A reluctant part of this family

by RushedWriting

Summary:

You are 18-19 years old, a mutant turtle though you’ve been referred to as a yokai. The foot clan was all you ever knew, Cassandra was the closest thing you could call as a friend. One day, suddenly, you’re called upon as back up, to fight again, more turtles?
Then you realize how familiar they look

 

I had a dream like this that didn’t last long but I had ideas lol

Notes:

I’ll actually have art of what Y/n looks like, both male and female or how ever you wanna use that but, that’ll be chapter two probably, maybe, if I have time

Chapter 1: The beginning

You remember opening your eyes to a dark and wet environment. The smell of rain entering your nose. Instinctively you sit up, taking a moment to learn to balance. You crawled over to the rain, flinching as a drop or two hit you but you weren’t afraid. You were rather enjoying it. Suddenly, you were being lifted, and held against a warm body. You looked up, you saw a bigger creature, pink skin, dark hair, a light pink tail. Though, his face was blurry in your memories, his voice almost muffled. Then you became aware of smaller creatures, turtles like yourself, but tinier.

“I’ll keep you safe turtle creatures” the bigger creature spoke, “I’ll never abandon you”

 

A year later

After you were moved to the Sewers, you came to understand more. You were the oldest of five, the big creature was a rat referred to as “dad” or “splinter”. At least, that’s what he would try to get you to call him. Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo. The names of your brothers. You would recognize that Donatello didn’t have a hard shell like the rest of you, you had a habit of placing boxes over him to keep him safe. Then would cry when you couldn’t see him so splinter would have to come over and remove the box. Raph, being a bit of a clumsy tot, would be bothered by you trying to get him to sit still. Leo just wouldn’t listen to you at all which would result in you chasing him in circles. Mikey, being the youngest tot didn’t do much, simply stayed close to you or Raph.

You would watch the turtles as “dad” would look for food, coming back with hardly any. The usual would be dry day old bread and bruised fruit. Just enough to feed the five of you, splinter most days would go hungry to make sure you all would eat. You didn’t get it back then but it would make you feel guilty, hearing his stomach grumble. He would smile to cheer you up. “Do not worry my little one, I ate already so you enjoy your food.” He lied.

One day, in the morning, everyone was fast asleep to await until night. Everyone but you, you could still hear “dad’s” stomach growling. You crawled out of the large pillow he had you all stacked on and touched the cold cement of the sewer floor. You glanced to your “dad”, his face still blurry, though you could tell he seemed to be more grey then you remembered. You waddled into the sewer tunnels, that’s where you saw “dad” leave every time to bring back food. So you walked.

 

And you walked.

 

And walked.

 

A realization came upon you, you didn’t know how to get back. Every tunnel looked the same, every dark and wet corner of it seemed to only get darker. You spent hours looking around, trying to find food, find your brothers find Dad, find anything! But there was nothing.
You stepped into light, looking up, you were under a slightly open man hole cover, and a ladder. You’d seen Leo climb dozens of items so that only seemed like the next logical step. You climbed, struggling to reach the next rung each time, but eventually you reached the surface. Squeezing through the hole, your ‘ears’ were assaulted by loud noise, blinding light, and even colder cement as New York was starting to be hit by the winter season. You grabbed on to the manhole cover and pushed yourself out, moving the cover and making it shut your only way back in. But you made it! You were excited about that! Before realizing you didn’t know what to do next. You were standing in an alley, cold and hungry from all your adventuring. You began to tear up and cry, calling out for your dad to come rescue you.

“Well what do we have here?” A raspy, gravely voice spoke from above you. You’d seen look up, and see pink skin, now that was familiar. But the voice wasn’t. You were promptly picked up and got a closer look at the figure’s face. Pink skin with a red, foot like print on his face, and fire on his head. He smirked “well, I think we can put you to good use.”

That’s how your life with the foot clan started

Chapter 2: Under the foot’s command

Summary:

You don’t remember much before the foot, years of basically never ending training pushed back anything of your past to the back of your mind.

