TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: RELATIVE-LY SPEAKING
Yeah, I realized when I went to upload this, that ch. 2 was screwed up. I fixed it, btw. And thanks to my three reviewers. You all get a plate of gooey chocolate chip cookies that my mommy made because she makes them better than anyone else in the whole world =
(A/N's Notes-You know the drill. But I would have a lot more fun in this life if they were mine, but The Creators won't let me have them. They did, however, let me have this nice, pretty, crisp, white restraining order...)



The four ninja brothers sat in a circle around their sensai, telling him the story they had heard on t.v. "I have often thought," the elderly rat began ", of the possibility that there were more mutants created by TGRI. My concerns were brought to light again when Oruku Saki was able to create his own mutants. It has been my thinking that if some of the ooze was misplaced, then it is entirely possible that more could have. But I had assumed that any others would have appeared long ago."

"Master Splinter, I think we should try to find these Others. We should go back to the apartments where they were filmed and look for clues."

"Great plan, Leo, but how can you be sure that we'll find any clues? We're not even sure how old that tape was." Donny pointed out.

"Good point Don, but I say we do it anyway. Whaddya say, Master?"

"If you all agree on a course of action, it is all right with me. Just don't let it take all priority over gang crimes and such."

"Raph?" asked Donny.

"Let's do it."

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The four turtles, dressed in their trencoat disguises, slipped through the alley behind the SunView Apartment Complex, the one from the show. They surveyed the lobby, and decided that it was to risky to move in until later that night. Bored after waiting only ten minutes, Raph started bitching at Leo for his wonderful master plan. Leo rose to his bait and a full fledged fight was soon underway. Mikey and Donny looked at each other and tried to ignore them. Donny tried to get Mikey drawn into a conversation, but his attention was fixed on his other brothers.

"Come off it, Raph. This is the best thing to do and you know it."

"No, Leo, I don't know it. You know why? Because it's a stupid thing to do! We're sitting on our asses when we could be out there busting ass. How do you know they'll even come back here? I'm gonna go do sumthin." Raphael grabbed his hat and re-adjusted it so that it covered his face. He turned, and started to leave.

"Where the hell do you think you're going?" Yelled Leo.

"Out. That is, if it's okay with you, Fearless Leader." Raph gave Leo a look to kill and stomped off, leaving his oldest brother sputtering about how he never claimed to be a leader.

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Raph stormed out of the alley and slipped into the shadows along side the side of the building next to the apartments. When he reached the next alley, he swung himself onto a fire escape, then to the rooftops. He went to the rooftops a lot now. He had always enjoyed it up there, no brothers, no gangs, and best of all, no hassles. And after he and his brothers had went back in time to rescue April from feudal Japan, he had started coming up here a lot more. It reminded him of the way the world looked back in the seventeen hundreds. Mostly empty of filth and peaceful.

"Raph shrugged off his coat and laid it aside, along with his hat. He walked along the length of this first building, shadow sparring, then jumped across to the next. He continued doing this for about five buildings, then stopped when he heard a muffled shriek of surprise. He leaned over the edge to look into the alleyway below. There were about eight biker-looking guys, complete with red bandanas and Harley Davidson tattoos. They were struggling with a woman with long red hair and a black duster. She had screamed when they jumped her, but now they had a bandana wrapped around her face. He couldn't see it though, because she had a gangster style black hat on, with the brim pulled low. Raph swore silently and thought 'There goes my peace and quiet.' He jumped onto the fire escape and slid down the ladder soundlessly. He fleetingly thought about his disguise, but before he could think about getting itt, he jumped into the circle in front of the woman. He pulled his sai's and quickly summed up the scene. Four on the left, two to the right, and two behind him holding the girl. Eight to one. 'My kind of odds.' With that thought, Raph jumped at the bikers on his left.

