Leo's family was going crazy looking for him all over the city. It had been over two weeks since the tradeoff. Don's leg was doing better so he was able to help his brothers and friends in the frantic search for Leo.
Tracking down Bishop had turned up no leads. It was very disturbing. From what Don had said, they knew something terrible could be happening to Leo right now and they didn't know where to find him.
When they were home, Master Splinter had his sons preparing for the Battle Nexus Tournament. It was coming soon and he knew Leonardo would want to be part of it. He just hoped that they found him in time. They wouldn't give up. They couldn't give up.
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When the day of the Battle Nexus had arrived and it had been over a month since Leo had been taken from them. The family had never found any clues on where to find Leo. Wherever he had been taken it was beyond the city. Master Splinter had even tried seeking Leo in the astral plane and could never find his spiritual essence. Something was wrong and they feared the worst.
Splinter was sure that his oldest son was still alive and they would one day find him, but they still had to live their lives. He knew that his son would want his family to move on and live out their lives the best they could without him.
Raph had been deemed the new leader. Don was his second. None of Leo's brothers were too happy without Leo around. Mikey still tried at times to make them happy, but he was often ignored or given a swat upside the head. Even though he tried to keep the others' spirits up, there were times that he too was miserable missing Leo.
The boys reluctantly went to the Battle Nexus. There, they saw their friend, Usagi, the samurai rabbit.
"Good to see you again, my friends." Usagi greeted.
"Hi, Usagi." Don returned the greeting.
Usagi looked at the number of turtles and masks, and then asked, "Where is Leonardo-san?"
"He has been missing for over a month now. We don't know where he is, but he was taken by some maniac doing something to him." Mikey explained. "We know he wouldn't want us to miss out on the tournament so we came."
"I can come help look for him after the tournament." Usagi offered.
"I don't think it would do any good. We can't even find him." Don said. "But thanks for the offer."
Usagi felt terrible that his best friend out of the turtles was gone, but he was still friends with his family. The battles went on.
When the Daimyo and his son found out about Leo's circumstances, they wished Splinter and his family well in their search for Leonardo.
Mikey tried hard to hold onto the title of the Champion, but he was having trouble concentrating and he lost to his opponent. But his family couldn't blame him. Though at the same time, they were glad he lost so he wouldn't be bragging about it all the time anymore.
…..
After three long months of being asleep, Johnson gave the go-ahead for no more sedation drugs to be in Leo's system and let him wake up when he was ready.
They removed the tubes before he began to wake up. The less he knew the better.
Over the course of the three months, Leo had been well fed and taken care of. His stomach was now a good bit swollen at 13 weeks. The embryos had been monitored weekly and they had all made it this far.
Soon, Leo began to wake up and he found himself lying in a bed, covered up. He saw it wasn't his own room. He felt something on his wrists and found that he had shackles on them. But now, they were just wrist bands, not shackles attached with chains to a wall. His legs were loose as well.
"Where am I?" Leo asked.
He went to get up off his bed and he felt a little woozy. He also noticed when he removed the blanket off of himself that his stomach was slightly bigger and rounder! He got up and he instantly felt the weight inside him and it threw him off balance. He screamed when he fell to the floor.
The door instantly came open and a man rushed into the room.
"What's going on in here?!" The man demanded as he saw Leonardo on the floor, holding his stomach.
"What happened?" Johnson asked as he followed the man into the room. He saw the turtle on the floor. "Get him up!"
"Come on, Turtle, get up."
Leo groaned in pain as he was pulled to his feet. He was placed back on his bed. "What… what did you do to me?" Leo demanded to know. He was still struggling to breathe. "Did you overfeed me?"
"Well, we did feed you a lot during these three months-" Johnson cut the man off with an elbow to the chest.
Leo's eyes widened. Three months! "I've been here for three months?"
Johnson turned to him. "Yes and you are doing very well in my project."
"What is this project anyway?" Leo demanded.
"That." The man pointed.
Leo immediately looked down at his stomach. He was still holding it from the weight it held and the little bit of pain that he felt in it.
"I would never eat to the point of being fat and heavy. I'd starve myself before I'd let you fatten me up." Leo said.
"Now that you are past the most critical time, I had decided to finally wake you up and get you to start being yourself again. Though you will not be fighting or running around anytime soon. You have already felt the weight inside you." Johnson explained. "You're not fat by a normal means, Leonardo. And starving yourself wouldn't be a good thing right now. You can eat by yourself when you're fed, or we can force feed it to you through the tube again. You were tube fed while you were unconscious."
Leo just glared at him.