Notes:

Im struggling with the pic, ill probably just post it to my tik tok if i failed to upload it here
@reallyrushedart on tt!

Y/n meditating a dark room. Taking slow breaths, you take a deep breath in, and out. Focusing on nothing, these one of the few quiet moments they got to themselves . 

At the age of 12, under relentless foot clan training they found there was more to them than just being a giant turtle. They had powers, so the foot clan labeled them a yokai. Their powers connected to the green lines on their arms. When provoked they would light up, and electricity would flow through their body. By 17 they learned to control it.

 

now they were 18, the foot’s top recruit who usually waited to be called upon as back up. That was today. The stone they were given buzzed, the grabbed it and looked at it “yeah?”

“Meet us at the collection point, we have the paper but we have…something, after us!” The lieutenant said 

“something?” They raised a brow. That wasn’t very specific, like the lieutenant was keeping information from them. 

“Just meet us now!” He growled

 

y/n rolled their eyes and tossed the rock aside. They got up and grabbed their bow and quiver. This was the first time in a while they got to leave the base, which was nice for fresh air. They headed out, expecting an easy mission. How could stealing paper to make paper clones get complicated?

 

 

more complicated than they thought apparently. 

Y/n entered the boat to see the bosses fighting and trying to make as many paper ninjas as possible to fight against, turtles? More yokai? But that wasn’t the most odd thing to Y/n, the most odd part was the color coordination. Red, blue, purple and orange, something seemed quite familiar. 
the bosses had three of them in a very large pepper ninja’s hold, y/n watched as the last turtle avoided the giant ninja and quickly took down the bosses, making the paper monster tip over. 

“Whoo! Amazing job hermano!” Leo cheered for his big brother.

”thanks I-“

”idiots!” A voice above them called out. They jumped down, landed into the paper, for a moment making it scatter and blocking the view.

once the paper settled down the figure of a turtle could be seen, a darker green turtle with light green stripes on their arms.

Donnie’s eyes widened “wait what? That’s not-“

”is that another turtle??” Mikey said confused. 
“no. Way.” Raph and Leo stared shocked and confused

The new turtle ignored the other four and looked to the lieutenant “this is why I say paper soldiers aren’t affective” 

“they’re easier to recruit!” The second in command growled

y/n rolled their eyes and looked to the turtles, noting how young they looked “on top of that, you lost to children?” 
“hey!” Raph huffed “we’re not kids, we’re heroes!”

y/n grabbed a piece of paper “children shouldn’t pretend to be heroes”

”Mikey! The sprinklers!” One of the turtles called out

’mikey’ quickly threw his weapon up, it lit on fire and the sprinklers started. Turning all the paper into mush. The bosses growled and got out of the paper “Y/n! well let you handle this” they looked to y/n they climbed up the ladder to get out of the boat.

 

“Hey we beat you! We can handle another one of your goons even if it’s a turtle!” Leo yelled out.
“oh trust me” y/n spoke up, “you can’t handle me.” 
the four turtles watched as the green stripes on the turtle began to glow, they touched the water and paper below them and sent electricity across the floor 

the four turtles below screamed out as they were electrocuted, quickly going unconscious. 
Raphael was the first to wake up, he checked on his brothers who were just waking up. 
raphael looked around for the fifth turtle that attacked them “look, they’re gone”

Donatello rubbed his head “so what are we looking at?”

”where could the other turtle have come from?” Raph said looked to Donnie as he picked up the meat that they’d used as fake paper to lead the foot to them

“Probably the oozquitos from Draxum’s lab got to them.” Donnie said “don’t eat that-“

“but a turtle ninja? They’re basically like us but evil” Leo huffed, then shuddered in disgust as he watched his older brother eat the meat mush

“Maybe we can ask them the next time we meet, and make a new friend!” Mikey said optimistically 

“yeah I’m not so sure about that, come on” Raphael got up, still chewing on the meat “let’s go home, we can figure this out another time”

”stop eating the meat!” Donatello said annoyed at this point.

