NOTE: This is a SWAT Kats Fan Fiction/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Crossover. Those who are familiar with my SWAT Kats fan fiction based on the Felicia McFurry Saga Series this is a fic that I am squeezing in after Chapter 15 it will be like a mini part. If you would like to know exactly what my character Felicia McFurry aka “Ricochet” looks like and a little bit about the saga then go to https://www.angelfire.com/va2/Ricochet .  Those who are familiar with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the turtles in this fic are based from the cartoon series around 1993 before the darker cartoon series around the episodes “Michelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko” and “Night of the Dark Turtle” that’s how they look. For more information on who the turtles are and what they look like go to https://www.angelfire.com/va2/Ricochet/TMNT/tmnt.html or http://ninjaturtles.com . 

 

 

PART I

 

 

 

     Raph tossed and turned in his bed, the ongoing sound of clanging from Donatello’s workshop was driving him crazy. “How can a turtle get some peace and quiet in here?!!,” he bellowed.  He thought that once he could actually get a nap during the day since Leonardo was out shopping for Michelangelo’s 17^th birthday present and Mike, himself was out sewer surfing. But then he forgot about Donatello. Oh who could forget about Donatello? To him, Donatello seemed to be the real noise problem of the lair. Climbing tiredly out of the bed Raphael staggered to Don’s workshop. Inside, Don hammered loudly on his portable portal, the workshop looked like a junkyard! There was piece of metal everywhere, Donatello himself was almost buried with metal parts from what seemed to be the portal. “Um, Donatello…ever heard the phrase ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it’?”

     Donatello looked up at him from the portal with the look of frustration and annoyance on his face. “Very funny, Raphael. As a MATTER of fact, I am working on Michelangelo’s birthday present.”

     Raphael shook his head and replied, “Looks like you are just rebuilding your portal do-dad.”

Donatello sighed and shook his head as he stood up from where he was bent down, laying his hammer on the table. “Look only an IQ level as high as mine could actually know what I was working on,” he said with a smirk. He knew how to always rub it in to make Raphael jealous and of course it worked!

     Raph approached the modified portal, “Come on, Donatello. Why don’t you tell me about Mike’s little birthday present?”

     “Oh I don’t know, Raphael. I kind of like it to be a surprise,” Don said scratching his head.

     “And it will be!,” Raph said with a smile putting his arm around Don’s shoulder.

     Don sighed and looked at Raph he knew he was going to regret telling Raphael Mike’s special birthday present but the opportunity to show off his new invention was a chance he would never pass up. “Fine. Look I am modifying the portal so that way we could teleport someone from any dimension into our dimension with a time limit of 2 weeks then be readmitted back to their dimension so that way if something ever goes wrong they will always go back with the coordinates locked in so we won’t lose it. I just hope I get it perfected before tomorrow,” Don sighed, wiping his brow with a handkerchief then picking up his hammer walking back over behind the portal once again.

     “Oh that’s it? I thought it would be something really cool!,” Raphael sarcastically said as he walked out of the workshop, calling back “Just make sure to keep the noise down now in there, Dr. TurtleStein. This turtle needs his beauty sleep.

     Donatello shook his head, no matter how hard he tried to please someone with his intelligence in technology it seemed not to please someone. “Feeble brains. No one ever appreciates fine technological advancements. I wish someone I knew would actually think with their brain instead of their stomach. Knowing my brothers they would have loved a new pizza maker.” Donatello looked over at the opened control panel, seeing the enormous mass of wires connecting to different parts of a motherboard inside. He closed his eyes and sighed once again. He knew why he was making this invention for and actually it really depressed him. Ever since the turtles and him met the Neutrinos, Michelangelo has had his eyes and heart set on Cala and ever since she went back to her homeworld in Dimension X, he’s done nothing but mope around the lair sometimes in one of his moods. By creating this invention he could bring Cala to their dimension for a while to make Mike happy. Donatello didn’t understand love, it never occurred to him. Maybe he was too busy or maybe no one ever cared about him?

     Suddenly Master Splinter entering the workshop disrupted his thoughts. “How’s the project going along, my pupil?”

     “Going great, Master,” Donatello said with a bit of sadness in his voice.

     Splinter sensed the sadness and approached him. “What’s troubling you, my son?”

     “Just bit confused, sensei. I don’t know I just don’t get what Michelangelo goes through every day. I don’t understand how seeing Cala again would provide happiness which I know he’ll get once I get this machine working,” Don tinkered on the machine to just keep his mind relaxed.

     “Don’t worry, Donatello. One day you will understand and learn what your brothers are going through. Michelangelo is just experiencing love earlier than you are. You must be patient, your chance will come,” Splinter said with a smile as he placed his hand on Don’s shoulder.

     Don sighed sadly and looked down at the ground, putting his hammer down, then started to rub his head. “I guess you’re right. I just don’t understand. I mean Leonardo had Lotus Blossom, Raphael had that Mona Lisa lizard woman and Michelangelo has Cala. What’s wrong with me?,” he said his lips quivering as sadness became greater, his eyes filling up with tears. He sniffed as a tear slid down his face moistening his skin.

     “There’s nothing wrong with you, my young ward. You are unique just like your brothers. Do not push this emotion that you are trying to feel or it will never be true to you. Let it come, and trust me one day you will experience it and it will be the best time of your life,” Splinter said with a smile, patting Don on the shoulder as he stood back up and walked out of the lair.

     About a couple of hours later, Michelangelo ran into the lair with his surfboard over his shoulders, “Awesome current today, dude!,” he said smiling over at Raphael who was sitting on the couch watching stand up comedy on television. Michelangelo put his surfboard against the wall and plopped down on the couch beside Raphael. “Hey, tomorrow’s my 17^th birthday!”

     “Really? Oh I would have never known!,” Raph said back sarcastically with a huge grin on his face, crossing his arms. Michelangelo’s face went from a smile to a frown. “Just kidding, Michelangelo!” Raphael grabbed Michelangelo wrapping his arms around his neck holding him in a vice like position, giving him a nookie, laughing hard.

     “Cut it out, Raphael!,” Michelangelo laughed as he struggled to get free till finally Raphael did let go.

     “So what did you get me for my birthday?,” Mike said with a big grin on his face just like a child’s face.

     “Now, now. You’ll have to wait till tomorrow but looks like Donnie is going to outdo me again,” Raph replied putting his feet up on the coffee table leaning back some against the couch.

     “Really? What did he get me?,” Michelangelo exclaimed with glee almost jumping right off the couch in delight.

     Raphael grinned big how he loved to tease Mike. “Well I shouldn’t really tell you, I mean Donnie told me not to tell and all.”

     “Oh come on, dude! You know how I hate when you partially tell me something!,” his younger brother whined. He grabbed his wallet off of the coffee table and grabbed a five-dollar bill out of it. “This is my last five dollars, man. I’ll give it to you just tell me!” Mike waved the bill in front of Raph.

     Raphael reached out and grabbed it. “Done! Okay, okay, look don’t go blabbering about it. But Donnie is working on portable portal thing-a-ma-bob to help get Cala to come to our dimension for a while so you can be with her.”

     “Really?!,” Mike shouted out really loud, his heart pounding hard, his eyes wide with a cheerful expression. How he waited for this moment, it had been a year without her. “I can be with Cala?!!”

     Raph’s eyes went wide with fear if Donatello found out that he squealed to Mike, he would kill him. “Shh!! Pipe down will you?”

     But before he knew it, Michelangelo ran towards Don’s workshop extremely happy. “Cowabunga!!!”

     Raphael’s heart almost stopped. “Boy am I glutton for punishment or what? Michelangelo! Come back here!!” He got up and ran in pursuit of Michelangelo and grabbed him but it was too late he was in the entrance way of the workshop and there sat Donatello about 5 feet in front of them working on his portal. “You want to get us caught?” He looked down and saw Donatello look at Raphael with fire in his eyes, he gulped. “Uh hi there, um Donnie. Mike was just um coming in to check on his favorite brother!,” he said nervously with a complete look of guilt on his face.

     “You told him didn’t you?! I can’t believe you!!,” Donatello growled as he threw down his handkerchief and stood up.

     Raphael put up his hands trying to make Donatello calm down. “Now just calm down, Donnie. Hehe um Mike wanted to learn about your invention that’s all..”

     “I’m going to kill you!!,” Donatello screamed as he ran after Raphael. Raphael took off screaming they ran through the lair until suddenly Raphael skidded to a complete stop when he saw Splinter standing in his way looking at him with disappointment on his face. Donatello bumped into him.

     “Turtles! What is the meaning of this roughhousing?,” Splinter demandingly said slamming his walking stick against the ground.

     “Master, Raphael squealed to Michelangelo about his birthday present that I was going to give to him!,” Donatello whined giving Raphael a mean look.

     “Raphael!,” Splinter said with a stern look. “Explain yourself.”

     “Well you see um, sensei, Michelangelo gave me money to tell him what Don’s present was and I told him but I didn’t know he was going to run in and look for himself,” Raphael said as he rubbed his head, he hated to get in trouble.

     “Michelangelo, come in here!,” Splinter called out to Mike who walked in with an‘I know I’m in trouble’ look on his face. “Did you bribe Raphael to tell you Don’s present?”

     “Yes, Master Splinter,” Mike said looking down, some birthday he was getting.

     “I am disappointed in you, my turtles. First Raphael, keeping a promise for someone is very honorable and once you make a promise with someone you shouldn’t break it. Michelangelo, bribing is terribly wrong. You shouldn’t bribe someone to get such petty information, you must be patient. Like they say ‘Good things comes to those who wait.’ And look where not waiting got you, my young ward: into trouble. Finally, Donatello, I know you must have been angry at finding out what Raphael done but you must learn to control your anger and forgive others. Now I think it’s best that all of us go to bed, we have a busy day tomorrow for Michelangelo,” Splinter said as he smiled to Michelangelo.

     “But master, my invention isn’t completed yet!,” Donatello exclaimed he knew he had a few more bugs to get out of it to get it working perfectly by tomorrow.

     “You need rest, Donatello. You can get up tomorrow to continue your work on it. Besides Michelangelo has all day to use receive his gift,” Splinter said as he turned his students towards their rooms giving them a soft push to make them start walking.

     A few hours had passed that night and it was around dawn, Donatello hadn’t slept pretty much a wink, questions filled his mind along with different procedure on how to fix his portal. He woke up around 4am from the sleepless night and sworn he could already hear someone already up, he looked across the hallway to Mike’s little bedroom and saw that his light was on. Michelangelo was sitting on his bed, holding a picture of Cala in his hands just staring at it, sniffing a little bit as he cried.

     Throughout the day, Michelangelo was having a terrific birthday. He received a new pair of nunchuks from Splinter, a new surf board from Raphael, and a gift certificate for fifty dollars to Vinnie’s Pizza from Leonardo but his main focus was on Donatello’s present which wasn’t completed yet. To allow Donatello some more time and some peace from eager Michelangelo, Splinter told him to go out to the beach and surf for a while and come back around that evening to receive Donatello’s gift. Unfortunately around 5pm when Michelangelo came back from the beach almost exhausted from the great surf that day, a terrible electrical storm came up. “Dude, are you finished yet?,” Michelangelo said as he stood there in the workshop getting really annoyed with the time delay.  

     Donatello sighed and stood up, rubbing the back of his head. “I don’t know, Mike. I mean I haven’t really tested this thing and I don’t know if all the bugs are out of it.”

     Raphael overheard the conversation and decided to walk in and hear that than to go in the practice room with Splinter and Leonardo. “You mean to tell me you’re not done yet, Mr. Wizard?”

     Don shook his head, “I don’t know what’s wrong. I mean Mike the storm could be messing up the coordinate frequency. I mean we could try to get Cala once I establish communication with them again and see if she’s ready but then again something could go wrong and she could be sent to another dimension or we pick up the wrong dimension instead.” He looked over at the computer console with a grim look on his face.

     Raph glanced over at the impatient Mike. “Do it.”

     “Alright, alright,” Donatello groaned as he walked over to his communications radio and put in the Dimension X frequency to tell Cala that he was ready. Something about doing this felt wrong to him but he wanted to make Michelangelo happy after all it was his birthday but deep down inside he knew that he was no where near finished on his modifying project. The radio hummed and buzzed with static as his fingers turned the dial suddenly he heard a familiar voice, which he noted, made Michelangelo grin.

     “Hey, you crazy turtles, what’s happening?,” Cala said over the radio. 

     “Hey, Cala. This is Donatello. Are you all set?,” he asked with a smile, getting kind of eager to test out his new invention.

     “Hey dudette!,” Michelangelo said as he rushed over to the radio with the biggest smile on his face.

     “Hey Mikey! You hunk you! I missed you. It will be soo good to crash at your place for a while and be with you,” Cala replied, Don winked at Raph and then chuckled a little.

     “Okay, Cala, get ready. I am about to open the portal,” Donatello said as he sat down in the chair in front of the portal computer console fixing the coordinates for Dimension X. Michelangelo crossed his fingers, his heart pounding hard in his chest, how he waited for this moment. Donatello glanced over at his anxious brother then started to activate the portal but suddenly an alarm started blare from the machine, he looked over and a look of dread fell over his face.

Michelangelo just felt his heart sink when he saw the worried look on Donatello’s face and managed to get out the words, “What’s going on?”

     Don looked over at the coordinates of the portal, the dial spinning rapidly this was what he dreaded for using the portal in its unfinished stage. “I don’t know but somehow the electrical storm threw the coordinates off course! The portal has been activated but not in Dimension X!,” his eyes were wide, he started to push buttons on the console trying to close the portal. He had no idea on what would come through the portal, he didn’t even know what dimension it was locked on!

     The screen on the computer console back in Donatello’s workshop showed a small blip on it as it started to beep. “Uh-oh, guys. Something’s coming through. Looks like something about our size,” Donatello said, fear entering his voice. That’s all they needed in their dimension again, some convicts from an alter dimension or some huge dimensional creature. 

     From the commotion in Donatello’s workshop, Splinter and Leonardo ran in. “Turtles prepare for an attack!,” Leonardo shouted taking his two katana swords from their sheaths on the back of his shell, his other brothers followed in suit. The dimensional portal gateway got brighter, there was smoke everywhere from the machine’s overload causing the Turtles and Splinter to cough. But finally when the smoke cleared a feline form laid on the ground before them unconscious.

     “Is it dead?,” Raphael asked as he tapped it with his foot.

     “Raphael!,” Splinter said sternly. “Leonardo, grab a washcloth and a pillow.”

     “Yes, Master Splinter,” Leonardo replied as he rushed off into kitchen to get a washcloth.

     Michelangelo leaned down and turned the unknown creature around to where it was laying on its back and jumped a little. “It’s a cat!,” he said.

     “Whoa, maybe we should hide Splinter,” Raphael smiled as he stood there with his arms crossed.

     “Looks like the coordinates must have went to a dimension where there are humanoid cats. Mutants kind of like us but judging by her clothes, in her dimension they are all the same feline species,” Donatello said as he leaned down towards Ricochet looking at her, amazed at how pretty she was.

     Ricochet groaned a little as she started to come to, her eyelids twitching some, moving her body some. “Uhm, she’s waking up,” Raphael said as he stepped back from her, tightening his grip on his sai.

     She lifted up and held her head, “Wh-where am I?”

     “Easy my child, relax,” Splinter said softly as he took the washcloth from Leonardo and placed it upon her forehead trying to lay her back down on the pillow that Leonardo placed underneath her head.

     Ricochet slowly opened her eyes but still hadn’t focus her sight yet, she saw blurry images but suddenly a voice woke her up. “Hopefully she’s okay,” Donatello had said. That voice! Ricochet’s eyes went wide from hearing Donatello speak, his voice sounded soo familiar, and he sounded just like Razor! “Razor?!,” she said as she sat straight up and looked over at him then her blurriness went away and there in front of her was a huge turtle with a purple bandanna on.  Her eyes went wide from the turtle and she glanced around quickly noticing that there were three more like him and also there was a huge giant rat! “What the heck?!!,” she gasped out, standing up quickly.

     “Wait wait! Please calm down! You’re not in any danger,” Leonardo said as he looked at her putting away his swords to show it.

     “Sure I’m not! You are working for Viper aren’t you? He used some katalysts to make more of his creatures! Well you are not going to trick me,” Ricochet said firmly standing in a defensive position. “I’m leaving this place!.” She started to walk towards the door of the lair.

     “Guys if we don’t stop her and she goes up top; hard to tell what will happen to her,” Donatello said looking over at his broken portal machine, sighing hard.

     “After her!,” Leonardo shouted as he started to run in pursuit of Ricochet, Michelangelo and Raphael yelled out as they followed him.

     She turned around and saw them running towards her and took off running, Splinter watched his pupils chase after her, shaking his head. Ricochet panted as she looked around in the sewers. “Geez where am I? This doesn’t look familiar at all! But I am not sticking around to be captured by those freaks!” She turned the corner really fast and swiftly climbed up a ladder leading to a small pipe that was big enough for her to get in and she would be able to look down.

     The turtles stopped where the ladder was, the whole place was filled with pipes. “Aw, swell we let a cat outdo us Turtles in the sewer!,” Raphael groaned as he looked around.

     “So now what, dude?,” Michelangelo said as he looked over at Leonardo, trying to get his breath.

     “Well she couldn’t have gotten far. Let’s split up so that way we can get her faster. Raphael, you and I will head up and search through the pipe tunnels. Michelangelo, you head back to the lair just in case she goes back after Splinter. Donatello, you stay here just in case we flush her out and she starts to head this way. Now just be careful,” Leonardo said. He and Raphael started to go towards the pipes, Michelangelo ran back towards the lair. Donatello just stood there and looked around. But suddenly he could have sworn he saw something in the pipe above him and he smiled a little. Ricochet looked back down and saw Donatello looking straight up at her as he walked towards the ladder. Ricochet cried out as she looked behind her and noticed there was a dead end in the pipe that she was in. 

     Donatello climbed about halfway up the ladder and then called, “Hey listen I know you’re in there. We are not going to hurt you. I know that you are scared please just come out.” He went up one more step looking up at the pipe; Ricochet looked around inside the pipe and stayed there keeping out of sight, trying to figure out what to do. “Look, my portal machine that I made messed up and created a dimensional portal which brought you here. I know it’s hard to understand but if you don’t believe me then hit me,” Donatello continued as climbed all the way to the top and looked right at her. Ricochet looked at him, his voice sounded so much like Razor that it was freaking her out but yet here was this strange turtle creature talking to her. Donatello sighed seeing the fear still in her face. “You must trust me. I’ll help you out and I’ll try to fix the machine for you, it may take some time but I’ll help you get back to your world. Just give me your hand.” Donatello held out his hand and looked right at her. She was gorgeous to him, he felt so strange around her, and something he had never felt before. Ricochet reached out and took his hand to help herself out. But that touch, made Donatello shiver. Her grip on his hand was so gentle; her skin was so soft to him. He shook his head and tried to focus on the issue. He smiled a little and began to climb down helping her down with him. “Come on let’s go back to the lair.” He walked towards the lair with her by his side.

     Once he got in the lair, he contacted Raphael and Leonardo to let them know that everything was all right and they came moments later. Michelangelo had already prepared a pizza while they were gone. “I have got the major munchies, dudes. It’s pizza time!” he shouted as he brought out the pizza and set it down on the coffee table that was sitting in front of the couch. Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael dived in also; their weakness was always pizza by Splinter was disappointed in this act.

     “Turtles, what bad manners you have. You’re making me look bad. You should always offer your guest something first before you eat,” Splinter said giving them a stern look, his tail whapping against the floor. Ricochet blushed by this; she didn’t want to be the center of attention.

     “Oh oops. Sorry. Care for a slice?” Michelangelo said as he held out a slice of pizza. “It’s chocolate chips and marshmallow with pepperoni.”

     “Um, no thanks. I usually like tuna toppings,” Felicia said as she plopped down on the couch behind them.

     “Fish? Yuck, I hate fish,” Donatello said as he made a face.

     Splinter walked up to her holding a small wooden board with rolls of different shapes of food on it. “Well I have sushi,” Splinter said. “It’s raw fish with rice and other herbs.”

     “Sure,” Felicia said as she smiled at Splinter and took one piece of the sushi and placed into her mouth. “Mmm..this is good!”

     “Whoa, major gross-out, she likes sushi,” Michelangelo shivered by just the thought of eating one of the sushi rolls.

     Splinter sat down on the couch beside Felicia and took a sushi roll off the board and placed it into his mouth before saying “I think since we are calm down now, we should learn about one another. And I think our guest of honor should be allowed to do first.”

     Felicia smiled shyly and then sat up some. “Well um, I am not that good at telling stories but here goes. My name is Felicia McFurry but I also go by the vigilante name of Ricochet. I live in a city called MegaKat and everyone there is a kat species just like me. Well you see my parents were killed by a terrorist bombing by this crime-lord named Dark Kat and ever since then my mission is to seek revenge against him and to also prevent anything like that happening again. Actually right before I got here, I just got back from a dangerous mission where my brother Jenson and I went after him and Dark Kat fell from this radar dish into the water that was underneath him. It was so far below that we are thinking he is dead but he’s probably not. But I really don’t have anything else much to say.”

     “Well, Felicia. Our story is much different but yet the same in some parts. In our world, we are outcasts because everyone in our world is human,” Splinter said as he put the sushi plate down on the coffee table in front of the pizza which made Michelangelo scoot back from it. Raphael snickered.

