Credit goes me and writeroffanfiction for helping me with this. Properties goes to Nickelodeon.
Arc 1: Heroes in a Loud-Shell!
"Shadows of the Night (Part 1)"
PRESENT DAY
It was a typical Saturday noon at the loud house. Some of the loud sisters (Sans Lori, Leni, Luna, and Luan) were doing some of their daily routines, the parents were in the kitchen preparing for dinner, and Lincoln and Clyde were playing their favorite video game Battle Moles, fighting against the enemies.
"Try to back me up with your blue mole Clyde!" Lincoln warned.
"Don't worry buddy I won't let you down!" Unfortunately, as he said that a random enemy got critical and destroyed the blue mole. "Okay, scratch that."
"Boys could you keep it down; your father and I are trying to prepare dinner!" Rita had shouted all the way from the kitchen.
"Succotash Saturday's require exceptional care and delicacy!" Lynn Sr cried as well.
"Sorry, we'll try to!" Lincoln shouted back. He went back to his video game but then turned to the readers, "I know what you're what thinking about, what happened to the sour attitude towards New York? Let's just say things have been rather okay since we've gotten here. The new school has been nice, made some new friends in the area including Clyde, and the new house is a lot roomier."
"Lana give me back my dolly!" Lola threatened.
"NEVER!" Shouted Lana.
"Although the more things change the more they stay the same," Lincoln said deadpanned. The twins come down the stairs in a dust cloud and fighting could be heard.
"Give it back!"
"No way, my reptiles need something soft to sleep on!"
"KIDS KEEP IT SOWN!" Lynn Sr demanded.
The twins had then ended their fight, "Sorry daddy!"
"Like I said, but lately weird things have been happening throughout the city. First, there were these strange of disappearances of stolen items, then there have been monster sightings that people say been going on around town, and then-" Lincoln was interrupted by Lori and the rest of the girls entering the house from the front door.
Clyde just snapped to attention as he saw his 'soulmate' enter the house.
"L-Lo-Lori!" He promptly had a nosebleed and fainted like an anime character.
"Auggh, Dad Lincoln's weird friend got blood on the carpet again!" Lori shouted.
Lincoln continues, "So yeah my best friend Clyde here has a weird crush on my sister Lori, which gets pretty cringy to see-."
He was interrupted again when April came in through the door next. "Thanks for the trip to the mall guys, I really adore this new notepad to use for my journalism class."
"No problem dude, I heard the teacher could be pretty rough," Luna commented.
"Yeah, because he only sees black and white!" Luan joked.
"Still made the top student in the class though." April stated as she sees Lincoln starting at her and decided to give him a friendly wave and smile, "Hey Linky, what's up."
"N-n-nothing angel—I MEAN APRIL!" Lincoln said with a lovestruck sigh, his eyes hearts and his head in the clouds. The older sisters just rolled their eyes at Lincoln's puppy love, and he thought Clyde's crush was cringe-worthy.
April just awkwardly chuckled, "You're so cute Lincoln."
"Thank you." Lincoln sighed with full of embarrassment.
"Still having trouble there, lover boy!?" Lynn teasing Lincoln from the middle of the stairway while holding Lily who was giving kissing noises.
"Now thish ish ridiculoush!" A familiar lisped voice called out.
The others had their attention on Lisa who saw that she was greatly upset.
"I know, the red hair clip so does not match with Lori's hair, it is ridiculous, but she won't listen to me," said Leni absent-mindedly.
"Hey!" Lori exclaimed in slight hurt to her fashion pride.
"No not that, itsh thish idiotic contesht a paper company is having, look!"
Everyone takes a look at the newspaper and reads 'Manhattan Monster Hunt Contest,' which states that whoever can find any monster sightings wins a $100,000 reward.
Lincoln shouts, "Monster Hunt Contest?!"
Clyde screams, "A 100,000 dollars!"
Leni yells, "A sale on shoes!"
All the kids looked excited to hear this except for April who looked worried some reason. "You guys aren't really considering on entering this monster contest, are you?"
"Yeah, I could always use the money for my animals!" Lana shouted.
"We're not going to waste money on those filthy things, we should use it for more clothes!" Lola disagreed.
"Guys you do realize we could make another room with that money, right?!" Lynn suggested.
