Leo's POV

"We are out numbered my son"

I continued to pace, desperate for a plan, but nothing was coming to me. A quiet, low voice spoke up behind me.

"We could ask Karai and the Foot Clan for help...?"

It was Donny. I turned around quickly. Elizabeth looked thoughtful. "What an odd suggestion. It might very well work."

I thought for a while, leaning against the kitchen table, a numb sort of screaming in the back of my mind. I tightly squeezed my eyes shut and gently rubbed my temples. "I'll call her..." I could sense Donny's curious eyes on me. "Wait... How'd you get her phone number?" He asked.

I opened my eyes and looked directly at him. "I have my ways." I stand up straight and take my shell-cell out of my belt, pressing in the numbers. It rang twice before she picked up.

"Leonardo?" She asked, her accent thick and full. "It's late..."

"You're not usually asleep yet."

Master Splinter, Donny and Elizabeth eyed me. I blushed slightly.

"It's been a big day. Is something wrong?"

I lodged into a recount of the recent events, explaining in enough detail to paint the perfect image of every key event. She listened intensively.

"So, let me get this straight... YOU want ME to gather my men and send them into a suicide mission for your brothers?"

I gulped and nodded, then realized she wouldn't have know I nodded. "Yes" I said. There was a long silence.

"Do you know where they are? Your brothers?"

"No" I said shortly. There was another pause.

"You're lucky I am the head ninja here, Leonardo. I'll send my men out right away."

I smiled. She'd accepted. I knew being on her good side was a good idea, for more than one reason. I blushed. "Actually... I have a better idea" I said, catching everyone's attention again.

Raphs POV

I cried out in pain, a loud, threatening yell quickly following behind it. I was dangling upside down in chains, with four long whips lashing out at me, slashing my hard shell and my bare arms and legs too. I yelped in pain as the end of a whip tore up my right cheek, blood quickly spilling from the new wound. I was sticky with sweat and blood. With every hit, breathing became more and more difficult. The pain was unbearable!

Mikey's POV

"Leo can't come!" I mumbled. King Xavier was sitting cross-legged in front of me, looking like a barely visible cloud of smoke. He wasn't exactly there though. He created the smokey version of himself, after I had creeped myself out by the thought of having my soul fused with a ghost. It was still weird though, but I felt somewhat better. "He'll get hurt!"

King Xavier frowned slightly and looked over at me. "He is a smart boy, Michelangelo. Have faith in your brother..." He sighed and repositioned himself on the floor slightly. "We must be patient. "

I slowly moved my hand up to my mouth and very cautiously felt around my bottom lip, then eyed the blood on my hands from my badly split lips. "Do you really think he can do it...?" I asked softly, coughing and wincing.

He stayed silent.

Karai's POV

"Sebastian, take your men south side of the city. Alec, west. Jordana, go north ways, and Parr, you go east. Search every possibility. Report to me immediately if anything is found. Go"

With one quick flick of my hand, all four large groups were gone. Completely engulfed by the night. I turned to Leonardo, resisting all temptations of any affections.

"You do well Karai" he smiled slightly at me, I smiled smugly back at him, then shook my head. "So this... This plan of yours, you know it will work?"

He hesitated. "I'm hoping it works. Being dead is a powerful thing. Doing this, will be even better in ways, for your ninjas."

I raised a brow curiously. "And for me?"

He looked me in the eyes, and took a step towards me. "I want you to enjoy your life Karai. Not end it and become a New-Life."

'What if I want to be with you...?' I thought, though kept it to myself. I stayed quiet then looked behind Leo, my eyes falling on his old, exhausted Sensei. "We'll find your family Leonardo." I told him, brushing a strand of hair out of my eyes and looking at his perfectly shaped, green face. Well aware that all eyes were diverted from the two of us, I placed my small hands on his cheeks and gently pulled him down towards me, my lips brushing his. "If it's the last thing I do, I'll do it for you" I mumbled quietly.

April's POV

"Come on babe!" Casey grunted. I continued fumbling with the shackles around his wrists, using my finger nails in an attempt to free his other hand. After many minutes, the soft click was heard and Casey's hands were free. He then attempted to break mine off. It was about an hour before my hands were also free. We were dangling from our shackled ankles, hanging from the ceiling and dangling over a pit of hissing snakes.

"Now what...?" He asked. I glanced down at the snakes.

"Now we try working on our feet."

Foot Ninja; Team Parr~ General POV

"Master! There is unusual movement behind this wall." A ninja exclaimed, using his heat sensor goggles to see through the wall. "A hanging man and woman I think."

"He's right." Another exclaimed. The group of ninjas quickly and quietly gathered around the wall, waiting for orders.

"Master Donatello Hamato sure is a freak of nature. Creating these was brilliant!" Someone remarked, admiring the goggles over his eyes.

One small gesture from Master Parr, silenced the group and drew their attention to the window high above. They nodded and took out their grapple hooks before swinging them up to the window ledge, checking that each were positioned correctly, then started to climb upwards. Shortly after, every ninja from the group was gathered near the window, hanging onto the bricks and standing on the flimsy little window ledge. One ninja carefully pushed in the window and peered inside, catching the sound of a gasp from the woman in chains. The woman was completely free of her chains, and holding onto them for dear life. The man, was struggling with his left foot as it remained in chains. Parr glanced down and frowned slightly at the sight of the snakes below. He gestured to his ninjas to scale the wall and they did as told, unhooking their grapple hooks and attaching them to their belts, then taking out the wall-claws and pushing the sharp steel teeth into the walls.

"Ninjas?" The woman whispered.

"Get on my back. Spark, Tack, help the man" Parr ordered, allowing the woman to hesitantly grip onto his back as he continued working his way along the wall to the platform in front of the door.

"Mistress Karai, two prisoners have been found. Man and woman. We are inside the building, in a moment Spark will send you the address" Parr spoke into a little ear piece.

"Hamato Leonardo is on his way" he told the woman as he helped her onto the platform. He unhooked from the wall and stood next to her, watching as Spark and Tack helped the man over towards them, the rest of the ninja following quietly behind.

"You are Mistress April O'Neil? Correct?" He asked. The woman nodded. "Yes. That's Casey." She said, gesturing to the man with Spark and Tack.

Parr pressed in a small green button on his ear piece and started talking. "We're already to go. See you in 5."