It seems like we always end in these whacked out situations. I don't know, maybe its our karma. Like we did something bad in a past life. I mean really, really bad. Supervillain-holding-the-world-for-ransom-destroying-Tokyo kind of bad. Come to think of it, it's probably Raph's fault. Everything bad that happens to us is because of something Raph did in a past life. Oh well, no use crying over past lives. I guess we just gotta accept things as they are. Just always be ready to kick some shell.
Hailey and Abigail were leaving from night school to return home that Friday. After having to deal with tests and boring lessons, they were willing to go and watch some cartoons. Abigail was one of the best students in gym class and aspired to become a professional basketball player. She was an African American girl with braided hair and wore a New York Knicks t-shirt, blue denim shorts, orange-and-blue Knicks shoes, and a dog tag with her name and the numbers 3/21 on it. Everyone assumed that was her birthday. Funnily enough, Hailey had a necklace similar to hers. She didn't really think of it, though.
A shadow moving across a nearby rooftop caught Abigail's eyes. Then, another. "Hey, Hailey, let's cut through here."
"Uh, okay."
The two kids entered an alleyway, only to stop when they saw Leo blocking their path. "Wait," he said. "Don't move."
"Like I'm going to listen to a turtle monster," said Abigail, grabbing Hailey by the wrist. Donny blocked their path and said, "Look, we don't want to hurt you. You've got something in your brains that could make you attack our friends." The Foot Clan symbol appeared in the two girls' eyes. "Like right now."
They reached into their backpacks and pulled out two weapons. Hailey armed herself with a pair of hook swords while Abigail armed herself with a shotel sickle sword and shield. How they managed to carry those around without getting caught by the teachers was a mystery. Abigail lunged for Donny while Leo clashed blades with Hailey.
Donny leaped over Abigail and tried to attack her with his bo staff, but she blocked him with the shield and tried to slice him with the shotel. But Donny dodged the attacks and struck her legs with the bo, knocking her off her feet. But she quickly recovered and kicked him in the ribs, knocking him onto his shell. He gasped when she tried to impale him, but he rolled out of the way and got the shotel stuck in the ground. Donny charged for her, but she struck him with the shield, sending him backward. She managed to get the shotel out and she sliced at the bo staff, cutting it in two.
"Aw, man. I just carved this one," he said.
Abigail charged again, but Donny blocked her attacks with both halves of the staff. Then he got an idea. He threw one half at her, but she dodged it easily. Not the other half, though. It hit her in the head, knocking her out cold.
Meanwhile, Leo and Hailey locked blades with each other before pushing each other away. Then Hailey charged at Leo again, scraping her hook swords along the ground and causing sparks to fly. When she got close enough, she attacked Leo, who expertly blocked her with his swords. Then she jumped into the air to try to attack from above, but Leo jumped after her and the two of them clashed blades before landing on the ground. Hailey wildly swung her blades, but Leo blocked the attacks with his katanas. Then suddenly, she kicked one of the swords out of his hands and placed her foot on it before Leo could retrieve it.
She pointed one of the hook swords at him. Leo narrowed his eyes, then threw his remaining katana at her. She dodged, but did not see the fist coming. Leo punched her, knocking her out cold. He shook his head regretfully as he retrieved his weapons and gently picked up her body. "How are you, Don?"
"Fine," said Donny as he gently picked up Abigail. "But I'm going to need a new bo staff."
"Come on, let's get to the rendezvous point. Dante's waiting for us. I hope Raph and Mikey did a lot better than we did."
At the same time, Raph and Mikey were doing their mission at Hell's Kitchen. "Man it is so good to get out of the lair," said Raph. "Goin' out to hunt for those Foot Sleeper brats."
"Don't say sleeper," Mikey muttered and yawned. "Stupid Dante. Why did his device have to go off while we're napping?"
"Hey, it's not like we had a choice," said Raph. "One of those Foot Sleepers took those little bug bots, which means that witch Nathalie has them as well. So we're going to beat some answers out of those little punks."
Suddenly, a scream was heard. The two turtles looked down from the roof they were on and saw two kids surrounded by five Purple Dragons. They were two Hispanic boys. One had wavy hair, the other had chin-length hair; both were wearing Transformers t-shirts and shoes. The turtles looked closer, and saw the tell-tale dog tags. One boy's dog tag had "Raimundo - 4/21" on it and the other's had "Manuel - 5/21" on it.