"Ifsh I must interject, thish is ridiculous! Those obscure sighthings are just rumors." Stated Lisa.
"I disagree," Lucy deadpanned appearing next to the kids out of nowhere.
"Aaah!" The kids jumped at the sudden appearance of the goth girl.
"Would you shtop that!" Lisa yelled her heart a racing.
"I saw one of them while roaming the city looking for spirits," Lucy quantified.
"Seriously dude, nobody wants to hear about your spooky vibes," Luna said creeped out.
"If I had to guess I'd say these would-be Kappa." Lucy guesses.
"Kappa?" Leni asked confused by the strange word.
"An ancient Japanese water demon that was used to scare kids away from dangerous water." April surprisingly answered shocking everyone.
"Um, she's right," Lucy told everyone, she was so surprised she forgot to add here monotone to her voice.
"But Lucy, why would a Japanese water demon possibly be in the middle of Manhattan?" Lincoln asked confusedly.
"Easy, the sewers that run throughout there's enough water for them to fill up." She explained.
Clyde had also remembered something "You know I also heard rumors that these creatures mostly going out during nighttime."
"Really, huh must be nocturnal monsters then," Lana said to no one and she had a thinking look on her face. "So what kind of plan does anyone got?"
"Here's a plan, we'll take Vanzilla tonight so that way we could roam around the city to look for the monsters. Will each carry a disposable camera whenever we spot them, and Luan will use her video camera," Lori planned out.
"We'll also need bait, to tempt them into the cameras," Lana said.
But April looked rather nervous, "Um...actually guys I..."
Lynn interrupted, "Wait, I have an idea April why don't you invite your four brothers that you can keep talking about?! I think it's about time we actually meet your family to help us in our search!"
All the Loud siblings interjected begging April to invite her "brothers" to help them in their search.
"Ummm, uh sorry guys they're with my dad on a martial arts tournament. They'll be gone for most of the month." April told the Loud family while slightly sweating.
"Brah, it's already been like 3 months and we still haven't met them yet, what gives?!" Luna said with irritation.
"They're just not very comfortable with meeting some new people or making new friends," she tried to object.
"So, you mean they're recluses?" Lincoln asked.
"Fine. But one of these days April you are going to have to introduce us to them." Lori said with the slight of suspicion. April calm down for a bit but was still worried about what lies ahead.
Later that day at the Sewer Lair, the Turtles we're looking at chalkboard analyzing the areas that all the places that the strange vanishings of goods have occurred all over the news.
"So, they've been thefts from a Mom and Pop shop to a Palmart and all they took we're electronics?" Leo asked the resident brain of their group.
"Apparently so, all activity seems to be mostly activated around those areas," Donnie had analyzed.
"So, what are we going to do, we still have no idea where they're hiding at!" Raph yelled currently pissed at the fact that a group of punks was getting the better of them.
As Raph was ranting, Mikey had walked into the lab from the kitchen with some pizza on his hands, "Who wants some special jelly bean, bugs, and garlic pizza!"
All of them gave the pizza some disgusted looks. "People who are crazy enough risk death," Raph deadpanned.
Mikey had a very irritated look, "Very funny, so what are you guys doing?"
"Looking for the sources for all the stolen items, which you should be part of!" Donnie said with irritation.
Raph interjects, "Mikey part of planning? Hilarious!"
"What about that old warehouse on 8th Street?" Mikey asked.
"We've already looked at the warehouse," Donnie stated to Mikey.
"Then how do we know that the purple dragons aren't the ones who did this?"
"Because those dimwitted piles of crap on smart enough to pull something like this." Raph retorted.
"Wait, that would make sense! Why didn't I see this before!?" Leo stated to no one while his brothers look at him weirdly.
"Oh, great he lost it," Raph says.
"What are you talking about Leo?" Asked Donnie.
"Think about it we and the cops checked out all their hideouts but somehow someone is stealing tech."
"So?" Raph asked thinking Leo finally snapped.
"What if they move right back into the hideouts after we check them?"
"What do ya mean bro?" Mikey asked.
"I'm saying that after the searches they move right back in and we're none the wiser because we checked them already!"
"You're saying that they would use the same hideouts that have been searched by authorities?" Raph asked deadpanned.
"He does have a point if we already searched them we wouldn't know they be using those hideouts since they seemed abandoned," Donnie said supporting Leo's theory.
