Disclaimer: Ch. 1

Author's Note(s): Yay! Finished episode one for the most part. The second one will show what my other three OC's were up to while Jon was busy with the turtles. LoL

"Rise of the Turtles (& the Guardians in training) Pt 2"

It was on the night the four teenage mutant ninja turtles had left their lair to go out and explore the city for the first time; all of them being eighteen and eager to see and experience new things like all youths their age. However, the three of them paused as they heard their tallest brother gasp loudly and call to them.

Donnie had been having his whole "wow that ginger haired girl is so pretty" moment, after seeing April walking into view and then ending up in a bit of a conversation with his brothers, when he noticed stuff was going on down below.

A white van had just pulled up with some strange looking identical guys in black suits who were trying to kidnap April and her father. Donnie gasped as he saw they were in big trouble, but none of them seemed to notice the redhead across the street from the scene who was also surveying the situation.

"We gotta save 'em!" Donnie exclaimed; starting to feel in a panic that she might be in danger. But as he was about to go and save the ginger haired girl they would later come to know as April, Leo's hand on his shoulder stopped him.

"Splinter's instructions were very clear. We're supposed to stay away from people. And bathrooms…!" Leo said with a slightly yet comically paranoid look at the last bit; like the public bathrooms might jump out and attack or something.

Raph and Leo argued for a moment, when the purple banded ninja got tired of listening and told them he was going anyway, before jumping down to save the ginger haired girl… and maybe her dad too.

Meanwhile, Jonathan had been about to cross the street when a white van screeched to a halt in front of a teenage girl with orange ginger looking hair and an older guy who looked like he might be her dad.

As soon as the van stopped, a bunch of strange looking dudes that Jon recognized as Kraang Droids in disguise, hopped out and started trying to take the two gingers away. Sure, he hadn't been out on any solo missions before against the Kraang, but being a Guardian in training and a good person in general, Johnny wasn't about to let two innocent people get hurt on his watch. But he WOULD have to be VEEEERY careful about how he did it.

Jon crouched down while taking off her backpack to leave it there for safekeeping as he assessed the situation, when all of a sudden movement on the ground of four shadows passing over caught his attention, and then the sudden sound of someone saying "Hey!" as she noticed it was… a turtle?

It was a tall, but still kinda short, anthropomorphized looking turtle with a red band over his eyes like some kind of ninja. Huh… Well that was unexpected. Johnny couldn't use his bow and arrows as he typically would have, nor form a weapon with the symbiotic pitch substance of the suit.

So improvising, he grabbed the metal lid of the trashcan beside him and took off with it to wield like a shield style weapon to join the fray; since the red banded turtle, and what must be his teammates, weren't exactly doing a good job of dealing with the Kraang droids.

They must be new to this sort of thing. Well, he and his team kind of were too. He didn't want to blow his cover of who he was just yet. After all, Jon didn't know if these turtles were friend or foe. Just because they were fighting the Kraang didn't mean they were on the side of humans.

For all he knew they wanted the two gingers for their own sinister purposes. And quite frankly, there wasn't time for that now to figure it all out as he saw one of the Kraang creeps had the ginger girl over his shoulder.

Donnie had heard April's cry for help and had turned to aid her, when a blur of scarlet caught his eye, as the lovely redheaded teen charged at the suited creep and knocked the shell outta him with a flying kick to the head, before spinning around as his feet touched the ground, and throwing his weight against the shield to knock take the robot down for the count.

It was a good thing Jon wasn't using any of his arrows or explosives, as he had no idea what these turtles knew about the Kraang, and didn't feel like leaving any evidence for them to examine. It seemed to make better sense just to try and get the two gingers away as fast and best he could without making much trouble.

The redets double attack knocked the droid off his feet and made him drop April, whom Jon went to help up, but was then attacked from behind by another droid; who lifted him up by his throat as he turned around to defend himself.

