Ch.3: On The Other Side

The sweet scent of the madgonda trees floated on the gentle winds of Japan. A slight rain was falling, but that didn't bother Leonardo as he sat meditating on top of a high mountian. Something strange had been bothering him lately. It felt like something terrible was about to happen and happen soon.

The Ancient One stared at his lone pupil from a distance instantly knowing that his student was feeling worried. Caustiously the Ancient One spoke "Something has been troubling you my student,"

Raph hadn't been the only one training since the team split up, Leo had been too. Ever since the gang defeated the Shredder Leo traveled to Japan to trian with the Ancient One. It was tough work, but worth the effort.

Leo turned to see the Ancient One standing behind him and took a deep breath before speaking. "I've had this weird feeling lately that something strange...something bad is fixing to happen over in New York."

"Yes" nodded the Ancient One "I have felt it as well. Something terrible and unexpected is about to happen in New York. I'm afriad the time has come for you to reunite with your family. I cannot keep you here any longer,"

"But how will I find them?" asked Leo " I know where Raph is, but what about Mikey and Don?"

"Patience monkey-turtle" said the Ancient One " and remember that the past often predicts the future,"

As soon as the sun shone over the horizon the next day, Leo left to look for his brothers. Following what the Ancient One had told him the day before Leo looked back on the conflict that had caused the turtles to seperate in the begining.

After the Shredder's defeat none of the turtles really agreed with each other about what they should do now that the Shredder was finally gone. Raph had suspected that Karia was planning something big and wanted to stay in New York just in chase she decided to cause any trouble. Leo didn't know that Raph's predictions were fixing to come true in the times to come, but he would find that out later.

Looking for Mikey was like searching through a needle in a haystack. With a personality like Mikey's just about anyone could disappear. So that left Donny. Donatello had always said he had wanted to work for a famous computer company. Last time Leo checked West Labortories had a big boom in product production, so that was most likely where Donny would go.

The main factory for West Labortories was in a secret location located somewhere near Austin, Texas. Figures Don would start at the head of the company. Approaching the office Leo waved to the manager and asked if anyone by the name of 'Donatello' had been working for them lately, saying he was a cousin.

The manager nodded and said :Yes, Don has been a great help to our company...although he rarely shows his face to guests. He sends his ideas to me and I pay him by mail. I wish he work on par with us here at the lab, but I understand sciencetists. They never want to leave thier work. Here's the address, I got a business meeting, caio,"

Following the address carefully Leo soon found himself in front of an old, run-down business apartment. The purple-masked turtle quickly put away whatever he was working on when he saw Leo standing in the doorway.

"Leo, It's been a long time" said Don "but what are you doing here?"

"Something strange is fixing to happen to New York" said Leo " we have to find Mikey and reunite with Rapheal and Master Splinter,"

"Finding Mikey won't be to hard" said Don picking up an old poster from the floor " look at this,"

Leo studied the poster, his eyes widening as he read it. A picture of Mikey riding a flame-pianted skateboard while jumping off a high ramp was posted on the poster with the words: COSTUMED DEVIL SHOWS HIS SPECTATULAR STUNTS AT THIS WEEK'S GRAND TOUR OF THE WORLD FAMOUS X-GAMES!

Don tried to hide his smile as he saw Leo's reaction to the piece of poster. "Obivously" Don sighed "it's seems like Mike has become a world famous skateboarder since we broke apart,"

"The last day of the tour is over in Hollywood, California" said Leo staring at the poster then looked at his brother Don "let's go,"

The air was bursting with excited cheers as the crowds roared for one spectacular stunt after another. The Costumed Devil approached the stage, flaming skateboard in hand and waved to the thuderous crowd. A thousand screams of excitement lit up the air and a rush of adrenaline rushed through the orange-masked turtle's veins.

Hidden deep within the cheering aduidence, Leo and Don watched as their fun loving brother performed stunt after stunt. The space between the two turtles and the crowd became even more noisy as the sound of the over-excited cheers grew even louder.

Moving to a less 'crowded' location Don and Leo watched as Mikey finished a stunning 360 degree flip and bowed to the adiudence making even more cheers explode from the crowd. Mike's eyes finally landed on Leo and Don as he saw them waving from the shadows of the stands.

Not waiting for the announcer to say what a fantastic job he did Mikey rushed over to his Bros.

"What are you guys doing here?" asked Mikey.

Again Leo explianed the situation and Mikey agreed to join them for the trip home. As soon as possible the brothers jumped aboard a plane and started flying home to New York City.

Meanwhile, night time had fell once agian upon the Big Apple. As usaul Raph was on his nightly patrol of the city seeing if Karia and her goons planned on making anymore robberies tonight. A Foot ninja was positioned in a sqauwt on a nearby rooftop, just across from Rapheal, a bow and arrow in his hands.

As soon as Raph stopped moving to take a rest the silent ninja pulled back the bowstring and let the arrow fly. And it was flying striaght to Rapheal's head!