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Serendipity (2007!Raphael x Fem Reader) 1

CHAPTER I: GENESIS

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Ah, Physics.

The best part of class, which is the last part of the class, to be exact. Sure, the break in between classes was a close second, and we were able to walk freely around Roosevelt University, which was a perfect photo op in your opinion; being in the heart of Manhattan in New York City. Your desk, closest to the window and air vent, a win-win situation made a good view for both the instructor and events happening outside. You could glance outside and watch athletes run the track, or you could glance to the middle and watch the empty football field be chalked for the foul lines, the crease for lacrosse, or the goal line for soccer. You could also watch the large jumbo Tron present the weather, time, and school mascot (which was a Tiger) all at once that was rimmed with the red and white colors of the school. If you were bored enough, looking to the right would show the boundary dividing campus and the city life. You could watch people call taxis, run frantically to their jobs to clock in on time, and, if you were lucky, watch a crime get busted by the police. The opportunities to get distracted in Physics were infinite. Quite possibly, your seat placement was the leading cause of your grade being in the low 90s and not the highs like it is for every other class, except Calculus, which was in the mid-80s.

To you, physics was a breeze. To most, it was hell, and whoever created the course and made it a required class should jump in the Atlantic Ocean. However, when it came to the exams and pop quizzes, you maybe once or twice glanced at your desk neighbor and good friend Teddy, only to "compare" answers.

You listened absentmindedly to the best Physics professor to exist in your opinion, Mrs. Scott. You felt bad for students who were less fortunate and did not have Scott, and had Mr. White or Mr. Lesser- Lord knows those two can't teach if their life depended on it. If only Scott taught Calculus, then you'd be set for life.

"Now the million dollar question...." Mrs. Scott erased the lesson learned today on the whiteboard- she was old school, and technology wasn't exactly her best friend, so the Smart Board Screen was forever a blank black abyss that reflected the students in the front row desks like a mirror. You finally gave your full attention to the words being written on the board, and for a moment glanced at the clock.

'In T minus 4 minutes, I'll be free!' you cheered, feeling a sudden wave of energy to answer the last question of the day, and of the week before the next one on Monday. You looked down at your Physics textbook, and your sky blue spiral notebook knowing what was to come. Usually, before the class ended on Fridays, Mrs. Scott would write a question pertaining to the week's lesson that you had to answer, and whoever could explain it in full detail got extra credit. This was a perfect opportunity to change that low 90 into possibly a mid 90.

"Why do boomerangs come back?"

Score! An easy question if you paid close attention during the partner lab on Wednesday. You structured your answer in your head and raised your hand in anticipation and restlessness.

"And no Google!" Numerous groans and sighs filled the room, as many kids put their phones and laptops away, already quitting.

Mrs. Scott looked around the room, only for her eyes to land on yours.

"(Name)?" Considering nobody else knew why a boomerang came back, your pride was soaring.

"Boomerangs work on the same principles of aerodynamics as any other flying object; the key to how a boomerang works is the airfoil. An airfoil is flat on one side but curved on the other with one edge thicker than the other - this subjects the boomerang to lift, keeping it in the air. The lift is generated because the air flowing up over the curve of the wing has further to travel than the air flowing past the flat side. The air moving over the curve travels faster to reach the other side of the wing, creating lift. A boomerang has two airfoils, each facing in a different direction. This makes the aerodynamic forces acting on a thrown boomerang uneven. The section of the boomerang moving in the same direction as the direction of forwarding motion moves faster than the section moving in the opposite direction. Just like tank tracks moving at different speeds, this causes the boomerang to turn in the air and return to the thrower." Once you finished, the hour and 30 minutes of physics were complete, and the day was done. In just a matter of seconds, all students were out the door.

"Nerd alert." Teddy snickered as he got up from his seat. You noticed he possessed his signature wine red football jersey that had the colleges “Roosevelt” logo on the upper chest area, with the bone white “#54” on the front, back and sleeve, his last name owning the same pure white color on the back. Whenever Teddy or any player wore their jersey, it meant there was a game tonight.

Teddy Wilds. While almost all jocks were assholes, Teddy was an exception. Shaggy chocolate brown hair, army green eyes, pale skin and a structured face, he was every girl's teenage dream. Except yours. The first time you both met was last semester in chemistry, and the trend of having Teddy in your science classes continued into the next one. When he isn't being harassed by girls in physics, he's talking to you or placing bids on Ebay for the newest piece of tech or even a signed football.

"Oh whatever!" you replied, lightly pushing him away as he placed his hand on the back of his neck.

"Home or away tonight?" You asked out of curiosity, it wasn't like you were going to go, but it was nice to know; and hey, maybe you'd change your mind.

"Home at 7, though, it'd feel more like home if you came." Teddy replied flirtatiously. His voice was a bit deep, but it still reminded you of someone going through puberty even though Teddy was already 20, as he still had little voice cracks here and there.

Teddy was a total weirdo, but he never failed to make you laugh at least once a day.

"Where'd you find that one on the internet?" You ask while putting your bag on your desk, firstly putting the heavy textbook in, then the other items. Once done, you slung your backpack on your back. It is a bit miraculous how you have no back problems due to all the weight you put on your back.

"Like I would reveal," The brown haired boy scoffed. "But you should come, s'not like you have assignments due today."

“I'll ask Jade if she wants to go. See ya 'round, Teddy. If I’m a no-show, text me how it went." You saluted as you finally walked out the lab room, hearing a “Gotcha!” From Teddy.

Now, you are ready to start your weekend. In all honesty, you didn't really participate or show "school spirit" per say; hell, you didn't even know the Boys Basketball Team won sections last weekend against another rival college until yesterday.

Once you went from the fourth floor to the school entrance, you immediately felt the chilly November winds hit your face. You were more than lucky you decided to throw on some sweats than your blue skinny jeans, as they warm your legs up a bit. Your eyes scanned the scene in front of you: the many conversations occurring, the laughs of some and the arguments among others, groups of friends leaving together in one direction, and others in the opposite. Some cars fly out of the parking lot in a rush to get home, and other students get on the bus to take them home. Finally, off of campus grounds, you sighed in relief. The weekend officially started, and you had nothing but time to waste. Now on the streets of New York City, you put your earbuds in to block out the noise and fish your phone out of your pocket to pick a song.

You passed through Central Park, then past the many shops and stores after leaving, knowing the exact way to your tiny apartment. You strolled and glanced at the many people who passed you by, only seeing their faces for less than a second, only to never see them again. It seems every hour is rush hour in NYC, but at 3pm in particular, it seemed the most crowded and busy, which always delayed traffic and a longer time to get home for you.

You thought to yourself as you continued to walk home if you should go to the game or not, and texted your friend Jade to hear her thoughts on it.

3:20: (Name)

Wanna go to the FB game today? I'm indifferent tbh :(

3:22: Jade

Hmm, idk 0-0, I'm not doing anything, but seeing our school lose(when do we not, we're only good at lacrosse- and basketball) is gonna hurt the small school spirit I have left :(

3:22: Jade

What do you say about coming over later? You can’t say no to a sleepover! *O* let's rage gurl!

3:23: (Name)

I'll bring the fun stuff :) and we’re pretty decent at football when we wanna be.

3:24: Jade

That sounds highly illegal.

You’re not wrong, but exactly! ‘When we wanna be’ tisk. tisk.

Bring Stella!

3:26: (Name)

You know what I mean, dummy. And you know Stella won’t leave her bed if I didn’t bribe her with food.

3:27: (Name)

Coming by around 7! (don't forget like last time -_-)

3:27: Jade

It was one time!

Well, you were definitely getting an earful of Teddy next class on Monday, but hey, you can't compare a college event to best friend bonding. You then thought of what to put in your overnight bag later, and made a note to bring a few movies and CD's to play at Jade's place.

Jade Santos. Lacrosse player, and a true artist. One of your closest friends.

When your parents found a Uni that only accepted a few, and you were lucky enough to get accepted. You were craving city life, and a different atmosphere. The only thing that came with this move was there was no way your parents were quitting their jobs to work in the city, so with the help of your weekend and summer job and your parents, they're able to pay rent for your tiny apartment that you were happy enough to call your own. Jade was the third person you befriended after she asked you to take a photo of her on your camera for her to keep- and any photo opportunity you were there for the taking. Not long after, she returned the favor by painting you a beautiful landscape on a canvas that screamed 'Bob Ross.' Once you got to know her, you loved being around her. Ever since, you've been conjoined to the hip, and good friends.

Sleepovers with Jade were definitely nights to remember; as they consisted of snacks, pizza, dancing like idiots on her bed to whatever song that played on the radio or CD, talking about the latest gossip going around campus, new music, and taking photos on one of your disposable cameras that you developed in the nearby Walgreens the next morning. After doing so, it was Y/n and Jade Sleepover Tradition that you would go to James’ Diner- which was the one you waited tables at for a job- a few blocks away to eat breakfast together.

After half an hour of walking home from class, you finally made it into your apartment complex. It was a bit more secluded, yet it was still a bit dangerous. A notorious gang called the Purple Dragons resided in your area sometimes- (they often moved around)- and caused nothing but mischief, only to be stopped by the police or- if they're having an unlucky day- the Nightwatcher.

The first time you heard of the infamous Nightwatcher was on the news, then he- it was newly known as a male rather than a female--shown up in newspapers. For the most part, it seems most of the crime activity stopped by him happens around your area, quite possibly because of the Purple Dragons, and even some good for nothing criminals. You didn't think much of it, though you did a bit of research here and there, only to realize nothing but conspiracies and old news articles came up in the search results.

Taking your ear buds out from your ears, the music stopped, and the city's sounds were your new tunes. Before you walked into the entrance to your apartment building, you felt someone push by you harshly- nearly knocking you over.

"Watch it." A gruff voice said angrily. Turning around, you saw a pale slim guy with a black short sleeved sweater that showed his slightly muscular arms. He looked a bit sketchy, but your typical New York jerk at a glance.

You flipped him off and replied with a simple "Screw you, don't be rude, dude!" the man looked down at you, his tattooed face and gloomy burnt umber eyes staring you down in anger. With the hoodie shielding his identity from you, you had no idea what his face looked like. Rolling your eyes, you walked up the steps to the apartment building entrance and slammed the door shut, watching him fume with anger and hear his muffled voice as he banged on the door, yelling how ‘he’d remember this’ and 'he'll see you soon,’ until stomping off to a nearby alleyway, never to be seen again like most of the people in New York. You figured he was all talk and no action.

If only you would've seen the tattoo on the back of his neck, it possibly could've saved you from being in any type of danger tonight.

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Once you got to the 8th floor and unlocked your apartment door, you let out yet another sigh of relief -in pure bliss- as you were finally home, and you could relax for a few before you were off to Jades. You locked the door and made way to your bedroom, sensing your cat following behind you.

"I see you Stella, even though I'm not looking at you, I still see you." You stated not turning your head- and got nothing back, but you could still feel her eyes not leaving your body as you slumped your bag on the bed and she hopped on it in suite- curling up into a small ball of shedding fur. You grabbed your camera from your bag and placed it on the corner shelf with your other ones.

You quickly took a shower- sad that you couldn’t take a long, relaxing steamy one like you usually do- and put on a pair of black leggings, black and white Vans, a plain T-shirt- which would be your pajamas for the night. You brushed out your hair, taking out all the knots as you went- and soon deciding to leave your hair out since you didn’t feel like fighting with it to get a hairstyle you desired. After, you opened your closet and took your overnight bag out and placed it on your bed, careful not to startle the Balinese. You went into the bathroom and took your comb and brush, the travel bottle of shampoo, conditioner and unopened box of bar soap to place inside your bag. Then, you looked around your room for any other things you should take until your eyes laid on your Polaroid.

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Call Y/n obsessed, but that vintage polaroid was her favorite.

She had gotten it as a “Good luck out there gift” from both her parents the day she finally moved in- without her knowledge, her mom placed it on her new bed, as it blended in with the rest of the clutter she had yet to unpack. Later on in the day, she received a text from her dad to “take pretty photos of NYC” knowing she loved to go sightseeing. New York City was the best place to do it! Aside from going to Roosevelt, it was also her reasoning for picking the beautiful state to finish high school. So, that she did. She took photos of whatever she could, even if it was a pigeon on a park bench- she took it. Then, Y/n had gotten more vintage cameras from a nearby Goodwill at a great price, starting her camera collection. This white Poloroid with a rainbow stripe running down the middle however, would always be her favorite.

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After a little reminiscing about the camera your parents gave you, you also put it in your bag to take. You went back into your closet and took your work attire out for tomorrow to also put in it. You retreated back to the living room and turned on the television. It was Channel 5, the news, and you took a seat on the couch in front of the TV.

"NIGHTWATCHER STRIKES AGAIN. NYC CRIME RATE DECLINING FAST. IS PLAYING VIGILANTE OKAY?" You read the headline at the bottom, and then watched as an amateur camera-man got a shaky and blurry shot of the Nightwatcher. It was difficult to see, but you could still make out his figure atop the roof of an apartment building at night if you squint hard enough. You thought in your head about the headline. Is a vigilante really okay? I mean, going topside and busting criminals faster than the police can is not a bad thing, but most New Yorkers would say to leave the crime to the NYPD. But, the crime rate has gone down a bit from where it was last after the Nightwatcher showed up. So...maybe it's not so bad to have him around. You couldn’t imagine doing a better job than the authorities and NOT receiving any type of reward- specifically money- for the hard work you put in for keeping the city safe, and this dude did it for free. FREE.

After tuning in to the latest news story, it was now 6:11. You turned off the TV and headed toward the kitchen to feed Stella dinner and put cold water in her bowl to drink, hearing a loud THUMP when she jumped off the bed and light footsteps scurrying to the kitchen to eat the second you opened a can of cat food. After, you patted her head and left her alone with a goodbye and pleaded.

“See you tomorrow night, please don’t break anything.” You stated, only to have Stella completely immersed in her meal, and not paying any attention to you- it wasn’t like Stella could understand you, anyway.

With that, you grabbed the spare key to your apartment and opened your door, locking it behind you. Knowing Stella would need to be fed in the morning, you walked down the hall to the all-too familiar sunset yellow apartment door: 8-H. You knocked on the door, knowing the doorbell wasn't working.

After a few moments and some shuffling coming from the inside, an all too familiar male voice finally answered-

"Um, one second!" You heard two hushed voices on the other side of the door, one being a voice that wasn't April's and you haven't heard before, and you were now a bit curious. About a minute or so later, you saw the lock of the door turn and open, revealing one out of the two who resided in 8-H. A jet black haired, hair gel free Casey Jones.

"Y-Y/n! What's up kid?" A stuttering Casey asked, it was as if he was almost nervous. He placed his hand on the door frame and the other on the door, making it impossible to see the inside of his apartment's living space.

"I wish you'd stop calling me that, we're literally 2 years apart." You both shared a laugh.

"But I'm not in College anymore--thanks to Google and April, I graduated" You rolled your eyes at the smiling idiot in response. You remembered the time you were in their apartment the same week you met them 2 years back, chatting it up with the couple and soon getting into the topic of school for the very first time.

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“I just...I feel like everyday it just gets worse.” April handed Y/n a cup of hot green tea with just the right amount of honey. Casey paused the movie he was watching- ‘Miracle’ was it?

