Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
Turtle-Napped

It was happening room was full of tension,so thick you could cut it with a butter knife. Leonardo and Raphael were at it again.

"And it started out so peaceful,too." Mikey said sarcastically,as he watched form the couch. The fight between his older brothers could be heard form the dojos closed doors. Donny nodded in agreement from the armchair across from Master Splinter's chair. They watched as Raph made his way out, listening to Leo lecture him about not going topside as so much just to kick some watched as it unfolded.

"You think that just 'cause your leader, makes you think 'm gone your wrong, Oh 'Fearless Leader'. Cause I ain't."shot back Raph glaring daggers at his older brother. Raph turned to leave.

"Raph, where are you going?" questioned Leo.

"Where ya think,'Fearless?'"Raph questioned back.

He and Leo, both, failed to realize that Mikey and Donny had made their way over to the two fighting brothers. Donny was usually the only one to try and quell the fighting. But this time around Mikey decided to join in so that Donny wouldn't have to do all the useual work to get things calm. They watched as Raph started to only thing that stopped him was the hand that magicly appeared on his shoulder. It was soft and gentle. Raph, acting upon instinct, not thinking, and thinking that it was Leo, cause it usually was, back-slaped the pour
soul tring to stop him.

SLAP!!!

OWW!!!

Raph, just registering that Leo never cries out when hit, turned to look at who it was. Bewildered and shocked Raph didn't expect Mikey to be on the floor holding his left cheek. Moving his hand so Donny could check him out, Mikey could do the only thing he could do. Be himself.

"What was that for?" questioned Mikey as he looked at tough Raph.

As clearly as day, Raph could see the mark he had left. A three-fingered mark lay across his little brothers left cheek, lobster red checked for any signs of something permanent.

"Any higher could have given Mikey a black eye or cracked his beak Raph." stated Donny turning and looking at Raph,who just stood there.

"I'm going out." declared Raph, making his way to the door.

Leo was about to call but was to late. "RAPHIE?!" called Mikey after his tougher brother.

Raphael paused for a moment. He hesitated to turn around, but decided against it and walked on. Mikey was quickly on his feet, running, as Raph made it to the elevater and went up. Miky waited for the thing to come back down.

WHOOSH!!!

The massive doors slide open. "Michelangelo!" called Master Splinter before his son could make a move. He swiveled his head around to look at his master. "Raphael will come home
when he is ready." stated Master Splinter, looking in his youngest son's eyes.

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3 hours later...

Happy go lucky Mikey wasn't was pacing back and forth in his room. It wasn't like him to worry about something such as Raph going out. His big, bad brother always did it so why should he worry? It wasn't that he was worried about Raph, but what he did. Raph never paused, he never hesitated. Raph was the kind'a guy who acted first and asked questions later. He was the kind'a guy who loved to kick some shell and show the street punks and gangs that they can't do anything in this town without getting caught.

KNOCK!!!

KNOCK!!!

KNOCK!!!

"Hey Mikey!!! You OK?" asked Donny from the doorway. When Donny walked in he saw his brother recovering from the sudden surprise. Donatello's sudden appearance had surprised him.

"Hey Mikey, did you hear me? I asked how you were?" said Donny again.

"No. Raph left without saying a word. You saw how he reacted to when I called'em. He paused. He hesitated. Raph never pauses.
He never hesitates." replied Mikey.

"There's a first time for everything, even Raph pausing or hesitating." said Donny.

"No there ain't. Raph never pauses,never hesitates. It ain't like him. He never pauses to walk out after he and Leo fights, to hit me, to fight and bash skulles in. NOTHING. NEVER. EVER." stressed Mikey looking as thought he'd pull his hair out, if he had any that is.

SLAP!!!

OW!!!

Donny gave Mikey a well-deserved slap to the back of the head.

"Thanks I needed that." said Mikey rubbing his head.

"There's the Mikey we know." replied Donny.

"Yeah but don't do it again. That's Raph's job." claimed Mikey.

"Master Splinter says to head to bed too. He says we have an early training session tomorrow." said Don.

"AAAAHHH-MAN!!!" cried Mikey.

