Emma sat on the half pipes in the lair while Michelangelo skated back and forth. She smiled as she watched him in his skills knowing he was showing off for her. She didn't mind, it was endearing to her.

Jordon, Samantha, and April helped Donatallo look through books for information on the legend April had mentioned early that could be a possible link with the Winters guy.

"When you worked for Winters, what happened?" April asked looking up from a book at Samantha.

"What is she talking about?" Jordon asked in suspicion towards her sister. April pressed her lips together in a thin line remembering Samantha's sisters knew nothing of her past work. Samantha looked over at her and towards Donatello who winced to the question.

"I worked for him, with my firm. Something about collectors insurances on a piece of art." Samantha shrugged. Jordon eyed her sister not believing her.

"Collectors insurance?...What's what?" Jordon asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Insurance. Now drop it." Sam said flipping a page.

"But…"

"Jordon Iris. I said drop it." Samantha warned looking up from the book. Jordon narrowed her eyes sitting back in her chair with a huff as she flipped her page harshly. April reached over Sam's shoulder for a book as she caught her eye.

"Sorry…" She whispered as Sam sighed nodding her head. Donatello got up going over to his computers and typed in a search for the causable scenarios to happen during this monster invasion. His eyes widened as Jordon made her way over to him clasping her hand to her mouth to muffle a gasp.

"What?" Sam asked sitting up quickly from the table as Leonardo looked over at her from gathering more books from the library.

"It says that if this is to be true we could lose the city within hours, the country within days and the world within the week…" Jordon let out in a sigh.

Emma looked over in shock as Mikey held himself up with one arm on the lip of the half pike looking over at his brothers and Jordon.

"Oh, so it's like Haley's comet…Only…Monsters come out."

"Yes…I guess so…" Donatello said in amazement that his brother held any kind of knowledge that could be of importance.

"Ha, I'm smart…" Mikey said as he skated over to Emma, falling off the edge and onto the CD player beside the ramp. Emma jumped down in worry helping him up. "I'm ok…" Donatello rolled his eyes as Leonardo slammed his fist down on a book next to Samantha making her jump slightly.

"Why do we need Raph anyways? He's the one with angry always jeopardizing our missions." Leo asked walking away from the table. Sam furrowed her brow looking over at April and Donnie who just shrugged.

"Ok Leo, whatever you say…No body was talking about him…?" Donnie said with a raised eye ridge as he watched Leonardo walk towards the stair case.

"Leonardo." Splinter said walking over to the stairs, stopping his eldest son. "This team you are so eager to lead is incomplete. You know what you must do." Leonardo stopped as his breathing steadied with a slight angry rising within his chest. He glared towards the doorway as he started up.

"Yes Sensei…" He jogged the rest of the way as the lair's big doors closed shut behind him. Sam watched as she looked over at Master Splinter. He eyed her carefully as she smiled softly towards him bowing her head. He returned the gesture walking away.

"I'm going to follow him." She said looking over at Donnie and April. They both nodded their heads as Sam grabbed her messenger bag and headed for the door. "I'm going to stop by home and pick up a few things okay munchkin? So, don't be out too late!"

"I, I captain!" Emma saluted as Jordon watched her sister suspiciously.

"You too Jay." Jordon nodded her head slowly as she returned to look over the book in front of her. She looked back over at her sister out of the corner of her eye. Something was going on.

Sam made her way to the street as she knew Leo was already blocks away. His eagerness to find Raphael wasn't anything new to her nor was his need to have a fight. His tension in his body language stood out to her for days now as him and Raphael barely spoke. She knew it was only a matter of time before they exploded into a well needed fight. Just, the matter of it being a couple days for Leonardo and almost a year and a half for Raphael made her stomach turn with worry.

Raphael's persona was different, more so since Leo had been back. He slipped up with Casey, which never happened. His need to go out as the Nightwatcher made Frankie excited but Sam knew it wasn't right. She knew he was doing it for good, but something inside of him did it out of spite for Leonardo. He leaving his family for the time he need for training turned into him turning his back on the family to Raphael. He left, and Raphael thought out of the own blinded fury of his heart that it was for personal selfish reasons. At first, he was angry with him letting his angry turn into jealously which in turned into a stewing hate for his eldest brother.

Sam could do nothing but watch. She warned Leonardo to get it out of the way early, but Raphael needed to work with him as well actually being around him long enough to get into an argument. The first time they spoke more than a few words to one another was last night. Which, didn't turn out well.

