Chapter One – The Mission

"I understand Master." I bowed before my master, and Sensei, the Shredder. I stood straight and said, "I'm ready."

"I am sorry my daughter, but I am trusting you to fulfill what I have asked you."

"I will Master."

The Shredder raised his gauntlet, and sliced across my waist with the spikes, not deep, but deep enough to make it bleed. I cried out quietly and upon instinct, I grasped my waist with both hands in pain. I lifted them and looked down, they were covered in blood. I looked up at my Master, and then stood up straight again painfully. "I'm ready," I repeated.

Shredder nodded and then punched me hard, knocking me out. The last thing I saw was the ground hitting my face, and then blackness.

Groaning I opened my eyes to slits but immediately after I closed my eyes in pain from the light. Although dim, the small bit of light still hurt. I heard hushed voices to my left.

"Where'd you find her?" The first voice asked.

"Like I said Leo, I was going to check out a scream when I saw the Shredder standing over this girl. So..."Another voice answered.

"Don't tell me you jumped down." The supposed 'Leo' asked.

"I did, I don't know what I was thinking. You know me; I hate it when criminals go after women and children. But the odd thing is, is when I jumped down the Shredder took one look at me and then disappeared."

There was silence, and then footsteps approached me.

"She looks familiar, I wonder where I've seen her."

"I think she's waking up, she's squinting her eyes against the light. Turn the light off!" A faint click followed the exclamation.

I opened my eyes slightly, and then opened them a little more upon not feeling any pain. I felt someone put a cool cloth across my forehead. And then a voice whispered a bit too close for my comfort, "How are you feeling?"

My eyes snapped open wide and I pushed my head away from the source of the sound. A jolt of pain shot through my head, I groaned and grabbed my head.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you," the voice whispered hurriedly.

I nodded slowly, "It's fine, just, just don't get so close." I looked straight into the brown eyes of a purple-banded turtle. No, I wasn't surprised, I've seen them before, even fought them. But this turtle in particular always caught my attention; I've never fought him before, because in truth I was always a little scared of him. I always went after the blue-banded turtle. The purple-banded turtle seemed to not want to fight, but when he did, there was a fire in his eyes; yet, there was ice as well. He protected his brothers fiercely without them even knowing it, it seemed obvious that the blue-banded turtle was the real protector except of course their sensei.

Now looking into his eyes, all I saw was calm kindness, yet extreme wisdom and intelligence. It was soothing almost. I relaxed my tense muscles. Even though I already knew them I still asked the obvious question, "So... who are you guys?"

Leo walked up to me, "you mean, you're not scared of us?"

I shook my head, "nope, I've seen weirder things in my life-span."

He raised his eye ridges skeptically, "really?"

I nodded smiling, "so... Again who and what are you guys?" Although I already knew the answer.

I guessed that the turtle with the orange bandana had stepped in at that moment for he bounded up to me and yelled at the top of his lungs. "WE ARE THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES! T-M-N-T! WHAT YOU GET IS WHAT YOU SEE! GOOOOOOOOOOO TURTLES!"

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Mikey! She just woke up!" Don snapped. "You might give her another headache!"

I giggled, "no, its fine."

I started to sit up all of the way but Don's hands were quickly placed on my shoulders, stopping me from sitting up.

"You need to sleep a little more, lay down." He ordered.

I frowned but lay down again, "but I'm not tired anymore." I argued, but quickly scolded myself for doing so, I sounded like a little child!

Don smiled warmly and replied, "your mind may not need rest but your body does. Now go to sleep."

I frowned even more, clearly not amused, but I closed my eyes and tried to go to sleep.

Feet quietly shuffled across the floor, I heard the one in the orange bandana whispered rather loudly, "What's wrong with the dudette?"

"Be quiet Mikey!" Don's voice whispered harshly, then the door shut.

I giggled and then quietly went back sleep.

The next morning I sat up and yawned. I then swung my legs over the bed and rubbed my eyes sleepily. Seeing a glass of water next to my bed I quickly snatched it and drank it. Wiping my mouth I stood up and walked to the door.

I reached out to the handle and opened it. I stepped outside and into the main part of the turtles' home. I looked around clearly amazed. It was huge!

