Five Brothers
By: Tellemicus Sundance
Chapter 1: Act of Kindness
Background: 1985
When Harry gets dropped off at the Dursleys, they only care for him until he's old enough to fend for himself, which is around three years old. They also wait that long as a means of lulling the 'freaks' into a false state of security in believing that they're going to continue raising and protecting him. However, they begin to discreetly test the waters for how far the wizards are watching them. They leave Harry unattended for great lengths of time out on the street (once, even away from Little Whinging and Surrey). That one time away from Little Whinging, they timed it and discovered that Harry didn't get returned for about three days.
Deciding to test the range of their watch, Vernon sets up a business deal in New York City and takes the whole family on the unplanned (secret) vacation with him. While in Manhattan, the Dursleys take Harry (age 5) to Central Park with the instructions of watching over their picnic table as they go to get the food. Instead, they drive off and leave him behind (they immediately move into a different neighborhood when they return to England). It isn't until night falls that Harry starts getting scared. It wasn't because he was left behind again, but because he was in alone in a strange city far from his home country with no food or shelter.
He tries to find someone who'll help him get home, but he's scared of everyone he sees because he's getting bad vibes off them. It culminates with him stumbling upon a department store theft and following murder of a passing elderly couple by a group of gang members. The gang notices Harry and decides to not let him go either. Harry runs as fast as he can, but he's easily overtaken and beaten to within an inch of his life. But because he was a kid and didn't have anything valuable on him, they dump him down a sewer and leave him to rot.
Meanwhile, Splinter is wandering the sewers in search of food for his sons. He comes across Harry's beaten and broken body and takes pity on the poor child when he discovers he's still barely alive and rushes him quickly back to the den. The five-year-old Turtles are initially exhilarated at the possibility of getting a new friend or brother and they pester Splinter into allowing Harry to stay with them, if he wants to. However, none of them are happy to learn of how badly he'd been injured. It was because of this that the Turtles truly begun to understand just why Master Splinter was teaching them ninjitsu.
As he awakes and slowly recovers from his wounds, Harry meets each of the Turtles and Splinter. After awkward greetings and sharing their histories, Splinter, appalled by the treatment and numerous abandonments Harry's had to endure by his relatives, offers Harry a chance to live with him and the Turtles. Though extremely hesitant and scared, Harry starts to consider staying when Raphael mentions that they're being taught ninjitsu by Splinter. When Splinter acknowledges that he'd be willing to train and protect Harry as well, Harry finally agrees.
Harry Potter – Five Brothers – Harry Potter
Background: 1991
When Harry's Hogwarts letter shows that he isn't even in England anymore, Dumbledore sends Hagrid to the Dursleys for answers. He is dumbfounded to learn that they dropped Harry off in America almost six years ago and left. Dumbledore approaches Fudge with this information in hopes of getting the Ministry's support in finding and returning their hero back to his homeland. Though the Ministry is more than willing, they find themselves being constantly blocked by the U.S. Bureau of Magic.
The US didn't want to invite prejudiced Pureblood extremists and close-minded European wizards into their lands without just cause and proof. Though they did contact Harry to inform him of his ancestry, magic, and that representatives of his homeland were looking for him, Harry refused to return to England because his bad memories and the bad vibes he got from the idea of these unknown 'representatives'. Because the Bureau considered Harry a civilian immigrant due to his long stay in NYC, and their own intense dislike for the European society, they agreed to stall the English wizards for as long as possible.
Harry Potter – Five Brothers – Harry Potter
Setting: April-May 1995
The Turtles and Harry have begun hunting the streets for crime. The family has finally begun to come into their own. Leonardo was the passionate team leader who specialized in tactics and took his ninjitsu training very seriously. Michelangelo was the family clown, loved to tease and play games, and generally just loved to have fun, even during training/fighting. Donatello was the computer genius and science nerd of the group. Raphael was even more passionately driven in his ninjitsu training than Leo, but he had temper problem that caused him to occasionally lash out at others. Harry had become their liaison to the human world and was their resident mechanic; with the proper tools, he could get anything mechanical running (he uses two tonfa while fighting).
