Close encounter .

Thanny's POV.

The past few weeks were fantastic, Mikey and I went out almost every night. He always said to the others he was too tired to join them or that he simply preferred to stay home and keep me company. Of course there were nights he couldn't go out with me; I had to promise him not to go out alone.

I promised him and stayed home. I only became Black Lotus to be part of their team, so as long as Mikey went with me a few nights of the week I was more than happy.

He was kind of bummed when the new sidekick of the black lotus wasn't mentioned in the news, but otherwise he enjoyed it almost as much as me. All went well for a while but tonight, everything would change.

Mikey and I were out again, he knew the way his brothers went and we went to opposite way so we wouldn't bump into them.

Leo POV.

"Guys, tonight were going to split up again"

"But Leo, were one turtle short" Donny said, but I ignored him.

"Raph you take the southern part of the city, Donny you'll take the western part and I'll take east and north, when your done just go home, if you run into trouble call me"

"I'm guessing with trouble you also mean our new superhero?" Raph asked.

"You have to ask? If you see the vigilante show off, just give me a call and I'll deal with him"

"As you wish o fearless one"

Raph and Donny left, I watched them go, and not long after that I went to guard 'my' part of the city.

I had ran an hour already, and spotted nothing suspicious, I was about to turn home when I heard a woman scream, I went to the direction of the noise. I looked down the alley and saw a woman being threatened by two dragons. I was about to jump into action when I heard voices behind me. I hid in the shadows and saw two figures land on the spot where I stood seconds ago.

"You take the one on the left I'll take the guy on the right" I know that voice! Mikey. The other figure didn't responded, it just nodded. It was a small person, I couldn't figure out who it could be, it was too small to be Casey or April.

The both of them jumped down, I looked over the edge of the building again, my anger was rising, 'so this is where Mikey takes off when he says he's staying home, he'll get one hell of a lecture when we get home'. They landed in front of the woman.

"Dude, it's the lotus, call the boss!" one of the guys yelled. He didn't had time to call his boss, this lotus figure knocked him out before he could twitch a finger.

'So this is the famous black lotus, I think I'll have a talk with him when they're done' I waited on the roof until they came back up.

"Dude you're so awesome, high five" they clapped hands, lotus was about to say something but I interrupted them.

"Well, well, Michelangelo, introduce me to your new friend" I came out of the shadow, the little lotus seemed a little scared of me and hid behind Mikey, the coward.

Thanny's POV.

We had just kicked serious butt, again, and climbed back up the fire escapes.

"Dude, you were so awesome, high five" I jumped up and clapped his hands, I was about to compliment him back when …

"Well, well, Michelangelo introduce me to your new friend" oh hell, it's Leo, were in so much trouble.

I crawled behind Mikey "what are we going to do?" I whispered in his ear.

"I don't know this is bad" he whispered back, seemed like Leo didn't hear us.

"you have no need to be afraid of me little vigilante, I'm not going to hurt you" he said in a mocking tone like he was talking to a child oh, I'm so pissed, even in this form he thinks I'm weak, just shut up Theng Sjen, oh we're so cooked.

"He doesn't talk much, doesn't he Mikey" he came closer.

"Leave him alone Leo, I'll come home with you and you can lecture my head off"

"No I won't"

"You won't leave him alone or you won't lecture me?" stupid question Mikey.

"What do you think? Get out of my way Michelangelo"

"no Leo" I pushed Mikey asides, I had enough, I knew I could defeat Leo if I used my pressure point technique but I promised Master Splinter I wouldn't use it against family, and even though I don't like Leo right now he's still family.

"… but , you can't" I nodded my head, signaling that I knew what I was doing, there wasn't a reply from him, because Leo shoved him aside.

"I'll ask you one time little one, quit your nightly patrols" I shook my head again.

"You think I don't know why you're doing this? You're not interested in helping people you just want to make a name for yourself, you think this is cool and easy, don't you? Well it's not your doing this for the wrong reasons, so I'm giving you one chance to stop this and go home to your family" he was so wrong, and the more he kept insulting and lecturing me the angrier I got, I shook my head again and fell into a fighting position. Keep your cool Thanny, it's hard enough to fight Leo as it is you need to calm down.

"you're getting in way over your head, little one, I'll go easy on you because your Mikey's friend" I saw Mikey backing up, praying this wouldn't end bad, I knew if we went too far he would jump in and stop the fight, but I can't think of anything else then the fight now, it's Leo and I have to use my full concentration before I can even think about winning.

We circled each other a few times, he attacked first. He punched a couple of times, I was able to avoid or block every one of them, he's going easy on me, he did a round house kick, I rolled under his leg and came out behind him, I tried to kick him in the back but he caught my foot.

