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Some TMNT stuff really isn't for little kids. |
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(the turtles are meditating on the grass outside the O'Neil Farm, but Leonardo is the only one reaching the Astral Plane) Donatello "I'm not feeling anything..." |
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Leonardo "Just focus. Shh." Donnie "I am focusing." Donnie "I just don't know what I'm supposed to be focusing on." Raphael "You're not focusing if you're talking so much." Leo "You guys, come on. Remember, we need to anchor ourselves." Michelangelo "Yeah..." Mikey "I miss the kids. We should go back tonight." Mikey "I don't want a break from him, I just..." Mikey "...Oh. Pepperoni's here." |
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Donnie "I'm done for today. I feel like I'm beating my head against a wall with this, Leo, and we're just not as advanced as you are with astral meditation. You're rushing us." Leo "All right. Fine." Raph "You wanna watch a movie or somethin'?" Leo "No..." Leo "I'm going for a walk." [I need a break.] |
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[Things are okay with our dad for the first time in what feels like forever, but...] [...Things are not how I want, and I know they're not how my brothers wanted them to be, either.] [Sometimes I wish Father was suddenly an evil Foot Ninja warlord, and I wasn't able to still see the man I always thought he was.] (Leo walks past a black feather) [It would be simpler an easier if he was just bad. Maybe then I wouldn't want him back so much.] |
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[The uncertainty and confusion of it is wearing down on me.] [I wish I had something... Certain.] [I wish I knew where I was heading.] [I wish things were like they used to be.] |
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(Leo kneels in front of a pond, looking upon four non-mutant terrapins) (Leo starts meditating again) [I wish we had some peace.] |
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(Leo sees, with his invisible astral eye, a vision of a bird of prey swooping down and snatching one of the terrapins from the pond) |
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(Leo stops meditating just in time to dodge an impending aerial attack by Koya) SSKREEE Leo "Koya!" |
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Koya "I'm here to tear your heart from your chest and sate myself on the hopelessness of your dying breath." Leo "You can try." (Leo can tell that Koya has an invisible astral eye and a supernatural aura around her) (Koya and Leo begin fighting) |
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KRAK (Koya grabs Leo with her foot claws and carries him up into the air before dropping him from a height) |
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KKKSSHH (Leo falls and breaks through some tree branches, but ultimately lands on his feet, maintaining a battle stance) [I can't get away. I can't ever get away.] SSWIP SSHHA KRAK |
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SNAP KRAK SSUSH WHOMP SWIP [I think I understand Koya now.] [She's struggling... To find something to make things seem complete and worthwhile.] |
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(Leo can see Koya's supernatural aura and wings and her glowing bird carving) [She's remade herself into what she wants to be.] |
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[I envy that.] (Koya has Leo pinned to the ground) [How do I do the same?] |
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Koya "I didn't think vengeance would be this fast." Koya "I'm going to change you the way you changed me." (Koya's talon scratches the skin of Leo's face) Koya "You took a piece of me, so I will take many more pieces of you." |
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(Leo can still perceive Koya's astral eye) Leo "What'll you do after you kill me, though?" Leo "What's gonna happen after your revenge is over?" Leo "Your anger is powering your... Amulet-thing." Leo "I can see it all around you, anchoring you... What'll happen to all that after such an easy win?" Koya "Shut up!" Leo "You won because I was distracted." (Koya looks stunned) Leo "I didn't give this fight my all." |
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(Koya briefly shuts her eyes in resignation and releases Leo) (Leo stands, facing Koya) Koya "All right." |
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(Leo sits down in front of Koya) Leo "I respect you, Koya." Leo "I know what it's like to be constantly dwelling on one thing." Leo "Or one person. It's exhausting. It wears you down." (Leo again appears astrally connected) |
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Leo "I came here to Northampton to get away from all that, but it didn't work." (Koya sits down in front of Leo) Leo "I'm guessing if you're here, then Karai must be back, too." Koya "Yes." Koya "She came back because it's time to take what she wants. The Foot." Koya "I came back to do the same thing. To take what I wanted." |
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Koya "What do you want?" (from a distance, Raph, Mikey and Donnie are each interrupted from their activities by a moment of astral awareness) |
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(Koya stands) Koya "I'm looking forward to our next encounter." Oroku Karai "You're in big trouble for forcing me to come all the way out here." (Leo stands to face Karai) Karai "Leonardo. I apologize, Koya was acting on her own against my orders." (Leo brandishes his katana) Karai "You really want a fight?" |
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Karai "I said I didn't send Koya after you." (Karai brandishes the Kira no Ken, meeting Leo's blade) TNK Leo "I'm not sure I believe you." Karai "Why would I send her to kill you if that's what I wanted?" Karai "I'd do it myself. Easily." Leo "Ha. Fair point." Leo "That's quite a new sword you got." Karai "Yes. I like it." (Karai easily breaks off Leo's katana's blade with a swipe of the Kira no Ken) (Leo tosses aside his broken sword) Leo "Seems like you were pretty busy in Japan." |
