Leonardo stared at the blank screen, terrified out of his mind. "Donnie what happened? Get it back up!"

"I-I can't. The signal's been terminated." Don muttered. The brainiac's voice was airy and stunned. 

"And there's no way to get it back?" Leo asked insistently. 

"I'm looking Leo!" Donnie yelled as he frantically tried all frequencies for any kind of noise or chatter. Anything that could tell him if his brother was still alive. "It's gone. I can't reestablish communication."

"Did you trace the signal?" The eldest turtle demanded.

"Yes, but Leo...he was surrounded by Krang soldiers—the probability that he survived is less than-" Donatello cut himself off when he realized what he'd said. Tears began to form at the corners of his eyes when he realized his big brother was gone.

Mikey turned to his father searching his expression for some tiny little shred of hope that his brother was still alive, tears rolled down his face when he found none. The man-turned-rat had his eyes tightly closed with an expression on unbelievable pain on his face.

"Give me the coordinates." A strong, confident voice ordered. 

Mikey stared at Leo in astonishment. How could he go on acting like nothing had even happened?

For the first time since the communication ended their rat-master spoke. "Leonardo...you must release your anger my son, you cannot afford to take rash action."

"No." The blue-clad turtle growled with his deep blue eyes on fire. "No Sensei. I refuse to lose hope. Raphael is alive. He has to be. He's the strongest of the four of us, we all know that, but he's also an escape artist. Just look at how many times he's gotten us out of tight situations, and how many times he's snuck out of the lair on his own without us knowing it! If anyone could've lived through that situation its Raph."

"But the odds Leo..." Donnie started, his voice tapering off before he could finish.

"I don't give a shell about the odds! Raph's alive. And I'm not giving up on him." He looked Donnie in the eyes, then Mikey and finally Master Splinter. "I'm the leader. It was my fault that Raph got taken in the first place. I'm going to get him back. With or without your help." With that the eldest turned and left the room to gear up.

Leonardo had taken a few hours to create a couple of basic plans of action and clear his mind. Finally, the ninja leader was ready.

It's time. Don't worry Raph. I'll never give up on you, little brother. Leo thought as he sheathed his swords and left his room walking down the hall and into his brother's. He looked around Raph's room for a moment, before getting down on his knees to reach under the bed. The blue-clad turtle felt around for a moment before his hand landed on what he was looking for. He dragged the box out from under the bed and sifted through the contents. Extra mask, some crayons, why are those in here, a couple of weights, and there they are! Leo pulled the weapons out carefully as his eyes were immediately drawn in by the shine of their prongs. Recently polished, Leo thought, that's Raphael for you. Leo gave them a light twirl, not nearly as impressive as his brother's, and tucked the sais carefully in his belt.

A light shuffle of feet behind him, made Leonardo jump and turn around. Mikey and Donnie stood before him both of them staring at the sai in his belt. "If you're going to try and talk me out of it don't bother." He stated evenly.

"We're not trying to, bro." said Mikey, his voice a little bit softer than usual. "We want to help."

"I can't ask you to do that Mikey-"

"Can it Leo." Both the oldest and youngest turtles turned to Donatello in shock. It was very unusual for their calm, level-headed, genius brother to speak to them like that. "You want to go on a mission into alien space to rescue our brother. You aren't going to get an inch without us. You need us Leo, and the three of us need Raph. We're coming."

Leo just stood there in total shock. When did Donnie get so forceful? No, that's not important now. "First thing's first. We have the coordinates. But how are we going to get there?"

"Simple." Donatello answered without pause, "We'll use the portable portal that April brought us when the Krang were trying to bring those giant worm creatures to Earth. I've created a special interface that will allow me to enter the desired coordinates onto a specially designed computer software that will allow us to teleport directly to that exact location."

"And how will we get back?" Leo asked, Mikey turning his head from one back to the other again.

"I have another portable portal that I snatched off one of the Krang in the fight where they took Raph. We can use that one to get out of Dimension X. However, since that one isn't connected to my computer software it will take us to that same hallway with all the dimensional doors that we were in last time. We'll have to find a door back to earth from there."

"It's a risk we'll have to take. How long before you can get it operational, Donnie?"

"It's already operational, Leo." When his older brother turned to him with surprise, Donatello shrugged, "You two weren't the only ones who've had trouble dealing. I thought that maybe if I built this stuff we could get our brother back sooner."

Leo smiled and patted the genius on the shoulder. "Good work Donnie." Donatello smiled back. The eldest brother pulled his little brothers into a three-way hug. "Let's go get our brother."