So for the beginning of this chapter I wanted Bill to see the staue of Francis because I've realized some parallels between Bill and Francis in that they made certain similar self-discoveries during their heroic journies on Mizzer while Francis was of the fourth generation of Humanimals after the Earthlings landed on Mizzer his Heroic Deeds kind of made him the 'First and Foremost' of the Mizzer Humanimals in the generations that came after most of the first generation Humanimals being forgotten because they were too ashamed of not being humans that they didn't want anything about their lives to be remembered, and Bill was the first Humanimal character way, way back when the initial idea were human teenagers turning into animal people to fight evil aliens rather than anthropomorphized animals in the far future.

That was when a familiar voice and the clip-clopping of hooves brought nearly everyone out of their reverie.

"Hey!" Bill shouted as he was running towards them on all fours "Hey! We got everything! We're ready to go! What are you guys looking at..."

And then the Longhorn Bull-Boy stopped when he saw the thing himself.

"Who's the pig?" He asked as he stood upright to get a better look.

"Francis Bacon." Marzipan said "The Greatest Humanimal Hero of Mizzer, he was the one responsible with saving the Earthlings from the Biollante, the giant carnivorous plants native to Mizzer that would have exterminated us if we hadn't exterminated them."

Bill gazed at the statue and instantly felt some connection with the image of the Pig-Man like himself was a livestock mammal, a meat animal and he had risen to greatness...But more then that...Gazing at the stoic expression on the Pig-Man's face Bill was struck by a feeling that the Humanimal this statue had inspired...Had been like himself maybe not exactly the same but this Pig-Man had...Felt similar emotions that he had during his adventures.

"Are you guys ready to return to the ship?" Bill asked

Everyone decided they were ready and they made their way back to the S.S. Mehetibell.

Among the things they had gotten was a detailed map of the various secret passages and hidden places in Viola Strierra's Capital City...Donatello sat and studied this map while his brothers asked Marzipan various questions about Mizzer, now that they had seen the planet for themselves, the place they wished they could have lived in, a place where humans and anthropomorphic animals lived in peace and harmony before it was invaded they had all kinds of questions about Mizzer's culture.

"There had been talk for years of making some sort of Equivilent to the Olympic games..." Marzipan told the Turtles, but time and time again people realized it would just feel...Flat with no other countries, and Mizzer was just one country over the smaller continant, we were the successor to America having the cities or counties compete against each other just wouldn't be the same and really it's probobly just as well, Animalympics was good idea in thoery but in reality it wouldn't turn out very well if you have a Cheetah in the 100 yard dash, is there really any point in anyone else competing? Now with you Mutant Animals it might actually work better! Because you Mutants...You're a lot more...Chaotic...If that's the right word for it...Because Mutants are mutated in all kind of different ways and often the same mutation method creates wildly different results, Mutant Animals aren't nessicarily proportional to the original animals...There's no guarantee which Mutant will be the fastest or the strongest!"

Ichabod was hanging back and letting Marzipan talk to the Turtles, he was still feeling he let Marzipan down in her moment of need and he still didn't know how he felt about what had happened.

Then he saw Uncle Gus, he gestured to Ichabod to come over to him. Ichabod did and he was bid.

"I heard about what happened..." Gus said to Ichabod "...I knew Marzipan was going to be in for a shock when we landed, but I didn't say anything because I knew this was going to be another case where Marzipan has got to learn on her own."

"You're very wise." Ichabod said mildly

"Ichabod..." Gus sighed "...I've come to see you're a good kid, and I wanted to tell you...Take care of Marzipan OK? She's a...Unique soul..." Ichabod could see Gus had struggled to find to right word to describe his neice "...And I've come to see you have something unique with her, you two understand each other."

"Yes Sir." Ichabod said

"Please..." The Cat-Man said his jovial side returning as he pulled Ichabod in and gave him a noogie "Call me Uncle Gus, you're part of the family now!"

But deep down Ichabod was still feeling a disturbing amount of disconnect...

So I like to think Ichabod has already set himself up to become distant from Marzipan because a sense of doubt has been placed in mind a downward spiral of worries and doubts all because he doesn't feel as perfect as he thinks he should be