Chapter 10

Raph P.O.V

"Your brother and fiancé was caught in an explosion at the school he was working to rebuilding. He discovered a bomb placed once again under the school when he went to check the foundation. He was able to disarm it but when he returned above ground both himself and his squad was attack by some of the villagers. One of the villagers was wearing an explosive vest and detonated on the spot. SPC Hamato protected two children from the village with his body. He died a hero."

The only thing that could give us effort in the chaplain's eyes was to tell us he died a hero. But all we wanted was our brother back.

We were numb as the world continued turning without Leo in it. Sarah stayed in bed for days holding Kaz in her arms, crying and muttering Leo's name over and over. We stayed at the farm until the day came when Leo's remains were being brought home. Changing into our mourning clothes and drove to the airport. We stood in a line with Kaz right beside Sarah. The cargo plane's door opened and the military officers ready themselves as the officers carrying Leo's coffin exited the plane.

The coffin had the American flag carefully covering the top. The coffin was brought past us onto the cart that was going to take him to the funeral home. We stood there trying our best to hold back the tears that threaten to fall from our faces. Erica press her face against my shoulder, her body started shaking as she tried her best to hold back her tears. Jessica and Mikey rested their heads together on Mikey's shoulder while Donnie stood there not knowing what to do about anything.

Sarah on the other hand stood stone face with Kaz sitting next to her as they watch the person they loved more than anything in the world being carried away.

We went back to Sarah and Leo's place to wait for the funeral place to call about setting a date. The phone rang but no one had the energy to get up so it went to voicemail.

Leo's voice:

Hello you've reached the home of Leo, Sarah, and Kaz please leave a message after the beep

*BEEP*

Static in the background so we thought it was a wrong number but then a voice on the other end freaked everyone out.

*STATIC* Guys *PROLONGED STATIC* its m-me *STATIC* I'm *STATIC* No-not Dead *STATIC*

Then the call went dead.

"It can't be" Mikey muttered.

"Is this a prank?" Donnie asked.

"But if it wasn't then…." I trailed off.

"It's Leo he's still alive." Sarah said.

Donnie P.O.V

We didn't know what to do so we called the police on base. They were going to investigate but they said not to get our hopes up that it could all be just a horrible prank. But we couldn't wait. April and her father were going to help us out along with Jacob Raph's partner.

We worked for days figuring out if it was a prank or not.

The phone call was on a burner so we couldn't trace but we could tell it originated somewhere in the Middle East. There wasn't a body to test, all we had were Leo's dog tags and even those had some information from them.

Jacob and Raph talked to soldiers that were there when the school was attacked to get the story. They had no information about Leo only believing that he died in the explosion. April and Dr. O'Neil ran into the station where we were all talking to Raph and Jacob.

"Guys we found something out." April said.

"What?" Mikey asked.

"Tell us April what did you find?" Raph demanded.

"First what's Leo's blood type?" April asked.

"What?" I exclaimed.

"Don just tell us what is his blood type is." April stated.

"AB negative" Sarah said.

"How tall is he?" Dr. O'Neil asked.

"6'2" I said.

Dr. O'Neil pulled out the dog tags with Leo's name on them.

"These are not Leo's dog tags they were planted at the school for the army to believe he was killed there." Dr. O'Neil explained.

Dr. O'Neil showed us that everything on the dog tag beside his name was wrong.

"The military doesn't make mistakes like this guys there's someone who purposely said that these were Leo's so they would just classify him as KIA and close the case." April said.

"We need to talk to someone about this." I said.

But April and her father shook their heads.

"We don't know who is behind it and who's not. If they have Leo then if we tell the wrong person he's as good as dead." Dr. O'Neil explained.

Everyone gulped.

"Is there anyone we can talk to about this?" Raph asked.

April and Dr. O'Neil nodded their heads.

"But you're not going to like it." April said.

"Why?" Mikey asked.

