Raph was woken by something landing on him. He automatically grabbed the thing, blinking heavy eyes.
"What-"
"Raph? Raph, catch Leo!"
The fear in Donnie's voice -along with the instructions to catch a brother- snapped Raph awake. He rolled Donnie to one side and reached up, just as the gleaming blue portal winked out of sight.
Raph blinked at the ceiling of his room. His sluggish thoughts caught up to his actions, and he looked quickly down at Donnie laying against one of his arms.
"Donnie! What are you doing here?"
Raph sat up, trying to keep from jostling Donnie, who was pale and breathing harshly. Small lumps of white-gray stuff littered his plastron. Why was Donnie out of bed? And had he fallen out of the portal? If he had, then why…
Raph looked around. "Leo!"
"He followed me," Donnie said raggedly. "He was right behind me!"
Raph's waking thoughts slammed to a halt. "He what? What did you do, Donnie?!"
"I found the disruptor you all lost!" Donnie snapped. The anger vanished from his face as quickly as it had come. "But something attacked us and Leo made a portal-"
Donnie broke off with a grunt when Raph scrambled out of bed. Raph stabilized him, but ran from the room as fast as his legs would carry him.
"Mikey! Pops! April! Everyone, wake up!"
April, who was spending the night in the room they'd made up for her years ago, was the first to appear. Splinter was next, and Mikey stumbled out of his room last. Raph roared over their questions.
"Leo's in trouble!" Lowering his voice to a normal volume, Raph then asked Donnie, "Where is he, Donnie?"
"He's… we were…" Donnie's eyes widened. He whispered, "I… I don't know."
"How do you not know?!"
"I was following the trail and wasn't paying attention. Leo was reading the signs."
"Well, Leo's not here!" Having reached the living room, Raph unceremoniously deposited Donnie on the table. Quivering with anger at his stubborn brother, Raph asked, "Do you remember anything besides your dumb device?"
"The river," Donnie said meekly. "Go to the alley where we found the disruptor, then head toward the river."
It wasn't much to go on, but it was better than nothing. Raph looked at the others.
"Mikey, April, get your gear. Pops, stay here with Donnie. And Donnie," Raph glared down at him, "Don't move a muscle."
Donnie's nod was little more than a twitch.
Raph ran back to his room and put on his gear in record time. When he returned to the living room, April was taking Donnie's goggles from his head while Donnie spoke.
"The mutant has spider properties and left a trail of webs that have mystic energy for some reason." Donnie shifted a bit, hissing between his teeth. "Follow the webs. In the alleys."
April nodded to Donnie, then Raph. Once Mikey joined them, Raph turned his back on Donnie and ran for the exit.
The trio took the Shell Hogs, April doubling with Mikey in front while Raph followed behind them. They returned to the alley where the disruptor had originally been lost and looked around until April spotted mystic energy across the street.
April studied the material as they got close. Donnie had said they would follow a trail of webs, and the size of the web wad made her shudder.
"Where next, April?" Raph asked.
April glanced at him, concerned by Raph's silence and the glare that hadn't left his face. It was strange to see Raph so angry, especially at Donnie.
Not to say that Donnie didn't deserve it. If Donnie hadn't already been in such obvious pain, April would have hit him for pulling such a stupid stunt. Of all the ways Donnie could have reacted to figuring out that the disruptor was still missing, he'd chosen literally the worst option.
April resumed following the trail, but her mind was still on Donnie.
At least Leo had gone after Donnie. April wondered why he hadn't woken anyone else. Then again, he probably hadn't been expecting an enemy to show up.
And he'd forgotten any of his gear. Donnie could have tracked Leo if Leo had remembered his phone, but Donnie said Leo had followed with only his sword. And Donnie's own battle shell and bo staff had been broken by the mutant, so Donnie hadn't been able to track those, either.
April shouldn't have had to worry about Leo. He wasn't hurt like Donnie. He could fight and defend himself. Except, why hadn't he escaped through the portal as well?
Maybe he'd stayed back to get the disruptor. It was a nice thought, but April wasn't betting too hard on it. The mutant had ruined Donnie's battle shell, which was just as hard as his brothers' shells. Leo was too smart to stick around against that thing by himself.
Between navigating the cluttered alleys and having to stop every block, following the web trail was painfully slow. Nobody talked, worried over Leo's absence.
Eventually, the search ground to a halt. April gaped at the mess of webs sprayed across the alley walls. Huge claw marks scored the ground and walls.
