"I'm getting real worried now, we should go look for him." said Leo.

"No need." said a voice.

They all looked to the side to see Cori standing there.

"Who are you?!" asked an alarmed Leo.

"Relax. I got your friend." said Cori.

Raph pushed past Leo. "What did you do to him?" he demanded.

Cori took a step back from Raph. "Umm . . . . that's not important." Then she sighed heavily. "Look, he's fine, and he's at our house."

"Who's our?" asked Leo.

"Me, my sisters, and our, well, mother, sorta." said Cori.

"More mutant Turtle babes? All right!" exclaimed Mikey.

"You remind me of my sister." she said. "Look, just come on. We're not gonna kill ya."

"How do we know we can trust you?" asked Raph.

"Look man, your friend couldn't come, so he sent me. He's waiting for you all back at our house." said Cori. "And anyway, I wouldn't be so cocky, I know these sewer systems better than you all do. This place right here is gonna be my sister's lab one day soon. You all are trespassers on our sewer grounds; you're lucky I'm being somewhat nice here."

Everyone was quiet.

"Let's just go." said Venus as she began to walk over to Cori.

"Just when ya think life couldn't get any more interesting . . . " said Ashton, following suit.

Everyone soon followed Cori.

Back at the other lair, Rita and Donny were sitting at the kitchen table as Cori came in.

"They're here." said Cori.

Leo, Raph, Mikey, Venus, Splinter, and Ashton all walked into the lair.

"Why, this one's way bigger than ours at home." said Ashton as she looked around.

Shelly came out of her room. "Ohmygosh! They're here!"

Pidgina came from her room. "Welcome to our home. Please, have a seat."

The Turtles, Splinter, and Ashton looked around, stunned.

"Wow." said Leo.

"Hey guys." said Donny from the kitchen.

"Donny!" said Leo as he and the others walked over to him. "Is this where you've been all this time?"

"Well yeah, sorta." said Donny.

"Cori like, hit him over the head with a like, wrench." said Shelly.

Cori pushed her. "Ay why you had to say that for?!"

"Oops, like, sorry Cori." said Shelly apologetically.

Leo, Mikey, Raph, and Ashton looked accusively at Cori.

"Geez you all, I'm sorry!" said Cori. "Ah, I gotta get outta here." she then walked off.

"Sit down, sit down. We have much to discuss!" said Pidgina as she began serving tea to everyone.

Over the next couple of hours talking, everyone began getting acquainted. Rita relayed the story of how a chemical plant explosion was the cause of their mutation. Donny and Ashton explained Ashton's story, as there were a lot of questions about how she looked.

It was now late evening, and the Turtles were all hanging around the large lair.

"This is really something else, I have always thought after Venus, there were no other mutants in the world." said Splinter as he sat with Pidgina in the living room.

"I really don't know much about this mutation business, all I know is, I can say I like being a mutant pidgeon. I wasn't ever really a normal pidgeon anyway. Normal pigeons don't live on librarian's windowsills while they're babies, and learn things. Mutation was a gift to me." said Pidgina.

"I must say, being a mutant rat has me doing more productive things than I would ordinarily be doing." said Splinter, then he sipped some tea.

Pidgina nodded in agreement.

On the other side of the living room, Cori watched television with Raph, Mikey, and Shelly. Nothing really interesting was on, well, to Raph and Cori anyway. Mikey and Shelly laughed over the stupidity going on in the television program.

Raph turned to Cori. "You know, I just keep thinking, what if that had been a human you'd whacked over the head with the wrench? Then what?"

"Then what? Nothin. I would've dragged their unconscious behind to a manhole, and pushed him or her above ground; simple as that." said Cori. "They would've had no business being this deep in the sewers anyhow."

"Eh, true." said Raph.

"Now drop the wrench incident okay? Just drop it or I'll drop you." said Cori.

"Is that a challenge?" asked Raph.

"Don't test me Raphael, don't test me."

Mikey looked over at Cori and Raph, then began moving away from them, pulling Shelly to the side with him.

"What?" asked Shelly.

"Those two look like they're about to fight. And knowing Raph, I don't wanna be anywhere near that G when he gets mad."

"Ohhh, I know what u like, mean. Cori likes to like, fight." said Shelly. She noticed the two glaring at each other. "Uh, we better go join your friends over there at the table."

"Good idea." said Mikey as he and Shelly got up to join Donny, Leo, and Venus at the table.

"You really think you could beat me?" asked Raph, somewhat teasingly.

"I don't think I could beat you, I know I could beat you." said Cori. "And if you don't wanna get dropped, I suggest you stop."

"Dinner's ready!" Rita called from the kitchen.

"You're lucky." said Raph as he got up. "I'll get you later."

Cori got up and roughly pushed Raph out of her on the way to the kitchen. "Dumbshell." she muttered under her breath.