After Raphael had arrived at the meeting point, their discussion erupted again.

"Don't ask *me* what to do!", Leo snapped at Donatello. "It isn't *my* time- machine!"

"I'll find a way out, I promise", Donnie replied.

"Shouldn't we get in the car and start doing something instead of waiting, dudes?!", Raph asked. "I don't think New York will suddenly appear in front of us!"

"He's right", Mike agreed. "What else should we do..."

Leo nodded. "Okay, let's go."

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Meanwhile Shredder had found a way to use the electricity provided by the computer-system in the building to activate his radiophone and tried to contact Krang.

Athena watched him. "What are you doing?!"

"I'm calling....", he hesitated, "well...I'm calling some friends. They'll be prepared for our arrival"

"Okay, I'll wait outside. I'll show you the helicopter when you're ready", she responded and went out.



Athena had already left, when Shredder went downstairs. He looked around startled, wondering where she had gone to.

"She's at the airstrip", the male raptor explained. "Come along with me."

Shredder followed him and after a little while they reached the island's coast.

"That's what you'll have to use now", was Athena's comment when Shredder reached the helicopter.

Shredder looked at the machine - it wasn't the best one but it would do just fine.

"Alright, no problem. I'm able to do that."

Athena gave a sigh of relief and turned to her brother, while Shredder climbed in. "Hey, hurry up! We've got to leave now!" Clipper got into the helicopter without saying a word, but he seemed to be worried.

Shredder gazed out of the window before he started the engines. The machine shot vertically into the air, giving a shrill sound, which sounded like mosquitoes on a hot summer day. The island got out of sight soon and the ocean they crossed was nothing than a shivering, blue area.

Clipper didn't move away from the window during the flight and, after considering the situation, he said: "The landscape down here doesn't look like New York City."

Shredder could almost feel his eyes fixed on him piercingly. "Err....we..."

"What?!" The raptor's head jerked from on side to the other nervously. He felt the anger inside of him burning like a flame.

"Our headquarters aren't in New York", Shredder responded, concentrating on the route.

"Headquarters? Whose headquarters?", Clipper asked in an angry voice. "*We* don't have headquarters as far as I remember. What do you think we are? Your slaves?!"

"Wait", Athena interrupted him. "I don't see any problem. If he wants us to work for him, we'll do. It's far better than staying on this damn boring island."

Shredder sighed. At least one of them was on his side. "It isn't real work", he said. "For you it won't be difficult, I'm sure. By the way, we are arriving right now."

Athena and Clipper gazed out of the window. The area underneath the helicopter looked like a desert - well, it obviously *was* a desert. But the thing that really attracted their attention was a huge, future- looking building in front of them. Both raptors jumped out of the helicopter, staring at the building in astonishment.

"Welcome to the Technodrome", Shredder said.

"To the what?!" Clipper turned to him.

"The Technodrome", Shredder repeated, opening one of the doors.

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- Isla Sorna -

The turtles had stopped the car at the end of the road. Fortunately no dinosaur had crossed their way, but they still didn't know where they had got to.

"Well, it's just a stupid idea, Donnie", Raph said, "but what about pressing the button on your remote control again? I know we would need the second one, to be sure, but....well, just to try it out..."

Donatello shrugged his shoulders. "If you want me to", he replied, taking out the remote control. "But I don't think it will work. It's just too simple." He pressed the button.... and to their total astonishment they stood on the pavement a few seconds later and the annoying sound of cars passing by ensured that they were in a city..... New York.

"Wow!", was all Leo commented when he realized that they had come back.

"If it hadn't been that real, I'd swear I had been dreaming", Don said. "I'm going to destroy this hellish machine tomorrow."

"Yeah, great idea bro'", Raph said. "And we really, really shouldn't tell Master Splinter about our little trip to nowhere", he went on and grinned.