Author's Note: Naturally we all know that I have no ownership whatsoever of Harry Potter and his fellow wizarding mates, or of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Original characters are mine.
Warning: This story contains violence, language and adult/sex themes, including slash and mentions of mpreg. Extra warnings will be placed on chapters where needed.
This is the sequel to Beyond the Depths of Truth.
Chapter One
Home Invasion
Training was in full swing within the dojo in the Lair, home of Splinter and his family. All nine of his students, six of them his own children, were shows heaps of promise within their own right. But it didn't stop from needing improvement.
The task they were given was to try and extinguish a candle without being seen or heard; all part of being one with the shadows. Splinter was very well aware of the different age range of his students, but he didn't see that a reason for them to not try and have a go. The youngest of his students as five years old, the second youngest just turned six a few days before, and he knew they were just as capable as their older siblings aged ten and fifteen years of age.
"Sloppy footwork, Michelangelo," he comments, voice between stern and kind reminder to work on this flaw. Splinter was always stern within his dojo, but never unfair, he knew where the improvements were perhaps needed, he also knew his students well enough to know they will work on these.
"Nice try, Kimika," Splinter softly chuckles, seeing his young daughter for a split second and placing the candle out of her reach. She was determined, his youngest of children, who had the same brown fur as he did, (though he was starting to show evidence of grey), except for her hands and feet, which were white, and sporting silky black hair that was in a tight braid, but couldn't quite get the flame out. Even with her brilliant eyesight against the completely darkened room, from being mostly mutant rat, with only a small part of her being human from her half rat, half human mother, she still had ways to go.
Everyone did their best, but it was Leonardo who was the successor in the exercise.
Splinter turns the lever for the light to be put back on, lighting everything up, giving everyone the ability to see just a little better.
"You all did well in this evening's session," he says.
"But, Leo was the one who got the flame out," said five year old Christian, a little confused.
He was evenly slender and solid for a boy his age, short dark blond hair that was starting to show signs that it was turning into the shade of light brown, straight nose and ebony coloured eyes, with amber tinging.
"One's achievements and improvements are not always marked on whether they are able to complete the task, sometimes it is the willingness to learn during the process of gaining toward that goal. Many of you did heed the advices I've given during the exercise, and that is always a good thing to take into account," said Splinter.
This was enough to have Christian smile.
"It also helped you and your sisters learn how to adapt to not always using your powers, too," the Sensei points out.
"Why couldn't we use them?" Christian then asks.
"Because not every situation is going to require such use, so it helps to determine whether it is truly needed. Sometimes it is best to use our abilities when it is one hundred percent necessary; otherwise, all you'd be doing is rely on those powers for everything. Am I correct, Sensei?" Athena speaks.
"Precisely," Splinter nods.
"And you know how Dad and Daddy want to make sure that we don't abuse our powers, either," Freya reminds her little brother."
"Not so much abuse, more like to make sure you don't go overboard, which you have a tendency to do at times, Angelfish," says a voice.
Remus Lupin had been watching from the doorway, via his natural ability to see better in the dark, until the Lair lights came back on.
Freya puts on this 'who me?' expression with a grin, causing her father to shake his head and try not to laugh.
Freya and Athena were almost entirely identical, from their straight noses that had the tiniest hook within the bridges, but suiting them perfectly, to their slender figures. They both sported darkish blond hair, but over time, their hair tones changed, Freya's became much darker, while Athena's was blonder. Plus their eyes were different as well, while they both had Remus's blue eyes, Athena's sported violet and amber flecks, while Freya's had flecks of their other father's ebony peering through against the blue. Identical from being formed from the same egg, but developed different, to which is still a mystery as to why it occurred this way.
They learned more of how and why they came to be as they grew older, slowly starting to explain the same to Christian, who had started asking about mothers and fathers and the like, different to how Freya and Athena asked about the same subject, but still the same curious wanting to know. The girls knew that there was perhaps still more to learn, but they knew enough for now, and that at the end of the day, it didn't seem to matter, they knew they were safe and loved and had friends, or rather family, who understood and welcomed them regardless.
Before anymore words could be spoken, as strange whirring like noise was heard.
"What was that?" Raphael turns to see if he could find the source from his standpoint.
Then the place began to shake.
"Whoa! Earthquake!" cries Michelangelo.
"Earthquake? In New York? Possible, but not likely," said Donatello.
"Papa!" Kimika runs to Splinter, afraid, his arms immediately going around her, drawing her close.
"Especially with that weird sound," Apollo adds.
