Don had been out of the lair for some time now; Raph and Mikey were out on patrol, and Splinter had gone to bed. Lavish and Leo, aside from waiting for Don to return, were supposed to be babysitting.
Leo had fallen asleep; thanks to the sleeping drug that Lavish had slipped into his tea. "I'm sorry, Leo, but I have to get my queen's twins out of here tonight. I have a feeling their father might suspect something; that I am not who I'm supposed to be. Again, I have to do this, my love, for my queen. I got too far into this with you as it was."
She gave him one last kiss on the cheek, picked up a baby carrier and slung it over her back. She then ran upstairs. She first went into Leo's room, picking the sleeping Akemi up in her arms. She and her brother were about 6 months old now. She carefully placed Akemi into the carrier and then slung it over her back so that Akemi was secured against her body. She then went to Virgil's room. He too was sleeping and Lavish picking up the child did not seem to bother him in the least, remaining sound asleep.
Neither baby noticed Lavish picking them up. Akemi had settled down now at night. She quietly took them downstairs and took the elevator up to the surface. She got out of the warehouse undetected, and then made herself invisible. Conveniently, whatever she touched also became invisible.
She hoped Akemi and Virgil would remain asleep until she reached her ship. She was now in her levitating state so that nothing really would get in her way. She took to the rooftops, knowing that is was safer than on the ground, that way she wouldn't run into any humans.
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Don ran desperately back to the lair. He pushed the buttons for the keypad to open the door to the lair. Finally, the door lifted and he stumbled into the lair, panting heavily, his heart beating in panic. He had to check on Akemi and Virgil right away, and to warn his family of Olivia's duplicity.
Once the door was wide open, Don wasted no time running up the stairs to the two bedrooms.
"Akemi?" Don ran over to the cradle.
It was empty.
"No!" Don panicked, running to his own room.
He looked in Virgil's cradle and also found it to be empty. Panic clutched at his heart. "No! They can't be gone!" He whispered in disbelief.
He ran downstairs praying that somehow Leo had realized that Olivia was an Anolis female, and had managed to protect his twins from her.
Don entered the living room and felt his heart drop into the pit of his stomach. Leo was lying on the couch, eyes closed. Don ran forward, fear filling him as he checked his brother's pulse. He found it beating strongly beneath his fingertips. Don tried to wake up Leo up, but he didn't stir. "Leo, wake up!" He shouted at his unresponsive brother.
He came to the conclusion that Leo must have been drugged. Though he seemed otherwise fine, he couldn't wake his brother.
He left the living room and checked all of the other rooms in the lair for Olivia and the twins, but they were nowhere to be found. He then ran to his father's room, unsure of what he would find. His father was also sleeping, but when he shook his father's shoulder, his father awoke.
"Master Splinter, have you seen Olivia or the twins tonight?" Don asked quickly.
"Slow down, my son. Yes, before I went to bed. Is something wrong?" Splinter asked.
"Yes. Olivia and the twins are gone and Leo's been drugged. She… she's an Anolis female!" He announced in panic.
"Are you sure, my son?" Master Splinter asked, his eyes filling with worry.
"Yes." He nodded.
"Where are Raphael and Michelangelo?"
"I don't know where they are. They must have gone out on patrol while I was at Leatherhead's." Don replied quickly.
"Slow down, Donatello. You need to breath. I'm sure she has not gotten far." Splinter said. "Call Raphael and Michelangelo back."
Don immediately grabbed his shell cell out of his belt and dialed Raph's number while he tried to control his rising panic.
A few rings, and then Raph picked up. "Hello?"
"Raph, it's Olivia, she's an Anolis female! She drugged Leo and she's taken the twins!" Don said in a rush of words.
Raph remained silent for a moment before swearing profusely into the phone. "We'll be right there." Then hung up.
"We need to go find her Master Splinter." Don told his father, his voice shaking.
"We will, but we shall wait for your brothers to return. Perhaps by that time, Leonardo will have woken up and perhaps he will be able to tell us what happened." Master Splinter said soothingly. "What was it that alerted you to Olivia's deception, my son?" Master Splinter said, trying to distract Don.
"Leo's blood sample. He's been sick, that's why he's been acting so strange. I just came back from Leatherhead's. Leo knew I was going there. I needed some more help to identify his problem and Leatherhead found it. He saw that Leo's hCG levels are up, just as mine were when we found out that I was pregnant."
Splinter's eyes widened. "You don't mean…?"
Donatello nodded. "Leo's pregnant, and Olivia is an Anolis female." He said in a panicked tone. "And that's why I'm worried about my twins."
Raph and Mikey arrived back home moments later. "Where is Olivia?!" Raph demanded.
"We don't know, Raphael. Right now, she and the twins are missing." Splinter said.
Raph and Mike looked down at Don. He had tears streaming down his face. "We have to find them."
"What about Leo, is he going to be okay?" Mikey pointed at the leader asleep on the couch.
Donatello looked at the couch. "Yeah, he'll be fine when he wakes up, it was just a sleeping drug of some sort. Olivia obviously waited until you and Raph were gone and Master Splinter was asleep before drugging Leo and taking the twins." Don answered in a choked voice.
Splinter picked up Leo's tea cup and smelled it. "There is indeed something else in this cup than the scent of tea. My sons, I will stay and look after Leonardo. You three go out and find Donatello's babies."
"Sensei, Leo will be fine. I need your keen sense of smell to find Olivia and the twins." Donatello told their father. "I also have special goggles in my lab that will allow us to see Olivia if she is invisible." He said running quickly to his lab, retrieving the goggles for himself and his two brothers and running back to the living room.
They all donned Don's special goggles as Splinter tried to catch Olivia's scent, tracking to to the elevator. "Here. She left with the twins this way." Splinter said.
"Are you sure Leo's going to be okay here, all alone?" Mikey asked.
"We don't have a choice but to leave him here." Raph said.
"But then again, she could come back for Leo. Mikey, you stay here and protect Leo." Don ordered.
"Okay, Donny." Mikey agreed, and went back to his oldest brother. "And tell him what's going on when he comes to." Mikey added grimly.
Then Splinter, Don, and Raph exited through the elevator. Splinter and Raph had both noticed that Don was taking the lead right now, but in his state of mind right now, he couldn't be blamed. He was being a worried father. He had to find his kids.
Thanks to Darkunderworld for editing.
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