A/N: This chapter was the hardest to write, not only does it lead to a climatic point of the entire story, but the ending of it is sad. It wasn't easy, contemplating wheater I should take this route or not, but ... it worked!


Chapter 8

"Uhhh, what time is it?" I mumbled rolling over in bed.

"Who cares," Vern said touching me on the arm.

"AAAH, ITS 5AM," I shouted throwing the blanket off of me as I noticed the alarm clock change.

"I'm going to be late," I said quickly changing.

"Alex babe, seriously…" Vern said getting out of bed.

"We have training today out in the woods," I said to him searching for my belt.

"You could call in sick," he teased and laughed.

"I could but then you'd have turtles raiding your apartment," I said to him while searching for my cell phone.

"See, look at this…." I said shaking my phone at him.

"...5 missed calls, and a text message from Donnie," I sighed and looked at the screen.

"Hahahha, they can't live a second without you," he teased again.

"It could be an emergency Vern," I said unlocking my phone and replying to Donnie's message.

"So…. Will you think about it, maybe moving in here?" he said touching my arms.

"Maybe, but you do realize my apartment is much bigger, and when its rebuilt could consider moving in there," I said as I was leaving the room. He followed out behind me.

"Why your apartment?" he questioned, watching me frantically look for my keys.

"It has two bedrooms, the little guy would need a play room when he comes to visit," I mumbled through my elastic band.

My phone vibrated again.

"Great!" I said and noticed a new voice message on my phone. I clicked it and let it play on speaker.

Hey A,

So where are yeah? Leo's a little peeved off you didn't come home last night, don't know what is up with him…. Maybe you got eaten by a dragon! Mwahahhahaha!

Can you get us some pepperoni sticks and maybe cream soda on your way back from Verns.

Hi Vern.

Mikey shut up, Alex get over here ASAP or we're heading out without yeah.

Click!

"Great!" I said and sighed. They knew I was here all along, probably tracked my phone. Now I won't hear the end of it. I pulled my jacket over my arms.

"Alex relax it's not like we've never spent the night together before… relax," Vern laughed in the kitchen watching me frantically look for my things.

"Bye Vern!" I said as I hurried to the door.


"Oh my god," I said to myself struggling to balance the two paper bags in my arms and my keys as I pushed opened the door to the lair.

"About time," Raphael noticed me come through the door and to the table almost tripping over Mikey's skateboard. I kicked it aside and placed the bags on the table.

"I'm here," I said again catching my breath.

"And where have you been all this time?" Leo lectured me coming towards the table.

"With Vern," I said as Mikey and Raph pushed me aside and raided the brown bags.

"Could've called," Leo hissed again. Nina and Aki leaned over the table as well as Mikey handed out food.

"Achum, while you were out last night we were attacked by mousers," Donnie said getting my attention. He held up a mechanical mouse by the tail.

"What…. Was anyone hurt?" I said looking around to everyone.

"No, we caught them before they caught us," Leo said again. I looked at the small pile of broken mice on Donnie's desk.

"…. And," Donnie said holding up a tracking device and microphone.

"I was tapped?" I said looking at the broken pieces.

"Yeah, one in your car and one in your book bag," he said tossing them to the trash.

"Karai… she must've done this, so she must've heard everything we talked about yesterday," I said shaking my head. Mari pushed past me and to the table as well.

"Possibly," Donnie said also scrimmaging through the brown bags.

"Right," Leo hissed and said under his breath.

"What is your problem?" I said to him coming towards him.

"You were reckless, she did this while you were with her Alex," He said and turned towards the couch.

"Hold up here," I said following him to the couch.

"What have I done….." I challenged him.

"Miss Alex," Yuri said placing her hands to my shoulders; she pulled me away from the couch before Leo could argue with me.

"Leo was just worried about you… that's all," she said and pulled me back towards the table.

I looked at him as he went in to the arcade room and sighed.

"Alex, did you go somewhere last night your phones security footage tracked you at Crescent and Mills warehouse." Donnie said opening a white Chinese takeout box.