“College is the worst aside from the parties. Not a day went by when I had a shitty day come to think of it. I’m surprised I balanced college and hockey without wanting to drop out and become a rapper.” Casey replied laughing to himself, April took a seat on the couch next to Y/n, taking a sip of her own cup of tea.

“As dramatic as he makes it, he’s right. I knew a friend who did a sport every season- tennis in the fall, swimming in the winter, and softball in the spring. She had a 3.8 GPA, even. Once Junior year came around, she couldn’t handle academics and athletics together and her grades started to decline. So, she didn’t swim or play softball that year. I didn’t do a sport, but I still struggled. I can’t imagine how stressed others were. School is meant to kick your ass, but you have to kick it harder.” April placed a comforting hand on Y/n’s shoulder, as she smiled in response.

“But, when you really need help, you should ask for it. I remember Sophomore year, the exact day I met Casey- who came to me begging for help in Geometry, and wouldn’t stop bothering me about it, until I agreed minutes later.” The red-haired girl stared at the ceiling, basking in its plainness, remembering her own school experience and how quick it all went by.

“I can’t believe you remember that! Then Y/n, I asked her to come watch my game, then homecoming, then I asked her out on a date, and then prom and then-” ''Slow down, Jones!” “Am I rambling again?” April laughed at her boyfriend, seeing how excited he was to talk about their history together.

“I know we just met on Monday but...I feel like I’ve known you for longer. You’d make a good therapist.” Y/n complimented.

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"Is April around?"

You hoped she was. Lord knows Casey can't take care of himself, let alone a simple task of checking up on a cat and feeding it. He most likely would oversleep and forget.

"She's not, actually. She left for South America two days ago on a big business trip or something for some artifacts." Casey replied. Great.

Casey Jones and April O' Neil. You were close with both of them, as they were the first two whom you met, and greeted you when you moved in down the hall from them. When you got to know them well, you would often visit and drop by sometimes just to talk. A bit more with Casey since he was around more than April. You ranted about class, and he ranted about work and trying to be perfect for April. You thought they were relationship goals, they were so in love and happy and you were happy for them. It made you want to be in a relationship and experience the same feelings. They were both extremely humble and fun young adults to be around. You liked to spend time shopping with April or spilling the latest gossip on anyone on campus (even though she finished college, gossip always keeps it interesting) and you liked to talk about how much you disliked a lot of people in your classes with Casey, or watch a football, lacrosse or hockey game with him since he loved the company, (especially hockey, since it reminds him of his ‘school days.’)

"Wow, that's far. But, I'm actually not gonna be home until tomorrow evening, I’m spending the night with Jade, then I have to work from 8am to 5pm and I won’t have time to stop by here-I sort of need someone to feed Stella and see how she's doing in the morning, and April is always happy to see her…" You looked down at the floor, playing with the white earbuds in your hands. You did notice Casey tapping his foot at a fast pace, almost impatiently.

"That she is. I'd be more than happy to feed her for ya, Y/n. Responsible Jones at your service!" You looked up and saw Casey shooting you a toothy grin that made you snort. Who knew responsibility was in his vocabulary?

"Aren't you allergic? I can ask Mel downstairs, but I trust you and April more…" Casey shook his head, "That's what Zyrtec and Claritin are for, duh!" He exclaimed.

"If you insist, Jones. I usually feed her around 7 to 8:30 in the morning,” You took a breath before you continued onto the rules part of feeding Stella. “Make sure to give her COLD water, not room temperature, she'll look at you like you're crazy- and yes, she’s silently judging you- and won’t drink it. It HAS to be filtered water, or she won't drink it. You can put one ice cube in her bowl, not two, or she won't drink it. Her food is under the kitchen cabinet--give her half the canned food and put the other half in a small container on the top cabinet and I'll feed her that one in the evening. Thanks!" Casey looked absolutely lost.

"Picky cat- and I thought I was bad" He finally said in shock. Yep, Stella was one peculiar cat.

"You are!" A voice beyond the door shouted. Well, it was definitely a male, who possessed a gruff and deep even, but not too deep voice. One thing’s for sure, it definitely wasn’t April.

'Oh' you thought. You didn't know Casey had company over. Hell, you didn't even know Casey had FRIENDS other than you. Then again, he and April were somewhat secretive when it came to their social lives. Casey whipped his head back at the source of the voice, raising his slender middle finger. He looked back at you and saw the look of curiosity in your eyes.

"Did I uh...interrupt something? You seem off right now." You stepped a bit closer to Casey, and he stepped back, clearing his throat.

"Nah! Not at all! I just...didn't expect you this late ya know?" He laughed awkwardly.

You checked your phone, "It's 6 in the night, you're far from late." you sighed adjusting the strap from your duffle bag.

"6:20 actually." Jones stated matter-of-factly looking at the analog clock against the wall.

"Alright smart-ass, 6:20. So, here's the spare key, do NOT lose it. There WILL be consequences if you do." You handed the silver key paired with your lucky sea turtle Keychain over to your friend--who twirled it around his index finger.

“And if I do?” The “all-natural” haired male challenged.

“I’ll get rid of all your Zyrtec and Claritan and swipe it for laxatives. Don’t play me.” Casey gasped, wincing at the thought.

“Evil!”

“Well,” You started, “Don’t lose it.”

Casey saluted you. "Yes sir! I mean…ma'am." To which you rolled your eyes slowly in response.

"Thank you, seriously. I'll text you in the morning to remind you even." You suddenly heard the same voice clear their throat in the background, and Casey gripped the door knob.

"Welp, I gotta go! See you…tomorrow I mean, Y/n- have a safe walk-BYE!" Casey stumbled over his words, getting quieter and muffled after every second due to the door closing more after each pause.

“Bye, let’s talk-…” With that, the door closed, and you were face to face with the deep yellow door after it cut you off.

“...later.” You finished your sentence to the door.

"That was…odd." You say to yourself. There was definitely something going on, but you had no time to do some FBI secret agent super sleuthing. However, this encounter was nothing new you’ve seen. Casey or April taking longer to answer the door, shuffling and other voices behind the door becoming silent once he opened it. The times you actually entered the house, you felt as if they were hiding something during your short stay. You never saw anyone else in the house except for April and Casey- but you had enough knowledge that they knew other people. You never asked them directly, but the time would come eventually. You put your earbuds back in your ears and chose a new song to listen to, walking towards the elevator and out the building entrance door once you reached the 1st floor, beginning your walk to Jade’s.

What Y/n didn’t know, however, was that the person who she was curious about would come face to face with her soon enough.

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thenerdytomboynewb96 · 7 years ago

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Samantha Allan Park Ch. #27

Any references to TMNT or anything from popular media and culture is NOT MINE. I only own my OC's.

Chapter #27

*Theme: All Time Low: Old Scars/Future Hearts*

The turtles were in shock as they tried not to stare at Sam who had suddenly appeared in front of them, but they wanted to know where the heck she had come from, and where had she been? Wasn’t she supposed to be distracting Shredder? So how did she end up here? Their thoughts were disrupted as they heard the surrounding soldiers start insulting the girl in front of them. “Awww look who decided to show up?” “Figures, she’s on their side!” “I knew it! TRAITOR!” “Sensei is going to love it when we tell him that we killed the weasel of the clan!” random voices from the crowd of soldiers continued to shout out. The turtles couldn’t stand what they were hearing and were about to charge forward and begin their attack until they noticed that Donnie was focused on something in front of him. While the other three brothers were giving slight glances to each other to signal that they were ready to attack, Donnie was the only one who ignored their signal as he was slowly reaching towards one of his pockets ever so slightly as to not make it known to the crowd in front of him that he was moving at all.

What the other brothers couldn’t see was that as Sam kneeled on one knee and held her arm as if it was in pain, this was all a farce. In reality, as the crowd in front of her wasted their time calling her names and insulting her, Sam was using her hidden hand that seemed to be in pain to sign letters to Donnie. Using sign language Sam spelt out the words ‘SPREAD OUT IN’ as she then held up five fingers, then four, then three, then two, and as she put down her last finger she heard Donnie yell “DISPERSE!” as he threw down one of his homemade smoke bombs.

Sam quickly stood up as she heard the four behind her leap up and over to other portions of the room. She adjusted her glove and was about to throw her right arm up in front of her so that she could use her wind power from the mutagen and the device to blow away any nearby soldiers, but instead she just stood there as her jaw dropped in pained amazement. In front of her was Michelangelo. His back was to the crowd of soldiers and apparently Dragons who were now shooting at the two. Sam hadn’t even noticed that there were Dragons mixed in with the crowd, but it had to have been them and not Foot soldiers holding the guns because they were too stupid to aim for Mikey’s legs and only aimed for his back and head which of course were blocked by his shell, freaking idiots, but hey it was playing out for them right now so Sam wasn’t complaining. In fact, it was perfect that it was only the dumb Dragons who were attacking right now since Sam was so lost in her emotional thoughts that she couldn’t move. Mikey was standing so that his back was to the crowd so he could deflect all bullets shot at both him and Sam. He had his hands near the side of his head as his arms and elbows stretched outwards. Usually one would stand this way if they were blocking punches that were aimed at their head, but Mikey was doing this so that he could cover and defend as much of Sam’s body as he possibly could.

Sam was shocked. How could he defend her like this? He was putting his body and his life at risk so that he could protect her, but what had she done to deserve this? She had kept secrets from him and his family which then lead to her almost possibly killing Raph, and then she treated them all like shit when she had a chance to confess the truth to them. She had done nothing but pushed them away for their own good, so why was he still here protecting her like they were best friends? She had done nothing within that past month that showed him any respect, and hell he was the final one that told her to leave the night of the incident! So why was he here now? Why was he acting like nothing had ever happened?

Sam then looked back up and realized that Mikey had never winced or anything from the bullets being shot at them, but rather he was staring down at her. Even now as he was literally being attacked he was still putting her first. He didn’t care what was happening to him, just as long as Sam was safe from any and all harm. Sam finally snapped and realized that this was wrong. Her friend needed help and now wasn’t the time to get emotional and think over things. Now it was Mikey whose eyes went wide as he saw Sam’s eyes turn blue as she spun around and kicked him in the chest. Mikey went flying backwards. At first he was confused as to why the girl would treat him in such a way, but that was before he heard the groaning of the eight soldiers he had just knocked unconscious as his body slammed against them in the crash. He smiled as he realized where his friends mind was at, but then he switched back to a serious expression as he saw Sam running down the now opened path that Mikey had just created. “Up-up!” she yelled at him as she came charging towards him. Mikey leaned down and cupped his hands together as Sam jumped up and planted her right foot in his hands as he launched her upwards and behind him. As Mikey pulled out his nunchuks and started fighting the soldiers that were beginning to crowd him he couldn’t help but laugh as he saw Sam land on a soldier’s shoulders and basically tackle him to the ground and then use his knocked out body as a shield from the surrounding soldiers. Sam was still the same unique and sporadic fighter that she was before everything changed, and that made him happier than anything.

While Mikey continued to fight the small group of soldiers that were with him, Sam looked around to see which brother needed help the most at the moment. Somehow a majority of the soldiers had followed Donnie towards the far corner of the room. Sam ran and zipped through the soldiers, blocking attacks along the way as she made her way over towards where Donnie was defending himself as best as he could against the large crowd, but slowly the incoming soldiers gained the upper hand as they were able to watch for the best moment to swoop in and attack while their rival was distracted. One soldier was about to make their move and Donnie could sense their presence, but because of how many other soldiers were attacking in front of him, he couldn’t turn around to defend himself. He braced himself for the attack from the sword that would soon be slicing into the back of his neck, but the cut never came. As Donnie quickly glanced over his shoulder he saw Sam land a kick to the soldier’s wrist, and then a punch to the man’s face after he grabbed his wrist in pain. Now that Donnie had someone watching his back, he was able to fight off the soldiers in front of him much more aggressively. Sam stayed in this spot and helped guard her friend until the crowd around him dwindled some. She then looked over and saw some soldiers who were scaling the walls over top of where Leo was standing and fighting down below.

Sam foresaw their plan, but she didn’t want to leave Donnie hanging. “Hey, you good here?” Sam asked as a man ran towards her and she twisted her body so that using his momentum she could flip him over her shoulder and onto his back. “I’m fine, go help the others” Donnie replied as he dodged a katana brought down near his shoulder as he then used his bo to slap the man’s arm near his elbow and then twisted it so that it nailed his opponent in the face. Sam nodded as she ran over towards where Leo was standing. As she ran she launched some shuriken stars up towards the men who were climbing the wall. She had a strong feeling that their plan was to drop themselves onto Leo and basically pile on top of him to a point where it would be difficult for him to get back up and the soldiers would continue to harm him then as well. Each of Sam’s throws made a direct hit. Each man’s hand was cut which lead to some of them falling instantly, but three remained as they glared down at her. They sensed that it was now or never as they released their hands covered in climbing claws from the wall and aimed their landing towards where Leo was standing. Sam quickly adjusted her sleeve and threw her right hand up as her eyes shone a dark color as the black covered the back of her brown eyes. “Leo duck!” Sam shouted. Leo did as he was told as a huge gust of air rushed over top of him, taking the falling soldiers and even some that were standing nearby with it as they all went flying across the room. The fight quickly picked back up as Leo stood up and used his katanas to block a sword that was swung at him. Sam looked across the room and saw that now it was Raph who had the largest group of soldiers fighting him. She made her way over towards the other side of the room. Somehow these soldiers had gotten their hands on some guns, which was very unusual for soldiers to use guns, but who knew. Tonight hadn’t gone the way the Foot would have liked, so maybe they were being extra cautious and were fighting in ways that they weren’t used to. Sam threw a few more shuriken stars so that they would slice the tips of the guns making them unable to shoot, and once again each star made a direct hit. Within a split second of the soldiers looking at their weapons to see what had happened, Raph had come barreling through the crowd. Sam ran over and aided him in the fight against the now somewhat smaller crowd. “Behind you!” Sam shouted as two new soldiers ran towards the large turtle. Raph landed a kick to the soldier in front of him as he then turned around and twisted his sais so that they hooked around the men’s wrists as he then flipped them behind him. Their bodies slammed against the wall, and as Raph turned to face them to make sure they stuck the landing he had intended, this was when he saw some small green lights from the balcony up ahead. “Uhhhh, guys?! We have more company!” Raph shouted. “ALLIES!” Sam shouted. She quickly looked around where all the green dots were and noticed that in the far front left corner there were no lights, but green surrounded the top everywhere else up on the balcony. She noticed Donnie already heading that way since he had probably already guessed that that was the safe spot. She saw Leo and Mikey doing the same as she nodded toward them to signal that that was the right move. “Raph we need to move to the opposite side of the room, now!” Raph was a bit stunned after hearing the girl say his name for the first time in weeks. For a brief moment it felt the same as before everything had happened which felt nice, but now wasn’t the time to get emotional.