"They look like brothers," said Mikey.
One of the Dragons held up a chain and said, "We warned your folks what would happen if they didn't pay up! Now you're the ones going to pay!"
Raph groaned and muttered, "I know I'm going to regret this." He and Mikey jumped down and landed between the kids and the Dragons.
"It's the turtles! Get them!" The Dragons charged and were quickly defeated despite the larger numbers.
"Is it me or is it getting easier and easier to beat these guys," asked Mikey.
One of the Dragons chuckled despite the pain. "Nathalie was right," he said. "We do make good bait."
"Bait?" Raph turned around and saw the two boys were now armed and had the Foot Clan symbol in their eyes. Raimundo had a nunti sai spear and Manuel had a santsetsukon triple nunchuck. "I'll take the one with the spear, you'll take the one with the three chucks."
Mikey snorted. "You just want that one because he's got a longer version of your sai."
"Think of it as finding a way to see which one is better."
The two boys charged and the turtles readied themselves. Manuel attacked with the santsetsukon but Mikey blocked the attacks with his nunchucks. "Dude, just because you have three chucks instead of two, doesn't mean you're better than me." Manuel swung the santetsukon at him, but he dodged. "See what I mean?" Manuel tried to strike at Mikey's feet, but he jumped out of the way and tried to attack from above, only to be blocked by the santetsukon and thrown into the side of a dumpster. He groaned and rubbed the back of his head, then gasped when Manuel charged at him. Mikey slid under his feet, then launched him into the air and slammed him into the ground.
"You know, I kinda like the idea of having a sai on a stick," said Raph as he clashed blades with Raimundo. "Hope you don't mind if I take it. Right after I kick the shell out of you!" Raph kicked Raimundo away, then charged at the boy. Raimundo used the nunti to pole vault over Raph and tried to impale him with the sai end of it. But Raph jumped out of the way and kicked Raimundo in the face. Raimundo quickly recovered and lunged forward, ready to impale the ninja turtle. But Raph ducked in time and then yanked it out of Raimundo's hands before punching the side of his head, knocking him out cold. Raph picked up the nunti and said, "I'm keeping this."
"I dunno," said Mikey. "Aren't bo staffs Don's thing?"
"Yeah, but this..." Raph pointed to the sai end of the spear. "...makes it better. Come on, let's get these two to Dante."
Dante was waiting by a water tower leaning his back against one of its support beams and tapping his finger. His eyes opened when he heard footsteps. He grabbed his jittes and pointed at whoever was coming, only to lower them when he saw the turtles with the four unconscious kids in tow. "Sorry," he said as he put them away. "Can't be too careful."
"No worries," said Mikey. "Just take those chips out of their brains so we can go home already." Dante nodded, took out the jet injector and approached Hailey first, placed it in her ear and activated it. Mikey turned greener than normal. "I can't get used to the sound that thing makes."
Dante removed the inhibitor chip from Hailey, then repeated the process on the other three kids. When he was finished, he saw the nunti Raph was carrying. "You got a new toy?"
"Yeah. I like it," said Raph with a smile. "It's like my sai but with a longer reach."
"Maybe you can use it to change the channel when we can't find the remote," joked Donny.
"I think he just wants to compensate for something," said Mikey.
"Don't make me hurt you," growled Raph.
"Our mission isn't over yet," said Leo. "What are we going to do with them?" He gestured to the four unconscious kids.
Abigail and Hailey awoke on a bench next to the alley they were about to walk in while Raimundo and Manuel woke up sitting on a bench next to the police station. Did they dream the whole thing, they wondered.
Dante and the turtles climbed down the manhole and walked down the sewer tunnels to home. "We are making progress," said Dante. "But we still have to find the rest of the Foot Sleepers."
"Yeah," said Mikey with a yawn. "But right now, I wanna go back to sleep. The next time that jet injector thing the Utroms gave you goes off, just ignore it."
The turtles and Dante went back to the lair and slept, but Mikey was having trouble sleeping. Because April took over his room, he had to share rooms with Raph, which meant having to deal with his loud snoring. "Hey, shell for brains, can you keep it down? There are some people in New Jersey who are trying to sleep." He threw a pillow at his brother, who blocked it in his sleep. Sighing, Mikey walked out of the room. He heard humming and saw the lights on in his bedroom. He walked in and saw April packing her things. "Can't sleep either, huh?"
