It was mid afternoon when we finally made it as far as the Bots could go last time...with Ty still in the cab and not in the bed of the truck. Jazz had pulled into a secluded area and we all got out and gathered as the various Bots rolled to a stop.

Jazz transformed up and looked around. "This is as far we can go." To prove his point he reached out and punched...and his hand bounced right back at him. Something unseen was indeed blocking the way.

"I guess that answers that question." Donnie said as he scanned, his eyes baffled as he looked up. "But I can't pick up a dang thing on what it is..."

Leo walked up to the same spot, his eyes thoughtful as he looked a moment. Then he sighed and reached his arm out, and it easily passed through. Then he took it a step further and actually walked through.

"Now we know you can pass through it." Epps muttered. "But what about the ones we are sending to the museum?"

My husband didn't answer that, but he did turn towards me. "See if you can come here dear one."

So I did. I walked over, half expecting to run into something, and was surprised when I didn't and I was able to grab Leo's outreached hand. Slowly, one by one, the rest of our family, including April and Casey, were able to get through. Epps still couldn't. "What in the hell?"

"We are obviously not invited along for this one." Will said amused.

We were just as confused, but really couldn't waste the time gaping over it. "We'll go with them as far as we can, then meet you back here once we are done." Leo told the Bots, who could only nod in acceptance. Epps just grumbled under his breath.

"Why am I getting a creepy feeling over all of this." Raph muttered as we moved in the underbrush of the woods we had to push through.

"I'm not." Mikey said. "It just doesn't feel like bad vibes."

"I didn't say bad Mikey." Raph clarified. "I said creepy."

"I thought bad and creepy usually amount to the same thing with you guys?" Casey, April's pretend cameraman, chuckled.

Raph shook his head, serious as he ignored Casey's playful tone. "Not this time."

"I think what's so creepy about it is the fact we can't explain what's going on." Donnie added. "This is a first for us. We may never knew exactly who's behind certain events, but we always know what caused it. This can't be explained even if we may have a clue on who it may be."

"Unknowns are always a nervous thing to deal with." Leo commented quietly as he held some branches out of the way for April and Lavi."

"This one even more so because of who may be involved." Caitlin added as Mikey steadied her as she landed from jumping a ditch.

"So what's the plan to deal with it?" Thane asked.

Leo sighed. "I'm not so sure there is one right now. Not until we find out what is going on."

"Then let's step to it." Raph rumbled. "Running our mouths ain't getting' us there any faster."

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Leo and the other turtles waited at the edge of the woods as April and the more normal looking members of his family went on into town. He had chosen the closest possible position to the museum, which was actually in his sight right now. It was a small town, and it was a small museum. One of those places run by some country towns and owned and cared for by a few local folks. A place that was run really more out of the love of the artifacts there instead of drawing in large crowds. So it was a bit understandable on why it was set on the edge of town like this, next to the main road that ran into town. So it could catch the attention of passing travelers and hope they would stop and come in and enjoy the collection that was more than likely filled with the town's history, along with a few other items. He still made sure they stayed well out of sight though.

The others settled down to wait, more at ease out here than any other mission really. Somehow they all knew it would be safe. They never really let their guard down completely. Fully aware that just because Cons couldn't come here didn't mean that some locals wouldn't wander by. But they did relax a little as they waited. Donnie even sat leaning against a tree, pulling up various information and looking it over concerning the recent turn of events.

Ty was also leaning against a tree, standing up this time though, as he waited near Leo. "How long should we wait?" He asked his father as he also looked out at the building his mother and half siblings disappeared into.

"I'm assuming no longer than closing time. Then if they didn't find what we came for, we wait until dark and go in again."

"Father...that is breaking and entering. I can understand going after crime bosses locations...but a museum?"

"I don't like it either Ty. I really don't. And I'm going to avoid that if I can. But if there is something there, we need to know what it is and figure out how it fits into all of this. Sometimes you may have to break a law in order to save the lawmakers."

"We've actually had to do that once or twice." Raph spoke up. "It's never your Father's first choice, but he won't hesitate if it needs to be done."

Mikey grinned then. "It's not like Donnie's explosions are actually legal either. Ain't that right Donnie?" He turned to his still sitting brother who didn't answer. "Donnie?"

Leo turned at the worried tone in his brother's voice and looked at Donnie. His gear was still on and the display up, but his eyes were wide and unseeing behind his glasses, his face was pale and his body was shaking.

Dante moved closer to him, and gave him a light shake. "Dad? You ok?"

The only response was Donnie trembling even more as his mouth opened and a strangled scream tried to come out. By that point Leo and his brothers were next to him, Mikey carefully pushing Donnie's son out of the way. "Donnie!" Raph snapped as the teens gathered worriedly around them.

"Leo...what's wrong with him?" Mikey asked, worry in his eyes.

Leo didn't know for certain, but he had a suspicion. Mikey had been just as hard to wake, and from what Vicky said...so had Leo himself. But Donnie was already awake...

