Mutant Freaks

Chapter 2: Name

70124 sits on the roof feeling lost and uncertain. New feelings for her. She should have stayed with the strange men. If she had she wouldn't have been so lost, so lonely and so tired.

She looks over the edge of the roof, down at the streets when she sees a little girl holding the hands of a man and woman. "I love you mommy. I love you daddy," The little girl says, smiling.

70124 feels her face muscles mimic the girls. She had never smiled. Another new thing.

"And what do we have here?" A voice knocks into her silent thoughts, "Where are you other little friends?"

70124 turns to the voices owner. Four. There was four of them. The one who spoke had a red band. They were green with turtle shells, but the size of humans.

"Okay, if its just one of you, this shouldn't take long..." The red band gets into fighting mood.

"Wait!" Blue bands cuts in. Red band rolls his eyes. "We don't have to fight. Just surrender and give us your weapons'."

She looks blankly, then unties her weapons belt and hold it out. All four turtles seem taken-a-back.

"Mikey, go grab it," Blue commands.

The orange band, Mikey, slinks forward, not so trusting. He grabs the belt slowly, then, seeing that she wasn't a threat, stands up straight.

Red looks disappointed, "... no fun..." He mutters.

"I'm picking up two heat signatures coming this way!" Purple band comes in.

"Well, well, look at what we've found..." the skinny dark man says.

"Xever, no... We've come to retrieve the baggage," The broad shoulder man says.

70124 feels somewhat relived as well as disappointed. She didn't want to stay, but she didn't want to go into another white building. She loved color.

"Ah, good, so we will see some action," red gets into fighting position.

Xever gets ready to strike, but Bradford puts an arm in front of him. "No, not today turtle. We're only here to retrieve the baggage. We can face off another day." He stats in a calm voice, "70124, come here,"

She begins to move towards Bradford, when Mikey grabs her wrist. She turns in surprise at the touch.

"Don't, hes a terrible friend, trust me," he smiles at her, his eyes, she noticed, were the color of the sky.

Her life had been full of latex gloves and hard metal. She never had skin touch her own. Another first.

His skin was soft, warm, smooth. It was so strange, but it makes her insides flip and her eyes burn with water.

"Do not interfere with the retrieval or we'll be force to attack," Bradford eyes Mikey.

"Well then, consider you retrieval interfered," Ralph gets into fighting position.

Bradford jumps down towards 70124, but is stopped by Ralph. Xever follows and Leo and Donnie jump in.

"Mikey, get her out of here!" Leo commands.

Mikey salutes and pulls 70124 behind him across the roof tops. She follows without resistant.

they jump from roof top to roof top, them lower to the ground. Mikey leads them to an ally way, and opens the earths lid. "Come on down. It might smell a little, but you'll get used to it," He motions to the dark hole.

She jumps down, landing neatly on the concrete floor. She changes the cons and rods in her eyes to match a nocturnal animal so that she could see.

The smell was awful, but she was already used to it. Mikey was right behind her. "Come on, this way," He leads her down the tunnel. She keep on his heels, turning right, left, and right again.