"Leonardo, you seem distracted, is there anything you would like to talk about my son?" The voice of Master Splinter broke through the ever so loud thundering rain leaking through holes within the sewage line

"No Master, I guess I just haven't been putting a lot of effort into a lot recently. Be it patrols, fighting or meditation in general," Leo said as he opened his chocolate brown eyes with a frustrated look on his face only to see his father standing in front of him looking down at him while Leo was in a kneeling position. his face softening when he realised what he was doing

"I believe there is something on your mind my son, and though both of us might not know what it truly may be, I suggest you go out and take a breather, get away from this environment for a bit and take in your surroundings. Hopefully finding out what it is - or where it originated from." Master splinter said with a reaffirmed smile

"But Sensei, you've never once-" He was interrupted once again by his father making a statement from previous quite clear.

"A leader must always be expected to have a clear head when faced with challenges. Though their head might be clouded with judgement as to what to do, their head isn't clouded with confusion and frustration, which would only throw them off when faced with Life and Death" A glance was shared between the two before the silence deafened the both of them.

The simple head nod from Leo was enough to reassure Splinter that he son would always listen to him, Leader or not. Getting up, Leo walked off and opened the door behind him before closing it behind him - exhaling a long-awaited breath as he did so, before looking around, taking in his surroundings. To his left, he heard the sound of Poly wheels of a skateboard grind and rub against a wooden surface of U shaped skate ramp. He knew of the top of his mind that the orange cladded turtle was either doing it out of boredom, exercise or even trying to keep his tricks up due to his now-retired ride home from his Cowabunga Carl days.

But it was to the right of him that made the most noise when he left the room - hearing the somewhat loud wub-wub of EDM blast through the one solo standing speaker that Donnie had running from his computer while he was working on what looked to be one of his new updated T-Phones. He stated that he wanted to update something to do with the signal; it was somewhat nonsense to the Blue-cladded leader. However, sometimes it did intrigue to what the younger brother could pull off.

Smiling once again slightly as he saw Donnie sticking his tongue out in a deep concentration, he heard the pounding of a boxing bag and the sound of what seemed like either Rock or death metal, and he knew whom that belonged to without a doubt. Everything seemed quite fine within the depths of the lair, and it just seemed like another calm Thursday before the storm of the nightly patrol.

Having not seen his brother within a reasonable hour, the purple cladded turtle heard the heavy footsteps of his much older brother walking towards the lair's exit.

"Leo, where are you going?" Donnie broke out, putting his glasses up and turning around only to hear the mental groan of his brother being caught doing something that didn't even regard him.

"Going out for a breather," Leo said merely - as much as Leo knew the excuse wasn't going to pass up. He knew he'd have to find a way out of Donnie's brotherly interrogation, even though Leo knew that he was doing it out of Love and was looking out for him. Some days the hassle of it all seemed too much for the Leader in blue.

"Raph only ever does that, what's the real reason, Leo?" He was about to get up and try and talk him out of going out but Leo needed a breather, and it was now getting to him all the more that Master Splinter stated so.

"Why has it always got to be a subject about Raph?" Leo said as his jaw clenched - he hated yelling at his brothers for all the wrong reasons, though he was the leader, being a responsible big brother was always in his eyes no matter what the situation. Opening the lair entrance, he walked off before it closed only moments later.

"What's with Leo today?" Mikey said as he stopped momentarily upside down on the rail of the skate ramp. Receiving a flustered shrug from the purple turtle.

Walking along the sewer lines, the browned water rippled underneath the feet of a Five Foot Four tall mutant turtle as he looked along the lines of water running down the ever so crumbling brick walls.

'Nothing seems too bad in terms of rain. Then why was I distracted by it earlier' Leo thought to himself, heading down to the left to see if any of the usual routes they'd take had been damaged. And it was there that he'd seen something anomalous unless the pipelines had broken through by the roots of the trees planted above, the muddy brown water shouldn't contain that much glare. Holding up his hand to cover his eyes from the reflection - the sound of rushing water filled his audible senses. Like the waterfalls that he'd encountered in some parts of Central America during his trip, this was beyond louder then what a natural waterfall would sound like. Almost as loud as being next to engine planes in which came through a flashback due to the sound.

Squinting, his eyes turned into tiny slits, and he tried to look as best as possible, but it seemed to be almost like a threshold within the brick in which when one passed by. The Glare had suddenly dissipated. Causing Leo to look at the grooves of his dark green skin which were embedded on his three-fingered hand. Looking at his surroundings - he'd found the one thing that had been driving him up the wall since breakfast.

