Me: Chapter 2! Start!
April 21st, 8:23pm, New York City.
After a routine training exercise turned into a home invasion by small killer robots and running for their lives as their home collapsed around them, then escaping the through the abandoned railways as it also was falling apart around them, dodging the same small army of killer robots that were responsible for it, then getting lost in the sewers due to the tunnels also collapsing and cutting them of from their Master Splinter and then rising from the sewers up to the surface, you would have thought that an incident like that would've taken… a few hours (give or take), but no. This all occurred in under one hour (thirty-nine minutes to be precise).
Here they stood. Four mutant turtles with ninja training arising from the sewers into a dark New York City alley that was covered with graffiti on the walls, over-filled dumpsters and strewn out rubbish. The alley however was surrounded by so many buildings that some were alight and made everything seem alive. The four turtles had never seen anything like it before and so far this dark and dingy alley was the most beautiful thing about New York. So far.
"Woah… this place is so beautiful…" Mikey was the first to voice his thoughts and although they the other three probably did or didn't agree with him, they also had to admit that seeing the surface for the first time was an experience that none of them would soon forget. Though after about a minute or so, it was time to go as they still had to rendezvous with Master Splinter. South Point was quite a distance in the sewers but now they had to get there in the big city without being seen at all.
"Okay guys, that's enough ogling. We need to get going. Remember what Master Splinter said? It's dangerous for us to be seen, let alone captured!" Leo said but his tone of voice made sound like a command.
"We got it Leo. And we always do when Splinter says it over and over again. Let's just go already!" Raph said and did his best to not sound annoyed… but the annoyance was still in his voice.
However the next thing the four knew was that a trio of humans (two female and one male), were casually walking and laughing with each other as they passed the alley the four turtles were in. Not allowing themselves to be seen, the four did their best to hide in the alley; Donnie and Leo sunk into the shadows being a dumpster, Mikey had hidden himself back into the sewer entrance while Raph had leapt into the shadows of the fire escape above where he initially stood. From his new point of view, Raph had spotted another manhole cover sewer entrance in another alley across the street.
"Found one." Raph said and then immediately jumped from the fire escape to on top of a nearby lamppost, high above the ground and the light it shone was on the ground, plus the night sky had easily covered him in darkness so he wouldn't be seen unless someone looked really carefully. Raph made another huge leap from the lamppost onto the top of a parked blue car on the other side of the street and then quickly ducked into the darkness of the alley behind it. Only his other three brothers knew he was there. But before any of them could move, a door slammed open from inside the alley that Raph was in, and followed by a group of male voices, and going by the looks and sounds of things, they had just finished robbing the building they were in as they were carrying bags of what was most likely stolen loot.
"Heh! Talk about an easy way to live!"
"Yeah who knew robbing could be so easy and the pay is great too!"
""Hahaha! Didja get a good look a dat one guy? What is he? The manager or something? He looked like he was gonna pee himself! Hahaha!"
"Man I should brought my camera with me!"
"Hey ya can bring it next time around! No-one is gonna stop us from havin' a little fun!"
Raph looked as though he wanted to fight those thugs, but then caught sight of Leo from across the street in the other alley who waved his hand down at him, obviously motioning him to stay down. Raph followed his reasoning and obeyed Leo's order with silent moaning as his thoughts of it. Even with their training in stealth and fighting, and though they could easily take down a group of lowlife criminals using only stealth and surprise attacks, the truth of the matter was that robberies like this were constantly happening in New York and it wouldn't be worth it since the local police would most likely catch them one way or another. The thugs made their way to their getaway car, which just so happened to be the one that Raph had jumped onto. The thugs piled their ill-gotten gains into the boot of their car (most likely also stolen), then they piled into the driver and passengers seats. One of the thugs in the back seat then held up something else he was carrying all the while he was walking with the others; a small square shaped box.
"I bet that guy won't mind that we took his pizza as well!"
"Good pay and a pizza?"
"Talk about a good night!"
One of the thugs who sat next to the one holding the pizza box reached over to grab a slice but in doing so made the holder clumsily drop it out the window.
