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The Pizza Game (Chp 6)

Chapter 6: The Final Time

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Summary:

[Inserts the first 5 minutes of the movie] :') Words: 1967

Leonardo had known it was over the second he got hit in the side.

The war was over even before that. It had probably been over the second their base of almost 15 years was destroyed. They had held onto hope that they could change things.

Leo still desperately held onto hope though.

Maybe if he could just get himself and Casey to Mikey, they could figure out something.

“Michelango! Meet at Location 19Tau NOW.” He shouted into his communicator and didn’t wait for a response.

His side throbbed in pain as he reached into his belt to pull out a stained and faded photo with creased and worn edges.

Little Casey Jones, who wasn’t so little anymore, fell to his knees next to Leo and pushed himself under one of Leo’s arms.

“Sensei! We’ve got to get out of here!” Casey shouted as he began to lift Leo.

“We need to get to Location 19Tau!”

Leo rose with Casey’s help, and guided the kid in the right direction.

Leo looked at the photo of his family again. At all the things he had lost in this damned war.

It was a little hard to focus with battle going on around them, and the throbbing pain of his wound making it difficult to run.

“I gotchya Sensei, stay with me!”

“Casey Jones, you’re a life saver.” Leo looked at the boy, knowing he had no idea just how true that statement was about to be.

“I learned from the best. Come on we’re almost there.”

Shit, the krangazoids were getting closer. The wound was slowing them both down.

Leo stumbled, and he was sure they were about to get jumped by the krang monsters.

“BAD DOGGIES!”

Glowing golden chains swiped the krang out of the air.

“Impeccable timing little brother. Very dramatic.” Michelangelo’s mystic powers never failed to impress him.

Mikey blasted the rest of the krang away, giving them a moment of breathing room.

“Help him Michelangelo, he’s hurt bad!” Casey pleaded after Leo was rested on the ground. His side throbbed again, and when he pulled his hand away it was covered in more blood than he expected.

Leo looked around at the hundreds of Krang that had taken over the battlefield, at the last bits of the resistance falling under the attack.

They had lost so much. April, their closest allies, and now almost all of the resistance was gone.

“That’s it. The resistance failed. The Krang won.” Leo hated to admit it.

There was just one last chance. One last little piece of hope. One thing that could possibly right all the wrongs. One last chance to save his family. One last chance to save everyone.

“But, but it isn’t over. We’ve still got a ninja’s greatest weapon. Hope.”

Leo turned to his little brother.

“That, and a Badass Mystic Warrior.”

They had come to the Very Last Resort.

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“Mikey, when you tried to open a time gateway that one time. You said you were close, just how close did you say you were to actually making it?” Leo had asked.

“I mean…Not actually that close. It was taking a lot of energy to push back in time,” Mikey said trying to recall the experience, “I think I had technically made it to the time frame I wanted, But my gateway also wasn’t very big. I’m not sure how much more out of me it would have taken to get it big enough and to stay open. I don’t know if I would have had enough power to get it open.”

Mikey looked at his brother, his face had a slight frown, brow furrowed in thought. It was what they called his Planning Leader face. Mikey wasn’t sure where he was going with this, “Why are you asking, Leo?”

Leo didn’t turn to meet his brother’s eyes. He stared at the maps that showed dwindling numbers of fighters, supplies, and land held by the resistance. The loss of the Headquarters had tipped things in the Krang’s favor, causing them to retreat to a cave in Upstate New York.

“Just making… contingency plans.” Leo finally answered after a moment.

“You really think things have gotten that bad?”

“Not quite yet, I hope we can still turn things around. But I think we should have an actual plan if worse comes to worst.”

“And you think time travel is the answer?” Mikey asked, eyebrow raised.

“You did,” Leo pointed out with a small smirk, referring to Michelangelo’s attempt at it 3 years previous. He grew serious again and continued, “I think if we’re going to use time travel…. It should only be as the very last resort. When there’s no other way we can turn it around. Only if there’s nothing we can do to stop the Krang.”

“And just when are you thinking of time traveling to?”

“We might as well go for broke and stop it before it even starts,” Leo said with a melancholic smile.

“You mean-“ Mikey’s eyes were wide.

“I mean stopping the key from ever being stolen, so that the Krang never even get out of the prison dimension. It might not change anything for us, but at least then, somewhere, some TIME will have a better future than we did.

