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Nothing is Stronger Than Family: Part Two
Requested By: XxWolfMan95xX
Anime: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014 Movie

Reader:
Serena O'Neil
Female
28
Waist-length brown hair, bangs on both sides of her face, jade-colored eyes, small chest, slight curves, white shirt, black zip-up hoodie, gray sweat-pants, converse.
Florist, Mother figure, dear friend
Human
Ninjutsu

Character:
Master Splinter
Male
32
Gray and brown rat with a yellow robe and black belt with a medal on the front
Sensei, Father, Dear friend
Ninjutsu

Plot: Serena saved Splinter from the fire when her uncle, April's father, burned it after finding out the truth behind Sacks' plan.
Relationship: Developing
Word Count: 2,773

Serena gritted her teeth, pushing the piece of rubble off of her leg. Flexing the appendage, she was relieved to find it wasn't broken, only severely bruised. Groaning, she sat up, blinking the stars from her vision. As her vision cleared, so did her mind.

"Splinter!" Forgetting her own pain, Serena ran towards the remains of the dojo. Her heart caught in her throat at the sight of an arm sticking out of rubble. "No…"

Jumping over the wreckage, she tried vainly to remove the boulders from Splinter's body. Two more pale hands joined her. Glancing over her shoulder, Serena smiled gratefully at April. The younger nodded back, continuing to heave at the rock. It didn't budge.

Hearing footsteps, Serena whirled, prepared to fight. She relaxed at the sight of Raphael, a wave of relief surging through her body at the sight of him alive. He looked past her, focusing on the body of his sensei. Jumping over the ditch, he flung the boulders to the side like they were nothing. Picking Splinter up, Raphael cradled him to his plastron.

"Get the first aid kit! Second shelf!" Serena shoved papers, bottles, and everything else off the table, making room for Raph to lay the rat down. April came back, placing the kit next to Raphael. Serena laid her hands gently on Splinter's chest, feeling for injuries.

"He has internal bleeding." She pulled back, biting her lip. "He won't survive the night." Raph gaped at her.

"Raphael…" both looked at the prone rat. "Save… your brothers." Raph swallowed, narrowing his eyes. "Stop… Shredder."

"Let's go save my brothers." As he left to get the dropped weapons, April placed a hand on Serena's shoulder.

"I'm going to make a call." Serena nodded. April left, leaving Serena with Splinter. Swallowing, she leaned down. Splinter's breathing had slowed, so she thought he was asleep.

"Please stay alive until we get back." Gathering her courage, she pressed a chaste kiss to his lips. "I love you." Quickly turning, she was in time to meet Raphael at the door. They left…

Completely unaware that Splinter was still awake, and very much shocked at Serena's confession.

新命、昔の恋

Serena gritted her teeth as Raphael fought against Shredder. April ran over to Donatello, banging on the glass of his containment unit. "Donnie! What do I do?"

"Ad… renaline."

"What?"

"Adrenaline…"

"Adrenaline." Serena ran over to the monitor, rapidly pushing the button. The gauge went up, but she continued pushing until the boys broke from their bonds. Jumping through the glass, she watched as they started running around like kids on sugar highs. "Guys! Let's go!"

"Right!" They ran for Raphael, falling the twenty feet it was to the lower floor. They ran around Raphael, all talking at once. He managed to throw out their weapons, allowing them to pick them up.

'At least they have enough sanity left to remember what they're supposed to be doing.' Serena jumped down, wincing when she jarred her injured leg. Raphael noticed, picking her up. She smiled gratefully at him as he followed his hyped brothers out the door.

"Sacks is airborne!" Leo shouted. Donnie typed fervently on his wristcom.

"Flight time to Manhattan, nineteen minutes!"

"Get us out of here, Donnie!" The scientist lowered his goggles, scanning the trucks. His visor then swept to a soldier.

"Oh my gosh! They have guns!" Serena rolled her eyes at Don's panicked voice.

