May and Lilly were walking out of the school together. The other two girls were finishing a test for their history teacher. May and Lilly were completely opposite. Lilly was a skater punk, and wasn't afraid to speak her mind. May was almost a little preppy and a shy quite girl. But somehow, the two got along well.

"So how's the house looking?" Lilly asked taking her skate board out from her book bag. "Oh well, it's hard but I think April is trying to talk to some kind of homeland security to explain the situation…" May responded.

"Well, I honestly hope things go okay, May!" She smiled and slowly skated down the road with May. As soon as the two passed near the alley to the man-hole, the two waved goodbye and May quickly ran down to the lair. She was excited. It was going to be her first day of ninja training. As she neared the moving wall, she quickly put on a pair of black soffe short from underneath her school skirt. She had already put on a black cami when she woke up that morning. She put her hair in a ponytail, and smiled walking into the lair.

The boys were practicing some kind of trick while master splinter watched over them. As soon as Splinter saw May walking up, he hushed the boys and calmly said. "My sons, we have progressed very far in our training. However, you all have forgotten many things that we have previously learned. Therefore, we are going back in our training."

May stood near the dojo and watched the turtles reactions. The boys were pissed. "What? Master Splinter we have been practicing hard!" Leo whined.

"Yea! Plus we already kick butt when we patrol the city!" Mikey argued.

Master Splinter smiled. "Well besides the fact that you all need to relearn, we have a new student!" He motioned for May to walk over.

She threw off her book bag and shoes and calmly walked to Splinter. The turtles watched in shock as their blonde female friend was the new student.

Leo stood up. "Master? May?" He said in shock.

May crossed her arms. "What, do you honestly think I want to be defenseless with you guys being my friends for the rest of my life?" She glared at Leo. The rest of the turtles stood up behind their elder brother. Master Splinter then directed the tension towards him.

"My sons. If I did not think it to be wise to let Miss Gibson join us, then I would have said so. Miss Gibson…" He bowed to her. Quickly she gracefully bowed back. "A word of wisdom, however, we will not slow down our pace. Do you understand?" Master Splinter demanded kindly. May nodded and threw off her school uniform.

"I'm ready!" She declared.

May woke up on Friday morning. Sore and exhausted she idly got out of the bed and put on her uniform. She hadn't learned much. This week she was basically learning posture. Meditation, and position. It wasn't as easy as she would have thought. But her drive pushed her forward. She wanted to save herself, she wanted to know that she could go out into the alley and feel defended all by herself.

As she walked out of the lair she heard a voice calling her name. She turned around and saw Raph. Big, mean, Raphael.

"Hey!" She smiled holding the door for her turtle friend.

"Hey. How are you feeling?" He asked nicely.

"Sore and tired. But overall, I'm okay." She smiled walking forward.

"Well, that's good…" Raph walked with her. The only problem was, he had nothing else to say.

They walked in silence for a while when Raph couldn't take it. "Sorry, I feel a little stalker-ish…I just wanted to ask you what you thought about ninja training."

May giggled. "Well, for starters I thought it would be a lot easier. But I really like it. I just want to know that I can be safe by my own. I mean, you guys are my friends, and I honestly hope that I know you guys for the rest of my life. But how can I live on my own and take care of myself without you guys…please don't think that I never want to be around you guys. It just…"

Raph cut her off. "Yea yea. I know what you're saying."

They walked in silence again. May recalled everything that had been happening during this whole week. Then she asked, "Hey Raph, why does Leo hate me?" Leo was the only one who didn't help her, and he blew up on the first day of training.

Raph laughed. "I don't think he hates you, its just Splinter Jr. is only concerned with himself and showing off in front of master Splinter."

May smirked. "You two don't get along very well." Raph laughed again. "It's always been like that." He smirked.

"Yea. I can tell."

When the two made their way to the man-hole May smiled. "Thanks Raph. You really are a good listener. I'll see you this afternoon!" She hugged him and then climbed up to the streets. Leaving the red banded turtle astonished. "She gave me a hug. Just me and only me." He smiled and walked back to the lair happy as a clam. Untill, that is, Mikey shot him with his new potato gun.

It was Saturday morning.

May was making some peach tea, April was out dealing with the apartment situation, Raph was watching tv, Leo was meditating, Donny working in his lab, and Mikey making breakfast.

"Hey sunshiney!" Mikey hugged her as she poured the hot bubbling water onto the floor.

"Mikey!" She slapped him and quickly put the boiling pot of water on the countertop.

