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Some TMNT stuff really isn't for little kids. |
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BWOP Leonardo "Get ready!" Leo "Stay ready!" Leo "We could be attacked any second!" Leo "..." Leo "Huh." |
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HELP WANTED Raphael "So. The future! Where there are no pirates. No feudal warriors. No dinosaurs." Leo "Instead they have hovercars! And robot waiters!" Michelangelo "N prtty gggd pzzza!" Donatello "Yeah, but it's not just the robots. Or the hovercars. Or even the pizza." Donnie "I think... I think maybe we won. All our struggling... What if this is the result? A world where we're accepted. Where we can walk down the street, and no one blinks an eye." Donnie "Where we can be—" Fish Guard "Ninjas!" Fish Guard "You guys are ninjas, right?" Raph "That depends. Is it... Okay to be a ninja?" Fish Guard "Are you kidding? It's fantastic!" Donnie "Then we're definitely ninjas!" |
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Fish Guard "I've wanted to be a ninja ever since I was a little fingerling." Fish Guard "But I'm just a guard." Donnie "If you want to be a ninja, then be a ninja. It won't be easy, but if you start training now..." Fish Guard "That's... That's not really how it works. You're assigned whatever you're assigned. The master—" Donnie "What? In a city full of mutants, you still have people telling you what you can and can't do with your life?" Leo "Donnie—we don't really understand the rules in this—" Donnie "If your master is telling you that you can't be a ninja, then you need to find a new master. Fight back, and—" Fish Guard ··Are you insane?·· Fish Guard ··You can't talk that way. Not in public.·· Lion Man "Where did you guys say you were from?" Lion Man "No one has called it Manhattan in decades, pal." |
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Lion Man "You're on Shredder Island!" CRASH Lion Man "Capture them!" |
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Mikey "Guys? I think we might be a little outnumbered, here." Renet "Let's see. They should be right around—" Renet "Oh. Bad timing." SHWIP Renet "Or good timing!" Raph "Great. Now what?" Leo "Now we hide. Until we can figure things out." Mikey "We're on an island controlled by Shredder. There's not a lot of places we can hide." Donnie "We don't need a lot of places. Just one." |
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Donnie "It sure was nice. Those ten minutes of walking around outside, like we were normal." Donnie "I should have known we'd end up back in the sewers." Raph "Home sweet home." Donnie "Guys... Look at this." Donnie "...What happened? Wha—" |
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BWOOP Renet "Turtles! You're safe!" Mikey "Renet! You can talk again!" Renet "After our last adventure you were accidentally over-saturated with quantum particles!" Renet "You've been bouncing around, and I couldn't rescue you—or talk to you—because my Time Scepter was damaged!" Renet "But now I've repaired the Scepter and everything is fine. Cool? Cool!" Raph "No, not cool!" Raph "This isn't some stupid, random accident. If it was, we wouldn't keep getting dumped into the middle of a battle zone!" Renet "That... That's really been happening?" Raph "Yes!" Renet "Well... Time travel isn't a simple thing, you know? Sometimes the universe takes you where you need to be. And teaches you the lessons you need to learn." Raph "Great. More mystical mumbo-jumbo." Mikey "Said the reincarnated ninja turtle." Leo "None of this is important right now. The universe wanted to teach us a lesson? Fine. We'll learn it." Leo "For now Renet, can you please just take us home?" Renet "Oh, yeah, totally. That's why I'm here." Leo "Great. Then let's just go back to our time, and—and fix this." Leo "Let's make sure this future never comes to be." Donnie "You're assuming we can, Leo. But you don't know that." Donnie "We don't know what caused this world. It might be something we already did. Should we have killed Saki, back in feudal Japan? Should we have stopped him from taking over the city? Or from using the mutagen?" Donnie "What if we already made the mistake? That one mistake, that led to all of this?" Future Donatello "It wasn't just one mistake." |
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Future Donnie "It was so many mistakes." Future Donnie "So, so many." Donnie "I'm... Or, I mean, you're..." Future Donnie "Yes. Or a version of you anyway." Renet "You guys should not be meeting each other." Donnie "You don't get a vote, Renet. Not after everything we've just been through." Mikey "Yeah, and this is cool! Where are the rest of us? I wanna meet old-man me!" |
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Leo "But even if... If the rest of us aren't..." Leo "You must have allies. Where are your people? Where's the—the resistance, or whatever?" Future Donnie "Resistance. That's a young turtle's game." Future Donnie "It's been years since I've left this lair." Donnie "What are you saying? That you quit fighting?" Donnie "How could you do that?" Donnie "Especially if you're the only one... The only one left." Donnie "How could you give up?" Future Donnie "I'm the only one left because I gave up!" Future Donnie "Once the war started... We were facing such high odds. Impossible odds." Future Donnie "Continuing the fight, it just... It made no sense." Donnie "And our brothers..." Future Donnie "They disagreed." Future Donnie "They kept fighting, on faith alone. They refused to see the evidence, no matter how hard I tried." Future Donnie "They refused to accept that we had already lost." |
