Raph kicks and swings a moving practice dummy. As he trains, he blocks a wooden block as it spins around at him. He stops it and pants, wiping the sweat of of his face. He then lets out a loud yell in frustration and spins the dummy around. "You okay, Raph?" Leo asks. Raph growls "How can you sit around talking, when he's out there somewhere? Maybe hurt, bad..." He clenches his fists. "Like I said, we have to organize a search, look at everything we know." Leo explains.

Yuuki in the chair with her leg now in a cast. She grabbed her crutch and stood up and walks over to the table where Leo and the others were, was who was looking at a map of the entire city. "But, where do we start looking? We don't know-" She was cut off by an angry yell, making her nearly lose her balance as she jumped. Leo quickly grabbed her shoulders. She blushes and he sat her down in a chair. "Thank's Leo." She replies.

"We don't know anything!" Raph retorts. "Well, we know that Master Splinter took a major hit... for me" Mikey replies. "And when we looked for him after the fight, he just wasn't there." Donnie points out. "I've been scanning the police band for anything...like a giant rat sighting." April murmurs. "Nothing."

'"So we should be out there, looking for him!" Raph argues, storming away. Leo chases after him. "We have been, Raph, but Master Splinter could be anywhere. How do you search an entire city?" He asks. "One block at a time." Raph answers grabbing his sai "Raph, not a good time for the hot head thing." Mikey complains. "The Battle Shell's a couple hours away from being street ready. We could cover more ground." Donnie suggest. "It's okay. Go and blow off some steam, Raph. Maybe you'll find something out there." Leo replies.

Raph cracks his knuckles "Count on it." He answers, walking away.

Raph angrily leaps over the rooftops, panting as he ran. "Sit around talking all night." He mutters. Raph sees a moving van coming his way and he jumps down landing on top of it. He leaps off and lands in an alley. He looks up and gasps "Master Splinter?" He runs up to the silhouette, reaching out and touching it's shoulder. It falls part, revealing a pile of junk. Raph growls "MASTER SPLINTER! WHERE ARE YOU?!"

Raph leaps at an roof until he stops as he hears noises below him. "Hello, what do we have here?" He murmurs. He looks down to see a group of men dressed in black suits and ties, wearing dark shades. They were holding flashlights, desperately searching for something.

Raph jumps down quietly, listening closely as he got a better look. He took cover behind some trashcans. Raph peeks up and his eyes widen and he gasps at what he saw. Peeking out from a dumpster, was a green lizard girl with messy brown hair and icy blue eyes and freckles completely covered her cheeks. She and Raph quickly hid as flashlights shine their way towards them. Raph looked down at the ground in shock. He believe at what he'd just saw. "I thought we were the only mutants in town?" Raph murmurs to himself quietly.

He peeks out again, to see the men in black coming closer. "Need I need to remind you what would happen if we failed to find our inquiry?" One of the replies. "She ain't here." Another one answers. "Then try the next alley!" The first one orders. As they started to walk away, Raph sees the girl lifting up the dumpster lid, peeking out "No! Stay down! Stay down!" He murmurs, but she was out of ears reach. As she opened the lid all the way, it knocks a lamp off shattering it on the ground with a loud crash. Her eyes widen and she quickly shut the lid back as footsteps came running back.

The men dressed in black see the shattered remains of the lamp "Come out come out.~ Wherever you are?~" The girl peeks out from the dumpster, again. She gasps as she saw lights being shined on her. "No! Stay down! Stay down!" Raph warns. One of the men steps forward, and smirks"Time to stop playing hide and seek."

Raph steps out from the trashcans and leaps in front of them, pulling out his sais "How about it's your turn to hide?" He asks. The girl opens the lid again and gasps at what she saw, a giant turtle, wearing a red mask wielding sais. The men backed away in fear and shock. I'll give you three. One..." Raph warns.

"Whoa, wrong time of the year for Halloween, freak." One of the men replies.

"Two..." Raph growls, clenching his sai.

"Okay, boys take him out!" One orders and they surrounded Raph.

"Three!" Raph exclaims, jumping up.

Raph kicks down a man before he could draw his gun. Then he jumps on top of another's shoulders and punches them in the face knocking them down. Another shoots at him but he quickly dodges as he slid under them. They turned around only to grunt in pain as Raph punched him in the stomach. Raph turns around twirling his sais making a smug smirk "Next?" The girl couldn't believe what she was seeing. This turtle just took out half, like they were nothing.

"Don't be shy boys there's plenty for everybody.~" Raph assures.

"What are you?" The leader stammers

"I am green vengeance.~" Raph declares. The girl shook her head and slapped her forehead.

"Green Vengeance? What?" The leader asks.

"Alright, never mind. Don't like green, huh? How about black and blue?~" Raph asks, spinning his sais.

"Get him!" The leader orders. Raph ducks and kicks one down. He quickly opens a door, slamming it into another. Two men charges at him and he leaps off the wall and kicks them, knocking them back into it. They fall to the ground out cold. Raph turns around as he sees three more then looks up to see a sign above them. He throws his sai and it falls down. They quickly jump out of the way. "Oh no! Let's book!" One of the men exclaims and they run away.

"C'mon, we were just getting started." Raph comments.

He looks back at the dumpster "Hey, you can come out they're gone." He calls out. No answer. Raph knocks on the lid "I'm one of the good guys, honest." He backs up as it slowly opened and the girl stands up glaring dangerously at him. Raph moves in closer and reaches out and picks her up, lifting her out "C'mon let's get you out of there." He was met with a pain in his shoulder as the girl bit him. He immediately drops her and she lands on her butt. He hissed as he grabbed his shoulder. Raph frowned as he looked at the girl who was giving him a death glare "Why do I always have to get the crazy ones?" He mutters, silently to himself .

