Turtles Forever

Raphael Meets His Match

Raph kicks and swings a moving practice dummy. As he trains, he blocks a wooden block as it spins around at him. He stops it and pants, wiping the sweat of of his face. He then lets out a loud yell in frustration and spins the dummy around. "You okay, Raph?" Leo asks. Raph growls "How can you sit around talking, when he's out there somewhere? Maybe hurt, bad..." He clenches his fists. "Like I said, we have to organize a search, look at everything we know." Leo explains.

Yuuki in the chair with her leg now in a cast. She grabbed her crutch and stood up and walks over to the table where Leo and the others were, was who was looking at a map of the entire city. "But, where do we start looking? We don't know-" She was cut off by an angry yell, making her nearly lose her balance as she jumped. Leo quickly grabbed her shoulders. She blushes and he sat her down in a chair. "Thank's Leo." She replies.

"We don't know anything!" Raph retorts. "Well, we know that Master Splinter took a major hit... for me" Mikey replies. "And when we looked for him after the fight, he just wasn't there." Donnie points out. "I've been scanning the police band for anything...like a giant rat sighting." April murmurs. "Nothing."

'"So we should be out there, looking for him!" Raph argues, storming away. Leo chases after him. "We have been, Raph, but Master Splinter could be anywhere. How do you search an entire city?" He asks. "One block at a time." Raph answers grabbing his sai "Raph, not a good time for the hot head thing." Mikey complains. "The Battle Shell's a couple hours away from being street ready. We could cover more ground." Donnie suggest. "It's okay. Go and blow off some steam, Raph. Maybe you'll find something out there." Leo replies.

Raph cracks his knuckles "Count on it." He answers, walking away.

Raph angrily leaps over the rooftops, panting as he ran. "Sit around talking all night." He mutters. Raph sees a moving van coming his way and he jumps down landing on top of it. He leaps off and lands in an alley. He looks up and gasps "Master Splinter?" He runs up to the silhouette, reaching out and touching it's shoulder. It falls part, revealing a pile of junk. Raph growls "MASTER SPLINTER! WHERE ARE YOU?!"

Raph leaps at an roof until he stops as he hears noises below him. "Hello, what do we have here?" He murmurs. He looks down to see a group of men dressed in black suits and ties, wearing dark shades. They were holding flashlights, desperately searching for something.

Raph jumps down quietly, listening closely as he got a better look. He took cover behind some trashcans. Raph peeks up and his eyes widen and he gasps at what he saw. Peeking out from a dumpster, was a green lizard girl with messy brown hair and icy blue eyes and freckles completely covered her cheeks. She and Raph quickly hid as flashlights shine their way towards them. Raph looked down at the ground in shock. He believe at what he'd just saw. "I thought we were the only mutants in town?" Raph murmurs to himself quietly.

He peeks out again, to see the men in black coming closer. "Need I need to remind you what would happen if we failed to find our inquiry?" One of the replies. "She ain't here." Another one answers. "Then try the next alley!" The first one orders. As they started to walk away, Raph sees the girl lifting up the dumpster lid, peeking out "No! Stay down! Stay down!" He murmurs, but she was out of ears reach. As she opened the lid all the way, it knocks a lamp off shattering it on the ground with a loud crash. Her eyes widen and she quickly shut the lid back as footsteps came running back.

The men dressed in black see the shattered remains of the lamp "Come out come out.~ Wherever you are?~" The girl peeks out from the dumpster, again. She gasps as she saw lights being shined on her. "No! Stay down! Stay down!" Raph warns. One of the men steps forward, and smirks"Time to stop playing hide and seek."