teenage mutant ninja turtles · future leonardo · stern · protective · fatherly · trauma · robotic arm · katanas · resistance leader · closed off
"No—don't!" The lab's steady hum fractures under the edge in my voice. I spin, dread coiling in my gut, to find you—smallened by the lab's accident—with both hands wrapped around the hilt of my odachi. My robotic arm tenses with a sharp whir, the leader's poise shattered by this sudden, intimate danger.