Present Raph kept staring out at the entrance his past self and Donnie had just gone to. It was only moments before he would come back to grab some toys, and then would come back to an angry Splinter to tell him he can't find his brother.

Things haven't been the same since, but their father and son relationship remained broken since the incident.

"Raph." He felt a jostle and blinked to his remaining two brothers' and Renet who stared at him, with worried eyes. Sympathy and pity were one of Raph's pet peeves, and he can feel that energy coming off everyone. There was nothing to be sorry about, what's done is done, and he just wanted to fix this, to have his brother back.

"I always thought you were the one who told Donnie to leave to the sewers." Leo whispered, and all Raph can do was shake his head. Raph would never put the blame on his dead brother, but he wasn't fully at fault, Raph didn't stop him either.

Mikey's mouth was agape, did Splinter never believe Raph wasn't the total blame of the two leaving that day? Raph didn't really stop him, but they were five! And to come to think about it, every time Raph and Splinter would talk it was always angry disputes and tension. And every time he would mess up in kata, or sparring, or do something he wasn't supposed to, Splinter always gave him harsher punishments than the two.

Did Splinter blamed Raph for the death?

"Raph, I didn't know –" Was Splinter fabricating lies, or did he put his grieving and anger to the child who was part of the incident. Did Raph blame himself too?

"Drop it." Raph cut Mikey off, and all Renet can do was put a hand to her mouth. The tension in the garage grew, and everything started to make sense.

"We need to go follow them, or – or something, Shredder should come soon after Raph leaves Donnie, we can get Donnie out of there and fight Shredder." Renet said, her words cutting through the tension room. Whatever happened after, affecting not only them, not only Donnie, but affected the father and son relationship between Raph and Splinter. Renet wanted to fix it, to fix this, this isn't how everything is supposed to be. And she knows she thought the same thing, but as they discover more, everything feels wrong, and despite her friends not knowing what she knows, she knows that it's starting to feel wrong to them too.

"Yeah, okay." Leo replied, nodding his head multiple times before huffing, "if I remember Mike and I should be leaving the dojo soon, so we have to go – "

"I call the T.V.!" A loud shrill of joy echoed through the lair, before a five-year-old Michelangelo ran out of the dojo to leap over the couch.

"Now." Leo finished, eyes shutting close for a brief second.

"No, that's not fair, Mikey! You had the T.V. last, it's my turn!" Past Leo said, bowing before leaving the dojo to run up to the couch. "I wanna watch Space Heroes!"

"You've seen all season 1 already, Leo., from this morning." Mikey rolled his eyes, hiding the remote under his bum. "I want to watch Spongebob."

"We have to go." Raph said, not interested in the fight the two toddlers were gonna have. Despite the two being five, they were training to be ninja, so leaving from the way his past self has just gone to wouldn't work.

"Do you think Raphie and Donnie would wanna watch too?" Mikey asked, still refraining to give Leo the remote. He put a pillow next to him to shield Leo from attempting to grab the remote.

"No, Raphie's on sick duty, and Donnie shouldn't be leaving his bed. They can watch later once Papa comes home, now gimme!" He pushed the pillow off and tried pushing his youngest brother off the remote, and the two started to wrestle for it.

"We have another way of going." Present Leo said rolling his eyes at the two, all four would fight for the remote, then four became three. And despite the change, the lost innocence, they would fight like there was no tomorrow. Leo motioned his head to the garage door that lead to the abandoned train tracks. To this day, they rarely went out that way, and Splinter would say they would use it in case of an emergency. Such if an enemy found their secret home, they would have another exit.

Everyone nodded in agreement, and Leo slowly closed the door shut so when they pull the garage open, his past self and past Mike wouldn't hear them.

And with that, Leo and Raph pulled the garage door high enough so they can get out of there pronto. They don't know when Splinter's coming, but past Raph should be coming in to grab some toys, and then after… Leo shut the garage door closed, breathing out heavily.

Renet looked at her staff glowing red, "so, we're all stuck here until my staff cools down, in the meantime, Shredder should be coming soon, but we need a way to divert him from getting to Donnie." Renet placed her staff down, looking at the three; "any ideas?"

"Yeah, once past me comes to grab the toys, we should have Donnie follow him, so he isn't alone. Cause if I remember right, Splinter should be coming around the time I came for the toys, so he'll ground us and then we would deal with the Shredder." Raph crossed his arms with a big smug.

"Okay, uhh any other ideas?" Renet asked, and silence was her only answer; "okay, Raph, lead the way."