Here I'm breaking down Mike's reverie about the past 30 years, I suppose
you can look at this as Mike's journal, or autobiography. Warning: I expect
there to be continuity errors, so just ignore them unless they're really
big. This stuff still coming straight out my imagination, except for the
few references to the comic storyline -
~The Ascension~
It had been 25 years since we'd been on TV. 25 years since I was blinded. 25 years of Master Splinter, my brothers and I. 25 more years of defending this massive city - and finally we lived in it, not under it. People had definitely gotten more corrupt; it is human nature to do evil things. It even says so somewhere in the Bible I think, doesn't mention turtle nature, but I guess we still made it onto Noah's Ark, so we were one of the good ones I guess. People turned to evil ways again though, and there is no way to stop it it seems. My brothers and I fight the bad guys, and then they are put in jail, psychoanalyzed and reformed and spend the rest of their natural life behind bars. It doesn't matter how many of these bad guys we put away there are always new ones popping up - killers, rapists, child molesters, kidnappers, extortionists, robbers, thieves, thugs, liars . I could go on, but you get the picture I think. Everyone always wants to think that the future holds a brighter promise, and it does but only if people are willing to do something about it. My brothers and I have been doing something about it for over 25 years now. Donnie even gets us to write letters to the President and Amnesty International and all that sort of stuff, I enjoy doing it, because like my brothers, I hate injustice. We haven't gotten soft in our old age, we've just found new ways to fight crime, and we're doing it on an international scale - we don't just hop in a jet and break up a war in some other country - well, sometimes we end up in the middle of one when we're traveling - like Jerusalem. but anyways, we still fight fights the good ol' fashioned way too, beat them up, tie them up, and drop them on the NYPD's front step. Don has even gotten into packaging up the evidence - he watched a little too much CSI, I think.
We managed to get a bit of fame from our little 'appearance' on that talk show - Inside Affair, I think that is what it was called. April and Oyuki sure stirred things up there, she got a lot of job offers after that, and a nasty phone call from her ex-boss, the one that fired her, he was furious that she didn't bring a story that big to him! Life was interesting after that talk show, we ended up rescuing a lot of kids that had run away from home to search the sewers for us, they'd end up getting stuck in flooded pipes and fall down shafts and stuff, it is dangerous in the sewers, I don't know how Splinter managed to keep us from getting killed, but we grew up in these sewers, topside kids didn't have a clue what they were getting themselves into. Once the cops finally knew who and what we were they tried shoving all kind of weapon violations down our throats - they didn't really have a mailing address for the tickets and sepinas though, so they were outta luck. When we first started living above ground though, we got all sorts of tickets in the mail - they were all contested and thrown out though, we were the Turtles, we fought crime, and once the NYPD figured that we were on their side, they shut up about it and looked the other way as long as we kept the peace.
Living above ground was so freeing, I could buy a pizza, but I didn't have to worry about covering up - unless I wanted to. That was another thing the authorities had trouble with, naked turtles, so we got a few tickets for public nudity from some very confused rookies, but once they figured out there really wasn't anything naked about us they sheepishly withdrew the charges. The only problem we had now was the paparazzi, it was worse than J Lo and Ben trying to go out for dinner because we were so darned easy to spot! The tabloids went nuts, we were aliens, we were the love children of a nuclear blast survivor and a sea turtle, we were the prehistoric missing link between the evolution of animals to people, we were time travelers from a distant future where people interbred with animals, we were a government experiment gone wrong. it was kinda funny, but kinda annoying at the same time. Some people would run away from us, others would run to us and ask for autographs, and like I mentioned before some people treated up like a mafia. Children were always an issue, little boys thought we were the coolest thing since bee bee guns, but little girls usually were afraid of us and would hide behind their mothers when they saw us coming.