It was about to do God knows what to him as his makeshift shield fell from his hand when he tried to get free. Then, that droid was sent flying by the bo staff that collided with him.

The sudden and harsh impact sent Jon up in the air a ways, and he was about to fall, when someone caught him. "Gotcha!" Said the voice of his savior. And as he looked to see who it was, Jon's eyes widened as he stared into the face of an olive green skinned turtle with a purple band.

At first he had been a bit afraid of what the turtle might do to him, but when it struck him that this terrapin had been the one who saved him, and then… the way he smiled at Johnny like he did as his own surprise wore off, the redets expression started to soften.

Huh… Donatello hadn't been expecting that to happen. He hadn't even noticed the redheaded human until he saved the ginger haired one. And though he was glad for his assist, Donnie saw the redhead in trouble and acted on instinct to save him before he realized what he was doing.

When he caught the oddly pretty human, the young terrapin hadn't been expecting their eyes to meet like they did, or for him to be caught off guard by how cute the rosy haired male was. It had actually taken Don a moment to realize that the redet was a guy and not a girl. But still… the stunning redhead had such deep green, soulful eyes…

He hadn't realized he'd been staring or smiling all dreamily until the sound of the ginger girls screaming snapped him out of it, and he realized he was staring romantically into the eyes of the wrong girl-er guy; but not before he ended up freaking out a bit too.

Johnny had just been about to return the smile with one of his own, but then there was a sound of shrill screaming that came across from them as April looked over to see a giant freaky looking monster that may or may not be a frog or lizard or whatever, who was holding some poor, innocent, cute guy; and it totally ruined the moment.

And it was then the ginger wondered if Donnie might be there to help the guys kidnap them. When he heard the scream, it freaked Donnie out and so when he looked over at the screaming face of April, he ended up screaming too.

It hurt Jon's ears and especially his bottom when Don's little freak out caused him to drop him. "Ow!" Johnny yelped as he fell flat on his butt, while Donnie tried to do damage control with the screamer, as April quickly backed herself up beside Johnny.

"No, no, no. No. Don't worry. We're the good guys." But all it did was make April scream even more. "Yeah, seriously girl. Shut up." Jon chided as he rubbed his throat where the robots viselike grip had held it; he was sure a bruise would probably form later, if it hadn't already. Thankfully within a few hours, if not sooner, his powers would mend it; no problem.

Donnie couldn't help frowning slightly at the redhead chiding the other, but at the same time kinda grateful considering he wasn't freaking out like the ginger girl was. Jon took the purple banded turtles word for now that they were the good guys and saw no reason yet not to trust them.

He'd met bad people before, and this particular turtle didn't give off that vibe. Not with the sweet way he'd smiled at him when he caught him, or the fact he'd helped him at all. Don then turned to April who was freaking out as the creeps closed in.

"It's okay." And as Don held out his hand, the ginger realized it too, and had been about to take his hand when Donnie got bopped upside the head with a nun chuck. But before any of them could react any further, Donnie and Mikey were hit and sent flying into some trashcans, while Jon turned back to fight the robot who did it.

Had Jonathan not been having to tone down his skills, and been so worn out from all the training he'd done, as well as fighting his way through the droids to get to the ginger and been able to use his freakin' powers, Johnny might've had the stamina required to dodge a sneak attack, as the droids closed around him and April and zapped him with some kind of taser from their hands because he was putting up quite a fight.

The jolt stunned him long enough for them to get him in the back of the van and start tying him up; which they were surprisingly quick at doing. The droid pushed off the quiver of arrows so he couldn't do them any more harm as it carried him off.

Donnie got up just in time to see the droid hop into the back of the van with the redhead over his shoulder before the door closed and the vehicle sped off. "Huh? They're getting away! They got the girls! I-I mean the girl and that guy!" Donnie cried in a panic as he took off after them; hoping like shell he'd get to the ginger and the curious redhead in time before anything bad happened to them, and maybe the girls dad too.

