Blazingangel1214

Back at Dr. Rockwell's lab] Rockwell thrashed and screamed as he was bound in the chair with metal restraints on his arms and legs. The moment he saw Dr. Falco, he began freaking out. Draco and Raph struggled as they dragged him and put him in the chair. They held him down as he thrashed around while Dr. Falco pulled out a sedative and injected it into Rockwell's arm. Draco's eyes widened with fear, he hated needles. He quickly backed away as fast as he could and watched Rockwell slowly succumb to the sedative.  "There. That should calm him down a little. Poor Rockwell." He said before turning to Draco. "Let me guess... Trypanophobia?" He asked Draco. The Girdled lizard nodded his head. "Trypano-what?" Mikey asked in confusion. "It's the fear of needles. Some humans get it worse than others. Though I didn't know you had it, Draco." Donnie explained before turning to Draco. "I… usually don't talk about it." He replied hesitantly as he looked at Rockwell's sleeping form. For some reason, Rockwell seemed to be afraid of Dr. Falco. "Is there any way to get him back to normal?" April asked Dr. Falco. Hoping that he could be cured.  Dr. Falco shook his head and answered. "I wouldn't even know where to begin. But I'll see if there's a way to give him some semblance of a normal life." He said and placed his hand on Rockwell's cheek. Draco didn't know why, but something felt very off about Dr. Falco. He followed the others to the door and looked back at Rockwell. 'We'll be back soon, just hang in there.' He thought and closed the door. [Back at the Lair] The Turtles and April were sitting at the table while Mikey was playing a new Asteroid game on his T-phone. Donnie was going over Rockwell's data while Draco was trying to meditate. "Man, this asteroid field is tough. I just can't beat it." Mikey complained as he continued playing. Draco tried to continue meditating, but something felt off. He couldn't stop thinking about Rockwell. 'Why did he mutate himself, and why did he seem afraid of Dr. Falco? What am I missing?' He thought as he continued to meditate. "Pizza's here!" Raph said as both he and Nina carried the boxes to the table. Draco sighed and joined the others. As Mikey continued playing the game, the delicious smell of fresh pizza entered his nostrils. "Must eat pizza. But can't stop playing. But must eat pizza. But can't stop playing! But must eat pizza!" He rambled on, torn between eating the delicious pizza and playing his game. "WAAHHHH!!!!" He screamed before faceplanting the pizza and began eating a slice while playing his game. "Sorry we didn't get any closer to finding your Dad, April." Leo said as he turned to April. "It's okay. Everything we learn about the Kraang is another piece of the puzzle." April replied, she was bummed that it turned out to be a bust, but she wasn't about to give up now. "Yeah, but psychic research? This is one weird puzzle." Leo continued, suddenly, Master Splinter walked by with a slice of cheese pizza. "I am curious, April. How did you know the monkey was really a human?" He asked, both Draco and Nina turned to the redheaded teen.  She shrugged and replied. "I don't know. Sometimes I just get a feeling about things." "A feeling? Hm. Interesting." Master Splinter said as he thought about it before leaving the room. Leo was about to take another slice when he noticed that Donnie wasn't eating, he was looking over the notes on that flash drive. "Hey, Donnie, how come you're not eating?" Leo asked with concern. "What? I'm not hungry. Something's been bothering me. Falco said that Rockwell was experimenting on a monkey." Donnie replied as he went over Rockwell's drive. "And?" Leo asked, both he and the others listened attentively as Donnie continued. "Well, according to these notes, he never had a monkey in his lab. He was just using samples of monkey DNA." Upon hearing this both Draco's and Nina's eyes widened in shock. 'Don't tell me...' Draco thought as his mind began to put two and two together. "We're still not following you." Leo said, still confused with what Donnie was implying."If he never had a monkey, what broke out of that cage?" Donnie answered. Soon, the others began to realize what he meant. "It must've been Rockwell!" Raph answered with horror. "Which means Falco put him there and he's been lying this whole time!" Donnie stated angrily. April and the other turtles narrowed their eyes, they knew exactly what they were gonna do. Get Rockwell back. "Hey! Where's Draco?" Mikey asked in confusion. The others turned to where the mutant girdled lizard had been, only to find two half eaten pizza slices. [Up on the Rooftops] *BOOM!