I was 41 and finally living above ground. Master Splinter was very elderly at this point, which was part of the reason we moved above ground, his health was rapidly declining - he was having respiratory problems, and his eyesight was going, but he was still the same old sensei, full of unending wisdom. The fresh air did him some good, and he seemed even more cheerful to be above ground. He went to the park a lot, he did regular things like any other old man and most of them were too blind themselves to notice they were chatting with a giant rat. April helped us find a house and introduced us to things like paying bills and lawn mowing; it was all a strange new concept to us. Our first place was a real dive, a thirty year old house in the 'burbs; but it only took Donny a few months to get on his feet and start producing all his creations, in the meantime the rest of us fixed up the place. Raph landed himself the bouncer job, and I had started to look for a publisher - I'd been writing stuff for years, it was just hard to find a publisher when I wasn't able to ever meet them, now I could and did. Leo was mainly concerned with taking care of Master Splinter; he needed a little help to get around seeing as his eyesight was going. Raph even bought an old car, Donny fixed him up with some manuals, and he and I fixed it up. For a while it felt like we were still teenagers - like we had moved out on our own, gotten our first jobs and our first car, but we were 41. We don't age like humans though, my skin still felt as smooth as it did two decades ago, my muscles were bigger and stronger, but there was absolutely no deterioration in my muscular or skeletal system. I noticed I started to get heartburn a lot, it must have been all those years of pizza and pop, so I had to seriously change my diet - but I still grab a slice or two every now and again. I was still in the peak of my youth, turtles were supposed to live over 400 years, so I figured I had awhile. Splinter on the other hand was only with us for two years after we moved above ground. He died in his sleep, peacefully. We took him home to Japan to bury him. It was almost a televised event, but we refused to let the cameras in. A lot of crying happened. April and Oyuki came with their families (who had known us as long as they'd been around April and Oyuki), Tattoo came, Candy came, even Kid Terra came, he was in his sixties by then, while April was around fifty and Oyuki was a year younger than us. It was a sad day, a sad year, we felt a little lost without our sensei, but soon enough Leo stepped up and really became out leader. Poor Leo, he was the closest with Master Splinter, and he had to put away his feelings and be leader. Not that he had much leading to do, we were able to relax more now that we were above ground, we didn't have to be on guard against everyone, only against the bad guys. The only one Leo really had to lead was Daniel - April and Chu's son, he was 22 when Splinter died, and Splinter had been his teacher of wisdom while Leo taught him technique. Emi, Shan and Michael - he was Oyuki's - were also under Leo's tutelage, but Daniel was the real pro star, he'd gone to competitions and won tons of prizes, and like I said, he'd mastered a few different styles and techniques. Emi was more of an Indie-rock queen, she played guitar and drums, and was in a band - her brother Shan played bass for her and there were a few other kids that backed them up in singing and playing. They were great, but they had changed the band name a few times and they were starting to die off, as Emi's friends were getting into the so-called 'real world' they weren't high school students anymore, and they had 'real' responsibilities. Michael was a real bright kid, he was always asking Don about stuff, and they spent a lot of time working on things together, Michael's dad was like that too, not so much an intellectual, but he could fix almost anything you put in his hands, so Michael inherited a lot of that. Their girls - Molly and Kira were still developing their adult personalities, after watching all these kids grown up I had come to realize that somewhere right around the age of twelve was where kids started to be the way they would be for the rest of their lives. And Molly and Kira were just coming up to that age, so we were going to give them a few years before we offered to train them in ninjitsu, Oyuki thought that even twelve was too young to start training, but she was just being an overprotective mother, she knew we wouldn't put the kids in danger, and besides all the other kids had jumped at the chance of learning ninjitsu from their 'uncles' when they were that age. We had trained since we mutated, but these kids didn't have to fight for survival, they had to fight for exercise.
I realized we had come a long way in 41 years. We were regular citizens that bought our groceries at the neighborhood grocery store, we went to movies, neighborhood pubs, we rented videos, and we were just like normal people, only a little greener.
~The Ascension~
It had been 25 years since we'd been on TV. 25 years since I was blinded. 25 years of Master Splinter, my brothers and I. 25 more years of defending this massive city - and finally we lived in it, not under it. People had definitely gotten more corrupt; it is human nature to do evil things. It even says so somewhere in the Bible I think, doesn't mention turtle nature, but I guess we still made it onto Noah's Ark, so we were one of the good ones I guess. People turned to evil ways again though, and there is no way to stop it it seems. My brothers and I fight the bad guys, and then they are put in jail, psychoanalyzed and reformed and spend the rest of their natural life behind bars. It doesn't matter how many of these bad guys we put away there are always new ones popping up - killers, rapists, child molesters, kidnappers, extortionists, robbers, thieves, thugs, liars . I could go on, but you get the picture I think. Everyone always wants to think that the future holds a brighter promise, and it does but only if people are willing to do something about it. My brothers and I have been doing something about it for over 25 years now. Donnie even gets us to write letters to the President and Amnesty International and all that sort of stuff, I enjoy doing it, because like my brothers, I hate injustice. We haven't gotten soft in our old age, we've just found new ways to fight crime, and we're doing it on an international scale - we don't just hop in a jet and break up a war in some other country - well, sometimes we end up in the middle of one when we're traveling - like Jerusalem. but anyways, we still fight fights the good ol' fashioned way too, beat them up, tie them up, and drop them on the NYPD's front step. Don has even gotten into packaging up the evidence - he watched a little too much CSI, I think.
We managed to get a bit of fame from our little 'appearance' on that talk show - Inside Affair, I think that is what it was called. April and Oyuki sure stirred things up there, she got a lot of job offers after that, and a nasty phone call from her ex-boss, the one that fired her, he was furious that she didn't bring a story that big to him! Life was interesting after that talk show, we ended up rescuing a lot of kids that had run away from home to search the sewers for us, they'd end up getting stuck in flooded pipes and fall down shafts and stuff, it is dangerous in the sewers, I don't know how Splinter managed to keep us from getting killed, but we grew up in these sewers, topside kids didn't have a clue what they were getting themselves into. Once the cops finally knew who and what we were they tried shoving all kind of weapon violations down our throats - they didn't really have a mailing address for the tickets and sepinas though, so they were outta luck. When we first started living above ground though, we got all sorts of tickets in the mail - they were all contested and thrown out though, we were the Turtles, we fought crime, and once the NYPD figured that we were on their side, they shut up about it and looked the other way as long as we kept the peace.
