Raph woke up inside a weird looking lab, stabbed down to a dissection table.

Raph: Ever see one of those old movies where the private eye wakes up after being knocked out cold?

Raph shook his head, before he looked around the lab.

He always says the same thing.

"Uh! Where I am?" he wondered.

He tired to move, but then saw his arms and legs were strapped to the table.

Okay, so it's not exactly original but it's true! I have no idea where I am. Is this an operating room?

As he looked around, he didn't noticed Baxter Stockman up in a room above him, looking down at him through the window.

Torture chamber? TV game show? Last thing I remember, I was battling a bunch of street punks with Casey.

"Hey, where is Casey?" Raph wondered.

He was then blinded for a few seconds by a bright light above him , and then he growled, when he saw a Buzzsaw and a pair of prongs heading towards him.

Okay...definitely not the game show!

He then turned his head slightly away from the Buzzsaw, as it came close to him.


In the skyscraper, Hun was standing in front of his master, while looking at the infrared pictures of the Turtles.

"Gecko warriors, karate frogs, turtle costume freaks!" Hun snarled, clutching up the picture.

A figure then chuckled behind him, and as he turned, the figure came out of the shadows, which was none other than Baxter Stockman, except he had an eyepatch over his left eye, which was his punishment for the mouser failure.

"Is this a field report or a fantasy novel?" he scoffed, taking the pictures from Hun.

The man then knocked the pictures out of Stockman's hands. "Fool! Was it fantasy that destroyed your mouser robots, Dr. Stockman?!" he sneered angrily, causing Stockman to fall back in shock.

The man then dashed over to Hun. "Was it fantasy that took back the Sword of Tengu from your foot soldiers!" he sneered.

Stockman began to pick up the pictures, as the man walked past Hun.

"These green skinned ninjas are too skilled to be mere street thugs." the man explained.

"Maybe they're working for your old enemies." Hun suggested, as the man folded his arms.

Stockman scoffed as he got up. "More like a top secret government experiment." he said.

The man then dashed towards him and lifted him up by the collar. "I am not interested in theories!" he snarled.

He then tossed Stockman to the ground near Hun's feet.

"I want answers! You two will work together." the man instructed, as he sat down behind his table, while Stockman got back up. "Find these creatures, learn their secrets, destroy them if necessary."


Meanwhile, in the lair Splinter and the Turtles were all standing on a bamboo poles, and were surrounded by several others. Splinter lit a bunch of candles with a long match, before he blew it out and turned to his children.

"My children, tonight our training shall focus on combing two essential disciplines; the way of balance..." Splinter explained, before clapping his hands, turning the lights out. "..and the way of invisibility."

"Dudes, you put in a clapper?" Mikey asked Donnie and Cath, as they couched down.

Splinter then jumped onto another bamboo pole, and then whacked Mikey's hand with his walking stick.

"Ow!" he yelped.

"Michelangelo, the way of invisibility also includes the way of silence." Splinter explained sternly. "I suggest you employ both if you wish to avoid my walking stick."

Splinter then jumped onto another pole, then pushed his walking stick against it before landing on another near Leo. He then sent a whack at Leo, who jumped to dodge it, but nearly fell after he landed on another two poles, one leg on each, which spread apart. Elisa then ran along about six of the poles, and then jumped up and dived towards Splinter, and then landed on another pole, as he tried to whack her with his stick.

Donnie then jumped and dived towards Splinter and tried to kick him, but missed as he ducked, but Donnie then landed on another pole. Cath then back flipped as Splinter jumped at her, landing on a pole on her hands, before pushing herself up and landed on another on her feet. Raph then ran along a number of poles, then jumped up and sent a kick at Splinter as he dived down, but missed as Splinter ducked, but then he manage to land on another pole on one foot.

Mikey jumped and landed on a pole with his hands, before flipping himself up and landed on another near Splinter on his feet, crouched down. He then looked around slightly, and saw that his siblings weren't near him, and then he clapped his hands, turning the lights on.

"Peek-a-boo, I see you!" he smirked, getting up.

Splinter then whack his stick at him but he caught it with is hand.

"Whoa!" Mikey yelped, as Splinter pulled his stick away from him, causing him to loose his balance and fall from the pole, but he managed to grab it before he fell onto the floor, as Splinter jumped onto another pole. "Hey, don't I at least get points for creativity?"

"A creative mind must be balanced by a disciplined body." Splinter explained as Mikey climbed back up the pole, and then he clapped the lights out again. "We must learn stillness and alertness, for they are the only defence against the unexpected."

The door leading up the warehouse then opened up, and then Casey Jones stepped into the lair blindly, as he turned around and couldn't see where he was going.

"Hey, guys!" he called, before he bumped into one of the poles.

