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.

24. Samantha Allan Park Ch24

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

Chapter #24

*Friday August 31st, late at night on a random rooftop within New York City*

Mikey was crouching down and hiding behind the raised ledge along the side of the building he was standing on and watched the two men separate from the rest of their group down below. For the past week Mikey had been white lying to his brothers. Every night he had told them that he was going up to the surface to wait for Sam, which was true, but he knew they assumed that he was heading to Sam's room each time he went topside and that's where the lying came in. He was still waiting and looking for Sam but he was now doing so in a new way. Each night he would run along the rooftops and look for Purple Dragons members that he could use to get the information that he was looking for. The Purple Dragons were currently working under Shredder and his clan, but they were nowhere near as strong and as skilled as the Foot clan itself, so whenever they spotted something they thought was too tough for them then they would immediately contact the clan and help would be sent to complete their task. Mikey would have just aimed for the Foot clan right off the bat, but it was like they had completely vanished ever since the incident with Sam. The Purple Dragons however were still on the move throughout the city. Their work hadn't involved any violence, but they were still selling and picking up drugs, weapons, information, etc. all throughout the city and tonight Mikey had found two Dragons members walking alone.

He secretly trailed them from his position on the rooftop and watched their every move. He followed them for about 20 minutes before the two men finally stopped in front of a dimly lit alley way where the two pulled out a lighter and started smoking some cigarettes. Mikey waited another 10 minutes in case the two were meeting someone in this position, but the two just continued to talk and smoke by themselves. Mikey thought this was to perfect and that his plan to get Sam back might actually work. He got his nunchuks ready and he leaped down where the alley was so dark that you couldn't even see your hand if it was in front of your face. The two men froze, not sure what to do or how to react. They soon began to reach for the hand guns they had on them but before they could even shoot, the hand guns had been sliced up by some shuriken starts that had been thrown at them.
"What the hell?" one of the men questioned as he held the gun close to his face so he could inspect the damage it had taken. As soon as the man looked back up, a huge figure had come rushing at him and slammed him up against the wall to their side. The impact was rough and the man came crashing to the ground, unconscious from the blow his head had taken against the wall.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" the second man said as he put his hands up in defense and slowly started backing away.
Mikey glared at the man as he reached out and clutched the man's shirt in his hand and pulled him in close.
"Don't play defensive with me. You have a way of getting information that I want, and that means you're going to do exactly what I say" Mikey snarled.
"Oh yeah?" the man asked with an evil grin. "What are you going to do? You guys don't kill people."
Without saying a word Mikey flipped the man onto his stomach. He placed one foot on the man's back as he grabbed his arms and pulled backwards. The man began to shriek in pain, but those were soon muffled by dirt as Mikey placed his other foot on the man's head so that he was now completely standing on the body beneath him.
"You're right," the turtle said in a low and menacing tone, "I won't kill you. But when I'm done, you'll wish I would have."
He then took his feet off the man, but then leaned forward and pulled the man up by the hair on the back of his head. Mikey punched the man in the back and then spun him around. He kneeled down on one leg and shoved the man onto his knee, and right after he slammed his elbow into the victim's stomach.
The man coughed and coughed as he tried to catch his breath. "Okay, okay, what do you want from me?"
"I know you are in contact with the Foot Clan. Call one of the leader's and tell them and JUST THEM to get their ass over here. If you expose the true reason why they're being called," Mikey said as he pulled a kunai knife from his pocket and held it so that the tip of the blade was resting against the man's neck, "well, I think you know what will happen next."
Mikey felt weird as he talked to the man like this. This was completely against what he and his brought stood for and believed in. The man was right when he said that the turtles didn't kill, and Mikey really didn't want to hurt this man too much either, but Sam's life was on the line and he would do whatever he had to in order to get her back and guarantee her safety. It would have been much more comforting if it was Raph or Leo in this current situation since they usually played the 'tough guy' card and had done this so many times that they knew how to handle this type of thing with ease and knew what was and wasn't going too far, but sadly having either one of them help wasn't an option. Even though it had been a month now, Raph was still with Donnie in not wanting anything to do with Sam, and Leo was supposedly helping to track down Sam's whereabouts, yet every night he came home with the exact same results of not knowing a damn thing. This meant that Mikey had to take matters into his own hands no matter how risky and intense things got for him.
*Cough, cough* okay I'll call them" the man choked out.
Mikey shot him an evil grin. "Great. Here, this might be more comfortable" Mikey said as he stood and dragged the man by his shirt and threw his body against the brick wall of the alley. The man groaned as he pulled out a cell phone and called for a leader. He didn't give a reason as to why he needed assistance but rather just said 'there's something I think you should see. Come alone please to keep the others safe.'
"I know there will obviously be more than one Foot soldier, but hopefully it's no more than 20 at max. I can successfully handle that many on my own without facing any serious injuries" Mikey thought to himself.
The two waited silently for the Foot soldiers to arrive at the given spot. Mikey stood still and never moved unless the man in his grasp tried moving around and tried fidgeting his way out of the turtles grip. In those cases Mikey shoved the man's body further and harder against the wall until the man stopped squirming around. After about 20 minutes or so was when Mikey sensed a presence nearby. Seconds later he then heard the sounds of feet leaping down from the rooftops and ladders from above and then start nearing closer and closer to where he was standing. He picked up and threw the Purple Dragon's member out of the alley and onto the main sidewalk of the city walkway.
"If you're not gone by the end of the fight then I'll really kick your butt" Mikey snarled at the gang member.
The man shivered with fear, nodded his head, and quickly ran away.

