Disclaimer: The ninja turtles are not mine. Lona, Jared, and Miss Parker are mine. You guys can do whatever you want with Jared and Miss Parker, those evil sons of…yeah, anyway, you can't have Lona. She's MINE!!

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Mikey stared at the ceiling above his bed. The blank grey of the sewers was beginning to hurt his eyes. He wondered briefly if Master Splinter would let him paint the ceiling. He sighed, and wondered if he should get up. He had heard his brothers up and around ages ago. Mikey just didn't feel like it.

Mike groaned and rolled over on his side. On the other hand, sulking and staring at the ceiling was beginning to be a bit boring. He looked down as his stomach growled. He might as well get up. He was hungry.

Raphael looked up from his breakfast as Mikey wandered in, looking a little lost.

"Mornin,'" Raph greeted his little brother cautiously. Mikey had informed Leo of the current situation the night before, who in turn had informed his brothers. Raph felt as if he was walking on eggshells. "Ya want somethin' ta eat?"

Mikey blinked and looked at Raph as if he hadn't realized he was sitting there. "Huh? Oh…yeah…sure." Mikey sat down, then said, "Thanks," almost as an afterthought, as Raph got something for him to eat.

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In Miss Parker's apartment, Lona was having similar debates with herself. She lay in bed, her arms under her head, thinking about what she had said to Mikey only the day before. She sighed. It seemed like ages ago.

"Good morning!" Miss Parker's falsely cheery voice interrupted Lona's thoughts. "Are you going to join me for breakfast?"

A ghost of a smile crossed Lona's features as she imagined herself throwing the entire breakfast into Miss Parker's smiling face. Or maybe shoving it down her throat.

"Sure," Lona said, heaving herself out of the rather uncomfortable and lumpy pullout bed.

Sitting down at the table, Lona rested her chin on her arms and didn't say a word, just as she had done with Leo her first real day in the lair.

A pang of sadness washed through her as she thought of the turtles. She couldn't help but wonder if Mikey had told them….and if they hated her now. She sighed and scratched at a mark on the table. Not that she would blame them if they did.

"Here we go!" Miss Parker said, setting chocolate chip pancakes in front of Lona.

"Oh," Lona said, more out of surprise than anything else. After how she had acted yesterday, she wasn't expecting this special treat.

"What do you do on Saturdays?" Miss Parker asked, sounding like a washed up cheerleader and making Lona wince as she picked at her pancakes.

"Well, me and Mi- I mean, me and my friend used to hang out, wander around the city. After Saturday morning cartoons of course."

Miss Parker's stupid smile seemed to tighten. "Ah yes. Well, I would be happy to take you around the city today before I take you to your new home. But I don't believe in television. It gives violent ideas to teenagers such as yourself."

"Uh…yeah…" Lona said, fingering the shuriken in her pocket Leonardo had given her. "Violent."

Collecting Lona's plate and rising. "How about we go shopping? Bloomingdale's maybe?"

'What is with all these people wanting to take me shopping?' Lona thought. Instead she forced a smile so her own looked a lot like Miss Parker's. "I'd love to."

-

Mikey groaned as he was thrown into the wall for the third time.

"Your focus is slipping, Mike," Leo informed him, receiving a rather nasty glare from his brother.

"Chill, Leo," Raph said, as Don moved to help Mikey up. "The dude just needs some time."

"He needs to still stay focused," Leo said, although it hurt him to say it. "He's a ninja. No matter what happens, we keep going."

"Leo, chill!" Raph said again.

Don pulled Mikey to his feet. "Stop guys," Mike said, almost so quiet they couldn't hear him. "Just...don't worry about it. Sorry I lost focus Leo. I…have to go." Mike pushed past Don and left the lair.

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Lona squinted in the sun as she and Miss Parker walked down the busy sidewalk. She reached in her jacket pocket for her sunglasses and felt a piece of material instead. She blanched. Lona knew what it was; the bandanna Mikey and Don had presented her with not even a week ago.

Lona bit her lip to keep from crying, and blinked away a few tears that were threatening to fall to the ground.

"Oh, do you mind if I go in here, dear?" Miss Parker asked, pointing to a women's boutique. "I'll just be a second."

Lona nodded, and took a seat on a nearby bench. Looking around, she noticed something that made her smile for real. A manhole.

She looked around to make sure Miss Parker wasn't coming, then ran into the alley. Quickly she heaved up the cover, and slid inside.

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Jared ambled along 3rd and 5th, and noticed a familiar slim girl get up from a bench and run into an alley. Looking closer, Jared smiled. "If she thinks she can mess with us, she's wrong," Jared muttered to no one in particular, hitting the speed dial on his cell.

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Mikey miserably kicked at a can that had been washed up onto the walkway in the sewer. He didn't feel like going topside, there were too many things that reminded him…

Mikey groaned. Lona hadn't even given him a real reason. If she didn't like mutants so much, she could have told him.

Soon his sharp ninja hearing picked up the sound of footsteps coming through the sewer- human footsteps.

Lona splashed through the sewers, a little apprehensive at seeing Mikey again. What she had done had been for his safety, but Mikey didn't know that.

