Disclaimer:…. I obviously do not own Ninja Turtles. Peter Lair and Kevin Eastman do.
"A traffic jam and you're already late.
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break.
It's like ten thousand spoons and all you need is a knife.
It's meeting the man of my dreams... And then meeting his beautiful wife.
And isn't it ironic... Don't you think?"
"Ironic" by Alanis Morissette
"That savage ninja my brother raised is starting a downward spiral of our clan! If our Foot ninja being viciously slaughtered was not bad enough, other Foot ninja are dishonorable leaving due to fear of that savage! I have had enough!" Leonardo yelled to Karai, and the Elite guards, he slammed his clenched fist onto the long table.
"What do you propose we do about the turtles and the savage? We have been relentlessly searching the sewers for months, but there had not been a single trace, if they reside there then they keep themselves hidden well…." Mashimi replied.
"What is it about this savage that is worse than Michaelangelo or Venus DeMilo?" Stockman asked "It is my understanding that they are the masters, and this new mutant is only a student."
"This savage…. Hamato Moth, takes it a step above slaughter," Kai responded bitterly "Just a few nights ago, a squad returned, half of them were very shaken and ravaged, the other half had been beheaded."
"What is so bad about that?" Stockman asked, an angry look crossed Kai's face.
"The living half returned with the heads of their fallen comrades around their necks like some sort of hellish pendent." Kai spat.
Leonardo shook his head "Michaelangelo had trained anger and hatred into the very core of that mutant….." A flagrant grin crossed his face "Good…. His student will be a more worthy advisory…." He laughed cruelly, Kai shivered, his wrists were healed now, but he could still hear the snap of his father breaking one of them for atonement….
"I cannot help but notice that they always seem to know our exact movements." Karai broke in "I believe there is a traitor among us….."
"None of our Foot ninja are mutants." Mashimi reminded her.
"Not all of our attackers are mutants either…"
Moth was training in the Front-Liners designated training area when a blue light suddenly came on; she sighed, blue light meant there was a clan meeting, usually boring stuff like what kind of criminal mission they were doing, what innocent people need to be killed, what items needed to be stolen….. Corrupted stuff like that.
Boredly, she followed the massed of other Foot ninja to the meeting room, which was a very huge room with a stag and no chairs so Foot ninja like her had to stand and watch (lucky them). Leonardo, Karai and all of the Elite Guards were standing on stage.
"For this meeting, we request the Front-line fighter, Joyce Quinn on stage." Karai coldly announced, there was some shuffle as a confused Quinn jostled up onto the stage.
"Yes, Mistress Karai?" Quinn asked with a respectful bow.
"Would you remove your mask." Karai commanded, voice still cold and even like polished glass.
Quinn was bewildered, but she pulled her mask off anyways. Her spikey bright red hair was messed up due to all of the built-up static from being under that mask for so long, and her blue eyes were wide and confused. Moth never actually saw Quinns face very often, but it was seemed rather familiar right now.
Leonardo's face contorted into rage, his arm snapped over to Quinn and his large three-fingered hand clamped onto the back of her neck. Quinn let out a loud squeak of pain and hunched over as Leonardo was forcing her to.
"This Foot ninja you see before you," The leaf-green turtle yelled to his minions "is a dishonorable traitor!" With his other hand, he grabbed her red hair and ripped.
All of her red hair came off…. And black locks spilled from her head…. The red hair had only been a wig! Grabbing her real hair, Leonardo yanked her head up and forced her to look at the Foot ninja, her teeth clenched in pain and her blue eyes defiant.
"Oh my god…." Moth mumbled; the dark-haired ninja girl who refused to give her name; she was Quinn! But whatever possessed Quinn to….
"In the Foot clan," Karai's voice continued to say "the price to pay for treason is death." She drew out her katana, looking ready to strike the head right off of Quinn's shoulders
'Oh no, I need to help Quinn!' Moth thought in panic; but it would blow her cover! Everything she had worked up for almost a year, blown because her fur-and-bones gear was safely stowed back in the sewers with Michaelangelo and Venus DeMilo.
Quinn was her friend…. But….
Karai pulled her blade back, then swished it foreword to the dark-haired girls outstretched throat.
SHINK!
"What the…" Karai trailed off, staring at the Ninjaken crossed in front on her to block the strike of her katana; a Front-Liner, fully clad uniform but obviously female, stood in Front of her had been violently and suddenly pushed aside and Quinn was now at this new Foot Kunoichi's side.
"You bitch!" Leonardo snarled, then turned to the other Elite Guards "Attack these traitors! I want their heads on a stick!"
"Yeah, good luck with that wackbag!" Moth hissed and roughly grabbed Quinn by the arm, she proceeded to dash away and out of the room with Quinn shackled to her side.
"Marlowe, what the hell-!" Quinn protested.
"Shut the fuck up and follow my damn lead!" Moth commanded; they were a reasonable distance away in a hallway when Moth opened a door and whisked them both into a room and closed the door.
There was a roar of many running footsteps, Moth put her finger in front of her mouth and Quinn nodded.
"Mar, thank you for -!" Quinn began, only to get Moth's fist harshly smashed into the side of her face "Oww! What the hell!"
