"April."

Future April was stirred out of her inner thoughts as she looked up at the desperate eyes of Michelangelo. She blinked at him, as if waiting for him to speak up again.

When he finally did, she wished he hadn't; "Is Donnie dead?"

As soon as Mikey spoke those three words, the entire lair filled with silence. Even Casey and Raph, who appeared from the training area crept silently over to the sofa and waited for older April to deny this question. No...Waiting wasn't the right word; silently begging was more like it.

"Mikey..." Future April extended her hand toward the usually-bouncing turtle's shoulder but he stepped back and bit his lip before closing his eyes.

"We won't like the answer, will we, April?"

The serious and hurt tone of the happy-go-lucky turtle stunned April as soon as he spoke once more. She had no idea on what to say next, Leonardo shook his head and frowned at her before turning his back and marching toward the kitchen.

Mikey watched his older brother and seemed to have an inner battle inside his head before he scurried after Leo. Younger April stood herself up and dragged Casey into the kitchen after the two turtles while Raphael stood close to Future April, breathing heavily.

"Don't let it get to ya'," Raph muttered gruffly, turning his head away stubbornly. "They're just worried, that's all."

"Raph..." Future April squeezed her bandaged wrist and hissed as she felt a sharp sting from her healing wound. "I'm sorry. I couldn't lie to you all and tell you that everything was fine because if something bad has happened..." she inhaled sharply. "I'd never forgive myself if I lied to you all."

"I understand," Raph knelt down in front of April and gave her a confident wink as he positioned himself right in front of her, "even if the others' don't."

Before April could speak again, a strange sound began to fill the entire lair, alerting everybody that the sound was coming from Donatello's lab. "The Kraang communication orb!" Future April gasped, jumping off of the sofa and running as fast as she could into the lab. She stopped in front of the glowing sphere and went to place her hand on it before she stopped herself when she heard several footsteps enter behind her.

"I t-think," April's mouth trembled anxiously as she finally placed her hand on the orb. She cleared her throat and spoke again, "I think that the orb is responding..." her eyes widened as she dashed over to Donatello's computer and turned it on. "Casey!" she called, waving her hand for him to come over to her. He cautiously walked over with his eyebrows raised in question as she held out her hand to him before she sighed heavily. "Jones, please pass me one of the USB links!"

"Oh!" he blinked, reaching into his hoodie pocket and taking out one of the sticks and handing it to Future April before taking a few steps back to stand beside the three turtles, younger April and Master Splinter.

"Thanks," she said through gritted teeth as the USB connected to the computer and allowed her to open up all of the files of information that the Kraang has stored on the stick. She clicked through the numerous folders until she found a folder titled "Dimensions" and double clicked on it before scrolling through the documents.

"Dudes," Mikey piped up, poking his head out between Leonardo and Master Splinter. "Anybody know what's going on?"

"Not a clue, Mikey," younger April murmured, watching as her older-self cursed as she checked the documents and image-files on the computer.

"There!" Future April suddenly yelled triumphantly as she opened up a presentation-file and placed the document on full-screen to show everybody. As the group read through the information on how the Kraang portals worked, a sudden message appeared on the screen, startling everybody. Future April pressed the ESC key on the keyboard and then double clicked on the message to open it. Her face paled and her heart began to race in panic as the flashing words on the screen in front of everybody read;

COME HOME APRIL

A/N: Soo, yeah :) This story is coming to an end probably the next chapter or the one after :'3 Thank you!