It isn't until Harry accidentally gets caught on live television (elderly Muggleborns tourists recognized him due to his close resemblance of James) after helping several families escape from a burning building that the British wizards get their first major clue to where Harry is. Realizing that they weren't going to get anywhere with the bureaucracy two-step that the Bureau was putting them through, Fudge sends a few teams of highly-trained and/or specialized Aurors into NYC to find, contact, and return Harry to England before the U.S. officials noticed their presences. Among those going were Nymphadora Tonks (Metamorphmagus skills) and John Dawlish (magical combat skills).
They start their search in NYC, trying to use wards to detect wand users nearby but find very few. They quickly investigate the wand users but realize they're all European immigrants or vacationers. Next they try to search using magical artifacts, figuring that Harry would have at least one to help him focus his magic. They quickly detected more than ten thousand people in Manhattan using magical artifacts. Out of options, they journey into the magical sections of NYC to ask around. It is during this investigation that Tonks overhears rumors of strange kappa-like monsters living in the sewers.
That evening, as Tonks was leaving the magic street she attracted the attention of a teenage gang. The gang quickly cornered and disarmed her in an alleyway. But before they could get much farther than feeling her up, they are suddenly attacked by a group of five phantoms that struck when the overhead lights suddenly vanished. By the time Tonks had gotten her wand back and lit up the alley, the fight was over and the phantoms had vanished. Bewildered but unharmed, Tonks quickly returns to her team's hideout. Unknown to her, Harry was following her from the shadows to make sure that she reached her destination safely. She quickly informed her team of the strange occurrence and they decided to ignore it.
The next day, when visiting the magic street again for more clues, Tonks overhears the rumors of the kappa monsters in the sewers again. This time she also hears that they live with a magical child as well. Intrigued, Tonks quickly learns that the boy worked at a Muggle auto-repair shop in downtown. She decides to go visit the boy. When she arrives, the boy isn't there but she learns from the shop owner he would return shortly after finishing his driver's license test. He returns successful and proud.
When she first sees Harry, she immediately recognizes him as the Boy-Who-Lived, despite the black hankie he wore over his scar and no glasses. Harry recognizes her as the lady he and his brothers saved last night and guesses that this meeting was a coincidence. However, he is quite surprised when she asks him out on a little 'date' after he gets off work. Because he'd never really had a girlfriend before (out of fear of introducing her to his family and lack of experience with girls), he's quite unprepared for this very attractive young woman to ask him. After a quick call to Splinter to verify that he's got the afternoon off, Harry agrees to Tonks' date.
Rather than kidnap Harry like her standing orders were, Tonks decides to play this safe. After meeting again and going for a quick shopping spree, she finally broaches the subject of Harry's heritage and current living conditions. She learns that Harry lives with four adopted brothers and an old master who's teaching them all martial arts. Because of circumstances beyond their control, Harry is literally the only one capable of supporting their family, which is why he'd gotten the job in the auto-shop since he's very good with mechanics. Despite their living conditions being less than favorable, Harry is extremely content with his lot in life.
When Tonks playfully reveals that she's an English policewoman on vacation, she receives a shock when Harry immediately tries to run away from her. Thanks to her magic, she was able to trip him long enough for her to catch up and ask him what was wrong. She was surprised to learn that Harry had known that people from England were looking for him and that he had absolutely no desire to leave NYC. Knowing what she now did of his life, she could understand this sentiment since his family was depending on him for money and food. Seeing no other alternative, Tonks finally reveals to him the truth of his past, him being the Boy-Who-Lived and about the Wizarding World's desire to see him enroll in their magical school of Hogwarts. However, Harry quickly noticed what she wasn't telling him and demanded to know why the Wizarding World really wanted him, and that it didn't make sense if it was just to make him go to their school (heroic idol or not). Backed into a corner, Tonks reveals the truth about Voldemort and his inexplicable return after acquiring the Philosopher's Stone. As well as the Wizarding World's belief that only Harry somehow possesses a power that could defeat Voldemort once and for all. Realizing that she was pushing her luck, Tonks gives Harry a few days to think over all that he'd learned and to make his own choice. But she warned him that if he took too long, she wouldn't be able to stall her fellow Aurors for very long.
