Chapter 02: Things Change
My name is Leonardo.
And right now, my brothers and I are in a mess of trouble.
A group of street punks are standing in front of the turtles, chains, baseball bats and pipes on their hands as weapons.
Our backs are up against the wall of some trashed alley.
Cornered by the toughest street thieves of this side.
"Look at those freaks!" Yelled one of them.
"What's with the dweeby costumes?" Asked Another one.
"This ain't Halloween." Said another member.
The leader takes out a stick and twirls it on his hand.
"You're goin' down, freaks, nobody messes with the Purple Dragons!" Yelled the leader.
"Nobody messes with the Purple Dragon, especially wearing stupid turtle costumes!" Yelled the leader.
He's wrong.
We're not wearing costumes.
All four turtles jumped up at them.
Within the sewers of New York City, Master Splinter was giving the turtles a ninja lesson.
"Remember, to be a true ninja, you must become one with the shadows, Darkness gives the ninja power, while Light reveals the Ninja presence." Said Splinter as he was talking to no one.
"Now can you extincquich this flame, without revealing yourselves?" Asked Splinter as he closes his eyes.
Suddenly a shadow of one of the turtles then try's to grab the candle but Splinter moved it quickly and the turtle then hit the wall.
"Too noisy, Donatello." Said Splinter.
Another one tried to grab the candle as well but Splinter flipped him and make him hit Donnie.
"Too clumsy, Michelangelo." Said Splinter as he put the flame forward.
Another one went sneaky like straight forward to Splinter but he dodged it and the turtle then looked at Splinter, as he backed away from the turtle.
The Turtle tried to attack Splinter.
But Splinter used his stick to trip the turtle and the turtle then fell into Donnie and Mikey.
Splinter then stood up.
"Poor choice, Raphael." Said Splinter, with a slight chuckle.
Just then a fourth Turtle known was hanging on the ceiling and soon he went down on the rat without him noticing and sliced the candle with his Katana Swords and thus revealing to be Leo and he then blew out the candle.
Splinter turned on light to reveal the rest of the lair.
"Well done Leonardo." Said Splinter as he congratulating Leo.
Donnie, Mikey and Raph came to them.
"Teacher's Pet." Said Raph.
Leo threw the candle to Raph.
"Ninja Drop-Out." Replied Leo.
Raph crushed the candle while Donnie and Mikey then wooed.
Leo and Raph then glared at each other.
"My Sons." Said Splinter.
Splinter shook his head and sighed.
"My Sons." Said Splinter as the turtles lined in one single group.
"If you are to become a full ninja, you must work harder, your path in life will not be an easy one." Said Splinter as Mikey wasn't paying attention and was trying to swat a fly.
"The outside world will not be a friendly place for you, you four are different in a way the surface dwellers will not understand." Said Splinter as Mikey was still trying to swat the fly.
"To survive, you must master these skills I teach you, Ninjitsu power of stealth and secrecy, you must become kage, shadow warriors." Said Splinter as Mikey was trying his patients to swat the fly.
Splinter held his stick.
"And you must never be discovered by the humans." Said Splinter.
Mikey finally swatted the fly only to realize Splinter was looking mad at him.
But before Splinter could say anything the everything started to shake.
"What is that noise?" Asked Splinter as he was anxious.
Everything in the lair started crumble.
"Earthquake!" Yelled Mikey.
"In New York, possible but not likely." Said Donnie as he moved back before the beam crushed him.
The wall then exploded to reveal a bunch of robot with one yellow eye and sharp teeth and soon started to screech.
Everyone soon draw out their weapons.
The robots then soon ran to them.
"What are those things?" Asked Leo.
"New York City Cockroaches?" Mikey replied jokingly as he scratched his head.
"Whatever they are, they picked the wrong party to crash." Said Raph as he kicked one of the robots.
The robot then fell back and couldn't get up and another of them attacked at Donnie.
Donnie swung his Bo-Staff at it and another came by and bit his stick and Donnie then smashed it to the ground.
Mikey used his Nun chucks at one of them at a time and then two of them.
"Hey Leo, think fast." Said Michelangelo as he grabbed one of the robots and threw it at Leo.
Leo swung his Katana Swords at the robots that Mikey threw and then another two.
The robots then turned into pieces.
Splinter attacked the robots his stick.
Leo then saw Splinter attacking the robots.