Mikey then turned to face the soldiers walking towards him. He clenched his fists as he not only counted ten soldiers in the alley way, but then another ten walking across the street to where he was standing, and then another ten on the rooftop of the building to the left of the alley, and THEN ANOTHER TEN on the rooftop of the building to the right of the alley.
"Great, just perfect. There's always about 10 to 20 soldiers for the four of us to share, and the one day I'm alone is when 40 soldiers decide to show up. Oh well, let's get this show on the road."
Mikey pulled out his nunchuks and shot a nasty smile towards the soldiers walking towards him from the back of the alley.
"Alright!" he exclaimed, "this is fine! Perfect even! There's never enough of you guys around so I'll make sure to take all my energy out on you guys tonight. But once I win, one of you better tell me ALL the information that I'm looking for, got it?!"
As soon as those final words left his lips, many of the soldiers from the rooves started leaping down to where he was standing. Each of them tried landing kicks close to Mikey's head, but he dodged each one, and the kicks he couldn't dodge he whapped away with his nunchuks. He then jumped onto a dumpster nearby and then leaped over a large crowd of soldiers that had been surrounding him. He landed on the main sidewalk of the open walkway in the middle of the city and began to run. He knew this was extremely dangerous since he was now out in the open, but there was nothing else he could have done. Attempting to fight that many soldiers at once and in that confined space in the alley way was suicide, so sadly running away for the time being was the only option he had in surviving this fight.
As he passed another alley way, he then heard shrieks of pain come from behind him as he also heard multiple *thud* sounds. He turned his head as he ran and then quickly came to a halt as he saw numerous soldiers lying on the ground, clasping their shoulders, hips, and calves where there were shuriken stars sticking out of them. This had taken out a good 10 or so soldiers. Mikey's curiosity as to how this had happened was answered instantly as Raph and Leo ran out from the alley and rushed towards the huge crowd of soldiers that were still on the ground. Mikey then heard a loud *bang* as a soldier from the roof above had come crashing down into an open dumpster down below on the ground. The young turtle looked up and saw Donatello fighting the few soldiers that were still on the roof tops as he knocked them off the top of the building each time he saw padded dumpsters down below.
"MIKEY! SOME HELP PLEASE!" Leo shouted from the original nearby alley.
Mikey turned back towards his oldest brothers and ran back to where they were currently fighting the rest of the huge crowd of soldiers.
Four soldiers soon circled around him, but they were no match for the adrenaline filled Michelangelo. The young turtle hooked his nunchuks onto the sword that was swung near his head and with the momentum of the swing he pulled forward and threw the soldier onto the soldier that had been standing behind Mikey. The other two men in black ran up to Mikey's left and right sides and using kunai knives they tried slashing near Mikey's shoulders, but the turtles movements were quicker and he swung his nunchuks so that they would clash with the blades. When the time was right, Mikey then ducked and swung his leg out and tripped the soldier on his right so that he began to fall backwards, but before his body hit the ground, Mikey quickly pulled a chain sickle from his back straps and swung the blade so that it swung around the falling man's ankles. Mikey then used all his strength to then swiftly swing the man around so that he collided with the other soldier.

By that time Donnie was done with the soldiers on the roof and was now running along his brother's side. Donnie looked as if he was about to say something, but instead he just stared and shook his head at his younger brother as he ran past him. Mikey could tell how upset his brother was with what he had done, but now wasn't the time to worry about all that, and Mikey got his head back in the game as he chased after Donnie and continued to fight alongside his brother's and take out the Foot soldiers.

As the two were running back towards the larger group, Donnie saw a handful or soldiers preparing to throw some stars at the two brothers. He turned and use his elbow to break the window of the large truck beside them, opened the door, and pulled Mikey along with him as he climbed into the driver's seat and slammed the door shut. The two ducked down and sat back as far as they could as the shuriken stars sliced into the door and pierced their way through so that the tips of the stars could be seen from the inside of the vehicle. Donnie reached for a smoke bomb that he had made by mixing and pouring some chemicals into egg shells and threw it through the broken window. The smoke made a thick screen that lasted long enough for the two brothers to slip out through the passenger door and out of the truck. As the smoke cleared, the soldiers were shoved backwards as Mikey and Donnie each held a side of Mikey's chain sickle and charged towards the soldiers, wrapping them up in the chain. Mikey and Donnie then knocked each soldier out with their own individual weapons as the soldiers were stumbling around and trying to catch their footing.
"This fight isn't worth the risk, everyone retreat!" one of the soldier's with a red armband shouted. Within seconds each of the remaining conscious soldiers picked up an injured comrade and fled the scene.
Mikey began to run after the fleeing soldiers, hoping that they would lead him to where Sam was being held captive, but he was stopped by Leonardo who jumped in front of him.
"Mikey. Turn. Around. NOW." Leo snarled through his grinding teeth.
Mikey knew that he was in deep shit and that there was no way of escaping his brother's now, so with a clenched jaw and pursed lips, he turned around and headed for the alley way where the manhole cover that allowed his brothers to reach the surface was located.

