Under a full moon, a rope was tied between two buildings. The building the rope was leading to, a tall gold metal building with blue windows that made it hard to see through. Walking across the rope, over the fast moving cars that drove on the road below, was Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo and Danny in his human form.
LEO: The roar of the crowds. The smell of the grease paint. The death defying thrill of the high wire, but trust me, this is no circus. And if you think it's tough for a turtle to walk a tight rope; try four and a half ghost. If we fall…we're pavement paint.
Michelangelo almost fell, but managed to flip over and began to continue to walk across the rope, upside down.
LEO: But, if we make it, we may just find our missing Master Splinter. We also might learn the answers that has plagued not only us, but Danny as well our entire lives. What happened to Danny's mother? And not only that, but why and how did we become Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
THE SEARCH FOR SPLINTER PART 1
April, Sam, Leo, Donnie, Danny and Mikey were in the living room, going over a map of New York City.
April marked several places with a red marker on the map as she said, "Okay. We've searched Foot Headquarters and every other place the Foot and Plasmius's ghosts have been encountered. We've scoured every sewer tunnel, back street and dark alley in the city."
"There's only one area left to search." Sam finished.
Donnie sighed and said, "The worst part is, we don't even know if Master Splinter is still…."
He stopped, unable to finish the sentence. Mikey looked down and stopped spinning his nun chucks at the thought.
"I…I don't even wanna think about that." Mikey said.
"Let's hope that it doesn't come to that. For all we know, he is still alive and he's somewhere out there, in some kind of trouble." Danny said as he grabbed his katana.
"Danny's right. Until we learn otherwise, he's alive and awaiting our rescue." Leo said as he grabbed his katanas and placed them on his back.
Raph growled as he punched the punching bag, trying to contain his anger. He couldn't take it anymore! In one final fit of rage, he grabbed his sais and ripped the bag, causing the sand inside to fall out.
"I'm done coming home empty-handed! We find Splinter, tonight!" Raph snapped.
They all split up to search different parts of the last area of the city, hoping to find their missing sensei.
Mikey searched the sewer tunnels of the area in the Sewer Slider. Reaching the end of the tunnel, he turned on his spotlight and began to look around the area, only to find nothing. Not a single mutant rat in sight.
Raph took to the streets on his Shell Cycle, leaving no street or alleyway unsearched. Donnie searched the rooftops, using his parasail and night vision goggles. Sam and April were in the Battle Shell, looking through the city dump. Since April wasn't exactly that very good at driving the Battle Shell just yet, she bumped into piles of trash a couple of times, causing Sam to cling to her seat for dear life.
Danny flew around the streets and alleyways in another part of the area. He gasped as he saw someone coming and turned invisible. After the couple had finally left, he turned visible and continued his search.
Leo searched through all the abandoned warehouses in the area, but found no sign of Master Splinter. He stopped his search and decided to check in on the others, through the intercom of their Shell Cells.
"Please tell me someone found something." Leo said.
"Nada from the sewers." Mikey replied.
"Nothing on the roofs either." Donnie replied.
"Nothing in my area Leo." Danny replied.
"Or the junkyard." Sam replied and then April added, "There's lots of rats, but none of them are Master Splinter."
"Man! Where is he?!" Raph roared through the comlink, growing impatient by the second as he continued to look on his Shell Cycle.
"Keep it cool Raph. We'll find him." Leo replied calmly.
Raph pulled over under the train tracks. He then noticed a guy walking up a car. He opened the door and ripped the owner of the car right out of it, before climbing in the driver's seat and driving off at high speed.
"HEY THAT'S MY CAR!" The owner shouted in dismay.
"Buddy, you have picked the wrong night!" Raph growled and began to pursue the thief on the Shell Cycle.
The thief noticed Raph chasing after him and began to increase his speed. Raph however, only increased his speed as well. The thief then tried to lose him and block his way, by ramming into several piles of trash that was under the bridge, but Raph was not fazed by this and easily avoided it.
