I Own nothing except the stuff I made up
The Son of Lou Jitsu
Tiger Claw had played all through the first few hours of Final Fantasy VII, he decided it would be time to take a break. However, as he saved the Door suddenly burst wide open making him yelp. "Tiger Claw!" Splinter shouted practically jumping on to his lap and turning off the machine.
"Hey!" Tiger Claw snapped as Splinter bounded right back to his lap. "I need you to take me to Brooklyn Studios! For this!" he said just as Tiger Claw opened his mouth to ask and suddenly there was footage of Lou Jitsu doing a flying kick as the Sepia changed to a more modern set of Footage as a shadowed young man stood back against the rising son.
"The Son of Lou Jitsu! A New Legacy New Hot Soup: Coming soon!" Said the announcer as a Gong rang out.
"You…..want to see how things are going with the movie?" Tiger Claw deduced.
"YES!" Splinter shouted spastically. "This is my legacy! My Franchise! It is having new life breathed into it! And I want to make sure it's good!"
"Wouldn't one of the boys want to take you?" Tiger Claw asked with an arched eyebrow.
Splinter rubbed the back of his head. "Normally, I would ask them. But right now, they're introducing Karai to Lou Jitsu! Also, I'm not exactly sure how she personally feels about the whole 'abandon your duty to become an action movie star and almost dooming the world and your youngest son because of that thing.'"
"To be fair you didn't know any other way. And it's not like I was there to help course correct in time. Also…..you're weren't exactly adjusted to the idea…." Tiger Claw said. Splinter looked at him a silent question asked. "Mikey told me what he saw about your mother. I'm sorry."
"It is what is." Splinter muttered sadly.
"I'm sure she did it thinking only of you." Tiger Claw comforted; "So let's go then." He said standing up.
"Wait really?" Splinter asked surprised.
"Yup."
X X X
Splinter had already found out where it was. Brooklyn Studios as he said. In Studio 18. Splinter had dawned his Randall disguise once again. Tiger Claw put on his trench coat and hat. Under that to his annoyance was a suit with a big black mustache. Mr. Smith and Randall Smith.
"I can't believe you talked me into this thing….actually. I could totally believe it." Tiger Claw said remembering his attitude an hour ago.
"Splints. TC?!" a voice called they looked up to see Carol, Karai and April with Mayhem on her shoulder.
"What are you guys doing here?" Tiger Claw asked.
"The boys ended up being too busy. But Karai wanted to see how movies are made." April explained.
"And I thought why not I had the day off-"Carol began only for Splinter to let out a girlish scream cutting her off as he pointed they turned to see a tall man in his early to mid-thirties with a red belt around a black gi with torn sleeves and long curly pale yellow hair.
"It's Kristoff Von Bradford!" Splinter cried.
"I know him he's been in a bunch of Miracle Kid movies." Carol muttered.
"That German Kid star, right?" Tiger Claw hummed. "I think of heard of him."
"He is my sworn enemy!" Splinter shouted.
"How, is he one of the Foot Clan!?" Karai asked worriedly.
"No! Worse!" Splinter declared.
"Worse than the Foot Clan?" Karai asked.
"Well of course not!" Splinter corrected with a slight sputter. "But….my experiences with him are far from pleasant. When I was working on my movies. I met him as a small child star.
"Why Hello little one! I'm Lou Jitsu it's nice to-"Lou began only for the kid who had a sailor suit and curly blond hair kicked him as hard as he could in the shin. "OWW Why you little!" he glared at him towering over only for the Child to start shrieking and crying. Immediately the other adults came circling around him and comforting him.
"You should be ashamed of yourself!" shouted a woman.
"How could you scream at a small, adorable child!" shouted a man.
"But I- But he!" Lou tried to explain only to be shut down. He hung his head as the small boy whimpered into his agent's shoulder, he smirked evilly at Lou much to his shock.
Splinter shivered in the present day. "That's awful." Karai muttered worriedly. "And that's that child grown up?"
"Yes, I can't think of anyway this situation can get worse!" Splinter moaned.
"Oh, look the writer for the movie is here." Said a staff member.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Splinter screamed to the Heavens.