*Not much later, back at the lair*

The entire walk back had been silent, awkwardly silent. No one had said a single word and for the first time in his life that's how Mikey liked it. He just wanted to reach his room without anyone talking to him so that he could start working on a new plan for that following night on how he would bring Sam back home. Of course his commonly hot headed brother couldn't hold back his temper any longer. He hated long periods of silence like this and now that they were home his fuse had run short.
"So what the hell was that?" he called out towards his youngest brother who had been walking ahead of him.
Mikey ignored his brother since he knew the argument that would follow would be brutal and ugly, but Raph wasn't going to allow the youngest turtle to walk away so easily.
"Mikey! Get your ass over here before I chase you down and beat the answer out of you!" Raph shouted.
Mikey turned around, but he stood in his spot in the entry way that lead to his and Raph's bedrooms as he spoke, not daring to move anywhere near Raphael.
"You want to know what that was?" he asked calmly but sternly, "that was me trying to get my best friend back-"
"You're still on that? Dude she's gone! She's not your friend in any way and she never was!" Raph bellowed as he walked over towards his brother.
Mikey stood his ground, defending Sam while also literally standing still and not approaching Raph to make the situation worse.
"That's a lie and you know it."
Raph walked towards his brother as he talked. "No, what I know is that she lied to us in the worst way possible and then tried to kill me with her random increased amounts of strength which she also kept a secret from us!" Raph shouted as he now was standing so close to his brother that their foreheads were touching.
This then set off Michelangelo's fuse. He thought back to when April had accidentally butt dialed him and Leo and what Raph had confessed in that phone call, and this became the sole thing on the young turtles mind as he shoved his older brother backwards and away from him.
"That was only because you insulted her and her families past to her face! I mean Jesus Raph do you ever think before you speak?! What the hell is wrong with you?!" Mikey exclaimed.
"What is wrong with me?! Maybe that someone I trusted was wearing a leader's armband for the Foot clan, or maybe that they had strength that none of us had ever seen before. Maybe some of us are sick and tired of being lied to every time things finally start to seem calm and collected!" he shouted as he then shoved his brother nastily.
"Well maybe if you had let her explain herself then none of this would be happening! What if she had been captured and forced into the Foot clan?! And what if the one chance she had to call out for help was when we fucking pushed her away!?" he shouted as he shoved Raph back in the same way.
"Language" Leo groaned. He meant this for both of the brothers, but Mikey had already lost control and this comment had now gained and redirected his angered attention.
"Screw you Leo, you liar!" Mikey shouted as he pointed at his brother. "You said you were going to help me and you haven't done shit! I'm the only one trying to figure out what the heck is going on!"
"Wait, what?" Donnie asked. "What is he talking about?" he asked forcefully.
Leo tilted his head back in frustration. "I understand and respect that you and Raph don't want to look for her yet, and that's fine, but obviously something about this entire situation is twisted and I wanted to know why, so I told Mikey that I would help him search for Sam."
"WOOOOOOW!" Raph roared. "Wow Leo! I knew you could be a soft leader at times but wow! I never thought you would ever stoop this low! First you let the criminal into our home where she played her games and now you're searching for her to bring her back! I just can't fathom how the heck your mind works!" Raph said as he was now getting closer and closer to Leo, who had now also gained Raph's angered attention.
"And that's why I'm the leader Raph, because I think through situations before acting. Something's not right about all of this but you can't deny that.." Leo could tell by his brother's expression that his words had stung more now than ever before. "Sam said something like that to you, didn't she?" Leo asked cautiously. "You let her get to you, didn't you? You both picked at each other's deepest personal wounds and that's how everything exploded that night."
Raph bit his lip, making sure that he didn't let his brother guilt trip him into thinking that everything that night was solely his fault.
"Well it's hard not to pick when the same person keeps making the wounds larger" Raph scoffed under his breath.
"What are you talking about?! You started it!" Mikey shouted.
"Well none of this would have ever happened if you hadn't started hanging out with her in the first place" Raph said, spitting with hatred.
"Bullshit! You enjoyed her coming down here and I won't believe anything otherwise!"
"I enjoyed what I THOUGHT was our friend! She's proven that she's not our ANYTHING!"
Everyone stopped talking when they heard a *slam* from further across the room and saw that Donnie had slammed his hand down on his desk.
"How about the fact that letting her come back could lead us to this exact same situation again? None of us know what's real anymore. YOU don't even know what's real anymore!" Donnie said as he scowled at Mikey. "Doesn't that scare the shit out of any of you?! No matter how close any of us got to her none of us are able to figure out and understand what the heck is going on. That could mean a variety of things, some of the worst being that she played us like a fiddle OR that after everything we all went through together that she still didn't trust us enough to ask for help. Regardless I don't want to have to go through that again and I don't get how any of you could want to!"
Mikey bit his lip before he spoke. He understood how his brother had felt because to certain extents he had felt the same way. It broke his heart to think that Sam had either played with his emotions and vulnerabilities or that she still didn't trust him after all this time, so in this sense he understood how Donnie felt. But without any proof that Sam had truly turned against them, he couldn't just give up on his best friend.
"What happened to being innocent until proven guilty?" Mikey asked calmly.
"Is punching me to death not evidence enough?" Raph asked nastily.
Mikey glared at him as he spoke. "That whole night is a chaotic case file in itself and it includes you being a total jerk, so until the full story comes out, no it's not."
"So me dying doesn't mean shit to you?!"
"OF COURSE IT DOES YOU IDIOT!" Mikey howled. "I'd lose my mind if anything happened to any of you! Why do you think I told her to leave that night?! I couldn't believe what she did and on that night I hated her guts and wanted nothing to do with her!..." he paused before he spoke. "But what if we're wrong? What if everything is truly a messed up misunderstanding and Sam is still one of us? What if she's being tortured while we're just standing around arguing? What if she's dead and we're here doing nothing?!"
"THEN SHE SHOULD HAVE COME TO US!" Raph and Donnie shouted at the same time, both a bit shocked at how their responses matched word for word.
"Well why would she when we treat her like this?" Leo asked with a harsh tone to his voice.
The middle two brothers were now glaring at him. "What?" they again said simultaneously.
"What if she had come to us and we had treated her like this? Obviously she would have regretted talking to us about her decision, IF that's even the reason she's there. Until we find her we'll never know."
"Why are you so infatuated with her?" Raph snarled.
"I'm not infatuated with her, I want answers!" Leo said. Now it was his fuse that was beginning to burn out. "Do you honestly think we would choose her over our own brother? We were all on your side that night and did everything we could to protect you, and for me that includes knowing why the hell our supposed friend was about to bash your head in! You're always the one who wants to seek revenge against whoever has wronged you, yet when someone almost takes your life you suddenly get so scared that you run away and hide?! Where's the Raph who would want to fight the person who harmed him? And you!" Leo shouted as he now faced Donnie, "I get that you're scared and you're pissed that someone MAY HAVE played with your mind, but don't you want to avenge that? Don't you want to fight and win like when we first met her?! I get that all of this is terrifying in different ways and I'm nervous as well, but that's all the more reason that I want to know the truth about what the heck is going on!"