I pulled out my cell phone from my pocket and tossed it to him.

"Footage is on there, I think I found their base," I said as Donnie went to his desk analyzing the footage.

"Woah, woah, you went to Crescent and Mills by yourself, unarmed," Raph said sternly coming towards me.

"Relax I wasn't alone I was with Vern, now lay off my back," I said to him and turned to the arcade room.

But before I could reach for the door handle Splinter stopped me and touched my hand.

"Alex, darling… come for a walk with me," he said extending his hand to me.

"Uh, is something wrong?" I said to him as he pulled my arm under his.

"No, no…. I just think we should talk," he said as he pulled me through the house to a small back door behind the bookshelf. I didn't even know we had this hidden door here, it led out to the sewer line and a long tunnel.

I looked at the water coming down from the above tunnel.

"What's wrong Splinter?" I said to him as he guided me through the tunnel to a small wooden bench. I assumed the guys came here a lot because the bench looked very used.

"Leonardo was very worried about you yesterday," he said leaning against the tunnel wall, as I sat down along the bench.

"Why you all knew I was with Vern," I said to him.

"He's been having these nightmares lately…." Splinter aid rubbing his goatee.

"Nightmares…. Of what?" I asked wondering where this conversation was leading.

"Darling yesterday as you were out tutoring, Vern and April where here telling us about the FBI raid on their offices and how they implicated you in a murder, even though your name was cleared….. it worried Leo, Karai is getting closer and she's using you to do so…. She may know more then we think, and this is making everyone on edge," he said sitting down.

"I don't understand…." I said to him still trying to figure out where this conversation was going.

"You see, his nightmares are of you betraying the family, turning your back on all of us….. he was worried because when you went out with Vern and didn't return, he thought maybe… you decided to take Vern up on his offer," he said looking at me.

"Oh, me moving in with him?" I said and chuckled.

"Well…. That and Vern had also asked for your hand in marriage to him," he said as well. I puffed my cheeks thinking.

"He never said anything about that to me," I said quickly rationalizing our conversation yesterday.

"Splinter, how would this be a betrayal? If I move in with Vern I won't be leaving forever, I'll still be here… just, across town until my apartments fixed, it's not like I won't see everyone anymore," I said to him rubbing a hand through my hair.

"He knows that, what worries him is that… in his nightmares, Karai turned you against the entire family and….. you're heart turned against us," he said touching a hand to my face to get my attention.

"He thinks I'm going to join her side, Splinter that's ridiculous," I said to him.

"Darling, talk to him…. He is very protective of you, that's why he's always worried about you, he'd rather have you here in his sight always then out there on your own…. Even if you are with Vern, April or Casey, he'd rather know you're safe with us…" he said to me again.

"Hahhaa… when Casey did the same thing and talked about marriage to April, Leo was upset over it, because he thought that April would forget about all of them if she was married, but she would never do that… she still visits every day, and would do anything for them…. Just as you," he said again tapping his hand to my cheek.

"He needs to know this, he worries because he cares and he doesn't want to see his family separate," he said again. I smiled at him and touched his hand.

"I'll talk to him," I said and shifted up to my feet.


As I came back through the back room with Splinter and around the book shelf I didn't notice Mikey's skateboard had been kicked over by Donnie's desk, I was about to step over it when, "WOOOAAAAHHHH….." I shouted and slipped against the skateboard hitting the floor.

"OOooohhhhhh, owww," I muttered on my back.

"Aaah, Alex," Mikey said coming towards me.

"MICHALANGLO WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT YOUR SKATEBOARDS," Splinter shouted at him picking it up.

"Uhhhh, that hurt," I said picking myself up off the floor.

"Put these away right now," Splinter hissed at him again hitting him over the head.

"Awe man, I'm sorry Alex," He said taking the skateboard from Splinter.

"I'm going to bruise now, thanks a lot Mikey," I punched him in the arm.

