So this is mostly a padding chapter explaining why it takes so long for the heroes to teleport to Japan because A Great Tiger needs to prepare the ritual to get the 'Feng Shui' right so Isis can help with the teleportation and B since the other three Turtles were up all night without sleep waiting for Leo to get over his hangover now they're all tired and need to sleep and the Boxers are content with that at the moment because they want to talk for a moment without the Mutants they are currently more than a bit ticked-off at overhearing
As Great Tiger went back to Eleanor to tell the Mayor of Mutants that they need to go back to the spot in Forest where she found them to conduct the ritual...The other three turtles collapsed on the floor...Having gone over 24 hours without any sleep, now at their cumbersome adult sizes they seemed to no longer be able to go a day without sleep (Or in Donny's case multiple days without sleep)
Von Kaiser face palmed "How are they supposed to go with us if they're sleeping?!"
"Let them sleep." Great Tiger said gently "We still have time."
"How do you know that?!" Von Kaiser snapped
"You know also even if you don't know how you know…" Great Tiger said "...I can sense we all deep down can sense our beloved mutants are still alive and if any of them were dead we would feel like a heartstring have been severed."
Glass Joe and Von Kaiser looked at each other...And realized what Great Tiger said was true they just...Felt somehow that Dana, Bacon Bit and indeed all the other Mutants were still alive!
"But how?" Von Kaiser asked "And why all of us? You don't seem to have a bond with any of those Mutants?"
"Maybe not a close personal bond with any of them…" Great Tiger said (He had been wanting to get to know Stripes better admittedly mostly because she was a tiger the animal he felt the closest affinity too but she seemed to be more interested in Bear Hugger as she had been raised in Canada so it seemed Bear Hugger had two Mutant Fans, the Timber Wolf Rover and now Stripes!) "...But as I have participated in teaching them, they as much my students as any other boxer in this league, and thus I have a responsibility to them…"
Great Tiger sighed looking at the Black Cat Mutant Isis herself dozing on the sofa as it had been a long night meditating and communing with her probing the depths of the feline's magic Great Tiger was beginning to realize maybe instead of trying to get closer to stripes he must instead take the common House Cat as his protegee because while Isis really wasn't interested in fighting that's why really wasn't considered for regular missions and instead seen as part of the 'reserves' the fact remained because they were both able to teleport Great Tiger realized he should help instruct her not in boxing but in magic.
Great Tiger sighed and took a seat...By floating in midair as he often did during boxing matches "During meditation...Once Isis was in a sufficient meditative state and believe me it took a while teaching someone who has never meditated before...I reached out and touched...Where the Third Eye Chakra is and...I found myself...In what I first thought was paradise! I was surrounded by emerald green grass...There seemed to be sparkling streams and ponds everywhere in this bright verdant land even the air seemed to sparkle as if it had not been used as much...As I looked beyond the range of this lush valley I could see mountains and trees much larger than anything seen on Earth!"
And Glass Joe...Began rubbing his chin as he thought...He was suddenly remembering the previous conversations he had with Dana about whatever memories she had about her past life as a Humanimal on the Planet Mizzer...And he had noticed something she had done on bright clear nights when the sky was full of stars something that seemed to keep to catching the Mutant Doberman's attention…
What is that thing? I won't spoil it now but it is an idea I've been toying with but either way I really should get to work on rereading the Palladium TMNT Adventures book so I can know what happens next for the Mutant Students this was mostly just my nightly bedtime story because I tend to get antsy if I don't tell myself one before bed but I can often be in a darned if I do darned if I don't if the story I tell is so exciting I just make myself hyper