High above the city, Leo walks along a tightrope towards a building, under a full moon.
Leo: The roar of the crowds, the smell of the greasepaint, the death defying thrill of the high-wire.
Down below, a bunch of cars and vans were moving along the street.
Trust me, this is no circus and if you think it's tough for a Turtle to walk a tightrope, try six.
Donnie, Cath, Elisa and Raph and Mikey - in that order - follow behind Leo on the tightrope.
If we fall, we're pavement paint, but if we make it, we just may finally find our missing Master Splinter.
Mikey stops as it he nearly slips, then flips himself around so he's upside down - his hands now touching the rope.
We also might learn the answer to a secret that's plagued us our entire lives—how and why we became Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Down in the lair, April and the Turtles - minus Raph - were all sitting or standing around a small table, which had a map of New York city - the boy Turtles with their weapons out.
"Okay, we've searched Shredder's building, and every other place the Foot have been encountered." April explained, drawing a red circle on the map with a pen. "We've scoured every sewer tunnel, back street and dark alley in the city. With only one area left."
Mikey spun his Nunchucks around, as Donnie sighed and picked up his Bo.
"The worst part is, we don't even know if Master Splinter is still..." he sighed, as he got up from the couch and put his Bo away.
"I know." Cath said sadly. "For all we know, the way Leo described him that night, he might be-"
"I...I don't even want to think about that." Mikey interrupted.
"Until we learn otherwise, he's alive, and awaiting our rescue." Leo said, as he put his Katanas away.
"Let's just hope he is and not badly hurt." Elisa hoped, gulping.
Raph punched his punching bag in anger, blowing off stream, Leo and Elisa both decided he needed it this time, as they've had no luck for weeks. He then took his Sais out in anger, spun them around, and then sliced the bag open, before turning to April and his siblings.
"I'm done coming home empty handed!" he growled, twirling a Sai, as sand came out of the punching bag. "We find Splinter, tonight!"
Later, Mikey rode the Sewer Slider along a sewer tunnel, doing a sharp turn to the left. He then turned to the right, before pulling it to a stop. He then picked up a flashlight, lit it up, and looked around, but only found a large hole in the wall ahead of him.
"AH!" he sighed, disappointed.
He looked down sadly, a headset Shell-Cell on his head.
Raph meanwhile, drove his Shell Cycle along a street in the city, then drove it down some steps, then along another street, but found no sign of his father.
Elisa - wearing her Trench coat disguise - walked through Central Park, then checked behind a few bushes, but found nothing. She then looked around, walked towards the lake, then looked under it, but found nothing there either.
"Ah, shell!" she cursed, angrily, starting to get like Raph.
Donnie rode his hand gilder over the city, then over one of the harbour bridges. He then looked down at the Queens part of the city on the other side of the bridge through a pair of his heat vision goggles in night vison mode, but only saw a few cars move along the roads.
Cath ducked down into the shadows, then hid behind a dumpster near a warehouse at the docks. She then jumped onto the roof of the warehouse, and looked around the docks with a pair of the heat vision goggles, but only saw a few dock workers.
April rode the Battle Shell through the junkyard, but because she wasn't used to driving it yet, she kept banging into piles of junk. She looked up at the scanner above the driver's seat, but didn't see any sign of Splinter.
Leo jumped from a rooftop, onto an abandoned warehouse, which was boarded up. He then came out of a boarded door with a flashlight, having searched it quickly, then he ran along the street, then jumped onto a dumpster bin, and brought out his Shell Cell.
"Please tell me someone found something." he said, the light making him visible.
(The sewers)
"Nada from the sewers." Mikey reported, still staring at the hole.
(The roofs)
"Nothing on the roofs, either." Donnie sadly reported, still gilding above the city.
(The docks)
"Nor the docks, bro." Cath reported.
(The park)
"Same with the park." Elisa reported, now standing on the bridge. "All I can see are a bunch of people lying against the trees."
(Junkyard)
"Or the junkyard." April explained, looking at the scanner, which showed a bunch of normal rats on some junk. "Lots of rats, but none of them are ours."
Raph drove his Shell Cycle near some old homes for the homeless.
"Man, where is he?!" he roared angrily.
"Keep it cool, Raph." Leo urged. "We'll find him."
Raph drove his bike near a high train track.
