It's a cold December & Christmas was a few weeks away. In the sewer hideout, we find the Turtles decorating the Christmas tree. Everyone pitched in, except Leonardo. Leo was busy playing Christmas music on the chimes & vibraphone.
"I love Christmas!" exclaimed Leo, "Christmas bells are totally awesome & I like playing these tubular bells or the chimes." Leo grabs two chime hammers & plays a chimes solo he wrote.
"This is very exciting." said Venus decorating, "My 1st Christmas in America. When do we hide the eggs & shoot the fireworks?"
They all groan.
"OK!" said Leo, "I like to dedicate this tune to Raphael."
Leo gets a pair of mallets & plays the vibes. He plays chord progressions while singing "White Christmas."
"Hey, he's got a good voice." said Michaelangelo decorating.
"Show-off!" complained Raphael, "I'm the jazz freak."
Leo stopped singing & started playing a vibes solo. When Leo jammed, Raph tapped his foot to the music.
"Raph likes Leo's music!" teased Donatello, then Raph punched him.
Just then, his best friend/guitarist, Alan Campbell, arrived.
"Merry Christmas Turtles!" he said, "Cool vibes music, Leo."
"Thanks." stops playing.
"Gang," Don said, "We're ready to light the tree. So gather around. Here's the switch, Venus. Mikey, snare drum."
Mikey played a snare drum roll as Venus flicked the switch. The Christmas tree looked lovely.
"Awesome!"
"Hey Raph!" Alan said, "There's a cool place where average musicians can rent a re3cording studio & make their own demo CD. Maybe you & I could cut a CD with our guitar music."
"How much does this cost?"
"$500-$2,000." Alan said, then he got to his pocket showing a lottery ticket, "Nothing a Star 5 ticket couldn't handle."
"You play the lottery?" asked Mikey, "What a waste!"
Alan ignored that remark & turned on the Channel 3 News. When they saw April O'Neill doing the news, the 4 turtles flexed their muscles to the tube while Venus groaned. When it went to commercial, the Star 5 Drawing was held.
"You don't stand a chance, even with 35 numbers." gruffed Raph as the announcer said,
"Welcome to the New York Lottery state game, Star 5. Tonight's Star 5 jackpot's @ $146,345. Here are tonight's winning numbers. The 1st Star 5 number's 13, the next, 18, the next, 4, the next, 12 & our final Star 5 number's 22. Those numbers again are 13-18-4-12-22! Good luck from the New York Lottery!"
"I won!" exclaimed Alan, jumping up & down like a game show contestant, then hugging each turtle.
"How did you come up with these numbers?" asked Venus.
When Alan calmed down, he explained, "I used the alphabet-number code & took each Turtle's name; 4-Donny, 12-Leo, 13-Mikey, 22-Venus & 18-Raph!"
Mikey had an unplugged mike in his hand, put his arm around Alan & asked,
"Alan Campbell, you just won the lottery! What are you gonna do next?"
"We're cutting an album!" exclaimed Alan.
The next day, Raph followed Alan on his motorcycle when he went to claim his winnings. After taxes, Alan got a check for $90,210. He thought about going to Beverly Hills, but didn't because of that pun, so he opened an account with the bank. When he was headed to the music studio, two thugs jumped him & kidnapped him placing him in a van. Raph saw it was Silver's thugs. So he raced on his motorcycle to catch up to the van they were driving. When he caught up, the van rammed his bike off the road & it was totaled. Raph was ticked off!
When Raph came home, he went to the punching bag, punched it & gruffed,
"Man, I'm not a bodyguard! Alan got kidnapped by that overgrown monkey's thugs! They broke & destroyed my motorcycle as well!" the punching bag fell, "Let's rescue my friend, Turtles."
The Turtles went to their jeep. Raph got a water ski attachment & tied it to the back of the jeep. Then he grabbed his skateboard, got on & held on to the bar while Mikey drove the jeep. Raph thought it was a cool ride!
"Just like 'Back To The Future'." said Don, seeing Raph on the skateboard.
Meanwhile, Silver's holding Alan hostage @ his hideout.
"What do you want from me, greasy monkey?"
"Since that guitar playing mutant freak & his team are your friends, they're going to see you transformed from a human to a gorilla!" explained Silver, "With an army of gorillas, I'll take over the world!"
"That's another show with the two mice." quipped a voice. It was the Turtles. Silver pointed a big needle @ Alan until Raph kicked the needle away from Silver. The Turtles started fighting the gang as Alan escaped. But Venus went over to him & whispered a plan to him.
Minutes later as the battle continued, another gorilla entered. The Turtles figured that Alan had turned into a gorilla. He turns to Silver saying,
"Ooh-ooh-ooh! Cool serum! Now I'm the strongest gorilla! You don't mess with my friends!"