The pole then fell onto more of them like they were bowling pins, and caused Splinter and the Turtles to fall onto the floor, screaming as they did.

"Uh-oh." Casey muttered, as the Turtles moaned.

Splinter turned to Casey in with an angry look on his face, and quickly thought he was an intruder, as Casey had his mask on. Splinter then jumped up and pounced on Casey, pinning him to the ground with his walking stick near Casey's neck.

"Master Splinter, no!" Leo shouted, as the Turtles ran towards them. "He's okay!"

Elisa then clapped and brought the lights back on.

"Sensei, this is Casey." Cath explained.

"The nutcase...uh, the guy we told you about." Donnie finished.

"You remember, the igilante-vay." Mikey said.

"We'd figured it'd be okay to give him access to the lair." Raph explained.

"You know, for emergencies and stuff." Elisa finished, as Splinter got off Casey.

"Please forgive my rash action?" Splinter asked, bowing apologetically.

Mikey and Donnie then both helped Casey up.

"Uh...no problemo." Casey said, taking his mask off.

Splinter then pointed his walking stick at his face warningly. "Although next time, you would be wise to heed the ancient Japanese proverb...phone first!" he advised sternly, before walking away.

"Is that a Japanese proverb?" Cath asked Elisa quietly.

"I may have to look that one up." her sister answered, as Splinter began picking up the bamboo poles.

Raph held his thumb up at Casey, who then began to look around the place.

"Whoa, Raph, your crib's even more awesome than you said." he commented, kicking a bamboo pole away as he walked around.

Splinter shook his head, as his children ran towards Casey.

"You didn't come all the way down here for the nickel tour. What's the 4-1-1 street side?" Raph asked.

"Graffiti, it's everywhere." Casey explained, as he walked through a gap between Mikey and Elisa. "All over town."

The Turtles all turned to each other in confusion.

"And I think I speak for everyone in the room when I say 'duh'." Mikey said.

"We're New Yorkers, Casey." Elisa said. "We've seen graffiti before."

"Nah-ah. Not this kind." Casey said, shaking his head, before turning around and showed them a picture.

The Turtles looked at the picture closely while cringing, which was a red sword painted on a wall, stabbing right through six turtles.

"I think somebody's trying to send you a message." Casey deduced.

"Blech! Talk about getting the point." Mikey gulped.

"Do all the tags look like this?" Leo inquired.

"Some are a little more graphic." Casey answered, before spotting the Sword of Tengu behind the Turtles. "Hey, cool sword. Looks just like the one in the graffiti."

He pushed past Mikey towards the sword, as they all turned to him. Once Casey reached the sword, he went in to grab it.

"Casey no!" Donnie shouted.

But it came too late, as Casey touched the sword, only to get a massive shock from the sword's spark, which sent him flying away. He then crashed into a bookshelf, which knocked several books out, including one Cath was in the middle of reading.

"Remind me, whose idea was it to invite him down here?" Donnie asked, as Leo pushed past him and Raph.

"Raph's." Elisa answered, pointing at her hotheaded brother.

Raph turned to her with an angry look on her face, before they all ran over to Casey, as Splinter helped him up.

"I thank you for this information, Mr. Jones, but now we must return to our training." he explained.

He then led Casey away as Leo, Donnie and Elisa all followed.

"Wait! Don't you guys want to put the smack down on the scum who did this?" Casey asked, turning to the Turtles.

"Well...yeah, but it smells way too much like a setup." Mikey told him, taking the picture.

"Someone's just trying to get under our shells." Donnie suspected.

"Why should we stoop to their level, Case?" Cath asked.

"But this is a matter of honor!" Casey argued, bringing out one of his baseball bats. "What about all that bushi-dudu stuff you guys always talk about."

"That's bushido, Casey." Elisa corrected sternly.

"And it has nothing to do with payback for a bunch of...nasty wall doodles." Leo explained.

"Sorry, Case." Raph shrugged. "I gotta go with my sibs on this one."

"Oh, man!" Casey groaned, walking towards the elevator.

Once he made it there however, he spotted the TV's and the couch as he put his bat away.

"Say..." he said grinningly.

Leo turned to Donnie and Cath, who both shrugged as Leo pointed at Casey, who made his way over to the couch. He then sat down on the couch, and then picked up the remote and a slice of pizza from a pizza box.

"So what's on the tube?" he asked, turning the TV's on.

He then took a bite out of the pizza slice, as the six Turtles all looked at him from behind, not knowing what to do. They all then put their hands on their chins, thinking that maybe they shouldn't have allowed him access to the lair.

"Good thing my show's not on tonight." Cath sighed.

"Yeah, if you miss just one episode, you really go crazy Cathy." Mikey joked.

Cath scowled at him, not liking the joke.