Upon hearing yells from one room at the end of the room I was in, I curiously walked towards it.

I peered in the door way and the turtles sparring. I almost cried out in alarm when one of the turtles was thrown in my direction, but luckily he hit the wall next to the doorway.

Hearing my gasp the turtle looked up at me. It was Don. He stood up quickly and faced me. The turtles behind him stopped sparring and looked over at me. I felt uncomfortable under all of their gazes especially their Master.

Their Master calmly walked up to us and asked, "Who is this Donatello?"

"This is the girl who we were telling you about yesterday night Master Splinter."

He nodded, "I see." He then turned to me, "I am Master Splinter my child."

I almost flinched when he said 'my child'. I especially didn't like being called that by my enemy, but fortunately I didn't flinch because Leo was watching my every move.

The rat turned around and clapped, "my sons, introduce youselves to our guest."

The turtles immediately walked up to me.

Leo first spoke, "I am Leonardo, and these are my brothers: Donatello," he pointed to Don, "also known as Don or Donnie, he's the brains of the family."

"Raphael," he pointed to the turtle with the red bandana. Raphael twirled his sais nonchalantly. "Also known as Raph, he's our hothead."

"And Raffie!" Mikey called out!

Raph punched Mikey in the arm hard, but Mikey just grinned making Raph scowl.

"And Michelangelo." He pointed to the grinning Mikey. "Also known as Mikey, he's the jokester in our family."

"And Leonardo is also known as Leo, and he's the leader of our foursome!" Mikey mimicked.

Leo rolled his eyes.

I laughed, "and I am Kristina, but you can call me Kristy, and I have one question, when are we eating?"

"Oh my gosh! You must be starving!" Donnie exclaimed. "Here, I'll take you to the kitchen and make you something."

"No you can' bro, you can't cook worth crap. I'll take her to the kitchen and make her some of my famous pancakes!" Mikey grinned.

Leo, Raph, and Don groaned. "Pancakes again?"

I giggled, "I love pancakes, I'll be willing to try some of your 'famous' pancakes Mikey."

His smile got even wider and he grabbed my arm and led me into the kitchen.

I exited the kitchen holding my stomach. The other three turtles on the couch looked over at me and burst out laughing. I scowled at them.

"So Mikey filled you up, eh?" Raph asked grinning wickedly.

I scowled even further.

Splinter, who was sitting on the sofa frowned and snapped, "my sons! It is rude to make fun of your guests!"

I grinned and stuck out my tongue, "yeah!" I couldn't believe how much I was enjoying myself with these turtles! I needed to meditate; they were my enemies, not my friends! But why had Master Shredder always said that they were horrible creatures when they were just like regular people. They liked to laugh, and joke, and just have fun like normal people! The only thing different about them was that they were turtles. This was the only time in my whole entire life that I was starting to doubt my Master Shredder.

I walked over to the sofa and took a seat next to Leo. And watched the TV with them.

Looking over to my right I saw Donnie at a computer. My love of technology overcame me and I stood up and walked over to him. I peered over his shoulder and asked, "whatcha doin?"

He looked up at me and then looked back at his screen. "Oh, just brainstorming different ways I could better the Battle Shell so we can be fully ready for the next attack from Shredder.

I flinched, "uh... who's Shredder?" I asked nervously.

"He's our arch foe. Or as Mikey puts it, he's Mister Spiky Pants with a bad attitude problem." He grinned at me, which immediately turned into a concerned look when he saw the troubled look on my face.

"Hey, what's wrong?" He asked turning around in his chair.

"Huh? Oh, nothing..."

"Is your head hurting you or anything?"

I stood up straight, "its nothing! I-I just need to go meditate."

He seemed surprised by this. "You meditate?"

"Yeah, you guys aren't the only ninjas around here."

Donnie's eyes widened, "you're a ninja?"

"Yeah, look, I've gotta go, ok, bye." I turned from him and headed back to the room I had woken up in. I entered the room and went straight for the bed. Plopping down on it I crossed my legs and began to meditate.

Since I was so deep into meditating, I didn't hear Splinter come into the room and sit on the bed beside me and meditate as well.

But soon after he started, I felt a mind enter my own. I tried to push it out but it would not budge, so I just let it in.

