Broken Brotherhood - Burden from "Back Then"/Transcript

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 **Renoir** “I... I’m hungry... (Cough) (Cough)”
 **Renoir** “(Cough) M... Master Raphael! (Cough)”
 **Renoir** “Y... You know, I haven’t eaten anything since I started living here!!”
 **Raph** “Shuddap and focus on your balance, or else...”
 **Renoir** “I know, I know! The shards of glass on the ground!! A... Are you out of your mind? Why are you doing this to me? I... I can get hurt, you know?”
 **Raph** “Stop whining, ya worm! As a ninja turtle, I want ‘cha to learn to balance the weight of your entire body, including your shell and your stupid head full of crap! Now focus!”
 **Renoir** “Ah..Ah...”
 **Renoir** “Achoo!!”
 **Renoir** “Whoa!”

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 **Renoir** “Hyaaa! Not my beautiful butt!!”
 **Raph** “Must... Control... Urge to kill...”
 **Renoir** “...Eeh?”
 **Renoir** “I... I don’t feel any pain...”
 **Renoir** “Aah...? The shards of glass are gone... How come there is smoke coming out of the log I was using?”
 **Raph** “That ain’t just a normal log, ya idiot! Can’t ‘cha see? T’was my bro Donnie’s hologram generator... Shaped like a log!!”
 **Raph** “And for your information...”
 **Raph** “...Machines don’t need to be watered to be maintained!”
 **Renoir** “Hey! How could I know that? It’s not like I saw the holograms appear when I came in here...”
 **Renoir** “...And you’re the sadist who forced me to carry buckets of water like that!!”
 **Raph** “Shaddap, ya insolent slacker! Illusions were necessary! Without proper ‘motivation’, I know a maggot like you ain’t gonna train seriously!!”
 **Raph** “Dammit... If I wanna get this thing fixed and runnin’ again, I’m gonna have to get on my knees and beg Donnie for some tech support... Urgh...”
 **Renoir** “I give you an opportunity to socialize with your brother and this is the thanks I get:Starvation. I feel like I’m in a boot camp...”
 **Raph** “Be damn grateful I haven’t kicked yer ass yer for pissin’ me off all the time!”
 **Renoir** “Sorry!”
 **Raph** “If you’re so hungry, get the hell outta here and go leech on Shadow, ya damn kid!!”

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 Brooklyn
 09:00 PM
 “Look at that weirdo!”
 “Did I see green skin?”
 **Renoir** (I knew it. Just a trenchcoat wasn’t enough to blend in the crowd. Have I become that much of an eyesore?)
 “Could it be... The dangerous man-eating mutant?”
 “Shh... Don’t startle it!”
 “I saw the mutant wandering around here, officer! It’s probably be still around!”
 “Thank you, miss. We’ll scout this area...”
 **Renoir** “!”
 “...And we’ll catch that mutant, rest assured.”
 **Renoir** “...”
 **Renoir** (At least I reached Shadow’s apartment building... But I suppose it’s no longer safe for me to enter through the front door.)
 **Renoir** (There has to be an alternative entrance...)
 **Shadow** “La- --lala- la- laaa...”
 **Shadow** “Hm...hmmm hm--hm...”
 **Renoir** “Ah... Shadow!”
 **Shadow** “Yaaaah!! A stalker!!”

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 **Mikey** “Shadow?”
 **Renoir** “♥”
 **Mikey** “Eh?”
 **Shadow** “Aah!”
 **Shadow** “G...”
 **Shadow** “Get out...”
 **Shadow** “Get outta here, the both of you!!”
 **Shadow** “Geez, can’t a girl get some privacy around here?”
 **Mikey** “Humiliating me yesterday was not enough for Raph so he sent the notorious killer mutant to make my life miserable, didn’t he? I’m gonna make you pay for what he did!”
 **Renoir** “Heyheyhey! Wait! Just... Lemme explain!”
 **Mikey** “...Huh? You just came looking for food? Oh, okay... Come here, I’ll see what’s left in the fridge.”
 **Mikey** “...What are you waiting for...? Hey, stay away from the bathroom!”
 **Renoir** “Sorry I showed up so late in the night, Shadow, it’s...”
 **Shadow** “I know... The nocturnal life of a mutant turtle...”
 **Renoir** “Yeah... I’m still not used to it, though...”
 **Mikey** “Urgh... That Raph. He never had what it takes to be a leader, and now he wants to be a sensei! He doesn’t even bother to give food to his own disciple...”
 **Shadow** “Are you okay with leftover pizza? Uncle Mikey can cook you something, you know...”
 **Renoir** “No, I’m fine, thanks!! I’m so hungry anything would do right now...”
 **Renoir** “Say, I heard that Raphael, that ‘Donnie’ guy and you.. Sir ‘Mikey’ are related, aren’t you? Are you brothers?”
 **Mikey** “Yeah, brothers. Not blood related, but... Brothers, nonetheless. It’s... A long story.”

