There was complete silence in the dojo as Master Splinter moved behind Donnie, who narrowed his eyes in anticipation.

Splinter raised the wooden sword above his own head, ready to bring it down on Donnie's. Donatello moved just a little too late as the sword swung downward, and succeeded in delivering a painful blow.

"Aw, man..." Donnie rubbed his head, and moved back into the kneeling position, a sulky look on his face.

Mikey, who had been grinning, stiffened as Master Splinter moved on to him. The mutant rat raised the wooden sword. Mikey was especially high strung, flinching forward every second, and glancing behind anxiously. Soon, he said, "Just so we're clear, Sensei, you are planning on swinging right- Augh!" He cut off as the wood whacked him sharply on top of the head.

As Mikey rubbed his head, Splinter moved to Raph, who didn't move a muscle. Raph glanced behind, shoulders tensing, just when the sword swung down. "Ow!"

Leo was next, and he stayed relaxed as their Sensei lifted the sword. The sword swung downward, and Leo just managed to step and roll to the side.

"Yes!" The blue clad ninja fist pumped happily.

Splinter moved on to Emma was sitting there patiently waiting for the stick, a fly buzzes nearing her nose, the tickling of the fly caused her to sneeze just in the nick of time for her to teleport behind Splinter who brought the sword down.

"Did I win?" Emma asked excited.

"Not necessarily" Splinter smiles shaking his head. "Awww." Emma groaned.

"What is the point of this anyway?" Raph said to Master Splinter, not sounding too thrilled.

"Evading a sword you cannot see demonstrates an ability to sense your enemy's intentions," Splinter explained, showing the sword.

"I already know my enemy's intention, Sensei," Raph said, sounding exasperated. "To take me down."

"Knowing that your enemy will strike is a given," Splinter replied. "But sensing when he will strike can mean the difference between victory and defeat."

"Hai Sensei," said Raph, looking at the carpet.

The five students bowed as their Sensei exited the dojo.

.....................

"Pwease."

"No."

"Pwease."

"Noo."

"Pwease."

"For the last time Emma you are not coming with us topside." Leo said putting his katanas over his shell.

"But I wanna kick Kraang booty too!" Emma does a karate chop and punch, when she tries do a kick she misses the air and falls on her butt.

"I know puppy but you're not ready yet but you will be soon to be a true ninja you have to learn patience." Leo said looking calm like he was mediating.

"Leo come on we've been waiting for like 3 minutes!" Mikey groans walking in with Raph and Donnie, showing the opposite of being patience.

"Mikey can I come with you topside?" Emma hoped maybe if she asked someone else she could go.

"Of course you can biscuit!" Mikey picks her up and throws in the air.

"Yay!" Emma cheered in victory

"No!" Leo interrupts "She is not coming!"

"Aww." Mikey and Emma whined.

"Ah let the little rugrat come fearless." Raph smirked. "Who can teach her more about being awesome at kicking butt then us!" Raph flexed his muscles.

"I agree with Raph." Donnie chimes in. "She could learn more about Ninjutsu though observations." Donnie ruffs up Emma's hair.

"Fine Fine whatever she can come but she stands on sidelines the whole time." Leo huffed.

"Yeah!" Mikey and Emma high three/five

"But she can't go topside with that ragged dress she could get sick." Leo gesture to Emma's ripped and baggy dress.

"I think I know someone who can help." Donnie smiles.

.......................

Donnie knocks on April's window as the guys and Emma stand on her balcony.

April opens the door to see them.

"Hey guys." She greets them with a smile, she looks down to see Emma standing in the middle. "Hi there Emma."

"Hi April!" Emma smiles, she waves wildly.

"Hey April do you have some clothes that Emma can wear?" Leo asked.

"Sure I've got some old clothes." April smiles. "You wanna find something pretty to wear Emma?" She asked the little girl who responded with a excited nod. She takes her hand and leads her into the apartment.

April starts looking though a closest when she smelled something funny, she sniffs around to see what was causing it.