Luckily for Jon, his closest friend and teammate Akira was also on his way home after helping out his grandfather, when he noticed the sound of commotion nearby and went to check it out.

Aki had been traveling by rooftop ninja style, when he happened upon the scene in time to see Johnny getting tasered by some Kraang goons, and taken away in a van that was followed by some ninja turtle looking creature that reminded him of the kappa from old Japanese folktales his cousin used to tell him.

Surveying the scene, he noticed Johnny's backpack on the ground and went to fetch the bag, so that no one would steal it. It must've either been quite a scuffle or Jon had been tired; though he knew the redhead had been pretty beat. Training could get pretty rough some times.

Leaving the backpack on the roof beside his own, did Aki check his phone to see if it could track Jon's with the app the redhead had created for their phones. All the while his ninja garb formed over his clothing, before heading off in the direction his friend had been taken, as he called in the rest of their ragtag team.

Thankfully, the effects of the tasing Jon had gotten began to wear off, but he couldn't help being curious as to why the Kraang wanted those two humans so badly. Sure, they'd probably taken him just because he'd caused trouble and could use him to experiment on or whatever, but why the two gingers?

Maneuvering his bound hands around to get the phone out of his pocket, he managed to secretly send a text to Akira; having memorized the keys due to his photographic memory, which he had since as long as he could remember, but no one knew whether or not it was the result of his mutant powers.

Said brunet was currently chasing after the van and had been about to bust it open when he heard his phone buzz. Flipping it open, he wasn't too surprised to see a text from Jon. "Captured by Kraang. In back of van w/ 2 civies they were after. Follow & observe. Want 2 know Y they want these ppl."

It wasn't Jon's usual use of grammar and spelling, but all things considering, it was what he sent when time was not permitting for much eloquence, as civies meant civilians or regular people.

Akira sent back a simple "K" that Jon managed to read when the aliens weren't looking, after having wriggled his bound hands from behind his back and under his legs so they were in front of him, and hung back until the Kraang reached their base.

He found a nice perch and waited for the other two to show up, and to see if Jon sent any more messages. And while Akira waited, leave us turn back the clock a bit to just before their two other teammates Danny and Kai were contacted…

Danny and his friend were in the middle of closing and had been in the middle of a conversation about a manga series he'd let Kai borrow called "Hellsing", and they were discussing how wickedly awesome it was, when his cell phone began ringing.

It was their team leader Akira calling to tell him they had a mission and for him and Kai to come meet him. He asked if he should call Johnny, and Aki told him that Johnny was the mission as he had been captured by Kraang, but that he'd tell him more once he and Kai arrived at the address he was texting to him.

Danny was a pretty mellow guy, but he could be easily and overly excited about going on patrol, as he did like their secret hero role. At least that's what he called it. At having been listening to what was being said on both ends with the use of his powers to enhance his hearing, Kai became a bit irked and tried to snatch the phone away from Danny to find out what had happened to Jon.

Kai didn't like it when one of their team was in trouble. Much less in the slimy clutches of the Kraang. The oranget could be rather cocky at times, but to anyone who really knew him like his team, he was probably the most level headed of the group next to Akira.

Finally though, he managed to trip Kai so he fell flat on his butt to keep him from grabbing the phone. Then he ended up sweatdropping at the death glare the assassin gave him for it; his golden eyes becoming beastly catlike slits. No matter how many times Dan saw it, it still freaked him out some.

He flashed Kai an apologetic, sheepish smile as he hung up and plucked out a strawberry lollipop and held out the peace offering to the glaring older male as he got to his feet and brushed himself off.

Kai snatched the sweet agitatedly from his hand and after unwrapping it, popped it into his mouth and took a moment to quell the urge to punt Danny over the video rental place they were near. Danny knew better than to try and pester him during that type of moment and to offer a sweet since it was sort of Kai's weakness.