The thief gasped when he saw Raph still in pursuit. He looked ahead and saw a petrol station. After making a sharp turn, he rammed one of the petrol pumps and destroyed it before continuing his way, leaving a trail of petrol spilling out like a fountain, before it exploded, resulting in the other pumps to explode in a fiery inferno.
Raph growled in frustration and increased his speed, driving right through the flames without even catching on fire himself. Leo and Danny noticed what was happening and landed on the streets.
"Oh great." Leo groaned.
"I better go after Raph. You tell the others Leo and catch up with us." Danny said and then took off, flying down the street after his hot tempered brother.
The thief continued to ram into garbage bins and other piles on the side streets, sending them flying Raph's way. Raph however merely avoided it and decided to take a little short cut. He drove into an abandon warehouse and rode up the stairs, heading for one of the old broken windows that was covered with wooden boards.
The thief looked behind and when he no longer saw Raph was chasing after him, he laughed in relief, believing that the teenage mutant ninja turtle had finally given up, but what he didn't know was that Raph never gave up. Especially when he was in one of his moods.
Raph drove right through the window and landed on the front of the car for moment, before ditching the Shell Cycle and landing back on the bonnet, driving his sais right inside the engine and causing the engine to shut down and the car to stop moving.
Smoke came out of the bonnet, causing the thief to cough from it. Raph then yanked the thief out of the car and held him up in the air by his shirt collar.
"You fell like taking what don't belong to you punk?! HUH?!" Raph shouted at thief, before pulling back his fist ready to beat the car thief.
Before he could punch the guy however, his arm was grabbed. He growled and turned his head to see the one holding his hand arm back was Danny.
"Raph, let him go. You stopped him. Now let him go." Danny said calmly.
Donnie, Leo and Mikey caught up and stood in front of them. Raph released a growl of anger and dropped the thief.
"Beat it!" Raph snapped at the thief. The thief nodded and ran off, not looking back.
Danny changed back into his human form and let go of Raph's arm. Raph removed his bike helmet from his head and continued to glare.
"Raph, I know you're angry and worried about Master Splinter, but this won't help anything." Danny advised.
"It helps more than ya think!" Raph snapped, throwing his helmet to the ground and causing the visor the break from the impact.
"You got to admit, the dude knows how to blow off steam." Mikey commented.
"Maybe but, if we're gonna find Master Splinter, we have to keep a lid on it." Leo said.
"Well prowling around ain't cutting it anymore Leo! We need something to go on." Raph said.
"What about the Guardians?" Donnie suggested, gaining all their attention. "If you think about it, right after Splinter disappeared, they disappeared."
"Donnie may have a point. They could have taken him easy since he was seriously injured during the fight with Shredder and Plasmius." Danny agreed.
"Somehow we need to hook up to one of those guys." Raph said.
Leo thought about it and then said in agreement, "Raph, looks like we might have something to go on."
They noticed spotlights behind them and turned to see the Battle Shell and could hear the rough noises it was making in its engine. Donnie and Danny could only do a patch job for the Battle Shell for the moment and it was still pretty damaged from when it stormed Foot Headquarters.
April opened the door and said, "Sorry. After your patch job on this rig, even my grandma's tractor handles better."
They all heard the sound of sirens coming. Sam then asked April as Danny and the Turtles started climbing in the back, "You sure you don't want one of the guys to drive this?"
"Nah. I think I'm getting the hang of it." April answered with a smile.
April then took off, but after making a sharp right hand turn, Danny, Sam and the Turtles were thinking that Donnie or one of the others should have drove, since she basically proved she wasn't exactly the best driver of the Battle Shell.
They went back to the Lair to organise a plan. Donnie then said, "We need to create some kind of tracker for the Guardians if we find them and follow them to wherever they go."
"I think I may know someone who can help and it would get him off my back about what I've been hiding." Sam suggested. "My friend Tucker is what I call a techno-geek and he's pretty good with his PDA. If anyone can help with that kind of tracker, Tucker can."
"Sam, can Tucker be trusted though with our secret?" Leo asked.