"Yeah, he has to be somewhere, bro." Elisa said smoothly, trying to clam Raph down.
Raph pulled his bike over and frowned, then looked around. He then saw a punk with long blonde hair and purple sunglasses approach a blue car, and pulled the door open.
"Hey!" the driver complained, before the punk threw him out.
He then got into the car, and drove it away.
"Help! That's my car!" the driver cried loudly.
"Buddy, you picked the wrong night!" Raph snarled.
He revved his bike up, and then raced past the driver and after the car.
The punk rested his right hand against the driver's seat window, but then saw Raph coming up behind him in the rear-view mirror, making him gasp and speed the car up. Raph chased after the car along the train track, then the punk growled in frustration, before he skidded the car around down near the supports to the train track. He then rammed the car against some old crates lying around, sending them flying up, as Raph kept chasing him.
Raph sniggered, as he ran his bike along a old board, using it like a ramp, and then landed back on the road.
"Ah!" the punk gasped, turning back to Raph, as he kept driving the car.
He then sped it past a gas station, and knocked over a gas pump as the car skidded away. Oil and gas went up into the air, and then the gas station blew up, creating a huge fire. Raph growled as he raced towards the fire, then he lifted the front of his bike up, as he raced through the fire, before putting the front wheel back on the road, as the roof as the gas station fell over.
The punk drove the car along a street past a lamppost, then Raph chased after him. A shadowy figure then landed on the top of the lamppost, twirled around on it, and then landed on the street in the light, reveling himself to be Leo.
"Oh, great." he moaned sarcastically, clearly not happy with Raph.
The punk kept driving the car along the road, and then he knocked over some bins, sending them flying towards Raph, who skidded to dodge them.
"It would have to be garbage day!" Raph growled.
The punk then sped past the warehouse Leo had been in, and then Raph raced towards it and smashed open the boarded up door. He then raced his bike up the stairs towards the top floor.
The punk turned around, and saw that Raph was gone, and then laughed as he turned back, thinking he'd lost Raph.,
Raph then burst through one of the boarded up upper windows, and then dived his bike towards the car. He then skidded his bike along the hood, then lifted it up, making it fly off the car, and then he brought his Sais out and slammed them into the hood, making the engine smoke.
The car skidded along the street, going from left to right, into it crashed into some bins and trash bags. Raph lifted his Sais up, creating more smoke from the engine, then jumped off the hood, as the punk coughed, before Raph pulled him out of the car window.
"Feel like taking what don't belong to you, punk?" he asked angrily, holding him up, getting ready to punch him. "Huh?"
"Let him go, Raph." Leo said, who'd just showed up with Donnie, Cath, Elisa and Mikey.
Raph turned to his siblings, then frowned as he put the punk down.
"Beat it." he snarled, as the punk fell over.
The punk then got up and ran away scared, then Raph took his helmet off.
"Raphael, this doesn't help anything." Leo told him sternly.
"Helps more than you think!" Raph snapped, throwing his helmet down, smashing the visor.
"Maybe for your anger, bro, but not in finding Master Splinter!" Elisa argued, walking towards him.
She then touched his arm, but then he pulled it away.
"Gotta admit, the dude knows how to blow off steam." Mikey admitted.
"Yeah. But, if we're gonna find Master Splinter, we have to keep a lid on it." Leo said sternly.
"Well, prowling around ain't cutting it anymore, Leo." Raph said, turning to his siblings. "We need something to go on."
"Raph's got a point there." Cath admitted. "I mean, we've searched everywhere we could think of and found nothing. If we had a lead or something, we might have more luck."
"What about the Guardians." Donnie suggested.
"Huh?" Elisa muttered, as they all turned to him.
"If you think about it, right after Splinter disappeared, they disappeared." Donnie recalled.
"Yeah." Mikey said slowly. "Hey, they could've taken him easy."
"Somehow we need to hook up with one of those guys." Raph realized.
"Raph, looks like we might have something to go on." Leo said.
"But one question through: How do we lure one of those guys out?" Cath asked.
"Leave that to me, sis." Elisa smirked. "I think I know a way. They won't suspect it."
The Battle Shell then came up behind them, smoke coming out of the mufflers, and the engines stuttering. It then parked in front of them, and April stuck her head out of the driver's seat door as it lifted up.
"Sorry. After your patch job on this rig, even my Grandma's tractor handles better." she explained.
