A voice sounded through the headset. ?Hello? Come in; come in, what?s going on? What was that?? ?Um, I think we made it out of the maze, alive,? I said. ?What?? Raph bent towards the piece and said, ?Don?s laser almost got us.? Us. For some reason it sent jitters through me. Then he said, ?Remind me when we find him? ?Um, ok.? He led the way past a narrow corridor that led to a wide room with another door on the side. ?I?m getting sick of doors; it feels like this lab goes on forever! What next? This door leads to another one and another one?? I sighed and opened the metal door. Behind it was a wooden door. Raph opened it, and further back was a striped yellow and purple door. And behind that, a blue polka dotted door. ?Are you kidding me?!? ?Well,? said Raph, that?s what you get for saying that.? I opened a double door painted a sort of chartreuse color and finally came to the end. Free at la- konk. ?Oh come on!!!? That was stupid; I just walked into a glass door, in front of Raph! I could tell he was trying very hard, without any façade, not to laugh. I glared and said, ?I?m just going to open the lock.? I tried but it wouldn?t budge. ?Whoa, let me handle this,? he said. He took out his Sai, spun them twice and slammed them through the glass as I covered my head. ?I guess that works too. Did the glass cut you?? ?Strangely, no it?s actually sort of? bendy.? He kept spinning his Sai in different directions. ?Okay, now you?re just showing off.? I picked up a glass shard from the ground and twisted it. ?Whoa, it?s like rubber. Weird.? We continued onwards carefully stepping over the shards of glass because even though they were flexible, they were sharp. I secretly kept one hand sticking out a little ?cause I wasn?t going to fall for the glass door again. After many, many doors (all with their own color and pattern) we reached a large metal door similar to the one we came in from. Raph gesture with his hand. Okay. Please don?t be more doors. Please don?t be more doors. I opened it. Finally! It was the last door and led to a wide and furnished room with tan, wall paper polka dotted with faded flowers and large, brown, beautiful tables and chairs with candles on them, where Donnie?s unmistakable voice echoed in incomprehensible murmur

Diary
Pre-disaster

So it was decided. ?But first we have to figure out the way through the labyrinth,? I said. ?What do you mean? My tunnel led to a dead end,? said Mikey. ?That you were napping in,? added Raph. ?Hey, at least I don?t sound like a motor boat with a squirrel stuck in the rotor. Trust me; we?ve shared a room before.?Then Raph grabbed Mikey?s hand and flipped him and (almost) yelled, ?Mikey, so help me I will bang your head to the ground so hard that earthworms in China will see your hideous-??Then I?m surprised you?re still alive,? I said, ?Let?s get moving.?
Apparently Leo and Raph had checked the tunnel in the middle which also happened to lead to a dead end too so we headed to the labyrinth. ?One thing I noticed,? started Leo, ?is that the moment you enter the darkness, you don?t have to go any further but look on the wall to your left- with a flash light-? I shook my head. ?and there is a map of the maze.? My first reaction: What the HECK! WHAT THE HECK! Are you kidding me?! It was right there the whole time?!?!It- It was- doh stupid! Just Stupid! ?Rita, you and Mikey head down with the map, Raph and I will head back to make sure sensei doesn?t get suspicious-??Do I really have to take Mikey? He?ll just make a mess of things! I mean, we?re the ones actually infiltrating? what we haven?t already.? ?True,? said Leo, ?and I think I?d have a better chance with sensei which means I need to stay back-??So that means I take Raph then?? I said all too quickly. ?Uh, sure. Just take this.? Leo handed me a headset complete with a mouthpiece. ?Whoa,? Mikey said in awe, ?where?d you get that?? ?Well, Don does leave his geek-a-trons lying around,? Raphael said.?I think we?d better get going now.? I wore the headset and, using the map, wove through the maze while Raph held the flashlight over my shoulder. After many twists and turns, we got to the end marked with a red circle on the map. I said, ?All right, we should be here.? Raph shined the light on a small metal panel that almost blended in with the gray concrete wall.?What do you think this is for?? He crouched down and so did I. ?I?m really not sure.? I said. The panel had a copper colored key in it and Raph turned it. It immediately swung open to reveal something that looked like a scanner, and a computerized voice said, ?Face recognition required.? What? ?Face recognition required,? it repeated. ?Required in: 10, 9, 8, 7?? ?What are we going to do, Raph?? ?What? Why are you asking me? I thought you were the mastermind behind this!? ?6, 5, 4?? ?Well we need to do something or we?re going to be annihilated!? I pointed to a heat sensing laser getting ready to shoot. ?3, 2?? Raph punched the scanner at the last second and immediately, it said, ?Quickscan complete. Access granted. Welcome Donatello.? ?Nice, I guess I?ve punched Donnie so many times that I guess his face is imprinted on my fist.? I rolled my eyes, smiling. Then, with a motion like lightning, the wall and a little half-circle on the floor spun around 180 degrees and put us on the other side.

