CH:2 A Daring Rescue

-meanwhile-

It's been hours since the Shredders disappearance. With no sign of the villain or his whereabouts had Leonardo edgy. So, the four turtles decided to unwind with a relaxing round of teasing Vern in public.

As it turned out another basketball game was going on, due to Michelangelo dropping pizza on the court last time. They had to delay the game to clean the court as there was pizza tracked everywhere. So, the turtles got to enjoy the new game and even got to watch the New York Knicks win with a lead of nine points.

Well, most of the guys enjoyed the game. Leo's brothers tried everything to cheer him up. They even shot spitballs at Vern's face again when he decided to give another ridiculous attempt at a speech. Yet he was still in a foul mood as they left for home across the rooftops.

Just then Donatello's gadgets start to go haywire. He instantly stops to check them and hollers at his bros before they get to far, "Guys, some weird energy flux is messing with my tech." As the other three Turtles join him, Donnie spins around a little to try to locate the signal, "It looks like it's coming from the Stock Corp building over there."

As soon as the turtles look in the direction that Donnie mentioned, there was a sound of shattering glass and a person falling to their death from one of the top floors.

Leo reacted before anyone could even think. He ran as fast as his legs could carry him. Diving across the gap between two buildings, just grabbing this unconscious and shockingly beautiful woman in the nick of time and landing on the far rooftop with expert precision.

Once they were safe, Leo took a moment to check to see if she was injured as his brother's caught up, and that's when he noticed that something wasn't right. He could feel bones cracking and shifting within her body.

When his brother's land next to him he called to Donnie first with worry creeping deep into his smooth voice, "Don, I think something is wrong with her."

Donnie walks up to him and says as he is readying his equipment, "Put her down so I can get a good scan."

The moment Leo lays her down, her transformation kicks up speed and a thick coat of black fur starts sprawling across her skin. Before they know it, they're looking at a beautiful humanoid wolf with glossy black fur covering every square inch of her incredibly fit, curvy body. She has the face of a wolf. Snout, fangs, whiskers and all. Her long black hair blended into the length of her fur, almost giving her a look of a mane. Her ears melted and shifted into large, pointed, furry K-9 ears perched on top her head, poking out of her fur just like a real wolf. She even grew a long fluffy tail that wouldn't stop twitching about her legs and feet, that now are shaped more like a dogs.

While all the turtles stare at her with unblinking eyes and far too distracted by what they just saw, they failed to notice a canister of glowing green ooze fall out of the girl's hands and roll towards a fire escape.

Donnie gives his head a small shake, then scans her body, "Guys, your not going to believe this! Her DNA is quite the jumbled mess right now but there are isotopic residues that match our genetic enhancers!"

Mikey scratches his head, "Uh... English please, professor."

Don gives a heavy sigh before replying, "It's hard to be totally accurate with my field gear... Not to mention I'm picking up an odd amount of miscellaneous DNA. But... I think whatever just mutated her, might have created us as well." Leaving the other three Turtles temporarily speechless.

Leo thinks for a moment before he asks, "So, if we get her back to the lair, then you can find out what's wrong with her?"

This ticks off Raphael to no end. With heavy sarcasm he says, "Woah there, oh fearless leader." When he approached aggressively in his anger Leo instinctively gets defensive over the wolf mutant. Raph stops in his tracks and raises his eyebrows, "Oh, I see what going on here. I don't know if you knocked your shell loose on your landing or what, but we can't just go bringing a stranger back to the lair just because you want a piece of tail."

Mikey's eyes go round and he brings his fist up to his mouth with a, "Oooooooh!"

Leo grits his teeth and takes a deep breath to calm himself before answering, "Like it or not Raph, she is now a mutant just like us, and mutants stick together. Besides she needs help and it's not like we can just drop her off at a hospital."

"So, we get to keep her?!" Mikey asks over enthusiastically, making Raph facepalm.

As Donnie puts his gear away he adds, "Honestly I don't even know if I can help her, but at least we'll be able to figure out what happened to her."

Leo gently picks up her body like it's the most fragile thing on earth and Don notices something in her back.

"Hey, what's that? ...hold still." He says as he gently pulls out a dart with a bit of green residue still inside that was buried in her fur. "This must have been what changed her... Fascinating!"

Leo grunts in annoyance as he starts to head in the direction of the lair, "Not the time Donnie, now let's head out."

"I still don't think this is a good idea..." grumbles Raph as they head for their favorite sewer drain.

As they took off form the rooftop, something either of them failed to notice... A glowing green container of ooze that miraculously tumbled down a fire escape, unscathed, and landed at a cop's feet that came for a noise complaint of shattering glass. Now a new mutant was on her way to the turtles lair, as the ooze was traveling in the opposite direction, on its way to be locked up in police headquarters.