The gorilla with Alan's voice picked up Silver & threw him into a pile of boxes.
"Back to the monkey brain!" moaned Silver.
The Turtles were outta there with the gorilla followed them home.
Back home, Donatello tried to make an antidote to return Alan back to normal. The gorilla forced Raph to fight him.
"I don't want to fight you Alan." said Raph. But the gorilla pushed Raph around. So they had a boxing match; turtle vs gorilla. Raph & the gorilla exchanged blows. But Raph's pride was hurt when the gorilla lifted him! When he placed him down, the gorilla took off his mask. All along, Alan was in a gorilla suit.
"You made a monkey out of me!" yelled Raph knocking him out.
"Raph, chill!" said Venus, "It was my plan. I had Alan put a gorilla suit on & gave him a dose of my super strength drink so he could fool & beat Silver."
"Raph," Alan said while taking off the monkey suit, "I meant no harm. But I wanted to fight you for my super strength. Now my powers are gone."
"Never misuse powers." said Splinter, "Everyone has a gift. Leonardo leads, Venus uses her magic, Donatello knows computers, Michaelangelo partys, Raphael's strong & you Alan have music."
"You don't have to have super powers to be cool." said Raph, "You & I are equally good guitarists, but you have a better singing voice. Wanna make that CD?"
"Cool!" said Alan, shaking his hand, "How about we all do it together." they agreed.
The next day, Alan drove a rented moving truck loaded with their musical instruments going to the studio. As they unloaded their equipment, Raph & Alan went to the office. They were shocked that in a few days, the studio would go out of business.
"Can I still record my CD?" asked Alan to the owner.
"Yeah, if you can do it quick! We're behind on rent & bills, so were forced to go out of business." explained the owner.
"Will this help?" asked Alan, opening his briefcase that was full of money, "I got $10,000 to spend. I want your biggest studio, photo session & 50 copies of our CD!" The owner was so delighted, he took down the out of business signs.
"Kid, do you live on 34th St.?"
"No, 43rd."
"Then I got a 'Miracle on 43rd St.'"
Alan filled out a form & then got his studio. The owner was surprised to see the other Turtles setting up equipment.
"Who are the guys in the Ninja Turtle costumes?" asked the owner.
"That's my band, Alan Campbell & The Ninja Turtles. My friends wear the outfits when playing music." explained Alan, "Meet Don on bass, Leo on vibes, Venus on keys, Mikey on drums/tympani. Raph & I play electric guitars & we all sing."
So for 7 hours, Alan & the Turtles recorded 12 songs (rock, hip hop & jazz) for the album. The first 6 cuts had each member being lead singer. The 7th had them all sing together. The 8th cut had Alan & Raph sing together. Then they did 4 instrumentals, the 9th cut with everyone having a solo, the 10th cut featuring Leo playing the vibes, the 11th cut had Mikey playing a drum solo followed by a tympani solo & the last song had Raph & Alan dueling it out on their electric guitars.
They had a photo session. They took a group pic, followed by each member posing with their respective instrument (Mikey posed with his tympani).
Christmas Eve came & the Turtles were relaxing. Then they heard a noise in the sewer & discover it was Santa Alan Claus.
"Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas Turtles! Have you been good Turtles?" he asked.
"We have Santa, but Raph's a so-so!" kidded Mikey.
"I know it's you Alan." said Raph taking off his beard & cap.
Alan handed each Turtles the new CD they made. They were impressed. Alan kept the rest of the copies.
"Santa's got a few more surprises." said Alan leaving, then he told the Turtles to close their eyes.
"Hi Turtles." said a female voice. They were surprised that April O'Neill visited them. April got to meet Venus, then the 4 Turtles flexed their muscles for her. Alan gave Venus their new CD.
"Gotta go, cool cameo." she said. Alan handed presents to the Turtles. Leo got 10 pairs of vibraphone mallets & polish to polish his metal bars with. Don got a new computer game. Venus got a China doll & Mikey got a pizza maker.
Then Alan took Raph to where the vehicles were. Raph was surprised & flabbergasted seeing a new motorcycle.
"Cool bike Alan! I always wanted a ninja styled motorcycle! You didn't have to spend my lottery winnings on me."
"The gang insisted after you lost the bike." said Alan, "Don't worry, I'm handling my lottery winnings responsibly."
The motorcycle's pine green & had Raphael's name on the side.
"Let's go for a ride." said Raph.
"Come back for Christmas dinner, spaghetti with all the trimmings!" said Mikey.
Alan & Raph grabbed their helmets. Alan rode behind with Raph driving his new motorcycle. Raph was impressed with the speed & engine sound. Then he stopped & let Alan drive with him hanging on heading home.