Me: Hello viewers! Just so know, this chapter is a version of how think could be different without Snake being in the picture. If you were mad about not seeing Snake, don't worry he will be in the story and inevitably as Snakeweed. But he is going to have a different back-round. Anyway hope you like!
8:57pm, New York City- The New Lair.
To say that Master Splinter was not pleased was an understatement, he still did his best to keep himself level headed. Even so, the four turtles who kneeled in place on the hard concrete floor still found themselves nervous at the stern voice of their sensei.
"So… you kept hidden in the darkness for one incident only to reveal yourselves in the next, failed to look out for each other during a fight… and so your inability to work together allowed them all to get away!" Master Splinter surmised, and well… he wasn't wrong, that was pretty much the gist of it.
"Well maybe if I didn't have to waste time arguing with 'hero boy' here, I could've saved them!" Raph said as was annoyed with the results of tonight and referring to Leo as the 'hero boy'.
"Hey if you hadn't gotten in my way, I could've done it!" Leo said in retaliation and then turned to Donnie,
"And you went flying off on your own! How smart was that?" Leo said who was annoyed at his decision to do what he did. Donnie faced Leo in response,
"Well it would've worked out great-"Donnie then turned his attention to Mikey, "-if SOMEBODY hadn't hit me in the head with their nunchakus!" Donnie said who blamed Mikey for that whack on his head. Mikey was next to voice his irritation,
"Well, none of this would've happened if-"he turned his head to point the blame at someone else like his brother's did with each other, only to find no-one to do so, and so turned back to his brothers, "-someone hadn't destroyed our old home with those robot thingys!"
At the mention of those robotic destroyers, the other three turtles could only agree, up to a point at least,
"When I find out who sent those robots, I'm going to turn them into my new punching bag!" Raph growled.
"Hey, that doesn't excuse how bad things got afterwards!" Leo voiced out.
Donnie was about to add something to their bickering when…
"ENOUGH!" Master Splinter shouted as he stomped his cane onto the ground, the sound reverberated along the entire room like it did in the sewer tunnels a while ago and with the same results: the four turtles stopped their bickering and pointing fingers at each other and immediately stood to attention.
"It is clear that you were not prepared for what was on the surface and what dangers lie in waiting there. I had planned to bestow upon you the training to work together as a team and not as individuals like I have done for the past fifteen years. Perhaps training in teamwork for about a year will help in this and we can try again." Master Splinter said calmly but the four turtles looked as if he told them that he was dying. Donnie especially was more distraught with this and said,
"A year!? H-has everybody forgotten that people were kidnapped? They don't have a year!" Donnie exclaimed, Splinter then turned to him looking for him to say more on this, then Donnie made direct eye contact with him,
"You weren't there sensei. You didn't see how that girl looked at me. She was scared, and she was counting on me-"Donnie had corrected himself right away at this as his brother's looked at him, "-u-us, to save her!" Donnie finished and then all four turtles looked at Master Splinter, hoping for the chance to do something right about the mess they found.
Splinter took a moment to think about what Donnie had said and also his sons' silent request; "Let us go to the rescue!" Master Splinter then recalled a memory from a long time ago; a time when his loved ones were counting on him and he failed. He did not want his sons to experience that kind of failure.
"Yes…" Master Splinter finally relinquished, "You must save her." Splinter said as though it was an order and a mission to be accomplished and even though the four turtles were delighted with his decision to let them go on this mission, Leo had felt the need to deflate the other's keenness just a bit,
"I agree sensei, but in that fight… we weren't exactly a well-oiled machine…" Leo was rather sheepish as he said this and it also made his brothers a bit downcast at the reminder of their… "…inability to work together…" as Master Splinter said a few moments ago.
Splinter then grabbed a hold and stroked his beard a few times to contemplate his next move for them to make their next move and then when he stopped stroking his beard, he came to a conclusion,
"A training session is in order then. We will have around one hour to train you to fight as a team. Less if you can prove to me that you can fight as such." Master Splinter said, and although the turtles were a little pressed for time, they still found it within themselves to groan at the thought of a training session so soon (except for Leo).
"Aaaaawwww… but senseeeeiiii!" Mikey complained first and was quickly shut down by Splinter,
"This is not up for discussion! Now stand ready, for I will not be as lenient as I have been before!" Master Splinter said in a tone that suggested that he was definitely not messing around.
"'Not as lenient as before'?" Raph said as he gobsmacked. He wasn't the only one though.
"Dude, he was brutal in our training before! I don't wanna be battered any more than before!" Mikey complained and he was right, Master Splinter was very strict about their individual training beforehand. The very thought that he was simply being lenient at that training, Mikey and Donnie shuddered to think how Splinter was train them whilst not being lenient. Donnie when he heard the words 'not as lenient as before', he gulped and shrank at the thought of what was in store for them.
Leo meanwhile felt more than ready. He knew that training like this was going to come up eventually. He felt prepared.
10:01pm…
The training was not as brutal as they initially thought, though they quickly realized that Master Splinter was more strict in his approach; he would shout and then lecture whenever help was not given to a downed turtle, again if an argument was about to start. All in the space of just over an hour. However overall, the four turtles learned more about how to work together with their individual skill sets, and if Leo could rate the results of their training, then he could say it was an improvement over the events of the kidnapping. Not perfect but definitely better.
And so Master Splinter deemed them worthy as a team and had them stand to attention at the entrance of their new home. The scene very much resembled four cadets standing to attention at the orders of a captain. However, Master Splinter acted less like a captain or ninja sensei and more like a father giving some last minute advice to his children.
"You are going back to a strange and hostile world. You much maintain awareness at all times." Splinter said.
"Hai, Sensei!" the four responded and were about to turn to the entrance when,
"Stay in the shadows!" Splinter quickly said before they turned completely as he raised his finger, and then lowered when he was done talking.
"Hai, Sensei!" the four turtles responded as they stood back to attention and then once again turned to the entrance when,
"Don't talk to strangers… again!" Splinter quickly said as he raised the same finger before they turned to the entrance and they turned their heads at his new advice, and then lowered his finger,
"Hai, Sensei!" the four turtles repeated and then turned completely to the entrance when,
"Everyone is a stranger!" Splinter quickly said as he raised the same finger again and then lowered as he finished, the four turtles didn't bother to stand to attention and just turned so half of their bodies faced him but their heads turned to him completely,
"Hai, Sensei…" the four turtles said in a 'I am getting tired of this' tone of voice, and then turned to the entrance and ran, but just they were nearly out of the lair,
"Make sure you go before leave! The restrooms up there are filthy!" as Master Splinter talked, the turtles all but froze at his new advice before turning to him,
"Sensei!" the four said as they sounded a bit annoyed at his new life advice.
