'Where could she BE?' Gabriel worried, searching through Central Park.
They'd all been looking for Lily for hours, going everywhere they even thought she'd hang around.
No luck.
This was the last place…
'Please be okay, Lil…'
He'd heard only the shouts from the lab, and came out worried and confused, registering that it was his sister's voice rising.
He'd seen her stomp out, one last yell leaving her, the door slamming…
Felt the silence weigh on his heart.
He demanded to know what was going on, and he finally got the whole story from his confused cousins.
Guilt had joined in his heart with worry, like lead weights, and he was running to find his sister.
He stopped, seeing something in the snow.
Getting closer, he saw the shell of an ice dome and…
That looked like blood…
Panic flooded his heart in a wave, and he immediately turned on his headset.
"GUYS!"
"What is it?" Angie's voice asked over the line.
"You all need to get here NOW!"
He didn't reply to anyone's questions, and crouched down to touch the crimson crystals…
"Gabriel, what's wrong?!"
His father's panicked voice reached through the fog…
"So much blood…"
That seemed to redouble everyone's efforts.
Of anything, THAT was not something you wanted to hear when you're a mutant turtle…
The red stained his fingers, and he pulled a bullet from the cold.
'They shot her…'
Worry, rage, fear, panic, revenge…
They bubbled up from his chest, burning his tongue and clouding his senses…
'Too much blood…Too much…'
She could be dead out there, or dying, and no one could find her…
All she'd left behind as clues were an empty battlefield and tranquilizer darts.
"Gabe?"
He looked over his shoulder, seeing a panting Z.
She must have run the whole way…
"She's not here…but they shot her…"
An angry fire filled the dark blue eyes, and the she-turtle ground her teeth as boulders rattled like pebbles.
"Bastards…"
Everyone else arrived, panting as their hearts raced with more than adrenaline…
"Gabriel?"
He locked eyes with his mother before he had to look away…
"They shot her, mom…She's not here…"
Crystal tears, already freezing on her skin…
Don tried to soothe her, looking over the snow.
Trying to find a clue that would lead them to his daughter…
He still remembered the day she'd been born…
She'd looked so small, holding onto him like the world would end if she loosened her little fingers…
Even as she got older, she took comfort in holding his hand.
She still did it now and again, as if to steady herself with something physical.
Now…
Now his little girl was gone…
Leo tried to calm his heart as he pulled a tranquilizer from the bark of a tree.
"I know this symbol…"
Mikey went for a closer look, little Elie perched on his shell.
She and Ari had refused to stay behind, and were now exhausted.
"Yeah, dude…It looks familiar…"
Raph growled, the vibration spreading through his chest to the near-asleep Rose in his arms.
Izzy was agitated, fire spurting from her skin and sparks dancing across her fingertips.
"She's in trouble." Artemis concluded, angel's wings bristling…
"How are you so sure?" Angie wondered, carrying her younger sibling atop her shell.
"Because now we know who took her…"
Kasai's voice shook, and Raph nuzzled her cheek comfortingly.
"Who?" Z demanded.
"We probably shouldn't-."
Chi stopped, seeing Gabriel's dark watery eyes…
"…She's wit' a really bad guy…"
"I need a name."
Don sighed, looking up at the night sky…
'It's a new moon…' He thought absentmindedly.
"…Bishop."