The two made their way through the crowd, but the soldiers soon started swarming them. “Raph, can you get us over their quickly, but in a way where I can still prep my sleeve?” Sam asked as she punched one man and shoved him into another. “Heh, say no more” Raph said as he swooped the girl over his left shoulder. As he used his right shoulder to barrel through the crowd, Sam was adjusting her sleeve as she was carried on his left. As soon as they reached the spot where the other brothers were standing, her sleeve was ready. She heard the clicking of the guns from up above getting ready to launch, and she was just about ready as well. “Uhhhh, Sam?” Leo asked nervously. “Stand back” she said as she aimed her hand at the ground. Her eyes lit up in blue and black as huge gusts of air came flying from her palm and went up into the air. Because of how she angled her hand, the air was going straight up, almost as if making a wall of wind that you could physically see. The boys could somewhat see what was happening on the other side. A dark colored gas was shot from the guns above and was now consuming the rest of the room. Thanks to Sam’s device, all five of them were now safe from this gas since they were on the other side of the wind wall as it created a barrier from the knock out gas that surrounded the rest of the lower half of the room.

Once Sam saw the green lights turn off then she knew it was safe to stop using her device. The gusts of wind came to an end as Sam removed her hand from its raised position right above the floor and once again her eyes returned to normal. Five of the rebel soldiers from the balcony above removed their masks as they leaped down onto the floor below. Sam recognized the five familiar faces as they removed their masks and she was going to walk over to them and ask for updates on how the plan was going, but she sensed that Mikey was walking behind her. She knew a time would come when she’d have to confront him again and that she wouldn’t be able to hide from him forever, but still, now was not the time for the difficult and emotional reunion. As she heard his footsteps come close enough for him to be standing behind her, Sam aimed her arm down as she used her device to push gusts of air from her palms as she rose into the air and up onto the balcony. She could tell that Mikey was upset as he called after her, but she couldn’t face him right now for multiple reasons, so she exited the room with the other rebel soldiers to get the updates that she needed.

Meanwhile down below, Mikey was still calling after Sam as the recognized faces of Key, Kris, Kyle, Ken, and now Kevin were running over towards the turtles. “Dude she’s gone already, just chill, okay?” Ken said. The way he spoke was sympathetic, but Mikey was so consumed by his emotions that he hadn’t perceived the man’s words that way and reacted harshly for this reason. “Sorry, I can’t just chill and let my best friend go get killed by the biggest criminal this city has ever known” Mikey said callously. Ken could sense the harsh tone and reacted the same way. “I thought you’d have more confidence in her that she could protect herself.” “I thought you were smart enough not to let someone who sometimes let their emotions take control fight the Shredder by them self.” “She volunteered herself and she’s the best one out of everyone here for the job and you know it.” “What I know is that I’m the only one who has been trying to stop her from fighting alone.” The two were now standing face to face, chest to chest. “We’re trying to get to a point where we can go fight with her. Do you honestly think we want her fighting alone?” “I’ve yet to see anyone stop her.” “That’s just because she keeps running away from YOU.” *shoulder shove* “Only because she’s in the situation that YOU allowed.” *shoulder shove* “Yeah, after you ABANDONED HER.” *shoulder shove* “Says the one that LIED TO HER *shoulder shove* when she was suffering all alone after losing her family.” “We did it to keep her safe!” *push* “Because letting her run off is really keeping her safe!” *push* “As least she wants to talk to me, she can’t stand to see you!” *balling up fist* “If you weren’t such a weak piece of shit then you’d fight Shredder so that she wouldn’t be in this situation!” *balling up fist* “Well if you weren’t such an asshole and supported her when she needed it then she never!-”

Just as Mikey and Ken were about to throw punches at each other, Leo, Raph, Key, Kyle, and Kris came over and broke up the fight. Raph pulled Mikey’s arms back as Leo pushed him away just as Kris and Kyle each grabbed one of Ken’s arms as Key pushed him away. “Mikey, what are you thinking?” Leo asked. “They’re not the enemy! What in your mind is telling you that it’s okay to fight with our allies?” “Yeah but what he said was!-” “Is what he said wrong? No, it’s not! Are we proud of how we all acted and how things went down? Of course not! But you know better than to let emotions get in the way, hell you literally just said that you were worried about Sam for doing that. THINK. BEFORE. YOU. SPEAK” Leo said, poking his brother in the forehead each time he spoke. Key then turned towards Ken. “Same goes for you dickhead” he said as he flicked Ken on his forehead. “I know, but-” “Nope, no excuses. Everyone in this room is to blame for what Sam’s going through. Those four have their part in all this, and the orange one is right about us. We’ve been hiding things from Sam for years so we have no right to say a damn thing, NONE of us do. We’ve all fucked up somewhere along the way, so get over it and let’s move on so that we can save Sam!” Mikey and Ken looked across the room at each other, their arms still being held back. “Sorry for the verbal attacks” Mikey said lightly. “Sorry for bringing up dark details. Just, you’re not the only one who’s concerned about her” Ken replied in the same manner. Mikey lightly yanked his arms free, though Raph didn’t hold back in any way as he trusted that his brother could now control himself. “Good to know,” he replied with a grin, “so let’s go help her and make up for when we fucked up” he said as he put his hand out in front of him. Ken also removed his arms from his friends grasp and walked over to shake Mikey’s hand. “Sounds good to me.” “Now that that’s over,” Kris said as he now took the floor, “thanks to you guys a lot of the non-fighters have already left the building. There’s still a few more groups who are making their way out though and there’s also still a lot of loyal soldiers and dragons within the building who need to be taken down and tied up so that we can move their bodies to the parking garage across the street for the cops. Oh, and we’re still trying to figure out Sachs’s whereabouts. He still has Professor Perry and the older Mutanimals following him around.” Just as Kris was finishing up his update, a voice start hollering through his walkie talkie. “BREACH! BREACH! Soldiers have gotten outside with mutagen weapons and have also destroyed another one of our pathways! Innocents are going to get hurt if we don’t help them now!” “It looks like we have more work to do before we can reach Sam” Kris said. “We can help” Leo added. Kris looked at the turtle in shock. “Are you guys sure? Like, you’d help us even though you’ve helped us in so many ways already?” “That’s sorta what we do” Mikey said teasingly which then received a nod of approval and a fist bump from Ken. Kris smiled as he then held his walkie talkie to his lips. “This is KW4. I have a group that will pursue the loyals where the breach is. Have any remaining soldiers go with the younger Mutanimals and stop the soldiers that are leaving the building and make sure you retrieve those mutagen weapons before they end up in the wrong hands.” “This is LB3, the breach is on the 12th floor. Also, multiple teams are pursuing the loyal escapees.” “Roger that” Kris replied as he then started leading the group out of the room and downstairs towards the lower floor.

After a few minutes of running down the main stairwell the group then reached the 12th floor. Multiple Foot soldiers were lining innocent people up along the wall. The hostages were forced to put their hands behind their head and kneel down and place their foreheads on the ground. Once the soldiers saw the group of nine enter the room they quickly forgot about the hostages and switched their focus towards attacking and defeating their rivals. “Split up and attack them in separate sections. They’re strongest when in groups so be aware of that. Kevin, try leading them down the hall towards another stairwell” Kris stated. The others nodded and the battle began. Donnie was the quickest and was the first to fight head on with a couple of soldiers that were standing closest to where the group was, and as he fought these two, the others ran past them and continued to fight the others. They tried to keep up with this pattern. Kyle and Ken were the next two to reach the soldiers, so as they fought a group of five soldiers the others maneuvered their way past this group and then went to fight the others behind them. Key and Leo took a small group and then past them Kevin and Mikey took a small group as Raph ran past them some and fought any incoming soldiers towards the end of the hall. As soldiers were knocked unconscious and their manned positions were left unguarded, Kevin would run back and lead them back down the way the group had entered the space and then lead them to another secret stairwell nearby. As one section was free, then our heroes would pursue more soldiers that entered the room further down until eventually the majority of them were now fighting as a large group down towards the end of the hall.

Within the commotion of the fight, nobody but Raph had seen a little girl randomly run away from the large crowds. She seemed to be about 5 years old, and what really hurt Raph was how scared she was as she ran away with tears streaming down her face. He honestly had no idea what he was supposed to do in this situation. Should he go after her, or would that scare her more? Should he wait for someone else to notice? His thoughts were cut short as he saw three more soldiers (when would they stop showing up?!) enter the room and walk over to the girl. One man grabbed her arm while one of his companions opened a door. It seemed like they were going to drag the girl into the room and leave her there so that regardless of what happened they would always have their hostage, and at that point Raph was ticked off beyond belief. The largest turtle charged towards the men. Two pulled out katanas while one pulled out a set on tonfa. Blades clashed together as Raph focused on fighting defensively so that he could also keep an eye on where the young child had went. To stunned to move, the girl was paralyzed as she sat up against the wall and held her legs to chest. Raph moved his body so that the soldiers couldn’t reach the girl without going through him. Raph waited for the right moment as he hooked his sai onto the one man’s katana and as he pulled back the sword went sliding down the hallway. He then brought his knee up and kicked the man as he was caught off guard, and then Raph shoved him into his companion. Raph then went head to head with the ninja wielding the tonfa staffs. The two fought to be on the offensive side of the battle, but in the end it was Raphael who won as he used his sais to push the tonfa staffs to the side as he then lunged his head forward and swiftly bashed the other man in the head with his own.

Just as the last man fell to the floor, Raph sensed movement behind him. What he hadn’t realized was that the little girl behind him had cautiously chased after the katana that had slid down the hallway as she was now holding it above the head of one of the soldiers who had already fallen unconscious. Raph was about to call out to her not to do what he feared she would, but just as he opened his mouth, a young woman had run over and yelled to the girl to stop first. She rushed past the turtle as if he wasn’t even there and ripped the sword from the child’s hands as she tossed it to the side and hugged the child tightly. The girl was still crying, but the hug was definitely calming her down. Raph assumed this woman was the child’s mother, and he was shocked at the fact that these two had been living here together. He couldn’t imagine what horrors the two had experienced while living here, and he feared how they might traumatize this child’s future even if she did escape. Just then, a couple of Purple Dragons had run down the hallway and began shooting wildly throughout the hallway. Raph rushed over to the women and towered over them. He used his shell to block any bullets that came near them as they cowered in front of him, the mother holding her daughter tightly and trying her best to use her body to shield her child from any stray bullets as well. Eventually Leo and Key ran down and took out both those two Dragons and all other Purple Dragons members that were making their way down the hallway. Raph would have joined…but he just had to know how this poor child ended up in this position. “Why…why is your kid here?” Raph asked. He didn’t mean for his words to come out sounding as cold as they did, but he couldn’t hide how irked he was that this woman allowed this to happen. The woman glared up at the turtle in front of her. “Do you think I wanted this? I was pregnant when I was captured. I never even got the chance to tell her father that I was carrying since I was captured so soon! And because of how twisted this place is I couldn’t even save her by putting her up for adoption if I wanted to!” the woman said aggressively. Raph’s heart was crushed. He was a tough guy and wasn’t the best at showing emotion (and honestly he hated when he had to) but hearing this broke his heart. How could this world be so cruel to such innocent people? This child had probably experienced nothing but violence in this hostile environment and probably didn’t even understand why, she had no clue as to why she was born and raised in a place where no one has a say in how they’re treated or even why they’re treated so terribly. He looked down at the woman and gave her a sympathetic look as he spoke gently. “I didn’t mean to say it like that, and I’m not judging, just…I’m so, so sorry…” The woman calmed down herself and changed her tone as she also spoke kindly to him. “Thanks to you guys, she’ll never have to suffer like this ever again” she said as she began to smile. “Thank you.” The little girl then smiled up at Raph as well. “Thank you sir.” Raph couldn’t help but smile as he kneeled down in front of the child. “Hey now, I’m only 15. I’m too young for you to call me sir. Just Raph, kay?” The girl looked as if she was going to say something else, but Kevin had called over to the girl and her mom, and after sending Raph one more thankful smile, the two ran off to follow Kevin towards the secret stairwell they would use to escape. As Kevin ran off with the group of innocent escapees, Kris walked back over towards the turtles and informed them on what to do next. “Alright guys, I just got word that Sam is looking for Shredder right now so that she can follow through with her portion of the plan. There’s still a lot of non-fighters that need guidance, and there’s still a decent amount of Foot Soldiers who are trying to escape the building and wreak as much havoc as they can. You guys have fought Shredder before, so you four are way more capable in helping her fight him than we are.” “Do you know where she is now?” Leo asked. Kris nodded. “She’s a little further down on the 10th floor. It’s not as large as before, but there’s another open room that’s used as a training space. From what I was told she was trailing Shredder and they ended up near that room. I’ll show you-” “It’s this one, right?” Donnie asked as he pointed to a small square on the map. Kris couldn’t help but smile at how quick the brainy turtle was. “That’s the one. Most of our enemies should be further down away from your destination at this point, so taking the main stairwell should be your quickest route. We’ll try to catch up with you guys, but we’ve already sustained some injuries up until now, but we’ll do the best we can.” Leo shook his head. “You guys focus on getting everyone else out of here. You’ve all dealt with Shredder far enough. We’ll work with Sam to take him down, so you guys need to fight to get everyone to safety. Got it?” “Spoken like a true leader” Kris stated. “Alright, good luck and go kick ass” he said as he pat Leo on the shoulder as he ran past him, gathered up the rest of his group, and then left in the direction that Kevin had moments before. “Alright guys, let’s go save our sister” Leo said aloud to which all his brothers smiled and nodded. Donnie lead the way since he now knew this map like the back of his hand. He noted where all the short cuts throughout the building were, and because of this the four brothers arrived at their destination much quicker than they expected. They expected to at least hear either Sam or Shredder or someone somewhere nearby…but the training room was completely empty and silent upon their arrival. “I don’t like this” Raph softly growled, sensing that something was up. Each of them jumped a bit when out of nowhere they heard a rustling. Donnie listened closely as he realized that the sound was coming from him. He reached into one of his pockets and pulled out the walkie talkie that he was given earlier when they first came into contact with their teen allies. After fidgeting with the device a voice could finally be heard clearly through the connection. “Turtles? Turtles!” the voice shouted. “We’re here!” Mikey shouted before Donnie could speak after hitting the button to communicate. “Smooth” Raph said as he rolled his eyes and shoved his brother. “We’ve been played! We have some weasels amongst the rebels, everything you were told was a trap! Stay away from the 10th floor…” The turtles could hear the voice continue to go on, but at this point it just sounded like mumbles. Each of them began to feel dizzy, and before any of them could say anything, or explain to Mikey what was happening, each of them fainted and collapsed onto the floor. *20 minutes later* The brothers began to open their eyes, or at least the fought their hardest to do so. They all felt light headed as they woke back up and tried to remember what had last happened to them. Raph was the first to try and actually move, and by doing so, he was the first to realize that once again they were all handcuffed, but this time the electronic cuffs were attached to the wall, and instead of their hands being behind them they were now hanging up and off to the side. “Great, just great” Raph mumbled. “I see you’re finally awake. Funny, this is like Déjà vu, isn’t it?” The turtles groaned as they recognized whose voice they had just heard as they looked up and saw that in front of them was Eric Sachs. Just like the teen rebels had said, Sachs was surrounded by some of the older looking members of the Mutanimals while holding Jordan Perry hostage as he currently held a gun to the kneeling man’s head. There was a tall and buff Akita Inu male with orange and white fur, a darker green colored female turtle who had a lot of muscle, a tall male turtle who had even larger muscles and dark green skin, a lighter green female turtle with a slimmer figure, a female lioness with tan fur, and a large and tall alligator who also had a lot of muscle on him. It was the male turtle and the dog who were holding the turtle’s weapons as Sachs continued to talk.

