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(I DO NOT OWN TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES)
After shaking off a serious blow to his head, the blue masked ninja quickly stood up into a battle stance and reached for his katanas, only to find that one of his twin blades was missing.
"Hm hm hm... I was hoping you'd be the one to pick the right path." he announced. That was when Leo noticed the villain's shoulders; a seeing eye rodent on his right and his missing sword on his left.
"What makes me so special?" he growled looking up at him.
The Rat King had a waves of a few dozen little rats elevate him from his ledge to Leo's ground level and explained "Simple. I'd like to take out you and your brothers one by one, starting with you." he replied pointing a sword at Leo who copied his movements as the two blood hungry enemies began to circle each other waiting for the battle to commence. "I now understand that if I am to truly free Splinter, I must destroy you meddlesome freaks myself"
"Free him?!" this provoked even more anger within the eldest of the Hamato brothers "All you want is to enslave him! You're nothing but his enemy!" Falco chucked mockingly "Now how would he know that when he can't even remember me?"
Falco chucked mockingly "Now how would he know that when he can't even remember me?" That was the last straw. With a wild battle cry, Leo charged at the monster who hunted his sensei. The Rat King, however, remained unmoved. Leo launched the first attacked as the two swords clashed together multiple times. When that failed, the cold blooded ninja flipped into the air to bash his opponent over the head of foe to strike from above. The Rat King countered by catching the blade in his palms. He then tossed Leo up into the air and kneed him in the chin and kicked him in side so hard that it sent it sent him flying into the wall.
With a painful grunt, Leo stood up and raced for his next attack. However, the Rat King moved with unrealistic speed and sweep kicked the young warrior, knocking him onto his carapace. Leo reached for his sword, but the lifeless telepath kneeled over him and began to beat him with his bare hands for half a minutes. Leo soon enough kicked his foe off of him and stood up panting.
"Losing your energy, boy?" the twisted villain taunted as Leo simply prepared for defense "Tell me, does this attack feel familiar to you?" before Leo could react, the Rat King struck him with a dozen rapid kicks at once, and fronted flipped over the flinching turtle, grabbed his shoulders and threw him face down into the unforgiving concrete of the sewer
Leo was barely able to rise up to his hands but suddenly realized something about that last attack "Wait a minute," he said under his breath "that looked like-"
"Something Splinter taught you?" he startled Leo with a whisper in Leo's 'ear' The Rat King kicked Leo again, this time launching him into the middle of the room. With a little fight still left in him, the beaten teen rose to his feet.
"You fool!" the villain exclaimed "Dis you truly expect this to be so simple?!" he rhetorically asked over Leo's panting as he approached him slowly to prolong his suffering. "I read through the memories, the life of the rat who raised you, trained you, I've been his entire life's experience in a matter of seconds. I may even know everything about you" he chuckled. Leo reached to punched but Falco, with no effort, grabbed him by his throat "I know every move you can make" he grinned sucker punching Leo so hard, it gave him a black eye and sent him another fifteen feet from his attacker.
"(Cough, cough)" Leo finally spoke up in constant pants and covered his throbbing eye "If you know everything about Splinter, you should know that he's happy where he is"
"Is he?" the Rat King suddenly just stood still facing the blue masked warrior and looked him in the eye. "Let's think about this, Leonardo. What's happened to your dearest master over the past twenty years or so?" he asked semi-mellow dramatically "His presumed brother betrayed him, murdered his wife, raised his own daughter into his predator, mutated said daughter and blamed him for all of this happening. Now he has four sons that he forced himself to raise in isolation, barely providing for himself, wasting all his energy on raising four mutate brats. On top of that, he's always living in fear and despair over the memories of his past and what might become of you in the future. With the alternate memories I've created for him, he'll be free of all those mental scars. He'll be safe with me, and not even Saki will be able to harm him. You believe I'm going to harm Splinter, but why would I harm my second-in command? So allow me to ask you again. Where would he truly be happy?"
Leo froze in his thought. He knew, he witnessed the dreadful events of Master Splinter had endured in the past 16 years. What if Falco was right? Why should Splinter even bother raising him and his brother? Would Splinter truly have a more bliss life with ignorance?
Choosing to take advantage of Leo's pause, the menacing villain snapped his fingers and hundreds of rats came swarming in from all directions. The hypnotized rodents buried Leonardo's battered body under their living tidel wave and their combined weight was enough to restrain him with his arms and legs pulled apart, leaving him completely vulnerable.
