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Some TMNT stuff really isn't for little kids. |
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WHAT IS NINJA? part 4 [Spirit is a muscle.] [A life force that flows through each one of us, connecting mind and body.] [And when your will is strong, the mind and spirit are capable of incredible things.] [Magical things...] [If your will is strong enough you can learn to walk on water...] [To catch bullets...] [...Even vanish into thin air.] TINC! [A trick that the ninja know all too well...] [So, after their slaughter at the hands of the Shogunate, the surviving ninja were forced to go underground...] [...Again...] [...This time for 500 years.] |
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TINC! SQUEE! SQUEE! [Hidden from the world, the ninja consolidated their power...] [...And in the darkness, committed themselves to growing stronger.] [...So that a defeat such as this could never happen again.] [They hardened their bodies...] [...And sharpened their minds...] [But 500 years is a long time...] [...And it's easy to lose perspective in the dark.] [Some say it was karma for all the blood that had been spilt.] [That the allure of capitalism and black magic were too strong to deny...] [Whatever the case, the bitterness over all that the ninja had lost was left to fester.] |
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[Vengeance bred anger...] [...Anger gave way to rationalization...] [...Then greed...] [...Power...] [...Corruption...] [It used to be that the ninja fought for the people...] [...That they did what was necessary to keep the poor and the weak from being crushed beneath the heel of the rich...] [...But now they only fought for themselves...] [...Now they were the heel...] [A foot destroying everything in its path.] [But there is still hope, my child.] [You must always remember that.] |
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Splinter (narrator) "It's true that the Foot Clan is on very unstable ground right now." Splinter "We are precariously close to being pulled back into the abyss." Splinter "The past always wants to claim the future as its own." Splinter "...But only a fool trips on what is behind him." Splinter "We are ninja, child!" Splinter "...We don't blindly follow the paths laid before us..." Splinter "...We create our own." [We live in the space between worlds...] [In perfect balance...] [...On the razor's edge.] Splinter "...That you saw a new path forming with them at your side..." Splinter "A path of positivity..." Splinter "...But fear not..." Splinter "...They will return when they see what we have accomplished." Splinter "You asked me once, "What is ninja?" " Splinter "You are, child..." Splinter "...For you are the future." Splinter "...And the future is limitless." |