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One Purpose

Chapter 1

They were jumping and racing over rooftops, trying to get to their destination as soon as possible. The Kraang had been spotted again and they were going to get the shell beat out of them.

"I can't belief that they are at it again!" Donnie exclaimed, jumping to the next building and halting.

"Yeah," Mikey said throwing himself over the edge of an building and landing smoothly next to his taller brother "it's like they totally don't get it!"

Leo jumped and landed with a silent 'thump' between the two "Guys, remember that we have to stay silent!"

With a thundering smack, Raphael landed behind them and grinned broadly "I don't mind, we will just have to keep beating them until they get the message to stay down" and cracked his knuckles, the excited glint in his eyes giving his brothers a sliver of angst.

"That's not the point,-" Leo began before Mikey interrupted him.

"Wow, look at that!" he exclaimed pointing his finger to the street where the Kraang's white van and the Kraang themselves turned to point their guns to an approaching figure.

The turtles turned their attention to the road and then their jaws dropped almost audibly at the sight of the approaching girl.

Particularly Raphael was completely awestruck as he watched her move. The girl who was approaching the Kraang was walking in a relaxed pace in the middle of the street, the confidence with which she carried herself towards them made Raph's eyes grow to the size of tennis balls.

She was carrying a black straight hockey stick bag, the length of her own lean body and was swung casually over her right shoulder.

The girl wore knee length black poofy-pants, a black tank-top with a belt strapped around her waist just underneath her breasts and she was sporting a short cut light denim jacket.

But what made her even more awesome in his eyes, was the fact that even though it was well past midnight, she was wearing super streamlined black sunglasses.

Her midnight black hair was in a high-ponytail with thick strands of hair cupping the left side of her face.

The girl stopped walking when she was only a few feet away from the Kraang, furrowing her brows.

"You who has seen us in this place, will be destroyed in this place of which you have seen us in this place" said one of the Kraang and they all simultaneously raised their weapons and the purple bar loaded to fire.

The girl only raised a single eyebrow at the weird sound their weapons made.

She bowed to them, her left arm going behind her back as the corners of her lips twitched up in amusement.

"Uhm, guys…don't you think we should help her?" Donnie asked nervously as he watched with concern at the danger the girl was getting herself into and taking out his Bo-staff.

"Right" Leo said and they all drew their weapons. And as they were about to jump into action to save the girl, it was already over.

The boys stared at the destroyed Kraang bots lying on the ground and the fleeing Kraang-brains. Then their eyes moved to where the girl was standing now, on the opposite side of where she first had been.

She stood crouching slightly forward, with her left arm stretched all the way out and holding a strange looking knife.

It wasn't exactly a Tantõ, it was too broad and croaked looking for that. It was like someone had masterfully combined the small Japanese katana with a Military Knife.

It was apparent that she must have used the blade cut through the Kraang robot body's with one strike.

"Did…did she just do that?" Raph asked in complete disbelief.

The boys couldn't contemplate the pure speed and ease with which the girl must've taken out the Kraang…it was above that of any ordinary human.

Donnie began musing, dragging the attention of his brothers "That shouldn't be possible, especially with the looks of her blade it should,-"

"Guys," Mikey interrupted with slight panic in his voice, forcing his brothers to look at the back of his head "She is coming this way!"

The moment he warned them, was the moment she leaped up the building, using windowsills and a drainpipe to propel herself upward. She landed catlike on the edge of the roof right in front of the retreating Michelangelo, her brows furrowed slightly, confused.

The turtles – all but Mikey – stood ready for an attack. Though it appeared the girl herself had put away her strange looking blade.

"Hi," She greeted them with nonchalance, waving a hand.

The boys looked at each other for a moment before looking back at the girl who sat down on the edge of the building, gently setting the huge hockey bag next to her.

"You are not going to fight us too?" Leo asked, lowering his swords a bit.

"No." The girl smiled, a light Japanese accent in her voice - Donatello noticing that she might be older than they were.

