#Its not canceled or anything

[likablemuffin]

Isn't this fun?

(From: Bye Bye Baby Blue)

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"Maybe this is our destiny!" 

"Locked in a cage, held for ransom by the Foot, and NONE OF US GAVE HIM GRANDCHILDREN?? Somehow I feel like he wanted more."

Leo rolls over onto his side. Man. This sucks.

He and his brothers were doing everything right! They were following the "Hamato way,"  and they had hardly messed up at all! How come Draxum was able to just...take them like this? Splinter was going to be so disappointed...

They all suddenly hear the telltale sound of Draxum's roots, and all of them groan in annoyance. I mean, come on, can't a guy let his prisoners wallow in their sorrow after they just captured them? Jeez...

When the roots came into view, they could see that Draxum was on it with some weird device. No idea what it was, but they didn't have a good feeling about it. Draxum doesn't even speak to them as he sees them and instead puts the device up to his eyes. "Hey!" Leo shouts at him. "It's pretty rude to not talk to your prisoners, don't you think?"

Draxum takes the device away from his face and smirks at Leo before opening the cage door and using his vines to grab Leo.

Leo squawks at this and tries to struggle out of the vines hold. His brothers also try to wrestle him out of the vines grip, but Leo gets taken out of the cage regardless. Draxum uses his vines to shut the cage door right in his brothers faces and also uses one to cover Leo's mouth so he can't talk.

Okay, what the hell was he doing?!

Draxum starts leaving still holding Leo with his vines, as the others call after him over and over again, including Donnie saying some specific language that Raph would most definitely scold him on if they weren't in such a dire situation. Raph waits until he can't see Draxum anymore, and then he takes the bars of the cage and pulls until there's a quite sizable opening for them to crawl through.

No one needs to be told what to do as they hop out of the cage and start jumping from cage to cage to get to the surface. 

They're going to save Leo.

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It takes them a while, but they soon get to where Draxum is waiting by the dark armor with Leo still trapped in his vines, and Splinter and April. "Purple! Red! Orange!" Just as Raph is about to say something to their father, Draxum speaks instead. "I want something, Lou Jitsu. And I think you know exactly what it is." Raph talks then. "Dad? What does he mean?" Leo still struggles against the vines, and Raph would be lying if he didn't say it hurt him to see Leo struggling so hard.

"I..." Splinter starts. Draxum interrupts him before he can say anything else. "If you do not give it to me, I will not hesitate to kill your son. I may not be able to promise all of them dead, but I'm sure one can be enough to persuade you." Leo, from his spot in the vines, shakes his head several times as if to tell Splinter to not give Draxum the teapot.

"I-I'm sorry, I have to." Splinter was trying to act like he was saying it to them, but Raph can tell that he was saying it mainly to Leo. Splinter opens a portal with Leo's sword and takes the teapot out of it. He slowly walks up with the teapot in hand to Draxum. 

He doesn't get very far before Draxum uses one of his vines and grabs the teapot before Splinter can get close. Draxum smirks at Splinter and moves up to the dark armor. 

No.

No.

"He's going to finish the dark armor!" Donnie has no idea why he said that, since, I mean, what else would he be doing? Raph realizes this too, and he and his brothers start to run up to try and stop Draxum. Even Leo struggles in his bonds.

But they weren't fast enough.

Draxum clicks the final piece of armor into place and watches as it merges with the rest of it almost instantly. They can all practically feel the horrible energy it's giving off, and Raph can tell Mikey is trying his best not to cry because they failed. 

They were supposed to stop this! The only thing they managed to do was hinder the Foot slightly with their attempts to get the pieces of armor, and obviously that didn't help because, so what if they hindered them! That's not the same as stopping! In all honesty, Raph kind of wanted to cry too. 

Leo seems to feel extremely uncomfortable seeing the armor completed, most likely because he was so close to it. "Now." Draxum turns around to face them, and he removes the vine off of Leo's mouth. "Are you all ready to see the rebirth of Shredder?" Draxum looks at the two Foot lieutenants, who both look very excited about this. 

Draxum smiles and chuckles to himself as he speaks to them. "You wanted me to go into the armor, didn't you?" Both the lieutenants smiles fade. "You knew it would drain my energy and make me basically useless and unable to fight back. Well, as much as I hate to say it, Your precious demon armor won't get as good of a host as me. It will get someone who has a connection to it though!" 

And with that, Draxum throws Leo.

