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Character description
Name: Clara
Species: Human
Age: 10
Weapon: Tessen - Kunai
Magic power: Magic chain (Kunai with chain)

Backstory

The boys found Clara when they were 6 and she was 2. She was wandering the sewers, having wandered in through a large drain pipe. He family was gone and they took her to Splinter who gave her the name Clara and she lived with them. The boys love their little sister. She 'trained' with her family, having received a tessen so she could protect herself when they went to the surface. She's not inept with fighting but she's still learning, she's 4 years younger than the boys. April is like her older sister. She also likes riding on the boys shells, Raph gets scared because he has spikes.

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In the city of New York a yellow cat creature with a blue stripe going from head to butt and on the tip of it's tail was running away from two burly men with dogs in baby carriers on their chests. This cat creature had tusks protruding from it's mouth and a vial with green liquid around it's neck. The creature sprinted through people going about their day, sprinting through a flag display, people's legs and and jumping on them to get away.

The men followed close behind, tip toeing through the small, fallen flags and pushing people aside to get to the creature. Finally the men had cornered the creature in an alley way. Zipping it's head around to face it's pursuers with fear in it's eyes, the creature was trapped. The men menacingly approached the whimpering creature. They leapt into the air, hands out and ready to grab the creature! Only to fall face first into the concrete, in a flash of blue the creature teleported behind the men and dashed back out the alley. The men recovered quickly however, and with their growling dogs were in hot pursuit of the creature.

Later that night, as New York was cast in the beautiful artificial lights of the city, a rooftop party was taking place. Men and women mingled around with one man sitting on a table by himself. Short, bald, with a ginger beard and dressed in a white tux with a purple asccot this man looked like trouble. Security men lined up behind him as a briefcase was opened towards him, shining a brilliant gold with what lay inside.

On the opposite rooftop, cloaked in shadows and only visible in the moonlight were five figures staring down at the rooftops. Four of the figures were large, with green skin and a defining colour to their get up. Purple, red, blue and orange. The fifth figure was smaller than the rest, hanging off of the red one's back and with the colour scheme of pink.

"Hiya!"
"Ha!"
"Ya!"
"Ho Ha!"
"Rah!"

The four figures, with the fifth still holding onto the red one, leapt off the rooftops and were falling rapidly down the side of the building. Knees bent, all five figures safely landed underneath a glowing neon green sign. The purple figure took out a long weapon, transforming the end into a grappling hook and shooting it over the top of the rooftops and the party.

CLANG!

The grappling hook latched itself onto a support beam of an unfinished skyscraper at a construction site. Attaching the other end to a brick wall, the purple figure pulled the line tight between the support beams and themselves. Right over the top of the party.

"Yellow submarine, are we clear?"

"Affirmative, Red Roaver."

"Copy."

The red figure, easily larger and burlier than the other figures spoke into a walk talkie turning to adress the rest of the group.

"Right everyone, it's go time. You good back there?"

"Secured and ready!"

Addressing the figure on their back, a young voice piped up in reply, excitement pouring out of them. Four of the five figures clipped themselves onto the tight rope, first red with pink on their back, then orange, purple and blue bringing up the rear. Zipping with rapid speed across the tight rope, the five figures approached the rooftops, coming up to the party where the man was laughing at the briefcase. The red figure held up a hand, signaling the rest of the figures to be ready.

And there they went!

Right past the party with the evil laughing man.

Zipping right over and approaching an unoccupied rooftop with a pool. The red figure still had their arm up waiting to give the signal.

And there it was!

A swift point down and the figures all dropped one after the other, with the pink one jumping off the red ones back. Dropping down with rapid speed towards the pool the figures revealed themselves in the light of the city glow. The first four reveald themselves, as giant turtles with a small human falling behind them. First came blue, then orange, purple, red and pink all shouting as they soared down towards the pool. Purple, less enthusiastic then the others.

"Cow!"
"Ah!"
"Bung."
"Gah!"
"Yeah!"
"Cannonball!"

All five figures shouted together making a ginourmous splash as all five hit the water, compleatly soaking a human and her phone. With dark skin, dark curly hair in two poofy buns, dressed in a green jacket, yellow dress and red glasses holding her kitty themed phone up to record the epic cannonball splash!

"Yeaaa!-"

The splash compleatly soaked her.

"Yahoo!"

The four turtles and small human were celebrating at the bottom of the, now, empty pool. The orange turtle started pointing to himself. An orange bandana covered part of his face over his eyes. His plasteron was decorated with a neon purple triangle in the top corner and a neon blue lightning shape in the bottom corner. With orange dots on on his skin and orange wrist guards, his knees were covered with decorated knee pads. The left pad having two X's and a sharp squiggly line to make a scared face. The right knee pad having two ovals and a curved line to make a smiling face.

"Ha! You must be this rad to ride that ride!"

"Well, based on our velocity and entry angle Iiiii, concur! We rad!"

The purple one came up to the orange, typing away on a computer on his wrist guard continuing the celebration of the most epic splash ever! A purple bandana sat over his whole face with only the bottom of his face uncovered, on top of his bandana had drawn on eyebrows. On his head was a pair of goggles with one blue eye and one red eye. His wrists were covered with purple, fingerless gloves and one having his computer wrist guard. His elbows and knees were covered with pads and his shell was covered with a purple outer shell, a battle shell. Purple lines decorated the skin of this turtle.

"You guys crushed it! Give me five! Or three."

The jacked wearing human girl was absolutely reeling with excitement over that awesome display. All the turtles jumped out of the pool, the small human having jumped on the purple ones battle shell to get out easily.

"Couldn't have done it without ya, April! Our girl with the plan!"

The red one praised, standing taller than everyone and with a bigger body mass easily dwarfing the others in size. With a red bandanna covering hus head like the purple one and spikes covering both his body and shell. With red elbow and leg guards and around their waist sat a red belt with a buckle. Bandages wrapped around their wrists with a blaster on their arm and plasteron.

"Aaaaand, keys to the roof!"

The blue one came in holding a key chain with a red tag on it. With a blue bandana wrapped around their head similar to the orange one, the blue one sported fingerless gloves that stuck out from his wrists a bit. Blue leg and foot coverings were also over his feet and his face had two red stripes in crescent moon shapes beside either eye. Having a few lighter yellow crescent moon stripes on his body.

"That was totally awesome! You rock April! Thanks for letting us use the roof!"

The small pink human piped up, hopping off the purple ones she'll. A pink bandana was tied around her head, the ends tied in a small braid. Her red hair was tied up in a pony tail, and decorated with a flower and smiley face hair clip. Dressed in a pink hoodie, plain blue shorts with black tights underneath, a pair of pink high top shoes and a black shirt with little rocket ships zooming around on it. Ringing out the water from her hair as the purple turtle put his arm around her shoulder.

The orange one jumped up and swung his arms around the shoulders of the red turtle and April, casually leaning on the two.

"Let's go bungee dunk on the hoops at rocko park."

"Game on! Just one thing first. Wet floor and dry pool, our work is done here!"

After throwing the signs out April stood proud with the turtles and small girl behind her. She then turned to the purple turtle.

"Donnie, can I hitch a ride?"

"No probles,"

He turned to the small human girl.

"Sorry Clara, you'll have to hitch a ride with someone else."

"All g, Donnie! I'll go with Leo! That cool bro?"

"Of course! Hop on."

The blue one, Leo, bent down so the small girl, Clara, could jump onto his shell.

As Clara jumped onto Leo's shell, April hung onto Donnie's battle shell. Which suddenly transformed into a seat with handles as four hover proppelors popped out from the sides, allowing for Donnie to fly with April. They leapt up into the air, Leo secured Clara with his arms under her legs, before all the turtles leapt off the roof to make their way to Rocko park.

"Hya!"
"Woo!"
"Ya!"
"Huh?"

The red one turned, spotting the yellow creature from earlier in the day, wimppering at the construction site. His eyes grew big and weepy as his heart melted for the creature.

SMACK

In his distracted state he smashed face first into a brick wall, cracking it a bit on impact. Crawling up he motioned to the others to wait.

"Hey, hey guys! Hold up!"

Pointing down to the whimpering creature as the others looked over his shoulder.

"Poor thing looks lost."

He jumped down landing in a crouch, trying to seem as least threatening as possible for the creature which failed as his massive size caused a loud thump startling the creature. The others landed more gracefully behind him, Leo bending down to let Clara off his shell.

"Awww, hey little guy! Watch ya doin here? Noom, noom, noom, come to big Raphie!"

He was making kissy noises at the little creature. Obviously the only choice was to laugh at the ridiculousness of it making Raph grumpy.

"What? Pets love me alright, I am at one with the animals."

He turned back around, smiling gently at the creature who did not reciprocate the feelings and jumped at Raph, scratching his mask and face. The others stared in shock as the creature happily jumped into April's arms giving her some licks. April turned her face away from it but was touched at the cuteness.

"Awww! I didn't get this drenched from the cannonball!"

The little creature jumped from April over to Clara, snuggling into her face and then into her hoodie.

"Omg! You're absolutely adooooorable! You're so cute! Yes you are!"

As Clara happily hugged the creature, the orange turtle piped up.

"It looks so weird, what is it?"

Donnie approached Clara and fiddled with the vial on it's neck as Clara still happily snuggled with it.

"Maybe it's some kind of nuclear saint Bernard?"

"Che"

A gruff voice huffed startling everyone towards the entry of the construction site. It was the men from earlier who were chasing the creature! Of course the turtles had no way of knowing this.

"Hooooo! Humans! Initiate plan H!"

Raph exclaimed as everyone, except for Clara, hid behind April. They all stepped out, sticking out their teeth and making goofy poses while Leo spoke in fake nerd voice.

"Excuse me sirs, can you direct us to the local science fiction convention for which we are currently dressed for?"

The orange one backing him up.

"Snazzy alien turtle outfits huh?"

Donnie came in, hoping to help with the plan.

"We are just typical, normal humans, who got lost in the middle of our normal, everyday human lives! Nailed it."

He spoke like he had never acted before in his life. Well, there goes that plan. Both April and Clara stood awkwardly in between the turtles, Clara still holding the creature.

"Dude, you gooota make it to rehersal."

Leo tried to discreetly whisper to Donnie, except it wasn't very discrete.

"Give to me the creature, how you say eeeh, pretty please. Or I'll destroy you."

The men menacingly stalked towards Clara, Raph moved in behind the small girl with the other turtles sending their own piercing glares at the men. Raph squared up, puffing up his chest as he glared at the men threatening Clara and the creature.

"Really? You think you're gonna step to our sister? Rooky mistake hoss!"

Raph smashed his fists together, squaring up behind his sister.

"And if you step to my brothers for stepping to you for step, stepping to me?"

"You gonna have to step to me! Mkay?"

Clara tried to threaten but got lost half way through her words so April picked up the rest of the threat, both girls crossing their arms over their chests. The other turtles still glaring and the creature now bearing it's fangs as Raph growled at the men.

"You do not intimidate us. With or without your fake nerd voices."

"That was actually my real voice"

Donnie, with arms crossed, dejectedly objected to the strange men.

"Well you better get intimidated! Cause we're like nothing you've ever seen!"

"What's wrong with my voice?"

Raph spouted out fighting words as Donnie still tried to quiz the men on his voice. Clara moved over to pat Donnie on the arm, gotta love being the smallest.

"It's alright Donnie, nothing's wrong with your voice"

He mearly smiled down at her, returning his gaze to the men. Who struck an intimidating pose before OH MY GOSH THEY'RE GLOWING PURPLE WITH SMOKE SURROUNDING THEM!

"Ohhh!"
"No waaay!"

Raph jumped up, startled from the glowing and the smoke as everyone rightfully was.

"Jumping jack flash!"

The men surrounded themselves in the purple light and smoke, transforming themselves and their dogs into huge, ugly, intimidating purple things! Complete with armour and big weapons!

Ohhhhh boy.

..........

Leo rocked back on his heels.

"Soooooo, you guys from Jersey?"

"Really Leo?"

The orange one piped up in a bored tone.

"Come on Leo, even Mikey knows not to say weird things now."

Even Clara was disappointed in her older brother.

"What? I can't make a joke during the craziest thing ever? That's how I cope."

"Whatever."

Raph piped up as the turtles all pulled out weapons that they had on their person. Donnie with a high tech bo staff, Raph with two sia's, Leo with two katana blades and Mikey with two nunchaku. Clara passed the creature to April as she too pulled out a weapon, her tessen.

"This is our chance to finally use these babies, weapons ahoy!"

"We agreed to reserve ahoy for ship based adventures, pal. Please?"

Sarcastic as always, Donnie.

"BARK, BARK!"

The giant dogs and their freaky, armoured riders charged at the group with weapons at the ready.

"Guys, I got this"

Donnie swung his bo in front of him, activating two jet rockets on either side! Powering them up and helping him to spin the staff at high speed.

"Fibooooonachi!"

Throwing the bo towards the armoured weirdos, only to have it shoot up, miss compleatly and start glitching out.