Finally, I figured out that this mind was Splinter's mind. We started talking to each other. He knew I was troubled and he wanted to know if there was anything that he could help with. I kept insisting that there was nothing, but he wouldn't take no for an answer!

I actually came really close to telling him about what I was sent to do by the Shredder. I even mentioned Shredder a couple of times, but I never said that he was my master. Master Shredder had told me that 'The Rat' would try to know why I was here and what 'The Shredder' would want with me.

I asked him how he knew that I was meditating and he said that Donatello had told him only, not his brothers, that I was a ninja and could meditate and that I had left to do so.

His mind was soothing to my own troubled one, but he soon started on the topic of why I was here again so that brought my troubled mind back, blinding the short peaceful one.

"Do you know what 'The Shredder' wanted with you?"

"I was actually spying on him and his foot ninjas because my master wanted to know what he was up to so he sent me to find out. But 'The Shredder' saw me and captured me. By then he had sent his foot ninja elsewhere, so when he knocked me out, and Donnie came there were no foot ninja there to fight." I knew that was a complete lie, but I wasn't going to tell him the truth. Definitely not! I'm not that stupid!

"But do you know why 'The Shredder' did not attack my son Donatello?"

"No, sorry."

"It is alright my child."

Instead of holding back my flinch this time, I flinched, and he felt it.

"I am sensing that you do not like me calling you my child. Am I right?"

"Yes, I'm sorry, it's just that my Master used to call me that, and it brings back old, hurtful, memories."

"No, I am sorry, I will not call you by that anymore."

I almost breathed a sigh of relief; at least I wouldn't have to deal with that anymore.

I felt his mind leave my own and I knew that he had stopped meditating.

I opened my eyes ending my meditation as well just in time to see him walk out of my door.

I stretched out my legs to full length and then relaxed them. I stood up and walked out the door. I was surprised at how late it really was. All the lights were turned off and the only light was coming from one doorway.

I peered into the doorway to see Don pretty much dissecting his computer. The computer box was lying open on the ground in front of a troubled Don. I walked over and asked, "Want some help?"

He looked up at me and shook his head, more at the computer than at me. "I need to work on the Master Hard drive but I can't seem to get it out of the computer box.

I knelt down beside him and looked into the box. Looking at the compartment holding the Floppy Disk department and the two Hard drives I grinned, I reached in and took the compartment out and then slipped the Master Hard drive out. I handed it to the stunned Don.

"What did you do?"

I shrugged, "there's a little clip on the back of the compartment that you have to push to get it off of the box."

He sat there for a moment comprehending what I had just said. I had to admit, he looked really cute trying to figure out everything. I grinned, "Didn't think of that did you?"

He looked up at me and shook his head, "I guess not." With the hard drive still in hand he stood up and walked out of his room with me following behind him.

Donnie walked over to the second computer next to all of the TV screens. He inserted the Hard drive into a little box and then connected that box to the computer. He started copying all of the files over to that computer's hard drive. Once he was done he took the hard drive out of the little box and walked back to his room with me tagging along as well.

I walked into the room and watched him place the hard drive back into the computer case. He placed the cover back on and then turned to me. "Well thanks for the help."

I knew he wanted me to leave but I didn't want to so I asked, "what were you wanting with the hard drive anyway?"

He sighed, "this computer got a virus on it and now it won't run properly so I downloaded all the files that I need from this hard drive to the one out there," he pointed outside of his room. "And now I'm going to have to format the hard drive and install my computer once again."

I nodded, "I understand, that's a long procedure."

He quirked an eyebrow, "you've formatted a hard drive before?"

I nodded, "yeah, I love technology, so I have my own computer, and of course it's had problems before. So I've had to format the hard drive. It's not that hard." I shrugged.

His eyes widened, "you work with technology?"

I nodded grinning.

He sort of looked away nervously, "you wouldn't happen to be a..."

"Techno-geek? Well, that's what everyone at home calls me so, yeah."

He smiled at this, "awesome! Now I have someone to talk to that will actually understand me!"

I laughed, "I feel exactly the same way!" I yawned, "well, I'm gonna go to bed now, so, ta-ta for now!"

"Goodnight."

"Goodnight," I replied.

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