Jessica returned back to her base and was still mumbling absurdities under her breath. Man, those people and turtles though, she was trying to remember their situation and have some empathy for them. But holy mother of hell, they were stubborn, hard headed, asinine and she was having a hard time keeping her cool.

Maranda came up to Jess, "Peace time over?"

"Peace time over" Jessica nodded.

Maranda, surprisingly enough, looked bummed out because of that, liking the down time as much as the rest of her family.

"Well, on the bright side. We got any peace time. Because let's face it, relaxation and peace doesn't usually last as long as it did." Jessica pointed out. It kind of sucked, how true that statement was. But compared to their past, a year and a half of no fighting? That was insanely good.

"Based on our track, record Striker is right." Bre pursed her lips in agreement.

"So what are we up against." Carrie asked, going straight to the point. She wasn't one to beat around the bush.

"Turtle dragons. That's not even the hard part. Hard part will be us containing them without hurting them. They are being brainwashed. But we don't know by who."

"Can't we just drain them? If they are what we've been feeling, they are Elemental." Megan countered, crossing her arms. Something was putting her on edge. Jessica somehow knew that even Megan didn't know what it was yet. She had some sympathy for her cousin, she always kept things in unless you pried them from her. And it wasn't like a: "oh what is wrong and she spills" It was a: "almost on the verge of needing to beat it out of her." So frustrating sometimes!

"We don't know their cores or entities well enough. We could kill them if we aren't careful. So. Let's not risk that"

"And how are our new team mates?" Bre asked. Oh, she freaking knew the frustration spike in her sister. This turd was just rubbing it in now, and Jess wasn't appreciating it.

"Charming." Jessica huffed.

"Come on Striker, don't go all hard hearted on them. Their mates are running around causing havoc unwillingly. They're just scared and angry." Bailey pointed out. She looked far more empathetic, she would be the most out of all of them. Bailey tended to be more understanding, she was vital that way. Better with handling distressed civilians, or super soldier ladies and ninja turtles that were about to tear the countryside apart single handedly.

"You're right. They don't know how to shut their emotions down like we do. I should be a little more sensitive. I'd murder a bitch if someone brainwashed Nemesis." Jessica said, dark look in her eyes.

"We'll make it up to them." Bailey assured. And when she promised something like that, she stuck to it, she had a good heart.

"Didn't the hot headed youngling find Chaos crystal?" Bre queried, crossing her arms and eyeing her sister.

"Yeah... About that. Not. A. Fucking. Word. Or we'll never get this mission, and with the stubborn streak I have been getting out of this group, they will take everything on their own. Stubborn women." She eyed her team. Bre merely snorted at her sister, hoping she was just kidding around with the tone of that statement.

"Something amusing you sis?" Jess questioned

"So pretty much what you are saying is that they are anything close to us personality wise?"

Jessica caught on. "Yeah. Unfortunately."

"Just depends on the situation dear sister. Come on, let's go meet up with them."

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When the distraught turtle wives finally gathered in the rec room, the rest of the children had already gathered. And worried expressions were to be found on all of their faces.

"Mom!" Ari was trying not to cry as she ran to Caitlin and threw her arms around her mother. "What's going on? Why is Daddy out there...doing that..."

Caitlin held her blonde, pink masked turtle daughter close, her own eyes once again filling with moisture. "I don't know pumpkin...I don't..."

Lavi was also holding tight to her mother by now, also trying not to cry. Lavi's lavender eye band was moist with tears of worry she had already shed. Vicky just wrapped her arms around the girl, not knowing what to say to comfort her. "Mom.. What do we do..." Vicky shook her head as she pulled her daughter tighter against her. Her brown eyes closed tightly to hold back the tears.

Dante was sitting at a nearby table, furiously working hard on the laptop placed in front of him. If he was trying to solve this puzzle, or just trying to keep his mind occupied, none of them could really tell. His yellow masked eyes never left the screen his focus was on it so hard. He didn't even look up to greet his mother as Marina walked over to him.

Grey masked Ty and black masked Thane struggled to keep their own composure they had managed to find at the sight of the distraught females. But both of them had their fists tightly clenched at their sides. Someone was going to pay for this, just as soon as they could figure out where to send the bill.

Jessica walked into the rec room calmly talking to Lennox and a tall black haired gentleman. Vicky looked over the group as they came in, trying to read something from all these strangers. She had to admit, she was having a very hard time with this. Will trusted this bunch apparently enough to have them help, but yet Vicky knew nothing of them. It left a very bitter taste in her mouth that Leo's well being was depending on a bunch of strangers.

