Most people find stray cats or dogs during their life. They bring them in, nourish them or send them to a vet, and either end up keeping them or finding them a home to stay at.

That happens to most people.

Well…I guess we aren't like most people!

What do we find on our doorstep? Not a cat, or a dog, oh no. We find a giant, man looking turtle! A turtle that carries weapons with him!

Seriously, what sort of turtle does that?!

I sighed, leaning against my kitchen table with an annoyed scowl. In the last 3 hours my younger sister, Reika, had not only, eaten my toast, burned our dinner, and interrupted my favorite TV show, Space Heroes, but she has also brought in a strange mutant turtle thing and is nursing it back to health in the living room.

On my couch. My couch! I love my couch! It is like my baby!

I've had that thins for years. You wouldn't understand memories I've made with it, the laughs we've shared. I was sitting on that couch the first time I ever watched Space Heroes.

And now some turtle was bleeding all over it!

…Hmm, maybe I should be more considerate since it is hurt and bleeding, but who cares?! MY COUCH~!

Pausing from my inner turmoil when I heard a cough, I looked towards the living room.

Could this day get any weirder? Well, let's find out.

Pushing myself off the table, I trudged over to Reika. She was kneeling in front of the couch, a wash cloth held between her fingers as she softly dabbed the forehead of the turtle she found.

I wasn't sure what was worse. The fact that we had a human sized turtle in our house, or the fact that this turtle was wearing a red mask and had sharp weapons on him.

Of course for the safety of Reika and myself, I took away those weapons, but who knows if it had more hidden in its shell or something? I wouldn't be surprised by the amount of stuff I found in It's belt.

There were little eggs things; that clearly couldn't be eggs, throwing stars, and the piece to resistance, one Sai blade. At least, I hoped that is what they were called. I wasn't completely sure of ninja like weapons.

However, usually Sai blades came in a pair; at least as much as I knew about them anyway. Perhaps this… turtle guy, had lost his other Sai blade in a fight or something?

It had to be a fight. How else why would he be this badly injured, unless it was self harm, which didn't seem likely by the way the wounds looked.

"Think he's ah ninjah or sawmethin'?" my little sister inquired softly, placing the cloth back into the bowl of water.

"It is 'something' not sawmethin', first of. And secondly, a ninja turtle?" I raised her eyebrow. "Well, maybe. I mean, he's got all the stuff for it anyway."

How would a turtle possibly learn Taijitsu though? Unless he had a secret Turtle organization somewhere. Oh, wait, that might actually be a little cool.

Well, sort of cool.

Maybe they were apart of some weird government experiment. If that were the case, would secret agents come looking for this guy after a while? I'd really rather no get involved in a stereotypical government chase, thank you very much.

"We should get Ed. He doesn't work todah and I'm sure he'll knaw what ta do." Reika looked up at me.

Oh yeah, that could work. So long as Ed doesn't freak!

"Reika." I sighed, keeping my cool. "I'm barely dealing with this whole situation, I doubt Ed will be very calm about having his patient be some human sized turtle."

"But Sky, he could die if he doesn't get some help."

With a small sigh, I reached for her phone. "He probably wont pick up. It's 4:20 A.M." I announced dryly. And if he does; would he believe me if I asked for him to bandage up our little guest?

Maybe he will think it is a dream and come anyway? Then tomorrow morning if he asks if it was a dream we can pretend we have no idea what he is talking about.

"Ya could aht least try." Reika mumbled.

Curse you and your large baby eyes!

Groaning in frustration, I trudged back to the table, lifting my phone up. Punching in Ed's number, I held the phone to my ear.

Here goes nothing. Maybe the government will go easy on us and just give us amnesia?

I waited a few seconds, doubting whether or not Ed would pick up. By the third buzzing sound, I was surprised to hear a click.

"Hello?' I groggy voice asked.

Huh, he actually picked up. Go figure.

"… Oh, hey Ed." I clicked in astonishment. "You still up?"

"I was asleep." Came back the annoyed reply.

"Oh, sorry… sort of. Naht really, yah lahzy bum." I snickered softly. As soon as the words came out of my mouth though, I cursed slightly. My accent snuck its way out again.

"Accent." Ed mumbled.
"Yeah, I know, shut up." I grumbled.

Now don't get me wrong. It isn't like I hate Boston accents or anything; I just don't like my accent. Confusing right?

See, when I was little, I went on this road trip with my mom. At that time, my mom and dad had been fighting and were considering divorce.

Not wanting to hurt Reika and me because of it though, they decided to try and work it out and start by taking just a few weeks apart from each other to cool their heads.

So while my mom took me on a road trip, my dad took Reika to Florida to spend a week.

I didn't mind the road trip, but everywhere we stopped, other kids would make fun of my accent. Being little, that was a big affect on me. Once that vacation was done, I just couldn't stand my accent anymore and hid it the best as I could.

Usually I do fine, but sometimes when my emotions get the better of me, it slips out.

"Anyway, Ed, I need your help?"

"Can't it wait till the afternoon?" Ed sighed.

I looked over my shoulder at Reika and the turtle, frowning. "No, it can't. I need you to head down to my apartment."
Ed sighed in annoyance. "Why?"

"Just do it, and make sure you bring your medical bag." I ordered.

There was a pause, as if Ed had to think over what I just said. There was a shuffle of movement before Ed spoke up.

"My medical bag?" he repeated, his voice sounding more awake and clear. "Why in the world would you need that."

"I can't explain right now, just hurry. You might naht have much time!" I snapped, angry that I once again had my accent slip. That was the fourth time today! I'm starting to think this whole thing is just getting worse.

"O-Okay! I'll be right there!" Ed sounded panicked as I hanged up. Sighing, I closed my cell and stuffed it back in my pocket.

