I know this took a while and I'm really sorry guys. I've been having serious problems with my computer so I had to get the hard drive wiped. Then I tried to use my laptop but my USB gave that the same viruses my computer had so I had to spend like 3 months without a computer. I've also been having a bit of trouble myself, but I don't want to make any excuses. I hope this chapter is good enough for you guys!

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Silence filled the room and the air was thick with incense as Master Splinter and Raphael sat together in meditation. The old rat was worried about his son. Raphael was always one to let his emotions get the better of him but this was something different. He was angry all the time and his patience had gone from short to non-existent. This had all started, Splinter noticed, when they had discovered that Mona Lisa had been kidnapped. His son had become overly aggressive and violent; in fact, Splinter had to ground his son just to make sure he didn't get into any trouble. So while his brothers were out searching for the missing girl, Raphael was stuck meditating with Master Splinter.

The silence was abruptly broken as Raphael jumped to his feet in anger. "This is completely ridiculous Master Splinter! How am we supposed to find Mona Lisa if I'm stuck here meditating with you?"

"Believe it or not Raphael," Master splinter said calmly without even opening his eyes. "Your brothers are quite capable of functioning without you."

"If they're that capable then why haven't they found Mona yet? I'll tell you why: coz they're not looking hard enough. No one out there is even trying to find Mona. They probably don't even care about what could have happened to her already. Do they even think that -"

"Raphael!" Splinter snapped. His eyes were now open and staring intently at Raphael. "Everybody is doing everything they can to find Mona Lisa. They have been searching non-stop for her for two weeks now. Everything that can be done is being done."

"But I should be out there Master, I should be helping them."

"Your mind is clouded by your emotions my son, you are of no use to Mona Lisa is you cannot even think straight."

"Argh!" Not knowing what else to say, Raph threw his hands in the air and stormed out of the dojo.

Raphael was so angry at himself. How could he have let this happened? How could he have just left her there by herself? He was right there with her in the store and he chose to leave. I left her by herself and now she's gone. Raphael thought as he slammed his bedroom door shut. He thought about what could have happened to her or whether she was alive or not. Raphael fell asleep wondering about the fate of his friend.

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"Raph? RAPH! Raphael where are you? You'll never guess what we found out! Raph?"

Raphael was awakened by the shouts of his annoying little brother. Angrily, he swung his bedroom door open and yelled back to his brother. "What do you want Mikey? I'm trying to sleep here!"

"Raph you've gotta get down here!"

"Why should I?"

"Coz we know where Mona Lisa is!"

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Mona sat quietly in her tiny prison as she listened to the obnoxious scientist rant. Apparently something went wrong with the little experiment they were performing on her. He obviously wasn't getting the results he wanted. Mona had no idea what exactly he wanted to happen to her, but she thought what he had done to her already was enough.

Staring out the bars of her cell, Mona thought of everything that had happened to her in the past 2 weeks. She had been tortured, tested and beaten repeatedly. They had run several tests on her already, just to see if she was "worthy" for the project. These tests included being attacked repeatedly by foot ninja just to see how long she could last as well as injecting her with a variety of different concoctions just to see how her body would react. If she didn't cooperate then they would beat and torture her till she complied. After she was deemed "acceptable" for the project they commenced with the real experiment. They would take Mona to the lab and strap her to the table, and began conducting their little experiments. Sometimes she was unconscious.

Most of the time she wasn't.

Even more terrifying than the experiments were their results. After the first three Mona began to feel different. She was able to see better and react quicker than she had ever been able to. She was also stronger. That was the real part they wanted to test out. Every other day they would throw her into a dark room filled with foot ninja and got her to fight them. Every day she got better at it. As her vision enhanced, Mona was able to see every foot ninja that slinked in the darkness around her. As she got stronger she became faster and more flexible than she had ever been, she was even able to jump higher.

