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"Guys, guys, get in your spots!" Mikey called. He was currently trying to skateboard down a ramp and jump over his brothers.

Tracy stood on the sidelines with Lucifer on her shoulders. "You guys are going to disturb Master Splinter," she told them.

The three turtle brothers were grumbling about what they were doing but were still lying on the floor in a line in front of the ramp. They seemed to not have heard their friend. "Booyakasha!" Mikey yelled as he descended down the ramp.

"What is going on here?!" Splinter exclaimed from beside Tracy, who flinched.

"I told you," she said.

The three turtles immediately stood up in surprise. "Sensei!" Leo exclaimed. Mikey yelled as he crashed into his brothers, sending them all to the ground in a pile and making Tracy cringe.

Splinter walked over to them, with Tracy at his side, casting is shadow over his sons. "How many times have I told you not to skateboard in the lair?"

"None, Sensei," Mikey replied.

"I shouldn't have to tell you!"

The brothers stood up. "You're right, Sensei," Leo said and glanced at Mikey. "We definitely should have known better." They then closed their eyes and tilted their heads down. "And we deserve to be punished."

Splinter walked closer to Leo, bending down to look eye level with him. "And what do you think would be a fitting punishment?"

Leo glanced back at his brothers for help, but they acted like they were busy. So he sighed and turned back, rubbing his neck. "Well, we-we should…clean up our mess," he asked hopefully. Tracy gave a shrug, as did Lucifer, while Splinter crossed his arms. "And then…think about what we did." His brothers agreed with that.

"What about being grounded for a week?" Splinter suggested. Tracy gave a short, low whistle and exchanged a glance with Lucifer. How were they going to cope with that? The turtles tried to protest on it. "You're grounded for a week!" He shot Tracy a glance, silently saying that she was safe since she didn't take part in it. She gave him a thankful smile. The turtles groaned, and then cringed when the skateboarding ramp toppled over and broke.

-TMNT-

It hadn't even been one day of being grounded and the turtle brothers were already bored. Leo sat on the couch with his elbow on his knee and his chin on his hand. Mikey lay beside him, reading a magazine. Raph paced in front of them, groaning every time he passed in front of them. He finally just stopped.

"Gah! This bites," he exclaimed. "I can't believe we're stuck down here for a whole week."

Tracy, in her cat form, sat up from her position of lying on the other side of Leo, while Lucifer lay with his paws crossed on the other side of her. Tracy let out a meow and then glanced at Lucifer as he translated for her.

'That just goes to show how accustomed you are to running around up there,' He meowed, flicking his tail once. Tracy licked a paw and brushed it over her ears. 'Tracy and I can do fine down here for a week. You guys can't even last a day.'

"Guys, guys!" Donnie ran in from his lab. "Do you want to see what I made?"

Raph glanced at his brothers and friend. "This is how bored I am," he told them before glancing back at Donnie. "Yes, Donnie. I do."

Tracy changed into her original form while Lucifer jumped onto her shoulder. 'It better not be something for me again…' Lucifer mumbled. He got smacked in the face with a large, dark orange ear.

"Okay, okay," Donnie said excitedly, trying to calm himself down enough to speak. He seemed proud of himself, again. "Remember the other day I was scrounging in that military junk yard?"

"No," everyone replied. Tracy listened intently.

"Well, I found an incredibly advanced AI microchip made from - get this! – self-assembled, chain-link copolymers!"

"That's my favorite kind of copolymer," Mikey said before glancing back at his magazine.

"Mine, too!"

"I have no idea what that is, but it sounds absolutely awesome!" Tracy cheered, raising a fist in the air.

"And I used it to make this." Donnie's voice went to a whisper at the end as he held a white and blue glowing circular-looking IPod. "The most advanced music player in the world!"

"I thought that's what that was," Tracy mumbled, looking very interested. Lucifer nodded in agreement.

Donnie's brothers stared at it in awe. "Whoa…"

"So, who wants to try it?" Donnie asked.

