Authors Notes: I'll keep updating at least once a week, I promise! But I've kind of been working on a story idea I got a few days ago...I think you'll all like it :3

Disclaimer: I own this plot, Violet and her omnitrix...I mean bracelet! XD No more, no less.

Chapter 7: Complications in Planning

I stand nervously next to Mikey awaiting the answer of the others; I can feel I'm blushing slightly as I stare towards the floor. There has been a long silence after I explained myself and asked them about it.

Mikey grasps onto my shoulder for support, almost as if he shares my nerves. I at least know he'll help me if all else fails but…

This silence seems an eternity; I have to wonder if time has stopped completely. Well, I know it hasn't as I can feel my heart race and every now and then I catch a slight shuffle from one of the others.

"Violet, what you're asking…" Don starts then stops again.

"But we can defeat Dun" I add trying to emphasize that point more. Even if I can't stay with the clones, I can free them from being Dun's pawns.

Raph folds his arms. "I'll help with that but I refuse to have anything to do with those freaks"

I want to curse but restrain myself; I know they would probably say the same thing…

"Well, I guess if it would take care of Dun" Leo frowns, "But you have to give me your word you won't do anything foolish to try save those others" He avoids using any bad words against them, knowing it would upset me.

I can tell Cody is the only other who agrees totally with me, after being saved by Dark Leo he got a taste of the side I knew, the sensitive side that didn't really want to the live the way he was forced to succumb to. He merely nods to me to show me he'll help me with anything on that side.

So that makes three for and three against… Mikey and Cody with me for saving the clones, and Leo, Don and Raph against it. Those three all think that one cannot change their nature, but they know nothing about those guys! They are forced to fight for the little food they get as well as do Dun's dirty work: not a glamorous life!

"Fine," I sigh, at least now Leo has an answer he's happy with.

"Master Cody, you can't be serious about going against such danger for one of the cretins?" Serling asks him. I glare at him for the remark and make him look uneasy all of a sudden, I didn't realise Serling had issues around me…Maybe it's because I'm a girl and he doesn't know how to react? Whatever!

"So you guys in?" I ask weakly, hoping for the best.

Another moment of silence…DAMN! This is SO annoying!

"Alright Violet" Leo says slowly, "But remember, you gave me your word"

I nod almost in defeat, it's the best I can do now. So why are we standing here, let's go save my other brothers!

Even though the others agreed to help, I have to wait a few days before allowed to follow the plan! What a gyp!

Leo, being Leo, thinks I still have to recover from my Kanabo experience because it could be affecting my judgement or something…and this hesitation isn't? I still get odd feelings now and again, but nothing unusual…I don't see the connection!

Strange dreams could just be my mind, and the fact I'm having trouble sleeping at night is probably an altered sleep pattern.

I sulk in the safety of mine and Mikey's room gazing at the orb my love gave me. I guess you could say it's almost like an obsession; I just want to know my brothers' clones are all right. I know they need me as well; without me, I hate to think how out of hand some of their issues could get. I was the only outsider they knew who accepted them easily. I never insulted them, defied them or hurt their feelings. In fact, I think they liked me quite a bit more than Mikey would be comfortable with.

I continue to think about them when I finally put the orb away and decide to leave the bedroom. I walk unintentionally into Cody's lab, almost automatically. He's the only one in there luckily.

"Violet, are you okay?" He smiles at me, knowing I must be upset from earlier.

I nod vaguely, "I just worry" He gives me a knowing smile when I notice what he's working on. "The Time Window?" I ask as I inspect the open circuitry in the panel that's open. Some of the bits are too advanced for me, but I know basic circuitry from our time.

"Yep," he turns back to the machine. "I'm just trying to re-calibrate it in hope that it will work"

"Don't rush," I grin at him, "There's no hurry right now" He knows as well as I do that I'm not intending on going home without sorting out all my problems.

He glances at me as he begins working again, "Want to help?"

I shake my head; "I'd probably be too distracted to work on it" I wink at him before turning to leave, "I'll see you later"

"Wait! I found out something about what happened to you" I look at him curiously. "When I first activated the Time Window, you were sent further than your brothers for some weird reason" I nod. "Well, it looks like as it pulled you in, another anomaly occurred when the temporal energy grabbed your brothers into this time, so you ended up finding yourself further on"

He continues, but I understand very little of what he says, so merely shrug at the end. "What's done is done"

And with that, I continue my aimless walking once more.

The weird, yet annoying, part about the last day or so was I had to stay at the penthouse while the guys went out. How unfair, healing sucks! (If you even call it that!)

They went off on what I can assume to be some space adventure, leaving me, Cody, Splinters and Serling here.