"Shit!"
"Never mind, let's just go!"
"Yeah, we can grab some other guys dinner anyway!"
It was then that the thugs began quickly speeding away, unknowingly leaving behind the lone occupant of the alley.
At the moment that they left, the other three turtles leapt from the shadows of the alley to join Raph currently in the other.
"Guys, I don't think we're going to see Master Splinter any quicker by hiding in the shadows constantly having to avoid humans. If anything, I'd say we were making slower progress than if we weren't cut off in the sewers." Donnie said and he was right. The four turtles had only been up on the surface for more or less five minutes and already they had to hide twice. It was then that Leo suddenly thought of something as he looked up, something that would no doubt be enjoyable and get them to their destination much more quickly.
"We can make better progress if we jump from rooftop to rooftop-"Leo never got the chance to finish what he was going to say as Mikey was already beaming with excitement and anticipation.
"Awesomly-radical bro!" Mikey shouted as he looked up at Leo's idea and then Raph and Donnie looked up to the rooftops and for the first time so far, Raph liked Leo's orders. As they were about to leap to the rooftops, Mikey decided to stop and grab the abandoned pizza box.
8:29pm
Just as Leo, Raph and Donnie reached the first rooftop, they realized that Mikey was lagging slightly. And with apparently good reason. The moment he showed up, the other three saw what he was carrying.
"Guy's look what I found!" Mikey said as he walked other to his waiting brothers.
"Mikey, we don't steal other people stuff. Even if we find it lying about." Leo lectured.
"Plus, we don't know what that is." Donnie said and at that the four turtles looked down at the box in Mikey's hands. Mikey looked at the word written on the box and read it out loud.
"Piz-za…?" Mikey said as he failed to pronounce it correctly. And went to open the box.
"Careful Mikey! It could be dangerous." Leo said and Raph could only shake his head slightly at that comment on the pizza box. But Mikey seemed to ignore Leo's words and opened the box. As soon as he did, the smell of the pizza reached their noses, they had never smelled anything like it, but to Donnie's mind it registered the smell as food,
"I think it's… food." Said Donnie as he processed the information,
It's not like any food I ever saw." Raph said.
"I'll try it." Mikey announced. He then takes one of the slices of pizza and gives a quick smell before tentatively taking a bite out of it. The moment it hit his taste-buds, his face light up like a firework and his mind lit up like one as well, he had never tasted anything so delicious, he then devoured the remaining slice with a big grin on his face. Then moment he swallowed, he looked at his brothers who saw his reaction,
"Uh… yuck… you guys won't like it. I'll take the rest!" Mikey's lie was obvious but all the other three cared about was getting some good food and began scrambling to get a slice,
"No way!"
"Nu-uh!"
"Back off!"
The four turtles then began taking and devouring whatever slices they could get their hands on. And they weren't disappointed, the taste was so great they wouldn't stop smiling as they devoured the whole pizza.
"I never thought I would taste anything other than worms and algae, but this is amazing!" Raph declared.
"I LOVE IT UP HERE!" Mikey shouted out and the others agreed with that statement.
8:30pm
If you weren't pay attention to anything, especially the rooftops and night, then there would be no way you would hear the distance noise coming Mikey's mouth as he jumped excitedly from rooftop to rooftop,
"BOOYAKASHA!" Mikey shouted out the top of his lungs and the others wandered if all of New York could hear him.
"Mikey! Quiet! We're ninjas! When ninjas move, they are supposed to be silent!" Leo scolded at Mikey but Mikey didn't seem to care as he was having way too much fun using improvised parkour/ ninja jumping techniques to move from building to building. He wasn't alone in this as the only one concentrating on what they were having to do was Leo. Raph and Donnie silently admitted to themselves that this was fun and that all four should this more often.
