TMNT 2003 S1: Four Turtles More

by Fanficteller

Fifteen years have passed since the accident. Now, eight turtles, six brothers and two sisters, born as mutants in the sewers and trained as ninjas by a rat, are forced to leave their destroyed underground home and take the first step into a surface world where they face many adventures and meet new friends and foes, until they meet their toughest opponent ever, The Shredder.

2. Things Change Part 1

Author's Note

THIS IS IT! The first chapter of this story!

However, I've created my story so that each episode of TMNT 2003 Season 1 will come in divided chapters, not as full stories. I kind of want to introduce you to my OC turtles and describe their family relationships with each other and to the original turtles and Master Splinter more detailed

I do not own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 series. I own only OC characters created by me and some plot twists added to the story by me.

Enjoy!

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At night, a full moon illuminated a dark alleyway in New York, where was something going on. In the shadows of the corner was standing eight dark figures with glowing white eyes. All eight of them took a two steps forward, while from the entrance of the alley was approaching another tough-looking group.

My name is Leonardo. And right now my siblings and I are in the mess of trouble.

The other group consisted from a dozen of tough-looking street punks, whom were carrying baseball bats, crowbars, chains, staves, pipes, knives and even a firearms as a weapons. Their shadows in the moonlight fell upon the eight figures.

Our backs are up against the wall in some trash strewn alley. Cornered by the toughest street gang on the East Side.

These guys have a very notorious reputation. They don't like snoopers, and the only way they'll let their prey away is if they're dead.

Well, they haven't met US yet.

The gang, each wearing S-shaped crimson or purple-colored dragon symbols in their street clothes, eyed the eight figures they were facing.

"Hey, dudes! Look at the freaks!" One of them let out.

"What's with the dweeby costumes?!" The second one asked rudely.

"This ain't a Halloween!" The third snarled.

"And we ain't offering any candy!" The fourth remarked.

"You snoopers are in big trouble!" The fourth threatened.

The blue-haired guy wearing a crimson and yellow-sleeved jacked in the middle of the gang, who was an apparent leader, then stepped forward with the cruel smirk on his lips.

"You're all dead, freaks!" The leader said as he took out a wooden staff and started to spin it rapidly in front of him, before he pulled it behind of his back and pointed his finger at the figures.

"Nobody trespasses on Purple Dragons' territory and leaves to tell a tale… especially when they're wearing stupid-looking turtle costumes!" The leader declared.

One by one, the figures stepped out of the shadows to reveal themselves to the gang. The figures were then revealed to be eight giant turtles wearing a masks and carrying a traditional ninja weapons: One of them wore a purple mask and wielded a Bo staff, the second one a white mask with the pair of wooden Tonfas, the third one an orange mask with the pair of Nunchucks, the fourth female one a pink mask and with a pair of bladed Tessens, the fifth one a red mask and with the pair of Sai daggers, the sixth one a black mask and with a pair of Butterfly swords, the seventh one a blue mask and the pair of Katana-swords (one of which he was wielding in his right hand while another one was still in his back) and the eight one with a turquoise mask and with a Naginata spear.

The turtle in blue, who was the apparent leader, pulled out his another Katana and narrowed his eyes into a hard glare and gritted his teeth tightly.

He is wrong. We're not wearing costumes. And he'll soon find out why.

The eight figures then crouched down, ready to do something unexpected to the thugs.

"HAIIIIIIII...!" All turtles started in unison, until all of them then jumped at the same time towards the thugs, ready to fight them.

"... YAHHHHHHHH!" The turtles finished, as the turtle in orange took the lead and sent the kick with his right leg towards the screen.

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(The screen pulls away from New York City with couple spot lights waving above of it. Then a four green letters forming the word TMNT towers over the city.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES"

(The screen rises to the edge of the roof, on which was standing eight green shadowy humanoid creatures with the turtle-like features. Two of them were crouching/bending down and all of them had by colors individual ninja masks; One had blue, second one had turquoise, third one red, fourth one white, fifth one pink, sixth one black, seventh purple and the last one orange. Then, as the light beam passed them, all eight turtles leap off the edge of the roof.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen then splits from right to left into four narrow screens.)
"ONE, TWO"
(In the first one, the turtle in orange is holding his Nunchucks in the air. In the second one, the turtle in red is holding one Sai above his head while pointing the other downwards.)
"THREE, FOUR"
(In the third one, the turtle in purple is holding Bo-staff in front of him. In the fourth one, the turtle in blue has crossed his sword-holding arms over his chest.)
(TURTLES!)

(The turtle in blue is seen fighting two people dressed up like ninjas and wielding Naginata-spears. The turtle slices both ninjas weapons' staves in two with his swords before kicking both of them, one by one, away from him.)
"MUTANT CHAIN REACTION"
(TURTLES!)

(Turtle in purple is seen driving a speedy vehicle down the sewer tunnel, before the turtle in purple turns to smirk at the camera and holds a thumb up.)
"LIVIN' UNDERGROUND"
(TURTLES!)

(Turtle in red is seen making couple of flips; one over the fence and one towards the camera, before he delivers the kick at the camera, blackening the screen for a second.)
"NINJUTSU ACTION"
(TURTLES!)

(Widely grinning turtle in orange is seen standing on top of the large green armored car that's speeding along the street, while spinning his Nucnhacku wildly in the air.)
"IT'S A SHELL OF THE TOWN!"

(As the turtle in orange leaps off, the armored car flies in arc over the street before landing back to the ground. Then its back doors open up and two of the turtles, the ones in red and black, rocket out of the car in the backs of red and avocado green bikes before skidding them sideways to a stop.)

