Loneliness, it's thought to be one of the worst feelings on the planet or even in the universe. This is what a human says, but a human is lucky. A human can relieve themselves of loneliness when they fall in love or find a new friend. But there are some beings in this world that thought that they could never feel love or companionship because they aren't like everybody else. Humans consider them as deformed, freaks of nature that were dangerous and could never be loved. These beings don't deserve to be treated this way of course, these four beings have devoted their lives to protect not only themselves but the humans that despise them. Believe it or not, these beings that thought that they'd be lonely forever, were turtles. Though none of the turtles were complaining at first, until one day. The turtles best friends April O'niel and Casey Jones got married to eachother and this started to make them wonder how lonely they really were. Though they weren't complaining about companionship of course they had lots of friends, but one of the turtles was effected most of all, Raphael. Raph as most people called him was and still is best friends with Casey Jones, they did everything together. When it was just them two they would stay up for hours burning rubber on their motorbikes. But now Casey has April to look after and Raphael can't hang around him as much.

With more time to himself everytime he has a temper tantrum, Raph usually reflects on his brothers Leonardo, Donatello and Michelangelo. This then leads to Raph thinking about his closest friends and family, which makes him think about Casey and April again. He was happy for Casey, but thinking of Casey made him think of why he was reflecting in the first place. If it wasn't for Raph, Casey and April would never have met, so shouldn't Raph get to feel the same way that Casey was feeling at that exact moment, love? Raph and his brothers had never been in love before, they didn't even know what a women was until they were eight when Donatello finally finished fixing the television were they saw the two girls on the Power Rangers. This made their sensei Master Splinter convinced that he had to tell his four young wards about the difference between them and women. After that they only met a handfull of women which were either human or alien. Of course, through all these emotions, Raph has never told his brothers how he feels, they would tease him even though, they were probably feeling the exact same way about this subject. Raph had always looked at the bright side of this though, or he made up a bright side. He had always wondered if he ever did fall in love, what would the girl be like? Would she love him back? Would she have the same sort of personality as him? Would she have hair? What colour hair? Would she be a human, or some alien that's into outerspecies dating? But the one question that bugged Raph the most was, will he ever find this girl?

Raph stayed on a hotel rooftop for a few hours pondering these thoughts over and over again. Every time he thought about it he got sadder and sadder. Though he also kept thinking that there had to be a girl out there for him, which mad ehim the slightest bit happier. After about four hours, Raph had only just started to think about going back home when he heard a loud, high-pitched scream. It came as a shock to him, he looked up to hear where the sound was coming from. He heard the scream again, this time he knew where the scream was coming from. It was coming from South of where he was. As he ran towards the scream he heard the person scream get louder and louder, he knew it was a woman screaming because he had never heard a man scream that high besides his brother Michelangelo. Raph jumped over an alleyway and looked down into it with disgust. He saw a quartet of men from the Purple Dragon Gang surrounding a woman lying on the ground trying to crawl away from them. One of the Purple Dragons strutted up to her with a cro-bar and kicked her to the ground. The woman let out a groan as she tried to get to her feet. As she steadied herself, the Purple Dragon with the cro-bar, laughed out loud and lifted the cro-bar up to crash it down on her back. As he started to bring it down, Raph had already jumped down from the roof and got there just in time to grab the cro-bar before it landed on her back.

"Yo pal didn't ya mama ever tell you it's not nice to strike a lady?" Raph said intesely to the guy with the cro-bar. Raph twisted the cro-bar out of his hands and threw it at the other three men. It hit one of them in the stomach and he crouched to the ground holding his stomach. Raph slowly made his way over to the woman who had now crawled over to the corner of the alleyway near a wire fence behind a bunch of garbage bins. "Ma'am, are you okay?" he asked quietly in the nicess kind of voice he could make. The women was wearing a long sleeved, brown coat that was buttoned up over a white skivvy. Over her arms were long, red gloves, she was wearing long, white stockings over her thin, slender legs with black boots and on her head she wore large black sunglasses with a large hat that covered most of her face. When Raph asked her if she was alright she didn't look up to his face but she pulled the hat further over her own face. As she finally looked up at Raph, before she could react on what he was, she saw one of the Purple Dragons pick up the cro-bar, hoist it into the air and bring it smashing down on Raphs shell. Though the woman was upset that she didn't warn Raph before being hit, she forced herself to hide further behind the garbage bins. Even though he was in pain, Raph got to his feet and spun around just as the man was about to bash him again. "Strike one." Raph said aloud, he twisted the cro-bar out of the mans hand, threw it into one of the garbage bins and punch the man in the stomach. Before the man fell he kicked Raph in the stomach. Raph fell to the ground holding his stomach. "Looks like sudden death overtime." the man said reaching behind his back and bringing out a baseball bat. The man hoisted it into the air just as Raphael fell unconsious. Just before the man bashed Raph on the back, the heard sirens and yelling. The man panickly lowered the baseball bat and ran away along with the others including the one that fell to the ground earlier. The woman saw the lights and heard the sirens and she herself started to panick too, she got up on her feet, ran a bit, then turned back at Raphael. She knew she couldn't just leave him there, he saved her life. Now she was going to repay him.