Okay, this is a really long chapter, but I wanted to get it all done in one swoop. It's mainly Renee. Why? Because I thought it important to know her back-story, so that's what this chapter mainly is. Besides, I like making back-stories for my characters. It's fun! So here we go. This should answer any questions about Renee. Don't forget, I want your input, so review at the end. For now, on with the story.

Yea! I got my chocolate bunny back! (Sits it down) All I own is Renee. And my chocolate- Hey! Who took it this time? Mikey! (sounds dangerously like Raph) Don't get between my and my food! Especially chocolate! (runs and chases Mikey down for her chocolate bunny) GIMME! (author flies towards Mikey as if to tackle him and an Oof! Is heard) Yo! Whoever's narrating this thing, tell 'em to go on with the story. This could take a while. (All right. Please continue to read, and don't bother me. I may not exist, but I want to watch this fight. It could get interesting)

Chapter 6: Renee's Story

Renee sat back and started to talk. "I don't know why I am what I am. I don't even know who my real parents are. As far as I'm concerned, I grew up on a farm. But my parents told me about how I came to them.

"See, my parents are both from Alabama. They had met in medical school and married a year or so later. Shortly after they got married, my dad decided to join the Army and be in the Nurse Core. He was attached to a division at their first assignment, which meant that if they were sent out somewhere, so was he.

"One day, his division was sent out. There was a man that was doing illegal experiments of some kind. The government had been after him for a while, but couldn't seem to locate where his base was. Now they had.

"The actual soldiers went in first. It was Pa's job to hang back, go in when it was clear and tend to the wounded, just like all the other medical personal that were there. It was expected to be pretty bad, for there to be guards and traps and firefights and stuff. But there was actually very little resistance. They found the guy locked in a closet not far in. He had apparently locked himself in when whoever was funding him abandoned him. Without that funding, the guards left him, and, besides his test subjects, so did everyone else. The researchers, the staff, everyone. They never did find out who had funded him, but it was obvious that they had access to some pretty high up stuff. Stuff that the government didn't even know existed. Or, if they did, they wouldn't admit it. Papa always said that some of the stuff looked extraterrestrial in origin, and that there was a rumor that some shady, yet untouchable character that worked for the government funded this guy, but there wasn't any proof for that rumor.

"Anyway, after the guy had told them that there weren't any traps, and it had been confirmed, everyone was sent in to explore the base. It extended pretty far. Pa always said that there was some stuff that he couldn't describe simply because it was so bizarre... but that was just the fun stuff. The stuff that was neat to look at.

"They kept traveling on down into the base. As they got farther, they began to see animals that he had experimented on. Some of those animals had been tortured, some were dead, some were alive, but all had been altered. Many were being or had been dissected, probably to study the alterations. At any rate, he said it wasn't pretty, and he never really talked much about it.

"But he did say that the next section they got to was worse, and that many of the soldiers lost their lunch then and there. He's not sure how he managed to keep his lunch, but figured that it was only by the grace of God. He says the only reason that he'll talk about this place is because of me. The room had humans that had been experimented on. They called the commander of the operation, and he came down. When he got there, Pa says he turned a wonderful shade of green.

"But they still had to find out what was down there. The commander asked for volunteers that could handle what was in the room to go on and find out what else was down there. He warned them that it would get worse. Pa still doesn't know what made him volunteer, but he did. He said that while that first room was horrible, the next few were worse. He never did really tell me what it was, but I have impressions that there were some dissected humans, and some humans that had been so altered, that you were glad they were dead.

"Soon they reached a room where there were live people. Some had been altered a little, while some had been altered so much that they had gone mad. Many of the lucid ones were scared, but some cried out for help. One of the soldiers moved to undo the locks, but one of the prisoners stopped him.

" 'Don't' he said. 'Some of us have been exposed to deadly viruses. If you let us out now, you could be dooming the world.' Pa says that the man was ravaged with coughs and pain for a moment, and he wished there was something that he could do. The man took several deep breaths, and then continued speaking, even though his voice was now raw 'Farther on in, there should be others that are okay. They won't be in enclosed cages. They will be strapped to tables, or in something with obvious leaks, but it will not be sealed airtight.'