“Ahhh it’s so nice to see you boys again. The thing is, I don’t really need you anymore. I would have loved to have had a visit from you guys back when I could still visit my own home, but now I have these guys” he said as he used his free hand to point at all the silent mutants standing around him. “Thanks to them and all the mutagen we now have access to, you four and your DNA are worthless, so by visiting my lab today, well you’re just getting in the way at this point. I’d take care of you myself, but I have better things to do, so I’m going to have these guys beat the shit out of you instead” he said with a devilish grin. “They have these lovely collars around their necks which means that they’ll do anything I ask them to. And if they don’t, then I’ll rob them of the man that gave let them life” he said as he pulled back the trigger to the gun.

The turtles stayed calm as they heard the clicking of the gun, but they knew they had to do something soon. In just a few movements it was going to be either them or the professor and they really didn’t like those odds. Donnie was trying to think of a way to break the locks, Raph and Mikey were fighting to break through the cuffs with brute force, and Leo was about to try and play mind games with Sachs as to buy time for his brothers, but each of them was interrupted as once again a miracle happened right before their eyes.

*Not much earlier*

After Sam had been updated by the rebels on the balcony and was told that overall the rebels were managing to pull through with the plan, she decided that she should go back to focusing on where Shredder was hiding and luring him towards the roof of the building. She was sticking to this plan for the most part as she walked cautiously down the hallways with her tonfa in hand, but she was also listening closely to her radio in case anyone desperately needed more help. She was about to go and provide help where the breach was located, but once she heard that her friends, both the humans and turtles, had set off in that direction then she knew that they would have plenty of help. As she was about to round the corner of the floor she was on she suddenly heard a soft mumbling sound come from her pocket. She pulled out her walkie talkie and realized that the battery was wearing out and making it more and more difficult to hear what was being said on the other end, so Sam tried turning the volume up a little louder so that she could quickly receive the update. “Sam?! Sam?! Uh, if you ever get this message, the turtles were lured into a trap! There were some weasels amongst us and we were lied to. We got info that Shredder was in the training room on the 10th floor but it was all a set up! The turtles will need assistance I’m sure!” said Kris through the walkie talkie.

It wasn’t until Sam had started lowering the volume to the small device that she heard footsteps coming up from behind her. As she tried to quickly look around the corner and get a sneak peek at who was heading her way, a large fist nailed her in the face as she went flying backwards into the wall. Now Sam was an extremely tough girl, but she was still human, so this hit really hurt her and caused some serious damage. She fought to stand up even though she felt like she couldn’t breathe and that her legs now felt like noodles. She looked up to see not only Hun, but also Karai walking over towards her. “You’ve gotta be kidding me” she mumbled. “Awwww no sarcastic remarks? Wow, you must have really hit her hard” Karai said with way too much pep. “Now it’s my turn.” “Save some of the fun for me” Hun said, cracking his knuckles as he walked behind Karai who was now running towards Sam. Sam couldn’t really feel her legs enough to run, but she knew she needed to move or else Karai would soon be slicing into her with her swords, so she jumped onto a nearby trash can in the hallway and sloppily leaped over Karai. This would have worked in giving the two some space, except for the fact that Hun knew that Sam was hurting and used his size and strength to his advantage. He blocked off the left walkway of the hall and quickly punched Sam again when she stumbled from not being able to maintain a steady landing. As she tumbled backwards from the huge force that came with the follow through of the punch, Sam was then kicked by Karai who was now blocking off the right side of the hallway. It seemed like forever as this pattern of Hun and Karai hurting and then passing the girl back and forth dragged on. Sam hadn’t been hit in the face much, but she didn’t think she could physically take anymore blows to her mid-section before something within her would break or rupture. Knowing this, she played dead on the floor after Karai had hit for the last time. Sam curled up and coughed as she laid in a ball on the ground. A one-on-one battle between both her and Karai OR between her and Hun wouldn’t have been so bad, but taking on both of them at the same time by herself was a million times more difficult than she ever could have imagined. Her sleeve could have aided her in the fight, but it was still charging from the battle where she had protected the turtles from the knock out gas. Because of all this, Sam decided it was time for her final resort. She tried to conceal her movements as she secretly released four tiny liquid capsules from the wrist compartment of her sleeve. She brought her hand up to her mouth as she coughed and then quickly swallowed the four Ibuprofen pill sized capsules.

“Any last words before we finish you off?” Karai asked mockingly. Sam could feel the mutagen kicking in. This mutagen not only provided it’s user with immense strength, but it was also a rapid healing agent, and Sam had studied and only used mutagen supplements that matched well with her DNA. These capsules would not only help enhance her powers, but it was also repairing her body as the mutagen combined with her cells. Because the dosage was small (compared to if she had taken way more capsules) the enhancement would only last for so long, but that was all Sam needed in order to save herself in this situation. Sam slowly pushed herself off the ground as she turned around to face her opponents. Both villains’ eyes went wide as they saw Sam’s eyes change color, her eyes returning to the black coating behind the blue that covered her pupils and iris. At the same time, all the veins in throughout Sam’s body also glowed in bright blue and white shades. Sam launched her body towards Karai with an incredible amount of force as the two slammed into the wall. Karai blocked her face as Sam started wildly throwing punches at her. Sam was swift, but so was Karai, and the two began quickly began swinging their weapons at each other. The two were moving quickly which made even the slightest attacks become so much more powerful, including when Sam dodged an attack from Karai and then hooked her tonfa around the woman’s wrists as she launched her at Hun. Sam then ran up to the man so quickly that he hadn’t even realized she moved until he felt the aching from Sam jabbing her tonfa in his face. She then swung her legs down and forced the man to trip backwards as he accidentally pulled Karai down with him. Sam the swung her foot and kicked Karai in the face as she came tumbling down, and Hun had banged his head on the ground as he fell backwards, and with that both of her opponents were now out cold.

Sam then gripped the sides of her head in agony as she fell to her knees. Something was wrong. The mutagen she had used was a strong match to her DNA specifically and it should have mixed well with the rest of her body, so why did she feel this pounding in her head? Maybe her body needed time to adjust to the stronger dosage since this was the most mutagen she had put into her body at one time. She took long deep breaths until finally she felt like she could breathe and move without any pain. Now that she was in control of her body again and could concentrate, Sam remembered that the turtles were tricked by Sachs and needed her help. She was currently on the 11th floor which meant she wasn’t too far away. She darted towards the main stairwell and within seconds ran past a window that overlooked the training room that the turtles were in. Sam took a few steps back and sprinted forward as she punched her way through the glass and leaped down to the floor where she was now standing with her back to the turtles.

*Everyone POV*

The turtles were in awe (and also felt déjà vu) as they saw Sam land in front of them and then get up and move so fast that Sachs never even got a chance to react to what was happening as he lost control of his gun after being picked up and thrown across the room. Now that Professor Perry didn’t have a gun behind his head for the first time that day, he quickly tried to slide away towards the far side of the room. Sam was now staring at the group of Mutanimals that were looking at her from a few steps away. The tall canine came charging at her as he beat his hands on the ground. Sam glared at him as she charged towards him. Suddenly, all the veins in her body could be seen as they lit up in bright blue and white colors. She then grabbed onto the mutants paw as she flipped him over her shoulder with so much force that he literally went crashing through the floor. “Holy shit” Raph whispered, having a hard time believing what he was seeing. “Sam…” Mikey choked out. He was scared and concerned about whether she was truly safe or not as the lioness then beat her hands on the ground and charged towards Sam only to accept the same defeat. The larger male turtle and the slimmer female turtle then came charging at Sam from the right. They were able to throw a few punches, but they both met the same defeat as Sam sent them flying into the next room as they crashed through the right wall. “What do we do?!” Raph called out. “They’re innocent!” “SAM! Sachs is down, they’re on our side!” Leo exclaimed. All four brothers kept yelling out to Sam as she now sent the larger female turtle through the left wall. “Why can’t she hear us?!” Mikey called out. “The blue and black in her eyes means she used more mutagen, but obviously something went wrong and she’s lost control!” Donnie shouted.

The brothers couldn’t do anything but watch as they saw Sam launch the final mutant, the large alligator, flying through the roof of that room and into the room above them. Once all the mutants had been sent out of the room…everything was quiet. Each of the turtles was terrified as they saw Sam calm her breathing and then turn around to face them. They had no idea what she was thinking, and her blank expression didn’t help put them at ease either. Sam continued to stare at the turtles as she calmed herself and collected her thoughts, and then, she did something that the turtles hadn’t seen in weeks.

She smiled at them.

Sam was now looking over at the turtles from where she was standing and was staring at each of them with a heartfelt and genuine smile on her face. It almost hurt the boys to see this for multiple reasons.

For one, the girl who was now smiling at them so kindly had just used her mutagen induced strength to send six large mutants flying out of the room, so how she had made this quick of an emotional and stable change, they had no idea. The second reason…each of them had come to miss that smile. They never realized how much they had come to take such simple things for granted. They had grown so used to seeing Sam laugh and smile whenever she hung out with them that they never realized how much something so simple would mean so much to them once they finally saw it again after not seeing it for so long. It may have taken certain brothers a longer time to realize that they truly did miss this, but they all felt the pain in the fact that this was the first time Sam had smiled at them after not doing so for such a long period of time.

Sam had only taken two steps towards where the brothers were standing when she sensed something coming towards her. She dodged to the side and then forward as she dodged multiple kunai knives that were thrown at her. She was now standing with her back to Donatello as she saw Tatsu jump down and land where she had just been previously standing.

“You’re stupider than I thought” Tatsu said as he glared at the girl. “It’s called fighting with honor” Sam said with a nasty smirk. “Killing you when you were unconscious would have been the cowardly thing to do.” “Heh, you can’t kill, you’re too weak” he replied in a cocky tone. “Well then, why don’t we make this a day of firsts? ” Sam asked as she tucked her tonfa away and switched them out for another weapon. Everyone was shocked as they saw her pull out the pair of sais that belonged to her younger brother. Tatsu shot her a strange look. “Since when do you fight with sais? You’ve never touched a pair since you got here.” “Like I said, day of firsts” Sam stated as she darted towards Tatsu who was wielding his own sword. Blades clashed as the two fought on the tips of their toes. There was no room for mistakes in this fight or else it would cost the other opponent their life.

The brothers sensed this as they continued to try and free themselves from their electronic handcuffs. They couldn’t stand to keep watching Sam participate in all these fights and them just stand there and have to watch her suffer. Donnie was growing more and more frustrated than any of them. There was a control box nearby and he could have easily hacked into the system and freed his brothers, but sadly he was caught as well and there was nothing he could do. The material the cuffs were made of was too tough for them to use force to break out of, but what else could they do?! “Excuse me, um, do you have a device that would, um let’s see, override that system there?” came a timid voice. The brothers were all so worried about Sam that they had completely forgotten about the professor who had been glued to his spot along the wall. When had he snuck over to where the turtles were, and how had he done so without any of them noticing? “There’s a thin device in my left pocket, basically a re-wired DS Light. It has a program that can use codes to override whatever system is used to control these handcuffs” Donnie explained to the man. “Ah yes okay. Um, sorry for this” the professor said as he carefully reached into the instructed pocket and pulled out the device.

As Donnie helped instruct the professor on how to work the device, the fight between Sam and Tatsu was still unfolding. For a second, Sam lost control because of the mutagen in her system and for a split second she blacked out as she charged toward Tatsu who made note of this delay. Taking advantage of the moment, he knocked Sam’s weapons out of her hand while also jabbing a kunai knife through Sam’s hand as payback for earlier. “SAM!” the brother’s called out. “Any last words?” Tatsu asked aloud as Sam was still stumbling a bit while grabbing her wrist from the pain. She then paused as all her veins shone bright blue. Sam then stared right at Tatsu and with a wickedly evil grin said “thanks for the knife.” Sam dashed towards Tatsu, but she was much quicker than before. It was as if any and all previous injuries from the fight couldn’t be felt, including where the knife was still in Sam’s hand, which she was using to fight Tatsu WHILE it was still in her hand. She went to perform a move that was similar to that of a headlock, but she focused more so on digging the knife into the man’s shoulder as she performed the move. Tatsu groaned out loud as she shoved his elbow in her side and tried to leap away, but Sam jabbed the knife into Tatsu’s back as he went to jump away which now brought him crashing to the floor. Sam took advantage of this as she jumped on top of the man and pinned him to the floor as she now kneeled over top of him. “*punch* so, *punch* still think *punch* I can’t kill?” Sam called out as she repeatedly punched Tatsu in the face. “Sam stop! Come on man you gotta move quicker!” Mikey called out as a young and shaky Professor Perry was finishing up in removing the handcuffs. Mikey could tell that Sam wasn’t herself because of the mutagen and that she was about to do something that she knew she’d regret for the rest of her life. “You’re…weak…you couldn’t do this on your own…” Tatsu said, barely. His face had become more purple and blue than tan from the force of the punches. Blood was gushing out his nose and his lips were swollen. “At least I was brave enough to sacrifice my body to protect those I care about! *punch* I’ve used my body as a mutagen experiment in the honor of protecting my family *punch*” “Sam STOP!” Leo called out. “DON’T DO IT!” Mikey and Raph called out together. “…so weak…you can’t kill…” Tatsu somehow managed to let slip out right before he passed out. Sam paused as she stared down at the man. Finally it was her time to bring some justice back to the world. This man was nothing but a serious criminal who fought only to please one sick man. Tatsu was just as sick as Shredder and would always bring nothing but harm to the world, so what would be the big deal in getting rid of him right here and now? Sam carefully removed the kunai knife from her hand and dropped it next to her as she quickly got out some bandage wraps from her bag and tied it around her hand (being able to do so since Tatsu couldn’t move from the pain he was in). Once her hand was okay, she picked the knife back up and drew it back almost as if she was about to throw a spear. “You want me to show my strength? Don’t worry, I won’t make the same mistake as earlier. I’ll use you…to avenge my family from what your clan has done.”

Sam went to smash the knife into the man’s throat, but she couldn’t since something was physically holding her back. Something was holding onto her so that she couldn’t move her arm, and once she realized what was holding her back, she realized that it was more than just a physical barrier that was keeping her from killing the man on the ground in front of her. What was stopping her signaled that after everything that had happened since her joining the Foot wouldn’t keep a strain on their friendship. What was stopping her was the realization that she was no longer alone and that she was being watched over and protected just like before the incident. What was stopping her was someone that was now holding her arm back to show that they cared for her enough to prevent her from making a huge mistake that she would never forget. What was stopping her was Raph.

