Disclaimer: Don't own the turtles, wish I did, I own Garron, you can use him if you ask me.

"I can't..... Believe..... Shredder got the manuscript first!" Raph growled as he stalked around April's kitchen. "That dirtbag is somethin' else." Raph looked around for something to break. Finding none, he sank into a chair at the kitchen table across from Leonardo.

Leo sighed for what felt like the millionth time that night. "There was nothing we could do Raph. We'll just have to plan an attack on the Foot HQ building instead of the museum. It'll be harder, but...."

"We need the challenge," Raph finished for him in his best Leonardo-mimic voice.

Leo's eyes narrowed, but he said nothing. He was too tired for a fight with his brother.

"Aw man, I'm tired, but I'm hungry," Mikey announced as he walked into the kitchen. Leo and Raph rolled their eyes simultaneously.

"You're always hungry, Mike," Raph pointed out.

"Yeah, but I'm really hungry!"

"You ate most of the pizza before we left!"

"Yeah, but-"

"Hey!" They were interrupted by April's voice in the hallway. "Can someone get the door?"

Already being up, Mikey got the door. There he stood face to face with the biggest stack of pizza he had ever seen. He took the boxes from April and set them on the table, then came running back to her, enveloping her in a huge bear hug.

"The angel of pizza!" He cried, before he fell upon the cheesy goodness.

Raphael and Leo helped themselves as well. The earlier battle had made everybody extremely tired, but also extremely hungry. Donatello walked sleepily into the kitchen.

"Hey, I thought I smelled....pizza." His eyes widened at the twenty large pizzas April had brought home. "Alright!"

April laughed and sat down with them. "Where's Splinter?" she asked.

Leo swallowed, then said, "He's either meditating or sleeping. I already told him everything that happened in the museum." Then, realizing April hadn't heard all the details, all four turtles explained to her what happened as well.

April smiled. "So you were rescued by cat man."

Mikey shrugged. "Pretty much."

Suddenly Leo frowned. "Where is Garron anyway?"

All four turtles looked at each other. They hadn't seen him. "Last I saw him, he was runnin' away with you, Leo." Raph said.

"Yeah, and then we split up so the Foot couldn't follow us. How strange. Nobody's seen him since then?"

They all shook their heads.

Next morning, Garron was back. He was seated in the living room, chatting about something with April. As usual, Leonardo was the first to wake up, besides Master Splinter, who had been up for an hour already.

"Morning April...sensei." Leo said, as he tried to cover a yawn. "Hey Garron, what happened to you last night?"

Garron shrugged and said, "You will find out soon enough, Leonardo. Just as soon as the rest of the others are awake."

Leo looked at him curiously for a few moments, then went to the kitchen to make some tea or something.

All the others were soon up and joined Leo in the kitchen. Donatello sat next to him, and they both watched Raph chase Mikey around the kitchen, because Mikey had dumped ice water on him to wake him up.

Soon Master Splinter came into the kitchen and called their attention to him. "Michelangelo, Raphael, sit down. Garron wishes to discuss something with you all." He moved aside to stand in the corner, revealing Garron.

A little shyly, Garron stepped into the room. All four turtles waited for him to say something. He said nothing, merely held up a piece of paper. A very old, beat up piece of paper. Donatello was the first to recognize it. "The manuscript!"

His brothers looked at each other in confusion at first, but then let out yells of happiness.

Leo got up and asked Garron quietly, "That's where you were last night?" Garron nodded. Leo sat back down, and Garron approached the table to give one of his rare sentences. If they were lucky, maybe they'd get a whole paragraph.

"As I told you before. This scroll tells us where each of the four rare stones are. Also as I said before, when put together, these stones are very dangerous. The equivalent of an atomic bomb."

He folded open the manuscript and spread it out on the table. "There is a problem though. It's in code."

All eyes went to Donnie. "Well, I'm pretty good at code-breaking," he said modestly.

Garron slid the paper over to him. "Very well, take as long as you like, but do not take too long, for the Shredder might very well have another way of finding the stones. Good luck Donatello." With that, Garron turned and left. To do what, nobody knew.

Donatello got up and followed him, heading for the makeshift lab April had set up for him while they were staying with her.

Mikey got up and stretched. "Well, I don't know about you guys, but all this talk made me hungry. Left over pizza anyone?"

Leo rested his head on his hand. I wonder if anyone else has had this strange feeling about Garron....

A/N: Sorry the chapter's so short. I'm trying.