Samantha Allan Park

by TheNerdyTomboyNewb96

Sam is a tomboy nerd whose life has been destroyed by the Foot. She has nothing but her older brother who's barely ever around. Somehow, fate leads her to discovering the turtles. Will they accept this stranger they just met, or push her away? Will this make her life better, worse? Involves canon material from movies, shows, and comics along with original content and characters.

15. Samantha Allan Park Ch15

Any references to TMNT or anything from popular media and culture is NOT MINE. I only own my OC's.

Chapter #15

*June 12th, Thursday, late evening: Sam and Mikey's POV*

Today was the last day of school for that year, so Sam and Mikey decided to head out that night as early as possible. For weeks now the two had been sneaking out and fighting crime together around town. They had only focused on smaller crimes that the two thought they could handle on their own as a duo, but slowly they had ben tackling more difficult crimes as well. Their goal was always to stop whatever the crime was before the cops needed to be called, and so far they had always been successful. Tonight was going to be their biggest challenge yet, sneaking in and spying on one of the Foot's hideouts. For the past few weeks that Sam and Mikey had been fighting together, they had also been spying on the Foot's whereabouts as best as they could, and so far the two had pin-pointed a specific building on Dot Street that seemed to be one of their newest locations. The two friends knew better than to storm in and attack on their own, they weren't that crazy, but they did plan on sneaking in for some harmless observations.

"Alright, now repeat the plan back to me" Sam said as she double checked her back pack to make sure that it was tight and secured around her body.
"We're going to enter the building through this vent up here, you're going to use your tablet as we slowly and carefully crawl through the vents so you can edit any cameras or detectors of any kind. I'm supposed to hold onto your hacking phone and try to record any and all voices and conversations that I hear. If possible, I should also silently take pictures. After a couple of hours or so, we're going to head back to the roof, make our way over to that parking garage next door, and you're going to try your best to set up and hack into any documents from the Foot's latest hideout" Mikey replied with a smile. Both friends were proud that he had actually understood and remembered every detail that Sam had explained to him.
"Wow, well done. Looks like I don't have to repeat myself today."
"Thanks, I think" he said as he nudged her.
"Okay, you ready?"
"Phone is attached to my cross-over strap, so I'm all set."
"Booyakasha" she said as she held her fist in front of her.
"Cowabunga" he replied while also returning the fist bump. Mikey then carefully pulled open the vent opening at the top of the building, allowed Sam to slide through and down the curved opening, and then he followed as he carefully pulled the vent covering back on.

For about ten minutes or so the two didn't travel far since Sam had to take care of a lot of security measures. She already had to edit and disarm A LOT of cameras and alarms beforehand just so that they could even walk around and talk on the roof of the building, but she still had a lot to do before they could go roaming around the vents of the building. Finally she had hacked what she saw necessary, and slowly the two were on the move. For a long time the two crawled around the vents moving from room to room and even from floor to floor. They tried to find something interesting on the upper floors so that if something went wrong they could escape easily from the rooftops, but nothing suspicious could be found. All they could hear and see were Foot soldiers and Purple Dragons members walking around or training. Sam wasn't picking up on any phone calls being made or even any emails being sent. That's when it hit her. She quickly started typing on a note pad screen on her tablet, swiftly rolled over onto her back, and then handed the tablet to Mikey so he could read it.
"I think there's a chance Shredder might be here somewhere."
Mikey's eyes went wide as he typed in response and then handed the tablet back to Sam.
"What makes you think that?"
"I'm not picking up on any phone calls being made or emails being sent, which means there's a good chance that Shredder is already here with a lot of his main men, that's why no messages are being sent back and forth."
"What should we do? Is this too big for us then?"
"No, as long as we vow only to observe, but we'll only stay on the top five floors and we should cut down our time to about another 45 minutes or so."
Mikey read the words on the screen and gave Sam a thumbs up. She took back the tablet and the two continued to slowly crawl throughout the vents.
The entire 45 minutes consisted of nothing but what they had seen before Sam had discussed with Mikey about Shredder's location. The two were in the vents on the 10th of 15 floors when finally they found something that sent a chill down both their spines, Shredder himself.

Shredder was in what looked like an office space with five other people. The two got their devices ready as they listened closely as they resided by a section of the vent towards the right side of the room that would lead them to the next floor up in case they needed a quick getaway.

"Tatsu, how are things going with the males? Have they improved any?" Shredder asked as he faced the middle aged looking Asian man in the room.
"They've definitely improved, but they still have a long way to go. Forgive me master, I'm trying the best I can to train and control the children. I try not to harm them, but at times it's what I must do. I understand if none of this meets your expectations and I'm ready to face any punishment you deem necessary" the man said as he bowed.
"You're fine Tatsu, I brought you here to help train them for a reason. They're annoying brats, so do whatever you need to. Don't kill them, but if you must torture them then so be it. They'll eventually learn to bow to you and me. They're mine and they will learn this soon enough. Karai," he said as he then faced the younger Asian female, "how about you? How is your training going with the females?"
"Overall the same details master, though I've been very rough with them from the start. If I may offer some advice to Tatsu" she said as she faced her companion, "don't worry about harming them in anyway. I discussed this with master earlier on, and me being violent towards them has helped tremendously in instilling fear into their eyes while also forcing them to hone their strength and skills. They all still have a long way to go, but they're also improving quicker than I would have expected."
Tatsu and Shredder nodded, and then Shredder turned towards a large, buff man with blonder hair pulled back into a ponytail.
"Hun, how about you?"
"Not many of them are able to understand how our weapons work, but there are a select few who seem to naturally grasp on to what their told. They all shiver in fear, but even when we scare them into following orders, only a few truly understand and can comprehend how to use the guns. With your blessing master, I would like to focus on making them gun specialists, and let Karai and Tatsu focus on taming the others."
"Alright, as long as this will benefit my army, then I'll allow it. They better be well trained in the end then."
"Thank you master, you won't regret this" Hun said as he bowed.
Shredder then turned to his last student, Eric Sachs. "And how about you?"
"*sigh* If I may be blunt sensei, these creatures are idiots when it comes to our technology. Luckily, there are a few who with much, much more training may start to get the hang of things. However, there is one who somehow is an incredible genius and actually loves working in the lab. I've been forcing our workers to teach him all they know, while being closely monitored of course, so that he can use both his brains and his brawn to work for us."
"Which one would that be?"
"The alligator. I believe I've heard the other creatures call him Leatherhead."
Shredder nodded. "Focus on him, but any others worth using for technological gains should still be trained as well. The rest will just go through double the trainings with their masters."
"I understand sensei" Sachs said as he bowed.

"Alright. You are all doing well my students. Do whatever you need to in order to strengthen our army. Remember, you all are also on recruitment and training duty for our human soldiers as well, including watching over this one" he said as he turned toward Jordon Perry who was timidly hunched over in the corner of the room. Sam and Mikey were shocked to see him standing there, and they hated the blank stare from his eyes. His body shook with fear, but his solid gaze signaled that he had already endured some type of torture while he had been there.

Suddenly, different alarms began going off. Mikey and Sam froze, waiting to see how the people in the room would react.
Karai was the first to speak. "This is the fire alarm, maybe they picked up someone's scent. Master, what are your orders."
"Take that shivering noodle in the corner and bring him with us. We'll use this as an attempt for our mutants to test their skills, see if there's any we shouldn't even worry about and should just get rid of now. Hun, Tatsu, advise your men to observe and report back to me what they can of the mutants skills afterwards. Meet with the rest of us at the main base. This is not our time to fight, we must prepare for a more serious future battle."
All four adults bowed to their master, Karai grabbed the professor, and they all left the room to do what they needed to before they left the building.

Once they had all exited the room, Sam and Mikey moved as quickly as they could. The vents were roomy enough to crawl through, but they were horrible for quick getaways. Sam saw hordes of soldiers running to the lower floors, so once she thought they were in the clear she led Mikey to an opening in the side of the vent. She kicked it open and the two were now walking around the 13th of 15 floors. The floor was empty, but they two got their weapons out as they ran and looked for a way they could move to the roof without being seen. They talked as they quickly moved around the hallways, looking for a staircase.