The Turtles approached her and the Battle Shell - Raph and Elisa pushing Raph's Shell Cycle as they did - when they all heard sirens nearby.
"Oh, come on guys." April said. "Cops are coming the neighbourhood."
"Maybe one of us should drive?" Cath suggested, as she and Donnie looked at April.
"Nah. I think I'm getting the hang of it." April assured.
Donnie and Cath then both walked to the back of the Battle Shell, and then climbed in after the others. Once everyone was onboard, April sped the Battle Shell away, making Donnie gasp as he sat beside her, and then he held onto the door window.
The next night, the blue haired Guardian stood on top of a building under the moonlight. He turned around from the street he was looking at, when he saw something that made him gasp in shock - the symbol on the Shredder's skyscraper glowing brightly. He raised his arm up, and brought up the hologram project of his masters.
"Guardian, what is so urgent?" the woman asked.
"The symbol upon the Shredder's building has be reactivated." the Guardian explained.
(Unknown building)
"Yet you have reported the Shredder destroyed." the skinny one recalled.
(The building)
"He has deceived us before." the Guardian reminded them.
(Unknown building)
"Investigate!" the chubby one ordered.
Five minutes later, the Guardian landed on the top of Shredder's skyscraper, then hid behind an old tree in the courtyard - which was a lot cleaner than from the aftermath of the battle. He then dashed towards the steps leading up to the door, hid behind a wall, and then dashed into the main room, but then stopped when he saw something he hoped was not true. Standing in the shadows of the other side of the room, near the wrecked Foot banner, was the Shredder himself, causing the Guardian to gasp.
"The Shredder, alive?!" he questioned shocked, not believing his eyes.
Shredder stood still in one spot, his eyes glowing.
"He's alive!" the Guardian snarled.
He frowned as he glared at Shredder, then pulled out his sword and lit it up. He then jumped towards Shredder - over the hole in the floor created by Baxter Stockman - and then sliced the Shredder through the torso, knocking him down. The Guardian then thought for a minute, as he'd taken Shredder down too easily, and then looked at the body.
"Huh?" he muttered.
The body, was actually a dummy of the Shredder, made up with used fabric filled with sand, a bowling ball for a head - two red berries stuck in two holes for eyes - a fake metal helmet, and a sign saying 'kick me' on the chest.
"What?!" he snarled angrily.
He then frowned as he heard sniggering, then turned around and sent a slash with his sword right at Mikey - who'd just popped down from the ceiling.
"Whoa!" he gasped, holding both hands up. "Wait! Wait, wait!"
Raph then jumped down from the ceiling near Mikey with his Sais out, Leo and Elisa jumped down and landed near the dummy Shredder, and then Donnie and Cath followed and landed in front of the Guardian.
"Easy. We're not here to fight." Leo swore.
"If you lay a trap for me, then be prepared to fight." the Guardian snarled.
Elisa gulped slightly, as it'd been her idea to use the dummy Shredder to lure him to them all.
"Our bad." Mikey said. "Now, um, do you suppose you can...maybe..."
"We're looking for answers, that's all." Donnie assured.
"Look elsewhere." the Guardian snarled.
Mikey picked up a small device called a Turtle Tracker Donnie and Cath had made out of his belt.
"Cool, elsewhere it is. Now how's about putting that sword elsewhere." he said, dropping the tracker onto the Guardian's sword.
"Our master's missing." Raph explained, putting his Sais away. "We intend to find him."
"We haven't seen him since the battle with the Shredder." Cath explained.
The Guardian turned to Donnie and Cath, then turned his sword off and put it away.
"I cannot help you." he said, walking away.
"You once called yourself our ally." Elisa recalled, remembering her and Leo's first meeting with him.
"If you are, at least tell us if he's okay." Leo requested.
"I...cannot say." the Guardian said, turning around.
He threw a smoke pellet to the ground, and then vanished, as the Turtles looked away.
"Mikey?" Leo asked, as they all turned to their youngest sibling.
"One Turtle Tracker duly planted." Mikey reported, holding his hand up like an O shape.
"Well, so much for plan A." Elisa sighed.
"Hey, it was still a good idea." Raph commented, touching her shoulder.
"Sure was, sis." Cath smiled. "Good thing we prepared a backup."
Elisa smiled at her.
