#autistic reader

“Oh, no... Poor Leo, April, Y/n... And that other guy. They were so young, so beautiful.” cried Mikey punching the snow

“They ain't dead, numb nuts.” Came Raph sliding to the cliff to help waking Michelangelo from his drama

“Ah. Right on.” the orange got up

In the meanwhile Blue was using one of his katana trying to stop the fall, while holding April, who was still out of commission, and you and Vern holding on him. No clue for how much long he could resist as the katana started slipping too.

“Hey, hope you got a parachute under that shell.” said Vern looking down

'Really?!'

You looked at Vern with big incredulous eyes but stayed silent. Blue was already dealing with enough problems, you didn't need or want to add another.

“Hey, guys!” called out Purple appearing on the edge of the cliff but soon getting distracted and excited by something else in his view “It's the maintenance hatch! Our ticket home!”

“A little help, please!” grunted Blue

And help sure came. Your eyes went wide as Raphael picked you all up with just one hand like you weren't a over 300 kg bundle between a giant turtle, two grown up human adults and a human teenager.

You all took a moment to collect, catching your breath and checking on April, but your mind was still unfocused.

“You ok?” asked Purple who apparently noticed you staring

“Me?" Snapping out of it, your eyes refocused on the red turtle before looking at the one who was talking to you "Oh, yes, I’m ok. I should rather ask you all how are you”

You gave him a little smile and Purple was about to answer when the man interrupted him "They seem fine to me. I mean, they are huge mutant turtles who do jujitsu…."

Honestly this was the last straw, after so many hours with him and everything that happened today, coming near you to be an asshole was one of the biggest mistake the man could do; and you proved it striding even nearer to him to kick his leg right on the bone.

“Damn it" cursed Vern in pain taking hold of the injured leg "what's your problem?”

“That you are an ignorant, insensitive asshole with a mouth more connected with your ass or your cock than your brain, that's my problem!" you screamed, your english getting more broken by your anger and just frustrating you more "You had one job! And you provoked an avalanche getting distracted by your dick! They just saved your sorry ass! The least you could do is take your head out of it, say thank you and then shut the fuck up for once!”

You were about to hit him again but Purple stopped you placing a hand on your shoulder as Blue got in the way, sternly looking at you, as Vern were hidden behind him

“That's enough Y/n, we don’t have time for this”

“Sorry” you deflated at Blue's reprimand but if eyes could kill Vern would be dust.

“Angelcake you are awake!” exclaimed Orange distracting everyone to go check on her

You looked down, not fully regretting your hot burst since Vern had it coming, but still embarrassed you made a show of yourself. And maybe it wasn't all his fault either, you would had still ended off the cliff even if he didn't got distracted by April's ass. And didn't April nearly died because you were the one who asked her to check what was happening outside?

"Y/n?" Purple still had his hand on your shoulder looking at you concerned "Are you sure you are ok?"

"Can't really complain, can I? Wasn't the one sliding off a mountain on my back while fighting bad guys in the middle of an avalanche with just adrenaline to keep me alive."

He just smiled.

"Donnie!" Called Blue and as the purple turtle went to check, you looked down fully realizing there was snow there.

When was the last time you saw it?

You searched for an untouched spot of snow but remembered a truck just slide down on it, so no untouched snow available to eat. You still crouched to feel the cold sensation of the snow on your hand. You loved snow.

“Guys, we gotta hustle. Shredder's over New York City!” said Purple recalling you back

“Mickey get April, Raph you take him” Blue pointed to Vern before focusing again on you “You come with me”

“I can take her” proposed Donnie

They seemed to have a silent conversation that made you coil back into your own shell.

“I can follow on foot” you proposed making everyone look at you like you grow two heads “I don’t want to cause you trouble”

“Tell that to my leg” commented Vern before getting picked up

“Nonesense” grunted Red between the complains of the man in his arms

Purple fixed his glasses "That seem unrealistic"

"Chill Angelpuff, you can trust the turtle-shuttle." Orange said like a veteran tourist guide "Easiest, faster and safest way to travel in the sewers."

"It will be less trouble if you just let us take you to New York" deadpanned Blue

You fixed the cuffs of your hoodie "Ok"

They were right of course, it was impossible for you to follow them by foot.

"Thank you." Blue gave you the shadow of a smile "Donnie you take Y/n. We are off"

One by one the turtles jumped off the cliff with their passengers between panicked screams and whooping

“Excuse me, princess.” said Donnie with a little flourished bow before picking you up “Hold on tight”

As soon as you put your arms around his neck he jumped off, Blue closing the line.

And to say Blue fought so hard to stay up the cliff…

Once inside the sewers you could see they did this thousands of times.They seemed more at ease than ever no matter what the sewers were proposing them, between jumps and falls and whatever else the mad architect projected and the time transformed the underground labyrinth into.

“Please keep your arms and legs inside the shell at all times.” Said Orange as you were sliding.

He was having the time of his life with April in his arms while Raphael was struggling with a screaming Vern.

You instead were scared yes, but the slide was having an exiting effect on your stomach and the bubbles inside it keep popping out as laugh. You felt like on a water slide of a waterpark. The craziest one you ever saw.

“Satellite imagery shows Shredder's reached the top of Sacks Tower.” screamed your ride over the chaos

“If that's where he's releasing the toxin from...”

“It's gonna spread all over the city!”

“We need to…” the turtles got interrupted as they jumped over a void into another tube “…break a left!”

The turtles broke first into the building, while you three waited to come out the vent after they had checked if it was safe.

“All right, listen up." started Blue "We gotta find the elevators and get up to the roof. You guys get out of here. Get to a safe distance.”

But April was not ok with Blue’s orders for you “No, no, we can go find Sacks and get our hands on the mutagen as a contingency plan. Just in case... You know.”

“No I don’t” you mumbled. Why people keep supposing one can understand what they mean, if they don't even bother finish the sentence?

But apparently it was clear for everyone else, so it was a translation problem.

“Thanks for the vote of confidence.” Raphael said sarcastic

But why?

Slowly April’s plan made sense

"I think she is right." You started "We can’t trust leaving a mad scientist alone with your blood. It never end good. He could escape with it while you are distracted by Cheddar”

Orange was laughing so loud at what you said that it nearly drowned what Vern was saying "I don’t think O'Neil said that”

"She mean if we fail to stop Shredder, or die, or both." explained Purple

That made you confused and a bit angry

“If we don't make it back, bring the mutagen to Splinter. It can save his life.” asked Blue April nodded but you had none of it

“Leave the mutagen to us but you are going to bring it back to your father yourself." You said pointing your finger at his chest not leaving space to 'ifs' or 'buts' or whatever objection they could have "You are Mister Splinter’s sons, there is no way you can't get that tin can down!"

"Bring"

"What?" you looked at the high tech turtle confused

"'There's no way you can't bring that tin can down' not get" corrected you Purple before adjusting his glasses and searching something on his tech things on his arm

“You really believe that, uh?” distracted you Red, his hard glance on you difficult to decipher

"I don't. I know you can do it." you glared back before Purple interrupted your staring contest

“Sacks's laboratory's on the 36th floor. I've already disabled the security system.”

He seemed ready to go before looking back at you all “Oh, and, uh... Good luck!” he said with a little shrug, his face muscles making him look like a hare more than ever.

It was cute.

You felt a stare making holes into you and you caught Red's serious glance before he just looked away departing with his brothers.

