"Miss Jacquelyn! Please! You are in no condition to be doing this. You should be at your home, resting." Usagi was trying to convince the woman to turn back as they traveled through the dark streets of the city.

"You don't understand, the sewer is my home. The brothers, they are my family. I have to find them, I have to figure out what is going on." She looked at him. "I was taken. They want what is in my head. They can't do… whatever it is they are trying to accomplish without me so… There is that hope that they are okay for now."

The rabbit put a white hand on her shoulder. "But isn't you going straight to Xanus exactly what he wants then?"

Jack stopped and hung her head. " I don't know what else to do."

The samurai took a deep breath. "Leonardo and his brothers are some of my closest friends. I will do whatever I can to help you, but this is not how I would advise doing any of this." Carefully he unrolled the shiny new sai he had constructed and for Raph and placed them in the back of his belt. "We need to proceed with extreme caution Miss."

She was about to continue walking when his softly padded hand grabbed her wrist. He put a finger to his lips and pulled a sword from it's sheath at his waist. He crept along an alley wall and motioned for Jack to stay behind him. The woman had her weapons in hand, just in case she needed to fight. Now she could finally hear the shuffling around the corner. Usagi slid out into the open ready to strike but froze in his tracks.

"Miss Jacquelyn!" Usagi returned his sword to his belt and rushed forward into the unknown.

Jack turned to corner and saw him kneeling at the side of Donatello. The turtle was bleeding from a stab wound in his side, something had managed to pierce the toughness of his plastron. His leg was thrown out limply in front of him. It looked as though it had been run over by a big rig, it was crushed, oozing blood from around the bones poking out.

"Oh my god…. Donnie…" Jack fell to her knees at his side, her small hand on his cheek trying to keep him in a state of consciousness. "Donnie, talk to me. Don… Don, stay with me please."

His head was wobbling from side to side as he blinked slowly. "Jack?" He looked at her. "What…. Why are you out here?"

"I came to find you guys. Where are the others? What happened?" Tears were welling up in her eyes.

"We were trying… escape." His eyes closed.

"Donnie!"

They snapped open again. "Ant busted open the door, Leo threw me out first… Said they were coming right behind…" His head lulled to the side again.

"He is losing a lot of blood." Usagi was tying cloths around his wounds, trying to staunch the bleeding as best as he could. "He needs help."

Jack got to her feet and wiped at the tears on her face. "Take him home Usagi." She looked around. "Hopefully some of the equipment in his room wasn't destroyed. You can help patch him up with that."

"But Miss Jacquelyn! What are you going to do?" Usagi looked up at her horrified. "You can't continue by yourself."

"Me going home is useless. I can't carry Donnie." She said finally. "Take him back. I'm going to Xanus." She turned on her heel and headed towards the center of the city.

Raph pulled his Sai from his belt as he heard the echo of foot prints coming down the sewer tunnel. Mikey flicked out his nun chucks and readied for a fight just like his brother. But the people coming around the corner weren't what he was expecting.

"Donnie?" He shoved his weapons in his belt and rushed forward. "Usagi? What the hell are you doing here?"

Mikey saw the condition of his brother and sighed. "Oh man… Donnie what the hell happened!"

Raph looked at his brother and grabbed his free arm, helping the rabbit carry him back towards their home. It seemed like everything was just stopping him from going to look for Jack, but he wasn't about to abandon his brother when he was so badly hurt.

"Don! Where are Leo and Ant?" Mikey asked as he cleared off a table in Donnie's room.

Raph and Usagi hoisted Donatello up onto the table.

"Donnie! Donnie! Wake up… tell us what to do!" Raph smacked his brother's face to rouse him.

The injured turtle opened his eyes slowly. "Okay… Just, make sure you listen…closely…"

Jack wiped at her tear covered cheeks as she peeked out of an ally way. IT was the middle of the night, no one was around except for a few cars slowly putting by. The woman looked across the street at the giant building looming over everything else. Xanus Pharmaceuticals. Setting a stony expression on her face she stepped out and crossed the road.

A horn blared and tires screeched as Jacquelyn was caught in the headlights. The old station wagon stopped a few inches from hitting her.

"Jack?! What the hell are you doing out here? Shouldn't you still be in the hospital?!"

The blonde looked up at the face stepping out of the car. "Arionna?"

"What the hell are you doing?!" The woman rushed over, her curls bouncing around her frantic face. "Why are you in the middle of the street?" She asked as she took Jack's hands. "Are those… weapons?" She asked as her eyes spied the metal spikes in her hands. "What is going on?"

Jack pulled her hands from the other woman's grip and hid the shobo behind her back. "Nothing Arionna, go home." She turned and started for the building once more.

"Jack stop!" The red head grabbed her friend by the arm and forced her to stop. "You are barely standing! You should still be in the hospital but I find you out here on the street in the middle of the night?! What the hell is going on? Where are the guys? Why are you all alone? What happened?"

