Leonardo leaned against the brick wall behind him, trying to catch his breath. The blue masked leader tensed as Angel slid down next to him. Close enough to feel the heat off her body, but not quite enough to have their bodies touch. She herself was breathing hard, her chest rising and falling raggedly. Leo looked over at the girl next to him, finally getting a good look at her.

She wore light make-up that wasn't noticeable unless you were looking for it. She was dressed in blue jeans and a large jacket that looked way too big for her. For such a well-put-together looking girl, it definitely seemed to be off, but what truly stood out was her eyes. They were a nice sunset orange. What was strange was that she didn't seem to be wearing contacts...

Angel suddenly turned to look at him, catching him staring.

"For a turtle, you sure can move pretty fast." She laughed, giving Leo a quick smile, completely ignoring the fact that he had been looking at her for the last thirty seconds straight.

Leo gave a light laugh of his own. "For a human, you seem pretty calm."

The asian teenager tilted her head in confusion. "What does that mean?"

"Most people run away screaming from me and my brothers or videotape us."

She looked away and faced the scattered passed out men on the ground in front of them. For a second, something flashed in her eyes before disappearing as quick as it appeared.

"I'd heard some rumors that there were mutants in New York." She shrugged. "So you have more than one brother?"

"What makes you-"

"You stated it yourself. Quote, most people run away screaming from me and my brothers." Angel looked back at blue masked ninja with a pleased look. "Brothers is plural last time I checked. So how many do you have?"

"Um, three." Suddenly a thought surfaced into Leo's head. One of those three brothers was injured, and last time he'd seen the injury, it had looked bad."Raph, where did your friend take Raph?" He asked, panic rising in his voice.

Angel stood up. "Chill. He's in good hands. Let me just call Pip up." With that she pulled a phone out of her pocket. She tapped her foot as she waited in silence with her phone held to her ear. "What took you so long?..." She laughed. "Well then get out of his personal space... Ya, we took care of it... Alright, send me your location. We'll be right there. Oh, and Pip? Stop trying to socialize with him." She gave a light chuckle before hanging up. She scrolled over something on her screen before turning her attention back to the now impatient turtle.

"They're a few blocks away, just south of here."

Leo nodded, trying to keep himself calm. Raph was fine... he just needed to make sure. "Let's move."

"Are you sure you don't want any? You lost a lot of blood." Pip asked with a concerned look.

"For the last time! I don't want any water. How many times do I have to tell you?" Raphael snapped.

"I just thought-"

"Would you just shut the shell up?!" Raph growled. For the last ten minutes Pip had been asking him question inquiring if he was alright or if he wanted anything. He hadn't done anything wrong really, but his constant talking was starting to drive him insane.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to-"

"For the love of- I just asked you to be quiet." Raph glared at the blonde haired teen. "I don't know how things usually are for you, but I'm not interested in making friends with you. Actually, I remember telling you that I hated you."

Pip opened his mouth to say something but simply closed it again. He didn't understand what he had done wrong. He would have to ask Angel about it when she got back. Speaking of Angel, where was she? She should have been able to get here by now. Maybe the turtle thing was slowing her down.

What if she was hurt? Had the blue masked reptile turned on her? No, his master might not have any honor but he at least seemed to. There was so many things that could have happened to her. Being away from Angel was making him twitchy. He knew he shouldn't have left her side, but she gave him an order and orders were final. No questions asked. She'd seemed fine when she called, but what if-

He took a deep breath. He needed to stop worrying. It wouldn't fix anything, and it certainly wouldn't get his partner here any sooner. Angel was a skilled assassin. She could take care of herself. Master Shredder wouldn't have put her in charge of the new troops if she couldn't. Pip wonder if the new recruits knew that their soon-to-be squad leader was the one that beat them up just now.

Raph and Pip looked over to see Leo and Angel walking over to them after hearing footsteps to their left.

"'Bout time you got here fearless." Raph complained gruffly.

"Sorry, we were a bit tied up." Leo explained, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Whatever, can we just get back to the lair?" Raph asked avoiding his older brother's gaze.

"Alright." Leonardo turned to address their new acquaintances. "Thanks for your help, we both really appreciate it.-" Raph scoffed. "-I don't know what we would have done without you two."

"Don't worry about it." Angel said, waving it off. "Just doing our job. I never caught your names by the way."

Leo blinked, realizing she was right. "Oh, right. I'm Leonardo and that's my brother Raphael, but you can call us Leo and Raph."

"Well Leo, we should get going. Our parents don't know we're out right now. Hate for them to check our beds and see us missing."

"Ya. So, see you around?" Leo asked with a almost hopeful voice.

She gave a firm nodd. "Definitely."

The two brother's watched as their new human companions left, Pip waving goodbye with a bright smile.

"I don't like them." Raph stated flatly.

"What, why?" Leo asked confused, turning to look at his now frowning sibling.

"They seemed off." Raph said with a distant look. "I mean, they fought like they've been doing it their whole lives."