Theme: Coldplay-Midnight Plumb-Don’t Deserve You Linkin Park-The Little Things Give You Away

The blue and black colors remained in Sam’s eyes, but the color in her veins disappeared as she turned her head around and looked up at Raphael who was looking down at her, his arm still hooked through hers, with a sympathetic look on his face. “Put it down Sam, you’re better than this” he said calmly. The knife slowly dropped out of Sam’s hand as Raph slowly helped her stand up, though he wasn’t expecting her to lunge forward and hug him in the process. Sam couldn’t help herself from wrapping her arms around his waist. She was so shocked and filled with joy with what had just happened. Raph, whom she didn’t believe she deserved any type of love and support from, had just stopped her from killing someone, not only for the honor of not killing someone who is no longer able to fight, but also in order to protect Sam from herself. He could have just ignored her like in the past, but on his own free will he chose to help her in a moment when she needed it most.

She then looked up to see Leo and Donnie walking up to her with the same worried expression that Raph had had, and without thinking she quickly walked over towards both of them and swung her arms around each of them individually in the same way she had with Raph. She had done this so quickly that none of the three boys had gotten a chance to actually hug her back, though this was also due to their shock in Sam reacting this way, especially since in the weeks leading up to tonight both parties took part in trying to push the other one away, that and Sam had been avoiding them all throughout this night as well.

After she hugged these two she then took a few steps forward as she saw Mikey walking over towards where the rest of the group was standing.

Sam was frozen solid as she stared down at the ground in front of her. She felt her hands starting to shake and she knew it had nothing to do with the mutagen within her system. She used her left hand to grab onto her right arm in order to try and hide the shakiness, but her body as a whole was very lightly shaking as well. She couldn’t control this because she was so terrified to face Mikey. She had wronged him and his family and had abused the endless amounts of trust and support he had given her both before and after the incident. It pained her even more to think of him sleeping in her bed as he waited for her to return, of the way he stared at her earlier as he trusted his life in her hands like there had never been any tension between them, how he jumped in front of her and risked his life as he blocked her from all the oncoming bullets from their last group fight. After everything she had done to Mikey and his family, after the way she spoke to all of them, after almost possibly killing Raph, he had STILL been so worried about her and her well-being. How was she supposed to react to that?! She couldn’t just go back to acting like things were normal, right? He deserved so much better than that, so much more in a friend and in a sister than that. And Sam, she didn’t deserve to have him in her life. She had caused too much harm and stress to the turtles and specifically to Mikey to expect him to ever look at her and treat her the same. Sam had taken a breath and had finally lifted her head up to tell Mikey that she was going to go into hiding and disappear with her brother and forget about everything that had happened within tonight and the past few months, but she was interrupted from a set of arms wrapping themselves around her and pulling her in tight.

No one could see it, but Sam’s eyes were huge and wide as Mikey had walked over while she was distracted in her own thoughts and had pulled her into a tight hug. He couldn’t wait any longer for her to come to him like she had to his brothers just seconds ago. Not only had he been chasing her all throughout his time in the headquarters building, but he had been waiting for her for weeks since he told her to leave the lair. Ever since that following day he had been waiting for her and waiting for his moment to go after and rescue his friend, so he wasn’t letting her run away from him again. Sam didn’t know how to react as she let her arms hang by her sides as she just stood still while being held by Michelangelo. How could he do this? How could he still care for her like this?! What had she done to deserve this?!

“You don’t have to do anything. It’s okay, we all understand now” Mikey said with a soft voice. As Sam continued to just stand there and soak in what was happening to her, the other turtles had walked over and began adding their part of the apology. Raph was first. “I shouldn’t have let my emotions get the best of me, and I regret everything I said about your family” he said softly, hating that he allowed himself to do something so cruel. Donnie was next. “We shouldn’t have questioned your motives, and we should have trusted you from the beginning” he said with the same soft voice. Then came Leo. “We should have gone after you way sooner, and we should have tried to put the pieces together without having to be told the truth from someone else.” “We shouldn’t have let you leave to begin with. We’re so sorry Sam, I’m sorry” Mikey said as he continued to hold his friend tightly.

After hearing what the turtles said and how each of them had said it, Sam couldn’t keep herself from throwing her arms around Mikey and following through with her part of the hug as the blue and black colors from her eyes faded so that her eyes were back to normal. They didn’t hate her, they didn’t want to get rid of her, and they still cared about her. Obviously things wouldn’t go straight back to the way they were before everything bad had happened, but there was hope. There was a chance that they would still want to see her and hangout with her, there was a chance that she hadn’t lost the people that brought happiness and ‘normality’ back into her life and that were her reason and motivation to keep living life and experiencing everything it had to offer.

Mikey smiled as similar thoughts swirled through his head as he held his friend, but his smile soon faded as he felt something wet against his body. He loosened his arms some and saw light bits of red against him palms. He took a few steps back and held up his hands for the girl to see why he had backed away from her. “Sam…” “That’s nothing!” she said quickly as she rapidly shook her head in embarrassment. She was already slowly returning to her old self. “Sam…what’s wrong?” Mikey asked cautiously. “It’s nothing I swear” she replied, making it known that she was hiding something. “Please don’t lie anymore” Raph said softly. Sam turned towards him and could tell that he was saying this genuinely and that he didn’t want there to be any more bad blood between them. “Alright” she groaned, “but none of you can freak out! Okay?” she asked as she began taking a few steps off to the side so that all the brothers could all see what she was about to do. Sam dropped the back pack she had secured to her and then unzipped the thin long sleeved black jacket she had been wearing. Her back was to the four turtles as she then removed her black short sleeved shirt and then peeled away the tight long sleeved black shirt that was under that so that now up top all she had on was a tight black sports bra that completely covered her chest so that nothing private was exposed.

Mikey could only stare for a split second after seeing the girls back. It was covered in cuts and bruises to the point that you could barely see any of the white from her skin. Each of the many cuts was now bleeding since her body had been hurt from her multiple fights from that night. The cuts seemed like they were actually healing from what had been even worse gashes that were left all along her back. They also saw what seemed to be some burn marks on different spots on her back as well. Mikey quickly turned away, knowing that if he continued to stare at his friend like this then he would lose any and all sense of control that he had within himself not to just start attacking people and acting wildly. Raph bit his lip and Donnie reacted the same way as they felt guilt wash over them. They felt that this was all their fault since they had waited so long to want to come and save Sam. Would she have had to experience any of these wounds if they had come after her sooner? Leo closed his eyes as his mind went to darker areas. These were just the wounds she was exposing on her back. How many more wounds did she have on the outside of her body? Did she have any serious internal injuries? And what about… “Sam” Leo choked out, trying not to let emotion get the best of him, but terrified of what the answer would be. “Did you…did they…*sigh*.” He was struggling to ask his question because of how hard it was for him just to consider if what he was afraid could have actually happened to the girl. Sam turned around to face him since she was confused in what he was asking, and she was shocked to see how each of the turtles looked right now. Mikey was still looking off in the distance, Raph and Donnie were looking down at the ground in guilt. Once the other three brothers sensed what Leo was asking, all four were staring wide eyed with fear towards Sam as they mentally prayed that she would say no. It took her a minute, but she finally realized that Leo was asking if she had been raped or molested in any way during her time with the Foot. “Oh, no! No! Don’t worry that never happened I swear! I mean sadly that happens a few times amongst the Dragons because of how their group is handled and watched over, but that behavior doesn’t go unnoticed within the Foot. Shredder is 50 shades of fucked up but to a certain degree he has honor, or at least enough not to let that happen. There was a guy who did that while I was here though and let’s just say…well he’s literally not alive anymore.” Loud sighs of relief came from the boys as their expressions softened some. “Where did all these other wounds come from?” Donnie asked with concern. Sam shook her head as she began putting her t-shirt and jacket back on along with her back pack (the tight long sleeved undershirt was so drenched that it wasn’t worth saving and was kicked to the side). “All that can wait for another time, right now we need to focus on the plan.” At this time, Professor Perry had walked over and joined up with the group. At this same time, something had caught Raph’s eye as he walked out of the room. “Hey, you alright doc?” Sam asked the professor to which he smiled at the nickname he was used to some of the teens calling him. “I’m alright. I’m glad to see that all of you are doing well” he said with a smile. “Thank you for your help” Donnie said to the man. “Well it was thanks to your tools that I was able to hack into their system, so thank you for allowing me to help you…” “Donatello” he replied with a smile. “Oh you’ll like him doc, he’s a Brainiac like you” Sam called over. “I can see that. It’s a pleasure to meet all four of you” he said with a bit of excitement in his voice. Just then a voice came through the walkie talkie in Sam’s pocket. She brought out the device as everyone heard a voice say “Sam, if you’re there, all nonfighters are out of the building. The only ones left are the Mutanimals with Perry, the turtles and you. Well, besides for any other soldiers your crew needs to wrangle up.” Sam clicked the button and said “we’re working on getting these last few out. We’ll send you updates soon.”

Just then, Raph and another voice could be heard shouting at each other from the room next door. “No” Sam whispered as she sprinted out of the training room and into a nearby doorway and saw Raph and the giant mutant alligator glaring each other down. They both looked like they were about to throw a punch at each other, at least, that was until Sam ran over and used what remained of her strength power to block both punches at the same time as she then pushed the two apart. “What the hell are you two doing?! You both were updated that the other was an ally!” she shouted. “He still has a collar on and started throwing punches at me when I walked over to see if he was okay!” Raph called out. Sam turned towards the alligator that towered over her. “Explain!” The gator hung his head in shame. “One of the mutagen capsules around my neck broke as I was helping round up the soldiers. It’s slowly wearing off now, but it made me go a bit berserk. I’m terribly sorry” he said as he now looked back up at Raphael. “You have to learn to control yourself Leatherhead, you’re better than the violent being Shred-head wants you to be” she said as she pulled his head down and rubbed the top of his long snout which definitely helped him in calming down. Mikey smiled and walked over as he joined in petting the gator, to which the gator looked up and smiled at the new turtle that stood in front of him. “And you” Sam said as she turned towards Raph (leaving Leatherhead and Mikey to get more acquainted which she would never admit that she thought it was extremely adorable). “What do you say?” Raph rolled his eyes. “I’m sorry for trying to fight you after you tried to hurt me.” “What soldiers are you talking about?” Leo asked as he and the others now entered the room. “Oh Sachs was never alone,” the professor cut in, “he had soldiers guarding this area the entire time.” “That’s why when we ran at Sam we each signaled as to which direction we wanted her to throw us in. It’s a tactic that we all secretly worked on since we’re the largest of the Mutanimals and could handle something like that, and she’s the only one we could practice with thanks to the mutagen mixed with her sleeve device” Leatherhead added. “How does that work? How can you just simply give yourself mutagen and it not mutate you or anything?” Donnie asked Sam. “Shredder has been receiving shipments of all different types of mutagen. Each one is so unique and different from the others. Some have chemicals that can mix with peoples DNA in general, and some only match select people. Each one is extremely complicated and has been studied very carefully, and I found some that match me pretty well, but even if it matches with you, each individual person can only handle so much at one time without any type of side effect kicking in. With some people certain mutagen side effects never kick in no matter how much they use, and with others a side effect could kick in within seconds. “And you’ve been storing those capsules in your sleeve right? And I assumed two of your strongest matches have been able to give you wind and strength powers?” the brainy turtle asked. Sam nodded. “I missed your nerdiness” she said, receiving a small smile from the turtle.

“Good job kid” came a voice from the doorway as Dogpound, carrying Sachs over his shoulder, and the other Mutanimals now entered the room. “You remembered our training even with the mutagen taking over, nice job” said the adult male turtle with a smile (which seemed out of character based on his looks). “Not gonna lie Slash, it took me a second to know whether or not you guys were on my side or not, but the cues helped me realize what was going on” Sam chuckled. “Here, these belong to you” the canine said as he and the larger turtle handed their new allies their weapons. Each of them thanked the larger mutants before Sam once again took the floor. “So update me on whatever news you have” Sam said as she clicked the button on her walkie talkie. Now it was the lioness who took the floor. “We rounded up all the soldiers and we’re ready to take them outside where they’ll wait for the cops to come find them. I’m not sure where Shredder is right now, but we can take the soldiers out while also leading the professor to safety.” “Alright Mutanimals thank you for your help. Once you get outside find the nearest man-hole cover and get below ground. There you’ll find the other mutants and some rebel soldiers who will lead you to safety below ground.” “Wait, Jay?” Sam asked into the device. “That’s right! I’m at the parking garage across the street.” “Why are you still anywhere near this place? And wait, how do the Mutanimals already have a safe route?” “That would be thanks to me” said a familiar voice. “April?!” the four teen turtles said aloud. “She’s been our eyes on the streets and also helped us map out some spare locations below the sewers where our mutants can hide in safety” Jay said. “Sorry guys, but once I learned the truth about Sam and then learned that Irma was in the same boat then I had to find a way to help out, hehe” April said through the link. “Please just be careful” Leo sighed, knowing there was nothing they could do at this point. “Oh! There he is!” Jay announced. “Shredder is on the roof of your building! If you move quickly then you might be able to catch up to him!” “Until next time guys” Sam said as she nodded towards the Mutanimals. “Be careful and take care of yourself” Leatherhead said to the girl as he put a hand on her shoulder, and then did the same to Michelangelo. It seemed that within minutes the two had already gotten along quite well and seemed to enjoy the others presence. “Kick ass kid!” the larger turtle said just before the group left the room with Leatherhead helping carry the professor to safety.

“Alright guys, ready to end this party for good?” Sam asked with a grin. “It’s about time!” Raph exclaimed. “Do we have a plan?” Donnie asked. “Knock Shredder off the side of the building, right?” Leo asked. “I think we can handle that.” “Ugh, guys. I have some bad news. Shredder has some type of device in his hand, and from what I remember seeing in the labs, it’s a control for some of the bombs we were working on. I think he may have activated it and NO HE’S ESCAPING! I don’t know where it connected but he used a grappling hook and is sliding down towards a different building. You guys probably have about 5 minutes so you need to move now!!!” Jay shouted through his walkie talkie. “Sam, lead the way!” Leo instructed. Sam nodded her head as she sprinted out of the room. She made sure her bag was still attached to her as she led the turtles through the quickest stair wells and hallways that would reach the 15th floor. Donnie had set a timer and announced to the group that they had two minutes remaining before something would possibly blow up or detonate based on what Jay hold told them. They looked across the street where they saw Jay and April waving their arms on top of the parking garage. Donnie handed each brother a small hand-held grappling gun from his back pockets and they each launched the hook as they hooked onto the railing on the roof of the garage. Raph had just jumped from the roof and swung down and across to the other side of the street when four soldiers appeared out of nowhere, each wearing armor similar to what Shredder had worn when battling the turtles months ago. “Oh come on” Leo mumbled. “Guys no time! We’re all going to die if we stay here, fight us later!” Sam shouted at the soldiers. “You idiot! The time to fight is now! Now is the time to show that we were the right choices for these prototype suits!” they took turns in shouting to Sam. “Okay great Shredder used you to practice setting up an armored army I know about that AWESOME. Now let’s go so we can live and fight later!” she called out to them. “You fool, the time to fight is now! We don’t care if we die here, as long as we please Sensei then our deaths will be worth the honor!” Just then Mikey dropped his gun as he threw shuriken stars and then ran forward, using his nunchuks to fight and push back one of the soldiers as he tumbled into the other three. “NO! You need to leave now!” Sam said as she pushed him backwards away from the fight. That fast the soldiers were rushing towards them as Sam activated something in her sleeve. “20 seconds!” Donnie shouted. “You guys go! If the building comes down then I have a way out. Go now!” Sam shouted as she started blocking and throwing punches at the soldiers. Mikey would have stayed if it weren’t for the look in the girl’s eyes that begged him to trust what she said as she fought the four men in front of her. He loathed that there was nothing he could do as Mikey walked towards his brothers. He grabbed onto Leo and the remaining three swung over and down towards the garage. That’s when Sam heard a boom as the entire building shook.

