" LEO YOUR MELTING! NO DON'T GO!" Mikey grabbed for his brother's arm but his hands went right through it and came out covered in a red wax. Fear covered his freckled face and he shook his hands to clear it off and turned to Raph, Raphael had also started to melt, Michelangelo reached for him the same way, but Raph swatted him away.

"It's all your fault Mikey, Why do you have to be such a baby." With the harsh words Raph also faded away leaving behind a single sai. Mikey quickly turned to Donnie but where he had been moments before stood his father. Master Splinter's eye were black and empty, as he advanced on Mikey his form morphed into that of a Squirrelanoid it lunged at him and he dodged, then took off running, the way ahead of him was a twisting maze of city streets, the sides lined with foot, Kranng bots, and other mutants, at the end of the run a wall he tried to skid to a stop, through the wall he fell and continued to fall, below him another Squirrelanoid mouth open ready to swallow him whole. As he got closer to his fate Donnie grabbed him.

"Mikey." Donnie jerked him up and shook him.

" MIKEY!" Donnie's voice got louder the second time, Mikey blinked and slowly opened his eyes.

" Mikey come on wake up."Donnie shook him again. "Michelangelo wake up April's on her way, she's got news about Splinter!" It took Mikey a few moments more to register what Donnie was saying and it only registered completely after Donnie held a slice of pizza under his nose.

"Guys, Guys!?" April ran calling into the lair, a slip of paper held tightly in her right hand." Donnie, Mikey where are Leo and Raph?" April stopped beside the couch which was torn asunder from Mikey's reactions to his nightmare. The look on donnies face as he looked up at her was heartbreaking to her, she's not seen any of her turtle friends looking so completely lost for words, especially not Donatello, and looking at Michelangelo she could see something was certainly bothering him because his usually bright smile wasn't even there.

" Tell me everything that happen D, all you told me two weeks ago was to keep and eye out for information on Splinter." She schooched him over and sat between the two turtles wrapping and arm around each of them. Mikey was shaking uncontrollably, as he lay his head against April's side, he also started to cry softly.

" Well as you know it was unusually hot for a fall day two weeks ago Monday, tempers were up and tolerances were down. For whatever reason Master Splinter agreed to Mikey's request to train outside the family dojo in a place with more air. It's that small abandoned warehouse Raph found that would have been the final destination, but fate in her ever twisted mind brought us to a fated encounter just below the surface Squirrelanoids. The battle was quite fierce and quick but we lost track of splinter, of course that's not uncommon but when we got back to the lair and he wasn't there we started to panic." Donatello took a breath before he continued, the silence in that moment was defending,and only broken by Mikey's sobs.

"We all split up and started searching the sewers for master Splinter, the first day or so nothing, by Friday,we'd exhausted all possible routes he could have travel so we went back to the scene of the fight,Still nothing until we were about to leave Leonardo was the one who spotted Splinter's walking stick half buried in sludge. We found a lab coat beside it the Last name on the pocket was Jewel. Unfortunately the lab or corporate name hand been ripped off by splinter's claws I know that because the claw pattern where It should have been." Once more he took a breath and readjusted as he was getting a bit squished between April & the side of the couch because Mikey had fallen back to sleep beside her. Not that he of course minded being squished by April, as a matter of face he had started to blush furiously with her arm wrapped around him so he got up and moved over to the chair opposite her and Mikey,April gave him a look then shrugged, with the whatever look.

" Keep Going Donnie." April gave him a reassuring smile as she adjusted and lowered Mikey's head into her lap. Donnie secretly envied Mikey right at this moment; and he blushed once more.

"Raphael got all angry like he normally does, and went off on Mikey, calling him a baby, and other sorts of things, Leo jumped in to defend Mikey and they got into a physical struggle, Leo landed a full good strike on Raph's right jaw and caused him to bleed. Leonardo tried to apologize but Raph stormed off, throwing his t-phone at us." His own face was starting to feel wet and he blushed deeper. April slid out from under the sleeping Mikey and moved over to the chair, and seated herself on the arm on the chair, taking Donnies face and turning it up to her to meet his eyes with her own, she took out a scrap of cloth and dried his tears.

"I can see this is bothering you Donatello but I need to know everything if I'm going to help." She smiled and kissed the top of his head. He almost died right then and there but he kept his composer and cleared his throat of the lump stuck there, both from the weight of the story and April's kind reactions.

" Leo also took off the next day after we had went on a search patrol and found one of Raphael's sais beneath a trash pile in an alleyway topside. He Claimed he needed some time to focus and he told us to keep looking for splinter. That was about a week ago, and tonight Mikey and I found Leo beaten and nearly dead in the park. Fending off waves of Foot, he's alive but just barely, something tore into the soft tissue between his plastron and carapace." He sighed and April shuddered their eyes met and he smiled softly at her, she returned the smiled then suddenly remembered the paper.

" Ah, can't believe I almost forgot!" She yanked it out and handed it to Donnie. " I got it in my locker today I didn't recognize the handwriting, so I went and checked it out myself first. He's There at this address sleeping in one of the , looks like guest rooms." Donnie snatched the paper and stood up so fast he knocked her off the arm of the chair, and he blushe reaching down he pulled her up and blushed. "heh sorry april... umm I got a little excited is all." he rubbed the back of he neck and turned away.

" You go Donatello, i'll stay here with Mikey and Leo, just be careful, because it says they are expecting you. So that means on of two things. It's a trap or somehow they know about you guys either one is not a good thing." She smiled and grabbed a blanket to cover Mikey,as Donnie nodded and took off she went the check on Leo.