Chapter 8
Master Splinter walked in, finding Leo still laying on the couch. "Leonardo, what troubles you?"
"Isn't it obvious Master Splinter? I can't move, Thessa's nowhere to be seen, and my team needs me, but I can't help."
"Now that's where you're wrong Leonardo. Simply because you cannot move, doesn't mean you cannot help. Because your body is stilled, your mind can be unleashed. Focus, my son. Meditate. Find Thessa." Leo closed his eyes, focused is breathing and his energy, and began to see in a new way.
"What do you see?" Splinter asked.
"It's dark, but I think it's like, an elevator shaft." The image began to blur. He focused harder. Thessa looked up, showing Leo the descending elevator above her. "I'm seeing through her eyes! I think I'm...I'm in her head!"
"Good Leonardo. Focus."
Her heart raced. The elevator was getting closer and closer. A rush of adrenaline filled her as she pulled out her dagger, and with a single leap, clung to the bottom of the elevator. Her dagger penetrated the metal floor, peeling back a chunk, and swinging herself inside. Four Kraang drones turned and looked at her. She pulled of her hood, showing them her silky ears and determined expression.
"The one that is known as experiment number 0758 has mutated. "
"Oh, only four of you? I was hoping for a challenge." Her blade sliced the drones in half, leaving the Kraang brains squirming and squealing on the floor. One by one she picked them up and dropped them down the hole. "Have a nice fall." She laughed.
Leo gasped. "She's in TCRI! Master Splinter- you need to use my T-phone and call the others and get an update." Splinter picked up the phone and stared at it. "Just press on the box with Raph's face on it."
"Raphael!"
"Master Splinter?" A shocked voice replied.
"Leonardo has a message for you. Thessa is in TCRI. He also wants to know if your searches are successful yet."
"Well, I'm almost to the Empire State building. The clouds around the top are getting thicker, I need to get there sooner. That's all. I gotta go."
Leo said to Splinter, "Now we need to check on Mikey, Donnie, and Ladida. Press the square on the screen with Donnie's picture."
"Master Splinter? Never thought you'd ever use a T-phone." Donnie laughed. "Our search so far is, - She's WHERE?! Why on earth would she go there?! Alright. We're about a block away. We'll find her."
Ladida stared at Donnie, with a worried expression on her face. "What did he say Donnie?"
"TCRI. She went back to TCRI!"
"Why on earth would she go there?!"
"Maybe it has something to do with the incident."
"Probably. I'm sure she wants to know how that happened, whatever that was."
"I still don't get it." Mikey said with a furrowed brow. "What happened with the water?"
"We don't know hon. None of us do." Ladida sighed. "I mean, I somehow burned Kanyae, but I thought about it. I was so mad, I wanted to do that- not that I really wanted to hurt her bad, but she just was overreacting, and… I just don't know."
"So she has some sort of freaky water powers or something?"
"Scientifically, that's impossible. I've never heard of the Kraang doing something like that. We all know why they try to mutate people, but why with water or fire? How would that help them, and how would they even do that?" Donnie wondered aloud.
"What if it's not the Kraang?" Mikey asked. "What if they're aliens or something?"
"Mikey, that's just about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. We are NOT aliens."