8:38pm
In the middle of New York, the four ninja turtles suddenly skidded to a stop on another random rooftop to take in the city skyline. The skyline was amazing at night-time and with no humans looking up, even Leo admitted that he could definitely do this again with his brothers. But then the reason why they were up on the rooftops came back to him and said,
"Alright guys, we should moving on. Master Splinter is probably already waiting for us." Leo said, and the others groaned in disappointment. Even though their destination was still somewhere on the other side of the city and that they could probably have fun getting there, Leo made it sound like they had get there now like tomorrow would not wait for them. It was at that moment that something moved out of the corner on Donnie's line of sight and looked down to the ground below.
"Guys, look at that!" Donnie said as he pointed to what he was looking towards and the others caught sight of what it was that caught Donnie's eye.
Down below on the pedestrian path below and possibly walking on their way home were what appeared to be a young teenage girl with red hair tied in a ponytail and wearing a purple tank-top, beige jeans and black and white trainers. Walking next to her was a much older looking man (possibly the girl's father). He also had red hair, though he was going bald and he wore brown jeans, smart shoes, and a brown jacket with a white shirt underneath.
However it was the young girl that Donnie suddenly found himself smitten with. He stared at her with hearts in his eyes and his actual heart beating faster against his plastron.
"She's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen…!" Donnie said almost without thinking.
"Isn't she the… only girl you've ever seen?" Raph said which almost knocked the wind out of Donnie's sails, but it did bring Donnie back to the realization that he was standing next to his three brothers and then turned his head to Raph.
"My point still stands." Donnie said as he looks away from Raph but also not looking at the girl as well. That was until the sound of screeching tires suddenly reached their ears and down below as the man and the young girl turned to face the sound, a van suddenly pulled up in front of them at the corner of the road they were about to cross.
"What?" said the man and then suddenly the vans back doors opened to reveal four men steeping out of the van and all four men looked exactly alike and wearing matching suits. The men approached the man and the girl, the latter of which hid behind the man next to her looking a bit fearful.
"What is this?" said the man as he too looked slightly fearful, but the four men that approached the two looked nonchalant and robotic, like they had no care at all.
"We gotta save them!" Donnie suddenly said from the rooftop and was about to leap from the rooftop when Leo grabbed his shoulder to hold him back.
"Splinter's instructions were very clear, we're supposed to stay away from people." Said Leo but Raph turned to face him.
"What? Robberies are one thing Leo. But kidnapping can turn ugly real quick!" said Raph but if he was honest, he just wanted to fight those goons.
"But we still-"but before Leo could say anything else, Donnie broke free of Leo's grip.
"Well I'm going!" and with that, Donnie leapt from the building to the ground below.
"Wait!" Leo said but it was too late and then Raph and Mikey suddenly leapt from the rooftop to join Donnie in an upcoming fight followed by a reluctant Leo.
Things were quickly going bad for the man and the young girl. The man was easily overpowered and knocked unconscious by one of the kidnappers and was uncaringly thrown into the back of the van. This left the young girl to fend for herself (albeit very poorly) against the kidnappers. As the kidnapper who just threw the man into the back of their van, he turned to where the other kidnappers were approaching the young girl but then,
"HEY!" Raph said and the kidnapper turned behind him to face the source of the sound. Only to be greeted by a punch to the chest and stumbled back. The kidnapper simply stood up straight after the punch and going by his face, it looked as though the punch had no effect at all.
"Oh, still standing huh? I'll fix that!" Raph said whilst also raising his twin sai from his belt. But it was also at that moment that Leo accidently backed into Raph's side trying to fight another one of the kidnappers.
"Watch it!" said Leo, most likely not paying attention to a standing Raph.
"YOU watch it!" Raph said back. This kind of set the tone for the rest of the fight… Leo's opponent then threw a punch towards him and Leo jumped up onto the kidnapper's shoulders and leapfrogged over him, and then Raph had to jump back to dodge as his opponent slammed his fist on the ground where Raph had been standing which smashed a piece of the road. This was definitely not normal human strength especially since the kidnappers didn't even look that strong. The kidnapper looks up to Raph and launched another punch at which Raph managed to block and then backflip away. When he landed on his feet, Donnie who was fighting another one of the kidnappers had accidently backed into Raph trying to fight his one opponent.
