My first TMNT fic! I hope you like it.
I don't own anything (expect Amy)!!
TMNT belongs to Mirage.
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Chapter 1: On the run
She had escaped. Finally, she had escaped.
Rain was pouring heavily on her when she ran trough the dark streets of New York.
Even though she was tired, she just couldn't give up; she just has to keep on going.
Suddenly she saw something. A hole on the ground. A man hole.
In there she could be easily hid and couldn't be found.
She jumped in and stayed at the ladder, reaching for the lid of man hole.
When she got the lid and put it on the possession, she could hear a helicopter flying above her and saw the light trough
the lid. But the light couldn't reach her.
She went down the ladder to the bottom, hitting the floor of the sewers.
And now she felt how tired she really was. She sat down and closed her eyes; she would rest for bit before she
continued her travel to find a place to live.
~Elsewhere~
Four ten-year-old turtles were making their way in the sewers.
"Come on now, Leo. It will be fun!"
"But master Splinter said..."
"You're always referring what Splinter said!"
"Leo's gotta point. Don't you remember what happened last time when we went on the topside?"
"That's a totally different thing. We got punishment 'cause we were helping that little dude, not
because we went to the topside."
"You got it all wrong Mikey."
Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo have all stayed up late so they could go topside
so their master wouldn't caught them in action.
Even though Leo and Don have been in the plan earlier they were having second thoughts, for Raph and Mikey's
disappointment.
"Well, here's the ladder, it's now or never, Leo, Don" Raph said.
Mikey was already climbing up, and Raph was waiting Leo and Don follow Mikey's lead.
He wasn't going up before them and realize at the top that his two other brothers have left behind and he have to be alone with Mikey.
"Fine then. Don, Raph, go first I'll come after you guys" Leo said. He wasn't going to let his brothers go to the topside alone.
"Yeah! You won't regret this one bro!" Raph said.
But just when he was going to start climbing, when they heard a small voice coming from the shadows.
"Wh- Who's there?"
Raph, Leo and Don all freeze (Mikey have climbed so up, he wasn't able to hear the voice). They have never met anyone or anything else in the sewers than rats,
Splinter and the originals.
Raph was the first one to recover.
"Who's there?"
They heard a sound like someone was standing up, and then the person walked into the light.
It was a girl, a human girl, who seemed to be the same age as the four turtles. She had a long, black hair that seemed to be really messy,
dark green eyes, her face and hands were dirty and (as Leo noticed) there were bruises all over her body. Her clothes were ragged and dirty.
"You're turtles" she said, sounding like she was telling them what sex they were.
"Hey guys! What's holdin' you?" heard Mikey's voice suddenly.
"Mikey, come down!" Don yelled back.
Because Raph or Leo didn't say anything else, Mikey decided that it was important to him to get back down.
Soon he joined his three brothers.
"What is…? Whoa, who's this?" Mikey asked when he saw the girl in front of them.
"Uhh…" was Don's answer when he realized no one has really introduced themselves.
"Wait a minute. Before we start to introduce ourselves, we have to learn who she is. She could be a spy" Leo said.
"Ten year old as a spy?" Raph asked.
"You can never know" Mikey said.
"My name is Amy" the girl said out of the blue.
"I think we should take her to master Splinter" Don said.
"Why?" Raph asked.
"Because she's bleeding and we can't leave her in here" Don said, and pointed her arm which was bleeding.
"Don's right. It's better that she's with us than someone else" Leo said and reached his hand to Amy, who took it.
"So, who are you?" Amy asked, when they started to walk.
All turtles noticed that she was limping and her voice was quiet, as she was afraid someone might hear her. Still, there was a small smile on her face.
"My name is Leonardo, these are my brothers, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo" Leo said.
"Yeah, but you can call as Leo, Raph, Don and Mikey" Mikey said.
"Who's master Splinter?"
"He's our teacher and father" Leo said.
"Teacher?"
"He teaches us ninja skills" Don said.
"So you guys are ninjas? Wow. So, is Splinter a turtle too?" Amy asked.
"No, he's a rat. We could say he adopted us" Raph said.
"And he's going to be sooo angry when he finds out we've been sneaking around" Don said.
"This is our home. So, who wants to go to wake Splinter up?" Mikey asked.
"I'm already up" heard a voice and the lights were turned on.
A big, grey rat was standing with his walking stick, looking really angry at the four turtles.
"And may I ask you where you four have been?" he asked.
But before any of the turtles could give him an answer, Splinter spotted Amy.
"Who is this?" he asked.
"The truth is sensei, we were planning to go topside, but then we run into Amy, in the sewers and decided it would be best
if we brought her to you" Leo said.
"You have to tell him everything?" Raph hissed.
Splinter walked to the little girl, who didn't even flinch when a giant rat walked towards her.
"Where did you come from, child?" Splinter asked.
Amy flinched and back away little.
"If I tell you, you won't send me back?" she asked, tears filling her eyes.
"No" Splinter said, and something in him made Amy feel like she could trust this rat.
"I come from an institute, institute that was making human test subjects" she said it so casually it was scary.
"And you were one of them?"
"Yes. They got me when I was one or two years old."
"So you've been all you life there? How you're here now?"
"I ran away."
"Is that place in here New York?"
"No, is far away from here. I don't know the place, it took a week for me to get here" Amy told.
"And you were on foot all along? How did you make it? Did you eat anything?" Mikey asked.
Amy turned to look the orange clad turtle, and there was some kind of hardness in her eyes.
"I wasn't in that place for nothing my whole life. They changed me" she said.
"What did they do to you?" Splinter asked.
"They mutated me" she said.
"How? You seem just normal to me" Mikey said.
"Michelangelo, think before you speak!" Splinter said.
"Whaat?"
"They did this to me" Amy said, and before Splinter or the turtles could say anything, there were a dog standing in front of them.
Then a cat. Then a squirrel. Then a mouse. Then Amy again.
"I can change into any animal. Because I was taken so young this was possible for me. If they have taken me later, it would have been difficult.
I don't know why, they just told me that. But thanks to my ability I was able to survive a week, running away. They can't spot me so easily when I'm an animal" she said.
"You mean they are looking for you?" Don asked.
"Yes. I hide in here so I could become one of the rats and they couldn't find me. I just didn't think I'd run into you guys" Amy said.
Turtles turned on their sensei question mark written on their faces.
Splinter was thinking the same thing, what should they do about this girl?
If they took Amy to live with them and those people from "the institution" found her, they would probably take them too.
But if he pushed her away, she could die and Splinter would worry about the girl if he let her go.
"She shall live with us, and I will teach her also ninja skills. And if you ever go to the topside with her, she has to be disguised as an animal. Do you understand?" Splinter asked.
"Yes" all five answered.
"Come along then. Let's take a look on your hand then" Splinter said to Amy.
"And you four to the bed. I will decide you punishment tomorrow" he then said to his sons.
"Aww man. I hoped he wouldn't remember that" Mikey said.
"What else did you think would happen?" Don asked.
"Well, we saved her. I was hoping we could get some credit for that one" Mikey said.
"It would be wrong if we were granted for something what is wrong" Leo said and Don nodded.
"You guys are no fun" Mikey said, when they hit the beds.
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