Apollo was Splinter's stepson, also a mutant rat, with black and white fur that had the appearance of him wearing a tuxedo; the only thing missing was a bowtie or even a necktie. He had a crop of dark hair on his head too, like Kimika, again a sign of who their mother was.
Everyone was alert.
Then, the side of a wall started to crack and it burst right out creating a big gap in the wall, appearing from the hole it made was this bizarre raptor bird looking mechanical robot with razor sharp teeth and its feet, shaped like a birds, were clawed with metal talons for gripping.
It didn't come alone; more came, with their chomping and eating of whatever their razor metal mouths could get their jaws on.
Immediately the group started to try and fight them off and out.
"They're eating our home!" Raphael growls, smashing a couple with his sai.
"Where in Merlin's name did they come from?" Freya calls out, she tried to use her power of fire, but all it did was make the things look like they were simply glowing hot, unscathed. "Oh what? They should have melted!"
Athena drives a sword through one of them. "They might be magic resistant?" she suggests, tossing a bo-staff to her sister, who caught it and swung it right into another couple, shattering them to smithereens.
But when they saw their father, Remus, he was using his wand and the machines were being put out of commission, as well as being able to use his own ability to use fire...
"Okay, I am going to have to get him to teach me that!" says Freya, but not losing concentration of what needed to be done.
Remus had Christian behind him, just like Splinter and Apollo were taking turns in shielding Kimika, the Turtles were handling quite fine on their own, but a few times someone would spot one of these bizarre things where another couldn't and manages to beat it off before it did any damage to that person or mutant.
The place was shaking and walls were crumbling;
"Look out!" someone called out, and everyone scrambled, (helping anyone who needed to be), to get out of the way off the bricks, dirt and whatever else that was coming down, that would have crushed anyone, or anything that got in the way.
"Master Splinter!" Leonardo calls in near panic when he sees the great big floor to ceiling blockage of rubble, dirt, bricks, concrete and anything else that made it. "Apollo?"
Raphael stomped on one of the machines that was trying to get back up, clearly ticked off.
"What the shell were those things?" Michelangelo questions, bending down to get a better look, but not too close.
"Whatever they are, they're toast!" Raphael grunts.
"Guys, we need to find and see if we can help the others!" Leonardo's voice had urgency within it.
"I can sense Dad and Christian, they're safe," said Athena, honing in as best as she could. "Hopefully Splinter, Apollo and Kimi are with them."
"Donny! Can you...?" Leonardo goes to say, but Donatello was already a step ahead when he pulled out a little device that looked a little like a mobile phone.
"What are you doing?" Freya asks, seeing it.
"Shell-cell, I'm using it to see if I can get a hold of Master Splinter," Donatello answers, as he pressed a couple of dials, including putting it on loudspeaker.
On the other side of the divide the sound of a beeping sound came from within Splinter's robes.
"What is that?" Christian says.
Splinter takes the shell-cell he remembers his son giving him a while ago, at the time he didn't think it would be ever needed, but funny how things change. He opens it.
"How do you turn this thing on?"
"I have no idea," said Remus, just as unsure. "I haven't seen it before."
Splinter started pressing buttons. "Hello? Hello? Stupid device!"
"Sensei, you don't need to press any buttons, you answered it by just opening it," Donatello's voice came through. "Is Apollo with you, I remember showing him how it works."
Splinter looks at his stepson, who was a little too amused by his stepfather's trying to figure out how to work the darn thing, that his voice escaped him in that moment.
"He is right here, seeming to be enjoying the scene of me answering a new piece of communication equipment without knowing what I was doing," Splinter replies, shaking his head.
"Sorry, I did the same to Severus when he was trying to figure the thing out," Apollo says.
"He would have given you some sort of payback for that," said Remus, not bothered that his partner knew of the shell-cells before he did.
Apollo grins. "Yeah, by getting me to show him how to use the thing properly... and tortured me with Billy Ray Cyrus right on afterwards..."
"He would have tortured himself with that!"
"Daddy would have been wearing earplugs or whatever to block it out, Dad!" Athena's voice comes through, with the unmistakable giggling in the background from Freya.
"The point is, is everyone safe?" Leonardo speaks, pressing on with the matter at hand.
"We're all accounted for over here, what about you?" Splinter replies.
"All here, too," said Donatello. "Unfortunately, whatever those things were, they really ate through the support beams of this place and if we try anything to move this wall, it could make things much worse and have the entire ceiling come down on us."