"I believe all your questions will be answered now" came a male voice off in the distance.
The boys were all so busy arguing that they hadn't notice April and their father enter the room from the entrance near the kitchen, and they also hadn't realized that tangled up in their Sensei's tail was a body. He flipped the body up and slammed it down onto the ground in front of where the boys were all fighting with each other.
All four turtles froze in shock. They could tell by the height and layout of this figure that it wasn't Sam, but what they did recognize was the uniform of a Foot soldier.
Leo looked up with wide eyes. "Dad…"
"I found him wondering a tunnel of the sewers that we rarely ever use, and I decided we would give him a warm welcome" Splinter said as he began wrapping his knuckles, preparing for a fight if the event was needed.
"Ughhhhh, wait, please" the masked voice groaned.
"Why should we?" Leo asked, nothing but anger in his voice.
Without saying a word, the body moved and its hand removed the mask to reveal the face of a young Asian male.
Mikey instantly recognized the lightly tanned face, the visible forehead with the black hair pushed back, the brown eyes, every detail of this face that he had seen in pictures multiple times.
"Jay…" Mikey mumbled.
His brothers quickly looked at him with wide eyes and then back down at the man on the floor.
"So, I guess the whole family are Foot followers" Raph growled as he cracked his knuckles.
"Please," Jay said as he moved into a bowing position on the floor, "please just listen to what I have to say. I can't see her suffer anymore, and if anything happens to either of us then I just need to know that you guys know the truth."
The turtles paused, none of them knowing how exactly they should react to this. For an entire month they had been struggling with not knowing what was and wasn't true, and after having one of their craziest fights to date about this topic, out of nowhere a chance to have all their questions answered suddenly appears right in front of them.
"I won't guarantee that we'll believe you, but we'll listen, so start talking" Mikey said sternly.
The older three brothers nodded, agreeing that this seemed to be the best way to handle things for now.

