Prologue: "Project Renaissance"
"Project Renaissance" originated in the aftermath of World War II following the discovery of a foreign compound found amongst the debris in Nagasaki, Japan. Preliminary research, mediated in secret by the newly established United Nations, detected startling mutagenic properties. And in the wake of the escalating radiation poisoning throughout Hiroshima and Nagasaki, "Project Renaissance" was suspended indefinitely.
Forty years later "Project Renaissance" was reinstated when a Japanese geneticist theorized the mutagenic compound could potentially be used to develop a genetically-intelligent vaccination with the ability to repair the human body at a cellular level. And so, under the strictest confidentiality, "Project Renaissance" incorporated teams of the world's finest biologists, geneticists, and physicians to examine the compound.
After years of rigorous analysis, four infant turtles were injected with a composite of the mutagenic compound and human DNA.
The results were inconceivable.
Two years later "Project Renaissance" had become little more than a tremendously expensive, top secret day care, but there was no denying the mutagenic compound had extraordinary potential. And so another subject was introduced to the project: an infant female lizard they called Mona Lisa.
The next eleven years at "The Lab," as it was casually referred to, had been more or less routine. Hamato Yoshi, Head of Security turned Makeshift Father-figure, had kept his mutant charges busy with martial arts training when they weren't otherwise occupied with schoolwork and their daily examinations.
That had been ten years ago.
Ten years since tragedy had torn their unlikely family asunder.
But sometimes… even the lost find their way home.
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