Discovered.

Thanny's POV

It went well for a while, I went out and got back in without a scratch or without being seen. One night things went a little different though. It started of like always, Raph and me fought a little, they said goodbye to Splinter, I begged to take me with them, they completely ignored me and left. 30 minutes later I'm out as the Black Lotus, I thought the name was a little lame at first but you learn to like it.

Leo POV

"alright guys this night we'll split up, each one of us will take a part of the city, Donny north, Raph east, Mikey south and I'll take west. Keep contact with the others through the shell-cells and tell me immediately when you see lotus, I want to have a few words with him"

"why? I mean he does good work and he helps a lot of people just like we do"

"he's nothing like us Mikey! He just wants to make a name for himself and I'm going to stop him. Can you imagine what will happen when everyone suddenly decides to take the right into their own hands?"

"yeah alright" Mikey looked a bit disappointed I knew he had a thing for superheroes but this has to stop.

"ok, move out meet here back at 3 am" I ordered and they all did as they were told, no complains from Raph, probably because he prefers to be on his own.

Thanny POV

I climbed on the ladder and lifted the lit of the manhole a bit, I peeked through it, checking if the coast is clear, 'yep all clear, show time' I thought to myself as I climbed out. I carefully climbed on the fire escapes and scanned over the rooftops for any sign of my brothers, nothing. I stepped on the roof and deeply inhaled the fresh air for a few minutes, 'man it's good to be out of the sewers' I took of.

I leaped over the rooftops, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, it's the best! you feel so free and the tingling feeling I get when I'm in midair is so awesome, after rooftop number ten I stop, because of the simple reason that I couldn't go any further. I sat on the edge of the building watching the streets and people below me.

"I guess tonight is a quiet night" not long after I said that a couple of armed purple dragons ran inside the ally on the other side of the street.

"better check it out" I jumped on a truck that stood in front of the red light, slapped my whip around the lighting pole and flung myself on the fire escapes of the ally. With a twist of my wrist the whip came lose, I folded it back on my belt. And watched the scene before me. Six armed purple dragons circled around someone, but I couldn't identify who it was. The person tried to call someone but they had punched it out of his hands and it broke when it hit the ground.

"hey, that was brand new!" the person yelled.

"no way, Mikey?" I whispered to herself, "I have to help, no! I'll jump in when he really needs my help who knows, he might be able to get out of this mess himself, if I can take a dozen of these goons for sure Mikey can handle this on his own"

Mikey punched a guy in the face, the guy flew down but stood up again, but not quick enough mikey slapped him across the face with his nun-chucks and this knocked the wind out of the guy ok one down five to go. The others attacked all at once, mikey avoided three bats and tripped most of the guys by kicking their feet from under them, the remaining ones he roundhouse kicked and while he was in the air he made a looping and landed on one of the guys, two down four to go. But mikey was exhausted and the dragons didn't stay down.

'ok, mikey's exhausted, he's fighting four at a time and these ones are clearly a lot better then the ones I fought last week, when I punched one in the face they stayed down, and Mikey's punches are a lot more harder then mine, he's in trouble if he doesn't pull himself together soon.'

He was busy avoiding the kicks and punches from there of the goons, he didn't notice the largest one sneaking up behind him, the guy punched him hard in the face and he flew back against a wall.

"time to punch in"

Just as they were about to hit him with their crowbars and bats I slapped the weapons out of their hands with a quick flip of my whip. At once I had their undivided attention.

With a few flips and jumps I placed myself between the dragons and my brother, and awaited their assault, I looked back at my brother, he was awake, but still dozed from the impact. 'come on brother pull yourself together I can't do this by myself!'

"this is our lucky night boys, the boss pays a lot for the one who delivers the lotus to him"

the four still standing attacked together, 'yep they were better and smarter (if that's possible) then the ones I fought before, well it's not always have to be easy'.

