"What are we doin' waitin' around here? The Foot are out there lookin' for us and we're just standin' here like sittin' ducks. Let's go and do somethin' about this!" Jacqueline said towards her placid arm crossed sister.
"Because Jacqueline, we've fought the Foot before and lost. Miserably. You want to go find them and put our family in danger? We'll fight when the time calls for it."
"And what about those other Ninjas …"
"You mean the ones that saved us?" Lexine added.
"I don't understand why we have to wait around for somethin' to happen. This is our City Jade! We can take it if you just let us! You never give us room to move around, you suffocate us with your ordas and rules!"
"Speak for yourself Jackal." Fiona said as she swung her feet over the edge of a roof top. The City lights bouncing off the rubber on her Doc Martian boots.
"I'm doing this for our own safety. What if we just walk the streets and come across a threat that isn't really a threat, take them down and then what? We're all over front page news with the headline New York attacked by real live Boston mutants? No thank you." Jade said turning her attention towards the never ending lights of the Sky Line.
"You're ridiculous you know that! We could be out there helpin' and you're just gonna sit here and watch this City turn to crap?"
"We're doing something aren't we?! We're here! What's the difference if we take it little by little! And if we make ourselves known it'll just be more reason for the Foot to keep coming after us. This is better than putting all of you in danger. What if one of us gets hurt? We take them to the hospital and what? They tell us our DNA is different, we have something wrong with us…"
"Guys, stop." Lexine said pinching in between her eyes. "You're giving me a headache."
Fiona shook hear head trying to block out the noise of their feuding sisters. She watched the skyline ahead of her as she saw four figures leap one by one to roof tops ahead of theirs. She squinted trying to make the figures out. She took a steady breath and focused her powers as her eyes adjusted. Her sight enhanced making the figures clear ahead of her. The turtles. She smiled looking over her shoulders at the feuding sisters and whistled.
"Hey Flotsam and Jetsam I think we have company." Fiona said. The girls ran behind their sister as the figures stopped ahead of them. Their shadows in view just standing there looking down at the girls. Jade narrowed her eyes.
"What are they doing Fiona?" She growled.
"Just standing there. Talking." She shrugged her shoulders.
"This is absolutely ridiculous. We cannot just assume these guys are going to hurt us. For all we know they could be doing the same thing that we are doing. They are apparently very good with their skills in martial arts. Why won't we just…"
"Are you crazy? No! We're not gonna just do anythin' Lexi!"
"Jackie's right for once. We don't do anything." Jade said crossing her arms.
There was a scream echoing throughout the City streets to the ears of the girls. They all turned their heads in the direction of the scream, Jade looking out of the corner of her eye at the turtles doing the same.
"It's about four blocks from here. Lexine, get there before they do. Let's go." Jade said taking off in the direction of the scream, running over the roof tops. The turtles split up and Jade nodded her head for the girls to do the same.
"We'll find them faster this way, split up. Jacqueline take west, Lexine north, Fiona stay close to me going south."
"Got it." Fiona said.
"Sure thing sis." Lexine added.
She felt her sister running by her side roof tops away. She looked over at her youngest and then to her other side seeing a turtle keeping up with her pace. She glared using her powers push herself to move faster. They were skilled and graceful moving along the roof tops never faulting.
She looked ahead of her keeping her concentration to not fall or run into anything darting her head back to where she saw him. He was gone. She narrowed her eyes in question and then felt the same ripple throughout her body as she saw him drop ahead of her. Her converse made her slide to a stop in front of him. Her chest rose and fell from the run and trying to keep up with a Ninja. She was good, but not that good.
He felt unsure about her almost as much as she did about him. His thoughts rang with protection of his family and of the screaming girl they heard minuets ago. Just tell her to go home, you'll worry about them on another night.