And that when she realized. The smell. Was coming from Emma. "Ugh Emma you need a bath." April said covering her nose with her hand.

"Uh what's a bath?" Emma tilted her head confused.

April couldn't believe what she heard.

She goes back to the windows, where the turtles are waiting. "Hey guys have you ever given Emma a bath?"

"No." The turtles responded.

"What do I expect from a couple of boys." April rolls her eyes annoyed. "This might take a little longer than plan a little somebody needs to be scrubbed before she goes anywhere."

"April we have to go-" Leo tries to explain until Donnie interrupted him. "That ok April take as long as you need."

April smiles and closes the window Donnie turns to see Leo and Raph glaring at him.

"What?"

....................

The turtles waiting on the balcony for April pampering Emma.

"They been in there for hours what is April doing getting her ready for a beauty pageant?!" Raph yelled in frustration.

April opens up the window with a smug smile. "Gentlemen May I present the new and approved Emma!" She bows and moves out the way to reveal Emma.

The turtles couldn't believe they're eyes, Emma had fair skin that glowed in the moonlight, her brown hair was now fluffy and curly. Instead of the ripped dress she now wearing a gray sweatshirt with what appeared to have a panda on it, blue greenish pants, and light green shoes.

"Hi guys look at my new clothes isn't it pretty." Emma twirled around.

"You look great Emma" Leo said picking her up. "And look April said that this called a panda." Emma smiled pointing to the panda bear on her new shirt. "She said they're some at zoo that we can go see tomorrow."

"Aww That sounds like fun I wanna go to the zoo." Mikey whines while pouting.

"Thank you April." Donnie smiles

"Of course no problem." April touched his shoulder, causing the purple masked turtle to turn bright red. "Bye Emma."

"Bye Bye April!" Emma waves as April closes the window, she turns to see Donnie who was still blushing she licks her hand and puts it directly on his cheek.

"Ugh oh gross" Donnie wipes her saliva off his face, "Emma why do you do that?!"

"You're face looked hot so I wanted to cool it down for you." Emma said.

"Aww that's so sweet." Mikey smiled.

"No Squirt Don was just blushing cause he likes April." Raph smirked as Donnie blushed even more, glaring at him.

"Don't worry Donnie I like April too!" Emma pats his shoulder.

"No peanut he likes likes April." Mikey smiled wiggle his eyebrows.

"Likes likes?" Emma asked confused.

"He loves her." Mikey, Leo, Raph started making kissing noises causing Donnie to turn bright red from embarrassment.

"Aww Donnie has tingly feelings for April" Emma cheers. Donnie quickly covers her mouth, making sure April didn't hear.

"Emma don't tell the whole city!"

The turtles laughed at him before walking away. Emma takes Donnie's hand and tries to drag him to catch the others "Come on Don we gotta go kick some mega Booty!"

"Well if we kick booty you won't be able to see my present." Donnie smiles slyly.

"What is it What is it?!" Emma bounces up and down contained by excitement.

Donnie pulls out a T-Phone from behind his back .

"What is it?" Emma looked at confused.

"It's called a phone." Donnie puts it in her hand .

"A P-Phone?" Emma repeated the new word.

"A phone is a device you use when you need help." Donnie explained "You use it when you can't see me face to face."

"Ooooooh" Emma looked at her new phone with wonder eyes.

"But." Donnie holds up a finger "You can only use it for a emergency."

"Emergency what's that?" Emma asked.

"An emergency is when you're lost or when you hurt yourself and no one can reach you"

"Ok."

"Now you call me if we get separated we'll put in everyone else's contacts when we're back home." Donnie calls his number from her phone so he can have her new number.

"Thanks Donnie." Emma gives him a big o'l hug.

Donnie chuckled and returns the favor. "You're welcome kiddo."

.......................

"Hey guys!" Donnie called, and his siblings came over. "I got eyes on one giant dog a fish, six o' clock."

"Where?" Mikey said excitedly. He slumped. "Aw, man. It's just Fishface and Dogpound."

