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Chapter #55

*Friday May 20th, 2016*

It had been 3 weeks since Sam and Donnie had worked together to discover some leads towards Karai and Huns motives for their recent travels around the world. Casey had contacted Donnie the next day and the two met with the brothers to update them, and then held a private meeting with Chief Vincent to discuss what they all had learned.
Vincent then relayed this information through some personal connections to the director of the FBI.

At this point, the turtles were given permission to hack and do whatever they needed to when being on the lookout for Karai and Hun.
By the time Donnie had returned to searching for videos of the two villains in Canada, he had learned that they were already en route back to the U.S. They traveled to a few different cities throughout the country. These visits did not follow a specific order, unlike when they had visited different countries. This was probably due to the fact that they were back in the states which would make it easier for police to capture them if they were traveling from state to state in a specific order of one state and then onto the next nearby state.

Donnie continued to monitor Sachs purchases made from his banks accounts and tried his best to observe where the two were headed as they traveled from one state to another random one throughout the country. Simultaneously, he continued to analyze every bit of footage he had obtained from the many visits the two had made from out of the country. He did the best he could to analyze every face he could find. Did they come up again in other videos? Did they show up in video footage from within the prison where the other four criminals who worked for Shredder were located? Did they show up in any articles from around the world where they were noticed completing any other suspicious activities? Donnie had made the other three brothers help him search for any and all faces in each video they were able to obtain.

The brothers made sure to inform Vincent of any connections they made, and luckily a few small things were noted. For example, a few more faces in the background of different videos, or men who were walking down the street when Karai and Hun were, these faces were also seen within the prison. These men were questioned, but revealed nothing. The turtles were not informed of what was being done to make these men talk, but they knew 'something' was being done to get them to talk. However, the men stayed loyal and said absolutely nothing. Knowing this, FBI agents were sent to each city to question as many people as they could: owners of hotels, restaurants, or other businesses where Karai and Hun had been spotted, local officials, even general citizens who were spotted in the same videos as the two villains.
All this happened within three short weeks. You'd think that three weeks is plenty of time, but somehow a lot had happened within this supposedly lengthy time period.

The last plane ticket purchased by the villainous duo lead them to Pennsylvania. This was also the last place any transactions were made through Sachs accounts in general. However, Donnie happened across an article about gang activity in Washington D. C. and apparently an anonymous witness stated he heard people in the fight saying something about 'the dragons.' This informed Donatello that Karai and Hun were traveling under the radar and were paying for everything with cash so that facial recognition would be the only way to determine their location. Again, Donnie informed everyone about this so that they would be prepared for the two to appear out of nowhere.

Unfortunately, exactly two days after discovering this information, there must have been a prison break that was conducted in secrecy. Even with all the security measures being taken, somehow some mind control devices had been used to control the minds and actions of some officers who escorted Tatsu out of the facility after they had dressed him up to look like an officer himself. It was assumed that it was Stockman's technology that had been used and had been smuggled into the building when some New Yorkers were arrested (presumably on purpose) and they had been collected by soldiers in disguise as actual officers.

The only easy part of this whole situation was learning where the criminals had headed after Tatsu's escape since there had been a break in at what had become a second home to Donatello, the lab where he had been given permission from his brothers to work with some scientists who were friends with Jay who were working on a project where they thought Donnie's intelligence could be of assistance.
The brothers were now walking with Jay and Casey underground and then made their way back up to the surface so that they were standing in the alley way behind a large building, the building Donnie worked at.

"Okay, so where are we again?" Mikey asked.
"This is where I've been working with Jay and some of his friends that escaped the Foot. They've been working on a project they thought I could help them with. Remember, I talked to you guys about this months ago when Vincent had offered for us to blend in with society? It was right after we received our keys" Donnie stated as he typed in the code that would let him enter the building.
"Ohhhhhh that!...so what do you do again?" Mikey questioned.
"Maybe if you listened the first time then he wouldn't have to repeat himself" Raph grunted and he flicked his youngest brother right between the eyes, resulting in a grumpy Michelangelo.
The door opened.
"I'll explain it again when we get inside. Let's go" Donnie said as he ushered everyone into the building.