*  'HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN SO FOOLISH?!' Draco thought as he raced across the rooftops. The rain came down hard and lightning flashed across the sky and he was soaked, but he didn't care, he had to get to Rockwell.  He couldn't help but beat himself up mentally for not seeing the signs. Rockwell wasn't trying to hurt them, he was trying to warn them. And now he was once again Falco's test subject. 'Hang on Rockwell! I'm coming!' He thought as he jumped from rooftop to rooftop towards Dr. Falco's lab as lightning flashed once more. *BOOM!* [Back in the Dr. Falco's lab] *BOOM!*  Dr. Falco was on the phone arguing with the man on the other end. "You Can't Do This! I've put a lot into that research! You can't cut the funding! Please, Mr. Thanos... I have retrieved the experiment and I've completed the research. All I have to do is test it." He explained. "Oh! I'm well aware that you have Rockwell, I'm also well aware that you failed to contain him in the first place and lost him. Only for a group of freaks to capture him and bring him back to the Lab. Does that ring any bells, Dr. Falco?" He asked angrily. "But you have to understand, Mr. Thanos, i-i-it wasn't my fault! The mutagen made Rockwell stronger than expected" Dr. Falco replied desperately to no avail. "You will do nothing more until I get there, is that clear?!" Mr. Thanos roared before the call was cut off. *BOOM!* Dr. Falco growled angrily and slammed the phone back on the receiver. "That incompetent FOOL!!!!!!!" He yelled before he turned his attention back to his experiment. The mutated Rockwell was sleeping in that chair with restraints on his arms, legs, and torso. Dr. Falco silently growled. 'He can't take away my research! I won't let him!' He thought as he walked towards a tray and picked up a large syringe with a needle. Then he turned to Rockwell's sleeping form as the lightning from outside lit up his sleeping form. *BOOM!* [Limo] *BOOM!* After he hung up, Mr. Thanos turned to his driver and said. "Take us to Falco's lab." "Yes sir!" The driver replied as he drove towards the lab through the heavy rain. As they drove, Mr. Thanos turned to the man sitting next to him who was checking the sharpness of his knuckled machete. "Bring Falco to me, Ares." "Yes Father." Ares replied. He was in his late twenties with a blonde military haircut, blue eyes, fair skin with a scar on his left cheek. He had an athletic muscular build and wore black military gear with red trimmings. Soon, they had reached the outside of the building."Do not fail me again, Ares. I want him alive." He said before turning his attention back to the front as the limo drove off. Ares watched the vehicle vanish and shook his head. "*Sigh!* Thanks for the pep talk, Dad!" He said sarcastically before a small black car stopped in front of him.  Coming out of the car were five Mafioso guards armed with modified Tommy guns. They stopped in front of him and awaited his instructions. "Alright, boys! Let's go pay the Doc a visit!" Ares said as he led the guards to the lab. [Meanwhile, in the Alley behind the Lab] Draco climbed down from the rooftop and landed in the alley behind the lab. As he headed for the fire escape. He noticed the Purple Dragons logo spray painted on the wall and shook his head. 'Great! The last thing I need right now is to deal with those thugs!' He thought as he continued on his way. He was about to climb, when all of a sudden. "Draco!" A voice shouted from behind. It was Nina. He turned around to see her running towards him. "Nina? What are you doing here?" He asked her in confusion. "I... was... worried about you! You left so suddenly!" She explained as she stopped to catch her breath. Draco couldn't help but feel touched by her concern for him. But, the last thing he wanted was for her to get hurt. "I'm grateful for your concern, Nina. But you need to go back, it's too dangerous!" He said with a stern look. But Nina glared at him. "No! I'm staying here! I know that you want to help Rockwell, but I'm a part of this now and if Falco does get his filthy hands on Rockwell's psychic abilities, what are you going to do?" She said determined.   "We brought him to that mad man! If we don't get him back, we'll be as guilty as Falco!" Draco shot back. "And we will help him, but we need to do it together." Nina gave a worried look. Draco was about to disagree, but then... Both he and Nina heard footsteps behind them. They looked at the entrance to the alley and saw four Mafioso guards pointing the guns at them. "Freeze!" One of the men ordered in a deep voice. "Drop your weapons!" Another man added. "This is just great!" Nina said in annoyance. "You are surrounded! Drop your weapons!" The men repeated. "No... Don't drop your weapons." A man said as the mafioso men split for him as he approached. Then he continued. "In fact... I could use a good workout."  