Chapter 1

Prologue: Origins

(Opens to a white furred rat boy wearing monks clothes. He is kneeling and holding a katana and a scrap of red and black cloth.)

Lincoln: (narrating) I have often told you of my beloved master, Lynn Loud Sr. (serious) But now is the time you learned the whole truth.

(Scene cuts to a dojo of sorts in an apartment. A brown haired man wearing brown training garb practices ninjitsu.)

Lincoln: As you already know, my master was a ninja of great power. One of the greatest practitioners of ninjitsu in many centuries.

(In a cage on a stand, Lincoln as a normal rat, stands on his hind legs coping Lynn Loud Sr's moves flawlessly.)

Lincoln: I was his pet rat , and I learned ninjitsu by mimicking his moves from my cage. For many years, I was happy, we were a family.

(Lynn Loud Sr delivers a spinning high kick. Suddenly his door is punched off it's hinges, From the hall Coach Pacowski comes in. He is a large man with a dragon tattoo on his left arm , wearing black ninja garb with a katana on his back. More people wearing ninja garb and masks follow behind.)

Lincoln: (coldly) But that life ended when the Shredder sent his foot ninja to attack my master.

(Coach Pacowski signals the foot to attack. One leaps at Lynn, who knocks him aside, before blocking a seconds attack and punches him in the face before throwing him aside. Lynn backs away as more ninjas move in to attack. In his cage, Lincoln watches and growls at the combat. One ninja grabs Lynn Sr from behind, so another can punch him. Lynn Loud Sr jumps over the blow and kicks the ninja in the chest sending him backwards. The ninja crashes into Lincoln's cage, breaking it open.)

Lincoln: My master battled honorably. (Lynn Loud Sr kicks a ninja into a desk table) But through their dishonorable ways, the foot ninja overpowered him.

(Lynn Loud Sr turns to face Coach Pacowski. Pacowski holds up a device that launches cords that wrap around Lynn's right wrist, the foot do likewise wrapping around, Lynn's other wrist and both legs. Pacowski and the ninja send a voltage into Lynn will the devices. Lynn Loud Sr howls in pain. Lincoln averts his eyes as the foot keep it up until Lynn sags weakly in the grasp of three foot. From the door enters a figure covered in armor with blades and a bladed gauntlet on his left wrist. His face is covered in a helmet and mask.)

Lincoln: Then the Shredder entered.

(The Shredder comes to a stop before Lynn Sr. Lincoln exits his cage and looks on worried.)

Lincoln: They accused my Master of working for their enemies. They wanted information.

(The Shredder gives a signal. The foot continue to assault Lynn Loud Sr with powerful voltage. Lincoln leaps around over a box, making his way silently towards the preoccupied villians.)

Lincoln: They were relentless. But my Master only said one thing.

(Lynn Loud Sr hits the floor. Summoning all his remaining strength, hit lifts his head to look Shredder and Coach Pacowski in the eyes. His face beaded with sweat.)

Lynn Sr: (defiant) He who lives without honor…will end without honor.

(Lynn Loud Sr then falls weakly to the floor. Shredder turns to Pacowski.)

Shredder: (Kataro's voice, annoyed) This is a waste of time. Finish him!

(Coach Pacowski draws his katana and rises it over his head.)

Lincoln: I tried to save my Master.

(From his hiding spot, Lincoln launches himself on to Pacowski's leg and climbs up to his face. He bites and claws at Pacowski's face. Pacowski gasps in pain and falls to his knees, before he tears Lincoln off and throws him out an open window.)

Lincoln: (regretful) My efforts were in vain…though I did leave my mark.

(Pacowski raises his head to show his bite and scratch marks.)

Kataro: (angry, to Lynn) I'll finish you myself! (to Pacowski) Simpleton!

(Having grabbed on to the window sill, Lincoln climbs up in time to see Shredder raises his gauntlet. Lincoln looks on horrified as the wrist blades come down and the sound of a body thudding to the floor is heard.)

(Lincoln is devastated at the loss of his Master, he releases his grip on the window sill and falls down into the alley below. He bounces off a trash bag and lands in a puddle, where he lays forlorn.)

Lincoln: (sad) The Shredder had taken my Master Lynn Sr from me…from the world. Not long after that…I found you, my daughter's, man I never get used to that. Anyway you all know the rest. I remember it started on a day like any other, but ended up changing many lives.

(Lincoln exits a cardboard box, he sniffs around at the air and garbage around him. He then hurries over to the entrance of the alleyway to witness said events.)

Lincoln: I witnessed an accident.

(At a busy intersection, amid a group of a people waiting to cross, a young boy that looks like Rusty holds a glass jar. Inside the jar are four baby turtles.)

Lincoln: A young boy carried a glass jar, with four pet infant turtles…

(On another side of the intersection, an old blind man who looks like Bernie walks to cross.)

Lincoln:… An old blind man was crossing the street when he was almost run down by a large truck.

(Bernie slowly makes his way across, as the street lights change. Coming down the street is large truck, with the letters "TCRI" along the side. The truck honks it's horn. At the spot with the group, a young man that looks like Clyde rushes to save him.)

