TMNT and Batman do not belong to me. Just Cade, Delaney & Co.

Big thanks to Huntress of Light for reviewing!

Even though it was obvious that there was no way that she could escape, Cade kept struggling. She needed to distract the Batman wannabe as long as she could so that her cousins could get away. It was the least she could do, since this was all her fault.

Batman was her favorite superhero. Cade knew that he wouldn't have attacked them at all if she had just stayed calm. But, no. Like the hotheaded Bonehead that she was, she'd attacked him.

The only thing that she'd been thinking of was keeping her cousins from being seen. Now, he'd seen all four of them and thought they were bad guys, thanks to her. And as soon as he had Cade locked up, he'd go searching for Delaney, Layla, and Toby. Well, you definitely screwed this up, Cade. Like always. This was why she thought that Delaney would be a better leader.

"What are you?" Batman look-a-like growled, eyes narrowing. The infamous Bat-glare. She'd seen it enough in the cartoons that it didn't even faze her.

"First of all, shell-for-brains, it's who not what." His eyes widened as she glared, cat-eyed, right back at him. "Second, you're not gonna believe a word I tell ya anyway, Batman. If you really are him, that is."

"What is that supposed to mean?" He glared at her again, harder this time.

She smirked, "Wouldn't you like to know." Cade kicked her foot against his instep and managed to pull away. She started running and just managed to reach the fire escape when something pricked her shoulder. Instantly, she started feeling dizzy. But she wasn't about to let herself get caught again. Cade started climbing the ladder, well aware of the Batman right behind her. She reached the roof before him, but her victory was short-lived.

She passed out.

Only to wake up somewhere dark and drafty. For a minute, Cade thought that she was back in the sewers, that she was camping out with Daddy. That was until she turned her aching head and saw the metal bars. There was quiet chirping and the flurry of small wings. She was in the Batcave.

In a cage.

Wonderful. Oh well. At least he didn't try taking me to Arkham.

She knew without even looking that Batman had taken her belt and weapons. Cade reached up to adjust her mask only to find it gone. For some reason, that angered her even more than the fact that her sais were gone.

And then, he was suddenly there. And he wasn't alone. Cade was not surprised when she recognized the younger man. Running into a real Batman when she'd been sure that he was just pretend was enough to shut down her shock factor. Shell, I'm starting to sound like Laney.

So, instead of staring wide-eyed up at them, she glared, focusing her attention on the Batman but watching the Flash in her peripheral view. So, this must be after Starcrossed then. Flash hadn't been to the 'Cave before then.

"There's nothing better guaranteed to make a ninja mad than taking her mask," Cade snarled as she spoke, her Brooklyn accent heavier with her anger. "That, and using sedatives to knock an opponent out is just low. Not at all honorable."

"Honorable?" Batman asked, one eyebrow raised, still watching her suspiciously, "You attacked me."

"I was only trying to protect them, in case you haven't figured that out, Detective." No sense in letting him know that she knew who they really were. That would only make them both more suspicious of her. Flash, to his credit, was actually pretty quiet. Usually, he never shut up. Oh course, his silence might have to do with the fact that he was gaping at her. Just like the Flash in the Justice League cartoons.

She turned bright green cat eyes to him, "What you looking at, Speedster?" Cade hated being stared at. It was just another reminder of how different she was. She loved her dad more than life itself, but sometimes she'd find herself wishing that she looked like her mother. At least Annaleigh Hamato wasn't confined to the shadows 'cause of her looks.

Even the other mutants outside her family, besides the ones who'd fought with her parents against the FOH when she was just a baby, treated her differently. She returned her focus to the two men in front of her.

Even her favorite superheros were guilty of that prejudice apparently.

"How come you're dressed like Raph?" Flash asked, still wide-eyed. That shocked Cade more than anything else that had happened so far. Her pupils turned normal and her green eyes went wide. She hissed in shock.

"How the shell do you know my dad's name?"

"Your dad?" The Scarlet Speedster asked her, just as shocked.

Batman crossed his arms, "A word, Flash." Cade and West were still staring at each other.

