2.1 2003 Verse
"Back Fist Strike!" ordered Master Splinter as he directed his sons' training.
"KEE-YA!" shouted the four turtles as they performed the move he'd ordered.
"Front Snap Kick!"
"KEE-YA!"
"Upper Rising Block!"
"KEE-YA!"
"Double Kick Counter!"
"KEE-YA! KEE-YA!"
"Again!"
"KEE-YA! KEE-YA!"
"And finish!" ordered Master Splinter, tapping his cane to signify the end of training.
As one his sons landed on their feet and bowed to him respectfully. Then three of the four collapsed to the ground in exhaustion.
"Don't wanna move," groaned Raphael.
"Wake me for breakfast," mumbled Michelangelo from where he lay on the ground.
"Note to self, buy Mikey some new deodorant," Leonardo panted.
The only turtle still standing was Donatello, who was not even out of breath, and was listening to his brothers' complaints in amusement.
"Thank you for the training, sensei," was all he said, before running back to his lab to continue his projects. Leaving his family to stare after him in bafflement.
"How does a nerd like him, who sits in his lab all day have so much energy?" asked Raphael sullenly.
"Got me," said Leonardo, with Michelangelo nodding in agreement.
"My sons," said Master Splinter sagely. "As a wise man once said; there are just some things that will remain a mystery."
2.2 2012 Verse (Continuation of 1.6)
As Karai had predicted, it had been easy to slip past the escort the Shredder had sent for her at the airport. He didn't even see her walk by.
She made sure her sunglasses were firmly in place before taking off into the streets of New York. It didn't take long for her to find the manhole that the turtles had used to bring her to their lair after they'd rescued her. She paused at the sight of it, and pondered her next step.
Karai knew she couldn't just walk in to their home like she owned the place. That was a surefire way to get on the turtles' bad side right off the bat. Even if she told them the truth about how she knew where they lived, it was too unbelievable and what proof did she have that time travel existed? Besides, she would then have to explain all the mistakes she had made previously.
At least she had proof of her identity as Hamato Miwa. In her bag was a photo album she'd compiled chronicling pictures of her from her infancy to the present, as well as her torn picture of her mother. She had no doubt Splinter would recognize her from them.
Karai eventually decided that the best way to seek the turtles out without raising too much suspicion was to wander through the tunnels until they found her, then she would plead her case.
With that in mind she slipped through the manhole and dropped into the sewers.
Despite the darkness and her sunglasses, Karai's snake eyes allowed her to see the tunnels clearly. At least her mutation was good for something, though the sewer stink was murder on her heightened sense of smell.
She made her way through the tunnels until she was about halfway to the lair. That's when she started shouting to gain their attention.
"HAMATO YOSHI!" she called, her voice echoing through the sewers. "PLEASE, I KNOW YOU'RE DOWN HERE! I NEED TO SPEAK TO YOU!"
She continued to yell like this while wandering aimlessly in the darkness.
It wasn't long before her senses told her she was not alone. Cautiously, she flicked her tongue out the barest bit to get a hint of scent.
She recognized the scent immediately. It was the turtles.
"I know you're there," she said, keeping her cool. "Come out."
Slowly the four of them crept into sight, while still sticking to shadows, making them look like silhouettes. She could see that their weapons were drawn, and they were eyeing her cautiously.
"Who are you?" asked Leonardo firmly.
"It's not polite to ask for someone's name without introducing yourself first," Karai replied flippantly.
"You're the one who came stomping around our yard yelling like a banshee," growled Raphael. "I think common courtesy went out the window awhile ago."
Karai ignored his barb. "I need to speak with Hamato Yoshi," she insisted. "I know he's in hiding down here, and training ninjas."
"So we gathered from vociferous exclamations," said Donatello sarcastically.
"Yeah," Michelangelo piped up. "And from all your yelling too."
"That's what I just said," Donnie hissed in annoyance.
"Oh," said Mikey. "Well, why didn't you say it in English?"
Donnie's only response was to smack his forehead, and the other two let out similar noises of exasperation.
Needless to say, whatever threatening image the turtles were trying to portray was ruined, and Karai failed to keep her amusement off her face.