Later, the six Turtles all ran along a street, Donnie holding a tracker which showed the Guardian's location. The tracker beeped as it moved from location to location, then the Turtles stopped.
"He's still on foot, passing Fourth and D." Donnie explained.
The Guardian jumped from a rooftop, and then landed on another, then ran along it, and then jumped off it. He flipped forward through the air, before he landed on a fire escape, then he flipped forward off of it, and then landed on the road of the street below him. He then ran along it, as the six Turtles all jumped from one rooftop to another, then looked down at the street, and saw the Guardian dash around a corner.
"Come on." Donnie said.
They all jumped off the building and landed on the street. The Guardian dashed down into an alleyway, as Donnie kept checking the tracker.
"Man, this guy's fast." he groaned, as the tracker showed the Guardian turning another corner. "He's already made it to 12."
They all then made it to the alley, but saw no sign of the Guardian.
"You sure he went this way, Don?" Cath asked.
"That's what the scanner says." Donnie swore.
"Come on then." Leo said.
They all ran down the alley - which was a pretty long one.
The Guardian ran across a street, then hid in the doorway of a building. He then peeked out from the shadows of the doorway, but only saw a yellow car go by. He then dashed away from the street, as Donnie jumped into the alley across the street.
Leo then kicked his feet against one of the walls, then kicked his feet against the other wall, before landing next to Donnie, and then they ran onto the street. Cath jumped down onto the path with her left knee bent, then got up and followed, then Elisa kicked her feet against one of the walls, before landing behind Cath and followed. Raph kicked his feet against one of the walls, then landed and the path and followed his sister, then Mikey put his hands and feet against one of the walls, then landed on the path and followed the others.
The Guardian turned left as he ran down the street and down another one, as the Turtles kept chasing him.
Donnie, Mikey and Cath all hid behind the left side of the alley, while Leo, Raph and Elisa all jumped to the other side and hid near the wall. Leo - who was near the right end - peeked out from behind it, but saw no sign of the Guardian, as he walked to the middle of the gap.
"He's not here." he gasped.
"What?!" Elisa exclaimed, walking to the alley and looking down it.
Donnie walked towards them while checking the scanner.
"It appears his signal disappeared, right across the street." he explained, as Raph, Mikey and Cath joined them.
They all walked down the alley, and saw a big weird looking building. It had a rectangular back, but it also had half an oval shape for the front, with a lot of glass windows.
"But it's just an office building." Cath said.
"So was Shredder's, and that place nearly took us out." Raph recalled.
"I wonder why he'd go in there then?" Elisa wondered.
"To have his taxes done." Mikey guessed.
Donnie put his duffle bag down, put the tracker into it, and then pulled out a small device.
"Let's find out for sure." he said.
Later, inside the building, a security guard sat behind the main desk, looking down at four screens which showed part of the roof. On the wall behind him, was a sign saying 'T.C.R.I Techno Cosmic Research Institute'.
The guard then looked up as he heard a tapping noise on the front door, then he got up and opened it, but saw no one outside. This did allow the same device however to sneak past him, as he looked around one more time, but then closed the door. The device dashed towards his chair, as he walked towards it, and then sat down in it, and resumed his duties.
The device then lifted itself up via some legs, then an antenna lifted itself up from it's back, while a long tube with a camera lense came out of the front, and began looking around.
(Outside)
The Turtles and April were all in the Battle Shell - which was parked in the alley across the street - watching a screen which showed the camera, as Donnie controlled it in the passenger's seat - April being in the driver's seat.
"Now, let's see what's behind door number one." he said.
(The building)
The cam turned to the first door, and stared at it. It then began making its way towards the door, when the guard got up from his chair - pushing it back slightly as he did, causing it to hit the came, making it spin around.
(Battle Shell)
The Turtles and April watched as it spun around on the screen.
"Woah." Mikey gulped, covering his face. "I'm getting car sick."
"You better not in here, bro." Cath warned.
Donnie fiddled with the control.
(The building)
The cam finally stopped spinning, then it looked up at the sign.
(Battle Shell)
"Uh, guys, here's a new wrinkle." Donnie said.
Everyone looked at the screen, and saw the sign on it.
"I don't get it." Raph said, shaking his head.
"Techno Cosmic Research Institute." Donnie said.
"So?" Leo asked.
