Land of Green Fire, part 1

Major characters

 * Mystery Men
 * Bondoman
 * Flaming Carrot
 * Mr. Furious
 * Mystic Hand
 * Screwball
 * Star Shark
 * The Shovelor
 * The Spleen
 * The Zeke
 * Professor Daub
 * The Shovelor
 * The Spleen
 * The Zeke
 * Professor Daub

Minor characters

 * American ambassador to Santa Baloona
 * Mystery Men's mission control

Species

 * Cow
 * Fire-guy
 * Living bondo
 * Humans
 * Mutant turtles

Locations

 * Central America
 * Abecero Peninsula
 * Botaquaxal
 * Santa Baloona
 * Mystery Men Headquarters

Objects and vehicles

 * Blimp
 * Flying Wing
 * Guns
 * Inflatable raft
 * Katana
 * Pizza
 * Saxophone
 * Shovel
 * Skateboard

Synopsis
A freak winter storm has hit Central America, causing massively devastating repercussions. The are traveling in a blimp with, a military man they helped beat Mr. Cadaverous and the Blue Santas, on their way to help with the devastation. helps a cow stuck in a tree, and they land the blimp on the US Embassy to the country of Santa Baloona. The American ambassador to Santa Baloona takes Col. Blade inside, to show him to Professor Daub, an archeologist that Blade had met previously. Apparently, Daub was on his way to the Abecero Peninsula when the storm hit, and the research team he was to meet up with ran into some trouble. The area is considered haunted and is essentially barren, with even the criminal elements steering clear.

Back in the United States at Mystery Men headquarters, The Spleen had put a shrunken head in Mr. Furious' protein powder, startling the latter. The Shovelor narcs on The Spleen, so Mr. Furious throws melted ice cream at him to get back at him. The Spleen pops a switchblade in anger, but they are interrupted by a call on the intercom. Their mission control tells them of the missing research team, who had found a long lost city-state on the Abecero Peninsula, Boxaquaxal. Boxaquaxal was supposed to be a legend, a marrying of sorcery and technology that made their society hundreds of years more advanced than any other. The last transmission from the investigative team was a panicked warning about "green fire walking around" that were incredibly dangerous, and coming for the last of them. Their last words were to not send help, but bomb the place off the map.

So of course, that job's up to the Mystery Men.

Meanwhile, on the blimp, plays a random saxophone he found, and Daub expresses his doubts to Blade that the Turtles are wearing costumes. Blade, who knows who and what the Turtles are, tells Daub not to worry about it and stick to his job.

The Turtles, Blade, and Daub land at the campsite where the i-team had been, and finds the complete place empty, although there was food just sitting around, uneaten. The most peculiar thing, is there is no sound of animals, birds, bugs, or anything... just their voices in this empty jungle. The food is completely untouched and has remained so for hours, when something would have surely gotten to it before then.

Meanwhile, the Mystery Men in their Flying Wing buzz past Santa Baloona and witness the casualties and destruction. The Shovelor notes the peculiar storm pattern which is almost impossible, and the fact that it was immediately followed in the same region by an earthquake.

The Turtles and crew reach the ruins of Boxaquaxal. The buildings are all made of an odd substance, which Blade can cut into with his knife. Daub comes to the conclusion that it's some sort of plastic, but it's been buried for centuries and is much older than the known invention of the substance. tries skateboarding the ruins, but falls off. The team spots a large tower sticking out of the water, with an open door at the top and some exploration equipment near the door.

Back at camp, the team scrounges up some pizza from the missing i-team's supplies, while Professor Daub investigates his evidence. The markings on buildings matches neither Aztec nor Mayan, and the plastic, he deduces, is not of the Earth, likening it to 6500 year old cruciforms found in the Pripet Marshes of Russia. Raph tries to inflate a raft, but he puts too much air into it and it goes flying with inside. While the crew go to see if Don is okay, Blade and Daub come across some items including a ring, dog tags, pocket change, keys, credit cards, buttons, and the filling from a tooth.

That night, the Turtles, Daub, and Blade prepare to settle in. Mikey's already fallen asleep, and Blade orders Leo to take first watch duty, perching in a tree. Daub continues to experiment with the plastic, finding it to flake when burned instead of melting, and it becomes attracted as if by magnet to the larger pieces once it becomes flakes.

As the ground crew tells stories around the campfire, Mike has a bizarre nightmare. He is woken up by Leo shouting. He says he's been attacked by a little man on green fire, and when he tried to throw it off, they both fell from the tree, and the fire man took off running. Raph spots it still-running in the distance. Blade shoots at it, but it's ineffective. Leo cuts it in two, but its halves pop back in place. Don deduces that its heart is in the center, and Blade shoots at it, causing it to explode. Daub and Don lament that they didn't try at least communicating with it first, if not keeping it alive to study. Raph points out to Daub, though, that something else is coming that he can "study".