"Enough, my sons," said a deep voice directly behind Karai, making her freeze in shock.
She whipped around in surprise to see her father towering over her, looking far more menacing that the turtles could ever hope to be.
"This young woman has come seeking an audience with me," he continued, his eyes bearing into hers despite her sunglasses. "It is only fair I should hear what she has to say."
"Y-you…" Karai stammered, trying to gather her voice. She had only ever seen Splinter after he was made aware of her true identity. Never before had she been on the receiving end of his protective glare. It was truly terrifying.
Mistaking the cause of her hesitation, Splinter narrowed his eyes and said, "I am Hamato Yoshi, the one whom you sought to speak with. So speak."
Karai fumbled with her bag as she rushed to give her story. "I-I'm called Karai. I was raised by the Foot," she said truthfully.
Behind her, she heard Raphael let out an angry hiss as he and the rest of the turtles tensed for a fight.
"But I have no desire to be in the Foot Clan anymore," she said quickly before anyone got the wrong idea. "I-I recently came across some information about my past that had been kept hidden from me my entire life. I'm through being the Shredder's weapon after what he did to me."
Finding the photo album, she presented it to her father and bowed low in front of him.
She heard the sound of two turtles moving to Splinter's side, one being Donnie offering him a flashlight.
The light clicked on, and she heard Splinter's gasp of shock as he opened the book and saw Tang Shen's torn picture on the first page. She kept her head bowed low until she could no longer hear the sound of pages turning.
When she looked up at Splinter again, his eyes were shining with such hope that she felt ashamed once again for all the trouble she had caused him in the previous timeline.
"I came here to find you," she said softly, "because I am your daughter."
Splinter dropped the album, making Leo fumble to catch it before it landed in sewer water. He and Donnie were staring at Karai in shock, and she had no doubt Raph and Mikey were doing the same behind her back. But she cared for none of this, as she was wrapped tightly in her father's arms. "Miwa," he whispered into her hair.
She hugged him back, relieved that he believed her, but anxious as to how he would react to her second bombshell of the day.
When he finally pulled away she began fingering her sunglasses nervously. "There is something else you should know," she said carefully, looking anywhere but at him. "Shedder… got a hold of some mutagen and had a scientist alter it…"
Her father's breath hitched, and Mikey let out a whisper of "Aw, dude."
"It's thanks to him I'm like this," she said, taking off her glasses, and looking up at him with her snake eyes.
For a brief instant no one said anything. Then Mikey moved around her to get a better look. He leaned in extremely close, then his face broke into a wide grin.
"Welcome to the family, Sis," he cheered, wrapping Karai in a big hug that lifted her off the floor.
Karai couldn't help but smile. She really needed to get better at saying thank you.
2.3 Turtle Prime (Near the End of Turtles Forever)
In the aftermath of fighting the Giant Utrom Shredder on Turtle Prime, Donatello03 pulled aside Michelangelo87, and LeonardoPrime. Fortunately it went unnoticed by their collective brothers.
"Tell me, does the term, 'repeating time loops' ring a bell for either of you?" Don asked the two of them.
"No way, Dude. You too?" asked Michelangelo.
"And me as well," confirmed Leonardo. "But my brothers are oblivious to it. Any idea what's causing this?"
"Not a clue," said Don with a shrug. "But in the last few runs for me, I've missed seeing Lord Simultaneous and his apprentice Renet. The adventures they showed up for were missing from my timelines."
"Who?" asked Michelangelo.
"The lord and master of all time and space," Leonardo explained. "I've met him too, but he's been absent from my repeats as well."
"So you think he's got something to do with our worlds hitting the rewind button again and again?" asked Michelangelo.
"It seems likely," said Don. "Honestly, nothing else goes all that different unless I do something to make it different."
"Same," agreed Leonardo. "We should keep an eye out for him, as well as try to stay in contact till we find out what's going on. Think you can build something like that?"
"With how many times I've built that Portal Stick now? Piece of cake," said Donatello.
"I have a question," said Michelangelo, raising his hand like he was at school. "How did you know it was happening to the two of us too?"
