I apologize, I didn't realize that I had not spell checked this chapter before I posted it. Once again, I owe The REAL Cheese Monkey my thanks. So I apologize again, and offer the explanation of that my brain was still fried from my last final. I posted the chapter right after I took that final. I hope that's a sufficient explanation, and once again, I apologize

IMPORTANT NOTE: READ! First off I apologize for the update taking so long. I had finals, and I had to gather my thoughts on the way this story was going. I have that all worked out now, and my finals are over. Here's the second thing. The REAL Cheese Monkey made a good point in the review that she sent me. She said that giving Renee so many different abilities smacked of Mary-Sue-ism. It was a valid point, and I admit that I do have a tendency to get carried away with my own characters, but I did actually have a reason here. I wanted to give her a sense of overwhelmed-ness, and to explain why she lost control so easily, to show just how hard of a time she had, and why it was so dangerous for her to lose control. Ya know, the same feeling you get when everything in the entire world (or so it feels) has to be done in, like, two days, and you feel you need at least a month to do them right, and even then you're not sure you could get everything right. I wanted to give her that kind of a feel with trying to keep a lid on her powers. I never intended any Mary-Sue-ism. So to any who saw that, I apologize. I should have explained it better. And a big thank you to The REAL Cheese Monkey for pointing that out to me. And another thank you to everyone who reviewed. Oh, and just to let you know, there will be some perspective switching in here. I think it makes the scene better.

No one shall get my chocolate bunny, for I have eaten it! So do I still own it? Well, I know that I don't own the TMNT, even if I try to lock them in the trunk of my car. I don't think they'd all fit anyways. But I might could get Mikey if I bribed him with food. Do ya think it would work?

Chapter 7: Friend, Foe, or Family?

About a week had passed since the day that the boys and Renee were on the news. Most of the newscasters and experts had laughed the picture off, saying that, because of the angle and the extreme blurriness, that it could just be some kids in green outfits joyriding. And there had been that persistent rumor about some new gang that liked green. Of course it was only a rumor, and an insubstantial one at that, but people would much rather think of a new gang being in the city then the aliens that tried to kill the president. Still, if one new what to look for, you could tell that it wasn't some green-garbed gang, but rather four turtles, a squished gray rat and one terrified girl.

Still, Master Splinter had restricted their access to going topside. Their enemies were surely about, and he did not want to risk his sons or Renee's life. When the issue of clothing for Renee came up, April and Casey were sent to get her suitcase from the trunk of her car. April took an instant liking to young cat girl, and they went into some major girl gabfests, although not all of it was girly. Casey also liked Renee, if for no other reason then she had commented "Nice mask". Once she had done that, it was as if she had made an instant friend.

Renee's ankle was healing nicely, and she could move about on her own quite easily. She still had to stop and rest sometimes, and tended to put her ankle up, but other than that, she was almost back to normal.

Well, as normal as you can be when you're a cat girl with extraordinary powers that have a tendency to slip your control once in a while.

While the remote incident wasn't her fault-at least not directly- some of the other weird happenings around the lair were. Like when the Macaroni and Cheese exploded in Mikey's face for no apparent reason and covering his head and shoulders in gooey cheese and noodles. Or when Raph kept seeing people attacking him, and no one else could. It wasn't until Renee woke up from all the ruckus that they realized that Raph wasn't going crazy and for some reason Renee's dreams had crossed into his own and made it to where he could see them. Or when half of Donny's lab equipment was suddenly in the middle of the dojo including some really heavy stuff. Or when Leo's books went missing, and he found them stuck to the ceiling. Or when Splinter found his candles sunk halfway into the floor. Of course, those were only the more extreme examples, little stuff like things being out of place, or suddenly disappearing and reappearing or other stuff happened too.

Renee felt bad for all of it, and you could practically see the tears well up in her eyes. She apologized over and over again, and explained that her powers would slip her control a lot more than usual after she had lost control.

After a couple of days of this, Splinter decided to take her to meditate with him and try to teach her some control. He did tell her that once her ankle was completely healed, that she could begin to train. It would probably help her with her control, and it would give her another way to defend herself that did not count on the use of her powers. Renee had been thrilled! She was terrified of accidentally killing someone with her powers again, so this seemed perfect. She had been watching the guys training for the time she had been there, and so was already intrigued with the idea. She couldn't wait to start.