The guys had never been in a building quite like this. The walls were…bare. They were bright white with absolutely nothing on them. There were no bulletin boards or flyers, there weren't even windows on any of the doors.
"What kind of place is this?" Leo questioned cautiously, feeling extremely uneasy.
"I know it looks creepy," Jay stated, "but we're safe. It looks this way so that if someone who wasn't meant to be here broke in, they would have a difficult time locating their way around. Unfortunately, Karai and Tatsu are stronger and more skilled than the average human so they were able to do whatever they wanted to with ease" he groaned.
They walked down endless hallways until finally they entered a small room. However, one of the walls of this tiny room was actually a window that overlooked a humongous open space down below (there was a staircase outside a door in the room that lead to this space). The brothers could not see what was in this space since the lights had been turned off, so all they saw was pitch black darkness.
"Fancy stuff" Mikey stated as he went to touch a button along a long control panel that was located right below the gigantic window.
Donnie instantly slapped his brothers hand without thinking.
"Don't touch ANYTHING" he stated sternly as he pointed to his younger brother.
"Words work without violence" Mikey mumbled.
"So what is all this?" Leo asked.
Donnie and Jay looked at each other. Jay then took a step back and ushered his arms forward, signaling to Donnie that he had the floor to explain.

"Alright then" he said as he clapped his hands together. "So Jay has some very intelligent friends who for years had been working on the concept of traveling in ways other than by vehicle."
"So time travel?" Raph asked.
"Sort of, but more so along the lines of…seeing what else the world could offer."
Leo straightened his stance.
"You…you don't mean, like…another universe" he stated with a scrunched face.
Donnie nodded as he bit his lip.
"Exactly that. Regardless of any research or theories conducted, people always laughed at the idea of traveling to an alternate universe, but then Kraang appeared and it wasn't such a silly idea anymore. SO, because of this, the university where these guys work at as scientists gave them some grants to fund their research and they've actually been able to buy some rather difficult to locate materials and low and behold, we were able to build something incredible" Donnie said, beginning to sound way more excited than an almost adult male ever should.
"But how is that even possible? I mean, everything has just been theories, like-" Raph stated before being cut off by his youngest brother who said-
"Death" in a low tone.
Leo and Raph both slapped the back of Mikey's head.
"What is the matter with you?" Leo snarled with Raph glaring and gritting his teeth.
"OW! Quantum Immortality is a thing! Right?" Mikey said as he looked toward Donnie for reassurance, while also holding onto the back of his head.
"Yeah guys. Quantum immortality theorizes that when people die their consciousness leaves their body and travels to another universe where that person is either about to begin a new life or where they are still alive, but their body remains here which allows the remaining loved ones to mourn from their loss as they hold funerals or memorials" Donnie stated calmly.

Leo and Raph stood still besides for their nervously blinking eyes.
"Right…continue" Leo said, now feeling guilty for accusing Mikey of being morbid and ridiculous when he was actually referencing something extremely interesting.
"Anyway," Donnie continued, "while that is one theory that has been discussed, this team focused on, well, a mix of two different theories actually. The first is known as the many world's interpretation."
"Ohhhhhh! I've heard of that!" Mikey said as he raised his hand and jumped in place.
Donnie chuckled. "Go on."
"It means that everything that happens leads to a new universe where that action leads to different results. For example!" Mikey said as he then turned towards Raph and slapped him rather hard on the back of his shell.
Raph growled and went to fight back when Donnie told him to 'hold on and listen.'
"That alone has now created different universes based on the different outcomes. One universe could include you kicking my ass, one could include me missing and hitting Leo instead. In our universe, this is the outcome which we are experiencing now" Mikey stated proudly.
"Ugh, that's the dumbest-"
"Truth" Donnie said, cutting on his heated older brother.
"How do you even know about all this?" Leo asked in amusement.
"Heh, Sam and I research a lot of fun topics. She makes them understandable" Mikey said with pride, nodding his head and crossing his arms in front of him.
"Alright, now someone explain why we needed to learn all this" Raph grunted.

"I'm going to come back to that. For now, I want to tell you about one more theory about a portal or gateway that was theorized by a man named Michio Kaku."
At this point Donnie nodded his head for his brothers to follow him as he talked and exited the room through the doorway that lead to the gigantic space below.

