A/N: And we proceed! xD More action in this chapter! And some more Purple Dragon-bashing!


Chapter Four: The Rescuer Gets Rescued

A small bell at the front of the door rang melodically as two figures entered the shop, indicating new customers to the owner of said shop. The black-haired teenage girl grinned widely as she strolled up to the counter to high-five the little fat employee behind the counter, hugging him close right after.

"Lee, my man! I see you're still alive," Alex smirked. "More or less."

"And you're still as rude as ever. I swear one of these days, you'll learn to respect the elders, my girl," Mr. Lee said, his large stomach sticking out of the small black employers-apron he was wearing.

The teenager shrugged with her hands stuffed inside her pockets. "Whatever."

The fat man glanced at the door with a rather sceptical look. "Who's that new friend of yours?"

Alex turned to see her rescuer leaning casually against the front door, appearing as though he was calm, when his body language clearly screamed of nervousness and uncertainty. Also, he kept his eyes glued at the owner and Alex, his senses on full alert since he'd never been inside a pizzeria before. And he didn't like it because he shouldn't be here. He would never hear the end it if Leo ever was to know about this. Just as he turned around to leave, two pair of arms wrapped around his over-arm, and he whipped about to stare into the lime green orbs of Alexander.

"Dude, you're way too tense," the girl frowned and pulled the reluctant clothed turtle all the way inside. Luckily there weren't any costumers at this time of night.

"I owe this guy one for saving my back-side tonight," Alex clarified. "And he's in serious need of hot cheese, Lee. Everything he eats is on me."

The owner glared for a moment at the disguised turtle who swallowed nervously and was seriously thinking about screwing it all and just leave this damned place. Then he broke out into a smile and slammed both his hands on the counter.

"No need to, my girl. Every friend of yours is a friend of mine. Everything both of you eat is on the house."

"My man saved the night," she grinned and fist-bumped the older man who went back to get some hot pizza. In the meanwhile, the two teens went to sit at a booth near the windows to wait for their orders. Alex slipped out of her black leather jacket and placed it on her lap, while Raph rested his head on his palm lazily, his fingers beating impatiently at the surface of the smooth table.

Alex glanced at them, then at the stranger's face that was still concealed by the large hood and then began to play with her own fingers.

Then there was a breaking silence as the only sound being heard was the wind blowing against the windows, or the whipping sound of the fan above them. The atmosphere was turning awkward really quickly, and Raph let out a heavy sigh of boredom.

Then Alex held her right arm out; hitting the table with her elbow and holding out her gloved hand out. The terrapin glanced at her in a mixture of surprise and confusion with a raised eye-ridge.

"You up for some arm-wrestling?" the girl asked with a wry smile that just deepened the frown on the boy's face.

"Wha'?"

"Jeez, you really need things repeated twice, don't'cha?" Alex rolled her eyes and stretched her fingers suggestively. "C'mon, we're both bored and if we die because of that, then it'd just be a waste of good pizza."

"I get that," Raph replied dully with a hint of offense. "I just don't think I'd enjoy very much to win against a girl like you," the next thing he added with a light smirk. "'Specially when you wouldn't even stand two seconds."

A competitive glint shone in those lime orbs as the feel of challenge rose. "Ya know how to talk; now show me what you got, boy."

"Can't say you didn't ask for it, sistah."

He took his right arm out as well, clasping their hands together tightly as they glared each other down.

"1, 2, 3!"

Muscles started to tense, strength began to emerge from both of their upper-arms as well as steel-hard concentration. Alex clenched her other hand tightly into a fist on her lap, holding a suitable amount of strength against her opponent since she didn't want to use all of it at once. Raph was surprised, having quite a hard time at pushing her arm back when all he met was resistance.

"You ain't no weakling, huh?"

She grinned a little, tightening their fingers further. "Wanna back down?"

