Michelangelo, his brothers, and April wren't the only ones who were complaining.
On the other side of town, trouble was making it's way, in the form of the arch enemy to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and especially master Splinter, Shredder, along with his two mutant henchmen, Bebop, a half man half warthog and Rocksteady, a half man half rhino.
The head of the footclan was talking on his communicator to the head of the technodrome, Kranng, a highly intelligent talking brain about the conditions of their latest hideout for cooking up the "biggest" scheme of not only defeating the turtles, but taking over the world.
"Kranng!
You call this place the best hideout you can find?!" Shredder barked.
"You were expecting the Plaza?" Kranng answered back.
"You really expect me to concock our next "great" plan?
In a bakery?!"
"Hey it's not all that bad boss," Rocksteady pointed out.
"Yeah, maybe we can make some cookies while we're here," added Bebop.
"Oh let's make chocolate chip."
"No way, oatmeal are the best."
Turning his attention away from Kranng, Shredder snapped at his henchmutants,"Will you two dunder heads think with your brains and not with your stomachs."
"See if I share any of my batch with him," said Rocksteady.
"That goes double for me," added Bebop.
"I don't understand why you are gripping about Shredder.
This abandoned bakery factory is the perfect place to "cook" or in this case "bake" up a grand scheme, chuckled Kranng, who added, "Sometimes I just can't help myself.
But in all seriousness Shredder, you basically have all the equipment you need.
"You haven't even told me what the plan was," spoke Shredder.
"I don't have one at the moment.
But in the meanwhile, this will be the perfect place to mix up enough mutagen to keep on hand for when we need it," said Kranng.
Within a few moments, a blue colored portal hole appeared and an object flew out.
It was a canister of mutagen that Kranng tossed over from Demension X.
However, the canister was thrown a bit too hard and it came almost crashing through to the other side.
"Don't just stand there you idiots!
Grab the canister!" Shredder snapped to Bebop and Rocksteady.
The two half human/half mutants tried to grab the canister, but missed it, and it landed into a large mixing bowl.
"Well, what are you two knuckelheads waiting for.
Go get me that canister!" Shredder snapped at the warthog and rhino.
"OK OK boss, we're on it," said Rocksteady.
"Don't go blowing a gasket," said Bebop.
But as the two were about to get the canister, they made a discovery.
"Uh oh," spoke Rocksteady.
"That can't be good," added Bebop.
"What is it now you peabrains?" snapped Shredder.
"That boss."
As it turned out, the canister, which had opened, after landing in the giant mixing bowl, had splashed onto some cookie dough, that had been laying there.
The mutangen began to soak into the dough, causing it to start bubbling and growing.
Shredder and his mutant henchmen just stood as the dough began to rise out of the bowl.
The dough grew and grew, until it finlly stood almost as tall as the building.
It looked like a typical "person" shaped cookie, about 100 times it's size to be exact.
Complete with chocolate chips for eyes, a red candy nose and a moth made of icing, which was used to let out a large roaring sound.
"Whoa that's the biggest cookie I've ever seen," said Bebop.
"And we don't have a glass of milk big enough to dunk it in," said Rocksteady.
"You two boneheads are not going to eat it.
That mutant concoction is are ticket to taking over the city.
And with pure luck, the world," said Shredder with a crackle of laughter.
Back at the turtle's lair, the team was hard at work on their exersices.
Their forth time that day.
Leonardo of course was playing the role of instructor.
"OK guys, you can quit now," he said, following a bunch of jumping jacks, sit-ups and push-ups, that the four had lost track.
Thank goodness, I'm beat," said Michelangelo.
"That makes two of us," added Donatello.
"Make that three, said Raphael, Man I am one tired turtle."
"Well I've worked up a bit of an appeite.
Anyone care for some steamed veggies?" asked Leonardo.
"No thanks Leonardo.
I'm still full from the ones I had at lunch," Donatello repiled.
"And I'm still full from the ones I had at breakfast," added Michelangelo.
And if I have to eat anymore steamed carrots.
I'll be the only orange colored turtle," Raphael pointed out.
"Suit yourself guys," said Leonardo, as he headed for the kitchen.
"Man, we've all been on this diet for one day and it's already one too many," said Raphael.
"I agree.
I know we should all keep at our best health, but this is rediclious," added Donatell.
"I don't know what you're mad about dude.
I'm the one who's on the diet," Michelangelo pointed out.
"We went on this diet as well to help you stay on it dude," stated Raphael.
Realizing the two looked like they were about to get into an argument, Donatello got in between his brothers.
"Come you two.
You're acting like a couple of teenagers," he said.
"Maybe because we are tennagers," Raphael concluded.
"Not to mention we're going through pizza withdraw, Michelangelo pointed out, I miss the taste of hot cheese and tomato sauce already."
"I think maybe that's enough exersice for the day.
Time to give my brain a workout with some experiments," said Donatello, as he headed for his lab.
"Since we can't veg out on pizza, about we veg out with some TV," Michelangelo suggested to Raphael who answered, "As long as it's not a cooking show as we need to take our minds off food."
And that's exaclty what the two turtles did.