"Kaku stated that if a gateway could be created and was powered by an apparatus that covered the entire solar system that that would be the needed size to create a portal with enough energy to rip a hole in space and time. The only way to do this would be to build an atom smasher half a billion miles long. Someone would need to fire two particle beams in opposite directions through a series of relay stations with each using powerful gravitational fields to bend the beams into an orbit around our solar system. The two streams would move in opposite directions in thousands of laps around the solar system and would get faster and faster until they collide, resulting in an explosion so powerful it would tear a hole into reality, or it would form a gateway. Then, inject some negative matter…"
Donnie turned to realize his three brothers and Casey had absolutely no idea what the hell he was talking about.
"*sigh* Leaving out the specifics such as how we even form negative matter, this theorized portal would never work because it would be so large it would stretch a human thin, the only way this portal would ever be able to be tested would be to use nanobots."
"Wait," Leo cut in, "you keep saying this portal. But, didn't Kraang create a portal? That's how he got here in the first place."
A wickedly excited smile grew on Donatello's face.
"That's the thing. Kaku's portal would be impossible to build…but that was before the laws of science were broken with alien mutagen. The guys I've been working with helped me determine that Kraang must rely on mutagen for multiple purposes back wherever he is from. This means that his laws of physics include mutagenic properties. So then we decided to include this mutagen in our testing as well."
Donnie then turned on the lights to the open space so that a huge machine was seen and revealed. It circled all throughout the room and certain sections even cut throughout the middle of the room so that different sections of the device were connected to others. At the very front of the room were large metal beams that were formed in a circle. On both sides of the circle were poles that connected this central piece to the rest of the machine that circled the large room.
"Ahhh so you're finally showing them."

At this moment four young men had entered the room. They each introduced themselves to the turtles. The first man named Logan had white skin, shorter brown hair that revealed his forehead, and blue eyes. He seemed very familiar to the other three turtles, but they couldn't quite think back to where they would have ever seen this man before. The next man named Dave also had white skin but was taller than the first man. He had lighter brown hair that was styled and curved upwards on top his head where his forehead was also exposed and he had brown eyes. The next man named Justin was an Asian man whose black hair was styled so that it curved to the left while also revealing his forehead who had brown eyes. The final man named Cameron had black skin with short black hair where his forehead was exposed and had brown eyes that were located behind a solid black pair of glasses.
All four men seemed somewhat familiar since each of them had been at Jay and Brenda's wedding.

"Donnie" Leo began.
"It's okay. These are the four guys I've been working on this project with" Donnie reassured.
"If it means anything, we owe you our lives. So we'd be pretty dishonorable pieces of shit if we told anyone anything about you guys" Dave said with a shrug.
"I'm pretty much obsessed with you guys. You know, since you're literally the coolest thing I've ever seen. And I've seen some shit" Justin stated bluntly.
Jay gritted his teeth and smiled. "My friends are interesting. But trustworthy. Even Stockman over there" Jay said as he pointed towards Cameron, who made it clear he was not pleased with the reveal of his last name.
"Dude! Really?!" he called out as he tossed his hands up at his sides.
"Honesty gains their trust, not hiding the truth" Jay said.
"Okay look, since the three of you are already glaring me down," Cameron stated as he turned towards the three brothers he had just met, "I'm Baxter's cousin. I had no idea he would voluntarily join Shredder, none of us did. Not my younger brother, not Baxter's older brother Dexter. None of us. We did everything we could to get him to stop worrying about being the best of the best. I mean, unfortunately his parents made his entire life a competition about being the best and that lead him down some regrettable paths. But I'm not my cousin, so you don't have to worry about me turning against you or anything. I was forced Foot after all. I owe my freedom and my life to the four of you."

The three brothers softened their expressions, feeling some compassion for the man and the loss of his cousin. The three couldn't imagine what it must be like to have so little family love and instead have that replaced with competition, frustration, and anger for all of their lives.
"Alright, so we know you guys aren't going to tell anyone about us. So continue telling us why we're here" Leo stated.
The four scientists looked back and forth at each other.
"Take it away Donnie" they said in unison, knowing how much their new colleague loved to nerd out and explain everything.
Donnie smiled and began to explain things once more.
"Thanks to the endless amounts of mutagen that Professor Perry has kept stored underground, we have been able to properly and humanely test mutagen to the best of our abilities and with that information we were able to determine which mutagens could be used to create a device that would hold the same energy levels as the atom smasher I mentioned earlier. Earlier on I stated that the machine would be so large that humans wouldn't be able to physically test it if something impossible like that could ever even be built. But, since this is obviously much smaller, we can travel through it."
"Wait, so you're saying that you guys actually built a portal that can take us to a different dimension, or universe, or whatever?" Leo asked in amazement.
"That's exactly what I'm saying" Donnie said as he rubbed his hands together.
"Ugh, I'm butting in" Dave stated. "Because this dork won't take credit for building more than 90% of this machine himself. Like we all have the smarts to discuss it, but when it comes to actual construction, this guy is a life saver" Dave said with a closed eyed-wide teeth bearing smile. He knew Donnie got slightly embarrassed when taking credit for his accomplishments, but he was truly grateful for everything his mutant friend had done for the team. He also enjoyed annoying people he cared about, and now was the perfect opportunity.
Donnie was waving his friend away and continued to tease back, so he didn't realize his three brothers smiling because of their brother's accomplishments.