"Tucker's one of my best friends. I've told him a lot of secrets and he hasn't spilled one. He'll probably freak out at first, but he can definitely be trusted." Sam answered.
Leo thought about it and agreed, "Okay. Get Tucker to meet us upstairs at the warehouse."
Sam nodded and immediately called her friend Tucker.
A few minutes later, Sam was standing out the front of the warehouse and her friend Tucker Foley had finally arrived with his back-pack full of tech.
"Hey Sam. So what's going on?" Tucker asked.
Sam sighed and said, "You've been asking me what's going on lately and I'm ready to tell you, because my friends need your help and they're sort of…well…they're sort of different."
"Sam, whatever is going on I'm in. You're my best friend and I got your back." Tucker said.
Sam smiled and sighed, "Okay here it goes."
She opened the door to the warehouse and Tucker's eyes widened when he saw the Turtles standing there along with April and Danny in his human form. Danny then changed into his ghost form, causing Tucker to gasp in shock even further.
"Tucker, this is Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael and Danny and yes, you're seeing four very real mutant turtles and Danny is half-ghost." Sam introduced. "Oh but April is normal."
Mikey smiled and said to Tucker, "Hi."
Tucker waved nervously and suddenly fainted right to the ground.
"Oh that went well." Raph said sarcastically.
Tucker woke up a few minutes later inside the Lair, his eyes widening as he saw Sam, April, Danny (still in his ghost form), Leo, Mikey, Raph and Donnie standing in front of him.
"So…you're Sam's new friends?" Tucker asked, still freaking out a little.
"Yeah." Danny, Leo, Raph, Mikey and Donnie all answered.
"Where did you guys come from?" Tucker asked, both still in shock and amazement.
Leo began to tell their story and then Danny filled in his part of the story, leading up to their fight with the Shredder and Vlad Plasmius. By the time they reached the end of it, Tucker was still amazed and no longer freaked out.
"Incredible. Just…wow!" Tucker commented.
"Tucker, you need to keep this a secret. If people found out mutants and a half-ghost was living in their city, they'll probably want to ship them to a lab and dissect them." Sam said, showing she was serious.
"Hey, I'm not gonna tell anyone. I mean, who would believe me anyway? Plus, any friend of Sam's is a friend of mine and it's pretty awesome you guys a total butt kicking ninjas and that Danny here is half-ghost." Tucker said.
They all sighed in relief and then Tucker asked, "So, how can I help?"
"Our sensei, Master Splinter is missing and we think these people called the Guardians may have taken him after our fight with the Shredder and Plasmius. I need you to help me make a tracker so we can follow them to wherever they go." Donnie answered.
Tucker nodded and said, "Okay. Once we make the tracker, all I'll do then is connect my PDA to the tracking device frequency and we can follow them no matter how far they go."
"Fascinating." Donnie said, impressed by Tucker's knowledge of technology.
The next evening, standing on a rooftop underneath the full moon, was the blue haired Guardian himself. Looking over the city. He was about to head off when he noticed something happening at the now destroyed Foot Headquarters.
He gasped when he saw the symbol of the Foot was blinking on and off. He then noticed a slight blur flying around the building. He activated his watch and immediately contacted his bosses.
"Guardian, what is so urgent?" They asked.
"The symbol upon the Shredder's building has been activated and that's not all, I think I definitely saw one of Plasmius's ghosts flying around the building." The Guardian answered.
"Yet you have reported the Shredder and Vlad Plasmius destroyed." They replied.
"They have deceived us before." The Guardian reminded them.
"Investigate." His bosses replied.
The Guardian immediately headed to the building. Cautiously, he entered the broken doorway of the top floor where Shredder's main office was. He gasped at a horrifying sight. Standing in the ruins of the destroyed room was the shadowy figure of the Shredder himself and standing next to him was Vlad Plasmius!
The Guardian immediately pulled out his sword and activated it, he leapt up and sliced the Shredder in half in one swipe and then stuck Vlad Plasmius right down in the middle.