"Ah! Oh no, oh no that's so bad."

"Myaaa!"

"Dog thingy!"

Woah! The creature jumped from April's arms, teleported and caught Donnie's bo returning it to him before teleporting back to April.

"Hey! It plays fetch! And teleported, which is- OH MY GOSH IT TELEPORTS!"

No time to be impressed, the armoured weirdos held a glowing sword to Donnie-

PEEEW!

"AHH!"

He was thrown back into a pile of bricks, breaking through them, startling April and Clara.

"Donnie!"

"Pro tip, the inexplicable glowey wave? Extraordinarily painful, ugh."

Clara ran over to where Raph and Mikey were getting ready to attack.

"Alright, Mikey you take the one that looks like a broken toaster. I'll take the guy that looks like a fancy trash can!"

"What can I do!"

"Uhhh, help out Mikey! Mikey, watch her."

"Got it but-"

A giant sword came down between Mikey, Clara and Raph, separating Raph from the two younger ones.

"They look exactly the same! And they don't look like either of those things!"

One of the dogs pounced at Mikey as he picked up Clara and jumped away from the attack.

"Hey where are you going?"

"Grooowl"

One of the weirdos was standing behind Leo, poised and ready to attack as Leo stood casually with one katana on his shoulder and the other pointed to the ground.

"You had to ruin cannonball day."

With lighting quick speed, Leo charged at the weirdo spinning mid air for an attack.

"Wahoo!"

CLANG!

........

Sweat poured from him as Leo looked at the growling dog holding his two broken blades in it's mouth and crushing them.

"My swords!"

"Ya! Hahaha-"

THUNK!

Leo threw the broken handles at the laughing weirdo, dodging the swing of the giant purple spear and taunting the weirdo.

"I don't need weapons to beat you! I got my rad skills-"

Only to land in a heap on the floor after trying to parkour backflip off a cement truck. Yeesh.

"Uaghhh"

Coughing from the force of the impact, Raph stood a few places away from his own weirdo, sia held in a defensive grip. Mikey landed and ploped Clara down beside him.

"Mikey, Clara! Ninja mode!"

All three disappeared into the shadows of the construction site, like shadows in the night compleatly unseen!

"Grrrrrowl, grrrra!"

Right. Raph was just poorly hiding behind a support beam, Mikey gripping upside down on one and Clara trying to climb up another. Compleatly visible to the weirdo.

Well then.

The weirdo aimed his glowing sword at them.

"Ok, there's a chance he can still see us-"

BOOM!

"Aah!"
"Wah!"
"Oh no!"

Raph landed, Mikey next to him and Clara next to Mikey.

"Right, plan double B. Clara, remeber, follow Mikey!"

"Got it, Raph!"

"Yea!"

Mikey jumped up and retreated into his shell as Clara got into a running position. Raph grabbed his brother out of the air and tossed him to the weirdos, Clara running at top speed to help Mikey.

"Brother baaaaall!"

"Ugh, grrr, Ahhh!"

Mikey was caught by the front of his plasteron and started hitting the weirdo on the arm that was holding him.

"Wah! Ha! Bag-a-boom! Bam! Ha! Hoo, ha! Boom! Take that!"

Well, bad news was the weirdo was compleatly unharmed and Mikey had managed to hit only himself with his nunchaku's bruising his face badly.

"Had enough yet?"

The good news was Clara came running up to the two as re-enfocment!

"Leave my brothers alone you big, purple weirdo! Hiiiiya! Take this! And that! Hooooo, HA!"

She was hitting the weirdo anywhere she could reach, running around and slapping him with her tessen.

"Hiyaaa- ah...."

It broke, becoming a pile of pieces on the floor.

"Uhhhhh"

"Hmnnnn."

The weirdo held up his hand holding Mikey and surrounded the turtle and the girl in a glowing purple bubble, throwing them away and grabbing Mikey's nunchucku from the air. Squeezing his hand the weirdo easily crushed the wooden weapons.

"My chucks!"

"Hey! Why don't you pick on someone my size?"

Raph stood infront of the weirdo who had beaten his brother and sister, twirling his sai into a defensive positioned in front of himself. The two squared up, ready to battle!

Snap!

"BARK BARK BARK!"

Only for Raph to run away screaming from the freaky dog who was hot on his tail. Clamping it's jaw around Raph's head the dog swung Raph around, hitting him on the concrete like he weighed nothing. Throwing it's head back, the dog released a screaming Raph, landing with a giant dust cloud towards the entrance of the construction site. Opening his eyes, Raph desperately reached for his sia only to have them both zapped out of existence by the glowing purple bubbles from the weirdo.

"Hugggg, HAAA!"

The weirdo wacked Raph on his head sending him flying on top of Donnie.

"Ahhh!"

Both weirdos stood menacingly over the two fallen turtles.

Smash!

The weirdos turned their gaze to where a brick had just been thrown by April.

"Hey trash can and toaster boy! If you know what's god for you, you'll leave my friends-"

The weirdo's hand started to glow purple creating a bubble around the creature in April's arms.

"Oh boy, what the!"

As April held onto the bubble to stop it floating towards the weirdos, the little creature tried teleporting out of the bubble but to no avail.

"NO! Naaahhhh!"

April held on with all her might as the bubble was dragged towards the weirdos. They took one of their giant, three fingered meaty hands and clamped onto both April and the bubbled creature.

"Uaghhh!"

April was blow back and away from them as the weirdos held the creature up towards themselves.

"I have the agent and the vial! Hiya!"

The weirdo held up one giant, blue glowing hand towards a wall, drawing a strange M symbol with a little dash on one of the stems. Through some strange magic, an open mouth head appeared from the wall with some form of portal tunnel in the mouth.

"Woah!"

The five siblings stared in shock at the absolute crazy magic they just witnessed!

Ding ding!

"Sweet short cut! Wait? This is not a shoort cuuuut, Ahhh!"

Some delivery boy on his bike compleatly ignored the turtles and purple weirdos and rode right into the portal tunnel. Idiot.

"Waugh! Good to know."

No one really paid attention to Mikey, too busy focusing on the weirdos who held onto the creature and rode into the portal on their dog steeds. 

"The dog thingy!"

"Hey? April!"

The siblings chased after their friend April who dove into the portal determined to get the creature back from the weirdos. Raph dove foward about to catch her ankle-

Smack!

The portal had disappeared and now Raph sat flat on his shell in front of the plain wall as Donnie and Leo approached him.

Chapter Text

Previously,

"The dog thingy!"

"Hey? April!"

The siblings chased after their friend April who dove into the portal determined to get the creature back from the weirdos. Raph dove foward about to catch her ankle-

Smack!

The portal had disappeared and now Raph sat flat on his shell in front of the plain wall as Donnie and Leo approached him.

Now,

"April!"

Oooo that is quite the bump Raph has on his head from the smash into the wall.

"I think she's ok cause there's no like, April bits on the ground."

Good observation Leo. Donnie was wandering around the wall, typing away on his wrist guard trying to deduce what had happened.

"April! Are your bits on the other side of the wall? How do we get her out of there?"

Raph adressed his genius brother, Donnie, trying to get some answers.

"And, equally important, where is there?"

As the older brothers were discussing this, Mikey and Clara stared up at the wall, still glowing blue with the weird M symbol the weirdos had drawn on it.

"I mean, it looks familiar but I can't remember where it's from? Any ideas, Lango?"

"Guwaaa! We've seen this before Clare Bear!"

"We have?"

"Yea! In fact, we all have!"

"Uhhh, I don't follow Mike?"

Deep in the sewers of New York The turtles and their sister had returned to their home, their lair in the sewers. The siblings had gathered in the living room, crouched behind a brown recliner that was sitting in front of a wall with tv being projected on it. Staring at a cabinet on the far wall of the room. A weird clock with the same symbol sat innocently on the shelf of the cabinet. Surrounded by all sorts of weird nick nacks like a weird teapot and a smiling, squishy thing.

"In splinters 'do not touch' cabinet."

"You're right, it's just like the symbol those creeps have!"

Clara was laying on Raph's shell, gripping the spikes to stay on as he and Mikey talked. She crawled further up to be right by Raph's head so all her brothers could hear her.

"Should we just ask him for it?"

"And what do we say when he asks why we want it, Clara? That we need it to go after our best friend who disappeared into a wall after our priceless weapons were distroyed by mystical jogger guys?"

"Well I don't see you coming up with any ideas, Leonardo!"

"Shhhhhh!"

Raph smacked his hand on top of Leo's head and covered his sister's mouth, trying to keep both quiet and not alert splinter who was watching TV.

"Ok, here's the plan. We gotta get Splinter out of the room."

Ah Raph, trying to live up to being the self apointed leader of the group, just because he's the oldest. All five siblings bowed to Splinter in front of the TV, Clara being infront of Mikey and Donnie. Raph put on a bright smile and opened one eye as he spoke.

"Hey Pop! Any chance we can have the living room tonight?"

A fat, small rat sat in a robe, covered in crumbs, and drinking carton milk from a straw opened one eye looking at his children. Only to roll around laughing and coughing at the ridiculousness of their request.

"And I though purple, was the funny one!"

"Told you guys I was the funniest."

"Shut up Donnie."

"You shut up, Clara. I have a plan."

He turned back towards his father.

"What if I hooked it up so you could watch in bed huh? Wouldn't that be even lazier?"

Raph fluffed a pillow behind his siblings in preparation to help get their father out of his chair and the living room.

"No! My butt is asleep, juuuust how I like it. Now! Leave me be! We're about to break out the scorpions!"

All five children moved out of the way of the TV as a naked man only covered in bubble suds was running on a tredmil as scorpions were thrown at him. Their father absolutely losing it laughing at the man on the treadmill as the five siblings retreated back behind his chair.

"Plan one didn't work, new plan!"

Raph grabbed some paper and a box of crayons that had Clara's name on it, scribbling out his idea.

"Hey those crayons are mi-"

"Alright we need ten chickens, a gallon of rubber cement and-"

"Leon's got it!"

Leo stood proudly showing off the do-hicky as Clara angrily snatched back her crayons from her brother.

"Don't touch my stuff Raphie."

"How'd you get it?"

Raph just ignored his sister.

"You know he always passes out after milk and cake."

Pointing over his shoulder all the siblings peered over the back of the recliner only to see their father curled up and snoring away in his chair. Drool leaking out of his mouth like a river. Racing back to the construction site, Raph stood in front of the wall with his siblings in a circle around him. Clara holding onto Mikey's wrist. What? They were potentially opening a portal to an unknown location, sue her for being a bit scared.

"Two hours ago I would have called this foolish and impossible. Now I just call it foolish."

"We gotta do it for April, D."

"Then why are you clinging to Mikey like a scared baby?"

"I'm not a baby! We're just probably opening a portal to a probably dangerous place to hopefully find our friend in one piece! WHY WOULDN'T I BE SCARED!"

"Say what you want Donnie. Raph will pull it off! Cause if he doesn't, we'll lose our best friend forever. And Clare Bear's only 10, she can be scared of this stuff."

"Mikey don't say that! You know he chokes under pressure!"

"Leo, he's even more self-consious when you talk about it!"

"Donnie's right! Cause then you can smell his fear stink"

Raph, with crazy eyes, turned towards his siblings facing his little sister still clinging to Mikey.

"Stop talking about my fear stink!"

All the siblings just raised their eyebrows but only Donnie's were visible since he was a nerd and drew them on his mask. Raph held out the do-hicky toward the wall aaaaaaaand! Nothing happened.

"Grrrrr."

Raph tried again, only to fail. Again. Shocker. Getting fed up with nothing happening Raph just started punching the wall repeatedly.

"Grrr, GRRRR, come on! Stupid wall!"

All his siblings were unimpressed. Getting so fed up, Raph threw the do-hicky at the wall only for it to bounce back and smack him in the face making him fall flat on his shell again. The little do-hicky being caught by Mikey.

"How about we let the artist of the crew take a poke at it?"

"I say give him a shot, I mean he can't do anything worse. Respectfully."

"Hey."

Raph held up a single hand in protest before it dropped back to the ground. Since Leo decided to antagonize Raph a bit, Mikey removed Clara's hand from his wrist and gave it to Leo instead. Leo didn't even bat an eye and just moved his sister's hand from his wrist to his hand, smiling down at her in reassurance. She returned it  albeit shakily.

Mikey, confidently walked foward and held the do-hicky up to the wall as the handle started spining rapidly and blue, glowing lines appeared on the walls.

"Woahhh. Hi, HA HA!"

Jumping up Mikey quickly re-drew the weird M those creatures drew which opened the portal mouth thing again. All his siblings walked foward, Leo still holding Clara's hand who was hidden a bit behind him.

"You beautiful fools, it worked!"

Donnie rose his bo in triumph as Raph stood up behind him and Mikey, wrapping his arms around them.

"All I had to do was believe in myself."

"Ok, uh, what do we do now?"

At Leo's question all the siblings stared up at Raph, their self-appointed leader, who went blank faced at the question.

