Not so oddly, the subject of Ted's dream was about dependability, teamwork, and judgment.

Ted found himself in an old, abandoned warehouse on the edge of town, down by the docks. It's always that way. With him were Leonardo (who he'd never forget), Donatello, Splinter, Nightshade, Fox Fire, Duke and Rick. Their mission: to find and rescue Jack Warner from an unknown enemy. (and it was NOT Shredder or the Foot soldiers). There were booby-traps and pitfalls all along the passageways and every level of this 10-storey supplyhouse became more difficult and treacherous as they climbed.
On the first storey, Donatello failed to notice a net hung above him as he opened a door. Out of character for a seasoned ninja. The net had many long, sharp knives woven into its mesh. Ted saw it come down on Don, but he could not move or scream out to him. He felt the first pangs of futility as he watched Don die.
Urged onward by the others, and to help avenge Donatello's death, Ted climbed the 2nd level. Master Splinter was instinctively much more cautious, but the 2nd storey was a labyrinth. The old Rat in the Maze routine. Only Ted went with him. As they ventured along, seeming to do alright, hatchets and axes flew from invisible niches in the maze walls, and clove Splinter as he stood. There was no time for ninja work...and nowhere to avoid the blades. Ted, being in a dream where "anything goes", was unharmed, only a grim spectator. But he was horrified at what he'd just witnessed, rightly so. He looked up to Splinter. He vowed to find the source of his friends' and sensei's misery, and found the end of the labyrinth.
On the 3rd level, he found Nightshade caught in some door-frame guillotine contraption. Just as Nightshade stepped through the door and the blade came down, Ted lunged forward and attempted to knock the ninja koala safely through. But in Dreamland, he had lead feet and everything was in slow-motion...and so poor Nightshade, at 50 years old, was chopped right down the middle, head to foot. Ted screamed at the top of his lungs, not as much in misery and horror as it was in sheer frustration. He didn't dare to go on anymore, for fear that he'd be unable to help any more of his companions or Jack. But he knew that he must go on, for Jack's sake: we must at least try. So on he went, trying to pull himself together.

On the 4th level, he met with lithe, lighting-fast Fox Fire, the ninja fox. Along the hallway that they searched, a trapdoor was noticeable. Ted pointed it out, and Fox Fire nodded. Finally Ted felt something was going his way...that he'd finally helped someone overcome an impending fate, when the floor part that Xavier (Fox Fire's real name) had landed on disappeared out from under his very feet. Ted all but passed out in grief from false and fleeting confidence as Xavier fell through the new trapdoor, and fell away to another dimension. The hole was bottomless; and as Ted feared in his bones, Fox Fire, the mighty ninja fox, fell forever. The most twisted of fates: never knowing if, when or how you'll land if there IS a bottom.
(Actually, it was so bottomless, Fox Fire's bones, having fallen for 150 years, deteriorated and turned to dust. And the DUST kept falling. Now THAT'S bottomless.)

Ted felt he'd just about taken all he could take when he heard his brothers Rick and Duke call him. Among close family again, Ted gained back a bit of confidence as they went to the 5th floor. The storey was devoid of traps, perhaps to throw them off, so the triplets lurched onwards. On the 6th floor, they followed a long, straight hallway 'til they came upon a dark room: and the door was open. (Starting to sound familiar, Pete?) Ted stuck his sword through first to make sure there wasn't a knife-net or guillotine. Nothing happened. So the threesome very cautiously entered the room. In the far end of this medium-sized room, a sole light turned on, revealing a middle-aged woman, possibly of Japanese descent. She was sitting in the lotus position on a mat on the floor, meditating. As they came up to her, hoping to find some answers, the lady looked up and said, "I've been expecting you." A cage fell from the ceiling when she snapped her fingers; the glass cage fell only on Duke and Rick. On the side of the glass trap were two buttons---blue and white.
"Press the correct button and the cage will disappear, freeing your brothers," the old sorceress explained. "Push the wrong one..." She drew a long-nailed finger across her throat. Ted gulped...which one...

WHICH ONE?!

TO BE CONTINUED....MAYBE