(In the alleyway, next to the blue armored car, the eight turtles crouch down before leaping to attack towards the camera, with the turtle in orange taking the lead and kicks the screen with his foot.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen splits into two horizontal screen: the upper screen shows a blue-masked face with into a glare narrowed eyes while lower shows eight turtles standing in line in front of the gray-furred humanoid rat dressed in the brown robe.)
(In the next one, lower screen shows a purple-masked face with lightly frowned glare while upper shows the rat master swinging his wooden staff down at the couple of attacking robots.)
("ONE!")
"LIVE BY THE CODE OF THE MARTIAL ARTS"

(In the third one, upper screen shows a red-masked face with the deep frown, while the lower shows a large and muscular blonde-haired man leading a group of silhouetted street gang thugs from the ablaze background towards the camera)
(In the fourth one, the lower screen shows a orange-masked face with the soft stare, while the upper one shows a same large and muscular man sneering at the camera, before he throws a punch towards it, blackening the screen for the split second.)
("TWO!")
"NEVER FIGHT UNLESS SOMEONE ELSE STARTS"

(A red-haired young woman is then seen winking at the camera from the cockpit of the helicopter with the rope hanging from its undercarriage, which she flies past of the blue tower with the Japanese style palace on top of it. There, two turtles, ones in purple and white are seen battling six ninjas on the edge, until they're knocked off the building. Falling down, the turtle in white grabs from the helicopter's rope with one hand and grabs with his free one from the turtle in purple's hand, cutting their falling, and they're both lifted up in the air.)
("THREE!")
"ALWAYS STICK TOGETHER NO MATTER WHAT"

(In the dark alley, the eight turtles are standing shell to shell in middle of the bright spotlight, while they're surrounded by the dozens and dozens of in the darkness standing and heavily armed ninjas that keep coming from the darkness and rooftops above of the alley. The turtles fearlessly demonstrate their skills with their weapons before taking their respective battle stances.)
("FOUR!")
"IF ALL ELSE FAILS, THEN IT'S TIME TO KICK BUTT!"

(Screen rises up to the tall buildings.)
(The female turtle in pink jumps from the left with her legs bent under, while spinning around and swinging her sharp Tessens around, and at the same time turtle in orange jumps from the right. With the smirk on his face, the turtle in orange makes the flip in the air while spinning his Nunchucks wildly.)
(Then, the turtle in purple jumps from the right, spinning his Bo-staff with his left hand while swinging it over his head before grabbing it with both hands and bringing it down hard. At the same time, the female turtle in turquoise jumps from the right, spinning her Naginata in her right hand, before spinning around and sending a horizontal slash with her weapon's blade forward.)
(Then, the turtle in white jumps from the left, spinning his Tonfas in his hands before thrusting his right Tonfa forward like a stabbing movement. At the same time, the turtle in blue then jumps from the right with his Katanas crossed, before he pulls them to the sides as he delivers the kick forward with his foot.)
(Turtle in red then jumps from the left and crossed his arms in front of him before pulling them back, making his Sais to flash. Right after him, the turtle in black jumps from the right, holding his left Butterfly sword in front of him and his right Butterfly sword over his head, before swinging them forward to slash with them the air in front of him.)
(Then a 14-year-old girl with purple-dyed hair styled in pigtails, and dressed in a sleeveless, teal hoodie and red baggy jeans jumps from the left after the turtle in black and shoots the punch towards the screen with her left fist. Then a tall blue-haired and -eyed man with the hockey mask on his face jumps from the right and whacks the screen with his hockey stick.)

(Turtle in blue, with swords in hands, is then seen landing onto one ninja's back, knocking him down.)
(Turtle in purple is then seen whacking another ninja off his feet and out with his Bo.)
(Turtle in red is then seen blocking the third ninja's kick with his left arm while holding his Sai in his fist.)
(Turtle in orange is then seen punching fourth in the face with his right fist while holding a Nunchuck.)
(Turtle in turquoise is then seen kicking the fifth in the chest while holding her Naginata up.)
(Turtle in white is then seen back-handing the sixth with his left hand's Tonfa)
(Turtle in black is then seen blocking seventh's sword with his left hand's sword while thrusting his right towards the ninja as if to stab him in the chest)
(Turtle in pink is then seen with her arms crossed in front of her white holding her opened pink Tessens in her hands.)
(The turtle in red is then seen again, this time surrounded by several ninjas, until he spins himself around with his hands clenched into fist around of his Sais' hilts spread out, knocking all ninjas away from him.)

(Cut to the wide shot, where seven silhouettes of the turtles are seen running, jumping and flipping along the rooftops, water towers and chimneys, as the camera follows them. One of the turtles swings over them by the chain with one hand like Tarzan.)
(Then two narrower screens appear to above and beneath of the rooftop screen, showing the repeating line of turtles in blue's and purple's masked faces above and the line of turtles in red and orange's masked faces beneath, moving to the opposite direction.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."
"I LOVE BEING' A..."
"I LOVE BEING' A TURTLE!"

(The turtles then land to the ground in front of the building. The turtle in blue is in the middle, the turtles in purple, turquoise and white are in his right side while the turtles in orange, black and pink are in his left side. All seven then ran towards the camera that moves between the turtle in blue's legs.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!"

(Then, the turtle in red races over the building in the back of the bike and jumps off it towards and past the camera.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF:"

(The screen splits into four narrow screens again, this time from left to right.)
"FIVE, SIX"
(In the first one, the female turtle in turquoise is pointing her Naginata's blade at the screen. In the second one, the turtle in black is holding his Butterfly-swords upside down in his arms, while holding the left one horizontally in front of his face and right one over his head.)
"SEVEN, EIGHT"
(In the third one, the turtle in white is holding his Tonga-holding arms crossed over his chest. In the fourth one, the female turtle in pink is holding her right hand's Tessen opened in front of her face, partially covering them behind of her weapon, while pointing with her left closed one at the screen.)
(TURTLES!)