Everyone but Orange, who stayed behind

“If I don't return, remember me, April." He said with extra dramatic effects "You can always find me in here.” he pointed to her heart just before Raphael broke his dramatic exit dragging him out by the arm

“See you later!” you screamed at them "hit him for me too!"

You had wanted to scream something like 'Don't you dare die or i will give you the rest' but that seemed more right.

Like Red said they needed a vote of confidence, right?

“You're a complicated chick.” Vern commented on April as you went on your own mission.

Arriving at the laboratory, the scientist was alone and Vern and April stormed in the room like there was no tomorrow while you were still behind; you really had become slower between the lack of sleep and hunger and, to add insult to injury, after your travel you were wet too.

The shoot and April's scream gave you the adrenaline rush you apparently needed as you duck behind a desk.

“Seriously, you two..." came a voice you didn't know from the other room "You're adorable, really. I could just pinch your cheeks!”

'Two?'

Good he didn’t know you were there.

First rule: keep the advantage

Two other shoots and the sound of breaking glass.

Second rule: stop trembling

You crawled in the room on your right instead of taking the corridor in front of you to go in the room beside the one they were in.

It was just you now. The super ninjas were busy and counted on you too to save the day.

"Six impossible things. Count them, Y/n." you murmured to ground yourself

One: Turtles can talk

Two: Their father is a rat master of ninjitsu

Three: They are teenagers

Four: You can survive sliding down a mountain with a truck and an avalanche

Five: Four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles can defeat an evil iron man wannabe

Other 3 shots

Six: Three weaponless humans can defeat a mad scientist with a gun

“I understand a girl with dead daddy issues." came again the voice "I do. But you're not gonna stop me. This is history repeating itself. Your father walked in on me, April, just like you did. It took a few less bullets to take him down, though.”

'Knew it. Never trust a scientist that make experiment on animals. Especially if he's rich'

Another shot. You so wished to know how many shots had a gun now.

You got up just enough that your eyes could see the scientist from behind the desks. Having labs with glass walls was double-edged weapon and you were glad the man was distracted looking before him to where April and the driver where hidden; or so you guessed. You started to search the heaviest thing you could find.

You wanted a chair but in this cursed lab where none so you went for a microscope.

Was it legal not having chairs in a lab? People have every right to sit at work! Someone should call the work inspectors on them or something.

Looking at the object in you hands you felt a bit bad for the soon to be was microscope. It looked expensive, but it was from an evil laboratory, not that the microscope was evil, but you were probably saving it from suffering the misuse; you reasoned with yourself to feel less awful about breaking it.

“O'Neil” screamed Vern and you took it as prompt to throw your blunt object

There was another shot then you heard April's battle cry and the man hit by the vents distracting him but he still tried to shot at someone.

Seeing the driver approaching him with another microscope in hand, you threw yours against the glass wall to buy him time.

You ducked just in time because as soon as the window broke, the glass behind you exploded after being hit by another shot.

A last shot was heard before the sound of something heavy hiting the ground

As there was no more chaos around, you opened your eyes and carefully stood up but you couldn’t see anyone in the other room, so you went like you were walking on eggs

“Are you ok?!” you heard April screaming

'Ok it's safe to go' you stopped be careful as you entered.

Vern and the scientist were on the floor, but the driver with his back on the desk seemed just in pain as the other was out of commission.

“Is he dead?” you asked

“Hopefully? Or maybe not" Grunted Vern" I don't want to go to prison. I just hit him on the head."

"That distraction…" he said looking at you "You saved me kid.”

"Glad I could be of help" You said searching something to tie the mad scientist, still he indeed was not ok as he was bleeding.

You were so glad there were at least some plastic clamps in the lab, you did not want him to hunt you down again.

Tying someone seemed more easier in movies but after you managed you went checking your bag for the first aid kit. You didn't had medicines like pain killers but al least some gauze could help here.

“Look, just go get some help and take the mutagen with you. Just go. Go!” was saying the bleeding Vern as April tried to protest but lastly did what she was said

As she worked to free the container you crouched next to him taking her place “Go with her, kid!” screamed at you Vern but you didn’t listen and opened his shirt “Wait what are you doing?”

You just applied the gauze on the wound and put his hand on it pushing with force and making him groan

“Hold strong, we will find help”

“That’s not how... forget it, just go kid!”

You went after April while you heard Vern talking to himself

“Just another day in the life of a man of action….”

He was a ignorant asshole but you were a bit worried for him.

For everyone sake this story had to end fast.

If 36 floors were long before, the way till the roof seemed endless. The elevator was too slow, your steps not fast enough, the building seemed so tall you wondered if it really didn't arrived to touch the sky.

But once you got to the top you kind of wished you could just skip to the good part where the evil iron man wannabe was gone and you were at home sleeping in your warm bed with your stomach full.

The turtles were holding the metallic tower like Atlas was holding the sky, and not happy, the cursed tin can was punching Blue on his softer side where his natural bone armor wasn't there to protect him.

“Shredder” screamed April so suddenly she made you jump, giving you vertigo as you were so high and on a ventilation grid roof.

“This is all it’s left” she taunted the tin can with the mutagen in her hand backing to the end of the roof

Good thing was he took the bait.

Bad thing you weren’t a mutant ninja turtle.

Why did you got only the teenager part of the deal?!?

Honestly, you liked the armor more when it was far. Like faaaaaaaaar away. It seemed to come out straight from a nightmare.

“That belongs to me” said the tin can

“Debatable” you answered surprising even yourself that One you were arguing with a nightmarish evil tin can and Two that you knew the word at all and came out that fast.

'Give yourself 10 minutes and you will forget it even existed in your dictionary' you thought to yourself.

Loud sounds crept from the tower as it started to fall distracting you and April.

Shredder welcomed it coming full force on April.

“Watch out” you screamed to her but it was too late and all three of you were sent flying over the tower and into the void.

April screams were chilling but you were soundlessno matter how much you were panicking.

You found yourself grabbing the falling top of the tower as you noticed the other 2 did the same.

You were so near to Shredder’s back you could have a new wave of panic if your arms weren’t already trembling.

As the tower suddenly stopped his fall you saw Shredder's pole bending after his weight and he got a better hold to secure the mutagen on his belt before looking at April completely ignoring you.

Maybe you were on his blind spot?

“April” came the voice of one of the turtles

"Come on guys" screamed another

You checked out what you could do to ease up your position.

There was a bar near you where you could swing your legs to. Your legs were always more stronger than your arms and you did it so many times climbing.

'Yes but it was the apple’s tree at home, not a metal tower falling thousands of meter above the ground'

'Stop it. It’s just like the tree at home, you can do it'

When you argued to yourself like that, you felt possessed by Gollum but if it works it works.

'And for the love of Pete, don't look down' supplied Shrek's voice in your mind and you had to focus on what to do to tune off the donkey's panicked quote that was surfacing to complete the lava bridge scene

'Don't look down' you repeated to yourself instead

Focusing on the bar you moved exactly like you were at hom, even if your stomach kept reminding you it was nothing like at home.

Shredder took a knife before swinging it to April making her lose her grip and fall.

'Shit' you nearly exclaimed but managed to keep it in your mind

You watched in horror her fall as one after another the turtles followed her making a turtle chain to grab her

"Hold on, hold on" you heard someone saying

“April!” called out another turtle

“I got you Raph!” said Blue securing Red who grabbed April

“I got you” said Raphael

'Meno male' you sighed in your mind (lit. less bad. common expression of relief)

The tower was giving in while Shredder extracted another knife and tried to send it to the turtles but Orange, with one hand holding to the tower and his weapon in the other, sent the knife right back into his arm.

