Disclaimer: Sadly, I own nothing. If I did, however, Raphael would have soooo much more screentime

The pink-banded turtle ran through the desolate ruins. Rain pattered down all around her, and her breaths came heavy and hard. She was on the run. She had no place to return to. No more family waiting for her. This was her last chance. This was her last opportunity to make things right. She brought a hand up to her round, green-skinned face to brush the tears away.

The turtle was aware that someone was tracking her. The very someone she yearned for so desperately, and so achingly, that she wanted to turn and run into their arms, if just to feel their embrace one last time. But she couldn't do that. Not if she valued her life to any degree at all. She figured she must value her life some, if she was willing to leave her world in the hands of the evil that destroyed her world in the first place. She figured that she also must be pretty selfish for the same reason that she valued her life.

As the tracker got a little too close for comfort, the turtle fingered the shuriken on her belt that wrapped around her plastron. They were her signature weapon, along with her trusted kusarigama. The shuriken was made of a metal with a greenish tint, and was emblazoned with pink throughout. Her kusarigama was made the same way.

She was coming up on the ruins of central park. Now the tracker was closing in. Pulling the shuriken from her belt, she gulped, and let it fly. She heard it whir through the thundering sky and heard a howl of rage and pain as it buried itself into its target. This time, she couldn't stop the tears. Suddenly, the portal opened up before her. Finally, she was free of this wretched place! She could end all of the suffering!

The portal seemed to spin, around and around in a mesmerizing circle of blue light. As the turtle entered the portal, she turned her head for a split second. A flash of red, probably the blood, was almost upon her. Before the portal closed in on her, she whispered ever so softly, as if to herself,

"I'll come back for you… sensei,"

A/N: well there you are! Come on good readers of fanfiction, review please! Tell me if I should continue or not!