Chapter 4
Present Day
Raph's POV
(Punch, Punch, Kick, Kick, Roundhouse) I continued to fight the punching bag as if it were a real opponent until it fell off the hook. Damn, I broke it again. It had been a few days since the fight with that mysterious red haired girl on the rooftops. Something about that night didn't sit well with me and it seems as though I'm the only one because everyone else seems to be acting normally. I walked into the living room and sat and watched Mikey as he was engrossed in a brand new video game, Leo was meditating in the dojo, and Donnie was doing whatever Donnie does in his nerd lab. The whole situation was something I hadn't experienced before; she was an actual challenge and that night left me with a number of questions. Where did she acquire those fighting skills? Was the man she threatened innocent? Why was it so personal for her to go after that man? Why…. My thoughts were interrupted when Donnie comes running out of his lab.
"Guys! Guys you have to come to the lab right now! You need to see something." Donnie quickly spits out
"Did you invent something that will make toasters also freeze bread?" Mikey asks while simultaneously playing his video game.
"No. This is about the girl. The girl on the rooftops."...
The whole room went silent as Leo, Mikey, and I followed Donnie into his lab. We all took a seat, eagerly waiting for Donnie to explain what he found.
Leo was the first to ask "Donnie, what did you find? Did you find out who she is?"
"Yes. Well. Just listen. I first identified that man that was in the alley with her. Turns out, his name is Vincent Colewell. He is one of the CEO's of the TCRI building in the city." Donnie explained.
"Whoa!" Exclaimed Mikey.
"So that man wasn't innocent! So what did the girl want with him?" I asked Donnie.
He replied to me by saying. "There's more. I also looked into the identity of the girl…. and, well….she's supposed to be dead."
"What?!" Leo, Mikey, and I yelled in confusion. There were a million questions running through my head which Donnie quickly elaborated on his out of context statement.
"Five months ago, there was an unexplained fire at an apartment. The report says it took the lives of the Carter family. Lily and her husband Mason, and their two kids, Rowen and Trevor. Look at the photo."
When we saw the picture of the family, I couldn't believe my eyes. It was the same girl in the alley that night. She had hair the color of a freshly fallen maple leaf in the Fall and glassy blue eyes that complemented her defined features. She stood next to a shorter boy with dusty brown hair and he had the same color eyes who was undeniably her brother. Both their mom and dad looked just like them.
"There's no mistake that it's the same girl. So what's the story behind the fire Don?" I asked him.
"Well there wasn't a good explanation but supposedly it was caused by a gas leak. But I looked into the reports and a gas leak wouldn't have caused that kind of fire and it wouldn't have only taken out just their house."
Leo quickly responded to Donnie. "So someone targeted the Carter's. And since Rowen was threatening Vincent Colewell, I'm betting that he had something to do with it. We need more answers. Alright team, let's go find Rowen."