(The turtle in turquoise is seen standing in the dead end of the alley, spinning around while spinning her Naginata with her hands in front of her, before she pulls it behind her shell-back and holds her left hand forward as two two hands, one holding a knife and one a fire-axe, appears from both sides of the screen.)
"AT NIGHTFALL, WE'RE COMING"
(TURTLES!)

(The turtle in black is seen riding on top of the subway car, with his Butterfly swords sunk to its roof. And as he approaches the camera, the turtle in black pulls his swords up and jumps forward towards the camera and kicks the screen into black.)
"OUT OF MANHOLE"
(TURTLES!)

(The turtle in white is seen stabbing with his left and then his right Tonfa at one practice dummy in his right to the head, knocking it back. Then he turns around and spin-kicks the other dummy in his left in the head with his right foot. Then the turns around and whacks the camera with his left Tonfa.)
"BEWARE, THE BADDIES!"
(TURTLES!)

(The screen pulls back, showing a turtle in pink skating with the pair of pink roller skates along the rooftop as she is being chased by the dozen ninjas with the swords. Four more ninjas appears from the sides of the screen, chasing after the skating turtle in pink. She peeks over her left shoulder at them, smirks and then picks up the pace, skating into the camera.)
"MUTANTS NINJAS ARE ON THE MOVE!"

(The turtle in pink then skates towards a pretty large ninja with the sword held up and ready to strike (with her pursuers' running feet showing in the sides of the screen). However, as the large ninja tries to strike at the turtle in pink horizontally, she grabs from both of his wrists, spins around and throws him over her shoulder at her pursuers. The ninja flies towards the camera face-first.)

(Turtle in pink then turns around and somersaults over the edge of the building. The screen then moves down in front of with the wooden boards boarded doorway, before the same green armored car smashes through it, allowing the turtle in pink to land onto its roof.)

(Screen then turns to the back-doors of the car as it is chased by two ninjas on motorbikes, until the back-doors fly open and the turtle in black jumps out with the barrel-roll, landing on his shell to the street, somersaulting back to his feet and then lunging at the ninjas, knocking them both off the bikes as he flies face-first at the camera.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen splits into two horizontal screens again: the upper screen shows a turquoise-masked face with lightly frowned glare, while lower screen shows the turtles in pink, blue and turquoise in the snowy woods, staring at the five silhouetted canine-like humanoid beings with various colored face-paints (dark purple, light blue, crimson, silver and green) standing in line. They all hit their fists with their fist before bowing to each other.)
(In the next one, lower screen shows a white-masked face with deep frown while upper screen shows the silhouetted canine-like humanoid with white fur and dark purple face-paint. Wielding a single Kama in its right had, the figure fights two hunter-looking men with the hunting rifles: kicking away one standing front of it with the left foot before elbowing the second one standing behind the back in the face with its right elbow. The figure then turns around, snarls ferally at the camera before slicing the screen in half with its Kama.)
("FIVE!")
"WE'LL ALWAYS FIGHT AGAINST THE EVIL!"

(In the third one, upper screen shows a black-masked face with the wide eyes, while the lower shows the turtle in black and the same purple-haired and ponytailed teenager human girl standing back to shell-back in middle of the ring of the silhouetted enemies.)
(In the fourth one, the lower screen shows a pink-masked face with the soft stare, while the upper one shows a turtle in black and purple-haired girl turning to each other and grabbing from each others hands, before the turtle in black swings the girl around him in the air. As the turtle in black swings the girl towards the camera, the girl kicks the screen with her foot.)
("SIX!")
"WE COME, STRIKE HARD, AND VANISH INTO NIGHT"

(A next shot shows two buildings standing next to each other, until the turtles in purple and turquoise appear from the left side of the screen and jump over the gap between the buildings (with the turtle in turquoise pole-vaulting over the gap with her Naginata). Then four turtles, led by turtle in blue, followed by the turtles in red and pink and lastly the white, are seen rushing forward along the streets, weapons in hands. The turtles in orange and black are then seen following them right behind: the former by zipping along the rope with his Nunchaku and the latter by swinging by the chain while spinning the other one wildly around with his free hand.
("SEVEN!")
"AS A TEAM, WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE EACH OTHER'S SHELLS."

(In the next shot, we see all eight turtles standing under the light in the darkness, with their backs turned to the camera as it pulls away from them. As they all turn around to the camera, they draw out their weapons and take their individual battle-stances, ready to face whoever is standing in front of them.)
("EIGHT!")
"AND WE'LL NEVER LEAVE OUR BUDDIES BEHIND!"

(Out of darkness appear a dark-haired African-American scientist-looking man wearing glasses and dressed in the white lab coat, glaring menacingly at the camera while being surrounded by the dozens of the menacing-looking chicken-sized robots with one glowing eye, snapping jaws and sharp teeth. The scientist points at the camera with his finger and the robots lunge at the camera, snarling menacingly.)

(Camera moves to the right, showing a large pale-skinned, bald-headed and broad-shouldered man in the black ninja-garb, with the left side of his face viciously scarred. Backed up by the group of ninjas behind him, the scarred man draws out a sword from his X-shaped scabbard in his back and raises it with both hands up and next to the scarred side of his faces, pointing its tip at the camera while glaring himself darkly at the camera.)

(Camera moves then to the right again, this time showing a strange female creature with the pale yellowish skin, huge red eyes, long elf-like pointy ears, slightly hooked nose, shoulder-length black hair and wide grin that shows her mouth full of sharp teeth. She was dressed into black dress and a hooded cape, dark-blue and white-stripped pantyhose, ruby-red elf-like slippers and a long and slithering elf-like black hat. With the mischievous grin on her face, the creature waved its hands over, followed by the glowing aura and the flow of glowing various-colored stars in her left hand and the various-colored lightnings in her right hand, as if it was the magic.)

