Cleo's POV:
I can honestly say that I love the Patrol Buggy. It's convenient, it's awesome to ride, and the fact that I get my own personal seat is an added bonus. And the whole thing could really be put to good use sometimes. Like, chasing the Kraang, for example. But that still tends to be a bit of a challenge when the said Kraang are in a helicopter. "Stay on 'em, Leo! My Kraang app's trippin' out!" Donnie shouted. "It's picking up a signal from the powercell!"

"Again?" Leo said skeptically. "Last time that thing led us to a burrito in a microwave." "Left!" Leo took a sharp turn that made us swerve and drove into an alley. "Left again!" Donnie shouted. Leo turned left out of the alley and back onto the road. "They're getting away! Right!" Leo made another sharp turn, making Donnie yelp as he slid in his seat. 

"Look out!" Raph shouted. I looked up to see the headlights of a large car heading straight for us. "Left, right! Left, right!" Donnie screamed in fear as we grew closer towards the truck. "Split up!" I yelled. The second I spoke, both Leo and Raph pulled the levers and we instantly separated.

I grabbed the handles of my bike and twisted the throttle as I was left to solo drive, and I swerved to the right to avoid hitting the car. Once I had passed it, I drove in the middle of the road and slowed down slightly. The boys, who had all avoided the car with ease, dove over to me, and we hooked back up. From behind me, I heard Mikey let out a happy 'whoo-hoo' while laughing with glee.

"Haha, yeah! This is more fun than a Shriners' parade!" he shouted. Raph frowned. "What're you saying?" "Right!" Donnie snapped. Leo immediately turned right into an alley, only to be met with a brick wall. He gasped and made a sharp turn. The cart swerved and spun out of control. There was a small flash as I thought I saw Donnie's T-Phone fly out of his hand. The cart continued to spin for a few seconds before coming to a jerky halt. I closed my eyes for a minute, trying to adjust to the dizziness that had gone to my head. "We lost 'em," I heard Donnie groan. 

I opened my eyes and turned around in time to see the helicopter fly over the building and out of sight. I sighed as I took off my bike helmet and set it on one of the bikes handles. "That's just super! Now what?" "Well, that was a total bust," I said irritably. The boys removed their helmets and stepped out of the cart. Donnie ran over to the end of the alley and knelt down to the ground where his phone lay, the screen black and cracked. The phone probably wasn't broken, but the tracker sure was. "No way of tracking them now," he said miserably. "What do we do now then?" I asked. 

"That's it," Leo said firmly, walking back to the cart. "We're going to see Leatherhead." Donnie's head snapped up as he whipped around to stare at Leo. Had a mixed look of terror and shock on his face. "Uhh, Leatherhead...?" Leo nodded. "He's the one who took the powercell from the Kraang, he's the one who might know where to find it." "He's also the one who likes to grab my face and shake me like a rag doll!" Donnie whined angrily. Mikey chuckled. "Heheh, good times!" "Zip it!" Donnie snapped. "C'mon, Donnie," I said, folding my arms. "He's not so bad once you get to know him." 

Donnie shook his head. "Cleo, like it or not, that guy is crazy!" "Oh, he's nothing but a big sweetheart!" I retorted. "Cleo's right, dude," Mikey hopped off the dumpster he was sitting on. "Leatherhead's a pussycat... Who likes to grab your face and shake you like a rag doll! Haha!" A dark cloud seemed to descend over Donnie's head as he turned and snarled at his brother, eyes white. I took a step back, feeling the tension building. Mikey leaned back slightly as our older brother leaned over him, still glaring. "Right... Let's move!" Mikey said as he marched away, clearing wanting to get away from the fuming Donatello.

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(Theme song)

♫ Teenage Mutant Ninja Team ♫
♫ Teenage Mutant Ninja Team ♫
♫ Teenage Mutant Ninja Team ​​​​​​♫
♫ Heroes in the shadows ♫
♫ Ninja power! ♫

♫ Here we go! It's the lean, skilled, ninja team ♫
♫ On the scene, cool teens doing ninja things ♫
♫ So extreme, out the sewers like laser beams ♫
♫ Get rocked with the pizza kings and queen ♫
♫ Can't stop these dudes and dudette ♫
♫ The secret of the ooze made the chosen few ♫
♫ Emerge from the shadows to make their move ♫
♫ The good guys win, and the bad guys lose ♫

