That same evening, Donnie's T-Phone started to ring. He picked it up and saw that April was calling him. He stopped everything he has been doing and answered the phone.
"Hey April. What's up?" Donnie said in his normal voice. Ever since the incident and finding out that April and Casey are dating, Donnie decided to put a stop on his flirting and let them be together.
"Hey Donnie!" April said in her usual girly voice. "How's the retro-mutagen coming along?"
"Not very well. Thank you very much." Donnie said in a flustered voice as he looked upon his lab table and seeing the empty or broken mutagen canisters and other residues splattered upon the wall. Sometimes he feels like quitting, but won't break the promise he silently made towards the team and Splinter.
"You will eventually make one. I know it." April said with confidence in the hopes to motivate Donnie.
"Her mutagen isn't exactly like your father's." Donnie said back with a mix of coldness and matter of fact tone.
"Well." April said in a voice trying to hide her hurt feelings. "Have you checked the radar by my house. Something just happened."
Donnie quickly placed the T-Phone down on the table, opened up his computer to check it out. He was stunned to see the massive readings it was displaying. He slowly started to pick up his phone.
"What is going on over there?" Donnie asked in a worrisome manner. He eventually looked up towards his table full of gadgets.
"I don't know Donnie. I woke up and saw massive bursts of electricity shooting all over the place. It looked nice for a while, but then it scared me." April answered back.
"Is the …" Donnie asked before being interrupted.
"No. Neither the Foot nor Kraang were there. I looked closely and couldn't see any of their vehicles or henchmen around the area." April responded
"Hmm." Donnie wondered absentmindedly as he picked up "Detective Vision" and switched on a few buttons with some whirring in response.
"Think that the Kraang bought in something new or has one of their experiments gone wrong?" April questioned.
"Well if its Kraang, they would've been there right now, trying to capture it as silently as possible. The Foot Clan isn't the type to be doing that sort of weird activity, even with Stockman on their side." Donnie responded as he placed "Detective Vision" on his head and his Bo/Naginata staff on his back. He managed to switch April's call from the T-Phone to a Bluetooth he "borrowed".
"How will you know for sure?" April asked. A hint of worry could be sounded in her tone.
"I'm going to go investigate it right now." Donnie answered as he walked out of the lab and passing by the lair's so-called living room.
"Okay then. Be careful out there." April sighed and hung up. Suddenly Donnie just got really angry. He realized that maybe this was the moment to at least apologize to her and blew it. But he started to think that maybe April would just laugh or shrug it off. Maybe they really aren't meant to be together after all.
"Whatever." Donnie angrily sighed as he paced out the lair's exit.
Donnie was about to leave when he heard a silent, yet familiar thud behind him.
"Hello there, Leo." Donnie said without turning around to greet his brother. He could feel dark eyes staring at him keenly, almost as dark as the day when he was brainwashed by the mutated Parasitic Wasp's poison.
"Where are you heading off to Donnie?" Leonardo asked in a rather steel cold voice.
"April just called about a disturbance that happened around her apartment and I'm going to investigate it." Donnie replied firmly. This moment is feeling rather awkward because they haven't seen or talked to each other for some time.
"How will I know that you will be doing just that?" Leonardo asked again, sounding rather unconvinced.
Suddenly Donnie turned around and yelled in an exasperated tone. "Are you really going to be doing this to everyone ever since what happened that night?"
Leonardo turned his head rather quickly and replied sternly. "I don't want to lose you, the same way that we lost ….. her." Donnie smirked upon noticing how Karai's/Miwa's name suddenly became taboo to him.
"Well at least you know that I'm not executing my suicidal plan of vengeance and trying to kill all my enemies in one night which ultimately has me mutated." Donnie replied sarcastically. He had a hand on his staff on the ready in case Leo was to strike at him.
Surprisingly, Leonardo just got up and left without saying a word to Donnie. Even though Leo was turned around, Donnie thought he saw a few teardrops before Leonardo headed to his room.
Donnie shrugged and headed out towards the location.