Then April spotted a familiar shape deep in the alley. She pushed up Donnie's goggles for a better look as Raph abruptly jumped off his Shell Hog and ran into the alley. Feeling sick, April scrambled to follow him.
Raph shoved aside an empty dumpster and grabbed something that had been hidden underneath. He shook the battered device spilling wires at Mikey.
"Mikey, this isn't-"
"It is," Mikey gulped. "The disruptor."
With a sick feeling in her stomach, April looked past Raph toward the shape she'd seen from outside the alley. She flicked on her flashlight, drawing Raph and Mikey's attention toward the shape as well. Raph walked slowly past her, and April numbly followed.
It was Leo's sword, flecked with blood and laying beside a broken lump of web.
"Leo…"
Raph fell to his knees and grabbed the odachi. He stared at it for a long minute in silence before his shoulders hunched. He threw back his head with a roar.
"Leo, where are you?!"
On the plus side, the spider-cat was strong enough to break Leo free with one swipe. On the not-so-plus side, the force of Leo's leg breaking free had caused a bolt of hot pain, so intense that Leo had instantly blacked out.
Leo was a bit surprised to wake up, if he was being honest. He might have thought he was dead, except his leg hurt too much for that. Anticipating the spider-cat over him, Leo slowly opened his eyes.
He laid in the bottom of a small, steep hollow made of… garbage. Leo turned his head to the side and stared at the moldy inside of an old can. Wilted lettuce leaves and a bent bike tire on his other side. There wasn't any sign of the spider-cat.
Leo lifted one arm at a time. His left arm was scored with shallow scratches, but nothing serious. His shell felt intact. His leg hurt, but Leo just smiled and rolled onto his side to stand.
Hot, blinding pain shot from his right leg made Leo's arms go limp. He fell down with a bit-back cry of pain. Spots danced across his vision, but Leo couldn't let himself pass out. He closed his eyes and focused on each breath until the urge to pass out had gone. Then he opened one eye and peeked at his hurting leg.
"That, uh… that's not supposed to bend that way, is it?"
Nobody answered, obviously. Leo looked nervously around, wondering where the spider-cat had gone. And where Donnie had gone. The portal had taken him to Raph, right? Raph was always easiest to portal to because he was always safe, but…
"Nope, not doing that. Donnie doubts enough for both of us."
Maybe talking out loud while he was hurt and alone wasn't the best idea, but Leo was jittery with nerves. He didn't know where he was and his lower leg had just gained a whole new joint. If the spider-cat didn't show up soon, Leo might have to take his chances and yell until someone heard him. He'd take any kind of help… unless it was from one of the villains.
Leo grimaced, recognizing his lack of options. He'd seen enough alley cats to know why the spider-cat had left him alone. It wasn't hungry enough yet. And for his sake, Leo hoped it would stay not hungry.
"It's just you either way, Leo," Leo told himself. "If I can just grab… my odachi!"
Leo looked quickly around, mentally kicking himself for not thinking of it sooner. Not that it mattered, though. His odachi was gone. He'd probably dropped it in the alley.
Leo forced his gaze back down to his broken leg. Painfully swollen and bruised, Leo's leg had turned purple, streaked with red scratches, from his knee to his ankle.
"This is fine. It'll be fine. I just need a crutch or something. Right. And to splint it."
Which meant putting his leg straight by himself. Leo gagged at the thought.
It wasn't the first time Leo had broken a bone, but breaking bones was rare for the brothers. One of the side effects of the mutation had resulted in incredibly hard bones that were very hard to break.
Plus, he'd had his brothers with him last time. Mikey had reset the bone, Donnie had made a splint, and Raph had carried him home. But this time, Leo was going to have to do all three steps on his own. While also being the patient.
Leo scanned for supplies within arm's reach. Donnie used his bo staff -separated in the middle- as a splint whenever it was needed, but Leo didn't have that. All he had was a broken bike tire and an old couch cushion.
Leo dragged the cushion closer and laid his head on it. As long as he was miserable and trying to think, he might as well be comfortable, right?
While Leo wracked his brain for some idea, he became aware of a quiet sound. He sat up, angling his head curiously.
That was water. The spider-cat had been headed toward the river earlier, so that meant Leo was probably at the river. Surrounded by garbage… it was the dump Mikey had mentioned.
"I can figure things out," Leo said in satisfaction. "I'm going to have to tell Raph that… once I figure out how to get back to the lair… or I could wait."
