Leo had the constant job of babysitting Donny's twins every day. Splinter was usually helping him out, and sometimes Don or one of the other two would stay and help out.
As much as Leo loved Akemi and Virgil, he was really longing for a break, just to get out of the lair. But being so far along in his pregnancy, this posed a big problem for him.
At week twenty nine, the baby measured about 11 inches from crown to rump, or a total length of about 15 inches from head to heel, and weighed about 2.5 pounds.
Nearly ten more weeks left to go, and Leo was just longing for it to be done and over with. He wanted his body back to normal. He was tired of restrictions, but at least he wasn't confined to bed rest. But Don did advise him to try to relax as much as possible.
The movements of Junior had become much more forceful, and could often take Leo's breath away, just like as if he had been kicked in the gut by an enemy. But space inside the womb in his belly had become cramped.
Leo continued to talk to the baby, had started reading to it, and playing music to it. And even his family was doing their fair share of talking to it too.
As the baby was getting bigger, the family could see that Leo was just getting more and more miserable. It mostly stemmed from having little to no sleep at night when the baby was inside him having a 'party.' And Donny knew exactly what he was going through. Don, in his mind, thought that Leo had it a little easier than he had, considering Don had carried twins.
The family did want to cheer Leo up. Maybe getting him out of the lair would help. Don suggested having a baby shower for Leo. It would be a perfect party day, and they had at least 10 weeks to do it before Junior arrived.
They began planning immediately. They already knew that one of the baby cradles would be used while the baby was still small, as the twins were now sleeping in cribs.
And also because during all this time of being pregnant, Leo still hadn't come up with any names and the family was thinking of helping out.
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Bishop and Karai had sent members of their teams out to look for the turtles. The plan was to get all of Leo's brothers, so that way, if Leonardo were to try to hide his pregnancy from them by sending his brothers in his place, it wouldn't work and he would have to come himself if he wanted to save them. But either way, the villains were wanting their turtles.
Bishop wanted their bodies in perfect shape so he could run the tests on them to determine how they were getting pregnant. Raph and Mike's bodies would be looked at too for comparisons.
Karai had been a bit irritated that Bishop wasn't going to just take the baby out of Leonardo right away and let her have him, but Bishop was clear he wanted the baby perfectly developed. And so Leonardo would be keeping the baby inside of him until he went into labor.
The humans were on alert all the time, but at night they were more vigilant looking for any of the turtles.
Karai knew a good place to start was definitely watching April's place.
Tonight, Raph and Mikey were spotted patrolling by the Foot clan down in midtown. It was an instant order to attack them and bring them in.
Donny had stayed home to try to comfort Leo, who was very tired of staying at home.
The Foot swarmed around the two turtles, who immediately took out nunchuks and sais. Some commandos were also laying in wait with tranquilizers to make transport easier. But first, they were to let the Foot soldiers tire Raph and Mikey out a bit.
Practically the whole Foot clan was there, and managed to separate Mike and Raph.
Raph loved the challenge of fighting these losers, and Mikey needed to lose some of his pent up energy, but even they knew when too much was enough.
It wasn't too much longer before the two brother turtles were breathing hard and trying to regroup so they could get away from their enemies. That's when the commandos stepped in and fired some darts into them, taking them down quickly.
Raph and Mikey fought the effects, but it was no use; they went under. Then they were taken down to a transport truck to be brought back to headquarters. They were transported to Bishop's base as opposed to the Foot's, as the turtles always knew where Karai's business was. Bishop was often harder to locate. It was still in New York, but on the outskirts of it.
The shell cells were taken off of Raph and Mikey, and taken to Foot headquarters. There, they would come up with a plan to get Don out into the open by calling him. Karai knew that impersonating April's voice would be a good way to draw him over there, and then, Leo would have to notice sooner or later that his brothers weren't coming home.
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Raph and Mikey were both put into separate cells when they arrived at Bishop's base. Some restraints were put on them both so they wouldn't attack anyone who came into their rooms if needed. Bishop wanted as minimal contact with them as possible, though he would feed them intermittently while waiting for Leonardo to be brought to him.
Karai had designed a new voice disguiser to sound like April. She would call Don's phone. She now had one of the phones in her hand and she looked up the numbers. She didn't want to get the wrong person on the line. She found Don's number and dialed it.
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Don was up in the garage, trying to add some finishing touches on some upgrades for the Battle Shell when his phone began ringing. He hoped there wasn't trouble. He went to pick it up.
When the phone opened, the ID on it said it was coming from Raph.
