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The Discovery

Serena's P.O.V.

Whoo! Nothing like a party to make you feel alive nowadays. I was at a party over at Nico the cheetah's house along with my brother Danny, Crane and the turtles; Leo, Raph, and Mikey. Finals were almost over and he invited the whole school to come to the party, whether anyone had one last exam or not. Crane and I were sitting inside on the couch while others were either inside partying and chatting, or outside dancing away. Leo, Raph, and Dannie were outside while me, Crane, and Mikey were inside drinking soda.

"Aw yeah, this is how we party. Yeah!"

"(chuckles) Mikey's enjoying himself."

"He's lucky he only had just two exams, one of them with his smart brother."

"What do you mean?"

He looked around and made sure nobody was listening to us first. He then turned in his seat to whisper to me.

"Donnie told me he had to sneak his answers to Mikey."

"They are ninjas," I said to avoid any suspicion Crane doesn't want. "They know how to be sneaky on our missions." He knew what I was talking.

Eventually it became nighttime, some students stayed while others left at evening or now.

"Time for us to go Mikey." Leo said

"Now? The party's still going Leo, we can't leave yet."

"If you don't get up, Splinter will pound us into the ground for being late. Then I will pound you some more for making us late." Raph threatened, but I wasn't scared of him.

"Raph, lighten up. It can't be that serious."

"Last time we were sleepy, it was training in the morning. Splinter laid into us just for being sleepy."

"That's your problem, not ours."

"What?"

"Take it easy Raph, we can talk about this later. Mikey."

(groans)

Boy, sometimes I wonder why they're even related to each other.

"Time for us to go as well. We can't stay here all night, otherwise we'll get another lecture from Shifu."

"Yeah, Po fell asleep through his last one and had cleaning duty." Danny laughed

We left Nico's place, got back to our dorm, and got some shut-eye for the night. The next day, the same six of us were over at Nico's house again for a friendly hangout. The turtles were tossing a football around playing Hot Potato. Me and my brother were playing as well, but Crane chose not to.

"Nice shot Serena, but let an expert show you how to really throw a football."

He wound up and used all he got to throw it halfway across the backyard, and Mikey caught it before it went into the neighbors yard.

"Whoa Raph, chill out. This ain't a championship game."

"Yeah, we lose the football you'll be the one to replace it."

"What?"

"No argument there."

"What are you youngsters up to today?"

"Hey Miss Rose." Nico said. His neighbor was Miss Rose and she was the sweetest lady on the face of the earth. She was also a gardener and her garden was proof of it.

"We're just tossing a frisbee, how about you?"

"Oh, i'm taking care of my children."

"Children?" We all asked at once. Well, all except Nico.

"She meant her garden, guys."

"My plants, my dear sweet plants. They need a lot of well, care. Especially on a hot day like this. See all you darlings later."

"Bye!"

"Later!"

"See ya!"

"Goodbye!"

"What a nice lady." Danny said

"Yep, again, nicest lady on the face of the earth." Nico agreed

"Alright, enough chitchat. You guys need a real lesson in football throwing. I'll show you all how to put a little zip on this thing."

"Take it easy, Raph. The yard isn't that big." Crane shouted

"Oh yeah, we'll see about that. Just watch."

He spun around once and gave the frisbee a good throw. I watched in shock at how fast it was going and we all saw it disappear into Miss Rose's garden.

"A little too much zip, eh tough guy?"

"Ah, don't get your tail in a twist. I'll get it."

"Me too, it's my football you lost." Nico said

"I'm going too, to see if Raph actually tries to help. If not, i'll help look for it."

(growls)

So the three of them climbed over the fence and we started waiting on them.

"New rule: when they get back, Raph gets the ball last, after everyone else gets a shot." I spoke.

"Yeah"

"Agreed"

"Totally"

(screams)

"Whoa dudes, did you guys hear that?"

"What could that have been?"

It was definitely Leo, Raph, and Nico's voices we heard, but why were they screaming?

"Leo, Raph, Nico? Where you dudes go?"

Crane and Danny were over by the fence looking over into Miss Rose's garden. Me and Mikey peeked as well and we all saw the football in the garden, but none of the guys were there.

"The football is still there? What the hell is going on?"

"It's like they dematerialized, vanished and I don't mean by ninja style. Let's see if we can't reach them via electronically."

"Huh?" Mikey asked

"The videophone, dimwit." Danny answered annoyed.