The way Leo figured it, he had three things he was waiting for. Donnie would tell Raph where Leo was and that could bring Leo's brothers to the rescue. Or the spider-cat could come along and eat him. Or, if enough time passed, the dump workers might come and find Leo. That could be either good or bad, but Leo preferred a few panicked people over the spider-cat.
Leo looked at his broken leg and the dried blood on the scrapes. How long had he been out? Donnie did know where they'd been, right? Then again, even if the others found the right alley, how would they find where Leo was now?
"Nope, not doing that, not now," Leo scolded himself. "I'll get out of here, and I'll hide until the search party comes."
One thing that came from growing up with a big brother like Raph: Leo knew how to hide from something bigger than him. How many games of tag or sparring had Leo come out untouched because he knew the best nooks and crannies that kept him out of Raph's reach? Raph always said it didn't count in sparring, but the trick of ninjas was their ability to hide, right?
Leo looked around the hollow, but there weren't any gaps in the garbage. If he could get outside the hollow, though…
Leo grimaced at the thought, but he didn't exactly have many options. There was a pretty high chance that waiting would mean becoming mutant spider-cat chow, so he would have to deal with dragging a broken leg around.
Terrible options.
"But all I have." Leo looked back up the hollow. "I was hoping Raph and Mikey would be here by now." Leo grumbled, "Looks like I'm rescuing myself. Great. Okay, all I need is two straight things and something to tie with…"
Leo sat quickly upright, then froze with a hiss of pain. He shakily grabbed the broken bike tire and dragged it closer. Upon closer inspection, Leo could see the spokes of the tire were rusty, especially where they connected to the tire. One hard jerk was all it took to break them free, and Leo soon had a dozen spokes piled beside him.
"Something to tie… oh, duh!"
Leo took off his mask and put it beside the spokes. Would it be enough? Probably not.
Leo took the pillow from behind him and inspected it until he found a tear in the material. He stuck one finger inside and pulled. The cloth tore slightly, so Leo set at it with his fingers and even his teeth when he reached the seams. Half a pillow later, Leo had some strips of cloth.
"Now for the easy part." Leo chuckled nervously as he eyed his broken leg. "This'll be fun."
With a good deal of prodding and trying to not black out, Leo got his leg straight again. Leo lined the spokes on either side and on top of his leg, then got the rags under his leg by putting them under his knee and sliding them down toward his foot. He tied the rags as tightly as he could, then looped his mask under his foot and tied it to the lowest rag to keep his foot as stable as possible.
Leo was sweating by the time he was done, but there wasn't time to stop. Bracing his shaking hands behind his back, Leo dragged himself backward. The pain made him flinch, but the improvised brace did its job. He grit his teeth and kept going until he was at the base of the slope.
"Nah, this is the easy part," Leo said, tiredly gazing up the incline.
Before Leo could start to climb, there was a shifting sound from above. Leo perked up, but immediately slumped when an oversized, furry head appeared. The spider-cat hissed, not happy that its prey was trying to escape.
Leo scowled. "I know you can't hear me, but I hate you right now, Donnie."
Raph's voice suddenly yelled, "Join the club!"
Raph leaped over the hollow, his mystic arms flying out to punch the spider-cat in the face. Both vanished out of sight of the hollow with a loud thud and yowling.
"Raph!" Mikey appeared atop the hollow. He spotted Leo and his face lit up. "Leo! You weren't eaten!"
"I almost was!" Leo said with a relieved laugh as his little brother slid down. "What took you guys so long?"
"We had to follow the trail, then we lost it where you lost your odachi. Here, by the way. Think you can make a portal back to the lair?"
Leo accepted his sword back with a wince. "Sorry, bro…"
Mikey shrugged. "Raph can carry you back."
The brother in question suddenly yelled and rolled into the hollow, his arms stuck to his side with webs and his tonfa missing.
"Mikey, run!" Raph yelled.
"But-"
The spider-cat's head reared into view. Its mouth opened, prompting Leo to react. He grabbed Mikey and stabbed his odachi into the ground, one thought in his mind.
"Away!"
Blue swallowed them up and spat them out. Leo thrust out his arms and good leg, tumbling awkwardly a few feet before he slid to a stop, broken leg still out straight.
"Hah, score!" Leo said, thrusting his arms up.
"Le-eo!" Mikey squealed.
Leo tilted his head back to see the spider-cat's tail whipping behind him.