“That is of course,” Leo continued, “if you choose to. I can’t make you, and I’m not going to order you either-“

“I’ll do it.” Mikey stated. “As a last resort I’ll do it”

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“Mikey, we need a Time Gateway.” Leo saw his brother’s eyes widen before they narrowed in resolution. Mikey knew what Leo was asking him to do.

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“But Leo,” Mikey looked at his hands, aware of the scars that were hiding under the wraps. “I can’t be sure I’ll have the power to make the gateway without losing part or ALL of me. I’ve gotten stronger since… the last time… and maybe by the time we do this, if we have to, I’ll be strong enough to make the gateway and survive. But I can’t guarantee that I will. I’ll still do it, but keep that in mind.”

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“It will take everything I have.”

Leo knew what that meant. He feared it more than he cared to admit. He had already lost the rest of his family, he didn’t want to lose Mikey too. But then again, this was supposed to fix all that.

“I know.” He still hated it. “But this is our last chance. It’s our only chance.”

They both knew the risks and they needed to hurry.

Mikey floated a short distance away to begin.

“Wait, what’s going on, where is he going?” Casey asked frantically.

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“Who is going to go?”

“I guess who ever is still here when it’s decided that it’s the end of the world. But I think I need to go.”

“Not that I’m arguing with you, Leo, but why?”

“I’m the one who remembers best about what happened that day-“

“Only because you keep beating yourself up about it! Stop that!”

“I know what needs to be done and why it needs to be done.”

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Leo couldn’t go. He would love to be able to fix the mistake he made years ago. But he couldn’t do it with a bleeding wound in his side. The past wouldn’t be able to offer the medical attention he would need, and a dying and dead mutant turtle would just slow Casey down and cause him more problems.

(There was also a small part of him that didn’t want to leave this time, this was where his family had died. He wasn’t sure what happened to a soul if it died in a different timeline, but he didn’t want to possibly lose the chance to reunite with his family that was here.)

Now he had to just had to tell Casey what to do.

He took out the one piece of paper he had, the photo he had carried for over 15 years, and drew the Key on the back as he told Casey of how the krang first arrived.

“Why are you telling me this?” Casey asked as he took the drawing.

“Because Mikey’s about to send you back in time to the day that the key was stolen.”

“Wait, he’s gonna WHAT?”

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“I think Casey should get to go too. He had to grow up in this hell, he should be allowed to live in a time of peace. He’ll know how important it is to stop the invasion. He’s smart and fast and skilled. If no one else is able to go, He could do it.” Leo had said.

“And He probably wouldn’t be here without the invasion happening in the first place. Circumstances and all that. So there’s a chance he won’t have to deal with whatever time problems there could be with living in the same time as your past self. Counterpart or whatever.” Mikey mused.

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He didn’t like the idea of sending Casey alone through the gateway, but there was no other choice.

He had to get Casey to understand WHY it was so important that he go back in time. To make sure he would do it.

And Leo believed in him. He just had to get the kid to believe in himself too.

“Find the key, stop the Krang.” He commanded.

“But sensei-”

“Say it!” Leo needed to know that Casey knew what he had to do. If not, then it was all in vain.

“Find the Key, Stop the Krang” he repeated dutifully. He had the same sad face that he used to make when he was 5 and told he had to go to sleep instead of training more. Leo couldn’t help but smile at the kid and patted his shoulder. Yeah, the kid would do just fine.

“I don’t want to lose you.” Casey pleaded.

“Casey, it’s not about me.” It was about saving everyone and everything that had been lost all over the world. About everything that would continue to be stolen. It was about stopping the Krang no matter what.

Leo didn’t get the chance to explain any of that as the giant Krang bots appeared above them.

“Mikeeey,” Leo called, and saw that Mikey was still working on creating the gateway.

Leo could only watch as his brother pushed beyond his limit to tear open the gateway, glowing mystic cracks extending over his whole body.

“Master Michelangelo, NO! You’re gonna-“

Mikey turned his head and winked at them with a smile.

Leo watched as Michelangelo shattered into mystical energy.

He hung his head as his heart broke. He lost his final brother.

Leo couldn’t help but remember an old conversation and smiled. At least one of his brothers got to die the way they wanted.

And he was so, SO proud of Mikey.

Mikey had done it. He made the Time Gateway.

The krang were closing in.

“Casey,“

Leo rested a hand on Casey’s shoulder.

“When you’re done saving the world, do me a favor-”

He just had one regret about the situation.

---

“Hey, one good thing about possibly going back in time!”

