Author's Note:
This is a rewrite of the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie with OC inserts. I did this mostly for myself, so if you don't want to read it, that's fine. I realize it's not the most creative thing to do, rewriting a pre-existing movie, but it still took time. An entire year in fact. And it's similar to using a base to draw or filling in a colouring book. So please don't leave any comments saying how this is lazy or anything. It was strictly for fun. Thank you.
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April was leaning precariously out the truck window, attempting to get footage of the action with her phone. Vern looked over to see her backside framed by the window. Distracted and staring in the wrong direction, Vern crashed the truck into a large snow bank. April was flung out the window, barely managing to grab onto an outside latch to keep her from plunging into the mountain snow. She screamed for Vern, for anyone who could help her. Vern reached out and grabbed her arm, pulling her back into the cab.
"Avalanch!" Mikey cried, surfing the van as a wall of snow rushed towards them. He and Raph clung to the van for as long as they could before the avalanche sent them flying. They landed on their shells and tobbogganed down the hill to stay ahead of the snow wall and catch up to their brothers.
"C'mon, Leo, wake up," Don begged, as Mikey appeared on the other side of Leo. The two began alternately slapping their older, unconscious brother, trying to snap him awake, as Kaitlyn hovered beside them.
"Yeah, you wake up, I promise to do anything you say," Mikey added, taking a break from slapping to look behind him at the oncoming snow. They caught up to the truck, and continuously had to keep ducking as the trailer swung back and forth over them, making sure to avoid the wheels as well. Kaitlyn tried to stabilize it with her telekinesis, but with half her focus on her makeshift hover board, it was proving to be a difficult task.
"Shredder's chopper is 20 miles outside New York city air space," Donnie informed them suddenly.
"Thanks for the traffic updates, Donnie," Raph said angrily, giving his brother a swift shove. "You doin' sports and weather next?"
"If you're gonna be nasty about it, then I guess you don't wanna know that there's a 500 foot drop off in 53 seconds!" Don retorted.
"Are you saying there's a-"
"A cliff!" Leo shouted as he suddenly became conscious. "We gotta get April outta there! Raph, heads up!" Raph followed the direction and helped Leo get to the top of the trailer.
"Don't forget that old guy!" Mikey called out. Leo flipped and rolled to April's door. She was startled slightly by him suddenly opening her door.
"Hi. Change of plans," he told her. "Awe, come on." He looked through the cab and out Vern's window to see Karai's van aiming yet another taser at him. "Guys! Get down!" April and Vern ducked just as the taser shot at Leo and gripped his chest. He tried to remove it, and when that failed, he fought through the pain, focusing instead on getting April and Vern to safety. He looked forward at the advancing cliff just in time to hear Donnie call out a time update on when they would go over if continuing at their current pace.
"Hey, Donnie! Do that fancy sling shot thing!" Raph called out. "We're gonna take little miss sunshine out!" Don extended his staff and stretched it towards Raph for him to grab onto. Donnie proceeded to swing Raph around to give him more momentum down the hill. Digging his duel sai into the ground, Raph propelled himself into the air, spinning and flying down the mountain with gravity on his side. Karai saw him charging towards her vehicle and ducked inside to brace for what was coming. He smashed into the side of the van with great force. Metal caved in and glass shattered out of its frame. Raph fell away, continuing to slide down the mountain, as the van began barrel rolling out of control. Kaitlyn had turned her head in time to see Raph make impact.
"Wow," she marvelled at his shear strength.
Leo reached out for April and Vern, "Grab on!" They burst out of the truck with Leo still connected to Karai's van by the taser cable. The van hit a tree, halting it instantly, but the cable kept unwinding until it broke from its hold altogether. "Mikey! Grab the cable!" Leo cried out as Kaitlyn continued to telekinetically steer the truck out of their way as best she could.
"I got it! I got it!" Mikey responded, grabbing hold of the cable and skiing behind his brother. Leo held onto April and Vern, protecting them from the debris of the truck as it began to fall apart before going over the cliff. Then Mikey tripped on a raised rock and lost his grip on the cable. He slid to a stop as he reached out hopelessly and called out, "No, no. Nooooo." He saw Leo, April and Vern slide over the edge with the cable dragging behind them. "Oh no. Awe Leo. April. And that other guy," Mikey moaned. "They were so young. So beautiful."
"They ain't dead, numb nuts," Raph told him as he slid casually past him, down the hill.
"Oh. Right on."
Leo hung over the side of the cliff with his katana firmly inserted into the rock wall; April and Vern still clinging onto him. Leo grunted, struggling to keep his hold with the extra weight, as the sword began to slip.
"I hope you got a parachute under that shell," Vern commented, trying to lighten the mood with more comic relief even though his voice dripped with fear. The other three turtles ran up to the edge, with Kaitlyn hovering beside them. She leapt off the lid and let it fall to the ground, her white glow fading away.
"Hey, guys!" Donnie called to them, looking over the cliff and past the three of them. "It's the maintenance hatch! Our ticket home!"
"A little help, please," Leo growled, just as Raph knelt down and reached over the edge to lift them to safety; doing so with one arm.
"Guys. We gotta hustle. Shredder's over New York City," Donnie told them.
"Well, I hope you have a plan to get down there," Vern commented.
"I have one," Kaitlyn told them, activating her telekinesis. She aimed both glowing hands at the mountain behind and the snow began to fall towards them again.
"That's your plan? Another avalanche!?" Raph barked, looming over her angrily. She rolled her eyes, unphased by his intimidation tactic. The snow continued to fall, and when it got within a few yards of the group, Kaitlyn raised one hand to the sky. The snow followed, flowing in an arch above them and over the cliff. Even in the urgency of the moment, the sight of the snow glistening in the sunlight as it moved over them like a river was beautiful. Even Raph was taken aback by the sight and couldn't help but watch in wonder. After a long moment of gazing up, he turned to look at Kaitlyn. With her eyes glowing white and the sun shining through the snow to project sparkling light on her face, she looked just as beautiful as the snow river above her. When he caught the thought going through his mind, his face twisted in a mix of confusion and wonder. She turned to see him staring at her, her smile never faltering. She flicked a finger on her sky-raised hand and a pillow of snow dropped down on Raph's head. He frowned at her as she let out a string of playful laughter. She raised her other hand to the sky, the final bit of snow flying overhead, and then brought both hands around to point at the cliff's edge. Vern looked over the cliff and saw the snow pile only reached half way towards them.
"There's not enough snow," he stated.
"Yes there is," Kaitlyn replied, jumping over the edge. She landed at the top of the pile and slid down to the maintinence hatch, gesturing to the others to do the same once she reached the bottom. Mikey beamed and bounded over the edge without hesitation, joining Kaitlyn at the bottom. The other turtles, and relunctantly April and Vern, did the same.
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The brothers slid down the sewer tunnel, quickly making their way to the city as the water at their feet splashed out of the way. Leo, Don and Kaitlyn, using her telekinesis to steady herself, surfed the tunnel standing as Raph and Mikey rushed down on their shells carrying Vern and April in respective order.
"Please keep your arms and legs inside the shell at all times," Mikey joked.
"Satelite imagery shows that Shredder has reached the top of Sacks Tower!" Don cried, once again keeping his brothers up to speed on the impending threat.
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The helicopter flew above the city heading for Sacks Tower. "Sensei," Sacks spoke over an intercom. "The mutagen is four minutes out. Moving forward, as planned."
The helicopter landed and Shredder got out, walking across the roof to activate the chemical poison. The countdown began as Sacks took the blood he collected down a few levels to the lab. He moved swiftly, setting up the canister and preparing it for conversion into pure mutagen.