"What are they doing out in the open like this?" said Leo. "I think we should proceed with caution, guys." His eyes widened.

"Guys?" He did a quick turn around to see only Emma standing beside him, hearing the sounds of fighting down below, and scowled.

"Ugh, come on Emmy" He puts her on the back of his shell and jumps off the roof.

It was over way too quick. Dogpound's blows were slow and sloppy, his blocks pathetic. After some quick trash talk, Raph had taken down Fishface way easier than was possible, and Dogpound was knocked down next to his partner in crime.

"Oo Big doggy!" Emma started to run over to DogPound until Mikey stopped her "No No Em that's a bad dog."

"Ohhh." Emma understood backing away

Leo was on top of Dogpound in an instant, pointing his katanas threateningly.

"Stay... Good dog!" Dogpound growled furiously, but instead of attacking, he dashed the sword aside and ran after Fishface, who was already running.

"Look!" said Mikey. "We got 'em on the run!"

"Oh, they aren't getting off that easy!" Raph went after them.

"Raph, wait!" Leo warned. "Something's not right!"

"Yeah!" Raph retorted. "You talking, while they're getting away!"

The others started to follow as Mikey took Emma's hand and ran after them.

"This way!" Raph shouted.

They tracked Fishface and Dogpound all the way to an empty warehouse. Very empty warehouse. The four turtles and Emma halted, and glanced around warily.

"Wow this place is big!" Emma yelled, Leo shushes her making her put both hands over her mouth to silence herself.

"Alright..." came Dogpound's deep voice. He and Fishface emerged from behind some supports. "You got us."

"This is way too easy," Leo said uncertainly.

"Why are you always worrying?" Raph snapped. They all stiffened as something powered up. Red lasers made a circle around the turtles, Fishface and Dogpound, and the floor lowered into a disorientating black and white room. "Oh, I see."

Emma let go of Mikey hand as he sinked into the floor causing her to fall on her knees.

"Emma!" The guys yelled.

"Guys!" She reaches out her hand but they were already gone.

"Oh my gob cob they just got eaten by the floor!" Emma began to panic.

"Wait the phone Donnie said to use it when I can't see him!" Emma grabs the phone until she realized.

"Wait I don't know how to use a phone!" Tears ran down Emma face as she sat there sobbing.

"What the matter little girl?" She looks up to see Baxter Stockman looking concern.

"The floor ate my brothers and now they're gone forever!" Emma cried.

Baxter Stockman realize she meant the turtles causing him to crack an evil smirk.

"Don't worry your brothers are ok."

Emma wipes her nose with her sleeve "T-They are" she looked hopeful.

"I can show you if follow me" Baxter said trying to trap her in.

"Um Donnie says I'm supposed to go anywhere with a stranger." Emma said raising an eyebrow looking up at the man she just meant.

"You want to see your brothers again don't you?"

"Yeah"

"I can take you to them." Baxter Stockman holds out his hand for her to take, Emma was hesitated at first but then she takes his hand and he lends her to the control room.

They get to the control room where there are a bunch of monitors and buttons around the computers.

The turtles, DogPound, and FishFace are on the screen standing around looking at their new surroundings "See there they are"

Emma runs up to the monitor "Guys don't worry I'll get out of this box" Emma pulls her fist back ready to punch it but Baxter Stockman moves her as she threw a swing.

"Don't touch the monitor!" Baxter Stockman frowned setting her down on the floor.

"Welcome contestants!" He announced. "I'm so glad you could join us tonight!"

"Blister Stockboy?" Leo exclaimed in surprise.

"It's Baxter. Stockman!" came the snappy reply. "I'm your arch nemesis!"

Mikey winked at Donnie. "I could totally think of five nemesises way archer than him."

"Hi Mikey!" Emma shouted waving her hand, unaware that he couldn't see her.

"Wait that sounded like Emma." Donnie looks up.

"Pointdexter is holding her hostage!" Raph growled, clenching his fist.

Baxter Stockman thought for a moment when he got an idea.

Maybe if he made them think he was gonna torment her that would mess with them even more.

