Leo panicked as soon as he felt himself wake. His head was not tucked into his emerald turtle but was instead resting on a pillow. He bolted upright and moved back until his shell hit the wall behind him.

"You slept there alone," Usagi said dryly, his hands raised in his own defense from where he sat across the unfamiliar bedroom.

Leo looked down at his wrists. He may have been placed in a comfortable bed, but one wrist was still chained to the headboard. The other wrist wore a metal bracelet that he immediately began trying to remove.

"You won't be able to remove that without the key," Usagi said. He watched Leonardo as he continued to struggle with the bracelet anyway. "I wanted a chance to speak with you without your clan interfering. So I had a friend of mine create that bracelet. It's an identity disruptor."

Leo froze his movements and slowly raised his eyes to Usagi.

Usagi watched Leo's face to see if he understood what that meant. He smiled when he realized Leo did, but went on to explain it anyway. He was quite proud of this idea after all. "I'm afraid Donatello's interdimensional search machine won't be able to find you as long as you're wearing that. It blocks your identity's personal signal."

Leo went cold. "Have we left your dimension?" he asked in a low voice.

Usagi smiled and nodded. "They're sure to start looking for you and Casey there first. And then who knows how long it will even take them to realize that you are not in that dimension before they go home and turn that machine on? Not that it will help. How long do you think they'll let the machine run before they give up?"

A chill ran down Leo's spine as he saw how pleased Usagi was with himself.

"Usagi," he said in a dark voice, "you need to take me home."

Usagi crossed his arms and leaned back in his chair, but he didn't respond.

Leo glared back at him as he thought about what Usagi had said so far. "Is Casey here?"

Usagi shook his head. "I had no further need for him. And I'm sure they'll find him when they're looking for you," Usagi said, "so, no need to concern yourself with him further."

"Did you force him to call me?"

"He was kind enough to make that phone call for me."

"Why would he do that?" Leo asked, fearing he already knew the answer to that question as well.

"I may have had that small dark-haired woman that you added to your group hostage as an incentive."

"Do you still have her?"

"Not anymore," Usagi said. He stared back at Leo again, refusing to say more.

Leo did his best to keep his breathing under control. "Usagi, you have to take me home. This is ridiculous."

"Not ridiculous," Usagi said with a frown. "This took quite a lot of planning, aided by the fact that you walked right into my dimension-,"

"For reasons that have nothing to do with you or the resistance," Leo growled.

Usagi frowned again and tipped his head. "It is interesting to me that you know of my connection to the resistance group. Although, given your intelligence, I'm not really surprised that you made the connection." He let his eyes roam over the blue-eyed turtle. He wished now that he'd thought to have the blue mask removed when Leonardo had been brought in. It reminded Usagi too much of the Hamato clan and he decided that once Leonardo agreed to stay, he would persuade him to remove it and start fresh.

Leo glared back at the leering rabbit. Usagi didn't know that he knew about Usagi's connection to the resistance thanks to Suzu and he wasn't about to tell him that they'd found Suzu or that she'd told them quite a bit about Usagi's recent activities.

"How long have I been here?" Leo asked, deciding it would be best if he changed the subject.

"Your clan must have been running you ragged," Usagi said with a disapproving shake of his head. "You've been asleep since we picked you up last night."

"I was tired because I was up all night after you had Raphael poisoned," Leo growled at him.

"It is important for you to know that we will not treat you as poorly as the Hamato clan has treated you. I will not let you be overworked. You will be well-fed and allowed to rest," Usagi said, ignoring the statement about Raphael. "Speaking of, it is time for dinner and you must be hungry. I will let the chef know you are awake and request your meal."

Leo jerked his chained wrist forward and shook the headboard in the process. "Usagi, stop!" he growled as Usagi stood and headed for the bedroom door. "You can't keep me here like this!"

Usagi paused by the door, immediately concerned that Leonardo was upset. "Do not worry, Leonardo. It will not always be like this. I'm sure after we talk, and you agree that staying here would be best for you, you'll be free to move about as you please."

"I will never agree to that," Leo growled.

Usagi smiled a sad smile in his direction, certain that Leonardo was just in a sad state of denial, before he turned and left the room.

