The turtles had crossed most of the Manhattan skyline before they found what they were looking for. The clock tower in question had been more difficult to find than they had suspected. Mostly because New York was full of old churches and towers, and Stockman hadn't bothered telling Donnie exactly which one it was. But, they persevered, and luck had them in the right place at the right time to see some of the gang members chatting with some strange men wearing black ninja gear.

Leo silently signaled the the other that they were going in after the goons, and Ralph and Donnie nodded in unison. Mikey acknowledged the order a few seconds later, which was better than he normally managed.

The turtle boys slipped noiselessly into the building using a window and started to search for some information. In a secluded section of the floor they were on, they ran into a server room, which Donnie immediately began to hack to see exactly what they were dealing with.

He plugged one end of his phone into a USB port and began scanning the system for any thing that looked suspicious. "Alright, we've got minimal security on most of the floors, except there's electronically locking doors in the basement, and... Woah, a ton of top of the line systems on the top floor."

"That's fascinating, but where are they holding Holly's mother?" Leo said, feeling slightly impatient.

"I'm not sure. Let me check for security cameras." Donnie tapped a few buttons on his phone. "We may not be able to see much, but we might just be able to see enough." He pulled up one image after another on the tiny screen of his phone, and peered closely at each one before disregarding it as useless and moving on to the next.

"Wait, what's that?" Leo asked over his brothers shoulder.

They all grouped close together to peer at the little screen. It showed a long dimly lit room with a raised dais at one end. The platform was cloaked in shadows, but enough of it was illuminated to show a hard looking chair placed at the center of it. More of the black clad men were kneeling, looking up at the chair, and right at the front of the group was Dog Pound and Baxter Stockman.

"I don't know, but it looks like they're praying, or something." Donnie said.

"Or bowing down to their master." Leo concluded.

"What?" Raph exclaimed.

"I'm not positive, but I think there's more going on here than meets the eye." Leo frowned at the wall. "Dog Pound and Stockman aren't smart enough to be running the show, so we have to assume that they're answering to someone else."

"That's all well and good, but we can deal with that later." Raph interjected.

"Right." Donnie said, and clicked onto the next images. "There. That's got to be her." He pointed at a cell block that had a well dressed woman crouched in a corner of one of the cells.

"Where is that?" Leo said.

Donatello cross referenced the cameras serial number with the security systems log to pin point exactly where it was, and within a minute, he had a floor number and cardinal direction the camera was facing. "Piece of cake." He announced triumphantly. "It's just a shame April's not here to see it." He muttered.

"I'm sure you'll tell her all about it later." Mikey said, poking Donnie in the cheek while grinning maniacally.

"Shut up." Donnie swatted at his younger brother.

"Quit it, both of you." Leo hissed. "We have to go."

Donnie disconnected his phone from the hardware and lead the way back out of the server room. They moved silently down the hallways, creeping between the shadows to stay in as much cover as possible. Thin moon beams crept into the building from the few windows that were on that floor, illuminating the empty office space in a dull blue-gray light.

The didn't encounter any one until the got closer to the row of elevators. There were two guards sitting on office chairs, both of whom were Purple Dragon members. They were acting like children; rolling across the linoleum, crashing into one another, and laughing their heads off.

Leo and Raph swept between the office desks in complete silence, and each knocked one of the guards unconscious without even a sigh escaping their lips. They then stashed their limp bodies behind a giant potted fern.

Donnie and Mikey followed them and pried open one of the doors to the elevator shaft.

"Ladies first." Mikey said with a smirk, and gave Raph a little bow.

"Go stuff yourself." Raph said, he gave his brother a swift thwack to the arm, before launching himself down the dark hole.

The Turtles climbed down past the lowest labeled level to a sub-basement that had been renovated to be used as a holding cell. The harsh fluorescent lights That shone through the bars of the make shift cells cast hard shadows across the bare brick walls. All but one of the cells were empty. Huddled in the corner of her cell, covered in dirt from the unwashed floor, was Holly's mom.

They turtle boys crept out into the holding room, searching for signs of a guard but there was no one in there except the woman in the cell. Leo motioned for Donnie to sweep the room for electronic monitoring systems, especially the security cameras they had used to locate her in the first place. Donatello snuck along the wall and plugged in his phone to the back of the camera. His fingers flew over the buttons and within a few moments he gave his brothers a thumbs up and a big cheesy grin.