"Do…do you think Shredder used the kidnapped animals to create a mutant army?" Sam asked, depressed at thinking of innocent animals working for a madman like Shredder.
"I do, and what's worse is that it sounds like he's torturing them and the professor. How did Shredder get his hands on him anyway? We rescued him!"
"Yeah, or at least we thought we di-"

Sam and Mikey collided with two large beings in front of them as they rounded a corner. The two jumped back up and had their weapons ready to fight, but slowly they lowered their weapons, and their jaws followed. They both knew they were screwed as they stared at the also jaw dropped and pissed faces of Leonardo, Donatello, and Raphael.

*Earlier that evening: Leo, Donnie, and Raph POV*

Donnie was always doing the best that he could to track the Foot's movements. Sometimes he was more successful than others, the night where they couldn't get in contact with Mikey being a good example of the moments where he wasn't so successful and the Foot had the upper hand on them, but tonight was not one of those nights. For a few weeks he had been able to use news articles, hacked police reports, and also hacked video footage throughout the city to pin point a solid location that the Foot were currently hiding at. He had a feeling it wasn't their only base, but he thought that it was a good place to sneak into and try to gather as much information as he could about what Shredder's next big plan was.

He had informed Leo of this earlier, and both the two and Raph had set out to gather any information they could. They were a few blocks away when they stopped on a roof top so that Donnie could start his hacking.
"Still feels weird doing this without Mikey" Raph said looking off into the distance.
"Don't worry, this time should be different" Donnie said as he pulled out multiple small devices and started typing away on each. "This time we know we're just sneaking around, and once I've disabled as many of their security devices as possible, then we shouldn't even have to worry about fighting anyone because we shouldn't come into contact with anyone. So if Mikey wants to hang out with Sam since it's her last day of school, then we should still be fine. Besides, he'd probably joke around too much in this type of situation. I mean he couldn't even keep quiet on the night that we went after Sam for the first time."
"That seems like so long ag now" Leo said aloud as he continued to look out into the distance, constantly alert and on the lookout for anyone who might try to pull a fast attack on them.
"I agree, but I think it's only been around a couple of months…that's weird."
The older two brothers took a quick glance at the youngest. Raph continued his look out while Leo moved closer to Donnie.
"What's going on?"
"A lot of their main security systems have already been altered or disabled…which means that someone else may be sneaking around inside."
"Oh come on! Please don't tell me it's our two idiots!" Raph shouted.
"There's no way of knowing, but the type of skills and knowledge needed for this is quite complicated, which means there is a chance that it's them" Donnie replied as he rolled his head back, hoping that it wasn't Sam and Mikey. The way those two acted together, he feared that they would get caught instantly.
"There has to be a way to contact them" Leo said with a bit of worry in his tone.
"Sadly if he forgot to lower the volume on his shell cell, then we could easily be the reason that the two get caught, IF it is them. I don't know which situation is worse."
"What do you mean?" Raph asked from afar.
"If it's not them, then who knows who is actually sneaking around inside, and it could be bad news if they end up being another enemy towards us."
"Regardless, we have to at least continue our main mission and try to gather any and all information that we can, especially if those two are in there" Leo stated.
The other two brothers nodded, Donnie packed up all his belongings, and they all set out towards the main building on Dot Street.

Within a few minutes the three reached their destination. Donnie had some small Go-Pro cameras that he handed to each of his brothers. All three of them had at least one strap that went across their chest that held some type of weapon or piece of equipment, so they each set up a small camera that could hopefully capture something that would be useful to them later on.

"Are we good to go Donnie?" Leo asked.
Donnie looked at a couple of small devices and then put them back into their holders. "From what I can tell, all main alarms have been disarmed. The few alarms that are still running have been altered to give us about two more hours for sneaking around. There's 15 floors to this building, so I'd recommend staying towards the upper floors as much as possible so that in case something goes wrong, we can still try to make a quick getaway."
Leo nodded. "Alright, everyone have your cells ready in case we need to send an important update. We'll split up for now and try to move around and gather whatever we can. Stay in the vents unless there's an emergency situation. And STAY. QUIET" Leo said as he glared over at Raph, who rolled his eyes in return.
"Alright, we're on the move" Leo said as he pulled open the cover of the vent. The younger two brothers entered first, and then Leo followed as he pulled the cover back onto the vent.

The three crawled around for a long time only for each of them to find the same thing. They saw and heard Foot Soldiers and Purple Dragons members roaming around the halls or training in one of their rooms, but they didn't hear or see anything interesting, not until their 40 minute mark. Raph had been crawling around the 10th of the 15 floors when he happened to come across what seemed like a large office space. He was about to move on when Karai entered the room. He paused and tried to listen in as best as he could. He heard her instruct some soldiers on what they were to teach the subjects while she was at her meeting that would be held in about 5 more minutes. As the soldiers left the room, Raph's eyes went wide as he recognized the man that entered the room, Shredder.
"Karai," Shredder said as he bowed, "where are the others?"
"They'll be here soon master, they should only be a few more minutes" she replied after she bowed in return.
Raph instantly sent a message to his brothers.
"Shredder is in the building! He's about the have a meeting with Karai. Meet me in the vents of the 10th floor near the left side of the room of a large office space."

Within the next couple of minutes both Leo and Donnie reunited with Raph in the vents. They listened carefully as they observed both the familiar faces of Shredder, Karai, and Eric Sachs, and also the new faces of men named Hun and Tatsu. All the brothers were confused as the humans below talked about males and females and whether they were doing well or if they weren't understanding what they were being taught. They all sat silently except for when Donnie lightly gasped when Sachs mentioned an alligator, but after that he made sure to stay silent.

"Alright," Shredder began, "for now you are all doing well my students. Do whatever you need to in order to strengthen our army. Remember, you all are also on recruitment and training duty for our human soldiers as well, including watching over this one" he said as he turned toward Jordon Perry who was timidly shrugged over in the corner of the room. The man had been so incredibly quiet that none of the brothers had even noticed him in the room.

Just then, an alarm went off. The brothers stayed silent and still, not moving until the saw how the humans below would react.
Karai was the first to speak. "This is the fire alarm, maybe they picked up someone's scent. Master, what are your orders?"
"Take that shivering noodle in the corner and bring him with us. We'll use this as an attempt for our mutants to test their skills, see if there's any we shouldn't even worry about and should just get rid of now. Hun, Tatsu, advise your men to observe and report back to me what they can of the mutants skills afterwards. Meet with the rest of us at the main base, this is not our time to fight, we must prepare for a more serious future battle."

After they saw the humans leave the room, the three brothers scurried through the vents, trying to get to the upper level nearest to the roof of the building as quickly as they could. The vents were roomy enough to crawl through, but they were horrible for quick getaways, so when Donnie noticed that all the soldiers were running downstairs, he waited until they found a clear spot where no one was in sight and he kicked the vent cover in the wall. The other two brothers followed him as they all ran around the 13th floor looking for a staircase.
"Is he keeping an eye on us? What did he mean by 'this is an attempt for our mutants to test their skills'?" Raph asked as they ran.
"And what did he mean by 'our human soldiers AS WELL'?" Leo asked.
"If my fears are correct, Shredder has been using the stolen animals from the zoo and the pet shops to create his own-"

Donnie was cut off as he had collided with someone. He winced, and as he opened his eyes again he noticed that Leo had also collided with someone as all three of them had rounded a corner in the hallway. He reached for his bo staff as his brothers also reached for their weapons. Once they all saw who was facing them they slowly lowered their weapons, and their jaws followed. Each of them feeling a bit pissed as they saw the also jaw dropped faces of Sam and Mikey.