"Whoa!" Immediately upon arriving at the alley, Donnie could feel static and looked down on the biggest goosebumps he has ever had. He looked down at the alley and saw that the place was a complete mess and sighed upon realizing that evidence searching will be somewhat difficult
"Whatever was here exerted a massive amount of power." Donnie said and activated the "Detective Vision". April was right, no bodies of Foot or Kraang around the area.
"Well time to activate "Crime Scene" to see what really happened here." Donnie said while switching a button.
Donnie not only managed to find where the main source of the electricity was coming from, but he is also surprised by how unfazed is "Detective Vision". Normally any other piece of technology would be acting up among the presence of high electricity, but this one isn't.
"Hmm." Donnie zoomed closely as he saw some footprints and a hand print on the ground in front of the alleged location of the energy source. He took scan of both of them and was surprised there was no DNA match of these prints to anyone of the city. He determined that maybe this power surge was caused when the person or creature landed. Donnie also found a piece of black clothing which also came out unidentified. He also found a strange black and white badge of a bird but was unmatched to any known pieces of jewelry or gang tattoos.
He then noticed some kind of scratch or impact mark on the cement by the foot and hand prints. He was relieved to see an identification match of the impact to the point of a blade, but there were no watches on which types of blades caused that impact. He was stunned upon the zooming and scanning of more evidence of the impact mark.
"Obsidian?" Donnie was stunned after reading the evidence. "But who on Earth could forge obsidian into a bladed weapon? It's a volcanic rock/glass but how can the creator make obsidian strong and sharp enough to cause a deep point of impact on solid concrete? Donnie paced as more questions came into mind.
Donnie managed to move most of the trash and found the remaining footprints, but upon the exit of the alleyway, the footprints suddenly vanished. Surprised and confused, Donnie scanned the remaining area for more footprints, but couldn't find any. This strange disappearance made this case rather bizarre.
As Donnie was on top of the building, he was replaying "Crime Scene" over a few times to determine the scenario of this bizarre event. At first, he believed that maybe someone time travelled and upon landing tried to run away but another portal shows up and "sucked" him/her in. Even though it supported the absence of more footprints, moree strangrange absence of theeies there was no evidence of another power surge. He is starting to doubt whether the thing that came was even a person because in all of his years as a ninja and studying foreign and Japanese warriors, no one could simply erase their footprints. Frustrated and tired, Donnie made a last minute scan of the alley for any more evidence and left for the lair.
Little did he know that during his investigation, a hooded, and dark clothed warrior was watching him from above. It was armed with a large black and silver bow, a quiver loaded with arrows, and . Upon observing Donatello investigating the area, it became convinced that Donatello was likely a threat and started to pursue him.
"I'm coming for you Argonian!" It muttered in a deep voice and started to follow Donnie's trail.
(Steve Jablonsky's "Arrival on Earth" plays for background)
Halfway upon arriving to the sewer hole, Donnie came upon a realization.
"What if the person or thing left behind a hidden sign? I've completely forgot that Detective Vision has an environmental scanner that could find anything unusual on the walls or floors." Donnie smacked his head. He quickly arrived back to the alley and did another checkup to see if anyone has tampered with anything.
When the area was clear, Donnie pressed a button and noticed a couple of symbols scratched near the pulse. One was a diamond with an unusually large circle in it and the other was just strange markings. Upon making an analysis, not only did the symbols match any known signs throughout the world but the symbols clearly do not exist at all.
"Useless piece of junk! I did everything to create the ultimate gadget and it can't even help me solve this case." Donnie yelled and started to smack the device a bit.
"Everyone is so going to kill me tonight." Donnie fumed.
Upon arriving at the lair, Donnie just threw his knapsack and "Detective Vision" at the table and walked towards his room for the first time in a long time. He threw himself on the bed and fell peacefully asleep for the first time since the night of the incident.
"Must. Tell. The. Story. Right." Donnie muttered repeatedly before blacking out.
Meanwhile….
Outside the sewer hole heading towards the lair, the warrior tracked Donnie down but refused to enter the possibly large sewer maze.
"I'll be waiting for you Argonian." the warrior chuckled and disappeared into darkness.