Chapter 3: Secrets revealed

Summary:

Splinter over hears the boys talk about a new stranger they came across. A stranger he long thought was dead.

The boys were hanging out in the lair, Donatello looking at the footage of the new turtle they’d come across “a turtle with electric powers? It’s odd”

”you know it’s probably the effect of the oozequitos” Leo, his twin, peaked over his shoulder to look at the footage 

“we just came across another -possibly teenager- mutant ninja turtle and that doesn’t concern you at all?” He raised a drawn in brow at Leo “something tells me this is more then just an oozequito getting to a ninja.”

“Any idea what kind of turtle they are?” Mikey looked from the movie they were watching 

“not yet, my guess by the shell type is some kind of slider.” Donnie hummed

“what’s this about a slider?” Splinter walked over “are we having sliders for dinner?” He said almost excitedly.

“No dad- we’re talking about-“ he paused. Should he tell him? They already didn’t tell splinter about the mystic city they found how would he explain the ninjas that can make paper ninjas? “Uh-“

”we saw another mutant turtle while trying to fight the paper bandits-“ Mikey began before Donatello smacked his head gently “Mikey!” He whisper yelled

Splinter’s eyes widened for a moment. “A what?? What did they look like?? Where did you see them?”

The four turtles were taken aback by the questions. 
raph spoke up “uh, at the peer, they were a turtle with electric powers, shocked all of us- literally” he looked to Donnie “show him”

Donatello rolled his eyes and showed splinter the video footage. Splinter picked up the tablet and stared at it “it can’t be..”

”can’t be what pops?” Leo asked curiously 

“your eldest sibling is alive..” he said in disbelief 

 

“our WHAT?!” The four turtles said in unison.

 

splinter stared at the picture, remembering the day he lost them in the sewers. “I was young..a new parent, still getting use to this rat body. The first few months was the hardest, trying to take care of and feed five baby turtles and myself. Most days I would decide to go hungry, so you wouldn’t” 

“wait- so I’m not the oldest??” Raphael interrupted

”ha!” Mikey cheered, now Raph would know what it’s like to be the younger sibling.

”anyway!” Splinter huffed “your oldest sibling always noticed, noticed when I was hungry and tried to share their food with me” he smiled a little at the memory. 
“what was their name?” Leo asked

splinter got into his chair and leaned back against it “their name was (insert artist name here lol), but I doubt they remember” he sighed “they were just a child when they left, when I lost them..”

Donnie raised a brow “how does one lose a baby?”

“I was tired, and I’d tucked you all into bed, then myself. But when I awoke..they were gone. I searched for months, hoping I’d find them but..I never did” he looked down a little ashamed 

“Well..why don’t we get them back?” Mikey asked “we saw them, we know who they hang out with, why not ask them to come home?”

”they attacked us for one” Donnie said 

“yeah I doubt they’ll come willingly if they’re with those weird foot face guys” Leo commented 

“It would still be worth a shot!” Mikey grinned “what do you think Raph?” He looked to his older brother 

raph hummed in thought, then looked to their dad who still had a sad look on his face. “Yeah alright, let’s bring our sibling home!”

mikey cheered

donnie rolled his eyes “I’ll go make something to catch them with the next time we see them”

__________

——————-

back with the foot clan y/n couldn’t help but think about the turtles they saw. They looked so familiar but couldn’t place their finger on it. 
“Y/n!!” A very loud Cassandra appeared next to her “train with me!” 
y/n looked to the rank 0 recruit “not now Cassandra, you should be focusing on your up coming mission.” 
“I would be more prepared if we trained together to destroy our enemies!”