Tonight Splinter had lifted the ban on going topside, but had warned his sons to be extra careful. They had done their usual patrol, and then come home. Don had long since left, saying that he had promised Leatherhead that he would come over and help him work on something, and soon after, Raph left, claiming he had something to do with Casey. Splinter indeed thought that those two might go do something, but he didn't think it had been pre-planed. This was just Raphael's excuse so he could get out of the lair. Still, he had let his son go.

It was a few hours later when Raph found himself coming home through the sewers. He and Casey had had some fun, bustin' up some punks, stopping a car jacking, and other general, um, 'patrolling'. Raph smirked at the thought of some of the looks on the punks' faces before he and Case had knocked them out. Priceless.

As Raph was walking along, his ninja instincts suddenly kicked in. He became aware of a sound, so got very quiet, and listened carefully. There! There it was again. The sound that had tipped off his mind. It sounded like someone was trying to lift up the manhole cover. He crept forward and peeked around the corner being very careful to stick to the shadows. He may not be Mr. Perfection like Leo, but he was still ninja.

As he looked, he saw the small shaft of dim light that came from the opened manhole. It became blocked momentarily. Like someone was leaning over, then suddenly wasn't as someone jumped down and landed in the sewer.

She was slender and slightly above average height. Her skin was pale, but if that was a trick of the light, or her natural coloring, he didn't know. Her hair was almost to the middle of her back, curly and a dark brown. Her eyes were a steely gray color, and moved swiftly around, as if searching for something. Her mouth was set in a frown, and the overall look of her face was intense.

She had on a pair of black low-heeled boots, some dark blue jeans, and what appeared to be a red tee shirt. She had a silver belt the looked like it had a heart clasp on, and a tan jacket that came about halfway down her thighs. It could obviously button, and had a tie around it. At the moment though, it was open. She also had on a backpack that was a shade darker than the jacket, and looked pretty full.

All this he noticed in the few seconds it took for her to visually scan the area. And Leo said he never listened to Splinter's lessons. The lady pulled a hair band out of her pocket, and pulled her hair back with it, only looping in once. It didn't look like it would go around her hair again. At least not with much struggling. Out of her other pocket she pulled out something that vaguely looked like a cell phone. Only it looked a lot more complicated than that. Bet Don would have a field day with that gadget of hers.

She looked at the object she held in her hand and frowned. She glanced around the sewer tunnel and frowned some more, and then went back to looking at eh device in her hand. Her frown deepened to a scowl, and she started walking in the direction of the lair.

Raph was confused. This lady obviously had access to money, if her clothes and that gadget meant anything. Yet she had willingly jumped down into the sewers. And her gadget seemed to be tracking something, but she kept frowning at it, and seemed displeased. It didn't make sense. Raph decided not to attack her yet, simply because there were a lot more directions she could go from here that didn't lead back to the lair. Besides, she could be in trouble, or looking for something really important. Of course she could also be a weirdo too. Or she could be working for Karai. He decided to follow her. If she got to close to his home, then he would attack her.

She would pause at the various intersections, and consult her device. Every time she seemed to frown at it. Raph was frowning too. She had gone on a straight path to the lair. There was only one more intersection left. The lady looked at her device once more, and started down one of the paths away from the lair. Raph smirked. This was good. Then, suddenly, just when it looked like she would commit to that tunnel, she turned and hightailed it down the other path.

Raph bit back a curse and raced after her. She knew he was following her, and had been playing him. Now she was speeding straight for the lair. This was not good. This chick was at least as fast as Mikey, and she had a head start. The only thing he had going in his favor was the disguised entrance (A/N I don't know that the entrance is disguised, but it seems a reasonable assumption). It might confuse her long enough for him to catch up.

The lady fled down the passageway, her tracker leading her true. She had suspected that someone was watching her from the moment she entered the sewer, but did nothing to give away her thoughts. Better to be though unawares, then to face when you're not ready. It was the same reason that she let people think of her as a nerdy girl who didn't catch most things all throughout high school. Boy, bet they thought different now. She had led her mysterious watcher on, hoping that he-or she- would lose interest. No such luck. So when she had reached the final tunnel to find who she was looking for, she had feigned going one way, so she could hopefully get a head start on finding and retrieving what she came for. At the moment, however, she was being chased. She suddenly had turned form hunting something to being hunted. She did not like being prey. Still, her head start and quickness should give her something of an edge.

