Chapter 4: Why oh why?

Donatello sighed. It had been over a week and a half and he still hadn't completely fixed the Time Machine. Jackson had been a real big help, but they were still missing a piece, the power source. Donnie (with Jack's help) had had the whole lair looking for the power source, but failed. Miwa had suggested that the power source had been sent forward to the future, of that was the case, then Donnie would have to build another one.

"Hey, Donnie. How's it going?"

Leo's voice broke Donnie's concentration. "Not good. I still can't find that power source."

"Well, don't worry about it now." Leo tried to comfort Donnie. "We have to patrol topside now; we haven't been since the kids arrived.

It sounded strange when Leo said it like that. Donnie looked at Leo. "Your right. Besides I need to clear my head." He looked at the broken machine.

Leo smiled. "Don't worry about it, Donnie. Jack will keep an eye on it."

"I know! It's just strange leaving it with Mikey's son." And with that, they left.

About ten minutes later, Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey were running along the rooftops of. New York. Leo stopped suddenly. "Guys, wait. I can hear something."

They turned around. Just in time to see a ninja star land at their feet...

Jack was sitting at Donnie's desk, staring at the Time Machine. He groaned. "What's wrong, Jack?"

Jack turned to see the source of the voice. "Eva, I'm not in the mood to play games."

"I don't want you to. We're just worried about you."

"We?"

James, Maggie, Miwa and April cam through the lab door. April glared the best she could. "What's wrong, Jack?"

Jack knew he couldn't hide it. "I can't find the...battery, for the Time Machine. It's quite small but rather bulky."

Eva's eyebrows rose to her hair line. "Like this?" She took a battery of that very description out of her pocket.

Jack's eyes widened considerably. "Well I never. Eva you had it all along!"

"I guess."

Jack groaned so viciously that it sounded like a growl. He snatched it from his sister's hand and put it into the Time Machine. "Finished."

April smiled. "Great. I better go and tell the guys." She lurched. For the Time Machine.

Jack snatched it from the table. "Oh, no. I'm not letting is out of my sight! I'm going with you."

Maggie and James also voiced their opinions. "We're coming too." Eva nodded.

April looked at them. "Well, hurry up!"

They ran from the lab to the rooftops of New York. With April streaking ahead.

Running along the rooftops, Miwa was slow but still managed to keep up. She could hear fighting not far away. In the distance she could see five figures fighting a large man in metal surround by men in black. The five figures were losing.

Suddenly, the metal man, who she thought of as the Shredder, kicked Mikey and he crashed into his brothers and April. They didn't get up. Miwa panicked.

"Weapons!" Jack yelled.

The sound echoed around the rooftop. Shredder spared a glance at the children. "Kids? Ha! Your fall-back plan is children?"

Eva giggled. "Yeah, got a problem?"

Leo shouted. "Kids, leave, go!" The other teens also shouted their agreements.

Jack smiled evilly. "Sorry Uncle Leo, no dice." To Shredder he said, "so what? We're children. But we're still gonna kick your tin can! Everyone draw your weapons."

Miwa drew a black and blue tessen with the Hamato family clan symbol on it.

James had dark pink Sais with red stripes.

Maggie had a purple Bo staff.

Eva had twin yellow and orange nunchucks.

Jack seemed hesitant to draw his weapon, but he finally took out two black whips with white speaks decorating it. With a deep breath, Jack cried out. "Attack!"

The children divided into three teams.

Maggie used her Bo staff to hit the Foots legs and trip them while Eva knocked them out.

James used his Sais to stab and injure the Foot closest to him while Miwa flanked him and used her tessen to knock out any Foot too far away for James to hit.

Jack was left alone. But he seemed to prefer it. He waited on thrice lines and tended the fallen teens wounds with a first aid kit he happened to bring.

Just as it seemed that they would lost, the parents joined in the fight, now healed as much as possible from their injuries.

Raph and aloe attacked the front line while Donnie and April worked similar to James and. Miwa. Jack stopped Mikey from attacking. "Wait for them to surround you, then spin around and hit them, watch."

Jack waited for the Foot to surround him, about twenty of them. Then he grabbed hold of his weapons and spun around on his feet and knocked them all out. He then turned to Mikey. "Your turn."

Mikey grinned and copied, although it was slower. Whenever the Foot surrounded them, they stood back to back and spun around the knock them out.

Meanwhile, James and Miwa and somehow gotten separated. Eva noticed this and yelled to them. "Need any help?"

"No." "Yes" Answered James and Miwa respectively. Then. James changed his mind when he was almost hit on the head. "Yes."

Eva smiled. "Hey, Mags, when's the next flight?"

Maggie pretended to check a make-believe watch. "Actually, you're right on time."

Eva then ran at. Maggie who angled her ago staff towards the centre of the Foot between James and Miwa. Eva the ran up Maggie's staff and jumped. She used her nunchucks to hit the wall of Foot, which was soon disappeared.

"Thanks, Eva." James said, gratefully.

"You're welcome." Eva then ran back to Maggie.

But even with new tactics and more people, they were gravely outnumbered. Leo's voice rang out. "Turtles, fall back!"

"Roger that Leo!" Donnie answered, with grunts from many others.

But the Foot heard this and blocked their way. "We're trapped!" Leo stated the obvious.

Raph bumped into Jack. "Sorry." And the Time Machine fell out of Jack's pocket and was activated.

A bright light blinded them. The last thing they heard was Donnie's voice saying. "Why oh why?"