“You mean besides saving the world? What’s that?”

“Finally get to have pizza again!”

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“-Grab a slice!” and he tossed Casey toward the gateway.

Leo ran from the gateway, knocking back any krang that tried to get close, head turned to make sure Casey got through the gateway okay.

He turned away from the gateway, Casey’s tear-filled eyes were the last thing he’d ever see of the boy he practically raised.

Leonardo could only hope that Casey’s new life in the past wouldn’t make him cry like that ever again.

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“HA! I guess that’s one way to make sure Casey gets his pizza party!”

Funny Bonus because this chapter is so sad

Somewhere in the afterlife- Mikey: So you told him to get the key to stop the krang? Leo; YUP! He’ll do great Mikey: And you told him where he had to go? Leo:…. Uh Mikey: you told him where it’d be right?? Leo: uuummmmmmmm Mikey: HOWS HE SUPPOSED TO STOP THE KEY FROM BEING STOLEN IF HE DOESN’T KNOW WHERE TO GO??? WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU TOLD HIM??? Leo: …. mumbles I told him to get pizza…. Mikey:….. okay that’s understandable Donnie: HA. NARDO LOST THE GAME! LAST PLACE! Leo: WAA- WAIT THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS! AND GET BACK HERE I HAVE A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU! And then they all have a giant reunion hug. :)

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familyofpaladins · 5 months ago

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I finally got out my laptop again and pulled what I had written previously for my Youngest Leo Au, and so I can finally just copy and paste what I had written about the turtles dynamics/personalities once they were back with Splinter. (@sonderquill this is for you, I knew i had stuff about it written on my laptop and why I took forever to actually that part of your question)

For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, here's a link to the post describing my Youngest Leo au (which is also just my own iteration of the tmnt) and a lot of the back ground for the au.

TLDR (but really check out the other post for a lot more detail) is that, when the turtles were little (like 7 or 9ish years old), they got taken in by shredder, who they thought was a friend of splinter. Shredder wasn't always super nice to them and got even worse after shredder thought he had finished Splinter off. Mikey is the oldest, but doesn't focus well, so Shredder dismisses him as stupid. Raph is next oldest, but has anger issues and doesn't like listening to shredder. Donnie is super smart, but doesn't talk and therefore can't communicate well with others often. Leo is the youngest and easiest to scare into submission/actually get him to do what shredder says. After a couple/few years with shredder, they manage to escape with Splinter who is actually alive. Except Leo, who Shredder then takes to japan for about a year. Leo eventually gets back to his family.

And the rest of this post is how the brothers interact with each other after this (and a little speculation about what they would have been like if they HADN'T been taken by shredder). This... may have gotten a little long (between 1k and 2k words?) so im going to go ahead and put it under a cut

Once ALL turtles are back home. It’s an adjustment period. Leo spends some time trying to make sure that Splinter always stays happy and begins to panic is something happens that could possibly upset splinter. (because leo fears punishment, and that he or his brothers will be hurt like they would have been with shredder) Now splinter would never hurt them or get angry like shredder did, and logically leo knows that, but the stress Leo endured (especially when it was just him) has made him anxious and it takes a while for Leo to relax. But he gets there eventually.

They all still end up defaulting Leo to be leader, because he still knows their strengths and weaknesses best. Mikey still doesn’t like large text books and sitting still too long, but now that he’s out, he’s much more likely to sit back and relax and chill out. Pranks his brothers a lot. He is a big reason that Leo gets to calm down. He gets Leo to laugh and pulls pranks on everyone and demonstrates that no one is going to get seriously hurt as a consequence. (Mikey makes it a personal mission to get Leo to laugh at least once every day, or at the very least smile)

Once everyone is back together , Donnie really opens up and almost doesn’t ever shut up when he gets on a roll. His brothers love listening to him, even if 90% of it goes over their heads. Seriously, after years of not hearing Donnie speak, they will always happily listen to him. Sometimes he thinks too much and leo helps direct his thoughts. Leo asks him for help the most on solving problems during missions. He gets to make things exclusively for his brothers like jet powered skateboards and jet skis and communication devices and cloaking technology to hide their home. Once he meets April, she gets him more into chemistry, and Donnie occasionally supplies Mikey with stuff for pranks (like the “elephant toothpaste” stuff) but only when he knows it’s not going to possibly ruin any tech/ or furniture.

