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Some TMNT stuff really isn't for little kids. |
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Slash "RRAARGH!" Leonardo "Grrgkl..." Michelangelo "Leo!" Leo "Mikey..." Mikey "Hold on, bro..." |
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KLANG Slash "Graah!" Leo "Not good." KUSH Raph "Whoa! I think you just made it madder, Leo!" FWAK Raph "Uff!" CHKSH |
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Donatello "Okay, enough of thi—" WHAP FWUMP Donnie "Gah!" Mikey "Whoulf!" Slash "Rahh!" FWIP Leo "Crap!" KRAK Leo "Not good at all." |
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Baxter Stockman "So let me understand this, Mr. Allen." Baxter "I leave New York for a mere few weeks and already you've experienced a major system failure and a specimen escape?" Baxter "And now you say the specimen is running through the city and has garnered the attention of both the press and the authorities?" Baxter "Suffice it to say..." Baxter >...This displeases me greatly.< Chet Allen "I understand, Doctor Stockman. We, um, are working to m-make all necessarily repairs here and are monitoring the news r-reports of, um, Specimen 6 closely." Baxter >Monitoring the problem and resolving it are hardly the same thing, Mr. Allen...< Baxter "...Can I assume you have a contingency plan in place to capture this creature or, short of that, have established plausible deniability for StockGen?" Chet >Y-Yes, we have agents out l-looking, but they haven't found anything yet. Even s-so...< Chet "...There is nothing to, um, connect Specimen 6 to StockGen, sir—just l-like with the other tur-turtles we lost." Baxter >Well, if this latest escapee does what it was designed to do, perhaps those other four won't be lost for long. And maybe we'll recover that blasted rat as well.< |
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Baxter "As much as I detest the thought, I'm relying on you to stay on top of these things. Krang has me fully occupied with his... Special project, and I don't expect I'll be returning to the office soon." Baxter "As it is, my myriad responsibilities here are beyond time-consuming. And not, it appears..." "...The general may have something markedly bigger in the works." Granitor "The troops are ready for review, General Krang, sir!" Krang "Very well, Sergeant Granitor." Krang "Listen up, all of you!" Krang "I am through messing around with our enemy! The time has come to show those pitiful cretins, once and for all, what true power looks like!" Krang "Soon, we will mount an all-out offensive against the rebellious Neutrino scum in their very own capitol, Smada City! We will kill them where they stand and crush them where they cower!" Krang "Understand this—time runs out and my patience wears thin! Either we decimate the rebels in short order, or our mission is a failure!" Krang "And I refuse to accept failure!" KRANG KRANG KRANG "This is wrong..." |
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>But, Doctor, now that you say my husband is the real father of my child, how can you be certain that... I'm the real mother?!< ♪♬BUM BUM BUMMM♪♫ April O'Neil "...The guys should have been back by now." April "Something about this just doesn't feel right." April "I'm sitting around worrying—I'm gonna go find them." April "Casey, I'll drop you at the arena on the way." Casey Jones "No way, April—I'm goin' with you." April "But—" Casey "No "buts." I know you're tough and all, but this ain't the kind of thing you do by yourself, trust me." April "Are you sure? I mean, this is your first game back—I know how hard you've been working for the chance to play again." Casey "Hey, I missed a bunch of games already this season, so what's one more, right?" Casey " 'Sides, I'd feel better knowin' those green dorks are okay, too. Then I'll kick all their stupid butts myself for makin' me miss my game." Casey "Splinter?" Splinter "I believe it's best that I remain here—my sons may return and require my assistance." Splinter "And... Thank you both." April "No need to thank us..." |
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"...We're a team, right?" Leo "Okay, guys, just like with Shredder—we do this together!" Leo "Gyah!" KA-WHAM Donnie "This has to be the thing from StockGen." Raph "Y'think, Donnie? What was your first clue, brainiac?" Donnie "I'm serious, Raph! Do you really think it's a coincidence that thing found us here? Something tells me it's doing what it was programmed to do—and if it was able to find us now, it'll find us again." Donnie "If we run, we're only delaying the inevitable. I think we need to end this, here and now." Mikey "No way! This isn't Shredder. He can't help what he is—someone else made him this way! Same as us!" Leo "Maybe, Mikey, but we can't let it go back to tearing up the city." Mikey "Then maybe we can catch him or knock him out... Or something!" Slash "Graah!" Donnie "I'm telling you, if we don't end this thing—hyah! It's gonna end us! I'm just trying to be realistic, guys... Not cruel!" Raph "For one—hunf! I'm with the geek!" |
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Mikey "Come on, Leo, we're better than that!" Leo "I... I see what Don's saying, but..." Leo "...But maybe we can stop this without anyone getting killed. Just follow my lead and work together." Leo "Father showed me a sleeper hold once..." Leo "...I'll just need to modify it a little!" Slash "Grgk!" Slash "Off... Urk... Me!" Leo "Yow!" Raph "What is this—the freakin' rodeo?" Donnie "I just hope this plan isn't bull!" |