They all knew that Donnie was a freaking genius and was a good…80 to 90% reason that they had all survived over the years. Donnie did almost everything for them. He wasn't just the scientist, he was the family doctor, electrician, mechanic, safe-keeper (in regards to security systems), and therapist/psychologist. Donnie knew about all different types of sciences and was able to provide so much for his family because of it, but his brothers knew that he had so much more to offer to the world than just protecting and upgrading home appliances.
So seeing him being praised by a team of scientists was heart-warming for the brothers. Of course, they wouldn't go overboard and tell him all this because…well, it would be awkward. None of them ever got 'mushy' like that unless something was truly wrong. But the next time Donnie was downing himself and in a negative funk, they were definitely going to reference this moment.

"Anyway" Donnie stated as he returned back to the original conversation, "the reason all of us are here now is because…well. We successfully opened a portal to an alternate dimension. Now whether there are multiple universes we can travel to or not, we don't know yet. But we were able to access one. That's why I mentioned the multiple world's theory earlier. The universe we found is similar to ours, but there are some differences, as if certain things did or didn't happen in that universe compared to what did or didn't happen in ours. I haven't been there, but Jay has traveled over with these guys while I stayed back and monitored everything…"
The brothers waited for Donnie to continue talking. They were shocked at how long his pause was.
"What's wrong with the other universe?" Leo asked.
Donnie looked worried. He would open his mouth to talk, and then he would immediately close his lips.
Jay placed a hand on Donnie's shoulder, signaling that he would take over.
Donnie nodded since it was hard for him to say what was discovered in this alternate universe.

"When the guys and I went over, everything seemed normal. It's basically an alternate New York, essentially another Earth overall. We're still studying it, A LOT. But so far we've only traveled around New York which is where the portal opened to. The first thing we instinctively thought to do was to check and see how our lives were different or similar in this new world. If we even existed that is. So, we checked underground first and, well, you guys don't exist" Jay stated gently.
"Whoa…why not?" Mikey asked with wide eyes.
"From what we've learned, the Foot were wiped out years ago. There's no New York branch, there's no Tokyo branch. Nothing. No Shredder, no soldiers. So there was no corporation that experimented on baby turtles."
"I wanna feel happy, but it's weird to think that if the Foot was wiped out and everyone else was never put in danger…" Raph trailed off. He was glad to hear that the Foot couldn't hurt people, but it left him with a strange feeling to know that something like that would mean he would still be a regular turtle in a cage.
"It's normal to feel confused about it. There were things that changed within each of our families and it's definitely difficult to comprehend it" Logan stated. "I lost one of my siblings because of such slight changes…and that took me awhile to recuperate from."
Mikey's eyes went wide. "You. You're related to the triplets. Right?"
"What?" Leo asked.
"So there's a guy on Sam's soccer team. Brownish black hair, kinda curls up some and he has brown eyes. Sometimes when they leave the arena he walks over to a guy that sort of looks like him but the other guy has much shorter cut hair and blue eyes. And then there's a girl who looks like both of them because she has a short haircut but she's thinner and she's cute and-"
"Your point?" Leo cut in with a stern tone.
"Their triplets. Sam has mentioned them before, and he looks exactly like them but older" Mikey stated as he nodded his head and pointed towards Logan.
"Ahhhh I remember now" Raph said with a nod. "They were at the wedding to." Raph then paused and closed his eyes with a pained expression displayed on his face. "Does that mean in this alternate universe that one of them…"
Logan nodded. "Apparently there were complications at birth and my sister was never born in the alternate universe. It's just guys. It took me awhile to wrap my head around that. I kid you not I returned and for hours just sat at home holding my sister and crying. Of course I couldn't tell her anything so she had no real idea why I was crying, and I mean she was right there in front of me which proved she was okay. But knowing that one little thing could have done something so tragic, it's not easy to cope with. Moral of the story, don't feel strange for being happy the Foot exist now because without that you wouldn't be here. Its tough stuff to wrap your head around" Logan reassured with a smile, to which the turtles greatly appreciated.

Mikey paused and looked straight at Jay. "What happens to Sam?"
"So, it's not necessarily what happens to her, its more-"
"Guys we need to get things moving."
Everyone turned to see Casey running back down the stairs (which no one knew he had even left due to the conversations that were being held).
"I just got off the phone with Vincent. So…she didn't know about all this. I mean, a lot of people knew nothing about this, it was a classified project. But she's pissed because she sees it as a motive that detectives could have known about in regards to Karai, Hun, and Tatsu's actions. She believes that since all three traveled through the portal that we could have been better prepared if more people knew about this project. She's on her way here now so if you have something you're doing with this" he said as he waved his hand in circles towards the giant machine, "then you need to do it now."