It takes a little while for raph and leo to work out that Leo isn’t trying to be mean/patronizing when helping with training, and that Raph would rather figure things out on his own, but that also he has always cared for all his brothers including leo. Once they find their groove, they almost become inseparable. Can often find them out patrolling together or sparring. Still get in fights over the stupidest things. Raph still gets angry, but it’s not a constant frustration like when they were at Shredder’s. (Shredder had been also purposefully trying to get Raph to be angry a lot, so that he would eventually be like a raging beast he could unleash on his enemies.) Splinter helps to teach Raph better (read: ANY) coping methods for his anger, and so his bouts of anger are far less often and over quicker.

Random fun fact. As the eldest brothers, Mikey and Raph are the ones the brothers go to when they're scared. Go to Mikey when its a silly fear and/or you just want to be cheered up. So when Donnie has a nightmare about all his technology either falling apart or turning against him as a giant computer spider monster or something, he goes to Mikey who doesn't make fun of him and is like "well all we'd have to do is drown it in water duh. When Leo has a bad time after trying to work on his fear of heights, Mikey just makes jokes or talks about something else until he calms down. (or if Leo gets stuck somewhere high because he's too scared to move, Mikey helps distract him from the heights and to look at other things instead). And when Raph gets scared by a bug that managed to get in his room, Mikey doesn't make fun of him, and just scoops the bug up and takes it away.

You go to Raph when you want to feel protected. Raph is the strongest one of them all, and has won most of the fights he's been in. So when Mikey gets spooked by a pile of clothes that looked like a person standing in a dark corner and now every shadow might hold something, he goes to Raph, because, while he knows there's probably nothing there, if there IS, Raph will be able to fight whatever it is. When Donnie is scared that the foot or other villains may get past the security he has guarding their home, he goes to Raph, because Raph will beat up anything that gets past Donnies tech defenses. And when Leo is afraid that Shredder or [redacted] is going to come and take him away again, he goes to Raph, because Raph has promised that he'll never let that happen, and Leo believes him. And big tough angry Raph has a soft and squishy heart, so he will always let his brothers stay with him when they're scared. Because he WILL fight against anything that threatens his brothers.

Their dynamic as teens:

*Listening to some bad guy monologue-ing *

Raph, whispering to Leo: what’s cognizant mean?

Leo: I…. I’m not sure. Don. What’s that mean?

Donnie: Cognizant: to be aware of or in the know of something.

Mikey: Guess Raph and Leo aren’t very cognizant of word definitions hahahaha-

BONK.

Raph: Shut up Mike!! You didn’t know eitha!

(Villain: Hey!! You're supposed to be listening to ME-)

So yeah, leo is the leader because that’s what they were used to and got good at while under the care of the shredder. If they had stayed with splinter its possible that Mikey would have lead, being the oldest, but also possible that he still wouldn’t have wanted the role/ wouldn’t focus well enough for the role. But he does know his brothers well and might have grown more serious. But since the shredder often wrote off his inability to focus as a lost cause, he happily lets Leo make decisions for him during missions. (at home though with things like dinner and movie nights, he likes to pull the oldest brother card to get what he wants lol) .

Raph being one of the strongest fighters could have argued for role as leader, but regardless of being with shredder or splinter he is a hothead and probably would still have not gotten leadership position. Although maybe with splinter he would have been able to work through some of his anger better, and channel it better and could have maybe stepped up as leader. But. As is, he never really worked out how to focus his anger with the shredder, and so there is a little bit of an adjustment period where he has to learn ways to channel his anger and frustration when he can’t just go and beat up the random foot goons in the training room anymore. (probably meets casey this way when he sneaks out to find bad guys to fight and runs into casey instead). Splinter does try to teach him some ways to cope that don’t involve beating people up. Knitting /crocheting is one of those ways (taking the time to MAKE something instead of destroy. And also yarn won’t break like pottery or glass or wood or a painting canvas if it gets punched in frustration).

Donnie is probably the least changed by his time with the shredder. He would have been talking a lot more and sooner had he been with splinter. Donnie did get to have access to more diverse technology tho and perhaps has more skills and experience because of it. Being with Shredder made him very anxious and was often close to a break down from stress, but being able to work in the lab simultaneously made it better (got to work on technology) and worse (never knowing what his work was going to be used for). Donnie is just relieved to no longer have to be building things that were going to hurt people and can now make things to help instead. Donnie really shines once he’s free. Makes friends with April (and leatherhead) he babbles and info dumps all the time, and gets lost in inventions and data, that his brothers often have to snap him out of. Could not lead because he’d get lost in the calculations and what ifs.