Meanwhile, back in the building, Hun and Stockman were both standing in front of the man again, who was sitting behind his desk, while two ninjas were standing by the door. Unlike the previous ninjas the Turtles had fought, these ones had orange hi-tech lenses, and a button on their chests shaped like the symbol the others had.

"While your oversized lackey wastes time and effort with the pointless scribblings of street thugs, I have created something useful to intercept your amphibious pests." Stockman explained, before gesturing to the two ninjas. "I give you the Foot Tech Ninjas."

The two ninjas then bowed, and then jumped to either side of the room.

One then jumped towards the second as Stockman began to explain what they can do.

"By brilliantly designed cyber armour..."

Ninja one spun around and axe kicked the second in the chest, sending him flying to the other side of the room.

"..enhances their physically ability..."

Ninja two crashed against a pole.

"..giving them increased strength,"

Ninja two flipped himself back up, and then dived towards the first to send a kick at him, but missed as he dodged.

"..speed..."

Ninja one spun around to roundhouse kick ninja two, but missed as he dodged.

"..and stealth capabilities."

Ninja two then dived at ninja one to kick him again, when ninja one pressed the button on his chest, turning himself invisible before the second could hit him. Ninja two then looked around, as ninja one creeped up behind him and then kicked him in the back. Ninja two then spun around fast and punched number two right in the face, knocking him into torch pole, which was then knocked over, spreading fire all over the floor.

"And all thanks to the technology I was able to gleam from a tiny sample of this unusual artifact you dragged up from the East River." Stockman explained, walking towards the metal suit, which was now in a glass case. "If you had any sense, you'd allow me to study the entire thing."

Hun then came up behind him and lifted him up by the back of his shirt.

"Whoa! Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!" he moaned, as Hun carried him back to the man.

"First thing's first, Dr. Stockman: bring me the creatures." the man hissed.

"Ugh!" Stockman groaned, as Hun put him down. "Just keep this behemoth out of my way, and my Foot Tech Ninjas will deliver the goods. I guarantee it."

The man got up and walked towards Stockman. "You have already paid the price for failing me once." he reminded Stockman. "Do not fail me a second time!"

Stockman touched his cheek where the scars from losing his left eye were, now worried what might happen if he failed again.


In the lair, Mikey was now sitting beside Casey on a long chair, as Casey kept watching the TV's and eating all of the pizza. Mikey tried to grab the last slice, but Casey beat him to it.

"Oh..." Mikey whimpered, as Casey scarfed it down.

"I think we better try and get him out." Elisa whispered to Leo.

Leo nodded in agreement. He then walked over to the couch as Casey began to look at a box full of Mikey's DVD's, and then Leo picked up the remote and turned the TV's off.

"Ahh!" he yawned, pretending. "Sure is getting uh, late."

"These the only DVD's you got?" Casey asked, taking two out of the box.

"Yeah." Mikey lied, getting up. "In fact, why don't you burrow some and bring 'em back."

Elisa smiled as she approached them, happy to know he wanted Casey out as much as the others.

"That's okay." Casey shrugged, walking over to the DVD player by a smaller TV on a desk. "I'll just watch them here."

Leo, Elisa and Mikey all watched in worry as he pressed the eject button on the player, but it wouldn't open.

"Come on! Eject, eject! You useless piece off...!" Casey complained, as he slammed his foot into the player, breaking it.

Mikey screamed as Leo and Elisa cringed slightly, while Casey now looked awful.

"Uh...think you're player's broken." he gulped.

Donnie, who was at his lab working on something, and Cath, who was reading a medical book, both turned to him.

"No problem. We'll fix it...in the morning." Donnie said, speaking for both of them, as they wanted Casey out too.

"What you working on?" Casey asked, walking towards Donnie.

Donnie hid what he was working on in his arms. "Uh...boring stuff." he answered, as Casey peeked in to look. "Really, really boring stuff."

Casey then turned to Cath. "What you reading there?" he asked.

"Um...just some medical stuff." Cath stuttered, putting the book down slightly. "Something you wouldn't understand."

Casey then turned to Raph, who was punching his punching bag, before charging at him. "Hey, Raph, let's wrestle!" he called out, as he tackled Raph.

They both rolled around on the floor.

"Let go, bonehead!" Raph growled, as they knocked over a candle holder.

Splinter - who was mediating in front of his room's door - opened up his eyes and shook his head.

"No way, dipstick!" Casey retorted.

Donnie and Cath both got up and walked towards the others, all looked at Raph and Casey in disbelief.

"Pukebrain!" Raph bantered.

"Geek!" Casey retorted.

"Dweeb!" Raph retorted.

"You dog...!" Casey bantered.

They both kept rolling around, when Splinter slammed the bottom of his walking stick to the floor near them both.