"It's a possibility," a voice coming from next to the boys revealing to be Splinter.
Raph seemed rather confused, "Really Sensei, no disrespect but how in the world would those purple dragon thugs be this smart?"
"We do not fully understand our enemies. Some are like the meerkat, which remain in their habitat and only leave for temperate reasons. Others could be like the hermit crab, leaves to a new shell time to time." Splinter wisely stated.
"Ok," Mikey said not really understanding what his father just said.
"What I am saying is that while Leonardo has a good theory, we must not be too sure if the purple dragons choose to remain in the same hideout nor if they're the ones behind the disappearances." Splinter explained.
"Well, I could use all reported crimes to more accurately pinpoint where the stolen tech could be hiding," Donnie suggested to the group.
"Okay, while Donnie doing that Mikey and Raph can join me for a patrol to look for the hideout." Leo planned out a strategy.
Raph was on board with the plan and Mikey was flat out excited, "Awesome, I can't wait! COWABUNGA!"
Every looked towards Mikey with looks. "Cowabunga? Really man?" asked Raph deadpanned.
"What I need something to be my catchphrase."
Raph sarcastically said, "So you got it from the book Catchphrases for Dummies?"
Leo then got another suggestion, "Maybe we should also have April tag along to work with the light?"
Raph then gave a quick answer in a rude tone, "No dice, she's with her new friends doing all that hanging out crap!"
The turtles gave Raph a bunch of smirk looks on their faces, "Seems like someone's a little jealous because his 'girlfriend' has human friends!"
Raph yelled with irritation, "Shut up! It's not that, it's-"
"Hey, guys." Right now, April walked into the room with a worried look on her face.
"April?!" The turtles said in unison.
"What's wrong April? Why aren't you with your friends?" Leo asked.
April sighed to herself, "Guys, we have a problem."
Mikey was quick to answer, "You need a new bra because of another growth spurt?"
April just blushed furiously while Raph just gave a smack on the head. "Oww! What was that for?"
"You were saying April?" Raph asked while glaring at Mikey.
"It's actually about my friends, the ten girls, and their brother," April asked.
"Donnie's worst fear?" Raph taunted his geeky brother.
"Very funny!" Donnie sarcastically remarked.
April then pulls out a newspaper from her backpack and shows it to the turtles.
"Oh boy," Leo said.
"Aww crap." Raph shocked.
"Well, this is bad." Donnie worried.
"Sweet there's going to be a new pizzeria!" Mikey excited.
Each of the brothers just rolled their eyes but we're worried at the fact that there was now a $100,000 bounty on their heads and most of New York will be looking for them.
April continued, "And apparently my friends are also entering the contest as well."
"Well, this puts a hinder on the plan." Raph supposed.
"I think that maybe you guys should just remain low for a while until this whole thing blows over," April suggested.
The Turtles considered the options of the choices lay low and wait for the heat to die down but if they did that more and more people will get robbed, or go out and risk getting caught on camera or in a trap.
"Sensei, what do you think should be the right approach?" Leo asked hoping to ask his sensei for some wisdom.
"Hmm, while this troubling I believe the safety of the city should be an important priority but be like the viper. Stay out of sight until you must strike your enemies." Splinter suggested.
"So basically, do the opposite of what Mikey does" Raph joked.
"In crude terms yes."
"Hey!" Mikey said offended.
Leo thought of another idea, "And April, maybe you can lead your friends away from places we're at."
"Okay I'll try but most of them are determined to find you guys."
Raph interjected, "Then give them false info about our locations, and if not, call us through the T-Phone if they're around our area."
"Okay."
"Great, now let's move ninjas!" Leo ordered.
The Turtles go gather their weapons and begin to head out until Master Splinter stopped them.
April asked, "Is something wrong sensei?"
"Yes, I sense that your brothers may be seen but he may turn into an alley."
"Don't worry Pops, we're not going to be seen!" Mikey stated without any worry.
"Alright, now we go!" They go through one of the tunnels and begin to shell surf to one of the hidden exits.
When it became nighttime, the kids were getting everything prepared to go monster hunting while Lori went down to talk to their parents.
"So, is it okay if all of us goes to Spunk E. Pigeons tonight?" Lori lied.
"Sure, but why do all of you want to go to a pizza place?" Lynn Sr asked his daughter.
