Disclaimer: I don't own TMNT.

When I slowly opened up my eyes, I couldn't see anything but darkness. It felt like my whole body was totally numb, because of all the pain it had caused. My vision was blurred, and I felt dizzy. Like I was going to throw up any second. A chilly breeze was cutting through the air, as I strained to look around me. It was night. It was already night! I had really no idea what I was doing here… At the beginning I didn't know what was going on at all, but then I came to my senses.

I was tied up in some kind of a lamp post. Even though I tried so hard to get myself out of there, I just couldn't feel any strength in my body to help me, like a robot running out of battery. My breathing was slow and heavy, and I felt sweat all over my body and face. The place was so silent, that I could hear my own heart beating so fast, like it was going to burst out of my chest somehow.

Suddenly I heard a few people talking and laughing too loudly from the distance of the street. I looked at them, but I couldn't discern them, because they were too far away and my eyesight was still sort of blurred. It felt like the whole universe was whirling around me. I barely watched them getting closer and closer to me, but I could tell that and they didn't look very friendly.

When they were close enough, one of them took me by my dirty T-shirt and said: "So… should we finish this?"

While I still didn't recognize his face, I certainly did recognize his voice. I knew who they were. The Yellow Snakes, New York City's street gang. They may sound normal and all, but those guys are assholes. Trust me. They like picking on everybody, beat everyone up until they get sent to the hospital. They steal money and other things from people, and they think it's really cool, but the only ones that believe they're cool is themselves. They see everyone below themselves. I wish I could prove them wrong, but I wish I knew how to fight back as well.

"Okay…" he continued with his raspy and creepy voice. "Let's get rid of you." The only thing I saw was a clenched fist against my face, before everything became black once more.

I had no clue where I was. I looked around, but it didn't look like anything I had seen before. I couldn't recognize it. I tasted puke on my tongue, so I started spitting the grossness out of my mouth.

I looked again into the darkness, and it began to slowly panic me. My dad and sister were probably waiting for me to come home, and I was nowhere to be found. Although I did hear water somehow from far off. Like someone taking a shower? I laughed at myself. Nah, why would anyone be taking a shower in the middle of nowhere?

I decided to get up and follow the sound, even though my whole body was in a strong pain, and everything was pitch-dark. It smelled sort of odd too. But where ever I was, I had to find a way home as soon as possible. After I blacked out, the Yellow Snakes probably took me to some weird place. Man, I wish I could chop their heads off anytime!

As I ran through the darkness, my legs felt more and more heavy each time I took a step. I felt like it was possible for me to just collapse any second any minute. My eyes felt pretty tired too, I could just close them in seconds, while keeping walking and walking.

It felt like hours, before something actually happened. My shoes were wet… there was water where I was stepping. My knees suddenly buckled, so I fell down. I touched the water, looked at it and smelt it. It wasn't just water… It was… I was in the sewers! They had dropped me in the sewers, those bastards. I genuinely needed a way out of here, but everything seemed black, it looked so hopeless! I was walking in circles and I simply couldn't navigate here. I was too tired to keep searching, and it felt like my whole body was screaming: "Pain, PAIN!" My stomach was shouting at me too. It said: "Food, I want food!" I really couldn't take it anymore, and I knew I wasn't getting any place with this.

I didn't know if it was real, when a white light totally blinded me, and disappeared a few seconds later. Right now I just didn't care.

I hope this is some kind of a weird dream, I thought just before my third blackout.

When I woke up the I-don't-know-how-many-times time, I was definitely expecting the sound of water, and the smell of crap everywhere. But when I looked around, I was really, really surprised. I saw furnitures, TV's, computers, snacks, punching bags… all over the place. It was like some sort of a home, but a really different one.

When nothing happened, and the place was wholly silent, I attempted to get up from the couch, but my body hurt too much already, so I literally gave up. I sighed and waited too long, before I discovered a sound coming nearby. My clothes were humid because of the water from the sewers and I literally smelled like shit. I felt cold and disgusting, and I wanted to do something now. I wanted to know what was going on. Where was I? Who had found me and had brought me to their home? As much as my body resisted to move a muscle, I knew that I just couldn't keep lying here until something happened, so I pushed myself to get up and walk towards the sound. When I got closer, the sound turned into voices. It came from a room. I put my best ninja mode on, walked towards the room and slowly leaned up against the door.

Someone was talking. It was hard to hear, but I nevertheless managed to hear some of it.

"... always say we should help people. That guy was totally beaten up and needed our help."

"Blah blah… Look, we can't keep him in our secret lair! I say, we head to the hospital with him and…" a deep, angry voice said.

"I don't think he needs the hospital any longer," a third voice interrupted. It sounded calm. "I checked his wounds and damages. He'll be fine."

Afterwards there were 2-3 seconds of silence, when I heard another voice saying: "You did a good job, my sons. But we should not let many human beings see us. Not everybody can be trusted."

"Yes Sensei," I heard all of them say at the same time. I had no idea where I had ever heard those voices before, but they sounded so familiar, that it all began to be creepy. I moved slowly away from the room and tried to escape, but I nearly tripped over a bag of chips, so it slowed me down. Before I could do anything else, the door went straight open, and we started staring at each other. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

It was... THEM.

"Oh, so you're already up," the one with the purple mask said.

"Hi!" the one with the orange mask began to say and stepped ahead. "We may look like freaks to you, but we found you in the sewers, and you looked pretty bad to be honest, so we brought you home, and eh…"

"Enough, you bonehead!" the red-masked one said and slapped him.

The one with the blue mask stepped forwards, and said: "Hi, I'm Leonardo. This is Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo. And this is our Sensei, Master Splinter."

I felt like my body was immobilized. I couldn't say anything or even do anything, because in front of me, I saw the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and their so-called father, Master Splinter.