---> Dis <---

?Focus girl, c?mon, you can do it. Focus.? I tried. I really tried. But I just couldn?t. Just the thought of being lost in a labyrinth of endless passageways was overwhelming. Not only that, but the stupidity of my predicament; lost like a child in a mall. ?try, just try.? ?no.? ?I can?t!? I finally screamed. I tried to contain myself but it was nearly impossible. I iced the wall but that backfired and pain shot up my leg. ?What is wrong with you? You?ve been in much more dangerous situations and you can?t even find your way out of Don?s lab?? ?It a crazy maze!? ?I knew it all along! You just can?t-? ?Stop it!? Then, I heard a really sweet voice. ?Just calm down. That?s it.? I finally stopped. It seemed familiar and soothing, like? well, I just can?t put my finger on it. Then, I saw a flash next to me and a blinding light hit my eyes. ?Fancy meeting you here.? It was Leo and he was holding a flashlight.

?What are you doing here?? ?I could ask you the same question.? ?Fine.? I told him everything; Mikey?s Plan how we got here, and what we were going to do. I crossed my arms. ?Now, how did you find me?? ?You were actually pretty east to find because the grape soda was leaking. ?What grape soda?? ?The one you secretly plucked off the table when Mikey was hypnotized by his video game.? ?But how did you- Wait, were you spying on me?? ?Oh please, I just happened to look over there when you took it.? Though he didn?t say we both knew very well why he would. I couldn?t have this happen; everything was on the line, everything! It could all go down the toilet if he kept snooping around! For a few seconds we stood glaring until I spoke through gritted teeth to change the topic. ?Anyways, is Raph with you?? I asked. ?Yeah, he?s looking in the other tunnel for Mikey.?Great. Glad I asked. ?Ugh fine, let?s just go.? Arms still crossed, I followed Leo on the trail made by my leaking soda which I left in the maze. I felt it was a sort of gloating over my epic fail. I would?ve gotten myself out somehow. I didn?t need the great and powerful Leo to save me.
Outside the labyrinth Raph had Mikey in headlock. ?Let him go Raph,? I said. He asked ?You?re partner in crime. So how?d your little ?robbery? go?? I scowled at the ground. He smirked. ?Let?s cut to the chase,? Leo chimed in. ? I don?t know what you guys are planning but we want in.?

In the lair
?Listen Mikey, I?m telling you, this isn?t just some dumb old bird flight, I?m really sure it?s more.? ?Uh huh.? ?It must be.? Yuh huh.? It has to be something more I just know it!? ?Don?t we all?? ?Donnie?s hiding something for sure. I mean, didn?t you see the way he stammered over his sentences and twitched?? ?Uh huh.? ?Mike- ugh. Did you hear even one word I said before?!? ?Yuh huh.? She knocked the game controller out of her his hand. ?Hey! How?s a turtle supposed to play twisted wizard with your constant yapping all the time?! Now give that back!? He reached for it. ?Pweeze?? He put on a puppy dog face. ?Gosh, how do your brothers deal with this?? she drooped the controller in his hand like a banana peel in the trash.?There, you have the mind of a five year old you know. Wait; scratch that, a one year old.? ?Well, If you want to find out so badly why didn?t you just talk to me about it?? ??..? ?Come on, let Dr. Prankenstein give you a little advice?.?

?.? Hhhh, Mikey, you are evil!? ?Why thank you, normally, I?d do this myself but I decided ?why not let my unpaid intern do the work for me??? ?What did you just call me??

