Maranda walked back out of the woods while everyone else was watching the dragons fly off with disappointment and for others, devastation.

"I am going to drop that bitch ass mother fucking cum stained cock sucker into next Tuesday!" Maranda roared. Her cousins couldn't help but to let out a soft chuckle at her. She was just strolling along, pulling twigs from her hair and glared at Raph as he took off, still barely within sight him and his brothers were so far away.

"Yeah you better fly bitch!" She called. Great, competition between the hotheads, anyone else seeing that go down the drain faster than a snail race? Wait, those are actually a thing, they even made a movie out of it. We are getting way off topic here...

Megan tailed her cousin angrily, and swatted her upside the head, hard.

"We're not here to make anymore rivalries then we already have! So knock it off!" she gave her cousin a seething look.

Maranda had to hold her head with both hands because the smack was so hard, she looked at the girl called Aqua with shock, the rest of the NEST girls did too.

"You sure you're alright Aqua?"

"...yes Supereon."

"We'll talk about it back on base. We can't follow them. Yet. It's pointless when we don't know how to get through to them. But now we know more of what we're dealing with. But we will get them back." Jessica promised. She had wanted to fight, so did her sister, but they don't know how much the turtles can really take. She knew it was probably a lot since they did a pretty dang good job holding their own in this fight. But Jess has seen angry turtles wives and children, she wasn't risking it. Plus she would feel guilty if something were to happen to them, she liked their personalities, even brainwashed they weren't so bad.

"Yeah, it's personal now. If I see that Bishop guy again? I'll fucking skin him." Bailey growled. This is one of the more peaceful cousins! She is going to skin Bishop! You know you gone done fucked the hell up!

Maranda and Carrie watched Bailey, not necessarily scared but they were sure as hell taking her seriously, backing up a little while they examined their pissed cousin.

"Dante. You know what that train was carrying?" Jessica was glad her cousins were going to put their heart and soul into this, Jessica just wanted to solve this mystery on how to bring the turtles back and back to her original goal.

"Another chemical." The teen answered. "I'll see if I can get you a full manifest once we get back of everything that was taken and what they tried to take here."

Thane was looking at the previously so cocky Maranda with a smug look. "Dad isn't as much of a pushover as you thought he was...huh?"

"So he got a couple lucky shots in. It won't happen again" a dark expression, like storm clouds crossed her face. But the thing is about Maranda, she was a lot like Raph in temper, and this might come as a surprise to you, but she actually has a Mikey personality in that head of hers. She was actually a softy. Shocker.

Cris popped her son, her eyes angry. "That's not funny Thane! They were our only hope of stopping them!"

"Ow..." Thane rubbed his head where she just nailed him. "Does the term child abuse mean anything to you?" Cris popped him again.

"That means no." Maranda matter of factly told the black masked turtle.

"Alright. We'll figure out that as well while we wait." Jess told Dante, internally rolling her eyes at her goofy cousins.

Jessica hit her comm link "Jazz? Can we get a bridge pretty please?" within moments, a ground bridge formed. "Thanks man." she messed with her comm link again to hang it up.

Maranda, Megan, and Bailey tucked their wings in and started to head through, giving her bloodied shoulder a good stretch "Same time tomorrow?"

"Hell no. We are heading to our base where Ratchet is and going from there. We'll be heading out again by tonight. We need to figure everything out quickly." Jessica replied back, Bailey was right, it was personal, Bishop was a fucking dick within meeting him of mere minutes, but these poor people have known him and dealt with him for a long time, and she took great pity on them. She was going to be fixing some stuff here, starting with the turtles that fell victim to the dick stain.

"We'll head to our base." Dante told the winged group. "Kyle can open us a gate. I need to get you that manifest off of the computer...and it seems we need to get some members of this family to sleep." He looked pointedly at the exhausted mothers.

"Bite your tongue young man!" Cris snapped at him. "I'm fine!"

Thane pushed her slightly with a fingertip and she stumbled a few feet. "Yup...you suuuure are."