"Go home. You're going to cause yourself harm." Another scream echoed through the city as she shook her head running past him. He sighed to her stubbornness as he ran along side her. He couldn't help but watch her face as she ran determined and focused. Her hair bouncing around her face as it shimmered in the moonlight. He felt his heart jump and pushed it back down.
Jade stopped putting an arm out as Leonardo tried to jump another roof top. She shook her head and pointed down as two men cornered a helpless girl. Her breathing was heavy and filled with fear as she coward in corner next to a dumpster. She was not any older than Jade was. Jade growled in anger as she dropped down to the darkness of an alleyway below. Leonardo tried to grab her but it was too late. He sighed in frustration as he followed her to the darkness. His eyes adjusted to the darkness as he saw the girl peering out from the alleyway waiting for the right moment to pounce. Leo shook his head pulling the girl back into the darkness with him.
"What are you doing?" He whispered as she pulled her arm away from him.
"Helping." She glared and walked back to the light walking towards the two men and the poor scared girl. She cleared her throat and Leo put a hand to his face shaking his head in disappointment.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here? A little lost girly?" One guy smirked in a disgusting perverted smile. Jade's body shuttered as she searched his thoughts. His plans to rape and defile this girl, her, would have to wait until about 10-20 years from now. Or another life time if he gets the right judge.
"Not quite." She said looking towards the girl as she lifted her from the ground. The girl from shock passed out as Jade put her behind herself, in front of Leo. Leo, put a hand to the girl's face seeing if she was harmed. The men came at Jade but she held up a hand stopping them in their tracks. Their feet lifted off the ground as Jade smiled with achievement. Leo looked up from the unconscious girl and had to do a double take. His eyes filled with astonishment as the small girl before him was holding up with just one hand two men twice her size. He got to his feet and walked next to her. His thoughts crashing through her head as she broke her concentration, letting the men's bodies fall to the ground.
The men scrambled to their feet, turning to run down the opposite way. Jacqueline stepped in front of them as she lit a flame to her finger.
"Going somewhere?" She smirked. Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello came behind her, as the light from a street lamp hit them. The men's eyes filled with fright from their shelled appearance. The girl awoke behind Leonardo as she jumped to her feet more frightened of what she was seeing than her attackers. She took off to the lit streets, pushing her way though Jacqueline and Raphael both of them shaking their heads. "You're welcome!" Jacqueline yelled after her.
Lexine came from another alleyway, coming to a halt next to her sister and the red clad turtle. Fiona appeared next to Jade, making a complete circle around the two men. They shook with fear as Jacqueline smirked.
"Didn't your mothers ever teach you manners?" Raphael said taking his sais from his strap. There was sirens ringing throughout the streets as Jade closed her eyes trying to concentrate.
"They're three blocks away. Let's split up. Meet back at our place roof top." The sister's all nodded and turned down different alleyways. The men stood confused as the eight surrounding figures disappeared into the night. They were about to run in fear as police cars blocked their only escape.
Leonardo and Jade ran from the police cars, keeping up with one another to make it back to her place. Why was she taking them here? Why was she being so trusting? The thought just occurred to her as she looked over at the shelled man next to her.
"This way." She said darting off in another direction, Leonardo keeping close. They reached her roof top and Jade leaned against a chimney to catch her breath. Leo looked over the roof tops around theirs and searched for his brother's. He didn't know why he was trusting this girl? His brother's could be in danger, her sister's could have just dragged them into a trap. He shook his head and crossed his arms gripping his biceps with his hands tightly in aggravation. He didn't listen to his father, he should have been more aware of the situation before it happened.
"Don't beat yourself up." Jade said lifting herself up on the ledge of the roof. Leo looked over at her being caught off guard.
"What?"
"I'm sure you're father will understand the situation when you explain it to him. And as for the trap, I'm not that smart to come up with one that quickly." She smiled putting her head down to hide it.
"How did you…?"