"Pa and the rest of the soldier thanked the man and steeled themselves against opening any of the cages. They walked on, and found that the farther in they got, the more lucid the people seemed. They also noticed that they seemed to get younger and younger. Eventually the people around them were teenagers. They were unconscious, due to some sort of gas that was running into them, but an odd sound was heard coming from the next room. These teenagers seemed safe, and the bad guy's own records confirmed that they were not carrying anything deadly and most of them had not been heavily experimented on, so the soldiers set about freeing them.

"But Pa and one soldier went into the next room to see about the noise. It was coming from a small bin that had a source of heat coming down on it, and a blanket in it. There were a lot of them, but sound was only coming from one of them. Pa recognized what they were immediately and lowered his gun. 'They're incubators.' He told the soldier that was with him, 'The kind we use for babies in the hospitals.' He and the soldier moved closer and looked them. All save for one was empty.

"Papa says there was an instant connection when he looked into the incubator and saw me. He says that I was lying there, maybe four months old with my ears and tail out. He says I had little claws and some sharp teeth. He says that I was crying and that it was somewhere between a human baby's cry and a kitten's mewling. He also says that he never saw anything more beautiful in his life.

"He picked me up, and looked at me. He automatically tried to comfort me and, after a few minutes, I calmed down. He took me back into the other room where most of the teenagers were now awake and moving about. They led everyone out of there, and promised the people that were still trapped that they would bring help. Pa says that I slept for most of the way out, and that the teenagers didn't even flinch when they were taken through that first room. They must have seen some horrible stuff before to not even flinch at the horrors.

"They had to stay around for a few days while experts were brought in to see about the people who had been trapped in there. I went first, and then the teenagers. We checked out okay enough that they had to figure out what to do with us. The teenagers they would put up somewhere. They could take care of themselves. I was more of a problem. I couldn't take care of myself. Papa offered to take me home with him and he and Mama could take care of me. It seemed like a reasonable idea, so they agreed. I went home with him.

"Over the next few months, I grew quit attached to them, and they grew attached to me. It was during this time that they discovered that I could hide my feline features, and had powers. It took some getting used to, but they were patient people, and eventually taught me that I couldn't just release all my powers. We really bonded during those few months.

"It was short lived though. One day some people came to talk to my parents. Something had to be done with me, although they weren't sure what. They said there were basically two choices. I could go with them and probably grow up and live out my days in a lab, well taken care of, but with no hope for a normal life, or they could adopt me. There was a catch though. If they adopted me, they wanted my dad to retire from the Army so that there wouldn't be as great a chance of me being discovered. My parents had been talking about adopting me anyways, and they loved me so that it didn't make a difference to them if Pa was going to have to leave the Army or not. So that's what they told the people.

"The government helped my parents set up a house on some land that my Papa's dad, my Granddaddy, had deeded him. Pa had grown up on a farm, and Ma knew a lot about it as well, so that's what they decided to do. They would turn the land into a farm. Pa also worked part-time at a local clinic, so that made sure we had plenty of money. Also, the government paid them a little bit each year as compensation for him retiring and taking care of me.

"I grew up and had a relatively normal life. Every so often, someone would come out and check on me, but I was doing well. I went to public school, had sleepovers and went to the movies. I helped work the farm too. I had my chores to do, mostly with the animals because of my abilities. Most of my family knew about me, so I didn't have to worry about that. In fact, my cousin Kit-ironic, I know. Her real name's Kathryn, but she's been called Kitty or Kit since she was born. She's about three years older than me. Anyways, she and I got into quite a bit of trouble with our wild ideas and planning. She came over every summer and stayed with us. She didn't seem to care what I was, and brought me back once when I lost control. I had a great life.

"But Pa and Ma were worried that whoever had funded that experiment place would came back for me. So from as early age, I was taught about guns. I was curious anyways. They were always around the house, and in the cars-"

"Wait a minute." Raph interrupted. "There were guns laying around the house when you were a kid. Where you could easily get them"

Renee frowned "Well, yes."

"But wasn't that dangerous?" Leo asked. "Guns can kill, very easily. You were just a kid."

Renee looked at them. "When ya'll were kids, you knew where the weapons were, right?"

