Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo had been following Fong for almost an hour. He had stopped off at a couple of places to catch his breath, the 24-hour corner market and one of the local Chinese places were just two of his pit stops.

"Urgh!" Mikey exclaimed, "This is so boring. What's he doing anyway?"

The three turtles were crouched atop a building facing yet another seemingly random business.

"I don't know." Admitted Leonardo. "But I don't want to let him go just yet."

"Then what's the point? Holly is fine and he's not doing anything wrong." Raph said.

"You just want to go see your girlfriend!" Mikey rolled back on his shell and laughed hysterically. He'd been saving that one for a while now.

Raph didn't even look over, he just punched Mikey in the arm and continued his conversation with Leo.

"We haven't even been following him that long." Leo said to Raph, who was doing his best not to look like he was sulking. "You'll have plenty of time later to suck up to Holly."

Mikey rolled around on the floor laughing again. Leo even smirked while he kept watching the entrance to the store that Fong had gone in. Raph silently fumed, he crossed his arms in front of himself and turned away from his brothers. He cursed them out in his head since he knew this would happen after all the grief they had been giving Donnie about April. Someday it would be their turn and he would be just as hard on them as they were being on him.

Mikey and Leo were snickering to themselves while Raph was on the other side of the building keeping to himself. He was slouching against an air conditioning unit when something on the street caught his eye. It looked like Fong. Tall, skinny, looked like he was up to no good. But he was supposed to be inside the store on the other side of the street. Raph looked over his shoulder, Leo was still watching the building while Mikey was playing games on his T-phone.

If it was Fong, they couldn't just let him get away. But if it wasn't him, and they left the real Fong in the store, he could slip out once they were gone.

Weighing out his options, Raph made an executive decision. He leaped over the side of the building and tailed the look-alike, leaving his brothers to watch the store, just in case he was wrong.

Holly and Donatello dropped down into the alley that would take them back underground. He set her down on the concrete and opened the manhole cover for her.

"Thanks Donnie." Holly said with a small smile.

"Don't mention it. Well, maybe you could mention it to April. You know, if it comes up." He smiled at her and she could help but chuckle.

"I don't think you need my help in that department." She said as she started climbing down the ladder.

"Do you need me to help you get back to the lair?" Donnie asked.

"No, I'll be fine. Just do me one favor." She looked back up at the considerate turtle teen.

"You name it."

"When you find that jerk, Kick his ass." Holly wasn't a particularly vindictive person, but since Fong had been stalking her best friend for the last few days and had now broken into her home, she wasn't feeling all that forgiving.

"I wouldn't be surprised if Raph already had that in mind." Donnie said. He smiled at her once more before replacing the cover and taking off to rejoin his brothers.

Fong was furious with himself. He had let that brunette get the better of him twice in the same night, and if he went back to Bradford empty-handed, he would get smushed like a bug.

He knew that he was being followed. He had managed to escape from the first turtle brother, but that wasn't that difficult since the one with the orange mask wasn't the brightest bulb in the shop. Unfortunately, two of the others had managed to catch up to him and had been tailing him since then.

Fong dipped into a couple of businesses that were under the control of the Dragons. He had been hoping to run into the two morons he had taken with him to the apartment earlier that night, but they were probably stuffing their faces in one of the restaurants in the area.

The third building he tried, he finally found some luck. The owner of this particular building was working with the gang and had a back room that was often used as a hide-out. It also had a handy side door that lead into the adjoining business, which then had access back onto the streets. The whole block had been used by bootleggers during the prohibition back in the 1920s and had been serving New York's criminals ever since.

Fong hurried to the back of the store, where an elderly man sat on a stool behind the counter. His hair was stringy and thinning, and his hands were arthritic from years of hard labor. No one would ever suspect him of harboring criminals, it was the perfect cover.

"Hello Fong. Got ourselves in some trouble again, huh?" The aged man chuckled.

Fong just sneered at him. He wasn't in the mood for this right now. "I need to get out the back, you got eyes on the front still?"

"Of course." The old man uncovered an ancient monitor that had a flickering black and white image of the street outside. "Who's after you this time? I don't see any cops."