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 **Donnie** “Why am I not surprised... Raph.”
 **Donnie** “I saw it coming the moment this delicate gadget fell into the wrong hands... Yours. What have you done this time?”
 **Raph** “Don’t push my buttons, brainiac. If ya really wanna know, Renoir spilled water on it. Now, I brought my part of the bargain so just shuddap and do your job, ‘kay?”
 **Donnie** “Alright... But it’s only because you’re going to give me a sample of Renoir’s blood for this... Show me how much you’ve brought.”
 **Raph** “There ya go... Renoir threw this in a trash can... Hope you’re happy with it.”
 **Donnie** “The band-aid from the other day... So you’re giving me a thin layer of dry blood?”
 **Donnie** “I guess this’ll have to do. I knew I couldn’t expect much from someone as incompetent as you are.”
 **Raph** “You’re really startin’ to piss me off, Donnie! What did ya expect me to do?”
 **Raph** “Slit Renoir’s throat and hang ‘im upside down above a bucket?”
 **Donnie** “... Why, yes. Exactly, Raph. After all. That would’ve been perfectly fitting for a bum with a primitive mind like yourself.”
 **Donnie** “Am I right?”
 **Raph** “!”

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 **Renoir** “So... You guys were a band of four ninja brothers? About that ‘Leonardo’ guy, why is he in Japan? And why did you all split up?”
 **Mikey** “It was all because of an incident that occurred seventeen years ago.”
 **Mikey** “On that dreadful day... Our master was killed at the hands of Leonardo.”
 “We used to be so close, despite our differences.”
 **Raph** “Don’t cha fuckin’ mess wit’ me, asshole!”
 “...But the circumstances surrounding the death of our surrogate father changed us all.”
 “It’s like we couldn’t trust each other anymore like we used to.”
 “We couldn’t depend on each other anymore... So we each went down our own path in life.”
 **Raph** “...Those marks...!!”
 “It was then that I realized how much we depended on our master for guidance. Without him, in a time of chaos, even our leader Leonardo wasn’t able to keep everyone united.”
 **Raph** “L...Leonardo...”
 “Leonardo went to Japan on a quest for redemption.”
 “Donatello isolated himself in his lab, in his own little world.”
 “I decided to start my life over.”
 “Raphael... He was the last one to try to keep everyone united... In his own way.”

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 **Raph** “Dammit, Leo... Even when you’re not here... You manage to restrain me...”
 **Donnie** “I hope you’re satisfied.”
 **Donnie** “Now beat it, Raph.”
 **Donnie** “You’re no longer of any use to me. Now that I have Renoir’s blood, you’re back to your former worthless state.”
 **Raph** “Shit... Why has our family fallen this low?”
 **Raph** “Even though we live in a "dog-eat-dog" world... We’ve always been there for each other... Donnie... Why...?”
 **Shadow** “I was born after that incident, so I’ve never had a chance to meet Uncle Leonardo... Or to see the three others united as a normal family.”
 **Renoir** “But they do see each other from time to time, don’t they?”
 **Shadow** “Outside of Uncle Leo, yeah. Each Christmas, Uncle Raph and Uncle Donnie come over to celebrate with us.”
 **Shadow** “But the tension is always palpable whenever they meet. Sometimes, it would end up in a fight...”
 **Mikey** “It doesn’t help that Raphael always had trouble expressing himself... He argues with rage and fists. Not with reason.”

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 “A few days after our master’s death, I went back to our old lair to pick up my stuff because I was moving out.”
 “When I broke out the news to Raphael, I realized that reasoning with him was a waste of time...”
 **Mikey** “Oof!”
 **Raph** “So... Ya came crawlin’ back home, traitor!!”
 **Raph** “Ya sought shelter in the human world, runnin’ away from the consequences of our sin, didn’t ya, Mikey?”
 **Mikey** “W...What sin, Raph? It’s not like I...!”
 “Donnie found Raph wounded in the sewers after the incident and treated his wounds. I thought that he was mad at me because I wasn’t there for him, but there was more to it...”
 **Raph** “Ya bet ‘cha did!! Whose idea was it to sneak into Splinter’s room to ‘check out’ that package, huh? Tell me, smartass!”
 **Raph** “I don’t want ya desertin’ us again, ya hear? We’re brothers... Bound to each other till the very end! And in this case... Bound by our sin!”
 **Mikey** “No... No, you’re wrong...!”