"Cannonball!"

Raph flipped and spun down into the portal first followed by Mikey and Donnie all of them shouting as they fell down.

"Cannon- huh?"

Leo turned at the tug on his hand, looking down at his little sister who stared with fear at the blue portal. Gently smiling, Leo tapped her head making her look up at her big brother. Leo keeled down on the ground, letting her get on his shell as he put his arms under her legs.

"Ready?"

She squished her cheek against his as she locked her arms around his neck.

"Ready."

"Cannonball!"

They both screamed as they fell into the portal, the mouth entrance closing behind them. Clara held on tight as the siblings were thrown through the weird portal, opening up to strange world with bizarre colours with odd structures everywhere. Raph fell through first, landing face first on the ground followed by Donnie and Mikey.

"Land safelyyyyyyy!"

Leo wobbled around on his feet, Clara still on his back and wobbling with him trying to keep her brother upright.

"Oohhhh, wahoooooaaaaa!"
"Woah, woah woah!"
"I can smell Raph's amazement stink."

The world was much more than odly coloured, it had giant creatures in it! Of all shapes and sizes flying or walking around!

"Pssst, hey guys! Over here."

"April!"

The siblings ran towards their best friend and group hugged together, Clara climbing over Leo's shoulders and hugging what she could of April's head. Letting the hug go, Clara slid off April's head and stood proudly next to her family's best friend as Raph tried to get answers.

"Donnie, where are we?"

"According to my calculations we are in a tertiary metaverse!"

"Actually! I've been exploring and we're in a mystic hidden city deep under New York!"

"That was my second guess!"

Sure it was Donnie.

"Woah!"

Clara pulled on April's jacket sleeve to get her attention.

"So where's the dog thingy?"

"He's in there"

A giant, totaly menacing, rounded building with what looked to be a lot of stairs. Faaaaaantastic. The inside revealed some weird purple contraption with yellow glowing things sticking out of it. What looked to be plants around the open room and a giant window lighting up the contraption.

"Ohhh look at the colour scheme!"
"Woah!"
"Insane!"
"Ohhh, I'd love to do my lab in this style!"

Ah yes, the mad genius wanting a mad genius styled lab. Yeesh. Looking down at the bottom platform of the giant room revealed two cages, one with the creature and one with the delivery boy. The little creature was trying to teleport out but was blocked by some magic, glowing barrier around the cage.

"Hey, there's the little guy! And the delivery guy too! We gotta help them get out."

"Someone's coming!"

April stopped Raph from blindly jumping down as this absolutely intimidating man walked through a red doorway. Tall, large chest and dressed in spiked blue armour with a cape and shoulder length red hair. His head was adorned in a golden helmet with hornes protruding from the cheeks of the helmet. On his shoulders sat two creepy looking gargoyles.

"If you're the guy that keeps calling about the calamari fine! It's pig butt but the crab cakes are real!"

Ooo, bad time to talk delivery guy.

"I assure you, I have no interest in your petty cakes of crabs"

Ohhh and to make things worse the gargoyals on his shoulders moved. Great, just great. They jumped foward and started TALKING!

"But we would love to hear more of those pig butts."

"Hahahahahha!"

"AHHHHH!"

The tall guy approached the cage with the creature in it, reaching through the magic barrier and ripping off the vial from the creatures neck.

"So nice of you to return my vial. You are about to be apart of an experiment that will change the very nature of humanity."

"Alright!"

No! Not alright, Stewart!

The siblings and April watched as the freaky guy released some stuff into the giant contraption. Bubbles rose through it  and the small contents of the vial was added to the machine. Flowing up and through making the machine really come to life.

"This dude looks like trouble."

"Yea, and if I've learned anything from Jupiter Jim movies. Glowing green usually equals bad!"

April and Raph have no idea how right they are. A bunch of mosquitoe looking things approach and sucked the juice from the machine as the freaky guy approached Stewart's cage, restraining him with vines.

"Soooooo, is this gonna hurt?"

"It will, if I'm doing it right."

A mosquito landed right in the middle of his forehead and stuck his needle nose right in the center.

"Hey! That wasn't so- OH! Ah! Ok, this part hurts! Ahh!"

The siblings watched in shock, Donnie covering Clara's eyes but she peaked through his fingers, as Stewart was transformed. His bones reforming, his eyes changing shape and his whole body contorting in strange and painful ways.

"Ewww!"
"What is happening to him?"
"That is messed up!"

The group of six watched on in horror as the delivery boy was transformed into a fish mutant!

"Yea, jury's in that waaas imitation crab."

All the siblings and April glared at Donnie.

"I just got use to acne! Now this?! AHHHHH!"

The, now, fish boy ran out of the room as the tall intimidating guy stood in the center of the room not giving a damn. The little gargoyals speaking up.

"Hehehe should we go after him boss?"

"The mutation worked! Just like it did all those years ago."

All the siblings stared in shock, Raph voicing the question the group was all thinking.

"Mutation? You mean like us? Could we be-"

"Part imitation crab?!"

Clearly not all the group, Mikey.

"Hahaaa- you are not kidding are you?"

"I don't think he is D"

The intimidating guy stood infront of the little yellow creatures cage as he growled up at the dude.

"I'll deal with you next"

April sat in the center of the circle the siblings were in, all trying to come up with a plan.

"We can't let that sheep horned weirdo do anything to that dog!"

"Can't agree with you more April but-"

"But, except for Donnie, we're out of weapons."

"Don't inturupt me Leo!"

"Note to you, next time make your weapons out of high grade titanium."

"Guys!"

Oop. Leo, Donnie and Clara had made Raph upset. Yeesh.

"Who needs weapons, we're ninjas! Leo's got his mad skills, no one flips better than Mikey, Clara has spirit for days-"

"That's what I get? Seriously?"

"Donnie's got that big ol' brain and I got uh-"

Oh thank heavens April shoved Raph out of the way.

"A friend who knows where there's a room full of weapons!"

Leo quietly whispered to his other siblings.

"Oh thank goodness we were so dead."

The siblings stayed where they were on the floor as April pulled down on a purple lever making the floor open up underneath them.

....

"UahhAHHHHH"
"AAAAAA!"

the siblings landed in a heap at the bottom of a tunnel, Clara managing to land flat on top of the group as April fell through last. Landing upright and showing off the towering room full of weapons!

"Woahhh!"
"Amazing!"
"Oh it's like if magic and science had a baby!"
"This is awesome!"

The siblings all started looking through the shelves finding some replicas of their old weapons.

"Oohooo! Yea!"

Leo had found a pair of katana blades, complete with blue fabric on the handles.

"These'll do!"

Mikey swung around some nunchucku's with orange fabric on their grips.

"Not bad at all!"

Clara opened up a tessen with some flowers on the fan blade, admiring the silver shine.

"Yo guys! How about we take the glowy ones!"

Raph pointed towards an awesome case of five glowing weapons which were all glowing their respective colors red, blue, purple, orange and pink. Huh. Well no time to dwell on the weirdness, time to get some rad weapons! The siblings, minus Donnie, raced towards the cabinet and grabbed the weapon glowing their colour, looking star struck as they did.

"Dibs on the sword! Hooo boy!"

Leo jumped up, grabbing and swinging around the odachi sword.

"Hot soup!"

Mikey grabbed and swung around the kusari-fundo.

"Boom! Ho Ha!"

Raph grabbed the pair of tonfa punching the air with them.

"Aww yea!"

Clara grabbed the pair of kunai, carefully, jabbing the air in front of her.

"Hey be careful with those Clara! You could hurt yourself!"

"Ughh Raph don't do this again, you all did the same thing when I got my tessen. I'll be alright and look! They're tiny!"

"Ehhhh, fine but be careful! Alright?"

"Raphie, please, careful is my middle name."

Clara was casually swinging one of the kunai around on her finger when it slipped off and narrowly missed impaling her foot.

"Ahhh! .....ignore that."

As Raph glared at a sheepish Clara, April walked up to Donnie holding out the last glowing weapon to him. A bo with an axe head and a spiked ball and chain at the end. But he was carefully studying a floating crystal, not paying attention to April or his siblings.

"What about you Donnie? Don't you want a glowy weapon?"

"No I'm good. I'll never let you go."

He was whispering to his bo again like it was his baby. Ugh, nerd.

"Thiiiiis looks interesting though!"

Donnie quickly snatched up the floating crystal, pocketing it for safe keeping.

"Hoo hoooo, yea!"

April and Donnie turned at the sound of Leo's voice, gazing apon the rest of the siblings all posing with their weapons to show them off.

"Let's go save that dog thingy!"

Following Raph's instructions, the siblings and April raced back toward the room with the dog thingy and that creepy dude, that giant machine still glowing an ominous green. The two gargoyles were poking and laughing at the dog thing with a stick and the poor thing was trying to turn away from them.

"Eheeheheh, hahahahah!"

"Finally, after all these years I can continue my work!"

The freaky dude held up one of those mosquitoes admiring it -

BOOM!

"Ahhh!"
"Woahhh!"
"Hahahahha!"

The turtles all landed in a heap again, with Clara and April sitting unharmed on top of the turtle pile. The freaky dude just started at them.

"What?"

"Alright!"

Jumping up from the bottom of the pile, Raph pointed down at the freaky dude as the rest of the siblings and April sat with their weapons. April having a green bat for a weapon.

"You incredibly, unusually buff bookworm! Give us the little guy and you'll walk out of here with your horns still attached!"

"Shouldn't we also him from creating crab men?"

Good point Leo.

"Good note, ok! Give us the little guy, stop creating crab men-"

"Imitation crab men."

Then Donnie had to pipe up.

"Ok good note."

"Uaghhhh!"

As the siblings debated over what Raph should say, the freaky dude just started up at the turtles in wonder.

"You're beautiful!"

Ok, freaky dude just jumped from freaky to weird as well.

"Raph, why don't you take it from the top again?"

"Ok here goes. You apologise to the dog thingy-"

"Let's do this! Apriiiiiil O'Neil!"

"I'm with you April! Hahahahah!"

Both April and Clara leapt up into the air preparing to attack the freaky dude compleatly freaking out the brothers.

"AHHH!"
"WAHHH!"
"OH MI GOSH! THEY JUST RAN IN!"

April and Clara landed on the dog things cage and started trying to tear through the vine bindings. April trying to tear it with her teeth and Clara trying to cut them with her new kunai.

"Uaaaah!"

"Put me down you freaks!"

The two gargoyals, who had been sitting on the cage, lifted the girls and flew them away from the cage with both girls trying to hit them. The freaky dude prepared some glowing purple balls in his hand and plunged them into the ground. Giant purple vines sprouted up and attacked the turtles who were rushing into help April and Clara. Raph and Mikey were running along the vines with Donnie using his propellers from his battle shell to fly down. Leo was attempting to run down the vine but failing miserably and tripping over his own feet, screaming as he fell.

"I hate this! I hate this! Woah, woah woah woah!"

The freaky guy wasn't bothered and threw down three purple balls which combined with the ground to create a giant purple cyclops!

"Woah woah!"
"Oh mi gosh!"
"Dude, seriously?!"
"Nyahhhh! It's gonna get me!"

The giant cyclops grabbed the purple vines the turtles were on, swinging it up and cracking them like a giant whip throwing the turtles off. As all the turtles lay on the cracked ground from the impact, the cyclops moved menacingly towards the four, letting out a ferocious roar. April and Clara flew by, still being held by the gargoyals but Clara had managed to jab the one holding her in the eye and she was dropped, luckily Donnie caught her.

"Capture those specimens! And the little girl too!"

The giant cyclops obeyed it's creators orders and charged at the siblings who all jumped up, preparing for the attack.

"Cowabungaaaaa!"

With Raph's war cry all the siblings raced foward, Clara having moved to Donnie's battle shell holding on tight to her big brother. Leo raced foward with his odaich, sprinting past his siblings-

BOOM!

Avoiding the giant smashing fists of the cyclops and slashing at the monsters ankles, cutting clean through it. The monster, now on one leg, gave an almighty roar. Spit flying from it's mouth as it raised another gigantic fist, smashing and flinging floor rocks at the other siblings still charging foward.

Raph and Mikey raced foward, climbing and dodging the falling debries. Jumping, flipping and rolling to avoid becoming crushed by the giant rocks.

"Hot soup!"

Mikey jumped up and wrapped Raph in his kusari-fundo's chain, flinging him with incredible speed towards the cyclops. Raph, with fist held out, smashed into the face of the cyclops which was a critical hit! The cyclops fell backwards onto the floor, still reaching up towards Raph.

Donnie landed, Clara still on his shell as he jumped up in the air, flying with his propeller blades. He brought his bo out in front of him as Clara wad still clinging to him, ready to help his brothers with the fight. Unfortunately, Donnie had decided to bring out his bo's rockets and they glitched out again spining Donnie and Clara around and forcing the turtles and April to avoid the weapon mid air.

"Oh no, not again, no not again."
"Watch out!"
"Woah!"
"Hey! I thought you fixed this!"

