Guest: Well, I've watched several Star Wars films, trilogies and spin offs, and I like some of them. But I don't think that I have any plans on making Star Wars fanfictions. I'm not too into them, unfortunately.
animegamefanatic: Well, both Mikey and Louie need something to do to pass some time while Leo was away. And yeah. If Raph were ever to find the dude responsible for creating the tortoise and the hare and because of which the turtles are stereotyped as slow, he'd definitely have a little word of complain with the man about that.
=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003=
=The Shredder Strikes Back, Part 1, Part 5=
Back in the city, Leo was jumping from rooftop to rooftop, trying to get back to April's as soon as possible as the downpour got even heavier and the lightning even denser.
He was panting heavily from the exhaustion, for he had kept fighting for hours and hours against the Foot Clan's ambushes non-stop, as they kept coming over and over again soon after the previous ambush had been fended off.
After fending off the first seven ambushes all morning and early afternoon, he had barely managed to fend off at least eleven more ambushes by evening, and with each ambush the Foot's tactics became more cunning, their numbers greater, and their attacks and efforts to bring him down more tougher and challenging to beat. And each ambush he defeated had left him bruised, bleeding, out of breath and heavily worn out. But with the sheer willpower, the turtle in blue kept going.
Leo then sensed that he was being followed and he picked up the pace.
And he was right. He was being chased across the rooftops by a whole army of Foot!
At first, he was only chased by a couple dozen Foot Ninja, but soon more and more Foot Soldiers began to appear from neighboring rooftops and gaps between buildings, with their numbers quickly increasing from a couple dozen to over a hundred and twenty Foot Ninja, joined by a dozen Large Foot Ninja, several dozen Foot Agents, over a dozen Foot Tech Ninja, and finally even Hun himself, badly bruised from his fight with Leo and therefore even angrier as he galloped after the turtle in blue tail, holding the big pipe as a weapon, making it a total two hundred Foot Soldiers.
Due to his exhaustion, the Foot army was slowly but certainly gaining on him, no matter how fast he ran, and their pace wasn't lessened - unlike his - by the jumps over the gaps between the buildings.
Eventually, Leo realized that he won't shake them off by running, so he turned around and skidded to halt in the edge of the roof. He catched his breath as the Foot Ninja, Large Foot Ninja and Foot Agents stopped in front of him in the crescent-shaped formation that left Leo cornered to the edge of the roof while cutting any and all of the possibly escape routes.
The Foot Soldiers in the middle of their formation then parted ways and moved aside as Hun approached, growling as he stared Leo down, before dozen of Foot Tech Ninja landed around of him: three to his left side, another three to his right side and five in front of him, while the remining six of them appeared from behind Hun's back.
Leo knew he had no chance of winning here, with the numbers of the Foot so great and his own strenght mostly spent, but the turtle in blue refused to give in to impossible odds, refused to bend the knee to the enemy such as Foot, refused to admit defeat, and refused to beg for mercy. He'd rather fall with honor before any of that.
More lightnings struck across the sky as Leo stared at the Foot Army, panting, whilst gathering his strength for the one final push.
Then he squeezed his fists and then jumped forward.
"YYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Leo shouted his battle-cry as he unsheathed his Katana, which blades flashed as another lightning went off above him.
Leo landed right in the middle of the hordes of the Foot and began to swing his Katanas wildly at the Foot Soldiers: Upon landing, Leo first kicked one Large Foot Ninja away before he slashed his right Katana down on the first Foot Ninja in front of him, cutting through his raised staff and mortally slicing his face in two, before he slashed his left sword at the ninja on his left, cutting open his stomach. Then Leo turned to his right and raised his right Katana up to block the next ninja's staff before he cut off the ninja's right foot with his left Katana, causing him to fall down, before Leo spun around and sliced from behind him attacking ninja's Naginata in half before he swung his right Katana at him and decapitated him, while slitting the throats from two ninjas standing behind him with the tip of his sword. Leo then spun around as he jumped up and split-kicked two attacking Foot Agents away and then brought his Katanas down on the third Foot Agent, cleaving his head and cutting open his shoulder.
Leo then jumped off to engage even more Foot Soldiers: He lunged at the ninja in front of him and brought his both swords down on him, which the ninja blocked with his sword, before Leo kicked him in the chest with his right foot, knocking him away. Leo then blocked the Foot Agent's sword with his left own before he stabbed him through the chest with his right Katana before pulling his blade out and elbowed the Foot Ninja behind him in the chest, knocking him down. Then Leo blocked on his right standing ninja's attack with his right sword while blocking with his left the attack from the ninja standing in front of him, before he kicked the ninja on his right in the guts, knocking him back, before he slashed with his right sword the ninja in front of him across the shoulder, knocking him back. Then Leo slashed his right Katana to the right, slitting the new Foot Agent's throat open before he blocked from his left coming Foot Agent's sword with his left Katana before he spin-kicked him in the head, knocking him down. Leo then turned to the Large Foot Ninja coming from behind him and ducked under his swing with his sword, before Leo slashed him across his right side with his right Katana and then slashed him in the back with his left Katana, cutting him down. Leo then jump-kicked away the new ninja coming from his right before snap-kicking from his right coming ninja away with his left foot. Then he raised his both Katanas above his head to block the new ninja's attempt to split his head in two with Naginata, before he spun around and slashed the ninja across the chest with his both swords.
