Raph jumped from the portal and looked around his surroundings. They were in the sewers, but the feeling of home wasn't there. He had this tingle, the kind of sixth sense of doom, but it wasn't targeting him. He looked at his brothers', fearing that something was going to hurt them.

"Where are we?" He still asked, everything feels right just nothing seems like it. That feeling when he entered an abandoned building and then an ambush would come seconds later rose; he pushed the feelings aside. They weren't after them.

"Uhh dude," Mikey poked his head from behind Renet's tall frame, "I think the correct question is, when are we?" Doubling back his goofy grin, he went back to being behind of Renet as he heard Raph literally fume.

"Does it even matter?! When, where, what, I'm still lost, what even is the plan?" Maybe it was the adrenaline or the fact that he nearly passed out that he agreed to go back to the past. He doesn't even know this brother; just old memories leading up to his death.

Before Renet can even speak, Leo entered the conversation. "Quiet down you two," he said in a hush but demanding voice, "we're here to save our brother."

"And to fight Shredder." Renet awkwardly said, and she looked at Raph, "and we should be back from eleven years ago, if I'm correct, we should be here before the Shre-"

A loud cry echoed off the walls before hearing what sounded like a wet stomp. The four of them froze, staring back at one and another in the dark. Renet grimaced, she knew exactly what that was, and realized she went to the wrong time. They need to get Donnie out of there, not witness him die. She didn't want her friends to see this, but Leo was already running towards the noise, Katana's out.

She grabbed Mikey's arm, as Raph followed his pursuit and the two made eye contact.

"You don't want to see this, Michelangelo." She said in a hush, raw voice from emotions; Mikey couldn't figure out what. It was anger, sad, confusion, he never seen her friend like this.

He came close to his friend, as Renet's hand let go of his wrist; "We can handle this, Renet, whatever Shredder did ruined us, and we all wanna fix it." And with that, he ran to catch up with his brother's.

Renet shook her head and looked at the scepter. It was so hard to figure it out sometimes, but it was still glowing blue, which is good, and she needed to get the guys and go at the right time.
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Leo knew he was close, the cried turn to what sounded like gurgling and spitting, and he swore his stomach flipped in fear. Leo turned to a corner and halted the group with his katana.

Wide-eyed, the turtle's heard the deep voice of Shredders; "Killing you quickly would only be satisfying for a couple of seconds. That is why I would not be doing that."

Pushing the Katana down, Raph jumped over it and roared with anger almost sounding inhumane. "Shredder!" He roared; his Sai's gripped tightly until his knuckles were a pale green.

But the Shredder walked over the limp body of his younger brother like it was nothing and acted like he couldn't hear him.

"You're a coward! You're willing to kill a five-year-old who's done nothing to you!" Raph walked closer, baring his Sai's, they were inches away from each other; the other two behind their brother, Shredder opened the portal.

A pink hue displayed half of Shredder's body, as he turned to the group; "Of course, he has done something, turtle. I assume my planned has work for you all to come to stop me." Before any words could come out of the turtle's mouth, Shredder's laughter boomed as he entered and disappeared like dust.

"Damn it!" Raph threw his Sais on the ground and they bounced further away from him, "what a fucking coward."

Usually cussing wasn't allowed in Leo's uptight attitude, but this time he let it slip. They fought Shredder only a handful of times, he usually let his clan deal with them, and he acted like the final boss in some video game. But, every time they fought him, he grew stronger, and they always lost. It resulted in wounds that took time to heal, and failure that never went away.

They couldn't let Shredder just leave like that; he couldn't believe his eyes what he has done. There was no honor, unfair, to murder a child to have things his way. And in a way, he got what he wanted, for them to fail without one, but they were going to fix this, somehow.

The sound of gasping came back loud and clear, and with wide eyes he looked back at the fallen child.

"Guys…" Mikey was first to be with his supposedly older brother, his voice broken in unsureness.

"W-we can fix it." Raph angered voice was smoldered with fear. His whole life he thought Donnie died of starvation. He was lost, and Splinter searched for days for him to find his body washed up at the other side of the sewers. Splinter never gave them a description, when he saw his brother, he was wrapped in a white sheet stained in red. He only could see his face.

Pulling out his mask, Raph used it as a makeshift band-aid, but it was no use. The toddler's throat was slit, and because of the heavy amounts of blood pouring out, he hit his artery.

"Come on, come on buddy, you can pull through." Raph still said soothingly to the toddler.

Donnie's eyes were anywhere but to him. His empty glaze stared to the unknown, and suddenly he looked at him. The dimmed eyes slightly widened in recognition. He mustered what little energy he had. "Ruh –" blood pooled down his chin, and he spit, "eee" it sounded like a whine, but Raph knew he was saying his old nickname. He hasn't heard it in years.

"No no no no." A rough hand pulled him up, and he made contact with Leo into an embrace, "he can't Leo," his voice cracked, "it's not fair, he can't."

"I'm sorry, Raph," Leo looked at their brother, the child had stopped showing signs of life. He held his brother close, hearing sniffs from him.

"I'm going to fix this," he said between sniffs, and Leo let him talk it out. Raph and Donnie were so close as kids, it affected him so much that he blocked his death out and acted like Don never existed. And now, revisiting and witnessing, Leo felt his skin crawl. He never thought he can hate a human so much.

Renet slipped into the conversation, slowly joining the group after they fled. For turtles, she sometimes forgot how quick they are. "It makes no sense," she said in a hushed voice, Mikey was still crouched to their now dead brother. "Shredder's portal was pink."

No one said anything, Leo and Raph were no longer hugging as they stood a little too far from their dead brother.

Mike stood up, watching Renet fumble around with her scepter. "Why does it matter that it's pink?" He finally asked, stepping away from his brother and closer to his friend.

"Mine is green. He's using some alien's tech; it shouldn't be pink."

"Kraang." Leo lifted his head up at that, "Shredder and Kraang teamed up a few months back, their tech is way advanced. A little too advanced." He grimaced, two of their biggest nemesis are teamed up scared him a little too much to the fact he's been trying to ignore it. Ignoring it would only slap him right back into the face, and it did. Even with Shredder's doing of killing Donatello, the Kraang brought the tech to him, they're both responsible.

"Okay, so we figured out where he got the tech, now we have to go right to the source." Renet said, rolling her eyes up so she can blink away her tears.

She looked at her friends; they were all saddened of their death of a brother but Renet knew this was some torn hole in their dimension, that his death didn't happen. They just—she cleared her throat.

"We need to go back." Grieving wasn't the option, she was taught to continue, and, in her mind, she knew they would fix this, that this child wouldn't be dead in a few minutes. Her friends were a little distraught, but once they go back and see their brother alive, they will be okay.

Hopefully.