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Some TMNT stuff really isn't for little kids. |
A now-adult Chet finally comes to closure about what happened to the baby turtles he'd lost down a storm drain 15 years earlier.
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Open on the Turtles, as they run across rooftops. Cut to the sewers where a young Conn Edison worker has become lost. Searching for Grid 19 he has accidentally wandered into Grid 32. The young man is distraught; he thinks he's losing it – can’t work, eat, or sleep. He feels haunted, seeing something huge and monstrous in all his dreams. The dreams seem so real, as though he were inside their heads and bodies.
Meanwhile, the Turtles open a manhole cover and drop into the sewers. The young man is lamenting having left poor animals for dead fifteen years ago. He believes that if he’d gone down to check on them, then maybe he would have slept peacefully all these years.
Then he suddenly stumbles upon the fragments of the very same glass terrarium he dropped down the open manhole. The little ceramic toy turtle he had is right there with the glass shards.
A sloshing sound brings him to his feet and he shines his flashlight in the direction of the sound, demanding to know who’s there. The light lands on the Turtles and the young man exclaims his surprise at seeing they are real.
Raphael immediately throws a shuriken into his flashlight, knocking it to the ground, and then lifts the young man up by his collar. Raph and the young man look each other in the eyes and a fleeting moment of recognition passes between them. Raphael scowl softens and he asks “Do I know you?”
Donatello then tugs Raph away, telling him to “save it for the Foot”. The Turtles swiftly disappear into the darkness. While the young man tries to recover from the shock, a voice shouts for his attention over his walkie-talkie, calling him “Chet”. He finally responds and when asked if he’s in the wrong location again, Chet smiles and says, “No, Bud…After 15 years, I’m finally in the right location!!”
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- Unusually for a Mirage TMNT story, this story is not only in full color, but the Turtles have color-coded bandanas—Leonardo in blue, Raphael in red, Donatello in purple, Michelangelo in orange—an anomaly given that the Mirage Turtles usually all wear only red bandannas. Indeed, this is exactly the kind of story that Peter Laird had at one time declared outside the official Mirage continuity as it was neither written nor co-written by Mirage Studios staff members at the time.