Disclaimer: See first two chapters.

Hmmm...been a while, hasn't it? Don't get me wrong I do have ideas floating around up here *taps head* but honestly? I've been feeling rather...dead...inside. I just don't have the engery to try and post things at the moment. I'll have another chapter up but it wont be for a while yet so...here's a filler chapter.

Enjoy.

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Maya huffed as she waddled slightly along the long corridor, showing all the past winners of the Battle Nexus. She wanted to bring Suki and Niko here before the baby was born because she knew once the baby did come there wouldn't be any time. Suki was currently running ahead of here, looking at all the different statues while Niko was holding her hand tightly, not entirely comfortable being so far away from home and surrounded by strangers.

"Suki don't wander to far ahead honey. There are some statues I want to show you over here."

"Okay Mommy!" Suki said as she ran back to her mother and brother. She had been here before, a long time ago before Niko had been born but the memory was fuzzy. She had been more interested in playing with her Daddy's bandana tails then looking at all the weird statues.

But know that she was older and paying more attention to things around her, she realized that there was something here really interesting.

"Dada! It Dada, Mama!"

Looking down at her son, who was reaching up with both hands towards the statue, Maya couldn't help but give a sad smile before shaking her head and kneeling down beside him. "No sweetheart, it's not your Daddy. That's one of your uncles, Michelangelo. He came here with his family a long time ago and won the Battle Nexus."

"Mommy how many uncles do we have?"

"You have three uncles. Michelangelo," she pointed a hand towards the statue as she said that, "Leonardo and Donatello." She wisely made the decision not to let them know that Donny was still missing as she slowly pushed herself up and made her way to two other statues close by. "And this is your grandfather."

Both children looked up at the statue and tilted their head to one side. Their mom was a cat and their dad was a turtle but they couldn't understand how a rat could be their grandfather.

"Mommy I don't get it...how is he our grandfather? He doesn't look anything like you or Daddy."

Chuckling quietly, Maya gently stroked her daughters hair. "That's a story for another day. What you do need to know is that Master Splinter raised your daddy and and his brothers from when they were very little. He loved them all very much, just like how he loved his Master, Hamato Yoshi." She pointed towards the other statue.

"It's in our family..."

Blinking in slight surprise, Maya looked towards Suki when she spoke. "What do you mean honey, it's in our family?"

"Uncle Mike won...Grandfather won and his Master won...it's in our family...that means that we could win one day, right? Me or Niko or the new baby could be winners one day."

Not wanting to burst Suki's bubble, Maya nodded her head and smiled brightly. "You bet. Any one of you could be winners when you get older. But now it's time for us to go home. Don't forget that you have school tomorrow."

"Aw Mommy, it's only going to be half a day. Can't I stay home?"

As Maya explained once again the importance of getting a good education, Niko stared up at the statue that looked so much like his Daddy. Maybe THIS was a way to get him to come home! He could get big and strong and win the Battle Nexus and that would make his Dada so proud he would come home again!

Yawning loudly as his Mama bundled them up into the back of their wagon and Suki wrapped the blankets around them tighter so that the snow and cold wouldn't affect them, Niko quickly fell asleep, all the while thinking about how he would be the one to make their family whole again.

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Yeah...I might fix this up at one point, but not tonight.

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