Just A Little Supernatural

"I'm surprised you thought to do this now," Gaia said, flexing her pawed hands and feet, while Donatello pressed the biosensors here and there.

"Well," Don said, "You've been our friend for over six months, you've been…exchanging…with Mikey here for a significant amount of time…"

"Dude, did you seriously just say 'exchanged' to mean 'had sex' with a straight face? Wow."

Gaia giggled, kicking her feet and stretching back on the metal table. "And you," Mikey pointed at her with a flourish, "quit being sexy in the lab, you!"

She flicked one of her part human, part feline ears, and said, "Should I say that I'm ready for my close-up?"

Mikey just stared. Donnie's mouth was set firmly in a line. He almost made his brother turn around, but, well, nothing he hadn't seen.

"Oh," Don added, "Gaia, you mentioned that your whole family is polyamorous and pansexual. Have any of your sexual encounters led to illness, pregnancies, things like that?"

Gaia shook her head. "Everyone's on birth control, and we always make our partners get wellness check-ups."

Don nodded and shifted an electrode.

"Mikey's been my first primary steady encounter, as you put it, for over a year," Gaia said, "Rhea and Freya have been exclusive and primary for five years, and the less said about Freya's last partner, the better."

"Why? Michelangelo asked. "Break up?"

Gaia looked at the ceiling. "Death."

"Oh. Ohh. Sucks."

"Yup."

Donnie had finished placing the electrodes on the furless parts of her body. "Okay, we're ready. I think you're the first person to test out these machines since Leatherhead and Rockwell got them."

"Aww, sweet, can I rub my face on them?"

"I have no idea what to say to that, Gaia."

Mikey and Gaia laughed.

Donnie ran her through tests, including purrs, growls, feline and human vocalizations, movements, stretches. He didn't comment on her brain damage or her affected left side. Sometimes all she did was lie there with the EEG headband, purring and humming simultaneously. She again explained how she and Akeso had gotten covered in mutagen together, with the headband and heart monitor and blood pressure cuff. She demonstrated her claws on Mikey, as well as her tongue and scent glands. Throughout it all, Donatello remained blandly professional, so Gaia and Mikey telepathically exchanged sexual quips to see who blushed harder. Donnie decided to test her on that, too.

When everything was done, all he said was, "I think I'm gonna look these over with your sister. I really just wanted to test the machines. And no, you are not rubbing yourself on them. Go…play with Ice Cream Kitty."

But the flush on his face and neck said much more, and she just grinned and nuzzled his cheek, and took Mikey's hand and headed for the kitchen.

Later, Donatello sat at his computer, scanning the internet for news from five years ago, looking under the name Freya Siggur. He found a brief, obscure clip of two young women, called "hunters," being attacked by what appeared to be hyenas, leading to the bloody and violent death of one Anya Solo, with Freya stonily slaughtering the hyena creatures with both a rifle and a dagger inscribed with symbols. A side panel referred to the hyena creatures as "crocottas" but he may have just been too tired to see it properly.

Donnie was asleep by the time the final image had fully loaded, showing a very young, very angry, blood-spattered Freya brandishing a shotgun at a humanoid monster with a mouthful of sharp teeth, and in the background was a black 1967 Chevy Impala, with two young men running toward her out of the mist.