Symbiosis

|Chapter 29|

~Three Weeks Later~

POV Leo:

'I-...I can't find them...'

'I have been searching day after day, night after freaking night searching, looking for my family, yet no matter how hard I tried New York's city stretches on and on for miles, it feels like it never ends. I trained as much as I could, but the moments- no the hours I spent not training were used to keep their home safe from anything that could them, but most of the time was spent looking for my kids, looking for my brother.'

'Yet, no matter how hard I search, I...could never find them, I knew they had to be alive, they just had to be, yet no matter where I looked whether that was the warehouses, the harbor, or even the amusement park, I even took the time to peak through each window, calling out for the kids, for Angie, but none of them ever responded. Yet it was strange, there were moments I could hear them, I could hear the sound of their voices, but it was never my kids, it was my brothers, it was April, I could hear them when I was awake, I could even remember them in my dreams...but they were never dreams when it involved my brothers...it was always a nightmare, watching my brothers-, my home gets destroyed by the very thing I trapped inside the Prison Dimension, but there was still a chance he could escape, that chance terrified me to my core, the fear overwhelmed my dreams, my life, I couldn't think a thought without being reminded of my mistake, so... after talking to Venom, I decided that it would be better for us to stay in this dimension, but for me to stay I must take away the one thing that could harm the things I loved, the Kraang and Shredder, to think the very first villain that put my family in danger was the one from another dimension that made my legs useless. I will make this dimension safe for my kids and all I had to do was train'

'It didn't take me long to learn the ropes again. Portaling to different parts of the lair, even to different parts of New York, it all just felt like muscle memory to me, swishing the blade in circles as I created a variety of different-sized portals, it felt way too easy. Yet...I learned much from this new trick when practicing my new ability. The system informed me that whenever I'm able to turn on the ability my form is unreadable by thermo-readers, but what I didn't learn without her help was that whatever I touch is transferred into the other plane as well. There was one time, when it took all my concentration and strength as I tried and I turned completely invisible to everything around me, yet the only thing I had learned was how to turn the ability on and off for my entire body, but I could only keep it on for a moment before it faded back into my physical form, I needed to do it on command'

"Terra, we are starving"

"I just needed to train for thirty more minutes", taking in a deep breath, I stood near the edge of the roof, taking in a deep breath of the semi-clean air, that was one of the things I liked about the humans' being gone, without the cars and factories constantly pumping fumes into the sky, the sky is starting to look bluer, '...I wonder if the kids can see the sky'. Stepping away from the ledge, I looked down at the roof and bounced back and forth as I shook the nerves from my hands, letting go of the breath I held.

Remember Terrapin you have to just phase through the roof

Grab the apple and phase through to the next floor

Stopping there without moving any further down

Nodding my head, I took in a deep breath as I closed my eyes, listening to the sounds of the mutated and the monsters down below, and as the last part of my lungs filled my lungs, I held my breath and felt through the ceiling. Reaching for the apple, my power was turned off for a moment, just a moment I reached for the apple and grabbed it, "Got it!-"

*SLAM*

"Uuuuggggggghhhhhhh—", leaning forward onto my knees, I pressed my hand against the base of my shell, feeling where the metal collided with the shell. "Give me a moment..." pushing up from the ground, I put the apple back into place and walked towards the open window.