Two Foot Ninja, Foot Agent and Large Foot Ninja then charged at him and grabbed to his arms in attempt to restrain him, but Leo, having crossed his arms to shield himself, pulled his arms back and slashed his Katanas at them, throwing all four off him with the mortal gashes across their chests caused by his Katanas.
Leo then dashed towards the next Foot Ninja and roundhouse-kicked him in the chest, sending the ninja flying screaming away with the somersault in the air till he landed on his stomach to the roof.
Yelling, Leo then jumped at the Foot Agent and snap-kicked him in the head, making aloud KRACK! upon impact that sent his head flying back as the agent himself flew flat on his back to the roof, with his arms flailing limply in the air.
Leo then swung his Katanas over his head before he crossed his arms in fromt of them before pulling them back and slashing his Katanas forward, cutting the Large Foot Ninja's head clean off his shoulders.
Leo then spin-kicked the ninja behind his right shoulder in the head, knocking him down, and then slashed with his right Katana the ninja coming from the left in front of him across his chest, knocking him back. Then he blocked from behind his left shoulder coming ninja's sword with his left Katana before kicking from the right in front of him coming ninja in the guts, sending him flying into one of the agents and knocking them both down, before he punched the ninja on his left in the kisser with his right fist, knocking him back. Leo then ducked under the next Foot Agent's swing at his head before he caught him onto his shell and then flipped him over as he stood up. Then he blocked with his left the Large Foot Ninja's right sword coming from above and with his upside down turned right sword the ninja's left sword coming rom below, before Leo uppercutted the ninja under his chin, knocking him back.
Leo then ducked under the next ninja's sword before he squatted down and spun around, sweeping the ninja's legs from under and causing him to fall flat on his knees to the roof. Leo then turned around and raised his swords to block two Foot Agents' swords before he stood up and forcefully pushed them back, throwing them off their feet and knocking them flat on their backs to the roof. Another Large Foot Ninja then charged at Leo and the two began to exchange several blows, with both Large Foot Ninja and Leo aiming twice each other's heads and twice their feet while blocking them, until Leo punched him in the face with his right fist, then kicked him in the stomach with his left foot, causing him to bend over, before slashing him in the legs with his right sword, causing the ninja to fall on his knees, before Leo stabbed him in the back with his left Katana, killing him. Leo then blocked the next ninja's sword with his right Katana before he moved it to his left and spun around and kicked he ninja in the back with his left foot, before he swung his right Katana at the next ninja, slicing his sword in half before flashkicking him in the chest, causing him to fly back. Leo then raised his Katanas up to block the next ninja's attack before he moved the enemy's blade aside and then he corkscrew-kicked the ninja in the face, knocking him back.
Hun growled angrily as he watched Leo decimating 1/4 of the Foot Army single-handedly.
The giant then had enough of this and moved forward to join the fight. He roared as he charged towards Leo to deal with him himself, but the turtle in blue, quickly sheathing his Katana, jumped onto Hun's chest before he kicked off and backflipped away, causing Hun to stumble bit backwards, but he shrugged it off and followed Leo.
Leo flew over the antenna and grabbed from the top of the antenna as Hun drew closer, and then he leg go as Hun was standing right in front of it, causing the antenna to smack the giant in the face as it sprung back, knocking the giant onto his back.
Groaning in pain, Hun got up and rubbed his chin that had taken the hit. Now even angrier than ever, the giant got back up and growled as he prepared to fight Leo again.
But before he could engage the turtle in blue, something caught Hun's eye and he looked up over Leo's head. After the moment, the giant smiled and chuckled darkly, before he backed away from Leo.
And then, all the Foot Ninja, Foot Agents and Foot Tech Ninja stood down and bowed to Leo's direction.
"HUH?!" Leo gasped, completely confused by this.
However, Leo knew too well that Foot would never bow to him for any reason: not out of respect for or admitting their defeat to him. So Leo suspected that there was someone behind him the Foot were really bowing to.