Into the armor.

"LEO!!!" The entire Hamato family screams. 

No, no, no, no, no-

They all watch in horror as the armor quickly latches onto Leo like a leech. Leo screams as it practically stabs him and burns into his skin, as Draxum just watches and laughs. The Foot lieutenants realized they probably messed up, and they ran away at some point. Fucking cowards.

The last thing anyone sees of Leo is his panicked and terrified expression as his screams can be heard ringing in their ears. Raph never, never wanted to see such a terrified look on any of his brothers faces ever. But now he just did.

And he never wants to see it again.

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[rings-of-power-realm]

Thank you Robert Aramayo for being a better person than the entire internet. It was a beautiful scene and you and Morfydd handled it perfectly 💚

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Netflix really be the bitches to act like supporting the strike means shows will suffer, while they themselves pull the plug on countless good and popular shows.

[raisinushigher]

“i hate cleos new voice” “i hate the new designs” “i hate the humour” “i hate how the characters act both old and new” “i hate the reboot because it’s going to ruin my ship” can we please not get the show cancelled a second time. you sound like a broken record. no one is forcing you to watch clone high. stop basing whether it’s a good show or not by how similar it is to season 1. it will never be like season 1 but that doesn’t mean it will never be good again.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

i had this old man teacher in middle school who basically was Charles Xavier. i mean, he looked the part, he sounded the part, he acted the part- really the only difference was the lack of telepathy and he could walk. and the name i guess.

well i ran into him the other day and his recently wedded husband. they met when he was in the military forever ago and reconvened and inevitably tied the knot.

his husband’s name?

Erik.

i am being dead serious. a part of me evaporated.

What in the reddit story…….. youre yanking my chain SURELY…. But if youre not has his husband ever expressed revolutionary ideation or—

[3416]

not really ready for Auston and Mitch to play against each other in the Four Nations Face-Off 🥲

oh i cannot wait for it............... i wanna see if they're ever on the ice against each other too (surely mitch will be on the penalty kill for canada but i hope their lines match up too)................ i want mitch to have to take a faceoff against him for fun, for the photo op of it all, for the bragging rights and banter around it......

[redeemed-wren]

I am thinking about. Jamie and the Second Doctor.

Because out of all the incarnations of the Doctor, Two is arguably the one who uses manipulation and disguises the most. He thrives on using people's intelligence against them, on tricking people, on bluffing and his bluffs working. He has a different disguise every story pretty much and is constantly playing some kind of role.

And then you look at Jamie, and some of Jamie's most front and center traits are his loyalty and his honesty (and protectiveness, but less applicable). Jamie is loyal to a fault and extremely trusting of the Doctor. He's honest and straightforward and deeply caring.

And Jamie is the one who sticks by the Second Doctor for as long as he physically can--and you'd look at those two characters, one who is manipulative and cunning, and one who is loyal to a fault, and you'd think the Doctor would easily be able to take advantage of Jamie, that Jamie would just be a tool for him but he's not, they're on equal footing. Jamie pulls the Doctor down and reminds him what being human is all about.

[the-lark-ascending69]

Unpopular opinion but Steve telling Nancy he would date Robin if he could is creepy as hell i wish we talked about it more

[cern1cal0]

for the cancelled riddlebat zine

[skeletalheartattack]

hi I like gelato a lot

[angrydemonfawnbaby]

at some point, creators are just going to stop pitching their show ideas to Netflix (or other streaming platforms), right? like if they want multiple seasons, if they want to tell a story in more than eight episodes, they're just going to go elsewhere. And then this cycle will end and we will all be free.

[cosmik-homo]

Back thinking about the deleted verse from Leonard Cohen's lover lover lover about his experiences on the israeli side of the yom kippur war.

[raisinushigher]

i am Still thinking about this. its with other stuff that belonged to gandhi implying that it’s his locket which probably means that abe. still has his and that. that one picture of them in the boat is the last thing he has left of him

[stabbyfoxandrew]

finished doctor who (all i'm planning to watch of it anyway) and now i'm sad it's over :(

[ratatatastic]

[tumble-tv]

speaking using they/them pronouns for someone: all good and dandy, rarely every need to specify who exactly im talking about in the conversation even if a group is involved

writing using they/them pronouns: im talking about a group of people but also that one guy who's nonbinary and i keep confusing myself when im rereading it and it takes seven rough drafts of the same paragraph for it to make any sense to me