Into the City

Chapter Three

My vision was blurry, it was difficult to breathe. I sat there staring at the stars in the sky, taking a deep breath, then suddenly there was a person standing over me. "M?" I heard her say. "She's lost a ton of blood, we might have to take her to the lair Casey." "No way! The guys would be pissed April!" I felt her touching my arm, wrapping it in cloth. "April?" I muttered through my breath. "Hey M, we're gonna get you somewhere safe." She told me soothingly. "Casey, go get Leo." she ordered. Casey sighed and obeyed. I was slowly starting to come to my senses. "Who's Leo?" I asked. "I guess it's time you found out." She said with a slight giggle.

I heard a voice coming from the alley, "Casey what is going on here? We have to get back to the lair we can't jus-" "Look Leo!" April yelled, interrupting him. I turned my head to look at Leo and just stared in shock with my jaw dropped. "Okay M, don't freak out but this is Leo." April said calmly. "What... the fuck... are you?" I said, still staring in shock. He giggled to himself, "I know it's hard to believe what you're seeing right now." He said, kneeling down by my side. "I'm a turtle." He was right, it was hard to believe. I had no clue what was going on. I looked to April, then back at Leo, my jaw still dropped. Leo was tall, a turtle on two feet like a human. He had two swords on his back and had a blue mask over his eyes. He wore knee pads and elbow pads, and had his feet and hands wrapped in some sort of cloth or tape. "Don't worry, we'll take you back with us and get you fixed up." he said, scooping me up and carrying me away, April and Casey followed.

"Where are we going?" I asked worriedly, "I need to be home soon, I don't want to worry my mom." "Don't worry M," April reassured, "You'll be home." We kept walking down the alley, stopping at a huge vehicle. The door opened, "Damn guys, took you long enough." I heard an annoyed voice say. Leo stepped up into the vehicle, still carrying me. "Uh Leo," I looked over to see who spoke. It was another turtle, this time with a red mask. "May I just ask you," he cleared his throat, "What the FUCK you're doing bringing a random girl into the shellraiser?!" "Listen Raph, she's hurt and it's our fault. We were the ones fighting the kraang, we have to make sure she's okay." Leo said to him sternly, as he put me down gently next to a seat. I looked around the shellraiser; there were no windows to see out of, and not only were there two turtles, but four. One had an orange mask, and the other had purple. April and Casey sat next to me and Leo took his place in the driver's seat. Each turtle had a job in the shellraiser, Leo as driver, Raph on weapons, the purple one on operations, and the orange one on navigation. I continued looking around the shellraiser, when my curiosity was interrupted by the orange one. "Hi, I'm Mikey." he said, getting close to my face with a wide grin. "Uh," I laughed awkwardly, "I'm M." "Cool bruh." he said quietly, remaining in my face for a second, then quickly went back to his seat. "Okay." I mumbled under my breath. The purple one was typing on a computer, "I'm Donnie." he said in monotone, not looking up from his screen. "Hi." I responded quietly. Casey leaned over, "You'd think they'd be a little bit nicer." he whispered in April's ear. She elbowed him in the gut and he grunted holding his stomach. "So uh, April?" I turned to her, "How do you know these guys?" I whispered. "That's a story for another time. Right now we just want to get you safe and bandaged up properly." she replied quietly.

"How are you doing back there M?" Leo asked, keeping his eyes on the road. "I'm okay." I replied, looking down at my arm. Raph snarled loudly and rolled his eyes. "Is there a problem Raph?" Leo asked sarcastically. He huffed, folding his arms and turning away in response. Leo sighed in disappointment, then put the shellraiser in park. Mikey jumped up from his seat, "Pizza time!" "Not right now Mikey, let's get M fixed up first. Unless you'd want to stay for some?" Leo asked me with a smile. "Depends on the pizza." I responded, returning the smile.