However the armour fell, revealing it was nothing but a pile of junk that looked like Shredder and when he turned, Vlad Plasmius had fizzled and revealed it was nothing more than a hologram. The hologram then disappeared.
"What?!" The Guardian growled in frustration and then suddenly heard a slight snickering.
He swung his sword to the side and then immediately stopped as soon as he saw it was Mikey.
"Woah there!" Mikey said nervously, holding his hands up in surrender.
Raph, Leo and Donnie then came down from the roof and Danny appeared in the room in his ghost form.
"Easy there. We're not here to fight." Leo explained.
"If you lay a trap for me, then be prepared to fight." The Guardian said.
"Our bad." Mikey said.
"We're looking for answers. That's all." Donnie said.
"Look elsewhere." The Guardian advised.
"Cool. Elsewhere it is" Mikey said, while quickly dropping the small tracking device Donnie and Tucker had made the previous night onto his sword, before pushing it away from his chest. "Now, how about putting that sword elsewhere."
"Our Master's missing. We intend to find him." Raph said.
The Guardian was silent at first. He deactivated his sword and put it away back in his jacket, before walking away slightly saying, "I cannot help you."
"Wait please." Danny pleaded, causing the Guardian to stop for a moment, but not turning to face them. "You once called yourself our ally right? If you are, then at least tell us if Master Splinter is okay."
The Guardian turned and faced them, answering, "I…cannot say."
Without wasting another moment, the Guardian threw a smoke pellet to the ground and within the smoke, he vanished like a shadow in the night.
Leo then asked, "Mikey?"
"One turtle tracker duly planted." Mikey answered with a thumbs up and a proud smile.
Danny and the Turtles raced down the streets, sticking to the shadows as they listened to Tucker's instructions through the comlink of their Shell Cells. True to Tucker's word, Tucker managed to connect his PDA to the tracking device and he was able to tell them exactly where the Guardian was heading.
"Guys, he's still on foot. Passing Fourth and D." Tucker instructed through the phone line.
They continued to follow Tucker's instructions, going over rooftops and running through alleyways until finally Tucker said, "Stop!"
They all stopped at a street, right across a tall, gold metal office building and the Guardian was nowhere in sight.
"Tucker, what's going on?" Donnie asked.
"The signal of the tracker had disappeared right across the street from where you guys are and according to the city plans, it looks like the Guardian headed right into a building that's there." Tucker answered.
"But, it's just an office building." Leo said.
"So was Shredder's and that place nearly took us out." Raph reminded them.
"The question is, why would he go in there?" Donnie asked.
"To have his taxes done?" Mikey guessed.
Donnie started going through his duffle bag and pulled out a small device as he said, "Let's find out for sure."
As soon as the others had caught up with them with the Battle Shell and parked in an alleyway not too far from the building, Donnie had sent the small tiny robotic camera at the front doors of the building, using a remote control.
Inside, the main security guard at the front desk suddenly heard someone knocking on the front door. He got up and opened the door to see who was there, but he there was no-one there and was completely unaware that Donnie's robotic camera had snuck inside.
The security guard shrugged and went back inside, sitting down at his desk. Inside the Battle Shell, Donnie continued to control the little camera and the others watched the monitor screen inside the vehicle.
"Now, let's see what's behind door number 1." Donnie said, moving the robot towards the door they could see on the screen.
But the robot could make it to the door, the security got up from his chair and the leg hit the robot and sent it spinning madly in circles around the room.
"Woah! I'm getting car sick." Mikey commented, trying to calm down a headache he was getting from watching the camera spin.
Donnie tried to get it under control until finally, the camera stopped spinning and as the camera stopped and locked onto something, Donnie's eyes widened at the sight.
"Uh guys? Here's a new wrinkle." Donnie said, showing them what the camera was pointing at.
They looked at the screen and saw the sign of the building. Techno Cosmic Research Institute.
"I don't get it." Raph said, completely confused like the others.
"Techno Cosmic Research Institute." Donnie pointed out.