There was a reason Kai's Guardian name was Savage, and he'd seen plenty of times for himself as they trained and fought side by side in battle as to exactly why that was. And Danny wasn't dumb enough to make an enemy out of him.

Especially since they had a lot in common, and had known each other for quite a few years. And as he cooled off, they headed someplace to change, as their clothing was swallowed up into a writhing inky black mass that replaced their regular garb with their Guardian styled ninja attire.

Kai had to go fetch his backpack, which they stored in the staff room and fetched out his pair of tekko-kagi, before the pair of ninjas set off toward their assigned designation; making sure to lock up before they left.

They met up with Akira on the top of some building that was as close as they could get to the Kraang base without being seen, where their leader had been waiting. They were told to wait until Johnny gave them the signal, before informing them of the situation as he knew it to be. So, after that, while they waited, Danny and Kai went back to their conversation as Aki patiently kept vigil.

When the Kraang weren't paying attention, he would send Aki an update about where they were. Johnny made sure the two humans he was with didn't see him texting either. It was bad enough the ginger girl was dumb enough to try attacking that one droid so pitifully. Had it been a regular human creep, it might've had better results.

They ended up having to wait around for quite a while before things began to happen, and Jon was starting to get bored and annoyed by the whining the two gingers were doing. The father was pathetically the biggest crybaby he'd seen so far, and couldn't help wishing he could zap him with one of his inventions.

The girl he'd come to learn was called April wasn't as bad. Chatty, but not as annoying as her father. She was kinda cute and all, but she was too whiny for Johnny's taste. He preferred guys; especially ones like his ex whom he was still on friendly terms with.

Jon peered at his phone, which he had put on silent, and noticed a text telling him about a van crashing into the base outside and some mutant turtle creatures were climbing up the wall; having used the van as a distraction.

Danny and Kai were agreeing how hot the comic character Alucard was. "I don't know. I mean, yeah, he's hot. There's no denying that. But I can't help finding Captain Pip to have been cuter." Danny commented; preferring the style the character had been drawn and portrayed in as it was less freaky than the vampire Alucard.

"He's cool, but I can't help but love Alucard's style in battle. That guy really knows how to have a good time!" Malakai giggled darkly. "But… I do feel bad for him. He's just got such a sweet soft side y'know?" He added thoughtfully.

Danny gave a nod of agreement before they heard Aki's phone buzzing after the crashing van incident had occurred. Danny and Kai couldn't believe there were ninja turtles involved now, but the ash-brunet found it kind of exciting; like something out of a comic book he commented.

Jon's message told them if the turtles were there that they might as well head on in since they seem to have set off an alarm. Jon was surprised to see the familiar face of the purple banded turtle pop up as he called out "We found 'em!" to someone, or rather someone's, whom he guessed were the other three.

"Don't worry! I'll have you out of there in a second." Donnie told them; mostly speaking to April, but sparing his reassuring smile to the redhead who was standing beside her with his arms crossed and looking slightly irked for some reason.

"Okay, giant lizard thing." April said uncertainly. "He's a turtle." Johnny corrected coolly and politely, much to Donnie's happy surprise. "Y-yeah, um, I'm… I'm Donatello." He said in a bashful way as the redhead came over to get a better look out the small window with April. "I'm Johnny." Jon said with a smile.

"And I'm April." The lovely ginger smiled too, but hers made the turtle almost melt into another doki doki moment; which Jon thought was odd until he realized Donatello must be crushing on April. "Wow, that's a pretty… Egh!" He started out saying, before one of the other turtles smashed him up against the door.

"The lock, Donnie!" The blue banded ninja scolded exasperatedly. "Yeahoh, right, yeah! Sorry." And with that he went back to trying to open the lock. Jon pressed his hands against the glass as he tried to watch him.

"Not to rush you, but hurry up!" April said impatiently; peeking over Jon's shoulder. Johnny frowned at her. "It's alien tech. Give him a break." The redhead scolded just loud enough for April to hear. The ginger bowed her head as they heard Donnie's muffled voice.

