TMNT Fanfic

This is along the series of the 2003 series, so don't be mad if it isn't very good...I haven't done one of these before...

Imagine being a female mutant ninja turtle, with four brothers just like you. Not only does she have to live with a growing feeling in her heart, but some weird whackjobs who seem to LIKE a shell...

RaphOC

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Caterina was tuning her electric guitar when Mikey appeared before her, and she jumped.

"MIKEY!!!"

She hit him upside the head, putting her guitar on its stand.

"Whatcha' doin', Cat?"

"Tuning my guitar." She answered softly, standing up.

"What kind of guitar is that?"

"Epiphone Les Paul Standard Guitar Top, Vintage Sunburst." She answered, smiling.

"…I think you love this thing too much…"

"I think you love video games too much." She countered lightly, punching him on the arm.

She grabbed her book on Renaissance artists, opening it to the section on a female Renaissance artist, Caterina van Hemessen.

"Don't touch the Les Paul unless you've got $400 to pay for another when you break it."

Mikey jumped away from the guitar, noticing his white-banded sister hadn't even lifted her eyes from the book.

"…You're good…"

"I try."

Caterina was much like her brothers, only smaller and not as heavily built. Her fingers were finer, better with shuriken and kunai, but she had a large chest behind her plastron that sometimes made her uncomfortable.

Her smaller shell didn't exactly help, either…

She was the lightest skinned of the five, with a dark, intricately patterned shell.

"Raph, look!"

Caterina looked up, and jumped to her feet when she saw Mikey holding her guitar.

"I'm a rock star!"

"…Shell for brains is more like it…"

"MIKEY!!!"

Cat ripped it away from him with a glare, putting it down.

"I told you not to touch it!!"

"I don't break everything I touch!"

She sighed, pointing to her old amp, which had the imprint of his shell on it.

"Oh…that was Raph's fault!"

"Don't ya go blaming that on ME!"

"But it WAS you!"

Cat only shook her head as Raph tackled his youngest brother, and turned when Splinter called them for training. She followed her brothers, trying to ignore Mikey's energetic antics, and quickly fell into the meditative state of mind she used when training.

She pulled out her blades, handles with blades running parallel with her forearm when held properly, as they hid in the shadows.

Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael…

She only watched as they missed, and moved silently, not a sound being made as she moved closer, lifting her blades. The white handles felt reassuring against her palms as she crouched, watching as Leonardo jumped down, cutting the candle in half and catching it on his blade.

She jumped over her, cutting the wick and extinguishing the flame before he stood up.

"Too slow, Leo." She commented, twirling her blades and putting them on her belt.

"Well done, my daughter. You have mastered the art of silence and invisibility."

She blushed, saying, "I'm not that good…Leo did better, seriously…"

"Stop being modest, Cat!"

She smiled humbly as Mikey put an arm around her shoulders.

"That was cool! Could you teach me how to do that?"

"Maybe when you stop touching my guitar." She answered, shrugging off his arm with a soft giggle.

When the ground started shaking, she braced herself, seeing the floor and walls start breaking. She pulled out her blades, looking at the strange robots as they ate through the stone.

"What are these things?"

She sliced one open, jumping back as one tried to bite her foot.

"Whatever they are, they'll be scrap metal now!"

She sighed as Raph skewered one on his sai, when the ceiling started to cave in.

"Master Splinter?!"

"Cat, watch out!!"

Raph pulled her back, and a piece of ceiling barely missed her head. When the shaking stopped, and the robots were destroyed, Cat jumped into the rubble and started trying to rip them off.

"Master Splinter?! Master Splinter, are you okay?!"

"Cat, relax!!"

She watched nervously as Don used his Shell Cell to call Splinter, and relaxed when she heard his voice on Speaker. He instructed them to meet at the old drainage junction, and Don pulled out a map.

Cat put her guitar and small amp into a bag, slinging it over her shoulder.

"…Ya seriously takin' that?"

"Of course! I'm not leaving a $400 vintage guitar here to be eaten!" She said crossly, grabbing her book and putting it in the bag before following her brothers out.

"These walls are really compromised. It's amazing the ceiling hasn't collapsed-."

Don cut himself off when he looked ahead of him, and Cat sighed.

"You were saying, Donnie?"

"If we can't go forward, and we can't go back, let's just go up."

Cat turned to see Raph on a ladder nearby, ready to climb up to the manhole above.

"Raph!" She called sharply, making him stop.

"It's too dangerous to go topside! What if someone sees us?" Leo questioned, standing next to the ladder.

"We're ninja! We're just gonna go to the nearest manhole and go back down!" Raph argued.

Cat shrugged.

"It shouldn't be a problem. I'll follow him." She assured Leo as Raph started climbing again.

She followed close behind, and jumped into the shadows of the alley immediately. She stayed put until a couple cars passed, and followed Raph across, hiding behind a car as an armored truck parked in the alley they were heading for.