This was going to be horribly epic XD

So, Mikey and I snuck into Donnie?s lab at like seven pm to see if we could get anymore information on his whereabouts. He?d forgotten to lock the door which gave us the actual idea-and a major opportunity. I peered inside. Coast clear. I beckoned to Mikey. ?Oh, yeah, old school mad scientist lab infiltration is a go!? he yelled. ?Shhhhh! Shush up!? ?sorry.? Then he whispered under his breath, ?operation lab rats is go.? ?I heard you!? he obviously stuck out his tongue. ?Do you realize the amount of trouble we could get into if someone caught us?? We went in. There was no one there. Suddenly Mikey whispered, ?A door!? Behind some tables filled with bottles of deroxyri? stuff was indeed a large metal door, the type that was used in banks to hold large amounts of valuable items. Strangely, it was left just a crack open. Inside, there were three tunnels. Mikey took the one on the left and I took the one on the right. They were so dark, it was pointless trying to see where I was going. Feeling my way through, I twisted and turned in several directions before realizing that I was lost. I?d been going in circles.?Okay don?t paic, just-just try to retrace your steps,? I told myself. That idea got me nowhere, literally. I thought I was doing alright when I rammed my face into a wall. Dead end. I turned around waving my arms in front of me in case I was going to hit another blockage. I turned left, then right, then left agan, then right, then left, then right, then right two more times and ten turned left and hit another dead end. The blinding darkness had led me nowhere. I was in super panic mode. I held back tears and sat down against the wall, trying to think. ?Okay what would Splinter do?? ?He wouldn?t have gotten into this mess in the first place?, a voice in my head said. ?Perhaps some meditating would help.

Rita?s diary

So Mikey?s all excited and whatnot for this event he calls ?stunt night? and when we got out there, I could actually see why he was so excited: Stunt Night was AWESOME!!!!!
It was so fun! Flips, Jumps, and absolutely crazy ideas and dares! Spinning and running and toppling and jumping till you can?t see straight; It was absolutely amazing! I?d never felt so alive! This, this was just sheer fun.
? At one point we were having flipping contest off the building. Donnie went first; he did a front flip
with a slide to the side. Then went Mikey; he ran halfway up the water tank and then flipped off landing with a roll on the opposite building. Donnie applauded. ?Ha ha! Beat that turtle chumps!!!? ?Well, you asked for it!? I was up next. I grabbed a quick breath, turned around, and did a backflip off the building (with my left arm of course. *I blame the wolf*) and landed with a corkscrew n the other side.?Oh yeah!? I got a fist pump from Mikey. ?Looks like I?m at the top Leo!? ?Not for long! You?re about to get your shell kicked!? ?I?ll believe it when I see it!? He took a couple steps back, did three frontflips on the building, did a tucked flip across, landed on his right hand, and did 2 more cartwheels! ?Woah, Impressive!? ?Nice one!? ?That was so cool!? ?Awesome!? Mikey said, ?Girl, you just got leo-fied!? I punched him in the arm. ?Ha Ha! Your turn, Raph!? I felt.. funny as he cracked his knuckles, neck, smirked, and took off. Oh crud. ?AHHHHHH!!!? a split second later, we were all piled up on each other dazed and dizzy. Of course. How could I not see that coming? j-:l ?What was that?! You didn?t even do any flips!? Donnie raised his eyes awaiting an answer. ?Heh, Oops.? ?Teeet etete ete teet teeetteet teeeeeee!? Some jazzy weird ringtone came from someone?s t- phone. Donnie blushed, ?Oh! That?s April!!!? Raph and Mikey started making kissy faces! It was hilarious! I put my hands on his shoulder and batted my eyelashes. ?Oh my, Donnie, you?re such a big, strong handsome, turtle! Will you marry me?? I pretended to faint and fall in his arms. Hey, I wasn?t going to miss out on all the fun. ?knock it off, you guys?. Hello, um.. ok?...k? got it!...by the way would you umm???.great! today! coming. Bye.? Leo spoke for all of us, ?So, what did she say?? ?Well, um.. she uh.. said she was going to see a? bird?.. mi..gra-tion. Yeah, a bird migration and asked is we-I mean I would like to join.? ?So, it?s a date,? Raph said. ?What, what psshhh of course not.. it?s just some stupid bird thing, ha, as if I even care.? As if we believed him. ?Uh, I?m gonna go back to the lair? I have some important stuff to uh, do.? With that, he hopped off the building headed toward the lair. Mikey broke the silence, ?Oh well, last one to the next building is a rotten turtle!? Ha! ?Oh no you don?t!?