♫ Leonardo's the leader in blue, ♫
♫ Does anything it takes to get his ninjas through ♫
♫ Donatello is a fellow, has a way with machines ♫
♫ Raphael has the most attitude on the team ♫
♫ Cleopatra, she's a special girl, ♫
♫ Does anything to protect everyone she loves ♫
♫ Michelangelo, he's one of a kind, ♫
♫ And you know just where to find him when it's party time ♫
♫ Master Splinter taught them every single skill they need ♫
♫ To be one lean, mean, skilled incredible team ♫

♫ Teenage Mutant Ninja Team ♫
♫ Teenage Mutant Ninja Team​​​​​​​ ♫
♫ Teenage Mutant Ninja Team ♫
♫ Heroes in the shadows ♫
♫ Ninja power! ♫

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Cleo's POV:
I can honestly say that I love swimming. I mean, I live with turtles, it's hard not to like swimming. And, the fact that I have ninja training added to my swimming means that I can hold my breath for a wicked long time. 10 full minutes to be exact. Of course, the boys are turtles so they can hold theirs for 15, so, yeah. But sometimes I would prefer not to swim during missions and stuff. Sometimes I would take another path while the boys would swim to our destination. But desperate times call for desperate measures.

My head finally broke the surface and I gasped slightly, having held my breath longer than I thought. It wasn't over 10 minutes, but still. I swam over to the ledge along with my bros and pushed myself out of the water. I stepped up to my feet, shaking my arms and legs of the dripping water. "Who can hold their breath? We can!" Mikey declared proudly. "We wouldn't have had to if yah hadn't kept swimming off to pick up trash," said Raph. "One man's trash is another man's treasure," Mikey said, rubbing what appeared to be a hunk of trash against his face while petting it. "Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's every man's trash," Raph said bluntly. 

"What you call trash, Mikey calls treasure," I said as I rung my hair, squeezing the excess liquid out. "Same as always, Raph." Before we could say anything else, there was a loud snarl from the other side of the room. I turned my head and saw a large mass curled up in the shadowed corner. "There he is," Leo whispered. "We don't wanna alarm him, so no one make any sudden moves." "Aww!" Mikey cooed. "Look how cute!"

Suddenly, Leatherhead opened his jaws and let out a loud yawn that sounded more like a roar. Mikey yelped and leaped back. "W-who's gonna wake him up?" Donnie asked. He, Raph and Leo all said, "Not it!" before running off and hiding in the corners. "Yes, we win!" Mikey said happily. I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, no kidding. Alright, c'mon." 

Both Mikey and I slowly walked over to the giant sleeping alligator. We stood there for a few seconds, staring at the gator and then at each other. "You go first," he said. I nodded. I slowly took a few steps forward and kneel down beside the sleeping mutant. I gulped as I reached my hand forward and touched his arm. "Um, Leatherhead? C'mon, buddy, wake up."

Leatherhead groaned loudly before shifting around, causing his huge arm to knock into me. I yelped as I tripped and fell back into the pool that we had entered in. I pushed myself back to the surface, spitting water out of my mouth. I rolled my eyes as I looked up at Mikey. "Your turn," I told him. Mikey nodded. He looked down at the gator before taking a step forward, lifting his let up, and poking the mutant's side with it. 

"Leatherhead... Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey..." Leatherhead's eyes opened, and they were thin slits. He sprang up to his feet, opened his jaws and roared in Mikey's face. "Can we make sudden moves now?" I heard Donnie cry. Leatherhead roared again before running off in direction of the other three. He suddenly grabbed Donnie by his head, lifted him into the air and started shaking him around.

Donnie let out a muffled yell. "He's grabbing me by the face again!" Leatherhead slammed his hand on the ground, knocking Raph and Leo aside. He then swung his tail back and knocked Mikey back so that he slammed against the wall. "Leatherhead, don't!" he yelled. "He must be having a nightmare!" "That makes two of us!" Donnie screamed.

Leatherhead roared furiously, thrashing around. His tail started coming at me and I instantly dove down underwater, just barely missing contact. I looked up at the swirling surface of the water and saw the dark shapes of everyone along with muffled shouting. I pushed myself up and took a deep breath before looking around. "Leatherhead!" Mikey cried, and then he started to speak softly. "C'mon, dude. It's Michelangelo. Turn off the crazy eyes, buddy."

Leatherhead leapt from the opposite corner and crawled over to Mikey. He snatched in up in his grip and roared in his face. Leatherhead raised his other hand up, claws out, and Mikey whimpered. "Leatherhead, stop!" I shouted. The gator turned his slits towards me. He glared at me for a few seconds, then his eyes closed, and when they opened, they were back to normal. 