He turned around and looked up, and gasped with shock when he noticed thirteen weird-looking ninjas - with the Foot symbols on their belts - standing atop of the tall outbuilding above him.(1)
These thirteen ninjas weren't anything like the standard Foot Ninja, Foot Agents or the Foot Tech Ninja, for they each had the blood-red capes with face masks pulled over their mouths - showing only their red eyes filled with evil and malice - black shirts with torn sleeves and pants, blood-red boots and the gauntlets. Twelve of them also wore bamboo hats. The thirteenth one in the middle of them stood out from the rest, for he wore the hood over his head instead of the bamboo hat and he had the Japanese red Oni-mask with the black horns and white tusks.(1)
Each one of them wielded the individual weapon of choice: From left to right, the first one carried the Trident, second one carried the Double-bladed Sword, third one the double-bladed Battle-Axe, fourth one Yari-spear, fifth one War-Scythe, sixth one twin Broadswords (the design of which resembled Dao-sword), seventh one Bladed Twin-Tonfas, eighth one large Guāndāo-Spear, ninth one Glaive, tenth one Twin-Kamas (with the abnormally larger and broad S-shaped blades), eleventh one Bisento-Spear and twelfth one Twin-Katars with the triangle-blades as long as the short swords. And finally, the hooded ninja wielded the Double-ended Naginata as his weapon of choice.(2)
Even more lightnings went off in the sky behind these new type of Foot Ninja's backs, casting their menacing shadows over Leo who stared at them wide-eyed, unable to believe what he was seeing.
Leo deduced from their attire, the menacing aura surrounding them, and the way the Foot Ninja had bowed respectfully to them, that these ninjas were some kind of high-ranking elite soldiers, the highly skilled and apparently the most lethal ones.
As the ninjas glared down at him, Leo then lowered his eyes in anger. Despite being tired, he refusing to back down in the face of this new enemy.
Leo then pulled out his swords and courageously jumped up and towards the ninjas.
"YYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Leo shouted as he flew towards the Foot Elite, spinning his swords around.
But the moment he landed to the rooftop in front of them, the Foot Elite were engulfed by the sudden puff of smoke and then vanished.
"Huh?!" Leo gasped, confused, and looked around or these new ninjas.
He then turned around and looked down and saw all thirteen of them appearing from the smoke right in front of the rest of the Foot army, glaring up at him.
Leo growled and held up his left sword in front of him, preparing to fight.
However, after staring up at the turtle in blue for a moment, the Foot Elite, Foot Tech Ninja, Hun, the Foot Agents and all the Foot Ninja turned simultaneously to their left and bowed down.
Leo was left confused by this. What or who they were all bowing to now?
The turtle in blue then turned to look to the direction where the Foot were bowing and narrowed his eyes to get the better look.
He saw that on top of the building opposite the one he and Foot were standing on, someone was standing tall against the dark stormy sky.
Leo didn't recognize the dark figure at first because of the darkness, not until the dense lightning went off in the sky behind the figure, illuminating him long enough for Leo to see the details of his silhouette.
His eyes went wide from horror when he recognized the familiar samurai-armor with spikes and blades and the familiar-looking Kabuto-helmet the figure was wearing, along with in the wind floating black cape with the Foot symbol on it, and finally the gauntlets with the Tekkō-Kagi claws in each!
Only one could wear such of armor, only one Leo had thought to be long gone. None other than...
The SHREDDER!
"OOHHHH!"
"No!" Leo gasped in horror and disbelief.
The Shredder then raised his left gauntlet's claws and pointed them in Leo's direction while looking down at the Foot Elite, as if ordering them to attack.
All the Foot then turned away from their master to Leo, and the Foot Elite raised their weapons up before they vanished in the puff of smoke... only to appear out of another puff of smoke behind of still stunned Leo
Leo turned around, and gasped upon finding himself being surrounded by all thirteen Foot Elite.
"YAAHHH!" Leo yelled as the Foot Elite began to attack him, giving the turtle in blue no time to prepare himself.
The Trident Elite stabbed him with his weapon, knocking him back slightly (THOCK!), before Guāndāo Elite struck him in the stomach (THOCK!) and Bisento Elite brought his weapon down on his shell (SLASH!). Leo gasped and bent over in pain from Bisento Elite's attack, allowing Yari, Scythe and Glaive Elites to jump onto him and stab him in the shell with their weapons (THOCK!) (THOCK!) (THOCK!).
The Double-bladed Sword Elite then slashed him with one of his weapon's blades (SLASH!), followed by Broadsword Elite bringing both of his swords down on the turtle in blue (SLASH!) (SLASH!), and then the Katar Elite stabbed him with one of his Katars (THOCK!).
Leo grunted in pain every time as the Foot Elite's weapons made contact, cutting open his skin and scratching his shell. The turtle in blue then swung his Katana to the left and and right in attempt to slice them, but due to him being heavily worn out, his own attacks were sluggy and the Foot Elite were too fast for him. Then the hooded Foot Elite slashed him in the shell with his Double-bladed Naginata (SLASH!), causing Leo to turn to him, only to get sliced across his plastron (SLASH!), beore the hooded Foot Elite corkscrew-kicked the turtle in blue in the face (THOCK!).