"Y-Yes! I did! You'll be playing for the ultimate prize: your lives! In the all new, family-friendly, incredibly deadly... Maze of Doom try anything and the kid gets it!"

"When we find her Stickman you are in for a world of pain!" Raph angrily growled, ever since Emma joined the family Raph has been very protective of her.

"Oooooh I'm really scared." Baxter Stockman laughed manically.

Fire balls came raining down on them. They all scrambled to avoid the flaming balls of death. Dogpound and Fishface were looking amused as they watched the teens rush for safety, until they themselves nearly got fried.

"You fool!" Fishface snapped furiously. "What are you doing?"

"I'm sick'a you freaks," came the poisonous reply. "You treat me like dirt, threaten me. Baxter Stockman doesn't make threats."

"Have you gone mad?" Fishface shouted.

"Mad?" There was a psychotic cackle. "I'm full-on-mega crazy!"

"You traitor!" Dogpound shouted, shaking a furry fist at the infinite looking ceiling.

"And even if you make it through my maze alive," Stockman continued cooly. "You'll still have to face my... Monster of-"

"Doom?" Leo finished. "Is it a Monster of Doom?"

"No...! Uh, Monster of... Uh... Uh..."

"Destruction?" Baxter Stockman looked down at Emma who smiled up at him.

"Y-Yeah The Monster of Destruction!" Baxter Stockman yelled.

"Thanks." Baxter Stockman smiled at the young girl.

"You're welcome Mr. Stockman." Emma pat his leg.

"It's Stock-" Baxter suddenly stopped himself when he realized that ...... she said his name right.

"Can I draw please I'm bored" Emma asked politely.

"Y-Yeah sure" Baxter gave her a blank piece of paper and a couple of pens.

"Thank you!" Emma smiled taking the supplies.

"No problem?" Baxter Stockman looked at the child, he wasn't expecting her to be so ....

Sweet?

"Hey Mr. Stockman you wanna draw with me?" Emma holds up a red pen, offering it to him.

"S-Sure." Baxter Stockman takes the pen from her and starts to slowly draw.

No one every had treated him this way

No one has ever treated him so .....

Nice.

....................

Donnie, Leo, and Mikey are walking with DogPound trying to find any exit, Raph and FishFace are not with them concerning the fact they got separated.

Donnie was holding his T phone above him trying to get a signal until he finally got one. "Hey I think I got a signal guys." Donnie tells them

"Donnie shhs Boxter might hear you" Leo frowned

"I don't think so it's been pretty quiet for quite some time." Donnie was right , Baxter Stockman was so busy with Emma he completely forgot about them.

"Maybe I could use this signal to talk to Emma" Donnie calls the number, waiting for her to answer "I hope she's ok." Donnie said worried about his little sister.

Baxter Stockman was currently making coffee for himself and was temporarily out of the room.

Emma was continuing to draw when she heard a catchy ringing. "Hey what is that?" She looked around to find the source of the sound until she looked behind her to see the phone that Donnie gave her ringing in her back pocket.

"Oh it ma butt." Emma puts up the phone and looks at confused on how to answer it, she takes her finger and presses the call button.

"Hello." She speaks into it.

"Emma it's Donnie" Donnie answered

"Hi Donnie!" Emma chirped.

"Hi Emmy" Donnie shook his head on how happy she sounds "Are you ok did he hurt you?"

"No Im fine he didn't hurt me he's actually really nice."

"Boxter Stocklen nice? Dude he totally brainwashed her!" Mikey screamed.

"Would you stop yelling in my ear!" DogPound growled at him.

"Emma where are you right now?" Donnie asked.

"I'm in a room with a lot of big boxes on the wall and you're in one of them." Emma told him looking at the computers, tapping one with her finger.

"Computers she must be in his control room" Donnie told the others.

"We gotta get her out of there!" Leo said determined.

"We gotta get out of here first!" DogPound frowned, letting them know they almost forgot about themselves.

"Emma we're coming to get you ok don't move ok." Donnie hangs up.