*Everyone's POV*

"I KNEW IT!" Raph shouted.
"Why? Just why?!" Leo asked in annoyance.
"We totally haven't been doing this for weeks!" Mikey stated with wide eyes.
Sam rolled hers and turned towards Mikey. "Okay so remember what we talked about how in certain situations I do the talking and you stand there and look pretty? This is one of those situations" she said giving her friend an annoyed smile.
"Hehe, my bad" he said as he slowly backed away.
"Why are you even here?" Leo asked furiously.
"Sam pin pointed this as the newest and most visited Foot hideout, so we came to sneak around and gather any information and we did Leo you'll never believe this-"
"Shredder is creating a mutant army with the stolen animals" Donnie cut in.
"Wait, how did you-?"
"We had the same idea Mikey, that's why we're here. We all probably heard the same meeting a matter of minutes ago before you two set the alarm off."
"See I knew this would happen! Look at the influence they have on each other, and now it's risked getting us all hurt or killed!" Raph said as he roared with frustration.
Sam went to speak, but was cut off just as she opened her mouth.
"HEY! I've been right behind her the entire time, and I know that she hasn't done anything to set these alarms off! Don't go blaming this on us!" Mikey said, defending his best friend.
"Then how else did we all get caught? None of us did anything!" Raph responded.
"Scent" Sam and Donnie groaned.
All eyes were on the two nerds of the group.
"Karai mentioned that at the meeting. I'm sure some of the mutant animals probably have a heightened sense of smell."
"Ahhh! I should have thought of that, but I got distracted as soon as we saw the professor again" Sam groaned in defeat.
Donnie squinted his eyes and looked over at her. "What do you mean again?"
"Yup it's best when you do the talking Sam" Mikey said sarcastically, followed by Sam glaring at him.
"WHY?!" Leo shouted.
Sam slowly turned back towards the eldest brother, giving him a nervous smile. "Heyyy. So, how about we talk later when there aren't alarms-"
"How long has this been going on?" Leo asked, demanding an answer.
Sam looked at the ground as she answered. "A few weeks now."
"We finally begin trusting you and this is what you do? And YOU!" he shouted as he glared and pointed his finger at Mikey, "what the hell do you think you're doing? You know better than to agree or even suggest sneaking around FOOT HEADQUARTERS without the rest of us! Do you ever think before you make these decisions? And YOU!" he shouted as he now faced and pointed at a startled Sam, "I let you into our home to PREVENT THIS SHIT! I said you could visit the lair whenever you wanted so that you two wouldn't have to sneak around like how you used to, and yet you STILL continue to lie to me and go behind my back and do things that can put not only you, but all of my family in danger!"
"Well if you'd stop treating me like an outsider Jay, but nooo-" Sam mumbled.
"What did you call me?" Leo asked in confusion. All four brothers look at her, confused at what she had just said.
She stopped for a second, processing what she just said. "Leo, I called you Leo."
"No you didn't" Raph growled.
"Might as well call you Nick" she mumbled.
"What are you getting at?" Raph shouted as he rushed towards Sam. Sam went to rush towards him as well, but she was pulled back by Mikey, just as Raph was pulled back by Donnie and Leo.
"What did you mean by that? Treated as an outsider" Leo asked as he continued to glare at Sam.
"Even now you guys are still on edge when you talk to me, so there's no way you would let me go out and fight with you guys!"
"In case you didn't notice, you're a regular human being with a normal life! You're not like us!"
"Normal life?!" she exclaimed in an angry and hysterical tone. "You don't know shit oh fearless leader!" she mocked.
"You're right, it must be crazy since you're at the lair all the damn time now!"
"How about you get to know my fist then?"
"HEY!" Mikey cut in as he pushed Sam back some. Instantly her face softened and she was calm as she now faced Michelangelo. "Your families broken up, I get that, but you're taking your anger out on the wrong person."
She processed his words and nodded in response. "You're right" she said as she pursed her lips.

She took a step forward so that she could apologize to Leo, but just then Donnie shouted 'duck!'
Everyone ducked down until Donnie signaled that they were safe.
"I just saw four giant frogs walk by, and they didn't look friendly. They'll be walking in the same direction that we're heading shortly."
"You need to hide" Leo said as he faced Sam.
"What!? No way!"
"Go now, or I'll kick your butt" Raph said with an angry smile.
"Challenge accepted" she replied, displaying a similar expression.
"Sam," Mikey cut in, "that's like fighting one of us head on, and if they somehow gang up on you, that's like you versing all of us at once" he said in a concerned tone of voice.
She paused and focused on his worried expression, and then took her friends concern into consideration. "Fine" she said with a defeated frown.
Mikey gave her a small smile and put his fist out in front of him.
Sam paused. "You're not gonna say it?"
"I can't" he said as he nodded his head back towards Raph.
"Right, got'cha" she said with a smile as she participated in the fist bump.
"They're heading towards that open space down the hall, we need to go" Donnie informed.
Sam looked above her and noticed another vent. She pulled a kunai knife from her back pack and took a few steps back. She then ran forward, jumped forward so that she could re-direct herself using the wall, and then aimed her knife upward so that it dug into the vent cover, and as she came back down she yanked the cover from the ceiling.
"Is this a good enough hiding spot?" she asked dully as she faced Leo.
"No, the safest hiding spot is at home, since you're leaving."
"But-"
"Since you're leaving" Mikey said with a smile. As much as he loved the crime fighting duo he had formed with Sam, her safety was always his first and main concern, and he thought that even with her continuously improving skills that this fight was too much for her.
"Since I'm leaving" Sam mocked as she repeated the previous steps, allowing her to climb up into the vent.

After Leo saw her crawl away, he heard a voice call out and say "Hey Rasputin, Genghis, Napoleon! I finally found them!"
"Nice Attilla!"
All four turtles looked forward and saw four giant mutant frogs from way across the room. There was a large open space between the two groups of four that seemed to be a training space based on all the mats and various types of equipment lined along the walls.
"Alright guys, pick a frog, do your best to knock him out, and then we're out of here!"
"This will be fun" Raph said with an evil grin, and then both groups of four were charging towards each other.

Leo ran over and started fighting a frog who was a bright yellow-green color who was holding an axe. The frog's axe clashed with Leo's katanas, both putting all their strength into each swing that they took.

Raph ran over towards a frog who was a forest green color and held a flail with a spiked ball at the end. The frog swiftly tried swinging the spiked ball around to hit Raph, but Raph was quicker than the frog and dodged every attack. Eventually Raph was able to hook both his sais through the chains of the flail, but when both he and the frog pulled back on their weapons, it pulled both their weapons out of their hands. After this, the two resorted to hand to hand combat.

Donnie ran over to dark green colored frog who held a bow and arrows. The frog had good aim, but Donnie was always quick enough to move away from where the arrows were being launched. The two would fight close up every time Donnie got closer, the frog using his bow to defend attacks from Donnie's bo staff, and then the frog would try to retreat some so that he could launch more arrows. The two repeated this for a while.

Mikey ran up to a frog who was a light green color who held a whip. Both were very quick on their feet and used rapid arm movements when using their weapons as well. Every time the frog cracked his whip, Mikey was always right on time to block the attack with his nun chucks.

Sam hated watching from the vents. She could see that the turtles weren't struggling, but they weren't winning either. Each turtle's strength and speed was evenly matched with their frog counterpart. She wasn't sure how long the frogs had been training with these weapons, but whatever the length of time had been, they must have exceled rapidly. Sam wanted to run down there and help fight. The only way the turtles could win without completely draining themselves was if someone or something helped aide them in their fight, and that's exactly what she was going to do.

Themes:
One Ok Rock-Start Again
One Ok Rock-I Was King
Yellowcard-Only One

Sam observed each fight, wondering what the most strategic thing to do was. She knew she needed to help aide one fight, but which one? The frog with the arrows was the biggest of the four, but Donnie seemed to be holding his own against him. The frogs with the axe and the flail were both very muscular, but again, Raph and Leo were doing fine in defending themselves. Mikey was also doing a good job in defending himself, but his frog opponent with the whip was the thinnest of the frogs, so Sam decided that she would help take him out so that Mikey could go help his other brothers.
She moved back towards the vent opening and jumped down. She grabbed one of her tonfa from her back pack.
All the groups were distracted, and Mikey and the frog with the whip were the furthest from where she was standing.
"Perfect, that's enough distance for me to pick up enough speed and launch myself towards him" Sam thought to herself.
She then sprinted forward running toward the frog as she faced his back. She then leaped and swung the tonfa around his neck, grabbing onto it with both hands and pulling back on it while her feet were planted on his lower back. Mikey wasn't sure what to do, since one wrong swing and he could accidentally hit Sam instead of the frog. The frog pulled at his neck, unable to loosen the tonfa that was crushing his throat. He then turned around and rushed backwards towards the wall in hopes to smash the girl against it, but just as he got close to the wall, Sam swung herself around to the side of his body. The frog crashed his back into the wall as he cried out in pain. Mikey then ran up and punched the frog in the face, landing a solid hit. The frogs nose began to bleed some as he came crashing down to the ground.
"NAPOLEON!" the one frog yelled, only to then be hit by Raph.

