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So I had this weird idea...

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Average kid Casey Jones, stern over-achiever April O'Neil, shy geek Irma (No last name given) and egotistical (accident prone) young genius Baxter ("Bax") Stockman all go to the same Jr. High school (and are now around the same age, just roll with it ) and happen to get picked as a team for a biology project about turtles. Casey unilaterally decides to add some 'life' to their presentation and impulsively decides to go and buy four turtles from the pet-store only to drop their case when he has to push an old man out of the path of a TCRI truck. The turtles fall down the sewer along with a canister of ooze from the truck, and to add insult to injury the old man runs off without so much as a 'thank-you'.

Maybe another kid would've just written the turtles off as lost but not Casey Jones! He finds a way down into the sewer and locates the turtles (coated in the strange ooze) and manages to coax all but one of them into a shoe-box (the last one had it's attention caught by a mysterious, hooded shadow that Casey doesn't spot, so he has to pick it up by hand) before rushing to meet the others at Bax's house. Awe-struck by Bax's amazing home lab Casey leaves the turtles unattended and the other three end up getting handled by the rest of the kids (who are understandably grossed out when he explains the reason for their odd smell). Nonetheless in a short time they find themselves oddly attached to their new friends and, after naming them (and WASHING them), each take one home.

Each of the kids puts their turtle away and goes to sleep, after which the same mysterious shadow from to sewer visits sneaks into their homes (with NINJA-like skill) and steals their turtles!

Later that same night they each wake up nauseous and in a cold sweat. They rush to their restrooms to find - much to their shock - they're now giant, talking turtles! Bax calls them all to come to his lab and they each sneak out and make the trip. As they all try to figure out what happened the blame inevitably falls to Casey's turtles - which in their panic and shock NONE of them thought to bring (or notice was missing) - but just as they're about to go back for them a mysterious, hooded figure (same from the sewer) steps out from a dark corner with the four turtles in his furry, rat-like hands.

"My humblest apologies," he says "I feared the turtles had be infected by the mutagen so I tried to secure them as soon a possible, but I underestimated how little exposure it would take to...I am so very sorry."

"Who are you?!" shouts April,
"What are you?" adds Baxter.

The figure sets the turtles down on a table, as he does his hands start to change from a rat's to a man's.

"My name is Hamato Yoshi, and what I am..." he takes of his hood, revealing himself to be the same man Casey rescued earlier that day,
"...is much like YOU."

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...I told you it was weird, don't give me that look.

Like the man said TMNT is built for reinvention (go on YouTube should go see all the different shorts that have been made of it, they're AWESOME) and this is mine, I don't want this box to get any bigger so if you have questions feel free to ask and I'll answer what I can (it's just the germ of an idea right now; most of this I didn't even have thought out until AS I was typing this description). I'll be putting this in my "ideas" folder like usual and maybe I'll add to/tweak it here and there down the line, but feel free to share your thoughts on the pitch so far.

Description
So I had this weird idea...

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Average kid Casey Jones, stern over-achiever April O'Neil, shy geek Irma (No last name given) and egotistical (accident prone) young genius Baxter ("Bax") Stockman all go to the same Jr. High school (and are now around the same age, just roll with it ) and happen to get picked as a team for a biology project about turtles. Casey unilaterally decides to add some 'life' to their presentation and impulsively decides to go and buy four turtles from the pet-store only to drop their case when he has to push an old man out of the path of a TCRI truck. The turtles fall down the sewer along with a canister of ooze from the truck, and to add insult to injury the old man runs off without so much as a 'thank-you'.

Maybe another kid would've just written the turtles off as lost but not Casey Jones! He finds a way down into the sewer and locates the turtles (coated in the strange ooze) and manages to coax all but one of them into a shoe-box (the last one had it's attention caught by a mysterious, hooded shadow that Casey doesn't spot, so he has to pick it up by hand) before rushing to meet the others at Bax's house. Awe-struck by Bax's amazing home lab Casey leaves the turtles unattended and the other three end up getting handled by the rest of the kids (who are understandably grossed out when he explains the reason for their odd smell). Nonetheless in a short time they find themselves oddly attached to their new friends and, after naming them (and WASHING them), each take one home.

Each of the kids puts their turtle away and goes to sleep, after which the same mysterious shadow from to sewer visits sneaks into their homes (with NINJA-like skill) and steals their turtles!

Later that same night they each wake up nauseous and in a cold sweat. They rush to their restrooms to find - much to their shock - they're now giant, talking turtles! Bax calls them all to come to his lab and they each sneak out and make the trip. As they all try to figure out what happened the blame inevitably falls to Casey's turtles - which in their panic and shock NONE of them thought to bring (or notice was missing) - but just as they're about to go back for them a mysterious, hooded figure (same from the sewer) steps out from a dark corner with the four turtles in his furry, rat-like hands.

"My humblest apologies," he says "I feared the turtles had be infected by the mutagen so I tried to secure them as soon a possible, but I underestimated how little exposure it would take to...I am so very sorry."

"Who are you?!" shouts April,
"What are you?" adds Baxter.

The figure sets the turtles down on a table, as he does his hands start to change from a rat's to a man's.

"My name is Hamato Yoshi, and what I am..." he takes of his hood, revealing himself to be the same man Casey rescued earlier that day,
"...is much like YOU."

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...I told you it was weird, don't give me that look.

Like the man said TMNT is built for reinvention (go on YouTube should go see all the different shorts that have been made of it, they're AWESOME) and this is mine, I don't want this box to get any bigger so if you have questions feel free to ask and I'll answer what I can (it's just the germ of an idea right now; most of this I didn't even have thought out until AS I was typing this description). I'll be putting this in my "ideas" folder like usual and maybe I'll add to/tweak it here and there down the line, but feel free to share your thoughts on the pitch so far.