"You wouldn't abandon life, would you?" Johnson asked.
"If it meant saving my family from monsters like you." Leo answered.
"No, I meant that you do care about new life, right?"
"Yes." Leo lifted an eye ridge, unsure where Johnson was going in the conversation.
"Well, do you know what I'm getting at?" The man pointed again at Leo's belly.
Leo's eyes looked down again at his belly. Then he looked up at Johnson again. He kept a hand on his belly. "You- you don't mean-?"
"Yes, Leonardo. You know about the male seahorse, how it bears the young? Well, let's say I've imposed the seahorse effect on you."
Leo was speechless. There was no way that this could be happening to him.
"I'm- I'm… pregnant…?" Leo stuttered in shock.
"Yes."
This was all too much to take in. Suddenly, Leo fell back onto his bed as he fainted.
Johnson came over and checked him over. He knew it was just the shock. He would get used to this, one way or another. There was no way that Leonardo was escaping this now. The man rubbed the turtle's belly before having his men set Leo up to rest in bed to sleep off his fainting. But Johnson remained in the room to keep watch over him.
Johnson had to get the turtle comfortable enough about this that he wasn't going to hurt himself again when he woke up and he had to make him understand.
…..
Leonardo woke up a couple hours later, wondering if what had happened before had been a dream. When he removed the blanket over his body, he saw his stomach was indeed swollen. It hadn't been a dream at all.
"Nice to see you finally awoke again." Leo heard a voice and looked to his right.
There was Johnson sitting in a chair next to the bed.
"Is it true?" Leo asked nervously. "I'm pregnant?"
"Yes. It was no dream, Leonardo. Now, just try to relax. I know this is still a shock for you, but you will get used to it in time." Johnson said.
"Why? Why would you do this to me?"
"Because my boss needs something new and fresh to benefit his work. And it's my job to get it for him. And you will be the carrier of them."
"Them?"
"Yes, you are carrying more than one."
"How many?"
"We created four embryos in case one or two didn't make it. And because of you being sedated for the first 3 months, we got you past the time of morning sickness at its worst. Now you are past the most critical in the pregnancy and all four have made it safely."
"Are… am I the father or am I just a carrier for aliens?" Leo demanded.
"There is alien DNA to help make up the wombs nourishing the babies. And yes, you are a father to one of them. Your brothers are the fathers to the other three."
"But how could they be when they aren't here?"
"From old DNA that was saved. But your child was done more the old fashioned way."
Leo would have never done that voluntarily which meant that they had raped him!
"I came with you to release my brother, not to become a part of something this insane." Leo said.
"It may seem insane to you, but Agent Bishop needs the DNA from those babies to ensure he gets his mutant army to help defend the Earth."
"He won't be harming any part of my family." Leo began to tense.
"I would be in charge of them, and I promise they won't be killed, but there will be need to collect DNA from them from time to time."
Leo had just woken up and found out he was becoming a mother and a father, and this crazy man was telling him what was going to be done with his children.
"I won't let it happen." Leo said.
"By the time those babies are due you won't be in any shape to stop us. And it will be awhile yet. Don't get too attached to them. They are the government's property, and now, so are you. There will be plenty of other opportunities for you."
Leo didn't like the sound of that. He knew he needed to get out of there before that ever happened.
"Oh, and we had been monitoring the babies weekly since they were conceived. It's time to do that again."
Leo tensed and pulled himself to the wall. He brought his legs close to his body. "You aren't touching me again!" He put his hands protectively over his swollen belly.
"But don't you want to see pictures of your precious babies?"
"Not by you doing it."
"Leonardo, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way. What's it going to be?" Johnson demanded.
Leo glared, "You aren't touching me!"
"Very well. The hard way then. Guards!"
Leo tensed as more men came into his room. He normally would have jumped right up and fought, but he remembered his lack of balance earlier and wasn't sure if he could maintain it.
The humans came over to his bed and he kicked two of them away, but then, Johnson hit a button on a remote and Leo screamed in pain when his wrists began to burn.
It gave the cue to the men to grab his arms, stay clear of his legs and pulled him down onto his back.
"Agh! NO! Let me go!" Leo screamed in vain.
The two men that Leo had kicked away wanted to pay the turtle back, but they knew they couldn't hurt him. Johnson needed him in one piece to continue this project.
Leo squirmed with all his might to try to get free, but he was held strong. His muscles had gotten weak during his 3 month long sleep.
Shackles were placed upon his ankles and his arms were held above his head and chains were snapped onto the bands on his wrists. When he was let go, Leo lay there struggling, trying to get free.