That got them noticed. Carol and April smiled nervously. Tiger Claw hissed a yelp as Splinter had snuck over almost as quickly as he stopped screaming and read over. "You're retconning several movies to make Lou Jitsu evil!? And you're writing the son as an unredeemable Jerk!? What garbage is this!?"
"And he Spits on his father's legacy!" Bradford muttered before glaring down at Splinter who glared up at him back. "Who are you!?" he hissed.
"Randall Smith! And someone who can tell you, YOUR SCRIPT IS SELF INDULGENT GARBAGE!" Splinter screamed.
"I know I should do something, but I can't stop watching," Tiger Claw hissed.
"YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE YOURSELF LOOK GOOD!" Splinter shouted about attacking Bradford only for Carol to grab him by the collar and pull him away.
"Hold this," she said to Tiger Claw who silently took Splinter as the Rat Man thrashed. Bradford suddenly saw Carol and smirked with a certain look.
"Well hello miss," he said in his German accent put on a bit more thickly than before. "Perhaps once the hard work is over for the day you and I can grab a bite together."
"EXCUSE ME, what tree do you think you're barking up!?" April snapped glaring at him with Mayhem who growled.
"Both of you calm down." Carol said to them firmly. She then looked sternly at Mr. Bradford.
"You'll have to excuse me, but I am not interested." Carol stated firmly.
Bradford hmphed in response. "Your loss." He said simply.
Karai immediately saw a man in a suit that looked important. Perhaps these executives Yoshi would mention, she ran over to him. Following him into the next room. "Oh, excuse me sir. There seems to be a problem with the script perhaps you could look into it and course correct."
"Ehh I'm sure it's fine," the Executive replied.
"What!?" Karai gasped in surprise.
"It has the Lou Jitsu name on it, it's gonna sell regardless and all I care about is the massive amounts of money this is gonna make." The Executive replied. "Besides I told my bud he could write this whole thing."
"But- "Karai called as he walked off. She stood there completely stunned and disappointed.
X X X
Bradford got done telling them the same thing, he stuck his tongue out at them. Carol glared at him. "You need to stop being such a brat. Damaging the reputation of something or someone you don't like is immature and not fair to those who do!" she growled swiping her arm out to release excess energy.
"Well maybe those people should move on to a much better star! Moi!" Bradford sneered. "Also, one more major outburst plebians and you'll be banned from the Studio." He said walking off with an arrogant swagger.
"Uhh Mr. Bradford the prototypes are here. They're all Heroic like you asked." Said a boy with curly red hair brown eyes and freckles. He wore a cream polo shirt and slacks. He pushed them over for the star to analyze as Splinter made a sound of disgust from under Tiger Claw's arm.
Bradford immediately glared at the young man as he pointed to the Pancakes. "What are these?"
"Uhh Bradford cakes?" he asked sheepishly.
"You really want my face to be degraded by brats eating it!?" Bradford snapped towering over him.
"Uh….no, no sir I just thought- "the Boy began only for Bradford to flick him in the head.
"Stop thinking and just do what your told!" Bradford snarled. "I want Products that make me look good. Not like a clown!"
Splinter popped out of Tiger Claw's arm pit and jumped down as Tiger Claw called to him but went ignored. "You have no respect for your younger fans! Lou Jitsu adored Children feeling invigorated with his Fist Pops!"
"I am Kristoff Von Bradford not that has-been hack who only got lucky and had no acting talent!" Bradford snarled getting right in Splinter's face. In Response the Rat man grabbed the pancakes and a knife and fork from the food table. He stabbed the pancakes so hard and so deep and fast the teeth of the for clanged against the plate.
"Don't do it!" Bradford hissed, looking perturbed at this. "Don't you dare!"
Splinter looked directly into Bradford's eyes. They were wide a bit crazed and bugging out with veins his frown so arch like it was bending past his neck flaps and stretched his cheeks. He pulled the pancakes closer to him causing the teeth to screech a little on the plate. "Don't eat my face!" Bradford hissed, his voice cracking a little.
Splinter wordlessly lifted the whole stack up and while still looking at Bradford. His eyes stretched out to keep eye contact as he opened his mouth and began moving the whole stack towards his mouth. "DO. NOT. EAT. MY- "
X X X
Splinter was immediately banned. They sat outside Studio 18, while Karai, who had finally found them, looked at Splinter with slight disgust but mostly puzzlement. "You…. Ate…his face?" she asked, her eye squinting a little with an arched eyebrow.
