Chapter 2

'Oh shit.'

"Well if it isn't Rosalba," Kurai purred. She waved for another person to come up to hold onto the other side of me and then suddenly thrust her fist into my ribcage. I gasped for air as I bent over in front of her.

"It's good to see you too Kurai," I gasped out. Then I got punched in the jaw for that one. I just sort of laughed at her. "What on Earth are you doing here anyway? What reason does the Foot Clan have to take innocent people as hostages?"

Kurai punched me across the other side of my jaw. "You will see soon." She then looked around before calling out to someone. "We know you're out there! If you don't surrender, we start executing hostages!"

My eyes widened. April was right. There was a vigilante that was fighting back against the Foot Clan. I then smiled and chuckled a little. "So, someone's causing trouble for the big bad Foot Clan."

Suddenly, there was the sound of a camera going off. We all looked over to the source to find April with her phone out. Kurai pointed her handgun at her and yelled for her to stand up. Before she had the chance though, there was a shout coming from the tracks as well as the sound of a train. Kurai gave an order in Japanese and the lights went out. As they did, I could hear laughter and then the train came in. Then someone jumped off the top of the train.

The Foot were preoccupied with what was going. I quickly grabbed the two that were holding me and pushed them both together, knocking them out. Two more tried to grab me, but there was just enough light that I quickly jumped up and split kicked them both in the air. I turned around to find another pointing their gun a me before someone quickly punched them into the wall.

The light wasn't very good, so I didn't get a clear look, but I saw someone behind them. Thinking quickly, I thrust my hand out to stop them with my power and then thrust them into the wall. The person looked behind them before nodding at me and then ran off. Just like that the fight was over, and the people fighting ran off into one of the construction lifts. April ran over to me to see if I was okay. I waved her off before following her out of the subway. We both had the idea of trying to find our saviors.

Coming around the building, we saw the construction on the side and looking up, we heard voices coming from the top. April quickly brought down the fire escape ladder and began to climb, with me right behind her. As we got closer to the top, the voices got louder and clearer.

"You see that? I smoked that dude!"

"Yeah, boys, bring it in."

"That was amazing. You were incredible!"

"Great elbow Donnie."

There were four total voices that I could hear clearly. When we reached the top, April looked to me to see if she could go up first. I nodded at her and she went up, but as she went up, I got out my tantos out of my boots.

"Oh yeah! That's what I'm talking about. This is our city! These are our streets!"

"You mess with us; you step into the Wu-WHOO-Tang!"

"Ooh, yeah! Did you see that guy's jaw connect with the concrete?"

"He'll be drinking out a sippy cup for a month!"

April suddenly stopped at the top before she could climb over and took her phone out of her pocket. As she got into position to take the photo, I could still hear the voices talking. However, once the camera flashed, the voices suddenly stopped. April froze at the top of the ladder, and I heard whispers but couldn't make out what they were saying from my position. April started to climb down the ladder when a chain shot out from the roof and wrapped around her, pulling her up onto the roof.

"April!" I shouted. I used my training to climb the ladder a few steps before jumping and flipping over the top, landing in front of April, who was laying on the roof. Taking a defensive stance, I looked around the roof. I didn't see anyone around, but I had a gut feeling that they were still here. I had to get April out of here so that way I could fight without having to worry about her getting hurt. Turning around and kneeling, I helped April to sit up as she was holding her left arm to her chest. I suddenly heard a giant thud behind me and watched April's eyes widened.

Turning around, I stopped as what I saw was not what I was expecting. 'Whoa,' I thought as I slowly stood up.

I followed the two toed green foot all the way up to a giant green turtle. He was tall at about six foot two inches, as opposed to my five foot seven. He had sunglasses on top of his head and two sai attached to his belt. His huge biceps rippled with tension as well as his bulging leg muscles. "Give me the camera," he growled in a deep voice.

"Ooh, look, he's doing his Batman voice," came a different voice from the darkness. "Oh, they're so hot, I can feel my shell tightening."

"We can hear you," the turtle in red snapped at the voice.

April grabbed onto my arm when she stood up as well. After my shock wore off, I got back into a defensive stance in front of April. The turtle watched me with interest and eyed my stance with recognition in his green eyes. He went to say more but another voice interrupted him.

"Enough!" the voice shouted. I watched as another giant turtle jumped from the top of the water tower and landed behind April and me, cracking the ledge of the roof underneath his feet. I quickly put April behind me as the first turtle in red moved away from us. This new turtle had a blue mask on and held a katana in each hand. I could see a faded scar that went from right to left and peaked out at his nose.

"Back off Raph," he ordered. "Ladies, hello. I apologize. My colleague here forgot to say please." He was being very polite as he jumped down from the ledge. He was just as tall as the turtle in red, only about an inch shorter. But I noticed his eyes were a cobalt blue, almost glowing in the low light. He then began to walk slowly towards us. "So, would you please hand over the camera?"