"Raphael!" he snapped sternly, before calming down. "Normally I discourage extensions to the surface..."

The others all gathered round behind him as he continued.

"..but I think it wise you take our guest, for a breath of fresh air."

"Topside?" Raph smirked, getting up. "I'm all over it."

"Boo-yah!" Casey cheered, once he got up.

"Come on, you maniac!" Raph bantered, as they ran towards the elevator.

"Maniac? Who're you calling a maniac?" Casey asked playfully, as he picked up his golf bag.

"And that's how they defeated the thing that wouldn't leave." Mikey said, saying the last bit like he was a ghost.

"About time too." Elisa sighed. "He was really starting to bug me."

"Same here." Cath shrugged.


Later, Raph and Casey were still bantering each other as they ran along a series of rooftops, jumping from one to another.

"Nimrod!" Raph bantered.

"Light weight!" Casey retorted.

"Gack face!" Raph retorted, as they landed on a rooftop.

Casey then turned to Raph as he heard something. "Spray paint!" he gasped.

"Spray paint? Why kind of lame trash talk is that?" Raph asked, as he couldn't hear the noise.

"No listen." Casey said, gesturing to the bottom of the building.

They both looked down, and saw three Purple Dragons down in an ally. Two of which - Spike and Ivan - were spraying a big Purple Dragon eating six turtles on the wall, while the third - T.J. - was keeping an eye out for intruders.

Spike and Ivan then shook their paint cans once they'd finished, as Raph and Casey jumped over the ally onto the rooftop of the building opposite. Raph then jumped down from the roof and landed on the ground as the three punks turned to him, while Casey slid down the water spout.

"Hi! We're the neighbourhood clean and green, doing out part to stamp out taggers!" Raph exclaimed, as Spike picked up two baseball bats, and Ivan picked up an chain.

Ivan charged at Raph, and then spun around to hit him on the head with his chain, but Raph ducked as he swung, and then kicked him right in the chest, sending him flying.

Casey brought out one of his baseball bats as he stared at Spike, who crossed both of his over. "Dude, you're totally stealing my act." he said offended.

Spike ignored him as he charged at him, and then tried to whack him over the head with both bats, but missed as Casey ducked under the first, and then dodged the second one.

As Casey and Spike kept trying to hit each other, T.J. ran away and crouched down behind a dumpster, before dialing a number on his cell phone. "We got one." he said.

He turned and his smile dropped, as Raph suddenly picked him up and threw him into a wall.

"No!" he shouted, before he hit the wall upside down, falling with his head against the ground.

Casey blocked an attack from Spike with his back turned, locking their bats together, but then he kicked Spike in the chest, knocking him onto T.J.

Ivan then charged at Raph, who then spun around and roundhouse kicked him in the chest, knocking him onto Spike.

"Piece of cake." Casey grinned, as he and Raph walked to the three knocked out punks.

"Don't be so sure." Raph advised, spotting two Foot Tech Ninjas on the rooftop ahead of them. "Phone boy called for backup."

The two Foot Tech Ninjas jumped down into the ally, one on either side of the street.

"And here it comes!" Raph exclaimed.

"Whoa! Those things aren't human!" Casey gasped, as the two Foot Tech's came closer together.

"In case you haven't noticed, neither am I." Raph smirked, twirling one of his Sai's.

They both then charged at the Foot Tech, but they both suddenly pressed the buttons on their chests, turning themselves invisible.

"Where'd they go?!" Casey gasped, as he and Raph stopped.

Before they had a chance to look around, the two Foot Tech's kicked hard, sending them right near a scaffolding.

"Ahh! They must have some kind of..." Raph deduced, trying to think what it was for a minute. "What do you call it? A cloaking device!"

"Cloaking device?!" Casey exclaimed, getting up and then clutched his left arm. "What are they; Kilngons?"

One of the ninjas then stepped through a puddle of water as he creeped over towards Raph, but unfortunately, the Turtle spotted him. Raph then tried to jump on him, but the other grabbed him and wrapped his arms tightly around his waist. Raph tried to break free from the tight grip, when Casey ran over to the spray cans, then picked one up and sprayed paint onto the ninja's arm, turning it visible.

Casey then whacked the partly visible ninja in the face with his hockey stick, knocking out one of the ninja's lenses, causing him to let go of Raph. The ninja then moved towards Casey as Raph clutched his chest in pain, then Casey sent another whack at the ninja, but his hockey stick broke.

"Uh-oh." he muttered, realising he was in trouble.

The two Foot Tech's then threw both Raph and Casey into the scaffolding, which then collapsed on top of them both. Both Foot Tech's pressed their buttons again, turning them visible, and then they dragged both Raph and Casey away - the one with the paint on dragging Casey while the other dragged the Turtle.