"We would have to leave here, regardless, whatever those machines were, they were able to somehow get through the shields that have been placed around the area," said Remus.
Splinter nods, knowing the severity of the situation. The shields that Remus and Severus had placed around the Lair had never been breached since they moved into it many years ago, but, due to the uncertainty of how these razor mouthed raptor like machines got through, the shields have been compromised and it was agreed that if in the situation where it happened, the chance of moving wasn't too far away, if it was the only way to keep the family safe.
This pretty much qualifies the situation to move.
"Meet us at the old drainage junction at South Point," Splinter instructed.
Ever the resourceful Donatello whips out a map and opens it up.
"If we take the south conduit, it will intersect with the old drainage junction," he says, showing his brothers and the twins.
"We'll meet you there," said Leonardo, before hanging up.
"Lucky there is more than one way out of here," Athena comments.
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The group of six made their way through the tunnels, it was very clear that those raptor robot things had been through the area, with the holes and bite marks that resembled the area. Other than the damage, the path was pretty straight forward; that was until they reached a just as huge barrier, made of the very same material as that of the wall that caused the divide between them and the other half of their families.
There was no way go get around it, and they definitely couldn't go back, even when asking Freya and Athena, they wouldn't risk moving such instability, so they had no choice but to go up. Whilst the girls hadn't a problem with blending in, as they were human... well... sort of... the Turtles were a different story.
Luckily it was night, but even then, the plan to just go to the nearest manhole didn't go as planned.
Just before Raphael could get to it, an armoured looking vehicle came along and parked over it, he had to hide when people came out of it and when he got closer to see that one of the tyres was right on top of it, he was frustrated to the point of kicking it, where he hurt his foot, and the rest of the group groaned.
"I don't think they heard you over in New Jersey, Raph!" Michelangelo says.
"Oh shut up and give me a hand!" Raphael grunts.
Freya and Donatello had to stop Michelangelo from clapping.
But when they heard voices of the people who had driven the vehicle coming back, everyone had to hide... Raphael hid right inside the back of the truck, because the backdoors were left wide open...
"Poor choice Raphael," says Michelangelo, as everyone face palmed.
The owners came back, laughing and congratulating themselves.
"Did you see the way he squirmed when we took his cash?"
"Cheap man! Cheap to be taken by us ravenous wolves!"
"Easy, Freya!" Leonardo quickly places a hand on Freya's shoulder to stop her from acting on her impulse on the 'insult to wolves' coming from crooks. "You, too, Athena." Who, while not as impulsive as her twin, wasn't too fond toward such misuse on the term, either.
Once the owners had gotten into their truck, they started the engine and drove off. The Turtles and twins making sure they weren't seen.
"This is just great!" Leonardo mutters. "So much for sticking to the plan!"
"Oh, yeah, because going off that said plan is heaps more fun, Leo," says Freya.
"We have to get him outta there!"
"Last one to the roof hatched from a rotten egg!" Donatello exclaims, hurrying to the closest ladder of a fire escape to jump and climb.
"We didn't hatch from eggs Don!" Athena calls, as she went to catch up.
"No, but you still technically came from eggs, just different!" Donatello replies back.
"Just shut up and get a move on, before I beat you to the top!" Freya says, using her power of air to help boost her way to the top of the building the group were clambering up.
All five did get up and started running and jumping buildings to keep up with the armoured vehicle that their sixth member was trapped in.
"You do know your Dad is going to be pissed at us if he knew you were doing this right?" Michelangelo calls to the twins.
"What Daddy doesn't know won't hurt him!" Freya says.
"Yeah... until he does find out and has a cow!" Athena reminds her.
Freya grins mischievously; "Then we just won't tell him, will we!" She says before taking a great mighty leap from the edge of building and landing squarely on the rooftop she was aiming for, Athena was quick to follow, Freya helping her with her stronger manipulation of the wind around them.
"Unless the next headline reads, 'Young Triple Threat Sensations of the popular TV show, 'Double the Wishes' and the band 'Elements' found dead on pavement!'" Leonardo points out.
"Brutal!" Athena and Michelangelo call at this.
"You're out leader, Leo...we followed you!" Freya reminds him.
"Actually, you followed Donny, who started it!"
"But, you're still the leader who followed!"
"Severus will definitely kill us then!"
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Meanwhile, Splinter, Remus, Apollo, Kimika and Christian were the ones to have reached the old drainage junction that they agreed to meet up with the others.
