It's very late, I'm sorry. I had an eye thing. ^^; Incidentally, if you could check out the poll it'd be much appreciated. Thank you.

SOMETHING WICKED

Today's adventure begins in the lair, where everybody except Don is asleep -- Don is, of course, working on his machines again, and apparently he hasn't gotten any sleep in... some time. Good news though -- after weeks, he's found something! He wakes everybody up to show them what he's found, which is Splinter... in pieces. Apparently it's possible to collect the pieces and presumably put their sensei back together, but they'll need to go into cyberspace to do it. Don's "determinator"-like attitude scares his brothers a little. He hops in the (probably unsafe and definitely untested) cyber portal, which looks like the illegitimate love child of the Transmat and the Transcendental Lathe, and gets digitized. His brothers follow shortly afterwards, leaving Serling to enjoy the quiet.

Welcome to the snooker webnets! We get a brief introduction of how this is gonna work, and photo-negative Don whips out some transportation. The boys zoom around for a while, and while their scanners detect something that looks a bit like Viral, they eventually get close to where Splinter's data are undisturbed. Before they can get them, though, a surge of red lightning! The turtles are now face to face with Cyber Shredder. CS is surprised to see them in cyberspace, but he's still gonna kill them. Mikey and Raph ask how he escaped from Saturn, and CS says he has no idea what they're talking about. Apparently Ch'rell had been making digital copies of his memory and such while he was still on earth, which we see in a montage, and it was this memory thingy that Viral tried to hack in Tempus Fugit.

But enough talk, let's kick some Shredder butt! Or not, as the guys swiftly learn that they won't be standing a chance against this guy. In addition to Classic Shredder Moves, he's also got Matrix-esque powers from being in cyberspace. The turtles quickly realize they've got to escape and fast, so Don hits a button on his magic remote and a big plus sign appears, ready to whisk them away... but Shredder ain't having none of that, stretching his arms out and grabbing Mikey, who quickly begins turning into a wireframe version of himself! Fortunately, the door shutting on Shredder's arms takes care of that, and the turtles are deposited in a firewalled bank box... kinda thing. Mikey returns to normal, and they all start figuring out how they're gonna get back home. Don, however, won't leave until he gets Master Splinter's data, so he pulls out the Cyber Armor. He mentions there are a few bugs in it still, but nevertheless they all get their armor on (despite Mikey's being hilariously undersized at first) and head back out.

The turtles reappear some distance from where they disappeared, and there's no sign of CS. They hop on their motorbikes and zoom along, quickly finding the data again. The other three boys keep watch while Don sets about figuring out how to collect the Splinter Blocks. While he's doing this, all three watching turtles see Shredder's energy signature approaching from different directions -- and then the walkway they're standing on explodes!

Splinter's data are thrown to the wind, and CS shows his face. Don pulls out some swingin' moves and catches up to the data, and starts trying to retrieve it again. The other three boys start fighting the Shredder to buy Don some more time. It isn't going too well until Raph decides to try "thinking like a cybernaut" and teleports right next to CS, actually landing a solid hit. Unfortunately CS lands a solid hit on him shortly afterwards. Mikey tries but doesn't do much, and then Leo cuts the guy in half. He fixes himself shortly afterwards and comes at the turtles again. More fighting, including a very cool portal-thing from Raph (which unfortunately traps him in CS's "Emperor Palpatine lightning"), and Don's finally finished getting Splinter's data. He grabs Mikey and tells the gang it's time to move out, activating his "home portal" and jumping through with his brother. Leo gets the motorcycle and grabs Raph before gunning it through the portal... and right into Serling.

Everybody's back home now, and the data Don found is apparently a grand total of 3% Master Splinter. Cue serious overtones as the guys (mostly Don) decide they'll have to keep going into cyberspace until they get all of Splinter back, and that means fighting the Cyber Shredder.

Back in cyberspace, CS noticed the portals home, and apparently knows that this means the turtles have a cyber portal. Interesting...

To Be Continued...!

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So, Raph's apparently very good at thinking like a Psychonaut -- er, cybernaut. I'm very glad to see an actual STAB on the show, not to mention slicing the dude in half. I know the "don't worry it's just intertube-people they can't really be hurt" aspect may cheapen the violence a little, but come on. STAB! biggrin And when Don was swinging around his (arrow-like) bo staff, was anyone else reminded of the time he tried that in Real Life to MUCH less success? XD Oh, the memories.