The Cat.

Chapter 2: A New Friend.

A figure stood tall against the New York sky line, she was taking things a little slower than usual as it was a little different to LA. She surveyed the streets, looking for trouble of any kind, her name was 'The Cat', or at least that's the name she'd been given by her enemies and the people she'd helped. Her red hair billowed in the wind and the bright moon brought out her sculptured figure making her look like a statue. A scream brought her out of her trance like state and she sprang into action, jumping from the roof top she let herself free fall before she threw out her arm and fired a specially designed wire allowing herself to swing towards the next level of buildings so she could jump from roof top to roof top to get to her target. A woman was being attacked by a large man and was being beaten to stop her from screaming for help. Cat narrowed her eyes and leapt down from the roof landing to the left of them.

"I'd stop that if I were you, creep," The man turned and looked at the small girl threatening him and laughed before lunging at her with his fists, Cat easily dodged the blows and maneuvered herself between the attacker and the woman, "wrong move." She said in a mocking tone. He growled and approached her again with renewed vigor her tried to hit and kick her in vein but she dodged every blow with ease, after a few minutes she decided to finish it and as he tried again to hit her she crouched down at the last minute, knocked his feet out from out underneath him and with the speed of lightning she spun around again and kicked him hard into the wall. Cat turned to the woman who was looking at her in the usual shocked 'oh my god you're such a freak' way that Cat was used to by now and then the woman ran off picking her purse up off the floor as she did. Cat sighed and turned to the attacker, she bent down to tie him up and as she did so she noticed a large dragon tattooed onto his arm. Making a mental note to find out which gang used that symbol in this town she finished tying him up and returned to the roof tops to continue her watch.

Not far away more members of the same gang were ganging up on the turtles, normally they wouldn't have a problem but Mikey was down and Donny was trying to stop the bleeding from a stab wound in his leg, so that left just Leo and Raph against the thirty or so Purple Dragons.

"Donny get him to the battle shell!" Shouted Leo after he downed three Dragons at once. Donny nodded and lifted Mikey over his shoulder and carried him the the armored car. Inside he raced to where he kept the first aide and grabbed whatever he could to stem the flow of blood coming from the stab wound, there was a small cut on his fore head where the Dragon he knocked him out after stabbing him but Donny decided he didn't have time to deal with that now, and the constant banging from outside was not helping his concentration. Outside Leo and Raph were fighting for their lives and it didn't look like the gang were letting up any time soon.

"RAPH!" Leo shouted as he noticed Dragon aiming a gun for his brother's head, Raph turned but before either could do anything about the dragon a figure in red swooped down and body checked the guy into the wall, the figure flipped back and caught the gun in her hand, taking it apart so no one else could use it.

"Uh uh uh, little boys shouldn't play with guns," she took a look at the gang members and noticed that the majority of them had the same or similar tattoos to the guy she'd thrashed earlier that night, she smiled at them, "but I guess your mommy's never told you that though right, so maybe it's time some one showed you why!" She ran towards them taking them down with ease. Leo and Raph looked at each other and then at the girl helping them, she was reasonably short but from the moves she was pulling off she'd been studying the martial arts for a long time. The two brothers came to their senses and joined the battle and it wasn't long before the majority of the dragons were down and the rest were running away.

"Uh, thanks lady," Raph said as he approached her, she turned and he was awe struck, she wore a figure hugging leather look outfit that was strapless and a belt from which hung a few accessories like a bola and a couple of sais which were strapped to her thighs, the top half of her face was covered with a mask that disguised her well and the whole outfit was a dark blood colored red. He gulped and turned a shade similar to that of his mask.

"Yes thanks for the assist miss. .. uh?" Leo jumped in before Raph could embarrass himself.

"They call me the Cat, and you're welcome." she smiled, "So are you the local crime fighters or something or what?"

"We're the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," Leonardo added proudly, "we have a sort of history of fighting those guys, . . oh man, Mikey!" Leo spun round and ran to the battle shell yelling to Donny to let him in, Raph wasn't far behind and Cat followed them, "Donny?!"

"He's all right guys," Donny said as he finished making his brother comfortable, "the leg wound wasn't all that bad, he's only unconscious cause of the blow to the head." There was an audible sigh of relief from Raph and Leo at that and then Donny looked at Cat questioningly.

"Oh Donny this is Cat, she helped us," Cat nodded her head as a greeting and then a small beeping could be heard coming from her wrist, she raised it and glanced at what looked like a watch.

"Nice to meet you guys and I'm glad you're brother's okay but I've got to go," she took a step back and waved, "see you around boys." She leapt onto the nearest fire escape, climbed to the roof tops and then she was gone.

"Wow, she was amazing," said Leo looking out at the sky line in the direction she headed, "and what a fighter!"

"What a babe!" Raph said out loud without meaning to and then regretted it when his two conscious brothers teased him and Mikey joining them later on.

At the top of the Robert's industries building and figure swung into the penthouse apartment and took off her mask letting her features show.

"Good night, Miss Nikki?" Wally her Chauffeur asked as he brought a tray of food to the table. He was a kind black man in his late thirties and loved Nikki like she was his own daughter and his real daughter loved her like a sister so when Nikki had asked to move back to the big apple the single father had been more than happy to accompany the talented red head and he was truly indebted to the Robert's as well for paying for his daughter to go to St. Mary's one of the best private schools for the gifted in New York, it had been unexpected but he knew that his little Tia was really smart and had talked about getting a scholarship to the place with her scientific and technological knowledge since she was ten.

"Yeah Wally, I don't think I'm going to have to worry about New York not being as interesting as LA anymore," She sat down and started to eat the food he'd prepared for her, "any news as to when Lilly's tour finishes?"

"No but you'd better finish this and go to bed cause if you and Tia don't ace that test tomorrow, you're folks'll want you to move back with them in LA."

"I know Wally, don't sweat it, by the way, if a green guy is sneaking around here with a red bandana then give him that," she pointed to an envelope on the side table, "His name's Raphael and I want him to come to my fancy dress party."

"Sure Nikki."

"Thanks Wally," she picked up her now empty plates and put them in the dishwasher and walked to her bedroom door, "Goodnight Wally."

More to come soon I hope you like this one too, thanks soooo much for the reviews I really wasn't sure how good it was anywho I'll try to keep writing but I'm in a musical at the mo so they may be a little few and far between. Toodles, Angel.