Enter black lotus.

The following days, Thanny thought about how she was going to realise her plan. She had an idea, but it was a risk at the same time, when her brothers went patrolling, Splinter usually slept, so in other words the only opportunity to sneak out. But if she snuck out she could run into her brothers and things wouldn't turn out pretty; either they recognised her and drag her butt back to the sewers and if that happens she'd be pretty sure they'd put a bodyguard on her 24/7, or even worse they wouldn't recognise her and mess her up really bad if she was lucky.

She had heard Mikey telling stories about Raph often letting his anger out on criminals.

Then there was the problem of which weapons she'd bring, she couldn't risk using her kunai, if she lost one of them, she had to have an good explanation for that. No she had to bring something, simple, practical and affective.

After a few days she got it all figured out, she had found the perfect weapon. And actually she had to thank Mikey for that. In their last movie night Mikey had chosen the movie cat-women. And as a weapon she used a whip, it was perfect, she'd practised with those before, yeah it wasn't a ninja weapon but that's a good thing, it helped her with her cover.

Of course the most important thing; her disguise again the wonder of television came to her aid, she was watching heroes and it was the episode Michel showed his niece his comics, copycat. Alright she didn't have mutant powers or anything but as a disguise the girl wore a large sweater and some black jeans. She could easily find that!

The next day she went searching, she took all she could find to a secret hiding place in the sewers and tried it on and was kind of pleased with the outcome. She found a sweater but it was too large for her so she took a large belt and strapped it tightly around her waist, it worked like a kind of protector and she could tie her whip on it, don't ask where she got the whip, she took one of her old pair of jeans. But the miracle of it all was her boots in the junkyard, she found some old army boot, it was just perfect! Army boots have like very hard tips so if you kick someone very hard with it, it could hurt very very much. Especially when you knew where to kick.

"master we're going to patrol the city, we'll try to come back earlier this time" Leo said.

"yeah sure" Thanny snorted from her spot in front of the tv.

"what's the matter with you? are you not going to beg us to come with us?" Raph asked

"can I?" she asked hopefully.

"no" Raph smiled.

"then why should I bother" she turned her attention back to the tv.

"what ever …" Raph left.

"be safe my sons"

"don't worry master I'll watch their backs" Mikey said.

"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that" he chuckled and as always he went inside his room. "good night Theng Sjen"

"good night master" I returned friendly.

"see you later little sister" Donny said he stayed behind a little bit, checking if he had everything, he stopped when he saw her sadly sitting in front of the tv.

"you still here?"

"I'm going, I'm going jeeze don't bite my head off" and he too disappeared into the sewers.

Wait a half an hour then I can go out. I can't wait! Strangely right now I'm not scared or excited or anything, like I thought I would be. This is the worst violation of the rules you could do in this house and I'm plainly going to do it. I have to.

What and half hour had passed already, show time! I walked out of the living room and reached the front door. As quietly as I could I pushed it open, if Splinter would wake up now I'm just going to say that April called or something or that I heard something outside and call it a night. But he didn't woke up. I peered through the darkness of the sewers and kind of expected to see my one of my brothers there, but nothing.

When Thanny walked out of the lair she couldn't hear master Splinter whisper "be safe my daughter"

I walked out to the place where I hid my stuff. I put in on quickly and sped to the nearest manhole, I looked and listened before climbing out completely for any signs of intruders or any possible relatives. Still nothing I climbed out and climbed up to the rooftops. I decided to just run through the night a little, it was just my first night and I'd like to start easy.

I pulled down the hood of the sweater, it covered half of her face in shadows she nobody could actually see it but she could still see them.

Then a loud scream. Score! I ran over to the source of the sound and found a couple of thugs closing in on a girl not much older then herself.

By the looks of it, it were just 2 drunk guys. This was going to be easy but she had to hurry, if her brothers heard the scream too and it was possible that they were on their way. Jet she jumped down, she made a couple of flips on the firescapes to brake her fall and landed soundless behind the two guys.

She made a noise to signal to the guys they weren't alone and when they turned around she punched them out cold. That was too easy.

"no please, leave me alone!" the girl screamed and ran away.

"don't mention it" she said to herself, but she didn't care about the girl, she had accomplished her mission! She had proven to herself she could not only protect herself but others as well. she looked at her watch 12 o'clock she had at least 3 hours time to return to the lair.

Yeah the night wasn't over yet. She climbed back on the rooftop and started running now, flipping over the rooftops, she never felt this free! It was great.

That night she stopped two muggers and one rape. The whip really came in handy, she could trip guys who tried to run away or hit guns and knives out of the guys hands.

Note to self hide throwing stars or smoke pellets in sleeve next time. Oh no ! 2.30 already!

She had to hurry.

She rushed back into the sewers, tossed her disguise back into his hiding place and opened the door to the lair quietly. Yes! Still no one home, she snuck into her room, it seemed she had tons of time, because her brothers didn't return until 4 O'clock. Good thing she did go home, when she did. Her body was a little sore, not that she'd gotten hurt or anything, in fact nobody had the chance to come near her, but all the extra exercise really took his toll.