"Get down!" The turtles huddled around the humans when the men started shooting. This time, actual bullets. Serena's eyes widened when she looked behind Leo to see the bullets ricocheting off the shells and back at the soldiers. Leo laughed. "Ha! Are you guys okay?"

"We're bulletproof."

"Sweet." Leo looked at Vern, who was cowering next behind April. "Can you drive that truck?"

"Yeah."

"We're on Raph. Ready?" Raph ran out backwards, grabbing a soldier's gun. The others ran around him, following his lead. "Everybody in the truck! We gotta go, go, go!" Serena jumped into the back after the others, while April and Vern piled into the front. Raph ran forward, banging on the window.

"Drive!"

"I'm on it!" The truck rumbled to life.

"Come on, come on!"

"Ah that's all I need. A backseat driving, talking turtle." Serena rolled her eyes, shouting through the window.

"Just shut up and drive, Vernon!" Vern winced at the use of his full name. Raph snickered. He rested a hand on Serena's shoulder.

"Thanks."

"I've had to deal with the guy for years. You learn how to shut him up." Raph smiled, squeezing Serena's shoulder before letting go. Turns out, he should have continued holding her.

A jolt to the left side of the truck sent them flying. Serena crashed into Raph's plastron, gripping him for dear life. He wrapped his arms around her, protecting her as canisters of nitrogen fell on him. He grunted in pain as one cracked the tip of his shell. Leo wasn't as lucky. He was hit full on the face by the canisters, throwing him out of the truck.

"Leo, move! Move!" Leo rolled over onto his plastron, getting out of the way of the first set of tires. He then rolled again out of the way of the rest of them. He stood up, staring down the slope. He started to run just as the Humvees chasing them ran over the snow bank. Leo jumped, curling into a ball, grunting when his carapace hit the windshield.

Serena breathed a sigh of relief when she saw him using his katana to get him out of the way of the cars. The chase continued down the entire mountainside. Eventually, everyone was thrown out of the truck. Thankfully, Michelangelo was able to catch Serena as she was thrown out. Grabbing onto him, she tried to shield her face from the snow.

"What's our ETA!?" She yelled over the snow at Donnie.

"Shredder's copter twenty miles outside of New York City airspace!" Raph rolled his eyes.

"Thanks for the traffic update, Donnie. You doing sports and weather next?"

"If you're going to be nasty about it then I guess you don't want to know there's a five-hundred foot drop-off in fifty-three seconds!"

"Are you saying there's –" Leo jumped up.

"A cliff!" He sheathed his katana that he had somehow managed to hold onto while unconscious. "We gotta get April out of there! Raph! Heads up!" Leo climbed up onto the trailer, using Raph as a stepping stool.

"Don't forget that old guy!" Leo lifted a hand briefly, letting Mikey know he heard him. He dropped down on the passenger side of the truck.

"Hi."

"Leo!"

"Change of plans." He looked up at the sound of a weapon powering up. "Oh come on." Leo ducked, but the cable still attached to his plastron, anchoring. Leo grabbed April, pulling her to him. "Hold onto me!" He jumped through the cab, snatching up Vern along the way.

They landed in the snow. Maneuvering through the white powder, he managed to wrench the cable from the car. Unfortunately, he now had no way of stopping. On top of that, the cliff was coming up very quickly.

"Mikey! Grab the cable!" He tossed Serena to Raph, who caught her with ease. The youngest turtle scrabbled through the snow, searching for it.

"I got it! I got it!" Serena looked up to see the others barely out of range of the truck's swinging trailer. "Hold on, hold on!" Mikey tripped over a rock, losing his grip. Serena's heart caught in her throat as Leo and the others went over the edge.

"No! Oh no no no no no!" Mikey bowed his head. "Poor Leo, April, and that other guy. They were so young. So beautiful." Raph slid by.

"They ain't dead, numbnuts."

"Oh. Right on." Serena sighed in relief as she jumped off Raph's plastron, running over to the edge. Leo was holding onto April with one hand, the anchor with the other.