"I have the security system running a loop of the last minute of images. It should fool them long enough for us to get out of here."

"Lets get her out of there, I don't want to get caught here." Leo said softly.

They hurried over to the cell, and let Donnie start working on unlocking the door.

"Mrs. McCallister?" Leo said.

The women lifter her chin to look at who had spoken her name. She wore a soft gray suit with matching shoes, but they were smudged with grim and blood. Her hair was the same deep brown as her daughter's, and it was falling out of a severe bun that was pinned to her head, but her face was sharper and her features more pointed. "I already told the other one, I don't know anything." She scrambled back against the cell wall looking terrified.

"What? No, we're here to get you out." Donnie said. Through the bars.

"Just stay away from me. I don't know where my daughter is, and I wouldn't tell you even if I did." Her face was tear streaked, and her voice shook, but Holly's mother had the same determined fire in her eyes that her daughter did.

"We know where she is." Mikey blurted out. "She practically been living with us for the last few weeks."

"Mikey." Raph snapped. "Would you cram a sock in it?"

"She's what'?" All of the excitement of the day finally caught up to Holly's mother, she slid down the last section of wall and lay sprawled across the floor in her expensive designer suit.

"I'm glad that she's not as strong as Holly." Raph said with a sigh. "I don't think she would have cooperated with us."

"Yeah, imagine her reaction if she found out you were dating her daughter." Mikey said with a chuckle.

Raph scowled at the wall as his brothers laughed at his expense. After a few more seconds, Donnie had the cell door open and Leo hauled the limp woman over his shoulder. "Lets get out of here."

"Gladly." Raph said, and he lead the way back over to the elevator banks and started climbing back up to an above ground level of the building.

"Hey." Mikey started as they climbed ever higher. "Does this seem too easy to you guys?"

"Oh, don't say that." Donnie groaned.

"Why not?" Mikey asked, his big blue eyes searched his brothers face innocently.

One of the elevator doors was ripped out of its rails and it's mangled form crashed down the shaft towards the Turtles. A shower of sparks rained down on them as they scrambled frantically to get out of the way.

Leo leaped from one support beam to another just as the door bounced noisily off the wall where he had just been. The limp form of Mrs. McCallister slipped off his shoulder and he had to swing her back up into his arms before she plummeted after the steel door. "I need you guys to help me out here." He yelled at his brothers.

"You keep climbing, we'll deal with whatever they send at us." Raph yelled down to his brother.

Dog Pound stuck his massive head into the elevator shaft and roared down at them, he grabbed Mikey by the foot as he tried to leap clear and dragged him bodily through the door.

"Mikey!" The three turtles yelled in unison.

Raph didn't wait for the order, he threw himself through the opening after Mikey and proceeded to punch and kick anything that got in his way.

Donnie and Leo just looked at each other and nodded, Leo would get Holly's mom out of harms was, and would come back if need be. He would just have to trust his brothers to take care of themselves. He watched his last brother disappear into the swirling storm of shouting and mayhem before continuing to climb to an empty floor.

Raphael was furious. He didn't care how many of these freakishly dressed weirdos he had to punch, no one man handled his little brother like that. Mikey had been thrown clear across the office block and had crashed into the far wall, they had him pinned in a corner now, but he was still on his feet, which was a good sign. The happy-go-lucky turtle was currently keeping the ninja at bay with the hidden chain he had, and was swinging it in great circles to keep them away.

Donnie fell in beside Raph. "Lets make this quick." Raph nodded, and the two of them dashed in opposite directions at Dog Pound who stood smirking at them.

Raph roared and leapt high into the air aiming a punch at Dog Pounds head. The giant beast swatted at him, but Raph swung himself around Bradford's arm and let the momentum carry a well aimed heel into the massive mutts jaw.

Donnie skirted along the floor, dipping in and out of the other guys who were surrounding his brothers. He exchanged blows with a couple of them, and he noticed that they were trained in the martial arts, and their form was surprisingly similar to that which they had been instructed in. "Who are these guys?" He muttered.