I think my master sensed I was bored because he decided to give me extra training. I swear he's the only one who thinks I'm better; the others all act like I need to relax and keep calm…now I know how Don felt after that outbreak mutation thing.

"Honey, I'm home!" I hear Mikey call out as he runs out of the elevator, slowly followed by the rest of our brothers.

I turn so I'm kneeling on the sofa and look towards where he'll be entering. He comes in and flips so he lands next to me. Before he can say anything, the others enter.

"Hey guys, so kind of you to drop in" I pout slightly.

I regret what I said though, because immediately after, I found all four of them ganging up on me and tickling me! I hate it when they do that! I can't stop laughing because I'm very ticklish, they continue, unwilling to let me off easily. Come on! If they can put me through this, they can put me through anything!

"Stop!" I gasp as I back off. "No more! I give!"

Satisfied looks.

"So what took ya?" I ask Mikey since the others are leaving.

"Well, we kind of ended up being tricked by Torbin Zixx again" he sighs.

I chuckle, "It doesn't matter, you won right?"

He nods at me, then with a yawn asks, "You coming to bed then? It's late…"

I glance at the time; it's actually nearly two in the morning! WOW! I was so bored I lost track of time. I grin and walk with him, linking arms as we go.

I sit up, a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach growing. I rub my plastron lightly to try ease the pain but flinch as it worsens. I slowly stand then run to the bathroom. I heave (nice). As I get my bearings again, I tap into the communicator in my wrist computer.

"Don? You there?" I speak into it.

I hear a moan before I get an answer. "Violet, do you have any idea what time it is?"

I bite my lip, "Sorry Don but it's happening again, you know that thing you help me deal with"

I can hear he jumps up before I'm even finished. "Where are you?" he demands.

"I'll meet you in your room, okay?" I say slowly, calmer than he is.

"Okay, but hurry then"

I roll my eyes and leave the bathroom, walking slowly because of the pain. I reach Don's room fairly quickly, he should be happy the bedrooms are so close.

"When did it start?" he asks me as soon as I enter, not even bothering for any small talk.

"I only noticed before, like when I woke up" I keep it simple.

He grabs something from his drawer; I recognize it immediately, an ultrasound scanner. He smears the gel on my plastron and places the scanner over it, moving it gently as he uses the computer to look at the image.

He curses as he takes it away. "Your body should be done in a couple of days, but I don't know what we can do…"

I hate this! I don't get periods like humans. Oh no, I produced unfertilised eggs every so often. So when they remain unfertilised, I have to lay the egg in my nest, then Don would dispose of it safely later.

The problem is, my nest was in a secret place only Don knew about, it was behind a moveable panel in his lab's wall. I would hide out there for a few days every time this happened and be left mainly in peace (Don would obviously talk to me and provide me with whatever I needed).

Now I know some people would think 'How could you not tell Mikey about this?' Well, you wouldn't tell your partner every time you have your period, and this is the equivalent, I just need Don's support because it can stress my body a bit.

Don and April would often cover for me, saying I'd gone over with her for those days (once I think he used Leatherhead instead to make sure it wasn't suspicious). But there is a very good reason I must be separated from them most of the time…pheromones.

What Bishop had implied to me in the past kicked in a little while ago. I still remember his words. "Imagine what it will be like for you and your reject family, you the only girl for the instincts to rest on…"

He wasn't entirely clear on it and I didn't entirely get it at first, but now I understand; if I don't hide away, I'll have everyone attracted to me and not knowing why. The true reason is because I'm essentially in heat. Don understands, but I really don't know how he gets round his compulsion towards me.

"We need to get away from the others," he says what I'm thinking.

"But where?" I ask, "I haven't even got a nest!"

He frowns in thought, "What about one of the lower levels?"

"Would Cody mind?" My question causes Don to frown more.

"You could ask him," he suggests.

I recoil, "Now?" I receive a nod from my brother. "What about the others? They'll find me or something, they'll think I've run off, they'll-"

He cuts me off. "Don't worry, I'll think of something" I'll have to trust him.

I'm forced to also call Cody up and get him to come to Don's room as well. I explain to him quickly what the problem is; by the end, I can tell he's thinking.

"I've got an idea" he smiles at me, "If we go to O'Neil Tech, we can create the nest you want with the Transcendental Lathe then bring it back"

"You've lost me" I sigh.

He leads me out with Don, "Don't worry, you'll understand when we get there"

The three of us go to the company this kid owns using the Hovershell and go to a lab in there. Don explains that the Transcendental Lathe is a machine that can create physical objects from thoughts; I'm surprised he didn't come up with this idea!