"Yeah?" Raph said.
"Huh?" Mikey said.
"Come again?" Elisa asked.
Cath on the other hand, understood where Donnie was coming from.
"Say the first letter in each word." she said.
"What? T.C.R.I." Mikey said. "Sorry, it's not ringing any...bells."
"T.C.R.I?" Raph questioned, thinking. "That's the..."
"It is..." Elisa said nervously.
"The...the..." Mikey stuttered.
"The what?" April asked demandingly. "Tell me?"
"T.C.R.I was printed on the canister of ooze that mutated us into what we are." Leo explained.
"The secret to our origin, could very well lie within the walls of that building." Donnie realized.
He then began moving the cam around some more, until it showed a hallway.
"Okay, let's snoop around." he said.
He fiddled with the control, as the others all leaned in, but then he turned to them.
"Uh, you guys are sucking the oxygen right out of my personal space here." he told them.
"Sorry." Leo said.
"Sorry." Elisa said.
"Sorry." Raph said.
"Sorry." Mikey said.
"Sorry." Cath said.
"Sorry." April said, as they all backed away.
Donnie fiddled with the control again as he turned back to the screen, then the others all leaned back in again.
(The building)
The cam moved along the hallway, then stopped near a door, and looked up at it, as it had a sign on.
(Battle Shell)
"Jackpot. The security control room." Donnie grinned, staring at the sign, which said 'Security'. "The brains to their security system."
"Can you look under that door to see what we're up against?" Leo asked.
"I think so." Donnie replied, unsurely.
(The building)
The cam's lens stretched out, then it peeked under the door.
(Battle Shell)
The Turtles and April looked at the screen, and saw a pair of boots walking towards the door.
"Uh-oh." Donnie muttered.
"Not good." Cath gulped.
(The building)
The door opened, causing the cam to spin around as it moved all over the hallway. It then hit against the wall, making it move to the middle of the hallway, just as it stopped spinning around. Before it could move on however, a pair of large wheels rolled over it, smashing it to pieces, then a pair of boots walked over its remains, as another guard - this one wearing green - pushed a trolley full of chemical tanks.
(Battle Shell)
The screen went static, making the Turtles moan.
"Well, now what?" April asked.
"Master Splinter might be in there." Leo said, getting everyone's attention. "Answers we've been looking our whole lives might be in there. So that means, we're going in there."
Later, the seven of them were in the lair, and began organising their plan to get inside the T.C.R.I building. April sat on a folded chair with a laptop, Leo and Cath stood near the computers, showing the building, Donnie, Raph and Elisa sat on the couch, while Mikey was missing.
"Now, what exactly have we found out about T.C.R.I?" Leo asked. "April?"
"Okay. T.C.R.I is a highly successful new technologies company that's been around for the past 25 years. And whose head, corporate liaison is a..." April explained, before pressing a button on the laptop, bring up a newspaper article, and a picture of the man in charge. "..Mr. Mortu."
"Weird name." Elisa admitted.
"Sure is." Raph agreed.
"These are the blueprints, submitted to the building's planner's office when the building was constructed." Leo said, as the screens showed the blueprints of the building.
Mikey came down from above Raph, Elisa and Donnie on a harness and some wires, hanging upside down above his siblings.
"Looks as boring on the inside as it does on the out." he said.
"Depends, bro." Cath argued, folding her arms. "You never know what might be secretly hidden inside."
"Here's some of what our Cam Shell recorded before it became roadkill." April explained.
The Turtles turned to the screens, and saw one of them showing the desk with the roof camera videos.
"Surveillance camera cover the perimeter and the roof, and lased with alarm sensors." she explained.
"So, what we need is someone whose smart, capable, and techno savvy to get in, find the alarm cut off, and cut it off." Leo realized.
"Me!" Mikey grinned, getting down between Leo and Cath, upside down.
"I don't think so, bro." Cath said. "I think April's more suited."
"Me?!" April exclaimed, looking up at them.
"You'll sneak in past the guard, enter the security control room and deactivate the cameras and alarms." Leo explained, as Mikey lifted himself up.
"Okay." April said slowly.
"You've got a much better chance that us, April, due to our looks." Cath explained.
"Right." April stuttered.
Donnie approached her with a small device.
"Here's a schematic of some basic security panels you're likely to find inside." he explained, handing her the device.
