Chapter One: Birth of Soon to Be Heroes
New York City 2001
In the streets of New York, a tall Japanese man walked out of a pet shop on a bright sunny day carrying a tub containing four baby turtles. The man walked down the street minding his own business. Suddenly the man came to a halt as he noticed something strange, two or three men dressed in all black entering an alley. He curiously followed them to this alley where he hid and watched them. He saw these men all having a sword holstered on their back and saw one carried a huge tube containing green goo. The man was intrigued yet concerned about what he was seeing. The man thought hard about the actions he was planning to accomplish and took a deep breath in. With his confidence built he went and slowly walked into the alley whilst the three man had their backs facing him. Suddenly without time to react the three guys turned to face him and he saw they had red rims around their eyes. They ran at him but he ducked and successfully uppercut one of them which knocked him into the other two. The one holding the tube let go of it and it flew in the air quickly followed by it landing and shattering on the ground. The man watched as the green goo surrounded him and he moments later heard the sounds of a rat which ever so shortly after scurried across the green goo. The man all of a sudden fell onto his knees screaming in certain pain as the tub containing the four turtles dropped and smashed on the floor and the turtles landed into the green goo as well. The man continued to continuously howl and yell in ungratifying pain and mental torture. The man looked at his hands and terrifyingly watched his fingernails begin to grow and his arm hairs began getting thicker and longer. The man continued screaming as his body rapidly became covered in thick fur and his toe nails began to grow. The man fell completely on the floor with his eyes shut for moments. The man however quickly woke up and looked around seeing things normal. Shortly after he looked at his hands and shockingly saw he had become something else…a rat. He began to hyperventilate as he looked at his now hideous self and grieved in sorrow. Whilst grieving, the man quickly remembered his turtles that he'd brought and looked to see them fine. He quickly thought about what to do and he grabbed the turtles and made a run for it.
An hour and a half later the man made his way into the sewer system where after a lot of searching found an abandoned train station to sleep for the night. He laid the turtles down and sat himself to think. He leaned his hand onto something and instantly retracted his hand while shouting, "SPLINTER!" He grabbed his thumb and rubbed it up and down. "Splinter." Said a random voice. The man looked around and saw the four turtles looking different from when he last looked at them. They were now looking more human like as one of them said, "Splinter." In a baby voice. The man dropped his mouth in shock at what he and his turtles had now become. He then suddenly stopped and began to think about things and how he can rebuild his life with his turtles.
From that point on the man now started calling himself Splinter and raised the four turtles who became his sons. When the turtles were about seven he thought about them needing to protect themselves and thought about teaching them.
Over the next years following Splinter taught the turtles ninjutsu which he learnt when he was growing up.
Splinter eventually gave them their own names, Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo as well as different coloured bandannas. Leonardo had blue, Donatello had purple, Raphael had red and Michelangelo chose orange. They all began developing different personalities as they grew older. Leonardo always wanted to come up with a battle plan before striking whereas Raphael was fast to resort or anger and go head on into the heat of battle. Donatello was the strongest in intelligence whilst Michelangelo developed a light hearted and goofy personality. Eventually they were all given their own individual weapons. Donatello was given the bo staff, Leonardo had the double katana, Michelangelo chose the dual nunchucks and Raphael opted for two sais due to his love of close combat.
Splinter trained them and pushed them to their limits since they were mutated enough to walk on two legs and has been doing so for the next fifteen years.
New York City 5th March 2016
In the New York sewer system, the huge abandoned train station now being the turtles lair had a couple of beaten up sofas with a TV, a fridge, a skateboarding area, a couple of mini areas with beds and a bunch of other thrown away things.
All of a sudden Master Splinter walked in, with his long thin moustache and beard/whiskers, and wearing a long midnight blue robe with a cane at his side. "Sons, where are you all?" Splinter asked. Suddenly Leonardo walked in from his room with a surprised expression across his face. "Hello sensei." Splinter all of a sudden heard punches being thrown. He looked to his right and at the edge of the lair saw Raphael throwing multiple punches into a big punching bag. "Sorry sensei I'll be there in a minute." Raphael explained. Out of a different room came Donatello with science goggles covering his eyes and a big piece of metal in one hand and a welding tool in the other with a big, "Are you alright sensei?" towards Splinter. Splinter suddenly felt the missing presence of someone. "Where is Michelangelo?" "I'm right here sensei." Splinter and the other three turtles turned to see Michelangelo skateboarding around on the skate area. "Wahoo this is awesome." Michelangelo yelped as he slid and twirled all over the place. His excitement was short lived when he tripped and fell out the skate area and off the skateboard, landing face first onto the floor. "That's what you get when you think you're actually good at something shell head." Taunted Raphael. Michelangelo in a desperate attempt to come up with a comeback out of nowhere blurted out, "Well at least I don't…err…think I'm all hard." Raphael suddenly swung a massive punch into the punching bag and faced Michelangelo quiet angrily. "What?!" Raphael suddenly began to viciously run at Michelangelo who quickly got up and ran away in the opposite direction. "You're gonna pay for that Mikey." "Raphael calm down, control your anger." Advised Splinter. Raphael took a couple of seconds before calming down and Michelangelo popped his head out from his hiding spot to ensure he won't get hurt.
"So sensei, what is it you want to talk to use about?" wondered Leonardo with a tiny smile across his face. "Well, I want you to do some more training." The turtles all gave slight moans at the thought of more training. "Listen sensei, we're all fifteen now, and since we've trained and trained and trained, I think that maybe we're ready to go up to the surface." Suggested Leonardo, getting a stern stare from Splinter. "I don't know, the world isn't ready for you, to have you protecting them." "Oh come one sensei…please." Begged Michelangelo. The turtles gave Splinter puppy dog eyes whilst Splinter resisted agreement at first. But seconds of puppy dog eyes from his sons later he gave in and said, "Okay fine, you may go up to the surface." The turtles all exchanged quiet celebrations among each other. "But," The turtles turned back to Splinter. ", you must stay in the shadows, and remain vigilant, you must not be seen, nor must you be heard, be a shadow and be nowhere and everywhere at the same time, and most important…be ninjas. Leonardo," Leonardo suddenly make a solid turn facing Splinter. ", you are the most tactical of your brothers, which is leader material. You must lead your brothers to victory against evil." "Wait what?" Raphael interrupted. "You're making him leader?" "Do you have a problem with that Raph?" "Don't give me attitude Leo otherwise I will hurt you." "RAPHAEL! That is enough." Ordered an upset Splinter. "Leonardo has the characteristics of a leader and therefore he must lead the rest of you." "Well I'm not following that goody two shoes clown." Raphael stated, following by getting a smack on the head by Splinter suddenly changing his mind. "Okay…okay I'll follow him." "Remember, stay in the shadows, do not be seen or heard. Good luck my sons, and do me proud." "We will sensei, gear up guys." Ordered Leonardo. So the turtles all went to grab their weapons. Donatello grabbed his bo staff, Michelangelo took his two nunchucks, Leonardo got his two katana, and Raphael grabbed his two sais and they all headed out the lair.