     “Human?,” Felicia looked at Splinter quizzically. 

     “Well, they are like you but furless,” Raphael said with a smirk as he sat back some facing Splinter and Felicia, his back resting against the coffee table. Leonardo had gotten up and sat on a stool near the television. Donatello sat up against the couch right near Felicia while Michelangelo sat away from the table, remaining on the floor.

     “That’s correct. Maybe you can meet our friend April who is a human later on. But in another country from this one in a land called Japan, my name was Hamato Yoshi and I was a human as well. I was a teacher of the foot clan until one day Oraku Saki, a pupil of mine, sought leadership of the clan and framed me making me like I was trying to kill the master teacher. In disgrace I fled to New York in this country, which is called United States of America. Without any money I lived in the sewers and when a young boy dropped his pet turtles down into a sewer grate, I made new friends. Oraku Saki kept an eye on me and knew that I was living in the sewers and he dropped a vial of mutagen down into the sewers where I was living and the baby turtles crawled in it making them turn into humanoid forms since they were most recently in contact with me but since I touched it I was turned into a rat since I was mostly recently in contact with the rats of these sewers. Since I knew the humans up above wouldn’t understand who they were, I trained them in the martial arts and gave each of them a weapon. Leonardo over there on the stool learnt the use of a katana blade, he is the oldest of the four and has great leadership qualities.” Leonardo made a slight bow to her, smiling at her. Splinter pointed down on the floor to Donatello. “Donatello is trained well with the bo staff and makes inventions and basically the brains of the four.” Donatello blushed a little and smiled shyly, waving a little. “Raphael over here trained great with the sai and is the wisecracker of the group or so they say. Raphael grinned and just nodded his head at her. Splinter turned his gaze over at Michelangelo and spoke, “Here is Michelangelo, and the youngest of the group and still has a lot to learn. But I have trained him well in the use of nunchuks. Unfortunately, Michelangelo loves to goof off.”

     “And also loves to party!,” Michelangelo grinned.

     “Nice to meet all of you,” Felicia smiled at them feeling more at ease with them than before.

     “Well maybe tomorrow I can analyze the portal and hopefully try to fix it so she can leave before the two week period,” Donatello said as he stood back up.

     Felicia chuckled a little softly when she heard Donatello say that which made him give her a confused look. “Oh, sorry, um Donatello. It’s just that’s this is so weird to me that it still feels like a dream sometimes because of you.”

     Donatello looked kind of embarrassed and looked at her surprisingly. “Me?”

     “Well it’s nothing mean. It’s just that you remind me of Razor from back home, that’s all. You have the same voice as him,” Felicia said a little feeling kind of stupid for even chuckling at him and bringing it up as she looked at Donatello’s face seeing some sort of hurt.

     “Razor? Is that like your brother or something?,” Michelangelo asked as he got up sneaking in one more slice of pizza before receiving a stern look from Splinter.

     “Not really. He’s a really special friend of mine who I care about a lot and kind of miss,” Felicia replied softly, looking down on the ground wondering if she would be able to go back and see him.

     “Oh, your sweetheart,” Raphael smirked at her which made Felicia blush. At those very words, Donatello looked away trying to hold back the pain he started to feel.

     “Well I think it’s time we should get some rest for tonight. I know that Felicia here must be tired as well. Besides you have your exercise in the morning,” Splinter said with a smile when he heard all four of his pupils groan.

     “Exercise?,” Felicia asked as she stood up from the couch feeling kind of drowsy herself since she hadn’t rested yet from her last battle with Dark Kat.

     “Yeah, my turtles have their ninja exercise in the morning. Perhaps you would like to watch us?,” the rodent replied.

     “Sure if you guys don’t mind. It would be kind of interesting,” she said when she caught Donatello looking around with a sad look on his face, his eyes were filled up with tears.

     “Very well. Leonardo, why don’t you sleep out here on the couch tonight and let Felicia sleep in your bed,” Splinter said as he grabbed Leo’s arm before he head off to bed.

     “Sure thing, sensei,” Leonardo replied.

     “No, no. No offense, Splinter. But may I sleep on the couch tonight? It won’t bother me at all,” Felicia said.

     “As you wish, my child. Goodnight,” Splinter said as he turned and walk back out of the living room towards his quarters, Raphael and Michelangelo followed with Leonardo behind them. Donatello followed them tagging along, he felt so much hurt inside and he felt so weird. Felicia watched him walk off slowly behind his brothers, she knew something was bothering him.

     “Donatello..,” she said.

     He whipped around quickly and looked at her. “Yeah?” Shaking a little, he didn’t want her to know that he was upset.

     “You okay?,” she said as she looked at him.

     “Yeah..just um a little tired that’s all,” he said quickly with nervousness.

     Felicia looked at him, something was tugging at her but she didn’t know what, for some reason deep down inside she felt something about him but didn’t know what it was. “Well have a goodnight,” she replied softly looking down trying to look away, confused by the feelings. Donatello nodded and then walked off to his own bed. She sighed and walked towards the couch, laying down on it, within minutes

 

     Throughout the entire night, Donatello turned and tossed in his sleep, he couldn’t sleep, and the thought of her kept entering his mind. He didn’t understand it, what was happening to him? He threw the covers off him and sighed. “This is not like me,” he thought to himself as he stared up at the ceiling above his bed. He got up and decided to go to the kitchen to get him a glass of water. He tiptoed quietly towards the kitchen trying not to wake the others up but as he passed the living room, his glance went over to where Felicia was sleeping on the couch. He stopped and looked over at her in awe with his heart pounding a little faster in his chest. “She’s even prettier when she’s sleeping,” he said softly to himself and then shook his head. “What’s happening to me?” He walked into the kitchen and got him a glass of water from the faucet and took one whole gulp and stood there. He was breathing hard and gripped the sink, closing his eyes trying to push the thoughts of Felicia out of his head. He turned on the faucet and splashed some of the water onto his face and then turned it off, heading back towards his room once more.

     Splinter’s ears perked when he heard the water running and got up and decided to see who was up during the middle of the night. He thought maybe Michelangelo was up sneaking in a midnight pizza snack. “Ah, that Michelangelo will never learn to stop eating,” he said to himself as he got his walking stick.

     Donatello stepped quietly through the living room but looked over at Felicia on the couch once more. Staring at her gorgeous form, something about her was attracting him but he wasn’t sure yet. He shook his head again and then walked quietly towards her bending down in front of her looking at her gorgeous face, his hand shakingly reached out towards it.

     Splinter looked out of his room at the living room and saw Donatello near Felicia. He smiled a little seeing the look on Donatello’s face. “He’s finally learned,” he thought to himself and quietly went back to his bed.    

     That morning around seven after ninja practice, Donatello looked into the living room seeing Felicia sit with Raph and Mike watching television. He sighed and grabbed his bo staff and started to walk out of the lair but Master Splinter stopped him. “Going out, Donatello?”

     “Yeah I thought since it was nice outside I would go out of the city for a bit in the turtle van and just walk around,” he said looking at Splinter trying not to look at Felicia.

     “Well why don’t you take our guest here and show her the city, I know she would love to see it,” Splinter suggested pointing to Felicia who turned around and looked up at them

     “Um, not right now, sensei. I need to go out and relax for a bit before I start to work on the portal machine. I couldn’t sleep last night,” Donatello said with a little bit of nervousness in his voice before he turned and walked out of the lair.   

     “What’s in his shell?” Mike asked as he turned his attention from the television and looked at Raphael who was sitting on the couch beside Felicia.

     “Eh maybe your snoring kept him up all night,” Raphael smirked.

     “Me? Whoa dude, you’re totally mistaken if it was anybody it was probably Leonardo,” Michelangelo replied as he turned back around and continued to watch television.

     Felicia bit her lip as she thought about Donatello and how sad he was, something was bothering him and she felt like it was her for some reason. Some how deep down inside, something about him made her feel almost as if she had feelings for him like Razor. “I’m probably just confusing him with my love for Razor. That has to be it,” she thought.

Her revelations were broken when Splinter placed his hand on her arm, which almost made her jump. “My child, would you like to learn a little about some martial weapons? Leonardo could help me teach you if you would like to learn. Maybe you can practice with them in the morning,” he said smiling gently at her. Little did she know that he had a plan in his mind about what to do between her and Donatello.

     Back in MegaKat, Jake and Chance were in Kat-Mart buying some stuff for the mechanic shop. Chance put the bottles of motor oil on the counter to let the young Siamese she-kat scan them. Jake walked over to a toy claw machine and saw a white teddy bear with red hearts all over it. “Hey, Chance give me a quarter,” he said.

     Chance smiled at the young she-kat and paid her the money then took the bags and walked over to where Jake was standing eagerly. “Oh come on, buddy. You actually think you are going to win something in these things?” He put his hand into his jeans’ pocket and pulled out a quarter, handing it to Jake.

     “Hey, you’re talking to your sureshot here!” he smirked and grabbed the quarter from Chance and stuck it in the coin slot. “I’m going to win that bear for Licia.” Chance shook his head and watched Jake as he aimed the claw over the bear. “Target locked, launch!” Chance rolled his eyes at Jake. The claw went down to where the bear was and came back up empty handed, which made Jake’s jaw drop. “What??”

     Chance started to laugh. “Uh-huh. Looks like I am going to need another sureshot.”

     “That thing was rigged!” Jake said as he sighed and then took one of the bags from Chance.

     “Sure it was. Come on, buddy,” Chance replied as he walked out towards the doors of the store.

Their ears perked when they heard a young kitten behind them calling out, “Mommy, mommy! Look what I got out of the claw machine!” Jake’s and Chance’s eyes both went wide before Chance grinned and said, “Maybe I should make that kitten my new partner,” as he watched the young black kitten run up to his mother in front of him holding a similar teddy bear that was solid blue.

“Forget it, Chance. Let’s go. I need to call Licia outside at the pay phone before we head to the garage,” Jake said as he reached into his pocket and took out enough money for the call and placed the coins into a payphone outside on the store’s wall. He dialed the number and heard the phone ringing but no one ever picked up. He stared at the phone as he hooked it back upon the receiver. Something wasn’t quite right; Chance saw the look of horror on his face.

“What is it, buddy?” he asked.

“Licia isn’t answering,” Jake replied softly as he sighed rubbing his head.

     About twenty minutes later, Jake and Chance arrived at Felicia’s old apartment. “You see? Her car is still here. So she must be here,” Chance smiled as he nudged Jake a little and got out of the truck.

     “Yeah. I’ll head up there,” Jake said as he walked up the stairs to the second floor to Licia’s apartment and knocked on the door. He waited for about a minute but no one came to the door. At that moment he almost turned white, his heart sunk from his chest.

     “Not answering?” Chance asked as he walked up to where Jake was. Jake just shook his head silently and took out a spare key to her apartment that Felicia had gave him. He unlocked the door and walked inside, everything at that moment at first looked like normal, all of the furniture was in place, nothing was thrown about which made Jake calm down a little. But then his eyes went straight to the middle of the living room and he almost fell down at that moment. Chance noticed this and asked, “What is it, buddy?” He then looked at where Jake was looking and saw the same horror to his eyes. He walked up to the middle of the living room and saw there on the floor a huge burnt mark on the carpet and Ricochet’s mask right on the floor. He shook his head trying not to think of anything bad had happened to Felicia as he ran towards the back end of her apartment where her bedroom was. “Licia?! Licia?!” But no one answered his calls out for her.  Jake staggered over to where the mask was and gently picked it up. Then he felt the burnt spot, it was still warm. “Holy kats…what happened to her?” he said softly his voice choking.

     Chance ran over to the phone that was hanging on the kitchen’s wall and quickly dialed Jenson’s office number. He kept looking over at Jake and then refocused his attention to the phone when he heard Jenson picking up the receiver.

     “Colonel McFurry’s office, may I help you?” Jenson asked.

     “Jenson, this is Chance. I-I think you should come over to your sister’s apartment right now,” Chance said, stuttering a little.

     “Why? What happened?” Jenson replied as a look of dread fell over his face. This had happened before when Felicia joined Turmoil and didn’t tell anyone. But this time it sounded different.

     “We came over here to visit your sister and she’s gone. Her mask is lying on the ground and there is a huge burnt spot on the carpet beside it. We don’t know what it is,” Chance said as he looked over at the burnt spot again.

     “O-okay, I’ll be there soon. I’ll have to bring some enforcers with me so I can have a reason to use the lab here so tell Jake to put the mask in his pocket,” Jenson wiped his eyes as he felt tears forming and hung up the phone. He sighed heavily and looked down for a moment trying to compose himself and then looked up at the city’s skyline. With that, he got up and walked out of his office.

     Chance hung up the phone and walked over to his sadden friend. “Buddy, listen. I called Jenson and he said to put her mask in your pocket because he’s bringing some enforcers over. But once they get here, we’ll leave and go back to the hangar to go out and look for her. She’ll be okay,” he said as he sighed heavily and held his paw on Jake’s shoulder almost about to cry himself. He could feel so much pain in Jake that it even pained him.

     “Okay, Chance. I’m just worried, what if it was Dark Kat?” Jake turned around and stared at Chance, his eyes red from him crying. He stuffed the mask in his pocket and slowly got up.

     “It can’t be, Jake. We saw him fall from the satellite dish. But then again, it could be him. We can’t kill that mega-low!” Chance bawled up his fists and growled a little. He walked over to the balcony door of Licia’s apartment and looked out into the parking lot.

     Chance’s ears perked when he heard Jake replied with the next question: “What if it was Turmoil?” His eyes became wide when he heard the name.

     At first he didn’t reply but then said, “Buddy, I don’t know if it’s her or not. Could be. All I know judging by that burnt spot that it could be Hard Drive but he’s still locked away.” He turned back around and looked at his partner.

Their ears perked when they heard the enforcer cars pull up in the parking lot, Jake looked over at his friend. “I don’t know who it is, Chance. But when I find out who has her they are going to pay!” he growled as he bawled his fists up, Chance nodded at him.

Jenson knocked on the door and then walked in. “Hey guys. We’ll take it from here,” he said with two more enforcers following him.  “I’ll get some carpet fibers from that burnt spot. You two go back and look for any clues. I want fingerprints!” he said to the other enforcers and then smiled at Jake and Chance. The two enforcers ran back in the back of the apartment. “You guys better go on and get some rest. I’ll call you when I get this analyzed.”

     Jake and Chance nodded at Jenson and then walk towards the front door. “Thanks, Jenson. You’re the greatest,” Jake smiled at him.

 

     It was around mid afternoon that day, Jake and Chance had returned to the garage earlier and decided to do a sweep over the city in the TurboKat to see if they could find any leads on the location of Felicia. There was a soft alarm towards the front of the TurboKat indicating that someone was trying to reach them. Razor glanced down on the identification monitor for the call’s location. “It’s Jenson! Hopefully he has found something.”

     “Got it, buddy,” T-Bone said as he pushed a button on the HUD of the jet to pick up the call. “This is T-Bone. Go ahead.”

     “Okay, guys. We are done with that floor sample for right now but I have some good news and some bad news,” Jenson said from the other end of the call.

     Razor cringed at what he heard and then replied, “Well tell me the good news first.” 

     “Well according to the fiber testing. The carpet burn wasn’t caused by any electrical charge from Hard Drive’s surge coat and besides I just contacted the MegaKat Prison and he’s still in his cell,” came the reply.

     Razor looked up at the sky from the canopy and closed his eyes, thanking so much that Hard Drive didn’t fry her but hoping yet that it wasn’t Turmoil or Dark Kat either. “Okay, what’s the bad news?”

     Jenson sighed heavily and then started, “ Well, this is the weird thing. Judging by all of that mumbo jumbo electrical particles from the scientists in the lab. Whatever struck the carpet is too high tech or advance for Dark Kat’s level we assume and that definitely knocks out Turmoil as well.”

     T-Bone’s eyes went wide when he heard the last statement from Jenson and looked at the radio with a puzzled look upon his face. Razor shook his head a little from what he heard and leaned up; gripping the back of T-Bone’s seat to try to hear more closely on what Jenson was about to say. “So what it is exactly that you are trying to tell us?” T-Bone asked with a little anger entering his voice from the frustration on the whole event.

     That was where Jenson just totally broke up on the radio. “I’m telling you that she’s gone, guys. Even maybe from this world or dimension,” he stuttered.

     “What?!!!,” both SWAT Kats replied.

     “I am saying whatever device that burnt the carpet was alien to us. Not of this world,” Jenson answered back getting angrier by the minute thinking of Felicia being tortured by some alien race or even killed.

     “I don’t believe it!,” T-Bone said, shaking his head looking around. He couldn’t comprehend the fact that aliens abducted Felicia.

     “Holy Kats! KRUD!!!!!!!!!,” Razor shouted as he slammed his body back against his seat. Hitting his fists hard against the side of the canopy. “Why! Oh why!! Felicia, no!!” Tears pouring down his face matting his fur. He couldn’t help but let the tears pour out, he felt like he was stabbed in the heart. At first when he lost Felicia like this she was with Turmoil but this time it was very different and this time there was no possible way that he could ever find her.

     “Ok, Jenson,” T-Bone said after composing himself. “Listen, buddy. You take it easy. Let us know as soon if you find anything and I do mean anything at all.”

     Jenson sighed, hearing Razor in the background. “Right,” and with that he turned off the radio.

     Once the TurboKat stopped at the end of the hangar’s tunnel and T-Bone turned it off, he and Razor jumped out of the jet and walked towards their lockers. T-Bone opened his locker but Razor hit his locker with his hand really hard and then held his head against its door, groaning a little.

     “Please, Jake. Listen, you have to take it easy, buddy,” Chance said removing his mask. Jake looked over at him with his face matted heavily with the tears and his eyes were blood shot red. “I know buddy that you love her a lot and I can’t comprehend the pain that you are going through. But right now, you need to relax and rest or it will never help Felicia.”

     “I-I lost her, Chance,” Jake said softly as he gulped a little and threw off his helmet and bandanna, tossing them on the floor. “I can’t go on like this…”

     Chance shook his head and grabbed Jake a little by the shoulders. “Listen to me, Jake Clawson. Acting like this won’t save Felicia. You have to believe me. We will find her! Don’t give up hope yet! Okay? Let’s go upstairs and go to bed. You need to rest.”  Jake nodded a little without saying a word to him. “Promise me that you won’t go off tonight looking for her by yourself? Not like last time, we are going to find her together. You need your rest so when we do find her we will need strength to protect her. You got that?”

     Later on that evening, Donatello was in his workshop tapping away noisily at the portable portal machine. Felicia was in the exercise room practicing with Master Splinter and Leonardo. She was actually getting pretty good with the martial arts training and Splinter told her hopefully by the beginning of the next week she could practice with the turtles. “Hey, Mr. Braniac, you almost finished with that machine? That noise you’re making is ruining my comedy show on tv!” Raphael said as he walked in, holding his hands over his ears.

     “Yeah, dude and I was trying to read my Bug Man comic but how can I concentrate when you’re tapping that loud!” Mike exclaimed as he followed Raphael into the workshop holding his comic in his hands.

     “Sorry, guys. I need to fix this thing,” Donatello said as he stood back up and wiped his brow with a towel. Actually he hadn’t really accomplished much that day on fixing his invention, his mind was so cluttered with mixed feelings for Felicia, he couldn’t concentrate.

     “Well how much longer are you going to be? I kind of want Cala to be here with me,” Mike replied as he sat down on the floor.

     “Yeah, we wanted a neutrino here not some feline,” Raphael said.

     That comment made Donatello flare up. “She seems to be nice, Raphael! Why do you have to be rude all the time to everyone?!” He threw his wrench on the ground and sighed, walking over to his table.

     “Hey cool your gears, man. I was just kidding, sheesh! What’s with you lately, Donatello? You have been very snappy recently to all of us!” Raphael replied bawling his hands up into fists.

     “Look, I’ll get this fixed but I don’t need you guys breathing down my back! Now just leave me alone!,” Donatello yelled back, gripping the table with his hands with his back to them

     Splinter’s ears perked when he heard the yelling coming from the workshop and looked over at Felicia. “Excuse me, Felicia. Continue your exercises with Leonardo. I need to see what’s going on,” he said politely and walked out of the room towards the workshop. Felicia watched him leave, biting her lip, even she heard the argument coming from Donatello’s workshop. She shook her head and paid attention to Leonardo’s instructions, gripping the bo staff with her hands tightly. But she couldn’t concentrate, something was up and she wished she knew what it was.

     Master Splinter walked into the workshop seeing Donatello’s back turned towards him at the table with Mike sitting against the floor and Raphael with an angry look on his face. “Turtles! What is the meaning of this disharmony?”

     “Well this dude has totally gone psycho!,” Michelangelo exclaimed, pointing to Donatello.

     “Yeah all we did was just to ask him to hurry up with that invention of his so he wouldn’t make any noise and he goes bizerko on us!,” Raphael said also with his arms now crossed.

     Splinter looked over at Donatello and thought for a moment. Donatello sighed heavy and closed his eyes, tears were forming in them; he didn’t want to look at the others. He was in so much pain at the unusual feelings he was experiencing and right now there was so much torment in his life. “Michelangelo and Raphael, come with me. I need to talk to you,” Splinter said sternly as he walked out of the workshop towards their bedrooms.

     “But Master Splinter, Donatello-,” Raphael started.