"Uhhh," I said again as an argument erupted between Raph and Mikey over his skateboards. Donnie seemed amused he and the girls watched from his desk as Raph lectured Mikey.

I walked over to the arcade room and rubbed my back.

"Uh, he's never going to grow up and learn," I said as I opened the door and went in.

"Huh, I didn't even know we had this room," I said coming towards Leo who was at a pinball machine.

"It's been here, we just barely use it," Leo said as the machine chimed and clicked.

"Huh, haven't played this game in years…" I said leaning against the machine.

"Mikey's skateboard is like a rock," I said to him as I watched the metal ball roll and hit objects.

"Look, I just had a talk with Splinter," I said trying to get his attention.

"I'm not going anywhere Leo, even if I do move in with Vern…. Which I haven't decided yet, its not like I'll never see you guys again," I said to him sliding between him and the machine.

"Leo," I said to him getting his attention.

"It's not that, I've been having these nightmares," He said leaning towards me.

"He told me about that too," I said crossing my arms.

"Leo you can talk to me about these things, all of you know that…. I'm not going to betray the family are you kidding me, she'd need to mess me up pretty bad to make me betray you guys," I said trying to change his mood.

"Alex, look you and April are a part of our family and your both very important to us, you girls do so much for us… everyday putting yourselves out there, especially April, uncovering crimes and criminals. Helping us fight monsters like Shredder and Sachs," he started to said and rubbed his head.

"I guess, I guess I just feel like one of these days we'll all separate and split up," he said in almost a mumble.

"Seriously? I don't even think that's possible, see Mikey he's like a child, he'll find us no matter where we are and always figure out a way to make us come home, even if its buying pepperoni sticks and cream soda," I said and chuckled.

"I suppose but, I guess..." he tried to figure out his words.

"Is this about the baby being born soon? You think we'll all leave, have our own lives and forget about you guys… and the little guy," I said coming towards him.

"Heck no way, that little guy is going to be the most spoiled little boy ever," I said to him rubbing his arm.

"Keno," he said and looked at me.

"What?" I said wondering where he got that from.

"It's the name we picked out of the hat, Keno…." He said again.

"You put that name in there didn't you," He said and smiled at me.

"I never told anyone this, but…. When I was eight before we came to America, my mom told me she was pregnant with a little boy….." I said turning away from him.

"Oh, so you have a little brother?" he asked crossing his arms.

"No….. he never made it, my mother miscarried, but…. We were going to name him Keno," I said and pushed my hair behind my ear.

"I like the name…." Leo said and touched my shoulders.

"I love you guys, you know that… there is no way this girl will ever join the dark side, are you tripping?" I teased him and chuckled.

"Hahaha, I think you've been hanging around Mikey to much," He said I leaned in and hugged him.

"You're also really short," He said again.

"Hey, I'm not that short, I can still take any of you on," I looked up at him.

"Right, sure you can…." He teased and opened the door.


"Oh come on Raphael, give me a break," I heard Mikey whine and complain again.

"What now?" I said coming through the room I held my hand up to Mikey's chest and Raph's separating them.

"Can we go through a day without someone killing eachother?" I said and looked at the both of them.

"I thought we were training today or did your mind stray to something else…" Raph said sarcastically and bopped me on the head.

"Hey grow up, yes we are weapon training today…. So get your weapons," I said to everyone.

"I am not riding on any motorbikes," I said coming through the garage.

"Your loss," Raph teased as he came towards his bike.

"Hey, my scratch is gone…." I said examining the car, I thought maybe I was dreaming for a moment.

"Fixed it last night, while fixing the truck…." Donnie said coming around the car.

"So guys, Karai apparently knows where we are now, those mice were probably sent here as a warning," I said opening the car door.

"More than a warning, I think she's trying to lure us out first, get us to release our guard and find her," Raph said as he and Mari jumped to on to his bike.

"Well is it safe to leave the place like this, I mean what if she knows our moves now, what if she's got someone watching the station and waiting for us to leave," I said leaning against the door.

