A/N: Here's the introduction to the 4 main fan-characters on my TMNT fandom, version one takes place in the original show while version 2 takes place in the new show. This isn't the complete ep. of "Turtle Tracks", it's just in the part where April awakens to find the Turtles. I'll probably write the whole ep. some other time. Well, in the meantime, enjoy! Bug me about a dumb rule in the reviews and I'll gut you like a fish.
Disclaimer: TMNT is owned & (c) Peter Laird & Kevin Eastman and anyone else. The Mutant Fellowship leaders belong to me.
The Fellowship's Out of the Bag.
Version one
The scene fades to the woman from TV, April O'Neil who had fainted some moments ago and now is starting to come around. She looks around and sees some kinda underground lair. She gets up.
April: W-where am I?
She then sees an Anthro rat wearing a magenta robe and holding a china cup.
Rat: Some hot tea?
April: I don't believe this. (faints)
Scene cuts to the Anthro turtles she met before each wearing different color bandana masks.
Turtle in red: I wish she'd stop doin' that.
Turtle in purple: C'mon lady, wake up. (touches April)
April: (Wakes up) Aah!
Turtle in red: Hey, it's tough tryin' to carry on a conversation with ya, y'know?
The Anthro rat come in with a plate of sushi.
Rat: Perhaps some food would aid the young lady's powers of speech.
Once she picks up a piece, the Anthro turtle wearing the orange bandana mask comes in with 3 pans of pizza also 4 pet bowls, 2 pans & 2 bowls in his hands and one pan in his head.
Turtle in orange: Pizza time!
After he said that, 4 Anthro animals come galloping in on all fours, one a gray cat (that's me), a pig, an alligator and a Dalmatian. The orange turtle puts the pizza pans on the small table and the bowls on the floor mats next to it.
Red turtle: Who had the pepperoni & ice cream?
Purple turtle: I want some of the jellybeans & mushrooms.
April hesitantly eats a piece of sushi.
Orange turtle: Hey, gimme a slice of anchovies & peanut butter.
April: This is seriously grossing me out.
Red turtle: She talk, she walks.
Cat: (Mrow?)
April: How can you eat that junk?
Purple turtle: How can you eat raw fish? Bleh.
Pig: Actually, sushi's not completely raw.
Blue turtle: Hold it, you guys. Now April, can you tell us why those men were chasing you around the sewers?
Orange turtle: Yeah, we don't get many humans down here.
April: (Gets out of bed & stands) I was doing a story about a bunch of thefts at a scientific company. Hey, I'm standing here talking to a bunch of talking turtles… & their pet rat?
Pig: Actually madam, ya got it a tad mixed up with the pets.
April: Who the heck are you guys?
Dalmatian: All of us or just the ones who are pets?
Rat: (Places hand on dog's head) Perhaps, it would be better if I explain. The story of my young friends & I was truly the story about a man named Hamato Yoshi.
Flashback, changes to a dojo in Japan, in it, the students use grappling hooks to climb over a wall with Yoshi watching.
Rat narrating: In Japan, there is a ninja clan known as the Foot. Hamato Yoshi was their Shidoshi, teacher of the warrior ways & enlightenment.
Changes to Yoshi's office, he's reading up on art.
Rat VO: Yoshi was a quiet man who loved art.
Fades to him in the dojo with another ninja.
Rat VO: But one student sought to usurp Yoshi's role as leader of the Foot clan.
The student breaks Yoshi's staff with his.
Rat VO: Oroku Saki. Then one day, a master Sensei, a teacher visited the Foot school. And Oroku Saki made his move.
Saki puts a big knife in the wall which also caught Yoshi's robe. When the Sensei & his bodyguards came, everyone bowed but Yoshi wasn't able to being stuck in the wall.
Yoshi: (Grunting)
Bodyguard 1: Impudent dog, bow before our beloved master!
Yoshi pulled out the knife in the wall.
Bodyguard 1: So, you plot to kill our honorable sensei.
Bodyguard 2: Disgraceful. Grr. For this misdeed, you should be banished from the Foot clan altogether.
Bodyguard 1: What say you, all wise Sensei?
Sensei: (Speaks Japanese) I say, throw the bum out.
Fades to New York and comes down to the sewers where Yoshi lived.
Rat VO: In disgrace, Yoshi went to America. Penniless, he was forced to live in the sewers in these underground tunnels, his only friends were the rats.