     “Now!,” Splinter yelled back as he continued to walk.

     “I can’t believe this!!,” Michelangelo growled as he got up and walked off towards the same direction as Master Splinter. Raphael gave me a firery look at Donatello then followed his brother.

     Splinter waited for a minute to make sure he could hear Felicia and Leonardo practicing and then he heard Donatello continuing to fix his invention.

     “Master Splinter, why are we in trouble?,” Michelangelo said with a sad look on his face.

     “You’re not, my pupils. There is something I must tell you about Donatello. Please sit down,” he said softly and sat down on the carpet that was in the middle of their bedrooms. Raphael and Michelangelo looked at each other and then sat down with Master Splinter forming a little circle.

     “My pupils, what I am about to tell you, you must not say to anyone especially to Felicia or Donatello. I have noticed your brother’s behavior too. But you have to understand what he’s going through to make him act his way and that is the reason why I am going to tell you. I think that Donatello is finally experiencing what you two and Leonardo have already felt.,” Splinter said softly looking at both of them.

     Raphael looked over at Michelangelo with a puzzled look then at Splinter. “What do you mean?”

     “I’m saying I think Donatello is in love. He knows that she has to go back because she doesn’t belong here and it pains him to think about it,” replied Splinter.

     Raphael couldn’t help but let out a small little chuckle. “I don’t believe it. How could Donatello be in love? I mean it just doesn’t seem right!”

     “Raphael!,” Splinter said sternly as he looked at him. “It’s wrong to laugh at your brother. You should be happy for him that he is feeling this way just as he was when you were with Mona Lisa.” Raphael stopped laughing and looked down with some shame, knowing that Splinter was right.

     “But Master, doesn’t Felicia already have a dude?,” Michelangelo interrupted.

     Donatello groaned as he sat away from the invention against the wall and leaned his head back. He felt so tired and he hardly did a thing to the portal. He couldn’t work on it, his mind was so boggled that he couldn’t concentrate and every time he’d tried to work on the device, he ended up messing it up. Splinter walked in and saw Donatello looking distraught as he sat against the wall. “Taking a break, my young ward?” he said softly as he approached him.

     Donatello sat up quickly looking kind of nervous. “Um, yeah.”

     “You need to take a break from your project and get some fresh air, it would help you. Why don’t you take Felicia out and show her the city for a while? I am sure that she would love to see it. She’s been practicing all day with Leonardo and I, I am sure she would like to take a break as well,” his master replied with a smile on his face.

     “Um, I better not, sensei. I really need to get this done for Mikey. I’m sure that Raphael or Michelangelo could take her out. They would be better fun for her,” he said with a little sadness in his voice as he stood back up.

     “Oh, nonsense, Donatello. I insist, now go and get her from the training room. Besides Raphael and Michelangelo are watching a movie,” Splinter said as he gently nudged Donatello towards the entranceway of the workshop.

     Donatello walked towards the training room, his heart pounding. He didn’t know how he would act around her in front of his master and Leonardo. He walked in and saw her practicing hard with Leonardo using one of his bo staffs. To him she seemed really good using it. He smiled a little watching her but then snapped out of it when he heard Splinter clearing his throat. “Leonardo, I think that is enough for today. You did well. I think now it would be best that Felicia here could take a tour of our city and Donatello will take her.” Donatello smiled a little.

     “Sure, that would be great!,” Felicia smiled.

     “I know Donatello has a disguise he could wear but what about her?,” Leonardo asked slipping his katana blade back into its sheath.

     “Um, I could swing by April’s and see if I can borrow one of her outfits for Felicia. She looks about the same size as April,” Donatello replied, Felicia blushed.

     “A good idea, Donatello. Now hurry up and go get your disguise on. Felicia will wait on you,” Splinter said. Donatello nodded and ran off to his bedroom.

     “I really appreciate everything that you guys are doing for me,” Felicia said as she smiled at Splinter. “This has been great so far!”

     “Well you will love the city especially around this time since it’s hitting about sunset,” Leonardo noted, glancing at the clock.

     A few minutes later Donatello came back wearing his trench coat and hat. “Ready to go?" he said, starting to get butterflies in his stomach.

     “Sure!,” Felicia grinned. “Oh this is going to be exciting!” She grabbed his arm tightly and squeezed it without thinking then felt awkward and stopped. Donatello’s eyes went wide when she did and almost got goose bumps. He smiled at her and then walked out of the lair towards the sewer grate where they kept the Turtle Van with Felicia following him.

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     About twenty minutes after they left, Donatello pulled up on the side of the road in front of April’s apartment building. “Come on,” Donatello smiled as he got out and led Felicia up the stairwell on the outside of the building towards her window.

     “Are you sure we can do this?” Felicia asked looking around nervously as she followed him.

     “Trust me, you don’t want to go in through the front door,” Don replied as he tapped on April’s window. Minutes later she came to the window and opened it up.

     “Hey, Donatello. What brings you here?” she said as she opened it wider to allow him in.

     “Well my friend and I here need your help,” he said as he climbed in through the window then took Felicia’s hand and helped her in.

     April gasped when she saw Felicia. “Is she another mutant?” Felicia looked at April with wide eyes.

     “No, no. I had a mistake with my dimensional portal and she slipped through. Until I can fix the machine, she’s staying with us. I thought I could show her around the city tonight but I need a coat and hat of yours to cover up her tail and ears with,” Donatello said, smiling at Felicia softly.

     “Aw, you have a date? That’s soo cute, Donatello,” April giggled which kind of made Donatello blush then he got kind of angry.

     “April!” he said bawling his fists up.

     “Just kidding, Don, relax. Let me go find something for her,” she said as she walked towards her closet. “Since it’s the beginning of September I guess my overcoat and my toboggan hat should be okay for her.”

     Donatello took the articles of clothing from her and handed them to Felicia. “Yeah these should do fine, thanks, April. I’ll bring these to you later.”

     “No problem,” April said and then looked over at Felicia with a smile. “Nice to have met you, um..”

     “Felicia,” Felicia replied gently. “It was nice to meet you too, April.” She followed Donatello out of the window and back towards the Turtle Van.

     Jake sighed as he sat on the couch watching the evening news. He and Chance had been out practically the entire day looking for any sign of Felicia but still nothing. He kept praying that aliens didn’t take her but then again he didn’t want Dark Kat or Turmoil to get their claws on her either. He was exhausted from the physical and mental stress but he refused to sleep at all until he knew for sure that she was safe but how long would that take? Days? Months? Years? He couldn’t last that long. Jake reached down and turned the volume up on the television when he heard Ann Gora talking about Felicia’s disappearance.

     “Now for the breaking major story today. Felicia McFurry, the sister of Jenson McFurry has been declared missing again by the enforcers. This has been her second disappearance but this time it looks grimmer than before. In her apartment there was no trace of her what so ever and the only clue was a burnt spot in the middle of her living room, which is still being tested by the enforcers for the cause of it. According to Jenson McFurry who seems to be head of the rescue operation by the enforcers stated that there was no force entry to the apartment. He stated that the possible suspects were Dark Kat, Turmoil or Hard Drive. But Hard Drive has been eliminated from the list when they were aware that he was still in his prison cell. Colonel McFurry also stated that he has another theory and possibly the only true explanation but he has named that to be classified and for some bizarre reason, MASA has been working all day and night.  I’ll go back to you as soon as I find any more news on this incident. This is Ann Gora for Kats Eye News.”, Ann said on the television then the channel went to a commercial break. With that, Jake sighed again and turned the tv set off.

     Chance looked over at his partner and sighed too. “Look, buddy. I know you want to go out to look for her again but it is nine o’ clock. You need your rest, Jake.”

     “I can’t rest,” Jake replied as he looked up at the ceiling, just staring at it.

     “I know you can’t but you must try. I promise you that we will go out first thing in the morning and look for her again. Jenson will let us know if he finds anything tonight,” Jake’s friend replied as he stood up and walked over to the couch.

     “She could be out there, Chance! Waiting for me to save her! I don’t want her to think that I have given up on her!,” Jake replied back, getting frustrated as he stood up, his fists bawled up. “CRUD!!!”, he yelled as he punched the wall hard with his fist, his chest heaving from his heavy breathing.

     Chance ran over to him and gripped his arms. “Jake, please listen. You have to calm down!! Right now! Felicia loves you okay?! She loves you!! You have to believe me!” He looked Jake straight in the eyes. “Okay, buddy? She loves you and she knows that you love her and she will stay strong and survive for you. You understand me, partner?”, his voice softening.

     Donatello drove through the city that night with Felicia beside him in the Turtle Van, he had shown her the Brooklyn Bridge and was now on his way to the World Trade Center Towers. “There is an observation deck on one of top floors of the North Tower, you can get a great view of the city at night from there,” Don said as he approached the World Trade Center Plaza.

     “This is so amazing. Your city is so similar to mine. I mean we have a bridge just like Brooklyn except it’s called MegaKat Bridge and we have twin towers too just like these,” Felicia replied as she looked through the window in awe by her surroundings.

     “You mean your dimension is parallel to ours? That’s pretty neat. I’ll have to study it more. I have always found dimensions that were altered but none that were parallel,” Don said as he parked the Turtle Van in a parking lot located in the plaza. “Now the observation deck is normally closed after nine but the guy who watches it is a friend of April’s and he is a big fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” he grinned. He lead Felicia in the elevator and up to the observation deck and saw the same security guard that he was hoping would be there. “Hey, Jordan. It’s me.”

     Jordan was around the age of thirty with short brown hair, kind of short in size with glasses and heavy set. “Oh hey! Glad to see you again!,” he smiled. “Now I can’t let you stay here too long. You know the rules? Just 10 minutes or I’ll lose my job.”

     “No prob, just wanted to show my guest here the view,” Donatello smiled as he walked in through the doors, Felicia smiled at the guard and then followed Donatello. “You have to see this! You’re going to love it!” He grabbed her hand and pulled her with him eagerly towards the window. He stopped in front of the window and grinned big.

     Felicia gasped as she looked out and saw almost the entire city, the stars were all out in the nightly sky making it the best scene. “This is soo incredible! These towers must be taller than the ones I have back at home but I never went inside of them. But this is so pretty. How high are we?”

     “Oh pretty high,” Donatello smiled as he looked out, loving the view himself, his heart was pounding harder in his chest. He wanted to kiss Felicia right then and there but he held back.

     “What about airplanes? Do you guys have them here? I mean they don’t fly near this area do they?,” she said as she looked up at the sky.

     “Yeah we have them but I wouldn’t worry about it. The airports make sure that the planes don’t enter the No Fly Zone, which is in this area. So you have nothing to worry about. These towers have been standing here for years and thousands of people work in them every day and some even at night,” Donatello smiled at her.

     Felicia smiled back, “This is soo amazing. You are so lucky to have this.”

     “Well you cherish it more when you can’t see this as often like me. You are lucky because in your dimension you are able to go out as you please and see these things. To me this is like a life time experience,” Donatello said sadly as he stared back out at the city. He sighed and looked down knowing that she would have to leave soon. “I’ll try to get the portal fixed by either tomorrow or the next day so you can get back to your homeworld. I know that you miss it.”

     Felicia’s eyes went wide and she looked down at the ground. “I actually would like to stay for a few more days if I can. I wanted to spend more time with someone before I left,” she said softly.

     Donatello looked at her with a  puzzled face and then realized whom she must be talking about. “Oh well um, yeah I guess you could stay if you wanted. I am sure Leonardo would love for you to stay longer to help you with martial arts. I can tell him when I get back.” He said as he put his hand on the window and then walked away some.

     Her eyes went wide when she heard Donatello say that and looked at him sadly. “Wait, wait. What are you talking about? I don’t want to spend time with Leonardo. I was talking about you, Donnie,” she said and walked over to where he now stood.

     “What?,” Donatello gasped and then thought about what she said earlier when she first entered the dimension about him sounding just like her boyfriend, Razor. He looked away angrily. “Look, I know I sound like Razor and act like him. But I am not him.”

     Felicia shook her head, tears entering her eyes a little. She did have feelings for him and she was even torn and confused about them as well but somehow she almost loved him. “I like you for you..I have feelings for you, Donatello. But I know I can’t…but I do.”

     Donatello looked at her, his eyes wide. His heart almost stopped beating, he kept flexing his fists back and forth he didn’t know what to do. “I do too..” He gently ran his hand over her face, she just stood there feeling his hand, looking straight into his eyes. Donatello looked back into hers getting lost in them, he cupped her face and gently pulled hers towards his but they stopped right where their lips could almost touch, both of them breathing hard, they both didn’t know what to do.   

     Suddenly they heard the door opening and Felicia looked at Donatello, her mouth gaped open, her eyes wide, breathing hard, she stepped back from him. Donatello returned the look and heard Jordan walking in. “Hey, it’s time, guys. I’m sorry.”

 

     Donatello and Felicia arrived at the lair around ten that night. Splinter was still up meditating on the living room floor waiting for them to return, the others had gone to bed. “Hey, Splinter. We’re back,” Don said as he looked over at Splinter then walked on to his bedroom saying nothing else. Felicia stood there, watching him and remained quiet herself, which made Splinter suspect something but acted like he didn’t.

     “Did you enjoy your trip, my child?” he asked as he got up from where he was sitting.

     “Yeah, it was very pretty! Thanks for allowing him to take me,” Felicia replied. “I really love your city’s skyline and everything.”

     “Well I am glad that you are liking it here. Perhaps maybe you can come back and visit us in the future. Now get some rest, tomorrow morning you can practice with my students,” Splinter smiled softly and walked off towards his room using his walking stick.

     Felicia sighed and sat on the couch, holding her head thinking about what just happened that night. She was so close at kissing Donatello but what if Donatello was right? What if she just loved him because he sounded like Razor? Then she thought about the feelings she did have for him, she had betrayed Razor. Felicia couldn’t help but start to cry, burying her face in her paws.

     Donatello, who was still awake in bed, heard Felicia crying softly in the living and sighed, shaking his head. He got up slowly and walked towards the living room without wearing his bandanna. In the living room, he saw her sobbing on the couch and walked over to her. He gently held her arms. “Hey, hey. What’s wrong?”

     Felicia gasped when she heard his voice and sniffed a little. “Nothing-nothing’s wrong.”

     “There has to be. Is it about me?” he asked, looking up at her with a sad look upon his face.

     “It’s just that I am kind of confused about this mess. I feel like I am hurting Razor but yet I like you,” she sighed as she wiped her eyes.

     “Look, I am sorry for what almost happened today. Felicia, I promise I won’t get that close to you again or even kiss you until you tell me to, okay?” Donatello looked at her.

     She looked at him not too sure on how to reply to that. “But Don-“

     “Shh..go on to bed,” he said as he stood back up and walked to his room once again.

     That next morning around seven, the turtles had gotten up early to practice in the exercise room; Splinter had allowed Felicia to sleep in till about eight. About twenty minutes later after Felicia woke up that morning Splinter walked into the exercise room with Felicia, she was carrying a bo staff. “My students, since our visitor doesn’t have much time left with us and she has been practicing hard lately with Leonardo and I then I think it would appropriate to allow her to practice with us this morning in our mock battles. Also since Felicia has trained quite well with the bo staff, then her opponent should be Donatello,” he said as he pointed to Donatello who looked shocked.

     “But Master Splinter, don’t you think that Felicia shouldn’t be in these battles?” Don asked, his face almost turning white, so shocked and nervous about battling her. His heart was beating so hard, he gripped the staff tighter with his fingers.

     Raphael smirked as he crossed his arms, “What’s the matter? Afraid to lose to a girl, Donatello?” Michelangelo laughed along with him.

     This made him become angry, his eyes narrowed down as he gripped the bo tighter. “No, way! I just don’t want to hurt her that’s all.”

     “Don’t worry about me. I think you should worry about your injuries,” Felicia grinned at him and walked up to him. The other turtles stepped back against the wall to give them more room, smiling, knowing they were going to enjoy this fight. Especially Michelangelo and Raphael who knew about Donatello and Felicia.

     Splinter walked up to where Donatello and Felicia stood facing each other. “Now remember that this is a mock battle. Good luck to you both. Bow and then you may began,” he said and then stepped back towards where the other turtles stood. Felicia and Donatello looked at each other, bowed and then grabbed their bo staffs. The adrenaline in their bodies started to pump hard causing their hearts to beat fast, both of them gripping their staffs tighter in their fingers.

    

     Felicia made the first attack, thrusting the end of the bo staff towards Don’s chest but he blocked it and then swung around to hit her from the side catching her off guard, the staff struck hard with force she let out a cry but then growled. She held the staff making it stand vertically and stuck hard near his head but he held the staff horizontally blocking her deadly blows but this left his middle opened and she kicked him hard in the chest making him fall back some. Splinter watched intensely, surprisingly the match turned out to be more violent then he anticipated. Felicia turned out to be a worthy advisory. “Good hit, Felicia.,” he commented. But this made Donatello angry he jumped back at her, using more force for the bo’s strikes but she evaded them. The staffs contacted each other then Felicia used the end pointing at him again to strike hard again in the middle but this time Donatello was ready. He swung hard to the right when she pulled back to strike again and knock the bo out of her hands. It flew out and hit the wall. Donatello chuckled seeing the surprise look on Felicia’s face. Then all of a sudden she let out growl and dropped down to the ground and kicked the bo out of his hands and jumped back up on her feet.

     “Ha!” she remarked seeing the surprise look on Don’s face, no one had ever done that to him before. The other turtles’ eyes were just as wide as his.

     “Whoa!,” Mike said looking totally shocked himself.

     “Did you see that?,” Leo remarked, looking amazed himself.

     “The girl is actually kicking his shell!,” Raph cried out.

     Donatello overheard his brothers and became angry. Was he actually getting soft to allow this to happen? Or was Felicia a better ninja than he thought?

     “Felicia! Donatello! Continue!,” Splinter said, breaking Donatello from his thoughts. Before he saw it coming, Felicia kicked him hard in the chest making him fly back some. He hit the wall, holding his head and looked up at her.

     He stood back up and threw some fake punches at her but then used his lower leg and swept her feet right under her causing her to fall. She hit the ground and cried out, looking kind of hurt. Felicia got up and jumped at him but he fell back onto his shell and grabbed her arms as she jumped at him and used his legs to support her lower body then threw her over his head and against the wall. She hit the wall hard and fell to the ground without even realizing how hard he actually threw her. His eyes went wide when he heard her smack the wall. She didn’t move from that spot. “Oh no..,” he said softly, he didn’t realize how close he was to the wall, Splinter and his brothers had the same worried look on their faces. “Felicia?,” he asked as he slowly approached her.

     Felicia groaned as she got up, her body aching with pain from the bruising. The left sleeve of the upper arm part of her uniform was torn and she was bleeding slightly from the contact with the wall. She cried out from the stinging and gripped her arm. Tears formed in her eyes from the immense pain.

     Splinter saw the blood. “My child, you are bleeding! We shall stop the practicing for today, my students.” Donatello felt bad seeing the bad wound on her arm. He looked at her with a concern look on his face.

     “Oh way to go. You don’t have to kill her,” Raph said as he punched Donatello on the arm.

     “Leave me alone, Raphael!,” he said with an angry look.

     “No, no, Splinter,” Felicia protested. “I want to finish this fight.” She got up slowly, shaking a little but then regain her balance. She stared right at Donatello with a look of hurt and determination on her face.

     “You sure?,” Splinter asked. Felicia nodded her head. “Very well. Continue.”

     Felicia walked up to Donatello again and they bowed once more. Then she struck again with a right kick towards the chest but Donatello was ready, he grabbed her foot right before contact. She grinned at him and then suddenly did a left high kick hitting him in the head making him fall to the ground, she fell to but then jumped back. Donatello held his head; it throbbed with pain from that last kick. He felt hurt from this, she was hurting him really bad but last night she acted like she loved him. What was going on? Angry by this, he charged at her and jumped at her, knocking her with him to the ground right near his bo staff. He grabbed it quickly and held the staff right at her neck for a defeating position as he held her down with his body. Both of them breathing hard from the battle, looking right at each other in their eyes. Their hearts beating fast, their body covered with sweat.

     Splinter clapped. “Very impressive, my students. Congratulations, Donatello, you are the victor of this battle.”

     “Awesome fight!,” Leonardo exclaimed.

     “Way to go, Donatello!,” Raph cheered.

     Donatello got up and wiped the sweat off his brow. “Bingo! That was a piece of cake,” he smirked as he helped Felicia up but she stopped and looked at him. Him saying the word “bingo” reminded her of Razor. For every time when Razor ever accomplished something his trademark saying was “bingo.” Then she thought about him and how angry and sadden he would be by her actions lately, the thought of his pain caused her to be greatly upset.

She broke up and quickly walked over to Splinter. “Master, I am sorry. May I be excused to go topside for a bit?”

“As you wish, Felicia,” he replied looking concerned at her then looked back over at Donatello.

Donatello watched her too with a surprise look on his face. He knew something he said must have upset her, he knew it wasn’t because of the fight. Deep down inside, Donatello knew it was something regarding Razor, his feelings flared up. She still loved Razor, and he knew it. “Damnit!” He threw the bo staff down angrily and walked out of the room towards his bedroom.

“Boy is this like the Young and the Restless or what?,” Raphael commented watching Donatello storm off to his room.

     “What happened, Master?,” Michelangelo asked with a confused look on his face.