Luckily, the bo had built up enough speed and power to smash right into the cyclops and take the giant monster for a spin with it! Literally, the bo spun in a circle taking the cyclops with it which absolutely decimated the behemoth of a beast. Donnie's bo spun back up and into the turtles waiting hand.

"Haha! Nailed it!"

Donnie held his bo in front of him and Clara with his phone on one end to get a selfie of the destruction he just caused. Donnie posing and sticking out his tongue as Clara held up a peace sign with a big grin, hugging Donnie's neck.

"Can you send me a copy of that?"

"Of course Clare Bear."

The turtles, while victorious, were beat from the battle with the massive creature. Donnie landing safely to send Clara their selfie while she still clung onto him. The freaky dude standing tall and a bit impressed.

"Accidentally impressive! With a little bit of training, you will be as formidable as I had hoped."

No one was paying attention to him except for Leo who, after coughing up some dust, tried to stand all cool like with his odaich on his shoulder.

"Ok, well, great and since you're surrendering-"

"Hahaha, Baron Draxum does not surrender."

"Ok, well, when he gets here we'll deal with him- OH ho ho! I see what you're doing! You're doing that whole sinister talking in the third person thing!"

Startled Raph leapt up from his slouched state.

"Only Raph can use the third person! Alright guys, time to put our training to use!"

"Yea yea!"

Mikey leaped up as well, revitalised and full of energy as Leo was still shocked from Raph's statement. Donnie, still on his phone and Clara still on his shell, activated his propellers and brought both of them up in the air. April flew by still trying to escape from the gargoyals.

"What training? You guys have been training?"

"Get with the program Leo!"

Baron Draxum prepared two more purple ball things, crushing them in his hands and powering up his arms. His hands and arms became larger and purple, giving him a power boost. Raph charged foward with his tonfas, punching foward at Draxum only to be easily punched away. Leo leapt into the air flipping around as he held his odaich above his head prepared to slice into Draxum. He was easily blocked and thrown away.

Mikey swung his kusari-fundo around using the ball at the end to hit Draxum but, same as Leo's attack, it was easily blocked. Donnie ran foward, bo at the ready, with Clara standing on his battle shell. Both siblings attacked at the same time, Clara leaping into the air and bringing her kunai down while Donnie attacked with the bo. All the other brothers charging foward to help their siblings.

Draxum raised his fists before any of the siblings could reach him and smashed the floor creating a massive shockwaves that blew the siblings away from him. All the siblings landed together with Raph holding onto Clara so she wouldn't be blown away from the force of the winds.

"And that's why Baron Draxum-"

"Oof! Guh! I'm sorry boss."

April had finally managed to escape the hold of the gargoyals and was smacking them around with her bat as well as grabbing them with her teeth. She held a thumbs up to the siblings Who reciprocated. Draxum, fed up with the interruption, blasted some green casing at April trapping her in a weird green cocoon. She flew back into Raph as the rest of the siblings surrounded their trapped friend.

"You did not just do that to our friend!"

Mikey threw his kusari-fundo foward, outraged at Draxum for trapping April but he simply moved his head to the side, avoiding the attack. Except the string never returned.

"Huh?"

Instead the ball stayed where it had landed past Draxum's head and exploded into a demonic, flaming, laughing ball of orange! Yea, ok, totally normal.

WHAT!?

"Woah! Magic weapo- AHH!"

Mikey was flung around the place as his weapon flew all around Baron Draxum's laboratory.

"Wahhhh! Haaaa! Ahhhhhh!"

He was flung up and around, bouncing all over the place including the giant, green glowing orb on top of the machine turning it into a dangerous red. The flaming, laughing weapon smashing right into Baron Draxum as Mikey crash landed on the floor in front of his super impressed siblings and friend. Raph exclaiming out.

"Woah! Mikey, that was awesome! how'd you do that!"

"I don't know man! I was just swinging my weapon, like this and all of a sudden-"

"Eheeheheheheh!"

"Just like tha- ahhhhh!"

Mikey's kusari-fundo lit on fire and threw him all around the place again. Raph, getting excited, started swinging his tonfas around in a circle.

"Let me try! Magic weapon, magic weapon, magic weapon, magic weapon!"

Raph's tonfas covered themselves and Rpahs body in red, glowing lighting.

"Oh yea! Magic weapon!"

SMASH!

Raph flew back into a wall, making a giant crater where he hit his shell against it.

"Mine works too!"

Leo ran towards Draxum, odachi held behind him prepared to attack or do something awesome.

"Can't wait to find out what mine does!"

As Leo ran foward and kept towards Draxum, the odachi formed blue glowing symbols along the blade, sparking with blue electricity. Draxum held a giant purple arm up in defense, ready to protect himself from the attack. Leo swiped foward, electricity crackling and dust blowing into Draxum's protected face.

..........

Nothing happened.

Draxum uncovered his face to see a profusely sweating Leo.

"Uhhhhh-Woah!"

Leo's odachi raised itself into the air, the blade fritzing out as a glowing blue hole opened underneath Leo's feet.

"Woah! Woah woah woah!"

Predictably, Leo and his odachi fell into the hole and disappeared but not for long as another blue hole appeared above the other. Screaming as he did so, Leo fell through both the holes over and over again picking up speed as he went.

"Get!"

Disappear.

"Me!"

Disappear.

"Off!"

Disappear

"This ride!"

Draxum stood watching as the turtle continuously fell through and screamed, looking very unimpressed as he did so.

"Oh! Oooo! Me next! Me next! I wanna see what mine does! Haha!"

Jumping and running foward, Clara charged at Draxum with her kunai poised and ready for an attack. Draxum scoffed and held up a hand to stop the puny attack from the small girl-

"Ahhh! You just impaled my hand!"

"Uhhh, ooo! Yea! I meant to do that."

Sticking into Draxum's oversized palm was on of the small kunai which began to glow pink from the handle. Appearing through the open circle at the end was a pink chain wrapping around the kunai handle and ending at Clara's hand, cracking with electricity.

"Woah! Ok, magic chain! Aweso-Woah!"

Draxum pulled the small weapon out and started swinging it around with Clara screaming at the other end. Finally releasing her and throwing her towards Raph who had just started to get up from his crash.

"Raphie! Help!"

"Ahhh! I got you Clara- oof!"

"Ughhhh, good catch Raph."

Both siblings had been thrown into the wall from the speed and power of the throw. Draxum still stood unimpressed at the baffonery of the turtles and their sister. Donnie sauntering up to Draxum's side and casually leaning on his bo.

"Aaaand that's why I like fighting the old fashioned way."

He flipped up his bo and charged for Draxum.

"With impossibly, futuristic high-tech weaponry!"

Going toe-to-toe with Draxum, Donnie jabbed foward, flipping and spinning his bo as Draxum was forced to block the hits with his giant purple arms. Spin jumping away from an attack, Donnie activated a mechanical, jet powered fist at the end of his bo. Draxum smashed foward, Donnie ducked under the attack as his bo stayed in the air. The bo spun in the air, the fist colliding with Draxum and knocking him back. Jumping up, Donnie caught his spinning bo and prepared to attack Draxum again.

"Just like I planned it-"

"Look out!"

Mikey flew in out of no where, smashing into Donnie and pushing him away from his attack on Draxum. Both brothers being wrapped together with Mikey's kusari-fundo as they fell and bounced away from Draxum. Draxum just stared unimpressed at the siblings and the still struggling April O'Niel. Leo was still falling infinitely, Raph and Clara were still toppled over against the wall, April struggling in her bonds and Mikey and Donnie tangled together.

"You fight like untrained buffoons! But under me you could become true warriors."

Releasing the same orbs that trapped April, Draxum cocooned Leo on his own, Raph and Clara together and Mikey and Donnie together.

"Ughh come on Raph, you're spikes are digging into my arm."

"Sorry Clare Bear."

"We don't spend enough quality time together!"

"Ohhhh, please not now Mikey."

"How are we gonna save the dog thingy now!"

Good point April.

"Donnie's on it!"

Donnie flipped his goggles down and observed the area for any escape routes or ways to save the dog thing. Only to get a very big error message when he looked up towards the red circle at the top of Draxum's machine.

"Wait a second, uahhhhh!"

"Turtles! Why are you trying to stop my plans! We're all in this together!"

"Uahhh! Hey! I don't know if this is part of your plan but the lab's about to explode!"

"Ahhh!"
"Uahhh!
"Ahhh!"

The glowing red ball started going absolutely haywire! Spitting out electricity everywhere until the core exploded into a blinding white light! Sending out giant debris and causing rocks to come tumbling down towards the group.

"Oh no-"

SMASH!

Baron Draxum was squished under a giant rock as the machine ripped in half and the mosquitoes inside were released. One of the falling pipes crushed part of the dog things cage which broke the magic barrier. Finally the little guy could teleport again and he imediatly teleported over to April and the screaming siblings.

"Little guy! Can you do your thing and get us out of here?"

Smiling up at April, the little fella teleported April and all the siblings out of their bonds, narrowly allowing them to escape being crushed. The group ended up outside of the lab where Mikey imediatly got to work drawing the M symbol on a rock. The portal opened up and the group wasted no time jumping through as the lab exploded behind them.

The portal opened up and spat the group out in a pile on top of one another, Clara landing sprawled out on Donnie as the rest of them were being crushed by Raph. Mikey dropped Splinters do-hicky and through all that crazy mayhem, the thing finally busted.

"Oh no! Splinter's do-hicky!"

"Man."

April just paid no attention to Mikey, instead trying to stretch out her back until the little guy popped into existence above her, landing in her lap.

"Are you ok boooy, or giiirl? You sure were good through all that mayhem. Hey mayhem! That's a cute name!"

"Ooo! Can I keep him! He's soooo cute!"

"Yea, that's gonna be a no. Splinter would never let us keep him"

"You're just a party pooper Donnie."

"Guys! We just defeated a boss villain! We're heroes! We deserve a name like Mad Dogs!"

As Raph celebrated their victory the whole group posed like heroes!

"Mad Dogs? You don't think something like ninja mutant turtle teens or, I don't know know."

"Maybe keep brainstorming on that one Leo."

A little green, glowing mosquito flew by the group disturbing the cool hero pose they were doing. Ohhhhh, the portal was still open. Huh.

"Woah!"

A whole swarm of mosquitoes flew out of the portal glowing a sickly green and purple, flying into New York city as the sun rose over the buildings.

"Huh, that can't be good."

"We should go, people's blinds are starting to open."

The group ran off, Clara jumping onto Raphs shell as the group hightailed it out of the streets of New York and back to the sewers. Well, the siblings retreated to the sewers, April went back to her apartment with Mayhem still in her arms. Clara was yawning as the siblings all wandered back into their home, Splinter still passed out in the living room.

"Come on Clare Bear, off to bed with you."

Donnie picked up the yawning girl and brought her into her room, right next to his.

"I can, can do it D."

"I know you can."

Donnie turned around as Clara got ready for bed, only turning around when he heard the covers being lifted up. She was struggling to life them up she was so tired. Grinning, he walked over and both lifted the covers and helped her into bed. Tucking her into bed and kissing her head as she passed out immediately. Leaving her room, Donnie walked into his own room and got ready for his own long awaited sleep.

What a night.

Chapter Text

All was chill in the lair of the mutant family and their little, human sister. It was family movie night so everyone was chilling in the lounge room watching another Lou Jitsu movie. Splinter reclining in his favourite chair as Raph, Mikey and Donnie acted out the soup shop scene, Raph playing Lou Jitsu, as the other two were bad guys. Clara sat in front of Splinter's recliner, using her crayons and a colouring book the guys had found her to occupy her time.

She loved Lou Jitsu! Don't mistake this for boredom, but she's seen the same scene one-hundred times and the guys won't let her be Lou Jitsu so she was staging a protest by not watching.

"Ok, Hop, how about some Hot Soup!"

As Raph followed along with the scene, he threw Donnie and Mikey over his shoulder into two bowls of soup sitting on cinder blocks. Splinter didn't look too impressed with their movements however, and paused the movie. Donnie raising his head and giving a thumbs up, which Clara still ignored in favour of colouring in a turtle.

"Man teriyaki chicken just gets me so jazzed!"

"Yea, Lou Jitsu's the business!"

WHABAM!

"Ughaa!"

Raph's joy was cut short as the TV remote came flying at him, hitting him square in the face. Much to the surprise of Donnie and Mikey, who had risen his head from the soup by this point. Clara raised her head and one eyebrow before continuing with her masterpiece, this turtle would be orange like Mikey.

"Then why do you insult the master with your poor technique!"

The three older siblings watched in dumbfound awe as their father/master jumped fully into the air while doing a front flip. Landing and easily throwing his much taller sons, Donnie and Mikey, back into their bowls of soup with much force.

"Do not worry. Some day you too will be great ninjas with a liiiiiittle practice. Is something I would say if I were a liar."

Eeesh, that was harsh. Mikey, ever the optimist, stood up from the floor and tried to find a silver lining with the situation.