I ducked under their punched and kicks, while I was down I kicked one in the stomach and the guy fell back. Two others tried to kick me but I flipped backwards and kicked their faces while doing so, I landed on my feet and looked around hoping to see three unconscious dragons, instead there were three seriously pissed of guys. The other one had picked up his crowbar and snuck behind me, he was about to smash my skull, but Mikey intervened in time.

"got to watch your back dude, what do you say?, I take the two ugly ones on the right you take the ugly ones on the left"

I didn't dare to reply so I just nodded my head. There wasn't much time to talk anyway, the guys obviously didn't like being called ugly and started their attack already.

Mikey took off and fought his ugly dragons, the ones I had to go up against, tried to punch me I avoided the punches, but I didn't see the foot of the large guy coming my way, it made connection with my ribs and sent me flying against a dumpster. The two cornered me.

"aren't you scared now shorty? Why don't you just come quietly with us? We'll promise not to hurt you too much" the small one said.

'shorty? That's it!' I attacked him, I tried to punch him but he avoided each one of my blows. 'Time to end this' it was time to use my pressure point technique. He threw a fist in my direction, but I stepped aside and it flew past me I pressed my middle finger and index finger to several places on his arm, so the muscles in his arm started to cramp up.

He cried out in pain, I smirked and roundhouse kicked him in the face, still he wasn't down, I gave him one more kick in the solar plexus, that did the trick.

"dude watch out!" Mikey yelled, I turned around but it was too late, I saw the fist flying in my direction already, I flew back a couple of meters, but I wasn't out yet, just sore and more pissed.

I placed my hands behind me and flipped back onto me feet, for some reason the guys seemed paralysed and was just staring at me, no time to figure out why, I rushed towards him, 'I've wanted to use this trick for some while now' when I was right in front of him I placed my hands on the ground and pushed my feet up to make contact with his chin.

Now he was the one who flew back, I flipped three more times the last time I jumped higher, the guy just got back on his feet when he saw me flying down to him, with great speed my foot made contact with his face again, I landed on my hands and twisted my body around so my feet flung at his head, he was able to avoid them to take a step back he was against a wall now.

I landed on my hands again and stuck my hands in my sleeves and pulled out my throwing stars, I threw them at him and he was pinned against the wall, but not for long he ripped his sweater and ran in my direction he tried to punch me but I ducked under his arm and punched him in his solar plexus. That final blow knocked him out, he fell down.

"timber!" Mikey yelled, she had to try hard not to laugh at him. "great move sis, back there, you have to teach me that sometime"

'no how did he knew?' I swiped a few strands of hair out of my face and felt that my hood had fallen of, must have happened when the guy punched me in the face.

"crap! please don't tell" I pleaded and grabbed hold of his hand, I tried to make big puppy eyes but that was kind of hard with my eye partly swollen.

"yeah, I bet Leo's gonna have a hearth attack when he hears about this, I wish I could see his face when he knew, it's be so funny!"

"absolutely not, he'd lock me into my room forever and never let me see daylight ever again!"

"yeah probably, come on lets go, the police is going to be here anytime"

"alright" we climbed on top of the roof and ran from that place until Mikey suddenly stopped and sat down on the edge. He motioned for me to sit down next to him.

"you alright? That was a very mean punch back there," he looked at my eye and I could see on his face and feel on mine that it wasn't looking to good.

"yeah I'm cool, please no lectures"

"me lectures, you've got the wrong brother, I was just going to say that it's so cool you are the Black Lotus! I'm so proud of you!" he hugged me.

"really? You don't think it's to dangerous for a weak little girl like me?"

"I never saw you like a weak little girl, you know that"

"yeah the others don't"

"is that why you're doing this? To prove the others that you aren't weak, because if …"

"I don't do this because of them, I could care less about what they say about me! I'm doing this for me! To prove myself that I'm not the weak little girl they think I am"

"you know, they don't see you like that either"

"yes they do, they tell me everyday"

"they don't mean it like that, we are just worried about you"

"same thing, I'm worried about you guys too"

"yeah, I know, I know but Leo and Raph think they have to protect you from the cruel world, you know we see a lot of ugly things on our patrols"

"yeah, I know, but I really want to join you guys but Leo and Raph, they don't even care!"