Raph bit his cheek holding down the anger that was beginning to swirl in him. He forces out a smile "So what's your name?" The girl stared at him, frowning then shifted her gaze away from him. Raph leans in closer "Well?" He asks. The girl raised her fist and threw a punch hitting his beak. He pulled back grabbing it with his hands in pain "Ow!" Raph lets out a soft irritated growl "Cute, real cute. Now just calm down-" She cuts him off with another punch to the nose "Ow!" Raph backs up, holding his beak. He glared at the lizard girl. What is your problem, lady!?

"Okay, we're past the scared part." He comments. She punched him again and he hissed in pain. The lizard girl pulled back getting ready to punch him again but this time he caught it "So far, we're lizard lady 3 and Raph 0, but that's going to even up real quick if you don't keep your hands to yourself." She flinches and winced in pain when Raph grasped her wrist. He noticed. Raph took a better look at her to see that she was covered in cuts and bruises and scars. He broke out of his thoughts as the girl tugged her arm back

"What did you do to tick off those goons?" Raph asks.

The lizard woman still stayed silent "What's the matter? Turtle got your tongue?~" Raph teases. She still didn't answer him. Raph raises an eye "Can you not talk?" He asks. She glared dangerously up at him and he reeled back "Whoa, okay, calm down. I guess that's a sore subject for you. Do you have a place to stay? A friend? Family?" He asks. The girl stares down at the ground, silently. There's no one. She looked at him in silence for a moment then shook her head "no."

She rubs her arm and hisses as she rubs one of her cuts by accident. "You're injured. C'mon, I know someone who can get that treated." She tensed up as he picked her up "Name's Raphael." The girl stares at him with her big icy blue eyes. He climbed up the fire escape and ran leaping off the rooftop, landing safely onto the next one. She felt the muscles of his biceps as he had a firm hold of her. His hold was different from "his" it was more gentler, not forcible. A feeling washes over her, something that she's never felt before.

She felt safe.

She felt protected.

The doors to the lair opens up and Raph walks inside holding the girl. "Hey Donnie, we need your help." He calls out. Donnie and the others noticed them. Donnie gesture them towards the lab "Bring her in here." The girl notices Yuuki and April and she quickly clings closer to Raph's plastron. As Raph carried her into the room, the she looks around wildly in fear and started to struggle and move in his arms. Raph sits her down on the table "Hey, it's okay." He assures.

"She seems to be uncomfortable around labs." Donnie points out. He walked closer and gently took her arm but she pulls it back and begins to thrash around "She's moving around too much. Raph, distract her or something?" Donnie asks. Raph shrugs his hands "With what?" He asks. Donnie frowns "I don't know, talk to her. So, that I can disinfect her cuts and bandage them up." He replies. Raph stares at the girl awkwardly and she stared back.

"Um, you're kind of cute." Raph replies, nervously. Donnie pauses for a moment, he looks at Raph before continuing what he was doing. Mikey and Yuuki snickers covering their mouths. Outside the other room, Raph could hear Leo and April laugh as well. "Wow, Raph, even I could've thought of that." Mikey chuckles. Raph growls. Yuuki noticed a small smile appeared on the girls face before it vanished "Aw, you made her smile, Raph." Yuuki comments. Raph turned around to see the girl not smiling only staring at him. An thought entered his mind, a painting. "Mona Lisa." Raph murmurs.

The girls eyes widen curiously at the name. "I think she likes it, Raphie boy." Mikey points out. "It does seem to suit her." Yuuki replies as she ponders. "There finished." Donnie replies as he finishes. "Do you like that name?" Raph asks her. The girl looks at him surprised. She's never had a name before. She nods softly. Raph smirks then lifts her off of the table and walks her out.

"Welcome to our lair, Mona!" Mikey exclaims

As Raph was bout to walk out Donnie grabs him by the arm and pulls him back. He shuts the door leaving only them in the lab.

"What the shell, Donnie?!" Raph exclaimed. Donnie frowns as he crosses his arms "Where exactly did you find her Raph?" He asks. "She was hiding from some goons in a dumpster." Raph answers, wondering about his brother's sudden change in behavior.

"Luckily, she didn't have a tracer on her. Or did you even bother to look?" Donnie softly murmurs to himself but Raph heard him. Raph eyed him suspiciously. He was taken back by Donnie's remark.

He growls. "What's up with you, Donnie? She's completely harmless." Raph rolls his eyes as he retorts.

Donnie frowns at him "The safety of our location and our home, for starters. These men, what did they look like?" He presses. Raph was getting irritated. He rubs his head "Shell, I don't know. They were dressed in black, wearing dark ties and shades. Why do ask?" He asks.

"Those men you just described, they were with the government."

Raph's eyes widen in surprise.

The government?!

"The cuts on her, they're not normal. They're scalpel cuts and those bruises on her wrist and ankles it looks like she was tied down as well." Donnie explains.

"What are you saying Donnie?" Raph asks.

"She was experimented on."

Raph's mouth drops slightly. He was completely stunned as he tried to process the information. She was experimented on. She was tortured by some sick person. Who in their right mind would do that?! He remembered the men in black who were searching for her. Raph growls and clenches his fists.

He's not going let them take her. Not if he had anything to say about it!