kitsune_wolf | TMNT-Fic

It had been a strange twelve months in New York.

First that immortal winters guy left April a shed load of money, Then some other monster showed up in the city, Don had all kinds of theories, from the first Thirteen Winters had brought it to the world had somehow managed to breed and maybe there were more out there to the portal to another world showing up, but before they could actually take it out, it vanished, and the president had made some announcement about some department getting extra funding to take care of any more such threats.

"Great, more people out for our blood." Raphael had muttered.

Leonardo said that it was all the more reason to petrol, to make sure that they could take care of any more monsters before they became known to the public at large.
Except there was to many monsters to take care off, shortly after the one large monster had been taken care off by the government more showed up, smaller, more violent, and harder to control, the police had found out the hard way that some monsters could infect whoever was bitten, luckily...for the turtles at least, it seemed like only mammals were affected.

But the only thing they had found was a street gang that needed to be taught not to cause trouble on the turtles turf. That was something else that made the turtles life more difficult, the gang fighters had started wearing protective clothing, thick leather, plastic BMX armour, ridiculous things that they thought were cool but really made them look stupid, and it made them a lot harder to knock the jerks out.

Mikey looked around when the last gang member went down...he could still hear a fight going on, but all four of his brothers were in sight, and they were finished too.

There was a scream, high pitched and girlish, and the unmistakable growl of a monster.

"Uncle Ra- "

"Behind you kid!"

There was the crash of something, probably someone being thrown into the bins. The four turtles were already running to wards the noise.

"No....no no no..Get away from him!"

The turtles reached the ally where the noise was coming from just in time to see someone small throw himself at a mutated six legged rat that was twice the size of a human. The person, it had to be a child looking at the size was thrown away...it hit the ground hard and rolled, ended up sprawled at the turtles feet, they would have helped him up but they were to shocked.

It was a cat.

A cat the size of a child and wearing a green ninja mask.

"Dude..." Mikey breathed.

"What the hell...?" Raphael asked.

Donatello's eyes widened.

Leonardo shot forward katana out first things first, take out the rat monster and then deal with the strange cat boy.

The cat rolled on to his hands...three fingers and opposable thumb sporting hands and feet and blinked surprised at Leonardo taking over his fight, Raphael coughed and the cat looked towards them instead, and his eyes widened...looking more scared of them than the monster that had half knocked him out.

"Typical, even freaky mutant cats are scared of us." Mikey complained while the monster collapsed thanks to Leo's handy work. "Which is pretty insulting considering your ripping of our style pal."

The cat glared then apparently not that scared after all.

But he would look from Raph, Don and Mikey standing between him and the ally exit and Leonardo standing between him and the monster, seeming to get more wound up, clearly something about the turtles were bothering him but it wasn't the fact that he was effectively corned by them....in fact, that look was one that Donatello had seen before, when Mikey had stolen his coffee as a prank and Don had cornered him demanding it's return.

The tension was broken when there was a moan from the bins.

"Klunk you damned brat..." The voice sounded tight, controlled, as if it was hiding something.

The cat moved quicker than Don would have expected, but Leo still caught is fuzzy shoulder.

"Klunk?" This time the voice sounded worried, and a little pained, seems like the guy was hiding the fact he was hurt.

"I'm okay..." The cat said quickly, sounding like the child he appeared to be, voice high and unbroken...seems like they had found the source of the scream.

There was the sound of movement from the bins. "Then get over yer ya brat."

The cat shot a pleading look at Leonardo, The turtle frowned but let the mutated cat go, it wasn't as if they couldn’t re catch it...him, if he tried to run.

Not that he did, the cat ran right to the other voice, looking down at the owner and then over to the turtles.

"Klunk...I need..." The voice was starting to fade now as if the owner was struggling to stay awake. "What's wrong..?"

"I think we're in trouble Unc.." The cat blinked. "Uncle..?"

The cat didn't get an answer, and started shaking the person, Leo started walking over the pile of rubbish.

"Klunk wasn't it? If your uncle us hurt maybe we can..." Leonardo trailed off...then suddenly pulled a sword and pointed it at the cat, the sharp edge was pointed away from the cat, but he could still deal out some serious hurt. "What is the meaning of this."

"I..." Klunk didn't seem the least bit worried about the blade pointed at him only caring about his uncle, shaking the person hidden in the bins more. "I don't know but..please..."

"Geez Leo." Raph complained walking over to where Leonardo and the cat were. "What do you think ya doin' threatening a..."

Seeing Leonardo draw his sword on a child, even an inhuman one, and hearing Raphael trail off with a shocked expression on his face had Don and Mikey walking over to see what was wrong too.

"No way..."

"Impossible."

The pair looked at the shocked Raphael standing next to them...and the unconscious one laying in the pile of rubbish with a rather large lump on his head.

The cat looked up at them with big pleading yellow eyes. "Help us..."