"So? / Yeah? / What about it? / Huh?" Leo, Raph, Mikey and Danny all asked, still not understanding what Donnie was saying.
Donnie groaned and then said, "Say the first letter of each word."
"What? TCRI? Sorry. It's not ringing any…" Mikey said before stopping, as he, Leo, Danny and Raph finally realised what Donnie was talking about. "Bells."
"TCRI? No way!" Danny said, completely shocked.
"That's the…the…" Raph stuttered, feeling the same shock.
"The…the…" Mikey continued.
"The what?! Tell us" April, Sam and Tucker all said in unison, completely confused by what has Danny and the Turtles in complete shock.
"TCRI was printed on the canister of ooze that made us what we are." Leo explained.
"It's not just that guys." Danny said.
"What do you mean bro?" Raph asked.
Danny was silent at first and then said, "TCRI was also at the top my mother's letter she wrote. The one Master Splinter found with me. Which means…TCRI has definitely got something to do with my mother."
They all then finally understood what Danny was telling them. His mother Maddie Fenton, was now connected to the same place that may had created ooze that turned his brothers into the teenage mutant ninja turtles.
"The secret to our origin and to Danny's mother's disappearance, could very well lie inside that building." Donnie concluded.
Donnie continued to control the camera robot, moving it to the hallway as he said, "Okay. Let's snoop around."
He suddenly stopped and looked to see his brothers, Sam, April and Tucker all crowding him. Feeling uncomfortable with the limited amount of personal space he was getting, he spoke, "Um…you guys are sucking the oxygen right out of my personal space here."
"Sorry / sorry / sorry / sorry / sorry / sorry / sorry." Danny, Leo, Raph, Mikey, Sam, Tucker and April all apologised and moved to give Donnie some personal space.
With that, Donnie continued to move the robot down the hall. He noticed a door to his right and stopped the robot in front of it, moving the camera up, he could see the sign which read security.
"Jackpot! The security control room." Donnie said. "The brains to their security system."
"Can you look under that door to see what we're up against?" Leo asked.
"I think so." Donnie answered and moved the camera under the door, only to show someone was coming towards the door.
The door to the room was pushed open by the man coming out. The door hit the robot and sent it spinning around the hallway, hitting the wall before it came to a stop. Just when the robot was pushed up right, it was crushed and destroyed by the wheels of a cart coming through the hallways.
With the camera now destroyed, they had lost visual of the building and the screen went blank.
"Well now what do we do?" Sam asked.
"Master Splinter might be in there. Answers we've been looking for our whole lives might be in there. So that means, we're going in there." Leo said. Each of his brothers, nodding in agreement to his plan.
They all headed back to the Lair to begin organising their plan to rescue Master Splinter if he was there and to find out how exactly they're connected to the place.
Looking at the television screens of the video images they managed to get from when they sent the robot inside, Leo began, "Okay, what exactly have we found out about TCRI? April? Tucker? Sam?"
April who was typing at her computer answered, "Okay. TCRI is a highly successful new technology company, that's been around for the past 25 years."
"A lot of great technology has come out of that place, like recently for example my PDA." Tucker continued, showing his PDA to everyone. "I did some research as well and the head liaison of the company is someone called Mr Mortu."
"No first name?" Danny asked. "And is there anything about my parents? My mother? Or even anything about what else they research?"
Tucker shook his head and then answered, "No first name I'm afraid and nothing about your parents I'm afraid dude. But, there was an old newspaper article that apparently a few years back, they did do a little bit of research supernatural entities."
Sam switched the screen on the TV's to pictures of blueprints and said, "Thanks to some hacking coded, I managed to find the blueprints of the building that were submitted to the city planner's office, before it's construction."
Mikey came down from the roof using wires and a harness, upside down and commented, "Looks as boring on the inside as it does on the out."
"Before the Cam Shell became road kill, it managed to show some of the security details from the main desk inside at the front desk." April continued as she showed them the video image. "Surveillance cameras cover the perimeter and the roof. It's also laced with alarm sensors and even a sensor for ectoplasmic signatures."