Leo actually has a similar problem. Often gets caught in a Do this and face possible consequence, or do That and face a different consequence. Which is better? Will he regret it? Which saves his family and which dooms it? <- this gets amplified during the time he’s alone with the foot. Once he’s back with his brothers they help to push towards decisions (with Raph’s hotheadedness jumping in anyway, Don’s analysis, or Mikey’s fun impulsiveness/instinct.) and that they’ll be there to work through whatever the consequences are anyway, because they’re in this together, good or bad. Brothers forever

#some of this might seem a little sporadic/disjointed. that's because most of it was what i was writing down as i thought about it #while writing down what i had come up with for the au #i added the 'going to Mikey and Raph when scared' bit just now because i'd been thinking about it #but hadn't actally written it down anywhere else yet #leo is my favorite so i tend to focus on him more. but i did try to focus on each of them for this #splinter btw is re getting to know his sons and how they've changed in the years they were gone #but he's a good dad and doing his best #the boys love him too. but since they only had eachother at shredder's they also tend to turn to eachother before splinter sometimes #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt au #youngest leo au #famofpaladins rambles #leonardo #raphael #michelangelo #donatello

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familyofpaladins · 1 year ago

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Sometimes you just have to make the most self indulgent art

Anyway, this is just some cute art for a little fic idea that's just bouncing around in my head where Some Weird Time Artifact ends up in the sewers (I'm blaming it on Renet) but it's also broken and therefore existing in two different times. And yet in both times a Leo grabs the artifact and turtle tot Leo and Teenage Leo are switched. Big Raph was with Big Leo at the time of the switch and now has to deal with tiny Leo while trying not to panic. Tiny Leo is amazed by how strong Raph gets when he's older and clings to him most of the time he's there (he does spend time with Don and Mikey too, but he tends to go back to Raph) cue the falling asleep in the chair together :)

(Big Leo is in a very similar situation with Little little brothers in the past as well lol)

I just really like the idea that, while Leo and Raph may butt heads often, they still absolutely trust each other the most and therefore would cling to each other in uncertain situations

also I just really like Leo and Raph duo :)

#this started out as a doodle and ended up as a practice in lighting #i'd say i'll maybe end up writing the fic idea but i always say that and then never do it lol #(hmm maybe this time will be different. but probably won't)#ANYWAY ITS CUTE AND IT MADE ME HAPPY DRAWING IT #tmnt 2003 #teenage mutant ninja turtles #teenage mutant ninja turtles 2003 #03 raph #03 leo #03 raphael #03 leonardo #raphael #leonardo #turtle tot leo #time travel shenanigans #sleepy time cuddles #idk what else to tag #famofpaladins draws

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familyofpaladins · 5 months ago

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HI SONDER @sonderquill !!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU!! You have no idea how happy your tags make me!! <3

Your enthusiasm definitely makes me want to maybe write something. Maybe maybe. Maybe once I have a few more things concretely planned

The thing about their "original traits even with the age swap" is honestly kind of the reason I came up with this au XD. Like. I literally went, I'm gonna make an au where mikey is oldest and leo is youngest! Hmmmm but I still want leo to be leader.... what would cause that to happen? And originally i had Splinter being a less than stellar parent with obvious favoritism towards leo and lack of knowledge of how to deal with his more nuerodivergent kids. But I didnt really like that idea, I wanted Splinter to be a good and loving dad. At the same time I was coming up with this idea I had a seperate little idea of the turtles getting kidnapped by shredder and how theyd escape him, and then realized "OH! I CAN JUST INSERT THAT INTO THE AU INSTEAD! IT WOULD MAKE SO MUCH MORE SENSE" and the au was born :)

As for How the boys find out Splinter is alive and get back to him.... well it's a little complicated :3 (more below)

SO.

Okay. Know how I said that originally the whole "taken by shredder to escape later" part of the au was originally a seperate idea? Well the "how they get out" part I wasnt sure if I wanted to keep in the au because it's a little... idk, silly? Odd? Unnecessarily complex? ..... And that was why it took me so long to respond to this part. BUT, I created more lore which makes it make more sense and also it's my au and I get to decide its convolutedness lol. ANYWAY

So shredder is obsessed with gaining power through whatever means necessary. Whether that means political power, army of gang members, alien technology, or mystical relics. He has a magical object that sort of functions as a genie's lamp (but its actually alien in origin, but has been on earth for centuries). It can grant one wish a day, but a single person can only ever have one wish granted in their life. Shredder is very proud of the magical object and shows it off to the turtles and asks them what they would wish for.