'Serve him right. What the fuck is his problem?!' you fumed

Then you got an idea. An awful idea. A wonderful-awful idea.

He couldn’t see you, his movements where slower and more difficult than ever, you had a better grip of everyone involved and the mutagen was dangling so close to you.

The idea you got was too tempting to pass on.

Climbing nearer and reared to Shredder you saw him getting the knife, you were worried but at the moment it was the perfect occasion as he was too busy and so much slower than you to react.

You secured your feet on the tower and dangled near to his belt, your bag dropping over your head but safe.

“This is mine” you said stealing the mutagen from him distracting Shredder as he was about to send his knife at the turtles again.

He tried to get you but like you predicted he was impaired a lot in his movements while you were too close and too distant at the same time.

You then got hold of the bar again with your hands before securing the container in your bag's outside big pocket before getting the knife you hold on the other side pocket of the bag.

You never were as glad as now at your love for good pockets, and securing your hold on both the bar and the knife, you planted it in the back of the armor's hand that was holding him on the tower, right where there was no metal.

“And this is yours” you said finally

At the same time April came swinging with a battle cry and planted her foot in his helmet and tin can fell all the way down, making a huge hole in the ground.

You honestly hoped he was dead.

Suddenly you were looking at a chain of turtles as they were staring back at you with wide eyes.

“Y/n!”

“Hey guys," you said gingerly "fancy to see you here. Looking for something?”

You carefully showed them the mutagen container making them whoop with whatever energy they had left.

"Good job, Y/n" smiled Blue making you embarrassed at their attention.

By your sloth like position you watched as the chain slowly secured themselves on the tower.

“You should come up, little possum” said Raphael

“Will do." you answered "As soon as I stop trembling”

April extended her hand to help and you managed to climb to her side just in time too because the tower started to tremble again under you.

“I think this is it, guys!”

“Does anyone have anything they want to say?”

As you fixed your position the tower started to fall and stopping it's way down every now and then against something.

“Donnie?”

“I'm the one who licks the icing off the Pop-Tarts every morning and puts them back in the box”

'what's a pop tart?'

The up became down, making you lose the sense of direction.

It seemed your intermediate stops had ended and you were rolling in the air all the way to the ground, in the ugliest theme park attraction you ever saw.

“I so did not understand the ending of Lost.”

'Lost in name and in fact'

You hit one of the big screen New York was so famous for.

“Raph?”

“I just, uh... If this is our last moment together, I just want you guys to know I'm sorry. I'm sorry I was so hard on you. Every time I pushed you, I... I threatened you, I yelled at you, I pushed you beyond your limits, it was because I believe in you! I believe in each one of you! I believe in your spirit and your intelligence and your potential. And every time I talked about walking away, it was because I was scared! I just didn't think I was good enough to stand next to you and call you brothers and say to you I love you! I love you guys so much!”

“Raph?" screeched someone

"We made it.”

You didn’t know how but you all were indeed still alive. The stop was brutal but between the tower and the four turtles, the power of the fall was absorbed to not crush you as soon as you touched ground.

“Are you crying?” someone asked

“No, ding-dong. It's just a little dusty out here.”

Well, you were teary. Not sure if it was for being so close to death, Raphael’s emotional speech, the experience coming to an end, or just at the idea that you were so close to finally eat and hit the bed.

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authors note: finally the movie is coming to the end, who's excited? Hope you had a good time reading, see you next chapter

Once the explosions settled down you got off the catwalk and ran to Mister Splinter. You seemed the only two left there and he was covered by debris and barely conscious.

“Mister Splinter! Mister Splinter can you hear me?” you called for him as you started moving away the debris

“Splinter.” you heard April come by your side and "helping you".

Maybe, just maybe, you were more snappy than usual with the woman but you couldn’t help but notice how she moved the debris like she was too worried to get her hands dirty or ruin one of her green nail, while you had bigger issues.

As a larger debris came on sight, you had to try together to pull it away, managing right as someone came through one of the openings.

It was Red who started running as soon as he realized what he was looking at.

“Sensei. Master.” he called his father as you gave him space.

While you had struggled in two, he pulled away the last largest debris like they were feathers.

“Let's get him to the needle room.” he said before picking his father up, his tone trying its best to stay strong.

You both followed him to another room that thankfully pretty much survived the explosions with just some damage

“Get the first aid kit! On the shelf! Hurry. Hurry!” hurried Red laying his father on the table while April ran to search it and you grabbed a couple of cushions to let his head rest better.

“Raphael” called Mister Splinter but his eyes seemed unfocused

“I'm here.”

“You must save your brothers. Stop Shredder.”

“Sensei.”

A sound came from the computers that where still functioning and April ran to check, moving the cables hiding the view to uncover a blinking red spot “It's some kind of tracker.”

There was no doubt in Red voice “It's Donatello!”

“Go, Raphael.”

You saw conflict running across his face but his voice was resolute “Let's go save my brothers.”

Raphael restless, went to the other room to collect his brothers' weapons while you stayed back with Master Splinter unsure on what to do.

“We need a ride” called April “Do you have a phone?”

“Yeah” Raphael showed her a phone booth you had no idea how they managed to get down there.

You watched the rat, he was unfocused, probably delirious with fever. You had no idea of what to do, you couldn't call a vet, you couldn't call a medic but you couldn’t just leave him like that, right?

'Would a painkiller help or do worse? Do they even had them?'

You checked their first aid kit and didn’t recognize anything but the bandages. New country, new medicines... You always forgot that.

You searched for the kitchen to take some water at least.

“Excuse me” you called the red turtle who quickly turned making you jump a little

“What?” he asked grumpy but you hold strong despite wanting to shrink

“Sorry didn’t want to startle you. Wanted to get your father a glass of water, maybe it can help?”

Saying it out loud it seemed stupid but he seemed to consider the idea before going himself to the sink. You followed to get a wet cloth too to clean Mister Splinter's sweaty face or in case he needed to refresh it.

Mister Splinter seemed to not want either so you just put water and cloth on his side in case he needed them while he was alone.

“Our pick up is coming” announced April

“Let’s go” nearly ran out the red turtle

Before follow them, you reached in your pocket to get the little vial you always took with you, ever since your mother gave it to you in case of necessity. Stress, injures, traumas… you had took it more times you could count and always helped you. Even if most didn't believe it worked, it did on you so maybe it could help Mister Splinter as well even just a little?

“Your sons will be back soon Mister Splinter.” you said patting his hand and leaving the vial near his resting body.

"Y/n, let's go" you heard the others call, surprising you a little.

April lead you to an alley where a man was already waiting beside a white van.

She went directly to the man as you checked the back of the alley that nobody was there to see a giant turtle breaking and entering through the barn doors of the vehicle.

“...This is getting embarrassing.” was saying the man of the van “O'Neil, we're both consenting adults. We're both very good-looking. You're better, probably. That's up for debate. But the point is, we don't need to make up excuses to hang out with each other.”

“What?”

Hearing April's confusion you were actually glad that for once you weren’t the only one who was hearing gibberish.

“You want to spend more time with me. I get it. I would too.” went on the man making April argue in hurry

“We need to get to the Sacks estate right now, Vern. Come on!”

“That's what I'm talking about, O'Neil. "The Sacks estate with the vigilante..."”

“Drive!” Appeared Raphael between them having lost his patience and ending up freezing the man.

In a way it was fascinating as you could actually see the man’s brain rebooting. But you had no time for that.