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Future Donnie "Even after... After what happened to my brothers, the rest of the resistance kept fighting. But by tonight, they'll be gone. Just like the rest." Donnie "What are you talking about?" Future Donnie "I heard it on my busted-up old Stockpod radio, just hours ago." Future Donnie "Shredder has captured the resistance's leadership. They'll be publicly executed, as a message to anyone else who would oppose him." Donnie "And... And you're just going to let that happen?" Donnie "What happened to you?" Donnie "We can't go back." Donnie "I don't know if I can stop this future from happening. But I do know that I can stop that execution." Donnie "I can free those rebels, so they can continue their fight." Donnie "That's at least one problem with a clear solution." Donnie "Now let's find out where they're being held." Future Donnie "This is your fight. Not mine." |
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"...But at least I can show you the way." Walrus Executioner "What's going on out there?" |
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Renet "I can slow them down a little! But with this many..." Dog Man "Fight!" Future Donnie "Well. That felt all right." |
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Donnie "I'm gonna get on that platform, and free the prisoners." Donnie "Are you with me?" Snake Man "Hyyyaa!" Future Donnie "Sure." Future Donnie "I suppose it is in my best interest to keep you alive." Donnie "We certainly wouldn't want to do anything that's not in your best interest." |
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Donnie "Don't worry. We'll have you all out of here in just a—" BLAM Donnie "Aaah!" BLAM Future Donnie "Stop!" Executioner "Stay where you are, shellhead. The boss will want to see you alive. But dead mutants make much more docile prisoners." Fish Guard "No!" |
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BLAM Fish Guard "I—My friends and I—we always dreamed of fighting back. But until I saw you guys, it just..." Fish Guard "It felt so impossible. And now—" Executioner "Would someone please kill her?" Donnie "Hold on..." Future Donnie "...Just a minute." |
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Future Donnie "I'll get them out of here. Just cover us. Give us time to escape. And then Renet can transport you home." Donnie "Really? That's not exactly in your best interest." Future Donnie "You want me to change my mind?" Donnie "No. But I—I don't see how I can leave this place, and just pretend nothing has changed." Donnie "This is the future. Now we know." Future Donnie "This is a future. Not the future. You can fix it." Future Donnie "Maybe." Donnie "Maybe?" Future Donnie "Or maybe I'm wrong! But I do know one thing..." Future Donnie "We just beat some pretty impossible odds!" |
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Donnie "Huh." WHAM Mikey "There you are! Where's the other you?" Donnie "Taking the rebels to safety. Renet—get ready to take us home." Shredder "Enough!" |
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Shredder "Uh... Renet?" Renet "Yeah. Cool beans." Shredder "Turtles." |
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Future Woody Dirkins "My people are all settled in. So are those mutants." Future Donnie "Good." Future Donnie "Why didn't you tell Donatello—the other Donatello—who you are?" Future Woody "Does it matter?" Future Woody "I'm not the Woody they used to know." Future Woody "Donatello... I'm truly thankful that you're giving the rebellion a home here. But we've lost a lot of people. And we don't just need beds." Future Woody "We need fighters. We need leaders." Future Woody "Just... Just think about it." |
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Mikey "Maybe?" Donnie "That's what he said. "Maybe" we can change the future." Mikey "Okay, but what does that guy know, right? Who says he's some kind of super-genius?" Mikey "Oh... Right." Raph "Look, it doesn't matter what he says. Because here's what I know: My brother would never quit on us. He would never give up on this fight. He would never—" Donnie "I've thought about it." Raph "What?" Donnie "I've thought about quitting?" |
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Donnie "I'm not saying I'm quitting now. Or even soon. But I've worked the problem. I've considered the odds." Donnie "And in our darkest moments, I've wondered if there might come a day when it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting." Mikey " "Doesn't make sense?" Donnie, I don't know if you've noticed, dude, but none of this ever makes sense!" Mikey "That's not really why we do this. Is it?" Raph "No. It's not. We do it because it's the right damn thing to do." Donnie "Hey! I don't need you guys to make me feel guilty." Raph "I think you do. I think—" Donnie "You guys were gone because of me! I don't know how, or why, but... It was pretty clear." Donnie "And I don't... I don't know how to stop it. I don't even know if I can. I..." Leo "Donnie. Renet said that the universe was trying to teach us something." Leo "And if there's one thing this whole crazy adventure has taught me, it's that this fight began eons before we were born." Leo "And will go on for years after we're gone." Leo "You can't spend your life second-guessing every decision." Donnie "I don't know what to do instead." Mikey "Keep fighting, bro. That's... That's all any of us can do. Keep fighting." Mikey "Isn't that enough?" Donnie "Maybe." |
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Leo "Okay." Leo " "Maybe" is good enough for now." |