"Hurry, we have to help Master Splinter, come on." Said Leo to his brothers.
While the brothers were attacking the robots none of them seem to notice the robots eating the beams.
Master Splinter attacked two more robots.
The others then tried to reach to Master Splinter.
Raph destroyed another of those robots.
Leo saw the robots gnawing at the ceiling and the roof started to collapse.
"Look out!" Yelled Leo as he pulled Raph back from the ceiling.
The roof then collapsed destroying two robots in the process and preventing the others reaching to Master Splinter.
Everyone then gasped.
"Oh no." Said Leo as he ran through the dust along with his brothers.
"Master Splinter." Said Raph.
Leo tried to get through the rubble.
"Master Splinter!" Yelled Leo hoping to get an answer.
"No!" Yelled Leo as he didn't get an answer.
One of the robots then tried to get up as it screeched but was soon stomped on by Raph.
"What the shell are those things?" Asked Mikey as Raph walked up to him.
"Whatever they were, their chomped now." Said Raph as he kicked the robot.
The others tried to get through the rubble.
"Guys, Splinter, we got to find Splinter." Said Leo as he came a little closer to the rubble.
"Master Splinter, can you hear me?!" Yelled Leo again.
Nothing but silence came.
"Donatello, any way to, what are you doing?" Asked Leo as he saw Donnie with his phone.
"Shell Cell, I'm calling Master Splinter, I hope." Said Donnie.
On the other side of the rubble Master Splinter will unconscious until a ring came by.
Splinter then heard the phone and picked it up from the ground.
"Hmm, which button you push to answer this thing?" Asked Master Splinter as he pushed the buttons while unknowingly has answered it.
Everyone smiled with relief.
Leo grabbed the phone.
"Master Splinter are you-" Said Leo but he was cut off.
"Hello, Hello?" Asked Splinter but got no response.
"Stupid device." Said Splinter.
"You don't need to press any buttons, you already answered it." Said Leo he finally said to Splinter.
"Ah, Leonardo, whatever those mechanical menace are, they have managed to eat the support structure of our home, we must leave right away." Said Splinter as he looked around.
Everyone then huddled up to hear Splinter.
"Meet me at the old drainage junction in south point." Said Splinter while he was unaware that Raph pushed Mikey away because he wanted to hear better.
Donnie then pulled a map from his bag and blew off the dust.
"If we take the south conduit, it intercept with the old drainage tunnel." Said Donnie as he was showing them on the map.
"We'll meet you there, sensei." Said Leo.
Mikey came back to them.
"What he say, what he say, did he mention me?" Asked Mikey as he was anxious.
Raph pushed him away again and later they were getting their gear.
"Goodbye Broken pipe, goodbye crunchy payphones, goodbye dented manhole covers, goodbye home sweet home." Said Mikey as he was saying goodbye to their old home.
"Hello cruel world, come on." Said Raph as he dragged Mikey to catch up with the others as he yelped in the progress.
They were later walking along the sewers.
"Looks like those things have been through here." Said Leo.
"These walls are seriously compromised, it's lucky this roof hasn't collapsed." Said Donnie.
They later stopped.
"You were saying?" Asked Raph.
The entrance was blocked with rubble.
Leo then groaned.
"Can't go forward, can't go back." Said Leo.
"Looks like we go up." Said Raph as he ran towards a ladder.
"Heading the surface is a bad idea." Said Leo as he ran to Raph.
"We got no other way to go, Leo." Said Donnie.
Leo groaned again.
"Alright, but we're only going up to go down to the next manhole cover, got it?" Asked Leo.
"No fooling around, remember what sensei said: it's dangerous for us to be seen, let alone captured, we need to stay out of sight." Said Leo.
"We got it the first thousand times Leo, just follow my lead." Said Raph as he climbed the ladder as the others followed.
They later reached up to the surface.
Raph opened the manhole cover and looked around to see if anyone is around and then jumped out.
Leo looked around.
"Come on Leo, move it." Whined Mikey.
Leo looked down.
"I don't want to be staring at your butt any longer then I have to." Said Mikey.
"Shh, guys." Said Leo as he ducked as a motorcycle came by and Raph jumped in the shadows.
Raph walked into a place were people were chatting and soon had to jump into a lamppost and then looked around the alleyway and found the manhole cover.
"Manhole cover twelve o'clock." Said Raph.
