Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The New Mutants

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Chapter 1: The Purple Mutagen

It's another Normal Day in New York, apparently, what with the Purple Dragons loose, Police and people still helpless, that kind of thing.

Timothy Jones, 20 years old, was walking towards the Saki building. He had business to discuss with Uroko Saki, the owner the building. He had a determined look on his face. He had called ahead of time, and was supposedly being expected. Suddenly, a bunch of thugs jumped out to attack him. Timothy had very little combat practice, but he was able to hold them off for a good 20 minutes before he started to tire.

Meanwhile, A young Half-American ninja, Goro Shimizu was walking by the same building. As soon as he got close to the building, he noticed the attack. He could tell that the Purple Dragons weren't your average thugs. They were more of "Plain-Clothes Ninja". He tried to help Timothy, but after about 2 hours, he too was overwelmed by them.

Newscrews caught the kidnapping on camera, including part of both the young men's valiant effort at trying to fight them off. What they didn't know is that they wouldn't be taken too far from the site of the battle...

Meanwhile, the Turtles, Their Master Splinter and their crocodilian friend Leatherhead had viewed the abducting on TV, as well as Uroko's so called "Statement" that he won't rest until the Purple Dragons are brought to justice. This of course, disgusted our mutant heroes.

"I can't believe we know what's REALLY going on, but we can't tell anyone because of what we are!", Raph complained.

"...I know Raph, but that doesn't mean we can't stage a rescue," Leo stated, "It it's alright with you, Sensei."

"I shall allow you to do this rescue, Leonardo. I recall one of the young man's fighting styles. It's identical to a friend of my Master Yoshi's."

"So, you mean, he may have been trained by that friend, right?", Donny concluded.

"Correct, Donatello. The Man's name was Genryusai, but I can't quite remember the name of his fighting style."

"...Well, we'd better hurry, there's no telling what the Shredder will do to those three," Leo stated.

Goro's POV

"Damn... Master is NOT going to like this," I said as I came to. I looked around and noticed I was in some sort of clear cell. It wasn't glass, as I couldn't shatter it. Nor was it plastic, as it didn't FEEL like Plastic. It felt more like Ki or electronic energy. It even seemed to be glowing. The young man I tried to help was in a normal barred cell. Probably because he wasn't a martial artist... I could tell by his lack of a fighting dicipline... I then noticed animals in the cages too. One cage just had a brown wolf. Mine had a Turtle, and the young man's had a Lion..

"Welcome my friends!", a sinster voice said.

"Uroko Saki?", I questioned.

"So, your master told you about me," the man said, "But please, call me the Shredder."

"...Not really. I just heard your voice on TV once," I shot back. Honestly, I hadn't heard about him from Master Guy... Did they know each other? "What the hell are you trying to do to us?"

"You'll see soon enough, Bushin Ninja."

A Strange Purple Gunk was poured all over us as the Lion and the Turtle were pulled into a trap door in the wall... I noticed that the Wolf was getting covered in green gunk instead... I then started to feel dizzy, and collapsed...

Normal POV

The Turtles and their pal Leatherhead had snuck into the Uroko Saki building - no big problem, as they've done it before. They knew that the two guys they saw on TV were being held here somewhere. They figured they'd be somewhere close to the roof floor, but not at it, otherwise, they'd be able to figure out where they are if they ever escaped.

"Are we there yet?", Mikey asked again.

"WE DON'T KNOW, MIKEY!", Raph yelled, obviously pissed... but what else was new?

"Actually, I think we found it," Don said.

The 5 Mutants snuck into the room, only to find that the humans they were looking for aren't human anymore...

Timothy's POV

I was in a sort of shock, as everything had became extremly hot. I could see my arm was totally covered in orange fur. The cool part tho was that I was definitly stronger. I could just feel it. I heard the door slam open, and five collective gasps. Turning toward the Door I saw... Four Turtles and a Crocodile. But they were all human-preportioned. "This.. .has definitly been an interesting day," I quipped. That's when I realized how deep my voice had became...