Trident Elite then stabbed Leo again from behind with his weapon (THOCK!), followed by Guāndāo Elite bringing his own weapon down on him from Leo's right (THOCK!), before Leo got stabbed from his left by the Bisento Elite's weapon (THOCK!).
The Foot Elite were highly coordinated with their attacks, following strictly the Divide & Conquer technique against Leo: the other half distracted him while the other half attacked him, working together as a team (just like how the turtles did). When they distracted him, they did so by leaping over and swiftly circling around him like the wolves surrounding the deer, while staying outside of his Katana range, while circling around of him. And when they attacked him, their attacks were swift but heavy, brutal and destructive.
Scythe Elite then slashed his weapon twice at Leo from below and above (SLASH!) (SLASH!), followed by Yari Elite stabbing him in the leg (THOCK!), and the Glaive Elite slashed at him from the front (SLASH!). He was then slashed by the Bladed Twin Tonfa Elite's weapons (SLASH!) (SLASH!), before he got hacked by the Twin Kama Elite's weapons from above (THOCK!) (THOCK!), and then the Battle Axe Elite struck him brutally in the back (THOCK!). And finally the hooded Foot Elite delivered to him the series of brutal slashes here and there (SLASH!) (SLASH!) (SLASH!) (SLASH!) (SLASH!).
"AAHHH!" Leo cried in pain and fell on his knees to the roof.
The Foot Elite had left him in terrible condition: his shell and plastron were full of fresh scratches, while there were fresh bleeding cuts, slices and stab wounds in above of his chest, shoulders, arms, legs and some even in his head.
The turtle in blue panted heavily from exhaustion and grunted in stinging pain all over, as the Foot Elite stood around him, patiently waiting.
They could've killed him now that he was at their mercy. But instead, they gave him time to catch his breath in the twisted sense of mercy, for they were aware that after how poorly Leo fared against them, he stood no chance in defeating them.
In fact, they could have killed him even before the "halftime" they gave Leo, but out of sadistic streak, they had deliberately prolonged Leo's obvious fate just so that they can toy with him before actually finishing him off.
However, only one Foot Elite's patience was running thin as Leo made no move to get back up and resume their fight, the hooded one's.
"GET UP, LEONARDO!" the hooded Foot Elite demanded with the stern and ice-cold voice.
Leo flinched a bit by that voice, not because of its harshness but rather because it sounded familiar in his ears... awfully familiar, even though he hadn't heard that voice for over half of the year.
Realizing almost immediately who the voice really belonged to, Leo lifted his head slightly and looked up at the owner of the voice, the hooded Foot Elite, with an equally ice-cold and hatred-filled glare.
"Tatsu?" Leo hissed through of his gritted teeth.(3)
Indeed, the Foot Elite under the hood and the Oni-mask was indeed Tatsu himself, their old scarred arch-nemesis and one of the Shredder's top lieutenants.
"GET UP!" Tatsu demanded, banging one of the bladed ends of his Naginata dangerously close of Leo's face. "So that you won't rob us our honor by dying on your knees like a cowering dog!"
The word of "honor" coming out of Tatsu's mouth made Leo to grit his teeth angrily and with disgust. What did Tatsu know about honor when the whole Foot Clan lacked the code of Bushido and honor with their cruel and dishonorable methods, especially the Shredder?
And Tatsu's own view of honor of defeating him was more of out of desire for vengeance against him for his previous defeats and to please his master, but nothing more.
"Honor? What honor?!" Leo snarled, as the turtle in blue summoned all the remaining strength he still had for the one last push.
"YOU HAVE NO HONOR!" Leo roared defiantly as he jumped up and attacked both Tatsu and Foot Elite one last time.
Leo first swung his Katanas at the Yari and Glaive Elites, but missed as they jumped away, though he clashed with the Scythe Elite and managed to block the couple slashes from him, though the third slash hit its mark, knocking Leo back slightly. (SLASH!). The Double-bladed Sword Elite with the Broadsword Elite then attacked, prompting Leo to turn to them. He blocked first the Broadsword Elite's left sword with his right own and then his right sword with his left own before sending a slice at him with his right Katana, though the Elite jumped back. Leo then sent the slash at the Double-bladed Sword Elite with his left Katana, which the Elite blocked with his weapon before he tried to slice Leo in the head, though Leo managed to block it with his right Katana. However, Katar Elite then swung his weapons at him from below and slashed him across the plastron, knoking him back (SLASH!) (SLASH!). Battle-Axe Elite then came from behind and struck Leo in the shell (THOCK!), before the Bladed Tonfa Elite charged at him and slashed his Tonfas' blades at him three times, which Leo blocked with his Katanas, before Kama Elite, spinning his wepons, jumped over the Bladed Tonfa Elite and struck Leo across his chest (THOCK!) (THOCK!).