Raph went for the manhole cover however a truck came by and Raph hid behind a car.
"Now what?" Asked Raph.
The truck went into the alleyway.
The backdoor of the truck opened and people came out while laughing.
Raph then went to the manhole cover only to find it blocked.
"Great, just great, the old turtle luck went from true to form." Raph said as he kicked the truck.
"Way to be stealthy, Raph." Said Leo.
Raph turned around to the others from behind the alleyway.
"Yeah, I don't think they heard you Jersey." Said Mikey.
"Give me a hand." Raph said.
Mikey was about to clap his hands.
"Don't even think about it, Mikey." Said Raph as he waved his hand.
Leo pointed at Mikey and shook his head.
"Ah, forget you guys, I'll push it myself." Said Raph.
Raph then went to the back of the truck and tried to push, but had no luck.
Just then they heard noise coming from the door.
Leo waved at Raph to come back.
"Hide Raph, come on hurry." Said Leo.
Raph hid in the truck as the gang came through the door.
They soon gasped as Mikey puts his hands on his head.
"Poor choice, Raphael." Said Mikey as he was quoting Splinter from training.
The humans came out with bags full of money.
One of them laughed.
"Did you see that guy squirmed, when we took his cash?" Asked one of them.
The leader laughed.
"Cheap man, cheap to be fleeced by us wolves." Replied the leader as he threw the money unknowingly that Raph was hanging on the ceiling.
They soon closed the doors from the back.
The leader put a code on it to get it locked and then left.
The turtles came out of hiding to see the truck leaving.
"Oh man, imagine the surprise when they open the back of that track." Said Mikey.
"This is exactly what Master Splinter was talking about, we've gotta get him outta there." Said Leo.
"Last one on the roof, hatch on the rotten egg!" Yelled Donnie as they soon began jumping on the roofs.
They soon found the truck.
"We can cut them off at third and first." Said Leo.
"If we can run like crazy." Said Donnie.
"Is there any other way to run?" Asked Mikey.
They soon began to run again.
"Yeah!" Yelled Mikey as he ran ahead of the others.
"You guys are to slow!" Yelled Mikey.
He soon gasped as the others did a backflips and ran ahead of him.
"Hey!" Yelled Mikey.
Mikey was trying to catch up with the others and later tried to use a zip line but failed as he reached the cloths.
He soon landed on the grounded.
Mikey sniffed the cloth around his head.
"Hmm, spring time fresh." Said Mikey.
He later tried to catch up to them again.
Meanwhile Splinter was later walking in a corridor.
They soon found an old drainage junction.
"The old drainage junction." Said Splinter.
Splinter then looked around.
"Now where are my sons?" Asked Splinter.
Just then a rumbling then came and the floor then began to crumble.
Two of the robots from before then came to them.
The robots then screeched at them.
Meanwhile the truck was still driving.
It soon stopped at the next ally and parked.
Raph looked out the window before he ducked as the others came.
"Hey Twoton watch the truck." Said the leader.
"We wouldn't want anyone to seal our stolen money." Said the leader.
Twoton began walking around.
Someone knocked a can over to get his attention.
Twoton kept looking around but saw nothing.
Someone tapped his shoulder.
Mikey came up in front of him.
"Hey this is a no parking zone." Said Mikey.
He soon held a piece of paper.
"Here's your ticket, and he's your fine!" Yelled Mikey as he kicked Twoton.
Leo came down.
"Nice work, Mikey." Said Leo.
The others then came down.
"It's a ninja thing." Said Mikey as Donnie came down.
They soon went to the truck.
"Now, let's get Raph, outta there." Said Leo as Raph kept banging the glass window.
"Man, what ever happened to good old fashion padlocks." Said Mikey as he looked at the coded lock.
Donnie then took out tools from out of Donnie's bag.
"Please that's nothing." Said Donnie as he walked over to the lock.
"Are you sure you know what your doing, Don?" Asked Leo.
"I'm pretty sure I can handle a lock." Replied Donnie.
He soon got to work.
Raph mumbled while continued banging the glass.
"What that Raphael, your gonna have to speak up dude, I can't hear you?" Asked Mikey as he was making fun of Raph's mumbling.
Raph growled and punched the glass.
"Okay, I heard that." Said Mikey.
Donnie looked up.
"I'm trying to work here." Said Donnie with an annoyed look on his face.
