Chapter 5: An Unexpected Development
"Told ya we should of taken tha Shell Raiser." Raph growled as they entered the lair.
It had been 5 hours since they had left to escort Eris home and they had left their T-Phones at home so they couldn't call their younger brother to come pick them up from her lab.
Mikey came running out the lair, looking frantic.
"GUYS COME QUICK! IT'S LEO!" He cried. Raph and Donnie quickly followed their baby brother into the lab and gasped at what they saw. Leonardo wasn't in the tube any more!
"WHERE THA SHELL IS LEO?!" Raph shouted.
Michelangelo pointed a shaky green finger to the pile of pillows near Donatello's desk. The two older turtles walked over to the pillows and saw the last thing they expected.
A sheet white ostrich sized egg.
"After you guys left Leo's body began to curl in on itself and shrink, I tried to ring you guys but you had left your T-Phones behind. Suddenly white stuff started to cover him as he shrank some more."
Donnie quickly ran over to his computer and searched up Eris.
"Oh my God." He gasped in horror. "What's wrong Donnie?" Raph asked nervously. "That Eris woman that we saved from those guys is a wanted criminal who is on the run from the FBI."
The other's paled so much that they were almost white.
"It says here that she was once a respected scientist until she injected her assistant with a serum that caused his cells to rejoin. As a result his body started to reduce until he was a newly conceived embryo."
Mikey looked back at the egg. "But unfortunately, with out a mother to provide food and oxygen the embryo died just a minuet after the transformation." Don added sadly.
Raph gasped at this information.
"WHAT ABOUT LEO?!" He cried and rushed over to the egg. "Relax Raph, due to the fact Leo turned into an egg not an embryo he doesn't need a mother to provided him life."
Both Raphael and Michelangelo relaxed slightly.
"So...what do we do now?" Mikey asked. Raph was equally confused. "Well, due to the fact that his cells have reduced they'll start to regrow. In other words his brain is recovering, the catch when that egg hatches he'll be a new born baby and we'll have to raise."
Raph thought about it for a second before smiling.
"This could be the perfect chance to make it up to Leo for all those times we hurt him. Physically, mentally and emotionally." Raphael explained. "We can give the our brother the childhood he deserves."
Don and Mike nodded in agreement and turned back to the egg.
For the first time in a while they felt hope...