"Watch it, Donnie!" Raph said, Donnie then took a quick glance behind at Raph but then had to raise his staff to block his opponent's punch that as aimed at his head. He blocks the attack and counters by smacking his opponent's ribs and then his head with his staff, Donnie then stepped to the side and spins his staff ready to attack again. Donnie thrust his staff forwards and struck his opponent's midsection.
Mikey flips away to dodge his opponent's attack whilst sppining his nunchaku ready to strike, he swings his weapon to the side intending to attack but unbeknownst to Mikey, Raph was behind him fighting one of the kidnapper's and his weapon got caught in Raph's sai who then quickly ducked and rooled away as his opponent very nearly struck Raph.
Leo at that point had ducked and rolled out of the way as his opponent's attack missed, Leo raised his twin katana to attack but then inadvertently blocked Donnie's staff as he was fighting his own fight. Leo and Donnie quickly broke off and back to theor own respective opponents. Leo thrust his twin katana forward at one of the kidnappers but at that point Raph suddenly jumped down from wherever he was and Leo accidently hit Raph's shell with the swords. Thank goodness their shells are strong otherwise Raph would have been skewered.
"What the-"but Raph was cut off as the kidnapper slammed his fist against the side of Raph's head as it turned behind him and was sent flying off to the side. (Teamwork was definitely an issue here).
Raph recovered quickly and got back on his feet and just in time as he stepped and dodged to the side but as one of the four kidnappers launched a punch at Raph who then counters by trying flip his opponent other his shoulder (he really did try) but the kidnapper didn't even budge.
"OH, come on!" as Raph said this he tried again to throw his opponent over his shoulder with the same results except this time the kidnapper punched him hard and sent him flying across the road.
At that moment Leo had to jump away from his opponent's attacks several times, at the last dodge, Leo just noticed another one of the kidnapper's behind him and counter his attack by throwing a jump kick to his face then as his other opponent ran towards him, still in the air he kicked the other kidnapper's jaw, but he either didn't hit the former hard enough or he was tougher than he looked as he was unable to block the kidnapper's next punch and like Raph was sent flying across the street.
At that moment Donnie then heard the girl had started screaming as one of the kidnapper's had got a hold of her and carried her over his shoulder and walked toward the van. She kicked and flailed any she could but she could not break free of her kidnapper's hold. Fortunately Donnie had managed to gain the upper hand on his opponent and turned and threw his staff at the girl's kidnapper. The staff connects and the kidnapper stumbles forward as well as accidently realising the girl. She was sent flying up a bit but Donnie rushed forward and caught her in his arms.
"Gotcha!" Donnie exclaimed as he caught her. Not seeing a human this close before he gave the girl a smile but when she looked up to her would be rescuer, she screamed. Donnie also screamed in response to this and ended up dropping her. The girl crawls backwards to get away from him and Donnie tries to calm her,
"No, no, no, don't worry, we're the good guys!" Donnie said in an attempt to calm her but she just screams again. She had never seen someone or something like Donnie ever, she knew aliens exited somewhere but never thought she would come face to face with one. And it scared her.
"It's okay." Donnie said again in an attempt to reassure her, but when she turned to run away from him, she saw two of her kidnappers approach her. She didn't know what was scarier at that moment; the kidnappers who would do who knows what if they got to her or the alien whom she had no idea about. Taking a chance, Donnie held his hand out to her to help her up as turned nervously turned to face him. Not liking the idea of being kidnapped, she tentatively raised her hand to take his. But at that moment, she flinched when Mikey suddenly jumped behind him and accidently hit him over the head with his nunchaku. Dazed for a second before recovering, Donnie turned to his brother, and forgot about the girl for a moment,
"Whoops! Sorry!" Mikey said but then one of the kidnappers launched a kick at Donnie,
"Watch out!" Mikey said as he pointed to the attacker, but Donnie was too slow to react and the kick connected to his plastron and was sent flying into Mikey and the two flew across the street and crashed into a bin on the pathway.
Donnie recovered quickly as the kidnappers then succeeded in hauling the girl into the back of the van, bound and gagged with the unconscious man. The kidnappers quickly climbed into the van and started the engine and drove away, leaving the four ninja turtles alone on the street.
