When Michelangelo felt he had made a successful enough breakthrough he explained it to April, Casey, and I.
"So after trying for two days to understand Donny's notes I found out that he'd not only simplified them most of the way through but he'd written out an ingredient list. So once I got the ingredients- thanks for the help April and Casey- I just had to find the right combination to add them in. It's kinda like baking. You just have to do it right."
"So you... baked… it?" April asked.
"Yeah… now I just hafta test it on something…."
"Like what? A guinea pig?" Casey looked rather confused by the whole ordeal.
"I won't use something that's alive! What would we do with it if the ooze works? And if it doesn't and the poor thing…. I can't." Michelangelo said. "And I won't use it on them unless I know it's safe."
"But if you use an inanimate object it may react differently than a live object would." April said.
April and Michelangelo spent the night arguing over the best way to test the new ooze before using it on his brothers.
The next morning April brought him a potted plant to test his new ooze on. "A compromise. It's alive, but it's probably not going to have to be housebroken and trained and all that other stuff. And it probably won't hurt it if this doesn't work."
With a sigh Michelangelo cautiously sprinkled a few drops into the pot. He had refused to let either of us near it in case something went wrong. Then we waited.
The following morning we awoke to see the flower had doubled in size. It barely fit into the pot that it had come in. Michelangelo insisted on moving it into a new pot and saving it for Donatello to research later. "I feel almost like it's a relative or something." He said. "I can't just toss out a relative."
April nodded like she understood then mouthed at me, "Has he gone crazy?"