"Just rain on my parade, why don't you?" Leo muttered.
The spider-cat angled its head and caught sight of the two in one back eye. It growled in anticipation and turned, lowering its head with a hiss. Before it could take a step, a tennis ball hit it in the cheek.
"Hey!" April yelled as she picked up another tennis ball from her feet. "Pick on something your own size!"
The spider-cat snarled and leaped! April barely dodged a swipe of its claws. She quickly batted another tennis ball against the spider-cat's nose.
"What did I just say?!"
"April, watch out!" Leo yelled.
April dodged the webs, but it put her right in the path of the spider-cat's paw. It slapped her hard, sending her tumbling across the garbage.
"April!" Mikey yelped. "Leo, stay here!"
"But-"
Mikey raced away while Leo stared helplessly. Mikey grabbed April with his fundo and yanked her to safety, but the two of them could dodge for only so long. They needed Raph and to get out-
Leo's eyes fell on Raph's missing tonfa. He'd portalled right beside them! Leo grabbed them, then, with a glance at Mikey and April distracting the spider-cat, Leo turned to the hollow.
Leo grimaced, then dug the tip of his odachi into the garbage and used it to haul himself to his feet. He wavered, gasping when his broken foot touched the ground, but he forced himself to take a step. There would be time for dizziness later. Awkwardly, much too slowly, Leo reached the top of the hollow.
"Raph! Catch!"
Years of basketball really paid off, as Leo threw Raph's tonfa so they landed right beside his trapped hands. Raph grabbed one, then ripped himself free with one mystic arm. He grabbed the other one and charged up the hill.
"Stay here!" Raph ordered as he ran past Leo.
"Because I'm totally going- Mikey!"
Mikey, his kusari coiled around four of the spider-cat's paws, barely ducked a swipe from a fifth paw. The sixth snaked past him, slapping Mikey so hard that he flew five feet before crashing against the ground. The spider-cat licked its lips and raised a paw, ignoring April frantically hitting its tail with her bat.
"Mikey!" Raph yelled.
Leo yanked up his odachi. "Come on, come on-"
Mechanical arms sliced downward, smacking the spider-cat's paw to the ground with enough force that it overbalanced and fell on its side. Mikey stumbled to his feet, clutching a long cut on one arm.
"Donnie?" said the brothers, looking up.
Shelldon, Donnie's battle shell attached crookedly to his back, made a buzzer noise. "Guess again, bros!"
The spider-cat yanked its paws free and spat. Shelldon dropped quickly, so the webs flew over him and splattered into a puddle.
With the spider-cat distracted, Mikey scrambled past it to April. Both started tugging on April's feet, which were webbed to the ground.
Raph leaped with a roar and smashed a fist against the spider-cat's face, breaking the cracked tusk the rest of the way and sending the mutant flat. Then, glaring at Shelldon, Raph grabbed the broken disruptor from his belt and threw it at the robot. Shelldon caught it in one claw.
"There, now you can get out of here!" Raph snapped before turning back to the rising, hissing spider-cat.
"Woah, rude," Shelldon grumbled. "A thank you would be nice."
"I know Donnie only sent you to make sure his disruptor was found, so there it is!"
Leo winced at Raph's unexpected anger. "Raph, is now really the time?"
"It's the perfect time!"
It really wasn't. Distracted by yelling at Shelldon, Raph didn't dodge fast enough from a wad of webs. The webs stuck his legs together so he fell to the ground. Worse, he dropped his tonfa as he fell, and promptly had his hands webbed to the ground!
"Oh, great, Mikey, run!" Leo yelled.
Mikey flinched halfway around before a wad of webs knocked him over. He yelped and tried to rise with his arms stuck to his sides, but couldn't before the spider-cat webbed his legs to the ground.
Leo looked frantically around for an idea. His eyes landed on the sodden web lump in the puddle. Struck by an idea, Leo forgot about his leg and took a step. He bit down on a cry of pain, but his leg gave out and he hit the ground hard. Thrusting himself to his elbows, Leo stabbed his odachi into the webs.
They were still soft.
"Shelldon!" Leo yelled, rolling quickly over to avoid a wad of webs spat at him. "Get the spider-cat into the river!"
"What?"
Thankful Shelldon had actually stuck around, Leo repeated himself. "The river!"
"Ohhh, cause spiders and cats don't like water!" Mikey said.
