TMNT The Final Battle

a/n: Last of the TMNT as humans series that started with Donatello's Discovery. Set 10 years into the future from the last one, other than the ending 'cause that was just one of those life is going great after the life changing event scenes. Last time I checked this was still fanfiction, so yeah I don't own the TMNT, someone else does blah, blah, blah. The word for this chapter is hairdryer. Enjoy! :)

Chapter 1

Leonardo was walking down the streets to pick his son Sean up from school, he was seven and the spitting image of himself. He was holding the hands of a grey-eyed little girl called Alia, she was three and was born blind. It was just a normal week-day for him, only Raph had called and asked him to pick up his son Avery for him, Avery was also seven and had the same birthday as his cousin. "Daddy, where's uncle Raphie?" Alia asked her father.
"He is busy working sweetie. Big jump, there's a puddle in front of you." The little girl jumped forward over the puddle. Leo was worried about Raph, whenever he would ask him to pick up Avery it meant that he was in some kind of trouble. And as he was a federal agent working with the FBI, Leo knew that the problem was about someone the hothead had put in prison.

He had arrived at the school just in time. A lot of the other parents didn't trust him because he was a single parent, but he couldn't see the problem after all he was raised by a single father too as were his siblings and they all turned out great. He was a History Professor at New York University, Raph worked for the FBI, Sam was a neurosurgeon, Don worked as an engineer at Cal-tech University in California, and Mikey owned and ran his own michelin star restaurant near Broadway. And their father raised them by himself with no help.

Across town Raphael was dealing with his own problems. He was following a lead on a case and was pretty sure that he had found the perpetrator responsible for shooting the brain of an old man across the floor. The fact that the man was shooting at him was a pretty big giveaway, but he loved his work and felt that he had found his true calling. And besides Avery loved to hear about all of the crimes that his daddy solved. It connected them.

He put a well aimed shot into his brain and called it in. His case was solved, he just hoped that this guy survived long-enough to be prosecuted. He picked up his phone and dialled his older brother. "Leo, can you collect Ave for me. I got held up in the office."
"Your office is the streets Raphael. I'll get him and take him with me to Sensei's dojo." Leo responded laughing a little. "Just meet us there when you are done. And tell Sam I said hi."
"Who said I have to go to the hospital?"
"I know that you do, if not for yourself, then to make sure the person you shot survives. I gotta go and collect Aly." Leo said goodbye and hung up on his little brother. Raph hadn't realised it but he had climbed into the ambulance while he was speaking to Leo.

They got to the hospital and rushed the guy out of the ambulance. "Get the neurosurgeon that's on call. This guy needs emergency surgery in his brain to remove the bullet. Thanks for calling this in Agent Hamato." Raph nodded and waited with the perpetrator. He heard a call for the on call neurosurgeon and his sister appeared before his eyes.
"Who did you shoot at this time Raphael?" She asked joking slightly. She never even gave him time to answer. "What do we have?"
"We have a twenty six year old caucasian male with a bullet in his brain sis."
"We need an OR prepped for emergency exploratory surgery to both find and recover the bullet in his brain." She stopped yelling orders at nurses and orderlies and looked at her big brother. "I take it you want to wait until he is out of surgery. I hope you have someone to pick up my nephew."
"Leo's got it covered." Sam nodded and began to help the nurses to prep him for surgery. With the way she was constantly on her feet at work, you would never believe that she had a heart condition.
"Sis will you take it easy all ready. You don't want to relapse."
"I'm not going to relapse after ten years. I have to work. It isn't going to be a closed surgery you can go up to the viewing gallery if you want. He's the state's problem now anyway." The orderlies pulled the young man away to surgery after putting him in a chemical induced coma to reduce the chances of brain damage.

In what the ex-turtles had dubbed the restaurant. Mikey was running around like a chicken with it's head on fire. It was that god-awful time between the lunch and dinner rushes that was spent prepping for the later dinner service and making sure that the place was clean enough to eat out of.

He had no idea that an old enemy had come into the eating area looking for him. "I would like to speak to the owner of this fine establishment please." He said to one of the waiting staff.
"Michelangelo. There is someone here to see you." Said the waiter. The young ninja turned around from where he was talking to his manager about the freshness of the produce.
"Hun, what are you doing here?" He asked.
"I wanted to talk to you about an upcoming event in the city, Michelangelo. I haven't seen you since you were a teenager. Have the rest of your family changed as much as you have freak?" He asked. Mikey looked around as he cringed at the nickname that Hun had given them when they were only 15.
"What event?" He asked.
"Just one that could cost your entire family everything. Pass on the message. For twelve years we have been searching and now we have finally found you." He said. "It feels almost anticlimactic now that it has happened. The chase was fun though."
"Figures it would take you over a decade to find us man-mountain." Mikey responded fiercely he was not one to get pissed off, but considering he was now a master of ninjitsu he was not very nice to play with when he was angry.