"Mostly from your reactions to everything," said Don. "Your brothers were confused or surprised by what they were seeing, but you two looked like you'd seen it all before."
The other two turtles nodded.
"Okay, one more question," said Michelangelo glancing at Leonardo. "If you knew who we were, why'd you still attack us again when you showed up?"
"To keep up appearances," said Leonardo as they turned to rejoin their brothers. "And also because your reactions are hilarious."
"Not cool, Dude."
2.4 NM Verse (With Power Rangers)
Venus sighed as she rested against a wall of her cell. After several loops of failing to do so, she had finally managed to avoid Astronema's mind control spell, but the other turtles had not been so lucky.
She had fled to meet the Power Rangers in hopes of obtaining their help, but the other turtles had not been too far behind her. They had done their best to discredit her, and make it look like she was the bad guy.
That left the Power Rangers with a conundrum. On one hand, if the turtles really were under Astronema's spell then they couldn't be trusted. On the other hand, most people believed that there were only four teenage mutant ninja turtles in New York. Who was to say Venus wasn't a fake sent to alienate the Rangers from potential allies.
In the end, Venus suggested that they all be locked up until a solution could be found. The four male turtles had protested loudly at that, but in the end the Rangers had failed to come up with a better course of action for the moment.
So now Venus was locked in a cell of the Astro Megaship, separated from the others. She could only hope the truth would come out soon.
She tried meditating to calm herself, and so she could ignore the cruel barbs her friends were yelling at her from their cell. Even though the others often teased her for being the only girl on the team, they were never so harsh as they were being now.
After several failed attempts she was eventually able to block their voices out, as well as attempt to plan for what she could do next.
At least she did until a new and much worse sound reached her ears.
She snapped her eyes open, and watched in horror as the four exited their cell.
"Never underestimate the power of genius," said Donatello smugly as the passed her cell.
"We're going to take over the Megaship now," said Michelangelo cheerfully. "So sit tight, sister."
"No, please don't," Venus said, gripping the bars to her prison. "You are all stronger than this. Break the spell, Astronema is only using you."
"Don't worry, I'm sure Astronema will have some use for you too," said Leonardo. "Or not."
They all laughed as they left her there.
Venus fell to her knees in the cell. She knew they would hopefully snap out of it soon, but what would they do with her in the meantime? Who was to say things would work out as they did before?
A second later the door to her cell opened.
Venus looked up in surprise to see the Red Ranger Andros staring down at her, and offering her a hand up.
"I guess you were telling the truth," he said kindly, helping her to her feet. "I had DECA keep an eye on this room just in case. Come on, let's go get your friends back."
"Thank you," Venus said gratefully.
Just then DECA let out a squawk, and began speaking in an odd voice. "I've been Certified Turtified!"
"Donatello has hacked your computer's controls," said Venus when she heard that. "It will allow Astronema to board this ship."
"Not for long," said Andros as he led her away from the brig.
Time to save the others.
2.5 1987 Verse
The Shredder was having a very bad day. Once again he turtles had foiled his plans, and he had to put up with Kraang's nagging, and his idiotic henchmutants disappearing on him.
All he wanted to do was go to bed, and hope that the next day would be better.
He opened the door to his quarters in the Technodrome, and flopped down onto his bed without even bothering to take off his helmet.
Then he made the mistake of opening his eyes and looking up.
"Er- hi Boss," said Rocksteady from where he was plastered to the ceiling above him by what looked to be several rolls of duck tape.
"Don't mind us," said Bebop, who was attached next to him the same way. "We're just hanging out."
Shredder let out a loud groan. He so hated those turtles.
2.6 Prime Verse
This had not gone as planned.
All he had been trying to do was keep Raphael from being drained by Bloodsucker this time around. Only it had ended up with him having the mutagen sucked out of him instead.
So now Leonardo was nothing but an ordinary turtle, and could do nothing but watch as his brothers debated on how to fix the problem.
Fortunately, Leo could remember how Raph had gotten his mutagen back when it had happened to him. The trick was to get close enough to Bloodsucker in order to do it. Something that would be impossible if his brothers left him behind like they were currently planning to do.
