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He could still hear Splinter’ voice in his mind as he stands between the Kraang Prime and his brothers including April who are all inside the very last escape pod of this ship.
About how even if the world’s at stack it does take a sacrifice of something to save it or who will make it.
So he uses Mikey’s nunchucks to wrap around the Kraang Prime’s body as he calls out to everyone to get out of here.
And then after a few seconds the escape pod closes and it blasts away.
He did it. He saved his brothers and friend from being killed by the kraangs, but at what cost?
Being the leader means that your responsible for everything which are making sure that your brothers are ok and having to do something to yourself that you don’t want to.
And Leo was no exception.
Since he was the leader after all, but now he starting to regret having to do this for his brother’s safety.
Forget about what Splinter said, he has to get out of here now before the ship crashes int the ocean and starts to flood with him and the other kraangs in this ship.
He’s only 15 years old , so what’s stopping him from-
“Get your brother’s filthy chain off me, you fiendish fool!” The Kraang Prime said in anger
That was when Leo stopped thinking and sees that she was still struggling to break free.
Until eventually she was able to break out of the chain’s hold by releasing a powerful shockwave that sent him flying back onto the ground.
And upon landing, he thought he had heard a crack.
“Oh no, please don’t tell me that I just broken a bone.” Leo said to himself.
Much to his dismay however, he saw that the impact did in-fact made him break his right arm.
Now with a broken bone and a pissed off Kraang Prime chasing after him, Leo has another mission as the leader.
To get the fuck out of here before he is killed.
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Meanwhile at the surface.
A escape pod surfaces from the ocean as the window form it also opens up.
Revealing that Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo and April are all ok, but are still traumatised and scared because of Leo sacrificing his own life to make sure that their all safe.
And that made even worse when they see the ship crashing into the ocean and fully sinking into it.
Leo was now gone because of it.
With The one who was most traumatised and scared of that fact was Raph himself.
He was never that emotional or had showed a sign of weakness or being scared to anyone but because of what happened to Leo, he couldn’t help himself.
Leo’s actually gone, he sacrificed himself so that the others can survive.
Raph couldn’t believe that he would do that as the leader.
He was just standing there looking at the ocean with a shocked expression on his face.
He couldn’t even listen to Donnie and Mikey who were both talking to him.
“You know Raph, the worst part about losing Leo was the fact that I lost my weapon too. And I loved that weapon.” Mikey said to his big brother.
“Mikey, I don’t think that’s supposed to make Raph feel better about this situation.” Donnie said to Mikey.
“Yeah like Donnie said, I’m sure Leo’s fine and that he will find a way to get out of this mess.” April said as she walks towards the 3 turtle brothers.
And while they were all talking about the situation, something inside Raphael snapped.
No, he thought.
No way.
There is no way he’s letting Leo die in a sunken ship by getting killed by that Kraang leader or drowning in it once the ship’s starting to flood with water.
So he makes up his mind.
“You guys stay right there. I’m gonna go find Leo and bring him back to the surface before it’s too late.” Raph announced.
“But Raph, we don’t know if Leo’s still alive or not.” Donnie said with a worried tone.
“Yeah Raphie, don’t do this please.” Mikey pleaded.
But Raph had already made up his mind, and so the others watches as he dives into the ocean while holding his Sais
“Will Raphie be ok?” Mikey asked.
“I don’t know. Personally it takes about 3 or 2 minutes before a person stops holding their breathe and goes back for air.” Donnie replied.
“It’s ok you two, Raph’s strong and brave, I’m sure he’ll be back with Leo.” April said while trying to calm the smarts and craft duo down.
But what they don’t know is that things are not going so great with the leader.
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Run bitch run!
And whatever you do don’t stop and see that terrifying space alien that’s chasing you as they will always get closer to you.
That was what his mind was telling Leo.
To keep running, to keep surviving and to keep finding a way to escape before he dies.