"I can read minds." She said picking her head up to look at him. He walked closer to her and she could feel that ripple throughout her body. It was safe and sure. Even though it was those things it still made her feel uncomfortable. She slipped off the edge of the roof walking away from him and looking towards the sky. "Where could they be?"
Jacqueline ran along side Raphael who didn't seem to wait up for her. She pushed herself out of anger to keep up with him. She'd be damned if she was going to let him show her up.
"You don't even know where you're goin', so slow the fuck down!" She yelled at him. He stopped abruptly making her run into him. She caught herself on his arm but pushed herself away from him quickly. "What the fuck is wrong with you?" She said in her harsh Boston accent.
"You wanna take the lead, go for it princess." He said opening his arm towards her. She glared at him, walking past him and nudging his shoulder with her own. He glared at the back of her head as she leaped to another roof top.
Lexine tried to keep a steady pace as Donatello lagged behind her. He was a skilled ninja, fast and able but when keeping up with someone that had the abilities of Flash he had difficulties. She was generous though. She waited for him with a warming smile as he got to the edge of a roof top. He helped her jump along with him, catching her in his arms safely as she landed. Her green eyes locked on his as he slid his hands off of her waist. She couldn't help but blush as he walked away from her.
Fiona walked with Michelangelo as their conversation about comic books and her abilities came up. She tried to follow her sister's orders of not mentioning too much about them but she couldn't help it. He was just so excited to hear about it. She's never experience someone with as much energy and passion about the same things she did. She was always trying to hide herself in her video games, movies and books. The worlds that were created for these things made her want to live inside them, become apart of them. She never met someone that felt the same way she did. He held out a hand for as she stepped up to the ledge of a roof. He scooped her up in his arms bridal style, leaping effortlessly to the roof top ahead of them. She couldn't help but blush as his cheeks filled with pink as well, letting her slide out of his arms.
"There they are." Leonardo said after waiting close to ten minuets for their siblings to arrive. "Where were you, I was getting worried?"
"It doesn't take that long to get from Price Street to Spring Street." Jade snapped at her sisters. The six stood before their eldest as Leo and Jade mimicked each other's body language. Their arms folded tight to their chest, in Leo's case his plastron and the same stern expression on their face.
"Whoa…It's like there's two of you." Mikey said looking back and forth between Jade and his brother. Leo looked over at Jade, as they caught eyes both of them dropping their hands and relaxing their stance immediately.
"Yeah, that's exactly what we need, another Leo." Raph huffed walking over to the ledge, leaning against it.
"You're names Leo?" Jade asked him, trying to be cordial.
"Leonardo. Leo for short." He said glaring at his hotheaded brother. "These are my brother's Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo."
"The Renaissance artists." Lexine spoke up. Donnie nodded his head with a smile. Pretty and smart? "Donatello was my favorite, it always surprises me people don't know much about him when actually he was just a very gifted sculptor and essential as the other three. Makes me want to visit Florence and see his work." She smiled. Donnie smiled back.
"That's actually my name." The purple clad turtle spoke up. Lexine blushed turning her face away from his. Jade looked over at her sister with a glare.
"What are you blushing for?" She asked her sister in a harsh sounding thought.
"I'm not blushing. Shut up." She shot back.
"Lexi's got a boyfriend." Fiona chimed in.
"Shut it geekzilla." Jacqueline added. She glared over at her sister as Jac lit a flame to her finger. Fiona rolled her eyes.
"Quit it Jacqueline." Jade warned.
"So her name is Jacqueline. What are yours?" Leonardo said interrupting their sisterly fight.
"I'm Jade. These are the twins Lexine and Fiona." She said pointing towards her sisters, as they lifted their hands to their names being called.
"Aren't twins supposed to look alike?" Mikey asked tilting his head to one side trying to examine the girls. Fiona raised an eyebrow to his expression with a chuckle.
"Not all the time. We were fraternal twins. We were born together but in two separate placentas." Lexine said crossing her arms.