     Splinter took Raphael to his room and said, “Raphael, I think you should go talk to your brother.”

     Raphael looked at him with a surprised look on his face. “Me? Why don’t you or Leonardo talk to him?”

     “Because Donatello would know that Leonardo or I would, that’s why you need to talk to him, Raphael. It would help him out more. Your brother is in great pain right now and it would be a great honor for you to help him,” Splinter said looking over at Raphael, hearing Donatello tapping again loudly in his workshop.

     Raphael rubbed his head and then laughed a little nervously and looked around. “I don’t know, sensei. You know it’s hard for me to be serious.”

     “Well now is the time to learn,” his master replied and motioned Raphael to go on.

     Raph sighed and walked towards Donatello’s workshop, commenting, “I still think you have the wrong turtle for the job.”

     When Raph entered the workshop he saw his brother with his shell turned towards him, working hard on the portal machine. Donatello was grumbling loudly, his face was a mixture of both pain and anger. Suddenly Raphael saw a wrench fly right behind Don towards him, he cried out and ducked to the left the wrench almost hitting him. “Geez, this job is too dangerous for a turtle!” he remarked, his eyes wide with fright.

     Donatello looked back and then returned his attention back to the machine, “Sorry, Raphael.” He then continued to hammer loudly on the machine, starting to grumble again, his face covered with sweat from working so hard.

     “So, what are you doing?” Raphael asked casually as he walked up to him.

     “I am fixing this machine right now so that way she can go home,” Donatello replied not even looking at his brother, his voice was lower than usual.

     “Why? I mean, why so eager to do it now?” Raph asked but Donatello didn’t even reply just kept on working till finally Raph snatched the hammer from his hand and tossed it behind him.

     “Hey! Come on, Raphael! Leave me alone!” Donatello cried looking at him angrily as he got up in pursuit of the hammer but Raph stopped him in his tracks with his hand against his chest. “No way! We are going to talk, right now! You’ve been acting really weird and I know that you have not been shocked by anything lately. So what’s up? What’s bothering you?” he looked at him sternly.

     “As if you would know,” Donatello snapped as he pushed Raph’s hand away.

     “Hey, Mr. Wizard, it doesn’t take a braniac like you think to understand what’s bugging you,” Raphael replied becoming frustrated by Don’s attitude.

     “Oh yeah, then what is it?” Raph’s brother replied as he looked at him smartly and leaned back against the wall.

     “You are in love with her but you know she has a boyfriend so you get pained by it,” Raph smiled, crossing his arms.

     Donatello’s eyes went wide looking totally shocked. “How did you know-um that I totally don’t know what you are talking about?” Don said with a little shakiness in his voice.

     “Ha! I’m right! You can’t fool old Raphael like that!” Raph cheered, grinning big. Donatello looked at him meanly and then he stopped cheering. “Sorry.”

     Don sighed heavily and looked down, “I don’t know what to do, Raph. I don’t want her to leave but yet I know she has to because she doesn’t belong here.” His voice breaking up as he talked, tears starting to form in his eyes but he held them in.

     “Hey, look. We’ll figure out something. I know you like her and maybe if you be patient it might turn out in your favor. Just give it time,” Raph said putting his arm around his brother’s shoulders.

     Around eight forty that morning, Felicia came back into the lair and saw all four of the turtles eating away at their bowls of cereal while watching cartoons. A short cartoon about the The Tortoise and the Hare came on, which made the turtles eager. “Oh I hate this cartoon! The turtle just pokes a long!” Michelangelo grumbled before putting a whole spoonful of chocolate corn puffs into his mouth.

     “Well scientifically speaking, Michelangelo. The turtle does go much slower in real life,” Donatello commented.

     “You traitor,” Raphael remarked look over at Donatello then looked up at Felicia. “Hey Felicia’s back!”

     Michelangelo turned around. “Hey dudette! Want some corn puffs? I could put them on a pizza for ya!” Donatello looked over at Mike angrily then turned his attention back to the television not even looking at Felicia.

     “Um, no thanks. I am not hungry right now,” Felicia said looking over at Donatello then sighed and walked over and sat beside Splinter. He smiled at her softly and then looked back at the television, shaking his head hearing Michelangelo eating at his cereal loudly.

     “Michelangelo, your manners please. We do have a lady in this lair,” he said looking at him sharply. Mike stopped with the spoon in his mouth and took it out slowly which made Felicia giggle. Donatello looked aghast by this and got up from the couch.

     “I’m done,” he said with a bit of anger in his voice and walked towards his workshop again, leaving his bowl on the table.

     “Master, I am worried about Donatello. I fear that something has come over him again,” Leonardo said looking over at Splinter with a worried look upon his face.

     “I’ll tell you later, Leonardo,” Splinter replied.

     About five minutes later they heard a huge boom coming up from above. “What the heck was that?” Raphael cried out spilling his cereal all over him. “Oh yuck!” Michelangelo broke out laughing. Leonardo quickly stood up taking out his swords; Splinter had a worried look on his face.

     Leonardo noticed Splinter’s look and asked, “Master, what’s wrong?”

     “I sense something very evil,” Splinter said with a bit of distress in his voice. “Quickly turn on the news!”

     Raphael changed the channel and there on the screen was April reporting with a huge ball of smoke behind her and people running and screaming. “This is April O Neil with tremendous breaking news!! Just a minute ago, witnesses claimed that a large passenger jet just smashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center building! We assume for right now that everyone on that jet has been killed in the crash! Policemen and Firemen are at that scene! I’ll report to you with more information in a few minutes.” Everyone in the lair had a surprised look on their faces; Donatello came rushing in when he heard the news. On the television screen, a picture of the smoking tower was shown.

     “Holy kats! No!!,” Felicia cried out as she ran from the lair towards the tunnel that would lead up above.

     “Hey come back here!,” Leonardo cried as he about to give chase but Splinter stopped him.

     “Wait. Something’s not right. Let us watch the news for a few more minutes,” Splinter said.

     “But why, Master? It was probably some airliner or something that lost control over the no fly zone or something,” Donatello commented still looking at the TV.

     “No, I fear that there is more to come but we must and wait to see it,” the rat replied, his eyes wide with fear.

     “Could it be Shredder?,” Raphael asked, feeling kind of scared himself.

     “No, someone more evil than that. Shredder wouldn’t dare do this. Someone that is out of our hands,” Splinter replied.

     In the lair, the turtles witnessed the jet hitting the South Tower, it was now around nine ten in the morning. “Tell me that didn’t happen and this is all a bad dream,” Raphael said, looking so horrified.

     “That plane just hit that building like that,” Michelangelo said sadly, he couldn’t comprehend either what just happened.

     “Felicia!!,” Donatello cried as he ran out of the lair towards the direction that she went.

     The turtles ran to where Felicia was on her knees looking up at the raging inferno towers. “No! No! It can’t be happening!,” she shouted.

     Donatello grabbed her and helped her. “Shh! Felicia it will be okay, calm down.” He said holding her, she was crying hard against his shoulder. This was all too familiar to her.

     “What are we going to do?” Leonardo said looking at the gruesome sight.

     The turtles were about 3 blocks away from the raging smoking towers, a lot of the media were located towards the block at where the towers stood so they would be out of the way. Raphael looked up at the towers, his eyes got wide and his mouth dropped. “Um, guys please tell me I’m not seeing what I’m seeing.”

     The others looked up and there they heard people screaming as they jumped from the office windows down to their death from the fire behind them. A lot of people were at the window above the fire trapped, hollering for help. “This doesn’t look good at all,” Mike said.

     “We have to help them!,” Felicia cried, couldn’t bare the thought to look at the towers anymore.

     “Right! Let’s go!” Leonardo exclaimed as they ran towards the buildings from the back entrance. “Grab anyone you can find and get them out!”

     Donatello looked around at the towers and thought for a moment. “Um, guys. If these jets were highly fueled by which I am guessing and the speed of impact then these buildings are structurally safe anymore if you get my drift.”

     “What do you mean?,” Raph asked, coughing some from the smoke.

     “At any point these towers may collapse,” Don replied.

     “Then we have to move fast! Don’t go too far up into the smoke! Everyone just help anyone off the floors who needs assistance! Hurry!” Leonardo shouted as they ran inside. Leonardo and Michelangelo ran into the South Tower while Raphael, Donatello and Felicia ran into the North Tower.

     When they went inside they saw people screaming and hollering from the fire, running towards the door. They really didn’t care about seeing Felicia and the turtles for they were more worried about their lives. Donatello and the others stormed the stairwell helping people move down the steps. “Quickly hurry!,” he shouted to them looking around at the building nervously. They saw a middle aged woman with a broken leg hoppling fast as she could down the stairwell but people were pushing at her trying to get down the steps.

     “Hey, I’ll getcha!,” Raphael cried out as he grabbed the woman and held her over his shoulders, she screamed out when she saw him. “Ease down, lady. I am going to help you! Donatello, I’m out of here with this one!”

     Donatello nodded and he motioned Felicia to move up the stairwell with him. The smoke started to get thick almost so thick that they couldn’t see. “Don, we’re getting too far up! We’ll never get down if it starts to collapse!,” Felicia screamed, getting really scared.

     Donatello looked at her knowing she was right but suddenly both he and her heard a young child crying out for her mommy about three floors up in the dense smoke. He looked at Felicia. “I have to get her! Felicia, get out of here now!”

     “I can’t leave you!,” she cried.

     “Move!!,” he said as he looked at her into the eyes and ran up into the smoke.

     “Crud!,” Felicia said as she watched him then started to run fast as she could back down the flight of stairs. When she reached the bottom floor she stopped. Her heart was pounding hard, she couldn’t leave him there. Licia’s ears perked when she heard him coughing hard as he struggled to get down the flight of stairs to the first floor where she was standing. The smoke was so thick in his lungs, it was making him weak to where he couldn’t breathe. He felt like he was going to collapse.

     “Donatello!,” she cried out seeing almost staggering down the steps with the young child in his arms, she ran over to him.

     He stopped, breathing heavy, gripping the banister railing. “Get her out of here!”

     “I’m not going to leave you!,” she protested.

     “Do it!,” he said. “I’ll be right behind you!”

     Felicia looked at him with a look of disbelief but then took the child and ran out of the building towards where the others waited.

     “Where’s Donatello?!,” Leonardo demanded.

     “He’s still in there!,” she said as she gave him the child and then ran back inside. To her horror, he collapsed to the lobby floor about fifteen feet away from the door. “Donatello! No!” She ran over to him and grabbed his arms to pull him.

     “No! Don’t do it! It’s going to collapse soon!,” he protested.

     “Stop whining!,” she grunted as she dragged him out of the building towards where the others were. Raphael and Michelangelo ran over to her and helped her with him. Suddenly they heard a loud creek as they saw the top starting to fall.

     “It’s coming down!!,” Raphael shouted.

     “Everyone into the sewers quick!,” Leonardo shouted helping the young woman and carrying the child down into the sewers, Felicia followed along with Raphael and Michelangelo who were carrying Donatello. The South Tower crumbled loudly to the ground covering everything with debris and dust.

     About twenty minutes later, the turtles arrived at an American Red Cross unit about five blocks away, Leonardo looked around and saw one medic technician standing away from the tent and he ran over to him. “Hey, we need you!”

     The technician looked at him and let out a gasp. “What the heck are you?”

     “Listen, we have two citizens who need your help! We rescued them from one of the towers. Michelangelo, bring them over,” Leo replied gripping the guy’s arms to try to relax him. Michelangelo walked over with the young girl in his arms who was still crying for her mommy, followed by the woman on crutches.

     The technician looked over at the young girl, his eyes went wide as he started to cry some. “Oh my-Sarah!!,” he grabbed her and held her tightly. “Oh sweetie, I am so glad that you made it.” The turtles looked at each other stunned and he noticed. “This is my daughter, her mother works in the towers. Oh bless you, bless you! You don’t know what this means to me. I haven’t heard a word yet about my wife yet but I am relieved some knowing that my little girl is safe since both of the towers are gone now.”

     “Huh? Both towers?,” Michelangelo asked.

The technician nodded his head, “Just before you two got here.”

“But all of those people…a lot of them on the top floors,” Leo said sadly looking down couldn’t help but let some tears form in his eyes.

“Yeah even including the rescuers,” the technician replied. “Well thanks again for saving my daughter. I am going to take them over to the recovering tents then I am going over to the towers myself to help anyone that may have survived. If there is anything I can give you and I mean anything let me know.” He motioned the woman to go over to where other people were helping the injured.

“Well actually we need your help. The thick smoke in the towers seriously injured our brother, he was actually the one who saved your daughter. We need your help on recovering him because right now he is unconscious,” Leonardo replied looking over at Mike with a worried look on his face then back at the technician.

Sarah’s father nodded his head and ran over to a table and came back carrying a small oxygen tank with a mask attached, he handed it to Leonardo. “Put this on him, it should help revive him,” he said looking at him.

“Thanks,” Leo replied smiling softly. He motioned at Michelangelo and they took off running towards the manhole that they came out of.

     Felicia couldn’t help but let tears fall from her eyes down to her cheeks, which matted her fur as she looked down at the unconscious Donatello; he had a look of pain and discomfort on his face. Splinter had removed his bandanna to relieve pressure from his head. She looked down at Donatello and knew he was in pain and she didn’t know what to do. But yet she felt happy for him risking his life for that little girl who was trapped in the tower. If he didn’t save her she would have been crushed when the tower collapsed.  Her thoughts were broken when she heard Leonardo and Michelangelo running into the room where they were carrying the oxygen apparatus. “Quick put this on him!” Leo said as he knelt down beside Donatello, turning on the tank. Felicia gently lifted Don’s head up to help Leonardo put the mask on. They heard the oxygen being pumped into his mouth now all they could was to wait and hope that he would pull through. Felicia felt so bad, she wished that she could have got to him sooner to help him; she looked down ashamed.

     Raph saw her and put his hand on her shoulder, “Hey he’ll be okay. You saved him.” There were tears in his eyes; they would have lost Don if she didn’t run inside the tower to save him. Felicia smiled a little, resting her head against his hand.

     Suddenly Donatello began to stir, groaning as he started to awaken, his eyelids fluttered as he tried to open his eyes. “Wha-what happened?” He tried to get up but when he did, he coughed hard, which made him hurt so bad that he had to lie back down again.

     “Easy, Donatello. The smoke is still in your lungs. Keep the mask on,” Splinter said as he put his hand on Don’s arm to gently push him back down.

     Donatello looked up at them with a tired look on his face. “Did I make it? The little girl okay?”

     “Yeah thanks to you. We found her father and reunited them,” Leonardo said softly as he gripped Mike’s hand, overjoyed by the fact that their brother had pulled through.

     “There was so much smoke I almost never found her, she was actually three stories above where we were. I try to make it out but I felt so weak, I couldn’t breathe. Everything was spinning and I heard this loud rumble. I thought I died,” Don replied, almost breaking up, looking around, and breathing hard against the oxygen mask.

     “Well this dudette here saved you,” Michelangelo smiled as he hugged Felicia. Donatello smiled and looked at Felicia, she couldn’t help but smile back at him, both of them looking deep into each other’s eyes.

     “I think we should let Donatello rest for awhile to get his strength back. All of you may go into the lair and watch television instead of your normal exercises today,” Splinter said as he got up. “Felicia, you may stay with Donatello.”

     “Alright some TV time! Cowabunga!” Mike exclaimed as he stood back up with the others.

     “Yeah just in time for the House of Ha Ha show!” Raph said with a grin.

     “You’re totally bogus! It’s going to be Godzilla Vs. Mothra!” Mike said back angrily.

     “Um, guys I think since I am the oldest it will be Wrath of the Ninja,” Leonardo said as he walked into the living room.

     “No way!” Raph said as he pushed Mike out of the way and ran as he fast as he could. Mike followed behind him. Splinter shook his head hearing all them arguing in the living room and then walked to his room.

     Donatello looked up at Felicia, smiling a little. “You saved me.”

     “Hey, you would have done the same thing,” Felicia replied, blushing a little. Then her voice got softer, “What just happened reminded me when my parents were trapped in that building and I couldn’t get them out. I wanted to at least save someone and not fail like last time.”

     Donatello nodded his head a little, “Well I guess this is it. Tonight you have to leave to go back to your homeworld.”

     “Yah, I g-guess so,” Felicia replied, trying to act tough and hold back her tears.

     But this gave Don the wrong impression, he thought that maybe she really wanted to go home and he didn’t want her to. He looked away, sighed trying not to cry. “Well I better get some rest. Why don’t you go out and hang with the others. I’ll get the machine ready in a couple of hours for you.”

     Felicia disappeared from MegaKat City for about two weeks now and there was no evidence on what happened to her. From the enforcer’s investigation there was no sign of anyone else in the apartment at the time of Felicia’s disappearance. The enforcers started to slack off the investigation with the assumption that Felicia had just vanished, maybe just left herself from the city, which actually made no sense. Jenson began to believe his theory that aliens had gotten her, even Jake was beginning to believe that theory as well but he didn’t give up hope.

     Three hours had passed since the terrible attack on that day in New York City; Donatello had recovered from his injury and was now warming up the portal machine. Everyone was in his workshop, waiting there in silence. “Ok, it’s ready,” Donatello announced as he stood up and looked over at the others.

     “Well I-I guess this is it,” Felicia said, biting her lip some, she didn’t know what to say. “It’s been really nice to meeting you guys.” She walked over and gave Splinter a hug. “It was really nice meeting you, Splinter. You seemed almost like a father to me.”

     Splinter couldn’t help but to blush some. “Thank you, it was nice to have you around here as well. You seem like a daughter to me since I already have four sons,” he said with a smile.

     “Well dudette, I guess this is it. Thanks for hanging out with us,” Mike said as he gave Felicia a hug.

     “No prob,” she giggled. “Maybe next time if I ever come back to visit you can make me a pizza.”

     Raphael smiled a little, “Well it’s been fun.

     “Yah anytime, Raphael,” Felicia replied and then hugged him tightly making Raph shocked. “You’re not getting out your hug, Raph.”

     Leonardo bowed to her, “You did great at practice.”

     “Well thanks, Leo. You’re a great teacher,” Felicia said and bowed back to him.

     “And I have a little present for you,” Leo said as he reached behind his back and took out a small silver ninja star from his belt. “Here you go. It’s a piranha ninja star. Very sharp so watch out. I thought you might like it.”

     “Geez thanks,” Felicia said as Splinter handed her a small black cloth bag to put it in. She then looked over at Donatello, her heart started to race.

     “Well um, thanks again for saving me,” Don said, his voice shaking.

     “Yeah, and thanks for the tour of the city,” Felicia replied softly, fingering the small bag nervously.   

     Raph grinned, “Well hug her, Don!” He lightly pushed Don. Don smiled at her nervously and then hugged her. After the embrace, Felicia leaned up and gently kissed him on the cheek.

     “Whoa!” Leo said his eyes went wide.

     “Studly!” Mike exclaimed grinned.

     “You smoother!” Raph chuckled, their comments made Donatello blush.

     Donatello rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment and then cleared his throat. “Okay here goes. You ready, Felicia?”

     “Yah,” she replied. Donatello flipped the lever up and the portal opened. “Bye everyone!” She then stepped through the portal and then it closed.

     The room became silent once she disappeared. Leo, Mike, and Raph just looked at each other then they looked over at Donatello. Donatello just stared at the blank screen of the portal machine, his eyes filling up with tears, he held his head down and started to let the tears fall trying not to cry too loud so the others wouldn’t notice but they knew he was in great sadness. “Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, it is late why don’t you go on to bed now,” Splinter said as he looked over at Donatello.

     “Okay, Master. Goodnight, Donatello,” Leonardo said as he looked over at his sadden brother then walked onto his bedroom.

     “Goodnight, dude!” Michelangelo said as he trailed Leonardo.

     “See ya later,” Raph said not even looking at Donatello as he followed Mike.

     Splinter walked over to Donatello and placed his hand on his shoulder. “You okay, Donatello?”

     Donatello started to break up right there as he began to sob. “I already miss her.”

     “I know you are going through a hard time right now, my pupil. But you what did was an unselfish act, a true sign of love,” Splinter said smiling. Donatello looked up with a confused look. “It was very honorable.”

     Donatello sighed and looked back at the portal screen, “I don’t feel so honorable, sensei.” His voice soft, his whole body felt so weak. He wanted to leap through that portal screen so badly and be with her but he fought the urge knowing that he didn’t want to leave the others as well.

     “I know that you are sad right now but trust me after a couple of days, you will feel better. I am sure Felicia would want you to be happy. Now it is late you better go onto bed,” Splinter said.

     “If you don’t mind, Splinter. I want to stay up a little longer and just think about things,” Don said looking up at him, his eyes partly red from crying, his cheeks were damped from the tears.

     “Very understandable. Goodnight, Donatello,” replied Splinter as he walked out of the workshop towards his room.

 

     Jake’s ears perked when he heard electricity fizzling right near him. He looked up and saw a huge bright light right over the carpet in the living room of Felicia’s apartment. The light was so bright that he covered his eyes. When the light disappeared, there in front of him stood Felicia. His eyes went wide as his heart pounded, it felt like a dream to him. “L-licia…”

    

PART II

 

     That night Felicia did not have a peaceful sleep. She tossed and turned seeing a horrible image in her mind. There stood the World Trade Center Twin Towers both of the tops engulfed in an inferno. She didn’t really understand her dream but she did remember that in her hand one of the turtle communicators and was trying to get in contact with Donatello. For some reason he was on one of the top floors of the South Tower. She could almost feel her heart stopped beating when she finally got a message from Donatello. “Licia, I am on the 87^th floor and I am trapped in the stairwell. There is too much smoke! I can’t get down!”