"I don't know!" Jack finally screamed. Her red eyes stared at her feet as her shoulders shook. "They are just gone, Donnie… we found him half dead but the others… I don't know." Jack pushed Arionna away from her. "Go… go help Donnie, I need to do this. It's too dangerous for you." Half limping half running, Jack abandoned her coworker in the street

"Jackie!" Arionna called after her as another car started honking at her before it drove around her car which was still parked in the middle of the road.

After picking a lock on a maintenance door, Jack found her way inside. It was dark, there wasn't anyone around, at least not where she was. But somewhere in this building, her family was being held and who knew what was happening to them.

The woman crept from room to room, staying out of sight and avoiding any people she came across. She hid in the shadows, behind shelves and under desks as the purple dragons passed by in the hallways. But while she was hiding and moving about the first few floors, Jack learned that the laboratory the turtles were in was on the twelfth floor. Getting upstairs without being noticed was a bit more difficult. The stairs had no cover and the elevators would let everyone know exactly where she was. So it was the stairs, but she had to move as quickly as she could.

The twelfth floor was crawling with people. Purple dragons, men in lab coats, even a few people in suits. Jacquelyn's hands were shaking, her fists gripping her weapons tightly as she hunkered behind a file cabinet. Squeezing her eyes shut she took a deep breath. There were a bunch of desks and tables full of beakers and equipment, but she couldn't see the other side of the room.

Suddenly the sirens started to wail.

"Intruder!" Someone shouted. "There is an intruder in the building!"

Panic ensued. The gang members all snagged weapons and started to scatter. The men in lab coats looked more nervous and started to mill about more nervously.

"The larger one is become more aggressive! We need to start the Deconstruction process now before he breaks out of the containment area." One of the scientists ran over to a counter and started to punch things into a computer display.

Jack could hear banging, muffled shouting. She peered out from her hiding place and saw the two large containment areas in the back of the room. Two large single person stalls with see through walls were erected against the back wall. Tubes and wires linked them to machines and computers. Leonardo was in one of the small stalls, Antonello in the other. Ant was in a rage, he was throwing himself against the walls trying to break free. The walls bowed but refused to break. Leo, in the stall beside him, was clearly panicked, but looking around a bit more sensibly. He was checking corners, testing the wires at the back of his small prison. He grabbed a fistful of wires from the console and ripped them out, nothing happened. She didn't have time to question where Mikey or Raphael was when a scientist approached from the other side of the room.

He pressed a button beside the containers that held her friends and the tubes connected to them started to rumble to life.

This wasn't good. Whatever was happening, was happening now and she was the only one there to stop it. "No!" She cried out as she burst from her hiding place.

Leonardo saw a small familiar figure dart out from behind a desk. His hands pressed up against the clear wall of his confinement as he looked at her. "Jack?" he beat his hand against the wall. "Jack! Get out of here!"

The woman made a bee line for the closest person she could. Leo watched her dance around the incompetent bookworm and incapacitate him. Despite the situation, Leo had never taken the opportunity to appreciate what skill Jacquelyn had actually attained. She was becoming quite the ninja. Something rattled above him and Leo looked up as a vent in the roof of his cell started to leak some kind of fog around him. Eyes darted over and met Ant's for a brief second before the younger turtle again tried to break himself out to no avail. The fog was filling his cell as well.

Jack was still taking down a few of the scientists when Leo spotted a Purple Dragon coming up behind her. "Jack!" He shouted. But it was no use. She couldn't hear him.

He watched as the teenager put his friend in a choke hold. Jack was hoisted off the ground from behind, kicking and struggling to breathe. Leo was coughing as the gas started to enter his lungs but he didn't care, he was too focused on Jack. Where was Raph? Where was Mikey? Shouldn't they be the ones here helping? Why was Jack here fighting alone? The kid punched the squirming Jack in the side and Leo watched blood blossom on her shirt. Her stitches were ripped open once more.

Finally Jack managed to thrust her shobo into the throat of the kid behind her. Instantly she was dropped to the floor as the teenager fell backwards and struggled to take a breath. Jack left the weapon in his neck as she backed away. She was trembling, the prospect of actually taking a life still seemed to unnerve her. It was something Leo realized they needed to discuss, but it'd have to wait.

The fog was getting thicker. He coughed and suddenly his knees gave out and he fell against the clear wall.

Jack was before him in an instant. She was saying something, he couldn't tell what. Ant was on his knees as well, but was still trying to punch his way out. Jack was still talking and pointing at things. Leo just shook his head, he couldn't hear her. The woman moved over to the counter and found the computer. Leo couldn't see her.

His mind was starting to get hazy. He couldn't see straight. Crawling to the back of his small cell he grabbed hold of some of the wires he had pulled on earlier and tried to get them to do… something. Nothing happened.

There was a screeching sound and Leo was able to make out the shape of Ant crawling out of his cell. Jack had gotten his cell open. At least she got one of us out. He smiled to himself. His hands felt so heavy, they fell to his lap as he collapsed back against the wall. Something was beating on the wall opposite him but he couldn't see any more, everything was black. The air was so thick now, all he wanted to do was curl up and sleep. He couldn't fight it any more.

Leo fell to the floor and slipped into unconsciousness.