I know this isn't there real ages but for this story I am saying that the turtles are 17. I do not own TMNT.

This chapter takes place during the episode Target: April O'Neil.

Lea leaned back against the couch feeding Spike as she watched TV with Angela. Raph was behind them punching away at the training dummy, and Donnie was no where to be found. Supposedly he was out secretly checking in on April.

And thanks to Donnie's friend the Pulverizer, who Angie renamed Mutagen Man, escaping to hunt down the girl in the hopes that she would be his friend, Lea now knew what April looked like. Donnie had also given Lea her very own T-phone after the incident since they realized she couldn't split up to search for the escaped cylinder of gelatinous mass because if she found him she would have had no way to contact them for backup.

Lea's musings were interrupted when Spike let out a small noise of appreciation for the snack. Picking the turtle up, Lea smiled at the little guy before pressing her snout against his and returning a little hum. She just couldn't help herself. She found the little guy to be adorable.

As he saw this, Raph could not understand the envy he was feeling towards his pet for getting Lea's attention. Walking up behind the couch he said, "Alright that's enough. You're spoiling him." Before he took Spike away from Lea, who gave him an evil glare. He pretended not to notice as he took Spike back to his room.

With Raph no longer in her line of sight, Lea turned back towards the TV. 'Just what is his problem?' Lea thought to herself as she tried to hold in a small growl. As time went by, things between her and Raph seemed to get more heated. They had even had a yelling match not to long ago when Angie had gotten shell acne after rubbing a bad batch of Donnie's retro-mutagen on her face.

Boy, Donnie had sure not been happy with his mate. During their little adventure all across town to find a centrifuge to make the cure for Angie, Lea had been introduced to three more of their enemies she had heard about. Baxter Stockman, Dogpound (later renamed Rahzar after being double mutated), and fishface. All their reactions to a forth turtle had been priceless.

But Lea was getting off track. Her and Raph had gotten into a yelling match after Dogpound got away with Baxter Stockman and the centrifuge, and they were trying to figure out where they could have gone. If Donnie had not realized his mate had left to get the centrifuge on her own and drew their attention to the fact, they probably would have kept on arguing.

Just thinking about Raph and his arrogant attitude made her grumble. She didn't realize it had been out loud until she heard Angie giggling. Looking at her sister she said, "What's so funny?"

"Oh nothing," Angie said as she tried to suppress her giggles. She had been watching Raph and Lea, and she was pretty sure she knew what the problem was between those two. Angie was positive Raph liked Lea, but Raph, being Raph, didn't understand his own emotions very well and if he did realize them than he was trying to deny it. Because of this he was picking fights with Lea, and then they both would get riled up when the other wouldn't back down. The question that remained though in Angie's head was, 'did Lea like Raph back?'

"Not bad." Karai said as she went behind her fathers back. She had said she would have no more dealings with the Kraang until Shredder's return, yet here she was examining their new weapon. "How soon until it's online?"

"By Kraang's calculations, nine Earth hour units before-"

"Nine hours?" Karai interrupted the Kraang. "I want to test it on someone now! And I've got the perfect target too, April O'Neil."

All the Kraang froze before turning to stare at her.

Karai knew she had hit her mark. She smirked, "Is there a problem with that?"

"Kraang sees no foreseeable problem, - one called Karai." It was easy to tell the Kraang was very nervous about that order.

"Good." Karai responded. "Now, let's speed up the process. You don't want to keep the Shredder waiting, now, do you?"

"I know you're following me." April called out to the alleyway. Even though she couldn't see them, she had sensed them following her for the last couple of blocks. "Come out so I can see you!" When no one headed her warning she threw her Tessen. It hit it's mark, and laid the person out where she could see them.

"Donnie?" she asked.

Donnie just tried to play it off that he had been following her. "Funny us both passing through this shady back alley at the same exact time, huh? So, um, h-how have you been?" He handed her back her Tessen as he asked nervously.

April was not happy to see him, and she made it perfectly clear. "Oh, you know, the usual. Homework, chess club, dealing with a father who turned into a homicidal mutant bat." She glared at him.

"April, it wasn't completely our fault." Donnie gulped. They really hadn't meant for this to happen. If only he could explain the situation to April without her blocking his words out. He had to at least try. He wanted his friend back, and he wanted to introduce her to Lea. "But I'm sorry that -"

She cut him off, "Not as sorry as I am! I want to be left alone, Donnie. No more talking mutants in my life. I never want to see you again!" She turned to walk off, but not before Donnie called out to her one last time.