Splinter then let out a resigned sigh, "Good luck, my sons."
At this the turtles beamed and sounded so excited about their new adventure and then finally exited their home at speed, but not before,
"Look both ways before crossing the street!" the four turtles heard from Splinter from the tunnel but by then they were already stood next to the hole they slid in through and began to climb it.
10:19pm… New York City Rooftops.
The atmosphere that surrounded the four turtles was much brighter than before. Because this time around, they had a home to go back to and they had their father's/sensei's approval to be where they were; jumping across from building to building whilst having fun at the same time. However as they were coming across a certain building, Leo halted everyone,
"Hold up ninjas!" Leo commanded and the three skidded to a stop to look at Leo,
"What is it, Leo?" Donnie asked as Leo was staring at a certain building. Leo pointed towards the building, and confused at why their brother was doing what he was doing, Raph was about to voice his irritation when Mikey saw the building himself and piped up with a smile,
"Dude, there are buildings all other the city yo! But that is one gnarly building!" Mikey said, completely oblivious to Leo and his brother's face-palming,
"No Mikey, that's not why I stopped you guys…" Leo said and then pointed to the building, "I recognize that logo, it's the same one as the one on the van that was used to kidnap the girl and the man from earlier!" at this, the other three turtles turned to look at the building. It was true, the building had a logo on it, it was a hexagon shape that had six other hexagons on its six sides with the outside shapes coloured white and the inside shape had no colour. Even though the others had acknowledged the logo, they still didn't see what was so important until Raph and Donnie had realized what Leo just said,
"Wait, there was a logo on that van?" Raph said
"I didn't see any such logo…" Donnie said as he was disappointed in himself for not paying any attention to detail from the kidnapping incident.
"Ok, guys here's what we do now…" Leo said as he came up with a plan that would be his first real order for their first real mission.
(Flashback)
9:00pm, the Lair/ New Home…
The four turtles sat kneeling on the floor with their sensei stood up straight in front of them.
"First things first, if you are to be an effective unit then you are going to need a leader." Master Splinter said and at those words, Leo quickly answered with,
"Can I be the leader?" Leo said as he raised his hand as if to gain more attention. And he did… from Raph,
"Why should you be leader? I kicked your butt! I should be the leader!" Raph said as he made his argument known.
"Hey, I'm smarter than all you guys put together, it should me!" Donnie said as he also made his argument known.
"No way! It should be me!" Mikey announced and at this as the other three turned their heads at him with a look of confusion and disbelief.
"I don't really have a reason! I just think it would be neat!" Mikey said with a smile and most likely not taking this seriously. Unlike Master Splinter however, who turned his back to walk a few feet away to prepare his lesson,
"This is a difficult decision to make. It may take some time to decide… its Leonardo!" Master said but the way he announced that Leo would be the leader made it sound as if he already had Leo in mind as the leader.
"No hard feelings, Raph?" Leo asked as he turned to Raph whose response was to growl before answering,
"Ah, stick it in yer shell!" Raph said as he stood up and faced their sensei and then the others followed suit and readied themselves for whatever Master Splinter was going to throw at them for this training exercise.
(End of Flasback)
10:28pm, New York City Rooftops.
Leo's plan was a simple stakeout of the building with the weird looking logo and they had been staking out for seven minutes and already Mikey looked a little lost,
"Explain to me one more time what we're doing here?" Mikey asked and then the other three groaned at this.
"Mikey, we've been over this; that building has the same logo as the van that was used to kidnap the girl and the man, so if we wait here long enough, one of the kidnappers will eventually show himself." Leo explained but Mikey seemed to miss something,
"And then we got ourselves a van!" Mikey said as he punched the air as if proud that he got it, but Leo could only face-palm again at this.
"Just hit the guy I tell you to…" Leo said again and at this, Mikey grinned and gave a thumbs up toward Leo,
"Will do!"
Raph then took the opportunity to intervene,
"Are you sure this is gonna work?" Raph asked as he thought that staking out was going to be a waste of time,
"Trust me. They'll be here any second!" Leo said confidently.
11:11pm
It had been over half an hour and though Leo was patient, that didn't mean his brothers were either. Case in point, Raph sat on a nearly advertisement board looking like he could start hitting Leo across the head for coming up with a daft idea, and meanwhile Mikey and Donnie were passing the time by folding bits of scrap paper they found on the roof. Mikey however lost his (whatever it was) paper design when he flicked it into Donnie's face then plummeting off the rooftop.
11:44pm
Leo was still patiently waiting and looking toward the building he had been staring at for a while now, Raph now stood on the roof and leaned against the advertisement board and wanting to go home from being bored throughout the whole stakeout, Mikey had fallen asleep sitting on the edge of the rooftop, and Donnie had decided to pass the time by using Mikey's kusarigama chain extension from his nunchucks as a skipping rope, and then falling flat on his face when the chain caught his feet.
12:03am
Leo, still patient (if a bit robotic), stood across the building with the strange logo, while Raph looked like he wanted to hit something real bad standing in the middle of the rooftop, Donnie looked bored out of his mind while Mikey was playing 'I spy' with him (though for some reason it was always Raph as the subject of the game).
12:09am
It was at this point that Raph decided that enough was enough and approached Leo of dragging him back to their new home if he refused to move.
Leo was still stalking the building from the spot that he didn't seem to move from in hours,
"Leo, just give it up already, nobody is going to show." Raph said, and two hour of nothing and Mikey and Donnie agreed silently (they were too bored to bother),
"We have to be patient." Leo said but Raph wasn't having any of it,
"No, you have to come up with a better plan, because the four of us standing up here with our thumbs up our noses-"
"I don't think they'd fit." Mikey blurted out as he looked at his thumbs,
"-is pointless." Raph finished and then at that moment the sound of tyres screeching could be heard near the building and Leo smirked.
"You sure about that, Raph?" Leo said with a cocky attitude.
"They just showed up didn't they?" Raph said with a deadpan look and not even bothering to look below. And when he did, they saw a lone man (one of the kidnappers), walk out of the driver's side.
"I should've complained two hours ago!" Raph said thinking he'd jinxed it somehow (he probably did).