"Target apprehended." the first ninja said.

"What about him?" the other asked, dropping Casey's arm.

The first looked and saw the three Purple Dragons were now back up.

"Just leave him to us." T.J. said, carrying a chain.

The three then walked over to Casey as the two Foot Tech's made off with Raph, ninja one carrying him over his shoulder.

"It's payback time." T.J. grinned.

The three punks then raised their weapons above their heads - Ivan carrying a bat and Spike carrying a crowbar. Before either of them could hit Casey however, he suddenly woke up.

"Psych!" he shouted.

He then sprayed some paint out of two paint cans into the punks eyes, blinding them. They all coughed as Casey ran through a gap between Spike and Ivan, and then ran off down the ally, but then quickly turned back to pick up the lens which he'd knocked out.


Meanwhile, Raph suddenly woke up in a weird lab - which was completely dark, except for a light shining on him - and found himself strapped to a dissection table.

"Oohh! Where am I?!" he wondered loudly.

Two robotic prongs began to poke him in the chest and legs.

"Hey! Watch where you're poking those things!" Raph exclaimed. "When I get out of here, I'm gonna..."

Hun then came out of the shadows, looking at one of Raph's Sai's admiringly. "This is some nice steel." he admitted, getting Raph's attention. "How about telling me who gave them to you?"

"Your mama!" Raph smirked sarcastically.

Hun then threw one of his Sai's on either side of his head. "I'm sorry..." he said sarcastically, pulling them out one-by-one. "I didn't quite hear you."

He then threw the Sai's onto a small table nearby, and then picked up Raph's Shell-cell.

"You know, I get a little clumsy when people don't answer my questions." Hun smirked, as he squashed the Shell-cell in the palm of his hand.

He then put the now wrecked Shell-cell back on the table, as Raph turned and noticed his Purple Dragon tattoo.

"Hey, nice tat!" Raph smirked jokingly. "Purple Dragon or just some big ugly chicken?"

Hun turned back to Raph and grabbed the top of his head, and then held the light closer to his face.

"Let's start with 'just exactly what kind of freak are you anyway'?" Hun asked, ignoring Raph.

Raph frowned, feeling like this was gonna last for awhile.


Back in the lair, Splinter and his other children, had all resumed their training on the bamboo poles.

Mikey jumped onto a pole and landed on it upside down, while Elisa balanced her feet on two separate ones, and Cath stood on one with only one foot. Leo then jumped onto one and then onto another, as Donnie ran along a few.

As they kept training, Casey came in through the elevator covered in bruises. He clutched his chest as he wandered through the dark, and then knocked over some of the poles.

"Huh?" Donnie muttered, opening his eyes.

Casey fell onto his chest, as the six mutants all lost their balance and fell onto the floor. Splinter then clapped his hands and put the lights back on, as the Turtles all turned to Casey.

"You can almost set your watch by this guy." Mikey moaned.

Leo and Cath then helped Casey up as the others gathered around him.

"Casey, what happened?" Leo asked.

"Are you alright?" Cath asked, noticing the bruises on his arms.

"Where is Raphael?" Splinter asked frantically.

Casey lifted his mask up. "The invisible ninjas took him." he explained.

Elisa, Mikey and Donnie all turned to each other in disbelief.

"Invisible ninjas, huh?" Mikey smirked, not believing him. "This story wouldn't involve Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny by any chance?"

"Yeah, nice try, Case. Now where is Raph?" Elisa asked sternly, worried about her closeted brother.

"I got proof!" Casey argued, putting the lens out of his pocket.

Donnie took it and began to look at it through a magnifying glass.

"You okay, Case?" Cath asked.

"I'm fine, just bruised." Casey retorted rudely.

"No need to say it like that!" Leo scowled, taking out his Shell-cell "Cath's always like that whenever she sees someone hurt."

Casey turned to Cath as she put her hands on her hips. "Sorry." he apologised.

Cath nodded acceptingly, before turning to Donnie. "What is it, Don?" she asked.

"It's some kind of optical device." Donnie explained. "Heavy duty hardware."

Leo put his Shell-cell to his ear, but only got beeping from the other end - as he didn't know Raph's Shell-cell was smashed. "Raph's not answering his Shell-cell." he said.

"Then he must be in trouble then." Elisa realised worriedly.

Casey picked up a wooden stool, and then threw it away in anger, where it landed and smashed behind Splinter. "This is all my fault!" he moaned.

Donnie then picked up a tracker. "Don't worry. I installed tracking chips in all the Shell-cells, just in case." he assured.

He and Cath looked at the scanner, but got no signal.

"Weird." Cath muttered, scratching her head. "No signal at all?"

Casey groaned again as he kicked the couch away. "We'll never find him!" he exclaimed, before he kicked a table away.