Cris glared at her son.

"And you wonder why you get hit." Maranda snickered at the young mini Raph, he was less dragony, not by a lot, he had the reptilian skin, so there was that.

"Uh you guys sure you want to go back to that base? You might be sleeping in the brig tonight. I'm sure Prowl is still patrolling for you." By this point, all of the NEST soldiers but Jessica had made it through.

Ty just reacted calmly to that warning, even had a hint of a smile on his face. "I'd like to see him try." Thane and Ari snickered even as Ty turned back to comforting his upset mother.

"You really have no clue on how we operate." Dante grinned at her. "There isn't a brig they can come up with that will hold us. Our fathers taught us better."

"Not that he has the nuts to try." Thane jerked his heads towards Cris who was suddenly fuming.

"They better not put my boy in the damn brig! I'll poke his damn optics out! With toothpicks!"

"And you guys don't know how the twins and Jazz operate apparently. Those brigs can hold them. Well, then again, Aqua might distract him tonight. Meh, I bid you good luck then. I'll see you guys soon to see what we have for a plan." She stepped through he bridge and it closed behind her.

Thane and Dante looked at each other amused after she left.

"She really doesn't get it, does she?" Thane asked with a raised ridge.

"She will soon enough I suppose." Dante shrugged.

Ty just rolled his eyes as Kyle opened their way home. He began to pull his mother towards the ground bridge, and she was stumbling with every step. Her grief and exhaustion finally catching up with her. "Come on Mom. You need to get some sleep. You're exhausted and it's not helping." Vicky just nodded numbly and let her son lead her back.

Once on the other side, Ty sighed as he caught sigh of another worried family member. Lavi was waiting by Kyle at the control panel. Her face held hopeful anticipation as she stood there, wringing her hands. "Where are they?"

Ty shook his head, and watched the hope fall out of her just as it did with his mother. "We...couldn't get them Lavi..."

Grief took over then as her lips began to tremble. Kyle left his station to quickly take her in his arms and she buried her head into his neck and began to cry. Dante was the one who walked over and shut the bridge down after they all walked through. Then he stood there with his hand resting on the handle as he looked over the faces of those around him. He fought back his own surge of anguish at the fact they came home empty handed. "I'll...go get that list she wanted." He said quietly before he left the room. Dante at least had busy work to keep him occupied, the others had nothing really to distract them from the worry gnawing at them.

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Megan watched the ocean below thoughtfully as she sat on the cliff side, swinging her legs. Her face still locked into a cold expression, and one she couldn't help.

"You good? I know this probably isn't easy for you" Jessica sat beside her. Heights didn't bother them, for obvious reasons. Instead they actually soothed them, especially being surrounded or near their element. It was just comforting. It was a little harder for Jessica to be near her element, but, she was glad her sis and cousins could.

"It's not" Megan admitted, she had a load of shame to add to that, this situation really was tearing her apart. "Lots of memories. Ones I didn't even think I could remembered even" she scrubbed her face.

"The past is in the past. You've learned your lesson. And you've yet to lose your humanity again. You've been doing fine. And we'll love you no matter what." Jessica promised. She hugged her cousin, yes, she could be gooey lovey dovey to her family every now and then, especially when they needed the support.
The hug made her smile slightly but it didn't last very long. Something else was wrong with the blonde, let's see if she will spill.

"Now what else is going on?"

"You don't remember... do you?" And Megan then proceeded to remind Jessica of something that had happened a long time ago.

That, uh, that was a long talk, and a mind blowing, "Oh holy crap how the fuck... Just, how?" kind of conversation that Megs and Jessica needed to recover from with a walk together. Jess' perspective on the situation changing dramatically. She also felt guilty and made a silent promise she'll do better, and she'll figure this thing out. Only now did she understand that she owed it to them.

"You good now?" She quietly asked her cousin.

"Not really. Still need to face prowl" Megan added, though she sounded a little amused at that one.

