***
Leonardo rolled his brother over onto his back. Immediately, Raphael began coughing. Leo let out a sigh of relief.
"Don't do that," he said.
Raphael pushed himself up. "Oh, excuse me. Next time, I'll get your permission before getting knocked out."
Leo helped his brother to his feet. "That went well," he commented sarcastically. "What the hell were you thinking?"
Raph pushed off Leo. "That my brother was about to get his head chopped off!"
There was a long pause before Leo replied, "Thanks."
Raph went over and picked up his sai. "No prob."
***
"There they are!"
Mike and Raven turned around and saw Raph and Leo running towards them.
Leonardo frowned. "What happened to you three?"
Don tilted his head towards Raven. "We had a run in with her trigger-happy brother."
Raven gave him a hurt look and he apologized quickly.
"Sorry."
Mike grinned. "And Don got shot in the..."
Don interrupted. "They got away with most of Indigo's things. There's nothing up there except her furniture."
"Great," Leo sighed. "Let's get back home before anything else happens."
***
Ring
Morgan pulled her arm out from under her pillow and grabbed for the phone. She felt around for three more rings before finding it.
"Yo," she answered.
"I'm sorry," a small voice replied. "Did I wake you?"
"No, I always get up at five-thirty on Saturday."
"It's about Indigo."
Morgan became fully awake in a second. She sat up and started to get dressed, holding the phone against her ear with her shoulder. "What? Did they find her? What happened?"
There was a pause and more voices in the background. "I can't say over the phone. Can you meet us somewhere?"
"Yeah, wait, us? Are those turtles guys going to be there?"
"Uh huh, meet us at the cafe in an hour."
"Okay...Holy Isis, girl, the shop doesn't open till ten!"
Raven sighed. "I know, we're just meeting there. I'll see you then."
***
Shredder looked over the possessions taken from the girl's home with indifference. She had little use for such things, but a change of clothes had been welcomed. A pair of slacks and a pull over shirt, both black. She wondered how women got anything done at all with all the time they spent on grooming.
The only things of interest to her were the books. She started with a text on Eastern mysticism and found a great deal familiar. Whether it was from Saki's conscious memories, or Indigo's unconscious ones, she wasn't sure.
"Cheng!"
The old mystic appeared in the room within seconds. "Yes, Master Shredder?"
Shredder held out one of the books. "I seem to remember reading this before."
Cheng nodded in understanding. "A side effect. The girl's consciousness was not destroyed during the transfer, merely suppressed."
Shredder tapped her nails, which she decided to keep long, against the soft cover of the book she held. "Can you teach me to use the girl's powers?"
"Of course."
***
Raven looked around nervously. After all that had happened, she was more than a little scared to be out in the open. Having Mike with her helped a little. She looked over at him; all wrapped up in a hat and coat. She knew the others were around, but she couldn't see them anywhere.
"Raven."
Raven jumped and smiled when she saw her friend walking over. "Morgan! I'm so glad you could make it!"
"Yeah." She yawned, her hand rising to cover her mouth. She nodded to Mike but said nothing to him. "Okay, so what's happened to Indigo?"
"Oh, Morgan," Raven sobbed. "Indigo's been possessed by an evil ninja master!"
"Uh, huh." Morgan fought the urge to roll her eyes, although this news wouldn't be the weirdest thing to happen lately.
"And he's been trying to kill Raph and Mike and the others!"
Morgan looked over to Mike, who nodded. "So, what are we going to do about it?"
Mike and Raven looked at each other. "Actually, we don't know. We need your help to figure something out."
Morgan rubbed the bridge of her nose. "Sure, why not. It's not like I had anything else planned for today."
***
Morgan looked over Don's shoulder. This was all still so unbelievable. In fact, she didn't believe it, not really. In her mind she was still dreaming, and she'd eventually wake up. Until then, this was just interesting enough for her to keep from waking herself up.
"What about this?"
Morgan focused back on the screen. "Yeah, I've seen this before. Indigo found it while researching channeling."
"Good," Don sighed. "I am so glad you know what's going on, 'cause I am totally lost. This isn't really my area of expertise."
Morgan rolled her eyes. She leaned over and took the mouse. "If I remember correctly, there should be a page on ways to reverse it. She showed me in case..."
Don looked over at her. "In case what?"
"In case one of her experiments got out of control." She stood up and stuffed her hands into her pockets.
Don frowned. "This seems kinda dangerous to be 'experimenting' with."
Morgan gave an awkward smile. "She was never a by the book person. Succeeded more times than not. I never had to step in and help."
Don silently turned back to his computer.
Leo and Mike met Casey and April as they climbed down the ladder.
"There's been no of activity," April reported. "No reports of anything that sounds like the Foot, anyway."
Casey shook his head. "Not even on the streets. Couldn't find a single kid with info."
April shot him a disapproving look, which he ignored.
Leonardo nodded. "We know you tried. Anything Donnie?"
Don looked up from the screen. "Maybe. Do you think any of these will work, Morgan?"
"Only one way to find out."
***