"Who are you really? What is your real name, and what business do you have with the Foot clan?" Moth asked.
Quinn froze and contemplated, before she responded "My name is Hamato Joyce…." She sounded honest, but Moth could not believe her words.
"That impo-" Moth was about to say, but the door opened. Moth unsheathed her swords.
"Relax it's only us." A voice said and she saw Keene, Travis, Reno and Jones. She brightened up "Guys!" She sighed in relief "We need to get out of here, fast. And we need to get Qui - Joyce in a safe place. I'll stay behind."
"But Marlowe-" Keene was about to protest, but Moth cut him off.
"Since we're being honest here; Joyce isn't the only traitor; my real name is Hamato Moth, and those turtles who have been attacking the Foot clan is my father and aunt."
Their jaws dropped.
"That's insane!" Jones howled and gripped his red hair "You're that mutant who's been slaughtering our comrades!"
"Yes, and I've also slaughtered countless animals and wandering drug lords who try to kill people who see them." Moth bitterly shot back "And the Foot clan has slaughtered many innocent people who just happened to be at the wrong place and wrong time, so fuck off Cody!"
"Where do we go?" Reno cut in, attempting to break the fight.
"Cody, go back home, take these guys with you." Moth instructed, she re-sheathed her swords "That is an order; enough teenaged whiny bullshit, your parents love your and you never should have run away and joined the very clan that killed your sister."
Jones' eyes were huge "What sister?" He asked in a surprisingly small voice.
"They'll tell you when you ask them." Moth said, then heard that they were being approached "Get out of here, now!"
"I'm staying, I started this!" Joyce insisted, looking passionate.
Moth narrowed her eyes, grabbed Joyce's head and slammed their foreheads together; while the brief contact caused Moth to only feel pain, it caused Joyce to fall unconscious all together.
Moth dropped Joyce to the ground "One of you pick her up, and all of you fallow Cody's lead." She continued to command, Travis picked Joyce up and hoisted her over his shoulders in a firemans-carry.
"Are you sure about this Mar – Moth?" Travis asked seriously.
Moth nodded, the approaching footsteps getting closer "GO!" She yelled, and they ran off; Keene stopped briefly to look back at her before running with the others.
Moth was running too – running for a way out, she needed to find a to divert the masses in a way where she did not have to face all of the Foot clan. She was good, but like any great ninja she could be overwhelmed by numbers so great when she was alone.
She felt safe when she entered what looked like an empty training hall. But she, unfortunately, was wrong.
Moth gave a cry of pain when she felt pain in her back – she twisted her head and saw a shuriken sticking out of her back, and Karai standing several feet away, seething.
"You will not get away with treason!" Karai snarled and ran towards her, before Moth could react she was decked so hard in the face that she not only stumbled back several feet, but her full-face mask was actually knocked off.
Moth was lying on her back and her head was dropped down with her hair covering her eyes, she snapped her head at Karai and glared at her with all of the intensity her amber eyes could force.
Karai's jaw dropped and she dropped her weapons; tears sprung into her eyes and she studied Moth's (now confused face) and then a almost happy look appeared in the womans green eyes as she threw herself at Moth.
The dusky-haired ninja expected to be attacked, but was startled to find Karai crouching down and…. Hugging her? Making little weeping sounds too, and murmuring things into her ear. What in shells name was going on here? Moth hissed feeling the shuriken pulled out of her back, and Karai mumbled an apology and some soothing words.
When Karai exclaimed something, Moth suddenly felt all of the blood in her body turn to ice.
"Jade! It's you! I knew it! I knew you were alive!"
-Blast from the past-
21 years ago…..
His now cold-blue eyes stared down at the four-month-old baby sleeping in its crib; it was the baby daughter of Karai and Chaplin, Oroku Jade. Chaplin was dead, he had died in a lab accident three weeks after his little daughter was born.
Mikey had snuck into the nursery at the Oroku Manor, he was going to assassinate Jade, in retaliation to Leonardo murdering Shadow in cold blood.
She seemed so small and innocent – off into dreamland, completely unaware of the danger literally looming its head in form a dagger. He was going to make it quick, she wasn't even going to feel any pain.
He tried to ignore how innocent she looked, he focused on the things he didn't like – one thing he absolutely despised about this beast was it's resemblance to Karai; it's build, it's dark hair. It didn't even look like Chaplin.
"Night-night, beast." Mikey said and thrust the blade down.
Blood soaked the sheets of the crib…..
Mikey blinked suddenly and the pain in his hand brought him back to reality; he looked to see that the knife was sticking partly out of his hand, which was now hovering over Jade protectively. Blood was pouring out of his hand and staining the sheets.
Mikey blinked again; what in the world had he been thinking? ! He could not commit infanticide! He could not kill an innocent baby…
He pulled the knife out of his hand. Mikey stared at Jade and his heart panged, thinking of another baby who was dead because of Leonardo…
He would get his revenge another way.
Mikey picked Jade up, who remained asleep, and leapt out of the window.
And before he knew it, he was on a train to Jersey…
I have been waiting to do that chapter... What will Mikey have to say for himself when his daughter confronts him?
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