Sam struggled as the four men towered over top of her and continued to throw punches at her while she blocked her face with her arms. She was in a great deal of pain since she was trying to conceal her gloves powers and was basically being hit over and over by the men on top of her…until the roof began to crumble. Hey eyes turned blue and black as she used as much force as she could to kick one of the men off of her just as the ground beneath her fell. That was one soldier gone, but the other three were still there as all four of them were now falling. Sam grabbed a kunai knife from her pocket and dug it down one of the men’s armor which sent a shock throughout the suit and knocked him out. The other two men grabbed her arms, but Sam then sent a huge gust of air from her palms. This startled the men as they let her go, and before they could react, Sam kicked her legs up into a split in the air, kicking both men far away from her. Now that she was free from having to fight, she could focus on escaping.

Sam aimed her palms downwards as she rocketed herself back up into the sky. As she traveled upwards she twisted and turned to dodge the huge chunks of debris that came from the building. Because only the part of the roof she had been laying on fell before the rest of it, there was still a tall part of the building that was continuously crumbling away. Sam tried to travel straight up as best as she could with the power that she had left, but she also knew that if she used this power for too long then it would eventually give out and she would be falling down along with all the debris.

Since Sam was fighting to escape from the crumbling building she hadn’t realized that everyone else across the street had thought ahead and was trying to help her as much as they possibly could with her escape. Jay had known that the railway was completely connected underneath the concrete ledge at the top of the building and had informed the turtles that if they could find a way to pull the railway up as a whole then they could have it stretch out as far as possible so that Sam could use it as a last resort to balance on and walk across. He knew from watching Sam train that her powers only lasted for so long and that she might need help if they ran out to early. Of course, Donatello had some tools that allowed them to quickly break away the concrete (which was also due to the turtles being much stronger than the average human) and after they had dug and broke down so much altogether along different part of the rail, they pulled up so that it stayed together at the bottom but now could be pushed outward in a solid straight line. “There she is!” April called out. Everyone looked up as they saw Sam finally reach where the top of the debris was and fly outward. Just as Jay predicted, the blue and black disappeared from Sam’s eyes as she dropped down way before she would have been able to reach the garage, but thanks to the extended railway she wasn’t falling to her doom. She clung onto the rail for dear life, trying her best not to look down as she did so. “Ohhhhh here comes the fun part” Jay muttered. “What’s wrong?” Leo asked. “Sam’s terrified of heights. Well, falling from them for that matter.” “How? She’s run with us along higher up places that were even further apart!” Raph exclaimed. “Yeah, but I’m sure she was either A. with other people or B. there was something that helped her travel or there were other things to grab onto. Right now she’s stranded out there with nothing to hold onto except for the tiny rail beneath her feet” Jay said. “So what do we do?” Leo asked. He never knew that Sam had this fear and tried to think back to times where they faced situations similar to this and what was done that kept calm. “Don’t worry, I got this” Mikey said with confidence as he then climbed up on top of the rail where it was still connected to the roof of the garage. “What are you doing?!” Jay asked aloud. “Hey Sam!” Mikey called out as he began walking out along the beam, “I have Attack On Titan spoilers!” Sam quickly looked up at him as she clung to the beam. Her chest was literally on the beam as her legs and arms were wrapped around the bottom part. “If you reveal one detail then I’ll kick your ass!” she called over to him. “I know what’s happening to Tatsumi to!” “DO NOT reveal Akame! Ga Kill spoilers either! You know I haven’t been watching any of my favorite shows! Not that, not Kill la Kill, not One Punch Man or Naruto, NOTHING! So hush!” “I’ve also seen concept photos of BTS for their War of Hormone music video. You’ll never guess what color Rapmonster’s hair is” he said in animated and teasing voices. “Don’t tell me!” “It’s pink.” “You dick!” “If you don’t want me to reveal all the other hair changes then you have to walk this way.” Sam groaned. “I can’ttttttt.” “Why not?” “Because I’ll die!” “Pshhh, no you won’t!” “Yes I will!” “You’ll die if you look down.” She tilted her head to the side. “Thanks…” she said dryly. He smiled at her as he continued to slowly walk closer to where she was standing. “That means you just have to keep looking up at me. That or I’ll keep revealing details about things you’ve been missing out on” Mikey teased. “Want to know how Guardians of the Galaxy ends? Since the day Donnie streamed it, it cut out at the end.” Sam slowly started to try and stand up on the beam. “Happy? I’m standing up” she said as she held her hands out to sides to help her keep her balance. “Great! Now start walking” Mikey commanded. “Or else I’ll tell you what happens to Groot.” Sam’s eyes that were focused on the ground below were now focused on the turtle in front of her as her entire head shot up. “Not my boy!” “Oh something happens to him, and I know what it is” Mikey said as he took a step backwards along the beam. “No I need to see it!” Sam said as she carefully took a step. “He doesn’t die right?” “Well I know the answer to that, and if you join me over here then I can tell you!” Just then Sam slipped. She was able to fix her footing in time and prevent herself from falling, but now her eyes were glued to the ground as her mind focused on the fact that it was a looooong way down to the bottom if she were to fall. Sam started panicking again as her thoughts were consumed by the fact that there was nothing but this thin and tiny little beam that she was walking on and that if she slipped just a little too far to the side then it was goodbye Sam as she fell to her doom. “Sam, look at me” Mikey said. He called out loud enough to get Sam’s attention, but he still did so gently. Sam looked up her friend who shot her a sympathetic look. “You’re going to be fine. Just stay focused, okay? The beam is plenty wide enough for you to walk on it. My feet are bigger than yours and I’m walking just fine!” he said as he took another step backwards. Sam nodded her head. “So what else have you watched?” “Dawn For the Planet of the Apes.” “Ha! I’ve already seen that one!” “How about the latest episodes of the Walking Dead?” “I hate you!”

As the two continued to make their way across the beam, Jay just stood there in shock. “Wow…he’s actually distracting her…” he stated aloud. “They don’t call each other best friends just for the fun of it” April said with a smile. “Yeah, it’s just the first time that I’m actually seeing it up close” he said in amazement. “Welcome to our world man” Raph teased. “Guys, we have company” Donnie said as he turned his head to the left. The others did the same as they watched some soldiers climbing up the side of the building using climbing claws. They then saw a few of them pull something out of the pouches along their chest as Leo feared for the worst. “MIKEY WATCH OUT!” he called out, but by then it was too late.

As Sam continued to stare at Mikey as the two walked across the beam, she saw something pierce Mikey. A shuriken star was now sticking out from his left shoulder as another star just grazed past his right calf. Sadly he couldn’t help it that he winced from the pain as he then lost his balance and fell to his right and off the beam. “Hang on Mikey!” Leo called out as he then leaped over the edge and caught his brother in his arms (luckily Mikey had moved far enough back that he was within reach of his older brother). Donnie then jumped over the edge and grabbed onto his brothers feet as Raph then leaped over and held onto one of Donnie’s legs. Because of the angle that Mikey had fallen in, each of the brothers had jumped at a point where they were just a hair too far from being able to grab onto the rail. Raph just missed the bar as he feared that they were all now about to fall to the ground. He was expecting to see his life flash before his eyes as they all journeyed downward, but something unexpected happened. While the brothers were all leaping off the roof to grab onto Mikey, Sam had quickly activated some mutagen capsules within her sleeve and had injected them into her veins. She did this as she sprinted along the beam, the adrenaline from needing to save her friends overriding her senses and making her forget where she was as she ran, and then leaped down right along the side of the beam so that her right hand gripped onto the beam as her left hand reached Raph’s hand just in time. Once again, her eyes changed color, except this time both her eyes had gone completely blue since this time she activated only the mutagen that provided strength.

The veins in the girl’s arms were bulging as she held onto the beam and also onto Raph. The combined weight of the four turtles was, well, a lot! Sam was struggling to hold onto the bar and keep both the others and herself from falling to the ground that was very far down from where they were. “Sam! Can you swing us?” Raph asked aloud. Sam fought her hardest to start swinging her body from side to side. It took a few moments, but with the help of the brothers in trying their best to move their bodies along with the momentum, Sam called out in pain as she was finally able to swing the guys up high enough that each of them was able to angle their bodies to where they would land on the roof of the garage. “SAM!” Jay screamed as he saw his sister’s eyes begin to close. Sam was DEFINETLY pushing her powers to limits that she had never pushed them to before during trainings and it was all taking a huge toll on her body. In this case, going from the long time that she used the wind power and now pushing her strength to new limits had pushed a limit as she felt her eyes grow heavy as she passed out on the spot. Her eyes closed, her hand unintentionally loosened its grip from the beam, and Sam began to fall, but she didn’t get far. Even before Raph had landed on the roof he had twisted his body so that he was able to see Sam begin to fall and instantly he threw a kunai knife that dug into the fabric of the hood on her sweatshirt and pinned her to the wall.

Jay let out a huge sigh of relief as he saw his sister stay put in her spot along the wall. “I owe you, so freaking much. All of you. Holy shit my chest hurts” Jay said as he tried to calm himself down. “I wouldn’t thank anyone just yet” came a low and raspy voice from behind the group. Everyone deadpanned as they saw Shredder standing there with about 20 Foot soldiers behind him. “Who are they?” Jay asked in a low tone as he glared at the man who was now in front of him. “Humph, did you actually think I would keep all my soldiers in that one building? I kept 95% of them there, but I would never keep everyone within that building. If I had done that, then you would have gotten away with what you did to me tonight.” “So you had tricks up your sleeve all along” Jay hissed. “Of course. Creating a clan the way I was, I knew that eventually someone would try to pull a stunt like this, so I had some of my best soldiers hiding elsewhere. None of the rebels have ever met with the men standing behind me, so no matter what not all of you could turn against me because you didn’t even know who everyone was” Shredder said with confidence in his dark tone. “Now, to finish the job. Hajime!” Shredder announced as the soldiers behind him ran forward to attack the rebels. Raph helped guard April as everyone else dispersed and move to different spots of the roof to try and break up the group of soldiers that they had to fight. Normally a group of thirty soldiers wasn’t too much of a challenge, but this fight was different. The soldiers weren’t fighting with regular weapons, but rather with the mutagen weapons that were prepared for taking over the city that night. This made things ten times more difficult for the turtles since they weren’t exactly sure what the mutagen from each weapon did. They had no idea what damages each chemical would cause which made it difficult to attack offensively. Raph and Leo’s opponents had flails with mutagen that oozed out through tiny openings where the spikes were, so these two had to block more so than attack since a regular blow from the weapon would cause more damage than usual. Donnie was being chased by some ninjas who had mutagen filled arrows and Mikey was fighting off some ninjas who had more electric whips (apparently powered by mutagen as well) as he used his nunchuks to deflect each shot aimed at him. Jay was fighting with his metal tekko that wrapped around his fists and had three short blades on them. He was holding his own until suddenly Shredder had walked over towards where he was standing and had grabbed him by the neck while he was distracted. Shredder then threw Jay to the ground, and before Jay could react in any way, Shredder had picked up and threw him down again. This pattern continued on until April couldn’t stand to just hang back while Jay’s body was being smashed into the ground and while everyone else she cared about was fighting a no-win fight as well. “SHREDDER!” she shrieked, revealing where Raph had tried to hide her as the fights went on. Now that April was in the open, she was vulnerable and could easily be attacked at any moment. This got everybody on the rooftops attention as everyone paused their fight and looked back and forth between April and Shredder who was holding a bruised Jay Allan Park within his grip. Shredder’s armor was much simpler compared to what he had worn months ago, but because Jay had been caught off guard he wasn’t able to gain his chance in actually fighting Shredder which was why Shredder had his hand around the man’s neck at this very moment. “O’Neil…get over here” Shredder commanded. A soldier then walked her over to the leader as the turtles watched with wide eyes, terrified that he would do something rash at any moment. Shredder then threw Jay across the roof as his body slammed into the small wall where the door to the roof was. April stared up at the man in anger, pissed that he could treat someone so kind the way he had and for the most ridiculous reasons. “What do you want?” she snarled. He shot her an evil grin. “I want the turtles to get on their knees. NOW.” Each of the turtles did as they were instructed, knowing that failing to listen to demands could lead to the death of either April or Jay. “Heh, you all are so foolish. I’ll give you props for trying, but it doesn’t matter since this will be the end for all of you.” Soldiers quickly surrounded the turtles and Jay who were now all on the ground. Each one had a weapon aimed at their opponent, waiting for the moment that their leader instructed them to shoot or slice. Shredder then pulled out a kunai knife and held it up to April’s neck as he held her close to him. “If only you all used your head and willingly joined the Foot. Each of you has potential, but you’re all too stupid to realize what you could be and instead try to fight me. I’ve been kind to each of you for too long, so this…this is our official last goodb-” Shredder was cut off as he heard a noise come from behind him. As he turned around he saw a weak and tired Sam taking her time as she was crawling over the ledge and onto the roof. Shredder made an annoyed face as he threw April down and commanded a soldier to watch over her as he now made his way towards where Sam was. She had been using climbing claws to reach her destination, but Shredder had ripped them away from her as he pulled her upward by her wrists and then dropped her on her back in front of him. Shredder then picked up the girl by the front of her shirt. “I’m not one for playing old school, but I have some messages for you” he said as he then punched her in the face. “That one is from Karai.” He punched her again, “that one is from Hun. “YOU BASTARD!” Jay screamed out in anger as he rushed to stand up and charge forward. “LEAVE HER ALONE!” Shredder nodded his head as a group of free soldiers rushed and piled onto Jay. One kicked him in the side and Jay was officially down on the ground, but still struggling. The villain then threw Sam to the ground. “That one is from Sachs.” “STOP IT!” Jay continued to scream out. He fought to stand up, only to be kicked down on the ground each time. A soldier then sat on the man’s back as he held his head back by his hair and then held a knife up to his neck. April was in tears from what she watching, and the turtles weren’t far from that same state. Mikey had his hands on the sides of his head as he tried to keep calm while the rest of his brothers were clenching their fists as they tried to do the same. They wanted to run forward and help Sam, but doing so could easily be the reason that Shredder slit her throat on the spot, and he could easily have the same thing done to April or Jay based on the positions they were in. There was literally nothing they could do but kneel here and watch as those that they cared about were beaten around like punching bags. Shredder dropped Sam to the ground for the last time as he then began to walk over towards Jay. “I’ve let you live for way too long, time to end that” he said as he extended the blade on his arm some. “*cough, cough* leave him. I’m the one you want. I’ve been playing you since day one. *cough*” Sam mumbled out. Shredder paused and eventually turned around and walked back over towards the girl. “You’re right” he said as he placed a foot over top Sam’s chest. “I was kind enough to let you live four years ago, and what do you do in return? You try to destroy everything I’ve spent years building up. Everything that was in that building was thanks to my hard work, and within a few hours you managed to crush it, literally.” He then began to apply more pressure as he pushed his foot further down on the girl’s chest. “I’m not going to be so kind to you and your idiot brother anymore, starting now. I’m going to send you the message that Tatsu was supposed to send you earlier. Any last words?” Sam looked up at him and gave a small, weak smile. “Your soldiers must really like me or something” she choked out, trying to catch her breath as she spoke. Shredder glared down at her. “What?” he growled. “APRIL!” Just like Sam had stated, all the soldiers had been looking at her while Shredder had been hurting her, and because of this, April’s guard hadn’t realized that there was a small hand-held tessen in her pocket. Jay had informed his sister the day previous that he had prepared the weapon for April in case she would need to defend herself, and now proved that Jay had made an excellent decision in doing so as the woman quickly grabbed her weapon, jabbed the hand from the soldier behind her, and then launched the weapon at Shredder, doing so at such speed that none of the other soldiers were able to react and attack their hostages in front of them. It pierced into the back of his armor, leading him to take a quick step back, and as soon as he did this, Sam’s eyes went blue and black as she swiftly pulled another knife from her pocket and slammed it with all her mutagenic force down through Shredder’s foot.