Living above ground was so freeing, I could buy a pizza, but I didn't have to worry about covering up - unless I wanted to. That was another thing the authorities had trouble with, naked turtles, so we got a few tickets for public nudity from some very confused rookies, but once they figured out there really wasn't anything naked about us they sheepishly withdrew the charges. The only problem we had now was the paparazzi, it was worse than J Lo and Ben trying to go out for dinner because we were so darned easy to spot! The tabloids went nuts, we were aliens, we were the love children of a nuclear blast survivor and a sea turtle, we were the prehistoric missing link between the evolution of animals to people, we were time travelers from a distant future where people interbred with animals, we were a government experiment gone wrong. it was kinda funny, but kinda annoying at the same time. Some people would run away from us, others would run to us and ask for autographs, and like I mentioned before some people treated up like a mafia. Children were always an issue, little boys thought we were the coolest thing since bee bee guns, but little girls usually were afraid of us and would hide behind their mothers when they saw us coming.
I was 41 and finally living above ground. Master Splinter was very elderly at this point, which was part of the reason we moved above ground, his health was rapidly declining - he was having respiratory problems, and his eyesight was going, but he was still the same old sensei, full of unending wisdom. The fresh air did him some good, and he seemed even more cheerful to be above ground. He went to the park a lot, he did regular things like any other old man and most of them were too blind themselves to notice they were chatting with a giant rat. April helped us find a house and introduced us to things like paying bills and lawn mowing; it was all a strange new concept to us. Our first place was a real dive, a thirty year old house in the 'burbs; but it only took Donny a few months to get on his feet and start producing all his creations, in the meantime the rest of us fixed up the place. Raph landed himself the bouncer job, and I had started to look for a publisher - I'd been writing stuff for years, it was just hard to find a publisher when I wasn't able to ever meet them, now I could and did. Leo was mainly concerned with taking care of Master Splinter; he needed a little help to get around seeing as his eyesight was going. Raph even bought an old car, Donny fixed him up with some manuals, and he and I fixed it up. For a while it felt like we were still teenagers - like we had moved out on our own, gotten our first jobs and our first car, but we were 41. We don't age like humans though, my skin still felt as smooth as it did two decades ago, my muscles were bigger and stronger, but there was absolutely no deterioration in my muscular or skeletal system. I noticed I started to get heartburn a lot, it must have been all those years of pizza and pop, so I had to seriously change my diet - but I still grab a slice or two every now and again. I was still in the peak of my youth, turtles were supposed to live over 400 years, so I figured I had awhile. Splinter on the other hand was only with us for two years after we moved above ground. He died in his sleep, peacefully. We took him home to Japan to bury him. It was almost a televised event, but we refused to let the cameras in. A lot of crying happened. April and Oyuki came with their families (who had known us as long as they'd been around April and Oyuki), Tattoo came, Candy came, even Kid Terra came, he was in his sixties by then, while April was around fifty and Oyuki was a year younger than us. It was a sad day, a sad year, we felt a little lost without our sensei, but soon enough Leo stepped up and really became out leader. Poor Leo, he was the closest with Master Splinter, and he had to put away his feelings and be leader. Not that he had much leading to do, we were able to relax more now that we were above ground, we didn't have to be on guard against everyone, only against the bad guys. The only one Leo really had to lead was Daniel - April and Chu's son, he was 22 when Splinter died, and Splinter had been his teacher of wisdom while Leo taught him technique. Emi, Shan and Michael - he was Oyuki's - were also under Leo's tutelage, but Daniel was the real pro star, he'd gone to competitions and won tons of prizes, and like I said, he'd mastered a few different styles and techniques. Emi was more of an Indie-rock queen, she played guitar and drums, and was in a band - her brother Shan played bass for her and there were a few other kids that backed them up in singing and playing. They were great, but they had changed the band name a few times and they were starting to die off, as Emi's friends were getting into the so-called 'real world' they weren't high school students anymore, and they had 'real' responsibilities. Michael was a real bright kid, he was always asking Don about stuff, and they spent a lot of time working on things together, Michael's dad was like that too, not so much an intellectual, but he could fix almost anything you put in his hands, so Michael inherited a lot of that. Their girls - Molly and Kira were still developing their adult personalities, after watching all these kids grown up I had come to realize that somewhere right around the age of twelve was where kids started to be the way they would be for the rest of their lives. And Molly and Kira were just coming up to that age, so we were going to give them a few years before we offered to train them in ninjitsu, Oyuki thought that even twelve was too young to start training, but she was just being an overprotective mother, she knew we wouldn't put the kids in danger, and besides all the other kids had jumped at the chance of learning ninjitsu from their 'uncles' when they were that age. We had trained since we mutated, but these kids didn't have to fight for survival, they had to fight for exercise.
I realized we had come a long way in 41 years. We were regular citizens that bought our groceries at the neighborhood grocery store, we went to movies, neighborhood pubs, we rented videos, and we were just like normal people, only a little greener.