It was then that Leo put on his commander voice on down to the accent for what he would think was going to be cool,
"Gentleman, I have a bold and daring plan! There's no time for hesitation. My orders must be carried without question!" Leo said looking proud at his statement, but then as he finished, he realized his brothers didn't listen and were already on the ground below ready to attack the lone kidnapper. When he saw this he dropped the accent and just whined out, "Guys wait up!"
Leo then used the fire escape to easily slide down to the ground below to join his brothers.
The four surrounded the lone man who looked as uninterested as first time they fought him and his other identical buddies. Raph was all too eager to let his intentions be known,
"Alright pal, we can do this the easy way, or my vote-"at the last three words, Raph cracked his knuckles and they made a very noticeable popping sound, "-the hard way." And then at those words, Raph grinned at the very thought of it.
"Yeah, look at it logically; there are four of us and one of you. Haha! What are you gonna do?" Donnie said as he got a bit cocky. He probably should not have jinxed it as then as if to answer, the lone man pulled out a rectangular shaped gun with a straight serrated edge on the end and fired the gun at the four turtles. The turtles dodged and scattered the guns strange looking projectiles. They had thought they'd be dodging bullets but instead they were dodging pink laser blasts.
"You had to ask!" Raph shouted at Donnie as they dived to the fire escape to use as a shield, meanwhile Mikey dived behind a car and Leo had jumped onto the van the lone man was using. The lone man failed to notice Leo on top of the van and seeing this as an opportunity, Leo jumped from the top of the van and landed a strong drop kick to the man's head and knocking him back against the wall behind him. As Leo landed on his feet, he raised unsheathed his katana and raised the tip at the lone man, but it was at that very moment that the man had unintentionally bounced off of the wall that he was slammed against and Leo had no time to think as the man suddenly staggered towards Leo's katana and the sword impaled him through his chest and exited through his back. Leo was too shocked to react as were his brothers who saw what had just happened. Leo quickly withdrew his sword from the man as he slumped to the floor like a sack of potatoes. Leo looked and felt as if he wanted to start panicking and as the man lay lifeless, the other three turtles rushed from their hiding spots to where Leo stood. Donnie crouched to the lifeless man to check if he was alive, meanwhile Mikey and Raph stood on both of Leo's sides, Raph looked down at the man, and Mikey tried to help Leo ,
"Leo, dude… are you alright?" Mikey was concerned about Leo's mental state after the incident, "Leo, it is alright dude, it was an accident…" but Leo interrupted him,
"No it is alright Mikey! I just killed someone!" Leo was a bout rant in a fit of panic when Donnie stopped him,
"Leo, somethings wrong. There is no blood!" Donnie's statement caught everyone's attention. Anyone with half a brain (including Mikey according to Raph) would know that from any stab wound, there was bound to be blood. And being impaled through the chest, there should have been a large pool by now. But nothing in this case. Now confused instead of panicking, Leo and the turtles looked closer. No longer panicking in that moment, they noticed the man was not bleeding from where he was stabbed but instead was emanating pink sparks from the stab wound instead. If there was one thing they knew about human anatomy (especially Donnie), it was that humans do not spark, ever. Realizing this, Donnie opened up the man's suit to get a closer look at the stab wound and then what they saw next made all four turtles flinch back as Donnie inadvertently released what appeared to be a small pink brain-like creature with eyes, sharp teeth and tentacles pop out from the stomach area and scurry off away from the turtles, squealing as it did so.
The turtles could not believe their eyes. This was definitely not human, far from it. After a moment, the turtles recovered from the initial shock to try and sum up what had just happened,
"…er…"
"…"
"…what…?"
"…dude…"
"…D-Donnie…? What… what that…?" Leo all but stammered, still trying to piece together the last few moments and Donnie all but gave out an uncertain answer,
"I… I don't… know… there are no species that I know of that looks like a walking brain." Donnie said and then immediately Mikey piped up with an excited expression and grinning,
"So then maybe it was an alien!" Mikey announced, and three were about to shoot the idea down but then Leo and Raph thought that maybe Mikey was right. Donnie however,
"What? No! Mikey, there are no such things as aliens!" Donnie said as he frowned and sounded irked at the very idea but then much to Donnie's surprise, Raph supported the idea,
"Oh really? Cuz I can't think of a better explanation!" Raph said as he crossed his arms. Leo in the meantime had shook himself out of his initial shock and went back into his leader form,
"Guys… look I know Master Splinter always taught to expect the unexpected, but I don't think he thought that aliens might be involved… regardless we should still search the van for any clues." Leo said and even the others agreed at this order, Donnie still felt the need for more proof about the creature.
The four had barely started investigating the van when Raph opened the vans backdoor and was surprised when a small glass canister green ooze fell from the van and rolled onto road. The four stopped what they were all doing and walked to get a closer look at the glass canister and when they all looked down upon the canister, they instantly recognized what it was. There was no mistaking it, after all, they all knew the story.
(Flashback)
August 30th 12:33pm, New York City- The Turtles Old Home- 2007
(Splinter's POV)
Even though today was the day that my four sons and I became what we are, it didn't deter me from giving them their daily ninjitsu training. After morning training and some playful hours later, it was here where we sat, in the kitchen munching on algae and worms (all we could eat down here), and three of my four sons were quietly chewing their… food? Donatello was a bit reluctant like usual, while Leonardo and Raphael didn't seem too bothered by it as was I. Michelangelo meanwhile was busy preparing what I assume to be more of our… lunch?
"There's a little more algae and worms left if anybody wants it! Anybody? Anybody?" Michelangelo asked as he turned with a pot of more algae and worms.
"No thanks."
"I'm good!"
"All yours."
This was their usual reaction to more of the stuff, not that I blamed them for it. But Michelangelo never really seemed to mind,
"Well then, I guess there is no room left for… cake!" at the last word, Michelangelo pulled out more algae and worms in the shape of a birthday cake which caught the other three's attention.
"Whoa, it is a cake!" Donatello said with a surprised expression,
"Made of… algae… and worms…" Raphael looked and sounded disappointed upon saying this but something caught Leonardo's eyes,
"What's the frosting made out of?" Leonardo asked.
"You don't wanna know…" Michelangelo answered and I am sure none of us wanted to know but Michelangelo didn't stop smiling.
"Happy Mutation Day!" Michelangelo announced and at this the other three smiled as well.
"Happy Mutation Day!" the other three said in unison and all four of my sons smiled and raised their arms up in enjoyment of the event. And I couldn't help but smile as well.