"Now!" Wayne snapped, heading to the huge computer.

Cade was convinced that they were the real deal when Flash zipped over to the computer ahead of Batman. She looked away stubbornly, pretending that she couldn't hear them like Batman thought. When, in fact, her acute hearing picked up every word.

"Aw, c'mon, Bats. Don't tell me that you've never heard of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." The red-costumed man was clearly surprised. But Cade was now riveted. So, her family was fiction here, just like the Justice League was fiction back home.

"Maybe this is just like the Justice Guild. Remember when J'onn, GL, Hawkgirl and I ended up in that dimension? That was GL's favorite comic book and it was real. What if TMNT is real?"

"Well, that answers that," Cade spoke up from her cage. Flash jumped and Batman was glaring at her. She smirked, smug. "Acute hearing. And he has a point, Bats. You guys are just cartoon characters where I'm from. Makes sense if I'm a cartoon in your dimension. If that's what we're calling it." She looked pointedly at the Dark Knight. "Mind letting me out now? I'll be good if you are."

Flash chuckled but Batman glared. "Not until you tell me who you are. And especially not until I have some proof."

"Why don't you just get the Martian down here? He'll be able to tell you that I'm a good guy too." Batman's glare deepened and she went cat-eyed again as she rolled her eyes. "Okay, fine," she huffed. "Name's Cade Hamato. I'm sixteen years old and I'm Raphael's daughter, which ya already know, Wally. And as to the proof that I'm not lying... Well, kind of obvious that I'm half mutant turtle. You can use that fancy computer of yours to check my DNA if you like, Bruce."

"And no, I'm no mind reader." Both men were openly staring at her, if Batman's glare could be called that. "Okay, there's your proof. Now, let me the shell out of here. I've gotta find my cousins."

Flash looked at Batman who nodded. Wally unlocked the door and Cade brushed past him, knocking him aside easily even though he was good couple of inches taller.

She didn't stop until she was standing toe to toe with Batman, glaring up at him, "Now, if you don't mind..." She held her hand out. "My sais, my shell cell, and my mask. Now, please."

Delaney woke in the sewers, Layla and Toby curled up against her sides with her arms around them. It had taken her forever to convince the younger two to go to sleep. They were all worried about Cade. The periwinkle masked turtle didn't dare tell her cousins her fear that Batman might take Cade to Arkham. If their hotheaded cousin was there, it would take forever to get her out.

She was jerked out of her musings when she heard faint screams. Layla and Toby instantly woke up too.

"A woman's being mugged," Toby said, violet-eyed. "I can feel it."

"Where, Tob?" Layla asked quietly. His empathy wasn't just good for gauging another person's feelings. It also happened to be good at locating people too.

"Right above us."

Delaney led the way, running to the nearest manhole cover. Slowly and silently, she lifted the metal disk. They were a good twenty feet away from the criminals. And since the entrance to the sewers was in the shadows, they'd have the drop on the thugs.

She looked back down at her cousins and nodded her head. Silently, they crept toward the thugs and took them out. All without the woman even seeing them. Shell. I wish that we could have done this last night. Then Cade would still be with us.

Little did Delany know that a figure in the alleyway was watching them closely.

Delaney turned around to find herself face to face with a gun. The guy aiming at her looked like one of those typical henchmen. Too big and not too bright. It was all to easy for her to knock the piece from his hand.

"Laney!" The genius young turtle whipped around when Layla screamed her name. Just in time to see her younger two cousins being thrown into the back of a van.

Shell!

She ran as fast as she could, but it wasn't fast enough, "Layla! Toby!"

The big black van sped away. There was nothing she could do.

The guy who'd tried to shoot her groaned from where he was lying on the ground. So, she hadn't managed to knock him out.

She could locate Layla and Toby easily by their shell cells. But, she wouldn't be able to come up with a plan to rescue them if she didn't know what she was up against.

Interrogation was Cade's strong point, not Delaney's. She was even more of a peacekeeper than her father was. And she especially hated threatening others. But, if she was going to find out who had her cousins...

Delaney scowled and marched back to the goon, twirling her bo in one hand.

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