Tracy and Mikey immediately held up their hands.

"Me!"

"I do! Toss me the T-Pod!"

"T-Pod?" Donnie echoed.

"Turtle, pod. T-Pod," Mikey said slowly and then laughed. "I am so good at namin' stuff."

"Oh, just hand it over," Tracy said as she took the T-Pod from Donnie and put an earphone in one of her large cat ears, handing Mikey the other one.

"You're really gonna plug an advanced piece of military technology directly into their head?" Raph asked, poking his head. "What if it melts their brain?"

"It won't," Donnie and Tracy said in unison. They paused before Tracy continued. "It's just music. It's not going to do anything bad."

Mikey pressed the "Play" button on the T-Pod and then immediately screamed when it started playing some sort of circus-sounding music, making Tracy flinch.

"What?! What's wrong," Donnie asked.

"It's polka! Make it stop! Make it stop!" Mikey shouted. Tracy rolled her eyes and took the T-Pod from his hand and pressed the "Next" button. Mikey immediately quit panicking and smiled up at her. "Thanks."

Tracy giggled in amusement before the next song caught both of their attention, her ears perking up. Mikey slowly stood up and began to dance in place while Tracy closed her eyes and nodded her head, tapped her paw, and lashed her tail to the beat.

"That's it, I gotta get out of here," Raph said before walking away.

Leo followed after him. "Where are you going? We're grounded."

Tracy opened one eye and watched them go before glancing at Donnie and shrugging. She glanced at Mikey and then raised an eyebrow, making an "O" with her mouth. She took out her earphone and handed it to Mikey before walking over to Donnie. "That thing is awesome! But I see why they walked away," she laughed.

Donnie laughed, "Yeah, it is pretty awesome, isn't it?" He stood up straight and lifted his head high in a show of pride. Tracy nodded with a smile.

"I don't care! I gotta do somethin' or else I'm gonna go nuts," Raph said as he stepped on the end of a skateboard, making it flip up before he caught it. "Let's find a skate spot."

"Skate spot?!" Mikey shouted over the music blaring in his ears. "I'm totally in!"

"But what's Splinter going to say?" Leo asked.

Raph made a bad impression of Splinter's voice, "I don't know what's going on because they snuck out while I was asleep."

"Real mature," Leo said as he crossed his arms. "But I'm your leader. And as your leader, I say nobody's going."

"What if I wanna go?" Tracy asked as she crossed her arms.

Leo blinked at her in surprise, not expecting her to say anything about it. "Well…"

"Well, as your followers," Raph said as Donnie and Mikey stepped over to stand beside him, "We're going anyway."

"Well, as your leader," Leo began as he tried to think up something quickly, "I am going with you to lead you away from…bad…stuff." Tracy rolled her eyes in exasperation. Mikey suddenly yelled and went down on his knees as he held his head. "What's wrong?"

"It's back to polka!" Mikey said as he held up the T-Pod. "We've gotta get some more tunes on this."

-TMNT-

So, after that, everyone including Lucifer left the lair to go look for a skate spot. Tracy didn't have her own skateboard, and she was certain she didn't want one, yet. She was content with just running around on all fours, which is what she was doing at that moment. Raph, Donnie, and Leo were running while Mikey used his skateboard to get around whilst listening to music, Lucifer on his shoulder.

"Hey, Donnie! Thanks for all the new songs," Mikey called. Tracy flicked her hood back so that she could glance up at Mikey from where she ran on all fours beside him.

"Wait, what new songs?" Donnie asked.

"Keep it down, you guys," Leo whisper-shouted.

Donnie jumped and leaped up to land with his hands on Mikey's shoulders, making Lucifer jump onto Tracy's shoulders instead. "What the- It's got thousands of songs and it keeps downloading new ones every second!"

"So?" Raph appeared beside them.