"Hey it's another big turtle!" Raph heard one of the guys behind him start yelling 'Another turtle? Had they been in town before? Had they seen his brothrs?' He now turned to the ones on his right, and made quick work of them. Now the ones with the girl. When he turned, he saaw the empty liquor bottles strewn about the ground, and the six Harley's and two yamaha motorcycles. He grabbed one of the guys by the arm not holding the girl and spun him to the side. Seeing that all of his gang, save himself and one other had been knocked out, he split. He jumped onto his bike and drove off, screaming at the top of his lungs. The last one let go of the girl and followed the other.

"Wuss!" Yelled Raph, before turning to the girl. "Are you okay?" She didn't answer. Just pulled the bandana down around her neck. "Hey, I'm talking to you."

"I'm fine. It's you I'm worried about." She reached up and pulled off her hat to reveal her face. For a split second, Raph didn't notice anything off, but then realized he was no longer with his brothers.

"You-You're-You're a mutant!" She rolled her eyes and pointed at him. He looked at her for another full minute and then yelled "Leo! I found one! LEOOO!!!!!"

"Shut up!" The mutant girl hissed in the same thick Brooklyn accent that Raph had. " You'll get us caught and there's no way I'm goin back to that damn lab."

"Lab? You come from a lab? Where? How? Wait, don' tell me, tell Donny."

"Who's Donny? Is he another like you?"

"I'm Donny." Said Donatello, as he and the other two jumped off the fire escape. "Who are you?"

"Four of you? Marnie's gonna freak!" With that, the Other jumped into an open doorway in the building oppositd the one the turtles climbed down. They all followed her, weapons drawn, as she ran through what looked like an unused warehouse. She looked back once, saw them following, and yelled, "Leave me the hall alone!" before jumping up to knock down a ceiling tile. She jumped up, catching the exposed piping, and hauled herself up. The turtles, too heavy for the tiles to support, tried to follow from below. They soon lost her, when she broke through the floor above and they had to find a way up.

'Damn, those guys are like ninjas or sumthin. Jesus, where the hell did they come from. Are they the ones Marnie says were Lost? Oh, what have I started now! I gotta get outta here!' With a quick look at the toom behind her, she jumped out the window to the street two stories below. She pulled her hat back over her head when she realized that she was still carrying it. Thinking she was no longer being followed, she took a direct rout to her home. She rushed to the nearest sewer grate and pulled it up. With another glance around, she stepped over the open whole and jumped into the darkness.

Mikey heard a small splash as she hit the bottom, the he turned back around to face the others, still looking around for her inside the warehouse. "Guys," he said ", I think she's heading home." They all looked at him.

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The female turtle splashed through a particularly deep spot in the sewer, letting her know that she was already at the tunnel the entrance to her home was in. She turned left, and stopped, listening hard to make sure no one was following. Hearing nothing, she ran into the doorway of her home. Leo turned to his brothers, "Let's move in slowly guys, we don't know what's in there."

"Leo, you saw the video, man. It's a bunch a girls with no serious fighting skills."

"She got away from Raph, though, Mike, and he's our best tracker."

"Shut up, Leo, it was only cause I was too heavy to climb into the ceiling."

"All three of you, shut up. Stand here an argue if you want, but I wanna know where they came from."

"Donny's right guys. On the count of three, okay?"

"Yet another terrific plan from our fearless leader." Raph said sarcastically.

"One......Two......THREE!!" With that the four turtle brothers burst in to find something rather unexpected. They had burst into a large, fully furnished room, that was obviously designed by several different people, as each corner was different. They all had one thing in common, however. They were all empty. The turtles dropped their fists to their sides and looked around in wonder. They saw no other doors, yet they knew the girl had come in here. They all felt like they were being watched though, and that was enough for Raph. "HEY! WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GO!"

Leo, Mikey, and Donny all jumped about a foot,and looked at Raph like he had grown a second head. "What?" he replied, before all went dark.



(OH! Cliffhanger! Kinda. Review.)