"It was more like an edible picture." Tiger Claw explained.
"To bad you don't have a Manor they could stop this." Carol hummed annoyedly.
"Of course I don't have one of those!" Splinter yelled exasperated. "The last of the Hamato Bloodline is a rat, four turtles and a woman misplaced from time…. uh no offense Gram-Gram!" he added a little sheepishly.
Karai shrugged. "The Truth of me being here is simply that."
They saw someone come to sit outside the studio. It was the Product guy from earlier. He was sadly looking over a script he had carefully placed in a protective binder. Splinter looked over his shoulder and began reading the page he was on quickly he smiled. "This is amazing! This should be the Script for the Son of Lou Jitsu movie!" he said, surprising the guy who yelped but calmed down.
"Uhh thanks," The man replied he looked at his script and sighed. "Definitely better than that Trash! I Hate it too. Bradford just wants to sink the Lou Jitsu Franchise and stain it's reputation. He even boasted to me about that. But I can't do much I need this job and he's, my boss." He muttered sadly.
"To be honest I've always wanted to write a Lou Jitsu movie. They didn't really care where the script came from as long as the movie existed and had Lou Jitsu's name on it. I kind of jumped at the chance and worked on this for weeks. But Bradford had beat me too it. I'm just the product guy, and since Bradford and that exec. you saw earlier are friends so, yeah." He, sighed before facepalming. "Where are my manners! My name is Sean."
"Name's April." She greeted shaking his hand. "This is Mayhem….my cat!"
"I'm Mrs. O'Neil April's mom." She added.
"My name is Karai." she reverently replied.
"I'm Mr. Smith and this is my…. son…. Randall." Tiger Claw grunted out eventually.
"I thought it was the other way around." Sean admitted with a blush as Splinter reacted spastically like Tiger Claw forced down a giggle as did the others.
"NO! No, I am your average hairy teenager!" Splinter stated. "So how do we swap out Bradford's Stinky Script for yours?" he asked.
"You kind of can't, but I guess if you showed it to the CEO of the Movie company and he liked it then he could swap it out." Sean suggested Splinter got a scheming look.
He pulled Mayhem, Sean and April closer. "Here is the plan." He began as he whispered to them. Tiger Claw looked over to see Carol reading something on her phone.
"I'm looking into Bradford." She told him, sensing his curiosity.
"Why Psycho-Analyze someone who's not worth the time of day to deal with. Other than the Mudslinging." Tiger Claw asked.
"Well, I am hoping maybe it'll help me understand why he's doing this, so far he estranged his family ten years ago." She hummed thoughtfully as Tiger Claw nodded.
Splinter suddenly shoved himself into Tiger Claw's Trench coat. "Alright onward!" he declared pointing as Tiger Claw gave a deadpan look.
"Okay so Mr. McCalister always eats a Donut when he arrives. He's got a sweet tooth, so we could leave the script by the Donuts."
"Excellent!" Splinter said sneakily.
X X X
Tiger Claw and Carol came back to see a scene where Jack Jitsu was smashing a priceless Artifact. "Do you think I care about what my father protected! He thought no more of this Kingdom than I did!" the Actor said doing his job well. Splinter growled poking his head out as Tiger Claw shoved him back in with some difficultly Tiger Claw uncurled his tail from around his waist and used it to Signal Sean.
The young man nodded and went up to Bradford taking immense pleasure of the scene being made. "uhh sir," Sean said poking his head over.
"What is it? Can't you see I'm enjoying my Art?" Bradford asked.
"Ye-yeah of course!" Sean said as the Director yelled cut for a break. "I Just thou-I mean believe you should have a say in the merchandise line for the movie."
Bradford hummed. "Hmm, I'm listening." He said smiling at the idea. While he and Sean were talking Mayhem on April's signal as Tiger Claw retracted his tail. Began sneaking over to where he could leave the script. However, as he did something snarled at Mayhem just before he could jump up on the table.