Jay nodded. "I'll explain more once we travel."
The other four men began moving into stations while Jay and Donnie talked and lead the turtles over towards where the portal would be opening.
"The four guys are going to stay behind with Casey and monitor everything while we are gone. That's why I needed all four of you guys to make this journey with me. We don't know why Karai and Tatsu wanted to travel to the alternate universe we discovered, but they must want something. The main thing we've learned is that this world is much, MUCH safer than the world we live in today, and because of the peace the state is also much more advanced than ours. That could play a factor in our enemy's motives, but it's hard to know for sure. I'll explain more about mine and Sam's living situation once we get there. I don't know for sure where it will send us since, well, we haven't fixed that part just yet on our end. But whatever happens, try to stay hidden and don't interact with anyone, even people you've met such as Sam herself. We don't know how people will react, so act the same way you would as if we were in our New York city" Jay informed.
"Take these" Donnie said as he handed a small shell looking device to each person in the group.
"They don't do much, but they'll allow us to communicate here with the guys on their end. Somehow the mutagen allows communication between space and time, so if anything goes wrong we can communicate with each other. Everyone upstairs including Casey had already received one."
"Whoa, T-coms!" Mikey announced.
"What?" Raph grunted.
"You know, turtle communicators! Since that's all they really do."
"Guys! Right now our goal is to stay close and meet up somewhere on a rooftop as soon as possible. We don't know where this thing will send us, so we need to meet back up fast. On the T-coms are two buttons. Red means to talk just in the universe we're in, and blue is used to communicate back to our home" Donnie informed.
"Wait, is Casey going to tell April, Sam, or Brenda where we are?" Leo asked.
Jay bit his lip and in a saddened expression said "he'll update April and Brenda. Sam…not so much. He's going to stall on that one. You'll….you'll see why later."

"We're all set!" Justin stated through an intercom that allowed the group in the open space to hear what was being said in the booth up above.
"Aright guys. Are you ready?" Jay asked.
The brothers nodded. Donnie turned around and gave the men up above a thumbs up, and within seconds, the portal was open.
They all took a long sigh, and they walked through the portal.

It felt strange, as if they were being thrown around. It lasted for about 10 seconds. There wasn't any pain or discomfort, but it felt as if they were spinning and being tossed around, and then darkness, but that was mainly because wherever they all were it was dark.
BAM!
Lights started flashing and music was blaring as people began screaming and cheering.
Raph was standing in the back of a large, LARGE, room. Well, it wasn't even a room. It was more of a warehouse that seemed like it stretched for miles.
"Concert? Awesome. So much for staying hidden" he grumbled, not that he could even hear himself over the crowd of screaming fans. Even in the very back of the room it was loud. He quickly realized, and was grateful for the fact, that this must have been some type of costume event since everyone was wearing some type of costume, that or everyone here just dressed really weird.
He pulled his T-com out of his pocket and pressed the red button.
"Where are you guys?" he shouted into the device.
"I'm all the way in the front" Donnie stated.
"I'm with him" Jay stated.
"I'm in the very back" Raph stated as he leaned back on the wall behind him.
"Hey Raph, jump up for me" Leo stated.
Raph shrugged and did as he was told.
"I see you. Heading your way. Mikey were are you?" Leo asked.
"Dudes this is awesome!" Mikey exclaimed.
"Mikey where are you located?" Leo asked again, much more sternly.
"In HEAVEN!" he exclaimed.

Mikey wasn't exactly paying attention since he was located right in the direct center of the building. Leo was asking for him to jump as well, but Mikey had already put his T-com back in his pocket. He couldn't believe it. He was surrounded by people at some type of concert or music festival. And of all freaking Artists, BTS was performing. Like, had he died and gone to heaven? Their new album had just dropped…oh, back in their universe. He assumed that was also the case here since the boys were currently performing 'Save Me' from the album.

