Mikey was holding his skateboard. He was on a ramp while his siblings—Leo, Raph, Mari, Donnie and Cat all crouched there on the ground in a row.
"And now the kid goes for the world record! He will attempt to jump five mutant turtles!" Mikey exclaimed, as if he were an announcer.
"I can't believe he talked us into this," Raph muttered.
Mari snorted. "You fell for his puppy dog eyes."
"So did you!"
"Ya! Booyakasha!" Mikey said, as he skateboard down.
"What is going on in here?"
The five turtles jumped up, started to hear Splinter, as Mikey rammed into them, causing all of them to be a jumbled mess on the floor.
"How many times have I told you not to skateboard in the lair?" Splinter asked.
"None?" Cat said, confused.
"I shouldn't have to tell you!"
The turtles all got up.
"You're right, sensei," Leo said. "We definitely should have known better and we deserve to be punished."
"Some," Mari quickly added. "We deserve to be punished some."
"And what do you think your punishment should be?" Splinter asked, stroking his beard as he got closer to Leo.
"Well, uh..." Leo glanced at his siblings, all who pretended to be doing other things right behind him, and then glanced back at Splinter. "We should clean up our mess? And think about what we did."
"Yeah," Raph agreed.
"Sounds about right," Mari said.
"We were wrong," said Donnie.
"Wouldn't want to do too much," was from Mikey.
"Yeah, that's a good punishment," Cat said.
"What about being grounded for a week?" Splinter suggested.
"Oh I'm not sure that's a—" Leo started.
"I'm cool with the thinking," Mikey says.
"Really, that's not necessary," Donnie said.
"Maybe next time," added Raph.
"Pleaseeee no," Cat whined.
"It's all Mikey's fault!" Mari said, causing everyone else to glare at her, and for Splinter to raise an eyebrow.
"You're grounded for a week!" Splinter decided.
The turtles all groan in defeat, as the skateboard ramp collapsed, leaving more of a mess.
Raph was pacing back and forth, as Leo, Mari, Mikey and Cat sat on the couch.
"Gah! This bites," Raph said. "I can't believe we're stuck down here for a whole week!"
"Thanks, Mikey," Mari muttered.
Mikey looked up from his magazine and shot her a glare.
"Guys! Guys!" Donnie rushed in. "You wanna see what I made?"
"This is how bored I am," Raph says to his other siblings, and then turns to his genius brother. "Yes, Donnie, I do."
"Ok, ok, ok! Remember the other day I was scrounging in that military junkyard?" Donnie exclaims.
"No," everyone else said.
"Well, I found an incredibly advanced A. I. microchip, made from Get this! Self-assembled chain-linked copolymers!"
"That's my favorite kind of copolymer," Mikey says and then goes back to his magazine.
"Mine too!" Donnie said, and pulls out something. "And I used it to make this."
Cat's eyes lit up. "Shiny!"
Donnie stares at Cat. "Yeahhhh, you stay away from this—" Then he smiles. Everyone was suddenly interested, and got a closer look. "This is the most advanced music player in the world. So who wants to try it?"
"Me!" Cat said.
"No," Donnie quickly said.
Cat pouted.
"I do!" Mikey said. "Toss me the T-Pod."
Donnie blinked. "The T-Pod?"
"Turtle. Pod. T-Pod," Mikey said as if it made perfect sense. He chuckles. "I am so good at naming stuff." He holds his hand out.
When Donnie places the TPod in his hand, Cat huffed. "No fair! I wanted it first."
"Shut up, Cat," Mari and Raph says at the same time.
"You're really gonna plug an advanced piece of military technology directly into Mikey's head?" Raph asked. "What if it melts his brain?"
"It won't," Donnie said with a grin.
"You seem a little confident there," Mari muttered.
"I want military tech in my head," Cat said sadly.
"Shut up, Cat."
Mikey presses the button and then starts screaming.
"What?" Donnie exclaimed worriedly. "What's wrong?"
"It's polka!" Mikey says, falling to his knees. "Make it stop! Make it stop!"
Donnie walks over, annoyed, and changes the music by pushing another button.
"Thanks."
Mikey starts grooving to the music, while everyone watched.