"Michelangelo?" he breathed. "Cleopatra?" I smiled before swimming back to the edge and pushing myself out. Leatherhead gently set Mikey down on the ground as the others cautiously walked back towards him. "My friends... Oh no," Leatherhead hung his head in shame. "I got angry again, didn't I?" "Yes, you did it again!" Donnie snapped. "Why do you keep grabbing my face? What is wrong with my face?!" "Would you like the list alphabetically or in descending order of grossness?" Raph asked, ringing the tails of his mask out. I glared at him before punching his arm.

"I am sorry," Leatherhead growled sadly. "You are my friends, the only ones I can truly trust. That's why I gave you the powercell for safe keeping." From beside me I heard Raph clear his throat, and I bit my lip nervously as I looked around at the others. "Uh, about that..." Leo started. "Funny story," said Mikey. "True story." "But," Donnie piped up. "Before we tell it, why don't you sit down, and I and my face will take one big step backwards!" And with that, Donnie took several steps backwards until he was at the opposite corner of the room. "Okay, go ahead!" Leo cleared his throat. 

"Well, about the powercell, we sorta lost it..." I bit down harder on my lip as me and the other two took a few steps back. "To the Kraang," Leo finished quickly before he leapt into the pool. Leatherhead roared with anger, eyes slits again, and suddenly ran across the room at Donnie, who screamed as he was grabbed by the face again. Leatherhead had already pinned him to the ground before he had calmed down again. "No, Leatherhead," he told himself. "These are your friends." Donnie muffled whimper came out as, "Mhm!" 

Leatherhead sighed as he put Donnie up on his feet again. "Obviously, you did everything to protect it." "Well, um, to be honest, I was-" But Raph suddenly leapt forward and slapped a hand over Mikey's mouth. "Yes! That's exactly what happened!" he said quickly. "Leatherhead, we need to get it back," Leo said firmly. Leatherhead sat down on the floor. "With the powercell, the Kraang can open the portal to Dimension X! And when it opens..." "They can use it to bring anything from their home here!" Donnie finished.

Leatherhead nodded. "Things so horrible, they terrify even me." "We need to keep that portal from opening," said Leo. "Can you tell us where it is?" Leatherhead paused. "All I remember is this..." He took one of his claws and started to draw a symbol on the gray, tiled floor; it was an image of six hexagons surrounding a seventh that sat in the middle, all of which were connected like a puzzle. Donnie pulled his phone out and took a picture of the symbol. "Well," I said. "We've got one clue. Now what?"

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"I know I've seen this symbol," Donnie muttered. "It's so familiar." He and the rest of us all looked down at the image of the hexagons on his phone, along with a few other items on his table that also had the same symbol on them, such as Metalhead's head and the mutagen canister that transformed them all 15 years ago.

"The Olympics!" Mikey piped up. Donnie shook his head. "No." "I got it! The Olympics!" "Stop guessing," Donnie frowned at the image on his phone. "Obviously it's a Kraang symbol." "But from where?" Leo asked. "THE OLYMPICS!" Mikey yelled. "QUIT IT!" Donnie shouted angrily, making us all jump. "There's something here and I can figure it out, if you'll all just go away and let me THINK!" 

Not wasting any time, me and the other three slowly backed out of Donnie's lab. I glanced over at the others and was surprised to see Mikey clinging to Raph like a scared cat, and Raph holding him up. "Yikes," I said lowly. Raph and Mikey nodded. Raph blinked when he realized he was holding Mikey and instantly dropped him. Mikey grunted, glaring up at his brother as he rubbed the lower part of his shell that had hit the floor. Suddenly the lab doors bust open, and Donnie came running out. "Guys! I've got it!" he yelled. "I know where I've seen that symbol!"

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"Donnie, hold on!" "Just hurry up!" "Could you at least slow down?" I yelled up at him. Of course, Donnie ignored me and continued to sprint across the buildings, leaping from roof to roof, me and the others just barely keeping up. "I hate when he's like this!" Raph snapped. None of us tried to stop Donnie, but instead continued to follow him in his pursuit. We continued running across building tops for about 10 more minutes before Donnie reached the roof of one building, and finally stopped running.

"Ugh, finally," I groaned as we all reached the top as well. "I've figured out where else I've seen this," Donnie said as he pulled out his phone, which had the symbol on the screen. "Where?" Leo asked. Donnie lowered the phone, and my gaze met the large building that was several blocks away. It had the same symbol on the top of the building, and it had for large letters above it.