"I don't care who they are." Raph yelled as he continued attacking Bradford.

"Its not like your going to be around long enough to find out anyway." Dog Pound yelled back, and clawed at Raph with his bone covered talons. Raph leapt backwards, but he was just a little bit slow and he staggered as Dog Pound left three scratches in his plastron, and one clean cut across his face. Raph snarled at Dog Pound whom was laughing at his discomfort, and threw himself back at the over sized mutt and toppled the both of them over onto a group of the ninja.

Donnie used the distraction as his opportunity to dislodge his baby brother from the corner. He swirled his staff around and around as he made his way across the room, knocking back all the advancing enemies until he had carved a path through to Mikey.

"They're tougher than the Purple Dragons." Mikey commented as he clocked one of the ninja in the head.

"It would seem so." Donnie agreed. "There far too disciplined to be common street thugs, I think we're dealing with a criminal organization."

"We don't have time to figure that out right now." Raph grunted between dodging around Dog Pounds swinging arms. "We have what want, so let's go."

"Yes, of course." Donatello gripped his Bo staff and turned to his little brother. "Up and over?" He asked.

"You know it." Mikey yelled happily and stepped between Donnie hands. He was then flung bodily over the gathering ninja, to collide with Dog Pound and Raph. They all went spilling over again, but this time Mikey was ready and wrapped his chains around Bradford's limbs, he and Raph managed to hog tie the pooch before he could get back to his feet.

Donnie twisted his Bo staff through his hands to smack a couple of approaching ninja in the gut and head respectively, he then pole vaulted himself over the remaining enemies to join up with his brothers.

Raphael wrapped the chains securely around a near by pillar to make sure Bradford couldn't get loose, while Mikey grabbed a fire extinguisher and lobbed it into the center of the room, he threw a few shuriken at it with a 'Booyakasha!" And plunged the whole room into haze of white powder.

Leonardo could hear the clatter of fighting below him but he knew he needed to keep moving for now. Carrying an Unconscious person up an elevator shaft was not easy. He was so worried he might drop Holly's mom he wasn't paying attention to much else. As he reached the door they had propped open, a dozen hands grabbed him and the woman he was carrying and dragged him bodily into the open space. He was thrown over some cubicles and crashed into the partitions. He stood to see half a dozed men dressed in black shinobi shōzoku, only they also had bug-eye goggles covering the rest of their faces. One of the ninja had Hollys' mother thrown over his shoulder now.

"Take her back to the holding cell," said one of the men. "We'll deal with him".

The other guy nodded, and took off running towards a door.

"Give her back!" Yelled Leo and tried to go after Holly's mother. But the others jumped in the way. Without waiting, they all lunged at Leo. He had to fight harder than he ever had before. These guys were well trained, and fast. He was used to fighting his 3 brothers at once, but this was too much. Getting desperate, he swung both his katana is a large arch to get them to back off. "Why are you after us anyway?" He shouted at them.

They didn't answer, not that he had expected them too. Another wave of attacks came at him, but this time he was a little more prepared. Leo launched himself directly at one attacker and ducked under the guys arm, he hooked the ninjas leg and rolled him over the top of his shell and threw him at another guy who was coming from the other direction. The next unfortunate lackey tried a round-house kick, but Leo caught his foot and pushed him backward out of the way. He launched himself through the gap he had made and ran for the door the other guy had ran out of carrying Holly's mom. The few ninja still standing were hot on his heels though, so he tipped over water coolers, tables, anything that might slow them down.

Leonardo crashed through another door that was a tall stairwell, the sounds of his brothers drifted up along with Roaring from Dogpound. He leaped the handrails to try to catch up to the other guy, and had to roll down half a flight of stairs as three shuriken whizzed over his head and embedded themselves in the wall. Another black-clad ninja was flying at him, he ducked and the unfortunate person collided with the concrete wall. He crumpled to the floor and did not get up again. Another ninja was soon after him though, and this time he collided with Leo. They both crashed through a door, and rolled out into the middle of another vast open room. This one had tables set up in various little pods with random bits of tech sprawled across them. Men and women screamed and ran for cover as Leo and a few of the other ninja rolled across the floor, trashing work benches, sending parts flying all over. Leo found his feet and dispatched a couple of his adversaries with sharp blows to the solar plexus. The crumpled to the floor gasping and retching.

