(A 2012TMNT!Leonardo X OC story) Echo Tavora is a fresh-into-college 19 year old, working as an assistant to a scientist named Robert Bunsen, who she sees as her father figure. One day, a new specimen is dragged through the doors, a large mutant turtle with ocean blue eyes. Echo is told he is just an animal, a failed experiment of a previous scientist, yet when she looks into its eyes, it seems like it can understand her. As she spends more time with it, she comes to feel like there is so much more to him that she does not understand, feeling a connection greater than simply assistant and experiment. Will she free the ocean-eyed mutant, or will she learn to overlook her deeper emotions and morals to continue to experiment on him? I do not own any of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters or original stories, only the plot and original characters of this fanfiction. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters and original storyline belong to Nickelodeon.