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Chiba Prefecture, Japan, Earth.
May 2164.

Within the late, night time hours of Earth, at a small Minka, sitting in a lotus flower position, meditating within a Washitsu, was a man with a face that both radiated gruffness and handsomeness. With long black hair, with a hint of greying in them, brown eyes, five o'clock shadow and cuts all over the cheek, nose and chin, sustained in sparring, he was quite the attraction to many of the women, but of course, nowadays, he somehow knew that they'll be disappointed, once the secret was out that he was a married man.

And soon, he became aware that someone close to him was speaking.

"Yoshi? Yoshi"?

Opening his eyes, Hamato Yoshi drew his eyes onto the person speaking to him, his wife of 4 months, Tang Shen. Smiling at her, she smiled back, as Yoshi stood up and put his hands on her hips and drew her in closer for a kiss.
And after Yoshi drew away to look at her beautiful face, Shen looked down towards her stomach.
"Everything alright"?
A worried look on her face appeared, and Shen replied, "Yes, Yoshi. It's just, that, I've been thinking, a lot lately, about our moving to New York..."
"Tang Shen, we've been over this".
Sighing, she continued on, "yes, I know that you want us to get away from Oroku Saki, and I know you're doing what you think is best, but is going to New York really the best idea for our child, Yoshi? Our child will not know or see our home country, it's culture and it's customs. Our child will be a stranger in a foreign land".
Drawing her close to him, Hamato Yoshi also sighed and replied "I know. Those thoughts have been on my mind for quite some time. But Shen, I just want us to have the chance to spend the rest of our lives, to live in peace within New York, and that includes our child".
"I know, Japan may be our home country, but Oroku Saki will not give us the peace we deserve. His jealously knows no bounds and he refuses to recognize the love you have for me. And I want to get us away from him, before he manages to find out about us being married, or that we have a child on the way. I only dread of what he could do, if the situation comes to that".
"And don't worry, Shen, even if we move to New York, we will still be able to teach our child the customs and the culture of our homeland. But now isn't the time to think about these things, Tang Shen. We'll cross that bridge when it comes to it".
"Maybe you are right, Yoshi".
Kissing her on the head, and then crouching down, to kiss the area where their unborn child was growing, Tang Shen smiled at looking at the genuine love he had for her, and their unborn child.

And then, squeaking came from the other occupant of the house, Yoshi and Shen's pet rat, whom he had given it the name of Splinter. Moving to go over to his dojo, he opened the fusuma, and after drawing eyes onto the cage that held Splinter, went over to open his cage, and once doing so, held out his arm, as so to invite Splinter to climb onto him, which he did so.

For a few moments, Hamato Yoshi enjoyed the feeling of his pet rat climbing up to his shoulder and sniffing, until he then gently took the rat into his hands, and put him back into his cage. Closing the door and locking it, the tranquil peace was then disturbed when knocking came from the genkan, one floor down, and Tang Shen was about to tend to it, but Yoshi turned to her and said "I'll get that, Tang Shen. You need to rest anyway".
Even though an angry look was displayed on her face, Yoshi already was going down the stairs, and towards the genkan.

Arriving at the big fusuma that stood between his home, and the outside world that was the land of his birth, Hamato Yoshi pulled the handle aside, and received the shock of his life, with ninja in black shinobi shōzoku, aiming hankyū bows with arrows right directly at him. Then, other ninja rushed in, pushing him right onto the floor. Struggling against them pinning him down, he then saw one particular ninja, who he presumed, was leading this invasion of his home, due to that all the other ninja were moving out of his way and differing to him. And Yoshi soon saw the small symbol on their right arms.

A left human foot, all completely red. The symbol of the Foot Clan.

Fear was rushing to him, and it showed on his now paling face, as the lead ninja raised a boot and slammed it right down on him. Hard.

Well, here is the beginning of Turtles Arise! The first of the Turtle Effect series, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Mass Effect crossover series. It contains elements from all the TMNT franchise (Mirage comics, the movies, the 1987 cartoon, the 2003 cartoon, the current 2012 series and the video games), and if you're wondering if the Turtles' will join Shepard and his crew, well, you might be a bit disappointed. For the 2183 depicted, is set several months before Mass Effect 1. But don't worry. Future stories will provide opportunities for all sorts of Mass Effect characters to appear in, including Shepard and the crew of the Normandy.

So, anyway, don't forget to leave a review.

Edit (11/2/14): Put in a disclaimer.
Edit (14/3/14): Fixed the page up a bit.
Update (25/4/14): Fixed up some grammar.
Update (26/5/14): Put in a few speech marks in that were missing. I was sure that they were in there before. But anyways, fixed now.