'I guess this is something that stayed the same' Mikey thought as he looked around at everyone. However, he was confused as to why BTS of all groups was performing in a random warehouse.
That's when the group started singing 'Fire,' and all thoughts in Mikey's head flew right out the door.
He knew these lyrics and he knew this dance, so once the music started playing he was dancing and scream singing without even realizing it. Sam was the reason he even knew this group existed and they had quickly become one of his many favorites. However, had had been jamming so hard that he and a fan standing nearby had both bumped into each other and would have made the person tumble and fall, if Mikey hadn't hooked his arms under theirs that is.
"Oh my god I'm so sorry!" he shouted.
The person then turned around to face him. It was then that Mikey realized the person was wearing a Captain Phasma costume from Star Wars and assumed this person must be a woman.
"You're fine! It's all good!" the person shouted.
However, Mikey couldn't hear anything due to all the noise.
"What?!" he shouted.
The woman tried to communicate with him once more, but he still heard nothing.
The woman slumped her shoulders, obviously growing frustrated.
She then pulled out her phone and typed a message that he could read. She showed him the phone so that he could read the words 'it's okay cutie, accidents happen '

Mikey stood there with a beaming smile.
"You think I'm cute huh?" he asked as he tried to stand in a 'cool' stance. He pretended to lean against a wall and crossed his arms in front of his chest.
The girl shook her head, typed another message, and showed him the phone.
'Ehhh, you aight.'
"Ha! That's not what you said the first time" Mikey teased. "What made you think I was so cute?" he pressed on.
He then read the phone again.
'Your costume shows off your muscles.'
"Oh yeah, I work out a lot" he said as he flexed "so I needed to make sure the costume wouldn't rip due to these guns" he said with a confident smile.
The conversation then went back and forth between him talking and the girl typing on her phone.

'You live around here?'
"Ummm, sort of. I've been to New York before. But it's been awhile you know?"
She nodded.
'So what exactly is your costume of?'
"Oh! It's an original. I made it, along with my brothers. They're wearing the costumes they made. They sort of look like mine but each of us has our own flare."
'Oh? You have brothers?'
"Yeah! I'm one of four. I'm the youngest actually. You know, save the best for last."
He could tell that the girl was laughing.
'I would agree, but I'm second to last in my group of four, so I'd be lying."
Now Mikey was the one to laugh.
"How about we call it a truce and say that both the last AND second to last are the best in the family?"
The girl put her hand forward and shook his in order to claim the truce.
'Do you have any sisters? Or is it just your brothers? What's the age difference?'
"No sisters. And umm, I don't really know the difference. I just know it's by a matter of minutes."
'WAIT, ARE YOU A QUADRUPLET?!'
"Haha yeah I am!"
'Dude that's insane? Do you all look alike?!'
"Oh no. You can definitely tell the four of us apart. How about you? Since I'm assuming in your four siblings you're not a quadruplet."
'I have one older brother and one older sister, and then I have a younger brother. Well…technically I have more siblings. I have family-friends who have literally helped raise me because our parents are so close, so in a sense I have two extra brothers and sisters from the extended family haha.'

Mikey paused and stood there. Even with all the music around him, he was frozen solid. He was talking to a woman with the exact same number of siblings as Sam. She had a younger brother and then an older sister and then brother. Plus, this new chick had the same number of extended family-friend siblings that Sam did. He couldn't believe it. There was no way, out of everyone here, there was no way that-
"Hey! You okay?"
Mikey finally regained his senses and realized the girl was standing so that her lips were near the side of his head. She had lifted her mask up just enough for him to hear her voice. A voice that he could recognize anywhere at any time, a voice who was back home taking her finals. So…how was he hearing it now?
Mikey stood there and with a slightly shocked expression, he removed the girl's helmet completely.
"Whoa, hey!" the girl called out. "Dude that's pushing it. Hand it back!"
"Sam?" he asked softly, but loud enough for the girl to hear.
She stopped and stared at him with her anger filled eyes.
"I'm sorry but do I know you?" she asked in furry.
"No…I guess you don't" he mumbled. This, now this felt weird. Sam didn't know him, but that was because this was a different Sam. This was a completely different girl, even if they did look the same…but this one was wearing…was that, lip gloss?
Mikey reached out to run his thumb over the girls lips to see if that's what it really was, only to have his hand slapped away.
"What the hell is wrong with you?!" she shouted.

'Shit! That's right, I can't do things like that since this isn't really Sam!' Mikey thought to himself as he quickly retracted his hand.
"Ummmmm" Mikey stuttered, failing to respond with words.
The girl then started to slap Mikey's arms. "Give me back my helmet and leave me alone you freak!" Sam shouted.
Now that really stung. Of all things she could have called him, why did it have to be that? And of all people for this awkward encounter to be held with, why did it have to be Sam? This hurt him and he didn't know how to react. He felt scared. Even though he knew this wasn't really Sam, it hurt to see her acting this way towards him and because of this he didn't know what to do. While he was trapped in his thoughts, Sam continued to slap her hands against Mikey's arms, and the material of her costume was actually making that begin to hurt.
"Sam, please stop" he stated, trying to grab onto her arms gently to make her calm down, to show that he wasn't going to hurt her. Apparently she didn't get the message.

