Chapter #3

It was about 3a.m. when the turtles got back to the lair. There hadn't been a whole lot of crime that night, but they could only go out when it was dark, so sometimes they would still wander around the rooftops of the city just for the fun of it. For the majority of the night nothing had happened, so they stopped and watched movies from the rooftop near an outdoor theater that had been built behind some buildings in a back lot. It wasn't really until about 2a.m. when any action happened. A group of about five to ten guys had cornered a couple of women that had left a bar on their own.

Of course stopping these guys was a piece of cake to the turtles, but Raph had received a blow to his arm when one of the thugs had picked up a wooden bat they had seen poking out of a dumpster within the alley. Normally this wouldn't do any damage to any of the turtles, but Raph had injured his arm a few months back when fighting a Foot soldier. While dodging a punch, Raph had slipped and used his arms and legs to stop himself from falling all the way to the ground by pressing them against the walls of the alley as he slid down the wall. In doing so, he sprained part of the bone within his left arm, and of course this arm is where he was hit tonight.

Luckily, Donnie didn't think the injury seemed too serious. He had been working on a medical wing located in an open area behind where the lair was, but since it was still incomplete, he just used his lab for check-ups and for handling any and all wounds.

The four brothers had entered the lair from an entrance on the far left corner of the room. Leo walked straight ahead and then made a left as he went up the stairs next to the entrance that led up to his bedroom. Mikey made his way to the far right of the room where an opening lead to his bedroom. Raph headed straight to the fridge along the wall of where they had just entered.
"I'll be over in a sec Don, just let me get an ice pack real quick."
"Alright bro, I'll get things set up."
Donnie headed over towards the mid-right side of the room where two sets of about twenty computer monitors each were facing each other. In the middle of the set was an entry way into his lab. He had all types of devices and chemicals and who knew what else in there. Donnie went through one cabinet and got out some pain meds he could give Raph so that his arm didn't hurt as much, and then got out his hand-held x-ray device so that he could check his brothers arm. He assumed that the hit shouldn't have done too much damage at this point since Raph's arm was mostly healed, that and you needed to be ridiculously strong in order to hurt Raph in general.
Raph then walked into the lab. Donnie pulled a wheelie stool over and had his brother sit down. He first gave Raph the meds, and then he used the x-ray to check on the bone. Everything still looked good to him, so the hit didn't do any real damage besides for just making Raphs arm feel sore.
Donnie smiled at his older brother. "Alright, looks like you're good to go. Just try to take it easy, okay? If you must exercise or whatever, just don't do anything that starts to feel uncomfortable."
"Alright, alright I gotcha. Can I go now?"
"Yea you're good, see you in the morning."
"Yea, night bro. And thanks for looking out" Raph said as he pat his brother's shoulder.
As Raph left the room, Donnie reached over toward the counter, aiming to pick up the flash drive with all their medical information on it so he could update it about what happened to his brother's arm. He turned around after he felt nothing but empty space. He rubbed the back of his head and raised an eyebrow.
"Huh….I could have sworn I left it right here on the counter…"
He searched all along the counter, but still he couldn't find it. He then began searching all throughout the lab, looking through every bin and drawer he had. He searched every corner of the room, but still he could not find the flash drive. He quickly walked out and turned right so that he was standing in the entry way to his bedroom. He looked everywhere within the room and still found no sign of where the flash drive could be. He was beginning to worry. He ran out of his room and straight across the lair to one of the exits next to the arcade. Once he exited the lair he then made a right and headed for the med wing. Maybe he had left it in here for some reason….that he couldn't think of….at all really. Still, nothing. He ran back into the lair towards Leo's room. He then started banging on the bedroom door.
"Leo! LEO! WE HAVE A PROBLEM!"
Leo slowly opened the door, pinching the bridge of his nose in annoyance.
"Donnie, it's about 3 in the morning, what are you freaking out about this time?"
"Leo, the flash drive with all our medical records is gone!"
"…And?" Leo was confused as to what the heck that was supposed to mean, and why it meant his brother was screaming his head off.
"Leo, you don't understand. I NEVER LOSE ANYTHING! And I can't find that flash drive! It has every bit of information that I've ever been able to gather about our existence on it!"
Leo rolled his eyes as his brother continued to complain.
"*sigh* Okay Donnie, I get that the flash drive is important, but there's no way tha-"
"Oh no…it seems I was wrong…"
The two brothers turned around to see their father, Splinter, a mutated rat whose height reached up to about the boys waists, standing across the room on the other side of the water slide.
Mikey, who was still very sleepy, had also entered the room.
"Dudes, what are we yelling about?"
"Dad, what's wrong?" Leo was now growing concerned. He walked down a ramp under the water slide that led to the other side of the room with Donnie right behind him.
Splinter shook his head.
"We had a visitor today, it seems she was more troublesome than I thought."
Mikey's eyes went wide.
"WHOAAAA WE HAD A VISITOR!?"
"WHAT THE HELL ARE WE ALL YELLING ABOUT!?"
A very tired and grumpy Raph had entered the room.
Splinter waved for his sons to come closer as he told them about what had happened earlier that night.
"A young woman entered the lair earlier this same night. At first I wasn't sure what to think, it's not like we've ever had visitors before besides for April, but after she had walked around for a minute or two, she seemed innocent. I thought I had observed her closely to make sure that she wasn't doing anything suspicious" he frowned and shook his head. "But perhaps I was wrong."
All four of the brothers' eyes went wide as they heard this info.
Leo was shocked. "Dad, why would-"
"OH MY GOD SHE TOOK IT!" Donnie shouted as he stood up and started pacing frantically with his hands behind his head.
Leo closed his eyes, took a breath, and started again.
"Dad, why would you let someone wander around our home, and more importantly, why didn't you tell us anything?"
"My son, I never sensed a bad aura when she was in here, not like when the Foot attacked us so many months ago. She seemed more so intrigued about something she had randomly discovered more so than that she was on a mission to attack us or purposefully invade our home. If it became anything serious then I would tell all of you immediately, but it seems that that's already the case. "
Donnie was still freaking out. "Dad, if that girl thoroughly reads those files, she could learn everything about us. That drive has everything from what April was able to get from TCRI about our origins up to now, and it has every medical record I've ever kept about all five of us. Say she's working for the Foot or for Sachs, she now could know of any injuries any of us has, anything that could weaken us that maybe we don't or won't know about, she and they now have the advantage in any fight against us! That or say Shredder or Sachs somehow know her and know she has those files, if they threaten her then she'll easily give them away! No matter the situation, we're screwed!"
Raph rolled his eyes. "Donnie calm down! I get that this is serious, but chill!" Raph knew this was obviously an important issue, but at the same time he was dying to just go back to his room and lie down.
Mikey panicked. "Whoa dudes, a girl was here….what if she saw my room? My room isn't clean!"
Raph shoved his brother "Shut UP you idiot!"
Leo walked over to Donnie. "Alright, I get that this is serious, but hopefully whoever took those files is also sleeping since it's still three in the morning. Later when we are all awake we'll do whatever we have to in order to get that flash drive back. Sensei said the girl seemed innocent, so maybe this is all some type of misunderstanding. But everyone working while they're dead tired isn't going to get us anywhere."
Donnie took a slow breath in, and then out. "Okay. You're right. We'll work on this later." He shook his hands, trying to get his jitters out, thinking about someone coming back and attacking them so soon after they had just found a new place to live for such a short period of time.