Theme: Hurts-Illuminated

Jay slowly moved his head so that he could look up at the turtles, and he began to stand up once he realized that they were actually going to give him a chance to speak.
"*sigh* it all began in 2006. I was only 15 at the time so I was still learning about the dangers of this world. Everything that happened that night literally happened by chance. It could have happened to anyone, but for whatever reason life decided that I would be that evening's victim. I was heading back home from hanging out with some friends that day. I'll admit it was way later than any average teenager should be heading home, but I knew my parents would freak out if I wasn't in my bed the next morning whether I was safe or not, so I had to head home. I turned a corner on whatever street it was and coincidentally the Foot were robbing and beating up members of an innocent family. The grandparents were well known scientists and Shredder wanted them on his team, and since they didn't join willingly, he forced them into the group like he does with most people. They're sons, daughter in laws, and grandkids were living with them. The grandparents were beaten and dragged away, the parents were all killed, and the kids were knocked unconscious and kidnapped so that they would be forced into training for the Foot clan. I tried to hide, but I was caught. What I would eventually learn was that a current leader came over and threatened me. He said that if I went to the cops then I would regret it for the rest of my life. My parents however had taught me to always trust the police and that working with them would always be the safest thing to do, so once I knew the soldiers were long gone I sprinted to the nearest police station and told them everything I knew. Within that following week ALL the soldiers that were part of the attack were captured and taken to jail. The articles kept my name anonymous and I thought that meant that I was safe, but days later I would learn that I was wrong."
"That's when they killed your parents. To prove a point and get revenge against you" April cut in.
Jay silently nodded his head. "To this day I still don't know if I made the right choice. Those grandparents and their grandkids were all rescued and relocated to a different city because I made the decision to talk to the cops…but I lost my own parents as a result of that decision as well. I prayed and begged my parent's grave for forgiveness every night. The only thing that got me through was the adoption. I now had my blood and adopted family combined, and thanks to them I was able to keep living, though these thoughts have never left my mind."
"Wait, how do you know for a fact that the Foot knew you were the one who went to the cops? How do you know it wasn't just a coincidence?" Donnie asked. He could sense that all of his brothers were growing as interested in this discussion as he was.
"I'll admit, at first I really didn't know, but I had a strong hunch that I was the reason for my parent's deaths. It wasn't until two years later in 2008 when my suspicions were confirmed. I never knew it, but for those two years since that tragic night I was being watched by the Foot clan. They saw how weak I was at first, and then they saw how I was able to overcome what had happened thanks to my huge amounts of family support, and they decided I was the perfect pawn to take advantage of. They hunted me down one night and quote 'gave me the option' of joining them or not. They played mind games with me as they kindly told me that I didn't have to join them but that they highly advised for me to do so. I stood my ground and told them no and I hoped that that would be the end of my involvement with the Foot clan, but of course I made the wrong choice again. Days later, my adopted parents were attacked and murdered by the same soldiers who had contacted me that night. Those same soldiers snuck into my room in my own freaking house and asked me again to join them."
By this point Jay was fighting to hold back tears.
"How was I supposed to say no? Every decision I had made to fight back or to stay away resulted in the deaths of all four of my parents. I couldn't do it anymore. I gave up on fighting and running and decided to give in. What else could I have done? I was only 17 and I was alone. Nobody knew what was happening to me and I had to keep it that way, or else anyone that knew what was happening would be killed, I just know it. I thought joining the Foot and doing whatever they asked of me would save my siblings from experiencing the same fate, and once again…I was wrong" Jay said as he balled up his fists.
"What happened?" Mikey asked gently.
Jay turned back to face him, tears in his eyes as he spoke.
"I wasn't meeting expectations. I was leaving trainings early so that I could get home and take care of my family. For two years I was the third oldest out of all my siblings and I was needed to help keep food on the table and a roof over our heads. Brian was in his senior year of high school and worked very minimal hours, and Nick began working odd jobs under the table as well, but it was up to me and my older sisters to work our butts off as the main bread winners and earn the amount of money we needed so that we could keep the parental rights to raising our younger siblings and not have everyone separated into different group homes. The only 'nice' parts of the Foot is that they help give you jobs and various career opportunities so that you can keep your cover and basically hide in plain sight. What they didn't expect was for me to need to work so many hours in order to help take care of my family. My boss was a Tokyo Foot clan member and he reported that I was leaving trainings early and missing out on mission calls so that I could work more to provide for my family. So what did Shredder do? He eliminated the problem…"
Raph closed his eyes tight as he listened to this next part.
"He…he…" Jay said, hysterically crying as he fought to make sure that he was still speaking words while sobbing, "He decided that I was spending too much time worrying about my family and that the problem needed to be taken care of. So he commanded some of his best soldiers to hunt down my family while we were hanging out at a nearby park. They shot Jamie and Nick to the point where they bled to death while they hid from the other soldiers, Haley was cut and also bled out due to no one treating her wounds, Amber was shot and died alone in the street, Brian was shot in the head and died within seconds, and then they slit Chuck's wrists, and there was nothing I could do about it! They all died and no matter what decisions I made and I was never able to protect them. I was knocked out and didn't even know about Brian and Chuck until the cops and paramedics showed up hours later. When they told me that everyone was dead, I was literally ready to just jump off the Brooklyn Bridge later that night. I was the reason that everyone in my family was killed, yet here I was walking around safe and sound. I couldn't do it, I wouldn't have been able to do it" he covered his mouth as he tried to somewhat calm himself down so that he wasn't shout-speaking anymore, and once he had collected himself he began to speak again.
"The only thing that saved me that night was that Sam was still breathing. They put her unconscious body on a stretcher and they moved so fast that I didn't even get to ride in the ambulance with her. A policeman gave me a ride to the hospital and I just sat outside her room for hours and hours, waiting for a sign that she was okay. I wouldn't let the doctors take a look at me until I knew for sure that she was in a stable state. I couldn't leave her. I still wanted to die so badly but I knew that she would need me, and I literally needed her in order to live as well. Jesus, and then that idiot tried to kill herself. She faked that she was sleeping and once the doctors left the room she tried to kill herself. She…she was the only one that I was able to save. That morning when I made her throw up the pills, that was the one time I was able to save any of them, and I vowed that day that I would do whatever it took to keep her out of harm's way and continue to protect her. I made sure to do whatever Shredder asked, even if it meant leaving Sam alone at home a lot. My actual job was through the clan and some nights I even told her that I was working when really I had to complete missions for Shredder. He was the reason I wasn't able to be with her this past anniversary and I knew that would crush her, but as long as she was alive and safe then that's all the mattered…but that all changed recently."
"Wait hold up" Leo cut in. "If Sam knew all this, then why didn't she include that part of the story when she finally told this to us?"
"She never knew" Donnie said softly.
The remaining three brothers looked to Jay, questioning him if Donnie's theory was true, and they were answered as Jay nodded his head.
"I never told her, hell I never told anyone. I never got a chance to tell my parents about the attack I had witnessed, and I was so afraid at the ages of 15 to 17 to tell anyone anything since I knew they would strike again if I ratted the clan out, so I kept everything to myself. My birth parents, my adopted parents, all my siblings including Sam until a month ago never knew any of this."
"What happened a month ago?" Mikey asked.
"Well…a few months ago it was discovered that Sam was hanging out with friends of April O'Neil's, so Shredder had people looking into who those friends were, and it was assumed that those friends were you guys. That ties back into why I couldn't be with Sam on the night of the anniversary. I was actually being held captive at headquarters all night, and Shredder was the one who forced me into agreeing to let you guys assist her in visiting the graves. I wanted to say no for safety reasons since I knew Shredder was looking for you guys and had an eye on Sam as well, but I was forced to say yes and that same night his soldiers spotted you all together from afar. A few nights later I overheard those same soldiers say that they were going to capture her and force her to spill what info she knew about you guys, and whether they killed her or not would depend on what information she would reveal. So that final night when I picked her up after seeing you guys, I told her everything that I just told all of you. I told her that I understood if she hated me and never wanted to see me again. I told her that I would risk my life in order to help her escape and get as far away from the city as I possibly could send her so that she would be safe from Shredder, regardless of how she felt about me."
At this time Jay had begun lightly sobbing again.