Once alone, Leo allowed the ragged, panicked breaths to escape his lungs as he began to fight with the chain imprisoning him. His katana were gone, which was to be expected, but his belt had been removed as well, which meant he didn't currently have anything on him to help pick the lock.

He fought against the chain until he began to sweat and his wrist was bruised and swollen, all while replaying his last memories of the day before. He remembered trying to rest with Raphael – Raphael was going to kill him for being turtlenapped again – before he received Casey's phone call. He had landed outside the arena to pick up Casey, who was nowhere in sight, and he'd been quickly surrounded by a wolf pack. He remembered fighting. But he had been severely outnumbered. And exhausted. And he had been no match for the taser they pulled.

He stopped struggling and let his shoulders droop as he glanced around the bedroom. The furniture was sparse. There were two windows, and even with the darkness, he could see that he was up on the second level of this building and there were only trees visible outside.

He pulled his shoulders back as he heard footsteps approach in the hallway and then glared at both Usagi and the wolf carrying his meal as they entered the room. The wolf set a plate of food down at the end of the bed as Usagi took his seat again.

Leo quickly snatched up the plate and flung it, hitting the retreating wolf squarely in the back of his head. The newly unconscious wolf slumped to the ground.

"Let me go," he growled at Usagi with a glare.

Usagi made a tsking noise, although it was aimed at the crumpled wolf. "He needs some work, huh? Not to have heard that plate coming?" He turned and eyed the food which was now spread across the room. "Is this your way of expressing that you are not currently hungry?"

"I'm not eating your food," Leo snarled at him.

"You know, Leonardo, the first time the resistance abducted you, I believe their mistake was in treating you like a prisoner. We are doing our best to make you comfortable."

"Let. Me. Go."

"I was thinking about what might make you more comfortable, and I realized that you really only need two things. Family and something to keep you occupied. And since I promised the resistance group that we would get Akito and Machi and their special abilities on our side, having them join you here with me is really just a win win. We can even bring my ungrateful nieces and nephews into the group. And, I'm fully willing to let you take over training the wolves. We can even turn them to the side of good if you'd like. As long as you're here, I really don't have a preference for what they do," he said dismissively.

"Why do you think I would agree to any of that?" Leo asked.

"Because I have paid very close attention to your history and I remember when Karai, daughter of Shredder, was determined to destroy you and your father. And yet, now she's considered a family member. And you have actually worked with her on a daily basis to train The Foot clan to do good deeds. The Foot clan, Leonardo. If you'd like to put the Hamato name on the wolves, go for it. They're really rather stupid creatures and probably won't even realize that you've changed their names."

Leo stared hard at him and wondered how it was that he'd ever considered Usagi a good friend. Surely he wasn't always this callous. He watched Usagi's eyes travel over him again and ordered himself not to visibly shudder. He glared down at the bracelet on his wrist. It was such a small band of metal considering Usagi's claim that it would block Raphael's ability to find him this time.

The wolf on the floor, who Leo had already forgotten about, began to rouse and slowly lifted himself from the floor. He rubbed the back of his head and sent Leo a glare, which he quickly dropped when Usagi cleared his throat. The wolf left and pulled the door shut behind him.

"I want you to seriously consider my offer, Leonardo. I'd prefer that you agree to it willingly, without requiring me to employ threats."

"So you're going to threaten me?"

"I will not harm you," Usagi said.

Leo glared back at him as the implication that Usagi would threaten his family was clear.

"I'll let you have some time alone to think, plus I'm sure you could use more rest," Usagi said. "But I have brought you to this dimension for a reason. I already have a mission lined up for the two of us here."

He let his eyes roam over the turtle once more before he left the room.

"I'm gonna kill ya."

Casey was jerked out of his sleep as Raphael took only a moment to cut the ropes that had kept him tied to a chair before he heaved Casey up and slammed him into the closest wall.

"I'm sorry, man!" Casey yelped, flailing his arms out to the sides, "Usagi and those damn wolves had Mona!"

Casey looked behind Raph to Donnie and Mikey for support but both brothers only ducked their heads.

It had been Donnie's idea to check the rooms they'd stayed in during Machi's competition, but the discovery that he'd been correct about Casey's possible location was tampered by the fact that Leo was nowhere in sight. Not to mention the guilt he felt concerning Leo's disappearance. He knew he should've gone with Leo when he'd seen how tired his big brother had looked. Raphael had already ripped him a new one earlier for aiding Leo's jump to another dimension by himself when he'd woken Raphael to alert him that Leo had been gone longer than expected.