"That is a personal problem you two need to fix." the two girls were heading back to the med bay where everyone else was, especially Carrie, in her office, trying to figure out how the hell they could counteract the damn mind control. "Come on. He's so soft with you. He'll probably sentence you to one night in his office and you won't even be mad about that one." Jessica winked at her cousin, and she was so right too, no mater how embarrassed Megan got or tried to deny.

Megan did indeed facepalm and blushed madly. "Good lord Supereon." Ah, you see? Embarassed, her and Carrie were both like that, easily embarrassed about stuff like that, especially if it was implied to someone.

Jessica smiled and nudged her as they walk into the medbay. Jess immediately went for Armonius and picked the little boy up put of his crib stationed in the med bay.

"Has he been passing all his health stuff Ratchet?"

"He is a very healthy mechling." the med bot replied. "But I still need to run tests to make sure his development stays healthy." Jessica figured that and she had no problem with it. She was going to be excessively cautious with her little one. Jess propped him up on her hip and walk over to Carrie.

"Any luck on getting through to them?" to which, Carrie shook her head with frustration,

"Nothing. From the results Starblast gave me. That tech is wedged to deep. Even removing the tech. The effects are long lasting. Wireless almost. it is very embedded within their mind." Carrie frowned. She loved a good challenge, but Bishop has been putting chaos crystal on them. To keep them weak and keep them in his control. She knew something was fighting it, along with the turtles themselves, like their core or entity but it can't get through because of the chaos crystal. That stuff is lethal to mystical beings, and it was killing them, so this wasn't fun, it was stressful.

"It's alright. We'll figure something out. Keep cracking at it. You're doing just fine." Jessica sat by her, Armonius on her lap as she was attempting to help her cousin figure this out. She wasn't much help with computers, but Jazz and her sister in law Lindsey were teaching her, she was working on it she smiled at her little boy when he started to play with a strand of her hair brown hair.

"What you doing bud?" she smiled and there her hair goes, right into his little mouth, bleh.

"Oh gross. Mama was rolling around in the dirt. You don't want that in your mouth." she informed him and lightly pulled it away from him. "Even baby mechs just love to put stuff in their mouths." Jessica noticed. She began to work on her computer, while Armonius Prime was babbling to her in sparkling chatter. It made her happy he was so active and talkative and she smiled and nodded her head as he spoke. And then Nemesis decided to make an entrance into the medbay, uhhh oh. Jessica's face went grim, and she only kept eye contact with Armonius "Mama is in trouble." she told her little one. She wasn't joking around either. She respected the fact that Nemesis was mad, and he had the right to be, she disobeyed a direct order and caused him to worry, no matter her cause.

Armonius continued to babble at her, but get this, it almost sounded like it was in a scolding manner now. She raised a brow at him, geez, so much like his father. "Oh man, not you too, I'm outnumbered" Jessica sighed.

Nemesis gently took Armonius from Jessica to put him in his sparkling hold and the young mech happily and eagerly climbed in to be near Neme's spark. Once he was in the comfy, enclosed, and soundproof confines, Nemesis couldn't help but to smile at the little one. Jessica loved how Nemesis was with her and Armonius, it just made her so happy, but then he looked at Jessica more firmly, oh yeah, she was in trouble. She got a little caught up in the adorable moment, sue her. Nemesis held a hand out to her, and she sighed, stepping on to his hand and accepting her fate, Nemesis carried her up and out of the medbay so that they could talk, he was so not happy.

Jessica's cousins on the other hand thought it was hilarious when she got into trouble with them, bunch of jack asses... She gave them back a glare. They all looked smug but went back to helping Carrie with whatever they were doing in order to help the process along while Nemesis and Jess got out of the medbay.

Carrie smacked her head on the table in frustration, this was bothering her oh so freaking much and she wanted to go out there and just beat something up! "Oh. My. Fucking. God! There has to be something we can do!" She snarled.

"Could we just catch them and remove the tech controlling them? That would be a start." Megan offered.