Or at least that Donatello and Michelangelo were planning to do, Raph was insisting that they not leave him behind, de-mutated or not.
They were wasting valuable time, so Leo decided to make their decision for them.
He crawled slowly to where his brothers were arguing, and none them noticed his movement until he struck.
As quickly as he could, he bit both Don and Mike on their ankles, making them yelp. Then he moved to stand next to Raphael, and glared at the other two with as much authority as he could muster given his state.
The three of them stared down at him incredulously. Then Raph let out a loud laugh.
"Typical, even as an ordinary turtle he's still giving us orders," said Raph with a smile. He then scooped up the smaller turtle, before giving his still mutated brothers a stern look.
"He's coming with us."
There was no more arguing after that.
2.7 2012 Verse
Karai sat on a billboard overlooking the city. The loop was a little different this time, as she had woken up already established in Foot Headquarters.
Another difference was that she was completely human again, and this was the night she was supposed to meet Leonardo for the first time, but she had already dismissed the Foot patrol instead.
She had gone through several loops by now, and in a few she would regain her humanity, only to wake up once again as a snake mutant in the next one no matter if she fell in the mutagen or not.
She never stayed with the Foot no matter what she woke up as. She would always make her escape and join her real family, whom she'd learned to love (even if her brothers annoy the heck out of her sometimes).
But this time, Karai couldn't help but toy with the idea she had had back in her first loop. To play the part of Shredder's daughter until she gained the chance to strike him down early on. Then the Kraang would be their only problem.
She was pulled from her thoughts by an odd sight.
It was Leo. He was running across the rooftop where they'd first met. He seemed to be searching desperatly for something.
As if feeling her gaze, Leo turned and spotted her. She was surprised to see recognition in his eyes, and he began running across rooftops towards her as fast as he could.
"Karai!" he yelled breathlessly as he reached the rooftop the billboard was on. He hunched over to catch his breath.
"How-?" Karai started to ask. Tonight was supposed to be their first meeting. There was no way he could even know her name before now. Unless…
"I'll explain later how I know your name," he gasped out quickly once he'd caught his breath. "But you have to listen to me! The Shredder is lying to you! He's not your real father, he stole you from your parents! You have to believe me, your real father is-!"
"Hamato Yoshi," said Karai, slipping off the billboard to stand in front of him. "I know."
"Y-you know?" asked Leo, caught off guard.
"Mmm-hm," said Karai, studying him closely. "The question is; how did you know that already? You shouldn't have figured it out for months."
She then leaned in closely, looking him directly in the eye. "Unless you happen to be having a very strong case of déjà vu"
Leo was gaping at her now. "Y-you too?"
"Yup. And not for the first time either."
"But-but," Leo stammered, trying to find the words. "How? The others didn't even notice what was happening (and now they think I'm crazy). Why is this happening?"
Karai shrugged. "I don't know. But it keeps happening again and again. Time flows up to a certain point then boom, I wake up in the past and it starts all over. It's been going on like that for awhile, and up until now I'm the only one who seemed to notice."
Leo stared at her in surprise. "But if you know what's going to happen, why are you still with the Foot?"
"Usually I do go to find you guys and join our happy family, but this time I'm thinking about being a double agent," she said flippantly.
"What?"
"Leo, for most of these repeats I wake up here in the past as a mutant. But this time I'm human again. I could take out the Shredder and he'd never even see it coming. Then we would only need to focus on the Kraang."
Leo mulled this over. "As much as getting Shredder out of the way would be great, it's too dangerous. You'd only get one shot, and if you mess that up you're done for."
"And if I don't mess up?" she asked pointedly. "Leo I've been doing these loops for a long time. And with each one I train with Splinter more and more. My skills are way above what they were the first time around. He won't be expecting it."
Leo looked at her hard. "I really can't talk you out of doing this, can I?"
Karai looked at him with determination. "I have to try, Leo."
Leo nodded like he'd been expecting this. "Then can I convince you to at least let me help you this time?"
Karai gave him a wide grin. "I wouldn't have it any other way."