(Camera moves to the right once more, this time showing a mobster-like barrel-chested man with the thick eyebrows, mustache, double chin and tidy haircut. He was dressed in the blue shirt and a red black-spotted cravat, over which he wore a mafia-like olive green suit with the golden stripes. He had a same style pants and the shiny black-tipped brown shoes. He wore on his head a grayish-brown fedora hat and he had a cigar in his mouth. Backed up by several tough-looking guys in the mafia-like suits and fedora-hats - all armed with various guns or melee weapons - the man took the cigar out of his mouth and, with the nasty sneer, he pointed with his finger forward.)

(The screen turns back to the turtles, showing the turtle in purple whacking several robots away with his staff while turtle in red lands on one, crushing it, while stabbing his Sais through of two other)
(The turtle in white then moves to stab with his left Tonfa in one ninja's guts, before he turns around and whacks with his right one in the second ninja's chest, knocking him away, after which the turtle in pink slices the third ninja's staff in half with her Tessens before spinning around and kicking him in the chest with her left foot.)
(The strange pointy-eared creature then flies over to strike them with the magical lightnings, only for the turtle in turquoise to pole-vault with her Naginata towards the creature before she lands a kick to her right side, knocking the creature off the air.)
(Three mafia thugs: one in the white shirt, black cravat, turquoise suit and reddish-brown fedora-hat, second one in the black shirt, green cravat, the brown suit and with the golden fedora-hat and third large, muscular, slightly hunchbacked, broad-shouldered and big-nosed guy with the thick eyebrows, shaven face and protruding lower jaw, who was dressed in the checkered blue-white shirt, red black-spotted bow tie, dark purple suit and a small dark blue bowler hat on top his head, rushed towards the turtles, only for the turtle in orange to snap-kick away the turquoise-suited thug in the left, while the turtle in black kicks the brown-suited thug in the right in the guts before the big thug in the middle ends up being kicked away by the turtle in blue, who then spins around before crossing his swords in front of his face.)

(Cut to the wide three-leveled shot, where two silhouettes of two turtles are first seen running along the sewer pipe: One turtle is on foot while another turtle is skating along the pipe's rounded walls.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."

(Screen moves upwards to the street level, where three silhouettes of three turtles are running along the streets: One is running on foot down the street, while second one is riding on the bike and third one is hopping along both the driving and parked cars' rooftops.)
(Then two narrower screens appear to above and beneath of the rooftop screen, showing the repeating line of turtles in turquoise's and white's masked faces above and the line of turtles in black's and pink's masked faces beneath, moving to the opposite direction.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."

(Shot moves upwards again, to the roof level, where two silhouettes of two turtles are either jumping or pole-vaulting along the rooftops.)
"I LOVE BEING' A TURTLE!"

(Three turtles (The turtle in red in the left, turtle in blue in the middle and the turtle in white in the right) are seen running towards the camera along the streets. Then the turtles in pink and orange jumps out of the open manholes, landing on their feet to the street and join the run next to the turtles in red and white. Then they're joined by the turtles in turquoise and purple, who land down from the rooftops to both sides of the turtle in blue. All seven then run towards the camera that moves between the turtle in blue's legs.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!"

(The camera then moves up towards the building with the full moon glowing behind of it, showing the turtle in black jumping off the building and towards the camera, spinning the chain wildly above his head before throwing it away and then swings by it over the camera in Spiderman-style.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF:"

(A small square screen then appears from the left, showing the turtle in blue's shadowy yet calm-looking face. Another appears next to it from above, showing the turtle in purple's shadowy yet determined-looking face.)
"ONE! TWO!"

(Third appears from beneath, showing the turtle in orange's shadowy goofy-like face. Then the fourth appears from the right, showing the turtle in red's shadowy yet fierce-looking face with the gritted teeth.)
"THREE! FOUR!"

(A small square screen then appears from the left, showing the turtle in turquoise's shadowy yet calm-looking face. Another appears next to it from above, showing the turtle in white's shadowy yet deeply frowning face.)
"FIVE! SIX!"

(Third appears from beneath, showing the turtle in black's shadowy wildly hilarious-looking face. Then the fourth appears from the right, showing the turtle in pink's shadowy yet determined-looking face with the smile.)
"SEVEN! EIGHT!"
(TURTLES!)

(All eight turtles are seen jumping down from the tall blue tower with the red Japanese style palace on top of it, which towers over all the other buildings of the town. With the weapons in hands, the turtles spin in a circle (first Turtle in blue, then turtle in turquoise, then turtle in red, then turtle in black, then turtle in purple, then turtle in white, then turtle in orange and finally turtle in pink) as they fall towards the camera)
"THERE'S NO ONE BETTER"
(TURTLES!)

(In the ledge of the same tower, that is above of the blood-red three-toed symbol in middle of the bright light blue circle, a menacing-looking man in the full samurai-looking armor and helmet looks down after them, as his black cape floats in the blow of the wind and the lightning flashes in the sky behind him. The camera moves closer of his helmet-covering head, before the man turns to the camera and raises his left arm with the gauntlet armed with two charp claws.)
"WATCH OUT FOR THE SHREDDER"
(TURTLES!)

(The turtles are then seen standing in middle of the rooftop. With the weapons in hands, they briefly demonstrate their weapons-skills before taking their individual fighting poses: Turtle in purple is seen standing in the middle, pointing his staff's end at the camera, while the turtle in red and black are standing in his right, the turtles in turquoise and orange are standing in his left and the turtles in white, pink and orange are standing behind of them.)
"THEY'RE LIKE NO OTHERS!"
(TURTLES!)