"Hi Raph." Don said. "What's going on?"
Karai was pleased that he had picked up, but she didn't have a voice disguiser for the hotheaded brother, yet.
"Hello, uh, Donatello." She said.
"April?" Don said.
"Yes. It's me, April. Raphael has let me use his phone as mine has broken. He and Michelangelo stopped over here for some fun. But I must ask you if you could come over to fix my toilet. It broke." Karai fake talked to him.
Don felt something was sketchy here. April called them by their whole names very rarely. But he knew she needed a working toilet.
"What's wrong with it exactly?" He was trying to determine.
"It won't flush. Something in the pipe is clogged up." She said. "And it's leaking."
"Uh, ok. I'll be over shortly. Just let me grab some supplies first." Don said.
"Thank you. I expect you over shortly, Donatello." The fake April said and hung up.
Karai smiled. He had actually fallen for her trap!
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Don went about grabbing the supplies into a duffel bag, and then took the elevator down to the lair to inform Leo that he was going to April's.
Leo was watching a program with Master Splinter right now out of sheer boredom.
Don came over in front of them. "April just called me to come over and fix her toilet. It has a clogged and leaking pipe. I am just letting you know where I am going."
Leo looked up at his brother. "You want me to come with?"
"No. Not this time, Leo. You had better stay here. You'll be bored while I'm just there to fix the toilet." Don said.
"Thanks for letting us know, Donatello." Splinter said.
Don then went back to the garage, got in the truck and drove out.
Leo had watched his brother go. He just wanted out of the lair. Now he was stuck here by himself again, though with Splinter, babysitting. That's how it seemed most of the time.
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Some Foot soldiers stealthily broke into April's building and attacked her as she answered a knock at her door. "Hey! What's the meaning of this?!" She asked as she fought the turtles' enemies.
None answered her and she was easily bundled into her bedroom, tied up and gagged.
Now, all they had to do was wait for Donatello to arrive.
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It didn't take Don long to get there. He parked in the back of the store and went up the fire escape. It was a better way of going in than waiting on the ground floor to be let in.
Don knocked on April's window to let her know he was there. There was no answer. "April. It's Don. I'm here." He said.
Still no answer.
That was weird. Don now opened her window. Could she have been in the basement? But if she knew he was coming, then why wasn't she up here?
"April?" He called out.
No answer.
"What's going on here?" Don questioned the air.
Then a bunch of Foot ninja filed of April's bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and exit doorway. Don sensed he had been set up.
"Well, well, well. Look what we've got here. A freak." A ninja said.
Don got into a defensive pose. "And Foot creeps who are going to get a major ninja beat down!" He snarked back at them, taking out his Bo.
"Get him!"
The ninjas immediately attacked the turtle.
Don didn't hesitate to attack them. He hated destroying April's home again, but he was alone and he didn't have much choice. They were coming at him constantly.
"Where's April?!" He demanded sharply.
No one answered him, but kept coming at him.
Eventually, Don saw an opening and ran out of the door and down the stairs. He had to get to the Battle Shell. But there were ninjas waiting down there for him too.
This fight felt like it had the first time the Foot had attacked April's place, after Leo had been returned to them very injured.
And then some Purple Dragons came onto the scene too. Don knew he was severely outnumbered, but he wasn't going down without a fight.
A commando came in with a tranq gun. He waited patiently for the right moment.
Soon, Donny was beginning to get tired. The ninjas and Dragons had virtually destroyed the shop and April's living quarters, again. But Don had had no choice.
The humans gave Don a mild breather by backing away from him. He was panting hard, but he still had his Bo out in front of him. He watched them warily.
Then, out of nowhere, Don felt a sharp sting in his left shoulder. He gave a small wince and pulled the needle out.
"Oh no!" He knew immediately that it had to be a tranquilizer dart. He knew he was in trouble, and he had to get out of here, but it wouldn't take long to take effect on him.
Don tried looking for a way out, but there were too many enemies in his way. He began stumbling about trying to get out to the back door, but he was knocked down by a big boned Purple Dragon.
He was out the second he hit the floor.
"We have Agent Bishop's turtle, now we just need to get the last turtle." The lead ninja said.
Donatello was also taken back to Bishop's base, after he had been stripped of his duffel bag, Bo and phone. He, like Raph and Mikey, was put into a cell and restrained.
It shouldn't be too much longer that Leonardo would notice his brothers weren't coming home; the perfect way to bring him out of hiding.
Edited by Darkunderworld.
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