"So, what we need is someone smart, capable and techno savvy enough to get in, find the alarm cut off and cut it off." Leo further explained.
"Me!" Mikey volunteered in excitement as he came down again, upside down.
"No. April and Tucker." Leo corrected.
"Us?" Tucker and April asked in unison.
"You two will sneak in past the guard, enter the security control room and deactivate the cameras and alarms." Leo instructed.
"Okay." April and Tucker agreed, though a little nervous about doing the task they were given.
Donnie handed Tucker a small PDA and said, "Here's a schematic of some basic security panels you two are most likely to find inside."
"Once the alarms are off, you'll both contact us on the Shell Cell and we'll gain access through the roof ventilation system." Leo instructed.
"After we're in, you'll both will reset the alarms and surveillance cameras and then sneak back outside unnoticed." Donnie finished.
Mikey zipped down near them and said, "It all rest on your shoulders guys. No pressure."
"Look, this plan is good and all but there is a small, tiny problem to it. There's a guard sitting right at the front desk." Tucker reminded them. "How are April and I supposed to get in and out without being unnoticed?"
"Simple. We'll be imploring an old ninja trick. The art of distraction." Leo answered and then gestured for them to look at the elevator.
The stone elevator doors opened to reveal none other, than Casey Jones, all geared up and everything.
"Somebody call for a distraction?" Casey asked as he held his baseball in his hands.
"Who the heck is that?" Tucker asked under his breath.
April groaned and covered her face in complete embarrassment and muttered irritably, "Great. Our lives are in the hands of a lunatic."
"Don't worry April. Things won't be so bad since I'm also part of the distraction team." Sam said, trying to lighten the mood.
Suddenly they all heard Mikey yelp and looked up to see him spinning out of control in his harness until he came to a stop and now, was all tangled up in the wires.
"Somebody want to give me a hand here?" Mikey asked.
The next evening, April (now wearing a business skirt and jacket) was heading towards the building with Tucker walking beside her. They had headphones linked to their Shell Cells, which were connected to Donnie and the others outside.
"You both can do it guys." Danny's voice could be heard through the phone.
They both walked inside and headed up to the front desk where the guard was sitting. The guard looked up to them and asked, "May I help you two?"
"Yes. I am Dr Vander Pepper of TMNT University. My student Tuck Fole and I are here to see Mr Mortu." April said.
"Mr Mortu doesn't take appointments." The guard said, his face showing no emotions.
"Look man, my teacher and I have come a long way for this meeting at his request. My whole term paper is even depending on this meeting." Tucker said, pretending to be frustrated.
April nodded and added while crossing her arms, "So either get him on the phone, or I'm gone!"
The guard at first said nothing and then picked up the phone to begin calling for his boss. Both Tucker and April then heard Mikey through the Shell Cells, "Dr Vander Pepper? Tuck Fole? Really guys?"
Suddenly Casey, now wearing a brown jacket and carrying a toaster in his arms, along with Sam came in.
"I wanna see the boss man right now!" Casey demanded, gaining the attention of both the guard and April and Tucker.
"Uh….dad please calm down." Sam acted, pretending Casey was her dad.
"Remember guys, just distract the guard long enough for Tucker and April to slip in and slip out." Leo reminded them through the Shell Cells as they walked up to the front desk. Raph then added, "Yeah. So don't screw this up bone head."
Casey became offended by that comment and suddenly snapped without meaning to, "Hey! If anyone's gonna screw this up, it'll be you freak face!"
"Casey!" Sam whispered, gesturing for him not to ruin the plan.
"Can I help you sir?" The guard asked.
Casey and Sam walked up to the front desk. Casey then showed him the toaster and said angrily, "I got a complaint about one of your products."
"What my dad means is, that apparently he's having a problem with this toaster." Sam said, acting calmly.
"TCRI doesn't manufacture toasters ma 'mm." The guard said, unaware that April and Tucker snuck away and began heading to the security control room.