"So, I didn't program it to do that," Donnie said as he leaped and started running on the other side of Tracy. "It's reconfiguring itself somehow." He looked thoughtful before he gasped in realization. "It's that chip!"

"That's still pretty awesome," Tracy piped up. Lucifer nodded in agreement. "I heard military technology can do amazing things, even if you're not expecting it to."

"Whatever it is," Mikey said as he suddenly leaped off of a glass window on the roof. "It's awesome!"

"Guys, we're ninjas, remember?" Leo said, still talking in a low voice. "We move swiftly and – there's the important part – silently!" He then suddenly fell off the edge of the roof, because he wasn't looking, with a shout. The other four mutants skidded to a halt at the end of their roof and watched as he fell into a garden-area of some sort. He began running, trying to keep balance and then gasped. "Bee-hive!" He smacked right into it before crashing through the glass on the other side and falling off the roof. He bounced down the black staircase before landing in a pile of garbage, making a huge racket and sounding off a car alarm.

"That wasn't very silent, Leo," Raph called down to him as Lucifer jumped onto his shoulder and let out a mrrow of laughter. Tracy smacked said turtle's arm before leaping down to go see if his brother was alright.

After that display, the five mutants stopped at the edge of a roof and stared down at a building that kind of looked like some sort of museum. There was a large space between that building and the building they were on, with metal railings on the stairs.

"Let's grind it!" Mikey said.

"Who the heck is that guy?" Donnie asked, glancing off to the side. A black guy (not to be racist or anything) in some sort of metal suit was walking down the street slowly, looking like he could barely walk with the suit on because it was so heavy.

"I don't know, but he needs a beat down," Raph said, still in his kneeling position.

"Hold on, Raph," Leo told him. "We don't know that he's gonna do anything wrong. He could be on his way to…church."

"Wearing powered battle-armor? What kind of church is that?"

"A really awesome one," Mikey said, making Leo face-palm.

"I'm sorry, but that's actually a really messed up church then," Tracy snorted. Raph smirked in her direction.

"Look, it's my call," Leo told them. "I decide who gets a beat down."

The guy walked up to a garage door and began to burn the padlock.

"Um, unless breaking into someone else's garage is a good thing, I think this guy needs some sense smacked into him." Tracy flicked her ears, lashing her tail to one side.

'I agree.' Lucifer mewed.

"That guy needs a beat down," Leo said. Everyone then leaped down from the roof.

The thing the guy was using to burn the padlock suddenly stopped working. "Are you kidding me? Oh, come on!" He knocked on it before kicking the garage door and trying to bend it open by himself, which was kind of failing miserably on Tracy's case.

"It's just kinda sad," Donnie said once they all landed behind the guy.

"Yeah… I don't know if we should pound him or buy him an ice cream cone," Mikey agreed.

Leo took out his sword and pointed it at the guy. "Halt villain," he said in his best "hero" voice. The guy turned around to look at them.

"Halt villain?" Raph and Tracy asked in unison before Raph continued by himself, "When did we start talking like that?"

"We're heroes," Leo said, glancing at his brother. "That-That's how heroes talk."

"Yeah, maybe in cartoons or movies," Tracy told him matter-of-factly.

"You will feel the fury of my powered battle-" The guy said with his arm pointed at them before cutting himself off. "Holy cow, you guys are turtles! And… a cat-person!

"Oh, look," Tracy said, crossing her arms and pointing at the guy. "At least one person knows what you are at first glance." She paused when she heard that last part. "'Cat-person'? Why can't I just be called…I don't know. Something more productive," she asked, looking a bit offended while dead-panning. Lucifer shrugged his shoulders.

"That's right," Leo began before standing up straight. "We're the Turtles of Justice!"

"Wow," Raph said, holding the side of his head. "I mean, just- …wow."

