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Chapter 2: Leonardo to the rescue!

Someday I'll be able to come up here solely to meditate, without having to worry about the foot clan. Leonardo thought as he jumped across the rooftops on his nightly patrol of the city. His brothers were also out on patrol in different parts of the city, though. If any one of them needed the other three, they had their shell cells for emergencies like that. However, Leo longed for the day when the foot clan would be no more and he come up to the rooftops to relax. As he was about to leap across another rooftop, he heard some voices coming from the alley down below.

"That's far enough, girly," A man said.

"Oh is that so?" A girl's voice replied. She didn't sound any older than twenty, but her voice was absolutely beautiful. At least Leo thought so. He bent down to get a closer look at what was going on. There he saw about five foot clan members standing across from a young woman, who was standing next to the fence. She was trapped. Leo's mouth dropped in awe as he took in this girl's beauty. Her hair was a dark reddish brown, like the color of cherrywood, it was long and straight, almost flowing down to her elbows. She had to be about only 5'2" or so and pretty slender by the looks of it. She had on a pair of faded, dark-blue jeans and a lavendar halter top. Over that, she had on a very thin, white hooded sweater, that wasn't zipped up.

"Just give us the disks, and we'll leave you alone," The foot member said as he stepped closer to the girl. Disks? What does the foot clan want with some disks? And more importantly what is on these disks and why is she involved in this? Leo thought as he first heard about the disks.

"Disks? I don't know what you're talking about," She answered, giving the guy a cold, icy stare. The man suddenly grabbed her neck and pinned her against the fence.

"Don't play games with me. You know damn well, what I'm referring to. I'll have you know, that I have orders to kill you," He seethed.

"Kill me and you'll never find them," She coldly replied. Losing his temper, the foot member punched her cheek, causing her to fall to the ground.

"There is no reason to keep you alive," He replied, then gave the order to the other members to move in.

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"Are you ready to order, sir?" A woman, chewing bubble gum, asked what she thought was a heavy-set man in a trench coat and hat.

"Yes, I'll take three pizzas. One pepperoni, one supreme, and one cheese. Oh and absolutely, I mean no, anchivoes, whatsover. If I find anchivoes, I'm going to come back here to demand a full refund," Michealanglo said. He knew he should be out patroling, and Leo, not to mention Splinter, would have his shell once they learned what he had been doing instead. But he couldn't help it. How was he supposed to go out taking down foot clan members on an empty stomach? He figured the others would be hungry as well so he had gotten a couple. Plus he hoped that if he brought enough for everyone they couldn't stay mad long.

After waiting for about fifteen minutes, the lady finally spoke those magical words, "Your order's ready," Mikey grabbed the three boxes and headed out the door.

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Damn. You'd think there'd be a little more action in this part, but noo. Where are those foot anyway? Raphael thought as he walked the streets looking for the foot, or at least some street punk to take down. But there was no one. The streets were empty and dark. Raph kicked at some garbage by his feet. He was getting restless. He loved a good fight or two and was itching for one, but looked as if he wouldn't get one tonight.

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Three punks laid unconscious by a couple garbage cans on a back street. No one had noticed the commotion earlier, nor had they seen the big overgrown turtle fighting them. The turtle smiled as he walked away. Ah, all in a day's -- opps. I think it would be all in a night's work. In this case. Donatello thought while he walked to his favorite place, the junkyard. He wasn't really abandoning his patrol, just taking a little detor to gather up some parts he could use. Of course he saw anything amiss on his way, he would be the first to jump in and help.

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Time to intervene now. Leo thought as he jumped down, landing between the first foot member and the girl, who was still on the ground.

"Hey you're one of them freaks!" One of the other foot members cried out.

"Change of plans. We elimnate this freak first, then the girl," The first guy instructed. They wasted no time in advancing on Leo, however the turtle was able to effortlessly avoid all their moves. After a few minutes he took down each of them without even having to take out his swords. Once they were down and out, he turned his attention to the girl. She just sat there, staring at him. He could tell that she was frigtened, but no sound came out of her.

"It's alright. I won't hurt you," Leo calmly said as he knelt down. The girl continued to stare, refusing to utter a single word.

"My name's Leonardo. What's yours?" He asked. She glanced around before rising to her feet. Giving Leo one last look, she attempted to run past him, but he was too quick for her.

"Let me go!" She screamed as she furiously thrashed around in his arms.

"Just calm down! Okay? I'm not going to hurt you, but I can't let you go either," He replied. How could he if the foot clan were after her and wanted her dead? She had been lucky tonight but may not be so lucky tomorrow.

"Aghh! Go away and leave me alone, you hear!" She yelled again, trying even harder to escape from Leo.

"Do you have any idea who those men were?" He asked. Leo guessed that she didn't really know what she was involved in so she also hadn't realized that she was a dead woman walking if he and his family didn't help her.

"They're crazy bastards that's who!" She replied, finally answering him.

"Okay yes, but you're apparently wanted dead by them,"

"No kidding," She said as she finally stopped moving around. Not losing his hold on her, Leo said, "And if that's what they want, they won't stop coming after you. You won't be safe anywhere. My family and I can protect you, but for that you need to trust me," She remained silent for a few moments as if taking everything in before finally agreeing.

"Thank you. Now do you have a name, or shall I simply call you girl?"

"Megan. My name's Megan Collins," She answered.