"Well that's a first" Raphael managed to say in his regular tone. He was still in awe of her and fiercely hoped his brother wouldn't notice it. He could already hear the comments and remarks they would make if they did.

"So who are you anyway?" Leo asked "And where did you learn to fight like that?"

"Hmm? You managed to see that?" She laughed quietly and shook her head "I'm Mai," She answered, tilting her head forward in a slight bow as she sat "I was trained to be a samurai. So who and what are you?"

"A samurai?" Donnie questioned quietly and thoughtfully before Mikey jumped in front of him excitedly to interrupt his flow of thought.

"We are ninja turtles!" Mikey all but yelled, grinning broadly before getting whacked over the head by all of his brothers.

"Mikey! We are supposed to keep ourselves hidden from people!" Leo hissed.

Mai cocked an eyebrow "Ninja…turtles?" She questioned, the amused smile returning to her lips.

"Sorry, but we cannot answer your questions" Leo apologized in a rather throatily voice to imitate Captain Ryan.

"Ah…I heard New Yorkers were rude like that" Mai said sighing, getting up and grabbing her bag.

Leo frowned "That's not it, we,-"

"We are not rude!" Mikey yelled to her and then turned to his brothers, whispering his words in haste "What are you dudes doing?! She could be our awesome new friend!"

Donnie scowled his younger brother, whispering just as fiercely "Mikey, remember the last time you tried to befriend a human? He tried to kill us?!"

Leo and Raph came to stand closer, Leo agreeing with his tall sibling "That's right, who knows, she might be in with the Shredder, just like Dogpound"

"Don't you mean like Karai, Leo?" Raph commented snarkily.

A vein popped up on Leo's forehead before he continued with his reasoning "That's exactly why we can't afford to make that mistake again"

Raph snorted "Just because your girlfriend turned out that way, doesn't mean she is too"

Donnie and Leo stared at their temperamental and often judgmental sibling in shock, while Mikey was quick to take advantage of whatever caused his two levelheaded elder brothers to fall silent "Exactly! And may I remind you she just took out the Kraang for us? And instead of attacking us just came to say 'hi', can't we at least try and show a little friendliness?"

Leo let go of the weird display of defensiveness Raph was giving for the girl and filed it away to question it later.

He sighed "Fine," and turned around hearing Mikey squeal in excitement, only to find that the girl had gone.

"Hey, where'd she go?!" Mikey exclaimed running to the edge of the building to look around to find nothing. He turned to his brothers, a scowl on his face "Well nice going you guys! You all scared her off! Now she'll think we are just a bunch of weird rude ninja turtles!"

"Mikey, we just can't trust anyone who we randomly meet, they might work for the Shredder" Donnie tried reasoning with their little brother.

"But she defeated the Kraang! She was so cool!" Mikey whined.

"Anyhow, let's get back home, whether she does or doesn't work for the Shredder, we can't take the risk of staying here" Leo said, looking sideways towards Raphael who simply kept staring at the alley next to the building.

Though Mikey still complained, the turtles headed back home with extra caution.

"…and before we knew it, she was gone" Leo finished the story of what had happened with the Kraang and the girl to his father, Master Splinter.

They were in the living room, standing behind the couch. Donnie was on his homemade laptop, Mikey played on his T-phone and Raphael was busy pounding the shell out of his punching bag. Though the other three seemed to mind their own business, they were listening in well enough. This proved to be the case when both Raphael and Mikey spoke up.

"Yeah, because you and Donnie were rude to her!" Mikey exclaimed and frowned at his two elder brothers that almost looked like a scowl "Not cool, dudes"

"She might" Punch! "have" Punch. Punch. "been a good ally" Kick!

"We can't be sure of it you guys, look at all that we have been through so far. We simply cannot trust a random person just for being friendly and coming over to say 'hi'" Leonardo explained again, his voice sounding tired as he had to repeat himself yet again.