"TCRI?" Raph said, folding his arms. "They're behind the Kraang plot?" "The invasion?" "The Olympics?" Raph reached up and slapped the back of Mikey's head, hard. Mikey rubbed the back of his head as he looked up at his brother. "What was that?" "A new Olympic event."

Mikey lowered his hand and frowned at his brother; eyebrow raised. "They've been in plain sight the whole time," said Donnie, appearing not to have heard what just when on with his two brothers. "We just never realized it!" "I think it's pretty obvious what we have to do," Leo stuck his thumbs into his belt. "We're going in and taking down that portal."

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I'm glad that April was able to get some blueprints for the TCRI building. Forming a plan was a lot easier afterward. While Donnie was busy watching over his homemade bomb that he had created, Mikey peeking at it over his shoulder, me and the others and father surrounded the table, looking down at the blueprints April brought. I, who was sitting on the edge of the table, was leaning back a bit to see the image properly.

"I managed to download the blueprints to TCRI," April said, and she pointed to a spot on the map. "Now, the bottom two thirds are just a normal office building, and from what I can tell normal humans work there." "Imagine if they knew who they were working for," said Leo, and he adopted a Kraang-like voice and said, "The ones who are working for this place must punch the card that is known as the timecard in the clock that is known as the clock of time." There was silence as we all stared at Leo. "Dude..." I said, shaking my head. Leo laughed sheepishly. "Hehe... Sorry, where were we?" "Hm. What about the upper floors?" Father asked. 

"Well, that's the thing," April pointed to the top half of the building print. "The top third is completely blank."  "Huh... Any guesses as to why that is?" I asked no one in particular. "Whatever they build there, they didn't want anyone to know about it," said Leo. "Which means, that is exactly where you have to go," said father. "Boom!" I whipped around and saw Raph standing over Mikey and Donnie, who were crouched away slightly, obviously having just been scared.

As Raph started laughing the other two straightened up, glaring at him. "Watch it, fool!" Mikey snapped. I rolled my eyes as I turned back to the blueprints. "So, what's the plan, Leo?" "First, we gotta figure out how to get past security in the lobby." April put her chin in her palm. "Tricky... It's not like we can pack you in a box and send it special delivery." I glanced over at Leo and saw that he had a grin on his face as he rubs his chin thoughtfully. "Hm..." "Oh boy," I sighed. "Here we go..."

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Turns out packing us into a large box and sending us special delivery was easier than we originally thought. Of course, being stuffed in there with Leatherhead didn't exactly help. "Almost there, guys," Leo breathed in a voice that was barely a whisper. From outside the box, I heard April call out, "Special delivery," right before I heard her whisper, "Good luck, guys!"

There was a soft thud that made us shift before we came to a stop, and I heard the loud 'ding' as the elevator door closed. "Now what?" I whispered. "Shh..." Leo held his hand up, telling us to be quiet and wait. We waited for what felt like 10 seconds before the elevator doors opened again. I knew it must've been the Kraang. But as soon as the doors opened Leatherhead burst through the box, roaring as he charged at the surrounding Kraang. 

"Guys! Up here!" I looked up to see Raph open the small door on the elevator roof, gesturing for us to follow. We all obliged, climbing on the remains of the large box and crawling up through the little door. "I kinda feel bad leaving Leatherhead down there," Mikey said sadly as we all got onto the top.

At this me, Leo and Raph all glanced at each other, giving identical looks. "I think he'll be fine," Leo said surely.  "So, how far to the top?" Raph asked. At this we all looked up and saw what looked like miles and miles of metal and wires that lead into darkness. "Yikes..." Raph muttered. "No kidding, you just had to ask." I spoke. "Well, c'mon boys. Let's get this over with."

I leapt up to the metal wires and started climbing, the boys soon following my lead. For a while we carefully climbed up the metal walls, none of us speaking. Then, from next to me, I heard Mikey start humming. "Are you... humming the Olympics theme?" Donnie asked. "It seemed appropriate." I rolled my eyes. "Good to know we can always count on you to lift our spirits, Mikey." "Pipe down, you two," Raph hissed from above us. I looked up and watched as he stepped up to the next set of elevator doors. 

He managed to pry the doors open and looked inside. A second later he yelled, let go of the doors and turned away from them. "Ahh! I gotta wash my eyes!" Suddenly there came a loud, echoing sound that could only be an alarm. "That's bad," said Raph. "Alright!" Mikey cheered. "What?" Leo snapped. "Finally, someone set off an alarm and it wasn't me." "Leo was the one who set off the alarm in the Worldwide Genome Project last time, Mikey," I said sarcastically. Mikey's eyes lit up. "Oh right, that's two alarms I didn't trip," he said happily. "I'm getting better at this. Well, that, or everyone else is getting worse."