(The turtles are seen riding or skating on the various human equipments along the underground tunnel: The turtle in purple is in the lead, wheeling with his purple-gray foldaway bike as he rode past the camera. Turtle in turquoise followed him afterwards on her own turquoise tuned dirt-bike, waving at the camera. She was followed by the turtle in blue on foldaway kick scooter ith the blue board, hopping over the handlebar with his hands. He was then followed by the turtle in white on the white-tuned road bicycle, who made the high backward flip over the camera. After them, the turtles in red and pink were roller skating along the wall of the tunnel with their red roller blades and pink roller-skates. The turtle in black then skated after them with his oversized green and black skateboard pair of rocket boosters and he was followed by the turtle in orange, who skated along the tunnel's wall with his orange skateboard, going higher and higher along the wall before he jumped off it, landing in front of the camera with the smirk before skating away.)
"THOSE TEENAGE SIBLINGS!"

(First the turtle in purple, then the turtle in white, then the turtle in blue, then the turtle in turquoise, then the turtle in red, then the turtle in pink, then the turtle in orange and finally the turtle in black landed onto the rooftop with weapons in hands.)
"ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!"
"FIVE! SIX! SEVEN! EIGHT!"

(Either spinning or waving their weapons, the turtles then charged forward towards the camera, with the turtle in blue taking the lead and slashing his swords forward.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES"

Then the logo of "TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES" appears, with the silhouetted figures of the eight turtles with the glowing eyes behind of it.
"TURTLES! TURTLES!"

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= TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES =
= THINGS CHANGE PART 1 =

The peacefulness of the mid-night had fallen upon the the large American island town called New York City.

The citizens all across the city were going about their business: They were either on the night walk on the streets or Central Park's roads, visiting in the Night clubs or bars, driving across the town in their cars, heading for their night shifts or withdrawing to their homes for the night.

But beneath of the city's streets, unknown to anyone, was going on something.

And that "something" took place beneath of the city's streets, in the dark, stinky and rat-filled sewers.

In the secret and a long time abandoned sewer chamber that was located or hidden behind of the sealed wall, in middle of the darkness, was sitting in Japanese style a giant rat with humanoid features. The rat was visibly old and he had a grayish brown fur and grayish-white eye-brows, tied chin beard and Japanese styled mustache. He was dressed into a brown and from some points torn kimono and he had his rat-like feet bandaged from the ankles with the white bandages. The rat had also the scar than ran down from the bridge of his snout to his right cheek.(1)

The rat was holding in his hand the long wooden staff, in the end of which he was skillfully holding a lit candle in balance.

"Remember, to be a true ninja, you must become one with the shadows. Darkness gives the ninja power, while light reveals the ninja's presence." the old rat explained to someone(s) hiding in the darkness around him, with his gentle voice full of ancient wisdom.

"Now, can you extinguish this flame without revealing yourselves?" The rat asked before he flipped the candle off from the end of his staff and grabbed it from the air with his left hand, and remained calm and still.

It was dead silence, until there was a faint footsteps coming from his right.

Suddenly, a shadowed figure armed with the Bo-staff appeared out of nowhere and lunged towards the rat and the candle. The figure moved fast, but the rat moved his candle-holding arm out of the way even faster and the figure ended up to miss the candle and crash into the wall in the other side of the dark space.

"Too noisy, Donatello." the rat told the figure.

Next, Another shadowed figure armed with the pair of Nunchucks jumped towards the rat. Spinning one Nunchaku in his right arm, the figure leaped close of the rat and attempted with the simple dive-technique to get the candle.

However, he missed as well when the rat pulled the candle out of the turtle's way with ease while the figure, having lost the control of his own technique after missing the candle, crashed into the first figure called by name Donatello, knocking them both over to the ground.

"Too clumsy. Michelangelo." The rat commented, shaking his head slightly.

In distance, a third shadowed figure was standing within the darkness, waiting for the right moment with the bow in the hand and the arrow placed on it. The figure was much slender compared to the first two figures and had the physical characteristics of a woman, implying that this one was a female indeed.

When the figure saw her opportunity, she lifted her bow into upright position and pulled the string of her weapon back with another hand. She aimed her arrow at the candle in the rat's hand, tensed the string a little bit more before she released it and sent the arrow to flight.

The arrow flew across the dark air space of the room and towards the candle. However, the rat suddenly lifted his staff on the way and caught the arrow from mid-air. The rat then skillfully spun the arrow around of the end of his staff, before he swung his staff to the right and sent the arrow flying back towards the female turtle.

The arrow flew directly and twice through of the belt of the female turtle's fabric quiver full of arrows, without even touching her skin from her left shoulder. The arrow dragged the surprised turtle backwards before it pinned the female turtle against the wall.

"WOW!" the female figure yelped, surprised.

"Over-confident move, Artemisia" the rat told her.

The rat was then silently encircled by the fourth shadowed figure, who was armed with the pair of wooden Tonfās and was waiting for the right moment to strike.

The figure waited a bit longer than what the three first ones did, and the air between of him and the rat was filled with the tense silence and silent yet nervous-sounding breathing as the figure was looking for the perfect opportunity and spot to strike.

And then, standing behind of the rat's back on his left side, the figure finally swung one of his Tonfās he held in his right hand towards the candle in the rat's arm. But as he did so, the rat swiftly blocked the attempt strike by lifting his own staff on the way, before he spun it around once and placed one end beneath of the figure's Tonfā's handle. Then the rat pulled his staff hard down, pulling the figure over his head and sending him flying back ahead into the first two failed figures.

"Too much hesitation, Domenico. And your too tensed breathing revealed your presence."

And after that, the rat was then approached by the fifth shadowed figure, that was armed with the pair of Butterfly swords.

