A young girl, who seemed to be about twelve years old, skipped happily down the sidewalk, her mother walking a short distance behind her.
The girl held a small container, which contained a small, multi-colored lizard. "Are you sure you want a lizard as a pet? They're so...boring. Maybe we should bring it back and get a puppy, maybe even a kitten."
Her mother called as she reached her daughters side and looked warily down at the box in her daughters hand. The child nodded enthusiastically. "I really do, Mom. I think lizards make the best pets. Besides, a lizard won't destroy all your shoes like a puppy or kitten would."
The child lifted a flap of the box and peered inside to make sure her new pet was still secure. A soft sigh of defeat slipped from the mother as she looked at the reptile in the box.
"Okay, what are you going to name it?" The answer was instantaneous. "Renée! And, Mom, its a girl. A beautiful, girl, African Blue headed lizard." The mother rolled her eyes slightly. "How old did the man say she was?" The mother asked, starting to rummage in her purse for something. "Still a baby. He didn't say exactly." The mother nodded absently as she pulled a pair of sunglasses out of her bag and slid them onto her face.
They had only walked a short distance more when a man ran past, snagging the mother's hand bag. "Hey!" The mother whipped around and, in doing so, bumped her daughter, who dropped the box. The box popped open and the young lizard scampered out and into a pile of boxes nearby. The mother, having started after the thief, didn't notice anything until her daughter let out a fearful screech. The boxes had hidden a broken bottle of mutagen, which the lizard had darted into and, almost instantly, started changing. The mother screamed in fear, grabbed her daughters hand, and darted away.
A girl nearby, who was about nineteen, had watched the whole thing and now approached the young mutant, who was sitting confusedly in the boxes. She pulled the lizard child out of the boxes, kicking them back over the mutagen to keep others off of it, then slid down the nearby ally. She dropped into the sewer system, stopping in her tracks as two bright blue eyes started at her from the shadows. "April? What are you doing here? I thought you couldn't come today. Who is that!" The exited voice of Michelangelo rang through the dark as he caught sight of the child in Aprils arms. "Things changed. Obviously, she is a mutant. Are the others nearby?" Mikey nodded and turned, quickly disappearing into the darkness, only to return a few minutes later with his three brothers. "April!" Donatello was obviously surprised, although pleased, to see her, his eyes only widened as his gaze fell upon the child in her arms. "Who is that?" He asked, stepping closer to her and looking curiously at the lizard. April sighed slightly. "I thought that you guys, out of all of New York, would now a freshly changed mutant when you saw one." Leonardo stepped up next to his brother. "Lets get back to the lair, then we can talk about who that is." He said as Raphael dragged the manhole cover back onto the hole and dropped down next to them. "We can pick up scavenging later."