"Yeah" they responded.

"And you could easily get to them, right?"

"Yeah."

"But you knew you weren't supposed to touch them, so you didn't, right?"

Raph and Leo exchanged a glance. "Yeah." They said a little slowly. Master Splinter raised an eyebrow at this, but let it go. For now. Donny and Mikey smirked.

Renee ignored all that and continued. "And you knew if you wanted to look at them, handle them, or learn how to use them, that your father would help you, right?"

"What's yer point?" Raph asked

"Only this." Renee said. "All of ya'll's weapons can kill, and your father knew that. Yet he did not hide them from you as children. In fact, I'm willing to bet that he made it clear to you that one day ya'll'd be handling those weapons, and that if you wanted to learn more he would teach ya. They were never taboo, only restricted access. He knew that ya'll wouldn't touch them without him because of the way he had raised you. Even though those weapons were potential lethal, he was trained in them, and so trained you. He had a proper respect for the weapons and drilled that into all of you. It was the same way with the guns at my house. My parents both knew how to handle them, and had a proper respect for them, and instilled that in me from a very young age. The way my parents handled the guns at my house was no different than the way Master Splinter there handled ya'll's weapons."

"I hadn't thought of it that way before." Donny said

"Me neither." Said Leo.

"I believe Miss Finrir has brought up a point that we will discuss at a later date. As for now, I believe we need to hear the rest of her story." Splinter said.

Renee smiled. "I'm off my soapbox for the day. Now on with the story. So I was taught how to handle guns fairly early on. Thanks to my feline genes, I had great aim, and could see better and farther than my parents, so I got pretty good at it. I would also go out once a day, and practice a little with my powers. I always made sure I was far enough away that it nobody would see me. I had learned to contain my powers a long time ago, but now I was trying to actually control them, use them.

"See, I have a whole plethora of abilities. Telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation, psychometry- the reading of objects. Not many people no that one- force fields, phasing, clairvoyance, sometimes I have the ability to see either the future or the past, invisibility, mind control, the healing factor, on myself and sometimes on others, the ability to understand all human languages, and to get the general meaning of what animals, especially cats are trying to communicate along with communicating to them what I want, at times enhanced strength, and sometimes I can pull energy directly from my body and release it in a beam of sorts. The one thing I don't have is invulnerability, although if I could control my healing abilities, it would be really close. Plus I have my feline attributes, which mean that my sense of smell, sight and hearing are increased, along with my balance.

"Anyways, I went out and tried to control them, but it didn't work so well. The more I learned about my powers, the more they would come out when I didn't want them to. It was like to learn to control my powers, I had to let go of the little control I had over them. To so meant that people would discover me, and that meant I might be taken away from my parents. I wasn't about to risk that, so I stayed satisfied with suppressing them. I promised myself that one day I would master my powers, even if it meant I had to go all the way to Pluto or something.

"Well, life went on, and I grew up some more, and before I knew it, and especially before my parents knew it, I was entering my senior year in high school. My parents decided that they would try to make one of the things I wanted more than anything happen for me that year. But to make it happen, I ended up with two wishes granted.

"A few years before this, Kit had stopped coming over during the summer. She's super smart, and so was attending colleges and everything that she could as soon as she could, so it was taking up all of her time. For some reason, her parents, which really hadn't been much of parents, decided that she needed to do this. I really missed her. Then, the summer before my senior year, her parents died, and since she was 21, she inherited everything, including a huge company, which meant that she was filthy rich, and completely busy. With the switchover to her, she couldn't come over. I didn't even think that she was going to make it for my graduation.

"But on graduation night, she was there, which thrilled me to no end! I thought this was the surprise that my parents had gotten me, but it wasn't. They were letting me and Kit go any where in the world we wanted for the entire summer! I was never more thrilled. Oh, we went to Europe, and Africa, Australia and South America, back to North America, and on to Asia, even Antarctica. The best part was that we could come and go whenever we wanted. Kit was picking up the tab for all of it. She wouldn't take no for an answer and said that since she could do this, she was going to. After all, it was her money. I can't tell you how many times we crossed the globe, and how much fun we had.