"He's right, it usually takes us a lot of bribing to get all of you to go to the same place," Rita said suspiciously of the sudden agreement of her children.
"We just need something to do this Saturday, we got nothing to do." Lori lied again.
"Okay but the curfew is at 10:00 any later and you're all grounded," Rita told her daughter in a strict tone and her face hard as steel.
"Okay, gotcha!"
Pretty soon, April and the Loud siblings were outside and went into Vanzilla.
"So where should we start first?" Lori asked her siblings and April.
"Well I would like a slice of pepperoni with stuffed crust and-" Leni was trying to say to her older sister.
"Not making a pizza Leni," Lincoln said.
"I say we should start looking in Avenue 5th," April stated.
"You got it." Lori drove Vanzilla off the driveway and hoping to find one of the monsters.
Lola just shouted, "$100,000 here we come!"
As everyone was cheering, April secretly had her T-Phone on speaker the entire time.
In another part of Manhattan, the turtles were listening in on the T-Phone.
"Okay, guys you know what to do," Leo asked.
"Yep," Raph says.
"Certainly," Donnie states.
"Of course...not." Mikey confused.
"Ugh, just go the opposite direction of the Loud siblings and try to keep to the shadows."
"Can do!" Mikey exclaimed.
The four brothers set off from building to building, planning on catching the perps behind the disappearances once and for all.
Meanwhile, at a Night Club, there were some Purple Dragon members in a discussion.
"Alright boys, you all know why we're here right?!" said the leader of the group.
"Is it because of the freaks that are a major pain in the ass!"
"Exactly, they're always interfering with our plans and we haven't even caught a glimpse of them! It's like they're not even human!" he said with bitterness in his tone.
"So, what are we going to do about this problem boss?" One of the thugs asked.
"Have every member of our faction roam the alleyways, they like appearing in the dark and stuff, so they'd most likely be there!"
The thugs nodded and began to grab an assortment of weapons. "Wait what if they come here?"
"In case you haven't noticed Nelson, there are other people here in this Club who aren't Purple Dragons, they wouldn't want to make a scene would they?" the leader corrected.
"Good point but what about the warehouse?"
"They might suspect it if we use the warehouse."
"Yeah but we're leaving it defenseless, aren't we?"
"Don't worry, any clues they would find has already been taken outta there."
"Whatever you say Dragon-Face," Nelson stated.
"Good, now on to other business, you remember those two trainees?"
"You mean the two High School Juvenile delinquents?"
"Yeah, bring them over for a minute."
"You got it Dragon Face."
"Douglas! Let the newbies in!" He told the guy who was guarding the door.
"Okay." He opened the doors and two people walked into the club. One was a tall black haired, 16-year-old boy with dark hair and wearing a black and grey sweater.
The other was a 14-year-old girl who had a black taint top and had a purple streak on her hair, "Has anyone ever gotten drunk and dropped dead here?" her asking the odd question.
"Now why would an Angel ask that?" Casey asked.
"My name is supposed to be ironic."
"Casey and Angel, I've been hearing good words about you two." Dragon Face said.
"Yeah, what do you want?" Casey asked rather cross.
"Watch your tone, Jones!" Nelson said with irritation.
"Easy Nelson, it's alright," said Dragon Face as Nelson did as told. "Now you two are on your way to becoming full-fledged Purple Dragons."
The two really didn't know what to say but Casey seemed a bit wary.
"All you two need to do is do 3 more trials and then you're officially members!"
"So, what are the three trials?" Angel asked.
"You'll see, for now just sit tight until later notice." He then pulls out 2 pocket knives. "In the meantime, you guys have earned these."
"Are we supposed to pick our teeth with these things?" Angel asked.
"We all have these, no go on home and wait for our orders the next time we see you."
"Fine." The two exited the club.
Nelson didn't seem okay with them. "Boss, the Casey kid seems a little disrespectful."
"I know and I also know you don't like the kid, but the boss seems rather close to him so try to suck it up."
"Ugh, fine but don't accidents happen around his part of the hood?"
"Duly noted."
Meanwhile, the turtles were outside of the warehouse trying wait for anyone to move into the warehouse and Raph was losing patience, "Okay glorious leader when are they going to show up?!"
"They will show up," Leo was being patient.