"April? Some things are just beyond our control."

April paused, but kept walking. She didn't know why, but she had the feeling she was still being watched. She brushed it off thinking it was Donnie.

Ronan watched as the purple banded turtle followed the red headed girl down the street. He had barely made it back to the states, and already he had spotted one of the turtles. Just not the one he wanted. But he continued to watch as the turtle conversed with the girl. After all, it wouldn't hurt to study the other turtles as well seeing they probably wouldn't let him take the Ghost of the Jungle without a fight.

He was glad to be back in the states for the first time in five years. But seeing as he had been away so long, he had no place to stay. Thankfully, he had relatives in New York who would hopefully let him crash until he found a place of his own. Until then, he would just study and observe the turtles. Learn their habits and hangouts. He smiled, he would get her this time. I'm coming for you Lea.

"I'll be in my lab." Donnie said to his family. He had just returned home, and he didn't feel like talking after his confrontation with April. In reality he just wanted to cuddle with his mate, but she would realize something was bothering him. So his only other option was the lab. He heard a faint noise as soon as he walked in. He looked up to see the Kraang communicator going crazy.

"Oh, no. The Kraang communicator." He ran to it, and picked it up. "How long's it been going off? Guys, we have a problem!"

With that they were headed off in the Shellraiser. Lea was excited. She had been practicing her driving, and now she actually got to test out her skills behind the wheel. Although Lea was slightly nervous. This would be her first encounter with the Kraang in eleven years since she was little more than a turtle tot the last time she had faced them.

"From what I could translate from the orb," Donnie started. "It seems the Kraang are building some kind of advanced heavy weaponry."

"Any guess what it could be?" Lea asked.

"Ooh! Lasers disguised as burritos! - Yes! It all makes sense now." Angie said.

Lea just rolled her eyes. She did not understand what went through her sister's head sometimes. And to be quite honest, she wasn't sure she wanted to find out.

"It does make sense." Lea her Raph state to Angie. "If you have the brain of an avocado!"

'Ugh there he goes again.' "All right, guys, stay focused. We find the weapon, and we destroy it."

As Lea kept her focus on the road she heard Donnie whisper to Angie, "Don't worry. I will still love you even if you do have the brain of an avocado." Lea couldn't help but smile. Those two were so cute together. She just had one question, "What's an avocado?"

Her siblings just gave each other looks behind her back. Raph closed his eyes, and with a small smile on his face shook his head. She was hopeless. Still so much to learn.

"Red?" Casey called out when he realized April was there. Apparently she had been watching him practice his hockey for some time. "Ah, I miss a study session again?"

"No, I'm just here to hang out."

That got a smile out of the boy. "With the infamous Casey Jones?"

"Unless you only like me for my trigonometry." She said.

Casey really liked her. He wanted to get to know her better. "So what's your deal? Never see you hanging out with anybody. - Antisocial much?"

"Not really. I-I had three really close friends." She got a down look on her face. "I don't talk to them anymore."

"It happens." Casey understood completely. "Me and my best friend Nick were up against Troma town in last year's playoffs, right? He came up behind me just as I was about to sink the winning goal, and wham! Smacked his helmet straight off. Swollen face, split lip my best friend since second grade. Never spoke to me again."

"Oh, but it's not like you meant it." April said, trying to defend Casey.

"Right." Casey said sadly. "Some stuff is just beyond our control."

April felt a pang in her chest. Donnie had said the same thing. It got her thinking, maybe she was being to harsh on the turtles.

"Give me a sec to grab my gear." Casey said as he made his way off the ice. "We can get something to eat. Pizza."

Pizza. That one little word reminded her so much of Raph, Angie, and Donnie. She pulled out her T-Phone which she had kept off all this time, and opened it to a picture of her best friend. "Donnie."

She was thinking about giving him a call when she was distracted by a loud bang. When she looked up she saw something she wanted to see even less than her turtle friends. "Foot soldiers?"

She backed up as they began to advance on her. What were they doing here? What did they want with her? She pulled out her Tessen, and defended herself as best she could. She thought she was doing a decent job until weapons sprung out from the soldiers backs. "Uh, didn't you guys use to be human?" She questioned as she flipped into the ice rink, and pushed off against the wall. Barely missing a stab to the knee.

The foot bots followed her onto the ice. And it didn't take them long to get their barrings. They almost had her. "Yo! If there's one thing Casey Jones has, - it's crackerjack timing." Casey looked like he was ready to bash some heads in.

