2017. New York (TMNT 2012 universe)
Leo, Raph, Donnie, and Mikey glided like shadows across the rooftops due to an alarm. These days, they had to fight much less often, although the Foot Clan somehow managed to get Shredder back. They were convinced that the man had died and that Karai had taken over the leadership of the clan, but somehow their enemy had reappeared. Fortunately, the many years of experience strengthened the gang, and with the defeat of Krang, the Quickfoot Clan did not pose a world-shattering problem by itself.
However, they heard some rumors on the street about a fight, and they wanted to investigate this. The information was vague, but several mentioned cases of a single warrior holding his own against the Clan's humans and robots. That seemed pretty unrealistic, if not impossible. Can a new, unknown guy just beat a dozen footbot?
What made it even weirder was that according to some reports the Foot Clan was chasing the guy for some reason. The clan doesn't have the habit of making such a big fight over a single person, but of course it doesn't usually happen that someone gets out of a conflict with them alive...
"We have them! " - the turtles stopped on the roof of a block of flats, from where they could clearly see the events taking place in the alleys. Down there, canes marched around the corner, chasing someone they couldn't see.
"The robots are here, but the guy's late," Mikey stated confusedly.
" It's not late, look! " Leo pointed to a figure in the corner of a fire escape.
At first glance, even the ninjas couldn't tell that the dark corner was hiding a humanoid being. Fortunately for them, in the middle of the most confused moment of the footbots, the unknown person jumped out. They could observe himbor her to some extent during the fight, but his or her quick movement and cloak hid a lot from their eyes. The brothers were ready to jump, waiting for when they had to jump into the battle, but the unknown handled the opponents with surprising ease.
"I guess it's he and is a human," Donnie said with the help of his self-made digital binoculars, "and he is either young or quite short."
" He's moving strangely, he's holding something in his hand, can't you see what it is? " Raph asked.
Leo's attention was then caught by a glimmer, something sparking for barely a moment on a distant rooftop. No one else noticed, but Leo, suddenly enlightened, jumped down the alley, pushing the unknown warrior away.
"Be careful!" he shouted at the same time as the operation, then added: "Shooter a few streets up."
Standing face to face, he could meet the man whom the clan was chasing for some reason, but not quite, because his face was covered by a large mask. Leo met eerily glowing green lights in the place of the eyes, when the man just nodded at his arrival without understanding.
"You can't just suddenly jump down like that! " Raph joined them in disgust.
" Sniper at West street" Leo warned his brothers as well.
Meanwhile, the man turned into a back street along the building. This must have hit the shooter's blind spot, so the turtles followed. They ran out of walking sticks, no one was chasing them, but for the sake of safety, they would have tried to hide as soon as possible, but they didn't want to lose sight of the unknown.
The man then suddenly turned into an alley and by the time the brothers arrived, there was no sign of him.
"Where the shell could he have disappeared into?" Raph looked around.
"I don't want to spoil the party, but I think we should let the guy run," Mikey said much more quietly.
" Why, what's going on?" Leo asked.
"New footbots are gathering at the end of the street" Mikey looked out at the corner of the alley.
" Quick, into the sewers!"
The manhole cover of the alley closed softly back into place when they met the green lights shining in the semi-darkness. At first they took a few steps back in terror, then realized that they were dealing with the man they were looking for. The said figure hesitantly waved at them, but did not move or say anything more.
" You!" all the turtles shouted at him, and then there was awkward silence.
" Hello, it's good that we ran into each other, we were actually looking for you, my name is Mikey, we heard that the Foot Clan was chasing you and we thought, wow, what could a guy do, what's the name anyway? Your mask is cool, although the glowing eyes are a bit scary... " the orange brother finally took a break to somehow start the conversation.
Donnie stopped him, hissing softly about the potential dangers of messing around with strangers.
"My name is CJ" they heard then, and looking up they could see that the unknown voice belonged to this person who took off his mask in the meantime.
The turtles stared at him in silence for a few moments when Leo said the obvious:
"My age is not relevant," CJ shook his head.
" Okay, so who are you and why are you being chased around town by canes? " Raph asked.
"Yes, about that... " CJ scratched the back of his head in confusion " I think I need your help."
