Chapter 1
Young Lara stood alone in the streets of New York. She watched people pass by longingly. She had lost her parents to an enemy called the Kraang. And she had no friends left. Lara sighed, and continued her walk to the farmer's market. When she arrived, she looked at all the food she couldn't buy. Wishing she had money, and she was hungry. Her stomach rumbled.
"Excuse me?" a voice said from behind her, startling her. "Are you going to buy any food?" it was a red headed teenager, wearing a layered yellow football jersey.
"Oh, no." Lara answered. "I have no money."
"Oh, so your parents are buying the food?" Lara looked at her toes out of shyness and sadness.
"Oh, no ma'am." She said softly. "I'm an orphan." The older girl looked surprised.
"You are?" she asked softly. "That's so sad. I'm so sorry."
"It's not your fault." Lara answered sourly. "It's mine."
"Your fault?" the girl asked, obviously confused. "How?" suddenly, a huge pink brain-shaped alien plummeted down from the sky and landed In between the girls. Both the older girl and Lara screamed.
"Aha!" said the ugly pink thing. "You," it pointed to Lara. "Are coming with us!" Lara stood frozen in fear.
"That's how!" Lara yelled. The older girl was clearly confused, but grabbed Lara's hand, and ran with her toward an ally nearby.
"By the way," said the older girl. "My name's April."
"I-I'm Lara." She answered. "Where are you taking me?"
"I know you probably don't trust anybody right now." April said. "But can you trust me and the friends I'm going to bring you to?" Lara nodded. "Good." Said April. "Come on!" April led Lara down the dark ally, and took her to a sewer cover, and lifted the cover off of the hole.
"Come on. Down here is where my friends live." April said.
"Down there?" Lara asked doubtfully. "What boys or girls would live down there?"
"Look," April sighed. "They're not humans. They're mutants."
"Mutants?" Lara gasped. "I can't go with them! Mutants killed my parents! How do I know they weren't the ones that killed them?"
"I promise they weren't." April answered, looking nervously behind her. "You said you would trust me." Lara thought for a moment.
"All right. You win. I trust you, and your, friends" April smiled, led Lara down the hole, and they both disappeared within the sewers. Unaware that Lara's troubles would soon become the turtle's own.