Battle-dude then made a battle cry and started running towards them. Leo leaped at him while Raph and Donnie got out their respected weapons and following behind him, until Mikey shouted, "Wait!" They all froze and watched as Mikey put the T-Pod away, attaching it to his waist, and taking out his nunchucks. Tracy had stayed where she was while all this was happening, and she watched as Mikey said "Okay" and then leaped into battle. She watched as the turtles had fun just messing around with him, until he fell backwards and his elbow cracked a glass window and set off an alarm from inside. Everyone froze, except for the two cats who watched all of this happen. The turtle brothers then picked him up and threw him in the open dumpster. Tracy walked over and leaped onto the other side of the dumpster, staring down at him.

"You're not the first to ever throw me in the trash," battle-dude told them. "I swear, that you will be the-" He was cut off by Raph slamming the dumpster closed on him.

Tracy guessed that he was going to say "last" at the end before he had been cut off. She could hear police sirens going off and they all climbed up to the roof and took off, away from the "scene of the crime".

-TMNT-

The turtles had swum through the pool to get into the lair, but Tracy insisted on entering through the main entrance instead of getting wet. She stood in front of them with her hands on her hips and a smirk as they climbed out.

"Alright! We made it home," Raph exclaimed, a bit too loudly.

"Sh! It's 2am," Leo told them in a whisper-shout.

"And Splinter's still asleep," Mikey added. "This is epic." He held his hands to his head.

"It's not 'epic'!" Leo whisper-shouted. "It was a really bad idea."

"Maybe for you guys," Tracy told him, crossing her arms and still smirking. Lucifer let out a purr of amusement.

"No it wasn't." Raph leaped and flipped, landing in his beanie-sack chair-thing, his legs crossed and his arms crossed behind his head. "We got out and stopped a sleaze-ball. So…what's the problem?"

Tracy rolled her eyes and then noticed that Mikey searched himself for the T-Pod and then grimaced. He glanced over his shoulder and then saw her. He whipped around and gave her a pleading look, silently asking that she doesn't tell anyone. She cringed inwardly but then sighed heavily, flicking her ear. 'Fine…but we're not responsible for this.' Lucifer whispered in said turtle's ear as he leaped from Tracy's shoulder to Mikey's, and then back again.

-TMNT-

The turtle brothers were completely worn out as Splinter had them train, who was sitting in front of the indoor tree. They tried to do as they were told, but they just couldn't do it. They kept yawning and falling, and they were quite sluggish. Tracy and Lucifer, however, were just fine. They were cats, so they could sleep every few hours and be just fine, because that's what cats do. Lucifer was currently lying on one side of Splinter, napping, opening one eye to watch the turtles every once in a while. Tracy was doing just fine with her training. She was did some warm-ups before moving to simple flips, sometimes doing somersaults.

Splinter finally got tired of their failures and said the Japanese word for stop, at least that's what Tracy thought it was, before getting up and standing in front of the now kneeling turtles and Tracy. Lucifer sat up from his position and flicked his tail as he watched. He yawned and stretched his forepaws out in front of him, showing off his fangs as he did so, before closing his mouth with a slight clicking sound as his teeth snapped against each other.

"Is there something you want to tell me," Splinter asked.

"Something we want to tell you? Heh, nope." Mikey said.

"You all seem tired," Splinter observed, speaking only about his sons and not Tracy since she had been doing fine with her training.

"We're not tired," Leo told him, smiling reassuringly. Mikey smiled beside him.

"Wide awake," Donnie piped up.

"Fresh as daisies!" Raph added in last.

Tracy quirked a brow at their attempts and watched as Mikey yawned before falling flat on his face. She snorted in amusement and held a hand to her mouth to hide her giggles. Lucifer let out a mrrow of laughter. This was very amusing.

"So you would not object to a little…" Splinter said, holding out a wooden sword. Tracy didn't catch the last word, because it was Japanese. She didn't know Japanese yet. Mikey gulped before the four of them were all hit in the head with the sword. Tracy cringed slightly as her shoulders started shaking as she stared at the four bodies on the floor, who were all dazed. "I hope you have learned, turtles, that truth isn't the only thing that hurts." Now, she busted out laughing as she wrapped her arms around her abdomen, bending over slightly, and receiving a strange look from the rat in front of her.