At first they give answers like, Their Dad to come back soon, or to have objects from their home that they had to leave behind, or more kid things like going to coney island or a lake filled with ice cream. Shredder wasnt too impressed with those options basically told them theyd need to have better wishes if they ever wanted to use the magic wish.

What they tell shredder often varies, but would have some benefit toward the foot clan or shredder to keep him off their backs. (And it's not like he's ever going to let them have their wish granted anyway). But their real wishes are usually something along the lines of:

Mikey wishes for Splinter (or SOMEONE) to return and take them home, or at the very least get them out.

Raph wishes to not be bossed around by Shredder or his goons, and have every aspect of his life controlled.

Donnie wishes he could make technology and know that it would be used for good. (At one point he [got Leo to] tell shredder that he could build stuff and wanted to work with technology. But now that he's doing that, he doesnt like the possible applications of his work and Shredder doesnt tell him what he does with the stuff)

Before leo finds out the truth about shredder, Leo wishes to be a good/the best student to his Master. It's also what he tells shredder he wishes for and never reall changes his wish. By Master he means Master Splinter, but he words it that way that it could also be shredder as long as he's taking care of them. But when he finds out about shredder. He changes his wish. He wishes his brothers wishes to come true. They brothers talk so they know each others wishes, and Leo knows that the wishes they make would most likely Get Them Out.

Shredder usually asks them what they wish for but not every time. Leo gets lucky and the first time he changes his wish, Shredder doesnt ask them about it, so Leo doesnt have to lie (he's very bad at lying). The next time shredder asks tho, leo says "I wished the same as last time", and it's the truth, and since previously Leo had never changed his wish, no one bats an eye at it, and thinks hes still wishing to be a good student.

Now. Another way the Magical Object works, is that you can "tell" it a wish every day, by being close to the object, looking at it, and thinking your wish. but the wish isnt actually granted until you make physical contact with it.

One day, around 2 years after Shredder "killed" Splinter, (about 3 years [exact numbers possible to change] of being with Shredder and making wishes that never get granted), they have a rough day and make their wishes. Mikey wants someone, anyone who would love them, to come and take them away from here (shredder seems to get worse every day). Raph doesnt want to be bossed around by Shredder or Hun or Leo (Shredders been having them work in teams and puts Leo in charge since Leo listens to him and the turtles will listen to a brother. But it can be annoying to be bossed around by your younger sibling). Donnie really wants to make technology that he knows wont be made to hurt anyone, wants to make things for fun and to help, not just want shredder wants. Leo wishes the thing he's been wishing. For his brothers wishes to come true.

Well shredder decides that apparently this is going to be the day that they can be granted a wish. But they will have to race/fight to be the first one to the object to get their wish granted. Well the brothers werent going to play Shredder's game and turn to each other to decide whose wish should be granted.

Except.... Leo had already sprinted ahead. (He doesnt have time to stop and tell them his real wish, afraid that if they stop to talk Shredder will take away their opportunity. So he runs ahead) (Leo has also been trying to plan for an escape. The building they live in goes into the ground and also connects to some sewers/tunnels/caves. Leo has managed to spend some time slowly mapping the tunnels and figuring out which is a possible escape route. He's still trying to work out where to go After that and what supplies theyd need to take, so with the possibility of the Wish being able to get them out NOW instead of him trying to plan it, he's going to take the chance)

When Leo touches the object, it sorted stops time as the Spirit in the object talks to him. It asks him if this is really the wish he wants to make, that he will not be able to make a wish for himself ever after this. Leo says he knows and doesnt want to change his wish. The spirit makes a comment about doing three wishes in one was sort of abusing the one wish rule, and Leo replies that all of their wishes could all be the result of a single action (getting them out). The spirit recognizes Leo's selflessness and good intentions and warns him that it may not work out for him the way he wants. Leo says he still doesn't care. he wants his brothers wishes granted.

The spirit concedes and tells him that "to fulfill wishes past present and future: you will not be able to go with your brothers".

Leo is a little shocked by that, but nods his head and then before he knows it the spirit is gone, and suddenly alarms are going off in the entire building.

Shredder sends the turtles back to their rooms to be escorted by a random foot solider.