"I maybe able to calibrate the scanner to trace a com signal from your invisible ninjas." Donnie explained hopefully, pressing buttons on the scanner.

Casey then picked up a wooden chair and smashed it as a pillar.

Mikey approached his brainy siblings and said frantically. "Better make it fast. We're running out of furniture."

Donnie and Cath both looked shocked as they turned to Casey.


Back in the lab, Hun was starting to get annoyed with Raph, as he still refused to answer his questions.

"We've been over this again and again, freak! I'm only gonna ask you this one more time!" Hun warned, pointing the light directly in Raph's face. "Who do you work for?! How long have you been on this planet?! What is the level of your technology?!"

Unknown to Raph, Stockman was up in a lab above them both, watching from out of a window.

"Planet?! Technology?! Boy are you barking up the wrong shell." Raph commented, as he didn't know what Hun was talking about.

"Answer me?!" Hun demanded, hitting the top of the table, shaking Raph backwards and forwards for a few seconds.

"Ugh! Come to think of it, who do you work for?" Raph asked, as he began to loosen the strap around his right hand. "I mean, you look way to dumb to be in charge of all this."

Hun had now had enough. "You're choice." he told Raph, pulling the Buzzsaw down to Raph's face threateningly. "You can talk or you can let your DNA do the talking for you? Now is there something you want to tell me?"

Raph turned his face away from the saw, just as he managed to get his hand loose. "Just this!" he answered loudly.

He then punched Hun right in the chest, and then grabbed a oxygen mask and placed it on Hun's mouth before he could do anything else.

"Sweet dreams, lard butt." Raph smirked.

Hun began to cough in the oxygen mask, and then turned around and ran off as he began to get dizzy.

Raph then grabbed the Buzzsaw, and then sawed off the strap on his left arm, then his left hand, and then the one on his legs.

"Don'll kill me if I leave this." Raph muttered, as he picked up his Sai's and broken Shell-cell.

He then kicked open a door that lead out of the lab, only to find that he was actually on a barge ship in the middle of the ocean near the Statue of Liberty. The ship's horn then sounded as he made his way to the edge of the ship.

"Good thing turtles are amphibious." he said.

He then dived into the water, and began to swim to shore.

Back in the lab, Stockman had now come in bursting as Hun was recovering himself.

"You fool!" Stockman growled. "I was this close to obtaining a DNA sample, and you let him escape!"

Hun however, just smirked as he turned to the scientist. "Precisely. I let him escape, to lead us to the others." he smirked. "Even as we speak..."

(Outside)

Raph climbed out of the river and onto a pier, and then began to ran along it.

"..a squad of Foot Tech Ninjas are trailing the creature."

Ture to Hun's words, the Foot Tech's in question were following right behind Raph in their invisible form, leaving footprints from the water behind.

(The lab)

"So now it's all up to your invisible boys." Hun explained, as Stockman turned away from him. "Better hope they don't blow it."

Stockman touched his eyepatch again, hoping that his creations wouldn't fail like the Mousers did.


In the lair, after Casey had finally clamed down by himself - Elisa too worried about Raph to step in and help - Donnie and Cath picked up something on the scanner.

"I'm getting a signal. It's Raph." he explained happily.

"Wahoo!" Casey cheered, lifting his arms out, holding his hockey stick in one, which accidently smashed a light bulb above Donnie and Cath.

Mikey turned to Leo, Elisa and Splinter. "This guy's bad news even when there's good news." he commented quietly, as Splinter shook his head, and Leo and Elisa both face palmed themselves.

"It's faint, but at least we've got a blimp we can follow." Donnie explained.

Several more blimps then showed up on the scanner.

"Make that several blimps." Cath corrected.

"The invisible ninja's signal?" Leo questioned.

"Looks like it." Cath deduced.

"Raphael may not even be aware he is being followed." Splinter realised, touching his eldest son's shoulder.

"Which means we gotta find him before he brings in some seriously unwanted house guests." Leo realised.

"Um, Leo..." Elisa muttered, as they all turned to Casey. "..you serious, bro?"

"Yeah. We already got one of those." Mikey joked.

"So uh, how do we stop something we can't see?" Casey asked.

"Already got that one covered; Turtle vision heat sensor goggles." Donnie answered, picking up one of the high-tech goggles he and Cath had made, before putting one on. "After all, an invisible body is still a warm body."

Cath then put one on, as Donnie passed one to Casey, and then Cath tossed one to Elisa, Mikey and Leo.

"Let's go." Leo said, once he put his on.

Mikey chuckled as he looked at Casey wearing his over his hockey mask. "That's a good look for you." he joked.


Later, Mikey, Casey and Elisa were in the Battle Shell, driving along a city street - Elisa at the wheel.

