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Title: New Beginnings
Fandom: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2007)
Chapter: One
Subtitle: First Sight
It's a warm Spring night in New York. There's a cloudy sky, but a full-moon shines brightly regardless, and the rain begins to fall. There's little to no breeze, and, with all things considered when being in a city, things seems relatively quiet. But unfortunately, all is not as it seems...
A lone figure, hiding in the shadows, runs down a nearby street and ducks into an alley-way. Though hard to make-out clearly, the figure seems to be clutching something, holding it in both arms, close to their chest. They turn their head both ways, as well as looking up, before slacking against the wall, under a fire escape, and letting-out a relieved, and somewhat tired sounding, sigh. But their peace is short-lived, as another figure joins them, seemingly appearing from nowhere. This figure is larger, more muscular, and wearing a long dark jacket. They waste no time in making a grab with both arms for the smaller figure, but with no luck as the smaller of the two rolls out of the way and quickly jumps to their feet again before making their way up the fire escape.
The larger figure gives chase, stomping it's way up the stairs. The smaller figure feels the stairs tremble and takes a glance over their shoulder to confirm what they already knew; they're being chased. In a panic, the smaller figure tries to move faster, but in doing so, loses their footing right before they get to the top of the stair-case! They fall, but still cling tightly to their small, but seemly important cargo, as they land on their side on the cold, soaking rooftop. As they get-up slowly, clearly a little shaken and worn, the clouds clear in the sky and the moonlight shines down once again, lighting everything... and the figure becomes clear to see...
Green!!
The figure, with it's green skin, is clearly some kind of humanoid reptile, and seems to be feminine. In one arm she holds what appears to be a folder containing many documents, whilst she steadies herself with her other arm. A shadow is cast over her... the other figure has reached her, and looks down on her. The female attempts to get-up, but the larger figure slams a fist in her direction. She barely manages to avoid being hit, and gets back up onto her feet, before turning away and running again. She reaches the edge of the rooftop, and jumps over onto the next one, landing awkwardly as she does so, forcing her into a roll. It's clear she's been on the run for quite some time now and can't keep this up for very much longer. She takes-in a few breaths before getting-up again and making her way across the rooftop, down it's fire escape, and begins a run down a dark alley, hoping to hide in the shadows and get away for good this time.
The figure that has been chasing her continues to follow, still on the rooftop, and is now being followed by a small group of figures dressed in black and wearing masks... Foot Ninja!!
Down below, the girl runs down an alley, going back in the general direction that she came from. She hopes that her pursuer will assume she continued on her way straight ahead instead of turning back. Afterall, it makes no sense to run toward someone that's trying to catch you. She looks up as she runs, keeping an eye on the rooftop to be sure she hasn't been seen.
*SMACK*
She runs into something that knocks her right off her feet and flat on her back. She lays dazed, her eyes closed and her focus gone.
"Duuude..." A voice groans as a figure sits-up, rubbing the left side of their head. "What hit me?"
This figure, another green reptile, this time male, with a hard shell on his back, wears an orange bandanna... Michelangelo.
He gets-up and wonders over to the girl. As he gets closer he shakes his head and rubs his eyes, barely believing what he sees infront of him; another mutated being. He kneels down beside her and looks at her face, trying to make-out if she's okay.
"Er... hello?" He gives her shoulder a slight nudge. "Are you okay?"
She groans and reaches to her head, rubbing the right side of it. Michelangelo leans over, eager to find-out who she is and where she came. Before her eyes open fully and focus, she remembers what she was doing just before, and she sits-up fast, knocking her forehead against Michelangelo's.
"Ow!!" They both exclaim, holding their heads.
The girl quickly turns to see who's voice she just heard and finds Michelangelo beside her, who looks right back at her. She also notices that she's no longer in possession of the file she'd been carrying the whole time. She scans the floor for it. She sees it, and then takes a glance at Michelangelo again, hoping he hadn't seen it. As far as she knew; he was after her too. Michelangelo follows her focus to where she glances over again, back at the file. He glances back at her again, before looking at the file again and reaching-out to grab it for her. The girl, thinking Michelangelo was going to take the file away from her, quickly pushes him away and reaches for it herself, grabbing it quickly and making another attempt at getting away. Michelangelo stands upright and looks on, totally confused.
"Hey!! Waaaiiit!" He calls out to her, but she disappears into the shadows.
"There you are!" He hears a familiar voice scold from above him.
He looks up to see one of his brothers, Donatello, on his way down a fire escape. "What are you doing!?"
"Don, you are not gonna believe this!" Michelangelo begins, walking toward Donatello.
"You're right. I probably won't." He replies and he steps off the staircase, waiting to hear what his little brother has to say.
"I saw... I saw... well... it, I mean she, was... er... she--" Words fail Michelangelo as he realizes he doesn't even know what she was.
"She?"
"Yeah, she was defiantly a girl."
"Right, so...?"
"I guess she was..." Michelangelo tries hard to think what she could have been.
"What? She either was a girl, or she wasn't."
"That's not what I mean! She was a she! But she was... er..."
"What's going on here?" Another familiar voice, sounding unimpressed, joins them both. It's Leonardo.
"Where have you been?" Another, more angry-toned voice also joins. It's Raphael. "You know we had a mission? Remember!?"
