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"Well well Mikey, quite nice of you to finally join the party." Leonardo taunted; Moth bit off a cry of pain when he yanked her onto her feet by the hair and held one of his katana to her throat. Moth took to focusing and chanting in her head.
'Mind over matter, mind over matter, mind over matter…'
"Ph, this is the worst party I've ever crashed." Master Michaelangelo scoffed "I mean, where's the band? Good thing I brought my own drumsticks…." He took out both of his nunchucks and swirled them in the air "Now all you gotta do is be the drum!"
'Mind over matter, mind over matter, mind over matter…'
"Big talk, Mike; I'm almost impressed." Leonardo snorted and pressed the blade harder against Moth's throat "But as you can tell, I'm holding a sword to the throat of the one who matters most to you."
'Mind over matter, mind over matter, mind over matter…'
Michaelangelo clicked his tongue and didn't change expressions; if he knew Moth correctly, she had a plan brewing "You really are pathetic, you know that?"
'Mind over matter, mind over matter, mind over matter…'
Leonardo angrily narrowed his eyes and sneered "What are you talking about, fool? I have all of the power one could ever dream one; control of a clan, a son, and the political power of a multi-million dollar company…"
'Mind over matter, mind over matter, mind over matter…'
Michaelangelo laughed bitterly "Your son is just as pathetic as you are; come on Leonardo, my daughter didn't even have to fight with him, she toyed with him, and broke his damn wrist like a pencil…. And you can claim to all of the power you want, but you can never claim in rightfully; it's all really Karai's, you're just a mutant turtle screwing her…. It's funny, now matter how much power you have, once the government see's you, you're strapped on a metal table. Funny right?"
'Mind over matter, mind over matter, mind over matter…'
"Sand do you want to know what else is funny, Leonardo?" Michaelangelo asked as he took a step foreword, a grin plastered on his sage-green face.
'Mind over matter, mind over matter, mind over matter…'
"What?" Leonardo snapped.
"This you genocidal bastard!" Moth roared; she whirled around and gave him the hardest under-cut possible; Leonardo actually hit the ceiling and dropped to the ground several feet away. Moth flipped a few paces back to stand besides her father.
Leonardo looked up and rubbed his jaw; blood was running out of his mouth from his cracked and broken teeth; he eyed the maximum-security, industrial-padlocked hand-cuffs splayed on the ground; both of the bracelet parts were wide open. "Impressive," he spit with blood "you taught your pathetic disciple how to use the mind-over-matter technique."
"Me, pathetic?" Moth spat back "You're the one on your ass because you just got judo-punched by a girl."
The door to the room burst open and a mass of shuriken were thrown at them; Michaelangelo thought quickly and raised the cape part of his cowl to protect the both of them; luckily, the worn fabric managed to stop the shuriken, even if they became imbedded in the old black cloth.
"Is that who I think it is?" Michaelangelo hissed; Karai leapt into the room with her kusarigama at hand and ready "Oh hi Karai," he sarcastically greeted "I don't think you remember me, but my name is Hamato Michaelangelo, and you gouged my fucking eye out over twenty years ago."
Karai narrowed her eyes.
"But regardless of if you remember me or not," Michaelangelo carried on "I still remember you quite clearly…. I'M GOING TO FUCKING MASSACRE YOU, YOU HOMEWRECKING BITCH!" Master Michaelangelo howled into a fit of rage; he leapt at Karai like and frog and they tumbled down with his fists pounding into her face like bread dough.
Leonardo was about to run to his wives aid, but was stopped by Moth, who was wielding one of his katana, of which he had not noticed he had dropped. "Oh no," Moth growled, feeling her forest-raised animal instincts take over "I'm not done with you!"
With Leonardo and Moth locked in a deadly sword-battle, Karai and Michaelangelo battled seriously as well in a chains royale.
"You stole me daughter! I'll use your shell for turtle-soup!" Karai raved and swiped with the sickle of her kusarigama, which Michaelangelo only narrowly dodged "How dare you!"
"How dare I?" Michaelangelo snorted and wacked with his nunchucks, Karai jumped over it "Do I have to remind you of a certain baby that Leonardo killed?"
"You lie!" Karai accused, stopping in her tracks; as did Michaelangelo.
The red-masked turtle realized something "He kept many things from you, didn't he?" Karai was silent "He was using you Karai; he never cared personally about you, he cared about your money, your assets, and your ability to give him what he wanted; a son."
"Silence! You do not know what you are talking about!" Karai passionately shot down, but Michaelangelo caught an edge of something else….. Doubt?
"Leonardo wanted me to kill your baby, he wanted Jade dead."
"Shut up! That is a lie!"
"That was why he killed that innocent baby…. To piss me off enough that I would do something stupid and drastic…. Like sneak into a nursery in the middle of the night with a knife…"
"Shut up!"
"Tell me Karai, did you ever wonder why Leonardo always provided the answers without proof, only his words? He told you that the Foot soldiers found your babies body in the Hudson…. But he didn't, he lied to you."
"SHUT UP!"
"Can't face the truth? Let's me tell you nothing but the truth, which is something a turtle has not been doing for twenty years; Did Leonardo tell you he posted guards around Jade's nursery? THERE WEREN'T ANY GUARDS! Did Leonardo tell you that he was sure Jade was dead? He was not – he was never sure, he never even had the Foot hords search for her like he told you he had. Hell, if you guys had just checked a orphanage in Jersey, you would have found that the night Jade 'died', a baby girl with the same ethnicity, age and physical appearance was dropped off there…"
Karai stared at him; there was a lot of doubt in her eyes now; along with anger, hurt, betrayal and confusion.
"And another hurtful truth; Leonardo never cared about you, never; he never cared that Jade was your daughter, he just saw her as something in his way;he was a power-whore, ready to do anything to get it, in fact, I would not doubt it if he was involved in the 'accident' your husband Chaplin died in…."
"FATHER!" Moth yelled; Michaelangelo whipped his head and looked to his daughter. Moth was cut up, in spite of her relentless efforts, Leonardo proved to be too powerful as a Ninja Grand-Master and Moth was just being overwhelmed as a young ninja herself.
Michaelangelo ran over and fought off Leonardo with his nunchucks "Out the window Moth, now!"
"B-But-" Moth protested weakly and attempted to pick up the sword.
"Now! Moth, it'll be alright!" The one-eyed turtle convinced, Moth nodded and ran out of the window, once his daughter had soundly escaped, Michaelangelo threw a smoke-pellet on the ground.
When the smoke cleared, he was gone. But Karai had watched the whole time; she watched Michaelangelo do something Leonardo never did. Michaelangelo had been a caring father….A caring father to the daughter of a sworn enemy.
Looks like Karai and Leonardo are going to have a 'talk' next chapter...
Seriously, I've seriously revealed a lot of secrets, but there are still some questions left unanswered (Like, what's the deal with Joyce? What was with that wooden box several chapters ago? And who are the two priests?) and still more secrets to be revealed. It's easier to just say Moth has been lied too a lot in her life...
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