"Look out!" someone yelled from behind him. Leo spun around and narrowly avoided getting smacked around the head with a metal pipe. He shoved the guy while he was following through, and knocked him out with a chop to the side of his neck.

The room was quite, glass tinkled on the floor and the whole group of people were silent. Leo looked around, some of the group were wearing lab coats, others had protective gear on, but they all wore chains on their ankles and wrists.

"Um, are you guys OK?" Asked Leo awkwardly.

"Help us!" A woman pleaded

"Please, I have a family!" shouted another. Suddenly they were all begging to be saved.

Leo spun around, all the people were the missing scientists. He started slicing through the chains letting as many people free as he could. Soon, a balding red-headed man came up, Leo paused for just a second, "Mr. O'Neil?" he asked before something hit the back of his head and he collapsed.

Raph, Mikey and Donnie were all covered in powder from the fire extinguisher, but they had gotten away from Dogpound and the other Ninja. They climbed up a couple of floors before dipping out into another level. If these people knew what floor they had come down from, there would be a welcome waiting for them. Better to find some cover for a minute and regroup. They heard a lot of commotion, running footsteps and orders being given, but for the moment they were safe.

Mikey was the first one to speak, "Now what do we do?"

"We need to find Leo." Donnie said. He massaged his forehead briefly willing his brain to come up with a plan.

"How are we gonna' do that, exactly?" Raph asked.

"I don't know yet." Donnie looked around "See if you can find a computer or a security camera for me".

As they looked around, Mikey poked his head out into one of the stairwells. He heard a single set of footsteps coming down the stairs and looked up to see one of the ninja guys coming down with Holly's mom over his shoulder.

"Guys," he hissed, he pointed at the stairs when his brothers looked over, and Donatello and Raphael rushed to his side. They saw the guy and nodded to each other. They were going to question this bozo.

Donnie counted down on his fingers, three, two, one, and they all launched themselves at the loan soldier. Mikey grabbed Holly's mom and gently carried her back into the room they had come out of, while Donnie and Raph wrestled the ninja into submission.

"Alright punk," Raph pulled the guys mask off to reveal an angry Japanese man, "what the hell is going on here?"

"I'm not telling you" the man shot back defiantly, and spat on the floor at Raphs feet.

"Bad idea" Raph responded and went to punch the guy.

Donnie caught his arm before it connected "Hold on a second." He pushed Raph back and away from their hostage, he turned back to the man kneeling on the floor, "Who are you?"

The man straitened his back, "We are the Foot Clan, we are many, and we serve only our master".

"Who is your master?"Asked Donnie again.

"That's none of your business." The man yelled back.

"Can I knock him out now? Please?" Raph asked. He was over all these games.

"Guys, she's waking up!" Mikey yelled from a little further back.

Holly's mom was indeed coming around. She groaned and held her head as Mikey helped her into a seated position. "Take it easy" he said to her.

"Whats going on? Where am I?" She asked groggily.

"Just take it easy for a minute" Donnie said to her. "You were kidnapped from your home, can you remember anything that happened after?"

"Not really. Who are you?" She asked looking at each of them in turn.

"Well..." Donnie trailed off,

"We're friends, that's all you need to worry about" Raph said with his arms folded across his front.

"I don't know you" Snapped Holly's mom, "for all I know you're in league with that big dog guy and the creepy little weirdo, or the pointy guy."

"Do you want to get out of here, or not?" Raph Snapped back.

"Calm down," Donnie held up his hands. "We're not here to hurt anyone. Do you know whats going on here"

"No, all I know is one minute I'm at home, the next I was being questioned about my daughter and her friends". She looked worried, and scared.

There was a snap from behind them, and they all turned to see the ninja guy sprinting back up the stairs.
"He's getting away!" Mikey yelled.
"Let him, we need to get her out of here." Donnie gestured in Mrs. McCallisters direction.

"Why me? Do you know where my daughter is?" Mrs McCallister eyed the turtles suspiciously. She stood and was much taller than her daughter even without the heels on.

The brothers looked between themselves... there was no mistaking where Holly got her intelligence from.