TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES- Mutants and Other Strangeness
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is property of Mirage Comics and Viacom. This is an attempt to create an "Ultimate TMNT" by combining elements of the 1987, 2003, and 2012 series, along with bits and pieces of related properties.
Chapter 1: Nine to Five
"Hello? Anyone home?"
April O'Neil glanced around the main room of her apartment to see it apparently deserted.
"Irma? I'm back from work-"
There was a soft sound of sobbing from a far corner of the room.
Yep, she's here.
April set down a paper grocery bag and strode to the old couch that sat near the TV set. Beneath a mass of blankets and clutching a quart-sized tub of ice cream was her roommate, one Irma Langinstein. Tissues littered the floor in front of the couch.
"You okay?"
Irmaa loudly blew her nose.
"No, I'm not! I can't believe he'd be that much of a cad- showing me up at our dinner date, and then I find out he's been cheating on me for months!" she bawled, tears running down her face in abundance.
April took a deep breath.
"Irma, it's not the end of the world. Just because that Vernon guy was a USDA grade-A SOB doesn't mean you have to sit around watching Outer Limits reruns while going through…"
April's eyes noticed an abundance of emptied ice cream containers of varying sizes lying on the floor.
"Irma, tell me you didn't empty the freezer of ice cream. Because I had a tough day at work-"
"What kind of tough day?"
By this point, April had gravitated over to the freezer, noticing that Irma hadn't dared touch the cookies and cream.
"Let's start from the beginning. First, my train had a surprise shakedown visit from the Purple Dragons, meaning I was late for work. Then when I got to my lab station, Doctor Stockman told me to report to the main conference room for a meeting with his investors, and that took up the entire day. Oh, and I found out that the entire team on the Mouser project is going to be working all this weekend to meet the deadline!"
After this brief tirade, April sighed in frustration.
"You wanna do a girl's night out? It'd do us both some good."
"Anywhere you want to go?"
"There's a nice little club near the TGRI building called Ribofunk. I hear they've got good drinks."
Irma perked up.
"Well, let's go there."
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Before you ask, April and Irma are just roommates. And in case you're wondering about the title, it's a reference to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness, which is a pen-and-paper RPG first published by Palladium in 1985 (and thus based on the original Mirage comics- even featuring art by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird themselves) and is long out of print.