She walked the streets as cars sped by her, the lights of the city flowing together around her as she tried to focus on her thoughts. She had no reason to be looking for Leonardo, or following him now. He and Raphael had to have it out and she knew Raphael wouldn't harm his own brother.

She heard cars beep and skid across the street, colliding with one another behind her. She frowned, turning around as she saw a blur of green and gray come flying above her, crashing through a neon Chinese restaurant sign. She covered her head, crouching to the sidewalk as she looked up noticing Leonardo climbing a fire escape in hot pursuit of the metal wearing…Nightwatcher. Raphael dressed up as the Nightwatcher?! With Leo here! Idiot! She hissed angrily in her head.

"Oh my God! What is that thing!?" One women's shrill scream came from next to Samantha making Sam's head turn quickly at her in a glare. Thatthing is my boyfriend. She growled in her head.

"It's the Nightwatcher…Awesome…" Her young son said from next to her as she grabbed his hand and dragged him down the street.

"It's a giant turtle!" Another man said as Leonardo leaped over the side of the building disappearing. "I have to call someone about… Hey my phone!"

"Sorry…" Sam smiled shyly as she bumped into the man next to her dropping his phone into the street. A car speeding past them crushing and destroying it under its tires.

"You better pay for…Hey!" He called after Sam as she already took off through an alleyway. She looked ahead of her as she saw Raphael and Leonardo jumping over heating ducts and leaping over spaces from alleyways. She turned down another alleyway to keep up as a building closed her off in a dead end. She growled and turned around as she got locked in a maze of alleyways.

Raphael stopped in the dead end of a Red Eye sigh. He growled in his helmet as Leonardo stood behind him.

"You're intentions on helping this city is honorable, dear brother. However, you have made this mistake once and now you're going to face the conciseness." Leonardo said in a low voice as Raphael looked over his shoulder through his dark lens at his brother standing before him. Rain started to slowly fall from the sky as it came down harder, making a rhythmic noise against Raphael's metal armor.

He said nothing as he turned to face Leonardo, dropping two thick chain links to the concrete. Leonardo raised an eye ridge.

"Trust me. You don't want to do this." Leonardo warned as Raphael let out a growl coming at him. Leonardo leaped backwards dodging his brother's harsh blows with the heavy chains as they slammed against the concrete beside him.

"Gee Raph, I knew you were angered with me but I mean come on." Leonardo quipped as he crossed his arms over his plastron in an amused tone. Raphael growled louder in his helmet as he whipped the chains towards Leonardo who leaped backwards on to the ledge of the roof. "You call that an attack? Master Splinter would be disappointed!" Raphael whipped the chains at him again feeling his rage fire through him as Leonardo flipped sideway out of the way.

Raphael turned around as Leonardo stood waiting. He chuckled with no sense of humor behind it as Raphael narrowed his eyes through his lens dropping the chains, brining his hands up in a stance.

"Alright finally, some excitement!" Leonardo said following his brother as he too took a stance. Raphael came at him with a growl, following with harsh swings towards his brother. He watched Leonardo's movements in deflecting his punches knowing his brother's form of fighting, and where he had tendency's to leave himself open. He waited for the right moment as he punched his glove tight fisted hand across his brother's jaw making Leonardo stumbled back shaking out the pain it as he went back into a horse stance.

"Master Splinter has said..." Leonardo started holding up a forearm as he blocked another one of his brother's blows. "The funny thing about angry is, you let it consume you and soon enough…" Leonardo said disappearing ahead of Raphael, as he jumped over his head. Raphael stopped and narrowed his eyes in his helmet as he looked around him searching for his brother. "You lose sight of everything…" Leonardo finished as Raphael swung his arm around in a grunt, missing Leo as he ducked upper cutting his brother using the strength of his entire body.

Raphael's body flew through the air landing harshly on the roof as his helmet landing beside his head.

"Good night dark price."

Raphael was slow to get up, but once he did he looked behind him at his approaching brother. He felt the anger of getting defeated turn into an overflowing of hate. A year he waited for this moment and to have it come down to this, him lying on the ground as Leonardo stood victoriously above him. Bullshit. Raphael growled through his head as he narrowed his eyes kicking his heavy booted foot into Leonardo's plastron.

Leonardo slide over the wet concrete into a heating duct denting the metal with his shell. He stayed crouched wiping his mouth of debris from the force of Raphael knocking the wind out from his body. He spit the remains from his mouth out next to him as he stood in a glare, squaring his shoulders off to his enraged brother.

