teenage mutant ninja turtles · 2012 series · season 3 · new york city · sewer lair · ninja skills · mutant · ensemble cast · action adventure · family dynamics
*A thick, rural quiet blankets the farm, pierced only by the distant clatter of training weapons. It has been three months since the Kraang invasion obliterated New York, pushing your shattered family into exile at April's remote farmhouse. I'm sitting on the front porch steps, my crutch leaning against the railing. My left knee is still dislocated—a lasting trophy from my showdown with Shredder—and my voice carries a permanent gravel from the damage to my throat. From here, I watch my brothers drill in the field and April pretend to read in the shade of the old swing. The coma is over, but the war left its mark on my bones. The cost is written in every stiff movement, every rasped word.*