We hopped over the fence and made our way to the football and tried to contact the guys. I turned and saw Laptrap drop the juice he was secretly bringing,(Nico doesn't know about Laptrap), and called out to him.

"Laptrap, over here!"

"Hey guys, where the hell are you?"

Leo: "Not sure, all we know is that we fell through a hole in the ground next to the football. We're in some kind of underground chamber or something."

"How's Nico holding up?"

"A little shook up from the surprise and a little hurt from the fall, but we're fine."

"If we can reach you electronically, we can reach you physically."

"Don't worry bro, we'll find wherever you are. You're coming with us, dude."

"Oh great, an underground rescue mission. Just what I need."

"Anytime you need advice or help, give us a call."

"Check. The bag I hid Laptrap in can be used to store anything we need or find."

"This may be dangerous, but i'll help too. I can keep track of our progress and location."

"Alright, let's jam. We've got a problem to fix!"

"Yeah, except how are we supposed to go underground in a hurry?" Danny asked, but then a giant hole opened under us trying to swallow us. Luckily me and my brother grabbed the edge and Crane grabbed Mikey and brought him up.

"Ask the giant hole that just opened." Crane said sarcastically and flew down. I was next to go, and no doubt Mikey and Danny came as well. We got to the ground and started walking down the corridor. The whole tunnel was filled with muck and grime, and then we came to a big door.

"Whoa."

"What the-?"

"Looks like some sort of blocked access encryption device." Crane spoke. I knew exactly what Crane was talking about, but Danny and Mikey didn't have a clue.

"Huh?"

"Any chance that's a egghead way of a locked door?"

"(sighs) Yes Danny, it's a door lock that can only be opened by answering the security questions on the locks."

"Oh."

"I knew that."

"Yeah right shell-head. I'll bet we can figure out the answers by reading the text over here."

"These arrows on the locks can help us get the right answer on the lock."

"We should then pull on the handle to open the blockade."

"So let's spring this lock already and find out what's back there."

We worked together to unlock the door using the correct answers on the locks. (Lucky Crane's with us. Out of the group, Tigress, Donnie, and Crane are the smartest ones.) Once we got all the locks opened, we were able to open the door.

"Aw yeah, that's how we roll."

"Don't you mean how we roll, you didn't do anything except pull the handle."

"Anyways, we got the door opened guys." I intervened.

"But what's back there?"

We began walking down the tunnel (or at least, it looked that way) and we saw a cliff up ahead. We got down on our hands and knees, and we saw something extraordinary.

All of us: "Whoa!"

There was plants of all shapes and sizes and they were alive. Alive! It looked like they were doing a bit of training.

"This is amazing!" I whispered

"This has been under Nico and Miss Rose's yards? Unbelievable."

"Intruders! Seize them!"

"Time to go guys!"

"Which way?"

(shuffle)

"Hey!"

"MMMMMNNMNMNMNM!" I muffled. Something had grabbed us from behind and covered our mouths. It dragged us into a hidden tunnel, so the plant guards couldn't find us. We then saw a little plantling in front of us.

"Shhh, don't say a word. I'm on your side."

"Doubtful." My brother said

"Who are you dude?"

"My name is Ficus, I live here." Typical for a plant to be given that name.

"An underground civilization of intelligent plants? This is phenomenal!"

"We've been down here for centuries, and nobody's ever known about us, until now. Something's gone wrong; our soldiers are acting crazy. They've taken animal civilians captive, and they're preparing to attack the town!" Ficus explained

"Whoa."

"My friends and I have been trying to talk some sense to everyone, but no one will listen. You've gotta help us! Please?"

"Sure, if you help us. Our friends have disappeared down here, do you know where they are?"

"I don't, but our leader will. You've gotta get to the throne room, but you can't go through the main gate. The guards would capture you. You'll have to go the back way, and that means building bridges over the Bottomless Pits."

"(Gulps) Bottomless... Pits?" Mikey asked in fear.

"Don't worry, if you use petrified wood planks the bridges will hold. But the planks are scattered all over the kingdom, and some of them are even guarded by soldiers."

"We can overcome any obstacle, where do we begin?" Crane asked

"Look around, now i've gotta get out of here before they notice i'm gone!" Ficus said and he left to get back to his place.

"Let's get moving, if we need help we have the guys on the videophone." Danny said.

So now we have a plan: find the wood planks, build the bridges, get to the throne room and rescue our friends. Something in my gut says this won't be easy, but if Raph was here, he wouldn't mind it being hard.

Author's Note: Hope you enjoyed the chapter and please review.