NOT QUITE HUMAN: Author's Note

To clear something out, this story is NOT a crossover with any of those "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movies that probably everyone has already seen. (I'm sure you have all three movies lying around in your video collection gathering dust somewhere. If not, you probably sold them at a yard sale a long time ago! ) I'm actually referring to the cartoon show, which was really popular during the mid and late nineties; around the same time the movies were made. I loved the cartoon when I was a kid. They're mean, green fighting machines with a never-ending appetite for bizarre pizza combos: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

LEONARDO

He's the leader of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. As the leader, he accepts full responsibility for the safety of his three brothers. Leonardo wears blue and his weapons are twin katanas.

RAPHAEL

He's the smart mouth and jokester of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He always has some sort of rude remark or joke about almost everything. Raphael wears red and his weapons are twin sais.

DONATELLO

He's the brains behind the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He's responsible for inventing several tools that the Turtles use, such as their Turtle- Coms, the Turtle Van, the Turtle Blimp, and the dimensional portal generator. Donatello wears purple and his weapon is a simple wooden staff, or bo.

MICHELANGELO

He's the goofball of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He likes to have fun, whether it's going to the movies, skateboarding in the sewers, watching TV, or making and scarfing down the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' favorite food: pizza! Some of Michelangelo's favorite expressions are "Exactamundo," "Awesome," "Tubuloso," "Primo to the extremo," "Holy Guacamole," and "Cowabunga!" Michelangelo wears orange and his two favorite weapons are a pair of nunchucks and a grappling hook.

SPLINTER

He's the surrogate father of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Splinter is a mutated rat who wears a pink kimono. He used to be a human man named Hamato Yoshi. He was one of the greatest ninja masters at the ninja school he taught at, that is until his rival, a man named Oroku Saki, framed him for attempting to assassinate the dojo's master sensei. He was forced to leave Japan and had to live in the sewers of New York City and...well, I'm sure you know the rest.

APRIL O'NEIL

She's the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' only human friend. April is a star reporter for the Channel Six News. She's willing to take any risk to get a good story; even if there were a chance she'd be risking her own life.

SHREDDER

He's one of the two major threats to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the rest of the world. Shredder, formerly known as Oroku Saki, was responsible for framing Hamato Yoshi many years ago. He is also responsible for creating the mutagen that made the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Splinter what they are today. Now as the Shredder, he plots on taking over the world with his army of Foot Soldiers. (Think of the Foot Soldiers as like Talpa's Dynasty soldiers: very easily defeated by the heroes.)

KRANG

He's the other major threat to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the rest of the world. Krang is a body-less brain from another world called Dimension X, where he is the ruler. Although he doesn't have a real body, Krang does have a robotic body that he controls by means of a small remote control compartment within the robotic body. He also operates a giant mobile vehicle called the Techno-Drome. Krang's plot is to bring his army from Dimension X over to Earth, so he can take over the planet.

BEBOP

He's one of Shredder's two mutated creations. Bebop was once a human henchman, but he was mutated with a wild boar stolen from the Central Park Zoo. The mutation did make Bebop very strong and aggressive like a wild boar, but as Donatello said about him and Rocksteady in the first episode, "The mutation didn't up their IQs any!"

ROCKSTEADY

He's the second of Shredder's two mutated creations. Rocksteady was once a human henchman, but he was mutated with a wild rhinoceros stolen from the Central Park Zoo. The mutation did make Rocksteady very strong and powerful like a wild rhinoceros, but as Donatello said about him and Bebop in the first episode, "The mutation didn't up their IQs any!"