-The next dawn-

Noises filled Leo's ears as he was starting to wake up. Leo listened. It was coming from the lower level of their home. He put on his mask and took his katanas as he walked jumped down to the lower level.

"Alright, whose there?" Leo yelled with a warning tone as he walked towards the light switch.

Leo looked around until he saw a figure of a woman with long hair. She froze when it looked like she was spotted.

"Alright, you have ten seconds to tell me who you are, or-"

Leo flipped the switch, and gasped when he saw what the woman was. She was a mutant turtle, like him. She looked a few inches shorter than Leonardo. Her skin was a light shade of green like Don, but darker. Her shell was a dark brown, like her hair that flowed down to her shoulders.

Leo looked at her neck to see his mother's locket. 'But that would mean...' He thought.

Leo put his weapons down while advanced towards the woman and vice versa. When they were close to each other, Leo's eyes grew wide when he looked into the other turtle's brown ones.

"M-Mom?" Leo asked

She smiled as tears started to form in her eyes.

"My boy." She said as she hugged Leo.

Leo slowly wrapped his arms around his mother, wondering if this was real or not. He smiled and started to hug on to her tighter.

"Leo, what goin' on down der'?"

Raph walked out his room as Mikey and Don walked out of theirs.

"Leo, is everything ok out-"

The other three turtles stopped when they saw Leo hugging a female mutant turtle. Leo let go and looked at the others with a smile.

"Guys, meet mother." He said.

The turtles stared in awe as their mother walked to Raph, and hugged him as well. Don walked to the couch and looked under the blankets. The turtle wasn't there anymore. Don looked back at the female while Leo chuckled.

"It's her, guys. I can tell." Leo said. The other three could tell too. They were just shocked to see her.

"I'm glad to see you too, my boys." Their mother said.

"Mom..." Mikey said as he hugged her too, along with Don and Leo. They all just stayed like this for a while, then let go of each other just to take this in a bit more.

"After fifteen years of not being near you boys, I'm glad to see you all alright." Their Mother said.

"You...actually rememb'red us mum?" Raph asked. She nodded.

"Yes, even when I thought that none of you would remember me." She opened her locket, revealing the picture. "Some of the animals would have chewed or clawed theirs off after a week, but I kept mine. It was the only thing I had of you four."

"Hey mom," Leo said nervously. "We did sort of forget about you. We only able to recognise you."

"It's ok, little one." She said. "You were babies when you were adopted, it couldn't be helped. But now that I get to see you again, I want to know what's been happening with my sons."

The turtles hesitated for a moment. Should they really tell their own mother that they were raised as ninjas by a rat (which she would probably figure out from their masks and weapons), fighting off a band of ninjas called the foot clan and their leader, the Shredder? And if they did, how would she take it?

"Ok, what do you want to know?" Leo asked as they sat on eariler the couch or the ground.

Their mother sat on the couch between Leo and Don, and simply said one word.

"Everything."