"Ah yes! Ten years ago today our lives changed forever, and we became the unlikeliest of families." I said with a smile as the four turned their heads to me. Then Michelangelo dashed from where he stood at the stove to my side with pleading eyes,
"Tell us the story, Master Splinter!" Michelangelo asked as he looked up at me and I could only chuckle a bit at how adorable the sight was before saying,
"Michelangelo, I have already told it many times!" I said and it was true, they would usually ask this about once or twice a year, so I'm quite sure they all knew the story word for word. However that didn't seem to stop Michelangelo.
"Please? Pleeeease-"Michelangelo pleaded before Raphael suddenly appeared behind Michelangelo and stopped his pleading by clamping his mouth closed with his hand,
"Please, it's the only way to shut Mikey up!" Raphael said sounding a bit irritated at Michelangelo's antics. I sighed and decided to tell our origins,
"Very well…. Ten years ago when I was still human, I was leaving a local pet store with four baby turtles-"
"That was us?" Michelangelo interrupted.
"Yes! Don't interrupt!" I said in a stern voice and Michelangelo then took heed of my words and quieted himself. I then continued with our origin story,
"As I walked down the street, I bumped into a strange man. Something seemed off about him. I decided to follow. I followed him to dark alleyway where there stood other men exactly identical to himself. I did my best to keep my cover, but it was blown when I accidently stood on a rat which let out an alarmed squeak that caught the men's attention. I then found myself surrounded by the men. 'Go no further!' one of them said, 'This is not a place that is to be seen by you, so is this not a place that will be left by you!' he said and not intending to correct his speech, I fought back when they attacked. The men were no match for me but one of the men was holding a glass canister filled with a strange green liquid that, when I knocked him down, he dropped the canister and it smashed onto the ground and its contents spilled onto me. The ooze then mutated me into what I am now in just seconds and in those seconds, I ended up dropping you four onto the puddle of the green ooze and you mutated into baby turtle humanoids. That was the beginning of our life together…" As I was about to finish, I held up the smashed remains of the same glass canister and showed it to the four boys, "It was the mysterious substance in this canister that, in a way, gave birth to us all." I finished and as I showed them the glass canister I could see that they listened intently to my every word.
(End of Flashback)
(Normal POV)
12:12am, New York City
All four turtles stared down at the glass container with all of its gooey contents still contained and all four simultaneously let out a 'Woah!' at the sight of it.
"So… that's the-"Leo was about to ask before being interrupted by Donnie,
"Mutagenic ooze that turned us all into what we are now!" Donnie said and then Mikey quickly stopped himself from gaping at the canister to look at his brothers with excitement unable to be contained,
"Let's drink some!" Mikey's words stopped his brothers from staring at the container to look at him with deadpan expression and then Raph just looked annoyed at his statement,
"What? Why would you do that?" Raph questioned and he knew as well as the other two that a stupid question like that was going to get them an equally stupid answer.
"Because if you mutate a mutant… you get a super mutant!" Mikey said and Donnie responded still with a deadpan expression,
"Or a pile of goo on the sidewalk." Donnie said but Leo stepped in voice his thoughts on the situation,
"Guys, this is huge! Whoever it was who kidnapped those people are the same ones who mutated us fifteen years ago!" Leo said with amazement but Donnie was confused at this,
"How is that possible?" Donnie asked as if he still didn't want to come to the conclusion that aliens somehow existed.
"For alien robots, anything is possible." Mikey said as he lowered his voiced to try and give off a dramatic effect, but Donnie still denied this,
"Stop that, there are no such things as alien robots!" Donnie denied but Raph just looked at him as if he was being unreasonable (which he was),
"Donnie seriously! Then how on EARTH do you explain whatever it was that scurried down the street?" Raph put an emphasis on Earth as if daring him to find an earthly explanation.
Donnie was about to retort but as he kept opening and closing his mouth to try come up with something that to him would make rational sense, he could not find an explanation that would satisfy himself. Seeing this, Raph smirked after which Leo spoke out,
"Alright guys, we still need to find some sort of clue about where they took those humans. Back to the van." Leo ordered. The four went back to the van but not before putting the canister of ooze back into the van. They knew this stuff had the ability to mutate anything organic, so it was best put it somewhere where it couldn't get a random person to mutate. The four began their search of the van outside and inside, and besides the only noticeable of the van being its sunglass windows to avoid suspicious onlookers, there was nothing of note that could lead them to where they took the humans.
12:17pm…
"Find anything anyone?" Leo asked. Since he couldn't find anything useful, he was a little downcast and hopeful that his brothers had some success.
"Nope."
"Nada."
"Zippo."
But that hope Leo had was quickly squashed by those responses. Donnie was leaning over the driver's seat while Raph was in the back of the van and Leo and Mikey were outside of the van. As Donnie was exiting the van, he accidently knocked the side of his shell against what he assumed were radio buttons. He was very wrong, when he pressed the buttons, a computer monitor of sorts suddenly slid up from the dashboard.
"Guys, guys! Look at this!" Donnie's voice was a bit louder than he intended but nonetheless gained the attention of his brothers. They gathered to where Donnie was and saw what it was that he found. That monitor was definitely not there before. Curious, Donnie pressed another button and then the monitor suddenly lit up to reveal a map of the whole city.
"A map of the city?" Raph said but as soon as he did, several pink dots appeared in seemingly random parts of the city.
"Maybe if we connect the dots, we'll get a picture!" Mikey suddenly said as he gave a big smile and the others could only face-palm followed by Raph smacking Mikey other the head.
"OW!"
But it was a red dot that showed itself to be outside the city that caught Leo's attention.
"Why is this area marked with a red dot but not the others?" Leo asked and at this Donnie gave a clear answer for the first time this whole thing started,
"I suspect it has more importance than the other locations." Donnie concluded,
"Then that's where we go." Leo ordered again and then decided that they should 'borrow' the van to take to their next location. The van's dark sun visors would easily conceal the four so they didn't need to worry about being spotted.
12:18pm… New York City… somewhere…
Her night so far was a mix of weird, scary and confusing. What had started out as a normal of going to and from school to meeting with her father at his workplace and then walking home late had turned completely on its head. First a van suddenly stopped in front of them and its occupants come out of said van to kidnap them (and succeed), then they knock out her dad unconscious, then four green mutants suddenly appeared out of nowhere to complicate matters and fail to stop her from being kidnapped along with her dad. She was scared alright, but now here she was, locked in sort of hi-tech facility cell along with her dad and trying to reasons with their kidnappers,
"Hey you can't keep us here like this! We know our rights!" the girl shouted as she pounded on the cell door. Then the other man (her dad), responded to that statement,
"I don't think they care about that, April." The man said. But the girl called April turned around to face him with a look that said she wasn't giving up,
"We can't just sit here. We have to do something!" April said.
