A/N: Wow, I got a lot of reviews for these two chapters! Thanks guys! And I know I haven't answered your reviews for a while…so I'll do that right now!

Pacphys: Yep, Jared's Foot, and no, I don't like them very much either.

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SaphireCat: Well, who wouldn't be freaked if blood got splattered all over them? And how could it be worse….(evil grin)

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Pretender Fanatic: Nope, don't watch it. In fact, I've never even heard of it! Is it a TV show? And sorry, but I had to be mean. Conflict, don't ya know.

All right, that's done. And you guys are lucky I just got pelted by a snowstorm, or you wouldn't be getting this chapter this fast.

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Jared led Lona out of the sewers – or rather, pulled her – just as Miss Parker was coming out of the shop.

"Sorry that took so long, dear, I was just…" her eyes rested on Lona. "Oh my, what happened to you?" she asked, just now noticing that Lona was completely covered in sewer water and blood, none of it hers.

"She got in a little fight," Jared spoke up, earning a dirty look from Lona. "I brought her back here for you."

"Thank you kindly, Jared," Miss Parker said, smiling warmly at him.

Lona looked back and forth between the two. "Wait a minute…you know her? You know him?" She crossed her arms. "Well that makes sense." She grouched.

"Well dear, I can't have you looking like that when I bring you to your foster mother. We'll have to go back to the apartment. Come on."

Miss Parker placed her hands on Lona's shoulders and began steering her away. "Oh, and I will see you later, Jared," Miss Parker said, Jared nodding in confirmation.

Lona frowned. There was something going on here that she didn't know about, and she didn't like it. But Mikey and his brothers were her first priority. She sighed. Just as soon as she escaped from this foster person's house.

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Mikey opened his eyes slowly. He felt like he had been pounded by a train five times over. He groaned, and sat up a little too fast. Mikey quickly turned and emptied his stomach into a corner. Unfortunately, the corner was occupied.

"Oh, gross, Mikey!" Leo said, wiping his little brother's vomit off his plastron.

Mikey smiled weakly. "Sorry," he said. "Couldn't help it." He blinked, and realized he couldn't see much, except Leo right in front of him, and two dark shapes on the ground which he assumed were Raph and Don.

"Leo…where are we?"

"I don't know, Mikey. But since it was Foot that attacked us, I have a feeling we're in Foot headquarters."

Mikey smiled. "Oh, that's good then."

Leo looked at him like he was crazy. "How do you figure?"

Mike traced a finger on the cement floor. "Well, we already know the architecture. So…when we escape, we can get out easier."

"Yeah…" Leo said, not wanting to shoot his brother down by letting him know the chances of escaping weren't that great.

"At least Lona got away," Mikey said.

Leo sighed. "Mikey, don't you think she's the one who led them to us in the first place? She was using you."

"No she wasn't!" Mikey said forcefully. "She may have led them down there, but not on purpose! She could never…" Mikey trailed off. He was going to say that Lona could never hurt them on purpose, but she had hurt him, hadn't she?

"She's bad news," came a voice from the floor. Mikey looked across the room. The dark shape that was Raph was sitting up slowly.

"Raph…" Leo started.

"Don't wanna hear it, Leo," Raph said, holding his head. "Damn, how hard did they hit us?"

Mikey smiled. "Pretty hard."

The three conscious turtles all looked up as the sound of footsteps approached.

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Lona stepped out of the shower and pulled her clothes on. She stared into the mirror. She no longer had blood or dirt on her, but she still didn't look very happy. Well why should I? She told herself, viciously tugging a brush through her hair. I don't have any reason to be happy.

There was a knock at the door, and Lona looked up. "Hurry up now, we don't want to be late!" Miss Parker's voice floated in from the other side.

Lona almost smiled. At least she didn't call me dear.

Lona pulled open the door, letting the steam rush out of the bathroom.

"Now, I believe you will behave yourself," Miss Parker said, as they piled into her car. "Or else."

Lona turned to stare at her. "Do you learn to threaten people in social worker school, Miss Parker?" she asked sweetly.