Clyde: Hey!

(Clyde accidentally bumps into Rusty, knocking the jar from his hands. The jar hits the ground and smashes open. The baby turtles are then carried by a small current of water leading down to a storm drain.)

Clyde: Look out!

(Clyde pushes Bernie out of the way of the truck. The truck swerves, somehow the back doors open and a metal and glass canister flies out.)

Lincoln: As the truck swerved, a metal canister bounced out of the back…

(Rusty attempts to retrieve his pets, but is startled by the arrival of the canister. Before he can recover, the baby turtles are carried into the storm drain. The canister follows. The turtles fall down into the sewers. The canister smashes open spilling a glowing green ooze over the reptiles. Lincoln enters the sewer and makes his way to the turtles.)

Lincoln:… Releasing a glowing ooze, which covered their bodies.

(Lincoln spies a discarded coffee can and rolls it over.)

Lincoln: I took pity and gathered them up in a coffee can.

(Lincoln rightens the can and lifts up one of the turtles by it's tail. The baby turtle shakes itself, causing the ooze covering it to splatter in Lincoln's face. Lincoln looks unamused as he wipes his face and gathered up the other three and places them in the can. In a shallow tunnel with straw and other soft materials, Lincoln cleans off the turtles and puts them down for sleep. Then he curls up for sleep himself.)

Lincoln: I took them to my burrow. (ominus) The next morning.

(Lincoln lays sleeping. A small, green three fingered hand reaches out and pokes his nose. Lincoln wakes up and starts. Before him are the baby turtles, only larger and looking like girl-turtle hybrids. One has blonde hair. the second brown hair in a short ponytail, with freckles. The third has brown hair in a pixie cut and freckles. The last has light brown hair in a ponytail and buck teeth with braces. They are on all fours and smiling at him.)

Lincoln: The four had doubled in size. The ooze had effected their growth.

(Lincoln then looks at himself and sees he too has changed, looking like a boy-rat hybrid.)

Lincoln: It changed me too, making me larger and more intelligent.

(Some time later Lincoln is walking bipedally along the sewer. The turtles are walking on all fours behind him. He stops and looks at them. They stop and look up him. Lincoln then turns and continues walking, the turtles do like wise.)

Lincoln: The four followed me everywhere…except above ground. (sad) I knew the people of the surface wouldn't understand us. We are so…different. I was amazed by their dexterity…

(As the five mutants walk, the one with the short ponytail briefly walks on all fours and jumps slightly before going back on all fours.)

Lincoln:… Even so, I couldn't have prepared myself for what happened one day.

(The five are still walking around the sewers. Suddenly the turtle with the pixie cut looks up at the rat-boy hybrid.)

Turtle: (hesitantly) Lin..coln?

(Lincoln turns around to stare at her in shock.)

Lincoln: One of them actually spoke, my name! More words followed, soon all were speaking.

(Back in Lincoln's burrow, the four sit down to a pizza dinner, while Lincoln watches. The turtles can now be distinguished by different scale color. The blonde haired one has medium green skin, the short ponytail has the darkest green. The pixie cut has olive green skin, and the one with braces has greenish grey. )

Pixie Cut: (looks at the pizza and licks her lips) Awesome.

Short ponytail: (shoves her aside) Mine!

(Pixie cut jumps up onto the blonde one's head)

Pixie cut: (happy) Pizza, dudes!

Blondie: (annoyed) Get off me!

Braces: (battle cry) Cowabunga!

(The four attack the pizza and devour it. Lincoln continues to watch with a small smile before becoming serious.)

Lincoln: Intelligence followed soon after. Realizing the above world was sometimes a dangerous place, I began teaching them ninjitsu. The secret arts of stealth and power, and all I knew of this world.

(A green mist covers the screen before quickly vanishing. When it does several years have passed. Lincoln sits observing in a makeshift dojo. Beside him sits the blonde turtle, now wearing a ninja mask with a pair Katanas strapped to her back. In front of them the pixie cut turtle and braces one spar with each other, also wearing ninja masks. Pixie cut wields a Bo staff and braces has nunchucks. Beyond that the short ponytail one wails on a punching bag, also wearing a ninja mask.)

Lincoln: From a battered comic book I fished out of a storm drain and from a cartoon my Master enjoyed, I chose names for each of them.

(Blondie leaps into frame and holds her Katanas before her.)

Lincoln: Lorinardo.

(Pixie cut follows spinning her Bo staff.)

Lincoln: Lunatello.

(Next is short ponytail revealing her weapons being twin said.)

Lincoln: Lynnpheal.

(Last is Braces, she spins her nunchucks and accidentally hits herself in the head.)

Braces: Ow! (under breath) Way to ruin the mood.

Lincoln: (sighs) Luanangelo.

(The other three leap up beside her.)

Lincoln: And together they are…

(A colored version of the four appear on a roof. Lori's ninja mask is blue. Lynn's is red. Luna's purple and Luan's orange.)

Announcing voice: Teenage Mutant Ninja Louds!

(The four draws their weapons and charge as the title echoes. A large friendly title appears on a green background with shadowy silhouettes of the four turtles doing poses.)

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