Then the door came open and Leo saw a huge machine being pushed in. He knew what it was. But if he could get loose, he could make a break for it out the open door. He tried harder.
The machine was brought to the bed and Leo didn't want to cooperate.
"I need him to stop moving or I can't do the exam." The tech said.
"Leonardo, stop moving."
"No! I won't let you do it!"
"This won't hurt, Turtle. We just want to have a look at the babies."
"I know you want to and I won't let you!" Leo said.
"That does it!" One of the men that Leo had kicked snapped as he came forward. He pulled a syringe out and jammed it into Leo's arm.
Leo winced in pain.
"Let it take effect, then do the exam." The man said as he withdrew the needle, leaving a little blood coming from the small wound.
Leo continued squirming until he felt his body going numb on him. 'No! This can't be happening!' Leo thought to himself.
Ten minutes later, Leo was lying on the bed, glaring up at the men. He was shocked he was still awake, but he couldn't move his body.
"Now do the exam. He's not going to do anything."
The tech began prepping Leo's stomach for an ultrasound.
Leo watched their every move. He watched as a tube was brought over his stomach and squeezed. Some warm gel came out and Leo felt it. Then he saw the wand being prepped. It was placed on the gel and the tech turned on the computer.
The computer wasn't facing Leo's head, so he couldn't see anything.
"Even if you don't want to see them, I do." Johnson said.
Leo glared at him. He could feel the wand moving around on his belly.
"There's the first one." Johnson said.
The wand was moved over. "And the second."
And it was moved over two more times. "And the third and fourth."
Leonardo couldn't believe this was happening to him. He was helpless to do anything. He could only stare up at the ceiling.
"Turn on the sound." Johnson ordered.
The tech turned on the sound and all of a sudden, the room was filled with the heartbeat of one of the babies.
Leo couldn't believe his ears. It made him bring his head toward the computer. He looked down at his stomach. He couldn't believe that sound was coming from inside him.
Johnson nodded to the tech and he moved the wand over and there was a second heartbeat. And the final two hearts were listened to as well.
"Here, Turtle. Have a look at the little things that you apparently didn't want anything to do with." The tech said.
Leo was shocked silent as the computer was turned toward him. He saw on screen one of the babies. "I never said that! I just didn't want you touching me!"
The pregnant turtle saw the baby's body. "There's the heart going. The little hand, head, shell, legs, spine, tail." The tech said, pointing out the body parts.
Leo's eyes softened and he knew there were three more little ones like it inside him, counting on him to protect them from these enemies. He knew in this moment that he had to find a way to escape.
Then the machine was turned off and Leo's stomach was toweled off.
"Turn him loose. You better get used to this done weekly, Leonardo. It will be done, and we can do this every time and your stomach is only going to get bigger over the coming months." Johnson said.
Leo's eyes gave a glare.
The men released his hands and legs from their bonds, but he still couldn't move them.
"Your body will regain movement within a half hour. And don't worry, the drug didn't harm the little ones in there." Johnson said.
"You don't know that!"
"I saw them moving inside you. So they were not harmed."
Leo looked down. Movement? What was that going to feel like?
The humans left Leo alone after they put his arms back down over his belly. Johnson was sure that after the exam, he would want to have his hands there.
Leo could only move his head. He looked down at his belly. He had just found out about all of it and he was still in shock that it was happening to him. And he had missed out on three months! He had to get out of there. Or if he turned into too much trouble for them, more than likely they could sedate him again and take the babies without him knowing.
As promised, Leo soon regained feeling in his body again and he sat up. If he was going to get out of there, he needed to formulate a plan. But he would be lucky if he was ever allowed out of this room.
A few hours later, one man came into the room with a tray of food and a glass of water. "Time to eat up, Turtle. Gave you something gentle so you can get used to eating solid foods again. And you have 4 little ones to feed as well. You might want to eat all this." He said and left the tray and water on the shelf in the room.
Leo didn't move at first, but he did feel hungry. He slowly got up off the bed and went over to see what was being served.
The plate had four pieces of toast, some soup, and some oatmeal. It was quite the meal.
He might not have usually eaten that much at home, but now, he had four other stomachs to feed besides his own. He just hoped he would be able to keep it all down.
Leo was able to walk like his normal self. He took the tray back to his bed and slowly began eating the food. He knew he would need as much nutrition as he could get and the babies would steal it from his body if they didn't get the right amount. He knew he had to build up some muscle and strength again too for the escape. There was just a lot that he needed to be prepared for, and he hoped he could pull it off by himself in his condition.
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