I do not own TMNT. I think Nickelodeon does, although I'm not sure. This is the 2012 version. It is the only version I have watched. Also, I will change the plot a little bit, so I might skim over a few episodes, maybe even skip a few. But it's my decision, so I'll decide. And, I almost forgot to mention, there's a HUGE twist in the prologue that I don't think would have happened if Tang Shen hadn't been there. Enjoy!
Prologue.
(Flashback)
The Hamatos were walking back to their small apartment. Tang Shen was holding their one-year-old daughter Miwa.
Her husband Yoshi had their new pets with him. Four, adorable, baby turtles. They had just been born a few hours earlier. Suddenly, Yoshi stopped.
He pointed out some strange men. "I will follow them. They look a little suspicious." He disappeared into the alley.
Then, loud crashes were heard. Shen ran to protect her husband. "Run Shen,run!" shouted Yoshi.
Tang Shen took off, baby Miwa clamped in her arms when they came. At least five men in dark business suits with blank expressions on their faces. The recently retired Kunoichi hugged her daughter close and said "What do you want?"
One man said in a drone-like voice, "Step aside for Kraang. Then Kraang will not harm the one that wants to know what Kraang is doing."
Tang Shen frowned. She didn't trust the way they talked. Quickly, she put down Miwa, and took them out.
She had just knocked out the last one when she heard screaming from the alleyway. Her eyes widened. She knew that voice anywhere.
"Yoshi!" she breathed. She scooped up Miwa and carried her in one arm while racing back. When she reached her husband, she stopped.
In front of her, was a giant rat! It had brown fur and crimson eyes. But that didn't scare her. Two things did scare her. One, it was six feet tall! No doubt it was now a mutant. Two, those eyes… they were her husband's. She stepped forward. "Yoshi?"
The former Hamato Yoshi looked up at her. He was surrounded by a strange green liquid. "My love!" he said standing up. "How… how did this happen?" she asked in disbelief. But they both knew. Something in that green stuff, had changed him. They embraced, with little Miwa in the middle. Even though she was only one, she knew that something in her family had changed, forever.
They remained in that position for a minute, until they heard a noise that made them all look up. Tang Shen gasped slightly at what lay before them. Not only had the green stuff got on Yoshi, it was all over the ground too.
And sitting in a puddle of it, were the four baby turtles.
Since Yoshi was the last thing to touch them, they were now humanoid. All four of them were looking at Miwa. She observed them with great interest.
They were not identical. The main difference was their eye color. Sapphire blue, vivid green, crimson, and baby blue. The one with baby blue eyes also had freckles, and the one with crimson eyes had a front tooth missing. She remembered something from the pet store when they bought them. All four of them were males, and were biologically brothers. The age order went like this. Sapphire blue-eyed one, vivid green-eyed one, crimson-eyed one, and baby blue-eyed one. That was how it went in Miwa's little head.
For a second, the Hamatos stood still. Then, the baby turtle with light blue eyes, started to make its way over to them, but he couldn't crawl yet so he fell over and started crying. This pretty much broke Tang Shen's heart. She handed Miwa to Yoshi, ran over to the turtles, and picked up the crying one, saying "Shhh it's okay. You're okay." He stopped crying almost instantly.
She turned to Yoshi with the little mutant still in her arms and said "We can't leave them on their own. What should we do?"
Yoshi thought for a moment. Then said, "You're right. They will never be accepted into the world now. We must keep them secret. Which means we must go somewhere safer." Tang Shen nodded. She bent down and picked up the other blue eyed one. Yoshi got the ones with the green and red-brown eyes. He also had Miwa. After a little more talking, they decided to go into the sewers. When they were down there, they walked for a little while, then came upon an abandoned subway station. The two adults looked at each other. They knew what to do…
Pretty soon, they had made the subway station their home. The adults took turns sneaking things out of their apartment. It took all day but they finally did it.
In that time, the had decided to adopt the baby turtles as their sons, and train them in ninjutsu to defend themselves. They would train Miwa as well. When they were done, Tang Shen said, while walking towards the couch where the babies were, "Yoshi, we're done. Now all we need to do is-Whaaa!"
She had tripped on something. Yoshi helped her up and said "It's a book. Looks like it came from the storm drain." The title saidRenaissance Artists. Suddenly, Yoshi had an idea.
He flipped through the book and Tang Shen went over to the couch and said "We can get their names from there." After a lot of looking, they settled on four names. Yoshi got something from one of the boxes from their apartment that Tang Shen brought, five masks.
He went over to his children and knelt down in front of them. He went to Miwa first. "Miwa," he said taking a mask and tying it around her face. It was white.
