Battle Nexus Lizards/Raph x Mona (ROTMNT fanfic)

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The two charged at a breakneck pace, she swung first only for Raph to catch Manda Gecko's fists in his palms, gripping them for dear life. He noticed her height was taller than his brothers, but she just barely met his own height.

"I get the sneaking suspicion you do this a lot," Raph grunted, his hands shaking alongside hers as sand kicked up under his feet in growing clouds of dust.

"I get the sneaking suspicion you've come to meet your end," She hissed.

A sharp snaggle tooth revealed itself, matching Raph's, on the right side of her mouth coming from the bottom jaw. Catching it in his eye Raph was distracted, Manda had successfully flipped him behind her head, but he didn't land face first as expected, rather his feet touched the ground in the nick of time, a hard feat given she was shorter than him. He reached along his side and spun his sai dramatically before holding them in his clenched fists.

"Okay... now it's my turn!"

Lunging at full speed (or at least as much speed as Raph's heavy body would allow) he ran to her with an intent to stab her in a nonfatal spot, just one that would slow her down a little. Manda was quicker than that, still slow because of her size, but just slightly smaller enough than Raph to be faster. One moment Raph was charging like a rhino at the champion, the next, he was face down in the sand, and her tail was tightening its grip around his wrist, causing him to drop one sai.

He was never this clumsy.

" 'Okay now it's my turn?' What's the deal with you challengers and your cheesy one-liners?"

Manda spun in a full circle, careening Raph into the wall a few yards away. Crashing and cracking the wall. This was frustrating! How could he let himself trip over back there?! Did she trip him, and he didn't notice?

"No more Mister Nice Turtle!" He scowled.

She rolled her eyes, her grimace curled itself into a smile.
"Tsk, that one's even worse,"

The third and final time he would lurch forwards, as he stabbed with a clenched fist she'd leaned back narrowly dodging before turning to the right of Raph's body, and her knee forced itself hard into Raph's gut, making him wheeze the ugliest guttural sound. 

"Speaking of bad one-liners..."

Manda towered over Raph as he lay on the ground still trying to suck in air, she twisted his mask backwards, blinding him.

"...the bigger they are..."

Suddenly he regained some semblance of consciousness to fix his mask to find Manda was gone, only for him to suddenly see her ground pounding him from above with the weight of her whole body.

"The harder they fall!"

Blackness.

She addressed her adoring public with a wide stance of open and loving arms as the crowds roared with excitement, as lights focused their attention all on her. She had never been so loved and adored by so many at once and was determined never to lose this loving feeling.

However, she did lose the feeling, pretty quickly in fact.

Looking at the unconscious man behind her, she hoped she didn't accidentally crack a rib. Did turtles have ribs?