Raph couldn't take much more of this nonsense. "That's it," he says walking away. "I'm out of here."
"Where are you going?" Leo asked. "We're grounded."
"I don't care!" Raph said. "I gotta do something or I'm going to go nuts."
"Take me with you," Mari begged.
Cat frowned. "You guys will get into trouble!"
"Exactly," Leo agrees.
Raph rolls his eyes and picks up his skateboard. "Let's find a skate spot."
Cat's frown deepened. She wasn't good at skateboarding, unlike her siblings.
"Skate spot?" Mikey yells through his music. "I'm totally in!"
"But what's Splinter going to say?" Leo said.
"I don't know what's going on, because they snuck out while I was asleep," Raph said, imitating Splinter.
"I'm in." Mari grinned.
"I'm not," Cat said. "You shouldn't go!"
"Baby," Mari muttered.
"Heh, real mature," Leo said, referring to Raph's impression of their dad. "But I'm your leader, and I agree with Cat. And as your leader, I say nobody's going."
"Well, as your followers," Raph started, as Donnie, Mari and Mikey went to his side, "we're going anyways."
"It's okay," Cat tells Leo. "I'm with you."
That depressed Leo.
"Well, as your leader, I'm going with you," Leo says awkwardly. "To lead you. Away from... bad stuff."
Cat frowns again. "So I'm going to be here alone?" Because the last thing that Cat wanted to do was get into even more trouble. She cannot believe that Leo changed his mind, just like that.
"Yeahhh... I'll task you with the important job... of making sure Splinter stays asleep..."
"Yay!" Cat felt important.
Suddenly Mikey screams again and falls to the floor.
"What's wrong?" Leo questioned.
"Are you okay?" Mari asked.
"It's back to polka!" Mikey complained, holding up the TPod. "We've got to get more tunes on this."
Mari, Leo, Donnie and Raph all ran from rooftop to rooftop, with their skateboards strapped to their shells. Mikey, on the other hand, was riding his skateboard while using the TPod. He wasn't paying much attention.
"Hey, Donnie!" Mikey yells from way behind the others, after doing a few tricks. "Thanks for all the new songs!"
"Wait, what new songs?" Donnie muttered.
"Keep it down, you guys," Leo hissed, as Donnie leaps back to where Mikey was, and hangs upside down from him, peering down at the TPod.
"It's got thousands of songs and it keeps downloading new ones every second," Donnie noticed.
Raph appears next to Mikey. "So?"
"So I didn't program it to do that," Donnie said.
"So is it a big deal?" Mari asked, appearing on Mikey's other side.
Donnie hopped off Mikey's shell and got between Mikey and Mari as they ran. "It's reconfiguring itself somehow," Donnie tells them, though Mari didn't know what that meant. He gasps. "It's that chip!"
"Whatever it is, it's awesome!" Mikey claims, as he's high above in the air.
"Guys? We're ninja, remember?" Leo hissed up at his siblings. We move swiftly and—here's the important part—silently!"
Leo falls and crashes in a greenhouse, then a bee hive that was in the greenhouse, then off of the building, and down a lot of stairs, and onto the ground, all while his siblings watched in amusement.
"That wasn't very silent, Leo!" Raph yelled down at his brother.
Mari snorted and muttered to her brothers, "And here I thought Cat was clumsy."
The turtles arrived at the skatepark. "Let's grind it," Mikey said, but before that could happen, their gear something. They turn their heads to see a guy wearing a pink shirt and metal on him.
"Who the heck is that guy?" Donnie asked.
"I don't know," Raph said with narrowed eyes. "But he needs a beat down."
"Hold on, Raph," Leo said, holding his skateboard, "we don't know that he's gonna do anything wrong. He could be on his way to church."
"This late?" Mari questioned.
"Wearing powered battle armor?" Raph added. "What kind of church is that?"
"A really awesome one!" Mikey said with a goofy grin, wearing the TPod still, causing Leo to facepalm.
"Look, it's my call," Leo said. "I decide who gets a beat down." The man starts drilling a hole with a torch. "That guy needs a beat down."
The turtles jump down, right behind him. His torch stops working. "Are you kidding me?" he complained. He starts kicking at the wall and tries to pry it up. "Stupid shutter!"