Leo didn't bother to correct him. Shelldon, blaring out a battle cry, zipped into the spider-cat's face. The spider-cat hissed angrily and spat. When Shelldon dodged, it jumped after him.
Using his odachi as a crutch, Leo skip-hopped after the furious spider-cat. He scanned the garbage along the river's edge, eyes landing on a board extending over the water.
"There, Shelldon!"
Shelldon shot into the air and spun in a circle to see where Leo was pointing. "I'm on it!"
Shelldon flew away, dodging and spiraling to lead the spider-cat closer to the water. It snarled and spat, swiping at Shelldon to no avail.
"Come on," Leo thought as he dropped beside a garbage truck near the bank. "One more big jump!"
The spider-cat snarled and dropped into a low crouch. Shelldon taunted it by dropping inches from its face, then going straight up.
Which was, of course, when the spider-cat spat again. Shelldon whipped sideways, but the web stuck into his left propellers. Blaring in alarm, Shelldon spiraled toward the ground. He jolted just out of range of another swipe of the spider-cat's paws, then slammed into the garbage truck, so hard that he broke halfway through the body. Licking its lips, the spider-cat stalked back toward Raph.
Leo reacted without thought, throwing himself to his feet with a shout. "Hey, cat!"
Leo grabbed a can from the garbage and tossed it into the air. As the spider-cat turned, he hit the can with the flat of his odachi, sending it into the spider-cat's face.
"Come and get me!" Leo yelled, scrambling toward the board with his one good leg and his odachi. "Come on, furball! I've seen dust bunnies meaner than you!"
"Leo!" Raph yelled. "Leo, don't!"
Leo stumbled onto the board over the fast-flowing water. He glanced back in time to duck a wad of webs, then spun around and limped backward, gritting his teeth when his broken leg touched the board.
The spider-cat hissed and spat. Leo whipped up his odachi, desperately summoning a small portal to send the web anywhere. He stumbled backward as the web disappeared, then his good foot landed in something gooey. Leo yelped and stabbed his odachi into the end of the board to regain his balance, mentally kicking himself for not being at least a little more specific with his portal.
The spider-cat, standing on the bank, regarded Leo for a moment. Leo grit his teeth and chopped at the webs, letting his trapped leg support his weight. His mind raced for some way to get the spider-cat onto the board, and fast.
Seeing Leo freeing himself, the spider-cat hissed. Leo jerked his head up.
"Someone throw something at me!" Leo yelled.
"What?!" April demanded.
Leo grimaced as the spider-cat lowered its head. "Just throw something!"
"I can't see past the mutant! Shelldon!"
"Don't look at me, I can't reach anything!" Shelldon's voice buzzed with static. "Ra-a-a-"
"I'm stuck! Hey, cat!"
The spider-cat's head reared back. Leo flinched and raised his odachi uselessly.
Donnie's voice suddenly blared, "Leo, use this!"
Shelldon hurled the disruptor.
Leo twisted as much as he could and brought his odachi back, then swung and hit the disruptor as hard as he could. The disruptor flew straight at the spider-cat's mouth, just as it spat. The webs hit the disruptor, which then hit the spider-cat's jaws. The spider-cat shrieked as the webs hardened instantly, sealing its jaws halfway open.
"Ha! Take that!" Leo laughed.
The spider-cat gave a muffled yowl, then suddenly sprang!
Leo shouted in surprise. His odachi came up defensively and his eyes clenched shut, then the spider-cat landed atop him and the board snapped.
"Leo!"
Raph's mortified scream was echoed by everyone else. It felt as though all the air was sucked out of his lungs, and all Raph could do was stare.
The spider-cat vanished under the surface for a few seconds, then burst back to the surface with an ear-splitting shriek. Up to its shoulders in water, it floundered to the bank and hauled itself out. It shook out its sodden fur and snarled at the water, its muzzle suddenly free of webs but covered in blood. Raph's stomach jumped to his throat before he realized the spider-cat had suffered a long cut across its mouth.
"Leo?" Raph thrashed uselessly against the webs. "Leo, answer me!"
"He. Went. Into. The. River!" Each of April's words were punctuated by a futile tug on her trapped legs.
The spider-cat snarled and stalked over to April. The girl gave a near matching snarl and grabbed half of a flowerpot from the ground. When the spider-cat was just a few steps away, April tossed the flowerpot into the air and hit it with her bat. It exploded into pieces, showering the spider-cat's face with heavy shards.