She looked down at her tracker and kept running. She was headed the right direction. She had almost found her prey, what she had been tracking. Suddenly though, the passage dead-ended.

"No!" she said, "This can't be right! It has to be here! I'm almost to her! I have to find my little mutant cat girl! I have to find her!" she looked at her tracking device again.

Suddenly, she heard a whizzing sound and moved just as something sharp, metal, pointed and obviously aimed for her tracker flew by her. It embedded itself in the wall, and she stared at it for a moment.

Raph had heard the weirdo lady say that she had to find Renee. There was no way in world that he was going to let her in his home! Just as he had hoped, the disguised entrance had slowed this lady down. He whipped out a sai and threw it towards the tracking device. Unfortunately, the lady moved just in time. She stared at the sai for a moment and Raph took full advantage of it. He lashed out quickly, but she caught him off guard with a quick kick to the upper chest. He recoiled back and she adopted a kickboxing stance, and waited for him.

The guy was strong and solidly built, that much she could tell from the kick she had given him. He was quick too. She had only gotten a lucky kick in. She knew that it wouldn't happen again. Praying that her kickboxing was as good as she was told, she adopted a stance. As the creature got up, she took a good look at it. It was green, had a shell, -hold up. This looked like one of the aliens that supposedly tried to kill the president! She wasn't sure she believed that story- he looked more like a mutated turtle to her- but now wasn't the time for theories. It was up and it was moving fast. She barely ducked a blow, while blocking another. This wasn't working. He was going to take her down fast if she didn't find another way out of this. That's when she remembered his weapon. It was still embedded in the wall. He hadn't had time to get it out yet. She let his next blow hit her and rolled with it, falling down. Once on the ground she grabbed his legs and pulled him down towards her. As he fell, she slipped between his legs and pushed herself up. She flipped over him and made a break for the weapon. As she focused on it and grabbed it, something in the back of her mind said sai. She grabbed it and whirled around to face the mutant turtle as he got up.

Raph lifted himself up from the face full of sewer water that he and received thanks to the lady, and faced her. He growled. She had his sai in her hand, and looked prepared to use it. He removed his other sai from his belt. If this was how she wanted to play, then so be it. He was all for it. He lunged at her, and he saw her eyes widen at his attack. She ducked at the last minute, and while low thrust her sai out. Raph easily dodged, and whirled to face her as she had managed to get behind him again. They eyed each other warily for a moment, each waiting for the other to make a mistake.

"Why won't you let me find her!" she called out. "I need her, or I'm going to be in more trouble than you can imagine. Give me my mutant cat girl!"

"No way am I gonna let you get your hands on her or anyone else! I'm givin' you a chance lady. Leave now!" Raph yelled back at her.

He could feel her resolve harden. He didn't think that it would be that easy. Heh, he kinda liked this chick. She was tough and stubborn. As they stared each other down, her eyes seemed to stray to the wall behind him, and then focus there. He took full advantage and ran to tackle her. She snapped back to him in time to see him coming at her, but not soon enough to get out of the way. Instead she hurled the sai she gripped at the wall, just as he hit her.

As soon as she saw that crack in the wall, she knew what it meant. It was far to straight to be caused by the sai in her hand. Then she heard a roar, and saw the turtle rushing her. She knew that there wasn't enough time to get away, but maybe she could test her theory. She hurled the sai with all her might just below where it had been impaled before. As she fell down, she saw the crack widen in the same place, and knew that there was a door there. She was pushed under the water, and struggled to escape. She hit the bottom, totally submerged, and went limp.

Raph didn't know why she threw the sai, and he didn't care. He went with her under the water, and felt them hit bottom. The water might not have been very deep, but it could cover her completely and part of him. Suddenly, he felt her go limp. Immediately he started to pull her up. He want to scare her off, not drown her. She remained limp as he pulled her up, then suddenly she pushed all of her strength on him and pushed him under this time, then she took of towards the door to the lair. As he got up, he saw what she had been doing when she threw the sai. She had found the door and was now trying to pry the door open, and she was doing a good job of it. "NO!" he shouted.

Inside the lair, Mike was watching TV, Leo was fixing himself a snack, and Splinter had Renee in a meditation session. It was pretty calm, all in all. The sound of the door trying to be opened came throughout the lair.