 

”I have a different mission to focus on” y/n got up and headed to the exit “I don’t have time to train the lower ranks”

Cassandra looked disappointed as she watched them walk away “oh, alright..”

y/n left, they were going to find out more information on these turtles, one way or another 

Notes:

I was gonna follow the chronological order of rottmnt but it might skip around a little, mostly to focus on the foot clan eps and a few filler eps

Chapter 4: Awkward reunion

Summary:

While looking for info on the new turtles, Y/n goes to the mystic city to find someone they hear would have information on four turtles

The mystic city was loud, it was basically New York just with yokai. It was Y/n’s second home. Their escape from the foot clan during movie nights. Just thinking about another Lou Jitsu movie made their skin crawl. 

The few leads they did find was of a scientist whose lab had blown up not too long ago. So they headed there. At the entrance they were met with tiny black gargoyles 

“Oh! muninn look!” The smaller one spoke up “another turtle”

”oh! Maybe the boss will want to see” the other flew inside.

Y/n raised a bit and waited. Then one gargoyle peaked out “you can come in now”

They stepped inside, guided by the tiny creatures, they were lead into a lab. A quite broken down lab that looked as if it had seen battle.

”so that’s where you went, I was wondering why you didn’t accompany your brothers when they came and destroyed my lab” a voice spoke up, draxam. 

y/n looked over to the opposite side of the lab, raising a brow “do I know you?”

”more then likely not, last we saw each other you were just an infant.” Draxam walked over to them “though you were a bit older then the others, I wouldn’t be surprised if you held some kind of memory of this placed of the day it blew up and lou jitsu took you away”

”lou jitsu. The 80’s-90’s movie star.” Y/n squinted at draxam skeptically. “I came to find information on four turtles on the surface and you’re telling me that I was born here, and Lou jitsu took me?”

 

draxam chuckled “The one and only. I took him from big mama so he could serve a greater purpose.” He walked over to a few pictures he had kept from that time “but before that I needed a test run” he picked up a picture of all his test subjects. Five turtles, all different species. “I used my dna in hopes I could create a strong mutant, what I ended up with..was you” he looked to the turtle beside him. Nothing how they were taller then the blue or purple one but still shorter then the red one. “You were my first attempt, a part of me in you. You didn’t gain my entire strength but you seemed to have gained..other abilities”

 

y/n looked at their hand, glowing and lightning leaking out slightly. “My electricity.”

”precisely.” Draxum nodded “after studying you I realized I needed..admittedly stronger dna. So I sought out the champion of the battle nexus, but of course like any foolish human he didn’t take me making weapons lightly.” He put a hand over destroyed machinery, it took him so many years to rebuild just to have his creations come in and destroy it. “Even the way they fought reminded me of louj jitsu.”

“a problem with your little story.” Y/n turned to leave, pulling their dark grey mask with the footclan’s symbol on it “I wasn’t raised by Lou jitsu or with brothers.”

Draxum hummed in thought “odd, I know for a fact I saw him grab all three of you..in any case, are you here to join me then? We can complete your training and you could become a powerful-“

”no.” Y/n put their mask back on and headed to the door, though, hesitated to leave “I came for information and I got it, that’s all”

Draxum noticed the hesitation and smirked a little “my door is always open should you ever change your mind.”

”my duty to my clan comes first” y/n glanced to him before walking off, considering everything. ‘Part yokai, part turtle..the others are part Lou jitsu part turtle. The only thing we have in common is our turtle part and even then none of us are the same species.’ They thought to themselves as they left the lab. ‘A lot to think about, but no longer do I have to concern myself with those turtles, I just have to make sure they’re not in the clan’s way. That’s it.’

 

 

Once home the lieutenant looked over from his chair, yet again watching another Lou jitsu movie “you’re home late, where were you?” He raised a brow 

“out.” Y/n said as they passed by him, glancing to the movie 

“can I ask where?” He sat up from the chair “you were gone for hours-“

”no.” Y/n closed the door to their room.

the lieutenant rolled his eyes a little “teenagers.”

 

Notes:

I’m just gonna just do my best with the chronological order of the timeline lol