The guys all sat on the couch looking each other over with amused faced besides Leonardo. He kept a straight face, arms crossed as a blanket lay over his lap. Splinter mulled over his new son's appearances. He wasn't sure about any of this and it made him feel uneasy. He mediated for some time but didn't want to be away from his son's for too long knowing that they're in this new state.
"Before we do anything, we should get you four some clothes." Jade said armed crossed. Leo nodded his head.
"We have friends." Donnie said. "April. Her number is on the phone. Call her. She'll be able to help." Jade nodded and walked towards the phone.
"Is she friendly?" Fiona asked with a worried expression. Mikey smiled and nodded her head.
"She's like a sister to us, and the greatest." Fiona looked down with a nod. "Well, second to you of course." He said in a smooth expression gracing her hand. Raph and Donnie rolled their eyes as Fiona smiled kissing his cheek.
"Hello, April?"
"Yes, who is this?"
"Um…Hi. This is Jade. I'm a friend of Leo's."
"Leo's? Wait, you're calling from the lair."
"Yes, we have a situation and the guys told me to call you for help."
"What? What is it, are they hurt? Are they ok?"
"I assure you, they're healthy and fine. But…Something happened. I'm not certain what. But, do you have any clothes…for males?"
"Yeah, some of Casey…Wait…Why?"
"Well, um…Funny story! The guys, they're kinda… human." She said looking over her shoulder at the boys.
"Is this a joke?"
"Ha, no. Just…Um…Wait a moment please." She put her hand over the receiver. "Leo, help." She said softly. He looked over his shoulder, wrapping the blanket around his waist and walking over to her on the phone. He smiled kissing her forehead and taking the phone.
"April?"
"Leo?"
"Hi."
"Yeah…hi, what happened?"
"I'm not sure. We just need some clothes."
"So you're…"
"From what I can tell yes." He said.
"Oh wow…I'll be there as soon as I can!" She hung up the phone as Leo did as well with a smile, walking back towards the couch.
"What did Ms. O'Neil say my son?" Splinter asked in a worried tone.
"She'll be here as soon as she can Master." Splinter nodded his head with a sigh and returned to his room, sliding the door shut slowly.
"He's not doing too well with this." Lexine said looking over at Jade. She nodded her head getting up and walking to the room. Leo grasped her hand stopping her.
"What are you doing?"
"He needs someone to talk to." She said softly taking his hand from hers. She opened the door slowly knocking softly on the wood.
"Enter." He said softly. Jade did as the smell of sandalwood filled her. She smiled to herself. Like Leo's room. "Yes my child. What troubles you?"
"Actually Master Splinter, I am concerned with what is troubling you?" She said kneeling on the floor in front of him. He opened his eyes slowly looking into hers.
"I have grown to love all of those boys as my own. They're my sons. For something like this to happen to someone that you love dearly is a heavy worry to carry. Something dark is behind this transformation my son's have taken. Their form may be appeasing to you Jade, but to their father it is unsettling." Jade nodded her head.
"Master, this appearance your son's have taken is in less sense of the word appeasing to myself and my sisters. We love your son's for who they are not what their appearances take. I assure you that. We will find out what is behind this and correct it. I assure you that as well." Jade said taking Splinter's hands. A small smile went to his face as he nodded his head.
"Thank you my child."
The eight sat in an unsettling silence for almost a full fifteen minuets before they heard their door open. The boys all picked their heads up as the girls adjusted their clothing and hair to make themselves look more appropriate to meet this girl that the boys have referred to as being like their sister.
Lexine sighed nervously as she saw April's redhead bounce down the stairs in a jog. Jade stood straight, her arms at her side with a warming smile on her face. Fiona fiddled with her hands in her lap nervously, tugging at her shirt now and again hoping she looked alright. Jacqueline sat next to Raph with her feet kicked up on the table, arms crossed over her chest with a bored expression on her face.
April came to a stop looking at the boys as she stumbled back as if she got struck. Casey ran behind her with a trash bag over his shoulder his free hand running through his long dark hair with an amused expression.
"Whoa…" He said looking at the boys. April walked over to Jade and extended her hand.
"I'm April."
"Jade." She said with a nod.
"Girl I talked to on the phone?"
"Yes. Nice to meet you." April nodded keeping her eyes locked on the boys. Casey empted the bag on the table as Jac put her feet down.
"Sup. I'm Casey." He said looking over his shoulder at the sisters.
"Jade. Lexine, Fiona, Jacqueline." She said pointing towards her sisters as they raised their hands.
"Pretty names." April smiled. Jade smiled back.
"Thanks."
Casey looked up at Jacqueline as she eyed the clothing. He moved his sight over at Raph with an approving smile.
"Nice going man." He said as Raph glared at him. Jac looked up with a raised eyebrow then behind her at Raph who rolled his eyes. Casey chuckled. "Here, try these on. They're my old stuff."
"Thanks Case." Leo said, gripping the sheet around his waist and picking up a shirt. April took the clothes and brought them into the dojo.
"Maybe you guys should have some privacy?" She said nodding her head towards the doorway. Leo nodded and walked in as Donnie followed. Raph rolled his eyes clenching his hand around the sheet and walking in the dojo as Mikey followed.
"Gez sis, you're so bossy." Mikey said nudging her as she smiled nudging him back and closing the door. The four sisters sat in silences as Casey eyed them over.
"How did you guys meet?" April said sitting on the arm of the chair Casey sat on.
"Oh, um. We were getting attacked by the Foot and they rescued us."