Just then, a group of about ten Foot soldiers came running through the opening that Sam had just run through.
"Sam you need to leave" Mikey said.
"Whether you like it or not, I just gave you the upper hand a moment ago, and I can still do that."
"Sam…"
"It's okay, you've trained me for this" she said with a reassuring smile. "I'll lead as many of them as I can out of here and then I'll come back. You need to defeat these guys so that you can help your brothers."
Mikey nodded, and the two charged forward.

Using both of her tonfa to defend herself, Sam ran through and then past the group charging towards her. Just as she had hoped, five soldiers continued to run forward towards Mikey, and the other five turned around and chased after her. Sam darted through the hallways, trying to find anything that could help her. She couldn't find anything, and as much as it grossed it her out, she decided that the best thing would be to try and use her kunai and shuriken to try and slow down the soldiers. Every time she rounded a corner she would swiftly turn back and throw her knives at the soldiers, aiming for their knees. This way she would only be hurting the soldiers and they could later be collected by the police and rot their lives away in jail, rather than her having to actually kill anyone.

She turned a corner and her knife landed in the man's thigh, resulting in him stumbling and no longer being able to run. She rounded another corner and did the same, landing a shuriken star right in the man's shin. She did this and then eventually circled back, punching her way through each fallen soldier. She stopped once she had punched and knocked out the last of the five soldiers. She then quickly dragged each of them next to each other, forming a small soldier pile so that they wouldn't get trampled if anyone happened to storm through the hallways. As she stood back up, she saw something run by further down the hallway in her peripheral vision. She quickly ran around the corner and saw that it was Donnie who had run down the hallway. She assumed that she would see the giant forest colored frog again, but this time Donnie was being chased by a gigantic alligator who was even taller than Donnie was, and buffer than any of the frogs. Sam could tell that this time Donnie was out matched just in size alone.
"Maybe that's why he's running down the halls with him chasing behind him, maybe he tried to lead him away from his brother's. How many other mutants are here then?" Sam wondered to herself.
Sam then looked over and saw that the elevator buttons had been smashed. Filled with curiosity, she used her strength to push open the doors and was shocked to see that the platform had crashed and fallen down to the bottom, and all the thick wires and chains that were used so that the elevators could travel from floor to floor had been cut. Sam then caught a glimpse of Donnie as he threw open the staircase door and sprinted up the stairs with the giant alligator right behind him. She didn't know how to describe it, but somehow she felt that it meant something that she just happened to noticed these details of the broken elevator right before she saw those two run up the staircase.
She quickly rummaged through her back pack and found a thick lanyard cable, a harness with straps of nylon webbing, metal snap hooks, and a small metal ball with a small metal handle. As she pulled each item from her bag, she could hear the voices of Donatello and the alligator slowly getting closer and closer as she heard them through the now open elevator doors. She set everything up just like how Donnie had taught her. She lightly squeezed the metal ball, and it then opened up to reveal three suction cups. She then shoved the suction cupped side onto the wall parallel to the elevator and then quickly put the harness on around her chest. She then used the metal snap hooks and the thick lanyard to connect herself to the suction cupped platform which she used as an anchor platform.
She carefully moved toward the opening of the elevator and looked up, trying to see what was going on. She gasped when she saw that somehow the alligator had literally grabbed Donnie by the face. No matter how much Donnie thrashed his arms and legs around, there was nothing he could do to prevent what was about to happen to him. Sam tried to hang back some so that she could be prepared for what came next.

Suddenly, the alligator let go of the turtle he had been holding onto, and without warning, Donatello dropped downward from the 15th floor. Luckily, the alligator turned as soon as he had let go of the turtle, so he didn't see Sam lean forward and unexpectedly grab Donnie's arms.
Once Donnie felt something grab him, he grabbed onto whatever or whoever it was as quickly as he could. He heard a groan come from above him, and he was shocked when he looked up and saw Sam fighting with all her might to hold onto him. He knew that his force from falling and then pulling down on her arms had to have hurt a ton, even with all the muscle she had gained in the past few weeks, so he tried to move carefully so that he could position his feet on the wall so it would be easier for her to help him up.
All of sudden, Sam slipped and landed on her knees right where the edge of the floor was. She groaned out in pain, trying to keep as quiet as possible as to prevent the alligator from hearing her and coming back, as her knees dug into the edge of the floor while she herself was now leaning further down into the elevator shaft, her body falling forward as far as the thick lanyard would allow her to go.
"Arghhhhh if anyone ever says anything about you being thin, punch them in the face for me for being so stupid!" she said in a harsh but "whispered-yell" way.
Once Donatello got a solid grip on Sam's hands, he was able to place his feet on the side of the wall and tried jumping up some. Sam was then able to help pull him up some when he jumped, and Donnie was able to get his elbow up onto the edge where the elevator opening was. After this, it was much easier for them both to pull him up until both their bodies were back onto solid ground.
"How…how did you know…to prep for that?" Donnie asked with staggered breaths, relieved to finally feel safe on solid ground again.
"Honestly…I just had a strange feeling…when I saw you go up…the stairs" she replied while also trying to catch her breath. "Dude, you're physically lying to everyone. You're thin, but you're not light, AT ALL."
He chuckled until he looked down and saw a small puddle of blood on the floor near where her knees were.
"How are your knees?" he asked with concern.
"They'll be fine" she said as she leaned forward some so that her knees were flat against the floor so that they couldn't be seen.
"Sit still" Donnie instructed as he helped her sit back against the wall so that he could inspect her knees. He then reached for one of the many small packs scattered throughout the belts around his waist. He pulled out some Neosporin and some bandage wraps and placed them on the ground as he kneeled down and gently began tending to her wounds. He felt a wave of guilt rush over him as he began to patch up her scraped up knees.
"Don't worry," she reassured him, "it looks worse than it is. The cut looks deep, but it doesn't seem like anything permanent or crucial and life threatening" she said with a smile.
He made a small smile in return. He was just glad to see that she was okay and that the wound wasn't anything serious.
"You literally saved my life back there, thanks."
"No problem!" she said as she made the O.K. signal with her hands.
This made Donnie a bit upset. "Is this all a game to you? If that cable had snapped than you could have been killed."
Her expression softened. "Of course it's not. But life has thrown me some curve balls that now make me kind of live for this."
"Risking your life?!"
"Protecting those I care about" she said with sincerity.
His expression softened as he wondered what she had experienced that made her want to live her life on edge. What had made her give up on living a normal life and want to live an adrenaline filled one instead where she didn't care if the final outcome could lead to her death? He snapped back to reality as he realized he was still putting bandage wraps on her knees. He finished after a few more seconds, put his supplies away, and stood up as he reached a hand out to her. "Do you think you can walk?"
Sam took his hand and stood up, she gathered her materials as she spoke to him. "Oh no, walking is going to make this sting like a bitch. I need to run this pain off, that way I can rub it in both your older brothers' faces that I saved your life" she said as she started sprinting down the hallway.
"Why do you need to rub it in their faces?" he asked as he quickly ran behind her.
"Because they're the ones who still don't believe that I should be patrolling the city with you" she said as she ran up the stairs and through a hallway on the 14th floor.

The two then ran across a balcony that led across the top of the open space where the fight had begun. Raph was the only one left of the four turtles still fighting in the open training space, but now it was he who was fighting the giant alligator, and it was obvious that he was having a hard time fighting on the offensive side. Sam quickly ran over top of where the two were fighting as she grabbed her skateboard rod from her back pack and extended it so that the full board was exposed. She leaped over the balcony ledge and she slammed her board against the back of the alligators head.
He hunched over and grabbed the back of his head as it throbbed from the unexpected hit. While he was distracted, Raph then ran up and elbowed the gator in the stomach, and then shoved his wrist up, hitting the gator in the chin. Donnie then appeared and swung his bow behind the gators knees, making him fall down and bang his head hard on the ground.
"He should be fine, I'm sure he'll be sore when he wakes up, but he's not going to die or experience any serious trauma" Donnie stated.
"You're welcome!" Sam announced as she faced Raph.
He glared at her. "You shouldn't be here…but that was a nice hit. Thanks."
"Where are the others?" she asked as she looked around the room.
"Mikey eventually helped me take down my guy since he was the largest, that's when that gator came in. Donnie led him away, and I was able to help Mikey take down the remaining frog guys. After that a crap ton more soldiers came back along with that gator. Mikey and Leo lead the soldiers away and I was left to take care of this guy."
Donnie pulled out his shell cell and typed away. "Alright, they're both nearby. We need to move now and help them."
Sam and Raph nodded as they followed Donnie as he led the way.