Donnie, beckoning for Leo to come closer. "I'm reconfiguring the T-Phone's internal magnets so that it can detect ambient AC current. We can use it to trace our way back to Baxter."

"You two," Leo said, talking to Dogpound and Mikey. "Keep Stinkman talking."

"No problemo," Mikey said automatically. Baxter Stockman can back in the room, Emma was putting the phone back in her pocket and fell on her stomach pretending like she was drawing.

"I got you some juice." Baxter Stockman hands her a juice box.

"Thank you!" Emma starts to suck down on the juice.

"Hey, Baxtin!"

"It's Bax-ter," Stockman said, irritated.

Donnie walked on, keeping an eye on his T-Phone, his finger tracing symbols through the air, his siblings and Dogpound following. "So," said Mikey, still talking to Stockman. "I was wondering, what made you interested in a career of super-villainy?"

"Yeah why did you wanna be a bad guy?" Emma asked

"Well," said Stockman, sounding contemplative. "Since you won't be around to read my autobiography, I'll tell you. I was a frail, and delicately sensitive young child..."

"Well, there's a surprise," Dogpound muttered. Mikey groaned, already bored out of his shell.

"That's when I decided to develop my greatest power: my technological genius!" Stockman continued.

"Oh, good grief...!" Mikey groaned.

"And I built a science fair volcano!" said Baxter, now talking about his middle school days. "But with actual molten lava! Burnt down the whole gymnasium!" He laughed, before cutting off. "I was expelled. And I vowed revenge on those who wronged me!"

"You poor, poor man," Mikey muttered.

As Baxter was going on about his miserable life Emma thought it would be the perfect time to escape, she gets up and heads for the door she slips through and starts walk down the wide hallway.

She couldn't see much it being so dark, she closes her eyes for a minute and when she's opens them back up, her eyes appeared to be glowing bright green as they light her path.

She walks for a little until she sees what appears to be a light, she walks towards it her eyes going back to normal to see she was in a large room with machine everywhere.

As soon as she was looking at all the gadgets the turtles, DogPound, and FishFace crashed though the ceiling. As soon as Emma saw it was her family her eyes light up with happiness.

"Guys!!!" Emma runs full speed as she ran into Leo's arms.

"Emmy are you ok did he hurt you?" Leo looked at her face scanning her for injuries.

"No I'm ok." Emma suddenly felt herself being picked up out of Leo's arms and squeezed into a bone crushing hug.

"I'll never let you go ever again in my entire life!!!" Mikey squeezed her kissing her forehead numerous times.

"Haha I missed you too Mikey!" She squeezed him back laying her head on his neck.

Suddenly the light was coming from the underside of a UFO looking hover pad, on which stood an incredibly frustrated Baxter Stockman. "No! You were supposed to destroy each other, not work together!" He got a hold of himself. "No matter... You may have made it to the end of my maze, but now it's time for-"

"The bonus round?" Mikey broke in eagerly.

"Yes," Baxter said ominously. "The Bonus Round... of Doom!" An enormous, extremely familiar, suit of armor, stomped towards the group of mutants. "Kneel before the awesome power of my... Monster...!"

"Of Doom..." the mutants finished.

"You all think you're so clever," Stockman said, now through a screen on the giant suit of armor, where his face would actually be if he was wearing it "The only person that seems to care about my feelings is that little girl who will be coming with me." Baxter smiled down at Emma who was trying to hide in Mikey's neck.

"You want her you're gonna have to get though us!" Leo pointes his katana at Baxter as a warning.

"Let's see how clever you are when you're hit by my Missiles of Do-" He cut off, trying to avoid the cliché title. "When... you're hit by my missiles!"

That's when the armor started shooting its missiles. The mutants dodged, as the Monster shot at them, rapid fire Leo takes Emma and puts her in the back where she won't get hurt.

"Emma stay here." Leo instructed her.

"But I wanna help!" Emma insisted.

