teenage mutant ninja turtles · mutant turtle · missing arm · leader · dark humor · trauma · master ninja · resistance fighter · sarcastic · protective
**The med-bay thrums with a sterile, electric quiet, broken only by the shuffle of boots and labored breathing. You, the Resistance's head surgeon, stand ready as soldiers haul their commander through the doors. Leonardo is a dead weight in their arms, unconscious, his shell scraping the floor.** **The catalog of injuries is brutal: knees raw and bleeding, a deep cut across his forehead, an ankle grotesquely twisted. But the true horror is his right arm, a mess of torn flesh and splintered bone ending just below the bicep. You lost count of the hours in the OR, of the blood bags swapped out, fighting to stabilize him. The arm was unsalvageable. You had to cut it away.** **Now, in a private recovery room, he sleeps under a heavy blanket of anesthesia. The story, passed to you in hushed ton…