But no sooner at they arrived and start wondering where their children and siblings were, did they meet up with trouble of their own. The raptor robots appeared again and shielding the younger ones, Remus, Splinter and Apollo fought them off, thankfully there were only a small handful, dispersing them seemed much easier than the first time, but, due to the craters they created from where the robots came up from, the area had weakened and with their added weight, the place flooring collapsed under them, sliding down and landing, thankfully, upon slightly soft ground.
"Is everyone alright?" Splinter asks, getting up and helping Kimika to her feet.
"I don't like those things!" Christian declares. "Too scary!"
Remus puts a reassuring arm around the back of his shoulders.
"Where are we?" says Apollo. "I don't remember this part of the sewers."
"Perhaps another underground sector, before the next level was placed on top. There are many within this place," said Splinter. "This is why I tend to always caution you all when it comes to exploring or going about outside of the Lair."
"Looks like there is an opening up ahead," said Remus, pointing to an odd hexagon shaped tunnel opening.
Carefully they approached and what they found was enough to cause their jaws to drop.
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Back with the Turtles and the twins, they were still in pursuit of the armoured van, until it finally made a stop in a small lot located within three buildings, or probably two, as one looked like it was conjoined to look like an L shape with a cover it.
The men all got out and started to enter in through the door of the L shaped building. One with a blue mullet and long coat turned to a larger man with a tubby belly.
"Hey, Two-tonne, you stay here and watch the truck, we don't want anyone to steal our stolen money!" he says, with a snigger of pride.
Two-tonne just nods and starts patrolling as ordered, while the rest went inside.
Once they were inside, the tubby guard was alone. All was fine, until he heard something. He went to inspect it and saw nothing.
A tap on the shoulder gets his attention and he sees an outline of a figure.
"Hey! This is a no parking zone," the figure says. "Here's your ticket," showing a random pieces of scrap paper, "and here's your fine!" Planting an accurate roundhouse kick right into the man's chest, sending him backwards and smacking his head against the back bumper of the truck, sending him out cold.
"Nice work, Mikey!" says Leonardo, who had jumped down to join.
"Meh, it's a ninja thing!" Michelangelo replies as casual as ever.
Donatello goes to try and work on the coded lock, with Athena's help.
Michelangelo was not helping by provoking Raphael.
"You do know he is going to kick your arse when he gets out of there, right?" Freya comments to the orange wearing turtle.
"Probably," said Michelangelo, not seeming too worried.
"Just checking," said Freya.
"We're trying to work here," said Donatello.
The lock took what felt like a good while, even when Athena was using small essence of her magic to help speed things up, it was still touchy delicate.
Finally, it was broken open and the doors swung open. Raphael charged right on out and crash tackles Michelangelo to the ground for being teased all the while he was stuck in there.
"What a hothead!" Leonardo mutters to Donatello and Athena.
"Told you he was going to kick your butt!" Freya claims, as Michelangelo was being wrestled with.
"Uh! Guys!" Donatello calls out, getting everyone's attention.
"We don't have time for this!" says Leonardo.
"And why not?" Raphael calls, who now had Michelangelo pinned to a wall.
"Because we're not alone!"
The crooks who owned the van and stole the money had appeared.
"Look at the freaks!"
"What's with the dweeby costumes?"
"This ain't Halloween!"
"And shouldn't you little girls be home with your mommies kissing you goodnight?"
"Wait! Those two are from that stupid show my sister likes!"
"You're going down freaks! No one messes with the Purple Dragons!"
"Purple Dragons?" Athena repeats, making a face.
"Seriously, chaps, if you're going to go calling yourself after a wicked awesome creature, at least call yourselves the Ridgebacks or the Fireballs, none of which are purple!" Freya couldn't help saying.
Fighting ensued; it didn't last long at all. The Purple Dragons as they called themselves weren't a match toward the six, adding insult was perhaps that they were beaten not just by four human sized Turtles, but two ten year old girls!
They ran for it.
Unfortunately... it wasn't over, just before they could really get into the high fives and threes, they were seeing themselves surrounded by many in balaclava and ninja suits. No warning was given, they just started to pounce, causing the six to defend themselves and fast. But, even with use of magic from Freya and Athena, they just kept coming.
"We have to get out of here!" Leonardo calls.
"On it!" Donatello replies, charging for the truck the Purple Dragon left behind and started to do what was needed to hotwire it to go.
Everyone kept the goons away from Donatello to allow him to do his thing.
"Got it!" the purple wearing turtle calls. "This bus is now leaving for anywhere but here!"
The others hurried and jumped aboard, once all in, Donatello stepped on the gas and drove off.
