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(Liz's POV)

In my dream, I see four humans sitting in science class. Looking closer, I recognize them as Lisa, Cathy, Mary, and me.

Lisa sits closest to the door, her jet black hair blowing in front of her startling blue eyes. Mary is sitting next to her, brushing her strawberry blond hair out of her emerald green irises. Cathy has her feet propped up on her desk, with a light brown pony tail and a green-blue gaze. And then there's me, falling asleep, my soft black hair braided and looped, designed to keep hair out of my big brown eyes.

I don't know the teacher, but as she drones on, she starts to sound and look a lot like my old science teacher, Mrs. Lott, and goes on forever about turtles. What they eat, where they live, their eggs, stuff like that. I'm about to fall asleep on Cathy when Mrs. Lott says,

"Wake up! I brought some friends to show an example of real turtles."

She smiles in a way that makes my skin crawl. Suddenly, the door burst open, and Mrs. Lott's 'friends' prowl in carrying canisters of mutagen. We all scream and scramble out of our chairs. Even though there's no use in preparing to fight, we do. Too bad the Turtles and Mrs. Lott have us surrounded. I brace myself for the worst, and that's what I get. Laughing evilly, the five of them drench us in mutagen. The process of the mutation is thankfully skipped, but the effects aren't. We're all in our gear somehow, but that won't help us yet. Hardly able to move, we are temporarily defenseless. Leonardo approaches Lisa and kicks her plastron, hard.

"No! Leave her alone, you monster!" I scream at him. But I can't get up to defend myself or my friends and family. Leonardo smiles again and walks over to me. He starts to kick me instead, ignoring the protests coming from the other girls. He kicks me about five times, with enough force to make it hard to get up. By now we're able to get up, but we can't beat the Turtles. They're too strong, and we're too weak. But just when Raphael is about to deliver Mary's final blow, the windows shatter, making it possible for four more Turtles to jump in. Except, these ones look like the pictures on April's phone.

After a short fight, the new Turtles defeat the other ones, who burst into dust. The new turtle in blue walks over to us.

"Don't worry; we're not going to hurt you. Can we look at your wounds?" He asks. We nod, not having much of a choice. The one in purple comes over and looks at our cuts and bruises. We're all beat up pretty bad, so he is forced to give directions to the others, being especially specific with Orange and Red.

"Mikey! This isn't a game!" Purple says to Orange.

"This needs to be done very carefully, Raph." He says to Red. When they finish patching us up, the new Turtles are about to introduce themselves, but right before they do, I wake up.

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"Liz! Liz I need to talk to you about something!" Cathy shakes me awake.

"Could it have waited till morning?" I groan.

"No. I need to know something tonight." She says.

"What? More importantly; why?" Cathy ignores my question.

"Imagine that you never knew anything about the Turtles. One night you're being mugged and-"

"I'm a giant turtle. No one would have the guts to mug me."

"Fine, pretend you're human. You're being mugged, but before you are-"

"Am I wearing an awesome outfit?" Cathy looks irritated now. Now we're even.

"Yes. Now, before you're mugged, four giant turtles jump down from the roof tops. Imagine that they look like the pictures on April's phone. They save you and leave you to your business. What would you think?"

"Well, if I didn't know anything about them, I'd think that they're pretty cool. Why did you have to ask me tonight, again? I was in the middle of a dream. It was pretty cool, too. You want to hear it?"

"Sure." Cathy sighs.

So I tell her my dream. When I'm done, we think for a minute. I remember reading a text from Purple that mentioned keeping a close eye on Orange and Red while they was in Purple's lab and something from Blue about having trouble leading the rest. I remember Blue being labeled as Leo, Purple as Donnie Boy, Orange as Mikey, and Red as Raph. There were pictures of their weapons on her phone too, but how did I get it in my head that they were nice?

"If the Turtles were like your dream, would you go with me to find them?" Cathy breaks the silence.

"Yeah, I'd love to meet them. Why?" I ask her suspiciously.

"I listened in on Karai and April during interrogation. That is how the Turtles are. I told April I'd go get her tonight as long as she took me and whoever wanted to go with me to the Turtles. Mary's coming, but Lisa didn't think she'd like the Turtles even if they helped her. Are you coming or not?"

"You're kidding, right?"

"Um…no."

I think for another minute. What if the Turtles that I dreamt about exist? What if they're good? If they are, will they be willing to help us? And what if they're like the Turtles the Foot taught us about? What if they really are hunting us for fun? What if April manipulated Cathy into thinking that they're nice? What then? Only one way to find out.

"I'll come." Cathy smiles ever so slightly after hearing my answer.

"Great. Grab your gear and meet me on the roof."

"On it."

I gear up quickly, then race up to the roof as quietly as possible. On the roof, Cathy, Mary, and April are in a huddle waiting for me. I join the huddle.

"What's up?" I ask.

"I just called Leo. He's going to meet me at the roof top on the corner of 5th and Lard at 12:30." April tells me.

"Its 12:06 right now, I just checked. That gives us plenty of time to get there." Mary informs.

"Are we all ready to go?" Cathy asks.

"Yes." We answer together.

"Let's move it." Cathy says. We hop to the next roof top.

Swoosh!

I pause.

"Did anyone else hear that?" I ask. They look at me shaking their heads.

"It was probably just a pigeon." Cathy says with distaste. She's hated pigeons since her last patrol. I laugh mentally at the memory.

"Right. Let's go." I say.

Fifteen minutes later, we're half-way there. April's phone starts ringing like crazy. She looks at the screen and puts on an I'm-not-surprised face and answers the phone.

"Hey, Donnie. What's up?" She says casually.

"Where are you?!" The slightly muffled voice says not so casually. April looks worried now.

