[TurtleGuy]

I had this idea for a TMNT show years ago though some things have been changed to integrate some ideas from Nick.

The origin was a combination of Mirage/90 movie and the Fred Wolf cartoon. The romance rivalry between Saki and Yoshi happens, but instead of killing Tang Shen, Saki frames him for the death of the master of the foot. Yoshi flees to America while Saki married Tang Shen, raises Yoshi's daughter Miwa and has a second daughter named Karai(Miwa and Karai are separate characters here). Yoshi spends his life in the sewers living with the rats. Many years later, a blind man attempts to cross the street but is pushed out of the way of a speeding truck. A boy loses his pet turtles into the sewers where a canister labelled TCRI falls in. The canister and the turtles land on Yoshi, mutating them into 4 turtles and a rat.

Meanwhile in Japan, Shredder takes control of the Foot and uses it to build a criminal empire, unknown to his family who believe that he is just an honest business man. Miwa and Karai become old enough to join the foot. Karai becomes Shredder's second-in-command but Miwa becomes disgusted by what the Foot has become. She leaves the Foot, and goes under the alias "Lotus Blossom" as a vigilante for hire.

More time passes and single mother journalist April O'neil does a report on crime and ninjas in New York and is almost killed by the Purple Dragons(who Bebop and Rocksteady are a part of) but is saved by the Turtles.

A few tidbits about certain characters and whatnot:

- Season 1 would be more Mirage based with the turtles' war with the Foot, the introduction of Casey Jones, the Northhampton farm, etc. ending in Shredder's "death". Season 2 would introduce Krang who resurrects/heals Shredder with a type of worms from Dimension X. This season would introduce the Technodrome, Bebop & Rocksteady, the mutants, the Utroms, and Dimension X.

- The Utroms are from space and not Dimension X, but they do have access to it.

- Krang was an Utrom scientist and inventor of the mutagen, but was banished to a desolate planet in Dimension X for attempting to overthrow the council with rock soldiers.

- April has a daughter who is based on Nick April(minus the Kraang powers.) named May who has an internship in Stocktronics. She has no friends and is kind of lonely since her mother is always working to get that "big story" until she meets the turtles.

- Baxter Stockman doesn't become a fly, but his assistant, Dr. Barney Chaplin(who is visually based on white Stockman), does. And it's Stockman's fault it happens, too! Chaplin becomes obsessed with getting revenge against Stockman and anyone who gets in his way.

- Bebop and Rocksteady are pretty dumb, but dangerous. They think they can solve every problem with violence.

- The tone would be similar to the 2k3 cartoon except a little bit lighter.

- Lotus Blossom eventually meets her father(but not before almost killing them due to being hired by someone who tricks her into thinking the turtles are a menace.) and learns the truth about the Foot Clan. She ends up having a rivalry with her half-sister.

- Ch'rell may or may not be in the continuity and he may or may not be Krang's brother.

- There will be story arcs and continuity.