Chapter One: As the present meets the future

"MIKEY!" Raphael's angered voice rang out through the lair along with Michelangelo's terrified screech. The orange banded turtle in question made a beeline for the lab and locked the door. Leonardo ran into the living room to see the damage, probably caused by one of Mikey's pranks.

"Raph, what happened?"

Raph glared at Leo. "That little monster put on a documentary on BUGS!" It was a well-known fact that Raph was scared of bugs. Especially cockroaches.

Leo looked at the TV. There was an image of an ant... With a fungus growing out of its head. For once, Raph was right. It was disgusting. "Right..." Answered Leo. "Continue. But don't destroy the lab or we'll have Donnie to answer to." If there was one thing no one in the lair had the right mind to do was to anger the purple banded turtle, Donatello.

Raph grunted and charged at the lab door, snapping it in two. Leo winced as he heard Donnie's agitated voice screaming at Raph. He entered the lab to see Donnie trying to pull a raging Raph off a scared Mikey. April (who had arrived not fifteen minutes earlier) was standing well clear of the fight, holding a small box.

"Leo, thank goodness you're here! Help!" Donnie shouted. Leo obliged and tugged Raph off Mikey.

"What were you thinking Mikey?" Donnie asked after Raph had explained the reason for his actions.

"Not much I bet." Raph teased.

"You almost destroyed my latest invention!" Donnie continued.

"Which is..." Questioned Mikey.

"Ah, glad you asked." Smiled Donnie, forgetting about being angry. Mikey grinned. His plan had worked. "This is a prototype Time Machine!"

"Wow!" coursed the brothers.

"Does it work?" asked Raph.

"We'll, I haven't tested it out yet, but..." started Donnie.

"I bet it does!" cried Mikey, grabbing the machine off April who yelped in protest and running off into the Lair.

"Mikey, be careful, the device is very..." Donnie was interrupted by a loud "oof" and the sound of fast ticking

"What is the meaning of this?" Leo, Raph, Donnie and April followed the sound of their sensei's voice into the living room where they saw Mikey lying on the ground in front of a rather displeased Splinter with the Time Machine a good five feet away in the middle of the room.

"Mikey, what did you do?" Donnie repeated his question from earlier.

Mikey grinned sheepishly. "I bumped into Sensei and the timey thing landed and started sounding like a clock." He explained, getting up. Raph hit him on the head for good measure.

"I hope you haven't broken it." Sighed Donnie walking towards the machine.

"No I haven't." Mikey said, also going for the machine.

"Oh, no you don't!" Raph ran after Mikey.

"Careful!" Leo caught up.

All four turtles touched the Time Machine at the same time. The soft ticking was replaced by an ear-shattering siren. After ten seconds, this was replaced by an oddly ordinary voice that sounded kind of like the woman at a self service till in a supermarket Saying, 'DNA code accepted. Searching for relations in +20 years, future. Number of DNA relations found: five. Transporting DNA relations.'

"What?" Raph roared as a pure white portal opened up above the Time Machine.

"Stand back!" Donnie yelled.

"Everyone close your eyes!" Leo screeched.

"Aarrh!" Mikey screamed.

Three minutes later, everyone opened their eyes to the Time Machine saying: 'DNA relations transported. Thank you.'

What sight greeted them was even more unusual. In the middle of the room were five children, three girls and two boys lying on the ground, rubbing their heads. The girls wore different coloured headbands while both boys had different coloured baseball caps. They looked to be between the ages of three and fifteen.

The biggest and assumingly the oldest was a boy wearing a dark green cap, he looked at the occupants of the room before resting his eyes on Michelangelo.

"Dad?"