Trident Elite then lunged at Leo and tried to stab him from above with his weapon, but Leo, after blocking the attacks from Broadsword and Double-bladed Sword Elites before slashing his right Katana at Tatsu who jumped back to avoid his sword, turned around and caught the Trident Elite's weapon with his left Katana, though he got slashed in the shell by Katar Elite's weapons (SLASH!) (SLASH!).
Then the Guāndāo Elite, spinning his weapon over his head, lunged at Leo and tried to bring his weapon down on Leo, but Leo blocked it with his crossed swords, only to be hacked in the shell from behind by Bisento Elite (THOCK!). Glaive Elite then slashed him in his right side (SLASH!), before Leo turned around and blocked both Yari and Scythe Elite's attempts to stab him from his left and slice him from his right with his Katanas.
Leo then blocked Kama Elite's attack after he tried to bring his weapons down on his head before pushing him back, before the Bladed Tonfa Elite slashed him in the back (SLASH!) (SLASH!), prompting Leo to turn around and send the slashes at him, causing the Elite to jump back. And as Leo blocked Tatsu's Naginata with his left sword while blocking the Battle-Axe Elite's weapon as he tried to struck him from behind, the Double-bladed Sword Elite lunged at him, prompting Leo to push Tatsu and Battle-Axe Elite back before he caught the Double-bladed Sword Elite's weapon with his crossed Katanas, only to get slashed in his left side by Broadsword Elite's right and then his left sword as he moved past him (SLASH!) (SLASH!), before he turned around and slashed him in the back with both of his swords (SLASH!) (SLASH!), and then he got slashed in the back of his left shoulder when Katar Elite landed to his left and brought his Katars down on him. (SLASH!) (SLASH!).
As Leo was still clashing with the Double-bladed Sword Elite, the Trident Elite went to stab him with his weapon again (THOCK!), followed by Bisento Elite first stabbing him (THOCK!) and then slashing him from behind (SLASH!), as Yari and Scythe Elites leaped at him and stabbed/slashed him in the shell from above (THOCK!) (SLASH!). Battle-Axe Elite then charged at Leo and struck him with his weapon (THOCK!), followed by Kama Elite crossing his arms before pulling them back, and slashing Leo with his weapon's again (SLASH!) (SLASH!), Tatsu then sent couple of slices at him with his Naginta (SLASH!) (SLASH!), before he flipped over him and swung his Naginata down on his shell, and upon landing he thrusted one end of his Naginata backwards into Leo's back (THOCK!) before turning around and slashing him across the shell with the other end of his weapon (SLASH!). Katar Elite then slashed Leo first with his left (SLASH!) and then his right Katar (SLASH!) before turning around and then stabbing Leo with his right Katar (THOCK!), followed by Broadsword Elite slashing his right sword at him first from below (SLASH!) and then from above (SLASH!) before slashing across him with his left sword (SLASH!). Guāndāo Elite then lunged at Leo and slashed his weapon at him from above (SLASH!) before stabbing him upon landing (THOCK!), followed by Bladed Tonfa Elite slashing him from above as he flipped at him (SLASH!) (SLASH!) before stabbing him with both of his weapons (THOCK!) (THOCK!), before Glaive Elite flipped over him and slashed him in the shell with his weapon (SLASH!).
The Foot Elite and Tatsu landed blows after another even faster than Leo could defend himself against them, and after each blow he took, he became more and more weary, distracted and desperate, yet he still kept valiantly fighting them.
He took even more blows here and there as the Foot Elite circled around him! Bisento Elite struck him in the stomach from his right (THOCK!), followed by Guāndāo stabbing him in the left side of the chest from the front (THOCK!), before the Trident Elite struck him in the shell from behind (THOCK!)! Yari Elite then slashed him in his right cheek, before Scythe Elite slashed him twice in the right thigh (SLASH!) (SLASH!) and Glaive Elite stabbed him in his let side (THOCK!)! Then Kama Elite slashed him in the back of his feet (SLASH!) (SLASH!) at the same time as Bladed Tonfa Elite slashed him across the plastron (SLASH!) (SLASH!), causing Leo to fall on one knee, crying in pain. But when he got up and turned to his right, he got instantly brutally hacked in the face by the Battle-Axe Elite (THOCK!)!
Leo then turned around before he was stabbed in the stomach by Yari Elite (THOCK!) and slashed twice across his chest by Scythe Elite (SLASH!), before Glaive Elite landed onto his shell and stabbed his weapon down on him (THOCK!) before leaping off, just as Trident Elite slashed in the back of his right shoulder (SLASH!), before both Guāndāo and Bisento Elites struck him in the shell with their weapons (THOCK!) (THOCK!).