The man called out in pain as his foot was now stuck to the ground, and that fast Sam stood up and punched him in the face. The main goal was just too momentarily escape, and one punch was enough to do that. She also grabbed the fan from his back and launched it at the soldier that was about to hurt April. It cut into his shoulder, and within the second that he winced in pain, April threw a punch and hit him right in the forehead. It hurt her hand all the way down to her arm, but it hurt way less than it would thanks to the guys teaching her how to throw a solid punch.

While this was going on, the boys were all making their escape as well. When Sam had made her move and pinned Shredder’s foot to the ground, each of the turtles and Jay took advantage of the stunned soldiers around them. They each quickly knocked the mutagen weapons out of the hands of the soldiers so that they had either broken or had slid away from their holders. “NEW PLAN! KEEP THE SOLDIERS AWAY FROM THOSE WEAPONS!” Leo called out. As long as the soldiers couldn’t reach their high-teach weapons, then they had to fight with regular ones, and that made a hell of a difference. Jay was able to flip the soldier off his back and once he was free, he quickly charged towards Shredder.

Now was when the true battle began.

*Leo, Raph, Jay, and April POV*

Raph quickly ran back over to where April was standing as he tried his best to defend her, but now that she had her tessen out she at least had something to help her defend herself if need be. Soldiers came barreling towards him, and quickly he came up with a plan. Raph fought defensively so that as soldiers came charging towards him he could try to flip them over his shoulder. He moved up some so that there was a decent amount of space between him and April. This way, when soldiers were tossed backwards, April could land a final blow as she kicked each soldier that landed in front of her. “Atta girl!” Raph shouted back to her, proud of the woman who wasn’t usually much of a fighter yet was now kicking some major ass.

Leo was fighting off some soldiers (the numbers dwindling quickly now that they could all truly fight their enemies) but stopped once he saw Jay trying his best to fight Shredder on his own. Jay was actually a pretty skilled fighter. He was quick on his feet and was able to dodge each of the Shredder’s attacks, but it was obvious that he needed some help in being able to land an attack of his own. Leo rushed over and did his best to aide Jay in his battle. As Jay was pushed backwards, Leo ran around him and quickly brought his katana down against the blades on Shredder’s arm. Just as Shredder swung his other arm around to pierce Leo, the turtle had ducked down which now left Shredder open as he was leaning forward into his attack. Jay quickly ran forward and landed a solid punch with his tekko against the man’s mask, making a small dent as he did so.

Shredder was a bit taken aback from this attack. “Heh, good job Jay, but you’re not good enough.” Shredder then spun around so fast that Jay was caught off guard as he was kicked in the side and knocked over. Shredder then went to slice his bladed arm down on Jay’s face, but Leo cut in and used his katanas to block the attack. As he pulled upwards and brought the Shredder’s blades with him, Jay got to his feet and pushed forward as he tried to knock the Shredder off his balance and have him tumble backwards, but Shredder had moved just a second faster and twisted to the side and used Jay’s momentum against him as he then grabbed the neck of Jay’s shirt as he ran past him, quickly pulled him back, and then brought his elbow down against Jay’s chest. As Shredder turned back to face Leo, the turtle was now rushing forward as he used his shoulder to push Shredder backwards. The metal man would have been able to dodge this attack if it weren’t for Jay (who was now laying on the ground after being elbowed in the chest) who jabbed the tekko on his hand into Shredder’s calf, and as the villain was caught off guard, Leo shoved him backwards as he tumbled off the side of the building now that there was no rail to block his fall. Leo and Jay watched over the side as they watched their enemy fall.

They watched as Shredder flipped open a part of his wrist guard and pressed a button. Suddenly, the man’s armor extended along his back so that it was now much thicker like his original suit from months ago. This helped aide his fall as he landed in a parked trash truck on the street, but there was no way he was standing up any time soon after that fall.

Raph and April soon finished up with their group of soldiers and then joined Leo and Jay in looking over the edge and making sure that Shredder wasn’t moving from his spot. Once he felt that it was safe to look away, Leo turned to Jay. “You okay? You took some harsh blows back there.” Jay turned to smile at the turtle. “Ehhhh I’m definitely going to be sore in the morning, but I’ll be fine since I had you helping me. Thank you.” Jay then turned towards April. “You’re welcome for that by the way” he said playfully as he pointed to the tessen. “So, does this mean we get to train the Hogosha?” Leo teased. April was about to respond to him, but she was cut off by Raph. “Uhhh guys? Why is Donnie kissing Sam?” he asked in a confused manner. All heads turned towards the opposite side of the roof where Sam was lying on her back while Donnie leaned over her with their lips touching. “No…” Jay said softly. “That’s not kissing, that’s CPR” Leo stated as his eyes went wide, and all four of them quickly rushed over to find out what the heck was going on.

*SAM, MIKEY, DONNIE POV*

Now that Donnie didn’t have to dodge mutagen filled arrows, it was much easier for him to fight offensively, and he was loving it. He used his speed to maneuver his way throughout the crowd of soldiers as he used his bo staff to hit various soldiers as he ran. He was now feeling such an adrenaline rush since he and his family now had the upper hand that he was moving faster than ever before.

Mikey now felt the same way, especially since Sam was now safely fighting by his side. He could tell that she was trying to conserve her powers for the moments when she truly needed them as she fought on with her tonfa. Mikey sensed that there were some soldiers who were trying to escape, so he quickly jolted his right nunchuk in a way that triggered a blade connected by a chain to come out from side, turning the weapon into a chain sickle. He ran after the escapees and swung the chain so that it bound three soldiers together and made them tumble to their feet. By the time they were beginning to untangle themselves and stand up, Mikey had already reached their spot and was now fighting them.

Sam was still in her original spot as she used her tonfa to block attacks from the many soldiers that were now surrounding her. As she was fighting off the many soldiers in front of her, in her peripheral vision she saw one soldier who was hiding off in the distance by himself. Sam flipped one of her opponents over her shoulder and then threw him onto two other nearby soldiers so that she could watch the sneaky man from far off for a few seconds. What she saw was that the soldier had picked up one of the electric whips and was now heading towards Mikey’s direction. Sam began to mentally panic as she continued to fight the soldiers in front of her. She knew that if the man used the highest setting on the whip then one blow would lead to a quick death. She fought her hardest to knock out or even to at least push away the soldiers that were surrounding her, and in a final act of desperation her eyes went blue as a tremendous gust of wind came from her entire body, and the force from the wind sent each soldier flying and flailing backwards. She felt a bit weak, but as quickly as she could she rushed over towards where Mikey was standing. He only had about four more soldiers left in front of him, but his back side was completely open.

Sam ran as fast as she could. Her worst fear was about to come true, that her loved ones would get seriously injured because of her, and she couldn’t let that happen. Mikey had displayed his love for his sister in so many ways: defending her when his brothers still wanted nothing to do with her in the beginning, being patient in waiting for Sam to talk about her horrid past, waiting in her room for her even after he had told her to stay away, maintaining eye contact and trust when she froze the whip, risking his body to block her when bullets were shot at her, hugging her and comforting her when she was too afraid to speak or even look at him, and just recently walking out across the thin railway in order to help her make her way across to the safety of the roof. Mikey had always been there for her and Sam wouldn’t let ANYTHING happen to him, even if it risked her life, and that’s exactly what she did.

In order to save the greatest thing that had ever happened to her, Sam ran and pushed Mikey out of the way as the electric whip was about to land on his back as it now hit Sam right in the middle of her chest. Mikey had just defeated his four soldiers right before he was pushed, and now his face was filled with fear as he saw Sam get hit behind him. “SAM!” he called out as he ran over to the soldier who was still holding the whip, and bashed his fist against his face. Donnie had just finished up with his fight and had just seen Sam get hit with the whip as her body now went limp and fell into Mikey’s arms. She fought to move her arms, but it was obvious that she had absolutely no control over her body any longer. “Only…you know the word…to save me…” was all Sam was able to mumble as she started shaking in Mikey’s arms. Donnie then joined the two of them and took hold of Sam. “Mikey, do you remember what an AED is?” “Yeah, inside?” Mikey asked. Donnie nodded and Mikey took off towards the doorway in search of an AED somewhere inside.

Theme: Seven Lions x Illenium x Said The Sky-Rush Over Me (feat. HALIENE) (literally this song makes me tear up when I read this part) Epik High-Spoiler Linkin Park-Leave Out All the Rest

Donnie quickly and carefully laid Sam down flat on her back as he removed her jacket so that now she was only wearing her thin black t-shirt. He checked her pulse…and realized that there was nothing there. He then fixed his hands and began pressing down on Sam’s sternum as he began CPR. Donnie was trying to stay calm. He knew what he was doing, but obviously completing CPR in a real situation was different from training and learning the process, and knowing that Sam was basically lying there dead in front of him was making him mentally go insane. After 30 compressions, Donnie tilted Sam’s head back, opened her mouth, and put his lips over top hers as he checked and made sure he saw her chest go up as he gave her two breaths.

*Back to everyone’s POV*

“What’s happening?!” Jay exclaimed as he was now kneeling right beside Sam’s head. Leo and Raph were now kneeling across from Donnie as April kneeled down next to him. “Her eyes…” April said as she cupped her hands over her mouth as she felt tears start trickling down her cheeks. Sam’s eyes were still open, but they were dull and dry. At this moment everyone realized that Sam was already gone and that Donnie was fighting to bring her back. “No…” Raph muttered softly. “Donnie?” Leo choked out. “She was hit by one of those electric whips” Donnie said frantically while completing compressions. Jay was now the same as April as he had tears streaming down his face as he watched Donatello fight to bring life back into his sister’s body. “DON!” Mikey called out as he threw a small blue pack towards his brother. Donnie scrambled to get the patches of the AED set up as Jay lifted Sam’s shirt up so that the patches could be correctly placed as soon as possible. “Clear!” Donnie called out as he pressed the button that sent the shock throughout Sam’s body. April jumped some as she saw the girl’s body lift up some from the shock.

They all waited for movement…only for nothing to happen at all. “Again” Jay whispered. “Clear” Donnie said as he pressed the button once more. Sam gasped for air as some life came back to her eyes. She was able to lift her head up off the ground some which was also a bodily reaction from the shock. From right to left around her was Donnie, April, Mikey, Raph, Leo, and then Jay behind her. Sam could feel her body fading away from her, almost as if she was falling into the floor, and she knew her time would be up soon. Knowing these were her last moments, Sam couldn’t help but smile. All around her were the most important people in her life. She was able to make up with the turtles after all the horrible things that happened between them and in these moments their faces showed how much they truly cared about her. She had them and April who had all become her new extended family and were some of the main reasons that she was able to live life again and not just exist from day to day. And then there was Jay, the one piece from her past that made her want to live for the future. She wanted nothing more than to keep him out of harm’s way and know that he was safe, and now she knew that he could live his life the way he wanted to since the Foot clan had been broken up.

Sam smiled as these final thoughts swirled around in her head. She was grateful that the final images she would see were the faces of those closest to her, and she prayed that even though she was passing now, that none of them would join her anytime soon and would live long lives instead. She would have loved to been with all of them longer, but her time was now. Her eyes began to close and the smile on her face fell some as she lost control of her body, and within seconds, Sam had passed on.

Jay was sobbing out loud as he cupped his hands around his sister’s face. He was now officially alone as his final family member passed away in front of him. Donnie covered his eyes with his hands, knowing that tears were about to start streaming from his eyes very soon. April already had tear covered cheeks as she grabbed onto Donnie’s arm, providing comfort for both him and herself. Raph stood up and walked away so that when the tears started streaming down his face, no one would see it. Leo fought to catch his breath as he continued to stare down at Sam’s body. He kept waiting for her to move, for all this to be fake…but she just continued to lie there, and the mix of sadness and horror that he felt from what he had just witnessed made him feel like there was a lump in his throat. Mikey just sat there in disbelief. His best friend, the one that he had cried each night over as he waited for the moment when he would finally get to talk to her again, was motionless and limp in front of him. He kept thinking of something he could do, but there’s nothing that could be done to save someone once they had died, right? He kept replaying her words over and over in his head. A word that could save her, what could that mean?! How would that even work? He started clenching his fists together as he struggled to understand what his friend meant and he knew that if he didn’t figure it out soon then she would truly be gone for good.

That’s when it finally clicked in. A word that only he heard, that only he would know to think of. As soon as the word entered his thoughts then he knew that it had to be what she was talking about. “Cowabunga” he said softly.

Heads snapped as everyone was now glaring over at Mikey. Leo closed his eyes in annoyance, trying to pretend that he didn’t hear his brother say what he thought he did, but Raph proved this otherwise. “ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH Y-” he bellowed until her heard a small noise go off.

Everyone was silent as they heard some whirring sounds, almost like a machine was being put to use. “Voice recognition-“it’s your boy Michelangeloooo”-confirmed. Password: Cowabunga, accepted. Injecting mutagen now” came a programmed voice from Sam’s sleeve. Suddenly, the veins throughout Sam’s body lit up as mutagen traveled through them. The mutagen was dispersed from her right arm and gradually traveled all throughout her body. As the mutagen worked through its course, the girl’s body began to glow more and more, signaling that the mutagen was moving successfully through each vein.

Everyone had backed away and given Sam some space, not sure exactly what to do since none of them knew exactly what was going on, except for Donnie who had a strong guess. “This must have been her last resort, to transform her body if that’s what was needed to happen” Donnie stated in awe. Jay stared down at his sister in astonishment, and then looked over at Mikey. “She must have had a voice recording from her phone…but how did you know?” he asked. “She knew that Raph hated when I said it, so I only said it in front of her” Mikey mumbled. Jay continued to stare at Mikey for a few seconds as he noticed just how upset the turtle was. He knew that all four of the turtles and April were just as upset as Jay was with this entire situation, but he sensed that there was something different as he stared at Mikey who never stopped looking at Sam. Jay then turned back towards his sister as the mutagen had almost filled every vein in her body. The mutagen continued to light up and travel until finally the mutagen reached her heart and brain simultaneously. As soon as the blue had barely even touched these organs, Sam’s eyes shot open. Just like when she used smaller doses of the mutagen before, her eyes had black where white should be. And her iris and pupil shone bright blue instead of brown.