"It's just kind of sad," Donnie commented.
"Yeah," Mikey agreed. "I don't know if we should pound him or buy him an ice cream cone."
Mari shrugged. "How bout he buys us ice cream?"
"Okay, Cat," Donnie teased. Mari smacks him.
Leo pulled out his sword. "Halt, villain!" he said.
The man turned.
""Halt, villain?" Raph questioned incredulously. "When did we start talking like that?"
"We're heroes," Leo answered awkwardly. "That's how heroes talk."
You will feel the fury of my powered battle-" the man paused, "Holy cow! You guys are turtles!
"That's right," Leo exclaimed, holding his swords in a pose. "We're the turtles of justice!
Mari exchanged looks with Raph. "Wow..." she said.
Stockman charges. Donnie, Leo, Mikey and Raph charge. "Wait!" Mikey yells out, and everyone freezes abs looks at him. Mikey puts away his music player into his belt and pulls out his nunchucks. "Okay."
The turtles started to attack Stockman, using the skateboards as well because it was such an easy fight, and in the process, Baxter broke a window. triggering the alarm bell. The turtles panicked when the alarm went off. They looked at each other and come to the same conclusion. They all pick up the guy and tosses him into a dumpster.
"You're not the first to ever throw me in the trash, but I swear that you will be the last—"
Raph closes the lid.
Suddenly, sirens could be here and flashing red and blue lights could be seen. All of the turtles eyes widened and they left in a hurry.
"All right! We made it home!" Raph said a little too loudly, wearing a grin as he and siblings emerged from the sewer water and went on the ground.
"Shh! It's 2:00 A. M," Leo said.
"And Splinter's still asleep," Mikey said, grinning ear to ear.
"Where's Cat?" Mari wondered.
"She's probably asleep because she actually obeyed Splinter's rule," Leo hissed.
"Hypocrite," Mari and Raph both muttered.
"Well, this is epic!" Mikey says, referring to getting away with sneaking out."
"It's not epic," Leo said. "It was a really bad idea."
Mari rolled her eyes. "If you were going to act like this, you should have just stayed home."
"Exactly," Raph agreed, flipping onto the couch. "It wasn't a bad idea. We got out there and stomped a sleazeball. So what's the problem?"
In the morning, five out of the six turtles were exhausted during training.
"Knees higher, Leonardo! Extend, Michelangelo! Arms farther, Marietta. Raphael, you call that a Koho Tenkai? Because I do not!" Splinter demanded, watching his children be terrible at what they are supposed to be doing.
" Yame!" Splinter snapped angrily, so the turtles kneel in front of them and looked between them. "Hmm. Is there something you want to tell me?
"Something we wanna tell you?" Mikey said. "Nope."
"Cat has been my best student today," Splinter said, which surprised the other turtles. Sure, they were tired, but tired enough for Cat to be better than all of them? "In fact, the rest of you seem tired."
Cat side eyed her siblings anxiously. She kept quite. She didn't want Splinter to know that she was a bystander in them sneaking out. That she knew about it and didn't stop them or snitch on them.
"We're not," Leo was quick to say
"Wide awake," Donnie said.
"Fresh as daisies!" Raph said way too chirper.
"I'm never tired," Mari added.
Mikey yawns and and face plants into the ground. It wakes him up a little and he sits back up.
" So you would not object to a little Randori," Splinter says, holding a stick and then he wracks them with it—except for Cat, which she was grateful for. She winced in sympathy.
"I hope you have learned, turtles, that truth isn't the only thing that hurts."
"Seen this enough times there, chief?" Raph questioned. Leo was on the floor, watching an episode of Space Heroes.
"Would you shh!" Leo said, his eyes not leaving the TV screen. "This is the best part."
Suddenly the channel changed, causing Mari to laugh. Leo groaned and the turtles were all suddenly interested.
"We interrupt this program to bring you breaking news. We've received shocking footage of an assault on the T.C.R.I office complex in Brooklyn," the news person said.
On the screen, the turtles see Stockman wearing a new robot suit, destroying things.
"At last I will have my revenge!"
"Who are you?"
"You'll never know. I'm the thing that haunts your nightmares! I'm the nameless shadow who-"
"Baxter?"
