An Introduction To Their Side of The City

It is two years post The Mutant Liberation War. The battle was won, mutants are citizens, but bigotry is plentiful and some rights still elude them. In the wake of the Kraang Invasion of New York six years ago, The Earth Defense Force, already operating with impunity under its mandate to protect the world has grown unchecked, given unlimited resources and almost no oversight in the pursuit of its stated purpose. Dark secrets are shielded beneath a veneer of self promotion and positive propaganda.

In an era of superficial peace, Splinter finds himself in love once more, with the mutant healer, The Phoenix, and has taken her as his wife. They have blended their two families and made an addition with Yuuta, their rat pup. The Hamato Clan has grown, adding Phoenix's three mutant children, Medusa, Aries, and Arcos. Splinter's boys have mates of their own, one even a child, Raphael's longtime girlfriend Zoe and their son Antonello. Donatello and April, Leonardo and Karai have all found comfortable places in their relationships and all is different but relatively normal. Recently, Michelangelo met Denim and after a long adventure of their own he's determined that she and her daughter Alli join the Hamato Clan. But new dangers abound…