Eric “Home” Bookout

I was exposed to a liquid mutagen during a traffic accident at which my young owner is a bystander. The mutagen caused me to become more human-like in intelligence and dexterity. Also exposed to the mutagen is Splinter, a rat once owned by a ninjutsu expert named Hamato Yoshi.

Splinter happened upon me, still fresh from my accident and wallowing in mutagen, and adopted me. Within days Splinter and I grew to humanoid size and developed the power of speech. It is then that Splinter decided to train me in ninjutsu, so I can exact revenge on the Shredder for the murder of Splinter's beloved Master Yoshi. Splinter chose a name for me from the pages of an old discarded book on Renaissance art: Eric. Then I challenged and defeat the Shredder and his Foot ninja in a rooftop duel, as Shredder was knocked off the building he plunged to a fiery death in the blast of his own bomb.