Excuse Me, What Girl?

Yay! Another chapter! Sorry it took me so long, but I always just have this really hard time typing things up that I first wrote on paper! Go figure.

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Hope you like! Remember I own nothing! Also I will be leaving on vacation in a week and will not be posting any fan fiction during that time! Thanks for understanding!

Another First Order officer approached Lord Von Ryan. "Ahm, my lord?"

Lord Von Ryan did not turn around. "Yes?"

"Ahm." The officer braced himself. "The-The yokai has escaped."

Lord Von Ryan was silent.

"Ah…". The officer said the next bit in a rush. "It got off the planet with that stormtrooper that turned traitor and this random girl and…"

The officer felt himself picked up, choked, and swung through the air, landing with his neck in Lord Von Ryan's grip.

"Excuse me," Lord Von Ryan said, his tone conversational, "what girl?"

Elsewhere

April was banging around in the ship. "Well, that was awesome, but if I don't fix this then we're all kinda gonna die." She opened a panel in a wall. "I'm pretty sure I can do it. I used to have this friend who was really good with tech. Some of it probably rubbed off on me."

She poked her head out of the hole. "Dale! Hand me the spackle wrench!"

Dale found it and tossed it to her. She ducked back down into the hole. "So as soon as I drop Mayhem back at your base, I need to go back to Jakku."

"Jakku!" Dale was surprised. "Why does everyone always want to go back to Jakku?" He thought for a moment. "Do you have a boyfriend? Please say you don't have a boyfriend."

"No!" April poked her head out of the hole again. "I-I'm just waiting for someone, OK? Anyway, where is the base? I need the coordinates to fly us there!"

She disappeared back into the hole.

Dale bent down and hurriedly whispered to Mayhem. "OK. Actually, I, um, lied. I'm not with the Resistance."

Mayhem hissed/growled and swiped at Dale's face.

"Sorry! I'm fleeing the First Order and I really, really need you to tell her where the base is!"

Mayhem hissed/growled again. April's head poked out of the hole. "I need binding tape!"

Dale grabbed something. April shook her head. He grabbed another roll. April yelled. "Come on, Dale! It's right there! I'm pointing right at it!"

At last Dale fond the binding tape and tossed it at her. Her head went back into the hole. "So where is it?"

Dale looked at Mayhem. Mayhem glared back but chirped something at April.

"The Illenian System! Cool! We can get there in a…" Suddenly the ship stopped moving, then lurched forward.

April jumped out of the hole, she and Dale exchanged a glance, and then bolted to the cockpit. They were being dragged into the hangar of a transport.

"The First Order found us!" Dale screamed. "We're gonna die!"

"No we're not!" April jumped and grabbed some gas masks. "I'll just unfix what I just fixed and flood the place with poison gas! Problem solved!"

Dale thought that was an extremely bad idea, but he didn't have a better one, so poison gas it was. They managed to wrestle a mask on Mayhem, and had just closed themselves into the floor when they heard a faint cry of "Hoooooooot Souuuuup!"

"Hot Soup?" April whispered. She had this far away expression on her face.

Then Dale heard a door open and a voice say "Ah. Home sweet home."

April's eyes, the only thing visible above her gas mask, suddenly went wide and happy. She knocked aside the covering and jumped out.

"Splints!" She yelled.

"April?" Dale heard the other voice reply.

And then both of them together. "IT IS YOU!"

When Dale ventured to peek out of the hole, it was to see April enthusiastically hugging a very short, fat rat man.

"I"M SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU!" They both yelled.

Dale blanched at the sight of the rat man's companion. It-It was one of them! He'd only heard stories about them, and none of them good. Supposedly they'd been used way back during the Clone Wars, instead of real soldiers. They could be made almost instantaneously, but only by one skilled in arts so dark that it was said that only Nightsisters knew it's true origins. But this one, armed with a crossbow, a bandolier slung over it's chest actually looked…benevolent. Dale was surprised to see that it looked kinda patched together, and that it was made of paper.

The thing smiled, (probably) and yelled "Buddy!" April hugged it.

"Ohmygosh! This is so great!" April yelled.

"Just like old times, eh?" The rat man asked.

Dale climbed out of the hole.

April seemed to suddenly remember his existence. "Oh, right. Dale, Splinter and Frankenfoot. Splinter and Frankenfoot, Dale."

"Please to meet you." Splinter replied.

Frankenfoot merely said "Buddy!" Again.

Splinter invited them to have some tea, which they did.

April and Splinter chatted about old times, while Dale sipped his tea and tried not to stare.

"Man, it was so great! All the gang together! Raph, Leo, Donnie, Mikey…how are they, by the way?"

There was a short silence. Splinter looked away, and even Frankenfoot looked sad.

"Splints?" April asked. "What happened?" But before Splinter could explain, dual alarms sounded. Splinter jumped up.

