Donatello paced the floor of the lair, looking at the door. Lexine sat on the arm of the couch watching him as she bit her nails.
"Donnie, you're not helping." She said as her leg shook uncontrollably.
"Sorry." He said sitting next to her. She rubbed his arm with a smile.
"They'll be fine. It's only been an hour."
"Two." Donnie corrected.
"Oh…Really?"
"You think something's wrong? You think there in trouble?" Fiona said her voice consumed with fear.
"No Fe. I mean it's Jade we're talking about. She's too cautious to let anything happen." Lexi said with a smile. She turned her head away from her sister as it faded and she continued to bite her nails.
"Maybe we should go looking for them." Mikey spoke up.
"No." Donnie said his tone matching Leo's. "It's too dangerous. They'll be back soon."
Soon turned into another hour. Donnie's impatience for his older brothers was wearing thin. He was worried and scared for them. He knew this was enough. They would have been back by now. A fight between those two, calculating a fight between Jade and Jacqueline they still should have returned by now. Donnie got to his feet as Lexi jumped to hers. He grabbed his bo staff and she nodded her head shaking Fiona's shoulder.
"We're leaving. C'mon." Lexi said as Mikey and Fiona got to their feet.
The four walked into the sewer as Donnie climbed up a latter to a manhole. Mikey followed as Lexi followed him, looking down at her younger twin.
"Stay close." Fiona nodded her head slowly as they reached the surface. "Maybe we should split up?" Lexi suggested.
"No, it'll be better if we stick together. The Foot are still looking for you." Donnie said gracing Lexi's shoulder. She smiled to his touch and nodded her head.
"You're right." She turned towards Mikey and her sister. "Stay close to us. Mikey, watch her please." Mikey nodded his head.
"I wouldn't dream not to." He said smoothly as Fiona blushed. Don and Lexi both rolled their eyes.
They traveled over roof tops throughout the City finding no trace of their siblings in sight. Walking along a roof top, Lexi glided her fingers along a heating duct and felt an indent. She squinted in the darkness turning her attention to where her fingers were.
"Donnie, looket this." She said as he ran to her side. He took out a flash light from his belt and sighed with frustration.
"Looks about the right size for a shell." He said. "Raph and Leo must be around here somewhere?"
"We searched everywhere dude. Maybe they went back to the lair?" Mikey said as he held Fiona's body to his. The cold night air made her shiver against him as she wore a short sleeve t-shirt. Donnie nodded his head.
"Yeah. Maybe we should just…" He was interrupted by the feeling of something stabbing into his bicep. "What the…" Before he could finish he felt Lexi fall on him. He caught her in his arms, but couldn't find the strength to keep her up. He fell to his knees from her body weight pushing down on his weakening strength, barely being able to hold his own weight. He looked over at Mikey as he lay next to Fiona, his chest still moving but shallow and slowly. Donnie tried to shake away the dizziness and get up, but his head insisted he stay on the ground.
Raphael woke up with a groan as he picked his head up slowly. It felt as if he got hit by a mac truck. He tried to move his hands but felt heavy chains on his wrists. He moved forward seeing how much slack they gave. Not much. His shell was pressed against a cement wall, in a small cell. It was dark, but his eyes adjusted quickly seeing another figure in a far corner. He saw a hint of blue coming from around their face. He sighed with relief as the thought of his brother in danger left his mind. Jacqueline. He thought to himself. He tried to move break the chains, growling frantically.
"Raph stop. It's useless. They're too heavy." Leo sighed from across the room. His voice seemed so far away.
"Where are we?"
"I don't know. Holding cell I'm guessing." Leo said looking around the dark room.
The door suddenly flew open as a sharp light came with it. Leo and Raph clenched their eyes shut to the bright light, turning their heads away from it. Two Foot Ninja grabbed them by the biceps dragging them into another room. They took the chains from their wrists along with their weapons. Leo's eyes adjusted to the bright lights now as he saw Donatello and Michelangelo lying on the floor of the bigger cell. There were monitors on the walls, but he ignored that for a moment. He ran over to Mikey as Raph went to Don. They shook their brother's shoulders trying to get them to wake up.
Mikey rolled onto his shell holding his head with a groan. Leo smiled at his younger brother, picking him up in his arms in a hug.
"Ah, thank god." He said holding his brother tight to his plastron.
"Dude, I can't breathe." Mikey said trying to break out of his brother's embrace.
