As you may recall from the last chapter, the turtles had found a canister with the mysterious substance. They recognized it and realized something.
"So..." said Raphael "That's the..."
"Ooze that transformed us into what were are today" Donnie finished.
"I wonder what happen if I drank some more" Michelangelo said to his brothers.
"Why would you want to do that?" asked Leo.
"Because I like, wanna know what would probably happen if a mutant is mutated" said Michelangelo.
"Mikey, this is serious" said Leonardo "Whoever kidnapped April's dad and those scientists must somehow be connected to what happened to us years ago"
"How is that possible?" asked Donnie.
"For alien robots, nothing is possible" said Mikey "And I'll like, show you"
Mikey grabbed onto the thug and started to pull on his face, it didn't seem to come off.
"AAAHH! MY FACE!" the man shouted.
"Okay, so it's not a mask" Mikey said as he dropped the thug "But those other guys were alien robots. You saw the first chapter"
"Enough!" Raphael shouted and walked to the thug "Time to get some answers! Who are you and what's going on?"
"Name's Snake" said the man as Raphael grabbed him by the arm "And I've got nothing to say to you green freaks"
"That's cause you don't know who we are yet" Raphael said as he tossed Snake aside.
He and the other turtles walked over to Snake, who was lying on the street. The grabbed him by the limbs.
"We used to be regular people, until we got hit by this" Raph said as he opened up the canister "Now, all you have to do is tell us what you know about the missing scientists. Now if I spill this onto you, you could turn out handsome and good looking like me, or you could turn out ugly like Mikey"
"Hey that's not nice" said Mikey.
"So, you feeling lucky?" Raphael asked as ooze was about to fall onto Snake.
"Okay, okay" said Snake "I'll sing"
"Gee Raph" said Leo "That went better than expected"
"Would you like to end up like Mikey?" Raph pointed to Mikey.
"I'm right here, you know" Mikey remarked.
"They call themselves the Kraang" said Snake "They've been grabbing scientists from all over the city"
"What do they want with scientists?" asked Leonardo.
"I don't know" said Snake.
Raphael shook the can of mutagen at Snake, reminding him of what he would do to him if he didn't talk.
"All I know is that they're taking them out of the city tonight, but I don't know where" Snake shouted truthfully.
"Where are they now?" asked Leonardo.
Snake told them of where his bosses were and they went right over to the location. They ended up on top of a roof and saw some sort of army base in the city with other Kraang's guarding the place.
"There's gotta be at least twenty of them" Leo said as he looked through a telescope.
"Alright" said Raphael as he spun his Sai's "An all-you-beat-buffet!"
"Not so fast, Raph" Leo said to his brother "We can't just rush in there"
"He's right" said Donnie "We need a plan of attack"
"Boy, I sure could use a pizza right now" Mikey said.
The other turtles looked at him with blank stares.
"Uh, Mikey...weren't you supposed to guard Snake?" Leonardo asked Mikey.
The turtles then turned around and saw Snake escaping from them.
"After him" Leonardo shouted.
Snake was giving quite a chase. The turtles each split up into groups to search for Snake. Donnie and Mikey ran to the right side of the street, but they didn't find Snake there. At that same time, Raph and Leo went to the left side. They knew Snake was very close, but instead of going after him, they had a plan.
"Oh great, we let him get away" Leo said in a fake tone.
"You're the leader, so you let him get away" Raph reminded Leo.
"Not helping" Leo remarked.
"Who said I was helping?" Raphael smirked.
"Anyways, let's go back to the lair and at the midnight hour, we drive Snake's van right up to the gate" Leonardo explained "They'll think we're him and we'll let ourselves inside"
"And then we bust some heads?" asked Raphael.
"And then we bust some heads" Leonardo nodded.
"I love you're thinking, Leo" Raph said to his brother.
Snake was listening from behind a dumpster in an alley nearby and decided to go tell the information to the Kraang's.
Meanwhile, the turtles made it back to the lair and started to prepare for their attack on the Kraang's lair. While Donnie was building some sort of machine, Raph was having a conversation with April.
"Well April, thanks to yours truly, we've found out where your dad is" he boasted.
"That's great, Raphael" said April.
"And have no fear, because I Hamato Raphael will make it back, alive" he finished.
"Aww" Michelangelo said from behind April and Raphael "You're so sweet Raph"
"Knock it off" Raphael snapped at Mikey.
"So cute" Mikey chuckled at Raph.
Raphael got mad and started to chase Mikey all over the place. At that same time, Leonardo had finally though his plan over.
"I think this plan is going to work" he said to himself.
"No plan ever survives contact with the enemy, Leonardo" Splinter said as he walked to them "It is how you react to the unexpected, which will determine if you and your brothers succeed"
"Do you think I'm ready for this, Splinter?" Leonardo asked his sensei.
"Leonardo, I made you leader for a reason" Splinter said as he put his hand on Leo's shoulder.
"But what if something goes wrong?" asked Leonardo.
"Failure is something everybody must face, Leonardo" said Splinter "It is something I had to face back in Japan during my final battle with my nemesis, the Shredder. Long ago, Oroku Saki, as Shredder was called then, had been my best friend. But the affections of a woman came between us. When she chose me over him, he couldn't accept it and his jealously caused him to vow vengeance. And while he couldn't kill me that day, my world started to fall apart that day, as the battle took the life of my beloved Teng Shen and he took my little daughter, Miwa"
"Ouch" said Leonardo "But that's my point, Splinter. You lost everything"
"I lost many things during that time" Splinter sadly said "My family, my home, my name and my humanity. But on the bright side, I gained some things as well. Such as the four of you"
"Don't worry, master" said Leonardo "We can handle this"
Author's Note:
Looks like our heroes are on their way on their first mission. Leo has also learned an important life lesson from Splinter and now sees that he will have to face his failure. Will they save April's father? Or will the Kraang's win?