April smiled and said, "I'm too excited to sleep. I can't wait to have my own place again."
"I understand. I can still remember back when this used to be my room. When I wouldn't have to listen to my roommate snore like a chainsaw!" Mikey shouted as Raph's snoring grew louder.
"Don't worry. I'll soon be out of here and you'll be back in your own room before you know it."
Mikey's eyes widened when he saw something precious to him out in the open. "Um, April? What are you doing with my Silver Sentry comics?"
"Oh, I needed something to wrap my stuff in and these were just lying about, so I -" Mikey let out a horrified scream. "Calm down, Mikey. I'm joking. I know better than to mess with a guy's comics."
"Oh, ha, ha. Real funny, April. Enjoy your packing," said Mikey as he turned out the lights and left.
"Yep, moving out is looking pretty good."
Mikey entered Dante's room to find the boy sleeping like a baby. "Lucky," he muttered. He later found Leo and Splinter sitting in front of the TVs, watching the news. "Leo, Master Splinter. You two up?"
"Shh," they both hushed him.
"And for now, the police have two suspects in custody," said the newscaster. "Meanwhile, in other news, an unexplained wave of gang activity is sweeping through the boroughs of New York. How long before they knock on your door? We'll have the full story when Channel 9 News returns."
A clattering sound caught Mikey's attention. "Sounds like Donny's up, too." He found Donny at the work station working with a welding torch. "Boo!" Donny jumped and pointed the welding torch at him. "Whoa. Easy, partner. Don't shoot."
"Mikey, never sneak up on a turtle while he's welding," Donny reprimanded him.
"Hey, love what you've done with the place," said Mikey. The water tunnel now looked like a large pond with a bridge over it.
"Yeah, go ahead. Make jokes, Mikey. But when I'm using this underwater access way to cruise the river in a submersible, you're going to miss out on some fun. Unless you make yourself useful and help."
Mikey let out a fake yawn. "Suddenly I feel sleepy." Donny hit him in the stomach. Later, he was wearing an old-fashioned diving suit.
"This cross brace will secure the access way and ensure its stability. So, you know what you're supposed to do, right?"
"Yep. I'm supposed to swim in cold river water when I should be in a warm, cozy bed," snarked Mikey.
"Right." Mikey dove in, splashing water onto Donny in the process. "Hey! Chucklehead."
Mikey swam down all the way to the bottom and began to weld the cross brace to the sewer grate. Suddenly, he saw something in the corner of his eye. It was fast and it was too dark to see. He turned on his helmet's light and shined it down a tunnel. He saw it: a large crocodile. "What the shell," he exclaimed. The crocodile began swimming towards him. He screamed and switched off the helmet light before quickly moving into hiding. When the crocodile reached the spot where Mikey had been, it looked around and then swam upwards toward the lair.
Mikey spoke to himself, "Remember what Master Splinter said. Fade into the surroundings." The crocodile, meanwhile, saw Mikey's air hose and snapped it with its jaws. Mikey realized the danger he was in when water started to fill his helmet. "Get a grip. Get a grip." The crocodile swam back down and began looking around. "Relax, slow down. Fade into the surroundings," Mikey said to himself. "Relax. Slow down." His green face was starting to turn blue.
Back in the lair, Donny saw the air hose moving around wildly. "What's that goob doing now?" Then his eyes widened when he realized, "My guess is that he's drowning! Hang on, Mikey!" Donny flipped a switch and winch began pulling on Mikey's cable.
Just as the crocodile slashed its claws at Mikey, the cable pulled him up to the surface. The crocodile then turned and swam down one of the underwater tunnels.
Mikey came up to the surface and pulled the helmet off. He coughed up water, then said, "Get the others! You guys aren't gonna believe this!"
"So I was, like aaah . . . and it was all roar . . . and I'm like aaahhh . . . . Then it got all snarl . . . . And then it was all roar, roar -"
Dante looked at the other three turtles and said, "Well, what do you think?"
"Cuckoo," said Raph.
"Crazy," said Donny.
"Hold up, guys," said Leo. "Raph, remember that albino croc we tangled with years ago? Mike's croc could actually exist."
"Are you saying that that croc and the one Mikey thinks he saw are the same creature," Dante asked.
"I didn't THINK! I SAW! And it wasn't albino; it was green like me. And it's all roar! . . . And roar! . . . And snarl . . ."