The doors above us opened, and a Kraang-droid appeared and started firing his laser gun at us. Me and the others leapt from wire to wire, avoiding the blasts. Finally, Mikey leapt into the air, whipped out his chain, and wrapped it around the droid, dragging him off the floor. Mikey gripped the wires tightly as the droid fell down and smashed on the top of the elevator below. "Aw, darn it!" Mikey groaned. "Forgot to say, 'see yah next fall.' Eh, next elevator shaft fight." 

But as he spoke there was the sound of something powering up, and I looked down to see the elevator coming up right at us, and on top of it were 5 Kraang-droids. At the same time, me and the guys leapt off the walls and withdrew our weapons as we fell towards the elevator. The second I landed on the surface I ran at the droid closest to me. I snapped my foot up and kicked the gun out of the way before rearing my hand up and stabbing through the top of its head. I used the other kama to slice the robot's head off. I flung the severed head off before turning to see that the guys had taken care of the others.

"Okay," Leo said breathlessly. "Let's get inside where it's safe." "Yes, please," I sighed. Leo reached forward and opened the little door. When we looked down inside however, we saw that the elevator was filled with droids. We all gasped before Donnie had the sense to close the door just as the Kraang began to fire at us. "I gotta stop saying things like that," Leo said irritably. "Yah know," I said. "It'd be really nice to go through one mission without getting jinxed." I reached into my pocket and pulled out a large smoke bomb. I quickly opened the door and dropped the bomb inside. 

The elevator was soon filled with purple smoke and the light shut off. We all jumped down and landed inside the vacancy, weapons still out. As the emergency lights flashed, I quickly went to a droid and sliced through them, each one falling to the ground in a heap. It was all over within a few seconds. The lights slowly came back on, and I was met with a huge pile of sliced up droids all over the floor. "Can we please just ride this thing to the top now?" Raph asked exasperatingly. Donnie stepped over the pile of Kraang and over to where the buttons were. He pressed the top floor number, but nothing happened.

"We can't, there's a rectal scanner." "I'm on it." Raph took the severed Kraang head Mikey had been examining and pressed it to the dark screen above the buttons. The screen lit up, and a female voice said, "That which is known as access is granted to Kraang." And finally, the elevator started moving up. "Hey, this is so much easier," Mikey said, grinning. "Yeah," said Raph. "Finally a chance to catch our breath." "Remind me why we didn't do this again?" I said. "Leo?" Leo cleared his throat, determinedly not looking at me. 

A second later the elevator made a loud 'ding', and we all took a stance with our weapons. I gripped the handle of my kamas tightly, ready for a fight. Then, as the door opened what appeared to be green smoke filled the area. The second I breathed it in I felt my throat contract, and suddenly, I couldn't breathe. I dropped my kamas as I gripped my throat, gagging as I tried to breathe any way I could. Judging by the choking sounds coming from the others, it was happening to them, too. "P-poisoned gas!" Leo choked. Before I could do more than slump against the elevator wall I fell into unconsciousness.

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The first thing I felt was soreness in my throat. Next was dizziness in my head. Then I felt my stomach drop when I remembered what happened. I quickly sat up-big mistake as this caused a sudden pang of dizziness in my head again-and looked around. I appeared to be trapped in a giant, glass tube. How I got there, I didn't know. I heard a low groan and looked down. The guys were all laying around me, and all of them appeared to be waking up as well. "Guys?" I said groggily. "You okay?"

Mikey held up his hand and gave me a feeble thumbs up as the others slowly and gingerly got up to their feet. "Well, the good news is we're alive," said Donnie. "What's the bad news?" Leo asked. "That." I looked outside the tube and gasped. The whole level was filled with the same green smoke from earlier, as well as many Kraang-droids and aliens who were floating around in little silver holders. 

There were very large screens that had even larger aliens on them, who were conversing with much smaller ones. "We are deep in Kraang country," Donnie said seriously. "Gah!" I whipped around and saw that Leo had been startled by a Kraang alien that had smacked against the glass of the tube and was now sliding down, a trail of slime trailing behind it.

"Okay, that is nasty," I said. "We're not in Kansas anymore," Leo groaned. "I thought we were in New York!" Mikey cried, then received a punch to the head, curtesy of Raph. "The portal!" I turned my head in the direction Leo was looking and saw a massive piece of machinery that sat in the middle of the room.