The figure started to walk calmly towards the rat until he slowly but certainly picked up the pace. The figure eventually leaped onto he wall behind the rat and ran along it for a moment before leaping off it and towards the candle. However, the rat turned around and took the candle with him, leaving the figure to slice the empty air with his blades, and ended up landing onto his shell to the ground.

"Too foolhardy, Lorenzo"

The rat was once again approached, this time from behind of his back, by the next shadowed and bulky figure, who was armed with the pair of Sai.

The figure lunged towards the candle but missed as the rat bowed down and lowered the candle out of the figure's way. However, unlike the previous figures, this one landed on his feet and turned around to face the rat again. The figure twirled his Sais in his hands and quickly switching his stance from defensive into hostile stance before the figure charged towards the rat again. The rat stepped backwards for a couple steps as the figure kept approaching him, until he swiftly and effortlessly sat down and stretched out his staff to make the figure to stumble to it, sending him flying into the pile of three failed figures. The three other figures groaned from the impact while the fourth growled over his failure.

"Poor choice, Raphael." the rat commented as he stood up and lifted the candle-holding arm a bit higher.

After the rat had made his comment, he almost failed to sense and notice the presence of another slender female-looking figure armed with the Naginata-spear standing right behind of his back. The female figure held her weapon in the air, ready to swing its blade towards the rat.

The figure leaped forward and swung her Naginata forward, aiming the candle, but the rat performed a frontal flip in the air, pulling the candle out of the way of figure's Naginata. In the mid stage of his flip, the rat placed one of his legs against over him flying figure's stomach and send her with the powerful kick flying across the air space of the room till she crashed into the pile of four other failed figures.

"Too hasty, Marietta." the rat commented to the female figure, who was struggling with the other four figures to get free from the mess of the limbs, after he had landed back on his feet to the ground.

It was silent again in the dark room.

Suddenly, the candle was swiftly and unexpectedly sliced in half, surprising the rat totally as he didn't saw it coming.

And after that, an eight shadowed figure armed with the pair of long two-handed Katanas landed out of the darkness on his feet in front of the rat, stretching out his Katana's long blade forward and catching the sliced upper part of the candle onto its flat side. The figure then lifted the candle in front of his face and extinguished the flame, covering the entire room into the darkness.

The lights were eventually turned on, revealing the sewer chamber having turned into the cozy underground apartment.

And when the lights were on, the figures that had attempted to take the candle from the rat one by one within the darkness were revealed to be a humanoid turtles with the size and age of teenagers. The turtles did not physically differ much from each other, except for two of them who were slimmer than the other six and had the physical characteristics of females. Each one of them was also wearing the pair of elbow and knee pads, utility belts, bandages on their arms (from the wrists to elbows) and legs (from ankles to the knees) and individually colored masks.

One called Donatello was recognized from his purple mask.

Second one called Michelangelo was recognized from his orange mask.

Third one, and first one of the female turtles around called Artemisia was recognized from her a pink do-rag-like mask that covered the whole topside of her head.(2)

Fourth one called Domenico was recognized from his white or grayish-white mask.

Fifth one called Lorenzo was recognized for his black colored mask which also was do-rag-like just like Arcee's.(2)

Sixth one called Raphael was recognized from the red mask.

Seventh one, and second one of the female turtles around called Marietta was recognized from her a turquoise mask with a ankle-length and braided ribbons and she had a black and white YIN-YANG symbol tattoos in her left arm, above of her elbow, and in her left thigh.(3)

And the eighth and last one, the turtle who'd managed to get the candle from the rat's hand, was recognized from the pure blue mask.

Because of the turtles having shells that covered most of their 'private' areas - and with the female turtles, their shells' frontal plastrons serving as their "natural bras" over their chests all the time - the turtles didn't wear much of other clothing and preferred to walk around topless and barefoot. However, the turtles did at least wear Iga-bakama Ninja pants(4), which colors were matching their owners masks' colors, though it was toned into much darker tones.

As the other turtles stood up from the ground, the rat turned to the blue turtle.

"Well done, Leonardo." the rat congratulated the turtle in blue with the pleased smile.

"Thank you, Master Splinter." the turtle called by name Leonardo said back to the rat called Master Splinter and bowed respectively to him, while the other turtles either looked at their big brother with humble approval or moped over their failure.

"Cheater! You used our failures to distract Master Splinter long enough to get close to him!" Domenico said with accusing tone, having seen Leonardo hiding in the ceiling of the lair, hanging on two pipes right above of master Splinter before he took him by surprise.

"Or else he was purposely allowed to get close enough! After all, he's the teacher's pet." Raphael claimed, definitely not too happy neither.

"Nope." Leonardo stated. "None of us has ever before got that closer of Splinter without being detected. I just got lucky but via of hard training only, unlike you, ninja dropouts." Leo said with the proud tone and smug grin as he tossed the candle to Raph.

"Oooooooh!" Donatello, Michelangelo, Lorenzo and Artemisia teased both Raphael and Domenico for them being called "dropouts" by Leonardo.

Domenico merely snorted at this, But Raphael, not taking kindly of what Leonardo had just called him, moved menacingly towards Leonardo like with intention to lunge at him to sweep the smug grin off his brother's face, prompting Leonardo to take the defensive stance.

However, Marietta jumped in between of the turtles, holding Raphael from attacking Leo with both hands on his chests.

"Raph! Back off, bro! There's no need to start the brawl! This was just a test, not a competition. Leo passed the test with fair and square. We just have to accept our failures humbly and consider how to improve ourselves in the future." Marietta said with the voice of reason, barely managing to calm down the hot-heated turtle.

"Marietta is right! Stand down, my son!" Master Splinter said, interfering to the situation and pointing with the tip of his staff at Raphael.