"Sounds like Raphy's home." Mikey said.

The sounds stopped for a moment, then started up again.

Leo appeared from the kitchen "What's he doing?" he said with a frown.

All of a sudden Raph's "NO!" was heard.

Instantly, Leo and Mikey were on their guard. After Karai had run them out of their old home, they weren't about to be run out of this one. Suddenly, the door flung open and a dripping wet girl came running in with one of Raph's sais in her hand.

"What the-" Leo said.

The girl looked around wildly, then flew towards Renee's room. Raph came through the door, just as wet as the girl.

"Stop her!" he bellowed, "She's after Renee!"

Leo and Mike sprung into action, but the girl had already reached Renee's room. She ran in, then ran out when she realized that Renee wasn't in there.

"Where is she?" the girl said with ice in her voice "Where is the mutant cat girl Renee?"

Leo and Mike charged her, but she surprised them by flinging the sai towards Mikey, and jumping up to grab the doorframe. Mikey ducked the sai, but sailed right past the girl into Renee's room. A crashing sound was heard from within and Leo reached the girl. She used the doorframe to swing out, and lunched herself through the air over Leo's head. At the moment he only had one katana out, and, as she flipped, the girl took the other one out of its holder. Leo whirled around at this and looked at her. She held the katana like she knew what she was doing, which meant that the battle would be that much harder. They charged each other, and the katana clanged together loudly. It was an unusual battle, but it seemed both contestants were determined to see it out. They moved to attack each other again and were mere inches away when a "STOP!" rang out and the katana that the intruder was holding suddenly glowed with a pink and black light.

This startled both the girl and Leo. They looked to see Renee and Master Splinter looking at them. Renee was stopping the girl's katana from moving any farther.

"Rae?" the girl whispered

"Kit!" Renee responded back.

"Wha-" Kit started to say, but then the katana that she was holding started to shake. "Oh, oh, uhh!" Kit quickly let go of it and began to back away as did everyone else. Suddenly the katana shot up and embedded itself it the ceiling.

They all stared up at it for a moment.

Renee sighed.

"My-my-my katana." Leo stuttered "It's-in the ceiling. My katana is in the- the-"

"Ceiling?" Kit supplied. "Yup. Sure is." She whistled as she looked at the katana, and then looked at Leo. "Well, have fun getting that down." then she turned back to Renee. "My little mutant cat girl!" she squealed

"My fuzzy-headed brain girl!" Renee squealed back.

They ran into each other's arms giving each other a big hug. Then, like only girls can do they started to talk at the same time, yet completely understood what the other one was saying and managed to carry on a conversation.

By this time Raph had retrieved Mikey from the mess he had made when he crashed into Renee's room, and they were both walking up to the squealing and rapidly talking girls.

"Little mutant cat girl and fuzzy-headed brain girl?" Mikey said

"It's our nicknames for each other." Renee explained

"Who the Heck is This!" Raph demanded.

"This is Kit!" Renee replied happily

"Wait a sec." Mikey said "Kit as in cousin Kit?" he said

"Yup."

"You mean I was fighting your cousin! I went through all that and was just your cousin!" Raph roared.

Renee blinked "Well, Geez. I didn't know she'd come looking for me. Or that she could find me." Renee turned to Kit "How did you fi-"

"Perhaps it would be best to discus this after our guest has changed from her wet clothes." Master Splinter interrupted.

"Oh, Yes!" Renee said, "You're soaked with sewer water! Come on, you don't just need a change, you need a shower. You can borrow some of my clothes." The two girls headed into Renee's room.

As they walked away though, Kit looked aver her shoulder and flashed a smirk at Raph. "Hey, thanks for the good fight. I enjoy a challenge." Then she turned at kept going with Renee.

"Dude, did she just hit on you?" Mikey asked

Stopping an argument before it got started, Master Splinter spoke up. "Raphael, please try to clean up a little and you and Michelangelo try to clean up the mess in here. After that, Michelangelo, please help me prepare dinner." That said, Splinter looked to his eldest, who was still staring up at his katana in disbelief. "Come, my son. I believe we will require Donatello's help to retrieve your katana. In the mean time, you will help me prepare dinner."

Splinter lead Leonardo towards the kitchen, and watch his other sons move to obey his instruction. As he did though, he saw a Raphael give a bit of a smirk in the direction of Renee and Kit.