"Oh no! I'm sorry!" Mikey ran behind the table.

"It's alright, I still have enough to make my tea…" She poured the water into the cup with the tea bag and quicly she put 3 spoons of sugar and stirred the ingredients in the cup to a heavenly aroma.

"Ah. Miss Gibson. Perhaps you would formulate me a cup of that blissful tea that you have made." Master Splinter said as he walked from his room.

May sighed, and then smiled. "Sure Master. I made this one for you anyways." And she handed over the cup.

"Ah! Thank you. Now. Prepare yourself for a good breakfast and then meet me and my sons on the dojo floor in a half hour." He bowed and walked over to Raphael and the tv. "My son. Please travel far away so that I can watch my stories…" Raph smiled."Sure master." He walked over to May in the kitchen. "So now you are becoming a Splinter suck up too huh?" He asked as May put another pot of water into the microwave.

"No. He wanted the tea. It's cool." She started to dig for another tea bag of peach. "Except…there is no more peach tea." She groaned. "Damnit!" She cursed herself. Raph laughed.

Suddenly Leo walked into the kitchen as well.

"Here I have some that I keep in a secret place so that Master Splinter doesn't find it." Leo walked over to an old cabinet and pulled out a peach tea bag. "Catch." He said as he threw it to May. She couldn't react in time as the tea bag aimed for her face keep zooming closer and closer. Suddenly it was caught. Raph growled and handed it to May.

"Uh. Thanks?" She said looking at both. Leo and Raph both nodded.

Raph then focused his attention onto Leo. "Are you ready for slamming Saturday, bro?" He asked punching his own hand. "I think the question is, are you ready to get your butt kicked again, Raph." Leo started to make breakfast.

"What is Saturday Slamming?" May asked stirring her tea.

"It's slamming Saturday. And every Saturday we all have a fighting match. This time, I can feel it, I'm gonna beat Leo!"

Leo smiled. "Sure Raph."

May laughed as the two argued back and forth. But their arguing came to an end when Master Splinter hushed them.

"Hothead." Leo murmured.

"Splinter Jr." Raph muttered back.

May giggled. "You guys are crazy." She washed her cup of tea and then put her hair back into a ponytail. "Maybe one day I'll be the one you guys can't beat!" She smiled.

"Not a shot princess." Raph tossed her hair and walked over to his punching bag.

May laughed, but stoped as Leo glared at her. As he passed she stuck her tongue out at him. 'Why does he hate me? What the hell did I do?'

"Come! We shall begin training!" Master Splinter called.

"Yea…are you worn out?" He asked concerned. "Yea. I think." She wiped off the sweat on her brow and stretched.

"Good my students. Now, if you must…" Master splinter started.

But Mikey finished the sentence, "IT'S TIME FOR SLAMMING SATURDAY!"

All the boys took out their weapons and started yelling about who was going to win and what not. May sat back and watched the madness unfold. She felt very fatigued. She didn't know why. She had been working hard. But not to the point of just giving up, however, she knew the only way she was going to be able to train the next week would be if she rested.

It was 3 in the afternoon and she was supposed to meet up with Anna and the other girls at 4 to go see a movie. After her last experience at the movies, she hadn't been up to the idea. But now that she was feeling sick she decided the best way for her to get better was to cancel. Anna sounded forgiving, but kinda disappointed. May didn't really care. She headed to Mikey's 'old' room and fell asleep.

"Shouldn't you all be in bed?" May asked confused.

"No sweetie. You've been asleep since yesterday afternoon." April said to her niece. "Are you feeling allright?"

"Yea…Im feeling better now. Geez. I can't believe I've been asleep for that long!" She walked over to the kitchen made some breakfast and sat next to Mikey and Raph who were watching tv.

April and Donny started to work on some details of the shell mobile, while Splinter and Leo meditated.

"I'm convinced that this is the only thing you guys do!" She laughed while eating her cereal. "Pretty much…" Mikey muttered. "Hey! Wanna play Super Smash Brothers?" Mikey announced to the other two. "Sure!" Raph and May responded at the same time. After about two hours of video gaming May decided to help April and Donny.

"Is there anything I can do?" She smiled.

"Nope."

"Nah, we got it."

May kicked herself. "Okaaaay. Guess I'll meditate with the Splinter's…haha." She laughed at herself and walked over to Splinter and Leo. "Master? May I join you and Leo?" Splinter yawned and stood.

"You may take my spot Miss Gibson. My stories are about to come on." He said walking away.