"Somehow, though, we had never made it to Japan. Summer was about half over, and we wanted to visit it then, so that if we wanted to we could come back before summer was over. Unfortunately, it didn't go as planned.

"We were having a grande ole time, but then Kit's job finally caught up with her, and it was something so big that she couldn't ignore it. Some sort of emergency. Anyways, she asked me if I wanted to come along, or if I needed a ride or something. I told her nah, that I'd just walk along, it was a nice night, and some other stuff like that. Well, I was right, it was a nice night and she said she couldn't blame me. So Kit left me there, and I went along.

"As I was walking, however, I heard these weird sounds. I went to investigate, -curiosity killed the cat, right? - and came upon what looked like ninja beating up an old man. I was surprised, first, that they were ninja, and second that they were beating up an old man. I though there was some sort of code on honor. At any rate, either I did something, or they just were that good, but they saw me. When I realized that they were coming after me, I ran, I ran fast, and I ran myself into a corner. They saw that, and I started to climb the wall. I did, but apparently they had called ahead for back up. When I got to the top, more ninja were waiting for me, and they looked about as friendly as their buddies on the ground.

"Some of those ninja took swipes at me, but I managed to avoid them. I ran along the top of the wall, and over some rooftops. Still, they were gaining on me. If I let out my cat genes, I could go faster, but I'd be exposing myself, so I decided I didn't want to do that if at all possible. Unfortunately, they didn't give me a choice. I had been running, and had gotten up on some fairly high rooftops when someone swiped my legs out from under me. As I started to fall, I noticed a figure with this really cool hat on that had appeared out of nowhere, and some distance back, a figure in weird pointy armor. Not that that helped me any right then.

"I fell, and the ground was at least five stories down. At that point my instincts took over, and my cat abilities came out in full force, meaning my ears, tail, everything. Due to my instincts, I twisted my body around and flipped, landing on my feet and landing as lightly as if I had jumped off a three-foot wall. I looked back up and saw the man in the hat's eyes widen as the rest of the ninja caught up to him. Then he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Well, I wasn't stupid, so I kept on running, only this time I was faster and my balance was a little better. I was in full-fledged cat mode. If there had only been a few ninja chasing me, I might have gotten away. But it seemed as if there were hundreds chasing me, and coming form all directions. They attacked me, and I fought them off as best I could. Claws, teeth and cat instincts will get you something. But then they pulled out weapons, and I was forced to take it up a notch. Once again, instincts saved my life. I was pushed down and managed to roll over so that I was on my back, but a sword was coming at me. I threw up my hands, and the sword was blocked by a forcefeild. I was scared, and tried to prepare myself for the next attack, but it never came. Instead, the ninja parted, and the figure in the spiky- armor came up to me. Now I could see that it was a female figure.

"She walked up to me and looked at me. I stayed where I was. Then she did what I didn't expect. She took off her helmet. I looked up at her pale face, dark hair, and dark piercing eyes. 'I am sorry for the trouble that we have cost you.' She said in accented English. 'What you stumbled across was some unfortunate business that was necessary. My soldiers only meant to detain you, not to hurt you. They have orders to detain anyone who accidentally comes across our business so that I can explain what is going on to them. Unfortunately they went to far this time. I apologize for this. Rest assured that they will be punished.'

"I wasn't sure about what she said, but they had stopped attacking me, so I wasn't about to look a gift horse in the mouth. She reached a hand down to help me up and I took it. But because my powers were still near the surface, when I grabbed her hand, I connected with her. I saw into her mind. She would have been fine with them killing me, until she saw my abilities. She wanted to use me to get her father back. I saw her plans for me, I saw memories of her father, and a lot of other things that I couldn't make sense of then. But I did see the suit of armor, I knew that it had been her fathers. What I had seen in her mind was bad, but I didn't know about her father. I twisted my had up and touch the spiked gauntlet she wore." At this point Renee shuddered.

"The impressions I picked up off if it were horrible. I-I can't even describe them. There was such a connection to that gauntlet that not only did I pick up on the events that the gauntlet had been through, but I picked up on the thoughts of the man who had worn it before. When I saw that, I decided I wanted no part of bringing him back. He was practically evil incarnate. 'No!' I screamed and wrenched my hand from her's 'I will not have any part in this!' Her face became hard. 'Then you will die.' She turned and walked away, and as she did so, the ninja came back towards me.