Meanwhile Splinter was looking at the robots.
One robot then grabbed Splinter's robe and moved it around like a dog with a toy.
Splinter soon wacked the robot with his tail.
The robot then went to the wall.
It soon went back up and snapped it's jaws.
Splinter then raised his staff.
Two more then jumped at Splinter.
Meanwhile Donnie soon put the finishing touches on getting the doors opened.
Soon the doors were opened.
"Hey Raph, welcome back bro." Said Mikey.
Raph soon ran towards Mike and attacked him.
"What a hothead." Said Leo as Don puts his hand on his chin while the others shook his head.
They soon turned around and saw something.
"Ah Raph." Said Don as he raised his Bo and everyone took out the weapons.
"We don't have time for this." Said Leo as everyone was falling back.
"And why not?" Asked Raph as he was holding Mikey against a wall.
"Because we're not alone." Replied Mikey.
The people were then coming back.
"Look at the freaks." Said One of them.
"What's with the freaky costumes?" Asked one of them.
"This ain't Halloween." Replied another one.
"Your going down freaks." Said the leader as he spun a staff.
"Nobody messes with the Purple Dragons." Said the leader.
"Especially wearing stupid turtle costumes." Said the leader.
Everyone then showed off their skills; Donnie swung his staff, Mikey swirled his nun chucks, Raph swirling his Sais, Leo then slashed with his swords, Miwa twirled her Bunrais.
The turtles attacked the Purple Dragons.
The Dragons looked at them as the turtles glowed in victory.
"Let's get out of here!" Yelled the leader as he ran.
"I'm with you!" Yelled another one.
Soon the Purple Dragons were gone.
"Gimmie some green." Said Mikey.
He and Raph hi fived each other.
"Well that was easier then expected." Said Don.
"I hope their more of those guys, I'm just getting warmed up." Said Raph.
Shadows then came to them.
"Well it looks like you got your wish, Raphie boy." Said Mikey as he looks at a lot of people.
"Are those guys ninjas?" Asked Leo as he raised his swords.
The people soon came down with people who are wearing black mask with yellow eyes and grey clothing with the symbol of a red dragon foot.
The ninjas soon surrounded them.
"Well, their certainly ninja-esc." Said Mikey.
"Be ready for anything." Said Leo.
"I am so gonna enjoy this." Said Raph.
Soon they began to fight.
Don went past them with his Bo and then swirled to hit them.
Two more then came and clashed the Bo with their swords.
He then managed to knock one back.
However they soon went back on their feet.
Three went around Raph.
They tried to punch and kick Raph.
"Nice Dragon Kick, sweet Double Phoenix Punch." Said Raph as he dodged them.
"Hey you know this one?" Asked Raph as he then swirled and kicked them.
Leo clashed his swords with the others.
He soon knocked one out and went to the top.
Soon one went to him while running on a wall.
He soon clashed his swords with Leo's.
Another one went behind him.
Soon the two then clashed their swords with Leo.
He was then holding them.
Mikey hit one with his nunchucks.
Soon another one went back behind him.
Soon the nunchucks were then in contacts with wooden boards on their arms.
Two of them then threw shrunkens at Don's Bo.
One then kicked him to the truck.
Mikey was next to him.
"Don, are we beating them, or are they beating us?" Asked Mikey.
Donnie soon went inside the truck and grabbed Mikey.
More Shrukens then went to the truck's door.
Donnie opened the door again.
"Ask me again, when we're winning, Mikey." Replied Donnie.
"Yeah, that's what I thought." Said Mikey.
Meanwhile Splinter was still fighting the robots.
Splinter then knocked two with his staff.
Soon they were all destroyed but the ground was rumbling.
Soon Splinter were falling while screaming.
Eventually Splinter landed on the ground and stood up.
He then saw something and gasped.
Meanwhile Leo was still fighting the ninjas.
Soon he was able to defeat them all.
He soon went down with the others.
"How many of theses goons have to bat before they get the hint?" Asked Raph.
"Really, they just keep coming." Replied Mikey as more came.
"Time to switch to plan B." Said Leo.
"Donnie?" Asked Leo as Dinnie was cross wiring the truck.
"Almost there Leo." Replied Donnie.
Soon he put in the finishing touches.
The truck then started up.
"This bus now leaves for anywhere but here." Said Donnie.
