"Hey guys!" April came in cheerfully and greeted them, they seemed to be gathered in Don's lab looking at a map.

"Hey April." Leo said absentmindedly.

"So, I got this newspaper, there is apparently kidnappings of scientists, I figured it might be the Krang since they took my dad. And there is one really recent so I figured we could check out his place?" She waved the newspaper in the air.

"Hm, actually that could be a lead." Leo said after a few seconds, now paying attention.

"So we're gonna bust into some kidnapped guys office..? Fine by me." Raph got up, it was more fun than watching that map back and forth all day. He could use some exercise.

"You comin' Mikey?" Leo and Raph started to move along with April.

Mikey was about to answer but then glanced towards Don, he looked slightly sad and longingly towards the rest of the group, where he sat left alone by the table. He knew Don wanted to go with them, even if he couldn't, and while Mikey couldn't really do anything about that…

"Uh, you know what guys…? I'm not sure I'm feeling so well, I think it's something I ate." He burped and whined a little for effect. "I might actually need today off if that's cool?"

Raph looked at him in surprise, he was pretty sure they all ate the same thing... A quick glance at Don however told him what Mikey was up to.

"Oh. …I don't want you puking all over me! So stay home then! Not like we're gonna do anything but go into some old boring office anyway."

"Eh? Didn't we eat the s-"

Before Leo could finish the sentence he was pushed along by Raph. "All fine! We can handle this, right Leo?" He gave his brother a glare before he seemed to catch on.

"Oh yea, right, you rest! We'll uh.. yea."

Mikey watched as they disappeared. As he turned Don looked at him in surprise.

"Hey bro! You ready do to something fun?" He said in a cheerful tone.

"Uh, didn't you just say-"

"Yea, guess it was a really quick come and go one~" He said and winked before grabbing Don's chair and wheeling him out of the lab. Being cooped up in here all evening would not do.

"No offense April, but we're ninjas, we got this." Leo said with a smile and patted April's shoulder. "You just wait here, just in case there is anything Krangy in there."

April huffed while she waited around the corner of the office. In the meantime, Leo and Raph busted into the office and started looking.

"Okay this place is slightly freakier than I thought..." Raph commented as he shone the flashlight towards the busted cage in there. "Why would he even have that in here?" He said in a sceptic tone.

Leo was looking through the drawers, trying to see if he could find anything, then he stumbled upon something glowing, lifting the lid there was..

"Mutagen.." He stared in surprise at it before picking it up. "Raph check this out, I think this definitely means Krang is involved.."

"Woah that's dangerous stuff, what's that doing here?" He looked up from the bookshelf.

"No idea.. but we're taking it with us, maybe Donnie can analyse it."

That's when the lights went on. They both turned in alarm, there was a human in a lab coat there. He started screaming.

"Monsters..!"

Raph gritted his teeth and jumped the human. "Calm down we're just-" He paused, and realised he'd knocked him out by accident.

"Uhm. We mean no harm? Oops.."

Leo gave him a glare. "Great. At least no one will believe he saw giant turtles because you probably hit his head so hard he'll have a big bruise." He said in an accusing tone.

"What? I just reacted. He could have set off the entire building or something." Raph shrugged.

"Let's go." Leo nodded, grabbed the canister before they snuck out the window to meet up with April.

"Hmm.. how about we do some cooking?" Before Don could even answer Mikey got all excited about it and steered them in that direction. Donnie had a feeling Mikey got an idea in his head and it wasn't really worth objecting at this point.

"Yea sure, why not." Giving up to Mikey's whims he simply went along for the ride.

Once in the kitchen Mikey started to look through what they had while Don relished in having control back over his destinations. He looked at Mikey trying to figure something out, maybe this could be fun, if he perhaps gave him a nudge in the right direction.

"How about… you teach me to cook something? I'm not that good at it." While some people seemed to think chemistry and cooking had a lot in common, Don was good at chemistry and Mikey at cooking, but not the other way around. He supposed one was very controlled and mathematical, while the other was more... feeling and hunches.

"Oh that's a great idea!" Mikey seemed to get all excited as he thought about something you could teach, you didn't really need legs for cooking, which was a good thing. Though they did have a few benches that weren't really in Don's favour, but he could use the table instead.

"How about… pie?"

"Pie? Hmm yea sure why not?" Don nodded, sounded easy enough, also not all that crazy, which was what he hoped for. "What flavour? Apple?"

"Nah… This is an opportunity for experimentation and adventure! … Let's do a pizza flavoured pie!"

Don internally facepalmed. Well, not exactly normal but… close enough.

"Alright I'll show you how to make the dough first! Then we can prepare ingredients!"

"Okay, but I have a say in what goes in, I do want to make something everyone can actually eat."

"Deal!"

As they came home April wasn't too happy, she had basically been benched, even though she had been the one to find the clue in the first place.

They all looked around to find the lair seemingly empty but for sensei who walked past them towards the toilets, greeting them on the way.

"Where are they…?" Leo said as he peeked into the lab where he had expected to find them, if they weren't in front of the TV.

"Uh.. in here." Raph said. Leo turned to find Raph staring into the kitchen.

Upon entering, the place was… a tad messy, some dough and ingredients on the floor, some squashed by Don's wheels as he was unable to avoid it all while moving around, and Mikey had a lot of sauce splattered over him, while Don was a lot cleaner and in the progress of wiping his hands.

"Oh hey guys!" Mikey said happily as he noted his brothers and April were back.

"What have you guys been doing..?"

"Oh well you see, I taught Don how to make pie, but then we dropped some stuff… and uh, we had a bit of an accident with the sauce and the mixer. But the Pie is almost done!"

It was pretty clear who had and who hadn't cleaned at all, all the messy spots in the kitchen were places Don couldn't reach. There was a stark difference between the lower benches and table versus the floor and cabinets.

"Right… You better clean this up before sensei notice."

"Will do!" Mikey saluted.

April sat in the kitchen chair eating heated up pizza pie from the other day while reading about a scientist being assaulted in his office. The article mentioned he got away with a mild concussion and was currently recovering in a hospital due to his delirious hallucinations about turtles. She gave Leo and Raph a slight glare while they looked uncomfortable.

Somewhere in the city a mutant monkey was causing trouble for the unlucky angry inhabitants who happened to come across him…

Too bad they never did find that missing scientist.