Hey, everyone and welcome to my first fic. I'm rather new at writing these stories so bare with me, and please give constructive criticism on how to improve it. TMNT 2003 belongs to its legal owners, I only own my OC's.
Chapter One
New Faces, New Foes?
Looking out over the city of New York in the thunderstorm, Raphael was not in a good mood this night. It was Thanksgivings and he and his brothers were on patrol, while Monalisa was back at the lair. April asked her to help with preparations for the dinner, and keeping Casey out of the kitchen.
He didn't like being away from her, and the bad weather wasn't helping. On top of that there were nobody he could went his frustration at, no Foot ninja, no Purple Dragons, not even a simple thief. Luckily Leonardo had decided to have the brothers split up for tonight's patrol, so Raphael didn't have to put up with Michelangelo and his jokes. As the time went by the rain stopped, so things were starting to look up.
As Raphael jumped across the rooftops he heard a scream.
"AAAH! HELP!"
He looked over the edge and saw a woman standing further down the street and someone running with a purse even further ahead. He couldn't get a good look at the perpetrator because of the distance but he knew what was going on.
"Purse-snatcher." Raphael thought "You picked the wrong night." He saw how the thief ran into an alley, and ran after over the roofs. After a few minutes he arrived at the alley and looked down to see two people talking, one of which had the purse.
Even though he couldn't hear what they said, he did get a decent look at them. Booth had trench coats, hats and some sort of gloves in green and red respectively. One of them was about the same size as April and had long brown hair hanging down the back, Raphael assumed that it was a woman.
She also had some kind of pipe-like object hanging on her back. The one that was holding the purse, however was the one that caught Raphael's attention, over two meters tall and with broad shoulders, he was quite sure that this one was a man. He also noticed that the large guy had a hump or something on his back.
After sizing up the two, he jumped down via the fire escapes and windows until he landed on the ground blocking of the exit to the street, confident that he could take on a pair of simple thieves. Confident and bored enough to ignore Leonardo's orders to call the others if something were to happen.
The pair turned towards the turtle as he landed, surprised but seemingly not shocked by Raphael's appearance, but as he couldn't see their faces due to the shadows of the hats, he wasn't certain but didn't care.
"Hand over the bag!" he snarled at the two. They looked at each other for a second then back at the turtle, not showing any sign of cooperating.
"You must be stupid to think I would give it to you." the large man said in a defiant tone. This pushed Raphael past his limit and he jumped at him, determined to take the big guy down fast. However, before the impact, the girl dashed in between and grabbed the turtle's left wrist and, using the momentum of the jump, threw him past her accomplice hitting his shell against a dumpster. In his head Raphael cursed his short temper, remembering how a similar thing happened during training just the other day.
To his surprise the two ran past him, further into the alley. He knew that it only led to an old basketball court with no other exit save for a manhole near the end of the alley.
"Now I got them" he said as he stood up and chased after them.
From across the street Michelangelo, who had just arrived, saw how Raphael ran after the two and picked up his shell cell, pressing a few buttons.
"Leo. Donnie. Three guesses what Raph has gotten himself into." he said with a slightly amused voice.
"Oh, I don't know. Trouble, perhaps?" answered Donatello.
"Give our brainy brother a cookie. That is the right answer!"
"Guys, focus." replied Leonardo with a determined tone getting short apologies from his younger brothers. "Mikey. Where are you and where is Raph?"
"He's heading to the old basketball court on West side, chasing some dudes. I'm on the other side of the street"
"Okay, follow him. Donnie and I are on our way"
Meanwhile, the twosome entered the court and soon after came the angry turtle. The court was consisted of two large wooden poles on opposite sides with nets. Apart from that there were lampposts in each of the four corners and a couple of trashcans near the entrance. It was surrounded by the building's walls towering some twenty meters, with no fire escapes or similar, just bare walls. Seeing as they had no other options, the large guy handed the purse to the girl who in turn placed it in one of the larger pockets on the coat.
"If you want a fight, you got one, turtle." he said as he turned towards Raphael while raising his fists.
"Bring it!" Raphael almost shouted as they charged each other and started fighting. Raphael was astonished by how fast the guy was, being able to dodge and block almost all of the turtle's punches and kicks. At the same time Raphael had to do the same as several attacks got very close to hitting him, judging by how hard it was to block those, in terms of force, he knew that this guy was very strong. He wanted to draw his sais but never got the chance, as he would get punched right in the face if he didn't keep up.
"Raph!"
Everyone looked at the alley to see three more turtles running towards them, each with some weapon of their own. Katanas, staff and nunchaku respectively.
Leonardo and Raphael exchanged looks for a split-second, after which the later did a back flip drawing his weapons and preparing to re-engage the twosome, this time together with his brothers.
