Chapter 2

When the team got home, Leo put the girl on the medic bed in Donnie's lab and went the tell Splinter about the girl. Raph and Mikey went to bed, while Donnie looked over the files he had gotten.

Five hours into it, Donnie had decoded all of the files and was just about to read them when Raphael walked in. "Yo genius, its 6 in the morning. Have you been here all night?"

"I just finished decoding the files. I'm just about to read them." He ended in a yawn. That was when Raph spun the chair around and though Donnie over his shoulder.

"Ya know Don, for a genius, your pretty stupid." Raph carried his brother all the way to his room and laid him in bed. Don was just about to get up as Raph stepped towards the doorway, when Raph said, "Donatello, if you get out of that bed I swear, I'll strap you down to it." Which made Donnie gulp, but then he thought of something.

"What about that girl I still need to check her over and monitor her."

"Don't worry, I'll watch her. Now good night bro." And with was that Raph was out the door and headed towards the lab.

In the lab, Raph watched the heart monitor. It was steady. Her breathing was even. Raph soon became bored and started reading the files but the sleeping girl.

It said 'Testing Subject #1045, was successfully mutated. Has attempted to escape 7 times and successfully escaped 5 times. Has remained undetected for up to 3 days in the past 7 mouths. First attempt: no casualties. Second attempt: several cuts to hands and feet for braking of glass tube. First escape: suffered several cuts to feet, a bullet grazed right thigh, found and captured within 2hours. Second escape: cuts to arms from chains, grazed twice, hit once, found and captured within 8hours. Third escape: cuts to bottom feet, cracked kneecaps, surgery was successfully, found and captured within 24hours. Fourth escape: sprained ankle, cut shoulders, hit to head, found and captured within 29hours. Fifth escape: several hits to the head, cuts on feet, sprained kneecap, several cuts on arms, found and captured within 3days.' Raph looked at the girl, she did have a few bruises to the head and a few deep cuts on her arms and legs. There was no permanent damage by the look of it. But her knees did look a little shaky. But luckily for her, Donnie was an ace doctor.

Leo walked in and looked at her. She looked so innocent to him. Like no one would ever hurt her. Just then her eyes started to twitch and her arms started to move. She rubbed her head and sat up. Soft groans came from her mouth. Raph and Leo stood there shocked but then Leo soon caught up to the moment and told Raph to get the others. He nodded and went to get his little brothers and father.

The female turtle heard his voice and opened her eyes. She was shocked to see the two other turtle mutants. Leo looked back to her and he saw her icy blue eyes. But there was panic in them as well. The girl scooted away from him and her once even breath was now in the beginning stages of hyperventilating. Leo kneeled down to get eye to eye with her, then spoke very calmly. "It's ok, your safe here." The girl started to calm a little, but still had that panicked like in her eyes.

She then started to look around. Which was a mistake. The first thing that she saw was Donnie's Krrangbot that he had 'found', which made her scream at the top of her lungs. Raph, Donnie, Master Splinter, and Mikey all came in with their hands over their ears. Splinter was the first to react, he picked her up and carried her to the dojo. He placed her under a big tree and sat in front of her.

The turtles followed their father and stood in the doorway. As soon as she was placed on the floor, her screams disappeared. But she was still terrified. Leo walked over to his father and sat next to him. Soon come his other brothers. The family of five sat about third, four yards away to give her some room and after about five minutes, the girl calmed down. Mikey then decided that it was time to ask a question. "Hey there, what's your name?" The girl just stared at him.

She then pushed herself backwards with her hands into the tree and then pulled her knees to her chest. Mikey looked to his family for what to do now. Leo then decided that he'd try to talk to her. "My name is Leo, and this is my family. This is our sensei and father Splinter, the red-banned brut is Raph, Donnie is the one in purple with the stick coming out of his back, and the orange goof ball is Mikey." Leo pointed to each one. Then he smiled at her, hoping that she'd warmup to them. Unfortunately, all she did was pull her legs closer to her chest. Raph motioned Leo to come closer to him so they could whisper behind Splinter's back.

"Do ya think she can understand ya? Or even speak?" Leo shrugged he shoulders. To tell the truth he didn't think of that.

Leo turned back around, facing the female turtle. Donnie overheard his brothers talking and decided to ask her. "I apologize if this offends you, but can you understand us." The girl turned to him and nodded.

"Can you talk?" Donnie questioned.

"Yes, I can talk, " Her voice was soft and quite, "and hear for a matter a fact!" She turned back to Raph. Her eyes sharpened and her voice a bit harsher. Mikey snickered a little. Raph was about to slack him when Leo warned him not to, and scolded Mikey.

Donnie smiled sheepishly and turned to the girl. "Do you have a name? Because if not then Mikey will name Shella or something else stupid like that." She looked away shyly but didn't answer. "But then again Shella is a pretty..." Donnie was talking in panic mode until she cut him off.

"No that's not it. I just never got a name, unless you call, Testing Subject #1045 a name." She said the last put in her best Krrang voice. She then sighed and laid her head on her knees, but only for a second.

There was a sharp pain in her knees that told her, 'NO WEIGHT!'. Master Splinter saw her slight movement and narrowed his eyes, but then it hit him. "Donatello, have you checked..." He paused to think of a name for the girl turtle. "Amaya" He smiled. She looked at him a little confused. "Do you like it?" He smiled at her. She then got the hit. She nodded with a smile, along with the four brothers.

"Come on, Amaya, I'll show you to my workshop." Donnie was careful not to use the word lab, just to make her feel safer. He then got up and walked to the door, motiving her to follower. Amaya got to her feet using the tree for support but as she took one step, she landed flat on her face. Leo, Raph, and Mikey all got up and went to help her up. But she had different plans.

"No, no, it's ok. I'm good. I can do this on my own." She insisted. Then she tried to get up again. But she could only stand because she was leaning heavy on the tree. They all felt so bad. They wanted to help her so bad, but she didn't want they're help.

After her fifth attempt, Raph's temper was starting to get the better of him. So instead of being angry with himself, he walked over to her and scooped her up, carrying her like a football. Which wasn't the best idea. "PUT. ME. DOWN. NOW!" She yelled as she struggled to get free. But Raph was too strong and stubborn to let her go. Leo walked behind his brother and told him to stop for a moment. He bent down to eye level with the struggling girl turtle and his brother's shell. Leo said that, she was going to be ok and that this was Raph's way for showing that he cared.

Amaya still looked angry but stopped her struggling a little bit. She still pushed on his arm that was around her wrest and his shell but stopped trying to kick him.

Leo and Mikey were then told to clean out the storage room at the end of the hall in between Raph's and Leo's rooms. So they did. Master Splinter also told them to call April and Casey to get a bed and maybe some other stuff.