Ming took a minute to just lay there. Um... What had just happened?
She groaned, sitting up slowly. Her body ached slightly, but she ignored it. She had better be getting home, or her brothers would worry. If they had at all noticed her absence.
When she entered the lair, she walked in on World War 3.
"THERE'S ONLY ONE VOTE THAT MATTERS IN THIS FAMILY! Mine!" Leo shouted.
Mikey and Donnie were also watching the ordeal. They looked horrified.
"L-Leo... An alarm just tripped at the Museum of Natural History." Donnie interrupted.
Leo growled. "Come on Donnie. You two stay here." That was when he saw Ming. "And you! Where the shell have you been?!"
Ming stuttered, trying to think of a reply. After a couple of minutes, Leo just pushed past her.
"You're benching me?!" Raph yelled after him.
"Call it what you want!" Leo replied over his shoulder.
"The nerve of this guy." Raph growled, turning away. Mikey and Ming followed at a slower pace as Raph ranted and raved for a couple of minutes.
"So... what's the plan?" Ming asked. "We're not just sitting here like obedient little dogs, right?"
"Of course not. There's more where that ooze came from. We're getting our hands on it."
Ming frowned. She hated the idea of this stuff. Based on Raph's upset ranting, she had gathered that Donnie had demonstrated to Leo how the purple ooze could turn the turtles human. That was the argument. Leo didn't want them to be human, while the others did. Normally, Ming would have sided with Leo, but hearing him say something like that, about how his vote was the only one that mattered... If the others really wanted to be human, well, it was their choice, and neither Leo nor Ming, not even Master Splinter, should have the right to tell them they couldn't.
"Okay... Let's do it." Ming sighed.
"So, you want to steal from police HQ?" April crossed her arms.
"Look, Donnie said he needed more of the ooze to study. And you said they would have logged it into the evidence control room by now." Raph defended.
April and Casey sat on the opposite side of the table as Mikey and Ming. Raph stood between them. Mikey was stuffing pizza in his mouth to keep from talking and messing everything up. Ming trusted Raph to do most of the talking, it was his plan.
"I can't just waltz into police HQ and-" Jones tried to protest. Raph glared at him.
"Chicken."
"Who you callin' chicken? Turtle." Jones tried and failed to make a comeback. Ming snorted.
"Do you want to find Bebop and Rocksteady or not?" Raph growled.
After a few seconds of both of them looking at each other like they were minutes from fighting, Jones caved. "So we're breaking into police HQ."
Raph nodded. April raised an eyebrow. "And Leo's... okay with this plan?"
"Actually, I'm in charge of this one." Raph deflected. "Right Ming?"
"Right." She nodded and sipped more coffee. April didn't look too believing.
"I have a plan so far. Somebody's going to have to distract the front while we get in. We need you two on the ground, and Ming's staying in the vent shaft with us." Raph gave Ming a look when she gave a little whine of disappointment. She was a human! She could be on the ground! "The plan I have so far... maybe a tad... unappetizing."
Damien and Tweet moved carefully through a party full of celebrities. Some guy was being presented with a key to the city for some reason. Damien didn't care. Amingethia's crystal had led him here.
As they made their way to the edge of the lights and decorations, the crystal's faint glow became brighter. "So close..." Damien muttered. He knew she was here somewhere.
A red-head lady, some reporter he had seen on the news, pushed past them, to get to the Fenwick guy. 'Falcon', he called himself. Disgusting. Damien paid her little mind.
The same lady led the celebrity forcefully through the crowd, again, pushing past them. "She's annoying." Tweet commented.
Damien watched after her. This was interesting, for normal mortal behaviour. He followed her. The crystal's glow strengthened slightly. He stopped and could hear voices around the corner in the shadows. It was too dark for him to see much until his eyes adjusted. Unfortunately, once they had, whoever had been talking was gone. He had only gathered a little bit from that conversation, but there was something about police HQ. Breaking in? Interesting...
Damien was curious but knew he had to let it slide. As he had been listening to some useless conversation about mortals planning to get themselves in massive trouble, the crystal's glow had died out, meaning Amingethia was no longer nearby. He swore softly and took his friend's arm, teleporting them both away.