After running off and making sure that no one was following him, Harry returns to the Den and informs his family about all that he's learned. Though skeptical, his family is torn between believing what Tonks said or not. Michelangelo and Leonardo are both supportive of Harry visiting England to determine the truth of Tonks' story or not. Raphael and Donatello, though accepting that magic does exist thanks to their visits from the Bureau, don't think that Harry would be any match against a seemingly all-powerful Dark Lord and that he needs years of training first. They'd rather he'd get trained in the NYC magic school instead of having to go all the way to Magical England for years on end, which was also apparently a warzone. Splinter only said that all the brothers had good points for why to and why not to go to England but that the decision was ultimately Harry's to make.
Unable to make up his mind, Harry goes off to stalk the sewers while he thinks. That night, the Turtles head out for one of their routine patrols and save a TV reporter from being mugged, but Raphael lost one of his sais during the fight. Later that night, he goes out and gets into a fight with another vigilante hero (Casey Jones). Casey manages to get away after knocking Raph into the garbage.
The next day, Raph tracks the reporter (April O'Neil) after she gets off work and is able to save her from being mugged again by a group of ninja. He gets his sai back and takes April to the Den. Harry finally gets off work and arrives just as April wakes up and starts screaming. After some storytelling about their lives, the brothers manage to make April into one of their first real friends. They accompany April home that night to throw a little party. But when they return, they find their home in ruins and Splinter missing. With nowhere else to go, they return to April's home.
While the Turtles sulk over Splinter's disappearance, Harry receives a visitor at his workshop. Tonks, after hearing about his master's disappearance, offers to help him determine who did the kidnapping, but he turns down the offer because he was still unsure of whether or not to trust her. With nothing else to do, Tonks manages to convince Harry into allowing her to meet his brothers. After Tonks informs her Auror comrades that she's following up on a lead, she follows Harry to April's home and is shocked to realize that his brothers are the kappa monsters that she's been hearing so many rumors of. Unfortunately, the Foot suddenly attacked and the Turtles were forced into a desperate battle to escape (there were too many of them around for Tonks to actively use her magic to help in battle). Thanks to Tonks' magic and Casey's timely arrival, they were able to safely escape the building before it burnt down.
April, Tonks, Casey, and the brothers flee to upstate New York where April's family owned an old farm house. With Tonks' help, the Turtles were able to determine that Raph was comatose and that she could heal his wounds if given enough time. Restless from their defeat, the brothers take to brutal training regimes as they wait for Raph to awaken. Casey was busy getting the old farm truck running again, he refused to allow Harry the chance to work on it due to his pride as a man and a mechanic (his coping mechanism). During his free time, Tonks teaches Harry stuff about life in the Wizarding World and even allows him to practice some basic spells with her wand. After a week, Raph wakes up and eventually joins his brothers in their training.
After two weeks of intense training, the brothers sense a message from Splinter telling them that now that they'd mastered meditation they'd finally graduated their ninjitsu training. They decide to return to NYC and take the fight to the Foot. Due to spending three weeks with the brothers, Tonks feels obligated to help Harry in his battle because she's grown rather fond of the Turtles as well (seeing them as playful little brothers). When they return to NYC, Tonks immediately checks in with her fellow Aurors but discovers that they'd already pulled out of America because they had been drawing too much attention to themselves. Tonks is told to remain and continue the search; she doesn't inform them about finding Harry because it'd have been too much of a hassle to explain about the Turtles.
