A call for Help

It was summer break and the turtles were at their dorm enjoying themselves. Donnie was on his laptop working on something with Leo.

"How about this?"

"Hmm, I was thinking maybe a gold outline."

"Gold can be a little gaudy now and then."

"How would you know? You a fashion critic or something?"

"Har har."

"Let's try this then."

…

"Huh, that looks pretty cool."

"See? Told you."

"Told him what?"

They turned and saw Dannie coming with Raph having his arm behind Dannie.

"We've been working on a little project of our own."

"Since we've developed a side business as detectives, we came up with a design for our business. Take a look."

Dannie and Raph took a look on Donnie's laptop and saw the logo they developed. It was a black book with a silver question mark and it had a magnifying glass and silver key sitting on top of it. The magnifying glass and key were crossing each other.

"This is a pretty cool logo."

"Not bad, I suppose."

"Yeah, it can help us get some more recognition."

"Let me get a pic of this. I want to show the others."

Dannie took a pic on his phone and sent it to Po's phone with a message saying 'Check out this Logo my brothers made for our detective business.'. Pretty soon, Po responded back saying how cool it looked.

"No surprise that Po likes it."

"What did the others say?"

"He didn't say anything back yet."

(beep)

"Oh, wait a moment. Let's see here... "I showed the others, they like how awesome and mysterious it looks." Mysterious?"

"Never pegged for a mysterious approach."

"We've been updating the website. If anyone sees our website, they might take us seriously."

"What's that, genius?"

"A message. I wonder who sent it?"

Donnie opened it up and it was an anonymous message.

"That's strange."

"What?"

"Have you guys heard of a place called Zootopia?"

"Nope."

"Not me, genius."

"Me neither."

"Well, someone sent this message from there."

"What does it say?"

"Dear Cluefinders, word got around that you are some of the best mystery solvers ever heard of. I need your help urgently. My friend was the victim of a crime and the police haven't made much progress. I was hoping maybe you could help me. Please, I don't know who else to ask for help."

"Who's it from? It doesn't say."

"Can you make contact?"

"I think so, the message was sent about 2 hours ago."

Donnie sent an email to the recipient asking for any details on the crime in question. 5 minutes later, they said that they don't know much.

"Can't they give us something to work with?"

"Or maybe they know more than they're willing to let on online."

"What's that supposed to mean, Fearless?"

"If we want more info, maybe we should go to Zootopia."

"A road trip? That could be fun, but what would sensei say?"

"Hasn't stopped me before."

They turned and saw Splinter standing a few feet away.

"Sensei!"

"I already let you leave on numerous occasions with your mysteries, but I will say this: Don't do ANYTHING that will put you in harm's way."

"Thanks, Sensei."

"I already have Po and the others on the line." Dannie said. "Yeah, it's a place called Zootopia. We don't know much yet."

...

"Yeah well, we got through mysteries with much less intel from the start. Hence, the Bermuda Triangle."

"Yeesh, talk about blunt."

"Aw, quit your worrying."

"So, you guys in or out?"

...

"Glad you're on board then."

"Dannie. Tell them we'll meet up in town at the café." Leo whispered

Dannie gave him a thumbs up and told the others where to meet up. Later that day, everyone met up at the café in one of the upper level tables. Those are only if you reserve a table ahead of time.

"So, someone is asking us for help and they can't even tell us who they are?"

"The message was anonymous, we don't know who it is. Whoever sent that message, they made sure to cover their tracks. I used all my technology know-how, and I couldn't crack the encryption."

"Wow, if Donnie couldn't crack it, they must be good." Danny joked

"Hey!"

"Knock it off, you two. This is serious." Tigress stated

"So what should we do? Can we trust them?" Viper asked

"At the very least, we should go and see if it's serious. If not, there's nothing we can do about it. We in?"

At first, everyone thought about it, and then one by one, everyone started to agree.

"I'm in."

"Me too."

"Same here."

"I'll bite."

"Tigress?"

Everyone turned to her.

"I'll go too, but if this is a joke, someone's gonna get hurt."

"It's unanimous then. We'll all get ready and begin making our way to Zootopia, wherever it is."

"Well, I've been working on that and take a look at this."

Donnie turned his laptop around and showed everyone a map with a black line starting at Animal City and ending at the destination: Zootopia.

"Whoa, that's tons of miles away." Po said shocked

"That distance could take a couple of days to get to on the road."

"Not quite. I have a solution for how we can get there in less time."

He turned his laptop around and changed the website to show the train schedule, then showed everyone.

"Wait, that's the train schedule."

"I didn't know the trains in the city go out that far." Serena said

"I did some digging and found that the next train to Zootopia makes a stop here in the city. It arrives here in 2 days at 11 A.M. in the morning. It'll take a day on the train and then we arrive at Zootopia."

"Okay, so that gives us two days to prepare. We'll arrive half an hour before the train arrives. We'll have to get the tickets before hand."

"Let us worry about ourselves, you guys worry about you."

"All right, let's meet at the station on Wednesday at 10:30 A.M."

"Got it." Everyone said. So after getting a bite to eat, everyone left and separated. In the city, Po and the others bumped into Tye the Tiger.

"Oh hey Tye."

"Hey Po, nice to see ya buddy."

"Right back at you."

"Whatcha up to?"

"Got a case- (mumbled)"

"Po!"

Danny covered his mouth.

"Case? What 'case'?"

"We have a side business as detectives, and we've got a case in another city. We leave in two days."

"Really? Can I join?"

"It's not exactly all that safe."

"Really? Have you forgotten what we do at night?"

Tye then lifted up his glove with the red stone.

"We do this stuff which is far more dangerous than solving a mystery."

"Tye, while we appreciate the offer, we can't take that risk."

"You really want to start this again? The whole 'it's not safe argument' like with the building?"

That brought back memories that Po would rather forget about.

"You know, he has a point." He said after moving Danny's paw off his mouth.

"Well yeah, but-"

"I think he should come."

Everyone looked at Serena with shocked looks.

"Who knows? Maybe having another set of eyes and muscles could pay off."

"What about the rest of us?"

"If she's vouching for him, so am I." Viper said

"Me too." Monkey added.

"Same for me."

"I guess, if everyone else agrees then, i'll go along with it."

Eventually, Tigress was the last vote and right now, she was outnumbered.

"(sighs) Fine, but we're not putting ourselves in harm's way like before."

"Thanks, guys. I won't let you down."

They went back to the dorm and started packing for the trip ahead.

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