Donnie gasped; his hands pressed against the glass. "It's beautiful..." I smirked. "Don't let April hear you say that." Donnie cleared his throat. "I was speaking scientifically, Cleo." "Well, if yah love it so much, why don't yah marry it?" Raph said gruffly. Mikey beamed and said, cheerfully, "Do you, Donatello, take this portal to be your-" "Knock it off, all of you!" Leo snapped. "We need to figure out how we're gonna destroy Donnie's bride over there." "Yeah, not likely," said Raph. "We're stuck in here; our weapons are way over there in a room that's fill with-in case you forgot-poisoned gas." "If it's poisoned, how can they breathe that stuff?" Mikey asked. "I think it's what the air is like in Dimension X," said Donnie. 

"And I repeat, that's nasty," I said simply. Raph frowned. "Well, that's stupid. Why would you invade a place where you can't even breathe the air?" "Yeah!" Mikey piped up. "What're they gonna do? Mutate the whole planet so they can live here, and we can't?"

There were a few seconds silence, in which me and the other three all stared at Mikey, completely stunned. "I don't know what's scarier," said Donnie. "What you just said or that you said it." "Wait, wait... What'd I say?" Donnie turned towards us. "Mikey's right! The Kraang are trying to transform the planet into something they can live on." 

"And we can't..." Leo finished. "We have to stop them." "How are we supposed get out of here with these guys watching our every move?" Raph asked, gesturing to the peeping aliens. "We need a distraction." Suddenly, there came a loud, rumbling sound from outside the tube, and the Kraang left us and went to the center of the room. The portal was starting up.

"Oh, boy..." I sighed. "Like the portal?" Mikey asked. "That might do it." "Once that thing opens up, anything could come through there," said Donnie. Leo reached up and pulled a small, hidden blade from the tap around his wrist. He quickly tossed it to Donnie, who caught it and then put a small incision in the glass. 

"Hey, Mikey," said Leo. "You said you can hold your breath?" "Like a turtle do!" "Now's your chance." At once, we all took a long, big breath in unison, and held it. Mikey leapt up into the air, spun around, and shot into his shell. I had to fight off my giggles, I always thought it was funny when they did that, Leo and Raph caught Mikey's shell, took a step back, and lunched forward. Mikey's shell hit the glass where the incision was, and it made a larger crack. They stepped back and lunched again, and the crack got bigger. They stepped back, took careful aim, and ran at the glass at top speed. Mikey's shell hit the glass, which busted, and he broke through.

At once me and the other three jumped out and landed on the floor below. At once we started heading for where our weapons were, but several Kraang aliens floating in their hover pods shot towards us and started shooting what looked like pink electricity. We all separated and dodged the blows. One pod shot straight towards me, but I ducked under it kicked my leg back, knocking the alien out of the pod. A second pod came at me, shooting electricity. I leapt over the alien and sprinted over to where our weapons sat in a pile. 

I reached down to grab my tessen and put it in its holster before picking up my kamas and stuffing them into my belt. Raph picked up Donnie's staff and, seeing Donnie several feet away with a Kraang pod coming at him, threw it into the air towards him. Donnie turned around and reached up just in time to grab his staff. Then, wielding it like hitter's baseball bat, swung it out and hit the alien pod. Said pod shot out across the room and smashed through a window. Suddenly, the poisonous green air began emptying out of the room and out into the outdoors. When the room was finally clear, we all finally gasped for air.

"We're good!" Leo panted. "Let's go!" "The portal!" Donnie shouted. "We're too late!" "Something's coming through!" I had just enough time to look up and see a large, glowing sphere in the center of the portal before there was a flash, and it disappeared. In its place was what looked like a giant pile of black rock. Then the top of the rock moved up to reveal what looked like a face that glowed red like fire. Suddenly, it stood up, and I saw that it wasn't a pile of rock at all. It was some kind of living being that was made entirely of rock. "Welcome to Earth, giant rock man," Mikey said lowly. The rock giant roared loudly before stomping over to us and lifting its foot when it reached us. 

"Scatter!" Leo shouted. We had just enough time to jump out of the way before the giant stomped its foot down, directly were we all were two seconds ago. "Wow, an entity made of living rock!" I heard Donnie say excitedly. "I wish I could study him!" "Study him after we smash him into a billion pieces!" said Leo. I got up to my feet and looked around in time to see Leo swing his sword against the giant's foot, and the blade snapped in two.

