Disclaimer: Ch. 1.

Author's Note(s): Lmmfao! Okay, so I recently got all four volumes of the "TMNT: New Animated Adventures" comic series and decided to see how I could add certain ones to this fic to make it more fun. Those that need it, will be rewritten, so yeah. X3 The one used in this chapter is "Cooking with Kraang" from Volume 3.


"Musings, Mutations, & a Word from Our Sponsor"


After meeting up with April later, Jen took her home before heading off toward her own when they finished up their conversation; the boffins confused and emotionally exhausted mood not much improved, since the moment they left the sewer, up until they arrived at April's place, the angry girl ranted and raved about how Donatello had behaved.

Jenny did attempt to defend the turtle some, but mostly remained quiet and let her friend get it out. When they got back to April's place, the poor little ginger burst into tears again at the fact that they hadn't been able to save her dad really sunk in when her fury was mostly ranted out.

Jen blamed herself for having let her own feelings cloud her judgment and left during the mission. When expressing this in an apology to April, the girl told her it wasn't her fault, as even April wouldn't have been able to put up with any of the negativity Donnie shot the tolerant boffins way.

It was sweet of her friend to say so, and in the few days that passed, even her sensei would say that everyone reached a breaking point and that it was only human, Jenny couldn't help thinking it was quite possibly the worst time for it to have happened.

Jenny had made sure to report to her sensei and team as soon as she could; sparing only the details about the fight between her and Donatello and minor things like that. But she did mention what had bothered her to Haruhi-sensei; as Jen felt secure in the older ninja as a confidant.

"It was the weirdest thing, Sensei…" Jen said in a breathy whisper; clearly disturbed and perplexed by what she was telling the mentor who could've easily passed for a woman. They were sitting on the floor in Haruhi's rooms having tea.

"When that Shredder guy saw me, it was almost like… he knew me or something. Like he'd seen me before…" The redheads voice held an air of being rather spooked out by the experience, but Haruhi merely sat across from his studious student and listened with a thoughtful look.

"I mean, I've heard the expression 'like you've seen a ghost' before, but I've never really seen it like I did on this guy. His eyes went all freaked out and he actually faltered in his attack! And if you'd seen how this guy looked and could fight… just… scary, Sensei. I didn't think someone like that could ever look the way he did when our eyes met." Haruhi had never seen Jennifer so disconcerted about something.

It didn't sit very well with him, as he felt protective of his students; having spent years training them could do that to a gentle person such as the brunette. "Hmm… It could have been anything. The color of your eyes, or simply the look in them that called forth such staggering recollection, or even the way you fought." Haru mused aloud; picking up his cup of green tea and taking a small yet thoughtful sip.

"After all, even the mightiest of warriors have a past. And all pasts have at least one thing which can make us behave as such." Jen sat there for about a minute, just staring down at the cup of warm liquid in her hands and her own small reflection in it as she muddled over what her sensei said.

"Meh… maybe, Master Haruhi… maybe." The bemused boffin replied pensively. They sat and drank their tea as her sensei changed the subject to something a bit brighter to take his students troubled mind off of it. Asking if there was anything else that might be bothering Jen.

They spoke of the incident that happened in the turtles lair between April and Donatello. And speaking from experience, Haruhi said that there was no way to force such problems by trying to fix them, as only time could mend them, and that Jenny should just give her friends time to sort themselves out as it had been a trying time for all.

Jenny agreed and thanked her sensei as their conversation steered towards nicer things, like if the redhead had been working on any interesting inventions lately, and Jen told him; feeling a little bit better from having gotten to talk things out.

Jen might've told Akira about her woes, but her best friend had enough worries of her own to deal with and thought it better to just be supportive. And though she knew Xever had been washed away by the mutagen, Jen hadn't seen him get mutated and could only speculate if he had or not. But with everything that had been going on, it had slipped her mind. Though, it was probably better for her friend that it had.

Since their usually boom happy boffin had been pretty bummed out lately for reasons Jen didn't really want to talk about, Akira and her team thought a mission might help get the redheads mind off of things.

So they headed out to investigate some Kraang activity that was taking place at a small building that looked like a boarded up old gas station, with the hopes that there would be something there for Jen to blow up.

