Prologue
Hamato Yoshi sighed peacefully. The Japanese man stared lovingly at the four little infant fresh water turtles crawling freely around the sand filled glass bowl in his hands.
Yoshi had decided to adopt these turtles shortly after he had moved to New York City.
He had moved here from Japan after his wife, Tang Shen and baby girl Miwa were killed by the Shredder. Yoshi was dragged out of his thoughts when a man suddenly bashed into his shoulder.
"Sorry sir." He said.
The man didn't even acknowledge his apology or Yoshi for that matter. The ninja master couldn't help but feel that something was off about him and so he decided to follow.
Hamato Yoshi followed the man to an alley where he saw another complete identical to the one he had bumped into on the street.
Man 2 was handing Man 1 a canister full of some kind of glowing green ooze. Before Yoshi could do anything he accidentally stepped on a rat's tail, causing it to screech loudly.
Yoshi looked up to see that the two men were now standing right in front of him.
"Go no further." Man 1 warned in a lifeless voice that sent cold shivers down Hamato Yoshi's spine.
"We have been seen in this place by you. So this is not the place that will be left by you." Hamato Yoshi looked over his shoulder and saw two more men behind him and were about to grab him.
Before the men could attack him Hamato Yoshi used his ninjutsu training to fight them.
However, in the struggle the canister that Man 2 was holding feel to the ground and splattered it's green ooze all over the floor and on Yoshi. The four men quickly made their escape.
Yoshi felt like his skin was on fire as waves of pain flowed through him.
In his distress he dropped the glass bowl and the four pet turtles were also caked in the ooze when the bowl smashed. When the pain finally vanished he slowly stood up and looked around for the men.
He screamed.
When he saw his reflection in a window instead of seeing a human he saw a giant rat! He now had black, brown and white fur with a droopy white beard, whiskers, a pink tail and a pink nose.
Suddenly there was a faint whimper.
Yoshi looked down at the ground and saw that his pet turtles had grow to the size of human babies, they look about Miwa's age. Two had blue eyes, one had green and the other had brown.
They were huddling together and were whimpering in fear.
Yoshi took pity for the infants and carefully picked them up. He looked around for somewhere to hide until he could think of something else. A manhole cover caught his eye.
The mutant rat quickly lifted it up and jumped into the sewers with the turtles in his arms.
As he walked through the murky waters he glanced down at the infants who were now fast asleep in his arms. "You are safe now my sons."...