Raph was pleased. "THANK YOU! NIGHT!"
"Wow, we're hunting for a girl…hope she's cute."
"Shut up Mikey!" Raph smacked the back of his brother's head, and then the two went off towards the right side of the room where their bedrooms were.
Donnie started to head off to his room as well.
"Donnie." He turned to face his eldest brother.
"Make sure you actually get some sleep, since you're the one who will know how to catch her. We'll need you in the morning, so go to sleep NOW. Please."
Donnie gave a small smile and put his hands up in defense. "Alright Leo I hear you." It made him happy knowing that his brothers relied on his brains and technical abilities, especially since he was the weakest in the group, though that was also because he was the thinnest. No matter what he did he just couldn't build up his muscles the same way his brothers did. At the same time, he liked that there was still a way that he could contribute to the group of four and benefit the group. Plus, even if he wasn't as buff as his brothers, he was still incredibly strong, just not always as strong, but still very close behind.
As Donnie entered his room, he was tempted to start looking into who the thief was, but he knew that he was just as dead tired as the rest of his brothers. Instead, he decided to map out a plan as to how he could get his brothers to help him catch the thief. He wrote out some ideas and then decided to call it a night.
"We're going to catch you. You may have snuck by for now, but you're not going to get far."
And with that, Donnie took off the tons of belts covering his body, the vacuum pack he carried on his back, and then finally his glasses as he collapsed on his bed and officially called it a night.

*The next morning*

The first thing Sam did when she woke up was check and see if anyone had tried to enter her room throughout the night. She had two hidden cameras in her room: one in her digital clock on a small table beside her bed and one in the desktop speaker across the room on her desk. She also had a square motion detector that would go off in case someone was to come in through the window. Sam could turn this on and off with the old phone that she had reprogramed. From what she saw, no one had tried to break in. She then went over and inspected her computer. She had a pretty good cyber security program set up on her lap top, but from what she saw, it wasn't needed that night. It didn't seem like anyone had tried to hack into her computer which was a huge relief. This meant that whoever the flash drives owner was either A. didn't know she had taken it yet, or B. they knew and just hadn't started looking for it yet. Either or was fine with her since this meant she had some more time to plan out when and where she was going to start looking into the information that was on it.