After that display, Leo was sitting in front of the TV watching Space-Heroes while Raph sat in his beanie-sack chair reading a comic behind him. Tracy was in her cat form again and was lying beside Lucifer on the couch, grooming themselves. She looked up at the TV screen and stopped mid-lick as she watched Captain Ryan slap his lieutenant to calm the man down. She let out a meow, to which Lucifer translated.

'So that's where you guys got slapping each other from?' Lucifer asked.

Raph was the one who answered as he glanced up at the screen before returning his attention back to his comic. "I suppose, if you look at it that way." Tracy rolled her eyes while Lucifer shook his head. She flicked her ears as she watched Leo recite that one line in unison with the captain. "See this enough times there, chief?"

"Sh! This is the best part," Leo told him. And probably just to piss him off, the screen went fuzzy and the show was "interrupted to bring them Breaking News". "Aww…!"

Tracy snickered at this, which sounded like a mixture between a purr and a hiss, as did Lucifer. They then gasped at the news report that was on it and immediately jumped down and bounded over to leap onto each of Leo's shoulders, who didn't seem to mind their presence.

"We've received shocking footage of an assault on the TCRI office complex in Brooklyn."

"At last! I will have my revenge!"

"Who-who are you?"

"You'll never know! I'm the thing that haunts your nightmares, I'm the name-less shadow who-"

"Baxter?"

'This guy fails at being a villain. I thought cartoons were a fail at it, but this guy just disgraces those cartoons…' Lucifer murmured, just loud enough for Tracy and Leo to hear, and then returned his attention back to the TV.

"No."

"Baxter Stockman?"

"No!"

"Hey, everybody, it's Baxter Stockman!"

"I think his name is Baxter Stockman," Raph said, crossing his arms. Tracy glanced over her shoulder and then blinked in surprise. When did Mikey and Donnie get there?

'Obviously.' Lucifer yawned.

"Is this because I fired you?"

"That copy machine was already broken when I- I mean- …I don't know what you're talking about!"

"How did he upgrade his armor so fast?" Leo asked no one in particular. The recording stopped with a close-up of the armor's hand. Everyone froze in surprise and turned to Mikey.

"He has the T-Pod?" Donnie asked, furious as he towered over Mikey. Tracy flattened her ears at his sudden attitude change and leaped down from Leo's shoulder, changing back to her original form.

"Oh, um… I might have dropped that during the fight," Mikey said nervously.

"You dropped it during the fight?! Nice goin', Mikey!"

"It's your fault!"

"How is it my fault?"

"You know I can't be trusted with nice things!"

Okay, now Donnie was extremely pissed. With all these negative waves bouncing around, Tracy was feeling very finicky and panicky. She pushed herself between the two brothers and pushed them apart, holding them back at arm's length. "Alright, let's all just calm down now," she said nervously, her voice trembling slightly as her ears continued to stay flattened against her head and her tail waved behind her, a sign of stress. "Let's figure out how to stop this guy and not chop each other's heads off…please?"

Donnie was still very pissed, but everyone was more surprised to see and hear her like this. "So, the AI chip is upgrading his armor the same way it upgraded the T-Pod?" Leo asked after a while of silence.

"If it keeps going, there's no telling how powerful he'll get," Donnie said.

Tracy closed her eyes and breathed a sigh of relief as all the negative energy dissipated as they tried to figure out what to do. Her ears slowly lifted to their original positions, upright, and her tail calmed down to a slow flick every once in a while. Lucifer landed on her shoulder and put a paw to her cheek. 'It's okay,' he told her. 'Everyone's calmed down some.' She shot him a grateful look.

"This has gone way too far, we have to tell Splinter about this," Leo told them.

"What: That we turned some nut-job into a super villain?" Raph asked.