The next morning she had to get up at 7 am for morning practise. Donny and Leo were already downstairs watching the news. Apparently they had stopped the purple dragons again and it came on the news. But after that the news reporter said that some new vigilante had saved the daughter of some rich guy.

"hey! We didn't do that" Donny said.

"no way, that's on our patrolling route!" Mikey screamed.

she smiled to herself. Finally I make the news, she always heard Mikey boast about it whenever one of his rescues came on tv and even though she couldn't show off with her victories, she felt really good about herself.

You hear it ladies and gentlemen a new vigilante is in town, mister blanck, the father of the girl the vigilante saved, wants to let him know that he's very grateful for saving his daughter.

What ! him? Stupid sexist men, can't a girl save someone for a chance?

"dude! Another hero in town, is this a good or a bad thing?" Mikey turned towards his eldren brother.

"definitely a bad thing Mike, the last thing this town needs is another vigilante making a name for himself, I hope for his sake this was a one time performance" Leo said and walked inside the dojo for morning practise.

She rolled her eyes and continued to smile inside! It worked, it totally worked, they didn't even had a clue it was her, to make it better they thought she was a guy, as long as she played it cool, she was certain she could pull this off.

Later that week she'd gone out most of the days, some days she couldn't do anything, but look at the stars, get some air and a good midnight walk.

But there were night when she didn't know where to help first, she also had a few close encounters not only with the criminals but also with her brothers, but in both cases she got out without a scratch. She didn't make the news often, which she was kind of bummed about, not because she wanted the glory or anything but it was so fun to see Leo blow up every time 'black Lotus' was mentioned.

Yeah black lotus that's what they named her, because she could do all this neat acrobatic stuff and all. Mikey found the name pretty cool, Raph found it a little bit gay and Donny and Leo had no opinion about it, but Leo's face tells otherwise.

One of her hoists was big news though, it was a cold rainy night and she was about to go home, then she saw a couple of purple dragons sneaking into an ally. She decided to check it out, when she got there she found the purple dragons were busy with dividing the money of several bank robbings, there were a lot of purple dragons so she had to play it very smart.

The guys who had gotten their money already were starting to leave the ally, lucky for her there was only one exit to that ally. She waited for them behind the corner and instantly knocked out every dragon that came around. Quick and soundless she took out half of the purple dragons, tied them up, collected their money and placed it somewhere where the police would find it.

Then the hard part came, taking out the armed ones on the other side of the ally. She climbed back on the roof and jumped down in the shadows of the ally. But because it was raining she made more sound then she thought she would when she hit the ground. A couple of guys, noticed this and looked in her direction. They took out their knives and came her way, quickly she drew her whip and slashed the knives out of their hands. Now she had drawn everybody's attention. She knocked out the guys that were closed to her.

But there were still six standing, luckily for her none of them had guns with them. it was raining so the smoke pellets would work, so she had to do this the old fashioned way. She fell into her fighting stance and signalled with her hand to come closer. Two of them immediately responded and ran at her screaming, the fools, she simply pressed a few pressure points, if you blinked you would have missed it.

Next! , now the four of them came rushing at her all at once. She flipped over the first two and kicked the other in the face, they stumbled back. That gave her time to attack the two she just flipped over. They carried a bat and a steel pipe, the one with the bat attacked first, she ducked, kicked him in the crutch and swept his legs away, he fell with his head against a wall and was out cold.

Then the other three attacked, she slashed her whip above her head on one of the firescapes and pulled herself up, made a loop and landed behind them, again the pressure point technique worked and two were down. the other had managed to run away. That wasn't too bad, she tied up the other ones and tipped the police.

In the news eyewitnesses exaggerated a little bit. She found that really funny, but she couldn't show that in front of her brothers, still the best one was a hysteric women who claimed she saw black lotus flying and taking down the dragons without touching them. they made her sound like a superhero. Of course Mikey loved this and was eager to meet the all powerful black lotus, he even mentioned that he considered asking him to be turtle titan's side-kick.

She really enjoyed that moment but of course Leo had to come and spoil the whole thing, what does he have against vigilantes anyway, technically he's one too.

Elsewhere in the city of New York:

The man that escaped Thanny, ran his way to a large building, he entered and walked right through the hallways strait to the desk of his boss; hun.

"I'm sorry boss we …"

" shut up! How dare you, you lost all the money and all of your men, I do not tolerate this!" hun practically jumped out of his chair with this.

"but boss, it was black lotus he came out of nowhere and pulled some ninja tricks on us, we didn't stand a chance"

"what do you not understand at the words shut up snake? You're saying that 24 armed purple dragons aren't a match for one vigilante?"

"yes sir …" hun came closer until he was right in front of him, when he was he grabbed him by his collar and lifted him in the air with one arm.

"listen good snake, listen very good. You're going to bring me this black lotus and if you succeed I will let this one pass, but if you don't you're gonna spend the rest of your miserable life repaying us and trust me you in that case the rest of your life isn't gonna be that long a time, understood?" he threw him out of the door, literally.

"clearly sir"