The rest of the night was spent on that rooftop, planning the Shredder's downfall. At least until Snakeweed showed up.
2.8 2003 Verse (Battle Nexus)
Don smiled as Leo accepted the trophy for being the Battle Nexus Champion. At least for this loop he wouldn't have to put up with Mikey's constant bragging.
He then turned to talk to the one who helped make all that possible.
"Thanks for all your help, Usagi," he said gratefully.
"It was my pleasure, Donatello-san," said Miyamoto Usagi in his usual respectful tone. "I am pleased that things turned out for the better this time as well."
"I can't believe you and your world is going through all this too," said Don. "I was working under the impression that it was only effecting worlds with counterparts of my brothers and I. But if it's effecting your world too, then maybe the problem is more extensive then we thought."
"Indeed," agreed the samurai rabbit. "Whatever the cause of it, I will admit that the foresight into coming events is helpful, if not grating after the first few times."
"I'm with you there," agreed Don. "At least my skills keep getting better with all the practice I've been putting in."
Usagi nodded in agreement. "Perhaps next time it will be you accepting that trophy, instead of one of your brothers."
Don smiled in amusement at that. "And leave things outside the ring to play out without me? Not a chance."
"Agreed."
Don then dug through his duffle and pulled out the spare transdimensional communicator he'd invented to keep in contact with the Leo and Mikey from the other dimensions, and handed it to Usagi.
"You can use this to get in contact with me, or the turtles from other dimensions who are aware of all this," he said. "With how much we don't know, staying in contact is essential."
"Thank you, Donatello-san," said Usagi accepting it. "There is just one thing I must ask of you."
"What?"
Usagi held up the communicator. "Please teach me the proper way to use this."
2.9 2012 Verse
It was never a good sign when Michelangelo says, "Hey, I just thought of something scary."
That was usually the time when you should either duck for cover, or prepare yourself to hear something that makes absolutely no sense.
And yet one fine morning the entire Hamato Clan (including Casey and April) were gathered in the sitting room of the lair when Mikey walked in and said just that.
Feeling that as the leader he should take one for the team, Leo reluctantly asked, "What did you think of?"
"We're all mutants," Mikey said pointing to his brothers, sister, and father. "And April is some kind of half-alien psycho person."
"Psychic," Donnie snapped, not liking how Mikey had inadvertently insulted his crush.
"Whatever," said Mikey, not at all discouraged. "My point is, the only person here who is completely human, is Casey!"
That made them all stop and think for a minute, before simultaneously turning to look at the human in question.
Casey blinked at the sudden attention.
"You're right, that is scary," agreed Karai, and the others all made sounds of agreement.
Casey scowled and crossed his arms. "Thanks, feeling the love here guys."
"Aw, don't worry, Case," said Raph with a wicked grin. "With our track record, I'm sure you'll get dumped in mutagen sooner or later."
Casey looked far from thrilled. "Great."
A/N Here's my next chapter. Enjoy. Any suggestions or requests are welcome.
2.1- Just a little something funny.
2.2- And that's how Karai joined the family.
2.3- The Turtle-Verses are starting to come together.
2.4- I liked Next Mutation more as a little kid than I do now that I'm smarter and have higher standards. But I still think it was cool that they crossed over with Power Rangers, which I am also a long time fan of. I'm pretty sure that's the first crossover I'd ever seen, getting me hooked on them for life.
2.5- Because messing with Shredder is fun.
2.6- Of the few TMNT Mirage Comics I've read, the storyline about Bloodsucker is one of my favorites. I was really happy that they alluded to that in the episode Within the Woods of the 2012 series. Though I would have liked it better if Raph demutated instead of turning into a plant.
2.7- Leo woke up, because there are some things Karai just can't be around for. Plus his crush on her is cute.
2.8- Yeah, Usagi is the Anchor of his world, and they're looping too. So I'll be adding loops about him and his adventures into this fic as well. Suggestions for that would be greatly appreciated.
2.9- Anyone else notice that any human who comes in contact with these turtles ends up mutated, a lot. I wont be surprised if it happens to Casey sooner or later.
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