Mayhem looked a bit scared, but something snapped at him making him poof away but accidentally left Sean's script behind much to Carol, Karai and April's horror. Tiger Claw had noticed this as well. He looked over at the Table where Mayhem had been and sniffed a little. He moved his ears forward making his paw firmly on Splinter's head as his tail wriggled out of coat collar like a frantic worm. Then to make things worse Bradford picked up the binder and skimmed a few pages. He glared. "I'll be sure to burn this later…." He growled taking it away to presumably
Tiger Claw immediately ran over as Sean was freaking out. "Ahhh why did I do this, if Bradford finds out that I wrote that-"
"We're gonna fix this!" April assured. "We'll get it back before he can burn it. Or find that out."
"It's gonna be harder, somehow Bradford has some kind of Animalistic Yokai under his control." Tiger Claw noted keeping voice low enough for only Splinter, April and Carol to hear.
"Getting Sean's Script back is more important," Splinter hissed from inside his coat.
"Debatable." Tiger Claw replied.
"Especially since his art and pride as an artist is on the line!" Splinter added ignoring Tiger Claw and surprising him.
"You think I'm an artist?!" Sean said surprised.
"Yes, and you want to save this movie and you want your dream to come true. Would you have agreed to help us if you didn't?" Splinter asked.
"Sean thought for a moment…No I wouldn't have!" Sean said to himself surprised. "I can't help you guys right now, but Bradford probably took it too his trailer!"
"His Trailer?" they all said.
X X X
Bradford's trailer had turned out to be this large Gold-Plated RV That almost took up an entire lot. "That's a trailer?!" April squeaked. "You could fit the Lair and my Apartment in there!"
"Oooh looks like Bradford is overcompensating for something," Splinter said singsong in a sly tone.
"It's not what you think it is if that's the case." Carol said flatly.
Mayhem poofed April, Karai Tiger Claw and Splinter inside. It was basically a small mansion inside. "How….does this exist?" Tiger Claw asked. "Why was it made to exist."
"This looks overly Superfluous for a temporary place of stay." Karai noted.
"That's because it is." Tiger Claw stated.
"My Trailer was much smaller." Splinter decided to add. "We're gonna have to Split up."
"Right," They agreed as they began to look around. Tiger Claw went through the sitting room as Splinter checked cupboards and any other places, he knew Brad to hide things when he was younger during their youth.
April immediately headed upstairs. She looked through a couple of rooms she saw in his bedroom was the binder on his bed. "There it is!" she said surprised. "I Found it!" she called to the others. However, there was a snarl and she turned to see a large Green glowing Komodo Dragon with glowing eyes narrowing at her.
"Is that a Mystic Komodo Dragon!?" April yelped Mayhem nodded shrinking down a little. It snatched up the Binder in it's mouth and jumped at them making the two yelp and duck. "Hey!" April shouted before jumping on it's back and trying to make a grab for the Binder. The three had crashed right in front of Tiger Claw and Splinter.
"April get off of that thing don't let it bite you!" Tiger Claw shouted only for Mayhem to teleport them off as it tried to bring it's head around to bite her. April landed at Tiger Claw's feet. It took the Script and jumped out the window.
"After it at once!" Karai shouted as they raced after it. Carol jumped away from the chase.
"Uhhh," Sean gasped witnessing it. They suddenly heard the gate for the Studio open. "It's him!" he gasped. "We're running out of time."
"Then we're gonna have to by some!" Carol said rushing over. As the man got out. "Hey there, my name was Carol, can I get you some Coffee?"
"Yes, you may." The Man replied immediately enjoying the offer.
Mayhem poofed them closer a bit each time it looked like it would get away from them, but the Yokai spat venom at them that seemed to poison the ground. Karai put up a shield when it tried again. It then held onto the binder with it's tail it then began darting off quickly.
"It's trying to give the Binder to Bradford!" April cried.
"Leave him to me!" Splinter said, jumping from Tiger Claw's jacket and knocking Bradford's coffee out of his hand and kicking him in the shin.
"You!" Bradford snarled diving at Splinter who jumped over him. Bradford began chasing after him, even throwing a punch which Splinter blocked and sent a few of him for.
Meanwhile, Tiger Claw and the others. Had cornered the lizard. Tiger Claw had to grab the two and toss them around as they dove for the Binder at the tail that the Komodo kept away while snapping at them. April leaned back as it dove towards her neck. she corkscrewed out of the way and Mayhem poofed her away.