"Leonardo," Splinter said to get his attention. His brothers looked up to see what their master and father had to say about this "Though you have made a wise decision, this person was kind and polite to you, though you too, might have been her enemy"

"See!" Mikey jumped up from his seat and pointed to all of them "HA! I knew it!...wait what?"

Donnie frowned "So what you are saying is that we should've trusted her? And what we did was wrong?"

They all looked at Splinter again who closed his eyes and stroked his long thin beard in thought "Yes…and no." He let go of his beard and opened his eyes, his brows almost furrowing into a scowl as he spoke each word with emphasis to his sons "Though it is wise not to ever trust strangers in a time when you are already surrounded by enemies, but just like with compassion, you must not forget your manners. Especially as this stranger could easily have attacked you during your 'discussion' on the roof and did not"

"Hai, sensei!" Leo said bowing his head.

"Good," Splinter said and turned to return to his room "So the next time you meet this Mai…" He looked over his shoulder.

"We will be kind and polite as she had been to us" Leo answered.

As soon as Splinter left Leo turned to his hotheaded brother "So what has gotten you a change of heart?" Leo asked, crossing his arms and cocking a brow.

Repressing an embarrassing blush, Raphael punched his punching-bag with extra vigor "I," Punch! Punch! "haven't" Kick! Punch! "I just thought," Kick! Kick! Punch! "it might be cool," Punch! "to have a Kraang Slicing" PUNCH! PUNCH! "Samurai warrior as an ally" Kick! He finished saying, stopping with hitting the dummy and looked at the skeptical looking Leo in the eye "Wouldn't you?"

Leo stared for a moment, his other two brothers busied themselves, feeling that the two of them might start fighting again and not wanting any part of it.

Raph stared back, not giving any indication he had any other reason for him defending the stranger.

"Whatever" Leo finally said, dropping his suspicions for now, seeing as he wasn't going to get anything from staring at Raphael in the eye for the coming hour.

Relieved his sibling let the subject go, Raph returned to training before going to his room to get some shut eye, only to end up to keep seeing the girl named Mai over and over again before falling asleep. Thinking how cool she was. If he had any poetic or romantic bone in him, he might have called her as smooth and graceful as water.

SEVERAL WEEKS LATER

They hadn't seen or heard of Mai ever since that night on the roof. In fact, they had completely forgotten her existence altogether. Every single one of them, except for Raphael.

He had thought many times of her, secretly hoping to see her again when they went out to patrol, investigate, fight, eat.

He would fantasize many times what he could say to her, how she would react. Often his fantasies would lead him to think they would end up sparring, tasting each other's steal, sharing techniques, becoming a team of utter bad-assness and coolness.

And then…maybe…

Raphael blushed. Hiding his face behind his comic book he had been reading before his thoughts led him to Mai again.

He suddenly understood all too clearly the awkward feelings his younger brother Donnie had for April and could sympathize with him a bit more.

A bit, since he still considerate his lanky brother to be an ultra-nerd who would never have a shot with April, while he on the other hand was cool, tough, brave, strong and confident. Therefore he would never screw up as badly as Donnie. He just couldn't.

The only problem here was, was the absence of the girl of his dreams.

Suddenly all their t-phones started to ring with a text.

"Did everyone else got a text from April saying there has been another mutant sighted on her site?" Donnie asked reading the text like everyone else.

"Yup" Everyone responded.

"And it has been chasing her and that she is now hiding and stuck in an alley in midtown?"

"Yup"

"LET'S GO!"

As his brothers moved smoothly, Raphael looked at his pet. Trying to communicate with his eyes to the silent being his hopeful thoughts and wished before he moved, running after his brother's. 'Maybe she will show up this time'

As the four were sprinting to the vaguely described alley, Donnie's T-phone rang with April's ringtone, answering it hastily "April?! Where are you?! Are you okay?!"

His brother's followed extra closely, trying to hear the conversation.

[Donnie! I'm fine, some girl appeared and saved me!]

"A girl?" Donnie asked, disbelief colored his voice.

Raphael felt his heart do a little skip. 'Could it be Mai?'