"We should have seen it coming, bro," said Raph as he poked Mikey's noggin. "You're one rib short of a barbecue."
"Look, I know what I saw. There's a huge ugly reptile in the sewers. And for once it's not you, Raph. And I'll prove it to you. I'm going back down there and find that thing."
"If you're serious, take this porpoise device," said Donny, handing Mikey some scuba gear. "I made it to explore some of the underwater passageways. It's got a built-in camera and a transmitter. And I put a two-way radio in the mask. We'll be able to see and hear your mystery croc on here." Donny pointed to his computer. "If it exists."
Mikey impersonated Steve Irwin, "Stay tuned, guys, as Mikey TV takes you on a croc hunt." Wearing the new gear Donny created, Mikey dove into the tide pool and began swimming through the underwater tunnels. His brothers watched on Donny's computer. Mikey soon spotted the croc. It grabbed a piece of equipment, then swam down another tunnel. "The chase is on," said Mikey, following it.
They reached the surface, and Mikey watched as the croc did something extraordinary. It stood up on its hind legs, then walked into another tunnel. "You guys seeing this?"
"A mutant croc," said Dante with awe.
"I take it back, Mikey. You're not insane," said Raph. "Well, not completely."
Mikey kept his distance as he followed the croc into another tunnel. One that was very familiar to him. "Check it out, guys. Big, dark and scaly is living in our old lair." It looked like it had made itself a makeshift laboratory. Sticking to the shadows, Mikey watched as the croc put on a white lab coat and round glasses and, to Mikey's amazement, spoke in a deep voice. It looked like he was talking to someone, but Mikey couldn't see who.
"You were right, my friend. Oh, so right. The remaining component was exactly where you said." The croc held up the piece he found in the sewer. "Now I can complete my task for you, and then you can aid me in completing mine, as per our deal. I am so glad I made your acquaintance. I don't mind telling you I've had quite a lot of experience repairing these units. Child's play, really, once you understand the basic principles."
"Well, what do you know? It's just a big crocodile version of Don," whispered Mikey.
"It is finished, my friend. Why don't you take it for a test drive?"
Mikey got a closer look. "He's got an exoskeleton. I can't really see. But I think . . . I think he's talking to an Utrom."
"AN UTROM?!" shouted the turtles and Dante on the other end, causing a microphone feedback that made Mikey yelp, catching the croc's attention. "An intruder!"
"Okay, time to go," said Mikey.
"Stop!"
Mikey ran, shouting as the croc smashed through part of a brick wall when trying to reach him. The turtle made it to the water and dove in. "We're on my old turf now, and if I remember right, there should be an access cover just about here." Mikey wiped off some dirt and found the access cover. He yanked the grating off the access point and threw it at the crocodile before diving into the opening. The croc attempted to follow, but it was too small for him.
Mikey breached the surface and said, "Guys, are you there?"
He heard Raph say, "Mikey! Where the shell are you? What's happening?"
"I'm in the 39th Street runoff. It got a little hairy back there with my reptile pal, but I think I lost him." Suddenly, the croc burst out of the water and grabbed Mikey's air tank with his jaws and flung him into a wall. Mikey got back up and backed away from him. "Good crocodile. Good crocodile." The croc tried to tail whip him, but Mikey dodged just in time. He jumped and flipped out of the way to avoid his punches and took out his nunchucks. "Bad crocodile. Don't make me have to use these." The croc roared at him. "Okay, you asked for it." The croc whipped his tail again, sending Mikey crashing into a wall. He groaned as the croc loomed over him. "Look, I didn't mean you any harm."
The croc stopped and calmed down. He inhaled, exhaled, then spoke as he helped Mikey up. "I am sorry. Sometimes I get carried away."
The sound of an engine caught their attention and saw the other turtles and Dante coming toward them in the sewer slider. They jumped out and took out their weapons. Raph threw one of his sai and it struck the wall inches from the croc's head. "Look, guys, a handbag with claws," growled Raph.
"Guys, wait! It's . . . ." Mikey was interrupted by the crocodile lunging for his brothers, slamming him with his tail in the process.
The brothers fought the croc, but were easily fended off. "All those who think it was a bad idea to get this thing mad, say 'aye'," said Donny.
"Aye," Raph, Dante, and Leo said.