"Uh oh." He ran down a hallway, April and Frankenfoot following, Dale trailing along behind.

Splinter consulted some security cameras. "Uh oh. This…is not good."

"What? Splints, what did you do?" April asked.

Splinter nervously tugged his whiskers. "Ah, I was just trying to make some money! Just a little smuggling here, gambling there, nothing that bad!"

"And?" April pushed.

Splinter smiled nervously. "Let's just say…I made a few enemies."

"Is that all?" April asked.

"Well…I may also be illegally hauling kraken?"

April just stared at him. "Do you have a death wish or something?"

"Ah…" Splinter just did a crazy gesture. "Anyway you have to hide! Every gang in the galaxy knows the First Order is looking for that yokai, and if they find out it's here, we're toast!"

April, Dale, and Mayhem slid beneath the floors.

Splinter smoothed his whiskers. "Well, if my awe-inspiring charm does not work, we'll just have to Hot Soup our way out of this one, eh, Frankenfoot?"

A door opened and a gang of orange snakes in white robes slithered in.

"Lou Jitsu!" The leader hissed. "You're a dead rat!"

Splinter smiled his award winning smile (which Leo had inherited.). "Ah, the Masters of Barbarianism! How's it going?"

"We want out money!" They hissed.

Splinter shrugged. "Ah, funny story, I actually don't have it! You see, I'm hauling kraken, and it's very expensive!" He grinned again. "I assure you I'll have the money soon! Just wait a little longer!"

"We're done waiting!" They hissed. "We both want out money now!"

" 'Both'?" Splinter looked at Frankenfoot. "I have the feeling I've forgotten something…"

"Yeah, you have!" Another door opened behind Splinter, and three female purple cyclops walked in.

"You borrowed money from us too!"

Splinter's smile was starting to look a little strained. "Oh, the Makers of Brutality! How…nice?"

"Can it and give us our money, or you'll regret it, rat!"

One of the cyclops cocked a blaster.

"But hauling kraken…". Splinter said feebly.

"You should have stuck to selling cookies." Hissed the lead snake.

Meanwhile, April was whispering to Dale. "We've gotta help! We can't just sit here!"

"But what can we do?" Dale hissed back. "If we go up, they'll see Mayhem, and then we're cooked! And we can't do anything down here!"

April thought for a second. "Yes we can! The fuses are down here! I'll turn off the lights, grab Splinter, and then we can escape!"

"If you say so…" Whispered Dale.

"Stop worryin'! It'll be fine!" April, still holding Mayhem, began pressing buttons and flipping switches. Then they heard something open.

"Oh no." April whispered.

"What?" Dale asked.

April gave a weak little smile. "I may have just released the kraken?"

Later…

What followed was a harrowing experience. Lots of people died, and Dale almost did but thanks April's lightening reflexes he didn't. Frankenfoot got an arm torn off, but that was all.

And as they were sitting in the ship, staring at the blue of hyperspace, ignoring Dale who kept insisting that Frankenfoot was trying to kill him, April asked "So, where are we going?"

"Somewhere mostly safe." Splinter answered. "Really."

April nodded and then asked, very quietly, "Something bad happened, didn't it? Mayhem says that he's carrying a piece of a map that leads to Raph. So Raph…left? Why?"

Splinter was silent. "I…it's a very long story, and one that I am not prepared to tell, not yet, April."

"OK." That was all she said, but Splinter knew she understood.

And that's the end! Of that chapter. And I feel like I owe you all an explanation, since I said in the first installment that the prequels had never happened in this universe.

And they didn't. Not the way they did in the movies.

So here's a little bit of OCD lore for you…

The Jedi Order still existed and kept the peace in the galaxy like it always has since forever, and the Hamato Clan played a major role in that. This Jedi Order also had a way more…chillaxed view of attachment. While they didn't encourage it, it did not mean expulsion from the Order if one married. So while the Hamatos were really powerful Jedi, many of them also married, and had a line and stuff, eventually producing our very own Hamato Yoshi.

No, he does not play the role of Anakin.

Even though Hamato Yoshi was the last of his line, he left the Jedi Order while still a Padawan, due to the death of his mother during a peacekeeping incident. His grandfather, Sho, was able to keep him in the Order until he was an older teenager, at which time he quit and became a holo star.

This was shortly before the outbreak of the Clone Wars, which were fought between the Republic (Jedi and Clones) and the Separatists (Foot Clan Members and the Origami soldiers).

Then the head of the Senate, (Chancellor Palpatine. He gets to exist in this universe) triggered the clones inhibitor chip and issued Order 66 (no Anakin or any of that drama involved). Hamato Yoshi was one of the few who escaped the slaughter.

And then stuff happened, involving Baron Draxum and Big Mama, much the same way it happened in the ROTTMNT original universe. But Star War-sy.

More lore to follow! I don't want to give anything away too early! Please review and comment!