While Tonks was away, the Foot made a surprise attack on the Den but the Turtles were ready. After a long battle, the brothers finally faced off against the Shredder. The Shredder was able to manhandle each of them with relative ease until he pissed them off about claiming to have killed Splinter. Just before he could kill Leo, Splinter arrived and sent the Shredder tumbling off the building into a dump truck. The police arrived and started arresting as many of the Foot as they could. The brothers were overjoyed to finally have Splinter back with them.
Harry Potter – Five Brothers – Harry Potter
Setting: June 1995
Three days after their victory over the Shredder, the brothers and Splinter have temporarily joined April in her new apartment. Tonks has become a frequent visitor as well, often teaching Harry different spells in Transfiguration, Charms, and Defense. Harry is busy searching for a new job at a different auto-shop after his last one fired him for missing three weeks of work. With the battle won, Harry can literally feel the pressure from the European Wizarding World pressing down on him and trying to force him to return but he resists because he's too loyal to his brothers and friends to just leave for war when they still need him.
When the TGRI clean-up is shown on TV, Splinter sends the brothers on a mission to find the answers to questions in their past. When they arrived at the building, they are ambushed by the remainder of the Foot who stole the last remaining canister of mutagenic ooze. Realizing that the threat of the Foot was still very much real and present, the brothers immediately move out of April's apartment and go searching the sewers for a new home. However, angry with their lack of progress with recovering the ooze, Raph leaves to find the Foot on his own.
Meanwhile the other three Turtles have found a new den in the sewers. It was an abandoned train station and they take it over for themselves. With help from Tonks once they brought her to it, they cleaned up the mess and converted it to a new home. And because she had grown fond of them, Tonks set up a series of magical wards and protections to keep all unwanted intruders or other people from finding the den without permission. After a quick demonstration, the brothers find themselves extremely grateful to Tonks for this.
Meanwhile, April receives word of Raph's kidnapping by the Foot and she sends it along to the brothers. The brothers rush in to save Raph but end up getting caught in their own trap. After a quick battle upon escaping the trap, courtesy of Splinter, the Shredder sends out Toka and Razar. The new mutants easily overpowered the brothers but they were still able to escape down the sewers with the kidnapped TGRI professor.
Later that night, the Shredder sends the brothers a warning by having Toka and Razar attack a random street. The Foot use April to send a message to the brothers. Though the Turtles are resigned to their upcoming battle, the professor was able to create an anti-mutagen to convert Toka and Razar back into normal animals. While the brothers have their big battle with the Foot and Super Shredder, Tonks learns that things had gotten quite desperate in England during her absence. She receives strict orders to either return with Harry Potter or not return at all! Though the brothers returned victorious, they were punished for allowing themselves to be seen in public.
Harry Potter – Five Brothers – Harry Potter
Setting: September 1995 – December 1995
As things calm down for the Turtles, Tonks finally convinces Harry to journey to England with her to draw up his own conclusions about the conflict taking place. She said it was his turn to be in her position, to have an adventure in a world he didn't entirely understand. Though he accompanied her, Harry made sure that she understood that he was traveling under a false name for a reason and that he'd likely be once again losing his job so she had to compensate him and his family for the loss of income.
Harry arrived in England under the name of Yoshi Hamato (Splinter's former master) as a prospective Hogwarts transfer student. Harry went to great lengths to change his identity so that he'd be unrecognizable among the Wizarding World; he had bleached his hair blond, always wore his black hankie over his scar, and had blue eyes. He kept his story as close to the truth as possible: an adopted son to a Japanese immigrant who had trained him in martial arts and that he was now looking for education in magic due to his recent discovery of being a wizard. After getting five years' worth of his school supplies and setting some money aside for emergencies, Harry transferred the rest of his Gringotts money into the NYC branch.