Keep, it, going, strong!
This is good!

---> Dis <---

-adt

It was Saturday and I was working on my mutation project while the guys were out doing some?.
thing. I had no desire to join as I had to work REALLY seriously on the thing for werewolves. Not because I hadn?t gotten good progress, but well I secretly hadn?t even started it! I have no idea why I ever said it would take a few weeks in the first place! It would take WAY longer than that. If mikey were here right now, he?d probably tell me not to beat myself up about it and just work. Maybe have a pizza beak every now and then. But then again that?s easy for him to say. I mean, he has a lot more space in between his thoughts than I do. I thought that problem was solved when I defeated Mr. Psychic Monkey the other time but, no. That way before Rita came. By the way, she?s been staying with us for say about 2 months now. And just to get this straight with my brothers, I DO NOT like her. I am devoted to April. Don?t get this in the wrong way but it just feels nicer to have another girl in the lair. Let?s just say it brings more equality here. Even though my brothers would be laughing their shells of right about now, I?m pretty sure they feel the same way. Anyways, back to my project. I?m sitting here, alone in my lab (which I built by the way) working on some things I guess. The guys wanted me to make a couple gizmos for them and sometimes they?re things that they can make by themselves ya?know but they just have to come to me.

Lets see the list:

Raphael= ?customized? Sai handles

Leonardo=a Captain Ryan exclusive figurine that can talk and move. (sometimes this guy?s obsession really freaks me out.)

Mikey= a new
t-pod
t-phone
t-pod head phones
radio
karaoke system
wii
x box
tv
skateboard
mini fridge
nunchuck chains
Note: never make MIkey anything unless he asks for it. It will only lead to disaster.

Rita: ?customized? (there?s that word again) t-pod head phones (green & blue specifically)

<3 April: <3 new phone and phone cover. (we uh, heh heh kind of broke her old one)

Well at least we have apatrol tomorrow or as Mikey calls it ?stunt night.? At least I have something to look forward to coming up. Oh and then there?s Valentine?s day! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 April! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
OMG! The absolutely PERFECT time to make my move! But what should I get her? Something new, something all the craze, something that may finally win her over! Hmmmmmmmmmm
IDEA!!!!! >CIII I could??. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _! But, she won?t know it?s me! Eh! Eh! /=) It. Will. Be. PERFECT!!!!!!!

I?d been spending more time with Rita for a change rather than the guys. It was well, more fun. I guess it was just a girl thing. We would share secrets, talk and just laze most of the time. Though hesitant at first, she even told me that unlike the guys, she was mutated when she was a teenager and lost her memory but is slowly regaining it. I?ll bet the boys didn't even know about that?.

Rita?s Diary

?.. even told her about my mutation story, And how I was slowly regaining my memories, (though I wish I wasn't.)I felt rather safe with her. And free. Finally free, someone who I could finally freely talk to, say anything, do anything, and be anything. And I chose to be free. If there was anyone I could count on to show me the ropes, it would be April??.

April

??I showed her a lot of new things including the horrors and highlights of teenhood. Things about being a teenager that rocked and about the belly of the beast that is high school. When we came to certain concepts ?.It went a little like this??.

Rita?s Diary

??.Yeah, so she got this magazine out from her drawer (we were in her room by the way) At first I thought this wasn?t the best idea, so obviously I made he take the quiz first. She had to pick a person and answer a bunch of questions including. If he?s A. brainy B.brawny C.crazy D.popular and the same thing about her. In the end curiosity overcame me?.
?Okay, I can?t take the suspense. Who is the special someone??
?a guy.? ?who guy? ?at my school? ?who guy at your school?? ?dark hair cute face? ?who guy at your school dark hair cute face?? ?GAH! Okay his name is Casey Jones. I have a crush on him. I mean, when I?m close to him I get really nervous but for some reason I want to be close to him and I feel I have to look my best and?..? Wait a second, nervousness, a need to be close, letting my hair down when he walks by??.
Oh no. Oh geez. Oh god. I have a crush????on _ _ _ _!
?Anyways, I gotta go. Yeah, homework,? she said with a sigh. ?So, see ya!? She was about to leave when I stopped her. ?Girl, wait. Major problem.?