"It's not the cops. Check the rooftops." Fong was busy rummaging around the drawers behind the counter. The old man usually had a weapon or two lying around from when previous criminals needed to ditch their evidence.

The haggard man manipulated the camera controls and aimed the lens at the rooftops. He panned around the area until something on one of the other buildings caught his eye. "What the..?" Was all he could say.

"Good. They're still out front." Fong quickly peeked at the screen before turning to go to the back room. "Hey, can I have this?" he held up a knife that he had found in one of the draws.

"Yeah." The old man was frowning, he had seen some weird stuff in his time, but what he thought he was seeing was by far the strangest. "What is going on Fong?"

"You wouldn't believe me even if I told you. Oh, and call my boys and tell them to get ready, I'm going to need their help." Fong dipped through the back door and hurried through the series of fake walls to the end of the block. He slipped back out onto the streets feeling marginally better about his chances, as he slid the blade into his pocket.

April was pacing her bedroom chewing on her fingers. Her aunt had gone to sleep hours ago, and even if April could talk to her, she wouldn't believe any of this. The last thing April had heard was that Holly was safe with Donnie and they were going back to the lair to make sure she was alright.

April had every faith in the guys to keep Holly safe, they had saved her neck on more than one occasion, and were perfectly adept at dealing with the Purple Dragons, especially if it was just one of the gang members. However, she really wanted to be there for her friend. Holly had been through quite the ordeal and April wanted to make sure she was doing alright.

She dressed quickly and grabbed her keys and cellphone and snuck out of the apartment. She grabbed a trench coat and turned up the collar before heading out to the street, she knew there was probably still someone keeping watch on her building, but the Purple Dragons' were comprised mostly of high-school drop-outs and weren't too difficult to trick. Her aunt would be furious in the morning, but something's we're more important than rules.

Raphael was following the shady-looking man at a reasonable distance. He hadn't actually seen the guy's face yet, and it didn't seem like he was in any big hurry to go anywhere. Raph was starting to think he had made a mistake and was about to turn back when he started noticing that he recognized this neighborhood. They were getting uncomfortably close to the girls favorite entrance to the lair, and they were disturbingly close to Aprils home.

Raph hurried along the rooftops to try and catch a glimpse of the man he was following. He went to grab his cell phone off of his leather belt, only to remember that he had left it at home so that he could for once have some privacy. He cursed at himself silently, this was turning into the worst night ever.

Raph was following Fong so intently that he didn't even see Donatello on one of the nearby buildings. Donnie, however, did see his brother, and immediately made a beeline to see what was going on. Since dropping Holly off, he had had no contact with his siblings and was eager to find out some information.

The purple-clad turtle dropped next to his brother, "Hey."

Raph didn't look up, he wanted to maintain eye contact with the guy on the street. "What are you doing here?"

Donnie scowled. "I just dropped Holly off and was on my way back to find you guys." He followed Raphs gaze and saw Fong on the street. "Isn't that Fong? Where are the others?" Donnie quickly scanned the area for Mikey and Leo.

"I wasn't sure it was him, so I left them back where we lost sight of him." Raph said with a shrug.

"Of course it's him, any idiot could see that." Donnie scoffed. Raph remained silent, he was too busy to get into an argument with Donnie right now. "Did you even tell the others you were leaving?" Donnie continued with the questioning. Again, Raph remained silent. He hated when Donnie did this, it made everything he did sound moronic.

"Would you just call them already? I still don't have a phone you know." Raph snapped.

Donnie just tutted and pulled out his T-phone to call his brothers.

Raph tried so hard to ignore his big-headed brother, he just kept reminding himself over and over that he needed to watch Fong and that he would get Donnie back later when April was around to witness it. He ground his teeth as he heard Donnie chuckling, but immediately forgot to be angry when he saw Fong pick up his pace and make straight for a young red-headed girl that had appeared out of nowhere at the other end of the street.

He may not be able to spot Fong from the rooftops, but there was no mistaking April O'Neil for anyone else. Her fiery hair gave her away every time. Raph slapped Donnie in the arm to get his attention.

