The only thing left..

All that was left

The only thing left..

It was a normal morning in the sewers.. If you consider Three mutant ninja turtles and a Mutant rat normal. Yells and shouts echoed off of the sewer walls. No doubt they were Leonardo and Raphael's. They had been at it a lot latley. Everyone else in the lair had gotten annoyed because of it, the last thing they needed was more fighting. Today was the one day of the week that they could take a break from morning training, although Michaelangileo personally thought that training would have been better than another fight between his two brothers.
"Your the one that let him get away!" Raphael shouted directly to Leonardo. He was clearly angry.
Leonardo clenched his fists and countered Raphael's statement "if it wasn't for me then you would be dead Raphael!"
Hearing his full name Raphael grew even angrier, which, for the hothead, was fairly easy "I had it all under control!" He yelled loudly.
Michaelangelo tried to intervene but every time he took a step towards them Leonardo and Raphael would shoot him a cold glare which instantly made him take a step or two back.
Splinter stood in the door way silently. He listened to his brothers argue back and forth and looked down. It had been a week already and there was no sign of Donatello. As the father it was his duty to always have faith, to look after his sons, make sure they stayed out if trouble. He had kept that duty...until now..

~~a week earlier~~
Raphael, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, and Donatello were all out on their usual patrol. They had never anticipated what was about to happen next.
Donatello sat on the edge of the roof. His brothers all stood behind him "..I don't get it.." He said quietly into his hands that rested upon his cheeks "..the foot should have been here.. I'm almost sure of it... " he felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up to see his older brother, Leonardo.
"Common Donnie.. I'm sure they'll turn up. They always do .." He said and exchanged his glance to the ally below them which, was empty as Michaelangelo's stomach.
Michaelangelo groaned as he patted his hungry stomach "I'm hungry.." He said throughout a groan. Raphael had flicked him on the head "we know! That's like the 100th time you've told us'mike!" He said and crossed his arms glaring back at Donatello "don you said they'd be here by now!"
Donatello glanced at Raphael then back down at the ally below "...sorry Raph.." He mummered mostly to himself.
Leonardo stood up straight and took his hand off of Donatello's shoulder "..guys give him a chance.. This is a foot trade off. If they were to do it here then it would most likely be at a late time wouldn't you think ?"
Michaelangelo paused and looked at Leonardo with a completely blank expression.
The oldest brother facepalmed and frowned "do the rest of you understa-" he was cut off before he could even finish his statement. "Shh.." Donatello had said as he crouched down peaking at the ally below them. A van pulled up there and a grin sprang across his face "bingo.."
All four turtles knew what they had to do, for it was planned long before they had left the lair. First up was Michaelangelo, with the distraction. Out of his own choice he had painted a creepy cat like face on top of his own. It was his way of 'bringing terror into their eyes through a cute way' as Michaelangelo has said when he first put
it on.
Stealthy Michaelangelo crept up behind the van. He looked at his brothers and got a fun idea. Down on all fours he went, walking around like a cat. This made Leonardo tense up, Michaelangelo was so going to get a lecture later on.
Several foot exited the van. Then someone else came out. Someone that they had not been prepared to fight or even trick. The shredder.. Michaelangelo hadn't even noticed the new threat. He continued to act childish in attempts to amuse his brothers who were watching from the roof above, facepalming heavily with wide eyes.
Raphael tried to call out to Mikey but Donatello covered his mouth first "Shh.. If you speak then you'll just put him in more danger." Leonardo agreed to this "Donnie's right Raph.. We wait and see what happens.. If we have to intervene then we will. First we wait." He expected a reply from Raphael but never got one. The red turtle was too busy watching Michaelangelo getting knocked out. That's right, he was stone cold on the ground. Turns out that he was a loud 'cat'. The shredder had knocked him on the back of his head with the butt of his sword.
In an instant Raphael was off the roof and down by Michaelangelo's side at an instant! The shredder eye balled him and whipped out his swords, double the length of your average normal ones.
Leonardo and Donatello nodded towards one another and jumped down. Their main target was the shredder, but before they could reach Raphael they were surrounded by foot tech ninjas. Donatello put his 'magic goggles' on. This allowed him to see the ninjas through thermal heat. "Go LEO!" He said and smacked one in the head "I got these guys! You help the others!" Leonardo paused and looked at Donatello. It wasn't an easy decision but he knew Raohael couldn't take the shredder on his own.
The red turtle and the trash can fought. It was easy for the shredder, Raphael was but one of the turtles, he could easily take them all. The Shredder's sword was to Raphael's neck. He was about to make the final strike when a katana stuck straight through shredder. "Raph?!" Leonardo called hoping that he hadn't been too late. Luckily he wasn't. Just as Shredder fell to the ground Leonardo saw his brother and sighed with releif. That's when Raphael asked the question "..where's Donnie?..."
Everything went downhill from there on out. When they finally got Mikey up the three brothers went to where Donatello and Leonardo had been earlier. All that was left was a Bo staff. Donatello, was gone.