Both Draco and Nina looked at each other, then towards the man standing before them. He was wearing all black military gear and had a blonde military fade. On his back was a bizarre-looking rifle with a bayonet on the end. Ares slowly walked up to the two of them and studied them. "So, you're that mutant lizard that jumped on the hood of my Dad's limo." He said in a passive aggressive tone. Draco's eyes widened with shock as he remembered. "That was you?! You almost ran me over!" Ares laughed and shrugged. "Well, you shouldn't have gotten involved with our business transaction with Dr. Falco." "Your business?" Nina asked as both she and Draco glared at the man. "Yeah, I was hired to retrieve your psychic friend so that Dr. Falco could tap into his psychic energy. And I can't have you rescue him, he is too important to our research." Ares said with a sneer. "You're not going to stop us, we're getting our friend back!" Draco said in a determined tone. Ares rolled his eyes. "You two are so cute!" He said. Then he glanced at the Mafioso guards behind him. "Kill them." The Mafioso guards stepped forward and fired their submachine guns into the alley, Draco scooped up Nina and ducked behind a nearby dumpster. "Go! I'll distract them while you run. Find the others and help Rockwell!" Draco shouted over the gunfire, but Nina shook her head and pulled out a 45 Magnum pistol. "No, there's too many of them. I'm staying." Draco shook his head in frustration. But, he knew that she was right. Not only could the mafia men target her instead, even with his mutant strength, he was outnumbered.The two of them needed to do this together. "Alright. Cover me, I'm going in!" Draco said as he leaped onto the wall and crawled towards the guards as Nina laid down cover fire. The guards and Ares hid behind the walls as 45 magnum bullets flew past their heads. The guards ducked away in fear, while Ares felt a sadistic grin grow on his face. "Shoot the girl!" He yelled to the guards. "Yes sir!" The guards replied as they aimed at Nina and fired. Nina ducked behind the dumpster as the guards fired upon her. Ares watched the guards fire at the dumpster and realized that the lizard mutant was missing. "Where did he go?" Ares said before hearing a reptilian hiss above him and his men. He looked up and saw Draco drop there amid and swept them off their feet with his spiny tail. Draco grabbed one of the guards and threw him in Ares's direction. Ares moved to the side as the guards flew past him and plowed into the other guards as they were getting up.  Ares smiled and drew out his custom-made rifle, he aimed and fired at Draco, who dodged a red bolt of superheated plasma and tackled Ares. The two fighters wrestled over the gun and exchanged blows with each other.  Ares gave Draco a breathtaking gut punch before grabbing the rifle. He aimed his rifle at Draco's chest, but the mutant had managed to catch his breath and swung his tail, managing to knock the rifle aside with a clatter. The two fighters stood back up and glared at each other. "This won't end well for you." Ares said as he drew out his knocked machete. "I could say the same to you." Draco replied as he drew out both his tomahawk and KA-BAR. The fighters both charged at each other and began a deadly embrace. Draco blocked and countered a downward chop with his knife, then raised his tomahawk. Ares dodged the ax and slashed his machete at Draco's leg. The fight went back and forth for a few minutes as the fighters struggled to overpower the other. Ares moved his body to the side and slammed his foot on Draco's knee, causing the mutant girdle lizard to let out a pained yell, Ares smiled and gave Draco an uppercut that sent him reeling backwards. The two fighters stood over each other, glaring. Then, the two fighters leaped forward and began to clash blades. [Meanwhile, up on the rooftops] The turtles raced towards Dr. Falco's lab. As they approached, they could hear the sounds of a fight in the alley near the lab. As they peered over the ledge, they saw Nina fighting off some Mafioso who had gotten up, and Draco exchanging blows with Ares. "Woah! Who is that?" Donnie asked his brothers. "I don't know. Why don't we ask them?" Raph said and pounded his fist in his hand. "Hold up, Raph. We need to get to Dr. Rockwell. Who knows what that mad man is going to do to him!" Leo said to his hotheaded brother. "But, what about Draco and Nina? They could use our help." Mikey asked as he watched Draco struggling against the unknown fighter. Whoever this guy was, he had military training. Leo sighed and replied. "I know how you feel Mikey. But Rockwell needs us now! Draco and Nina will be fine. Now come on!" He said before jumping off the rooftop and headed towards the lab. The others turned away and followed their leader, only Mikey looked back. "Please be okay." He said before joining his brothers. [Back in the Lab.] Dr. Falco smiled wickedly as he slowly approached the prone slumbering form of his old lab partner. 