Turtle Tracks Part 1
In the city of New York, at a hi-tech scientific laboratory, a film crew was doing a telecast. The reporter had a yellow jumpsuit and short auburn hair. Her film crew all wore green long-sleeved t-shirts. The director had blond hair, the boom-mic man had natural brown hair, the cameraman had orange hair, and the guy in the van had light brown hair with round glasses.
"Crime. It's something we take for granted. But the past few days, three laboratories were robbed. The method from which they were stolen was believed to be the work of ninjas." said the reporter. "We're here at another laboratory where we believe will be the next target of this mysterious ninja crime wave. I'll report if anything happens. April O'Neil, happy hour news. Back to you, Jeff."
The film crew finishes and packs up the equipment in the van. The cameraman comes out with three different pizza boxes. "PIZZA TIME!" he shouted, setting the pizza on the sidewalk. The four green shirted boys sit on the sidewalk and take a slice of pizza.
"Who had the pepperoni and ice-cream?"
"I want some of the jelly beans and mushrooms!"
"Yeah, give me a slice of anchovies and peanut butter."
"This is seriously grossing me out." said April with her face in her palm. "How can you four even eat that junk?"
"How can you eat raw fish? Blech!" said the light brown haired guy.
"April, we better go. Nothing's going to happen. Besides, Ralph, Don, Mikey and I have to get some sleep." said the blond guy.
"What are you? A bunch of sissies? This'll be fun, Leo. Besides, who'd wanna hurt us?" said April.
Laughing is heard from behind them, and they turn around to see a group of street punks walking up to them. "Uh - them maybe." said the natural brown-haired guy named Ralph.
"We gotta message for you from the big boss man. He wants you to stick to reporting fashion shows. Your first fashion show will have jacked-up faces." said the leader of the street gang. The punks advance on the five.
"Here. Catch!" shouted the light brown-haired guy named Don, throwing a pizza at the leader. The five make a run for it. Leo motions for April to return to here apartment while the rest of them draw the street punks away. April runs to her apartment and the four guys escape to the sewers.
"Whoa. Those dudes sure are hiding something importamondo." said the orange-haired guy named Mikey. The boys run down the tunnel until they hit their foreheads on the hanging pipes and fall unconscious.
The street gang surround the unconscious boys. "Let's take em to the big boss man, Shredder." said the leader. Before he can pick one of them - a boa to the stomach prevents him from doing so.
"I do not wish to fight. But cast a stone into the lake, and the ripples will return to you. DAKENTAIJUTSU!" shouted the robed short man, hitting a punk with a kick to the stomach.
"OH whoever you are, you are DEAD!" said the leader angrily. But he gets knocked to the ground. The mysterious robed man defeats the punks.
"I trust I made my point." he said, walking over to the four and feeling each of their heads.
Unbeknownst to him, he was being watched by a man with a metal face mask and a helmet. "What the devil!" he said.
In an odd place under the sewers, the four boys lie on soft warm beds. Don is the first to come to.
"Ugh. Where am I?" he said, rubbing his head.
"Some hot tea?" said the robed short man, removing his hood to reveal he is a mutant turtle, and holding out a cup of hot tea for Don.
"Uh - sure. I think." said Don, taking the hot tea from the talking turtle. "Hey, where are the rest of my friends?"
"They are fine - sound asleep as a matter of fact." said the turtle, showing Don the sleeping boys. They soon awaken from there comas.
"Ugh. Dude, I just had a mondo bizarro weird dream that we were saved from those punks by a mutant tur - Whoa! That was no dream, we really were saved by a mutant turtle." said Mikey surprised.
"Thanks for saving us. We are most grateful for - Hey! I'm talking a giant turtle." said Leo shocked.
"A giant turtle? Who the heck are you?" asked Ralph confused.
"Perhaps it is best if I explained immediately. The story of me, is also the story of you four." said the turtle.
"US!?" said the four shocked.
"Yes. You see, in Japan, there was a ninja clan known as the Foot, led by a man named Hamato Yoshi. Hamato Yoshi liked art. One of his pupils, Oroku Saki, planned to take over the leadership of the Foot Clan."
"Sounds like someone got off the wrong 'foot'." said Ralph, laughing at his wise crack. "Man, I'm funny."
"What Ralph is trying to say is that this guy didn't seem like a nice guy back then." said Leo.
"Indeed." said the turtle. "Then one day, a master sensei visited the Foot Clan's dojo. The Foot Clan members sat near a wall to bow for the sensei, when Oroku Saki put a knife to attach Hamato Yoshi's clothes in the wall. To bow for the sensei, Hamato Yoshi now first had to remove the knife. This caused the others who were in the dojo that time to think that Hamato Yoshi tried to kill the sensei. Hamato Yoshi was banned from the Foot Clan."
"Whoa! The dude's really sneaky, considering he's a ninja - But I still don't see how you or us fit into this, yo." said Mikey confused.
"Oh we're getting there - Disgraced, Hamato Yoshi fled to the United States. Penniless, Hamato Yoshi lived in the New York City sewer system. His only friends became the rats. One day, a small child was walking on a street with a bowl with four turtles. The boy accidentally tripped and fell, causing the bowl to crash on the street and the turtles to fall into the sewers. Hamato Yoshi made the turtles his new friends."
"So what ever happened to the Foot Clan?" asked Don.
"Meanwhile, back in Japan, the Foot Clan became a criminal army led by Oroku Saki."
"Aw dude! This means that the Foot Clan was behind those robberies." said Mikey.
"Are you out of your mind, Mikey. Come on, ya think the Foot Clan would just move into New York?" said Ralph annoyed.
"Ralph's right, Mikey. We don't know for sure if it's the Foot Clan or not." said Leo.
"There's still one thing that strikes me - what happened to those turtles?" asked Don.
"Yeah, where are they?"
"Quite simple. The turtles are...you." said the turtle. This shocks the four boys.
In a flashback, Yoshi opens a wooden door, and gasps in shock. He finds the turtles covered in goo.
End of chapter. The mutagenic gel is supposed to mutate whatever it affects into something resembling the last creature that it touched, yet Splinter had last touched the Turtles, not a rat. Until next time. Ciao.