Here's the next chapter! Still in Foot HQ because that's what I said in the last chapter! Enjoy!
Leonardo looked around at the Lair. When had be gotten back here? He looked at his oldest younger brother in the dojo, and...
Um, was that HIM?!
He blinked and ran over, reaching out to touch Raph's shoulder. "Guys, what's going - huh?!" he muttered as his hand went through Raph's shoulder.
Hold on a second. He remembered this. This was his and Raph's first sparring match with real weapons! Not knowing what else to do, he leaned against the wall to watch.
Raphael attacked first, immediately swinging at Leo with his sais. Leo dodged out of the way and met Raphael's attack with his katanas as Raph pushed against him with the red-hilted sais. Raph suddenly growled, surprising the older Leonardo, and kicked his brother in the stomach.
Wait, this wasn't how he remembered it...
Leo was stunned by the kick, giving Raphael an open window to slice him in the face with his sai. Leo gasped in pain as Raph roundhoused him and sent Leo flying into the wall. Leonardo's mind started to copy this over the other memory, but he gasped and fought it painfully.
Splinter looked over the duel. "Good job, Raphael. Get up, Leonardo!" the rat exclaimed. The younger Leo scrambled up, face still bleeding. Don and Mike snickered from where there sparring match had finished.
Young Leo bowed to the rat. Splinter growled and kicked the young turtle. "Dismissed!"
Leonardo blinked. Was that really how it had happened? No way. But he was seriously starting to believe it.
'No, Leonardo,' he thought as he closed his eyes. 'It's just one of Karai's tricks. They would never do that.'
'Right?'
Leo shook his head violently. "Of course they wouldn't!"
The memory started to fade, as did Leo.
"What on-?"
Leo woke up in his cell, a major headache setting in. "Owwwwm!" he groaned, grabbing his head. The memory suck in his head, although he forgot visiting it again and just remembered it.
"No, no, it was just a trick. Your mind games won't work on me, Karai!" he yelled at the camera.
Karai smirked from the control room. "Oh, just you wait, Leonardo."
Leo was left in the cell once again to ponder over whether or not that had been real. He refused to eat, despite the Elite demanding it of him and kicking him. He just bared his teeth at the human until it left.
Karai more frequently visited his cell to sometimes deliver the untouched food and talk to him, something Leo refused to participate in. Karai was a pain in the ass. That was the only thing he would respond to her questions with.
Karai was beginning to get fed up with the fact that Leonardo was hardly being affected by the drug she'd administered into his system by the food. He hadn't eaten, so that could be why, but how would her plan work if she couldn't get the drug into his system full-time? She needed this to be so so that he experienced the hallucinations during the night, as well as whenever he was unconscious, for that matter.
One day, she came in with a bigger meal; a piece of cheese pizza and a small bottle of juice. Leo glared at her suspiciously. "What's the catch?" he asked without preamble.
"Nothing. I just would feel absolutely awful if you were to die of starvation," she mocked, a fake pout on her face.
Leo rolled his eyes, rubbing the marks on his wrists from the chains. Karai noticed and smirked. "Fine, I shall make a bargain with you. You shall be able to move freely around your cell without chains if you eat the food and behave."
"And what, pray tell, would 'behaving' mean?" he asked her curiously.
"Not giving me the finger, for one," the mistress muttered darkly. "You will eat your food and not talk back to me."
"I will guarantee one of those alone. You pick."
"You are to eat your food!" she yelled at him.
Leo sighed. "Fine. I don't know why you're so eager for me to be alive."
Karai smiled sadistically. "What would be the fun in you not?" she asked, dropping the tray at his feet and holding up a key. "I will release you if you promise not to attack me. If you do, you shall be drugged and shocked."
Leo snarled at her. "Whatever."
Karai smirked and unlocked Leo's chains. Leo clenched his fists and restrained himself from attacking the woman as she left, locking the door. As soon as her footsteps faded away, he dove for the pizza and tried to eat it slowly while rubbing his raw wrist gently, trying not to rip the delicate skin he'd acquired in the past few days. His 'memory trick', as he called it, had been 3 days ago.
He nibbled on his pizza confusedly, trying to make sense of the bargain he'd struck with Karai. Why did she want him eating so bad? The food wasn't drugged; he'd checked again before he'd dug in. So what did she want? He settled on the fact that she needed him alive to torture him.
But seriously?
He sighed, taking a drink of the orange juice. Good thing this was what he got oranges; the lack of sunlight he was getting would be sure to give him scurvy over time. He smiled at the thought of being to irritable to deal with Karai. He then bristled at the thought.
He'd rather not.
Bad ending, but who cares? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I hope you all like this! I promise that the next chapter will be back in the Lair where we find out what 'Splinter' did to Leo! I'll give anyone who guesses what kind of venom Karai's using on Leo will get to put a request in for a One-Shot. Bonus: If you can get the book series, you get a two-shot! Remember, you only get one guess! Review, rant, flame, give requests, check out my community, and vote on my poll! BYE!
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