"Never," was his only reply. He now tensed his muscles with all his might, holding his breath as he fought to bring down the slender hand that belonged to his female companion. Alex blinked blankly at this newfound strength, desperately trying to hold her arm in place but failed greatly at doing so when it was forced down little by little until her arm was slammed on the table, and she let out that amount of air she had been holding. Her lime green eyes meet the forest-green ones of the winner who was smiling deviously at his little victory.

"Ya got guts, I gotta give you that," Raph said. "But I didn't think you could beat me on this where my brother couldn't either."

Alex' ears perked up at this in curiosity. "Brothers?" and Raph regretted having those word slipped out of his mouth. "Care to tell me about them?"

The disguised turtle thought this over. He kinda wanted to, 'cause this damned awkward silence was starting to get to him. He glanced at the girl who blew the dark bangs out of her face with a slight pout, and stared at him expectantly. She was pretty interested in him, for what reason he didn't know. She could be spy or someone working under one of his enemies and be in search of information to get him and his family. That would make sense, but then again, she wasn't the one approaching him. Though, she hadn't let the whole idea of 'him rescuing her' go either. He wouldn't have to tell her the real truth. Half lies would do just fine, right?

He dropped his elbows onto the table just as the first plate of steamy hot pizza had arrived. "Sure."


Black shadows of blur sprinted across the dark midnight sky, one at the front doing halt on a rooftop while the two others stopped as well. The wind blew stronger this particular night and made the figures bandana tails sway greatly in response.

"Well, this is new. Usually when Raph goes out to bash skulls, you can practically hear him across the city," Mikey broke the silence, his arms behind his head.

The leader was silent, a frown forming on his face as he thought deeply about this matter.

"Yes…and I don't like it. Don't like it one bit."

"Then we just got to keep looking," Donatello replied, turning to leap gracefully onto the surface of another building with his baby brother following him. Leo's dark blue eyes narrowed slowly and he shook his head lightly as he turned to blend in with his dark surroundings once again.


"Get out! Aw hell no, he didn't!"

"Better believe it; he couldn't even sit straight for another week!"

Alex laughed heartily and banged a fist on top of the table, while her shoulder trembled in laughter. "Man, I'd be rolling on the floor if I'd witnessed that!"

"What'd you think I did afterwards, sistah!"

They both erupted with laughter, grinning so loud that small pools of tears were streaming out from their eyes. Mr. Lee was glancing their way with a knowing smile, pretending to clean up the counter.

"Alright, it's past you kids' bed-time," the owner cleared his throat loudly. "You owe me that much since I normally wouldn't let you in on this time of night, Taylor."

Alex' face fell instantly and she began to whine in disapproval. "Aw, Lee! Really?"

The man crossed his arms sternly and the teen sighed heavily as she rose from her seat. "Fine, don't start killing me with yo eyes now."

"Off you go, my girl and stay outta trouble."

Raph and Alex silently exited the shop where the total blackness of the night embraced them instantly.

"So," Raph said, and kicked an invisible pebble. "Taylor, huh?"

The girl grinned a little. "Yeah, full name Alexander Taylor," she said. ""So…I don't suppose you'd be more willing now to tell me your own name now, huh?"

Raph glared at her for a while and sighed. "No offense, but no."

The girl silently nodded in understanding. "I see."

In the next few seconds, a couple of bulky dark figures had appeared from nowhere and yelled loudly in the night as they lashed out on the two teenagers.


The three ninja turtles only needed to scout out the last three-quarters before having fully searched the entire city. As they were leaping, faint battle-cries from down under caught the baby turtle's attention and he stopped upon seeing a battle going on.

"Guys, I think I found him!"

The two other terrapins stopped as well and went to back to see indeed see a brawl before their eyes. One of the fighters particularly wearing a lot of baggy clothing.

"It can only be him," the purple-banded turtle confirmed with a nod. Leo slowly drew out a bit of his katanas.

"Let's help him out."