"Don't touch me you weirdo!" she shouted as she yanked her arm back and then slapped him across the face.
"Jesus Sam cut it out!" Mikey exclaimed. Without thinking, he used his shoulder to shove the girl back. He was used to his Sam having the strength and powers to resist his playful shoves and this would have done absolutely nothing to her…but once again, this was not his Sam.
This usually harmless shove, a reaction from the pain and fear of the girls slaps and shouts, sent her crashing to the ground.
'SHIT! What am I doing?!' Mikey thought.
He took a step forward and began to lean his hand for her to grab onto.
"Sam I'm so-"
"GET AWAY YOU MONSTER!" Sam shrieked as she kicked her legs, both as a means to attack and also as a means to scoot away from him.
Mikey froze and dropped the helmet in his hands, not even realizing he had done so.
He shook his head, his breathing beginning to increase its pace.
"You don't mean that-"
"I do! God what is wrong with you?! Who treats any human like that? Especially a woman! You must be the lowest scum on the earth" she scowled as she glared at him. She then paused as she saw the 'man in the costume' in front of her look as if he was hyperventilating.
He continued to shake his head as he spoke and he looked as if he was on the brink of tears. "You don't mean that. You, you don't-"
He reached for her hand once more. For some reason he could not fathom that this wasn't his best friend, so the touchy feely person he knew like the back of his hand was not the same as this person.
"God what is wrong with you?! I don't even know you! No means no, so stop trying to touch me. You act like a freaking animal."
"No, we're best friends. You just don't know it yet."
Sam rolled her eyes. "So you're one of those people. Look buddy just because we were having a nice conversation doesn't mean I'm obsessed with you or that I want to get in your pants. Now back of you freak or I'll call the police. I mean really, were you dropped on your head when you were born?"
"SAM!"
Sam turned around to see Jay running up behind her.
"Oh shit!" Sam said. She knew she wasn't supposed to be here, so she tried to run away once Jay saw her.
That's when Leo ran up and swung his arms around Sam so that she couldn't run. At the time he just saw Jay call to a woman who then ran away and assumed she had wronged someone in their group.
"Pardon me miss…Sam?" he asked now that he was getting a good look at the woman.
"Let me go!" she screamed as she attempted to writhe and claw her way out of the 'man in the costume's' grasp.
"Jay! Help me!" Sam called out as she looked over towards her friend.

She looked over and saw that Jay was talking to the crazy pervert who had been touching her, and Jay was placing his hands on the man's cheeks so that he would look him in the eyes.
"What the hell?" Sam mumbled.
"What happened?" Leo asked.
"Guess you're one of the brothers. Are you a pervert to?" she asked roughly.
Leo's eyes went wide. He was taken aback and shocked by this random question. "Excuse me?"
"You must be, since you won't let me go!" she called out.
"SAM!"
Sam remained still as she looked up and saw Jay storm towards her.
"What the hell is wrong with you?!" he called out.
"Okay, I know I wasn't supposed to sneak out and go to the concert, but-"
"Sam I don't care about that! Why would you ever say shit like that to someone?!" Jay then tilted his head upwards to speak to Leo. "Leo trade places with me. Contact your brothers and meet me behind the warehouse. You" he said distastefully as he grabbed Sam's arm, "you're gonna go on a walk with me."
Sam didn't argue and walked with Jay as he stormed off and lead the two out of the building.

Leo then walked over towards Mikey.
"What happened?" he asked in concern.
Mikey just kept shaking his head as he talked.
"I'm not a monster man. I'm not a freak, or an animal, or a pervert" Mikey choked out, his breathing totally out of control.
"Whoa, what?" Raph asked.
Donnie and Raph had received a message from Jay earlier about Mikey's location and had just heard him saying all the names of what he wasn't.
"Did Sam call you all those things?" Leo asked.
"WHAT?! She's here?!" Raph bellowed.
"Oh you would be the first to find her" Donnie groaned. "I see things got off on the wrong foot."
Mikey's breaths were rapid as he spoke.
"We were just talking and I realized she was Sam, so I removed her helmet so I could see her, and dude she was wearing freaking lip gloss! Like, the fuck?"
"Did you touch her?" Donnie asked.
"Well, yeah" Mikey said, his gaze facing the ground in embarrassment.
"So, as you've seen, Sam here is very different from our Sam. I'll explain more later, but Mikey" Donnie said as he put his hands on his baby brother's shoulders, "just remember that that is not OUR SAM. She's going to look, think, and act differently. Whatever she says is not what our Sam thinks, and it definitely is not the truth. Just keep that in the back of your head the next time you interact, okay?"
Mikey sighed and nodded his head.
"Yeah, I know. Got it."
He still looked down, but it was evident he was feeling better than he was moments ago.