"I've set up a new security system in the place, nothing gets in without triggering the system, and if its mousers, they'll be caught before they even make it into the place. The system is set up to a 5 mile radius around the place," he said coming around the truck.

"So who's riding with me," I smiled and tapped the roof of the car.

"I called it," Nina said coming around to the passenger side.

"Me too," Aki said as well. Splinter chuckled as Donnie opened the truck door for him.

"Cool, so where are we going for training?" I asked as the garage door opened.

"Just follow us, you'll see," Donnie said starting the truck.


"April are you serious right now," Vern said to her as he followed her in to the news van.

"Yes I'm being serious, Crescent and Mills warehouse; you said you and Alex went there last night…. Well apparently Baxter was spotted there two hours prior to that in that area," April said unlocking her cell phone. She played a video footage that was sent to her by an undercover cop working with Casey.

"Who sent you this footage," Vern asked leaning towards her.

"An undercover cop working with Casey on this case, he drove by Crescent and Mills last night and spotted a lot of activity, he even saw Baxter on the premises," she said leaning the phone towards him.

"Alex and I were there last night at around seven, we didn't see him," he said looking at the footage closely.

"What do you think he's doing there?" he asked her as the footage stopped.

"I have a strange feeling he's planning something big, those crates and boxes usually carry live animals in them," she said trying to put the puzzle together.

"Woah, woah, wait do you think he's trying to recreate mutants, all the TGRI canisters were destroyed," Vern said starting the van.

"All but one, the guys have one," she said remembering the last canister that she took from Sachs lab to save Splinter with.

"Didn't they use it all, or destroy whatever was left?" Vern asked putting on his seat belt.

"Yeah which is strange now that you mention it, how could he recreate the mutagen when all the notes and the TGRI canisters are all destroyed and gone, Donnie doesn't even have a copy of the formula for the original mutagen anymore either," she said thinking.

"You think maybe there's a back up on a hard drive somewhere?" Vern said.

"You think….. there's a possibility, maybe that's why he needed Alex's mothers research notes," she added putting on her seat belt.

"Hmm, Alex did want to hack in to their computers and find out what's going on," Vern said and looked at her.

"So want to make a little trip to Crescent and Mills, maybe a drive by… you know somewhere far away where we are not spotted, and spy on them?" he said as he pulled away from the news station.

"Sure Vern we'll spy on them, but first… we need to stop at the baby place," she said and smiled.

"You've got to be kidding me," Vern said and shook his head.


"So Miss Alex," Nina said cheerfully as I stopped at a stop light. I could hear the music out of the truck blaring; it was either Donnie or Mikey's music I could tell because the base was booming.

"Yes?" I said to her shifting through music on my navigation system.

"Did Vern ask you to marry him?" she said excitedly. I looked at her and laughed.

"No, he hasn't… oh my god, even if he did I don't think I'd be ready for something like that yet," I said to her and laughed.

"I think you should…" Aki said leaning over from the back seat.

"Oh my god you guys he hasn't even said anything yet, stop…." I said blushing.

"Hahahha," they both laughed as I scrolled through some music.

I whistled to some music and looked out the window while waiting for the light to change.

"Miss Alex its green," Nina said getting my attention.

"Oh, haha," I said and followed behind the guys.

"Alex," I heard Donnie's voice over the navigation system.

"Huh I have a communicator," I said trying to figure out how to reply.

"Press the red button on the navigation system," Donnie said noticing I took a while to reply.

"I have a communicator," I said to him as he pulled onto a different road away from the city.

"We may have to cancel training today, April called there's heavy activity at Crescent and Mills, she and Vern are there now spying on the warehouse," he said parking into an empty lot.

I pulled over next to him and rolled down my window.

"What do you mean what's going down there?" I asked.

"We need to go check it out, she said that Baxter and Karai are in that area, they're probably trying to recreate mutants and have heavy equipment being assembled near the warehouse," he said to me from the truck.

Raph pulled his bike next to us.