'I'll show them all.' He thought as he raised the syringe and jammed it into Dr. Rockwell's forehead. The mutant chimp began to scream and tried to break free from his restraints, but he couldn't. "Oh, stop struggling, Tyler. You were always so dramatic." Falco said as he continued to draw out some of Dr. Rockwell's mind. Rockwell continued to struggle and scream from the pain before passing out. Dr. Falco took the syringe and stuck it in his neck, injecting Rockwell's mutagen in his veins. He laughed wickedly as he felt his mind opening up. He could now read anyone's mind. He could hear their thoughts. He could even see their memories, all of them. Suddenly, he sensed the four turtles entering the room, but he wasn't worried. He knew that they would come. "All right, Falco! We've had enough of your-" Leo said before Raph interrupted him. "Do not say "monkeying around." "I wasn't going to." Leo tried to deny it, but Dr. Falco let out an evil chuckle. "Yes, you were." Donnie glared at the mad scientist and pointed his finger. "It's over, Falco! We know it was you who mutated Rockwell!" He stated. Falco looked back at Rockwell's unconscious form and smiled before looking back at the turtles. "I used him as a guinea pig." He said, unashamed of his actions. Mikey glared at the mad scientist and pointed his finger. "Well, it didn't work. You turned him into a monkey." He said before his brothers face palmed. "The psychic neurochemical I extracted from his mutant brain is changing me. Your minds are opening up to me." Dr. Falco replied in a calm, yet smug tone. Donnie's eyes widened as he realized what was happening. "So this was your plan all along." Falco chuckled and continued. "Of course. No man can defeat you when you know his every thought. No one, not you nor Mr. Thanos will be able to stop me!" "Oh, really? Then you must know I'm gonna smack- '' Raph snarled before Falco finished his statement. "Smack the white off my lab coat? How humorous!" The man chuckled in amusement. "Lucky guess! Hi-yaah!" Raph growled before lunging at the mad doctor. He swung his sai and tried to stab the mad man, but Falco's telepathy allowed him to read Raphael's mind and dodge his kick. "What?" Ralph said before continuing his barrage of attacks on the mad scientist, but Falco's telepathy read all his moves, and the madman simply dodged them all. Suddenly, Dr. Falco grabbed Raph's arm and knocked him out with his own sai before kicking him into Donnie and Mikey. Leo attacked the mad doctor from behind, but Falco anticipated this and kept dodging Leo's strikes. Mikey pushed Raph's unconscious form off him and Donnie and stood up as he watched the fight. "Whoa! It's like he's psychic!" "He is psychic, shell brain. That's what he just said." Donnie snapped. "Oh, yeah, I kinda tuned out when he did his whole "I'm evil, blah, blah, blah" thing. Heh." Mikey said while making hand motions. [Meanwhile, Outside the Lab] Nina had run out of bullets and charged with her sledge hammer. She swung at the nearest Mafioso guard and hit him right in the chest. The man flew back, hitting another guard. The two stunned guards stood there, staring at their fallen comrade before turning their attention to Nina. They both drew their guns and pointed them at her. Draco noticed this and swung his tail, sweeping them off their feet as Nina knocked them out. Draco dodged a swipe from Ares' machete aimed for his head.  'This guy is tough!' Draco thought as he continued dodging the machete. He could barely keep Ares at bay. If he didn't do something fast, he would be dead. "Is that all you got, Lizard Freak!" Ares taunted him.  "Come in! Think! What did Master Splinter say?" He said to himself as he swung his tail, hitting a guard that tried to sneak up on him. Then he remembered what Master Splinter had told him earlier. 'One of the best ways to achieve Mushin no shin is to meditate. Now... Close your eyes and breathe...' He did as he was told and tried to clear his mind of all thoughts. He could feel the muscles in his body relaxing. His breathing slowed. He was calm. Ares took this opportunity to strike... Only for Draco's tomahawk to block it.  