It had a strange Kraang styled signal emitting from the building, and power fluctuations that wouldn't make sense to someone who didn't know evil pink alien slime balls had setup camp underneath of it.

However, as the team of ninjas infiltrated the small base, a most peculiar broadcast was taking place down below. A Kraang in a human disguised droid was standing behind a counter that was a lighter shade than the rest of the blandly grey room like he was some kind of talk show host doing a cooking segment.

He was looking forward at a camera which was being held by another droid that was recording the video they were in the process of shooting. "Greetings, Kraang! Kraang is expressing the emotion known as excitement!" The suit wearing droid said; sounding as asininely as the Kraang ever did while he placed both hands on the countertop.

"Today, Kraang will be instructing Kraang in how to make things that are not mutated into the entities known as mutants by using the substance known as mutagen, in the thing known as the segment which is called 'Mutagen and the entity known as You'." The Kraang stated.

And as he spoke, he pressed a button so that a canister of mutagen rose up from a compartment in the countertop to his left, where it sat and glowed ominously. "Kraang will now apply the thing which is known as mutagen…"

The droid reached over and pressed another button. And now, from a compartment opposite the one the ooze came from, rose up an adorable brown bunny holding a big carrot; the poor critter looked so confused. "… to the one known as the bunny."

Picking up the canister, the robot removed the top and began pouring the mutagen on the defenseless bunny and waited for something to happen, while it just gazed up at him bemusedly.

But nothing happened, except for cute little hearts coming up from the creature as it nuzzled the carroty treat it began to snuggle and nibble. "If the achievement of the desired reaction is not achieved, Kraang should apply more mutagen." The Kraang said before dumping the rest of it on the bunny.

Suddenly, the creatures eyes grew disgustingly bulbous and pained, as the rest of it began to deform and grow, as its DNA started merging with the carrot it was holding. But the Kraang just kept on blathering and trying to move around the growing mutant so it wasn't blocking his shot…

"And so the one that is known as the bunny which is excellent for carrot-eating has been transformed into a Kraang weapon which is excellent for world domination." All the while, the poor critter made all sorts of horrific and disturbing sounds as it morphed into a giant were-rabbit looking beast.

It had green leafy growths like the tops of the carrots and carrot spikes pointing out of its back. It's teeth were mangled and orange, with big manic yellow eyes and hands that looked sort of like three fingered suckers on some freaky octopus.

"Kraang can now repeat the way of making mutants to make more mutants… to…" The alien robot tried to say as the hopping mad experiment grew so big it blocked his shot and began to growl and howl.

"GRRRRRRRRR!" It raged as it headed for the camera Kraang. "Watch out, Kraang, who is operating the-" But before the shows host could say anymore, the camera was knocked out of the camera bots hands as it tackled him to the ground.

Then, it rounded on the shows host as it stood on its hind legs; towering over the stupid Kraang with its claws raised high and growled menacingly. "Kraang is now experiencing the emotion known as terror." The droid stated; thinking this was the end for him.

But then, there came a spark of hope that distracted the creature from him and caught the attention of the Kraang about to be rendered apart. "GOONGALA!" Uh oh! Maybe hope wasn't the right word, the alien decided, as the sight of a Guardian (in training. Shh!) came into view as Jen, or rather Trickshot, fell from an opening in the ceiling.

Meanwhile, two puffs of smoke came from behind the Kraang and the rabbit creature, as Livewire and Savage appeared and began to attack. "I've got the cameraman!" Nightwatcher declared as he hopped down behind Trickshot.

"Kraang! Do not attempt this part of the instructional video that is happening at the moment which is now!" The Kraang show host said into the cracked lens of the camera he picked up.

A few ninja stars whizzed by the robots head and knocked the camera from his hands. "Oops. Missed!" Nightwatcher said sheepishly as his other three teammates were fighting the freaky bunny mutant.

When Trickshot went to help Akira take on the Kraangs mutated creation, she grimaced. "Aww! They mutated a cute little bunny?! That is just sick and wrong!" The animal loving teen exclaimed in a mixture of anger and disgust for what the Kraang had done to the poor creature, and sadness for what Jen assumed had previously been a sweet and defenseless little bunny.

