Alright! A new Chapt… (crashes in the other room)

Donnie: Raph would you stop that already?

Raph: No I will not.

Mikey: You're just jealous!

Raph: (Turns on Mikey) Jealous of who? You?! You have the Brain of an Avocado and the attention span of a fish!

Donnie: Well I don't know about the attention span.

Miko: Donnie! He is your brother.

Donnie: So is Raph, but I can beat Mikey in a fight.

Miko: Ugh… Leo can you do something please?

Leo: Raph wants me out of it. So he can deal with it himself. I am not getting involved.

Miko: QUIET! (Everyone stops moving) You will sit down, not make a sound and be civil while I am writing or I will do something every one of you will regret!

No one moved.

Miko: Thank you. I don't own TMNT or any movie or song reference. I do own May and her father. I hope you enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 4: Truth and Lies

High above the sewers in a reserved building sat a teen girl looking at a picture of a woman. 'I wish I knew what to do. You would know, wouldn't you mother?' Karai thought to herself. She had been thinking about Leo's words the last time they spoke.

Flashback

Leo stood over Karai with his sword pointed at her, breathing hard after their most recent fight. "Shredder is lying to you. Splinter would never hurt an innocent." He lowered his sword slightly, "Your grudge it with me. Stay away from my brothers And My Sensei. Understood?" Putting his sword away he jumped up to the fire escape and started to climb. Turning around to face her for a moment he said, "Believe me Karai."

She watched as he reached the roof and cut the ropes holding the lanterns. His brothers made it across and Leo cut the cords, stopping the foot bots where they were, and disappearing moments later.

End Flashback

He looked so sincere when he spoke to her. Not at all like how her father had spoken of them. Though he did betray her before and she could never bring herself to forgive him for that. Though maybe he did her a favor, if her father had found out she would have been severely punished.

"Karai!" a voice called from the entrance of the dojo.

Instantly Karai was on one knee in a bow toward the door. Shredder walked in calmly and stopped in front of her.

"You have returned father." Karai said her head remaining bowed to her father.

"Yes and I know what you have done while I was gone daughter. You continuously tried to take down the turtles and you have failed every time. You even had one of them captured and allowed it to escape. Prepare yourself Karai." Shredder said getting into a fighting position. He didn't take disobedience sitting down.

Karai flipped backwards and fell into a fighting position upon landing. Drawing her sword she prepared to fight her father, pushing all other thoughts from her mind.

She charged her father who dodged and brought a right hook up to her chest. She dodged by using her right hand to maneuver her body around and bring her legs in. Mid spin she pushed her legs out to slam into her father's legs but missed as Shredder jumped to evade and flipped forward.

Turning around after the flip he grabbed her leg and brought her over his head using her own momentum and slammed her to the ground. Karai recovered long enough to roll backwards and away from her father. Breathing hard she faced her father who was directly behind her. Grabbing her around the throat he squeezed warningly.

"If you ever disobey my direct orders again you will find yourself joining those turtles and their sensei." He dropped her to the ground and turned to walk away.

Karai breathed deeply as she watched her father's retreating form. "Yes father." She agreed submissively.

Her thoughts returned to not only Leo but her old friend. Her father didn't want her near May after he started training her. Why? They had always been good friends until Shredder moved her back to Japan. May's words came back to her now. Before the turtles showed up, they were having a decent conversation though it had been quickly nose diving.

Flashback

Karai and May sat in the hospital room talking about old times and how things were now.

"So you have been training ever since you left huh. That must've been fun." May said skeptically. But what could you expect from a girl you hadn't spoken to since you were both eight.

"I know it doesn't sound fun but father wanted me to follow in the footsteps my mother would have wanted and become a kunoichi." Karai tried to explain.

"I still don't buy that your dad is really your dad. The way he treated you even back when we were kids was odd. Who fights their child like you did when you're only seven with no training? Not to mention you have no trait of his, at all." May argued

"Look, don't start that again. He is my father and he told me the story of how I lost my mother. I saw the one who killed her. He's in this city and I will destroy everything he holds dear." Karai said clenching a fist as her eyes darkened.