'A complete fail of a super villain,' Lucifer corrected him. Tracy silently agreed with a flick of her ear.

Raph paused and then continued like he hadn't been interrupted. "You know what he'll do to us for that?!"

"Smack you with a wooden sword," Tracy asked, shrugging.

They dead-panned before Raph continued once more. "I mean, he pounded us into the ground just for being sleepy!"

"And that was totally hilarious!" Tracy snorted, smirking.

"Look, if we beat Stockman once, we can beat him again," Donnie told them. "We can track him down, grab the T-Pod, and get back here before Splinter knows anything."

"If my opinion counts for anything, Donnie's right," Mikey chipped in.

"Hey, thanks, Mikey," Donnie said and then his voice turned hard once more. "But it doesn't-"

"Didn't think so."

-TMNT-

The five mutants left the lair, leaving Lucifer behind, without being caught and headed for Stockman's hideout. They found it and they looked through the glass and stared down at the guy, watching him try to come up with a name for himself.

"I'm not Baxter Stockman. I am…the Bax-Man! No…I am…the Suitanator!" He groaned. "Aw, that's terrible!" He then tried again. "Captain Punch You Hard…ugh! Why is this so difficult…?!"

"I kinda like the Suitanator," Mikey piped up once they were all surrounding him.

"Yeah, but Lucifer's right," Tracy began with a flick of her tail. "This guy really disgraces all the villains in cartoons, even the most retarded ones." She shook her head.

"You guys again?!"

"Alright, Stockman," Leo said. "Nobody wants to hurt you."

"We don't? Did I miss a meeting?" Raph asked. Tracy smacked his shoulder with her long tail.

"We just want the T-Pod," Leo continued, as if Raph hadn't said anything.

"Give up my source of power," Stockman asked. "Why? So you can laugh at me again? Throw me in a dumpster?!" He stood up at this last part.

"You really hold some serious grudges," Tracy muttered, lashing her tail to one side. She hadn't brought her trench coat this time, and she hoped she wouldn't regret it. This was her first time leaving it.

"Sounds good to me," Raph said, smirking. He then leaped at Stockman, only to get hit with a spinning fist and was sent flying into the back wall. Tracy cringed.

The four remaining mutants then ran at him at the same time. Stockman extended his suit's arms so smash Donnie and Mikey against the side walls before retracting his arms again, letting said turtles fall to the ground. He then tried to hit Leo and Tracy, but they dodged. Leo ran up an arm and cut off the mechanical hands before leaping down beside Tracy where she had landed to let Leo use his swords. But new hands just emerged from the suit's arms.

"What the-" Leo began, cutting himself off.

Tracy flicked her ear to another noise and glanced over her shoulder to see that the hand that Leo had cut off came alive and leaped at Leo. She didn't have time to warn him before his head disappeared inside it as the smaller mechanical robot attached itself to Leo. Panicking, Leo yelled out and starting running around blindly, waving his arms. Raph and Donnie appeared from the rubble of where they landed, and the smaller robot noticed. It shot three laser blasts, one at Raph, one at Donnie, and one at Tracy. They easily dodged it, leaping and flipping away. They landed near each other, Donnie and Raph with their weapons. The weapons were easily shot out of their hands.

"Lasers!" Donnie exclaimed.

Tracy gasped as the small robot shocked Leo before he started running towards them, the robot shooting the lasers at them. Raph and Donnie ran away, covering their heads, while Tracy dodged the shots and ran at Leo. She leaped, extended her claws and slicing at the metal alloy. Her eyes widened when she noticed it didn't work and then she ran after Raph and Donnie, on all fours.

"Crap! What bee-brain decided to give robots a mind of their own," she hissed as she leaped and landed beside Raph in his hiding place, covering her ears with her hands and wrapping her tail around her legs. She made a low noise from deep within her throat, which sounded like a mixture between a growl and a mewl.

"What now?" Raph asked.