"The ones known as the Guardians are disrupting this instruction which is not to be disrupted." The Kraang said again into the poorly handled camera, as Savage broke off from the fight with the rabbit thing to shut the stupid scrap heap up by putting the blades of her tekko-kagi through the robots head.

"You guys never know when to shut up." Savage chastised; none to pleased about the alien scum experimenting on innocent creatures either, as she ripped those deadly claws out and rammed them into the robots gooey center to take out the surprise inside.

"Check it out! I think this machine thingy does something important!" Danny called over to Jenny in awe at all the flashy buttons of the console he'd spotted. The urge to push all of them and giggle like a madman was hard to resist at times like these.

"Probably, Nightwatcher. So don't touch it!" Trickshot warned in slight panic when she saw her sunny teammate eying one of the buttons with a finger held over it; an amber brown eye giving a slight twitch. Danny was mostly acting like he was gonna push one to mess with the boffin since he knew better, but it was still kinda tempting.

"Me no touchy. Got it." The cheery ninja stated as he backed up and let Jenny take over. "Hey, wait, I thought you said we shouldn't touch anything!" Nightwatcher asked poutingly; wanting to push some stuff like the boffin was doing.

"No, I said you shouldn't touch anything." Jen corrected easily as she typed quickly and proficiently. "Unless you've suddenly learned Kraang encryption hyperlanguage." The redhead teased while shooting the other a curious glance.

Danny made a show of crossing his arms and huffing as he turned his head away. "Yeah, didn't think so." Trickshot said cockily as she pressed a button. Danny smiled some at hearing the smirk in the others teasing tone; happy to hear the redette finally not sounding so glum and grouchy.

"Livewire! I've opened a dimensional portal straight to Dimension X!" The adroit archer called to their fearless leader, who was still fighting with the mutant bunny with Savage. It seemed no amount of electrocuting or hitting could take the freaky thing down! But thankfully that didn't matter now.

"Nice going, Trickshot! I shall take it from here!" Akira gave the beast a swift kick to the gut after another shock to stun it into position, and the creature went flying through the portal and out of sight.

"Sweet dreams, Bad Bunny!" Akira quipped when the portal closed. "Bad Bunny, Boss? That's the best you can do?" Savage teased through her mirth, as Jenny quickly went about setting charges everywhere; and they all knew this to be their boom happy friends favorite part of the job.

"Not everyone has Nightwatcher's gifts." Livewire stated coolly as she looked away; clearly blushing a little and probably even more so when Savage grabbed their short leader and gave Aki a noogie.

"Yow!" Kaia yelped when she was given a little zap. "Hopzilla!" Danny declared the same time that Savage was zapped. The brunette chuckled mischievously and straightened her hood, while Kaia scowled and gave her hand a shake to get the feeling back. "Case in point. I think we are clear. Let us head out of here." Akira ordered in a cheerier tone.

"Anybody want pizza? Cause I know like seven different places from hanging out with Mikey from here to-" Danny began rather animatedly as they headed out with his hands behind his head.

"Pepperoni and mushroom?" Akira piped up curiously; starting to feel rather peckish after their long night of patrol. "You know it!" Their sunny friend assured as they headed topside; leaving a room with little flashing lights everywhere.

However, a hand reached up from behind the counter as it clawed its way up to reveal that the damaged Kraang host had survived. "Well. This has been the transmission that is known as 'Mutagen and the entity known as You'." The robot said; before his optics caught sight of all the charges set everywhere.

The purple smiley faces plastered on them with red eyes blinking happily as the Kraang looked back to the camera; half of his faces covering torn off. "Have a good period of time that is called night, Kraang." The host bayed before the explosives began beeping rapidly.

And before they all went off with a resounding echoing of bangs and booms, did the hurt host manage a small "This is what is known as an uh oh…" before he was engulfed in the explosion.


To be continued...

Another day, another chapter. X3 And hopefully more reviews. Helpful and polite feedback is appreciated. ^_^ I'd really like to know how I'm doing so I can better improve my writing. I know it may be a bit long at times, but I AM writing out entire episodes sometimes LoL so please keep that in mind that there are times when I can't keep from having really long chapters.