Don pushed Leo and Raph down and threatened them not to get up then ran towards the lab.

When he burst through the doors he saw nothing out of the ordinary. He walked over to a sleeping Mikey and saw that the poor turtle was tossing and turning as if he was trying to get away from something.

He sat beside the distressed turtle and put his hand on Mikeys forehead. "Shhh...its alright...its alright. Your safe! I promise you are." Soon enough Mikey stopped panicing and was once more at a peaceful sleep.

Don sighed and made sure Mikeys vitals were all ok, once that was done he left for the living room. As soon as he got back to Leo and Raph they started bombing him with millions of questions.

He cleared all the confusion they had with one simple sentence. "He is perfectly fine you guys! It was a complete false alarm, he just had a nightmare! He perfectly fine now, I promise." This calmed the eldest down considerably.

"What was he dreaming of?" Raph asked.

Don just shook his head, "I have no clue, but I have a hunch that its about that stupid shadow he keeps insisting on!"

Leo shook his head, "we have to do something to help him. This is beginning to be too-"

"Now wait a second Leo...we saw something down there in the water and you know it! It was pulling Mikey down and it had red eyes...don't you think we can atleast support Mikey? What if he is right?! I mean we have seen weirder."

Leo and Don looked at each other then Leo sighed.

"Raph...it could have been anything."

Raph nodded, "yea that's right! It could have been anything Leo! A shadow fits into that category just fine!"

Don and Leo both face palmed. "Don't tell me your going to be on his side based on something you possibly saw!"

Raph was getting mad. "That's exactly what i'm saying! Look, you know I wouldn't egg one of Mikeys stupid little imagination crazed nightmares if I didn't fully believe in what I thought was true. Somethings just tellin' me that...i'm right."

Don frowned. "That's called an ego Raph, and I don't think you need to be encouraging Mikey to believe in such an outrageous thing!"

Raph growled. "LOOK, I don't know why the shell you two are being so stupid with all this but I wish you'd just shut the shell up and accept that imma be believing him now. Excuse me for being a good big brother!"

Leo and Don both looked at each other and sighed as they saw no other way to handle this. "Alright then...well i'm going to go set up two more beds in the lab so that we can all get this madness settled."

Don quickly ran to the lab and set everything up, he put a bed on Mikeys left and right side so that he couldn't possibly run away. After he had everything set up Don put his other two patients in the beds,then they waited.

Both Leo and Raph fell asleep leaving Don to tend to all of there vitals and sit silently for about half an hour, it gave him time to ponder all of the utter insanity that was going on.

Finally Mikey started to stir, this made the other two awaken as well.

Don rushed over to Mikey. "Hey Mike, how ya feeling?"

Mikey rubbed his head in discomfort. "Weak and pretty cold... what happened?"

Concern washed across each of the eldest faces, Raph spoke trying to get set up in his bed.

"Mike we had a storm last night and ya completely flipped out and just ran into the sewers! We all followed you when we realized you were gone then we tracked you to the old clean water unit and found you standing on a platform right in the freakin middle of the unit!

We tried to call out your name and get you to come over, when you finally did start to come over...you jumped."

Raph was tearing up now, he quickly pulled himself back together and leaned over to put a hand on Mikeys shoulder.

"We-we almost lost ya...Don had to do CPR so you would come back...you-you almost didn't make it bro.

But...before you start to defend yourself I would like to add that both me and Leo saw something with red eyes in the water when we were saving you...and I believe that you have been right all along.

I think there is some sort of shadow stalking you and i'm on your side now.

I even believe that you didn't jump last night...you were pushed...weren't you? You had warned us that you would have gotten pushed if you stepped towards us. Am I right?"

Mikey smiled and nodded his head. "That's absolutely right! I remember everything now! It was chasing me through the sewers and saw the same red eyes looked at me as it tried to pounce on me at one point!

It lead me there and knocked me out. Then when I woke up I stood up and there I was, you guys came after it had threatened me...Raph...thanks so much for believing me."

Raph grunted and gave a thumbs up in approval, Mikey turned to Leo and Don.

"Guys...I know you still don't believe me...I don't completely blame you ethier! It would take a while for me to understand all this too!

But guys I'm telling you- no i'm begging you to hear me out! The shadow was there!

I know you guys think I have gone insane...sometimes I think I have to! But now that I remember last night I can safely say that I have been right. There is a shadow."

Both Leo and Don still didn't believe him, and they let him know it too! As the days went by the turtles found themselves keeping to themselves.

Raph and Mikey almost never left the living room anymore and Leo and Donny never left the lab! The only time the four would come together was to train or to eat. No more, no less.

About four days later though the cycle came to a screeching halt.

Raph and Mikey had spent there nights sleeping on the sofa and recliner, so it was a big surprise when one morning Mikey got up confidentially and stated that he was going to go get some video games in his room.

Raph, who was half asleep, had let the young turtle go alone not thinking anymore about it. The older turtle regretted his laziness when he heard Mikey scream. He rushed towards the source of the sound, Mikeys room.

"MIKE?! We're are ya-awh shell Mike!" Raph bent down to check over the knocked out Mikey, he quickly discovered a knot on the back of his little brothers head.

He growled, he sensed something else in the room...right behind him...he rose quickly and was about to draw his sai when all of the sudden-

BAM.

Raphs eyes widened as he looked back to see what had hit him so hard, to his horror it was the shadow.

He tried to fight off the dizziness that was becoming way to overwhelming way to fast. He finally gave in and passed out, landing right beside the unconscious Mikey.

Unfortunately no one else came rushing into the room to save the two...Don and Leo were still in the lab scheming ways to slap some sense into Raph and Mikey for believing in such a thing as a shadow.

Unknowing to them the two they were trying to slap sense into were currently getting dragged out of the lair and into a whole other dimension!