Chapter 2-Disbelief
This can't possibly be happening. Raph was telling the truth! I check my infra-red binoculars again, just to make sure I'm not hallucinating. Even then, I still can't believe it. Leo, on the Statue of Liberty, getting ready to, from the best I can tell, commit SUICIDE?! Is this a dream? How can this be? Our oldest brother, our brother who's always looking out for all of us, never wavering in confidence or skill under any circumstances. LEO, trying to KILL HIMSELF?! It takes the seventh ring on my shell cell for it to register in my mind. I put it on speaker, leaping off the skyscraper I'm standing on, flying towards Leo as fast as my glider will allow.
"Donnie, you SEEIN' this?"
I don't hear him, I'm still in a state of shock. This is too surreal, too unbelievable to be true.
"DONNIE!"
Raph's voice finally reaches me, and I try to shake the shock from my mind. Whether this is real or not, I have to stop Leo. I can't let him do this. He can't leave us like this after he just got back!
"Yeah, I see him. Call Mikey and have him grab one of the shell sleds from the lair. I'll get Leo."
I switch off my shell cell before Raph can say anything else. His voice just grounds the situation into reality. I don't WANT this to be real. But it is. It's terrifyingly real. I look through my binoculars again, I see Leo stab his katana into the statue's bronze head, tie his belt around them. I scream at him with my thoughts, I beg him, I demand him to stop, but my mental pleas don't do anything. He's taking off his mask now, his favorite gift from Sensei. Why, Leo?! I'm still too far away, I angle sharply downward, riding the updraft as I angle back towards the sky, trying desperately to pick up any semblance of speed I possibly can. I scream at him again with my mind, begging him to reconsider what he's doing. I almost feel like crying when I look again. He's at the edge, but he's turned back! He's lost in thought, and for the slightest instant, I wonder what he could be thinking about. I'm almost there, Leo, just, please, don't do it! How could Leo even think of something like this? If it were me, or Mikey, or Raph, Leo wouldn't stand for it. He's always setting an example for us, showing us how to be better ninja, better students, better turtles. He always does the honorable thing, he always walks the honorable path. Where's the honor in this, Leo?! I'm so close, but then.. NO! He's jumping!
"LEO!"
I have to break his fall, I have to stop him from doing this! I dive down towards him, he's in free fall. I let go of the glider steering handle, attached only by my harness. I reach for him. I have to make it, I have to make it! I GOT HIM! It's a loose grip, but his added weight throws the glider off course. We're plummeting straight down again! I can't let go of him, but I can't steer the glider if I don't! This can't be real! I can't let this be real! I can't have made it in time to save Leo, just to die with him! I close my eyes, praying for a miracle. Then, in the form of an angry bro, it comes to us...