"They started attacking me again. I was upset. I was scared, and what I had seen in her mind and form the gauntlet was fresh in my mind. I decided to let my powers go. I wasn't about to let what she wanted happen. I lashed out, taking out some of the soldiers. Karai turned around, and I felt a mixture of horror, surprise and glee come from her. I lashed out again, but this time I lost control. 'KIT!' I screamed in my mind, reaching out to her. I felt her flinch at the force of my mind 'Rae!' she yelled back 'Rae, hold on, I'm coming! Don't give up! You can gain control!' I felt like my mind itself was slipping away. Kit was the only thing keeping my mind in place. 'I can't! It's too hard! I'm-I'm losing it!' I screamed out. 'NO!'I heard her yell back 'You can do this! Focus, Renee. Focus! You can do it. FOCUS!' I tried, slowly I was gaining control. It was difficult. 'I'll help you.' Kit said. I allowed her calm and rational mind to slip in with mine. With her help, my powers were coming under control. The strain was terrible, but I just managed to do it. I brought them back under control, abruptly cutting them off. I was exhausted, mentally and physically, I staggered a few steps, and heard Kit yell in my mind 'Renee! Your tail and ears! Pull them in quick!' I did like she said, but it used the last bit of my strength, and I collapsed into a pile of debris. The last thing I heard was Kit screaming 'RENEE!' into my mind before I passed out.

"I woke up a few days later in a hospital. I heard voices taking outside the door, and recognized one of them as Kit's. I couldn't understand what she was saying, and I realized that she was speaking Japanese. Then it hit me. I couldn't understand them! I must still be extremely low in energy not to bring in one of the few abilities I use without thinking about it. The door opened and Kit walked in. She looked extremely relieved to see me awake. I asked her what was going on, and she told me. She said that when I had passed out, she was only a few blocks away. She got there and pushed passed the people standing there. Luckily, because she's kinda tall, she didn't have too much trouble seeing over the people standing around. Anyways, she found me and she said that luckily I had managed to pull in my feline attributes. I was passed out a few feet away from the center of the destruction, and had debris on me. She also told me that the authorities wanted to question me about the incident.

"I told her what had happened, and we made up a story, that wasn't necessarily lying, it was just another way of looking on the experience, with some parts left out. They bought it, and as soon as possible Renee got me out of there. We went to a tropical island that I found out later she owned. Her parents were extravagant spenders. Kit isn't but she still keeps most of their stuff. Anyways, I shared through my abilities what I had seen, and Kit bristled. I could have sworn I saw hair standing up on her, even though I was the cat-girl. She told me that her company had dealings with Karai's. If she had known this, she wouldn't have ever made a contract with Karai. At any rate, we spent a couple of weeks on the island, recovering. During this time, I found out what exactly I had done when I released my powers."

At this Renee looked down and seemed to withdrawal into herself slightly. Her voice became very soft. "I had destroyed many block of buildings. Even though they were mostly empty, because the city was going to tear them down and build something new, there were still some people living in them. And there were the ninja on top. Because of what I did, eleven people died. I killed eleven people. I didn't mean to, but that didn't matter. I killed eleven people."

The brothers and Splinter looked at each other. This gentle, kind girl had killed eleven people. No wonder she was so reluctant to use her abilities.

"That's why you got offended by Raph's comment in the ally," Don said "the one about you not being able to defend yourself against anything. Most people who were about to be, uh, taken advantage of would have just run off, or been scared to death for themselves and not get offended then."

"You were scared of what ya might do ta them, not what they were gonna do to you." Raph said

Renee nodded. "I didn't want to kill anyone else. There's also a reason that I wasn't scared of ya'll. I had seen ya'll in Karai's mind and on the impressions from the gauntlet. From that I figured out that you were their enemies. I figured that if you were their enemies, then you were probably okay. Besides, I only got good feelings when I thought about ya'll. At any rate, after the stay on the island, Kit took me home. My parents were there for me, and I managed to work through some of it. I'm still not completely over what I did, and I suspect I never will be.