Draco punched Ares in the face, knocking him to the ground. He then swung his tail and knocked the machete out of Ares's hand. "Yeah, that's more like it." He smiled to himself and continued fighting. Ares was shocked by the sudden turn of events, but he quickly recovered and gHe did as he was told and tried to clear his mind of all thoughts. He could feel the muscles in his body relaxing. His breathing slowed. He was calm. Ares took this opportunity to strike... Only for Draco's tomahawk to block it.  Draco punched Ares in the face, knocking him to the ground. He then swung his tail and knocked the machete out of Ares's hand. "Yeah, that's more like it." He smiled to himself and continued fighting. Ares was shocked by the sudden turn of events, but he quickly recovered and got up to his feet. "Time for a new tactic." Ares threw a power punch at Draco. Draco grabbed it and punched Ares right in the nose. Ares felt the impact, the punch itself was strong enough to damage his nose. He could feel the blood dripping out of it. However, he didn't feel pain. He could still breathe, see, and even think. He felt the strength of Draco's punch, but he felt something else... Joy. It had been a while since he had a good fight, not since he beat his commanding officer and burned a village. This felt good! Ares laughed and went full on berserk as he and Draco fought. But then he remembered his mission. This fight and enjoying himself was getting in the way of his work. Suddenly, he felt the mutant girdled lizard punch him in the gut and throw him over his shoulder. Ares landed on the ground and rolled into a sitting position. He glared at Draco and Nina before he chuckled menacingly. "Not bad...For a lizard." He said as he wiped some blood from his nose and mouth.  Draco and Nina stared at him and as he laughed. "You were military?" Draco asked him. Ares chuckled and answered. "Marine. I was dishonorably discharged for using too much force in the field." Nina raised her 45 Magnum at him while Draco grabbed Ares' custom-made rifle. "What do you want with Falco?" Draco asked. Ares chuckled and smiled. "Doesn't matter, I was sent to collect him, and that's just what I'm gonna do!" He said before he threw a stun grenade at Draco. The blast blinded them both temporarily before Draco felt Ares shove him against the wall and knocked Nina out of the way before vanishing into the night. Once their vision cleared and their ears stopped ringing, they looked around and saw the unconscious bodies of the mafioso guards and Ares' custom rifle laying next to the dumpster. "You okay?" Draco asked her. Nina rubbed her eyes and looked around. "Yeah...I think so." "Let's get out of here. We need to get to Falco." He said as he headed to the wall. Nina looked at Ares' rifle and strapped it to her back. "Souvenir?" Draco asked as she wrapped her arms around his waist. "Maybe," Nina answered as she smiled. Soon, Draco began climbing up the wall, hoping they weren't too late. [Meanwhile, back in the Lab.] Leo continued to slash at Falco, only for the mad scientist to catch his blades with Raph's sai, then rip them out of his hands before knocking him out and slowly advanced towards Donnie and Mikey. "How will we defeat him if he can read our minds?" Donnie asked his younger brother. "No prob. I'm good at this. I have to fight without thinking!" Mikey said as he turned around before he realized something.  "Wait a minute, how do I fight without thinking? Oh, no! Now I'm thinking about not thinking!" He asked himself as he started to panic before Dr. Falco hit him on the back of the head, knocking him out too. Donnie glared at Falco as he slowly backed away from the mad doctor; Falco approached him with a smug smile. "A man who can read minds is unstoppable. Once I dispose of you, no one will be able to stand in my way." Falco said with arrogance. Donnie grabbed his bö-staff and took a defensive stance as he prepared to fight the mad doctor. "We'll see about that." He said as he swung his staff at Falco, but the madman dodged them before throwing Raph's sai at Donnie. Donnie dodged the projectile and went for a jab, only for Falco to grab the end and swung the turtle into a wall. Donnie fell to the ground in a daze and dropped his staff. "I really must admire that complex brain of yours. You come up with so many ideas. Too bad I can see them all coming." Falco taunted Donnie as he slowly stood up. "By the way, do you think you have a chance with April?" Donnie glared at Falco; the mad scientist didn't care; he now