The Double-bladed Sword Elite then sliced him in the waist (SLASH!), knocking him back, before Katar Elite stabbed him with both of his weapons (THOCK!) (THOCK!) before Broadsword Elite slashed him across the plastron with both of his swords (SLASH!) (SLASH!). Then he got struck in the shell by the Battle-Axe Elite again (THOCK!). Then Leo got slashed in his left arm by the Bladed Tonfa Elite (SLASH!) (SLASH!) just as he raised his arm up to shield himself, and then he got stabbed in his left shoulder by the Kama Elite from the front (THOCK!) (THOCK!).
"AAAGGGHHH!" Leo cried out in pain, as both Elites' weapons sliced his flesh open and sunk into his shoulder, thus critically reducing his ability to use it and his left Katana to defend himself.
The Foot Elite took a full advantage of this, with the Yari Elite stabbing him in his right side from behind (THOCK!), with Guāndāo Elite striking him from behind with his weapon (THOCK!), before Scythe Elite sliced the back of his critically wounded left shoulder open (SLASH!) before Glaive Elite brought his weapon down on Leo's left arm (THOCK!), cutting even deeper and likely breaking the bone. "AAAGGGHHH!" Leo cried in pain, before he was struck in the plastron by Bisento Elite's weapon (THOCK!) and then struck across the face by the Trident Elite (THOCK!), which knocked his head back and knocked both blood and saliva out of his mouth.
"GOOD WORK, MEN!" Tatsu's voice said, making Leo to turn towards him. Tatsu smirked evilly at him from behind of his mask as he prepared his attack.
"This time, I won't be the one thrown off the roof." Tatsu remarked mockingly to the turtle in blue. "Goodbye, Leonardo."
With the growl-like battle-cry "RRRRRAAAAAGGGGHHHH!" Tatsu lunged at Leo and swung one of his Naginata's blades at him. Leo, fighting through the pain in his left arm, raised both of his Katanas to defend himself, but Tatsu's attack came with such of force and ferocity that it brutally knocked Leo's swords out of his hands, slashed him across the face, and knocked him off the rooftop.
"AAAGGGHHH! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Leo screamed as he fell down, defeated, while his rain-soaked and blood-stained Katanas flew in the air.
"MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAA!" an ominous, raspy and downright evil laughter echoed across the stormy sky.
As if as a sign of the turtle in blue's defeat, the lightning went off in the sky even more densely, even more violently, even more ominously!
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Back at April's, as the storm kept raging outside, the turtles, April and Splinter were all standing in the living room, impatiently waiting for Leo's return.
The wall clock on the wall was reading 20:33 by now and still their brother wasn't back yet.
Raph was punching his palm with his fist, for the turtle in red was getting sick and tired of waiting. Louie was leaning against the spiral stairs leading downstairs while balancing his Butterfly Sword by its tip on his left hand's finger tip out of boredom. Donnie put his hand on his chin, humming in thought. Dom had crossed his arms while keeping an eye on the windows. Mary was leaning against the wall under the wall clock. Arcee was worriedly pacing around with her hands behind her shell. And Mikey was rubbing the back of his head with his hand while standing next to Mary under the clock, before he looked up at it to check the time.
"Hey guys...I'm really starting to get worried. Leo should've checked in by now." Mikey said, turning to others who turned to him in return.
"I know this is a first but, I'm thinking Mikey's right." Donnie agreed worriedly as he picked up his Bo-staff.
"That makes three of us." Mary said as she walked beside Donnie, who put his Bo behind his shell. "It's been over thirteen hours now and he still hasn't returned."
"Yes. I wonder what's keeping up with him." Dom said as he turned to look back to the windows.
"Ohhh!" Arcee moaned worriedly as the turtle in pink stopped pacing around and, turning to her siblings, put her hands over her head. "I hope nothing bad has happened to him! This anxiousness is killing me!"
As the more lightning went off outside, Louie flipped his Butterfly Sword upwards before snatching it from the air with his right hand before putting it back in its sheath.
"Alright. That's it." the turtle in black said as he turned to others. "I think that Raph had been right about earlier. We've been waiting for far too long. Maybe we really should go out there looking for him."
Raph smiled at his brother, before he and the rest of the turtles turned towards Splinter and April.
"Master Splinter? I know I don't usually ask for permissions to anything, but..." Raph said, bracing himself for the first time in his life to go against his nature to ask or plead Splinter to let them go. "Please, can we go out and look for Leo?" he pleaded, both sincerely and worriedly.
"Please, father. We have to do something." Arcee said frantically, backing her big brother up on this.