"We're gonna have to split up." Leo said through the radio.

Casey began patting the front like it was a drum.

"Mike, Ellie and Casey..." Leo said.

"Quit it!" Elisa growled, slapping Casey's arm.

"Yeah, she's trying to drive." Mikey told him.

"..you cover above ground."

(Elsewhere)

Leo, Donnie and Cath rode the Sewer Slider along a sewer tunnel - Leo drivng while Donnie looked at the scanner.

"Me, Cath and Don'll cover below." Leo explained.


In another part of the sewer, Raph was panting as he ran down a tunnel, before turning left, unaware that the Foot Tech's were following him down the tunnel. Raph then entered a drainage system, and stopped to catch his breath as he looked down at the whirl pool at the bottom.

As he did, Leo, Cath and Donnie showed up above him in the shadows, and then saw the Foot Tech's coming up right behind him slowly.

"I spy with my turtle eye, some goons who need a good bathing." Donnie joked.

They then all brought out their weapons, then jumped onto a lamp shade, then onto a bridge, and then dived towards Raph, who then looked up and saw them.

"Hey!" he called, before noticing they had their weapons out. "Huh?"

"Banzai!" Leo, Cath and Donnie all shouted.

Raph then turned as his three siblings all kicked a Foot Tech away, leaving him confused as he couldn't see them. Leo then spun around and kicked another Foot Tech away, when Donnie jumped and kicked another, and Cath spun around and roundhouse kicked a third.

"Uh, guys, what are you...?" Raph asked.

"Ever here the one about the invisible ninjas." Donnie cut in grinningly.

The three Turtles with the goggles on then saw the Foot Tech's they'd knocked out, get back up, and then charged at them, along with several others. The three were then suddenly grabbed by a Foot Tech each, who then spun them around, and then threw them over Raph towards the ground, screaming as they did.

"Aghh! Ugh!" they groaned.

Casey then came up behind the three of them, and then bent down near Leo.

"Hey, did I mention that these guys were really strong too?" Casey asked.

Leo moaned. "Might've been useful info." he groaned.

He, Cath and Donnie then got up as Elisa and Mikey ran towards their siblings, before all five of them saw Raph struggling with the Foot Tech's.

He sent a punch to his left, but was then kicked by one. "Come on?!" he dared.

He then turned around and threw another punch.

"Show yourself..." he growled, as another hit his shoulder. "..you lousy!"

One then punched him in the face, making him slightly dizzy.

"Uh, think we should give him a hand?" Mikey suggested.

The others nodded, and then all five of them charged in to help their brother.

Casey - now holding a golf club - had it close to a pile of mud, before he lifted it up. "Fore!" he shouted, as he swung it against the mud, sending it flying.

The mud headed towards Raph but missed him, and landed on the two Foot Tech's near him - one on either side - allowing him to see them.

"Ahh! Much better." he sighed.

He then split kicked the two Foot Tech's knocking them away from him, before wiping his hands.

Cath saw one heading right towards her as she spun her Tonfa around, while Elisa - standing right behind her - saw another one heading towards her as she readied her Kamas.

"Ready?" Elisa asked.

"Yep." Cath replied.

The two Foot Tech's then jumped to strike them, but both girls rolled over before they could - Elisa to her left and Cath to her right - causing the two ninjas to bang into each other.

Mikey spun his nunchucks around as two came charging at him.

"Now you see 'em…" he joked, whacking one in the face, knocking it away away, and then whacked the other away in the face. "..now you don't!"

Donnie whacked one in the chest as Leo blocked another's sword attack, as Raph watched cluelessly.

"Their cloaking controls look to be somewhere around the chest plate." Donnie explained.

Leo then jumped into the air. "You mean here?!" he smirked, slicing two of the ninjas controls, turning them visible.

Both ninjas then panicked before Donnie came at them and whacked them both over the head with his Bo, knocking them both into a puddle of water, where their short-circuited.

"Can I call them or what?" Donnie smirked, as the Turtles gathered together - minus Mikey.

"So, I guess that's that." Raph deduced, bringing his Sai's out.

All five of them looked up as they heard a voice screaming, as saw Casey being held being held over the whirl pool on the bridge by one of the Foot Tech's, which then turned visible, holding his golf bag

"Drop your weapons and surrender?!" the ninja demanded.

They all gasped as Casey struggled to break free, when more Foot Tech's came up behind them and trapped by the edge.

"My grip is loosing." the ninja said sternly. "I suggest you drop your weapons now!"

"Don't do it, guys!" Casey shouted. "I'm not worth it!"

"You know, he's got a point." Donnie admitted, turning to his siblings.

The others all turned to him, knowing that while Casey had been a pain, he was still their friend.