They ran down a few hallways when suddenly Sam was grabbed and pulled into a room. She tried to flail her arms so that the attacker would lose their grip, but she soon realized that it was multiple arms that were grabbing her.
"Tie her up and blindfold her ladies! Candy, Sprinkles, make sure that door is locked tight!"
"Sam! SAM!" could be heard from the boys on the other side, but Sam couldn't do anything to contact them.
"*click* Titian, Bramante, Hachiko, can you take care of these two?" A female voice asked into what sounded like a walkie talkie.
"Roger that" replied the voice. "Tokka and Dogpound are collecting Leatherhead, and Slash and Liz are heading towards the other two's location as well."
Sam was then pulled and moved around. There were several voices talking at one time, so it was difficult for her to listen for anything that would let her know of her whereabouts, or if there was anything nearby that could help her escape. A few minutes later, Sam was tossed into a room. As soon as she stood up she yanked her blindfold off and reached for her weapons. Her eyes went wide as she saw who it was standing around her. Ten different female animals had her surrounded in the office space that Shredder had had his meeting in earlier. Each animal had a black t-shirt and black shorts on. Now that she thought of it, each of the mutants she had seen earlier all had black shorts on, so she assumed that this is what their uniform consisted of.
She looked around at each of the animals. The group consisted of two female turtles who were green and another younger female turtle who was red and purple colored; two female foxes that were orange and another that was snow white; a female gecko that was blue with red spots, a female salamander that was a dark blue and purple color, a lioness who seemed to be the oldest of the group, and the most unique was a female cat with bright pink fur.
"What do you want with me?" Sam said as she glared at all of them.
The lioness stepped forward. "Names Sally Pride, thought you should know the name of the woman who's going to beat the shit out of you. You're here because you hurt some of our closest friends, so we're going to do the same to you."
Sam smirked. "Well, you gotta go-" she then dropped one of tonfa as she grabbed the closest female, the young turtle, "through this one first."
All the females growled and snarled as they raised their weapons, wanting to attack but knowing that doing so could harm their captive friend.
Sam looked at all of them and then looked down at the girl she was holding. Sam gazed over the turtle and noticed that she seemed much younger than many of the other girls in the room.
"How old are you?" she asked gently.
"I'm not sure, but I know I'm one of the youngest" she replied in a similar tone.
"DON'T ANSWER HER!" the salamander shouted.
"You're a child, Shredder literally has a young child fighting for him" Sam stated. She released her grip on the girl and let her rush back over to her friends. "I can't do this, you're not the one I want to fight, and you are innocent in all of this." Sam then looked back over at the lioness. "I didn't mean to hurt your friends, I only did so because they hurt mine. But none of us should be fighting each other. I don't know what Shredder has done to you, but he's a murderer, he's the reason I learned to fight, so that I could defend myself in case he ever came back. Shredder stole everything from me, but it's not fair for me to take all that rage out on you. You were all kidnapped and forced into this, that's why our friends are fighting each other. I swear the four turtles I came here with are all good guys…but I understand if you don't believe me." Sam then dropped her weapons and dropped to her knees. "If it will make you that happy to beat me up for what I've done to your friends, then so be it. But before you do, please tell me why you're pink" she said as she looked over at the pink mutant cat.
The cat chuckled. "A kid dropped his ice cream cone in my cage at the pet store, so when I was mutated, the pink ice cream on my fur altered how I look. I also smell like cotton candy 24/7. Everyone nick-names me ice cream kitty, but I decided for my designated name to be Sprinkles, Sprinks for short. I don't mind being called either though" she said with a big smile.
Sam smiled back at her, glad to know that whatever had happened to these mutants, it didn't stop this one from smiling the way she did.
Just then, the lioness lowered her arms, signaling for all the other females to lower their weapons. Sam looked at her with confusion written all over her face.
Sally Pride walked over and kneeled in front of Sam.
"Your eyes, the tone of your voice, they're both similar to those of mine and my friends throughout the weeks that we've been here. I can tell that Shredder has hurt you to. I won't harm you, but only if you promise to help us."
"Only on one condition!"
Sally tilted her head. "And that would be?"
"I need you to tell me your names. I hate when I'm talking to people and I don't know who they are. I mean, I know Shredder and his soldiers kidnapped all of you, but I don't personally know any of you yet."
Sally nodded her head and smiled. She found this human to be quite interesting. "Alright, like I said, I'm Sally Pride." She then pointed to the next person behind her on her left.
"Well, I'm ice cream kitty, aka Sprinks" the cat stated.
Next was the white fox. "Names Alopex" she said seriously.
"Mona Lisa" claimed the blue and purple salamander in a similar tone.
"Hey, I'm Candy!" exclaimed the blue and red gecko.
"I'm Venus", "and I'm Victoria" the two green female turtles stated, the latter looking a bit younger than the first.
"I'm Umeko! The younger sister!" exclaimed the younger looking of the two foxes. Her fur was more of a light orange brown.
"I'm Ninjara, her older sister" stated the older looking of the two foxes in a more serious tone. Her fur was more of a darker brown.
"And I'm Chompy!" exclaimed the turtle, the youngest looking of them all.
Besides for Sally who seemed to be a bit older, they all seemed like they were teenagers, Chompy being the youngest. Sam guessed that maybe she was about 13.

"I'm Samantha, but please call me Sam. Tell me what you need me to do and I'll do everything in my power to make them happen."
Sally then took charge once again. "On the 12th floor is a laboratory. In there is a last resort security system. If you can hack into it, it will set off a smoke system that is set up throughout the entire building. The toxin isn't deadly, but it will paralyze anyone in the building for a following 24 hours. The chemicals used to make the toxin allow it to stay in the building for a full hour before fully dispersing and losing its effect. With that amount of time, we can all try to escape, and then we won't have to feel pain or inflict it on anyone ever again."
"Wait, I'm sure Shredder planted some sort of tracking device into all of your bodies, how will you take care of that?"
"That alligator you helped knock out earlier, his name is Leatherhead. He's a genius and even told me that if he got a hold of the device that was used to put the trackers into our skin, then he could get them out. He just needs to be somewhere without security cameras."
"Sorry about that, what we did to your friend…" Sam replied.
Sally put a hand on Sam's shoulder. "I understand now that you didn't mean to do it, and I'm sorry that you had to see him that way. He's one of the sweetest people I've ever met, but Shredder is able to mess with his mind and make him go berserk."
"We're going to put an end to that" Sam reassured. "Is there anything I can say to your companions so that they know to leave the building and to stop hurting my friends?"
"Tell them that it's Mutanimals orders. Hopefully that should calm them down."
"Understood. Let's do this!"
All the girls in the room nodded with huge smiles on their faces, hoping that maybe this was the day they could all make their escape.

All of the girls scattered and ran down different hallways, looking for the other Mutanimals so that they could inform them of their current plan.
Sam ran from hallway to hallway until in a hallway on the 11th floor she spotted all four of her turtle friends surrounded by a variety of larger mutants. There was a large and muscular adult Akita Inu male dog, a large red and purple colored female turtle, a green male and then a green female turtle, and the final mutant was Leatherhead, the giant alligator from earlier. These larger mutants had the turtles held up in corner of the hallway.
Sam then felt two set of hands grab each of her arms. "Look Titian, we found the final one!"
"Good job Bramante!" The two were both teenage looking male turtles.
"Let me go!" Sam shouted.
Mikey then heard the shouts from his best friend, and without thinking tried to run over towards her.
"SAM!" but that fast he was grabbed by the throat of the large male turtle and shoved against the wall.
"Stop it! MUTANIMALS ORDERS!" Sam shouted.

All the foreign mutants stopped and looked at her.
"What did you say?" the alligator asked.
"You're Leatherhead right? Sally said you're one of the sweetest guys she's ever met, then prove it."
The gator paused, and motioned for everyone to back off some. Mikey shoved through the large turtles grasp once it was loosened and he rushed over to Sam. "What happened? What did they do to you? Did they do that?!" he exclaimed as he looked at her knees.
"Ummm yes and no, but that's not the point! Look, we're all on the same side."
"What?!" Donnie exclaimed. "Did you not see that one GRAB ME BY THE FACE?!"
"It's not his fault. Shredder has all these guys brainwashed to do whatever her wants them to. But if we can get to the next floor up, there's a smoke system we can hack into and let them all go free."
"She's telling the truth!" came a voice from down the hall. A young orange and white Akita Inu mutant dog appeared from a stair well. "I just got word from Sprinks, they're on our side, and we're all on the same side now!"

