"And what exactly is your brilliant plan?" she asked placing a hand on her hip. Bad guys loved to explain their plans right? So using this weakness she could buy the turtles some time.

"Curious how your friends will meet their demise, aren't we Miss O'Neil. The turtles have been a thorn in my side for far too long now! But after today, I will never have to worry about them again! You see, with your assistance, I will be able to lure the turtles into a factory. But this isn't any ordinary factory- it is a bubble gum factory!"

"A bubble gum factory?"

"Seems harmless yes, but when the turtles arrive to rescue their poor damsel in distress, they will find themselves in a sticky situation! For you see, the floor will be covered in gum, making the turtles immobile, allowing me to eliminate them as they wallow about in pink candy!" Shredder burst out in cliché evil laughter causing April cringe rather than tremble in terror as he had expected her to, "And then I will take over the world." he added quickly.

"You call that your most devious plan yet?"

"Well you try coming up with a great plan on a miniscule budget!"

"I bet I could!"

"That's it! I have had enough of your insolence! I am taking you to the transportation module where you will be gagged, ridding me of hearing your annoying voice!" he said snatching her wrist and gripping it tight to the point where April feared her hand would lose circulation.

That's when they heard the loud sounds of a brawl going on outside. Shredder's head snapped towards the open window, "What the devil?"

April seized that moment to free herself from his grasp, "Hah Shredder you're too late, the turtles are already here!"

"That can't be! They can't possibly have known unless-" he turned toward April with a glare, "Unless I fell for your stupid plan! Oh it was so obvious! Next time I'm just taking you naked." Both stared at each other for an awkward moment as the battle raged on outside, "That didn't sound right. I sure hope the censors didn't catch that."

April ran to the window with a big grin across her face "It doesn't matter because the turtles are going to kick your sorry- your sorry- oh…" The sight outside wiped the smile off her face as quickly as it had come, speedily closing the blinds, the reporter whipped back around, "Ugh you wanna banter some more?" It was that very moment an explosion went off.

"Get out of my way you wench!" he demanded shoving her aside. Opening the blinds once again he was greeted with a gruesome sight which made his eyes shrink, "OH NO! The transportation module!" the poor machine was in smoking pieces, "Bebop, Rocksteady where are the turtles?"

The two mutants crawled out from under the wreckage looking at each other with confused expressions, "What turtles boss?"

"You mean they weren't just out here fighting you?"

"Naw boss dem turtles weren't here."

Shredder turned his enraged look to April who nervously shrugged, "Heh fooled you?"

Shaking with anger Shredder gazed back out the window at his two comrades, "Then how do you explain the condition of the transportation module!"

"Well uh Bebop broke the TV and-"

"Wait- you stole my TV!" April screamed, cramming herself next to Shredder in the window to get a look at the fate of her TV.

"It wouldn't have done ya much good once da boss and Krang took over da world anyways." Bebop shrugged before turning on Rocksteady, "And what do ya mean I broke the TV! If it weren't for ya butter fingers-!"

"My butter fingers!"

"Yeah dats what I said!"

"Listen you two numbskulls! What does breaking a TV have to do with the module exploding?"

"When we wuz fightin' each other we accidentally banged it up a little bit." In that instance the engine caught fire.

"AHH why must you morons screw up everything!" he rubbed at the sides of the helmet where his temples should be. This was just great, he was now stranded at April's apartment with the turtles on their way at the very moment! What was an evil villain to do?

Shouting from across the street reached his ears, "Your prices are outrageously high! Do you really expect me to pay that much for such a lousy microwave?"

"Then you can just leave you bum!" another man yelled back, "My prices are staying right where they are!"

Shredder stared in the direction of the voices and saw a man marching out of an electronics store as what must have been the manager stood at the entrance waving his fist and yelling.

Just then an idea arose in his brain, "That is it! Ha ha! By the time the turtles reach this apartment it will be too late! Bebop, Rocksteady I will think twice about yelling at you if you can come up here and do this one simple task for me…."

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Bebop and Rocksteady stood in front of the electronic store stealthy glancing around for the right moment. At the entrance was a sign on an easel which read "2.33% off- NO REFUNDS!". Bebop snuck up to the sign and quickly placed another in front of it. The message was written in purple paint, and read "99.9% off sale—BUY ONE ITEM, GET A LASERDISC FREE!" Then they quickly ran back to the apartment complex.

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The Party Wagon raced towards its destination with Donatello at the wheel, "Only a few blocks further to until we reach April's apartment."

"I sure hope she is alright." Leonardo said.

Smashing his fist into his palm, Raph said, "We'll show Shredder what he deserves for trying to pick on our friend!"