"You're better than I thought I'll give you that, but now it's over" he said and looked angrily at me.

I twisted my body around so my other leg came rushing to his face, he didn't expect that he ducked so my foot flew over his head, this way his arm (that was holding my other foot) was twisted in an unnatural way, he was forced to let go. I flipped a few times and landed on my feet.

We were back were we started, this time I attacked first, I tried to punch and kick him a couple of times, of course he blocked them all, when he saw an opening he kicked me back in the stomach, I flew back and landed on flat on my back, man that hurt!

I placed my hands behind my head and flipped back on my feet.

"Still hadn't had enough little one? Well I got a lot more where that came from"

We both attacked this time, I slid under his feet, and ended up behind him, I tried to kick his legs from under him but he jumped up and landed behind me. I flipped forward to avoid his foot coming down. 'I need to end this quickly I can't keep it up any longer.' He came rushing at me again I placed my hands on his shoulders and flung myself over his head, my feet connected hard with his shell and he flew against a wall on the roof.

Now I was completely exhausted, Mikey knew it. I heard Leo grunt behind me.

"Alright, no holding back" he was angry, this wasn't good, he took out his katanas, oh crap! I pulled out two of my smaller kunai knives out of my sleeves. This isn't good.

He came rushing at me full speed I stood my ground, he jumped up and brought his katanas with him I managed to block him but the impact took his toll, I was knocked on my knees and he was applying more and more pressure on his blades. He kicked me away, he kicked my stomach again and I flew back even further than the last time, I was thrown over the edge of the building, I had just enough time to slash my whip around a fire escape, it slowed my fall, but I couldn't hold on and fell anyway, I hit the ground hard, luckily for me the building wasn't that high.

"No!" Mikey screamed he looked over the edge at me; I stood up and waved at him, signaling I'm alright. well I'm not dead, everything hurt, I crawled my way back to the sewer, and ran home as fast as my beaten legs could carry me, I took of my outfit and threw it quickly in my hiding place, by the time I reached the lair, all of my energy was drained, I passed out on the couch.

Mikey's POV.

I was petrified when I saw her falling over the edge of the roof. I felt everything at the same time, sadness, fear but after a while that all made place for anger.

Leo stood next to me, to see if the black lotus was alive. I punched him in the face.

"Dude, do you have any idea, what you've almost done?"

"I'm sorry Mikey I got carried away a bit" he said I got in his face; I bet he never saw me this mad.

"A bit? You kicked he…im over the edge of the building, he could have died! " I quickly corrected myself.

"I'm not discussing what could have happened, one thing's for sure he won't be resuming this lotus nonsense"

"You're a jerk you know that? And what was with the jumping to conclusions? You don't even know anything about him"

"Don't go turning the tables on me; do you know what you have done? You exposed yourself to him, he's not to be trusted, and he could be working for the enemy. You endangered our family, I forbid you to see him again" I had to laugh a bit at that, not my smartest move.

"I'm serious, you'll never leave my eyesight ever again, and from now on you're coming with us on all of our missions, I really thought you were smarter than this Michelangelo" he nudged my shoulder while he passed me.

"You have no idea, of how hard you screwed up tonight Leo, and there's going to be a time when you will be so ashamed of what you have done tonight."

He just looked angrily at me, he didn't know what I was talking about, we didn't say anything to each other, and we just walked home.

When we got home I saw she had passed out on the couch.

"I'm going to put Thanny in her bedroom, you can yell at me tomorrow" he didn't say anything at that and went to his room. I took my little sister to her bedroom. I placed her on her bed; she didn't wake up, poor thing.

She didn't have and injuries on her face, but her legs and arms were red and blue, for sure tomorrow they will look even more colorful , I lifted her shirt to look at the place Leo kicked her twice. It was probably not as bad as it looked, I hope. She woke up.

"Mikey?"

"Why didn't you tell him? Or used your pressure points? You could have gotten killed" I hugged her gently.

"I'm ok Mikey, I guess our nightly patrols are going to wait for a while hu?" she joked.

"Wait? I'm glad if I ever see daylight again, you have to stop this, please promise me you'll stop this"

"I can't Mikey, if I do they'll think I'm weak, I want to be part of the family"

"You are part of the family"

"No I'm not, I'm not part of your team, and this is the only way I can feel slightly connected to the team"

"But if you just talk to …"

"… no! Please promise me you won't tell anyone, please big brother" those damn puppy eyes she's been practicing.

"Only if you don't go out alone anymore, wait a while for this to have blown over so I can sneak out again"

"Alright, now get out of my room, I want to sleep"

"Alright, good night sis"

"Good night bro"