"Sorry Mikey." Leo smiled. He looked over his shoulder as Donnie coughed, leaning on Raph's shoulder.
"What happened?" Donnie asked rubbing his head. Raph looked at Leo and he shook his head.
"We're not sure. The Foot brought us in here. We were out with Jade and Jacqueline and we got into a fight. We heard a scream and got hit with darts then everything went black." Leo explained.
"Do you think they're ok?" Mikey asked with a sad voice.
Suddenly, the monitors in the room all filled with snow. The boys all moved closer to the screens as one by one they turned on showing the girls in separate rooms.
Jade lay on the middle of her floor, not moving. Jacqueline was pressed up against a wall, as water from a sprinkler system rained down over her body as steam came off her. Her legs were brought to her chest as her body shivered uncontrollably. Lexine was in a cell similar to the boys, except she was chained by the ankles that were fastened against the wall. Fiona's cell was bright, with white walls. They weren't cement like Lexine's or Jacqueline's. She had a conductor on the walls keeping her from using her powers of invisibility or to create a force field to keep Foot away from her. She paced back and forth hugging her arms tightly to her chest.
Raphael put his hand to Jacqueline's screen watching the brave girl he knew now scared, frightened, and shaking on the verge of hypothermia. He felt anger swell inside him as Mikey placed a hand on his shoulder. He took a deep breath and looked away from the screen pushing Mike's hand away.
"What are we going to do?" Mikey asked all his brothers. Leo kept his eyes on Jade's screen, not moving. His hands clasped tightly to his biceps, his face was intense and Raph knew his brother was stewing in his anger. Mikey went to place a hand on Leo's shoulder to calm him down but put it down to his side, scared of what his older brother might do.
Jade rolled on her side and Leo stepped closer to the screen. She rolled again, and woke up suddenly breathing heavily. She grabbed her head as if she had been hit by a bat. She started rocking, holding her head as her hair tangled between her fingers. Leo's breathing started to quicken as he watched her in pain and not being able to do anything. She screamed and the monitor was silent but, her voice carried throughout the cells as all the girls picked their heads up, as did the boys. Leo put his head down and walked away from the screen. Jade's body went limp against the cement floor as she lay flat.
Jade's body started to rise from the floor as her limbs were limp. Mikey saw it out of the corner of his eye as he watched Fiona. He looked at Leo and shoved his older brother.
"Dude, look." He said softly as Jade's body was fully off the ground now, hovering in midair. Leo narrowed his eyes watching as her body shot up so she was up right, her feet still not touching the floor. Foot Ninja filed in the room but where thrown back out, their bodies getting slammed against the concrete wall outside of Jade's cell.
"Whoa…" Leo and Mikey said in unison as Raph and Donnie ran over to see what was going on.
She walked out of the room as more Foot came at her. She lifted her hand with a smile and threw their bodies in separate directions against the hallway she walked down. The room did nothing but made her connection stronger.
"Fool. That room did nothing but make my powers stronger. Thinking that it could rip me from my connection. Nothing will keep me from that. Not suffering, not pain, not anything." She said as she walked over the Foot Ninja that lay unconscious. She held her head, falling against a wall trying to control her breathing. She felt her sister's distress all around her in the rooms in front of her. She pressed her hand to the door next to her, closing her eyes and concentrating. Slowly the bolts and screws holding the metal door to its frame started to move out of their holes. The door fell forward as Jacqueline lifted her head up. She got to her feet, rushing over and wrapping her soaking body against her sister's.
Raph sighed in relief as Jacqueline left the room. She shivered still as Jade made it to Fiona's room. She blocked her eyes from the brightness as Fiona turned around, running over and tackling Jade with a hug. Jade smiled and messed around her sister's hair pushing her out the door. They made it to Lexine's room as Foot Ninja filed in. Jade just smiled and lifted a hand having their bodies come off the ground. She turned them upside down as a ring of keys fell from one of their suits. Jacqueline picked it up and went through each key until she found the one belonging to Lexine's hold.
The girls were free and ran from the building. Jade stopped in her tracks and looked behind her down the hall.
"Wait, guys…Something's not right."
"What do you mean? C'mon lets go back to the lair!" Fiona said about to run again. Jade held up a hand.
"No. Their not there." She said.
"Who isn't?" Lexine asked.
"The boys. They're here…" She closed her eyes and reached out to Leo's thoughts. "Where are you?" She asked him.
Leo picked his head up as her voice rang through his thoughts. He looked over at his brothers.