"Hey! You think it's easy trying to pick a lock with these hands?" He asked while showing them his three fingered hands. Johnny shot her a look that was all "bitch I told you so!" as he raised a brow.

"Uh, sorry…" April apologized. "Have you tried just busting it? Typically locks that require a power source and a set-up like that can short out and open if you just trash it." Johnny offered; trying to make his advice seem logical and plausible without blurting out that he knew how to freaking open it, which was slightly frustrating.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, he had to keep the fact that he was a mutant and a Guardian secret or risk putting everyone he cared about in danger. The Kraang weren't THAT stupid.

And seeing as the turtles were trying to help and his team was on the way, there wasn't any reason to blab about it. He still didn't know the turtles well enough to give away his secret identity.

He would've just donned his ninja garb and taken out all the Kraang earlier, but that would've meant the turtles and the two humans seeing him in his Guardian uniform, and then they might've been trying to find out who he was and who he worked for. Which could get him in trouble. Anonymity and the shadows were a ninjas best friends.

"Yeah, but if it doesn't work-" Donnie began; having been impressed by the idea, but not wanting to end up making the wrong choice. Thankfully, Raph had heard what the redhead said and thought it was the smartest thing he'd heard all day.

Raphael couldn't help wondering why Donnie wasn't gushing over the cute, smart redhead; whose gender Raph was still trying to figure out. And after Donnie started stuttering and failing to get results, he decided to cut in.

"Oh, for the love of... Get out of my way!" The angry red banded ninja pushed Donatello out of the way, and began violently stabbing at the lock until it opened. But by the time it opened, the Kraang had grabbed the two O'Neil's and Johnny and began taking them someplace else as the turtles followed close behind.

"What the hell do you want with us anyway?" Johnny demanded; disliking how roughly they were treating him and April. He wasn't too worried about the whiny dad. "That is for Kraang to know, one called human."

"Oh great, a goon with a bad sense of humor." He muttered sarcastically to himself before looking down to see the turtles and some freaky looking plant mutant. "What the…?"

Johnny couldn't leave the other two with the Kraang. He'd try to stick with them as long as he could to make sure they didn't get killed or worse, and hopefully find out why the Kraang wanted them so bad, before getting them all to safety.

But it seemed the turtles, or at least one purple banded one in particular, was not going to allow the Kraang to take them. During the mid-air scuffle, Donnie took out one Kraang droid with a ninja star, and it caused April to fall out.

Johnny dove after her, and Donnie seeing this followed suit. Jon managed to grab a hold of the ginger, and after having to jump down a few times, landed crouched on his feet with the freaked out girl in his arms.

Donnie landed beside them, looking wide eyed and amazed by the redheads skill, but also disappointed by not being the one who got to catch April. "You okay?" He asked breathily. Jon gave a nod, but frowned at the saddened look on April's face when he saw the girl all depressed about them not being able to save her dad.

"Let's get you to safety first, April." Jon told her quietly, and April gave a nod; finding the others coolness under pressure of the situation oddly comforting. Sure, he was pretty handsome; though mostly pretty. But to April, Jon gave off a cool, protective brotherly vibe.

The three of them headed over to see what the three turtles were up to. Upon seeing the three turtles leading the plant creature towards the power conduits, and hearing Donnie's remarks about how that tactic could prove to be really stupid or genius, Johnny smirked. "I'd have to say both. That blue masked friend of yours is pretty clever." He commented as he watched Leo taunting Snakeweed.

Donnie didn't like that one bit, and for some odd reason felt a small pang of jealousy. "That's my brother, and he's not that smart." He corrected somewhat poutingly. Jon raised an eyebrow wondering what bug crawled up his shell.

But the explosion of mutant plant bits getting showered everywhere was a bit distracting. "Well I'm off salad forever." Jon quipped while wrinkling his nose at the smell of burning mutant plant, before Donnie's brothers came over, and they got the heck out of there.