"That's nice of you to say Pop. But I'm tired of practicing."

"Yea! We can be hero's like Lou Jitsu!"

And Raph was quick to pipe up with his own enthusiasm. Only to be shutdown by their laughing father as he walked away, ruffling his daughter's hair as he passed.

"Hahahha, nice try."

Both Mikey and Raph got up, raring to go and ready to fire each other up.

"We got the squills, we got the tight, colour coordinated team look!"

"Let's do it!"

Both red and orange brother fist bumped in joy.

"Let's go out and beat some bad guys!"

"Yea, you know, I just feel like we need a case. Get the juices flowing a little bit, let's see what the internet has to say about it."

Donnie pulled up his tablet as Leo liquefied himself over the back of the recliner, getting his bandanna tails in Clara's face.

"Bro, move you're head, I can't work."

"That's not work, you're just colouring in."

"Same difference."

"Yo Leo! Clare Bear! We're gonna be heroes!"

Leo raised his eyes to Mikey, ignoring Clara batting the tails out of her face.

"Ok, what's the plan? Solve the city's rat problem?"

SMACK!

"Hey now, I am standing right here."

"Wanna colour with me in protest, Dad?"

"Not right now, Pinky. Tail smack seems to work fine."

Raph just shut Leo's idea down anyway, while Donnie was still looking for a case.

"No way! We're crime fighters!"

"Ok, check this out, the spine breaking bandit!"

"Yeheheh-yeah! Go big or go home!"

Clara, slightly interested now, closed her book and packed her colours away. Climbing on top of Donnie's shell to get a look at his tablet, Leo shoving his way in between Mikey and Donnie to see as well.

"Yea, go home on a stretcher. What else you got?"

Donnie flicked the screen, coming up with another news report showing off a guy that was twisted into a pretzel.

"Ooookay, here's something, the long island mangler!"

"Yuck. Donnie what's mangler mean?"

"Donnie don't answer her. And while I appreciate you giving you're best effort, maybe we should save mangling and spine breaking for, I don't know, our second day? Or, you know, when we don't have little tag alongs?"

"Hey! I am a fully fledged member of this team! Raphie said so."

Donnie, Leo and Mikey gave Raph simultaneous eyebrow raises at that.

"What? She kept asking and-and who can say no to that face? You know the one! Don't judge me!"

"Oh we are judging you, hard. But Raph's, incredibly poor choices aside, this one's kinda lame someone stole paper from a delivery truck."

Donnie's tablet was ripped out of his hands by Leo who held it in triumph, getting all fired up about some, what, paper bandits?

"Not on my watch! That's exactly the kinda junior level mischief we can put an end to!"

"Really? That'll make us heroes? But it's only paper?"

Oooooo, now you've done it Raph.

"It's only paper? Hehehe-I'm so sorry, Donnie what did he say? Did he say it's only paper?"

"Yep."

"Did he say it's only paper?"

"Yes he did."

"Ohhhhh-kay! That's what they all say! You think the road to hero town is paved with real crime-?"

"He's really getting into this speech huh Donnie?"

"Yea so don't interrupt Clara. Don't want him to go through it twice."

"No! It's paved with the tears of poor paper men-"

"And women!"

"Yes Clara, and women! And who helps them? I'll tell you who, we are who."

There was a moment of silence, just to let the speech settle. Followed buy the exclamation of all the siblings as they all dashed out of the lair, out the sewer and into the city of New York at night!

Clara was hitching a ride with Donnie, sitting in his lap on the hover shell as they tracked the bandits with the tablet. Landing on the rooftop of a small building located just in front of a paper store.

"What kinda weirdo steals paper?"

Clara and Mikey immediately stepped up to that proclamation from Raph.

"A dreamer!"

"You look at a blank sheet and see nothing! They see possibility! Ugh!"

Raph elbowed Mikey in the side for that little rant, Clara safely hidden between Donnie and Leo to avoid any potential hits to the ribs.

"There is only one store they haven't hit yet and it is right over there. Oh, convenient."

"Donnie, I thought you planned that-"

"Shupupupup. They don't need to know Clara."

Raph leaned in and suggested to his siblings,

"How about we go all stealth and make them wish they stole toilet paper?"

Much to the excitement of everyone. Before Leo jumped off, he held a hand out and helped Clara up and onto his shell. Jumping down after their brothers. The five landed on the walls of the alley way where they saw two people, the paper bandits, stealing (unsurprisingly) paper.

One was skinny, had pointy teeth and wearing brown pants with some straps, almost like suspenders but they crossed over his chest. A red sash tied around his waist. The other was tall, big and burly. Sporting two weapons on his back and some purple pants to go with. Both had orange footprints on their faces and little tufts of fire floating above their heads in place of hair.

Both bandits immediately dropped the stacks of paper when they saw the siblings drop down into the alley way. Well, drop down is being kind. Mikey fell on Raph's shell sending them both to the floor and the other three siblings followed along.

"Ok, you two go that way. Donnie and Mikey, you go right. I'll take the roof and swoop down like a boss."

With their orders given, the siblings rushed away. Clara and Leo chasing the skinny bandit through the streets on foot. Mikey and Donnie chasing after the burly one but as they rounded a corner the four siblings, accidentally, collided. Ending with a horrible mangle of limbs.

"Swoop in like a boss!"

"Raph? Raph!"

"Raph!"

"Nononononono!"

"Ghaaaaaa! Owwwwww."

SCREEEEEEE!

The five siblings, after being crushed by their older brother, could only watch in disappointment as the bandits escaped with the paper in their van.

"Ah, quick question, did we seriously just get schooled by paper thieves?"

"Better question D, will I ever be able to show my face again after getting beaten by paper bandits."

"Thieves."

"Same difference."

"I don't swoop like a boss, I swoop like a noob."

"Man, this seemed like a really cool idea till we didn't succeed at it."

All of them were feeling pretty dejected. All except the brother in blue.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Where did my siblings go? Mikey? Where's you're legendary optimism?"

Only for Mikey to give Leo a frown.

"Raph, where's your.....you know, go get her attitude!"

Raph also frowned.

"Where's my favourite little sister's annoyingly upbeat style?"

Clara just turned away from Leo, not feeling up to anything really.

"Donnie? Where's you're....you're thing! You're emotionless passion!"

"....here."

Everyone was feeling dejected it seemed. That, of course, didn't stop Leo.

"We can still catch these lame ol' paper crooks and be heroes!"

"Yea, that's gonna be hard. This was the last paper store in town."

Right. Well, that stops that I guess.

"What if it wasn't the last store in town?"

"Clara that makes no sense, I literately just said it was-"

"No, no, no, I get it."

Leo gave Clara a smirk. Then the team got to work. Through stringing lights, arts and crafts and slicing multitudes of salami the newly made Leo's Paper Hut was born! Mikey stood proudly in front of the cardboard store front.

"It's beautiful!"

All the siblings hid inside while Donnie, sneakily, put a crudely made "paper sale" sign out front. Coming back inside and voicing his concerns to Leo, who was tying stacks of salami together, and Raph, who was standing in front of one stack.

"Do you really think that this is going to hook the thieves? The only paper we have is made from salami which is round, Paper is not round."

"Yes, it'll work. Raph stop eating the plan! Clara, you're supposed to be watching him!"

"I'm busy making this "paper" look square! Get Mikey to watch him!"

"Hey! I'm here for the job intervieeeeew-on no."

Turning to the front of the store, the siblings friend, April O'Niel had walked in. She'd been contacted, anonymously, by Mikey about a job interview happening at midnight.

"Maaaaan, I thought it was weird to have a job interview at midnight."

As she walked up to the counter, Mikey met her while wearing a fake mustache with glasses.

"Ah Mrs.....O'Niel! Huh! Customers!"

Bright lights shone through the cardboard made store. The turtles quickly ducking behind the counter and leaving April and Clara as the store employees.

"April! You're hired. Just read the sales script and remember the customer is always right! Unless they're a psychotic paper thief! If you get lost, just ask Clara, she's our longest employed employee!"

Clara merely waved from where she was standing by one of the stacks of paper.

"Uhhh, ok?"

"We'll be in the back."

The brothers ducked into a cardboard box with security written on it and a single peephole in the front. As the front of the store burst open and the burly bandit walked up to April.

"Welcome to Leo's paper hut! Can I interest you in ughaaa!"

The bandits made quick work of grabbing the paper, tying April up and making off with the salami. However, they didn't anticipate for Clara to have hidden herself on one of the stacks. Simply loading her up along with the rest of the fake paper. Raph, getting sick of waiting, burst the box open and looked around, seeing the carnage the bandits had made. Leo moved to the hole in the doorway screaming,

"no way!"

As the bandits made their escape. Leo kicked away the paper sign making the rest of the "building" fall forward and collapse. April falling from where she was tied up to a pole hanging over the store.

"Leo do you really think I would have let you make salami paper without putting a tracer in it?"

Donnie pressed a button on his wrist guard, Raph's stomach gave a grumble as beeping and a red light could be seen from his stomach.

"It's ok, I put two."

Only for the same thing to happen.

"You ate both the tracers!"

"How was I supposed to know where they were!"

"Ugh, how to we keep getting beaten by these clowns!"

While the older one's were arguing, Mikey was looking around in confusion. Counting the amount of people present on his fingers before finally piping up.

"Uhh, guys? Where's Clara?"

"What do you mean where's Clara she's right by the-"

"......."

"THE PAPER!"

"Donnie do something! You have to have something!"

"I can't believe we let our only little sister get kidnapped!"

"Get off me Leo! I've got this!"

Pressing another button, a little red dot appeared on Donnie's wrist guard.

"I put a tracer in her shoes."

"Phew."

"Man we were so dead."

"How could you let her get kidnapped Raph?"

"Me! What about you Mr. Store Manager!"

As the siblings dashed off following the tracer, Clara was chilling in the back of the thief's van. Making herself a little fort in the back, complete with a couch and cushions all of which was made out of salami paper. The van drove to the docks in New York, parking and loading one of the big ships full of the stolen paper. The turtles all looked on as Leo, holding a pair of binoculars, watched everything being unloaded.

"Alright guys, this is our moment. They may have given us the slip before-"

"Twice before!"

"Thank you Mikey, twice before! They may have kidnapped our little sister but now we've got them cornered and there's nothing that can stop us! We're gonna bust in there, rescue Clara, return that paper and be heroes!"

The four, not so sneakily, snuck onto the ship and watched as the two paper bandits stood in front of their paper stash. All four turtles dropped down, Leo standing up and pointing at the two bandits with his odachi drawn. The two thieves turned to face the intruders.

"Ok twerp and, surprisingly big man. It's four against two so, let's say we just call it a day right? You just give us back our sister, return the paper and everything will be cool."

"Woah! They've got footprints on their faces!"

"Uuhhh, are those flames on their heads?"

"Seems like a real hazard for a paper thief."

The two bandits just watched the turtles, until the big one smashed his fists together.

"You! I'm gonna grind your bones with my fists!"

"Ooooo, that's inspired. We're both gonna grind your bones!"

The skinny one had an awful, scratchy voice. It was almost like nails on a chalkboard. Raph wasn't intimidated however.

"Right. Listen, bubs,  before we put our footprints on your faces and get our sister back, we gotta ask, what's with all the paper?"

"We know of no sister, foolish turtle."

The skinny one then proceeded to take a piece of paper and fold it into an origami ninja.

"Yay! Arts and crafts!"

Only for the skinny bandit to throw the paper ninja and for him to turn into a real ninja! Thoroughly impressing the siblings, until the ninja charged at them. The ninja swung his fist back and hit Raph in the chest, sending the burly brother back into a wall and making a crater.

"Hey! Can you keep it down! It's nap time."

Everyone looked over as Clara, who had somehow made a castle from paper, opened her drawbridge and glared at the bandits and her brothers.

"Clare Bear!"

"You're ok!"

Mikey rushed over to the little human, picking her up and swinging her into the air in pure joy.

"Of course I'm ok! Why? Were you worried?"

"We thought they kidnapped you!"

"What? No, I was just following them. Then there was so much paper so I made a fort which turned into a castle."

"Uhhh hey! Super glad you're ok Clare Bear but maybe we should fight now and catch up later!"

Both the youngest siblings ran over to Donnie's side, just in time to watch Leo charge with his odachi ready to strike. Which is exactly what he did. Swinging up and slicing clean through the ninja and sending bits of, something in the air.

"Ewww!"

"Ugh, phfttttt, pleh!"

"Ugh gross!"

"Waugh! it's in my teeth!"

"It's in my hair!"

"Wait a minute, wait a minute! It's just confetti."

Leo was able to calm the siblings down, having thought they just eviscerated an actual human being. Not wasting any time, the paper bandits threw out more paper ninjas into the fray. Raph charged towards the three new ninjas, tonfa's at the ready as he punched and kicked the ninjas into confetti.

