Three times Leo saved his brothers from mind control and one time where they saved him...

Chapter 2, Raph

Raph and Leo were in a bit of a pickle, they were standing back to back in the middle of a circle of foot ninja, none of them were attacking, just standing there. Then they suddenly parted and through the gap walked the Shredder. Raph and Leo shared a concerned glance, but then they hardened, neither of them knew it, but both of them were thinking that they were glad Don and Mikey weren't here to see this.

The Shredder then said something in Japanese and Leo's eyes widened, he gave Raph a shove, and it was only when Raph looked up that he understood what had happened. Leo had a dart sticking out of his neck and was starting to stumble, he eventually fell to his knees.

The Shredder laughed, "The only way I could have more certainly sedated Leonardo than aim at him was to aim at you."

"Why you little-" Raph started angrily but was cut off.

"Now now little turtle, your brother lasted nearly an hour against the foot and the Kraang combined, will you?" Tigerclaw said, stepping out from the shadows.

Raph's eyes widened as he realized what was going to happen, he was going to have to fight to get himself and Leo out of this. He got ready, sai's drawn and in a crouched stance, but when the fight was about to start Stockman entered loudly and all eyes turned to him.

"Master Shredder, sorry to interrupt, but-"

"But what?! I told you not to interrupt this!" The Shredder roared.

"Yes but Master, you wanted to know when the serum was complete." Stockman said, and a grin slowly spread itself out across the Shredders face.

"Ah yes, well, as it seems Leonardo will be of no use to us currently, why don't we try it out on the protective brother, Raphael." Tigerclaw said.

"Sorry to disappoint fella's, but Leo's the protective one, I'm the one with anger issues." Raph flashed a terrifying grin and charged right at the Shredder and Stockman, something no one was expecting, but as fast as Raph was, the Shredder was faster, he grabbed the needle from the velvet lined case Stockman had brought and as Raphael charged, he stuck it into his thigh and quickly released its contents.

Raph stumbled backwards and fell right beside Leo, who seemed like he was starting to come to, the sedative was only made so that they could pry him away from his brothers if need be, so it wasn't extremely strong, just fast acting.

"Raph, are you okay?" Leo asked him, but to Raph, his voice was distorted, his vision looked like he was in a fishbowl. "Raph?" Leo asked again and then turned to Shredder, "What did you do to him?!"

"Made him mine, no words can reach him now." The Shredder said.

Raphael stood, but not of his own accord, he drew his sai's and pointed them at Leo, who, internally was going 'Not Again.'

The engaged in a fight, Leo was still a little groggy and so at the beginning Raph managed to slash Leo's left leg, and Leo realized a priority was to disarm Raph, and so tried to. He earned a few more gashes, but eventually he did disarm Raph. Leo then sheathed his katana's, he didn't want to hurt Raph.

Leo was desperately trying to think of a way to snap Raph out of it, but like the Shredder promised, words did no good. Then Leo had an idea, but it was risky, and he also had no idea what he would do if he managed to snap Raph out of it, they were still surrounded by many, many foot and Shredder himself. But it didn't matter, because he wasn't going to leave Raph behind.

As they circled each other, Raph made the first move and charged at him, Leo positioned himself perfectly, and so instead of meeting Raph's fists, he was giving him a big hug, pinning his arms to his body. Raph thrashed against him, but Leo's grip held firm, and eventually Raph stopped thrashing. Leo pulled away slightly and loosened his grip to see if Raph had snapped out of it, but the mind controlled Raph was a little more clever than that. He kicked Leo to the ground and jumped on top of him, he punched him in the face over and over again.

"Raph please, please." Leo gasped between punches, and something about seeing his older brother, his hero, begging him to stop hurting him, that made something snap within Raphael. He let out a guttural shout and collapsed next to Leo, who was groaning and attempting to sit up.

Leo was very dizzy, his head was spinning, but he knew they had to get out of here, he looked over to Raph, who appeared to be unconscious, and he cursed under his breath, this was going to be harder than expected. Leo looked up to the roof of the building they were in and saw there were large rafters and a skylight, he still had his grappling hook gun on his belt. With great speed Leo heaved Raph over his shoulder and fired the gun into the rafters, quickly, they were speeding towards the skylight, which Leo broke with his body. They rolled out onto the roof and Leo looked around and noticed a fire escape, thank goodness, he wasn't sure how they would've gotten down otherwise.

Leo picked up Raph again and carefully began to descend down the fire escape. It was very hard, Raph was the heaviest of them all, he had a lot of bulky muscle, not like that was of any help right now. Leo's arms burned, but he couldn't stop now. When he finally reached the ground he was glad to see that there were not yet foot waiting for them on the ground, He put Raph down and removed the lid to the sewers, he then lowered Raph down before climbing in himself, he covered the manhole.

