OK here the plot really has to kick into gear, no more dawdling, time to get down to brass tacks!
The Radar Men came out to announce that the Wranglers had apparently called in 'The Specalists' basically one of the Black Ops teams, really bad news, they needed some way to prevent them from finding out what was going on an in particular prevent them from finding the three captured Wrangler Cruise Ships parked on this Planet!
The remaining three Ninja Turtles who had mostly come to support Donny saw no one else was currently volanterring, Leo stepped foreward "We're Ninja, maybe we can sneak aboard the Specialists' ship and sabotage them."
The Specialists contain some of the most devious minds in the Wrangler Empire said the Radar Man "Are you sure?"
"Hey!' Raph said "Are Bro is putting himself on the line to help liberate the Humanimals here! This is as much are fight as it is your's!"
So the Turtles were placed in very small, camouflaged spacecraft, by that I mean they were almost completely transparent and so small it was basically an individual Turtle laying on his back in a pod not much bigger than a bed, the macines were auto piloted so the Turtles didn't have to worry about driving them and they entered through the holes from which the ship could shoot out missles.
Meanwhile after arriving on Planet Viola Strierra several of the Fellowship Crew had to split up to go to the various places they had been assigned to help coordenate the Slave Humanimals, Marzipan and Ichabod had to split up but before they parted ways they exchanged a quick kiss.
Edward Green and Minsk were not split up, they were going to work together in infiltrating Edward's old home of the Palace to take certain things that were needed, it was going to be tricky, first they were going to be crawling through the walls of the Palace! For Minsk the slinky and flexable Mink was able to get through no problem, but for Edward with the physique of the bodybuilder, who had also put on a little extra fat from Minsk's ecellent cooking, he more than once got stuck in-between the pipes and Minsk had to loosed him up with a small bottle of baby oil which she kept on hand since they had become parents but soon enough they reached what they were crawling around for!
"There's the control box!" Edward said
"Edward Darling." Minsk said "Hold me up so I can reach it."
So Edward was holding up his arms, so Minsk could stand, her tiny little mink feet in his hands, as she opened the central control box for the systems specifically for the Palace's utilities, with her sharp little musteliad teeth, she began delicatly nibbling on a few very specific wires.
This wall they were in was in the Palace's kitchen, for most Wranglers they have robots doing to cooking instead of Humanimals because they don't want Humanimals to be touching their food, Marzipan's situation on Planet Alderbaren was the exception not the rule, here on Viola Strierra where certain members of the Aristocracy have been working on cultivating their bodies and minds to be more self-reliant they had an actual human chef who cooked some things himself and oversaw the robots tending to smaller jobs to make his work easier, right now the Chef had been working on something from Edward's blissful nursrey days, a caramel bread pudding...As he took it out of the oven the sweet aromas wafted through the air vent and Edward felt a waft of nostalgia...And hunger...His stomach rumbled loudly and his knees trembled
"Edward!" Minsk said with a wire in her teeth "Hold me steady!"
Sweating profusly Edward thought "Oh Stomach! Be a faithful friend and do not betray my location here!"
Only a few more minutes of standing completely still and Minsk had finished her task causing a temporariy complete blackout in the castle!
As they resumed their journey Minsk as her sensitive Humanimal nose could not have missed the scent of bread pudding either asked Edward about it as he hadn't mentioned any particular yearning for bread pudding before.
Edward chuckled as blushed realizing how he had been completely caught off guard by a nursrey food dessert and said "It is like what Marzipan's book about food had said...That quotation 'What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?'
The scene where Edward's stomach rumbles smelling the food he grew up eating is one of the first scenes planned for this story and it is highlighting how mixed his feelings are the memories of the pleasures he enjoyed as a Prince, tainted by the new lens of what wicked things his culture had done