"No."
"Baxter Stockman?"
"NO!"
"Hey, everybody! It's Baxter Stockman!"
"I think his name is Baxter Stockman," Raph said blandly.
"Is this because I fired you?"
"That copy machine was already broken when I-! I mean, I don't know what you're talking about!"
"How did he upgrade his armor so fast?" Leo asked.
Cat frowned. "Wait, you know him?"
"Yes, keep up," Mari said, "we fought him last night but he was a sucky opponent—"
"Ah."
Baxter charges at the screen and it freezes up, causing the turtles to notice something, and everyone except Cat glared at Mikey.
"He has the T-Pod?" Donnie says, angrily.
"Oh, um," Mikey said awkwardly, "I might of dropped that during the fight."
Donnie was peeved. "You dropped it during the fight? Nice going, Mikey!"
Before Mikey could respond to that, Mari patted Donnie's back a little too hard. "Don, you should've known he can't be trusted with nice things! You already knew that about Cat."
Cat crossed her arms and stuck her tongue out.
"So the A. I. chip is upgrading his armor the same way it upgraded the T-Pod?" Leo said thoughtfully
"And if it keeps going, there's no telling how powerful he'll get," Donnie says.
"Wow, you guys really messed up," Cat commented, causing Raph to smack her upside the head.
"This has gone way too far," Leo tells his siblings. "We have to tell Splinter about this."
"What? That we turned some nutjob into a super villain? Do you know what he'll do to us for that?" Raph questioned.
Mari shuddered, just thinking about it. "He literally pounded us into the ground for being sleepy."
"Look, we beat Stockman once, we can beat him again," Donnie says. "We track him down, grab the T-Pod, and get back here before Splinter knows anything."
"If my opinion counts for anything, Donnie's right," Mikey says, reading a magazine.
"Hey, thanks, Mikey," Donnie said sarcastically. "But it doesn't."
"Didn't think so."
Cat groaned. "Nope, nuh uh, I'm still not getting into trouble!"
"Goody two shoes," Raph muttered.
Cat didn't care.
Stockman was sitting down, thinking up name ideas. "I'm not Baxter Stockman. I am the Baxman! No, no, I am.. I am the Suitinator! Aw, that's terrible! Captain Punch-you-hard! Why is this so difficult?" He was practically whining by the end of it.
Leo, Donnie, Mari, Mikey and Raph appeared on each of his side, holding out their weapons, Corning him, though he didn't notice them at first.
"I kinda liked the Suitinator," Mikey tells his siblings.
Mari sighed loudly. "Shut up, Mikey—"
Stockman was suddenly aware of the turtles standing there. "You guys again?"
"All right, Stockman," Leo, clutching tightly onto his sword. "Nobody wants to hurt you."
"We don't?" Raph asked. "Did I miss a meeting?"
"Calm down there, loser," Mari tells him.
"We just want the T-Pod," Leo concluded.
"Give up my source of power?" Baxter questioned, as if it was ridiculous. "Why? So you can laugh at me again? Throw me in a dumpster?
"Sounds good to me," Raph says, with a growl, his eyes turning white.
Raph starts to attack but Stockman punches him into a wall. The others started to go after them but Stockman extended his hands, pushing Mikey and Donnie into opposite walls. Then he kicks Mari into a wall, smashing into Raph. Leo managed to slice his claws until it started to move on its own and latch itself onto Leo's head.
"What the?" Leo was surprised and started to run around wildly, causing Baxter to laugh. "Get it off! Get it off!"
It starts firing lasers, still on Leo's head. He ran toward Donnie, Raph and Mari, freaking out while the lasers kept shooting at them.
"Don't run this way!" Mari shouts at Leo.
Mikey comes from behind a rock. "Hey, Stockman!" He jumps in front of him, swinging his nunchucks around. He manages to wrap the chain of his nunchucks around Baxter but Baxter spins around, causing Mikey to go in circles, growing dizzy
Mark, Raph and Donnie hide behind some rocks, shielding their heads.
"What now, genius?" Raph questioned Donnie.
They noticed a mirror so they picked it up. The laxer hit the mirror then bounced back, and knocked the thing off of Leo's head.
"Thanks," Leo tells his siblings.