Everyone was so shocked about what they were seeing that they were caught completely off guard when a huge gust of wind shot from Sam’s body. The gusts were so strong that the turtles went and hid behind where the entry way to the roof was. Raph and Mikey had grabbed onto April while Donnie and Leo had grabbed onto Jay so that they, being the weakest of the group, would not fly away with the powerful wind. As they looked back over at Sam as they made their way to their hiding spot, they saw that she had sat up at some point within those past few seconds of them looking away, but she wasn’t calm. Sam was on her knees with her hands tightly holding onto the sides of her head. It looked as if she was in agonizing pain, but no one knew what exactly what going on or how to handle what they were seeing.

“Either of you have any idea what’s going on?!” Leo shouted to Jay and Donnie since the gusts were making it harder to hear. All heads turned as they heard Sam start shrieking non-stop as she continued to stay in her kneeling position. Jay started crying again as he witnessed his sister’s agony. “She’s NEVER used that much mutagen before! I know which two matched her DNA extremely well and she probably used those, but I don’t know how to handle what’s happening because neither she nor anyone else has tested that much of either on anyone! And I was never in the labs so I never studied them the way she did!” Jay shouted through sobs. Donnie was about to speak, but that’s when he realized the screaming had stopped. Leo, Raph, Donnie, April and Jay all looked over and saw Sam standing on her own two feet as she just stared at the group from where they were hiding. At first she just stared at them, but within seconds her simple stare turned into a furious death glare. “What’s happening?” April asked in a panic. “No one knows what this amount of either mutagen, alone or combined, can do to any person. It could have been a bad match…oh no…” “Come on Sam, pull through it, we can’t fight you” Leo said softly as he began to clench his fists as he mentally blamed Shredder for all everything that was happening. “Uhhhh guys?!” Raph exclaimed. Sam was begining to walk over towards where the group was standing, and she did not look happy. Whether the mutagen had changed her mind, whether it lead her to be controlled by someone or something else, whatever the infinite possibilities of what was going on, Sam looked as if she was ready to bash heads in. The guys began reaching for their weapons, though they knew they would never harm Sam, but they could at least defend themselves.

Everyone was terrified as Sam got closer and closer to the group, everyone except for Michelangelo of course. Without anyone realizing it, Mikey had slowly and quietly moved from his spot with the group and had been hanging from the side of the building so that no one would notice him, and as soon as he saw Sam start marching over towards his family, he swung himself back up and ran behind her. He hooked his left leg around both of hers as he placed his left foot on top of hers and then used his right leg to squish her legs together and then placed his right foot over top of hers. He then pulled both of her arms back and closed his left hand over top of her wrists as he wrapped his right arm around her chest, squishing her arms to her sides in the process. Of course Sam reacted negatively to this as her screams got louder, but Mikey wasn’t ready to give up anytime soon. “Sam!” he called out to her, “I know you can hear me! I don’t know what’s happening to you, but I know that you set all this up for a reason, so fight it! Fight off whatever is hurting you!” Sam tried thrashing around in the turtles grasp, but she seemed quite weak. Mikey guessed that either her body couldn’t handle the mutagen’s powers, or that her mind was so lost from the chemical that she couldn’t truly control herself, hence why her thrashing around wasn’t as difficult to handle as he had expected. Mikey then pulled her upwards so that her head was right in front of his. He leaned in towards her ear and whispered “It doesn’t matter what you do, you’ll never be able to get rid of me ever again. My family and I are with you until the end Sam, so stop trying to push us away and just let us in. I’m never letting you go Sam, none of us are…”

Maybe it was his words, maybe this was just the right amount of time for the chemicals to spread out and for her body to adjust, but Sam grew weak only moments after Mikey spoke kind words. Her body went limp and her eyes closed. She would have fallen face first onto the ground if it weren’t for the fact that someone was holding her with both their arms at that current moment. He gently flipped the girl around so that as he held her in his arms, his face was now looking down at hers. He kept waiting for some type of sign as to whether his best friend was okay or not and after what felt like forever, his worries were calmed as Sam slowly opened her eyes and revealed the normal brown color. She blinked a few times as if she was just getting out of bed and then slowly smiled up at the turtle holding her with such care. “You…did it…” she managed to say, still a bit groggy and sore from all that had just occurred to her. Mikey couldn’t help but smile back down at her. He couldn’t think of anything to say because his mind was so wrapped up in the millions of thoughts flying around inside his head. Did this mean that Sam was officially safe? What had just happened to her? Would that happen again? Would any other side effects come about over time? Did this shorten Sam’s lifespan? Was Sam a mutant now since she had mutagen in her body? Was the mutagen still in her body? All these ongoing thoughts were abruptly brought to an end as Jay ran over and screamed “HELL YEAH YOU DID!!!" and hugged Sam from behind, and by doing so, he squished Sam against Mikey’s chest. Sam stood there with a blank expression since she didn’t really know what to do since she had never been in a situation quite like this this one. Mikey however was laughing and smiling as he and Jay embraced each other in the group hug. The group was then enlarged as the other three brothers all ran over and then surrounded Jay, Sam, and Mikey in a group hug of their own as everyone basically sandwiched Sam in the very middle. April was wiping away the last of her tears as she walked over and smiled at the relieved and overjoyed faces of the boys who were happy to have their sister back. Since she was the only person who was watching everything from a further back distance, she was the only that realized that while everyone was participating in the group hug and had their arms wrapped around whoever was next to or in front of them, Mikey’s left arm dangled down next to Sam’s right as the two were holding hands the entire time the group hug was going on. Assuming it was just an emotional reaction from how close the two were, April decided to take a rain check on bringing this up to either of them and refrained from teasing about it since no one else had seemed to notice this had happened right in front of them. This was mainly because she didn’t want to make things awkward for either Mikey or Sam…but in all honesty she hoped that if something was going on here then she would get more chances at seeing something bloom if she didn’t bring it up which could bring cute scenes like this to an end, so she pretended to act like she had never seen anything.

“Whoa…” Sam mumbled. Quickly the group hug dispersed so that they could all see what was wrong. “I don’t feel so good guys” Sam said slowly, and right after the last word left her lips, her eyes closed once again as she fell into a deep sleep.

*The next day in the middle of the afternoon*

Sam slowly began to open her eyes as she saw mostly bright white all around her. She slowly began to sit up and realized that she was in a hospital room. At first she was very dazed and confused as she wondered how the heck she ended up in a hospital bed and after a couple of minutes, it was like a flip had been switched as memories from the night previous came flooding through her mind. She quickly looked around, trying to see if there were any cameras in the room that would spot her if she tried to sneak out. The first thing on her mind was that she needed to check on the turtles and make sure they were alright. That’s when she noticed a pair of navy blue sweat pants sitting on the couch towards the further side of the room. Sam carefully crawled out of the bed and walked over to the couch, surprised that she wasn’t anywhere near as sore and in pain as she thought she would be, unless the doctors had drugged her up already which would make a lot of sense based on how many dreadful cuts and bruises she had all over her body. On top of the pants was a note that said “I know you won’t listen and wait for someone to come back, so these are for you when you sneak off :P” A huge smile formed on the girl’s face as she quickly put the pants on and snuck through the hallways of the hospital until she had reached a staircase that lead her all the way to the roof of the building.

Once she reached the roof she stood still in the sun for a second, soaking in the sunlight that she hadn’t truly felt in so long while she was stuck hiding out in the headquarters building. She then sensed an impatient aura nearby as her smile grew wider and wider. “You guys know you didn’t have to wait all this time for me to wake up, right?” she asked aloud as she turned around to face the four heads that poked out from the small wall behind the doorway. “Eh, there was nothing good on t.v.” Raph said with a smirk. Sam put her hand over her heart, pretending to feel bashful. “Well, I’m honored that I won the award for being more entertaining than public television.” “How are you feeling?” Leo asked. “Honestly I feel great right now, which I’m shocked at.” “Jay said they drugged you up real good with the anesthetics” Donnie added. “I was wondering that. Hehe in that case, I’ll have to thank the doctor” Sam said playfully. She then looked over at the youngest of the four brothers and noticed that he was acting completely out of character as he just stood there quietly. Sam walked over to him and spoke to him gently. “Hey, you okay?” she asked softly. He looked her right in the eyes as he spoke and asked “are you?” Sam tried teasing him, thinking that this approach would help him act silly and energetic as usual, but her face revealed where her mind was at and Mikey cut her off before she could reply. “Sam…” Her expression softened as she went to answer truthfully…only to be cut off by someone who came storming up through the doorway. “I KNEW IT! Why can’t you be normal and just relax in bed? Why are you so adventurous? Why can’t you just be lazy?” Jay shouted as he fought to catch his breath after running up all the stairs. April then came running up as well and was acting the same way. “Hey guys! I never realized how out of shape I was. Wow” she said as she bent over and put her hands on her knees. “Hey Jay” the four brothers said in unison while helping April maintain her balance. “Hey guys, long time no see. This is what my stupid sister does, gives me a heart attack 24/7.” Sam rolled her eyes. “Oh relax, plus you’re the one that left me the pants!” “Yeah, because I didn’t want you exposing yourself because I knew this would happen. I’m just glad you came straight here like we all expected.” Sam tilted her head. “We?” “We were talking to your brother last night and we deemed him as trustworthy, so we gave him lair access as we discussed what would happen when you woke up” Leo said with a smile. “Heh, looks like these guys know you as well as I do” Jay said. Sam had always hoped that Jay would get the chance to meet the turtles, but she never imagined that it would happen so soon. She wanted to continue relishing on these happy thoughts, but she knew there was more that needed to be discussed. “Jay…how many?” Sam asked, her smiling face switching over to a calm and serious one. Jay scrunched his eyes in confusion. “What are you talking about?” “You know what mean, how many people…” Jay nodded his head as everyone else on the roof top remained silent and calm, now also curious in the topic at hand. “Alright, now you have to be prepared for the number I’m about to say since I wasn’t expecting it either…0.” Sam looked back up at her brother, her eyes wide. “What?” Jay started laughing in relief. “None, there were no casualties from the rebels or the loyal soldiers and there were no serious injuries either. Sadly about ¼ of our rebels did need to go to the hospital, but not for any life changing injuries. I don’t know about how serious injuries were for the loyals, but hey it won’t matter much since they will all be rotting in jail.” “They all got caught?!” “Every single one” he stated with pride. “So what happens to everyone who escaped?” Raph asked curiously. “The police department have a program set up and A LOT of people from political groups within the city are on board with it” Jay replied. “How is that possible?” “You guys have no idea how many families were affected by the Foot’s actions. It wasn’t just everyday people on the street who were affected. Shredder had forced lawyers, doctors, all types of people to do various jobs for him, that or people with socioeconomic power, their kids were kidnapped or they had family members injured or killed, all types of crazy situations, so thousands of people throughout the city know about this situation and are fighting to help protect those who need it. All four of you saved the city in ways you can’t even imagine.” The bashful turtles were silent as Sam cut back in. “Sooooo what happened to the bad guys?” she asked in excitement. Jay spoke softly as he aimed for climatic effect. “So Tatsu…IS IN JAIL!” “Sachs?” “IN JAIL! And guess who the final person who’s been locked away is?” Everyone was waiting in anticipation, wondering which of the dreaded villains was now rotting away. “SHREDDER!” Everyone cheered aloud and joked with each other in enjoyment in knowing their dreaded arch enemy was now locked away and for the time being couldn’t harm them or anyone else. “Wait,” Sam started, “so Karai and Hun got away?” “Sadly yes, but the police are always on the lookout for them, and I’m also looking into their whereabouts so that I can get the scoop on the story” April said joyfully. “What ever happened to the Mutanimals?” Mikey asked. “Thanks to April here we were able to find various homes for them throughout the sewers where they’re guarding the professor.” “Why is he with them?” Raph asked. “He grew quite attached to all of them, and they all to him. I mean hey, he is the reason they all look the way they do now. That and he’s doing research underground with them with all the mutagen that we saved.” The turtles cringed a bit at this, and Jay sensed the reaction immediately. “Don’t worry, the Mutanimals are skilled and strong, they can protect him and all the chemicals with him.” “Why does he want to study all the chemicals in the first place?” Donnie asked. “Mainly for medical research for the Mutanimals themselves, but also to see if any of the mutagen or combinations can benefit and save the public in anyway.”

Just then, Sam’s body started tilting to the side and she would have landed right on the ground if Mikey hadn’t caught her before she fell. “Sam?” he asked, failing to hide how frantic he was. She stood back up as quickly as she could and faced him, though Mikey didn’t let go until she was standing on her own two feet for a couple of minutes. “Don’t worry, I’m fine. I think the anesthetics are starting to wear off some though.” “Where does it hurt?” Jay asked. “Uhhhhh well my back feels like it’s on fire, and the rest of my body just feels hot in general, though it’s probably from the burning from my back.” Jay smiled as he walked over and put his arm around his sister’s shoulder. “I think it’s time we all part ways for the day. Don’t worry, you’ll see these guys soon enough. We’ll both go, okay?” Sam shot her brother a huge smile and then aimed that smile over at the four brothers who were now standing in front of her. “Thanks again guys, for trusting me in the end. I can’t imagine what you guys were going through with the way things went down.” “We should have treated you better, but hopefully this makes up for it some” Leo said with an apologetic shrug. Sam nodded at him, but then she softened her expression. “You guys know it’s not the end though, right? Karai still has connections to soldiers from Japan and Hun can easily find more thugs to take advantage of, and we still have no idea who Shredder’s supplier was and where that person is now.” The four brothers all looked at one another, and then they all looked at Sam. “If any of them decided to come back, then they better be ready for what’s coming for them as well. None of us are going anywhere, so it’s them who should be ready” Leo stated with confidence. “Yeah, for us to KICK THEIR ASS! Nothing stops the green machine!” Mikey called out. “Ugh, let’s go” Raph said as he pushed his youngest brother and rolled his eyes. The turtles said their final goodbyes to their human friends for the day and the remaining human three did the same back as the turtles carefully and quickly made their way down the building and into a darkened alley where they escaped back down underground.

Sam walked with Jay and April back down to the room where Sam would receive her treatment. Her worst fear had now been shoved under the rug. She had worried for so long that the boys would never want to talk to her ever again and that once again she would be lonely, and if anything had happened to Jay then she would have been all alone for who knew how long…but they didn’t allow that to happen. After everything that she had said and done to them, all four of them came back and saved her in multiple ways. More than anything she was happy to them all acting as their usual selves, especially Mikey who was finally acting like his usual dorky self as the group made their exit. Sam couldn’t wait for when she would get to happily return to the sewers and even greet Sensei with a smile, and she couldn’t wait to see what their next adventure would be, but for now, she was just focused on taking her medicine and getting some more sleep.

She had no idea how many more adventures she would experience with the four turtles and her new family of mutants and humans, and she had no idea what else would blossom in the process.

Author’s Note: If there's anyone who has read up to this point in the series, I would love to hear any and all feedback you might have :) It would really help me in determining what direction I'd like for this story to go.

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