"They're getting away! They got the girl!" said exclaimed as the van drove away, and the four turtles gave chase to the van on foot. But not before Raph complained getting hit by Leo.
"You just jabbed me with your sword!"
"Well I didn't know you were going to land where I was stabbing!"
The four ran as fast as they could in the direction that the van had driven off too, but the moment it turned a corner, it was out of sight. Even more so when they turned the same corner only to find that the van had now vanished, most likely driven off into another direction in which the turtles did not know where to start looking for.
"Well that could've gone better…" said Mikey, a little downcast.
"BETTER!? Mikey you almost hit me with yer chuks!" Raph bellowed but before he could say anything else, Leo intervened with the elephant in the room,
"Guys you do realise that when we see Master Splinter again, he will most likely ground us for life…" Leo said and the other three looked like they wished THEY had gotten kidnapped along with the girl or anything else to avoid Master Splinter's ire and disappointed. They knew lying would do no good as Master Splinter would know instantly. With that they decided to face the music and resumed in the direction of South Point and Master Splinter.
8:20pm, New York City Sewers.
Master Splinter didn't know what was worse; having his home destroyed by a small army of small biting and gnashing robots or being separated from his four sons by heavy debris with the knowledge that they might get hurt or do something incredibly stupid like revealing themselves to a random person. But nonetheless, as Splinter and his separated family parted ways to rendezvous at Splinter's suggested destination, Splinter quietly walked down the sewer tunnel. As he walked, his mind wouldn't stop fretting about his son's safety or the decisions they would make on their own. Circumstances required this however and Splinter had hoped to whatever higher being that everything was going to be alright after this and that they could go back to how they were before this event happened and that maybe his sons can go to the surface with the proper training that Splinter had planned for them.
8:27pm.
Walking through the empty sewers with no distractions or otherwise had allowed Master Splinter to reach his destination at the drainage junction near South Point relatively easily. Now he just had to wait for his sons. Splinter let out a sigh as he began to relax a bit, but the moment he did, he was immediately on guard as the drainage junction suddenly shook and as before, several of those nasty small robot chewed threw the walls and the floor this time and surrounded Master Splinter. Splinter narrowed his eyes ready to fight these robots. The robots attacked with their gnashing jaws but Splinter was too fast for them as with each swing of his jade cane, the robots were being smashed one by one. One could call this an easy warm-up for the ninja master as within a minute all the small robot were broken and disabled.
Master Splinter was about breathe a sigh of quiet victory (he doesn't gloat) but it was quickly turned into a scram of surprise as the floor beneath his feet suddenly fell apart and gave way to gravity which also took Master Splinter down with the falling rubble.
The fall didn't last very long, mainly because he was falling so fast, the fall would've probably killed him had the hole he was falling in not turned into a slide of sorts. Master Splinter still screamed a bit as he slid down the hole but it stopped when he stopped sliding down the hole and exited into a part of the underground sewer he did not recognize. Taking a moment to take in his new surroundings, Master Splinter realized that the area he was in had been long since abandoned if the cobwebs were any indication. What had caught his eye most however was hexagon shaped opening that stood just few feet away from where he stood. As he looked beyond however, he was amazed at what he saw.
"Amazing! This will save us the trouble of finding a new home!" Splinter thought to himself. After a moment or so to take in his new surroundings, he realized it was most likely about time for his sons to arrive at the drainage junction.
As he turned however he realized he would get lost if he tried to find his way back to the drainage junction and while he could find his way back eventually, he knew he did not have the time for getting lost now. So he stopped himself at the hole he fell through and using his abilities as a rat, Master Splinter began to climb up the hole.
8:30pm
Being a master of ninjitsu, Master Splinter easily managed to climb to the top of the hole and was unsurprised to see the remains of the small robots littering the ground. As he stood properly on the ground, he had now wandered,
"Shouldn't my sons have arrived by now?"
8:37pm.
Master Splinter was definitely going to get his sons to tell him why they took so long. He was waiting for seven minutes now, but those moments seemed to last for hours as he worried for them.