"We could've gone together to get Mona back without you fucking handing Leo right to them on a silver fucking platter," Raph roared at him.

"Where is Mona now?" Donnie ventured to ask.

"I don't know," Casey said. "I haven't been free to look for her," indicating the ropes that had now pooled on the floor around his chair.

"So they could still have her?" Donnie asked.

"They don't."

The four of them turned at the sound of Mona's voice as she entered the main room. She ducked her eyes as she felt them all glare at her. She was by now well aware of what had been happening. But she was also doing her best to fix it. She opened her mouth but was cut off when Raphael began growling again.

"Well thank goodness you didn't hand Leo over for nothin," he said sarcastically.

"It wasn't my intention to hand Leo over," Casey growled back. He scowled at Raph even though he knew he shouldn't.

"I have something -," Mona tried to say.

"Yer gonna rip off my arm."

Raph let go of Casey and left Casey to rub at his sore shoulder as he stalked away to the other side of the room. He would find Leo and he would bring him home. That thought should calm him. But it didn't, because Leo had confessed to him that he did not feel strong around the rabbit. It tore at him to think that Leo was currently trapped with the one creature capable of actually unnerving his mate.

If given the chance, Raphael was going to rip that rabbit apart.

Mikey looked between Donnie, who was acting seriously guilty, and Raphael, who was currently panting in anger. "We don't know where to look for the wolves," he said slowly, doing his best to channel Leo and come up with their next step. "Do you think the bunnies or their mother would lead us to Usagi?"

"Here," Mona finally yelled to get their attention as she pulled Lenape into the room from the hallway. When she'd first separated from the Hamatos, she'd run right into Lenape. She could see a similarity to Leo, but this blue-eyed turtle's eyes were friendly instead of scary and she'd spent the rest of the night talking and laughing with him. As a human, it was clear she was connected to the Hamato clan, but she didn't realize Lenape's connection to the resistance group Casey had warned her about until the next morning when she'd been ripped from Lenape's room and held hostage to force Casey to do as the large white rabbit demanded.

Once Casey agreed to do as they asked, she'd been hidden away. Tied up in another room. But Lenape had found her and freed her. He'd apologized profusely and had offered to help the Hamatos.

"Tell them," she said to Lenape as everyone finally looked over at them.

Lenape took in the turtle brothers and felt the urge to pull into his shell as he caught the red-masked turtle glaring at him. Finally, he said, "Usagi has taken Leonardo to another dimension. I don't know which one. I just know that you're going to waste your time looking for him here. And Usagi is counting on that."

"We need to go home," Mikey said, looking to Donnie. "We'll turn the machine on -,"

"And I'm afraid you're not going to be able to track him this time," Lenape added quickly, trying to spare them before their combined hope could rise too quickly.

After a few hours, Leo's eyes had begrudgingly closed and he fell asleep against the wall while still upright.

His dreams brought him Raphael. Bright green eyes in the darkness. Strong emerald arms. Raph's fingers trailing over his skin.

His eyes shot open when he realized that actual fingers were trailing over his arms. His entire body flinched and he immediately kicked the white rabbit hard enough to knock him immediately off the bed.

"Get the fuck away from me," Leo said with a loud growl as he felt his skin literally crawl.

Usagi frowned. Cursing did not suit Leonardo and was no doubt Raphael's influence.

"Leonardo," he replied calmly, picking himself up from the floor. "I told you I do not wish to treat you like a prisoner. But if you insist on attacking me, I will be forced to obtain more restraints for those impressively strong legs of yours."

Leo's loud ragged breaths were hurting his own ears as he glared at the white fur in the darkness. He immediately began struggling against his chained wrist once again.

Usagi sighed and left the room.

Leo continued to struggle with his wrist shackle but froze a moment later when a new noise caught his attention. His chest tightened as he immediately feared that it was Usagi returning with additional chains. But a repeat of the noise brought his attention to one of the windows and he held his breath as he watched it slowly slide open.

A large red fox quietly moved through the window and landed silently on the floor.

Leo didn't make a sound. He just watched as the stranger glanced around the darkened room until he was finally spotted.

"Want to get out of here?" the fox whispered to the turtle.