Preparing

chapter

II

"Raph, pick her up." "why do I have to carry her?! You`re the one taking 'full responsibility'. Remember?" Raph argued. "Please Raph! I need to monitor her heart!" Don retorted. "I`m no doctor, but shouldn`t you do that at the lair?" Don put his fingers on his chin sarcastically. "Well yes, BUT she needs to be AT the lair quickly. Are you saying that you couldn`t get her there the fastest?" "NO! I could beat you guys with a 10 minute delay!" Raph yelled angrily. "Better start running then." Raph look flustered and started running, almost dropping the girl.

'Why in dimension X, would the Krrang want to hurt this girl?' Don asked himself.
"guess we should be heading home too. I hope Mikey hasn`t got himself into any trouble while we were out. He doesn`t he to get grounded for ANOTHER week!"

As the three brothers approached the lair entrance, they smelled something awful. Raph put the girl gently down on one of the bean-bag chairs in the lounge then they all ran the widely open kitchen.
"DUDES! Just in time! Who is ready to taste the world`s newest(and most tasty) pizza ever created?!" "MIKEY!" The other three yelled in unison. "Stop messing around! Quick. Get a set of cloths. CLEAN and UNWORN by you in the past month!" Don instructed. "Why? What's goin` on D?" " You`ll see for yourself as soon as you get me a set of cloths! now hurry up!" Mikey has always been one for asking questions at the wrong time and place.

They got her into Donnie`s lab and put her down on Leo`s mattress which he was sacrificing for the sake of their patient. Don washed his hands and started collecting what he needed. As he was doing that, he was telling everybody what to do. "Raph, get the bandages from the first aid kit and um... *cough* take off her shirt and find the wound. Then apply presser, but not too much that it will make her bleed even more. Mikey! You almost got those cloths?!" "I`m working on it Donnie but it`s hard to find cloths I haven`t worn in the past HOUR!" Then Leo blurted, "I have something. I`ll be right back."
and dashed out the room.

'Are we really doing the right thing? Bringing a girl we don`t even know into our top secret lair as if she were a lost puppy?' Leo thought to himself. 'Of course we are! What a stupid question! Don said she would have died if we didn`t help her. Or even worse, let the Krrang get her! What do they want her for anyway?' He then snapped at himself. 'Right, I`m here.'
As Leo ran into his room looking for what he needed, he thought again, 'But what if she was a rouge mutant that escaped from the Krrang`s lab and was just as dangerous as the Nuculizer, or Tiger Claw, or even APRILS MOM...' He still has nightmares about that woman. A huge chill went down his spine just as he realized that he had stopped looking. He continued to search then, finally, found it.

As he sprinted back to Donnie`s lab with the piece of fabric in his giant hand, he thought, 'But then again, she could be just a civilian who saw them and decided to run.' and decided that that answer would calm him down the most.

"What took you so long?!" Don asked with a hint of distress in his cracky voice. "Sorry. I was a bit shell-shocked for a little while there." Leo said apologetically looking down at the sweater he had in his hands. Then Donnie looked down as well. "Wow. Leo, are you sure you want to use THAT sweater? I mean, it will most likely get blood on it and," "Yes. I`m sure. Now hurry up." There was a dead silence except for the sound of Mikey`s clumsy feet running toward the lab.

"I got the... Uh, you guys? Am I the only person see a dead girl laying on a bed?!" Mikey asked anxiously. "She isn`t dead," Don said in a calm voice. "But she will be if we don`t help her!" He continued in a more of a frustrated tone. "Well shesh! Why didn`t you TELL me we had company?!" Then he zoomed around the room, getting bandages, pain-pills, hydrogen pyroxide, and smiley face band-aids.
"How did you find all that so fast?!" asked the (VERY) surprised Donatello. "Dude, I hang out with for more than half the day. It offends me how little you realize that I`m here. Shame on you. But I`m not thinking about that right now. What I`m thinkin` is WHEN THE HECK IS SOMEONG GOING TO TELL ME WHAT IS GOIN` ON?"