"Okay, just relax and think clearly," Cody instructs me.

I close my eyes and think carefully about what I want, I have to focus quite a bit to keep myself on track though as recently I keep thinking of those clones.

When we're done, I have my nest; It's fairly basic, like an oversized cat-bed really, but it will do for now! Before we go, Don creates something else then hands it to me; it looks like a bracelet.

"Here, this will mean you won't have to hide"

I'm more confused than before now, "What?"

"It is something I've just created to stop the pheromones from reaching us, almost like a force field against them," he explains.

"Good idea Don" I smirk and put it on my wrist. "We'll just have to hope they don't catch on" At least now I don't have to act like I'm avoiding everyone or even running away, I can stay until I have to return to my nest.

When we return to the penthouse, Cody finds me a space a few floors down where the others don't really go. I find he puts me in what looks like a child's playroom.

"This used to be mine," he explains, "But it's unused now, this whole floor is really. The top floor got made into a penthouse so everything is up there now, the rest of the floors aren't really used. Perfect for you I guess"

I grin, "Thanks, now I'd better return to Mikey or he'll think I've gone off forever" I wink as I go back to the elevator, Don comes up to me.

"Here, take this for the pain," he gives me some white pills, but I know what they are, good old aspirin.

I wriggle back into the bed and feel Mikey grab onto me. "Where have you been?" he asks suspiciously.

"The bathroom, I felt sick" That's at least true.

He pulls me closer to himself. "You're okay now?"

"Yup" I close my eyes and cuddle into him, letting myself drift off once more.

The next day seems to go much better than I could have ever anticipated. No one even suspects a thing, I just have to not make a fuss about feeling uncomfortable and I'll be okay.

Don keeps giving me aspirin every four hours for the pain, I guess that helps. Cody keeps checking on me too, pretending it's about something else.

"You seem quiet" Raph growls at me as I sit next to him in silence.

"I'm fine!" I accidentally over-react.

He looks oddly at me, "Why wouldn't you be?" He glances at my wrist, "What's that thing?" he asks suddenly.

"Oh, that old thing…"

He frowns, "I don't remember ever seeing you with that before"

"Well…" I bite my lip, trying to work out what to say to him. "It's something Don gave me-"

"What the heck would you need a weird bracelet for?" he demands as he grabs my wrist and yanks it towards himself.

I try to fight him unsuccessfully. "Please! Raph, don't!"

He looks at it then at me. "I'll ask ya again, what is it?" When I stay silent, he adds, "Then I guess I'll have to find out"

"NO!" I jump, "You can't!"

"Why?" He narrows his eyes at me.

I sigh, "I don't want to say, it's just something bad"

Without me even realizing, he pulls it off, I only notice when he starts fiddling with it. I hold my breath, hoping for the best.

But of course, fate is against me so the pheromones quickly reach him.

"Can I have that back now?" I grab for it but he keeps it just out of reach.

A grin seeps onto his face, "Violet…"

Oh boy, it's that tone you get from him when he wants something. "Yes?" I ask innocently.

"Well, I just wanted to say…" His hand slips from the sofa and catches my leg; I shimmy away only to find him follow.

"Raph? You're freaking me out"

"Come here!" He dives at me, he's long dropped the bracelet, but I can't see it.

"Stay away from me!" I shout at him, but he ignores me.

Don comes in, obviously disturbed by the commotion in here.

"He took it off! Help me!" I continue to back away from Raphael who has a sort of deranged look on his face. I continue to desperately scan around for the device, but I still can't find it.

Don runs towards us. "Easy Raph, it's just your sister Violet" I see he's controlling his breathing, probably one of the ways he's learnt to deal with this.

"She's mine! You get away!" Raph growls at him, and then attacks him. They begin fighting as I crawl to where Raph was and desperately search for my bracelet. I find it under the couch and quickly put it on once more.

Pretty much immediately, Raph stops. "Huh?" he looks at Don who's holding his bo defensively, "Yo Braniac, what happened?" he turns to me, "One minute I'm talking to Vi, then I lose control of myself"

"I think I should explain" I sigh; I guess I can trust Raph; he's kind of secretive himself.

Eventually, after a lot of questions, he understands. "I'm sorry Violet, I didn't mean it"

I smirk, "I know, I'm so out of your league"

"Oh really?" he grins back. "Well, I heard you were falling for me before Mikey asked ya"

I control my emotions easily, "Not really"

He raises an eyebrow, "I'd never go with you anyway; you're too complicated"

"At least I'm not constantly suspicious"

We continue our fun, throwing mild insults at each other in a playful manner. I know Raph won't tell the others about me, he promised me.