The turtles' main enemies, Shredder and Krang and their hench mutants hadn't been seen for a couple weeks. Before Donatello's incident, the boys had only been dealing with street thugs mostly. But now, they were one turtle short.

The turtles and Splinter were staying with Donatello all the time at the clinic until he would be well enough to go home. It had only been 2 days since Donny had awoken from his three day sleep.

April had been really busy for the past several days and hadn't contacted her friends, but when there was a report that a power plant had been broken into downtown, April looked at the printed results first and then contacted her friends.

"April to Turtles." She said.

At the clinic, the mutant family was all having their lunch when Leonardo's turtle com started going off. He picked it up and opened it.

"Hi, April. What's up?"

"There's been a break in at the power plant downtown. The results said that Shredder and his mutants are down there trying to steal power." April said.

"We'll be right there. Thanks, April." Leo said and hung up. Then he looked at the others. "Fellas, we have work to do."

Donatello was sitting up against the wall to try to eat his lunch, but at this interruption, he knew he couldn't go.

"Go, my turtles. I will stay with Donatello." Splinter said.

Leo, Raph, and Mike reluctantly left, but not before Donatello saying that if they needed help with anything related to technology, he was only a turtle com call away and he would try his best to guide them through it.

"I hope they don't run into any trouble." Donatello said.

"I'm sure they can manage, Donatello." Splinter said.

Donatello wished he could be out having the fun with his brothers, but he couldn't rush his recovery.

When the trio got to the power plant, Shredder was having Bebop and Rocksteady getting some power packs out of a closet with security guards tied up in the background.

"Hurry up, you dolts!" Shredder shouted at his minions. "We have to get out of here before the turtles show up."

"We're already here, Shredder!" Leonardo shouted as he and Raphael and Michelangelo jump kicked through a door.

"Ahh! What does it take to keep you turtles out of my business?" Shredder complained.

"The day you stop trying to take over the world." Raphael remarked.

Bebop and Rocksteady attacked the turtles, but were easily flung away. Shredder then attacked and he did manage to get past the three turtles. His minions followed him. They ran for their module that was nearby.

"Let's get 'em guys." Leo ordered and the three of them ran after their enemies.

By the time they caught up with them, they were in the module and escaped under the ground.

"Oh, they got away." Mike said.

"They do all the time." Raph replied.

"At least we stopped them from taking the power packs." Leo said. Then the three of them went back to the zoo clinic.

Splinter and Donny were glad that the three of them returned without any major damage done to them.

On their way back to the Technodrome, Shredder and his minions talked about how they had noticed in the end that there had been only three turtles facing off with them instead of the usual four. That was unusual. They knew Donatello was no coward. Even he would have been there, unless he had been in a backup spot that they didn't go out of.

If he was gone, they could use this to their advantage. With the brainy turtle gone, the turtles would be more at a disadvantage when it came to big technology to figure it out. They might use it to their advantage if their smart one was really out of the picture.

After her shift ended, April felt that she had had a good day at her job for once and went down to celebrate with her friends. It had been a little while since she had seen them last. But when she got to the lair, it was pitch black.

"Hello? Is anyone here?" April took out her pocket flashlight to find a light switch.

She got no reply from anybody in the lair and found the rooms all deserted, even Splinter's.

"I hope they're alright." She said and called her friends.

"Hi, April. What's up?" Raphael picked up.

"Where are you guys? I'm down here in the lair and you are gone." April said.

"We're all over here at the zoo veterinary clinic, April."

"What are you doing there? Has someone been hurt?"

"Donatello."

"Donatello? How bad is he hurt?"

"Bad. He's not going to be able to fight with us for some time." Raphael explained.

"I'll be over in a little bit." April said. She had concerns about her smart friend, but would be there for any of them if something happened to them.

She got out of the sewers and got on the Channel Six news motorcycle and headed to the zoo clinic. She hoped Donatello would be alright.

When she got to the zoo clinic, she knocked and Mike let her in. Dr. Jane and Dr. Matt were now going home at night as Donatello was doing much better now, so it was just the mutant family here at night.

"Where's Donatello?" April asked.

"Right this way, April." Mike said and led the way to a back room where she saw Donatello look up as he was leaning against the wall to support himself. He had a pillow behind him. The others looked up too as she joined their family.

"Nice of you to join us, April." Leonardo said.

"What happened, Donatello?" She asked, concerned.

"It's a long story." Donny replied.

From her point of view, April could see bandages on the brainy turtle's right arm and an IV in the left hand, but other than that, she didn't see anything else wrong, as he was covered with blankets that covered his body up to his chest.

"Who hurt you? Shredder?" April asked.

"No. For once, this was not his doing." Leo said.

"It was some unknown guy who had a grudge against Donatello for some reason. He said that Donatello had hurt him and he had intended to return the favor." Mike explained.

"But you guys would never hurt anybody unless there was a reason to." She said.

"We know, but he might have been a robber at some point, but I didn't remember him." Donny said. "He never even told me his name, but if I saw him again, I would remember his face."

"But what else happened, Donatello? Can you get up?"

"Not without help, April. My injuries go far beyond just this slash on my arm." Donny replied. He reluctantly pulled the blankets down to reveal his bandaged middle.

April couldn't believe what she saw.

"Master, if you would raise that end up." Donny said.

"Yes, my student." Splinter said and he raised the blanket on the left leg.

April then saw the cast on Donatello's leg. Her friend was indeed in very bad shape. "What happened?" She demanded to know.

"The man tried to destroy my stomach for the most part. He cut my plastron up and he made long cuts in my sides, which now have stitches in them. He broke my lower leg so I couldn't get away from him. He beat my stomach too before he cut it up. The slash on my arm was just something else." Donatello tried to explain the best he could from his memory of what happened.

Then the others explained what happened after that when Donny didn't know what happened while he was unconscious.

"I could have helped." April said.

"We're sorry, April, but we had to make sure he was alright first." Leonardo said. "But you can help us out now."

"So when are you going to be able to go home?" She asked.

"A few more days. Dr. Goodfellow wants to make sure I'm strong enough first." Donny said.

"It is time for you to try to get up and do some walking again, Donatello." Leo said.

"It feels like I just got to laying back down again, Leonardo." Donny complained.

"You know we have to do this every few hours."

Donatello groaned.

April watched as two of her friends helped Donatello to his feet. She had never heard Donatello be in that much pain before. Obviously his stomach was the worst of his injuries, before his leg. She watched as Leonardo and Michelangelo helped him to walk around the room, ever so slowly. She saw how Donny limped on the bad leg. She hoped he would be ok in a few weeks.

She knew that a broken leg could take six weeks at the least to heal, but she wasn't sure how long it would take Donatello's plastron to heal.

"How long do you think it will take to recover from all this?" April asked.

"Dr. Goodfellow said at least eight weeks for his leg. The stitches in his sides and arm come out in a couple of weeks. But his plastron won't be healed for at least four or five months." Splinter said.

After hearing that, April knew this was going to a long recovery for Donatello.

She stayed with them until the next morning, then went home and got ready for work again.

Beta read by Turtlefanforlife1982.