Her eyes watched as they all filed in and her eyes stopped at the tall man Will and Jessica were still talking to. He had piercing red eyes, obviously a holoform, but was he a Decepticon? Obviously defected if that was the case. Jessica was fully geared up with an AK strapped to her back still and there was a gaggle of girls following her in a professional manner. A very young looking, like, middle school looking, blonde had Sniper secured to her back, she was even shorter than Jessica. And not by an inch or two, she came up by about 4'9, but there was something of an ambiance about her.

Another had brown hair and brown eyes, she seemed more calm, and collected, and all in all, nicer to be around.

While the second in command looking girl had brown hair and green eyes, looked like Jessica but much taller, like, a whole hell of a lot taller.

One had a chilling presence, like she has seen and lived through the worst of the worse, she had an eerie air to her, she was pretty with a short blonde pixie cut and piercing blue eyes.

Last one had hazel eyes, and hair that stopped with at her shoulders, she was a dishwater blonde, looked like she was pretty much on the same boat as the blonde, but hid it behind a mischievous attitude.

And all of them a puzzle as far as Vicky was concerned. She still didn't fully understand why Will thought bringing this bunch in would do any good.

"So that's all I got, the family wants to come along." Jessica finished briefing her boss.

"That's fine. Let them go. Anything else?"

"No sir, that's it." Jessica replied smoothly, on the inside? She did not like lying at all, and usually sucked at it unless it was with an enemy.

"We clear to head out yet?" the eager yet annoyed looking blonde asked.

"As long as you have given us all your Intel, I don't see a problem with you heading out. Just be careful, all of you" Nemesis eyed Jessica the hardest with a firm expression, even his holoform could look intimidating. But to be honest his intimidating expressions weren't scary to her, she thought they were pretty sexy if anything, everyone else? That was a different story, she knew that by the twitchiness of her cousins and sister. Jessica smiled at her husband, he was going to be able to see right past it, but by god she would try.

"We will." Jessica walked up to the turtle wives and teens before any mannerisms gave her away.

"See...Will knows us better than to try and pull that stunt…" Now that the N.E.S.T soldiers were close enough, the female hot headed lady, Cris? Yeah. She decided to open her mouth.

Marina slapped her shoulder

"Just stop it already. We've already had that argument."

"Well, we don't know you. Pretty good excuse to us" Maranda retorted. She watched Cris, she was sizing her up, but not like a normal person would, to her, sizing people up was an art form, and she knew how to do it. She knew several techniques and ways to figure out how a person ticks, and Jessica was strongly disapproving of the fact she was doing it on the woman.

"Maranda, we so don't need this right now, save it for the enemy." On both parts! Maranda grumbled, eyeing the new part of her team with irritation.

"See how this mission is going to go." she huffed. Then glared at Bre after the young second in command slapped her cousin upside the head, giving her a warning glare.

"Ow."

"Are we ready to head out?" She needed to get her team out of here before her hot head went trigger happy.

"No, we're not ready." Jessica doesn't believe she had met this young turtle that spoke.

"What are you doing now?" Thane asked, looking over the shoulder of his cousin

"Making it easier to find them." He turned his laptop around to show his little presentation and theory. "They've been hitting chemical supply trains and warehouses...right?"

"From what the news tells us...yes." Thane agreed.

"All the trains hit have been in this area." He circled one of his three fingers around an area of a map he had up.

"And there is another shipment scheduled to go through soon. How much do you want to bet they are waiting in the surrounding countryside to pick that one off too?"

"Makes sense to me" Carrie was giving the computer screen a thoughtful look.

"Oi. Ladies and turtles? The team: Carrie, Bailey, Maranda, Megan, and my second in command, Bre

"They are known as the Suicide squad. They never work with anyone so try to be patient with them when it comes to their social skills" Will added, with that little smart ass remark. Jerk

"Oh screw you Will." Jessica grumbled

"This mission will either be very successful with you guys on a team or will go right in the crapper. So try to have a little sensitivity to the situation." Jessica looked about ready to rip him a new ass hole but paused, and bit her tongue. "Yes sir" she all but growled Lennox nodded.