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 **Mikey** “No!! Stop blaming me, Raph!! I... I didn’t do anything!!”
 **Mikey** “That burden and that bond of yours... I don’t want ‘em!!”
 **Raph** “W...What did ya say??”
 **Mikey** “I just came by to pick up my stuff, Raph. I moving in with April to restart my life from scratch!”
 **Mikey** “...So stop hanging on to me like that! We’re not ‘bound’ to each other anymore!”
 **Raph** “Y...You... Traitor...”
 **Mikey** “Admit it! You just don’t have the guts to carry your own burden alone! You attack other people and make them vulnerable so you can make them share your pain! Well that’s not gonna work with me!! Not this time!”
 **Mikey** “Got it, Raph?”
 **Mikey** “I’m not your bro!”
 **Raph** “You traitor! I’m gonna kill ya!!!”
 **Mikey** “Go ahead, Raph! It won’t make me change my mind!”
 **Donnie** “...”
 **Raph** “Shuddap! Shut the hell up!!”

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 **Donnie** “...”
 **Donnie** (Those marks made by Leo on the table seem to soothe Raph’s deranged mind.)
 **Donnie** (Was I too straightforward with him? No... I had to. Otherwise, he wouldn’t get the message.)
 **Donnie** (Raph...you have never been very bright, were you? You’re not the kind of person who would understand me...)
 **Raph** “Donnie, Donnie, Donnie... Watchin’ ya workin’ on machines all day is depressin’. Why don’t cha give it a rest and get some fresh air?”
 **Raph** “I mean, ya no longer give a damn ‘bout your ninja skills and your health! Ya no longer talk to anyone... Hell, I even feel like I’m talkin’ to a wall right now!”
 **Raph** “Hey, are you listenin’ to me? Ya deaf or somethin’?”

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 **Raph** “Are ya givin’ me the silent treatment? Eh?”
 **Donnie** “...”
 **Raph** “Oy!”
 **Donnie** “Knock it off, Raph!”
 **Donnie** “Didn’t you get it the first time I ignored you?”
 **Donnie** “Or are you just too dumb to understand that I’m busy?”
 **Donnie** “If you’re that desperate for attention, then go pay Casey a visit! I don’t have time to waste!”
 **Donnie** “You know I’m a workaholic by nature, so live with it or go away! I don’t intend to change my lifestyle to satisfy your silly whims!”
 **Raph** “...”
 “Indeed... Raph wouldn’t understand me. He was still hanging on to his own vision of reality. That’s why we eventually split up and became distant... It was his decision after all.”

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 **Raph** (No one in sight... Good.)
 **Raph** (Renoir should be at April’s apartment.)
 **Raph** (I hope he didn’t get caught by the cops or something. I don’t wanna have to ask Donnie to help me go fetch him.)
 **Raph** (That Donnie... What’s wrong with him...?)
 **Renoir** “Mr. ‘Mikey’, are you sure it’s okay for me to look in your photo album?”
 **Mikey** “Yeah. I think you should. I want you to understand who we ninja turtles are.”
 **Renoir** “Huh... I can hardly imagine someone as violent and grumpy as Raphael bonding with anybody... These photos almost seem surreal to me. What do you think, Shadow?”
 **Renoir** “Hey, Shadow?”
 **Shadow** “Zzz...”
 **Renoir** “Ah... Oh well. Hey, wakey-wakey, Shadow!”
 **Mikey** “Ssh!! Let her sleep! I’ll carry her to her room.”
 **Renoir** “But...”
 **Mikey** “She didn’t sleep for the last two days. Witnessing a childhood friend’s death and reincarnation would cause anyone to be restless, don’t you think?”
 **Renoir** “Huh? How did you know I was her...”