"Hah!" a teenage boy with spiky blue hair exclaimed as he wildly swung his metal pipe in hopes of smashing the brains of the disguised turtle who was easily dodging his attacks. "Don't you kids know that this city belongs to the Purple Dragons yet?"

Raph used the right momentum to throw a straight kick that caused the pipe to swing out of the boy's hands. "Ain't nothing belong to you dirty punks," he sneered and landed a punch right between the guy's eyes. Two guys were looming closer to the black-haired teen, backing her against a wall with predatory grins on their faces. Just as she launched out to attack, two figures dropped steadily in front of her and easily took care of the two bulky men in an instant, leaving the girl dumbstruck for several of reasons as she took a good look on their green skin and weapons.

It's those things from the other night. They're back! It wasn't lack of sleep; they're real!

Her mysterious rescuer glanced backwards during the fight and as soon as he saw those creatures, he froze as if paralyzed. A bald guy with lots of facial piercings sprung forth holding a baseball-bat with a nail pierced through it, drawing it above his head. Alex' mind was blank when her body took over and rammed into the guy to get him away from the danger, though hearing a grunt of pain coming out of him as they hit the ground.

"Dude, are you oka-?"

She froze as her rescuer slowly rose up, the hood of his shirt now down to reveal his face fully. She saw his emerald-skin, the beginning of his shell from behind the shirt, and some of his arm from where the nail had ripped the fabric open, a fresh gash that dripped blood on the ground. His eyes stared back at her in nervousness and she herself couldn't blink due to the shock that had momentarily overpowered her entire body.

So that's why he's been so reluctant and tense. He's…he's…

"You're one of them," the girl breathed out accusingly. The sound of broken glass snapped both of them back to reality as shattered glass-pieces rained down upon the youngest turtle when he'd been pushed against the large window of the nearby sweet store by a Purple Dragon member. The security alarm immediately began to cry out loudly in the night, freezing every fighter on the spot when the alarm was accompanied by the sirens of an incoming police car.

"Dragons, fall back!"

"Turtles, retreat!"

The Purple Dragons all scrambled to their feet to run away from the crime scene while the Turtles climbed up the fire-escape to retreat back to the heights of the rooftops. Alex was still somewhat shocked as the youngest turtle called on her rescuer to hurry up, completely unaware of his injury. Raph grit his teeth as he rushed to the steel-stairs, but the car had already arrived at the alley and he swore under his breath as he dove in between the trash bins to hide instead.

Two police officers appeared out of the car, their eyes falling on the broken window of the shop, and then on the girl still lying on the ground. They approached her cautiously though that wasn't necessary as she wasn't moving.

"Hi," one of them with short, blonde curls waved and she regained focus as she confusingly glanced at both officers. "Are you okay?"

Alex nodded slowly and swallowed hard, regretting not running away as well. "Good. Now, we need you to corporate with us. Say, did you see who did this?"

They gestured to the store where the alarm could still be heard. She rose up, deep in thought as she heard faint movement behind her and remembered him. Then she grinned; a grin that Raph was sure to hear.

"Yeah, I know. Guess who?"

Alex turned around and approached the hiding turtle's hideout, making him press himself closer to the brick-wall behind him in extreme angst. Dammit, she's gonna show me to 'em! Just as I thought - what the hell do I do now?

Alex picked out a rock with a decent size and threw it between the cops, causing them to jump away in order to avoid the impact. The rock perfectly hit the last remains of the window, shattering the last pieces on the ground as the police officers stared incredulously at the now smirking teenager.

She held out her wrists. "I did it. I confess. I'm the crime-rider. My bad. Now are you gonna take me away or not?"

Raphael's eyes widened in a mixture of shock, surprise and astonishment. He peeked his head out and watched as the officers handcuffed her and as Alex willingly went inside the police car that was now driving away, leaving him to wonder what the hell just happened.


A/N: Update, update, update. But school unfortunately ruins that ;o;