"So, what's your bright idea, Raph, how you gonna make him follow him?" Leo asked watching the pair in the dark with trained eyes.

"Just hold on." Raph said, crouching down, waiting for the right moment.

"We should've brought our toys!" Past Raph said, splashing his feet in the puddle. Donnie was just watching him with his arms crossed. His mouth agape because of his nostrils being clogged with mucus, he hated being sick, but runny nose was far the worse out of the experience.

"Yeah we can still get them, Papa should still be out, so we have time." Donnie replied nasally, but he was regretting being out, it was always cold in the sewers but from the recent rains, it was a little worse.

"Okay, stay here, I'll be right back." Raph backed up facing him, before turning away into a sprint.

Donnie nodded, covering his sneeze. He blinked and sniffled, he stood back placing his shell against the wall and looked at his surroundings, it was too dark for his liking but also this was the only time he could play before Splinter makes him go to bed.

"Actually, Donnie, come with me!" A poorly high pitched Raph said, hoping Donnie would believe it was his actual five-year-old brother.

"Uhh," there was a hesitation in his voice, and Donnie started walking the same direction Raph spoke from, "okay, where are you?"

Present Raph pointed his direction for his brothers to follow, and said in a high-pitched tone, "over here!" The gang went into stealth mode, so Donnie can miss them and find his brother at the lair.

Thankfully, Donnie missed them, and started to jog to catch up with his brother, although he couldn't see much nor where he was.

"Okay, so now we wait for Splinter to come home and ground the two, and we just have to figure out a way to get the Shredder out of here and make sure he never time travels again." Raph said, a little easier said than done but he was proud he could make his voice believable to his brother.

Sort of.

Raph doesn't remember his past self-coming to the same spot where Donnie was seconds ago with the toys. The toddler dropped the stuff animals, looking around to find his younger brother.

"Donnie? Where did you go?" Fear settled in the pit of his stomach, Papa would kill him, it was too dark to be out here, and his brother was sick to top it all off.

"Great thinking Raph, now we're back to the square one." Leo whispered and looked at Renet. "I don't think changing anything before the incident will help, Shredder is the common denominator, we need to destroy his time travel device."

The group watched as past Raph ran back to the same direction he left minutes ago, no doubt probably getting home to tell Splinter that he can't find his brother. 'Cause as much as he would search for him, Papa always told them to get him before getting lost as well.

"Okay, so now Shredder should be coming soon, we can't mess this up." Renet looked at her staff, seeing the crimson red turn to a bright pink, it was a good sign, but it wasn't the color she needed.

"So, now what?" Mikey asked nonchalantly; "We defeat Shredder and then everything goes back to normal?"

"That's the plan." Renet said, huffing from this whole thing, they made no progress since they left home, but she couldn't just let these guys live without their brother. She wanted to fix it, the city of New York was counting on her too, (despite them not knowing who she is).

"Okay, we need to make a plan B, since our first plan didn't work." Leo eyed Raph, who put his hands up. "I have an idea, but I'm not sure if it's going to work."

"Well we're running out of options, so any ideas gonna work." Raph said, shrugging, "let's hear what you got."
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To be continued. Let me know how it is so far? :)