May kicked herself again. 'Great. Leo….' She sat next to Leo and sat in her meditation position. Calming all of her dreading thoughts of Leo attacking her, she pictured herself next to a waterfall, in a blue and green oasis. Flowers of pink, blue and purple all around her, and bird chirping in the distance-

"You're doing it wrong." Leo ruined the moment of peace May had.

"What do you mean?" She snapped.

"Your back needs to be straight and your head should be lifted and in line with your spine. That helps your posture in attacks and defense positions." Leo stood up to help her. "Close you eyes and feel the difference"

May smiled, 'whoah. That sounded so wrong…' She did what was told and closed her eyes. Just then, She felt a jolt of pain as Leo pushed her back straight. She didn't squirm though. Another jolt of pain ran from her spine to the top of her skull as he adjusted her head. "Oww. I'm not gonna lie Leo, That hurts!" He sat down and smiled. "You'll get used to it."

May returned to the oasis and counted all of the flowers around her, she then imagined swimming in the water and diving under the waterfall. It was a perfect moment. She was calm, and peaceful and-

"MAYYY! I MADE IT TO LEVEL 31! AND I BEAT IT! YEA!" Mikey announced to May and the blue banded turtle. Angry that he had broke her out of the concentration, May jumped on Mikey and dug her fingers around his neck. "WHAT THE HELL MIKE!" She screamed. Leo laughed and stood up, picking May off of his youngest brother. "Welcome to my life!" He continued to laugh and walked past her to the tv area.

"Haha. Sorry May, I was really excited." Mikey apologized.

"No. Im sorry. But that is very cool." She patted him on the shell and stood up.

"Hey guys! Check this out!" Raph called to the rest of his brothers. May and Mike walked over to the newscast television program.

"Reports are coming in saying that the machines, came to life? One of the prisoners, however, had escaped and police are trying to find the escaped convict as we speak." Then a commercial broadcasted on the news lady's once reporting figure.

"Sound familiar?" Donny asked his brothers.

"Yea, that robot thing with that jewelry thief." Raph declared.

"Well what are we gonna do about it? It is causing havoc in the city?" Leo asked.

"I guess we have to fight it off. For good. But I feel bad. Its not like the creature even knows better. The last time we fought it, it acted like a little kid. It doesn't know any better! That thief though, is the cause of all this chaos." Donny replied. May continued to watch as the others debated to fight and finally came to a conclusion.

"Come on guys. Let's stop this thing for good!" Raph had the final say. The other's agreed.

"So, any idea where this thing could be?" May asked. "Well, If I have a hunch, It should be returning to its original data base AKA: its home. Luckily I still have copies of the data bits that can give us a code and with a little browsing on the internet, we can find the origination of the place it came from!" Donny said running to his computer with his brother's and May following him.

"Donny! You're a genius!" May smiled as he found the place that they needed to go to find the creature. Leo looked over at his blonde haired friend. "May, there is NO way that you are coming!"

With an evil look in her eyes she frowned. "And why is that?"

"Because you haven't even started your training. And you will slow us down." Leo crossed his arms.

"Oh really? TOO BAD! I'm going!" She stuck out her tongue and hid behind Mikey. Raph laughed. "Nice May! Come on Donny! Let's go!" Donny nodded and ran out the lair.

Raph followed. And behind him was May and Mikey, and Leo last.

(April and Casey were repairing some equipment over on Coney island, and master splinter had retired to his room about ten minutes before the gang left, so there was no one to say good-bye to.)

As the gang ran over top of the roofs in the late hours of New York City, May and Raph were side by side trying to escape the rath of Leo's bullshit, and also trying not to loose Donny's directions. Eventually, they made it to the science Lab.

"Whoa! Dick and Jane go insane!" Mikey pointed out as they saw a broken down metal house in the middle of the lab.

"Seriously. What is wrong with this convict?" May asked as she entered the house.

"It's not the guy, its that poor child-like robot. All he wants is a family, and no one wants to be." Donny sighed.

"So now we just follow the footprint road!" Raph stated pointing to the giant robot foot prints on the ground.

"Come on! Let's go!" May yelled following the tracks.

"What does it want here?" May asked confused.

"I don't know, but I'm about to find out!" Raph charged into the situation.

The others followed after him and they were confronted by some familiar faces. "April? Casey? What are you guys doing here?" May asked then smiled. "At night time, alone, in an amusement park? Haha! This is a date!" May giggled.