For now though, she still wanted to relax before she would have to start watching her every move. She exited her room and made two rights. Once in the living room, she walked straight across the space and then made a right as she entered the kitchen. She felt lazy that morning and decided to make a bowl of cereal.
"Hey kid, pour me some to."
Sam smiled as she turned to see her older brother groggily walk into the kitchen.
Jay was her adopted brother and was of Korean decent. Sam and Jay's individual biological grandfathers had worked together in the Korean War years ago, and they continued to be best friends when Jay's grandfather moved to the states and even lived with Sam's grandfather for so many years until he got married and began raising a family in his own home. The two men both had sons when they got married to their wives, and then these two boys were best friends all their lives as well. Once these two got married to their wives (ironically the female versions of themselves and also being best friends), their kids of course also became good friends. The two boys had grown up as only children, so both men were fans of having larger families. Jay's father was a few years older, so he had his children a few years before Sam's dad did. The Park's had four kids at two years apart: a daughter Jamie, a daughter Amber, a son Jay, and a final son Brian. The Allan's had their first child about a year after Brian was born. Again, their children were each born two years apart: a son named Nick, a daughter named Haley, a daughter named Sam, and a final son named Chuck. Even though they were two separate families who had no blood relations whatsoever, both families loved and cared very much for each other, the children all growing up like they were cousins because of how close they were. When Sam was six, the Park parents were involved in a car accident and sadly passed away. In the parents will it stated that if the other family said yes, their children would live with the Allan's. Without hesitation the entire family welcomed the four children into their home with open arms. Within thirteen years, so much had changed. Sam, who was 16, now lived solely with Jay who was only 23, and because of this she had included his last name into her full one, just like he had when he was adopted into her family. Her full name was now Samantha Allan Park.

All his life he wanted to become an actor, but because he was so young, there was no way Jay could afford to go to college on his own. At the same time, Jay had always been good at working with computers and fixing whatever electronic device was broken, so he found a program where he could basically work as tech support while also taking college classes part time, with the financial help from his job that is.

"When did you get in last night?" Sam poured her brother a bowl of cereal and sat down at the table across from him.
"Not until about two. I love where I'm at with both my job and also in prepping for my career, but man I wish I had more time to just come home and relax."
Sam gave her brother a worried look. "Are you getting enough sleep?"
Jay gave a small smile. "Yea, but you have to work non-stop hours before you finally get a few days off to relax. Luckily I get my break for the next couple of days, not including classes. Those I still need to attend. But hey I'm free for today" he said in a much cheerier tone.
A huge smile appeared on Sam's face. "Wanna take me on a field trip?"
Jay chuckled. "A field trip? Where to?"
"Well, you know where to go in order to use amazing software for free and/or for cheap right?"
"…Yeaaaaa, why?"
"It's for a project topic. It's like when you're in 5th grade and you need a topic to experiment with, except this time the topics are much more complex. Mine is to compare computer systems and see which programs and which companies have the best software to use. But I need a variety of places and programs to use."
Jay raised a brow at his sister and laughed. "And this is for a high school class? Aren't you in standard classes?"
"Wellllll, it's actually for a scholarship." Sam rubbed her hand on the back of her head.
Jay smiled and shook his head. "Gosh you're such a nerd."
"Says the guy who is literally working for geek squad."
The two laughed and continued to crack jokes as they finally got a chance to hang out with each other. Jay still supported his sister in as many of her high school activities as he could; watching as many soccer games and dance performances as he could, helping her study for major upcoming tests, letting her practice presenting projects and speeches, etc. But even so, it was rare that they got to actually hangout and have a full on conversation with each other.
"Okay, so I'll show you a few main locations I know about, we'll head to lunch, and then I'll spend the rest of the night kicking your ass at video games. Sound good?"
"Riiiiight, because you always win when you verse me in video games, okay older brother."
"Yea, when you don't cheat!"
Sam threw her hands in the air. "Just because I know all the powerful and strategic moves for each game doesn't mean I'm a cheater!"
"Yea, yea, whatever. Go get ready and I'll meet you back in the living room in 10."
Sam smiled and headed towards her bedroom. She felt bad that she was lying through her teeth about why she wanted to go on this field trip, but she didn't want Jay knowing about what she had found, well stolen, just yet. She still wanted to investigate what was on that flash drive, and now her brother was leading her in the right direction in being able to do so.