Twilight Sparkle vs Leonardo

I DO NOT own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all rights go to Nickolodeon
I DO NOT own My Little Pony Friendship is Magic all rights go Hasbro.

What does all great teams need?

A Leader

The undeniable backbone to all great teams.

And these two leaders are some of the best.

Leonardo the eldest brother and leader of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

Twilight Sparkle the Alicorn Princess of Friendship and unofficial leader of the Mane Six

Its time, Let's analyze their weapons armour and skills to see who would win a DEATHBATTLE

Leonardo

Leonardo "Leo" the eldest brother of the TMNT. Raised in the sewers below the street of Manhattan New York, by his surrogate father Splinter the rat. Leonardo is calm cool and collected, he's also brave strong, and willing to sacrifice everything for his family. Because when the world is stacked against them, the turtles know they have their brothers. Leo is Also the most mature of the turtles, and while not a natural leader. He has earned the respect of all of his friends, and especially his brothers. As their leader, and willingly go along with his plans. While not Book smart, that's his brother Donatello's forte. Leo is extremely intelligent, and is easily the most well rounded turtle.

Splinter has trained his sons to be masters of ninjutsu, using secrecy, stealth, and surprise to get the jump on their opponents. And while not ninjas in the truest sense of the word, that would be a masked assassins striking from the shadows. The Turtles are still some of the best interpretation of the ninja. Using stealth a lot of the time. Instead of the modern interpretation of the ninja being a one man army badasses cleaving through people.

That being said, when the turtles plans go haywire. Leonardo is more then willing to come out of the shadows. Using his mastery of unarmed combat to knock people out. But Leo's at his best when he uses his twin Ninjato sword. Swords built to be faster then the infamous samurai quick draw. By being shorter and straighter then there katana cousins. Funny enough he practises a version of the samurai code of Bushido. Leonardo is also a master acrobat, climbing flipping, and bouncing throughout the cities rooftop streets, and sewers. Finally while Leonardo might be at his most dangerous at close range. He's no slouch at range. Being a master with the throwing stars, smoke bombs.

That being said Leonardo isn't perfect. He's prone to self doubt, and depressive fits that make him virtually defenceless. As I alluded to early, while he's a good leader, and the best leader out of all his brothers. He's not a natural leader, and has put his brothers in unnecessary danger because he plans for his own abilities. (that trait has been getting better throughout the franchise history) And finally while the turtles are all good individually, they're at their best when they fight together. Most of Leonardo's best feats have been with the direct influence of his brothers.

But watch out Leonardo has the skills and intelligence to beat just about anybody. And this leader has more then his allies.

Twilight Sparkle.

Twilight Sparkle, born and raised in Canterlot. She's one of the select few personal students of Clestia herself. At the beginning of the series Celestia sent Twilight to ponyville. Where she learnt the magic of friendship, making five best friends. And saving the whole of equestria multiple times, with plenty of help of course. Culminating in her become the fourth Alicorn princess. Eventually gaining the title of, Alicorn princess of Magic. And taking up a castle in the center of Ponyville, where the Golden Oak Library once stood. Damn you Tirek your time is coming.

As an Alicorn Twilight is among arguably the strongest species in the entirety of Equestria. Having the strengths of both Pegasi and Unicorn. Sorry I made a mistake last time by saying she had the physical strength of an earth pony. That being said it wouldn't effect the outcome of the fight, so let's please move on.

And with that, she may have the flight of a pegasi. While she may have gotten better as the series has progressed, but she's still far behind most naturally born pegasi. And she is year behind an enraged Fluttershy, and a literal lifetime behind the lightning fast Rainbow Dash.

But beyond her ability fly, is the much more impressive ability to use magic. She has a a arsenal of spells under her belt. Ranging from worthless dues ex do what's necessary spell. To the extremely powerful pink beam, that can be used at a machine gun like fire rate. Or the more powerful single beams. She can teleport, and like I pointed out last time, her teleportation is not instantaneous, there's a lag in between each point. Even short distance like five feet. She can create a protective bubble. She can levitate, toss and throw object around with ease. Twilight can also use her horn to create a spot light.

But for all those strengths, she has an apparent OCD. She isn't as combat oriented as someone like Rainbow Dash. She has a semi inferiority complex, being unable to see her own self worth. And all of her most impressive feats have been with the help of her friends. She also isn't a natural leader, nor is she a teacher, she has failed to help her friends multiple times because of this.

And with that the combatants are set its time to end this debate once and for all.

A Blue masked biped slunk out of the shadowy forest. He calmly gave a curt bow, to the Purple Alicorn. Who in reply gave a slight bow, her eyes never leaving him.