"I hope you got a parachute under that shell!" Don looked over the edge next to Serena.

"Hey guys! It's the maintenance hatch! Our ticket home!"

"A little help please!" Raph grabbed Leo's hand, hauling him and the humans up.

"Guys, we gotta hustle! Shredder's over New York City!"

"Then let's go."

新命、昔の恋

Serena ducked behind the desk. She had just vanished from sight when Sacks began shooting again. "Seriously? You two? You're adorable, really! I could just pinch your cheeks!" Vern peeked out, only to duck again when Sacks fired.

"I understand. A girl with dead daddy issues, I know. But you're not going to stop me." Vern nodded his head towards the abort button on the wall. Serena blinked in return.

"This is history. It's a pity. Your father walked in on me April, just like you did. Took a few less bullets to take him down though." April's eyes smoldered at the revelation.

"You killed my father."

"O'Neil!" Sacks whirled to face Vern. April shot out from behind the desk, pressing her whole body into the button. Before Sacks could train the gun on her, Serena leapt out. Her fist connected with Sacks' jaw, sending him flying. He slumped against the desk they had been hiding behind, out cold.

Running over to the table, Serena quickly diverted the mutagen into two separate canisters. She grabbed the case, sticking a canister in it. After closing and locking the lid, picking the crate up. She handed it to April.

"You take this to Splinter. Save his life." April nodded.

"What about the other one?"

"I'm going to use it to distract Shredder." April's eyes widened, but she knew better than to argue. Embracing Serena, she stayed there for a moment before running out of the lab. Serena took a deep breath to steel her nerves before running out as well. 'Just hold on boys. I'm coming.'

新命、昔の恋

Serena hauled herself up onto the roof. Panting, she growled at the sight of Shredder punching Leo. Lifting her arm, she screamed at the top of her lungs. "SHREDDER!"

The armored ninja whirled to face her. Behind his mask, his eyes widened when he saw her holding a canister. "This is all that's left." Serena began to back up.

"Little girl." He jumped towards her. She just continued backwards. "That… belongs to me." Serena gasped when the spire started to fall. Taking advantage of her distraction, Shredder charged.

He tackled her, sending both over the edge. Serena screamed as she fell, involuntarily releasing the canister of mutagen. She grabbed one of the dishes on the metal scaffolding as the tip of the spire crashed into a building below. Gasping, she hauled her chest over the metal, resting on it. Sticking the canister on his belt, Shredder dropped down. He sliced at the dish Serena was holding onto. She dropped, barely avoiding the blade.

"Serena!" She looked up to see the turtles flip down onto the metal structure.

"No! It can't hold all of us!" Her words were unheeded as they flipped down onto the spire. Looking up, Serena's eyes widened moments before Shredder fully cut through the dish, sending her plummeting below.

"Okāsan!1" Raph jumped off the scaffolding, his brothers right behind. He grabbed her hand, Leo grabbing his foot and Don's hand, Don grabbing Mikey's foot, and Mikey holding onto the metal. Serena screamed again, flinging her other hand up to grab Raph's. "I got ya'. I'm not going to let you fall."

Shredder threw another blade at the turtles, but Mike deflected it with a nunchaku. It lodged in his armor. Serena looked up at Raph. "Swing me towards him!"

"Do it!" Leo yelled. Raph searched the young woman's eyes for a moment before grunting as he began to move his arm. He noticed Shredder pull out the blade.

"Leo!" Leo threw one of his katana, jamming into the opposite shoulder the armored ninja's blade had been in. Raph continued to swing Serena. Using her own body weight, the girl finished the arc, slamming her feet into Shredder's helmet. He lost his grip, falling to the asphalt below. Mikey smiled softly to himself.

"That's my Okāsan." Serena grunted as Raph pulled her up. He stabilized himself against the spire, allowing Serena to rest against him. She sighed in relief.

""Well… that was exciting." He chuckled at her. Before he could say anything, the spire began creaking...

