The fog from the streets began to rise and form dark clouds as the many high-rise buildings and other workplaces stared down the two toons walking up to the gate that kept all toons and cogs separate…the gate to Cognation. Everything seemed it was dumped with an assortment of gray paints and oils to give it a more industrial look but with a sprinkle of modernism. No one new how long Cognation was…but surely you would be lost just like if you were in a city. Once you got over the gate there were roads…tons of roads that led to all and most of the buildings and housing that was available for all.

Occasionally, there would be ads displayed on the billboards encouraging cogs to join and defeat the dread toons of toontown to which Dash scoffed at and threw a pie. As they went deeper into the heart of cognation Splinter on the other hand got more and more nervous, waiting for the inevitable cog to call them out and catch and destroy them with ease. Just as he turned to say something to Dash he was soon already facing him an excited look on his face as he stepped aside and pointed to what would seem the tallest building in the world.

"That's gotta be the chairmans office, and just to think we could probably just waltz right up in there steal some documents and save toontown with ease."

"I-I wouldn't get your hopes up…" Splinter slowly pointed to a couple of medium leveled cogs that were guarding the door asking for clearance from other cogs that entered. Dash shrugged his shoulders in response before noticing the tower of smoke, which most likely identified as a factory he started to formulate an idea.

"I bet…some of these factories got some spare suits we can borrow to sneak in…don't cha' think?" he had a wicked smile already walking into the alley which seemed like a shortcut to said factory as the rabbit followed closely behind. "Maybe if we work there for three days we can discover a secret plan, warn Flipster, and be unbanned."

"What we should be worrying about is how come there's not any cogs on the streets?"

"Their probably too busy being worked to death…or a lunch break." He replied just as a high pitched alarm went off. Quickly their attention turned back to the chairman's office as a toon stumbled and quickly ran in their direction already making quite a distance while two cogs cased after them. Quickly, Dash and Splinter ducked behind some boxes as the toon came running past before hoping on top of Splinters box and placed his teleport hole onto the ground before pulling out a ladder.

"H-Hey what are you doing?!"

"I call this a disappearing act along with a switch…oh can you hold this in the air for a minute, thanks."

The bear smiled shoving a book towards Splinter as he started climbing the ladder, he soon jumped off it going straight thru the teleport hole disappearing as the ladder fell.

"Couldn't he just hop through the portal; I mean come on…" Dash groaned annoyed crawling into a trashcan instead as Splinter shrugged his shoulders before looking at the book. Just as he flipped it to the cover page immediately bright lights were on him and he was once again lifted into the air.

'I believe this book belongs to the boss thank you for your cooperation.' The Robber Baron smirked snatching said book out his hands before tossing it to the Big Cheese that stood beside him that looked more than eager to end Splinters life.

"I-I but that wasn't- I didn't- "

'Your friend may have escaped but I guess you'll have to suffer the fault of your toony actions. Now, what should we do with you…' he tightened his grip on Splinters neck as he clawed at his hands hoping in some way he would eventually let go. 'Have any ideas co-partner?'

'I'm quite positive the research and development lab would love to have a new test subject…wouldn't they Mr. Rabbit.' His voiced dip down to add a hint of dread to scare him as in fact it did work as Splinter immediately started shaking as he occasionally darted his eyes to the trash can then back to the cog. This caught the Big Cheese's attention as he smirked darkly. 'Got one of your little buddies hiding in here?' he kicked the trash can over as only papers spilled out causing Splinter quite a shock as he started looking around.

"H-HE WAS RIGHT IN THERE!"

'How about this…you turn in the book for the cash reward and ill drop this…rabbit off at the lab? Sounds like a plan?' he stook his hand out as the two cogs switched items as Splinter was instantly caught in a tight hold the wind knocked out of him as soon as he got a chance to breath. The cogs soon parted ways both having their own motive in mind as the alley was soon declared empty.

Well was empty, until a trashcan soon fell over and a teal cat crawled out of it gasping for air. He quickly stood up dusting himself off while looking around in the alley. It took a couple of seconds before he realized what had just happened before his response was to shrug his shoulders and walk on to the factory before he fell through the teleport hole the bear had forgot to pick up. He landed on what would seem like a plush carpet as he looked up to see the bear sitting on a couch in front of him sipping tea.

"Oh there you- hey where did the other one go?"

"Who? Oh Splint-ears…yeah I think he got mistaken for your crimes or whatever so he's gonna be a lab experiment now." Dash replied taking a cup of tea as well before chugging it down as the bear looked at Dash questionably.

"Not gonna save him, or beat me up at least…I mean technically it's your guys fault for not jumping in with me…that was the plan."

"First of all, it was your plan, we had no idea it was even a plan to begin with and second of all no, not yet anyway…plus how I don't have a suit." The cat sighed putting the cup down as he looked around the room. It was actually quite nice but it wasn't better than the comfort of his own home. He peered at the bookcase noticing stuff about cogs and how to file papers as he started questioning the bear. Instead, he looked out the window to see that instead of it being a house, instead it was an apartment complex. Just by looking at the ground he could tell they were probably five stories high, but the worse part was that they were still in Cognation.

"I have a very important question and you better answer correctly and honestly!" The cat said sternly turning around in one swift motion. "Are you a cog?!"