"Er, yeah but--"
"We've been looking all-over for you. You were meant to cover this side and join us on the roof when we signalled." Leonardo reminds him. "We signalled, and you never came."
"We had to abandon the mission!" Raphael adds.
"S-sorry, but--"
"Mikey, it's not that we're mad... we just thought something had happened to you." Donatello tries to explain why their brothers' seems hostile towards him, trying to cool things down at the same time.
"MUTANT!!" Michelangelo shouts, feeling boxed-in by his brothers, and using the only word he can to describe the girl.
The others look at him, and at eachother; confused. Michelangelo stands waiting for a response... but nothing comes. Not even Donatello clicks as he hadn't taken Michelangelo seriously before.
"Her!" He points in the direction the girl ran-off in, but the others just stare blankly. "The she. Ergh! I mean, the girl! She went that way!"
"Er, come again?" Leonardo asks.
"The girl!!" Michelangelo points again. "She's a mutant!"
"Wait... you saw a mutant?" Donatello asks, needing confirmation that his brother's serious.
"Yes! That's what I've been trying to tell you!"
"Where!?" Leonardo asks, now seemly more interested in the conversation.
"She was right here! I crashed into her, knocked her over, and she was right here!" Michelangelo now points at the floor where the girl had fallen.
Leonardo and Donatello listen to Michelangelo's story, whilst Raphael just stands by, arms folded, not really believing a word of it. The rain wsa coming down harder now and he was fed-up enough as it was. He didn't feel liek standing around in the pouring listening to his baby brother's wild stories.
"So, why'd she leave?" Leonardo asks.
"I dunno. I wanted to help her, but she grabbed it and ran away."
"Grabbed what?"
"I dunno, some file or something. It was on the ground. I went to hand it to her, but she pushed me, grabbed it, and ran that way." Michelangelo points yet again.
"Maybe you scared her?" Donatello suggests, meaning no harm by it.
"Heeey."
"Mike, that's not what I meant."
"Well, was she a turtle?" Leonardo asks.
"I dunno. I don't think so. She didn't have a shell."
"Can we go now?" Raphael butts-in.
Michelangelo becomes down-heartened that his bigger brother doesn't seem interested, or seem to even believe him. He starts to wonder if his other brothers are really just as uninterested and disbelieving. Leonardo frowns at Raphael, who just shrugs, expecting the story to be forgotten and Michelangelo to be over his "feeling sorry for himself" by the time they get home anyway. Afterall, he was just making-up this story to cover the fact he was goofing-off... wasn't he?
"Well, what did she have? What'd she look like?" Donatello asks, hoping to restart the conversation and hoping he can figure-out what she was from Michelangelo's description.
"Forget it..." Michelangelo gives-up and begins his way home, his poster slumped and his pace slower than usual.
The others closely follow, Donatello feeling bad for Michelangelo, Leonardo feeling angry at Raphael for upsetting Michelangelo, and Raphael looking unfazed, but really wondering if there is actually any truth in the story, but he's far from admitting he's even bothered about it. Michelangelo feels angry and upset his brothers wouldn't take him seriously. But his mind wandered back to the fact; he saw another mutant tonight. It made him wonder if there were more out there. Maybe there were dozens more! No, hundreds! No, thousands! Or maybe he was just being his usual self and letting his over-active imagination run-away with him. Still though, there was no denying it; he saw one.
Michelangelo wasn't the only one thinking about that possibilities either. The journey home was almost completely silent due to the fact that they were all deep in thought. Though Michelangelo didn't know it; all of his brothers, including Raphael, were considering the possibility of other mutant begins, and they were all hoping to hear more of Michelangelo's encounter with one.
As for the mysterious mutant herself; she has other things to deal with right now. The large figure, and the Foot Ninja, have found her, and they waste no-time in latching onto her in a nearby park. She struggles to free herself, but with her arms wrapped tightly around the file, she can't even take a swing for any of them. One of the Foot prepares to shoot her with a tranquiller dart, but she’s not about to let it happen. Though it means giving-up the file, she lets it slip from her grip, quickly swinging her free as it falls. She attacks the two ninja that had hold of her, switching to a hand-stand and swinging her legs out and round to kick the ninja that are closest to her. She tries to reach for the file whilst still balancing upside down, but another ninja grabs it first. Her eyes widen at the thought of losing the file for good, but she hasn't much time to think too much about it as she spies the ninja with the tranquiller stepping closer. He shoots, and she swiftly pushes herself further away and back on her feet also, the dart hitting the floor instead of herself. The larger figure becomes fed-up waiting and takes a good few stomps towards her, raising his fist as he gets closer. Spying the file in one Foot Ninja's hand, she knows she's lost when the ninja turns and leaves, followed by a hand-full of others, obviously there to help guard it. She almost steps forward to give chase, but is reminded by an incoming fist that she has something else to worry about. She narrowly dodges the powerful punch, but manages to take a swing back at the larger figure. Her first collides with his face, but she ends-up hurting herself more than her enemy. Time to leave. She's already worn-out from all the fighting and running she'd already done before now. She runs right out of the park gate and into the middle of the road, trying not to get hit by any cars. The large figure chases her, but she stops before he gets to the road... he can't see her. She seems to have disappeared.
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