“Sorry, this moment was lovely, really." you made your presence know too "And I'm sure you two have a lot of… come si dice? (How do you say it)… unfinished business to talk about. But we didn’t sleep one inch last night and his brothers were just kidnapped by the ugly evil copy-cat of Iron Man so we are really irritable and in a great hurry, if you could…”

“You're a talking turtle.” interrupted you the man ending the reboot and making you groan

“Yeah." went seraphic Red "Yeah, I'm a talking turtle and you're a human nerd. Now that we got that out of the way, hit it.” and he retreated in the back of the van looking at the man straight in the eyes making him work on the van's controls

“I've never been accused of being a nerd before, but..."

You rolled your eyes '"accused", what is it, a crime now?'

And he stopped again to look between you in the back and April "I'm sorry... How did you get in... How did he get in the.. Was that Spanish? Who’s the latino...”

“JUST GO” you screamed making him hit the gas

The way to the estate was long and tedious and while Vern and April were very talkative (even too much in his case like the man's still red nose could prove), Raphael was silent, just grunting or being monosyllabic when they asked questions.

You weren't a much better company but being in the back with him, you could see something glinting on his face even in the dark. So you decided to start talking, despite you being death tired and your English barely holding it together.

“Your father is the coolest.”

That made him look at you so you kept going, getting up to mimic the fight “When the men in black came in, he was alone against four and in barely 1 minute he had 3 under him to punch and slamming a 4th on the floor with his tail. Then Shre-coso (Shre-thing) arrived with that ugly iron-man armor and your father stopped out of his sandals taking them off the ring his tail without even looking! And coso extracted his ugly knives from his metal hands like Wolverine" You mimicked the gesture making your hands heavily punching down the air like you were trying to scroll down something heavy from them.

"And they must had been 10 or 12 knives, but they were nothing as Mister Splinter blocked every attack with a katana without even breaking a sweat or moving or facing him before kicking him in the stomach. He was like"

You positioned in front of Red with a serious face while parring imaginary punches coming from your side with one arm like Splinter did, before giving a small kick to that side while avoiding the front seats

"Then…" A brutal stop made you nearly lose your balance and Raphael grabbed you.

“Thanks”

“Kid sit down before the police stop us” said April

“Yeah that would be fun…” went ranting the man at the wheel, but you decided to be the bigger one of the two and tuned him off. You knew already that if you listened it would end like before, and you had no intentions to get angry again and instead sat down next to the red turtle.

“Anyway, the armor started throwing the knives at Mister Splinter but not even 10 flying knives were enough to stop your father did parkour to arrive on the catwalk but then coso called them back like magnetic boomerangs and your father looked like in matrix as he made a rotated jump to avoid them all and arrived on the floor with a black widow pose.”

“Do you mean a flip?” came from the man in front of the van

That made you shut up. You didn't know what was called that jump but you were really insecure about your English. You knew you were struggling and messing up more than usual now and you could hear him judging with his tone.

“What happened next?” Raphael asked you ignoring him

“When i looked back your father had him pinned on the ground with a katana on his head but then he got free and…”

You didn’t need to say it, your tone spoke volume already.

“You know April was pretty cool too, she saved your father. She grabbed one of those tridents and stabbed him in the back of the armor making electricity sparkle. And then your father saved her getting on the armor way" you took a moment to breath and it was a little shaky with emotions

"He is a hero. He did everything he could to protect everyone, even close the gates of the room to gain time for your brothers. But they didn’t flee like he wanted”

The air became somber.

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t had told you that. I wanted to help but I think I only made it worse... Hope the knives I throw damaged more that bastard.” you finished angrily

“What?” “Language” said at the same time Raphael, April and the driver

“I said what I said” you went at the man at the wheel and you started rummaging through your backpack to get the last big ugly knife of that armor before showing it to the turtle “I guessed he wanted them back so I throw them at him when he was turned”

Red was studying the knife stunned “You stole Shredder's knives?”

“I prefer borrowed, he was the one to throw them away. I got like, 3 of them, when they got stuck near me on the catwalk I was on. This is the last one…”

You were about to say sorry again, for being worthless, for not doing anything but watch as he was losing everything, but a guttural snicker stopped you.

“Must had pissed him” commented Raphael with a smirk

“Good” You smiled back before the air went sober again.

Your eyes were feeling the all-nighter as they grow more heavier and you yawned “We will free your brothers and everything will be all right”

“How do you sound so sure?” he whispered

“If you all have even just a nail of your father’s power you can do anything.”

“A nail?” he asked amused at your wording but you had fallen asleep against his arm.

You were strange and awkward but he did felt better. And as a turn made your head nearly smash on the van's wall he tucked you under his arm to let you sleep.

For the rest of the trip he passed the time between thinking and listening to the adults babbling.

The information on the fight that you gave him were more useful than you thought while your warm against his arm grounded him.

“We are nearly there” announced April interrupting Vern and making Raphael get in motion

“Wake up Y/n” he said gently and for everyone luck you woke up right away

“Uhm?”

"We are here" Raphael explained before watching back ahead

The here being in the middle of snowy nowhere with only some poor disheveled pine trees and what looked like a rocky fortress.

“Yeah, I've thought about... " was saying the driver "I've thought about doing, not becoming a ninja, but I was doing a bunch of yoga for like, 10 days at one point, and, uh, I pulled a hamstring.”

The man was talking gibberish to you once again, he pulled an hamster where? Like, what?

But Red was rolling his eyes in what you couldn't decipher if it was amusement or annoyance. Or a mix of both.

When did you ended up facing ahead anyway? Did you fall asleep? Weren't your backs against the wall?

“There's the gate right there.” April said pointing ahead and making the driver finally stop his babbling

“There it is.” he confirmed

Raphael invaded the front seats “Ram the gate”

“What does it mean?” You wondered

“Ram the gate?" the man protested "This is Channel 6 property.”

“I said ram the gate!” ordered Raphael less gently not asking anymore, scaring April against the window holding for dear life the van.

“All right, everybody, strap in!” stopped questioning the man and Red pulled you to his chest with one arm as you broke through the closed gates.

Now you knew what it meant. More or less.

But adrenaline was kicking in and you laughed, a short lived one as they started shooting.

“Oh shit” someone said. You, the man, April? no clue. Everyone ducked breaking through another door, taking down some of the men in black and as the van went reverse someone started shooting again.

Raphael released you to jump out the van making a huge hole in the sheet metal like it was butter, and started punching the last shooters.

Once it was calm enough you got out of the hole he made amazed, as Raphael went to open the door of the van scrolling his shoulders “Follow me!"

"I will go first, you stay behind till I cleared the area” he said once everyone was out the van. Not that it was possible being faster than him as it wasn’t even easy to follow him.

He was like a bull, taking down whoever was dumb enough to stay between him and his brothers.

Trying to stay on his tail you lost April and the man who was driving pretty soon "If it was d&d and I had a bag of holding, I could stole all their weapons to unarm them before tie them like salami in case they got up again…" you said to no one getting over the 20th knocked out man.

"Leo" you heard the turtle calling

You arrived in the last room just as Raphael was trying to break the glass of his brothers’ prison and you were about to step in the lab before a voice calling his name stopped both of you from moving.

“Glad you could join us. The fourth cage is for you” the armor said before extracting his damned knifes.

The red turtle tried to use pure strength on him like a bulldozer but against his armor it was no use and he was flying on the ceiling and down a floor.

As the armor was distracted by Raphael, you ran to the containers full of tubes holding the three brothers by their hands and started studying how to free them.

You couldn’t broke the glass apparently if a bulldozer like Raphael couldn’t, and the computer seemed useless.