April and Dr. O'Neil gestured for us to follow them to the garage with a van parked on the top floor. April knocked on the door saying

"it's me" into it.

The door opened and the person behind it stepped out.

"You got to be kidding me." Raph yelled.

"Oh come on." Mikey added.

"Why her?" Erica asked.

"Are you sure about this April." Sarah asked.

Sarah was holding Kaz's leash back with all her might since Kaz was barking and lunging at her.

"Catherine?" I stammered out.

"Hello Donatello, everyone I heard you need my help." Catherine said.

"Catherine is the person who came up with everything about what happened to Leo. She got an infrared video of the attack on the school. Let her explain everything before you judge her guys." April said.

"That's right everyone I'm here because I was asked to help you find you're missing brother Leo in the Middle East. So let me explain everything."

Catherine explained that she was working for a competing agency trying to get the same contract so she infiltrated O'Neil Tech and worked her way up the ladder. Meeting me was just one of ways to get closer to the files that were in the restricted areas of the company. But the thing was she was starting to actually care about me and saw me as someone she could trust rather than a mark.

Catherine decided to tell Dr. O'Neil about the reason she was there. Dr. O'Neil placed her as a double agent for the company. Catherine went underground and took the files into the dark areas of the company server. But after she disappeared viruses were uploaded in retaliation for what she did and it attack the system. Catherine was the one to help stop the viruses from destroying O'Neil Tech.

"Then what about Donnie?" Raph demanded.

"You broke his heart and made him believe that he was used." Mikey added.

"Catherine had to do all of that because Donatello was under watch by the other company so to get them to leave him and his brothers alone she had to make it look like she broke all contact with him until we finished clearing out everything with the opposing company and got everyone arrested." Dr. O'Neil explained.

"You don't have to trust me or like me but I'm you best chance in finding your brother so like or not you need me." Catherine said.

Raph P.O.V

We didn't like it but Catherine was right we couldn't find Leo without her so we had to work with her for the moment but I would be damn if I let her hurt Donnie any more than she already did even if it was for a good reason.

I pulled out my phone and called Leo's friends to help us out.

Chris the guy I was talking to told me that he was assembling a team and told me to let him know where Leo was so that his team could go and get him and bring him home.

"So where is he?" I demanded.

"Watch this first." Catherine said.

Catherine showed us an infrared satellite video of when the attack on the school where Leo was station.

"Here this is where Leo was reportedly at when the explosion occurred." Catherine pointed to on the monitor.

The explosion turned the whole screen white.

"So that's it. You just showed us Leo dying!" I yelled.

"There's more if you look closer." Catherine said.

Catherine zoomed out

"look here" Catherine pointed to her finger on the screen with another heat signature a bit further on the screen.

On the screen we saw the figure appear from the underground looking towards the fight and running to it. But the figure was blown back when the bomb exploded into a wall. The figure was lying on the ground when people in the building where the figure landed went over and pulled the figure back to their hiding spot underground.

"The report said that Leo was working on disarming a bomb underground so to enter he would have to take the route under the school but you can see here is that part of the section to the school on this blue print was very weak and it could have blocked off his path when he tried to leave. Forcing him to take another path to where we saw this person appearing." Catherine explained.

"So who took Leo?" Mikey asked.

Catherine shrugged her shoulders.

"I don't know if they were on his side or not but he was last seen here." Catherine said.

I called Chris and told him what we found out. Chris started organizing his team and told us he was having someone from the agency coming to get us.

Catherine closed the door to her van saying she wasn't staying any longer around police.

Donnie didn't even notice when Catherine disappeared we couldn't tell if he was trying to put on a brave face or just too focus on Leo. But whatever it was as long as he was okay then we didn't push. A car came from the agency in charge of Leo's case came and picked us up and brought us to an underground bunker where in real time we were going to watch them find Leo. We could have left the room but everyone there wanted to find Leo and bring him home.

Dead or alive Leo was coming home to us.