In the background she could hear people behind him screaming and crying in immense fear.  “Donatello, please get out of there..you have to.  Please you have to…,” she replied as she stared right up at the South Tower. Suddenly to her horror she heard a huge groan coming from the structure as the top started to fall down. “DONATELLO!!!”

“Oh no!! It’s coming down! I love you Felicia! AHHHHHH!!” came Donatello’s reply from the other end and then nothing as the sound of the huge structure drowned out the sound.

“DONATELLO!!,”she cried out again for him and then the dream faded. Felicia sat straight up that early morning, hearing the sound of birds chirping. Her heart was racing fast and she was breathing hard. That dream was so real! Licia wiped the tears from her eyes as she slowed down her breathing to calm herself down.  She was so tired last night that she went straight to bed, Jake volunteered to stay and to sleep on the couch to make sure she was okay. Her mind was clouded with the thoughts of what she had been through for the past two weeks. She rolled over and looked out of the window that was near her bed and saw her MegaKat Trade Towers still standing there like always. She shook her head trying to clear the horrible dream from her mind. Then she thought about Donatello, how real he felt to her. “It must have been a weird dream,” she said. “I mean a turtle sounding just like Razor.” But suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her pants pocket. She reached down and pulled out a black pouch and inside was the ninja star that Leonardo gave her! Her eyes went wide as she looked at it, it wasn’t a dream! But how? “Holy kats!” she screamed looking at the ninja star.

     Jake came running in, “You okay?”

     She stared at Razor, now his voice was reminding her of Donatello, she shook her head to clear her mind. “Y-yah just um had a nightmare I guess.”

     Jake smiled and pulled a chair beside her bed, “Yah probably, you were so tired last night. But I am so glad that you are now safe here with me.” He looked over at the black pouch, looking at it quizzically. “What is that?”

     She looked down at the pouch and took the ninja star from it, staring at it, running her fingers over it softly. “It’s a ninja star, one of them gave it to me,” she replied sadly.

     Jake leaned up a little and held her other paw, stroking it softly. “You okay Licia? Where were you at?”

     “I dunno. I was in this dimension where it was just like our city but instead there were humans. I mean they look like us but they weren’t cat like, no fur at all. Then I was staying with these turtles. I mean they were trained in martial arts and they gave me this.”

     “Whoa..seriously? I don’t think the media is going to buy that at all,” Jake smirked. “Well don’t worry I called your brother and told you were home okay. But I am so glad you are home with me. I was so worried about you. Felicia, I love you.” He leaned up closer, looking into her eyes, and gently ran his paw over her face.

     His arms ached from the extreme work Donatello was putting them through as he did his bo staff exercises that morning, his whole body covered with sweat. He thought maybe it would be best to release his stress about Felicia by practicing. “Hyah!” he cried out loud as he struck the punching bag hard with the bo staff. Thoughts of Felicia kept pouring into his mind of her being with Razor now being happy. He couldn’t take it anymore! He struck the bag harder and harder, crying out loud as he hit it with deadly blows. Again and again he struck relentlessly until the stuffing fell out of the bag, then he stopped, using the bo staff for support as he stood there, trying to catch his breath. His whole body ached from the extreme punishment he had put it through. But Donatello kept seeing her face, kept thinking about when they were standing at the World Trade Center, how close he was to her. How he almost kissed her. The memory kept playing over and over like as if someone was rewinding it to torment him more. He let out a cry and held his head with both hands, dropping his bo and fell up on the ground on his knees, still holding his head. “FELICIA!!,” he yelled as tears filled his eyes once again.

     The turtles were in the living room, scarfing down some pizza and watching television when they heard their brother scream out. They looked at each other then ran quickly to the training room. “Donatello?!,” Leo cried as he saw Donatello on his knees, holding his head. He ran over to him and gripped his shoulders. “What’s wrong?!”

     “She won’t get out of my head!,” he cried. “I have to go see her!” He got up and ran to his workshop.

     “No, wait!,” Raphael said as he ran after him, the others followed. They grabbed Donatello and pulled him away from the portal machine.

     “Let me go!,” Donatello said as he struggled trying to break free from them.

     “You have to come to your senses, dude!,” Mike said, pushing on Don’s chest to make him stay down.

     “Listen, Donatello. We know you are upset right now. But you’ll get through this. We’ll help you,” Leo said gently as he looked at his brother.

     “Yeah so don’t go all psycho on us like last time when you became that dark turtle weirdo,” Raph said angrily, pushing firmly against Don’s arm.

     The beeping of the turtlecom interrupted their conversation, Leonardo reached down to get it and turned it on. “Leonardo, here. What’s up?” He motioned the others to let Donatello go. Donatello stood up quickly and just looked around, trying to calm himself down.

     “Hey guys! They are having a candlelight ceremony near the Trade Center Plaza tonight, you wanna come?” April said from the other end of the turtlecom.

     “Sure, what time is it?” Leo replied

     “It starts at seven, tell Donatello to bring his friend too if he wants,” April replied. “I should be done covering my report around five here at ‘ground zero’.”

     Leonardo cringed when April said that, knowing that Donatello had heard her. “Well actually, April. She’s gone now.” Donatello walked out of the room towards his workshop again.

     “There he goes,” Raph remarked as he watched, Michelangelo shook his head.

     The turtles stood beside April that night during the ceremony wearing their long pants, long sleeved sweaters, which matched the color of their bandanas and hats. Each of them was holding a candle in their hands as they stood there. Raphael looked around, “Man there must be like a thousand people here. Are you sure we should be out here like this?” he whispered to Leonardo.

     “Yes, I think we should. To honor those who lost their lives,” Leo replied back.

     “Hey dude, check this,” Mike giggled, starting to run his finger over the flame, “I am not burning myself, it’s magic!”

     Raph grinned and held Mike’s finger right on top of the flame making him burn the top. “Yowwwwwch!!! Thanks a lot, Raphael!” he growled. Raphael started to laugh.

     “You guys, knock it off! This is serious!” Leonardo snapped harshly.

     Donatello looked over at Raphael and Michelangelo but they weren’t making him laugh as usual. He just stared at the rubble where the World Trade Center Twin Towers use to stand. It was only a couple of days ago that he stood on top of those towers with Felicia, being so close to kissing her. He sighed sadly and just stared blankly at the preacher in front of the crowd saying a sermon as rescue crewmembers stood behind him holding their helmets across their chests.

     April nudged him, “Hey, Donatello. A medic technician told me that a green and purple angel saved his daughter from one of the towers. I am so proud of you.” She hugged him tightly and gave him a small kiss on his cheek.

     “Thanks, April,” Don said softly and then looked down for a bit before looking back up at the preacher.

     “If anyone has lost any loved ones here yesterday then I just want you to close your eyes and ask God to take care of them,” the preacher spoke from his sermon as he closed his bible. “Just close your eyes and ask him to look over them and he will.”

     Three months had past, it was now about the second week of December, Raphael shivered as he walked into the living room, and then suddenly stopped. Michelangelo walked up to him. “Hey Raph! I was thinking about going out and going sledding in the snow later on. What do you think?”

     Raph looked at him and then sneezed. “Ahhh-choo!”

     “Oh yuck! Major gross out!” Mike said as he looked at Raph angrily as he started to wipe his arms.

     “Geez, I hate winter!” Raph commented as he walked past Mike and then sneezed again.

     “Guess what I brought,” Leonardo chimed as he walked into the lair dragging a Christmas tree behind him.

     “Let me guess, a Christmas tree,” Raph said as he looked behind Leo, smirking a little.

     “Yeah and I am going to decorate it today after supper,” Leonardo said as he sat the tree up against the wall, smiling proudly.

     “Yeah you do that,” Raph remarked, rolling his eyes some.

     “Most excellent concept, bro! Now you dudes have a place to put my presents at!” Michelangelo exclaimed looking at the tree, his eyes wide with a huge grin on his face.

     “Oh oops..So that’s who I was forgetting this year. Sorry, Michelangelo,” Raph grinned as he put his arm around Michelangelo’s shoulders.

     “Hey don’t even joke about that, dude,” Mike snapped back with a serious look on his face.

     “Hey, guys! I have a great idea for this month!,” Donatello said as he ran in with a big smile on his face, his eyes wide with eagerness.

     “Let me guess, you want us to dress up as elves for the Channel 6 Christmas Party?,” Raph answered, chuckling a little.

     “No, I was thinking about me taking a small vacation next week,” Donatello replied, smiling.

     “You taking a-what?,” Raph said looking at Don with a look of suspicion on his face.

     “I think I finally got my portal machine perfected! I was thinking about taking a test spin myself. Next week, I am going to drop in and see Felicia at her dimension!,” he announced proudly. His brothers had looks of surprise and shock on their faces. Donatello grinned and put his arm around Mike’s shoulder. “But don’t worry, Michelangelo. After I get back, I’ll bring Cala back to this dimension since the machine is working great and just in time for Christmas.”

     “Most excellent!,” Michelangelo cheered with a huge grin on his face.

     “Hey, Donatello, can’t you get over it already? Do you have any clue what it will be like in her dimension? It won’t be a paradise island. Her world is full of cats, do you possibly think you’ll fit in?” Raph said putting his hands on his hips looking at Don sternly.

     “Why do you have to be so pessimistic all the time, Raph? Sheesh. Remember when you were hanging around with Mona Lisa-,” Donatello started but Raph interrupted him.

     “Don’t bring her up again, Donatello! She left me okay?! Does that make you happy?!,” Raph screamed, the pain of Mona Lisa entering him causing his anger to rise.

     “But I am just trying to give you an example on how I feel, Raphael. I am not trying to hurt you,” Don said, calming down some seeing the hurt in his eyes.

     “Donatello, I mean do you have the coordinates for her world?,” Leonardo stepped in trying to change the subject.

     “Well I do not have the exact coordinates for the location where I got her but I do have the coordinates for her city. Her city is parallel to ours so it shouldn’t be that hard to go through,” Don said looking down at the white paper that contained the numbers and coordinates for the problem he was working on.

     “Um, I am not sure, Donatello. We should consult Master Splinter about this first,” Leo said looking at them worriedly.

     “Fine, okay,” Don replied coolly and then walked off towards Splinter’s room with the others behind him.

     In Splinter’s room, Master Splinter was sitting on the floor, meditating. “Master Splinter, may we speak with you for a moment about something?,” Donatello asked politely looking back at his brothers then back at Splinter.

     Splinter opened his eyes and looked at them. “Well yes of course. Go ahead,” he said softly.

     “Well you see, sensei. I got my portable portal machine working perfectly and I thought maybe Monday I could go to Felicia’s dimension to be with her for a week and then return. Then maybe after that during Christmas I could bring Cala here for Michelangelo,” Donatello answered, gripping the white paper anxiously.

     Splinter looked at him, let out a sigh and then looked at the others. “Well what do your brothers think about this little venture of yours?”

     “Well as long as I get Cala when he gets back,” Michelangelo chimed in with a big smile on his face. “And as long as this dude is careful and comes back safely.”

     Splinter let his gaze fall up on Raphael, “And what about you, Raphael?”

     “Personally, Master. I think it is a wild goose chase. I mean even Donatello said he doesn’t have the exact coordinates on where she’s at in the city. That city is full of cats, I mean Donatello would be in great danger if anyone saw him. I think Mr. Loverboy here needs to get his head out of the clouds and back into the sewers.” Donatello gave him a mean look.

     “Finally, what about you, Leonardo?,” Splinter asked.

     Leonardo rubbed the back of his head, a little nervous. “Honestly, Master. I don’t know. I mean I know Donatello really wants to go but what if we needed him or something? How would we know if he was okay or not once he got there?”

     Splinter then looked back at Donatello. “Some very strong points, Donatello. Could you perhaps answer some of your pupil’s concerns.”

     Donatello nodded and smiled, “Very well, Splinter. I actually thought about some of these things. But anyways regarding Raphael, I know that it wouldn’t be any different there as it is here for me but I am aware of that and that’s why I am going to bring my weapon and wear one of my disguises. Also for the contact, as soon as I meet up with Felicia and the SWAT Kats I’ll rewire my communicator with their frequency to give me a longer range so that way I can talk to you.”

     “Boy you just have answers for everything don’t you, Mr. Wizard?,” Raph said as he crossed his arms and looked at Donatello with a look of doubt still.

     “So what do you say, Master? May I go?,” Donatello asked. “Please?”

     Splinter sighed and then replied, “You may go, my young ward. But you must try to contact us and remember you are a ninja so don’t lose the skills that I have taught you. But I have a question to ask you about your journey as well.”

     “Shoot,” Donatello said, grinning big, his heart pounding. He was actually going to get his chance to be with Felicia.

     “When you actually do meet up with them, how are you going to react when you see her? I hate to hurt you, my student but after all Felicia does have a boyfriend Honestly, it is foolish to pursue women who are already taken for you are bound to be hurt or to hurt her. So tell me do you really want that? Would you really hurt yourself to just see her one more time,” he said looking straight into Donatello’s eyes.

     Donatello looked back at Splinter, speechless. He had no scientific theories to answer this one. “Master, I want to be with her for one last time and I would do anything to make it happen. I love her..”

     Raphael slapped himself in the face when heard those words, Leo and Mike gasped out loud. Splinter nodded his head. “Very well, Donatello. You may leave for one week to be with Felicia for the last time.” Donatello bowed to Splinter then walked out of the room to his bedroom to get his stuff ready.

     Raph shook his head as he watched Donatello leave. “Master, are you sure this is wise?”

     “Sometimes we have to fall in order to learn how to walk,” Splinter said as he looked up at Raphael.

     “I’m worried, Master. If he falls in that dimension, he may have no one to help pick him up,” Leonardo added looking over at Michelangelo sadly.

     Monday came faster than the other had intended, Donatello stood in his workshop with his trench coat and hat on, the portal machine behind him made a humming sound as it warmed up. Donatello looked back over at his brothers who had sad looks upon their faces and even frowned himself. Now he was starting to have second thoughts about this crazy mission but he did yearn to see Felicia again.  “Well guys I guess this is it..,” he said softly looking at them, Michelangelo had already started to cry some. “Ah, Michelangelo, I am not leaving permanently, I’ll be back next week before you know it.” He smiled at Michelangelo and gave him a hug.

     “Now be careful and remember to contact us as soon as you meet up with them,” Leonardo said smiling at his younger brother as he hugged him. Donatello nodded as he walked over where to Raphael stood.

     “I guess you still don’t want me to go, do you, Raphael?,” he said as he looked at him.

     “Nah get out of here. Who? Me? Wanting to ruin your happiness?,” Raph said as he grinned and hugged Donatello tightly. “Just don’t do anything I wouldn’t do, brother.” 

     “Raph!,” Don said as his eyes went wide knowing exactly what Raphael intended for that remark.

     Michelangelo started to laugh hard, holding his stomach, “Ah, dude! You crack me up!”

     Donatello walked over at Splinter, “Thanks, master.”

     Splinter bowed to him. “Now remember your training my son and don’t forget us either.” Donatello bowed back and then walked towards the portal.

     “Okay this is it,” Donatello said as he pushed a button on the top console, the portal opened, he looked back at his family. “Goodbye.” He smiled softly and then stepped through the portal and once he went through it closed once more. The room fell silent once again, everyone just stared at the portal and then at each other.

     “Who’s up for the arcade?,” Raph said with a big smile.

     “Oh me definitely, dude!,” Mike exclaimed as he took off with Raphael out of the lair for the arcade.

     Splinter walked over to Leonardo and placed his hand on his shoulder, “Why don’t you join your brothers, Leonardo?”

     “I don’t know, Master. I feel so worried about him being alone in that dimension,” Leo said sadly looking at the portal.

     “I know, my son. But all of us need to be alone at some point in our lives in order to be strong. Donatello has great ingenuity, I know that he’ll be okay. Now go join your brothers, my son and clear your mind,” Splinter said softly looking up at Leonardo.

     Donatello arrived in Felicia’s dimension near the warehouses located on the outskirts of town. He looked around quickly but didn’t see anyone around and ran towards the safety of the shadow in the alley and stood there. “Now to find her.” He looked around and saw the city’s tall skyscrapers near where he was. “May want to check there first, hopefully I can find her in a large crowd of people.” He darted off carefully and came to an alley of two buildings near where it appeared to be one of the main city’s streets. Cars drove by noisily and the distinct sound of people walking down the streets almost reminded him of home. He pressed himself tight against the wall of the alley to try to hide from people as he looked around at the city’s streets. On the opposite side of the road stood a huge gray looking building which appeared to be some sort of police station. It was Enforcer Headquarters. He heard the sound of jets and looked up and saw small white one seater combat jets flying off the deck on the roof of the Enforcer Headquarters. “Whoa a police that has an air force!,” Donatello remarked as he stood amazed at how high-tech Felicia’s city was compared to his.

     Felina and Feral were walking down the steps in front of Enforcer Headquarters that day getting ready to go to lunch. “Wanna go to the donut shop, Felina?” her uncle asked as he walked around to the front driver side of his car and opened the door.

     “Donut shop?,” Felina said, her eyes went wide as she stood at the front passenger door. “What about your diet, uncle?”

     “Hey, I am watching my diet! I ate that salad for supper last night,” Feral snapped back as he got inside the car.

     “Right,” Felina said as she chuckled and shook her head. She was about to get in when she saw a strange figure across the street in the alley. The creature looked too suspicious for her tastes. It was wearing a huge overcoat and looking around at the city. She paused at the door as she leaned in closer trying to see a clearer image of the figure. To what she saw, he was green and to her that meant one thing, Dr. Viper! She whipped her gun out and held it towards the direction of the figure. “You in the alley, freeze right there!,” she yelled.

     Donatello’s eyes went wide when he heard the yell and looked over in the direction and saw a young she-kat enforcer holding a gun at him. “Uh-oh..” He froze didn’t know what to do.

     “Felina, what are you doing?!,” Feral asked as he looked up at his niece and then looked over at the alley.

     “I swear that’s Dr. Viper or one of his goonies!,” Felina said as she kept the gun on the figure. “Now walk out of the alley right now!”

     Don stood right there, he knew he couldn’t go walk out there and be captured! He had to get to Felicia and fast but how! “Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea..”

     “I said out of the alley, now!” Felina ordered loudly again as she walked around the car, coming towards him, the gun still in her hands, the traffic stopped for her.  Donatello took off running, his heart racing fast. He had to make it safety! “Oh no you don’t!,” Felina muttered to herself as she took off running after him.

     “Felina! Come back here!!,” Feral ordered.

     “Call for back up!,” she called back to him as she kept on pursuit with Donatello.

     Feral grumbled as he picked up his CB from his car. “This is Feral! I need cruiser units on the double with chopper back-up!”

     Donatello’s heart was racing fast, his face filled with sweat as he ran as hard as he could. The trench coat weighing him down some but he knew he couldn’t take it off yet. He leaped over a metal fence and ran down another alley. But to his horror it was a dead end! He looked around frantically but there was nothing there but garbage cans, not even a sewer hole! “Oh terrific,” he grumbled to himself and turned around and there stood Felina with her gun aimed at him.

     “No where else to go. Now put your hands up!,” she ordered keeping the gun pointed at him.

     “I may not be like you but I’ll still fight as hard!, Don said back as he threw off his trench coat, reaching behind and grabbing his bo staff, holding it in a defending position.

     Felina’s eyes went wide, she had never seen anything like him. “What the heck are you?” She lowered her gun some, also noticing that Donatello’s voice was the exact same as Razor’s.

     “I’m a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle! And you’re about to get shell-shocked!,” Don yelled out as he threw his bo staff at her knocking the gun out of her hands. Before she knew it, he kicked her hard in the stomach making her fly against the wall.

     Felina let out a cry as her back hurt from the impact but she staggered back onto her feet. “That’s it!,” she growled as she extended her claws and jumped at him. He dove down onto his shell and caught her and threw her back over his head making her slam back into the wall again.

     “You wanna play some more or shall we start to chat again?,” Don said as he grabbed the bo staff and held it in his hands in a defending position once again.

     Feral walked up behind Donatello catching him off guard and kicking him hard in the shell making Don cry out as he lost his balance, dropping his bo and falling onto the ground hard. “You mega-low! How dare you hurt my niece like that!” he growled. Donatello staggered up onto his knees, coughing a little from hitting the ground. Feral walked up to him and kicked him hard in the under part of his shell, Donatello let out a cry of pain as he slammed back into the ground, his breathing hard trying to get his breath.

     “Uncle, please,” Felina said as she gripped Feral’s arm. “I’m okay, really.” Looking down seeing Donatello in great pain.

     Feral looked at Donatello with a look of anger in his eyes, Felina was like a daughter to him, and he couldn’t stand when she was in trouble. “From Dr. Viper no doubt. You freak!”

     Donatello closed his eyes shut, hearing those words even pained him, making him think about how he is sometimes treated in his dimension by the humans. He coughed a little as he struggled to get back up on his knees again. “Look, I just want to see the SWAT Kats.”

     “Why would you want to see those vigilantes for?,” Feral asked as he stood there.

