Leo walked over to his brother and placed his hand upon his shoulder. "Hey, dude, it's not your fault."

Leo looked up and shook his head. "It definitely is. I could've stopped Baxter..."

"Okay, blaming yourself doesn't help anyway. We have to go back to the city. Master Splinter knows what to do, I'm sure."

"Errr.... we aren't going to anywhere today, I guess", Michelangelo said.

"Why? We have..."

"Yeah, we have", Mike interrupted him, "run out of petrol."

Donnie sighed. "So what are we going to do now? If we stay here, he will die."

April, who had been standing silent next to the turtles, shook her head. "Not necessarily", she said. "I know how to get away from here." She went to the car and a few minutes later she came back. "Alright, we just have to wait", she stated.

"Wait?!", Leo asked. "What should we wait for?"

"Oh, whatever it is, I hope it works", Donnie murmured.

"By the way, we should try to stop the bleeding", April said and took off her jacket. "Lift him up, I have to fix that."

Donatello looked at her a bit irritated, but then did what she wanted. April wrapped her jacket around Shredder's body. "Okay, it's not professional but still better than nothing."



Fifteen minutes later a silver Buick stopped in front of the house. Samantha Sheperd's eyes widened in surprise when she saw Shredder. "What in my holy car's name have you done here?!"

"Baxter did that", April said. "And I think he's planning even worse things."

"You can bet he is doing so", she replied, while opening the trunk of her Buick. "Okay, Miss, there's the petrol for your car." While April was occupied with the Van, Samantha walked over to the turtles.

Donatello rose his eyes. "Do you think he'll survive?"

Samantha shrugged her shoulders. "Man, I can't know that. But I'll do my very best, I promise. Now take him to the car, I'm not going to wait for a miracle here."

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Baxter Stockman had arrived at his headquarters. He noticed that Raph still couldn't believe what he had seen.

"Anything wrong? I told you what I want to do, but judging from your behaviour you didn't believe it."

Raph remained silent.

"Well, your brother Donatello should've been the first one on my list, but Shredder wanted to be in his place. I should've killed both, I know, but it's far more fun that way."

"Baxter, please, shut up", Raph almost whispered.

"You seem to be a little bit worried...", Baxter replied amused. "You should be thankful, I've killed your enemy."

"Baxter! I warn you, shut up! I don't want to listen to that!"

"Alright, I will leave you alone. But remember: Next time one of your brothers will be the victim..."