Alex stood on the docks, her face covered by a hood attached to her shirt. It had been two and a half months since she and her friends had escaped the Shredder's lair, and they were mostly uninjured. Now they were in hiding. At first, they thought that they would have to hide because they were...different now, but there weren't any humans left. New York City was completely abandoned, except for the Shredder with his Foot Clan, and a few Kraang patrols. They had found an unused warehouse on the East side of Lairdman island, and set up home there. They had to find a place by the docks because of Liz, and that was who Alex was looking for now.
Alex looked down into the water as ripples appeared. After a few seconds, a gray snout appeared, followed by the rest of the dolphin. It looked like a normal dolphin, except that it was larger than a normal dolphin, had arms instead of flippers, and its eyes were more human. They were a striking blue-green, rather than than a regular dolphin's black.
"Hey Alex," it spoke. Alex shook her head and the hood fell off.
The Japanese-American girl's once pale skin, was replaced by soft, silver fur. Her nose had elongated into a muzzle and she now had silky ears on top of her head. She no longer had long black hair, but darker, bushier, fur on the back of her head, as well as a dark gray, or light black, stripe going down her back to the tip of her tail.
"How you doing Liz?" The wolf asked, kneeling down on the dock.
"No different than usual." Liz answered. "How are the others?"
"They're good, I think Julie wanted to come down and visit."
Liz smiled a bit. "She's sweet. So what else is new?"
"I was going to take her and Eb and go into the city. See if we can find anything, we're running low on food." Alex glanced back towards the mostly abandoned city.
"Oh," Liz slumped slightly. "Well if anyone needs me, I'll be right here. Not like I can go anywhere else." She slipped underwater and disappeared.
Alex sighed and stood up. Liz didn't like not being able to leave the water, despite the fact that the water was just about her favorite place.
Alex made her way back to the warehouse, and looked around at the others. She saw Eb sitting at her table, brushing her fur. Ebony had been mutated into a panther, with silky black fur instead of her chocolate shaded skin. She still preened, deciding that just because she had a more animalistic form, that didn't mean she'd let her fur become a rat's nest.
Julie was looking at a book in a bean-bag chair they had salvaged on their last trip to the city. Jul was the first to accept her mutation into a blond-furred mouse, if she missed her past life, she didn't show it.
"You ready to go guys?" Alex asked. The other two looked up, Julie shut her book and scrambled out of the chair as fast as she could.
"Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes!" She cried, gasping for breath before continuing. "I'm ready, let's go!"
Alex couldn't help but chuckle. "Okay, okay. Breathe Jul. Eb? You ready?" The wolf turned to the panther at the table in the corner of the room.
"Yeah Eb, you ready to go?!" Jul asked as she bounded over to her. "Come on, come on, come on!"
Eb laughed a bit. A bell-sounding laughter. "Yes, yes I'm coming." She said as she stood up. "Just calm down Jul."
"I'll try." Said Jul. Alex gave the mouse mutant an amused look.
"Thank you." Alex said. "Now come on." Alex pulled up her hood, and her friends did the same as they slipped out into the early morning.