"Yes, let's keep them in our kick ass dragon withstanding cells. Oh wait.." Carrie said, couldn't sound more sarcastic.

"Point taken..jerk." Great, Carrie was getting tired, which meant, crabby.

"Did the moon just change color?" Maranda asked curiously.

"I don't know, did you finally find a drug that effects us?" Carrie shot back, man, her sass though.

"No. She's right.. oh shit. You don't think?" Oh Megan really, really hoped she was wrong in her theory.

"This isn't going to end well." Carrie hoped Megs was wrong too, because she really, really didn't want to see him, any of them. Worthless cunts...that's what they were.

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Once again the rec room became the gathering point for this exhausted family. Lavi and Vicky were sleeping on the couches as Caitlin sat in a big fluffy easy chair that allowed her to look unseeing out the nearby window. The only sound in the room was the quietly clacking of Dante's fingers as the ran over the keyboard of his laptop. Marina walked over to stand curiously next to him.

"What are you doing son?" She asked, more of a need to hear something in the depressing silence than out of any tech interest.

"Hoping me getting shook around like a rag doll on Uncle Raph's head paid off." Danter muttered quietly.

MArina raised a questioning brow at that. "I thought you were going to pull up a manifest?"

"Oh that? I already did. It's sitting right there." He pointed to the paper lying in front of him on the table.

"Ok...then can I have a better explanation?"

Dante sighed as he leaned back in his chair, then rubbed his own tired eyes. "I shoved a tracker into Uncle Raph's horn. I'm hoping that it hasn't been found, but it's a small one. Not much signal strength too it. I'm trying to bounce the receiver signal off of all kinds of towers and antennas hoping to pick it up.

"Not working huh."

"No...either it's being blocked or I haven't found the right area yet. Heck...I don't even know if it will work in his turtle form if I planted it on his dragon form. We never had a reason to test those theories out."

Cris and Ty made their way in the room, he carrying a large container of soup and she a large platter of bowls spoons and sandwiches. Bot arm loads were place gently on the table near Dante with a heavy sigh from Cris.

"It smells good." Caitlin said quietly from her chair, still looking out the window. "But I'm not hungry."

"You think I am?" Cris asked her back as she scooped out some soup into the bowls.

Ty took his blonde Aunt a bowl of soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. "Eat Aunt Cait. I know none of you have been taking care of yourselves the last few days."

"Any more news?" She asked hopefully as she turned towards him.

"No." He replied as he shook his head. "It's been quiet all afternoon. They haven't been spotted again after they flew off."

She nodded in return, but blinked back the tears as she took the food from him. Ty then walked over towards his mother as the grumbles of Dante met his ears, he still couldn't do what he was trying to do. Marina smiled a little at him. "So much like your Dad..."

Dante just grumbled some more.

When Ty place a hand on Vicky's shoulder to wake her, she shot up into a sitting position, her eyes looking wildly around with hope...that soon faded again. "Easy Mom. I'm just trying to get you to eat something."

Cait was looking out the window again, quietly eating her sandwich halfheartedly as she stared out will dull eyes. Then she narrowed her eyes a little as she tilted her head. "That's odd..."

"What's odd?" Cris asked her.

Caitlin looked hard out the window again a moment before she shook her head. "Nothing...I'm...just stressed and seeing things I guess. I could have sworn I saw someone outside, but there's no one there."

Marina laid a comforting sympathetic hand hand on the woman's shoulder.

Dante finally got frustrated enough to where when he got to his feet he knocked his chair over as he glared down at his screen. "I just can't find them!"

Ty gave his cousin a probing look before walking over to guide him out of the room. "Come on, let's go take a walk cousin. Some fresh air will do good in clearing your head."

They walked right by the sleeping Lavi who didn't even wake up from the noise. Vicky looked sadly at her resting daughter as Cris handed her a sandwich. "This should be a happy time for her...for all of us..."

"I know Vic." Cris sighed in agreement. "I know."

Once again silence filled the room.