Here is more expostion and sadness...Enjoy.

Leonardo chased after Matoaka as she galloped out of the tent! "Matoaka!" He called after her...Everyone else was frozen in place, no one else had any idea what to do.

Marzipan finally burst into tears and thrust her head into Ichabod's lap, who during the long exposition had found himself sitting down on his rear with his legs in front of him like a small child.

Marzipan couldn't speak she was simply blubbering into his lap, Jonathan sat down beside his son and his soon-to-be daughter in-law.

"Poor Child..." Jonthan said sympathetically as he stroked the Cat-Girl's pink and purple hair.

Karai and Chapman had such looks of utter bafflement, at any other time the Turtles might have laughed with Schadenfreude glee but at this moment...

Just then Chapman had an epiphany "oh my god..." He gasped "That is what the machine meant by...Love."

Everyone turned and looked at him

"The Mutagen...In actuallity the Mutagens that created the Morning Glories were incredibly complex." Chapman said "We had our finest analyzing technology scanning the brew, when the analysis read that the secret ingrediant was 'love' I thought that some jerk had tampered with the machines...But then, the revelation that the Morning Glories are 'Part Humanimal' and the revelation of what Humanimals were created for...It wasn't a joke...The machine was trying to describe what...Essance of Humanimal is...And could only come up with 'love' as what the secret ingrediant was."

Knuckles, the closest thing to a leader the Morning Glories had, rubbed the tears from his purple eyes and rubbed his twitching lapine nose. ^Since the moment I 'woke up' I have wanted to know who I am and why I an here.^ Knuckles spoke telepathically, but even though he wasn't speaking vocally it was impossible for Knuckles to keep the emotion out of his 'voice' "Constantine Savage intended for us to be weapons...But the Angels...They created Humanimals to love others, and to smite evil...So that must be what our true purpose is as well.^

Jonathan watched the Knuckles smile slightly ^It is good...^ Knuckles said ^...To finally understand myself^

Joanthan was awestruck by the leval of maturity in this Animal Person who had only actually BEEN a person for a few months at most, Jonathan could see the Jackrabbit Mutant had the soul of a phillospher, Jonathan wished he could get to know Knuckles better.

Olive lay her head on Raph's knee, Raph stroked the Cat Mutant's ears. Don saw the look of sorrow in Olive's eyes and Don was feeling his blood start to boil...A great evil had been commited against the Animals of First Earth in his mind...Created to serve every other intelligent race in that universe, geneticically hard wired to want to bring happiness to others and sentenced to five thousand years of enslavement by the Humanity after saving the species from extinction.

Belladonna actually found it in herself to speak to Chardanaro "I wasn't born on Nuthanger Farm..." She said "...I was born a Human Being and transferred to a Drafon Body before my Batten Diasease completely destroyed me...Where do I fit into this grand plan."

"No where." Said Chardanaro "Matoaka was the only Humanimal of true importance only her survival truly mattered to the Phrophacy...The Exodus from Nuthanger was like a sieve of luck...Only the Humanimals who happened to be in the front of the line and managed to dodge the Humans cutting the herd off to take them back to the Farm would be the lucky ones to become Legendary Heroes...No real plan to it,just who was standing in the proper place at the proper time."

Jim, Minsk and Bob started to sob.

"You Belladonna were completely and utterly unexpected." Said Chardanaro "You were the first great spanner that was tossed into the works, a fortunate lucky spanner, but a spanner nonetheless, the next spanner was Rodan, I suppose the third was the meeting with Zander and Ave Culture..."

"Stop!" Belladonna yelled "I don't want to hear anymore! I see what you mean...All the world is but a stage and everyone is staring in a choose-your-own-adventure..." Belladonna was starting to get jittery she began laughing like Woody Woodpecker, Don was worried Belladonna was about have a complete nervous breakdown.

Leo meanwhile followed Matoaka to a place where the grassy field met the water. Matoaka was looking at the moon's freflection on the water, tears trickling down her equine nose.

Leo knelt down beside her "Captain..." He said quietly

"Leo..." Matoaka choked "You don't understand what has just been said...We are just as condtioned, brain scrubbed as our Wrangler enemies! Just because we are condtioned to love instead of to hate doesn't make us any less brainscrubbed!"

Leo sat down beside her and dipped his feet in the water along side her's "It can't really be that bad..." He said

"Yes it is!' She neighed "Don't you see Leo?! We are like machines made of flesh...And I...What I truly am..."

Leo froze,unsure of what she would say

"...Is a manufactured savior." Matoaka looked at her hands "Deep down I always knew I was a puppet of fate, but I never knew how truly deep the rabbit hole was..."

Matoaka then began sobbing, her sobs pucntuated by equine neighing

Leo then took the Unicorn-Woman into his arms, and he simply held, her,cradled her and she sobbed against his plastron. He spoke softly to soothe her.

"Gomenasai..." He said quietly "...Gomenasai Matoaka-Hime."

At that moment, Leo realized he had truly repaid his debt to Matoaka for saving himand his brothers from the rogue Foot Ninja...