"They're not monsters, ok" April groans frustrated sitting in an interrogation room with Casey and the chief of police "The only really monster is shredder and the two mutants that he's created

"Bebop and Rocksteady." Casey tries to add but the chief shuts him up

"If you think anything coming out of your mouth is gonna add to her credibility you are sorely mistaken" the chief gives him an angry glare

"Shredder mutated them with the help of Baxter stockman  that's who need to go see."

"Funny you should mention Dr. Stockman we just finished analyzing some security footage from TCRI that he gave us." The chief reaches behind her grabbing a remote to turn on the tv

"Great." April shrugs her shoulders

"Guess who's on it." The chief smirks turning on the tv, April looks to see a footage of her and Emma breaking into the TCRI headquarters as Emma uses her telekinesis to grab the ooze, April darts her eyes confused "That's not what happened that footage has been altered it's been edited."

"We checked its authenticity." The chief shakes her head with a small smug smirk, April huffs a little "I want a phone call."

The chief chuckles half heartedly at the reporter "I hate to break it to you but all the phones have been shut down on account of monsters breaking into our station house." April tenses up glaring at her, she wanted to jump over the table and strangle that woman for calling her friends monsters "Well I'd hate to break it to you but legally I'm entitled to a phone call."

"Tell me where they are."

"I didn't know and even if I did know I wouldn't tell you."

The two woman glare holes into each other's eyes before Casey broke the ice "Chief the turtles are not the one who should be."

"We'll see about that." The chief stands up about to walk out the room but then April speaks up "Where's Emma."

"The child is in our padded cell she'll be transferred to a psych ward where she's be tested and top guarded where she can't hurt anyone else."

Casey looks at the chief like she was insane "Are you crazy you can't do that!"

"She's hurt my officers 10 are in the hospital with one of them having an concussion." The chief glares at him "That girl is dangerous."

"She was scared, half of your squad had guns drawn on her! Not to mention one of them called her a monster!" Casey stands up now angry that she was treating Emma like a criminal

"That little girl has been though so much that you don't even understand." April steps up to the chief "Do you remember that hospital on 5th and main a year ago? It was a psych ward where the scientists/ foot clan would inflict horrible experiments on people and Baxter Stockman is one of them."

"He can't be he mainly researches and does test for chemical experiments he doesn't experiment on people." The chief rolls her eyes not believing her

"He experimented on Emma until the turtles found her! If it weren't for them she would have been dead! That little girl goes though the Constant reminder and trauma everyday and you want to treat her like a criminal." April gets in the chiefs face, she sees Emma like a niece/daughter and that's things she's gonna let happen is some woman who doesn't even know what she's been though treat her like a common criminal.

Luckily a knock at the door breaks the tension, it opens revealing a officer looking panicked "Chief the kid's having a panic attack."

"Then take care of it."

"We can't she won't let anyone touch her."

"Let me go in, I'm the only one who can calm her down." April steps up but the chief quickly frown at her "You are not leaving this room."

"Unless you want her to pass out or have another one of your officers flying across the room you take me to her." April narrows her eyes in warning, the chief looks at her for a minute before sighing looking at the officer

"Take her to the kid."

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Emma hyperventilates scared backing up into a corner as the police officers tip toe towards her with their arms stretched out "Alright kid take it easy just calm down."

"No no no no get away! Get away from me!! Nooooo! where's Donnie? I want donnie! I want my brother!"Emma cries chocking on her breathing holding her chest taking quick short breaths

The door opens and April runs in pass all the officers "A-April!!" Emma cries with tears rolling down her face, April kneeing in front of Emma holding her hands with a calm voice "Dont be scared Em I'm here sweetie. Remember what Donnie taught you ok. Breathe though your nose out and out your mouth."

Emma follows her instructions breathing though her nose and then out of her mouth "I'm here it's ok breathe breathe in and out." April does the exercise with her until she finally calms down "all better?"

"Yes." Emma nods her head, April smiles giving the little girl a warm hug holding her as she sobs a little "It's ok honey."

"Chief I still need to do evaluation with her." The psychologist holds up her clipboard, one officer grabs April's wrist starting to pull her away "Alright come on let's go."

"No April don't take her! No!" Emma screams with her arms out, the officer gets flung into the wall hitting his head as the other officers check on him. Emma runs to April hugging her tight burying her face into her chest "No."

One officer start to pull out his taser but the psychiatrist stops him frowning "What are you doing you are not tasing a child!!" He frown back at her "She just assaulted an officer."

"It's very obvious that she's suffering from anxiety and apparently that woman is the only person in this whole room that makes her feel safe, if she wants her to stay in the room while I talk to then that's fine."

The chief looks at the woman and sighs looking all the officers "Alright everyone out the doctor needs to have some space."

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Hello Emma my name is Dr Higgston I'm a licensed child psychologist how are you doing?" The woman sits down in front of Emma and April as the little girl sits in the reporters lap holding her hand as April rubbed her back comforting her

"Not .. good."

"Why's that?"

"Because I'm bad."

"Why do you think you're bad?"

"Cause I hurt all those police officers." Emma shakes a little whimpering with tears in her eyes looking down at the ground "Am I gonna go to jail?" She closes her eyes covering her face in her arms

"No honey I promise you're not going to go to jail, I'm gonna ask you some questions and if you wanna stop we can stop ok?" Dr Higgston clicks her pen ready to write, she presses a button on a tape recorder placing it down in the middle between them all.

"O-Ok." Emma wiped her eyes with her sleeve.

"Alright, now why don't you tell me what happened?"

"Um me, Raph, and Mikey we're in the ceiling."

"Who are Raph and Mikey?"

"The turtles they're .. her brothers." April explains, Dr Higgston nods understanding as Emma continues "And we saw the bad guys about to get away so Raph told me to go find April and Casey but I couldn't find them .. so I turned around and went back and I saw the police had they're guns pointed at my brothers"

"Were you scared?"

"Yeah I thought they were gonna shoot em so I ran in front of them, they one of the police officers said I was a ... monster." Emma looks down twiddling her thumbs

"And that's what made you mad?"

"That's what the scientists used to call me and the others." Emma frowns getting mad remember

"And that made you mad when they called you and your brothers monsters?" Dr Higgston leans in interested, Emma nods squeezing April's hand. Dr Higgston writes the last of her notes, turning off the recorder placing it in her coat before standing up walking out of the room

"Dr Higgston"

The woman turns around at Emma who looks down a little ashamed "W-Will you tell the officers I'm sorry for hurting them?"

The psychiatrist couldn't help but smile at the little girls shy yet kind nature "Yes I will." She leaves the room. The chief stands in front of her with her arms crossed. "Well what did she say?"

"It's obvious that she's suffering from ptsd and anxiety she doesn't need to be locked up that little girl needs therapy." The doctor tells her making the chief scrunch up her face "You can't be serious, she destroyed the entire precinct!"

"Because you and your officers triggered a horrible memory." Dr Higgston points to her own head gesturing Emma hugging April still sitting in her lap slightly shaking "Does that look like a cold blooded criminal to you?" The chief looks at Emma studying her "She doesn't need a jail cell she needs help."

Dr Higgston leaves the chief by herself looking at Emma and April hugging each other.

Maybe the psychiatrist was right

Maybe she didn't need to look at her like criminal

She needed at her like a scared little girl who needed help