"Casey, run!" April called out.

"What, so you get all the fun?" Casey asked as he jumped over the wall. "I got 'em! You go!"

"No, I got 'em. You go!" She yelled back.

More foot bots came as the two teens continued to argue. It didn't stop until April ran out of the stadium, trying to get the bots to follow here and leave Casey alone. "Hey, Footbots! You want me? Come and get me!"

Sadly, only half of the foot bots followed. Oh well, she would do what she could. Then she would go back for Casey. She just hoped he would be okay until then.

The turtles had made it into the base with no problems. Lea was relieved, the Kraang didn't seem to be much of a threat. She changed her mind though when they got a good look at the base.

"I'm guessing we just found the secret weapon." Donnie said as they surveyed the dangerous looking humanoid piece of weaponry.

"All right, Donnie, we need you to shut that thing down." Lea said.

"No problem." He said as he got up, ready to take that thing out of commission. But then his T-Phone started going off.

Angie came up behind Donnie. "Sweetie, you're vibrating."

Donnie took his T-Phone out. "It's April! Ahem. Hi, this is Donay Diner Dono Dano Dinomi-" He blubbered as he tried to get his name out. Raph, Angie, and Lea listened in as best they could.

"Donnie," April called out. Interrupting him. "Remember how you said sometimes things are out of our control? You were right. Aah! Things are really out of control right now!"

"She needs me, guys. I gotta go!" He told them, then placed the phone back up to his ear to talk to April. "Hold on, April! I'll be right there!"

"Donnie, we need your help." Lea called out as Donnie ran off. It was to late though, he was already gone.

"He ditched us?" Raph asked.

"More importantly," Angie growled quietly as she squeezed her nunchucks. "Did he just ditch me? Cause if he did, he is so not getting to sleep in the same room as me tonight. Even if it is April."

Just then, an alarm started blaring. "Alerting of one known as the intruder."

The Kraang opened fire on them. "Turtles, attack!" Lea yelled as she charged forward.

"Donnie!" April cried in delight. Never had she been so happy to see him. "Ugh, took you long enough."

"I'm sorry." He said as he waved his staff around. Trying to get the robot head to come off his blade. "I had to figure out your coordinates with the T-Phone. Wow!" He probably would have continued talking if a throwing star had not come their way. Then Karai showed up with more foot bots, dropping from the edge of a nearby building. "Karai."

"Well, I was hoping for all the turtles to see this." She said, slightly disappointed. "But I guess one's good enough. Your rat master took away someone I cared about. So I'm returning the favor." She said before attacking.

They had just finished off the last Kraang, and were now starring at the weapon. Lea wasn't sure how they were going to dismantle it without Donnie. "Whoa, that thing is awesome! In an evil kind of way." Angie said while rubbing the back of her neck as she received a glare from Raph.

There was a light beeping noise, then the robots eyes began glowing pink as the cables connecting to the robot fell away. "Um, guys." Lea said, slightly nervous. "Giant freaking robo-ninja just finished charging."

Angie took a look at the robot. "You don't look so tough." As she said this, she charged at the robot. Only for it to throw her to the side with a whip.

"Angie!" Raph called out to his sister, before dodging out of the way as the robot shot eye lazers at him. Both Raph and Lea moved in to attack. They weren't having much luck. At one point Raph was thrown off the robot's back.

Lea tried to evade an attack from the robot by jumping back. But as she was in the air, the robot took the opportunity to wrap the whip around her before slamming her to the floor. "Let me go!" Lea yelled and struggled as the machine brought her closer. The thing started beeping, and it's eyes began glowing. It was going to finish her off. Lea knew she couldn't escape in time, so she closed her eyes and tensed in preparation for her end.

But then she heard Raph call out her name, "Lea!" The next thing she knew, Raph was above her. Covering her body with his. What was he doing?!

Before she could react though, the beeping had stopped. "Subroutine program taking over. Target April O'Neil located." The robot retracted the whip, and flew off. Leaving her and Raph on the floor in a tangled mass.

When Raph realized the threat was gone, he raised himself up onto his elbows and looked down at Lea. Neither one of them moved. "Raph?" Lea said nervously. Raph was mere inches above her, just staring down at her.

"Come on guys!" Angie yelled at them. Though she was hoping for something like this to happen, now was not the time. "You can continue this some other time. It's going after April!"

That snapped Lea out of it, but Raph hadn't seemed to have heard as he continued to just sit there. Lea blushed slightly before shoving Raph off of her. They needed to get moving. They had to find April and Donnie.