Donnie pointed to the glass in front of them and they held it up, letting the lasers hit the glass and bounce off before hitting the robot, slicing it in half and falling off. They dropped the glass and ran over to Leo.

"Thanks," Leo said, readjusting his mask.

Tracy slowly climbed over the rubble and walked over to them, mewling in relief. Her ears then flicked as they turned back to stare at Stockman, who was spinning Mikey around by his nunchucks. All three turtles ran towards him, snatching up their weapons. Stockman threw Mikey at Raph before Leo cut the chain in half, cutting Mikey loose. Donnie revealed a hidden blade in his staff before trying to hit Stockman with it, but the metal hand just crushed the stick.

"Hey!" Donnie exclaimed before leaping away.

Stockman walked after him. Donnie threw the small part of the staff he had left aside before the rest of the mutants, including Tracy this time, joined his side. Everyone ran at Stockman with a battle cry, Stockman doing the same as he ran at them, and attacked. There was an explosion and Stockman smashed through the wall into an alley, holding the turtles in one hand with Tracy in the other. He threw the turtles in the dumpster and continued to hold said cat mutant in his mechanical hand by her shirt, making her look like a kitten being held by the scruff by its mother. Tracy was just barely conscious and she opened her eyes a crack. She was definitely regretting not taking her trench coat.

Stockman laughed maniacally. "Foolish turtles…and cat…did you really think you could defeat me?!" He asked.

"Well, yeah," Mikey said. A pot was atop his head, making him look ridiculous

"All my life people have laughed at me," Stockman began, "the other kids in school, my co-workers, the woman who fixes the copy machine. How was I supposed to know you don't put…" Tracy didn't catch that last part. "But when they behold the power of this suit, they won't be laughing anymore! They'll tremble in terr-AHH!" He was cut off as the suit began to glow red and upgraded itself. Tracy was just barely able to hear her friends' conversation over Baxter's shouts of agony.

"What's happening?" Leo asked.

"Stockman and the T-Pod," Donnie said, "They're…merging… They're becoming one single entity…!"

"The Stockman-Pod," Mikey finished.

After the turtle brothers managed to get out of the dumpster, they began running away from the "Stockman-Pod", as Mikey now calls him. Tracy was still in his grasp, just barely awake. Her eyes were closed, but she could hear everything around her.

"The Stockman-Pod's right on top of us!" Mikey shouted.

"Stop calling him that," Raph told him. "That's a stupid name!"

"What about Tracy?" Donnie asked worriedly.

"Split up! He can't follow us all," Leo ordered.

"No way! He's gonna follow me," Mikey responded.

"Why would he follow you?"

"They always follow me!"

"Stop being paranoid and just do it!"

After a few moments, Tracy could hear Mikey scream. "I told you he was gonna follow me!" Tracy kept her eyes closed and she winced when Stockman busted through a brick wall, spraying bricks and dust everywhere, gaining her a gash on her cheek. "Pizza? Alright!"

"I've got you now!" Baxter said as he kept running.

"Oh, yeah? Well, I've got…hot cheese!"

Baxter skidded to a halt and stumbled, dropping Tracy in the process. She winced and tried to push herself up from the concrete, but she ended up collapsing on the sidewalk. She was not used to this. She felt herself get picked up and she opened one eye to see that she was being carried. She closed her eye again and just let them carry her, whoever it was.

-TMNT-

Once they reached the lair, the brothers whispered to each other to be quiet, but they kept protesting about them not making any noise. She felt a jolt that could only mean that Splinter had caught them red-handed.

"Ah, Sensei!" Leo exclaimed.

Tracy opened an eye to see Splinter standing across the room with Lucifer on his shoulder. Lucifer's eyes widened when he saw the state that she was in.

"And where have you been?" Splinter asked.

"Nowhere?" Raph said, though it sounded more like a question.

"How did you get so hurt?" Splinter pointed towards them, mostly pointing to Tracy, who had her arms over Donnie's and Raph's shoulders.

