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Chapter 4: The Past…
Leo walks off from the lair, probably a good half-mile, and sat down, looking through vents.
"God… why is everything happening all at once for us?" He asked himself.
Leo looked up at the pipes. "I could have been there for Master Splinter…"
A flash back now occurs of what Leo saw.
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The TMNT and their Master Splinter are a few miles from the lair, practicing techniques of the way of the ninja in areas they never practiced in before…
"Man… these surroundings bite if yah asked me." Raph commented chipping paint off the wall.
"Well, it's a good thing no one asked you, Raph." Mike said.
Raph mumbled and slapped Mike on the back of the head.
"Ouch! What was that for?" Mike asked with his hands in a fist.
"That's for bein' you, Mikey!" Raph said.
"My sons!" Splinter interrupted, "we are not here to fight, we are here to practice."
"Yes, Master Splinter." Raph bowed.
"Yes, Master Splinter." Mike said in a way to make fun of Raph's voice.
"Why you li'l…" Raph pounced on Mike and they punched eachother.
Splinter looks on and sighs. "Ugh… boys will be boys…"
Splinter felt of no use to stop Raph and Mike, so he looked at Leo and Don. "Leonardo, Donatello, practice fighting eachother, and this time use your weapons."
Leo looked at Don. "You sure about this, Master?"
"Yes, Leonardo, I'm quite positive." Splinter said and then walked over to Mike and Raph and hit them both with his cane. "You two, stand, watch and observe your brothers."
All three of the them stood back and watched Don and Leo fight.
"Well, here we go, Don." Leo said while getting out his katanas.
Don smiled. "Yep, and I'm going to hold back, neither."
Leo starts the attack with a high kick, but Don easily dodges it and he swings his bo staff in the air, but Leo blocks it when his katana.
After few minutes have past Don is in a position where he's blocking Leo's katana with his bo staff and Don makes a quick move and Leo's one katana got out of his grip and hit Splinter's right knee, luckily it wasn't the sharp part of the katana…
"Master!" Leo ran over to Splinter, who was on one knee.
"It's okay, my son. I'll be fine- -" An arrow is shot next to Splinter's head.
Foot ninjas appear from high and low grounds, looking at their enemies.
"Hmmm… looks like these guys wanna start somethin'… well if they wanna start it, I'll be glad to finish it!" Raph said and took out his sais.
The Shredder stands on higher ground, looking down at a hurt rat.
"Too bad it ends like this, rat!" Shredder said, shortly followed by an evil laugh.
All four turtles go around Splinter, making sure no one gets to him.
"There are too many foots here, I don't know how we are going to pull this one off, you guys." Don said.
Shredder looks on. "Foot Ninja… ATTACK!"
Fleets of ninjas flood towards the turtles.
"Well… I'm guessing this is the real test." Mike gulped.
As the foot and turtles start to fight, the turtles are slowly moving away from Splinter while attacking their foes.
Shredder talks to an archer and whispers, "kill the rat…" and then walked away.
The archers get in line with Splinter and get ready to fire.
Raph looks at the archers…"Oh no yah don't!" Raph pulls out some ninja star and throws them up, hitting an archer down and another.
Mike takes out three ninjas with one swift kick. "Ha! That's for messing with the Lean… Mean… Green Machi- -" Mike got interrupted when a foot ninja pushed him head first into a pole.
Don goes and drop kicks the guy who pushed Mike and stood over Mike so no one will touch his brother.
Shredder sees opportunity and jumps down to the battle area, in line with Splinter, and starts to walk towards him, with his claws out pointing at Splinter.
Leo is being pushed back and forth by foot ninjas and sees Shredder. "No!! Raph, help Master Splinter!" Leo yelled before he got knocked on the ground.
Raph spots Shredder and jumps infront of Splinter. "If yah want him, yah need to get through me first… and trust me, yah don't want to, I'll raise some shell right here and now."
Shredder laughed at the sight of Raph. "Please, you fool, stop trying to play the role of hero and let me kill you already."
Raph smirked and jumped at Shredder.
Splinter is up against a wall, watching his sons in action.
Shredder gets a good punch on Raph and that knocked the wind of out Raph. "Please, peasant, you're only embarrassing yourself." Shredder smirked at Raph.
Raph looked up and yelled and went to attack. Raph jumped at him, sais first, but Shredder quickly moves out of the way and punches Raph on the back of the head and Raph is unconscious. Shredder bends over and picks up a sai and looked at Splinter. Shredder looked, smirked and threw the sai at Splinter and it goes through his hand, keeping him attached to the wall.
"Now you can't run away, rat!" Shredder said and then started to walk towards Splinter.
Leo hits down all the foot ninjas that ganged up on him and ran at Shredder.
"Die, Shredder!" Leo yelled at started to duel with Shredder. Shredder hits Leo's left wrist and his katana drops and Shredder uppercuts Leo and he goes flying back twenty feet.
Shredder picked up his katana and went up to Splinter and slaps him across the face. "This ends now, rat!"
Leo looks up and gets up, starts to run to Shredder and Splinter, but within ten feet Leo trips over Splinters cane that had been dropped after getting hit by Leo's katana.
Shredder looked at Leo, then at Splinter and then stabs Splinter with Leo own katana blade.
"NOOO!!" Leo screamed, with his hand reaching out.
"Foot Ninja… VANISH!" and the foot and Shredder disappear.
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After a few hours pasting Leo returns to the lair, only to see Don sitting up in his bed with hot chocolate.
"Hey, bro," Mike said, "looks like I can actually make something without the lair burning this time."
Leo looked on and smiled.
To be Continued…