"I know..." Raph said quietly. "because it happened to me back at the lair. I thought it was just me."

Leo looked at him in shock. "Why didn't you say anything?"

"Didn't think anything of it." He shrugged. "Thought it was just from stress or something."

Donnie's trembling grew more violent, and that worried Leo a little as he began to thrash more. He was going to hurt himself. Leo reached out a hand, knowing it wouldn't do any good, and tried to wake Donnie. At the same time Raph and Mikey reached out to try and restrain him.

This time when his hand touched, he didn't just feel what his brother was feeling, he was draw in. He immediately was reminded of his own dream as he felt the sense of dread. Agony. Death. Despair.

He wasn't alone this time either. He could feel Donnie's terrified conscious near. Even as Leo reached out for him, he felt two others doing the same. Trying to reach the frightened brother, they bumped into each other and held on. They reached Donnie and brought him into their fold, trying to shield him from what they all had experienced already. Together now they faced this dark feeling, and it didn't seem so ominous anymore.

Then the visions started again. Cities burning, countless lives lost. Waters raging, fires burning, earth trembling and winds howling. As they watched, even this changed. A shadow seemed to hover over the destruction, taming it. Under it's touch the waters stilled, the fires burned low, the earth stilled and the winds died.

He comes. Prepare yourselves. Find the way.

They were all snapped back awake with enough force to send the three hovering brothers backwards and Donnie's back slammed into the tree. "Dad!" Rang out in five voices in the small clearing as the teens scrambled to their respective father.

Leo sat up, holding his aching head as Ty and Lavi made it to his side, then helped him get into a sitting position. "What happened?" Lavi asked as Leo struggled to get his bearings.

"I'm not sure turtle dove." Came the befuddled answer.

"That was...creepy." Mikey mumbled as he also tried to get up.

"How do you think we feel?" Ari mumbled. "You scared the piss out of us. First we couldn't snap you four out of it, then you just go flying around like paper in the wind. Creepy doesn't even begin to describe it."

"Not sure what other word I can give you pumpkin." Mikey told her seriously.

Leo wasn't sure what word to use either.

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We split up into groups, each one waiting a few minutes before going in. Amy and Dennis went first, followed by Cris and Marina. Caitlin and I went in with April and Casey as part of the "News crew" last. Each group would go off in a different section of the museum and search the best we could for something we didn't even know we were looking for. Talk about unclear mission objectives...

April quickly charmed the proprietor of this small place with a story about "Doing a news series about the hidden treasures in small towns". The balding, stuffy dressed man was quickly overwhelmed by the idea of his museum being on the news, and I actually felt a little bad that we really had no intention of actually airing the story.

After giving us the grand tour, and nothing really grabbing our attention, April asked if she could look at the stuff that wasn't currently on display. He looked a bit disappointed because his local treasures weren't good enough for the news, but did lead us farther in and into a back room.

"We've also collected a few Asian artifacts. We really don't display them much, preferring to concentrate on our local history..."

I tuned him out as I began walking around, my eyes searching. I couldn't find anything and I looked over at Cait to see if she was having any better luck, and had to bite my tongue to keep from blurting something out and alerting the fussy guy that we weren't quite what we seemed to be here.

Caitlin's eyes had a glazed, distant look to them, and she was slowly walking to the back of the room. I caught April's eyes and she flicked her eyes toward the blonde woman, letting me know that she noticed it too and would keep the man in front of her busy.

By the time I reached Caitlin, she had stopped in front of a very old, so old it was fading and some of it could barely bee seen, painting. Then she stood there. Not moving. I waved my hand in front of her face and she didn't even blink. "What the fuck..."

Then I looked closer at what she was staring at. It wasn't anything really earth shattering. Though I thought it a bit odd. Not that I was a big art expert. I assumed it was drawn in feudal Japan, early feudal by the looks of it. A village was depicted on it, on a hill top with wavy lines scribbled all over it to depict wind. Ok, so we had a windy picture. No big deal here. Wind blew all the time so why was this-

I stopped in mid thought as my eyes grew wide. I took me a bit to spot it, but there was no doubt now. Some of the wind lines were so old, they had actually faded to a light orange color. I thought they had faded to that color, until I could clearly make out the outlines of a mask in them. A ninja mask. And since that style of mask really wasn't a part of the normal fashion there, again I assumed, I got chills when I looked at it. Then my heart skipped a beat when under it the faint outlines of a set of 'chucks could be made out. "What in the hell?"

I almost jumped when Caitlin's hand stiffly came out in front of her, palm up. I did jump when the painting seemed to blow out of the frame and into the air towards her hand, it glowed a light orange glow and it settled down over her palm. I was shaking badly when Caitlin blinked her eyes and they cleared. "Why am I standing here looking at the wall?"

My finger was wobbling hard enough to confuse her before she realised I was trying to aim for her hand. She looked down confused and her eyes widened at the painting now laying on it.

"I think we found it." I told her in a choked whisper.