In california, Don was setting up his lab for another day's work. He was going to build a laser that was strong enough to send a message to another galaxy that he believed had a planet that could harbour life. Sure he was miles away from his family and had missed seeing his two nephews turn seven, but he was still loving his life enough to stay in California. It was then that he had received a video call from Mikey. He pressed the answer key on his desktop computer. "What is it Michelangelo? I'm busy."
"How soon do you think you can come home?" He asked. "We've been discovered. Hun came into the restaurant and said that there is going to be an event in the city that could cost us everything." Don's eyes bulged out of his head.
"Are you sure?"
"He said that after twelve years finally finding us has been anticlimactic."
"Is he still there?"
"No he just left. Hope he never shows up here again. He is still the leader of the purple dragons."
"Tell the others and I will see about taking a sabbatical, the university know that Sam has a heart condition, so I will say that she is sick and I have to go home. See you soon little brother." MIkey and Donnie both hung up and Don leaned back on his swivel chair and began to run his hands through his short hair. This was too much to process in the morning and before coffee number ten. He decided to distract himself with his work and continued to engineer his laser.

ONE WEEK LATER

Don got off the plane in JFK airport in New York thinking that it was good to be home. Then remembered why he had come home in the first place. Not exactly why he wanted to come home, but it was a good reason to visit his family.

He looked around at the old neighborhood and smiled at all the fun times he had had with his brothers there. He pulled out his phone. "Hey Leo I'm outside the lair, just heading down now. See you and the others soon. Can't wait to see the kids. Bye." He hung up realising that it was just a message he had left. He went down in the old stone elevator still typing at his iphone. He had never come home to such awful circumstances before.

He smiled as he put down his suitcase beside the old wall of televisions. The entertainment center that he and Mikey were so keen to put up the second they had moved into the lair. He jumped on to the couch. He would start working when the others got here.

They didn't arrive until after 5 and even at that Mikey and Samie were still working. "How long until the other two get here?" He asked eager to start.

"Mikey will be working until at least 8 o'clock and Sam won't get off her shift at the hospital until another neurosurgeon eventually shows up for his." Raph got a text and looked down at his phone. "That was her. She said that she is really starting to get wound up at the fact that the 'useless bonehead' who was meant to be on-call tonight hasn't shown up yet and that she will be here the second she gets the chance." Donnie sighed and wondered is he was going to get to start working on the reason why he had been forced to come home in the first place.

Sam eventually did get out of the hospital. And her scrubs were covered in the blood of a kid that had run into a nail that was attached to a wooden board, with his head. She stitched the kid up and then signed off because the other surgeon had shown up. She was muttering about him under her breath as she cleaned her glasses. "Sam do you want to talk about what's troubling you?" Mikey asked as he walked in himself.

"Do I look like I want to have a conversation Mikey?" She asked staring down her younger brother.

"No, but you were muttering and you only do that when you are really upset." Mikey defended himself.

Avery ran up to them. "Can I watch cartoons?" He asked pointing at the remote that sat on the coffee table.

"Sure thing kiddo." Mikey said lifting him on to his lap.

"Mikey, Samie do not let him watch anything. Avery bedtime come on. Daddy has a story to tell you." Raph called out to his son. Avery didn't want to go to bed. Apparently because Sean wasn't in bed yet.

"But why does Sean get to stay up later than me?" He called as he ran to his father who had come downstairs to grab him and force him to go to his bed.

"Sean is in the bath for the second time because he decided to go and cover himself and his sister in oil or grease or whatever was in the lab that they weren't supposed to go into in the first place." Raph didn't have a lot of patience and it was beginning to wear thin as his son persisted to stay up. "Avery, go to bed or I will make you stay up in the pitch black and you will not get a story." Raphael threatened the little boy, who decided that a nice story was better than sitting in pitch black until he fell asleep.

When all three kids were finally asleep the adults actually got started with their work. "Okay, first things first. Why now?" Leo asked the others just looked at him. "Why now when everything in our lives are going great and we are all happy for once, did they decide to fuck everything up and put us right back to where we started." Leo sunk into one of the kitchen chairs and never said anything else.

"I think the main question here is what the shell are we supposed to do about it. I mean we got rid of the Shredder and Karai has a truce with us since we fought that demon Shredder, then we got rid of Cyber Shredder too before we turned human." Mikey said not really sure of where he was going with is point.

"Mikey, we need to figure out what the foot are wanting with us and then fight for our freedom and so our children and the other people in our lives are safe." Sam commented, all she was thinking about was snuggling into bed with her boyfriend wrapping his arms around her.

"So that begs the question, how are we supposed to fight off the foot when we don't know what they want with us?" Raph asked.

"We know what they want Raph." Don commented. "They want to ensure that we don't survive and that our loved ones don't survive with us. They want to destroy us all." Don said, maybe being a tad overdramatic.

"Leave the drama to me Donnie." Mikey said. "And besides it's not like they ever came close before, and we were just kids then." He finished.

"Actually Mikey Karai did come close remember it was lucky we made it out alive, and she nearly destroyed this place." Leo commented. "We had to stay in that pumping station for three months solid. Before we were able to come back here. And even then we were transported to the year 2105."

"Still I think I might be able to hack into the foot's systems. Of course the tech will be a lot more sophisticated by now, but without Stockman working there it should be easier than ever. I just have to find the notes that tell me what me and April done the last time." Don said as he yawned.