The turtles were not in a good shape, you must not have a lot of time.

Coming even nearer the cages there was no visible keyhole or a button like 'Press here to free the prisoners' or anything.

“How do I open it?” you asked frantically at them, they had barely any energy left but Blue’s eyes pointed to his left to Purple.

Of course, Purple was the smart one. Name was… Donatello? You tried calling him but your voice were drowned by April's scream, who apparently had catch up with you. “Raphael"

“Great just great” you started panicking.

Not only Raphael need help and you couldn’t open this blasted stupid cells but now that stupid armor knew he wasn’t alone.

You went to March Hare as there was a screen flashing a warning near him. An A in English wasn’t needed to guess what “Cardiac arrest imminent” meant.

Purple’s attention was already on you as he gave you a weak smile, or what it seemed like a smile as he probably was more out than in.

“How can I help?” you asked him

“Adrenalina” it wasn’t more than a whisper but you were so close you understood on first try for once

"Got it" but as you distanced yourself from the cage and studied around you on what to do, you must had panic in your eyes at not knowing the how as he pointed his glace on the screen near you.

The one with the alarm, it also showed “adrenaline injection”. Not seeing any other buttons you tried to touch on the screen and the gauge moved up but how much was enough?

April finally, finally came to help. You had wanted to scream for them to move their ass and help you but you didn’t want the armor to know more than he already did.

She started banging on Purple’s cell screaming “Donnie! What do I do?”

“He said adrenaline but I don’t know how much!” you supplied watching as Donatello had no energy left

She moved frantically at your side as you gave her space and she started pushing the button you found till the gauge was at its max.

“What if we kill them with too much?!” you panicked more

A new warning came out “Adrenaline injected Overdose imminent”

“Overdose?!”

“We don’t have many options!” answered her

"Great, they either will die for blood loss and cardiac arrest or we killed them with Adrenaline!" you said turning on yourself frustrated not knowing what to do with yourself or where to look

If they put them in there must be a way to put them out. But how?! You weren't professor Layton!

The driver came running

“Get up” screamed desperate April punching on the screen as you were full on panic attack mode

Then the grunts and screams from the cages distracted you all.

“It’s working” said amazed the man as the once spent turtles were invigorated and breaking off the handcuff that were holding them.

To you it didn't look like it was working. Ok they were more alive than 3 sec ago, they were more free than 3 sec ago, but they didn’t seem in a much better position than before. Form cardiac arrest they went to adrenaline overdose, their crazed expressions didn't scream 'I'm fine' at all.

“I think we should move” said April and sure enough the 3 guys jumped out of the cells breaking the glass in thousand of pieces.

Guess the 'how do we get them out' problem was solved but you were right, they weren’t ok.

They started babbling 100% faster than normal.

Orange started running around like a hyped child as Blue wanted to clean the dojo apparently. This till Purple, Donnie, remembered Raphael and their attention zeroed on getting to their 4th brother.

And they did get to him, and the fall to his floor wasn’t graceful for none of them.

They rather had fall like one of those springs that you make go down the stairs.

Running to them to check how they were, the scene in front of you was so adorable that actually stopped your panic attack for good.

The three brothers were running around Raphael asking if he was ok like a pack of ducklings around their mother. If they had the same energy of the seagulls from Nemo in front of food.

On the other hand seeing the three so hyped, made you realized how much Raphael was worn out.

You wondered if he needed adrenaline too at this point, but one thing was sure.

As soon as this was finished they would need to sleep, like an entire month of it.

“Go where?” you found out that Raphael’s slow low voice was the only one you could distinguish in the chaos of hyped ones; but the three answering back and forth, forming a complete sentence in 3 steps, actually helped you following what they were saying

“Sacks Tower!”

“New York City! Times Square!”

“Shredder's going to release a toxin!”

“It's gonna poison the whole city!”

“And Sacks is gonna sell the antidote!”

“Made from the mutagen that's in our blood!”

“So we've got to get going now!”

“Good.” Raphael put his toothpick in his mouth again “Let's do it for sensei.”

“Okay. We're going! Everybody calm down! Look how calm I am!”

Orange antics made you chuckle as the turtles started running out 'Sure he's calm'

You looked back to were April and that man should be and your smile died on your lips.

They didn’t wait for you, you were alone in that nightmarish lab.

You found your way back to the van and sure enough everyone was there. You had to bite back a swear watching April and that man hiding behind the turtles as they were searching for a way to get out.

“Y/n, come here.” called Blue hastening you in the shield they made “Stay behind us. Get us out of here, Donnie!”

“Oh my Gosh, they have guns!” Donnie’s voice came out in a high-pitched choke as he was studying the situation with his high tech googles

“Get down!” at Blue’s order the turtles formed an umbrella around you all while protecting their heads with their hands and shells and starting screaming hearing the shooting.

Then it suddenly stopped and nobody was hurt.

“HA! Are you guys okay?”asked Blue excited

“We're bulletproof.” realized Red

“Sweet!”

“Advance and engage!” came from the men in black

“Can you drive that truck?” asked Blue to apparently the only one of you who could and knew how to drive.

“Yeah” answered the man all to happy to get out of there as the shooting started again.

“We're on. Raph, Ready?”

They all did a nod-like gesture with their body before Raphael broke formation walking in reverse to hit one of the man in black again and again, even using his own weapon against him and then he made bullets bounce off his chest with a scream.

“Is that a Luffy’s pose?” you wondered

You didn't even see One piece that much, but a guy with that pose and bullets bouncing off his chest right to their sender… It sounded like Luffy.

“Where?” asked orange turning his head to see it but was stopped as another man in black came and the 3 turtles had to break formation too to fight.

Watching the turtle fight was… They were so cool.

Blue knocked out 3 men with a raised side kick and sent a fourth flying with 2 punches.

Donatello was spinning his baton like a mad man against the men in black. At some point he hit one and you worried he had lost grip on it but probably was calculated to lose the recoil because Purple started hit the man again like he never lost his baton.

And Orange was…

“Come on!” your driver grabbed April to move and she grabbed you and your focus, actually not forgetting you behind for once

“Everybody in the truck! We gotta go, go, go! Move!”

You climbed in the middle seat and put on the seat belt. It kind of felt nostalgic.

“Vern, you know how to drive this, right?” asked April

Why you struggled so much at remembering names? Four letters, it wasn’t that hard.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just got to hotwire this thing, I guess. Classic blue wire/red wire situation.” the man started studying the truck frantically

April moved in front of you to get to the visor, making drop something “Keys!”

“Yeah. Keys are better.”

“Drive!” came Raphael’s voice from behind as he banged the wall. It was so faint you were surprised it came at all from the trailer.

“I’m on it! Come on! Come on!” the truck started “That's all I need is a backseat-driving talking turtle!”

“Maybe if you focused on the situation we are in, you wouldn’t need a backseat-driving talking turtle to snap you out of it!” You said more annoyed than him as he rammed another gate. A iron one this time.

“I shouldn't have doubted you, April. Sorry, I didn't stick up for you." the man said as you all jumped on your seats because of the unpaved road "I can't believe that you're not crazy! How crazy is that?”

“I wish that rich guy thought she was crazy!" you bite back "How many people you told?!”

“Just 3!” she went defensive “if you don’t count my ex room mate”

“Wonder why the ex” you said sarcastically

A bazooka pointing right in front of you stopped you all from talking as Vern turned the truck on the side getting it to hit the side of the trailer where the turtles where.