"You changed Karai. This isn't you. Your father beat the girl I once knew, out of you. Now all you want is revenge. There is so much more to life than to get back at the person who killed your mother."

"And what about your mother?" Karai shot back. Pissed that she would even think of telling her how to live her life.

"I will miss her Karai. Just as much as you miss yours but if I ever met the one that killed her. I would feel sorry for him. Because he has to live with the guilt of my mother's life on his shoulders, for the rest of his life." May said not backing down.

"You will never understand how I feel but I'm done talking about this. Let's get down to business."

End Flashback

After that she told May the plan in hopes she would just agree and be done with it but she stood her ground long enough for the turtles to get involved. Now they were down a scientist and a formula. But still, even back then she noticed no similarity between her and Shredder. Maybe Leo wasn't lying about Shredder. Maybe he was right. What are the odds that two people who had never met, would make a similar argument about her father?

This needed to be looked into. Daughter or not she, much like the Shredder, did not like to be lied to.

~Scene Change~

May walked into the dojo quietly and sat down on the sidelines watching the guys spar. She couldn't really sit on her legs fully yet so she opted to sit on her hip with her legs semi under her. Mikey and Donnie had just finished up with Mikey getting the upper hand this time with a back flip and a kick to Donnie's chest area.

Donnie sat down while Mikey stood on the sidelines waiting for Raph and Leo to spar. They seemed evenly powered as sword and sai clashed and each turtle held their own. With each clash they tested each other's strength and pushed back to face and circle each other again.

This continued for a few more minutes until Raph used one sai to block both swords and swing his body around while also lifting the swords behind Leo's head forcing him to either release his swords or twist his arms by pivoting on one foot toward Raph.

Leo released his swords and back kicked Raph sending him close to the wall. In the process Raph dropped Leo's swords but kept a good hold of his sai. Getting up he glared at his brother who picked up his swords and readied for another attack. To Leo's surprise Raph stayed still for a moment but May was the only one, in view, to see Raph's hands clench and unclench slightly around his sais.

It was very quiet for a moment, and then Leo locked eyes with May for a moment and that was all it took. Raph ran at his brother and Leo thinking Raph was going to jump lifted his swords to guard his head only to have his legs brought out from underneath him and dragging him to the ground. Raph sprang to his feet and held one of Leo's swords, that had been released from its owners grip, in his hand pointed at his brother and his sai in the opposite hand.

"Ya mae!" Splinter called ending the fight.

Raph dropped Leo's sword next to his head and walked away to face Mikey.

May could feel the tension in the room. Everyone seemed to be on edge as Mikey walked forward and Raph got into a fighting position. Both turtles readied their weapons as they waited for one or the other to make the first move.

"Hajima!"

Mikey had an aloof look on his face, while Raph had a smug grin. He knew this was going to be easy. Mikey never won against him, ever. And he was not going to let it start now. "Just to be fair, I'll go easy on ya." Raph taunted half heartedly.

"Really Raph?" Mikey asked hopefully.

"No." Raph said before charging at his little brother who was thrown by the conversation just long enough for Raph to get close. He blocked a nun chuck and slid to the ground, kicking Mikey to the floor. Mikey rolled away and jumped to face Raph once more. Both circled and waited for the next attack. Mikey saw May watching out of the corner of his eye but didn't make contact. Raph was waiting for Mikey to mess up. He always messed up at some point.

Mikey zigzagged toward Raph till he came up close and flipped over his head but that was of course, a mistake. Raph spun on the ball of his foot, widening his stance and just as Mikey landed Raph punched Mikey in the gut sending him to the wall.

"Ya mae!" Splinter called before getting up. "That is enough for today."

All four turtles cheered and started heading for the door. That is till Splinter called out again. "Raphael, I must speak with you."