"Oh! That, um," Leo said, hiding his broken swords behind his back as he tried to think up something. "We were, um-"

"-hit-"

"-by a-"

"-bus?" Mikey finished. Splinter stared pointedly at him. Mikey smiled, only to have some of his teeth fall onto the ground. Splinter quirked a brow.

Donnie moved over to Mikey, leaving only Raph to hold Tracy up. "Hit by a bus?"

"Well, what was I supposed to say: meteor, cow, flying building?"

"Enough!" Splinter slammed the end of his walking stick on the cement, making the turtle's stand up straight. Tracy grimaced as Raph jostled her. "Tell me what happened."

-TMNT-

"And then I threw hot cheese in his face and ran away," Mikey finished.

"Very resourceful, Michelangelo," Splinter complemented. "But I'm still highly disappointed in you all. The first rule of being a ninja is 'Do no harm', unless you mean to do harm, and lots of harm!"

"You're right, Sensei," Leo said. "I guess we did make a mess of things."

'Darn right!' Lucifer flicked an ear, raising his head from his spot of resting beside Tracy below the tree, who was sleeping in her cat form in bandages. He licked the cut on her cheek before setting his head on his paws, watching her intently as she breathed slowly. He flicked his ear every time she breathed in deeply, wincing as she did so.

"So, what do you think would be a fitting punishment?" Splinter asked.

They thought for a moment before Leo looked up. "We need to clean up our mess."

"Yes," Splinter said, "You must stop this…Stockman-Pod."

"But, Sensei, that guy has already kicked our shells," Donnie protested.

"And beat the heck out of Kitten," Raph added. He gestured to Tracy, who winced in her sleep as she breathed in deeply.

"Now he's even more powerful," Donnie continued. "How're we supposed to stop him?"

"I know. I'll hit him really hard!" Raph suggested.

'And break your fist?' Lucifer piped up with a flick of his ear, not looking up from watching Tracy.

"Brute force is not the answer," Splinter told him, agreeing with Lucifer. "You will need to rely on your ninja training."

"Excuse me, Sensei, but ninjas never have to go up against guys in armor," Mikey spoke up. He then noticed the painting of a ninja in armor behind Splinter. "Oh…I mean…ninjas always have to go up against guys in armor."

"Nice save." Raph told him.

"Sensei, what was their secret," Leo asked.

"They understood that you do not fight the armor," Splinter explained. "You fight the man inside."

The turtle brothers glanced at each other. Mikey glanced at Raph and then to his other two brothers. "Why are we all looking at each other?"

-TMNT-

"You all showed great skill and wisdom defeating the Stockman-Pod," Splinter complemented. "I am proud of you all."

Tracy hadn't been moved from her spot under the tree where she had been resting. She will stay there for a while longer. She was awake now, and she opened an eye to watch. Lucifer sat behind her and licked her ear. She flicked that ear and then smacked his face with her long tail. He let out a purr of amusement and relief that she was awake and okay.

"Does this mean we're not grounded anymore?" Leo asked.

Splinter thought about it, grabbing his beard, before smiling. "Yes." The turtles smiled. "But first…" He raised that wooden sword of his and shouted that same Japanese word with it. The turtles scrambled to get away. Tracy smiled in amusement, not able to laugh or else it would hurt too much, before closing her eyes and flicking her tail, purring in content.

Fights are boring XD so I just skipped the part where they managed to defeat Baxter and throw him in a dumpster. Again. Also because Tracy wasn't able to go.

See? What did I tell ya? I'm so mean to my characters...but torturing characters is fun :3 Poor Tracy. At least she tried, right? Right. And damn. What's with Lucifer's attitude after they came back with Tracy all beaten up? Oh yeah, he doesn't like it when Tracy is hurt or sick or anything of the sort. So that's why he was acting all snotty. But why take it out on the turtles? XD who knows lol

I'll just shut up for now~ I hope you liked this chapter! Plz review!

Luna WhiteWolf~