"But she wouldn't do it. That little shit wouldn't leave me alone. She kept telling me that it wasn't my fault and that I did what I thought was best for everyone. She said she didn't want to run away and rather she wanted to trick Shredder into thinking she wanted to help make the clan stronger."
"So she willingly joined. She joined to protect both of you" Leo said in a pained voice.
"Shit" Raph mumbled as he closed his eyes and clenched his fists. He hated himself so much right now. If all of this was true then he had truly pushed Sam over the edge the night of the incident for no reason. He had antagonized her by calling her a liar when everything she had said was true, and there was more to the truth than he could have ever imagined.
"Why didn't she just tell us where her mind was at then? We could have helped her if we had known what her plan was" Donnie said in an aggravated voice.
Jay shook his head.
"She didn't want to get you guys involved. She knew that you were trying to keep your new home a secret from Shredder and she also didn't want to risk losing any of you guys. She knows how strong and how skilled all of you are, but she would never forgive herself if something terrible happened to any of you because you went to help her. Once she joined the clan she learned that things were a million times worse than she could have ever imagined. In order to protect you, she's been playing dumb with Shredder. She openly admitted to knowing you, but she said that you only took her to your old home that was destroyed last year. She has yet to reveal any new information about you guys and she is actually prolonging giving any info away by volunteering to study as much as she can from the Foot so that she can fight you all herself. It's a lie she came up with to buy time so that she can get on Shredder's good side and then stab him in the back when the time is right."
"GOD DAMNIT!" Mikey shouted as he punched the wall. He didn't leave the room, but he walked over towards the eatery on the other side of the lair. Hearing that his friend had stayed loyal to them all along and to know that they had treated her the way they had was crushing his soul and he was fighting to remain as calm as he possibly could. He had treated his best friend like shit, and what was she doing? She was risking her life to protect him and his brothers.
"She was also terrified of losing your trust," Jay continued.
"How did she figure that?" April asked in confusion.
"She said that you guys were all finally opening up to her and that you were even generous enough to say that she was like a sister to each of you, and she feared that if she said she had a reason for joining the Foot clan that all of you would go back to thinking she was a spy and that everything was a lie and that she couldn't be trusted. Because of this she took the risk of not telling you guys about her willingly joining the clan. She hoped that everything would be over quick enough that you would never know that she had aided the clan in any way at any time, but then that interferes with the final reason she joined: there's a rebellion forming and we're finally close to making our move."
"What rebellion?" Leo asked with concern.
"For the past four months A LOT of people have been discussing plans on how to bring down the main New York branch."
"Why would Shredders troops want to take him down?" Raph asked.
"Because more than half of his New York troops have been forced into the clan."
"Including Irma?" April asked with sorrow.
"Who?" Leo asked.
"My friend at work, the reason I knew about Sam's past before any of you did. Every day since the butt dial incident I've tried to contact her and ask her more about Sam, but she's been out of work for a while now."
Jay nodded his head. "She's a perfect example. Her son Kris ended up in a situation similar to mine. He was a lot younger when it happened though, so the soldiers knocked him out, took his wallet, and dragged his body back home. They told Irma and her daughter Brenda that they could both join the Foot clan and keep all three of their lives, or that the women would be spared at the expense of Kris's life. Obviously neither of them were going to let him die, so all three of them were forced into the group. Irma, Brenda, and Kris are some of the ones who are lucky enough to still get to live life by day and work for the Foot by night. There are countless examples of these type of people being forced into the Foot clan. The Tokyo branch is where the numerous numbers of loyal soldiers hide, and the New York branch is filled with people who are mostly tricked and forced to cooperate with Shredder's orders. But we've been carefully planning a rebellion for a long time now, and Sam wanted in on that in order to help protect her new family and also to avenge her original."
"Does this rebellion have anything to do with the lack of Foot activity lately?" Splinter asked.
"Yes. Shredder has been receiving countless amounts of mutagen. He has no idea where it's been coming from, but he's had his teams studying and experimenting with it. For weeks now he's had EVERYONE in the New York branch look into how to use these mutagens as weapons, as in hand held items and also mixing these chemicals with the human body. Sam knew how dangerous all this was and wanted to keep you guys as far away from these threats as she could."
Leo sighed. "Is this why she was pushing us away the other night?"
Jay shot the turtle a confused look. "What are you talking about?"
"The other night Sam came back to the lair and stole some stuff that originally belonged to her. When I told her that night that it was the last chance she had to tell me the complete and honest truth, she lied and told me that she had been working for Shredder for a few years now, that Shredder knew where our home was and that he was packing up the clan and heading back to Japan, and that our friendship was all a farce and that she never saw any of us as her brothers."
Jay's face scrunched up as he closed his eyes and tilted his head back. "Ahhh so that's what happened that night."
"You didn't know?" Leo asked.
"Well apparently you two were the only ones that did" Raph ridiculed since he and Donnie had been left in the dark in regards to learning about this information.
Leo turned towards his brother, frustration written all over his face. "We discussed this earlier. You and Donnie made it very clear that you weren't ready to search for Sam yet, so I kept this information between me and Mikey."
"Do you enjoy lying to your brothers Leo?"
"Would you rather me enjoy forcing you into situations that make you uncomfortable and make you explode? I mean hey you're the king at being a jerk to people aren't you Raph? You know better than any of us what it's like to push someone to their limits to the point that they almost killed you because of it" Leo stated harshly.
Raph clenched his fists together and was about to speak when Mikey came back over and interrupted his two brothers.
"Dudes enough! Stop arguing about the past and let's move forward already! You guys all wanted answers, right? Well you just got them! So stop fighting and let's go get Sam back!"
"Are you kidding me?! She's made it clear that she wants to stay away from us for various reasons, and I'm still not so sure that I want to talk to her just yet!"
"Are you serious?" Mikey questioned out loud. He then turned towards the third oldest. "Donnie, you've changed your mind, right?"
Donnie sighed and gave his brother a solemn look. "Mikey, Sam made decisions for us that she shouldn't have. If she really wanted us to work together and for us to keep trusting her then she should have told us the truth from the beginning."
Mikey's jaw dropped. "How… how could you? Sam is literally putting her life on the line to help keep us safe, and instead of rescuing her you guys just want to sit around and do nothing? Sam could die if one thing goes wrong at headquarters and we're not going to anything about it?! We abandoned her the night of the incident because we didn't understand her, yet when we finally understand we're going to continue to abandon her?! In our own ways we were ALL chasing her down just the other night so that we could figure out what the heck was going on! And Raph, you wanted to know about her eyes and…and…"
Mikey turned towards Jay in a panic. "What was wrong with her eyes?"
Jay bit his lip as if he was thinking about how to word what he was going to say next.
"The first night of her initiation…Shredder needed a reason as to why he should let someone who might be seen as a threat work for him…so Sam volunteered to be a test subject for some of the new cases of mutagen that Shredder received that night."
"Oh Samantha…" Splinter mumbled, his heart hurting for the girl and the situation she had gotten wrapped up in.
"Luckily it didn't change her looks or anything, but it gave her incredible strength, hence why she was able to gain a leader's armband in such a short period of time. The mutagen for strength is what made her pupils' and the iris in each of her eyes blue, but she's also been studying another mutagen that's a blackish gel. That one she's been using to power her sleeve, but sometime it accidentally touches and then absorbs in with her skin. Luckily that one is also physically harmless, but now the sclera, or the white part of her eyes will turn black when she activates her powers. The blackish gel is used for wind power and it matches well with the blue mutagen that provides the immense strengthening power. She has capsules that contain both and she's a terrifying opponent when she injects into her skin and uses both at the same time."
Mikey closed his eyes tight, trying to think of the positive facts (like that Sam was at least still alive and well) so that he wouldn't let his fuse burn out and him explode again like earlier. He just couldn't handle hearing all of this information about his best friend.
Raph and Donnie felt the exact same way and they just needed to leave the room. Raph walked away and headed towards his bedroom. Donnie walked towards his lab nearby, but paused. He continued to face the direction of where his lab was located and he spoke to Jay in this position.
"How did you figure out where our location was?" he asked.
Jay figured this question was aimed at him. "I secretly took some of Sam's gear which included the camera detector. Eventually I came across a tunnel where a camera was detected, but the device stated that the camera was shut off. I started using that tunnel to find your lair, but that's when your dad found me."
Everyone could sense that the wheels in the brainy turtles head were rapidly spinning around and around and soon after he was rushing out of the lair.
"Well, I haven't talked to the Brainiac in a while, so I'll go calm him while you talk to the hot head?" April asked Splinter.
The rat nodded his head and the two walked after the turtles who had left the room in worry that either might do something they'd regret later on.