As they're going back to their room, theyre quiet because of the alarm, but also because the brothers are mad at leo for taking the wish, and Leo cant explain with the foot soilder right there.

Halfway back to the rooms, a figure drops from the ceiling.

Turns out the alarm was because of an intruder.

The figure is a 6ft alligator man, that starts fighting with the foot soilder. The boys duck into a hall to get out of the way of the fight.

Leo hadnt known at first if the alarm had had anything to do with his wish, but now Leo thinks this might be their chance to get out during all the commotion. They continue away from the intruder and the fighting foot soldiers. Leo gets his brothers attention and asks mikey if he could lead them past the cameras down to the lower levels. (Leo knows Mikey knows how to get past cameras unseen because he's caught him setting up pranks before). Mikey is like, yeah but why? (They're all too startled by the alarm and the intruder to be mad about the wish thing anymore) .

Leo tells him, that they're going to leave. This surprises the brothers, because as far as they know, Leo is the one who has wanted to stay the most and dislikes shredder the least of them. So his sudden decision to leave is shocking.

They may or may not argue about it, and this may or may not be when leo finally actually tells his brothers about the truth, that their father is gone and Shredder was never a friend. That no matter how sad they may be about losing splinter they cant stay with shredder anymore.

Either way, they work their way down to the lower levels, avoiding foot soilders and cameras. When they're nearly to the tunnels, suddenly the giant alligator is back and someone is with him.

A gaint rat, with some scars that are new, but a loving face theyd know anywhere. Its Splinter, alive and right in front of them.

(We're gonna go back in time just a bit)

When shredder "killed" Splinter, he told splinter that he had the boys and planned to get rid of them after he killed splinter. Splinter would have died from his wounds, but the Utrom (more backstory lore about THAT in a later post maybe) found him and put in a healing pod/capsule thing (very similar to what happened in the 03 series). But Splitner was VERY injured and it took him Months to recover. So by the time he got out of the healing pod, he figured his sons had been killed and had lost any chance of saving them long ago. (The utrom are hiding from shredder and have no idea that the turtelws are alive either). He's depressed for a while and then starts to plan revenge agaisnt the Man who has taken All his loved ones from him.

Leatherhead is a mutant who was made from the same mutagen that changed the turtles and splinter. It was just from mutagen that washed further down and reached a young alligator that someone had gotten as a pet and then tossed out when he was getting too big. (The mutagen was a byproduct of the utrom, and they lost some of it due to and an incident and when they went to retrieve the lost stuff they found leatherhead and took care of him). Shredder and [other agencies] have been hunting down the utrom, so leatherhead is all for getting rid of shredder and joins splinter on his mission of vengeance.

They snuck into Shredder's building and were going to take it down one way or another when somehow they set of the alarm (They didnt really. It was Leo's wish that set of the alarm and a chain of events). They split up at that point so leatherhead could distract the foot grunts and Splinter could go looking for shredder.

I'm not sure if splinter actually makes it to shredder /they start fighting before Leatherhead contacts him and tells him that he saw some other mutants in the hall that looked like turtles. At which point splinter completely abandons going after shredder and trying to find the boys. (Meanwhile either because splinter made it to shredder or he later sees splitner on the cameras, he's PISSED that splinter survived. But nots not super important at the moment). Anyway Splitner and Leatherhead try to figure out where the turtles went (leatherhead thinks he saw them heading down). But they also need to Get Out because part of their Vengeance Plot was destroying Shredder's computers and arsenal and what not, so like half the building is on fire and its spreading.

Leatherhead is practically having to drag Splitner out of the building, going down to where they (also) know there are tunnels and looking for the boys as quickly as the can.

And that's when they run into the boys.

It's a very teary reunion and hugs. but it's also rushed as they really really REALLY need to get out of the building, as it's on fire and starting to collapse in areas, and therefore shaking a lot of things. The tunnel Splinter and leatherhead came through originally has already collapsed, so Leo says he knows another way out and points them to the tunnel he was originally planning to escape through.

When they're almost there, they can hear the foot soilders echoing in the tunnels behind them, getting closer.

They carefully crawl through the opening of the tunnel, ehich is half boarded up and looks like it could collapse any second.

Leo knows that this tunnel doesnt connect to any of the other tunnels past this point. At first he thinks that's good. But then he realizes that if the approaching soldiers figure out they went this way, they wont have anywhere else to turn or loose them.