"Maybe you should get some sleep Donatello." Splinter told his son.

"Maybe, I must be slightly jet lagged from the flight." Don said

"How, it isn't that long of a flight." Sam commented

"Yeah, but we had to circle around the city for at least thirty minutes because we were early. And the time differences between the two cities is enough to make you lose track of everything. I'll be fine after I get some sleep." Don stood up off of his chair and went to bed. This conversation wasn't going anywhere and all that they had managed to figure out was that the purple dragons were after them, and they already knew that. They would discuss this more when the kids were at school.

THE NEXT MORNING

Splinter walked into the kitchen in the lair and was happy to see all five of his kids in the same room. Since Donatello had moved to California he rarely got to see all five of them at once. "Good morning my children." He said to them.

"Morning Sensei." Came the reply.

"I just got freaky high school flashback." Mikey said.

"I don't have time for flashbacks. I gotta get work before they close the ER." Sam said quickly running water through her coffee cup.

"Save loads of lives sis." Don said laughing at his own joke.

"Have fun Auntie Samie." Called Sean as he ate his cereal. Sam left the kitchen and went topside to where her boyfriend Max was

waiting for her. (They both worked at the hospital.)

At the hospital Sam had been called into the Emergency Room because of an emergency. When she got there she seen no emergency but a nurse holding a bouquet of flowers. The nurse was a close friend of hers. "Wanda, what is-" Sam never got a chance to finish her question because Wanda was pointing behind her. Sam turned around and seen Max standing behind her on one knee.

"Samantha Hamato I come to you a man, nothing more, nothing less to ask you if you would do the honour of becoming my wife." Max asked her.

"Max Andrews, you are my everything. I love you, yes I will become your wife." Max got off his knee and wrapped his arms around her waist as they kissed passionately as the people in the ER began to clap for them.

Five seconds later they were broke apart by an emergency coming in and Max having to run off to a meeting. (He was one of the hospital's lawyers.) Sam watched as he walked off thinking that she had to tell him the truth about herself.

So after work Sam brought him down to the lair. Of course he was wearing a blindfold. "Samie, what is your surprise?"

"If I told you it wouldn't be a surprise then would it." Sam reasoned as her new fiance tried to lift the blindfold off of his eyes. Sam slapped his hand away. "Keep that on." She warned as they pulled up and Splinter's dojo.

"You can take that off now." Sam told him. He pulled the yellow blindfold off of his eyes.

"Baby, I hate to tell you but I think I have seen your father's dojo before." He said.

"We aren't here to see the dojo. We are here to see what is below it." Sam moved mats away from the center of the room. Then tapped her foot on the floor.

A giant stone elevator rose up through the floor. Sam held Max's hand and lead him inside, Max was struggling against the force of his fiance.

The elevator stopped at the lair. They stepped out as the others looked over to see who was entering their home. "Auntie Samie!" Exclaimed the two boys as they ran over to her.

"Hey boys." Sam said.

"Samie, are we in the sewers?" Max asked as he sniffed the air.

"Yes we are, there is something that you need to know about me." Sam said holding his hand.

"Oh God you are a satanist that wants to kill me as a sacrifice." He said half joking, half serious.

"Max there are children in the room." Leo said cutting into the conversation. He put his hand over Sean's mouth to stop him from asking what a Satanist is. "Why did you bring him here?" He asked his sister.

"He deserves to know the truth Leo. Where does Sensei keep the photo albums?" Sam responded before heading to her father's bedroom to ask him where the photo's were.

Half an hour later and Samie had eventually finished explaining who and what they truly were.

"Okay, that is possibly the last thing I was expecting." Max said as he looked into the eyes of the woman he loved. "This is the weirdest thing ever, but I believe you. I mean the evidence is right there. But how do you look human?" He asked his fiance.

"Donatello designed a chemical formula that had the ability to make our DNA and appearance human. And we thought that it had, until I got sick. That's when we figured out that we still had traces of our old DNA signatures in our blood. It was those signatures that contributed to my heart problems." Sam explained.

"This is too much to process right now." Max said. He went to stand up but Samie stopped him.

"Are you okay with this. If you aren't then you can tell me."

"I just need to soak it all in baby." Max kissed her softly and went into the kitchen.

"Yuck, he kissed you. I ain't ever going to kiss anyone." Avery said turning away from his cartoons.

"Would you kiss Alia?" Sean asked him picking up his sister and telling her to kiss Avery. Avery let his little cousin kiss him before wiping mouth and saying something about couties.

"Avery, you sound like your daddy." Sam said as Raphael walked into the room.

"Hey little sis your fiance is shaking like a leaf. What did you say to him?" He asked her.

"I told him what we were."

"You know you are stupid for a smart person." Raph responded.

"I'm going to talk to him. I mean he's still here so he must be somewhat accepting." Sam said standing up and heading into the kitchen herself.

Max was over-accepting this. He told Sam that as long as it made her who she was as a person, then he would accept anything she told him. That night they made love for the first time as an engaged couple.

a/n: See you in the next chapter.