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Slash "Erk!" Leo "Yeah, guys, that's it!" Leo "Keep it coming!" KSH Mikey "Don't let up!" FWOK Leo "Just a little more!" Leo "He's almost out!" |
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Slash "Out!" Leo "Guys... We gotta..." Slash "Keep it..." Leo "Oh... No." Slash "...Coming." |
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FWUMP Leo "Hmmff!" KRSSH Slash "Turtle..." Slash "...Kill." FWK Slash "Yargh!" Leo "No!" Leo "This has to stop." |
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Casey "Turn here, April. My phone's GPS says that's it, right there." April "Wow, it's a lot more dilapidated than I was expecting." Casey "Yeah, it's kind of a dump." April "Seems abandoned... And really quiet. Do you think the guys are in there?" Casey "Dunno. But there's only one way for us to find out for sure." Casey "And I'm keepin' these with me while we do." April "Come on, Gretzky—let's go find our friends." April "And, for the record, if I have to go into a spooky old church to look for mutant turtles who are possibly being hunted by a rabid science experiment, I'm really glad I'm doing it with you." Casey "Yeah... Thanks. I think." |
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Slash "Turtle... Hunt..." Leo "I told you... Just stop. This doesn't have to continue." Leo "What do you want?" Slash "Kill... Turtle. Pain... Stop!" Leo "Please, listen to me..." Splinter (flashback) "I have always taught you that violence is a last resort—that only in defense of your own lives must you ever contemplate it as a solution. Life, above all other things..." "...Is sacred." Leo "...Nobody has to die. We don't want to hurt you... Really. We're from StockGen, too. We're..." Leo "...We're just like you." |
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Slash "Kill!" WHAP Leo "Hnf!" Leo "Dammit, listen to me!" Leo "I know you can't help what you're doing—I know it. But you have to understand, I won't let you hurt my brothers. I—" April "Oh, my God—Leo!" Leo "April?" Slash "Graargh!" Leo "No, wait! Stop!" |
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Slash "Grrgk?!" Leo "Oh..." Leo "...No." |
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RRRIP CLANG Slash "Hu... Hu..." Leo "I... I didn't mean it. I'm..." Slash "Hurt." SPLIISH Leo "...Sorry." |
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[The next day.] Casey "Man, this place seemed a lot less grimy before we brought the lights down here." Donnie "Just wait until I get the generator running—then we'll be able to see every single speck of dust." Raph "Oh joy." April "By the way, where are Leo and Mikey? I haven't seen them since you guys got back today." Raph "Mikey went to grab some pizza and Leo's downstairs. He said he needed to do some trainin' and meditatin'." April "Poor thing. I guess he's taking it pretty hard, huh?" Raph "Maybe at first, but to tell you the truth, he seemed kinda unfazed by the whole thing." April "Really? That seems... Odd. I never figured Leo for the cold-hearted type." Raph "Just tellin' you what I saw, April." April "And what about Mikey? Is he holding up okay?" Donnie "Mikey was pretty quiet when he took off. I think he was hoping for proof Slash survived, but with a wound like that, well..." Raph "Hey, it ain't like any of us are happy about what happened, but it wasn't like Leo meant for it to happen, you know?" Raph "Mikey gets way too sensitive sometimes, you ask me." Splinter "Raphael!" |
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Splinter "Do not speak of your brother so!" Splinter "Michelangelo is a kindly soul—he has been this way through two lifetimes." "His empathy for others is a virtue, not a flaw." MIKESTER "He simply seeks out the goodness in others that is so innate to himself." "He wishes only to love..." MIKESTER, HEY, AMIGO, DON'T THINK I CAN DEAL WITH THE KIND OF STUFF THAT FOLLOWS YOU AND YOUR BROS. I'LL KEEP THE PIZZAS COMING, THOUGH. WOODY "...And to be loved." |
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Splinter "In a world as jaded and cynical as this one, Michelangelo's unbridled optimism is to be celebrated, not discouraged." Splinter "And as for Leonardo—do not mistake his discipline for callous detachment. Whatever has become of the creature you battled, I am certain Leonardo, too, wishes things had ended differently." "You must all understand, though your brother's blood, like yours, runs cold..." "He is no more cold-hearted than any of you." "But... He is ninja." "...And his spirit is strong." |
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[Epilogue.] Old Hob "Wake up." FWAK Hob "I said, wake up!" Slash "Hrrrgh?" Hob "That's it, big boy, slow and easy. They thought they killed you, huh?" Hob "Yeah, someone made the same mistake with me. Idiots... All of 'em." Hob "That's right, you remember me, don't ya? From those stikin' labs? They put my blood in you—I can smell it. That ooze crap, too." Hob "Pretty soon there's gonna be more rememberin' goin' on for a lot of people, trust me—the hurtin' kind." Hob "They messed with our blood and turned us into hunters... Then left us for dead the first freakin' chance they got, right?" Hob "Well, the hunters ain't dead and the hunt ain't over." Slash "Hunters?" |
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SPLINTER Hob "Yeah, hunters—me and you, big boy. And if they think our blood's the only thing they gotta worry about, they got another thing comin'." Hob "Now, let's get outta here. We got places to be..." Hob "...And people to kill." |