I opened the car door as everyone gathered.

"Here's the plan, we go in, look around…. Figure out what they're doing, if we need to hack into their systems, Donnie do that…. Erase their computers if you need to, we can't let them recreate mutants or anymore TGRI mutagen," Leo said to all of us.

"What about Karai and Baxter?" I said to them.

"We'll take care of them if we have too, April told Casey what's going down there, he's on alert," Leo said again as April sent him camera footage of what they are seeing at the warehouse.

"…. Let's go then," Yuri said hooking her fan to her belt.

"Hang on a minute, I don't think it's a good idea for you to fight with us this time," Leo said to her as she adjusted the pins in her belt.

"Why not? You guys need all the help you can get, we can secure the perimeter outside," she said pointing to her sisters.

"Maybe not you, I'm sure Mari, Nina and Aki can handle it, we'll clear the way but they can be our back up," he said to her. She didn't seem to like this and crossed her arms, then climbed back in to the truck.

"Fine," she said.

"It's for her safety, so let's go," I said to them as I opened my car door again.


We pulled in to the lot across from the warehouse where Vern and April parked the news van. They got out to meet us.

"Check out the footclan," Mikey said as he jumped out of the truck.

"Did anyone see you?" Leo said to them as he got out of the truck.

"No, but look at that," she said pointing to the large metal building behind the warehouse.

Donnie pulled down his gear over his eyes and scanned the building.

He whistled.

"Wow guys they have some serious machinery in there, weapons, and trucks, and they have a pod… I don't know what's in it, but it doesn't look good," Donnie said looking to us.

"We need a distraction to get in," Raph said looking at the building as the footclan hovered outside.

"I can give you a distraction," April said and smiled.

Vern pulled up the news van a meter away from the warehouse, Raph and Mikey hid in the back with Mari while I prepared my staff.

"Ready," Vern said to me and April. I shifted my staff near the front seat of the van for easy access as April and I got out.

"Hey boys," April said as we came towards three footclan men near the chained fence.

"Whoo hooo what do we have here," One of the men said coming towards us.

"See our truck blew a tire, think you guys could help us out," I said and smiled.

"We're sort of lost and…. Well, don't know how to fix a tire," April said as the two men came towards us.

"Take care of it," the other guy at the gate said.

"How about we fix your tire and you girls come back and hang out with us for a while," one of the guys said following us to the truck.

As the guys came near the car I could see Donnie, Leo and Aki and Nina jumped the fence on the far side of where we were.

"Hey baby come on why don't we leave the tire and maybe… hang out in the back," one of the men said. But before he could touch me, Raph and Mikey jumped out of the back of the truck and took them down.

"BOOYAH baby," Mikey said throwing his hands in the air.

"Shut up!" Raph groaned.

"The guys are over the fence," Mari said hearing Donnie through her head piece.

"Alright let's kick some footclan ass," Raph said and pumped his arms twirling his sai's.

April jumped in to the truck as Raph ran at the gate knocking out the man there and bringing the fence down.

"Well that's one way of doing it," Vern said driving the truck over the fence.

"Get inside with Mari and Donnie, see what you can get from the computers," Raph said as I handed April a scandisk.

"On it," Mari said as Donnie came towards us.

"Be careful, we'll meet up in the main building," Donnie said pointing to the large metal standing structure.

"Let's go," Raph said as I tapped my fist with his.

"AAH," I shouted as guns fired at us I hid behind Raph.

"Hey, watch where your firing those things," Raph said and jumped to the air at the men charging at us.

"RAPH," I shouted swinging my staff in to the air.

"Yuri, stay here," Splinter said to her as she opened the truck door.

"No, they're shooting at Alex," she said and jumped out of the truck. Splinter followed after her.

"Aaaaugggh," I shouted as I swung my staff at the footclan men who jumped me.

"ALEX, GET DOWN," I heard Splinters voice behind me, his tail wrapped around some of the men and swung them through the air throwing them against the fence.