"Or not!" Leo jumped out of the way as the giant swung down at him. I looked around at Mikey and Raph. "C'mon!" At once we all ran forward towards the giant. He looked down at us before opening his mouth, and what looked like pure lava spewed out. Mikey and I went left to avoid it, while Raph went right and ran up the wall.

"Watch out for the lava barf!" he shouted. Raph leapt towards the giant, who punched him into the air and then caught him in his large hand. Raph glared at the thing and started kicking its face. When nothing happened except the giant continued to stare at him, Raph's face fell. "Aw, shoot!" The giant growled and then threw Raph so that he slammed into the portal and fell to the ground.

Donnie, Mikey and I all looked round at the giant. Before my hands could even reach my kamas, I was knocked off my feet and into the air. I fell onto the floor and slid over to where the other three lay in a pile beside the portal. I looked up as the monster stomped towards us, looking as though he'd like nothing better than to squish us. 

But even as it got closer, Leo suddenly ran in front of us, reached behind him, and pulled out three smoke bombs that he threw into the air and at the giant's face. They exploded, and the giant roared with pain and anger before running after Leo, who led the giant away from us. "C'mon, guys," Raph said as he stood up. "This way, quick!"

We all sprang to our feet and followed Raph, all the while I watched Leo as he dodged every swing the giant threw at him. Suddenly, the monster reared his arm back and aimed a punch at him. There was a loud crash, and as the dust cleared, I saw a large hole in the wall, and Leo landed in front of it, having dodged the punch. He folded his arms as he glared at the giant, who glared back menacingly.

"BOOYAKASHA...!" The giant had enough time to turn his head before me and bros shot forward and kicked him straight in his chest. As we landed on the floor the giant fell on his back, making the floor quack. A few seconds later it slowly stood up and got to his feet. "Do we have anything that can hurt this thing?" Raph asked irritably. "What about the explosives?" I asked. Donnie's eyes widened. "Yeah... Yeah, the explosives might do it, but then we wouldn't be able to take down the portal." "Unless..." said Leo. "We do both at the same time. Hand 'em over!" Donnie took the bag of explosives off and handed them to Leo. 

The giant marched over to us, towering over us all. Mikey reached into his belt and threw a smoke bomb on the ground. We disappeared as soon as the smoke erupted, and by the time it disappeared we had moved. The giant turned his head, looking for us. While he was distracted, Leo leapt off the upper level and landed on the giant's shoulders.

He managed to wrap the bag around the giant's neck before leaping off and landed beside us. "Awesome, Leo!" said Mikey. The giant turned to look at us, and I gasped slightly. Mikey cleared his throat. "So, how do we get him into the portal?" "Uh... I kinda hadn't thought that far ahead," Leo admitted. I stared at him. "You're joking, right?"

Before he could answer there was a loud ding, and the elevator doors opened. A few mutilated Kraang-droids were shoved out, and an alien from one of them popped out and scurried away. Then, to my surprise, Leatherhead emerged from the elevator shaft. "Leatherhead!" Mikey said happily. Leatherhead roared loudly, getting the attention of the giant.

Leatherhead threw a severed torso of a Kraang-droid at the giant before leaping at him and knocking him to the ground. He grabbed the giant by the legs and started throwing him against the floor and the walls. "Leatherhead, get him by the portal!" Donnie shouted. 

Leatherhead roared before swinging the giant around and throwing him out. The giant landed in the center of the portal, and Donnie quickly lifted his phone and pressed the button. The bombs suddenly exploded into a mass of fire and black smoke, and the giant now lay in massive pieces. "We did it!" "Yeah!" "All right!" "Way to go, guys!" "High-three!"  The smoke finally cleared, and I gasped.

The portal was still completely intact. "What the-?" Leo gasped. Donnie stared. "It's still standing?" "High-three canceled..." Mikey said miserably. "What're we supposed to do now?" Donnie asked. "I can punch it a few times, but I don't think that's gonna do it," said Raph. "I could probably throw in a few kicks," I said as we hung our heads.

"Uh, guys..." Mikey pointed out towards the portal and we looked around. I gasped. The giant was coming back together before our very eyes. "Well, this day can't get any worse," Raph said angrily. But even as he spoke the portal started to light up and made loud noises as it started to power up and the glowing sphere reappeared. "And it just did..." "Something else might come through!" Donnie said hysterically. "What do we do now?"