"Did you hear that?" Don and Mike looked up at him with question and shook their heads. Raph looked over at him and did the same.
"I'm not sure." He said back to her. She smiled and ran back down the hallway. Lexine caught up to her in a second as Jacqueline growled grabbing Fiona by the arm and following her sisters. Jade looked frantically down hallways until she reached a door feeling her heart race as she touched it.
"This has to be it." She said with a smile. She closed her eyes and took the door from its hinges as it fell forward. The boys moved backwards in shock as they saw the girls standing with smiles. Raphael rushed past Jade scooping Jacqueline in his arms. She smiled as he wrapped her arms around his shoulders. Mikey hugged onto Fiona tightly as she walked in the room. Donnie smiled at Lexi as she wrapped her arms around his shoulders. He fell back a little to the force of her, but smiled lifting her feet from the ground. Jade smiled at Leo who walked over to her. He wanted to do the same as his brothers. He wanted to do more even, and kiss her but sighed instead.
"We shouldn't stay around any longer." He said looking over at everyone. Jade nodded her head turning to leave, as a man stood in their way, having them back into the room. He had to be at least six feet tall and was bigger than Raphael and Leonardo put together.
"Aw…Isn't this sweet. A family reunion of freaks." Hun said in a sinister tone. Jade narrowed her eyes, pushing her sister's behind her. Leo went to push her behind him but she kept her hand up. Her eyes narrowed at Hun as he stepped closer to her. Leo shifted and Jade kept him behind her with her powers.
"Jade, stop." Leo said trying to move. She shook her head.
"I can handle this." She said slowly. Hun laughed.
"Sure sweetheart. You can handle this. Why don't you listen to your little boyfriend?" Purple Dragons filed in the room behind Hun as one familiar looking one stepped next to him with a smirk.
"Hey baby." He said walking closer to Jade. Jacqueline growled as she recognized the boy standing before Jade. He hurt her sister, taking her innocence from her and betraying her heart with lies and cheating. Jac broke from Raph's hold, but was pushed back as Jade held her hand up. "Miss me?" Jason said walking closer to her. He held his hand out to Jade's face as she pushed him back against a wall chocking him with her powers. He continued to smile as her anger just swelled inside her sliding his body up the wall. Jacqueline looked over at her sister noticing her eyes were different. She nudged Lexi.
"Notice something different about our dear sister." Jac said dryly. Lex looked and stepped back, moving the boys back with her.
"What are you doing?" Leo asked narrowing his eyes at Lexi as she pushed him back.
"Just trust me." Lexi said with a sigh.
Hun ran over to her with a growl. She smirked keeping her contact on Jason as she held up her free hand, throwing Hun's body against the cell wall to the side.
"Tisk tisk." She said with as her eyes turned a dark purple. More Purple Dragons came at her as she picked them up from the ground as their chains and crowbars fell to the concrete. She took his body from the wall hovering him above her as a crowbar leaped into her grasp. It started to twirl in the air next to her as her smile widened his eyes doing the same. Lexine grabbed Fiona, pushing her head into her chest hiding her from the image she was about to witness.
"Relax baby…" She said in a soft seductive coo. "Don't tense up…It'll be over in a minuet." She turned walking out the door as the crowbar came at Jason full force, going through his heart. Blood splattered on the wall, as Leo turned his head away and Fiona shuttered to the sound. Lexi closed her eyes as Donnie held her body close to his. She let go of Fiona as she ran to Mikey's side, tears swelling in her eyes.
"What the hell was that?" Leo said looking at Jacqueline.
"That's not Jade." She said softly. "When we were younger, the pain she suppressed about our father for so long made this alter ego. She calls herself June. It's not our sister. She's evil, and it's exactly what the Shredder wanted. If he finds her like this, she'll join him and come after us. We're no match for her. She's too powerful now. The holding cell, being cut from our connection, our fight we had and Jason must have just pushed her over the edge." Jac put her head down. "We have to follow her."
"But, what if she attacks us?" Fiona asked with a shaky voice.
"She won't. She's too blind with furry to pay attention to us." Lexi said as they left the room.
"How are we going to get Jade back?" Fiona asked. Lexi stopped and looked at her arm where the dart hit her. She smiled and looked over at Donnie.
"What?"
"Do you think you could find the chemicals that made us pass out and make another dart?"
