Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Next Chapter

**Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Next Chapter** is a fan-made 2025 film written by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.

## Characters

### Major Characters

* Bebop
* Donatello
* Leatherhead
* Leonardo
* Michelangelo
* Raphael
* Rocksteady
* Shredder
* Splinter
* Stockman Fly

### Minor Characters

* Genghis Frog
* Mondo Gecko
* Scumbug
* Wingnut

## Plot

The turtle brothers Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Donatello have been raised by their adoptive rat father, Splinter, after the five of them were transformed into humanoid mutants by "ooze" — Baxter Stockman's mutagen. Being chased away by humans led Splinter to distrust humanity and train his sons in the art of ninjutsu, instructing them to only leave their sewer home to steal supplies. Now teenagers, the Ninja Turtles long to live as normal high schoolers, much to Splinter's dismay.

After defeating Foot ninja on camera, the Turtles get accepted by society, and go to high school. Baxter Stockman is one of the teachers at the high school, secretly working at TCRI and developing a mutant army. Baxter Stockman mutates himself. The Turtles meet the Foot Clan and Stockman's mutant crew: a warthog man named Bebop, a crocodile woman named Leatherhead, a rhino man named Rocksteady, their leader: a fly man named Baxter Fly, a frog man named Genghis Frog, a skateboarder lizard named Mondo Gecko, a cockroach woman named Scumbug, and a bat woman named Wingnut. Shredder, Baxter Fly's boss, is even there. Shredder is eager to get the Turtles to join the Foot Clan and even befriends and teaches them about ninjutsu. Every week, the Turtles sneak out to hang out with the mutants and train in ninjutsu with Shredder. Sometimes they even bring Splinter along and Splinter and Shredder befriend each other without knowing each others' identities.

But then the Turtles hear the Foot's plan which is to use the mutagen to create super soldiers to take over the world. The Turtles go along with the plan to save their necks. Shredder sends the Turtles in a van with Mondo Gecko, Wingnut, and Rocksteady to get the last piece of the mutant-making machine to TCRI. The Turtles sabotage the van and Shredder immediately knows what's happening. Shredder leaps from car to car and gets to the van and attacks Leonardo, almost killing him. Raphael punches Shredder and Shredder falls off the van, the Turtles escape into the sewers. At home, they tell Splinter about it and the Turtles, and Splinter (without Leonardo) go to TCRI to confront Shredder and the mutants.

Getting the final piece to the mutant-making machine, Baxter Fly creates the super soldiers, then the mutants are unleashed upon New York City. When the Turtles convince the mutant crew that what they are doing is bad, they all team up with Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, and April to fight against Baxter Fly and the rest of his mutant army, where Splinter head to face Shredder. The Turtles and the mutant crew shoot the mutant army with retro-mutagen guns, turning them all back into the animals and humans they used to be. Leonardo shows up to the fight scene with Shredder and Splinter and fights with Splinter against Shredder. While fighting Shredder, they find out that he is a Utrom war criminal named Ch'rell. Then, after killing Shredder and defeating Baxter Fly, the mutant crew lives with the Turtles and Splinter in their lair. The Turtles are blamed for the attacks on New York City, learning that they don't have to be accepted but accepting themselves is enough.