"Just let me finish you, welch. You know this is what's best for Splinter." he walked through path of his rat minions and rose his sword above the struggling turtle. "It's over." just before he could launch the final blow, five smoke bombs were pelted into the rats the constricted Leo and an explosive punk struck the Rat King over the head, knocking him to the ground. He turned around and gasped at the sight of the rest of Leo's team standing above them.
"Oh, it's over alright." Slash spoke with a smirk on his face
"But not for Leo" said an upset Raphael raising his sais for attack. This gave Leo the opportunity to escape as he just found enough strength to jump up to the ledge as Leatherhead jumped him up. Just then, the battered warrior passed out from mere exhaustion
"LH, take care of him" said Mikey as he patted Leo lovingly over the head. The giant alligator simply nodded and rushed off to take Leo to safety
The Rat King was frustrated by the fact that his alone time with the injured reptile was over "(growl) Fine." he said bluntly "I'll just take you all out here!" he announced as the odd cast of heroes charged him. Just then, many his giant mutated rats returned and attacked the team. While Mikey, Raph and Slash defended themselves, Casey leaped onto Pigeon Pete's back and they charged at the Rat King jousting style. Still possessing Leo's katana, the villain cut clear through the vigilante's hockey stick, but that wouldn't stop Pete. The mutated bird violently landed on his back and pecked him over the head and neck without relent.
"Feel my peck fury, you beast!" shouted Pete as he continued pecking.
"Ah! Ahhh! Get off of me, you freak!" he commanded. The second he pushed off Pete, he was greeted by Casey who slammed him the gut with his wooden bat."
"Ha! You may know everything the turtles can do," Pete taunted
"But you don't know squat about us!" grunted Casey as he hit the Rat King so hard, that Leo's sword flew out of his hands and was jabbed into the ceiling. Suddenly, the room started to crumble and the ceiling began to collapse.
"HEY, GUYS! THIS PLACE IS COMING DOWN!" exclaimed Casey Jones in a panic
"RUN!" shouted Raph. Everyone rushed at top speed towards the exit. The entire team made it to safety, but the Rat King was not so lucky. Once the collapsing settled down, the five teammates turned around to see that the entire drainage area was completely caved in.
"(Pant), (pant) Is everyone okay?" announced the hulking turtle as he started a head count for everyone.
"Yeah" the remaining four replied. Just then, something caught the human boy's eye.
"Guys, look." he pointed to the floor in minor terror. Pouring out like a leak from the rubble was blood. Red hot blood. The boys simply gazed upon the puddle in horror as the blood pond only grew more and more.
"(gulp) I-is that... his?" the youngest of the turtles couldn't bear to finish his sentence. Before anyone could respond, they notice something by their feet. The surviving rats were running from them in fear, like regular.
Slash put two and two together "The rats." he said simply "They're free"
After watching the rats run away, the red masked ninja gave the blood pool one last unforgiving glare "We did it. He's gone" he confirmed with an unidentifiable tone. Was it joy for his sensei's safety, or guilt at their first official murder? Even Raphael himself would never know. The team walked away from the battle zone in silence at first, but then Raph gasped with a memory "LEO!" he ran ahead of everybody as the panicked reptile began to call Leatherhead in order to find them.
"LEATHERHEAD!" Slash called
"Buddy?!" Mikey and Pigeon Pete called simultaneously
"Where are you, Gator Dude?" cried Casey Jones. Just then, a monstrous shadow appeared from one of the drainage pipes to reveal the alligator in question holding an injured Leonardo in his arms like a child.
"Leatherhead!" Michelangelo ran to his friend and hugged his arm out of relief. "How's Leo?" he asked hastily as the rest of the team gathered around the sleeping eldest of the turtles.
"He has suffered several bruises, a very swollen black eye, and broken wrist. All that aside, it's nothing more exhaustion. He'll be more than able to make a full recovery with plenty of rest." he explained. With that said, everyone sighed in relief
"Thank goodness." exclaimed Pete as Raphael approached his brother in sympathy.
"Hang on, Leo. We'll get you home soon." he whispered rubbing his head to comfort his pain. With the oldest brother out of commission, the hot head knew he had to take charge of the youngest ninja. "(sigh) Mikey, call Donnie and-"
"On it" he stopped him as the orange masked ninja listened to his phone ringing, waiting for his older brother to respond
(THE TURTLE'S LAIR)
Donnie, Dr. Rockwell and April were still in the dojo, when all of a sudden, (RING, RING) Donatello pulled his phone out of his belt and gasped under his breath. "Um, excuse me, Splinter, I need to take this." he said standing up
"Oh. Go ahead" he simply replied. The intelligent warrior walked into the living room, stood by the couch and answered his T-Phone.