"What in the world" Leo murmured as he looked at the giant water funnel, which was an almost cyan blue, not the muddy brown it usually found to be. Grabbing out his T-Phone, he immediately went to contact Donnie, but it never rung out, looking down at his phone he saw there was not a single bar on the network indicator which caused the turtle to huff in mild frustration.

The intimidate opening of the lair door threw Donnie off to see Leo have an almost ghostly look on his face - two things had either happened that Donnie knew about when this had happened. Shredder had come back (and with how many times he'd be brought back by the Krangg it wasn't going to be a surprise) or something else, other then the typical New York crime gangs had given him a really good fright.

"Leo" Donnie said as he tilted his glasses up "What's going on?" His face was shifting to a confused one as he stared down his brothers' dark brown eyes.

"Stay Here," Leo said merely, leaving the younger brother in a state of confusion. Watching the older brother as he jogged upstairs looking for Mikey and Raph - which in time both eventually came down with Leo coming down himself ultimately in time. Both Younger and Older brothers were sitting on the kitchen table beside Don and looking up at the leader.

"I assume Fearless would like ta explain his mood this mornin' now," Raph said opening his eyes with an almost open-minded look in his eyes

"That's for a later day, what I-"

"Then why'd you call us down here. All three of us are wondering what da hell's going on with ya and you're not even telling us!"

"I found something while I was checking the sewer routes that I think all four of us should check out!"

Mikey was about to stand up, but the glance from Raph said otherwise. Instead of instilling a deathly silence within the lair

"Raph?"

"Leo?"

"We're going to check this out; let's rollout."

"No" Leo knew what he was doing. Sure his temperamental side got to him a lot, but he saw the soft side come out in a harsh love form. And this was just one of the examples

"You're not the leader here Raph, remember Orientation day?"

"He's asking what the hell's gotten into you recently Leo? You're not in your right head space."

Cornered and letting out a stressed breath. The only thing he'd only be able to do is to try and push it aside from all the more "I talked it through with Master Splinter. He knows what's going on."

"Then why didn't he come in during ya meditation period."

"You're asking a lot of questions Raph, yet whatever happened at the breakfast table this morning still hasn't been answered," He said pointing, Leo would cause him to snap in either a small or big form one way or another. He was partially safe for today. "Now let's go," he said in an angry tone - with all three boys eventually following suit.

"Where the hell is ya takin' us o' powerful one?" The booming Brooklyn voice of Raph asked which reverberated along the brick walls of the sewer line.

"Left up here" Leo spoke behind them, Raph putting a hand on the grip on one of his sais. Proceeding to walk, Mikey's voice broke through the air.

"Dude, I can't see a thing, where are you takin' us?"

"To the place, I was telling you about."

"What kind of place is this Leo, A Silver room with a single light installed? The glare in here is-" His face dropped in surprise as he looked around. "What happened to the glare?"

"I don't know dude - Woah," Mikey said as he looked down at the giant white swirling typhoon down below them.

Raph and Donnie were just as surprised, Raph's lip lifting slightly as he looked over the edge.

"That doesn't look like an edge I'd like ta be lookin' ova'" Raph said as he bent his knees slowly moving backwards.

"It isn't too bad Raph, especially knowing some of the buildings we've lept over during Ninja Tag" Donnie pitched in "But what is this, some sort of. Water Typhoon?"

"I have no clue. I don't, I just found it along the routes I was checking during a rainstorm" All three turtles look back the leader in blue "What?" Donnie was about to stand up before a scream of the word Cowabunga was made

"Mikey!" Raph screamed as he tried to reach out for his little brother's hand. And before he knew it, Mikey was gone. Gritting his teeth and growling slightly - Raph looked at the younger and older brother. "What the hell was that? You know you can't take your eye off of Mikey with this sort of stuff."

Leo looked over the edge to see if there was some spectre of a red mask. However, there wasn't, shaking his head. Leo took a step back.

"Leo whatever you're doing. Don't" Donnie said which was ignored by the leader in blue jumping into the water, only leaving Raph and Donnie left

"Mike's idiocy only goes so far."

"For once Don, I can agree with you on something." He said as both of them jumped in.

In the back of their minds, they had the thought of being transported to some random outlet of New York. However, where it ended up. Was about to throw them off completely.