Tiger Claw dove for it with his Night Watcher gloves on his hand to protect from biting however the Komodo switched what he was holding the Binder with and grabbed him by the arm with his tail and threw him into the garbage nearby. "Damn it this thing is smart." Tiger Claw growled to himself.
Karai unleashed a burst of Ninpo that the Komodo blocked with it's claws and tail. Even snapping one. She went for a kick but had to quickly redirect her foot when the Komodo opened its mouth.
She did, however, trip it up. As she tried to reach for the binder the Komodo snapped at her. She flipped away. But the lizard ripped a bit of her jeans.
"APRILLLLLLL 'ONEEEEEIIIILLL!" April shouted diving in just as it turned and landing a kick in the snout stunning it long enough to grab the binder it immediately dove for Mayhem when he took it. Suddenly, a pulse of Emerald Ninpo hit the Komodo Dragon causing it to immediately fall asleep.
"Go Mayhem!" Tiger Claw called. He turned to see the executive from earlier had just showed up. And was trying to break up Carol's conversation.
Seeing this too, Mayhem immediately poofed to Carol and placed the Script in her hands. She gripped it. "Oh, look a Script for the Movie." Bradford meanwhile had grabbed Splinter and tossed him into a trash can before shoving the lid over it hard. He saw the two executives looking at it.
"NO STOP!" he shouted running over only to trip over the sleeping Komodo face-planting. He blanched when he saw what he tripped over.
"A script I thought there already was one." The CEO said suspiciously.
"There is and that's the one we're working on." Said the Executive.
"Yes, but this one is guaranteed to make you even more Money!" Carol said as Dollar signs appeared in the man's eyes.
"Alright then we have our new script! We'll just delay the Movie and start again! What do you say Bob?"
Brad hummed but suddenly saw that Bradford was dragging the Komodo trying to keep it out of sight. "Kristof is that a Lizard!"
"Uhhh, well you see- "Bradford began only for Bob to cut him off. "I can't associate with anyone who has a lizard for a pet."
"Oof!" Tiger Claw muttered feeling bad for him for the first time all day.
"You said I could write this movie! And we're-"Bradford began.
"Like I said I can't associate with anyone who likes and has a lizard. Besides if this script is going to make us even more money than your script then how can I say no!" he said going off. Bradford snarled and stormed off.
"Why are you so fixated on destroying the legacy of a man who died years ago?!" Carol snapped.
"That's my business. I don't have to explain myself to Plebians like you." He sneered getting in his RV trailer and rushing off almost making motions to hit them on his way out. It was a little intimidating to see such a large vehicle almost hit them.
"YOU-"Splinter screamed almost looking like he was going to chase after it.
"Let it go Splinter, he's just a sad little man with no meaningful relationships in his life." Carol hissed glaring at the golden Vehicle as it disappeared down the street.
Splinter gasped it hit him just then…..
It had been a couple of nights since they had sent the Shredder away. Mikey hadn't been sleeping well, he had been plagued with Nightmares he looked at his four boys sleeping on the heating lamp mattress together. He sighed, going to pass them his son was suffering and had suffered so much because of him, He also made his other sons suffer as well. Maybe if he had just done his duty. None of this would've happened they would've been happy wild turtles. Untouched by abuse, failure and grief. He was a terrible father.
However, something grabbed his arm. It had been Mikey. In his sleep he pulled Splinter into the bed and immediately all the turtles group hugged him in his sleep. He felt their love in that instance and teared up nuzzling into the hug as a blizzard raged outside above them.
"You're right, I have the love of my sons, and I would not trade that for anything. Not even the life I had." Splinter said brightening considerably.
"You might have us as well," Tiger Claw admitted quickly.
"Amen to that!" April added Mayhem nodding from her shoulder. Carol smiling.
"I appreciate that," Splinter said before frowning at Karai. "But,"
"Michealangelo went into more detail about the clans ways and how it negatively affected everyone. I not sure what happened, and I too was told what he saw in your memories. It seems somewhere the teachings have become too extreme. Admittedly I'm not sure what I would've done in either of your positions. I will say I've seen the passion in your eyes while those movies play. And they are most enjoyable."
Splinter lit up feeling pride in his work and the joy of a family member praising his work he smiled. "Thank you…."
READ AND REVIEW!