Mikey helped May up while Raph turned back to his sensei and waited for the others to leave. Leo took a quick glance back at his brother before ushering the others out.

Once they were gone Splinter looked down at his son. "I sense much tension between you and your brothers, Raphael. Is something troubling you?"

He was shocked for a moment before remembering that there was a reason Splinter was a Master. He sighed knowing he could never fool his father. "I don't know what to do sensei. I really like May. The way Donnie liked April when we first met her, but I know Mikey likes her too. What should I do Master Splinter?"

"Hmm." Splinter says rubbing his beard as he watched his son. Seeing how stressed he was over the situation relieved him slightly. He never believed his son would ever truly hurt his brothers but the tension before worried him that Raphael's temper would get the better of him. "I see your dilemma my son. You need to settle this with your brother, Michelangelo, before things get out of hand. Your brother may even surprise you, as he has surprised me over the years."

Thinking over his sensei's words Raph bowed his head. "Yes Master Splinter." He got up and started for the door. He stopped when he heard his name called once more.

"Raphael." Raph looked over his shoulder at his sensei. "There is still much we do not know about May. Be careful my son, love does strange and sometimes horrible things to a heart." Raph watched as Master Splinter closed his door and left the teen to his thoughts.

Raph was slightly confused by Master Splinter's warning but pushed it to the side for now. He needed to get his head straight before talking to his little brother.

Walking out of the dojo, he saw Mikey playing pinball while May watched. Donnie was nowhere to be seen so he was probably in the lab. A small explosion verified that thought and a call of 'I'm okay.' Allowed everyone to know he wasn't hurt. If it had been a scream, like many other times, he and Leo would run to see what had happened. Leo was relaxing on the bean bag while watching his old favorite, 'Space Heroes'.

Shaking his head Raph headed for his room only to be stopped by Mikey's voice. "Hey Raph, I'm teaching May how to play pinball want to watch?" he asked excitedly.

Raph debated on whether to stay or not but he opted for the safer choice. "Nah, I got some stuff I got to do." He heard a call of 'okay' from Mikey as he made his way to his room.

Once safely inside he flopped onto his bed and looked at the ceiling. It was times like this he really missed Spike. Even though he couldn't talk back at the time, Spike would always listen to what he had to say.

Rubbing his face for a few moments he rolled to his side so he was facing his wall and thought long and hard until eventually he fell asleep.

~Scene Change~

It had been a few hours of Mikey and May playing games and Leo had been punching and kicking the dummy for a while now. No one had heard from Donnie, though they all knew he was still in his lab working on something.

"Oh yeah! High score!" Mikey cheered before turning to May again. "So what do you want to do now?"

May smiled lightly, while she was having fun playing all these different games with Mikey it was getting a little boring. "I actually need to get some of my school work done." May says walking away from the game and towards her now fully charged tablet.

"I thought you said you don't go to school?" Mikey said confused.

May giggled before correcting him. "I said I am home schooled. I still have homework and school work to do."

She sat down on the bean bag, tablet in hand, and started up a program. She could feel Mikey's breath on the back of her neck while she started on a report of the U.S. History and Civil War. She didn't let him, watching, bother her. Leo continued his work out on the dummy until Donnie came running out of the lab.

"Guy's, guess what?!" Donnie was rather excited about something.

Everyone turned to Donnie waiting for him to explain why he was so excited.

"I think I have discovered the next step to the retro mutagen! But to be sure I need May's help for a minute." Donnie begged giving May big puppy turtle eyes.

With a sigh May got up and walked up to him. "What can I do?" She asked as Donnie gave her a hug and dragged her to the lab. Leo and Mikey right behind him.

Donnie stopped right in front of the frozen Timothy and moved to the side. "Now, I am going to uncap one of the panels on this frozen mutant and I need you to unfreeze just a sample of the goo inside." He explained going over to the left side of the frozen monster and uncapping a side panel to the inside. Stepping back Donnie waited for May to do her thing.

