April's news station was on, and she was talking with a scientist, Professor John Perry, from the company TGRI.
Raph didn't seem interested, moving around like he had ants in his shell, until Angel threatened to take his sai if he moved any closer to the TV or the remote.
She jumped slightly when she sensed Splinter's presence, and Aradion looked at him as a white ferret.
Angel turned to look at the elderly rat.
"Is something wrong, sensei?"
"…I'll be going to meditate…"
The worry in her eyes only grew as the elderly rat went onto the rooftop. Hours later, when April finally came back, their sensei and father came down, saying he had something to talk with them about.
Once everyone was on the roof, he told them of the ooze that mutated the five, and showed the canister.
"TGRI…the company April was interviewing today…"
"There's something else, my daughter…"
Angel turned her full attention to her sensei.
"You were found outside the building…crying…and bleeding…"
Her hand moved to the scar on her arm, and she remembered the two pale scars on her cheek that the Shredder had given her.
'Did it all happen there? I don't remember…'
"There was a note bearing your name…Angela…"
She nodded, still deep in thought, when Aradion, a snow leopard, straightened, growling at her.
"We'll just need to go then, won't we?"
She nodded to her daemon, and stood up.
"Let's go then."
She smiled.
"Come on, turtle-boys. I don't got all night."
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Once in the TGRI building, Don was sitting in front of a computer in an instant, his brothers surrounding him, as Angel searched through some files and papers.
Aradion growled, finding something.
She looked through the file her daemon had dug up, finding a word that seemed to strike her heart.
Separation…
'We are working on a way to separate the body fully from a part we call the daemon. Our first test subject, Angela Natson, only became two entities. When we tried to completely separate them from each other with a special knife, her daemon attacked in a fury. All that came out of it was a cut on the infant's arm and a savage scar on Dr. Stockman's arm. We abandoned her in an alley, knowing she'd die before her parents even conceived that something was wrong-.'
She shut the folder, trembling in rage, when something on the cover caught her eyes.
'Request of Oroku Saki.'
'Well isn't THAT just bloody lovely?!' Angel thought sarcastically, darkly, as Aradion bristled, snarling savagely.
Angel saw a shadow move out of the corner of her eye, and tensed.
'Don't panic…just catch 'em by surprise…'
She looked at her brothers, seeing they hadn't noticed.
"Guys…"
They didn't even move!
"Guys."
Her temper was starting to rise.
"Guys!"
She was sure she saw Don's hand twitch, and Aradion snarled.
"GUYS!!!"
They turned to her, and nearly winced at the angry frustration in her dark sapphire eyes.
"Unless yer too busy, we got some company."
The Foot chose that moment to reveal themselves, and Angel pulled out her ninja swords.
"Tatsu." She growled, seeing the man again.
When he held up the last container of ooze, Aradion raced in as a cheetah, fangs bared, ready to leap…
Angel kicked the container from Tatsu's grip as he was distracted, and Mikey caught it.
'What's with turtles and football?' Angel thought as Mikey held the container like a football, ready to throw.
He threw it high, and Angel jumped off a Foot ninja's head, catching it.
"YES!! I SO rock!!"
She dodged the weapons and hands reaching for her, grinning mischievously.
"Can't touch this!" She teased, even humming the music as she stayed out of reach.
She jumped up, disappearing, as the ninja cursed.
"Ya guys need a sense 'a humor…" She noted, hanging from the ceiling like Spiderman.
She dodged a blade.
"Can't ya even take a joke?"
Another blade.
"Guess not!"
She dropped down, landing safely on five ninja, and giggled.
"Yer acting like I weigh a ton! Babies."
She jumped back, and stuck her tongue out as she patted the container on her belt.
The smoke bombs caught her by surprise, and Angel didn't notice she'd been hit in her once-wounded shoulder until a fire spread through her nerves and she fell to the floor.
"ANGEL!!!"
It felt like someone grabbed her heart in a hot metal hand and was trying to rip it out of her chest.
"ARADION!!!"
She felt hands on her arms, and struggled violently as they lashed her wrists together, dragging her away.
"RAPH!!! ARADION!!!"
"ANGEL?! ANGEL!!!"
She heard her red-banded brother call her name, and prepared to scream when a pain to the back of her head made her numb, blackness eating at her vision.
'Raph…Raph, help…' She thought desperately, her mind starting to shut down.
'Please…please, Raph…'
Her eyes closed, her body went limp.
'Please…'