April

I?d been spending more time with Rita for a change rather than the guys. It was well, more fun. I guess it was just a girl thing. We would share secrets, talk and just laze most of the time. Though hesitant at first, she even told me that unlike the guys, she was mutated when she was a teenager and lost her memory but is slowly regaining it. I?ll bet the boys didn?t even know about that?.

---> Dis <---

We were just hangin? out at the lair and I was just totally owning Raph at space heroes pinball: the one game Raph CAN?T win, when Rita burst through the door as if she?d been running miles. Meanwhile, Raph scored a shot higher than me and won. I glared. ?Worst. Timing. Ever.? ?Donnie! You?ve got? some? explaining? to do.? She doubled over. ?Gosh, what happened? And more importantly, where is the pizza? I want pizza!? Mikey yelled. Raph hit Mikey in the back of the head. I just noticed the gash in her arm and ran over. After catching her breath and getting her arm bandaged, she told us the whole story. ??. So, Donnie, would you mind telling me WHAT THE SHELL THAT THING WAS!?!?? ?Fine? he said taking a breath, ?okay, I may or may not have created a mutant werewolf earlier when I was experimenting with the werewolf theory.? ?Donnie!? ?Well then, HOW THE SHELL COULD IT ATTACK ME AND SPEAK!?? You could tell she was seriously ticked. ?Maybe? It was searching for us under the full moon lurking in the shadows waiting for us, eager to see you take your last breath! BWAHAHAHAHA!? Donnie ignored Mikey. ?I-I don?t know, she must?ve gotten some mutagen on herself somehow and turned into the real thing. But don?t worry; I have a new experiment on how to alter the genes of something that we can use to get rid of her.? ?Wow, a new mutagen experiment. That makes me feel a LOT better? ?Really Donnie, is there anything else we can do? Besides your new experiment.? ?Sorry I don?t have anything else? ?By the way Rita, why didn?t you just kick the guy?s shell??A typical Raph statement, though it was kind of strange. I mean why would you just sit there and take the beating??Really. Why?? ?I-I uhh?.For reasons I can?t discuss right know. There?ll be a time.? ?Well then,? I said after a pause, ?Let go stop that werewolf!?

By surprise, the thing pinned me to the ground, one of its clawed hand digging into my arm and the other up against my neck. I could see the creature clearly now. It was fairly small with beady red eyes and prickly black fur that puffed up around its muscular hind legs, neck and upper back. Its lips were pulled back in a snarl revealing almost wolf-like teeth. ?You are not the one that I seek,? it growled. I shuddered as the creature pulled its claws out of my arm and loosened its grip on me greatly but still didn?t let go. ?Where is he?? Paralyzed with fear I could only stammer. I really don?t know much. ?I said, where is he?!? I managed a shaky ?who?? ?Take me to Donatello,? it spat. After a few seconds, I finally came to my senses and kicked the creature off of me, then I ran to the lair as fast as I could, too scared to look back.

Purple Dragons: you were right! There really were giant turtles!
???: great, bring them to me???.
Somewhere in Ritas Diary

It was a quiet night in the turtle lair doin? the usual stuff Leo watching space heroes like he usually watches every Saturday, Donnie making something that from mikeys stories would probably almost destroy us all, Raph was reading a magazine, I was listening to this new t-pod Donnie made me (it totally rocks!) while mikey took MY last slice of pizza! After a silent tussle with mikey , that I soon realized were just futile attempts to get back my pizza, I decided to just get some more than a certain someone getting seriously hurt. Of course I made sure to tell the guys I was going a exactly who made me.
?You know what guys, I?m gonna go grab some more pizza because a certain someone I know hogged the pepperoni! So um... yeah back in a few? Expecting no answer and getting none except for a slight wave of leo?s hand as if he was shooing a fly away, I went outside. It was a beautiful night with a full moon shining overhead crystal clear. Air on the rooftops was untouched by the stench of gasoline and smelled like the forest itself. What memories it brought back. The crisp breeze was cool and felt good through my hair weaving in and out giving me a calm and serene feeling like I was safe and free in this world. The wonderful thought was abruptly shattered by what seemed to look as a swift ball of fur that had just darted right in front of me. It must have been a trick of the moonlight though it seemed not right the night should play tricks after the perfectness before. I held my arms out to feel that cool breeze but was met by an ominous chilly gust that seemed to have been trying to tell me something. The next thing a saw was the glint of unsheathed claws and black fur.