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Karai "It was time well spent." (Karai and Leo briefly spar with their hands and feet) Leo "I know why you're back." Leo "You want to lead the Clan." Karai "Yes. I'm ready." Karai "I know, as chunin, you won't go along with that, but I'm prepared to honorably fight—" Leo "No, it's fine. Take the Clan." Karai "What?" |
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Leo "I'm not chunin. I'm not part of the Foot anymore. I'm master of the Hamato Clan now." Leo "As much as I'd love to wash my hands of the Foot... I can't." Karai "Your father." Leo "Yeah." Leo "I want him back. I want things to be like when we were all together and Splinter was just my dad, not leading a ninja clan while making morally questionable decisions and treating his own sons like subordinates." Leo "I want my brothers to have their father back." Leo "I feel like the Foot is just... Eating away at us. Little by little. Which I know sounds dramatic, but..." Leo "So, yes. I want you to take the Clan." Leo "But... We're going to sit down and discuss it honorably." Leo "A peaceful transition of power. No clan war, no battle over resources or territory, no loss of life. I'm tired of it." Karai "Somehow, I don't think your father will agree to that." Leo "I think I can convince him. I have to try, at least." Leo "He's still my dad, and I know he still loves me. I've seen him still act the way he used to. I think I can reach that side of him." |
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Leo "If I help you, you also have to agree to just... Let us exit peacefully." Leo "Leave my family alone." (Leo and Karai shake hands) Karai "...Okay. Agreed." Leo "Oh, and keep your goons on a tighter leash." Karai "I'll do what I can." Karai "I hope the next time we meet, we can continue this sort of relationship." Leo "Not enemies, you mean?" Karai "Yes." Leo "I'd like that, too." |
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Raph "Leo!" (Mikey, Raph and Donnie have arrived fully prepared for a fight) Raph "Karai?!" (Raph lunges at Karai with his sai) SIPF THIP (Karai deflects Raph) |
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Leo "Stop. We're not fighting, not today." (Raph appears cautious, but Mikey and Donnie appear relieved) (Bludgeon grins kindly, but Ocho leaves) |
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Karai "We have a truce, then." Leo "For now, and I hope for a while." Mikey "Maybe you guys could come back to the house for some lunch?" (Koya appears eager) Karai "Thank you, but no." Karai "I wouldn't say we have that much of a truce." Karai "We'll see each other soon, Clan Hamato." (Karai leaves with the rest of her companions) |
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Leo "How did you guys know I was in trouble, anyway? How'd you know where to find me?" Raph "I felt it. I knew somethin' was up." Mikey "Yeah, I dunno, I just knew..." Donnie "I felt your... Emotions. I don't know." Donnie "Maybe I'm better at this astral connection business than I thought." Donnie "I focused on you and I knew where to go." Mikey "Yeah, it's like you're our anchor, or whatever it is." Leo "Aw. That's great." |
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Leo "I'm sorry I've been kind of a jerk about it... I shouldn't have just stormed off like a little kid." Mikey "No worries. We've all been kinda down lately." Donnie "Leo, do you think it's right to trust Karai?" Donnie "Do you think a truce will really hold?" Donnie "I'm skeptical." Leo "I don't know why. Maybe it's stupid of me, but I find myself trusting her." Raph "Hm. She's back to take the Foot, right? Take it away from our dad." Leo "She's back for the Clan, yeah. But I think I can get Father to step down." Raph "I don't think a truce will hold up through that." Leo "I'm gonna facilitate a negotiation between him and Karai and keep it all civil." Leo "I think I can get through to our father. And then..." Mikey "...We'll have our dad back." Leo "Yeah. Exactly." |
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Leo "Hey. Come on, let's hang out." Raph "What? What do you mean?" Leo "Like, just take it easy. Hang out here tonight." Leo "No training, no meditation practice, no any of that stuff." Leo "Just doing regular stuff. Maybe fix the barn." Mikey "But first, how 'bout that lunch?" Raph "Yeah, I'm starvin'. I bet Pepperoni is, too." (Leo's bandanna blows in the breeze, landing at Leo's feet) |
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(Leo picks up his bandanna) (Leo's brothers have already started walking away, but Mikey glances back at him) (Leo examines his bandanna, seeing some lingering supernatural aura flowing through its eye holes) |
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(Leo glances up and behind him, seeing Koya up on a tree branch) (Koya grins) (Leo grins back) (Koya flies away with her supernatural wings) |
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(Leo's brothers have stopped to look back at him) (Leo proceeds onward, bandanna in hand) |
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(inside the house, with Pepperoni nearby, the turtles play a boardgame resembling Trivial Pursuit) (the turtles and Pepperoni watch a monster movie while eating popcorn) (outside, the turtles and Pepperoni go swimming in the pond) |
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(the turtles and Pepperoni are outside, walking through tall grass, their bandannas all loosened around their neck or forehead) [This is what I want.] |
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(the sun is getting lower in the sky over the farm) [And I want to fight for it.] (the turtles and Pepperoni laze around on the grass) (the sun is setting) (Leo's bandanna still has a trace of aura) (the turtles and Pepperoni are packed up and leaving) |
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(the turtles and Pepperoni walk through the countryside at night) (nearby, a small pond contains four baby turtles) [I want to put everything back together.] (a train moving down a rural track) |
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(the turtles and Pepperoni are crouched on top of a train car) (cityscape within view) (Leo's smiling face) |