"they do that's the problem"

"no they keep me inside because they think I'm not strong enough, that I'm weak, because I'm a human girl and not a ninja turtle like you."

"that's not the reason, you remember the time you pressed the panic button when you were attacked by the dragons a couple of years ago?"

"yeah, I rather forget it, I'm sure that proves everything to them doesn't it? I'm a helpless girl, they were so angry at me, I screwed up I know but please don't rub it in like that!"

"yeah they were mad but not because of that, it wasn't your fault we know that too, they were mad because they were scared"

"they don't get scared, notice the nickname fearless leader, now zoom in on the fearless part, and Raph can't imagine him being scared or with any other emotion" Mikey laughed a little at that but I came out more like a snort.

"Leo was afraid of monsters under his bed and Raph is still terrified for anything that crawls with more then four legs, but that's not the point " I turned to him he had a very strange serious look on his face.

"they were so afraid of losing you that night, we all were but Raph and Leo are the ones who take it personally, they think it's their fault and they would do anything to avoid putting you in a similar situation" I was speechless I never would have looked at in such a way.

"It's wrong form him to not letting you join our patrols, you're a part of our team after all and I'm sorry for not sticking up for you, like I should have and I'll promise that I won't say anything to Leo if you stop your lonely vigilantly patrols …"

"… but …"

"… let me finish, what do you say black lotus? Need a side-kick?" he held out his hand.

"you want to team up with me? Really?"

"sure, I mean if you don't slow me down to much, I'm an animal when I'm getting into it"

"one you are an animal, two you're a turtle, you're the slow one and three eeee !" I yelled and hugged him, finally I can be truly one of the family.

"I take that as a yes, now we have to do one more thing"

"what's that?"

" finding an excuse for that black eye of yours"

"oh crap, you're right, I'm a terrible liar"

"no you're not, besides I've come up with the most amazing excuse anyway so you were sitting alone in the lair watching cartoons when suddenly you get sucked into another dimension"

"Mikey a believable excuse!"

"ok so you were sitting in your room when three aliens attacked!"

"What do you not understand at the term BELIVABLE ?"

"ok, you want believable, hey Leo you see Thanny's black eye funny story you know the black lotus, well that's Thanny's alter ego but no worries she just got punched in the face by a purple dragon three times her sizes no biggie"

"or I'll just pull out my crocodile tears and run to Raph, big brother I wanted to read one of Mikey's comics but he got angry and punched me in the face, will you kicks his butt for me?"

"no don't, he won't just kick my butt, he'll chop it off and hang it on his wall"

"why would Raph want your butt in his wall?"

"I don't know, he's the maniac"

"no seriously story now!"

"alright, I went home because my cell got crashed and wanted to call the guys that I'm alright, I saw you sitting in front of the tv being sad and pathetic so I asked if you wanted to spar, but you weren't a match for my strongest awesome dragon punch and I accidentally hit you in the eye"

"perfect, with a few adjustments here and there"

"just don't exaggerate to much I wasn't kidding with the hole butt on wall thing"

"sure thing bro as long as you keep your mouth shut about my 'nightly activities'"

"deal"

"master Hun, master Hun!"

"have you captured that lotus pest already?"

"no but …"

"then get out of my sight!"

"but I have very interesting information on the matter"

" sign, speak"

"the lotus he isn't a he, he's a she!"

"so what! That only makes your defeat more disgraceful!"

"but she isn't just a girl, she's the little sister of the reptiles we've been hunting"

"the turtles? A sister? Is she a turtle too?"

"no master it's a human, not mutated sir, I clearly saw her"

"this is very interesting indeed, master Shredder will be very pleased with this new information" insert evil laughter now