Three remaining turtles...Donnie shut his eyes and tightened his grip on his staff. Obviously, nobody had noticed him yet which he didn't know whether this was a good thing or not. He felt fear surge into his heart though, when the Shredder suddenly ordered;
"All of you, stand in a line and drop all of your weapons."
After these words, nobody moved. Mikey glanced back quickly at Donnie while Leo and Raph stepped backward, closing Donnie in while April stepped in front of them to face the Shredder.
"O'Neil," he warned, pointing one of his blades in her direction. "I won't tell you again, drop your weapons, now."
"I won't surrender to you," April said boldy, holding her tessen tightly. "Even if that means you kill me where I stand. There will always be others who will rebel against you, Oroku Saki."
"Master Shredder," Razar hissed, furious at April for daring to speak to the Shredder that way. He suddenly smirked cruelly and held up a shoulder bag that Raph had picked up from before. "The Foot found this with the turtles. You should take a look inside."
Raph's heart was beating fast as the Shredder opened the bag and took out the folder, clutching the thick file in his hand and smirking under his helmet. Oh yes, Shredder thought, his eyes gleaming with nasty-intent, this was going to definitely touch a nerve.
"I see that you found the folder that contained the information on-" Shredder began, watching as Raphael began to tremble in anger.
"SHUT UP!" he yelled in fury, the look in his eyes looked as if he wanted to kill the Shredder. Leonardo quickly understood Shredder's words and pointed the tip of the katana blade toward him.
"Raphael..." April whispered, extending her hand toward him, her eyes reflecting fear as Raph ran forward, exposing Donnie from behind him. "Raph, no!"
Mikey quickly threw himself in front of Donnie and held his arms out to block the view of their enemies, Leonardo copied Mikey's every movement. Rahzar had managed to block Raphael's sai that as aimed at the Shredder's head with his hand and had then easily pinned him to the ground, holding Raph's arms behind his shell.
"Stay down, freak," Rahzar hissed, Raphael could do nothing but look up and glare in loathing at the mutant dog.
"What are you hiding?" Shredder hissed, he turned around and signaled for several of his armed ninja to point their guns at April, who, understandably, squeaked in shock as they took aim. She looked back at Leo and Mikey with a sad, defeated expression, "Move away from the wall right now or I will give the order and Miss O'Neil will be shot."
"Don't guys! Don't worry about me!" April yelled.
"Mikey, Leo; don't you dare!" Raph snarled, his jaw pressed against the ground.
Having no choice in the matter, Leo and Mikey scowled but lowered their arms and stepped away, revealing the younger Donatello who was stood in the middle, holding his staff and looking a little worried. There were several gasps from the ninja, including Rahzar who looked at his master.
"It isn't possible," Shredder's eyes narrowed at the sight of the young turtle, who slowly slid his staff into the harness on the back of his shell. The Shredder dropped the folder on the ground which opened and several pieces of paper flew out which had information on the purple-masked turtle. No wonder Raph tried to hide it from Donnie's view. "I saw you die! You're dead!"
Donnie's legs began to shake but he maintained his stance the best that he could. He had previously had his own thoughts in his whereabouts but it frightened and shocked him to hear the Shredder say it out loud.
"Rahzar," Shredder said quietly, the mutant looked up at his master. "Put your claws to that turtle's throat."
Rahzar obediently pulled Raph's head up by the tails of his mask and held one of his sharp claws under Raph's neck.
"Now, Donatello," Shredder smiled smugly as Donnie flinched at the sound of him calling Donnie by his full name. "We're going to play a little game; it's called 'Answer-my-questions-and-your-brother-lives.' How does that sound?"
Knowing better than to argue, Donnie simply nodded in reply and cleared his throat, "What do you want to know?"
"Are you the real Donatello? If not, who are you and how did you get here?"
"To answer your first question, the answer is a little bit complicated," Donnie frowned. "I am the real Donatello but I'm not the one from this day and age. To answer your second question, I'm still trying to work it out myself but I fell through a portal. Now," Donnie reached behind him and tightly held the top of his Bo staff, "let Raphael go."
Before anybody could say or do anything, a voice suddenly screamed; "Heads up, Red!" before the room suddenly filled with thick purple smoke. Donnie heard several thumps and crashed and soon found himself being grabbed by the arms and carried away, whoever was holding him was running as fast as they could.
"Don't breathe too much of it in!" the voice called again, Donnie covered his mouth with his hands, as the smoke cleared, he found himself being carried by Michelangelo while Leo and Raph ran ahead, April held tightly in Raph's arms. There were several gunshots and shouts but nothing came after them as they burst out of the base and headed back through the city, Donnie had no idea whether this mission had been a success or not.