He went to the oldest turtle next. "Leonardo." Leo got a dark blue mask that matched his eyes.
The turtle with green eyes was next. "Raphael," Raph got a dark red mask. He started to chew on the ends of it.
"Donatello" was the name for the one with the crimson eyes, and a purple mask was tied around his face.
Then Yoshi turned to the last turtle with light blue eyes. "And Michelangelo," Mikey giggled as a bright orange mask was tied around his face.
Yoshi stood and looked at his children. "My children, you will all be trained to be great warriors. When training, you can call me by my old nickname, Master Splinter or Sensei. I have faith in every one of you, my children..."
For the next three years, Splinter and Tang Shen raised the turtles alongside Miwa, and everything was going smoothly. Their family was complete.
Or so they thought.
The turtles were three years old and Miwa was four when it happened. It was a bitter December night, and Tang Shen was coming back to the lair from getting medicine for Miwa and Leonardo, who were stuck on the couch with fevers.
Just as she was about to enter the sewers, she slowed, then went very still.
Because the strange men called the Kraang were standing ten feet away.
"Does Kraang have what Kraang Prime has requested be brought to Kraang Prime?" the first one asked.
One of the other two Kraang there said "Yes. Kraang has what Kraang Prime has asked to be brought to Kraang Prime.
The third Kraang, the one closest to Tang Shen, was silent. Mainly because it's focus was on the sack it was carrying. When Tang Shen looked more closely, she could see that it was moving.
"Good. Kraang will go back the Kraang Headquarters."
Tang Shen decided that whatever they were up to, it was no good, so she followed them. What she was doing was putting herself in danger, but she had to know what they were up to.
A few minutes later (and after lots of confusing directional turns), Tang Shen found herself crouching in the shadows of a huge laboratory with an examination table, an enormous screen on the wall, and many, many, sharp tools.
The three Kraang she had followed were gathered around the lab table. "Kraang Prime will be here shortly. Let us get ready for experimenting."
The third Kraang dumped out the sack. What was inside it made Tang Shen silently gasp in horror.
It was a small baby, no older than one month.
This infuriated Tang Shen, and using her Kakute (a small ring on her hand with concealed spikes), she cut the power.
Instantly the room went dark. Being a Kunoichi in the past, Tang Shen had adapted to working in dark places.
Pretty soon, the lab was a wreck. Tools were scattered all over the place, the screen was smashed, and the Kraang were hanging unconscious by ropes on the ceiling.
With that out of the way, Tang Shen turned to the now crying baby.
When she was closer, she could see that the baby was a girl. She was beautiful, with pale pink skin and deep green eyes. Around her neck, there was a small locket.
Inside it, was a name...
Brianna.
It was pretty clear that Tang Shen was never going to find her parents. It would take all night, and she had to get back. Plus, more Kraang could come at any time.
So she did the only thing she could do…
"Yoshi!," she shouted when she ran back into the lair. "Mama!" Donatello shouted back from where he was sitting, and ran over to her as fast as his little legs could carry him and hugged her leg.
"What's that?," he asked about the bundle in her hands.
"I'll tell you in a bit sweetie, now go sit down with Miwa and Leonardo. They look like they could be cheered up."
"Sissy!" Donatello said as he ran over.
When he ran off, Tang Shen went into the dojo to find her husband meditating.
"Um...Yoshi?... there's something I have to show you." Splinter opened one eye, took one look at the baby girl, and shot up from his place on the floor.
"Tang Shen? Where did you find her?" he asked in a daze."The mysterious men that we encountered three years ago had her. I think it's too late to find her parents now." Tang Shen answered.
Yoshi looked at his wife. "Do you think…"
After a long talk, they decided on what to do. They went back out to where their children where, and after giving Miwa and Leonardo the cold medicine, Sensei said "My sons, and daughter, I would like you to see this." He knelt down so that they could see the child.
Miwa's eyes bugged out so fast they barely saw it happen.
"EKKKKKKKKK! SISTER!" she shouted then hugged her mother. "Thank you, mommy!"
Needless to say that Miwa had figured out what was going on pretty fast.
"Sissy?" Donatello asked. The brothers looked at each other. Then all of them (minus Raphael) shouted "SISSY!" Raphael shook his head and muttered something that sounded like "Aw no." Must have learned that from his parents.
"What's her name?," Leonardo asked Tang Shen.
Tang Shen smiled at her oldest son and said "Her name is Brianna…"
That took four months. FOUR MONTHS to finish the prologue! Seriously, the day that I started writing this was May 12, but, what can you do when writer's block hits. * Stay tuned! ;)