The... Mutants, I guess, saw that I was the only one in the room concious... The one in Blue Spoke Up, "Can you get out? yours is the only cell with bars. The others seem to be in some sort of forcefields."

I shrugged, and tried pulling at the bars. They easily broke off. "...That was a bit TOO easy, it's like they were about to fall off anyway," I mentioned, as I walked out of the cage. I mentally noted that it was suspicious, but shrugged it off.

I couldn't quite remember what I was doing heading towards this building, so I knew of nothing better to do other than rescue the other guy and the now humanoid wolf.

The Purple Bandanna'ed Turtle spoke up, "I need to hack in, but it seems you need three people at once to work these consoles... There's Leatherhead and I are two, but..."

"I can give it a try, but I'm no scientist, but I did learn a bit of hacking from friends of mine", I volunteered.

The crocodile, obviously the Leatherhead that the turtle spoke of, spoke, "Alright. Get by the console."

A while of hacking, and we finally got the barriers down. Both the Wolf and the Ninja were unconcious, and mutated as well. I sighed, and went to move some of my hair out of my eyes, when I noticed it was a mane... I remained quiet about it, but I was cursing my luck. Even people I don't even KNOW think I'm lazy...

Soon, the Now-Turtle Ninja and the Now-Humanoid Wolf awoke.

"Welcome Back", I said.

"Oww... What-- What happened?", the Ninja questioned.

"Well, let's see, we fought some creeps, got our asses kicked, got gooed and turned into Humanoid Animals."

"Oh that's ni-- WHAT?", He shouted as he looked into a reflective peice of metal, "Oh God! I'm a TURTLE!"

"You say that like it's a bad thing, dude!", The Orange-wearing turtle said.

The Wolf's POV

"WHAT? Oh God! I'm a TURTLE!", was the first thing I heard as I came to...

"You say that like it's a bad thing, dude!", that's the second thing I heard.

I opened my eyes slowly, and noticed that everything was a bit smaller. As I stood up, I noticed--- I was standing up on two paws, "Wha?" THAT also surprised me. I could speak like humans?

"What's with him?", The shell-less lizard asked of the feline.

"I believe he's surprised that he can speak English," The Cat responded, "And understand it."

"I could always understand humans. They just weren't smart enough to understand me," I growled. This pissed the cat and one of the reptiles off.

"WE WERE HUMANS!", they shouted at the same time.

"You think I care? You humans first lock me up, then turn me into a freak. I can never return to my mate now."

"Hey now, I'm just as pissed about this situation as you are," The Reptile who yelled at me just moments earlier snapped, "I can't return to my family or my Sensei, Guy."

"Your what?"

"Sigh I'll explain it on the way out of here. We don't want to be attacked by swarms of---"

Suddenly alot of strange people busted in.

"---goons..."

"Ya' had ta' open your big mouth!", one of the other reptiles shouted.

Normal POV

Timothy swore, "Damn it!", he shouted as the enemies started to swarm the room.

He felt his rage pent up, and couldn't hold it in anymore. All the events of the day had taken it's toll on the now-leonine 20-year old. To him, everything turned red that instant. He couldn't control himself as he ended up ripping through (and killing) over half of the Foot Soldiers. The Wolf was doing the same, but it came naturally to him. Leatherhead also fought savagely, but he tried not to kill the foot.

The Turtles battled with their Ninjitsu prowess to beat the Foot Clan. Leo with his Katana Blades, Mikey with his Nunchakus, Don with his Bo Staff, Raph with his Sais, and Goro using Tonfa he swiped frome one of the Fallen Foot. However, they weren't very strong, and eventually broke during battle. Soon they were all defeated...

With the danger gone, Timothy calmed down. He saw the dead bodies, and then looked at his paws. They were covered with blood. Eyes wide with shock, he fell to his knees. "Wh--What... What did I...?"