Suddenly the sound of a gate rattling and opening became apparent and for a moment, Master Splinter wandered if some more unwanted company was coming in his direction, but was immediately relieved when the sound of his four sons were heard in that direction also,
"Hey, is this really the way, D?"
"Absolutely, this way should lead us to the drainage junction, and we just passed South Point so we are a hundred percent going in the right direction."
"If we get lost Donnie, I swear I will beat the green of you!"
"Hey c'mon Raph, we haven't even gotten lost yet."
As the four continued to walk forward, it became apparent that they hadn't gotten lost at all as they almost immediately caught sight of Master Splinter waiting for them. The turtles smiled from ear to ear as they ran towards him
"Sensei!"
"Alright!"
"Haha, yeah!"
"Booyakasha!"
Master Splinter was also relived to see to sons again.
"Yes, well. It is also good to see you again, my sons." Master Splinter said but then Leo had to bring a bit of forlorn words in.
"Master… somethings… er… happened and… uh…" Leo tried to explain but Splinter cut him off as he frowned at Leo's words.
"I see. There will be time explain what has happened. But for now, let us go home." Master Splinter said as he turned to walk towards the hole in the ground.
"Home?" said Mikey as he was a little confused.
"We got no home." Raph said as he now took note of the destroyed robots littering the ground as did the other three turtles. Raph crouched next to one of the ruined robots, "Those robots trashed our home. Remember Sensei?" Raph said and then Master Splinter turned his head to him,
"Do not worry, I believe I have found a solution to our… current housing affair. Follow me, my sons." And with that, Master Splinter jumped down the hole in the ground. Even though the others looked a little confused, they also did not doubt their sensei. Leo was the first to jump down the hole, followed shortly by Donnie. Then before in himself, Mikey decided to say,
"BOOYAK- Waaaagh!" before Mikey could say the rest of 'booyakasha', Raph had shoved him into the hole and then let out a laugh.
"NOT FUNNY RAPH!" Mikey shouted so Raph could hear him as he fell through the hole.
"Oh yes it is!" Raph said before diving into the hole himself.
To say that the turtles exit from the hole was less than graceful was an understatement. Splinter had exited with ease and stood up straight and simply stepped aside where his sons would undoubtedly land in a pile of tangled limbs. He wasn't wrong. The moment Leo exited first, he too stood up straight… and then got accidently tackled from behind by Donnie, knocking him off his feet and on top of Donnie, followed by Mikey slamming into the two of them and shortly followed by Raph to complete the turtle hill and the complete mess of limbs sticking out of the pile.
"Points for landing: minus four!" Master Splinter thought to himself as he withheld a snicker. Once the turtles (eventually) untangled themselves, Master Splinter then led them through the corridor to the hexagon shaped archway and beyond.
The sight was amazing! The room beyond the doorway was huge, easily the size of a small mansion. The room was a huge egg-like shape all covered in stone of different colours (mainly light green, orange and light brown), the centre contained a large pool of sorts with an old bridge going over it, and there was also an upper floor in the shape of a long balcony with unused rooms of various sizes and also along the lower floor had various sized rooms along its walls. All four turtles gasped with awe and amazement as they took in their new surroundings.
"This is beyond awesome!"
"I could really tune this space up!"
Mikey wasted no time and jumped to the upper floor/ balcony and pointed to one of the unused rooms,
"This room here: MINE!" Mikey said making it clear that the room in question was his.
"You see my sons: change can be good." Master Splinter said and Leo was more than happy to support his words,
"We couldn't agree more Master Splinter!" Leo said as he smiled.
"Yes. And while we are on the subject of change… mind telling me happened when you went above ground?" Master Splinter's voice suddenly went stern and then the smile on Leo was suddenly wiped off his face as well as his brothers.
One thing for certain was this: Master Splinter was definitely not going to like what their story concluded in.
Me: Hey there! Hope you liked April's first appearance. I decided to give her her 2003 outfit since I think it was a better outfit for someone like her and I also liked the 2003 version of the Lair better than the 2012 version. But these are only my opinions, let me know what you guys think.