All the foreign mutants backed off and started running down towards where the mutant dog was standing.
The gator faced the turtles. "I'm sorry for the harm I have caused you all, I assure you I didn't do it on my own free will. If you all help us in escaping, I promise you we will all find a way to pay you back somehow."
Leo was confused, but things seemed much more peaceful now, so he decided to roll with it.
"Right…Sam. Explain what's going on."
"I'll explain as we go, you coming with us?" she asked the gator.
He shook his head. "I already have the device I need hidden somewhere else. This is where we say goodbye, for now at least. Thank you again" he said as he ran off in the same direction as the other mutants.
Sam looked at the turtles who were all looking at her quizzically. "Don't worry, I'll explain as we go."

The turtles followed Sam to the laboratory on the 12th floor as she explained what had happened after she was kidnapped. The turtles were still a bit on edge, since they had yet to see even a smile from any of the mutants that they had met so far, but instantly the foreign mutants had all backed off once Sam had joined back up with them, so for the time being they decided that it was best to roll along with this plan.
Luckily by this time, most to all of the Foot soldiers had left the building, so reaching the lab was a piece of cake, and Sam and Donnie were able to quickly tamper with and set a timer so that within ten minutes the smoke system would go off.
"I don't get it, if no one is even here, why are we setting off this system?" Raph asked while keeping a lookout."
"One, in case there's anyone hiding and trying to plan a surprise attack anywhere throughout the building. Two, because then no one can come back and try to track the Mutanimals. They'll have more time for their escape this way" Donnie replied.
"And why are we trying to help them? They did nothing but fight us!"
"Because they were forced to do so, and one of them looks even younger than you guys" Sam replied.
Raph remained silent as he let her comments sink in. He let his anger subside so that he could focus on the facts rather than his anger. He knew that Shredder was a messed up human being and Raph didn't even want to think of what the other mutants had gone through while being here. He calmed himself and nodded at Sam's words, realizing that the Mutanimals weren't his enemy, Shredder was, and helping the others escape would really mess with Shredder's plans of creating a mutant army.

Once Donnie and Sam got the system set up, they all had about ten minutes until the smoke system would go off. They dashed to the roof and reached their destination with an extra five minutes left to escape from the rooftop. Usually this wouldn't be a big deal, but the turtles weren't sure how they were going to escape now that Sam was with them. The brothers had been practicing escape exercises on multiple different buildings throughout the city so that they could be prepared for any situation where they needed to make a quick getaway, but this also involved them using all of their body when coming in for a landing. They would slide down buildings on their backs and would even use their shells to protect them if they needed to crash through anything hard or sharp. Also, depending on how they would land, sometimes it was safest for them to roll or slide when making the landing, and none of this could be done if one of the turtles needed to carry Sam. The original plan was to make their way over to the parking garage that was located to the right of the building, but it was too great of a distance this time. If the turtles needed to climb or just leap over or even down, say into a sewer opening down below, then it wouldn't be such a big deal to carry Sam, but this time was different.
As they all reached the top of the roof, Leo began to worry.
"Hey, you're heading that way, right?" Sam asked as she pointed towards the garage.
Leo nodded. "Yeah, but I don't know how we're going to get everyone over there."
"I can swing each of us over there, but I don't know how to get Sam over there safely. The garage only has ten floors whereas this building has fifteen, so I'm not sure how to safely get us all over there together" Donnie thought aloud.
None of the turtles noticed that Sam and Mikey had backed up some and were whispering to each other.
"Alright just like we've practiced. You aim for the highest object you can hook onto, so that rail right there" he said as he pointed down to the top of the parking garage where there was a handrail along the ledge of the top of the building, "and hook onto that as you board down. Keep a wide distance though so that you have enough room to swing in. You think you can handle this?" Mikey asked, a mix of excitement and worry in his voice.
"Don't worry, I got this. Like you said, I've practiced this tons of times."
"More like three times, but you landed everything perfectly when you did this at the other locations, so hopefully everything will be okay." He didn't realize his hand was shaking as he spoke, but Sam did.
She nudged him and gave him a playful smile. "Hey, I'm the adrenaline junky, remember? This is what I'm good at, and this stunt is just something else I'll be able to add to my resume."
"Guys, only two minutes left!" Donnie called out.
"Whelp, see you on the other side" Sam said as she ran forward.
Raph, Leo and Donnie instantly picked up on this as their eyes widened.
"Wait wait wait!"
"Sam no!"
"Stop!"
But Sam had already leaped off the ledge of the building. The three boy's jaws dropped as they wanted to look away, but at the same time they prayed that she would somehow magically land safely on the building down below. None of them (except for Mikey of course) expected to see what they saw.
Before Sam had made her leap, she had placed a grappling hook gun that she had retrieved from her backpack into her right hand, and she had pulled out her skateboard rod and held that in her left hand. Right after she had made her leap, Sam extended her board and brought it to her feet, which set off the rockets and allowed her to gain better control of where she went as she fell down. Soon after, she aimed and shot the hook from the grappling gun at the handrail and was able to hook it onto the rail. Once she fell far enough down, the pull from the hook and rope forced her to swing inwards, releasing the hook and quickly bringing it back to the gun as Sam then used her board to guide her body into the opening of the 8th of 10 floors of the parking garage.
"Alright she's in! Let's go!" Leo called out.
Donnie stood on the ledge of the taller building. First he used his bo staff to help swing Leo and then Raph towards the direction they needed to go. After Raph had gone, Mikey then ran forward and jumped off the ledge onto his skateboard with Donnie jumping behind him. Donnie accelerated downward quickly so that Mikey could then swing him towards the direction they needed to go. Leo and Raph had fallen and grabbed onto the handrail, and then Donnie and Mikey caught up with them seconds later. They all then carefully lowered themselves down two more floors until they were able to swing themselves into the opening of the 8th floor of the parking garage. There, they found a calm and collected Sam who was leaning against one of the pillars nearest to where they had all swung into the room.
"Took you guys long enough."
"Heh, hey Don, looks like we found that grappling gun you've been looking for" Raph teased mockingly as he lightly nudged his brothers arm.
"Funny, I've been looking for it for a few weeks now" Donnie said as he crossed his arms and looked at Sam and Mikey sternly.
"Oh, this? Mikey have you ever seen this before?" Sam asked Mikey, holding up the grappling gun.
"This thing? Nahhh, never seen it before in my life"
"Me either, wonder how it got here."
"I don't know, life's crazy man."
"Strange things happen, am I right?"
"Totally, because I've never seen that thing before EVER!"
"Same here, haha!"
"Hahaha!"
The two conversed quickly, but they could easily tell the remaining brother's didn't buy it at all.
"Mikey" Leo said with a solid blank expression as he crossed his arms.
"Yeah."
"I'm gonna kick your ass when we get home."
"IN MY DEFENSE!...Sam just saved all of us because she got those mutants to back down when we were cornered earlier!" Mikey announced.
"He's right" Donnie agreed, hating the feel of defeat in knowing that Mikey's statement was
true.
"Doesn't hide the fact that you both have been sneaking around behind me and our families
back" Leo said sternly as he glared at them both.
"He's right" Donnie said, nodding his head matter of factly.
"But us sneaking around is why she was able to escape and jump off that building" Mikey said confidently, proud that he was able to continue on in this argument-slash-heated discussion.
"If you weren't sneaking around then we never would have been put in that situation in the first place!" Raph stated aggressively towards the youngest brother. "And one wrong move and you easily could have killed yourself" Raph said in an angry tone as he now faced Sam.
"They're both right" Donnie said in a serious tone. "Not to mention that this means you BOTH broke code in stealing from my lab, AFTER I gave you permission to go in there so that you wouldn't have to sneak in anymore" Donnie said with pursed lips.
"Heh, she broke Leo's rules on not sneaking around behind his back, what made you think she wouldn't break yours?" Raph stated in a vile tone.
"Heyyyyy" Sam said, squinting her eyes at Raph after hearing his harsh words. "I didn't break Donnie's code! I signed the gun out!"
"Yeah, around two weeks or so ago!" Donnie stated, eyes wide in his hysteria at the girl's reactions.
"…I wasn't done with it" she replied as if she was sulking, though it was obvious she was just being silly. Honestly, she was trying to prevent herself from laughing at the way Donnie had just reacted. Unless he was super pissed, his exaggerated reactions were hilarious, and she could tell that he was frustrated but that he wasn't full on mad like when she had first met him.
"I've still never seen it before" Mikey assured.
"Oh get over yourself" Sam said as she jokingly shoved her friend, to which she was jokingly shoved back.