Meanwhile, the Turtles came into the possession of an ancient magical Japanese scepter. This scepter took April back in time, with the Turtles soon following to go and save her.
At Hogwarts, he's treated with disdain, curiosity, and suspicion for various things. Because of his lack of magical knowledge, he's put in First Year classes until he's able catch up to his normal year. Harry spends as little time on his studies as he can so he can continue his ninjitsu training in his free time. Many wizards (primarily Slytherins) see this as a form of weakness and take to bullying 'Yoshi' as often as they can. Even in his Hufflepuff House, Harry isn't all that welcome because he finds that he doesn't like magic or many of the people who study it for a living. What was worse was the fact that the new Defense teacher seemed to have made it her mission to discover his 'real' identity because she believed he was some kind of agent of Dumbledore's trying to convert the children into his own private army. After countless paranoid accusations, painful detentions for his seeming lack of respect for teachers & students, and not making a single worthwhile friend, Harry decides that enough was enough. He contacts Tonks and requests that she return him to NYC. However, in his last class of the day before his scheduled secret departure, Umbridge finally managed to remove his hankie, expose his curse scar, and canceled his false face spell to reveal his true identity. Thanks to the fact that Harry was already prepared to leave, he was able to sneak out of Hogwarts, fly to the nearest airport, and had boarded the first available flight to Manhattan without any trouble. By the time the Ministry and Dumbledore had learned of Harry's presence in Hogwarts, he was already in the air and flying away.
Word spread like wildfire through Magical Britain about Harry's reappearance and sudden disappearance. Realizing that they'd had their savor right in front of them and had somehow managed to chase him away for some unexplainable reason, many in Hogwarts and the Wizarding World recoiled in shock, horror, anger, and satisfaction that Harry could just abandon them without even getting to know them like that. But because Tonks was the one responsible for bringing Harry to England, she was quickly arrested and interrogated for the reasons of why she failed to inform them of Harry's return. The Wizengamot had even had her memories pulled so that they could more closely examine her reasons behind her actions. They were immediately horrified and disgusted with the fact that Harry (and Tonks) had grown up and lived with a family of what were clearly Dark creatures. Tonks was fired from her job with a hefty fine and it was only thanks to Dumbledore that she didn't get sent to Azkaban. Since she was now free of the Ministry, Dumbledore asked her to once again find Harry and learn his reasons for leaving again.
Tonks found Harry once again in an auto-shop, working furiously to make up for lost time. Though he wasn't surprised that she'd found him again, Harry did take the time to explain himself to her. He explained how he just couldn't fight for a world or its people who were so happily marching towards their own destruction. Yes, he may have been able to save them from their Dark Lord but then they'd just turn around and create yet another one to terrorize them thanks to that environment they lived in so happily. Until they cleaned up their act, he didn't think he could ever willingly help them. When he learned that Tonks was out of a job, Harry hesitantly stated that she could live with him and the others for as long as she wanted, as long as she didn't try to force him into returning to England. Tonks quite happily accepted the offer.
Harry Potter – Five Brothers – Harry Potter
Setting: August 1998
On Harry's 18th birthday, Leo finally returned from his overseas training down in Central America. Harry had become a regular auto-mechanic who specialized in completely repairing even the most trashed vehicle ever seen, thanks to his continued training in magic with Tonks. Tonks had gotten a job in Muggle NYC as a restaurant waitress, she and Harry had gotten engaged. He and the Turtles were very well funded thanks to Harry's mountains of gold. Donny had become a tech support for computers and other gadgets. Mikey became a birthday party clown who frequently got his shell kicked by children. And Raph had become a vigilante named Night Watcher.
