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April walked into the lair and ensured no one had followed her. When she got word from Donnie about the news, he told her to keep an eye out for the police department in case they spotted her and followed her to their location. Once she was sure she was safe, she pressed on to the lair and entered with a bag in her hand. She walked inside one of the bathrooms and saw Donnie kneeling by the bathtub, filling it with hot soapy water. "Hey, Donnie, I got the gears you asked for." She set the bag down, spilling out a shampoo bottle, a conditioner bottle, lavender-scented soap, a yellow sponge, and four towels. Donnie looked up, facing April. "Oh good, thank you." He turned the water faucet off and stood up. " So, mind me asking why you asked me to get some bathing stuff?" She asked him with arms crossed. "I know it can't be for you." Donnie shocked his head. "It's for Arianina." He answered. He hoped he got her name right after seeing it on the news. "You should have seen the state she

One week later Back at TCRI, things haven't been so easy since Arianina and the others got mutated. They lost all the mutagen they had worked hard on for a year. And now they have to start over again from scratch and make it up for lost time, starting with cleaning the mutagen room from the spliced ooze and fixing the tube. Inside the room, Eric, in his new mutant form, watched the repaired team putting the tube back together. They wear a protective bodysuit, gloves, boots, and goggles. The team carefully sealed the tube in tight and secured it till one of them almost fell and tripped from the clean floors that the cleaning team finished. "Be careful! I want it to be locked airtight!" Eric shouted at the workers, letting out a growl at the end. He looks down at his hands, almost human-like alligator. Ever since he got mutated, his mutant side was fighting him and trying to take over him like a caged animal wanting to be free and take control of its capturer. He should've known that

The portal opens inside the lair. Raph came in first as he rushed up the stairs, turned left, and entered an open tunnel that is used as a medbay. Mikey came in next after April, and Leo and Donnie came in last. All four rushed behind Raph up to the medbay. Leo set Ginny softly on a bed, ensuring her head doesn't hit hard. Raph put Prim next to Ginny, Julian, and Judi, while Donnie set Arianina on a bed that is close to the entrance. He watched Bello slide down, land on the soft mattress, and snuggle close to his owner's face. After ensuring the teens were okay enough to rest, the five left and retreated to their hangout area. But sadly, April has to leave, or else the teachers will notice her gone. So she took her bag and left the lair. After that, panic filled the lair. "Ohmigosh! Ohmigosh!! What are we going to do!?" Mikey shouted with his eyes widened in shock. Raph paced. "This is bad! This is bad! This is beyond bad!!" He panicked. "Dad is going to find out! We are going to be

The next day, morning Outside the TCRI lab, a high school bus arrived and parked by the entrance. When the bus door opened, a teacher came out, and the students got off the bus one by one. Each student is paired up with a partner; among them is Arianina, who is paired up with an African American teenage girl. Her hair is wavy and short, with half her hair shaved off on the left side; she has brown eyes and wearing a red crop top with a black leather jacket, shorts ripped on the edge, fishnet leggings, and black studded boots. She even has fingerless leather gloves. She glared at Arianina, who ignored her and had her hood up. And the last to come off the bus is April, holding a camera in her hand. As soon she was sure no one was looking, she turned around and gave out a whistle. The turtles came out of the ally, dressed in their disguise, and caught up with April as she followed the class. Leo looks up and down, scanning the building. "Well, this doesn't look so bad." He stated. "

Meanwhile, on the other side of New York City. Just on the outskirts. It is a small area that doesn't look very healthy; the road is cracked badly, the buildings look worn down, and the sidewalk has cracks that the grass is growing under and have not been watered all day. If you take one look and think this part is badly ruined by the Krang, not true. It has been like this for sixteen years since no one bothers to take good care of this community. The people here are bitter and living sideways, with no money or job to get themself a good home, so they are stuck here for good. On the sidewalk, a figure dressed in dirty black pants, Converse shoes, and a dirty purple hoodie, hands inside the pockets, and the hood is up and covering their face, but the long brown hair is sticking out while they are walking forward, passing the homeless. They are facing down, not even bothering to look up, while they bumped into citizens who all yelled at them for bumping into them and not apologizing