He never ran this fast or had noticed the fact that he was basically doing a Naruto run but faster and with only one arm.
Plus seeing that this Kraang Prime isn’t stopping really terrifies him.
As it won’t stop until it catches him and kills him by draining the mutagen out of his blood.
So he just keeps on running and trying to calm himself down during this stressful situation.
Until things got worse, when all of the sudden, he tripped on one of the platform and gets his foot stuck in between the gaps of the platform.
No, not now, not right fucking now! He needs to get away, he needs to survive.
He tried to pull his foot out of the gap but it was impossible with only one arm.
The noise of the Kraang Prime walking towards him was getting louder and louder and louder and louder.
Until.
“I got you know turtle. Prepare to die!” Kraang Prime said with a evil laugh.
But before she can grab him with a single grab by the neck, suddenly they hear a noise.
It sounded like a wave rushing through.
And it was in fact true as now that the ship has been sunken, it was now being flooded by the waters from the ocean.
It was so fast that it washed out the Kraang Primse in seconds and took her down.
Alongside Leo, who fell victim into becoming submerged in water but was able to hold his breathe by the last second.
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Leo now has 2 stuffs to do.
1. Get out of the ship and reunite with his brothers. And 2. Not drown.
Starting with getting his foot out of the gap.
And even though it took a bit of time, he was able to pull it out. But seeing that the flood had already fully flooded the ship, it was going to be impossible to find a air pocket.
So he decided to take his chance and find a way out of this place, as he swims through with only his good arm helping him.
While swimming, he sees a lot of things he wasn’t supposed to see, like the bodies of the other kraangs that were killed by him and his brothers.
But then he starts to feel his chest being on fire.
Because he spent like 1 minutes on freeing his foot, he knows has like 1 or 2 minutes left before his body forces him to start breathing and this is bad because he’s in the water.
Plus because he and his brother’s have Splinter’s human DNA, they can’t survive in the water for that long.
So he pushes the peddle to the meddle and starts swimming fast.
And thankfully he was able to find a way out as he was relieved of it. But it seems like the Kraang Primse had one more trick up her sleeve.
As suddenly a robot tentacle arm appears out of nowhere and grabs Leo by the neck.
“You do realise that this robot body helps me breathe underwater. So enjoy sleeping with the fishes turtle.” Kraang Prime said evilly
Now it’s time to panic.
What was he going to do? He was so close to swimming to the surface, but now he’s going to suffocate by being choked to death.
And despite his pleads for himself not to, his body basically gives up on him.
Leading to Leo coughing up a lot of air he had and begin to inhale a bunch of water.
He could already feel the cold water going through his lungs but not exstiquenshing the fire that’s inside of it.
His vision fading, his limbs becoming limp and the fact that he was never going to see his brothers or Master Splinter again.
It was all too much for this.
But despite this, he was happy that his brothers are ok and thinks that they will remember him after he dies.
So after one last inhale, he began to black out.
But it was alright, as through his smile.
Leo was glad that he was able to save his brothers from death.
And then he blacked out.
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When suddenly a Sai appears out of nowhere and slashes the tentacle in half.
Freeing Leo who begins to sink to the ocean’s floor, and causing the Kraang Prime to scream in anguish.
Once she’s gone, suddenly Leo gets picked up by someone who starts swimming him back to the surface. Or should I say some turtle.
It was Raph, who was able to hold his breathe for a long periods of time.
He saw the thing forcing Leo to drown by strangling him which also causes him to lose a lot of air.
So he went into action by throwing his sai at the arm and slicing it in half.
And even though Leo’s uncounscious now, the red banded turtle hopes that he isn’t too late.
Then once they both swim to the surface and Raph started to gasp for air, he noticed the damages caused to his brother.
Leo’s right arm was broken and his neck was starting to bruise very badly.
No time to waste.
Gotta get the leader back to the escape pod with the others. And that’s what he did.