But if he could get the foot to think they went down a different tunnel (and maybe block this tunnel so they didnt know it was open and that they could have gone this way) then maybe it would give his family the chance to get out safely.

And Leo remembers the wish spirit's words, that because of his wish he wouldnt be able to go with his brothers, and figures this is what it means.

Leo manages to turn back with out his family noticing (but maybe Donnie notices, but while overwhelmed cant speak to get anyone's attention) and runs back to the tunnel entrance and manages to knock a board loose and the entrance collapses. And just as the dust settles, the foot soldiers come into view and Leo bolts down a differnt path, leading them on a chase. When the soldiers and eventually shredder catches up to him, he makes it sound like he was chasing after his family, and trying to get them "to come back" so that it doesnt sound like He was trying to escape.

Shredder is overall pissed, and doesnt take a lot of time to hear him out, just sending more men down the maze of tunnels to look and a couple soilders to take Leo ... well not back to the burning building but to somewhere secure.

When they cant find the intruders or other turtles, Shredder comes back and questions Leo more. Leo has had a little time to try and come up with a lie/explanation that sounds convincing to shredder. Shredder asks him why he was in the tunnels. Leo says he was following his family, trying to get them to stay but that they left him behind (Leo starts to cry a little at the lie because it's not true and it hurts to lie about his family, but Shredder assumes he's crying because they left him). As far as shredder is aware, Leo shouldn't have any idea that Shredder and Splinter were enemies so he asks about what splinter said he was doing here. Leo (truthfully) tells him that Splinter didnt stop to tell them, and asks shredder back why he thought Splinter would only come back during an invasion. (And really Leo's trying to figure out HOW his dad is alive when he thought he was dead and it's been a very emotional day). Shredder comes up with his own lie that Splinter was a traitor who never really loved them and that Leo was better off with out splinter or his brothers. Something something "you can't trust anyone, not even your family. You can only trust yourself"

Shredder also asks him at some point about if Leo had wished for this to happen since it was right after that. Leo says that maybe it was that (with the lie that his wish was "to be the best student to his master), and that the only way for his wish to be true was by getting rid of his brothers if leo was to be the best.

Shredder wouldn't be entirely convinced by all of this, but like the night where Leo learned the truth about shredder, Shredder doesnt have a whole lot of reason to believe that Leo is lying to him, since he was the "most behaved".

Since his building got partially destroyed, and he doesn't want to risk Leo escaping/his family coming for him as well... he takes Leo to his home in Japan >:3

(Dont worry, he only spends about a year in japan and WILL (eventuall) make it back to his family. but uh. There'sa lot to that and This is already pretty long so I'm gonna stop here for the moment)

When you overhear something you weren't supposed to know

*throws these unfinished pieces up and runs away* jk. couldn't decide which perspective i like more so im putting them both up, I liked working with the colors

whats going on below

so this from my own little au/iteration of the tmnt. In it the boys are happily being raised by Splinter, but then one day when they're all about 7 are told to hide when Splinter realizes someone is near their home. They wait and wait where their father puts them, but the person who finds them is someone else. Someone who introduces himself as an old friend of their sensei. Oroku Saki

As far as the turtles are concerned he is the strict friend of their father who isn't maybe isn't super nice (he's really really NOT) but is at least providing a safe place for them "until their sensei returns for them"

What's happening here^^^ is Leo finding out the truth. That Shredder had only taken them in to hopefully Lure out Splinter and take care of him once and for all, and he has finally done so (at least that's what he thinks).

Poor little Leo had just woken up in the middle of the night and was hoping to get a glass of water, only to hear that the person who had been taking care of them for the last year or two has killed your father and plans to get rid of "those useless turtles" now as well.

#Gosh this got long again pfbedhlshdksk #I really should just start actually writing it since I'm putting so much into it here #(But I'm also leaving out a lot of the details and little moments between)#But yeah I debated whether or not to have the whole Wish thing be how they got out.#But I havent figured out anything else I like better is I'm keeping it lol #Leatherhead makes his appearance!!! :D #Btw the turtles are somewhere around 9-11 years old and leatherhead is the equivalent of a 17 year old #I'm just very mean to leo lol #I know I didnt mention the 'new normal' but I might bring that up more in the next part #Tmnt #Tmnt au #Youngest leo au #Tmnt Leonardo #Tmnt shredder #Tmnt splinter #Tmnt leatherhead #Famofpaladins rambles

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