"We heard that the Shredder was holed up in an abandoned warehouse, weak and vulnerable from our last battle. We knew we had to strike now before anybody else had to suffer. It was going to be easy, get in, bag him, get out, nothing to it. I misjudged the gap between the last rooftop. As I fell into the dumpster below I could hear my brothers laughing
'Meet'cha there Mikey!'
'You're s'posed to jump over the gap, not into it.'
I quickly got back to my feet and sped off out of the alley. it was night, nobody was on the streets, no need to hide. All I could think of was people sleeping easy knowing the footclan was gone.
As I neared the last corner I drew my weapon, the Shredder was a cornered, wounded animal at this point, he was not going to come easily. My foot reached the corner... KABOOM! ...I was flung back into a car. My ears were ringing and my vision was blurred, everything went black.
I came to, only a few minutes had passed. I climbed off the car and stared at what had just happened. The warehouse had been obliterated, the warehouse Shredder was supposed to be in, the warehouse my brothers were in! I raced to the burning wreckage that was left. I searched and searched until I came across my brothers' bodies. I couldn't contain my emotions, in one split second my family was gone. how could this have happened? Shredder!
I couldn't stick around for long, it never takes people long to swarm around events like that. Through pain and heartache I grabbed my brothers' bandannas and Leo's sword and took off. The fire would make the evidence disappear, saving their bodies from becoming test subjects and news headlines. I was lost.
I shut myself away from the world. I heard bits of the news, the footclan were growing, consuming everything in their path. I was going to destroy all of them. I trained myself harder than I ever had before, I had to be ready to take down Shredder.
When I was ready I emerged from the sewers a weapon aimed right at the footclan. I started with lower ranks and worked my way up, gaining information and leaving no survivors. They took my brothers away from me without hesitation, I was going to show no mercy. I heard on the news reports of my little 'visits' with footclan members, they had no idea who was coming for them.
The day finally came. I knew where shredder was, unprotected, alone. I struck, Leo's blade held in my hand, it carved through the shadows right towards Shredder but I had misjudged again, just like that gap in the rooftops that night. He was too strong, too skilled. I gave it my all but I knew I was losing. bloody and beaten I had to escape or face the same fate as my brothers. I couldn't stay in the city, now Shredder knew it was me who was after him he would destroy the city looking for me. I left but the pain of loss and failure followed me still.
I emerged in a new city, a strange city. There was an eerie air about it that I couldn't figure out but it made me uneasy, however I was far away from the footclan, this gave me time to build my strength and hone my skills even further.
I realised soon after I arrived in this city that I was being stalked. Not hunted, just watched, for days on end. whatever it was stayed in the shadows, I think it was hiding but it wasn't scared, I could feel it's enormous strength. It was as if it was confused or curious about what I was, I'm used to that from people.
Tonight the creature, I would later learn went by the name the Reaper, made himself known... to be continued."

Hello again all and thanks for sticking around through that agreeably long backstory. I've been working on that throughout making this figure and I just had to share it. Anyway just a little note, I do apologise to all the TMNT fans out there, I realise my Michelangelo is very different from how he normally is but I wanted to make him fit into my ReaperVerse. This is a Mikey that has been through hell and came out nunchuks swinging! This is without a doubt my favourite custom so far, he has been so fun to build and paint.
The recipe is pretty much all Superior Spidey with the addition of Ultimate Beetle's feet, the rest is sculpted. His head, hands, shorts, chest detail, shell wraps, armour and shoes are all sculpted on. His shoes came out a little rough looking but it's my first time making fully sculpted shoes so I'm quite happy with how they came out. His elbow/knee pads and various harnesses are all extras made from sculpted parts, elastic, metal rings, and craft foam. His hat is a cheap trash can toy lid.
His weapons are all scratch built from styrene tubes and plasticard. The chains used are real metal chains. His bo staff can also split in two and a chain inserted to connect the pieces and create an extra chained weapon! His smoke grenades are stolen from another figure.
He's painted up in citadel paints as usual. I looked up real turtle shells when it came to painting his shell, again I'm quite happy with the end result.

All in all I'm very pleased with this figure, it is my favourite so far and I hope you guys like him too. Three pictures isn't enough to do this guy justice but I tried my best to show off as much of him. Anyway thanks for checking him out guys, comments and criticism always welcome, peace.