"So? Maybe they took self defense classes."

"The girl had a gun."

"That girl's name is Angel, and New York is a dangerous place. So what if she wants to be a bit more cautious than most?"

"She a teenager Leo. How many teens, that aren't in gangs, do you know that carry around guns?"

"If she wants to carry around a gun, then that's her choice. We don't have any place to judge. Besides, she seemed like a nice girl."

"You just think she's pretty." Raph hissed.

"I-I do not!" Leo turned pink, glaring at his younger sibling.

"Whatever you say, Fearless."

Leo sighed, rubbing his face. He didn't have time to argue. He needed to get Raph back to the lair so Donnie could take a look at him.

He walked over to Raphael and picked him up, his muscles shouting in protest. Raph winced, clenching his jaw tightly. His leg had just stopped throbbing for shell's sake. He knew that Leo was trying to be as careful as possible, but there was only so much he could do to keep from jostling his injured sibling's leg.

Leo gave Raph a worried look. "Tell me if we need to stop alright?"

Raph nodded, afraid that if he spoke all that would come out would be a scream.

Leo tried to be as gentle as he could, but on a particularly large jump he lost his footing and stumbled. Raph was jerked roughly in his brother's arms causing a splitting pain to shoot up his leg. He clenched his eyes shut and bit his tongue, barely managing to keep silent.

"I'm sorry Raph." Leo apologized hurriedly after managing to gain his balance again. "Are you alight?"

Once again, the resident hot head simply nodded, unbeknownst to his teammate that he was lying. He slid his hand over his bandaged leg, hiding the red now seeping through. "Fine, keep goin'." Raph managed, through clenched teeth.

So, Leo kept going, ignoring his screaming limbs. Shell Raph was heavy. Had he always weighed this much?

They made it to the manhole that lead to a system of tunnels heading towards their underground home. Getting Raph down it had proven difficult, but they had managed. Leo paused in his steps, noticing something was off. His eyes landed on his brother's crimson seeped bandage.

"Raph! You're bleeding again?! Why didn't you say something?!"

"No...Point... Keep... Movin'." Raph pleaded, refusing to open his eyes. Man was he dizzy.

So he did. Leo ran like his life depended on it. Well, like Raphael's did, because in truth it might have.

"Donnie! Help!" Leo yelled when he finally made it home. "Mikey! Someone!" He kept running, bumping into Donatello when he finally made it to the second youngest's lab doors.

Donnie muttered a swear in some foreign language when he saw the state of his immediately-older brother. "Put him on the table so I can take a look at him. What the shell happened?"

Leo did as he was told, placing his brother on one of Donatello's work tables. "Long story, but he got hurt fighting one of the foot soldiers that attacked us."

Don nodded, unwrapping the blood soaked bandage on Raph's leg. He grimaced at the sight but kept his composer. "Whoever did this didn't manage to hit any major veins, but it's pretty deep. He's going to need stitches, and I'm not sure when he'll be walking again."

Mikey watched with fearful eyes at his older brothers' current states. Leo looked ready to drop dead from exhaustion and Raph's leg was bleeding at an alarming state. If Viper hadn't been curled up on his lap he would have already jumped up and tried to help in some sort of way. He tried to shift his sleeping friend off off his lap, but as soon as she whimpered he gave up on the idea.

"My sons?" Splinter asked with an alarmed tone as he walked into the room. "I heard yelling..." His voice trailed off as his eyes landed on his injured child. "How bad is he?" The ninjutsu master asked, his voice regaining its composure.

"Well." Donnie said through gritted teeth as he put pressure on the wound, causing a moan of pain from the injured turtle. "It depends how fast I can stop the bleeding."

"Leonardo sit down before you collapse." Splinter ordered firmly. "Donatello, where do you keep the materials needed to repair your brother's leg?"

"In the cabinet behind you, second shelf."

Together the two of them worked to patch up Raph, while Leo proceeded to fall asleep on the second gurney next to the one Mikey and Viper were on. After finishing with his brother's leg, Donnie directed his attention to assessing Leo. He had a slight sprain in his left ankle and his arm needed to be bandaged, but other than that and the few mild cuts and bruises here and there, he was fine.

Raph downed enough liquids to sink a battleship until Don was satisfied. He then proceeded to hand over the satchel of anesthesia and with the help of a set of crutches under his father's watchful eye, he went to his room to go lay down. Saying that he would talk about what happened when he and Leo woke up.

Donatello then went to work on getting Viper's I.V. set up. He was then sent off to sleep himself, having already skipped two nights of sleep already. Splinter took his leave as well, leaving Mikey alone with his now coma induced friend. The only sound that could be heard was the steady beep of of the machine that kept track of her heart rate.

She looked so peaceful laying there, Mikey thought to himself. He decided when she woke up that he would do something nice for her.

Angel's P.O.V.

Kya sighed. "Stop squirming please, Pip."

"Sorry." He apologized bashfully. "I just that-"

"Your anxious about Angel and you wish I had looked at her first. I know, I know."