He picked Raph up, and staggered a bit, as the adrenaline was wearing out so was Leo's strength, they had lost their shell-cells a while back so Leo couldn't call Donnie or Mikey to help him. His head was swimming and his legs were burning, he was bleeding, rasping for breath, his vision was becoming blurry, but he kept going, because this was his brother, and he wasn't going to let him down.

Finally he walked into the lair and called "Donnie!" it wasn't too loud, but quickly both Donnie and Mikey ran in just as Leo collapsed and dropped Raph.

Leo opened his eyes and looked around, Raph was asleep in a chair next to him, and Donnie and Splinter were chatting at the foot of the cot. Donnie noticed he was awake and said "Leo, how are you feeling?"

"Like I got run over by a car." Leo said with a raspy voice, this woke up Raph.

"Leo, you're up!" He said excitedly, "What happened?"

"You don't remember?" Leo asked, sitting up slightly and wincing.

"No, the last thing I can remember is you getting shot with that dart." Raph said, "How did we get out of there?"

"You don't remember, that's good, that's good." Leo mumbled before slipping back into sleep.

Donnie, Splinter and Raph shared concerned glances.

The next time Leo woke up, Mikey was with him.

"Leo, dude..." Mikey said with concern before yelling, "Donnie!" Leo winced at the volume, "Oh, sorry dude."

"How long have I been out?" Leo aske, sitting up in the bed.

"A few days, Donnie said that you had a lot of blood loss and you have a pretty bad concussion." Mikey explained.

"Yeah... that's what it feels like." Leo said, stretching his arms over his head.

Donnie came in followed by Raph, "How are you feeling?" Donnie asked.

"Sore, and I have a headache." Leo told him honestly, "But other than that I'm okay."

"Alright, well, I took the stitches in your leg out yesterday so if you aren't in much pain then you can do whatever I guess." Donnie told him.

"Great." Leo said and swung his legs over the bed.

"Woah, not so fast Fearless, you gotta tell us what happened." Raph said.

Leo looked at Raph with a slightly sad expression, and started, "Do you, do you remember a while ago when the Shredder used that mind control worm on you, and then used a better one on Donnie?" Leo asked, "Well, they've been upgrading, there's no worm anymore, it was a needle with a purple liquid I think." Leo said.

Donnie then turned to Raph, "Was that what you said hit Leo in the neck?"

"No." Raph and Leo said at the same time, making knowing eye contact.

"It wasn't your fault Raph." Leo said.

"Wasn't my fault?! Really?!" Raph shouted, "You heard what the Shredder said!"

"No, Raph, I chose to do that, you didn't." Leo said.

"If I knew Japanese, if I had trained as hard as you do then I would've been able to stop it, I-I'm so sorry bro." Raph said, his anger dissipating.

"Don't be sorry Raph, you didn't do anything." Leo replied, "It was the Shredder."

"Why didn't you do something? Were you just going to let me kill you? I wasn't even hurt Leo! You didn't fight with your swords? Why?" Raph demanded, his anger beginning to build again.

"I didn't want to hurt you, Raph-"

"I don't want to hurt you! None of us do!" Raph yelled, he didn't notice that Splinter had heard the racket and had come to investigate.

"Raphael, that is enough." Splinter said sternly.

Raph quickly turned to face Master Splinter, "But-"

"No, Leonardo did what any of you would have done." Splinter said.

"I don't think so." Donnie pipped up, and they all turned to face him, very surprised that he was participating in the argument. "How far would you have gone? If it came down to the two of you?" He asked Leo.

Leo sighed, "If there was no other choice I would have let him kill me."

"Did the idea of running and getting backup ever cross your mind?" Donnie asked.

"Okay, well I apologize for not wanting to leave any of you to the whims of the Shredder alright?!" Leo snapped, "I know, I know what that's like and I don't-" Leo took a deep breath, "I would do whatever it would take to make sure that never happened to you guys."

Everyone was silent, especially as they recalled the night Leo was referring to, when he was ambushed and had to fight for his life for hours without end.

Leo stood and left the room without another word.

That night/early morning Leo woke with a strangled scream, he quickly got up and paced around in his room for a moment, he actually couldn't remember what it was about, but his heart was racing.

Then he heard a light knocking on the door of his room, "Come in." He said quietly.

To Leo's surprise it was Donnie.

"Are you alright?" Donnie asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Leo said warily. He grabbed his katana's from the chair they were hanging on and walked past Donnie out of his room while strpping them on his back.

"Where are you going?" Donnie asked, following him through the hallway.

"I'm going for a run." Leo replied shortly.

Donnie looked at his retreating figure oddly and then looked at the clock, it was 4:07am.

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