Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with added Rose

by Angela Knight

A rewrite of the novelisation of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. When I reached Shredder's fight with the four thugs, I ignored what was in the book, and instead included what was in the script.

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A few days later, April and Danny entered the offices of Mar-Cee Comics. They had an appointment with the publisher himself.

After a long wait in the reception area, a secretary ushered them into Mr Cushing's office. It was spacious and had huge picture windows all along one wall. The other walls were covered with comic-book covers featuring such weird creatures as Amazing Aardvarks, Mighty Marsupial, and Nuclear Nightwing. These were some of Danny's favourites. That's why they had chosen this particular company for April's proposal.

April handed Mr Cushing an envelope. He opened it and pulled out her drawings. They were the sketches she had made of the Turtles while they were training at the farm. Mr Cushing examined them carefully, but April couldn't help noticing that his eyebrows kept popping up.

"Uh, these are, uh, very interesting, Miss O'Neil," he said after a few minutes. "But as the basis for a comic book? I'm afraid the idea is just too..."

He searched for a word. April and Danny waited.

"...uh, too far-fetched."

Mr Cushing was very surprised to see that April and Danny were almost laughing when he said it.

He would have been even more surprised if he'd turned around right then. He would have seen four very far-fetched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles clinging to his picture window with suction cups, laughing hysterically.

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