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The two girls meet in the cafeteria for coffee and begin tutoring. Angel gets the feeling April isn’t all that interested in helping her. April apologizes for being distracted and tells her that she is interested. It’s just it feels like her life is suddenly upside down. Angel sympathizes and says she felt that way when her mom was killed a few years back. She explains her mother was a lawyer who was on the case that could take down the Purple Dragons, literally put them all in jail. Hun, the leader of the Purple Dragons didn’t like that and arranged to have her mother gunned down. The police called the death an accidental casualty in a turf war. But Angel knew the truth, her mother was killed because she chose to speak up about them. Most people tell her to let it go, but she has one friend who understands. Angel then waves at someone and yells out “Casey”. April turns and sees the guy who found her unconscious.Angel is surprised Casey and April have met. April says they didn’t really meet, it was more like a brief encounter. The three of them talk but April evades the questions about why she was left bandanged and unconscious. She makes her way to where she had been left and looks around to see if there was any clues as to who left her. She finds a small scrap of cloth, and several inhuman footprints leading to a utility hatch. She enters it and finds herself in the sewers, the figure of Raphael appears before her. April finds herself backing into Leonardo. Michelangelo placatingly tells her they only look scary. Raph then slings her over his shoulder and carries her with them back to the lair. He tosses her onto the couch and then demands she tell them what they want to know.
Splinter appears and chides Raphael for his behavior towards their guest. Raph is instructed to go get Donatello while Leo should go make some tea. Mikey stays because he has a more comforting presence then his two brothers and father. Splinter stays off to the side but still observes. He occasionally coughs.
Donnie arrives with Raph, though there is sour glance from him in the direction of Splinter. The Turtles explain that they had saved her from the MOUSERS. April explains that she was on the team developing them, originally they were meant to be used as a means to lessen the rodent population in the city. When she had heard Stockman telling someone about some changes to the MOUSERS, she went to see what those changes were. Since she hadn’t been informed of any recent changes. She still had trouble believing that Stockman would honestly change them this way.
Donnie explains to his brothers that the MOUSERS have been made into a weapon. In certain hands they could be used to find information that could be used to find information and devices to thwart the start of conflicts or wars, or eliminate criminal threats with very little detection. But in other hands they could be used to steal valuables, carry explosives into buildings or places where public gather, or even worse, attack and kill scores of people.
April lamely tried to defend Stockman and says he didn’t know or he was coursed into doing this. The perimeter alarm blairs before it suddenly goes silent. Mikey gathers that was no supposed to happen. There is the sound of the MOUSERS chewing through the walls along with several yowls as the bots are electrocuted by one of Donnie’s security systems.
Splinter his sons they need to evacuate the lair immediately. As the Turtle rush to the van with April, Splinter suddenly grabs his chest and collapses. Leo runs back to get their master and tells his brothers they need to get Splinter to someplace where he can recover. April volunteers her apartment for the time being. When they arrive, Splinter is placed in April’s bed room so he can be comfortable. Leo is distressed with all that’s happened but is trying to keep a brave front for his brothers. Donnie speaks up and tells his brothers that Splinter’s illness isn’t a cold, he is dying. Leo angrily demands to know how long Donnie knew about this and why he hadn’t told them about this before. Donnie explains that he had known for over a month now and that Splinter forbade him from saying anything about this. Leo doesn’t believe Donnie’s explication and says that it wouldn’t make sense for Splinter hide something this big from them. Donnie again tries to reason with his brother saying that he wanted to tell them more then once. And it hurt him to keep this secret from them. Leo is too upset to listen and Raph also is voilital about the whole thing. Donnie leaves the Apartment to go calm down while Leo goes to stay with Splinter.
Splinter tells his eldest son that what Donatello had said was true, he had told him not to say anything about this. The reason for it is because once he is gone, the four of them will be all they have left. If they all knew he was dying they would focus on his passing. By not knowing they would focus on their family and keep each other strong. Leo especially needed to hold this in his heart since he will become the heart of their family.
As Splinter is talking Raph is pacing about like a caged animal looking like he wants to punch anything that moves. Mikey is sitting on the couch looking lost feeling as though his family is falling apart at the seams. Donnie in the meantime is running along the rooftops. He is spotted by Karai, she talks into a walkie talkie and then sends several foot soldiers after him.
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