"Like what?" said her Dad and at this, April smirked as she thought of an idea.
After a moment, April slumped to the ground and groaned while her Dad hid by the door so as to not be seen. "UUUHHH. Oh… my stomach… the pain is unbearable!" April made sure to make her voice heard in order to attract attention. And it worked! One of the identical men heard the sound and opened the cell's sliding door and entered to investigate and armed with his oddly shaped gun weapon and looking disinterested as before. As he approached April who was lying face-down on the ground, her Dad tried to sneak up to attack from behind. Emphasis on tried as the armed man suddenly turned around at him and immediately, April's Dad stopped what he was doing. But in that instant, April jumped onto the man's back and tried (pathetically) to take him down. The armed man's response was to simply grab her off his back and nonchalantly place April back onto the ground before walking out of the cell and locking the door without even batting an eyelid.
"Well, I guess we can just sit here…" April said sounding a bit defeated.
12:29pm… New York City outskirts,
It had taken a while, but eventually the four turtles drove the van to where red dot on the map was. They parked it a few blocks distance away and exited the van with Leo leading the way,
"Okay guys, we don't to alarm them. We'll silently approach by foot, then retreat. We'll form a plan afterwards." Leo ordered.
"Whatever you say, Fearless Leader!" Raph said as a retort to Leo's near panic attack from earlier and Leo knew it. They jumped from the van to the rooftop of a nearby building and started toward the outskirts of the city, which was a small forest area.
Inside of the forest was what caught their attention as they made their way into it however, as within it stood a small facility of sorts. And the building looked to be surrounded by dozens of look-a-like guards that resembled the kidnappers. Even they knew that besides from twin siblings, humans were not supposed to look exactly alike down to their matching suits.
As they scanned the building from where they stood in the trees undetected, Leo was first to speak,
"There's gotta be like… twenty of them in there…" Leo said and Donnie followed up,
"Yeah, and that's just the ones we can see." Donnie said and Leo nodded in agreement, Raph however retrieved his sai from his belt,
"Alright, an-all-you-can-beat-buffet!" Raph said as he was excited to do a lot of fighting but Leo quickly squelched that idea,
"Hold on Raph! We can't just go charging in!" Leo said but Raph was having difficulty understanding,
"Why not?" he said as he sounded disappointed that he might not get to do some fighting after all, and Donnie agreed with Leo,
"Think you shell-brain, there are innocent lives at stake. If we screw this up, there all goners!" Donnie explained as if he were pointed out the obvious.
"Then we won't screw it up!" Raph bit back but Leo butted in between them as he thought of another plan.
"Alright guys enough. Here's what we do…"
12:31pm
The identical men were standing guard with the same blank look that they seemed to carry, and that blank look did not change even as a van drove up from the forest area and approached the building. Recognizing it as one of their own as it approached the large gate, they failed to notice that the van was not being driven by one their own behind the sun visors but instead was being driven by Leo, with his brothers being in the back of the van. As the van slowed to a stop in front of the gate, the identical guards obviously thought that another one of themselves had returned and the gate slowly opened. When the gate was fully open, Leo slowly drove forwards and into the facility. Leo had all but drove to the middle of the open area when he stopped just in front of another with the back end facing it.
"Okay everyone. Remember, we use silent takedowns on any we across and only those we come across." Leo ordered and even though Raph was disappointed that he couldn't have a brawl had also agreed along with Mikey and Donnie. Then the doors in the middle building opened up to reveal a corridor with guards inside and looking in the opposite direction of the van on the outside. The van's backdoors opened and if anyone there had blinked, then they would have missed it, but as soon as the back doors opened, four blurs of green dashed from the van and into the building. The guards that weren't paying attention had no idea what had hit them as Leo and Raph had bashed and broken the bodies into uselessness, Leo no longer fearing human casualties as he knew he wasn't dealing with humans. After the silent bashing, the four raced off down the hall, but as Donnie looked around as he moved with his brothers, he could not help but notice how out of place the whole inside looked. The hallway and undoubtedly the rest of the inside of the building looked very hi-tech, so much so that it seemed that a pink glow of energy ran along the walls and ceiling and the metal looked far too clean to be anything made for regular people
Donnie stopped as he wandered what their newest enemies were using, "Wow, I've never seen anything like this. They're using a metal alloy that I don't even recognize." Donnie said with a mix awestruck wonder and confusion, but Raph overhearing this didn't seem to care about that,
"Wow, a metal alloy that even you don't know about! It boggles the mind!" Raph said with both sarcasm and disinterest and it made Donnie annoyed at him,
"Dude, you wanna talk metallurgy with me? Bring it!" Donnie challenged but Raph wasn't going to take that bait (no fist fighting involved),
"I don't and-"as Raph tried to finish, Leo butted in to stop their bickering and with good reason,
"Guys, what part of being in an enemy lair do you not understand?" Leo said as he got the four moving forward again and they only stopped at a corner where around it they spotted six more alien brains in robot bodies without their suits on, and they all carried their unique blaster weapons. Seeing this shoved in his face now, Donnie had become completely dumbfounded, but the other three just looked on and ready,
"Whoa. Aliens robots!" Donnie could only say in the dumbfounded state he was in, however Mikey could only respond as if it were the most obvious thing in the world,
"Alien robots, huh? Hm, where have I heard that before?" and then he raised his voice, "Oh yeah! WE'VE TOLD YOU THIS BEFORE!" and Mikey's shouting got the aliens brains' attention and they started firing at the ninja turtles. Now their cover was blown and they charged straight at the aliens, luckily for them and for some strange reason, the aliens had clear shots but kept missing with every shot they took. Leo unsheathed his katana and sliced through one of the robots heads while Raph used his twin sai to stab another and both attacks rendered the two robots useless, Mikey shoulder tackled one alien robot which disarmed it and then he used that opportunity to bash the robot until it broke with his wildly swinging nunchucks before kicking it away, and just then Donnie smacked another robot away with his staff before using the robot's head as leverage to flip over it slam it to the ground, disabling it. Meanwhile, Raph had tackled another alien robot to the ground and impaled its metal head with his sai, just then another robot was kicked his way and using the opportunity, he stabbed the robot through its arm and flung it over his shoulder and then stabbed its head. After that, two of the robots they thought they disabled had gotten back up and started to fire at Leo, who dodged each laser blast and then bounced of the wall and sliced through one robot straight through the mid-section, destroying it. Then as if with practised ease, he started to deflect each and every laser blast from the remaining robot with his twin katana, one such deflection hit the robot in its eye area, stunning it and Leo took that chance sliced the robot right through its shoulder sown to the opposite side down the middle, destroying it.