Just as one was coming up behind, Mikey swung his kusari-fundo and destroyed it. Only for the string to be caught by another ninja and Mikey to be sent flying into the ground. Cornered on his back by two ninjas, Mikey swung the ball and chain up to wrap around a pipe above them. Using the tensions to swing himself around and destroy the two paper ninjas.

Clara stood with her Kunai ready, using the blades to cut through the ninjas, throwing in some kicks and punches for good measure.

Leo was up on a platform slicing through paper ninja after paper ninja,  jumping off the platform and landing on a stack of paper. Shouting down to his siblings below him,

"We're getting nowhere fighting these guys, we gotta take out the source!"

Leo jumped off the stack of paper, right towards the big, burly bandit and clashing blades with him. The bandit managing to knock Leo's odachi out of his hands.

"Ok, you think you're pretty good huh?"

"Indeed."

Leo, in a fit of anger, went to kick the burly one in the face. Only for his ankle to be grabbed and for the bandits to get behind and kick him hard in the shell, sending Leo flying into the paper.

The paper bandits, were somehow, making a paper tornado around themselves.

"Uhhhh, guys? I think these bandits just leveled up or something!"

"What?"

Turning around at their sisters proclamation, the siblings watched in awed horror as the paper tornado made itself into a giant paper ninja. The giant enemy leaning forward and grabbing Leo, holding him in a crushing grip.

"Leo! Donnie, it's pinata time!"

Getting his mad scientist grin in place, Donnie transformed his Bo into a hammer, running forward with his remaining siblings, all their weapons drawn and ready to take on the beast. Only for it's smashing fists to separate Raph from his younger siblings, who kept running towards the fist holding tight to Leo.

The three younger one's jumped onto the fist and hung on for dear life, just as the other fist came for them and grabbing the three in their own crushing grip. Leaving only Raph to watch as his younger siblings were held and being crushed in front of him. He watched as the skinny bandit smirked, standing in a pose exactly like the giant ninja.

When the skinny one moved, the giant one moved. When the skinny one bumped his fists, he hurt Raph's siblings even more. Feeling righteous, older brother fury course through him, Raph charged at the skinny bandit. Building up speed as he went; as he approached the burly bandit stood in front of the skinny one. But Raph didn't care.

They were hurting his family.

With a mighty war cry, Raph raised his fists and tonfa's read to strike, not noticing the red glow covering his fists as he did so. But he certainly used the power up. Letting the red glow encapsulate his whole body as he body threw the two bandits into the wall. Raph stood there very impressed and dumbfound with himself before noticing the swaying giant. The giant, paper bandit fell and with it, a flurry of paper rushed out of the ship. Covering the room the siblings were in, in so much paper.

The siblings emerged from the sea of paper, Clara clinging to Donnie's shell, as the paper bandits emerged as well, the burly bandit trying his hardest to fold the correct ninja shape. Leo looked around, thinking of a plan.

"Mikey! The sprinklers!"

Pointing upwards, the orange turtle followed where Leo was pointing.

"I'm on it!"

Bringing out his kusari-fundo, Mikey let the ball light on fire and swung it up near the sprinklers, setting them off across the ship. The wet paper now being impossible to make into any sort of shape. The burly one growled at the siblings.

"You may have shredded our plans for now but next time, you will feel the fury of a thousand feet!"

"Oooo, you're on fire today!"

Before the skinny one pulled out a piece of salami and folded it into a ninja, making a salami ninja. Who, when formed, turned into a meaty, gooey mess.

"Ewww!"

"That's nightmare fuel man!"

Only for it to collapse in front of Raph in a meaty, salami mess.

"Ok, salami origami doesn't work."

Clara looked away from the mess, noticing the bandits had disappeared while they were distracted.

"Hey look! They vanished!"

"Then, what are we looking at?"

Apparently nothing. Well, apparently nothing. Until Raph's eyes grew wide as he looked down at the wet salami mess. The other siblings noticing as he moved to pick some up.

"Oooo, what is that, don't do it."

"No, no!"

"Don't do it!"

"Raph, no!"

"Someone cover Clara's eyes, she doesn't need to see this!"

"Raph, stop!"

"Look at me! No!"

Only for Raph to stuff it in his mouth and eat the mess.

"Ewwww!"

"What? Five second rule!"

"It's wet salami!"

Letting the grossness pass, Mikey pipes up, actually enthusiastic.

"Sooo, does this count as a win?"

"I don't know, let's think about it, Clara help me out here. Did the bad guys get their big supply of paper?"

"Ah, no."

"Did they build their army of soldiers?"

"No, no they didn't!"

"Are they otherwise thwarted and we unscathed?"

"Yes!"

All the siblings jumped up at that as Leo continued.

"Hero mission accomplished my friends!"

All the siblings jumped into a pile together as they tussled around in the wet paper.

"Well, you know, other than most of the cities supply of paper being ruined-"

"Shush and enjoy the sibling bonding Clare Bear!"

Chapter Text

"Ok mutant silver fish!"

"You've eaten people's laundry for the last time!"

Raph, with Clara on his shell, jumped towards the mutant silver fish that was holding a basket of laundry, smashing it with his tonfa's and fists. And one silver fish became two. Clara jumped from his back with a war cry smashing into one of the new silver fish while Raph pummeled the other.

And now there were four silver fish. Who just ate some underwear.

"What the?"

"Hey you two."

The oldest and youngest siblings looked towards their purple brother, Donnie, who was using his battle shell to fly. Sounding exasperated as always.

"Every time you smash them, they just split in two."

"I know! Isn't it cool!"

"No it's not cool Raph. Come on Clara, you've done math before, think."

Clara put her hands on her chin, furrowing her eyebrows and getting serious.

"Right right, umm, oh! Ohhhhh, I guess it does double the problem."

"Which means double the smashing!"

Raph jumped forward and began vigorously hitting the silver fish creating sooooo many. They obviously weren't too pleased with the attacks as they jumped Raph knocking him to the floor. Clara's eyes flew wide open at seeing her biggest and oldest brother fall to the tiny creatures. Before they could trample her, Donnie lifted Clara from under her arms and brought her into the air with him.

"But wait! What about Raphie!"

"I got'chu, Raph!"

Oh, perfect timing.

Mikey's kusari-fundo flung forward, the ball and string wrapping around the three silver fish, who were using Raph as a trampoline, as Mikey soared into view.

"This situation calls for a dose of my psycho acrobatics!"

BANG!

Only for Mikey to fly face first into a fire escape, the bang ringing through the alleyway the siblings were fighting in. Falling right into an open dumpster that closed over the top of him and the three silver fish he had wrapped up. The silver fish easily trampling him and opening the dumpster while punching him with their little fists.

By this point Clara had moved onto the seat that Donnie had made for his battle shell in hover mode and was watching this all go down.

Honestly? It was pretty pathetic.

"Ah boy."

Donnie obviously agreed with his following facepalm and rolling of the eyes.

"I got'chu Mikey."

Leo stood on a fire hydrant then just, ya know, cut off the side of it with his odachi, probably causing problems for the city but whatever. The jet of water was able to get the silver fish off Mikey, who was incredibly relieved as he scuttled back towards Raph. Leo landing, crouched, in front of the two with his odachi over his shoulder.

"Looks like these fish are, wait for it you're gonna love this, all washed up."

He giggled at his own pun.

Laaaaaame.

"Boo!"

"Agreed Mikey! Boo!"

"Ok, ok, ok! How about this-!"

"Ah Leo?"

Donnie had to interrupt Leo cause, well, the bugs were not so washed up and were looking at Leo with glowing red eyes. The mutant silver fish pounced on the brothers while they were distracted by Leo.

Donnie, with Clara on his shell, lowered them both to the floor in exasperation.

"Ugh, this is getting old-"

"I'm coming guys!"

"No, Clara!"

But she just jumped right in with the other three, getting covered in the mutant silver fish as well.

"Idiots, the lot of them."

Donnie pulled out his high-tech bo staff and transformed it into a tennis ball launcher. Launching the balls at the silver fish covering his siblings and shooing them away. Donnie simply put his bo away as his siblings celebrated.

"Mission accomplished!"

"Nice hustle Donnie! I knew we could deal with this as a team!"

Raph gave Donnie a thumbs up for his good effort!

"Actually it was pretty much just me but segway!"

Raph's thumbs up lowered as he frowned in confusion. Clara just pet his arm in sympathy.

"I think I have a little something to kick our skills into high gear."

Mikey and Clara gave a gasp at that. Donnie building something? Always rad! In front of the siblings, out of the ground, rose an awesome looking drill! No way!

"Wazza!"
"No way!"
"Jack Flash!"

"It's beautiful."

Mikey and Clara went to go up to the drill but only Mikey succeeded in hugging the drill, Clara was held back by Donnie catching the hood of her pink hoodie.

"No, no, no, not that."

"What do you mean not that? That should totally be the thing."

Very true Leo, who could say they owned a drill.

"No, no, no, that's just a little...it's in beta, don't worry about it. The real thing is much more personal and thoughtful and I really hope you like it cause if you don't I will JUST be crushed!"

No pressure or anything D.

"Donnie, just show it to us. I'm sure we'll all love it."

"Raphie's right, D! I loved that colouring book you got me!"

Donnie just gave Clara a smile as he pressed a button on his wrist guard screen.

"Alright, here it goes."

"Ok so we're just moving past the drill?"

Apparently we are Leo. The drill spun around, knocking Mikey off itself, as it opened up and had two yellow lights illuminate the dark alley. From the middle of the drill four platforms rose up each with a name card and some item on the platform. The very top had Raphael's name with a red helmet, second was Leonardo's with a neck brace thing; third was Michelangelo with an orange suit of some kind and finally Clara's with two new wrist guards. Mikey stared in wonder, same with all the siblings.

"You even got my life colours right!"

"Oh, hohooo, wow. I don't know what this is but it has got a lot of blingity-bling."

"Woah, Jazzy headgear."

"Yes! I've been wanting proper wrist guards! Now I don't have to use bandages!"

Soon all four were decked out in the new gear, turns out Mikey's suit was a jumpsuit. Who knew.

"Ohhh, I'm so glad you like them!"

Plus it made Donnie happy which was always good.

"Now let me show you how they work-"

SCREEEECH!

The siblings all looked up at the screech of a mutant.

"Huh? What was that?"

Following Raph's lead, they all dashed into the opposite alley. Only Mikey stopped to read a sign of all things?

"Chateau Prétenche? I think I've head of this place!"

But before Mikey could explain, Donnie dragged him over to where they were all watching some, uh, pig mutant play around with the silver fish.

"Another mutant? What's his deal?"

"No idea but look how ugly it is, look at those back bumps. Ewww."

"Shhhhh."

Leo put a hand over Clara's moth which, ok rude. He was just talking too! They watched as the gross mutant picked up the silver fish and looked around.

"You know what? That guy looks like the meatsweats."

"Hehehehe!"

Everyone but Donnie and Clara laughed, Clara still had Leo's hand on her mouth but Donnie was just unimpressed. They all watched as, the now dubbed, Meatsweats jumped into a sewer drain. Getting caught because of how, rotund he is. The hole lead into a subway tunnel, old trains and railway tracks littered the dark place as the siblings moved silently through the shadows. A train breifly passing through before the five siblings made their way to some sort of, uh, DIY kitchen?

Meatsweats could be seen in front of a fire with a bunch of pots and cooking utensils hanging from the ceiling so yea, DIY kitchen. Meatsweats dropped the silver fish into a bubbling pot filled with green water, licking his lips as he did so.

"Hmmmm, a little salt to add a pinch of savory! Lemon, for the tang. Unleash the flavour!"

"Unleash the flavour? Oh me gosh! It's Rupert Swagart!"

"Oh, yea!....Who is that again?"

"Oh no."

Both Mikey and Raph turned to Clara.

"What do you mean, oh no, Clare Bear? Rupert Swagart is amazing! He's a celebrity chef who's the host of condescending kitchen, a show where he screams at chef's until they give up their dreams! I love that guy!"

"You always watch it when I'm trying to color in, he's too loud and mean. I don't like him."

Mikey proceeded to tell the siblings about the most recent episode he was watching while cooking dinner. Where he saw the celebrity get stung by an ooz-skito on live tv.

"You saw a celebrity chef transform into a pig mutant and you didn't tell anyone?"

"I didn't wanna burn my risotto!"

"To be fair, D, it was good risotto."

"Thanks Clare Bear. Chateau Prétenche is his restaurant, no wonder he's here."

The siblings watched as Meatsweats opened the pot lid to reveal the silver fish had combined into one big silver fish again.

"Ugh, he's not gonna eat that bug is he?"

"He better not, D."

Then, just to add to the gross factor, Meatsweats took off his mechanical hand to reveal he had no hand. Just a twisting amalgamation of tentacles for arms, which he placed onto the cooked bug to suck the mutagen out of.

"Ugh!"

"Stop!"

"The bacteria in that!"

"My eyes!"

"Oh that's so much worse!"

Truly disgusting.

His arm pulsed as he absorbed the mutagen.