"Well, yeah. If I can find them, but how will I…" Lexi was a blur and returned seconds later with a handful of chemicals and an empty syringe. Don smiled and put them down on the floor, fixing them into the vile. "This should keep her out for a few hours. We can get her back to the lair and secure her while I run some tests.
"How are we going to hit her with it, she's too powerful." Leo said watching her walk away.
"I'll distract her." Jacqueline said. "That bitch took over my sister once, and believe me I never got to say my thanks." Raph smile as Jacqueline got up walking towards the exit.
She could feel her sister faintly, as she watched the wind flow over June on factory roof top they were kept. She walked over to her as the Leonardo and Raphael stayed close, Donatello and Michelangelo keeping close to Lexine and Fiona.
"June." Jacqueline said in a fierce tone. She turned her head over her shoulder with a smile.
"Dear Sister. I missed you."
"You're not my sister."
"Aw…C'mon this is a happy day! We're reunited once again Jackie. That weakling of a girl kept me inside her for ten years and you don't even want to hug?" June said in a pout. "That's so sad."
"Jay, I know you're in there. Try…Please try." Jacqueline said looking into June's dark purple eyes. She smiled and shook her head.
"No Jackie. No Jade. Just me." She looked back into Jacqueline's burning red eyes. Jac growled and shoved June as June caught her wrist with her hand and flipped her effortless over her body. Jac winced from the pain of the concrete slamming against her spine, coughing trying to regain her breath. June crouched down next to her moving a piece of red hair from her face.
Lexi watched as she moved her hand to grace against Leo's palm. He looked down at his hand and then over at Lexi who kept her face focused and looking forward. The syringe moved against his hand as he grasped it. She dropped her hand to her side and Leo knew what to do. He had to wait for the right moment.
"Tisk tisk little sister. You should know better, with the temper of yours." Jac growled and kicked June's legs out from under her, she jumped back to her feet as Jac scrambled to hers. She punched June across the face as she smiled. "Aw, you can do better than that." Jac growled punching her again, breaking the skin on her lip. June licked the blood with the tip of her tongue. "C'mon bitch, is that all you got?" June taunted as Jac punched her across the cheek, and then snapped her head to the other side as her other fist contacted.
June started to giggle slowly as she stumbled back. She turned her head picking up Jac's body having it hover in the air. "Oh…Kitties got claws." She purred. Raph tried to move but June kept him in his place, along with the others.
She dropped Jacqueline's body to the cement. She was slow to get up, but managed to push the pain down.
"Do you know how long I've been waiting for this Jackie? You know you pushed your poor helpless, weak sister until she just couldn't take anymore and I was able to take over.
"My sister isn't weak." Jacqueline growled.
"Of course not Jackie. That's why she still has a need to cry at night over you and your fights. How she can't tame you, how you're so rebellious. Please. It's just like when dear old daddy left. Aw…Poor you. You're daddy went and ran away. Psh…Please. How pathetic are you! And you." She said pointing to Leo. "You went and got to her, making her even weaker. She gets this wonderful feeling in her heart every time you touch her…" She said walking over to Leo and gracing a finger tip along the edge of his shell. "Every time you look at her, the feel of your body close to hers…" She said slapping him across the face. "It's sickening. I think she is actually falling for you Leonardo. I thought even Jade was better than to fall for a reptile but, I guess not." Leo narrowed his eyes as she turned away from him. June fell forward holding her head.
"Leo, now!" Lexi yelled as Leo ran over to June stabbing the syringe into her arm. She pushed him off her, with her own strength as he stumbled slightly holding her in his arms. She fell limp against him as Donnie ran over to check her pulse.
"She's fine. Leo do you think you can carry her back to the lair?" He nodded his head, picking up her body slowly trying not to harm anything and held her tight to his plastron. He looked down at her face and felt the truth of June's words ringing through his head. The feel of her body close to his, her eyes her normal eyes. He looked at him differently than she looked at his brother's, their connection was deeper. He put his head down in a sigh and followed the others.
"When she wakes up it'll go two ways. One, she'll be Jade and have no recollection of what happened. Or she'll be June and…be pissed as all hell." Lexi said over to Donnie.
"Let's hope it's the first one." He said with a concerned face. She nodded her head and put an arm around Fiona. Raphael picked up Jacqueline as she limped along with the others.
"Raph, I'm fine." She huffed as he held her in his arms.
"Maybe I just wanna hold you." He whispered in her ear, so no one else could hear. She smiled and kissed his cheek.
"That's ok then."