More of them came to the turtles.
Leo put his hand on Raph's shoulder.
"Come on, we're going." Said Leo.
They soon got inside the truck and drove off.
The ninjas jumped out of the way.
"Whoa, nice driving Don, for a turtle who has no license." Said Mikey.
"Hey, do you want pretty or fast?" Asked Donnie.
"Man, this keeps getting weirder and weirder, first those weird robots from underground, and what's with all those ninjas, ninjas in New York, besides us?, it's just not right." Said/Asked Mikey.
Raph grabbed a bag.
"Speaking of these things that ain't right, check this out." Said Raph as he poured out the money from out of the bag.
Mikey went to the money.
"Show me the money baby!" Yelled Mikey as he cheered with money in his hand.
Leo grabbed the money off his hands.
"This isn't finders keepers, Mikey." Said Leo.
The truck then stopped at the front of a police car.
"Take care of this money." Said Leo as he threw the money in front of the car.
"Whoa did you see that?, a bunch of green people threw a bunch of money at us!" Yelled/Asked the police officer.
The other police officer scoffed at him.
"Rookies." Said the other police officer.
They soon drove to the old drainage junction were they found Splinter and Lori mediating with the robots.
The truck then stopped and they got out.
They all cheered.
"Well, I'm glad to see you too, my children." Said Splinter.
"Master Splinter, So much has happened today." Said Leo.
"Yes, yes, there will be a time to explain it later, Leonardo ." Said Splinter.
"But first, I wish to take you all home." Said Splinter as he began to walk.
They soon looked confused.
"Home?" Asked Mikey.
"We got no home." Replied Raph.
He soon went closer to one of the robot's head and knocked it's head.
"Those robots trashed our pad, remember sensei?" Asked Raph.
"Do not worry, I think I have the solution to our current housing problems." Replied Splinter.
"Follow me, my sons." Said Splinter as he jumped through the hole were he fell.
They soon looked at each other before following them.
Mikey stopped near the hole.
"Cowabung-" Said Mikey but was cut off when Raph pushed him.
"Not funny, Raph!" Yelled Mikey.
"Oh, yes it is." Said Raph as he jumped to the hole.
They soon caught up with Splinter.
"Wicked slide!" Yelled Mikey.
Splinter began to walk.
Mikey then caught up.
"No offence Master Splinter, but this place doesn't seem so great." Said Mikey.
"Look with your hear Michelangelo, and not your eyes." Said Splinter.
Mikey then looked confused.
"Um, okay." Said Mikey.
"And walk this away." Said Splinter.
Mikey pretended to walk like Splinter, only to get hit with Don's Bo.
They soon saw a cool like lair with rubble around it.
Everyone minus Splinter then looked amazed.
"This is beyond awesome." Said Mikey.
"I could really tune this place up." Said Donnie.
They soon ran around.
Mikey then stopped to a room.
"This room here, mine." Said Mikey.
He then jumped towards Donnie.
"And this room here, also mine." Said Mikey.
"You see my sons, change is good." Said Splinter.
"We couldn't agree more, Master Splinter." Said Leo.
"Good, so let's see you turtles clean up for a change, this chamber is filthy." Said Splinter.
The turtles groaned.
Meanwhile in a tall building with the leader of the Purple Dragons and a purple haired man in a white and grey kimono of sorts.
He then poured himself tea and drank it.
"S-S-Sir, I-I-I, my men we lost the Armour car with the money, but we were attacked by some karate frog creatures or something." Said the leader.
The man looked enraged.
"They took us by surprised, it's wasn't my fault." Said The leader.
The man then raised his arm.
"Enough." Said the man.
"I promise you sir, I won't fail you again." Said the leader.
"I know, you won't fail me again, ever." Said the man as he rose.
"No sir, please!" Yelled the leader as he bowed.
The Doors closed and the man unleashed a horrifying scream heard throughout the entire building and the man laughs in enjoyment.
Meanwhile a green lash came on the ground with only Kyle and Chris inside it.
"Where are we?" Asked Chris as he looked around.
"Don't know, i've never been here before." Replied Kyle.
It looks like New York but it looks different somehow. Thought Kyle.
He saw a newspaper articular that says "Help Wanted at Stocktronic Industries.".
Hmm well at least we can have a job so we won't go hungry. Thought Kyle as he began to work he needed for his application as did Chris.