There came a loud roar, and suddenly Leatherhead came running out and leapt at the giant. He brought the monster to the ground and started clawing at his stone face. "Leatherhead, something else is coming through!" Mikey warned. "Not if I can help it!" I stared at him. Leatherhead picked up the rock giant and threw it over his shoulder. "Farewell, my friends," he growled sadly. "Leatherhead, no!" Mikey ran forward, but I grabbed his arm and held him back. As much as I wanted to run up and help Leatherhead too, I knew that there would be no point.

Leatherhead disappeared into the portal before the sphere flashed brightly and vanished. The force of the portal threw us all back, knocking us off our feet. I groaned as I lifted my head and saw that the portal was now off, and Leatherhead was gone. "Leatherhead," Mikey whimpered. "I can't believe he's gone..." I looked at him sadly as I gently put my hand on his shell. "We've gotta get outta here!" said Leo. "We can't just leave!" Donnie snapped. "With that portal operational, the Kraang are more dangerous than ever! We have to destroy it!"

Suddenly the elevator opened again, and a dozen or so Kraang-droids filed out and instantly started firing at us. "Ah, maybe later!" said Leo. We all jumped up and leapt out of the way of the lasers and up to the window that had broken earlier. Leo stood infront of it and held up a grappling hook. "We'll be back..." He fired it, and I saw the hook attach to the roof of a building opposite us. We grabbed onto the rope, and one at a time started going down the line.

(-)

After the fiasco with the Kraang, we finally headed home. I could tell that the others, like me, had many things running through our head. Once of which was the loss of Leatherhead. That, above all, stuck with me the whole way home. "Oh, you're okay!" April shouted as we walked through the turnstiles, not even bothering to go over them. I looked up in time to see April throw her arms around Donnie and hug him. Donnie, who still looked as sad as the rest of us, didn't do anything that suggested nervousness and hugged her back. 

None of the others said anything as they sat on the couch inside the pit. I slowly shuffled over to sit on the edge of the pit next to Raph, my legs over the edge and my feet on the couch, and I folded my arms over my knees. "Welcome home, my children," Father said as he stood up. "Was your mission successful?" "Afraid not, Sensei," Leo said sadly. "Leatherhead's... gone." There was silence. The fact that it had been said made it even truer, and that was even more saddening. 

I lowered my head as I sniffed lowly. Raph, not looking at me, lifted his hand up and put it on top of mine, giving it a comforting squeeze. I looked over at him and saw him close his eyes and bow his head slightly. I gave him a sad smile as I squeezed his hand back. "Yeah... but he saved us," Mikey said lowly. "And I found this!" I looked up to see Mikey holding what looked like a small, silver box. "Mikey, where did you get that?" I asked. "TCRI." "Oh, good," said Raph. "Now you're picking up alien trash." I rolled my eyes as I pulled my hand back. 

I looked up to see Donnie walking over to Mikey, but he wasn't looking at his brother. His eyes were wide with what seemed to be revelation as he took the silver box from Mikey's grasp. "Do you realize what this is?" Donnie breathed, sounding excited. Mikey grinned. "Shiney!" I giggled. "It's a Kraang data storage device!" Donnie beamed. "If I can decode it, maybe it can help us find a way to stop 'em!" And without another word, he turned on his heal and sprinted into his lab. We all stared at his as he shut the doors to his lab. "There he goes again," I said.

(-)

"This just doesn't make sense," said April. "If the Kraang were trying to terraform the earth, what do they need my dad for?" "Well, he is a scientist," Leo said reasonably. "Yeah, but... he's a phycologist; he studies rats running through mazes. No offense," she added to father. "I like a good maze," he said simply. "Well, they still had a reason for kidnapping him," I said. "Otherwise, they wouldn't have taken him, right?"

"Still, my dad wouldn't know anything about what they're trying to do." "But, if they didn't need your dad, why were they after him in the first place?" asked Raph. "I don't think they were." We all turned around. Donnie had finally come out of his lab, and he had a very serious look on his face. "You might wanna come see this," he said, and he walked back into his lab. 

We all looked at each other for a moment before we all got up and walked into Donnie's lab. Donnie was sitting by his computer on his desk, and he gestured for us to come closer. "Whatcha find, Donnie?" I asked as I sat on the desk next to his computer. "Oh, a few things," he said lowly, and he started tapping away at the keyboard.

"I used the Kraang processer inside Metalhead to access that storage device. A lot of the files are damaged, but I think I've found what they're after..." Donnie lowered his finger and pressed the 'enter' button. The computer beeped, and several images popped up on the screen. I inhaled sharply. It was a bunch of pictures of April. "They're after me?!" April gasped.