"Once the alarms are off, you'll contact us on the Shell Cell, and then we'll gain access through the roof ventilation system." Leo explained.
"Makes...total sense." April said.
"After we're in, you'll reset the alarm and surveillance cameras, then sneak back outside, unnoticed." Donnie finished.
"Think you can handle it, April?" Cath asked.
"I think so." April said.
Mikey then dropped down beside her, still upside down.
"Then it all rests on your shoulders, girl." he told her. "No pressure."
"Uh-huh. That's all good." April said. "There's just a teeny, tiny detail of that plan missing."
"And what's that?" Elisa inquired.
"There's a guard, sitting right there!" April exclaimed.
"We'll be employing an old ninja trick: the art of distraction." Leo explained, pointing to the elevator.
"How?" April inquired, as they all turned to the elevator.
The elevator door opened up, showing a figure in the shadows.
"There he is now." Elisa smirked, having called him earlier.
The figure stepped out of the shadows, reveling itself to be Casey Jones, who had his gear all set, although his hockey mask was above his head.
"Somebody call for a distraction." he said.
April groaned and covered her face in embarrassment.
"My life is in the hands of a lunatic." she groaned.
Mikey then moaned - getting everyone's attention - as he began spinning around uncontrollably on the harness, before he finally stopped, getting all tangled up.
"Somebody want to help me out here?" he asked.
"You goofball." Cath sniggered, trying to hide a laugh.
"You really walked into that one, Mikey." Elisa teased.
The next night, April - dressed up in a business skirt and jacket - walked towards the T.C.R.I building, then pushed the door open and walked in.
"You can defiantly do it, April." Donnie said through an earpiece in her right ear.
April made her way to the desk, and then the guard looked up at her.
"May I help you?" he asked.
"Yes. I'm Dr. Vander Pepper of T.M.N.T university." April said. "I'm here to see Mr. Mortu."
"Uh, Mr. Mortu doesn't take appointments." the guard explained, showing no emotions.
"Listen, I've come a long way for this meet, at his request!" April snapped. "So either get him on the phone, or I'm gone!"
She frowned as she folded her arms.
The guard picked up the phone, not showing any emotions again.
"Dr. Vander Pepper." Mikey teased through the earpiece.
"Nice one." Cath sniggered.
Casey - wearing a grey overcoat - then barged into the building, holding a toaster in his hands, and a earpiece in his right ear.
"I wanna see the boss man, right now!" he bellowed angrily.
The guard put the phone down, as he and April turned to him.
"Remember, Casey, just distract him long enough for April to sneak in and sneak out." Leo reminded him.
Casey began walking towards April and the guard.
"Yeah, don't take it too far." Elisa told him.
"Yeah, don't screw this up, bonehead." Raph advised.
Casey turned around slightly, touching his earpiece.
"If anyone's gonna screw this up, it'll be you, freak-face!" he snapped.
April gasped quietly, as the guard glared at him, before he turned back to them, remembering he couldn't talk to the Turtles.
"Moran." Raph scoffed.
"Yes?" the guard asked.
"I've got a complaint about one of your products!" Casey said rudely, slamming the toaster onto the desk.
"T.C.R.I doesn't manufacture toasters, sir." the guard explained calmly, as April folded her arms, and backed away to one of the doors.
"Oh, yeah? It says it right here!" Casey argued, lifting the toaster up, showing the bottom of the toaster.
"That says 'R.I.T.C'." the guard explained, looking at the sign Mikey had drawn on the bottom. "In crayon, sir."
"Now, I want to see the head geek, or I'm gonna take this place apart!" Casey threated.
He brought his baseball bat out of his overcoat, and then began smashing the toaster, making good of his threat. The guard pressed a button on the desk, then another guard - this one being female - pushed open a door right next to April, and ran towards Casey.
"Give me a toaster, or give me this!" Casey snapped, throwing his bat away, before jumping onto the desk.
The male guard got up from his seat, as the female one made it to them, then Casey jumped off the desk and pulled them both down. The male guard nearly poked Casey's eye out as he stared at April, and then he winked at her.
April gasped, remembering the plan, then she turned, pulled the door the female guard had come in from, and ran through it. She ran towards the security room, then opened it up and walked inside, closing the door behind her.
"Whoa." he said amazed, looking around.