"Alex you okay?" Yuri said to me as she swung her fans through the air.

"Watch yourself Yuri," I said to her jumping to my feet.

"Alex go, help them," Splinter said as he and Yuri fought off the men that attacked me.

I nodded and ran towards Raph.


"Baxter there's a breach on ground level," Karai said as the alarms went off. He jumped to the computer chair and looked at the screens.

"They're here," he said and smiled.

"You mean she's here?" Karai said looking at the screens.

"Wait, scroll back through the footage," Karai said noticing something.

"She's with them? She works with them?" Baxter said bewildered as he saw me standing next to Raph fighting off the footclan men.

"She knows them…. This is even better Baxter, do you know what this means?" Karai said hitting him on the arm.

"Ow, relax will you, do you want me to send out the mousers?" he said rubbing his arm.

"No, let them in, they won't be able to come down to this level anyway… we're sealed off," she said as a large metal hanger door opened.

"He's ready," Baxter said and smiled.


"THAT'S HOW ITS DONE," Donnie's voice echoed against my Bluetooth ear piece.

"WE ARE IN," he said as I heard him tap on the computer.

"You got in to the computers?" I said to him, Raph and Leo hovered close to me blocking the footclan from attacking me while I talked to Donnie.

"Alex I'm sending you this data, download it," he said, I clicked my cell phone and saw my screen scroll with information.

"Oh my god this is amazing Donnie, you April and Vern get out of there," I said to him as my phone downloaded pages and pages of information. I pushed it back to my pocket and let it download.

"Donnie got what he was looking for?" Raph asked looking at me.

"Yup," I said and twirled my staff around my head.

"Nina, Aki ….. help Splinter and Yuri," I said to them noticing them struggle with the men that were attacking them.

"On it," they both said and ran to them.

"Go, go, get Baxter and Karai," Mari said as she waved for the guys to go.

"You girls be careful, stay with Splinter," Mikey said to them as we meet up with Donnie. We ran to the larger building hiding behind the warehouse.

"Oh yeah," I heard from Vern as he punched out a footclan member who was attacking april.

I half turned and looked at them making sure they were okay.

"Alex let's go," Raph shouted at me near the building.


"UHHHHHH, PROBLEM," Baxter half shouted frantically tapping on the computers.

"Where's the screens, why are they black," Karai noticed and started trying to retrieve information.

"They hacked us," He said angrily as he rolled his chair back and forth between computers.

"No, this means they'll know everything, everything we are doing Baxter…. Get the information back," she said grabbing him by the collar.

"Relax I'll check the backup," he said pushing his glasses up.


We ran into the building and the guys stopped, I hit into Raphs shell.

"Ow, hey," I was about to shout at him when he turned and grabbed me putting his hand over my mouth.

I looked around, it was a large hanger with more then a hundred footclan members, trucks, cars, and weapons.

"Donnie, get us out of here," Leo whispered at him as the men started shooting at us.

That's when a large hanger door shut down between us.

"That would've been bad," Mikey said taking a deep breath.

"There's an elevator here," Donnie said looking at a panel on the wall.

I pushed Raph away from me.

"We could've taken them," I said to him.

"Shut it, we would've been out numbered," he said crossing his arms.

"Now that's an elevator," Donnie said pointing to a large door that opened.

We all went in.

"So do you know what level their on?" I said to him as the door closed.

He tapped on his minicomputer and pulled down his gear over his eyes.

"Yup, there's a lab here, they have two… one on level eight and ten," he said and closed his computer.

"So which first?" I said as he pressed the button to 8.

"8 it is then," I said and tapped my staff on the ground.

We rode up in silence for a while until Mikey started tapping his nuchucks together.

I looked at him and shook my head.

That's when they all joined in and started beat boxing in the elevator, using their weapons as sound effects.

I held my hand over my mouth trying not to laugh.

"MC Mikey," he said finishing their rap.

"Yeah you liked it girl admit it," Raph said behind me as the elevator doors opened. I laughed and didn't say anything.