When the others spot them, they noticed that something was wrong with Leo. And once Raph got back onto the escape pod with the leader, they all realised that he wasn’t breathing or moving.
They were all starting to get really sacred for him.
Including Raph, who thought that he was too late to save his older brother.
that was until Donnie pushed him aside.
“Move Raph, I need to make sure that his heart is still beating and his pulse is still there.” Donnie said.
So he places 2 fingers onto Leo’s neck and he felt relieved much to everyone’s confusion.
“What’s going on Donnie?” Raph asked.
“It’s barely there but he still has a pulse. Meaning that he’s still alive with us.” Donnie said.
This made all of them very happy and relieved to hear.
But because of the fact that Leo was still not moving, they still need to find a way to get him to start breathing again.
Until Raph remembers something from his brother as he shows everyone a determined look on his face.
“Everyone stand back, I know just what to do to help Leo.” Raph said to everyone.
So after he cracks his knuckles, he began to compress Leo’s chest like it was the only way to get his heart to start pumping again.
“What’s Raph doing?” Mikey asked.
“I think he’s doing CPR. I learnt it during first aid class back in high school.” April replied.
Then once he’s done with it for about 30 times, he opens Leo’s mouth and becomes hesitate at first.
But was able to suck it up and blow onto it to make sure that his lungs would react.
And after he’s done with it for about 2 or 3 times, the process repeats itself all over again.
During the 3rd round, Raph was starting to have flashbacks of Leo being the leader of the team.
Of how he was caring, obedient, respectful, helpful, protective and was also like a mom to them.
He never wanted Leo to sacrifice himself by clinging onto the alien and then drowning because of it.
He never wnated anything bad happening to him.
And by the 5th round, he was starting to get pretty tired, but he doesn’t give up on him.
Until finally after 6 rounds of CPR, Leo opens his eyes, pushes himself upwards and gasps for air before he begins to cough out a lot of water much to everyone’s relieved.
Raph was able to help Leo get rid of the water in his lungs a lot after by hitting him in the back but not too hardly.
Then after the coughing fit was over, Leo began to breathe normally again as he sees that his brothers are here.
“Hey guys. Sorry that I made you all worried thinking that I was going to sacrifice myself.” Leo said wearily.
Raph wasn’t having this, so he grabs Leo and starts to burst into tears.
“Worried? Worried? We were really scared for you! We thought you were dead! We thought we were gonna lose you!” Raph said to Leo.
“Raph? Are you crying?” Leo asked.
“No,. Well maybe, but that’s because you were this close to dying. I don’t know what we were going to do if you were actually dead.” Raph yelled as he starts to become more upset.
Leo started to become surprised about what Raph just said.
He didn’t mean for all of them to get scared into thinking that he would die from drowning.
So he smiles at Raph and hugs him.
“You know Raph, sometimes leaders doesn’t always want to sacrifice themselves for their family. And I might be one of those examples of that concept. And even though I did saved you all from the Kraang Prime, I still have to admit that it was scary. So what I’m syaing is that, I love you all and I promise to not scare you guys again.” Leo said to everyone.
And much to his surprise they all start to go into tears too.
With Raph accepting the hug from the blue banded turtle and even proceeding to hug him too.
And Donnie, Mikey and even April also joining in on this which becomes a group hug.
“We love you too Leo and guess what, we’ll always be family no matter what.” Raph said.
It was a moment between all of them.
Until 1 minutes later they stop hugging as Leo reached down onto his belt and pulls out Mikey’s nunchucks.
“Here Mikey, I think this belongs to you.” Leo said as he hands it over to his baby brother.
“I can’t believe you actually kept it after everything that happened in that ship, thank you Leo.” Mikey said happily.
And while the other smiles and laughs with Mikey, as he is overjoyed about having his weapon back.
Leo smiles at them as even though his position as the leader is a bit tough.
He will still do a lot of things for his family.
And will always be there for them.