Between Vern maneuver and the bazooka's force, the truck turned so much that the head became the back and the trailer ended hanging on a cliff.

You didn’t had a moment to breath as another car stopped on your side and men in black came out of it.

“Vern, go, go, go, go, go!” said April voicing your panic

“I'm on it!”

You just ducked like searching something you dropped on the floor, hands protecting your head from the truck and anything else, before the truck started to fall. The cab went high loosing footing and making you go back up on the seat to watch the sky and April's feet nearly went in your mouth.

“Hit the brakes!”

“Wrong way! Wrong way”

You were slipping off the cliff backwards.

“Vaffanculo! (Fuck you)” you screamed frustrated and exhausted

“Opposite, opposite, opposite!”

And you thought before was a bumpy ride.

Everyone was bouncing on their sits worse than before while April was screaming.

“We lost a turtle!” you screamed in the chaos watching Blue in front of you on the snow from the window before the cab was on the front again and you could watch yourself sliding off the mountain.

Outside of the creepy view the ride now wasn't that bad, the truck had some stability back making you bounce but not THAT bad and April had stopped screaming in your ears which was good.

Then Orange appeared on the windscreen in front of you upside down from the roof of the truck “Hey! Just… keep… going… straight!” he said struggling to Vern before sliding in front of April and suddenly losing all his struggle to speak “What's up, angel cake?”

“Careful!” you screamed at him

“Will do!” he smiled back at you before disappearing as fast as he came

Now that you were in a relatively state of calm, knowing you lost Blue and not knowing what was happening behind you was making you going insane.

“What’s happening?” you asked April as she was near the window and she took the occasion to get out her red phone/camera and get her body out the window to see better.

“I didn't mean… Watch out!” you said grabbing her legs to stabilize her more

“Leo is sliding down the cliff, three cars are following. They got him with an electric wire i think. Donnie freed him. He send a car flying!”

“What?” you screamed

Were you hearing someone laughing? snorting?

“Shit, he was so close to hit a second with that car! He grabbed Leo but now they electrified Donnie too!”

"I got it from here" you hear a faint voice

“Mikey flew on a car”

“What do you mean flew?!”

“Raph, I’m driving!” came the faint voice of Mikey? you supposed.

“With his skate! Mikey got his hand through the roof to get the wheel”

“Wooooooo” came a boastful scream

“Raph crashed inside Mikey’s car”

There was honk and another boastful whooping.

"Someone seem to have fun at least” you smiled

April grunted

“Maybe you should get inside!” you called out to her

“O'Neil, what are you doing?” There was along pause from Vern “Yeah, that's good.”

His words made no sense so you looked back at him and he was ogling April’s ass

“Make sure you're getting everything.” he said still staring

“Watch where are you going!” You screamed getting more in the way between him and April’s ass view and the improper name you were about to call him died in your mouth as you hit a huge rock like you were in the main event of Titanic.

The hit made you lose the grip on April who went flying out of the cabin as the door opened.

There was snow everywhere, in your book it was a miracle if the windscreen and the cab didn't broke and you all were alive; and you would had kissed your seat belt if April didn’t need help.

“Vern” she was screaming

You loosen up the seat belt to grab April's free arm as Vern grabbed your middle.

With a swing and your efforts April was inside again closing the door.

The turtles were forgotten for one moment while you all caught your breath for a second before Blue opened the door.

“Hi. Change of plans. Oh, come on.” He said loosing focus on you to look behind where one of the car was about to hit you “Guys, get down! Get down!” You all ducked but Blue was hit on the chest with a kind of electric grappling hook and worse of all April got electrified too fainting and there was nothing around to cut the metal rope attached to it.

The car suddenly got hit by Raphael’s shell making it roll away.

“Grab on” said Blue grabbing April, you and Vern and jumping out of the driver’s side.

The landing was chaotic.

You got April with one hand and Blue neck with the other as you both were hold by Blue and Vern’s arms in a messy dogpile sliding down the mountain while the cliff was coming near.

“Mikey, grab the cable!” Blue screamed protecting you all from the truck debris and adjusting his grip better on you all with one hand while the other was on the hook cable.

“I got it! I got it!" Mikey said grabbing the cable and trying to point his foot to slow your sliding tempo "Hold on! Hold on! Oh, no! No, no, no!”

Mikey lost his grip and you all slide off the cliff to your death.

Chapter 4

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authors note: The mountain's fight might be my favourite fight sequence in the movie and I might say, some chapters are not called cliff hangers for nothing. Unpopular opinion, i love the bayverse tmnt being bulletproof. Also what happened to Vern's nose? Poor Leo, everyone was having a bad day here but especially his was no joke.

There were so many good shoots that I struggled to select three

Michelangelo right now:

Last night was wild. Huge talking ninja turtles on your roof who, against all previsions, were around your age? You would had thought you were dreaming but you remembered what you were actually dreaming about and surely were not ninja turtles, you didn't lack of imagination but that was a bit too much even for you.

The photo helped too at making sure you wouldn't believe it was just a dream. Not that you could see much with the grainy definition of your phone camera but it was enough to distinguish the parapet Blue broke in his landing.

After they were gone you had went to check it, cleaned the debris before they could fall on someone in the streets under, and collected one that you had kept rolling in your hand all day.

You hoped it was ok. You knew they asked for no photo but the broken parapet seemed more a photo to ask your landlord to fix it right? Even if it looked like a giant's ass roughly sat on it…

You had spent all day thinking about them. Even if their names jumped away with them you still remembered how smooth and strong was Red’s hand, how kind and cute was Purple, Orange's energy and Blue's steady and calm presence and how proud he seemed to be a ninja. His kind of shy voice saying that replayed in your mind over and over warming your heart with the one of his brothers.

Too busy at daydreaming, you got in troubles with your teachers. A news really. Not that you already struggled staying concentrate when people talked your language and barely tried when people made everything in their power to not make you understand even if they knew you struggled with their language. Would the effort of talking slower kill your teachers? They seemed to talk even faster when they talked to you. Did they do that on purpose? Why real people had no subtitles?! It was so frustrating seeing all your efforts miserably fail even after doing double or triple the work.

Well thankfully your school day had ended today too and you were at 'home' working on your homework with the help of the translator on your pc when the screen went weird.

“Bam! You've been hacked! By Donatello. Remember me? Turtle. Four eyes.”

A wave of recognition hit you, it was the cute one in purple that looked like the March Hare “Oh hi!” you said waving at the camera

“Yes hi. I mean," he coughed and made a haunting voice "come on the roof, alone or terrible things will happens!”

You crocked your head in confusion but gave the camera a thumb up as the screen went back to normal.

'Ok but at what time?'

Just to be safe than sorry you closed the pc, took your bag, packed your book and something to eat and left a note before leading to the roof.

Was the bag necessary? Absolutely. What if it started to rain? Or if you got thirsty? Or you scratched somewhere? Would be more of a pain to keep going between the roof and the apartment, right?

You felt a little disappointed to see the roof was empty, not that Donatello told you they would be already there, so you sat down on a metal bar reading your book.

You were in the middle of a chapter not even noticing how the sunlight had fully set and the roof were too dim to read properly, when someone blocked the last lights.

“Y/n S/n?” asked a gruff voice

Red was crouched before you on your bar invading your vital space.

Lightly jumping from the scare he gave you, it was enough to make you lose what little balance you had in your unstable but comfy position but Red was quick to catch you before you could fall.

