April ran to the living room where she heard a thud. She grabbed a nearby broom and looked into the living room to see a shadowy figure getting up from the ground. The figure looked familiar, but she didn't think about it.

"All right, who are you?" April said coming out of hiding. "Don't try hiding, I know you're here."

The figure started to chuckle darkly and quietly. Then it got louder and darkly out of nowhere, spooking April, who was shaking as well.

"Ohhhhhhhh, April, you think a broom will stop me?"

The voice was dark and treatening. The figure had a sparkle on something on his what April assumed was his belt. April knew that to well. He had a katana, so April had to be careful.

The figure and April circled each other as the room suddenly turned pitch black, waiting for the other to strike. After a while, the figure smirked in the darkness and disappeared. April gasped as the figure appeared in closer to it.

"Let me tell you something, April!"

The figure took out his katana and jabbed April in her stomach. April gasped as he continued this in various places of her body.

"THE TURTLES ARE MY FRIENDS!" The figure yelled while stabbing April. "I WILL NOT SEE ANY COMPATITION ABOVE ME! THIS WILL JUST BE A MESSAGE TO YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR LITTLE BOYFRIEND!"

When he stabbed her for the dozenth time, April dropped down on her back as blood was oozing from her body. All she heard before fading into darkness was the dark laughter of the figure that she realized looked a lot...like...

-The next day-

There was a scream though out of the lair that awoke everyone. The turtles came out of their rooms with their weapons, along with Splinter and Gen. Casey was in the living room, looking at the ground with a horrified look.

"Casey, what going on in-OH MY GOD!" Don yelled as they all looked terrorfied at what they saw on the ground.

It was April, lying in a large pool of her own blood. Her eyes were still open, and they had a dead look in them.

None of them had anything to say. Donnie and Mikey had tears in their eyes, Gen, Raph, Splinter, and Leo looked like they were about to throw up, and Casey just wanted to get on his knees and cry. In fact, that's what he did.

"Casey, I-It's ok." Don said, trying to comforting him.

Casey pushed Don away with an angry look.

"NO DON!" Casey said with an aggresive tone. "I'M GONNA LOOK FOR DA PERSON WHO DID DIS AND TAR' HIM LIMB FROM LIMB!"

"You won't know where to start looking." Leo said inspecting his dead friend's person, even though he didn't want even touch her blood. "There's no mark or anything that tells us who killed her."

"WELL, SOMEBODY'S HAD TO DO IT!" Casey yelled as he ran to the door. "I'M GONNA GO OUT DER' AND BUST SOME HEADS UNTIL I KNOW WHO IT IS!"

While Don and Leo tried to calm down, and Splinter and Gen was wrapping up April's body, Raph noticed something.

"Wait a min'te," Raph said looked around. "Gen, Wheh's Usagi?"

Gen looked at Raph and shrugged.

"Dunno, he wasn't in his bed." He said as he continued with April's body.

Raph was rubbing his chin in suspision until a voice said

"Sorry everyone,"

They all looked at Usagi, who was holding HipHop in his arms while they folded into his sleeves.

"I was spending some time outside, I guess I fell asleep in the sewers." Usagi said rubbing the back of his head.

Mikey tooked a sniff and immeadiatly held his nose.

"We can smell that, dube." He said as his eyes started to water a little.

"Don't joke now, Mikey." Leo said sternly. "This can't be a more inappropriate time."

Usagi tried to look confused.

"What do you mean, Leonardo?" He asked in his best curious voice. But the turtles could hear some fakeness.

Leo ignored it and spoke up.

"Someone murdered April right from under our noses last night." Leo said. "Did you see anyone or anything last night?"

Usagi shook his head.

"No, when I was leaving, I didn't even see a shadow." He said.

"Really?" Raph said in a skeptical tone while looking down at HipHop. "If HipHop's wit' you, you wer' obiviously in da the livin' room."

"Yes, but when I was there, I saw nothing." Usagi said. "It must have happened after I left."

Raph doubt that, but left it alone for now.

"Usagi, Why do you have HipHop anyway?" Mikey said.

Usagi shrugged.

"I've taking a liking to the little one." Usagi said. "Almost as if it's...part of me."

Leo noticed the creepiness in Usagi's voice. Usagi yawned.

"Well, I think I'm going to, as you say, hit the hay for a few hours." He said walked out of the room without even a 'goodbye' or 'see you soon'.

The turtles looked at his direction.

"W-What was that about?" Mikey asked.

"He sounded like he didn't even care." Don said.

Raph called over Gen, who just gave April to Casey.

"Hey Gen, has Usagi ev'r like plushies 'r stuffed animals?" Raph asked.

"Beat's me." Gen said. "I met Usagi when we were adults, but he's ever show interest in them, far as I'm concerned."

With that, Gen walked away. The turtles looked at each other. Something wasn't right, and they need to found out what.