Yoshi shares with his rat buddies some food. Fades to a boy walking down the street with 4 baby turtles in a glass bowl, he trips and the glass breaks right onto the storm drain. He tried to catch them, but he was too late.
Rat VO: Until one day, some new friends came down the drain.
The 4 turtles landed on Yoshi. Fades to Japan.
Rat VO: Back in Japan, under Oroku Saki's evil leadership…
Some purple ninja guy jumps up high and kicks a vending machine, the sodas come out.
Rat VO: The Foot clan turned into an army of crime.
A whole bunch of them surround this guy with an ice cream cone.
Ninjas: Stick 'em up!
The guy puts his hands in the air and his ice cream falls on his head. Fades to Yoshi at his desk with the turtles.
Rat VO: Back in New York, Yoshi lived happily with his turtles & rats. But then, one day…
Yoshi comes into another room and finds his turtles crawling around in some glowing ooze. Returns to reality where the Turtles, critters, April & our master, the rat are all together.
April: So, Hamato Yoshi found the turtles covered with goo.
Red Turtle: Bingo. Ya get the feeling this is starting to lead somewhere?
Pig: Please continue, Master.
Flashback, Yoshi went to the turtles in the goop, picked them up and tried to clean it off.
Master VO: It was a powerful mutagen. It caused whoever touched it to take the form of whatever animal they had most been in contact with.
Yoshi put the turtles back on the dry ground and backed away. Then, the turtles began morphing & growing.
Master VO: The Turtles started becoming human, they had most recently been in contact with Yoshi.
The turtles became Anthros, as for Yoshi…
Master VO: But Yoshi had mostly been with the rats.
Yoshi turned into an Anthro rat whom is our Master to this day.
April: Then, Hamato Yoshi is…you!
Red turtle: You got a mind like a steel trap, lady.
Dalmatian: Hey, shut up!
Fades to Sensei with some boards, 2 next to him on each side and one in front of him.
Master VO: My 4 wards had nicknamed me "Splinter" for obvious reasons.
He chops the 2 boards on his sides in half and bites in half the one in front. Then cuts to him with a book on the Renaissance.
Splinter VO: I, in turn, named them after my favorite Renaissance painters.
Fades to him teaching the Turtles Ninjitsu who then wore the different color bandana masks.
Splinter VO: I knew the outside world would consider them freaks, so I trained them in the art of Ninjitsu.
Cuts to the purple masked turtle in a bright purple background swishing his Bo staff.
Splinter VO: Donatello, who's simple wooden Bo can disarm any adversary.
Then cuts to the red masked turtle in a red background twirling his Sai.
Splinter VO: Raphael, no weapon on Earth can withstand his Sai.
Cuts to the blue masked turtle in a blue background, he throws up a piece of wood and slices it with his Katana.
Splinter VO: Leonardo, his swordsmanship with the Katana is unmatched.
Then cuts to the orange masked turtle swirling his Nun-chuck.
Splinter VO: Michelangelo, master of the whirling Nun-chuck.
Returns to reality.
Michelangelo: And master of the whirling pizza.
Splinter: And that is how they became…the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
April: Do you know who dumped the mutagen on you?
Leonardo: No, but one day we're gonna find him and force him to make our master human once more.
April then turns to us, the 4 critters.
Cat: (Meows)
April: But where did you guys come from?
Dalmatian: Allow me to tell her.
Alligator Australian accent: No way, mate, you can't tell a story to save your life!
Dalmatian: Can too!
Splinter: Allow me to explain where these 4 came from. First there was a cat…
Flashback of a little house in the suburbs, in front of it was a cardboard box of 5 kittens up for adoption, piece of paper was taped on it saying "Free kittens in need of good homes".
Splinter VO: She was put up for adoption along with her 3 brothers & 1 sister, these kittens were an odd mixture of gray shorthair & Siamese.
The kittens were playing around in the box, one boy was all gray and no black, the second boy was gray with black paws, the third boy was gray with black ears, one girl was tan-ish with a gray face and the other girl was gray with a black tail & a white diamond on her chest.
Kittens: (Mewing)
Splinter VO: One by one, the kittens were taken by young children. Until one was left.
The gray girl kitten with the black tail & white diamond chest was the only one left. Until…
Splinter VO: But she was taken by a mysterious figure and brought to a mysterious place. Then, there was a pig…
Fades to a pig farm in the country, to one particular pigpen.
Splinter VO: In the country, there was one particular piglet.