She stepped toward the jar of frozen goo and concentrated on just what she could see. After a few moments the section visible slowly started to defrost. Donnie grabbed a small beaker off his lab table and brought it over to the defrosting area of Timothy.

Once Donnie had enough of the goo he told May to stop and collected the rest before asking her to step back. He quickly covered the exposed area of Timothy's jar; they could see the goo already freezing back over.

"Alright, now that I have the sample, all I need now is to test it." Donnie said walking back over to his table and setting the beaker down and grabbing something else.

"What are you doing?" May asked following him. No one noticed Raph slip in and stand behind Leo.

"I'm making a retro mutagen to cure the people that have been turned into mutants." Donnie explained. For once it was simple due to most of his concentration being on what he was doing. He added a green substance in a tube to a purple substance in a beaker. Seeing no instant reaction or explosion all four boys relaxed before watching Donnie take a small sliver of the goo on a slide sample and carefully spilling a single drop on it. Placing the beaker down, he covered the slide and looked under the microscope.

Everyone waited patiently for some kind of news. Hoping it was good and not faulty like other times.

Donnie watched and waited for the cells to react, only to see the goo take over and start to expand. "Uh-oh."

"What do you mean uh-oh?" Raph asked looking angry and walking toward his younger brother.

"Stand back!" Donnie said grabbing his bo staff and pushing May back towards the others. The goo grew rapidly pushing the microscope on the table to the floor as well as anything else on the table that was in the way.

"Donnie! Got any more of that freezing juice you made last time?!" Mikey asked getting a little nervous while bringing out his nun chucks.

"No, I don't Mikey!" Donnie yelled while side jumping away from the goo monster and getting into an attack position. Leo and Raph followed suit and got their weapons ready.

May was shocked by how these humanized turtles could go from being so relaxed to an attack ready attitude like a light switch. But as she watched them fall into attack positions she looked from the goo she had unfrozen back to the monster that was before them. That's when she got an idea.

"Guy's fall back!" May yelled. She wanted to help and not just be some girl that needed protecting.

"Are you crazy?" Mikey asked looking at her astonished.

"May we can't just…" Leo didn't get to finish his sentence. He saw the ice forming at her feet and how her body shook as she looked back at him. "Fall back."

Raph and Mikey couldn't believe what they heard. "You want us to What?!" Raph yelled at him.

"Trust her Raph!" Leo shot back. "Fall back!"

Mikey hearing the seriousness in his leader's voice fell back next to Donnie. They watched from behind May, a good ten feet behind. Leo followed only to see Raph still standing there. "Raph!"

"Raphael, please?" May begged. Her voice cracked as her emotions started to get the best of her.

He hated seeing her like that. She looked like she was in so much pain. Reluctantly, he fell back behind her and watched still at the ready should she need him.

May now faced the goo monster that had grown a mouth and was screaming angrily at her. She only moved forward allowing the sadness to consume her. She thought of her mother who was now gone; her father who was in danger. Her friend Karai who had changed so drastically, and how she feared she would never be the same girl again. All of these emotions consumed her. Tears that fell down her face became frozen, the floor becoming a sheet of ice making the turtles jump when it came toward them and land back on the ice covered floor.

When she was close enough to the monster where she knew she wouldn't hurt anything else she let the ice consume her, lifting her hands, and in the blink of an eye, unleashed all of her built up sadness and ice at the goo monster.

Snow and ice covered the goo, making its way up its front and around. The goo was confused, the girl was screaming in pain as ice covered everything. The ice now covered almost the entire monster, everything except its head. May watched as the goo screamed once more, ice still climbing up its being. With one last burst of energy she pushed the ice over the monster making it frozen solid. With the threat over May fell to her knees and cried. Ice formed around her, like a rose bud closing.

Raph didn't wait until Leo gave orders, May needed help now. Maybe not against any monster but she needed help in another way. He ran to May's side and smashed the ice around her. "May! Snap out of it!" He yelled hoping to get her attention. Reaching out to her he got her arm and made her look at him. "Come on May! You're stronger than this. Calm down. Everything is going to be alright!" He saw her look at him in shock before a small weak smile came to her face as if hoping to believe him. "I promise."