"Is he cawming?" Reika asked softly from the couch.

"Is he coming?" I glanced at her, and she pouted back. "Yeah. He'll be here soon."

Reika sighed with relief, nodding.

-000-The Turtles and April-000-

"I don't see any sign of him." April sighed, hunching forward to catch her breath.

"This is around the area Mikey said he last saw Raph." Leo announced. "He has to be here somewhere."

"Maybe he already went home?" April lifted her head. "Or…" she trailed off, unable to finish her train of thought.

The two brothers narrowed their eyes, knowing what she was going to say.

There was always that small possibility that Raph was… was captured by the Foot.

If that was the case, who knows what could be happening to their red banded brother as they speak? They could be torturing him. Or worse, he could already be-

"Lets keep searching." Leo snapped the other two in attention, refusing to believe that his younger brother might no longer… be in this world.

"Where Leo?" Donnie asked helplessly. "We've searched this entire area over four times."

April nodded in agreement. "He's right, we are running out of time. It will be sunrise soon." She announced.

Leo looked ready to say his plan when his phone began to ring. Snatching it up from his belt, he lifted it to his ear. "Hello?"
"Have you found him yet?" Mikey's voice rang out.

Leo sighed. "I'm sorry Mikey. We haven't found anything yet. I'll keep you posted though, I promise." He said softly, sensing his baby brother's panic through his voice.

There was a pause. "O-Okay."
Leo smiled softly. "We will bring him back. I have to hang up now though. I have to keep this line open just in case-" Leo froze. Wait a minute- "Donnie!" he whirled around to his second youngest brother. "Can you track Raphael's T-Phone?"
Donnie blinked, rubbing his chin. "Yes… Yes!" his eyes widened, whipping out his own phone.

"Mikey! You're a genius!' Leo laughed.

"I am?" Mikey asked incredulously through the phone line.

"Yes, you are!" Leo chuckled. "We're going to try and track Raph by his phone, so I'm going to have to hang up."

"O-Oh, okay. Find him soon!"

"I will. Talk to you soon."

"Okay. Bye."
"Bye." Leo hanged up the phone to look at Donnie, who was messing with his T-Phone wildly. After a few seconds of constant button pushing, Donnie grinned.
"We got a signal! And it is close!"

"What are we waiting for then?" April demanded.

-0000-

At the knock, Sky quickly rushed to the door. Carefully opening it up, she peeked out. She smiled when she saw orange-headed Ed standing before her, his First Aid kit clutched firmly in his grasp.

"I got my bag." He said, out of breath. "I came as fast as I could. So what happened? Did Reika get hurt? Are you injured?" He blinked his bright green eyes at her wildly, wanting some answers.

"I'm fine, so is Reika." Sky swung open the door to allow him in. As he began to step forward, Sky pushed her hand forward, placing it on his chest to stop him. "Wait, before I let you in, you have to promise me something."

At her serious tone, Ed frowned. "Okay, this can't be good."

Sky growled, "This is serious Ed."

"Oh I know." He nodded quickly. "But it is never good when you want me to promise you something."

Smirking just a tad, she continued, "No matter what- or um, who, you see in here. You cannot, and I repeat, cannot call the cops, or tell anyone. You got that?"

They stared at each other intently; Ed trying to get answers threw Sky's eyes. Unable to come up with some, and too tired to really question any of this, he nodded.

"Very well, I promise."

"Ah, pinky promise." Sky held out her pinky.

"Is that really necessary?" Ed sighed. This was always the thing with Sky and Reika. No matter how ridiculous and childish it seemed, Pinky promises were things you could never break to them. It was as if you just swore on your life.

"Yes."

With an exaggerated sigh, Ed held out his pinky and wrapped it around Sky's. "There, it is a promise." They shook their pinkies up and down as if in a hand shack before pulling away.

"Thanks for coming Ed." Sky grinned as she let him inside.

"No problem. You two are like family to me after all." Ed smiled as he passed by her, looking around for his patient.

"Great. So then you'll understand when we ask you that we need you to look over a turtle?" Sky asked hopefully

"Yeah of course- wait, what? A turtle?" he demanded, whirling around to face her. "You called me in at 4;30 in the morning for a turtle?!"

"Hey!' Reika called from the couch. "He isn't just ahny turtle! He's special."

"Got that right." Sky grumbled under her breath.

Ed glared at Sky, looking pass her to Reika. Since the front of the couch was facing away from him, he could not see who was laying down on it, but he could only assume that who ever it was, they needed his help.

"Over there?" he asked.

Sky nodded, motioning for him to approach. Cautiously stepping forward, Ed looked over the side of the couch. With a high pitched, very manly, scream, he stumbled back, falling back into Sky's arms.

"Wow there, calm down Ed." Sky struggled to hold him in place.

"WHAT IS THAT?!" Ed screamed into her ear, making her wince.

"Ah turtle." Reika answered with a smile. "His nahme is Raphael."

"That is not a turtle!"

"It is. He's got the shell and everything." Sky explained calmly. "Listen Ed. Don't know where he came from, what he is doing here, how he is like that, or how he got hurt, all I know is that he's in bad shape." She tightened her grip on his shoulders. "We can't trust any one else with this. Only you. Please Ed."

Looking between the two sisters, he gulped at the sight of their pleading looks. Glancing nervously at the human sized turtle, were they meant to grow that big?, he sighed. "…Okay."

I can't tell if I am improving, or getting worse with Reika's accent. When I re-read over her lines, I try to read it in a boston accent. It sounds right to me, but I'm not the best at mimicking accents. So... yeah, I hope it is okay 0.0

Poor Ed though. Just woke up from a long day just to be asked by his two crazy neighbors to takes care of a mutant turtle. He's got it tough XD

Also, Note to self everyone: Never mess with Sky's couch 0.0