"Anyways I had to start deciding where I was going to go to college, and New York kept popping into my mind, no matter how much I tried to ignore it. I talked to Kit, and she said that if I did, could just stay with her because the company headquarters are here in New York. She'd show me around the campus, because she was taking a few courses there. We could go to college together. So I dropped the bomb on my parents, they questioned it at first, but then agreed. So that's how I got here. I'm actually a here a week before Kit was expecting me. I think she suspected I might though, and that's why she gave me that membership to that parking garage. I though it'd get a feel for the city and explore a little before I started school. I was going to go to Kit's last night, but, well, plans changed. Anyways, that's my story." She looked curiously at the guys. "What about ya'll. I'm brimming with curiosity. How-"

At that moment the phone rang. "I'll get it." Don said. "Hello? Oh hey, April. No, we're not watching the news. What? Oh, shell. Thanks for telling us. Bye." He turned around. "Guys, we might have a problem."

"What is it, Donny?" Leo questioned

Don walked over to the television area and switched them on. "This." He said as he tuned into the news.

They all looked at the televisions. The ally where Renee had lost control was on the screen. A lady reporter was taking. "This is the ally in question. This morning, as people came to work, they discovered the odd damage and destruction that had taken place here." The camera panned and showed the dumpsters on their sides, and one upside down, debris littering the ground, pieces of concrete and other pieces of building to big for a human to move on the ground and embedded in the walls. As the camera panned upward, it showed odd things embedded in the buildings, including a lamp, a door, a piece of a dumpster and the manhole cover. "I wondered where that went." Mikey said.

The reporter continued to talk "No one is sure how this happened, but the oddest thing is that with all this damage here in the ally and to the surrounding buildings, not one of the vehicles has a scratch." The reported started to walk away from the scene and the camera focused on her again. "Police are suspicious that this might have something to do with a late night shoot out and car chase between some members if the Purple Dragon gang, and a as yet unidentified- wait." The reporter stopped and listened to her earpiece. "I'm now getting a update that a resident of an apartment building has a picture that he has turned over to us. We're going back to the studio for a closer look at that."

The television went from the reporter to the studio where two anchors were sitting there. "Thank you, Connie." The female one said "We have been given a picture of the car that was fleeing from the suspected Purple Dragons." The picture flashed up on the screen. It was blurry and bad, but you could clearly see that four of the occupants were green. "While it has not been confirmed, it is suspected that these are the same aliens that tried to kill the president."

"Oh, Shell." Leo said.

Karai was also watching the news. "So you did not escape unnoticed, Leonardo." She let a small humorless smile grace her lips. "We will meet again, and I will get the girl from you. She is the key to getting my father back." Karai continued to stare at the television, already planning on how to use the girl to not only get her father back, but also destroy Leonardo and the rest of his wretched family.

Across the city, another sat in the dark watching the news. As the picture came up she froze the image and sent the news itself to another of the many screens in that room, so it could still be heard. Only paying half attention to the rest of the news, the figure used a computer on the image. She adjusted the resolution, and zoomed in on one figure in particular. She adjusted the picture some more, and Renee's face was clearly seen.

"So, my little mutant," she said "you've come to New York now. And you've already gotten yourself in trouble, and disappeared so soon. Did you know I'd be looking for you?" she clucked her tongue. "It doesn't matter. Either way, I'll hunt you down and find you." She smiled and sat back in her chair, letting the dark surround her "Then, my little mutant, I'll finally have you right where I want you."

Dun, dun ,dun! I'll have to leave you hanging there. Sorry this chapter was so long. Oh, by the way, I've gotten my chocolate bunny back from Mikey. He, and everyone else, now knows not to get between my and food (snickers. Mike looks over at her and rubs his head. Author looks at him and smiles sweetly.) Love ya, Mikey! (Mikey grumbles a 'yeah whatever' and looks away) Anyways, I hope you liked it. Remember, Please Review! It keeps me going. And I know that there are people reading this who aren't reviewing. I check the stats on my story. So to the non-reviewers, Please Review. I should be able to take anonymous reviews, so you don't even have to be member. Okay? So please review, and I'll try to update soon. Later! (This is the narrator. I was right, it was good.) Hey narrator, you can stop now. I already said bye. (Oh, right)

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