Miss Parker scowled, which surprised Lona. So far she had only seen the sickeningly fake sweet side of the social worker.

"Listen," Miss Parker said. "You have been causing me way too much trouble. I can't wait to get rid of you and dump you in foster care. But one good thing did come out of you."

Lona kept her eyes on the windshield. "And that is?"

"I'm going to be getting a rather large paycheck soon," Miss Parker growled.

"From me?" Lona asked innocently. "Hate to break it to ya, but I'm broke."

"Not from you personally," Miss Parker said, her hands clenching tighter on the steering wheel. "But those freak friends of yours-"

"They're not freaks," Lona automatically corrected.

"Those freak friends of yours," Miss Parker went on smoothly, "Are going to get me a lot of money. The leader of the gang that boy Jared is in was very interested in them…"

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"A zoo!?" Mikey couldn't believe what he was hearing. "They're gonna send us to a zoo!?"

"Looks that way, Mikey," Don said from his corner. He had been the last one for the drug's effects to wear off.

Hun had come a little while ago and informed them of what was going on. The boy whom Lona had left Mikey for worked for the Foot, and had somehow learned of their location.

The boy – Jared, Mikey remembered his name was – and a social worker named Miss Parker were going to receive one million dollars each from Oroku Saki and from the Bronx Zoo.

"NO!" Raph said, "No way! We're getting outta here!" He began to punch at the door of the cell, not even stopping when his hands were bruised and covered in blood.

"Raph," Don said, getting up and pulling him away from the door. "We can't do anything."

Raph stopped beating on the door and rounded on Mikey. "This is your fault!" he said angrily.

"M-me?" Mikey said, his eyes wide.

"If you hadn't brought home that stupid girl, she woulda never led the Foot straight to us!" Raph pushed Mikey, knocking him onto his butt. "What were you thinking? Huh? Now she's probably leading them to Splinter, and it'll still be ALL YOUR FAULT!"

"Stop it, Raph." Leo said quietly, standing up from his corner, dragging Raph away from Mikey. "Blaming Mikey won't help anybody."

"It's his damn fault…" Raph said, growling and going to sit by himself at the other end of the room.

"Let him cool off," Leo said, putting a hand on Don's shoulder, who was just about to go check on Raph.

Don nodded, and sat back down next to Mikey, who had tears streaming down his face.

"It's okay, Mikey," Leo said, sitting down on the other side of him. "We'll figure something out."

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"They can't go to a zoo!" Lona angrily informed Miss Parker. She couldn't believe what Miss Parker was doing, and she was only doing it for money!

"And why not?" Miss Parker said coolly, turning down a vaguely familiar street. "They're animals."

"No, they're not!" Lona insisted. "Well, they are. But they're not! They're more human than anything!"

Miss Parker shook her head and pulled into a side street next to an apartment building. "We're here," she growled to Lona. "And don't even think of trying anything."

Miss Parker led Lona up the stairs, and to an apartment door. She knocked, and put on her falsely sweet smile again.

"Hello?" A very familiar red head opened the door.

"April!" Lona cried. "You're the foster parent?"

"You're the foster kid?" April was just as surprised.

Miss Parker looked between the two, then shrugged. "Well, I have very important things to do, concerning some financial matters," Miss Parker said, looking directly at Lona. "So I'll be going."

"Thank you!" April called after her. Lona quickly shut and locked the door.

"April, thank god! I need your help!"

"I think you need to explain something to me first," April said, her hands on her hips. "How did you come to be my foster child? Is everything okay with the guys?"

"That's what I need your help with!" Lona begged, pulling April to the couch and telling her all that had happened. When she was done, April's eyes were wide, and she picked up the phone.

"What are you doing?" Lona asked.

"Calling Splinter," April said. "He needs to know."

Lona nodded, and when April was done with her phone call, she led Lona to the kitchen table. "Okay," she said. "Here's what we're gonna do."

-

When Hun and a few Foot Elite came to take the four turtles to their transport, Raph still hadn't forgiven Mikey and was still cooling off.

