eyes lit up. "Aha! Found it!" He didn't close the drawer.

The genius turtle went to Mikey first, whom was bouncing with anticipation to leave the place. Donnie shook the device, and stuck his tongue out. "Huh? I don't understand." He poked and prodded multiple buttons until it eventually made a beeping noise. "Okay, got it!"

The purple banded turtle scanned the youngest from head to toe, left and right. The device gave a satisfied BEEP! Before the device was laid to rest on top of the baby-blue eyed turtle. After another BEEP!, Donatello dismissed the youngest of the group.

"Aww yeah!" Mikey cheered. He turned to Leo. "See? Nothing to worry about bro! Now, I don't know about you guys, but getting hit with the beam made me hungry! I'm about to go and make us some of my favorite ramen with sprinkles and jellybeans!" He danced out of the lab, while humming an unfamiliar tune. The last thing he said before disappearing out of sight was, "Yo, ice cream kitty, give me two cheescicles!"

"Bleh, not that again," Raph whined as he was getting scanned. "He's been making that same recipe for over a week. And its gross. I'd rather have our old worms and algae again." He slapped the machine out of his face when Donnie moved it too close to his eye. Said turtle frowned and almost dropped the device.

"Hey, don't do that!" The gap-toothed turtle scolded. He continued the same routine he did to Michelangelo, until both beeps were heard. "Alright Raph, I found nothing wrong. So the test is over!"

"Finally!" Raphael exclaimed. Not wanting to be in the lab any longer, he left without another word. Donatello finally turned to Leo. The eldest had been quiet the entire time. But he had been observing. Observing the behavior of his brothers, but there had been no significant changes. The intellect gave his eldest brother a soft smile. "See Leo? Nothing to worry about. Like Raph said, it may have been a side effect. Besides, when have Bebop and Rocksteady built something that works?"

Leo sighed. "But it wasn't something they built. You probably didn't get a good look at it since you got trapped underground, but it definitely looked something that belonged to the Shredder. You're probably right though. I just worry so much. After all, I'm responsible for the safety of all of you."

"Yes, you do worry too much," He smirked. "But for the hundredth, millionth time, we are completely fine. I found nothing wrong on my scanner for both Raph and Mikey. As for me…" he quickly performed the scanning action on himself. Two beeps were heard. "I am fine as well. Does that make you feel better?"

"…Yes. A bit."

That answer was enough to satisfy Donatello. He scanned Leo, and found a small crack on his nasal bone, which he treated with a special medicine. After the blue banded turtle was patched up, both turtles strolled into the kitchen to join the other two turtles and the human girl that had stayed for dinner. All the laughter that ensued during that dinner erased most worries the dark-blue eyed turtle had. After all, they had gotten through worse, yet ended up fine the next day. So why should this incident have been any different?

The next several days passed normally. The turtles woke up, trained, did their usual things, and patrolled at night. The incident at Shredder's old lair had almost been forgotten.

Almost.

Welp. There's chapter 2! Bleh. Haha. I know. Not the best chapter. And not the best ending either, but I feel like what comes next should have its own chapter. And no, don't worry. This will not become a LeoxApril love story. Sorry for those that hoped for this! I see Leo and April as having a brother and sister relationship. Anyways, this story is definitely not over yet. I plan to probably do around 10 chappies? It could come out more or less, depending on how much I write in each chapter. Do you guys preffer long-ish chapters, or shorter ones? Let me know! And please review!