The group then made their way through the crowd and exited the warehouse. They asked Jay for his location and quickly met him around the back of the building.
There, Jay was leaning against the wall. He looked drained, as if he had just returned back from a war. And then there was Sam, who was looking at the brother's with such a painful look of disgust.
"Now can you tell me why they're here?" she asked, although it sounded more like a demand.
"Sam, these are friends of mine-"
"How? We have all the same connections, all of us" she bit back.
"Well, these are some new friends" he replied, fighting his hardest to remain calm.

"So now you hang out with perverts and assholes?" Sam stated. She hadn't even met Raph, and yet she was sending him his own individual death glare.
Mikey bit his lip and looked away as a means not to freak out again when he heard her yet again refer to him as a pervert.
"Sam, cool it" Jay demanded harshly.
"Why? This guy touched me even when I said no and then he shoved me to the ground. And now you're telling me your friends with this clown?"
"You don't even know me" Mikey suddenly cut in with a bitter tone and an agitated expression.
"I know enough to know you're as slow as the animal you're dressed as" she bit back.

"Wow you're a bitch here" Donnie stated aloud…and then stood there with wide eyes as he realized he had said that aloud and not in his head.
He then continued to stand there in shock as a female hand literally slapped him across the face.
"Whoaa!" roared from the guys in the group after what they had just seen.
That pushed Raph to his limit. He didn't care who this woman was or who she looked like, no one disrespected his brothers like that.
Raph pulled Sam to the side and shoved his arm down on her chest so that her entire upper body was pinned to the wall of the outside of the building. He then moved his right foot and leg so that they pinned the lower half of her body.
"Alright, listen up. Cut the shit. I don't know what act you're trying to pull acting all tough, but you can't do shit" he said as he pushed forward some, making it hard for the girl to breathe. "Do or say anything to any of my brothers again, and that face of yours is going to look different tomorrow morning" he threatened.

Sam turned her gaze towards Jay.
"Are you seriously just going to stand there and let him threaten me like that?"
Jay shrugged. "You know the rules. If he doesn't touch you, you don't touch him. Once you lay a finger on the guy then you're saying you have what it takes to hold your own. So you just told these guys you have what it takes to fight any of them. So, be prepared."
Sam glared at the man in front of her and grumbled an "I'm sorry."
Raph backed off, only for Sam to try and swipe and claw at him. So, he put her back in the same position.
"Discuss whatever you guys need to. She ain't going nowhere."
Jay sighed and ran a hand down his face.
"I'm so, so sorry about her. I knew she was feisty, but I didn't know she was this bad. Damn."
"What's our next move in this place? Where's a safe place for us to work?" Leo asked.
"We're gonna head back to my place. My AU self already knows we all exist-"
"Wait, what?" Raph called out. "Doesn't that like, change events in the future?"
"You're thinking of time travel" Donnie stated. "If we were visiting ourselves in the future or past then yes, meeting ourselves would be bad. But in this case it should be fine."
"What the hell are you all talking about?" Sam growled.
"Ugh, well we have to keep her involved now since she knows" Jay groaned. "I wasn't going to tell any of the siblings, but I guess she'll have to tag along. Everyone ready?" Jay asked.
Everyone nodded, even Mikey who had been staring at the ground the entire time.
Jay then walked over towards Sam.
"Sam, I promise I will explain everything when I get home. For now all I can say is that these are my friends. They're very important to me, so you need to show them some respect. We'll discuss everything, even what happened here just now, when we get back home. Can you walk home with me, and without harming my friends physically or verbally?" Jay asked.
Sam glared at the men in the turtle costumes. "Just tell them not to touch me" she mumbled.

"Who would want to?" Mikey mumbled, resulting in a light nudge from Leo. This girl was already crazy, so they didn't need anything to make her act crazier.
Raph let go of the girl and walked back over towards his younger brother. He was furious about how this girl was making his baby brother feel. Of all people, why did it have to be Sam (sort of) who was saying all this? Raph couldn't imagine what Mikey was thinking at the moment, but he and the others all prayed that once they reached Jay's house, everything would calm down and get a little bit better to some extent.

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This was uploaded for a day and then greatly change. If you read this before January 3
rd, 2019 then I would highly recommend re-reading. This message will be posted on the following chapter as well.

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