She saw the room was full of high-tech advanced technology, including a big tube in the middle of the room.
"Impressive." she commented, awing as she walked towards what looked like a computer.
She took out the device Donnie had given her, and looked at the schematics.
"Okay, I'm looking for the splitter from the main junction box which should look like..." she began, before looking around, and found nothing that matched the schematics. "Absolutely nothing here."
Outside, Leo shot a arrow with a rope on towards the T.C.R.I rooftop, where it then hit against the side of the roof, scaring away a bunch of pigeons. The Turtles all began moving along the rope like a tightrope, then all made it to the side of the roof.
"Guys, this isn't going to work." April said through Donnie's headset Shell Cell.
"What's the problem, April?" Donnie asked.
"I don't recognize the technology." April explained. "Nothing makes sense in here. I can't turn off the roof alarm or the cameras."
"Not good." Cath gulped, as they hadn't expected that.
"Um...anybody got a plan B?" Mikey asked hopefully.
The six of them all stayed silent for a minute, not knowing what to do.
"Getting in is gonna be a lot harder than I thought." Elisa realized.
"April, we'll handle the camera, just get the alarm turned off anyway you can." Donnie instructed.
Inside, April sighed as she walked past the big tube in the center of the room.
"Whatever." she sighed, annoyed. "Don't come whining to me if we all get captured and tortured and stuff."
"April, just find a way, okay." Cath said. "I'm sure you'll find it."
April turned to the tube.
"I hope so, Cathy." she sighed.
She put the device away, then walked towards it.
"A floor plan would be nice." she admitted.
She touched the center of the tube, which then showed a sign, making her back away. A large gush of liquid came up the tube, and then a hologram projection of the outside of the building showed up in the middle of the room, which she then turned to.
"Cool." she commented, completely amazed.
She walked towards the hologram, which showed a glass roof instead of what it looked like outside.
"Now, how do I turn off the roof sensors?" she wondered.
The hologram's roof then changed so it looked like the real one.
"Roof sensors, off!" the computer said.
"Hmm? Guys, you're good to go." April said.
In the lobby, Casey growled as he swung his bat at the male guard, while the female one stood near the desk.
"Whoa!" the male guard yelped, dodging a whack, making Casey hit the floor.
The female guard picked up the chair and threw it at Casey. He then however, turned around and whacked the chair with his bat, smashing it to pieces. He laughed triumphantly, then turned to the male guard.
"Hey!" the guard exclaimed, grabbing Casey's bat.
They both then began fighting over it, when the female one looked at the cameras on the desk.
"What?!" she exclaimed, looking at a pigeon on one of them, but noticed it wasn't moving.
On the roof, Donnie was holding a pigeon puppet right in front of the camera - which was what the female guard could see.
"Hurry with that picture!" he urged.
Cath held a Polaroid camera nearby, and took a picture of the area the security camera was facing, behind the puppet. The picture came out of the camera, then she picked it up and looked at it, as Leo came up behind her.
"Got it." Cath said, once the picture cleared.
"Nice work." Leo commented, patting her shoulder.
They both got up, and then Cath turned and walked towards Donnie. She attached the picture to a piece of string, then put it over the security camera.
(Inside)
The female guard kept looking at the cameras on the desk, knowing something wasn't right. Donnie then pulled his pigeon puppet back, and then the guard stared at the cameras.
(The roof)
The six Turtles were all gathered near the roof ventilation system, as Donnie put the pigeon puppet and camera in his duffel bag.
"I don't know what bothers me more." Mikey said, as they all stared at the camera the picture was over. "That this thing actually works, or that Don carries around a pigeon puppet."
"As long as we get in, I don't care." Elisa said.
In the lobby, the female guard gasped, as Casey and the male one kept fighting over the baseball bat, before Casey pushed the male guard into the desk. The female one backed away from it, then Casey whacked the desk twice with his bat, as the male guard moved away from it.
"Whoa!" the male guard yelped.
He backed away towards a glass statue that waved around, as Casey moved towards him while swinging his bat, snarling as he did. Casey then smashed the glass statue into pieces, making the guard yelp again and run away.
On the roof, Raph stood near the ventilation shaft, as the others gathered around. He then kicked the shaft open, but to his surprise, discovered it was a fake.