Jay turned towards Mikey and gave him a small sincere smile.
"Thank you."
Mikey looked at him in confusion. "For what?"
"For continuing to look out for my sister. You really saved her, and in ways that I and no one else could."
"…hey Jay. When we first met Sam, Donnie found some footage of her from her school and she always seemed to be alone, and as we got closer to her she even said that she didn't have many friends at school. Why?"
Jay pursed his lips together. "Because all the friends she had when she was younger, they were all members of the Foot clan."
Both Mikey and Leo's eyes went wide once they heard this.
"How is that possible?" Leo asked. "Wouldn't they have been as young as her? Since she was only 12 when you lost your siblings."
"Like I said, A LOT of people have been forced into the Foot clan, and that includes huge numbers of young children. Some are basically raised in the clan, and so many are practically brainwashed to think that serving Shredder is their true purpose in life. I know my sister meant a lot to you guys and each and every one of you means the world to her, and I didn't come here to beg you to forgive her or anything, but please…if you can, please help us tomorrow night."
"The rebellion is tomorrow night?" Mikey asked with a gasp.
"Yes. Tomorrow is the night. Thousands of people's lives will be on the line, including Sam's. All of her friends from her childhood were secretly members of the Foot clan for various reasons, and that's why she was always alone. They couldn't talk to her, not when they knew the truth behind why she kept losing the most important people in her life, and even after time had passed and they believed they could talk to her again without those jabs of guilt hurting them, Sam was already so far gone. She probably told you that no one ever wants to hang out with her, right? That was true for say 6 months, but it took such a toll on her emotionally that for years she still thinks that people don't want to be around her…but you saved her from that. You brought her back and made her smile and act silly in ways I haven't seen in such a long time. If none of you want to come back and rescue her then fine, I understand since sadly she hurt you guys in ways she can't take back, I understand that more than anyone. But there are two reasons why I came here tonight. 1. Even if you don't help her, please try to find a way to get all those innocent civilians to safe refuge tomorrow night. If anyone can help save them then it's you guys. 2. I don't know what will happen to me or Sam tomorrow. I'll risk my life to keep her safe, and if that happens and I don't make it then I needed you guys to at least know the truth about all that has happened. I wouldn't be able to rest peacefully in my grave knowing that you guys still saw her as a traitor and-"
"Dude stop" Mikey cut in. "You're not allowed to die, don't you get that? Even if Sam gave us a chance to talk to her again, she literally can't live without you. You have to live if you want Sam to survive after tomorrow night."
Jay couldn't help but smile at the orange bearing turtle.
"Thank you for caring so much about her. It means as much to me as it does to her. You all gave and brought back so much from the life that she lost and she loves the hell out of all of you. Oh! But if you ever see her again then you can't tell her I said that or else she'll kick my butt! And she can actually do that now" Jay said with a faint laugh. He then checked his watch and his laugh turned into a gasp as he saw what time it was.
"Oh crap I need to go or else people will start wondering where I am. Anyway, if possible then please at least help make sure the innocent escape he building safely, and whatever happens between you and Sam is up to all of you after that. This rebellion is literally going to make a huge change within all of the city. Thank you for listening to me guys, I really appreciate it."