After hearing his son and daughter out, Splinter thought if for a minute as April put her hands over his arm and shoulder.
Then he let out the sigh. Even the old rat master couldn't deny that he was already worried about his eldest missing son. He had always been confident that as the eldest of his siblings and as their leader, Leo was fully capable of taking care of himself, but now that too much time had passed and there was still no sign of him, Splinter's confidence began to wane, and instead, he was starting to fear the worse.
Then, finally giving in to the fact that they had to do something, Splinter looked up to his children.
"Go." he said gravely. "Find him."
"About damn time!" Raph said, all too glad to hear those words.
Then all eight turtles began to make their way towards the door and head outside to search their missing brother.
"Geez. What if something really happened to him?" Mikey said after giving it a moment of thought,
"Please, don't say that, Mikey, because I do not even want to hear." Arcee snapped at him, too worried about Leo to even think about whatever bad might have happened to him.
"Chill, guys." Louie said, trying to lift the mood despite his own worry for Leo. "This is Leonardo we're all talking about. What could have possibly happen to...?"
But before Louie could finish and before the turtles could make it to the door, (CRASH!), Leo all of the sudden flew crashing through the middle window of the living room, shattering it and startling everyone.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" the turtle in blue yelled as he flew inside the apartment!
"AAHHH!" everybody gasped in heartbreat-skipping horror upon seeing this.
"UGH!" Leo groaned as he landed with the heavy thud on his shell to the floor.
"LEO?!" Louie gasped in disbelief.
"LEO!" Donnie gasped in shock.
"LEO! WHAT THE SHELL HAPPENED?!" Raph exclaimed.
"OH MY GOSH! LEO!" Arcee cried from the bottom of her lungs, horrified down to the core by this shocking turn of events that she abruptly shoved her brothers out of her way and rushed to Leo's side, instantly going into doctor mode.
The turtle in pink knelt down next to his wounded brother to check on him, and was even more horrified to see him covered in numerous bd-looking bruises, nasty scratches all over his shell and plastron, serious-looking cut wounds, and bleeding stab wounds, and how bad state his left arm was in.
The other turtles rushed to Arcee's and Leo's side, with Mikey kneeling to Arcee's left and Dom to her right, while Raph, Louie and Mary knelt to Leo's right side.
"OH MY GOD!" April gasped as she put her hands over her mouth, horrified. "IS HE...?!"
"No! He's alive... barely." Arcee said after checking his pulse, though that didn't bring her any relief at all due to the severely bad shape Leo was in.
Arcee then put her hand under Leo's head and lifted it up carefully.
"Leo? Leo?! Can you hear me?!" Arcee called to him, as tears started to form on the turtle in pink's eyes. "Leo? Please! Talk to us! Say something!"
Leo's closed eyes stirred at his youngest little sister's voice, before he groaned in severe pain and struggled to open them. When he finally got his eyes open, his vision was blurry, making it unclear to him to know where he was, and al he could hear were only the low distant echoes ringing in his head.
Then his vision began to gradually clear up and he could hear the echoes much more clearly.
The next thing he saw was all of his siblings looking down at him worriedly, making him realize that he was lying on the floor in April's apartment.
"Leo?" Arcee said with quiet whisper.
"Leo, what happened out there?!" Dom asked, motioning towards the window.
"Who did this to you?!" Raph demanded frantically.
"TELL US!" Louie demanded.
However, the strain of effort seemed to be too much to the wounded and exhausted turtle in blue and he closed his eyes again.
The turtles, Splinter and April just stood there, staring silently down at Leo in disbelief and shock.
And then, Raph stood up. The turtle in red clenched his fists, narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth with burning and vengeful rage in his system.
"ARGH!" Raph growled and turned towards the shattered window.
"Where are you going?" Louie questioned, seeing that Raph was about to leave through the window.
"I'm gonna find out who did this. And once I find the culprit I'M GONNA KILL HIM!" Raph growled in near-murderous anger, as he took out his Sai and spun them around as he prepared to go after the culprits.
"Well, I'm coming with you, bro!" Louie said as he too stood up, the anger and vengeance evident on his face as he brought out his Butterfly Swords and went to follow Raph. "Whoever did this to our brother must pay dearly, mark my words!"
"Count me in!" Mary said angrily, volunteering to come long before the turtle in turquoise brought out her Naginta. "They shall feel the wrath of my blade as a last thing upon this earth!"
The trio was just about to jump out the window until they heard Leo calling after them.
"No! Raph... Louie... Mary... Wait. Please... wait." the turtle in blue said weakly, reaching out to them.
Turtles in red, black and turquoise put their weapons away and returned to their wounded brother's side, crouching down next to him, while Arcee still kept the turtle in blue's head up.