I smiled softly at the sight of my worried partner. "Pip, I'm fine. Let her finish bandaging your hand and then she can do a full physical on me if you want."

Kya gave me a grateful look before facing Pip again. "Yes, so please sit still so I can wrap this correctly."

Pip fell silent as she finished wrapping his hand. When she was finally done he hopped down from the medical table. He smiled at his bandage with a proud look. I almost laughed. He looked like a little kid when he made that face. It reminded me of what a kid looked like when they felt proud because they had managed to help their parent with something.

I got up from the chair I was sitting in and changed places with Pip.

"So, taking on the new recruits in the middle of their first mission. What made you do that?" Kya asked with a curious glance.

"I wanted to see how good they actually are. We were told we got top notch fight, but from what I can see they still need more work."

Kya laughed. "I don't think anyone could ever fit your standards other than Pip."

I shrugged. "Maybe, maybe not. Who knows, they could even surpass Pip some day."

"But not you?" She asked with a raised brow.

"Please, you should have seen them. Me and Leo took them out easy. Well, Leo and his brother did soften them up a bit first."

"Leo and Raph? Might I ask who that could be."

I hummed happily. "Leonardo and Raphael Hamato."

"What?" Kya hissed. "You were fighting with the turtles? Not against them."

"Nope. It was just this once. Besides it's not like you haven't helped them before."

Kya gave a fearful look and opened her mouth to speak, but before she could I cut her off. "Listen I found one of the vials missing the other day when I went to go get my daily meds, alright? I'm not going to tell that they were here. Whatever history you've got with my target is beween you and her, but..." I looked at her with a cold look in my eyes. I could feel my heart rate slow as all emotion drained from my body and half of the orange in my eyes turned red. "Even if you are my best friend, I will do whatever it takes to capture my target. If that means removing you from the picture I will." I closed my eyes as my eyes went back to normal. "No matter how much it will kill me to do so."

"You know that I have no intentions of getting in your way." She gave me a hurt look. "You need her alive if you want to bring her in. If I didn't give them that she would have died for sure."

"So that's the only reason?" I gave her a sceptical look. "Last I time I checked you requested to be transferred to project Viper a year ago, and that's long before I was assigned to bringing her in."

"I wanted practice for project Angel." She looked away, refusing to meet my gaze.

I can spot a liar a mile. It comes with my job description, so I know when Kya is lying. It's a blessing and a curse to know when your friend lies to you. So incase you live in a magical fairy land where all your friends, family, and the people you trust in the world have never lied to you, it hurts. Some times worse than a bullet to the shoulder. Which let me tell you is hell itself.

I get that she has her secrets, but it was frustrating that she felt like she couldn't tell me. I knew she was doing something dangerous and it had to do with her connection to Viper. She cared about her, I mean she had been devastated when when subject twenty died. She acted like she's known the kid. Kya was a web of secrets that I feared trying to figure out. I just hoped whatever the connection turned out to be that it didn't end her up dead.

I just gave her a small smile. "Come on, better get me fixed up before Pip has an anxiety attack." We both looked over to see him bouncing his knee impatiently. "Pip, stop holding your breath."

He furrowed his brows, puffing up his cheeks to show that he wasn't stopping. I rolled my eyes and gave him a stern look. "Pippy, stop and we'll go get ice cream this weekend."

He loudly let go of the breath he was holding and gave me a dazzling smile. "Love you."

"Uh-hu suuure." Kya laughed at us both, earning a bigger smile from my partner and a frown from me. "Whatever. Alright Doc, do your thing."

She gave an amused hum before sobering up. "Take your jacket off so I can get a good look."

I shrugged my jacket off leaving me in my loose tank-top.

Now before I go on I should probably warn you. I'm human just like you, well ninety-seven percent human. You'll find out what that other three percent in just a second.

I winced as I spread my wings. They were a brilliant white with my feathers turning black towards bottom of my wings. My wingspan totalled out to fourteen feet in length when fully spread, but right now thanks to what I was praying was a sprain, I couldn't spread them more than half way.

Kya dragged her fingers over my left wing, pushing down on some spot on my joint. I flinched away from her touch, retracting my wings slightly. She gave an annoyed huff before handing me my jacket back.

"It's sprained but not broken. You won't be using it anytime soon."

I groaned in frustration. "Can't you give me something for it?"

"No, you know that."

"Fuuu-"

"Angel!"

"Kuso."

"Saying it in japanese still counts as cursing." Kya said disapprovingly.

"Did I ever tell you I love being a mutant?"

Welcome to project Angel.

Hey guys! Did I bore you with this chapter? If so I'm sorry. On another note, it feels great to finally get to finally show you guys one of Angel's secrets. I've been working on her for awhile now and the concept for project Angel. Notice anything about Angel and her project name?

I should inform you that I'm going to be updating another one of my other stories along with this one, so updates may be delayed every now and then. Sorry about that.

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