"Gross."
"So, how did you accumulate your powers?" Donatello asked leaning on his bo staff.
"Well, we got them at different ages. Lexine first, than Jacqueline, then myself and Fiona. We were all teenagers when it happened." Jade said as her sisters nodded.
"I assumed it was because of hormones and our bodies changing more rapidly than that or a normal human girl. We were all doing things at the time that we discovered them. I myself was running, Jacqueline was fighting off some thugs in Southie and Jade, you were thinking about dad right?" Leonardo looked towards Jade as her face instantly changed. It once filled with determination went white with sadness. He frowned as she nodded her head slowly. "Fiona was shielding herself from an incoming pan being deflected by Jade in the kitchen from one of her and Jacqueline's many fights." Lexine said with an eyebrow raised towards her sisters. Jacqueline rolled her eyes as Jade crossed her arms. "Anyways. I never was able to discover why our bodies act and are able to do the things they do, but that's the thesis I'm working on anyways." She finished with a shrug. Donnie smiled at her modesty to her intelligence. He understood her feeling completely. No one ever shared an interest while he concluded theories in his head, out loud.
"So that explains, to a degree why you have powers. But, why were the Foot following you?" Leo asked the sisters. They all looked towards their eldest as she sighed.
"We're grateful that you've helped us but we have shared too much with you already. We don't even know who you are or why you're so willing to help us."
"Yeah, we're not exactly from here." Fiona started.
"Where are you from?" Mikey asked
"Boston."
"I moved here for college a while back and then a year or two passed and we needed to establish our sister connection." Jade said. She sighed realizing the risk she was taking by letting this much slip out. "We should go now, I've already said too much." She turned away nodding to her sister's to follow.
"We run here and save your ass and your not even gonna give us some answers?" Raphael asked stepping closer to Jade. Jade narrowed her eyes as her vision was cut off by Jacqueline stepping in front of her.
"We don't have to give you shit. And when the hell did you save our asses?"
"You woulda never survived those Foot if it wasn't for us."
"Psh, that's unlikely."
"Ok, fine. You wanna go around and protect the City be my guest but it'll be the last time you see us helpin' you."
"Good. Less of a problem for us then!" Just as Jacqueline spat those words out to Raph they heard glass breaking in the apartment building they stood on. Their loft apartment was the only one being occupied at this time. Jade's heart dropped as she rushed over to the fire escape seeing two Foot Ninja walk through their broken window. Fiona followed her as Jade pushed her sister back out of sight of the fire escape. Her face was filled with fear and sickness as she looked towards the worried faces of her sisters.
"What's going on?" Lexine whispered. Jade held a finger to her lips.
"The Foot. They know where we live." Jade said through her thoughts to her sisters. Lexine covered her mouth in shock Fiona shaking her head, as Jacqueline slammed her fists down on the concrete.
Leonardo went to fire escape on the other side of the building, hanging himself down so his whole body wasn't visible. He watched as the Foot tore through their apartment. Tossing their couch aside as another ran up a spiral stair case to rooms, tossing clothing and CD cases into the hall way. Jacqueline shook her head in anger and rushed towards the stairs case passed Jade, she went to catch her with her mind, but Raphael grasped his arms around her waist, picking her up and placing her on the far other side of the roof top.
"C'mon. You can't stay here you'll be killed." Leo said in a whisper towards Jade. Her blank stare looking out in front of her as her lips pressed together tightly.
"He's right Jay. We aren't safe here." Lexine said walking closer towards her sister, placing a gentle hand on her shoulder. Jade broke out of her angry state and nodded her head towards her sister.
"Where then?" She said towards Leo.
"Our place. It's safe and the Foot know nothing of it." He said looking into her eyes. She searched his thoughts for truth behind his words. He wasn't lying, his eyes were honest and filled with trust. She let go of a breath she was unaware she was holding and nodded her head.
"Alright."