Turtle II Secret of the Ooze

Chapter 3

Turtle was in the living room, blaring the radio to the point of near explosion. She was executing some most excellent dance moves to some Vanilla Ice song. He was one of her favorite artists, she would give anything to meet him in person and show him some of her skills.

Suddenly, the music stopped.

"Hey!" She glared at her brothers, Leo especially for turning it off.

"Sorry kiddo, time to watch April on the news."

"Aw alright.."

They sat down on the couch. Turtle ran and jumped onto Donny.

"AH- Hey!" He wrapped an arm around her and knocked on her head once.

"OW!" She face-palmed him back, giggling.

"Guy's it's about to start!"

Turtle and her bros watched the TV in silence.

"Hi, April O'Neal here at the site of T.G.R.I's cleanup effort.."

"What's T.G.R.I?" Turtle said suddenly.

"It's a group of scientists trying to better the world." Donny said.

"How?.."

"Well, like cleaning up our land and water."

"Why does it take a scientist to do that.. Why can't all the citizens do that?"

Her brothers looked at her silently, thinking about her comment.

"Hey, lets change the channel!" Raph said. "Isn't Oprah on?"

"Leave it Raph!" Leo snapped. "We're watching April."

"Aw c'mon...hey! Maybe they have something on our fight last night!"

"Raphael!" Splinter snapped, suddenly appearing in the living room. "Do not change channel.."

Everyone was silent during the news after that. Once it was over, Splinter left to meditate on the roof.

"Hey dudes, I have an Idea."

Everyone looked at Mikey questioningly.

"Lets clean the house before April comes home!"

"...YEA!" Everyone shouted, then began getting to work.

Many hours later, the house is almost sparkling clean, until April came home early.

"AWWW APRIL!"

"You ruined the surprise.."

"I'm sorry guys..where's Splinter?"

"He's been on the roof since he saw your report." Donny said.

"..Doing what?"

"Coming to a decision." Everyone turned around to see Splinter standing in the window.

"You have been meditating many hours master Splinter." Leo said.

"Yes...and it is time. Join me above."

Everyone looked at earchother with questioning faces and headed up to the roof. They all sat around Splinter.

"These past hours." He started. "Have been spent, pondering many questions. Some, are the very questions of our origin... The sewer... our transformation. But the answers have always remained hidden in the past... veiled by a shadow too deep to penetrate...until now."

Everyone listened intently.

"A light from the present, reaches back to illuminate that shadow.."