"Stay away from April!" Donnie yelled, trying to protect his best friend.

"Footbots, keep the turtle busy." Karai said as the foot bots overwhelmed Donnie, giving her an opening to get to April. "This is between us girls."

Karai quickly brought April to the ground with a hard flip. April threw her Tessen, hoping to get in a hit. "Your skills are weak, April." Karai taunted. "I've had years of training. - Oh!" Karai yelled out as the Tessen came back around and hit her.

April easily caught her weapon, and used it in her own taunt against Karari. Making it seem like she was completely calm. "You talk too much."

Karai becoming angry quickly disarmed April, and charged at her. Only for her strike to be blocked by Donnie's staff. "You're not gonna touch her!" Donnie glared at Karai before bombarding her with his own attack. Donnie had just gotten her to the ground when the Kraang weapon landed.

"Um, Donnie, I'm thinking retreat." April said.

Karai back flipped off the ground, and made her way to the robots side. "Like my new little toy?" Karai asked, not really expecting an answer. "Robot, eliminate the girl."

The robot zeroed in on April and Donnie. Donnie tried to protect his friend, but the robot knocked him aside and pulled April in using the whip. "Let me go!" April yelled as the robot seemed to be getting ready to fire. Then the unexpected happened. "System override. Do not destroy April O'Neil. Capture for the Kraang."

"What?" Karai yelled in outrage before attacking the robot as it tried to fly off. She brought it down, but at a cost.

"Threat detected." It said as it turned on her. "Eliminate threat."

"You okay?" Donnie asked as he helped April up.

"For once, I'm actually glad the Kraang want to kidnap me."

As the robot took down Karai, and turned back to them April heard what sounded like the Shellraiser coming their way. And she was right. It swung around the corner, and rammed right into the robot, sending it into the wall.

Angie was at the back, manning the manhole cover blaster. "Oh, yeah! Firing manhole covers! Eat it, Chrome dome!" Angie yelled as she fired manhole covers. Angie got a few hits in before Chrome Dome, as Angie stated, pulled Angie off the Shellraiser with his whip. He then proceeded to grab the Shellraiser, and threw it on its side.

"Aw, I just waxed her, too." Raph stated. Lea just rolled her eyes at him. They turned around as Donnie, Angie, and April came up behind them to watch Karai fight off the robot. It took April a moment to realize there was another turtle. "Uh, who's that?" She asked Donnie and Angie.

Angie smile at April, "Oh that's Lea."

Donnie picked up where Angie left off, "She's our sister."

April stood there in shock for a moment. She knew that there had been a fourth turtle. Donnie and Angie had talked about her all the time, and she had heard several stories from Master Splinter. But April had never thought she would get to meet her since she had been missing for eleven years. "Wait, your sister? As in, your sister sister? The one who had been missing for eleven years? That sister!."

No one answered her as Lea had started talking. "Guy, I think I know how we can take that thing down."

Taking a closer look, Donnie was what Lea had. There was a gash which was emitting sparks from the robots back. "Oh I see. I got this then!"

"Oh, are you on this team?" Lea said as she lightly reprimanded her brother for leaving them before.

"Yeah, way to ditch us, dude." Raph added.

"Yeah, guess who won't be sleeping with me tonight." Angie gave her mate a look.

"Go easy on him, guys." April called out. Slightly still in shock that Lea, the missing fourth turtle, was there and alive. "If it wasn't for Donnie, I would have ugh!" She didn't get to finish as she was knocked over by Karai.

"I don't need that stupid robot to finish you."

"April!" Donnie called out.

"I'll help April." Lea said as she ran back. She would have let Donnie handle it, but he was their best bet against that robot. "You guys take down -"

"Chrome dome!" Angie yelled out her name for the robot.

"Sure Angie!" Lea called back as she continued to make her way towards April and Karai. "Whatever you wanna call it."

Angie and Raph used her nunchucks to keep Chrome Dome still as Donnie removed the back pannel and removed some wiring. The robot went on the fritz, and its top half began rotating in a circle, "Error, error." Angie, Donnie, and Raph screamed as they got spun around in a circle. Eventually Raph and Angie flew off, leaving Donnie as the sole turtle holding on for dear life.

Angie noticed the robots sword had landed next to her. She grabbed it, and charged at Chrome Dome. She ended up finishing the robot as she stabbed it through the chest with its own sword.

Meanwhile April and Lea fought together to bring down Karai. "It's over, Karai." Lea said as she level her katana at the girl.