May relaxed let her body fall against Raphael's. Ice started to melt around them but never left any wetness behind. It was as if it just returned to the air it had come from. The goo monster was the only thing that remained frozen.

Raph wrapped his arms around May protectively. "Everything is going to be alright." He whispered to her. Reassuring her, that he was always going to be there for her.

Looking up at his brothers he glared at all of them. Daring them to say anything about what had just happened. Though looking over his brothers faces, the last one hurt. Mikey was watching as he held the girl they were both into. He could see the betrayal in his face before he ran out and probably to his room. He could see Leo shaking his head before following after the youngest brother.

Raph couldn't even look at Donnie as he picked May up and headed out of the lab. He needed to talk to Mikey, but May came first this time.

~Scene Change~

May lay asleep in her room, while Raph walked over to Mikey's. Leo had given up trying to get the youngest turtle out of his room but this was Raph's mess that he now had to clean up.

"Mikey, can we talk?" Raph asked

"I have nothing to say to you!" Mikey yelled back through the door.

"Come on Mikey please?!"

"NO!" Mikey said staying firm to his word.

"Please! If you don't let me in I am just going to say what I want right here!" Raph yelled back through the door making one last attempt.

Silence followed. Raph was about to have it out there but just as he took in a deep breath Mikey's door opened. "Make it quick."

Not wasting a moment he stepped inside and waited for Mikey to get comfortable. Mikey sat on the edge of his bed while Raph took a chair in the corner near the door.

"I just want to say… I'm sorry." He started off.

It was quiet for too long. So Mikey glared at him. "Fooor?!"

"For not talking to you before, about May." Raph said looking at the ground. He felt bad that he really hadn't talked to Mikey about this before but he didn't really know how to start.

"I really like her Raph." Mikey said feeling, for once, like a kid who couldn't have a toy he really wanted.

"I know Mikey, but I can't help but really like her too. She's so Fun and relaxing to be around. She's strong, compassionate, and caring." It wasn't often Raph showed this side of himself to his brothers. But he really didn't want a girl getting between him and his brothers.

Mikey was shocked for a moment as he really looked at Raphael. He was never this serious and calm about something. He couldn't help but relax a bit. He thought that Raph was just going to come in, tell him he wanted May for some reason and to not get in his way. He wasn't expecting this. Raph was serious about this, and he was never serious about any girls they came across. He didn't even like Karai when they first met her and she was decent to them back then.

Realizing this, Mikey thought about what he liked about May. She was fun and relaxing, a good cook, but after that he couldn't really think about anything he liked about May other than she was pretty and Raph didn't even mention that. Thou, looking at his older brother, and seeing that sad look on his face he couldn't help but smile. He would be good to May. Even having her around seemed to calm his wild temper.

Smiling Mikey walked over to Raph and placed a hand on his should. "Okay."

Raph looked up in surprise at his brother. Fun loving, crazy, Michelangelo, said it was okay? "What?"

"It's Okay. You seem to care about her more than I do; but if you ever hurt her, I will chase you down and pummel you into the ground." Mikey said making his best mad Raphael impression.

Stunned for only a moment, Raph soon had Mikey in a head lock. "Okay, but if you tell anyone about this conversation, you will wish you had wings."

Both brothers laughed for a few minutes before Raph let Mikey go.

Okay… that's it for this chapter. (Looks around) Did you really not move?

Mikey: You told us not to. Can we move now?

Miko: Uh… yeah, I'm done for now.

Mikey: Thanks! (Half way down the hall)

Miko: Everyone else good?

Donnie: I think so.

Leo: I'm good.

Raph: … (walks out of the room)

Miko: well no more fighting for now. The score is tied for those keeping score on the side lines. Leo has one win and Raph has one win. Tune in next time and please if you like, leave a review!