So here is a brief chapter where various characters do things to further their character development

Pimpernel said he would investigate that warehouse for anything suspicious, everyone thanked the Pigwere and decided to head back to wherever they were staying, Jonathan was quite surprised by Rana offering to carry either Ichabod or Marzipan, Jonathan could see something had changed in the Female Frog Mutant.

Rana stayed behind in First Earth but Leonardo and Donatello returned to Third Earth.

As the sun was rising Leonardo returned to his Dojo in Forest since this craziness with this Cult happened there had been no more lessons at the Dojo because it wasn't safe. Leonardo sighed and entered this place he had come to love.

Leo stood for a while just thinking to himself then he heard a knock, he turned his head. Nubs was there smiling.

Leo smiled despite all that had happened and let the Mutant Rhino Calf in.

"Leonardo..." Nubs said "...This is something I've wanted to ask you about for a while and I just couldn't wait any longer! I've chosen the weapon I wish to wield...Leonardo-San can you teach me the ways of the sword?"

Leo blushed "Nubs...I'm flattered."

"Karai said I should ask you." Nubs said

Leo chuckled "Really, I'm honored you wish to wield the sword..." Leo said

"I've found a Sword I wish to wield!" Nubs said as he revealed under the gray cape he liked to wear he had a hilt and he pulled out...A claymore. A giant sword to most creatures but Nubs was already as large a Human if he became any larger he could probably wield it single handed .

"Um...Nubs..." Leo said "That...That isn't a typical...Ninja Sword."

Nubs sighed "Leo...I don't think I'm cut out to be a Ninja."

Nubs sat down at the Dojo Bench and Leo sat with him.

"I'm too large!" Nubs said "I'm too heavy! Everytime I try to walk on the balance beam I fall off...Chapman said during the Roman Empire they trained elephants to walk on tightropes, that's great but I'm not an elephant I'm a rhino we look similar but we're not closely related...But we are similar in that...We can't...Jump...Thinking about jumping from skyscraper to skyscraper...I think I would fall to my death if I tried that..."

Leo nodded "It's good you thought of that before you got seriously hurt..." Leo sighed "To think...I started off as an ordinary slow Turtle...And I've been able to run and leap effortlessly for so long I can't even imagine what being a normal Turtle would be like...But not all Mutants are built equally, we can't all be Ninjas."

"But reading through my books..." Nubs said "...I was inspired by Medieval Knights charging around in heavy armor! A lot like a Rhinoceros! So I thought...Maybe I should be a Knight instead..."

Leo chuckled "Even if you're Sword is Western...as Master Splinter taught me long ago, it's not the weapon but the arm that wields it! I will teach you Nubs."

Meanwhile Marzipan was sitting by herself at Humanimal Haven where they decided to stay with Rana at least for a while, Marzipan sensed that Pamela didn't want an eight year old in her kitchen, even though Marzipan had been cooking since she was eight years old, Pamela had enough troubles being transformed into a Mutant Mantis and all so Marzipan decided she'd rather stay with Rana and search for Charlie with her.

Marzipan was sitting on a large gray rock at a crystalline pool at Humanimal Haven when Ichabod came to join her.

"Hey." Ichabod said "Can I sit with you?" Their tiny bodies fit perfectly on the rock.

"I'm so sorry..." Marzipan said

"Oh Marzi..." Ichabod was about to try to soothe her

"I mean about the dance contest!" Marzipan finally exclaimed "You've been training so hard for that dance contest and no you can't compete because you're in the body of an eight year old!"

A surprised squeaking sound caused Marzipan and Ichabod to turn their heads, Rana with and towel in her arms was standing there with an awkward expression on her face.

"I was about to take a dip in the pool..." Rana said "...But I'll just wait..." She turned to head back to her cabin.

"No wait Rana!" Ichabod called after her "Don't worry about it!"

"I'm not angry about that." Ichabod said to Marzipan "You're more important to me than any contest, there will be another contest. Besides...Maybe we should be thinking more about fighting than dancing...I mean...This Mutant Cult...They were clearly dangerous before they were brought to our attention."

Marzipan sighed.

"Come to think of it..." Ichabod said as he slid off the rock "...Since we are Kids at the moment...Want to head to the playground? There weren't any playgrounds for me to visit when I was a kid!"

Marzipan could only give a squeak in surprise.

"C'Mon!" Ichabod exclaimed as he pulled Marzipan down from the rock "Let's play! If we're gonna be Kids...We might as well have some fun!"

And Ichabod and Marzipan ran off to play Rana watched them from the trees she thought 'Dance contest?' Rana herself loved to dance and despite everything that had happened, she thought 'It couldn't hurt to ask about it.'

Thinking about the Star Trek The Next Generation Episode Rascals of which the Ichabod/Marzipan subplot was inspired by Ichabod didn't exactly have an awful childhood, but it wasn't exactly a rich childhood because the Planet was run by the brutal Duke Vortex during Ichabod's childhood, Marzipan, before being captured by the Wranglers was living like an average 90s Suburban Kid but she was lonely because no one would be her friend because of her pink and purple fur so it is a bit of an inverse the situation between Ro and Guinan where the one who had...Some oppression as a child being content and wanting to do the things he didn't experience as a child and the one who the things but not the friends only thinking about how they can't do the things they could do as teenagers.