And with that Jay ran out of the lair, making sure to put his mask back on as he did so.
Leo turned towards his brother and quickly spoke before Mikey could storm his way to his bedroom.
"Mikey…give them some time, okay?"
Michelangelo paused, and then continued on towards his room. He just couldn't believe his brothers right now. Sam needed them now more than ever and yet they were still pushing her away. But Mikey knew one thing for a fact, regardless of how his brothers felt by tomorrow night, he was going to save Sam, no matter what the cost.

OH MY GOSH YESSSSSS!
I long for chapters like this where so much secrecy is revealed! Hopefully everything makes sense though. One of my biggest fears is that things won't make sense and that the details seem really choppy and all over the place. In books, movies, etc. some of my most favorite scenes are when the audience goes 'ohhhhh I get it! Everything makes sense now!' and hopefully that's how this chapter played out.

I hope you guys are still enjoying the story and again any constructive criticism is always appreciated.

Also just to clarify, since I know I've changed this concept so many times, this SHOULD BE THE OFFICIAL way that Sam's mutagen powers work and look on her:

Sclera (white part of the eye) = Wind powers/Black color
Iris and Pupil = Strength powers/Blue color

So there's blue color in the center that it then surrounded by white. Hopefully this makes sense. I know when she almost killed Raph and punched him into the wall I had it the other way around but this SHOULD be the official way of explaining it. I keep thinking of how that would look (since this will come into play wayyyyy further down the line) and every time I think of it I always want to change it. So this should be the last time, but if for whatever reason I decided to keep flipping back and forth then I'll make sure to clarify once again.