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• Split Obstacle - (How Can I Go Back Home?) by vexusiek

  Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  10 May 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Hamato Yoshi | Splinter & Leonardo
  • Leonardo (TMNT) & Everyone
  • Leonardo & Michelangelo (TMNT)
  • Leonardo & Leonardo (TMNT)
  • Donatello & Leonardo (TMNT)
  • Leonardo & Raphael (TMNT)
  • Leonardo (TMNT)
  • Donatello (TMNT)
  • Michelangelo (TMNT)
  • Raphael (TMNT)
  • April O'Neil (TMNT)
  • The Kraang (TMNT)
  • Original Yokai Character(s) (TMNT)
  • The Hamato Clan (TMNT)
  • Hamato Yoshi | Splinter
  • Original Human Character(s)
  • Turtle Tots (TMNT)
  • Leonardo-centric (TMNT)
  • Donatello and Leonardo are Twins (TMNT)
  • Protective Leonardo (TMNT)
  • Good Older Sibling Leonardo (TMNT)
  • Turtle Instincts (TMNT)
  • Post-Movie: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2022)
  • Missing Persons
  • Portals
  • Found Family
  • Family Angst
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Hidden City (TMNT)
  • Pre-series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
  • Turtle Noises (TMNT)
  • Multiverse
  • Leonardo Speaks Spanish (TMNT)
  • Hamato Ninpō (TMNT)
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Hurt Leonardo (TMNT)
  • Leonardo Needs a Hug (TMNT)
  • Good Parent Splinter (TMNT)
  • Adopted Children
  • Leonardo Angst (TMNT)
  • Being Lost
  • Growing Up
  • Feral Behavior
  • Parental Leonardo (TMNT)
  • Homesickness
  • Secret Identity
  • Aged-Up Leonardo (TMNT)
  • Medic Leonardo (TMNT)
  • Medic Donatello (TMNT)
  • Insomniac Leonardo (TMNT)
  • Leonardo Has ADHD (TMNT)
  • Leonardo Has Anxiety (TMNT)
  • Dimension Travel

  Summary

  "Watch it, Baby! One portal in a way!"
  "Mikey, NO!"

  Leonardo didn't plan on becoming a full-time babysitter, but the multiverse had other plans for him.

  Spit out by a portal into the dark, faded New York, missing his katanas and carrying a massive baggage of trauma, he has to find his place all over again.
  Introducing himself as "Neon", he enters the lives of a strict Splinter and his young sons, becoming a mysterious warrior and an irreplaceable older brother to them.

  Hiding his Ninpo is hard.
  Hiding the fact that he loves these blocky kids just as much as his lost family is becoming downright impossible.
  But will he ever find his way back home?

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  Or: Rise!Leo lands in the 2012 universe. He introduces artistic chaos to the strict sewers, tries not to lose his mind and accidentally adopts four seven-year-olds while pretending to be a cool, turtle street guy.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Split Obstacle

  Language:

  English

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