After their victory from that minor scuffle, the four gathered to Leo's side and as they did that, the alien brain was suddenly ejected from the robot it was operating and screeched at the four. Leo, Raph and Donnie could only react by letting out surprised screams, but Mikey simply stepped in and smacked the alien over its head and knocking it out. Mikey then picked up the alien by its squidgy tentacles and held it in front of Donnie's face,
"See? See? It's a brain thing! We told you. We told you! But did you believe us? NO! Because you think you already know everything!" Mikey scolded Donnie, weird scenario when it was usually the other way around with Mikey being scolded by someone else. After the scolding, the alien suddenly regain consciousness and screeched before biting its sharp teeth into Mikey's holding arm.
"OW!" Mikey shouted out even though the bite never went through his skin. The alien then started biting and nibbling on Mikey's arm. It was an irritant and Mikey just started swinging his arm about to get the alien brain thing off of him. And he succeeded! The alien was flung from his arm and smacked into a wall, which also happened to be where an alarm button was placed so when the alien smacked the wall, it also smacked the alarm button. The alarm then sounded all over the building and alerting every alien within the facility, and as the alien landed on the ground it then scurried away,
"Mikey!" the three turtles said at their brother and said brother could only flinch a bit at that mishap but…
"O.K. But we were still right about the brain thing. You gotta give me that!" Mikey said over the sounding alarm. It was then that they heard more robots approaching their location and saw the encroaching shadows along with those sounds. They had no time to waste and Leo knew it,
"Let's move." Leo ordered but Raph questioned him,
"Move where?" it was a good question, then as Donnie looked at the pink electric energy along the ceiling and walls he realized something,
"I think those are power conduits." Donnie said as he gave an educated guess and pointed to the pink glow but Raph did not see what he was talking about,
"Oh, that's really interesting. Thanks for sharing with us, Donnie!" Raph said with sarcasm when he couldn't care less and Donnie knew it,
"Meathead, the conduits are all converging that way, which means that whatever is in that direction is IMPORTANT!" Donnie said as he pointed in said direction, the opposite of the encroaching reinforcements and shouted that last word as if he were a teacher annoyed with a student before turning off to head in the direction he was pointing towards. Leo then silently ordered Raph to go along with Donnie's lead. Raph looked peeved at being scolded like a little kid and Mikey grinned and relished this moment, he walked to Raph's side and decided to try to rub some salt in the wound,
"You got spanked!" Mikey said as he laughed and pointed and Raph's response was to grab and twist the accusing finger,
"OW! OW! Mercy!" Mikey quickly said as his finger was twisted (not too much though) and at 'mercy', Raph let go and walked ahead with the other two and then Mikey followed a second later but not before mentioned how uncool that was.
The four began running along the corridor and turning at corners into new ones as they ran in the opposite direction of the reinforcements. As they ran along one such corridor they ran past a cell that had the kidnapped people within and Donnie this out the corner of his eye as they passed, he turned to look into the cell to get a proper look and saw that they had found them,
"We found them!" Donnie announced and the others converged. The two inside the cell looked at each other wandering what the green mutant outside was and if they were there for them, but as they did, the alien robot reinforcements arrived and fired their weapons at the four ninjas.
"Donnie, we'll hold them off! You get the door open!" Leo ordered and Leo, Raph and Mikey raced forward to fight the robots while Donnie scanned the electronic lock that was next to the door. He turned to the two occupants of the cell,
"Don't worry! I'll have you out of there in a second!" Donnie said as he tried to reassure them but April could only respond with concern and confusion at the mutant outside,
"Okay, giant… lizard… thing…" she said but Donnie simply corrected her,
"Turtle actually… I'm… I'm Donatello." Donnie said as he introduced himself and April responded with a slight smile,
"April." She said
"Wow, that's a pretty-" before he could finish however, he was abruptly stopped as Leo accidently slammed him into the cell door and then turned to him completely annoyed that Donnie hadn't even started yet,
"The lock, Donnie!" Leo said,
"Huh? Oh, right, yeah, sorry." Donnie realized quickly and turned to the electronic lock and began to try and get it to open the door by messing with its wiring. Meanwhile, Mikey and Raph were having the time of their lives knocking down alien robots like dominoes. Donnie was in the middle of fiddling with the wiring when April got impatient and peeked over to let her impatience be known,
"Not to rush you, but, hurry up!" April ordered and Donnie responded by turning toward her,
"Hey, you think it's easy trying to pick a lock with these hands?" Donnie said as he waved the hands in question-his.
"Sorry." Said April and just then Raph had kicked a robot away as it was getting close to Donnie and then got annoyed as he thought it was taking too long,
"Oh, for the love of… get of my way!" Raph announced as he approached Donnie and then promptly shoved him away before stabbing the electronic lock relentlessly with his sai.
"How is that going to get the door open?" Donnie thought and inside the cell, the sound of an electronic door opening could be heard but it wasn't the door the two inside faced, instead it was another door behind them, the door opened to reveal three alien robots approaching the father and daughter inside. It did not take much to take them away with their current strength as they dragged the two from their cell and further away from the turtles.
Just as they exited the cell, the other door finally opened and the turtles just got a glimpse of April being dragged away by the aliens. Suddenly the aliens they were fighting started firing at them again so instead of fighting back, the turtles fled from the shower of laser shots. They ran through the corridor until they came across a door, and not wasting any time, they barrelled through it,
"Get the door!" Leo ordered and Raph turned to shut it only to find an alien robot hand reach out to grab him, Raph tried to shut the door the robot's shoulder was stopping the door from closing, Raph grabbed the arm and then kicked as hard as he could on the robot's torso area and pulled the arm. The result was Raph separating the arm from the body, and then finally shutting the door closed and then used the broken arm to keep the bar handles together, effectively keeping the door from opening.
"That'll hold'em." Raph said as he turned to his brothers, who just looked at him as if he'd just become maniacal.