After people got out and went into the building, they went to check out the manhole, but a tire was over it.

"Just great…" Cat muttered, trying to think of a way to another manhole cover, when Raph kicked the armored car.

"Very stealthly, Raph." They heard Mikey tease, when they heard the people coming back.

Before Cat could hide, Raph grabbed her arm, pulling her into the back of the armored car. As she gripped the ceiling, watching the thugs throw in duffel bags, she would occasionally glare at Raph with a look that said 'GREAT hiding place, Raph! Maybe my foot will find a great hiding place up your shell!'

When the door was closed and the truck started moving, Cat fell silently to the floor with the same fluid flexibility of the feline her nickname represented, and looked out the rear window.

She was ready to hit him when the car, after speeding for a few minutes, stopped in a back road and the men got off, leaving one to guard whatever was in the bags.

"Nice one, Raph. I think we should leave finding the hiding places to ME from now on."

"Look, I'm sorry! I panicked!"

"Really? Oh, I didn't notice!"

She smacked him upside the head.

"I think I know that, shell for brains!"

She turned back around to see Mikey knock out the guard and Don start working on the high-tech lock. Mikey was teasing Raph through the protective door, when Don unlocked it.

Raph tackled Mikey, and Cat shook her head as she jumped down.

"It's good to be outta there."

She turned down to the mouth of the alley, and tensed.

'Just GREAT…'

She pulled out her blades, twirling them a moment before holding them defensively.

"You're going down, freaks!"

Cat widened her base, feeling anger prick at her senses, trying to turn everything red.

'No…I won't….'

"Why are ya wearing turtle costumes, anyway?"

"It ain't Halloween!"

'Maybe 'cause we aren't, ya shitheads…'

They attacked at the same moment, and it was fairly easy to beat them.

"Hope there are more of those guys." Raph commented, looking on edge.

Cat looked up at the rooftops as a feeling pricked at her senses, setting off an alarm in her head.

"Are those…ninja?"

Her brothers followed her gaze as the ninja jumped down to surround them.

"They're certainly ninja-esque…" Mikey answered, whipping out his nunchucks.

"I got THAT much…"

"Be ready for anything, guys." Leo ordered.

Cat twirled her blades, smiling.

"How hard could this be?"

She did a forward flip over some ninja, and did a simple split kick before rolling away on her shell.

She dodged a katana blade, doing a back flip as she kicked the offending ninja's hand.

"You've gotta do better than that!"

She blocked a nunchuck, and kicked the ninja in the chest before jumping away. Her brothers didn't seem to be doing so well, and she hit one ninja unconscious with the butt of her blade before blocking the shuriken heading for her younger brothers.

"Thanks, Cat!" Mikey greeted, jumping to fight some other ninja as Don went into the armored car.

"What are you doing, Donnie?" Cat asked as she punched a ninja in the chest, and kicked one coming from behind.

"You'll see."

They all grouped up around the armored car when it turned on, and Don called for them to jump in.

"You heard the turtle!"

Cat grabbed Mike by the shell, pulling him in as the armored car started speeding away. She closed the doors, still jumping a bit from the rocky driving, and sat down.

She put down her bag, and leaned back.

"If they messed with my guitar, there would've been shell to pay…" She muttered as she tried to pull the stiffness from her shoulders.

"Can I touch it?"

"Do you want to keep your hand?"

Mikey got the message, smiling sheepishly.

"Good choice…"

Raph looked through the duffel bags, and poured out the money from one.

"…You can't be serious…"

"YES!!! Show me the green!!"

Cat hit Mikey upside the head as Leo took the money from his hand.

"This isn't Finder's Keepers, Mikey."

"Awwwwwww…"

Don drove by a police car, and Cat almost laughed as Leo and Raph threw out the money at them.

"The looks on their faces was PRICELESS…" She said with a smile, sitting in the passenger seat as they drove down to the sewers, getting to the old drainage junction to see Master Splinter there, surrounded by the wreckage of more strange robots.

"Master Splinter!!!"

They surrounded the elderly rat, relief washing over them to see he was alright.

"It's time to go home, my children."

Quizzical looks washed over all five turtles, and they looked at each other before Cat said, "But…our home was kind of…ya know…destroyed…"

"I believe I have found a solution to that problem, my daughter…"

He jumped down a hole in the floor, and Cat shrugged slightly before jumping down after him. When she landed, she was quick to move before her brothers came down, making a pile.

"Come on, guys."

She followed her sensei, looking around curiously. When they walked through, she looked wide-eyed at all of the space.

"This-Is-AWESOME!!!"

She jumped up to the second floor, looking at all of the rooms, ignoring Mikey as he called at LEAST two as his own. She looked around, marveling at all the space.

'I can get used to THIS…'

She jumped down to the main floor to join her family, when Splinter suggested they all pitch in to clean up the place.

"Awwwwwwwwww…"