Raph, though a bit reluctantly, backed off but only because Master Splinter told him so.

Splinter then lifted his left hand over his forehead and let out the sigh, slightly annoyed that some of his children were taking their failures too seriously.

"My children. If you want to become true ninja, you must work harder than this." Splinter said, as the turtles knelt down in a circling line around of their master: Donatello, Raphael, Leonardo and Michelangelo were sitting in the side of their lair's main room, their Dojo area, while Domenico, Lorenzo, Marietta and Artemisia were sitting in the opposite side of the lair, where their living room was.

Splinter then started to walk back and forth as he was about to explain some things to his children.

"Your path in life will not be an easy one. The outside world will be not a friendly place for you. You eight are different in ways the surface dwellers would never understand." Master Splinter explained.

Even though all turtles paid deeply attention to their master's speech, Michelangelo's attention was from the beginning distracted by the fly that was buzzing around of his head, distracting him from Splinter's speech and annoying him to the point that the turtle in orange attempted for the several times to catch the fly from the air with his hand.

Arcee saw from the corner of her right eye Mikey hunting the fly instead of paying attention to Splinter's speech.

"Stay focused, Mikey!" Artemisia whispered between of her teeth without taking her eyes from Splinter. However, Mikey ignored her and kept hunting the fly.

"To survive, you must master these skills I've been teaching you. Ninjutsu powers of stealth and secrecy. You must become kage - shadow warriors. And take this one seriously: You must never be discovered by the outside world." Master Splinter said with the lecturing tone.

When Mikey finally managed to capture the fly by slamming his both arms around of the flying insect, he grinned triumphantly, until his grin soon died away when Splinter stood in front of him, glaring down at him with the disapproval frown at his youngest son's lack of attention.

"Uh oh." Lorenzo chuckled before singing teasingly. "Mikey is in trouble."

"Lorenzo!" Master Splinter snapped as he swiftly turned towards the turtle in black and hit in to the back of his right hand with the end of his staff, making Lorenzo to wince with "OW!" cry in pain and grab with his other hand from his sore one, before he lifted his gaze up and found himself under of Splinter's disapproval frown.

"Uh... Sorry, Master Splinter." turtle in black apologized sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his hand

However, before Splinter could discipline his sons further, the whole chamber began suddenly shake. And along with it came a weird sound of rumbling.

"Huh? What is that noise?" Splinter questioned.

The shaking even worsened and some small debris started to fall off from the ceiling, prompting all eight turtles to stand up.

"What's going on here?!" Lorenzo demanded to know.

"Whoa! Donnie! Is this an earthquake?!" Michelangelo asked.

"In middle of New York City?" Donnie questioned. "Possible but mostly unlikely."

"Then how can you explain that sound and this shaking if this isn't an earthquake?" Domenico demanded to know.

"Well, during the earthquakes, the rumbling usually goes on all of time. That kind of rumbling is oddly repeating and sounds more likely... well… munching." Donnie theorized.

"MUNCHING?!" Everybody else exclaimed in disbelief.

"Yeah. Munching. Literally." Donatello added, before he quickly stepped back as a large part of the ceiling above of him fell off and landed directly to the spot where the turtle in purple had stood a moment ago.

Soon after, The wall next to their Dojo area was violently breached, raising the cloud-like dust all over the place.

The turtles interpreted this as a possible attack and quickly draw out their weapons and prepared themselves for the incoming invaders.

And as the dust faded off, they saw that there was a couple-three breached holes made to the chamber's wall and inside through of the holes walked in a group of two-legged tiny chicken-sized robots with one glowing eye on top of their heads and serrated jaws. When they opened their jaws, they let out a high-pitched metallic growls and revealed the buzzing buzz-saws inside of their mouths.

"Holly Shell!" Marietta exclaimed, as the robots turned on them.

"What the shell are those things?" Leo questioned.

Michelangelo rubbed with his middle-finger the top of his head while trying to come up with some sort of answer to his older brother's question.

"I don't know… New York City's cockroaches, I guess?" Mikey said.

"You guess, Mikey?!" Domenico exclaimed while glaring at Mikey.

"Well, whatever they are, they've come here without the permission." Raph stated before he lunged towards the first robot and kicked it away, causing it to land on its back to the floor and remain there to struggle to get back on its feet like the overturned bug.

Lorenzo attacked next, pulling his Butterfly swords out of their scabbards which were attached to the X-crossed belts on his bare chest. Spinning his short swords for a moment, Lorenzo ran them through of two robots' heads, before he then lifted them off the ground and hurled them into the other incoming robots, knocking a few individuals over to the ground. As the next robot lunged at him, Lorenzo put one of his Butterfly swords back into its scabbard and took out Manriki-gusari, pair of which the turtle in black was carrying as his extra weapons, and tossed its weighted end at the attacking robots. The chain wrapped itself around of one, which Lorenzo pulled back to him by the chain. And using the chained robot in the manner of flail, Lorenzo swung his chain weapon in horizontal arch at the next wave of robots, sweeping several of them into pieces with one swing.

Donnie engaged the robots next. First the turtle in purple swung his Bo-staff hard down and towards his robotic opponents and knocked the first one away. Donnie attempted to do the same to the next one, but the robot managed to capture his weapon's end between its jaws, prompting Donnie to lift both his staff and the robot up before he pulled it back down, smashing the robot's head against the ground.

Domenico, spinning his twin Tonfās in his hands, lunged at the trio of robots that charged at him with their jaws open. Swinging his right hand's Tonfā at them, Domenico knocked the head off from one before he stabbed his left hand's Tonfā straight through of the second one's head, before kicking it away. The third one managed to flank him from his left and nearly sunk its teeth into his left arm, only to be blocked by his Tonfā that was as thick as his arm. This narrowly blocked attack startled Domenico and, out of instincts, the turtle in white crushed the robot's head between of his Tonfā and the nearby wall.

