Chapter One.
Donny was bored. A rare occurrence, but it happened to the best of people, if only occasionally. The shell raiser was completely upgraded, as was the motion sensors outside the lair (honesty he thought he had upgraded those too much, even a mouse made an alert flash up on one of his many monitors.), and he had tinkered with his gear for hours. Leo was meditating in the dojo with Master Splinter, Raph was working out as usual and Mikey was playing video games, so he had nothing to do.
He spun in his computer chair for a few moments before deciding to check the internet for any supposed 'sightings' of the mutant turtle nature. Ever since the issue with Sacks, conspiracy theorists had popped out of the woodwork. He supposed it was unavoidable, when they had fallen off the building, clinging onto the shattered tower they could have been seen, not everyone had been running and people from the nearby buildings could have seen them.
Now with a goal in mind Donny sat forwards and let his fingers fly across the keyboard. He clicked on the most popular site and settled down to read the various blogs and comments, snorting out a guffaw a few minutes later when he read that apparently he and his brothers were alien blob creatures, maybe from a different dimension, the accompanying photo so blurry, even he couldn't tell what it was. Shaking his head, he went to click off the blog when a comment caught his eye, the more he read, the more dread crushed his chest, he needed to gather the family.
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When his brothers and father were seated in the main living area, Donny began to speak.
"We have a problem,"
Instantly the atmosphere became serious, any wandering attention snapped to him.
"I was searching for anything pointing to us being discovered when I came across someone who's username is Minui Mellon, the main post they commented on wasn't anywhere close to the truth but their comment, well they were very close, it started with how they had seen us before, more than likely when we had been patrolling, and went on to say that we looked more reptilian than the posters idea, and that any reptile that large must have been mutated or 'made'."
While he was talking Raph had gotten up and started to pace, Mikey's eyes had widened to what looked like the point of pain, Leo had put his head in his hands, elbows on his knees, and let out a huff of frustration when Donny stopped talking. The momentary weakness was forgotten when he stood and spoke,
"Donny, try to find out where they live, we can add the area to our patrols and try to find out how much they know,"
Donny nodded and moved back towards his 'station' and began to do his work, ignoring the chatter from behind him. Whoever Minui Mellon was, they had a bit of experience at least, but he managed to track them down after only a few hours.
"Guys, I found them!"