In England, Voldemort had long since toppled the Ministry of Magic and instituted his own version. His forces were steadily weeding down the number of Muggleborns and Mudbloods in their society and cleaning off Muggles at their leisure. However, in his research to find a more suitable substitute for everlasting life, Voldemort came across the legend of the stars of Keegan. Using star charts, Voldemort realizes that the portal and magic were destined to open in NYC in a few short days. He takes a handful of his best operatives and sneaks into America to find the location of the portal's entrance. He is quite disgruntled to find that some Muggle trillionaire had built a tower in the exact spot as the portal. But after watching the tower for several days, he notices some curious activity taking place inside it with monsters, statues, and highly-trained ninja. He guesses that the trillionaire, Winters, is actually an immortal who's trying to break his own immortality.
Meanwhile, things are very tense with the Turtles upon Leo's return. Raph is fighting Leo's leadership, Mikey and Don mostly just keep to themselves, and Harry obsesses more with his relationship with Tonks and his job than training. However, when they run into a battle between a monster and the new breed of Foot ninja, the brothers are given a rude awakening. Harry, realizing just how badly he's been slipping in his ninjitsu skills, begins fierce training with Leo and Raph (separately) to help bring his level back up to par. Tonks, though disgruntled over these developments, understands Harry's sudden switch in mindset due to her past experiences with the Foot.
The next day, Tonks receives some foreboding news from the remainder of the Order of the Phoenix; that Voldemort seemed to have arrived in NYC for mysterious reasons. Tonks quickly informs the brothers about the rumors to put them on further guard. Late that night, Raph and Casey are attacked by Foot ninja and animated statues, just barely escaping. The brothers quickly realize that Winters is behind the attack and has some kind of connection to the monsters. When Leo's reluctance to move against Winters, Raph quits the team to take matters into his own hands. As Don and April discover the truth behind the legend, Raph confronts the little monster in the diner as the Night Watcher and then gets into an all-out fight against Leo. At the same time, Harry's auto-shop gets attacked and trashed by an enormous dinosaur-like beast. Harry was just barely able to drive the beast off before the cops arrived, but was unable to save the shop from receiving tremendous damage.
When Raph returns with news of Leo's capture, the brothers, Casey, April, and even Tonks gear up and go rescue him. Despite Tonks being able to hide them magically, the brothers decide on the direct approach and start an enormous battle with the Foot but still manage to slip inside the tower. During the fighting, the stone generals mutiny against Winters and get into a fight against the Turtles while April, Casey, and Karai go searching for the last monster. And thanks to the fighting taking place, Voldemort and his squad of Death Eaters were able to walk unimpeded into Winters Corp as the dimensional gate opened.
Upon realizing just what Voldemort was after once he showed his face (when the Turtles started fighting the generals), Harry and Tonks quickly attacked to stop him. However, thanks to the Death Eaters interfering, they were unable to stop Voldemort from accessing the portal's power and gaining his immortality. But, due to a burst of Apparation when Voldemort turned his wand upon the Turtles (namely Mikey), Harry was able to knock Voldemort into the portal and send him screaming in agony to another dimension. With the sudden arrival of the final monster that triggered the closing of the portal, the remaining Death Eaters tried to avenge their fallen master but were quickly captured by the Magical Bureau who finally managed to show up.
With Winters' passing, reconciliation among the brothers, and Casey proposing to April, things were definitely looking up for the new family despite Karai's ominous warning. Tonks learned through Magical NYC that news of Voldemort's banishment into another dimension and the following capture of his top Death Eaters had caused shocking revolutions to sweep through Magical Europe. Despite careful censorship by the Bureau, many Wizarding Ministries quickly leaked information that it was all thanks to Harry Potter's 'overwhelming magical power and prowess that such a come-from-behind victory had taken place so effortlessly'. Wizarding reporters from many European countries (namely Britain) swamped the streets of NYC for weeks trying to get interviews, autographs, and whatever else from the legendary Boy-Who-Lived. Harry avoided this by pretending to be just another Muggle, sticking close to his brothers, and staying at home. It was during this self-imposed exile from the Wizarding World that Harry learned the most terrifying and exhilarating news he'd ever hear in his life: Tonks was pregnant with twins.
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