Chapter 1: News

AN: This is the first chapter of The Rebellion. Written within the 2k3 universe.

I don't own TMNT. This is probably because I'm not the CEO of Nickelodeon.

The spaceship landed on Earth, and nobody gave a damn.

It was the first interstellar spaceship to intentionally land on Earth. Over a thousand years before it an Utromm craft had crashed-landed on earth. More recently several Tricerton interstellar war bases had set themselves up around the planet, but never actually touched down. Several Tricerton flying bunkers had landed on Earth quite intentionally, but these bunkers could only manage distances under 3 light-years, hardly useful for interstellar flights.

This spaceship had, on the other hand, intentionally landed on Earth and it was the first times in the planet's existance. And nobody even noticed.

A man walked out of the spaceship. He wasn't a man actually; he was just an Utromm in an exo-suit. But he sure looked human.

Part of the reason that everybody failed to notice that an alien ship had chosen to touch down on the planet, despite the moment being so historic was that it was in the middle of nowhere. It had landed in a part of Japan that only three or four sentient beings actually were and they were all stupid enough to not count. They had reactions similar to those that deer in the headlights of a car do, which is unsurprising, considering they were mammals closely related to deer.

The Utromm paused for a second to notice the mammals and said, "I come in peace." When he realised that the animals couldn't have cared less if he came to destroy the entire human race, he moved on.

The other reason that nobody noticed the ship was that it had devices that allowed it to avoid detection from the most advanced forms of radar, sonar and ronar. This was lucky because all of the nations of Earth had just signed a secret treaty that practically nobody knew about to give the USA's Earth Protections Force (EPF) the right to personally handle any alien invasion. And Agent John Bishop, who headed the EPF, saw alien invasions everywhere.

The Utromm moved away from his spaceship. Then he smacked his hand against his forehead. Actually, this was not a visible action because all he was doing was smacking a tentacle against his forehead within the exo-suit. But the meaning of the action was virtually the same. He turned back to his ship and pressed a button. The ship vanished. It's cloaking device — which could only be activated when the ship was not moving — was now active.

He then moved on grabbing a train with some fake Earth money. Earth money was easy to fake with Utromm computers. There was no digital or microscopic verification process making it near undetectable.

He arrived in Mito. Mito is largish town slightly North of Tokyo. It was also where his destination was.

His destination was a very large villa. He knocked on the door. It opened and a manservant stood in front of him.

"Hello, my name is Jaï'ro, I would like to speak to Karai please," said the Utromm in fluent Japanese. Or rather that was how it appeared to the manservent. He was actually using a universal translator, calibrated to send out sound waves in whatever language everybody else around him was speaking.

The manservant paused.

"Mistress Karai does not take visitors."

"Tell her I am here. My name is Jaï'ro. I must speak with Karai. It's urgent."

"I will speak with her."

The villa was just a front. Below the villa was where the reality was. Karai led the Japanese division of the Foot Clan, and while the american version had long sence collapsed, the Japanese Foot was much less dependant on a Shredder, having gotten used to Karai's rule.

The manservant was, very much like the villa, not what he appeared to be. He was Karai's right hand man, and could knock most people out in under ten seconds.

Karai was not doing much. She was reading a book.

"Mistress Karai," said the manservant, "There is a man called...Jaï'ro who wishes to speak to you."

"Jaï'ro, did you say?"

"Yes."

"I take it he is on the front porch of the villa?"

Jai'ro waited impatiently. He did not like Earth very much. It was a backwater planet, practically undeveloped. The most impressive piece of technology he had seen so far was the automobiles, but this was hardly a more advanced method of transportation than a horse drawn buggy.

Still, it was not the least civilized place he had been to. He had lived most of his life in exile. Revolutionary leaders tend to lead such lives. His revolutionary group was called The Red Surge. He was it's leader. He had finally managed to make his way undetected to the planet Utromm, reffered to by the bastards in government as "The Utromm Homeworld", when he recieved news that made him realize the neccessity of travelling to Earth.

The revolution was on, and all those able would have to come and participate. And that included Karai. It also inclueded some unlikely suspects.

The door opened, and this time it was Karai.

"I take it you bring important news Jaï'ro." They had met once before, at the time when Oruku Sake had been put on trial and Karai had agreed to bring her news if anything happened to her father.

"Yes, Karai, very important news. We may be able to bring your father back."

AN: Ah...don't you just love a good cliffhanger. Next chapter we go to the Turtles