"Every thing seems to be fine," one of the doctors smiled as he finished dressing Donatello's wound with a fresh bandage. "As for Miss Angel, she'll have to take it easy too," he shrugged, quickly looking up at Leonardo.
"Thank you for your help," Leonardo responded, bowing respectively at the medic and ignoring Raphael's snide remark from the background. However, as soon as the man left the room and the doors shut, Leo spun around angrily, "What was that, Raphael?" he snarled, brushing his fingers over the hilt of his katana.
"I called you a kiss ass," Raph repeated, leaning back against the wall and folding his arms. He sniffed in his older brother's direction as Leo reached for his sword.
"Guys come on-" Angel tried to reason, glancing at Donnie before looking up at Raph pleadingly, "Not in front of Donnie," she mouthed at him. Raphael's eye widened for a split second before he grunted and turned his head away.
"Do you guys always have to fight?" Donnie snapped irritably, causing both turtles to stop their bickering and look away from each other huffily.
"I'm out of here," Leo muttered, walking out of the room and slamming the door behind him. Donnie stared at the door while Angel shot Raph a quick, angry look.
"Well..." Younger Leo cleared his throat, coughing awkwardly as he, Raph, Mikey and April walked into the old subway. He glanced at the sludge over the walls and smiled at her, "It's a nice...place you got here," he continued politely.
"It's not what you think," April replied, her voice flat as she lead the turtles to the turnstiles that looked down a splintered and dirty railway. She gripped one of the turnstiles tightly and pushed the rusted metal bars forward, screeching as they were moved. Before anybody could speak up, the railway opened up and revealed stone stairs leading down into a dark tunnel. "Stay close," she murmured, reaching into her pocket and taking out a small lighter, clicking it so that a small flame gave the tunnel light.
Mikey followed Leo and Raph, anxiously looking around at his surroundings and being careful to watch where he stepped. He almost jumped out of his shell when the entrance to the secret staircase shut behind them which earned an irritated grunt from Raph. April sucked in air before shoving the wooden door open which was in front of her, revealing a long, clean and white hallway.
"Whoa," Mikey blinked at the white rooms in front of him before turning his head, taking in the dirt, rust and damp and then turning back around and peeking at the hideout. He nudged April in the shoulder and cracked a grin, "You're good, older April."
"Yes," April smiled to herself, folding her arms as she signalled for the turtles to wall into the hall of her hideout. She shut the door tightly behind her and then walked beside the three brothers, the soles of her boots squeaking on the polished floor. "We made sure that our enemies wouldn't find us so easily."
"Really smart," Leo agreed, nodding to himself as April lead them to large double-doors. Her hands were shaking as she placed her hands against the handles.
"Please still be here," she whispered, pushing the doors open loudly, alerting all of the other members inside.
Before April or the younger turtles could do anything, a loud chorus of "APRIL!" and "You're okay!" filled the entire area as everybody rushed to April, some even crying in happiness for the return of their leader.
"You're all here too," April breathed calmly, her eyes lighting up. "What a relief."
"Wow..." Raph gasped, looking around at all of the people and the technology in astonishment.
April's expression hardened as she noticed all of her friends were staring at the three turtles in confusion. Before she could open her mouth to reassure everybody, a voice suddenly piped up, "There's more little turtles! Just like the other one!"
"Little...turtles?" Raph repeated slowly.
"Other one?" Leo also repeated, looking at Raph.
"Donnie?" Mikey said, rushing up the humans. "You mean Donnie right?" his eyes were silently pleading with them. "Is he here? Is Donnie okay?"
"You don't have to be so hasty," a gruff voice suddenly spoke up, a figure wearing a long coat stood against a large wall corner, shadowing his appearance. He stepped into view causing April to smile tiredly and causing younger Leo's eyes to widen in utter shock while Raph and Mikey stared speechless at the stranger.
"Leo?!" Raph suddenly shouted, looking at the future version of his older brother. Future Leonardo stood in the light, his glasses hiding the glare he wore while the tattered bottom of his trenchcoat brushed the smooth white tiles of the hideout.
A/N: Ohmygosh, good evening everybody! I am really, really sorry that this chapter took so long to come out D: It's been a hectic couple of weeks for me so my apologies once again! :) :D