"May, if this was a date do you think I'd wear this?" April pointed to her jumpsuit.

"Hey enough with the fashion update ladies!" Raph yelled out.

The robot creature was destroying everything in its path. "Donny? What is the plan?" Leo asked.

"It's throwing a tantrum right now. We should try to talk to it. Calm it down..." The other's nodded and ran over to it. May tried to run but was blocked. "Oh no missy. Leave this for the boys please…" April begged.

May growled but nodded.

Leo raised his voice to the robot, but somehow it started to throw a bigger fit. May couldn't believe it, but somehow this robot started to grow bigger by ripping apart the rides and having them grow on it! "This is too weird!" May screamed as it started to throw things around the amusement park.

"Come on girls. Let's help the guys!" Casey pushed the girls towards the robot.

"And HOW exactly will sacrificing ourselves to the robot be HELPFUL?" May screamed.

It then punched the floor, almost hitting Mikey. "Why doesn't this thing just have a giant off switch er something?" Mikey yelled as Don caught him. "Great idea Mikey! April! I could use your help! You guys lure the robot over to the roller coaster over there!" Donny and April ran off in the other direction.

"HEY! That green nerd just stole my date!"Casey whined.

"HA ha! I knew it was a date!" May laughed.

Mikey then realized what Donny had just said. "Did he say lure…? How quaint. HOW THE SHELL ARE WE SUPPOSED TO LURE IT?"

Suddenly the robot punched the ground knocking everyone back on their feet. Well, except May.

"Hahaha. Think you can handle the big league now?" Raph laughed picking May back onto her feet. Unexpectedly, Raph, Leo and Mikey ran over to the robot and attacking it.

Raph, somehow, managed to get caught into the robots dragon hand. "Raph!" May yelled out in shock. She then saw a rock and picked it up. "I'll save you!" She then chucked the rock at the robot.

Unfortunately, Leo had already saved Raph, and the rock was aiming straight at the robots TV head! It hit the screen, cracking it and apparently causing the robot to go off balance. Raged, the robot calmed down and looked down at its attacker. It aimed its giant claw for May.

Luckily, Leo caught her and ran right passed the clutches of the robot. "Uh…thanks?" May was in complete shock. Their attention then turned to a bright blue light.

By some means, Donny and April had made an eclectic discharger for the robot to walk into. And Mikey had already had the plan underway. Like a cat to a mouse, the robot ran after Mikey, and ran straight into the trap!

"Yes! It worked!" Donny cheered as the robot crashed.

May sighed. "Glad that's over with…" She looked over at Leo. "See I didn't slow this down what so ever!" She stuck her tongue out at him. Leo smiled.

"Hey April?" Donny asked from behind the girls.

April and May both turned around to see a treasure chest, with jewels in it.

"Woah!" May was astonished.

"These are the missing jewels, that convict stole. We think you should turn it in. There's a big reward for this." Leo smiled.

"We were thinking maybe it could help you to get your apartment back up!" Donny added.

April smirked. "You guys. We should share the reward!"

"Sharing is gooooood!" Mikey smiled eyeing the chest. May giggled as Raph hit him across the face.

April took the chest in her hands. Thanking them.

"I guess if you get your place back up, we won't be seeing you that much anymore." Donny assumed.

April then kissed him on the cheek. "Of course you will guys! We are family!" And she hugged them.

May looked up at the sky. 'Yea. Family…' She closed her eyes and thought of her family and friends back in San Francisco.

'I will always miss you all…' She felt April and the turtles walk by.

"May?"

She opened her eyes to see Donny. "Hey." She smiled holding back tears. Donny then ran up and hugged her. Shocked. May didn't hug back. But her tears started to pour from her eyes and she clung to him.

"I miss them, Don…" She cried softly.

"I know. I can tell." He responded. "Don't worry. I'm always here for you!" May closed her eyes and a vision took over her mind.

"May, I'm sorry." Donny crossed his arms looking back at her.

The two seemed to be in a room by themselves. No one was around but gadgets and tools and a desk with papers all over it.

"Donny, just talk to Raph and Mikey! That's all I'm asking! I'm the only one you all talk to now that Leo's gone! You guys can't even look at a picture of another without cursing how much you hate about the other!" May then picked up a 2 year old baby girl.

"I'm sorry May. I'm just like them, then." He had no sympathy. "I'll see you later. Good-bye June!" He smiled at the little red headed girl. May pouted and ran out of the lair, leaving Donatello, all alone.