Leo, Mike and Don were silent as handcuffs were placed on them. But when Hun got to Raph, he retaliated.

As soon as Hun touched him, Raph flew into a crouch and kicked out, knocking Hun down. He leapt on top of him, systematically beating his face in.

Hun pushed Raph off him, and punched him in the head, knocking him out. The Foot Elite placed handcuffs on Raph as well, and dragged him out of the cell, as the three remaining brothers looked on in worry. They didn't want to be separated right now.

Leo, Don and Mike were forced into the back of a van, and were relieved to have Raph thrown in with them as well.

"Is he okay?" Mikey asked Don, who was having trouble seeing if Raph was all right with his hands fastened behind his shell.

"He should be," Don said, then fell back onto his shell as the van made a sharp turn.

"You'd think they'd put seatbelts in here," Mikey commented.

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"April, do you really think this is going to work?" Lona asked.

"It has to," April said, biting her lip. "We should look okay."

Lona looked down at herself. She and April had 'borrowed' some veterinarian uniforms to get themselves in.

Lona looked around. "Look!" she said, as a black van bearing the Foot insignia pulled around the bend into the back area of the Bronx zoo.

"Let's go," April said.

Together the girls raced around to the sleep quarters, where animals were taken when they weren't on display during the day.

"Stop!" April said, holding her hand up to the driver of the van. "We have to do our uh….medical checkup on the animals before they can be put on exhibit!"

While April discussed things with the driver, Lona snuck around unnoticed to the back. Flinging the doors open to the van, three green heads looked up at her. Lona smiled.

Suddenly someone grabbed her from behind. "Hey!" Lona said, before her unseen attacker covered her mouth and dragged her into a small building – a store shed, probably.

Lona struggled until they were inside, and the person let go. Spinning around, Lona gasped. It was Jared.

"Just leave me alone!" she shouted at him.

"No," Jared said, scowling. "I would advise you to mind your own business. This is none of your concern."

"Damn right it's my concern!" Lona said.

"Someone shut her up," Jared ordered. Unseen Foot stepped from the shadows, and one of them grabbed Lona and covered her mouth once more.

-

Mikey stared in shock at the open van door. Lona had been standing there a minute ago, only to be dragged off by the familiar blonde boy from her school.

"What was that about?" Leo asked his brothers.

Don shook his head. "I have no idea. I would say a rescue attempt…"

Suddenly April, her hands bound behind her, was thrown into the back of the van with them.

Don nodded. "Yep. Rescue attempt."

Mikey's eyes were wide as April scrambled to her knees. "April, what's going on? Where's Lona?"

Before April could answer, five Foot soldiers entered the van. Three to guard Don, Leo and Mike, and two to carry Raph.

April got to her feet just as the turtles were marched out of the van, and the doors were shut in her face, the locks clicking.

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Inside the shed, Lona struggled against her own bonds. Jared had tied her, then left her there, saying he had his own matters to attend to.

Struggling, Lona realized she could reach her pocket. Reaching in, she withdrew the shuriken Leo had given her, and began to slice the ropes.

Fifteen minutes later, Lona pushed the ropes off her and stood up, peeling off the tape that covered her mouth.

Returning the shuriken to her pocket, Lona felt something else, and smiled.

Pulling the green bandanna Mikey had given her out of her pocket, she quickly tied it around her eyes. She wished she had her bo staff, but she didn't. She would just have to rely on Mikey's hand to hand combat training.

Lona took off her 'borrowed' vet uniform. She wouldn't need it anyway.

Running to the night enclosure of the reptile house, Lona carefully hid in a corner as a few Foot passed by. When they were gone, Lona looked through a glass viewing window and smiled to herself.

She could see Mikey and his brothers. They were being held in a night enclosure, which was basically a big empty room.

Looking around for a way to get in, Lona soon found one, and the smile left her face.

The only way to get in unnoticed would be to go through the vents. And they were high.

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A/N: Dun dun DUN! Interesting conundrum we've got here, eh?