A couple of hours later, three turtles, one rat, one cat girl, and one human girl were all sitting around in the living room. The radio was on as the two girls wanted to listen to a count down, and they were exchanging stories of the past week.

Kit had gotten her shower and changed into something of Renee's, and they had already had dinner, with Don calling to say that he couldn't make it at the moment, but he and Leatherhead would be by later. Leo's katana was still stuck in the ceiling, but he had gotten over that. He couldn't do anything about it at the moment, so he just accepted it.

Kit had apologized for attacking them, but Splinter had said not to think anything of it. Although Raph had grudgingly admitted that Kit wasn't half bad. Kit had smiled and told that he wasn't either and she'd like to go up against him for fun sometime. Leo had then pointed out that Raph would beat her, and she had replied that she knew, but she would still learn and have fun at the same time. Splinter had applauded her attitude about it, and Raph smirked at her, to which she had responded with one of her own. Renee and Mikey had exchanged grins, but Leo had stared them down about commenting, so they had returned to eating.

But that was an hour ago, and know the girls were waiting for the top five countdown, and singing along to there favorite songs. They even danced a little

The door to the lair opened and Donny and Leatherhead walked in. "Hey guys, sorry I'm la-Wha?" Don said

Everyone turned to look at them.

"Donatello, you did not tell me you had two female guests." Leatherhead said

"When I left we didn't." He responded. He began to study the other girl

Renee clapped her hand together. "Donny, this is my cousin-"

"Kit Cistola!" he interrupted.

"Uhh, Yeah." Renee responded.

He began to rapidly advance towards Kit "I have read all of your papers, and find your mathematical explanations of the improbabilities of extrademintional time-travel absolutely fascinating."

Kit brightened "Really? You read them?" she asked

"As have I." Leatherhead told her.

"I must say, I'm thrilled by your interest. Paperbound theories aren't what I like to deal with. I much prefer to make a theory, and then prove it, but my heart is in inventing."

Don seemed to perk up at that. "I have several different projects going right now. Leatherhead come over to assist me with them, But I would be most honored of you would help as well." He looked up at Leatherhead "You don't mind her helping too, do you."

"Not at all." He responded, "I think it should be a most rewarding experience."

"I would be delighted!" Kit told them, "Just let me go change into something that my cousin wouldn't mind me getting dirty." She looked at Renee "That okay wi' you?"

"Sure. I couldn't keep you away anyways. Better for you to change then get my good clothes dirty."

In a few minutes, Donny, Kit and Leatherhead were all heading towards Don's workspace chattering on about various theories, technologies, and other stuff like that.

"Hey!" Leo said, "What about my katana!"

"It's a lost cause bro." Mikey told him "You know how Don gets, and Leatherhead isn't much better."

"So's Kit." Renee said. "She's happiest covered in grease and surrounded by plies of what looks like junk to me."

"I'm gonna go work out." Raph said suddenly and left.

"I wonder." Leo said more to himself than any one else, "If I catch them before they really get started, would they be willing to get my katana out of the ceiling?" he hurried after the group.

Mikey looked at Renee. "Wanna watch cartoons?"

Renee shrugged. "Sure."

As sounds of Raph working out, Don, Leatherhead and Kit working on something, Leo pestering them to get his katana down, and Mikey and Renee laughing to loud cartoons, Splinter smiled. Something told him that it was probably going to be a long night. He got up and wisely retreated to his room, hopeful to meditate before the noise increased.

Okay, I'll leave you there. Don't worry, I'll get to the real meat of the story soon. I just was unsure of where it was going until know. But I had a little meeting, and even though I had the final say, Renee, Kit and the guys told me what they wanted to do. I think it's gonna work out fine. (author looks both ways, then leans in conspiringly) Don't tell them, but I have some things they didn't plan on being in there already planned out. (author looks over her shoulder and sees Renee standing there) Uhh…hi Renee.

Renee (menacingly): What kinds of things?

Author (Looks around rapidly): Uhh…Gotta go! (takes laptop with her and runs off with Renee not far behind, yelling out threats about being a contrary character, and the author yells back about not giving Renee more catnip. This will continue too long for me to stick around, so I'm outta here.)

Yes, I know I have a weird sense of humor. It is not my fault, blame my mother.

-RealityBreakGirl