But there were more than just physical side effects. Everyday Mona felt worse. Her head started to ache and she almost always felt queasy. She also became thirsty. She was hungry too, but it was nothing compared to her thirst. Mona was tired too. Tired and weak. She was beginning to think that she wouldn't be able to make it out of here.

"I don't care about the progress we're making, I want to know why nothing has happened yet!" Stockman yelled at his 'partner'. His voice pulled Mona out of her thoughts and back into the real world. She looked over at Stockman who was currently circling Professor Perry. "Can't you find some way to speed it up?"

"I'm sorry, but short of killing the girl there's nothing I can do!" Perry retorted. He was cowering in a corner but he still managed to keep some backbone about him.

"Well think of something. When the Shredder sees that she's still the same after all the work we've done then we'll be dead!"

Professor Perry pushed past Stockman, headed over to one of the many benches and pretended to do work in attempt to get Stockman off his back. "I told you there's nothing I can do, even if there was I wouldn't tell you. I refuse to go along with this anymore; we've done enough to that poor girl. Besides, what you're trying to do is impossible. You can't mutate someone to that extent."

"Yes we can. It's what we've working on all this time." Stockman insisted.

Perry turned around. "No, it's what you've been working on all this time. I wanted to help people but you took it too far. You're not God and this is science not science fiction. You can't just expose her to some gamma rays and expect her to gain superpowers within the next five minutes."

Stockman's eyes lit up. "Actually, that's not a bad idea."

"What? No, I was kidding. You can't actually do that to someone." Professor Perry said, shocked that Stockman could even think of something like that.

"No, it's brilliant. If we inject her with the mutagen then expose her to an extreme amount of radiation then we may be able to speed the mutation process up dramatically." Perry didn't like the look on Dr. Stockman's face. He was getting way too carried away with this 'project', as he called it. The professor had no idea what was happening but he knew it wouldn't end well.

Baxter Stockman looked over in Mona's direction and saw her staring at him. He walked over to her and leaned against the bars of her cell. "Well, Miss Mona Lisa," He said with a sickening smile. "Looks like you're not going to be human for much longer."

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AT THE LAIR:

"All this time we've been looking in the wrong places." Donatello explained to his audience, standing in front of the large map of New York that was hanging in his lab. Splinter, Raphael, Casey and April were all listening intently as the purple-clad turtle explained to them the information that they had discovered on their latest trip to the surface. His two other brothers stood in the background and watched as Donatello told those who weren't there with them. "We've been trying to get information out of the Foot, but it hasn't been working. I mean we all know how hard it is to get information from the Foot. But you know how we can get information from?"

"The purple dragons!" Mikey said from the back of the room.

"-The Purple Dragons." Donatello finished despite his younger brothers interruption.

"Half an hour and we had those tattooed goons singing like birds." Mikey laughed.

Donnie shot him a dirty look from across the room and continued with his speech. "Anyway, it turned out that the Purple Dragons knew the location of the Foots new hide out."

"So where is it?" Raph asked, slightly agitated it was taking Donnie this long to get to the point.

"Here." Don pointed to a small point on the map behind him. "A newly refurbished warehouse on East Lairdman Island."

"OK then" Raph said, rising from his seat. "Let's go get her."

"We can't just waltz right in there and take her Raph, we don't even what part of the building she's in or what kind of security they've got up in that place."

"Well we can't just leave her there Donnie!" Raphael yelled.

"Raph" Leo put his hand on his brother shoulder. "She'll be OK. We'll get her out of there, but not without a plan."

Raphael took a deep breath and sighed. He looked over to Don. "Well, Egghead." He said. "You got a plan?"

The purple turtle smiled at his older brother. "You bet I do."

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OK I know this took me a REALLY long time and hope it was worth the wait. It's not really that long so sorry. Will you guys forgive me for taking so long? I promise not to take so long on the next chapter. Thanks! Oh yeah, pick up on the reference in the address for the Foots headquarters?

Xx.