"Hey! What did you do that for?" Donnie glared at Raph, only to realize that Raph was running in the other direction at top speed. Donnie scanned the area to see what was going on and instantly knew what was going on. He felt his cold blood drain from his face. His heart rate sky-rocketed and his adrenaline began pumping furiously through his body. April was out on the street, alone, in a poor excuse for a disguise, and she was heading straight at Fong.

April was walking along the street blissfully ignorant of the danger approaching her. She kept her coat collar turned up to cover her face and hurried along the streets towards the turtles' lair. April did however take a few unnecessary streets, and would double back once or twice to make sure she was not being followed. She rounded another corner and found the street she was now on was almost deserted. There was one guy walking at the other end of the street, but even from this distance April didn't like the look of him.

Fong wasn't paying much attention to where he was going. He knew these streets like the back of his hand and was more concerned with who may be following him. He glanced up quickly to make sure he wasn't about to bump into anyone when he saw a small figure walking towards him. As she got closer, Fong spotted her red-hair and couldn't believe his luck. He picked up his pace and lowered his head, hoping that the girl didn't recognize him until it was too late. The two got closer and closer, until finally the girl stopped in the middle of the street, she was looking up at the roof-tops and Fong knew what she was looking at. Instead of wasting time by checking to see if he was right, he sprinted down the street towards the girl he had been on his way to see.

April heard her name called out in a refreshingly familiar voice. She looked up across and across the street to see Donatello sprinting along the rooftops towards her. She smiled at him until she saw the look on his face. His eyes were wide and full of panic, and that scared her. A few yards ahead of him was Raph, and he too had concern scrawled across his face, but there was another emotion mixed on his face. April didn't have time to decipher it however as he launched himself off the rooftop with his eyes fixed on something to her left.

Before April even had a chance to turn and see what Raph was staring at, someone collided with her, knocking the air out of her lungs. She tried to catch her breath, but the person who knocked into her had one hand clamped firmly across her shoulders, while the other held a shiny blade to her throat.

"No, don't!" Yelled Donnie, he had followed his brother down to the street, but they weren't fast enough to stop Fong.

"Come any closer, and I'll cut her pretty face." Fong said sternly. Raph growled at Fong and moved to draw his Sais, but Fong just tightened his grip on April and smiled maniacally at him. "Don't even try it."

"You are such a coward." April said around gritted teeth.

"That maybe so, but I wouldn't be so brazen if I were you." Fong said silkily in her ear.

"What do you want Fong?" Donnie demanded.

"I want you two to let me borrow your friend for a while. I'll even bring her back in one piece if she behaves." Fong made sure to keep the girl in front of as much of himself as possible, if these guys got the chance to take him down, they would.

"No way slime ball." Raph said.

"You don't have much of an option." Fong whistled loudly into the night and a set of headlights blinked on in an alleyway nearby. A white windowless van pulled up to the side of the street and one of the gang members' popped open the back door. Fong slowly edged his way over to the van, all the time making sure neither of the two turtles was planning anything stupid.

"They're going to get you for this." April said threateningly.

"I'm counting on it." Fong smiled maliciously at the turtle boys before dragging April into the van. The doors slammed shut and the tires squealed leaving thick black streaks on the street.

Raph started running after the van, but Donnie grabbed his arm, "No, that is what he wants."

"We can't just leave her." Raph yelled.

"Do you think I want to!?" Donnie yelled back. There was a moment of silence between the two teenagers, they were both emotionally compromising this whole situation, and Fong seemed to be one step ahead of them the whole time. "We need to regroup and come up with a plan of action. We know where he's going, so why don't we be one step ahead for a change."

Raph didn't say anything, he was furious with himself. First, he had failed Holly, now he and Donnie had failed April. Fong was apparently smarter than they had anticipated, but that would just make whipping that smug grin off his face all the sweeter.

"I'm going to call Leo and tell him to meet us back at the Lair. I think it best if we get some advice on this whole situation." Donnie said pulling out his phone again.

Raph and Donnie made their way back to the lair in silence. Both were trying to think of any and all scenarios that they may have to face when they went to find April. They needed to get back to the lair and form a plan quickly if they were going to get to April tonight.