Master Casey Jones!?!?!
After finding the address to the Dojo, Raph immediately headed in that direction, it was only 6 blocks from the Memorial, which he got a good look at it now at ground-level, and smiled when he saw a Turtle among the war-heroes. When he gets there, he finds a longer line of belted fighters than there were of mastered fighters lining up outside of the dojo, he stands in line with the Mastered fighters, not sure how he'd play through signing up without Master Splinter there with him, but he hoped doing a formal family address will work. It didn't take long for him to take his turn when he saw the Dojo master and his Assistants with him signing up fighters, and his jaw nearly dropped to the floor when he saw the Master Sensei, “Casey!?! What are you doing here?!” everyone looks at Raph like he was a madman, the Sensei up wondering how this turtle knew his name, “I run the Dojo sir, can I help you?”
Raph pushes by the crowd with them grumbling and yelling about him cutting and being favored, “YOU LOSERS BETTER SHADDAP BEFORE I BAP YA ONE ACROSS CENTRAL PARK!!!” A female lizard mutant shouts as she enters from the side door, catching Raph's full attention when she walks up to the turtle, “And YOU no cuts in line even if you know my dad, everyone knows him as Master Jones and you show him proper respect at all times!” Raph looks at Casey, then bellows out laughing, “Master Jones?! For real?! You can barely manage a high Jump kick, forget being a master” he continues laughing until the girl punches him out, “Alright pal, yer askin' for it” She stretches her neck the same way raph tends to and cracks her knuckles.
Raph sits up growling, “Hey, I've known Casey for years sweet-heart, I ain't about to talk to 'im like some grand master just cuz a chick punches my jaw” the girl growls low in her chest, “Chick!?” everyone that was signing up suddenly bails out and runs out of the dojo, raph looks around wondering what had just happened, but before the question was asked, it was answered with this girl leaping on Raph aiming for a fight. Both reptiles circle eachother sizing eachother up and they get into a hand-to-hand fight which Master Jones was watching carefully; this turtle was a master ninja fighter, as if the gear hadn't been obvious enough, he stands up and walks up to both reptiles and pricks his fingers on a pressure point under their chins stopping them and sitting them by the wall. Suddenly raph was reminded of splinter with Jones doing that, that's when he remembered that he was in an alternate reality, “Alright Mr. Green-o” okay, yeah, alternate universe, but still Casey Jones, “I Don't know who you are, but I get the feelin' I remind ya o' someone that looks like me, how's about we start from the beginning.” he bows, “I am Master Casey Johnathan Jones of the CJK Dojo, this is my Daughter Kaimana” Kai rubs her neck grumbling, “ 'sup?” Raph's heart skips a beat, then he Shakes his head clear, “I'm Hamato Raphael, and yeah, you might actually be an Alternate universe version of a good friend of mine, cuz I tell ya, he ain't nothin' like you …....Master Jones” wow, that felt weird.
Invited into the back of the dojo which was all residential, Master Jones quickly strips off his Hakama and sets it aside revealing underneath he was in shorts and a tank top. He redresses behind a screen into Jeans and a white long-sleeve with a red Tee over the top of it, now he looked like the Casey that Raph as more familiar with. Speaking of which, after saying a few hellos to his family, Raph explains his situation to Master Jones and Kaimana and his wife, to which Raph could only assume was an AU version of April, “Would you like some Tea Raphael?” Raph sits on his knees at the kotatsu with the family, it was an AU version of April, he'd know her voice anywhere, “Yeah, please.....and uhhh forgive me for asking, but …....why's everything so Japan here?” April chuckles at his choice of words knowing that with them being what most would call them “white-bread red-blooded Americans” and all, “My Husband here is the descendant of one of the war heroes that fought alongside the master and founder of the Dojo, I'm sure you saw him, I’d think you'd relate to him, the big Turtle?” Raph blinked, he did remember seeing the turtle on the memorial, “So that turtle was the founder of the Dojo?” April nods after pouring tea.
She explains the Turtle in question founded it to teach everyone willing to learn the principals of Bushido through any martial art form they want to learn, or to hone their current skills as well as maybe learn new ones. The Turtle's name was Hama Oroku, or Oroku Hama if you want to be proper about it.” Raph went wide-eyed at the mention of Oroku, “He was raised by a pair of kind old masters of the Hamato and Foot clans, known as Hamato Yoshi, and Oroku Saki, brothers in arms even though--” Raph interrupts, “They weren't related by Blood, I know the story, or something like it, in my world, Oroku Saki and Hamato Yoshi weren't friends, they were enemies actually. But there was a human that was friends with Hamato Yoshi the same way, Yukio Mashimi, they were like brothers, till he and Hamato Yoshi fell in love with the same woman and it drove a wedge into their friendship” Master Jones raises his head looking at him, he was starting to believe maybe this Alternate Universe thing wasn't such a stretch after all, hence why he introduced the teenaged Turtle to his family, “My wife April is the foremost authority on anything scientific from practical to outrageous, she might be able to help you get home.” Raph looks up at April, “Don't tell me, yer mentor was a scientist named Baxter Stockman” April blinks, “Actually it's Samuel Chaplain, HE'S Baxter Stockman's Protegee” Raph thinks about Chaplain's name and remembered a timid red-head that worked with Karai and was like 'oh that guy' when he realized whom she was referring to.
April insisted that Raph stay with them for the night, since there was no where else for him to go, Kaimana not being the most agreeable to the decision, but tolerated it either way, “I get the feeling she doesn't like me too much.” Raph says with a grumble in his voice as he helps the Jones' daughter, Gabrielle “Shadow” Jones, wash up the dishes, “Kai? She's harmless, she's just very protective of who encounters her father. Also you did kind of freak everyone out when you started coming at my dad all brazened the way you did. Especially when Kai started getting ready to fight you. Everyone thought for sure she'd kill you.” Raph swallows audibly at the sound of being potentially killed for messing with Casey, “I Take it he raised her?” Gabrielle nods, he didn't know her parents personally but they were Students in his Dojo, and great ones too, they were teaching the younger students after a few years of training with Dad....” he look became sullen and somber, “But then a Drive-by happened with the Dojo some years back when a rival of dad's put a hit out on him, while protecting him and mom, Kai's parents got caught in the crossfire, they died in the hospital.” Raph looks down, “Then how did...?” Gabrielle takes the plate rinsing and drying it, “Kai's egg was close to ovi; meaning her mother was about to lay it, the Doctors saved it when they realized she was egg-heavy by performing a veritable C-section to get it out of her. Dad took it home, incubated it, and when she hatched, raised her like a Sister with me” Raph smiled, he still couldn't wrap his mind around Casey being a Master Sensei of a Dojo, it sounded like a fusion of himself and Splinter but a human variant. Still though, he was glad some good came out of this encounter, he's around somewhat familiar faces.