"What?" Raph asked.
"You… are seriously twisted." Leo responded not wanting to find out why Raph did what he did.
"Thanks!"
"NO! Let me go!" suddenly the sound of April shouting from the building rooftop reached their ears and they immediately sprang back into action.
"Let's get'em!" Leo ordered. They ran fast and sprang up the wall as they approached it and landed on a helicopter platform, with an operational helicopter on it about to take off with the alien captors and the two humans inside. The helicopter hovered over the platform and just as Leo and Raph raced to it, the helicopter was already out of their reach.
"No!" Leo shouted. But his brothers weren't giving up,
"Leo, Mikey and I can reach it!" Donnie said as he readied his staff like a pole-vault and Mikey readied his kusarigama chain extension of his nunchucks. Mikey swung the kusarigama chain at the helicopter and succeeded in lassoing the chain around the foot of the helicopter. Meanwhile Donnie had used his staff like a pole-vault to launch himself upwards towards the helicopter, the launch was powerful as it was evident that Donnie had grabbed the same foot of the helicopter that Mikey's kusarigama chain was attached to, now both Donnie and Mikey were hanging off as Mikey began to climb up the chain and Donnie began to try and climb into the helicopter. But one of the aliens was armed with its blaster and took action, it used the straight saw part of the laser blaster to cut through Mikey's kusarigama chain and it snapped, sending Mikey screaming and plummeting back down to the launch pad. Good thing Leo and Raph were still there to catch him. And catch him they did! But they the force of Mikey's caused all three to land in a heap. At least they were alright. Then the alien powered up the blaster intending to shoot Donnie next,
"Oh good! For a second there I thought this was gonna be too easy!" Donnie said sarcastically and just then the alien fired at Donnie, he managed to dodge the laser fire by moving around the foot of the helicopter so that he was now directly underneath it and out of firing range, he then took a shuriken from his belt and placed it in between his toes, now with the alien that was shooting at him directly above him, Donnie flipped his feet up and a split second later, he stabbed the alien in its robotic head with the shuriken he placed in his toes, he then grabbed the robot by the shoulders with his legs and pulled the alien off the side and sending it plummeting down. But the alien wasn't finished yet, it pointed the blaster up at the helicopter and fired. The shots narrowly missed Donnie but it hit the bottom of the helicopter and its alien pilot struggled to keep it steady from being shot at. Eventually the unsteadiness caused April inside to lose her balance and she tumbled out from the side of the helicopter and she had no way of saving herself. Thinking fast, Donnie lept from the foot of the helicopter straight down towards a falling April. He dived past her and rolled safely onto the platform (thanking his hard shell silently), and just in time as he caught April in his arms and stopping her from falling to certain death.
"Are you okay?" Donnie asked and April could only gasp and breath heavily to catch her breath now that she was safe for now, but instead of answering Donnie's question, she looked up to the helicopter with a forlorn look on her face,
"Dad…" as she said this, the vehicle containing her father vanished over the city skyline.
Leo, Raph and Mikey had then ran up to Donnie with April still in his arms.
"We've gotta go." Leo ordered, and as they were on the platform they could see that they were also on at one end of the facility and could easily exit over the whole place and disappear into the forest. And they did this as April clutched onto the back of Donnie's neck as he still held her bridal style and the five left the facility far behind. Seeing this, the aliens began to inform each other as they had then just broken out of the door they were shut behind and just caught a glimpse of the five disappearing off the platform above.
"Kraang, the ones in this place, are not in this place where they were." Said one alien robot.
"The ones that are mutant creatures, Kraang. They are dangerous to what we are doing in this place and other places." Said the other alien and then the previous one answered,
"Yes, I am knowledge of that. The ones that are mutant creatures must be eliminated from all places." If the turtles and April had stayed a little while longer they would have overheard the aliens calling themselves the Kraang. But they would no doubt encounter them again.
1:18am New York City, April's aunt's apartment building.
It had been one heck of a night for all five of them, probably the most excitement they had had, and most likely would have to do this again now that they were involved. But now that was over, the five were now gathered at the balcony of an apartment building that also sat on top of an antique shop called '2nd Time Around', April sat on the edge of the balcony window while the four mutants that saved her were standing on the balcony.
"Are you gonna be alright?" Donnie asked April.
"I guess. My aunt says I can stay with her and her shop for as long as I want… but I'll be a lot better when I track down the creeps that took my Dad." April responded as her voice had a mix of determination and uncertainty. Not knowing about how much the surface worked, Leo had to ask,
"Won't the police help?" he asked and April could only chuckle at how naïve that was,
"Funny thing.. When you tell them your dad was kidnapped by alien brains in robot bodies, they don't take you all that seriously." April said as she smiled at Leo question and lack of knowledge of the city police. And Raph agreed with her,
"Believe me, we know the feeling." Raph said as he looked towards Donnie who shot him a dirty look. But then turned back to face April with a look and voice of confidence and determination,
"April, I promise you we will not rest until we find him." Donnie said and Raph responded a bit confused,
"We won't?" he said and Leo elbowed his side in response,
"No, we won't." he said as he shot Raph his own dirty look.
"Thank you, but it's not your fight." April said as she felt a little comfort at how they wanted to be involved and Donnie responded by placing his hand on top of hers to assure her of their involvement,
"Yes, it is." Donnie said and April looked into his eyes and smiled, and Donnie instantly withdrew his hand and blushed a little bit at that smile, and from there the four turtles waved their goodbyes to April, who waved her own and retreated into the room from the balcony while the turtle ninjas onto the roof and began racing back to their new home in the sewers.
1:22am, New York City, The Turtles' New Home- abandoned tunnel section.
It had been a very long night, and when Master Splinter saw his fours walk through the large opening of their newest home, he became instantly relieved that they came back with seemingly no injuries and in one piece. After greeting their sensei, they began to update him on their mission and how it succeeded. From the alien discovery to the startling discovery that said aliens were involved in their mutation, to saving April but failing to save her dad as well.
"I am impressed, my sons. You four have remembered your training and worked together as an effective team, I am proud of you all." Splinter said as he praised their success.
"Thank you Sensei. And I think I know why you made me leader." Leo said as his three brothers looked at him as if they thought he was going to rub it in their faces about it.
"Oh? Why is that?" Splinter asked.
"Because you sensed in me a true warrior spirit that can forge us all into the heroes we are destined to become!" Leo said as he thought he sounded like some fantasy hero, but his three brothers were just groaning at how dramatically stupid that sounded,
"Bro, that was so corny!"