Her horn glowed brightly.

And the bipedal turtles pulled his twin ninjato off his back.

BEGIN

Twilight shot into action, firing a rain of miniature purple balls. Leo reacted quickly, parrying left and right, cartwheeling and flipping to dodge the vicious attack. He slowly made his way towards the Alicorn. Leonardo did a elegant front flip, swinging his sword in a deadly arc. "Klang" The swords bounced off a nearly translucent barrier, causing the two to stumble away from one another. Leonardo twisted his hips, and swung his blades in a deadly circle. Twilight stepped away from the turtle, his swords bounced off her shield.

Leo jumped into the air and landed a lightning fast straight kick. He back hand sprung off the shield, then stood still. "You're good" He stated through a frown.

"So are you" Twilight kicked the ground with her front left hoof.

Leonardo dug into his belt, and pulled out a single black ball. He bounced a step back, throwing a black pellet. The pellet exploded into a cloud of smoke "Klang" Twilight ripped the cloud apart with a shockwave. Twilight was instantly thrown back by a powerful jab, Leo leg swept dropping the Alicorn to the ground. He stood straight up, and with a wide arc the blades headed straight at Twilights head.

Leonardo was suddenly plucked off the ground, the blades gave her a shallow cut on her right cheek. She tossed Leonardo away from her. He smashed shell first into a tree, leaving a large shell imprint in the trunk. Leo rolled to the right, avoiding a beam. He quickly melted into the shadows.

Twilight watched from across the paddock. She felt a sharp pain her flank, she only just managed to block a a second third and fourth throwing star. In The trees line Leo quickly and quietly made his way behind her. Leo scaled a tree, he peeked his head out of the top of the tree.

Twilights horn glowed brightly, she moved from the light around. Leonardo hid in the trees, he became completely still as the pink light shone over his head. The Ninja slunk through the trees. He moved like liquid from tree to tree. He gently pulled out three ninja stars from belt.

Twilight caught a glint in the side of her eye, almost instantly she stopped the stars mid flight. "There" She gasped as another star flew out of the treeline "Get over here!" Leo was suddenly ripped out of the trees and smashed head first into the ground.

Leonardo had sprung to his feet. His eyed the mare, her flank was bloody, and her face was pouring blood. He calm placed a single ninjato into its hilt "Let's end this pony" He pointed his blade straight at Twilight.

The purple mare frowned,her wings flared, and her horn glowed brightly "Lets end this tortoise"

They walked a small circle, both paying the other a silent respect. Leo shot forward, stabbing at Twilight. His sword bounced off Twilights barrier. She fired a small pink ball at Leo, who parried to the left. Leo leg swept, but the Alicorn bounced into the air and hovered. Leonardo stabbed at Twilight viciously, the Alicorn disappeared in a pink flash.

Leonardo cartwheeled out of the way of another pink beam. He charged straight at Twilight, he swung the sword to the left of his hip. Just as the blade was about to make contact she telprted in a flash. A Small pink explosion left a large crack in his shoulder. Leonardo stumbled, Twilight appeared in front of him "BOOM!" Leo flew straight back, sliding to a stop against a tree.

He bounced to his feet, the crack in his front shell aching. He grabbed his sword off the ground. He bounced to the left and right dodging a flurry of pink beams, suddenly he was lifted off the ground and with a lid thud smashed into the ground. He rolled to the left, and got to his feet.

Twilight and Leonardo glared at one another, they were about twenty feet appart. He swung his sword at right. Leo charged straight Twilight, his sword glinted in the moonlight. The was a blinding pink flash.

Leo and Twilight remained deathly still. Leo's blade was buried on top of her right front shoulder to the hilt. She coughed up blood "I Win....." The two fell appart, revealing a gaping burn the went straight through Leo's chest.
WINNER

Leo is bigger stronger, but. Twilight and Leo are equally skilled in their chosen arts. Leo may have more experience, but Twilight has a larger more versatile arsenal. Combine that with the fact that Twilight has the ability teleport, and flight which allowed her to have complete control over the battlefield. And finally while the TMNT would absolutely walk through the Mane 6, because of their teamwork. Leo most impressive feats have been with a lot of help of his brothers. Which means Leo is at his weakest without his brother.

NEXT TIME

A Rainbow mane blew in the wind "You ready end this hedgehog"

Suddenly a figure with long spiky quills on his backs hand shot out of the shadows "BOW to your master" He proclaimed, his metallic claw glinted in the sunlight, and his eyes flashed a deep red.

Author's Note

AN

Get the fighting game reference?