The groups antics were cut off when suddenly, about thirty Foot soldiers came rushing up the roadway that led to the floor of the parking garage.
"They've been waiting for us" Leo stated. "Alright guys, get ready for one last fight."
All five of them got their weapons out and dispersed themselves amongst the group of soldiers. About twenty of the men were actual Foot soldiers, and the other ten were Purple Dragons members.
Sam ran over and stood back to back with Donnie. "You got a smoke bomb of any kind?!" Sam shouted against the loudness of all the commotion from the fight.
"Back pouch!" he said as he swung his bo and hit a soldier in the side, as he then brought it down onto the man's head, knocking him out.
"Dude there's like five back pouches!" she said as she ducked, swung her foot by the leg of the soldier in front of her and knocked him off his balance as she then brought her knee up and kneed him in the back of the head.
"Far right, my right!"
Sam grabbed the pouch and ran and hid behind some parked cars. She noticed that the group of ten men had split up into five and were waiting to get better aims of the turtles while the ninjas were currently fighting them. She launched one of the smoke bombs over towards where the one group was setting up. Tons of coughs could be heard as the men were consumed by the thick smoke. As quickly as she could, Sam ran in and used her tonfa to fight the men and knock them out before they could even see her through the smoke. Everything went according to plan until one of them unpredictably pulled a small hand held bomb from their pocket. Sam knocked it out of the soldier's hand, but he had kept a grip on long enough for it to stay in his hand until he was at an angle where it was launched up into the air and hit the ceiling. The smoke was still so thick that Sam couldn't see which part of the ceiling had been hit and where the debris was going to fall. Suddenly, she felt someone shove her to the side. She slid out of the smoke, scrapping up her arms some since it wasn't a planned slide. She turned over to see what had happened and her eyes became glassy as she recognized Donatello laying on the ground with debris from the ceiling all around and on top of him. There were thick chunks of concrete all around and on top of his head.
Sam was so focused on what she was staring at that she hadn't realized Leo had run over to her and had grabbed her arm and pulled her up.
"Sam, he'll be fine. He's endured this before. Sam!"
But Sam was so caught up in her thoughts that she couldn't hear a thing that Leo was saying. She was pissed at herself, at Shredder and his goons, at life for stealing yet another important person from her life. Sam's eyebrows slanted and squeezed together as she gritted her teeth together under closed lips and clenched her fists. Leo had never seen the girl this way, and he had a feeling he wouldn't be able to control her at this point, not while he also had to go back and help his brother's. Sam was so furious that she yanked her arm away from Leo and started walking back towards where Donnie was lying.
"Sam! Dammit…" Leo growled as he turned back, knowing that he needed to help his brothers who were still fighting multiple Foot soldiers.

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Sam walked forward towards Donnie's body. She heard footsteps quickly coming up behind her. She turned and ran towards the man following her. She quickly used her tonfa to push his arms up and knee him in the stomach as she then threw him over her shoulder. As she did this, she grabbed the handgun from the man's hands and then quickly turned towards the other four gunmen who were following the previous man. She quickly shot at all the men's knees as they stumbled to the floor. Two of them tried to shoot at her even while they were on the ground, to which Sam ran up and kicked the guns out of the two men's hands. She then saw two Foot soldiers running over towards Donnie. Sam was out of bullets, so she threw a couple of shuriken starts at them. This stopped them both long enough for her to dash over to them and start fighting them. Every punch they threw she deflected, and she waited for the perfect moment to attack. She finally got her chance when she used her tonfa to knock the weapons out of the hands of the man to her right. She then swung her left leg up as the soldier grabbed it, but before he could do anything, as he held her left leg (assuming he was deflecting an attack) Sam quickly twirled her body around so that her right leg swung up and her foot smacked him across the face. The soldier fell onto his companion and they both tumbled down. As the second man tried to stand back up, Sam karate kicked him in the face, and the man fell flat on his face and both stayed down permanently.

"I TAUGHT HER ALL THAT!" Mikey exclaimed.
Sam turned to see that the other three had taken care of all the other soldiers and that now all the current enemies had been knocked unconscious.
"Ughhh…" came a voice from the debris pile.
Sam turned around to see Donnie slowly trying to stand up. He had a few scrapes along his arms, but the main injury seemed to be a bloody nose.
"Whoa man, take it easy" Raph said as he quickly walked over to his brother. He carefully helped stand Donnie up, letting his younger brother take his time until her was able to use his own strength and push off of Raph's arm and stand after catching his balance.
"Thanks" Donnie said with a small smile as he reached into one of the many small pouches running down his chest and pulled out some tissues.
"Any serious pain? Anything hit you the wrong way?" Leo asked with concern.
"Heh, just the floor, ironically. Once I got Sam out of the way, I was so focused on shielding myself from falling debris that I hadn't done anything to block my face from the floor, so when the debris came crashing down I face planted hard. Besides that I think I'm good" he said as he stuck some tissues up his nostrils to help stop the bleeding.
"As long as a headache or a nose bleed is the most pain you feel then you should be fine, at least that's how I was when this happened to me" Raph reassured.
"Damnnnn Daniel! That was some nice hero work!" Mikey shouted as he walked over at pat his brother's shoulders.
Donnie smiled at his brother's antics, but his expression died down as he realized why he was injured in the first place. "What happened to Sam?"

The four brothers turned around to see that Sam hadn't moved as she was staring at the floor in front of her. They didn't know it, but Sam was mentally cussing herself out. She was extremely grateful that Donnie was alright, but she hated herself for even putting him in that situation. For years Sam had always been able to defend and take care of herself, but this time she slipped up and she put her new friend in danger. She would never do it, but she wanted to bash her head against the wall for acting so carelessly. How was she supposed to face him after he had just risked his life for her? He could have died! She wouldn't be surprised if all the turtles hated her even more now, and she wouldn't blame them. If they all told her to disappear and to never cross paths with them again then she would have obeyed, she would do whatever she needed to in order for them to feel that their lives were safer, and if that meant her never getting to see the turtles again then so be it. Their safety and well-being meant more to her than anything else in the world, besides Jay's safety and well-being that is.
Sam was so caught up in her thoughts that she hadn't realized Donnie had walked up and now stood in front of her.
"Soooo this is the part where you say 'thanks for saving me from the falling debris that would have crushed me Donatello'," he said both comically yet also seriously.
Sam just looked up and stared at him. "Your face is bleeding…" she said bluntly.
"You're welcome Sam" he replied with raised eyebrows as he pursed his lips together in annoyance.
"You got hurt because of me…" Sam said, her voice cracking a bit.
As Donnie now noticed her glassy eyes, he realized why she hadn't apologized. It's not that she wasn't grateful for what he had done, it was because she didn't think she deserved to even speak to him. He could tell that she was mentally torturing herself with her thoughts.
He smiled at her and pointed towards his nose. "This? This is nothing. Ever since Raph's incident last August when our first home was attacked, we train for things like this now."
"HA" Raph stated sarcastically. "Just tell her the specific date and everything why don't'cha?"
"It was a dark day, August 8th, 2013…" Donnie started, but was playfully cut off by Leo nudging his brother, the oldest and second youngest smiling the entire time.
Sam smiled at this, which made Donnie cheer up as well. "Besides" he said as he turned back towards her, "I owed you from earlier" he said as he lightly nudged her shoulder.
"Ahhh that's right. Thank you for being ten times stronger aka weighing weigh more than you look you would" Sam said as she smiled and nodded her head.
And that was all the 'thanks' that Donnie needed. He knew that the comical changes in both her voice and facial expressions showed that she was back to normal, and this meant that even though she didn't exactly say 'thank you,' she already knew how important his actions had been, hence why she had been afraid to even talk to him. In an odd way, Donnie knew her well enough at this point to know that this change in emotion showed how thankful she truly was.
"Alright, let's round all these guys up, I'm sure the cops will be here soon" Leo stated.
The five of them moved all the soldiers into one big mosh pile of people. Once they were done they all began to walk down the roadway of the parking garage.
"There's a manhole cover in the alley right behind the garage, we'll just use that one for today since the cops will probably be here soon and it will be easier to escape through the sewers rather than trying to find another roof top, since oddly this building is shorter than the others surrounding it" Donnie stated as he led the way out of the garage.
"Hehe, so what's this about you getting picked up by that large gator?" Raph teased as he threw his arm around his brother's shoulder.
"Please don't make me talk about it" Donnie groaned.
"LAMEEEEEE! Come on, tell us!" Mikey chimed in.
"What's so exciting about hearing me talk about getting grabbed by the face?"
"It's not exciting, it just sounds hilarious" Raph mocked as Mikey laughed and Donnie rolled his eyes.
"Alright I'll talk, after Mikey describes what it was like to be grabbed by the throat and then shoved against the wall" Donnie said as he smirked at his younger brother.
"Okay if your experience was the same then I feel you bro! That scared the hell out of me!"
"SEE! Not so funny, is it?"
"Oh no, the throat is scary…but the face is still hilarious" Raph teased.