The crocodile lunged forward and plowed into the three turtles and one human like an American football player, knocking them onto their backs and sending them sliding into the sewer slider. They recovered and got back up again. "Come on!" shouted Raph. The crocodile then dove into the water. "Where did it go?"
"I'm not sure, but I'm hoping France," said Donny.
Suddenly, Dante let out a yell of pain as the croc snapped its jaws on his right leg and pulled him into the water. "DANTE!" the turtles shouted. Dante struggled to get out as the croc shook his head, trying to tear his leg off. Thinking quick, Dante grabbed one of his jitte and poked the croc in the eye. The croc let go and he swam back to the surface, coughing up water.
"Dante, are you okay," asked Raph.
"Not really," Dante said, looking at his bleeding leg.
The croc burst out of the water, roared, and lunged for the turtles again, who grabbed onto him. But Mikey shouted, "Will you guys wait a minute?" He turned to the croc and said, "Sorry. Sometimes we get carried away, too. How 'bout a truce?"
The crocodile calmed down and said, "You may let go of me. I accept the truce." Then he saw Dante's bleeding leg. "Oh! I am so sorry!" He ripped off a piece of his lab coat and wrapped it around his leg. "Here."
"Thanks," said Dante. "Just another battle scar to add to the collection."
"See," said Mikey. "We can trust him."
Leo responded, "All right, Mikey. But if this croc bites your head off, I don't want to hear any complaining."
"How can he complain if he doesn't have a head," asked Dante.
The croc said, "Allow me to introduce myself. I am Leatherhead."
The turtles and Dante introduced themselves.
"Leonardo."
"Raphael."
"Donatello."
"I'm Mikey."
"It's Michelangelo. And I'm Dante."
"Come. It is so very drafty in these sewers," said Leatherhead. "Let us return to my temporary laboratory where we can speak in relative comfort."
Dante was almost crying upon seeing the old lair. He recalled how the mousers destroyed their home, the one event that changed his family's lives forever. "Ah, there's no place like home," he said.
"I was gonna say the same thing," said Raph.
"My sentiments exactly," said Leatherhead.
Donny looked around and saw a familiar piece of Utrom equipment. "Whoa! You're building a transmat?"
"Careful," said Dante. "We don't want to be zapped to another planet again."
"You are familiar with the transmat," asked Leatherhead. "Then you know of the Utroms."
"Actually, the Utroms and us go way back," said Leo.
"Really? The Utroms are my family. It is a long story. It began when I was little more than a hatchling. I assumed that I began life as a mere exotic pet which for some cruel human reason was cast into the sewer."
"The old 'alligators in New York sewers' story," said Dante.
"Please, don't interrupt. Fortunately, I was discovered not by humans, but by the Utroms, who deemed me worthy of further observation. During the course of this observation, I was accidentally exposed to a mutagen the Utroms had created. The mutagen not only changed my physical form, but greatly accelerated my intellectual development. And when the Utroms realized that I had become sentient, they adopted me. I was happy living with the Utroms. They taught me much. Life was good until the humans discovered our base and tried to destroy us."
The turtles and Dante glanced at each other. That was the day they returned from the other side of the galaxy with Professor Honeycutt and fought the Shredder for the final time.
"My family barely escaped. And I was left behind. But once I finish building this transmat, I will be able to rejoin my family once again. Ah, my friend has returned. Gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you my good friend."
A figure stepped out of the shadows. It was an Utrom exoskeleton, but its stomach cavity held not an Utrom, but the head of a familiar mad scientist. "BAXTER STOCKMAN?!" the turtles and Dante exclaimed.
"Hey, Stockman, love the new look," said Raph with a smirk.
"What was wrong? The spider thing not cutting it with the ladies," asked Mikey.
"He's a disembodied, still-living head. Nothing about that will cut it with the ladies," said Dante.
"Hardy-har-har," said Stockman before turning to Leatherhead. "Leatherhead, my friend. Do you recall the traitors I told you about? It was these turtles and this boy who sabotaged the TCRI building. It was these turtles and this boy who destroyed the transmat. It was they who caused the Utroms to leave."
"Them?" Leatherhead asked with confusion mixed with anger.
"Yes, yes, them, them!"
"Leatherhead, don't listen to him," Dante shouted. "He-"
"Silence! Look at the necklace, Leatherhead, and you'll see I'm telling the truth. He's one of the Shredder's experiments!"
Leatherhead let out a growl. "The Shredder?!"
"No! I'm not under Shredder's control anymore," Dante insisted.