"Hey!" Raph called looking at the two and saw that Leo needed help "Sit" he ordered her not wanting to get on his bad side she plopped down on her butt. Leo grumps at Raph's authority.

"How do we stop this thing?" Dogpound yelled at Leo. Clearly the young leader was good enough to even influence the jerks. Leo narrowed his eyes as he assessed the situation. Then, "Mikey, Dogpound... Draw it under Baxter."

Both mutants instantly responded, running for Stockman's UFO, which floated away just before they could catch it. "Ha!" Stockman mocked. "Nice try! But you'll have to be faster than that!"

Dogpound and Mikey exchanged a smirk, before turning. "Yoohoo!" Mikey called.
"Monster of Doom! We're over here!"

The Monster had been occupied with trying to destroy Donnie, but then turned, and answered the call, running straight towards Mikey and the dog mutant.

"That's so Cool!!" Emma starts to run over to the fight until she was caught by Leo.

"Hey Hey Hey back it up!" Leo shoos his hand instructing her to

go back to the spot where she was sitting. Emma falls back down on her butt and sits back down.

Leo had run to Raph and Fishface, who were occupied with the remaining Mousers. "Raph! Fishface! There!" Leo pointed to Baxter's UFO. Evidently understanding Leo's plan, Fishface and Raph glanced at each other, and nodded. Fishface ran towards the Monster first, Raph close behind. Almost at the last moment, Fishface slid on his back, robotic legs in the air, and Raph jumped atop them, giving the impression of a launching pad.

"Ready?" inquired the koi. Raph gave a quick nod. "Three. Two. One!" Fishface kicked his legs upwards, launching Raphael into the air, allowing the mutant turtle to go straight through the middle of Stockman's hover pad.

"No!" Baxter shouted, as his pad began to take a dive. "Stop helping each other!" The pad landed on the Monster, and both went up in a smokey red explosion. But as the smoke cleared, they saw nothing.

"That was Awesome!" Emma jumped at the explosion "Do it again Do it again!" She jumped up and down clapping her hands.

"Where's Dexter?" Mikey said anxiously.

"Fools!" Looking up, the mutants saw the pink shirted man hovering in the air, his helmet having a propeller on it.

"You haven't seen the last of Dexter- Ugh! Baxter Stockman!"

With that, he went flying out the open skylight.

"Bye Bye Mr Stockman!" Emma waves to the villain.

"Is she always this happy?" FishFace raised an eyebrow at Raph.

"You have no idea." Raph rolled his eyes.

Finally, they were all officially out into the open air. As soon as the group of mutants walked out, they all collapsed to their knees, exhausted.

Fishface was first to look up. "The truce... is over..." Dogpound got up. "Let's finish...!" He groaned. "This..."

The turtles wearily drew their weapons, facing the now opposing mutants. Mikey stepped forward first, waving his nunchaku.

"Booyaka-" He cut off, falling to his knees with a wide yawn.

"Oh, forget it," Dogpound muttered. "Next time." He and Fishface turned and walked away. The four turtles watched them go, mildly surprised.

Leo nodded, and they turned, walking in the opposite direction of the Foot mutants.

"You know, Raph," said Mikey. "You and Fishface actually made a pretty good team back there."

"He's still our enemy, Mikey," Raph said seriously. "And he'll take us out the first chance he gets." Suddenly, Raph's sai flashed right by Leo's head, and the next thing they knew, they were staring in shock at the Ball of Doom embedded in Raph's sai tip. It had barely missed killing Leo.

"Trust your senses," Raph continued, as they all turned to watch Fishface and Dogpound. "You'll see him coming." Fishface sent Raph an impressed smirk, before turning away for the last time. "

"This was the patrol ever can we do it again tomorrow?" Emma asked.

"Maybe when you're a little bit older pup." Leo didn't need her getting kidnapped again.

"Awwww." Emma groans sadly.

"But when you do you'll be able to help us kick butt." Raph chimes in hopefully make her feel better.

"Yay!!" Emma cheers knowing one day she'll be able to help her brothers.

Little did she know that day was closer than she knew.