“Raph” scolded him Blue making Red's eyes roll while stabilizing you up again

“Apologize miss" Blue went on "my colleague often forget we can be overwhelming”

“I think you wanted to say scary mutants, Leo” Red-Raph had again that strange angry-sad tone

“You are not scary, I just get startled easily.” you looked down at Red’s glare as it looked like a glare you were all too familiar with “I’m sorry I made you uncomfortable”

That made everyone of them look at you with wide eyes.

“Wait wait wait. You are apologizing for making Raph uncomfortable for scaring you?” asked Orange

You slightly nodded “It's not his fault I'm jumpy, is it? He just called me, it's my fault if I got scared. I knew you would come but my head was in the clouds...”

“Guys” went Purple interrupting your ramble and getting the others to snap out of it

“Thank you Miss for coming to see us but” said Blue making you crestfallen at the thought of them leaving, especially because of you being awkward “someone really important want to see you.”

'Wait what?'

“Sorry, bear with us” said Purple as a bag was put on your head and you were picked up by someone.

Ok, now you were scared.

The one that was holding you must had felt how stiff you went as you a felt a big hand petting your head with kindness, trying to soothe you “Nobody is gonna hurt you” he said but you couldn't distingue who it was in the middle of the others whispers

“She is coming”

“Quick”

You heard around you the others moving and your stomach made a flip as the one holding you must had jumped.

Once you were put down you quietly growled

"What are you doing?" Someone hissed at you but he didn't seem angry

"Bear-ing it?" you whispered back making someone chuckle

“shh"

"Stay still" went another

After a few moments you heard her and the hand on you disappeared “Hello? You told me to come here. I didn't bring anyone with me. I did exactly...”

“Okay! Are you April O'Neil?”

“Initiating retinal scan. Scanning, scanning, scanning, scanning. Scan complete. It's her. It's her. Guys, it's her!”

“Of course it's her, Donnie. Heeeey. Really. Glad you could make it. Hey. There's someone important we want to introduce you to, but first...”

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The travel was unconventional to say the least. Full of jumping and dropping in what seemed the absolute void and voices, loud and incessant. It was too much to follow so you didn’t even try. You just hold tight, hugging the neck of who was your ride waiting to arrive who-knew-where.

'Well the turtles knew where'

To make yourself be less scared, you tried instead to focus on the texture under your fingers. Following the pattern of his scales, trying to not be too insensitive and touchy. Every now and then the hand of your turtle ride was back to gently rub your back to calm you.

'Do turtles have scales? Aren't the fishes the ones to have them? How is the skin pattern of a turtle called?'

Their skin looked a bit like crocodiles too but you were really really glad they weren't crocodiles. Or snakes. You would had died on spot if they were that kind of giant talking reptiles.

Finally at some point you must had arrived because you felt again the ground under your feet and a hand stabilizing your footing.

"Sorry, I think you left my balance on the roof" you said so lowly you weren't sure anyone heard you

“Aw, yeah, welcome to my crib, girl.” said a voice

“Where are we?” asked the woman next to you

You hated being that bad at remembering names. You were pretty sure it was a month. May? June? If you were right you had other ten chances to get it.

“Hey, it's our Fortress of Solitude.” “Our Hogwarts.” “Our Xavier Academy.” “Our next generation, state-of-the-art WonderDome!” they answered excited

The woman groaned in disgust “Are we in the sewer?”

It was a bit mean, there was no reason to said it like that. Even if, technically you had been kidnapped and you had to admit the smell wasn’t the best and you were pretty sensitive at it but that's why you had perfume on your hoodie cuffs after all. And they seemed nice? Maybe you trusted people too easily… or maybe you attached yourself to someone barely kind too you too easily like if they were water in a desert.

“Noo?” said one of the guys crestfallen but it sounded like there was a hidden yes behind it

“Technically, yes.”

“Yeah. Yeah, it's a sewer.”

There it was

The guys lifted the bags over you heads to let you see where you were; once your eyes adjusted to the light the view was pretty amazing. First of all you couldn't believe New York really had sewers you could walk in. Did all cities had sewers so big or it was an American thing from the prohibition-era or something before that? Why they were so big? You knew Paris had catacombs but did it had sewers this big too? What about Italy? Did you walked in Milan or Rome not knowing there was a whole underground world? Outside of the whole cities under them like Bologna, you still weren't over the view of the Sala Borse's glass floor. Other than you being scared of glass floors breaking under you.

Second and more important point, that was not just a sewer. It was their home and every corner screamed “Someone live here and love me”. And there were also Pizza's cardboard boxes, like, everywhere. Even making some of the furniture.

“You brought us here, April.”

It was a new voice, old, gentle, full of emotions. It distracted you from your wonder and came from a giant rat with black and yellow robes, standing tall on the coffee table in front of you in front a wall made of thousands radio. Well he was a giant from a standard rat size because he seemed smaller than the turtles in front of you and even shorter than April. You knew it was a month.

“Splinter?” April seemed to not believe her eyes as she went forward

The guys too were confused as they followed her to the center of the room “How does she know his name?” “Did you tell her his name?” “Maybe she's clairvoyant. Maybe she's a Jedi!”

“Come closer.” encouraged her the rat studying her “It's been a long time… You always did have your father's eyes.”

His voice and eyes were so full of love seeing her that it had you in a choke hold while making your heart ache.

“I don't understand.”

“Don't be afraid. All will be made clear.” He reassured her

But the woman seemed to be on the edge of a panic attack “This is crazy.”

'Well maybe just a bit'

“And you must be (Y/N)”

As the rat pointed the attention on you Red had to rise his arm and shift to look at your hidden figure behind him.

You weren’t scared by the rat with such a gentle voice, but this moment between them felt so important and intimate that you felt out of place. You didn’t know what to do with yourself as everyone was looking at you so you ended up looking at the ground tugging your cuffs “Uhm, sorry for intruding”

“You have nothing to be sorry for, we bought you here. You are our guest.”

He looked at you like he wanted for you to approach him so you stepped out of Red's shadow

“Nice to meet you Mister Splinter” you said offering you hand

He took it in both of his in a small handshake strong but caring “The pleasure is all mine. I trust my boys treated you well on your travel here? I’m afraid Michelangelo can be impetuous”

He started to protest but you just gave a little smile to the rat “I’m all right, sir. He was actually of great help”

“I’m glad to hear it.” he said releasing your hand after giving it a pat “Let’s all take a sit shall we? This will be a long but important story so listen closely, children”

Everyone sat down as he started narrating and you took a moment to study were to sit, unsure were it was appropriate, before deciding to sit next to the turtles as April sat in front of Mister Splinter.

Their story was not a happy one. There were tears deep in his eyes as he remembered how he lost his Master, Yoshi. How he came to the laboratory and met the turtles and the experiments started. Then arrived that fateful night where everything started. He told you how that night April’s father found out the truth on the experiments they were making, started a fire to destroy everything and died in it. And it was with infinite love in his voice and his big dark eyes that he told about how the woman in front of you saved them all from the fire bringing them to the sewers, how the mutagen changed them and they became a family. Once the turtles were old enough, Master Splinter taught them how to become one with the art of being ninjas to protect themselves, body and mind, just like he learned from his Master all those years before.

“Everything they are, and everything that they've become was made possible by the bravery that you displayed on that fateful night.” he concluded his story watching the woman

“I was just a little girl.” tried to dismiss the pressure her

“And you gave us freedom where others would have kept us in cages”

The turtles were standing again while you tried to not make a sound drying the few tears that had come.

“Wait a minute, Dad.” said Blue “All these years you told us we were rescued from the fire by a great guardian spirit, the Hogo-sha.”