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 **Mikey** “I should’ve known... You’re the one she didn’t stop talking about for the last three days...”
 **Mikey** “‘Augustus’ died, ‘Augustus’ reappeared... This and that...”
 **Renoir** “...”
 **Mikey** “However...”
 **Mikey** “...Let’s me clear on one thing: I don’t trust you. First of all, who are you? ‘Renoir’? Just a wild mutant? Not a reincarnated human, that’s for sure...”
 **Mikey** “Also, you appeared out of nowhere, killed a human, created a huge commotion by showing up in public at the dead guy’s funerals...”
 **Renoir** “...”
 **Mikey** “None of this adds up. Until I know you can be trusted, I don’t want Shadow to have anything to do with suspicious mutants like you.”
 **Raph** (...Now to find Renoir...)
 **Raph** (But first, some booze. That urban trek made me thirsty.)
 **Raph** “♪”
 **Raph** (A photo album?)

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 **Renoir** “I understand if you don’t trust me, but then...”
 **Renoir** “Why would you give so much personal information about your amily to someone you don’t trust?”
 **Renoir** “I mean, we barely met, and you’re already insisting on letting me know everything about your brothers!”
 **Renoir** “That you are overprotective of Shadow but don’t care about your brothers...”
 **Renoir** “Do you... Hate them that much?”
 **Raph** (...The good ol’ days... When we were still a family...)
 **Raph** (Leo, Donnie, Mikey, Sensei... Me...)
 **Raph** (Wait, what are those...?)

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 **Mikey** “No! You’ve got it all wrong! I don’t hate my brothers! Especially not Raph!”
 **Mikey** “Okay, I admit it... I... I’m worried about Raph. But how can I do anything for him when he keeps rejecting my help?”
 **Mikey** “You, on the other hand, are in a perfect position to reach him in his current state.”
 **Mikey** “That’s why I told you everything. I want you to understand him better and hopefully be a bigger help to him than I was all this time.”
 **Mikey** “His case is so desperate at this point that I’d entrust him to anyone if given the chance, even if that person is as suspicious as you are.”
 **Mikey & Renoir** “!”

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 **Mikey** “It came from the living room!”
 **Raph** “L...Look at those ph... Photos... J...(Hic) Just look at how jolly you were... All th...these last seventeen y...years... Wh... While I was... All alooooone... (Hic)”
 **Raph** “...After... A...A...After we killed off th... that old rat... The... The two of us... (Hic)”
 **Raph** “I... (Hic) I helped ya k... Kill him (Hic)... Did... Did that... Did that make you happy too?”
 **Raph** “C’mon... (Hic) Thank me, bro... Th...Thank me for killing Sssssplinter...”
 **Renoir** “All those empty bottles... Did he really...?”
 **Mikey** “Okay, time off, Raph. Let’s...”

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 **Raph** “Sh...Shuddap!! Shuddap!! Y... Ya mae me wanna puke!!”
 **Mikey** “Whoa...!”
 **Raph** “W... We’ve committed a sin!! Y... Ya hear? W... We killed our father!!”
 **Raph** “D...Don’t cha have a c... Conscience, dammit!!”
 **Raph** “Ya haven’t d... Done a damn thing to redeem yerself! Y... Ya just lived yer h...happy life!!”
 **Raph** “We’re killers, Mikey! S...Sinners! W... We’re not worthy of anything!!”
 **Raph** “W... We don’t deserve to enjoy life!! Hell, we d... Don’t even deserve to live!! We’re p...parasites, ya hear me? Parasites that k... Kill their f...fathers!!”

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 **Renoir** “Um... Master Raphael...”
 **Raph** “What? W...What the fuck do ya want, R...Renoir?”
 **Renoir** “M-M-M-M-Master! I... I... D... Donatello!! Yeah, Donatello!”
 **Renoir** “D...Did Donatello fix the machine? I hope he wasn’t upset or anything...”
 **Raph** “D... Donatello?”
 **Raph** “Don...nie...”
 **Raph** “My... My own bro... He... He’s not the same anymore s... Since Splinter died... H...He always looks d... Down on me a... And... And...”
 **Raph** “I... I don’t care if I g... Get hated... But not family... Not by family!! Not by Donnie... Of all p...people... Why him...? Why...?”

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 **Raph** “I... I...”
 **Raph** “Urghhhh!!”
 **Mikey** “R...Raph! You okay?”
 **Raph** “...Urp! Urgh... Uuurfff!!”
 **Renoir** “...”
 **Shadow** “Why are you so noisy??”

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 **Shadow** “...?”
 **Mikey** “It’s alright, Raph. Let it all out. I’ll make you feel better...”
 **Raph** “Bwaaarggghh!!”
 Vomit

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 “I’m here for you, bro... Just relax for now.”