As the younger three teased each other, Sam hung back to talk to Leo, away from the others. She laughed when she saw Leo smile and roll his eyes at his younger brothers.
"Yup, definitely another Jay" she said with a smile.
"What exactly does that mean again?"
"That as much as you yell and scream at your younger siblings it just means that you actually really care about them, and even if you roll your eyes at them all the time, it's your way of showing you're happy that they're around, that's how my older brother Jay is."
"Ahhhh got it, but why else would I yell at them?"
"I dunno, to be an ass?" she teased.
"Eh, maybe sometimes if they really annoy me. But the majority of the time, no. I'm not always an ass, at least not on purpose."
"Huh, oldest brother like second oldest brother."
"You called Raph an ass?" Leo asked in laughter.
"Well, more so he called your brother one, and then I laughed at him for the fact that he could say that about someone else."
"Which brother?"
"Donnie, about rubbing it in at times that he's the tallest."
"Oh yeah he does that a lot, but hey that's the payback Raph and Mikey get for teasing him all the time about being the thinnest" he chuckled. "I guess Nick is another one of your brothers?"
"Yeah, he's the oldest of my blood siblings. He cared about all eight of us like crazy, but he could be a real hot head at times. He's the type who always has to have the last word and will mumble things under his breath and can never let the conversation die out even when everyone knows that it's time to juts let things go."
"Ohhhh then Raph is definitely another Nick" he laughed.
Sam laughed, imagining Raph and Nick fighting over something silly and how crazy it would be to see the two butt heads. Now that all earlier tensions had been dropped, Sam thought it was a good time to apologize for the argument the two had had earlier.
"Sorry about sneaking around behind your back, I'm still getting used to this whole getting to know people and earning their trust kind of thing."
"I'm the same way, we all are, well except Mikey. He's always been the most trusting and joyfully energetic of us four. Anyway, sorry if there's times where you still feel like an outsider. If it means anything, we're all used to seeing you around the lair now and it's pretty much become a part of all our daily routines now."
"Thanks" Sam said as she failed at concealing her wide teeth bearing smile, "That means a lot."
"Out of curiosity, why were you two so gung-ho to form a crime fighting duo anyway?"
"Well, it's a long story-"
"Broken family related?" he asked with sorrow in his voice as he faced her.
She nodded. "Yeah, completely related to that. Basically, thanks to the cards life has dealt me, I haven't exactly grown up as a normal kid would, so I never really had close friends and got excited by things normal teens do. Everyone likes things like going to the mall and going on trips with their friends, stuff like that, but I haven't exactly been interested in those type of activities for a long time now. Because of how my life has played out, I'm more interested in adrenaline filled activities, something that has a purpose or something that will be life changing, if any of that makes sense. That's the best way I can really explain it."
"Well, I can't relate to you about having a broken family, but I can relate to you on the whole 'my life has been dealt weird and unique playing cards, so I'm not interested in normal activities and would rather do something different than normal people' type situation. But there is a major difference in our situations though."
"Let me guess, the whole you're a 6 ft. mutant turtle and I'm just a 5'5 human girl thing?" she said with a teasing smile.
"As skilled as you are, there are still things that you can't handle. A perfect example being when Donnie pushed you out of the way of the falling solid concrete pieces. Being more muscular and also having tougher skin, the impact didn't hurt him as much, whereas that debris easily could have injured, or worse, it could have killed you."
"Awww you sound so concerned" she mocked.
"Well who else is going to teach me how to cook?" he said bluntly, though it was obviously known he was joking.
"Ohh, so that's it. Gotta remember that the next time I meet someone who doesn't like me. If I teach them how to do more than just make themselves a bowl of cereal then they'll want me around."
"Shut up" Leo said as he rolled his eyes and Sam laughed.
"Well, I gotta say, I'm glad this was my final ninja mission, I think I kicked the most ass tonight than ever before" Sam said as she brushed her hands off her shoulders.
Leo gave her a confused look. "What are you talking about?"
"You're pissed that I brought Mikey here just the two of us, and I'm also the reason that Donnie got hurt, so I'm pretty sure you don't want me joining you guys anymore on missions like this. I totally understand though, I don't want to do anything that will continue to put you guys at risk of getting hurt."
"Awwww you sound so concerned" Leo said, mocking what the girl had just recently said.
She gave him an annoyed smile as she fake laughed at him. Leo smiled at the girl's playful expression.
"In all honesty, you had our backs in ways I wasn't expecting. Heh, it's hard to believe Mikey could actually successfully train someone. But you had our backs back there, I can't deny that."
Sam stopped and gave him a funny look. "Where is this going?"
"I'm saying that if you listen to instructions, then maybe you can join us in training outside of the dojo. But you have to STOP GOING BEHIND OUR BACKS! And if you ever join us in another fight, you have to listen to us when we tell you to hide or whatever it is that we're telling you to do. It's not because we're trying to cast you out, it's because we're trying to help keep you safe."
"Really?"
"Of course we want you to be safe!"
"Not that!" Sam replied as she rolled her eyes. "I meant 'really,' you'd let me go help save the city with you guys? Or are you saying that because 'you don't have any other choice?" she said in a mocking tone.
Leo playfully glared at her. "You would remember that. Well, you stuck around long enough to the point where we don't really hate you anymore-"
"What a great way to tell someone you care about them" she said with a wide teeth showing sarcastic smile.
"AS I WAS SAYING, you've been hanging around all of us for a while now to the point where I feel like we could trust you during a fight, so as your brother I'm giving you a chance to fight with us if you're-"
"What did you say?" Sam asked. Her face expressed a mix of shock and confusion combined into one.
"I said I was your friend, why?" he answered, confusion written on his face as well.
"No reason, go on" she said quickly.
"…okay, I was saying that as your friend I'm giving you a chance to fight alongside us as long as you're willing to listen to directions when it comes to safety precautions, since as much as you want to fight like us, there's things you can't do because you're not us."
"Not like you guys…" Sam instantly went into deep thought, all the wheels in her head turning.
"What are you thinking?" Leo groaned.
"Definitely not something that will help me fight like you guys" she said, her words and expression full of sarcasm.
By this time, the two were now rounding the corner of the entrance of the garage on the ground floor. They started walking towards the back alley when Mikey came running up to them.
"SAM! Donnie was able to download an early cut of Guardians of the Galaxy!"
"Donnie's got footage of my boy Groot?"
"He has footage of all the galaxy saving misfits. ALL. OF. THEM."
"LEAD ME TO THE NEAREST T.V.!"

The two then lifted the man-hole cover, jumped down into the sewers, and rode their boards all the way back to the lair, while the other three brothers took their time and walked back. While Sam rode back to the lair, she kept thinking of Leo's words that continued to linger on her mind. Even though he accidentally called himself her brother, she had a feeling that that was how he was truly beginning to see himself since he was always complaining when she and Mikey did something that he deemed unsafe. She thought back to how they all had treated her that night and how each of them displayed various different traits that reminded her of Chuck, Nick, Brian and Jay. She then thought of how Splinter displayed many traits that her parents and older siblings used to, and how April also displayed many traits that were similar to those of her mother and her older sisters: Haley, Amber, and Jamie. For the first time in a long time, it felt like a large part of her life had been given back to her, and she felt truly happy to feel like her family had come back and joined her in her daily life once again. Obviously this situation was still very different from how her life used to be, but she loved what her life had recently turned into, and she prayed that nothing would ever change.