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When former Purple Dragons gang leader Angel Bridge became the high-tech street vigilante known as Nobody, she felt like somebody for the first time in her life. Fighting crime alongside fellow heroes like the Mutant Turtles and her childhood friend Casey Jones-as well as the curmudgeonly scientist Harold Lilja, who designed her tech suit-gave the natural-born loner a new family and a new purpose. But as the Rat King's nefarious Armageddon Game takes hold on New York City and Mutant Town, Angel is finding herself alone and isolated once again, questioning her role and her resolve...and missing her best friend and sidekick, the mutant fox Alopex, who is having a similar crisis of faith. Now, with the fate of the city in the balance, can Nobody and Alopex reunite to rise above their doubts and become the bombastic crime-fighting duo they once were?
Appearing in #3[]
Major characters[]
Minor characters[]
- Bebop
- Donatello (flashback only)
- Jennika (flashback only)
- Leonardo (flashback only)
- Michelangelo (flashback only)
- Oroku Karai
- Oroku Saki (flashback only)
- Raphael (flashback only)
- Rocksteady
- Unnamed Utrom assassin
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Synopsis[]
Alopex reflects on her previous places she's called "home" that she is no longer a part of - the Alaskan wilderness, New York City as a whole, and then the Splinter Clan, after feeling betrayed by their alliance with Oroku Saki. She declares that she's done with the notion of "family", but realizes she still has one person she can count on, that she can consider her family - Angel, who is currently facing an Utrom assassin bent on locating and killing the Triceraton Regenta, Seri.
Unfortunately, the E.P.F. has arrived where Angel and the Utrom are fighting. As they've detected two life forms in the building, they believe they are a pair of mutants and Ravenwood gives the orders to bring them both down. Al tracks them down by smell and begins taking out the E.P.F. soldiers. She thinks that maybe she never quite fit in with the Turtles because they were too human, to accommodated to the life a human would be privy to, and not enough wild animal was left in them. She does note the irony, however, in that the only person she feels like she can still count on is human.
Al takes out the soldiers, one of which radios Ravenwood and tells her that "some dog-looking thing" is taking them out. Meanwhile, Angel is getting trounced by the assassin, and reaches for a power cord in an effort to use it as a weapon, but the Utrom grabs her by the head before she can strike. After the soldier that radioed Ravenwood is knocked out and she demands a status report, Alopex barks into the radio just to screw with her. Ravenwood jumps out of a helicopter and confronts Alopex, while Angel finally is able to subdue her attacker with the wire.
Alopex gets wrecked by Ravenwood, and as the agent is about to lay in with one potentially final blow, the fox flashes back to her assault at the paws of a bear. Just before Ravenwood strikes, Angel rushes in and strikes with the gauntlet from her Nobody armor, shocking Ravenwood hard enough to disrupt her arm's mass, leaving it a mess of tentacles she can't reform into an arm. Angel says she learned earlier about the power of a good shock, giving her the idea to strike Ravenwood with the same treatment. Ravenwood still insists they surrender, including Angel, who was not their intended target, but Angel points out her fallen soldiers and that she can still barely function. Ravenwood insists that she only meant to bring Al in to a safe home (despite her not even being present when the E.P.F. arrived), but Alopex says she can make their own home. As they walk away, Angel asks how she's doing, and she says she could use a drink. Angel offers to have her dad make one for her. She thanks Angel for not just saving her, but for everything, mentally declaring that she actually has her home.
Some time later, Angel and Alopex discuss how bad things have gotten with Rat King's Armageddon Game, including the fact that the Foot Clan is looking for new help. Al says it'd take a miracle for her to work with the Foot again, and right on cue, Karai shows up with Bebop and Rocksteady. Karai decalres that the Foot are going to need help in this war and she'd rather Angel and Al be allies and not enemies. Al declares that she'll make her own pack, but when Karai informs her that foxes aren't pack animals, she loses her cool and strikes Karai over the eye, declaring that if she wants to be so much like The Shredder, she'll give her the scar to complete the transition.
Bebop and Rocksteady believe it's time for them to strike since she struck first, but Karai calls them off. Karai says she really desperately needs the help and asks for forgiveness. Al realizes things have really gotten that bad, and says that if her family (Angel, of course) is in, then she will be too, but that doesn't make Karai her family. Karai can live with that.
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