Donny left with a good night, and headed to his room for the night. Miky on the other hand, headed for the door. He didn't what Raph getting in trouble for something he felt partly responisble for. As he made his way to the front door, he heard his master and older brother talking.

"No my son. Raphael will be punished in the morning, if he chooses to stay out all night with , how did he say it? uh-'bashing skulls'. You, my son, are to head to bed and prepare for tomarrow's wake." ordered Master Splinter.

"But-" began Leo.

"To bed my son." the old rat said strongly, giving his son his parent stare.

"Yes Sensei. Good Night." replied Leo, defeated, bowing.

"Good night, my son." replied Splinter watching as Leo left his room. Mikey on the other, hand, continued to the front door and out, unaware to the pair of unseen eyes watching as he left to retrive his
hot-headed brother.

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Mikey made his way though the maze like tunnels of New York, up the man hole ladders, up the side of a building and over countless rooftops before he was at his destination, Casey Jones house. He peaked inside. There on the couch, covered in chinese take-out boxes and beer cans was none other then said host, Casey, knocked out in dream-land. "Raph's not here." muttered Mikey, hanging upside then headed across more countless roof-tops toward the docks where Raph, was well know for, cause just about every night he would go out, the Purple Dragons would have something going on down there, from selling or shipping guns, to buying or selling alien techno stuff.

Mikey got to the docks. There wasn't a sound out there and Mikey's hope of finding his brother were fading fast that night. But just out of the corner of his eye he caught sight of something.

There in the middle of a warehouse set, on the inside of one of the buildings, the lights had turned on. Mikey made his way quietly over to the place. He peeked inside and there in a wave of Purple Dragons was a flash of green and red.

"Bingo was his name'o." said Mikey, very happy that he was right. Opening a window so he could get in, Mikey stood like a high diver ready to dive. He jumped and dived head first into the hord of dragons. As soon as he landed he took out seven punks. Raph, unaware to the help he was getting, ran out of dragons before he knew it.

"Ahh,out have to do this again sometime." said Raph smirking. Raph was in a cocky mood as Mikey made his way to him.

Mikey was about to place his hand on Raph's shoulder but didn't get the chance too before Raph had sensed him.

"Think you can sneak-up Mikey?" questioned Raph with his fist ready to launch,and a pinned Miky under him.

"Do you come here often.? Cause we got to stop meeting like this." Was Miky's reply as he grinned at his bad-ass bro.

Raph stood up, getting off of Mikey. "Mikey....Mikey,you shell for brains!!! If I didn't stop when I did, you'd be on the ground out are you doing here?" questioned Raph out of anger and surprise.

But he quickly coverd up his surprised look with his usual smirk. "Dude, I came to get'ya. If you stay out all night Master Splinter's going to be mad, and also we got a training session tomorrow, earlier then usual." said Mikey.

Raph didn't reply. He turned his eyes to the ground, a frown upon his beak.

"Whats wrong bro?" asked Mikey.

Again Raph was quiet. He looked into Mikey's blue eyes. "Listen 'bout earlier.I didn't mean'ta hit ya. M'sorry bro." apologize Raph. Miky didn't say anything, he just gave his bad-ass brother a hug. Raph returned it,even though he hated any affection or to show any emotion, but he'd let it slip this time, cause it was his little bro. He could suffer though one hug.

"Its a Kodak moment." said Mikey completely ruining the moment with his 'not funny' self.

SLAP!!!

OW!!!

"That I'm not 'orry'or." laughed Raph. Mikey joined in laughing too. It was a rare moment when Mikey could spend time with Raph like this, for his brother
always put on his 'mask' so he wouldn't have to
show anything, he was a pro at doing it too. Mikey loved the moments like this, for they where rare and they were fun.

"Come..on....Raph....we....need..to-uh!!!" started Mikey. "I feel tired all of a-uh."

"Mikey? Mikey, this an't funny bro." stated Raph, now getting annoyed. But his little bro wasn't waking up. As he held Miky's slumped form in his hands, he scanned his bro's body. Raph looked at Miky's legs - nothing. His neck and around his shell, again nothing, so he looked at his left shoulder - nothing there. But when he got to his right shoulder, there sticking out like a black dot on a white surface, was a black dart, its contents already emptied into his brothers smaller frame. "Dam dart." cursed Raph as his mind kicked into overdrive. He mind worked to scann the area for any danger and for where the blasted dart come from.