The turtles noticed Baxter swinging their baby brother around, and their eyes narrowed. They picked up their weapons and charged him.
Baxter pushes Mikey onto Raph and they flung back. He grabs Mari by the leg and throws her backwards. Donnie glared and attacked, only to have his Bo broken.
All the turtles attacked at one and Baxter grabbed them, holding them in a ball. There was an explosion and Baxter walked to the dumpster, and threw them inside.
"Foolish turtles!" Baxter says. "Did you really think you could defeat me?"
"Well, yeah," Mikey answered, not realizing that it was a rhetorical question.
Then Baxter gave them his backstory even though no one wanted to hear it. "All my life, people have laughed at me. The other kids in school, my co-workers, the woman who fixes the copy machine! How was I supposed to know you don't pour toner in the top? But when they behold the power of this suit, they won't be laughing anymore! They'll tremble in terror!"
Baxter suddenly screams as his suit glows a bright red. The turtles eyes widened.
"What's happening?" Leo questioned.
"Stockman and the Tpod. They're... merging. They're becoming one single entity," Donnie answers worriedly, as they watch Baxter's suit upgrade.
"That's disturbing," Mari commented.
The Stockmanpod," Mikey said. "I bet Cat couldn't have come up with that name!"
"Doesn't matter," Mari says, her voice high pitched. "Let's bounce!"
The turtles start to run.
Meanwhile, Cat was playing Just Dance, having the time of her life.
"Caterina, where are your siblings?" Splinter asked in a way that it was clear he already knew.
Cat stopped dancing and tensed up and glanced at him with an awkward smile. "I dunno."
"Catarina." Splinter raised an eyebrow.
"Gone," she muttered.
"To the surface?"
Cat nodded.
"The Stockmanpod's right on top of us!" Mikey yells as Baxter was indeed following them in his scary upgraded Robot suit.
"Stop calling him that!" Raph demanded. "That's a stupid name!"
"Now is not the tune to care!" Mari says.
"Split up!" Leo tells them. "He can't follow us all!
"No way!" Mikey says. "He's gonna follow me!"
"Why would he want to follow you?" Mari questioned.
"They always follow me!" Mikey claimed.
"Stop being paranoid and just do it!" Leo says.
Then they went into different directions and just like Mikey had thought, Baxter followed after him.
Mikey screams a little. "I told you he was gonna follow me!" he yells, even though his siblings couldn't hear him because they had went into different directions.
Mikey starts to invade while Stockman chases him.
"Pizza? All right!" Mikey says, noticing a pizza delivery guy with pizza.
"I've got you now!" Baxter says mikey grabs two boxes of pizza.
"Oh, yeah? Well, I've got hot cheese!" Mikey says, throwing the pizza at Baxter from outside the box.
Stockman wipes the pizza off of him. "Is that the best you've-" He stopped short when he realized that Mikey was gone, leaving him confused.
The turtles escaped to the sewers, right below Baxter. It was dark and they could barely see.
"Shh, guys, quiet," Lei whispered, as they walked, attempting to go to their rooms. "You're gonna wake him up."
"I'm not making noise." Mikey says. "Shh."
"Don't tell me to be quiet. Shh!" Raph says.
"Watch where you're going," Mari says with a low growl as one of her siblings knocked into her—not that she knew which one it was.
The lights suddenly turned on, and there stood Splibter, stroking his beard with a raised eyebrow. Cat was just behind him, looking sheepish and embarrassed. Mari shot her a glare, assuming that she and tattled, even though Splinter already knew.
"Ah! Sensei!" Leo says in a panic.
"Welp, we're screwed," Mari says with a gulp.
"And where have you been?" Splinter questioned.
Nowhere," Raph says with one of his sai poking out from his shell.
Splinter didn't look like he believed his second oldest child. "How did you get so hurt?" He pointed, and Leo hid his katanas behind his back.
"Oh!" Leo says, darting his eyes nervously around. "That! Um, well, we were um-"
"hit-" Raph interjected.
"by..." Mari glanced at Donnie.
But Donnie couldn't think up of a lie so he said, "a..."
"bus?" Mikey tried with a grin.
"Hit by a bus?" Donnie hissed.