April and I slowly walked backwards. April then spun around and pulled me along with her to face yet another turtle. Only this time he was in orange and was sporting some shell necklaces with sunglasses hanging from them. He had a pair of nun chucks attached to his belt. He was smaller than the other two and as April let out a gasp, he held up his hands.

"No, no, no, no. Whoa, whoa. Chill. It's just a mask. See? Don't freak out," He said quickly and pulled off the orange cloth. He held it in front of my face. "Right?"

I started to feel April's grip on my arm loosen and turned around just in time to catch her before she hit the ground. 'I think that went well,' I thought. My thoughts were voiced by a fourth voice that came from the darkness. As he came into the light, he had a purple mask on and what looked like tech goggles that he brought down over his eyes. He had a giant tech pack on his back and had a pair of tapped up glasses.

I maneuvered April so that I could put away my tantos and picked her up in order to put her on some tarp on the roof. In doing so, I pulled my side where Kurai punched. I grabbed in and took in a breath in pain.

"Are you alright?" the turtle in blue asked.

I looked over to the four of them standing there and smiled slightly. "I'll be fine. Just a little sore is all."

The turtle in purple didn't look convinced. "Sit down and I'll take a look at you."

I laughed at little at that. "I'll be fine. I'll just wrap it when I get home."

"Aren't you gonna faint like your friend?" the turtle in blue questioned. "You aren't scared of us?"

I looked over all of them slowly and then shook my head at him. "I have seen and done crazier than you guys."

The turtle in orange jumped forward. "What could be crazier than us?"

When he jumped forward like that, my instincts kicked in and an old can of soda flew towards him, hitting him in the head. The others laughed at him, but I covered my mouth with my hands. "I am so sorry," I apologized. "Sometimes I can't control my powers as much as I would like."

"Powers?" the turtle in purple asked in curiosity.

I didn't really know what to say to him. No one really knew about my powers, other than April and a few other people. "I'm a telekinetic," I blurted out. I didn't know why but I felt like that I could trust them, and not because they were a secret themselves.

The eyes of the turtle in blue widened. "So, that's how you threw that guy into the wall," he said in astonishment. There was silence as they processed that information. "So, what's your name?"

I smiled lightly at him. "Rosalba Hartford. What about you four?"

"Why should we tell you?" the turtle in red questioned harshly. "You'll just think that we're just a bunch of freaks. You probably already do."

He was being very abrasive which got my anger going quite a bit. That usually only happens when my father is involved or something to do with his company. "Listen here Sai boy, just because you're a giant talking turtle doesn't mean that I can't and will kick your ass," I growled at him.

He went to say something but that was when April started to wake up. I knelt beside her as the turtles gathered around us. The turtle in purple was shinning a light in her face, which I assumed was checking her over. "What are you?" April whispered.

The one in blue looked around at the other four. "Well miss, we're ninjas."

"We're mutants."

"Well, technically we're turtles."

"Oh, and we're teenagers," the one in orange tagged on at the end. "But we can still have adult conversations."

I rolled my eyes at his antics. He was most definitely a teenager, most likely the youngest of the four. April stood up slowly and spoke slowly. "Wait, wait, wait. So, you're ninja mutant turtle teenagers?"

"Well, when you put it like that it sounds ridiculous!" the turtle in purple said.

"See, she's looking at us like we're freaks," the turtle in red growled. "I bet that's why you took our picture wasn't it? Show your friends?" The turtle in orange happened to say something about April having hot friends and he then held up April's cell phone, shaking it slightly. "Looking for this?"

"Don't break it," April pleaded. "No, no, no. Please."

Before I could take the phone from him, the turtle in blue took it from the one in red. "How many times do I have to tell you?" he asked in exasperation. "We don't break things, we fix them. Donnie already wiped the phone, genius." So that was the purple turtle's name. "Problem fixed, moving on."

Then the two of them started to argue. I had a flashback to my two cousins fighting. I guessed that they were brothers and the oldest two of the four of them.

Then the turtle called Donnie walked up with a hologram on his wrist. "Leonardo, if we want to make it home before Master, we gotta hustle."

"Leonardo?" I whispered. I had heard that name before. I looked to April and when she looked at me, I could see that she was thinking the same thing.

The two arguing siblings looked back at April and me, the one called Leonardo leaning forward and handed April her phone. "Do not say a word to anyone about this. If you do, we will find you. April O'Neil. Rosalba Hartford." He then turned to his brother in red. "We're on the move Raphael."

The turtle called Raphael grunted and jumped onto a landing for a water tower.

"Raphael?" April whispered this time. Raphael brought out his Sais and twirled them expertly before putting them back.

"Yeah," the turtle in orange repeated. "We'll find you O'Neil, Hartford." He then came rushing back. "That came off super creepy. We will find you though."

They went running off and flipping over roof tops. April ran after them to the edge of the roof and took out her phone, taking another picture. I stood where I was, still reeling from the information presented. I know that I had heard those names before, I just couldn't think from where. April then came running over to me.

"We gotta go," she urged me. "I think that I know where we've heard those names before." She then dragged me off the roof, me still not wanting to move.

This is crazy.