He scanned the area completely left to right, nothing. His gut didn't set well with not seeing anything there, his ninja instinct telling him to run, hide in the shadows until he found the thing that shot his bro,cause nobody hurt his bro and got away with it. They hadn't even heard or sense the presences, let alone heard the dart fire. But now that Raph was alert and listening he could.

CURPOW!!!

The sound of a bullet-like came to his ears as it whizzed out of the barrel and toward him. With that sound in mind, Raph took off like a mad wolf after prey. He leaped, jumped, and flew over the buildings as fast as he could with his dead weigh brother on his back. He sped as fast as he could, with his pursuer hot on his heels, firing the darts. He took shelter in an abandoned stage building on top of the roof. He could hear footsteps of the unknowen persuers as they made their way to the turtles's hiding place. He pressed Mikey's uncounious body under some old newspapers,while he took a stance,sais ready to block any harm, that may come their way, from Miky. He heard the sudden sound of heavey combat boots. He would be ready for anything, ready to take anything or anyone
down that tried to hurt or take his family.

Suddenly, just like a bolt of lighting striking, the door was flung open, a blinding light thrust in it, blinding the turtle in red. Raph gave a war-cry and charged forward. He instantly he took down three or four combat boot people, he couldn't tell how many there where for he didn't get a chance to look since one of them got to him with a dart, just like like his little bro, Raph fell to the ground. He hit his head on the concert of the building top, knocking his breath away from his lungs, knocking his head onto the ground causing his vision to blur. Even thought it was blurry, Raph
watched as the attention he was getting turned to Mikey, inside the shed like structure.

"NO,LEAVE HIM BE!!!" Raph tried to call, but it only came to him in thought. He couldn't form the words, it was like his brain and vocal cords had stoped working in that area. He watched as the men in combat boots moved in. A helicoptor light was shown into the same four walls.

He didn't know what hit him but whatever it was it had him up, attacking the men that were trying to take his brother from his grasp. Raph had somehow been able, even though he was drugged, to get up knock down the five people in the building picking Miky's form up over onto his back, and keep on fighting. His adrenaline had kicked in, that was what it was. As a group of more combat boot people came Raph gave a war cry, leaping to the first man and took him down. But as luck would have it, another guy fired a dart at his thigh, hitting its mark, for the extra weight of his bro, Raph was
slower, had blurry vision and was unstable. The dart hand done its job though, taking down the big, dark green, red bandanna-wearing turtle, so that the group of guys could collect the orange-wearing one. Raph lay there with Mikey still on his back. He gave a groan as the people tried to approach, gathering up the courage they finnally did and took their prize.

Even thought Raph was under it, he was still fighting the good men left him but took Mikey to the helicopter, while others stood in a half circle around him, guns ready.

"Seems you boys are having trouble with this one." said a commanding voice. The bright light, now on Raph, blinded him from seeing anything. The figure
approched him. He didn't know what it was or why, but the idea of Mikey being in this guys care made Raph's inside flame spark once again with the same
adriline from earlier. He stood, his sai raised, he was glaring dagers at the figure before him.

"Not so smart are they?" questioned the voice to nobody. "Am I right boys?"

"Yes sir." Raph heard the group of men say.

I'll show you not so smart, thought Raph as he took a step forward. His muscles ached with each one, screaming at him to just let Mikey go, but his inter flames wouldn't let him rest. Not until his baby brother was safe at home with him, Leo and Donny.

"Sir?" asked one of the men.

"Shoot it two more times. That should knock it down. That's enough to take down 4 grown elephants." repiled the voice.

WHOOSH!!!

WHOOSH!!!

Two darts hit their target head on. Raph fell to the ground. His body making a thump as it hit. Now all he could do was watch as his brother was taken, he couldn't do any more. He felt useless, a failure, and worse of all he had let his bro down. Raph's vision must have been playing tricks on him for he could have sworn that Miky was looking back at him and reaching for his older brother, as the helicopter took off.

Then everything in the world went black.