The piglet is suddenly picked up by another mysterious dude and put in a burlap sack.
Splinter VO: But she was stolen by a thief and brought to the same place as the kitten.
The pig & kitten were next to each other in cages, they meet & become friends.
Splinter VO: Soon after the piglet & the kitten became friends, they were composted to the same mutagen which changed the Turtles & I.
The kitten & piglet laid in their cages after being slathered with the glowing pink goop. Hours later, the 2 awaken and when one of the guys stuck his hands in to get the kitten, she leaped into action.
Kitten: (Yowling)
Guy: Aah!
Splinter VO: The pig & kitten were fortunate to help each other escape.
The kitten leaped up on the pig's cage and was able to undo the deadbolt, the 2 fled for it.
Splinter VO: That also brings us to an alligator…
Fades to the Bronx zoo, in the alligator habitat with one particular alligator.
Gator: (Snoring)
Splinter VO: This alligator lived in the Bronx zoo after being transferred from a reptile house in Sydney, Australia.
The alligator lay sleeping in her habitat, but once she woke up…
Splinter VO: The one fateful day came when she noticed the ooze. Not knowing what it was, she crawled into it.
The alligator crawls into it and by nighttime, she began to change.
Splinter VO: When night came, she also changed into a mutant. Frantic, she fled to the sewer. That brings us now to a dog…
Comes to an alley where a stray Dalmatian pup was scrounging the garbage.
Splinter VO: An abandoned Dalmatian puppy was scavenging for food, but he was less than successful.
Puppy: (Whimpers)
He then spotted the ooze.
Splinter VO: Desperate & colorblind, he found what he believed was food. By morning, he was proven wrong.
In the morning, the pup woke up changed into a mutant.
Puppy: (Yawning)
Comes to reality, briefly with me next to April.
April: So, the 4 animals were changed by the same ooze which changed you guys.
Gator: Right-o.
Flashback of the Dalmatian at a manhole.
Splinter VO: Afraid of certain people, the dog fled into the sewers. That was where he met more like him.
He met up with the cat, pig & alligator in that sewer.
All: (Various animal sounds)
Splinter VO: That was also when they came across more mutants.
They look over and see Donatello & Michelangelo. The cat went up to them.
Cat: (Meow?)
Donatello: Nice kitty-kitty.
She becomes all friendly & cuddly. Soon do the others come. They walk off.
Splinter VO: Thus beginning a new, unbreakable friendship between the 4 new mutants.
Shows them in the lair, watching the Turtles train.
Splinter VO: I knew the outside world wouldn't take as kindly to them. So, they also learn the art of Ninjitsu, they named themselves and found their unique skill.
Shows the pig bashing a wooden wall into a million pieces.
Splinter VO: Phoebe, her head-butt can take down any force.
Shows the alligator chomping some boards.
Splinter VO: Luna, nothing can stand against her jaws of steel.
Shows the cat slashing a sandbag, its stuffing pours out.
Splinter VO: Stella, her razor-sharp claws are unbeatable.
Shows the Dalmatian, kicking and pawing.
Splinter VO: Blazer, his bark is worse than his bite.
Comes to reality.
Blazer: It's actually 50/50.
Splinter: And that is how they became… The Fellowship of Mutants.
April: Who left the ooze that changed Blazer & Luna? And who exactly change Stella & Phoebe?
Stella: We don't know, probably the same guy who left the stuff in the sewer.
Luna: But once we find him, we're gonna make him a shrimp on the Barbie.
Michelangelo: So, what do ya think?
April: I think you committed those robberies.
Blazer: What?
April goes off for the exit, but Donny & Blazer stop her.
Donatello: Uh-uh-uh-uh. Wait a minute, did I miss something here?
Phoebe: Ain't ya up on current event, lady? We just saved your life.
April: The thieves were ninjas.
Michelangelo: Yeah, but were they turtles?
Blazer: Let alone any other animal.
April: It doesn't matter, you're still news.
Donatello: No way. You put us on TV and every scientist in town will be after us.
Phoebe: Yeah, do their friggin' medical tests on us. (shudders) Gives me the willies just thinkin' 'bout it.
Raphael: We spent half our lives floating around in a glass bowl, and we ain't goin' back.
Donatello: And that means you're staying with us until we can work this out.
End of version 1.
Maybe I'll do the whole ep. sometime. Stay tuned for Version 2 which probably won't be as complex as this one.