As Mikey attacked incoming robots, the turtle in orange showed off his Nunchaku-skills and swiftness, like he always does. He kept repeatedly bouncing forward and made a few front flips in the air amongst of the invading robots while both swinging and spinning his Nunchucks wildly and toward the robots, either knocking them over, breaking their jaws and bashing their heads inside while the turtle in orange let out "HAI YAA!" and "HO YAA!" cries with each blow.

Artemisia followed right behind of the turtle in orange with the intent to finish off those Mikey "missed", but instead of using her long bow and arrows, Artemisia used her own favorite weapons: A pair of bladed and pink Tessens which had the golden Eastern turtle-like(6) dragons described on each side of them. She either swung her Tessens wildly and alternately to the left and right or swung them both at the same time from one side to another, either decapitating or slicing the robots heads in half. Artemisia also did a several front flips to avoid several too close reached robots' jaws, often landing with all her weight onto them and crushed them beneath of her.

Mikey suddenly stopped and picked one of the robots.

"Hey Leo! Think fast!" Mikey called as he tossed the robot towards Leo, who sliced the robot in half with one vertical slash of his Katana with ease.

Leo proceed by slicing many other robots, whom were attacking him both from the ground and the air, in half with his Katanas without much difficulty. In addition of that, some of his attacks with his Katanas were done with swift and clean cut that they left most of his robotic opponents visibly intact like he had never even hit them. Only then when they either stopped walking or landed still to the ground after their leap attacks, the effects of Leo's blows became visible. The robots the turtle in blue slashed started to shake violently for a moment before they fell over in two pieces, finished for good.

And last but not least, Marietta joined the fight too, charging towards the incoming robotic invaders while spinning her Naginata over her head with one hand. As the first three robots were about to engage her, the turtle in turquoise grabbed with both hands from her weapon and swung its blade in sideways down at the attacking robots. This left the head from the first robot on the right partially decapitated, split the torso in half from the second one in the middle and finally cut the legs off from the last robot on the left, crippling it. Two new robots then leaped into the air and flew towards her with their jaws open to kill, but Marietta flipped sideways into the air and flew over them, swinging her Naginata in the arch downwards and beheading the robots in the process. Marietta landed effortlessly back on her feet to the ground, while the decapitated robots' heads and headless bodies fell unceremoniously to the ground with the metallic thud. An then, out of instincts, Marietta made the front flip at the right moment as one robot was about to sink its metallic teeth into her neck and swung her Naginata upwards, making a swift and clean cut that split the robot in half.

There was a brief pause in Leo's fight when he saw that another group of those robots had managed to corner Master Splinter to the other side of the lair. Of course, master Splinter managed to defeat a many of those robots by crippling them, beheading them or knock them away with his staff, but he had to fall back step by step as they began to overwhelm him with vast numbers and started attacking him from each side.

"Guys! We gotta help Master Splinter! COME ON!" Leo ordered and led his brothers and sisters to their master's direction, fighting their way through of the herd of invading killer-robots and destroying multiple individuals in the process while making their way to their master.

However, they were so focused on fighting and destroying the killer-bots that they failed to see that some robots had turned their attentions to the lair's pillars and support beams in the middle part of the entire place, chewing them with their jaws.

Soon most of the pillars and support beams were chewed away or into a poor condition. And without any firm support, even more rocks started to fall from the ceiling and a large portion of it started to crack under of the heavy pressure of both rock and earth on it

Leo and Domenico noticed this just before the ceiling finally gave up and led into the devastating cave-in, And Raph, Marietta and Lorenzo were right beneath of it along with the remaining robots!

"RAPH! MARY! LOUIE! LOOK OUT!" Leo shouted as he and Domenico rushed forward and timely pulled their brothers and sister out of the way of the massive rain of debris that destroyed both the causers of it and all remaining robots beneath of it.

But the cave-in also buried Master Splinter alongside of the remaining robots under of the heavy rain of debris, that caused the massive cloud of dust.

The turtles gasped in horror!

"OH NO!" Leo shouted as he rushed through of the thick cloud of dust, caring nothing of it if the cave in was still going on.

"SENSEI!" Mary screamed as she followed Leo right behind.

"FATHER!" Artemisia cried loudly in horror.

"HE GOT CAUGHT IN THE CAVE IN!" Domenico shouted as he rushed in with the rest of the turtles.

"MASTER SPLINTER!" Raph shouted right behind of the Domenico.

"C'MON, GUYS!" Louie shouted as he ran into the cloud with Mikey and Donnie right behind of him.

As the dust cleared off, the turtles reached to the pile of rubble, that had totally sealed their part of the lair from the rest of the lair.

"Master Splinter? MASTER SPLINTER?!" Leo desperately called for his master.

There was no answer, meaning the worst…

"NOOOOOO!" Leo let out in despair.

To be continue...

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Well, There was the first part of Things Change episode. Tell me what you liked.

Sorry my English if there's any errors in writing.

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Trivia

(1) Splinter's look in this story is based on one of the concept arts of him for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014 film, because it resembles more closely to his 2003 version.

(2) I gave Lorenzo and Artemisia a do-rag like masks, similar to the one Raphael used in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles paramount films.

(3) Marietta's look is based on Venus de Milo's look with several inspirations from the arts of her from Deviantart. Her name also was originally going to be Venus de Milo with the nickname "Vee", until I decided to give her the name Marietta.

(4) The turtles in 2003 series don't wear any pants, maybe because of their shells. So I decided to give the turtles some extra regular clothing.

(5) Reference to Michelangelo's Dragon Avatar in the Lost Episodes, because Mikey's Dragon is the only Dragon that closely resembles the turtle.