"So Dante, where are they hitting next?" Will asked, looking at Donnie's son. Elementals listened while they loaded up their guns and did the necessary press checks, and quick examinations. On the other hand, Cris was STILL glaring at Maranda.

"How about I shove that AK down your throat?" to which, Marina smacked her on the arm with a firm expression on her face. "Will you quit!" She snapped.

Maranda just watched Cris with a cool expression, she was irritated at the women, but she knew when to strike.

Thane gave his mother a knowing look as he turned his head towards Cris. "Yeah...apparently we need to work on our social skills too."

Without missing a beat Cris took out her hanbo and popped him on the back of the legs with it. Her eyes never left Maranda's while she did it either. Oh boy...

"Ow! Damn it Mom!"

Vicky just rubbed her forehead as she listened to the impending argument. "Lord... Look. Can we all at least pretend to get along?" She plopped herself on the couch, clearly not wanting to deal with this right now. All she wanted to do was go out and find Leo and the others.

Ty just rolled his eyes over the bickering on both sides. "I'm Titian. My sister Lavinia. The practice dummy over there is Thane, the computer guy Dante and this is my little cousin Arianne. The temperamental lady over there using Thane for a practice dummy is my Aunt Cris, the one next to her Aunt Marina, And Aunt Caitlin here, and my mother Vicky." he finished with a sigh, his face taking on that worried expression again that had been plaguing them all night. "I'd introduce you to our fathers...but that's going to have to wait."

Megan watched them, her disposition could easily be misread as cold and heartless, she was aware of that. But she merely watched them curiosity, specifically the younger turtles, and turned to her cousin, murmuring lowly in a different language. "Is it just me? or do they look familiar somehow?"

Maranda looked back at her. Still looking irritated from her encounter with Cris, she responded just as quietly. "I think I'd remember them if we met them." She almost said the statement with a hiss, in the same language. Megan rolled her eyes, deciding that she would talk to her after she calmed down and was thinking properly.

Jessica smiled sympathetically yet amused at Thane, before she looked back at Ty. "You'll be able to introduce us soon enough. Promise. But we'll need to head out in order to get anywhere with this." She pointed out. But, of course, things can never go as smoothly as they should, or at the very minimum: how everyone wants them to go.

"What is that?" Nemesis's holoform pointed.

Jess followed his gaze to a small fraction of Chaos crystal that fell from some of the older ninja turtle gear and on to the ground

"A rock." She just stared at it, and not at him, because she knew the look he was giving her. Shit. All anger disappeared from her cousins, and sister, they all casually froze up.

"So you can pick it up and bring it outside?" Oh, he was so not buying it. He crossed his arms and gave Jess a critical look she stared back at him, picking up the "rock" and moved it to her palm so no one can see the flesh of her palm burn. Thankfully, none of the others were really watching, and were too glued to Dante's computer, or so she hoped, anyway, she walked over to the door to throw it out.

"Just a rock." She reasoned.

"Then let me see your palm that was just steaming a moment ago."

"Oh for Christ's sake Nemesis!"

It was then that Dante decided to get to his feet and walk in between the irritated couple, completely oblivious to their squabble as he looked at the laptop. Jess wasn't complaining, it was a freaking distraction after all.

"The way it looks Will, the area we need to bridge to is near here," he looked a little amused "a place called: Manhattan in Kansas."

Vicky slapped her palm to her forehead at that bit of information. "Now isn't that ironic from hell..."

"In more ways than one." Cris chuckled in agreement.

"I thought you might catch on Aunt Vic." Dante grinned at her. Now that they had a direction, and something resembling a plan forming, their mood was starting to brighten. They still worried for the missing turtles, a lot, but it wasn't that crippling fear anymore.

Jess ignored Neme's seething look and paid attention to the laptop.

"Well alright. Let's move." she announced.

Megan suddenly stiffened a little, as if listening to something. "And fast"

"Change in plans. You're not going. Not yet" Nemesis all but growled, giving Jessica a firm look.

"Neme, we have to go there now to get them, we'll be playing catch up trying to figure out where they are going to hit next." she insisted, more pleadingly than angrily.

"We'll find another way." he insisted, still fuming.

"There is not other way you hard headed mech!" Jessica crossed her arms at him, going into full sass mode.

"You'll remain here. Promise me." Jessica did a facepalm and ran her hand down her face, then put her hands behind her back and looked at him with heavy amounts of irritation, then looked at Will pleadingly, trying to get some backup against her stubborn ass husband.