"Nice driving, Don! For a Turtle without a licence," Michelangelo comments with sarcasm, as Donatello was swerving about, causing him and the others to try and hold on and not slip and slide about the place.
"Hey! Do you want pretty? Or do you want affective?"
"At least we're not playing Freya behind the wheel!" Leonardo says.
"Are you saying I'd crash into a wall?" Freya crosses her arms amused by this.
"Freya, you'd probably miss the wall and drive straight off the bridge!" Athena says, laughing. "And it wouldn't be Daddy who would kill us then, Dad would kick our hides, too!"
"Why would they kick yours? You're the good one!"
"I'd be right in the seat next to you, trying to make sure you didn't get into the wall... and gets us off the bridge!"
"Trying to figure how you would get from a wall to the bridge in the first place," says Raphael, cocking a brow at this.
"We're at the wharf!"
"I'm not going to even entertain that thought," said Leonardo, shaking his head.
"Know one thing? This has been one mondo bizarro day," says Michelangelo, now that they weren't swaying all over the place, Donatello seeming to slowly get the hang of driving the large vehicle. "First those metal robot things from underground, and what is with all those ninjas?"
"Talk about not right," says Raphael, picking up one of three large duffle bags and opening it. "Check this out."
Within it was a whole stack of cash.
"Geez! That looks like the amount you earn each month!" Michelangelo says to Athena and Freya.
"Probably, but that money is earned and saved accordingly, this was stolen and we need to turn it in," says Athena.
They pull up alongside a parked police car that had two officers in it and toss the two bags out and onto the bonnet.
"Take care of this money, will ya guys?" Leonardo calls out, before the Donatello puts his foot on the accelerator and drives off.
The younger of the cops was stunned, but the older one seemed to not be as phased, muttering 'rookies' under his breath at his partner's surprise.
Donatello was able to find a decent opening where he was able to drive the armoured van through that led them to the path they needed for the sewers, toward the old drainage junction they needed to be at.
Waiting for them were the rest of their family, Splinter, Remus, Apollo, Christian and Kimika.
"Do I need to even ask?" Remus comments seeing the truck they emerged from.
"Well... we didn't drive it, if that is what you're worried about!" says Freya.
Remus shakes his head and pulls his girls into a hug.
"We're glad to see you, Sensei!" say the Turtles in unison.
"So much as happened today," said Leonardo.
"By the observation, we're not the only ones who had run-ins with drama," says Athena, looking at the scrapped up raptor robots.
"All will be spoken of later, first we wish to take you all home," said Splinter.
"Home?" says Raphael confused.
"You'll see," said Remus.
The six followed the other five down the robot made hole and slide, and led to a very large open area that was stacked with plenty of rooms and space to fit everyone, going in two levels.
"Whoa!" says many in impressed surprise.
"This is beyond awesome!" said Michelangelo.
"I could really tune this space up!" says Donatello, his mind going through so many possibilities of how to improve the place with wiring and so forth.
"I have already sent word for Severus to join us at his first available option, as he'll be helping me set up the guard spells and such," said Remus.
Michelangelo goes up to the next level where multiple of doorways to rooms of varying sizes were just an oyster of choice.
"This room! Mine!" he calls pointing to one of them, pointing to one of the larger ones. Then to another. "Also mine!"
"Does this mean we all get our own little space?" asks Raphael, also seeing the rooms with a better view.
"I already have my room picked!" Kimika grins.
Splinter chuckles and rubs the top of her head, messing her hair a little.
"So what do you think?" he asks the Turtles.
"This is just perfect, Master," said Leonardo.
"Agreed," said Donatello, who was going around and analysing what could and should be done.
"Good, because it's time to clean up for a change," said Splinter, prompting groans from the Turtle boys and Apollo.
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Elsewhere in the city, a tea was being poured into a small cup and the sleek, elegant Japanese man kneeling on the dais, picks up the cup and sips the refreshing hot beverage.
As he places the cup upon the table in front of him, a man with a blue mullet was begging below the high-rise dais.
"Sir... I... I... my me... we lost the armoured car with the money... but we were attacked, but some karate frog creatures or something... and with them two kids... and they used some sort of magic... please... it wasn't my fault..."
The Japanese man holds up a hand; "Enough!" his voice gruff and near silent, but enough to send shivers.
"Please... I won't fail you again!"
The Japanese man looks down upon the other with blue hair with narrowed eyes.
"I know..."
End of chapter one with much tweaking, obviously.