     “Look, I just have to see them!,” Donatello cried out as he body throbbed in pain, getting frustrated. He was beginning to think that he should have listened to Raph.

     “I think for right now, you are going to be in our custody until we can think where you came from,” Feral said as he walked over to Donatello, getting the handcuffs from his jacket pocket. Some more enforcer cruiser units pulled up to the front of the alley, about four more enforcers walked towards them. Donatello let out a sigh. Feral put Donatello’s hands behind his back, “I think we should take you to Puma Dyne. They will be able to run some tests on you.”

     The sound of the word “test” made Donatello cringe. “No way!,” he shouted as he broke free from Feral’s grip and ran straight on towards the enforcer units. Feral’s eyes went wide, he let out a growl and went for his laser gun.

     “Uncle, don’t!,” Felina protested but Feral ignored her. He aimed the gun and fired, the laser hit Donatello straight on the back of his leg making him fall onto the ground hard, sliding some till finally he stopped.

     He laid unconscious on the ground, the back of his leg was bleeding from where he was shot, the front side of his shell was bleeding a little along with his arms from where he slid into the pavement. Feral and Felina walked up to Donatello’s limp form on the ground. “Uncle, was that necessary?” she asked.

     “One day, Felina. You will understand,” Feral said and then looked over at the enforcers. “Take him to Puma Dyne’s desert base. They’ll know what to do with him.” The enforcers saluted him then ran over and picked up Donatello, carrying him and laying down in the back seat of their cruiser. They got in and drove off towards the base.

     Jenson was working on some papers when he heard the door knock to his office. “Come in.”

     Felina walked in with a look of bewilderment on her face. “Jenson, you wouldn’t believe what just happened outside,” she exclaimed as she walked up to his desk.

     “Hmm, let me guess. Your uncle was nice for once?” he smirked at her.

     “No, that’s not it,” she said with a smile. “It was weird but it looked like some creature from Dr. Viper or so my uncle thinks. But I think its some sort of alien. It had a wooden staff and had a purple bandana on and it claimed to be some sort of mutant turtle. But we took it to Puma Dyne so we can figure out just what the heck it is. I am going to lunch now so answer my calls for me,” she said as she waved goodbye and walked out of the office leaving Jenson speechless.

     Felicia just got out of the shower with a towel wrapped around her when she heard the phone ringing. “Who the heck?” she grumbled as she walked over to the phone and picked it up. “Hello?”

     “Hey sis this is Jenson. I need to ask you a question,” Jenson said over at the other end.

     “Well what’s that?” she asked as she walked into her bedroom to get dressed.

     “Those um creatures that you were with for the past two weeks did one of them wear a purple bandana and carry a wooden staff?” Jenson said as he looked outside the window as he watched the afternoon sun set in.     Felicia’s eyes went wide and she almost dropped the phone when she heard that. “Sis? Sis, are you there?”

     She shook her head, her heart racing fast as she felt her knees to become weak. It couldn’t be him! “Y-yeah I am here,” her voice shaky. “Wh-why do you ask?”

     “Well because he’s here, Licia. But probably not for long,” he said softly.

     She looked at the phone with a frightened look as she bawled her other hand up into a fist. “Why, what happened?”

     “He ran into Feral and they shipped him off to Puma Dyne as a research subject,” her brother replied.

     “I am going to kill Feral!! Where exactly is Donatello?!! I am going to get him!,” she screamed, breathing hard as anger started to rise high in her body.

     “Are you kidding? That’s Puma Dyne desert base! You’ll never get in with all of the traps and guards!” Jenson said, his eyes went wide, starting to regret the fact that he told his sister.

     “Well if you give me access to the base then it won’t be much of a problem,” Felicia said, trying to calm herself down, she ran over quickly to her chest cabinet keeping the cordless phone against her ear.

     “Do you have any idea what will happen to me if I get caught giving you access? Only high ranking enforcers get access and if I got caught, then I’ll lose my job and probably go to prison!” he said becoming angry himself, bawling his hands up into fists, hitting the desk some with his hand.

     “Do you have any idea what will happen to you if you don’t do this for me? You’ll lose your sister,” she screamed back at him, getting frustrated, putting on her Ricochet’s outfit at the same time. “I’ll wait on the side of the road about three miles away from the base meet me there in about twenty minutes and if you don’t show then I am going alone,” and with that she hung up the phone and continued to get dressed.

     About twenty minutes later, Jenson pulled up to where he saw his sister waiting for him on her black sport motorcycle. “I don’t know why the heck I let you drag me into these messes,” Jenson grumbled as he got out of his car and walked over to her. He stood there and then looked down the road seeing the entrance to the base. “Okay, look. Let me go in first. I’ll try to get access to most of the levels of the base. It actually has an underground facility, which is where they probably have him. When you get down there go up a ramp and then you’ll see a white door. Go through the white door and I’ll meet you there with a lab coat. The lab coat will allow you to get to the bio rooms as long as you don’t go shooting your way in there. Wait for about fifteen minutes before you go in after I do so that way so they won’t suspect its me.”

     “Thanks, brother,” she said softly, hugging him gently.

     “But remember once we meet up then that’s it. I have to leave so that way they won’t suspect me. You will be on your own,” Jenson replied with a smile. He walked back over to his car and got in. “See you in a little while.” Ricochet watched her brother’s car go down towards the base, smiling softly.

     Donatello groaned as he started to slowly waken. A bright light kept him from opening his eyes completely, he groaned, his right leg was throbbing badly in pain. He felt cold, his whole body covered with goose bumps, he saw two figures in front of him. As his eyes started to focus, he saw that they were two kat bio technicians wearing completely white uniforms with white masks.

     “He’s waking up,” one of them stated as he looked over at his partner.

     “Whe-where am I?” Don said, he looked over and saw a small steel table with small surgical tools resting on them. He saw one of the figures had a small surgical knife in his hands. “Wait a minute! I am no test subject!” He jumped up quickly off the table but almost lost his balance as his right leg shot sharp pain. He stumbled a little but then gained his balance.

     “Come here!,” one of them shouted as he ran towards Donatello but Don kicked him swiftly making him fall back against the table. “No way!”

     “Get the sedatives!,” the bio-technician shouted to the other as he ran over to get the small sedative injections.

     Donatello ran quickly to the door and pushed the button but to his horror it wouldn’t open! “Aw great,” he muttered as he looked at a small code box beside the door. Both of the technicians grabbed his arms, holding him. Donatello struggled firmly but one of them injected the sedative into his arm. “Ah!”

     “Got it!,” the technician said to the other as he released Don. “He’ll be out in a minute.”

     Felina stopped at City Hall before going to get lunch and walked inside to see Callie up in her office. Once she got there, she said, “Deputy Mayor.”

     Callie looked up from her desk and smiled, “Hey Lieutenant Feral! What did you need?”

     “I need to use your communicator really quick. I need to alert the SWAT Kats about something,” Felina replied as she walked in.

     “Sure, what did you need to tell them?,” Callie asked as she walked over to her purple purse to get out the communicator.

     Inside the hangar, Jake and Chance were washing the TurboKat when they heard the alarm go off indicating that someone was trying to reach them. “It’s Callie,” Jake stated as he looked over at the alarm.

Chance nodded and walked over and pushed the receiving button. “Yes, Miss Briggs?”

“This is actually Lt. Feral. Is Razor there?,” Felina replied.

Jake walked up to where Chance was with a puzzled look on his face. “This is Razor.”

“I wanted you to know that something very weird has been going on. Today my Uncle and I caught this bizarre creature, which he suspects is from Dr. Viper but he acted too intelligent for Viper’s mutant. He looked like some kind of big turtle but he had your voice, Razor,” Felina said as she looked around to make sure no one was listening in since this was confidential information.

“Whoa! That is weird. Thanks for telling us,” Jake replied. “Let us know if you find out anything about it.”

“Right, well he’s at Puma Dyne’s desert base for testing but I suspect that something is going on. Anyways Felina out,” she turned off the communicator and gave it back to Callie before leaving.

Jake stood there being silent, thinking as he looked down at the ground. “What are you thinking, sure-shot?,” Chance said knowing that Jake was troubled by something.

“Just something that Licia told me when she came back from being missing for a couple of weeks. She told me she was with these turtles, I wonder if one of them came to our world,” he said looking at Chance.

“Maybe. But it’s weird that he has your voice! That’s spooky!,” Jake’s friend said.

“I’m going to call Felicia. She should know about this and maybe she can help us on this issue.” Jake walked over to the ladders and went upstairs to use the phone. Chance watched him and then walked back over to finish washing the jet.

     Jake dialed the number but no one answered which started to trouble. He grumbled and walked back downstairs. “Buddy, she’s not there again. Can we head over there? I am getting worried again.”

     Jenson reached the biolab level of the facility as he walked through the white door. He looked around and noticed no one was around; it was so quiet that it actually kind of spooked him out. He took his walkie talkie out of his pocket and pressed the talk button, “Hey sis, come in.”

     Ricochet picked up her CB from her motorcycle. “This is Ricochet.”

     “I am in position. Don’t just shoot your way in too much. I will need to get out of here some how before Feral shows up.” Jenson replied as he kept looking around making sure no one was walking down the hallway.

     “Hey this is me you’re talking to,” she grinned. “Ricochet out.” She put the CB down and revved her bike up before she sped down the road towards the facility.

     Bryce sighed as he stood at his post at Puma Dyne labs. He had been a guard now for nearly a year but he was starting to hate it, to him it was so boring. His ears perked when he heard the sound of a motorcycle approaching, with curiosity he walked towards the main gate to inspect the situation. There in front of him coming at full throttle was a black sports cycle and some sort of she-kat dressed in black on it. Ricochet jumped quickly off the bike, doing a back flip before landing on the ground feet first allowing the bike to continue on its course towards Bryce. He let out a yelp and jumped out of the way as the bike turned over on its side and slid into the wall. Before he could realize what was happening, Ricochet kicked him hard in the chest making him slam into the wall. He let out a cry of pain and slid down to the ground, unconscious from the impact. She smiled as she walked over to him, dusting her hands in pride. “Well that was easy.” As pride clouded her mind, she didn’t realize that there was a second guard at the same post, he kicked her hard in the back making her fall to the ground.

     “Tsk Tsk, lady. You shouldn’t have done that,” the guard said as he approached her. He was much bigger than Bryce. “Ah did that hurt, baby?” He grinned and then walked towards her.

     Ricochet reached into her small carrying case on her side where she kept her DM5K automatic machine gun. She rolled onto her back and aimed the gun at him. But he quickly kicked her out of her hands. He growled and picked her up by the collar of her shirt, carrying her into the guard’s station. “Did your mama ever teach you how to treat a lady?” She squirmed trying to get out of his grasp.  The guard growled at her comment and slapped her hard in the face then shoved her hard towards the corner of the building where a bunch of boxes stood. She hit the boxes and groaned feeling the pain shooting in her body from the impact. “Guess not,” she muttered. She looked over and to her surprise and luck, there laid Donatello’s bo staff. They were keeping it there since they thought it wasn’t actually important. She grinned and gripped the middle of the staff keeping it close to her inner body to hide it from the guard’s view.

     He looked at her with suspicion, noticing her staying there awfully quiet. He walked towards her to make sure she wasn’t going to give him a surprise attack. Right when the guard was in range to use the bo staff, Ricochet whipped around quickly using the end of the staff to hit him hard in the stomach. The guard let out a groan as he bent over from the impact, holding his stomach. Ricochet staggered back up on her feet, grinning big. “Batter up!” she cried as she hit the guard as hard as she could with the bo staff making him fly some hitting the wall hard, falling down knocked out. She ran back outside, grabbing her gun, using the arm sling to put it around her back. She gripped the bo tighter. “This thing might come in handy! Don’t worry Donnie, I’m on my way!” She ran to the elevator that would lead underground and went down the underground facility. When the doors opened she found herself to be in some sort of open place, which served as a storage unit. Ricochet ran towards the ramp but to her horror there were three guards on the top floor from the ramp and two guards at the base of the ramp. The guards at the bottom spotted her.

     “Sound the alarm, we have an intruder!” one shouted to the guards on the top floor. She saw the ones on the top running away towards the alarm switch.

     “Great,” she mumbled as she ran towards them. She hit one hard in the stomach with the bo staff end then when he bent down, she nailed him quickly in the head. “Lights out!” Then she turned around quickly hitting the other on the side of the head hard. She ran up the ramp but saw two of the guards from the upper level running towards her. Letting go of the bo staff allowing it to drop to her feet, she whipped her gun around fast shooting them quickly in the knees making them collapse but not killing them. Picking the bo back up, she continued up the ramp, kicking both of the fallen guards in the head knocking them out before she ran to the final guard. The guard had hit the alarm switch for it blared loudly in the storage room. She knew now that she had to be quicker for the enforcers would be there soon.

     “Too late, girlie! You’re trapped here now!” the guard said with a grin as he held his gun to her.

     “Then I’ll have to deal with it!” she growled back, letting out a grunt as she threw the staff at him, it knocked the gun out of his hands quickly.

     “Why you little-,” he said as he ran to her, knocking her hard to the ground. He then jumped on top of her but she used her feet to propel him over her making him slam into the wall. She got up and ran over to him quickly, kicking him hard in the head. Looking around noticing that there were no more guards in sight, she said, “Aww no more.” She picked up Donatello’s bo staff and went through the white door.

     Jenson grinned as she saw his sister walking through that door. “Well, I’m impressed. Not much shooting at all.”

     “Well not too great,” she panted, trying to get her breath. “I screwed up. One of the guards hit the switch in that room.”

     Jenson’s eyes went wide. “Oh great! I really need to get my tail out of here! Here is the lab suit,” he said handing her the lab coat. “Quickly, put it on!”

     Ricochet nodded, slipping on the lab coat, removing her mask. “What about my weapons? I am not leaving them here!”

     Leonardo stared at the portal screen motionlessly; it had been almost eight hours and no contact from his brother. “Still no contact from Donatello?” Splinter asked as he walked into the room followed by Michelangelo and Raphael.

     “No, Master and I am worried,” Leo sighed as he stared at the main screen. “We know the general location of Donatello but no communication yet.” He pointed to the screen on the monitor, which showed a small blip bleeping at place that looked like some sort of large facility.

     “Well we can’t just stand here, dudes! We have to save him!,” Michelangelo stated as he looked at the screen with a worried look on his face.

     “I’m with you there, Michelangelo. But if we go in there then we may never get back since no one here could operate the portal and what if the city was under attack or something again?,” Raphael replied as he stood there with his arms crossed.

     “Raphael’s right, though as much as I hate to say it. But Donatello is on his own for right now until we can figure something out,” added Leonardo as he sighed and turned away from the portal.

     “Hold the phone! Now I have an idea! What if one of us went through the portal? I mean Leo, we really need you to stay here just in case something does go wrong in the city. I’ll go through and find Donatello!,” announced Raphael before he also muttered, “Boy am I glutton for punishment or what.”

     “A wise decision, Raphael,” Splinter commented as he walk towards him and placed his hand upon his shoulder. “You show great leadership qualities. The time is of the essence, we need you to go there now and get your brother back for I sense great danger is going to befall him.”

     “Right,” Leo said as he turned the switch on. “Go on, Raphael but make sure you don’t get in trouble either.”

     “Good luck, compadre,” Michelangelo added.

     Razor looked down from the TurboKat noticing that Feral had the whole base surrounded with enforcer units. Callie had called the SWAT Kats at Felicia’s house letting them know that there was a break in at the Puma Dyne base outside of the city and that the enforcers were already there.  “Looks like Feral has the whole area neutralized, buddy,” he said to T-Bone.

     “Roger and I guess it’s up to us, to knock down the front door,” T-Bone added as he landed the TurboKat near the base. Once they arrived, they jumped out and walked towards the front of the base.

     “What are you SWAT Kats doing?,” Feral said, his eyes went wide. “The enforcers will handle this, go back! They may have hostages!”

     “Don’t worry, Feral. We’ll draw them out for you,” T-Bone shouted back as he and Razor ran inside. They looked around and saw the two guards unconscious at the front gate, Razor ran over to them and checked their pulse.

     Raphael appeared in the biolab level at the underground facility, he looked around and noticed the place to be extremely quiet and almost empty! “Whoa this reminds me of the Technodrome except no foot soldiers! They should really decorate around here,” he commented as he quietly walked down the hall, having no clue where he was going. Suddenly he heard footsteps and jumped behind back against the wall away from the main hallway. As the footsteps got closer, he reached into his belt and took out one of his sais, preparing for an attack. He saw a she-kat wearing a lab coat walking down the hallway looking around at the different doors. He jumped out and grabbed her pulling her to the side away from the hallway, holding his sai up to her neck. “Okay, now just tell me what I want to hear and you won’t get hurt,” he said but then he realized it was Felicia. “What the heck?”

     “Raphael? What are you doing here?,” Felicia said as she rubbed her neck where the sai had pushed against once he let go of her.

     “Trying to find my brother, he didn’t contact us. Do you work here or something?,” he said looking at her outfit.

     “Shh, keep quiet. Listen your brother never made it to me, he got captured by this bio-facility and now I have to get him out of here,” she said looking around.

     “Good! Because I am going with you,” Raphael added as he put his sai back into his belt.

     “Actually it would be best if you didn’t. I can get into the lab that has him, but I need you to make sure the area around is clear,” Felicia replied as she pointed to another white door across the hall indicating that was the room that she needed to get into. “About three doors down on the right, there is an empty room with my gun and Donatello’s bo staff, go down there and get them for me. I should be back by then.” Raphael nodded and walked quietly down the hall, Felicia watched him and sighed. She pressed the door open button on the wall and walked inside the room.

     The room looked almost like an office, there was a path going straight towards another door, but in this room there were two guards on each side of the path. She took a deep breath and then walked down the pathway trying not to look suspicious. One of the young looking guards approached her, he was a silver tabby. “Hey! How’s it going?,” he asked politely.

     “Hey,” Felicia replied nervously and kept walking towards the other door. It was different compared to the others, to her it looked like a room for higher security, which she figured it was where they were keeping Donatello. On the door there was a small window slot at the top, and at the other end, she saw a guard standing there looking out right at her.

 He walked up to the door and spoke through the speaker. “So you got here at last. Everyone’s been waiting for you.” The door opened and she walked in, she noticed that the room was smaller, there two guards in the room: one at the front of the door and one in the back in the hallway which led to a clear window plated room in the middle of the room she was in. In that small room, she saw two kat bio-technicians leaning over a table in front of them. She looked carefully and saw that it was Donatello.

“Hey it’s an impostor!,” the guard in the back yelled seeing her, the one at the door looked out her with a surprised and angry look on his face. “Seize her.”

“Seize this!,” she yelled as she reached under her coat to her Ricochet’s outfit feeling the ninja star still in her pocket. She took it out and threw it quickly at the guy in the hall, the star jammed up into his gun making him unable to shoot. Then she swiftly kicked the guard near her in the chest causing him to fall over. The guard in the hallway growled out as he charged at her. She stepped quickly to the side putting her foot in his way, he tripped over her foot and crashed into the wall, falling on top of the other guard. Felicia ran over and grabbed the door guard’s gun and ran back over to the two guards who were staggering to get back up. Using the blunt end of the gun, she hit both of them in head really hard making them unconscious. “Sweet dreams.” After retrieving her ninja star, she continued on her course to the dark hallway, which lead to the operation room. Using the code access card that her brother gave her, she gained entrance to the room. To her horror, Donatello was laying on the operation table, unconscious, the front part of his shell and his arms were terribly scratched up and his right leg was wrapped around with a bandage. “Okay you bio-lowlifes step away from him right now!,” she growled out. “Not another move or you bet your tail I will fire.”

“What the heck do you think you’re doing?,” one of the bio-technicians remarked.

“This is a top-secret enforcer experiment!,” the other protested.

“Besides you don’t have the guts to shoot us, girlie!,” the first added. “Now leave so we can figure out who this mutagen accident is.” He started to walk to her.

“Mutagen accident?!,” she shouted, anger boiling up in her. “That’s it!” She shot that technician in the shoulder, he cried out in pain, gripping his shoulder and then fell down to the ground.

“Kats, my arm!,” he screamed.

“You psycho!,” the other technician shouted, seeing his partner lying on the ground.

“I guess you want some too,” Felicia said as she ran to him, delivering some punches but the technician grabbed her hands and then kicked her swiftly in the stomach, she flew back against the glass, hitting it hard and then sliding to the ground. “Whoa that didn’t work.”

“Not so tough now are you?,” the technician laughed as he walked to her, gripping her by the neck, choking her against the glass. Felicia coughed as she squirmed trying to get free.

Donatello’s eyes fluttered, waking up, hearing the commotion going on. He looked over to his right and beside his table he saw the technician strangling Felicia up against the glass wall. He growled and reached over reaching one of the sedative injection shots. With a quick movement, he stuck the technician in the arm with it. The tech released his grip on Felicia and slid to the floor unconscious. Licia’s eyes were wide with wonder and then looked over and saw Donatello looking at her. “Donatello!!,” she ran to him and hugged him tightly.

“Ah, not so tight. I am sore,” he said, smiling softly.

“We have to get you out of here fast! Do you think you can walk?,” she said looking through the glass hoping that the guards in the other room didn’t hear the commotion.

“I can try,” Donatello groaned as he tried to sit up, his entire body aching.