"Oh yeah? It says it right here!" Casey said as he lifted the toaster, showing that at the bottom a handmade label.
However, the label didn't say TCRI. Instead it said RITC and it could be easily seen that it was fake, since it was written in red crayon.
"But that says RITC and in crayon sir." The guard pointed out.
"Now I wanna see the head geek or I'm gonna take this place apart!" Casey roared and then suddenly, pulled out his baseball bat from his jacket and began to smash the toaster to pieces.
"DAD NO!" Sam shouted, pretending to try and calm Casey down.
The guard immediately pressed the alarm button and suddenly, another security guard came out from the security room and ran over to assist the other guard. Casey suddenly jumped onto the panel and pulled both guards down to the ground and held them there.
Sam then looked over at Tucker and April and gestured them to go. April and Tucker got the message and immediately headed for the door and entered the hallway. They both headed to the security control room and entered inside.
As soon as they closed the door, the looked and found the room was filled with so much advanced technology that they had never seen before. Both of them looked around in amazement and awe.
"I think I just died and went to techno heaven." Tucker commented.
"I know. It's impressive." April agreed.
They both walked further into the room and then April pulled out the PDA Donnie gave them and said as she looked at the schematics, "Okay. We need to find the splitter from the main junction box, which should look like…"
They both looked around the room, but they couldn't see anything what they were looking for. Advanced the technology was definitely, but familiar to Tucker and April, not so much.
Meanwhile outside, Leo launched a rope from one building to the TCRI building. Danny remained in his human form, so he won't accidentally activate the ectoplasmic sensors and all five of them, began to walk across the rope, trying not to fall for if they did, they would be killed from hitting the pavement of the busy road below.
Michelangelo almost fell, but managed to flip over and began to continue to walk across the rope, upside down.
As soon as they managed to make it across, they stood on the side of the building and then April contacted them through the Shell Cells, "Guys! This isn't going to work!"
"What's the problem guys?" Donnie asked.
"We don't recognise the technology. Nothing makes sense in here!" April answered, slightly panicking. "Which means Tucker and I can't turn off the roof alarms or the cameras!"
None of them were expecting this. Mikey then asked nervously, "Uh…anybody got a plan B?"
"Guys, we'll handle the camera. Just get the alarm and signatures off any way you can." Donnie said to Tucker and April.
"I just hope Casey's and Sam's distraction is still working." Danny said.
"Don't come whining to me if we all get captured, tortured and stuff." April muttered.
"A floor plan would be nice. I'll check out this weird computer and see if I can access it." Tucker said as he walked over to what seemed like a computer and touched the screen.
Suddenly, some kind of weird language appeared on the screen and a bright light appeared in the tube behind the screen and before they knew it, the light shot out and created a medium sized hologram of the building.
"I so want one of those." Tucker said in complete awe.
"That is so cool." April commented, also amazed by the technology that was just displayed in front of their eyes. "Now we just gotta figure out how to turn off the roof sensors and the ecto sensors."
April gently touched the roof part of the hologram and it suddenly dimmed down and a robotic voice spoke, "Roof and ecto sensors off."
"Guys, you're good to go." April told Danny and the Turtles.
Back at the front desk, Casey was still fighting with the main security guard, while the other as ducking behind the desk, trying to keep out of the way. Sam continued her act of trying to calm Casey down.
The woman suddenly noticed something on the roof's security camera. A pigeon was flying in front of it.
The pigeon in front of the camera, wasn't even real. It was merely Donnie holding a pigeon puppet in front of the camera.
Danny took a picture of the background with a Polaroid camera and waited for the photo to come out. Once the picture was clear, he attached the photo to the security camera and when Donnie moved the puppet, all the woman could see now was the background of NYC.
"I don't know what bothers me more. That this thing actually works, or that Don carries around a pigeon puppet." Mikey said, looking both at the trick they played and Donnie strangely.
"Dad stop! Please stop! We'll just buy another toaster!" Sam continued to shout, while Casey continued his act.
He even smashed a statue made of glass!
