Leo had been left in Raph's room overnight and the next day the door was opened, waking up both turtles.

Two ninjas had come in with platefuls of sandwiches and water for them. Both Leo and Raph breathed sighs of relief when they left and didn't do anything else.

As the two turtles got their food, Raph asked, "Have they been feedin' ya?"

"Once a day." Leo replied.

"Same here. Think they're feedin' Don and Mikey too?"

"I'm sure they are. We would all be looking thinner than this if they weren't feeding us."

Leo ate slower than Raph because of the problems with his arms, but he finished his food. He had been so distracted with talking and being back with his brother that he forgot to check the food and water for anything.

A few hours later, Leo started to feel some discomfort in his stomach. He tried to ignore it, but the pain only began to get worse. He began to moan and he lied down.

"Leo? Something wrong?" Raph asked.

"I don't know, Raph. I usually check the food they give me but I didn't check it this time. I hope it isn't what I think it is." Leo said as he was holding his stomach.

"I feel fine." Raph said, patting his stomach.

"I hope it's nothing, but if the pain gets worse, I'll know what they did to me." Leo warned. He dreaded he had been poisoned and the Foot, perhaps, wanted to see him die in front of Raph, since they knew they'd been fighting from the moment they'd gotten here.

As a few hours passed, Leo didn't feel any better. The pain in his stomach had only seemed to intensify, and he feared he had been poisoned.

Raph tried his best to soothe Leo, but there wasn't much he could do other than just be beside him. Leo was just glad he had one of his brothers with him.

"I hope this ends soon." Leo whimpered.

"Does it seem to be gettin' worse?" Raph asked.

"It's about the same, and it's extremely uncomfortable."

Then, the door unlocked and opened. Both turtles glared up at their captors. There were three of them.

"The time has come for another trip, Blue."

Leo moaned. He didn't want to be moved.

"You touch him and I'll kill you!" Raph snarled at them.

"How are you going to do that? You can't even move from that spot." The lead ninja mocked Raph.

Raph growled at them and was prepared to fight for his brother's safety, but he couldn't move from his spot.

The other two ninjas came forward and grabbed Leo's arms and pulled him away from Raph.

"Leo!"

Leo couldn't help but cry out in pain from the pulls on his sore arms and the pain in his stomach.

Once he was away from Raph, the ninjas grabbed his upper arms in the non-sore spots and pulled him to his feet. Leo tried to go back to Raph, but he didn't have a lot of strength to fight back.

"Raph, I'll be okay." He managed to say before they pulled him out of the room.

Raph was more than angered again. He wished the bonds on his wrists were removed so that he could move around the cell and pound any more ninjas that came in there. He was really worried for Leo in his condition. He said he'd be ok, but Raph seriously doubted it.

He hoped that it wasn't going to be the last time for him to see Leo alive.

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Leo was nervous about where he was being taken. To see the Shredder so that he could be finished off? To see his other brothers? He hoped beyond hope that he was being taken to his other brothers.

At least this time, Leo was glad not to have his injured spots pulled on, but it was also a nightmare to walk when his belly was hurting to high heaven. He tried to hold in the sounds of pain that he wanted to let out. It felt like something was attacking his internal organs. A constant, deep stabbing feeling.

When the doors were finally opened, it was revealed that he was being taken to a surgical room. Leo gulped silently. This was what he dreaded the most of any challenge at the moment.

He was taken toward the table and he began to put up a struggle. That was when the sore spots on his arms were grabbed a hold of and that got Leo to cooperate a bit more. But as they were getting him closer to the table, the sharpest pain went through his stomach, causing him to cry out and he went down on one knee it was so bad.

"Get up!"

He was pulled to his feet again and finally gotten to the table, where with very little trouble, got him onto it and tied him down on his back.

Leo looked nervously up at the humans that surrounded him.

"He sure didn't put up much of a fight."

"Good thing we softened him up before doing this, or else he would have put up more of a fight, like the red banded one wanted to."

"What do you want with me this time?" Leo demanded. They better have not touched his brother.

The doctor came forward and he approached Leo's left side.

The turtle tried to do deep breathing in an attempt to stay calm and possibly help his stomach calm down too.

When the doctor got to his side, he untied the belt holding a bandage over Leo's side. Leo watched. Maybe they were just seeing to his side injury.

Once the belt was off, the doctor saw the dried blood on the skin. The wound smelled by now. There had to be an infection underneath the skin.

Leo saw the doctor pick up a scalpel and then his breathing picked up, causing his nausea to act up.

The man cut away at the stitches. The wound was partially healed, but the doctor saw that there was an infection and he began to cut into the wound again.

Leo closed his eyes tightly to hold in the screams. His stomach clenched at the pain. When it was done, he let out a big breath he had been holding.

The doc proceeded to clean the wound out again and stitched it back up. Leo managed to handle it without crying out, though it had stung like shell.

"Now what, Doctor?" One assistant asked.

"I want to check those arms one at a time." He said.

From the side he was on, the doc had Leo's left arm looked at first. As the man looked at the arm after the bandages were off, he saw that it was swollen and practically black. "This arm was broken. It's amazing it doesn't look worse."

The doc put a splint on the arm and re-bandaged it. Then he took a look at the turtle's right hand.

As much as Leo would have preferred fighting to get away, he was willing to comply to let the doctor treat his injuries that needed treatment so badly.

There wasn't much he could do for the hand, but he did treat it the best he could and rewrapped it as well.

Then another sharp pain went through Leo's stomach, making him wince in pain. With his hand free at the moment, Leo put his hand on his belly.

"Seems the turtle has a stomachache too."

The doc pulled Leo's hand off and tied it down again. He then proceeded to try to press on Leo's plastron, to see how much protection it really provided for the belly.

Leo's plastron was hard, but it did press down some. But it was so badly bruised and Leo could also feel the little bit of pressure going inward, making his nausea worse. He instantly grunted in pain.

"What was the last thing he was given to eat?" The doc asked.

"The last of the old beef. It was put on a sandwich."

"That beef was not good anymore!"

"We know but we were ordered to give it to him anyway so we just made it up to look like it wasn't bad."

Leo couldn't believe what he was hearing. He had been fed bad food! No wonder he was having such bad indigestion. He hoped he wasn't coming down with food poisoning. At that moment, he wanted to throw up, but his position made it hard to do. He tried to keep the bile down.

"What about my brother? He was given the same stuff too." Leo stated.

"Oh no, Blue. He didn't have the same kind of sandwich. We gave him chicken. It was fresh. You had the beef."

"So, are we done with him?"

"For the time being." The doc said.

"But what's wrong with me? You said the beef was bad." Leo tried to get a confession from someone.

"We're glad you enjoyed it though!" A ninja mocked him.

Leo didn't find it funny at all. He could be dealing with food poisoning and they found it to be just one big joke! He wanted to know what he had.

He was let up from the table and they took him back to his original cell and, this time, he was only shackled at one ankle.

Leo lied down to try to ease the horrible discomfort in his abdomen. He couldn't help but moan in pain. Despite being grateful for the treatment to his injuries, Leo still felt ill and warm. The more time that passed the more he worried that he was suffering from more than simple food poisoning.

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