     Raphael was walking back from the room that had Ricochet’s weapons. He carried the bo staff in his hand and used the sling to put the DM5K around his shell. He heard voices approaching and started to freeze. He dove back behind another wall and waited for whoever was coming. The SWAT Kats passed Raphael looking for any sign of the intruder, suddenly Raphael jumped behind them. “Okay, you weirdos, turn around right now!”

     The SWAT Kats turned around and saw a giant turtle wearing a red bandana about their same height looking right back at them. “Whoa what the heck is that?,” T-Bone asked looking at Raphael.

     “Dunno, T-Bone, but he has Ricochet’s gun!,” Razor said looking at Raphael angrily.

     “Geez. Is this like a twilight zone?!,” Raphael said when he heard Razor speaking. “Donatello? I hope that is not you!”

     “Donatello?,” Razor asked T-Bone as he looked at him. “I don’t know who the heck you are. But what have you done with Ricochet?!” He aimed his glov-a-trix at Raphael.

     Felicia walked through the white door with Donatello’s arm across her shoulders trying to help him walk. The two guards in that room ran up to her. “Hey! Where are you going with him?,” one of them shouted, holding the gun at her.

     “I am taking him to biolab 10 for a check up,” Felicia said quickly.

     “Only high authority can give an order. We’ll have to check with the technicians first,” the other guard replied and looked over at his comrade. “Craig, go and make sure it’s okay with the technicians.”

     Craig nodded and ran into the room that Felicia just came out of. Felicia’s face almost turned white, she knew her cover was blown now. He ran back into the room, “Charlie, the technicians are unconscious along with the two guards in that room! She must been an intruder!”

     Charlie grabbed Donatello from her, throwing him on the ground hard, he then grabbed her arm holding it very tight. “You’re coming with us, missy!”

     Raphael and the SWAT Kats opened the door, their eyes went wide as they saw Felicia struggling from the two guards and Donatello was on the ground.

     “No!,” she yelled as she squirmed, trying to push him away.

     Charlie growled and smacked her hard in the face making her cry out in pain. “Leave her alone, you creeps!,” Donatello shouted at the guards, trying to get back up on his knees, his leg throbbing terribly in pain.

     “Shut up, you laboratory freak!,” Craig said back to him as he kicked him hard in the right leg, making Donatello cry out.

     “That’s no way to treat a lady!,” Razor yelled at the guards as he launched a bola missile. It broke out some rope as it wrapped around Charlie’s legs, causing him to fall.

     “And that’s no way to treat my brother!,” Raphael yelled also as he threw his sais at Craig. The sais pinned Craig to the wall by his uniform. Raphael ran over to the guard. “Hey give me back my sais!” He then knocked the guard out and retrieved his sais, making Craig fall to the floor. Raphael ran back over to help his brother up. “You okay, Donatello?”

     Donatello nodded his head as he stood back upon his face. Razor ran over and helped up Felicia. “You okay, Licia?” he said.

     “I am fine,” she said as she held her side a little, her body was bruised badly from the battles that she had coming into the facility.

     T-Bone shook his head, keeping his arms crossed. “Why are you here, Felicia?”

     “Yeah, some person broke in here and we are trying to find them before the enforcers bust up the joint,” Razor added looking at the new visitors. Donatello’s eyes went wide hearing Razor talk; it was almost like he was listening to a tape recording of him talking!

     “Oh, crud! I am almost forgot!” Felicia sighed as she took of her lab coat and tied her mask back around her face. “Um, Razor, no one broke in except for me.”

     “What?!,” both of the SWAT Kats exclaimed, their eyes wide with shock.

     “Look, I had to save Donatello here. They were going to make him an experiment!,” Ricochet protested looking back over at Donatello, smiling a little.

     “Oh terrific,” T-Bone mumbled. “This was a set up! The enforcers are out there and if we come out with these two here they will think we stole them!”

     “Well we better come up with a solution and fast! The enforcers will be here in any minute!,” Razor said as he looked around.

     Donatello noticed a small grate near the side of the wall, it was large enough for any of them to go through. “I think I have it!”

     “What did you say, Razor?,” T-Bone asked as he looked at his partner.

     “I didn’t say anything,” Razor replied.

     “I did. I said we could take the sewer route,” Donatello continued. “I mean you two could go back and just say you couldn’t find the perpetrators, meanwhile the rest of us go through the sewers to find our way out.”

     “Excellent idea! I forgot that you sound just like me!,” Razor smiled. He handed Ricochet a communicator. “Licia, be careful. We’ll track your position with this.”

     Ricochet nodded and smiled softly at him. “Roger.”

     Razor smiled back at her and leaned over and kissed her gently on the lips. Then he looked over at his partner, “Let’s go, T-Bone.” The SWAT Kats ran back towards the direction they came through.

The SWAT Kats passed a unit of enforcers on their way out, the enforcers took no notice to them but Feral did as soon as they ran out of the base. “Where do you think you two are going?,” he demanded.

     “No sign of the intruder, Feral. We are going to scan the area in our jet,” Razor quickly said as he and T-Bone jumped back into the TurboKat.

     Razor looked down at his radar screen at the tiny blip and said, “Looks like they are coming out near Thirty-first Street.”

     “Roger,” T-Bone replied as he banked the jet a little to the right to go in that direction.  Razor sighed as he looked out of the canopy cockpit, staring down at the city as sunset started to fade in. “You okay, buddy?” T-Bone asked when he heard Razor sighing.

     “Yeah, just a little worried. I mean the enforcers are going to be after her soon for stealing that turtle,” Razor replied as he sighed again and then turned his attention back to the radar screen when he heard the jet landing.

     Once the jet came to a stop, Razor opened the bomb-bay doors of the jet and rolled the Cyclotron out, he looked over and saw the two alien turtles and Ricochet climbing out of the sewer hole. “Okay, you two can ride with T-Bone. Rico, you ride with me,” he said as he got in the driver seat of the motorcycle, revving the engine some.

     “Yeah, hurry up before the enforcers spot us taking you!” T-Bone added. Donatello and Raphael ran quickly and went in the bomb-bay doors to get inside the jet while Rico hopped in the passenger seat of the Cyclotron, holding tightly.

     Once the hangar came into sight, T-Bone put the landing gear down, and the flaps out to make the jet slow down as he decreased the thrust of the engines. Raphael and Donatello looked out from the canopy, seeing a salvage yard. “Whoa, your base is a junkyard?” Raph asked, feeling like it was going to be just like the sewers.

     “It’s a salvage yard,” T-Bone corrected as he pushed a button on his control panel making the trap door to the underground tunnel come open and he flew inside.

     “Whoa this is cool!” Donatello exclaimed, being so amazed by everything.

     Once the jet stopped, T-Bone and the turtles jumped out meeting Razor and Ricochet who just pulled into the hangar too. Donatello walked around the hangar, admiring Razor’s missiles and the large screen display. “Geez, did you make these?” he asked putting his hand on one of the missile bodies.

     “Well yeah,” Razor smiled as he took off his helmet and bandana. T-Bone walked towards his locker to change into his overalls.

     “This is neat! An advanced LCD screen!” he exclaimed as he walked over to the display monitor.

     “Oh no look out, geek talk,” Raph said as he covered his ears; Ricochet giggled by his comment.

     “Hey, Razor. Would you have an extra communicator on you?” Donatello said looking up at Razor getting off his knees after he had inspected the control panel of the display monitor.

     “Yeah, why?” Razor replied looking at him confusedly. He walked towards his worktable to retrieve the extra communicator.

     “Well I thought later on I could rig it up to where I tap into my frequency on the turtle communicator so I could contact my other two brothers,” Donatello replied, taking the communicator from him, examining it.

     “Sure but right now I think we need to just relax a bit,” Razor stated as he walked towards his locker, changing to his overalls as well.

     “I hear ya, I am going to get me some milk,” Chance added as he went up the ladder to the kitchen level of the garage.

     “Milk? Man I am hungry! You got anything to eat around here?” Raph said as he looked over at Jake, holding his stomach a little.

     “To eat? Um, what do you eat?” Jake said, fearing it would be bugs or something.

     “A pizza would be nice!” the turtle replied with a big smile on his face.

     “Pizza? Um sure, let’s go upstairs to watch television, I’ll order you one,” he said, taking Felicia’s paw as he went upstairs to the kitchen level to join his friend with the two turtles following him.

     Once upstairs, Donatello and Raphael walked inside the living room, seeing Chance on the couch watching television. “Go ahead and sit down, guys,” Felicia said smiling softly as she sat down on the floor, pointing to the two chairs near the couch.

     Jake walked into the room, carrying a phone book. “Let’s see.um pizza, pizza…I found it!” he said, holding his finger towards the number. “I’ll get a tuna pizza.” He walked towards the phone on the wall.

     “Tuna?!” Raph exclaimed, his eyes went wide.

     “Fish? Yuck!, Donatello said making a face.

     “You don’t like fish?,” Jake said looking at him puzzled.

     “Nah, um could we just get a plain cheese pizza?,” Raph said. “I guess I could go with that, no matter how weird.”

     Jake sighed and walked back towards the phone. “Fine.” A few minutes later after he ordered the pizza, he sat beside Chance on the couch to watch the news. “Turn it up, Chance.”

     “This is Ann Gora again with a huge news break! About an hour ago, there was a break in at the Puma Dyne Labs located out of the city where the enforcers were holding a mysterious mutant creature. There are no leads on where the creature is but the enforcers do have a suspect. After interviewing several of the guards who were knocked out from the attack, all of them confirmed that it was in fact the vigilante, Ricochet.  So far the enforcers have no motive on why she would pull such an attack but Commander Feral has placed APB on here along with the SWAT Kats since he is positive that they were also involved with this crime. We will have more information for you tomorrow on the 6am news. This is Ann Gora, have a good night,” she said.

Jake sighed and snatched the remote control off, turning the TV off quickly. He sighed and leaned back against the couch, rubbing his head with his hand. “Aww, why Licia did you do that?”

“Hey! I had to! The enforcers were going to use Donatello as a test subject!,” she retaliated, getting a little offended.

“Do you have any idea what kind of trouble you are in now?!,” he said getting frustrated. “Why didn’t you call us or something first?”

“There was no time! I had to save him! Hey, Jake, you save people and so do I!,” she replied looking at him angrily, bawling her hands up into fists.

Donatello cringe hearing Felicia and Jake fight for he knew that he was the reason why, he slunk a little in his chair. Raph looked over at him, “This is just like Jerry Springer!,” he whispered to him, smirking a little.

“But I don’t break into places!,” he growled. “You know? The enforcers will be out looking for you!”

“Don’t worry, they won’t find you, Jake! I’ll go back to my apartment in the morning!,” she screamed as she stood up and stormed upstairs, slamming Jake’s bedroom door.

“Crud!,” Jake said as he held his head, Chance just looked at him, speechless.

Donatello closed his eyes, he knew that it wasn’t right for him to be here, he was messing up everything. “Hey Jake, I am going to downstairs to work on that communicator.”

“Sure, I’m going up there to talk to her,” Jake added as he got up from the couch and walked upstairs towards his room.

“Whoa this is freaking me out, hearing them both sounding alike!,” Chance said, looking over at Raphael.

“You ain’t kidding,” Raphael replied, smiling a little.

Donatello got up from the couch and walked towards the hole in the kitchen, which lead down to the hangar. He heard Jake trying to make Felicia let him in and then he heard her screaming at him, telling him to go away. He sighed sadly and went downstairs.

“Women,” both Chance and Raphael replied as they held their head, getting frustrated from all of the fighting and arguing. Chance turned the television back on.

“Hey too bad Jake is missing his show,” Chance grinned, turning it to the station showing the Late Night with David Litterbin show.

“Whoa! He looks like David Letterman! Now this is freaky!,” Raph said, sitting closer towards the television, seeing how similar the SWAT Kats’ world was to his.

     Michelangelo reached into the oven to get out the pizza he was making, but suddenly Leonardo ran into the room. “Michelangelo!!”

     Being frightened from Leo’s sudden shout, Mike raised up quickly from being startled, hitting his head hard on the oven. “Oww!!” He got up, rubbing his sore head. “Watch it bro!”

     “Donatello is calling!,” Leonardo announced as he ran to where Mike was, taking out his communicator. “Leonardo here. Hey Donnie!”

     “Hey guys! Just wanted you to know that Raphael and I are here safely with the SWAT Kats,” replied Donatello.

     “That’s good! We were so worried for you, dude! Hey how long are you staying there?,” Mike asked next, still rubbing his head, feeling a knot to form from the impact.

     “Actually we are leaving tomorrow,” Donatello replied with slight sadness in his voice, he kept thinking of how angry Felicia was with Jake.

     “What? Are you sure, Donatello?,” Leonardo asked, holding the communicator tighter in his hands. At first, Donatello was all excited on going and now he was just about anxious to leave. “Is Raphael not enjoying it?”

     “Probably. The dude can’t live without his House of Ha-Ha,” Michelangelo commented.

     Leo sighed and put the communicator back in his belt. “I don’t like this.”

     “Me neither. I thought Donatello was so up into seeing his dudette,” Michelangelo commented as he reached in to retrieve his pizza from the stove.

     Donatello walked back upstairs, seeing Raphael sitting on the couch by himself. “Hey, they said we could sleep down here tonight while Felicia sleeps with Jake,” Raph said as he leaned back against the couch. “Did you contact the others?”

     “Yeah, I told them we were coming home tomorrow around five,” Donatello replied as he glumly sat down in the chair beside the couch.

     “What?!,” Raph shouted almost, sitting up quickly.

     “Shh, keep it down,” Donatello snapped as he looked up the stairs, hoping that no one heard him.

     “Have you told them yet?,” Raph whispered.

     “Not yet but I’m going to tell Felicia tomorrow. I am ruining things for her here. I should have never came here,” he said sadly as he leaned back in the chair.

     That morning around eleven, Raph was sitting on the couch again flipping through the channels till he finally found a stand up comedy program. “Ha! Now that’s more like it!,” he exclaimed, grinning big as he leaned back some against the couch. “I could get use to this place.”

     Donatello couldn’t help but smile a little at Raphael watching the television set, it almost reminded him of home. He heard Jake and Chance working loudly in the garage as they were trying to put a set of new tires on a vehicle. “Man, I can’t wait till they leave so I can actually hear the television!,” Raphael commented, groaning a little as he turned up the volume on the TV.

     “Raph! This isn’t your place!,” Donatello snapped angrily then he looked at his brother with curiosity. “What do you mean they are going out?”

     “Oh, Jake mentioned that he and Chance had a call to go to. Some lady broke down and they told her that they would be there in about thirty minutes or something,” Raphael said, starting to channel surf again.

     Don got up and looked up at the stairs, knowing Felicia was upstairs probably getting dressed. “Well I better go upstairs and tell her that we are leaving this afternoon,” he said as he walked up the steps.

     “I wouldn’t do that if I was you,” Raph grinned.

     Felicia was upstairs in Jake’s room, staring at the mirror as she brushed her hair out. She had on a pair of jeans and a long sleeved pink top. She heard the door opened and turned quickly to see who it was, suspecting it was Jake. “Jake, I told you..” But then she saw it was Donatello and she just froze, standing there at the mirror about ten feet away from him.

     Donatello looked at her, breathing a little harder, his heart pounding rapidly; he closed the door. “I have come to say goodbye. Raphael and I are leaving today around five,” he said softly. Felicia’s eyes went wide when she heard him say that, she felt a strong urge of longing for him but she tried to push it away. Her heart started to pound hard in her chest also, she bit her lip a little. “I realized that I couldn’t be here with you. You have too much going for you, and you’re so lucky to be where you are. I can’t take it away from you.”

     Felicia nodded sadly and looked at him, tears were starting to fill her eyes. “And when should I expect to see you again?”

     Donatello sighed, this seemed to be harder than he realized. “I don’t think I’ll be coming back.”

     “Never?,” she replied quickly, breathing harder, bawling her hands into fists trying to make herself relax.

     Donatello shook his head. “Tell the SWAT Kats that I really enjoyed meeting with them and seeing your dimension.” He smiled a little and then turned to walk back out of the room.

     Felicia couldn’t stand it anymore! If she let him walk out of the door then that would be it and she couldn’t let him leave her! “Donatello!”

     He turned around and looked at her, she was breathing hard, tears were starting to come out of her eyes. “Yes, Licia?”

     “I still owe you that kiss from the World Trade Center,” she said, looking at him pleadingly.  He looked at her, with a look of confusion. For he knew for certain that he must have mistaken on what she said. “I’m telling you to kiss me,” she said again, starting to cry a little, she stepped forward.

     At that moment, he knew it wasn’t a mistake! How badly he wanted to kiss her, he walked up to her and wrapped his arms around her pulling him close to her and then they kissed. Let their emotions guide them as they kissed each other passionately, tears streamed from their eyes. Felicia wrapped her arms around his neck to keep him close as they embraced.

     Jake opened the door to tell Felicia that he was about to leave for that call but to his horror he saw her in the arms of Donatello and they were kissing! Both Donatello and Felicia heard the door open and they broke the kiss and looked at each other and then at the door seeing Jake staring at them with a look of distraught upon his face. Jake could almost feel his heart breaking at that entire moment, he gripped the door handle, breathing hard trying to grasp the situation. He then looked back up at them with fire in his eyes.

     “Uh-oh,” Donatello muttered as he stepped away from Felicia, he had no clue on what to do.

     “Jake..,” Felicia said softly as her voice broke up, tears formed in her eyes, she knew how deeply she hurt Jake and she didn’t know what to do either.

     “I can’t believe this…,” Jake said looking at Felicia with deep pain in his eyes, as he walked towards them slowly, he looked over at Donatello angrily. “Why did you do this to me?!!” Before Donatello could react, Jake punched him really hard in the face catching him off guard, making him fall down on the ground. Felicia let out a cry seeing Donatello fall down in pain.

     “Jake! Don’t!,” she yelled out, in fear for Donatello but yet didn’t know what to do. She loved Jake and she didn’t want to attack him.

     Donatello slowly started to get up, his head throbbing in pain from the punch. Jake stared down at him, his chest heaving from breathing hard, his hands bawled up into fists. “I should have seen it coming! You tried to take her away from me at first but you failed and then you came back to get her again! You mega-low mutant freak!”

     Felicia’s eyes went wide seeing the dangerous amount of anger in Jake Clawson. “Jake, please! Calm down!!,” she screamed.

     That was it! The number one thing that Donatello hated was when people struck down because he was a mutant. He got up quickly and looked at Jake with anger in his eyes as well. “Mutant freak am I?!”

     “Don, don’t!,” Felicia yelled, getting angry now for this whole entire commotion.

     “You think you are going to hurt me again? Try it, you wimp!,” Don growled through his clenched teeth, putting up his fists.

     “Fine!,” Jake replied as he extended his claws and jumped at Donatello. Donatello fell onto his back and grabbed Jake’s wrists to keep him from scratching, both of them squirming trying to break free to attack. Donatello rolled on top of Jake, holding him down still with his hands but Jake kicked him swiftly in the underside of his shell hard making him fly off of Jake into the wall. The wall cracked slightly from the hard impart of his shell. He slid down, sitting down some, rubbing his head which throbbed immensely now from the punch and the wall. Jake growled and ran towards him, kicking him again hard in the shell. Donatello grabbed Jake’s foot and slung him towards the right hard making him hit the floor hard beside him.

     “That’s it! No more Mister Nice Turtle!,” Donatello growled as he retrieved his bo staff from the backside of his belt, holding it tightly with his hands.

     “STOP IT!,” Felicia screamed at them, couldn’t stand for both of them to be in pain and she couldn’t do anything to stop it because if she stopped one then the other would think she liked him better.

     Raphael heard Felicia scream and then heard a loud thud coming upstairs. “What the heck is that?” He looked over at Chance who had the same worried look on his face.

     “Let’s check it out,” Chance replied, getting worried himself as he got up from the couch and ran quickly up the stairs to Jake’s bedroom.

     To Raph’s and Chance’s horror there in the bedroom was Jake lying on his back, coughing as Donatello was on top of him, pressing his bo staff against Jake’s neck hard almost strangling him. Felicia stood there in horror with tears streaming down her face. “Oh great,” Raphael mumbled, almost knowing for sure what was happening.

     “What the heck are you guys doing?!,” Chance yelled as he ran over pulling Donatello off of Jake. Raphael joined him and wrapped his arms tightly around Don’s waist to keep him from moving as Chance helped Jake up and held him a little. Fire sparked in their eyes as Don and Jake looked at each other, squirming from their restraints, wanting to attack again.

     “Jake! What’s gotten into you?!,” Chance yelled. “Calm down!”

     “He’s taking Felicia from me!,” Jake yelled back as he jerked away from Chance and then just stood there trying to make himself calm down. Chance looked at Raphael shocked then over to Felicia.

     “Felicia? What’s going on?,” Chance asked her, his voice getting softer now.  She looked at the others and then walked swiftly out of the room, storming quickly down the steps.

     All of them in the room heard Felicia revving her motorcycle outside till she sped away from the garage. Jake sighed hard and yelled, “KRUD!!!” Tears formed in his eyes as he started to break down right there, crying hard.

     Raph sighed and stood in front of Donatello with a look of anger and disappointment. “What’s gotten into you Donatello? I can’t believe you did this!”

     “Me? He started it!,” Don snapped back, looking over at Jake angrily, now afraid that even he now had lost Felicia since she ran off.

