Chapter 10

Leo opened his eyes to a harsh light, he didn't remember much since he was knocked out. All he remembered was dazing in and out of sleep, looking out a window to see the scenery quickly pass by. He also remembered gearing people scream and yell out commands. He tried to talk to someone to ask where his brother was, but all he remembered was someone yelling 'He's talking'. Then felt a sharp pain in his shoulder and fell right back to sleep.

When he finally woke back up, he was in some kind of room. He looked around and saw a window with three scientist staring at him.

"He's waking up" He heard

He slowly lifted himself up in a sitting position, looking around at his room, one sink, one bed, one mirror, and one window. Where the scientist stood.

"Hello? Can you hear me?" One scientist said through a intercom

Leo really didn't want to respond, but what else was he suppose to do, if he didn't answer them, they would just keep asking. Leo nodded his head in response.

"Can you tell us your name?" a scientist

Leo sat in silence, Then answered, "Leonardo"

The scientist wrote something down then looked at him again.

"Can you tell us where you came from?"

"Sewers" Leo said, not really wanting to explain the whole thing

"Interesting…Ok…We will let you rest for a couple hours, then someone will come and get you for more questioning" A scientist said

A curtain flew down in front of the window. Leo sighed and stood up.

Leo heard whispers behind the window. He slowly walked up to it and placed his ear against the cold glass.

"So what is our next move?" He heard

"Well…in couple hours, We will question him about the hospital incident, then after more research, we will start the dissection"

"You mean kill it?"

"You must make sacrifices for science"

"Can't we keep him alive?"

"We can try?"

Leo backed away from the window, horrified. This…this is it…There's no escaping this one. He was going to be dissected, and that's the end. Raph would probably go to April's and see the news that they found a human turtle and dissected it.

"Two down, Two to go" He heard

"Why"

Leo turned around and saw the man in the doctors coat, standing in the middle of the room.

"Why are you doing this to us?" Leo asked

"I believe I heard that one before…But the answer still remains, You were just at the wrong place..at the wrong time…and if I remember correctly you tried to kill me" Dr. Coplan said

"Yes that's because you were terrorizing me and my brothers" Leo said

"Like I said…wrong place wrong time"

"Pretty pathetic excuse" Leo said

"Hey…I'm not the one who's going to be dissected" Dr. Coplan said

"Good one"

"Look Leonardo…This is the end of the road for you…How about this…you go through with this…and you're brothers are free"

"What?"

"Basically…You die…You're brothers go free" Dr. Coplan said

Leo stood in silence, He would do anything for his brothers, so this shouldn't be a hard decision right?

"Promise?"

"You have my word" Dr. Coplan said, then reached out a hand

Leo had a bad feeling about this, but he took his hand and shook.

"You'd better get some rest…you're dissection is soon" He said smiling, then disappeared

Leo sighed, he felt a bubbling rage in the pit of his stomach. He closed his eyes, screamed and slammed his fist into the window, cracking it. He walked over to his bed and flopped down on his shell.

"This is for you guys" Leo said

…

Four hours later

Leo walked down the hall, hands in chains and two big beefy guards next to him. They stopped at a door and one of the guards opened it. They pushed him into a dark room, one light that lit a chair and table. Leo walked up to the table and took a seat. A older looking man came into view and took a seat in front of him.

"Hello Leonardo..I said that right didn't I?" He said

Leo nodded

"You don't talk much do you?" He asked

Leo didn't respond.

"Ok lets get down to it" The man said

"Now I need you to answer all these questions for me…First one…Where did you come from?" The man asked

"Sewers"

"Come on…You can tell me more" He said

Leo sighed, "We started out as four normal turtles…We got stuck in the sewers and fell into some ooze that turn us into mutant turtles"

"So the other turtle with out at the hospital…Was that you're brother?"

"Yes"

"What was his name?"

"If you don't mind I'd like to keep my brothers out of this" Leo said

"So you're close to your brothers"

"You wouldn't believe" Leo said

The man wrote something down, then looked back up at him.

"What made you want to shoot up a hospital" The man asked

"We didn't shoot up that hospital" Leo said

"Then tell me how-" The doctor opened up his notebook, " 24 doctors and nurses died and 16 Patients died…including children"

"I didn't kill those people" Leo said getting angry

"Then who did" The man asked

"It was another doctor" Leo said

"Then how come that hospital was empty except for the two of you" The man asked

"He framed us" Leo yelled

"There's no need to yell"

"There's no need to accuse me just because I'm not human" Leo yelled

"Who said I was accusing you-"

"Don't give me that crap, The minute those cops laid eyes on us, we were guilty"

"Now Leonardo we-"

"I don't even know why I'm here answering you're questions" Leo stood up, "No matter what I say they're going to kill me anyway so why not just get it over with" Leo said

"Security" The man said

Leo felt arms wrap around his shoulders, "Let go of me" He said shoving them off, "I can walk on my own…I do have legs like a human" Leo said, then looked at the man, "But you don't care do you"

Leo turned around and walked out of the room, followed by the guards, hands still chained together.

…

Leo sat on his bed, thinking about nothing but his brothers, He would never talk to them again, and he can never say good bye to them. He heard footsteps down the hall, they were coming to get him. Leo sighed, this is probably the last time he was ever going to sigh again. This wasn't helping.

The door opened and two doctors stood at the door with a guard.

"They're ready for you" A doctor said

Leo stood up and walked toward the door. The guard cuffed his hands and they began walking down the long hallway.

Memories of a better past haunted Leo, before Splinter died, Before we got sucked into that world. He just wanted to close his eyes and wake from this nightmare.

He heard a door open, he opened his eyes and entered large room, normal examination table in the middle, tool and stuff near that. And up above were seats and the place was filled with doctors.

He walked to the middle of the room, then laid down on the table. The released his cuffs and strapped him down into the table. His hands and legs were strapped down tightly.

"The corner will be here in a minute" A scientist said

He stared up at the ceiling, heart racing and life flashing.

He heard a door open and footsteps getting closer. Then a face came into sight, looking straight down at him. A chilling voice entered his ears.

"Hello again Leonardo"

Leo stared in shock and horror, "Coplan"

"I hope I remember how to do this…I haven't performed a dissection in decades" He said

Leo began to panic, heart racing faster and feeling numb.

"Oh..and one other thing…when you're dead" Dr. Coplan leaned in close to his ear, "You're brothers are next"

"NOO!" Leo screamed and tried to break out of the hand and leg straps, Two guards held him down.

"Give him the drug" Coplan said

A nurse ran up to Leo and injected him with something we wasn't familiar with. He instantly felt numb all over. It felt as if his all muscles shut down and he was dead. But he was still very much alive.

"That should stop him from flailing around" Dr. Coplan said

Leo had no control of any of his muscles, he felt weird. Just not normal.

"Ok let's get started" Coplan said, "Before we start, we must remove his shell"

'Jesus Christ' Leo thought

He heard a saw turn on, but he couldn't see anything or look around to see. All he saw was the ceiling.

"Don't…please" Leo said weakly

After a couple minutes, the saw turned off. His head was lifted up by someone. He saw Dr. Coplan, holding a saw in one hand, and his shell in the other. His eyes traveled down to his body, his bare body where his shell use to protect, no lay revealing and naked. Leo's head was put back down and Dr. Coplan grabbed a marker and marked the placed on his body where he will make the incision. He grabbed a scalpel and grabbed Leo's head, lifting it up and staring into his eyes.

"See you in hell" Dr. Coplan said