"Mikey?"
"D! How's Sensei?" his little brother asked with anxiety
"He's upset and confused, but he's trying to regain his memories. How's the mission?"
"Alright, good news first; We did it, Bro, the Rat King's gone!" he exclaimed
"You did it?!" gasped Donnie "Are you sure he's gone?!"
"(Sigh) Yeah, we're sure." The blue eyed turtle replied with semi-despair in his voice
"You alright, Mikey?" Donnie asked his little brother
"Well, that's the bad news. Leo got hurt during the battle, he's out cold."
"What?!" Donnie was launched into doctor mode "Is he alright?"
"Leatherhead said he will be" replied Mikey resulting in a sigh of relief. "Listen, Don, We're on our way back to the lair. Can you take care of Leo when we get back?"
"Of course," he said with a tone that indicated 'that was obvious' "but, first I've got to take care of Master Splinter. Just be home ASAP so I can treat Leo wounds, alright?"
"You got it, bro. See you soon." with that, Mikey hung up the phone. The purple-masked ninja stared into his hands for a second. The fear of losing Splinter was still very fresh in his mind. After a deep breath, he walked into his lab, dug through his medical drawers and found a tranquilizer needle to put Sensei to sleep. He took another calming breath, hid the needle in his belt, and made his way back into the dojo. He didn't want to lie to his father, but trying to begin explain telepathy to him in his condition would be much more overwhelming to understand.
"M-Master Splinter?" he announced as he reentered the dojo. "We, um, we've got the medicine that'll help restore your memories."
"You do?!" he sounded like a excited child. Rockwell and April glared at the brown eyed turtle and he very subtly nodded to the two telepaths, implying that it was time for their side of the mission.
"Uh-huh." he said as he pulled out the needle "This shot'll put you to sleep for a couple of hours, and by the time you wake up, you're going to have all your memories back." he quickly explained
"The only thing that you won't be able to remember is everything that happened while you had amnesia." Dr. Rockwell added "Is all of that clear?"
"I understand." the now much calmer Splinter replied as he turned back to face Donnie "I would like begin the process immediately, if that's alright." he asked as he rolled up his right sleeve.
"Of course." the third youngest turtle nodded. The red head stood up and lead him to his futon.
"Just relax, Master Splinter." she softly smiled at him "We'll be right here watching you. You've got nothing to worry about. Just close your eyes and take a deep breath. You'll be back to your old self before you know it" she rubbed his palms to help sooth his nerves.
As Donatello kneeled next to the futon, the old rat spoke with a deep exhale "Thank you. I'd like to thank you three for aiding me such a troubling times." Splinter quickly flinched as he felt the needle be injected into his arm. Just as Splinter could feel the tranquilizer kick in, he realized something he wanted to say. "Donovan?"
"Donatello" he corrected
"Sorry. Thank you for caring about me so much. I am in your debt." he said with a smile
The bright young turtle fought off his tears and held them in to reply, "D-don't be silly, Sensei. You're my father. (sniff) I-I love you"
"And I hope I will love again, child. Soon enough." with those simple words, he was finally asleep.
Donnie froze at the sound of Splinter's last words. His tears were very close to breaking free. His breathing was heavy and loud enough for both April and Rockwell to hear him, and the mutated primate wasn't even facing the troubled inventor.
The female ninja couldn't stand the silence anymore and tried to break it with words of sympathy "Donnie-"
"Are you guys ready to start?" he asked bluntly as he quickly wiped the tears from his dark brown eyes
The monkey genius could tell Donnie didn't want to be consoled at the moment so he played along "Oh! Um, yes. We should begin the memory recovery immediately. Are you sure you're prepared for this, child?" he asked turning to the yellow shirt female.
"Let's do this." she smirked cracking her knuckles together. Seeing the determination in best friend's crystal blue eyes, the tallest turtle gave her a simple smile of hope. He stepped over to the end of the futon and, with hesitance, removed the telepathy shield while April held the sleeping rodent's head up
"Alright, guys, do your thing." he permitted as he stepped back to give them some space.
With a subtle nod and glare to each other, the two telepathy approached Master Splinter silently. Rockwell to his left in lotus position, while April say to his right kneeling next to him. They both place their hands on Splinter's temples, closed their eyes, and within seconds, their eyes shot open glowing with a powerful radiant dark purple.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Ok so sorry to end it here but this chapter was getting way too long. All I can now is I do not own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and what were your honest thoughts?