"Baxter Stockman telling lies? Imagine that," Mikey said sarcastically.
"These green gnomes and this brat are why I had you build our little you-know-what. And now we can put it to work." Stockman opened a large box, and its contents stood up. It was a robot shaped exactly like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
"Donny, what in the shell is that," asked Leo.
"I'm not sure. But it doesn't look good."
"It's a robot."
"Thanks for the info, Captain Obvious," Donny said to Dante.
"Let's call this thing Metalhead," Dante said.
The newly christened Metalhead bowed before the turtles and Dante. Then it began to scan Donny. "Allow me," he said. He leaped into the air, but Metalhead formed a bo staff of its own and countered Donny's attacks.
"Batter up!" shouted Leo, charging at Metalhead. The robot scanned him and replaced its bo staff with a pair of katanas. It blocked and countered Leo's attacks before kicking them away. Raph charged at Metalhead, but it scanned him and replaced the katanas with sai of its own. It blocked his attack and used its legs to push Raph into a wall and pin his arms to it with his own sai.
Dante and Mikey both attacked the robot at once, but it scanned the two of them and produced a nunchuck in one hand and a jitte in the other. While the three battled, Donny and Leo freed Raph. Donny observed the robot battle and counter all of Mikey and Dante's moves. "That robot knows exactly what we're gonna do before we do it. Somehow it programmed itself with our fighting styles, and its processors are working faster than our reflexes."
"So what do we do," asked Leo.
"Something unexpected. Dante! Mikey! Trade weapons!"
"What?!" they exclaimed at once.
"Master Splinter always says we must train in every weapon form," said Leo. "It's time to put in a little practice."
Mikey and Dante nodded and swapped weapons. Metalhead saw Mikey coming and attacked with a pair of nunchucks, but Mikey used Dante's jitte to hook onto the nunchucks' chains and yank them out of the robot's hands. Then Dante jumped onto the robot's back and smashed its head with Mikey's nunchucks.
"Play time is over," growled Raph, punching a fist into his palm.
Stockman smiled and said, "You're so right. I am done playing." He ripped a huge chunk of wall with his bare hands and flung it at the turtles and Dante. Then he ran toward them and began kicking and punching them. "I'll be happy to finish you off personally." He grabbed Dante by the throat and squeezed. "I can't count how many times you meddlesome freaks robbed me of my revenge when I was working for the Shredder. But this time nothing will stop me."
Dante grinned and said as he choked, "You've got the biggest mouth, Stockman."
His words were proven true when Leatherhead roared with anger, "THE SHREDDER?! You work for the Shredder?! He was the Utroms' most hated enemy! You weren't intending to help me with the transmat! You used me!"
Stockman pushed him away and said, "Very well. You pathetic freaks can all perish together. Believe me, I am doing evolution a big favor." He picked up a gas tank and threw it. It exploded, causing the whole chamber to shake. "Leatherhead! Look out!" Donny called out as the ceiling began to fall. Leatherhead held it up, but his strength was starting to give way.
"Guys, we gotta get out of here now," shouted Donny.
But Leatherhead stayed behind. "Leatherhead, come with us," exclaimed Mikey. "Forget about this place!"
"No. If I do not have the transmat, if I cannot be with the Utroms, then life is meaningless," the croc said.
"No! There's got to be another way, we don't want to lose a kindred spirit," said Dante.
Leatherhead made a sad smile. "You may be one of the Shredder's experiments, but I can see you are one of the good ones. I am glad we met. You and your brothers."
"Michelangelo! Dante!" shouted Leo.
"MOVE!" shouted Raph.
Reluctantly, Dante and Mikey fled the tunnel just as it collapsed right on top of Leatherhead.
"Poor Leatherhead," said Mikey.
"Can you imagine being that alone," asked Leo.
"You know, things may get rough at times, but at least we have each other," said Donny.
"Yeah, but do we have to have Raph," asked Mikey.
"Huh? Come here, knucklehead." Raph tackled Mikey to the ground.
"Well, at least we're not leaving empty-handed," said Dante. He held up something. "Behold! The schematics for Metalhead, courtesy of Baxter Stockman! Hey, Donny! You always wanted to build a robot, here's your chance! We can use him as a trainer!"
Donny took the schematics from him and grinned. "I am going to have so much fun with this."
"Uh-oh. Doctor Donnystein's back," said Mikey.