"What the," Donnie said noticing an empty lab.

"Are you sure there's a lab here Don?" I said coming through the room. There were empty computers, nothing on the counters and the wiring in the ceiling was hanging down.

"Donnie, this could be a trap," Leo said looking around carefully.

"No this is a lab, they were using it up until two days ago, they are in this building I'm sure of it," Donnie said scanning the entire building with his gear.

"Are you sure, because it looks like no one's been here for months," I said coming around a desk. I rolled a chair out of my way and spotted a small mouse.

"Uh guys," I said backing away from the mouse.

"ALEX GET DOWN," I heard from Raph and Donnie behind me as they pulled me to the ground.


"WHAT WAS THAT," Yuri shouted outside.

"Oh my god the building collapsed," Nina said looking at the entire structure fall.

"EVERYONE GET BACK, BACK TO THE TRUCK GO…" Splinter shouted as they ran back to the vehicles.


"EVERYONE OKAY," Leo shouted to his brothers as he picked himself up from the rubble.

"Yeah, yeah," Mikey said crawling to Raph and Donnie.

"Where's Alex," Donnie said looking around him.

"I had her she was with me," Raph said looking at his arms and around him.

"No way," Mikey said frantically picking up pieces of the building.

"ALEX," Leo shouted to me as they searched around them.

"How could I have lost her," Raphael said as he bent down over the rubble picking pieces and throwing them.

"We'll find her," Donnie said pushing his gear over his eyes.

"GUYS WHAT HAPPENED," Aki shouted at them coming towards the building.

"THE ENTIRE BUILDING COLLAPSED IT WAS A TRAP," Donnie shouted to her.

"DON'T COME UP HERE, STAY BACK…." Leo shouted to them. Splinter jumped to the air up to the rubble.

"Where's Alex," He said noticing the boys searching.

"I don't know we lost her," Leo said.

That's when the sound of cop cars and sirens blared it filled the entire air with a loud shriek.

"NO, no, no …" Raph said frantically digging in the spot he kneeled over.

"Her jacket," Donnie said kneeling in front of his brother.

"NO, she can't be…" Mikey said taking the jacket from him.

"KEEP SEARCHING WE DON'T STOP UNTIL WE FIND HER," Leo shouted to everyone. The girls jumped up to the rubble and began helping.

"Vern," April said to him. She grabbed his arm and turned around.

"They'll find her," He said to April patting her back.


"Ah, well isn't this a surprise…." I heard a voice around me. My head was throbbing I could barely even think.

"Good work men, that trap door Baxter was a brilliant idea," the man's voice said.

'Baxter,' I thought to myself.

'I'm in their lab,' I thought again.

"Keep her tied up, I don't want any surprises if she wakes up," the man's voice said again.

Then I heard the voice of a female as a gate door squeaked and slammed shut.

"Baxter you are brilliant," Karai said coming around the computers.

"Brilliant yes, a hacker not so much, they cleaned the entire system we have nothing to work with anymore…." He said with a deep sigh.

"It's okay Baxter, we have what we need, she….. can recreate the mutagen," Oroku Saki said to him.

"Are you sure sir, because she has nothing on her that implicates she can," Baxter said swinging his chair around.

"Oh she does," He said noticing my staff in the cell next to me.


"Keep looking," Donnie said as he scanned the area again.

"I got planes coming overhead with lights and search and rescue team," Casey said coming towards April and Vern.

"We have to find her," Nina said picking up pieces of the rubble.

"I can't stand here like this," Vern said taking off his jacket, he climbed up to what was left of the crumbled building and started searching.

"Casey, what if she's….." April was about to finish her words when Casey grabbed her and pulled her to him.

"They'll find her," he said.


"Where am I?" I said opening my eyes, the entire room was spinning.

"Welcome," a man's voice said behind the metal gate.

"Oroku…. Saki?" I stuttered out my words as he came in to my view.

"Smart girl," he said opening the gate.