"You're so smug ya know that? You think the world revolves around you don't you? That we couldn't possible survive without the all mighty and powerful Leonardo to guide us through our problems huh? Well I got a news flash for ya, we got along just fine without you!"

"Oh and this qualifies as just fine? Dressing up like its Halloween every night? Risking the safety and identity of our family? I mean c'mon what were you thinking?!"

"Don't push it Leo! You can't leave home and expect us to fall in line again for you, like your little soldiers." Raphael growled pointing an angry finger at Leonardo.

"Hey I was training. Training to become a better leader…For you! Why do you hate me for that?"

"And who ever said I wanted to be lead?! I'm fine callin' my own shots, now get used it to!"

"You…Aren't…Ready! You're impatient and hot tempered and more importantly, I'm better than you." Leonardo finished in a low harsh tone, stopping the circles between him and his brother as they squared off to one another. Raphael threw his head up in a laugh.

"Ya know somethin' big brother, I'm gonna hafta disagree with you on that one." Raphael said taking out his sais and calling his brother to him using the edge of his pointed blade. Leonardo narrowed his eyes.

"Don't do this Raph."

"I'm done takin' orders." Leonardo shook his head as he retreated a blade from their leather hold on his shell. The two brothers stood for a moment, their anger over the past years crashing over them as the rain dropped around their throbbing bodies.

They came at one another as their grunts of anger could be heard from blocks away over the night and roof tops. Their fighting style was unconventional as they fought off each other's blades. They forgot everything they learned about honor and to withhold a brotherhood among them. Focusing on their anger raging within their bodies and out through their limbs. Their unspoken feelings of how much they really did miss one another came out through their beautiful, deadly movements, the metal from their weapons piercing through the sound of the rain.

Sam made her way back to the street as someone crashed into her. She stumbled against the side of a building narrowing her eyes as she was already aggravated from loosing sight of Leonardo and Raphael through the maze that is New York City.

She cleared her head as her eyes focused on her heavy breathing sister. Jordon pushed her glasses up to her face, fixing her shirt as she looked at Sam with a worried expression.

"Jordon? What are you…How…I told you to go home!"

"What are you doing out here?" Jordon asked ignoring her older sisters scolding.

"Nothing. Go home." Samantha warned walking away from her.

"No. I want to know…." Jordon lifted her head up as she heard a cry over the sounds of the city as the rain started to let up. Samantha's eyes flashed with worry as she jumped to a run.

"Go to the lair! Find the others!" Samantha yelled back at her sister as Jordon froze with a sinking feeling rushing through her head. The cry sounded all too familiar. Leo…Her mind echoed to her as she broke out of her frozen stances and ran back from where she came.

Sam ran furiously through the streets as she tried to hear him cry again, anything. Her heart ached to her his voice, even if it was in pain again. She needed to know he was ok, or near, or alive. She pressed her lips together tightly fighting with her head to not drop a single tear through her eyes.

"Leo…Hold on!" She heard someone call from above her as she saw Raphael jumped from a roof top going the opposite direction she was going. She stopped, sliding over the slick pavement of the alleyway and took off in Raphael's direction.

He ran, pushing himself to keep running even if his legs denied him. He wouldn't let his brother down. He couldn't let his brother down. He felt his throat burn as he chocked back tears. Of what he had just done. What he had just put his brother through and now he was getting captured by the Foot and those statues. The same statues that knocked him out the night before. Raphael shook his head to the rant raging through it and pushed himself harder to ran to save his brother.

Raphael dropped down in front of Samantha as she noticed a large truck turning a corner in front of her. She narrowed her eyes as Raphael began to run again. She could tell he was tired. His breathing strained and course as it left his lungs. He slowed at the end of the alleyway as Sam ran over to him. He cried into the air slamming his sais down on the pavement below him.

"Raph, what happened to Leo?" She asked as Raphael didn't look up at her. His shoulders raising and falling harsh with his breathing he tried to catch. She shook him as his body trembled. She glared at him slapping him across the face, trying to break him out of whatever shock he was in. "Raphael! Where is Leonardo?! What happened!?" Sam demanded as he continued his glare on the cement under him. She lifted his head as his eyes were dizzy, unable to focus on her. She sighed in aggravation, looking behind her at the fading lights of the truck.

I just wanna say in my own opinion that Leonardo's performance in TMNT 2007 is beautiful! Who can't agree that even for a CGI animated turtle...that scene is hoootttttt...like whoa! wooo...anyways!! Just thought I'd share that.

chapter 22 coming soon!