Lona slowed, and the feeling of being watched came over her. "Hello?" she called, probably not the smartest thing to do.

Suddenly something grabbed her from behind. Lona's common sense went on vacation, and her survival instincts kicked in. She stomped on her assailant's foot, and spun around as soon as she let go.

"Mikey!?"

Mikey was the one who had grabbed her. "Oh god Mikey, I'm so sorry…" She didn't just mean the foot stomping. Lona was sorry for everything.

"Looks like I taught you good," Mikey said, trying to smile.

"Yeah…" Lona said, everything she had wanted to say leaving her mind.

"Lona, I-"

Mikey was cut off by the sudden noise of people splashing through the tunnels. A lot of people.

Mikey's hands went to his sides and slowly drew his nunchucks. "Lona." He said simply. "Run."

Lona hesitated. She didn't want to leave Mikey alone. "RUN!" Mikey said firmly.

Lona ran to the only place she could think of. The lair.

-

Leo paced around the living room, occasionally glancing at the clock.

"Leo, that clock isn't going anywhere," Don said, a little irritated.

"I'm just worried about Mikey," Leo said, looking over his shoulder at the clock again.

"You're always worried about somethin,'" Raph commented from where he was balancing a sai on its tip in the corner.

"I'm sure he's fine, Leo," Don said, laying a hand on Leo's shoulder.

All three turtles glanced up hopefully as the hidden door to the lair swung open. But instead of their brother, it was Lona.

Lona immediately found herself against the wall with a sai at her throat. "Ya got a lotta nerve comin' back here," Raph growled.

Lona looked desperately to Don and Leo, but they made no move to help, only stood with their arms crossed.

"Mikey's….in trouble!" Lona gasped. The sai was removed from her throat, and the three older siblings looked suspicious.

"Could be a trap." Don said.

"We have to take that risk," Leo said, his katana already unsheathed. "If Mikey's in trouble. Now come on." He ran out the door, Raph and Don not far behind.

Lona went to follow them, then hesitated. Quickly she turned and ran the other way, to her bedroom.

Entering the room, Lona found what she was looking for. She smiled as she picked up her bo. Holding the weapon in her hands, she ran at full speed out of the lair and towards the battle.

-

Sweat dripped down Mikey's forehead and stung his eyes as he wrapped his nunchucks around the blade of a Foot ninja, tossing him over his hip.

He breathed heavily as yet another ninja took the other's place. Before Mikey could even lift his 'chucks, his opponent's eyes rolled into the back of his head, and he slumped forward. Mikey caught him, and saw Leo standing there. Mike grinned. "Thanks."

"No problem," Leo said, moving so he was shell to shell with Mikey, making it harder for the Foot to attack.

"They're really close to our lair," Raph whispered to Donnie, as they too moved to the shell to shell position.

"I know." Don said grimly. "So we can't let them find it." He swung his own bo across and down on a ninja's head with a sickening crack.

-

Running at top speed, Lona finally found the battle scene where she had left Mikey.

She jumped backwards quickly as a ninja rushed at her. Closing her eyes, she swung her bo. She felt it connect, and a ninja dropped unconscious at her feet. Lona wanted to throw up, but couldn't. There wasn't time.

She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, then jumped into the middle of the battle.

"How did they find us?" Mikey asked through clenched teeth, as he and Leo circled around, dispatching even more Foot.

"I don't know," Leo shouted, neatly decapitating a soldier. "Though I'm guessing it has to do with her." He nodded towards Lona, who didn't seem to be having much trouble with the three ninjas trying to attack her.

Mikey frowned and systematically disposed of the enemy, not even thinking anymore. Lona couldn't have led the Foot down here knowingly. Could she?

Lona quickly looked over the ninjas she had knocked out, satisfied. Suddenly she screamed as Leo's katana drove right through a ninja's chest, spattering her with warm blood.

She blinked, and clenched her teeth. She was not going to play damsel in distress this time. Mikey was too good a teacher for that.

She knelt, and swinging her bo in a full circle, easily knocked a few Foot off their feet.

Lona's eyes widened as she noticed a Foot ninja raise something in the background- a tranquilizer gun.

Looking around, Lona noticed there were four of them, one for each turtle, who were each currently too busy fighting to notice. "MIKEY!" she yelled, but she was too late.

Mikey only had time for his eyes to widen before the tranquilizer hit him in the neck. He and his brothers dropped to the ground at the same time, as Lona looked on in horror.

"No!" she gasped, as the Foot soldier who seemed to be the leader approached her. Lona's hands trembled so much, she dropped her bo into the ice cold sewer water.

The Foot member who had approached her slowly reached up and removed his mask. It was Jared.

Lona gasped angrily. "You lied to me!" she said, frantically glancing to where she had dropped her bo.

As the remaining Foot began to restrain and carry the turtles off somewhere, Lona tried to run to them, only to be blocked by Jared.

"Still think you can save them?" he sneered, as the last Foot carrying Mikey disappeared.

A/N: Not getting better yet...but it will. Promise. Review if you would like.