"You're starting to sound like Mikey, Don." Elisa said.

The five of them then dropped their weapons.

"Hey, where is Mikey?" Raph wondered, scratching his head, noticing Mikey was missing.

Cath looked up, and then saw Mikey moving along a pipe like it was a balance beam. "There." she muttered, pointing at her younger brother.

"The way of balance, and the way of invisibility." Mikey quoted, before he jumped off the pipe.

The Foot Tech holding Casey turned just as Mikey kicked him in the face, knocking him into the whirl pool, but also forced him to let go of Casey, who then screamed, while Mikey grabbed the bridge handrail.

Donnie then ran in, before one of the Foot Tech's put his sword in front of him. Donnie then dodged a slice from his other sword, before jumping and landing on his back, then flipped forward and grabbed his Bo. He then grabbed a pipe and spread his Bo down, getting Casey's hand locked into it before he hit the water, while the Foot Tech who had him fell in. Casey then held his thumb up, before Donnie swung him up onto the path in front of the remaining Foot Tech's.

"Yeah!" Casey grinned, brining out one of his bats.

Donnie then landed on his left, spinning his Bo, while Mikey landed on his right, spinning his nunchucks. Leo, Raph, Elisa and Cath then all picked up their weapons as they ran towards them, and then turned to the Foot Tech's - Leo and Elisa on Donnie's side, while Cath and Raph on Mikey's side.

The seven of them then charged in at the seven Foot Tech's. Leo and Raph then knocked two into the whirl pool, then Elisa and Cath did the same, then Donnie and Mikey, and then finally Casey. Casey put his bat away and looked down at the whirl pool, and the Foot Tech's were swept under, before taking his goggles and mask off.

"Thanks guys." he said, turning to the Turtles - who now were putting their weapons away. "I owe ya."

"We take cash, personal cheques and most major credit cards." Mikey joked, as they took their goggles off.

"Man, I'm beat." Casey moped, walking towards them. "Maybe I should just crash at you guys' place tonight."

The Turtles all gasped, as they'd had enough trouble with Casey in the lair today, they sure didn't want him spending the night.

"No!" Leo freaked, before calming down. "I mean, nothing beats the comfort of sleeping in your own bed."

He laughed nervously as Donne ran towards him. "We'll give you a ride." he told Casey.

"We'll have you home in no time." Cath added, running towards them.

"Carry you up the stairs, tuck you in." Mikey went on, as the four began to push him towards the tunnel. "Heck, we'll even tell you a bedtime story."

Raph and Elisa then both followed after the others.


Later that night in the skyscraper, the man was pacing in front of Hun, Stockman and six of the new Foot Tech Ninjas.

"Another operation marred by the sickening stench of defeat!" the man growled angrily, not happy with the results as he turned slightly to them with his back facing them. "No doubt you're both well aware of my extremely limited tolerance for failure."

"It was his fault!" Stockman defending, accusing Hun. "This bumbling oaf let the creature escape!"

The man turned to him and lifted him up by the collar. "The plan was sound, and yet your creations failed you, as you put it 'deliver the goods'." the man snarled, looking at the Foot Tech's behind Hun.

He then threw Stockman towards the ninjas, and then gestured them to take him away for his punishment, and then two grabbed his arms.

"Wait...where are you taking me?!" Stockman asked, as they dragged him towards the door "Take your hands off me!"

Hun smirked as the door opened, glad he wasn't getting punished.

"I made you!" Stockman shouted. "I am your creator!"

The doors then shut behind him and the ninjas, as the man walked towards Hun.

"What did you learn from your integration?" the man asked, as Hun turned to him.

"I worked over a lot of tough guys in my day." Hun answered. "I'm telling you, these Turtles never even heard of your enemies, let alone work for them."

"Hmm." the man muttered, as he walked away from Hun, a bit surprised by the answer. "Then perhaps they can be useful to me, when the time comes to confront those enemies."


In a dark room in another building, a man with blue hair, wearing sunglasses and a long trench coat, walked out of the shadows towards three people. One was a woman with short hair and glasses, the second was a skinny looking man with a hat on, and the third was a bit chubby and had a moustache and beard.

"Masters, it is true." the man sadly confirmed. "Our enemy has discovered our presence in this city.

"And what of...?" the woman asked.

"..the six..." the skinny man added.

"..mutant creatures?" the third finished.

"Still an unknown factor." the man in the trench coat answered. "We need more information."

"Learn all you can about them." the woman ordered.

"If they pose no threat..." the skinny man said.

"..do not engage them." the other finished.

"But if they are in the employ of our enemy..." the woman went on.

"..take the necessary steps..." the second man said.

"..to neutralise them!" they all ordered.

The man bowed at them, before he turned around and walked away back into the shadows.