“That's right. And this is the Hogo-sha.” he presented her before the confused eyes of the woman

“What?”

The turtles were not less confused but after studying her, Blue bowed followed by his Purple and Orange brothers.

“My girlfriend's totally the Hogo-sha.” said Orange making Blue hit him.

“Why did you bring me here?” asked the woman stealing the words from your mouth.

It made sense why she was here honestly, but you? You were a total outsider here

“To find out who you told of our existence.” the Master answered making sense of your presence there

“No one” “Nobody that believed me, except for Eric Sacks.” you and April answered at the same time

You would had started to dig a hole for talking with no one asking you if your hands weren’t already too busy facepalming so hard that the sound echoed.

"What part of don’t tell anyone wasn’t clear?” you whispered to yourself and Red grunted at you making you look away embarrassed "Sorry"

“Sacks.” signed Mister Splinter getting up with worry “Just as I feared. Sacks is not a friend.”

'What gave away? The part where he experimented on innocent animals that became huge mutants or him being a millionaire who seemed to believe a young woman, daughter of his ex partner (leaving aside that he was the man who destroyed his lab), who told him there are giant talking turtles who do ninjitsu around New York?'

“His soul has been poisoned by the influence of a dark master. The Shredder. Shredder practically raised Sacks in Japan. He's like a father to him. Sacks will do anything for his master.”

“Wait, wait. Sacks and Shredder?” Red became restless “So, why aren't we out there hunting them down?”

“Because, Raphael, The Shredder is a skilled warrior whose cruelty is ever-reaching! And you are just teenagers.” Raphael groaned at the words of his father “The mutagen in your blood is of great value to them. Now that Sacks has confirmation that you are alive I fear they will bring the fight to us and everyone involved”

You looked at April who was rolling her eyes but not in annoyance at what he said, as she was checking her yellow jacket she had seemed to just realized something and it must not being good.

“Oh, no” she said confirming your suspicions.

You were about to swear

'What did she have done now?'

An alarm started beeping.

“Perimeter infringe. Breached! We have incoming!” alerted Purple making his family move

You were barely understanding what was happening. Outside of the agitation of the Turtles you got only two words in the chaos and the loud beeping were just helping in making your heart race more.

The Turtle's father must had saw your state and gave you and April a clear command "Hide" at which you nodded before he went to listen to the wall

“Oh, no! Oh, no! We got two breaches. Fan room, weapons wall!”

"Mikey, flank right! Donnie, on me! We gotta go! Go, go!”

“No! Get back!” screamed their father running away from the wall and you had just the time to get up the catwalks when an explosion made the turtles fly.

“Donnie!

In the dust you tried not to cough as shadows came in.

You were trembling on the floor of the catwalk with your big bag under your chest trying watching the fights unfolding under you and hoping you were hidden and out of the way enough.

Mister Splinter, fighting on the floor level of the same room you were, was a mesmerizing force in the chaos and you were hypnotized.

All around you sounds of punches and dart shooting.

The only voices you could distinguish were mostly of the turtles even if you could hardly follow.

“…...I'm a snapping turtle, fool. Snap, snap, snap!" then a loud crash

"I meant to do that”

“We got ……..oom!”

“Raph! Get to…...!”

“… always telling me what to do?”

“Just go! Mikey, you ….. now!”

“I got this!”

For some moments you felt like in the eye of the cyclone were all was quiet and muffled and the only the only clear sound was of something heavy coming from the hole in the wall. The shadow that arrived was bigger than the rest. Mister Splinter looked at it caressing his mustaches before reading his position to fight “Shredder”

A large metal armor jumped in the room looking like the ugly, heavy, evil cousin of iron man.

“All these years I've been trying to recreate the mutagen. And you? You just handed it to me.” the figure said with a heavy accent. And if you could notice it, it was THAT heavy as every English accents seemed the same obscure blob to you. Was yours just as heavy in others ears?

“You will not lay a hand on my sons.” Mister Splinter said taking his wood sandals off the ring with his tail and sprinting to get a katana.

“Your sons?" The armor laughed hauntingly extracting multiple knives from his armored hands like he was Wolverine, if Wolverine had blades twice as long and big.

"You think you're their father?”

'What an asshole. Of course he's their father.'

The ugly cousin of Iron Man attacked with ferocity but he could extract thousands knives and be the size of a giant and Mister Splinter would had remained the coolest on the stage; barely breaking a sweat while parring everything with one hand from his side, not even looking at him before giving a a side kick breaking the armor stance.

“Very good, rat”

'Who cares about your compliments asshole, just die already. Well not literally but if you decided to die right there on your own or Zeus's thunder got you now by accident, no one here would be complaining'

They kept fighting and the armor started shooting his knives at Mister Splinter who had to climb on the catwalk to avoid them.

Some of the knives arrived at you too even if the rat barely came your way and purely by instinct you grabbed them by the guard; just in time too before the armor started pulling them back like a magnetic boomerang making Splinter jump down to avoid them again.

You held your ground not letting them escape till the pull decreased but not quite stopping

'Why are this knives so ugly?' you grimaced studying them.

As you looked down Mister Splinter was on the armor chest holding its head with his tale and the katana was trying to get through its head, but the armor got free and crushed Splinter on the ground.

“Sensei” called one of the turtles from somewhere before pain sounds came

“Donnie!”

“Hang on, Leo! Be right there!”

While Mister Splinter had the upper hand at the beginning, the last crush left a wide opening for the armor that was now beating him again and again with no mercy.

The spark of hope Mister Splinter gave you just moment ago was dying in your eyes as fear got hold of your body once again while you angrily and powerless watched.

As the armor was about to strike for what seemed the last time, April came running behind him and stroke in its back, the strange trident you saw in Red hands yesterday, making the holes sparkle.

The armor turned to her “You stupid little girl”

“April!” called alarmed the rat getting her away with his tail as the armor got him in her place and throwing him heavily on the wall.

“Sensei!” came running Blue but Mister Splinter pulled a chain closing the gates between you and the turtles “No my son, stay back!”

Blue tried to cut down the grate like Goemon in Lupin III but it was no use.

“Sensei!” The turtles tried desperately to get to their father “Sensei! Dad! Dad! What are you... What are you doing?”

“Hide!” cried Splinter as the armor charged once again to grab him

“No No!”

“Save yourselves!”

The armor jumped back to the ring to crush him on the center and kept hitting him in front of you and the turtles while they desperately worked on the gates.

When they managed to opened it was too late and reinforcements came through the hole.

The cruel man raised Mister Splinter like a rag doll pointing his armored hand ready to call the knives. “Children, drop your weapons, or your… father, will die.”

Having no choice they followed the instruction, the sound of the weapons defeating as they fall.

There were no words for that… monster inside the armor as he hit Mister Splinter once again just for torture the turtles.

You heard their screams before the men in black started using electricity to subject them and Mister Splinter was throw away like a used doll he was too bored to play with.

It was devastating.

Another family was being broken and destroyed right in front of your eyes and you couldn’t do anything.

You were useless.

You looked at them taking away the turtles with tears in your eyes.

“Where's the fourth?” asked the armor

“He's dead.”

“Destroy this place.” he ordered

It was unfair.

It was so unfair.

And you did the only thing you always did when you felt powerless in front of something unfair. Throw something.

In this case, two of the three knives he 'forgot' to retrieve that with a little help of his own armor's pull, hit him on his back right before the explosions started.

Chapter 3

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authors note: ok second chapter done ヾ（〃＾∇＾）ﾉ♪