"Especially for doing so on a Friday afternoon!" Michelangelo added.

All of a sudden, Donatello slammed his foot on the brake, causing everyone to slam forward in their seats.

"Donatello," Leonardo exclaimed, "why are you slowing down now? Her place is still a few blocks down the road!"

"Well considering the amount of traffic up ahead I thought it'd be a good idea to apply the brakes."

"Traffic?" Raphael said perplexed, "This show never animates cars when we're driving, how can there possibly be traffic?"

"Well, explain what you'd call all those backed up cars up ahead, buster."

Sure enough, cars were stacked up on top of one another. Pedestrians were rushing in front of the car, all headed for one of the stores on the right side of the street.

"Oh great, they finally give our show a bigger budget and they blow it on adding a fifty car road block."

"I wonder why all these cars are here?" Donatello questioned.

As if answering him, three men ran past them on the side walk yelling, "This is the sale of the century! Who would have guessed that skinflint Marty would get desperate enough to mark down everything 99.9%!"

"A sale? Is that what this is all about?"

"This might be one of the Shredder's tricks." Leonardo pointed out.

Sticking his head out of the van's window Mikey said, "It's the electronic store! They're having a mondo sale and - WOW they're giving out free laser disks! Dudes we have to go!"

"Michelangelo, there's no time!" exclaimed Leonardo. "April's counting on us!"

"B-But, LEONARDO," whined Mikey. "April gets kidnapped ALL the time, and this—this is a once in a lifetime opportunity!"

"He does have a point," agreed Raphael, eyeing the quickly disappearing Laserdiscs in the store window greedily.

"Fine, Donatello and I-"

"Ehh," Donatello said, scratching the back of his head guiltily. "Well, actually I was thinking… One of those cheap TVs might have a part I need for my latest invention."

"That's three against one!" said Raphael, opening the passenger door and disembarking.

"Yeah, see ya, bro!" said Mikey, sliding across the seat after him. With a sheepish grin, Donatello followed suit, forgetting to close the front passenger door behind him in his excitement.

Leonardo stared at his brothers in disbelief as they all rushed out the van, forcing their way into the store with the rest of the crowd.

"Come back!" he shouted, jumping out of the van to pursue them. "This isn't the time!"

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"What do you mean you won't send another transportation module, Krang?" Shredder glared down at the communicator in his palm as he balanced a flailing April on his shoulder with the other hand. They were now down in the alleyway, beside the broken module.

"You always blame Bebop and Rocksteady for your own mistakes! You are never careful with any of the equipment in the technodrome! "

"This isn't the time for this, you sniveling slime ball! The turtles-"

"I don't care about hearing anymore excuses, Shredder!" the brain bellowed, "You managed to destroy yet another one of my precious machines with your irresponsible stupidity! This situation is all your doing, and you can get yourself out of it!"

With that the screen went black, leaving a very frustrated Shredder. Stomping his foot in anger, the masked man shoved the communicator back into his shirt grumbling, "That idiot! If his machines weren't such pieces of junk then maybe they wouldn't break so easily!"

"What do we do now boss?" Rocksteady asked.

"Yeah, now that the thingy is broken, it'll take forever to reach the factory!"

"I know, I know! If you'd shut up I-" he was cut off by the outburst of laughter coming from April, "What are you laughing at!"

"Face it tin grin! Your plan is as good as foiled now!"

"Trust me, unlike these two idiots, I actually have a brain in my head. I can improvise."

"Yeah, we could call a taxi!"

"Oh yes, because we don't look suspicious at all!" Shredder rolled his eyes, "No, we need a better idea."

Shredder searched the street frantically looking for something- ANYTHING- that would save his plan! Suddenly he froze, for he had caught sight of the turtle van! He began to panic, until he noticed that the seats were empty. An evil smile formed under his mask as he turned to face the two mutants.

"Oh boys, I think we found ourselves a ride."

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The turtles made their way out of the store triumphantly: Raphael and Donatello hauled a giant TV set, and Mikey had the Laserdisc under one arm and two movies in the alternate hand.

"I can't wait to watch these new flicks when we get back from saving April: Kung Fu Commandos versus the Chainsaw Cheerleaders 4 and The Mutant Werehog from Neptune!"

Leonardo had his arms crossed. "Let's just hope Shredder hasn't gotten too far away with her."

"Oh his hasn't." Donatello answered.

"Really, how can you be so sure?" Leonardo asked.

"Because," Donatello pointed, "they are two miles down the road driving like hell in the Party Wagon."

"WHAT!" the three other turtles yelled in union. As they snapped their heads in that direction, they were greeted with the sight of Bebop and Rocksteady making goofy faces at them from the back window.