Pitch an Alternate Universe TMNT Story

[Panda_Kahn_fan]

I worked on aversion once, for a story I wrote, which is more reboot and less AU. but there are two essential difference between most normal versions of TMNT, and mine;

They are not ninjas, and the nagi/Saki relationship is altered.

Here, Hamato Yoshi and Oroku Nagi were two Japanese War orphans after World War two, who were brought to the U.S. after the war. They were taken in by a Taoist monastery in New York's (Empire City, in my story) Chinatown, where the head monk raised the two and taught them Chinese martial arts. The monastery guards a green 'elixir of life', which the monks believe is a product of taoist alchemy.

As he grows up, Nagi grows tired of only using his martial arts for defense, and slowly turns the other younger students against the head monk. One day, he assassinates the head monks, just as Yoshi is returning from buying four baby turtles from the pet store. Nagi and Yoshi fight, but during the struggle, the sealed glass container containing the elixir of life shatters, spilling he green goo all over Yoshi and the turtles. Yoshi collects the turtles, some of the monastery's weapons and equipment and flees into the sewers, while Nagi takes over the monastery, and reorganizes the formerly peaceful monks into a martial arts Tong, the foot. Nagi dons a suit of Samurai-like armor to honor his Japanese heritage, and calls himself the shredder.

Yoshi, now calling himself splinter, raises the four turtles in an old speakeasy he found in the sewers, trains them in wudang kung-fu, and gives them the Non-Japanese equivalent of their traditional weapons (the tekpi, the nangun, the tabak-toyok, and a set of dao swords) sends them on a mission to eliminate Nagi and his criminal empire. The turtles manage to destroy the monastery,and Nagi is killed in the battle, but Nagi's son, Ororku Saki, takes up the mantle of the shredder, and launches an ongoing war against the turtles. And the cycle of revenge begins.

Later, they start meeting human allies, (like April) who just call them 'ninjas' just because they can do martial arts, wear the bandannas, and they sneak around. So the 'ninja turtle thing is more of an inaccurate label here, rather than being actual ninjas. And that's my turtle AU XD.