"Okay. Raph, you and me take the big guy. Donnie, you and Mikey take the other one." Leonardo said to the turtles, all nodding in agreement. Seconds later they charged their targets with Donatello using his staff to do a pole jump towards the female, while Leonardo swung his swords at the larger male. Before either attack connected the two coated individuals jumped sideways and backwards respectively, toward each other in the center of the area with an impressive height of four meters, landing on their feet as if it was an ordinary jump.
"What the shell?!" exclaimed Michelangelo, which was what all of them was thinking.
"How could they do that?"
"No normal human can jump that high unaided." said Donatello.
"I'm not sure they're even human at all." Leonardo replied and turned his eyes at the strange duo.
"What are you?" he shouted to them.
"It seems that we've revealed to much. Should we make another attempt to escape?" the smaller of the two asked with a clearly female voice, confirming Raphael's assumption from when he first saw them.
"No, they would only chase us again. And they probably know the city better than us. I say that we fight them without these coats hindering us." the large man said without looking at her, keeping the turtles in view.
After a short moment she removed the pipe-like object from her back and quickly took of the coat and hat revealing her true identity, making the four turtles gasp in shock.
"What the shell?" Donatello said, "Monalisa?"
Raphael just stared at the humanoid lizard for several seconds before coming to his senses.
"That's not Mona!" he yelled. He knew his mate, and whoever that lizard was, she wasn't Monalisa. But the likeness was creepy to say the least.
She was a few inches taller and had a more intense green color on her scaly skin, with the exceptions of her tail, that was a very dark green, and her stomach that was yellow. The yellow part ran on the underside of the tail as well and the dark green ran over her back all the way up to the back of her neck. Her feet had two toes, similar to the turtles, and her hands had only four fingers unlike Monalisa who had five.
The hair, that was tied up in a high ponytail with a hair tie in the same red as Raphael's mask, had a more reddish brown color and was slightly curly giving it a more wild look. Some of the hair was shorter and hung over parts of her forehead.
The eyes had a grayish green color on the outer edge of her iris with the same intense green as her skin around the pupil, separating the two colors there was a wide brown area. They were nothing like Monalisa's blue eyes. Her face reminded of the turtle's own but without the beak.
She was wearing a pair of short red tights, a belt with a dagger strapped on either sides.
A tight red t-shirt with a wide turtleneck covered her upper body, but was short enough to leave a fifteen to twenty centimeters gap, showing her stomach and still covered her breasts, which indicated that she probably was human at some point. Protective leather pads were worn on elbows and knees, and she had slim leather armlets on her wrists. Leather wrappings extended down from right above her ankles, covering her heels but leaving the rest of her feet bare.
"It's a clone!" Michelangelo screamed terrified with his hands, still holding his nunchaku, towards his head. At any other time that statement, or any statement referring Sci-fi, would have earned him a slap in the back of his head by Raphael, but this time it actually seemed possible especially considering what the turtles had seen in the past and was seeing now.
Noticing their reactions, she hung her ''pipe'' on her back and drew her daggers before getting into a fighting stance. It looked like it had some form of martial arts as base mixed with standard fist fighting.
After letting out a light chuckle, her friend removed his coat and hat as well, giving the turtles another shock.
He too was an humanoid reptile like his female friend, but still looked radically different from her.
His scales had a more rough look to them making him look a bit like Leatherhead they met way back, however they colored red, a slightly darker red than Raphael's mask and the female's clothes.
The feet looked like those of a T-Rex with the heels of a human, having three toes each ending with a large black claw instead of a nail, he also had a tail with short spikes near the tip.
His hands had five fingers with thick, sharp, black nails, and his head resembled that of a komodo dragon, only with a shorter and more beak-like snout, sharp teeth showing as he grinned. Two growths resembling horns extended backwards from the left and right side of the back top of his head, with more smaller horns on the sides. The eyes were not human at all, the whites were golden and the irises bright red with vertically slit pupils. Bat-like wings unfolded from his back, explaining the hump Raphael saw earlier.
He was dressed in only a pair of black shorts or trunks with a belt and had a sword attached by a hilt to the belt on the left side. The handle of the sword allowed for using either one or two hands and the blade was about a meter long, twenty centimeters broad and an inch thick, giving it a medieval European look but was void of any kind of markings.
Using his right hand the "dragon-man" drew the sword, gave it a swing that whistled, indicating that it was sharp, and held it horizontal in front of him. Michelangelo gulped.
"This could get ugly." he thought as the real battle was about to begin.
A bit longer than I thought it would be, but I'm rather pleased with how it turned out. In the next chapter the battle will continue and answers regarding the new strange reptiles will be given.
Note: The female is very similar to the Monalisa used by Bloodrayne666 in her fics (who will appear next chapter, with Bloodrayne666's permission), but was created for other use more than a month before I discovered this site or her fics.