"Don't I still have a few minutes?"

"Yeah, but someone got here early! Clash!"

"The Kraang?"

"No, another giant turtle! Crash! She is really intent on killing us!" April pales and my stomach twists into a thousand knots. Lisa is fighting the Turtles?

"Oh, no. Try not to hurt her!"

"I can't hurt her! I have no openings! Crack!"

"Then tell the others not to hurt her!"

"I'll tell them, but we can only stall for so long. Bam! How do you plan on calming her down?

"I'm right here, you know!" Lisa yells at Donnie.

"Tell him to put his phone on speaker!" I say. April looks at me and nods.

"Put your phone on speaker."

"Okay. Why?"

"We'll find out in a minute. Is your speaker on?"

"Yes. Clang! Please hurry!" April hands me her phone. She makes a few hand motions, saying that we should keep moving while I talked to my sister. So we start running, and, in my case, talking.

"Lisa! It's me, Liz. Stop fighting them!"

"Liz? Where are you? I thought you'd be here by now. Just a minute.Blam!"

"Lisa, stop! They're the good guys!"

"The good guys mutated us? I don't find that entirely convincing."

"For the last time, we did not mutate you! Thunk!" An irritated voice says.

"Lisa, they're telling the truth! Even Karai admitted it!"

"You're with the Foot?!" The same voice yells.

"Uh-huh. Karai admitting to a lie? Even if she did lie, she would never admit it." Lisa says, ignoring the mutant yelling at her.

"Oh, she lies. Trust me, she lies." A different guy is talking now, his attitude completely different from the other guy's.

"Please, Lisa, stop."

"Could you hold on a second?" I hear some more fighting sounds from the other end of the connection. Oh, so now she's ignoring me.

"Don't move or you'll only have three in your pack!" I hear Lisa snarl. And I'm guessing that's why.

"Why you little-!" The irritated voice yells again. I stop running all together and shriek into the phone.

"No, Lisa! Don't do this! This goes against everything you believed, or ever taught me."

"How so?"

"Remember when we were eleven? We were in the middle of practice and I messed up. A girl started making fun of me, even though she could barely break a board. I got mad. Wasn't used to being made fun of, and I wanted revenge. But you told me that if I took revenge, I'd be just as guilty as her. Karma would get her. If I took revenge, I'd get it right back." Everything was kinda silent while I told my story. I don't like silence unless we're on a mission. I laugh a little. "Remember how I didn't listen? I blew a blunt dart at her leg and went back to training. The next time she saw you, she thought it was me and whacked you with a bokken. When you got home, you were steaming. I got grounded for a week. I got my revenge, but I wasn't allowed on any type of technology outside of school for a week." More silence.

"Doesn't anyone realize that I'm trying to start a conversation here?"

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(Leo's POV)

I'm confused, disoriented, and embarrassed. Embarrassed because I'm pinned down and I have swords criss-crossing my neck, disoriented from the fight (if you call me dodging her a fight) down here, and confused because the so-called Lisa just went from threatening me to giggling. She pulls it together quickly and removes her swords. She clears her throat.

"Right. Sorry about…um…well…sorry I attacked you. It won't happen again." She says awkwardly, staring at her feet with her hands behind her back.

"Yeah. So how do you guys know April?" I inquire. Seriously, when did April get acquainted with the Foot?

"Before I tell you, it wasn't my idea." Lisa puts up her hands defensively. I guess it wasn't something good. What else can I expect from the Foot?

"What happened?" Donnie narrows his eyes suspiciously. He's "When did you guys meet? April normally tells us when she meets new mutants, especially ones that we evidently mutated." Lisa rubs the back of her neck and shuffles her feet.

"Sorry about that. Long story short; we were kidnapped and mutated. The Foot took us in, helped us get used to our new forms and told us about our supposed kidnappers." She looks at her hands. "Karai said that the people who over-powered us were agents of Splinter and the Turtles. They believed that the Turtles were bored and needed entertainment." She shrugs. "We were told we were being hunted. That kinda set me off." I'm beginning to understand why she almost killed me.

"That sounds like Karai." Raph says and crosses his arms.

"Yeah. Is it just me, or has she been more vicious lately?" I ask.

"It might be something to do with all your Shredder-isn't-your-real-father talk." Raph shrugs. I glare at him.

"Now is not the best time, Raph." I say pointedly. I swear, he does not have a filter.

"How you met April?" Donnie pushes impatiently.

"Okay, let's see. We were on patrol, when someone screamed for help. We weren't supposed to show ourselves, but Cathy didn't listen. Looking back, it's probably a good thing she was so hard-headed. Cathy followed the voice and found April. After Cathy took down the three thugs that April had already hurt, she found April's tessen. April had thought Cathy was Raph, and started talking about a Kraang warehouse. Cathy was curious, so she brought us down. We found out who she was and took her prisoner; she's on the Foot's most wanted list. I didn't interrogate her myself, but from what I can gather, she tricked Cathy into eavesdropping on her and Karai where Cathy found out the truth. Then she went to us to figure out if we'd open up to the possibility that you guys looked completely different as well as acted different. Don't take this the wrong way, but I didn't think it was possible, so they didn't invite me along. But Cathy woke me up in the middle of the night asking about the Turtles. It made me suspicious, and I followed them, figured what they were planning, got address and made a bee-line here." She looks everywhere but our eyes. "You guys know the rest." Mikey whistles.

"And that's only half your story. Being mutants is so complicated." He shakes his head.

"Guys, I see April coming with the others. They'll be here in a minute." Donnie says, looking behind him. Sure enough, there were three figures leaping quickly across roofs, and a fourth lagging a little behind. A moment later, three more girl turtles arrive, geared like us. I cross my arms. April has a lot of explaining to do.