On the way, he sent a text. "Sorry guys. Gotta leave the party early to see the girl home. You'll have to have fun without me for now. Keep you posted." Aki frowned slightly at it, but gave a shrug. A ninjas gotta do what a ninjas gotta do.

He, April and the turtles ended up at some apartment above an antique shop called "Second Time Around", on the fire escape. "Are you gonna be all right?" Donnie asked April; worried the whole experience may have traumatized her or something.

""I guess. My aunt says I can stay here as long as I want." April replied miserably. "But I'll be a lot better when I track down the creeps that took my dad." She finished angrily. Jon could relate. If anything ever happened to Casey, he'd burn the world to get him back.

"Hey, are you okay, Red?" Raph asked Jon quietly as the turtle gave his forearm a little nudge with his elbow; trying to sound cool and not like he cared. But it reminded Jon of Casey and he smiled some and gave a nod while quipping. "Yeah. Thanks for asking, Red." The red banded ninja blinked, but found it amusing.

"It's Raph." He informed smirkingly. "Johnny." He replied in kind just as coolly. Raph gave a curt nod; his smirk widening as they turned back to the conversation that was going on between the rest.

Seriously, Raph knew the oddly girly looking redhead was a guy, but with the way his geeky brother was, he couldn't help but wonder why wasn't Donnie going all gaga over this Johnny guy? He seemed kinda cool. And not at all weak and helpless like the April kid.

The blue banded ninja asked some stupid question about if the police would help, and Johnny couldn't help thinking they must be new to things if they didn't know how screwed the legal system was, but thankfully April set them straight.

"April, I promise you we will not rest until we find him." Donnie stated; wanting to impress April by being heroic, and feeling rather stoked when he saw the slight look of surprise and then the small smile that followed.

Wow, Donatello was really nice, Johnny thought. Though, if he hadn't offered, he would have, and would undoubtedly be doing his own investigating anyway. "We won't?" The red banded ninja asked, before the blue one elbowed him and said "No, we won't."

"Thank you, but it's not your fight." April told them appreciatively. 'Okay Donnie, deep breath. Gotta show how devoted I am to the cause. Girls like that… right?' He thought as he wanted to show he was a caring, sensitive guy as he told April

"Yes, it is." And placed his hand on her knee. Okay… maybe a bit much, but so far April didn't look mad or upset by that. In fact, he ended up blushing when she beamed hopefully at him.

He was glad he kept it together long enough not to make any weird giggles or lovey gaga sounds. He merely scooted away as his brothers began to leave after giving their own little wave or whatever.

But not before Raph gave Johnny a nod like cool people do, and he smirked a bit when the redhead mimicked the gesture in reply, before smacking Mikey upside the head for trying to give Jon the nod too and only making himself look like his usual goofy self; which made the redet chuckle lightly and slightly embarrass Raph.

The brainy ninja hurried up the building to the roof after his brothers. But he lingered and turned around to smile down at the ginger and waved. Johnny felt his smile widen as he watched them jump off and disappear into the night. "I better get going too. Are you sure you're gonna be okay by yourself?" Jon couldn't help asking even though he felt worn the heck out.

"Yeah, thanks. I really appreciate your saving me and all." April said; having not forgotten how the other had leapt from the helicopter to save her. "Ah, you'd have done the same for me." Jon said; giving her the "Aw shucks" routine to help lighten the air.

It worked some as the ginger giggled at the way the previously calm and collected guy goofily rubbed the back of his head and smiled toothily like it wasn't such a big deal. "Well, thanks anyways." April said again.

Jon gave a nod and after a few minutes of conversing and asking if she knew why the Kraang were after her and her dad and ending up with nothing, they exchanged numbers, and then he bid the ginger goodnight; before leaving to get away and find out what his teammates were up to, when he got a message from Akira. Well, he may be tardy to that party, but Jon sure as heck wasn't going to miss the after party.

To be continued...

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