"For now." Karai said as she jumped up, and threw a smoke bomb to cover her escape.

"That wasn't too difficult." April said said as Lea helped her to her feet.

"Easy does it, April. It's over now."

"I just need to catch my breath." She said as the others made their way over to check on her. "Thanks, guys. I just wanted to say- Oh, my gosh! I forgot about Casey!"

All four turtles gave her a strange look as she ran off. "That's what she wanted to say?" Donnie asked questioningly.

Lea just giggle lightly, "Come on guys. Let's go home."

Ronan was impressed. He had watched the fight from afar. It was different to see the Ghost of the Jungle working with others as a team seeing as she had worked alone back in Panama. Yet alone or with others, she was still a deadly force to be reckoned with. And now, not only was she part of a team, but she seemed to be the leader! That just made her that much more of a prize in Ronan's eyes. It was good to finally see her again after all these weeks. He couldn't wait to go after her.

But for now, he needed a place to crash. He picked up his phone, and dialed a number he hadn't used in quite some time. "Hey cousin," he said when his call was answered. "How are you, your sister, and my favorite uncle doing?" He said jokingly.

A young male voice on the other end of the line answered, "He's your only uncle, Ronan. But we're all doing good. How about you? It's great to hear from you. What's it been? A couple years since we last heard from you?"

"Five, but I'm doing good as well. Hey listen, I just recently came back to town and looking for a place to crash until I can find my own place. Would you mind letting me stay with you guys until I get my own place?"

"Not at all man. And I'm sure my dad will be okay with it. I'm not there right now, but feel free to stop on by."

"Thanks man, you're the best." Ronan replied. Everything was working out perfectly.

"No problem cousin. I'll get there as soon as I can."

"Alright, see you soon Casey." Ronan hung up the phone, and made his way to his cousins and uncle's apartment.

April made her way into the lair to find Raph, Donnie, and Angie in the living room. There was no sign of Lea. "Hey, guys."

Donnie was the first to notice her. "April." They all stood up as he said this.

"You're back!" Raph looked surprised.

"What up?" Angie said with a welcoming smile.

Master Splinter came out to great her as well. "Hmm, it is very good to see you, April."

April smiled. "I missed you, Master Splinter. I hope we can start training again soon."

"Of course. Whenever you wish." Master Splinter said before giving her a slight bow, which she returned.

Then she turned to face the turtles again. "I never got a chance to tell you guys that I'm sorry for everything."

Donnie looked shocked. Why was she apologizing? She hadn't done anything wrong. And he said as much, "You're sorry? But we were the ones that screwed up."

"It was an accident, and more importantly, you're my friends. I don't ever want to hold a grudge ever again." She responded.

Angie jumped in front of her. "You da best, April. To mark this day, I offer you the slice of eternal reunion." Angie said as she held out a slice of pizza.

April looked slightly disgusted, "It has lint and dead bugs all over it!"

"I know." Angie said as she hugged the slice of pizza happily. "I just found it under my bed. It's eternal."

Angie was about took take a bite out of the pizza slice when a loud boom interrupted her, and scared them all. They all turned to find Lea coming out of the kitchen, smoke billowing behind her. Panicked, Angie forgot all about her pizza as she ran towards the doorway. What she saw made her gasp, "My beautiful kitchen! Nooooo! Lea you are not allowed in the kitchen by yourself, so what were you doing in here?!" Angie asked as she ran into the kitchen to try to save her domain. Looking guilty, Lea quickly followed her back into the kitchen.

April giggled while Raph just rolled his eyes, and walked off to his room. He needed to talk to Spike, especially about what he had done when he tried to save Lea. He had seen she was in danger, and he panicked. Doing the first thing he could think of, covering her with his own body. But then, once the danger had passed he just couldn't seem to move off of her. He just didn't understand his reaction.

Seeing everything was under control, Master Splinter went back to the dojo as April made her way over to Donnie. "Thanks, Donnie, for always being there, even when I didn't want you to be." April hugged him, and then gave him a kiss on the cheek. Unfortunately, Angie had just come back in and all she saw was the kiss.

"Hey!" She yelled at April. Even though she knew April had meant nothing by it. She did her best to pretend to act mad. "Nobody kisses my mate, but me!" Then with a playful glare in her eyes, she attacked April. The two ended up wrestling on the floor.

Donnie dumbfounded, did nothing but watch. Then he smiled. "Ah! So awesome." He said as he watched his mate and best friend. "I love being a turtle!"

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