[She scared the mutant off, but it managed to hit her with its shooting spines at us! She suddenly fell to the ground and is really hurt!]

"Then the spines might've been toxic! Be careful not to touch any of it!" Donnie said "Tell me where you are"

Though his younger brother seemed somewhat relieved that the danger for April had passed, Raphael was more than worried about the possibility of that girl being Mai and dying.

Once getting a proper location, they hurried, but not enough to Raph's taste. His brother's exchanged glances as their temperamental brother took the lead growling under his breath with irritation.

Arriving, they found April crouching next to the female samurai they had met weeks ago.

"That's…" Leo said landing next to Raph who was already hurrying to the girl laying on the ground.

"Mai," Raph said, finishing his elder brothers sentence and calling to the girl in one go.

Donatello and Michelangelo landed next to Leo.

Mikey's eyes went wide as he looked at the girl "Dude…"

All though they were confused by Raph's sudden change in attitude, they ignored it upon seeing the girl.

Other than sweating and groaning silently as she lay helpless on the dirty ground, she looked the same, except for the many needle like spines sticking all over her right arm.

"Donnie" Leo said his name with meaning and Raph backed up a few steps, feeling their worried eyes shifting from Mai to him and to Mai again.

Donatello rushed over to her, checking her signs "I was right, whatever that mutant was, it has a very powerful toxicant packed in those spines" Donnie pointed to more of the spines lying around on the ground "But I can't help her here," He looked over his shoulder to Leo.

Who sighed and said "Let's take her back with us then, Raph, you carry her"

Donatello grabbed a couple of the spines on the ground and put them safely away, turning to carry April.

Though he still found the process of it all too slow, Leo had done Raph unknowingly huge favor. Gently picking her up, Raph spoke quietly to her "Hang on, Mai,"

"M…" She tried speaking, her voice weak "M-my…ba..ag" He turned to see the black hockey stick bag lying on the ground near a couple of trashcans.

"Mikey, grab the bag" He ordered Mikey, who willingly grabbed it and groaned in surprise when it weighed heavier then he expected, but swung it over his shoulder anyway.

This time his brothers got the clue and hastily returned to the lair with April tagging along.

"Is she going to be okay?" Mikey asked quietly, hugging the giant black bag he took with them for Mai. The young turtle's blue eyes full of concern as Raphael laid her on the couch and Donatello already rushing to his lab.

"I'm going to do my best Mikey" He said and hurried to his lab.

"I'm going to help Donnie, you guys take care of her" April announced and disappeared after Donatello.

"Okay, Mikey, you get some blankets" Leo ordered his younger brother who immediately complied "Raph," Leo turned to see Raphael gently putting a cushion behind her head "I'm going to get some bandages and water, you stay here… and remove the spines from her arms"

Again, Leo had done Raph a huge favor, even if it was unbeknownst. As his brothers disappeared to their given tasks, he quickly grabbed a pan from the kitchen, filled it with water and returned to remove the spines.

As he kneeled down and began working on her arm, Mai's good arm and hand came to shakily touch his face "D…dõm..o," she uttered breathlessly, thanking him.

His heart did a flip-flop "No problem," He said almost just as quiet, grabbing her good hand gently and held it for a moment "just hang in there, Donnie's going to cure you any moment now"

Her lips twitched upward again, her head falling to the other side of the couch and her hand going limp in his.

Author Comments:

Yellow my lovely's!

UPDATE: Now if you are reading (or rereading the story because of me taking to long to post a new chapter - so, so, sorry) this, it means you are reading my first rewritten version of the story (well, rewritten is a big word, more like 'corrected' version) One Purpose.

I am at a stage where I am going to TRY and correct all my mistakes and horrible grammar/spelling in the story, so bear with me for a little while...^^;

So I am busy cleaning the story, if you will, all the way to chapter 12 - after that, I will upload chapter 13 ;)

Anyway, as always, I hope you have enjoyed this chapter so far, let me know what you think and I hope you will also enjoy the rest.

Lots of love,

Siaanna