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I wanted to put my own spin on it @angelpuns hope you like it

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Bro a great read for sure

Wasn't really coming up with anything for the other Whumpay prompts for Trapped so I decided to do the alt prompt: Buried Alive

(credit: @whumpay )

cw: buried alive, hurt no comfort

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Leo wakes up with a sharp pain in his left arm, a throbbing in his head, and no idea where he is.

It's pitch-black and silent. There's thick, earthy smell in the air, and the feeling of hard wood under his body. Not the medbay, then, or his room - even if his brothers just dumped him in the floor, he'd be feeling metal or concrete, not wood. And it'd be pretty mean of them to just dump him in the floor anyway, after...

After...

Augh, what even happened? Leo's thoughts are all scrambled. He thinks they were investigating a building Donnie had been getting weird readings from... They split up, and...

His memories end there. Someone must have gotten the jump on him; being drugged would explain the pounding headache. Leo groans aloud, and it echoes back oddly.

That... probably isn't good.

For the first time, Leo cautiously lifts his uninjured arm, and hisses when he immediately smacks his elbow against something only inches away on his right side. He straights his arm out to feel a wooden wall, going up only about eight or nine more inches before he hits a right angle.

His heart speeds up.

Slowly, he drags his fingers along the low ceiling, feeling the grooves of the planks and the small gaps between them. It's a few feet across, and then another right angle going down.

That solves the mystery of the smell, because it was never a mystery at all: it smells like dirt because that's where he is.

Underground.

Leo's breath hitches, and he slams both hands against the roof of the coffin. Predictably, it doesn't budge; worse, grains of dirt and silt rain through the gaps into his tiny prison. He can't just smash through it; he has to think.

He takes a deep breath, in through his nose and out through his mouth, and then resolves not to do that again. He isn't sure how much air is left-

Terrible line of thought! He quickly puts that away and focuses on taking stock.

He can't move much, but he can just reach his hip - but of course the pouch containing his cellphone and other supplies are gone. Why would whoever did this to him let him have that? Furthermore, his swords are gone, too, and making a portal without them is something he hasn't figured out yet.

So that's that plan shot, too.

Leo lets his arms fall dejectedly, and that's when he feels it against his wrist: the communicator Donnie hid in all their arm wraps. Whoever trapped him wasn't smart enough to find that.

"Oh, yes yes yes yes yes yes yes," Leo whispers to himself, raising his wrist again and tapping at the communicator with his other hand. It lights up in response, and he sighs in relief.

(Seeing the sides of the coffin does not make it better; Leo tries not to think about it.)

"Guys!" he shouts into the communicator, heart thudding. "Please say you can hear me."

"Leo!" echo four different voices immediately, and Leo finally feels some of the panic ebb away. They sound faint and staticky, because the reception is probably bad, but Donnie's tech does its job.

"Leo, where are you!?" Raph's voice demands. He sounds more panicked than Leo has heard him since the invasion.

"Iiii was really hoping you guys knew that," Leo admits.

"To be more precise, we know where you are," comes Donnie's voice, crackling through the speaker. "Your tracker is still functional, and pointing us to a campsite in New Jersey."

"Jersey!?" Leo grimaces at the coffin. Ew, is this Jersey dirt getting on him!? "Ugh, of all the indignities!"

"Welp, at least we know he's okay," says April.

"What's going on over there, Leo?" Raph demands, cutting over any further chatter.

"Oh, well, nothing much. Just, uh... Hey Dee, remember you said you'd bury me alive if I touched your new Atomic Lass figure?"

"...Yes...?"

"I think someone beat you to it."

He cringes back from the sudden microphone peaking, caused by all four of them yelling at once.

"Are you saying you're underground!?" Mikey shouts.

"Yeeep."

"Like..." April sounds like she doesn't want to finish the question. "Like a cave, or...?"

"Oh no. This is definitely a coffin situation. And they didn't even leave me a bell to ring!"

There's a bang that sounds like maybe Raph hit something. Then a shushing noise, before Donnie is speaking again.

"Leo, listen to me. We have your location and we're on our way; T-minus eighteen minutes. What you need to do while you wait for us is conserve air."

Leo's throat feels very dry. "Sure."

"The best thing you can do is take a deep breath and hold it for awhile," Donnie continues. "And, I know this is difficult for you, but keep talking to a minimum."

"Harsh but fair," Leo mutters.

"What did I just say!?"

"What Donnie is saying," April cuts in, "is hang tight, Leo. We're on our way. We'll have you out of there in no time."

Leo nods, even though she can't see. They're on their way; he just has to stick it out for eighteen minutes.

He can do that! Easy peasy! Maybe he'll even take a little nap. Sure... in this hard cramped box that smells all wrong and is too dark and has no support for his back and...

Leo takes that deep breath and holds it.

He can't hold his breath like Donnie or Raph, but he can hold it longer than a human. He's not sure if the silence is better than the sound of his ragged breathing echoing off the wood. He dims the communicator light so he doesn't have to look at the ceiling.

The comms occasionally crackle with the faint sounds of his siblings talking to each other, but none of them are talking to Leo so he doesn't catch much. He lays back and closes his eyes, and wonders if the black of his eyelids is better than the oppressive darkness of the coffin.

He just hates being trapped. And he hasn't been more trapped than this since...

He's not sure when he let out the breath he was holding, but at some point Raph says, "Heeey, buddy. Are you doing okay?"