"All of you?"
"Yeah."
"We we're fighting not getting attacked by." Jacqueline corrected with a slight glare towards her sister. Casey chocked back a laugh.
"Fighting? Are you sure about that sweetheart?" She glared at him as her hair turned bright red. "Whoa…how'd you…"
"We have powers." Lexi spoke up. "We've had them for some time. The Foot tired to capture us for the use of them and the guys saved us."
"Sounds like something they'd do." April said in a smoothing tone. "You seem like nice girls?"
"Oh we are!" Fiona said with a smile. April smirked.
"I bet. However, if you do hurt them." She said nodding her head towards the dojo. "Know that you'll be in for a rude awakening. They're like my brothers and I love them like brothers. I never had to be protective of their hearts before, so don't make me have to start." She said eyeing the girls landing on Jade. Jade nodded her head as she looked over to the dojo door opening.
The boys walked out clothed in Casey's old clothing as all the girls in the room looked at them up and down with shocked expression. Casey nudged April as she shook out of it. "Sorry." She said softly to Casey before looking back up at them.
They all wore loose fitted jeans, with shirts to their certain color as the fabric clung to the tightness of their bodies. Lexine raised an eyebrow, self consciously sitting up from moving closer to Donatello as she eyed him up and down. Jacqueline had to close her mouth from gawking at Raphael. Fiona couldn't help herself up to have a huge grin on her face as Mikey walked over to her.
"Ya know, orange is your color." She smiled pulling him closer to her by gripping the sides of his shirt. He smiled and kissed her lips softly as she rubbed the end of her nose against his.
"Gross. Get a room guys!" Casey said from the couch.
"Years Case! Years I've watched you and April make out! Deal!" he said kissing Fiona again.
Leonardo walked over to Jade with a concerned face trying to catch her eye contract. He picked her head up to look at him as she snapped out of her gaze that was stuck on him.
"Hi." She said as he smiled to the sound of her soft voice.
"Hi."
"So, we have to figure out what's going on." Donatello said looking over at Lexine who nodded her head.
"Blood samples." She said in a nod. "Maybe we should compare them to yours." She said looking over at Casey.
"What, why?"
"You're normal."
"So isn't April!"
"Wow Case. Way to take care of your girl!" April said shoving him.
"What, I hate needles!"
"Haha, pussy." Raph laughed giving Casey a shove.
"Ya know Raph, we have to take your blood too." Lexi said raising an eyebrow.
"Haha! Not so tough now are ya big guy!" Casey said punching Raph in the arm.
"Psh, I ain't scared of a needle."
"Then you can go first." Mikey said.
One by one the boys went in the lab as their blood samples were taken by Lexi and looked over by Donnie. Every sample came back similar to Casey's. Donnie dissected each sample trying to find one small thing to tell him what had happened to them.
"Wait a minuet." Lexine said as she ran a finger of a bump on her bicep feeling were she had got hit with a dart a few nights ago. "The darts!" She said turning towards Don as he looked away from the computer screen.
"What darts?"
"The ones we got hit with that night that knocked us all out. Maybe there was something in them to make you turn human?"
"But, why wouldn't it affect you?"
"Maybe because our DNA was already so close to humanoid beside that one small part that is our powers?"
"It's possible…" Donnie said scratching the back of his head. "But, still something doesn't seem right." He said staring at his DNA sample on the screen. "A lot of it matches up with my normal blood sample, but then a lot of it is different."
"Maybe they used different chemicals for us, my sisters and I. Maybe, they used a harsher one for you, testing it out. Saki is known for testing things out on the innocent by standard. But, since we were there that night and he knew who we were and he knew who you were he was like screw it, and used the new chemical!" She said as her face lit up. Donnie smiled at her.
"You can up with all that?"
"Just a guess…" She said in a shrug.
"It's a possibility. But, why?"
"Why? Why does he do anything? He wants to kill you, apparently. And he wants us to join him. He's behind this some how, and turning you into humans is a step closer to some plan he has." She said as her brow furrowed in deep thought. She snapped her fingers. "June." Donnie looked up at her as she grabbed the mouse from his hand going to previous files.
"What about her?"
"Saki made Jade turn into June. He wanted it to happen. He needed that anger and power that June posses for something, but what?"
"Take over of the city?"
"Too cliché." She said looking through June's blood samples. They matched up with her sister's exactly. "Wait." She said reading over a summary she wrote about the night they got out of the cells Saki kept them in. "The rooms we were in." She said looking at Donnie.
"What about it?"
"We were all in separated rooms, separated from you guys."
"Yeah…"
"What if, when you were knocked out they injected or put a chemical into your body to do this to you?"
"That's possible." He said leaning back in the computer chair. "But, the blood samples would show if that was the case."
"Not necessarily. Some chemicals don't show up in your blood stream after the first twenty four hours. It's been almost two days. Maybe, it just took longer for your bodies to react from the chemical causing this transformation?"
"But, what do us turning human have to do with Saki?"
"Try and get you out of the way?"
"We can still fight. We're just as strong and able as we once were?" Lexi shrugged. "If anything we'd be able to have the element of surprise because we're different now and don't stand out as much." Lexine nodded her head in agreement. "If the chemical isn't showing up in our blood stream, and if we've already worked it out than it should be a matter of days for us to turn back to normal." Don said with a sigh leaning back in the chair and looked at Lexine's face. She kept her eyes on June's blood sample as her face went to a blank glare.
"Not that any of this really matters. The Shredder is dead."
