"Stupid Donnie," Leo muttered as he limped through the sewers. "Who needs him? He thinks he knows everything. He's a big airhead is more like it."

He looked to the ceiling on the sewer...or would it be the ground considering he was underground? He shook his head. That didn't matter. All that mattered was getting to Shredder's HQ so he could get his father back. He looked to the manhole cover that sat above him. He hissed as he climbed up the ladder to reach the manhole cover.

He moved the cover of the manhole to the side only to be greeted with the not-so-friendly-looking streets of New York. He once again cringed at the blood. He cringed at the people who lied motionless on the sidewalk and streets.

All dead.

Man, he thought, Donnie always said that earthquakes were possible in New York, just not likely. But this wiped out almost the entire population.

There was his name again.

Donatello.

Leo groaned.

Donnie was the last person who he wanted to think about in this instance.

Leo looked up to the dark night sky of New York. "I wonder how Mikey and Raph are." He wondered aloud. Then his face brightened into rememberance. His T-Phone! He could call them! He took out his T-Phone quickly and input his password. He clicked on the first brother he saw that wasn't Donatello.

Michelangelo.

He placed the turtle-shell-like cell-phone to his ear slit and listened as the phone rang for a bit, indicating that the person he was attempting to reach was getting his call.

"Leo! Bro, where are you?!" was the immediate question that was screamed into his ear.

Leo looked to the street name tthat was on the corner of the sidewalk where he stood. "I'm on the street that takes you into Manhattan."

"Raph, how far is Manhattan from here?" Mikey asked Raph. Raph's voice was inaudible while he was answering Mikey's question before Mikey was back to speaking to Leo. "Ok, stay where you are, Leo. According to Raph, we should be there in about ten minutes."

"K, see ya then." Leo said before hanging up. We're going to be reunited, he thought victoriously! Then his blue orbs downcasted towards a manhole cover. Or at least three of us, he thought guiltily.

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"Leo!" Mikey yelled as he flew at his older, Space Heroes loving, brother.

Leo rubbed the top of Mikey's head fondly. "Nice to see you, too, bro."

"Uh, Leo," Raph said as he walked up to his brother, "where's Donnie at?" Raph asked as he gestured towards the terrain where they stood.

"About that," Leo said sheepishly, tapping his two indiex fingers together, "we kinda...sorta...maybe...split up?"

"You what?!" Raph asked angrily.

"Bro, why? What happened?" Mikey asked calmly.

Leo placed a hand on the back of his neck. "Well," he began, "it's kind of a long story."

"We have time." Raph grumbled.

Leo took in a deep breath before telling his story. He told them about Casey's death and about how he wanted them to take care of Dani and how they disagreed on what was best for her. Both of the turtles' hearts ached when they were informed of Casey, but Raph's aching feeling soon smoldered into anger at the reason of why his brothers had split up.

"That's why you guys split up?!" Raph asked angrily. "That's the stupidest excuse you've had yet! If you haven't realized yet, New York is at its weakest, and the streets are literally crawling with predators and enemys. Shell, before we got here, Mikey and I encountered your girlfriend." Raph mocked.

Leo growled. "She's not my girlfriend, Raph! She's Splinter's daughter, and you know that!"

"Guys!" Mikey yelled, stepping in between both of his immediate older brothers. His eyes held an unbeforeseen glint of anger. "You guys have to stop arguing! Donnie's out there and he could be hurt or worse, and you two are wasting moonlight by arguing! We need to find him before someone else does!"

Leo and Raph stared at Mikey in shock. He had never before snapped at them. Or sound so grown up for his age. Granted the four of them were all the mere age of fifteen, but Donatello had conducted a science experiment that revealed their true ages. Leo had hatched in March, Raph, June, Donnie, October, and Mikey, December.

"You're right, Mikey," Leo said as he took out his T-Phone. "I'll call Donnie and see where he is."

"Do you really think he's going to want to talk to you after you had called him B-Team?" Mikey inquired with deadpanning eyes.

Leo felt a slight tinge of embarrassment corupt his body. "Right, right, fair point. Maybe you should call him."

Mikey nodded once before taking out his phone. "My thoughts exactly," Mikey looked through his contacts, Donatello coming up third on his list, April being first, Casey-the thought now painful-second,
and Donatello third. It wasn't by random, it was alphabetical. "Looks like I won't need Casey's contact for a while," He said sadly. He tapped on Donnie's icon and placed the phone up to his ear slit. He heard six rings before it went to voicemail. "He's not answering." He says with a hint of worry to his voice.

"Check his location." Leo offers.

Mikey nodded before going to the app that tracked down all four of the T-Phones. As expected, three green dots were clustered together at the beginning of Manhattan, but what was peculiar was that there was a red dot, not too far from the Mighty Mutanimals' HQ.

Mikey's eyes bulged in concern and fear. Red meant that the phone had been destroyed.

"Uh...L-Leo?" Mikey said nervously.

"What?" Leo asked with concern.

"Donnie's dot is red." Mikey admitted showing him the locations of the phones. Leo's eyes bulged at the news before taking Mikey's phone into his own hands, not wanting his naive brother to be correct. However, to the three's dismay, Mikey was in fact telling the truth.

His dot was red.

"B-But that means that his phone is destroyed. Why would his phone be broken?" Leo asked in fear.

Raph chuckled bitterly. "That's something we're about to find out." he says as he jumps down a manhole.
Leo and Mikey are quick to follow Raph's actions.

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"Well," Raph said as they walked through the sewers, "we're near the Mighty Mutanimals' HQ, so where's Donnie's phone?"

"I don't know," Leo said as he inspected the sewer floors along with his other two brothers, "we're just going to have to keep looking."

Mikey sighed as he looked along the sewer floors for any clue as to where his missing brother was. Mikey sighed as he took out his phone and looked at the time.

12:02am.

That pretty much explained the utter pitch blackness of the sewers. It was a late hour. A very late hour.

Mikey yelped as he tripped over a miscellaneous object. He groaned and rubbed his head as he found his way to his knees. "What did I trip on?" He wondered aloud. He brought out his phone once more and turned on the flashlight. His eyes widened in fear at the object.

He screamed.

He screamed as loud as he could.

Probably loud enough for the Mighty Mutanimals to hear.

"Mikey!"

"What's wrong?!"

The two older brothers ran to their screaming younger and stopped in their tracks. They gasped. They paled. Their eyes widened.

It was Donnie's bo staff.

Broken in half.

Soaked with blood along with his broken T-Phone

There was a puddle of blood not too far from the broken ninjutsu weapon and phone, and it made Mikey scream even louder.

In the puddle of blood was a floating piece of cloth.

If one were to simply just glance at the cloth, they would think nothing of it. But their eyes weren't playing tricks on this set of brothers.

It wasn't just a random piece of cloth strewn about.

No.

It was Donatello's mask.

Sounds like Donnie's in some serious trouble. Did you like it, love it, hate it? Let me know. Your opinion matters. :)