"Yep," he manages through his strangled throat. "Solid."

"You're just breathin' kinda heavy in there..."

"Nope," he says pathetically. "Must'a been some other turtle."

"...You sure?"

"I'm sure." Leo giggles, stressed and tense. "Just discovering some new fears in real time- tell Dee I don't want to know the word for this one."

"I know. It's about six minutes now. We'll get you out."

Leo falls silent. He tries to hold his breath again.

The six minutes feel interminable; with no way to tell time, he can rely only on his own unsteady counting to keep track. The cramped, stuffy void seems to suck time away with it, just like how time had seemed in-

"We're here!"

Leo lets out his breath again, relief flooding him. Any minute now, he'll be free of this hell.

"This has gotta be the spot," Donnie is saying.

"Ground's been disturbed recently," April agrees. "Let's dig, boys!"

Leo relaxes and waits, listening to the sound of his family on the communicator as they labor at digging. Any minute now, he'll be hearing them above him for real.

Any minute now.

Any

minute

now

...?

"Guys!" he calls out. "Why can't I hear you up there?"

"We're only a few feet down, Leo," says April, panting. "That bitch and her lackeys buried you all the way down."

"Yeah, I just... think I should still be hearing something by now..."

"Just give us a- minute, okay?"

Leo falls silent, waiting for another minute, and another, and another...

He still can't hear anything. His heart rate spikes again.

"Guys, I really think I should be hearing something-"

"We gotcha, Leo!" calls Raph over him. "We can see it now! Let us just clear off the lid..."

They can see it? But then they'd be right on top of Leo, but it's just as silent and dark as it has been.

His heart plummets. He knows before they say it.

"...What-"

"No!"

"It's empty!?"

"I-I don't understand- His tracker is functional; this is where he should be!"

And for a first time in awhile, Leo remembers the dull pain in his left arm.

He reaches over to feel his bicep, fingers rubbing over the skin. They come away with something tacky and smelling of iron.

He clears his throat.

"Dee," he says, and the other end of the communicator falls silent. "Where... where did you put the tracker on me?"

"In your upper arm, left side," says Donnie. "Why?"

Leo can only laugh.

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Nahhh bet

Everyone reblog this IMMEDIATELY

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Bro these turtles can't get out of my head

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Bro is the final boss

Dissecting the Krang Fight

I've wanted to do this for a while but was afraid I was going to step on some toes, so I never did. Also, finding the clips I want to find is hell, so I'm not sure where to start. However, I haven't seen it done and I want to have this stashed somewhere for posterity, so I'm doing it.

Leo in Rise is a showboat. He adores showing off, peacocking, and everything else that addresses vanity to the point where it shows up in his fighting. I can think of two moments when it's at its extreme, though, and that would be in Many Unhappy Returns with the fight against the Kraken and the Evil Six.

And the fight against Shredder where he just... grabs his sword with his teeth because he freaking can.

In fact, it's only in the movie where I would say that we see Leo's true potential as a fighter and a strategist and I think I can boil it down to three moments. The one where he goes for the key and Raph has to sacrifice himself to make sure Leo gets home. The fight with Krang Raph. And the one that absolutely takes it home, the sacrifice against Krang.

Let me explain.

The first fight with Krang, he's still showing off to a certain degree. Playing distraction, trying to figure out what the Krang are capable of right up until their powers get stolen. Then, Splinter gets hurt, things turn for the worst, and Leo...

is left with no other choice but to plan on the fly.

And he does it. Blows every expectation out of the water and manages to get the Key from under Krang's nose. What did him in? He only thought of getting the Key. He didn't think beyond it. He forgot his escape plan.

The second moment would be the fight with Krang Raph.

Again, he's trying to figure things out and trying to buy time. He knows he's got to get his brother back, but he's also playing distraction. Krang's watching and that's keeping his eye off Leo's brothers.

Reason why I know this?

The third moment, the one everyone remembers.

The one where Leo puts everything on the line and is left to make a decision that he knows he has to take despite knowing what it's going to cost, and here's why.

The entire fight with Krang, that self-sacrifice, is long decided even before he stands.

Before this

Before this

Here

is when he formulates what he's got to do to save everyone. Not to win the fight, to save everyone. Why?

The fight itself lasts two moves. Two of Leo's moves, too. The portal first and then him swinging his blade off into the Prison Dimension. He did not let Krang do anything that could sabotage him. He was running on low already, he had one chance.

And he made it count. This was thought through. Leonardo Hamato knew exactly how to play his cards against Krang and got a victory out of it.

How is this insane? Because typical heroes don't do that. You know who does? Chessmasters and Villains. The ones with the grand plans that the heroes have to struggle to stop.

Leo's strength in Rise is downplayed and minimized. Why? Because if they did trust him, he would be devastating.

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Tell me why Leo was the most perfect looking, like what is this man doing to me

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I'm actually trying this out

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Mikey the symbol of luck prosperity.

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Why is this pulling at my heart strings someone actually write a fic about this

So some of y'all need to go touch some grass and learn that brotherly affection can include forhead and cheek kisses without it being gross

I like to imagine Leo is very affectionate, but when his brothers show him affection, he freezes up. Especially after the invasion, he fucking cries when his brothers show him affection wihtout him needing to "earn it" or anything like that

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Once I learn how to animate it's over for everyone

once i learn how to edit its over for everyone

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Man I'm still waiting

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