"Hey, it's a fake. It doesn't go nowhere." he gasped, before turning to the others. "What kind of people would put a fake vent on the roof?"
"The kind who want this place to look normal." Donnie deduced.
"And who don't want any intruders to sneak in." Cath added.
"So much for Plan A." Elisa sighed, annoyed.
"Now what do we do?" Mikey asked.
"We cut through a window." Leo answered, getting the others to turn to him.
A few minutes later, all six of them were crawling along the side of the building on suction cups. They all then gathered together near one of the windows on the seventh floor, then Donnie took out a high-tech glass cutter out of his duffle bag. He put it on the window, then activated it, causing a blade to come out, and start spinning around the device, but the glass wouldn't cut.
"Dimond edged blades, and they're not even starching the surface!" Donnie complained, turning the device off.
The blades went back into the device, and then Donnie picked it up and put it back in his duffel bag.
"What's that mean?" Elisa asked, confused.
"This is no originally window glass, sis." Cath explained, rubbing her hand where Donnie had tried to cut.
"We better think of something, 'cause who knows how long that bat-happy idiot in the lobby can keep it up." Raph said, as they began climbing back up the building.
In the lobby, Casey was now standing on the desk, and was smashing it with his bat, while the two guards watched.
"What kinda customer service is this?!" Casey demanded, as he kept hammering the desk with his bat. "I simply refuse to be treated this way!"
He turned around and bashed the desk again, smashing the camera screens.
"Attica! Attica!" he bellowed.
The two guards then gathered together and turned to each other. Their eyes then glowed bright green for a odd reason, then they both turned to Casey again, and then the male one pulled out some sort of device. He pressed it, and then a metal door - that looked like a garage door - came down in front of the front door and all the windows.
"Wha?!" Casey gasped, completely shocked.
The female guard then walked towards, and then grabbed his bat. She then kicked the desk away so hard, it was sent flying across the room, and causing Casey fell onto the floor on his chest.
"Ah!" he moaned, looking up.
The female guard snapped his baseball bat in half, and then she and the male one looked down at him.
"Uh, guys, I got a newsflash for ya: Things are not what they seem in here!" Casey panicked, sitting up.
"Just keep 'em busy, Casey." Raph hissed, as Casey stared up at the guards looking scared. "How tough can a couple of guards be?"
The two guards pulled out a small metal retractable pole each, but then the ends lit up with electricity.
"I think I'm about to find out." Casey gulped nervously.
In the security room, April was pacing around the hologram.
"April, the roof and the windows are a no go." Donnie explained.
"The roof vent is a fake, and the window glass is impossible to cut." Cath translated.
"You want another way in?" April inquired.
"Bingo." Elisa replied.
"Well, no problem. This thing's a piece of cake." April assured, rubbing her hands.
She moved around the hologram.
"Okay...find me an entrance point?" she asked.
A window on the ninth floor of the hologram began flashing yellow.
"Exhaust cover, currently active." the computer explained.
"Here we go. There's some kind of exhaust opening on the west side, ninth floor." April explained.
"We'll check it out. Thanks." Leo said.
Outside, the six Turtles crawled up the west side wall, towards the window April had told them. Donnie then came up below the window, Mikey from above it, Leo and Cath on its west, and Raph and Elisa on its east side.
"There's nothing here." Raph said.
"This is the spot April said." Cath swore.
"Well, where's the exhaust cover?" Elisa inquired, confused.
"Hold on, you hear that? Air's coming out." Leo said, rubbing his hand over the cover. "You can feel it too."
Elisa rubbed her hand over the cover.
"You're right." she said.
"Amazing. Maybe it's some kind of hologram." Donnie realized, rubbing his hand over.
"Yeah, finally, a way in." Mikey cheered.
"Mikey..." Donnie began, as Mikey put his hand in, which went right through.
"Wait!" Donnie and Leo shouted.
Mikey stuck his head into the cover, and then looked at the room on the other side, upside down.
"Whoa!" he yelped.
He saw what looked like a normal hallway, when beams of energy came out from the walls and came together.
"Ahhh!" he screamed, as the energy came towards him. "Uh-oh."
He quickly pulled his head out, but then the energy shot right out of the cover, causing him to loose his balance.
"Mikey!" Donnie cried.
Mikey fell right onto him, and then they both began falling down towards the ground, yelling as they did, while their four siblings watched in horror.