"I'm not going against one of the boss bots." Will gave her a straight face, but it also silently asked if she was crazy too.

"Oh come the hell on!" Jess fumed as Nemesis' holoform flickered out.

"We don't have time for this!" Vicky also fumed at the argument. Their mood hadn't improved that much. Any delay to her and the others was going to be met with fierce resistance, a point proven when she stomped out of the rec room and towards the ground bridge. Her family quickly moved to follow, until Ty stopped.

"Oh no sis." He firmly told Lavi. "You aren't coming."

"The hell I'm not!" She flared back at him, her face angry.

"That's right. You're not. You have no business out there."

Vicky looked at her daughter with curiosity at this exchange. She fully knew her daughter was just as capable as the rest of them, so why would Ty insist that she stay behind? She might be a valuable asset.

Lavi apparently wasn't going to give up without a fight either. "He's my father too!" Her blue/brown eyes were now flaring in anger.

But Ty wasn't so easily intimidated by that glare as he calmly looked back at her and crossed his arms. "And you are also carrying his grandchild. You are staying here."

The wide eyed looks her family gave her sealed her fate. There was no way now they were going to let her go with them. Not after hearing that. The defeated girl shook in her anger as she stared her brother down, and he still didn't budge on the matter. Then, purely out of the frustration she now felt mixed with her anger at having been so bluntly ratted out in this crucial moment, she slapped him. The echo of the sound lost in her emotional outburst that followed.

"You did that on purpose you asshole! I wasn't going to tell them yet!" Tears ran down her face before she abruptly turned and ran back into the rec room.

Her twin let out a long, slow sigh as he rubbed the cheek she just nailed. "I should have seen that coming."

"Yup." Thane agreed as he watched her go. "You shoulda."

Vicky just closed her eyes and shook her head. "Let's just go..." She sighed.

Jessica frowned as Lavi made her exit, then hit her comm before muttering into it real quickly. Bre smiled at her sis, she was getting a little more sensitive to the situation, a milestone, and she was proud of her.

"You softy" translation: I'm proud of you. Hey, they were still rough, tough military girls with a rep.

"Shut your mouth." Translation: thank you "And you!" She pointed at Lennox with a firm glare

"I know I'm not going to like this." Will knew what she was about to do, and although he was happy with her enthusiasm, this was not how he wanted to go about this.

"Blind eye Lennox" Jessica threatened.

"Either way, he's going to know you're gone and you're going to get massive brig time" Will promised.

Bre was on it, getting to work on her own comm. "Not if he's distracted with the terror twins and Blaster having a massive prank war against him." she innocently pointed out

"If I have to buff dings and scratches out of my poor mech, then all of the above will know true pain." Jessica promised in a dark and serious tone.

"It'll mostly be paint products." Bre shrugged.

"Alright, that should be ok, Let's go!" She lead Vicky and her group to the tarmac and kept moving, hitting her comm. "Jazz, bridge please! And hurry!" Clayshah sent the coordinates Dante so kindly provided. Ah, there was prowl, across the tarmac, and closing in. Shit... But thankfully, the ground bridge opened, and Striker quickly lead the way through. Maranda was dragging a very hesitant Megan along, threw her in, did a round off, in the middle of the round off, she through a smokescreen bomb at Prowl. Then went through the ground bridge whooping, and all the other girls of Jessica's grouped followed her. Prowl immediately had to stop, it wasn't an ordinary smoke bomb, it was one that blew some electrical out, but mainly the strange currents spazzed out his telemetry… Coincidence? Oh hell naw fam. But he kept up his velocity, speeding towards the remainder turtle family, remembering at least the area they were in.

Thane just looked at the speeding bot with amusement on his smug face "You haven't caught any of us yet and you're not going to today either!"

"Done this a time or two?" His mother asked him with a raised brow.

"...Maybe..."

Then with a burst off speed the turtle family joined their partners in crime through the ground bridge, and whatever waited on the other side.

And Lavi had no idea what would happen. Her Father was out there, causing all kinds of havoc, and now her family went out there to stop those rampaging dragons...and she was stuck here. She couldn't do a damn thing to help. All she could do was lay in this couch and cry.

Suddenly she felt a strong embrace around her and she clung to the unseen figure tightly. Those arms tightened themselves as they tried to give her comfort. "It'll be ok, Lavi." Elita's calm voice reached the distressed girl as she began to rock her. "Shh. It'll all be ok."