"Ah ha! I feel the rush of your delicious energy!"

His gross, pig nose rose into the air as he sniffed? Oinked? The air around him.

"Am I picking up the delightful aroma of mutant with an after stench of turtle? And possibly the tang of human? I'm thinking, lime turtle tenderloin! Over a bed of saffron rice and topped with a garnish of human tar tar!"

"Ooh! That sounds gooood!"

Leo and Donnie glared as Donnie covered Mikey's mouth at his proclamation.

"Are you joking Mikey?"

"He's talking about eating us."

Mikey removed Donnie's hand from his mouth.

"Well excuse me for wanting to be eaten in style."

THUMP!

The siblings looked up as Meatsweats stomped his way towards them with a meat tenderizer being used to knock barrels out of the way. The barrels that the siblings were currently using as cover. Not waiting for any sort of signal, Raph jumped on top of one barrel, right in the sight line for Meatsweats. Raph dodged a barrel thrown at him by the pig mutant and got himself ready for battle.

"It's time to mash this pig's potata's!"

Swinging his tonfa's around, he charged at Meatsweats with a war cry.

"Hot soup!"

Only for the remaining siblings to watch as he fell flat on his face. What?

"Uhhh, Donnie? The helmets talking to me!"

"Oh goodie! It's working."

Ohhhhh, yea ok falling on the face is a bit more understandable now.

Meatsweats and Raph tussled around in the barrels, well, more like Raph was trying to land a punch while Meatsweats was pummeling him with barrels. The siblings watched from the safety of their cover as Raph raised his tonfa's to form magic, red, glowing fists around his own hands. Raising them up and, finally, landing a punch to Meatsweats.

Only to watch in amazement as the pig mutant split into multiple, little versions of himself, just like the silver fish did.

"Fascinating, he must have absorbed the mutant silver fish's power, this represents a new level of mutant abilities!"

"That's fascinating Donnie but can you geek out later? We're kinda outnumbered here."

And Clara pointed out the multiple, much smaller, Meatsweats that had surrounded the siblings.

"Ahhh!"

Mikey and Leo, who was holding onto Clara's wrist, ran out of the hidden kitchen and back into the subway tunnel. Screaming as they were being chased by the small Meatsweats. Raph and Donnie following the three but being covered and beaten up by the small pig mutants.

Clara could only watch the destruction as Mikey made a sick back flip over one of the pigs and went to wack him with his kusari-fundo. Only for a robotic voice to pipe up,

"Impact imminent."

"Uahhh!"

And Mikey's suit inflated like a balloon, bouncing him away from his opponent.

"This has totally messed up my steeze!"

Leo, also, had found himself in trouble. Fighting against a tower of the little pigs.

"You'll beat me-"

Only to knock them all away with a flying kick.

"When pigs fly! Eughhh!"

Then to just be electrocuted? Clara watched on as her brothers either bounced around or continued to be zapped, which would be hilarious if they weren't in the middle of a battle!

"Get it together, dorks!"

Clara readied her kunai with chain, swinging it around super fast to build up moment and was about to take a swing at her own opponents.

"Danger, enemy ahead."

"Wait, what-"

Only for her new wrist guards to light up with a pink glow and send her flying away from the enemy.

"Ahhh! Help!"

SMACK!

"Ow."

"Clara? How'd you get back there?"

Looking up, Clara could see she had landed on Leo's shell. Her wrist guards, still glowing pink, had pined her to her brother's shell like a magnate. A very strong magnate.

"I don't know? These wrist guards flew me over here!"

"Guess you're flying into battle now huh."

"That doesn't even-"

"Ughha!"

Both siblings were zapped by the lightning this time.

"This thing doesn't like my one liners?"

"Jeez what tipped you off? Roll over! You're crushing me!"

"Eeeeeahahhhhhh!"

"Nonononnonon-!"

Clara and Leo tried to scramble out of the way as Mikey came hurtling towards them, bouncing on the two as a train hit them as well. The three crashed into an old train car as Mikey's suit deflated and Clara's wrist guards stopped glowing. All three got up with Leo glaring at the two youngest.

"Ugh, dude Mikey, Clara what did you two do?"

"It wasn't me! I was getting ready to pummel some of those pigs when these guards just started glowing and I flew over to you!"

"Yeah, it's this suit! Every time I do some razzmataz, this thing inflates and throws me off my game. I need my razz and my tazz!"

Non of the three noticed Raph peaking his head over the window of the train car, Leo just started ranting.

"And Every time I drop a killer joke bomb, this stupid collar zaps me."

"Well, my gift just keeps nagging me. I don't need to be told how to think."

Startled, the three turned to look at their oldest brother who had his arms crossed and was glaring.

"Does Donnie really think I'm a crazy kangaroo who needs to wear a padded suit so I don't hurt myself?"

Poor Mikey looked so dejected while Rpah rose up more out of the window in anger.

"Does he really think I need to be told what to do all the time?"

"Right? And who doesn't like my one liners, they fire up the team right guys?"

All the siblings just awkwardly stared back at Leo.

"Yeah, I'm a big kid now! I've got my Kunai and I've been training with you four. I don't need to be constantly stuck to your shells."

All the brothers just passed silent eye contact. Clara's one might not be so bad for her.

"Hey! I am a big kid! I can do this stuff!"

"Yeah yeah, sure, anyway we need to tell Donnie he doesn't get to tell us what to be-"

"Leo's right!"

"With maybe the exception for Clara."

"I take it back. You have never been right in your life."

"Yeah, I know-"

All three younger siblings looked up towards Rpah.

"But he's got such a soft shell."

"That shouldn't matter-"

"It's like he's trying to fix us. What are we, broken?"

"No!"
"No."

Mikey and the other two turned to Raph.

"So what are you gonna do about it leader, huh? You gonna stand up and tell him his gifts stink?"

Raph though on it for a moment.

"Yeah! Yeah I think I am!"

Ring, bzzzt! Raph looked at who could possibly be calling him.

"It's him!"

Perfect timing, Donnie was calling.

"Oh he's so gonna get it!"

Clara climbed on top of Leo's shell, Mikey's was covered by the suit, to watch this go down. Nobody could tell these siblings how to change! Not even their own sibling! The three watched as Raph geared up to yell into the phone, only for him to start gently talking to Donnie.

"Ooooo, hey buddy. Hey, uhm, really loving the gifts you got us. Oh hi, yeah. Well we know how long it took you to make them and it was sooo thoughtful! But, uh, what's that?"

The other three siblings could only watch in disappointment as Raph caved to Donnie. Clara leaning her head on Leo's shoulder to avoid looking at her, now, least favourite brother.

"Hang on, hang on, I'm gonna put you on speaker."

Just as Raph did, Donnie's voice could be heard crying out,

"Where did you guys go! Why did you leave me! They're gonna cook me alive, ughaaaa!"

Not wasting anytime, the four remaining siblings raced back to Meatsweats DIY kitchen watching as Meatsweats stood over his work table. Preparing, probably, something to cook Donnie with.

"Hey, Raph, you need a plan."

"Ok, according to Donnie's condescending hat I need to make a plan."

"What've you got?"

Raph, compleatly ignored Leo's question as he ducked behind some barrels and thought reeeeeeealy hard.

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"I'm not good at making plans."

"Uhhh."

Leo just face palmed as Mikey looked down dejectedly.

"Of course you're not, just like I'm not good at fighting if I can't razzmatazz."

"And how can I be any better if I'm just stuck to the backs of your shells?"

"Ughaaaa, uhgahhh! I'm still on speaker!"

Oops.

"Hey Raphie, maybe cut the call?"

Which he did so.

"And I'm no good at repressing my lightning wit-"

"Maybe you could tone it down a bit-"

"Shush, the point is who are we? We are who we are."

"Yeah, and the only way we're gonna save the guy who's roasting on a spit is by being we."

The four remaining siblings held their hands out in the middle of them, stacking them up in a show of solidarity.

"Hey Meatsweats!"

Mikey called out, making some hand puppets behind the wall where Meatsweats was chopping some carrots.

"Distraction jitsu!"

While Raph collected Donnie who was tied up with sausages on a spit over a fire pit.  Running away with a dejected Donnie on his shoulders as Meatsweats threw barrels at them calling out,

"I used an entire pound of butter on him!"

Raph lead Meatsweats into the subway tunnel where he proceeded to disappear as Meatswets stood and looked for the disappearing turtle.

"Hey, Meatsweats!"

Leo appeared over the big pig's shoulder. As Meatsweats turned to look, Leo had disappeared and reappeared behind him while pulling back his underwear.

"You're about to get some shocking news!"

Ughhzzz!"

Leo dropped the neck collar into Meatsweats underwear, as the pun was said the device zapped but now it was electrocuting Meatsweats. Leo just continued to let the one liners fly as the shocks continued.

"Huh, wait? What're you doing?"

Leo, who was leaning up against a pillar, turned to talk to Donnie who had appeared behind him.

"I'm getting the most out of your gift, Donnie. Check it out, hey Meatsweats I hear bologna is full of you!"

And right on cue the device sent a shock through Meatsweats.

"Hey no! That's not how-"

But Donnie's protests were cut off by Leo laying out one liner after one liner. Only to be interrupted by a punch from Meatsweats.

"Chef Swagart! Big fan, I was wondering, um, how do you get your meat so tender?"

"You've got to pound it! Ohh."

Meatsweats turned up to the beam where Mikey was, just to see the exact moment when Mikey's suit inflated and pounded him into the ground and all around. Sending Meatsweats flying into an unused train car. Both Leo and Mikey fist bumped as Donnie, who was still tied up, came hopping over to the two.

"Hey, hey, hey. That is not how you were supposed to use those, I spent a lot of time on- hmm?"

The three siblings looked over as Meatsweats used his tenderizer to pound his way out of the train car. All three watched in horror as he disappeared from view, reappearing above them with his weapon held high and falling towards them. Leo and Mikey rushed away but Donnie fell to the ground as he was still tied up. Just as Meatsweats was going to crush him the blow was blocked by both Raph with Clara magnetized to his shell. Raph held his tonfa's up with the glowing fists to block. Clara managed to use the wrist guards to stay perfectly balanced on his shell and kick Meatsweats away.

As Raph was releasing the tension from his fists, Meatsweats came up and trapped his face which still had the helmet. Meatsweats threw the two around but with the combined force of Clara's acrobatics and the pummeling power of Raph's magic fists they pushed the pig away.

"Hey, Raph you need a plan."

"Ahhh!"

As Meatsweats was charging, Raph grabbed both his helmet and the wrist guards and placed them on his fists.

"Bad plan!"

"Hot soup!"

He charged at the overgrown pig, Clara now holding onto his spikes, as the two burly mutants collided. Meatsweats being knocked back by Raph's fists. While in the air, Clara let go and used her Kunai with chain to wrap and swing Meatsweats into the way of an oncoming train. Adding to the force of the impact. The siblings hearing the distant screams of their foe as he was carried further and further away.

Raph held up the destroyed helmet and wrist guards to a, very, unimpressed Donnie. Using the helmet like a puppet and the guards like lips.

"Donnie, you're gifts really brought out the best in us."

"I'm funnier."

"I'm bouncier."

"I'm nimbler."

"And I'm smashier! You're gifts are the stuff!"

Donnie just continued to be unimpressed.

"But you were supposed to-ugh...forget it. You guys are great the way you are. Bring it in, group hug."

Gasp! Donnie initiating a group hug! Willingly! Yes!

No one wasted any time, all squeezing in together with Clara right in the middle and wrapping her arms around Donnie's middle. What a great sibling moment.

"Impact imminent."

"Ugh!"

All the siblings were thrown back away from each other, Leo catching Clara before she could be hurled into a beam or wall. As both were getting up, Raph was speaking in a low voice to Donnie. Where Donnie just gave him a thumbs up.

Huh.

Wonder what that's about.

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Presently, the lair was in complete chaos.

To put it simply, Donnie "upgraded" their microwave and now it was wearing boxing gloves and shooting lasers at Clara and her brothers. And by brothers, Clara meant Leo, Raph and Mikey because DONNIE WAS ON THE PHONE WHILE EVERYONE ELSE WAS RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES!

"GET OFF THE PHONE AND HELP-"

"April still hasn't gotten through the happy birthday song yet guys."

Raph popped up with a look of distress while Clara paused while she was in the middle of throwing a remote at Donnie's head.

"April still hasn't gotten through the happy birthday song?"

"AM I ON SPEAKER?!"

"You are! Hi, April!"

"Or cake, actually."

Now Leo popped up next to Raph and Clara while laughing.

"Ha! Or cake?"

"Alberto's is the pizza place right? We'll be right over."

April started to say something but Donnie hung up before she could finish and quick as lightning the five siblings had arrived at the pizza place. Standing in awesome poses while holding up their weapons, except for Raph who was just flexing while talking to April,

"Fixers in the house! Swooping in to save the day!"

"That was fast, actually....I just needed Donnie."

"Oh we know! We just came for the free pizza and I wanna try out some of the arcade machines!"