Raph and Donnie are looking rather bored to death. Mikey, on the other hand, was goofing around on a flagpole, "Yo guys, look how bouncy this pole is!"
"Mikey, I really wouldn't do that," Donnie warned his brother.
"Why?"
"Because it breaks any moment and you can break your head, or make it more broken than it already is! now get off that damn thing!" Raph demanded as he went on the pole to grab Mikey and he threw him back to roof. But the pole makes a cracking noise, "Oh crap!"
The pole snapped in half and both it and Raph began to fall to the ground. The pole breaks and Raph fall into a garbage truck.
"Sorry about not trying to catch you Raph!" Mikey yelled down to him, hoping that his brother was too mad.
Before Raph can make a comment, the truck engine started, "Are you kidding me?!" Raph angrily asked, and the truck drove off carrying Raph with it.
"Man today is not Raph's day." Mikey commented on the events that happened.
"Come on we gotta go get him." Leo ordered Mikey and Donnie as he jumped after the truck.
The truck drove at a very fast pace.
Meanwhile, April and the Louds were near Central Park having everything set up.
"Okay did everyone get the cameras set up?" Lori asked the group.
"Yep, we all have our disposable cameras including Luan's video camera," Lincoln stated. "These monsters are going to have a close-up today!"
"Psssh, forget fake ghost hunters imagine a crowd of people cheering us as we showed them the monsters!" Lola said with green in her eyes.
"I stillth think thish is rather ludacrus," Lisa said not buying into the whole monster rumors.
"Come on Lisa, with that money we could finally have another room!" Lincoln said trying to excite his sister.
Luna then was looking towards April, "So April, what will you do with money since you're helping us with this?"
"Oh, probably just put it in the bank. It'll help my family with saving for my college in the future," Just then, April's phone had vibrated looking as she has received a text from Leo. "Oh boy." April gasped in surprise and worry.
Lincoln saw April's worried look, "What is it April?"
April was hesitant to answer, "Nothing, it's just...I'll be right back!"
She ran off leaving a confused Lincoln and Luna. Lincoln, however, saw that April had dropped her notepad, "Luna, April dropped her notepad!"
"I guess she dropped it when she pulled out her phone."
Lincoln thought of the idea of wanting to return the notepad gracefully to his crush, "Then maybe I should go over to return it to her!"
Luna raised an eyebrow, "And hope she would just give you a kiss bro?"
Lincoln was nervous and had a wide smile on his face, "Pfft, of course not! I just want to do a selfless deed is all!"
Luna wasn't buying it. She would most be the one, along with Lori, Leni, and Luan, who would be the most worried about her only brother. But she just plays it off, "Just don't run into any trouble baby bro." Lincoln nodded and goes off to follow April. The other girls didn't seem to notice as they seemed to be going over the plan once again.
Soon, April arrived at an old playground, "Okay guys, I'm here!" Two of the brothers, Leo and Mikey, dropped from the trees surrounding the playground, "Donnie, you too!"
"Is it only April?!" Donnie asked his voice slightly shaking.
"Yes, Donnie none of the Loud girls followed her!" Leo answered.
Donnie came out of hiding and was relieved.
"You guys lost Raph?!" April sounded very concerned.
"Yeah, but it wasn't my fault!" Mikey said out of instinct.
April had face-palmed in disappointment, "What on Earth am I going to do with you guys?"
Mikey was about to give a literal answer, but Donnie stopped him, "DON'T!"
April just shook her head at her brothers' predicament, all of them unaware that a certain someone was watching them, 'Giant turtles?! April's found them?!' Lincoln thought and was freaked out. He was ready to run to his sisters, that's when he accidentally stepped on a twig.
"Dangit," Lincoln said.
April and the turtles spotted Lincoln from the side of the building, "Lincoln?!"
Lincoln tried to run away but a bola quickly shut down that idea. Leo then approached right in front of Lincoln, "You-you're just a kid!"
"AAAAHHHHH!" Lincoln yelled back currently freaking out about this until he passed out.
"Crud," April said in worry by the fact that Lincoln had spotted her turtles.
To Be Continued…
Author's Notes:
So this is the official first chapter.
Casey and Angel will make more appearances later on.
So now Lincoln spotted the turtles, how will he interact with them? Will Raph be safe? How will the Purple Dragons capture their enemies? Stay tuned for Part 2.