"Oroku Saki," I said again bewildered, I tried to shift my arms out of the ropes.

"Surprised to see me alive and well?" he said walking around me.

"You thought you destroyed me with your shadow fighting skills didn't you," he said walking around the chair.

"You see my daughter here…" he extended his hand to the door and Karai came in.

"… saved me, she brought me back," he said as she came towards him.

He then slammed his hands on the chair and looked at me.

"Get me the collar," he said to Karai.

"Why…. What do you want Shredder?" I said to him.

"Shhhh, hush my dear…." He said pressing a finger to my lips.

"See this?" he said as Karai held up a large brown collar attached to a computer microchip.

Karai came around me and wrapped it around my neck.

"Ahh, no," I struggled to break free.

"You remember Baxter Stockman," he said. A round pudgy man with glasses rolled his chair to the opened gate and waved.

"He created this amazing collar," he said looking at Karai. She wrapped it around my neck and it clicked together.

"Aaargh, get this thing off of me," I hissed angrily at them.

"See kitten, this collar is amazing, do you know what it does?" he said throwing his hands to the air laughing.

"Baxter tell her…." He said as Baxter wheeled his chair in to the cell.

"Hehhe, see that collar was something Eric Sachs was working really hard on, it was rejected because the government wouldn't provide funding for it," he laughed and an annoying snort came out.

"See….. it's a mind control collar," he said waving his finger at me.

"It can make anyone do anything I want," he laughed again and chuckled.

"I finally get to try it…" he said and stood up from the chair.

"This remote," he said pulling it out of his lab coat pocket.

"Has a red button…." He said pointing at it.

Oroku Saki took it from him.

"If I press this button, the collar will send shocks of energy to the brain stem, stimulating your brains memories and activities, you won't forget anything… oh no," he laughed and twirled the controller in his hand.

"But it will manipulate your mind… it will make us, control you," he said pointing the controller at me.

"Aaahh, they'll find me…. You know they will, and when they know you're alive and what you're doing here…. What you're doing to me, they'll kill you, they'll rip you apart," I hissed angrily at him.

"I count on it…. No wait," he said and laughed.

"…. You will be the one, to destroy them for me," he said and laughed.

"Karai prepare the suit," he said to her, she smiled and nodded leaving the cell. Baxter chuckled and awkwardly left the cell looking at me.

"You will do my bidding," he said and whistled while walking out of the cell closing the gate behind him.

"OROKU SAKI…. YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS," I shouted after him trying to free my arms.


Mikey jumped down from the crumbled building and wiped his eyes. He pushed past Casey and April towards the truck.

"Great!" Raph said noticing Mikey's mood.

"Guys Mikey's upset," he said to his brothers.

"We can't stop looking Raph," Donnie said to him as he tapped on his minicomputer.

"Donnie, Donnie… stop, we have to go, Mikey's crying he's upset…." Raph said putting his hand over his brother's computer.

"We can still find her, we can't just leave," he hissed at Raphael moving his computer.

"No, he's right, we have to go Donnie, the search team is here… they'll find her," Leo said noticing Mikey in the truck.

"Leo's right, its dark we can't stay out here all night," Mari said to them as she clapped her hands together.

Vern heard the conversation and shook his head looking up the sky.

"He's right, we need to leave…. As much as I don't want too, we can't be out here at night.. it'll be harder to look and the rest of the building could come down on us," Vern said taking in a deep breath.

"Guys, we'll find her, I'll do a news report on it, asking people for help to find her, the…. The search team will stay here until they clear the rubble," April said to them as they jumped down from the remains.

"Come on," she said placing her hand to Donnie's arm.

"Yeah," he sighed and walked back to the truck.

"Let's go," Leo said to the girls.

"Leo, we can't just leave her like this, she would never leave us…. She'd keep searching if it was one of us…" Yuri said to him touching him on the arm.

"We have to Yuri…. We need to rest and come back tomorrow and help the team search," he said taking her hand.

She sighed and looked away from the building and followed Leo.