"Are you serious Leo? That statement just makes me wanna punch you!"
And Donnie just looked like he wanted to turn in for the night and try to forget about what Leo had just said but then,
"No." Master Splinter said plainly. Which made the other three smirk that Leo just got shot down,
"No? Then why did you make me leader?" Now confused, Leo had to ask,
"Because, you asked." An answer none of them had thought he would say.
"What!" all four turtles said in complete surprise,
"That's it? But you seemed so certain you were right." Leo had said,
"Leonardo, as a leader, you will learn that there is no right and wrong. Only choices." Master Splinter said and at that, Leo came to a conclusion,
"So you could have chosen any of us?"
"Yes."
"Even Mikey?" Leo said in disbelief that his goofball of a brother could've been leader.
"HEY!"
"Leonardo, anyone can be a good and effective leader under the right circumstances. It is never wise to underestimate their abilities, especially if you think they are not capable enough to do so." Master Splinter explained and Leo simply looked down,
"Hai, Sensei." Leo said and then Master Splinter continued,
"Know this, my sons; you may have gotten the upper hand on these alien enemies this time, and you even may do so again, but never forget that they had an objective that they very nearly succeeded in. And I fear that if they succeeded, the worst may have happened. And also don't forget that there are many pieces of this puzzle that are missing, plus we know not the final move." Master Splinter said and at this the four turtles looked at each other with looks of concern.
"So you're saying that this is just the beginning?" Leo asked.
"Yes." A word answer from Master Splinter had given mixed results,
"Well, that just means we get more brains to clobber!" Raph said, happy at the likely possibilities of fighting those aliens again.
"Plus, it means that we could see April again!" the thought of seeing her again had made Donnie's face light up like a Christmas tree.
"Think of all the pizza we could eat!" Mikey said as he remembered how that pizza tasted hours before.
"But first things first; we turn in for the night." Leo said and the others could only agree to that. However this being their new home in such circumstances meant that they had no bedrooms or beds to go to.
"But Leo, we have no beds to give us our beauty sleep!" Mikey said as he dreaded the idea of sleeping on a hard surface.
"One night of sleep on the concrete floor isn't going to kill us Mikey!" Leo said and even though Raph and Donnie agreed with both statements, that still didn't change the thought that sleeping on the hard floor made then cringe slightly.
"Oh well, it's just one night. What's the worst that could happen?" Raph said.
7:33am Tokyo Foot HQ.
Meanwhile, at the top floor in a fortified tower far away in Japan, a lone Japanese man sat a table wearing a Japanese style combat uniform with a symbol of a red spiked foot in a black circle on the front shoulders, and he was having a conversation with an African-American man wearing a lab coat over a large monitor on the wall opposite him.
"Dr Stockman. I'm sure you know about why I'm calling you now?" said the man, and the one he called Dr Stockman responded with a tone of arrogance in his voice,
"Master Shredder, if this is about the Mouser's test run, I can assure you everything is going according to plan and everything is on schedule." Dr Stockman said but the person he referred to as master Shredder was not buying it,
"Everything? I have learned that nearly half of your legion of robots has been destroyed." Shredder said but Dr Stockman was acting as if he planned it that way,
"Yes well… the test run was supposed to expose any setbacks. I have already begun upgrading their defences. I can assure you this was nothing more than a minor setback." Dr Stockman said as he tries convince the other man, but at the words 'minor setback', Shredder slammed his fist against the table he sat at,
"Minor setback? Minor setbacks like this can create a domino effect. A minor setback had created one such effect that nearly cost me everything once before, and I'll have your head if this next one is because of your arrogance!" Shredder said, his anger very evident and Dr Stockman knew he was not joking. Shredder has claimed many lives before, and the scariest about it is that no-one knows he exists. The only ones who know about him are those in the criminal underworld and all were afraid of him.
"I do not like it when these 'minor setbacks' create bigger problems. Case in point; I have already learned from Hun that you rushed the test run, you released the Mousers before they were ready!" Shredder said as he was not liking Dr Stockman's seemingly lack of concern.
"I can assure you that-"but Dr Stockman was interrupted by Shredder's angry voice as he tried to explain,
"Do not try to 'assure' me of anything! I have also learned that the gangs in your home city are getting more rampant. Are you going to say that they are of no concern as well?" while it was true that the gangs were getting more violent, it was also becoming true to The Shredder that Dr Stockman may need to learn his place.
"They are of no concern-"but once again Dr Stockman was interrupted by an angry voice in Shredder,
"I do not care if you think they are of no concern to you, however in my eyes I see an opportunity to claim the city." At that those words, Dr Stockman took an educated guess at Shredders thoughts,
"Let me guess; you're going to fly other to New York in order to control its gangs? With what?" Dr Stockman asked arrogantly but that arrogance disappeared with The Shredder's next and only word,
"Fear." At that word alone, a shiver when down Dr Stockman's spine and he flinched a bit. He knew what Shredder was capable of and if said he could control people using fear alone, then he knew it was possible he could do it. After all, everyone that knew him was afraid of him, and Dr Stockman shuddered at the thought of Shredder coming to New York as he was afraid of him as well.
"Expect my arrival in New York within six days." And at that, Shredder pulled a remote from a hidden draw in the table and used it to disconnect from the other man.
It was at that moment that a young girl in her teens wearing armoured ninja gear and black mask and a black leotard underneath steeped out of one of many shadows in the room, and bowed to The Shredder from where she stood,
"Father." Said the girl
"Ah, Karai. I trust YOUR task went smoothly?" asked the Shredder to his apparent daughter. As much as he trusted that the girl named Karai is more than capable of succeeding her missions, he still let her know that he didn't like failure.
"Yes father. The Yakuza will not be ignoring your orders again. I have made sure of that." Karai said darkly.
"Excellent. Because another potential problem has shown itself in New York City. I am going to leave for it soon to make sure it does not become a worry. I trust that our headquarters here can be manned by you?" Shredder asked and behind her mask, Karai smirked with dark thoughts,
"Yes father, I will see to it." Karai answered. It was settled then: The Shredder was heading to New York.
Me: Hey there! Just to avoid confusion with The Shredder, I am going with the 2003 look but he is going to have a completely different back story, and so will Karai. I also picked Stockman's 2003 look and persona over the 2012 version. Anyway, I hope you guys are liking my story so far and stay tuned!