     “Well I don’t blame him,” Raph chuckled a little in spite of his brother. “You have been acting like a spoiled brat lately with all of this selfishness and you needed to get smacked!”

     “What?! Wait a minute, Raphael! I am not a spoil brat and you don’t know what I have been going through. So don’t even start with me,” Don growled back at his brother as he shoved him slightly to get him away.

     But this started the flame between Donatello and his brother for Raphael hated to be shoved. “Whoa, now hey now Mr. Brainac. Don’t take this out on me. You’re the one who is getting an attitude lately.” He shoved Donatello hard back some in retaliation.

     Donatello looked at Raphael becoming angry. “Don’t do it, Raphael…,” he warned, his voice becoming lower.

     “Or what?,” Raphael looked back. “You want to go at it, brother?” Bawling his hands up into fists.

     Jake sighed and looked at Chance hearing the two turtles now arguing. He knew that this wouldn’t definitely help the situation at all. “Hey guys! Just wait! Right now, our main concern should be to look for Licia. Okay? We’ll talk about all of this later,” he said as he stepped forward and Chance did too. Jake then turned around to look at his partner. “Look, I am going out to find Licia. Right now this isn’t the time for her to be out like this.” He turned and walked down the steps heading towards the hangar.

     Don’s eyes watched Jake walk down towards the hangar and then started to walk out of the bedroom door himself. “I need to go find Felicia too.”

     Raph quickly grabbed his arm. “Hey! This isn’t a place where you can walk around normally yourself, Donatello. We don’t need you to be captured again because maybe next time we won’t be able to save you.”

     “I’m the one who started this mess and I’m the one who has to fix it!” Don said determinedly as he jerked his arm away from Raph and continued to walk down the flight of stairs.

     Raph sunk down in the couch, covering his eyes with his hands as he heard Chance laugh hard from his favorite show Scaredy Kat. “This show cracks me up!” Chance proclaimed as he wiped the tears from his eyes from laughing so hard.

     His turtle companion just glanced up at the clock with a disgusted look on his face. It was around one that afternoon which meant that Razor and Don had been gone for nearly two hours that day with no contact! The marathon of Chance’s show was not helping since Raphael found the show to be meaningless and boring. “What’s keeping, Donatello? Why should I have all of the fun?” Raphael muttered under his breath.  To make matters worse, he had less than four hours to find his brother as well because all he needed was to return back to New York empty handed.  He stood up quickly, sighing hard as he knew that he would have go out and find Donatello again in this city!

     “Hey, where are you going?” Chance asked as he looked up from the television.

     “I need to go out and find Donnie because if I don’t then I am going to be up to my shell in trouble. But when I find him, he will be up to his shell in trouble,” Raph said as he started to walk out of the garage.

     “Raph, wait!” Chance said as he stood up quickly and walked over to him. Out of his pocket he took a small triangle shape communicator. “If something does happen you can use this to contact us.”

     Raphael nodded his head as he took the communicator from Chance. “Also contact me if he comes back here.” With that, he ran out of the garage towards the city.

     Another close call! Don sighed as he hid behind a wall that led into an alley. It was too hard for him to find Felicia; there were enforcers everywhere! Luckily no one was able to spot him yet but then again, he wasn’t able to spot Felicia yet. He had no clue on where everything in this city was. “Come on, Donatello. You have to think. Where exactly would Felicia go?” Don asked himself as he scratched his chin a little but then he caught a glimpse of something. He stepped a little over to the right and looked straight up and there in front of him stood the MegaKat Trade Towers! “I am about to be brilliant again.” He smiled as he looked around and quickly dashed over to the back of one of the trade centers. Pretending it was New York; he went up the same tower that he and Felicia went on earlier and the exact same floor. To his amazement, Felicia was exactly where he thought she would be. She was standing near the window, her back to him, with her hand pressed against the glass looking out into the city. “Felicia…you okay?”

     She turned around quickly with a surprised look upon her face. Her eyes were red from the huge amounts of tears that she shed. Donatello sighed, knowing that he hurt her tremendously and he had no clue on how to fix the situation. “Donatello, please leave me…”

     “Listen, I am sorry. I should have never came back here and it was foolish of me. I wish that there were some equation that I could figure out on how to reverse this mess but love is not some math problem and that’s why I am failing at it. Look, I just want you to forget about me, Felicia and live your life like you never met me. Okay?” he looked at her as he approached her slowly; the tears on her face made him want to shed some as well as he felt his eyes begin to fill with them.

     “It’s not that simple, Donatello!” Felicia yelled in frustration. “Everything in this city will remind me of you: Razor, the skyscrapers, even these towers.” Don closed his eyes when she mentioned the twin towers, images of what happened months ago flashed into his mind and he quickly pushed them away. “Anymore, my life here in this world has been so gloomy. I lost my parents and my best friend plus everyone is after me for something. I just want to go back with you, Donnie.”

     “No you don’t,” Don replied sternly as he looked straight into her eyes, grabbing her hand and holding it tightly. “Live down in the sewers like some caged animal not able to go out and live life the way you would like to. Scientists always after you because you are a freak to them. No, Felicia, you don’t want to go back to New York City with me. You belong here with Razor like I belong back there with my brothers. You have something going for you, probably get married and have kittens.” As Donatello said this, he was beginning to realize that what he was saying was the exact same thing that Splinter tried to tell him earlier.

     Felicia couldn’t help but blush and giggle when Donatello said that which she was actually thankful that he said that because it made her smile. “Yah, I guess you’re right.” She sighed and then looked back out at the city. “Did they ever find out what happened that day in New York?”

     Donatello sighed as he shook his head sadly. “Not really but they have a suspect in mind. Some terrorist group with their leader called Bin Laden I think. That was a horrible day. All of those people… they don’t know for sure how many died but they know it is in the thousands rank.”

     Felicia closed her eyes and thought about the dream she had earlier regarding on what happened on September 11, 2001 and how Donatello had perished. Pushing it out of her mind, she reached for Don’s hand and squeezed it tightly. “Maybe I should go back to the garage…Jake’s probably worried about me.”

     “Boy am I going to kill, Donatello!,” Raphael muttered as he walked down the alleys of MegaKat, peeking around corners for any signs of the SWAT Kats, Donatello or Felicia. “This is the last time we let him have a girlfriend.” He walked down the alley but came to a dead end. “Great…this keeps getting better and better.” He turned around to head back but in front of him stood a eight-foot tall green, slimy, fungus creature with tentacles. “Um hi.” The fungus creature started to approach him, growling, it lashed out his tentacles at Raph trying to capture him. “Down boy!,” Raph shouted as he stabbed one of the tentacles with his sai making the creature cry out in pain.

     Suddenly out of nowhere, Raph was struck on the shell hard making him fall to the ground. He looked up and behind him and saw a four-foot creature that appeared to be half cat and half snake, wearing a white lab coat. “How dare you hurt my preciousssss..,” the creature hissed through his teeth as he approached Raph with a menacing look on his face.

     Raph jumped up and faced him, holding his sais in a defensive position. “Okay, ugly. Who the heck are you?”

     “The name’ssss Dr. Viper and you are coming with me. You look like interesting test subject for my newest experiment,” he gleamed.

     “Ha! You must be joking,” Raph grinned as he twirled his sai a little sarcastically.

     The fungus creature wrapped his tentacle around Raph’s waist tightly, pulling him to him quickly making Raph drop his sais and his communicator that T-Bone got him on the ground from the force. “Well okay, I guess I’ll come with you,” Raph said glumly.

     Viper walked over to a manhole and lifted the cover off. “Take the prisoner with us,” he commanded his fungus creature as he jumped down into the sewer.

     About fifteen minutes later from leaving the MegaKat Trade Towers, Donatello and Felicia reached the garage. When Jake looked up and saw both of them walking in, his ears drooped and looked away. “I found her,” Donatello said softly, not knowing on what to do since Jake was probably really ticked off at him.

     Jake sighed out really loud and hard and then got up from the couch and walked up the stairs towards his bedroom. Felicia’s eyes went wide as she saw Jake’s reaction, she looked over at Donatello with a state of shock and then followed quickly after Jake. She knew that this was her time to talk to Jake about this entire mess. Donatello shook his head and approached Chance on the couch, nervously. He had no clue whether if Chance would attack him or not and Chance sensed this. “Don’t worry, I am not going to bite your head off,” Chance smiled at Donatello which gave him some relief.

     The garage was too quiet and to Donatello that meant that Raphael wasn’t there. “Where’s Raph?”

     “He went out looking for you about ten minutes after you left,” Chance said as he flipped through some channels on the television.

     Felicia gently tapped on Jake’s bedroom door, her heart pounding. “Come in,” came Jake’s reply. She slowly opened the door and walked in. Jake was standing at the far end of his room, looking out the window with his back to her.

     Felicia walked in a little closer to him only about five feet away. “Jake…”

     “I’m going to ask you not to lie to me,” Jake replied, his voice so sharp and so soft, it sounded so much not like him that it scared her. His arms were at his sides with his hands bawled up into fists and slowly contracted his fists. “When you were gone to his world for those two weeks were you with him?”

     “No, Jake,” Felicia said sadly, wanting to go up to him but for some reason it felt like there was a barrier between him and her. The barrier was called trust and she knew that he felt like he couldn’t trust her at the moment.

     “Do you love him?,” Jake said as he turned around slowly and looked at her, there was so much pain in his eyes that she couldn’t bare to look into them.

     “I-I don’t know..,” she replied softly, her voice breaking up as she started to cry again. Jake sighed as he rubbed his head with his hand and walked over towards the wall. “I gave Donatello one kiss where I have kissed you lots of times, Jake. You know how much I care for you.” She looked at him, frustrated with the whole event.

     Jake’s anger couldn’t help but to let him chuckle a little in disbelief as he walked up to her. “Oh really? Then look on me as you looked on him!” He looked at her sternly with such sharp anger. Felicia’s eyes went wide and her mouth gaped open for she knew deep down that she couldn’t do it. He sighed and walked over to his bed and sighed. Cupping his face with his paws as he sat there.

“Jake, you know I want you. I don’t know why this happened but I want to be with you. He’s leaving soon anyways.” She walked up to where her love sat sadly.

     Jake sighed as he took his paws off of his face and looked down at the ground, closing his eyes. “You just want me back because he’s leaving you.”

     Felicia shook her head and sat down beside him. “No, I wanted him to leave also because I want to be with you, Jake. Please, I love you…forgive me,” she persisted as she wrapped her hands around his arm. “Please, Jake…”

     Jake sighed softly and couldn’t help but let tears roll down his cheeks. “Licia, no matter what. You know I’ll forgive you because I love you too..” he said as he leaned over and softly caressed her face with his paw. She gently took that hand and kissed it softly as she looked deep into his eyes with tears too.

     Donatello sighed, he was even more worried now at the moment that Raphael still hadn’t returned only if it had only been ten minutes since he had gotten back himself.  “Something’s wrong,” he said softly to himself as he looked over at the wall and his face almost turned white! He had less than a hour before the portal was going to open and he was missing his brother! “Chance, we have to find him or my brothers are going to kill me if I return home with one brother missing.”

     Chance nodded, even he knew something wasn’t right. “Right. Go down to the hangar and wait for us. I’ll go upstairs and get Jake and Felicia.”

     About five minutes later the TurboKat was off in the air with the SWAT Kats. Ricochet and Donatello were riding in the cargo bay.

     “Razor, I gave Raphael one of our communicators, maybe you can trace his location with that,” T-Bone said as he looked around to make sure that there weren’t any enforcer chopper units in the sky.

     “Excellent idea, T-Bone. Tracing on his location right now,” Razor said as he pressed a button on the console. A small blip appeared on his radar screen. “Bingo! I found him! T-Bone, break thirty degrees south.”

     T-Bone put the TurboKat in Vertical Landing Mode as he placed the TurboKat on the roof of one of the buildings to near the alley where Razor traced the communicator.  He then helped Donatello and Ricochet get out of the cargo bay. “Okay I traced it down there in that alley,” Razor said as he pushed a few buttons on his glov-a-trix and then walked down the stairwell on the side of the building with the rest of the group following him. 

     In the alley Donatello didn’t like what he saw, in front of him on the ground were Raphael’s sais and some green glob located near them. He looked confused on what he was seeing. Razor bent down and picked up the communicator and also saw the green glob but he had seen it before and knew exactly where it came from. He looked over at T-Bone with a worried look on his face. Even T-Bone knew what had happened.

     Ricochet saw the looks on the SWAT Kats’ faces. “Razor, what is it?”

     “I think Viper got him,” Razor said as he touched the green slime gently and then wiped it away. “And judging by the location of it, he went through the sewers to get away. Probably going back to his hideout at MegaKat Swamp.”

     “Oh great,” Donatello muttered. “We probably have less than thirty minutes to get him back.”

     “Don’t worry. Let’s go pay Dr. Viper a visit,” T-Bone smiled as he put on his glov-a-trix. He walked over to the manhole and picked up the cover and tossed it aside.

     Their ears perked when they heard the wailing sound of enforcer sirens approaching the alley. “This is Commander Feral! Stay where you are SWAT Kats! We have you surrounded,” came a voice at the end of the alley through a megaphone.

     “Uh-Oh,” Donatello gasped as his eyes went wide.

     “Quick! Everyone in the sewer!” Razor shouted as he jumped down with Ricochet following then Donatello.

     Feral quickly ran over to the manhole but saw no trace of the SWAT Kats or the turtle. “Great! We lost them.”

     “That’s too bad,” Steele replied. “And I just washed my shoes.”

 

     Donatello didn’t like what he saw when they came out of the pipe tunnel that lead into the MegaKat Swamp. It looked like a whole different world to him. The atmosphere was so hot and muggy, and it seemed to be darker there. There were a lot of frogs and bugs hollering and some other creatures that Don didn’t even want to know what they were. In the middle of the swamp was a huge tree! The biggest that he had ever seen! It was clearly big as a building and he had the assumption that this was where Dr. Viper stayed. The SWAT Kats led him and Ricochet towards Viper’s hideout. “Yuck! I hope that I don’t get any bug bites,” Donatello complained as he trotted through the swampy water, feeling things slithering around his feet. “So um, whoa..um what do we do once we get inside?”

     “Well I am thinking right now. Actually T-Bone and I have never done this before,” Razor replied as he turned and smiled at Donatello which made him feel uneasy. 

     “That lizard mega low probably has the place surrounded with his plant mutants, ”T-Bone commented as he peered inside.

     “Yah I already had a run in with them one time, T-Bone. Trust me. It’s not pleasant,” Razor said as he looked inside the window that T-Bone was looking into. Remembering about the time when he had to save Callie from MegaKat Tower when Dr. Viper tried to take it over with an enormous spore pod. Ricochet and Donatello looked at each other glumly.

     “Well any ideas, sureshot?” asked T-Bone as he looked over at his partner with a frown on his face as well. They really couldn’t see what all was inside since the windows were very dirty and clouded with grime. 

     “We are probably going to have to do this attack in waves if we are to rescue Raphael,” Razor stated as he took his attention away from the window to face the group.  “T-Bone, you and I will go in first. Then Ricochet, you and Donatello follow a few minutes after so that way we can get the drop on Viper. He won’t expect Rico and another turtle so this should work,” Razor said looking over at Donatello still with a look of distrust. Thinking to himself that all he needed was Donatello to come on to Rico again when he is gone and mess this up.

     Donatello noticed the look on Razor’s face and got kind of offended. “Hey don’t worry about Ricochet. I am not going to do anything!”

     Raph squirmed against his restraints in Dr. Viper’s lab. He was lying down on a table with his hands and legs buckled down to the table by metal clasps. But he didn’t like the look of the place at all. Fungi and vines grew all over and it was so dark that he felt like he was in some horror movie. The sound of chemicals bubbling didn’t make him feel any better one bit. “Hey lizard breath! What are you doing over there?,” Raph shouted as he looked up a little seeing Dr. Viper at a counter with his back to him.

     “Patience my good reptile friend. I am simply mixing the right katalystssss together to make you my new helper,” Viper grinned evilly at Raph as he settled the bottle down on the counter.

     “Forget it, Snake puss! I’ll never join you!,” Raph retaliated. 

     “I don’t think you will have much of a choice. These chemicals will make you stronger, bigger and viciousss. Plus you will be loyal to me,” Viper laughed holding the vile of mutagen in his hands.

     “I have to remind myself to give Donatello a stern talking to if I survive this,” Raph said with a scared look on his face.

     The SWAT Kats were on the floor above the lab looking down from the banister. “You got a clear shot, buddy?” T-Bone said softly, looking over at Razor who was aiming his glov-a-trix at Viper.

     “Roger! The target is locked…deploy!” he shouted as he shot a missile. The tiny missile hit the vile of mutagen out of Viper’s hands and onto the floor.

     “What?! Nooooo!!!,” Viper screamed in horror, he looked up at where the shot came from and saw the SWAT Kats standing there grinning at him. “You will pay for this!! Seize them my plant-animals!”

     Four yellow looking blobs started to fly up towards where the SWAT Kats stood. They were about two feet in length and one foot wide. They had no eyes but only huge mouths with sharp teeth and were able to shoot acid. They growled viciously as they flew. “We got company, T-Bone,” Razor said, his eyes went wide. Both of them knew that if the acid got on them, it could cause some serious damage.

     “Great, those dumb flying cabbages from last time! ”T-Bone grumbled. “Activate our shields.”  They pushed a button on their glov-a-trixes and out popped metal circular shield connected to their arm devices.

     “Incoming!,” Razor shouted, as his eyes went wide. He ducked and held the shield over his head. T-Bone followed suit just in time as the acid hit their shields, but it was melting it some!

     “I don’t like where this is going!, ”T-Bone shouted over at his partner.

     Viper laughed as he watched the SWAT Kats on their backs with their shields over their faces trying to protect them from the acid. The flying plant-animals hovered over the SWAT Kats like bees trying to shoot them at any direction. “No use on squirming, SWAT Kats. Sooner or later you won’t have those shields to protect you.”

     “But worry about yourself, Dr. Viper!,” Ricochet screamed as she kicked him hard from the back making him fall down.

     Donatello ran over to where Raphael was to unbuckle his metal restraints. “Bout time you got here,” Raphael smiled as he got up from the table.

     “No time to thank me,” Don said as he took out his bo. “Now let’s help them.”

     “Right,” Raph said as he took his sais out from his belt.

     “TURTLE POWER!!,” both of them screamed as they used their grappling hooks to get to the higher level where T-Bone and Razor were. Once they got there, one of the creatures turned its sights on Raphael, it growled out as it flew at Raphael head on.

     “Get out of my face!,” Raph shouted and kicked the creature hard making it hit the wall and slide down unconscious.

     “Four!,” Don shouted as he hit two of the creatures with his bo into the wall hard.

     “Bingo! Two for one!,” Razor smiled as he got up and quickly hit the last creature with his shield hard into the wall.

     “Now do you trust me?” Donatello asked and looked over at Razor.  Razor nodded his head put out his hand, which Donatello shook.

     Suddenly Ricochet cried for help, all of them rushed to the banister and saw Viper on top of Ricochet, strangling her neck. “You miserable she-kat! They killed my babiessss!!,” he screamed in rage.

     “Rico!!!,” Razor shouted.

     “I’ll get her!,” Donatello said as he took out his grappling hook and threw it down towards a table leg to make it hook upon.

     Suddenly there was a blue flash and a portal appeared. Viper looked over at the portal in fright, not knowing what it was but still keeping his hands on her neck. Ricochet’s eyes went wide, knowing that this was it; Donatello had to go.

     “Our ride’s here, Donnie!,” Raph shouted and pointed to the portal.

     Donatello’s eyes went wide too when he saw the portal as well. It couldn’t be! To him it was too soon! He didn’t have the chance to tell Felicia bye and also tell her how much he really loved her. He looked at the portal and then back at Ricochet. “But..”

     “We have to go now!,” Raph said as he tugged on Don’s arm.

     “Don’t worry. I’ll save her! You have to go home okay?,” Razor said looking at him. At first Donatello was a little too skeptical. What if Razor just wanted him to leave so he could have Felicia to himself? “Do you trust me?” Razor put out his hand.

     Donatello smiled seeing that Razor liked him as friend. “Yeah.” He shook his hand. He followed Raph down to the bottom level where the portal was.

     “Let’s get Viper!,” Razor said with a grin as he adjusted his glov-a-trix some.

     “Roger! Rock ‘n’ roll!,” T-Bone shouted as he and his partner jumped down to the bottom level to get Viper.

     The cool air of the night blew against his body, as Donatello stood at Ground Zero of the World Trade Center with his trench coat and hat on. Even though he didn’t really lose anybody that day, he felt like he lost Felicia forever like he lost the Towers forever. Tears slowly slid down his face moistening his skin. He had told his brothers that night that he wanted to be alone and they respected him for it. He shoved his hands in his pockets and shivered a little from the December weather. “I guess this is goodbye, Felicia…I wish I got the chance to tell you how much I really felt about you. But I know this must be best for both of us. I hope you have a happy life,” he said softly to himself, his voice breaking up some. “I-I just wish I had some sign to let me know that everything was going to be okay..” He closed his eyes softly and stood there. He re-opened them when he heard talking in head of him. There were some firefighters placing the American flag on the antenna of the North Tower of the World Trade Center that had collapsed. Donatello couldn’t help but smile a little. He knew just like his country that everything would be okay.

 

 

END OF PARTS ONE AND TWO…