had the power he had always craved and continued probing Donnie's mind. Donnie closed his eyes as he began to think of a way to beat his opponent. "I can do this. Just have to fight without thinking. No thinking.No thinking." He said to himself as he began to concentrate. Falco chuckled as he read Donnie's mind and saw all the attacks that he came up with. "Don't think. Just do." He said before clearing his mind. Then he charged at Falco, the mad scientist tried to use his telepathy to read Donnie's mind, but it was blank. Donnie closed in and let out a barrage of punches and kicks. Falco cried out in pain as Donnie knocked him around the room during the fight. After being thrown into a desk, Falco turned around. 'ENOUGH OF THIS! I will not be defeated by some lowly TERRAPIN!!!' He thought as he punched at Donnie's shell, only for the young turtle to do a backflip over him. Donnie pressed his feet against the wall and launched himself toward Falco. Leo, Raph, and Mikey woke up and watched in shock and awe as Donnie let loose another barrage of punches knocking Dr. Falco into Rockwell's old cage. Falco tried to use his psychic ability one last time; and saw one final image before his power faded. His heart filled with dread, and his breathing became heavy as he saw Draco fighting a familiar blonde figure. 'No! He'll never catch me!' He thought to himself as he passed out. Donnie glared at him before he noticed his brothers surrounding him. "Whoa, Donnie, nice work!" Raph said with pride, he was proud of his little brother. "Ha! What'd I tell you about those back flips, huh? Pretty cool!" Mikey replied with excitement while holding the canister of mutagen. Donnie smiled and rolled his eyes before getting serious again. "Now that we have the ooze, let's see what Falco knows about the Kraang." He said before turning towards the cage. They all gasped as they saw it was empty. "Falco's gone!" Donnie exclaimed. Suddenly, they heard Rockwell struggle to get out of his restraints. Mikey turned to his brothers and asked. "What do we do about him?" Donnie and the others nodded to each other. Donnie went over to the frightened chimp and released his restraints. Rockwell hooted and ran towards a nearby window. He opened it before turning towards the turtles and hooted his thanks. "I'm no psychic, but I think he's trying to thank us." Donnie replied with a smile. Rockwell was about to climb out the window when suddenly, a familiar scaly snout emerged from outside the window. "Oh! Uh, hi, Rockwell!" Draco said. Rockwell jumped back with a start and screeched at the mutant lizard. "Whoa! Easy Rockwell! I didn't mean to..." *SMACK!* Draco said before Rockwell punched him in the snout. "OUCH! That hurt!" Draco said as he held his nose before realizing he was no longer holding onto the wall. "Oh Dang TTTT TTTT!!!!!" He shouted as he fell and landed in a dumpster that broke his fall. "OUCH!" He said from inside the dumpster. "Ouch! That has got to hurt." Mikey said as Rockwell nodded and crawled out the window; he decided to leave before the scary mutant lizard came back. Nina walked through the door afterwards and noticed the missing chimp. "Aww! I missed him." She said with a pout. Raph looked out the window and asked hesitantly. "Um, if he reacts to angry thoughts, is New York city really the best place for him?" As to answer his question, they heard a commotion outside. "Hey, monkey! Get outta the-" A man before Rockwell snarled at him, causing the man to scream, followed by more sounds of destruction and screams. "I'm sure he'll be okay." Leo replied nervously.  Nina nodded and noticed that someone was missing. "Where's Draco? He dropped me off on the roof before climbing down." The turtles froze and looked down at the dumpster below where an angry armadillo lizard grumbled as he got out. "Stinkin Banana Breath!!!" He cursed angrily. [Meanwhile, down a dark alley.] Falco was running for his life. He couldn't let his pursuer catch him. He was scared and confused, he couldn't think straight. He ran as fast as he could, he would turn around to see if he was being followed, but he would only get a glimpse of a shadowy figure pursuing him. He ran around the corner and froze as a limo pulled up and blocked his path. Falco gasped and backed up before he bumped into his pursuer.  "Evening Doc, my father would like to have a few words with you." Ares said as he emerged from the shadows and grabbed Falco's lab coat. "Gah! Unhand me! You brute!" Falco shouted as Ares dragged him to the limo and shoved him inside. Falco struggled to get free and froze as he noticed an older man who appeared to be in his fifties and a beautiful thirty-year-old woman sitting next to him. The older man had silver hair and a well-trimmed beard, his skin was a light tan, and his eyes were blue. He wore a purple business suit with gold trimmings and gold buttons and brown dress shoes. The woman next to him had pale skin, her dark raven hair was in a chignon, and her eyes were gray. She wore a brown double-breasted vest with a white blouse along with a long tan skirt and tall brown laced leather heels.  Falco gulped nervously as Ares sat beside him, and the limo began to drive off. "Mr. Thanos! I-I-I can explain..." Falco began before Mr. Thanos stopped him with a cold glare. "I hope you can, Dr. Falco... For your sake." He said with a tone that sent a chill down Falco's spine. While Falco froze, Ares glared at the woman next to his father. 'Great, the Golden child is here.' He thought as he locked eyes with his older sister, Minerva Thanos. "Minerva." He said with venom. She simply stared at him and said in a calm tone. "Ares." He was about to ask why she was there when he spotted a woman with a white ponytail watching their limo from a nearby rooftop as it passed her. 'Who was that?' He wondered. [On the Rooftop.] Yumi Bai had been following the turtles and that lizard mutant; she, Bradford and Xever escaped the sewers and awaited her father's return from Japan while setting up their new base of operations. Both Chris Bradford and Xever stayed behind to help set up in hopes that it would lighten the Shredder's fury at their failure.  As for Yumi, she went out and decided to do some recon. She wasn't sure where to look, that is until she spotted a particular mutant lizard fighting against a blonde fighter. She watched the battle and noticed a woman fighting alongside the reptile mutant, her curiosity increased as she watched the man give the mutant a run for his money. Then after he lost the fight, she watched him throw a flash and grenade at the mutant before running off.  She decided to follow this new player and watched him pursue a doctor before shoving him into a limo. As the limo drove by, both she and the blonde man locked eyes with each other for what felt like a moment or two. Then she watched the limo vanish into the distance as she headed back to the lair. She quickly called her father and reported what she saw. "父！役に立つかもしれないいくつかの新しい情報があります!" (Father! I have some new information that could be useful!) "...全部教えて、由美。" (... Tell me everything, Yumi.) The Shredder replied with great interest. [Back in the Sewers, in the Dojo] Master Splinter was sitting next to the tree in the Dojo, across from him was April. He had been thinking about what she said earlier and made a decision. "April, it seems you have a rare gift, a sensitivity I have trained my entire life to develop." He admitted. "Don't worry. You'll get it." April replied, not truly understanding what he was trying to say. "I did! It just took me a long time." He told her. "Uh, that's nothing to be ashamed of." She still didn't get it. Splinter sighed and tried again. "What I am trying to say is that I would like to train you to be a Kunoichi, a female ninja." April's eyes lit up when she heard this. "Wow! That's quite an honor. If I do this, does that mean I can kick everybody's butt?" She asked him with excitement. "We don't believe in using our abilities that way." Master Splinter explained to her. "Oh oh, yeah! Me neither... But I could, right?" She asked him. He chuckled and replied. "Yes. But I warn you. It will be the hardest thing you've ever done. It will drain you mentally, physically, and spiritually."  April shrugged and said. "Well, can't be worse than high school." Then she walked off. Splinter sighed and shook his head; he meant what he said. This would be one of the hardest things to do in her life. [Meanwhile, In the Living Room.] April was excited; she couldn't believe she would be trained as a Kunoichi. She was walking by Donnie's lab when he called out to her. "Hey, April, you, uh, wanna hang out tonight?" She smiled and turned to him. "That sounds great, Donnie, but I can't. I'm training with Splinter to be a Kunoichi." Donnie nodded his head and quickly checked his flowchart. "Oh. If training with Splinter." He mumbled. April tried to peek at what he was looking at before he redirected his focus to her.  "Well, then, maybe we can train together sometime." He said in a cool tone. "Sounds great!" April replied before walking off. Donnie laughed, catching Raph's attention. "You see? My flowchart is awesome!" Donnie said with a smile. Raph rolled his eyes with annoyance before continuing to read his sewer magazine.  [End Chapter 6.]