SHREDDER:
You are alone
LEONARDO
Maybe…but My brothers, my mentor, guide me in spirit
SHREDDER:
I was, until a few days ago…a rational man. I did not believe in the supernatural, I did not believe that the great warriors of the past, ny ancestors, were driven by anything other than their own superstition and self-confidence…but your kind? You are like the great reptilian delusion come to life. A bane sent from the Otherworld. It must fall to me to cleanse this planet of it before it overwhelms us all.
LEONARDO:
We do not come to tip the balance of power, merely to sustain it’s harmonious flux. Your “voiceless” intend to make this city scream until you are heard, to restore balance, we have had to silence it
SHREDDER:
And now you are here…to silence me
LEONARDO:
I do not kill in cold blood. You can surrender peacefully, avoid conflict, end this pointless war
SHREDDER:
History will be written by the victor . You are the demon’s head. If I remove it, the remainder of the body will wither and die.
LEONARDO:
If that is your choice, let us settle this with honour
(Leonardo bows his head in respect to his opponent. Shredder does not return the courtesy)
SHREDDER:
LOOK at me
(Leonardo obliges, he raises his head, he looks into Shredder’s cold, merciless, unemotional eyes, he looks for something, anything, to justify holding back)
SHREDDER:
What do you see?
LEONARDO:
If evil had a form, a face, it would be yours.
SHREDDER:
A judgement. From one who is so used to be judged himself by the ignorant world he foolishly protects.
LEONARDO:
I have seen the world, and while it can be grey, even black, I need only look at those noble souls I have seen in action this last week, I need only look at the country in and outside of the city. The truth is this land, this world, is altogether very GREEN.
SHREDDER:
Then I will ensure you join your lush green country…six feet beneath it
(With nothing left to say, the two give in to their conflictive impulses and CHARGE towards one another, their swords CLASH, THE BATTLE IS JOINED).