"Well, what was I supposed to say?" Mikey asked. "Meteor? Cow? Flying building?"
"Anything but a bus," Mari muttered.
"Enough!" Splinter demanded. "Tell me what happened."
"And then I threw hot cheese in his face and ran away," Mikey concluded. They were all sitting in the dojo, while Splinter stood in front of them.
"Wow, that must've been awesome!" Cat said.
Splinter shot her a glare. She may not have snuck out, but she knew her siblings did, and he was disappointed in her as well. He looked back at Mikey. "Very resourceful, Michelangelo," Splinter started. "But I'm still highly disappointed in you all. The first rule of being a ninja is "do no harm. " Unless you mean to do harm. Then do lots of harm.
They bowed their heads, ashamed.
"You're right, Sensei," Leo said. "I guess we did make a mess of things."
"So what do you think would be a fitting punishment?" Splinter asked.
"We need to clean up our mess," Leo answered.
"Yes," Splinter agreed. "You must stop this Stockmanpod."
"But, Sensei, that guy's already kicked our shells," Donnie pointed out. "And now he's even more powerful. How are we supposed to stop him?"
"I know!" Raph said, pounding his fists together. "I'll hit him really hard!"
"Brute force is not the answer,"Splinter told him. "You will need to rely on your ninja training."
"Excuse me, Sensei, but ninjas never had to go up against guys in armor," Mikey said but then noticed that the painted wall behind Splinter said otherwise. "I mean ninjas always had to go up against guys in armor."
"Nice save," Mari said drily.
"Sensei, what was their secret?" Leo asked.
"They understood that you do not fight the armor," Splinter said. "You fight the man inside."
They all looked between each other.
Mikey asked, "Why are we all looking at each other?"
Cat shrugged. "Okay, well you guys have fun!"
"Caterina, unless you want to be punished even further, I suggest you go with them.
Cat gulped. "Yes, Sensei..."
Leo, Donnie, Cat, Raph and Mari were standing on the rooftop
"Are you sure this is gonna work?" Donnie asked.
"Like Sensei said," Leo started, "Don't fight the armor. Fight the guy inside." He grinned. "And one thing we know about bad guys, they love chasing Mikey.
Mikey runs toward them.
"Guys!" Mikey says. "Stockmanpod's got missiles!"
Missiles explode, making them dodge. Mikey's siblings started to throw chains and restrain him in a hold as Mikey lands next to Leo.
"Now who's trembling in terror?" Mikey asked.
Suddenly, Cat screamed as Baxter broke free and grabbed Cat by the face, throwing her against the wall.
"Kitcat!" Mikey yells in panic.
"That's it. You're going down!" Raph growls, as they charge him.
They start to attack. Donnie lifts himself using his staff and kicks Stockman repeatedly before slamming down. Leo comes in from behind and tries to slice his armor, but it doesn't dent. Raph stabs his sai leaping to the top but gets knocked onto the roof and slammed into Mikey.
"Raph! Mikey!!" Leo and Donnie yells.
Donnie and Leo gets slammed, and spin around making them dizzy then Stockman throws them down. Mari grabs ahold of Leo while Raph grabs Donnie and they and Mikey are cornered.
"Any last words?" Baxter asked.
"Just one." Leo grins. "Bees!"
Stockman was confused. "Bees?"
"Beeees!" Cat yelled and flings a bee nest into the suit. Her and her siblings line up, their eyes white. Baxter yells out in pain.
"The Tpod!" Leo notices.
The turtles managed to knock him down and the robot deactivated. Leo then pulled the Tpod out and Stockman emerged from the robot.
"So we'll call it a tie?" Baxter asked.
"Wanna call it a tie, Raph?" Leo asked his brother.
"Not yet," Raph says, cracking his knuckles.
The turtles throw Baxter into a dumpster.
"Now it's a tie," Raph says as they close the dumpster.
Stockman screams no, as the turtles high three each other.
"You all showed wisdom and great skill in defeating the Stockmanpod. I am proud of you all," Splinter told his children.
"Does this mean we're not grounded anymore?" Mari asked hopefully.
"Yes," Splinter said, pulling out a stick. "But first, Randori!"
The turtles scream as they tried to get away.