The spider-cat jerked back with a hiss, then spat out a wad of webs. The webs hit April in the chest, but she wiped them off.
"Th-they didn't stick?" Raph stammered.
"Shush!" April snapped. "Unless you plan on punching this thing with your arms stuck to the ground!"
Raph shushed.
Antagonized by April's angry voice, the spider-cat spat again, to the same result. April grabbed a fist-sized chunk of cement and batted it. This time, her ammo hit the spider-cat right in its slashed mouth.
The spider-cat jerked back with a shriek of pain. Giving up on its prey, the spider-cat loped down the river.
"You better run!" April yelled after it. She twisted quickly. "It'll be back once it can spit webs again."
"They're water soluble!" Donnie's voice said.
Raph glared at Shelldon. "Why didn't you say anything sooner?!"
"I… I just realized it. When Leo was trying to get it into the river, I noticed the webs disintegrating in the puddle over there. Dad and I tried it on the webs I have on my plastron. All you need is water, and Leo fell into an entire river of it!"
"But his leg's still broken!" Raph yelled back.
The mechanical arms of Donnie's battle shell struggled to pull Shelldon free. After three painful minutes, the battle shell popped out of the garbage truck. It hit the ground, then scrabbled toward the river with its two claws not stuck to the shell.
"C'mon, c'mon, hurry!" Raph said, his eyes trained on the river. Raph and his brothers could hold their breaths for ten minutes, but that was assuming Leo had had time and the spider-cat hadn't knocked the air out of him.
It took another four minutes for Shelldon to find a plastic bucket and dunk it into the river, then drag it over to Raph. Shelldon dumped the water onto Raph's arms. Raph squirmed until the webs fell away, then grabbed his tonfa and summoned his mystic form to break his legs free. He ran to the river, yelling Leo's name.
Nothing.
Raph frantically scanned the water, then dove in. The water was dark and murky, making it impossible to really search. Raph swam back-and-forth in the area where Leo had gone under. He dove, feeling blindly around.
One hand hit something sharp. Raph yanked his hand back, then put it back down. He felt quickly down the object. A rush of bubbles burst out of Raph's mouth as he recognized the shape of Leo's odachi. He moved down to the handle, searching desperately for Leo's hands. But there wasn't any sign of Leo.
Raph searched the area until he had to rush back to the surface for air. He coughed and shook his head, then turned toward Mikey's voice.
Mikey was treading water nearby. "See anything?"
Raph wordlessly raised the odachi.
Mikey stiffened, then spun around and screamed, "Leo! Leo, where are you?!"
Raph was about to dive again when he heard a soft voice calling his name. He twisted in the water, scanning the bank downriver. His eyes finally fell on a green form and swam quickly over.
"Leo? Leo!"
Leo was covered in mud and garbage with half his body submerged in the water. His eyes were closed, his breathing ragged and pained. His arms were curled against his body. He spoke through grit teeth.
"Raph?"
Raph almost grabbed Leo before seeing a cloud of red in the water around Leo's leg. Eyes darting up to Leo's face, then back down, Raph scooped water from his side to briefly clear the blood away from Leo's leg.
The makeshift splint was missing, and his leg was… twisted. Twisted in a terribly wrong direction. Something gleamed white against Leo's skin, the source of the blood.
"R-Raph?" Leo mumbled.
"I'm here," Raph said. He lifted his head at April's approach. "April, take a Shell Hog back to the lair and get the Tank. We can't take him on a Shell Hog like this…"
"I'll call Splinter!" April said, running toward Shelldon.
Raph mumbled his thanks, his attention already back on Leo. His little brother was starting to shiver, though if it was from the water or shock was anyone's guess. Did Raph dare move Leo out of the water, or would it make his leg worse?
"R-Raph?" Leo's voice was growing softer, his eyelids fluttering.
Raph shushed him. "Don't talk. Just look at me, okay? Look at me, Leo!"
Leo's eyes opened half way. Unsurprisingly, he didn't stop talking.
"T-tell Donnie I… I g-got-" Leo swallowed, "H-his d-dumb dis… disruptor."
"What do you- Leo? Leo, no! Look at me!"
Leo's eyes rolled back, then closed. His arms went limp, and the broken disruptor tumbled from his arms onto the ground.
A/N: Once again, Leo and Mikey swapped roles. It was originally Mikey who went into the river, but then I was rambling through plot holes with Cuthalion and they suggested sending Leo into the river instead. It fixed the plot holes, but...