Clara had popped up next to April before wandering off into the pizza place. Raph said something about the others blending in like robots but Clara didn't need to worry about that, perks of being human. Walking through the stage curtain, and avoiding Donnie's little "dazzling science experiment", Clara found herself in the main party area.

In a room full of screaming kids.

Major cringe. Screaming kids were about as fun as nails on chalkboards.

Putting her hands over her ears, Clara walked down the side walls, quickly making her way to a slightly quieter area where there were some arcade machines. Honestly, the whole pizzeria was kinda bad; awful lighting, the perpetual smell of old pizza and the place was always full of screaming children. New York wasn't much better in terms of smell, nor the lair, but at least she was used to that. Ignoring her own pessimistic thoughts, Clara found herself an unoccupied skee ball machine, and some abandoned tokens. She didn't get a terrible score but not a great one either. Maybe she needed to work on her aim with the guys in training? Or get out of the lair more.

Either way, ten tickets was always appreciated. Who knows, with the way the ticket system worked at these places, she might just be able to afford an eraser or a piece of bubblegum.

Clara moved along, avoiding some kids chasing others with buckets on their heads, she found an arcade machine with some game called East Man and Laird Boy. Honestly, it was kinda fun even with the pixel graphics, it was a fun boss run game and netted her twenty tickets.

Thirty tickets total? She might just be able to afford a "Grow-a-llama" or a Ring Pop. Hmmmmm, the "Grow-a-llama" would be preferable, would be a fun pet for her and Mikey to look after.

Before Clara could move onto another machine the stage curtains at the front rose up and the pizzeria's band was revealed. And by the looks of it, completely shiny and new. Ok, interesting. She moved closer to the stage waiting to see what the band would do.

"Bonjorno, kiddies!"

Alberto, the main singer and star, rose up, about to play the guitar and yelled to the kids,

"Hold onto your hats, kiddies!"

Before bringing his arm down onto his pizza themed guitar and absolutely rocking out! There was head banging, neon green lights, a guitar solo! It was awesome! Clara found herself screaming along with the kids at how awesome this show was!

That was until Alberto glitches on stage like a poor video game character.

Uh oh.

The bear began spinning around like a tornado and, in a freak accident, hit his guitar into one of the overhead stage lights. He began sparking, glitching and his voice box was even going off the rails. Looking to the side of the stage, Clara spotted Donnie with his "uh oh" face.

Well, in times when your genius brother is making the "uh oh" face, Clara has found it's best to make your escape, as quickly as possible. There's usually a high likelihood the thing in question will explode. Diving under a table, Clara plugged her ears, closed her eyes and braced for impact.

BOOM!

See? "Uh oh" face always leads to explosions. Always.

The shocked silence and ensuing darkness made Clara open her eyes a fraction then fully. Peeking her head out from the table Clara saw Alberto, slumped over, smoking and sizzling while on stage.

Ok, freaky.

"Ok so, that happened! But we can still sing happy birthday without him! Happy birthday-"

In the middle of April trying to save the show, and probably her job, Alberto began sparking again. But as he sparked he rose up like Frankenstein's monster, one yellow glowing eye and another one glowing red. Outfit ripped and pieces of his face and body missing. He moved forward like a zombie and spoke like he was in a horror film. Skin on his arms and hands had burned off revealing the animatronic underneath and the killer claws said animatronic was hiding under his gloved hands.

"Hey diddlie ho, kiddies. Time to pump this party up! Let's play!"

"Ugaaahhhhhh!"

Clara is not ashamed to admit she screamed and ran away from the, frankly, horrible site. Jumping over tables like a gymnast and sprinting like her young life depended on it. Finding a, slightly, out of the way table, Clara ducked underneath it. Curling up into the fetal position with big tears welling up in her eyes.

She wanted out, she wanted out, she wanted out, this was horrible! Clara watched from under the safety of the dining table, and through her hands covering her eyes, as Alberto chased the kids and April to the exit. Long, sharp, mechanical fingers shredding through the presents like they were paper thin. Just as April had gotten the kids out the door, Alberto was on her and poor April only had a pizza dish to protect herself with.

This was stupid! Clara should help April, she has to but...

One look at the freaky looking Alberto had her cowering in fear again, eyes shut tight and arms covering her head and ears.

"-Lara, -ra! Hey, Clara! Open your eyes, sis!"

The shaking of her body, the familiar voice and the gentle hand on her shoulders made Clara gently peek her eyes open to see Leo in front of her, dorky smile in place but eyes full of worry. He was on his hands and knees, curled awkwardly under the table she had hidden herself under.

"Hey Clare bear, you hurt?"

"Leo!"

Clara wasted no time in diving towards her brother, knocking him over and wrapping her arms tight around him as he did the same to her. She could feel Leo gently patting her back, speaking softly but urgently and trying to coax her out from under the table.

"Come on Clara bear, you're tougher than these mechanical menaces! We can take them on easy peasy!"

"Did you say them?!"

"Did I say what now?"

Looking over Leo's shoulder Clara spotted her brother's fighting against, not just Alberto but his whole crew and the arcade machines themselves.

"Ahhh! No,no,no,no,no!"

Which just prompted Clara to hide herself in Leo's arms, burying her face into his plastron. 

"Hoo, boy."

"Leo, what are you doing! Get out here and help!"

"I would Donnie but Clara isn't moving!"

Looking up from Leo's arms, and looking more closely at the battle, Clara could spot her family, including April because she was basically Clara's big sister, fighting against the machines. April was defending Timmie, the birthday boy, while fighting off Voles from the Whack-a-Vole machine. Mikey was getting his shell handed to him by President Pepperoni, Donnie was fighting off Cherry and Raph was punching more Voles.

They were all doing something, so why was she sitting here crying with Leo while her family was being hurt? Just as she was trying to work herself up, Clara's eyes blew wide and she yelled while leaping from under the table and Leo's arms,

"A-april! Look out!"

Not even thinking about the consequences, Clara threw her Kunai with chain, the glowing pink chain wrapping around April and Timmie. She pulled as hard as she could so both would avoid the rocket the Voles had launched at them, narrowly avoiding the ensuing explosion. April, safe and still holding Timmie, pet Clara on her head.

"Nice save lil ninja! Now come on, help me hide Timmie."

Still very much afraid of the animatronics, Clara threw her Kunai at any that attempted to get close. Guarding April as she threw Timmie and another kid into the claw machine.

"Right, you two stay in there, you'll be safe, and my friend Clara is gonna protect you ok?"

The two little kids nodded their heads while Clara just looked confused up at April.

"Me?"

"Yeah you! I can't think of anyone else more up to the challenge of protecting the birthday boy than you! Just keep them safe and keep the Voles away, easy peasy!"

"But-"

April knelt down and put her hands on Clara's hunched shoulders.

"You got this lil ninja, just like the guys do! You've faced worse things than these guys and you're a ninja right?"

"Yeah."

"Then show it! Say it!"

"I'm a ninja?"

"Louder!"

"I'm a ninja!"

"Like you really mean it!"

"I'm a NINJA!"

"Yeah you are! Now keep those two safe, got it!"

"You got it party captain O'Neil!"

Giving Clara a salute, April ran off to help her brothers while Clara used her Kunai to slash, smash and crash the voles trying to attack the claw machine. She was able to glimpse Mikey destroying President Pepperoni with Skee balls and Donnie escape from Cherry blowing herself up.

Even Leo, who had left the table, and Raph were teaming up and taking on Alberto. But as Raph went to power up his power smash Jitsu it wouldn't work. Both Raph and Leo ended up on the floor, either in pain or passed out, Clara couldn't tell.

"Raphie! Leo! Ahhh!"

And she couldn't do anything, these Voles were really determined to break into the claw machine. Luckily Mikey swooped in from the ceiling pipes and was going to lend a hand to her two fallen brothers!

Only to get knocked out as well.

"That's it!"

Bodily throwing the rest of the Voles away, and ignoring the fear she felt running straight at Alberto, Clara abandoned her post and ran towards the bear animatronic as he was towering over her pile of brothers.

Nobody got to step on her brothers. Nobody got to hurt her brothers, and if this stupid fear was going to keep her from helping her family then Clara was gonna face it head on and win.

"You stay awa-ugh!"

"Hold up, Clara."

She looked up to find her one remaining brother, Donnie, holding the hood of her hoodie. Oh thank the stars she wouldn't have to face Alberto. Did Clara have a favourite brother? The answer is yes and right now it's Donnie.

"Donnie, wha-?"

"He's the king of birthday parties, so there's only one way to get through to him."

Both siblings looked over to the, still intact, birthday cake. So Clara called out to Alberto while Donnie held the cake for him.

"Hey Alberto!"

Clara had to hold back a grimace as that half destroyed face looked directly at her. Shaky smile straining further and sweat beading down her face.

"You know you can't be the king of birthday parties without having one of your own!"

Donnie held out the cake to the robot and just as he was bringing his hands up to smash it, Alberto stopped.

"Ahhhh- wait what? A birthday party for meesy weeasy?"

Donnie walked forward, Clara staying behind him and both stepping over the pile of their brothers, as he spoke to his creation. She would have held onto his shell or belt but Donnie didn't like touching very much, she respected that. Even if she was terrified.

"That's right Alberto and today's the day you were born! Through a total accident that's clearly nobody's fault."

"Birthday cakey-wakey for measy weasy?"

Alberto seemed genuinely happy when Donnie handed over the poorly decorated cake but Clara still didn't trust the animatronic.

"Not just a cake my friend, we've also got a little song for ya! Happy birthday too you-"

Clara's brothers picked themselves up and started signing with Donnie's monotone rendition of the birthday song. Clara didn't join in, too busy watching the animatronic like a hawk while hugging Mikey's arm. Just as Alberto started crying oil tears, a mallet hit him on the head.

Wielded by non other than April O'Niel.

Oh, that looked fun. Now she wanted to hit something. That something being Alberto.

Jumping into the carnage, fueled by fear an the safety of having April beside her, Clara slashed at the animatronic with April smashing it to pieces.  

"Take that!"

"Stupid creepy thing!"

"And that!"

"Don't use claws to hurt others!"

As April and Clara finished beating the robot into submission, April stood back up demanding the brothers finish the birthday song. Clara stood on top of the downed Alberto, kunai in hand and ready to fight if he got back up. Or moved in anyway.

"Sing with me guys, I am finishing this party! Happy birthday- finish the song!"

"Dear...kid?"
"Kids?"
"Words..."
"Albertoooo?"

"Happy birthday to you-uagh!"

Just as they finished the song the building started to rumble and shake, cracks forming all throughout and chunks of concrete and wood falling from above them. Clara jumped off the animatornic and landed with her brothers as the building rumbled above their heads.

"Oh mi gosh!"
"Oh no!"
"Ahhh!"
"Clara!"
"Ahhhhh!"

Clara knelt down, closed her eyes and held her hands over her head to stop the debris from hitting her. She didn't open her eyes until the rumbling stopped but looked above her when she noticed she was covered in a shadow.

Four shadows to be precise.

Her brothers were standing above her, arms interlocked over their shoulders and using themselves as a shield for her.

"Guys? You-"

"Save the awe for later Clare bear, we gotta run."

Leo stopped her question while holding a hand out to help her stand up.

"Why? Is the sun coming up? Oh, wait-"

And looking around at the ruined building, Clara agreed that it was time they all retreated to the safety of the lair.

"Yeaaaaaah, let's roll, bye April! Wicked party!"

Clara ran off, following Leo back to the streets and into the sewers as they made a mad dash for home. All five siblings arrived back at the lair, unscathed and, mostly, ok.

"Sweet work guys! Now, where did that microwave go-"

"W-wait, guys, uh-"

before Raph could lead the brothers on the hunt of the flying microwave, Clara's call stopped them. 

"Yeah, Clara?"
"What's up?"
"You good?"
"Bear got your tongue?"

Clara snorted at Leo's terrible pun.

"That was horrible-"

"Made you laugh though!"

"Anyway! I-I just wanted to say thanks for shielding me back there and-and to say, sorry for not helping with the fight...so, sorry."

Clara didn't look at her brother's, instead scuffing her trainer on the concrete ground with her hands folded behind her back. She hung her head in shame for letting a silly fear of that Frankenstein looking bear get the better of her. Clara only looked up when Leo knelt in front of her.

"It's chill Clara, we all got things we're scared of-"

"Yeah! Donnie doesn't like beach balls!"

"Shut up, Mikey!"

"But! You still faced your fear and helped us with Alberto."

Clara looked up at Leo then at her other three brothers.

"Sooooo, we're cool?"

"Don't think we were ever un-cool to begin with."

Clara gave a big smile and launched herself at Leo, wrapping her arms around him as much as she could, he had a shell after all. He hugged her back and she got up to do the same with the other brothers, only stopping to see if Donnie wanted a hug or would be fine with a pat instead. He opted for a pat to the head with the mechanical hands but it still left Clara glowing with happiness.

Her brothers would always be there for her and she loved them for that.