"Ya' killed 'dem, dat's what ya' did!", Raphael shouted.

Again, Timothy's temper flared. He whapped Raphael upside the head, "I've only known you for about 4 Minutes, and I already hate your attitude, red."

The two started to glare, until Leonardo pulled them apart, "Now's not the time, you two. We have to get out of here before Shredder arrives."

"The Shredder? Who's that," Timothy queried.

"The Shredder is the guy who did this to you."

"You mean Saki Uroko," Asked Goro.

"Yes. And he's not human either," responded Donatello.

"I kinda' figured that out by his aura. It was coming from his stomach area, rather than resonating off his whole body."

"Umm... Yeah... Well, we've better get out of here," Timothy said as he grabbed the brown wolf by the arm.

"Hands off, cat. I can find my own way out," The Wolf Snarled as he snatched his 'paw' away from Timothy.

"Look, we don't have time to argue with you, we've got to go, and we've got to go NOW. Besides not all humans are that way," Goro argued.

"Cowabunga! Let's go dudes!", Mike shouted.

Timothy shushed him, "Knock it off, you'll alert whatever other guards there are."

Eleven minutes later, the group had escaped... Neither Timothy nor the Wolf noticed that some of the mutagen had been stuck in their fur. While they rested, their sweat allowed the mutagen to easily fall of into puddles. Though they weren't glowing deeply, they still had the same tint of colors that the original mutagen had...

A Few more blocks away, the Wolf decided to seperate from the others...

"--Look, I thank you and all, but, Now I have no place to go.. I think I'll stay around here...", the wolf stated.

"First, borrow what's left of my jacket. It'll cover up what you are from humans, okay?", Timothy offered.

"Not like it's gonna help," Raphael snidely remarked.

Timothy growled at the offending turtle.

The wolf noticed how much like his family the lion was. He smiled as good as he could an accepted that, indeed,

SOME humans weren't so bad...

"Thank you," he said, "I hope we shall meet again someday, Lion."

"Timothy... The name is Timothy."

"...Okay... Timothy," The Wolf responded as he and Timothy shook... paws.

As they walked off, the puddles seemed to regain some of their glow... as if awaiting something...

"You live WHERE?", Timothy roared.

"Don't shout, please," Mike eeped out.

"Sorry, I guess I'm not used to how loud my voice gets now."

"Don't worry, the lair is state of the art. We just didn't want to attract attention, so we took the sewer route," Donatello stated, "Anyway, Leatherhead had to go to his place."

"Yeah, too bad. He seemed to control his anger better than me... I need to learn how he does that... I hate killing."

The turtles were silent as they finally made it to the entrance of the lair...

Goro's POV

We were in the back of the group, so neither Timothy nor I could be seen by whoever their mysterious 'sensei' was.

"Welcome back, my sons. Was your venture successful?"

"Somewhat, sensei," Leonardo stated.

"What do you mean, Leonardo?"

Leonardo motioned for us to move forward. Gulping, I took a step forward, as did Timothy, minus the gulping. Seems like the leonine transformation increased the strength of his spine.

Timothy's POV

Okay, to say I was surprised would be an understatement. I expected a human or another turtle. Not a rat. Guess life is full of surprises. A sideways glance at Goro had his expression mirroring mine.

"Surprised?", the rat chuckled.

"Oh no, I'm absolutely used to seeing rats the size of humans," Goro deadpanned.

I rolled my eyes, and then I just remembered that I forgot to ask something, "Uh... I didn't get your name... Mister...?"

"You may call me Splinter."

"I see... Well, I'd like to keep chatting, but for the strangest reason, I'm exausted...," I yawned.

"Leonardo, show him to the bedchambers."

"Yes, Sensei," the turtle responded.

"Looks like life has just gotten interesting," I quipped as I followed the turtle who wore blue.

Next Time:

Timothy remembers his real reason for being at the Saki building. Another infiltration of the building is underway as the Turtles help their new friend locate one of HIS friends...