Mary put her right arm under Leo's shell to help Arcee to steady him, while Raph put his own hand over Leo's left shoulder and Leo did his best to return to favor with his own heavily injured left arm, though with the help of Louie, who gently lifted Leo' arm up so that he could touch Raph's shoulder.
"Leo? What happened? Who did this?" Raph asked from his brother.
"What happened out there?" Mary added.
Leo struggled to stay awake by the sheer willpower to warn his family about the impending danger, fighting against the pain and exhaustion as he struggled to get the words out of his mouth.
"Y-You guys... need... need to get out of here! It's... It's not... safe anymore... here! H-He's... out there. He's... coming. H-He's... back. Agh!" Leo said with the great effort.
"Who? Who is back, Leo? What re you talking about?" Dom asked with the raised eyebrow, not understanding.
"Who is he, Leo?" Louie asked.
Everyone prepared for the worst as they looked expectantly at Leo, as the turtle in blue opened his mouth.
"The... the... the Shredder! Ahh!" he said weakly with the last of his strength before he passed out in Arcee's arms.
Raph, Louie, Mary, Mikey, Arcee, Dom and Donnie were all left deeply horror-struck after hearing those dreadful news coming out of Leo's mouth, that their worst archenemy, whom they had all thought to be long gone, was back!
"AHH...! THE SHREDDER?!" they all gasped in wide-eyed horror, unable to believe their ears!
"WHAT THE SHELL?!" Arcee exclaimed, looking up at her siblings in horror.
"HE'S ALIVE?!" Dom gasped in disbelief. "THE SHREDDER IS ALIVE?!"
"What?!" April gasped in shock as she stepped back.
"It cannot be...!" Splinter gasped, shocked and horrified as well, before he and April turned to each other.
Filled with dread, the whole mutant family and April turned to look out of the broken window as the torn window curtain waved in the wind that blew inside.
Now that they knew that the Evil One was lurking out there somewhere, they realized that this was just the beginning o the whole nightmare.
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Back outside of April's apartment, after brutally defeating Leo, Tatsu and the twelve Foot Elite were all standing together on the rooftop, observing April's apartment and its horror-struck occupants from the distance.
And then, the Shredder approahced his the most loyal men from behind. Sensing his presence, Tatsu and the Foot Elite then turned to him and knelt before their master, bowing their heads down to him respectfully, with Tatsu as the last one, as he stood before the rest of them.
"My lord, the turtles' hideout has finally been found." Tatsu reported. "Our men have them surrounded them from all sides and are ready to attack at your command. They cannot escape you now."
Tatsu then held his right hand out towards the Double-bladed Sword Elite, who handed him Leo's dropped and claimed Katana, before he held them up to the Shredder.
"Leonardo's Katanas, master." Tatsu said. "The trophies of our victory, and our tribute... for you."
Without saying the word, the Shredder walked up to Tatsu and the Elite, before the evil Foot Lord reached out his hand and took Leo's swords from Tatsu's hands beore he held them high over his head with both hands.
As if under the influence of his evil, the lightning in the sky above him went off with greater frequency and ferocity, while his eyes glowed with pure malice and sadistic pleasure of what had happened to Leonardo, the most skilled of the turtles, his hated enemies.
Surrounded by his vast armies of Foot Ninja, Large Foot Ninja, Foot Agents and Foot Tech Ninja, including Hun, who were all paying the witness to what was going to happen next, the Shredder began to bend Leo's Katanas with his vast superhuman strength.
And then, with the very little effort...
SNAP!
Leo's precious Katana broke in pieces from the middle from the forceful pressure they couldn't take, and more lightnings went off ferociously as the sign of the Shredder's first victory as he threw the pieces of Leo's destroyed swords away.
"HUZZAH! HUZZAH! HUZZAH! HUZZAH!" the Shredder's armies cheered to their master by raising their weapons and throwing/waving their arms up in the air... as the shards of Leo's former blades fell to the Shredder's feet.
"MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!" the Shredder's cruel and evil laughter echoed in the stormy sky as more lightning struck against the sky.
Now that Leo has been dealt with, the Shredder was going after the other turtles and all of their friends and slaughter them all, ending this war between of them once and for all!
THE END
TRIVIA
1) = The two reasons why I increased the Foot Elite's numbers to twelve members. One: the original number was supposed to be eight, but I couldn't decide which which neat extra weapon I should pick up as the weapon of choice for each oc Foot Elite. And as for the second reason why twelve instead of eight... I shall explain that a little later.
2) = The weaponry of the Foot Elite: Trident, Double-bladed Sword, Battle-Axe, Yari-Spear, War-Scythe, Dao-like Broadswords, Bladed Twin-Tonfas, Guāndāo-Spear, Glaive, Twin-Kamas, Bisento- Spear, Twin-Katars.
3) = Oh, yes. Tatsu has returned as well.