Just before it fell.

Raph shifted his stance, keeping Serena in between his carapace and the spire. Don looked up. "I think this is it guys!" Leo gulped.

"Does anyone have anything they want to say?" Taigā licked her lips nervously. "Donnie?"

"I'm the one that licks the icing off the Pop-Tarts every morning and then puts them back in the box!" Had it not been for the dire situation they were in, Serena would have berated him about that.

"I so did not understand the ending of Lost!"

'Mikey…. my adorable little…'

"Raph?" Serena looked down at the turtle she was currently behind.

"Uh… I just uh… ah… if this is our last moment together… I just want you guys to know I'm sorry! I'm sorry I was so hard on you! Every time I pushed you... I threatened you... I yelled at you... I pushed you beyond your limits... it's because I believe in you!"

'Oh Raphael honey…'

"I believe in each one of you! I believe in your spirit and your intelligence and your potential!" Serena gripped Raph's shell. "And everytime I talked about walking away... it was because I was scared! I just didn't think I was good enough to stand next to you, and call you brothers! And say to you… I love you!" Serena bit her lip, trying to keep the tears in.

"I love you guys so much!" Serena gripped Raph's shell, steeling her nerves.

"I love Splinter!"

"WHAT!?" Everyone yelled.

Everything stopped.

Serena looked up, coughing as the dust settled. The boys were standing… alive. They were supporting the spire on their backs. She laughed.

"We're alright. We're alive! Haha!" She flung her arms around Raph's neck as he and his brothers threw the spire off them. "Let's go before anyone finds us."

新命、昔の恋

Serena hugged her arms to her chest as Donatello injected the mutagen into Splinter. Her heart and mind were ablaze with prayers, desperately hoping he would be alright. His sons huddled around him, praying the same thing. She looked up at a gasp.

"Mikey…"

"Huh?"

"Mikey come closer." The orange-bandana wearing turtle leaned over his sensei/father, cupping his hand around his ear to hear him better. As soon as Mikey pulled back, Leo pounced.

"What'd he say? What'd he say?"

"He said please get your knee off my chest." The others began to laugh in relief.

"Sensei!"

"You're alive!" Raph grinned, full on grinned.

"It worked!"

"I'm sorry. This was all my fault."

"You were right. We weren't ready." Splinter sighed.

"No. It was I who wasn't ready. To let you go. All you needed, was to discover that your true power lies in believing in one another."

The brothers stepped back, looking at each other. Mikey put his hands on his head, removing them and making explosion noises. Serena laughed softly, catching Splinter's attention. Motioning to his sons, they helped him stand. Serena stood motionless as Splinter walked towards her.

"Serena…"

"Yeah?" Splinter smiled, taking her hands. She gasped as he dipped her. Out of reflex, she wrapped her arms around his neck. "Splinter! What are you do-"

"Watashi mo anata o aishitemasu.2" Her eyes widened as he leaned down, pressing his lips to hers. Her eyes fluttered closed as the turtles cheered, clapping each other on the shoulder. Serena tightened her arms around Splinter's neck, aware of his injuries. He smiled into the kiss, nipping her bottom lip softly before letting her up, but not out of her embrace.

"You know what this means?" Mikey grabbed Raph, shaking him back and forth. "We have a real mom now!" Serena laughed, pure joy filling the air.

"Of course, chōji.3" Mikey whooped, wrapping his arms around his father and Serena. The others shrugged, joining in on the group hug. Splinter chuckled, resting his forehead on Serena's temple. She hummed, pressing into his touch.

"Looks like I'll be staying a little longer than anticipated." He chuckled, kissing her cheek.

"I think we can deal with that. After all, our family is only as strong as it is because of you." Serena smiled, sighing in contentment.

"Yeah. I guess you're right." She smiled at her sons. 'This family is my family. These boys are my sons. Together… we are unstoppable. Together… we are strong.'

Translations:
1) Mother
2) I love you too.
3) Darling.

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