Raph kicked down the top of the ventilation shaft, but stopped when he found that it was blocked off. There wasn't even a hole.
"Hey. It's a fake. What kind of people would put a fake vent on the roof?" Raph wondered.
"The kind that wants this place to look normal." Donnie answered.
"So now what do we do?" Mikey asked.
"We cut through a window." Leo answered.
A minute later, Danny and the Turtles were climbing down the side of the building using suction caps. They stopped at a window and then Donnie, pulled out a small device and placed it on the window.
The device activated and a blade came out, spinning in circles and trying to create a hole for them to go through, but it wasn't even cutting through. Donnie removed the device and then Danny tried using his ecto energy like a laser to cut through the glass, but even that didn't even make a dent in the glass.
"What kind of window is this?" Danny asked.
"I don't know. My device is made of diamond edge blades and it didn't even scratch the surface. Looks like this is no ordinary window glass." Donnie answered, feeling the glass of the window with curiosity.
"We better think of something, cause' who knows how long that bag happy idiot can keep it up in the lobby. Even with Sam helping him." Raph said, as they began to climb back up.
Casey was now smashing against the control desk, shouting in rage, "What kind of customer service?!"
"Dad! That's enough!" Sam shouted.
"I refuse to be treated this way! ATTICA! ATTICA!" Casey roared, while still smashing the control desk.
Both the guards stood next to each other and for one moment, Sam noticed their eyes had glowed before dimming down. One of the guards pulled out some kind of remote control device and pressed the button. Casey and Sam watched as suddenly, metal doors came down and blocked not only the door but the windows as well.
Before Casey could react, the second guard came up and grabbed the bat and ripped it right out of Casey's hands, before kicking the desk right out from under his feet and causing him to fall to the floor. Sam gasped and stood right over besides Casey's side.
They both watched as suddenly the guard, snapped Casey's bat in half like it was paper and threw it to the ground as the first guard rejoined her by her side.
"Uh guys….things are not what they seem in here." Sam whispered to Danny and the Turtles through the Shell Cell.
"Just keep them busy guys. How tough can a couple of guards be?" Raph replied.
The two guards suddenly pulled out what looked like small metal rods. The rods expanded and both of the rods began to glow and spark with electricity.
"I think we're about to find out." Casey said nervously and fearfully.
"April, Tucker, the roof and the windows are no go." Donnie said to Tucker and April through the Shell Cells.
"Okay. Just hang on guys. Well try and find you another way in." April responded.
"Computer, find us an entrance point." Tucker commanded the computer.
A small light started showing on one of the windows of the holographic building and then the computer replied, "Exhaust cover. Currently active."
"Hey guys, I think we found you an entrance. There's some kind of exhaust opening on the west side of the building. Just on the ninth floor." Tucker said to Danny and the Turtles.
"We'll check it out. Thanks." Leo replied.
Danny and the Turtles went to the window according to Tucker's instructions. Raph the said when he couldn't see anything, "There's nothing here."
"Wait a minute. Can you guys hear that?" Danny asked.
Leo listened carefully and understood what Danny was saying and said, "Air's coming out."
He waved his hand on the side and could feel the wind and said, "You can feel it too."
"Amazing! Maybe it's some kind of hologram." Donnie suggested.
"Yeah finally! A way in." Mikey said and put his hand on the window and in an instant, it went right through.
"Mikey wait! / Stop!" Danny and the Turtles all shouted, but Mikey fell in and stopped halfway through the window.
Mikey saw what seemed like a normal hallway, but suddenly a huge amount of energy formed and started coming right at Mikey.
With a yell of fright, Mikey pulled himself right out of there, just as the energy came shooting out of the window. However Mikey was wobbling now that he was off balance.
"Mikey!" Donnie shouted and held out his hand to catch his brother as he fell.
However, Mikey crashed right into Donnie and the two screamed as they began to fall, heading for the hard pavement below.
"GUYS! NOOOOOO!" Danny, Leo and Raph shouted.
TO BE CONTINUED…